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Friday 18/6/21 - Media Recommendations #7

Today, since I've been on a Dinosaur kick as of late, I thought I'd get it out of the way and recommend my favourite Palaeontology Focused YouTubers. Featured:

Ben G Thomas

Henry the PaleoGuy

Moth Light Media

Trey the Explainer

E.D.G.E

Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong

Since I have a lot more to discuss than normal, each creator will only be getting a paragraph or so of discussion. But I promise you, each and every one of these Dino-Tubers are very entertaining and informative content creators.

Ben G Thomas

A Britain based group, Ben being one of 4 contributors. The Ben G Thomas channel frequently uploads short educational pieces about many topics in science. Every week they focus on a living Animal of the Week, and also sum up the science news of the week in 7 Days of Science. Dinosaur and other extinct animals are a frequent focus in their own videos, and as with all their videos, they are very well studied and refer to the literature for all their information. Ben G Thomas is a very well produced, fun and educational channel.

Henry the PaleoGuy

A New Zealand based YouTuber, Henry is an enthusiast in the weird and unknown side of the animal kingdom. Although much of his content is Palaeontology focused, every week, Henry discusses a New Zealand Bird of the Week. In between these, videos are often case studies of specific species, and many of these are extinct and extant species that most people would not know about. Henry's videos range mostly between 5 and 10 minutes, so they are very consumable at any opportunity, and I've found them quite bingeable as well. Henry the PaleoGuy videos are interesting, educational (this word will come up a lot this post), and insightful.

Moth Light Media

This channel, rather than have a focus on species profiles, is an educator on evolution in animals. Uploads are reliably at least monthly, and are very chunky in information. Moth Light discusses how different animal groups have changed and developed, and how we use both fossils and modern animals to understand evolutionarily relationships. Although, not necessarily vital to an edutuber, Moth Light Media videos are very chill and peaceful to listen to, thanks to the narrator's low, soft voice. If you're interested in the evolution side of palaeontology, definitely give Moth Light Media a watch.

Trey the Explainer

Trey was probably the DinoTuber that got me into DinoTubers. If you've ever watched one of his videos, you'd agree that he's a guy that just sounds passionately excited to talk about science. Trey's videos have an overall focus on educating on various scientific topics that people may have misconceptions on. Dinosaur reconstructions and ecology are one such topic, but he also covers cryptozoology, anthropology, and scientific inferences that could be made from the bible. Trey's uploads are less frequent, but his videos are also longer and jam-packed with educational information. I highly recommend subscribing to Trey the Explainer.

E.D.G.E

Extinct, Extant, Extraordinary, EDGE is a science channel that specialises in exciting animals. Although this channel often discusses extinct animals, EDGE also frequently focuses on living animals, and supernatural cryptids. EDGE videos are often in the format of a species or animal group case study, but unlike some of the earlier DinoTubers discussed here, they are frequently significantly longer than 10 minutes. While many of the DinoTubers I've discussed above are very calming narrators, EDGE has a very animated, almost movie-trailer-esque tone to his voice that make the videos very exciting to listen to. The language he uses is quite colloquial and normie friendly, while still being educational. A fun spin on the DinoTuber format.

Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong

This channel strikes a perfect balance of accessibility, showmanship, and advanced scientific knowledge. Stephen, the host, is a palaeontologist and animator, and uses his experience in both areas to teach the audience about the inaccuracies of dinosaur reconstructions. Fans of the channel send in toy dinosaurs, and Stephen uses these toys as a way to focus in on the most common mistakes toy makers, and media in general, make in reconstructing dinosaurs. Then as he explains what the dinosaur really looked like, and the biomechanical meaning of their true forms, he animates a coloured silhouette of the toy transforming into a more scientifically accurate form. Many of the channel's videos are upwards of 20 minutes long, but there is a lot to talk about in these discussions. Stephen is a cheery, very nerdy guy, and he really knows his stuff, often referring to several scientific papers related to dinosaur reconstructions during videos, links in the video's description.

Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong used to be part of a larger organisation called The Geek Group that has since dissolved, so a lot of their older videos have been archived outside of the current channel. I've found most of them archived on this playlist by the channel Chaotic Good:

Older YDAW Episodes

These are all the episodes of "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong' that were produced in part by The NSI. They are in the order that they originally a

Thanks for Reading

There are many more channels that cover palaeontology that I didn't get the chance to cover today, but I chose to focus on these six because in my opinion, the subscriber base for each are way too small for their quality, and I think more people should watch them.

Honourable mention to PBS Eons, a larger channel that frequently uploads shorter informative videos on ancient Earth.

Hope you enjoyed the read, and if you are interested, subscribe to each and every one of these wonderful DinoTubers.

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The REAL Carnotaurus? – NEW info on Skin & Armor

Carnotaurus, the meat-eating bull, has only ever been known from a single remarkable specimen. This specimen was found over 30 years ago but scientists hadn’t given a thorough once over of the skin impressions found schmacked to the bones. A brand-new paper published August 2021 shows what the horned beast’s hide was really like and it’s not what Disney’s Dinosaur or Jurassic World would lead you to believe.]

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Jurassic Park Got This Dino Totally Wrong | Dilophosaurus 2020

Big Beefy Dilophosaurus!

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Revisiting Spinoraurus

An update on the ongoing debate around Spinoraurus

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Prehistoric Palettes || Melanin - The Building Block of Life

The first episode on a series about the intricacies of reconstructing the coloration of exinct species.

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Most American Dino Ever | "Capitalsaurus"

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