What the Hell was Longisquama?!

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7 ай бұрын

Longisquama was an oddball, even by the standards of the Triassic. The long spines on its back have no analog today, making understanding it, and how it fit into its environment difficult, but hopefully not impossible.
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@xonus1487 6 ай бұрын

Would love to see a video about extinct ancient insect groups that have no living relatives today

@Evergreen_Wizard 6 ай бұрын

Every time I go to the Moscow Palaeontology Museum I stand and stare at the lonely Longisquama fossil sitting on the wall. One time my scientific advisor told me that this little thing is the most valuable fossil in the whole museum. I often wish that politics would not interfere with science and someone from another country took a closer look at that thing. It’s basically collecting dust since the soviet times. Sometimes I wish I still worked at the museum so I could change things and do a research myself. But I still consider the original Longisquama fossil an old friend of mine even if I don’t work there anymore.

@sampagano205 6 ай бұрын

David peters waggling his eyebrows when you say it might be close to pterosaurs and then shaking his head disappointedly as you say they're not.

@malakabdallah6817 6 ай бұрын

Raptor chatter never disappointed us !🎉

@RaptorChatter 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@fantasyskeep 6 ай бұрын

Palm frond lizard.

@jordanwhite352 6 ай бұрын

Triassic Period aka God's Minecraft Server

@Orthosaur7532 5 ай бұрын

It's His Beta Test program, just like modern-day Australia.

@NitroIndigo 6 ай бұрын

I wonder if the wingles from Hamster's Paradise are based on _Longisquama_? They're lizard-like creatures whose wings are made of modified hairs that they can shed and regrow.

@RiverKid23 6 ай бұрын

Very informative and well made video brother.

@toughenupfluffy7294 6 ай бұрын

Evolution does whatever it can get away with.

@RokuroCarisu 6 ай бұрын

Evolution isn't about 'why', it's about 'why the hell not'!

@blondbraid7986 6 ай бұрын

The Triassic is such an underrated period!

@WAMTAT 6 ай бұрын

I love learning anout these times evolution experimented on the weird side of life

@rockbourbon843 6 ай бұрын

limzard

@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 6 ай бұрын

I'm a sucker for Hallucigenia + Eocene horses, but I have room in my heart for other eras of Life On Earth too.

@samm13xyz 6 ай бұрын

Is that the one who awake Carnotaurus at Dinosaur 2000 Disney movie?

@RokuroCarisu 6 ай бұрын

Yep.

@krankarvolund7771 6 ай бұрын

Is it me, or there were a lot of gliders attempts in the Trias? ^^'

@theunholyadventurer2376 6 ай бұрын

there were also a lot of flight attempts in the cretaceous too

@user-be8ly2lp4k 6 ай бұрын

This "gliding boom" is probably caused by appearance of first trees that had branches so now for animals there was a possibility to live in crowns of trees. Before PT extinction there were no branched big plants, so there was just one group of reptiles that glided in Permian

@krankarvolund7771 6 ай бұрын

@@user-be8ly2lp4k That's logical ^^ And I guess since the following extinctions had already flying groups survived the extinction (pterosaurs or birds), there was less room for experience (although birds and bats still evolved ^^).

@toughenupfluffy7294 6 ай бұрын

Quetzalcoatlus would be a nice subject, if you haven't already done that one.

@maozilla9149 6 ай бұрын

nice video

@oddjam 6 ай бұрын

Dam that shirt fits incredibly normally

@iolexymadrigal2905 Күн бұрын

Beware... THE LONGISQUAMA the Long Scaled Lizard >:]

@trentenmerrill5239 6 ай бұрын

lets fucking go bebe! another dope outfit bro. i always love your threads and your style.

@mateuszg3049 6 ай бұрын

Scansoriopteryx had a fully perforated acetabulum

@traceursebas 6 ай бұрын

Please do a video on the Madygen formation’s ecology

@zombiedad 6 ай бұрын

Clearly a golf club carry bag

@mycatistypingthis5450 6 ай бұрын

Make research papers, not war!

@laurachapple6795 6 ай бұрын

Now now. I'm sure there are planets out there where Triassic animals *would* be totally normal. Also, your glasses are crooked and it's driving me nuts.