“Never again will life be this large.”

@anindohowlader8377

Жыл бұрын

In land, on water whales are

@xanshen9011

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough the mammal Paleoloxodon Namadicus dwarfed all the dinosaur families excluding the sauropods as the largest terrestrial creature, it was even bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest terrestrial carnivore and Shantungosaurus, the largest non sauropod dinosaur and largest biped to ever walk the earth.

@chaosthebaryonyx6344

5 ай бұрын

Not my brain playing the music as I read this😂

@NashmanNash

4 ай бұрын

But only in weight^^@@xanshen9011

Really nice info video. Very interesting stuff and so well presented. Your video style is perfect

Amazing video! I haven't heard anyone talk about this topic before despite being really interesting, and it was cool to see someone talk about the Lessemsaurids and early Sauropods like Patagosaurus - I even learned about Saltriovenator which I never knew before! Also great to see someone give the correct size for Shantungosaurus at 13 tonnes, instead of the 18 or even 23 I usually see.

I grew up in the village over from Westbury, I've stared at those very cliffs for many years 😅

well done!

Thank you. I've been looking for a while to find a video that covers this so well!

Good

What a fantastic video! I can't think how much work you put into this, but the result was worth every second - great use of pictures, graphs, maps and other visuals, together with a painstakingly researched script. What intrigues me is how the later giant four-legged species evolved from two-legged ancestors whose fore-arms appear to make four-legged locomotion awkward and unable to be sustained for long - the fore-arms being so short and slender (just like a human trying to 'walk on all fours' - we're not adapted to it, so it's awkward and our arms get tired quickly). It would be interesting to know if this change began with a more gracile and long body species, which would use it's fore-limbs to balance against tree-trunks while reaching for higher foliage and so encouraging them to become stronger and longer, which then allow them to more easily evolve into a four-legged form. Or did I miss something in the video covering this transition?

@HodgePodge7

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Thank you so much for your kind words! As for your question: I imagine many of the Plateosaurus-esque Sauropodomorphs would often have to lean against tree trunks to reach higher branches. I'm unsure whether there was a taxon representing the specific transition you mention but perhaps it exists out there somewhere!

Nice. Gojirasaurus is one of my fave triassic animals

Argentina really started off as a paradise for Sauropods, and was still that by their extinction.

As a Scottish fan I think that the aria spanning the eastern half of the central belt to Edinburgh is a Lagersta"tte of the Rhaetian due to a massive lake that existed then. I would love to know what type of fossils one might dream of finding. Verry god stuff 👋 all your episodes.

I have a question, when will you review Walking with Monsters? It's a documentary created by the same creators from Walking with Dinosaurs, Beasts and Chased By Dinosaurs. It is about life before the dinosaurs and the mammals.

@kylecollier7569

Жыл бұрын

He'll do it when it's the 20th anniversary of Walking with Monsters. So around 2025.

What was the music in the beginning. It sounded like the Hatzegopteryx track from Prehistoric Planet. Thank you so much for making such informative videos!

@HodgePodge7

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! All music I use are in the video descriptions.

What is the music you used in this?

@HodgePodge7

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All music used in my videos can be found in the description

@thechameleons7868

Жыл бұрын

@@HodgePodge7 cool

@thechameleons7868

Жыл бұрын

@@HodgePodge7 Thanks

I really enjoyed this. But I've always been utterly dubious about this palaeontological habit of 'reconstructing' creatures based on a few hand bones or the like. If one of my best friends became a fossil and all they found of him were the bones of one of his huge baseball glove-sized hands they would 'reconstruct' him as a ten-foot tall beast. He's actually 5' 8", with short thin legs and little feet. So it's a bit fraudulent I feel.