Dinosaurs No One Talks About

Forgotten dinosaurs! I’ve already done a few videos looking at individual dinosaur groups, but this one is much more of a loosely related compilation video.

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[Dan_Moroboshi_U]

As a kid I thought Torosaurus meant "bull lizard" since toro is spanish for bull and it's a pretty appropriate name for the animal. I was shocked when I learned the name was actually a reference to the giant holes in its frill and had nothing to do with bulls at all.

[The_PokeSaurus]

As a person who actually went on a dig that uncovered some Torosaurus fossils thank you for knowing they are not a Triceratops.

[mikamekaze]

I recently went on a trip to Gettysburg, a place most people, understandably, associate with far more recent history. But in a very quiet corner of the park is a location known, but not marked or advertised, as Dinosaur Bridge- A stone bridge with two paving stones containing one dinosaur track each. One of the tracks is from Anchisaurus, a small, basal sauropodomorph from the Triassic. The other, also from the Triassic, belongs to Atreipus, and to me, this one is far more interesting. This dinosaur is known from footprints exclusively. Nobody but track researchers and enthusiasts has ever heard of this creature, because nobody has ever even found one. And as I stood there and put my hand on its little footprint, I felt such a connection to this unknown little reptile. They stood on this stone when it was still mud, leaving the only trace of them we may ever find. And some stone mason found them, took the careful time to cut the stone around their track (the other stone was deliberately cut to preserve the footprint, as the normal cut would have sliced the track) and laid them where they could amaze any crossers of Plum Run Creek in a quiet corner of a battlefield

[jamieson.]

I always appreciate encouraging people to study lesser known dinosaurs, not for any deep or profound reason, but simply cause it's interesting and fun!

[_of_a_kind_]

Hylaeosaurus needs more love. It was one of the first dinosaurs ever named alongside Megalosaurus and Iguanodon but no one talks about it :(

[reiangossling]

The megaraptorans are the one group of dinosaurs that I hope gets more exposure in the future, especially since the discovery of Maip indicates that they occupied apex predator niches. They're like reverse raptors in a lot of ways. If Prehistoric Planet 3 ever airs I hope that Maip in particular is featured in a South American episode.

[seanzibonanzi]

Crazy to think that every dinosaur existed for a reason and filled some niche within their environment, there's just so much variety.

[darkonyx]

There's also Vespersaurus, a noasaurid found inside the nesting grounds of Caiuajara, a pterosaur of Brazil, with it's main weird trait being the double sickle claws and the enlarged finger they walked on, both finger types sharing the same feet, which only adds more to the mystery of this family.

[calebsmith]

I was already a big fan of your channel but, I must say, both this and your "Mountain Dinosaurs" video really hit me where it hurts. You cover the topics I wish other paleo channels would focus on. i only wish you'd upload a little more frequently. I could watch a 14 hour video focusing on taphonomy and preservation bias without blinking. I truly hope you decide to make a sequel to this, as I'm sure you know, there are plenty of other obscure genres within and outside of the clade Dinosauria you can cover.

Keep it up, your channel is pure gold.

[ReubenAotearoa]

The dinosaur book that I’m currently reading with my 4 year old is notable for including Citipati, rather than the more “normal” Oviraptor. There’s a few other things like this: it’s interesting to think about why the species chosen where chosen.

[ladykoiwolfe]

My favorite dinosaur is archaeopteryx. Back when I first learned of it it was the only real hint we had that dinosaurs...some dinosaurs evolved into birds. But now other avian dinosaurs have been discovered or understood to be part of the group and it's once more largely forgotten. I still love it and I'm thrilled every time anything is discovered in relation to it.

[mildlymarvelous]

There’s something so immensely sad to me about forgotten dinosaurs. They deserve to have people at least know they existed…

[cagywarlock]

You should do a part 2!!!! I love learning about creatures that just seconds prior I had no idea they ever existed. And if not for this video I may have never known.

[teotlxixtli]

The jokes on this program work really well because they’re not super common per video and there’s usually no lead up so you can’t predict them coming. The Peyton manning roast made me snort

[adeptgirl]

As an Ark player, I'm a little embarrassed to have not known Pego was a true dinosaur. Got me learning stuff today, sir.

[miavira]

Fun Fact: I owned so many books about dinosaurs as a child and the Heterodontosaur you used for the video thumbnail was one of my favorite pictures from one of them, I loved the vibrant colors and the pose it was in. It's name and traits always stuck with me because of that and it's the reason I clicked on this video!

[HobGungan]

I am happy to say that I knew Heterodontosaurus from my childhood, and was previously familiarized with Torosaurus through Walking with Dinosaurs in my teens. The only Noasaurids I had heard of before were Deltadromius and Masiakasaurus, so it was interesting learning about Limusaurus in particular.

[Circe-nxzs]

Anyone heard of Stokesosaurus? It is a early tyrannosaur found in the Morrison Formation which means it lived alongside stegosaurus and allosaurus. The genus is know from only fragmentary remains.

[Thomas-vncr]

Need more names like Bruhathkayosaurus. That'll teach those kids to remember petrified logs.

[shibolinemress]

I would probably never have heard of Torosaurus had it not been for the BBC series Walking With Dinosaurs. To me it was so cool! Later on I was sad to hear it called just a growth stage of Triceratops. Now hearing that that idea may be controversial made me smile. Olé for you, Torosaurus! 😊🥳👏