YouTube - The Truth about Killer Dinosaurs: Velociraptor vs Ankylosaurus Part 1
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A fascinating study of the lives and behavior of dinosaurs such as Velociraptor and Ankylosaurus, this 5-part series of videos provides fascinating insights into the mechanics of the bodies and behavior of the animals, as illustrated by actual models of relevant body-parts such as Velociraptor's claw-tipped inner toes and Ankylosaurus's heavy tail with its deadly terminal club. It also shows what those animals probably looked like, which stands in sharp contrast to the clunky, monochromatic earlier modeling of dinosaurs such as these. The only quarrel I have with it is that the narrator keeps referring to predators such as Velociraptor as "killers," as if what they had to do to make a living was a sin and a crime. Of course they killed their prey -- they had to, if they wanted to make meals off them. But that no more makes them evil and wicked than, say, eating grass makes a cow evil and wicked. The British have this inverse fascination with "killing" -- meaning, the taking of prey by predatory animals who require meat in their diet -- that I find appalling. Such creatures weren't created to fit our ideas of right and wrong, but rather for themselves, to meet their own needs without reference to us or any other sort of creature, and to use them as moral instruction is stupid and elitist -- not to mention hypocritical, because, regardless of our diet today, our paleolithic ancestors were hunters whose diet included a great deal of meat, and to condemn the taking of prey for its food value is, for us, willful self-deception so egregious that it approaches a real sickness of the mind. Outside of that, though, great videos (access the others in the series via the icons along the bottom of the frame).