Dave Hone

They live on an ice shelf for six months of the year and can't fly and massively modified skeletons.

And, you know, compared to your average bird, penguins are unbelievably weird.

So, yeah, take an average dinosaur and take it to like penguin level, ostrich level, hummingbird level evolution.

There's going to be weirder stuff out there than we found.

Much weirder.

If you travel back in time, you probably, your mind will be probably blown by the weirdness.

Because those things are almost always in small, isolated places that don't preserve fossils very well.

And so the odds of us

ever coming across them.

I mean, you see it to a degree.

So you've got the stuff that comes out of what is modern Transylvania, Hatseg.

That was a series of islands in the Mediterranean at the end of the Cretaceous.

And some of the weirdest dinosaurs are from that chain of islands.

And that's not very isolated compared to, again, something like Hawaii or New Zealand.

but it's fitting the exact pattern.

You get dinosaurs on islands, they turn weird.

We see that.

Again, dinosaurs were real animals.

Again, sounds really painfully obvious, but they weren't monsters.

They followed...