The Giant Double Billed Swordfish | Xiphiorhynchus 

Hello everybody, I hope you all are doing well! Now, I originally was going to finish and release this video sometime next year. I ended up posting it now because I decided to move the "The Evolution of Whales" project to next year, and I'll be spending a lot more time on this project. Regardless, hope you all enjoy this video. "How to Clone a Mammoth" is still scheduled for the end of December, so stay tuned for The next episode of Paleo-Oddballs will be slated for next year, and will be on Odobenocetops.

The dual-bladed duelist: -.Scissors.- Xiphiorhynchus

2:24 Xiphiorhynchus is gone ✨🦀🦀🦀🦀✨

I like the dancing crab at the background :D

I love HodariNundo's artwork. He illustrates such interesting and not well known prehistoric beasts. Also, I was expecting a giant swordfish like that to be something of the Mesozoic.

The world record Bill fish is a black marlin that was 4.45 meters or 14.5ft

*presses Like a million times for the crab rave* Nice presentation! Can´t wait to see more of this format :D

Hodari is a great artist and I have commissioned him to do work for me illustrating work for my fiction as well as did a fantastic job bringing Mesozoic Appalachia to life. Great to see him get more appreciation.

Nigel Marven needs to swim with this. *Chased by Sea Monsters 2 intensifies*

I love HodariNundu's art.

Xiphiorhynchus were delicious, but very high in mercury.

This is lovely!! ty for putting a spotlight on obscure paleofauna like this!

I think the current consensus is that the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific blue marlin is the same species, and the largest individuals seems to come from the Pacific. And although Xiphiorhynchus are really big, female blue marlin can get a 3.7m+ lower jaw fork length in modern scientific record quite reliably despite the overfishing and limited data

Awesome video as always! Expecially now that I learn about a prehistoric animal I never knew before. Makes the video to me a lot more intriguing than usual!

You win a new subscriber! Very interested in seeing future installments of this series.

Really cool! I have never heard of this fish before! 😃👍

The art is so amazing

Love your content. Thanks!!

Pretty much,if God said 🥌, ✂️,shoot,but forgot to turn off animal mode,and created the doubled-billed swordfish. Also as child,I always found Hodari's drawings to be awesome,epsically the Megalodon vs Liopleurdon one( old ),also great animation, keep up the excellent work.

What a cool fish! I had no idea it existed!

Really nice work fellows....Love from India!

Mmm, yes, dual-wielding swordfish

Glad I found you! Subbed, now. 🙂👍🏼 ❤️❤️

This is terrible...that I'm just now finding ur channel. This is the very first video I watched and I'm subscribing once Im done writing this comment.

So swordfish existed before they were cool! Nice. Great minds and designs think and hunt alike. I guess the fish all decided if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Awesome video

Amazing animations as usual! well done

That would have been the best deep sea fishing fight I could ever dream of...Still dreaming about catching my blue marlin though.

Keep up the great work💯

Cool video and fish 🙂👍⚔🐟

Hey Wildcard, we need this creature in game :P

Good doco ,thanks

Nice! I love HodariNundu's work. He's so creative!

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who loves Hodarinundu's art also good video I would love for you to make more videos on the more obscure species.

Some very nicely drawn fish, good job! draw saber tooth samlon

Great information thank you , I recently found the last couple of vertebrae in the tail of one of these on a fossil collecting trip in the South Island of New Zealand. The vertebrae were identified by the paleontology dept of Otago University NZ

Pretty decent work with the video, nice illustrations. I suggest you add Kaprosuchus, Megaloceros and the giant fossa to the list.

I never knew this thing existed but damn

Nice video. Weird animal too.

Great channel, it will soon climb the youtube ladder

Loving the contents!!❤️❤️❤️

Sword fish are one of the coolest fish in the ocean, this ancient species is no exception!

Groovy

I caught a 10 foot long sword fish in Cabo San Lucas and I never wanted to catch another one after that experience. I'm 5-10 150 lb. person and I'd have to say that the only reason I landed that fish was our technology.

Great video introducing me to a new species; looking forward to both the mammoth cloning video and of course, more oddball creatures

Nice!... I wasn't expecting this today.

Yes

Thank you for making this interesting video.

What part did the paleontologist found that led them to include it with swordfish family and was it slower since it was bigger?

Interesting

We had the swordfish. We had the sawfish. We even had the hammerfish. *But noone was ready for scissorsfish*

When you hear Crab rave in the background of the video

Yo8 got yourself a sub

3 meters seriously? the smallest Blue Marlin I've caught was about 3.5 meters and just my largest was about 4.5 meters. The biggest I've ever seen personally was caught in Bermuda on July 4, 2004 durin the World Cup Marlin Tournament and weighed 1189lbs and I walked it of at almost 17 feet. Over 5 meters. I didn't catch it because I was fighting an estimated 500 lb. Blue marlin. Because of the description from the captain on the radio we released my fish.

I have just found my 2 favorite PaleoArtist you and hodari nundu

Pog

I guess "double-billed swordfish" sounded more impressive than "scissorfish".

Lobocarcinus is an extinct genus of crabs that lived during the Eocene-Pliocene contaning these species: Lobocarcinus sismondai (Type species) Lobocarcinus indicus

Terrifying!

This channel deserves one hundred times as many find as it has

I did not know that they have a prehistoric ancestor

Giant sharks, sperm whales with Bowling pin sized teeth and now giant saw fish, the paleozoic oceans are as wicked as the mecozoic oceans

Hey, what would you think if this was the roster for a dinosaur park building game? *Base Game* Acrocanthosaurus Albertosaurus Allosaurus Anchiornis Ankylosaurus Apatosaurus Archaeopteryx Baryonyx Beipiaosaurus Borealopelta Brachiosaurus Camarasaurus Carnotaurus Ceratosaurus Coelophysis Compsognathus Corythosaurus Deinonychus Deinosuchus Dilophosaurus Dryosaurus Edmontosaurus Einiosaurus Epidexipteryx Gallimimus Gastonia Guanlong Herrerasaurus Iguanodon Kaprosuchus Kentrosaurus Majungasaurus Microraptor Ornitholestes Ornithomimus Ouranosaurus Oviraptor Pachycephalosaurus Parasaurolophus Placerias Plateosaurus Postosuchus Protoceratops Psittacosaurus Saltasaurus Sauropelta Spinosaurus Stegoceras Stegosaurus Styracosaurus Tenontosaurus Therizinosaurus Thescelosaurus Torosaurus Torvosaurus Triceratops Tuojiangosaurus Tyrannosaurus Velociraptor Yangchuanosaurus *Deluxe Edition* Cryolophosaurus Diabloceratops Dreadnoughtus Elaphrosaurus Pelicanimimus *Australia Pack* Australovenator Diamantinasaurus Koolasuchus Leaellynasaura Minmi Muttaburrasaurus *China Pack* Gigantoraptor Monolophosaurus Shantungosaurus Shunosaurus Wuerhosaurus Yutyrannus *Argentina Pack* Abelisaurus Amargasaurus Argentinosaurus Austroraptor Eoraptor Giganotosaurus *USA Pack* Diplodocus Kosmoceratops Lythronax Maiasaura Nothronychus Utahraptor *UK Pack* Cetiosaurus Eustreptospondylus Hypsilophodon Megalosaurus Neovenator Scelidosaurus *Mongolia Pack* Deinocheirus Halszkaraptor Microceratus Mononykus Prenocephale Tarbosaurus *Canada Pack* Chasmosaurus Daspletosaurus Euoplocephalus Lambeosaurus Latenivenatrix Pachyrhinosaurus *Africa Pack* Carcharodontosaurus Dicraeosaurus Heterodontosaurus Masiakasaurus Rugops Sarcosuchus *Greater Europe Pack* Concavenator Europasaurus Liliensternus Miragaia Rhabdodon Pyroraptor *Greater Asia Pack* Barapasaurus Fukuisaurus Ichthyovenator Mamenchisaurus Nipponosaurus Rajasaurus *Masters of the Skies expansion* Dimorphodon Pteranodon Pterodaustro Quetzalcoatlus Rhamphorhynchus Tapejara *Sea Monsters expansion* Elasmosaurus Ichthyosaurus Liopleurodon Mosasaurus Nothosaurus Xiphactinus

marlin pog

I read that as Xiphactinus and was like “THATS NOT A SWORDFISH!” ... And then re read it and realized it was a different fish entirely.

Is that a raver crab?

is there a way i could help animating in this?

Try blue marlin at 5 + meters

What Xiphiorhynchus means?

imagine the taste of this gormet sport fish...

I came for the xiph kabobs.

Ngl, I thought it was an Ichthyosaur at first.

Blue marlin get a lot bigger than just 3 meters and the records for marlin are pretty much all in the Pacific. 30 seconds on google bro.

do you here the crab rave at the background music lol

1:35 - 1:36

Can u tell me a battle between Rhamphosuchus vs Megalodon??I am confuse with this battle cuz every youtube I watch,Rhamphosuchus win so I would be happy if u do for me.U are more accurate then everyone

First time I heard about this one: Turns out it's one of the many many insane things in the Pisco Formation. And like Darth Maul, it had a ridiculously long time span

Its no longer a sword its a beak

Blue marlin also grew 5 meters

I love the fact someone talked about this obscure species, and I also love the works of hodari on deviant art, he draws a lot of prehistoric marine species

Xiphiorhynchus is Dualweilding

why did it go extinct?

The xiphos sword clearly factored into this name. That makes zife like knife, not zif like gif.

swordfish have been recorded upto 14.9ft

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So...it was dual-wielding?

my uneducated ass thought that his upper swords are double in number because of the word "dual"

2:24 crab rave

Dammit why is all the cool shit extinct!?!?!?

Oh yea, prehistoric crab rave

Such an interesting animal. I’m gonna try to memorize the name.

Wait, are normal swordfish *single* billed???

A bit like edestus

The scisor fish

So it's name just means sword nose? That just seems so lazy if I'm reading that right

*This Is A World* *Where Billfish have 2 Swords*

Barracuda don’t eat clownfish.

Ah yes comments older than the video (2)

HodariNundu stuff is Shit THE GOOD SHIT

there's a fish skull! *DANCING CRAB*