Peculiar Dinosaurs of The Cretaceous Period | The Golden Age of Evolution: Dinosaur Documentary

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The dinosaurs existed on our planet for roughly one hundred and sixty five million years, and for the majority of that time, they were the dominant life form on Earth. This gave them an awful lot of time to adapt, evolve and blossom into hundreds, likely even thousands, of different species, forms and functions. When we think of dinosaurs, typically a select few images come to mind - gigantic, two legged theropods such as Tyrannosaurus - four legged tanks such as Triceratops and Stegosaurus, long necked titans such as Brachiosaurus, or speedy, small predators such as Velociraptor.
The truth is that dinosaurs were a hugely diverse group of animals, and many more strange and unfamiliar forms took hold across the deserts, swamps, forests and plains of our planet's past. Today, we will be taking a look at ten of the most peculiar non avian dinosaurs ever to walk our planet - and these are just ones from the Cretaceous period, the time when dinosaurs had well and truly taken over the globe. From a species of tyrannosaur adapted to polar regions, to a tiny theropod that may have lived like a modern day monkey or lemur, we will cover the globe, from icy Alaska to the blistering Gobi Desert. We will be stopping along the way in the warm plains of Spain and the bustling woodlands of what is now southern Argentina, as well as making a stop in the ancient rainforests of China. Join us as we journey to meet the ten strangest dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period.
0:00 Introduction
2:24 Nothronychus
7:09 Bajadasaurus
10:09 Scansoriopteryx
13:27 Gigantoraptor
17:44 Carnotaurus
21:44 Concavenator
24:27 Shuvuuia
28:09 Leallynasaura
32:43 Udanoceratops
35:23 Nanuqsaurus
40:00 Outro
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@Leftatalbuquerque Жыл бұрын

Documentaries to get high to.

@jamesblonde2271 Жыл бұрын

waaaayyyy ahead of ya.

@saveus9132 Жыл бұрын

I came onto this vid blazing one 🌱💨 😂

@Makabert.Abylon Жыл бұрын

Been baked all day and now its 3 in the night, laying in bed cross eyed and sleep to this, way ahead of you guys

@brantlyrobbins2718 Жыл бұрын

Broooo. Preach🙌

@Anuchan Жыл бұрын

I like your content. Keep it coming.

@skyvolt2566 Жыл бұрын

I always appreciate the cameramen putting their lives on the line and going back in time to catch these clips of the Dinos

@japancica Жыл бұрын

Y,y,y

@japancica Жыл бұрын

😂y

@japancica Жыл бұрын

@supertrike5893 Жыл бұрын

I love how this guy focused on lesser known dinosaurs

@davidsheckler4450 Жыл бұрын

It's embarrassing that you believe this

@supertrike5893 Жыл бұрын

@@davidsheckler4450 what do you mean

@davidsheckler4450 Жыл бұрын

@@supertrike5893 Someone needs to teach these people American English 🤔🤦

@supertrike5893 Жыл бұрын

@@davidsheckler4450 so what you are trying to say is that dinosaurs never existed wow bro here is an aplause👏

@davidsheckler4450 Жыл бұрын

@@supertrike5893 Fake-a-saurses 👍

@nogoodgod4915 Жыл бұрын

Please do more videos about interesting/weird dinosaurs from certain time periods or even certain geographic locations!

@nogoodgod4915 Жыл бұрын

I found my new favorite youtube channel!!

@1969kodiakbear Жыл бұрын

This is so awesome. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

@JoeyMartz Жыл бұрын

:) God bless, brother. Stay well!!

@MisterMultiKill Жыл бұрын

@@JoeyMartzsadly this is a viral comment people are copy and pasting this 😢 messed up

@JoeyMartz Жыл бұрын

@@MisterMultiKill --- oh damn... thanks for informing me! I appreciate it.

@hausovdismater1721 Жыл бұрын

Lovely - just FYI scansauriopterygids weren't using that 3rd finger in the way you've described. This is quite outdated I'm afraid. The family This belonged to had membranous skin leading to a styliform element (found in later taxon such as Yi Qi) that gave them gliding wings superficially similar to pterosaurs or bats. These were most likely designed to help them move about the canopy and exploit a similar niche as that of gliding mammals also found in the area.

@joanneshepard5449 Жыл бұрын

super cool thoughts thanks for sharing. :)

@RichardBrennan46 Жыл бұрын

Yeah ☺️

@hausovdismater1721 Жыл бұрын

No problem 😀

@dr4gon166 Жыл бұрын

quite a bit of it is! The latest papers on amargasaurus suggest strongly that it didn't have a hump & was most likely a sail like structure. This was found by the most in depth study yet to be done & included MRI scans & paleo biomechanics working in tandem. This is also thought to be the same for Bajadasaurus. The so called hump was highly debated as it was down to an outdated study using currently living animals to determine the use if the "spike like" appendages. The new study pretty much puts this theory to bed. However in palaeontology we will never really know the absolute facts.

@stephenmeier4658 Жыл бұрын

I mean, with a finger that long how could it NOT be bat-like

@gic8849 2 ай бұрын

That Apple documentary brought so many smiles to my face. If you love these prehistoric marvels as much as I do, I’m sure you felt the same way while watching both seasons. It was a real treat to watch them as accurately lifelike as possible.. ..that carno hunk-a-love’s little flappy arm dance made me giggle so hard. I loved it. I keep Apple TV JUST to rewatch that series.

@excelsiorcomicsink Жыл бұрын

Carnotaurus: rawr, fear me The music: baby lullaby beats

@gluehuff43 Жыл бұрын

Keep them coming!

@almightyone1181 Жыл бұрын

Fave Dinosaur, prehistoric channel

@joanneshepard5449 Жыл бұрын

YES XOXOXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

@jeffstrom164 9 ай бұрын

Love the thought of carnotaurus doing jazz hands to mate.....

@cupcake-bi8ne Ай бұрын

Thanks for that video - it was truly remarkable. Most of all: I liked the different versions designed in order to show what they might have looked like.

@earlperson741 10 ай бұрын

PBS....TOOK OVER MY TV VEIWING WHEN COMMERCIAL TV GAVE UP......AND STARTED SHOWING COTTON CANDY FOR THE BRAIN!!!!!..... THANK GOD!!!!..... FOR PBS!!!!........

@user-dk5vj2br1o Жыл бұрын

Yes!!thank you!!

@Kroggnagch Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Around 21:35 or so, I never even thought about that! Dinos using highly-contrasting colors of their underarms in mating displays much like birds of paradise, or rather birds altogether, do with their feathers or skin flaps... that’s incredible, and a likely theory, if not the correct one in many cases.

@stoneworld5962 4 ай бұрын

Those blue arms are a simple joke made by the documentary makers.The scene is obviously comical and there are, of course, abolutely no evidence for almost any dinosaur of their actual colours.

@jaredquinney204 Жыл бұрын

What a cool video

@judithdavis7437 10 ай бұрын

Thank you it was very interesting

@emmaguttridge6180 Жыл бұрын

The 30cm dinosaur reminds me of an Ay Ay how the use that long finger thing.

@matthewjohns1758 Жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

@mobileplayers5008 10 ай бұрын

Billions years like a blink of an eye

@Kroggnagch Жыл бұрын

I think silky chickens are closely related to dinosaurs with their down feather covering and strange feet with that extra toe. I have a silky, she’s covered in white down, has black skin, and the most beautiful blue ears you’ve ever seen; absolutely stunning blue, azure really, and lays tan eggs with dark brown speckles. Her name is Luna. I love her so much. She even sleeps inside at night in a modified cat kennel in my bedroom. She’s such an animated little thing with such a big personality, my mother calls her “a little spitfire” lol..

@Dan-ee4bv Жыл бұрын

Silkies are a holes. Never liked the ones i had.

@gic8849 2 ай бұрын

Well it’s a miniature modern dinosaur so..yeh..it’s gonna be an a-hole

@user-xm9sb5zv8t Жыл бұрын

Lookalike my experimental crossbreed turkey..such a similarities 🤔 ..!?

@gic8849 Жыл бұрын

Yes!!!

@bertbinion7420 Жыл бұрын

I'm amazed at all of the imagination poured into trying to describe these creatures. I'm also equally amazed that so much expertise is implied concerning creatures that never been seen alive.

@Stevin523 10 ай бұрын

What are you implying?

@James-kv6kb 10 ай бұрын

In your University lingo your basically saying you don't trust anybody cuz that's what Google has told you to do . This anti-science movement put out by Google is rather disturbing

@diannnna333 9 ай бұрын

Please stop with lying

@James-kv6kb 9 ай бұрын

@@diannnna333 I think you should worry about the big people lying to you not silly little videos on KZfaq. Are you aware there are thousands of people paid to find you and harass you and make your life hell? That way being a boring person from the suburbs you get a bit of excitement lol

@quantumcat7673 Жыл бұрын

I'd like to see an episode with Badassaurus. Which dinosaur is considered the most intelligent?

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

Dromiasaurs not sure which exact one, but it’s definitely in that group

@stoneworld5962 4 ай бұрын

@@RandomMackem3247 dromeosaurs* but heard more about troodontids for "intelligence"

@gic8849 Жыл бұрын

I get so sad knowing all of these truly incredible animals no longer exist. Even though its likely humans wouldn’t have done so well had any of these monster predators survived, I still feel kind of cheated. A polar beary t-Rex? Cmon. 😪

@joanneshepard5449 Жыл бұрын

xoxoxoxoxoxooxoxxoxo

@gic8849 Жыл бұрын

❤️ thank you. My whole thing is.. We all live perfectly fine with massive predators in the poles. A white fluffy T-Rex should’ve been allowed to live in the areas where not much else does, so I’m kinda angry about it lol

@21Kikoshi Жыл бұрын

they are still alive, they are just birds

@gic8849 Жыл бұрын

@@21Kikoshi well..yeah…

@Kroggnagch Жыл бұрын

This makes me want to play Ark

@james2849_ 10 ай бұрын

21:26 nah man he’s just hittin the griddy

@user-jm1dv2ck2t 3 ай бұрын

I wisb therd was a choice of "other narrators" ..... To choose from so it would be earler to stay awake while listening to these documentaries

@jamesblonde2271 Жыл бұрын

It was a wing not a probe, Scansereopterix btw So was avian.

@ogedeh Жыл бұрын

What was that one with all the pokey thorns coming out of it?

@Kroggnagch Жыл бұрын

Uh, concavinator should be convexinator...

@gic8849 Жыл бұрын

Canni ave sum mo plz

@DS9TREK 10 ай бұрын

Dinosaurs still exist on Earth. An avian dinosaur is still a dinosaur.

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

Would crocodiles count since birds are their closest living relative

@1stHuemanAmerican Ай бұрын

Birds are Dinosaurs 🧪🔬

@nishbrown Жыл бұрын

1.25 speed

@slimbim77 8 ай бұрын

When i look at these newer depictions of feathered dinosaurs with beak-like features then i have not the slightest doubt that at least a big group of dinos survived the meteor impact as well as the aftermath.They did not go extinct as a whole.They evolved directly into birds.

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

Yes birds are last true dinosaurs and are the closest living relative to crocodilians

@messiahmatrix Жыл бұрын

Gigantoraptor would have been as terrifying as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, almost.

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

Imagine a cassowary but bigger basically

@MrWanapon Жыл бұрын

Scansoriopteryx lives in the Jurassic Period

@egay86292 Жыл бұрын

there is no way to understand dinosaurs' "full potential," short of the fullness of time...and even then.

@matthewjohns1758 Жыл бұрын

They have made brain cast impressions of dinosaurs and none of them yet have much more brain in them than the brain sense areas such as vision and smell.

@SPIOoner Жыл бұрын

that's a carno in the thumbnail i believe.

@rafenord2 9 ай бұрын

0:01 Come on Steel Greymon! Evolve to a Refrigerator with a Bazooka to defeat Zombielizardmon!

@bhbluebird Ай бұрын

Dinosaurs were the Ancient Rome of evolution. Yeah, i'm high as a kite.

@loretta_3843 4 ай бұрын

Sorry Carnotaurus, but when I saw those little arms doing that "display" dance they've theorised, it gave me a good laugh 😄 A creature so big and dangerous, flapping those little arms! I swear, the female is giving him a "wtf are you doing?!" look!

@MontanaHarvestor Жыл бұрын

How high was the CO2ppm when these big critters roamed?

@brockdavid Жыл бұрын

In my opinion; forms, niches repeat often. So, homologous structures and convergent evolution reoccur often. I believe, that Drepanosaurus was that Cycle/Era’s version of an Aye-Aye, and was a sign of what would eventually arise in the Cretaceous period. *Edit: I enjoy your content immensely, and prefer long duration videos, so thank you, and nice even and interesting narration. I’ve loved dinosaurs my whole life. My first prehistoric life book was ‘MacMillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals’

@alhassanait1749 Жыл бұрын

I think T-Rex would not stand that horizental way 24h . I think he sat down on his ass from time to time to rest .

@zachattack2834 9 ай бұрын

The narrator sounds like a creepypasta narrator I listen to.

@ayongberacis9500 Жыл бұрын

Sauropods like a container trucks

@leonkatsnelson4878 Жыл бұрын

I have a dinosaur book

@birkavese Жыл бұрын

Birds are only one branch of dinosaurs, and they currently! have more than 10k species, not to mention all the ones that died out in the past 66 mi years. So why do you say ALL the dinosaurs had “hundreds, or likely thousands of species” in a 165 mi year period? They likely had much more

@rainbowman1079 11 ай бұрын

isn't Scansoriopteryx from Jurassic?

@James-kv6kb 10 ай бұрын

Not sure about the fast forward lines that's a bit amateurish

@ihatemylife4314 Жыл бұрын

21:18

@somescottishlassie891 Ай бұрын

20:18 dino nemo

@leonkatsnelson4878 Жыл бұрын

Called dinosaur world

@wingedhussar1453 Жыл бұрын

The carnotasaurus waving his tiny arms around as display for a mate is so stupid I can't even belive that was done by actual people in the field. Clearly the arms are small because they don't have any use and thts why they devolved to small tiny tubs.if anything the dinasours probably had a lot of crazy hanging apparatus or feathery colors to attract mates. They were very much like modern birds

@Alextheskater91 Жыл бұрын

Ok Mr paleontologist 😂

@randjohnson6452 Жыл бұрын

why do I feel like most of these documentaries ignore continental drift and the location of the land mass they were found in

@indy_go_blue6048 Жыл бұрын

It's all speculation anyway.

@matthewjohns1758 Жыл бұрын

@@indy_go_blue6048 Not quite all speculation. We have a plethora of fossil specimens which shows a great deal about the animals. Along with coprolites and preserved footprints, they all tell us a great deal about these animals including feather color.

@kevinbeazy 10 ай бұрын

@@matthewjohns1758it’s all speculation

@jamesburke6078 11 ай бұрын

Nothing is competition free....stop with speculation!

@timetraveler1973 Жыл бұрын

concavenator - hump or spine. - both would benefit mating display. the real question is if they were cannaballistic not just in general (t-rex's gave love bites that would kill an elephant) but if they were willing to kill particularly in mating season, eachother, then the hump makes more sense. like a suchomomimus more of a hump rather than say a spinosaurus. something that predated along the rivers or ocean , and likely didnt even swim, but had forearms and long snout with 3 inch teeth , bigger than orca, and would catch shit like a grizzly at the top of a salmon waterfall. but would grab much bigger, more formidable fish, and unlike jurassic park was likely to have very short rear legs, so it could move on land and hold its own. and just for shennanigans sakes. the spinosaur if you look at its competition fish bird herbivore therapod, it was not built to 'kill' armed / armored land herbevores, it could likely drive off most if not all land carnivores in its habitat and time, but a t-rex would maul that thing fast. litterally just bite its face off. those claws arent anything compared to triceretops horns.

@lucidinterval8012 10 ай бұрын

It doesn’t make sense for a male Trex to kill his partner during mating. 😂

@FrancoMC5 11 ай бұрын

Wheres the mosasarus

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

He said dinosaurs, mosasaurs are marine reptiles not dinosaurs

@colleenoller8379 Жыл бұрын

It's same trex painted different trash n devor just put tough in it.

@cylesmith8291 11 ай бұрын

Nightmind?!

@goonerali3547 4 ай бұрын

27th January 2024.

@phoenix_kiana Жыл бұрын

Why did you show Lemurs when you were talking about theropods? Lemurs aren't theropods. If anything, a bird would have been better to show for a theropod considering that they are closer to being descendants of theropods.

@matthewjohns1758 Жыл бұрын

He was implying that this dinosaur was the Lemur/monkey of the Cretaceous period.

@DS9TREK 10 ай бұрын

Your "theories" are actually hypothesises. A theory has to have evidence to support it, e.g. the theory of gravity and the theory of evolution. Both have evidence that make them proven.

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

Gods are hypothesis then, sorry I had to say it cause I’m bound to find some religious zealot in the comment section claiming dinosaurs are fake and god created humans in his image

@Alextheskater91 Жыл бұрын

Do religious people hate these vids?

@matthewjohns1758 Жыл бұрын

Let’s hope so!!!

@messiahmatrix Жыл бұрын

I’m Christian and I love this stuff, I believe in both evolutionary biology and the resurrection of Christ that means I trigger narrow minded people on both sides 😂

@diannnna333 9 ай бұрын

Religion has nothing to do with it

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

@@messiahmatrixJesus was a real person just not as described in religion I think Islam describes him best and I’m not religious I just find anything fantasy interesting to learn about

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

Yes most of them do

@mikesmet6792 Жыл бұрын

disney for adults nothing more.

@christianwitness Жыл бұрын

Forward facing spines = attack from the rear... This is laughably " made-up" : complete with back stories...

@PeteV80 6 ай бұрын

Can't stand this AI narration

@RandomMackem3247 5 ай бұрын

It make me want to die

@ginaperry2599 Жыл бұрын

Evolution is only a "Theory" not fact! 🤷✝️

@iRyan__ Жыл бұрын

No it’s fact, that’s coming from a Christian

@edsmith9846 Жыл бұрын

You are an idiot.

@degew9367 Жыл бұрын

It's both a theory and a fact, because that's how scientific theories work

@_k_a_t Жыл бұрын

Religion is also a theory. Not a fact.

@matthewjohns1758 Жыл бұрын

It is called a Theory because that is how science works. Until some other Theory comes along which makes more SCIENTIFIC sense, evolution; which has been SCIENTIFICALLY proven over and over again; is the prevailing Theory of how animals become other animals. Unfortunately people like you don’t like scientific solutions because they actually deal with Facts instead of lies and innuendos as you are used to.