Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Part three of three! In the past two videos we've learned how geographic isolation can affect evolution, but now it's time to apply these lessons to an entirely different cast of animals. What strange and amazing animals was paleobiogeography capable of cooking up? Watch to find out!
NOTES:
I DID NOT misspell Hatzeg. Despite the island's name traditionally being written as "Hațeg," the fact that we do not use the letter "ț" in the English language not only meant that the font I typically use could not actually spell it, but also considering my entire audience is english-speaking, I decided to spell Hatzeg in it's more readable form.
I DID misspell Franz Nopcsa's name however, that one is on me.
Follow me on twitter @theatlaspro
Support me on patreon here: patreon.com/atlaspro
Paleogeographic maps and animations by C. R. Scotese, for more information: earthbyte.org/paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates
Music: soundcloud.com/atlas-pro-music/ice-age-4
HUGE thank you to Deviantart user Cisiopurple for his many great pieces of paleoart used in this video. Find more of his work here: deviantart.com/cisiopurple
Further Reading / Sources
smithsonianmag.com/history/history-forgot-rogue-aristocrat-discovered-dinosaurs-died-penniless-180959504
pteros.com/environments/hateg-island.html
pnas.org/content/107/20/9258?ijkey=d491ecd52cdbce51d07498051f3a9f38cd62ccaa&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/late-cretaceous-animals-of-romania-s-hateg-island-a-more-complex-view
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-dwarf-dinosaurs-of-hateg-island-70517504
google.com/amp/s/www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-Hateg-Island-region-present-day-Transylvania-Romania-The-contemporaneous_fig1_299364804/amp
pnas.org/content/107/35/15310
reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/lsr71q/the_animals_of_hateg_island_6866mya
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarosaurus#/media/File:Campanian_Romanian_representative_fauna.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus#/media/File:Longest_dinosaurs2.svg
researchgate.net/figure/Palaeogeography-of-the-Iberian-Massif-during-the-Middle-Jurassic-The-opening-Atlantic_fig1_303852352
peerj.com/articles/1341
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus#/media/File:Longest_dinosaurs2.svg
blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-romanian-dinosaur-balaur-seems-to-be-a-flightless-bird
Part three of three! In the past two videos we've learned how geographic isolation can affect evolution, but now it's time to apply these lessons to an entirely different cast of animals. What strange and amazing animals was paleobiogeography capable of cooking up? Watch to find out!
NOTES:
I DID NOT misspell Hatzeg. Despite the island's name traditionally being written as "Hațeg," the fact that we do not use the letter "ț" in the English language not only meant that the font I typically use could not actually spell it, but also considering my entire audience is english-speaking, I decided to spell Hatzeg in it's more readable form.
I DID misspell Franz Nopcsa's name however, that one is on me.
Follow me on twitter @theatlaspro
Support me on patreon here: patreon.com/atlaspro
Paleogeographic maps and animations by C. R. Scotese, for more information: earthbyte.org/paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates
Music: soundcloud.com/atlas-pro-music/ice-age-4
HUGE thank you to Deviantart user Cisiopurple for his many great pieces of paleoart used in this video. Find more of his work here: deviantart.com/cisiopurple
Further Reading / Sources
smithsonianmag.com/history/history-forgot-rogue-aristocrat-discovered-dinosaurs-died-penniless-180959504
pteros.com/environments/hateg-island.html
pnas.org/content/107/20/9258?ijkey=d491ecd52cdbce51d07498051f3a9f38cd62ccaa&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/late-cretaceous-animals-of-romania-s-hateg-island-a-more-complex-view
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-dwarf-dinosaurs-of-hateg-island-70517504
google.com/amp/s/www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-Hateg-Island-region-present-day-Transylvania-Romania-The-contemporaneous_fig1_299364804/amp
pnas.org/content/107/35/15310
reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/lsr71q/the_animals_of_hateg_island_6866mya
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarosaurus#/media/File:Campanian_Romanian_representative_fauna.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus#/media/File:Longest_dinosaurs2.svg
researchgate.net/figure/Palaeogeography-of-the-Iberian-Massif-during-the-Middle-Jurassic-The-opening-Atlantic_fig1_303852352
peerj.com/articles/1341
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus#/media/File:Longest_dinosaurs2.svg
blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-romanian-dinosaur-balaur-seems-to-be-a-flightless-bird
