This Was the True Rival of the Spinosaurus 

Thumbnail shows two Charcharadontosaurus helping a friend get home after having too many drinks. What a kindhearted, generous creature.

1914: "There was political tension in the region at the time" That's one way to put it 🤣

Great to see Charcharodontosaurus gaining some more recognition, he's always been my pick when it came to Megatherapods.

Thank you so much for covering my favourite dinosaur of all time. Carcharodontosaurus is so underrated and i hope more people can appreciate it more in the future, especially with people like you sharing info surrounding it.

And most importantly, Carcharodontosaurus wasn't a punching bag for Spinosaurus (tbh, that design was GOAT, far better than PD)

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis introduced me to this animal and it has been one of my top favorites since. 😊

It should be noted that ALL theropods with serrated teeth had reinforced serrations similar to surgical saws, so even theropods specialized for cutting through flesh were able to bite through bone (they would just have been slicing it rather than crushing it). Also, with Carcha and all other allosauroids, the *effective* bite force is actually far greater than the bite force generated by the jaw muscles, because the allosauroid killing bite worked in the same way as a sabretoothed cat’s killing bite: using the neck muscles to both “aim” an open-jawed head strike and, critically, to drive the upper jaw into prey teeth-first while the lower jaw snapped shut to provide leverage. Because of this you actually have to add the strength of the neck muscles to the strength of the jaw muscles to find the actual amount of force involved in an allosauroid bite.

My favorite African dinosaur.

5:20 I wouldn't be surprised if headbutting was a common strategy among large carnivores to knock large prey over and attack their vulnerable under sides

Can you imagine just how devastating a bite from it would be? Even on a giant prey item? With such sharp, serrated teeth, and biting hard and deep enough to lose teeth, the second that thing gets a hold and pulls away, that's a HUGE chunk of flesh gone, and a tremendous amount of blood loss

I remember the first time I had ever heard of the Charcharodontosaurus was when I saw this special on the Spinosaurus when the said dinosaur was being rediscovered and when we learned a lot of new things about the Spinosaurus like aside from it's size that it had literally had flat feet and could swim like it was shown doing in Jurassic Park 3.

That thumbnail is both brutal and hilarious

Carcharodontosaurus is an underrated dinosaur. I think T.rex, Spino, and Giga overshadows it in terms of popularity. Nonetheless, it's still one of my favorite dinosaurs.

I first met it in Fossil Fighters. It had a cool pharaoh aesthetic. That game taught me to love sauropods though, not carnivores. Brachio and Amargo main.

I been waiting for a charcar vid and it was delivered 🔥🔥🔥

The dinosaur that started my Palaeontology aspirations

The real apex of Egypt Descendant of a long lineage of elite predators

You know your an Ark player when you call the Gigantosaurus a Giga

I loved this video so much, great work!

Thanks for the video. Carchar is a much poorly understood dinosaur compare to T-rex, Spino, even Giga because only a partial skull was found so far, but teeth fossils are rather common, the teeth are thinner than Trex and have much sharper edge, allowing paleontologists to be almost certain that Carchar is a predator not a scavenger. Hopefully in near future a more complete skeleton can be found somewhere in Morocco, there are just too much we don't know about this dino

The carch is probably my favorite theropod (or honestly favorite dinosaur overall) since the first time i heard about it about a couple years ago

Carchar is my favorite

The stuff of nightmares...

I was introduced to this dinosaur through the miniseries Dinosaur Planet. And through an encyclopedia I had and Dinosaur King, I’ve grown to love this creature. It is among many favorites.

I hope someday they'll find more Carcharodontosaurs in Africa I believe they were common like in South America only difference is they are highly concentrated in South America I guess it is because of big abundance of huge Sauropods or it had little competition with other theropods probably this allowed them to be so huge as predators but that's just my personal guess overall interesting creatures

Carcharodontosaurus is truly an underrated animal. Hopefully more of its remains are unearthed so we can learn more about this brilliant creature.

Carcharodontosaurus may have also eaten fish from time to time, since there were more fish than herbivorous dinosaurs in its flooded environment. Though not to the extent as spinosaurus.

You're underappreciated man

Imagining how a fight between 2 of these beasts would go is so badass! They're so cool looking!

10:00 I am very interested in the idea that many morphological adaptations aren't actually all that new and many basic animal types alive today already existed in slightly different forms during the eras of the dinosaurs. It's tragic that biodiversity in our time is in a state of virtual freefall because of human settlements cutting off most of the best ecological zones (that's where we tend to build our major cities especially on coast lines). Learning about the ecology of dinosaurs makes me feel ripped off that our biomes today have become so barren by comparison

Sadly with this video being 2 months old there are already some flaws in the details to some of the sizes of these beasts. The Spino ideally is the heaviest beast of its time. But with recent findings the T-rex is now found to be the biggest and heaviest predator to ever walk the earth. Scotty use to be the general size baseline for the biggest Rex discovered. But there is now findings of a Rex discovered that now trumps her in size.

Yes my boi is getting the recognition that he deserves

The King of Africa

As a Spinosaurus fan, just because my favorite is the Spinosaurus doesn't mean I don't love all dinosaurs. Always learning more about them each day. So it's nice to learn more about a carnivore that shared the lands with Spinosaurus.

Carchar is so underrated, by far my favorite dinosaur. I know, all dinosaurs are amazing animals. Carchar was THE land predator of modern day Africa.

3:30 great white shart

3:49 talking about carcharodontosaurus *shows giga drawing* *mentions T-rex*

Man, just getting lifted up by your neck and tail being completely screwed. That's so brutal.

I'd not say flesh. It'd say tissue. Even small sharks cut through bone without any issue, because they saw through it, if you're not squimish you can literally see videos of kommodo dragons doing the same thing to goats. You need to be able to break up a carcass if you are a large predator and that includes dealing with bone. In my opinion the allosaurid skull and therefore carcharodontosaurid skull is designed to maximise the cut, like a shark, and like a bonesaw. It's long and narrow to maximise the length of the sawing tooth row, it's high arched to take stress from the tooth row, even the micro structure of the serrations take stress off the teeth and the skull top is thickened to absorb stress. There was a survey in the morrison formation where they found the idea of predatory dinosaurs avoiding bone was as simple as collection bias. They collected every single piece of bone at the site(shockingly including the damaged bone specimens that other digs would usually pass over, because they are damaged) and found that the bone damage ratio was similar to what you see in modern carnivores when feeding. This included damaged osteoderms from creatures like Gargoyleosaurus or Mymoorpelta. So it would seem they got hungry enough to chew on/through even the toughest carcasses available. We have plenty of evidence that Allosaurus was dealing with large amounts of bone, and I'd say that the carcharodontosaurs were a further refinement on what already worked. We have things like camarasaurus hip bones with Allosaurus jaw shaped furrows gouged in them, and sections missing entirely. We also have a number of corprolites from the morrison including the following article, which I will attach in whole as it's actually getting hard to track down. It's a record of the largest and most bone filled corprolite discovered to date. A LARGE MEAT-EATING DINOSAUR COPROLITE FROM THE JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION OF UTAH Author(s): STONE, Dwayne D., Dept. of Geology, Marietta College, Marietta, OH 45750; CRISP, Edward L., Geology Dept., West Virginia University at Parkersburg, Parkersburg, WV 26101, ecrisp@alpha.wvup.wvnet.edu; BISHOP, John R., Rt. 2 Box 137, Ravenswood, WV 26164 Keywords: Coprolite, Jurassic, Morrison Formation, Allosaurus A theropod dinosaur coprolite has been excavated in Emery County, Utah from a red-brown mudstone of the Upper Jurassic Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation. The coprolite is nearly complete and is divisible into two parts, the main mass and a dribbling zone. The well-indurated main mass, which tapers at both ends, is 1.52 m in length, 0.457 m in maximum width, and 10.2 cm thick. The 1.52 m long dribbling zone consists of small isolated coprolites that curve towards the end of the dribbles. The coprolite geometry is interpreted to indicate that the main mass was defecated first, then the animal walked forward to release smaller amounts of feces. The coprolite consists of dark gray bone fragments, ranging from pebble to sand size, in a red-brown matrix. Bone fragments represent about 50% of the mass and have broken, jagged ends, possibly indicating breakage by the biting action of a carnivore. XRD analysis of the bone fragments and matrix reveal that both are primarily composed of carbonate fluorapatite. The large size of the coprolite and its geometry and stratigraphic location indicate that it represents fecal droppings from a large Allosaurus. Further support for this hypothesis is the fact that a broken distal end of an Allosaurus tooth was found within the coprolite, indicating that during mastication a tooth was broken and ingested. The carnivore did not grab a portion of flesh and bone from a prey animal and then swallow it whole. Instead the eater masticated its meal and broke the bones into smaller portions. This is the largest and oldest theropod dinosaur coprolite known. Work is continuing on a second theropod coprolite higher in the section at this location and pieces of theropod coprolites from two additional localities have been identified. Morrison Formation theropod coprolites are no longer considered to be absent or scarce and future searching should reveal additional large specimens.

when there’s 1 charcharodontosaurus and many Spinosaurus:friends when there’s 1 Spinosaurus and many charcharodontosaurus:friends when they both are alone:rivals

I am binchwatching while taking a dump on the toilet of my job

Is your voice getting deeper or did you get a better mic? Love your videos

your videos are very accurate, well done♥

Every dinosaur video I watch makes me miss Fossil Fighters even more

Great video!!! I love it. I’m not sure if Dricraeosaurus coexisted with Charcharadontosaurus tho. They both lived in Africa for sure but former genus was from Jurassic.

That's My fav Dinosaur and rank my theropod to Spinosaurus Tyrannosaurus Rex Giganotosaurus Mapusaurus and tyrannotitan, Carcharodontosaurus the shark tooth lizard it's name

Spinosaurus vs Carcharodontosaurus is one of the greatest rivalries in the Mesozoic. Even GSP talked about it on Joe Rogan

All time favourite for me

Great video!

They were around when the Spinosaurus was still kicking, so they definitely had a good run :)

The Charcharodontosaurus is by far my favorite dinosaur!

It’s one of my favorite large carnivores and I’m glad it’s getting more recognition.

I was surprised to see you imply that the Luftwaffe took part in the bombing campaign against Berlin!

Just here to say that the sauropod in the thumbnail is getting wrecked.

My favourite carcharodontosaurid is meraxes with carcharodontosaurus being second

Here because Ark 😅

The spinosaurus wasn't even a rival to the carcharodontosaurus, they had separate diets and were specialists in their respective environments

Love the Bloodstalker Cameo

That thumbnail is brutal

On the river of giants monsters are born

Char chars are my favourite, I watched one on a dinosaur documentary. Super interesting. Apparently they’d also like lift up their heads with their mouths open and then slam down into the prey, Like a hammer.

@3:44 I wonder who would of won in a battle vs those 3. Absolutely crazy looking!

That thumbnail is brutal...

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In 2024, the Carcharodontosarus is 7800 kg to 8500kg

Spinosaurus vs. Charcharadontosaurus and Saltwater Crocodiles vs. Great White Sharks is very similar

Great Artwork ❤

Africa has always been known for its exotic wildlife, and the dinosaurs that lived there were no exception. These animals made T Rex look like a house pet.

10:11 does anybody remember the documentary When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs because I believe it took place in this formation.

It would be SICK to see these two battle in the new upcoming Jurassic world movie. (2025 I think?) there is a possibility they're bringing the spino from jp3 back so that'd be sick! Maybe the terror that is Spinosaurus will meet a worthy competitor in the movie? That'd be neat!

River of monsters 💯

Fabulous beastie!

What skeleton is that of the theropod in the running pose? Mike

Bahariasaurus too .

Hardly forgotten

nice work

This has become my new favorite dinosaur, exchanging power for smarter plays such as sharper teeth, tooth regeneration, claws etc. this beast is better than the overrated T-Rex

Every Dinosaur King fan knows Carcharodontosaurus.

Interesting that scientist view most large theropods as violent towards most of their own ki

The true african king!

Who did that spino skeleton at the start

The cry-a-lotta-saurus at 8:08 is mad

my absolute favourite dinosaur 👍

The primary idea behind the ambush predator idea is it's slow speed. Bit if a brother is eating bloody sauropods how fast does he need to be LOL?

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in all fairness, people pay more attention to spinosaurus aegytpicas because paleontologists can't make up their mind about the thing

Wait these were bigger than Gigas!? Imagine them in Jurassic Park

Car car is so underrated

There was no mention of its air box. Which allowed this creature to outrun its prey.

Ok but they weren’t really rivals per say. They occupied different habitats and niches that allowed them to avoid competing with one another.

Monsters resurrected NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just think that in millions of years if the earth is still around and there is a new creature digging around bones, and they figure out the Apex Predator of that time came in all shapes and sizes and most were too lazy to get out of bed.

Has there been a new discovery? Last I heard was carcharodontosaurus was bigger than Trex but the size chart shown it to be smaller.

That’s a big head

the isle needs this

T. rex is still number 1 in my book. 🙌

Can u make a video of the giganotosaurus (I’ll check if u have)

Do Siggilmassasaurus

In other words, a Giganotosaurus... Got it!

I see what you did there with the "Sauroniops"