Indeed. Personally, I like to believe that this was pliosaurus. Pliosaurus lived at the same time and place where this episode takes place. Liopleurodon didn't. Pliosaurus was also quite huge.
King Rexy yea, they both lived in the late Jurassic, Pliosaurus only grew up to about 49 feet though. I mean for a Documentary this old its good quality
King Rexy A book I read recently that was published in 2011. I can't remember what it's called. If I could I would have mentioned it. Not a good idea to trust a book so much but it was pretty damn convincing.
Something I only noticed just now is the genius camera work of this series. 0:33 the shot begins with the physical model. At 0:53 we can see the CGI front flippers wipe the view of the camera and the model transitions from an animatronic to the CG model. Something I can't unsee, and can now appreciate the artistry of, now that my days of thinking these were really filmed by going back in time are long over.
Although the real Liopleurodon wasn't nearly as large as the 25 meter monster in Walking with Dinosaurs, it was still quite large, about the size of a large great white shark or an orca. It was a very formidable predator, it had very large jaws and it had four flippers so it was probably very fast and agile. It would easily be an apex predator if it was alive today.
That’s what I love about prehistoric megafauna, and that a lot of people miss. Even the “small” ones are bloody huge. When you find yourself unimpressed by a great white-sized pliosaur, you really gotta take a step back and consider how spoiled we are for truly gigantic fossil animals. It’s fun to think about how humanity would react if a single obscure fossil taxon were still alive today. No one ever thinks about, say, Piatnitzkysaurus. By theropod standards, it’s rather unimpressive. However, were it, by some strange miracle, still around as the sole surviving member of the non-avian dinosaur lineage, you would absolutely fucking know about it, it would be up there as one of the largest (if not THE largest) land predators on the planet. As it is, though? Just another mid-sized theropod on the pile.
@@thatkidwiththehoodie True bro, the Mesozoic truly was a time of giants. Even a lot of the smaller animals from that time would be considered large by our standards. And just about any mid-sized Theropod would easily rival the largest land predators (Kodiak and polar bears) alive today in size. Let alone a mega-Theropod like Tyrannosaurus or Spinosaurus which would rival or even surpass African bush elephants in weight. And Sauropods like Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan would easily dwarf every land animal alive today. Only being rivaled by the largest whales that are alive today, such as the blue whale.
@@supermariologanfan6546 In therms of soundtrack that was my favourite but man..., I just LOVE marine reptiles, plus the fact of that Tropical Islands were the so temperate climate europe of today :0
Y’know, for as oversized as the Lio is here, “this particular one is really fucking old” is one of the better justifications I’ve heard for size inaccuracy. It’s like the Gustave of the Jurassic...
@@ItsButterBean1020 there is no Liopleurodon magnus, I’m not sure where you heard that from. There’s L. ferox and maaaaybe L. pachydeirus, but that’s it.
@@thatkidwiththehoodie It's a joking name I have for the fictional Liopleurodon in this documentary Kinda like how "Retrosaurs" are used by some to refer to older dinosaurs restorations
@@ItsButterBean1020 ahhhh, I see. Well, to answer your question, I’d probably guess a little under 20m? Depending on how old the WWD individual was, measured up against how long “L. magnus” would live on average, it could vary pretty wildly. I’d say no shorter than 15m, though.
The Liopleurodon was actually only around 21ft, the reason that these shows thought they would be longer is because their heads are abnormally large compared to their bodies. it wasn't until scientist found complete fossils that our understanding was updated, but these old "documentaries" are still a joy to go back and watch.
Even though the real animal was only the size of a Great white shark or an orca, it truly was the most feared sea predator of its time and would easily be an apex predator today all things considered.
For the oversize and overweight argument, the show does mention that this individual was “probably over a hundred years old.” Theoretically, if a Liopleurodon survived for that long, it could reach the size in the show. Again theoretically. We don’t exactly have time machines like Nigel Marvin yet.
Four flippers, short, compact neck, nearly as big as Leedsichthys. I'm sure this is Liopleurodon. At well over 30 tons, it is among the largest and most powerful carnivores ever to live on the planet.
25 meters would've meant that Liopleurodon would've been almost as large as the average Blue Whale being that big and an apex predator is practically unheard of. Only Megalodon gets close to that, and even then it only reached a maximum of 18 meters still, wonder what seeing a 25 long Liopleurodon would feel like? (I know they're more like 21 feet, but come on, you wanna imagine something that big swimming by you)
@@redlizerad8268 apex means at the top of the food chain right? (i'm genuinely asking) so if thats the case then sperm whales have NO predators besides MAYBE a pod of orcas.
For those who had clarfied the max size of Liopleurodon, remember that we will never know how big can they truly get.... Still, hank you for your contribution
Actually we more or less do. The fossils point towards Liopleurodon having been comparable in size to a large great white to smallish killer whale. Some specimens could have hypothetically grown a bit bigger, but 83 feet and 150 is beyond ridiculous.
Wonder if the "25 meters" was a typo & they actually meant 25 feet? It's currently agreed upon that Liopleurodon could reach average lengths of 5-7 meters; with certain individuals reaching rare lengths of 8-10 meters. 25 feet is equal to 7.62 meters; which is a little over average length estimates. So if they changed the unit of measurement from meters to feet, then it might still be accurate by today's standards?
Liopreurodon:I’m the biggest prehistoric marine reptile in the word. 40 feet long. mosasaurus: oh really then come to the Cretaceous period I will show how big I am. 60 feet long.
Just a question I want to ask. Some people say this liopluerodon was based on the monster of arambberri, or pliosaurus maceromeus. Is it possible that some of those creatures could’ve reached a size of 17m or over like how the media says it ?
I am a bit amused. People keep talking about how the size is overexaggerated and laugh at that. What about the statement that it was apparently 150 tones haha? I think overshooting the size by 10 meters doesn't come even close to the fact that they gave it over 3 times the potential weight of whatever pliosaurid they assumed it was. I mean come on, it is within the weight ballpark of a blue whale by this silly value, how are people not focusing on that more than the length?
Liopleurodon Ferrox ○ -|- /\ /-,-,-,-,⊙:::::::\\::::::::::\\::::::::::::/| Liopleurodon was a large Pliosaur from Late Jurassic Europe.Liopleurodon cannot grew up to 25 meters,but it was a horrofiying predator.It was the super predator of its place.The WWD Liopleurodon could be a Pliosaurus.
To be fair pliosaurus didn't have the think blubber of whale or pinnapeada. So even if a liopleurodon had reached the length of a blue whale it still would have weighted only a fraction of the largest animal of all time.
Regardless of size, If I were to watch or make a movie of the The Little Mermaid or a sequel, I'd want to see this giant reptile kill every mermaid like Ariel and Triton.
Well, there is always Kronosaurus. From the Early Cretaceous, granted, but it is regarded as one of the largest Pliosaur species, and the best part is, it's known from really good remains, some of which including a nearly complete skeleton. I wish i could give the exact numbers, but i'm no good with them, especially since a number of sources give different estimations.
@@madsthomsen8106 well ye , i'm aware of Kronosaurus , maybe the estimations for it are 11 meters ( max ) and 9 meters ( minimum ) . doesn't sound much when compared to the original 25 m estimation for this Liopleurodon , but if we were to see a 9+ m Kronosaurus alive in the ocean ..... yea , it would be huge , absolutely dwarfing us .
Mosasaurus The Size in this is very inaccurate the real size of liopleurodon is 21 feet the size of a mosa is 45 or 51 feet I would say Mosasaurus would win
Yeah bud the reality is we don't really know how big those things got because we never lived back then. For all we know they could have gotten 80 ft long we'll never know cuz we were never around too see them. The numbers from this documentary and from other sources are just speculation because we can never truly know.
@@guitarsandcars2586 not really the average lengths are measured by different specimens of the species thus it is about 16-23 feet in length and in the documentary it wasn't speculation but the animal was based on fossils by pliosaurus which had also a false size
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The real Liopleurodon didn't actually get this big estimates are 5-7 meters and Megalodon could reach up to 15 meters not really a Meg fan but just wanted to point this out to you.
Except it WAS bigger than Liopleurodon. Megalodon was 15 - 18 metres long, whereas Lio was 6 to 7 metres. Sounds like you can't accept the fact that Liopleurodon wasn't as big as it was originally thought
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Liopleurodon actually only grew up to 21 feet, the documentary is outdated
Indeed. Personally, I like to believe that this was pliosaurus. Pliosaurus lived at the same time and place where this episode takes place. Liopleurodon didn't. Pliosaurus was also quite huge.
King Rexy yea, they both lived in the late Jurassic, Pliosaurus only grew up to about 49 feet though. I mean for a Documentary this old its good quality
Who Is This? Fossil evidence from as recent as 2011 suggests that it actually did reach 80 feet.
Source? If it was so, I'd know about it.
King Rexy A book I read recently that was published in 2011. I can't remember what it's called. If I could I would have mentioned it. Not a good idea to trust a book so much but it was pretty damn convincing.
Something I only noticed just now is the genius camera work of this series.
0:33 the shot begins with the physical model.
At 0:53 we can see the CGI front flippers wipe the view of the camera and the model transitions from an animatronic to the CG model.
Something I can't unsee, and can now appreciate the artistry of, now that my days of thinking these were really filmed by going back in time are long over.
Wow that’s a really good observation
Walking with Dinosaurs was so ahead of its time
Although the real Liopleurodon wasn't nearly as large as the 25 meter monster in Walking with Dinosaurs, it was still quite large, about the size of a large great white shark or an orca. It was a very formidable predator, it had very large jaws and it had four flippers so it was probably very fast and agile. It would easily be an apex predator if it was alive today.
It's actually only about 1/3 the mass of an orca, similar to a great white.
Largest ones reach 10 meters,which is very crazy
Idk about the larger Orcas but it’d definitely be slightly larger then a Great White Shark
That’s what I love about prehistoric megafauna, and that a lot of people miss. Even the “small” ones are bloody huge. When you find yourself unimpressed by a great white-sized pliosaur, you really gotta take a step back and consider how spoiled we are for truly gigantic fossil animals.
It’s fun to think about how humanity would react if a single obscure fossil taxon were still alive today. No one ever thinks about, say, Piatnitzkysaurus. By theropod standards, it’s rather unimpressive. However, were it, by some strange miracle, still around as the sole surviving member of the non-avian dinosaur lineage, you would absolutely fucking know about it, it would be up there as one of the largest (if not THE largest) land predators on the planet. As it is, though? Just another mid-sized theropod on the pile.
@@thatkidwiththehoodie True bro, the Mesozoic truly was a time of giants. Even a lot of the smaller animals from that time would be considered large by our standards. And just about any mid-sized Theropod would easily rival the largest land predators (Kodiak and polar bears) alive today in size. Let alone a mega-Theropod like Tyrannosaurus or Spinosaurus which would rival or even surpass African bush elephants in weight. And Sauropods like Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan would easily dwarf every land animal alive today. Only being rivaled by the largest whales that are alive today, such as the blue whale.
This was my favorite episode out of the whole season
Jimmy Nava
Time Of The Titans for me
@@supermariologanfan6546 In therms of soundtrack that was my favourite but man..., I just LOVE marine reptiles, plus the fact of that Tropical Islands were the so temperate climate europe of today :0
Liopleurodon has always been my favorite extinct animal.
Exactly!!! Liopleurodon is very interesting.
Same
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Tyrannosaurus is mine
Same here alongside Livyatan
Mine is Tylosaurus
Y’know, for as oversized as the Lio is here, “this particular one is really fucking old” is one of the better justifications I’ve heard for size inaccuracy. It’s like the Gustave of the Jurassic...
It makes me wonder how large the average “Liopleurodon Magnus” would be
@@ItsButterBean1020 there is no Liopleurodon magnus, I’m not sure where you heard that from. There’s L. ferox and maaaaybe L. pachydeirus, but that’s it.
@@thatkidwiththehoodie It's a joking name I have for the fictional Liopleurodon in this documentary
Kinda like how "Retrosaurs" are used by some to refer to older dinosaurs restorations
@@ItsButterBean1020 ahhhh, I see. Well, to answer your question, I’d probably guess a little under 20m? Depending on how old the WWD individual was, measured up against how long “L. magnus” would live on average, it could vary pretty wildly. I’d say no shorter than 15m, though.
@@ItsButterBean1020 it’s like Mosasaurus Maximus from Jurassic World, I like it
Liopleurodon, The Great White Shark Of The Jurassic
Cretoxyrhina?
@@aliakbarmaliki3156 From the Late Cretaceous, not the Late Jurassic.
The Liopleurodon was actually only around 21ft, the reason that these shows thought they would be longer is because their heads are abnormally large compared to their bodies.
it wasn't until scientist found complete fossils that our understanding was updated, but these old "documentaries" are still a joy to go back and watch.
i don’t care if the liopleurodon is not accurate,i care about the fact That this is the best documentary that haves a liopleurodon in it
Even though the real animal was only the size of a Great white shark or an orca, it truly was the most feared sea predator of its time and would easily be an apex predator today all things considered.
Much smaller than an orca, about the size of a great white (which are 1/3 the mass of an orca)
But not as much as Mosasaurus and Pliosaurus
It was oversized, overweighted and got killed by some Eustreptospondylus and yet there goes the best Liopleurodon we will ever know
For the oversize and overweight argument, the show does mention that this individual was “probably over a hundred years old.” Theoretically, if a Liopleurodon survived for that long, it could reach the size in the show. Again theoretically. We don’t exactly have time machines like Nigel Marvin yet.
Four flippers, short, compact neck, nearly as big as Leedsichthys. I'm sure this is Liopleurodon. At well over 30 tons, it is among the largest and most powerful carnivores ever to live on the planet.
25 meters would've meant that Liopleurodon would've been almost as large as the average Blue Whale
being that big and an apex predator is practically unheard of. Only Megalodon gets close to that, and even then it only reached a maximum of 18 meters
still, wonder what seeing a 25 long Liopleurodon would feel like? (I know they're more like 21 feet, but come on, you wanna imagine something that big swimming by you)
sperm whales?
@@keepiticy I don’t know if Sperm whale is exactly an apex predator. Blue whale is also a carnivore but it isn’t an apex predator.
@@redlizerad8268 apex means at the top of the food chain right? (i'm genuinely asking) so if thats the case then sperm whales have NO predators besides MAYBE a pod of orcas.
@@keepiticy but it doesn’t feed on Great white sharks. Great white sharks will how ever attack calf’s.
@@keepiticy the real apex predators of the ocean is the Orca
It’s a magical Liopleurodon Charlie!
For those who had clarfied the max size of Liopleurodon, remember that we will never know how big can they truly get....
Still, hank you for your contribution
Actually we more or less do. The fossils point towards Liopleurodon having been comparable in size to a large great white to smallish killer whale. Some specimens could have hypothetically grown a bit bigger, but 83 feet and 150 is beyond ridiculous.
@@daliborjovanovic510 i heard that the maximum size is at least 42 feet long
Inaccurate,liopluerodon had 4356 hooves and was a ever growing beast that had 64534 pairs of wings and shot lazers from its mouth
Memo show That’s a dragon
Inaccuracies of this Liopleurodon: Oversized. It had a tail fluke.
what does fluke means? is it fish like shaped?
@@iamleoooo tail fin and yes like a fish.
This should have been the sea reptile of jurrasic world
It was smaller than the mosasaur in real life.
@@riamus7258 Jurassic World: The Game got the size correct....
When I was a kid, I thought Liopleurodon was a weird looking shark.
My favorite animal in the show (despite it being depicted as a 25 meter leviathan)
If the Sharks had Nightmares Liopleurodon was definetly it.
Ophthalmosaurus, Eustreptospondylus and Leedsichthys disliked it
And the horned shark
@@bencemolnar4246 its hybodus the shark with horns
Megalodon: Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
Liopleurodon: ...
*Screams like a little girl*
Not really. Liopleurodon was smaller than what's shown here.
@@crampus8205 That's the joke. Megalodon is over 25 times as heavy.
Wonder if the "25 meters" was a typo & they actually meant 25 feet?
It's currently agreed upon that Liopleurodon could reach average lengths of 5-7 meters; with certain individuals reaching rare lengths of 8-10 meters. 25 feet is equal to 7.62 meters; which is a little over average length estimates. So if they changed the unit of measurement from meters to feet, then it might still be accurate by today's standards?
Liopleurodon like orca killer whale and ZEN AKU.
Hola Gusto vídeo liopleurodon
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The ultimate oreo cookie(this liopleurodon has a black and white coloration)
(2:04) Me scavenging for food at 3am:
Liopleurodon being 21 feet 80 feet large would be way too big for a liopleurodon
Liopreurodon:I’m the biggest prehistoric marine reptile in the word. 40 feet long.
mosasaurus: oh really then come to the Cretaceous period I will show how big I am. 60 feet long.
Mosasaurus was 45 feet long and lioplurodon was 23 feet long.
Meg: Ha! I am over 65 feet! I'm gonna bite ur fliipers off >:D
Just a question I want to ask. Some people say this liopluerodon was based on the monster of arambberri, or pliosaurus maceromeus. Is it possible that some of those creatures could’ve reached a size of 17m or over like how the media says it ?
@Sam Gackstetter
Yes I know the 15m long monster of arramberri was debunked but could the absolute size estimates go over the 15m long ?
@Yackythegacky p. funkei was only 9-10 meters long
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This Liopleurodon Is Basically A Sea Version Of The Monsters Resurrected Spinosaurus
For some reason, this guy always reminded me of Darth Vader...
Meg 🦈: Hey let's fight :)
0:42 that’s *RIDICULOUS*
I am a bit amused. People keep talking about how the size is overexaggerated and laugh at that. What about the statement that it was apparently 150 tones haha? I think overshooting the size by 10 meters doesn't come even close to the fact that they gave it over 3 times the potential weight of whatever pliosaurid they assumed it was. I mean come on, it is within the weight ballpark of a blue whale by this silly value, how are people not focusing on that more than the length?
This gave me nightmares as a kid...
The “liopluerodon” you call 21 ft long is supposedly a different species
No
Very excellent marine reptile
Liopleurodon Ferrox
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Liopleurodon was a large Pliosaur from Late Jurassic Europe.Liopleurodon cannot grew up to 25 meters,but it was a horrofiying predator.It was the super predator of its place.The WWD Liopleurodon could be a Pliosaurus.
To be fair pliosaurus didn't have the think blubber of whale or pinnapeada. So even if a liopleurodon had reached the length of a blue whale it still would have weighted only a fraction of the largest animal of all time.
Well they didn't need it when 90% of the world was tropical at the time.
I wonder how he can smell prey underwater
0:06
Whichone is closest to theropod from 0:06 ?
(In Dilophosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Megalosaurus, Allosaurus)
It's an Eustreptospondylus, I don't know what are you talking about.
@@amn9433 it's a Megalosaurid so
cryptoclidus looks like the ancestor of sea turtles
It really doesn't tho? Aside from having flippers there's nothing much that they have in common.
@@riamus7258 well it has a short neck
Over 100? Wow 😳
Why didn't you show the beached Liopleurodon?
Too sad
Made me hungry...
Regardless of size, If I were to watch or make a movie of the The Little Mermaid or a sequel, I'd want to see this giant reptile kill every mermaid like Ariel and Triton.
He probably made a mistake to this Eustreptospondylus
What a monster
Mabye it will guide us to candy mountain!
then later this behemoth got downsized to 1/4 of the length here ( 6.4 meters ) *cryingjordan*
Well, there is always Kronosaurus. From the Early Cretaceous, granted, but it is regarded as one of the largest Pliosaur species, and the best part is, it's known from really good remains, some of which including a nearly complete skeleton.
I wish i could give the exact numbers, but i'm no good with them, especially since a number of sources give different estimations.
@@madsthomsen8106 well ye , i'm aware of Kronosaurus , maybe the estimations for it are 11 meters ( max ) and 9 meters ( minimum ) .
doesn't sound much when compared to the original 25 m estimation for this Liopleurodon , but if we were to see a 9+ m Kronosaurus alive in the ocean .....
yea , it would be huge , absolutely dwarfing us .
So are these guys bigger than the mosasaurus or smaller?
Smaller
Liopleurodon was bigger than Mosasaurus
0:43 Nonono IT'S 25 FEET NOT 25 METERS!!!
What is it eating in 2:12
leedsichthys
Who is the winner? Liopleurodon or Mosasaurus?
Mosasaurus The Size in this is very inaccurate the real size of liopleurodon is 21 feet the size of a mosa is 45 or 51 feet I would say Mosasaurus would win
i wonder if Aust and Lilstock Ichtyosaurs are gonna get massively downsized like this
Liopleurodon is just crocodile size
Nah, more like great white shark size.
Crocodiles 🐊 are bigger than sharks 🦈
If lio was 25m long it would destroy mosa
6 meters
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it would wreck the meg too
Is similar to Mosasaurus eats Pteranodon scene in Jurassic World 0:06
Liopleurodon is only 1m longer than opthalmosaurus
Liopleurodon eats leedsycthis
It's actually Pliosaurus.
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Liopleuro
This size of the liopleurodon is outdated, but some kids still believe this outdated size, and not facing a reality...
Yeah bud the reality is we don't really know how big those things got because we never lived back then. For all we know they could have gotten 80 ft long we'll never know cuz we were never around too see them. The numbers from this documentary and from other sources are just speculation because we can never truly know.
@@guitarsandcars2586 not really the average lengths are measured by different specimens of the species thus it is about 16-23 feet in length and in the documentary it wasn't speculation but the animal was based on fossils by pliosaurus which had also a false size
Liopleurodon > Jaws shark
It was actually smaller than the Shark in Jaws.
Liopleurodon was *SCARRIEST* 😬🤪😳😱
@Davin aka the legendery house fly LOL It's a documentary not a movie.
@@aleksandarvil5718 It's not the scariest.
@Carcharodontosaurus saharicus
0:07 and 0:19
Why in God's name would an animal like Liopleurodon need to be exaggerated. The thing itself is enough, I think...
Scrappy remains yield unstable estimates
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Lol Liopleurodon is not that big
22m long possibly true
Are you dumb?
Nah
Lioplerodon was DEFINITELY 5-7 metres long, not uhh 22 metres
@@syedzafran2682 How about you try not being a douchebag a******
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I like megalodon
putting that diver in totally ruins it.....
Why not? He's Nigel Marven!!!
@xpgamer jr it was too lame to bother with
Its bigger than real life meg lmao
The meg in real life only grow to 15-16 meters
But this dude is 25 meters so he clap real life meg
I hate this part
Lot of butthurt megalodon fans😂😂Just accept the fact that meg wasn't the biggest sea predator😉🤘💪
The real Liopleurodon didn't actually get this big estimates are 5-7 meters and Megalodon could reach up to 15 meters not really a Meg fan but just wanted to point this out to you.
Yeah
Except it WAS bigger than Liopleurodon. Megalodon was 15 - 18 metres long, whereas Lio was 6 to 7 metres. Sounds like you can't accept the fact that Liopleurodon wasn't as big as it was originally thought