The Evolution of Sauropods

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  • Опубликовано: 22 мар 2023
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Комментарии • 486

  • @dinohall2595
    @dinohall2595 Год назад +572

    It's crazy how the sauropod group containing the biggest animals to ever walk on land (the titanosaurs) also had Magyarosaurus, which was only the size of a cow, and lived at the same time as the other giant titanosaurs like Alamosaurus (right before the big extinction at the end of the Cretaceous). It makes my brain happy thinking of a "mini" sauropod.

    • @thehiddencryptid
      @thehiddencryptid Год назад +38

      Ah the wonders of tiny islands

    • @invisiblejaguar1
      @invisiblejaguar1 Год назад +22

      A tiny giant

    • @genghiskhan6809
      @genghiskhan6809 Год назад +28

      It’s also crazy to me how we could’ve had cow size elephants in the modern day if humans hadn’t hunted or exported them to extinction (Mediterranean and Southeast Asian Island elephants).

    • @farhanatashiga3721
      @farhanatashiga3721 Год назад +16

      Hateg island is an underrated oddity of the Cretaceous

    • @ekszentrik
      @ekszentrik Год назад +1

      Still would absolutely mog the biggest Mammalian predator of today.

  • @raynelaroux1547
    @raynelaroux1547 Год назад +103

    Love how you got so excited about the fossil at the Natural History Museum and then with a throat clearing your back to the video. It's great to see some personality in your video than just all facts

    • @weasele1
      @weasele1 Год назад +1

      was this at the musium in NEW YORK ? to bad im in floruduh

    • @johnchao2422
      @johnchao2422 Год назад

      Yeah which natural history museum is it??

    • @GosarX
      @GosarX Месяц назад

      i liked your comment before i got to that part just because i agreed that its nice to see our youtubers personalities shine in here and there! but i def felt his energy! i had the same when i first went to the denver museum when i was younger than 10. and seeing those replication skeletons in person really makes you feel something. i grew up in phoenix and people always said, "i seen pics of the grand canyon, im good" nah you need to go there at least once in person to truly appreciate it, one of those "pics dont do it justice" things

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate Год назад +460

    it's crazy to think these behemoths started out as small, carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs that looked like Velociraptors.

    • @user-pakshibhithi10
      @user-pakshibhithi10 Год назад +63

      They started out as omnivorous.

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 Год назад +32

      It's also crazy that these beasts, weighing up to 100 tons, about half the size of the largest animal ever to live (today's blue whale), had brains and intelligence about the same as a chicken, sometimes literally, and sometimes in proportion to their body mass.

    • @fabrizioart1928
      @fabrizioart1928 Год назад +74

      ​@@raylopez99 just pointing out that chicken are not exactly as dumb as pop culture drilled into us tho.

    • @mhdfrb9971
      @mhdfrb9971 Год назад +5

      They started as Omnivores

    • @franciscozapata7625
      @franciscozapata7625 Год назад +13

      But velociraptors had complex feathers and wings, the early sauropomorphs barely had protofeathers

  • @fireraid2336
    @fireraid2336 Год назад +116

    The largest land species to once walk the land. Probably hitting the limits on how far a land species can get so big while still being sustainable.

    • @kpoper4lyf269
      @kpoper4lyf269 Год назад +7

      Also things grew to massive sizes due to the O² levels being much higher than they are today.

    • @gojizard704
      @gojizard704 Год назад +5

      Dude. Your thinking of insects

    • @joema500
      @joema500 Год назад +17

      @@kpoper4lyf269 False, that applies more so to the giant insects of the carboniferous.

    • @curious5887
      @curious5887 Год назад +1

      @@kpoper4lyf269 nope

    • @TheProfyx
      @TheProfyx Год назад +1

      they would probably evolve even further and rule the world even nowadays.

  • @reign9093
    @reign9093 Год назад +20

    I felt that little tangent at the end there on a personal level, dinosaurs never cease to ignite that childlike wonder and awe that overwhelms me in the best way

  • @kingdaniel5060
    @kingdaniel5060 Год назад +60

    Imagine all the little dinosaurs that probably lived their lives on sauropods that we will never know existed

  • @adamkidman
    @adamkidman Год назад +31

    A separate video on titanosaurs? YES PLEASE 🤩

  • @mickhack8034
    @mickhack8034 Год назад +69

    I sometimes wonder how long it would take for a Argentinosaurus to walk past you.. that sounds weird but just imagine standing there, the earth thundering underneath you as that thing stomps forward. It couldnt have been very fast right

    • @ongong5496
      @ongong5496 Год назад +24

      Imagine how much longer to stop hearing/feeling it's footsteps 😮‍💨 a whole herd of them prolly feels like the rumbling from aot

    • @realdaggerman105
      @realdaggerman105 Год назад +13

      I mean, they’d be relatively fast right? Big ol steps.

    • @TellEmB290
      @TellEmB290 Год назад +13

      @@realdaggerman105 They may only have been able to move one leg forward at a time though due to their size and weight
      ...I believe they’ve also found evidence of sometimes multiple dinosaurs and other small animals drowning in mud churned up by sauropod footprints

    • @kyrab7914
      @kyrab7914 Год назад +2

      Sauropod crossing 🚸 😂

    • @scottthesmartape9151
      @scottthesmartape9151 4 дня назад

      Nah it would walk with a large idk walking cycle it’s steps alone would make it faster than a human

  • @dillon26
    @dillon26 Год назад +127

    Dude, your first dinosaur video and easily one of your best videos period. So happy you’re expanding out into other organisms!

  • @EChacon
    @EChacon Год назад +43

    Alright now onto our first Dinosaur Evolution video centering on Sauropods.
    Hope you do an evolution on the Theropod dinosaurs, the Ceratopsians, Mosasaurs, Turtles, the Stegosaurus, the Pterosaurs and the Birds.

    • @duder7396
      @duder7396 Год назад

      Not to be that guy but I hope you’re aware that 3 of those groups are not dinosaurs

    • @EChacon
      @EChacon Год назад

      @@duder7396 I didn’t say that these 3 groups (e.g. Mosasaurs, Pterosaurs, Turtles) are Dinosaurs I just want him to cover them, you didn’t have to sound like a dick.

    • @joema500
      @joema500 Год назад +1

      @@duder7396 He didn't even say that they were? 🤣🤣

  • @MultiDudeman
    @MultiDudeman Год назад +11

    😂 loved how crazy excited u were about that skeleton at the museum, heck I would be too, great video

  • @Nora-vv9fz
    @Nora-vv9fz Год назад +10

    That rant about the sauropod you saw in a museum was funny as hell, please do more of that shit.

  • @jaycejones4928
    @jaycejones4928 Год назад +28

    You should absolutely do more videos about Mesozoic life. This was a treat

  • @v0rtvixen
    @v0rtvixen Год назад +17

    As a biology student I really love your channel- would love to see more videos on the evolution of extinct animals! There is an near endless supply to choose from. I would suggest gorgonopsids or cephalopods but thats just my bias 😁

  • @biggnesss7192
    @biggnesss7192 Год назад +16

    Nigersaurus is my favourite dinosaur for no particular reason I just like it.

    • @macmaczee3485
      @macmaczee3485 Год назад

      dark humor mfs when i commit SA hate crime or their babies 😨.

    • @biggnesss7192
      @biggnesss7192 Год назад +5

      @Empty Glass this is the best reply I've ever seen.

  • @walterfechter8080
    @walterfechter8080 Год назад +3

    When I was a kid, I told my first grade teacher that I had an invisible brontosaurus in my family's barn. I also mentioned that the hay within our barn kept disappearing. I owed that to the bronto munching on the hay bales. I never mentioned to my teacher that local farmers would use our barn to store hay for them to take away anytime they needed it. One of my all-time favorite fictional dinos was the brachiosaur-like radioactive monster in "The Giant Behemoth" (1959). I've loved brachiosaurs ever since. Thanks, Animal Origins, for this very informative video on my favorite dinosaurs.

  • @Sarafimm2
    @Sarafimm2 Год назад +18

    They just recently found out through scanning the neck bone fossils that they may be hollow like bird bones and stacked in such a way like puzzle pieces to balance those super long necks.

  • @Gigazilla-pm2on
    @Gigazilla-pm2on Год назад +8

    All right here we go our first dinosaur evolution video

  • @Charlie._.Niron22
    @Charlie._.Niron22 Год назад +4

    A video about my favourite group of Dinosaurs?!?
    Sweetness 😊

  • @ilyaslebleu1947
    @ilyaslebleu1947 Год назад +5

    Small detail: the prosauropods were in fact not the only giants of the Triassic, having to contend with huge dicynodonts like Lisowicia - weighing as much as an elephant, and surprisingly closer to us than to dinosaurs! It is only when dicynodonts went extinct at the end of the Triassic that prosauropods and then sauropods became truly uncontested in size

  • @dinomation
    @dinomation Год назад +5

    Glad to see your talking about my favorite dinosaurs and explaining their history!

  • @vice.nor.virtue
    @vice.nor.virtue Год назад +19

    Your enthusiasm over the massive Patagotitan you saw in the museum was a thing of beauty. It was a really enjoyable video overall, however it was this expression of joy towards something so marvellous that you earned yourself a like and a sub. 🎉
    Also!! The memes were good. Mr Crabs doing bench presses are the cherry on the cake. 🎂

  • @georget4141
    @georget4141 9 месяцев назад +1

    i have to say that you’re by far the funniest and most entertaining paleo youtuber. the rest are out here making dumb jokes for toddlers the whole time. you’re just actually funny in a really deadpan way

  • @Gamerafighter76
    @Gamerafighter76 Год назад +4

    Sauropods 🦕 are some of my favorite dinosaurs because of how big they are; their size is really something to behold. Also, that’s so cool with that fossil in the museum. Also, big congrats on this being your first dinosaur video.

  • @fredwood1490
    @fredwood1490 Год назад +13

    I absolutely LOVE the way those impossible names just float off your tongue like music! I've watched Dinosaurs change since my days in grade school, back in the 1950s, sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much, but several things remain unchanged, for me: I wonder what they tasted like and, can you imagine the enormous piles of poop where ever those puppies went!? Must have been Heaven for whatever kind of Scarab beetle lived back then, not to mention the Monkey Puzzle trees.

    • @wolfie1703
      @wolfie1703 Год назад

      I think scientists tried to figure out what a t rex tasted like a bit ago. Look up "what would a t rex taste like"

  • @johnhanover2229
    @johnhanover2229 Год назад +3

    Over at Dinosaur National Park ( straddles Colorado and Utah ) there is a partially excavated skull of a Camarasaurus. It is almost the size of a Smart Car, which blows your mind knowing that that was the smallest feature on it. Thermopolis, Wyoming has built a two story building to house the juvenile Diplodocus they found there.

  • @TheFoshaMan
    @TheFoshaMan Год назад +2

    Welp, gotta say, this was a great video, glad to have you back my guy

  • @RishiRose_
    @RishiRose_ Год назад +1

    I love how at some point the narrator gets super excited then goes back to talking like normal after a cough like nothing happened.

  • @recreantjournals6723
    @recreantjournals6723 Год назад +4

    Littlefoot mother didn't make me fall in love with sauropods for nothing . This however was informing . Great content love this channel .

  • @SeamusGould-le2td
    @SeamusGould-le2td Год назад +1

    This guy keeps upping his game. Good job animal origins!

  • @Joemama-cd1zg
    @Joemama-cd1zg Год назад +2

    Babe wake up animal origins just posted

  • @sarahlynn4798
    @sarahlynn4798 Год назад +2

    I love sauropods. Easily my favorite dinosaur clade. Thanks for the in-depth video!

  • @mckinleyt98
    @mckinleyt98 Год назад +1

    how you felt about that giant fossil is so relatable i think i would cry if i saw it in person

  • @invisiblejaguar1
    @invisiblejaguar1 Год назад +1

    That description on the titanosaur skeleton... you had me imagining it (which I'm sure doesn't do it justice) and I just... I can't... I understand the science of why sauropods got so huge, but I still can't and never will be able to get my head around them.

  • @bibia666
    @bibia666 Год назад +1

    Great vid, great channel.
    We want more.
    Just remembered not to talk too fast😉.., good stories like these deserve time to be heard and seen by everyone on this planet, non natural english speaking people too.
    Thanks for the uploads and greetings bibia.

  • @EvilSnips
    @EvilSnips Год назад +1

    So excited to see you do a dinosaur video! I'd love to see the evolution of any other Meoozoic or Pre-Mesozoic creatures!

  • @Purealienstar
    @Purealienstar Год назад

    Just found this channel and I LOVE it

  • @obibraxton2232
    @obibraxton2232 Год назад +1

    Yay more dinosaur videos please can you do the Chasmosaurus and related next ?

  • @SPACEMAN_fkYT
    @SPACEMAN_fkYT 6 месяцев назад

    Man the number of different Dinosaurs sure has grown since I first got interested in them back in the 1960's.

  • @johnnijenhuis2296
    @johnnijenhuis2296 Год назад

    Amazing video as always!

  • @v0rtvixen
    @v0rtvixen Год назад +1

    Wow this is crazy! Never thought that sauropod ancestors would look like theropods! Really fascinating

    • @mhdfrb9971
      @mhdfrb9971 Год назад +1

      Sauropods are closer to theropods than to the Ornithischians

  • @fabuloussloth8670
    @fabuloussloth8670 5 месяцев назад

    This is really interesting! As a kid, I never thought about how they appeared. 😅

  • @OmegaWolf747
    @OmegaWolf747 Год назад +2

    I guess the secret of sauoropods being able to achieve such a huge size and still stand on land is their hollow, air-filled bones. They probably weighed about half what people thought they did when they thought the bones were solid.

  • @bnwstudios9040
    @bnwstudios9040 Год назад +1

    Since you've touched your feet onto dinosaur evolution, I would like to learn the evolution of Pachycephalosaurids. They're one of my favorite groups in dinosaurs and I generally wanna learn how they got their iconic domed-heads

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 Год назад

    Sick post, thanks for sharing Big Dog.

  • @davidlange1000
    @davidlange1000 Год назад

    Fascinating video my dude

  • @reneeglover4819
    @reneeglover4819 Год назад

    Best sauropod video ever!❤

  • @TheGBZard
    @TheGBZard Год назад +1

    My favorite dinosaur is brachiosaurus too. i always find it cool when youtubers I watch share similar favorite things with me. Also the scene in walking with dinosaurs with the dinosaur is really cool

  • @eacalvert
    @eacalvert Год назад

    Dude that display at the museum sounds amazing!!!!!!

  • @martakeczek6476
    @martakeczek6476 Год назад +3

    Wow, if not your video, I would have not known of Eoraptor reclassification into sauropodomorhps!
    Reclassification goes almost always under a radar, articles and Twitter posts share almost always
    info about new species or new study about lifestyle or anatomy, I almost never see something
    about reclassification.
    Where did you got an info about Efraasia's cheeks?
    Btw, wonderful video. Very well done on informative side.

  • @nourmasalkhi9004
    @nourmasalkhi9004 Год назад +1

    Do it. A whole video on Titanosaurians is what we want.

  • @jacquelinethorpe8510
    @jacquelinethorpe8510 5 месяцев назад

    We went to see patagotitan at the Natural History Museum in London. So cool. And once we got over the size of it, we had fun playing with the sauropod fart button.

  • @edvardskalva
    @edvardskalva Год назад

    this channel is amazing

  • @AnonymousTranquility
    @AnonymousTranquility Год назад

    I’m using this video to study for a dinosaur exam, thanks for the vid dude. You should cover the history of the ornithopod dinosaurs.

  • @Strykenine
    @Strykenine Год назад +1

    From dropping dino facts to casually roasting reddit mods. Good stuff.

  • @siddsen95
    @siddsen95 7 месяцев назад

    Few things bring as much joy as seeing a zoologist geek out about their favorite dinosaur.

  • @medmcmedmc
    @medmcmedmc Год назад +3

    Cool stuff

  • @Dionaea_floridensis
    @Dionaea_floridensis Год назад +4

    My boys!!

  • @thisissostupidqsdfva
    @thisissostupidqsdfva Год назад +2

    Love 10:27
    How I imagine these majestic creatures really looked like on the horizon. Sad they have been extinct for over 60m years. Still, they are able to be appreciated by you and me thanks to science and the curiosity of our species. Sad, yet a beautiful thought. Cheers

  • @peterhaag5225
    @peterhaag5225 Год назад

    One of my favorite features of the carnegie nature history museum is that you can see diplodocus and apatosaurus from the stacks in the library next door

  • @violetlight1548
    @violetlight1548 Год назад

    Brachiosaurus is my favourite too. Thanks for sharing!

  • @obibraxton2232
    @obibraxton2232 Год назад +1

    12:05 woah I thought you were a laidback book worm nerd 😂 the BRO in you really came out 😳🫣🤣

  • @edwardmungai9954
    @edwardmungai9954 Год назад +4

    Where do the beautiful dinosaur names come from ¿

  • @wesleywatson2009
    @wesleywatson2009 Год назад +1

    The humor in this video was PEAK 🦕 🦕 🦕

  • @jonathanhernandez8853
    @jonathanhernandez8853 Год назад

    Lol i love that hype when u were talking about ur museum trip

  • @gertballyhead
    @gertballyhead Год назад

    informative and hilarious. great job

  • @freddie6307
    @freddie6307 7 месяцев назад

    this is one of the best natural history channels on yt. you're funny as fuck while also being informative. keep it up dude 👌🏼

  • @wildlife8975
    @wildlife8975 Год назад +3

    Could you do an evolution of lemurs/prosimians vid? I know there's one for monkeys but prosimians would be great to see too

  • @untitledpornstar5530
    @untitledpornstar5530 Год назад

    Amazing video

  • @bentramer682
    @bentramer682 2 месяца назад

    Evolution of Ankylosaurs would be a cool video

  • @fgialcgorge7392
    @fgialcgorge7392 Год назад

    Nice! More!

  • @Chaotic-warp
    @Chaotic-warp Год назад +1

    6:38 Surprisingly accurate

  • @Fede_99
    @Fede_99 Год назад +6

    Hi, I would like to gave you some corrections regarding this video:
    - Prosauropods is an obsolete term, it has been replaced by "non sauropod sauropodomorphs".
    - It's Antetonitrus, not Antenotritus, a very cool name, it means before the thunder.
    - Spinophorosaurus didn't have a spiked club, only Shunosaurus had it, and also Mamenchisaurus even if it was very small.
    - No, numerous studies showed that Diplodocus and other long tailed sauropod couldn't use their tails for defense, it was too thin to be an effective weapon and the bones would've easily broke. It has been hypothesized that it could've had some communication purpose.
    - It's not sure Alamosaurus shared its environment with T. rex, they come from different formation, but there are fossils of an undescribed Tyrannosaurid from the same formation of Alamosaurus, which may be T. rex or a close relative.
    Hope this could help and good luck for your future videos.

  • @jamesivie5717
    @jamesivie5717 Год назад

    Excellent!

  • @antonioferrari241
    @antonioferrari241 Год назад +5

    Sauropods in media: Biggests punching bags in history, just there to show how powerful carnivorous dinosaurs were.
    Sauropods in reality:
    Brontosaurus: Excuse me sir. You’re just in time for the event.
    Allosaurus: What event?
    Brontosaurus: *W E I N E R C O M P R E S S I O N D A Y*
    Allosaurus: What the fu-

    • @SWOTHDRA
      @SWOTHDRA Год назад

      Bruh, ephanterias amplexus ate those for breakfast. The ancestor to ths giganotosauridae, rules the jurassic, not the big al variant or what I call allosaurus minus

  • @MegaWunna
    @MegaWunna Год назад +1

    My favorite dinosaur is either Agentinosarus or Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. Both of them are estimated to have weighed over 50 metric tonnes

  • @jamesrussell7760
    @jamesrussell7760 Год назад +1

    I agree how cool it would be to witness these giants in real life. But, of course, being wary of those tail whips. A herd of them must have shaken the ground as they walked past. And I wonder what their calls sounded like.

  • @theimaginarium
    @theimaginarium 11 месяцев назад

    You should do a video on the Bruhathkayosaurus--possibly the largest sauropod ever discovered at up to 190 tons.

  • @CJ-BZ
    @CJ-BZ Год назад

    blew my mind. I literally grew up thinking Eoraptor was an early theropod.

  • @bigmike4758
    @bigmike4758 Год назад

    4:25 what book is in from? I think I read it when I was a kid.

  • @gattycroc8073
    @gattycroc8073 Год назад +2

    next do a video about Notosuchia.

  • @HeliumQueen
    @HeliumQueen Год назад +1

    That Reddit moderator joke had me dying lmao

  • @KhanMann66
    @KhanMann66 Год назад

    Yo you should do Tyrannosaurs next. They have just a complex evolution just like Sauropods.

  • @corbydaniel4256
    @corbydaniel4256 Год назад +1

    I've seen that same skeleton at the Natural History Museum and felt exactly the same way. I walked the length of it like 4 times and took way too many pictures.

  • @shelbymessenbird9279
    @shelbymessenbird9279 Год назад

    You should definitely make more dino vids

  • @matthewtyppo5727
    @matthewtyppo5727 Год назад +1

    Would be cool to see another group from this time that still are alive today get an evolution the crocodiles

  • @rolfrose4507
    @rolfrose4507 Год назад

    Maybe the evolution of ankylosaurs next? Ankylosaurus is my favorite dinosaur

  • @MrEmilable
    @MrEmilable Год назад

    sounds like you should cover more dinosaurs

  • @olir6910
    @olir6910 Год назад

    That was cool

  • @kwgm8578
    @kwgm8578 Год назад

    With that severe overbite, Sauropods didn't smile much.

  • @citrus5797
    @citrus5797 11 месяцев назад +2

    I love sauropods :)

  • @LesTua
    @LesTua Год назад +4

    That's probably why Fred Flintstone and crew used them in their construction job's... 🤔

  • @ukaszzawadka2678
    @ukaszzawadka2678 Год назад

    Nice jokes! Great picture selection.

  • @shinix2581
    @shinix2581 Год назад

    3:16 what was the name of thar documentary?

  • @KL-hr2kj
    @KL-hr2kj Год назад

    Actually, every science class ever should be exactly like this

  • @tedlawrence4189
    @tedlawrence4189 Год назад

    What was similar but had 2 heads and 2 tails was the: Sweetopods. They were really cute when young.

    • @turkey4802
      @turkey4802 Год назад

      Those aren’t even dinosaurs.

  • @evelynlamoy8483
    @evelynlamoy8483 Год назад

    worth noting that sauropods are known to be able to take and run in a bipedal stance when they are hatchlings. They only become 100% quadropedal as they advance through life and begin to weigh to much to safely carry in that running stance.

  • @LimeyLassen
    @LimeyLassen Год назад +9

    I wonder if they really reached the size limit. The asteroid killed them off, so we'll never know if they could have gotten even bigger.

    • @rplanet_ua
      @rplanet_ua Год назад

      They didn't die out because of the meteorite, they just evolved into birds because of climate change.

  • @brandonm8920
    @brandonm8920 Год назад

    Caught me off guard seeing a clip of Ibai in a video about sauropod evolution 😂

  • @calchenontour5801
    @calchenontour5801 Год назад

    The Crotacia Time is too short Arent There More sauropods during This Time Line?