The Expeditioner's Discovery Guild

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

Happy Thanksgiving!

https://youtu.be/zZfmNchdSlo

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

https://youtu.be/_wa36lsD62A

The end of the year is upon us and that means PaleoRewind is too! This time it's going to be a channel-hopping adventure.
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✅ Nature's Compendium - January - Release Dec 20th
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLoaezPdoUXbYOsBY-gMAUw

✅ Omega Pictures - February - Release Dec 21st
https://www.youtube.com/user/OmegaFreelacer318

✅ North02 - March - Release Dec 22nd
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJf6_W7W-Q7rTd5skVEgqA

✅ Cretaceous Cast - April - Release Dec 23rd
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFJKloxsvgzCk9uTw4ESpvw

✅ Henry the PaleoGuy - May - Release Dec 24th
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1rSOJNzfjzPOsPXRI-hGA

✅ Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong - June - Release Dec 25th
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmVa-cbCpkd5Cd9Fr_4tCWg

✅ PaleoArchive - July - Release Dec 26th
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9SbSe099urJdEeJB5K4AuA
Dylan's video will likely be written and edited by me

✅ PaleoGeek - August - Release Dec 27th
https://www.youtube.com/user/alexanderracini

✅ Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome - September - Release Dec 28th
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4oW5kWoh0BjC8h737UyK1A

✅ Ben G Thomas - October - Release Dec 29th
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDSzwZqgtJEnUzacq3ddoOQ

✅ Edaphosaurus - November - Release Dec 30th
https://www.youtube.com/user/Edaphosaurus

✅ TreytheExplainer - December - Release Dec 31st
https://www.youtube.com/user/GamerCreator12345
Trey's video will be edited by me and posted on E.D.G.E.
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[Kapitaenosavrvs]

Oh, what a wonderful Idea, to do a Crosschannel Event! Great! So many fantastic YT Channels, that are working together. Now, at least this adds something to the positive 2020 Things. Thanks.

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

https://youtu.be/nZCKgN-I0nQ

Half a billion years ago the world was an incredibly different place. Life had yet to struggle onto land and the atmosphere was a bit toxic to things as complex as us. The world was ruled by arthropods of all shapes and sizes. All were restricted to the zero-gravity environment of the oceans and only some had developed hard enough armor plating to be captured by the fossil record. A relatively small slice of this time period, the Burgess Shale of Canada, preserves a snapshot of what many animal communities may have looked like in other parts of the world. Among those ishy squishy mini-beasts smooshed into the shale of Canada is a flat, shrimp-like critter named after the jolliest of us all during this time of year, saint Nicholas, meet Sanctacaris.

[Stegotyranno420]

Woah, awesome videos bro, I think I should go subscribe to your channel

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

Woah, awesome videos bro, I think I should go subscribe to your channel

Thank You!

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

https://youtu.be/MSb2y2FeuWo

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

https://youtu.be/r2_rMvoAwsQ

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aKrWw79FZI

The largest animals to ever walk the face of the planet were the sauropod dinosaurs. Known for their long necks and enormous sizes, the sauropods lasted from the late triassic to the late cretaceous. They're one of the longest-lived groups of non-avian dinosaurs. It should therefore come as no surprise that some groups diverged from the generic body plan of super long neck, super long tail, tiny head, and robust body. One of these cringy influencers sported a mohawk of forward pointing spines erupting from a short neck. Meet Bajadasaurus.

[HD-man]

My only nit-pick is that you forgot to mention how problematic some of those papers are (E.g. In reference to 24:20, see "New #1 Contender": https://www.deviantart.com/jd-man/journal/SD-Most-annoyingly-popular-dino-hypotheses-addend-842963661 ).

https://youtu.be/MSb2y2FeuWo

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-1kZmDcESc

One of the most iconic ice age beasts often taken for granted, are the dire wolves. Tens of thousands of bones of these large canines have been recovered from all over North America, from the tar pits of L.A. to the quaternary deposits of Bolivia. They've been a part of ice age paleoart since their discovery and have made their way into the realm of fantasy with their appearance in HBO's game of thrones. A new study, fresh off the digital press, has made a startling discovery in the preserved DNA of these robust carnivores; they're not wolves at all, but rather an ancient lineage of dogs that first evolved in North America many millions of years before wolves even got here.

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dblsHHkNFOA

Ever since its inclusion in Jurassic Park, Compsognathus has been a fan favorite prehistoric animal amongst children and adults alike. No doubt due to its fun-sized proportions and seemingly hard to pronounce epithet. Once heralded as the smallest dinosaur, Compsognathus has since been beat many times over by smaller theropods. Oddly enough, there was a time when a completely different kind of Compsognathus was given the light of day.

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

https://youtu.be/XGR4ZMBn2Os

Spinosaurus has popped up once again. Yeah, as fragmentary as the critter is right now, lots and lots can still be debated. Or perhaps that's because it's fragmentary. I continue to grow weary of the spinosaurus discussion just as I have with anything regarding tyrannosaurus. But since everyone loves these titans of pop culture and science, I feel like I have to at least try to talk about them.

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

Happy Valentine's Day!

https://youtu.be/eBa3hiF_iHU

One of the biggest and most important parts to the survival of life on the planet is sex. A good majority of evolutionary developments over the history of life depended directly on reproduction. Sexual selection is a type of evolution in and of itself, but each other sub header of evolution is also influenced by the ability to pass on genetic information. One of the greatest mysteries surrounding the dinosaurs specifically, is how the hell they got busy. Obviously, it would be pretty simple for the smaller dinosaur groups, but what about the titans? What about the groups so armored, that even their eyelids had some bone in em'? Until a perfectly preserved reproductive organ is found for each dinosaur group, it remains mysterious, but there's definitely some insight into how it could've worked.