It's also crazy that these beasts, weighing up to 100 tons, about half the size of the largest animal ever to live (today's blue whale), had brains and intelligence about the same as a chicken, sometimes literally, and sometimes in proportion to their body mass.
It's crazy how the sauropod group containing the biggest animals to ever walk on land (the titanosaurs) also had Magyarosaurus, which was only the size of a cow, and lived at the same time as the other giant titanosaurs like Alamosaurus (right before the big extinction at the end of the Cretaceous). It makes my brain happy thinking of a "mini" sauropod.
It’s also crazy to me how we could’ve had cow size elephants in the modern day if humans hadn’t hunted or exported them to extinction (Mediterranean and Southeast Asian Island elephants).
Love how you got so excited about the fossil at the Natural History Museum and then with a throat clearing your back to the video. It's great to see some personality in your video than just all facts
i liked your comment before i got to that part just because i agreed that its nice to see our youtubers personalities shine in here and there! but i def felt his energy! i had the same when i first went to the denver museum when i was younger than 10. and seeing those replication skeletons in person really makes you feel something. i grew up in phoenix and people always said, "i seen pics of the grand canyon, im good" nah you need to go there at least once in person to truly appreciate it, one of those "pics dont do it justice" things
I sometimes wonder how long it would take for a Argentinosaurus to walk past you.. that sounds weird but just imagine standing there, the earth thundering underneath you as that thing stomps forward. It couldnt have been very fast right
@@realdaggerman105 They may only have been able to move one leg forward at a time though due to their size and weight ...I believe they’ve also found evidence of sometimes multiple dinosaurs and other small animals drowning in mud churned up by sauropod footprints
I felt that little tangent at the end there on a personal level, dinosaurs never cease to ignite that childlike wonder and awe that overwhelms me in the best way
Alright now onto our first Dinosaur Evolution video centering on Sauropods. Hope you do an evolution on the Theropod dinosaurs, the Ceratopsians, Mosasaurs, Turtles, the Stegosaurus, the Pterosaurs and the Birds.
@@duder7396 I didn’t say that these 3 groups (e.g. Mosasaurs, Pterosaurs, Turtles) are Dinosaurs I just want him to cover them, you didn’t have to sound like a dick.
As a biology student I really love your channel- would love to see more videos on the evolution of extinct animals! There is an near endless supply to choose from. I would suggest gorgonopsids or cephalopods but thats just my bias 😁
They just recently found out through scanning the neck bone fossils that they may be hollow like bird bones and stacked in such a way like puzzle pieces to balance those super long necks.
I absolutely LOVE the way those impossible names just float off your tongue like music! I've watched Dinosaurs change since my days in grade school, back in the 1950s, sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much, but several things remain unchanged, for me: I wonder what they tasted like and, can you imagine the enormous piles of poop where ever those puppies went!? Must have been Heaven for whatever kind of Scarab beetle lived back then, not to mention the Monkey Puzzle trees.
Your enthusiasm over the massive Patagotitan you saw in the museum was a thing of beauty. It was a really enjoyable video overall, however it was this expression of joy towards something so marvellous that you earned yourself a like and a sub. 🎉 Also!! The memes were good. Mr Crabs doing bench presses are the cherry on the cake. 🎂
Sauropods in media: Biggests punching bags in history, just there to show how powerful carnivorous dinosaurs were. Sauropods in reality: Brontosaurus: Excuse me sir. You’re just in time for the event. Allosaurus: What event? Brontosaurus: *W E I N E R C O M P R E S S I O N D A Y* Allosaurus: What the fu-
Bruh, ephanterias amplexus ate those for breakfast. The ancestor to ths giganotosauridae, rules the jurassic, not the big al variant or what I call allosaurus minus
Wow, if not your video, I would have not known of Eoraptor reclassification into sauropodomorhps! Reclassification goes almost always under a radar, articles and Twitter posts share almost always info about new species or new study about lifestyle or anatomy, I almost never see something about reclassification. Where did you got an info about Efraasia's cheeks? Btw, wonderful video. Very well done on informative side.
Hi, I would like to gave you some corrections regarding this video: - Prosauropods is an obsolete term, it has been replaced by "non sauropod sauropodomorphs". - It's Antetonitrus, not Antenotritus, a very cool name, it means before the thunder. - Spinophorosaurus didn't have a spiked club, only Shunosaurus had it, and also Mamenchisaurus even if it was very small. - No, numerous studies showed that Diplodocus and other long tailed sauropod couldn't use their tails for defense, it was too thin to be an effective weapon and the bones would've easily broke. It has been hypothesized that it could've had some communication purpose. - It's not sure Alamosaurus shared its environment with T. rex, they come from different formation, but there are fossils of an undescribed Tyrannosaurid from the same formation of Alamosaurus, which may be T. rex or a close relative. Hope this could help and good luck for your future videos.
Sauropods 🦕 are some of my favorite dinosaurs because of how big they are; their size is really something to behold. Also, that’s so cool with that fossil in the museum. Also, big congrats on this being your first dinosaur video.
Over at Dinosaur National Park ( straddles Colorado and Utah ) there is a partially excavated skull of a Camarasaurus. It is almost the size of a Smart Car, which blows your mind knowing that that was the smallest feature on it. Thermopolis, Wyoming has built a two story building to house the juvenile Diplodocus they found there.
Since you've touched your feet onto dinosaur evolution, I would like to learn the evolution of Pachycephalosaurids. They're one of my favorite groups in dinosaurs and I generally wanna learn how they got their iconic domed-heads
Love 10:27 How I imagine these majestic creatures really looked like on the horizon. Sad they have been extinct for over 60m years. Still, they are able to be appreciated by you and me thanks to science and the curiosity of our species. Sad, yet a beautiful thought. Cheers
When I was a kid, I told my first grade teacher that I had an invisible brontosaurus in my family's barn. I also mentioned that the hay within our barn kept disappearing. I owed that to the bronto munching on the hay bales. I never mentioned to my teacher that local farmers would use our barn to store hay for them to take away anytime they needed it. One of my all-time favorite fictional dinos was the brachiosaur-like radioactive monster in "The Giant Behemoth" (1959). I've loved brachiosaurs ever since. Thanks, Animal Origins, for this very informative video on my favorite dinosaurs.
I guess the secret of sauoropods being able to achieve such a huge size and still stand on land is their hollow, air-filled bones. They probably weighed about half what people thought they did when they thought the bones were solid.
Nerding time! Sauropods didnt have their nose on the top of their skull! New research has shown dicraeosaurids didnt have spikes, but actually neck sails!
i have to say that you’re by far the funniest and most entertaining paleo youtuber. the rest are out here making dumb jokes for toddlers the whole time. you’re just actually funny in a really deadpan way
My favorite dinosaur is brachiosaurus too. i always find it cool when youtubers I watch share similar favorite things with me. Also the scene in walking with dinosaurs with the dinosaur is really cool
I agree how cool it would be to witness these giants in real life. But, of course, being wary of those tail whips. A herd of them must have shaken the ground as they walked past. And I wonder what their calls sounded like.
On the necks, think about it. The throat is an obvious weak point for any prey-animal, evolving a neck held vertically gives the animal a distinct advantage against predators over any animal that holds its throat out in invitation for any T-Rex that happens along. It just wouldn't make evolutionary sense.
Small detail: the prosauropods were in fact not the only giants of the Triassic, having to contend with huge dicynodonts like Lisowicia - weighing as much as an elephant, and surprisingly closer to us than to dinosaurs! It is only when dicynodonts went extinct at the end of the Triassic that prosauropods and then sauropods became truly uncontested in size
Great vid, great channel. We want more. Just remembered not to talk too fast😉.., good stories like these deserve time to be heard and seen by everyone on this planet, non natural english speaking people too. Thanks for the uploads and greetings bibia.
We went to see patagotitan at the Natural History Museum in London. So cool. And once we got over the size of it, we had fun playing with the sauropod fart button.
That description on the titanosaur skeleton... you had me imagining it (which I'm sure doesn't do it justice) and I just... I can't... I understand the science of why sauropods got so huge, but I still can't and never will be able to get my head around them.
I've seen that same skeleton at the Natural History Museum and felt exactly the same way. I walked the length of it like 4 times and took way too many pictures.
