The Most Accurate Dinosaur Ever!

A specimen of the small ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus preserves some absolutely mindblowing details, allowing palaeontologists to create the most accurate reconstruction of a dinosaur ever!

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[molybdaen]

What a time to be alive.
Now we even know the color pattern of some of them.

[fefek]

There's also a very well preserved nodosaurus fossil that had remnants of pigments that suggest it was red! And since most of the body on a nodosaurus was their armor, it's easy to know how it looked like.

[Mikailodon]

The fact we’ve found a dinosaur fossil like 120 million years old this complete is just mind-blowing

[brianroberts]

I remember as a kid pretty much all my dinosaur books saying we'd probably never know what dinosaurs actually looked like because we couldn't find their colors or soft tissues. Now, there are multiple species that we can identify soft structures and color patterns on! It's a beautiful time to love dinosaurs!

[jessicas.]

I never knew I wanted to know what a dinosaur’s butthole looked like until I saw your full video.

[manospondylus]

I expected this to be about the dinosaur with the best marksmannship

[jetjazz]

Frankly... once they know what your cloecha looked liked it's game over. Forget the feathers, shutes, skin color... they've got you at your most sacred of sacreds.

[colecampbell]

Crazy thing is they found a triceratops that had skin still and found little indentations that suggest it too had quills, at least on the hind end.
It seems most likely that ceratopsians in general must've commonly had quills.

[mangotap]

Learned earlier today triceratops had deep pores for quils in its skin, knowing psittacosaurus had them too shows how far they came

[rebbecachunn]

The art of the one looking at the others bits is too much for me 😂😂

[marcusrashid]

wow, I never thought i’d be able to know what a dinosaur’s junk looked like to a scientifically accurate degree 🙃

[Discotekh_Dynasty]

Damn, I was hoping they’d be neon pink

[Sylvantess]

This planet of ours is amazing. That thing looks like it belongs in fantasy movies

[TheGamingSnake]

Don’t forget the Borealopelta, it was that really well preserved nodosaur. Skin pigmentation was even preserved. And it gives us a accurate view of what the Nodosaur and Ankylosaur armor would have looked like. A lot less bulky than one would assume

[SpookySaurian]

Fun Fact: Scientists say that Psittacosaurus was a very good parent (due to fossil finds) and they even had younger Psittacosaurus’ babysit the baby’s!

[TheInstinctWithinV]

I was not ready for the cloaca bit. Straight out of nowhere like an RKO from Randy Orton.

[Wild_Dice]

The cloaca is one nature's cruelest jokes.

[mirandalewis]

He looks a lot friendlier than his descendants.😂

[burntbeansoup]

Imagine drawing a scientifically accurate dinosaur cloaca

[veironhedlund]

We now know what a dinosaur cloaca looks like. Humans will not use this information wisely