Giganotosaurus: The Terrifying Carnivore That Was BIGGER Than a T-Rex | Dinosaur Documentary 

Lol this made me giggle

And that IS how it's supposed to be pronounced, all of a sudden people saying it "Gig" (as in live show) or Gigantosaurus, forgetting the 'o' between the n & t which is NOT silent. And of course he could likely walk or swim to Ireland from South American back then, or could he? Either way, he learnt the dance of the Irish. Maybe he had ancestors who taught him down the line.

@@kyachdistent1301 actually a hard G makes more sense (as in Great, or Gig) since it comes from ancient greek which never had the J sound

@@metallizard88 Yet whoever named it decided on the J inflection. I don't suppose it matters too much. Saying it Gig sounds fine too, but my problem is they say GIGANTOSAURUS, the Ji instead of Jig, whereas that's plain wrong because they leave out an 'o', saying an entirely different name. The hard G or a J is a matter of taste I guess. This is the problem with many dinosaur names. With Ankylosaurus, I always grew up saying it An-KYE, not An-KEY, which is what all Americans typically do and it sounds stupid (probably why they do it). Also I never say Diplodocus, "dip-plod-icus"-the plod bit just over-emphasises the pathetic ancient-school notion of such creatures as been lumbering plods and it deliberately sounds thick, even though the Greek meaning does not allude to such thoughts, but it's not for the meaning we say the name. "Dip-lo-doke-us" is what I always call him. Likewise with the non-dinosaurian Plesiosaurs, half say "Please-e-o-saurs", the other half "Ples-ee-o-saurs". Which is right? Who knows? Maybe whichever one doesn't sound quite so odd or wrong on the tongue. I guess it's an initial gut feeling and how you first hear it. I blame Christopher Reeve, bless him, it was only thinking about this that I realised it was down to him I was the only one using the pronunciation "Die-no-nick-us" because that's what he called them in the 1985 stop-motion and scientific fact blended show "Dinosaur", when all others seem to say "Die-non-ickus". And there's the 'ostrich' dinosaurs-I always say last 2 syllables of these dinosaurs "mime-us" as it just sounds better with the rest of the name than 'mim-us' which sounds more childish, plus I heard it like this from the early years, though it's true to say, of course, than many many years later, there's often only one way I hear it and that's not usually the way I do it. People! Anything to be difficult. Then there's Dromaeosaurus, his close relative. It sounds better as "Drom-may-osaurus" so I say it that way, yet on early bird Archaeopteryx, which has the same 'ae' in the middle so therefor would be said the same way, I don't, I do say "Arch-ee" like most everyone else as it sounds better on that name, but not for the theropod. And then there's the tyrannosaurid Daspletosaurus. Is the 'e' in the name emphasised or is "Das-plet" and not "Das-pleet"? It seems most dinosaur names have this problem. Here's another one. Scolosaurus, now he's known to be a valid genus again. Is it "Sc-oh" or is it "Scol?" And Brachiosaurus. Said "Brack-ee" for years, and now the few times its mentioned, the (usually US) fools on here call it "Brake-ee", despite how stupid sounding that makes it. Yet the few times they could pronounce something emphasising an A when it's there and it would sound better that way, they don't! How do you win here?

@@kyachdistent1301 I'll be honest, I cant be asked to read the whole thing you've written but I do agree that skipping the O is bad. It basically excludes the 'southern' part of the meaning. But I will always be on the hard G team lol

Nuh uh Giganotosaurus is 10.6 tonnes now & Tyrannosaurus is 10.4 tonnes ( Scotty).

@Sigmaphaganaxxx Giga 10.6 tonnes !🙆😳🙆? You're insane dude...!😂! No #Giganotosaurus specimens discovered till date surpassed 8 tonne mark & you're here with a 10+ tonne Giga huh...!😂! Even "Scotty - The Largest #TRex" weighs 9.8 tonnes only, for which you added another 0.6 tonnes to make it 10.4 tonnes !😂! Except #SpinosaurusAegypticus, no theropod dinosaur, discovered till date crossed the 10 tonne mark.

You evoke, the gigabytes are higher than T Rex, not high, it only weighs yes, the gigabytes are higher, yes

I believe that they actually would’ve been fairly similar in speed, and T-Rex was likely more agile than the large carcharodontosaurids with a tighter turn radius. I’m not 100% on that though, and I can’t remember where I read that. If I remember ill edit this comment.

@@SheshaZillaED COPE 11.8 TONS 🤷🏾‍♂️

What was the evil from the sky above

Them aliens, bruh

@@EriksonLavender-dh1bs Thought it was bleeding obvious. Are you being silly or sarcastic, though, when it comes to evil, the human race admittedly did not come from above, but were able to flourish because of it, if that helps (I'm guessing, unless you're just being sarcastic or silly).

The Tyrannosaurus had the weight of 11,000 -15,500 lbs while the Giga had the weight of 9,300 to 30,000 lbs.

That's true

It can be speculation but there was probably way bigger Animal

​@@shadowwolf4209 Bruh that is just garbage information. Paul Sereno is the go-to guy for theropods. He estimated giganotosaurus at about 8000 kilogrammes and T.rex at 9000. Average estimates for both animals have T.rex outweighing it by 500-1500 kilogrammes.

@@smitabhmoitra5726 Just like yours.

No some were monsters

The only reason humans object to be classified as part of the animal kingdom is that humans continue to project our worst traits onto non-human creatures and them use "animal" as a perjorative.

​@@bridgetrodriguez4643Depends on how one defines the word "monster."

The real monster is the American that makes a video using the metric system...

So wise I'm a lil demon boy trying to change my ways

There's no Tyrannosaurus specimen that would have more than 10.5 half tons

Tyrannosaurus fanboys getting into paleontology and then fabricating ridiculous, false size "calculations" like that doesn't hold much weight to it. 12 tonnes, lol. Keep exaggerating until T.Rex inexplicably becomes bigger and more robust than a Blue Whale in a few years. Maybe then this disingenuous crap will get phased out of the field.

the moment you read the word the way it's spelled

That’s BS Tyrannotitan is 11-12 meters with no valid estimates over that and Giganotosaurus only has one valid specimen at 12.2-12.7m (figured 12.5) + Mapusaurus is a similar size. Many estimates lie in ranges 7.8-8.4t for Giganotosaurus, 7.6-8 tonnes for Mapusaurus, and 7.4-7.6 for Tyrannotitan.

@@qbgrindddd Tyrannotitan is sadly based on far fewer remains so not enough can be determined, but what little there is seems to point at it being bigger than Carcharodontosaurus and the other 2 you name here.

@@kyachdistent1301 based on Randomdinos' Carchar, it's 11.6m in length, I'll find weight later but uh that statement is wholly incorrect

the fossils are no longer bone but through fossilization the bone is replaced by minerals, and the bones are rare I don't think they would want to stress them at all

No evidence published for those inflated numbers

Because it is supposed to be pronounced jiga, it's a soft G. Look it up, Jurassic World kept pronouncing it wrong.

@@MoparMikeMMWell 'Jurassic Park' came on to the screen getting everything wrong? 1= "Velociraptors?" REALLY that big? REALLY with that short over-sized Deinonychus shaped snout?, REALLY gang-attacking always? and REALLY living in warm, humid jungles instead of the desert regions of Asia, where it makes more sense to be a lone hunter of small mammals, pterosaurs and reptiles and dinosaur hatchlings. 2. Dilophosaurus-REALLY that tiny? Size one up and another down? What is WRONG with these losers? 3. Tyrannosaurus has brilliant vision-so how come freezing in front of her only seconds after making motion is totally missed by her? Oh of course-paint your central characters into a corner, realise you can't kill them, especially with 2 bloody kids with them, so let's be idiots again. 4. Stupid film assumes the oversized made-up, misnamed non-'Velos' would ATTACK a Tyrannosaurus. But this is no worse than 'JP3' where they have these midget-made up nothings so absurdly starting a stampede among a huge number of different grazing duckbills that wouldn't notice them, and why they, outsizing and outweighing them 100x over! But then, plant-eaters are pathetically scaled backdrops of nothing in all these films, all their awesome traits glued to cutting-room floor simply cos they don't eat other animals. WHAT-EVER!! And there's too many more to list here, so pronunciations are the least of it. Besides, the guy here calls Mapusaurus, pronouncing it 'Mar-pu'. I mean, Americans usually pronounce things wrong, that's just them. I heard 'Map-oo-saurus' from the great man John Hurt. It's too often a case of different interpretations. Take the wastebaxon taxonite Troodon-some say 'True'-others-'True-oh' but we shouldn't say either, it's name is Stenonychosaurus, as Troodon is now apparently, after so hilariously long in use, is now to be dumped. Just like Othnelia. I always used to say 'Scoll' for Scolosaurus, so of course others have to say 'Scole', when they remember its an actual dinosaur itself, and not Euoplocephalus. And again there-'Kef'-alus? Or-'Sef'-alus? This one that came raging, though I don't think any of us made the faux pas of ever saying 'All' instead of 'Al' for Allosaurus.

So you pronounce GIANT with a hard G?

@@rogeriopenna9014 about the same way you would pronounce Go, Gas or Green. Or how you would pronounce the g in my name.

@@doug_b330 giant? Really, you pronounce giant with a hard G? How do you say Cicero? Do you pronounce all latin derived words that have a C with a K sound?

Yes, it's the veggies that win out here and Edmonotsaurus grew bigger and HEAVIER than Tyrannosaurus. Win!

It's both. After all, is Daspletosaurus "DasPLEET" or "DasPLET"? Is Scolosaurus "SCO-LO" or "SCOLL-O"? Maybe it should be based on what SOUNDS better, for instance I can't believe people are now moved to call Brachiosaurus by way of going "BRAKE-EE-O" instead of "BRACK-EE-O" which is far more sensible sounding and the way I always herd it for decades, the few times it was mentioned. The same with Ankylosaurus, I always say it "AN-KYE" not "AN-KEE", it just sounds better and I've always heard it the way. Is it "PLES-EE-OSAURUS" or "PLEASE-EE-OSAURUS" for that family of swimming reptiles? And it just goes on with too many names who most probably don't say anyway so we'll never likely know: Dromaeosaurus, Euoplocephalus, even Diplodocus...it's never ending in a sense. Very few dinosaur names are said in unison among us all without dissent on pronunciation.

Yet T-y-r-a-n-n-o-s-a-u-r-u-s would still not being any more successful a hunter than any other theropod during hunts as most hunts fail. It's contemporaries were also very dangerous-Ankylosaurus being virtually impregnable and with a tail club that could shatter a Tyrannosaurus shin for good. Triceratops and Torosaurus, backed up with a rhino charge would deliver lance like blows to lay him low. Edmontosaurus even has a few species in its genus currently being sized up to rival it's Asian lookalike (Shantungosaurus) in that they could have been 50feet long and weight 11 tonnes, that's enough to knock over a Tyrannosaurus and stamp on his head. And titanosaurid Alamosaurus is the true giant of the Cretaceous, and probably wouldn't bother to give Tyrannosaurus a second glance. Tyrannosaurus probably also spent as much time fighting off rivals for mating rights and territory as it did trying to get dinner. And let's face it, those juvenile or old sickened plant eaters, plus the smaller speedy ones are far less of a trial to go for, at least the resistance would be minimal, providing he can get in close enough before they sprint into the either. It's his Asian cousin, Tarbosaurus I feel sorry for, as that guy seems to have oversized versions of US duckbills and sauropods than Tyrannosaurus had to cope with. Strange, as Tarbosaurus seems much smaller than Tyrannosaurus, despite being so similar some scientist think they're the same animal.

@@kyachdistent1301 which is also why Tyrannosaurs don't always hunt alone, they are highly social animals they have intelligence closer to modern day primates than reptilian brains. They sometimes be hunting alone and sometimes hunt along with some mates. and even in groups they mostly would target a heard of edmontosaurus, and take down at least 1-3 individuals in that herd, as seen in the Prehistoric Planet documentary when two t rexes worked together to take down one Edmontosaurus T Rex is a smart animal, and knows who to hunt based on its experience, unlike what movies portray them, they are not loudmouth monsters that live near the volcanoes, they are forest animals, they can stay virtually silent all of the time, despite being the heaviest and most muscular dinosaur, they have the best adapted feet for walking long distances making quick turn, and maintaining one speed for several hours, feet called the "Arctometatarsalian condition", these feet are found in three groups of dinosaurs, and all three are coelurosaurs, the Troodontids, Ornithomimids, and Tyrannosaurids, and all three dinosaurs are best adapted to long distance traveling either walking, running, also adapted to quick turns. And unlike Giganotosaurus, T Rex chooses what prey is better off to hunt than just only hunting sauropods, because they know that those giant herbivores are the hardest in difficulty, of all the apex land predators T Rexes are smartest when it comes to decision making and knowing the difficulty of its prey.

@@notmyrealchannel559 This is intriguing stuff, the social factor is still not widely believed by many though, as the aggression factor over who wants what has the too often likelihood of escalation into outright war, and they'd be ripping into each other, and possibly going all Komodo dragon and cannibalising. I would hope that their social structure would be beyond that, as you have brought primates into this, which is interesting, yet it won't stop others scoffing at the mammal comparison, because dinosaurs all seen as beneath them, with only the Ornithomimid, Stenonychosauridae type being termed brainy as far as "a dinosaur ever could be called that". The Troodonitids named should really be dropped by scientists as that creature was found to be based on a tiny undiagnostic tooth, and how it is now being called Stenonychosaurus again, so every film, show or clip using the Troodon name should really replace it now, after all they've dumped Becklespinax, Monoclonius, even that Mammal age huge predator bird Diatryma has had that name changed to Gastornis now, despite being in usage for as long as Troodon. It makes sense that they are not a good runner, especially being that size, I mean even lions aren't good runners, it's all about the ambush, and the sharp turn thing is perfect for not enabling successful dodging but when you've such great strides, you don't need to run, and of course it's usual meaty prey, apart from the duck bills despite being giants themselves, are not runners but better for face-off aggressive defence if needed. Of course, Giganotosaurus would have had different choices to Tyrannosaurus, especially as ceratopsians and ankylosaurs never lived there, so he likely had duckbills or Iguanodontids and smaller theropods being his main prey. I guess being lighter than Tyrannosaurus he was a bit quicker, than again others like Acrocathosaurus and Saurophaganx are chalked up as being among the slowest large predators there were. It's interesting riff 2 Tyrannosaurus persecuting an Edmontosaurus, as if they knew that, despite it not being horned and tail clubbed, it would still be easier to take it down that way. Well, harder for it to dodge and then run if they both went for it. Duckbills are now said to be heavily social and with a brain wired to be so they may have had the defensive instinct for others of their kind and young in the way that Cape Buffalo and Musk Oxen display, which would be a good defensive strategy against Tyrannosaurus and stop him singling out just one so easily.

You get a "like" for being the only on here (apart from he) to say "Tyrannosaurus" and not the childish abbreviation.

Which is why it would have to rely on scavenging too, scaring smaller predators away from kills, as the slow-moving Saurophaganax would have done with Allosaurus, Torvosaurus and Ceratosaurus, and maybe even consider them meals too, don't see why not, flesh is flesh. And that's be easier than taking on a full-grown sauropod or even Stegosaurus at times, plus they can't run like Dryosaurus and, presumably, Camptosaurus can. But of course they could gang up on him if they outnumbered him 3 to 1 I guess, which could have been likely now and again.

And in stupid name, because a 5 syllable Tyrannosaurus too much for everyone.

I wish we'd effing move on from the "T-rex" name. It's Tyrannosaurus, we're not bloody kids, do you lot add the species name to Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus etc. all when you name them. No. So can we PLEASE go back to a time when it was actually adult to grapple with a 5 syllable name, you may all find your brain cells getting a workout.

Hence why I use this channel to help me fall asleep sometimes. I search for science videos with a monotone, deep voice.

Honestly the depiction of it in Ark was underwhelming. I prefer the Carcharodontosaurus design better.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐞?

@@Matthew-Anthony Sue is the most famous Tyrannosaurus specimen, very large and also the second oldest specimen. To my knowledge she is also the smallest specimen that cannot grow any further.

So was the Kissmyassosaurus.

more like 1.5 lmao

Dude… people still don’t understand after a few years you can buy cheap AI voiceovers for your scrips.. nah all of the sudden 10.000 new narrators with speech impediments appeared on YT🤣

Yeah, I know I know there are tons of AI-generated scripts. But they had to set up the damn thing, right? I guess they left on the “make this sound important by singing the line”-setting on for 45 minutes.@@Makabert.Abylon

Lmfao no. Spinosaurus is the biggest carnivorous dinosaur anyone else who disagrees needs to do more research.

​@@shadowwolf4209Sounds like you need to do some nore research then. Spinosaurus was indeed longer, but size is estimated by mass, and T. Rex weighed at least 2 tons more than Spinosaurus.

​@@shadowwolf4209Bruh... T.rex outweighed spinosaurus by a minimum of 2,000 kilogrammes

@@greg_the_llama5022 Spinosaurus was the biggest and heaviest carnivorous dinosaur. Nothing you say will change the facts.

@@smitabhmoitra5726 Again another person who doesn't research. I understand everyone's favorite Dino is a Tyrannosaurus but don't lie and say it's the biggest when it's not. Every time I try to research the biggest carnivorous dinosaur guess what shows up.... Not the T-rex but the Spinosaurus. Nothing people say will the change the facts.

No, it was smaller…