Paleo Profile - Dunkleosteus

Today we examine the famous bony jawed placoderm fish from the Devonian, Dunkleosteus! We talk about everything from alternate universes, lips, and how you are related to these swimming bear traps! Prepare to learn about the Age of the Fishes and the bizarre fish that inhabited our oceans and could have taken over the Earth!
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Music by Kevin Macleod

[artes.impias]

Fun fact: Researchers found out that Dunkleosteus most likely didn't have an eel-like tail like in most depicions, but more of a shark-like tail. This baby just gets cooler and cooler!

[Camopartykei]

My therapist: “dunkleotheus with lips is extinct, it can’t hurt you”

[nemilyk]

12:47 Dunkleosteus looks just as surprised by this revelation as the rest of us.

[Yuki_Ika]

Not only is the Dunkleosteus strong, its skull/armor plates make it look METAL AS

[extinct]

*Life's lesson:* Stay small, live long.

[raycearcher]

Skeletal fish: "We won! We made it to land! We're the best fish!"
Cartilaginous fish: (laughing in bottomless, devouring hunger)

[devanyehansen]

Trey: "I can hear a thousand voices crying out -- Finally! He's talking about the Dunk!" --
*Ad starts playing*

[kafka]

everybody gangsta till B O N E L E S sharks start walkin

[castlewhite]

Placoderms to every vertebrate: *"I was your daddy all along!"*

[msagzjr.]

Imagine if this thing could curl it's lips back
*Dunk appears*
"Aww how cute"
*Dunk Curls Lips back*

*Dunk Cleaves you in two*

[federicofontana]

3:06 : "Yes, you're a type of fish DON'T DENY".
I died XD

[fellowsinner]

*Ah yes, my ancestor swimmy mcbeartrap*

[MrKarnator]

Lips or no lips, if i saw a Dunk in the water i would get the hell out of there.

[JacksonJDoyel]

"Yes you are a fish- DON'T DENY-" Love it.

[SydneySighs]

Me: "How much bone should the dunkleosteus have?"
Evolution: "Yes"

[rizkymaulana]

People need to see this. When I said that dunkleosteus is an armored fish and not a shark, all my friends deny it. THATS ANNOYING AS HELL.

[gwyndor]

I personally liked that you talked about the devonian in general and not only about Dunkleosteus.
In fact its very interessting that we are probably closer related to Placoderms than previously thought.
And also that Titanichthys was I creature that is pretty interessting cerature I didn't knew before.
At all it was a magnificent and truly educational video :D!

[jeffdinvell]

“Finally, he’s talking about the Dunk!” *Dunkin’ Donuts ad plays*

[jacklattimore]

OMG you say you don't want us getting bored about the biology lines but I think there so interesting

[bladesofgrey]

I lost it at "We probably descend from swimming bear traps" 😂