Gorgosaurus | The Dreaded Tyrannosaur of North America
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- A few million years before the famous T. rex, another Tyrannosaur was ruling North America with an iron fist, or claw, the Gorgosaurus. This was a violent ruler who loved combat, and had no problem fighting others of its kind, or Daspletosaurus, leading to some pretty gnarly brawls and kingly scars. It prowled North America like no other and managed to have quite the impact even today; thanks to some of its near perfect skeletons, one of which has recently raked in millions of dollars.
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Gorgosaurus is also the very first dinosaur discovered with evidence of a brain tumor. We learned this from the specimen Ruth who is estimated to have been only 4 years old when she passed away from the disease.
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Pray for Ruth 🙏
Out of all the characters in the movie every dinosaur fan hated, Gorgon has got to be the most handsome theropod
He indeed is quite handsome.
Indeed. I was rooting for him the whole time.
walking with dinosaurs?
@@quenguin7866 yeah
I loved walking with dinosaurs as a kid
Great vid. I'm shocked that a near full skeleton of a dinosaur is only worth six million dollars. I would have thought sixty million!
65 million would be the perfect price
@@Deinobi add 4 million and then we are talking
@@baconbliss4796 now replace the "m: bit a "b"
Bet you it's a cast.
It depends on the Dino. Some are way more valuable than others, with T-rex fetching the highest price.
Not even worrying about the victor of the fight, I thin the thought of having Daspletosaurus and Gorgosaurus fight would’ve been so cool to see 🙌🦖
Writing a book where this happens. The moment I heard that there was at least one point in time where two different tyrannosaur species potentially competing with each other, I thought "that is way too interesting to let pass."
They probably held different niches; akin to how leopards and lions operate
@@FlyingFocsyou are now my favorite author. Just for this!!!
Very interesting. FYI - Alberta is a Province within Canada, it is not referred to as a State (that is a US thing only).
And proud of it!
"Province" sounds like you're going to someplace that is full of half dressed dirt covered peasants, wheeling around human pulled 2wheel carts while extremely gaunt. Hahaha
State sounds so much more official and civilized. 🤣🤣
Was totally trying not to make my own comment about this.
A sad state of affairs.
He also pronounced it like it was a French word, Made me laugh.
I believe the tyrannosaurs could have lived in family units because they found Albertasaurus in a large group in every age range. If there was a species that is most likely to hunt in packs in the age of the dinosaurs it would be tyrannosaurs. However they most likely did mobbing behavior rather than pack hunting
Yes would make Sense that one attacked a group of herbivores and lead Them in a Trap.
@@daniels7717 that family is the most likely to hunt in packs however it is most likely that if they were to hunt in groups it would be more mobbing
"Mobbing in animals is an antipredator adaptation in which individuals of prey species mob a predator by cooperatively attacking or harassing it, usually to protect their offspring. A simple definition of mobbing is an assemblage of individuals around a potentially dangerous predator."
Based on the definition it seems unlikely they mobbed.
@@Secter84 when I mean mobbing I mean uncoordinated assaults by a group of predators. They are not wolves if they do attack in groups it will be an uncoordinated attacks thus the mobbing behaviors
@@kyachdistent1301 no albetosaurus and other tyrannosaurs are more likely to live in social groups because of discoveries finding them in different age groups with the absence of herbivores especially in the dry island bone bed annihilating any chance of a predator trap leaving the most likely chance that they lived with each other
Interesting to know. It’s really a wonder how life was for past species and what they were like
It’s my boy, Gorgosaurus! My favorite dinosaur!
Mine too!
@@dinosauroiddude Nice!!!
Same here
The first fossil I ever seen was a Gorgosaurus in the main hall of the Field Museum.
I too really like gorgosaurus
"Canadian state" we don't have states, we have provinces lol.
edit: loved the video. keep up the good work.
Subbed, I’m loving these videos
Just watch all your videos, since im home with flue. Great stuff. Gonna subscribe 👍
I fell in LOVE with the gorgo in the thumbnail
was drawn by c-compiler
@@ExtinctZoo the mix of the gorgo from wwd and irl is amazing
Something you’ll find interesting is therozinasaurus was theorized to have evolved from a close relative of the tyrannosaurs that transitioned from a carnivorous diet to a plant based one over millions of years.
There were multiple Tyrannosaurs in North America before Trex, and Gorgosaurus wasn’t the last tyrannosaur before the Trex’s ancestor migrated from Asia, so I wouldn’t call Gorgosaurus “the king before trex” because over millions of years there were multiple “kings”, some even coexisted with each other like Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus, I think a better topic for a video should be about Lythronax, which is the oldest known tyrannosaurid from North America, I guess you could call it the “first king”
I mean, it's just a cool title.
Um the trex didn’t migrated from Asia there ancestors are from Montana United States now, there name was Daspletosaurus wilsoni!
Thank you for a perfect video of these Tyrannosaurs, Gorgosaurus, Albertosaurus an Daspletosaurus. - MY WISH; - Please; - Can you make a video documentrry of the "Big Clawed" DRYPTOSAURUS ???
Great video once again.
I like dinosaurs.
Albertosaurus was a bit bulkier and bigger than Gorgosaurus, but Gorgosaurus would've had a stronger bite. But Albertosaurus had different teeth build for riping flesh
EDIT: Gorgosaurus was a bit bigger than Albertosaurus, my bad. Albertosaurus had a strong bite, so maybe a bit stronger than Gorgosaurus
No, Gorgo was more robust & heavier while Alberto was longer & lankier (As of writing).
@@cro-magnoncarol4017 Yup, just checked, my bad. Gorgosaurus wasn't that much heavier. And on some images they seemed equally robust
Exactly bro, because the more robust skull of alberto
God I love this channel
I love you
@@ExtinctZoo ayo
Nice video!👍
AWESOME! Like the John Wayne's Impossible Groove Machine 😆🤣😂😁
All good stuff.
There is no Canadian state of Alberta! Canada is comprised of provinces and territories!
Nice Video.
Awesome
Great video. I just wish the inaccurate proliferation of artists adding feathers to scaled dinosaurs would stop.
Due to evolutionary traits, Gorgosaurus would probably have some elephantine-like feathers.
Ark gotta add this now
Who else instantly recognised that thumbnail?
Gorgon.
Interesting video. However, I've never heard of the Canadian "State" of Alberta. Perhaps you meant the Canadian "Province" of Alberta?? ;)
Still, it was a very interesting video and I enjoyed it.
Is fascinating about the other tyrannosaur family. 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖
i wonder if gorgo and daspleto could have hybridized, when sharing overlapping territory, we see that today in brown and polar bears.
Sadly they were to far apart in the family tree
Gregosaurus
6:05 Such a cool fossil!
DUDE! who drew the picture at 4:30? It is so good!
I'd recognize those Daspletosaurus statues at the Canadian Museum of Nature any day.
I know this is really a very minor nitpick but I should do it. Non avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago, not 65. (Tbh I also sometimes get this mixed up because as a child I was so used to the 65 mya as well)
Was just gonna say
I think it was 65.5 million years ago but I could be wrong
@@JurassicPark-qn2vl no it’s certainly 66 mya
@@historickingdom2023 no it was definitely 65 mya and no one uses the word nitpick nowadays
@@Texasmade74 you're really behind the current science... the more accurate dinosaur extinction date was known since 2013.
Tyrannosaurs were a very large family of theropods they survived for at least 100 million years T-Rex was just the biggest of the bunch.
G-Rex !
Sounds like these creatures were absolutely crazy, probably had dominant personalities in general.
Yeah they were probably born in Puerto Rico
Or Cuba
@@thedeathwobblechannel6539 born with a baseball bat and an attitude 😂
Maybe you should do the American lion in the future.
66 million years ago*
Cool
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Please add credit to the 2d animated snippet. The animator who makes those is phenomenal and is making a full dinosaurian universe and if people want more dino content they should go support him!
It's remarkable that several different Tyrannosaurs had very short arms. How such a design was adaptive is not an easy question. All of them apparently used their head almost exclusively as a hunting weapon, their arms being useless for such purposes. Maybe they also could use 1 foot for the attack while balancing on their other foot as well as their tail.
i feel so lucky to have went to the dinosaur park formation
Gorgosaurus and Albertasaurus were probably different species of the same genus.
They're seperate species
I said different species. Same genus.
@Mysticdragonboythehelpful other way around albertosaurus has priority due to being named first
@@Ealais76 no
@@Texasmade74 yes it does lmao💀 it’s literally the type species as well, if they were ever found out to be the same genus gorgo would be renamed
So is it true that they had niche partitioning with Daspletosaurus?
I knew the gorgosaurus was the relitive of the t rex
Bro, ain't it obvious?
Gorgosaurus was smaller the Tyrannosaurs but it’s theorized to have traded in size for speed and a larger brain.
That is true
What? The T-Rex has the largest scanned brain cavity of any dinosaur discovered so far.....where is this larger brain idea coming from?
@@matilija Well Gorosaurus was theorized to have a large brain since they also been theorized to hunt in packs which requires a fair amount of intelligence.
@@matilija side note but I actually had a theory that Tyrannosaurs was smarter then we thought. I got my idea from rats since despite there brain size rats are surprisingly intelligent.
@@TheSandwhichman108 You didn't mention intelligence in your first post, you mentioned brain size, which has only some indication of intelligence, and the T-rex brain cavity is similar in overall scale to a Blue Whales or Humans, major differences are that the T-rex has the largest temporal and occipital lobes ever measured in a brain cavity, while it's frontal lobe while still large by animal standards is smaller in relation to it's rather enlarged other lobes, it's proportionally very similar to modern raptors and vultures, just at a much larger scale. And raptors are known for their intelligence and eyesight and vultures for their intelligence and sense of smell. I haven't read any literature on Gorgosaurus brain cavity, but I would wager it's similarly shaped to T-rex, just scaled down to it's smaller skull and would therefore have similar characteristics in overall intelligence since they are both Tyrannosaurs.
I remember when you have only 300 something subscribers
I remember it like it was 1.7 months ago.
Cool video. One complaint. Canada has provinces, not states. Alberta is a province
5:10 *Province, not state. Also, FYI the 'e' in Alberta is a short 'e', not pronounced with the long 'a' sound. I'd also like to say that I appreciate the animation from Dead Sound.
The gorgosaurus is indeed quite gorgeous
much speculation and theory but it is interesting
Ok so I heard previously that gorgosaurus wasn’t a correct taxon, and it was renamed as nanuqsaurus, what happened to that?
My understanding is that nanuqsaurus was first called gorgosaurus, then albertosaurus and then they created a new genus = nanuqsaurus.
So to explain because I worked on its fossils the land that the animal was originally found in and we were digging in turned out to be private land owned by natives and because of that the natives put out a request to be the ones to name it so in the region of Canada and Alaska gorgosaurus was later renamed to Nanuqsaurus(polar bear lizard).
@@debergevinhugues4104 ok so it’s a subspecies or just another name for gorgosaurs in that region?
@@Fluffyeye47 it was both at one point but in recent studies the Gorgosaurus sub species found in Canada where I had studied it, was renamed to Nanuqsaurus and later classified as a Tyrannosauridae while, Gorgosaurus is classified as a Albertosauridae. That’s the difference
There are 2 well preserved, mostly complete specimens in the AMNH in NY
why does this man only have 5k subscribers
He's copying Dr. Polaris
Was this the time of Godzilla or after?
This sounds like t Rex with extra steps
Well not really. If anything, T-Rex is gorgosaurus with extra steps.
@@kade-qt1zu you've got a point
Extreme aggression and plain savagery towards each other, seems to run in the tyrannosaur family. Wonder why it was so prevalent in this specific family even compared to other theropods
May be the more aggressive male tyrannosaurs were more likely to win fights over females. which would then reproduce and pass their traits onward possibly
@@kole6150 Females are bigger in tyrannosaurs...
@@thisisnami6054 No I meant as in males would’ve fought eachother for mating rights
@@kole6150 Ooooh, right
@@thisisnami6054 Since when have female tyrannosaurs been bigger?
The Canadian 'state' of AlBEARta.... Loooooool.
What a design of these Apex predators back then.
Hopefully see this in ark
5:11 sorry bro, Canada doesn't have States, it has Provinces .
I know this is not relevant for the video but i still thought i would correct this mistake, just cuz ;-)
Still a good video 🙂
Gorgosaurus should be more recognized
GOR-GOR!
Whoever remembers the pterodactyl making fun of the gorgosaurus’s arms 🤣
Alberta isn't a state! IT'S A PROVINCE! There are many differences between them. Like a state has more control over its laws, provinces do NOT! States are smaller in size, province are huge! They are not the same thing!!! Other than that though, your videos pretty solid dude.
who cares
@@Texasmade74 I do, cause I'm Canadian, so I can bitch and moan about this all I dam well want.
@@Texasmade74
The people who know that the United states isn't the center of the world. (Its ok, you can take a moment to get over the shock)
@@Novafire194 no one ever said it was
A word of wisdom would have been, do not be in the neighborhood when Gorgosaurus was hunting for dinner or else you might have ended up on the menu.
I wonder if they just ended up hybridizing with other tyrannosaurs?
A faster smaller tyrannosaur? This sounds uniquely terrifying even compared to T rex.
How
5:13 Province of Alberta :)
Gorgosaurus and Albertosaurus always confused me since they're so close in relative size.
Great video, only thing alberta isn't a state, it's a province
I legitimately thought Gorgosaurus was just a Toho character from the movie King Kong Escapes! I had no idea this was a real dinosaur shows what I know
You’re thinking of Gorosaurus
@@Jurassicstudios yeah you're right it has been years since I watched that one
Cool overview. Couple things though - Canada has provinces and territories, not states. Please do not refer to Alberta as a state. New evidence shows that Gorgosaurus and Albertosaurus might just be subspecies of each other or even the same species and not distinct species.
Boohoo
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I wonder if this two species could interbreed with each other on rare occasion.
correction is that if Im right then gorgosaurus is actually nanuqsaurus
No, Gorgosaurus is still valid because it was thought to have lived in two spots. Dinosaur park formation and prince creek formation. The price creek Gorgosaurus was later revealed to be Nanuqsaurus, but Gorgosaurus is still its own species as the ones in Dinosaur park are still valid.
There are many North American tyrannosaurs worthy of the “dreaded” label
Like Rex itself
same goes for many Dromaeosaurs worthy of the "quick" label. It's just that it fits a particular species, not that it doesn't fit anyone else
@@denisucuuu Actually most dromaeosaurs were slower than previously thought and were in fact, solitary endurance hunters that maay have occasionally mobbed larger prey
As someone who lives in north america ocean city I am proud
So they paid over $6 million dollars for this skeleton. Do these museums make enough money to get profit off that type of investment?
They had planes 65 million years ago? Enough is enough! I have had it with these mothrfn dinosaurs on this mothrfn plane!
Isn't Gorgo a Dubious Gene, and is thought to be Albertosaurus?
Nope. They are separate species.
its a sister taxon as far I know never read anything else
Is Gorgosaurus the Ancestor of Albertosaurus?
There's always talk about Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus coexisting. What other Tyrannosaurs existed together?
Nanotyrannus notwithstanding.
Alioramus and Tarbosaurus also coexisted in the Nemegt Formation. However, unlike with Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus, there was a massive size difference between Alioramus and Tarbosaurus.
Also, Nanotyrannus is not a valid genus. It's just a juvenile Rex.
Canada has no states, we have provinces, at 5:12
the lipless upper jaw (where teeth are visible) is not scientifically accurate, i suppose?
Yep. It just makes more sense for Gorgosaurus and almost all theropods yo have lips, just like most modern animals.
The king before t rex?
hehe
@@ExtinctZoo Bruh bro why????
couldn't be the Crest function as a "Sunglasses" ?
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
in the game path of titans u can play as a gorg. someone on youtube told me they shouldn’t add the albertasaurus bc it’s basically a nerfed version of the gorg only thing he admitted was it would prob b faster then gorg… why did they add rex then? gorg is a basically a nerf version of rex. why add suchomimus it’s basically a nerfed version of spino? ppl amaze me everyday lmao
Canada has provinces, not states. FYI
Great video! I recommend leaving some small pauze between sentences, it feels unnatural and exasperating to hear one long continuing story without the storyteller taking a breath..
You gotta do a video on the 7-8 ton menace that was spinosaurus
13 tons? Spinosaurus average estimates are 6 tons at present. 13 tons is extremely unlike even on the higher end
@@GODEYE270115 bro what?
It was referred by a lot of people to of weighed 6-7 tons but the most recent and accurate estimates are 8 tons and from what I hear 9-10 tons.
This was a 15 meter creature we’re talking about here and contrary to popular belief it wasn’t skinny.
And not too long ago a renowned paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim who’s none for his studies on spinosaurus stated it likely weighed more than 7-8 tons and likely weighed 10-12 metric tons. So while it’s not as likely as 8 tons it could’ve possibly reached that.
And the last 6 ton estimate I’ve seen was by Dan folkes which as a while ago so I’m not sure where you got this 6 ton idea.
@@GODEYE270115 all I’m saying is that the most recent estimate was 8.2 tons or 7.4 metric tons.
Nizar made another study but I’m not trying to pay 30 bucks to read it, though I heard from someone that he estimated it at 9-10 tons. I may be wrong though🤷🏿♂️
@@TaurusSaurus it wasn’t skinny but it sure wasn’t built like a tank either. Specimens are too few and far in between to say it can be over 10 tons. It’s just like Sue Trex vs Scotty Trex, Scotty may have higher estimates but Sue is more complete and has more solid proof for the 8+ ton estimates
Highly unlikely spino could reach 10+ tons
@@GODEYE270115 yeah but the same goes for the 6-7 ton estimate.
As of right now the most accurate estimate is. 8.2 tons and I heard that in Ibrahim’s most recent paper in may he estimated it at 9.5 tons because of the increased density. Now I may be wrong here so I’d go with 8.2 tons possibly higher as I’ve heard Paul (who did the estimate) reduced the density so it could be higher.
*Provence* of albirta
Gorgosaurus and Albertasaurus are almost certainly the same animal. It’s even possible we’re seeing sexual dimorphism here with one being male and the other female but who knows which?
Canadian province, we don’t have states
How does someone create what any dinosaur from 65 million years looked like???
Gigasourus