Mapusaurus | The Giant Killer of Late Cretaceous Argentina
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- What is worse than a giant, hungry, bloodlust theropod? Seven of them, and that is exactly what you got with the Mapusaurus, an almost perfect replica of Giganotosaurus, which loved to hunt in large packs, in order to take down the largest of the large, the Argentinosaurus. This carcharodontosaurid ruled Late Cretaceous Patagonia (Argentina) with an iron fist for millions of years, causing fear among all dinosaurs and especially in the sauropods. It was the perfect killer, bearing razor sharp teeth that cut through flesh like a hot knife through butter and “fortunately” for the Argentinosaurus, increased its deadliness by pack hunting with other Mapusauruses. This was truly a terrifying sauropod killer who was unchallenged as the apex predator and would make any theropod proud!
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For someone reason, the situation with Mapusaurus and Giganotosaurus reminds me of Bumblebee and Cliffjumper from Transformers. If you don't know, those two have very similar designs, so the fandom usually views Bumblebee as the famous one, while Cliffjumper is mostly known as the one that looks like Bumblebee. It's kind of the same here, Giganotosaurus is the famous one, while Mapusaurus is mainly known as the dinosaur that looks like Giganotosaurus but isn't. Luckily, after Planet Dinosaur, it seems Mapusaurus is getting the recognition it deserves.
Not so true from the moment that giga has yet to appear in documentary and mapusaurus has appeared at least in 3
@@user-ze3lk1ov5b And yet in 2 of those documentaries it is called Giganotosaurus.
They identified him as mapusaurus giants of Patagonia , planet dinosaur and chased by dinosaurs hopefully giga will make his first appearance in the documentary surviving earth in 2024
@@user-ze3lk1ov5b you're not making any sense
@@farhanatashiga3721 That's has to do with your low IQ not what I am trying to say
Mapusaurus rosaea size through out the years
2005s - 4 tons & 10m
2010s- 5 tons & 11.5m
2015s- 6.9 tons & 12.2m
2021-22- 8.3 tons & 12.5m
Now - 9.12 tons & 12.9m
Wow Mapusaurus is getting bigger in day by day
Huh? No legitimate estimate of Mapusaurus ever crossed 8 tons
@@niharg2011 The dino was slimmer than a trex and was nearly the same length (shorter) but apparently it means its heavier and bigger than a trex... talk about click bait.
This is slightly outdated, Mapusaurus currently sits at 7.91 tonnes and 12.3 meters, making it the second largest Carcharodontosaurid. It and Giganotosaurus we're both extremely fast for their sizes.
Mapusaurus most likely did hunt alone, only grouping together when there's 1 large prey (Like a group of Argent's), similar to Allosaurus. BUT it most likely wasn't chaos, forming a loose pack, using tactics, but they would eat or attack each other if one was dead or extremely wounded.
However, it was unlikely, but it could've hunted it groups.
An amazing theropod for sure.
7.91 tonnes & 12.3m long!!
Second largest carcharodontosaurid!!
wow someone takes dinosaurs and their sizes so seriously in these days
@@spinosaurussp It was also has gotten a size buff aswell, to 8.8 tonnes
@@theskyis_black9074 it was gotten size buffed from 4 tons in 2000s to 9.12 tons ( in 2023) beat the likes of Carcharodontosaurus, Spinosaurus, Tyrannotitan in size which were thought to be way bigger than it
@@SheshaZillasource for the 9.12 tons estimate.
@@theskyis_black9074it's now 12.3m & 8.2 tonnes
What if Mapusaurae were pack hunters who simply chased their prey until it became tired and stumbled and fell? This is how wolves hunt bison, and a sauropod which went down would not be able to get back up to defend itself.
@Ewan Callister what? No, Komodo dragons hunt the way they do because they are venemous
@@alcyon7536 No. Komodo dragons have serrated teeth that act as knives and cause their prey to bleed out. The toxin is only there to amplify the damage by preventing the blood from clotting. They hunt by bleeding their prey out.
@Ewan Callister
Komodo dragons do not bite and then just wait for their prey to die. They continue attacking and bite repeatedly until the prey is disabled, instead of just waiting…much as wolves do (but without hunting cooperatively).
So the idea carcharodontosaurids just bit prey and waited (whether alone, in unorganized mobs, or cooperatively) is actually not based on any living analogue. Like Komodo dragons, they would instead have attacked relentlessly and bitten again and again until the wounds built up.
The sauropod doesn't run away - it uses it bulk, neck, tails, legs and claws as weapons. They would probably go for the weak, disabled, injured or old - easy pickings.
@Ewan Callister You said exactly the opossite
You said they wait for their prey to die
Meanwhile he said they continue attacking
It's not the same to just attack once like You said
And attack múltiple times like he said
Maybe You wanted to Say that in your mind
(My phone has a problem with You that makes it start with a Y instead of just doing it with y ,sorry for that)
1:00 the Allosaurus just keeps on giving. One amazing Dinosaur after another.
If it was a tar pit, wouldn't there be a lot more fossils of other animals too?
Yup there should be some Skorpiovenator in there too, given no large Carnivore would pass up a scavenging opportunity
Tons of small animals and pterosaurs too,despite the fragile bones Teratornis are very common in La Brea
Mapu, Giga and the other SA Carcharadontids lived among a lot of sauropods, not just giants. I think it may be a bit of stretch to think they were hunting some of the largest sauropods in history when there were so much smaller and manageable genera of sauropod in their environment (Rebbachisaurids in particular only got to around 7-8 tons) and were plentiful / diverse in formations with giant Carcharadontids.
I'd say most would probably still prefer hunting smaller preys over giant sauropods unless they're young or sickly old individuals though
If they did work together, "a stretch", then it would be feasible for them to take down larger prey. Its very unusual for lions to hunt elephants but it has been observed and documented. So it is probably very unlikely but there is a possibility. Again assuming they did work together, alone ... pretty much impossible
South America is a home of giant theropods. Plenty of giants like Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, Tyrannotitan, Meraxes Gigas, Oxalaia etc were lived there & plenty of them are waiting to discover
@@dralord1307 I've seen lions hunt large prey, but I've never seen them even try and attempt to take on a fully grown adult elephant and never a bull.
@@RobChurch1988 there was a big documentary on it. But yes a large pride did in fact adopt it as a main hunting strategy. IIRC there was a bit of a drought that year and elephants were the main available food source. They did take down adult females i remember. Not sure about bulls. You can probably find the docu here on youtube
My second favorite Carcharodontosaurid, just after Concavenator. Amazing job on the video!
As a Path of Titans player I hate Concas with a passion lol
paleolologist: UR not a normal therapod.
Maposaurus: Why thank you.
Narrator: Mapusaurus you are not a normal theropod
Mapusaurus: you all are abnormal
I mean some dudes literally named one Dinosaur 'Allosaurus' Different Lizard.
Great video, I admittedly had no clue about the giga confusion.
It was believed that the fossils of Mappusaurus belonged to a New species of Giganotosaurus, which now we know it wasn't the case.
"Up to no good" naughty naughty Mapusaurus doing what you evolved to do and striving to survive 😂
I've seen more than one film of a pod of killer whales attack & kill a blue whale. I can therefore believe that a huge dinosaur can be killed by a pack of much smaller ones. A very interesting video. Thank You
Another fire vid🔥
Nice video!👍
I love these type of videos
Why didn't Mapusaurus evolved to have stronger bite like T-rex if they were hunting large Sauropods?
Stronger bites were useless when hunting this large and fleshy Sauropods, that's why they had shark-like teeth to tear off chunks of flesh of live pre, potentially killing prey due to blood loss or disease.
think about ho useless a crocodile bite is against an elephant. that's how a Tyrannosaur hunts and how they ae actually poorly suited to hunt sauropods.
@@eybaza6018
The teeth were for outright killing (via blood loss and slicing damage). The idea carcharodontosaurids were flesh-grazers is based on no evidence whatsoever and makes no sense-it’s just as suicidal as trying to kill a sauropod for a smaller reward.
@Ewan Callister they would bleed out prey, but they wouldn’t just bite prey and wait like often assumed. Predators that kill with blood loss and shock (even Komodo dragons) don’t actually hunt like that, but try to either target the vitals for a quick kill or attack continuously without giving any respite to wear down the prey.
@@bkjeong4302 Still, flesh grazing could lead to death, especially with far larger Sauropods difficult to kill conventionally simply because of their sheer size.
as an Argentinian i love that we had a lot of cool dinosaurs. :D
Us Venezuelans only have 2
2:35 awesome! A bone bed like that is more rare then winning the lottery.
If they did participate in pack hunting I suspect it would be like what is seen in modern birds where individuals would only come together by circumstance to take down large prey but don’t live together. I’m imagining situations where a sick sauropod would be singled out and stalked by a growing pack of mapusaurus until enough had gathered and then they would either all rush in at once and swarm the target or take turns effectively performing strafing runs wearing down the target
I think that when mapusaurus hunted it was chaos because of the bones found in Patagonia with them all being different ages shows that it was chaos hunting and that they are trying to hunt the strongest dinosaur ever.
Thinking of it as a Pokémon raid battle in Pokémon go, where there's the clearly strong ones, and the small ones trying to steal the kill
It cracks me up when experts try to put some specific behavior on a 65+ million year old animal. The fact is we will never truely know how these animals hunted. Just like lions today are predominantly group hunters and tigers are solitary. Both large cats with different lifestyles. Even though lions live together I'm fairly certain it's exceedingly rare for them to all die together. Point being, in 50 million years when some paleontologist unearths a lone lion skeleton. Will they automatically suggest that lions were solitary hunters? Not everything fits into the same box. Nature is diverse. There are many examples of animals with similar anitomical features that have completely different lifestyles. There are just some things we will never know. For someone to act like they do know because their an "expert" is ludicrous and narcissistic to me.
you're clueless
@@Dr.IanPlecthe is correct
@@kchuk1965 no
@@Dr.IanPlect yes. It’s mostly common sense.
@@kchuk1965 no, there's a lot more to it
This could've been an evolved Giga as a few million of years went by. Meraxes could've been a juvenile form. I wonder what caused the extinction of the carcharodontosaurids. I don't think it's prey or predator problem, there could've been an extinction in the mid cretaceous bigger sauropods diminished due to drought or floods. Allosaurus did give rise to some special predators.
The idea Mapusaurus or any other carcharodontosaurid was a flesh-grazer is based on nothing besides then having slicing teeth (which were much more likely used to outright hunt prey, not to act as a giant parasite).
Also, the common idea of carcharodontosaurids biting prey and then just hanging back and waiting for the prey to die of its wounds is based on false ideas about how modern predators that rely on shock and blood loss kill prey. In reality, such predators either try to target internal organs to kill on the spot, or attack relentlessly (biting repeatedly in a sustained chase without just waiting for the prey to keel over) until they make the kill, and carcharodontosaurids wouldn’t have been any different.
I totally agree with your comment. I can imagine a pack of Mapusaurus hunting the same way a pack of African Wilddogs, Hyenas, and Wolves would hunt much larger prey. They would relentlessly bite their prey until it collapse from blood lost. I would also imagine these giant predators would eat a Sauropod alive. I also find it hard to believe that some scientists would believe animals as big as Mapusaurus or T-Rexes would be mostly scavengers when most scavengers we know of today don't get very big. An animal that big couldn't get that big mostly scavenging they would need fresh meat to sustain that size.
@@Cedrick_2005 you’re spot on with your comment on how big canids relentlessly attack prey until they bring it down; especially as wolves have laterally compressed canines (unlike big cats, which have conical canines) to better facilitate slashing. Carcharodontosaurids were much more specialized for slashing and cutting through unarmoured prey, through, due to a series of cranial and cervical adaptations convergent with those of sabretoothed cats (which, unlike big cats proper, relied on quick cutting bites rather than a powerful jaw grip to kill prey)
@@bkjeong4302 here's my theory on animals like Smilodon, I believe they suffocated their prey similar to big cats today. Those teeth could've been used to bite into prey to weaken them during a chase and then suffocate them like a lion or tiger. Those experiments I've seen when they tried to guest how Smilodon killed their prey I thought they went overboard.
@@Cedrick_2005
Smilodon teeth are terribly suited to suffocating prey, and far more suited to stabbing and then cutting through vitals to kill. And cats in general aren’t suited to long chases-they rely on ambush (though this wouldn’t apply to carcharodontosaurids, since theropod dinosaurs in general have much better stamina than cats).
New bone density studies place mapusaurus above Giganotosaurus in weight, while not being quite as long
And an even more recent study puts giganotosaurus back on top as the largest carcharodontosaurid, and second largest land predator of all time.
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@@keithjohnson6014 saying no followed by 20 emojis isnt an argument.
@@Why79-dx4rf ok? And? also, I didn’t mean you I meant paleo guy
@@Killerg238 what an expert...😂
They probably had learned/pack behaviors, and hunting strategies. We need to start considering more and more that these creatures were possibly social, as they were non-avian dinosaurs (bird relatives) and they likely had hybrid traits, with reptile tendencies. I, personally, believe that convergent evolution not only brings back homologous structures in different species of animals and lifeforms, but also behaviors. They may have had wolf like pack mentality.
Giganotosaurus vs mapusaurus who would win
@@mhdfrb9971 If it's a holotype then mapusaurus wins
Mapusaurus was probably faster since it was lighter, the giganotosaurus had a massive head that could knock the mapu over, though it could be a 50/50 since they’re nearly identical.
Giganotosaurus would win cuz it's the big brother of mapusaurus 😎
( 9.6 tons Giga > 8 tons Mapu)
The Mapusaurus wins, because they gang up on the Giganotosaurus.
@@Mamankzagino
@02:00 Mapusaurus staring curiously at American Jet Airplanes.❤️
im here seince 4 k and sticing to the end
Since dinosaurs don't have a prefrontal cortex, it's pretty obvious to say that they wouldn't have hunted in any social groups. Gang hunting is more accurate to say, since it doesn't involve any coordination.
Actually Argentinosaurus weighed more like 27-30 meters and since their bones were hollow (they have a lot of air pockets to make them lighter) the Argentinosaurus only weighed roughly 30-50 tons, still a beast though. 🤓🤓
No why :(
I am so sorry you had to find out like this 😔
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nice
Isnt mapu the 3rd largest carnivore behind giga and rex
Spino is the third largest
spino is a piscavore so it don't count
@@theenglishjackass5373he probably meant 3 largest megatheropod
@wholol2297 here's a comparison of top 20 largest theropods August 2023
1. Giganotosaurus- 10.5 tonnes 🥇🏆
2. Tyrannosaurus rex- 10.45 tonnes 🥈
3. Deinocheirus- 8.41 tonnes 🥉
4. Mapusaurus-8.20 tonnes 🏅
5. Spinosaurus- 7.84 tonnes 🎖
6. Sauroniops- 7.57 tonnes
7. Carcharodontosaurus- 7.49 tonnes
8. Tyrannotitan- 7.47 tonnes
9. Bahariasaurus- 7.14 tonnes
10. Camp's Theropod- 7.02 tonnes
11. Saurophaganax- 6.74 tonnes
12. Megalosaurus ingens-6.32 tonnes
13. Zhuchengtyrannus- 5.80 tonnes
14. Meraxes Gigas- 5.70 tonnes
15. Acrocanthosaurus-5.70 tonnes
16. Torvosaurus- 5.56 tonnes
17. Veterupristisaurus- 5.54 tonnes
18. Therizinosaurus- 5.50 tonnes
19. Suchomimus- 5.40 tonnes
20. Prodeinodon- 5.40 tonnes
@wholol2297 here's a comparison of top 20 largest theropods August 2023
1. Giganotosaurus- 10.5 tonnes 🥇🏆
2. Tyrannosaurus rex- 10.45 tonnes 🥈
3. Deinocheirus- 8.41 tonnes 🥉
4. Mapusaurus-8.20 tonnes 🏅
5. Spinosaurus- 7.84 tonnes 🎖
6. Sauroniops- 7.57 tonnes
7. Carcharodontosaurus- 7.49 tonnes
8. Tyrannotitan- 7.47 tonnes
9. Bahariasaurus- 7.14 tonnes
10. Camp's Theropod- 7.02 tonnes
11. Saurophaganax- 6.74 tonnes
12. Megalosaurus ingens-6.32 tonnes
13. Zhuchengtyrannus- 5.80 tonnes
14. Meraxes Gigas- 5.70 tonnes
15. Acrocanthosaurus-5.70 tonnes
16. Torvosaurus- 5.56 tonnes
17. Veterupristisaurus- 5.54 tonnes
18. Therizinosaurus- 5.50 tonnes
19. Suchomimus- 5.40 tonnes
20. Prodeinodon- 5.40 tonnes
They look like Giganotosaurus about 2×time smaller than giga
They are comparable in size actually.
@@Historian474no💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
If they worked in groups they could not only kill large sauropods but would be able to defend kill
@ 4:35 "what does someone trying to explain to another about something on a laptop have to do with dinosaurs"?
Did you heard about Tyrannotitne
It's also from South America and it was a mega theropod
Among the South American Carcharodontosaurids I like Tyrannotitan the most with Mapusaurus coming in second.
I'm sorry, it's not gig. It's JIG. Giganotosaurus Jig-An-Oto-Saurus. They paleontologist who first discovered and named the species pronounces it that way.
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If these were indeed pack hunters, they probably behaved like the pack hunters of today. They would signal out the young and injured members of the large herbivores.
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if anything was built to take a sauropd, it would be a T. Rex
Even a t rex was ant sized in comparison to an argentinosaurus
A T-Rex would not even be close to taking down an Argentinosaurus, it literally wasn't designed to do so.
It was LITERALLY SAID in the video that a crushing bite like the one T. Rex had wouldn't do crap to a titanosaur, they're too large and tanky for Rex's bite to do any affect other than annoy the large animal. It would basically spell doom to the Rex for even trying such a stupid thing.
@@theghidorahwithmanynames6016 It would though, up to 6 tons of bite force on 12 inch banana like teeth would pulverise anything. Its teeth were designed to crush bone and would destroy any dinosaurs joints if bit there as well. Its called common sense vs predicting. Don't take every video you see as fact. Gather information from it and compare it to what other information and you will find the correct answers.
@@jkutnink87 Sounds to me that you're overexaggerating the rex to make it sound like it could take on such an animal. Which it couldn't, even compared to the titanosaur that did live around the same time and region, Alamosaurus. It would still be stupid to challenge such an animal due to how massive and bulky they were. If we're talking about a juvenile, sure, more likely the Rex will take it, but an adult spells death to the Rex no matter what. It's stupid to even say Rex was built to take on a sauropod when their main prey are hadrosaurs and ceratopsians, and the ones it did hunt where already challenging enough for the Rex to take on, and that's not even counting anky which was basically evolution's middle finger to the Rex. I get what you're saying with the bite, as it is strong. But it wasn't meant for sauropods, because sure, landing such a bite will hurt, but trying to bite something that can literally one shot you, it is too risky and foolish for even a Tyrannosaurus to try. In short, all of T. Rex's prey options evolved in ways to counter Rex's bite whether that be sheer size/strength or armor and weaponry, which certainly gave Rex trouble as some could even spell doom for it in 1 hit alone. So, tell me why the fuck a Tyrannosaurus would think it be a good idea to try and take down an animal that weighed 38 tons and can easily crush it to death if it stomped on it? The answer is no. And that's only with Alamosaurus, if this was compared to Argentinosaurus, T. Rex is nothing but a joke to it.
I like to think that they hunted as an intelligent team, but our knowledge of Dinosaur intelligence seems to go against this unfortunately. 🙁🙃
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I could take it
actually mapusaurus rosae is 8 tons
8.8 tonnes**
@@Killerg238 8 tones is about average size, 8.8-9,12 would be bigger sizes id feel
@wholol2297 here's a comparison of top 20 largest theropods August 2023
1. Giganotosaurus- 10.5 tonnes 🥇🏆
2. Tyrannosaurus rex- 10.45 tonnes 🥈
3. Deinocheirus- 8.41 tonnes 🥉
4. Mapusaurus-8.20 tonnes 🏅
5. Spinosaurus- 7.84 tonnes 🎖
6. Sauroniops- 7.57 tonnes
7. Carcharodontosaurus- 7.49 tonnes
8. Tyrannotitan- 7.47 tonnes
9. Bahariasaurus- 7.14 tonnes
10. Camp's Theropod- 7.02 tonnes
11. Saurophaganax- 6.74 tonnes
12. Megalosaurus ingens-6.32 tonnes
13. Zhuchengtyrannus- 5.80 tonnes
14. Meraxes Gigas- 5.70 tonnes
15. Acrocanthosaurus-5.70 tonnes
16. Torvosaurus- 5.56 tonnes
17. Veterupristisaurus- 5.54 tonnes
18. Therizinosaurus- 5.50 tonnes
19. Suchomimus- 5.40 tonnes
20. Prodeinodon- 5.40 tonnes
They were vegetarians for sure
unfortunately Argentinosaurus weight was reduced to 65-71-tons in weight leaving Alamosaurus(a giant super titanosaur similar in size to Argentinosaurus, and lived in the same time and area as the T Rex, and are occasionally hunted by the T Rex) to be heavier around 70-80 tons.
No
So basically T rex was like a Tiger that hunted alone. Mapusaurus were similar to lions that hunt in prides to take down larger prey like Giraffes and Buffalo.
Not confirmed yet.
6-8 tons, not 3-5 thats so outdated 💀💀💀💀
12.7m & 8.8 tonnes ***
@@Killerg238 6-8 tons.
@@Killerg238 8 tons can be anywhere from 8-8.9
@@majungabunga you can't say actual sizes lol . U just fall in speculation
@@Killerg238 Your weight estimates are also speculation, Im following more accurate speculation, because surprise surprise, not all grizzly bears are 1,200 lb, they range from 400-1,200 lb, same can be said for dinosaurs hence why I chose the 6-8 ton estimate for mapusaurus which is accurate.
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Walking with dinosaurs? That would be a cool way to die. I'd rather be eaten by robot dinosaurs, m'self.
Why did they change the thumbnail??Now it looks lame
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Millions of years ago....NOPE. The world isn't that old.
Lol
21st century and people still believe in the bible over science. Smh.
@@mikes5637 Millions of years ago isn't science. It's nonsense.
@@AL-qs9bl Nope
Do you have proof that it isn’t billions of years old. Don’t mention the bible
stopped watching because of the jurassic park spino @18secs
I am South American here, but it is the largest giganotosaurus, it is the food, argentosaurus, yes, but dragon 5 largest carnivores, meraxes and mapu, gigas, carcha, tyrattitaion, the largest is REALLY
How does a paleontologist knows they have a complete set of skeletons for a dinosaur before they determine what to call it or what category it belongs with?
the giganotosaurus the strongest resemblance of the crocodile animal is the bible of the real job 41:1 Can you catch Leviathan with a hook
or hold his tongue with a rope? it is the largest giganotosaurus yes god
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