CARBONIFEROUS Period. Animals size comparison and data. 

I knoooowww it took a while, but the Carboniferous is finally here! Let me know in the comments if you knew all these creatures or which one you consider the most interesting. As always don't forget to give this video a LIKE and SUBSCRIBE if you haven't yet. You can also consider becoming a member of the channel for further support, it can be revoked anytime after all ;D you can also leave your suggestions for the long list of future videos

Carboniferous is a really interesting period in Earth's history because it was the transition when the terrestrial ecosystems were noticeably starting to develop into what they are now but with such a weird cast of flora and fauna that it almost looks alien. I should also mention that Rhizodus must have been a terrifying animal. Just image a fearsome fish bigger than the great white shark swimming in the rivers. Now that I think about it there is potential if somebody wanted to make a horror movie involving a time travel to the Carboniferous.

Hot take: The carboniferous is the coolest and most overlooked time period

I love how you made the Petrolacosaurus look less like a modern lizard an depicted it’s proportions similar to other early diapsids.

Such an underrated yet amazing time in Earth’s history!

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Thanks for doing a video on my favorite period of the paleozoic!

i just discovered dimetrodon-like tings not only lived in the permian but with dinosaur and sea monster its epik tbh

The Carboniferous period far one of the most elusive periods that paleontology studies. Since a majority of the period is forest, many of the animals have been lost forever due to acidic soil. Think of the many animals that we never will know existed.

The Carboniferous period is arguably the most under appreciated period of earths prehistory. Many of these creatures were giant insects that are both terrifying and interesting as well some reptiles and amphibians. I kinda wish these creatures didn’t go extinct but at the same time, I’m kinda glad they don’t exist anymore lol. It’s good to see prehistoric animals that weren’t Dinosaurs getting more recognition.

Carbonífero es muy diferente de lo que solía conocer ... ¡y eso es realmente genial!

to everyone with arachnophobia, be thankful. *very thankful*

Awesome video and artwork as always!

Yey now carboniferous!!!,next time do Devonian,that time strange animals existed

Ah yes the Carboniferous period. The age of the giant insects, and the rise of the tree like vascular plants.

0:15 Oh, that doesn't look so bad. ...wait is that the size of a FOOT?!? Oh...

You are the best 🦖👌🏼

Great video I love it very much

Even if it takes a while I’m always happy to see your art, it always makes my day better. Just keep up the amazing work as always. Also for the next video, perhaps a video on abeliosaurus, perhaps a video on extremely obscure prehistoric animals like magyarosaurus and such or actually a twist and make a video on modern animals/ ones that were there in the close past that aren’t now anymore. The last one I got is maybe a video on mythical beasts and fantasy animals for a change.

Hola Mario,hace una"eternidad"des de cuando espero un tal video'!!!!!!!Muchas Gracias y porsupuesto,que tiene mucha Suerte en el nuevo ano!!!!Vesselâm!

El platyhstrix parece una versión cartoon del dimetrodon con esas proporciones

It is definitely an interesting and slightly underrated time period.

Estoa videos son muy buenos

Your videos continue to amaze me! Keep up the great work :)

Cool! Carboniferous era have a very amazing life.

*dimetrodon looking at platyhystrix and ianthasaurus* : my ancestors kinda look wierd

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Excellent job my friend!

You look so calm taking a stroll in the carboniferous. I would be wearing an armor dude.

Very cool video! 👌 A video about prehistoric cats would be also cool 😎

The Carboniferous era is really one of the best and popular era of all, because she very ancient, strange, weird in all aspect, plus a very interesting one and even important and significant in our earth and evolution history since it's was in this era that the terrestrial lands was completely completed and established for the future land animals and that the transaction from sea/water to land has start with importance. Very precious in term of geological aspects, it's, for exemple, from this period that the chacoal we use at little still today begin to transform from the giant trees we can see very faithfully represented in media (like the "Walking with Monster" serie, a good and most know reference). Theses trees was in fact giant prehistoric extinct ferns close to the ferns we know today, not real habitual trees. The carboniferous period was really a era of transition, a sort of crossroads between the precedent Paleozoic eras with almost only invertebrates creatures who were the dominant order and the following Permian and Mesozoic eras were it's the developped and various vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles with birds, mammals) who were and to us even today the dominant order. In term of size dominances, because the invertebrates still the dominant order in term of species number. Still, this was really a time were giant ancient insect and arachnean creatures cohabited with evolved vertebrates who was newly on scene, young and great concurrents. It's like theses fantastic world were Mesozoic creatures and Cenoizoic evolved mammals cohabits together, it's very far-fetched and seemingly impossible, but it really did exist in this particular case. And, plus, like the others Paleozoic eras, it's look really like it's was an other planet, like it's was extraterrestrial. In land, it's was the insects and others arthropods who make the rules, with the famous Giant Dragonfly Meganeura and the Giant Centipede/Millepede Arthropleura, the two most iconics creatures from this time period and very populars ones. There was the Pulmonoscorpius, a giant scorpion, too (there was the Brontoscorpius too, but he lived long before this specie). And here, due to the air level more big and concentrate caused by the high vegetation and trees-ferns, was bigger but ironiquelly very similar in appearance to our modern insects and arthropodes relatives todays. They was just bigger versions of our insects in fact. There was some others vertebrates on land who cohabit with them, mainly reptiles, but there were not very numerous because they jsut begin to appears and was little compare to the most invertabrates. But in compensation, their body has many advantages to easily adapt to their new home. The most famous reptile was little lizard, the Petrolacosaurus and the Hylonomus, the two oldest reptiles know even to this day, but a never know before there was already some mammalian-reptiles in this time like the Ianthasaurus, a Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus relative. Short after diverged from the amphians, the reptiles already diverged into two lineages, the normal reptiles and the mammalian-reptiles who later give the true mammals like us. The rivers and sea was ruled by giants amphibians (who pass the majority of their life in water), also invertebrates mainly the famous Sea Scorpions family like we can see in the video, and the fish order. In Sea Scorpion, who were a close relatives to the true scorpion family we know today, there was the megarachne (showed in the Walking With Monster serie under the name of Mesothelae but it's a current genius of spider, and was portrayed like a big spider thus in fact was a sea scorpion), the Pterygotus, a famous one of the family, and the jaekelopterus, know to be the biggest arthropode that ever lived. But the biggest specie during the Carboniferous was with no doubt the Hibberopterus (the Jeakelopterus lived during the Devonian). The Sea Scorpion lived also good in river that salt water in sea. In the amphibians, there was the Plathyhystrix, a complete terrestrial one who has a sail on the back like the famous Dimetrodon by convergent evolution, the Crassigyrinus (a very bizzare looknig one with and terrific face), the Proterogyrinus (a giant kind of salamander like the most of the temnospondylia and Labyrhintodontia). And in the fish, there was the giant predatory river Rhizodus who was a Sarcoptérygian, the family who include the current primitive and basal fish like Dipneustes and Coelacanth, along with the ancestors of the first land vertebrates. In the sea, there was the Orthocanthus, a fich who was a real shark but who not ressemble a shark at all) and the Edestus (also a shark) and the shark Campyloprion (who was not the famous Helicorpion but the era relative of this later) with their strange weird dentition. It here that the fearsome but majestic order of shark begin, pass the ages and the many global high extinction to us !

You really took your time making this awesome video, but it was worth the wait after over a month since the last video! Now I can finally do a Earths History marathon with your Eras videos! (In geological order that is!) BTW, Think you might do a Holocene size comparison featuring Recent extinct fauna sometime in the future? Please & Thank You!

This video is amazing

Also, a suggestion: If the group isn't too small, maybe you could do one for Azhdarchids?

This is my favorite video from you so far!

Land vertebrates in carboniferous: am smol and defenseless Water vertebrates in carboniferous: CHOMP CHOMP

Carboniferous is underrated.

Very good video. I wonder if you would ever consider breaking up the Paleozoic ocean into the different eras like Devonian and others or the Cenozoic Era video into Paleogene, Neogene, and Quaternary Period.

The paleoart in these videos is absolutely amazing👍👍

Can you do a Jurassic world part 7? (when it comes out this year) Also thanks for 5 likes! I never got that much likes lol. Also thanks to Mario for making all of these epic videos I can’t wait to see what’s next

Make a vídeo about cryptids if You can?

Cualquiera mete el pie en un charco del Carbonífero como haces tú, eh Mario? 😆😆

I’m excited to see the Devonian and the Cambrian

Mario, this is by far one of the most fantastic brilliant paleoart, showcase video.

Happy ney year 🥳

Man these animals look like they've been extracted from 2005 Skull Island or something

Sooo coooool

Excellent work as ever, especially representing such an underrated era - amphibians and reptiles diversifying and evolving, swarms of giant insects, plus so many weird and wonderful fish forms.

I hope you make more videos on other underrated times in Earth's history, like the Devonian or Ordovician, because there are a lot of cool and underrepresented species from those times.

I love your work🦊💓once again💜🇫🇮

Moja ulubiona epoka paleozoiku.

Giant arthropods and amphibians, first diapsids, synapsids and cephalopods, weird fishes. What a nice era.

Wow it's awesome, you have talent, Could you do the cambrian or ediacariamn because first Animals are very interesting

The carboniferous is the time of Giant bugs

I thought you were gone... [Heart attack intensifies]

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Awesome you should do Triassic land predators! They are underrated like phytosaurs and archeosaurs ect!

Reject mezozoic return to carboniferous

Whoa, I had no idea the Tully monster was in the Carboniferous! Given the taxonomic frustration it has caused, I guessed it would be the Silurian or earlier. I'm humored that I'm familiar with almost all the inverts than the vertebrates you displayed. (Arthropods seem to get most of the attention during this time). I also thought edaphosaurids were strictly Permain. Rhizodus would be my favorite here: super cool to know there were monster "coelacanths" back in the day. Thanks for the visual teaching session!

Now my question is… Why did you go there only with a swim suit short and a snorkel? Like there are giant amphibians, eurypterids, and fish, that is as hell dangerous you should at least done like Nigel Marven and brought a shark mail armor, to protect yourself, be cautious next time.

i love all your videos!!!

This is interesting 🤔

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wow

Do amphibian size comparison

me encantan tus representaciones se ven muy bien y detalladas,muy buen video por cierto que programa usas¿

Holy crap, I never thought hibberopterus was that big, I knew it was very heavy, but not that huge

Can you imagine ants being around at this time?

And they say dinosaurs look scary

My favorite period)

Как насчёт сделать сравнение всех динозавров из мелового лагеря у вас очень красивые животные получаются 😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩

2:02 Walking with Monsters in a Nutshell ❤️

Ellen isn't a comedian and I won't budge

Such a useful video! Thank you!

I can just imagine thousands of undiscovered animals because their fossils didn’t get preserved

No sé cómo termine aquí pero me gusta

Imagina fazer um jogo estilo the isle com todos esses animais incríveis em hábitats como pântanos gigantes.

If you think about it bugs got smaller as time went on

@mariolanzas. love your work on these time animal periods

1:57 Arthropleura

Excellent work, it’s nice to have a good size reference for these things since “giant scorpion” or “giant dragon fly” doesn’t easily compare and is pretty subjective, and it’s hard to abstract numbers like 3 meters

This is the best these videos are so useful

Bro your designs is a epic

First to comment Man,ur videos are insanely amazing Keep up the incredible work Never give up

Idea; wait until all the JWE2 dlc is out, then do a comparison like you did for the Jurassic Park/world movies, but this time include the IRL versions in the size comparison crawl, so we can see the difference.

What is the evidence for Arthropleura rising its head like a cobra? Great work! I love the Carboniferous!

0:37 Is that a fish weasel ?

Hai...bro..loved it..❤️ Can I take this video for a documentary in Malayalam?

Great, thank you. The age of big insects/anthropods. Imagine the size of insects in an atmosphere with 50% or more oxygen. ^^

Underrated period

let me guess are you aware of the news of the new discovery of Arthopleura?

truly a wonderful period

horse shoe crab : man my ancestor looked so cool , even had a cool name , like “hibberopterus” and looked big , sheesh i wish i was him

I've been wanting to make a size comparison video for a while now, only question is how to get the scale right

3:11 Holy shit, that buzzsaw shark was definitely the apex predator of its habitat.

What about the paleo rewind?

I like the new Rhizodus head

Um dos períodos mais impressionantes

Que terroficos y asombrosos son esos animales.

3:08, My favourite animal of this period.