The Scariest Animal During The Jurassic Wasn't A Carnivore...

You know I keep that thag on me

Bro is really cooking with these thumbnails

Can we get a saurophaganax video? Or torvosaurus? And how they hunted and all that stuff? Or maybe just the carnivores of the Jurassic?

To make herbivores to be equipped with lethal weapons, means the carnivores was scary as well

Horse shit

Thagomizer, named from "the Far Side" Gary Larson cartoon!

How do they know the preference for the dryer parts was not actually a weakness for the draughts? Like, instead of preferring the dryer parts, it's what killed them and that's why there are more remains.

How would such animals mate? See they didn't think these hoax animals through. Probably because they were released to the public during an era when it would be terribly impolite to raise such questions. I mean, the male isn't going to be able to mount and hump the female when she has several rows of razor sharp spines all over her back. Dumb.

if they favor the dry and died out when the climate changed... this is a stretch, but, do you think their plates were used as cold surfaces for water condensation when the morning dew hangs in the air, this is a trick of some desert animals(Australian Thorny Devil) and insects(Namibian desert beetle)... i imagine the plates get pretty cold when not full of blood
also wondering if the teeth are shaped that way due to some form of cacti in the diet. the large hump in the rear could be a water storage area?
as far as the brain... what if its bird brain type neurons which are more densely packed? a bird with a walnut brain is a smart bird!
honestly tho, if the brain was normal density its still about 1.5bil neurons which will get you to about the intelligence of a 7yo human, imagine what a hungry 7yo would do with a spiked tail if you bothered it while eating. i found this video very interesting, thanks for sharing!!

The owner of the real Thagomizer

So training a pack of killer Stegosauruses for combat might be a better ticket than picking a predator. Handlers would have an easier time as they would not be tasty. Their mass would make them hard to stop. Thagomizers could be replaced with something more durable and armor piercing like Tungsten, which could also be removed to make handling safer. Yes, I can see it.

how did stegos reproduce?

"The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen. The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut."

The dinosaur equivalent of adding nails to the end of a baseball bat.

Can you imagine these things walking in packs?

"Damn it Jerry! Stop swinging your tail while you walk! You almost took Bob's face off!"

Ah, yes, the Thagomizer! Named after the late Thag Simmons, of course 😂😂😂 Great Far Side cartoon 😎👍

So on a childish note thagimizer is now the name of well...😅

Oh boy, here I go killing again.
-Stegosaurus probably

so is the brontosaurus a active name again? seems to flip every few years..
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The weirdest part is knowing that these creatures lived for millions of years and were already extinct by the time other famous creatures evolved. The perspective is nuts when we are comparing life being better only 100 years ago. Even though there is no way to compare it. Most people don't live long enough to see such a life. But still the concept of being long gone already is mind blowing.

This is all still a giant guess. Gotta also remember allo's grew very large so there was plenty of food to go around. These creatures coming into contact and primary rivals is like saying that cheetahs hunt porkypines as a primary food source. Clearly they are not but are still hunted.

It would also be saying that antelope used their horns to defend themselves from cheetahs because a few example existed.

In reality the life of an antelope is spent running more than it is using the horns.

"...DAMN, Bob...what the HELL have you got stuck on your Thag-o-Mizer..?

How do they fuck if they are covered in spikes?

I never knew about the guler armor fascinating.

Stegosaurus tried to rizz up allosaurus with its swagomizer.

Dinosours are all equally as awesome to me.

when he said "Saurphaganx" I laughed

The teeth were indeed designed !

Actually think this is an interesting area of not dinosaurs, or even animals, but humans.

We have this weird mindset that predator bad and herbivore safe. When any thought is applied to it, herbivores kill more humans than predators do and this makes sense. A predator is going to put their safety first, and any hint that a human might be a "hard target" they either mitigate with stealth or quick ferocity, or choose another target. Herbivores for the most part attack when they think they're in danger and it is near term life or death, so are willing to go to much more risk. The only other factor here would be population numbers.. with predators being less of the total in an environment.

A good example of this in action is Jurassic World. For whatever reason, we accept the lazy river scene having people on inflatables floating past stegosaurs drinking out of the river feet away. That is crazy.

the scariest animal to ever live is HUMAN

kindof weird you dont need much brain for herd behavior

Even though the video is nice, how about crediting all the artists? You are using so many renderings and drawings/paintings... you can not do that... please put all the credits into the video. If - of course - you were allowed to use them in the first place... cheers

Legosaurus

Fun fact: the thagomizer actually did not have a name for a long time! Only until a comic artist called it the thagomizer was it called that!

Hey, just so you know dacentrurus was actually the largest stegosaur and not stegosaurus itself

I personally think that the plates on stegos back were a means of waterstorage like in camels.
Would explain why stego was striving in this weather condition.

Why is it called a thagomizer?
Thagomizer - Wikipedia
The term thagomizer was coined by Gary Larson in jest. In a 1982 The Far Side comic, a group of cavemen are taught by a caveman lecturer that the spikes on a stegosaur's tail were named "after the late Thag Simmons".

Just for a bit of context as to how "thagomizer" came about. I know, it's shameless to copy-paste stuff from Wikipedia, but meh.

Also, on March 15, 1989, a newly discovered insect species was named after Larson by Dale H. Clayton, head of the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. The Strigiphilus garylarsoni is a chewing louse of a genus found only on owls.

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Stego also can soak many more bullets from turrets then many other dinos aswell.. its boney plates along its spine, also prevents the rider from being picked from other survivors that have tamed ptero's and or other flyers.. ( sorry i spend too much time playing Ark ) 😂

I would still be way mote scared of Allosaurus. It would eat me whole in one bite, while I could stay away from stegosaurus and most likely be fine.

We’ve only guessed about dinosaurs and are probably wrong about most of it.

I've never felt confident about the explanations for the plates. But that's part of the fun.

Honestly, "Thagomizer" is probably one of the most hardcore names for a weapon I've heard.

Stegosaurus mid asf

Isn’t the apatosaurus and brontosaurus the same dinosaur ?

dang imagine getting hit by one of those thaggots.