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i heard trex arms can lift 180kg each, wouldnt that be enough to rip a human in half? not very wimpy arms noww lol
2025-07-05 16:12
Dr. Lacovara its the goat
2025-07-05 15:49
Please get Archaeologist Flint Dibble next!!!
2025-07-05 15:36
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.
2025-07-05 14:39
Is this the right guy for the question?
2025-07-05 13:12
Really enjoyed this video and will re-watch with the kids.
2025-07-05 12:45
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.
2025-07-05 12:43
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!
2025-07-05 12:03
20:03...literally therizinosaurus
2025-07-05 05:41
Wow, he discovered the Dreadnoughtus. A new sauropod is such an amazing find.
2025-07-05 02:43
Spinosaurus is also my favourite
2025-07-05 00:31
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
2025-07-04 23:46
"more of an opportunity than a problem" sent me ?
2025-07-04 22:05
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.
2025-07-04 20:42
This is an old episode thay was just replayed. How about making new content?
2025-07-04 13:35
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.
2025-07-04 12:36
Let’s play a drinking game, take a shot every time he takes his glasses off and let’s see who survives…
2025-07-04 10:29
"Gulf of Mexico". Saying how it is. Brother.
2025-07-04 09:48
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! ?
2025-07-04 08:31
deeply fond of this man's speech patterns
2025-07-04 07:31
"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.
2025-07-04 07:29
Bro is like a quote generator
2025-07-04 07:03
So this is the guy that gave the Dreadnoughtus the air bladder things. Reminds me of a few bird species that do that.
2025-07-04 06:26
It's so funny that he did get what "it me" meant.
2025-07-04 04:12
Why did you do us dirty with that bird eating poo clip. I was in the middle of a pizza
2025-07-04 03:59
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.
2025-07-04 01:39
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.
2025-07-04 00:32
Bruce Willis seems to be doing well these days.
2025-07-04 00:28
6:00 this feels like a wacky explanation ...
2025-07-04 00:02
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.
2025-07-03 22:44
Invite this guy to the 'UNCTION cuz he a true unc
2025-07-03 22:41
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
2025-07-03 22:13
"Giant Rotten Meat Buoy" is the name of the next great grindcore album.
2025-07-03 21:05
I'm the proud owner of 10 living dinosaurs: my chickens
2025-07-03 20:09
This was fascinating. I haven’t been so captivated by a video in a long time.
2025-07-03 19:02
9:25 Who's gonna tell bro about *Hotwheels Sisyphus?*
2025-07-03 18:35
Thank you Dr. Ken
2025-07-03 18:30
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.
2025-07-03 18:22
So much fun to learn new things about - birds are dinosaurs? Whodathunkit?
2025-07-03 17:57
I am super happy that he called “Gulf of Mexico” by its right name. ?
2025-07-03 17:02
It never gets old that the parrots I have in my house are just little dinosaurs flying around
2025-07-03 15:57
❤
2025-07-03 14:41
This was fantastic! Thanks for producing. ?
2025-07-03 12:37
Fossilized is hard, but if you can settle for mummified have yourself thrown in a bog.
2025-07-03 12:04
My man pointed out birds are Dinos then said "We don't have Dino DNA"
2025-07-03 10:35
is a Deinosuchus not a dinosaur? if so, how is a croc or alligator not related making them a descendent of dinosaurs?
2025-07-03 10:33
Anoxic is little oxygen; anaerobic is absence of oxygen
2025-07-03 09:50
WOW there is a LOT of good stuff in here that I have never heard before. THANK YOU!!!
2025-07-03 08:44
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."
2025-07-03 08:30
Neat
2025-07-03 08:06
"A giant, rotten meat-bouy." Best sentence I've heard all day.
2025-07-03 07:27
"A velociraptor is more like a pissed-off turkey"
So... A Canadian Goose?
2025-07-03 06:56
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.
2025-07-03 06:29
Who’d win in a fight on the shore: T-Rex vs mosasorous ?
2025-07-03 06:00
"having a velociraptor in your kitchen is more of an opportunity than a problem" Haha!!!
2025-07-03 04:52
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.
2025-07-03 04:47
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.
2025-07-03 04:42
love this topic!!!
2025-07-03 04:41
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.
2025-07-03 04:32
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.
2025-07-03 04:30
3:32 This is the moment gale gives credit to the grind
2025-07-03 04:02
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)
2025-07-03 03:19
1:40 subtitles are wrong, he's saying pterosaur, not tyrannosaurus
2025-07-03 03:09
“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. ?
2025-07-03 03:01
This video randomly popped up and I m glad it did
2025-07-03 02:39
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?
2025-07-03 02:05
The answer to many of these questions is "comparative anatomy".
2025-07-03 01:48
ANOTHER WIN FOR SPINOSAURUS FANS!!!! T-REX FANS LOSE AGAIN!!!
2025-07-03 01:45
What an incredible raconteur. I could not stop listening to him, equally educated and entertained.
2025-07-03 00:57
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.
2025-07-03 00:45
I get what he's trying to say and I tend to agree, but the sentence "science is not a belief system" is untrue. The inherent assumption behind science is that repeatable observation is universal truth. The failure to communicate science as a tool requiring belief in this assumption is one of the reasons for the anti-science backlash we currently experience. Science is sold as TRUTH, when it is in fact a story we tell to explain the world. It is a powerful tool for understanding the HOW of the physical universe but it is the wrong tool for asking WHY.
2025-07-03 00:43
I have two brain tissue pretified fossil tyronnosaurus Trex
How can i sell it
2025-07-03 00:19
20:31 Adrienne Mayor’s book The First Fossil Hunters blew my mind. Totally expanded my world
2025-07-03 00:15
wait, I need to know... the user "SpookyBi--"... SpookyBi what? What's the word they censored? ?
2025-07-02 23:57
You mentioned Robert Bakker. Doesn't he ask the question: if the dinosaurs were wiped out by the meteor, then why aren't their fossils found in the KT boundary?
2025-07-02 23:44
lol JennyFly saying she has a big head & the paleontologist reading it as a question XD
2025-07-02 23:36
Robert Backker is one of my favorite paleontologist. I really liked his fictional novel. I used to listen to the audiovisual one.
2025-07-02 23:31
This was the most informative video I have ever seen- so many questions I had answered! Fascinating stuff.
2025-07-02 23:02
25:15 "crocodiles are the closest living relatives" except they aren't, because birds are? I feel like I missed something.
How about, stretching it a bit to...
Crocodiles are much the same as their crocodile ancestors were in dinosaur times, so in that sense they were a close relative (common ancestor back then) 66 million years ago, or whenever.
And I guess we're just not counting birds since they're direct descendents and they've evolved to be a bit different.
Anyhow, I think you could say dinosaurs closest relatives are birds (and ChatGPT has no problem saying that).
2025-07-02 22:51
I don't like how often this guy says "murder". Animals don't commit murder, they are not criminals. along with the whole fabricating neck balloons for a tv series and saying we wouldn't exist without Pikaia specifically is just nonsense. this guy is kind've a joke?
2025-07-02 22:48
Regardless of the quality of the Jurassic films, I'm always excited for the many paleontologists that are contacted by all these channels to show their passion and expertise when the films release
2025-07-02 22:18
Fantastic.
2025-07-02 22:04
14:50 Ale fuj! Já vím, že čeština už je mrtvý jazyk, ale tohle fakt nemuselo být.
"Tyrkys". Adj. "Tyrkysové".
Turkvoás si snad dám vytisknout na tričko...
2025-07-02 21:58
i can listen to this guy all day. Wired please bring him back more often
2025-07-02 21:54
I learned a lot.
Thank you.
2025-07-02 21:14
It feels like I say this on every Wired interview, but HOW PERFECT was this guy for the topic? Absolutely fascinating, he's so passionate and knowledgeable, I love it.
2025-07-02 20:43
I like this guy ?
2025-07-02 20:41
I remember when I was a child in the 70ties, I wanted a book about dinosaurs for Christmas, but there was nothing remotely suitable for kids so I got a scientific book with 300 pages and maybe three coloured illustrations.
2025-07-02 20:39
My favourite dinosaurs are the British royal family.
2025-07-02 19:40
As a kid in the 60's, before we knew about the meteor impact, I read that all the dinos died "overnight". I spent the next decade believing that one day, all the dinosaurs went to bed at the same time, and died in their sleep.
2025-07-02 18:50
20:03 "You aren't gonna see an 8-inch sickle claw on something eating salad all day long"
While I love Dr. Lacovara and all, this was a bad example haha. Giant ground sloths had massive 17 inch deadly sharp sickle claws and is a vegetarian. Today you see Anteaters with giant (4-inch) sickle claws! He should've stuck to teeth haha. There ARE reasons for herbivores to have giant sharp curved claws that aren't carnivory. However, his overall answer isn't wrong, you can tell a ton about diet through dentation and jaw structure and coprolites as he mentioned.
2025-07-02 18:42
Dr. Lacovara is a VERY GOOD TEACHER!
2025-07-02 18:39
Nah futalognkosaurus is a bar
2025-07-02 18:36
I really got the complexity of paleontology by seing Trinity the T-rex. It is composed of three partial T rex fossils.
2025-07-02 18:29
2:43 - Shout out to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. Originally made by the Victorians to show how they thought dinosaurs look, they're now interesting in their own right as a way of showing how our understanding has changed.
2025-07-02 18:12
Excellent ?
2025-07-02 18:09
Wait, some fossils form in weeks?? Wish you'd expanded on that...
2025-07-02 17:28
13:17 sure is blunt lol
2025-07-02 17:22
Taking *He knows where all the bodies are* to a whole new level ??????????????
2025-07-02 16:17
Absolutely love paleontology related videos here, so fun to watch:)
Thank you guys!
2025-07-06 21:25
I would love him to be my uncle - i would not leave him alone in family dinners ?
2025-07-06 19:54
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?
2025-07-06 10:57
Since birds are dinosaurs, we DO have dinosaur DNA.
2025-07-06 10:50
That's a really nice MacBook cover!
2025-07-06 08:56
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?
2025-07-06 07:03
Awesome, learned lots. He seems to know an awful lot about fossilising people, should he be on a watch list...
2025-07-06 05:01
this guy is a real gem. <3
2025-07-06 03:18
15:55 Wikipedia says that Pikaia is "popularly but falsely attributed as an ancestor of all vertebrates". Is Ken wrong on this point?
2025-07-06 00:09
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.
2025-07-08 14:01
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?
2025-07-08 09:03
Gulf of Mexico! Take that you puerile president!
2025-07-08 05:19
Fvck Harry Potter though
2025-07-08 03:45
Why did he not lead the video with "hi, I discovered Dreadnoughtus" that's INSANE!!
2025-07-07 23:48
6:43 SOOOO COOLLLLLK
2025-07-07 22:28
6:38 oh my god i could be a dino sculptor if i wanted… IK HOW TO USE A CNC ROUTER
2025-07-07 22:28
.... Dude literally discovered Dreadnoughtous
2025-07-07 22:16
Did Dinosaurs twerk tho??
2025-07-07 13:20
19:50 every therizinosaur ever just turned their head
2025-07-07 10:49
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.
2025-07-07 08:04
I think we were just here for the answer to the second question
2025-07-07 02:49
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.
2025-07-07 02:30
dr lacovara rocks thanks for bringing him back
2025-07-07 00:46
this guy absolutely cooked the guy talking about the flying to birds/dinosaurs etc :')
2025-07-06 23:11
Giant Rotten Meat Buoy. I just wanted to say that again.
2025-07-10 19:48
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
2025-07-10 18:52
'A pissed off Turkey', so wait, that kid was right in JP1?! ?
2025-07-10 18:16
“That sounds like EVERYbody you know” ?
2025-07-10 11:07
Dino DNA!
2025-07-10 06:38
Okay to the don't die in California if you want to be a fossil point, what about the la brea pits
2025-07-10 04:35
You should've brought Ross Geller?
2025-07-09 23:40
5:59
2025-07-09 22:35
How would a creature with tiny arms mate? ?
2025-07-09 15:09
"a crocodile is half a push up away of taking a nap"
2025-07-09 13:22
I’m so excited he’s back! I loved his last video
2025-07-09 12:17
Always good to hear about the Gulf of Mexico.
2025-07-09 07:51
He said it!!! He called it a turkey!!!
2025-07-09 04:44
Man I love paleontologists. These people chased their childhood interests into a career. Good for them
2025-07-09 01:44
11:00 become a bog body :)
2025-07-11 12:56
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?
2025-07-11 10:01
most of the crude oil we get has nothing to do with dinosaurs it's actually fossilized plant material
2025-07-11 06:56
Thanks! Really cool the concept that a single species would fill multiple biological niches as they grew! Never thought bout that :)
2025-07-12 19:38
wtf is a dinosaur?
2025-07-12 16:45
in the Gulf of MEXICO. I see what he did there.
2025-07-12 14:20
I loved hearing him debunk antievolution and antidinosaur propaganda. I don't even know if he knew he was doing it. But he had answers and it was good
2025-07-12 04:57
Sloths have claws and don’t eat meat. They are also not aggressive.
2025-07-11 23:03
But were you on a break
2025-07-13 00:50