The Largest Snakes to Ever Live?
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2024
- The Madtsoiids were an ancient group of snakes that first emerged during the Mesozoic and persisted in Australia until the Late Pleistocene. Superficially resembling modern constrictor snakes such as pythons and boas, these animals often reached large sizes, with the genus Vasuki indicus possibly being the longest snake to ever live.
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Basically for many years, We had finally received a real life Kaa
even though Kaa is just a large rock python.
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It's no wonder that the land ancestors of all whales and dolphins returned to the ocean.
0:17 that One Snake on the down center: :D
The one directly above it: 😳
The Madtsoiids are a very fascinating group, like boas before boas. Wish they never went extinct
I would agree with you.
yes bro❤
Back in the 1980s the skeleton of Aspidites hadn't been described and I had to deflesh one to check whether it was really a python; for at least a few days, I thought it could be a surviving madtsoiid. That would have been very cool. 'Extinct' animals do get rediscovered pretty often, so I'm not giving up.
@Dr Polaris, Could you please upload a topic about the mysterious big cat sightings in Australia?
Snakes are such a unique and incredible reptile, cool to know more about it evolution
One of my favourite group of snakes.
When will you make cryptid videos again?
It's interesting how a totally unrelated snake, the Banded Kukri Snake, evolved the same feeding habit as the Madtsoiids, in which it disembowels its prey, feeding on the extracted internal organs
Thanks Dr Polaris :)
Thank you for the video ❤
First Malapython was the largest, then Gigantophis was, then again Palaeophis and finally Titanoboa got the throne. IF THOSE WEREN'T BAD enough, what did they have to add Vasuki for?!
Madtsoiidaes are my favorite group of snakes, sad that they are no longer alive. :(
The limited skull kinesis of madtsoiids probably wasn't as restricting on prey as you might think. Both Yurlunggur and Wonambi had serrated teeth similar to Komodo dragons, so ripping their prey apart for easy swallowing isn't outside the realm of possibility.
No serrations. Only the usual smooth 'cutting ridges' present in nearly all snakes. Ask me how I know.
it makes me wonder if snakes first evolved to be able to sneak unnoticed into the big dinosaur's nests to eat their eggs. losing legs is such a massive evolutionary turn with so obvious disadvantages it had to have a very clear driving force behind to evolve, which I don't think another approach for conventional hunting of living prey satisfies, as the solitary prey which can be hunted without being exposed and of appropriate size for the snake are rather uncommon, and the snake becomes very vulnerable upon being exposed.
aquatic origin makes sense as well, but burrowing not so much, as being a large tubular animal in a burrow eating a whole prey meaning you are stuck in the burrow with the prey making the escape even more difficult. you want limbs and short body for burrowing.
also supporting this idea consider how all modern snakes swallow their prey whole. it's a trait which leaves the snake very vulnerable for a long period of time compared to swallowing smaller pieces, meaning it shouldn't naturally evolve for from piece eating. it's very understandable however if they evolved originally to eat eggs and then transitioned to eating living prey, simply never evolving the ability to cut the prey into pieces for swallowing.
I see the ancient Vedic authors and Kipling were on to something
I think they were just imagining things, because none of them really cared about fossils.
@@PencilSketch_TariniPNayak I was joking, friend. It was me snarking at the coincidence.
@@PencilSketch_TariniPNayakyou never know
11:00 see the white border "moare"-ing when zooming? Enlarge selection and color to alpha should help fixing it.
Hey Dr.Polaris, right after the evolution and the history of the Ichthyosauridae (Ichthyosaurs), why don't you think about making a suggestion and creating a RUclips Videos that's all about the evolution of and the history of the Prehistoric Marine Reptiles called the Plesiosauria, (Plesiosaurs, Pliosaurs, And Polycotylus) in the next couple of weeks to think about that one coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
YES ICHTIOSAURS
Someone knows the name of the Song that is played after the intro?
Don't tell Indiana Jones about this.
Given their tradition of hyper-accurate retellings, I wonder if there are any Australian peoples who have a story of an encounter with a snake like that.
THATS TITANOBOA!
until we find a bigger one
Death Spaghetti!
ever since Vasuki was discovered I always like to compare it to Kaa from The Jungle Book.
Vasuki would have been a truely awesome sight. Wish it was still alive
The fact that so many species of unique animals and plants, even entire worlds have gone extinct fills me with deep sadness... I wish we could develop time traveling technology to just record audio/video of the lost worlds and species, not to change the past.
Our very presence in the past would change it, wouldn't it? Relativity!
@@scottmccrea1873 it would, of course
I'm just dreaming that we could visit the past without changing it, like you know, being in a parallell dimension from which we can see and hear but cannot affect the timeline.
Titanoboa: haha no
aren't you the guy who was calling raptor chatter a nerd? look who's watching a nerd video LMFAO
Why these lame animals survived but dinosaurs died is beyond me