Giraffatitan: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong #18

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thegeekgroup.org/ - You've heard of Brachiosaurus, but is the dinosaur you're picturing actually that genus? Steven takes a look at the giant African high-browser, Giraffatitan. Like our videos? Consider supporting them through Patreon! / thegeekgroup
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@boredwarlock5216 2 жыл бұрын

I love how elephants is the go-to measurement of dino weight

@kieranh2005 2 ай бұрын

But what type of swallow... I mean elephant? Indian or African?

@CJCroen1393 8 жыл бұрын

I love that Giraffititan walk cycle! Your animations are getting better! And I would like to see either Archaeopteryx, Quetzalcoatlus or Mosasaurus!

@j.jpierewiet3019 8 жыл бұрын

same

@dzoigaming6021 6 жыл бұрын

CJCroen1393 I see you everywhere

@jeffreygao3956 6 жыл бұрын

Ep. 21 is the Urvogel. We have to wait for Quetzalcoatlus and Mosasaurus.

@rhyanrhiannapratz4607 4 жыл бұрын

And Sauroposeidon

@mrbobinski 3 жыл бұрын

Mosasaur can’t be in your ‘dinosaurs’ are wrong

@j.d.norcross9362 8 жыл бұрын

Wow, where was this during my childhood. Amazing. I would like to see Carnotaurus broken down.

@jdldrummer 8 жыл бұрын

I sent him a $25 Carno last year and never got it back. And I watched them open it

@Delta-ei7im 4 жыл бұрын

Henry Reed haven’t they done one now?

@nosimpsallowed1566 4 жыл бұрын

@@jdldrummer oof

@3_up_moon 4 жыл бұрын

They made the video, did you see it? It was a good one!

@3_up_moon 4 жыл бұрын

@@jdldrummer did you ever hear back from them? They did make that video!

@rosenmartin914 7 жыл бұрын

Giraffatitan is my all-time favourite dinosaur. I'm currently 15 years old, and I grew up with the so-called "Brachiosaurus brancai" as the dinosaur that was the most fascinating to me (Although I only knew it a Brachiosaurus at the time). In later years, I finally realized that it was a completely different species and my love for the dinosaur carried over to Giraffatitan. So it's always been close to my heart.

@clockworkkirlia7475 4 жыл бұрын

Same story here! Albeit a couple years older, haha.

@alveolate 2 жыл бұрын

probably not an issue around this channel, but you should never state your age on the internet if you're still a teen or younger. you can say you're still in grade school to give context, but keep it as vague as possible.

@Keigo_88 2 жыл бұрын

So you're 20 now?

@AnalisaMelanoProfundamente 8 жыл бұрын

I wish we had wrong dinosaur videos once a week at least

@lukeskywalkerjediknight2125 4 жыл бұрын

yea

@jeffreygao3956 3 жыл бұрын

I just want good episodes with rigorous analysis and detailed scientific research. The ones that don't have an episode I can catch on the Internet! Gotta catch em' all!

@Worldpeacekid 8 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see you tackle either _Megaraptor_ or _Giganotosaurus_; the former, especially, has some really terrible toys to dissect.

@naingmon 6 жыл бұрын

DastardlyRidleylash I only know of five toys for the latter, the two (terrible) Schleich toys, the Carnegie one (good representation of what people thought it looked like in the 1990s, now really outdated), the Papo mini one and the excellent Safari ltd. one. The skull is elongated and it might be too skinny in a dorsal view, compared to Scott Hartman’s representation. Though he did mention that if the torso’s width was inaccurate, it should be thinner due to the small pectoral girdle. Megaraptor...wow, just wow. I agree with you completely, some terrible sculpts.

@ayaanbaig1375 4 жыл бұрын

@@naingmon check out the eofauna one

@jidk6565 4 ай бұрын

You got your wish!

@c4c4cr0773 7 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAA! Seeing the super muscular neck was the best moment of my whole month!

@liamruckert6709 7 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I'm on KZfaq

@jaisanatanrashtra7035 4 жыл бұрын

This is you first time on KZfaq..?

@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574 3 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@oliverjones3693 3 жыл бұрын

Ok...?

@shaunjimbangan1166 3 жыл бұрын

Hey

@ostrichboi1418 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to depressing happiness

@djm6189 5 жыл бұрын

Has to be one of my favorite toy intros, DID YOU SEE THAT TOTALLY RADICAL GRIND!

@PlainsPup 6 жыл бұрын

10:15 - Tripodal feeding is "slightly up in the air"! Ha!

@dps0610 3 жыл бұрын

I got shamed in this episode :( Off to do some reading, now I guess.

@EggyboyYT 3 жыл бұрын

So basically giraffatitan is slimmer, has more compact body, and a slightly shorter. Brachiosaurus has longer legs on the front, wider, longer body and tail, slightly bigger.

@zaheershaikh6879 8 жыл бұрын

Hooray! It's back! Man, so many animals to choose from. Hey, how 'bout another non-dinosaur creature? Postosuchus, anyone?

@ThePrimalEarth 7 жыл бұрын

well the tittle is your dinosaurs are wrong... so...

@zaheershaikh6879 7 жыл бұрын

The Primal Earth -Dinosaurs, science, and more! Eh, that's just for audience attraction. He's examined a pterosaur before, so I guess a rauisuchian wouldn't be out of the question.

@maximaldinotrap 6 жыл бұрын

Zaheer Shaikh, he also examined a non archosaur before. Dimetrodon is what I am talking about. Dimetrodon is a Synapsid just like how every mammal ever are synapsids.

@ca8e8ac41 6 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with dinosuchos?

@Dell-ol6hb 6 жыл бұрын

Zaheer Shaikh agreed

@andretheinernaut3749 5 жыл бұрын

okay but are we just gonna ignore how awesome the name giraffatitan is????

@Komichi 8 жыл бұрын

YDAW days are always good days. Love this series so much! The finished giraffatitan looks so cool.

@mintakamothkind 2 жыл бұрын

When he says "It's tracking the movement of the continents with biology!" he sounds downright giddy. I love it

@svedrics 8 жыл бұрын

Could you guys make a video where you explain what dinosaurs were related? I really want to have an overall idea of the dinosaur family tree's structure

@thegreatgoldfilms6311 5 жыл бұрын

corythosaurus is practically the mascot of this series, pls make an episode about corythosaurus

@thedarksaviour755 8 жыл бұрын

Do Coelophysis, Allosaurus, or the non-dinosaurs like Elasmosaurus, Mosasaurus or quetzalcoatlus :D

@atrl7041 8 жыл бұрын

Liepluredon ( I think that's spelt wrong :P )

@lukemoran9546 6 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on a celopysis or the updated postasuchus or some rusasuichid . I just subbed. to this channel and it is very cool!

@Zebozomi 6 жыл бұрын

Only quetz or mosa

@lindamensah6886 3 жыл бұрын

@@atrl7041 Yeah you did.

@Mathewrath 8 жыл бұрын

Oh man. Make the series more frequent please! Haha

@altejoh 2 жыл бұрын

It is blowing my mind that the bracciosaurus toys and images I have had all my life, first of all were girafititan, and second of all got the head shape apparently wrong. That "iconic" head shape on that toy is how they have looked in every rendition i can conjure to mind.

@hyporex2510 3 жыл бұрын

12:24 the front view is something from nightmares

@presidenttogekiss635 6 жыл бұрын

As a South American, I always remember Argentinosaurus, the LARGEST land animal to ever live.

@sandro5535 7 жыл бұрын

The fact that they weight less then first though could explain how their necks would hold. Such long necks would be insanely heavy to lift.

@irishwristwatch1364 8 жыл бұрын

Deinocheirus! That giant camel/duck/ostrich dinosaur whose name means "Unusual Horrible Hand"

@carrieseymour5197 5 жыл бұрын

I had always supposed that the brachi- in brachiosaurus meant short. Because its relatively short tail and diagonal posture makes it much shorter, front to back, than most comparably sized sauropods. The fact that the tallest sauropod was called "short-lizard" used to amuse me almost as much as the fact that birds are saurischians - which is another treasured fact that YDaW has stolen from me (as of Synapisode #3)

@bigmonkeyman5372 6 жыл бұрын

These videos are extremely underrated

@NewbieNikki 8 жыл бұрын

I literally just finished rewatching all of the YDAW videos yesterday. And right on time there is a new one! So happy right now

@RolleiPollei 8 жыл бұрын

These are my favorite videos on KZfaq. I get so happy when I see them in my feed.

@stephenfosterdublin 7 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to live in such a time to enjoy this series. Top shelf material.

@TheAWesomePerformer 6 жыл бұрын

Your videos are super interesting and very calming. Thank you.

@HoveringAboveMyself 8 жыл бұрын

Tender guru... I saw what you did there ;D btw, more recent volumetric estimates put it back at about 30 tonnes for the subadult specimen mounted in Berlin, suggesting 40-50 tonnes for the larger known specimens.

@roarimatrex 8 жыл бұрын

great work with bone structures and animations ! awesome as always

@josephgoldfarb2523 7 жыл бұрын

please come back to this series soon! Ive binge-watched the entire series.

@firegator6853 4 жыл бұрын

0:24 best figure introduction EVER

@isototes 8 жыл бұрын

i always get excited when i see a new ep of this!!

@markl4112 8 жыл бұрын

I love this series. thanks.

@Foervraengd 8 жыл бұрын

Seeing this in my subscription feed made my day

@magical2145 2 жыл бұрын

I used to see your videos in my recommended. I thought they were bad but your videos are actually really good!

@nakenmil 4 жыл бұрын

4:47 A bit like North American and Europe, then. Similar deer species, similar wolf species, caribou in both places, moose, etc.

@Monolopho 8 жыл бұрын

You should do a classic bipedal _Edmontosaurus/Anatosaurus_ toy. I would love to see that.

@monolophosaurusjiangi5246 8 жыл бұрын

That would be nice it would be nice if he did ceratosaurus or parasoulophus(that how you spell it?)

@Monolopho 8 жыл бұрын

Monolophosaurus Jiangi Hello my _Monolophosaurus_ brethren. I think he did _Parasaurolophus_ already if I'm not mistaken.

@StevenBellettini 8 жыл бұрын

We actually did an episode on Parasaurolophus! I can't link in a KZfaq comment, though...

@nicolenielsen311 7 жыл бұрын

You are teasing me so much with that animation of Iguanadon over time in your credits! Please please please do an Iguanadon!!!

@papacorbeau6873 8 жыл бұрын

thanks for making this i love them

@janparadowski4894 4 жыл бұрын

Cool series, brings back childhood memories of being fascinated with dinosaurs

@bamdadshahmoradi8451 7 жыл бұрын

That was incredible! I love your videos

@evanbookout 4 жыл бұрын

Dude that ad at the end is epic

@zeinnerp7609 7 жыл бұрын

I loved the animation ((as allways). And I've got some sugestions. I'd love to see an ornithomimos (or any of it's relatives) because tey are mostly represented as super slender skeletical iguanas with big legs. It would also be great if you did some non-dinosaur creatures that are also represented wrong such (mainly in other archosaurians). I love you! Keep being so wonderfull. Much success :*

@jolenevoges5422 7 жыл бұрын

You, good sir, have won yourself a subscriber!

@babehunter1324 8 жыл бұрын

Finally! Nice to see a new episode.

@nathanwindom3978 2 жыл бұрын

The best dinosaur toy intro

@doggyspeak 8 жыл бұрын

I have no idea if there is a toy for it out there, but some kind of compsognathus would be cool!

@jeremycruzgarza 8 жыл бұрын

Definitely the best series on KZfaq. I'd like to ask though how does sauroposeidon compare to giraffititan and brachiosaurus? I know we only have a few vertebrae but is it enough to safely say that Sauroposeidon is the tallest brachiosaurid? Thank you Steve, much respect

@blakepetersen3227 4 жыл бұрын

wow so information on one my two all time favorites my other favorite is the Giganotosaurus I would absolutely love it featured in your series

@zazaru600 3 жыл бұрын

Still not over the comedic timing of the intro in this one

@therecordwavelength3170 8 жыл бұрын

I would love to see you talk about Amargasaurus!!!

@xscignorethestuffinquotes7487 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome! So informative!

@Luke14616 8 жыл бұрын

These videos are great

@gingerfloof777 6 жыл бұрын

The picture of Giraffatitan with the fucking massive thick neck was a lot funnier than it should have been.

@thedarksaviour755 6 жыл бұрын

When I was in Berlin last week and saw the huge Giraffatitan there, they still called it Brachiosaurus on all signs. Except for one sign in the education part of the building they called it Giraffatitan aswell as Brachiosaurus.

@Rapidashisaunicorn 3 жыл бұрын

Giraffatitan has a long neck for the same reason that I like using chopsticks when I’m getting food with friends

@baconeater4133 6 жыл бұрын

I gave this a like for that dope walking animation

@Yousadclownofaman 8 жыл бұрын

CARNOTAURUS!!! Definitely need some Carno love on here!!

@eylookvulheimiik7538 8 жыл бұрын

plese do quetzal it is my favourite and you can buy a paperweight toy one on amazon and use it at work

@janetchen9410 8 жыл бұрын

Yes quetzalcoatlus is AWESOME!

@specific3600 4 жыл бұрын

I’m really impressed with the walk cycle at 9:30

@thomaswenthe2463 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to see you do one of sauroposeidon

@allisonfisher9304 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite dinosaur, thank you 💜

@megaball-ps8tq 2 жыл бұрын

Although I'm not really into these types of videos, I kind of like the intro with the toy dinosaur though

@jimmyshrimbe9361 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing!

@kingdom_of_the_barbs2256 8 жыл бұрын

velociraptor would be great to see on the show!

@jemDarpole 8 жыл бұрын

love it. would love to see you cover archyoptarex or allosaurus

@mollof7893 8 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@ap9413 8 жыл бұрын

Archaeopteryx* but yes so would I!

@Rynosaur94 8 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see you do the Crystal Palace dinosaurs. Megalosaurus and Iguanodon, as portrayed in the early 19th century.

@Arothewinddragon 6 жыл бұрын

Gasp!! Could you do Quetzalcoatlus? Especially the whole pole vaulting thing they do to get up in the air?

@crazycarnolady2323 5 жыл бұрын

I need more of these vids

@CashewCassius 7 жыл бұрын

Archaeopteryx or bambiraptor if possible. I love maniraptoriformes--my friend got me into dinosaurs again recently so I think it'd be cool if you could find a toy of a maniraptoriforme and see you review it.

@nicovolker86 6 жыл бұрын

5:12 Torniera is closer to Barosaurus than it is to Diplodocus if I'm not mistaken...

@drewstevens7248 6 жыл бұрын

I really wanna see an episode about ornitholestes because it has always been one of my favorite dinosaurs but I can't find a toy to send in.

@pharinyxtheplant667 8 жыл бұрын

I'm always dumbfounded about how these types of sauropods could balance with such a huge thick neck and a short body/tail.

@marcustulliuscicero5443 8 жыл бұрын

+Nikolas Moore The neck appears thick, but was largely air sacs. Which makes me wonder ... if Sauropods were able to keep their body temperature above the temperature of their environment, wouldn't the air sacs generate lift?

@zachramos2853 6 жыл бұрын

6:45 thicc boi

@yourmomasaurus 6 жыл бұрын

I love the intro

@Wikkler 7 жыл бұрын

"Tender guru" I saw that you sneaky sneak

@user-bf6gz8ej4o 4 жыл бұрын

10:07 Do you have any sources for the diverse sauropod faunas in the upper jurassic?? I NEED them for a project for my university!

@portugueseeagle8851 8 жыл бұрын

Can you do Miragaia longicollum?

@sanjablazina2879 3 жыл бұрын

Tender guru below Bellettini's name ... as in Tendaguru??

@Lucas43434 8 жыл бұрын

The wait is over! A new YDAW is here

@babehunter1324 8 жыл бұрын

4:59 Wouldn't Barosaurus make a better comparassion with Torniera than Diplodocus?

@StevenBellettini 8 жыл бұрын

+babehunter1324 Yeah, but I couldn't figure out whether _Barosaurus_ is still considered to be represented in both assemblages or not.

@eduardofreitas8336 7 жыл бұрын

Can you do Shantungosaurus or maybe iguanodon?

@marcustulliuscicero5443 4 жыл бұрын

The toy actually seems to be based on the "Brachiosaurus" skeletton mounted in front of the FMNH. The one with the horribly misarticulated shoulder girdle. God I hate that mount.

@kapelthomas 8 жыл бұрын

will you do acheopteryx or mircoraptor?

@HollowsRus 8 жыл бұрын

it's be cool if you could do Megalosaurus. if only for the discussion on the crystal palace reconstructions

@archergaming7271 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this brachiosaurus was my favourite dinosaur but now I guess its girrafatitan

@meltedstringcheese9791 6 жыл бұрын

giraffatitan's face looks scary

@marcustulliuscicero5443 8 жыл бұрын

Don't fragmentary remains indicate that Giraffatitan could grow larger then the (composite) skeleton on display in Berlin? They have a specimen (HM XV2) consisting of a fibula that is ~12% longer than that of HM SII (the mount). And there are anatomical features on the mount that suggest that it was not an adult specimen as there are some unfused bones that we know are fused in adult what was then believed Brachiosaurs. Relevant SVPOW article: svpow.com/2009/03/16/brachiosaurus-both-bigger-and-smaller-than-you-think-incomplete/ The takeaway: Giraffatitan was even more humongous than the already gigantic skeleton in Berlin implies. As were probably most sauropods compared to what we know of relatively complete specimens. We have huge Apatosaurus/Apatosaurine cervicals in Oklahoma, and stupidly large remains attributed to Alamosaurus. As for the next dinosaur, some Oviraptorosaur/Caenagnathid would be interesting.

@StevenBellettini 8 жыл бұрын

+Marcus Tullius Cicero You are correct. The giant sauropods are just crazy, aren't they? We get all these tantalizing hints of truly gargantuan animals. Thanks for watching!

@hi-im-michael 6 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh I didn’t know you guys were located in Michigan! Are they still out that way?

@lukemoran9546 6 жыл бұрын

Can you do a celosaurs as well as a celopysis and the updated postasuchus?

@vertigothewendigo9051 6 жыл бұрын

you should do an episode of this on Sauroposeidon

@AnoNYmous-bz2ef 4 жыл бұрын

What about the ones gaining popularity recently like the Giganotosaurus? (I have yet to see a toy but it would be cool to see you review a Sharovipteryx even though it's not a dinosaur)

@ryanbusch2885 6 жыл бұрын

Anything to weigh in on about kaprosuchis? I think they’re pretty neat in most paleo-art I’ve seen

@BipedalCynodont 2 жыл бұрын

If I ever come up with the cast of a Mesozoic paleodocumentary, then I would definitely set the obligatory late Jurassic episode in the Tendaguru formation (although that's just a pipe dream for now).