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It's so ironic how the second most accurate skeleton was a skeleton of a mythical creature.

I hope awful Halloween animal skeletons continue to be manufactured solely for the continuation of this series.

That butterfly skeleton is definitely a moth man skeleton, they must have just got them mixed up

I've finally worked out the "spider skeleton" decorations. They aren't the skeletons OF spiders. They are spiders MADE OF bones! Like, reanimated bones from graveyards, formed into a creepy spider shape

I'm 80% certain that the "butterfly" skeleton is actually a fossilized baby Mothman.

I suspect the awesomely-accurate Frog skeleton may have been made through the astounding cost saving process of simply casting/3D-scanning a real frog skeleton, then letting an artist make some adjustments (like the eyes)

I can almost guarantee the artists *did* look at the skeletons in question, since artists extensively study anatomy, but if they produced an accurate product, would get told by corporate, "What is that?! Customers won't recognize that as a bird skeleton! Who would buy that?" or "too expensive to manufacture! Use less bones!" and they'd have to go back and make something stupid that "looks" like that animal to laypeople. Don't blame the artists, man! 😂

Ya know, if you really think about it, these incorrect skeletons are _more_ spooky than correct skeletons. Because some of them would probably be disturbingly grotesque if they were live animals.

Makes me want to hunt down more weird skeletons for next year

I love that cat so much! It looks like it was made by someone who has never seen a cat before.

That cat looks like a medieval painting of a cat. I can' t imagine it being called anything besides Gustav

Maybe it's just me, but I love the idea that dragons have hard ears that are mistaken for another set of horns.

..gotta admit, that new skeleton octopus is kinda adorable in a mildly horrifying way. I'm reminded of Sid's baby doll/metal crab from Toy Story. And you should call that cat Scrungley 😂

I loved how you held up nothing for the worst snake skeleton.

“Never look a gift shell in the excess fascia” is an excellent goblin sentiment. Clint makes me grin all the way through this video. This is one of my favorite Halloween traditions! ADDENDUM: I’m pretty sure the point of reference for the butterfly skeleton was the Pokémon Butterfree.

every year around this time I'm reminded that a crossover between clint's reptiles and your dinosaurs are wrong would be incredible

Clint: "I would like for avian wing skeletons and sternums to be portrayed properly!" *The monkey's paw curls*

Clint, have you considered that the terrible butterfly skeleton is actually an exceptionally good mothman skeleton?

I love that no matter how many times you see that cat, you can't help but laugh at it, and your laughter is infectious.

Okay, but legit, I would *love* to see more speculative evolution videos from this channel! Imagine if someone who knows their stuff as much as Clint was in charge of writing a natural history of dragons and their relating clades? That would be the definition of awesome!

You should do a phylogenetic video on cats from the terrifying tiger to our beloved house cat as a Halloween special!

Clint's annoyance from some of these skeletons is amazing. This series is great and needs to continue with future Halloweens.

The cat's name is Screeeeech. The butterfly is not a butterfly but an infant Mothman, well known extraterrestrials that don't develop for limbs until their 13th year. The dragon skeleton is from the first dragons discovered on the planet Pern. They were later genetically altered to be much larger. I am pleased to clear these things up for you.

The breakdown of the dragon skeleton had me grinning like a fool 😁

I would love to see Clint do a similar reaction to AI generated images of animals! I stumble across them all the time while doing Google searches. At first, there's just something uncanny about a certain image, but then you start to notice the backward-facing rear feet and unnatural scale pattern of a lizard or binocular vision on a pigeon. I'd love to see Clint's initial reaction to seeing some of those images. Maybe even the crew could put in some really bad ones, and Clint has to guess what it was supposed to be. I think it would be super fun and a great chance to teach about animal physiology!

I’ve come to look forward to this so much each year!

I think in defence of the 'butterfly', it's basically just a really teeny mothman and actually kinda cute 😄

I would love to see Clint release anatomically accurate animal skeleton figurines

Are we sure these are bone ears? They do superficially resemble the fleshy external ears of many mammals, but it's not that unusual for horned animals to have multiple pairs of horns. I can only speculate about the reason for the unusual shape of the horn core on the smaller pair in this case, maybe that groove up the middle was associated with some kind of display structure, like inflatable air sacs?

It is actually fairly common for butterflys to have only 4 functional (and clearly visible) legs, with one pair of legs being small, reduced or even vestigial and such hard to see and not used as legs. Only 2 legs is of course not a thing

I freaking love this series, and I'm so very glad that the "cat" has become a running gag.

My understanding is that these bone creations are actually all made from parts of human skeletons that some crazy necromancer has reconfigured together into the rough form of animals and then enchanted. That's my favorite like version of the explanation of like all bone weird anatomy critters. If I didn't have this I think I probably would have lost my mind over a decade ago and these things first started appearing, lol. I actually have enough friends that do museum specimen preparation that will when things go wrong with the preparation do things like this for art that it seems fairly plausible to me.

After seeing some of those skeletons, i assure you, necromancers can do WAYY better 😭😭😭

I can't wait for Clint to review my skeleton some future Halloween! Gotta see how accurate I am!

22:56 - "he's also empty inside" - relatable Ahhh I love this time of year and the annual Halloween decoration skeleton feature is one of my highlights. 💚

I love these videos. Been happy every October they've come out. They've got "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong" vibes. Though you're a lot more tolerant of inaccuracies. Thanks Clint!

I got the same dragon skeleton recently! I remember taking a look and thinking they did a decent job at solving the problem of having to connect 6 limbs to a body that should only have four. It looks like the front legs are attached directly to the ribcage with a hip like joint, rather than to the shoulder blades, and the wings are connected to the shoulder blades. No idea whether that would work in practice, and it certainly doesn't seem like something that would evolve from 4-legged animals, but I thought it was a good idea.

Clint I can honestly say I have seen an uprising in inaccurate skeletons since you made the first video. 😂. The species list keeps growing every year. I think at this point its all for you. 😂

Before I was a subscriber I saw a tarantula "skeleton" at a local store. I was appalled! I was absolutely delighted when KZfaq recommended the original "Zoologist Reacts To Your Horrible Halloween Decorations" a couple years later. My delight increased when you started the video with a spider "skeleton". Now I want to make a list of all the "skeletons" in your first 3 videos to have the next time I'm perusing Halloween decorations.

IT'S FINALLY HERE! I wait for this video series every single year! They're probably my favorite thing on KZfaq!

I've been looking forward to this all year!! Thanks Clint.

Yay! It's not really the Halloween season without Clint's take on the decorations. The cat is At At.

OMG!! I have the dragon from the thumbnail! I was working as a cashier at a grocery store two years ago, and a family came through my line and decided they didn't want him because he was missing a foot. I'm such a sucker for dragons and underdogs, so I bought him. His name is Bartok the Tenacious, and he's been with me ever since, even through 2022 in which I lived in 3 states and 4 houses/apartments. I did have to glue his remaining front foot on because those suckers truly love to pop off. But i love him 🧡🧡

Clearly, the necromancer gave the skeleton octopus molars instead of suckers!

Man I'm always surprised at how hard i need to laugh at the cat it always gets me i just can't look at it

Butterfly skeleton is adorable!! Like something from an old fantasy film for children

I've had the dragon skeleton sitting on one of my snake cages for a few years! When I first found it I geeked out over the keeled sternum too! Definitely one of the best animal skeleton decorations out there. Great vid as always!

Hey man I’m so excited to come to your facility on Thursday! You have been such a big inspiration for me and many more. I started watching your videos around the start of Covid and they really helped me through those tough times. Happy grand opening and thank you for inspiring and helping so many people!

I saw "skeleton" spiders in real life in a cheap nick nack shop a few days ago! I laughed out loud, it's so ridiculous!

I feel like Clint is underappreciated, certified legend. Also, awesome sponsor.

I look forward to these videos every year! I also have a small collection of "anatomically silly" skeletons that I add to every year. This year I'm holding out for the Spirit Halloween snail skeleton. 🤣

Imagine those boned butterflies hurling through the air toward unsuspecting flowers. I think our favorite kitty may have been knocked out by one.

Would love your take on those Peruvian alien mummies! 😂

I just watched the one from a couple years ago! I can't believe you uploaded this literally 2 hours after I watched it!

the frog skeleton reminds me an awful lot of a 'frog dissection' kit I had as a kid. it had this little skeleton and plastic organs that you layered together in a mold and filled with this dark green gelatin. when it was set, you dissected your little frog. it made for a fun Halloween thing afterward, filling it with lime jello, sans the plastic bits.

I love the opportunities for teaching actual animal facts and anatomy this series allows.

The "butterfly" skeleton at 21:34 is probably based off of "butterfree" (the pokemon). It has the two large hind legs and the huge eyes, but it's missing the front legs/arms/hands, and the wings are made of bone.

In my experience regarding the production of toys and novelty items, costs are cut by companies through the re-use of molds and parts to assemble something new. People in production are not so much asked to look at an actual skeleton. It's more like they are asked to look at the existing parts, see what they can create with the molds the company has, and add the bare minimum of new parts to cut costs. It also has to do with how advanced their mold process is, and whether or not they are using computer modeling. This would explain the disparity between accurate aspects and inaccurate aspects. Not that they aren't getting the skeletons horribly wrong to begin with in many cases, but as a toy collector, I am always informing myself as to where companies cut costs in the production of certain figures, and I'm willing to bet these halloween decoration companies do the same. The more accurate ones are likely ones where the artist actually was asked to design something from scratch, rather than designing around the reuse of existing parts and molds.

The butterfly is asking “where are my other four legs?” LOL

The dragon, falfalcorsetail, and mermaid from last year are my favorite honestly. Clint's out here letting us know the real from the really remarkable! Maybe there's more of these kinds of skeletons out there left to cover than the run-of-the-mill kind?

I saw a pretty normal “snake” skeleton for sale this year. Immediately thought about one of the previous years, where someone insisted to you that there weren’t any snake skeletons because they don’t have bones. I wonder what they think now? And I wonder if someone in the fake skeleton business saw that video?

I squealed like a lil girl when I saw this notification. These are always a hoot!

The butterfly one really cracks me up this episode. 😂😂😂

"It's almost like it isn't that hard!" This had me laughing. Great job to the person who was able to use Google to reference a frog skeleton.

Yay!!! My ridiculous butterfly alien made the cut!!! 💀👽🦋

Okay I think I missed the announcement of when you got the biology PhD, congrats. I never continued with titles after the baseline and I just kept studying it all on my own, but I also totally respect and understand the interest for professional educators continuing to go up the ranks, so grats on the PhD, sorry I missed the announcement. Seems like at that level you should really consider starting to do some research papers. I have piles and piles of research that need to be turned into papers but since my day job as an engineer is also pretty taxing I haven't ever gotten around to put in the papers together. I really do encourage you to consider you know actually writing up some papers because goodness gracious we need some really good ones done for so many species the research publication is so far behind. I know that you're focus is primarily on the KZfaq videos and the education as a professor but I would love to you know see if you would do some papers and if you need any data I'd certainly be up for helping with that part. I've always been really good at collecting data it's just actually submitting things to journals I suck at, lol. I'm sure there's probably plenty of others that are in a similar boat so maybe look around and see if you could get in on some of that because certainly PhD level experience with understanding the whole process of submitting papers would be awesome for a lot of people who have been continuing to do science but have been out of school for a couple of decades without submitting papers. Heck you could even do some videos on how to go about doing it that'd be cool.

The cat's name should be Abyss, because he sure stares back.

I like how when Clint is doing a video that non reptile people would likely watch (like this one) he introduces himself and what he does.

Just got a polar bear bracelet from Fahlo, I've been wanting one for so long so thank you for the discount!!

Many new parrot owners learn the hard way about how long a parrot neck actually is.

I honestly mean this in the best way possible.... You're the adult Blippi. Super informative, fun, animated, (and you look similar), I love your content. 😅

Your enthusiasm for both the surprisingly good and astoundingly horrendous is wonderful. You throw in so many fascinating details about the different animals, too. And congrats on your lucky find of a real dragon skeleton! A rare thing indeed. PS, I think you should name the cat Fry Pan, because he looks like he's been smacked in the face with one.

The only appropriate name for the cat is Frans (Snarf backwards)

Hi Clint! Great video! When you said, "Hyoid bone , it reminded me about something I learned watching "Forensic Files". A broken or crushed Hyoid bone tells the detectives their victim had been strangled. Like you said, it's situated at the root of the tongue in front of our neck and the larynx. Ta-Da!!🎈✨️🎉 Now y'all can go about your day feeling safe 😊and satisfied🎉

I can’t stop laughing at that cat even though I’ve seen it around 5 times now I remember when you said you got it from the “snakes don’t have skeletons store”

I love the Fahlo bracelets. I got a shark bracelet, and mine was Boo as well, but the tracker deactivated, so they gave me another shark named Chum. He’s also a hammerhead, but not a great one, off the east coast. I appreciate the specials they have where they’ll send you a free one and you just pay shipping, it makes me glad to help conservation

Part of me feels bad laughing at the uneducated people who created those terribly inaccurate Halloween decorations but at the same time the other side of me finds it way too funny to not laugh at

Looooove these skeleton videos. Animal anatomy fascinates me!

looking at the neck and skull of the "griffon", I wonder if its actually an ancient griffon from the pliostocine, combining an ancestor of cats and dogs with some species of terror bird. Maybe the skull shows its even older, more akin to that of gastornis, and clearly the feet indicate a lifestyle of living in trees grasping branches, then swooping down to pick off small ancient horses. increadible speculative biology on the evolution of the griffon from these artists, stellar job

I'm impressed that you called that first skeleton a hummingbird - I couldn't identify it as such!

the halloween trilogy episode 3: Return of the Cat...Electric Boogaloo

Come on folks, the video is 30 minutes long, and it was posted 12 minutes ago. And there are already 60+ likes??? LOL I love Clint's videos too, but at least watch it first.

I knew a lot of animal skeleton designs for Halloween were trash, but I learned a couple things new this fine morning.

SOOOOOO happy I just found this channel!!! I'm currently working towards my teaching degree for Early Childhood Ed and I very excited to add this channel to my collection of science resources! Also - totally thought that the gryphon was supposed to be a slightly strange dragon

I like these decorative skeleton analysis because it helps me with speculative biology and how the different animals could be a real thing. For example the skeleton octopus is not actually an octopus but a very specific and special type of echinoderm instead. My thoughts are that basically some of the animals are not necromancer conglomerates or something like that but they could be a look into alternative biology that isn't completely functional on our world but it is completely fine somewhere else.

This immediately reminded me of this piece of decor I saw a pet store recently of skeletal cricket, of all things.

I watched this video immediately after watching last year's, as i've only recently found the channel. In both cases, I caught the use of "octopodes", missed "octopuses", caught "octopi" and then went back to rewatch the octopus segment because I was sure that if you'd used two versions of the plural exactly once, that you would definitely have used all three. Absolutely fantastic, thank you for doing that 😊

I want that cat squirrel hybrid. It is like something out of Lovecraft's novels, lording over the other teratological nightmares.

Can't believe it's year 3 already. Loving this and Dinosaur December! Even picked up a hoodie from last year's Dinosaur December

Your analysis of the dragon skeleton was very interesting! (I actually have one myself) I would be highly interested in hearing you do a hypothetical dragon anatomy/evolution video sometime!

"you never look a gift shell in the excess fascia" has me ROARING😂😂😂

the fact that this dragon has external ears and the wings of fire dragons have external ears makes me feel like Tui Sutherland has special information we don't know about

I might have to send in the little skeleton creature that my mom got me last year during the after Halloween sales because we truly have no idea what it's supposed to be. It doesn't even claim to be any specific animal 😅

Hey Clint, just wanted to comment and let you know I absolutely love your dinosaur series of videos, I watched through them all over the last day or so and they're some of my favorite content you've out out, despite me being 10 months late with alot of the videos woops. They're so insightful, educational and just generally a really good time, I've always adored researching and understanding more about dinosaurs so I found your videos perfect for me, especially your Tyrannosaurid focused one ;). I hope you'll consider doing them for 2023, and yaknow, wouldn't be opposed to just generally alot more dinosaur-themed videos throughout the year(s!). Love what you do man, thanks for being a great educator!

I like how, on the bird at the beginning, the skull looks an awful lot like those birdlike masks worn by the Angel Sachiel in _Evangelion._

Aw no mention about the hummingbird feet. I feel like this was a missed opportunity. Maybe next year. I'm thinking both the history of when people thought that hummingbirds didn't have feet as well as like the special locking mechanics and other nifty features

I never thought I would be laughing at a "dinosaur" skeletons

Oh no... I laughed out loud at the "Never look a gift shell in the excess fascia." What am I becoming?!?

The butterfly skeleton looks more like a bony Mothra more than anything else