New Species Discovered: Australia's Giant Raptor (Dynatoaetus gaffae)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- Intro 0:00
Discovery 0:41
So What is it? 1:48
The Biggest Bird? 3:40
Conclusion 5:40
#paleoanalysis #australia #australianmegafauna #giantbird
In the 1950s and 1960s fossils of some type of large bird were discovered in a cave in southeast Australia. At the time there was not enough material to say much more then that. But now this nearly 70 year old cold case has been reopened with the discovery of more fossils in 2021. And this discovery adds another apex predator to the Pleistocene Australian landscape.
Joining the ranks of such killers as Megalania, Thylacoleo, Quinkana and the Saltwater Crocodile, Dynatoaetus gaffae is the largest flying bird that ever lived in the land down under. Sporting a 10 foot wingspan and massive talons, it not only was a top predator but it's existence may explain the evolution of another large predatory bird that came to evolve on another southern landmass.
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So Australia has a bear that isn't a bear, a lion that isnt a lion and now and eagle that isn't an eagle...
Don't forget the Wolf/Tiger that is actually neither of those things.
@@PaleoAnalysis And many others we forget Im sure, anyway, now that I have the opportunity I should say that I love your videos brother, keep up the great work.
Convergent evolution. Ironically enough, a true eagle that was smaller supplanted it and moved into its old habitat when it became extinct.
Its like poetry, they rhyme.
When he said "that's why it's called a 'Little Eagle'", I thought, wow something in Australia that is actually called what it is. Most of our animals seem to be named after something the English settlers thought it kind of resembled. Well, maybe not most, but a hellva lot.
Australian palaeontology is criminally underrated, nice to see it get some attention here.
Oceania as a whole. To be honest, Australian palaeontology is probably the most widely known of this whole region.
Southern hemisphere paleontology as a whole is very underapreciated, brazil australia and the more southern part of africa, like im so tired to see just US show some respect to south america and oceania as a brazilian i dont want to see t rex and alosaurus every fucking time i want more variety, what about the very early mammals found on brazil? What about purusaurus?? What about australovenator??? It kinda gets on my nerves, pre historic planet had a chance to change that but they prefered to stay with the main focus on the northsrn hemisphere
South America literally has the late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation, which has some of the oldest dinosaurs known.
@@thabas7578 Yep. Antarctica's prehistoric life is probably more famous than anywhere else in the southern hemisphere, maybe because of the novelty of dinosaurs living in what is now essentially a massive sheet if ice. Prehistoric planet did feature Tuarangisaurus from Aotearoa, Kaikaifilu and Antarctopelta from Antarctica, Austroposideon from Brazil, Carnotaurus and Dreadnaughts from Argentina, Masiakasaurus and Beelzebufo from Madagascar, so I'd say that it good an atleast okay amount of representation.
@@trilobite3120 True, for example I find the early Holocene subfossils of Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu very interesting
This is so interesting !! I don't see much about Australia's ancient pass when it comes to these critters from Pleistocene, Paleo, etc, guessing because other countries are quote "more interesting" unquote, but as an aussie and now knowing this bird once existed and having seen the little eagle a few times a year and now having that knowledge that these two species interacted is so interesting and amazing.
I have never considered this bird to be more closer related to old world vultures until now.
7:05 Get well soon TimTim. We love you.
i get so excited when my fave youtubers release anything to do with my country.
More of a reason to be obsessed with Pleistocene Australia ❤❤
We literally love the same things lol- Xenarthrans and Australian megafauna!
Same
Paleozoic marine life personally, but Xenarthrans and Australian megafauna are also pretty cool.
South American and Australian megafauna are the best
I love all the bits you add in during the credits ❤ I'm also super happy to hear you're doing well. Remember to rest and take care of yourself.
Dont know if you will read this but I think I have a decent video suggestion. i haven't seen this question being answered by any other TH-camrs so here goes.
My question is what large predatory dinosaur could survive or even thrive in our modern ecosystem.
Upon pondering this question my first answer was the carnotaurus. Despite weighing 1.3 to 2.1 metric tons it had a top speed of 48 to 56 km/h. That puts it on par with most modern mammals. With buffalo having a similar top speed of 56 km/h rihnos at 55, and hippos at 30 and elephants at 40. As you can see there are a range of herbivores that are slower than a carnotorous today that it could easily outrun in a sprint. It had a large jaw capable of crushing the bones of its prey and specialised in hunting animals snaller than itself while still maintaining the bulk to kill the largest of today's animals. I think in a setting like modern Africa or even north America (with the amount of large game like bison, moose and elk being available) a carnotourus would be able to survive today.
Always glad to see a new video, and extra happy to hear you are feeling better!
Didn't realise you'd been unwell. Glad you're on the mend. I was wondering what had happened to the Triassic chapter.
I absolutely love Australia! I know it's got so much history that no other landmass can ever come close to. Just imagine what lies out there unfound in the desert that people just can't find yet. It's so inhospitable and yet just too amazing. Simply the Opal is why I think Australia is the world's crown jewel! Love the Aussie native people and the lands. 🥰
I'm glad you're feeling better! You're videos are always a fun time for me to relax and learn some history
Babe wake up, new species just dropped 👀
glad you are feeling better!
a over view of "new discoveries made by looking at old discoveries" would be kind of cool
Great video as always. And I'm glad you're feeling better
Foreshadowing indeed. Now I need to learn more of that magnificent bird with a six meter wingspan...
Very cool rediscovery! Would love to see more. 🦅
always good to get a new vid from you!
It's good to see you back and I'm looking forward to new content!
This comes slightly out of nowhere but maybe you could at some point make a video about velvet worm ancestors? Underrated little panarthropods that usually get "covered" only by an offf-hand mention when hallucigenia is brought up during the cambrian explosion, and then subsequently ignored.
I dunno, feels like there should be a lot of interesting developments there in that multiple 100 million years gap. Then again there's probably not too many fossils considering their soft bodies and tropical habitats...
Always love your videos man! Glad you're feeling better!
Because of course, Australia! Such an interesting bird, and a brilliant new edition to the Pleistocene outback!
Very good video! Short and sweet but still very informative.
Glad to have you back dude! Another super cool video and another amazing animal to add to the list of great Australian Megafauna!
Welcome Back Dude! 🤗
Amazing focus Video about this active flying carnivore theropode 🦅
My wish is, that we see a Video of early triassic next 😉 and maybe you make a Video about "ice age" Australia. 🐨 The whole thing! Do it and keep going! 🥳 🦖
This is so cool. I love vultures and finding one that was a hunter more than a scavenger is awesome
A new species! This is gonna be good
Good to have you back! I legit missed your videos, and hope you're going to complete that history of the earth series soon! ♥
Glad you're feeling better.
Great content, as always.
Long time sub happy to see some of Australia in your content. Thank u.
Thanks for another great video! Its always very interested to learn more about Pleistocene Australia.
I really wish Australia's Pleistocene predators were around today. they would definitely help with the problem of feral livestock.
You really want a 6ft tall Crocodile able to run on land and a 20ft Komodo Dragon still roaming around?
@@spideyfanw1748 probably.
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Yes. That would actually convince me to visit. I want one. I am okay if it turns on me and eats me. It will be given pets and kisses.
It'd make bushwalking more exciting !!😂😂
The predators deserve a Voice, released them in Canberra
So glad you're doing well! I love your videos. Prehistory is my jam, and I really like how fun and thorough your explanations are. (I have insomnia, so I play them to sleep, too. Bonus if I dream of paleofauna! lol)
I hope to see more aquatic animals. "Sea monsters" are some of my favorites. But tbh I'm excited for every vid, regardless of the subject. Thank you for making them. 😊
The thing with vultures is that the group vulture is not only paraphyletic, but also varies significantly in the level of scavenge specialization. While griffon vulture and turkey vulture are very specialized scavengers and are extremely good at doing so, things like cinereous vulture and Egyptian vulture are not quite specialized. They have to supplement their diet through active hunting and foraging, partially due to their inefficiency at finding and utilizing carcasses. Cinereous vulture prey on birds when carcasses are scarce despite being very clumsy on the wing, and can kill prey as large as an adult deer. Then of course we have the palm vulture, a bird that eats fruits, fish, shellfish, mammals, birds, insects, basically anything but carcass.
The Australian Megafauna is my favorite Megafauna after the Megafauna of Madagascar and South America
WAIT, YOU'RE TELLING ME A 7 METER LONG, 2 TONNE MONITOR LIZARD ONCE EXISTED?! that fucking rocks, I wish I knew this sooner. You should cover this beast in a future video! Or maybe, if it's too thin, the evolutionary history of monitor lizards.
Lone or groups of wedge-tailed eagles hunt adult red and grey kangaroos. There are some really cool videos on TH-cam of them doing so. To rewild New Zealand, little eagles and tinamous should be introduced because they share common ancestors with Haast's eagles and moas. Swamp harriers migrated back to New Zealand after Eyles's harriers died out.
Welcome back! Nice video.
Thank you for the awesome content and great video!!!
I'd love to see a video on the Argentavis magnificens, the largest flying bird! You see all these videos of the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodilians, and other reptiles, but not a lot of birds! So I loved this one! So glad you're feeling better ♥
Ark players would fucking love it.
@@harubynspades As a previous Ark player, yes, I would really enjoy it XD
@@shiannecostello6228 *happy argie sound*
Technically a video about birds would be a video about dinosaurs, since avian dinosaurs are birds.
Excellent Episode 👍
I love info on large, ancient,raptors!
Thats so interesting!! I always love hearing about new species, especially those that come from realizing something was classified incorrectly. I was mostly exposed to that while taking a geology class and discussions about how it’s often hard to tell if something is an entirely new species or a juvenile of an existing species. If you’re ever stuck for ideas someday, I think it’d be nifty to do a biggest/smallest comparison of different extinct species. I’m biased because I love titanoboa but I think it’s always a cool look into different families to see what a wide variety of niches nature can produce!
True vultures are the sister group to snake eagles, and given that there is no living specialized reptile hunting raptor in Australia (but almost everywhere else), I wouldn't be surprised if this thing ecologically is a oversized snake eagle - a young megalania's worst nightmare. In Africa, monitor lizards are martial eagle's favourite prey.
Actually, eagles (family Aquilidae) and old world vultures (family Aegypiidae) are not closely related at all, eagles (family Aquilidae) are the second most basal extant family within the suborder Accipitres, with only the Sagittariidae family being more basal, while the old world vultures are the sister taxon to the superfamily Accipitroidea, which contains the families Accipitridae (Hawks, Buzzards, Kites, and Harriers) and Pandionidae (Ospreys and Fossil Relatives).
It's always nice to hear that a person is feeling better. Great presentation. Thanks.
I can’t wait for your next video! You should do one on the paleontology of Antarctica! I know there isn’t much known but I think it would be interesting
I enjoyed this! Thank you for this great video!
We all thanks Ben Lee !
Glad to here you feel better !
The Aussie Eagle!
I absolutely LOVE when extinct raptors get some attention because they offer a better insight on what ecological niches were able to be hell, and how they held them in that current time. It’s always something different with birds of prey since they kinda do their own thing. I hope you are able to cover more raptors.
I think these quick "check out this cool animal" videos are great
thanks for the content!
Very nice. Thanks from this Australian for introducing me to this beast.
Very interesting video! Love raptors.
Can’t wait to see you and Tim Tim evolve again 🙂
That was fascinating!
Glad you're feeling better!
And woo! Go Ben! You da man!
This is going to be amazing can’t wait!
4:16 my mind was seriously predicting you'd say "unlike Dynatoaetus, the little eagle is extremely little"
I gotta say predicted by the rescuers down under? Still cool stuff thanks for sharing.
I would love to see you do some videos about the history of paleontology, it has so many weird ass parts and most paleo channels overlook it unless its part of another video
also pls keep discussing weird cenozoic critters!
Wooooooo! Let'sgooooooooo!
Oh I saw you teasing the Haast Eagle there, I can't wait until you cover my homeland of New Zealand
Awesome video
Ooh, this is interesting! I do wonder if it’s extant (did I use that right?) or extinct species… and if it’s the former, how it evaded detection for so long.
Extinct
@@justinwarthen ah, thanks.
You used extant and extinct right. Extant = existing and alive. Extinct = existing but no longer alive.
I guess you commented before watching the video! Haha. I've done that too but make sure to label it as BEFORE WATCHING
@@richjordan6461 …I thought that was pretty clear. As was the fact this was posted the day before the video.
I've had the pleasure of seeing wild Wedge Tailed Eagles on the ground up close twice. 5ft tall and able to fly away with a 15kg carcass. Awe inspiring! (maybe 4ft 6... fuckn huge for a bird...)
👍👍 extremely cool. I sometimes wish science was where it is today way back when I went to school.
My life would have gone an entirely different direction.
Thanks for posting this ☺️
Australian wildlife today: is weird.
Australian wildlife 100,000 years ago: hold my beer.
very cool, thanks!
That's incredible!
My first premiere I'm catching live! Was short but cool!
My body is ready
Welcome back :)
cool video
Thanks!
Still love that one new Australian species discovered semi recently was called the Wholly Dooley. Good ol' Aussies aye
Southeastern Australia. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
cool bird
Really cool "eagle"
Welcome back
Just knowing that marsupial 'lions' (Thylacoleo carnifex) prowled the bush near where I live only 40K years ago is an awesome thought. We had some pretty unique beasts back then.
Birds of Prey (order Falconiformes) are a very large and diverse order of birds, filling many ecological niches, there are only nine extant families of birds of prey, Cariamidae (Seriemas), Sagittariidae (Secretarybird and Fossil Relatives), Aquilidae (Eagles), Accipitridae (Hawks, Buzzards, Harriers, and Kites), Pandionidae (Ospreys), Aegypiidae (Old World Vultures), Caracaridae (Caracaras), Falconidae (Falcons, Kestrels, Hobbies, and Falconets), and Cathartidae (New World Vultures), there are also extinct families of birds of prey like the well known brontornithids (family Brontornithidae), the dromornithids (family Dromornithidae), the gastornithids (family Gastornithidae), the terror birds (family Phorusrhacidae), and the teratorns (family Teratornithidae).
I like it a lot ☺️
SUPER NICE
thank you
Woot woot. Let’s go monday!
You should make a discord server. I think it would be cool to have
Interesting that you compared it to the Little Eagle instead of the Wedge-tailed Eagle and White-breasted Sea-Eagle, the two largest raptors in Australia today. The other interesting detail is that the Wedge-tailed Eagle actually fulfills the role of a vulture (ie scavenging on dead prey) in Australia today as there aren’t any vultures here.
I'm confused. Among the hawks of North America, the big ones hunt the fields and open areas while forest hunting is limited to the smaller, more maneuverable species.
A bird with the wingspan we're talking about here could hunt in open savannah where trees are widely spaced, but not a dense forest where there is no room for its wings between the tree trunks.
The Harpy Eagle hunts in the Amazon and that’s the largest & most powerful eagle today
So probably depends on a bunch of things
idea for an april fools day video next year. a fossil pokemon special where you look at the animals that inspired those pokemon.
definitely also wanna include the Dreepy line cause they’re based on diplocaulus.
I would honestly love to see a video on the biggest true lizard to ever love
Return of the king 👑
An interesting question that would make a good video. Do you think the anthropocene should be added as an official epoch? And when would the start date be?
I'd love to see a video of the largest flying bird ever
I’m glad we don’t have to worry about giant eagles plucking us like fish on a Saturday jog.
Only in Australia could a vulture grow so badass they out eagled the local eagles.
I always love the intro didgeridoo but especially when it's news about the down under!
"Not actually an eagle."
Given that 'eagle' pretty much means 'large raptor', this fits.
Specifically, Sea Eagles are overgrown Milvine kites.
That is interesting. I still wonder if there is a giant bird living in the wilds of Alaska.
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