'Dinosauroids' Explained | Speculative Biology

Imagine if dinosaurs evolved human intelligence. This is an exploration of C.M. Kosemen’s and Simon Roy’s incredible worldbuilding art project: ‘Dinosauroids.’
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Imagine an alternate world where dinosaurs evolved intelligence comparable to humans. What might these intelligent dinosaurs look like? What kind of technology, culture, and art might they produce?

This speculative timeline is the subject of “Dinosauroids,” a worldbuilding project conceptualized in part by C.M. Kosemen — whose work you may know from his sci-fi book “All Tomorrows,” or his speculative paleontology book “All Yesterdays” — the latter of which I’ve got a video on elsewhere in the archive. “Dinosauroids” also comes from Simon Roy, an accomplished comic book artist and writer who created much of the art featured in this video.

So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll explore the incredibly detailed speculative world and history Roy and Koseman created to go alongside these new dinosaurs.

0:00 An Alternate Earth
1:47 Dinosauroids Biology
3:44 Other Species
6:05 Dinosauroids History
8:08 Dinosauroids Culture
9:41 The Future
10:13 Outro

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[alexone-]

Return to monke? No.
Speculate to dinosauroid? Yes.

[redeye]

The presence of bronze tools is interesting, as it implies they've reached a level of sophistication of worldwide trade. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, and they tend to be found far from one another. Our ancestors had to trade with their neighbors to import tin, largely around the Mediterranean. It would be interesting to see them building wonders similar to those of our equivalent age like the pyramids.

[jennieivins]

I wonder if they would have various feather-styles like we have hair-styles? Like maybe plucking certain areas and letting others grow out?

[ComradeCorvus]

Things like C.M. Kosemen's Dinosauroids or Alex Ries' Birrin are what we need more of when it comes to fictional civilized species. The lack of a human-like body plan often results in much more interesting designs for tools, clothing, etc.

[paintedpig]

Speculative biology and speculative evolution are such under appreciated fields as a writer these studies have helped create and explore so many new ideas

[KnightsDisillusion]

This sounds like the coolest thing ever.

[hondaaccord]

Man, imagine living in a world where several species of animals resemble massive humanoid creatures

[Shinzon]

I'd imagine that dinosaurs with feathers would either pluck their feathers out or be extremely careful around fire because feathers burn very very well... I know this because we had to keep domestic turkeys away from family gatherings that had bonfires because one year one Turkey managed to get its tail set on fire when it was doing that Turkey strut thing near a fire and a spark landed on its tail...

[miketacos]

8:00 That looks amazing. I love how they have mammal faces on their masks, like their version of a fearsome dragon.

[zerogproductions]

2010s: Speculative and alternate future and histories
2020s: Speculative and alternate evolution

[onebilliontacos]

This channel truly is a gift! It’s almost like this channel is following all the theoretical study’s I’ve found interesting such as the birrin, all today’s all yesterday’s and now this. You honestly didn’t even know that there was a book about this. I figured it was just a few pieces of art from a few different people. I would have never imagined that the two separate dinosourids in this video weee from the same source due to their physiological differences.

[johnmcnally]

The spear throwing device is called an atlatl or spear thrower.

[kayskreed]

Speculative biology is quickly becoming my favourite genre. I absolutely loved this. I think it's my favourite to date. Thanks for sharing!

[Lurker]

Am I the only one who thinks this would make the best dinosaur game ever?

[theastrogoth]

Trey the Explainer made a video of what could be found in the distant past and at the very end he mentioned the possibility of intelligent pre-human organisms. One of them was this dinosaur and a sentient cephalopod. I’m dying to see the latter fleshed out.

[Noname-grzp]

Planets of the Apes(Humans): NO

Planets of the Birds(Dinosors): Yes

[Wolfsgeist]

I don't see why Troodon descendants would necessarily evolve beaks.
Also I must call into question the feasibility of beak-held weaponry. Using twigs as tools is fine for a crow, trying to stab a large dinosaur with a long pointy pole that you hold with your mouth, not so much. It would be incredibly awkward and potentially dangerous to try create enough force with your neck muscles and head to make a spear like that threatening. And these dinosauroids did not evolve from birds, who started to use tools with their beaks and then retroactively evolved hands, they evolved from Troodon-like theropods who already had hands (though pretty different from ours). It's more likely that they'd try to use their already present hands for tool use and also for the hands to evolve to be more useful for such activity (or the other way around, those dinosauroids who had hand mutations that better facilitated tool use passed on their genes, leading to 'better' and 'better' hands).

[MegaTang]

There's a webcomic called "Dawn of Time" that had an Arc about dinosaurs very similar to dinosauroids that were worshipping the MC, I found the idea kind of cool. Glad there's someone who did something very similar and expanded upon it.

[McCbobbish]

I'm like, 80% sure that crows and ravens are most of the way there in our own timeline

[baneofbanes]

I was wondering when you were going to cover this. This was what got me into Koseman’s work.