The Island of Dwarf Dinosaurs | Island Biogeography 3

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: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Paleogeographic maps and animations by C. R. Scotese, for more information: https://www.earthbyte.org/paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates Music: https://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: https://www.deviantart.com/cisiopurple Further Reading / Sources https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-forgot-rogue-aristocrat-discovered-dinosaurs-died-penniless-180959504/ https://www.pteros.com/environments/hateg-island.html https://www.pnas.org/content/107/20/9258?ijkey=d491ecd52cdbce51d07498051f3a9f38cd62ccaa&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/late-cretaceous-animals-of-romania-s-hateg-island-a-more-complex-view/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-dwarf-dinosaurs-of-hateg-island-70517504/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-Hateg-Island-region-present-day-Transylvania-Romania-The-contemporaneous_fig1_299364804/amp https://www.pnas.org/content/107/35/15310 https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/lsr71q/the_animals_of_hateg_island_6866mya/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarosaurus#/media/File:Campanian_Romanian_representative_fauna.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus#/media/File:Longest_dinosaurs2.svg https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Palaeogeography-of-the-Iberian-Massif-during-the-Middle-Jurassic-The-opening-Atlantic_fig1_303852352 https://peerj.com/articles/1341/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus#/media/File:Longest_dinosaurs2.svg https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-romanian-dinosaur-balaur-seems-to-be-a-flightless-bird/