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Whats ur intro song

Pikas are so cute. :-) I'm almost disappointed they don't occur in Europe, only in Asia and North America. Hares are an old favourite of mine. They're very underrated fauna.

The oldest known pachypleurosaurus and oldest known sauropterygian from my (European) country is some 244 million years old. Not quite as old as the initial diversification explosion of the early Triassic, but still within those first few million years of greatly expanding reptile biodiversity of the Triassic, including that of marine reptiles.

I suppose these episodes are based on the research notes of paleontologists with access to the alternate Earth. ;-)

I bet you smoke a lot of weed.

5:23 Victorian white man try not to be racist challenge impossible.

Just did an article on this: Dingonek was actually a Dicynodont!

I love monsters designs! And old paleoart is kinda cool although is outdated 😊

it's worth noting that the concept of evolution was very much around during George Cuvier's time. he just didn't believe in it.

"Described as being 40 feet long and having the weight of a 7 foot tall elephant" I've watched this video many times and that part never fails to make me laugh

2:14 this art is too awesome to not like

Part of me still wishes that Andrewsarchus was a mesonychid

The European ones all died out because they decided it was better than enduring the evolution of the French.

Had to give this one some more views after seeing Mario Lanza’s newest Antediluvian animation

0:00 Why a Crash bandicoot wrath of Cortex song???

Where is Smok

0:56 I thought Barbourofelis is a Nimravid?

Imagine if the Haast eagle didn’t go extinct that would’ve been a site to see…ugh humans we some really cool animals in the past 😭

Animals & insects did not evolve God almighty created all the dinosaurs & extinct animals ever known ; Genesis 1:25 & God made the beast of the earth after his kind & cattle after their kind & every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: & God saw that it was good. Scientists know that the first human was black and so scientists suggest that humans came from Africa just because Africa is where current black people live but Adam & Eve were created in Mesopotamia not Africa

A topic I have been itching to see someone cover, despite the animals being very well known in the modern day, any coverage of their fossil record has been very scant. The record itself is understandably very hard to pin down in a lot of places, but even the relatively recent species rarely got covered elsewhere. Well done!

When will the series continue?

13:35 I bet they were fast to be first at taking carrion

damn, so the osprey's strategy has worked well for a long time. Not to mention a lot of birds seem to stem from that initial diversification after the KPG extinction or not long after, whereas mammals seems to have more species go in and out of their respective niches, with the current dominant herbivores/carnivores being more recent arrivals in those niches. Not sure how true this is in reality, but just something I thought I noticed.

I find it fascinating how the lack of fossils and a bias on size has messed up our understanding of the big group we currently know as Accipitridae. Genetics has revealed that "eagles" evolved in many lineages, and "vultures" evolved in several lineages. But genetics alone can't always pinpoint which change came first. A few clues in form of fossil bones rediscovered in some ornithology collection would be very helpful. As far as I understand it, genetics suggests that several of the splits within Accipitridae may go back a long time, e.g. the snake eagles or the bearded vulture group, and would justify introducing new families.

Eagles are soo cool, thanks for the video

The title is nonsense, there is no mimicry here.

History on predatory birds is always appreciated. Thank you

Hey man do you know what's the name of the background music you used for this video? I honestly quite dig it and i'd like to look it up.

It's always the same description I hear from these stories, I 100% believe these are real

Andrewsarchus could have had a body design very much like a whale, all we have is part of the skull so scientists may have gotten it very wrong like they did with spinosaurus.

evolutionary niche sadly vacant. a few million giant human eating eagles

I wonder what pterosaurs were they equivalents in mesozoic era.

Must be a taller than average feral black grey hound.

I dont really think intelligence has something to do with them being rare in tar pits. Both smilodon. and dire wolves are pack hunters and their groups would contain quite a few members. Making them more abundant in numbers.cave lions must have been a lot less in numbers. Thats why their represntation is very small. Take a modern day example, when lions hunt buffaloes hyenas call other hyenas that not necessarily the members of their own clan. Within a short period of time well over fouty to sixty hyenas will get there to drive away the lions from the fresh kill. Due to powerful preys of prehistory predators like even smilos and dirus will need a lot of buddies to take them down. And afterall these are cave lions. Not extroverted crowd pullers or mud/ tar bathers of prehistoric times.

I’ve seen the midnight sun in 2001

I remember seeing a documentary some years ago about how in Scotland a motorist hit a large black cat. It wasn't a panther or cougar, but it was much bigger than a domestic cat. Various experts were asked to have a look but nobody could identify the species so they did a DNA test. They discovered it was a male hybrid of a Scottish wildcat and a domestic cat but much bigger than either. It wasn't that tall at the shoulder but about 4ft long.

Carnivorans are easily my favorite mammals

These things deserve more representation in media

Seriously underrated group

Birds are so interesting and diverse you can go from Hawks to an interesting group like eagles, please do Hawks next, that’d be a great video tuah watch

Eagle Tuah

I remember recently that the osprey was divided into 2 species. I guess taxonomists retracted on that idea?

I hope you make more part two videos often. 👍🏼

Why were these family of birds more widespread back then, unlike today?

Will birds ever reach this size and niche in the future of our planet?

This channel deserves far more views. Another great video Dr Polaris.

I'm a little disappointed you didn't talk about or mention Woodward's Eagle (Buteogallus woodwardi), a giant raptor that was only slightly smaller than the more famous Haast's Eagle that live in Late Pleistocene North America and was a close relative to modern Black Hawks. Hopefully we'll get a mention in the part 2! It'd also be cool if you touched on the mystery giant ice age owl that lived in North America around the same time as Woodward's Eagle and of similar size. There's a video on the giant owl over on Hodari Nundu's channel titled "GIANT MAN-EATING OWL OF THE ICE AGE?"

A Haast's Eagle chasing you down in the New-Zealand bush is straight up nightmare material.😳

really good

If you think about the whole picture, they probably did stick around much longer than we'd expect. The very atmosphere and the traumatic weather shifts would make the rare event of fossilization into an almost impossibility.