Top 5 Weirdest Triassic Animals!
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There are a lot of very strange animals that have existed in the roughly half a billion years that multicellular life has existed on Earth. However in my opinion there is one time that has stood out. The Triassic period.
Although this was the earliest time in the Mesozoic, and that has always been thought of as "the age of dinosaurs" the truth is that this was really not the case yet. Dinosaurs existed but they were hardly dominant over the planet like they would become later in the Jurassic.
In this video, I want to talk about the animals that did rule the first 50 million years of the Mesozoic. The beasts who are so bizarre that I decided to make a top 5 list of the weirdest Triassic animals. Then next week, come back and see why so many of these creatures became so very strange, as well as why we don't see any of the descendants of these guys today.
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Ah the Triassic period, a time when evolution created beasts that wouldn't look out of place in 50s monster movie
Or on the game "Spore".
They really were wild, weren't they? I was watching the video " Walking with Monsters" and I found a crocodillian-looking animal with a strange overbite quite interesting.
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Just scaled down. Which is exactly what alot of 50s monsters films did..scale up real animals and call it a monster film..
It's not that weird compared to the Permian creatures
To be fair, the Mesozoic is also (and more accurately) called the “Age of Reptiles” and the Triassic still fits that description well.
triassic is part of the Mesozoic.
Mesozoic = triassic + jurassic + cretaceous
@@vicvik5305 I know that obviously.
@Cesar Alcaraz Then again so does the Permian.
@@JosefDerKaiser There were a lot of big reptiles in the Permian, but mostly, it was the synapsids that dominated that time period, and Permian synapsids are far closer to mammals than reptiles.
The Mesozoic should definitely be considered The Age of Reptiles more than The Age of Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs ruled the land during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, but at the same time the seas had icthyasaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and aquatic crocodiles. Meanwhile the skies had pterosaurs
Very educational, the Triassic doesn't get the credit it really deserves. Can you do a video on the Devonian by chance?
I certainly could someday!
As I've heard it, the Triassic might be better considered the 'Age of Crocs', with all the suchian and pseudosuchian species filling so many niches.
I like the blanket term from another commenter. "The Age of Archosaurs"
@@PaleoAnalysis I would simply consider it the first Age of Reptiles.
As Archosaurs ruled the land, the Triassic also sees reptiles dominating the air (Pterosaurs) and water (Ichtyosaurs, Sauropterygia).
Thus for the first time having reptiles dominate all 3 ecosystems.
The Triassic is the most underrated period in earth's history. Glad to see it gets attention
I love your videos, at some point wonder if you'd be interested in also covering weird and strange plant life during some of these times as well. We always hear about the strange animals that lived but not so much about the habitats they come from and how that may have added to their weirdness compared to the standards we think about today with animals in different habitats
Welcome to the Triassic fan club, my guy! The surface has only barely been scratched!
Indeed! That's why I left it open ended to do more. As I researched this I realized that a top 5 would only be the very tip of the iceberg.
I loved this! You cannot do too many of these, as far as I’m concerned, and a series on the weird animals of the Triassic would be a delight. I do somewhat prefer the Triassic and earlier periods, but I love all of paleontology.
My suggestion for another series: a focus on which animals survived (compared to the big groups that didn’t) the major mass extinctions with speculation on why, based on their biological niches and other traits and on what the nature of the world catastrophe was likely to have been.
Oh, that series idea sounds great! I want that too.
Yes. This a great era that produced life forms that veer from the general picture I have. Many weird non-dinosaur archosaurs, several forms that look roughly like cursoiral or at least terrestrially moble crocodilians, somewht odd looking synapsids, and so on. Great idea to cover this.
You rock, man! I’ve scoured the internet for this type of content and probably seen most of it, but yours has personality to it that makes it really enjoyable to watch. Looking forward to watching everything else you’ve made and all that comes out in the future 😀
Fossil hunters rock 😂
Yeah man personality matters more than anything. This channel definitely has that.
I am currently watching *everything* after recently discovering it. 😁👍
Great video. Keep it up. I found this channel from the rewind and I’m glad I did. Thanks.
The Triassic is my favorite geologic period precisely bc of how weird the life forms were. Great video; I appreciate it!
And specifically I have an odd obsession with drepanosaurs, wherever they may place in the tree of life. (I lowkey wish I could have one as a pet, but alas I was born 203+ million years too late😔)
Honestly, for the age of several gliding lizards, placodonts, whatever Longisquama is etc. this list is relatively tame.
This was a really interesting video and I would LOVE to hear more about the Triassic species. It really isn't an era we hear much about, because like you said, everyone just leaps straight to dinosaurs, but these guys existed for 50mya in their own right and yet never left any living descendants - what a mystery! Btw LOL whoops, @3:31 you said 50 BILLION years... ;)
Nice catch, I didn't notice watching. 😁
I would gladly watch that tier list. I've only heard of two of these, and the others were a treat! Pre-dinosaur life is fascinating, and I wish I knew more.
4:59 Similar to how we might say that Crocs and their relatives looked more like the giant croc-like amphibians (e.g. Prionosuchus) since they did it first?
As someone with on knowledge of this era, and no formal education - plus a strong affinity for Denovian creatures - I thoroughly enjoyed this video, and CANNOT WAIT for more!
I really like this channel, I just found it, I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to have someone who is well versed in this extinct creatures world. It’s frustrating to hear the same stuff regurgitated off google, with the names and time periods pronounced incorrectly. Now I’m not a total jerk, I understand we are all human and ppl make mistakes, but your content is excellent from beginning to end and I’ve been binging on your videos.
Thanks! Had never heard of any of these creatures. Would love to hear more along this line.
Not sure why this popped up in my feed but it’s both fascinating and entertaining! I’m going to need to check out more of your videos.
Man I just found your channel, and I absolutely love it!! I’ve been binge watching all your videos!! Keep up the amazing work!!
Haven’t finished watching them all jet, so I’ll stop typing and continue watching, and liking them! Will share some too!!
Once again, great content!!
You know if Prehistoric Planet is successful I would love a prequel set during the Triassic
Just subbed, definitely would love more weird Triassic creatures!🤘
Make more of this period...truly FANTABULOUS!
I've never seen some of those weird Triassic Animals before. I'd like to see move videos like this, as being about evolution, the weird successes are uniquely instructive. Thanks
Everyone gets swooned by the “dinosaur era” but the history of life on earth has MUCH more to offer
Man this was great! I didn't know of number 5 and 4. I'm so exited!
Such a nice video and channel. You also form your thoughts into something that I, with my humble knowledge about biology, was able to consume.
I really had to check myself when #2 arrived. I felt dissappointed at first since the artwork looked so familiar, then felt ashamed of my arrogant hubris and enlightened when you told me about all the weird traits it had❤
Very interesting, thanks for the info! I'm gonna check out your other videos as well.
Really enjoyed this video! Would love to see more weird Triassic animals!
triassic and earlier periods of history are my favorites, dinosaurs need to work harder to keep my interest these days, though sometimes it works
Man these video are so great. I would never have seen al the wacky animal that have been if I didn't stumble on to your videos.
Love this content! ❤
‘Dougal Dixon fever dream’ has me in stitches 😂. Keep up the great science communication work broseph!
Fascinating and well done video! This is amazing new information about this famous carnivore. My adult son and I have recently discovered your TH-cam channel, and have rapidly viewed most of your videos, and have enjoyed them immensely! ❤
Thank you algorithm for introducing me to your Channel with this video.
Thoroughly enjoyed it. They are some weird critters.
These little dirt Gremlins were quite successful 😂
And yes I was thinking there needs to be a tier list for this
What a great channel, thanks for making these videos man
It's funny how the vast majority of people perceive Earth to be how it is now with all of us humans wandering around when really we are just a blip in time compared to what came before us. Always amazes me to discover a species of Earthling I never knew about. Wether it be alive today or existed millions of years ago. Thanks for the video.
Majority of the people you’re referring too are people with religions lol
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"Straight up bonkers"...that put a huge smile on my face. Great video!
Thank you for this video. Post extinction eras are always bizarre.
Amazing video. Would love to see more videos featuring more weirdness
Im really enjoying your content, You have created quite the binge worthy channel. Thank you!
This was really cool please make it a series!
Very interesting indeed! I hope you will make some more of these videos in the future.
Love love love this. Weird animals are such a great topic. More videos PLEASE
Quite interesting, and more in-depth info would be interesting. That last weird critter you showed, but wasn't included in this top 5, would be fascinating to learn about.
I would love to watch more weird Triassic animal videos please! More Triassic videos in general, please!
Excellent video as usual!
Keep the info coming loving it
Good approach! Keep up the good work!
I was wondering in the end if you would mention Hyperodapedon. You didn't disappoint. But if you want strange fauna, you should look at the Burgess Shales. There's stuff of nightmares there, but so fascinating.
I beat it's nightmarish inverts or vertebrates
Great episode, enjoyed it a lot!
The Permian and Triassic are my two favorite periods of geologic time exactly because of this: The world was nothing like what we see today. Also, I'm surprised Apotodentatus didn't make the list, for me at least that fellow is a shoo-in for at least the Top 3.
It's almost unfathomable.
I can imagine how a polar bear or lion reacts, even though I've never seen one in the wild.
But the environment these things would be thriving in? It's hard to imagine how they even moved, or sounded.
If we didn't have the fossils I wouldn't believe it was even possible. 😂
Just found this fabulous channel! 👏👏
Great stuff . Keep it up
Superb - a subject that just keeps giving!
This was weird and fascinating to watch
Thank you 😄😄😄
Hey, great video! Although I must say, that you've got the Tanystropheus mode of life wrong (probably, you can never be too sure with Tany). See Spiekman et al. 2020 papers, they fully support aquatic lifestyle. Also, you can expect some very interesting data coming in the next 4 years, some new material is being described!
I will be addressing this error in this week's follow up video. Let none say that Paleo Analysis is too proud to admit when we've made a mistake!
@@PaleoAnalysis haha great attitude, keep it up guys!
This was nicely done.
love the video man
Another great video, I love this time period in all it's stupid glory.
I really need this follow up!
Excellent video, very informative.
If you ever decide to do more videos on weird Triassic (or Permian) animals, my gf and I would watch them religiously! Love these bizarre critters
I love this type of stuff. I'm a nerd about it. Great vid to. Keep I up. 🦕🦖
More please, weirdly fascinating.
Very interesting content.
This is strange how animals have changed during billion of years
"[The Triassic] is by far the most bizarre time in Earth's history"
The Cambrian: "Am I a joke to you?"
Five is way too few for weird Triassic animals! I think that period takes the cake for the weirdest of the weird! Keep up the good work!
Subscribed - thank you 😊
Amazing video appreciate it lots
Man gotta say love ur channel
Great video and topic. Had to laugh that you asked for a topic and then went your own way, Wonderful beasties just the same
More content about invertebrate animals would be nice too. All the popular paleo channels seem to focus more on vertebrates (PBS Eons has some nice videos on invertebrates but that's about it).
Someone needs to make a Triassic Park movie.
Now that was interesting, thanks
We want more of these underrated ancient animals!
I'd love a video about what would happen if a time traveler stepped out into the Jurassic age. Would dinosaurs be aggressive having no familiarity with humanity? Would our intelligence make an difference. And so on.
Antartic penguins and dodos were and are calm around humans as they weren't around them.
thank you for doing the bobbleheaded predator i was hoping you would mention them.
Triassic is definitely one of my favorite eras, together with the Ediacaran and the Permian. (Synapsids are weird too!)
Loved them !!
Ok u got me😅, this video made me sub
Pleeeease, continue this serie 😇
I look forward to more strange animals
Keep do more videos weird & wonderful creatures ... regardless of their timeline
I love Dinos as well, but the time before the Dinos is in some parts so much more interesting.
For some reason it’s the Gorgonopsia that I always(incorrectly) associate with the Triassic. Was sitting here waiting for it to come up. heh
I think I've said this elsewhere, but my take on it , why the creatures of the early Triassic were so weird, was because they had so much room to expand and adapt. Coming out of the Great Dying, I guess it took the planet some time to stabilise and develop a decent habitable climate once more. Until it did, every living thing had to just keep going. Then, with the world becoming more hospitable, Nature simply took the brakes off everything and allowed then to adapt, diversify and spread out.
If you think about it, what happened in the early Triassic has similarities to what happened in the Cambrian. To be sure, the Cambrian explosion created some very weird creatures, but that may simply be because Nature was exploring what could be done with complex multi cellular life forms.
Complex life had been around for may hundreds of millions of years by the start of the Triassic; in that time, life had worked out what body plans were effective and what weren't. Even so, with so many ecological niches up for grabs, as it were, many organisms clearly chose to make efforts to inhabit niches alien to their kind. Once more, Nature got to work finding out what adaptations fitted in best with various ecological niches... and who knows what bizarre creatures we might now consider to be totally normal today, if matters had gone differently?
Great video. The solution to the problem of narrowing it down to only 5 is to do a top 20 :)
I liked it bro keep it up
Just stumbled onto your channel, I watch a lot of paleo content & I really enjoyed your video, you got a new sub in me. Going to go check out your other videos now! 😀
Had to look up Dougal Dixon, but when I found him I recognized his stuff, like the timeless "After Man" and the disturbing "Man After Man".
I'd add that some of these beasts look right out of a Hieronymus Bosch canvas.
Excellwnt series of videos
I liked this video very much!
love this
Please, make more videos about them Triassic oddities!!
Well if we're gonna not call the triassic part of the age of dinosaurs we might as well call most eras the age of insects
This video got me to subscribe. More drunken evolution, please.
can you talk about Baurusuchidae and razanandrongobe also maybe a video on simbakubwa and other big Hyaenodons
this is an awesome video