Cenozoic Dragons: What if the Dinosaurs didn't go extinct?

In this video, I briefly touch on the size limitations of the Avian dinosaurs that survived the K-Pg event and then discuss Antarctolestes Terminus, the lone surviving Non-Avian Theropod of this speculative evolution project.

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  • @SumMfGoober
    @SumMfGoober13 күн бұрын

    This project is really cool actually! The idea of small maniraptoran animals being able survive the KPG extinction event via hiding in Antarctica sounds genuinely realistic, god I love Speculative evolution

  • @druggeddragon420
    @druggeddragon420Ай бұрын

    Dope concept glad the algorithm picked you up

  • @AbelDuviant
    @AbelDuviant12 күн бұрын

    Can't wait for more!

  • @LowTiertoji
    @LowTiertojiАй бұрын

    So just as a tldr is this a world where the extinction event still happened but a group of dinosaurs managed to survive in Antarctica?

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    Ай бұрын

    Yes! I should probably make a short video before the video on the surviving Ornithiscians video. This project will follow the evolution of the 3 clades of surviving non-Avian dinosaurs as they spread out from their refuge in Antarctica into South America and Australia.

  • @acin_grayson
    @acin_graysonАй бұрын

    I am delighted to begin following this project!

  • @solarshdow8657
    @solarshdow8657Ай бұрын

    This is such an interesting concept, I’m eager to see what comes next!

  • @deadpoolrlz9685
    @deadpoolrlz9685Ай бұрын

    are gonna more surviving Non-Avian Theropod outside of Antarctica and southern Australia in this series

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    Ай бұрын

    Antarctolestese and it's descendants will spred and speciate in South America, Antarctica, and Australia with time, but it is the only non-avian theropod that survived the K-PG.

  • @loisthevelociraptor5401
    @loisthevelociraptor540118 күн бұрын

    I love this already

  • @Pelousek273
    @Pelousek273Ай бұрын

    Hey man, You are doing a great job, we need more spec evo.

  • @flightlesslord2688
    @flightlesslord268823 күн бұрын

    in fairness, given how little we know of the fossil record of Antarctica, this is entirely possible

  • @ivanvukasovic1371
    @ivanvukasovic13718 күн бұрын

    How much is known about the fauna of the Antarctica 65 mil years ago? Did you find any niche occupiers that may prevent the dinosaur retaking of the continent? Lovely project, love it, here's a sub from another dino/spec evo fan.

  • @josh26566
    @josh26566Ай бұрын

    This is what I've been waiting for.

  • @blackdragon5274
    @blackdragon527422 күн бұрын

    This is a really nice video, did you do all the art? I like the art style

  • @laurentiuvladutmanea3622
    @laurentiuvladutmanea3622Ай бұрын

    This is pretty cool. I am a fan already.

  • @justinianthegreat1444
    @justinianthegreat1444Ай бұрын

    More. More. More!

  • @KodaCreatez
    @KodaCreatezАй бұрын

    This is a really intriguing concept and a great first episode can't wait to see more of the surviving non-avian dinosaurs can't wait to the other survivors

  • @KiraiKatsuji
    @KiraiKatsujiАй бұрын

    Amazing absolutely amazing. But also is it just me or has this year become like the great beggining of Age of Spec Evo on KZread,

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    28 күн бұрын

    Cryptadia, Project Mustelon, Project Apallo, and Kappa all look really amazing and I'm very excited that more people are bringing their projects to youtube!

  • @wonderman7166
    @wonderman7166Ай бұрын

    Whenever i see a *Spec Evo* that includes birds i always imagine *SERINA: THE WORLD OF BIRDS* it's a spec Evo about finches & fish guppies left alone on a lush planet and left to evolve into different forms over millions of years.

  • @TeethToothman
    @TeethToothman22 күн бұрын

    Heck frackin yes! 🫀⚡️🫀

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic
    @DragonsoftheCenozoicАй бұрын

    Link to Puijila's project: www.deviantart.com/puijila/art/Megistornithids-981684153 Paper on the Troodontid teeth that have become more suited for eating plants www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app55/app20090047.pdf Paper on factors limiting the size of birds, including the pygostyle www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843728/ Paper on the diversity of Enantiornithine birds that demonstrated that while they were very diverse in diet, many analogous animals like the enantiornithine Parabohaiornis and the modern Sandgrouse differed in that the unguals of Parabohaiornis indicate it was an arboreal animal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.18.549506v1.full

  • @cosmicsilver4188
    @cosmicsilver4188Ай бұрын

    Keep it up dude, also you just earn a new sub

  • @thedarkmasterthedarkmaster
    @thedarkmasterthedarkmaster23 күн бұрын

    Dr. Polaris' series was great, shame he canceled it for some reason.

  • @K1ng_Squ1dZ
    @K1ng_Squ1dZ20 күн бұрын

    New sub

  • @akgk6669
    @akgk666917 күн бұрын

    Ah cool where can i learn more.

  • @LowTiertoji
    @LowTiertojiАй бұрын

    I think another reason they didn't get as big is due to competition with mammals as species like terror birds went extinct after direct competition with big cats when the American continents connected. so I think in a world where mammals didn't exist and birds didn't have direct competition they could have grown the opportunity to grow bigger then in our timeline

  • @egg7247

    @egg7247

    Ай бұрын

    Terror birds going extinct to smilodon is outdated. The leading theory is they went extinct to climate change

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    Ай бұрын

    The large South American Phorusrhacids had already been long extinct by the time that Carnivorans arrived in South America during the GABI. The late surviving South American Phorusrhacids like Psilopterus were already the size of a Turkey. The last of the giant terror birds, Titanis, lived side by side with big cats in North America for millions of years after its South American cousins had gone extinct. There's not real evidence that big cats out competed them instead their habitat vanished and they were too specialized to continue.

  • @LowTiertoji

    @LowTiertoji

    Ай бұрын

    @@DragonsoftheCenozoic oh shit really? My bad then

  • @CosmicCaribbean

    @CosmicCaribbean

    Ай бұрын

    To add on, a species of Smilodon did overlap in temporal range with Titanis. However, it and other sabertoothed cats were much smaller than the giant terror bird and only gotten bigger AFTER it went extinct in its habitat. Suggesting that even when carnivorans and giant phoruschracids were contemporaries, it wasn’t not one sided for mammals, it all depends on the environment.

  • @juiceart9199

    @juiceart9199

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@DragonsoftheCenozoic Interesting and correct as well! But there is still a point to be made that the "terror birds" were rather constrained in breeding habits, resource availability and competitive exclusion from macropredatory habits in particular. It's pretty likely that without context shifts favoring carnivoran mammals, or even the complete absence of carnivorans may have allowed them to reach truly enormous sizes (eventually)

  • @maozilla9149
    @maozilla9149Ай бұрын

    nice

  • @wonderman7166
    @wonderman7166Ай бұрын

    I think that the Smaller *PARROTS* 🦜 alive today have a better chance of surviving millions of years into the future because of their complex diets and adaptablity.

  • @samanthabronder9861
    @samanthabronder9861Ай бұрын

    wow ironic i see a new spec evo chnnal after seeing kappa wolrd of turltes a seedwolrd

  • @notakiwi7151
    @notakiwi71514 күн бұрын

    791st subscriber!

  • @dynojackal1911
    @dynojackal1911Ай бұрын

    So this little guy is the only non-avian theropod to survive the aftermath of the K/Pg extinction in this project, while also being the ancestor of any genera that come after. How many ornithischian genera have you decided will also pull through into the Paleocene?

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    Ай бұрын

    Only two genera of ornithischians survived the K-Pg. I was hoping to have the video about them out several days ago, because I had all the art and script work done, but I haven't had a chance to record the audio, but hopefully I will be able to make the recording tonight and get the video posted tomorrow.

  • @dorian4646
    @dorian4646Ай бұрын

    LETS GOOOO NON AVIAN DINOSAUR IN PLEISTOCENE

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    28 күн бұрын

    Still gotta make it through 63.4 million years before we get to the Pleistocene, and it will be a rocky road dealing with the Grande Coupure Extinction and the Mid Miocene Disruption, but we'll definitely get to Dinosaurs in the Pleistocene eventually.

  • @athos9293
    @athos9293Ай бұрын

    insane

  • @Davidpluh
    @DavidpluhАй бұрын

    I already had my own project with Sabretooth Aliorames, Giant Struthiomimids, and some goofy ahh looking giant Abelisaurids. The Meteor still struck the but way smaller and smol dinosaurs survive.

  • @athos9293
    @athos929328 күн бұрын

    hi when does part 2 come out

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    28 күн бұрын

    in a little less than an hour.

  • @athos9293

    @athos9293

    28 күн бұрын

    @@DragonsoftheCenozoic GG

  • @t-rextheorie9115
    @t-rextheorie9115Ай бұрын

    Do you have a DeviantArt page or not?

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    Ай бұрын

    Yes, here it is, www.deviantart.com/paleogeneinvader

  • @samanthabronder9861
    @samanthabronder9861Ай бұрын

    so its next week we see ep 2

  • @samanthabronder9861
    @samanthabronder9861Ай бұрын

    did any of the disnoaurs went to south amercia in the spec evo wolrd

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    28 күн бұрын

    They will.

  • @elshebactm6769
    @elshebactm676928 күн бұрын

    🚬🗿👍

  • @Dem1z_
    @Dem1z_Ай бұрын

    They evo into dragons the ancestors of birds split into another dino group i mean when the were still basically dinosaurs

  • @Dem1z_

    @Dem1z_

    Ай бұрын

    Basically feathered dragons without the fire

  • @samanthabronder9861
    @samanthabronder9861Ай бұрын

    qeastne why your chnnal is name dragons of cenzoric

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    28 күн бұрын

    Many cultures have called fossils Dragon, cyclops, or giant bones. In a world where the non-avian dinosaurs never went extinct it's likely that the term "Dinosaur" wouldn't even exist given how late it was coined so I'm going with dragon for the colloquial name for surviving non-avian dinosaurs.

  • @____2080_____
    @____2080_____Ай бұрын

    One thing that’s far out there, but should be investigated by serious scientist is the very nature of the planet earth itself in a positive agent of evolutionary pressures for these creatures For instance: since modern physics have a loose understanding of gravity, it does not take for account that the gravitational forces on the earth has changed in the past that allowed large animals to evolve those forces no longer exist, and without those forces that exist that allow for dinosaurs to get to how they became, we will forever miss a port of how these forces change them through adaptation.

  • @laurentiuvladutmanea3622

    @laurentiuvladutmanea3622

    Ай бұрын

    There is zero evidence of gravitational changes in the history of earth. Zero. The Dinosaurs got so big thanks to the fact that they had lighter bones, and air sacks tho make their bodies lighter. That is all.

  • @lancekchuptys
    @lancekchuptysАй бұрын

    Yeah though real dragons would have six limbs in total

  • @KodaCreatez

    @KodaCreatez

    Ай бұрын

    Let's be honest if a medieval knight saw a non avian dinosaur they would call it a dragon

  • @Gelatinocyte2

    @Gelatinocyte2

    Ай бұрын

    Wyverns count as dragons, right?

  • @KodaCreatez

    @KodaCreatez

    Ай бұрын

    @@Gelatinocyte2 Not really, they'd likely be the closest relatives to Dragons but they aren't true Dragons

  • @jessejarmon2100

    @jessejarmon2100

    Ай бұрын

    "Real" dragons do NOT have six limbs, because they are not real. They are fictional/mythological creatures and have been depicted in various myths/stories across the globe and throughout human history to have anywhere from 0 to over a dozen limbs. Saying that a dragon HAS to have six limbs in order to be a "real" dragon is just stupid.

  • @KodaCreatez

    @KodaCreatez

    Ай бұрын

    @@jessejarmon2100 No they are correct True Dragons are one of very few "Dragons" to be referred to as Dragons by their native people hence why they are considered True Dragons Most creatures you think of as Dragons ain't Dragons many of them were only called Dragons by Europeans when they were explaining them to fellow Europeans

  • @pierre-samuelroux9364
    @pierre-samuelroux9364Ай бұрын

    Birds are dinos so technicly not all dinos went extinct

  • @MatthewCampbell765

    @MatthewCampbell765

    Ай бұрын

    This is brought up in the video.

  • @CrankyAf
    @CrankyAf13 күн бұрын

    Well, they didn’t go extinct.

  • @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    @DragonsoftheCenozoic

    12 күн бұрын

    0:30

  • @Zekeriyasenturk6513
    @Zekeriyasenturk6513Ай бұрын

    *Your Country??? Dont Be scared it just a Question???*

  • @Alexander-km8es
    @Alexander-km8es13 күн бұрын

    Sorry guys but GWAR wiped out the dinosaurs and the humans killed the surviving dinosaurs but we call them dragons