- See? Spared no expense.
Whoa, no no, don't attack the camera.
Why don't you go out in the hallway
and look for a Gallimimus to eat or something like that?
♪ Fire, a fire on the mountain ♪
And we are rolling!
What's going on coyote pack?
And welcome back to Howlin' with the Pack.
I'm your host, Coyote Peterson,
but then again, you guys already know that.
Now, what I love about this series is I try to ramble
for 15 minutes without any cuts.
There's no edits, this is as raw as it gets
when it's me talking to the audience.
It's a new series that we've just started recently,
so maybe you've seen it before, maybe you haven't.
If not, thank you for joining us.
This one is going to be extra cool,
because it is all about dinosaurs.
Now as you guys know, or I've hinted at in many episodes,
dinosaurs are like my thing.
I'm a dinosaur fanatic.
If you'd actually visit the Brave Wilderness office,
you'd find dinosaur artifacts all over the place.
Whether it's posters or toys, or you name it, we've got it.
In fact, we even have an office dinosaur here in the office.
Blue! Oh there, she is.
What's up Blue? How you doing?
See? Spared no expense.
Whoa! No, no.
Don't attack the camera.
Why don't you go out in the hallway
and look for a Gallimimus or something like that?
I'll tell you what guys,
cleaning up after Velociraptor is a dirty job.
Oftentime, I make the editors actually clean up her poops.
They're big poops, trust me.
Now like I said, today is all about dinosaurs.
And recently you may have seen a video
where we un-boxed Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
toys from Mattel.
Loved being able to make that video.
It was our first unboxing and at the end,
we said we were going to give away the super colossal T-rex.
So right now, I'm going to announce
the winner of that prize.
Congratulations to Dragoness Animations.
Now, Dragoness wrote in with an awesome response.
We're gonna actually put it up there on the screen.
And the reason that we picked Dragoness's answer,
or I guess comment, was that they want the giant T-Rex
so they can actually go out in their backyard
and work on some art.
So we thought to ourselves,
here at the Brave Wilderness office,
well how cool would it be if Dragoness
either took pictures of that T-Rex in the environment
or did a painting or coloring,
or whatever you might do with the big T-Rex,
and then sent it to us?
We could open up that mail on a Base Camp episode,
and then of course it becomes full circle.
So I have it right here, Dragoness, congratulations.
The super colossal T-Rex is yours.
Now what's cool about this toy,
is that not only is enormous, the largest T-Rex,
the largest Jurassic T-Rex toy that's ever been made,
but it's also capable of eating other toys.
So, as a bonus, we're going to throw in a toy Gallimimus
and also Blue and Owen.
Now, I dunno that you really want to make the T-Rex eat Blue
cause Blue's kind of a hero, and if you eat Owen,
then Owen couldn't take care of Blue, so maybe these guys
can film the T-Rex eating the Gallimimus
and then it would be sort of like the scene
in the first Jurassic Park movie where the T-Rex
eats the Gallimimus and Grant and Tim and Lex all watch
and Tim says "Oh, look at all the blood!"
Yeah, you guys remember that scene, it was awesome.
And speaking of the original Jurassic Park,
we just recently celebrated
Jurassic Park's 25th anniversary.
I know I've debuted this toy before on the Base Camp set,
but that is my T-Rex that I had
from when I was a little kid.
This is the original 1993 Jurassic Park T-Rex.
I got it for Christmas when I was in sixth grade,
and to this day it still lives in my office
up on the top shelf next to my Emmy award.
Believe it or not, I value this toy as much as an Emmy.
Okay, now I have a huge announcement to make today.
Like, one of the biggest announcements
that we've ever made on the channel,
so stay tuned we're gonna get to that at the end.
But first, I made a post on Instagram this morning,
this cool picture of a T-Rex's snout
with a T-Rex skull in the background,
and asked you guys to send me some questions,
so that I could answer them today in this episode
and I've got them right here in front of me.
We have lots of great questions, I can't answer them all,
but I'm gonna go through a couple,
before we get into the announcement.
So, okay here we go.
This first one comes in from Gabriel Bradley,
and Gabriel asks
"How many teeth does a Tyrannosaurus Rex
"have, and also how powerful would it's tail have been?"
And a T-Rex had around 50 teeth, but scientists don't know
exactly how many teeth T-Rex had
because at different points in time,
they actually were losing teeth.
So there's never been a T-Rex skull that's been discovered
that had all of it's teeth, but it is around 50.
Similar to many different crocodilian species,
as the Tyrannosaurus is growing, you have to imagine,
if it's eating a Triceratops,
it's not just eating the flesh,
it's also eating bones and cartilage,
so occasionally those teeth would break,
and another tooth would grow right in.
Now as far as the tail and how powerful it would have been,
I imagine pretty powerful.
And original interpretations of the Tyrannosaurus Rex
had it dragging it's tail, but now scientists think
that they actually used that tail for balance
to help it when it was moving through the environment.
Now, whether that T-Rex was running or just walking,
that tail is used to help keep it steady
as it's moving through all the underbrush,
or of course in an instance where
it's fighting against another dinosaur.
I imagine you could shift that tail very quickly
to get it's body to spin around to get into attack mode.
Great question, Gabriel.
Now, this next question comes in from,
and I had to pick this one, from E.T., the Extraterrestrial.
That's an awesome screen name.
As you guys know, I'm also an avid Steven Spielberg fan,
so calling out to E.T. was definitely
necessary in this episode.
Now E.T. asks "Name a few animals still living today
"that were around even during the time of the dinosaurs.
"Love your channel."
Thank you, E.T. I hope that you are enjoying
the Brave Wilderness channel from way up there in space.
Now, two animals that we oftentimes feature
on the Brave Wilderness channel that were certainly around
at the time of the dinosaurs are crocodilians and turtles.
In fact, those creatures have been on the planet
for millions and millions of years
before the actual dinosaurs even existed.
So, as we know, dinosaurs were in the Mesozoic era,
the age of reptiles, during the Triassic, sorry,
during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
See that, there's no cutting guys.
Every once in a while, I am gonna flub a line,
and then I have to go back and repeat it.
Now, crocodilians and turtles
were certainly around during that time,
as well as a number of other
small little reptilian type creatures.
So, you know, for us to be able to talk
about crocodiles and turtles seemed proper for this episode.
Now we do know that mammals started to sort of appear
towards the age of the Cretaceous period, or hypothetically.
I know they have some fossils of much smaller mammals
being around at the time of the dinosaurs.
These might have been things like raccoons or opossums.
Definitely things smaller than like saber-toothed cats
or things like wooly mammoths.
All right, let's see, moving on from there.
This next question comes in from Jose Arias.
Now, Jose asks "What did the T-Rex use its tiny arms for?"
Hm, that's a great question.
Now we do know that the T-Rex had tiny arms.
Now I oftentimes see a lot of jokes and memes going around
where it's like oh, dropped something on the ground,
and then ask T-Rex to pick it up.
But believe it or not, scientists think
that the T-Rex's arms were incredibly powerful.
In fact, just a single arm could curl,
if a T-Rex were to curl, around 450 pounds in weight.
And what they likely used those arms for was actually
to grapple on to their prey when they were attacking you.
Even though they were that short,
when a T-Rex grabs on to something,
it's then able to tear with those claws,
and also hold something in position,
while it rips off chunks of flesh.
So believe it or not guys,
they do think T-Rex's arms were quite useful.
All right, last question, because then we need
to get into the important thing,
which is this giant announcement, and I know you guys
are excited and waiting
on the edges of your seat with anticipation.
So our last question comes in, and I love this screen name,
this one comes in from cleverfangirl.
Cleverfangirl asks "What sparked your interest
"and excitement for dinosaurs?"
Now, I chose to end on that question,
because as most of you know, or anybody that's around my age
we grew up on the Jurassic Park franchise.
I will never forget the moment
that I saw the Jurassic Park trailer,
or where I was the time
that I first saw that incredible film.
I was a huge fan of dinosaurs
long before I saw Jurassic Park though.
Where my interest originally began, was actually
at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
I'm from Cleveland originally,
which I think a lot of you know.
I live in Columbus now.
And as a kid, my mom used to always take me to the museum
where I would look up at this amazing Allosaurus skeleton.
They also had a T-Rex skull, so I admired that as well.
But the Allosaurus skeleton was just so massive
and so dominant, I would just always envision
what it would be like to be back in the Jurassic
or the Triassic or Cretaceous periods
and see one of these large animals
out there in the wilderness.
So, I guess it's probably a good time
to make the announcement.
I'm so excited to get this out.
I know that a lot of you follow us on social media,
whether it's Instagram or Facebook or Twitter.
And if you don't follow us at bravewilderness,
or at coyotepeterson, and you will see
a lot of great updates that are coming with the channel.
We're looking to diversify the channel.
You guys know that we have Blue Wilderness,
coming out very soon, but another brand new show,
that we just finished filming the first six episodes of,
is called Beyond Dinosaurs, our very first dinosaur series.
Now Patrick Brickman, our phenomenal graphic designer
just recently finished the logo.
And that's part of why we're making this announcement.
So let's pop the logo up here in the corner.
There it is, Beyond Dinosaurs.
You'll see it's very reminiscent
of the Brave Wilderness logo or the Blue Wilderness logo.
They all sort of live together in a family.
But Beyond Dinosaurs is a project that myself,
Mark and Mario have been aiming to make
since the start of the Brave Wilderness channel.
Now recently we've had the unbelievable experience
of getting to travel to South Dakota,
where we worked with renowned paleontologist Peter Larson
at the Black Hills institute.
Now Pete is just one of the nicest,
most unbelievably generous with his time
sort of guys that I've ever had the chance to work with.
I've been a fan of Pete's since I saw the movie Dinosaur 13,
which is all about the discovery of
the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton known as Sue,
which you can actually go visit at the Chicago Field Museum.
We worked with Pete for a week on going behind the scenes
at the Black Hills Institute, going out into the field
to search for fossils and the ultimate goal
was to show you guys and tell you guys,
what happened to the dinosaurs, where they exist today,
and then what a fossil's journey is from the ground
ultimately to presentation in a museum.
This series is gonna be absolutely phenomenal.
The first episode kicks off in September,
and it's all about the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Which is Pete's favorite dinosaur,
it's my favorite dinosaur.
I know a lot of you out there watching
absolutely love the T-Rex.
Of course we love Velociraptor, Triceratops, Brachiosaurus,
so many of these other species.
But we chose to launch the series
with the iconic Tyrannosaurus Rex.
So stay tuned guys, that series is just about to debut.
We've got a really cool animation in the works.
And certainly many more episodes about that dinosaur series.
Off of that dinosaur series, about that dinosaur series?
Many other episodes following within line
from the original episodes
that will make up the Beyond Dinosaurs series.
That's a tongue twister, you know it's challenging
to actually talk for 15 straight minutes.
I think I'm probably, probably getting close
to our time here, but I know you guys probably have
a million questions for us about the series.
What do you think about the logo?
Write in the comments section below, tell us what you love,
tell us what maybe you would have done different,
and get excited for the animation,
because that is also coming soon.
Well guys, the Beyond Dinosaurs series is almost here.
It's gonna be launching on the Brave Wilderness channel
in September and I can't wait to share
all these prehistoric adventures
with each and every one of you.
I'm Coyote Peterson, be brave, stay wild.
We'll see you on the next Base Camp Adeventure.
Mm, I think that was just under 15 minutes, pretty close.
Hey Coyote Pack, if you can hardly wait
for our Beyond Dinosaurs series, travel back in time
and watch the episode where we found a pathway
of prehistoric Dilophosaurus tracks.
And don't forget, subscribe, so you can join me and the crew
on our next big adventure.