If *penguinz0* had an animal channel he would sound like this.

@jedihunter176

4 ай бұрын

This is the greatest squirrel of All Time

@user-hu3iy9gz5j

4 ай бұрын

If he embodied the zookeeper and not the excited child visiting this anecdotal zoo

@sunny_muffins

4 ай бұрын

@@user-hu3iy9gz5j true 👍

@FTChomp9980

4 ай бұрын

He does sound like Charlie!

12:06 Danny DeVito being included in the comparison is hilarious 😂

@KrazyKaiser

3 ай бұрын

yeah, that really got me too.

The largest living carnivorous piranha species is the black piranha (Serrasalmus rhombeus) which maxes out at around 60cm. Also red bellied piranhas only max out at 37 cm. Additionally, if you want to get technical, the largest living piranha species is the mainly herbivorous pacu which can grow to over a meter, which actually makes it similar in length to Megapiranha (M. paranensis), but with a more robust build (if M. paranensis was similar in build to the carnivorous species like the red bellied and black piranhas). You even showed a picture of a fisherman holding a juvenile/subadult pacu in this video.

@baldieman64

5 ай бұрын

The tambaqui and pacu are also basically piranhas with a different diet and dentition, and they grow huge.

@thanakonpraepanich4284

5 ай бұрын

I thought I saw on some videos that pacu introduced into Timor, New Guinea and Indonesian waterways are now even bigger, and forced to learn how to be omnivore to live in the new world. They were brought there as farm fish back in the 70's and escaped.

@Welcometothewild

5 ай бұрын

came to comment this lolllllllllllll

@Welcometothewild

5 ай бұрын

damn, im sure they wreak a decent bit of havoc on that native ecosystem ;( @@thanakonpraepanich4284

@baldieman64

5 ай бұрын

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 Pacu are a common fish in pay-lakes in Thailand. The "vegetarian piranha" thing is overplayed. I've caught plenty using meat and fish baits.

I am so glad that my friend Hondari's art is being used in this video. He is such a talented artist and deserves attention for his hard work.

I hope this will become a series, lovely to see bigger versions of today's animals.

@armandonobrega5282

4 ай бұрын

I should see ''Walking with the Beasts".

5:27 - does that dragonfly has a meme smile on its face?! 😂

Any otter or weasel-like animal the size of a lion is pretty scary.

Are we sure that the Kumimanu went extinct because I've heard stories about large penguins dwelling in numbers near certain unspeakable 'Mountains of Madness"

@archlinuxuser

4 ай бұрын

Yog-Sothoth!

@spacerx

2 ай бұрын

Tekeli-li! Tekeki-li!

@Damoinion

Ай бұрын

Well, there some evidence of a very large tentacled creature that has it's breeding ground off our southeastern coastal area so I wouldn't be surprised to find associated creatures hanging around.

"DANNY DEVITO'S THE PENGUIN" OMFG, I'M DEAD!!! 😂🤣☠️😂🤣☠️😂🤣☠️

9:49 Squirrel striking the Heisman pose while trying not to become lunch. 😂

I work in the Pacific Northwest in the bush and I have come into contact with lots of bears several wolves and been stalked by cougars,, but I've also seen lots of otters and I think an otter the size of a wolf bear or cougar could be possibly the most terrifying thing one could imagine

@jeremypreston5009

28 күн бұрын

People underestimate otters, but they're mustelids and ever bit as ferocious as its cousins. I hear people say they want to swim with otters and I'm like "uh i wouldn't recommend it" To be fair i still would lol

I for one, is glad that otters and squirrels have shrunk down to their current size.

@metalmamasue3680

4 ай бұрын

Definitely glad squirrels are smaller. 😂

Several animals that are small today were giants in the past, like birds, pigs, sharks, rhinoceroses, Komodo dragons, among others. Exploring a second part of this topic would be interesting!

@olltraexceptionalcommentor7736

5 ай бұрын

Rhinos are still pretty large today, with some species reaching up to 3 tons. And sharks do get giants still, like the whale shark and basking shark

@Ispeakthetruthify

5 ай бұрын

And some animals that were small in the past, are large today. In fact...the largest animals that ever lived on this planet, live today.

@mikeottersole

2 ай бұрын

​@@Ispeakthetruthify In the oceans, yes. On land, no.

@mikeottersole

2 ай бұрын

​@@olltraexceptionalcommentor7736 I don't think the whale shark is an actual shark.

@olltraexceptionalcommentor7736

2 ай бұрын

@@mikeottersole Huh?

The thumbnail was a good hook

i love this video you're really underrated

Piranhas are actually less aggressive than we imagine

@mattnar3865

5 ай бұрын

Yup, Jeremy Wade got into a pool with them and blood and nothing happened

@rifasclub

5 ай бұрын

They'd still prey in big, bloody targets. Make no mistake, they're still dangerous.

@Makabert.Abylon

5 ай бұрын

Stories of them come from special occasions. Where the jungle flood and then when water recedes it can leave a pool filled with piranhas, after they have eaten everything else and are starving you better not fall in that pool.

@aff77141

5 ай бұрын

​​@@rifasclub an animal is an animal. If a stray dog found its way into a home with a corpse, it'd probably eat it, i dont think that makes the dog any more inherently dangerous than it would be otherwise

Do you plan on covering ancient Mustelids at some point? I think the noodle mammals deserve some expansion upon.

@bingbongbang8895

5 ай бұрын

The otter is a mustelid. 6:25-9:25

@volk4523

5 ай бұрын

@@bingbongbang8895 Hence why I asked on a comprehensive list on ALL Mustelids. I’m particularly interested in the Simocyon, and the subsequent Red Pandas.

@bingbongbang8895

5 ай бұрын

@@volk4523. . .Red Pandas are mustelids? I did not know that.

@jonathanjacob2053

5 ай бұрын

They aren’t mustelids

@volk4523

5 ай бұрын

@@jonathanjacob2053They are quite literally a flagship species of the Musteloidea superfamily... What're you on?

There are many more animals that are tiny today, but in the past, they were giant: Birds, Pigs, Sharks, Rhinos, Komodo Dragons... etc. By the way, nice job! You can do a part two of this!

@AmarothEng

5 ай бұрын

It shouldn't really come as a surprise. You could say that pretty much any living group today used to be at some point in the history, when the conditions were right, much bigger. Apart from filter feeding whales perhaps, who are at their peak (so far) today.

@The.Age.of.Dinosaurs

5 ай бұрын

@@AmarothEng Ok, you are right. Respect your opinion! And yeah, whales are an exception, but they can't be the only ones.

@Madi-rl5sy

5 ай бұрын

Rhinos are tiny😂

@The.Age.of.Dinosaurs

5 ай бұрын

@@Madi-rl5sy The Present-Day ones yes, but prehistoric no.

@Madi-rl5sy

5 ай бұрын

@@The.Age.of.Dinosaurs they are like the second biggest living land animals

this man is like the "chills." of Paleontology KZreadrs

You should have mentioned the current largest species of armadillos, the giant armadillo, which can be up to 5 feet long and weigh up to 180 pounds (although it's usually much smaller, but still huge compared to all other species of armadillos).

I just assume anything extinct must have been delicious.

Squirrel...one in California has become immune to rattlesnake bite! Evolution in progress.... what you think the rattlesnake will do?

What is that thumbnail😭

@hamder

5 ай бұрын

Powerful, that's what it is!

@duncanglen3452

5 ай бұрын

I'm here for the penguin wrestling

@Godzilla00X

5 ай бұрын

You're not refined enough to understand

@KOurboi

5 ай бұрын

Are y’all calling me stupid😭

@KOurboi

5 ай бұрын

I’ll have u know I’m a lyrical spiritual individual

"Danny Devito's The Penguin" is vile 😭

I don't know why, but the idea of giant animals has always fascinated me. Really interesting video!

That's a powerful thumbnail! Perhaps the best I've ever seen on KZread.

@101jir

5 ай бұрын

That was disturbing, albeit in a somewhat funny way.

@TheBlackDragonSS9820

Ай бұрын

@@101jirwhat’s wrong

5:25 modern dragonflies are some of the most effective hunters imagine how terrifying these guys were

@asiy1809

17 күн бұрын

They would need to eat every half an hour because of their gigantic size.

this stuff is so cool id love to see more

I really appreciate the work you put into your videos and for me, it makes me want to learn more and do some weekend researching. Keep up the great work & looking forward to more videos!

I love that the megapirahna was scaled to a hand

I just found your channel and I’m loving it!

That giant armadillo battling the terror bird reminded me so much of an ornithischian dinosaur fighting a non-avian therapod. Convergent evolution is a wild thing.

@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457

5 ай бұрын

Except the giant armadillos are way slower and useless little tail that can only whack careless and dumb predators that come too close to the back side.

Well done... interesting and professional. As always... thumbs up!

Tree Sloth to megatherium, the GIANT Ground Sloth. Komodo Dragon to Megalania.

Why are people talking about the thumbnail

Regarding the giant otter omoensis in some parts of Africa, it is said that the water lion is described as a giant otter, something that also happens with the nunda believed to be a dinofelis.

Underrated channel I’m stoned af this video was lit

when I saw this video I Imidietly thought of the sloth

My brain is so stoked ❤

I got an idea for a video for ya. These three species have very little media coverage but they could be good topics. The Tyto pollens, Bubo osvaldoi, and Ornimegalonyx. I have a very big love for owls and giant owls are just even more interesting to me. Heck, Ornimegalonyx was mistaken for a terror bird upon discovery. Some people apparently have sighted Tyto pollens before and some say it's the inspiration for the legend of the Chickcharney.

Well done. I appreciate your narration, it is well-paced, not too fast or slow, has emphasis where needed and not a monotone reading. I feel this gives your videos a more personal feel, your conveyance of educational information directed at a listening audience that is given time to process. Really enjoyed the video, and didn't mean to critique, simply wanted to let you know what you're doing right.

That otter was dangerously cute

2:48 Praise the sun

A lovely video! I didn't even know about Paenemarmota yet, so I learnt something new! And there are many candidate groups: - giant sloths of course (Megatherium, Eremotherium et al.) - Arctodus simus - Nuralagus rex as the largest lagomorph - Phoberomys pattersoni and Josephoartigasia monesi as giant rodents - entelodonts as giant, carnivorous "pigs" more related to hippos - Paraceratherium as largest rhino-relatives - equus giganteus etc.

@dynojackal1911

5 ай бұрын

Actual supersized suiids lived in Miocene Africa, like Megachoerus.

@vccv9785

3 күн бұрын

❤

My favorite prehistoric otter species I enjoy looking at the fossil I wish they were still a live

3:57 step on it? I wanna surf it through the Jugle.

I tell you honestly I would rather square up to a T-Rex than an 8 foot creepy crawly. This video also needs a sequel.

While fishing in the very southernmost portion of Venezuela, we managed to catch a number of Black Piranha, with the largest I caught over 5 lbs in weight and a foot long. We also caught a number of Red Piranha but the largest was at most, about 2.5 lbs and 9 inches long. While the Reds (and Silvers) were caught in back eddies and isolated pools, the Blacks were caught in very fast flowing rivers and we caught them by chance, while fishing for Pyarraha. We used very large (Husky) Rappala lures and a big Black actually snapped one of these in half on me when it struck! It was only the wire that ran the length of the lure's internal body that kept it attached but I suspect that the fish could no doubt have severed it too had it just been bare wire. VERY impressive fish and also delicious! :)

@jameskazd9951

5 ай бұрын

cool story, i have always wanted to go on fishing trip around South America. I have fished in several states here in the US, even done some ocean fishing in Florida, but South Americas fish are so different from what is up here.

@jeffagain7516

5 ай бұрын

@@jameskazd9951 Thanks. We principally went for the Peacock Bass, which I'm sure you're aware of but with keen desire to hook into some Payarrha and Piranha as well. Also, caught some pretty big catfish and a myriad of other species as well. My Buddy and I were there for two weeks and lived with a village of locals. Trip of a lifetime with a thousand stories attached! Cheers.

People being afraid of millipedes, even giant ones feels extremely silly, as long as you aren't trying to eat them whole you should be fine.

Maybe large and terrifying if actually encountered; the baby Glyptadon looks adorable in this video.

Nice to see GPlates in action for this video.

12:06 omg lol the DC Penguin included lmao

hey dude. a little bit more research will help your future videos. There are multiple species of Piranha today larger then the red belly, including the black piranha, the Rio São Francisco piranha, and the vegan pacu piranha. for the record, the largest living piranha is the Rio.

Hooray, it's saturday! PaleoBINGEEEE!

I’m more shocked by learning how big their modern relatives are

I like how the arthropleura is just the scariest thing in ark since it spits poison that can break armor instantly

Jealous of whoever managed to run that study on how fast the tail of a glyptodont could swing.

The giant sloth is definitely something

12:09 Ok, gotta love that reference!

Maybe the larger counterparts look awesome and cool

If you do a part 2 to this, you have to talk about the kiwi's ancestor, the elephant bird

500 lb apex predatory otters roaming the Savannah .

I was so sure that the giant sloth, megatherium, would make an appearance

Living dying ever changing nightmare earth.

I wish some of these, especially the glyptodonts and giant piranhas (only because they belong to characiformes and i want more characiformes species), were still around today

Can you do a video on the megalictis?

the sloth would have been a great addon to this list

Hahaha 🤣 Danny DeVito’s the Penguin, that’s funny

If you play the computer game Ark Survival Evolved, or Ark Survival Ascended, you will not only be familiar with many of these creatures, but you will have fought and even tamed some of them

Ayy yoo whats was that thumbnail

Man I wish u can do about aelurodon I was unknown canid almost everyone forget it

Tiger fish literally exist today, far more ferocious and aggressive than a piranha and can grow to over 5ft/150cm.

Cool 😎👍💯

Do a video about giant prehistoric birds.

You'll have to do giant beavers sometime (speaking of Rodents of Unusual Size).

I love the prehistoric megafauna animals

Doedicurus basically copied Ankylosaurus' adaptations once the latter was gone, showing how nature pushes animals into the same few niches again and again.

@ruirodrigues2938

3 ай бұрын

Its called convergent evolution, if it works

12:05 i love this image!

If the thought of a giant otter doesn't scare you it should. Otters are smart, vicious enough to fend off jaguars, and sometimes play with their food, which is the true sign of a badass in nature.

Bonus points to biggest penguin for being technically the biggest marine dinosaur

the babylonians drew pictures of a thing that looked like a giant otter, they called it a serpapard I think

Part 2 should include sloths. They had a large effect on their environment.

You said "bone munching" 😂

Wish the Megatherium got a mention here. How they evolved into sloths will go down in history as the biggest downgrade

If I had a time machine, the first thing I'd do would be to try and meet a meganura

the Doedicurus must have been the inspiration for the Mondoshawan in the Fifth Element

4:00 "Giant herbivorous giant" 💀

At 12:05 that Penguin Scale is incredible 😂

15:11 that camel got reach hacks

Oh my gosh 😂😂 on the penguin scale Danny Devito Penguin is on it. Thats hilarious

We have to realise that arthropleura aren't actually millipedes but probably were related to modern day chelicerates. For those who didn't realise yet, meganeura and other meganisoptera aren't at all related to modern day Odonata (dragon and damsel flies) but look a lot alike.

A Giant Herbivorous GIANT is a really funny sentence to me lmfao

4:36 With its size and location in the ecosystem, it would be odd for it to be exclusively carnivorous. It’s body plan would probably function better for grazing since it was low to the ground and armored up, meanwhile if it was a hunter, its size would be a waste of energy since it was the largest land organism at that time.

@LordDany

5 ай бұрын

Good take on the arthlopleura body morphology

Love your videos. Wish I wasn't so distracted by the way you pronounce "varied" and "carrion".

@metalmamasue3680

4 ай бұрын

I had to stop there too and replay it. I wasn't sure if I heard how he said varied right. 😅 I also thought he said something different than genus but it was my ears deceiving me. 😂

There was a camel built like an AT-AT?!

Part 2 please

I think Purussaurus should've been on this list. Caimans today are not known for being large crocodilians and often are kept as exotic pets due to their modest size. Obviously one couldn't keep Purussaurus as a pet...

@hildabumagat2688

5 ай бұрын

He Covered That Already

@posticusmaximus1739

5 ай бұрын

@@hildabumagat2688 Doedicurus was already done before but still included in this video

@hildabumagat2688

5 ай бұрын

@@posticusmaximus1739 oh right I forgot about that

@bartomiejzakrzewski7220

5 ай бұрын

Black caimans can reach 5m and over 500 kg :)

@posticusmaximus1739

5 ай бұрын

Tell me something I don't know

I heard a story once about someone seeing an otter that was 13-16 feet long. I'm curious if you've ever heard of sightings like this?

The information in this video for megapiranha is a little outdated. A study last year showed its teeth were not effective at biting into flesh, but perfectly suited to crushing large nuts. So just like one of the more recent terror bird discoveries it’s probably a facultative herbivore (there’s basically no such thing as a strict herbivore.) Likewise the conclusion about arthroplura is inaccurate. As at least one fossil had a preserved stomach cavity containing rotting plant matter.

@kade-qt1zu

5 ай бұрын

What about Koalas.

@DreadEnder

5 ай бұрын

@@kade-qt1zu was that in the video? I stopped watching after the first 3 or 4

@kade-qt1zu

5 ай бұрын

@@DreadEnder Okay I guess I wasn't specific enough. You say there's no such thing as a strict herbivore, but don't Koalas fall into that category?

@DreadEnder

5 ай бұрын

@@kade-qt1zu actually no. Koalas and pandas have been known to munch on animal carcasses. The latter even hunts.

@kade-qt1zu

5 ай бұрын

@@DreadEnder Really, because while there are instances of pandas eating meat, I can't find anything about koalas.

12:05 - More people need to see this chart 😂