15 Giant Prehistoric Animals That Weren't Dinosaurs
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- From huge birds,to a prehistoric Loch Ness Monster These are 15 Giant Prehistoric Animals That Weren't Dinosaurs
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Arthropleura (arthra-ploo-ra)-- This was an ancestor to millipedes and centipedes, and could grow up to 8 feet long … although some sources claim it could grow even longer. Contrast that size to a modern day centipedes which go around 10 inches long. They could also measure several feet wide, which would make for a scary sight to say the least. Because of its massive size, it’s thought the creature had few predators, despite it being an invertebrate … it is in fact, the largest invertebrate species ever uncovered -- by a wide margin. Arthropleura looked like it could be a predator itself, but it was actually a herbivorous arthropod. And fossilized evidence indicates it could move pretty fast across the forest floor, swerving to avoid rocks and trees. It lived around 300 million years ago throughout present day North America and Scotland.
Meganeura (mega-noor-uh)
Best described as a giant dragonfly, these creatures existed around 300 million years ago are are related to the present day insects. Did you know they could be the size of birds? Their fossils were initially found in France in 1880, and have since been found in England. One genus (JEE-nus) is thought to have been the largest insect that ever lived … with a length around 17 inches and a wingspan exceeding 2 feet. Can you imagine a dragonfly feeding on prey as big as squirrels or frogs? Experts say that this creature did just that!
Monster Sea Scorpion
Fossils of Jaekelopterus (jay-kel-OP-ter-us) indicate the creature lived around 390 million years ago. Measuring over 8 feet, a single pincer was more than 18 inches long. No wonder that J.rhenaniae (reh-NAY-nee) is thought to be the largest known arthropod yet discovered. Their size makes them larger that eurypterids (yoo-RIP-tuh-rids) … a group that is related to the scorpions and land spiders of today. Today, the coconut crab and Japanese spider crab are among the largest living arthropods in the world.
Haast’s Eagle
This is the largest species of eagle that was ever known to exist … and the females were significantly larger than the males. They could weigh up to 36 pounds, with a wingspan approaching 10 feet ...And were found on the South Island of New Zealand, where the birds are commonly accepted as part of Maori (MAO-ree) legend. The eagles preyed on large flightless bird species, including the Moa, which was 15 times its weight … Striking at speeds up to 50 mph. When human hunters arrived in New Zealand, they also preyed on the large flightless birds there. Haast’s Eagle became extinct about 1,400 years ago after its natural food source disappeared.
Megalodon is the legendary prehistoric shark that measured up to 60 feet long and weighed around 65 tons … but some estimates put those numbers even higher. Did you know scientists have calculated the ancient predator could have exerted a bite force of more than 18 tons!
Titanoboa -- Fossils of this creature were found in Colombia … and indicate the creature would have measured over 40 feet long and weighed around 2,500 pounds. They would have been found slithering about some 60 million years ago.
Mosasaurus (moe-suh-SORE-us)
Like plesiosaurs, these were marine reptiles, not technically dinosaurs. But going nearly 60 feet long, this was thought to be about the biggest of the lot. Experts say that the carnivorous critter resembled an immense crocodile … and would have been one of the deadliest creatures alive during the Cretaceous Period. Mosasaurs are closely related to lizards of today, like the Komodo Dragon. The creatures were believed to chase down prey by using their powerful, shark-like tails. And they were evidently well-traveled animals as well. Their fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. You might recall this creature being the breakout star of “Jurassic World” in 2015 … although some experts said too many liberties were taken with the animal’s portrayal.
What is your favorite ancient creature that isn't a dinosaur ?
Epic Wildlife I love your videos.keep up the good work.
Dire Wolf
megalania
1. Sabre tooth cats 2. Entelodont 3. Andrewsarchus 4. mammoth and 5. short faced bear
Epic Wildlife
Megalodon
Dodo
Pteranodon
Arowana
Omg. I legitimately had a phase in middle school where I was obsessed with animalicaris.
I think you had an auto-correct on your comment. I love everything possible about prehistoric arthropods they are fascinating!
Ayyyyyyy! I got the shout out!
Matthew Neubeck beeeeeee
Matthew Neubeck, There where actually a few dinosaurs in the episode, those dinosaurs the Terror Birds and other birds.
Matthew Neubeck,CONGRATS!😁🎉🎖🎈🏅🏆
Indominus those aren’t dinosaurs they are beasts from the ice age
how to become a prehistoric creature: take a living animal that's already scary/dangerous, now become about twenty times the size of your modern day ancestor (titanoboa, argentavis, giant sea scorpion, ect.)
6:17 Hey! That's cheating! Birds ARE dinosaurs.
Prospector Nick you like destiny?
so is it a bird or a dinosaur because you just said 2 different species
@@willbyers7930 birds are just descendents of dinosaurs which actually means they are reptiles
The terror bird live after dinosaurs died so its not dinosaurs its reptile
Nessie started being described as a plesiosaur in the 1930's, coinciding with the release of King Kong, with that famous scene of a battle with a plesiosaur. So it's no coincidence...
Can we say it really loud for the people in the back
Birds are dinosaurs!
Dinosaur Gift Shop they evolved from them. That doesn't mean they are dinosaurs...
It very much does. Things dont stop belonging to the clade they come from because some time has passed. You evolved from mammals, and are a mammal.
The Earth Is Not Flat that's literally the excuse everyone fucking uses when they hear that.
They are dinosaurs, it's just that linear taxonomy is shit.
A BBC documentary series on dinosaurs made it plain and clear: Birds are the sole survivors of the dinosaur family. Long live the dinosaurs!
No.. Dinosaurs are birds
You need a big BBQ Grill for that giant shrimp....
mad honeybee thinking the same thing...
mmmm... tasty...
Well if you manage to kill it first before it kills you tho
You're gross.
I do wonder what an Anomalocaris would taste like.
FACTS
15) 0:26 Giant shrimp
14) 1:02 Arthropleura
13) 1:50 Meganeura
12) 2:26 Monster Sea Scorpion
11) 2:59 Haast’s Eagle
10) 3:41 Megalania
9) 4:10 Quetzalcoatlus
8) 4:54 Elasmosaurus
7) 5:35 Basilosaurus
6) 6:15 Terror birds
5) 6:56 Sarchosuchud imperator
4) 7:35 Gorgonopsids
3) 8:04 Deinotherium
2) 8:44 Dunkleosteus
Honourable mention (9:44 Megalodon 10:02 Titanoboa)
1) 10:21 Mosasaurus
Goat
> "creatures that _aren't_ dinosaurs"
> includes terror birds and Haast's eagle
(sigh)
I will give you points for correctly identifying pterosaurs as non-dinosaurs, though.
They probably meant non-avian dinosaurs.
@@terra_727 Still doesn't matter to me. There's a plethora of cool non-dinosaurs that could've filled those slots. Where's the love for Megatherium? Dimetrodon? Garjainia? Sharovipteryx? Longisquama? Instead they put animals that WERE dinosaurs into a list specifically about non-dinosaurs and it annoys me. Not to mention, again, it spreads the annoying misinformation that birds are somehow "distinct" or "different" from their dinosaur ancestors when they really aren't. They're dinosaurs, they always have been dinosaurs and they always will be dinosaurs.
@@aZz7eCh Theories are made of facts. The word you're looking for is "hypothesis".
That said, birds ARE dinosaurs. There's a plethora of evidence if you know where to look.
@@aZz7eCh Evolution itself is basically fact. The theory part of it is on natural selection. Also, theory is basically fact, because it is the closest thing to the truth, more truthful than your explanation.
I mean, they're dinosaurs, but not DINOSAURS.
I love learning about prehistoric creatures! 🤓
i also
I don’t care
#11 and #6 _are_ dinosaurs actually...
sam rizzardi biologically speaking..
sam rizzardi how is a eagle a dinosaur?
@@lalaaktzzfta Birds are theropod dinosaurs.
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For next week, can you do Top 10 (or what ever number you want) heaviest animals ever? (Ps. Love you channel :D)
Love the vids! Watch your stuff every night!
i love your videos keep the good work
Today is my Birthday, Love Epic Wildlife, I always find it fun to learn little facts about the wild, I was wondering if you can to a video based on animals with beautful or colorful wings
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You know #8 is legit, when it asks for $3.50.
I love these videos they are really interesting thank you epic
You put birds on this list, but that contradicts the title as birds are dinosaurs.
Birds are birds.. warm blooded.
@@robertanthonybermudez5545 Birds are dinosaurs, google it.
@@davesulphate4497 evolution is just a theory
@@robertanthonybermudez5545 Evolution is one of the most well documented and proven theories there is. Evolution, as a theory, has become stronger over the last 100 years, and while it WAS a flawed therory, its grows in strenght every day.
Evolution isn't just a theory, it is one of the strongest theories that has ever emerged.
The essential premise of evolution has been proven, via genetics, which was unknown at the time.
To say that it is just a "theory" exposes you as an idiot that does not know what the word "theory" means.
Evolution is PROVEN to be true, but how it works might be better understood with further research.
lastly, to claim that a thing is "just a theory" and dismiss it is a logical falacy.
You are, in fact, talking bullshit that has been disproven many thousands of times.
Please fuck off.
@@davesulphate4497 evolution branched mainly in two factions that contradicts each other.
And one cool fact about the mosasaurus: he had a second row of teeth on the inner part of his upper jaw, that theoretically would make sure that what comes in, stays in. Keep up the good work guys! Love your videos!
I watch this channel before and after i go to sleep and i tell the facts on my science class and i get a b or a c but in happy with that keep up the good word
I once saw a Python snake in my back garden behind some bushes creeping around trying to eat cats. Well actually it wasn't a python, it was more of a smaller snake, well not really a snake more of a slow worm,, actually I think it was a shoe lace.
Swamp Life my cat had a bull snake cornered on the lawn it was a bit mad when I went out side
Comments like this make me rethink the notion that all humans should just die. Thank you.
Anyone else wish they lived back then? Every day would be an adventure
Or a horrible death, if you get on the bad side of those creatures.
i dont like the fact that most children think there were only dinosaurs before and think they are lizards
There’s centipedes long than 10 inches. Especially in tropical regions.
Numbers 11 and 6 *are* actually dinosaurs, all birds modern and prehistoric, are classified as dinosaurs
me and my son love this episode my son was wondering can you do one about the fastest dinosaurs
Robert Beck that's a good idea
that is impossible. sorry but it's hard to measure the speed of something that has been dead for 60million years.
65M years doofus.
yes I understand it's hard to dress up has been dead for a long time but they have estimated what what are the fastest dinosaurs
me?
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Now, back to dinosaurs.
Yeah, well. The mosasaur was not 18m long. More like 7 to 10 meters on average. And birds are dinosaurs, lol 😅
forgot the steppe mammoth
I wonder if the giant shrimp would be delicious like today's varieties. 🤔
this is the best top 10/15/20 list in youtube
So I have been watching this channel for a while and I love it! One thing keeps bothering me though and that is the pronunciations. I have heard a lot of these names before and they are often pronounced differently.
Yay, I'm actually on this list
Argentavis should replace the other giant hawk on the list, it is the largest flying bird ever and lived in Argentina about 6 million years ago, wingspan measured at least 23 feet, more or less. If you play Ark Survival Evolved you know how big that thing is, and that's a pretty decent representation of its size, though we may never truly know what it looked like 100%.
Argentavis wasn't a hawk, it was a vulture. And Haast's _EAGLE_ wasn't a hawk either. And both of them are dinosaurs, so neither of them should be on this list at all (that goes double for the terror bird).
Grand visuals you have in your video. Thank you for promoting strong discussions about prehistoric life.
I love your channel ! It is like a heaven for every organism . Keep up the good work !
Brian The Legendary lol you are being fooled
The Mosasaurus was by far the coolest.
you seem to repeat the same creatures in your videos would be lovely to see a wider variety :D
Great videos mate! Subscribed!
3 ft tall shrimp?
I'm going to have shrimp salad for the next two weeks
Why does this make me think of monster hunter, and if people existed during these times
If you compare the time of extinction for pleisiosaurs to the time Loch Ness originated, it puts the odds of their coexisting out of reach.
That eagle could actually pick up a kid
Ancient birds always picking up cave babes for their offspring!!!
How about indricotherium and paracrratherium?
Winia Firmansyah And Megaloceros and Zeuglodon..
Perhaps they ought to replace the birds with those giant mammals.
A creature as big as a plesiosaur would have been seen by now
Birds are dinosaurs to you know
Oliver Westerberg why don’t you call birds Dinosaurus then? Ah, because birds are not dinosaurs. They are just related.
I actually wouldn’t mind if we brought back the giant dragon fly
This makes me want to play Ark again
Couldn't even list 10 till you started talking about dinosaurs
awesome vid. you guys are amazing!
watch every day
Actually argentavis was the biggest eagle/flying bird
I think Pelagornis is the biggest flying bird.
Matti btw the argentavis was the largest species of bird by condor the haast eagle was the largest species of eagle condors are the same with eagles but there are different
Btw did I said the hast eagle right?
And yes pelagronis is the largest but its might close relatives with the albatross
Also, birds are dinosaurs, so neither Haast's eagle nor terror birds should be on this list at all.
CJCroen1393 technically, they ARE descendants of the dinos
Well, since you asked what I think, Nessie is not a plesiosaur that survived in the Loch from the Mesozoic until now. Why not? Because Loch Ness itself has only been around about 150,000 years.
Terror birds are technically dinosaurs
Oh they are all so cute!
Not so cute when they eat u will it be lmao just kidding no hard feelings 😂
3:41 my favorite
birds Today are dinosaurs
you said these arent dinosaurs but you mentioned birds wich are descendance of dinosaurs and even considered dinosaurs
Anomalocaris was not a shrimp. And I doubt Arthropleura was the biggest invertebrate ever (think only of the colossal squid or the giant squid or the prehistoric orthocone cephalopod Cameroceras). Also, how can no. 12 be the largest arthropod when Arthropleura (an arthropod) is said to be the largest invertebrate ever?
Not saying this isn't a cool video but it has its inaccuracies.
An Australian talking about giant creatures seems very fitting.
Awesome Dude 😁 .
this is awesome to learn
can you make a video about unknown fishes that recently identified and thanks for the woderfull videos that you make
You mean wonderful
Giant shrimp: is a 3ft long predator
Japan: 😛😋
"Animals they were not dinosaurs"
*shows avian dinosaurs*
If you guys din't knew,Birds ARE Dinosaurs and i really wish more people knew about that
Do the Largest Prehistoric Mammalian Predators please?!
👍👏❤ can you make an top Giant sea creature's that weren't dinosaurs
love the vids. how about animals with the fastest metabolisms and their feeding habits.
This is really cool
RIP Haast eagle :'(
Hey Epic Wildlife, you said animals that aren't dinosaurs and hast's eagle is a bird which birds are classified as dinosaurs. Other than that, nice video, heard of all of these creatures.
faceUmakewhen 01 birds are classed as the Present day ancestors of..... Hmm no pretty sure they lived same time dinosaurs did, OK nvm
Even modern birds are considered dinosaurs, and just because they lived at the same time as dinosaurs, doesn't make them dinosaurs
Daniel Kauffman You can say that about crocodiles, pterosaurs and some aquatic species not being dinosaurs even if they lived at the same time. Birds are descendants of avian dinosaurs which classifies them as dinosaurs.
faceUmakewhen 01 also don't forget terror birds are still birds and therefore are dinosaurs
Shadow BlackJinouga dude they aren't just *descendants* of dinosuars they ARE dinosaurs
great video enjoying as always can u guys do south American Giants
Haast's Eagle didn't go extinct 1400 years ago, but it did 1400 AD so 600 years ago.
Happy to see the not very well known Dunk in here... but no giant ground sloth?
Maybe they ought to have replaced either Haast's eagle or terror birds with the ground sloth.
Awesome a very video
Leviathan Melvillei., and also Mammuthus Sungari.
Numbers 11 and 6 are technically dinosaurs.
Exactly! it's unfortunate that people so often act like birds are separate from dinosaurs, rather than a specific group.
Daniel Kauffman i subscribed can you sub back
Intriguing video.
I'm sorry Epic Wildlife, but birds are in fact dinosaurs. Aves are descended from, and classified within Maniraptoran, Coelurosaurian, Theropod Dinosaurs.
idk man I think you should put the metric system equivalent of the animals' size, because you have international viewers
Anomolacaris (sp) is my favorite Cambrian critter. Gorgonopsids are a close second.
Number 2: In soviet ocean, fishes catch you!
I love this guy he knows his stuff
I wish more videos would describe other cool lesser known predators like Anteosaurus
There is a theory that mountains like Everest and K2 are actually megalodon teeth.
david bradley That's a cool theory I want to believe but the Himalayas were formed by the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates colliding
I've never heard something that nonsensical
david bradley that wouldn't be possible
That's a retarded theory.
Reptilian alien he was just making a joke.dont have to be so mean.
So giant :)
Wow, that some big animals.
EVERYTHING IN THAT WORLD, UNCLUDING HUMANS WERE GIANTS THEN
Can you please include in the future videos metric system data alongside american system data? It would be great for those who don't live in US.
Got a list suggestion: disgusting/scary critters that actually make good pets.
First suggestion for that list: Tarantulas.
I thought that birds (like hawks) were related to dinsaurs
They ARE dinosaurs.
Not just related--birds ARE dinosaurs, so there shouldn't be any birds on this list.
CJCroen1393 BIRDS ARE NOT DINOSAURS
Yes, they are.
Yeah they are, birds are in the family Aves, which are literally classified as dinosaurs. The way science works is if something came directly from a certain group of animals, then they are also part of that group, which is why birds (Aves) are also a subclass of reptiles
Awesome Video! Keep up the good work guys.Oh,and please do top 10 most terrifying prehistoric birds.
Amazing
But what about Dynosaurs? And are they electric? Can their electricity be used to power my TV?
good video
I just subscribed
I have been watching Animal planet and other animal documentary channels since I was only 7! All animals are so fascinating! I am pretty smart when it comes to them. Lol! My brother even calls me Google because of that fact!🤓😅🤗
I'm certain that if these animals were still around, we wouldn't be here.