The Mystery of the Megaraptors

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What were the Megaraptor dinosaurs? This mysterious lineage of predatory theropods had massive arms bearing huge claws and rose to prominence towards the end of the age of dinosaurs - but many mysteries still surround them.
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@tolbaszy8067 10 месяцев назад

The highly developed forelimbs of megaraptors mean they could have had softball leagues.

@TheAnon26 10 месяцев назад

Unlikely. Their claws would have posed a far too great risk of puncturing the ball. I propose they would have instead depended on hard pucks and hockey sticks. 🧐

@kyrab7914 10 месяцев назад

Honestly I was wondering about their dexterity. There are not many things on Earth which prioritize that arm and chest development like we do

@dragonbowlsupper 10 месяцев назад

They might have been our genetic ancestor if the KT extinction hadn't occurred. Those arms + THUMBS?? Unstoppable.

@julianshepherd2038 10 месяцев назад

Obvious piano player hands.

@Crocy 10 месяцев назад

*pronates your theropod arms *SNAP*

@persianking44 10 месяцев назад

Argentina: Wanna see me shake up the entire theropod order? Argentina: *Wanna see me do it again?*

@bkjeong4302 10 месяцев назад

One of my favourite theropod clades. The only large predatory theropods to rely on their arms and not their jaws to kill prey.

@Triggernlfrl 10 месяцев назад

Assuming the assumptions are true...

@thedoruk6324 10 месяцев назад

@@Triggernlfrl those arms served something at least we have only two theropod clades with larger arms

@robertstone9988 10 месяцев назад

@@Triggernlfrlwhen you assume you make a ASS out of U and ME😂

@niocriste2705 10 месяцев назад

Based on what we know about them, they might’ve exerted greater pressure on Sauropod young than then even their rivals the Carnosaurs

@GeneralLaserpants 10 месяцев назад

Are spinosaurs not included in that group?

@thedoruk6324 10 месяцев назад

Megaraptors are and absolute classification nightmare indeed. Hopefully more and more species should help the paleontologists to finally conclude whether if megaraptors belong to their own genera or directly related to other generas

@TyrannusDante 10 месяцев назад

But they are so beautiful ❤️

@Saberrex1 10 месяцев назад

Indeed. I'd like to see a complete skeleton of a megaraptoran discovered, or at least one on par with Sue and the Wankel T. rex in regards to completeness.

@TyrannusDante 10 месяцев назад

@@Saberrex1 pretty agree with you

@thedoruk6324 10 месяцев назад

Preach! They are unique @@TyrannusDante

@rodrigopinto6676 10 месяцев назад

@@Saberrex1the Tyrannosaurus rex was much bigger than megaraptors(less sophisticated and probably mostly scavengers)

@kaelhooten8468 10 месяцев назад

I spend my days with over a hundred geese, mallards, Muscovy, chickens, and Guinea fowl. I constantly imagine theropod behavior based on these types of primarily ground dwelling birds. It’s certainly a gray area scientifically, but it’s wonderful to watch them and wonder how similar their behaviors are to their ancestors.

@Dragrath1 10 месяцев назад

What I find fascinating is that the fowl birds are known from fossils in the late cretaceous and based on genetics might go back as far as 90 million years since the fowl clade including its two extant branches the water fowl and land fowl split off from other avian lineages. These fossils while few in number are remarkably similar to their contemporary forms suggesting that they have stayed relatively the same in terms of ecological niches both before and after the extinction. So chicken like birds and Tyrannosaurs actually overlapped in time which is kind of incredible to think about.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Nonsense. Tail dynamics change everything. It may look like minor changes when they stick a plunger on a chicken but that's just because you're still seeing a chicken. If they were two completely different animals you would never think to compare the two's motility. The future is autistic, that's why it's hard to predict. Of course you can't bring back dinosaurs, but you can bring back non differentiated sets so that it won't even matter. Animals are a dead end anyway, they can't go anywhere. People who have pets are idiots.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

@AK-Drakoin 9 месяцев назад

I’m always fascinated by Corvids, mocking birds, and grackles Their builds remind me of how I imagine dromeosaurids!

@dim4757 23 дня назад

@@AK-Drakoin it would shock me if there wasn't one species (particularly a dromaeosaurid) that didn't use some form of vocal mimicry to trick prey into coming within range of an ambush given how there are many birds that can mimic sounds to an almost uncanny degree. Even cats are known to somewhat mimic the sounds of some of their prey in order to draw them closer. And while cats aren't related to dinosaurs, it's interesting for me to watch my own cats display this behaviour and make me wonder if there were any dinosaurs that used a similar tactic.

@erichtomanek4739 10 месяцев назад

Imagine what Megaraptoran species could be found in Antarctica!

@Geothermic 10 месяцев назад

I mean Australia was connected to Antarctica and Australian had Austrolovernator so....they could be more there

@seanmckelvey6618 10 месяцев назад

@@Geothermic They would most definitely have been present in Antarctica. Antarctica basically functioned as something of a link between East Gondwana (Australia) and West Gondwana (South America). Given that Megaraptorans are present in both east and west it's more or less certain they were present in Antarctica as well.

@justinarzola4584 10 месяцев назад

How can someone excavate fossils in deep ice without falling in the ocean?.

@davidgantenbein9362 10 месяцев назад

@@justinarzola4584The fossils would be in the stone layers below the ice, also not limited to the coast line.

@thisisastrobbery363 10 месяцев назад

@@seanmckelvey6618 my dumbass thought Imperobator was a megaraptor

@Ally5141 10 месяцев назад

Something I just realized is that raptorians having only one big slashing claw is very logical. One slashing edge is more efficient than multiple ones, allowing to focus entire strength of the animal on a single "point" for deeper strikes. Megaraptorians having multiple big claws might either mean that their hunting tactics weren't as focused on inflicting big slashing wounds or they didn't need such comparatively big claws to damage internal tissue of their prey.

@rodrigopinto6676 10 месяцев назад

Probably mostly scavengers

@Dragrath1 10 месяцев назад

@@rodrigopinto6676 Pure Scavenger behavior is not widely known in the animal kingdom outside of highly motile and fairly small bodied animals insects and birds, opportunistic scavenger behavior is widely distributed among animal clades including not just carnivores but even many animals which are otherwise herbivorous so its safe to assume they were partly scavengers but scavenging seems unlikely to drive the kind of specialization seen in this clade.

@tylerknowsanimals 10 месяцев назад

One of my absolute favorite group of non-avian theropods (second only to therizinosaurians). Thank you for covering these amazing dinosaurs!

@BenGThomas 10 месяцев назад

One of my favourites too! I should really do some more videos on Therizinosaurs 😊

@Qbliviens 10 месяцев назад

Looks like you like big claws haha

@tylerknowsanimals 10 месяцев назад

@@QbliviensI suppose so! Haha

@Geniusprimate 2 месяца назад

@@BenGThomas,I'm making a new series coming soon on the genius primate channel, is called the family tree of phylogenetics, and the first episode features dinosaur king the family tree of phylogenetics teaser trailer / Genius primate ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4iy_hzEgBlI.html

@thebushna 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate that in your videos you get into detail but also keep it accessible enough that those of us who aren't students or professionals in Paleontology can still follow & learn from your content. Thanks for keeping my love of extinct creatures alive. ❤️

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Animals are a dead end interest because they don't go anywhere and you can't actually do anything with them aside from ugly ones. The experience builds to nothing, unless you could actually be one.

@patreekotime4578 10 месяцев назад

Totally wild that in only 25 years it went from... new kind of dinosaur... to a dozen species. That's a veritable avalanche of discoveries. It makes me wonder if some of these are really synonyms, but I would hope that at this point naming new species is more rigorous than it used to be.

@SomeChink 5 месяцев назад

there’s a lot of guessing, if paleontologists are keepin it real

@Gabriel-bt7ix 10 месяцев назад

Tyrannosaurs 🤝 Megaraptorans = Beating the shit out of Carcharodontosaurs of their dominance

@user-lj8iz1yj8w 3 месяца назад

King and queen

@neptuneai8168 2 месяца назад

what? Biggest tyrannosaur during the extinction of the carcharodontosaurs was smaller than a grizzly lol, they were not the reason the carcharodontosaurs went extinct. Also, besides north america, there is no overlap in range between carcharodontosaurs and tyrannosaur ancestors.

@Gabriel-bt7ix 2 месяца назад

@@neptuneai8168 Siats

@neptuneai8168 2 месяца назад

@@Gabriel-bt7ix Bro do some reading. Siat's is known from about 8-9 vertebrae and partial pubic bone. We have absolutely no idea what it is and there is no reason to believe it is a tyrannosaur.

@leopardndf6971 10 месяцев назад

They are pretty fascinating, hopefully we will learn more about them soon. Too bad the forearms and skull of Maip were not found. Maybe they survived until the end of the cretaceous outside of south America as well.

@daliborjovanovic510 10 месяцев назад

Antarctica, Africa, and India could all have been inhabited by them, as sympatric dinosaurs like abelisaurids did range far and wide across the Southern Hemisphere. Also, the Late Cretaceous fossil record of Australia is basically non-existent, and have no idea what was going on there for the last 25 million years before the asteroid impact.

@datmedetbek5165 2 месяца назад

@@daliborjovanovic510to be fair it depends on the timing of separation of those landmasses and how far they would have been during the Megaraptoran dispersal into southern hemisphere, since Abelisaurids were present in Southern hemisphere far earlier than early late Cretaceous which seems to be a time when Megaraptorans migrated into South America and also far before late early Cretaceous which is a time when Megaraptorans appeared in southern hemisphere in general. Antarctica on the other hand, most likely had its own Megaraptoran assembled because it was a dispersal route for that clade between Australia and South America.

@jasonsantos3037 10 месяцев назад

The megaraptors are a fascinating group of dinosaurs. 🦖🦅

@RikJSmith 10 месяцев назад

You never fail to impress , Ben . Hope you're doing well and staying safe . And I love the new Background Studio .

@lead_zealot 10 месяцев назад

I love hearing about megaraptorans, there's so much scattered and contradictory info that it's really difficult to find any good solid history for them. Great video as always man!

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

megaraptors, who cares, you have a model of them? fated to be in movies, fated to be featured in a story, but that's as far as it goes isn't it it lacks dynamic motion, dynamic motion is necessary, is it? I don't know, probably

@chir0pter 10 месяцев назад

I think megaraptors were basically like terrestrial birds of prey: they chased down smaller prey then used their meat hook claws to snatch them up when they got within striking distance. The curvature of the claws seems to support this. I wonder also if some biomechanical study could be done to see if the arms would support being shot out forwards like this

@seanmckelvey6618 10 месяцев назад

I agree, seems like with their powerful arms, huge claws but what seem like comparatively kind of weak jaws & teeth that they mostly hunted prey smaller than themselves and just grabbed and ripped them apart. I think the fact that they seem to have had quite long and gracile legs probably means they were pretty solid runners, which might be more support for the idea of them hunting smaller prey animals.

@kaltneta6704 10 месяцев назад

I love that the biggest and scariest Megaraptor is named Maip.

@pizza4681 10 месяцев назад

And one of the smaller ones is australovinator

@camacakegd3714 10 месяцев назад

Its so good to see such an in depth video on my favorite group of theropods. I really hope that in the future we discover even bigger members of this clade!

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

everyone wants to find the next big boy but those conjugated and bizarre psychological necessities don't lead to anything and are bad because 9/10 they can't even be found, tyrannosaurus rex is a very unappealing dinosaur. You can see the dumbness in the countenance of something like aoniraptor instead of troodon. The eyes are smaller and you can tell at once it lacks binocular vision, it's a dim thing. Stop overrating the intelligence of animals you like.

@seanmckelvey6618 10 месяцев назад

I think that it's becoming increasingly apparent that they place somewhere in the Coelurosauria, perhaps closely linked to the Tyrannosaur line, which would be very interesting if true. These guys have easily become some of my favorite dinosaurs, not only because of how cool they are, but also because of how mysterious they are.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Mystery? Stop loving mystery, you're only seting yourself up for disappointment when the mystery is solved. everything was a mystery before your era at some point. Pick up a bird who's never seen a human and take them inside and consider how genuinely paranormal that experience is for it, but you've been robbed of it, an early caveman seeing a beached and barely lucid porpoise might as well be seeing bigfoot, but real.

@tombrand236 10 месяцев назад

Great video as always and have to say it’s great to see a young guy like this putting out such excellent videos on the subject. A great inspiration for my sons.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

I think your sons would find more inspiration in the two truths of life 1. make it unique 2. make it violent those are the only solutions to having a purposeful life, believe it or not, the third is the social sphere but that breeds thoroughly unenviable human life.

@yhormthejollygiant4327 10 месяцев назад

Exactly what I needed! Really wish there was a good book regarding this group.

@davidboyle1902 5 месяцев назад

The more I learn about the diversity of animals alive during the Age of Dinosaurs, the more I realize how lucky we are to be here. Without that asteroid impact, and possibly the Decan Trap eruptions, there’s no possibility for the rise of mammals. And if you look at the what mankind is doing to the planet, that asteroid impact can be seen as the most consequential event in all of earth’s history. Btw, I love your ability to pronounce all those names.

@TheGBZard 10 месяцев назад

When I think of the megaraptorans and I can’t help but think of tales of kaimere

@roguetheoutlander8800 10 месяцев назад

I would say that more complete fossils of Siats and Chilantaisaurus would help, but i guess in this case literally anything would help with classification

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Siats siats siats grow up no one is going to beat a rex and no one needs to becaus if you learned to walk you'd be there already but your stuck because you're not creatively inclined

@roguetheoutlander8800 9 месяцев назад

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 wtf is wrong with you? Oh yea, since you mentioned that no one beats Tyrannosaurus (you said Rex because you think that there is only 1 rex but not realizing that when animal have rex in its name it doesnt make it anything special (classic T.rex fan)) let me introduce you to Edmontosaurus annectens, Shantungosaurus, Triceratopses, Torosaurus, Ankykosaurus, Deinosuchuses, Purussaurus, hundreds of sauropods, Eotriceratops, straight-tusked elephant, Barsboldia, Charonosaurus, Saichania, Saurolophus angustirostris, Pentaceratops, Titanoceratops, Alcovasaurus, Dancentrurus, Miragaia, Stegosaurus ungulatus, Giganotosaurus (which is literally 50/50 match) and more hadrosaurids, ceratopsids, ankylosaurids and stegosaurids (and thats only for biggest Tyrannosaurus specimens)

@yaruyaru 8 месяцев назад

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 lol autist

@bw7754 10 месяцев назад

South America would have been a death gauntlet on a continental scale 😂

@spamletspamley672 10 месяцев назад

Those arms and claws look just right for climbing up sauropods. Especially for bursting all those balloons! :)

@bentilbury2002 10 месяцев назад

I thought "Maip" was a silly name for a dinosaur... until I looked up what it meant! 😮

@stxticnathan6627 10 месяцев назад

😂

@carlosandleon 10 месяцев назад

Does it mean big penis?

@c4nchi 10 месяцев назад

You also have to look up what "Gualicho" means. Is a commonly used slang in Argentina.

@petrfedor1851 10 месяцев назад

Regardless of their phylogenetical position one thing is sure about Megaraptors: they never skip an arm day!

@mariawhite7337 10 месяцев назад

As a Utahan everything Raptor related is approved.

@Isabelb 10 месяцев назад

Great video, as always it takes me ages to watch as I'm constantly stopping and looking up each one online! So many tabs! haha 😅 I've been a follower for some years now, and I'm so glad to watch you progress so much in the last few, your longer content is also very interesting, the Shark Week Special was great.

@jonwashburn7999 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for introducing me to more dinosaurs I knew nothing about.

@The_PokeSaurus 10 месяцев назад

Megaraptor, a name you'd think is made up if you didn't know better. Thank you for helping me know better about them.

@unkownperson9250 5 месяцев назад

such an amazingly cool group to be closer related to birds than allosauroids ... such unique dinosaurs

@sauraplay2095 10 месяцев назад

This was a really fantastic video! Thank you for all the fascinating information!

@sixthousandblankets 10 месяцев назад

Glad you're posting these long form videos regularly again.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Sop wasint gojn your life but wha can you odo? waste time, build a thing, autistic tangents, what does it amount to, what can be beheld? Not much. Power, there is no power, no powr nor agency nor nothing. Not even humans, even vehicles are losing agency. Ever ince alsexander the great we have taken that which is important and put it away from us.

@eamonahern7495 10 месяцев назад

All I can say is that when I saw 2 large claws and a much smaller one, I assumed something that branched off from a common ancestor of the tyrannosaurs somewhere between the jurassic and cretaceous.

@seanmckelvey6618 10 месяцев назад

They share quite a bit in common with the early Tyrannosaurs, seems much more likely to me that they're Coelurosaurs at the very least, and probably quite closely related to the Tyrannosaurs. The limited anatomy we have so far for these animals does not scream Allosaur to me at all.

@pRODIGAL_sKEPTIC 10 месяцев назад

This is why big birds will always be with us. This body plan just works 😎

@santiagominer8731 10 месяцев назад

Ben! excelent video! Love to see my Maip render featured! I work in Fernando Nova´s Lab, if you want some imagery or some information on Argentinian Dinosaurs just write me! We also have news coming in a few days 👀

@Shehzain 10 месяцев назад

Oh my gosh that's so exciting. That's so amazing that you got to work with the legendary Fernando Novas.

@Shehzain 10 месяцев назад

Also your Maip render is fantastic, I hope you will make a documentary with it...if only someone had the interest and money though...

@jtander5315 10 месяцев назад

I love the video, I am still of the opinion that both Chilantaisaurus and Siats are not Megaraptorids, however there is still not enough known of those two to conclude what their relationship is. Only time and more research will tell.

@seanmckelvey6618 10 месяцев назад

Siats seems unlikely to be one to me, if only because of it's geographic location. Unless we're dealing with a ghost lineage of Megaraptorids in the northern hemisphere it seems like they were primarily confined to the southern landmasses.

@jtander5315 10 месяцев назад

@@seanmckelvey6618 yeah, that is what I thought, in addition it's size would be abnormal for the group when Siats was in existence, but it would not be strange for any Allosauroid, this is also why I included Chilantaisaurus. All I can hope for is that there is another fossil specimen that can be referred to the holotypes.

@monopoly2170 10 месяцев назад

Always happy to see Carnegie Museum of Natural History on these videos 😊

@midnightson8586 10 месяцев назад

Your quality work, is always, impressive. Without a doubt, this is my favourite channel for Paleontology knowledge. Congratulations.

@porkins1802 10 месяцев назад

Excellent work, keep it up

@MisfortunateJustice 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for this well presented and summarized research.

@punditgi 8 месяцев назад

Excellent video! This channel is definitely worth watching! 🎉😊

@MatheusPacheco1 10 месяцев назад

I know it's outta place but I can't wait for Jurassic Park to retcon Indominus Rex to have primarily megaraptor gene lol

@user-lj8iz1yj8w 3 месяца назад

You to also think they are smaller me to ❤❤❤

@ihoperumbletakesoff 10 месяцев назад

Excellent and very helpful overview of a fascinating group. Keep up the good work! 🙂🖤

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Hate comments are way more entertaining to read than positive ones

@LEDewey_MD 10 месяцев назад

Whoa! Fascinating and thorough presentation!!

@hello2jello4mellow34 10 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for this video!

@paulbags123 10 месяцев назад

Great video guys about a subject which I find absolutely fascinating + great for the Isle of Wight to get a mention... twice 😮❤

@samhaines8228 10 месяцев назад

thanks for clearing this up

@Terrik240 10 месяцев назад

This channel is simply fantastic. Your direct involvement in this field shows through in your extremely insightful delivery of the information, while your understanding of internet culture and modern sensibilities makes it digestible and not just a wall of text.

@BenGThomas 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! That really means a lot to me :)

@Psynsations 10 месяцев назад

Path Of Titans is getting a Megaraptor mod very soon & i am so excited ! this video came in perfect timing !

@aldenconsolver3428 10 месяцев назад

Excellent presentation, keep up the good work.

@thewhyitis2 8 месяцев назад

AWESOME video man! I've been a dino-nerd since I was a kid & just learned tons!

@JRHorsting 10 месяцев назад

Excellent, Ben.

@Deform-2024 10 месяцев назад

I'm surprised Bahariasaurus wasn’t mentioned, but then again i see why its left out.

@Circe-nx5zs 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting video about evolution and classification of megaraptoroids especially with them being an early radiation of tyrannosaurids. I have two questions. 1. How did megaraptors become geographically restricted to South America at the end of the Cretaceous? 2. Curiously there does not seem be have been any megaraptors found in Africa. Could it be that we have not been looking hard enough? If so, could megaraptors in Africa have undergone a similar radiation as in South America given the late cretaceous extinction of Charcarodontosaurus in Africa like in South America?

@lightman3581 10 месяцев назад

I’m sure they existed in Africa but we haven’t found any fossils yet . We know very little about Late Cretaceous Africa so who knows , maybe a 12M long Megaraptor is waiting to be discovered

@Circe-nx5zs 10 месяцев назад

@@lightman3581 Thanks for answering.

@vanlundstrom2164 8 месяцев назад

Fantastic ! I worked with Matt White, the palaeo who described the Australovenator, banjo in Queensland at the AAOD museum. Did guided tours accompanied by Banjo and the sauropod it was found with, Matilda the Diamantinasaurus

@averagekaijuuniverseplayer9687 10 месяцев назад

Everything living in South America (Argentina) was freaking massive😂

@adriannegrete9586 10 месяцев назад

You actually didn't mention Megaraptor was thought to be a dromaeosaur because it's claw looked for the toes until it's known to have a big claw for hands like Spinosaurids.

@erlectric 10 месяцев назад

love how you included Neovenator figure by CollectA on the background 😉

@cardsfan4867 10 месяцев назад

Allways nice when they upload!

@oleandreasjensen5263 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for an exellent and superb video. - As far as I remember there was found and described a ca 45 cm long and curved claw from probably a forelimb, and HUGE FINGERCLAW from a Dinosaur in South America some years ago -. In my and many others opinion it must have come from an enormeous Megaraptor.. - A question to you Ben; - Do you know something about this enormeous 45 cm Claw and about the "owner" of this Claw ???

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Why don't you just built your own dinosaur then? If you're going to sweat about size so much? Back to carnivora buddy.

@oleandreasjensen5263 10 месяцев назад

It was only a question. - This claw was descibed some years ago. It was found somewhere in South America. - It was descibed in a television documentary that I saw some years ago. - @@neo-filthyfrank1347

@joseluiscalixto5651 7 месяцев назад

I barely know the channel and I liked the information and explanation about the Megaraptorid.

@FrancisFjordCupola 10 месяцев назад

Very cool, not just the fossil history but the recent history of our reconstructions. Would be nice if we could delve in what decisions and observations go into placing fossils among groups, clades and so on.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Why don't you just recreate the whole damn thing then huh? Just 3D bring a megaraptor bro, go ahead, I'm sure you can do it, I'm sure you can do it, but how does it move? These are the questions of the future. You can't see it but I can. Your heart has to want to go there, that's why modern movies resemble fanfiction so much.

@varanid9 10 месяцев назад

I was able to follow the video, but, by the time it was finished, the trail was so convoluted that I'm not quite certain what I just watched. It did succeed in undermining what I had always assumed about Theropods, though.

@Everythingdinosaurdotcom 10 месяцев назад

An interesting summation of the current problems with these theropods. We remember the Eotyrannus paper you refer to well, we at Everything Dinosaur helped to fund it.

@BenGThomas 10 месяцев назад

Thank you, and that's amazing the Eotyrannus paper is a fantastic bit of research! Also I just wanted to say that I love your website, the Collecta Neovenator and Beasts of the Mesozoic Styracosaurus behind me in the video were bought through your site! :)

@lukacvitkovic8550 10 месяцев назад

Aerosteon is one of my favorite dinosaur names

@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws 10 месяцев назад

You really do deep dives into these animals and I was watching you do the video about the little dinosaur that they have the best idea of how it lookedcand you took a turn down the "cloaca route" which had me laughing, imagining you doing that part of your video in the museum! I had to subscribe, having watched several of your videos and enjoying them. What is going on in Argentina? They seem to be really into paleontology.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

Keep in mind during the early cretececous south america and africa were much closer together. Sigilimassasarusu and spinosaurus and oxalia could all be friends or they could be different who the hell knows. Well the aliens there probably know. Stuck in that backwater lost in time and space. Would you like to meet God? He's in the sky, and he doesn't know you exist. The idiot machine brought you back here. In order to jump the recreation would have to probabalistically dominate the thing's existence to begin with. Or maybe not, but it would have to dominate the next step. But how? Fragmentation? You can't actually die you know.

@sangheiliwarrior86 10 месяцев назад

13:37 If you've ever seen the animated series "Primal", this reconstruction makes you wonder, what does this look like?

@Hankthestank04 10 месяцев назад

australovenator is my favourite dinosaur as it's a relatively important dinosaur from my home country

@vympel1000 10 месяцев назад

One correction. Siats meekerorum is from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation more specifically the Mussentuchit Member which is the last member of that geological sequence.

@Ozraptor4 10 месяцев назад

The Mussentuchit Wash site is dated to 96 to 94 Ma, which puts Siats in the very beginning of the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian stage). Early-Late Cretaceous boundary is 100.5 Ma.

@falcolf 4 месяца назад

Damn. I learned so much from this episode!!!❤❤❤

@kamadoma715 13 дней назад

thank you for this informative video about this less-popular and under-discussed group!

@blackestyang7528 10 месяцев назад

and here I thought spinosaurus was the only one they couldn't make up their minds about

@datto240z 10 месяцев назад

awesome vid

@bbbenj 10 месяцев назад

Very, very interesting 👍

@kadenmohlow4178 10 месяцев назад

I like your logo design with your cartoons

@chadgorosaurus4898 10 месяцев назад

Remember when they thought the Megaraptor was just a giant dromeosaur.

@peterclegg2609 10 месяцев назад

I really hope there are many volcanic burials still to be discovered around the world with enough fossils to put all this to rest in all categories.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

there aren't but okay

@barc0deblankblank 10 месяцев назад

I understand there would be some overlap with regard to what tyrannosaridae and megaraptorans preyed on, but would it be reasonable to assume that their evolution and hunting strategies were developed based on their preferred prey type? i.e it's hard to imagine a megaraptoran dealing with armored herbivores the same way a bone-crushing bite would. If that is true, their decline would be rooted in the decline of their prey items, meaning that tyrannosaurs rose to prominence (and specialization) thanks to an increase in their prey items. Correct me if I'm wrong, of course.

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

what on earth are you even asking? 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 years is a long time, and the mites on your skin would evolve into new life, sapient life even, within a few million years only. You would have company sooner than you think. You know how dumb shows for kids show villains just materializing out of nothing? That's actually how it works on long enough timescales.

@andrewshear2927 10 месяцев назад

That's very interesting.

@DoctorNemmo 10 месяцев назад

Australovenator will be the name I'll ask them to print on my fake driving license.

@thefluffyapex2483 6 месяцев назад

Megaraptorans, although more related to tyrannosauroids (probably), are like the alternate versions of dromaeosaurids.

@Shadeem 10 месяцев назад

I like to imagine megaraptors and especially miap grappled its prey much like saber cats

@gwen6287 9 месяцев назад

I may or may not be using some of this info as inspiration for a D&D game I'm preparing that is just wild West with dinosaurs.

@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 10 месяцев назад

Subscribed. 🦖

@ceruleanclouds5871 4 месяца назад

Thank you .

@erichtomanek4739 10 месяцев назад

Megaraptors: The Semaphore Specialists of the Dinosaur World.

@Wash-tq7ed 10 месяцев назад

I’m a simple man, I see Megaraptorans, I watch the video and like

@wildbill9863 6 месяцев назад

Where do you find more info on not so common Theropods such as those included in the clades Is there a good database

@chipy7020 10 месяцев назад

Vamos Argentina, Carajo!!!

@Cannon8X 10 месяцев назад

Amazing video! Also I need that tyrannosaurus T-shirt! Anyone got a link to where you can find it?

@Shadeem 10 месяцев назад

that tshirt is awesome!

@edgeofsanity9111 10 месяцев назад

Hope we get a sort of definitive answer on the Megaraptoran phylogeny But what was their ecological relation to Abelisaurs? Because they did share their habitat, but who hunted what and did they rival for prey?

@lightman3581 10 месяцев назад

Maybe they had different niches so they wouldn’t compete very often

@edgeofsanity9111 10 месяцев назад

@@lightman3581 ofc, but who filled what niche? Both could be apex predators

@lightman3581 10 месяцев назад

@@edgeofsanity9111 I think Megaraptorans took the huge predator niche and hunted both sauropods and other large herbivores with which it shared it’s environment but this is speculation. The reason why i think this may had happened it’s because a Late Cretaceous South American Abelosaurid named Carnotaurus took the niche of fast running predator like the cheetahs today

@edgeofsanity9111 10 месяцев назад

@@lightman3581 that's a fair point, but we don't know much about other Abelisaurids yet

@dylanzoneff5050 7 месяцев назад

I think Megaraptorids would hunt Titanosaurs (the longs arms and sharp claws might help grab on such big creatures). Abelisaurids would hunt Hadrosaurs (the streamlined bodyplan could catch up and they bite them like how lions do wildebeast). So niche partitioning.

@ian.r5261 10 месяцев назад

so there are two kinds of "Land Meg", and this is one of them

@jurassictyrantkingYT 10 месяцев назад

Maip is My Favorite Member of this group and the most complete Giant megaraptor ever found so far. So I wonder if Africa and other continents even Australia had giant megaraptors in the late Cretaceous era as well that have yet to be discovered, and It just makes me curious just wonder if they'll be even as big as Maip. Maybe even Australia has a group of Megaraptorids that took over as super carnivores in the late Cretaceous who knows right?

@neo-filthyfrank1347 10 месяцев назад

An actual dinosaur fight would look boring from the perspective of a JW fanboy. The fanboy thinks they'll be flopping all over each other but really they are very line-y and conscious of their position, their agility is probably astonishgly less when compared to mammals or similar mass or volume.

@RWDOWNPOUR 10 месяцев назад

Been watching yer vids for a while. Just realized i wasnt subbbed and did it

@melvinshine9841 10 месяцев назад

Bro, I want that shirt. I wonder if we have anything resembling a half way complete skull for any animal that we're pretty certain is a megaraptorid.

@nonsequitor 10 месяцев назад

Not that we've got the option atm but DNA would be fascinating re: stuff like the convergence of the two finger mod... some mods are going to be more reliable with fewer code changes.... feedback with actual environmental demands 🤯