Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong
@YDAWtheShow
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Making paleontology accessible through familiar (but wrong) dinosaur toys. Hosted by Steven Bellettini.
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Just updating our pinned links!
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When figuring out Velociraptor feathering, there's definitely a safe middle ground between naked turkey & murder floof. We've created a handy visual guide to demonstrate! Learn more about it & other Velociraptor facts in our latest video:
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Innocent commenter: "When will you do a Spinosaurus update?"
Me: *Rocking myself and murmuring in a corner surrounded by growing pile of papers from just the last few years.*
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It. Is. HERE!! The long awaited episode on Giganotosaurus is live! Head on over to YouTube and check it out. :)
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It's finally HERE! Our latest episode on Herrerasaurus has just dropped over on YouTube. Check it out!
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Turns out sewing tiny pants for a dinosaur is a wee bit hard to do. Who could have guessed?
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Our latest video has just premiered! We revisit Dilophsaurus, one of the earliest dinos we ever covered, and see what's new. Check it out now on YouTube!
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"Oh there's a little Stego on my task bar! I wonder why--Oh..." 🙃
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But which one is the real one?!
(Happy 95th birthday, David Attenborough ❤️)
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Can you even call it tiptoeing if they were digitigrade to begin with?
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Twitter's getting dumber everyday. Here's the other places you can sub to or follow us when the site finally breaks completely. Links in pinned tweet on profile.
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Just spending this lovely International Dinosaur Day talking about...not dinosaurs. 😅
What're you doing?
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A moment of silent judgement...just a moment. There was a lot to say after.
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It's here! Our latest
#YourDinosaursAreWrong
episode just went live on YT, featuring Amargasaurus! Full episode here:
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Even bigger than the shot can convey, this display of Triceratops ontogeny featured by
@museum_rockies
was pretty awesome!
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Two different viewers sent in a toy that they specifically called an 'abomination'. Now we ask, which is the truly abominable one?
Screaming Styracosaurus vs. 'Egg-y' Stegosaurus
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We mostly did Dimetrodon for the opening joke. Now, we're giving it its due with an updated Archive episode. Watch now on YouTube!
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We passed 50,000 subscribers on YouTube! They don't give you anything for it, but we decided to make our own reward to celebrate. Presenting the ultra rare Plywood Play Button.
Thank you to everyone who's hit the button and made this possible. Here's to another 50k!🥳
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Maybe we've finally 'made it' as a YouTube channel. Someone just emailed asking us to plug RAID: Shadow Legends. 🥴
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QRT with your faces
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Need a small hors d'oeuvre to your Prehistoric Planet watching? We have a video on the recent Amargasaurus paper out now on YT!
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We got asked, like, A LOT to make some "Talk dumb, get the thumb" merch after the Iguanodon episode. So we did! Available now on Etsy.
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When a paper about theropod lips gets published the same moment you hit render on a video where they're mentioned, but it turns out you don't have to make any changes after all.
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Steven: "Today I calculated what--hypothetically--giant Azhdarchids' proportions would be if we scaled their wings & cervicals using smaller pterodactyloids' allometry formulas."
Liz: "...I made a tiny pallet and a safety outfit for Bertrand."
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Time has flown, it seems! We're working on bringing our older episodes under one channel, starting with our first ever: Scelidosaurus! Check it out, now with added updates & corrections at the end.
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We spend a lot of time talking about how dinosaurs may be wrong, and now we've made our own 'mistakes'. Introducing our derpy pin line, available through our Etsy store!
Current species include Triceratops, Carnotaurus, & Stegosaurus, with more to come soon.
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We've moved another episode over to the newer channel & added updates/corrections! Check out Stegosaurus over on YouTube.
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It has been decided! With a final total of 50.1% The Styracosaurus is the bigger abomination.
Why are they made this way? They scream, for they do not know.
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The real upset regarding
#Dunkleosteus
is that no one appears to have made a staple remover in the shape of one for me to buy.
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We've updated and brought another older episode over to the newer YouTube channel. Plateosaurus has landed!
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Don't get us wrong, Amargasaurus is a weird one. Might just be a different kind of weird than we thought...
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It's done! With much work and many obstacles the last few months, we finally have a new set ready, and will begin production on new episodes. Thank you to all of our Patrons, Etsy shoppers, toy senders, viewers, and our Discord community for helping to make this possible! 🎉
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If you didn't know, now you know! Production on our next big episode is chugging along nicely, and today we reveal which dinosaur it is:
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Our Patrons are long overdue to vote in another Hadrosaurid episode. So to prep for the future, we made a specific stop on our trip to see Dakota at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum.
#FossilFriday
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It's a new video! We tried something different and took a nostalgic look at some of the dino magazines Steven had as a little kid.
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Just posting links to our other socials below...if you suddenly have an urge to follow us elsewhere for totally no particular reason. 🙃
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Need hat? We have hat--with our name on it. We're running a contest where you could win it!
To enter:
1. Follow
@YDAWtheShow
2. Retweet this post
3. Optional: tweet your favorite YDAW episode/video below
We'll draw one winner at random on Dec. 23, around 2PM EST. Good luck!
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A perk of going out West is getting to prop Steven next to a dino with a saddle. 🦕🤠
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It's that time again. Revealing the next upcoming YDAW episode, voted on by our lovely and supportive Patrons on Patreon.
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That does look a lot more believably birdy.
@YDAWtheShow
The "too much" option only looks so strange because you make the plumage behave in a way that we wouldn't expect for such a bird like animal
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We went. We saw. We took pictures. We got a snazzy Moldarama Quetzalcoatlus. Watch it all now on the latest behind-the-scenes vlog on YouTube!
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We tried something a little different! Presenting: "The Troubles of Transporting Fossils", now live over on YouTube. Check it out now. :)
A special thank you to
@Elev_Sci
for helping us take this video to a new level by allowing us to visit them while working their dig sites!
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After almost 10 years on from our first video, we finally made it to a fossil dig. With the help of
@Elev_Sci
we were able to start an experiment with videos focusing more on aspects of Paleontology itself. It was a blast to do! (1/2)
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Very important question: If you were to have dinosaurs perform Hamlet, what species would be the best to use for Yorick's skull?
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Thinking about designing more derpy dino pins. Which would you like to see derpified next?
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We have another set of derpy dino pins in our Etsy shop! Now featuring Iguanodon, Parasaurolophus, and Allosarus.
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It's finally here! In our newest
#YourDinosaursAreWrong
video, Steven takes a look at many
#Velociraptor
toys, and discusses how our understanding of them has changed since
#JurassicPark
made them famous.
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Michigan doesn't have Magpies. Imagine our delight when we not only got to see them in Montana, but learned that they grace local vehicles with free bug cleaning.
10/10 good birbs.
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Today is the day we finally go through all of the mail you lovely viewers have sent in again! Come check out what we got.
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We made more of our own wrong dinosaurs again! Adding to our small collection of Derpy Dinosaur pins are Velociraptor, Therizinosaurus, and Ziapelta. Now available in our Etsy shop. :)
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We have some corrections that needed to be made as a follow up to our recent Velociraptor video, so here those are!
#mistakesweremade
#velociraptor
#dinosaurs
#oops
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1/ This is fascinating, they're all wrong in different ways. Allosaurus' first toe wasn't for walking on. Both their and T. rex' tracks would look much more like the ones labeled Velociraptor. Velociraptor walked on two toes.
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Bertrand's Halloween costume test:
"Have you seen Blue, my puppy?"
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Slowly, but surely, we're getting into the business of things you can stick to other things.
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On a coincidentally appropriate day, we're announcing the subject of episode
#26
of 'Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong', chosen with a vote by our lovely Patrons! Check it out below:
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"Not only will we bring back the garbage, now you're not allowed to plug your nose against the smell."
Anyone got an invite to the cobalt atmosphere app they'd be willing to share? If I'm not allowed to curate the worst of the worst out of my feed with a block, I'm out.
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There's some mistakes: the brow horns should be further forward & not so close to the centerline; the nasal horn should angle forward more; the nostrils should be at the front of the nasal opening; their extraoral tissues probably weren't that mammal-like in the 'cheek' area
@YDAWtheShow
I think I may have spotted a subtle scientific inaccuracy in this toy but I could use an expert eye
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Like dinosaurs and coffee/tea/mug cakes? Need a gift for someone who does? We now offer personalization on the mugs in our Etsy store!
For no extra cost we'll replace our 'YDAW' logo with the name of your choice in our signature font!
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The very same!
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That's atrocious. I love it.
@YDAWtheShow
just wanted to share with you this ceratosaurus from my childhood (circa 2010). This is part of a series of collectible toy dinosaurs from a brazillian publishing house named Salvat. I have more dinos from this collection, but this one is the most cursed...
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Trying to call tweets 'posts' now like 'xcretions' & 'xcrements' hasn't already spread like wildfire...
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So is it 'X' like when a cartoon character gets crosses on their eyes to signify death?
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It's rewind time! Paleo Rewind that is! We took part in 2021's look back at discoveries in Paleo with an overview of some of April's happenings. Check it out over on YouTube!
#paleorewind
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Good points to consider!
For
#FossilFriday
I edited the skeletal from Ibrahim et al. 2020 to show the placement of the holotypical neural spines of Spinosaurus. I also edited it to show the placement of the dorsal spines in a speculative round sail.
#Spinosaurus
#Paleontology
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Bertrand prefers to get treats that he can take home and crack open with a chisel to study.
Have a safe and happy Halloween!
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A PSA for Spring: If your area has turtles, remember to watch out for babies on footpaths or bike trails as they begin to hatch and putter about!
And if you have to help them (and can do it safely), remember to always move it in the direction it was heading.
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We had so much fun doing 'Chill Coloring Time', we're going to do another! Come hang out and talk dinosaurs with Steven once again. The fun begins tomorrow, 5/21, at 3:30pm ET.
Want to color along? Download the free PDF pages by following this link:
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'Quote this tweet with a picture of you and a fossil, and copy/paste this text. Keep it going.'
'Quote this tweet with a picture of you and a fossil, and copy/paste this text. Keep it going.'
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If you ever needed your tiny plants to be ever-so-slightly taller, these dinos have your back. Available now in our shop!
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If you liked the Dimetrodon video, reminder that we sell these little guys in our shop! Each purchase helps us keep making more videos. 🙂🦕
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We are in love with this adorable fanart from Laura in Alberta that she made based off of our
#PaleoRewind
video! () Maybe in a parallel universe there's a Steven happily mentoring dinosaur parents-to-be.
Watch out for a new mailbag video later this week!
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Today is the day! Join us on YouTube at 3pm EDT for 'Chill Coloring Time' with Steven. Hang out, talk dinosaurs for a few hours, and even color along with your own coloring pages, found here:
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