Don't forget about the changed Giganotosaurus Skull. Since it has more in common with Mapusaurus, it got a new more "bulky" Skull Shape and Scientists debunked the insane "long" skull theory of a 1.90m skull, which looks like being used in this Documentary.
@@ronniepatterson2827 You are right there will probably never be an entirely accurate dinosaur in media, but that doesn't mean we should disregard what we do know.
So that's what it was called! I used to watch this Doc all the time! I actually thought the mapusaurus were gigas, i guess the narrator calling them giganotosaurs threw me off.
I just one to include; although Giganotosaurus did not live with Argentinosaurus, there has been an unnamed sauropod found that is comparable of even bigger in size to argentinosaurus and lived with Giga
I hope you get 1 million subscribers. Your content is out of this world amazing. It as honor to not only youtube, but to dinosaur fans alike. Absolutely outstanding!
T. Rex Autopsy, Real T. Rex and Ice Age Giants. Those are three of my favorite documentaries and I think you should TOTALLY review them. Anyone else with me on this one?
Best of all is that given the foliage i'm pretty sure this documentary was shot IN Patagonia, probably Chile, like the final episode of WWD. Those are araucania trees, which are Chile's national tree IIRC.
@@doctorlechita1865 >what is torres del Paine national park >what is cueva del mylodon Chile has less by virtue of having less area, there are still large portions of patagonia that consist of chile
Great review for one of my favoirite dino docs and I'm glad to see you enjoying it and giving it a pretty good score. I feel that there are some positives you missed. -Some more good things about the hunting scenes are little things like some clumsy attacks (especially during the scene where our Mapusaurus protagonist chases the bug, which also makes sense since she is just starting to learn to hunt), the presentation of how any attack could lead to fatal injuries, predators fighting each other mid-hunting, the Mapusauruses attack more like comodo dragons and less like wolves and opportunism and implied cannibalism between the predators at the end. -When the Argentinosaurus protagonist reached adulthood, he was described to be "still growing, but on a slower rate and mostly in width", which is the case for many modern reptiles, so I don't think it's far-fetched to speculate the same thing about dinosaurs. -The absense of grass (you might have implied it when you started talking about the landscape, but I would like it if it was mentioned out loud, although I hope I'm not sounding too demanding). Well, that's all for today. I'm looking forward for the next installment in this review series. See ya!
Actually, the argument for predatory dinosaurs only being able to mob prey and fight over food instead of actually hunting in organized groups is way overblown, ESPECIALLY for Mapusaurus in particular. First of all, we don't actually have any evidence of intraspecific conflict in Mapusaurus in the same way we do with, say, Deinonychus or Allosaurus. Considering just how variable even closely related animals are in behaviour, we should not generalize every single predatory dinosaur as having similar social behaviours. Second, the idea that infighting only allows for uncoordinated mob attacks a la Komodo dragons and makes organized pack hunting akin to wolves impossible is false, as there are living animals that show both infighting AND organized cooperative hunting. For example, crocodilians often get used as an example of how predators with infighting cannot hunt in true cooperative fashion, but they actually do hunt in organized groups part of the time. Pelicans are another good example. So even if Mapusaurus did participate in infighting, that shouldn't be taken as evidence it was unable to hunt in truly organized groups. Third, even predators that can only mob in uncoordinated fashion generally will only start fighting each other over food after the prey has been secured-if the prey gets loose because of infighting, nobody gets to eat, so it's in their best interests to at least not try to kill each other over food until the food is actually available. Fourth, it's actually not possible to prove that intraspecific conflict in the fossil record indicates infighting, because they could just as well be the result of two different groups of the same species fighting (as shown by wolves, lions, etc).
@@bkjeong4302 I never said or implied that pack hunting for the Giganotosaurus is 100% impossible, I just meant it is more possible for them to attack in unorganised mobs based on what we know in regards to other big Theropods and modern reptiles. And considering that most of what we know about Giganotosaurus and what is presented on the documentary (Giganotosauruses are mostly loners, gather in big groups only when Argentinosauruses pass through the area and the hunt ends with cannibalism), I say that the unorganised gang theory is consistent with what is presented about Giganotosaurus in this documentary and in regards to what we generally know. Also, I never said that in-fighting is what caused the unorganised attacks, I simply stated that it is something that could happen during the hunt based on everything I previously presented. All these do not mean that organised pack hunting is an impossibilty, they just mean that it is less of a possibilty than unorganised gangs.
Great Dinosaur Documentary Accuracy ranking video with that of Dinosaurs Giant of Patagonia and I adore the documentary movie more than Dinosaurs Alive in my opinion. Great Video Red Raptor and hopefully, Dinosaur Revolution, Planet Dinosaur and the abominable Monsters Resurrected on the way on your amazing Dinosaur Documentary Accuracy tier ranking.
I gotta admit I've seen alot of palaeontology videos reviewing Paleo docs and I gotta say yours is by far the funniest the members definitely give me a chuckle
Although it's still ongoing, and not a documentary, you should totally take a look at the Dinosauria series by Dead Sound. At the very least, it's not super long yet, along with the two episodes so far not being too long, and it's so pretty.
Great vid so much info i used to be really into dinosaur But then I got out of it but you brought me back but I’m learning a lot and sing some documentaries that I watched as a kid like this one I don’t know what it was called
Another interesting documentary, not the best but not the worst either. I enjoyed seeing it the few times I have and it is pretty solid. Good review and grade as always Red Raptor Writes, keep up your informative content, stay safe and have a great day.
It will be fun to pick apart, when we get to that of infamous Spinosaurus documentary that makes it into some sort of super monster. Also have you heard about the walking with Dinosaurs animated movie released in 2013? It less of a documentary and more just a normal movie, but there 2 different cuts of the film, one that's called the cretaceous cut that just has Benedict Cumberbatch narrating the film, and theatrical release where all the dinosaurs talked with very very forced in voice-overs.
Will you review Clash of the Dinosaurs? Recently watched it and found it interesting despite some outdated/disproven theories. I’d love to hear your opinion on it!
It took me a hot minute, 3 or 4 videos in but I noticed he has a lisp every now and then. I pointed it out to my husband and now we both cant unhear them. Absolutely adorable and a bliss to hear in between all the science-y bits.
I for one was never confused by “something-saur”, because it is definitely old-hand for the family group not the specific individual species. Allosaur, coleurosaur, ceratosaur are 3 pinnacle examples of that with so many individual species in those clades it hurts.. So yes when they refer to an animal as giganotosaur, know that they were intentionally being vague in leaving off the “us”, about a dubious species still being studied. Trust me I know how they think. If the doco was made today with the same logic, they would call it a carcharodontosaur, doesn’t mean it was the carcharodontosaurus, just a relative.
Loved this doc as a kid, watched it for the first time in a museum theater. But I can't help but bring up the goofy moment during the mapusaurus pack hunt scene when an argentinosaurus lifts up a mapu off the ground holding onto its foot and yeeting it to the side. There's no way the mapu could have held on to its leg like that, no way the argen could have lifted it off the ground, and absolutely no way it could have yeeted it.
I get why they use the "saur" ending... they're trying to make this feel like a regular nature doc, the way we do with modern animals. But in modern animal documentaries, we don't call the animals by their scientific names; we call them by their common names. We talk about lions, not _"panthera leo."_ But there aren't any common names for most animals that were long extinct before we existed. So they can't do that in these movies. Instead, they find a casual, shortened form of the scientific name that can stand in for a common name. "It's a mapusaur" sounds more like a casual name than "it's a _mapusaurus roseae"_ does.
I think the argentinosaurus nostril placement is also incorrect. they seemed to use the outdated “swamp” nostril on the top of the sauropod’s head instead of nostrils in the front.
They were around the same size. The biggest therapods such as the gigan, T-Rex, etc. were close to the same size. They basically were the size threshold for their kind though technically Spinosaurus was the longest therapod known.
To be fair to Giganotosaurus, we have dozens of Tyrannosaurus specimens so we have a grester idea of its size, bith Giganotosaurus specimens are in the same size range as an Average Tyrannosaurus. Giganotosaurus exceeded tyrannosaurus in length. Possibly going up to 45 feet but currently the jaw fragment is 12.7 meters. Scotty could *possibly* be 13 meters but we can't know for sure without a measurement of vertabrae. 12.5-12.8 meters is more safe. But i believe both Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus could surpass 13 meters.
My guy keeps saying Giga and Argentinosaurus lived at different times. A quick google search and you can see they lived at the same time, but the Argentinosaurus outlived the Giga by a few million years. Both were around 99.6 - 96 million years ago
honestly, hoping this guy does bizarre dinosaurs; the documentary is very speculative to where it gets silly! nice red raptor writes man, enjoyed this one
Will you do Walking with Dinosaur: Prehistoric Planet ? It's an official rerelease of 2013's Walking with Dinosaurs, but with Benedict Cumberbatch narrating and no dialogues, plus some updated infos (Gorgosaurus becomes Nanuqsaurus, etc.)
Re: pack hunting in theropods, do note that the idea genuine cooperative hunting is restricted to mammals, animals that live in family groups, or to animals that don’t get involved in infighting is false considering that multiple extant animals break one or more of these rules (crocodilians break all three), so the idea these things rule out pack-hunting in theropods is a false dichotomy. Edit: Also, there's a decent chance Mapusaurus lived in family groups seeing as that bonebed included juveniles and adults without a carcass to attract them, and there's (AFAIK) no evidence of infighting either, so even if the last two "rules" actually were valid (which they were not) they would still not be marks against cooperative hunting in Mapusaurus.
Yes tyrannosaurus does beat spinosaurus in weight because rex is 8 tons compared to spino wich is 7 tons but Spinosaurus beats trex by size and length trex being 6.1meters while spino is 7 meters. But still good job :)
If you haven’t seen it yet I very much recommend looking at the dinosauria animations on RU-vid. They’re very well made and I think you could have an interesting reaction video to them as well if you wanted.
Regarding shrinkwrapping, it isn’t unreasonable to reconstruct dinosaurs with visible feneatrea openings given how many species of lizards and birds have them. Look at the heads of a Savannah or Nile monitor, veiled chameleon, and many different types of birds. They’re all covered in relatively thin flesh, and given the similarities with theropod skulls it likely wouldn’t have been much different. But in regards to the rest of the animal it definitely would have had a lot more soft tissue.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 They’re both diapsid reptiles that share a common ancestor, of course they’re related. Just further down the phylogenetic bracket.
I want to make a helpfull suggestion for your future videos that dinosaurs probably didn't roar I don't mean to be rude about its just something you don't mention in your videos I have watched
Actually argentinosaurus was 78 metric tonnes, and there was an estimate in 2016 thats probably outdated at 96 tonnes. You slightly underestimated argentinosaurus's size
I remember getting this documentary for Christmas in 2010 or 2011. Funny story but in my early adolescent mind, I got triggered when they said the Giga was bigger than the T. rex. I know it is bigger now, and see it as a funny memory now.
Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus were about the same length, but Tyrannosaurus was heavier by a LOT. If you’re only going lengthwise, Spinosaurus wins at 49 feet.
@@maxrichards3881 the largest tyrannosaurus would get up to 10 tons, the largest giganotosaurus would get over 9 tons with conservative estimates, so no, not 3 tons difference.
