Realms Beyond the Known World: Sea Monsters of the Northern Hemisphere 

bigus fishus animal: evolves filter feeding* barnicals: it's free real-estate

Cue the Chased By Sea Monsters music. All we now is Nigel Marvin trying to swim with a Motomazor

N-northern hemisphere? Are you telling me that for the last year and a half that I have watched you I was only learning about half the planet?!

Keenan :"name a mosasaur motomazor Me trying not to think about the hippo moto moto :

I’ve always prefer pliosaurs over mosasaurs so seeing that pliosaur mimic plesiosaur makes me so in shock. It looks so badass

I can only imagine the kinds of TV shows the people of Kaimere will make that involves fishing their monster fish. It would put a whole new meaning on deadliest catch 💀

Ichthyosaur-shaped mosasaurs make me incredibly happy. 😊👍

Our first good look at the Northern Hemisphere! Already, the marine horsetails blew me away, and the ghost kraken is so ethereally beautiful! I'd love nothing more than a mod for Abzû with Kaimeran sea monsters. Now I *really* want to sponsor an episode for what may lie further north on the Arctic continent. Or perhaps a species of giant filter feeder I've been writing for a while. This episode was a real treat!

I have to say I think the Oceans are my favorite biome on Kaimere. Every episode focusing on the seas has been fascinating.

HECK YEAH. I LOVE SEA MONSTERS. I LOVE GIANT AQUATIC MEGAFAUNA WHOSE SHEER SIZE MAKES THEM THE STUFF OF LEGENDS.

the qomanga without a doubt now my favorite sea creature from kaimere, I find it extremely intimidating looking

An episode on the deep ocean would be banging bro. I always like to learn about the oceans of Kaimere

Kaimerian sailor: No matter how bad things get on land. One thing you should never do. Get in the water.

What an incredible episode! With each new creature that appears I become more and more impressed!!

The discussion of move endemism in most climates, and ours being an anomaly, is exciting, as it makes me wonder about how to include marine endemism in my own projects

God damn, I remember when you posted the concept art for the scylla all those years ago. Glad to finally see them and their world brought to light!

It's neat to see the oceans beyond the known world especially the fish and cephalopods. In some ways it's set of megafauna is more diverse than that of the known world

Me after seeing the Qomanqa: "Ah yes, my thallasaphobia is complete."

26:04 THE BEAST IS HERE! Instantly goes to my top... I'm not sure what nuber, but definitely up there with my favorite animals in Kaimere. And in general this clade of "not technically pliosaurs" satisfies me as a substitute for my favourite marine reptiles from Earth's history. Loved the entire episode. A lot the stuff shown here has been teased throughout different past episodes and I glad we finally got to see them. Aside from the pliosaur mimic, I was excited for filter-feeding mosasaurs, marine therocephalians, more dophin-like mosasaurs, ghost kraken and marine horsetail forest, so it was a great "I knew this was coming and I'm still impressed" type of episode.

That music at the start is awesome. Also I love ocean critters and this has some insane art of them, much respect And the Qomanqa is sick. An awesome beast

Count Dookie: I've Been Looking Forward to This!!

Beeg short necked Elasmosaur is a lovely addition to the apex predators of Kimere. Also gives me walking with dinosaurs massive oversized Liopleurodon vibes to do more brownie points there.

THIS! IS! AWESOOOOOME! Thank you so much for creating this! The creatures were all fascinating, the music was a steady bombast that kept you hyped throughout the episode, and all-in-all it was a fun watch the whole way through. Next up should be Harpid Trilobites, and then there's a whole month of episodes on Kaimeran crocodiles! Thanks again for creating this, and I hope you've had an amazing February so far.

I love the new creatures, but I love even more how much context you added to Kaimere’s size and climatic structures. Really adds so much flavor to the world!

Always a delight to see the realms outside the known world Who knows what survives and what thrives!

Another banger. Love expanding in the previously less detailed environments. I was curious though what exactly the images randomly dropping in quality for a bit before returning was about. Been noticing it for a while but it was especially noticable on this one.

Once again, another great video. I'm always looking forward to these kinds of videos. Very interesting to see filter feeding mosasaurs on the planet. I wonder if it's possible that were any filter feeding mosasaurs in Earth's past, it's hard to say but I wouldn't be surprised if there were. The artwork of a Troqlanot group taking down a Megalodon kind of reminds me of that scene from Chased By Sea Monsters, a show I rewatched recently. I remember how it showed them attacking the crew of the Ancient Mariner in a group. The Qomanqa though gives me some Walking With Dinosaurs Liopleurodon vibes. It's interesting to see the Elasmosaurs filling niches occupied by older plesiosaurs like the mighty pliosaurids. I believe they also went into the roles of polycotylids too with the Grakogen. I do wonder if polycotylids made it though as it seems as if they didn't given how the Grakogen basically functions kind of like one. I liked how two of the creatures are named after mythological beings in Scylla, Jormungandr, and Tiamat. Very interesting to see that therocephalians not only patrol the skies as dragons, but also the seas. Once again, keep up the great work.

The level of excitement that filled me when I saw the thumbnail🤯

An amazing episode! The cold polar ocean is a biome that I take great interest in due to one of my projects being primarily cold and oceanic. This episode has given my a lot to think about and some inspiration as to what I could do. I especially loved the marine horsetail biome and the monstrous Qomanqa. I've always loved pliosaurs and even though they are extinct in both kaimere an elasmosaur analogue is an awesome addition to this world!

its amazing to see how competitive Kaimere ecosystems are, the whole world has withstood relatively advanced civilizations of tool users to a far better degree than our world handled mere stone age hunter-gatherers, let alone medieval/early renaissance level civs. Though it did take us longer to truly impact the oceans than the land.

this is the best episode ever

Extraordinary episode! Really cool to see how much the world of Kaimere is opening up!

we finally get to exploar the northern seas of kaimere, question about the jungles of ni'khar , could there be a surviving lineage of sebecids in the jungles that resemble the sebecids of Cenozoic south America?

So you spun off a new critter from the Motomazor. Neat! Lots of cool sea monsters in this.

finally a nrw episode !! love you and your content bro

Exceptional episode, Really loved this detailed video on these massive Kings of the North. Will you do a video like this for the Southern Kings in the future??

This was a fucking crazy and fucking good episode as always ! You really give us and add SOOOOOOOO many contents, new elements into the Lore and plenty Spec Evo possibilities at the same time ! 1) First, I, at first, since several weeks from the reveal of this upcoming episode, believed this episode would only speak about the Polar Seas of Kaimere, due to the title, and not about the Equatorial/Central waters. But indeed, if we start/go from the location of the Known World, these waters are at North as well, so yes, that made sense to include them into the episode. Plus, I just realize that the Northern Hemisphere isn't only about the North/Polar seas when we speak about a planet, but the entirety of the half part of the planet which is upper/above the Equator's line. 2) I truly like the way we can have now so many aparts and differents species both on lands and seas on the planet thank mainly to the global climate as one of the main forces. That add so many potential and diversity, and concepts for creatures. Once you always said several times that all the others regions of Kaimere were compared to the Known World less diverses in term of species by a notable margin (thus still more than any areas of Earth) because there no frequent harvests occuring here with creatures directly replicated here. But after this episode now, I would perfectly see all regions beyond the Known World being almost very near equally diverses in term of species with a margin very difficult to defined. 3) I like that in a way we still managed to get/have "Ichtyosaurs" and "Pliosaurs" (species) on Kaimere and coexisting as if everything was normal/okay with Elasmosaurs and Mosasaurs. It truly give a fantastic visual and feeling to see Jurassic and Cretaceous marine fauna all togethers within a same piece. In addition to give a interesting glimpse to what would have been their interaction within the ecosystem if they had to be side by side. 4) Like the fanarts pictures which accompany your own illustrations and picture ! From who there are made, their author ? 5) Like that the Oja have now plenty of relatives which just live beyond the Known World, where dolphins diversity is more and more lower more we go up North. We can be happy for him as it is now no more the last of its kind. 6) I like how this episode was serious, thrilling, slightly horiffic, action-packed like vibes with the main music used here ! Isn't from Chased by Sea Monster by BBC with Nigel Marven ??

First prediction out of the list. So many good designs for these endemic fellows. My favourites are probably ghost kraken, qomanga and great thrawler shark.

Convergent evolution is amazing Even more with speculativ creatures

Those Giant Kraken Trees like could spread to greater depths than RL Kelp due to being apparently able to bud off from establish plants, meaning a bud could (in theory) be supported in nutrients if growing below where sunlight pierces until it can reach into the sunlight zone, being able to absorb sunlight to support itself from there.

Thank you for such an unexpected episode.

South Dakota, 66 million years ago: Along the banks of a river, deep, fast flowing, and cutting through a forest on its way to the sea, a 10-meter-long Tyrannosaurus, Sue, emerges from the tree line and onto the gravel shore. On the opposite bank, stand three Edmontosuars, Eds for short. She pays them little mind, as do they to her. They’re all here for a drink and there’s a river separating them. But then, the three Eds suddenly get nervous. Before she can fully comprehend the whole situation, something leaps onto the back of the largest (15m) Ed and clamps its jaws onto Ed’s neck and they both tumble to the ground. The two smaller Eds are long gone at this point and what rises from the dead Ed is something that Sue has never seen in her life. 10 meters long, 2.5 meters tall, and walking on all four limbs, the last descendent of Allosaurus stares down its only rival. As promised, the vignette I spoke of last week. It's far less detailed than what I remember it being and leaves a lot to the imagination. Feel free to critique. I'll have a revised version ready for the next video. Till then.

The qomanqa is cool as hell.I guess slow and steady does win the race.I also like that there are plesiosaur that independenrly evolve this shape.

I just got your First Book and i really have to say that i absolutly Loved it. the second volume is already on its way

Nice episode as always. Would a planet with three times the mass of Earth still be able to have the same gravity?

I would LOVE to see a video about life on the northern polar continent at some point.

perfect design on the qomanqa. eerie, creepy, understated, and realistic as hell.

Banger episode. One of the first ever to give me something to comment about for every species just about, which I already did in their profiles. I was slightly worried it was going to suffer from too many profiles and not enough environment or interaction like the Permian Cont did but the fan art and the fight scene helped mitigate that. Both are great still but to me it makes an ecosystem feel much more alive. 1. Not a question, but a suggestion: You really need to put the translations of the scientific names somewhere (Ideally in their DA Profiles). They've gotten longer and more complicated to the point where I think a translation is often necessary. For example, the Qomanqa (which I think is "Poseidons Punishment, Unseen Slayer) has pretty simple words in their name but they're still pretty unommon, and some like the Batsugai are just too hard to parse. 2. Forgive me for my ignorance but what stops species from crossing at the poles? I don't think Kaishel covers all the ocean there so it should be possible. 3. The cachalot in the northern hemisphere must be something else in order to survive up there. Could make for an interesting story. 4. Did not expect the Ghost Kraken this episode since it was introduced in the South. You mustve been chuckling inside when I left that comment yesterday. It is genuinely shocking tho, I thought something like the Mok was more likely. 5. I'm surprised you didn't mention the Qomanqa special technique. After learning from Sasquatch, it can now magically pixelate the screen when it bites something. 6. Is the Abyss a viable bypass for the Equator? If an animal held its breath and swam fast, would it be possible?

It’s so cool how you referenced names from classic mythology to your animals like Scylla who in Greek mythology who often appears as a giant multi headed serpent and your creature is a mosasaur which are closely related to lizards and snakes

This was an interesting episode. Nice to see we are finally finding out more of the Northern Oceans and the Northern Hemisphere overall. My main question is what types of pterosaurs take advantage of the types of fish or seafood here? (I understand there may be most, if not all, types of sea birds, coastal pterosaurs, and things like the Titan Crows (as evidenced by the fossil record of the Permian Islands), but much like the sea creatures, there must be some endemicly North-Hemisphere species of pterosaur (same with the Permian Continent if there are any, as I understand the Permian Islands have the Stallion Birds.) Also, what is next week's episode? (Also also, unless it begins next week, I am really excited for the "March of the Crocs" (name free to use if you'd like, Keenan. Lol) that is occurring next month.)

Loving the Qomanqa and Traqo! Does the Northern Hemisphere had its equivalent of giant sea spider and giant starfish?

24:41 CHONKY SEA LIZARD!

Thank you for this amazing birthday present in the form of a wonderful episode. Barely scratched the surface? I am honestly amazed by the cheer diversity of the North Ocean's cast, niches and balance. I admit, I love marine fauna with a passion. To see how rich Kaimere's cradle of life is just wonderful. I also must say that you literally made my years. One last thing, and a barrage of Questions.... Did the survivors of the First Dynasty make it there or in the South ocean? Are there anything amazing lurking on the Crown of Kairul and the Polar continent? Did the giant Therapsids of the very first Jurassic harvest make it as small generalist? Did the survivors of the earlier dynasties make it until today, even as a few relics? Is there more of the endemic clades we just explored to be elaborated upon, once opportunity struck itself with a sponsor? And finally, last question, would there be an episode upon the Permian and Mesozoic harvests and dynasties? And most of all, most important thing, I must thank you profusely and honestly for being a blessing to all of those who are interested or got their interest back in these amazing scientific branches, all thanks to your wonderful project. You reignited my interest about my old, shattered dream, and that passion on the subject. A shame I'm way too old to pursue it, but if they are interested, I must make sure to pass it. Here be giant sea monsters! Take care, and please keep up.

Damn good episode! I especially like how those sharks loosely resemble mosasaurs. It’s such a simple yet elegant idea.

My cousin told me that you, and tbh, your channel is pretty lit. Only thing is that the spinos didn't live on to contend with the uktans and/or zentaurs

Plesiosaurs really said "oh lawd he comin" and they evolved the chonkiest Kronosaurine bodyplan all over again to live in cold waters. Neat

Now we just need to go a little farther north, Im super curious about what lives on the Arctic Continent and if its as odd as what lives at the south pole

You're about the best speculative evolution I've seen. Almost endless supply of material to work with, it's too bad that we'll never know about 80% of ancient life though. Congrats. PS. Don't mention 3x the mass of earth too much

Can we ever have a Tales of Kaimere graphic novel? I think that would do very well!

Amazing, never on this series did I expected than the polar seas would have such a diverse and unique cast of species, and I love how the top order carnivore of the Great White North is a plesiosaur than resembles the giant liopleurodon of WWD, the filter feeders, the dragons and many of the other beasts that call the polar ocean home are also marvelous, yet at the same time... it is strange to see that mammals are rare on these ice worlds since we have always related both things, though I bet the massive sperm whales come as a shock to even the whaler sharks every once in a while when they appear. I would love to see what other secrets lay hidden on the north, perhaps an analogue of the polar bears hunt on the great continent and some unique herbivores could also be there, so many possibilities are something exciting to think about

1) It's actually made sense that animals don't migrate or move when the climate is hot, as it's is very tiring and with heath issues which can be fatal in some cases. While biodiversity tend to be higher when the climate is warm, especially on land, and now we understand why it is also the same thing in the oceans, it's actually because animals end up with separated/isolated populations that each give a new species at the end, because they don't move and maintain a geentic flow between them. It even increased in the sea, as like I just mention it, animal bigger than certain size will overheat and can die from that (hence why dolphins are exceptions in general, because they are all generally small enough to not get many heat). And oceans actually recuperate and keep heat way more than air and land them received. And as such, in a hothouse period, seas are the biome which is the hottest on the planet. And this is why actually at each Mass Extinctions events which occured on Earth (or even on Kaimere too I guess) it was the marine life which suffered the most and which most of life became extinct. As litterally cooked alive in a huge scalded, boiling recipient. 2) While most species of a given family are endemic to a part of the oceans and not a lot actually have a cosmopolitan range, the family in question, itself, have a huge cosmopolitan range (this last aspect here being equal on Earth as for Kaimere). Because most families of animals displayed on this episode have a cosmopolitan range, not the species/members of it, but the family. With almost all animals families from the Northern Hemisphere being present on all the territories of this hemisphere, while almost all families from the Southern Hemisphere being present on all the territories of this hemisphere. For me, that add a quite ironic aspect to the overall theme of this episode XD 3) I like the idea that the Southern Hemisphere is mainly ruled by Cenozoic based animals (Cetaceans, Walruses, Pinnipeds, etc...) while the Northern Hemisphere is ruled by Paleozoic-Mesozoic based animals which have undergo convergent evolution to fill the vacants niches.

Are there any other seas in kaimere with its own cast of monsters?

I know very little about Kaimere, but I’ve been greatly enjoying watching these ecological breakdowns. Quick question for you though, are there any examples of radiodonta, such as anomalocarids or radiodonts? I’d also be curious to know if there are any placoderms swimming about as well

Question: Can Sea Dragons release the venom underwater or do the properties of water make its use unfeasible?

Tim Haines would be happy about this

Any boat heading out this way is going to have to be some sort of Iron Clad vessel with some defenses against getting rammed from the sides and below. Anything less is just offering itself up as a lunchbox for the creatures of the depths.

i hope you make a video on kaimeres tuna and ray finned fish species one day

Amazing roster of marine animals always so perfectly also how your day?

Huh, I didn't know the Motomazor has multiple cousins in the northern hemisphere. Also I have a feeling we are getting closer to that abyssal amphibian.

Do you plan to do an updated video on the mosasaurs of Kiamere?

Considering we don’t have to deal with these types of threats when sailing how do Kaimerens deal with these creatures?

Awesome

I think it's awesome that there is another giant social mosasours! I wonder how the two species react when they meet.

Are the fencing whales related to the Mogul? Or is it just convergence? I hope the Qomanqa aren’t bothered by ships the same way Motomazor are. Will Troqlanot readily go for ships as well? I was quite excited for this episode. Safe to say I wasn’t disappointed.

I can see a Synapsid Therapsid marine reptile mimic (Tiamat).

5:24 I wonder what will happen when these conditions occur once again.

Just starting the video looks great wounder if blue whales are a thing on kaimer

15:10 HOLD UP Do my eyes deceive me?! A BALEEN MOSASAUR

if somebody made your work into a mincraft mod it would be the bestod ever

I love the troqlanot it looks like a cooler motomazor

I need a Kaimere animal survival game lol

The Fencing whale’s face reminds me of that RU-vidr Berd it’s uncanny.

That music keeps distracting me, I want to play Kingdom Rush again, lol.

I love how you gave therapsids venom as permian therapsid predators have evidence for venom glands

If Kaimere is 3 times the size of earth and such, how is the gravity similar or different?

Are there any fillter feeding plesiosaur and marine temnospodyls in the northern oceans?

You know you are ultra formidable when even pods of giant mosasaur orcas have a somewhat poor record against you. Qomanqa said it wanted to be WwD Liopleurodon when it grew up and then pulled it off.

Killer tunas are everywhere…

What about the giant abyssal amphibians

See both southern and northen hemisphere Seas very different from each other unlike on earth, Is like to see 2 different worlds. while the Seas of the south are populated by most Animals almost familiar to us(except mosasaurs, otodontids, plisiosaurs ecc.), while the seas of the north are very alien.

What about creatures in the land of northern pole of kaimere

nice video and whats next>

what is the largest animal in kaimere in general?

Nice video of the Northern Hemisphere which has more Mesozoic and Paleozoic holdovers which contrasts with the Southern Hemisphere oceans which has more Cenozoic holdovers. Some things to say: 1. Any gray seals, merfolk, and kurajaku in the North? 2. Were cachalots in the North a bit inspired by livyatan/similar animal found in California? 3. What were the Northern Hemisphere seas like during the Warring Clades Period? 4. 21:27-22:12 So basically like a sardine run but on steroid on steroids on steroids!? 5. 27:56 the largest teeth used for eating on Earth or Kaimere!? 6. Basically Arctic continent’s and Kaishel’s faunal compositions are like Earth’s but reversed. Though not 100% analogous as Kaishel is a continental landmass unlike modern Arctic and Arctic continent has some terrestrial megafauna unlike modern Antarctica.

One small, and a bit nitpick, question, but why is the scylla colored like that? Usually marine animals are colored the other way around to camouflage from above and below, is there a reason for the scylla to have that inverted coloration or does it simply not need that type of camouflage?

i would like some more in depth analysis about these pliosaur-mimic plesiosaurs

Kaimere is essentially Earth 2.0 the, earth gets the prototypes ready so that Kaimere can slot them in somewhere. I assume that magic has something to do with this, the native magic of Kaimere obviously can do some crazy things so altering the climate to produce peak biodiversity and productivity is not out of the question. This makes me think of a magical god like presence deep in the sea, if you can direct the oceans you can direct the climate of the whole planet to some degree. I mean if there is something so powerful as the portal who is to say that there isnt another presence pulling the strings that is somehow able to modify the climate to some degree in order to suit itself. What if its deep in the sea or far to the north.

Watch a new kaimere video after school is just what i needed to relax. Also, i have a question, why in some species the females are bigger? In earth usually the male is bigger than the female. Why does it happen? Is it more common to females be bigger than the males in species kaimeran species?

Fuckin crazy how many amazing species are covered here!! I wish I had the time to craft all of them.... slowly but shurly..

How long is the Qomanqa in meters? Just want to make sure it’s the same size as the wwd liopleurodon