The Ichthyosaur That Refused to Die
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- A very strange fossil discovery was made in Iraq in 1952 - an ichthyosaur that looked like it didn't belong in its time period at all: Malawania anachronus.
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Jurassic: ends
Malawania: I didn’t hear no bell
"I'm the best, around"
Hello man after man fan
Malawania was just fashionable late.
Lol
“You’re the best arou-ound!”
In other news, local Floridian ichthyosaur refuses to go extinct.
Florida ichthyosaur: "THE GOVERNMENT WONT FOSSILIZE ME!"
We keep feeding it jello shots mixed with water from the fountain of youth. He is trashed ALL THE TIME but he hasn't died yet ;D
“If joe Biden wants to fossilize me, HE CAN COME TRY ME”
That's part of the United States in the Americas right? Surely there are no extant Ichthyosaurs.
DeSantis already killed you?@@sirchango2665
It's your right
It was lovely to give recognition to the late Robert Appleby. So many hard working individuals have contributed so much over the decades to our knowledge of the fascinating lost world of deep time.
If this Ichthyosaur lived in more fresh or braces water it could be the Ichthyosaur equivalent of one of those river dolphins.
I find it strangely beautiful that one paleontologist dies before finishing his work, so decades later others jump in to finish the study. All working for the glory or scientific study and in a way, it was finished for him
"despite it's very basal appearance"
Ichthyosaur: *"If I ain't broke, don't fix me!"*
Nothing like seeing another amazing Ben G Thomas video,about the unique, mysterious, & awesome species of Icthyosaurs,and much of Paleontology so that's very awesome,and this story on the "Icthyosaur Out Of Time" was very nice.
Also I wish y'all a great day.
If they were alive today we would probably call them dolphins
We'd probably call them "false dolphins" as we've done with other lookalike animals like false crabs and false wasps.
What about the difference in tail?
@@ChrissieBear there would be no dolphins and possibly orcas, because they would simply fill their niche instead
@@thespecter6416 Dolphins would outcompete them most likely
@@MMO10216 Yeah, I realized it when I looked into the intellectual difference deeper between those species.
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
I love ancient prehistoric and all animals
Amazing work Ben!
"You're out of touch, I'm out of time🎶"
When being late to class actually helps you
Here I was thinking they found one out in the open ocean no one knew had been there all along hiding in the Pacific garbage patch or something.
The part of the world where this fossil is found is a fascinating place. There has been so much history, turmoil, and mystery surrounding it. I wonder if it survived in isolation after being cut from it's usual habitat. Say, an older version of the Black Sea?
I don´t understand 90% of the words he´s saying, but damn is this intresting
I really like seeing Robert Pattinson telling me about marine reptile with such articulation ✨
Really enjoy your content.
man swimmer out of time sounds like the name of a movie where a swimmer enters a water body where when he comes out its the mideaval ages or the future
No offense to you at all, but I miss the old format that you were a voiceover and with relevant pictures. As someone on the asperges spectrum I find the sudden closeups of you as I study the pictures a bit too much.
As always great video and content.
Wait.. 2:06 colored by c.m. kösemen?! Author and illustrator of All tomorrow?!
Yes. He's very involved in the paleoart scene. He has a book called all yesterdays. You should check it out.
Death:die
Icthyasaur:that's just a suggestion
The Jurassic doesn't dismiss the Ichthyosaurs, the... Ichthyosaurs do.
Guess you could say it was out of touch too.
Did I understand anything this man said? No.
Did I still watch the whole video? Yes.
They believed that ichthyosaurs died sometime between the Jurassic and late Cretaceous, but all of them were deceived for an Ichthyosaur had survived. In the waters of Lake Doom a Master Ichthyosaur was being born, One Ichthy to Rule them All.
The "You are bleeding - I have no time to bleed" of extinction
Rasputin called, he wants he's past life back
Im out of touch? No im out of time.
Very interesting video.
The thumbnail almost looks like a northern Pacific tuna, ngl
Man I had some malawania last night… boyyyyy lemme tell ya…
Amazingly suggestive
*undyne music starts playing*
I was expecting a funny video on ARK Survival damn 😂
Barzani is keeping one is a private pool
I misheard Malawania as marijuana
Goddammit that name... I can only hear a certain plant name whenever he pronounces it...
when did we start doing face reveals!?
Ichthyosaurs are just dolphins without all the intelligence and echolocation
So you could say that this was Applebee's fish.
man I gotta say your teeth are beautiful
What do you call a reptile that needs to scratch? Itchysaurus
What if it just re-evolved back into an ichtiosaur
I now feel like eating a tuna-Mayo sandwich.
Another biological example of "if it works, don't change it".
Mosasaurs probably had something to do with the decline of Ichthyosaurs in the cretaceous
Stop spreading this outdated (and never well-supported) hypothesis. Mosasaurs only became diverse and successful AFTER ichthyosaurs went extinct, meaning that ichthyosaurs were actually holding them back until other factors cleared the way for the mosasaurs.
*Ben:* "The Ichthyosaur that refused to die"
*Me:* "Where is it now?"
*Ben:* "Dead."
It happened 6 Million Years Ago
@@primusvsunicron1 only 6? So it did live longer than the average ichtyosaur
Where is it now? It moved to Loch Ness.
"Refused to", not "refuses to"
@@silvussol8966 nah it was a whale that moved to loch ness.
Dinosaurs : we are going extinct
Icthyosaur: i missed the part where thats my problem
"we?"
@@Jay-ho9io dont take this moment from me bro.
@@RUclips304s surprised it didn't get more likes
Funny since the last known Ichthyosaurs went extinct way before the Asteroid hit the Earth
ichtyosaurs were thought to have gone extinct like 40 million years before the dinosaurs, approximately the same difference in time between us and our weird squirrel-looking ancestors
This ichtyosaur didn't even live that far past the other ichtyosaurs, but it's from a weird lineage which is confusing the researchers
Local fish lizard too angry to die.
lmao
Rodan? Nevermind, I saw the fish part.
Your profile pic gave me ptsd
Lol
DOOM: Fish
Appleby: “well I think it’s from the Triassic.”
Other paleontologists: “what are you talking about? We think it’s from the Jurassic”
Some pollen guy: “this is obviously from the Cretaceous”
Me: no, its from the late heavy bombardment
I am really interested with late surviving specimens of the ancient extinct animals, they always look so out of place like a game easter egg!
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Hang on to this fallen angel.
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Here's how to spot em:
They use their usual rhetoric,
(a) Frame Control.
(b) Baseless Assumptions,
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(d) Random Derogatory word or phrase
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(h) They'll give you a look, or a couple looks. Wheat wont give you those looks, they're abnormal given whats going on or being discussed. To make it more accurate, it defies the conclusion one would arrive at given all the pieces that are on the table.
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(j) Reviling accusations. This literally just shows that they all know right from wrong.
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For any wheat reading this this life is literally just like that movie called the Truman show, in the sole sense that it's all a sham. This life also isn't a test, it's just a force fed hog tied experience.
You're under lucifer's dogmas and bondage.
Lucifer's dogmas replace actuality with his desired reality, while his bondage is his personal will for your life carried out via direct control. This form of control gives u a false sense of a personal will. This false sense of a personal will has tons of evidence of a lack of an actual will, hence the reason why u can't stop doing certain things or start doing certain things.
Just ask the Lord for deliverance from lucifer's dogmas and bondage. And by the Lord I mean the God of the Bible, not the Roman catholic one. That one is lucifer's fraud. I'm talking about the Son of the Most High God, Jesus.
You got nothing to lose, because after all, what can an imaginary wizard in the sky actually do?
Not one thing.
Edit: all false rEliGiOnS and churches all have one thing in common and that's the sinful lifestyle loop. Sin then ask forgiveness to then sin again. And that's because they're under lucifer's dogmas and bondage. There is no Deliverer there, just principalities and fallen angels playing pretend masquerading as people
hold on to this too:
Here's a fun fact: luicfer's dogmas and bondage replace your God given physical appearance. He changes the way you look, sound, aptitude, personality, etc etc. The fallen angels in you acting as, through u, for u, replace u. It's seamless integration. This is one of the reasons why when you look in the mirror your appearance changes a lot. You will see different versions of yourself from time to time. None of em are you. If you arent strikingly handsome or drop dead gorgeous, that's not you. They'll give you a physical appearance thats "normal" or "average" thats not it either.
If you have multiple personalities based on who you're around and what you're doing, wearing, saying etc that's just them you're feeling in u. As I said, they act as u, through u, for u, while also interacting with you in the world
Edit: 1 soul = 1 personality, not multiple personalities based on what you're exposed to. But, one perfect one, your soul.
For a second, I thought it was an ichthyosaur that made it passed the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary. Guess I was wrong.
That's the coalicanth
I totally saw one. Well, my old roommate did. His other friend.
@@flaparoundfpv8632 It was just a basking shark
@@osmacar5331 no coalaosnnanththrne ain’t no ducking dinosab
@@Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek neither were ichthyosaurs
Malawania anachronus: "I exist to spite god."
Just like Paulie Shore
@@redflag4035 heeheehee
I'm amazed the fossil spent years being walked on and wasn't destroyed. It always fascinates me that air breathing animals that heavily modified for aquatic life wouldn't happen again until cetaceans showed up way later.
Are sea cows cetaceans?
@@rianantony No, they are sirenians and are thus closer to Elephants than Whales.
KPg extinction 66 million years ago. But first amphibious whales around 18-19 million years later. It takes time for life to recover from mass extinctions.
I'm pretty sure that some "crocodiles with dolphin tails and fins" did evolve in the Paleogene? I can't remember what they were called though (and apparently crocodilimorphs with fins and dolphin tails re-evolve every couple hundred million years or so, so there's a lot of species clogging up my google search).
@@stewartgames6697 nope all fully aquatic crocs were from the cretaceous, none has existed since.
This Icthyosaur:
'What do we say to the God of Death'
'Not today.'
🤣👍🏽
Mary anning:
DOLPHINOSAUR
Ok apple
Very yes
Dolphins are ichthyosaur wannabes that got the tail wrong.
EdJUber
Forgive me if you already know this. Cetaceans once had 4 limbs, hence the evolutionary reason their tails are horizontal!!! Interesting, huh ??
@gaylereid8264 The tail flukes of modern cetaceans didn't evolve from hind limbs. The hind limbs simply disappeared.
Fascinating example of a prehistoric living fossil and all the more of an example regarding the incompleteness of the fossil record.
A living fossil is an animal assumed to have been extinct but is not. As far as we know all icthyosaurs are extinct
@@cocoanerd17.-. they mean that a member of the lineage lived far longer than expected. They aren’t saying they’re still alive.
@@cocoanerd17.-. Well yes but at its time it wasn't extinct when it was thought to be.
Hence its a fossil "living fossil" at least that was how I interpreted it
@@Dragrath1 Ooooh. Gotcha
Ichthyosaurs, the original dolphins….
the awesome
The Reptilian counterpart of Cetaceans
@@lukejones7164 Except Icthyosaurs seem to have gotten smaller and more streamlined as time went on, whereas ceteceans got bigger and bigger
Compare Shastasaurus to Opthalmosaurus vs Basilosaurus to Sperm Whale
@@mariomouse8265 Actually, Ichtyosaurs got bigger too as time went on. In fact, scientists now believe that the largest Reptiles ever were generally Ichtyosaurs (and not Sauropods) because some recently found Ichtyosaur fossils were comparable in size to even the largest Whales.
@@lukejones7164 Were these Late Jurassic or Cretaceous Icthyosaurs and not Triassic or Early Jurassic Icthyosaurs? The largest Icthyosaurs species to my knowledge were animals like Shastasaurus and Shonisaurus, from the late Triassic/Early Jurassic
Lizard dolphin literally just not having any of that shit
man, I wish some of these animals made it, it would have bin horrifyingly amazing
We have some pretty epic animals alive today. None of which aren’t being murdered by humans unfortunately.
Then we might not have had cetaceans
Maybe that's why people are trying to bring back these creatures instead of the ones we're loosing. We just think these are cooler.
@@DankestDestroyer1098 marine reptiles are cooler than cetaceans. Cetaceans look ugly af. Marine reptiles look cool as heck
@@DankestDestroyer1098 That isn't the reason for de-extinction being a thing and never will be. That's a horrible argument for bringing back an extinct creature. We can't bring back anything that old anyway, right now we are working on Mammoths and Passenger Pigeons that can still play a vital role in their ecosystems if brought back.
The ichthyosaur was a magnificent creature. I count myself very lucky to live on the jurassic coast. We find plenty of ichthyosaur vertebrae and many people have been lucky enough to find complete or partial specimens. We have started uploading our fossil hunting adventures and hopefully one day we might discover more than a vertebrae. Amazing content 👌 keep them coming
Good stuff mate, hope you find something cool!
There should be a jurassic park for fossil enthusiasts!
Refused to go out when it's reign ended and refused to be broken in death whether by water or the weight of man. God speed you magnificent bastard.
It's humbling to realise how long, and in so many forms of life existed before people. At just a free million years, we've barely scratched the surface of life on Earth.
It's a delight to hear "scientific terms" spoken with fluid authority & correctly pronounced, too. Thank you very much, Ben G Thomas!
You deserve a documentary/docu-series gig from National Geographic or Animal Planet... Your voice is relaxing and far more interesting than most narrators I've heard, always a delight when you post a new vid!
ichthyosaurs: how are you?
temnodontosaurus: i m you but bigger
ichthyosaurus: and what do you eat?
temnodontosaurus: you
ichthyosaurus: ._.
Temnodontosaurus was an ichthyosaur though. Unless you are including cannibalism with ichthyosaurs?
@@safron2442 yes i m including cannibalism with ichthyosaurs
@@safron2442 Cannibalism is common among reptiles.
@@KhanMann66 I'm aware, but they never clarified that in their original comment. Temnodontosaurus is not separate from ichthyosaurs so it was worded weirdly
every1 haveing a civil discusion of your comment and im just loosing my shit over that "face" ._.
I wish I could explore the different times in Earth's history. Ancient large high metabolism reptiles fascinate me so much.
I wanna get a time machine so bad
@The Mutt with no Butt Hitler already had a brother.
Ben g Thomas, have you heard of this upcoming series "Dinosauria"?
God: Are you Itchyosaurs dead yet?
Malowania: Yesnt
I've always like Ichthyosaurs because of their resemblance to dolphins. They are just so cute.
Do a video about ammonites. It is such important group and we don't see much videos about it.
I found this channel about a week ago, and I've been having so much fun watching these videos and learning new, and or incredibly interesting things. You guys are doing a great job, keep it up!! :)
Its insane to think this content is free...thanks for the great content Ben!
Yo, Ben, I don't mean to be rude, I just think that it's better if you keep the slideshow going, without interrupting with your face. You certainly are a handsome devil, but it breaks the flow of the video. Your narration is perfect and combined with images of creatures really sells the cake, if you interrupt it with your mug, it breaks the illusion. Just my 2 cents. Your videos are great as they are, best of luck!
Imagine everyday walking across the same rock without realising it's a fossil
Let's be real tho,
Of Ichthyosaurs had survived to today, they still would have either gone extinct or critically endangered to over hunting
When no ichthyosaurs lived to the end of the dinosaurs:
Impossible,perhaps the archives are incomplete
Imagine if ichthyosaurs actually managed to survive to the KT extinct that would be cool.
they might have gotten bigger than blue whales
@@lost-Eclipse there was an ichthyosaur in the age of dinosaurs that was bigger than blue whales. Theu found the fossils in england
@@trvth1s bit disingenuous that, since we can only go rough estimates from very fragmentary gossip remains
@@bri1085 Also if it's the one I'm thinking of, even the largest estimates put it at the low to mid range for blue whales. So calling it definitively bigger as a species is just flat out tabloid speak.
They likely wouldn't survive too much longer. But it would be neat to have at least one or two or three lineages survive, until they die out and Whales/Dolphins take their place.
ichthyosaurus: what are you
temnodontosaurus: i m you but bigger
ichthyosaurus: and what do you eat
temnodontosaurus: i eat you
ichthyosaurus: ._.
Do a. Another speculative Evolution project this time about Earth and animals that live on 70 million years from now at that time it will be ruled by birds
Why not other clades of tetrapods? Like some megafaunal niches also being filled by squamates and mammals.
There is a video about it in curious archives's channel
@@ronanparis3511 I believe until 65 million years in the future is the age of mammals 65
To 80 million years in the future
Is the age of birds
It could.
If you want an epic bit of bird evolution, go check out the Serina project!
Can you do more Wallace 2 ? Please 🥺
Great video! I always enjoy learning from you.
I just hope, that in 10 or 20 years from now, someone makes a video about YOU, saying "and this is where it all started"!
You do such a fantastic job of presenting science and curent development, yet go so much underrated! Just because most people are stupid right now...
it's amazing how reptiles evolved into looking like dolphins or is it dolphins that evolved into looking like Ichthyosaur?
Both evolved into looking like fish.
"They found the bones in Iraq, so naturally they took it to England"(parafrased)
I feel like this needs more explanation
Is there "National Museeum of Iraq"? Did they not want it??
Was there a National Museum in Iraq back in 1950's? Because the video precisely said that was when the rock was recovered and donated to the museum in London.
@@venn2001ad Also if only one guy was working on ichthyosaurs, then what's weird about the fossil going to his location?
England once again stealing shit that doesn't belong to them, no surprises here.
@@venn2001ad Actually, there was. It's been around for almost a century now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Museum
@@venn2001ad Yes, there was.
Hey Ben, what do you think of the new All Tomorrows fandom since it's kinda big now?
Oh my god he’s way more attractive than I was expecting. Look at that square jaw, look at those rosey cheeks. My man looks like a real life British Ken doll
Were ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and Mosasaurs all living in shallow seas habitats? I don't think anyone has ever explained what their habitats were possibly like.
Short answer, no.
Like modern whales and Dolphins, these aquatic reptiles were adapted for a wide range of habitat.
Some Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur fossils show deformities consistent with dysbaric osteonecrosis, indicating that they ventured into deep water frequently enough to suffer from decompression sickness.
Malawania came from the kurdish word =malawan which means the swimmer 💡
News: "science has discovered a fossil of an Ichtheosaur that had survived long after previously thought!"
Young Earth Creationists: "I'll mine this... thank you"
Seriously where did this idea of entire clades being outcompeted by newer, “better” clades even come from? Virtually all hypothesized cases are poorly supported yet touted in academia as if they actually happened.
Creatures evolve and survive to reproduce more, so they're better clades, it's really basic.
@@swxqt6826 That does NOT mean entire groups of taxa displace other taxa in the same niche to survive. Evolution tends to favour solutions that REDUCE competition (remember, evolution has no foresight), so if a niche is already fully occupied with no room for coexistence it’s rare that another clade will break into that niche and outcompete the original occupiers, even if they could do a better job in that niche.
@@bkjeong4302 If clades do better than other clades, they take the niche. Or if they weren't able to survive anywhere else.
@@swxqt6826 If a niche is already occupied another clade doesn’t even get the chance to break into that niche, unless there’s enough resources for both clades to have the same niche anyways without either displacing the other.
Evolution does NOT have any foresight or end goal. It selects for features that aid IMMEDIATE survival. A clade breaking into an occupied niche because it can evolve to do better in that niche than the clade that currently has that niche does NOT favour immediate survival at the individual level, and is NOT selected for.
@@bkjeong4302 Whatever helps them survive is what they're going to do.
As an example, look at the Mosasaur, it arose from a simple monitor lizard on land. It was nowhere near the size and strength of the dinosaurs, so instead of being on land, it jumped into the water and started to become a marine animal, even though fishes like xiphactinus could still easily eat it alive. Which meant they had to stay near the shorelines. Now of course, since they eventually got bigger and bulkier, they started getting into deeper waters and became more and more fit to that environment. Until they were capable of killing a xiphactinus on its own.
So yes, they can take a niche from another animal.
4:26 I forget that cm kösemen is an actual scientific illustrator
The bodyplan for this Ichthyosaur is similar to that of a river-dolphin.
Just imagine there being _freshwater_ Ichthyosaurs doing their own thing while most of the marine lines died out.
Your jawline is so chiseled it makes me think it would be hard to open your mouth. Mr. Jawline, King Jaw.
You could cut diamonds with that jaw
this badass shark dolphin said "not today" to daddy death
A gap in the fossil record of 70 million years... that'd be like finding a T rex that died 3 million years from now
Damn, when I saw the title. I thought they found a living ichthyosaur
It sounds like it was assumed it was earlier because it was archaic and that this was surprising. But there are many 'archaic' species around today that are doing ok. The Platypus and Echidna come to mind.
Things don't 'have' to evolve if they are thriving. If it ain't broke...
Interesting suggestion that they could survive in lagoons away from open seas. Reminds me somewhat of some of the suggestions behind Nessie.
The Ichthyosaurus Was Faster Sea Dinosaurs Before The Dolphins
😱👍🔥🔥🔥