Dimorphodon - The Reluctant Flier Pterosaur

Dimorphodon - The Reluctant Flier Pterosaur - What Was Lost Ep.13

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Dimorphodon was a bizarre-looking pterosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic period. Unlike many species of pterosaur, Dimorphodon was a poor flier and spent much of its time on the ground! Discover more about this intriguing creature and its habits in this episode of What Was Lost.
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@erinb3241 3 жыл бұрын

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@philippolishchuk2795 3 жыл бұрын

You should do one on Microraptor

@ashleysmith940 3 жыл бұрын

I agree! That would be interesting

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@ashleysmith940 3 жыл бұрын

Lets gooooo!! These are so cool!

@maacksvaca5391 3 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video about Quetzalcoatlus?

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@martinl6279 3 жыл бұрын

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@aerogogle3450 3 жыл бұрын

One of the most famous pterosaurs too

@AncientLife 3 жыл бұрын

With good reason! haha

@aerogogle3450 3 жыл бұрын

@@AncientLife is it because of the dentition?

@AncientLife 3 жыл бұрын

@@aerogogle3450 I would say so, in combination with an overall unique appearance and unusual habits for a pterosaur!

@aerogogle3450 3 жыл бұрын

@@AncientLife there's a reason they're called "pterosaurs"

@justnoah2073 3 жыл бұрын

The Dimorphodon in Jurassic World was like on drugs or something.

@thegamingtyrant5908 3 жыл бұрын

Make a video about my favorite Dino the trex plz

@mykusreviews4694 3 жыл бұрын

Pls do a late bird called Icadyptes.

@maliqueblake3108 Жыл бұрын

Poor Dino

@michaljanovsky8966 3 жыл бұрын

Nice vid :) just make sure you credit the artists.

@Mrdimorphodon 16 күн бұрын

The thumbnail is my pfp

@artiefufkin88 3 жыл бұрын

I've never heard about this theory of Dimorphodon, and I'm very skeptical. Nature and evolution don't make mistakes. It wouldn't just simply regress and be a bad flyer. It would take environmental pressure. Having more abundant terrestrial food sources may lead to becoming a predator that hunts on the ground. If this was successful, there would be pressure to spend limited energy resources on parts of the body that helped with this lifestyle, instead of spending it in flying. That happened to the flightless birds of today. But Dimorphodon was clearly not a land predator. And its teeth scream out that it is an obvious fish-eater. The "bad flyer" theory has taken scientists off the truth that these were coastal predators; that's why we have a record of them, because they preserved so well in the quick-covering sands of a sea bottom. In actual fact, Dimorphodon, with its deceptively light skull was probably an agile and maneuverable flyer. This is the price they pay for not being able to soar, just as vultures are unable to perform the deft maneuvers of swallows or bats. Short wings make for a more maneuverable flyer, which Dimorphodon would need to be to hunt fast-swimming fish. It's all there in the skeleton, folks.

@eviljoel 2 жыл бұрын

Evolution makes mistakes all the time, dude.

@artiefufkin88 2 жыл бұрын

@@eviljoel Like what? I'm open-minded. Change my mind on this

@kelvinhernandez4714 2 жыл бұрын

@@artiefufkin88 the seahorse

@kelvinhernandez4714 2 жыл бұрын

@@artiefufkin88 the nerve that runs around the heart that starts and finishes around the head? Here's a video. Anyways Evolution isn't perfect it does cause complications. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbVhlJR20JOsdGQ.html

@irmaosmatos4026 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it probably would swim and fly in shallow waters and catch small fish instead of flying in the open oceam