Palaeontologist Thomas Halliday breaks down dinosaur films

I liked how he randomly brought up a detailed human right violation matter that made sense in his argument.

As someone from Myanmar, it's very grateful for the issues we are having to be acknowledged by someone whom I didn't expect. Thank you, Thomas Halliday!!

"If you're a paleontologist interested in studying them you have to recognize in doing so, you are implicitly supporting a serious human rights issue." So refreshing to see someone actually acknowledge ethical issues instead of the usual sheer intentional blindness so many academics engage in, thank you!

I love that you brought Thomas Halliday back! I love his passion for palaeontology 🦕and how incredibly well spoken he is. Could listen to him all day :D

This guy is great. He's the sort of person I imagine meeting at a wedding, have a lovely conversation, then never seeing again.

HE’S BACK!!!!Thomas Halliday is the best guest you have on this channel. His enthusiasm for everything paleontology is EVERYTHING.

Interestingly regarding Disney's Dinosaur, they originally DID try animating Aladar and the other Iguanodons' mouths with their natural mouths, which have a beak at the front, but they really did not like the results. "They looked like two coconut halves clacking together". So what they did instead is they put lips OVER the actual beak.

I like how he assumes that the scene from Dinosaur was towards the end (Given that, realistically, they WOULDN'T have survived that) when in actuality it's basically the beginning. XD

Thomas needs his own channel because I’d never leave it

Jurassic Park has been reacted to and talked bout by so many people but he still manages to have his own spin on it which is really nice. So enthusiastic about his profession its amazing

I'm from Myanmar and didn't expect at all for him to speak up the human rights issues here! Thank you, Thomas Halliday!

I am glad he brought up not only the human rights issue but also the “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” argument. I keep seeing articles about possibly bringing back dinosaurs and me telling my husband “ have these scientists not seen Jurassic Park?”

This man is what Ross Geller thought he was. I could listen to him talk for hours

Something I've always wondered about Jurassic Park is how they resurrected the extinct plant.

Great to see Thomas back!! His last video was superb - and made me purchase his book "Otherlands". 10/10 work , would love to share a whiskey and talk about the past with this guy 👏👏

Glad to see Thomas again. I could watch an entire series of him breaking down paleontology-related things!

Thank you for addressing the ethical questions surrounding paleontology! To me, it's an argument why STEM students should have exposure to the humanities as well-- they need to be reminded that their work exists within a society that's impacted by what they create and discover. And the question of de-extinction is closer than you'd think... there are companies working on bringing back the woolly mammoth and, more recently, the dodo (with the rationale that, since humans were responsible for its extinction, humans should bring it back).

12:12 not only too slow but also much too small for Chicxulub, the asteroid that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. When one edge of the asteroid touched the surface of the earth, the other edge would have been up 10 kilometers in the sky, higher than Mount Everest. Also, being that close to the impact zone would have basically vaporized the entire cast in seconds after the impact. That event was basically hell on earth, and everything in an approximately 500-kilometer radius was completely wiped out of existence in an instance.

as a kid who dreamed of being a paleontologist, disney’s dinosaur was ( and is still ) my favorite disney movie. i showed it to my partner on our second date and he couldn’t believe the movie almost opens with the impact scene. “i imagine this scene is near the end of the movie because i can’t imagine how they might survive this” tickled me senseless. this is, like… 5 minutes into the movie lol

The Jurassic Park scene where Ellie & Dr. Grant first see the dinosaurs never fails to awe me. I know I'm susceptible to the music's emotional manipulation, but I don't care. When we cut to the wide view at the watering hole, I'm on the verge of joyful tears every time. I love that about the movie.