When Elephants Were Backwards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- This 10-ton “terrible beast” could easily be confused for a thing of myth and legend, but it was actually one of the largest creatures that ever walked the earth. This was deinotherium.
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Taking a deep look at the past and the animals that lived in it.
One wonders how careful deinotherium had to be to not accidentally impale their throats with their own tusks
"Hey bro got something on your shir-"
They probably couldn't look down. Also, platybelodon looks like a NERRRRRRRD.
@@thequ6503 more like plebiodon
Considering that some hogs and other animals with tusks can have some terrible consequences when the tusks grow out of control. Sometimes they grow into their brains and then they die from brain injury or infections.
If an alien species studies how humans walk - we basically fall forward on one leg and use the other to stop the fall and then repeat - the aliens will conclude that humans should have died out from clumsy accidents while simply moving from one place to another. And yet, here we are, champion long distance runners because we can sweat, and that also makes us the dominant (destructive, invasive) species.
Animals are not the idiots we think they are. Birds don't fly into trees (though they do fly into perfectly transparent windows), monkeys do fall out of trees but only a small percentage, mongooses didn't go extinct trying to fight snakes, rodents don't get permanently buried in the winter snow, and so on.
Elephant and mammoth ancestry are so weird and mysterious.
I love it
"Weird" is relative, you dry-nosed mammal!😁😁😁
It is interesting how some of the larger critters came in many different shapes but smaller mouse-like burrowers seemed to stay mostly the same. I suspect the difference between tusk configurations isn't as crucial to a larger animal as a wedge-shaped head is for a smaller one.
How did they extinct, i wonder.....
Deinotheriidae aren't actually ancestors of Elephantidae. They are both proboscideans, but it's thought that Deinotheriidae evolved similar features because of convergent evolution, not a close relation
@@CHRB-nn6qp ahh makes sense
@@Gazpolling major change in the environment perhaps? An apex predator is a low chance since these guys were huge and massive
The fact that their tusks are on their lower jaw is interesting enough, but the way they hang down like that makes them one of the most metal looking animals to have ever existed.
Agreed
Walruses with similarly-angled tusks use theirs for digging mollusks, fighting, and climbing, because all good tools have more than one use. The lower jaw is a weaker place to use them for leverage, but a great place to have them to dislodge a predator from one's neck.
Why would anyone assume parts of animals (like tusks) have a single use?
Tusks could provide protection, ways to get food, ways to attract mates, ways to compete for mates or resources, etc…
Same as hands, people don’t just use hands to fight. Hands get food, embrace friends, sow the earth, provide entertainment in games or music, etc…
These tusks being so prominent to the animal probably had multiple uses.
Dude I say this about everything it’s like they forget that modern animals use stuff for everything tusk n trunks on elephant for mating drinking food etc
Hands grab stuff, that's one purpose only
Elephant ancestors have gotta take the cake for being the most bizarre family
Love the perspective of this drawing
Wait, no one thought it used its tusks for climbing?
Imagine an elephant-sized creature falling from a tree!
Thhe body isn't suited for climbing
How and in what way did you thought anyone would think of deinotherium as an arboreal creature
@@mrallnighter7816 It's got two ice axes.
Imagine the size of the potatoes that it dug up with those tusks.
Judging by the title, I was expecting this to be about an elephant that had a tail longer than its trunk. Deinotherium is cool, too.
When i grow up i want to be a deinotherium
Deinotherium after reading the title: *"L I T E R A L L Y"*
I’d love more Paleologic! There’s so many past species to talk about. I’d love one on climacoceras.
A useful addition to this presentation would have been some discussion of current theories on why the deinotherium genus went extinct. (The last known fossils date to about one million years ago.)
Strong "why you hitting yourself" game.
It was tall as a Giraffe, but weighed 14 times as much. :)
I refuse to believe platybelodon existed. For its own sake.
If it makes you feel better for it, might think we look like vertical pugs, with our tiny noses 😛
And then you see the babirusa, alive today, and realize nature don’t give two Fs about practicality.
I already know about the babirusa. It doesn't exist because I said so.@@Pure_Malevolence
i could see this thing rearing up with its more maneuverable neck and lighter scull, then arching down hard and fast on any threat like a wood cutting axe.
If they were for striping bark and things like that it makes sense they were curved down instead of up like the actual elephants.
Those were in the lower jaw, so you dont want to make force in an upward motion (straining your jaw muscles) but instead in a downwards motion, in which the mouth is closed and the lower jaw can "rest" against the upper one.
Great work on Deinotherium, my friend! This legendary prehistoric creature made its appearance in the fourth episode of Walking with Beasts.
I think those hooks helped them pull up shrubbery with their strong neck, and the trunk evolved to shovel food from those hooks to their mouths. It explains the origins of tusks AND trunks in one go.
I imagine those tusks had a huge range of potential
And if you’ve ever seen an elephant drop down on their front legs to crush threats with their skull & tusks today
Well yeah, downward facing tusks would obviously make a pretty good mess 😮
The theory how most herbivore animals (and presumably dinosaurs) evolve to develop horns as a defense mechanism for their neck agaist predators, may have been the same as this species, but for the lower parts instead due to their heights. As nature call it, if it works, then the survive mutation can be passed down.
I’m genuinely surprised. For some reason I never knew this species existed despite being very interested in paleontology as a child. I thought this was a joke when I saw the thumbnail…
Great video!! Thank you so much for making this!
Have you never watched Walking with Beasts?
@@Ektor-yj4pu I know of the show but never watched it. Do you recommend it?
Nuevo aprendizaje. Muchas gracias Animalogic.
Besides practical uses, maybe it was a trait used to set themselves apart and also used in mating? Maybe it was deemed attractive the animals who then proceeded to choose mates below their lower jaw tusks?
I would like a video on Paraceratherium or the Woolly Mammoth
Its so interesting!❤
Awesome stuff!
Freaky looking creatures❤. I had no idea something like this used to exist.
Thank you Talia!
I swear Animalogic studies my internet history 😂😂 I literally have been studying deinotheres lol
Felicitaciones muy buen programa
That animal is bussin.
Beautiful sketch in the background
Magnificent animal!
I want to see more about this time period! I also would like to see more about Platybelodon.
To me, those tusks look so ridiculous, I wouldn't believe their existence otherwise.
Informative
Deinotherium looks like something straight out of Avatar or Star Wars.
Speaking of ancient elephant, how about the first of all, moeritherium ? Also, love tour content ❤
The tusks were for fighting rivals and rooting plants.
Talk about Macrauchenia.... I've always wanna know more Abt this extinct mammal
imaging playing a prank on Deinotherium to look down, and then it proceeds to stab itself lol
Evolution, go home, you're drunk!
I can't help but wonder if any of them accidentally killed themselves with those tusks. Imagine yawning and then you hurt yourself
I remember first hearing of this prehistoric elephant from Walking with Beasts.
Woah!!! The soundtrack at the beginning rocks!!! 😆😆😆
What’s it called?
Super Nice
You guys should do a video on platybelodon
Couldn't they use the tusks to hook tree branches and pull them down for food? 🙂🖖💕
Theoretically they could but in practice their trunk would have a greater reach so what's the point? Plus the trunk can pull food directly into the mouth whereas with the tusks they would have to break the said branch and then pick it up and eat it.
Giant tapir.
"This Elephant looks British"
Platybelodon please!!! I wonder what your take on it would be!
We have one already!!
Could you do a video on Polecats and Mustelids?
Cool atuff!
Ouch that's really 1 strange animal
The tusks are for snagging a mate.
Modern elephants were like a software update 😂
Looks like its tusks were used for digging, todays elephant uses his tusk too plow
i wonder what are the function of those opposite trunk
incredible beasts and where they are from. Noice!
Just when you though Smilodon skull is imposing enough, here comes Deinotherium
If it nodded its head, it would probably stab itself.
Ouch!
*nods in agreement* Ouch, you tricked me!
@@TragoudistrosMPH I found one!
I think they had a similiar case just like babirusa, that maybe their horn or tusk could accidently kill them.
It looks like if you tried to draw an elephant strictly from memory
Can you do a Gigantopithecus
Please make a video about nanuqsaurus.
Chewing must have been hard with such a heavy jaw
Very interesting! they were very successful in their day! But it wasn't clear what mythical Greek being these tusks might have Inspired--sounded like "the needs"?? Both to me and the captioning! I need to know!!
Ahh yes, the Phanti-el
Why don’t you get to make a suggestion creating TH-cam Videos Shows all about the Extinct Prehistoric Amphicyons (Bear Dogs) on the next Animalogic’s Paleologic on the next Friday, coming up next?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍
And we never heard of these creatures before the age of extremely realistic 3D graphics because...?
Where do you get all the images?
Animalogic I will kill for a Caind alignment chart
next ? the evolution of the Platypus, its a very rare combination of various mixtures, its not a mammal, its not a bird, its not a duck, its not a beaver and it has poison.. how weird can it get.
Platypus is a monotreme mammal...
The skull looks like a kaiju straight out of pacific rim
when character creation lets you use negative numbers
Talia ❤
Bengal tigerssss pleaseee
This reminds me of the Helicoprion, where I never did understand why evolution made their teeth like that. But a pickaxe does make sense.
"Yeah this fossil is probably accurate"
baluchitherium next?
The mammalian experiment is out of the beta stage.
Tusk Beard.
Maybe their tusks are oriented correctly but their body is upside down.
*They just put them on backwards.*
3:33 pontoon boat not exciting?
Could it throw a hat with its trunk and albama-brawl?
It could probably swim aquatic like aquaman? 😁
It was most likely multipurpose tusks
I feel like this is a thermite digging thing
what's weird is that their ancestors had tusks in the upper jaw
Unique structures of extinct creatures unseen similarity among the extant ones never fail in provoking wild speculations. Here's another example. Often scientists do so, picking up a (petrified) bone in hand. Isolated elements may tell much, but much without restriction imposed by flesh & bones (articulation, free range). Combination of anatomy & animal behavior (ecology) would come to the rescue. It's indeed an excellent brain exercise & fun!
How'd they mate? I imagine it wasn't comfortable for the cows :/
If they tripped a lot, I see how they're extinct
Ok, who broke that elephant?
Dan? Where did you go?
What extinct them?
I'm glad they aren't they aren't like this way now , it's way too creepy.
❓ Hahh??
teeth beard is weird idea