The Freakiest Dinosaurs Known To Science

Dinosaurs in general are pretty weird, but just how weird did they get? Well it turns out, pretty dang weird...

If you want more ExtinctZoo 🦖:

0:00 Intro
0:47 Cone Armed Dinosaur
2:27 If Freddy Krueger Was A Dinosaur
5:02 An Aquatic Carnivorous Ankylosaur?
7:15 The Dino Made Up Of Multiple Dinosaurs
9:22 Closest We've Got To A Dragon
11:24 SpongeBob Teeth
13:01 The Largest Feathered Dinosaur We Know Of

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[kyt-nhef]

Sometimes I ask, "this extinct animal looks so ridiculous, are we sure it existed?" And then I remember that the platypus exist.

[blueguy]

A theropod with thick shaggy feathers in snow capped mountains is the coolest thing I've seen all this week

[DISTurbedwaffle]

Crustaceans returning to crab: 🦀
Reptiles returning to turtle: 🐢

[SlothOfTheSea]

Honorary mentions I can think of at the top of my head:

-Deinocheirus: A “duck-bear” larger than a bull African elephant.
-Concavenator: A carnosaur, it had a sail kinda resembling a shark’s dorsal fin.
-Jakapil: One of the most mysterious dinosaurs that is possibly basal to Ankylosaurs and Stegosaurs.
-Qinornis: Possibly the only example of a non-avian dinosaur from the Cenozoic.
-Pegomastax: If you’ve played Ark Survival, you know this little stinker better than anyone.

[thepalaeo]

Hi there,

I'm the artist who drew the thumbnail. It comes from a shitty Jurassic Park fan project from a couple years back. It's not supposed to be accurate, and I'd argue it really has no place on a factual video about palaeontology. That aside, I was neither credited nor asked whether it could be used, so I'd very much appreciate if you either credited me for it (I went by Palaeontologica at the time), or changed the thumbnail.

Thanks!

Edit: Thank you for changing the thumbnail!

[robodude]

Suddenly dilophosaurus having some decorative skin flaps or feathers on its neck doesn't seem so ridiculous.

[SquirrelGamez]

Ok I never expected to See Salad Fingers in a video about dinosaurs.
Well played.

[GallowglassVT]

I love how nature is rarely ever constrained by a lack of imagination. Like, set rules might exist, but even those are malleable, and they'll still do some pretty extraordinary stuff within those confines.

[cayhill]

Glad Yi qi got a shoutout here. Truly one of the most fascinating animals in the fossil record!

[eightcoins]

02:30 Still living Aye Ayes got fingers as freaky if you look them up, fullfilling the exact same foraging purpose

[NexusPoint]

My Brainrot is so bad I thought this video was gonna be VERYYYY different

[Maxmumspida]

You would never have known how cute the bunny is with it's tail and ears when looking at only it's skeleton.

[joaopedrobaggio]

It's amazing all the discoveries that science does everyday about the dinosaurs, it's so diverse and more important, it's extremely beautiful.

[anonshrimp]

12:42 "You got games on your phone?"

[NobleTruths]

I really enjoyed this video. Hearing about the lesser known critters, especially bizarre ones, and how they lived fascinates me.

[SiriPsychopomp]

Hearing people say "Thagomizer" having grown up with Far Side comics is always fun 😆💜

[Landybryce]

I thought i was going to see “freaky” Dino’s but 10 minutes in, I realized it’s the other kind of freaky

[_LazyDwarf_]

0:23 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 1999 SPOTTED

[tompotter]

Slight criticism, the discovery of Yi qi indicates that Scansoriopterygidae as a group may all have membranes between its fingers, which aren’t visible on the other fossil dues to preservation bias. So while Epidexipteryx would still be a climber, it might not have used its fingers like an Aye Aye would, instead it might’ve glided or even flown from tree to tree.

[Chris-pbse]

Never realized Pokémon was a documentary.