This Prehistoric Sperm Whale Was A Leviathan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2023
- Don’t call this a Leviathan even though the name might sound similar. This was Livyatan.
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Taking a deep look at the past and the animals that lived in it.
I love the skulls of theses whales because they look like something you'd find in a video game that was made up to look as scary as possible.
Whales in Dishonored have a design inspired by this (although you don't get to fight one).
@@akechijubeimitsuhideyou get to "save" one though
Subnautica Leviathans..
They look like the skull of something from a sci-if movie
Iron Lung anyone?
*“Multiple leviathan class lifeforms detected are you sure whatever your doing is worth it?“*
Yeah, gonna have to fire up a new game :D
*cocks stasis rifle* No.
a person of culture, i sea
Was looking for this comment
“You’re the best captain on the planet, im not even squidding”
They sound like a leviathan straight out of Subnautica If I had the chance to see any prehistoric predator, it would be this one.
A person of culture, I sea.
@@watershipup7101 I sea what you did there. Nice.
Who sees who first?
@@tnargs2693 bruh you broke da chain!!!
For me id like to see a mosasaur
Danielle does the most soulful critter illustrations! That "Livyatan" looks so happy!
Probably because it's so nice to be brought back to life and remembered when your entire species has been extinct for 9 million years.
Still in awe of her artwork
I got hooked on channel because of her art
@@jeffrasmussen7388 Same here.
I bet y’all all whales that can go down deep and see everything we can’t. I doubt most these creatures swim around blind it’s just not there nature. I know they can see the darkest of oceans. You can tell by there graceful movements at depths that only subs can go and they fly by with grace.
@@Hotdogwater421 Can't see if there's no light
When I learned about this thing recently I was both shocked and annoyed that I hadn't heard of it until then, considering it's the leading contender for the largest active predator in the planet's history. I couldn't understand why such an awe-inspiring beast had so little presence in pop culture. Hopefully with videos like this one giving it some overdue exposure, we'll start seeing more of it!
Probably like how with tanks, it's a marketability thing.
Like who wants to talk about the Hungarian Toldi tank when you can talk about the German Tiger tank or Soviet T-34 for the thousandth time.
It was discovered in 2008, while the megalodon was discovered around 200 years ago. So that's probably why.
Lol me too. How did we not know about this amazing creature
You mean "largest active macroraptorial predator" because the largest known active predators still roam our oceans and livyatan is not among them.
@F1ll1nTh3Blanks yes I do know, but I felt the qualifiers would read as pedantic.
Baleen whales may technically be predators but no one really thinks of them as such.
The thought of this living around the time of megalodons and maybe even preying on them is interesting
Modern orcas pray on whites so livyatins almost definitely preyed on megs. And megs might’ve eaten young livyatins
The two apex predators of the sea. We probably won't see anything like that ever again sadly.
They’d probably avoid one another. Though if they did end up throwing down my money would be on the whale because of that sweet mammal brain factor. That said a megs bite would probably have been slightly more devastating.
Like Great Whites vs Orcas, but bigger.
@@Nublootnah I think the whales hunted the shark like they do today
Fun fact: Scientists have speculated that Livyatan went extinct due to competition with Orcas, which hunted the same prey but were smaller. This was similar to how competition with Great White Sharks caused Megalodon to go extinct, which was around the same time as Livyatan.
Lmao, both giants got out-competed by their smaller counterparts
That's actually not true at all. Orcas didn't hunt Marine Mammals until after Megalodon and Livyatan went extinct. The prehistoric orcas that they lived wuth were smsller and hsd teeth adapted for hunting fish, not mammals.
The great white one is accurate tho. As the climates cooled, Megalodon's major prey sources migrated to colder waters leaving them less to eat. Great White sharks need to eat less so they srivuved while the Megalodon did not.
Orca pods hunted the meg into extinction
@@jacobbrown1690 What would eventually become the modern orcas only started to develop AFTER Meg died out because they realistically had no chance against a shark of that size
@@jacobbrown1690That can't be true otherwise the great white would have also went extinct and probably many other shark species
Livyatan is such a beautiful and epic creature that deserves more credit and respect.
Deserves? It simply existed. No desert involved. 99.9999999% of everything that has ever lived on this world is extinct,and we've "discovered" the faintest traces of the remains of less than 0.0001% of that. What the living f**k does deserve got to do with anything?
My first thought upon seeing this was, so moby dick was real at some point in time.
Credits? For what? Do you even know what you're saying?
Fr
Woah, this Leviathan and the Megalodon were truly the terror of the prehistoric sea.
If you wanna know more, The Pisco formation represents the oddness of the Miocene fauna perfectly
Not only do we have these two, we also got marine gharials, marine ground sloth, penguins, toothed albatross, double sworded swordfish, and more
Livyatan! She must have said it 70 times in this video, and you STILL.... !!!! 😮🤯😵🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🙇🏽♂️
@@user-lq4ct6dr5m Marine ground sloth and double swordfish? Wow.
@@exalt2674 Thalassocnus and Xiphiorhynchus respectively
@@user-lq4ct6dr5m Thanks
got to see the skull in the national museum of natural history in lima, peru. AND IT'S HUGE
Makes it more believable that ancient people finding these thought they were monsters of myth.
I can't get over how good Danielle's illustrations are. I sometimes miss parts of the presentation watching the sketch unfold. Very cool
Livyatan would probably have been my worst fear, tbh
Mine too, but only because I would not have been able to spell its name.
stun with the sonar before those 1 ft teeth get to you, yeah they're OP.
@@Pistolita221Try 3 foot long teeth, NOT 1 foot long!
@@arjunakorale6166 I am the Walrus...
@@arjunakorale6166 Psst, 30cm is 1 foot
The way she pronounces livyatan feels very passive aggressive
Fr!
Leviathan vs Megalodon is going to be a movie now huh 😅
Livyatan**
I am deeply impressed by the channel's artist who creates these meticulously accurate anatomical sketches.
You and Lindsay Nikole uploading about the same topic within an hour. That's a sign for me to travel to the deep seas
Don't use OceanGate ;)
right? talk ab lucky!
ikr i love animalogic but Lindsay takes the W on this one
Ben G Thomas too
Title: "This was a leviathan"
First words: "Don't call this a leviathan"
Deep dives in a prehistoric ocean must have been quite the experience. One of my favorite marine animals has always been the dunkleosteus with the 2nd either the meg or leviyatan. Life amazes me to this day but I find it absolutely fascinating some of the creatures that have roamed this planet. The mesozoic era was a cool time in earths history and would be really cool to visit the jurassic, triassic and cretaceous periods separately to see how much things changed between each epoch
dunkleosteus looks like a piranha on steroids
It should obviously be called a
Shark Whale.
(We have whale sharks, so why not ?)
Animalogic and Lindsay Nikole doing a video about Livyatan on the Same Day? Coincidence or Planned: You decide.
Not only are the hosts in this channel well-versed, but also stylish as hell
Except the pronunciation of the creature itself then.
She explained that. It's the Hebrew pronunciation.
@@Makabert.Abylon You're not paying attention to the videos at all, are you?
@@Voc_spooksaucethey didn’t have subway surfers in the bottom panel, give ‘em a break.
I'm really enjoying these videos and watching Danielle's drawings come together is a fun element.
If we're doing prehistoric sea creatures I either need a liopleurodon video or anomalocaris, opabinia, or tully monster video. The precambrian and cambrian seas were wild, i would also accept a sea scorpion video!!
You guys are too damn underrated for such quality content, how y'all won't stop doing it
I’m pretty sure your mom wasn’t swimming in the ancient oceans. 😶🤨
The thing I like about Livyatan vs megalodon is unlike spino vs rex its an even match and it realistically happened
The way she says levyatan boggles me so much, it's like she's trying to imitate a french person, binomial nomenclature gets people talking in such a weird way sometimes
I'm still stuck on the fact sailors saw white fluid come from an animal's *head* and we're like "well, that must be sperm."
Naturally.
They were at sea for three yes….well yes.
They were prob a rather uncouth bunch
Wonderful work on the video on Livyatan, my friend. Please keep on the work on your videos on these magnificent prehistoric creatures that we all we love.
Very informative video. Loved it. A video about smilodon, showing how it interacted with other predators in its environment, would be great 😁
I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be pronounced like "leviathan", but with "tan" at the end...not "livvy ottin"
I just googled it and it sounds like leave-ya-tun
You are such a great spokesperson and scientist. The scientific community owes you a huge debt of gratitude for making science more exciting and new. Keep up the great work 🤙🏾
Amazing info for a zoologist... Thanks for all the hard work put into this 😃👍🙏
This is awesome thanks kindly Animalogic!
Gah, prehistoric oceans are too cool! I love Livyatan, imo it's probably the most powerful single predator to ever roam the oceans, that sonar might be able to stun a megalodon the same way GWSs are stunned by orca and even dolphin sonar? It'd be awesome if you covered Palaeophis colossaeus, imo it's cooler than titanoboa. Almost the same size, but it's a literal sea-serpent. Possibly grippy scales, possibly venomous? Probably one of the coolest snakes of all time, and one of the coolest linnaean reptiles since the dinosaurs.
Wow! Didn't know sea serpents really existed! Sailors thought the oarfish was a sea serpent but if only the knew there really were sea serpents! Only 38 million years too late! 🤧
Damn, that sounds cool, gotta check it out but yeah Meg vs Livy is basically a coin flip due to Livy having a slight advantage in head to head and Meg having the advantage in a wild battle
Megalodon had something GWS don't though, they were absurdly faster and way more lethal, the size difference specially in mouth makes meg way more lethal on a single bite, realistically, no animal had a chance against meg in The sea.
@@Nobody-su9km IDK if megalodon would be faster than the KO of the whales sonar but meg is still very cool.
@@Nobody-su9km Measurements of Livyatan's teeth and jaws are actually higher than Otodus megalodon's.
I believe it is pronounced "Livy-O-tan"
....ok that was a horrific joke and I do feel the shame of it
me saying "le-VAI-ah-tin" mentally every time she says "le-vee-ah-tun"
It drives me crazy
Maybe because she's not saying "Leviathon" when she says that, you id10t.
She even explained why. "Leviathon" is assigned to a Mastodon. They can't call two separate animals the same thing, so they named it after the Hebrew translation of the same word/name.
@@mariusciobanu2025 the part that's driving you crazy is that you're wrong, not her.
@@TheRealAaronSmithapparently they're both wrong. I looked it up and it's said like "leave-yah-tun". Interesting!
Liv-Ya-Tan would be the most accurate pronunciation.
I like to think they could hold their breath for an hour like sperm whales. But instead of diving deep, they lurked beneath the waves (and possibly thermoclines) so they could ambush their prey
Great video as ever Talia 🙂
My favorite whale!!! Thank you Talia and Animalogic!!
How long until a film franchise starring Jason Statham comes out called _The Livy_
Don't give Hollywood more ideas, they already made Meg and dinosaurs living in the same timeframe 😅
Animalogic never misses! Beautiful.
By the look of that drawing, it looked more like giant beluga whales, than sperm whales..
Such great description and depiction❤
Danielle’s drawing looks like a big smiling beluga. ❤
A literal Leviathan!
I’ll forever be waiting for an episode on Microraptor, or maybe one about Caudipteryx, or basically any jehol biota animal, particularly the dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs, and mammals that lived in the formations that form its greater whole.
Theory:
What if the whale in Moby Dick wasn't actually a Sperm Whale, but the last surviving Livyathan?
That could explain why it was so aggressive and weird looking.
They went extinct 5 million years ago so no😊
Says you.
They are definitely extinct
There's also the fact that Moby Duck is a fictional story. So, yeah, there's that as well.
@@Doctor-vn8es Not entirely fiction.
It was based off a real event. The crew existed.
And White (probably Leucistic) Sperm Whales have been confirmed to exist too.
the spermaceti is for diving and part of creating the sonar sound
Love the drawing at 6:55! Beautiful style
Well, this is weird. Lindsay Nikole posted a video about this same whale less than 20 minutes ago
So beautiful, glad it live in the era without human messing around.
The oceans were even scarier and they’re already scary now.
Crazy that Lindsay Nikole released a video on these guys right before you guys did 😅
Beavis : Woah! Butt head: She said Sperm...
Cool. More nightmare fuel. Thanks Animalogic.
When i was eight i was traumatized by the skull of this beast it just looked terrifying and even today im still terrified of this thing
"The real purpose of the spermaceti" [5:30] is not "up for debate" but DUAL. ie.
It is BOTH an echo-location/navigation system,
AND a means of stunning its prey/ defending against attack:
divers who've been 'clicked' say it feels like being kicked.
That was really interesting. What about a video on Stellar's Sea Cow? I know it went extinct more recently, but it was such an odd member of the manatee family, and there is still so much we don't know about it.
It love you in a cosy house with pizza.
Gracias Animalogic por enseñarnos tanto.
I'm surprised people aren't aware of this creature. Then again its rarely covered by big channels.
2 videos on one of my favorite subjects can't complain 🤗
I love Danielle's Artwork!! Does she have her own site Showcasing her work?
Shout outs to Mother Nature for making sure we wouldn't come across the Livyatan and THE MEG™ out in the real life wild 😂😂
SO COOL! I love deep sea dinos/monsters/critters so much
lol Lindsay Nikole uploaded hers minutes before this =P
I Love how Mastodon made an album called Leviathan
first lindsay nikole, then animalogic
delightful double whammy of Livyatan
We all need at least one mellon.
Could you do videos on other sea monsters like basilisaurus, elasmosaurus, or pilosaurus?
My brain keeps stopping at "Prehistoric Sperm" whenever i read the title.
This NEEDS to be in the MEG III when the time comes..
Interesting how Lindsay Nikole released a video on this exact same subject just about an hour BEFORE y'all did. Coincidence?
By far the most popular prehistoric whale!
I didn't call it a leviathan, you did in the title of the video
i learned about this whale from the "Meg" Books. Super cool!
How disappointing that y'all didn't explain what their relationship with the Megs
The two most likely avoided each other
Very nice. Love the artist's renderings. The scared up Jaws/Moby Dick image..Wow.
Prehistoric oceans are what gave me my thalassaphobia. I'm looking at you Dunkleosteus.
Two videos on this monster whale in one day? Nice!
Pfft. Leviathan was CLEARLY a sea dragon. Since when did whales breathe fire? I'll wait
Aren't Killer whales a type of dolphin?
Yes.
best topic coincidence since Forrest and Dave both did vids on Behe
“Sperm” “junk” “melons” … jeez biologists …
This toothed beast did hunt the Meg
leviathan doesnt only mean huge sea serpent it means any huge creature be it sea or land so both names would be right for this animal
Can you imagine the amount of untapped fossils at the bottom of the ocean? Such a shame. Hopefully we can reach there one day.
She is great and wow. Never knew about this giant! Awesome me and the nephew thank you and the animalogic team
Never heard of these before and suddenly I find 2 different videos about them posted within an hour of each other lol
Here's a request for a video on the fascinating Kayentatherium and its Jurassic babies
By the way, modern sperm Whales are not the Apex predators but Orcas are.
Orcas don’t mess with Bull Sperm Whales…
@@oraclemiata845what about Great Whites?
“Differs” is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable. The word you said is “defers”, which stresses the second.
Livyatan is the word we use to say both Leviathan and whale in Hebrew, fun fact.
I just went to see it yesterday at the museum. I can't imagine how it would be if those.giants still lurked in the seas
If it had survived its original extinction, the Britons, always craving more sperm, would have hunted it to the last individual. Livyatan's own diet probably would have made it more vulnerable, as it's hunting habits would have brought it to whalers' attention (sharing the same prey), plus when other whales started disappearing due to overwhaling, there would have been less food available for livyatan. So, yeah, relatively fresh skeletons in museums would be all.
What a beautiful creature!
I also like what she says about whales. Always eager to learn.
One correction: liviathan is the English translation from the original Hebrew text, not the other way around. Great video tho!
Hello!! Would you mind covering the Lystrosaurus? They have a pretty interesting history from what I am told. Thank you!!!
They can also be known as bull sperm whales
This video is going to anger the Megalodon fangirls