When Elephants Were Backwards

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This 10-ton “terrible beast” could easily be confused for a thing of myth and legend, but it was actually one of the largest creatures that ever walked the earth. This was deinotherium.
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Animalogic Created by Dylan Dubeau and Andrew Strapp
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Taking a deep look at the past and the animals that lived in it.

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@davideostudio2664 10 месяцев назад

One wonders how careful deinotherium had to be to not accidentally impale their throats with their own tusks

@ConstantChaos1 10 месяцев назад

"Hey bro got something on your shir-"

@thequ6503 10 месяцев назад

They probably couldn't look down. Also, platybelodon looks like a NERRRRRRRD.

@Poltard 10 месяцев назад

@@thequ6503 more like plebiodon

@AuroraPaintBrush4444 10 месяцев назад

Considering that some hogs and other animals with tusks can have some terrible consequences when the tusks grow out of control. Sometimes they grow into their brains and then they die from brain injury or infections.

@anandsharma7430 10 месяцев назад

If an alien species studies how humans walk - we basically fall forward on one leg and use the other to stop the fall and then repeat - the aliens will conclude that humans should have died out from clumsy accidents while simply moving from one place to another. And yet, here we are, champion long distance runners because we can sweat, and that also makes us the dominant (destructive, invasive) species. Animals are not the idiots we think they are. Birds don't fly into trees (though they do fly into perfectly transparent windows), monkeys do fall out of trees but only a small percentage, mongooses didn't go extinct trying to fight snakes, rodents don't get permanently buried in the winter snow, and so on.

@mrallnighter7816 10 месяцев назад

Elephant and mammoth ancestry are so weird and mysterious. I love it

@icollectstories5702 10 месяцев назад

"Weird" is relative, you dry-nosed mammal!😁😁😁 It is interesting how some of the larger critters came in many different shapes but smaller mouse-like burrowers seemed to stay mostly the same. I suspect the difference between tusk configurations isn't as crucial to a larger animal as a wedge-shaped head is for a smaller one.

@Gazpolling 10 месяцев назад

How did they extinct, i wonder.....

@CHRB-nn6qp 10 месяцев назад

Deinotheriidae aren't actually ancestors of Elephantidae. They are both proboscideans, but it's thought that Deinotheriidae evolved similar features because of convergent evolution, not a close relation

@mrallnighter7816 10 месяцев назад

@@CHRB-nn6qp ahh makes sense

@mrallnighter7816 10 месяцев назад

@@Gazpolling major change in the environment perhaps? An apex predator is a low chance since these guys were huge and massive

@DanGamingFan2846 10 месяцев назад

The fact that their tusks are on their lower jaw is interesting enough, but the way they hang down like that makes them one of the most metal looking animals to have ever existed.

@watershipup7101 10 месяцев назад

Agreed

@roku3216 10 месяцев назад

Walruses with similarly-angled tusks use theirs for digging mollusks, fighting, and climbing, because all good tools have more than one use. The lower jaw is a weaker place to use them for leverage, but a great place to have them to dislodge a predator from one's neck.

@DrewSorensenMusic 10 месяцев назад

Why would anyone assume parts of animals (like tusks) have a single use? Tusks could provide protection, ways to get food, ways to attract mates, ways to compete for mates or resources, etc… Same as hands, people don’t just use hands to fight. Hands get food, embrace friends, sow the earth, provide entertainment in games or music, etc… These tusks being so prominent to the animal probably had multiple uses.

@lonestar2495 10 месяцев назад

Dude I say this about everything it’s like they forget that modern animals use stuff for everything tusk n trunks on elephant for mating drinking food etc

@astk5214 8 месяцев назад

Hands grab stuff, that's one purpose only

@rinashort3919 10 месяцев назад

Elephant ancestors have gotta take the cake for being the most bizarre family

@coralmar5329 10 месяцев назад

Love the perspective of this drawing

@icollectstories5702 10 месяцев назад

Wait, no one thought it used its tusks for climbing? Imagine an elephant-sized creature falling from a tree!

@leandraferesthogar7249 10 месяцев назад

Thhe body isn't suited for climbing

@mrallnighter7816 10 месяцев назад

How and in what way did you thought anyone would think of deinotherium as an arboreal creature

@icollectstories5702 10 месяцев назад

@@mrallnighter7816 It's got two ice axes.

@sylvanguide7776 10 месяцев назад

I’d love more Paleologic! There’s so many past species to talk about. I’d love one on climacoceras.

@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz 10 месяцев назад

Deinotherium after reading the title: *"L I T E R A L L Y"*

@interstellarsurfer 10 месяцев назад

Imagine the size of the potatoes that it dug up with those tusks.

@nicklindberg90 10 месяцев назад

When i grow up i want to be a deinotherium

@SkorpTS 10 месяцев назад

Judging by the title, I was expecting this to be about an elephant that had a tail longer than its trunk. Deinotherium is cool, too.

@ColumbiaB 10 месяцев назад

A useful addition to this presentation would have been some discussion of current theories on why the deinotherium genus went extinct. (The last known fossils date to about one million years ago.)

@benjamindover4337 10 месяцев назад

Strong "why you hitting yourself" game.

@wither5673 10 месяцев назад

i could see this thing rearing up with its more maneuverable neck and lighter scull, then arching down hard and fast on any threat like a wood cutting axe.

@thomasseidler6137 10 месяцев назад

It was tall as a Giraffe, but weighed 14 times as much. :)

@thequ6503 10 месяцев назад

I refuse to believe platybelodon existed. For its own sake.

@TragoudistrosMPH 10 месяцев назад

If it makes you feel better for it, might think we look like vertical pugs, with our tiny noses 😛

@Pure_Malevolence 10 месяцев назад

And then you see the babirusa, alive today, and realize nature don’t give two Fs about practicality.

@thequ6503 10 месяцев назад

I already know about the babirusa. It doesn't exist because I said so.@@Pure_Malevolence

@louiemercado5595 10 месяцев назад

Great work on Deinotherium, my friend! This legendary prehistoric creature made its appearance in the fourth episode of Walking with Beasts.

@manuelpena3988 10 месяцев назад

If they were for striping bark and things like that it makes sense they were curved down instead of up like the actual elephants. Those were in the lower jaw, so you dont want to make force in an upward motion (straining your jaw muscles) but instead in a downwards motion, in which the mouth is closed and the lower jaw can "rest" against the upper one.

@HeatherSpoonheim 8 месяцев назад

I think those hooks helped them pull up shrubbery with their strong neck, and the trunk evolved to shovel food from those hooks to their mouths. It explains the origins of tusks AND trunks in one go.

@Nissanghmohanbabu 10 месяцев назад

I would like a video on Paraceratherium or the Woolly Mammoth

@js66613 10 месяцев назад

Besides practical uses, maybe it was a trait used to set themselves apart and also used in mating? Maybe it was deemed attractive the animals who then proceeded to choose mates below their lower jaw tusks?

@BellumCarroll 10 месяцев назад

I imagine those tusks had a huge range of potential And if you’ve ever seen an elephant drop down on their front legs to crush threats with their skull & tusks today Well yeah, downward facing tusks would obviously make a pretty good mess 😮

@piedadvillafane3979 10 месяцев назад

Nuevo aprendizaje. Muchas gracias Animalogic.

@uelld.8371 10 месяцев назад

The theory how most herbivore animals (and presumably dinosaurs) evolve to develop horns as a defense mechanism for their neck agaist predators, may have been the same as this species, but for the lower parts instead due to their heights. As nature call it, if it works, then the survive mutation can be passed down.

@kimbratton9620 10 месяцев назад

Awesome stuff!

@JugheadJones03 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Talia!

@VicJang 10 месяцев назад

I’m genuinely surprised. For some reason I never knew this species existed despite being very interested in paleontology as a child. I thought this was a joke when I saw the thumbnail… Great video!! Thank you so much for making this!

@Ektor-yj4pu 10 месяцев назад

Have you never watched Walking with Beasts?

@VicJang 10 месяцев назад

@@Ektor-yj4pu I know of the show but never watched it. Do you recommend it?

@sassa82 10 месяцев назад

Its so interesting!❤

@origreena 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful sketch in the background

@lionessoftor4139 10 месяцев назад

I want to see more about this time period! I also would like to see more about Platybelodon.

@Sienisota 10 месяцев назад

Freaky looking creatures❤. I had no idea something like this used to exist.

@estervillafane 10 месяцев назад

Felicitaciones muy buen programa

@guillelainez 10 месяцев назад

That animal is bussin.

@bbbenj 10 месяцев назад

Magnificent animal!

@Mackyle-Wotring 10 месяцев назад

I remember first hearing of this prehistoric elephant from Walking with Beasts.

@mringram 10 месяцев назад

Informative

@Astrapionte 10 месяцев назад

I swear Animalogic studies my internet history 😂😂 I literally have been studying deinotheres lol

@rossgraham7649 10 месяцев назад

Talk about Macrauchenia.... I've always wanna know more Abt this extinct mammal

@tacoknight5027 10 месяцев назад

Woah!!! The soundtrack at the beginning rocks!!! 😆😆😆 What’s it called?

@miguellilly8859 10 месяцев назад

You guys should do a video on platybelodon

@NYM0 10 месяцев назад

Could you do a video on Polecats and Mustelids?

@Eleora1997Msia 7 месяцев назад

i wonder what are the function of those opposite trunk

@thecrimsonfuckeralucard9500 7 месяцев назад

The tusks were for fighting rivals and rooting plants.

@crapsound 10 месяцев назад

To me, those tusks look so ridiculous, I wouldn't believe their existence otherwise.

@Crazy_Rabbids 10 месяцев назад

Deinotherium looks like something straight out of Avatar or Star Wars.

@fanz00ne95 10 месяцев назад

Speaking of ancient elephant, how about the first of all, moeritherium ? Also, love tour content ❤

@zardozmyrh7789 10 месяцев назад

Ouch that's really 1 strange animal

@takenname8053 10 месяцев назад

Super Nice

@darthader3507 10 месяцев назад

Where do you get all the images?

@alejandraquintana4838 10 месяцев назад

Platybelodon please!!! I wonder what your take on it would be!

@talialowi-merri2682 10 месяцев назад

We have one already!!

@mehlover 10 месяцев назад

I can't help but wonder if any of them accidentally killed themselves with those tusks. Imagine yawning and then you hurt yourself

@blitz2524 10 месяцев назад

imaging playing a prank on Deinotherium to look down, and then it proceeds to stab itself lol

@jjhggdcqz 10 месяцев назад

Please make a video about nanuqsaurus.

@nukleer9996 10 месяцев назад

Can you do a Gigantopithecus

@jerijayz3929 9 месяцев назад

incredible beasts and where they are from. Noice!

@ExploreImagineDefineCreate 10 месяцев назад

Cool atuff!

@aditghifari5039 10 месяцев назад

I think they had a similiar case just like babirusa, that maybe their horn or tusk could accidently kill them.

@matt8291A1 10 месяцев назад

Evolution, go home, you're drunk!

@rainydaylady6596 10 месяцев назад

Couldn't they use the tusks to hook tree branches and pull them down for food? 🙂🖖💕

@Andrey.Ivanov 10 месяцев назад

Theoretically they could but in practice their trunk would have a greater reach so what's the point? Plus the trunk can pull food directly into the mouth whereas with the tusks they would have to break the said branch and then pick it up and eat it.

@chixk3017 10 месяцев назад

"This Elephant looks British"

@josesalinasmorales5332 10 месяцев назад

Giant tapir.

@Matt-kt9nm 10 месяцев назад

The tusks are for snagging a mate.

@junespaintbrush 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting! they were very successful in their day! But it wasn't clear what mythical Greek being these tusks might have Inspired--sounded like "the needs"?? Both to me and the captioning! I need to know!!

@1.4142 10 месяцев назад

Chewing must have been hard with such a heavy jaw

@nathaniellippert9238 10 месяцев назад

It looks like if you tried to draw an elephant strictly from memory

@singagency1481 10 месяцев назад

Just when you though Smilodon skull is imposing enough, here comes Deinotherium

@Johndoe-ob1 9 месяцев назад

Looks like its tusks were used for digging, todays elephant uses his tusk too plow

@neboskii8756 10 месяцев назад

The skull looks like a kaiju straight out of pacific rim

@romella_karmey 10 месяцев назад

Modern elephants were like a software update 😂

@alveolate 10 месяцев назад

baluchitherium next?

@HassanMohamed-jy4kk 10 месяцев назад

Why don’t you get to make a suggestion creating RU-vid Videos Shows all about the Extinct Prehistoric Amphicyons (Bear Dogs) on the next Animalogic’s Paleologic on the next Friday, coming up next?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

@mnkash2007 10 месяцев назад

Animalogic I will kill for a Caind alignment chart

@AlainSTO 10 месяцев назад

This reminds me of the Helicoprion, where I never did understand why evolution made their teeth like that. But a pickaxe does make sense.

@taskforce3833 10 месяцев назад

next ? the evolution of the Platypus, its a very rare combination of various mixtures, its not a mammal, its not a bird, its not a duck, its not a beaver and it has poison.. how weird can it get.

@leandraferesthogar7249 10 месяцев назад

Platypus is a monotreme mammal...

@TragoudistrosMPH 10 месяцев назад

3:33 pontoon boat not exciting? Could it throw a hat with its trunk and albama-brawl? It could probably swim aquatic like aquaman? 😁

@sideeggunnecessary 10 месяцев назад

"Yeah this fossil is probably accurate"

@CAT_SAYS_NO 10 месяцев назад

It was most likely multipurpose tusks

@Ozzable1 8 месяцев назад

Ahh yes, the Phanti-el

@Tigress_ 10 месяцев назад

Bengal tigerssss pleaseee

@habibkarim119 10 месяцев назад

Talia ❤

@joshualongie2209 10 месяцев назад

What do you think about them reservations of the wooly Mammoth??? Please tell me how this makes sense @!

@sideeggunnecessary 10 месяцев назад

The things youre saying defintily dont make any sense. Tf u talkin about lol

@TragoudistrosMPH 10 месяцев назад

As in "why" or "how"? One interesting reason for why I've heard was how they would restore certain kinds of arctic habitats. Elephants create new habitats while they forage. I can't remember the video, but mammoths would alter the trees and permafrost in ways that would allow other species to better populate areas like Siberia. (Kind of like how restored Buffalo revived the American Plains) Speculation but interesting.

@TragoudistrosMPH 10 месяцев назад

Personally, I'd love to see the Stellar Sea Cow restored from that awful extinction. And the Arctic Auck

@weirdredpanda 10 месяцев назад

@@TragoudistrosMPHStellar's Sea Cow has my vote as well, though it might have trouble surviving in today's more heavily trafficked and polluted waters.

@natanrony2805 9 месяцев назад

What extinct them?

@i_shoot_stuff 10 месяцев назад

when character creation lets you use negative numbers

@footfault1941 9 месяцев назад

Unique structures of extinct creatures unseen similarity among the extant ones never fail in provoking wild speculations. Here's another example. Often scientists do so, picking up a (petrified) bone in hand. Isolated elements may tell much, but much without restriction imposed by flesh & bones (articulation, free range). Combination of anatomy & animal behavior (ecology) would come to the rescue. It's indeed an excellent brain exercise & fun!