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What movie? Never heard of it.

i was very excited to watch this video because i had a hunch that the speed of a crocodile's bite probably had something in common with trapjaw ants! i learned about them from a Ze Frank video, their bite is the fastest movement ever recorded! seriously, when they snap their spring-loaded jaws shut on something it looks like they just teleport away! and whaddya know: their mandibles are crazy long! even better, the mouthpart configuration they use has evolved in other insects multiple times! the biggest difference between crocs and bugs in this case is that the bugs have a more flexible skull made of chitin and more mouthparts to modify to get faster results. still super cool though!

Smaller eyes and brain... not really. As the video points out, relatively. The size is pretty much the same, they'd just take up a smaller % of the skull.

There exists a channel that's all about skulls?

Do they have double rows of teeth? 🤔

Please make one of you as a tiny human-like species!! I would be very interested to see how that looks.

But elephants and wolves are very very smart. The wolf isnt dumber than the fox. Is a whale dumber than an elephant?

Here for RPG art reference. Great work.

They have recovered real giant sculls, and you can see how they look

If giants existed they wouldn't be the same as humans or elephants, they would be their own species. This video is extremely stpd.

Awesome presentation. I have never seen science applied to giants like this. Interesting. Maybe if the Smithsonian will release a few giant skeletons do we can see if you are right!

I'm no evolutionary biologist or zoologist, but I imagine the reason why larger vertebrates have smaller eyes is because being large means eyesight is not very important. They don't really need to watch for much, and details become less and less important the larger they get. Megafauna are often herbivorous, too, and you don't need to stalk a tree. Even the largest carnivorous theropods of the Cretaceous and Jurassic didn't have to bother with chasing small prey outside of fish, because herbivorous megafauna were relatively abundant where they lived. What I'm getting at is that really good eyesight is not worth the biological investment when you're too big for small things. The only place where being big _and_ having really good eyesight are both advantageous is at ocean depths where there's a lot of space to grow, not much food to eat, a lot of large opportunistic predators, and not much light to see them.

Shame your views went down the last couple of videos 😢, these topics are really interesting I really hope you keep posting videos for a long time mate!! Greetings from spain

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Loved the speculation

AMAZING!

So I would basically look kinda like Ron Perlman?

Interesting take! Of course, the surest way to apply parsimony and thus establish homology would be to line up a dozen of these creatures in a cladistic analysis taking a wider suite of traits into account. And yes, indeed, the only way to explain Star Trek humanoid aliens is to assume common descent. There was some retconning attempt brought forward in one TNG episode once, but it was not very satisfactory.

I know humans and Vulcans have the same cranial bones, same facial bones, same mandible, but are they really similar?😉

Apologies skullywags! 7:36 Lizards actually have one ear bone - the columella, where mammals have three - the malleus, incus, and stapes.

I am so glad you mentioned the paired dentaries. So many people (including researchers that should know better... ) don't realise that the 'human condition' of a fused mandible is weird, and for a lot of mammals, the symphysis is only connected in the most vague sense of the word. In fact... you can tell a lot about what's going on with a mammal when that symphysis starts to fuse up! Unless you're looking at Palorchestes...

Maybe relatively smaller brains, but with huge size their brains could still be bigger - and smarter than ours ;)

I mean it's not all about size but interconnection. Even smaller animals like crows can be more intelligent because of higher neuron density and interconnectivity, so even a bigger brain would not neccessarily mean they would be smarter or think differently if the neuron numbers stayed the same.

I've been currently watching through all Aliens and just got to the AvP ones, and lets just say I'll *much rather* watch this video,

I'm a Lion, how cool is't that.

This was a great video and I enjoyed hearing your logic. Certainly a great story seed for a more interesting combined universe/planet. Makes me think we could invert the older movies and have humans on the Predator-Alien planet!

I know this is my second comment, but do research on Star Trek. All humanoids in Star Trek were engineered from the same elder race. That is why they look so much alike and can interbreed. Please, before you do another what-if video, research the fantasy worlds you are comparing things to.

This is a nice little coulda woulda video, but if you read the books, you will see that they both evolved on different planets. The Xenomorphs are not even the apex predators on their homeworld.

Omg, paranthropus, hell even gorillas actually have a sagittal crest, did you do any research at all?

Well all this and no picture comparison . Clickbait

"What would you look like if you were a giant"? A giant what?💩

The Song of Ice and Fire giants are analogous to Yetis. They were shaved a wee bit for the programme. Still very good.

Those who have seen bigfoot say they have a sagittal crest, with conical heads.

I'm surprised that humans were not mentioned as our jaws have become smaller and smaller. This brings me to a silly question: what would change, if we had carnassial teeth? Some species have them and are still omnivores. In fact, it may help us to eat nuts, despite having limited biteforce.

Looks like beaver to me!😁

Giants are fact. Even in modern memory a man 8'11" existed. Is it really so hard to imagine a 9'6" giant like goliath existed? I think not. In the burial mound of castelnau the bones recovered suggested the owner was a giant human anywhere from 10-14 feet in height. If one argues against human size limitations not resulting in larger humans then you would also need to challenge dinosaur size limitations as well.

My Head is 9 inches tall. From my chin to my crown.

There is one reason a naturally developing giant would be stupider than the base race: calories. A bigger body draws more calories so there are less left over for the brain. An adaptation to food scarcity cpuld bebeing dumber.

The 'giants are dumb' trope comes from a LONG line of comedy and storytelling traditions where the smaller, smarter hero outwits his bigger, stronger enemy. The bigger and more dangerous the enemy, the dumber they are portrayed as. Has actually led to some hurtful moments where people assume I'm unintelligent just because I'm 6'6".

That actually checks out with standard depictions of 'ogres' in Dungeons and Dragons. Big jaw, small pointed-ish cranium.

Loving the vids, but they are a bit short. It would be nice to see ~ 20 to 30 per

Have you thought about colabs? Other biology channels, of course, but maybe also paleontological channels. I watch some of those as well and bite force is often a topic with prehistoric animals. Speaking of prehistoric animals, mode vids about their bite forces might up the youtube mentions as well. ETA, that might have been what caused the algo to recommend you to me.

Thought Potato also did a video on Giant ecology

Imhotep from the Mummy should at least have an honorable mention.

Awesome job! Lovin' it Dr Rex!

Awesome video! I had to have look after your mate suggested you in his great video. Some believe there's something similar still about or are these reports just big ferrals.

I’m working on a giant story right now. Thanks for this great input.

The giant skeletons in dark souls kind of have this going on.

The robocop ones are super brutal and one of my favorite

Calling Army of Darkness cringy is heresy. I love how evil Ash's skull opens before he gets launched by the catapult at the end.