Did Raptorex Really Exist?

I got this science…
I flipped a coin, it came up tails and therefore the fossil of the thing is in fact the thing we know existed and is not in fact the thing no one knew existed and is not super duper old but rather super old. There. Science mystery solved with zero money spent. You’re welcome scientists.

I cannot watch this your tatoes

Probably a juvenile Tarbosaurus bataar from the Nemegt formation in Mongolia.
Let’s save the genus name “Raptorex” for when a conclusively new genus is discovered. “King of Thieves” is a pretty badass name.

What if it's a new species, but from the paleocene? Dino fossils have been found above the Cretacous layer so even tho it's possibility is low, it's still not 0.

Wow!!!!! This one is packed full of info!!!!!!!!!!! i have to again!! Love PBS!!!!! you guys are AWESOME!!!!

Do. It like the background noise on that at all

Easiest way to date a fossil is going to a bingo club.

Real life indominus rex

It's the pick-your-own-adventure book of dinosaurs

If any theocrat watches this and pretends they STILL don’t understand carbon dating… stop listening to their grift. 🤷‍♂️

This whole situation is kinda like Nanotyrannus

💚🏜️ flattering colored top for you, narratrix 👍

Man, dating is hard.

relly

best vid

Sounds like most jobs in archeology should involve dating the finds. Sounds like a lot of expensive equipment and not much left over to pay the archeologists.
Too many people not getting paid very well.
Thank you and Curiosity Stream.

To those who want to throw rocks at ‘profiteer’ fossil hunters, do not forget that erosion is constantly at work. If a fossil is eroding out of the ground, is it better to leave it crumble away or remove it?

By inference you mean guessing. Radio decay dating is absolute and knowing where the fossil was found doesn’t matter. The method for dating dinosaurs and other fossils has always been flawed and has been the “go-to” argument for evolution denying people.

I thought relative dating was frowned upon in most states

I suppose they could get the team that do Joan Collins makeup ?
Lol🤭
Thanks for an interesting topic .

Thank you!

I think relative dating is bad and you shouldn’t date your relatives. Just an opinion tho 😂

It’s tragic we don’t have a control group with which to test the accuracy of any of our radioactive dating. We don’t know what happens to isotopes after a certain amount of time

My Explaination is that it was a Half Raptor Half Smaller T-Rex Ancestor (Not like the Indoraptor or the Indominus Rex,Spinoceratops and Scorpios Rex)
Like for Example:Anphycion,it look's like a Wolf but a bit of a Bear with its Bear like Feet the Claws would have been used for Capturing Fish.

That was a very interesting programme. I remember a past controversy about a confusion between juveniles of a few known species as their skeletons evolve to that of adults' as opposed to new species of dinosaurs, . It must be very frustrating, and a lot of people may have ended up with egg on their faces. (There must be a joke to be made with egg and ego, that a better man than me will discover!)
Then there are the looters who dig up and steal fossils, and those who also assemble various bones and create a "new" dinosaur (and may the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits!). These have only a greed for money and no passion for archeology.
Nonetheless, on a few programmes I have seen in which you talked of this difficulty, you managed to "Sherlock Holmes" a solution or at least forensically broke down the issues, making a very interesting programme, despite the severe limitations and your headaches. Don't despair. There is beauty even in those programmes.
Thank you!

I like how you explain how the exact location and surrounding rock are so important. I can imagine a poor farmer or opportunistic amateur fossil hunter would be trying to collect and sell but hide the location from the government or competitors. If big brother( big science) comes in and takes over without rewarding, compensating or including the local folks they are creating the situation that causes the loss of all those important details.

Really can't take a pierced tatooed chick seriously.

Third opinion?

Quite a bold claim to declare something done as 'probably illegally.' Benefit of the doubt and innocent until proven guilty and whatnot.

Unfortunately, the boring answer is often the closer to the truth if there's no evidence to sway the case one way or the other.
Here, the only evidences are the vertebra of the fish and the number of fused bones, neither is conclusive. So we have to conclude that there's no evidence for raptorex.

Could you imagine 70million or 130million years from now, becoming a controversial find that causes two completely separate groups of scientists to fight over you!? Just some random dino minding it's own business, and it's death has lead to so much intrigue. I love it ❤

This video is great. Someday when I become a naturalist or paleontologist like my idols Branum Brown and Mark Norell and work at a natural history museum like the American Museum of Natural History, Field Museum and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County aside from studying the fossils, paleontology and natural history of my favorite dinosaur, pterosaur and prehistoric mammal species including the Tyrannosaurs, Oviraptorosaurs, Dromaeosaurs, Ornthominds, Ornitholestes, Therizinosaurs, Archaeopteryx and Confuciusornis all of whom are Coelurosaurs, Titanosaurs, Allosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Camarasaurus, Ceratopsians, hadrosaurs, Anklyosaurs, pterosaurs, early mammals, mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats and ground sloths write my own science and nature reference book in a similar format to The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour, Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World and Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art that focuses on a group of theropods called Coelurosaurs including Tyrannosaurs, Oviraptorosaurs, Ornithomimids, Therizinosaurs, Alvavrezsaurids, modern birds, Archaeopteryx and Dromaeosaurs plus Compsognathus and Ornitholestes and their lives as non-avian dinosaurs and birds in the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods of the Mesozoic Era and birds in the Cenozoic Era and present day and even feature paleoart paintings and drawings of them and information on their natural history and paleontology. Heck I can even write some sequels focusing on Titanosaurs, Ceratopsians, Pachycephalosaurs, Anklyosaurs and Azhdarchid pterosaurs plus marine reptiles and Mesozoic sharks and feature paleoart paintings and drawings for those books too. I can even create some focusing on prehistoric mammals from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras.

That's so interesting.
Hope you make an episode on the Mismatched and mistaken fossils and dinos in history.

As infuriating it is for scientost to constantly argue and disagree over estimated certain theories and speculations on prehistoric animals it is honestly very important to have these arguments to pinpoint a much more accurate answer to what these creatures were, how they lived, how old were they and even how long ago they were

I think the world of Paul Serano, but in this case, I think he made a mistake. Nobody is perfect.

good job

that was super duper interesting! Now off to google what's happened in 5 years... <3

Short arm are common in 70m,75m, 60m years old not 100-125m. So I'll give it 75m vases on that data

Dating specimens is so hard... That's why I like to keep my specimens casual.

it ate fish?
well then uts the only fish eating tyrannosaur
and its tail is not a tenaturine tail

Just as tarbosaurus is to tyrannosaurus, raptorex is to nanotyrannus 😂

Anyone remember that Dinosaur Train episode with the skateboarding Raptorex?

People are so smart, for real

I think it is 130 million years old and this individual lived for 60 million years. /s

Petition to write it raptor X in honor of the controversy around it like the old Planet X theory

How do you determine the age of a fossil?
- by the soil layer we found it in

How do you determine the age of the soil layer?
- by the types of fossils we find in it

... 😅

Your explanation and illustration of carbon-14 decay is misleading. It's not like one of its electrons spontaneously combusts and becomes an electron and an electron antineutrino. One of its neutrons "spontaneously combusts" (because of rare interactions between its constituent quarks and ambient W bosons, which flip an up quark to a down quark [edit: reverse that]) and emits the electron and electron antineutrino. The emission of the negatively charged electron turns the neutral neutron into a positively charged proton, and the mess that becomes of the particles' quantum numbers when that happens generates the electron antineutrino to balance it all out.

It's the change of the neutron to proton that makes it into a different element (carbon to nitrogen), and none of the already-orbiting electrons have to be lost in this process; actually, the nitrogen-14 will want to grab another electron from the environment (like the one it just emitted) for its electron shells, now that it has one more positive charge in its nucleus than it did before.