Quinkana - Ancient Animal 

Oh fuck yes

Yea fucking yeah. Yeah oath mate fuck ye

@@zozan2309 oh fuck yeah a year later, hope your doing well man what’s up? How have you been. We are brothers my friend. How have you been????

@@NORTH02 been doing alright, you?

@@zozan2309 well it’s not 2020 anymore so we are off to a good start!

You have encountered some of these in the past few years!

I know what about those humans encountering politicians, my god how terrifying would that be.

Politicians are less human than a crocodilian.

I am glad you could enjoy it especially from your perspective, Thanks for watching!

@@NORTH02 Cheers, mate!

Fasolasuchus ?

dj pagla yes

I wonder how fast a 6m quinkana would be able to gallop.

@@KingGiganTitanusROARKing just looked it up, I immediately lost my breathe seeing the shear size of this creature.

Wow, 'climate change' now responsible for all extinctions in the history of the Earth, Al Gore will be pleased

Unlikely, given their fossils are only found only in the warmer northern parts of Australia (just as modern Australian crocs are limited to north of the Tropic of Capricorn).

I understand that but you realize there are only a few Quinkana photos in existence

Nice seeing you here.

@@NORTH02 I assume I am looking at the animal you are talking about. Only a few pics, well, those are the ones I want to see. If you show other animals other than what you are talking about please state that.

Guns would take care of the cats. Oh that's right you let your government take them all away from you.

@@keithfaulkner6319 yeah because that’s clearly worked for texas’ feral pig population hasn’t it?

You found a great one!

@@NORTH02, that I’m sure of

Shoot did I really do that, it probably came up when I was searching for a pic of a quintana's skull. My apologies. Thanks for watching!

@@NORTH02 yeah it was a mosasaur skull

@@NORTH02 Quintana?

It was a test to see if we were paying attention. lol Thanks. Great vid.

I will probably do at least one of those in the future, there is so many animals to do!

It goes under both names, in paleontology when something is named it stays with the first name but a second name can be added to make more sense of the creature. For example basilosaurus was named as that name because it was thought it was a marine reptile but it was later changed to something else but that ended up not mattering cause the name was set. I believe the same thing happened with trex.

@@NORTH02 I guess if the name is catchy it'll stick such as the thing with Tyrannosaurus that you stated. Speaking of T.rex, could you do a video exploring the debate as to if Tarbosaurus and Tyrannosaurus should be in the same genus and why?

I think its is a rule in paleontology that the first name an animal gets it sticks with, I could look in the trex thing but I have some many other videos to make. Thanks for watching and commenting though!

@@NORTH02 Keep up the great work

@A̐manjol M̐əmbetjanūlı Not a professional, but guessing convergent evolution happens when there is similar behavior, driven by environment.

Personally I’ve come to believe that, at most humans contributed to the extinction of some megafauna like the mammoth, we could have disrupted the breeding cycle of the few that remained and that helped them die off. The number of humans on earth compared to the number of animals they’d have to kill is just too high. There weren’t many humans at that time, and the population of any of the megafauna in question was quite high, and the number of species that were wiped out in that time frame is quite. I forget how many species got wiped out, but I think it’s 90%+ of all new world megafauna. That’s a lot! Not to mention the evidence in Siberia of mammoths that all died en masse, some of them show clear signs of a fast traumatic death, even some that died of asphyxiation, there’s several frozen mammoth that have been found with 3-4 broken legs, with their legs still in place, meaning they died where they were standing. Meaning that they were just doin mammoth things, then there was a huge impact that knocked them down hard enough to break all 4 legs, then the ash cloud or other debris buried them before they could bleed out, freeze or starve. Check out the younger dryas impact if you’re interested, it seems to be proving true as time goes on .

We very easily could do that since it’s Pleistocene age and Australia desperately needs large apex reptilian predators to fit the ecological roles as the extinct long legged Ziphodont land crocs And giant venomous monitor lizards. Crispr gene editing is the best bet.

Bro no

I will do more crocs in the future, Thanks for watching!

Yeah, that was really jarring for me too...

You aren't lying about the Mud Islands are you? Other than that, there are no sea mounds there.

@@evanroberts2771 I am relaying something I read several years ago when I was working as a media analyst. It wasn't the subject I was supposed to be researching but the story about the research was in the publication I was scrutinising and it stuck with me. I would certainly concede my choice of the term "sea mount" might be considered, shall we say, _overly generous_ to the structures in question.

There was some serious volcanism in the 60-40k year range in Indonesia and New Zealand. That would have caused huge problems.

@@edwardfletcher7790 that certainly wouldn't help

You don't seem to upload often or produce quality content so I will have to say no. If changes I can reconsider.

NORTH 02 oh no it’s with someone else

Grey ideas the The liopurodon4x bubblesorg king who else?

@@NORTH02 ru-vid.com/show-UC7aFItatteddE3VHEG21GRQ we also have a real naturalist for the series its 4 episodes. I just wanted to see if you would be interested

Here is some dinosaur art - www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?id=1485307

Thanks a lot!

Interesting idea

It can easily be done, well much less difficult than a species that went extinct 1 million years ago. Crispr gene editing would make this a reality.

And why would you do that ?

Because the extinction of the apex mega reptiles caused an ecological disaster, Causing severe consequences for Australia’s habitat and ecosystem dynamic, So reintroducing the quinkana would fill that apex predator void and better balance and maintain the ecosystem appropriately. Tho at this given time For Pleistocene rewilding In Australia, taxon substitutes would be the first step like introducing the terrestrial adapt Cuban crocodile as a taxon substitute for quinkana, and Komodo dragons were mentioned as well for rewilding in Australia. Also as mentioned their extinction meant they couldn’t control invasive mammals and carnivores in Australia which are ravaging Australia’s unique flora and fauna since those apex reptilian carnivores are extinct.

I think that the environment was the real culprit and thats why the whole food chain collapsed and a lot of the animal died. For example the native americans were technically a naturalized species in their environment. They had been their hunting for long enough that they were part of the food chain and the other carnivores coexisted with them. Though they were great hunters they weren't some ultra dominant species that killed everything they gazed they eyes on. This could have been for cultural reasons or because humans with stone tools are not able to wipe out species as easily as some people think.

Ao cool.

@@NORTH02 You have lost the plot blaming climate change for all extinctions, when you have no evidence for this whatsoever. Climate change occurs very gradually and the vast majority of fauna adapts, but why let scientific facts get in the way of a woke narrative.

Yes actually, besides partial skulls and ziphodont teeth, we also have pelvic fossils, and based on the pelvis fossil material it was modified for a pillar erect stance which we see in other terrestrial crocodiles and crocodile line archosaurs. The paper is called “Variation in the pelvic and pectoral girdles of Australian Oligo-Miocene mekosuchine crocodiles with implications for locomotion and habitus”

I think there was some relevant fossils found at Riversleigh recently too...

Well We don’t know the exact weight of an adult quinkana yet, as for megalania it’s weight has always been changed and updated. More weight changes will happen when more fossils material and especially post cranial material is found. But I doubt megalania was heaver than quinkana given the lack of fossil material to begin with, to put this into prospective a 10 foot Komodo dragon weighs 150 pounds and the largest Komodo dragon ever measured was 366 pounds. A mugger crocodile at 10 foot weighs 430 pounds. So it wouldn’t be surprising if quinkana was actually larger in mass, but more fossil material and data would have to be found in order to answer these question, it’s yet unclear but I would guess there in a similar weight range.

To show how humans may have been a meal for Quinkana

@MB Taber It would have had a four chambered heart, all crocodilians have four chambered hearts. Quinkana was very well evolved and adapted for active cursorial hunting. It had a modified pelvis for a pillar erect stance, meaning it was fixed in an erect stance and it could not transition back into a sprawling posture like semi aquatic crocs can do. And the addition of long legs it was more than likely the fastest predator in Australia. Also here the paper regarding the pelvic. peerj.com/articles/3501/

That was just for a cool thumbnail, I am aware it is not a Quintana but thank you anyways, I got load more ancient animal videos if you want to watch them!

@@NORTH02 yes and a request! I would love to see a video on Fasolasuchus, as far as i know it is the largest terrestrial predator in history outside of the theropoda clade!

Both are thought to have been terrestrial crocs, they were still very different but they had a lot of similarities.

Actually the time when humans were around which is really cool and crazy to think.

Thanks for watching like you always do!

I appreciate it!

Very interesting. Humans had to deal with this thing. Oh my god!

@@georgehunter2813 no they didn’t what are you talking about