Am I crazy, I thought the Falkland islands were off south America not south Africa? Or was it comparing some geological similarities and not position?

moschops are also known for their excellent ability to haverst rare mushrooms/flowers, sap and organic polymer

“What the hell is moschops?” A friend.

“What the Hell is Moschops?” Ark players: “Allow us to introduce ourselves.”

People always ask _what_ the hell is Moschops, but they never ask _how_ the hell is Moschops.

Now do one about Moschoke and Moschamp.

It’s one of the best early game tames for fiber and berries without a saddle.

They are very useful for raising the taming effectiveness on desmodus.

I love Permian. Animals living back then were breathtakingly weird! Despite many of them being relatives or ancestors of mammals. Shows how far we've come. 😎

I first encountered Moschops in Carnivores. They're shy but chill blokes, almost prehistoric Capybaras.

I'd seen pictures of Moschops but I didn't know anything about it. Also I'm glad your kitty made a full recovery. He's a handsome boy.

It's one of those creatures they always used to put in bags of cheaply-moulded plastic dinosaur toys when I was a kid, but that you almost never hear about, these days. 😉 Cool video! Thank you!

Used to have one of these in my plastic dinosaur collection many years ago. Always been fascinated by those other (not) dinosaurs like Moschops and the other Synapsids.

Very nice! Moschops was one of my favorite extinct organisms as a kid. I remember the cute picture of it in a little golden field guide to fossils I used to have. Very nice information dense presentation.

All I know about the Moschops is that it's usually my first tame when I play Ark 😁

It's one of those obscure prehistoric animals I skimmed through while reading an encyclopedia as a kid and now for some reason lives rent free in my mind along side Gerrothorax, Eryops and Diplocalus.

Moschops is one of my favorite animals from the Permian period, thank you so much for making a video about it.

When I was a child back in the late 1950s and early 1960s I had a collection of plastic "dinosaurs". I put the name in quotes because Moschops (and Dimetrodon, Sphenacodon) was among the various dinosaurs, including the usual ones such as Plateosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Allosaurus, Iguanodon, Triceratops, "Trachodon" (name no longer in use), etc. Of course creatures from the Permian were mixed in with creatures from the Mesozoic.

Moschops has been a favorite of mine since I first saw them in the game carnivores as a child.

I can’t believe how much more robust Moschops skeleton was compared to a Hippos one

I'm so glad Moschops is finally getting the love and recognition it always deserved. Whereas other kids geeked out over dinosaurs, I had a soft spot for the therapsids in my prehistoric creatures books that lurked those few pages between the Permian and the age of the dinos. Something about seeing this anomalous link between what we know today as mammals/reptiles and something earlier that didn't fit neatly into our current categories enchanted me - and it still fascinates me. The Synapsids opened my eyes to the fact that evolution (and in extent, history) isn't linear, and that nature is wonderfully chaotic. So thank you, big dopey pre-lizard thing named Moschops.

I love the presentation of this dinosaur in the video. Every part. Even the ominous music. Loved it all!

And of course, Moschops' most lasting legacy, being a potential inspiration to the designs and/or at least the English names of the Pokémon line of Machop, Machoke, and Machamp (seriously, look at their faces and think of anything else). And that Moschops toy I had whose arms had right-angle elbows and rotated at the shoulder, that was always a fun mess to try posing.

first time stumbling across your channel and i must say im loving this dude! This is kind of how I talk to my students where enough scientific language is thrown around but its still like having a convo and not being lectured (may use these in a lesson or two!)

The shoulder on that Moschops looks like it would have made a great Mos-shoulder roast.

I love finding a new channel to explore. Great stuff !!

Wow! What a great delivery! I love this video

There is something about Moschops that just freaks me out. They have creepy faces, weird shaped bodies, the name Moschops is even kind of weird. At the AMNH I can't decide which specimen freaks me out more. The Moschops or the skull of the Pachycephalosaurus which looks like an alien.

Great channel man, super cool content

As a kid, Moschops was the first Non-dinosaur name I learned, they became one of my favourites too.

My dude, you are extremely attractive. Your beard defines your jawline so well, and it's at the perfect middle ground between neat and rugged. Paired with bold eyebrows, you have a lot of character to your look and I really dig it.

He looks like a good boi.

honestly i'd like to see a maschops in paleomedia , it just feels right , it's like a big iguana with a thick skull and sprawled legs , it feels primordial and unique in a way in wich few animals do today and i'd like to see one move in cgi

It's so weird that my collection of plastic "dinosaurs" included a moschops, 50 years ago. Seems an odd choice for the toymakers. I believe I also had a mesosaur and separate mosasaur. The former being similarly super-rare in popular "dinosaur" media.

I just found your channel and I love your videos, especially this WTH series! It covers all the bizarre critters from the past and I love it! Would you ever consider doing a video on Cotylorhynchus? It's one of my favorite extinct animals because of how bizarre it was, and I am unsure as to how it would've fed with such a short neck. Thanks for reading!

All ark players: hey that’s my berry collector

Dinocephalians need more love. Personally a fan of Anteosaurus.

Informative and *kudos* articulate!

8:51 Is it possible that Moschops features may have served several of the hypotheses that you mentioned?

Moschops were always my favorite animal, but no one ever talks about them. Thank you for this video.

Cool channel, glad I stumbled upon you.

@RaptorChatter, when I was a kid in the 60s I was given a gift set of Mars Toys Company dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals. My favorite was the Sabertooth 'tiger' and on the dinosaur set the Moschops because it looked like a mean frog!

I'm two years late here, but while many know Moschops from Ark, I as an 80s kid had KOs of Marx/MPC plastic toys of Moschops as well as a big Playschool "Definitely Dinosaurs" Moschops with limited articulation. It's definitely always stood out to me for that reason, great video as always!

"idiot in question" XDDDDDDDDDDD

South Africa is still a unique area. It’s has such unique flora that it has its own floristic kingdom. So you have the holarctic, neotropical, paleotropical, australian, antarctic and cape floristic kingdom. the cape floristic kingdom is by far the smallest but it’s so distinctive and unique that its separated from the paleotropical floristic kingdom.

The second largest lizard found locally is the Chuckwalla, Sauromalus ater. It’s only about foot long but looks a little like Moschops, and vegetarian also. Tortoises are also vegetarians, they eat cactus but cycads aren’t common in the Mojave Desert.

Great content 💪😎🤘

It's good how you get right to the info and then deliver a lot of it. Looks like you could get some serious chops off of 'ol moschops...tastes like chicken!

a very good rare flower harvester

Moschops is my favorite ancient animal and I have no idea why. I just love them lol

The cycads are most closely related to ginkgo. Together they form a monophyletic clade. They are the only extant seed plants with motile sperm cells which is considered an ancestral trait to all seed plants.

It looks a lot like one of those Starwars dewbacks and blurrgs. And incidentally, I like your shirt!

I will never not be amazed that we can look at an extinct animals teeth, how the world around them looked like at the time, and be able to say with reasonable certainty how it lived it's life. Great vid!

I am starting this video now and I really hope it makes reference to the Moschops claymation shoe from the UK in the 80's.

Moschops and their relatives maintaining the trend of increasingly weird critters the further back we look into the fossil record. Sure, there's some features that we can see at least the start of more modern morphologies, but there's still a whole lot of 'pretty much all surviving lineages came up with very different solutions to those problems' too. Maybe it's just me, but it always feels that the Permian is kinda the last gasp of the truly weird, even though it's downright tame compared to say, the Cambrian biota. (We still love you, freaks of the Burgess Shale!)

great vid

"Entirely semi-aquatic" is cursed wording

I love them

That shirt is seriously awesome.

This channel is pretty good

Not to mention they're absolutely goated for early game ark.

When you're looking for an Ark video and land here ... but continue to watch because it's interesting. 😅

Ayy, the OG fiber gatherer

Maybe a good question. If a future paleontologest say a million years from now with out written knowelege of our time and animals found bone fossils of say a miniature poodle, a great Dane, a st Barnard and a whippet would they clasifie it as 1 or 4 species?

Moschops reminds me a bit of a giant English bulldog, especially head-on.

They are so cute!

Invicta (British Museum) made a pretty good little Moschops that I still have. Its the only figure of that animal that I know of.

I enjoy your content. Peace! \o/

I like to think of Moschops as a "sail-less" dimetrodon.

They look like they would fall forward all the time

For me, Moschops looks like those complete inaccurate dinosaur drawings, but made real

Beautiful name

A very easy first tame

These humble plodders are like a reified version of the rather insulting early victorian depictions of dinosaurs.

I heard about an aggressive cryptid encounter that described a similar animal

Awesome video! Really glad I found your channel! As an orthodontist, felt I should chime in on a very minor thing in case you ever get talking about teeth again: Ankylosis is pronounced like “ankle-low-sis” - pronounced just like ankle as in you sprained your ankle. Not trying to be overly pedantic, just a friendly tip! The reason a gomphosis allows the teeth to come into more direct contact is because the periodontal ligament, is filled with compressible fluid and basically acts as a shock absorber for your teeth. Without it, if you bit down too hard the forces would travel directly into your jaw bone and could fracture your jaw. Human teeth can actually get ankylosed too! All the reasons it happens is still unclear, but basically the cementum becomes fused with the alveolar bone (jaw bone), making the tooth both impossible to move orthodontically and very difficult to extract for oral surgeons. The two most common situations we experience this as orthodontists is either when trying to pull in impacted teeth (adult teeth that get stuck way up in the jaw and never drop down and erupt to replace the baby teeth), and in over retained baby teeth that never fall out, such as when the adult tooth that should replace it never develops. Ankylosed teeth actually prevent the jaw bone from growing properly, and can prevent the surrounding teeth from erupting properly, leading to a big “dip” in the persons teeth and they won’t touch the top teeth properly when you bite. They’re a real nightmare to deal with orthodontically, I hate them lol. The usual test we do is tapping on the suspected tooth with a metal instrument handle. If it’s ankylosed, it makes a very sharp sounding, unmistakable metallic ring noise, like hitting a spoon on concrete- vs a normal tooth which has a dull sound when tapped. When I hear that sound, I know I’m gonna be in for a very bad time trying to straighten the persons teeth.

I had the Playskool Definitely Dinosaurs Moschops as a kid, so I have a soft spot for it.

13:55/13:56 Basically it's the Permian version of our mammalian pachyderms and hoofstock

Moschops, the hardest Woolworths ancient animals card to collect.

When I get recommended this video because of ark survival 2 trailer

Maybe I missed it but maybe its weird shape was due in part ot maintaining a large gut to digest those fibrous cyclads etc? that it was the first step in evolutionary problem solving, to be able to raise the front legs up allowed more room for a larger belly. Raising the back legs would come later. So yeah, it would be interesting to see its predecessors and what came after. Of course, at some point what came after was the lystrosauras which also solved the evolutionary problem of getting through the Permian. Enjoyed the snapshot of time format here.

It's the passive, polymer, puppy

MVP of starter Dino in ark

What is Moschops? A wonderful being.

4:15/4:16 That group of plants has been around since at least the start of the Campanian stage of the late Cretaceous.

14:27 I know that C.M. Koseman did something like that with the para-reptiles.

These barrel bodied ancient animals are so strange. How on earth would that kind of anatomy be any effective lol

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12:53 That's where Ankylosaurus and Ankylosauridae got its name from.

It is the best early game tame

I have had this personal dinosaur fringe theory even though I am in no way shape or form an expert for years. I call it the moschops trash chute theory. Basically the idea is that because it lived in a more arid period of the Permian that the plants they ate were tough to digest (and it could even have swallowed rocks) it developed a large stomach and large esophagus where the guy would barely have to even swallow they would just sort of use their teeth to rake the leaves off and their lower jaw functioned like a shovel and the plant material would just slither down its throat with minimal effort.

the first time i heard of Moschops was from the windows 98 pc game Carnivores. it was one of those dinos that don't count as points if you killed it.

Can’t stop the chop baby

Thanks for the video (🇧🇷)

Everyone mentioning moschops from a video game, but not the kids tv show makes me feel old.

Great food for Desmodus draculae

My starter vault

I know what Moschops is. It's an old animated series for kids.

Great bloodstalker food and now Desmodus food

Looks like the critter in "Ghostbusters".