I love the skulls of theses whales because they look like something you'd find in a video game that was made up to look as scary as possible.

@akechijubeimitsuhide

10 ай бұрын

Whales in Dishonored have a design inspired by this (although you don't get to fight one).

@youtubebannedme

10 ай бұрын

​@@akechijubeimitsuhideyou get to "save" one though

@flightlesschicken7769

10 ай бұрын

Subnautica Leviathans..

@spitfirebird

10 ай бұрын

They look like the skull of something from a sci-if movie

@Kingjustin1019

9 ай бұрын

Iron Lung anyone?

*“Multiple leviathan class lifeforms detected are you sure whatever your doing is worth it?“*

@EmilySmirleGURPS

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, gonna have to fire up a new game :D

@cow12344

9 ай бұрын

*cocks stasis rifle* No.

@alleredetagetafmig

9 ай бұрын

a person of culture, i sea

@theiviachine

4 ай бұрын

Was looking for this comment

@fishanhunter

2 ай бұрын

“You’re the best captain on the planet, im not even squidding”

Danielle does the most soulful critter illustrations! That "Livyatan" looks so happy! Probably because it's so nice to be brought back to life and remembered when your entire species has been extinct for 9 million years.

@blahanger4304

10 ай бұрын

Still in awe of her artwork

@jeffrasmussen7388

10 ай бұрын

I got hooked on channel because of her art

@Jordy120

10 ай бұрын

@@jeffrasmussen7388 Same here.

@Hotdogwater421

10 ай бұрын

I bet y’all all whales that can go down deep and see everything we can’t. I doubt most these creatures swim around blind it’s just not there nature. I know they can see the darkest of oceans. You can tell by there graceful movements at depths that only subs can go and they fly by with grace.

@SpaghettiToaster

10 ай бұрын

@@Hotdogwater421 Can't see if there's no light

They sound like a leviathan straight out of Subnautica If I had the chance to see any prehistoric predator, it would be this one.

@watershipup7101

10 ай бұрын

A person of culture, I sea.

@waterbullstudios9195

10 ай бұрын

​@@watershipup7101 I sea what you did there. Nice.

@tnargs2693

10 ай бұрын

Who sees who first?

@notinusesoon4975

10 ай бұрын

@@tnargs2693 bruh you broke da chain!!!

@Dan-rw2dq

10 ай бұрын

For me id like to see a mosasaur

Fun fact: Scientists have speculated that Livyatan went extinct due to competition with Orcas, which hunted the same prey but were smaller. This was similar to how competition with Great White Sharks caused Megalodon to go extinct, which was around the same time as Livyatan.

@ellidominusser1138

10 ай бұрын

Lmao, both giants got out-competed by their smaller counterparts

@ultraextraorca7644

10 ай бұрын

That's actually not true at all. Orcas didn't hunt Marine Mammals until after Megalodon and Livyatan went extinct. The prehistoric orcas that they lived wuth were smsller and hsd teeth adapted for hunting fish, not mammals. The great white one is accurate tho. As the climates cooled, Megalodon's major prey sources migrated to colder waters leaving them less to eat. Great White sharks need to eat less so they srivuved while the Megalodon did not.

@jacobbrown1690

10 ай бұрын

Orca pods hunted the meg into extinction

@CollegeBallYouknow

9 ай бұрын

@@jacobbrown1690 What would eventually become the modern orcas only started to develop AFTER Meg died out because they realistically had no chance against a shark of that size

@arminhashtroodi8432

9 ай бұрын

​@@jacobbrown1690That can't be true otherwise the great white would have also went extinct and probably many other shark species

When I learned about this thing recently I was both shocked and annoyed that I hadn't heard of it until then, considering it's the leading contender for the largest active predator in the planet's history. I couldn't understand why such an awe-inspiring beast had so little presence in pop culture. Hopefully with videos like this one giving it some overdue exposure, we'll start seeing more of it!

@strategicperson95

10 ай бұрын

Probably like how with tanks, it's a marketability thing. Like who wants to talk about the Hungarian Toldi tank when you can talk about the German Tiger tank or Soviet T-34 for the thousandth time.

@josiahshea3350

10 ай бұрын

It was discovered in 2008, while the megalodon was discovered around 200 years ago. So that's probably why.

@andrewbowen6875

10 ай бұрын

Lol me too. How did we not know about this amazing creature

@F1ll1nTh3Blanks

9 ай бұрын

You mean "largest active macroraptorial predator" because the largest known active predators still roam our oceans and livyatan is not among them.

@Jimera0

9 ай бұрын

@F1ll1nTh3Blanks yes I do know, but I felt the qualifiers would read as pedantic. Baleen whales may technically be predators but no one really thinks of them as such.

Livyatan is such a beautiful and epic creature that deserves more credit and respect.

@thehellyousay

10 ай бұрын

Deserves? It simply existed. No desert involved. 99.9999999% of everything that has ever lived on this world is extinct,and we've "discovered" the faintest traces of the remains of less than 0.0001% of that. What the living f**k does deserve got to do with anything?

@thegrimstreaker4669

10 ай бұрын

My first thought upon seeing this was, so moby dick was real at some point in time.

@PhyrexJ

6 ай бұрын

Credits? For what? Do you even know what you're saying?

@GlassDolphin465

6 ай бұрын

Fr

The thought of this living around the time of megalodons and maybe even preying on them is interesting

@yellowandbrown1864

10 ай бұрын

Modern orcas pray on whites so livyatins almost definitely preyed on megs. And megs might’ve eaten young livyatins

@migueljardim8177

10 ай бұрын

The two apex predators of the sea. We probably won't see anything like that ever again sadly.

@Nubloot

10 ай бұрын

They’d probably avoid one another. Though if they did end up throwing down my money would be on the whale because of that sweet mammal brain factor. That said a megs bite would probably have been slightly more devastating.

@ninjiango9126

10 ай бұрын

Like Great Whites vs Orcas, but bigger.

@theman9048

10 ай бұрын

​@@Nublootnah I think the whales hunted the shark like they do today

Woah, this Leviathan and the Megalodon were truly the terror of the prehistoric sea.

@user-lq4ct6dr5m

10 ай бұрын

If you wanna know more, The Pisco formation represents the oddness of the Miocene fauna perfectly Not only do we have these two, we also got marine gharials, marine ground sloth, penguins, toothed albatross, double sworded swordfish, and more

@serfranklin6022

10 ай бұрын

Livyatan! She must have said it 70 times in this video, and you STILL.... !!!! 😮🤯😵🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🙇🏽‍♂️

@exalt2674

10 ай бұрын

@@user-lq4ct6dr5m Marine ground sloth and double swordfish? Wow.

@user-lq4ct6dr5m

10 ай бұрын

@@exalt2674 Thalassocnus and Xiphiorhynchus respectively

@exalt2674

10 ай бұрын

@@user-lq4ct6dr5m Thanks

got to see the skull in the national museum of natural history in lima, peru. AND IT'S HUGE

@D.H.1082

10 ай бұрын

Makes it more believable that ancient people finding these thought they were monsters of myth.

I can't get over how good Danielle's illustrations are. I sometimes miss parts of the presentation watching the sketch unfold. Very cool

I am deeply impressed by the channel's artist who creates these meticulously accurate anatomical sketches.

Livyatan would probably have been my worst fear, tbh

@chandekam1826

10 ай бұрын

Mine too, but only because I would not have been able to spell its name.

@Pistolita221

10 ай бұрын

stun with the sonar before those 1 ft teeth get to you, yeah they're OP.

@arjunakorale6166

10 ай бұрын

@@Pistolita221Try 3 foot long teeth, NOT 1 foot long!

@Pistolita221

10 ай бұрын

@@arjunakorale6166 I am the Walrus...

@Scarlet_Soul

10 ай бұрын

@@arjunakorale6166 Psst, 30cm is 1 foot

Title: "This was a leviathan" First words: "Don't call this a leviathan"

Leviathan vs Megalodon is going to be a movie now huh 😅

@TeethToothman

10 ай бұрын

Livyatan**

You and Lindsay Nikole uploading about the same topic within an hour. That's a sign for me to travel to the deep seas

@napoleonfeanor

10 ай бұрын

Don't use OceanGate ;)

@nckojita

10 ай бұрын

right? talk ab lucky!

@ytalgorithmperfected3561

10 ай бұрын

ikr i love animalogic but Lindsay takes the W on this one

@boxy2k8

10 ай бұрын

Ben G Thomas too

Deep dives in a prehistoric ocean must have been quite the experience. One of my favorite marine animals has always been the dunkleosteus with the 2nd either the meg or leviyatan. Life amazes me to this day but I find it absolutely fascinating some of the creatures that have roamed this planet. The mesozoic era was a cool time in earths history and would be really cool to visit the jurassic, triassic and cretaceous periods separately to see how much things changed between each epoch

@zazugee

7 ай бұрын

dunkleosteus looks like a piranha on steroids

It should obviously be called a Shark Whale. (We have whale sharks, so why not ?)

The way she says levyatan boggles me so much, it's like she's trying to imitate a french person, binomial nomenclature gets people talking in such a weird way sometimes

I'm really enjoying these videos and watching Danielle's drawings come together is a fun element.

The thing I like about Livyatan vs megalodon is unlike spino vs rex its an even match and it realistically happened

Not only are the hosts in this channel well-versed, but also stylish as hell

@Makabert.Abylon

10 ай бұрын

Except the pronunciation of the creature itself then.

@76rjackson

10 ай бұрын

She explained that. It's the Hebrew pronunciation.

@Voc_spooksauce

10 ай бұрын

@@Makabert.Abylon You're not paying attention to the videos at all, are you?

@Arin-3

9 ай бұрын

@@Voc_spooksaucethey didn’t have subway surfers in the bottom panel, give ‘em a break.

Animalogic and Lindsay Nikole doing a video about Livyatan on the Same Day? Coincidence or Planned: You decide.

You guys are too damn underrated for such quality content, how y'all won't stop doing it

The way she pronounces livyatan feels very passive aggressive

@jamieholsey1106

3 ай бұрын

Fr!

Wonderful work on the video on Livyatan, my friend. Please keep on the work on your videos on these magnificent prehistoric creatures that we all we love.

If we're doing prehistoric sea creatures I either need a liopleurodon video or anomalocaris, opabinia, or tully monster video. The precambrian and cambrian seas were wild, i would also accept a sea scorpion video!!

I'm still stuck on the fact sailors saw white fluid come from an animal's *head* and we're like "well, that must be sperm."

@RealBradMiller

10 ай бұрын

Naturally.

@christophercox936

2 ай бұрын

They were at sea for three yes….well yes.

@joea.9969

2 ай бұрын

They were prob a rather uncouth bunch

Amazing info for a zoologist... Thanks for all the hard work put into this 😃👍🙏

Very informative video. Loved it. A video about smilodon, showing how it interacted with other predators in its environment, would be great 😁

This is awesome thanks kindly Animalogic!

You are such a great spokesperson and scientist. The scientific community owes you a huge debt of gratitude for making science more exciting and new. Keep up the great work 🤙🏾

Gah, prehistoric oceans are too cool! I love Livyatan, imo it's probably the most powerful single predator to ever roam the oceans, that sonar might be able to stun a megalodon the same way GWSs are stunned by orca and even dolphin sonar? It'd be awesome if you covered Palaeophis colossaeus, imo it's cooler than titanoboa. Almost the same size, but it's a literal sea-serpent. Possibly grippy scales, possibly venomous? Probably one of the coolest snakes of all time, and one of the coolest linnaean reptiles since the dinosaurs.

@alexcisneros2980

10 ай бұрын

Wow! Didn't know sea serpents really existed! Sailors thought the oarfish was a sea serpent but if only the knew there really were sea serpents! Only 38 million years too late! 🤧

@DarthJarJarTheGodlike

9 ай бұрын

Damn, that sounds cool, gotta check it out but yeah Meg vs Livy is basically a coin flip due to Livy having a slight advantage in head to head and Meg having the advantage in a wild battle

@Nobody-su9km

7 ай бұрын

Megalodon had something GWS don't though, they were absurdly faster and way more lethal, the size difference specially in mouth makes meg way more lethal on a single bite, realistically, no animal had a chance against meg in The sea.

@Pistolita221

7 ай бұрын

@@Nobody-su9km IDK if megalodon would be faster than the KO of the whales sonar but meg is still very cool.

@gecko-saurus

Ай бұрын

​@@Nobody-su9km Measurements of Livyatan's teeth and jaws are actually higher than Otodus megalodon's.

me saying "le-VAI-ah-tin" mentally every time she says "le-vee-ah-tun"

@mariusciobanu2025

2 ай бұрын

It drives me crazy

@TheRealAaronSmith

2 ай бұрын

Maybe because she's not saying "Leviathon" when she says that, you id10t. She even explained why. "Leviathon" is assigned to a Mastodon. They can't call two separate animals the same thing, so they named it after the Hebrew translation of the same word/name.

@TheRealAaronSmith

2 ай бұрын

@@mariusciobanu2025 the part that's driving you crazy is that you're wrong, not her.

@laurieb3703

Ай бұрын

​@@TheRealAaronSmithapparently they're both wrong. I looked it up and it's said like "leave-yah-tun". Interesting!

@RevanAlaire

20 күн бұрын

Liv-Ya-Tan would be the most accurate pronunciation.

How long until a film franchise starring Jason Statham comes out called _The Livy_

Animalogic never misses! Beautiful.

Great video as ever Talia 🙂

I like to think they could hold their breath for an hour like sperm whales. But instead of diving deep, they lurked beneath the waves (and possibly thermoclines) so they could ambush their prey

Love the drawing at 6:55! Beautiful style

My favorite whale!!! Thank you Talia and Animalogic!!

I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be pronounced like "leviathan", but with "tan" at the end...not "livvy ottin"

@laurieb3703

Ай бұрын

I just googled it and it sounds like leave-ya-tun

Such great description and depiction❤

Don't give Hollywood more ideas, they already made Meg and dinosaurs living in the same timeframe 😅

the spermaceti is for diving and part of creating the sonar sound

A literal Leviathan!

So beautiful, glad it live in the era without human messing around.

Danielle’s drawing looks like a big smiling beluga. ❤

I’ll forever be waiting for an episode on Microraptor, or maybe one about Caudipteryx, or basically any jehol biota animal, particularly the dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs, and mammals that lived in the formations that form its greater whole.

"The real purpose of the spermaceti" [5:30] is not "up for debate" but DUAL. ie. It is BOTH an echo-location/navigation system, AND a means of stunning its prey/ defending against attack: divers who've been 'clicked' say it feels like being kicked.

Well, this is weird. Lindsay Nikole posted a video about this same whale less than 20 minutes ago

2 videos on one of my favorite subjects can't complain 🤗

Theory: What if the whale in Moby Dick wasn't actually a Sperm Whale, but the last surviving Livyathan? That could explain why it was so aggressive and weird looking.

@dinonuggett2968

10 ай бұрын

They went extinct 5 million years ago so no😊

@nathanwhitmore3980

7 ай бұрын

Says you.

@lackland231

4 ай бұрын

They are definitely extinct

@Doctor-vn8es

2 ай бұрын

There's also the fact that Moby Duck is a fictional story. So, yeah, there's that as well.

@MaliciousMollusc

2 ай бұрын

@@Doctor-vn8es Not entirely fiction. It was based off a real event. The crew existed. And White (probably Leucistic) Sperm Whales have been confirmed to exist too.

SO COOL! I love deep sea dinos/monsters/critters so much

Gracias Animalogic por enseñarnos tanto.

Aren't Killer whales a type of dolphin?

@arjunakorale6166

10 ай бұрын

Yes.

The oceans were even scarier and they’re already scary now.

Crazy that Lindsay Nikole released a video on these guys right before you guys did 😅

By the look of that drawing, it looked more like giant beluga whales, than sperm whales..

When i was eight i was traumatized by the skull of this beast it just looked terrifying and even today im still terrified of this thing

Very nice. Love the artist's renderings. The scared up Jaws/Moby Dick image..Wow.

I'm surprised people aren't aware of this creature. Then again its rarely covered by big channels.

lol Lindsay Nikole uploaded hers minutes before this =P

Cool. More nightmare fuel. Thanks Animalogic.

i learned about this whale from the "Meg" Books. Super cool!

She is great and wow. Never knew about this giant! Awesome me and the nephew thank you and the animalogic team

I Love how Mastodon made an album called Leviathan

What a beautiful creature! I also like what she says about whales. Always eager to learn.

Beavis : Woah! Butt head: She said Sperm...

I love Danielle's Artwork!! Does she have her own site Showcasing her work?

This NEEDS to be in the MEG III when the time comes..

best topic coincidence since Forrest and Dave both did vids on Behe

We all need at least one mellon.

By far the most popular prehistoric whale!

Could you do videos on other sea monsters like basilisaurus, elasmosaurus, or pilosaurus?

I didn't call it a leviathan, you did in the title of the video

My brain keeps stopping at "Prehistoric Sperm" whenever i read the title.

leviathan doesnt only mean huge sea serpent it means any huge creature be it sea or land so both names would be right for this animal

That was really interesting. What about a video on Stellar's Sea Cow? I know it went extinct more recently, but it was such an odd member of the manatee family, and there is still so much we don't know about it.

@blokin5039

5 ай бұрын

It love you in a cosy house with pizza.

This toothed beast did hunt the Meg

The video was fantastic, and what a pleasure it was to not just have a voice narrate, but a beautiful lady.

Can you imagine the amount of untapped fossils at the bottom of the ocean? Such a shame. Hopefully we can reach there one day.

Prehistoric oceans are what gave me my thalassaphobia. I'm looking at you Dunkleosteus.

first lindsay nikole, then animalogic delightful double whammy of Livyatan

Never heard of these before and suddenly I find 2 different videos about them posted within an hour of each other lol

Shout outs to Mother Nature for making sure we wouldn't come across the Livyatan and THE MEG™ out in the real life wild 😂😂

Here's a request for a video on the fascinating Kayentatherium and its Jurassic babies

Two videos on this monster whale in one day? Nice!

Omg you must do a video on the Indian giant squirrel, please someone listen, this looks wild and awesome! Thanks you rock either way!

One of the coolest prehistoric creatures

0:05 Leviathan has never been described as a serpent in any setting...

Y'all should do a video about Morning Glory seeds

Interesting how Lindsay Nikole released a video on this exact same subject just about an hour BEFORE y'all did. Coincidence?

YES, FINALLY, my boy Liv getting some attention

0:35 I was blowing on my screen because I was petting my cat and I thought some of her hair got on the screen🤣

How is this thing not in Ark

Wouldn't mind seeing a video of Hyaenodon Gigas or Amphicyon- the little known Cenozoic predators compared to the Sabre cats

That snout would of sent out a sonic boom also to stun it’s prey, thus snapping its jaws on its unlucky meal. That’s a deep predator.

“Differs” is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable. The word you said is “defers”, which stresses the second.

Drove my chevy-yatan to the levee-yatan

Oh damn they had a funky looking skull