New Fossils that are Rewriting Prehistory | Lindsay Nikole
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We’re not even halfway through 2026 and paleontology is already having its biggest year in decades. Five discoveries just dropped that are rewriting everything we thought we knew about prehistoric life and one of them might be the most insane thing ever found in the fossil record. There’s a new apex predator of the Cretaceous that nobody saw coming.
A dinosaur mystery that’s been argued about for over 165 years just got a plot twist nobody expected. And scientists may have just confirmed the existence of an entire kingdom of life that has been completely erased from Earth no living relatives, no descendants, just gone. These aren’t small updates. These are the kind of discoveries that make scientists rewrite textbooks. The deeper you get into this video, the wilder it gets.
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Chapters
00:00 5 Fossil Discoveries That Are Rewriting Everything
02:11 The Weird Science Behind Why Fossils Even Exist
04:59 Why Invertebrates Almost Never Make It Into the Record
06:21 A 62-Foot Octopus Was Hunting Mosasaurs???
10:01 Everything We Got Wrong About Spinosaurus
14:52 Meet the New Spinosaurus With a Literal Sword for a Head
17:05 The Cutest Dinosaur Discovery of the Year (South Korea)
19:08 The Tiny Guy Who Proved Plant-Eaters Came From Carboniferous
22:30 Wait How Many Kingdoms of Life Are There?
23:33 The 165-Year Mystery That Just Got Way More Complicated
New Fossils that are Rewriting Prehistory | Lindsay Nikole
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@LindsayNikole
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
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@republikadebanana
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
You are adorable
@Bartolomeow69
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Dear UFO conspiracy theorists, we got aliens at home, just dive deeper.
@DJthDem0n666
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Your speech patterns are comfortingly neurodivergent
@kilppa
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
I will be working on casting myself into amber when I die. You are welcome, future paleontologists.
@theradioactiveplayer3461
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
hey y'all should look at the cave brachiosaurus. it's not a real dinosaur, but it's rad (HORROR WARNING)
@Sabagastache
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Interestingly, I was taught that there were 5 kingdoms back in school.
@sachiel197
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
10:50 what a name, what a beard
And the moment you said Munich, I knew what was about to happen.
@mackalarvena2352
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Lovecraft vibes intensify
@chefar
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
it's grim to show a young dead guy in a coffin even if it's AI or from photo stock
@Cliffy_Deluna
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Good lord u saying "top 5" gave me flashbacks 😭
@albertcapley6894
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
First it's "shiver your timbers" then it's "no bone zone" and I thought we were catching a crush in my station … wagon.. why so many mixed signals? (Checks notes) Ohh, it says "how to get fossilized" not how to get "lost in her eyes" that's, embarrassing, that's my bad.😅
(I really did come here for fossils, I swear 😂)
@sarak030
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Spinosaurus agenda is SOO BACK
@chiuzui
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
new patch update
@michaelr7506
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Hot take. The horn on spinosauraus was camouflage for hunting. A fish looking shore side would see the snout as a log and a crest as a tree. Snappy snappy.
@WrathOfPhropet
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
At the end I was like "even cooler than a giant mosasaur-eating kraken? Seriously?" and.. yeah. Seriously. My mind is blown.
@MegaOlavo
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
0.3 seconds in pvz gw lobby music? Im in
@CryptidRenfri
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
"They probably would have tried to use me for sport."
What do you mean by this 😭
@CryptidRenfri
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
I'm stoned as fuck right now and when Doolysaurus popped up on the screen I deadass thought it said Diddlysaurus and I damn near choked on my cone 😭😭😭
@CryptidRenfri
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
My favourite part of 2026 so far is the fact that I got to say to my bf "Babe wake up, new Spino just dropped" and it wasn't a joke.
@procow2274
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Im guessing the ethical dilemma is do we eliminate Mosquitoes?
@Pmr1096
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
3:34 as morbid as it may sound. I would be honored to become a fossil . It’s sounds like an extremely terrifying experience, but the good part is you’ll be in a museum someday and add knowledge to the scientific community. ✨
@SaintPlayGames
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Its sooo cool! I wanna be a Paleontologist but I kinda fcked up my early life and Im working hard so I can go to the University in a couple of years. Please wish me luck because I need it
@MinervaVictrix
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Hell yeah, new Lindsay content AND coffee!
@eS._Te
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Why are you screaming 😂
@xMari_xo
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Why is there an ad in my million years old video.😔
@thelakeman2538
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Keep in mind the whole kingdom classification, at least as shown here makes zero sense phylogenetically. Protists are not some monophyletic group (meaning all of them don't share a common ancestor distinct from plants, animals & fungi) but are in fact paraphyletic with respect to plants, animals + fungi (i.e if you tried to draw a tree including all protists you'll be forced to include all animals, plants & fungi within it to show actual evolutionary relationships).
@Dogboi_Beebo
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
9:42 Maybe the reason we have octopuses today is because they had the dominance to grow tiny. Like the great white, just something to think of. Oh and birds
@LordMondegrene
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
It was an honor to see how you use AI to do paleontology, 14:27 very edjamacational, and probably why lawyers using AI get in trouble.
@old_boy9030
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Reject organic. Become rock
@Keatosis_Quohotos
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
The music choices were so perfect
@spencerricketts8025
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
You got a beautiful bass guitar on the wall!
@Hyena-Princess
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
The Elephant seal Spinosaurus was made as a joke making fun of the controversy over it's possible body plans. The artist who made that design didn't actually believe it looked anything like that.
@RubyFoxworthy
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
such a fun formatttttt pls pls pls do another news segment at the end of th yearr
@ShunzeyBunzer
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
HORRIFIC!
@slipspacesurvivalist9416
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
OMG, prototaxites! NEED MORE NEWS ON MY MONOLITH BOYOS.
@rehnaanliker5931
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
I’ve been lucky enough to see a spinosaurous fossils put together (shout out Denver museum) and I just love how your research and work gives me so much more depth and honestly imagination around animals and the past.
@illiterate.ink.
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
r u bald> i am too. its k
@Ox1Dou5
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
I'm going to eat a 200mg cookie and watch this. Thank you
@RedSkwerlFlag
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Just grooving to the Zoo Tycoon music 😂
@owenhill553
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
i just did 5 months at Hokkaido University, its so cool to see research coming out of there
@iamsuzerain3987
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
Thanks for the vid Lindsay, enjoyed watching❤👍
@VasiliyOgniov
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
23:18 – what the actual fuck? Why am I learning this only now?! It looks like plant, feels like plant, works like plant. If not plant, why so plant-shaped?!
@ireworks2007
June 23, 2026 at 10:39 am
i cant get over how the tyrannoroter looks like a big bunch of grapes omfg