Extinct & Enormous: The Massive Marsupials of Australia

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This week, we'll be exploring the rise and fall of the incredible megafauna that used to roam Australia; from 3m tall kangaroos to giant wombats. We'll discover how just one species of small marsupial evolved and radiated to create an ecosystem of giants.
Nature Atlas is a brand new Zoology channel, showcasing some of the most incredible animals, ecosystems and cutting-edge research zoology has to offer. Future videos will cover unusual but fascinating research that is currently ongoing in the zoological field as well as exploring a menagerie of different animals; The anatomy and mechanisms that allow them to survive, how they evolved, and the ways humans are changing how they live.
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@mr_freesoul 4 года назад

Here after, Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens.

@rakeshtikait3830 4 года назад

same🤣

@wirdarasid4623 4 года назад

Same

@razeenasief3396 3 года назад

@steveprescott4716 3 года назад

Hahaha

@kentendo6453 3 года назад

FFS... same here 😅

@staytuned4521 5 лет назад

For someone who's fascinated about paleontology it's nice to see a new paleo related channels like yours. youtube needs more paleontology related channels like you.

@natureatlasfilms4176 5 лет назад

For anyone wondering where I am; these two videos I made opened up an incredible opportunity for me which has been taking up all of my free time for almost a year now. But I've not forgotten Nature Atlas; I'm really keen to make a comeback so please hang around. It will all be worth it! Thanks guys x

@opgaquatics5609 5 лет назад

Hell yeah, man can't wait!

@vibhupande 5 лет назад

Bring it on. Just fell in love with both your videos. If you can also give an understanding of the direction of march of first humans on these new lands and some fossil records that show an extinction sweep of sorts, correlating with the landing and then deeper incursions of us, it'll be helpful.

@igvtec 5 лет назад

@@vibhupande The Journey of Man/A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells and SBS Australia DNA Nation with Ernie Dingo , Ian Thorpe and Julia Zemiro. Will help you with the first humans march.

@ramengandalf7064 4 года назад

Wasn't the marsupial lion called a thylacoleo

@Ddstairclimber 4 года назад

so the marsupial lion had a bite force on par with modern Jaguars. Jaguars pound for pound are almost twice as strong as the lions

@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles 2 года назад

I know this is an old video, but I just want to mention that Thylacoleo was heaps bigger than leopards. Leopards may occasionally get close to 100kg but the biggest marsupial lions could exceed 160kg, it's probably more accurate to compare them to a chunky jaguar.

@JohnDrummondPhoto 5 лет назад

Interesting choice of the highly specialized (and placental) aardvark as the image profile for a generalist marsupial...

@cdemr 4 года назад

I found that funny too xD

@markdemell3717 3 года назад

The Creator is special,Halleluyah.

@slappy8941 5 лет назад

I just want boop diprotodon's nose.

@ShubhamYadav-zg1et 4 года назад

Dafaq!

@RanaRandom 3 года назад

*boops* your nose

@CJonesApple 6 лет назад

Good content

@gdray82 6 лет назад

Great videos, I love your channel. Looking forward to more!

@yungalucard9139 3 года назад

Man I love learning stuff like this. It reminds me of Pokémon in so many ways, they must have been inspired from prehistoric life

@annedrieck7316 3 года назад

Like key chain and pile of sludge

@yungalucard9139 3 года назад

@@annedrieck7316 well yea it’s a cartoon some of the Pokémon are ridiculous to look at. But it does add a bit of realism; pokemon having the ability to evolve much like the dinosaurs.

@mexicanmuslim 6 лет назад

There used to be Carnivorous Kangaroos...... Imagine that!!! Megalania was a lizard Bigger than the komodo....... There used to be Terrestrial Crocodiles in Australia and more!!! A Marsupial Lion etc. It's amazing!!!

@infinitygaming7192 5 лет назад

Humans have extinct this animals humans are evil

@yuryv.2188 5 лет назад

@@infinitygaming7192 yeah, human is the main reason when the animal lived way far before human exist. You are a genius i cant believe it!

@infinitygaming7192 5 лет назад

@@yuryv.2188 i am not genius i have read it in a book know as sapiens and i was curious about these animals thats why search it in google

@extacy1814 4 года назад

@Captain Cook humans not animal you dumbdumb

@extacy1814 4 года назад

@General William T. Sherman i"m not animal maybe you are asshole

@mexicanmuslim 6 лет назад

Aboriginees saw them!! Australia had the weirdest animals wierd is cool.

@iwaidja1482 5 лет назад

And aboriginals ended them talk about power no human currently could hunt them btw the aboriginals were 6ft and over

@FlintKnap 5 лет назад

@@iwaidja1482 // btw the aboriginals were 6ft and over// citation needed.

@FlintKnap 5 лет назад

We still have some very weird animals here, like the marsupial mole for example.

@darthdingus7439 4 года назад

@@iwaidja1482 Mammoths in Europe and North America were much larger, and yet humans hunted them? Aboriginals are not on average 6ft tall, where the hell are you getting this from?

@CurseMonstr 4 года назад

The aboriginals also killed most of our megafauna and single handedly caused desertification in most of Australia.

@koliandrasaugindamas4662 6 лет назад

Good stuff. Keep up the good work

@DefektiveEnvy 5 лет назад

Can't wait for more!

@weshard1 6 лет назад

Great video. I look forward to seeing more of your content 👍🏼

@greathornedowl1783 4 года назад

Interestingly the oldest marsupial fossils were found in North America so although Australia is now the land of marsupials, North America is their original homeland.

@percnowitzki1724 2 года назад

What about fossils that got destroyed etc no one really knows the truth , that’s why new discoveries are constantly changing what we think is “fact”

@Meatwad787 Год назад

@@percnowitzki1724 so until they find something else? The original comment is still true

@ermacdoesnotexist 8 месяцев назад

It was South America, get your facts right.

@greathornedowl1783 8 месяцев назад

@@ermacdoesnotexist There's some evidence that North America has the oldest marsupial, it's not conclusive though the fossil is just small fragments.

@ermacdoesnotexist 8 месяцев назад

@@greathornedowl1783 interesting

@marssilver 4 года назад

Solid work mate. We need more content

@PhysicsHigh 4 года назад

great video - a good summary for students and integrates both evolutionary concepts and ecological concepts

@joydeeppal2703 4 года назад

This is the best video on marsupials i've watched and btw I've watched a lot of videos.thnx for the the video.really wish there's more of this kind of videos on other topics

@ntkproductions1761 2 года назад

Don’t forget Australia and New Guinea were one continent back then know as Sahul or Greater Australia so they also shared a lot of mega funa such as the diprotodon.

@mexicanmuslim 6 лет назад

Awesome video!!!! Great video!! Wow im subbing and supporting.

@vjbele 4 года назад

Keep making more videos like this!

@sabeda1647 6 лет назад

Excellent

@t.b.cont. 5 лет назад

I don’t like the idea of a kangaroo walking like a human. Not that I disagree with the study, just that picturing it in my head leaves a cursed image. Almost as cursed as becoming your 666th subscriber.

@siyacer 4 года назад

3 legs tripod walking

@markdemell3717 3 года назад

Evilution is a big fat lie and a crime against sensible thinking.Our loving Creator gave us all life ! Halleluyah! So be it.

@PracticalExperts 3 года назад

@@markdemell3717 stfu

@yerman0564 3 года назад

@@markdemell3717 yes, please do stfu.

@Funnyfly0 6 лет назад

If procoptadon still it may evolve the human niche in Australia

@AmanRishitwenty15 5 лет назад

very informative and visually appealing!

@NessieAndrew 4 года назад

I find these incredibly interesting!

@Jobborse707 4 года назад

AMaazinggg!!!! Really well done, helped a lot in my studies!!!!

@296jacqi 4 года назад

I don’t believe humans could have wiped out so many species with primitive tools. The environment (weather and habitat) probably played the primary role.

@macfly6237 2 года назад

It’s a trend to blame all climate change or extinctions on humans when 45,000-3,000 years ago the Earths climate was changing sporadically. About 20k years ago all of Europe and most of Asia would have looked like the African Savannah with grasslands stretching from Iberia to the Pacific coasts of Russia. All the way up to 2k years ago most of Northern Africa was very lush and tropical. Homo Sapiens have been around for a long time but it would have taken 10-20x more humans around the world to have killed off all of those megafauna. Killing a single mammoth during the ice age was a team effort and would be extremely dangerous to do alone. Not saying man hasn’t killed enough species but it’s several shots in the dark to blame it all on man when there’s plenty of evidence to show otherwise.

@wingsofsuspensionlifts6814 8 месяцев назад

"They found Sporormiella spores, which grow in herbivore dung, virtually disappeared around 41,000 years ago, a time when no known climate transformation was taking place. At the same time, the incidence of fire increased, as shown by a steep rise in charcoal fragments. It appears that humans, who arrived in Australia around this time, hunted the megafauna to extinction". Maybe that's why the aboriginals feel a strong connection to the land and its flora and fauna? cause they wiped most of it out and burnt the country to a crisp.

@allthingswild3284 6 лет назад

Very good video!

@kevinqwen221 5 лет назад

Wow.. Awesome

@jmaxg 5 лет назад

Of the hypotheses relative to the disappearance of the Australian megafauna, the most compelling based on circumstance has to be the introduction of man into this realised hunting paradise with these magnificent enormous creatures regarding us with curiosity, while we regarded them as food. It's also the saddest hypothesis. But equally, there is nothing at all adversely reflective of the Koori (indigenous Australians) people if that was the case. We are predators, they were prey, that is literally the nature of things.

@iggytull624 5 лет назад

How about change of vegetation. Not enough food to feed such magnificent beasts as a result of drying out of continents.

@righthandstep5 5 лет назад

@@iggytull624 which indigenous Australians burned as part of surving in open prairie.

@russpearson9802 3 года назад

Mate yu need to broaden yur research and yor thinking, just a smidgen of critical thinking and research and yu will find human predation is a blatant falsehood.

@jasperbrown4238 2 года назад

@jmaxg I think you have your countries wrong Indigenous Australians are Aboriginal, Torres strait Islander or just Australians, the Koori I believe is for indigenous peoples of new Zealand

@jmaxg 2 года назад

@@jasperbrown4238 Sorry mate. The term "Koori" is specific to the indigenous peoples of Australia and the Torres Straight Islands - more particularly to the indigenous peoples of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) on the Australian mainland. It was adopted by all indigenous languages and modified to mean "our people". With respect to New Zealand, I think you are referring to the "Maori".

@onedisgustedboi.4087 5 лет назад

You deserve more subs.

@danvallentyne9587 6 лет назад

Really interesting tale. The giant mammals of the past 200 thousand years or so are such a facinating bunch. I saw a Lestadon skeleton in the NY Museum of Natural history the other day. So cool! Also recently saw a Manta Ray photo from 1933, 5k lbs, I don't think we have them that big anymore

@apexyl5135 2 года назад

1933 was only like 90 years ago… not evolutionarily significant. That manta was probably just a record-setter. The largest of a large species, yknow?

@RsFrag3d Год назад

@@apexyl5135 he’s saying humans contributed to decline of the population of giant manta rays

@DirtyJeans 4 года назад

Great channel

@AnnaMarianne 5 лет назад

Must ask - are you using an image of an aardvark intentionally (because why the hell not?) or confusing it for an image of an opossum-like animal?

@stabbityjoe7588 5 месяцев назад

Okay... literally already knew all of this but go off

@inuyasha 4 года назад

I believe the extinction of the larger slow herbivorous spelled the end to the marsupial lion since they were not fast predators.

@thenerdbeast7375 5 лет назад

Why isn't Thylacoleo not considered Megafauna? The definition of Megafauna is that they are "large animals that exceed 100 lbs in weight" and with Thylacoleo weighing between 223 - 373 lbs it certainly meets that requirement!

@Lord_of_Snels 4 года назад

yeah, it was the size of a bloody African lioness.......

@Ispeakthetruthify 3 года назад

The largest specimens topped out around 300 pounds, not close to 400 pounds.

@thenerdbeast7375 3 года назад

@@Ispeakthetruthify Note the date the original comment was made, back then the largest estimates were 350+ lbs before more recent data lowered the estimate. Even then however Thylacoleo was still megafauna sized and should have been included.

@thefinalhashiraangrysag415 3 года назад

Just last week I got to explore the caves where a lot of these megafauna were discovered and where they’re still digging up and studying fossils, it was so interesting but one of the caves I wanted to explore I was told “no sorry it’s no longer safe” one of the people studying the fossils later told me that it’s actually because they have just discovered something major in that cave so they’ve temporarily closed it off to the public to study it more but couldn’t tell me what, she said that they will be making an announcement on the news in the next few months, also another One of the caves I did explore was so creepy and almost felt haunted, as though a thousand eyes were watching me

@russpearson9802 3 года назад

Interesting. Where was the dig. I'd be interested in reading up on it. I think there is a lot of stuff yet to be published, that if they released it would turn the whole archeological world on its ear, and totally refute much that has been theorized up to now, and which has been written up as fact. The indigenous australian is the missing link to a lost civilization, and may well hold the key to the origins of mankind.

@eyeofsauron2812 Год назад

What was it?

@Jojo.liftss 4 года назад

marsupial superstars

@Raison_d-etre Год назад

When animals get so huge, you know they're trying to outgrow some terrifying predator.

@kaptainkibiroproductions45 3 года назад

The Megalania was literally just a crocodile sized komodo.... That would probably be the most terrifying animal to ever exist if we didn't know about dinosaurs and what used to swim in the oceans and such. And I mean considering Komodo's already give crocs a run for their money in the power category anyway one could only imagine how insanely strong that thing must've been.

@WatchMyKimchi 2 года назад

Oh wow. I am reading Sapiens right now and stumbled here and this video is amazing!

@HoundofOdin 5 лет назад

This makes me wonder what lived in Australia before the marsupials arrived.

@binozia-old-2031 5 лет назад

Dr.Bright australia was a giant rain forest like most of the world at the time

@HoundofOdin 5 лет назад

@@binozia-old-2031 That doesn't tell me what lived in Australia before the marsupials showed up. I wonder if monotremes were dominant?

@cheaplaughkennedy2318 5 лет назад

Dr.Bright you may be referring to before the asteroid impact.

@greathornedowl1783 4 года назад

@@HoundofOdin Dinosaurs, birds, monotremes and monotreme like mammals.

@Vert0313 5 лет назад

SKIP to 4:26 for the list to actually start!

@siyacer 4 года назад

Thanks

@pw8160 6 лет назад

Do more please

@harshil.1 3 года назад

TKS Represent lads

@davidcanatella4279 6 лет назад

Humans arrived at least ten thousand years before large marsupials were extinct.

@sarban1653 6 лет назад

They didn't all suddenly go extinct, but they went extinct over a few thousand years of continuous human hunting. If humans are going to arrive to a new continent, do you think the animals are all going to go extinct in a single day? No, it will take time.

@athinaarmym2238 5 лет назад

Sarban still less then a thousand humans existed ,one mammoth would of supplied entire tribe today,like the African elephant would supply a village for a week in Africa high contains hundreds of millions of people,wouldn’t the elephant become extinct for so many people

@iwaidja1482 5 лет назад

Athina Mohammed U don't understand... These people are 6ft + and a tribe then is far bigger than current day tribes and aboriginal tribes are linked. Climate change plays a small factor when it's teamed with all predators and off the top of my head I can think of five including humans. Btw we had a lot of tribes

@joshontop8733 5 лет назад

This fella is so good Where has he gone

@dukeofanchor 5 лет назад

:( wish there were more of these videos

@fgialcgorge7392 Год назад

Humans have been in Australia for at least 70k years and thought to be upward of 80k years. Recent archeological finds confirmed it this year I believe. Just like the Clovis first model had to be thrown out due to the human steps found in white sands that date to 25kya.

@joshontop8733 6 лет назад

Please do the smilodon next

@rogerfricke1785 3 года назад

5:05 that bunyip looks exactly like a diprotodon it all makes sense now!

@mexicanmuslim 5 лет назад

POST MORE VIDEOS PLEASE

@mexicanmuslim 6 лет назад

HEY a RU-vid channel called *" Extinction Blog"* makea videos on all megafauna Australian too. Go to his channel he had a video on the Giant wombat!!

@HogBurger 5 лет назад

How To Vegan you know extinction blog too? I just watched a video he made!

@igvtec 5 лет назад

Don't forget also that the Aboriginals bought wild Dingoes with them into the Australia. Hunting Dogs and set them free.

@ancientmegafauna8564 5 лет назад

That wasn't till about another 30'000 years later - though the introduction of Dingoes is thought the be the direct reason that Thylacines went extinct on the mainland.

@alfiemcqueen Год назад

This makes me want to make a worlbuilding/specualtive evolution project anout marsupials called wakipi

@RolandElliottFirstG 8 месяцев назад

Just thought I would chime in and state, around 20 years ago I personally came very close to a large grey roo down around the Vic NSW border and it stood at least 2 metres tall, also on another location I have seen roos close to the same hight.

@Stefan-ox5sk 5 лет назад

Not bad.

@bigboyart1 3 года назад

I'd love to see a video of if Marsupials (especially the megafauna) were a bit more successful.

@samdegoeij6576 2 года назад

If you think this was awesome you should hear about Australia's reptiles , sealife or spiders!

@PShawtx 4 года назад

They did not include the meat eating kangaroo.

@rxckstvrbtzxd2835 4 года назад

Oh shoot that's scary

@Rakanarshi2 2 года назад

Possible tree wombat uses it's mouth to grip while clawing prey to death. For some reason, that theoretical behaviour is really interesting to me.

@minoadlawan4583 3 года назад

There are modern red kangaroos that are pretty close in height with the extinct procoptodon.

@Jordan-vr7ip 2 года назад

But definitely not in weight lol

@imlivinginyourceiling 5 лет назад

But what about the *Giant Ducks*

@GideonGreene-qm7co 2 месяца назад

Imagine scientists would discover a koala that’s about as big as a rhino, they would call it “Meganarctos gigantuim”, and discover it is too big for trees and has weak climbing muscles, leading to the common name “giant ground koala”. They would discover it could eat carrion to supplement its diet, and could stand on its hind legs to defend itself from predators like thylacoleo, quinkana and megalania. It could walk on its knuckles like ground sloths and chalicotheres. The meganarctos would be part of a different family of marsupials, called “meganarctidae” or “ground koalas”.

@bambinazo123 2 года назад

11:43 Modern land kangaroos and dingos: are You shure about that

@jollyjakelovell4787 5 лет назад

Only in Aus would they refer to drop bears as lions.

@siyacer 4 года назад

It probably did originate from marsupial lions

@jtktomb8598 6 лет назад

What are those dislikes...

@natureatlasfilms4176 6 лет назад

JtktΘmb I'm not sure! Got them all (bar 1) within the first 5 mins of uploading, and none since, seemed really odd to me.

@jtktomb8598 6 лет назад

It look like a bot

@natureatlasfilms4176 6 лет назад

JtktΘmb That's what it looked like! I know this is my second video but I didn't think it was that bad :p

@jtktomb8598 6 лет назад

It's an amazing video, i actually studied this subject a bit in college :)

@CJonesApple 6 лет назад

Nature Atlas Films I found you on reddit. /r/MealTimeVideos if you wanted to know. Did you link a lot to reddit when you posted this one? I have you on alert and watched within minutes with too many dislikes. In less time than a whole watch through so I wouldn't worry since they clearly couldn't have watched.

@perrrry 5 лет назад

good content, sad to see you gave up so fast.

@natureatlasfilms4176 5 лет назад

Hey! I've far from given up. These two videos actually opened up an incredible opportunity for me which is taking up all available time but I'm hoping to get back to this soon, the feedback has been really positive!

@amazonlife2609 7 месяцев назад

Thylocene leo was more closely related to the Thylocene dog, numbats and the Tasmanian Devil than wombats and kangaroos as you said. You also didn’t mention that marsupials in Australia reached their highest level of diversity 1 million years ago, well before Aboriginal colonization, though there is a consensus that they largely wiped the megafauna who were left. Good job, enjoyed your video immensely 😊

@franksmoakjr9037 5 лет назад

How about making one about prehistoric crocs. I heard that there may have been one that walked on its hind legs!

@russpearson9802 3 года назад

Bzrrrt. There was a 60 foot ocean dweller.

@franksmoakjr9037 3 года назад

@@russpearson9802 What was it called? I would like to look it up.

@russpearson9802 3 года назад

@@franksmoakjr9037my pop used to say never trust a man wearing a pork pie hat or a man who is named junior after his father. Yu dont call girls junior after their mother. Now come on frank yu havent got the nouse to go google the shit. I can give yu co ordinates but, yu wont learn a bloody thing that way. Listen try doing what i do when i find something that peaks my interest. Its real easy, go to yor browser, type in 60 foot prehistoric croc, press send, see what comes up and scroll down clicking on each entry to see what it contains. When yu find an article that tickles yor fancy, save or download. See how easy it is frank.

@yerman0564 3 года назад

Would that be postosuchus?

@franksmoakjr9037 3 года назад

@@russpearson9802 Einstein, If your going to try to be a troll, at least remember that Frank is spelled with a capital F and the word "YOU" has an "O" in the middle also learn to use proper grammatical form when writing. The words "DON'T", and "HAVEN'T" are typed correctly for you here and remember that the letter "I" must be capitalized when not used in a word that is not first in a sentence. If you don't have full details of a subject, you shouldn't put it out there, and I found out that there was never a 60ft ocean going croc after all it was a Plesiosaur so that not only makes you a sorry excuse for an internet troll but also a liar.

@CaspiRose99 5 лет назад

Convergent evolution: hummingbird vs sunbird

@shaynehooper8565 5 лет назад

Why wasnt the thylacine mentioned.....?

@45641560456405640563 5 лет назад

Well the video was about megafauna mostly. So, you know...

@generalleigh7387 2 года назад

Earth atmosphere was hyperbaric. THATS why everything was gigantic- BEFORE THE FLOOD.

@sleebanger 9 месяцев назад

Australia still has red kangaroos over 7ft tall, and evidence of humans in southern Australia dating back 130,000 years.

@zaixai9441 3 года назад

I find it hard to believe that the number of humans in Australia would have been great enough to hunt these animals to extinction.

@bicknell67 4 года назад

Of course not just marsupials but the giant reptiles that also went extinct this time the famous megalania and quinkana.

@Liberty-LLama 3 года назад

Man!

@bigred8438 2 года назад

I was always lead to understand that mega fauna were ant creature over 45kg. The bite force claims of the thylacaleo have been revised in recentvyears. I would look into that.

@osmanbajric4620 5 лет назад

Make more videos

@adrianmotley8855 4 года назад

I would have loved to have a pet diprotodon

@piyushmajgawali1611 3 года назад

I use hopping locomotion

@jonasramos6080 Год назад

i realy hope they bring back this type of lion

@MA-vw1pl 4 года назад

1:30 poor mom😲😲

@TheExactlyatmidnight 5 лет назад

And they say the youtube algorithm doesn't work was just recommended this channel and its great. looking forward to you coming back.

@googlesucks6029 3 года назад

I wonder why a lot of creationists are commenting.

@Gamera-nb6cr 4 года назад

Dang, I am sure that giant kangaroo was able to kill some of the humans that hunted it, from the size of that thing it could kick down a human with no problem!

@generalleigh7387 2 года назад

It’s funny they call it a “marsupial lion”. Like so many of these creatures they are just their own incomparable kind of animal gone extinct.