Inostrancevia | The Largest Gorgonopsid Ever
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- The Gorgonopsids, nicknamed the Gorgons (as in Medusa), are a group of therapsids that are hard to miss. Their giant saber teeth are iconic and helped them secure the Permian all for themselves, ruling it until the very end. They were a ferocious bunch no doubt, but only one of them could be the most mighty and kingly, and it was, Inostrancevia. It hailed from Permian Russia, and is most likely the largest Gorgonopsid to ever live, but size was not the only trick it had up its sleeve.
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It never fails to astonish me that mammalian creatures got so advanced before the dinosaurs closest relatives had even appeared
Its Not a mammal though.
not quite mammals but our ancestors yeah lol
Therapsids weren’t exactly mammals.
Mammals and dinosaurs both appeared around the same time. Their ancestors were likewise 'advanced' toward their 'ends' along a similar timeline.
@@grahamstrouse1165 technically modern ones are. Therapsids are still around
Gorgonopsids always amazes me, cause their like a hybrid between dinosaur reptile cat like creature with saber tooth like teeth. The fact that a animal like this existed is out of this world.
It looks more like a dog though and not only cats have Sabre tooth, some deers too
@@leow5632 yeah weird.
well Gorgonopsid is related to Dogs and Cats
@@jorgepinto-velez603 Equally related to any mammal.
one of the most fascinating groups of animals to ever live
Crazy to think animals like that lived before dinosaurs and were actually our ancestors... Great channel btw
Not direct ancestors, but more like that weird uncle that you see once a year, but somehow always brings you the perfect toy.
LOL!
@@ravenouself4181 brings you the perfect toy.... molest you... can go either way. 😂
@@ravenouself4181 and the toy was enormous canines, of course
_Grandma, what great canines you've got!_
Sucks your channel is so new, I want to watch hundreds of videos back to back lol. Keep up the awesome content, so many fascinating and magnificent extinct animals the public doesn't know about.
I would give anything to go back in time and observe the animals of the Permian.
You'd give the entire human population aids to go back in time?
@@colinjava8447 i know I would
@@colinjava8447 absolutely
@@colinjava8447 To easy
Start your own "Permian Park".
1:46 It was a plantigrade!?!?!?! That's pretty rare among apex predators, bears and us being exceptions
It probably didn't have the time to evolve digitigrade feet, if the Great Dying never happened perhaps a lineage of Gorgonopsids would develop digitigrade feet.
That front image with the skull is terrifying
Had these animals not died out in the Permian. I think they could have kept the Dinosaurs from becoming dominant in the Late Triassic.
Quite possible. Dinosaurs only arose from archosaurs dominating what Synaptics did. If the Synaptics had the numbers like sauropsids, we wouldn't have dinos develop likewise no birds.
On the other hand, Rauisuchians were dominant before Dinosaurs but were still replaced by them.
@@glory1356 Still, they were a result of radiation after the great Dying, before the Triassic only the most basal Archosauromorphs lived, while also being quite rare, eventually the Gorgonopsids would have evolved to massive theropod-like Behemoths and more agile carnivoran-like hunters.
@@eybaza6018 If I’m correct the reasons dinosaurs went so huge was because during Jurassic era the trees became so huge that Sauropods needed to become huge in size to be able to catch them . This also made theropods to grow bigger in size . Now imagine if instead of Dinosaurs, in a alternative timeline where Permian and Triassic extinction never happened and Synapsids and Therapsids never went extinct . Maybe some of these creatures would evolve into sizes similar to those of dinosaurs to fill their inches .
It looks like an over grown love child of a naked mole rat and a komodo dragon. But that is to be expected considering it is from the lineage of the synapsids the progenitors of both reptile lineage (crocodilians and dinosaurs) and mammalian.
Imagine seing that sh¡t running towards you. 😳
The saber teeth in cats seems to be used in a strategy of quickly attacking the throat and slicing it. Attacking to take a bite and causing blood loss would be better accomplished with set of shorter numerous sharp teeth like an allosaurus or Komodo dragon. The long teeth would be vulnerable to breaking if used to take bites at the rump or shoulder.
I think the sabre teeth of cats were fragile and irreplaceable and their teeth were stronger and did get replaced. I cant remember where or when I read that so it could have changed, but if it's true then they wouldnt need to be as careful
A bite and tear maneuver into the flesh at any point would cause massive bleeding, but the belly and throat would be the best targets to avoid damaging the teeth.
@@samanthagibson5791This is true. The various species of Smilodon were more muscular than modern big cats but their jaw muscles weren’t nearly as strong. They didn’t need one & an excessively powerful bite would have put them at risk of breaking their own teeth. 🙂
I dont believe that this is a great hunter for big animals. The teeth are to long. Experiment: next Halloween you glue teeth of this lengs in your mouth, take a big piece of meat and bite in it. The tip of the long teeth goes backwards. With a little pessure, you got a huge piece. Then hope, anybody finds you. It is impossible to open your mouth wide enough to get out. You will be dead hungry, with a mouthfull of good food! the distance of the upper and the lower teeth shows what size the bite can be. Maybe a slice salami? Look at the walrus, muntiak, muskdeer. No great hunters allso.
Back then saber tooth was trend until ice age ended
Looks like a cross between a lizard a canine and a cat
I swear paleo TH-camrs are psychical connected 😭 y’all always post at the same time as others but hey I ain’t complaining 🙏 Permian earth is such a different breed 😂
You continue to excel,Another good piece of work 👏👍
I have always thought these are the most terrifying of the predinosaur animals.
Absolutely. The combination of being warm blooded and also really big means I don't think you would be able to outrun it or beat it in a fight so you're pretty much screwed..
5:24 _Incisors_ is pronounced like "in-size-ers" *_not_* "in-scissors."
oh god
In-scissors is what you get when knives do a lot of inbreeding ;)
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@@mjmorriplymouth I doubt it. Listen to the oldest video posted on this channel.
That thing looks like all it does is push siblings off of cliffs.
You need more subs, sir. Keep up the awesome videos! 👍
Ancient mammals had Chad jawlines
InosCHADcevia
Thanks to the geologist Amolitsky from Russia, who discovered the inostrancevia and named it for his teacher Geologist Inostrantsev
Happy Centennial to this mighty creature
I love watching these amazing prehistoric animals from the permain
First time I ever heard of this one; thanks for sharing
A relatively weak bite is not surprising, other saber-toothed animals also had weak bites.
It's one of my top ten favourite prehistoric animals, tied with Smilodon
So you’re a teeth man
Very interesting animals - thanks a lot for this!
Great video, great channel...Subbed!
Love the content man. Could you talk about the Ozimek?
Primeval did a pretty good job of modeling Inostrancevia. They were just, y’know, a wee bit too large…🙂
@SmashBrosInitiativethat's how we like it
@@barsnacker like raptors in Jurassic Park
7:45 there's startlingly little evidence for what actually caused the worst mass extinction in Earth's history. Fascinating how much we still have left to learn about our primordial past.
Never heard of them before
Fascinating.Subscribed.
I love it.
I am currently reading The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Dr. Brusatte and had too look up this terrifying beast. I definitely love the evolution and history of these proto mammal like creatures.
Really enjoyed this. Perhaps the only point I noticed was that Aleksandr Inostrantsev wasn’t really a soviet, as he died in 1919, whilst I believe the revolution took place 1917-23, the species was named for its discoverer when described in 1922. Its unfortunate where in the world these creatures are found as access is not straightforward…
Although the range so far has been exclusive, I do wonder how much further they may have existed as the region was connected with much of Europe and the British Isles at the time and all occupied that desert environment at similar latitude, but probably didn’t offer many sites for preservation either at the time or in the intervening epochs.
I am fascinated by these creatures, the possibility of endothermy or at least means of increased metabolism, possibility of fur which may have been quite important for coping with the swing from high day and low night temps for creatures that are probably too large to simply hide. The brain doesn’t point to particularly great levels of intelligence and the skull seems to be quite primitive compared to some of the smaller synapsids at the time such as Dvinia prima which has already gained a sagittal crest whilst the Gorgonopsids still had a more basic temporal fenestra, which probably in part explains the weaker bite of Inostrancevia compared with its closest extant relatives?
I understand that although early studies suggested a metabolism greater than dimetrodon and overlapping with modern monotremes, more recently studies of its ear canal hint at a lesser likelihood of mammalian endothermy, showing them to be larger which is seen today on creatures without the benefit of endothermy to keep the fluid within at a stable warmer temperature, but without a Time Machine, we may never know. I think in line with many, I want to unscientifically imagine these creatures to be more familiar, which is to say hairy…
Intelligence doesn’t always correlate to relative brain size. Crocodilians have very small brains relative to their size but they’re quite bright. They’re good at pattern recognition, have excellent memories & capable of developing unique hunting strategies. Birds also have relatively small brains & high intelligence.
@@grahamstrouse1165 indeed, I’m aware that archosaurs have managed to do more with less, particularly the avians (which still have larger proportional brains compared to the rest of even Eumaniraptora), but have seen crocodilians responding to given names and instructions, and was also looking into varanidae on the other side of the reptile family that can demonstrate elevated intelligence for social behaviour and problem solving, but given the form of the Gorgonopsid brain compared with other synapsids, from memory, the neocortex is still a fairly basal. It was clearly intelligent enough to survive and thrive in a harsh environment, but lacks the features that led to increased intelligence in extant mammals and inferred in later non-mammalian synapsids which are likely to be the most analogous, nor had the time to develop the enhancements that are present in more intelligent diapsids.
surname of Aleksandr literally means in Russian that he is a foreigner
It would be interesting to see if we ever find a Rubidgea species the size of or bigger than I.latifrons or maybe a new genus from somewhere else entirely?
awesome video
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I love this channel I have a request though can u make sarcosuchos or maybe purusaurus 😊
Interesting content as always! Makes me appear to be the brightest crayon in the box when others overhear what I'm watching.
Imagine a timeline where Permian extinction event never happened and these creatures were able to diversify for millions of years. Imagine a what kinds of creatures would evolve.
Very good video! I can see many pieces of paleoart there. Thanks a lot!
Cool, I guess I know where the inspiration for "Archer" the commander of the Gorgonites came from. (Small Soldiers)
I know that perfect is a human concept, but Inostrancevia sounds like the perfect predator, it was fast, strong, agile and durable, like, if Inostrancevia still lived today, most of the other predatory animals that it would live with would be lower in the good chain
Or evolved to compete.
@@MrPleers that too, i guess i kinda got a little to fannatical with it, lmao
I doubt it. My guess is that brown bears would be able to take it down. It may well have not had the advanced respiration system that let dinosaur kin become a big hit during the Great Dying. I doubt if its speed or intelligence would compete with a grizzly. A pack of wolves would probably harass it to death by working cooperatively. I doubt if it would have the speed to catch elk or caribou, certainly not something like a pronghorn.
That wouldn't really work out with humans around, would it?
@@Programartemis , About as well as with brown bears around. There are areas in the USA that have them, but they tend to be pretty wild. Some place like Yellowstone Park or Kruger national park would be a possibility.
Right On nice video
I once made an anthropomorphic Inostrancevia character named Adolph. I gave him the name because it means noble wolf and that nobody has used that name for a long time.
Nobody's used that name because of a certain angry ex-painter from Austria... All it takes is for some guy to start one little war in Europe and it ruins things for everyone.
@@LevanEvan Apparently he's a famous painter & bros with Kanye West; crazy how some people can get around.
@@LevanEvan I highly recommend watching my favorite TED talk about a guy with the name talking about all the good people in history that had that name. I'm just saying that people who have same name as a bad person does not make you a bad person. also, nobody complains about how one of the main characters in the X-files shares the same last name as the most infamous Australian child rapist and torture porn maker.
@@gattycroc8073 Yes one bad Adolf doesn't make them all automatically bad.
My parents used this name in 1976...
F*ck!!!
The age of mammal-like reptiles is fascinating and seems to be a common beginning to evolution forming land dwelling lifeforms.
Grasping the time scale within which these animals lived is mind-blowing. Seven million years? Just for Gorgonopsids? Its just amazing!!
I can't believe how crazy this world was with these creatures. Can't imagine how they looked alive and seeing them in person would be the coolest thing ever, but also terrifying.
This creature was featured in Dino Crisis 2 and was the weirdest and most interesting animal in the game. I'd like to see a return of the animal in games and movies
6:24 - I'm slightly offended that many paleo artists make them look like giant lizards. I feel like they would've looked like tigers covered with fur, ears and lips.
We don't really have any evidence for how it looked though. So any paleo art is as accurate as we can get so far
The thing is we don’t really know very much what their flesh & skin looked like like, how it was textured, whether they had lips or not. The Permian is an even greater mystery to us that the Triassic, Jurassic & Cretaceous.
Just the other day I said to the wife, "Wife, what do you suppose the largest gorgonopsid was?"
There is one Inostrancevia is found in South Africa called "Inostrancevia Africana"
4:50 I always find that academics of any stripe, myself tentatively included, like to find one specific solution to a problem when often the correct answer is a combination of solutions.
its like a tiger mixed with a dog/bear
More like a tiger an a komodo dragon
2:51 'Don't touch' Good advice - especially when still alive!
I've always been fascinated by Gorgonopsids; they simply look so deadly. Although its fangs appear similar to the saber tooth cats its body is also massive and with its long legs anything that caught it's eye was probably dinner.
Love content like this. Subscribed.
My secondary name for my dachshund is Gorgon.
1:49 well, it looks good natured enough.
Scary. Early scary, but serious scary.
what documentaries are used in your video? i would love to watch them
The two i recognized are walking with monsters: life before the dinosaurs (a personal favorite of mine) and the opening of a dinosaur documentary which I forget the name of but it just shows the great dying and then moves onto the Mesozoic
'Innostranec' means 'foreigner' in Russian. ('inno' - other ; 'strana' - side/part [of the world])
It probably liked to be cuddled on its belly🥰
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aiuh; putrid rat
I like this video😊👍
First time I ever seen or heard anything about this species was the creature that holds the species name sake. And the first time I ever learned anything about the gorgonopsid I thought it was an alien. Of course my first introduction to this creature was off the SyFy series Primeval.
The Permian period is probably my favorite point in time after the Cretaceous
Awesome predator
It's not a crocodile It's not a land lizard. It's not a a hippo or rhino like thing. It's a weird pre-mammal.
It's jaw sabertooths are described as stabbing injury tools rather than jaws that deiiver bite-force killing.
According to this documentary description, the huge teeth stabbed and it would retreat to allow the prey to bleed to death and die from fatal injury shock.
Wild guesses
Why was Inostrancevia placed in the desert while walking with monsters? She lived in the swampy Severodvinsk fauna. Near reservoirs where the Scutosaurs lived. By the way, in the Paleontological Museum in Moscow there is a Severodvinsk gallery of Professor Amalitsky, which includes skeletons of scutosaurs and Inostrancevia.
Earth was one continent at the time and a majority of it was desert, almost all of it because of how hot earth's climate was at the time, it would've been almost impossible not to live in the desert at the time
Imagine seeing one of these now absolute nightmare fuel
he is friend shaped
Reminds me of Lystrosaurus.
How does one get 3.3X's smaller than one's self? 2:24
I can see it being a WarmBlooded Reptile!
Hyenas, ferrets and otters are all Felines, related to cats but resembles the creature that they are in competition with or evolved to specialize in certain predation strategies
ferrets and otters aren't related to cats, but hyenas are.
@@Minish4rk360 the Miacis is the prehistoric tree dwelling weasel that bears, raccoons, felines, K9s, weasels, ferrets, mongoose, otters, wolverines, skunks and badgers evolved from.
so yes ferrets, otters,cats,dogs AND hyenas all evolved from the same ancestor with specialties to compete with larger predators until they themselves became Apex Predators.
felines evolved shorter snouts, stronger pectorals muscles & retractable claws to pull prey while in trees
K9s have longer snouts they evolved to take large bites off prey while chasing them so they didnt need stronger pectorals muscles or retractable claws to pull prey or climb trees because they're built for speed/endurance in the open terrain.
Thats why cheetahs have a lighter bone structure and dont have retractable claws like other Big Cats. built for speed
Remember... a Cat only "evolved from" felines, felines did not start as cats. cats came later.
The problem with the reconstruction is that it is too front heavy. Or at least, it's tail is not long enough to balance with
Those teeth remind me a lot of Tyrannosaurus teeth. It seems to have that rather sharp ridge as well as been rather made for crushing bones.
WOW
3:07 Is that an Ankylosaurid or a giant armadillo
This a scutosaurus(parareptilia)
@@paleozoik_reptiliomorph Ok
MVP of the Permian.
Wait till you hear about Anteosaurus
Inostrancevia would have been like a walking nightmare if it focused in on you.
What a creature this must’ve been to see in the flesh.
Still lives there
I wonder if they didn't have ears.
Don't look to have a lot of musculature for a strong bite.
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0:56 is that sherlock holmes
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Why no ears? Seems strange for a preditor
Like a mix between a Komodo dragon and a smilodon.
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Why the designers don't draw ears?
I've always been curious about Inostrancevia since I played Dino Crisis 2. It's so misrepresented there... I like more the real animal.
Like with the stabbing cats, like Smilodon, saber teeth would indicate a WEAKER bite force.
They kill by STABBING with their long canines.
They then could pull back with strength ripping flesh.
This would require stronger neck muscles, as Smilodon had.
BTW -- most saber toothed animals are wrongly portrayed with their mouth not opened wide enough to use their saber teeth. Smilodon, for instance, could open its jaws 135 degrees. It is almost always shown opened only as wide as a lion would open his mouth. Very wrong, IMO.
So, saber toothed Gorgonopsians must have had the ability to open its jaws much wider than illustrated in this video.
The narrator says that they had an exceptionally wide gape.
@@grahamstrouse1165 Did he? I missed that. I wish he had said how big. Over 90 degrees?
Inostrancevia vs Andrewsarchus
Is this where the “gorgon” in demigorgon came from? Makes sense 😅
Not really. The Stranger Things demogorgon was named after a dungeons & dragons demon prince. Gary Gygax, the fella who invented Dungeons & Dragons knew a lot about Greek mythology but I don’t think he was all that into paleontology. 😉
Where can we view an actual skeleton/ fossil.?
That thjng is weird.
They should be present in major museums of large cities across the world, and in smaller museums in South Africa and Russia if you're willing to risk traveling there
i grew up with mammal-like reptiles now there is a new term its like when they dropped pluto
It's for a good reason and you should accept it, Sauropsids(reptiles) and Synapsids (stem-mammals and true mammals) were always separate, Synapsids didn't evolve from Sauropsid reptiles, they were never related in a ancestor-descendant way so you can't call them mammal-like reptiles.
@@Dr.Ian-Plect As a person outside of scientific circles I'm confused, are reptiles scientifically all Sauropsids,Eureptiles,Diapsids in general or just Saurian Diapsids?
@@Dr.Ian-Plect And if that's the case I have another question. If for whatever reason not all Sauropsids are true Reptiles could the term Stem-Reptile be considered valid when referring to such organisms?
@@Dr.Ian-Plect If so let's avoid using the term reptile in purely scientific discussions...
@@Dr.Ian-Plect That doesn't mean it's a lost cause. I don't even come close to a doctor's education so at least in my opinion,mistakes on my part are bound to happen and I should learn from them.