New Pterosaur Missing Link Found in Triassic Brazil

New Pterosaur Missing Link Found in Triassic Brazil | Venetoraptor

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9 ай бұрын

Evolution can be difficult to piece out when the fossil record is as broken as it is. However, sometimes it coughs up some great material that provides extremely important information to help fill in the gaps in knowledge. One of the continuously decreasing shadows of mystery in evolution, is the transitional stages that led to the pterosaurs and the dinosaurs. One brand new piece has been described from the reddish rock layers of Triassic Brazil and it promises to shed new light on the origins of archosaurian flight.
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Müller, R.T., Ezcurra, M.D., Garcia, M.S. et al. New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors. Nature 620, 589-594 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06...
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@anonimopanas4807 9 ай бұрын

Man, Australia and Brazil have appeared here so many times that I think they need a playlist just for them😂

@erianpeterson3431 9 ай бұрын

Well to be fair south America and Africa where located near the center of pangea and while the contents started splitting they were still close enough for animals to cross a body of water

@alfredotavares6658 9 ай бұрын

Call it end of scientific imperialism

@alfredoaugustonascimentode5145 7 ай бұрын

@@alfredotavares6658Agreed

@athos9293 4 ай бұрын

One is the place where dinosaurs and pterosaurs first appeared, the other is a parallel universe

@Danboi. 9 ай бұрын

It never ceases to amaze me that we can look at a critter that's over 65 miiiiiillion years old. Lately I've tried to imagine how colourful and highly decorated they were after looking at a peacock skeleton, I think we are way off on our depictions of what they looked like

@darkonyx6995 9 ай бұрын

Not really, the basic anatomy of these animals is pretty much known, most prehistoric animals are basically "blank lions", based on it's skeleton, close relatives, morphology of the bones, ecosystem and phylogeny, we can more or less reconstruct the general idea of a lion. To help you further, just imagine a lion with a blank skin color, no mane, no pompom at the end of the tail, a slimmer face, pointier ears and a solitary life, no prides. That is the state most dinosaurs are, sure, sometimes you got rare cases like Psittacosaurus and Borealopelta, where their fossils are so, SO well-preserved that we can even know the shape of ther butts and the colors and patterns they had, but for the most part, dinosaurs are blank lions. This is not because paleontologists are uncreative or dumb, it's just because we can't really claim a creature had x trait based on nothing, so it's better to just stay conservative, since most animals aren't too outlandish anyway and lying about an animal is worse than just not knowing it fully and being acceptive of that. Also, another good reminder is that, for every bright-colored bird like a peacock, we have a hundred more dull-colored birds, so it's unlikely that an extinct creature will be so complex like a peacock ( though, there are some exceptions, like the Ubirajara, also, many dinosaurs likely had some bright colors, just not on the level of a peacock ).

@Worldsfastestrodent 9 ай бұрын

blud wrote his heart out@@darkonyx6995

@rodrigotempmuller625 9 ай бұрын

Your video is amazing! Thank you for sharing our study. Greetings from Brazil!⛏⛏⛏

@origaminosferatu3357 9 ай бұрын

Man Triassic Fauna is so underrated. Awesome to see some of them get more attention.

@Commander-Ledi 9 ай бұрын

would it be possible to include the names of the animals shown in illustrations in written form on the screen in future? i often like to look up information on the animals shown, but its a bit of a hassle, because i cannot figure out how the name is spelled, and the automatic captions are not exactly helpful.

@thabas7578 9 ай бұрын

Brazil has such an amazing and underapreciated fossil record that it makes me angry to see just the morrison formation and hell creek (sometimes the djadochta formation) over and over and over again

@alfredotavares6658 9 ай бұрын

The rainforest envoirement make findings difficult. But the northeast and south of Brazil (close to Argentina) has great sites

@rileyernst9086 9 ай бұрын

I appreciate the morrison formation and hell creek, but it would be awesome to see more of the Asfaltso formation and the Tendaguru beds. (Which seems to have been an unappreciated centre for diversity in the late Jurassic featuring a carcharodontosaur and a spinosaur (before they got cool)alongside more typical jurassic fauna.)

@rileyernst9086 9 ай бұрын

Or the Asfaltso formation that provides the first real glimpse into megalasaur and allosaur evolution. And demonstrates that abelisaurs with puny little arms were in fact eternal.

@SarastistheSerpent 9 ай бұрын

Pterosaur evolution has to be one of the most fascinating aspects of palaeontology. I’m actually very surprised we know as much as we do about pterosaur-line ornithodirans

@vikingskuld 9 ай бұрын

Lol it's a load of crap at best. Nothing evolved like they say. There is no mechanism for it lol

@Subfightr 9 ай бұрын

@@vikingskuldno mechanism for what? Flight? The evolution of the pterosaur? The beautiful megafinger, the membrane? What is the problem here? Are you not familiar with natural selection?

@keithfaulkner6319 7 ай бұрын

@@Subfightrno. He's all lost in the factual nature of the Bible.

@Subfightr 6 ай бұрын

@@keithfaulkner6319as long as he realizes that is the case... Ok I guess. My problem is most of "these people" seem to think they know. Perhaps if we could get them to realize their gross miseducation it would at least get them to accept evolution. That was the case for me. I then realized that everything I thought I knew was simply bashed into my brain via an authoritarian way of "educating" I didn't actually know how to think or weigh evidence. I simply had to remember what they told me or else I'd fail or be ridiculed and or pitied by those around me at the time.

@keithfaulkner6319 6 ай бұрын

@@Subfightr the brainwashing of the bible nuts is really hard to reverse.

@BFDT-4 9 ай бұрын

First time with EDGE Science, just want to say that your script reading is quite entertaining and engaging, and, unlike others, you keep me interested with a combination of casual approach, not at all boring, with a strong hold on the terminology and content. Really great. Also, while you are based in the States, it seems you are at least a little bit well-versed in pronouncing other languages, Portuguese, perhaps Spanish, and so on, not to mention Latin? Subscribed for more.

@EDGEscience 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! That means a lot!

@Thundernugget 9 ай бұрын

"Take a closer look at that snout"

@shanerooney7288 9 ай бұрын

"now Boop it"

@Mateus_Longo 9 ай бұрын

Its amazing to see a discovery from an university in my state contribute to the overal knolelage of our world. Very proud of this, something i havent felt for my country in years.

@shanerooney7288 9 ай бұрын

2:54 Antelope-like silly sausage saurid.😂

@johnwalters1341 9 ай бұрын

At 6:00, I think the word you're looking for is "decurved." A bird with a recurved bill has it turning up, not down.

@keithfaulkner6319 7 ай бұрын

Maybe, but in teeth recurved means curving down AND backwards, the ' backwards' being the REcurved part. If it curves down but not backwards it's not REcurved. This jawbone does not curve backwards, only down and more foreward. Is there a word "decurved" ?

@johnwalters1341 7 ай бұрын

"Decurved" is a standard word used to describe a bird's bill that curves downward, such as a thrasher or a curlew. @@keithfaulkner6319

@user-pr8gx3vb9h 9 ай бұрын

This is an interesting new additional character to the transitional species part of the fossil record. Especially with this specimen concerning the pterosaurs.

@darkonyx6995 9 ай бұрын

I love seeing EDGE pronouncing portuguese words heheheh

@PelicanMobBoss 9 ай бұрын

Now I know that any bipedal archosaur with feathers and a beak automatically looks birdlike. Even if they don't have much to do with birds whatsoever

@deathfoe8016 8 ай бұрын

I love this guy Thank you for bringing us all this content

@canis2020 9 ай бұрын

I'm so glad that these long neglected countries are finally getting some love. Paleontology isn't geo-pilitical, it's our history. The more eyes and brains we have on these things the more we learn and find out.

@arcosprey4811 9 ай бұрын

The beak and those limbs really make this such a unique creature. And in the triassic? Even more unique.

@pickles_8472 9 ай бұрын

the Triassic was... Certainly a time period that happened..

@f.u.m.o.5669 9 ай бұрын

It's more accurate to think of this as more of a stem-pterosaur, rather than a pterosaur ancestor. It lacks a digit 5 on the foot, it has short and robust arms, and it has a beak. It's like how Dromaeosaurs are stem-birds.

@SarastistheSerpent 9 ай бұрын

Technically dromeosaurs wouldn’t be stem-birds. Stem-birds would be non-Avian Avialians, like Archaeopteryx. Archaeopteryx was not a true bird (ie belonging to the class Aves), but it did belong to the clade Avialae. Dromeosaurs meanwhile belong to another clade entirely, the deinonychosaurs. They’re much more distantly related to birds than non-avian Avialians, and even moreso than troodontids, since evidence suggests that Avialae may be a sister taxon to Troodontidae.

@f.u.m.o.5669 9 ай бұрын

@@SarastistheSerpent Why is Dimetrodon considered an stem mammal, then? Also, that's the definition of "stem", anything that branches off from the group you are talking about. If you consider Archaeopteryx a bird, then it cannot be a stem bird. Velociraptor and Stenonychosaurus, however, can be considered stem birds.

@f.u.m.o.5669 9 ай бұрын

Hell, I could considered Tyrannosaurs and Ceratosaurs stem birds, the latter being far removed from them, it doesn't matter how closely related they are. Technically, you're wrong,

@SarastistheSerpent 9 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@f.u.m.o.5669well it’s only a colloquial term, but Dimetrodon is a sphenacodont, the group which therapsids (and therefore mammals) directly arose out of. Archaeopteryx is not a true bird. It’s a non-avian Avialian. Avialians can be considered stem birds colloquially. Velociraptor belonged to another clade entirely. Dromeosaurs are derived members of their own clade, the deinonychosaurs. In any case, it’s a semantic issue, not a really biological one.

@f.u.m.o.5669 9 ай бұрын

@@SarastistheSerpent Many people define different things as birds. Some use birds to mean Avialans. Others use them for only Aves. I personally will only use the word to mean Pygostylia, plus a few outgroups.

@TrytheGreenOne 9 ай бұрын

Lagerpitidae is such a funny word, halfway through I wanted to keep hearing you saying it Great video, I'm a new fan of this guy now

@modelwiz2138 8 ай бұрын

Nice video of an interesting new fossil. It is even more useful because you list a number of families and species that apparently belonged in the ecosystem where the described fossil lived. Simple suggestion: write the family listings and species in a frame and briefly show the lists while you are reading them in the video. Nothing wrong with your narration, but, for example, I have never heard anything about half of the species you list at high speed. Studying a specific fossil is fascinating; relating it to its environment is priceless.

@rogeriopenna9014 4 ай бұрын

Hi from Rio Grande do Sul. Veneto is also a region of Italy, where Venice and Verona are. This southernmost state of Brazil had hundreds of thousands of northern Italian immigrants in the 19th century, many from Veneto. So there is probably a link there

@REAL.T0AD 9 ай бұрын

I’ve been waiting for the video on this weird little guy. Nice one

@jason92278 9 ай бұрын

yes!!i been waiting

@troycoley-cn5bb 9 ай бұрын

Amazing Video :)

@TroyTheCatFish 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic Video as always! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤❤ 💖💖

@xINVISIGOTHx 9 ай бұрын

awesome!

@madderhat5852 9 ай бұрын

Warning! Do not invest in a time-share apartment in Pangea. I have no idea where my holiday will be this year.😶

@megamasher3 9 ай бұрын

Dang. The Most Extreme. That takes me back!

@brianedwards7142 9 ай бұрын

Arboreal is one thing, still waiting for a brachiating dinosaur.

@takenname8053 9 ай бұрын

Super Nice

@chubibi06 9 ай бұрын

I sure wouldn't like to cross path with Pinheirochampsa ; that's basically a dino-hound !

@rogeriopenna9014 4 ай бұрын

Rio Grande do Sul has forests of Araucária Angústia, a tree often depicted in Jurassic artistic depictions

@ProfezorSnayp 9 ай бұрын

I wonder if the large forearms and long fingers supported a membrane for gliding?

@cullenedwardcrowder6561 9 ай бұрын

Isn't it funny that for every type of weird primate there's a dromio type dinosaur. Strange! I love listening to the E. D. G. E. I think I've watched almost all of what they have on KZfaq. ❤😊

@Scrinwaipwr 8 ай бұрын

Arborial life = evolve into monke. (Or rather the monkes evolve into mammalian dromios.)

@alistairdiren5790 9 ай бұрын

Animal Planet the most extreme theme song is unmistakable.

@LuisAldamiz 9 ай бұрын

All th times things evolved into crocs... ... but all the times things didn't evolve into pterosaurs.

@keithfaulkner6319 7 ай бұрын

It's easier to swim than to fly.

@chancesassy7963 9 ай бұрын

Hey, how do you spell the silly-saurus one? I tried searching it up using keywords and couldn't find anything.

@thisisastrobbery363 9 ай бұрын

Silesaurus

@chancesassy7963 9 ай бұрын

@@thisisastrobbery363 Thank you!

@thisisastrobbery363 9 ай бұрын

@@chancesassy7963 youre welcome!

@notoriousbigmoai1125 9 ай бұрын

Could Pterosaurs at one time evolve to be flightless just like some birds nowadays?

@EDGEscience 9 ай бұрын

Yeah

@SarastistheSerpent 9 ай бұрын

There are some palaeontologists who posit that some giant Azhdarchids were flightless or at least terrestrial.

@alfredotavares6658 9 ай бұрын

Gringo falando português ❤

@animationunlimited2958 9 ай бұрын

Where is that Styracosaurus statue from?

@Infernoraptor 9 ай бұрын

@12:25 "first robust evidence of sympatric lagerpetid species." How do we know they aren't just sexually dimorphic? It sounds like the beak is a big distinction, but I can still see that as a sexually demographic trait: Maybe it was a display billboard, a communication tool, or a tool for nuptial gift acquisition. Heck, maybe the males latched onto females while mating (like sharks) and it was easier to not kill the female without front-of-the-jaw teeth inflicting extra wounds.

@EDGEscience 9 ай бұрын

There is not enough information nor specimens to assume sexual dimorphism.

@dstinnettmusic 9 ай бұрын

I think we need to deal with the fact that dinosaurs are kind of a garbage taxon. Not a ton we can do because the fossil record is what it is, but I’m becoming increasingly skeptical that “dinosaurs” and their relatives can be defined as a single group. It is similar to terrestrial bodies vs gas giants and the fact we have a single word for both, that being “Planet”…the category just isn’t helpful anymore but we are kind of stuck with it because we all have a shared agreement on the “vibe” of the word. From that mindset, I think we should abandon the word dinosaur as a specific grouping in taxonomy. Dinosaurs are old reptile relatives that includes all the ancient archosaurs and their descendants, so Pterosaurs are dinosaurs for “normal conversation” and we can estimate their taxonomy and describe them that way for academic purposes. It seems wild that we have a category that groups sauropods, stegosaurs and raptors together but leaves out pterosaurs, who seem to be very closely related to the “dinosaur” group. It would make more sense to drop the dinosaur distinction and use more precise groupings for each of these animal groups.

@sqrt2295 9 ай бұрын

What do you mean? Dinosaurs are a clearly defined clade. It's the group composed of the descendants of the common ancestor of ornithischians, sauropodomorphs and theropods. If it's inside of it, that animal is s a dinosaur whether it's a Triceratops or a penguin. If it's not inside that group, then it's not a dinosaur. Pterosaurs fall outside this group so they are not dinosaurs as a result.

@dstinnettmusic 9 ай бұрын

@@sqrt2295and that kind of grouping isn’t useful in my personal opinion. In the same way that grouping gas giants and rocky worlds together isn’t all that useful. We can just call them sauropods, etc. Tell me, why is a pterosaur not a dinosaur? What is the physical feature they have that no other dinosaur has? If that has been decided then I will concede the point, but my research points to them not being dinosaurs because scientists have decided it to be that way, not because of the actual relationships between these animals. I don’t see that kind of taxonomy as valuable.

@sqrt2295 9 ай бұрын

@@dstinnettmusic Dinosaurs (birds included) have a hole on their pelvis which is unique to them and not to pterosaurs or other archosaurs. Despite that, it's just how the group "Dinosauria" was defined by Richard Owen, as the group including Megalosaurus, Hyleosaurus and Iguanodon (though, this original definition would ignore sauropods if ornithoscelida is valid). The term "ornithodiran" is used to refer to both dinosaurs and pterosaurs, yeah it's not that much of a household term as "dinosaur" but that's what it's called.

@dstinnettmusic 9 ай бұрын

@@sqrt2295and since the advent of the science of genetics, we have been moving away from Taxa that are just “these things go together because someone said so” Moreover, we don’t know much about basal pterosaurs at all, so how do we know that basal pterosaurs didn’t have this hole in their hip bones?

@SarastistheSerpent 9 ай бұрын

Dinosauria is not a wastebasket taxon. They are a confirmed and legitimate taxonomic clade. We absolutely know that raptors, sauropods and stegosaurs are more closely related to each other than to pterosaurs. We even know that more equivocal groups like the Herrerasaurs (which are sometimes grouped outside of dinosauria) were more closely related to other dinosaurs than to pterosaurs. A pterosaur is not a dinosaur because they are not descended from the same common ancestor as sauropods, ornithischians and theropods. The reason that pterosaurs are not dinosaurs is the same reason why lizards are not mammals. Mammalia is a group which only includes animals descended from the common ancestor of placentals, marsupials and monotremes. Lizards are not part of that group.

@cuckoshroom5394 4 ай бұрын

YAY

@thisisastrobbery363 9 ай бұрын

IMO Silesaurids are probably the ancestors of the Ornithiscians

@reeyees50 9 ай бұрын

Looks exactly like a basal coelurosauroid

@florianfrank8512 7 ай бұрын

Flugsaurier uns Dinosaurier sind einander Schwedtern, nicht Cousinen. Danke für deine Beiträge

@davidegaruti2582 9 ай бұрын

Ok one thing about the triassic : i am not sure fruits existed back then since flowering plants hadn't evolved yet ...

@EDGEscience 9 ай бұрын

Gingkoes and cycads would like a word with you XD

@ominous-omnipresent-they 9 ай бұрын

@@EDGEscience The declining population of cycads really bums me out.

@Kargoneth 9 ай бұрын

Sillysaurids. They are pretty silly, aren't they? @12:24 St. Patrick species? Must be green-coloured. Polytomy: "multi-split"

@Nmethyltransferase 9 ай бұрын

Silly Saurid.

@Nmethyltransferase 9 ай бұрын

15:26 They're vegan?

@ivello 9 ай бұрын

your pronunciation of brazilian names sounds so spanish😅 great video tho

@EDGEscience 9 ай бұрын

I learned a Spanish accent first so it is hard to tell the difference

@diogoduarte4097 9 ай бұрын

Jesus christ, when you are forced to pronounce portuguese words in a chain.

@user-is1ze7qp5b 9 ай бұрын

Accent Spanish not Brazil (portuguese)...! The music are Columbian, Venezuelan or Domican or something, not Brazil...!

@aaleven4728 9 ай бұрын

you trying to pronounce names whenever something is found on latin america is never not going to be funny

@EDGEscience 9 ай бұрын

And no matter how correct I pronounce it, there will always be someone to criticize it. It is what it is.

@kR-qj7rw 9 ай бұрын

@@EDGEscience its cute tho

@wesleydjodo8823 9 ай бұрын

@@EDGEscienceIt's great that you try so hard tho. I always appreciate that you actually put in the effort to pronounce them correctly. keep up the good work mate!

@keithfaulkner6319 7 ай бұрын

I'm from Ohio. It's all Greek to me.