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Ryan asks what do kangaroos eat and I start yelling at the screen " the bastards keep eating my bloody garden!". 😂😂
grass shoots in our crops & flattern our crops 😡🤬
@@veetwotls We had the same thing;; eating our back garden BUT it was still nice to have them visit.
@@veetwotls oh I hear you on that for sure!
I often find kangaroo calling cards on my front lawn. The street light in the front corner of my yard probably attracts them in the small hours.
I'm on the Kangaroos side
"This land is cursed; the animals hop not run,
birds run, not fly
and the swans are black not white.
This land is cursed and I'll have nothing more to do with it".
william dampier 1699
Dampier also believed that the Aboriginies lived in poverty because their of lifestyle, even going so far as to call them "The miserablest people in the world."
@@Aurochhunter Better than being British
that's who I was looking for LOL
@@AurochhunterNothing's changed in their culture, but they are on the whole content to live like that! Evolution is apparently overrated and too tiring!
I loved Ryan's comment that drop bears really did exist in Australia.
I've seen Male Red Kangaroos well over 7ft tall
There was also Quinkana which was a land dwelling crocodile of an extinct genus. And Wonambi which was a giant python also of an extinct genus of snakes. It may have been the origin of the rainbow serpent mythology.
A Diprodidon is now the smaller and cuter Wombat!!
I understand the descendant of the diprotodon is the humble wombat.
Yes, that is correct.
I have seen the fossil of most of these Australian creatures.
The Diprotodon is as large as a VW car the modem wombats still can grow larger than a small child I remember encountering one as a child rather massive on the farm I lived on.
if the giant emus were around today i would half expect us to be betting on them with a person on their back
Ryan: they're extinct because they were delicious.
😂😂
According to Tim Flannery 'Future Eaters' the megafauna would keep the grass down so once they had gone excess grass grew and fires common. The eucalypt tree not only survived but thrived in this environment.
Larger animals have larger bones, and larger bones survive being buried in sediment for a lot longer than small more fragile bones do. That is why we find all the large prehistoric animals and it SEEMS as if there weren't many small ones. In reality there would have been millions of smaller animals, we just can't find enough fossil evidence of their existence. If there was an extinction event today, in another 50,000+ years, future archaeologists would find mostly elephants, hippos, whales, large horses, camels, polar and grizzly bears, saltwater crocodiles, buffalo, and moose. Medium sized animals would be found but not many and only in a few parts of the world, and small animals would all but vanish beyond a few rare specimens that got stuck in perfect conditions for their preservation.
It’s been a very long time since I studied this and I’m sure I’ll get some of the details wrong. However I believe levels of oxygen also have something to do with it.
Bugs in particular used to be enormously significantly larger but began to shrink over time as oxygen levels dropped.
I believe it became harder generally for larger animals to survive as they were less oxygen efficient.
However yes, your point is probably most relevant
We told you there were drop bears.
It looks like we had our own Jurassic Park. 😂
Everywhere was like Jurassic park in those days. Well every continent was like Africa with large animals.
@@1legend517 I was joking by what Ryan was showing. 🙄
@@user-yy7wh4bz8l OK, fair enough.
Allegedly, according to one interview I saw just yesterday on YT, Thylacoleo may still exist. Yep. That IS the drop bear. For sure.
It's not possible in today's climate and with the land clearing and mining that a Thylacine breeding pair still exists in Tasmania! Sorry, it's just evolution!
Awesome Ryan I love the fauna and flora we have in Australia even thousands of years ago, you should check out the history of the Thylacine in Tasmania a marsupial carnivore that became extinct due to the 19th century shooting them into extinction, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, and there is old black and white footage taken of the last one in captivity
There are still reported sightings, so maybe not extinct?
It is definitely extinct, even if one still existed in the forest it cannot breed without a partner! At least it is an animal that actually existed here! 😄
@@jenniferharrison8915 Try telling that to the people who have seen one.
@@elowishusmirkatroid4898 As far as I know that would only be the people who work at the Hobart Museum! I am Tasmanian by the way! The only verified Thylacines are a small jarred museum specimen, and the old short film of the last living one in a cage for protection!
@@jenniferharrison8915 A friend of mine now in her 70s says she and her family saw one in Tasmania in the late 1960s. We can live in hope that a small population survived in the wilderness.
On the Bibulmun Track (hiking track from Perth to Albany) I met a Western Red Kangaroo, I'm just shy of 6 feet tall and it was much taller than me, quite intimidating, I just stood still, got a picture and waited for it to bugger off, by myself deep in wilderness is no place to be kicked by a roo, as unlikely as it is, you don't mess with these guys.
The artwork at the start is from a great Melbourne artist named Peter Trusler.
Apparently the marsupials only got onto Australia at the last moment even having to cross the strait. They were only a few small species that then evolved into all the megafauna and current animals. Before that it was all birds and reptiles.
Studies have shown that the American Opossum is the original Possum and that America is where marsupials originated. When the ancient super-continent broke up and Australia separated from America the ancestors of the Australian possum thrived, but many of the American Opossum's relatives could not compete with American placental mammals. There are over 330 species of marsupials. Around two-thirds of them live in Australia. The other third live mostly in South America, their place of origin.
I think the reason these ancient creatures were so big was due to the oxygen in the atmosphere 200 Million years ago was around 35% compared to 20% today.
Also Australia was much cooler, wetter, and had giant inland lakes and rivers, and forests 10k+ years ago, which mostly dried up disrupting the food chain.
With all the CO2 for plants to make oxygen out of
How about the dwarf versions of animals and smaller people found 9n Indonesian islands?
200 ma is far earlier than this time period, but you're right that it's a possible cause for such large animals, dinosaurs in the Jurassic, insects in the Carboniferous. Early humans were around in the era the video is talking about, and they were no bigger than today. Smaller fauna today is likely due to climate and pressure from humans, ie, not enough space, food resources, hunting, etc.
Plants axially make themselves out of co2. There role producing oxygen is overstated @avanap8096
The "giant emu" is actually a Giga Goose if it's the same one I was reading about last week. They've only just fully reconstructed the skull enough and now have enough of the animal's skeleton to confirm it was a "Giga Goose". Not an emu lile once thought 😊
It may be 2 different ones, but I'm pretty sure it's the same one.
in your spare time read this 😀
Tim Flannery
the future eaters
hi Ryan. in the past Victoria was hit by a meteor. it left a crater 30 miles wide. meaning when it hit. EVERYTHING ON EARTH WAS DESTROYED. Australia is the continent THAT TIME FORGOT.
and if we're lucky it might get hit again......🤣
There was also an asteroid impact in the Indian Ocean that generated a massive tsunami which hit Western Australia over 5,000 years ago.
Fauna always gets bigger on islands. Our First Nations people have been on this country for some 65000 years, (The worlds oldest living continuous culture) so they would have cohabitated with some of these creatures! Imagine! Love your work Ryno. ☮️🇦🇺
No they definitely didn't, they were small build people from small tribes and they did not arrive before 50k years ago - via landbridge! These Modern Unproveable Stories are just 'stories' exaggerated for the uneducated and woke! Logic and proof are much more interesting, try reading the early Australian history, or visit a certified museum, or watch a genuine scientifically verified video!
No, they definitely did not! Those small build people from small nomad tribes did not arrive any earlier than 50k years ago - via a natural land bridge! They had no existing form of transport other than walking! Look for authentic historical information, that story is fictional!
Thank God Ryan no longer says 'E-moos' ;)
Yep, he’s clever enough to learn.
I even heard him say “Ute” instead of “oot” the other day.
When every hunt is a boss battle
I will tell unow, the most dangerous things in Australia reside in Canberra at Parliament House.
as an old roo shooter they get nine to ten feet tall and over 120kg around the dog fence area SA
Yes they are big boys and yes they are rare but they are there as often as hermaphrodite's
Yep city slickers think various wallabies are kangaroos, I'm more scared of a jacked big red than most other things in the outback
@@avanap8096 "city slickers think various wallabies are kangaroos" - idiotic generalisation about millions of people, most of whom are not remotely that stupid or ignorant.
@@sg-yq8pm hundreds of people, tool!
@@sg-yq8pm like your mom's a virgin? yeah generalisations work.
@@sg-yq8pm yeah an idiot would! Good job blunt tool.
There are several potential factors that could have contributed to the abundance of large megafauna creatures in Australia. One theory suggests that the relatively stable climate during the Pleistocene era allowed for the growth of vast grasslands and open habitats, providing an abundance of food and resources for larger animals to thrive. Additionally, the isolation of Australia from other continents may have allowed for the evolution of unique and specialized species, some of which grew to be quite large. Furthermore, the lack of human presence in Australia until relatively recent times may have also played a role in the preservation of these megafauna creatures. It is clear that a combination of environmental and evolutionary factors contributed to the rich diversity of large animals in Australia, making it a truly unique and fascinating ecosystem to study. My major was in Archaeology at LaTrobe University, and was particularly interested in the megafauna. My favourite was Genyornis newtoni….a very large emu like bird, but no relation to emus.
Anyone been to Wonambi Fossil Centre at the Naracoorte Caves, South Australia? They have the skeletons of a lot of these animals, and models of them too in an environment made to look similar to how it would've been back then. It's kinda fascinating.
I think that skeleton at 4:36 is from in the Naracoorte Caves.
We find so many larger fossilized animals because their bones are bigger and it’s just a bigger chance it can be preserved. Smaller animals can be found within other, bigger fossilized animals though, if they died during digestion or weren’t digested/chewed up properly and were found in fossilized poop. There’s also evidence that the composition of our atmosphere was different back then, much higher oxygen levels, and that made it possible all species (flora and fauna) were bigger. But I don’t remember during which time period that was.
On a different note: Did you know that grass is relatively new and it basically evolved to contain silica to stop animals from eating it? Then specialized animals had to evolve who are able to digest and chew grass!
Hmmm, Ryan, maybe see if there's VR games out there so tou can go hunting with the boys rather than using a time machine to go back, or changing your birth timing to go back to a era that didn't have antibiotics or anything much! Septic Bite remember 😅 Actually sounds like a good name for band!
It does!
Please let him react to Australia's wedge tailed eagle, death here comes from the sky as well as the air and sea :)
Yes, an incredibly evolved bird, unlike America's Bald Eagle it can hunt multiple prey even Kangaroos! 👍
We love our Wedgies. The only eagles that attack hang gliders and ultra lights.
The dromornis is actually the genyornis
It's suggested that Oxygen Levels during the time of their evolution were much higher, making intake easier for bigger animals/plants. as Oxygen levels lowered and balanced out, their larger hearts couldn't keep up so death of early age and over hunting are the reasons they went extinct
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another video called Prehistoric Australia Was Pure Nightmare Fuel by the channel ExtinctZoo focuses more on the predators on ancient Australia is pretty good as well
Theirs Roos that big in my back years I have over fifteen in my yeard every day
I'm not a hunter, but I do think it would be very cool to go hiking or camping and come across some of these creatures.😊
I agree fascinating 😲
See, drop bears not such a joke now is it mate. 😉
Gday just on the i would have loved to live at that time comment. I hear that a lot and it is a nice idea to be able to have seen all these things and places that time forgot.
Then i remember that up until penicillin was discovered in 1928, you could have a small cut end up killing you. So That is about as far back as I would probably go.
Australia was part of Gondwana, or southern supercontinent.. which was the origin of Marsupials, Ratite birds (emus, ostriches and other flightless birds), Agamid and Varinid Lizards (Dragons and Monitor Lizards.)
In the same way that Horses originated in North America, however became extinct prior to human migration, when they were reintroduced.
Yes, these other species here are entirely fictional!
The North American Opossum may be a marsupial, being a primitive opportunist creature, rather than the great diaspora in Australia, as the eutherian/placemtal mammals out competed them.
The Megalania (Varinus priscus) holds the niche of apex carnivore, rather than Lion, Tiger or bear.
I've actually got a Diprotodon tooth from near Burktown. Fucking huge tooth, as a consequence a bloody big animal
Hey mate I live Australia watch out for drop bears😅😅😅
My mother had some pet goannas, I'm really grateful they are much smaller now! I would love to see mega Kangaroos! It's really sad we have lost so many beautiful creatures to over hunting, and lack of conservation, the large birds looked amazing! Wow! 🧐 It wasn't called Australia back then, but Terra Australis Incognita or Southern Land! 🤔
Wow I’ve never seen some of these creatures.
And you never will, and half are fictional!
what's a kangaroo's diet?........metal or ally, cause they love jumping in front of bullbars....
From what I've learnt the animals mostly prehistoric were larger mostly because oxygen levels were higher which added bone mass and sufficient food sources and maybe larger to regulate body temperature better and protection against attacks basically more oxygen equals bigger
G'day Ryan, we have 'Big Reds' up north that are 10 ft plus. No shit mate, there bloody big fuckers! Ive seen hesps of them, and never been hurt orvthreatened by them. Leave them be n theyll do the same. Beautiful creatures they are n we love em, when they not pesky! Lol😂❤❤❤
I have an eastern grey roo hanging around my property at the moment who's two metres tall when he fully stands and he's not the biggest in this area, maybe goliah was 2 mt in normal stance.
Dullard
Im very interested in the malleable creatures from the plasticene era
Pick your own drop bear
Maybe everything wasn't so big and it is just it is easier to find the remains of large creatures.
Thanks
Yooo thanks Brody!!
@@ryanreaction no problem man, I Live in Bunbury western Australia where the tornado was recently. It spread asbestos around my suburb.
Do you know about wittenoom ?
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The kangaroos eat my frangipanis.
30inches at the shoulder is female great dane size
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In the past, CO2 was pretty high so food was abundant for vegetarians
And of course we had dinosaurs.
Certainly the source video shows that presenting agenda as facts is still strong.
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Brilliant! 👍
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I am still trying to fathom how cape york at the top of Australia was actuall part of California . Geological studies have proven it but it doesnt make sense
No it doesn't!
They hunted MOA into extinction in less than 100 years & you think it would be pretty cool 😎 to go back in time & do it all again because it would be fun to go on a hunt with the boys?! Have we learned nothing 🤯
Chicken and chips
Many of the animals in Australia that want to kill us all now seem somewhat meek and mild. Almost cuddly.
while not Australia, you should take a look at terror birds from North and South America
Kangaroos eat tourists lol
I WORKED ON A CATTLE AND SHEEP STATION BACK IN THE EARLY 70S AND SAW RED KANGAROOS THAT WOULD HAVE EASILY BEEN 6'6" TALL, BACK IN SOME WILD COUNTRY THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T EVER GO TO EXCEPT MYSELF AND THE STATION OWNER AND HIS SONS, AND THEY NEVER TOLD ANYONE.
Plenty of food for humans back then. One animal feeds the whole village
Kangaroos do not fart.
I believe animals and plants grew so large in that period due to the abundance and extremely high levels of carbon, oxygen etc, at levels way too high for us to live in.
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So according to invading colonial law, right up until the late 1960s some of my Great Grandparents
(& hence Grandparents)
because they were Aboriginal weren't even considered to be human beings... they were considered to be
part of the
"flora & fauna"...
The Aborigines have been living in Australia for at least 45,000 years with good evidence to support them being here 60,000 years ago and some evidence dating them back 100,000 years. Apart from having the oldest, ongoing culture around they were almost certainly around when those mega fauna were alive and probably wiped them out.
BULL SHIT islanders were here well before Aboriginals , OH but they shut that up fast to appese to them
@@veetwotlsWhich islanders?
@@1legend517 According to Aboriginal legends, parts of the Northern Territory are inhabited by spirit people that were once humans. The Mimi were such a people. According to Aboriginal legend, the Mimi were already here when they arrived and taught them how to fish and hunt and how to paint. They are now spirit people with exaggered thin and elongated bodies that live in rock crevices. They are so thin, that the wind can break them. It is quite possible that the legends are a communal memory of a people that inhabited the country that were supplanted by the aboriginals.
@@veetwotls That's interesting. I had not heard of that before. They definitely do have some fascinating stories of what life was like before Europeans arrived. That could've referred to a group of islanders who were here pre aboriginal settlement. I wonder if the wandjina were another culture they encountered.
There is no such evidence, it definitely had to be under 50,000 because that's when the land bridge allowed them to come from Indonesia! Their first visitors were from Zambia who shared their bark boats with them, they had no idea about any form of transport before these Africans visited!
Sad
I ask why they were so big when evolution is supposed to be from small to large.
Exactly.
Everything seems to have gotten smaller.
Certainly makes sense that bigger = more meat, so (say) tuna get smaller as the “big” genes are deleted from the population.
Animals were larger back then due to a higher concentration of oxygen in the air
Just a giant mouse
During early eras, the proportion of carbon dioxide was much higher, promoting growth of large plants and large animals.
It's quite unfortunate that the Australian Aborigines came to Australia. Their hunting techniques involved burning down entire old growth forests which is why the Mega fauna became extinct and why Australian forests are now filled with highly combustible trees making the land more dangerous in summer. What's worse is that these days, Aborigines are being praised as wise custodians of the land, when their techniques were so destructive, and their selfish and careless practices caused the extinction of so many flora and fauna. Had Australia not been colonised, a lot of our current native animals such as Koalas and wombats would most likely be extinct as well...
second lol
You wouldn’t have wanted to live back then , remember how many creatures that live in Australia now that want to kill you , imagine what it was like back then .
😂😂😂 drop bears lol they don't exist 😂 I'm Aussie
The illustration of humans look American indigenous people definitely not Australian indigenous people.
They are all from Africa originally, but it's hard to trust American information like this and it wasn't called Australia back then!
all i see is guess work, theory and hyperbally.... not one shred of evidence to support any claim there... these videos make me laugh, very amusing as entertainment.
Komodo dragons bite water buffalo, then follow them for a week, to be there when they die. Pretty disgusting to my way of thinking.
Great video Ryan. I've always been interested in Oz and Kiwi mega fauna. I just find it sad that these magnificent creatures were able to live and thrive in Australia for millions of years until the first humans arrived. Within a few years over harvesting and failure to protect these amazing marsupials, we just continue to wipe them out. Even in recent history since European settlement Australia has lost a further 34 mammal species (Worse global extinction record anywhere). We still don't really appreciate what we have. Every year we lose more and more iconic species. We are turning this biodiverse continent into an ecological desert containing only humans and the feral animals they brought with them.
Animals grow larger over generations because larger animals require less food per kilo of body mass than small animals, to maintain their metabolism, and they are also less likely to suffer predation from their natural enemies. For the megafauna, humans were a very unnatural enemy....
To this very day we, homo sapiens, although truth be told, we have proven ourselves not to be very "sapiens" at all concerning the well being of our planet, continue to wipe out our fauna and flora one way or another.
We Homo Sapiens have only been her for a few seconds in cosmological time. And there are a few billion more years before our sun expands enough to destroy the earth. Yes, we are ruining the ecology that allows us to survive, but the planet didn't need us for the previous few billion years and it won't need us for the next few billion years. We like to think that we are important, but earth has never needed us, nor will it need us in the future.
When you just fight, hunt and eat all day yet you farm and conserve absolutely nothing but burn the native trees, eventually the animals and fauna will die! Diseases were shared by traders, and Dingoes and other carnivor predators were brought in from Asia!
Yes burning the fauna, hunting and feeding all day, allowing traders from other countries to bring in new pests and diseases, and predators like Dingoes - is not good Landcare!
Australia now has no tortoises at all. Would watch the rest but the voiceover in the original video is so irritating.
There would not have been enough humans in Australia to make any species extinct 50,000 years ago. 3,000 years ago, yes. But not 50,000. This is where I now worry about all the facts, because this one is wrong.
Especially the very small tribal groups of small framed men that were supposedly here! It's likely environmental! 👍🤔
PLEASE don't review AI voice videos, they get EVERY single animal name wrong, it's incredibly irritating for Australians....
Wow,what a great fictional story.
Eh? There are even more very recent discoveries found in Australia, not just the mega fauna, all sorts of little creatures and insects etc.
@Hochspitz what's yr point?
And here we see a classic example of a science denying creationist crawling out from under their cosy little rock just for the sake of starting an argument which will make no sense whatsoever because all the real evidence proves that their religiously founded viewpoint isn't a valid opinion, as they are simply incorrect.
@grandmothergoose damn right ,nothing exploded and created everything, obviously ,anyone who denies that 'science' is a fool!
if you are meaning evolution, it has already been proven by endogenous retroviruses
Giant Wombats the size of cars.. yeah nah.. even if they only eat grass/leaves!!
Yeah we had lots of unique animals here & you can thank the Aboriginal people for wiping them all out mate!!😊