This Prehistoric Sperm Whale Was A Leviathan

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Don’t call this a Leviathan even though the name might sound similar. This was Livyatan.
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@Amy-il7mq 10 месяцев назад

I love the skulls of theses whales because they look like something you'd find in a video game that was made up to look as scary as possible.

@akechijubeimitsuhide 10 месяцев назад

Whales in Dishonored have a design inspired by this (although you don't get to fight one).

@NicoKyunKyun 10 месяцев назад

@@akechijubeimitsuhideyou get to "save" one though

@flightlesschicken7769 10 месяцев назад

Subnautica Leviathans..

@spitfirebird 10 месяцев назад

They look like the skull of something from a sci-if movie

@Kingjustin1019 10 месяцев назад

Iron Lung anyone?

@TheBigG4 10 месяцев назад

*“Multiple leviathan class lifeforms detected are you sure whatever your doing is worth it?“*

@EmilySmirleGURPS 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, gonna have to fire up a new game :D

@cow12344 10 месяцев назад

*cocks stasis rifle* No.

@alleredetagetafmig 10 месяцев назад

a person of culture, i sea

@theiviachine 4 месяца назад

Was looking for this comment

@fishanhunter 2 месяца назад

“You’re the best captain on the planet, im not even squidding”

@DanGamingFan2846 10 месяцев назад

They sound like a leviathan straight out of Subnautica If I had the chance to see any prehistoric predator, it would be this one.

@watershipup7101 10 месяцев назад

A person of culture, I sea.

@waterbullstudios9195 10 месяцев назад

@@watershipup7101 I sea what you did there. Nice.

@tnargs2693 10 месяцев назад

Who sees who first?

@notinusesoon4975 10 месяцев назад

@@tnargs2693 bruh you broke da chain!!!

@Dan-rw2dq 10 месяцев назад

For me id like to see a mosasaur

@mcsmith732 10 месяцев назад

Danielle does the most soulful critter illustrations! That "Livyatan" looks so happy! Probably because it's so nice to be brought back to life and remembered when your entire species has been extinct for 9 million years.

@blahanger4304 10 месяцев назад

Still in awe of her artwork

@jeffrasmussen7388 10 месяцев назад

I got hooked on channel because of her art

@Jordy120 10 месяцев назад

@@jeffrasmussen7388 Same here.

@Hotdogwater421 10 месяцев назад

I bet y’all all whales that can go down deep and see everything we can’t. I doubt most these creatures swim around blind it’s just not there nature. I know they can see the darkest of oceans. You can tell by there graceful movements at depths that only subs can go and they fly by with grace.

@SpaghettiToaster 10 месяцев назад

@@Hotdogwater421 Can't see if there's no light

@Jimera0 10 месяцев назад

When I learned about this thing recently I was both shocked and annoyed that I hadn't heard of it until then, considering it's the leading contender for the largest active predator in the planet's history. I couldn't understand why such an awe-inspiring beast had so little presence in pop culture. Hopefully with videos like this one giving it some overdue exposure, we'll start seeing more of it!

@strategicperson95 10 месяцев назад

Probably like how with tanks, it's a marketability thing. Like who wants to talk about the Hungarian Toldi tank when you can talk about the German Tiger tank or Soviet T-34 for the thousandth time.

@josiahshea3350 10 месяцев назад

It was discovered in 2008, while the megalodon was discovered around 200 years ago. So that's probably why.

@andrewbowen6875 10 месяцев назад

Lol me too. How did we not know about this amazing creature

@F1ll1nTh3Blanks 10 месяцев назад

You mean "largest active macroraptorial predator" because the largest known active predators still roam our oceans and livyatan is not among them.

@Jimera0 10 месяцев назад

@F1ll1nTh3Blanks yes I do know, but I felt the qualifiers would read as pedantic. Baleen whales may technically be predators but no one really thinks of them as such.

@CoralReaper707 10 месяцев назад

Livyatan is such a beautiful and epic creature that deserves more credit and respect.

@thehellyousay 10 месяцев назад

Deserves? It simply existed. No desert involved. 99.9999999% of everything that has ever lived on this world is extinct,and we've "discovered" the faintest traces of the remains of less than 0.0001% of that. What the living f**k does deserve got to do with anything?

@thegrimstreaker4669 10 месяцев назад

My first thought upon seeing this was, so moby dick was real at some point in time.

@PhyrexJ 6 месяцев назад

Credits? For what? Do you even know what you're saying?

@GlassDolphin465 6 месяцев назад

@PaperThinArmor 10 месяцев назад

The thought of this living around the time of megalodons and maybe even preying on them is interesting

@yellowandbrown1864 10 месяцев назад

Modern orcas pray on whites so livyatins almost definitely preyed on megs. And megs might’ve eaten young livyatins

@migueljardim8177 10 месяцев назад

The two apex predators of the sea. We probably won't see anything like that ever again sadly.

@Nubloot 10 месяцев назад

They’d probably avoid one another. Though if they did end up throwing down my money would be on the whale because of that sweet mammal brain factor. That said a megs bite would probably have been slightly more devastating.

@ninjiango9126 10 месяцев назад

Like Great Whites vs Orcas, but bigger.

@theman9048 10 месяцев назад

@@Nublootnah I think the whales hunted the shark like they do today

@touremuhammad5983 10 месяцев назад

Fun fact: Scientists have speculated that Livyatan went extinct due to competition with Orcas, which hunted the same prey but were smaller. This was similar to how competition with Great White Sharks caused Megalodon to go extinct, which was around the same time as Livyatan.

@ellidominusser1138 10 месяцев назад

Lmao, both giants got out-competed by their smaller counterparts

@ultraextraorca7644 10 месяцев назад

That's actually not true at all. Orcas didn't hunt Marine Mammals until after Megalodon and Livyatan went extinct. The prehistoric orcas that they lived wuth were smsller and hsd teeth adapted for hunting fish, not mammals. The great white one is accurate tho. As the climates cooled, Megalodon's major prey sources migrated to colder waters leaving them less to eat. Great White sharks need to eat less so they srivuved while the Megalodon did not.

@jacobbrown1690 10 месяцев назад

Orca pods hunted the meg into extinction

@CollegeBallYouknow 10 месяцев назад

@@jacobbrown1690 What would eventually become the modern orcas only started to develop AFTER Meg died out because they realistically had no chance against a shark of that size

@arminhashtroodi8432 10 месяцев назад

@@jacobbrown1690That can't be true otherwise the great white would have also went extinct and probably many other shark species

@Dumbledalf1 10 месяцев назад

Livyatan would probably have been my worst fear, tbh

@chandekam1826 10 месяцев назад

Mine too, but only because I would not have been able to spell its name.

@Pistolita221 10 месяцев назад

stun with the sonar before those 1 ft teeth get to you, yeah they're OP.

@arjunakorale6166 10 месяцев назад

@@Pistolita221Try 3 foot long teeth, NOT 1 foot long!

@Pistolita221 10 месяцев назад

@@arjunakorale6166 I am the Walrus...

@Scarlet_Soul 10 месяцев назад

@@arjunakorale6166 Psst, 30cm is 1 foot

@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667 10 месяцев назад

Woah, this Leviathan and the Megalodon were truly the terror of the prehistoric sea.

@user-lq4ct6dr5m 10 месяцев назад

If you wanna know more, The Pisco formation represents the oddness of the Miocene fauna perfectly Not only do we have these two, we also got marine gharials, marine ground sloth, penguins, toothed albatross, double sworded swordfish, and more

@serfranklin6022 10 месяцев назад

Livyatan! She must have said it 70 times in this video, and you STILL.... !!!! 😮🤯😵🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🙇🏽‍♂️

@exalt2674 10 месяцев назад

@@user-lq4ct6dr5m Marine ground sloth and double swordfish? Wow.

@user-lq4ct6dr5m 10 месяцев назад

@@exalt2674 Thalassocnus and Xiphiorhynchus respectively

@exalt2674 10 месяцев назад

@@user-lq4ct6dr5m Thanks

@ahsanhaider6549 10 месяцев назад

I am deeply impressed by the channel's artist who creates these meticulously accurate anatomical sketches.

@Tsuruchi_420 10 месяцев назад

The way she says levyatan boggles me so much, it's like she's trying to imitate a french person, binomial nomenclature gets people talking in such a weird way sometimes

@ondry8780 10 месяцев назад

got to see the skull in the national museum of natural history in lima, peru. AND IT'S HUGE

@D.H.1082 10 месяцев назад

Makes it more believable that ancient people finding these thought they were monsters of myth.

@gEtar87 10 месяцев назад

Title: "This was a leviathan" First words: "Don't call this a leviathan"

@tonyp6631 10 месяцев назад

I can't get over how good Danielle's illustrations are. I sometimes miss parts of the presentation watching the sketch unfold. Very cool

@yeeturmcbeetur8197 10 месяцев назад

Leviathan vs Megalodon is going to be a movie now huh 😅

@TeethToothman 10 месяцев назад

Livyatan**

@zwiebeldogs 10 месяцев назад

You and Lindsay Nikole uploading about the same topic within an hour. That's a sign for me to travel to the deep seas

@napoleonfeanor 10 месяцев назад

Don't use OceanGate ;)

@nckojita 10 месяцев назад

right? talk ab lucky!

@ytalgorithmperfected3561 10 месяцев назад

ikr i love animalogic but Lindsay takes the W on this one

@boxy2k8 10 месяцев назад

Ben G Thomas too

@ethandollarhide7943 10 месяцев назад

Animalogic and Lindsay Nikole doing a video about Livyatan on the Same Day? Coincidence or Planned: You decide.

@dingokidneys 10 месяцев назад

I'm really enjoying these videos and watching Danielle's drawings come together is a fun element.

@majinvegeta9280 10 месяцев назад

Deep dives in a prehistoric ocean must have been quite the experience. One of my favorite marine animals has always been the dunkleosteus with the 2nd either the meg or leviyatan. Life amazes me to this day but I find it absolutely fascinating some of the creatures that have roamed this planet. The mesozoic era was a cool time in earths history and would be really cool to visit the jurassic, triassic and cretaceous periods separately to see how much things changed between each epoch

@zazugee 8 месяцев назад

dunkleosteus looks like a piranha on steroids

@Torbu6286 10 месяцев назад

You guys are too damn underrated for such quality content, how y'all won't stop doing it

@massimookissed1023 10 месяцев назад

It should obviously be called a Shark Whale. (We have whale sharks, so why not ?)

@Nikki0417 10 месяцев назад

I'm still stuck on the fact sailors saw white fluid come from an animal's *head* and we're like "well, that must be sperm."

@RealBradMiller 10 месяцев назад

Naturally.

@christophercox936 3 месяца назад

They were at sea for three yes….well yes.

@joea.9969 2 месяца назад

They were prob a rather uncouth bunch

@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 10 месяцев назад

The thing I like about Livyatan vs megalodon is unlike spino vs rex its an even match and it realistically happened

@louiemercado5595 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful work on the video on Livyatan, my friend. Please keep on the work on your videos on these magnificent prehistoric creatures that we all we love.

@Voc_spooksauce 10 месяцев назад

Not only are the hosts in this channel well-versed, but also stylish as hell

@Makabert.Abylon 10 месяцев назад

Except the pronunciation of the creature itself then.

@76rjackson 10 месяцев назад

She explained that. It's the Hebrew pronunciation.

@Voc_spooksauce 10 месяцев назад

@@Makabert.Abylon You're not paying attention to the videos at all, are you?

@Arin-3 9 месяцев назад

@@Voc_spooksaucethey didn’t have subway surfers in the bottom panel, give ‘em a break.

@martinh5402 10 месяцев назад

This is awesome thanks kindly Animalogic!

@DrJuice1 10 месяцев назад

The way she pronounces livyatan feels very passive aggressive

@jamieholsey1106 4 месяца назад

Fr!

@Renisanxious 10 месяцев назад

If we're doing prehistoric sea creatures I either need a liopleurodon video or anomalocaris, opabinia, or tully monster video. The precambrian and cambrian seas were wild, i would also accept a sea scorpion video!!

@pritamsri 9 месяцев назад

Amazing info for a zoologist... Thanks for all the hard work put into this 😃👍🙏

@williamcozart8158 10 месяцев назад

I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be pronounced like "leviathan", but with "tan" at the end...not "livvy ottin"

@laurieb3703 2 месяца назад

I just googled it and it sounds like leave-ya-tun

@913egok 10 месяцев назад

Very informative video. Loved it. A video about smilodon, showing how it interacted with other predators in its environment, would be great 😁

@bigkahunamenor 10 месяцев назад

You are such a great spokesperson and scientist. The scientific community owes you a huge debt of gratitude for making science more exciting and new. Keep up the great work 🤙🏾

@rxg9er 10 месяцев назад

I like to think they could hold their breath for an hour like sperm whales. But instead of diving deep, they lurked beneath the waves (and possibly thermoclines) so they could ambush their prey

@MJAY_NFFC 10 месяцев назад

Great video as ever Talia 🙂

@Animal-spotting 10 месяцев назад

Animalogic never misses! Beautiful.

@Fyreblade2000 10 месяцев назад

My favorite whale!!! Thank you Talia and Animalogic!!

@barrymccaulkiner7092 10 месяцев назад

How long until a film franchise starring Jason Statham comes out called _The Livy_

@ytalgorithmperfected3561 10 месяцев назад

me saying "le-VAI-ah-tin" mentally every time she says "le-vee-ah-tun"

@mariusciobanu2025 2 месяца назад

It drives me crazy

@TheRealAaronSmith 2 месяца назад

Maybe because she's not saying "Leviathon" when she says that, you id10t. She even explained why. "Leviathon" is assigned to a Mastodon. They can't call two separate animals the same thing, so they named it after the Hebrew translation of the same word/name.

@TheRealAaronSmith 2 месяца назад

@@mariusciobanu2025 the part that's driving you crazy is that you're wrong, not her.

@laurieb3703 2 месяца назад

@@TheRealAaronSmithapparently they're both wrong. I looked it up and it's said like "leave-yah-tun". Interesting!

@RevanAlaire Месяц назад

Liv-Ya-Tan would be the most accurate pronunciation.

@edwinreveron870 3 месяца назад

By the look of that drawing, it looked more like giant beluga whales, than sperm whales..

@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 10 месяцев назад

Such great description and depiction❤

@randomnickify 10 месяцев назад

Don't give Hollywood more ideas, they already made Meg and dinosaurs living in the same timeframe 😅

@knightofarkronia9968 9 месяцев назад

A literal Leviathan!

@Pizza653 8 месяцев назад

Love the drawing at 6:55! Beautiful style

@Ranstone 10 месяцев назад

0:05 Leviathan has never been described as a serpent in any setting...

@Fortunes.Fool. 10 месяцев назад

The oceans were even scarier and they’re already scary now.

@Pistolita221 10 месяцев назад

Gah, prehistoric oceans are too cool! I love Livyatan, imo it's probably the most powerful single predator to ever roam the oceans, that sonar might be able to stun a megalodon the same way GWSs are stunned by orca and even dolphin sonar? It'd be awesome if you covered Palaeophis colossaeus, imo it's cooler than titanoboa. Almost the same size, but it's a literal sea-serpent. Possibly grippy scales, possibly venomous? Probably one of the coolest snakes of all time, and one of the coolest linnaean reptiles since the dinosaurs.

@alexcisneros2980 10 месяцев назад

Wow! Didn't know sea serpents really existed! Sailors thought the oarfish was a sea serpent but if only the knew there really were sea serpents! Only 38 million years too late! 🤧

@No.1GodzillaGlazer 9 месяцев назад

Damn, that sounds cool, gotta check it out but yeah Meg vs Livy is basically a coin flip due to Livy having a slight advantage in head to head and Meg having the advantage in a wild battle

@Nobody-su9km 8 месяцев назад

Megalodon had something GWS don't though, they were absurdly faster and way more lethal, the size difference specially in mouth makes meg way more lethal on a single bite, realistically, no animal had a chance against meg in The sea.

@Pistolita221 8 месяцев назад

@@Nobody-su9km IDK if megalodon would be faster than the KO of the whales sonar but meg is still very cool.

@gecko-saurus Месяц назад

@@Nobody-su9km Measurements of Livyatan's teeth and jaws are actually higher than Otodus megalodon's.

@cmkwan59 10 месяцев назад

So beautiful, glad it live in the era without human messing around.

@eonarose 10 месяцев назад

Danielle’s drawing looks like a big smiling beluga. ❤

@budgunter8950 8 месяцев назад

I love Danielle's Artwork!! Does she have her own site Showcasing her work?

@lokiiago_x0x 10 месяцев назад

SO COOL! I love deep sea dinos/monsters/critters so much

@spitfirebird 10 месяцев назад

I’ll forever be waiting for an episode on Microraptor, or maybe one about Caudipteryx, or basically any jehol biota animal, particularly the dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs, and mammals that lived in the formations that form its greater whole.

@brev653 10 месяцев назад

Well, this is weird. Lindsay Nikole posted a video about this same whale less than 20 minutes ago

@tmc3178 10 месяцев назад

2 videos on one of my favorite subjects can't complain 🤗

@wghd6782 Месяц назад

I Love how Mastodon made an album called Leviathan

@KingJay6912 10 месяцев назад

Aren't Killer whales a type of dolphin?

@arjunakorale6166 10 месяцев назад

Yes.

@AnnHiroCh 9 месяцев назад

My brain keeps stopping at "Prehistoric Sperm" whenever i read the title.

@piedadvillafane3979 10 месяцев назад

Gracias Animalogic por enseñarnos tanto.

@MaliciousMollusc 10 месяцев назад

Theory: What if the whale in Moby Dick wasn't actually a Sperm Whale, but the last surviving Livyathan? That could explain why it was so aggressive and weird looking.

@dinonuggett2968 10 месяцев назад

They went extinct 5 million years ago so no😊

@nathanwhitmore3980 8 месяцев назад

Says you.

@lackland231 5 месяцев назад

They are definitely extinct

@Doctor-vn8es 3 месяца назад

There's also the fact that Moby Duck is a fictional story. So, yeah, there's that as well.

@MaliciousMollusc 3 месяца назад

@@Doctor-vn8es Not entirely fiction. It was based off a real event. The crew existed. And White (probably Leucistic) Sperm Whales have been confirmed to exist too.

@JackFrost008 7 месяцев назад

the spermaceti is for diving and part of creating the sonar sound

@mikeyjhilli 10 месяцев назад

Cool. More nightmare fuel. Thanks Animalogic.

@Titanium-Fury06 Месяц назад

When i was eight i was traumatized by the skull of this beast it just looked terrifying and even today im still terrified of this thing

@gacrazy65 10 месяцев назад

Two videos on this monster whale in one day? Nice!

@Hermit541 8 месяцев назад

I didn't call it a leviathan, you did in the title of the video

@unclebob7937 9 месяцев назад

Very nice. Love the artist's renderings. The scared up Jaws/Moby Dick image..Wow.

@sabersroommate8293 10 месяцев назад

I'm surprised people aren't aware of this creature. Then again its rarely covered by big channels.

@user-fs7dr1wi9r 10 месяцев назад

This NEEDS to be in the MEG III when the time comes..

@ghoraxe9000 10 месяцев назад

Beavis : Woah! Butt head: She said Sperm...

@randomguyodst46 10 месяцев назад

this is some primordial soup mythology.

@sciencenerd7639 10 месяцев назад

best topic coincidence since Forrest and Dave both did vids on Behe

@loyalsupportisthebestever 4 месяца назад

The video was fantastic, and what a pleasure it was to not just have a voice narrate, but a beautiful lady.

@whiqeddik7615 2 месяца назад

She is great and wow. Never knew about this giant! Awesome me and the nephew thank you and the animalogic team

@AlainSTO 10 месяцев назад

Prehistoric oceans are what gave me my thalassaphobia. I'm looking at you Dunkleosteus.

@dream__soda7900 9 месяцев назад

Can you imagine the amount of untapped fossils at the bottom of the ocean? Such a shame. Hopefully we can reach there one day.

@JohnUltrakillReal 10 месяцев назад

YES, FINALLY, my boy Liv getting some attention

@deadlydingus1138 10 месяцев назад

Finally. A video about your mom.

@briannormant3622 10 месяцев назад

Thanks. I proud of my mom's massive and powerful jaw able to kill and hunt great sharks.

@GoonieLord 10 месяцев назад

This toothed beast did hunt the Meg

@gregoryrolin9738 10 месяцев назад

That was really interesting. What about a video on Stellar's Sea Cow? I know it went extinct more recently, but it was such an odd member of the manatee family, and there is still so much we don't know about it.