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@WIRED
July 1, 2025 at 12:11 pm
Watch Dr. Lacovara’s previous episode, Extinction Support:
@MYRNSMARCELO-h8x
July 2, 2025 at 11:14 am
I have a two tyronosaurus trex braine tissue pretified fossil
Can I sell it?
@MYRNSMARCELO-h8x
July 2, 2025 at 11:17 am
Nakuha ko ito sa malaking punong acasia na di kayang yakapin ng Sampung katao
@JW_Steed
July 2, 2025 at 2:37 pm
More please!!
@GriffinK10
July 1, 2025 at 7:29 pm
Velociraptors were not depicted in Jurassic Park; only their name.
@ubserrano8180
July 1, 2025 at 7:31 pm
What I found fascinating about dinosaurs is that there is always something new to learn while there are still big mysteries
@miaandersen8731
July 1, 2025 at 7:35 pm
My favourite dinosaur is an Australovenator (yes, really) it’s like a jurassic-park-style velociraptor but with the best name ever. Can you imagine the movies redone with people screaming “Ahhh! The Australovenator is coming!!!” XD
@peterbyrne7348
July 1, 2025 at 7:42 pm
I always said ANK- le-a-saurus. Because they would club a T Rex or Allosaur in the ankles and escape.
@luigisuperfan4536
July 1, 2025 at 7:46 pm
glad you guys brought him back
@zaphyrae
July 1, 2025 at 7:52 pm
North Carolinian swamps mentioned!
@historylife4436
July 1, 2025 at 8:03 pm
A pissed off turkey🤣🤣🤣
@AristotleDreher
July 1, 2025 at 8:03 pm
This dude rules
@jliller
July 1, 2025 at 8:05 pm
I have never before heard this explanation for T-Rex having tiny arms. It makes a long of sense.
@Rosie-dm7dv
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 pm
imagine being able to start a sentence with “my favourite dinosaur that i didn’t discover is” such aura
@WWTormentor
July 1, 2025 at 8:27 pm
It’s amazing to think that at any moment a huge rock can hit the earth and end the age of mammals, or humans specifically.
@jliller
July 1, 2025 at 8:31 pm
Fun Fact: Dr. Lacovara discovered Dreadnoughtus. I don’t think he mentioned that. 😉
@skybluskyblueify
July 1, 2025 at 8:31 pm
~11:50 The very first fossils of a dinosaur retrieved by science had no relatives to draw on for the parts that weren’t there. Didn’t some scientist use an iguana with a “horn” on its head and/or the chameleons that have headgear, for at least one of the first animal to go on display?
@lovensnhalina
July 1, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Yep THE GULF OF MEXICO ❤
@genesissiverio7941
July 1, 2025 at 8:34 pm
yay New Jersey!!!
@All_Access_Passes
July 1, 2025 at 8:48 pm
This was awesome! The best part? 26:43 THE GULF OF MEXICO!
@ronwatkins5775
July 1, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Ok, another possibly dumb question, but scientists have been able to revive some recently extenct spicies, how realistic is it to expect to revive mamoths using elephant DNA for missing parts?
@oddballskull1941
July 1, 2025 at 8:59 pm
Could a mosquito even penetrate dino skin?
@lisalorentz7919
July 1, 2025 at 8:59 pm
Fun episode! Fascinating!
@ramzcoldlampin5460
July 1, 2025 at 9:00 pm
10/10
@robertcronin6603
July 1, 2025 at 9:04 pm
Dinosaurs never existed.
@msiphys
July 1, 2025 at 9:07 pm
25:08 why is “Bisexual” bleeped? What the actual BLEEP
@thefinewino
July 1, 2025 at 9:14 pm
Dreadnaughtus is a badass name he chose well
@PostNtClarity-e2t6q
July 1, 2025 at 9:19 pm
Look, it’s a fossil describing fossils. This is so super relevant to what’s going on 2025.
@Webby1011
July 2, 2025 at 11:45 am
Just love listening to this guy. He is passionate about what he does and the way he talks about this stuff. It makes people excited to listen to him.
@jarooosa
July 2, 2025 at 11:57 am
What an incredible raconteur. I could not stop listening to him, equally educated and entertained.
@Windshear_beer
July 2, 2025 at 12:45 pm
ANOTHER WIN FOR SPINOSAURUS FANS!!!! T-REX FANS LOSE AGAIN!!!
@RonJohn63
July 2, 2025 at 12:48 pm
The answer to many of these questions is “comparative anatomy”.
@CMDRScotty
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 pm
Remake this episode, please:
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The rise of ChatGPT and other publicly available A.I. tools has sparked numerous debates about its ability to reduce, or in some cases, completely eliminate jobs traditionally done by humans. What if we put the A.I. to the test? We asked people in many different career fields to use A.I. in an attempt for the A.I. to replicate their jobs. How close can it get?
@OiugnstreakJioutesy
July 2, 2025 at 1:39 pm
This video randomly popped up and I m glad it did
@RandomPhone
July 2, 2025 at 2:01 pm
“If you have a velociraptor in your kitchen, it’s more of an opportunity than a problem.”
This is a line I will remember for years. 😂
@PRKLGaming
July 2, 2025 at 2:09 pm
1:40 subtitles are wrong, he’s saying pterosaur, not tyrannosaurus
@zweisteinya
July 2, 2025 at 2:19 pm
Physics is a cult – isn’t that a ‘belief system’
And you college educated ()s haven’t realized that a dino built like a kangaroo probably hops better than it can run (this means you Spielberg)
@Grungus37
July 2, 2025 at 3:02 pm
3:32 This is the moment gale gives credit to the grind
@felixd6776
July 2, 2025 at 3:30 pm
For the dragon question: I’m pretty sure it’s because dragons are a mix of our fears. Sharp teeth, reptile, avian, fire, claws, huge size.
@EVISCERATECHUCK
July 2, 2025 at 3:32 pm
So the T-rex basically sacced its arms for a chad-jaw. So you’re saying that if I practice to produce more powerful bite, my jaw-muscles and neck muscles would T-rex my arms? Dang.
@বেড়াল
July 2, 2025 at 3:41 pm
love this topic!!!
@wyomingptt
July 2, 2025 at 3:42 pm
I’m not sure if Dreadnoughtess is a cool name or kind of a lame one.. but still, having ‘Discovered a new species of dinosaur’ is a cool thing to have on your resume lol.
@dinonuggett2968
July 2, 2025 at 3:47 pm
23:12 A slight error on your explanation of pterosaurs. Pterosaurs and dinosaurs are both a part of ornithodira, so it doesn’t make sense to say that ornithodira branched off before dinosaurs if dinosaurs along with pterosaurs are subgroups of ornithodira . It would be like saying “mammals branched off before primates.” The group ornithodira is essentially defined as the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs and all of that ancestor’s descendants.
@nj2033
July 2, 2025 at 3:52 pm
“having a velociraptor in your kitchen is more of an opportunity than a problem” Haha!!!
@Gokhanaj
July 2, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Who’d win in a fight on the shore: T-Rex vs mosasorous ?
@gustie44
July 2, 2025 at 5:29 pm
Watching Hank do days-old connections is a bit like watching the main character in a horror movie run through that door we know they shouldn’t.
@MysticExile111
July 2, 2025 at 5:56 pm
“A velociraptor is more like a pissed-off turkey”
So… A Canadian Goose?
@SritanayKalakonda-om4pj
July 2, 2025 at 6:14 pm
a canadian goose with scary teeth and claws
@QSB55
July 2, 2025 at 6:27 pm
“A giant, rotten meat-bouy.” Best sentence I’ve heard all day.
@Cookie0fPower
July 2, 2025 at 7:06 pm
Neat
@magstheonlyone
July 2, 2025 at 7:30 pm
When I was a little boy, I always wanted to be a dinosaur. I wanted to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex more than anything in the world. I made my arms short and I roamed the backyard, I chased the neighborhood cats, I growled and I roared. Everybody knew me and was afraid of me. And one day my dad said, “Bobby, you are 17. It’s time to throw childish things aside,” and I said, “Okay, Pop.” But he didn’t really say that, he said, “Stop being a f*cking dinosaur and get a job.”
@Gingerwalker.
July 2, 2025 at 7:44 pm
WOW there is a LOT of good stuff in here that I have never heard before. THANK YOU!!!
@andrew1575
July 2, 2025 at 8:50 pm
Anoxic is little oxygen; anaerobic is absence of oxygen
@psychique13
July 3, 2025 at 2:57 am
It never gets old that the parrots I have in my house are just little dinosaurs flying around
@Starkman2367
July 3, 2025 at 4:02 am
I am super happy that he called “Gulf of Mexico” by its right name. 🥲
@TheBookofSam707
July 3, 2025 at 4:57 am
So much fun to learn new things about – birds are dinosaurs? Whodathunkit?
@michaellee4276
July 3, 2025 at 5:22 am
Multicellular organisms, depend on maintaining a low Calcium environment inside the cells. Otherwise Calcium would easily combine with the intracellular Phosphates and becomes a solid. Organisms deornd in intracellular phosphate in solution to do various important things. So organisms got very good at moving Calcium around. They began to store Calcium phosphate in large extracellular reservoirs which naturally become Solid chunks which could be used.. The Cuttlebone of a cuttlefish is an example. This bone can absorb various amounts of air to alter the cuttlefish buoyancy. The animals could place these hunks of solid calcium phospate to provide structure or armor.
@ricksaint2000
July 3, 2025 at 5:30 am
Thank you Dr. Ken
@theboiwho8pasta
July 3, 2025 at 5:35 am
9:25 Who’s gonna tell bro about *Hotwheels Sisyphus?*
@travisfurber1368
July 3, 2025 at 6:02 am
This was fascinating. I haven’t been so captivated by a video in a long time.
@biz3104
July 3, 2025 at 7:09 am
I’m the proud owner of 10 living dinosaurs: my chickens
@KindredBrujah
July 3, 2025 at 8:05 am
“Giant Rotten Meat Buoy” is the name of the next great grindcore album.
@TonyTroskoski
July 3, 2025 at 9:13 am
4:50
Thank you for making this connection. I learned about detritus in marine biology and how organic material basically rains onto the ocean floor and accumulates.
Before it was hard to picture how much biomass you would need (in t-Rexs or the like) to condense into oil. Understanding it to be microbes make so much more sense
@IAmTheDawn
July 3, 2025 at 9:41 am
Invite this guy to the ‘UNCTION cuz he a true unc
@deniscoffeetime
July 3, 2025 at 9:44 am
Really great. I found your teaching style hilarious and really straightforward. Also loved the part about science not being about beliefs. Never heard it expressed so bluntly and clearly.
@axeldaval3410
July 3, 2025 at 11:02 am
6:00 this feels like a wacky explanation …
@Dashing.David448
July 3, 2025 at 11:28 am
Bruce Willis seems to be doing well these days.
@mattf9096
July 3, 2025 at 11:32 am
The explanation of science not being a belief system is totally true because todays scientific truths can and will be dismissed and/or replaced with the discovery of new facts and methods. A belief system is stuck in the past and fights tooth and nail not to be replaced even in the presence of new facts and methods.
@echognomecal6742
July 3, 2025 at 12:39 pm
So nobody thought it’d be a fantastic idea to include picture-in-picture of the stuff he’s speaking about?
Otherwise, really good. Props for CC.
@ScoobyIsMe
July 3, 2025 at 2:59 pm
Why did you do us dirty with that bird eating poo clip. I was in the middle of a pizza
@technicalmachine1671
July 3, 2025 at 3:12 pm
It’s so funny that he did get what “it me” meant.
@MrRenanHappy
July 3, 2025 at 5:26 pm
So this is the guy that gave the Dreadnoughtus the air bladder things. Reminds me of a few bird species that do that.
@valle2601
July 3, 2025 at 6:03 pm
Bro is like a quote generator
@aditipatil1447
July 3, 2025 at 6:29 pm
“Velociraptor in the kitchen is more of an opportunity than a problem.” Now I can’t get the image of a velociraptor dinner out of my head.
@ArchangelWoodlands
July 3, 2025 at 6:31 pm
deeply fond of this man’s speech patterns
@rhiix
July 3, 2025 at 7:31 pm
again, thank you so much for allowing his full answer to be in the video and not with parts edited out!! really love hearing the answer in full, with all details included. here to learn something new and so more info, the better! pls definitely continue making these vids with experts, wired, cause they are fascinating! 🤍
@voltayre4584
July 3, 2025 at 8:48 pm
“Gulf of Mexico”. Saying how it is. Brother.
@kingrama2727
July 3, 2025 at 9:29 pm
Let’s play a drinking game, take a shot every time he takes his glasses off and let’s see who survives…
@errantwinds-up8uu
July 3, 2025 at 11:36 pm
I didn’t know that we had discovered where the asteroid hit Earth – that is fascinating! Poor dinos, but we probably wouldn’t be here without that event.
@bumblebee623
July 4, 2025 at 12:35 am
This is an old episode thay was just replayed. How about making new content?
@merickful
July 5, 2025 at 11:55 am
I’ve never seen it. Proof that the world doesn’t revolve around you.
@marcustulliuscicero5443
July 4, 2025 at 7:42 am
Dinosaurs are also Ornithodirans though.
In fact, Ornithodira is defined as containing all the descendants of the most recent common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
@epinefren94
July 4, 2025 at 9:05 am
“more of an opportunity than a problem” sent me 😂
@yuckyfairy
July 4, 2025 at 10:46 am
I was dreaming about my hs crush when this video came on in the background and i didn’t hook up with him in the dream bc he wouldn’t stop talking about dinosaurs
@a.a677
July 4, 2025 at 11:31 am
Spinosaurus is also my favourite
@UberCoolBen
July 4, 2025 at 1:43 pm
Wow, he discovered the Dreadnoughtus. A new sauropod is such an amazing find.
@preetosaur
July 4, 2025 at 4:41 pm
20:03…literally therizinosaurus
@adamrubella2290
July 4, 2025 at 11:03 pm
I love his description of a velociraptor as a pissed off turkey. While he holds his thumb and pointer finger spread open five or six inches to show about how long their skulls would have been. Beautiful way to illustrate what the reality actually was by modern understanding!
@wideeyedraven15
July 4, 2025 at 11:43 pm
A great example of a person who is very smart but also a colossal dipshit is when this guy take the first question and doesn’t understand it me. Because he isn’t fluent in modernity but also just gets to what he wants to deal with, fine enough. But had he got it, he might have empathized with the questioner who was saying she/he couldn’t support their huge head instead of treating them like a moron.
@leevm15
July 4, 2025 at 11:45 pm
Really enjoyed this video and will re-watch with the kids.
@phatkid6811
July 5, 2025 at 12:12 am
Is this the right guy for the question?
@paulburket
July 5, 2025 at 1:39 am
NC State archeologist who unearthed a fossilized T-Rex bone with soft tissue inside. This is confirmed. It’s indisputable. And it’s not a standalone occurrence. Look it up. This discovery upends everything archeology purported to know. You’d think this would’ve been a global story and an inflection point for the profession. Nope.
@Lifemodo
July 5, 2025 at 2:36 am
Please get Archaeologist Flint Dibble next!!!
@angie-zz3ns
July 5, 2025 at 2:49 am
Dr. Lacovara its the goat
@Fuckoff-1
July 5, 2025 at 3:12 am
i heard trex arms can lift 180kg each, wouldnt that be enough to rip a human in half? not very wimpy arms noww lol
@SocietyIsBroken
July 5, 2025 at 11:09 am
15:55 Wikipedia says that Pikaia is “popularly but falsely attributed as an ancestor of all vertebrates”. Is Ken wrong on this point?
@darthvirgin7157
July 5, 2025 at 10:14 pm
he may be talking in general terms of ALL the first chordates including pikaia.
also, paleontology is a HUGE field and so specialties in more specific topics do occur. so someone who is an expert on cretaceous herbivores may not know much about jurassic carnivores.
@averangesoulsgamesenjoyer
July 5, 2025 at 1:26 pm
Dinosaurs could have been blue and we will never know if thats true or not.
@NighteeeeeY
July 5, 2025 at 2:18 pm
this guy is a real gem. <3
@jjasper7512
July 5, 2025 at 4:01 pm
Awesome, learned lots. He seems to know an awful lot about fossilising people, should he be on a watch list…
@user-lp3ew1xb5u
July 5, 2025 at 6:03 pm
Would love to hear more about the few large dinosaurs that survived the extinction. Amphibious? So they could retreat to the water in the high temps in just the right areas that might’ve been just cool enough to barely survive?
@bin4ry_d3struct0r
July 5, 2025 at 7:56 pm
That’s a really nice MacBook cover!
@MotoNomad350
July 5, 2025 at 9:50 pm
Since birds are dinosaurs, we DO have dinosaur DNA.
@darthvirgin7157
July 5, 2025 at 9:57 pm
blue whales are supposedly the largest vertebrate to have ever lived. but how come plesiosaurs, while living among giants, never grew as big or bigger than the largest blue whale?
@anastasiosptr.1910
July 6, 2025 at 6:54 am
I would love him to be my uncle – i would not leave him alone in family dinners 😅
@simplyspenser887
July 6, 2025 at 8:25 am
Absolutely love paleontology related videos here, so fun to watch:)
Thank you guys!
@cactusjack98
July 6, 2025 at 10:11 am
this guy absolutely cooked the guy talking about the flying to birds/dinosaurs etc :’)
@aclzzm
July 6, 2025 at 11:46 am
dr lacovara rocks thanks for bringing him back
@kingwacky184
July 6, 2025 at 1:30 pm
In Jurassic Park they knew Velociraptor was tiny. The raptor they have in the movie is more like the Utahraptor or Deinonychus. But they kept the name Velociraptor because it sounds cooler.
@zionfoster8219
July 6, 2025 at 1:49 pm
I think we were just here for the answer to the second question
@ZanderCorlew
July 6, 2025 at 7:04 pm
Hey dr lacovara I have a question even tho its been 5 days but please reply so my question is was Deinosuchus closely related to crocodiles because both have salt glands and alligators dont so is the Deinosuchus closely related to the crocodile? I just wanna know please reply.
@animalbrained
July 6, 2025 at 9:49 pm
19:50 every therizinosaur ever just turned their head
@Wingzofelzorro
July 7, 2025 at 12:20 am
Did Dinosaurs twerk tho😌?
@DwaynesWorld007
July 7, 2025 at 9:16 am
…. Dude literally discovered Dreadnoughtous
@cadystanton6180
July 7, 2025 at 9:28 am
6:38 oh my god i could be a dino sculptor if i wanted… IK HOW TO USE A CNC ROUTER
@cadystanton6180
July 7, 2025 at 9:28 am
6:43 SOOOO COOLLLLLK
@missyzelenaedits9684
July 7, 2025 at 10:48 am
Why did he not lead the video with “hi, I discovered Dreadnoughtus” that’s INSANE!!
@liamplaystheuke
July 7, 2025 at 2:45 pm
Fvck Harry Potter though
@jpbaley2016
July 7, 2025 at 4:19 pm
Gulf of Mexico! Take that you puerile president!
@kellyw3708
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 pm
If only specific types of environments are good for preserving fossils, what do we know about life in the *other* types of environments, during the time of the dinosaurs?
@jforce91
July 8, 2025 at 1:01 am
On amber- it’s because there’s NO ANIMAL LEFT.
What you see is the carbonised “shadow” of whatever organic particulate was trapped in the resin- there’s very little left even of the original bug/feather/lizard.
@azzu12
July 8, 2025 at 12:44 pm
Man I love paleontologists. These people chased their childhood interests into a career. Good for them
@hettbeans
July 8, 2025 at 3:44 pm
He said it!!! He called it a turkey!!!
@brookemason6593
July 8, 2025 at 6:51 pm
Always good to hear about the Gulf of Mexico.
@marifazekas5650
July 8, 2025 at 11:17 pm
I’m so excited he’s back! I loved his last video
@marianrayray1990
July 9, 2025 at 12:22 am
“a crocodile is half a push up away of taking a nap”
@NewLife-qj9mx
July 9, 2025 at 2:09 am
How would a creature with tiny arms mate? 🤔
@evin1878
July 9, 2025 at 9:35 am
5:59
@Dodifayed21
July 9, 2025 at 10:40 am
You should’ve brought Ross Geller😂
@alebassmusic
July 10, 2025 at 3:00 pm
wearing the frankie say relax shirt
@loljk122
July 9, 2025 at 3:35 pm
Okay to the don’t die in California if you want to be a fossil point, what about the la brea pits
@ChoiceEnvironments
July 9, 2025 at 5:38 pm
Dino DNA!
@JuJuForREAL
July 9, 2025 at 10:07 pm
“That sounds like EVERYbody you know” 😂
@DanielJoe3
July 10, 2025 at 5:16 am
‘A pissed off Turkey’, so wait, that kid was right in JP1?! 😂
@alebassmusic
July 10, 2025 at 2:59 pm
Totally, he was!! Thought the six-inch retractable claw Dr Grant shows him was more likely to belong to a Utahraptor or Deinonychus; which were the real inspiration for the movie raptors design; guess actual velociraptors weren’t badass enough for the big screen
@grant2736
July 10, 2025 at 5:52 am
17:25 “You can walk into a room with this dinosaur and it’s like you’re in a room with a dinosaur” Very astute
@redsand1197
July 10, 2025 at 6:48 am
Giant Rotten Meat Buoy. I just wanted to say that again.
@katherinerichardson2273
July 10, 2025 at 5:56 pm
most of the crude oil we get has nothing to do with dinosaurs it’s actually fossilized plant material
@dang6369
July 10, 2025 at 9:01 pm
Would love to see how I can submit these questions on your forum. I just finished The Lost World and I’m fascinated by Carnotaurus….were they really chameleon ambush predators, and if so, how would a paleontologist know that?