if only we could go back in time and feel their footsteps shake the ground and feel their vocalizations vibrate the air around us. Even seeing the fossils in person, our brains can't possibly grasp just how big these creatures were. Rad video.
There have certainly been some pretty competitive size estimates thrown around informally but no size estimates have been officially published in a paper so I thought I’d stick with these ones for now. Like I said considering how much things can change with new findings, I’m hesitant to be too sensationalist about things I haven’t directly studied, so when someone publishes official size estimates in a paper, I’ll definitely come back to this 😊
I don’t believe that Perucetus was bigger than the Blue whale. I think that over the course of time, as with so many other animals, the estimates will decrease. I believe it will be shown that Perucetus was about 75% the size of a Blue.
People constantly talking about Bruhatkayosaurus being the biggest when all of its remains are literally gone and there is no fossils of it left so all of the estimates you get for it are not reliable, like at all
@@therumbleinthejunglee The fact is that because they don't exist anymore, you can't get a reliable estimate of its size and can't treat it as the biggest thing to ever live
That wouldn’t make a difference as it’s to do with how thick of a shell oxygen can penetrate, you could have that egg in a box with only oxygen in it (in a lab setting) but that oxygen still will only be absorbed through a maximum thickness. And because the shell can only have a maximum thickness, it will have a maximum amount of weight it can hold before breaking so that’s how they’ve come up with the egg’s maximum size
For what you understood as a brontosaurus has never existed. It was a misnomer of a frankenstein of 2 other dinosaurs. That does lead to the name being open to new nomenclature and another discovery took the name. Neither version was ever a contender for any size record.
@@TheSpiritombsableyeBrontosaurus is same as Apatosaurus. One Apatosaurus specimen was misidentified as a new species and names Brontosaurus but later discovered to be Apatosaurus. Hence Apatosaurus was named first so it is called Apatosaurus.
@@TheSpiritombsableye Not true ! Brontosaurus is real & always has been. In fact, im saying Brontosaurus is the most famous Sauropod of them all. Sinclair Oil has a Brontosaurus for thier mascot for Christ sakes! #research
