Basilosaurids: The Serpent Whales
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Please enjoy this video examining the predatory Late Eocene Basilosaurids, the first Cetaceans to reach truly massive sizes.
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(2023 Basilosauridae discoveries summarized)
Paleontologists: Aww, look at the little baby!
Tutcetus: Weh.
Paleontologists: And now look at the big baby!
Perucetus: 𝐖 𝐀 𝐇.
the peruvian chonker
Peruthiccus Chungus
Chonkus Maximus
The REAL big chungus!
Oh lawd, they comin!,
Nah, a chonker is a fat (round) individual. That doesn't fit at all, if anything it's the opposite since they're defined as more serpent like than "normal" whales.
How did you write that any not understand any of this, and how has no one corrected you yet?
long Basilosaurids didn't evolve into today's Neocetes
Short basilosaurids like Dorudon evolved into today's Neocetes
I think Basilosaurids need more attention, they where Awesome yet kinda Terrifying Animals.
To be honest i am getting bored of Creatures like Megalodon and Plesiosaurus
Imagine 3 or 4 blue whale size feeding in a shallow area and seeing just below clear water
they were more primitive than modern whales and would have seen humans in the water as lunch or dinner
Basilosauridae are such an interesting family of prehistoric animals, and I’m glad has gotten a lot of attention in recent months thanks to exciting new discoveries. Thank you for covering them. If I could suggest a topic for a future video, maybe one on the Struthioniformes? Ostriches are an interesting case among birds, being the most distantly related to the other ratites, so I think it make a good topic for discussion. Also, it give some spotlight to Pachystruthio, one of the largest birds to ever exist that sadly doesn’t get much attention.
Prob because of the ark boom they exist in ark
All of your videos are so nice and calm. The little sly humor now and again is nice too, heh. You manage to pack SO much info into each video without letting it get boring, even setting aside that humor. Thank you for making them!
Ah Basilosaurus. Probably the worst named prehistoric animal ever named
It was very extremely ironic that the biggest basilosaurid ever found and the smallest basilosaurid ever found were described in a very short time between the two, almost less than a month !
Really, that really one of these cases where mother Nature and Destiny seem to play, made tricks and fun with us 😂😅
Also, my praises for the guy, Styler Stone, that have made this "David vs Goliath" meme paleoart near the end !! XD
It's intriguing how superficially similar that animal is to seals (especially leopard seals). Makes me wonder if seals using their feet instead of a tail for swimming will ultimately hold them back from going fully aquatic.
Also, closed captioning never fails to amuse me... 2:50 _"...due to its angry form body shape"._ LOL!
Wrong, seals can take the niches of pleosaurs if they wanted to but because of extreme predation, they can't go fully aquatic.
we definitely need more trips to the formation were Perucetus was found.
Something is telling me that leopard seals are on their way to become one of these someday
Massive giant murder seals? That could end the reign of cetaceans 😮
@@fenrirgg It's gonna takes more than sizes to dethrone cetaceans especially when hyper-intelligent dolphins are still at large
@@ekosubandie2094Inb4 new cetacean radiation from either dolphins that leads to new forms
If seals became fully aquatic, they can't outcompete the whales, except, they will take the niches of pleosaurs.
Paleoloxodon has many species.
These archaic whales are really neat
>serpent
>whales
>specialised in hunting sharks
This is beyond the realm of cool, very firmly in the realm of terrifying.
Re: Perucetus, I'm trying to imagine why a carnivore needs such a massive body to go with such a small head. I hope future fossil discoveries will clarify what this animal really looked like.
Belugas have pretty small heads
Imagine if Perucetus ended up becoming our Spinosaurus 2.0, where almost every single fossil discovery or researchers’ study only makes it even more bizarre and confusing.
If ur prey not big, no need for a big head. And the size it was probs for protection from bigger carnivores until it was to big to be predated
@@lucasb9285Modern whale with the biggest head eat the smallest prey
You should really do insect evolution at some point since it's really never talked about which is a shame since insects are a really interesting group
Haha Props to you using Padawan Ahsoka as a size comparison 😂
Hey Dr.Polaris, right after the evolution and the history of the Palaeoloxodon, why don’t you also get to make a suggestion to create the TH-cam Videos Shows about the evolution and the history of the Extinct Prehistoric Giant Predatory Birds called the Teratorns in the next couple of weeks to think about that one coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
i love your documentary mr Polaris your brilliantly smart and intelligent too
It’s a delight to hear such a well educated polar bear, keep up!
Even if it's found that most if not all Basilosaurid are enough different and apart to be in their own families, there will be just all the subfamilies put in it that will be retired from it and ranked up as their own families.
The Pachycetinae will become Pachytenidae, and Doridontinae will become Dorudontidae.
While the only remaining subfamilies/group inside the Basilosauridae will be Basilosaurus itself and it's close relatives members we know they belong to the same lineage than him.
Nothing more.
And that a scenario that already occured several times in Paleontology.
Like for the Amebelodontidae that were thought to be Gomphoteres once.
Hello Everyone, the best video of the day just came out
Great stuff as always Doc. However, may I humbly request that you please do an episode on pantherine cats. I would super appreciate it. Also this channel along with Mothlight Media deserve way more subscribers than they currently do. Where have all the paleo nerds gone.
Eons and animalogic
@@posticusmaximus1739Neither of which channel is as good as this one....
Oh, they have their points, but Danielle of Animalogic seems to be afraid of leaving Canada!
Eons... they seem big on lawyer-speak. "Non-avian dinosaurs".
Dr. P., though, nothing about his channel is annoying. The others.... are often irksome.
To me.
Paleo nerd right here! Not going anywhere but back in time! 😃
Massive Episode! 🐳 Also the next will be! 🐘 Thx 4 this informative Video Dude! 🤗
Fantastic video as always 👍🐳
YES! MORE PALEO CONTENT!
The Tetzoo TH-cam channel we had long wanted.
Nice Video.
12:38 So... there's a chance that all the cetaceans we currently have are indeed Basilosaurids? EPIC!!!!
Sorry for asking something you''ve already no doubt answered many times, but what's that sort of dancing baby elephant music that plays during the opening seconds of your videos? (Great video series, BTW.)
Video number 5 of asking for a video on mesonychians (great video again btw, love basilosaurids, they are my
Y favorite cetaceans)
Whales do not belong in that group
@@pedrogabrielduarte4544 i think you missundertood, i am asking for a video on mesonychians, not saying that whales are mesonychians
For me... basilosaurus is like a mammal version of a mosasaurus and an ancient version of today's killer whale. Something that I always learn, evolution always find its way to fill the gaps in the food chain... (:
Ah yes, From Whale Killer to C H O N K
My whaling ancestors look on with envy
this month was a good month for the serpent whale's
Great video of my 10 ten favorite prehistoric creatures....
Babe wake up whales just got weirder
Technically whales have always been weird, seeing as they are carnivorous fully aquatic hoofed mammals.
Whoever thought that having Pakicetus and Pachicetus share identical pronunciation should be both slapped and respected.
More like slapped and reslapped.
Though of course only english speakers possess the arrogance to think that these terms share identical pronunciations.
@@needfoolthings I think what we need now is a Pachipakicetus
Only paleoloxodon? I want more on the longest tusked Eliphantoids like Stegodon, Anancus and Zygolophodon.
Scp looking ass. Cool creature, love hearing about new extinct animals I've never heard about
thank you.
Ah yes the sea serpents
" If Reptiles can rule the land, the mammals will rule the sea."
Basilosaurids stole paleontological spotlight in 2023.
I don't understand that with a few ribs and central bones we automatically act like we know what it looked like and give it the silliest smallest head and limbs. I mean, *maybe* that is correct, but just because a scientist said it doesn't make it so. Especially with the threadbare evidence.
This is scary, but not Hollywood screen writer or producer would ever want to make a movie about this because it doesn't fit into their scary monsters genre, I'm surprised that the comedian Bill Engvall hasn't made a series of jokes like he did the description of what he calls a dork fish it was a early ancestor of the dolphin according to him really 🤦🏻♀️🙄 weird looking but as you have mentioned to me about the ancestors of the Crocs and gator's, that it's not possible nothing is as it was back then which can be a good thing.
And now the Monsterverse needs a Basilosaurus kaiju.
The evolution of all cetaceans is really ccol
The Basilosaurid family
Thank you
Why marine mammal are bulkier and marine reptiles are not, because mammals itself always active, they didn't need to bask in the sun to move or to absorb heat, they produce heat for themselves.
5:22/5:24 Does the Basilosaurus model from WWB take a sorta middle ground approach between its slender form and the stockiness from this subfamily?
Can you talk about Perucetus colossus?
I wonder how they could swim well with such long skinny bodies and small fins
Serpent Whales boi!
On the 1:25 time the whale looks like something I’ve seen in a game before but it was called a Baslisosaurus
2023 be like.
Paleontologists: And now we present…!
*Perucetus Colossus.*
Paleontologists: THE BIG ASS WHALE!
Can you please make a video of the evolution of Panthera palaeosinensis, into Panthera blytheae, snow leopards, Panthera zdanskyi, and tigers...
What still lives in the unexplored oceans?
Did the Basilosaurus in real life likely created sounds like their Walking with Beasts version?
No because in Sea monster It did Sing unlike the real basilosaurus who did not have the melon to sing
Aw laws he comin for me
The chonkiest chonk of the sea
W h a l e !
Is this a Kung pow reference? If so bravo
Look out I think Peru Peru likes u
Snake Whale
primordial soup mythology as always.
Please make a video of Panthera Shawi, and their evolution into common leopards, Mosbach lions, today's lions, cave lions, American lions, and jaguars....
What's your basis for "Panthera Shawi, and their evolution into common leopard"?
@@Dr.Ian-Plect -How is what I said bias, by any meaning? Plus, they might have to do something with the evolution of lions too..
@@edwinreveron870 ffs! READ IT AGAIN!
@@Dr.Ian-Plect -Since it appears to also be part of the evolution of lions, and cave lions..
@@edwinreveron870 Are you incapable of reading what is actually in front of your eyeballs?!
Shouldn't basilosaurids be called basilocetids? Basilocetus instead of Basilosaurus
Yes, but the person who named them didn't realize it at the time. And because renaming groups for the purpose of having more logical names would quickly become very confusing in the sprawling literature of zoology, we made rules against changing established names, meaning we're stuck with calling the king whales king lizards.
There are a lot of examples like this throughout the history of paleontology, and scientists just roll with it because it doesn't actually matter *what* a scientific name is as long as it can be agreed on to refer to a specific set of characteristics found in bones or other preserved materials.