PSA! We now host memberships on this channel!
Level 1 members are called "Naturalists" and receive early access to content, and will soon receive badges once we have them made! This level is $1.99 per month!
Level 2 members are called "Notorious Naturalists", and receive all benefits of level 1 members in addition to exclusive content! This will include unfinished videos that we decided not to move forward with, blooper reels, and some exclusive complete videos! Keep an eye out for a dinosaur skin video coming soon! This level is $4.99 per month! Members-only content can be found on this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Level 3 members are called "GeoSplorers", and receive all benefits of levels 1 and 2 in addition to shoutouts at the end of our videos! This level is $7.99 per month!
Memberships can be found here: youtube.com/channel/UC2mMEjgg_LJ28ThwCjECQ_g/join
Not really the YouTube membership type? We also have a Patreon where you can receive similar benefits to our YouTube membership! Link here: www.patreon.com/cw/GeoSplore?utm_source=search&van…
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A brief statement about current events in paleontology, from Max:
Women in paleo shouldn’t have to rely on whisper networks to feel safe at conferences. Societies should take ethics complaints seriously, and multiple complaints from multiple people about being made to feel unsafe should be enough grounds to bar someone from attending meetings.
I think it’s wild that this statement is not universally agreed upon. But hey? Fellas? Let’s fucking do our part to hold each other accountable, especially if the societies won’t. Don’t fraternize with predators because it’s good for your career. Call them out, ignore them, refuse collboration with them, vote against allowing them on committees. Do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do, not just when it’s convenient or when it helps you climb the ladder. Tolerating predatory, bigoted, and misogynistic behavior makes you complicit in the impacts on the victims.
Bad actors only have enough power to be intimidating because we aren’t united in removing their power. Good people can rely on good people for support, so let’s start leaning on each other and create a safety net so that problematic folks with a lot of influence don’t have as many cards in play. Crowd them out. Let good prevail.
This philosophy should also be applied to all other sciences and walks of life.
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Hey y’all! If you don’t already know me, my name is Max, half of the GeoSplore team, and I am a mosasaur behavior expert!
Do you live in or near Portland, Oregon and want to learn about mosasaurs for half an hour? Join me at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry on February 12, from 6-9 PM PST for my talk titled “Mesozoic Marine Madness”!
I, paleontologist Maximilian Scott, will take you on a deep-sea adventure back to the age of the mosasaurs—massive marine lizards that ruled the ancient oceans. Discover how bite marks and bone injuries reveal shocking clues about their social lives and fierce underwater battles. Learn how these prehistoric predators behaved like their modern-day reptilian cousins—and what their bones can tell us about life in the Mesozoic’s wild blue depths! (Lecture + Q&A approx. 30 mins)
General Admission Tickets: $20 Adults (18+), $17 Seniors (63+) | OMSI members free
Includes access to: Featured Exhibit, Monsters of the Abyss: Aquatic Predators Past + Present, and the Turbine Hall
Find the ticketing link at the link in our bio, this link: bit.ly/46jg7k3 , or check out @the.fossil.teampdx on Instagram for a chance to win free tickets!
Can’t wait to see y’all there!
#mosasaurs #paleontology #fossils #museum #oregon
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Alright - so the schedule of uploading weekly isn’t working for me. Since I’m the only one uploading here as of late, it’s just been too much to keep up with on top of school. So, in light of that, I’m switching to a bi-weekly upload schedule and a weekly short schedule. I have a bunch of shorts already loaded up into the middle of the month, but after that it’ll be one short per week and one full video per two weeks.
Thanks,
Max
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Just flew back to Alberta because Natalya and I are going to make an appearance in a pretty major dino documentary, but that’s hush hush for now. You guys get to know about that one in 2025.
But for NOW - look what I saw from the sky!
These “u” shaped water formations are called oxbow lakes. Oxbow lakes form when meandering rivers curve so extremely in one spot that the pinch connects and leaves the curve separate from the now slightly-more-straight river. I even saw a double oxbow, which I’ve never seen before!
-Max
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Weekly post-video pop quiz! In what orientation were most theropod dinosaurs’ hands?
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Weekly post video pop-quiz! What is the scientific name for the American raccoon?
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New thing - Trivia Tuesday! This week -
What is the largest modern burrowing animal?
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Happy Mosasaur Monday! This is Tylosaurus pembinensis, one of the largest species of mosasaur. They’re known from the Western Interior Seaway of Cretaceous North America!
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This #fossilfriday I want to talk about some fossils that aren’t bones - ichnofossils! In this case, a dinosaur footprint from northern British Columbia, Canada. This is the footprint of a therizinosaur, a group of theropod dinosaurs that stand out among their cousins for having four toes rather than three, long necks, beaks, upright posture, omnivorous diet, and of course as they’re famous for, giant, sloth-like claws!
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Your natural history dream team.
Joined 12 July 2023