14 Shockingly Giant Prehistoric Beasts 🐋 Smithsonian Channel
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- From Wooly Mammoths to Giant Scorpions, here’s a look at giant prehistoric beasts and how they lived.
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I had never heard of the Giant Sea Scorpions until I saw Chased by Sea Monsters with Nigel Marvin where Nigel traveled back and forth through time exploring the 7 deadliest oceans of Prehistory and aside from the Sea Scorpions and the Trilobites it was where I also first heard of the Giant Orthocones a species of ancient squid that lived and swam in Earth's oceans over 400 million years ago.
I just got home
Except you weren't there 400 million years ago.
So does that mean it’s more things under the dinosaurs that’s buried beneath the earth,basically there’s a whole Mother Earth under earth basically right?
@jamiejones
If it rained on the rocks for 400 million years the earth would be completely flat. These aren't ancient species they are just what we didn't know about. There may still be creatures like this since we can't explore oceans after a certain depth.
Love your material but this is so chopped up I can’t count the times I thought “what animal are they talking about now?”
My husband whenever he was an escalator operator worked at the phosphate mine in NC where we live. He dug up a prehistoric whale that was over 5million years old. I’ve got one of the vertebrae from the end of the tail section the smallest of the vertebrae and it’s as wide as a dinner plate around.
i need to know like, did they tell someone to dig it out for museums/education
WOW!!!
Excellent! Loved this presentation. Thank you for making this video.
Reading the fossils and understanding the prehistoric stories are amazing~💯❣️
Thank you for sharing this exciting video! 🤗👍
🔆AniFam〽️
The front arms of T-rex are basically latches that allow them to use their upper body's gravity to pull dinosaurs down. Essentially just hooks on their chest more so than arms. Showing off how much they could lift in the other direction (bicep curl) is like marveling at the strength of crocodiles opening their jaws instead of being amazed how how hard they can snap.
A useful observation. Thanks for the perspective shift. Frees me from narrative.
Astute
Vestigial what is the meaning of the word do u guys know??
@@bostonbilly7725 Functionless pretty much. No longer used.
@@chickenfist1554 thanks :)
Bet that Giant Sea Scorpion ,would get good with some butter !🤠🦂🦂🦀👍
Lol
Biggest thing we know of that ever lived, still lives today: the blue whale. Worth saving I think...
Filter feeders are near as exciting as a predator. It's all about sensationalism.
Largest animals. they are Muh smaller than Sequoia trees, whih are also alive,k after all. ^.^
@@SirberusKhaos If you want to count trees, than let's get the other multicellular eukaryotic life branch involved. May I direct you to the "Humongous Fungus" of Malheur national forest sometime. A singular organism that covers several square miles. Fascinating stuff.
Alternate title: 14 Thicc beasts roam earth long ago
T H I C C*
how come this the most like comment?
😂
So turn the title into junk pretend words, instead of real ones? Or is it rrlll words?
@@debbylou5729 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️WATCH OUT NOW!! Looks like you forgot to make sure you were "decent" before going into public, cuz your *ignorance* is hanging out ALL OVER the place!!
I'd want someone to let *ME* know, were the roles reversed, so...
Byeeeeee
The presenter comes across like a rock n roll DJ.
I still think the Canadian fossil found by the equipment operator , Shawn Funk, should have been named after him. The Funkosaurus !!!!! ( It's called a nodosaur. ) Give me a beat, daddy-o !
With four huge flippers they must've had amazing agility for a large animal
Narrator is peak TH-cam *"YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!!"*
Fabulous! So gkad I clicked on this. Nature can be truly mind-blowing.
Very interesting great video thank you
And to think they tried to jip the poor farmer who discovered it on his land.
They legit tried to tell the man, it’s now theirs and we don’t have to give you anything.
gyp? oof
That’s how findings of significant historical or scientific value work. They aren’t your property
Outstanding!
Awesome
Why do things like the bones of Giants " disappear " when given to the Smithsonian ???
black market
God probably scoops them up because they have divine structures he doesn't want us to know about. I assure you everything is his,even the smithsonian. God bless Jesus really saves
@Belo 225 They (the policy makers at the Smithsonian) most certainly do. Read the history of flight, especially the controversy between the Smithsonian and the Wright brothers.
Just more hiding the truth and real history from us all.
Awesome 👌 🆒️ vid
well well...thank you for a new addition to the nightmare arsenal- titanaboa.
Man it would be so amazing to see a dinosaur. A T-Rex would take out a hippo like an afternoon snack. That's scary.
His bite was like the weight of 39500 accordians and his arms could bench the weight of 16000 cabbages. Amazing.
WELL PRESENTED,,,,,,GRAPHICALLY STRIKING REVELATIONS .
Getting a PhD in Flippers, Brilliant 😅
Penguins do not move like birds -- they are birds.
THEY MOVE LIKE FISH.....S-W-I-M-M-I-N-G....
@Smithsonian....you do realize right that the T Rex and triceratops didn't even live in same era and couldn't have ever encountered one another. It's a TV myth they did...they are millions of years apart
😂🎯🎯
Good point.
Are u sure about that?
Both lived at the late Cretaceous, in North America.
Not true…. You’re probably thinking of Stegosaurus.
The comparisons are funny af
This was cool
Good lord, who edited this? We jump away from one animal mid sentence and pop into another again in mid sentence. I thought I dozed off but no we just jump around with no warning and no endings to the stories. It’s very disconcerting.
No gonna lie, I read it as something else when I got the notification
Hahaha 😏
If it kinda rhymes with bread so did I
Fossils opened a wingdow. . . What it sounded like. I liked it!
We can't save the elephants or the tigers, wolves, lions....humans are BRUTAL towards the other beings on the planet. Sulis Minerva, Merciful Goddess, why would someone bring back an already extinct creature?
Profit.
And Sulis Minerva died 1600 years ago.
Too torture them and make them suffer
This channel is getting more and more interesting. I am intrigued.
Dude feel so bad for Crafty, Fir is just making him think he's crazy the entire time 🤣
I like how the T.Rex had really strong arms but never use it
Why do you think they had strong arms?
19:19 Who out there started blinking as fast as they can when he said this?
They should do one of the top 10 weirdest beasts ever after the biggest and deadliest ever
I suspect that T-Rex ate anything that was unfortunate enough to be sleeping, inattentive, just too slow, or separated from the herd.
Or ill, or dead .
I love how whever they dont understand something, they just throw more time at it and say that "over millions of years this happened" LOL
That’s just stating a fact. Also these documentaries they are clipping together are trying to summarise thousands of pages of research into a digestible hour of content. Open a book if you want to better understand it.
Does genetically modifying an elephant to look like a Woolly Mammoth count?
38:38 why she took of her shirt ?
Was she feeling too warm 38:47 😂
What if they're all still alive in Hollow Earth? Lol
Uk Godzilla vs Kong is just a Movie right.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🙄
fun fact: if you make a top 10 biggest dinosaurs all 10 of them would be from argentina
True. Sauropods are an Argentinian specialty, so to speak. For the biggest predators, however, honors are shared between Argentina (Giganotosaurus carolinii), Montana, USA (Tyrannosaurus rex), and North central Africa (Carcharodontosaurus saharicus).
@@WildBillCox13 Well, in terms of predators, by 'big' are we referring to weight or size? If it's weight, T-Rex comes 1st. If it's size, 1st place goes to Spinosaurus.
@@josephdynan3604 If it's about LENGTH, then that's where Spinosaurus shines.
Why create a mammoth? Keep the animal species alive that already exist
Great comment ❤
Scientists spend all of their time going CAN we do something and never ponder SHOULD we do something?
Them: We are going to bring back the Wooly Mammoth
Me: Why?
Them: We are going to bring back the Wooly Mammoth
To reduce the amount of glaciers melting.
If mammoths were alive when the pyramids were built, there's your answer, or at least part of the answer as to how the Egyptians hauled the stone.
The showcase of various impressive large predators and then the deadliest predator of all, an average human just about 1.8m tall, it's quite crazy to think about it.
Luke, what is with that combover?
As soon as I saw it, I came straight to the comments
@@ebonimom6964 😅 It's very difficult to ignore...I tried but I couldn't help myself.
What i would love to see is '' Shocking, Remains of Ancient Giants Hidden by Smithsonian''!
You’re really one of those people? Hints never existed and all “proof” has been debunked.
My question is… what would be the reasoning for bringing back a 🦣?
because they're clearly nuts.
Kentucky coffee trees are becoming rare because they were once spread by mastodons. It's an interesting plant.
My biggest concern, should they succeed, is what will they do with it? Let it live out its life in a natural manner? Of course not. It will be kept captive, poked, prodded, biopsied, tested, xrayed, retested, experimented upon, put on display, gawked at and and God only knows what other inhumane treatment.
love the "tale of the tape" weigh in before the match : T-Rex vs. Titanoboa
This episode fell apart when they started doing Prehistoric Myth Busters experiments 😂 👌
Where
Go back to your book of fables.
What are you doing here?
32:40 Certain old men with hoop earrings give me a weird vibe 😂
I dont think of Jurassic park when I hear these geneticists talk about modifying the elephant genome. I think of all the talk of "aliens" . Grays , reptilians, tall humanoids......strangly convenient and coincidental that these two are happening in the same era ? If you are telling us about a group of scientists trying to modify elephant genomes ...that tells me this was done a long time ago ....
They lifted that all wrong. It needed lengthwise supports. All they had to do was dig under enough to put the beams in.
Agreed. I noticed right away that they didn't have proper supports. I used to work in construction, where we used cranes like that. Support was all wrong. It's like cracking an egg, the way they were doing it.
"The penguins actually flap their wings like birds..." no way.. I wonder why that is.. hmm.. huh... penguin.. bird .. penguins.. birds.. nah I dunno.
I like the calm narrators rather than the ones that seem to like forcing some kind of silly, wrestling drama into what is supposed to be a documentary.
3:00 400kpsi is not force or weight, it is pressure. A little girl can get thousands of pounds per square inch of pressure by poking with a needle. Pressure is force divided by area. The point of a needle has very low area.
When the Chinese science team cut their sample off the the 🦣 wasn't joking about BBQ the wooly 🦣
Shoutout my hometown New Bedford, MA The Whaling City aka The US's #1 fishing port!
They should have named it after the man that found it
Yes, the bird flaps its wings... like a bird.
Dave Marshall - the voice of PaleoCast. I knew I knew that voice!
We are not even close to what abilities we once had.
soft and corrupted.
Hey Smith ' what'd ya do with all the skeletons and fossils of the giants ? The more important question is why did you and why do you continue to cover up these giants existence ? And many other items of antiquity when the general public trusted you guy's and turned their discoveries over to the Smithsonian. WHY THE COVER UP ???
I would Never give any thing I discovered to them until After I had made it well known to the public!!! With tons of documentation!!!😈
There’s no cover up y’all are just crazy and believe what weirdos on the internet say over scientists
How can you compare a hydraulic jaw with a real t-Rex
Wow
Yeah Crisper!
So are those Harvard's test elephant? They just keep them near the parking lot?
great collection. thanks. they are not relevant to each other, but who cares: they are full of information without all the beating around the bush thing. THANKS
They don’t know this for sure, and I think their best guess is wrong, trex was a bird type creature this had far less bites force
I can't watch this anymore they're ending and beginning to many subjects and it feels like this was just cut from all different episodes and series and just splice together in one video all the narrator's are different which is this was a legit program the narrator would have been the same
How could random chance or change evolution in physical structure have developed so well in Rex’s skull?
Sweet
But they're having the T-rex's arms in the wrong position. The inside of it's hands would be facing each other, not it's body.
These clips are from the early 00s
7 commercial breaks, really?
This is so over monetized. I am canceling my Smithsonian subscriptions.
This channel and the magazine.
The magazine has been getting worse and smaller for years.
Ok
@@phavianp2850 Do you work for Smithsonian or are you just a sad impotent little putz humiliating himself once again?
@@Facetiously.Esoteric ok
@@aaramxkh3718 You must lead a sad impotent life. The self hate must be deep...
@@Facetiously.Esoteric ok
If this is the first of it's kind, then how did they come across the name, and what it was for the NODO SAUR?
Unlike Archeopteryx and Microraptor, there is no evidence that Velociraptor and other large Dromeosaurs also have feathers.
I think some raptors have been found to have had feathers Firedrake...
@@bernardtimmer6723 Maybe on smaller ones like Archeopteryx and Microraptor, but not on larger ones like Velociraptor, Deinonychus, and Utahraptor.
@@Firedrake-SP no doubt, you're right Firedrake, it was a while ago that I read it. It is more likely that the smaller ones displayed feathers. The feathers themselves developed as a reproduction asset, much like the birds of paradise, peacocks etc...
@@Firedrake-SP Velociraptor had quill knobs in it's arm, those are feather latches, Velociraptor had feathers, the other Dromaeosaurids show these feather knotches too.
@@vesuvius115 Those so-called quill knobs are fabricated, meaning someone tampered with the bones to make them look like they have quill knobs!!!!
I want to believe T Rex was this big (2:08) but it wasn't - and if it's as tall as a giraffe... what giraffes have the Smithsonian been looking at to produce this graphic????
If u get a chance to see one of the t-rex replicas on a tour, go. I saw one about 15 years ago & didn't think much of it til I walked into her display room. I was dumbfounded! I knew they were big, but I can still see her. Her tail was so long, a few roof tiles had to be removed to fit it in the display. I imagined her fleshed out and heard her roar as I imagined it could be.
AMAZING !
Triceratops would make a pork sticker out of Rex-boy...
Lost me at t rex vs titanoboa.
It's said that T Rex was a scavenger, not a hunter, unless there's something new
It was both actually. Plenty of evidence showed it hunted and scavenged much like modern bears
if T-Rex is number 10, can't imagine what will be number 1.
Megatronus?
Better than Sue. What a find
In fact, it is the triceratops who weights 9 ton, even 11; and the tyrannosaur 5 tons.
32:14 AHHH! THEY PUT THEIR ARMS INSIDE THE MOUTH OF THE ACROCANTHOSAURUS BITE MACHINE!!! I know nothing is gonna happen cause of which channel this video is being presented on. But, They Have Their Arms Inside a Accurate Biting Machine of a Large Theropod Dinosaur! I sorta panicked and squirmed about, like I was watching a horror movie from Blockbuster video as a little kid with a good imagination.
I always picture T Rex covered in colourful, downy feathers, like the Chinese fossils recently discovered. T Rex would have been the fuzzy -wuzzy embodiment of terror.😊
For real eh, ya ...Penguins, penguins do fly underwater. And don't forget folks that "The Penguin" 🐧 can kiCk Batman's 🐴ss❗
...in fact penguins COULD fly...
...but to take off they would have to be 600km/h fast...!
New research shows that T-Rex bite force could be as much as 400,000 psi? Not even converted to Newtons would a bite from a T-Rex equal that much.
Learned a new thing about bite force transfer today ... just saying
T-rex and Triceratops? They seperated with each other by millions of years...
The only way most land based giants could operate is if gravity was half what it is today.
Watching the T-Rex Biting the neck area of the Triceratops, I couldn't help but believe that was not a good Idea!!! Because it seems to me that the Triceratops could raise his head, enough to chop the the T-Rex with its armor plate, the Shield around its head. If he can arch his head up so the Shield Around his Head can touch his Back or Shoulders?! It looks like he can beat the T-Rex's Face like a CHOPPING PLATE!!!
Can anyone see what I mean?! Or is that even possible!?!?
I wouldn't imagine so, Triceratops' neck frill is definitely more of a shield than a saw. It's edge was rounded and dull, not nearly sharp enough to cut through anything.
That said I imagine it could give a Rex a good whack with it, it's not like there isn't plenty of force behind it's head to begin with.
AYE....DO NOT BREAK YOUR TEETH ON ANOTHER ANIMAL'S (ESPECIALLY REPTILES) ARMOR...JUST DON'T EVEN TRY IT....FAIL.VELLY BAD FORM....
The neck frill on triceratops was actually very fragile and mainly used for mating or dominance displays. It could not be used for armour or for “chopping”
2:08 nah no way!
How does a T.rex bite measure up to a Purrasausus?
Mammoth appears to be around 5000 yrs old. Its remains appear to be very fresh.
The largest cat ever is believed to be a Liger, they live today.
I think, an artifical hybrid shouldn't get to run for "Largest of my type" it feels, to me anyway, like chesting.
giant animals, giant people, giant man made structures as you can see all over the world....anything was different from that we are told ;-))
ESTA IS OH SO SI SENOR...ES LA VERDAD DE SEGURO!! ELOS NO DIGA NUESTROS LA VERDAD EN TODO AHORA....ESTAN PUTAS DEL DIABLO AND NO LAS VERDADS....
Paleontologists now think that T rex never met a Triceratops, as Trex was already extinct in the late Creataceous.
And it's FRILL not SHEILD on Triceratops skull.