Prehistoric park really is an interesting show, its really cool to see this man travel back in time to rescue extinct animals and bring them back to his Prehistoric zoo in the modern world
I also like to think of this design as the male and the Walking With Beasts ones as the females, just like how certain a modern bird species have different feather colouring between the genders.
@@karenmccausland8029 No. The species Nigel saved was Phorusrhacos, which went extinct 13 million years ago. That's 12 million years before the time this episode took place. In fact, the last known species of Terror Bird in South America, Mesembriornis, went extinct 3 million years ago, 2 million years earlier than the events of Nigel's first mission to prehistoric South America. However, Psilopterus, another Terror Bird from South America, could have gone extinct about 100,000 to 6,300 years ago. However, there's no official confirmation that they went extinct at these points in time, and even if they did, they were only about 2.6 feet tall and weighed 18 pounds.
You gotta remember birds naturally have lighter and hollower bones than mammals so a fight between smilidon and a terror bird/ evolved dinosaur like this would be unclear in a victor. But most cases the mammals would win due to them operating more in number than the terror birds/ therapods
Very good point. As intimidating as they may be, they only weigh a little more than half that of a saber tooth cat. Even if it is able to get an advantage, it cannot withstand the muscle and weight of a mammalian it’s same size. Such a shame they weren’t able to last much longer 😢
No predatory mammals the same size as Phorusrhacos coexisted with it. Terror birds the size of this would have been a worthy adversary and a predator to steer clear of, proven by the success of Titanis excursions into North America. By this time however, most of not all other phorusrhacids were extinct due to rapids climatic changes occurring too quick for them to evolve.
Imanol Lopez Romero: the Phorusrhacos 0:24 doesn't value its life against the Smilodon, it would have it its beak many times instead of running away when defeated. This is weird, 2:10 why doesn't the Phorusrhacos attack Bob? just for being a voyeur doing nothing
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