since i played scorched earth on ark ase im not able to sleep i do too much nihtmare bcs of the deathworm i got kicked from megatribe cuz i was too scared to farm black pearl on map for us to get tek replicator help
Great video. Always wanted to see something like this series! I was/ am a huge nerd about anicent creatures (Mostly Aquatic Reptiles and "Insects" from the Carbon) but lost interest over time. Currently I am rediscovering ark and my love for such things. And videos like this one are exactly what I love to watch while doing metal runs or similar boring tasks! Loved it!
Maybe I'm crazy but it shares a shocking amount of visual similarity to pug moth caterpillars! The grasping limbs on the front are what tipped me off to it
@@skwirrelle and, they're ambush predators too! It might not have been intended but i think they're strong competitors for what it could be related to! Maybe neotenous like axoltols? 🤔
"But the real ones were no less impressive" Sure if you look at them from a kinda "everyone is special and I love you just the way you are" point of view.
not the most comfortable video I've ever put together tbh, although I was pretty intrigued by how similar the bobbit worms head is to the deathworms. Thanks Dom
Of course this thing was real. The creature with the 2nd most powerful bite of all time, yes even more powerful than the trex but not as powerful as the megalodon
Oh god when you showed the real life footage of worms I freaked out, they freak me the hell out 😨😱😂😂 BOBBIT WORMS, such a cute name for a gross creature
@@skwirrelle it’s a less recent find so I’m not too sure if it’s a valid genus anymore but Trey the Explainer did a video on it if I remember correctly.
@@SkorpSam I wondered if they meant that, and it's the next video, but it's not really a croc in the game. The kapro is the one that lives near the water.
love the deathworm! did you know in its original concept art there are baby and juvenile forms implying it was going to be tameable and breedable at one point
what's even cooler is the taming method was going to be you need to find & kill an alpha Deathworm because its guarding a "nest" containing their blueish sand grain sized eggs & to incubate you needed a Vessel(Salt storage jar) after incubation there would be a "gestating" period in which the Vessel would violently shake as the baby Death Worms ripped each other apart until only one survived & bursts from the Vessel, Requiring the player with bug repellant to tame it with Mantis eggs or Death work horns. This OG concept breeding was ripped from dune with the glowing Blueish sand grain sized eggs, & a Reference to the Japanese insect jar curse where in you place 100 poisonous insects in a jar & burry the jar for 10 days under the targets bed room, & dig it up to find the strongest insect to curse your target.
I know the next video was meant to be on Procoptodon, but I've had massive writers block for writing that script - so you have a video on the Deathworm instead. Procoptodon video is still on the way but next time we'll be looking at the Fasolosuchus.
Sometimes Ark wants to add a fantastical prehistoric creature that we see in fiction (Giant bugs! Super Bats! Island Carrying Sauropods) but tacks on an unfitting prehistoric name to it. And usually its because what they're envisioning doesnt exist. It's to be expected at this point that Ark creatures are scaled up by like 2 times, sometimes 3 or 4, but stuff like Desmodus and Rhyniognatha barely have any size to back up their depictions. Arthropluera, Pulmonscorpius, Meganeura, even if oversized, could honestly be bigger to fit the fantasy of the island and few would complain. If the sizing was consistent, Rhyniognatha would be the size of a raptor.
😮 "Launch" and "new" HAHAHAHAHA No! Ya'll just new and I'm to broke atm to drop a $100 buying all this shit again. Did it once with beta from pc to xbox before Scorch first launched in 2017.
