This is why I like this version of skull island. Monsterverse version is less dangerous and have less creatures

Peter Jackson’s Skull Island is, genuinely, among the very best world-buildings there are. It’s a real shame that there wasn’t even more media exploring it. Although the game was absolutely incredible, and delved deeper into the island’s lore. Just take a look at how they detailed every single animal, from their behavior to their appearance. It’s mesmerizing. It deserved much much more. Thank you for the amazing video.

One of the things that I like most about the dinosaurs of Skull Island is just the amount of imagination it took to make these dinosaurs. Usually most people would have just used the usual stock dinosaurs, maybe a couple of different dinos here and there to say they tried. Peter Jackson and team actually went out of their way to create their own dinosaurs, base them off of their actual ancestors as well as guess how and what they would be like today. It's absolutely fascinating, and I don't think people give the movie and especially the team enough credit. I think Jackson or someone on the team admitted in an interview they wanted to think how dinosaurs would be like if given a chance to evolve without turning them into dinosauroids. How would they have adapted in an ever changing world. At the same time, they also admitted, and I think it was Jackson who said this, they wanted the dinosaurs to go by 1930's science logic. So it's a fascinating combination of realism and fantasy, it's why some of the dinosaurs make absolute sense while other dinosaurs look like an updated take on Willis H. O' Brien's designs. It is a shame no one else has done the same in any other media.

I love how Peter Jackson took the basic framework of the original King Kong and fleshed it out even more. I wore out my copy of World of Kong from reading it I loved that book so much. Kudos to Weta for how they managed to make Skull Island almost seem like a real place with real, monstrous animals lost in time.

Imagine a movie where they just explored the island and studied all the fauna

I like that these animals aren't as large as the monster verse ones, it feels more grounded

Probably the best King Kong movie ever made. Truly the magic of Peter Jackson

I'm lucky enough to have owned 2 copies of this book in my life, and it's a real treasure. My absolute favorite "prehistoric" animals are in it. It's so fascinating.

I really like this version of Skull Island and an excellent example of world building and speculative evolution done right. Here’s some reasons why: •The explanation that Skull Island was created by the separation of Gondwana helps ground it in reality. It is a hypothetical outcome of historical geologic events. •The creators went out of their way to design the flora and fauna to be unique and fantastical but still grounded in reality and biology. Each creature has a clear ecological niche for the island’s ecosystem after millions of years of evolution and adaptation. I like the aesthetic combination of modern dinosaur interpretation with the vintage interpretation of dinosaurs from the turn of the century. It makes them look cool. •The explanation of Skull Island sinking is a bit fantastical but adds to the mystery of the island and allows the viewer to speculate what else was on the island and what the crew didn’t see. •The 2005 version of King Kong is a pretty long movie (even without the deleted scenes), it is full of creative creature design and world building. I can forgive the run time because I’m enthralled by how it builds and establishes the setting. Skull Island is the most dangerous place on earth and is an evolutionary battle ground.

I always loved the amount of effort put into the lore and ecology of skull island in Peter Jackson's King Kong, always felt like an actual ecosystem.

Videos like this really make me wish there was a high budget "walking with dinosaurs" like show but instead of diving into the history and traits of actual animals that lived, it would go in depth of all types of movie animals and different types of creatures from video games. Imagine all of this but in a highly realistic cgi show that goes so in depth like walking with dinosaurs did.

I stumbled across your content by accident and was instantly hooked. I love dinosaurs

Moral of this video, Peter Jackson is a genius.

Quick correction. If we upscale from the real Brontosaurus to the Peter Jackson version, we multiply the length by 1.5 or so. Because of the square-cube law, Brontosaurus would be approximately 3.38 times heavier than the real Brontosaurus, making it closer to 70 tonnes than 30 tonnes. Otherwise, another banger from our resident dinosaur boi.

the world that Peter Jackson made is not only beautiful and absolutely breath-taking, but it's also inspiring. this (along with Primeval, Dougal Dixons After Man series and The Future Is Wild) inspired me to create my own spec evo project and probably inspired others to do the same. I'm glad you covered this book :)

The amount of work they put into this!! Only 4 of these dinosaurs appear in the movie and yet they kept going and developed an entire ecosystem that we wish we could see in all of its cruel glory

Easily my favorite version of King Kong. The Monsterverse version is cool, but Peter Jackson's Skull Island feels like a real ecosystem. Btw, is it just me, or did Wetta Workshop predict Austroraptor TWICE? Both Peracerdon and Ambulaquasaurus are fish eating theropods with long snouts and conical teeth, just like Austroraptor.

So lucky to have watched the film in cinemas back in 2005! I still love it to this day and am hoping to get my hands on the natural history of skull island despite of its rarity and expensive price.

I would love to see a sequel of this version of King Kong, something like ''Peter Jackson's Skull Island'', where, after the masses wen't crazy with the existence and death of Kong, others raced back to Skull Island to bring back something else that would make them rich, going back to human greed like Carl had with his ego. You could even bring back Carl as the returning character since he is one of the few who knows the island and would probably go back there, giving us more of these unique creatures and a more ''human vs nature'' aprouch since Kong isn't the focus anymore.

Dude can we just agree that tartarosaurus is basically the polar bear of skull island

Probably the best highlight of PJ's Kong was Skull Island! Loved the diversity of its fauna and the nods to unused material from the original film! Absolutely love any coverage on the topic and sad the new films weren't nearly as diverse as this!

I’ll always love Peter Jackson’s skull island over MV skull island. So much diversity and incredible wildlife that was created. I love the lore for this island.

Alright, guys! Here are the time stamps of all the dinosaurs of Skull Island: Brontosaurus: 2:12 Pachyrhinosaurus with two nose horns and triceratops: 4:10 Rhinosaurus: 5:53 Budget Jakapil: 7:34 Ark stegosaurus on steroids: 8:04 Goat ceratopsian: 9:45 Centrosaurus: 10:39 Amargosaurus drawn from memory: 11:50 Parasaurolophus at home: 13:05 Microraptor rip-off: 15:06 Bear dinosaur: 16:02 Carnotaurus with fingernail extensions: 16:39 Nightmare ibis: 17:30 Reverse-Naked epidexipteryx: 17:55 Fish raptor: 18:27 Deadly very sharp tooth dracorex: 19:38 Terror bird #1: 20:36 Terror bird #2: 21:10 Ornitholestes-dilophosaurus hybrid: 21:59 Horse raptor: 22:43 Meat-eating scutosaurus: 23:37 Jurassic Park Velociraptor: 24:30 T. Rex that got nerfed by a giant monke: 25:52

The best version of Skull Island imo. Does the movie have its issues? Absolutely, but the island and it’s fauna aren’t among them. Gosh, what I wouldn’t give for a copy of World of King!

I like the fact that synapsids and dinosaurs living together is actually briliant

I once tried writing a story involving capturing Skull Islands monsters for a real life Jurassic Park. My favorite creatures are the Ferrucutus, V-Rex, Venatosaurus, and Diablosaurus. One of my favorite settings in any film

Some dinosaurs you missed: Chalyceratops: The rarest species of ceratopsians of the island yet even more agressive than Ferrucutus, these herbivores possesed big jagged horns that they used to both brutally gore predators as well as in deadly interspecific fights Vultursaurus: A unique dinosaur that evolved convergently to bats, it has the capability of powered flight, living in the darkness of the chasms to avoid most predators, yet they still fall prey for the monsters their home hides

Peter Jackson is the absolute king of world building. Just imagine what he could do with a reimagining of Godzilla.

15:09-16:02 23:37-24:32: Actually, Pinnatudeamus and Tartarusaurus aren't dinosaurs. Pinnatudeamus is a flying lizard, The book doesn't really specify what Tartarusaurus is(I think it's a pseudosuchian) but it isn't a dinosaur. Aside from that you did a great job explaining Skull Island's dinosaurs, and I look forward to more videos about the island's fauna.

16:44 “sharp edge fingers devourer of crabs” sounds like SUCH a shitpost name i love it

1:41- “This happened to cause an insane evolutionary arms race.” Never have I heard PJ’s Skull Island described so accurately yet so simply.

Very few sci-fi/fantasy movies these days put this level of thought, effort and creativity into creating fictional flora/fauna. Matter of fact, the only films I can personally think of that've put in this extra effort have been James Cameron's Avatar movies.

This man is one of the very few people who i watch the video without skipping much . This was really interesting

Loved that film good to see its still getting love 18 years later ❤

The cool thing about Skull Island is that it actually takes in account evolution, and that is cool as fuck.

One of the best monster islands I’ve seen in cinema.

I wonder what would happen if Skull Island never sink or shrunk even during the events of King Kong and how would it affect the ecosystem and civilization differently?

I can't believe Peter Jackson Skull Island had this many dinosaurs. Peter Jackson was truly a dinosaur fan he must have had a blast creating all these fictional species

This amount of world-building and biology is why I love dinos and skull island.

This video is a huge success!!!! You did an amazing job!!! I can’t wait for the next installments!

Hello there! Thank you for featuring my version of the diablosaurus (6:10) and atercucisaurus (8:15)! This video (and the whole channel!) was very entertaining to watch!

Africa: my animals live in one of the most diverse ecology with a puch on deadly animals and agressive prey. Australia: ha I have animals unlike anywhere in the world and many of them are super deadly with animals that are constantly like living in a PTSD flashback. Skull island: allow me to introduce my self.

I take it back a monster Hunter special with the similarities to real dinosaurs or even possible evolutions that could have existed if they were never extinct would be to die for

Jackson’s was so much more detailed than the current monster verse version

If Diablosaurus didn't have any natural predators at adulthood, then they would likely overpopulate even with the other factors. Also though I seriously doubt that a V-Rex couldn't do anything to a Diablosaurus, I mean with how strong a T-Rex's bite force was, and then give it 65 million years of evolution to get even stronger, a V-Rex's bite force has got to be strong enough to break through that armor, even if it's quite difficult

Sounds like a perfect place to enjoy a summer vacation.

This was amazing! Bravo!

Excellent video! Can’t wait for episode 2!

I hope this gets continued some day. There are so many insanely well-detailed and fleshed out creatures in this universe.

There should be a video game on Skull Island. Just imagine: It's an open world where you can just explore and learn about Skull island's ecosystem and such. Player just has to survive, maybe report their finds to outside researchers, maybe befriend the native humans by doing small favors or helping them defend against predators. Or maybe Player is an island native instead of someone from the outside world? That could be a choice at the Start & perhaps open different story options. Oh, or it could be where you play as the creatures in the game. Like in some dinosaur video games where you can pick what species you want to play as & survive the game as the animal.

Thank you for your hard work, we all appreciate it. You are an incredible, wonderful, and amazing person. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

All these unique detailed animals are my favorite of fictional island evolution I wish they made a movie of exploring and studying these animals as everyone does to animals today but the island sank and everything on that island died nothing but their King remains in a vault is evidence that they were alive

The Diablosaurus rufus has to be one of the most if not the most dopest looking herbivores on skull island and fact it’s a sauropod with a neck length of a modern day rhinoceros is just fascinating,

I think I found my new favorite creature "Arsartis" I love this channel it's nice to add more information to the creatures I know and learn about new ones too, wish I found this channel Sooner

The Vastatosaurus Rex is the largest and most powerful carnivorous dinosaur on Skull Island, as well as the the largest and most powerful terrestrial carnivore on Skull Island, but on an all out intensive side, they're the only creatures that will daringly take on Kong and his species. The average adult Vastatosaurus Rex stands around 20ft tall, but the ones in the movie were about nearly the same height as Kong (who stands about 25ft in height), but some fully grown V Rex individuals have been known to reach to be around 30ft tall. The Vastatosaurus Rex is the ultimate terror and predator of Skull Island. Straight up.

Dude, this was great. You should totally narrate more nature documentaries. I feel like I'll watch whatever you want to talk about. Is there an art book or, like, a bestiary for Skull Island anywhere???

A video we all needed.

The highlight of my youth was going to see the live action Walking with Dinosaurs in the AT&T Center. The one with the giant Animatronics.

I love your channel man you are absolutely awesome much love bro💯🤘🏽

I loved this film and its fauna, I wish they had more screen time, but I suppose that's where the video game comes in.

I love these types of videos please make more

I didn’t realize how interesting skull island is until I saw this video I finally see why so many people love it, and now I do as well Thanks for all the effort you put in this video, we all love your channel ❤ And btw do you have a discord server? That would be great for sharing

This is awesome looking forward to the next one especially about the King of the island

Can’t thank you enough for this video on skull island.

i live this types of videos where it’s him fully ram thru not little clips he puts together from tik tok i know it takes much more time but it’s my opinion but still i love all your videos about dinosaurs and other animals keep it up man these are always good

I love this channel!❤

This is amazing great job

i like this version of skull island because creatures look so dinosaurs like and real other than monsterverse's version

I know you like to stick to Dino content and this video is really good in that regard, but if you do decide to do a follow up PLEASE talk about the bugs of the island from the chasm. I’ve always thought the designs looked so cool and with how detailed this video is, I think you’d be able to do a great job at explaining it. I know this isn’t super likely due to you being a Dino channel but I can hope :)

I really enjoyed the video, some really cool dinosaurs. I gotta say that I was about ready to lose my mind after hearing that background music you use for 28 minutes though.

Bifurcatops is literally just the Fiddler Crab of Skull Island, and you can’t change my mind.

I cant believe i just now found this video. This movie was my childhood

Damn. Goes to show the sheer detail and depth that filmmakers went for this world. So MANY species that never made the cut. Sadness.

The v Rex where unique But the Carnictis really scared me as a kid and made me realize terrified of worms 😂😂😂😂

Thank you, one of my favorite movies 🦖🫡

I really enjoyed this video. Thumbs up!👍

great movie and great video!

Keep em coming

I love this video. The music, the narration and the actual lore are just *Chefs Kiss*. Speaking of, what music do you use in the background?

Love vids like these :D

The fact they did their biology research before making these books and movie. The amount of effort that went into the movie and it’s expanded content is just unreal. I’m still trying to remember the name of the croc like lizard that chased Anne into the log.

Its 4am, glad I have something to listen to.

This is such a great video

I just woke up to this, am happy

Love this vid. Could you please cover the show primeval or other speculative evolution projects ike this one

I absolutely love this version of skull island! Do you think you can do a reptile video next?

I love all these dinosaurs

Love your content keep it up

I absolutely adore Peter Jackson King Kong so much, it's so underrated fr Easily my favorite part was Vastatosaurus Rex,Ventatosaurus and many of the carnivores, herbivores and others. But yeah absolutely amazing video and I wish you had a great day

Fun fact: they announced sequels to King Kong 2005, including Son of Kong, before the film came out. They announced this on April 1st... Needless to say they were monkey business, but they would have featured son of Kong fighting nazi mutant monsters in WW2. There was even concept art, cast interviews, models and animatics done for the joke.

The music selection for certain bits of the video are quite eerie.

YESSSSS IT'S HERE

And no lie. Both the OG and extended versions, I'd always rewatch ONLY the island section. Best cinema ever. 😅

I'm very sharply relieved that stegosaurs survived on Skull Island. A lost world just ain't the same without them.

Peter Jackson version of Skull Island is the best version, waiting for part 2⏳🙏🏽🤞🏽

More video's like this please

i'm noticing a lot of good parent dinos in this. That's great Also I didnt' know that this had many of these awesome looking creatures

Damn they had way more creature concepts than I thought. Really wish Peter got those sequels he wanted. We could have seen so many interesting designs.

Great video!

Would love to see the mammals next!