Evolution of Triceratops (the Ceratopsians)

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Throughout prehistory there are common niches in ecosystems that form over and over again by new groups of animals, overtime when one group goes extinct another will often fill their place. As dinosaurs occupied the earth for such an incredibly long time over the tens of millions of years they existed when dinosaur species went extinct they were usually just replaced by a different species of dinosaur. By the mid cretaceous a group of new dinosaurs came on to the scene, the Ceratopsians containing some of the most famous dinosaurs known like Triceratops.
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@lalehiandeity1649 6 ай бұрын

The Evolution of Grass would be interesting.

@cameronhill688 6 ай бұрын

Y u wanna watch grass grow?

@TheGreenKnight500 6 ай бұрын

It would be. It's actually pretty amazing just how recently a lot of our modern plants evolved.

@alfredwaldo6079 6 ай бұрын

Yeah boy there is so little paleobotany content out there!

@connorhaley3190 6 ай бұрын

Probably from sedges

@Ballistics_Computer 6 ай бұрын

@@cameronhill688beat me to it

@NitroIndigo 6 ай бұрын

"The largest herbivores in the ecosystem would never be dinosaurs again." New Zealand: And I took that personally.

@nebulan 6 ай бұрын

I was thinking of the moa, too, and also the elephant birds of Madagascar 😅

@ekosubandie2094 6 ай бұрын

Don't forget the giant tortoises which are still around today They're pretty much the largest non-mammal native herbivores on their respective island ecosystems

@Yoiyejsjwjanbsej 6 ай бұрын

@@ekosubandie2094tbf they also arent Dinosaurs

@Itsjustme-Justme 6 ай бұрын

non avian dinosaurs

@yissibiiyte 6 ай бұрын

It's amazing how many times dinosaurs evolved into quadrupeds from bipedal ancestors. Sauropods, ceratopsians, ornithopods, thyreophorans all started out being bipedal.

@valivali8104 6 ай бұрын

Well, if animal is big and heavy, which big herbivores have to be thanks to bigger and more complex digestive track, they have to be quadrupeds.

@GenghisDon1970 6 ай бұрын

and morons of the 22nd century still just call them reptiles even when they MUST know better

@Thulgore 6 ай бұрын

I notice quite a few humans going this round too.........granted the quads they are on are mobility scooters. Well actually I'm the only 45 year old I know that doesn't own a car, never had a drivers license and walks everywhere...............hell I'm the only adult I know that does this without a court order.

@AnthonyMorris-pg9xj 6 ай бұрын

@@Thulgorewe are becoming a rare breed 😁

@patreekotime4578 6 ай бұрын

@@valivali8104Im not sure that is entirely true. Some research has suggested that Megatherium may have been bipedal. And many Ornithopods seem to have used four legs when feeding but probably still ran on two! The more likely case is that if you are large and your food is on the ground, having a lower body plan makes it easier to reach your food.

@Valerio_the_wandering_sprite 6 ай бұрын

One thing that always amused me of late ceratopsids is how they repeatedly filled in the same niche of modern bovids. Large, stocky horned grass browsers living in herds? Definitely another case of convergent evolution.

@MarcoAntonio-hw7si 6 ай бұрын

Herds? Correct me if i'm wrong, but ceratopsids were solitary

@stormisuedonym4599 4 ай бұрын

@@MarcoAntonio-hw7si I don't think I've ever seen convincing evidence they didn't live in herds or at least small groups.

@pocketmarcy6990 Ай бұрын

@@MarcoAntonio-hw7sievidence of a Paticular species living in Groups is hard to come by

@LimeyLassen 6 ай бұрын

It's really shocking when you see how big a Triceratops skull could get in context.

@daniell1483 6 ай бұрын

Triceratops is probably my second favorite dinosaur. They just look so majestic, and powerful, like a tank on legs. It is interesting to learn that their family was also so successful, and comparing them as herbivores to others goes to show that there are lots of ways to get the job done.

@Thulgore 6 ай бұрын

Beak combined with ever growing teeth. A parrot combined with a rat.......but the rodent ability was in the molars........I hate that I will never know how these animals actually were.

@quangminhnguyen6541 6 ай бұрын

That tank also have ball joint in their neck. They can rotate their full-of-weapons head to extremely wide range.

@TillyOrifice 6 ай бұрын

Plus big spiky horns.

@anfunifr3nzy610 5 ай бұрын

Pachyrhinosaurus is my favorite, I like the thought of a ramming ceratopsian.

@Rise876 6 ай бұрын

I studied Zoology at uni, years ago, and I've always been interested in absolutely every facet of natural history and life on earth. Your videos are outstanding! They're so well done, so interesting and enjoyable. Great work!

@Gaarafan007 6 ай бұрын

I recently saw a video on Clint's Reptiles where he asked viewers what their favourite dinosaur was. Being obsessed with the creatures when I was younger, I thought the question would be easy, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized I didn't have a proper answer. The best I could to was to say that my favourite ceratopsian dinosaur is Styracosaurus. I'm always happy when the make even the briefest of appearances in video like these.

@jasonotto9126 6 ай бұрын

Knew about them from Dino riders. Them and deinonycus were me favourites as a kid. Still today

@cro-magnoncarol4017 6 ай бұрын

"Ornithischians the group that contains all herbivorous Dinosaurs that weren't Sauropods..." Therizinosaurs & Ornithomimosaurs: "Are we a joke to you..."

@isaacbruner65 6 ай бұрын

I thought Ornithomimus was an omnivore

@cro-magnoncarol4017 6 ай бұрын

@@isaacbruner65 Perhaps, in the same way a modern ostrich or emu is omnivorous. But none of that egg eating nonsense...

@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 6 ай бұрын

It was very likely mostly herbivorous. Though they were likely able to eat animals too and did it occasionally. Still herbivorous enough to count as a herbivorous dinosaur as far as herbivorous niches are concerned.@@isaacbruner65

@strixalu 6 ай бұрын

I just wanted to correct you about that bit you said at 2:12 about all dinosaurs evolving from a therapod dinosaur in the Triassic period- I'm sure you probably meant therapod-like dinosaur but I thought I should clear that up for anyone confused in the comments

@Paraves426 6 ай бұрын

Also *theropod

@victorcelmare 6 ай бұрын

Finally one step closer to finding out how they tasted like

@rursus8354 6 ай бұрын

First Anaceratops, then Monoceratops, then Diceratops, and then comes Triceratops. Then comes Tetraceratops, Pentaceratops, Hexaceratops and Heptaceratops. Then Octaceratops and Nonaceratops, and finally Styracosaurus. UPDATE: Oh, I forgot Leptoceratops, then Baryceratops, then Microceratops and Macroceratops!

@CarmenLC 6 ай бұрын

Onerioceratops when

@Gzeebo 6 ай бұрын

Very enjoyable and informative video. Fun fact: Chasmosaur is so named because its skull has two huge "chasms" i.e. holes in the frill.

@joshuaW5621 6 ай бұрын

These evolution videos are always so fascinating.

@thejdmguru621 6 ай бұрын

I’d love to see a video on the Evolution of Cycads. It would be interesting to see topics of genuses like Ctenis, Antarcticycas and Dioonopsis just to name a few.

@ThrowerTimothy 6 ай бұрын

The triceratops had a ball and socket joint in its neck!

@NuisanceMan 6 ай бұрын

Thanks very much for doing this video. It means a lot to me personally because my great grandmother was a triceratops.

@Tsotha 6 ай бұрын

lots of small early ceratopsians, that looked nothing like later giants with horns and frills, I never heard of until now!

@deez1954 6 ай бұрын

*babe wake up‚mothlight media just dropped.*

@maximeestevn5319 6 ай бұрын

Babe wake up new moth light media video is up

@maxicineahill1073 6 ай бұрын

Oh boy I've been waiting for this one, never clicked so fast

@thebushna 6 ай бұрын

I found this so fascinating. I've seen so much coverage in Paleontology media of creatures that are already famous, but not as much about how they evolved. I learned so much watching this video. Thank you!

@sergeipohkerova7211 6 ай бұрын

When I was a kid I drew Tyrannosaurus jousting with Triceratops and my triceratops was walking on its hind legs. My teacher told me ceratopsians would have never walked on theirhind legs. I can just picture her now if I told her about this video, smugly telling me that hind leg ceratopsians wouldn't be dueling Tyrannosaurus anyway because the era was wrong. Oh well. She's dead now so that kinda sucks. 🤷

@theoccidilian4896 6 ай бұрын

We can't assume a singular function for structures such as horns. Modern-day horned animals often use horns both for defense and male-male contests. An animal will use whatever weapons it has as need presents.

@Thulgore 6 ай бұрын

So many things we don't know..........and as yet the sexual dimorphism of ceratopsians doesn't seem so extreme.......which leads to so many more questions about them.

@piggymag1c 6 ай бұрын

well why do you think they developed those "weapons" in the first place? You are correct, most likely for a variety of uses, however the horns came from a need for them, not the other way around.

@vinny184 6 ай бұрын

@@piggymag1c that’s an outdated view on evolution having an endpoint. Horns evolved gradually by selecting for individuals with bigger horns. The reason the ones with smaller horns not surviving or at least not reproducing isn’t really known.

@SoulDelSol 6 ай бұрын

They're defense was to run away. They're battles for mates were locking horns. I think its safe to compare them to modern ungulates (deer, bovids, antelope). Horns also serve as radiators for cooling

@piggymag1c 6 ай бұрын

@@vinny184 i agree evolution never stops and did not say otherwise. and surely bigger is not always better

@lauropaiva8938 6 ай бұрын

Hi from Brazil

@MatthewTheWanderer 6 ай бұрын

Ceratopsians are some of the coolest dinosaurs! Somehow, I had never heard of the tiny bipedal ones, though!

@Littlekoji-df1cf 6 ай бұрын

He is back!

@lauravansanten7804 6 ай бұрын

Finally, an episode about triceratops! I've been waiting for this one for ages, thank you so much Mothlightmedia!

@lucaskohn5457 6 ай бұрын

Would love to see more about the evolution of dinosaurs!!!

@nestormentoso8707 6 ай бұрын

damn, i feel an urge to make a joke about Yinshort, the smaller cousin of Yinlong

@gattycroc8073 6 ай бұрын

fantastic video. Ceratopsians are awesome.

@tyrannotherium7873 6 ай бұрын

Good thing that you pointed out that late ceratopsians did not have quills or feathers, only the ancestors did

@hughmongus6191 6 ай бұрын

Your video is the best thing to happen on my Black Friday.

@SpeedDemon_Editzzz 6 ай бұрын

The Mighty Tri Horns🔥🔥🔥

@Wolf-Chalk 6 ай бұрын

Oh wow, I'm early for once. I never thought about dinosaur evolution beyond birds before so this will be a fascinating watch 👀

@shmuelparzal 6 ай бұрын

Ceratopsids are one of my favourite dinosaur groups, alongside Ankylosaurians and Stegosaurians

@vamp97 6 ай бұрын

Another great video. I can’t believe you give us this kind of relaxing education for free!

@abdulhossain8816 6 ай бұрын

Moth Light Media out with more W content.

@schrotthandler1648 6 ай бұрын

Your videos are the last truly entertaining relaxing dinosaur content

@dozhk 6 ай бұрын

I love your work! Keep it up. Is there any source to those paleomaps you use?

@isaach8289 6 ай бұрын

this video needs more love, great content as always

@MrHangman56 6 ай бұрын

these videos are so good and always make me sad that we evolved so late and missed out on seeing so many incredible creatures

@SoulDelSol 6 ай бұрын

Not really though. We have some of the most amazing creatures ever today. We're just normalized to them, just as we would be to the dinos

@Sry_4_nothing 6 ай бұрын

I really like your Videos, your voice fits perfectly. Its calming and informatif.

@connorflaherty175 6 ай бұрын

Eotriceratops is worth mentioning, being the largest ceratopsian dinosaur ever discovered.

@gingazaurus 6 ай бұрын

Great video thank you for making it, Very interested👌🏻

@TeagueChrystie 6 ай бұрын

This is fascinating. Great channel. Thanks so much.

@cyankirkpatrick5194 6 ай бұрын

I am fascinated by the early north American primate's that died out, they've been finding fossils like crazy and now they're just getting to know them crazy.

@dimosthenistserikis5901 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting indeed

@jaisanatanrashtra7035 6 ай бұрын

Finally Dinosaurs are back 😊💕 Hey 👋 Can you do a video on Birds and Reptiles that lived in Cenozoic Era

@curiousuranus810 6 ай бұрын

Moth Light Media - more welcome today than Black Friday.

@michaelharper8503 6 ай бұрын

The animal dinosaurs evolved from was "theropod like" but not an actual theropod.

@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 6 ай бұрын

I think you mean the vast majority of (very) large herbivorous dinosaurs evolved back into being quadrupedal. The smaller ones often stayed bipedal, especially among therapod species who were mostly herbivorous. Even some of the big herbivorous dinosaurs like hadrosaurs were facultative bipeds. Also, smaller animals tend to have more species and fossilise worse, so I would imagine taking all herbivorous non-avian dinosaurs into account would have them being mostly bipdeal, or at least it being close to 50/50. But the large herbivorous non-avian dinosaurs were likely mostly quadrupedal. Obviously even more bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs would be counted if you include the birds of the Mesozoic.

@isaacbruner65 6 ай бұрын

Adding onto this, I know of at least one other group of herbivorous theropods as well, Therizinosaurs, and they were also bipedal.

@vinny184 6 ай бұрын

It makes sense when you take into account the adaptations needed for being a massive herbivore. Like a big barrel gut, weight distribution etc.

@WAMTAT 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating

@WildLand1895 6 ай бұрын

Dude, your content is awesome! I always, always love your videos! Question: at 2:30 mark...Ankylosaurs were actually that big? Edmontosaurus is the second largest hadrosaurid known to date, right? I thought Ankylosaurus was a bit shorter, or is that Edmontosaurus is shorter than i thought?

@demos113 6 ай бұрын

Good work. 🙂👍

@sauron6977 6 ай бұрын

Love your videos

@Epidombe 6 ай бұрын

Nice

@supertrike5893 2 ай бұрын

It's great seeing the evolution of my favorite dinosaur

@maozilla9149 6 ай бұрын

awesome video

@obibraxton2232 6 ай бұрын

Please upload more videos more frequently when you can ! Love the content and I’m fascinated so much by prehistoric life be it dinosaur, reptile or mamal 🙌🏾

@Kentuckyhunter58 6 ай бұрын

Great video

@PhilipSalen 6 ай бұрын

One of the illustrations of the triceratops had flowering plants included at 56 second of the video; I do not believe that there were flowering plants at the time of the triceratops; please confirm Moth Light Media.

@evilcow666 6 ай бұрын

There were flowering plants appeared in the mid cretacous while styracosaurus appeared in the late

@tec-jones5445 6 ай бұрын

Flowering plants, angiosperms, evolved in the early Cretaceous, and became steadily more common through the period. By the late Cretaceous, they were quite diverse and common, comprising about half of all plant species (it would be after the extinction that they would absolutely dominate in diversity though).

@theunholyadventurer2376 6 ай бұрын

First of all, that isn't a Triceratops, its a Styracosaurus. Secondly, flowering plants evolved early on in the Cretaceous and became very widespread moving on (this is what Moth Light Media said in the video as well). Both Triceratops and Styracosaurus evolved during the Cretaceous, making them co-exist with flowering plants.

@lloydmckay3241 6 ай бұрын

Life is so marvelous. Beyond quantification.

@JustAnotherRandomGuy-_- 6 ай бұрын

Judging the evolution of predatory hooved mammals I think there are also predatory ceratopsians as well.

@philipmurphy2 6 ай бұрын

This looks like a interesting topic

@hyrumhanson3390 6 ай бұрын

I've wondered if any creatures of this family ever filled the niche of a beaver. Big head, powerful bite, stomach of steel. Possible paddle tail derived from elongated feather/scales upon the sides ofthe tail.

@anastaswinn4630 6 ай бұрын

No, because no dinosaurs had heterodonty.

@bvillafuerte765 6 ай бұрын

Good video.

@shorelinefishing9213 6 ай бұрын

My favorite dinosaur

@cro-magnoncarol4017 6 ай бұрын

Ah yes, my favorite Dinosaur family.

@yfrontsguy 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant as ever ! Have you ever doing plants too? We need someone as enthusiastic and rigourous as you to tackle plant evolution !!

@BaldianOfIbelin 6 ай бұрын

There is also a theory that the Pachiselaphoraur had a horn made of keratin just like the Rhinos.

@caseyriggs6264 6 ай бұрын

My fave dinos list: 1. Carnotaurus 2. Quetzalcoatlus ("It's a reptile!" I KNOW! :) ) 3. Triceratops

@jaisanatanrashtra7035 6 ай бұрын

3:55 hey can you tell us how you make these Size Comparison Charts what tool/app you use..???

@michaelharper8503 6 ай бұрын

There are birds and a few other clades of theropods that were herbivorous.

@faolitaruna 6 ай бұрын

Check out "Walking With Dinosaurs Remake || Third Chapter : Clash Of Dynasties", it's independent documentary about parallel evolution of Ceratopsians and Tyrannosaurids.

@Golem33 6 ай бұрын

I’d love a video covering the evolution of anseriform waterfowl.

@rustywenzlawe6287 6 ай бұрын

Another goddamn banger

@BoisegangGaming 6 ай бұрын

Psittacosaurus is so adorable i want one.

@jamesstandsupfallsdown 12 күн бұрын

I would love to see a evolution of stegosaurs and ankylosaurs

@herp_derpingson 6 ай бұрын

Science of horny dinosaurs. My favorite thing to watch while having morning coffee.

@hackusprime 6 ай бұрын

probably my favorite Dino..

@BiTurbo228 Ай бұрын

Man I utterly adore this channel, but please look up the pronunciation for these animals! It's 'kasmosaurs' not 'shazmosaurs' 👍

@heywodjablowme9796 6 ай бұрын

I would like to see an evolution of bacteria or fungi video similar to the evolution of virus one.

@UniversalChallenge4454 6 ай бұрын

you favourite dinosaur as a kid

@stupidmango4036 6 ай бұрын

Let's goooo!

@lastEvergreen 6 ай бұрын

7:58: Me: “Over time the centrasaurs actually evolved to reduce or lose their brow horns.”

@b.a.erlebacher1139 6 ай бұрын

There was a theory at one time that the frill functioned as an anchor for massive jaw muscles so the animals could eat woody vegetation. The frill would have been mostly internal, encased in skin and muscle. What's the current status of this idea?

@anyascelticcreations 6 ай бұрын

I just wrote an elaborate response to this that somehow got eaten by the algorithm before I was able to hit post. Basically, I agree. And I compared it to our own hyoid bone.

@LimeyLassen 6 ай бұрын

The frill doubled the skull's length. That's a little excessive for a muscle attachment.

@b.a.erlebacher1139 6 ай бұрын

@@anyascelticcreationsI'm sorry I didn't get to see your response!

@valivali8104 6 ай бұрын

How could they turn their heads, especially nod their head up and down to get food and water?

@b.a.erlebacher1139 6 ай бұрын

@@valivali8104 I don't know. Perhaps by relaxing the jaw muscles? A dinosaur jaw is organised differently than a mammalian jaw. At any rate, I'm curious about the current status of the theory.

@apnosaurus 6 ай бұрын

wait wasn't kulinda a basal ceratopsian? or was it a basal marginocephalian? the one that was covered in feathers.

@pocketmarcy6990 Ай бұрын

If only more Dinosaur fossils were as well preserved as Psittacosaurus

@ariesostia126 6 ай бұрын

Yoooo! I cheered when I saw this title, and autoclicked

@jorgerangel2390 6 ай бұрын

stegosaurus next dude!!!

@bumiandalas840 6 ай бұрын

Woow😊

@dleddy14 5 ай бұрын

What is clade of animals with most it's species alive today that would be comparable in species size (estimated) to the Dinosauria clade during the lade Cretaceous?

@SoulDelSol 6 ай бұрын

They were in large herds which gave them safety in numbers. Occasionally a predator may get one in a hunt. Many times they wouldn't.

@_Wombat 6 ай бұрын

"...would never be dinosaurs again." Not yet, however.... We have the technology :D

@danielalexandre89 6 ай бұрын

Dinosaurs were so dominant and widespread yet now non exist Makes you wonder if same can happen to mamals or birds in the future

@Dr.Ian-Plect 6 ай бұрын

They do exist, birds are dinosaurs.

@GuardianSoulkeeper 6 ай бұрын

Didn't know birds were extinct.

@alskdjfhgqzwez6723 6 ай бұрын

Does anyone know where can i contact this guy? I have a question for him about his video on the large flightless birds. If anyone else is an expert on the subject, please let me know

@toxicperson8936 6 ай бұрын

There are many dinosaurs that are herbivores, but not ornithischian or sauropods. Therizinosaurus, for example, was a theropod.

@derf2170 6 ай бұрын

The Y is silent and the O is a long O sound in Yinlong

@girlbuu9403 6 ай бұрын

I think saying 'putting them all in the same group is misleading' is a tremendous understatement. It is fine to some degree, but grouping this cat sized bipeds with elephant sized quadrupeds would be like grouping humans with squirrels. Even if we are closer related to rodents than we are to cats or whales. Maybe as a clade, or something between the class mammalia and the order primate/rodent, but anything beyond that is such a stretch.