I’d rather make out with a great white then be alone with Amazon River dolphins. Researchers in that are are often specifically told to get out of the water if they see them. At least if the great white attacks me it’ll be for food, those things would drown me for fun
@@coryfice1881 It's not all about looks, or being "terrifying" to the human mind. It's about survival. Modern dolphins and their direct ancestors, were obviously more adapted to long term survival, than the species of dolphin in this presentation.
penguins doing necrophilia, dolphins who torture their victims for fun, seaotters kidnapping kids of their own, all my childhood pets turn out to be horror monsters O_____o
Thrilled to see my depiction of Ankylorhiza used!! (First photo in the video of it and the skull) I've loved your channel and happy to be a small part of it now!!
I really hope that channels like these that talk about more obscure prehistoric creatures get more attention since prehistory as so many fascinating creatures like this predatory dolphins.
Trouble with the fossil finds is they can pretty much make the fossil say what ever they want within reason and still have no idea what the creature was like originally. How many times have they changed what this or that fossil creature was like? I think there is far too much guess work and wishful thinking.
@@vikingskuldthats what makes it fun tho, being able to theorize about the animals from the past of course we shouldn’t take any of these videos as solid proof or an indiscutible truth (:
@@key1131 such wisdom, you would be surprised at the number of people that will watch any video and take is as absolutely true. There is so much in academia today that isn't right from over zealousnes to jealousy and fraud. I just try and give a difference of opinion.
The art in the thumbnail of this video where a prehistoric dolphin attempts to eat a prehistoric monkey is based off the 1778 painting, Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley, and after finding this out, a British merchant later Baron named Brooks Watson was attacked by a shark as a 14-year old cabin boy in Havana, Cuba in 1749 where his rescuers successfully got him out of the water after he was attacked after three attempts. The story was well known and helped Copley paint the picture and it still exists in DC's National Gallery of Art.
Found this channel by total chance (don't really watch content like this usually) and I cannot overstate how much fun it has been to watch! It's been a huge help too in my own creature creation as it gives me some fresh and cool perspectives on bone structure and specialized adaptations! LOVE it! Keep up the great work!
They are evil creatures. They grape animals, use other animals to get high, They torture poor sharks for fun. Yet mojang thinks they are more worthy of being added over sharks. (for hypocritical and dumb reasons might I add) fucking hell man. Even in gaming the sharks are being denied access. Yes I am aware this is a bit offtopic but I am still mad about it because We need sharks to rise the frick up.
Not to be disrespectful of your take, but it seems to make more sense that the front facing teeth were used for rooting in the seafloor, and the tooth damage and bite power would make more sense if it was chomping through something tough. My guess is that it had a regular diet of mollusks and the like.
How do you get purchase to do that underwater? I can imagine a walrus doing something like that, with its body weight and size, and locomotive ability, but not so much a dolphin, but those outfacing teeth tend to converge with other species that specialise in catching fish
5:45 the bite force. Watch that part again. Besides, unless those mollusks were 3 or 4 feet in diameter it wouldn't need that bite force or "digger" teeth.
@@houselightkellIt is not. Tedious means something is tiresome and monotonous; painstaking means that something is done with great care and thoroughness.
Odontocetes (toothed whales) first emerged at the start of the Oligocene, and it wasn’t long before they too produced some scary marine predators. The most successful and famous would be the various lineages of raptorial physeteroids-the “killer sperm whales”-but they were far from alone. One of the first odontocetes to function as an apex predator was Ankylorhiza tiedemani. At around 4.8 meters long, this animal was the largest odontocete from the Oligocene, and had one of the most formidable sets of jaws and teeth; its jaws were more heavily built than in its smaller relatives, and its teeth were not only robust, but equipped with cutting edges both front and back. The anterior incisors at the very tip of the jaws were especially large, and they protruded forward to the extent they would likely have been visible even if the animal’s mouth was shut. These were not the teeth of an animal restricted to small fish and squid that it could swallow whole. Ankylorhiza was eating larger fish, sharks, and other cetaceans. For the entire history of cetaceans as a dominant group of marine predators, they were facing competition from a less diverse but equally successful group; the otodontid sharks, most of which are nowadays considered a series of descendants belonging to the genus Otodus. During the Oligocene, the otodontid shark that acted as Ankylorhiza’s rival was Otodus angustidens, which was large enough that it may actually have been capable of preying on Ankylorhiza, though for the most part they likely hunted similar types of prey. In the following Miocene epoch, other lineages of odontocetes (including new lineages of raptorial physeteroids and large squalodonts) would take up Ankylorhiza’s legacy, while O. angustidens would quickly produce two larger descendants-O. chubutensis, and the infamous O. megalodon.
Unrelated to the video, but today I just learned that there was once an extinct species of goat that lived on Balearic Islands that was not like other mammals in the world. For once, it was cold-blooded and have forward facing eyes like a predator 😲
@@Manglerfan Thanks. It is proposed it was cold-blooded to survive on the small amount of food on the island. Nothing more concrete to base that theory on. It is doubtful it actually was cold-blooded.
Interesting that it had such a limited range. That probably means that there are extinct species like this around the world waiting for someone to discover their fossilized remains, but if the potential area is so small then we may never find them.
@@outdoorfr3akPlenty of other animals also engage in r*pe, cannibalism, p*dophilia and even bestiality lol... I dont think it's fair to judge dolphins because of this when it seems to be almost universally accepted/widespread among all animals
So pretty much the ocean a few million years ago had giant megalodons and sperm whales, that battled with each other, killer dolphins, sea crocodiles. And people think hells aquarium is dangerous.
In the 80's comedy "One Crazy Summer" there was a subplot about how a studio was making a Jaws ripoff featuring a mutated killer dolphin and the animatronic looked just like this animal.
I remember talking to a marine specialist years ago who said Dolphins are extremely unpredictable and that she always felt safer in the water with sharks over dolphins.
That could just be because sharks = very potential death, dolphins have better press, so we don't put them in the shark category mentally? But yeah, shady bastards. Even ancient Greeks knew you had a 50/50 chance of being helped to shore or pushed further out to sea by them.
8:15 - 8:20 he talks about how they’re only found in one small area? He forgot about the very common behavior of marine mammals to migrate to specific areas to breed and likely die. These dolphins didn’t have a restricted territory, they’re probably just being found at one of these spots they would migrate to (Edit) In fact, I’m almost positive that these dolphins are identical to modern dolphins in this way. There’s no way in hell an apex predator with speed on its side would only be in one small area. It might have hung around there often for the abundance of food in the warm surface waters, migrated there to breed, maybe even die, but it probably didn’t live there exclusively
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"Dolphins used to be terrifying" bro never seen what dolphins do to sharks and small aquatic animals if given the chance, like there are just chimpanzees of the sea.
I would argue that dolphins and orcas are pretty much the ocean equivalent to Humans. highly intelligent and complex, different tribal pods with their own languages and traditions, Using tools, getting High and killing animals for the fun of it, and absolutely dominating their ecosystem
Oh man okay wow I’ve seen a lot of scary shit in the fossil record, but Ankylorhiza’s mouth might be the scariest thing I have ever seen. Absolute nightmare fuel.
It is amazing to sea these artistic imaginations. Even though they obviously they aren't scientific and are purely fictional, they help us imagine what the possibilities could have been.👍
I live in a location with lots of bottlenose dolphins. They are wild animals and dangerous to humans. Especially those who have been fed by humans and become aggressive with others because they associate and expect food from them. When it’s not forthcoming, they get angry and aggressive.
