I'd not so easily write off earlier sauropods, whilst some flowering plants may have novel toxins etc which would certainly prove to be an issue digestion depends on gut bacteria. I'd not discount diplodicus on its dentistry either, it's peg like teeth might have been best suited to ferns in the jurassic, but that is in comparison to conifer needles and cycad fronds, many flowering shrubs/low branches of trees etc have wide leaves that maybe easily stripped from branches. Sure they'd probably evolve eventually to be nothing like a diplodicus, but they will have survived.
I think you are overestimating the effect on the enviroment large browsers have, and simutaniously you are underestimating it. Trees that are savagely pruned invest heavily into root growth. This means that they are more drought resistant as their roots delve deeper to find water, it also means the soil is broken up deeper and that water can infiltrate deeper. Increased carbon in the landscape (in this case dinosaur shit) holds more moisture at the surface allowing ground covers to thrive and this along with the afformentioned carbon slows down run off flow allowing more water to soak into the soil. Add the copious amounts of nitrogen that these beasts will literally be dumping around the landscape and you're more likely to have a super charged garden than an arid waste. Sauropods would be great in Africa and Australia.
Im not saying it was bad but i have to add we have direct fossil evidence of dinosaurs eating modern type and early grasses in the cretaceous (from sauropod coprolites in the late cretaceous and ornithopods from the mid-early cretaceous) so they would probably do well today if the environment is right, the colder temps would likely not be a problem for some as even some derived sauropods lived in a relatively cold, seasonal environment. Phenotypic plasticity is also a thing, animals and plants have the ability to adapt to the environmental conditions (as in an individual specimen through its life -but the best result can be acquired if it is grown in that specific environment) of course the degree they can do that varies between species, but its not just environment, it is also food. So i could very well see many species surviving in today's world here and there, the biggest problem would be humans, we already fuccd the last of the megafauna, imagine how much some people would pay for sauropod skin or other stuff if they just suddenly appeared from nowhere.
Such a pleasant video to watch. Makes you think with the author, relaxing and make you focus at the same time. I'm so glad such a content exists, thank you a lot for making it!
I think magyrosaurus would survive it may be the smallest sauropod but still got pretty big up to like 20 feet long and 2200 pounds of 1 metric ton they could probably rear up on their hind legs and crush any predator that tried them their young would probably get clapped but it's possible that they lived in herds like the edmontosaurus and protoceratops
They absolutely would NOT survive today. Right off the top of my head, there is the oxygen level. They're already heavy animals... now put them at the top of Mt. Everest. You neglected that glaring difference.
He already talked about that and he told us it's under the assumption they have adequate oxygen levels. Sometimes it is high enough and sometimes it's not btw it depends but we aren't focused on that
You know the mesozoic was very long and during that long time it was always changing right? For most of the mesozoic the oxygen levels are estimated to be around the same as today (or even lower, at some periods in the cretaceous possibly a bit higher but not drastically) ... Also their respiratory system was like that of modern birds, which can fly over the mount everest.
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I'd not so easily write off earlier sauropods, whilst some flowering plants may have novel toxins etc which would certainly prove to be an issue digestion depends on gut bacteria.
I'd not discount diplodicus on its dentistry either, it's peg like teeth might have been best suited to ferns in the jurassic, but that is in comparison to conifer needles and cycad fronds, many flowering shrubs/low branches of trees etc have wide leaves that maybe easily stripped from branches. Sure they'd probably evolve eventually to be nothing like a diplodicus, but they will have survived.
a "could hadrosaurs survive today?" video would be fire man, and great vid
I think you are overestimating the effect on the enviroment large browsers have, and simutaniously you are underestimating it.
Trees that are savagely pruned invest heavily into root growth. This means that they are more drought resistant as their roots delve deeper to find water, it also means the soil is broken up deeper and that water can infiltrate deeper. Increased carbon in the landscape (in this case dinosaur shit) holds more moisture at the surface allowing ground covers to thrive and this along with the afformentioned carbon slows down run off flow allowing more water to soak into the soil. Add the copious amounts of nitrogen that these beasts will literally be dumping around the landscape and you're more likely to have a super charged garden than an arid waste.
Sauropods would be great in Africa and Australia.
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Diplodocus would find zillions of ferns in the Pacific Northwest...
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Im not saying it was bad but i have to add we have direct fossil evidence of dinosaurs eating modern type and early grasses in the cretaceous (from sauropod coprolites in the late cretaceous and ornithopods from the mid-early cretaceous) so they would probably do well today if the environment is right, the colder temps would likely not be a problem for some as even some derived sauropods lived in a relatively cold, seasonal environment. Phenotypic plasticity is also a thing, animals and plants have the ability to adapt to the environmental conditions (as in an individual specimen through its life -but the best result can be acquired if it is grown in that specific environment) of course the degree they can do that varies between species, but its not just environment, it is also food. So i could very well see many species surviving in today's world here and there, the biggest problem would be humans, we already fuccd the last of the megafauna, imagine how much some people would pay for sauropod skin or other stuff if they just suddenly appeared from nowhere.
Such a pleasant video to watch. Makes you think with the author, relaxing and make you focus at the same time. I'm so glad such a content exists, thank you a lot for making it!
I think magyrosaurus would survive it may be the smallest sauropod but still got pretty big up to like 20 feet long and 2200 pounds of 1 metric ton they could probably rear up on their hind legs and crush any predator that tried them their young would probably get clapped but it's possible that they lived in herds like the edmontosaurus and protoceratops
Well if you don't want argentinasaurus or patagotitan we'll have them! Also, Diamantinasaurus, australotitan and wintinotitan for patriotic reasons.
Yay my favorite dino species!
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Maybe Europasaurus and Magyarosarus
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They absolutely would NOT survive today. Right off the top of my head, there is the oxygen level. They're already heavy animals... now put them at the top of Mt. Everest. You neglected that glaring difference.
He already talked about that and he told us it's under the assumption they have adequate oxygen levels. Sometimes it is high enough and sometimes it's not btw it depends but we aren't focused on that
You know the mesozoic was very long and during that long time it was always changing right? For most of the mesozoic the oxygen levels are estimated to be around the same as today (or even lower, at some periods in the cretaceous possibly a bit higher but not drastically) ... Also their respiratory system was like that of modern birds, which can fly over the mount everest.