Extinct Animals from Ancient History
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- Dive into the astonishing world of extinct creatures with our latest episode! From the monstrous Smilodon to the colossal Titanoboa, uncover the mysteries of ancient beasts that once roamed the Earth.
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You or your scriptwriter seem to have gotten cassowaries (big, dangerous birds from Australia) confused with ostriches (that are from *Africa*).
AI prob wrote it and Simon is prob AI creation
Well, technically he’s not wrong, there are ostriches in the wilds of Australia, thanks to some failures to farm them in the 1800’s and 1900’s.
Nope native to Australia you ding dong
I assume it's just Simon reading. Like he read a couple of the animal names wrong in this video as well and it's rather common to hear him say names completely wrong.
I’m pretty sure as far as Australian birds go the cassowary it the most likely to unalive you
The ostrich isn't even Australian. 😬
@adamduncan5971 maybe he's going to the zoo 🤷♂️
@@adamduncan5971 I think is obvious he meant emu
That was my first thought, has he never heard of the Great Blue Terror?
@@alancox5777Yup also he's not writing the scripts and he's more than likely upset with the discrepancy he's caught them before.
I remember going to a natural history museum in Australia, as a young boy, (so 40-45 years ago), and there was a model of a giant spider, about the size of a large dog. One of the facts I recall about it, was that it was so large, it needed lungs, which arachnids don't have.
I'm guessing it was the product of bad science, or subsequently disproved, as I've never really seen it represented anywhere else.
It was truly nightmare inducing, as evidenced by the fact I still can clearly recall the display...
Would it have been a megarachne? Its the biggest spider to have ever lived apperantly.
@choughed3072 normally I'd say yes, but if my memory serves, it was a museum about prehistoric Australia, which is why it was part of a school excursion. Megarachne wasn't in Australia, is my understanding. Given that much of what I learnt about dinosaurs as a child is now debunked, I figure this is one more example.
@@choughed3072 the megarachne was initially mistaken for a giant spider, but its not, turns out it was a notable eurypterid
Arachnids have book lungs which are a very basic version of a lung
2:45 - That guy behind Andrewsarchus is impressively tall! 😲
I was just about to rip on that fact too! C'mon editors get it together lol
Yes
How tall, stood up, not all fours, to who's shoulder, what's the man looking image for, why use illustration to be confusing of, wtaf and that'll do for now.
Between that diagram and stating that ostriches are from Australia, this video has put a big question mark on the channels credibility.
I was about to ask why they used Robert Wadlow as the comparison figure.
It has to be Jokic
you won't be finding any wild ostrich in Australia and very few in captivity, instead you'll find the emu which is a much smaller yet still very large flightless bird, although the cassowary is considered to be much more aggressive and likely to kill you
But Australia does have feral or wild ostrich population… didn’t you know?
@@_NicBPsure, but no one is afraid of the ostriches in Australia - but if you head into the rainforest, be wary of the cassowaries
a very very very very small feral ostrich population (estimated at around 50) the odds of someone seeing one is very low, the odds of a tourist seeing one is functionally 0
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Titanoboa looks like he's about to petrify some mudbloods.
I love the Whistler-verse but these science ones often push my pedantry into a crisis.
1) Smilodon was NOT more closely related to lion than a tiger. The reason it’s correct to say ‘cat’ and not ‘tiger’ is because it was part of the Felidae family, but was not part of the Panthera ‘big cat’ family to which both tigers and lions belong (and are just about closely enough related to be able to partially breed) and nor the family to which small cats, Felinae (everything from your domestic moggie up to Cheetahs and their closest relatives pumas / cougars / mountain ‘lions’). These sabre toothed cats specifically sat just outside these two groups within the Machairodontinae. Its mighty teeth were also likely weak point meaning they were probably not used as forcefully as a lion’s canines to asphyxiate prey but perhaps for inflicting fatal blood loss upon a victim already subdued by those mighty paws
2) Although fragmentary at best, there are more remains than a single Andrewsarchus skull exist, and in fact more than one species within the genus. I believe the latest indication is that it would count Hippos amongst its most closely related extant families, it appears to be equally as closely related to all cetaceans (whales and dolphins), and more closely related to the extinct Entelodont ‘hell pigs’ (which were not pigs…). The interesting thing about these is that they were most likely hoofed creatures which has led some to quip they were sheep in wolves clothing.
3) I don’t believe there is a consensus that the Phorusrhacidae had poor sense of smell, I’ve seen the statement repeated on some websites but the opposite reported in papers. The size estimates are realistic because there are many other species that have been more completely recovered. As these truly are the descendants of the terrestrial theropod dinosaurs, what I find amazing about these bird is that they picked up where their non-avian family left off after the Cretaceous extinction. They also survived until amazing recently, and far from being simply wiped out by ‘superior’ mammal predators, they were one of the few creatures to colonise North America when the two Americas joined rather than the majority of travel in the other direction. As for their only living relatives, the phorusrhacids are not the ancestors to the extant seriema but rather relatives. The phorusrhacids diverged from the Cariama and their last common ancestor necessarily predates the earliest terror birds at 53 million years ago.
^^^ this exactly!
Curious if you can answer this for me… Simon says andrewsarchus was found by the sea in Mongolia… to the best of my knowledge, there exist exactly 0 seas in Mongolia. Does he mean an ancient sea that has since disappeared? Perhaps one of the larger lakes in Mongolia? Or?
Absolutely love your comment by the way, very edifying.
@@italianstalionism I did try to reply to this once but TH-cam seems to have crashed so apologies if this is shorter!
I don’t know much about the Irdin Manha Formation, a quick google suggest a rich variety of large terrestrial mammals are found here but there’s not too much about the palaeo environment. If you look up ‘ancient earth globe’ you should find a website called dinosaur pictures which has an amazing interactive globe. Looking at Inner Mongolia 50MYA, shortly before A.mongoliensis existed in the Eocene, the coastline appears to intrude further into China than at any other point since the Cretaceous.
The location of the remains doesn’t tell us too much about the ecology of Andrewsarchus though as it is most common that the most significant fossils come from remains of creatures that are quickly deposited by water and buried by sediment after death before scavenging, rot (in anoxic conditions) and erosion can take place and allow mineralisation to occurs.
This sedimentary rock in which the remains are found can tell us a lot about the location but much less about the animal itself as its final resting place was somewhat incidental.
Inference about the behaviour and diet of the creature would be better served by studying morphology and wear of its dentition. I believe isotopic analysis can be quite useful in calculating the source of its diet but I don’t know how far back in time this approach works..
With only a rough guess at where the fossils were found and a very quick google as I’ve not yet had time to really look, it seems like the formation was Inner Mongolia within China rather than Mongolia the modern state, which as you rightly point out has precisely 0 oceanic coastlines and I believe that same was true 40-50MYA
Added to this the fact that ostrich come from Africa ( not Australia) and the terrible scale of the human next to the Andrewsarchus graphic, I must conclude this upload is bordering on AI farm quality.
@@italianstalionismsea levels were much higher at the time Andrewsarchus was around (about 45 million years ago), so it was probably the shoreline of the ocean at that time.
1:12 "The Ostrich really is the Chuck Norris of birds."
Said by someone who is not familiar with the Cassowary, clearly.
5:13 “Snakes are very much the Marmite of the animal kingdom.”
That’s gotta be one of Simon’s all-time best quotes
what’s a marmite?
@@ericrodrigues9631 A spread made of yeast extract. "You either love it or hate it."
"Your scientist were so preoccupied whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."
-- Ian Malcolm
Personally think the Cassowary is a much more intimidating bird than an Ostrich.😂
Or even an Emu
Ostrich may be Chuck Norris, but the cassowary is Bruce Lee
Bro, the Cassowary doesn’t fuck around. I’m convinced they hate humans. 😂😂😂😂
So does that mean the shoe-bill stork is Adrian Brody?
So a goose is Steven Seagal ?
@@DrDeuteron dont you dare disrespect geese like that.
@@dantemoose420 idk, do you know another flightless waddling bird that likes strip clubs? I guess geese fly, I was all kinds of wrong.
Sabertooth CAT wasn't a tiger. It's not even a member of the panthera genus. It's a member of the felidae genus. Meaning the sabertooth is more closely related to your pet cat than a tiger.
Guy next to Andrewsarchus is 10 ft tall
We don't have ostriches in Australia hahahaha Emu and Cassowary yeah I'm pretty high rn but I've never seen a ostrich walking around out in the bush 😅 😂😂
I'm guessing the Ostrich must have flown from Africa to Australia 😆
How do you get marijuana in Australia? Or do you have different drugs?
Yes, Australia does, madissom1018. Whilst not native to Australia, we do indeed now have a “feral” or wild population of ostriches.
@@astro-blaster4190 What do you mean hahahahah you can get drugs in any country 😂
Medical bud and some meth mate and there I am three days later no sleep and stoned as having Simon cook about ostriches in Australia 😂😂😂😂
@@_NicBP I was well aware there was obviously no native species and that obviously people had bought them here they didn't just pop up out of no where 😂
"...the Chuck Norris of birds." made me spit out my drink. I love the unexpected humor of the writers and Simon's delivery.
0:35 - Chapter 1 - The smilodon
1:50 - Chapter 2 - Andrewsarchus
3:25 - Chapter 3 - The short faced bear
5:10 - Chapter 4 - Titanoboa
7:10 - Chapter 5 - The wooly mammoth
9:50 - Chapter 6 - Terror birds
"well over 6 feet tall at the shoulder"
*Shows a human for scale indicating maybe 4 foot height at shoulder*
lol why is Simon talking about ostriches being from Australia when they are native to Africa? Is he thinking of the Cassowary which is the most deadly bird and from Australia? Feel like this vid kinda misses a few factoids since ostriches are pretty unimpressive and would flee when provoked.
Although they may not be native to Australia they are quite often farmed there and there are small populations of wild ones there (due to escapees) I remember watching a video about it a while back. Also yes ostriches would tend to flee but if they cannot they will kick and farmed ones are particularly vicious 🤣
@@slayingroosters4355 hey, don't underestimate the emu, they beat the Australian army during the "Emu War".
@@slayingroosters4355 lol yeah I would never just automatically assume Australia when talking about them. They are farmed in America as well and their meat is pretty good, a little too lean for me but still. I thought he was gonna bring up the emu war lmao.
Animals often originated far from where they’re now found. Camels first appeared in North America. Opossums migrated to North America. And this is from before human intervention. Horses evolved in the American west, went extinct on this continent, but had established populations in Asia, and humans brought them back.
And an ostrich will stomp you to death. They often kill lions when attacked. Yes, their first choice is run, but when that’s not an option… They have several options for defense, like all animals.
@@ssmurf2990 i never heard of emu war. That's kinda hilarious
9:57 Pretty sure that name has got nothing to do with Gorillas and more with Guillermo. 😂
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What a champion comment ❤️ so simple yet so needed.
You have a great day too mate!
Dude in the comparison shoot must be like 12 ft tall if it was 6 ft at the shoulder
Honestly, this doesn’t even even sound like Simon. It really sounds like an AI spoof channel.
Man I love this channel, but this video is mess with all the errors :|
You could quite reasonably argue that when it comes to animals, the world is a fairly fascinating place.
The crazy thing is, most reptiles (especially snakes) don't really stop growing until death. Titaniboa could in theory, get even larger.
Just finished your video, great video by the way....
Question:
Are you going to make a part 2 of this? After all you failed to mention something the king from Australia that we were glad that it's now extinct. It's a species monitor lizard, except this one is approximately the same length as a school bus, and can weigh close to as much!!
I think you might meen cassowary there mate 👍👍
Every single Aussie just face-palmed at the 10min mark... Enjoyable video though 😂 Keep up the fun content Simon 👍👍
Aussie here, didn’t face-palm. We do have wild ostriches.
@@_NicBP we have "feral" ostriches. 😉
I would rather see the dodo bird brought back from extinction than the mammoth. I would also like to see the Moa bird than the Mammoth. Go team chocobo!
I'd like them to bring back the Tasmanian Tiger!
i absolutely love this channel
Thanks for sharing 😀👍
Here early, but thankfully not early enough for these beasts to still be around 🙌
Cant wait for the dawg beeting video's later this week.
"Just how big were they? . . . Well, they were pretty big." Thank you, Simon.
My most sincere apologies for the ostrich mixup.
Been doing this for too long for such amateur mistakes. Will do better :-)
10:50 “3M (10M)”
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Simon, we are distinctly SHORT of ostriches here in Australia - only to be found in zoos! Methinks you're either thinking of the emu, which does have a mean kick if it could be bothered or, much more likely, the CASSOWARY, which definitely could disembowel you if you approached it the wrong way! For a fact man you can occasionally get things rather embarrassingly wrong!
When are you doing a video about the giant? The one used to scale the Andrewsarchus. Can't wait to see that one!!!
DAMN NATURE! You scary!
You are all over the board with the subjects of your channels but I'm here for it.👍
Even if they bring mammoths back, it won’t be an actual mammoth because it will learn from elephants, so it will just be a hairy elephant
Instinct is genetic. 😂
It doesn't make sense to me that they even want to, it's been extinct for so long and there already isn't enough space for all the existing animals since we constantly make their habitats smaller. The dodo seems much more logical to me since it's been extinct for a much smaller amount of time but if I remember correctly it's a much more difficult process.
@@sophieweinrich6545 I dunno about not having room for them. But they are of a different time and climate and probably wouldn't do well I'm a much warmer climate. On the whole though I am uncertain about the ethics of the whole thing. Seems wrong to me on that level.
The biomass of every living creature on earth would easily fit in one province of Canada. There's plenty of space.
@@dacatindahat8275 I don't mean it like that, but that we encroach on habitats more and more to make more space for us. Also, those habitats tend to not be connected to each other.
Of course the whole climate and time thing is a big issue too but experts know that and most likely account for that while reprogramming the DNA. I don't believe it's ethical either, maybe with a much more recent extinction I'd have a different opinion since they would probably still find a place for themselves in the ecosystem but the time for the wooly mammoth is definitely over and we shouldn't bring back animals that have no place in this world anymore. And who knows what would go wrong, I think of it a little like an invasive species and as far as I know there has never been a case where it hasn't created more problems even though the species was sometimes placed there to solve one.
Now that I think about it, that probably wasn't the ethical dilemma you were thinking of, was it?
You would sadly have better luck with a cassowary
Simon talking about ostriches like their from Australia is just dissapointing
Come on fact boi!😂😂😂😂😂
I already consider the ostrich a fluffy Easter chick when compared to the Cassowary.
If you're talking about Emus, they're not particularly killy, but if you actually meant Cassowaries, then yeah, they'll kill you as soon as look at you! An Army friend of mine was chased up a tree by one while on training in the Daintree Forrest. This is in reference to the Ostrich section of the video...
I refuse to believe Sun Bears are actual bears and not just a man in a bear costume
Hello
Entire scientific community: "Global temperatures are going to dramatically rise over the next 100 years."
Tech bro geneticists: "What if we make a mammoth?"
Just goes to show, no matter how much you get right, people will always focus on your wrongs.
The wrongs are more important, I suppose. Do you pass a test based on the correct answers, or the wrong ones?
The ostrich isn't even a native Australian species. Wack comparison.
Simon come visit South Africa to come see Ostriches!
Anyone else out there just assume that the paleontologist named Andrew Sarchus named the animal after himself?
damn RIP Andy Sarkis, didn't realize he went extinct
So close to a million subs!!!!
1:44 If that artistic impression it's accurate,the Smilodon likely ate smaller prey and used their teeth as rakes instead of harpoons, as they can't open their mouths wide enough to bite large prey. Some food for thought. 😜
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Ostriches come from Africa, Australia also has two flightless birds, the Emu (much like an Ostrich but a bit smaller, it can be dangerous), and the Cassowary which is smaller again but much more dangerous, it has been known to disembowel people with its long claws on it's feet.
Marmite! Thanks to a Brain Blaze episode I recently saw I know what this is and why it’s a funny reference!
There are no claws that can rip thru steel not even ones made out of a harder material the problem with cutting steel is the fact the metal is really hard to move out of the way.
Types of tigers still alive today, get *_much_* bigger than lions. Male Siberian tigers get nearly _double._ Even female Siberians ovelap with smaller (adult) male lions.
One of my favorite extinct animals, is the Platybelodon. An ancient elephant, with a hippo-sized mouth, inside it’s trunk. Google it, and watch your jaw hit the floor.
Well a snake names vasuki indicus is also been found which is larger than titanaboa
Andrew Sarchus sounds like an accountant with a pocket protector.
So... kelenken guillermoi was a massive meat eating toucan from a long lost paleolithic hell, *CHECK*.
Best ancient animal video yet. Thank you for pointing out that all we have is fossils and in most cases very few. Also pointing out that all the statements made about the animals are at best educated guesses and least just normal guesses. Oh and btw we have dinosaur DNA as well since they have found living tissue of dinosaurs making them about then 5000-10000years old since science says that that tissue has a half life of 5000 years and that is observable science. I say if we bring back the mammoth and dodo we might as well go full Jurassic Park and bring back the dinosaurs. If your gonna play god don’t hold back go all in on it.
Titanoboa is fascinating
6:58 Modern day Burmese Pythons eat American Alligators in the Everglades...
So yeah, it definitely would have been eating crocodilians
With a couple of recent lists like this one, maybe we could get a list of extinct animals from within the last 500 years or so?
The Tasmanian Tiger is still alive today in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. An area cut off from humans high in the mountainous region.
No it’s not.
Actually, experts aren't sure whether it's still alive or not but there's much speculation including them living there but nothing has been confirmed.
I watched a short documentary about it just recently.
A 50ft long 2000lbs snake, too big to go through a door, is absolutely terrifying. Something tells me it ate things much bigger than fish....
Thats nightmare fuel of the highest octane
Kill-stealing is easier than predation because predators don't want to get injured fighting over a single meal (an injury that is not immediately fatal can still be fatal in the long run), but prey will fight to the death because there's nothing else for it.
Given how at least some Terrorbirds had forward pointing stubby wings with two claws on each they were basically Sauropod 2.0. A literal Raptor, if you will.
Smiley Don would make a nice pet.
"1,135 kg (1.25 tons)" That's not how the metric system works 🤔
All the ivory hunters just rubbed their hands together and went mwahahahaha!
Oh really? I thought Andrewsarchus played the waiter in Fawlty Towers.
This is the closest I will get to a Simon animal channel
I'm a bit surprised that they didn't put sarcosuchus imperator on the list.
Everyone who has played Ark: Survival knows these species, but even in the game, it can be hard to imagine just how big they were.
Monstrous killing machine, cuts to cubs playing 😄
Love all these videos on all the channels. If they re-engineer the wholly mammoth they won’t be mammoths. They’ll be more akin to the Borg than to the OG wholly mammoth after all the genome hacking and slashing. Still cool though.
"Some experts claim could cut through steel", are these experts on steel? What kind of steel? This statement is too broad and isn't super impressive given that mild steel that's thin isn't hard to cut through.
I was thinking mythbuster style of expert when that was said
I do not doubt the strength of the cat but since the claws are made of keratin, I really don’t think they could cut through steel either. It is far more likely that the claws would snap off than slice through. I guess it was lucky for them that their prey were trapped in the Stone Age.
For bears, the Kodiak is also worth mentioning.
Was a bit sad the Monty Pythonus didn't make the list, but then it got assigned to an existing genus, so the monty part of it's name went away
Simon, you should have included Arctodus simus which was the Giant Short faced bear that only died out toward the end of the last glaciation about 12,800 years ago. Some of these were believed to have been the largest land based carnivores to exist since the Dinosaurs perished in the mishap of navigation 65 million years ago !!
There are some who believe they may still be alive in the remotest parts of Alaska and Siberia - although no conclusive evidence has been found - its unlikely, but not impossible. The Yeti has been shown, at least from samples obtained from locals and monastaries, so be various species of known, but rare bears - which have rarely been seen or photographed
I've never heard 'turtles" pronounced so majestically!
Animals!
Speaking of animals I have to beet my dawg after i leave this comment.
the smilodon... cause when it SMILES at u, ure DONE for😂
Carnivorous Hippopotamus is a horrifying combination.
Vasuki indicus you missed it
Hi Simon. Youre nice 😊
There's official video footage of Simon throwing a box full of half-alive newborn puppies into a Taco Bell dumpster.
The bird graphic has an error, it says it was "3 m (10 m)" should be "3 m (10 ft)" 10:50
On giant flightless birds the largest "Man" has co-existed with were the Moa in New Zealand. The largest known Moa is (i got the figure from Wikipedia) 3.6m / 12ft tall.
They were hunted to extinction by the Maroi in the 15th century, but archeologists have found more than bones- som sodt tissue ...skin, feathers, muscle have been recovered and studied - so this is another animal we could potentially revive (,given we are as a species responsible for its extinction it seem reasonable thing to me).
the marmite reference made me shudder xD tried it and it smelled and tasted about the same as what wet moldy socks smell like.. never making that mistake again xD
What if we bring back a T-Rex and it’s just as cuddly as your average dog?
As someone who loves snakes... Imagining a snake so big it struggles to get through a door is terrifying.
Simon forgot that Titanoboa has been dethroned by Vasuki Indicus found in 2024 in Gujarat State, India as the largest snake to have ever lived.
Last i was this early, titanoboa was still around.
Nobody in Australia is worried about the Ostrich. Firstly they are only really in zoos, the Emu is the closest relative here & even tho they won the Emu War nobody in Australia gets too worried when we see one.
A Cassowary however is basically a fluffy velociraptor and not to be messed with.
Fun fact: last mammoths were alive while Pyramids were built
From where u get this knowledge?
That lion things claws look insane