Sigh. Granted, I'm kinda a dino-nerd, but this is an especially bad youtube video.
I'm also irritated by the terrible mispronunciation of many of the dinosaur species.
10. Dinosaurs Roared - well, dinosaurs was a large and very diverse group, comparable to the mammals. Not all mammals make the same sounds, so not all dinosaurs should be expected to either. In any case, dinosaurs were as closely related to crocodylians as they are to birds in many respects, both being the existing branches of Archosauria, and certainly crocodiles roar. His debunking is even more speculative than the "lie" that he's trying to debunk. Thumbs down for number 10.
9. Velociraptors were smart. Yeah, the smartest dinosaurs were about the same intelligence (based on the circumstantial evidence used to determine that kind of thing) as the dumbest of birds; the ratites. Thumbs up here.
8. T. rex had weak arms. This is another pretty decent debunking, but most texts, even kids books, didn't call the arms weak as opposed to tiny, and their use is still... well, nobody knows what they did with them. Thumbs up, although the lame ending to this is ridiculous.
7. The Triceratops. Not only is he not correct in asserting that it's "increasingly likely" that Triceratops were Torosaurus, but even if it were, it would actually suggest that Torosaurus is the one that doesn't exist, not Triceratops. The Triceratops name has priority, and the number of fossils compared to Torosaurus is staggering. And subadult Torosaurses are known, actually. Thumbs down.
6. Dinosaurs were too big to move on land. Nobody has believed this since the 60s, I don't think—or based on old kids books that were written in the 50s and 60s. Thumbs way down.
5. Dinosaurs all existed in the same era. I've never believed this. Every kids book I ever read in my entire nearly 50 year life suggests that at the very least they all lived in three periods. Who believes this? And technically, the Mesozoic is an Era. All dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic. This poor idiot is so hapless that even when he's trying to debunk a "lie" that nobody actually believes, he gets it wrong. Sigh. Thumbs down.
4. Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. The only people who believe this are people who don't really know anything about dinosaurs. It's kinda like people who can't tell apart a squirrel from a raccoon. Yeah, there probably are people who think that pterosaurs are dinosaurs, but again—every kids book on dinosaurs I ever read made the point that they weren't. Also, his details about "pterodactyls", which is the wrong label, are very dubious. Don't take them seriously. Thumbs down.
3. Dinosaurs were all scaly. Actually, probably all large dinosaurs were mostly scaly, and only the smaller ones were completely covered with feathers. Tons and tons and tons of skin impressions in the fossil record prove this. His details about T. rex are wrong (scaly skin patch impressions have been found for the animal) as well as its relationship with the chicken (which probably wasn't meant to be literal, to be fair.) Thumbs way down.
2. Dinosaurs terrorized our ancestors. Without getting into the totally separate question of the problems with the theory of evolution, this is just absurd. So... he found one Mesozoic mammal who probably preyed on small (or baby) dinosaurs? Whoop-de-doo. The majority of predatory dinosaurs would still have eaten even this guy, as well as every other mammal from the era, unless of course they were big enough to leave mammals unworthy of notice. Thumbs way down; fake news.
1. T. rex can only see you if you move. I know that they said this in a movie, but do people really believe that that was anything other than a fictional thing made up for dramatic purposes? I'm sure that there were a few, but really? I don't know if I should consider this a thumbs up or a thumbs down, because I have a hard time believing anyone ever took it seriously in the first place.
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