Join me as we count down the top 10 largest marine reptiles that we know of! #reptiles #reptile #marine #ocean #sea #marinelife #giant I do not own any of the images shown in the video.
It's even sadder now the eyewitness RU-vid channel is gone. I tried checking in the other day and nope all gone. Every video. All that childhood history delted
Ahh the nostalgia I still remember back in the day when I first saw walking with dinosaurs and for the next few years thought that liopleurodon was in excess of 80 feet long Them were the days man
Top ten smallest sauropods Nice video. That last one’s weight And the massive fluctuations in order, there could have been a blue whale sized icthyosaur. The bigger you are the harder to fossilize properly
I remember watching walking with dinosaurs as a kid and being in complete disbelief at the size of liopleurodon, turns out I was right not to believe it
For fishes that 100% would be in: - Beluga Sturgeon - Otodus megalodon - Basking Shark - Whale Shark - Leedsichthys problematicus For mammals that 100% should be in: - Sperm Whale - Livyatan melvillei - Fin Whale - Blue Whale (Can be both 2nd and 1st) - Perucetus colossus (Can be both 2nd and 1st)
Noice coverage! I've been hoping for a marine reptile full length video and this delivered. Cant wait to see more Western interior seaeay coverage as well
The music unlocked memories of school for me. Good memories, but my brain couldn't comprehend what i was listening to for two seconds, and then boom! A kaleidoscope of sitting in the dark and watching sciencd videos in an elementary school classroom.
This was fun! The idea that blue whales may not bet the biggest creature that had ever existed on the Earth is both fascinating and scary af at the same time.
It could be for a variety of reasons. Many of the giant animals we know an love today get that way by eating the smaller creatures we wouldn't expect, like Whales and Krill. That could also be true of Ichthyosaurs
Potential idea for you’re next top 10 video (if you diced to make anothere one) would be about the largest prehistoric terrestrial mammals that ever lived
Seeing Liopluerodon emerge from the gloom in The Cruel Sea chapter of Walking with Dinosaurs actually gave me the shivvers first time I saw it! In my mind it will always be 80 feet long lol
You mentioned that mosasaurs didn't have the best sense of smell, but given that their two closest potential relatives today are the snakes and monitor lizards which have forked tongues that utilize the vomeronasal organ (Jacobson's organ) to track prey is there any research that mosasaurs may have had a similar system?
I remembering subscribing because of your Top 10 videos! I love Prehistoric Marine Reptiles and creatures so this was an awesome video! I also thought the Perucetus Colossus may be the largest but you must not have mentioned it because there's not any concrete evidence to support this, right? As it could have been 85 or 345 US Tons.
Wait what about thallasosuchians ? Those were fully marine crocodiloformes with legs turned into flippers tailflukes and probably scaleless skin(heard/read sth like this about them quite a while ago but im not sure tho) skin and all, they should be included imo
Nice list but there are some issues you did not adress. The 49 t and 80 t body masses for Cymbospondylus and sikanniensis respeectively have already been heavily disproven by Markus Buhler and The Vividen video about the Swiss Tyrant. Thoses guys were huge but slender remember. Even 30 t for popularis seems a bit on the high end. This does not mean larger ichthyosaurs like Lilstock and Aust did not reach 80 t but it is unprobable a 21 m sikanniensis did. Other than that, there have been various published body masses estimates for pliosaurs recently. Sachicasaurus has been estimated by Paul (2022) at 13.5 t and the all recent article about plesiosaurs size by Zhao (2024) suggests 17 t for Sachicasaurus. The author also concludes the largest fragmentary pliosaurs reached and exceeded 20 t. So pliosaurs should still be higher on the list. I doubt there is any published estimate for Tylosaurus at 10 t even if I did hear paleontologists giving it 8 t...
The lower sikanniensis estimate is based on the idea it war a Shastasaurid, and here it was considered a Shonisaurid, so 80 sounds reasonable to me. Also the Tylosaurus specimen "Bruce" may have reached up to 18 tons, so his estimate is not too big, it might be too small in fact.
This fascinates me, what was in our waters during the ancient era, in the ice age I wonder what the top predator was in the water or if there were any large crocodiles like Deinosuchus around👀 also I bet the fishing was top notch
Others: watching the video normally. Me:having a breakdown from listening the intro song ik most people know it's origin/original vid but ik that from someone named tierzoo
Well, they're all bigger, since Bruhathkayosaurus was actually most likely an abelisaur, with the G.S. Paul version being a chimera. The sauropod has not been classified and the bone, which the name Bruhathkayosaurus was originally given to was the ilium, which is actually an abelisaur ilium, thus there was both a huge sauropod and an abelisaur named bruhathkayosaurus.
