Bajadasaurus | What Did This Dinosaur Use Its Cretaceous Mohawk For?

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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.
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All Comments (21)

@RickRaptor105 3 years ago

Oh, Edge has animators now? How long before he produces his own Walking with Dinosaurs documentary?
@DemonOfCoffee 3 years ago

Man, as a kid I was obsessed with dinos. As a 19 year old, that obsession still remains but now I have an interest for all animals and creatures of history. Absolutely fascinating. It's wild to know that no matter how far we come with research there will always be things we will never know, possibly major things as well as minor, and it's so interesting to learn all the possibilities and ideas of what once was.
@fenrirgg 3 years ago

What about a challenge: draw a crazy imaginary new sauropod, and let's review the drawing in 20 years. What if an actual sauropod is discovered with that form? That would be awesome hah
@GarryDKing 3 years ago

I imagine these guys will have discoveries akin to spinosaurus: the more body we find, the more insane they'll become.
@BadAssXerx3 3 years ago

One of the best paleo-Channels, very interresting as always and again a sice comparison with a JoJo Character, Dio ?
@enezjaniw493 3 years ago

Head down swung from side to side probably looks really intimidating, if not mesmerising.
@himitsu_tokusketch 3 years ago

The 1 dislike is from Amargasaurus for not being the star of the vid
@poggestofeagles5094 3 years ago

The animation artists must be extremely talented
@DeRien8 3 years ago

Never thought a description of plaster gauze jacketing could make me blush
@just_a_guy9688 3 years ago

3:27 that is a rather... Interesting description of the plaster used.
@sampagano205 3 years ago

It'll be interesting to look back on Amargasaurus and bajarasaurus when we have a more complete picture of these dinosaurs as a group, it wouldn't shock me if it turns out that the Amargasaurus genus just ends up having a lot of variability in how the neck spines look between species, or even individuals as like, a signalling thing.
@lexibyday9504 3 years ago

I keep missreading this dinosaur as Badassosaurus
@gildedpeahen876 3 years ago

The fact that there's a blog specifically for sauropod vertebrae pictures warms the cockles of my heart
@dynamosaurusimperious6341 3 years ago

Amargasaurus: who are u? Bajadarasaurus: i'm u but stranger Amarga: just seems like a clone of me. God & E.D.G.E yeah pretty much.
@kermitpedo8009 3 years ago

4:45 what's with the sauropod turning into a lightning rod?
@vermis8344 3 years ago

12:59 Woohoo! I had never heard of Bajadasaurus or the neural spine condition in dicraeosaurids until now. Can I still hang onto my dino nerd card?
@stormevans6897 2 years ago

What a brilliant adaptation, I could see that preventing a theropod from biting down on your neck. Evolutionary arms races are so fascinating, like specifically in cases like these where the adaptations seem to be driven by interaction with another species/niche. I wonder what happened with the predators in response?
@pandaprime4999 3 years ago

Ok that’s nice How JoJo Characters come out of no where
@jaystreet46 3 years ago

Remember when we used to think that (some?) sauropods had a secondary brain in their butts? I member!
@reachforthepie 3 years ago

I absolutely love Baja/Amarga, so seeing this under suggested made my day. Looks like I have a new channel to catch up on 😊