If Aliens Reconstructed Other Animals From Their Skulls

Ola, Pessoas! This episode, we're revisiting the "How Aliens Would Reconstruct the Animal" meme and seeing what happens when our very own resident extra-terrestrial paleontologist attempts to rebuild animals from their skulls alone!

We also are paid a visit by some buddies from Brazil, who have strong opinions on the reconstruction of animals and aren't afraid to let us know!

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If you speak portugese and like science, check out Canal do Pirulla:

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[macro_the_acro]

As a person who is going to go to school for Paleontology, I have to admit: I love this meme. It's based upon the old trend in paleoart of "shrinkwrapping" dinosaurs, meaning applying the skin directly to the bones, leaving the dinosaur looking rather anemic. Mark Witton's blog is a great place to learn more! Your art and ideas of what a extant creature's skull looks like under an alien's perspective is awesome!
The reason for the skulls are so odd looking is because they're mammal skulls: mammals have an odd amount of musculature outside of their skulls, to power their lips and jaw muscles!
Anyways, you've earned a like and subscription!

[marcosviniciuscipriano]

As a brazilian who discovered your channel yesterday I can say... Your show is pure Gold Harry

[spencersholden]

How thick headed do you have to be to not realize these videos aren’t meant to be taken super seriously? Great video.

[lucashc]

On behalf of my Brazilian brethren, I apologize for the lack of common sense and tolerance from some of us.
Good vid btw, kudos!

[LuisDiVasca]

LMFAO. I'm Pirula's friend and I'm sending him this one right now.
I effing LOVE your style, man! (both Art and video) Congratulations.

[Vlugazoide]

Seriously dude, Pirulla was really happy with your arts and caricatures, and he mentioned your arts in a recent video, and...I'm not disappointed in the slightest

[Jao_O_Ser_Humano]

hearing Harry Gold speak portugese so well is AWESOME

[daisyinthewoods]

That angry comment was wild. Anyways Pirulla brought me here. You're a great artist!

[flarelukethecomedian]

Is no one going to talk about how good these drawings are?

[octo]

Can't wait for your channel to blow up one day, you deserve more attention! your content is creative, funny, and your art is stunning. You're an amazing artist, and a great entertainer. Please never stop what you're doing, you need to have a future with this, you deserve to be a bigger youtuber. Maybe try to collab with bigger names?

[Dylan-Hooton]

We've found a skull of a large-skulled dinosaur. It was clearly pachycephalosaur-like due to its thick skull, but had flat and sharp front teeth instead of a beak and it had forward-facing eyes, suggesting a carnivorous or at least omnivorous diet. Let's call this creature "Megacephalus deinodonta". The real owner of this skull is... a human.

[b.rileyjowett]

It’s like the unconscious mind of whoever left that comment perceived that your video was a joke but their conscious mind just ran in the opposite direction. Like most people in the paleontologist and paleo art communities find purposely messed up dinosaurs like yours hilarious. Like there was literally a trend where all the paleoartists were drawing dinosaurs with long pendulous earlobes primarily as a joke.

[zerg]

I know this is more than a year later but as a Biologist who dabbles in Paleontology and took several comparative anatomy courses, I love these videos for showing the absurdity of how skeletons and skulls in particular really look

[pinkeyed]

We all now that he isn't canceling the show, is just waiting till he can get the color flims.

[BasedStoic]

At first, I found that hippo skull reconstruction in a meme...
Then I became curious.

Later I tried to search for it in YT...
And I found this channel.

NOW YOU'VE GOT MY ATTENTION.

Never mind those bitter people.
They take everything in their lives with a spade of salt.

[NuclearTopSpot]

Art level: 100
Humor level: 100
Snark level: 69
Stale meme level: OVER 9000!!

[dannynolan]

Man, you have to be quick these days to guess the caricature. I refuse to guess because I will be 131st on the list. At least it means your popularity is gaining. Good for you.

[alphaxenopete]

the funny thing about the bat part in 09:49 is that's exactly what happened with an actual group of dinosaurs, the scansorioptergidae, which was originally thought to be a small dinosaur with a niche like an eye-eye, but recent fossils of the dinosaur Yi and Ambopteryx, show that the scansoriopterygids were winged gliders/fliers with membranous skin connecting their fingers togwther, just like bat wings. what is interesting about them is that they also possess feathery fuzz as well as having wing made of membranes, essentially a dinosaurian bat

[Limit]

How on earth did some people watch the previous video and miss the fact that you were misinterpreting the appearances of the animals on purpose?

[Zeyanar]

came here because of a tweet mentioning Pirula and found out your video is awesome! :)