Top 4 Paleontology Theories That Turned Out To Be True

Prepare to be amazed by these scientist’s abilities to predict the future…or the past? Future of the past? Past of the future… you get the idea!

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[Aozame]

My favorite is the guy who, in the 1800s, not only correctly classified whales as ungulates, but correctly listed them as close relatives of hippos.

[kylelangdon]

For every 13 mistakes, we get 4 right. :)

[SprinkledFox]

I don't know why people say that feathered dinosaurs ruined their childhood. Feathered dinosaurs ENHANCED my childhood!!

[weefweef]

"In 2015, this year" Oh god

[IceFireofVoid]

I know it seems really impossible and odd, also possibly impossible to prove, but I'd love it if there were bioluminescent dinosaurs, or any other large reptiles from that time. Imagine a Spinosaurus mating display with it's sail covered in lights, or a glowing Elasmosaurus. Color-changing dinosaurs would also be something really cool that we would never even know about.

[ian_b]

"Birds are dinosaurs" was still a minority view as late as the 1990s, when I read Backer's The Dinosaur Heresies.

[TREYtheExplainer]

I apologize if I was rude to anyone in the comments for the past few weeks, I am going threw a transition period in my life right now and very stressed out. I am sorry.

[HoopsAndDinoMan]

Would you ever want to do a list of your favorite not-yet-proven dinosaur speculations from paleoart? I'd be very interested to see that!

[badtime]

"Holy crap! This prediction has been proven correct, and with such a cool name too! Tetrapteryx is so cool!"
"let's call it microraptor"
"But sir-"
"IT'S MICRORAPTOR IF YOU QUESTION IT AGAIN I WILL FIRE YOU"
"ok sir"

[pacman]

Spinosaurus being semi-aquatic was not on the list? I'd say that deserves to be at least in the Top 10, it's the first sub-aquatic dinosaur ever known to science!

Btw, that infamous mammoth reconstruction still makes me laugh my ass off.

[AndreasStom]

I read in a comment that you where stressed out because you are running low on money. That sucks... You should make a patreon or somthing like that so we can donate.

[tartnouveau]

Even in the early 2000s when I was a kid most dinosaur books (for kids) that I had never included dinosaurs with feathers. I remember knowing that birds were descended from dinosaurs but I don’t think I learned most dinosaurs probably had feathers until I was in high school

[Malaysianballproductions]

"In 2015, this year" [6:38]
Oh my word i didn't even realize it was made in 2015...

[thatshyguy]

so i just accidentally stumbled across a well made 2015 video

[jackthunderbolt]

Sometimes, people have the greatest predictions and when they turn out to be true, you can't help but be impressed

[tinnitusthenight]

This makes me feel so old cause I grew up really interested in dinos back when the feather theories were just picking up steam. Learning about that was being on the cutting edge of science to 5 year old me.
Edit: it blew my mind

[hedgehog]

The first one is the best imo. He just completely predicted the existence of an animal through nothing other than some well thought out speculation and he got it pretty much spot on.

[amazinglyidiotic]

I have a theory all these guys are time travelers and are just comeing back to mess with us, uninformed paleo fans.

[justaguy]

I read a book as a child called The Enormous Egg, 1964, where a chicken laid an enormous egg that ultimately hatched a triceratops. I was just a kind, but I remember being very fascinated by the comparisons that the author made in that book to birds and dinosaurs, such as scales on the legs and the bipedal walking of the therapods and such. Of course archeopteryx was well known by then, too, but this was quite a while before the discoveries of so many feathered dinos. The Scholastic Book Club was the analog to what the online gaming services are today, for me. Looking through the list of books, spending a few bucks, and getting these hard bound quasi surprises a couple of weeks later, man that was something. You have to imagine a world where there were only 3 "real" television stations, no cable, no internet, hell you had to get up and change the channel when you were ready for your show. And you turned it off when it was over. So those books were really a thrill when it was too inclement to go outside. Ok, I wandered a bit down memory lane, but I've remembered that book often when the more recent revelations of the link between today's birds and the ancient dinosaurs has become so much clearer. When was the last time you bought a book, looked forward to reading it, just sat and poured over it? I have to admit it's been a very long time for me.

[Tungdil_]

This video needs part 2. Every 5 years or so a lot of things change in palaeontology