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If you like reading you could check out this book by Chris Stringer, I think it has a different title in the US. He is one of the anthropologists that feature in that video, it is a good read, really easy to get into(if you like reading). It is really fairly balanced and looks at competing theories pretty objectively. It is a good modern look our recent evolution. Pick it up from the library if they have it!
https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Survivors-Came-Humans-Earth/dp/1250023300

I really like this sort of stuff, to me it is one of the most interesting and epic of journeys.

Screenshotted this image from a kindle edition of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaur-Facts-Figures-Theropods-Dinosauriformes-ebook/dp/B07JDK7R9Y/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dinosaur+fact+and+figures&qid=1566897882&s=gateway&sr=8-1

The arts pretty good but I caution using it as a scientific source. I am not an authority of dinosaurs, I'm just a dude with too much time of his hands with a bachelor's degree in unemployment, but I can't help think that this book had a few inaccuracies, stuff like stating a carnotaurus only had a bite force roughly four times greater than a humans, implying that female tyrannosaurus' were larger than males even though I am fairly sure that there is no evidence that was actually the case, and I think a few of the dinosaurs here are bit oversized, like the gigantosaurus. I am fairly certain that the only way one can achieve an 8 ton estimate for gigantosaurus is if you use fragmentary remains and if you are somewhat liberal with your methods. But again, I am just a dude that likes dinosaurs so I could be wrong.

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen old paleoart, but the idea was that Sauropods “walked” along the bottoms of lakes and rivers eating soft plants on the bottoms and then used their heads as snorkels just like I said. Again, just like I said, blue whales aren’t breathing underwater, they are breathing on the surface. Water pressure increases exponentially, even though Blue whales are much more massive, it doesn’t matter. I’m not making this up, this is a quit commonly understood biomechanic that was taught to me by my Paleontology professors and pretty awesomely conveyed in this great book that you can buy and educate yourself with. Also, maybe work on your conversations skill my guy.

https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Textbook-Spencer-Lucas/dp/0231173113/ref=asc_df_0231173113/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312168166316&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15399275414861717072&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1026489&hvtargid=pla-471552448217&psc=1

Oh, god. His "Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials" is an old favorite. I forgot how much I loved that as a kid. Need to order my own copy now.

I have this. I like it, and it is fun to thumb through it. But as another user said, shit gets discovered pretty quickly though.

He did a whole book of paleoart a couple decades ago! An Alphabet of Dinosaurs . My favorite in there is the Oviraptor. When many reconstructions at the time depicted it eating eggs, Barlowe wanted to show some different behavior, painted it munching on a crab.

It’s from the book, the alphabet of dinosaurs. Illustrations were done by Wayne Barlow.

For the Amazon page, please click here: https://www.amazon.com/Alphabet-Dinosaurs-Peter-Dodson/dp/1596875127

This looks like it's John Sibbick's work from The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs.

That's because it is. These are both the Dunkleosteus made by the company Schleich.

Edit: Here it is on amazon.

U/kreugs said it earlier, its this one!

MeatEater

It’s mostly focused around hunting, but they have some really interesting guests on the show that talk about a wide range of topics around conservation, cooking wild game, and sometimes history.

But the guy he was talking to about is an evolutionary biologist that wrote a book about animal weapons (teeth, horns, claws) and makes a lot of comparisons to modern warfare and how it follows the same paths as nature.


https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Weapons-Evolution-Douglas-Emlen/dp/1250075319