Maip Macrothorax: Cold Killer of Patagonia | Paleoart Dinosaur Profile
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2022
- Today we're stepping away from Kaimere to examine a real animal that was just announced: Maip macrothorax, a giant robust megaraptoran from Late Cretaceous Argentina. Although not found in Kaimere, it serves as an unexpected precedent for the giant megaraptorans of my speculative biology project and I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about this fascinating animal!
Link to the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
Link to skeletal reconstruction I used as a reference: www.deviantart.com/pwnz3r-dra...
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Honestly being so used to megaraptorans being the apex predator of kaimere means that wasn't even surprised by this discovery.
A very fascinating animal. It's unfortunate that the Mesozoic ended so abruptly just when Megaratorans and Abelisaurids finally had the chance to show their potential as apex predators. Megaratorans are severely underrated theropods in the overall paleo community but they are a staple in the Kaimere fanbase so it is very fitting that you were able to cover Maip (props to the person who funded the video). Now this gives me more motivation to finish illustration of it that I started working on today
Yes, you pronounced it right. I´m glad that you cover our job. You are very talented. Please, keep doing these things.
This is a very surprising discovery indeed! With such size, Maip would be an absolute terror of the cretaceous argentina. Also it provides us with a very rare oportunity to see a world post carcharodontosaurs. Also it´s like Kaimere for a brief period of our natural history was real
This is very cool. I absolutely love when spec bio predicts a real animal before it is discovered. Congratulations on that!
Lol I was just about to watch your oligocene harvest video and you now post this, you’re a mad lad sir
As a Megaraptoran lover who would have loved to see a 12 meter Megaraptoran, the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs is now personally my biggest opp
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Nice take on the color scheme of your Mail reconstruction! Also I love the nice thicc floofy tail.
I just read the paper about this thing yesterday lol. Megaraptorans are popping off lately, can't wait for them to be found as the first sentient organisms 🦖🧠
Your channel and world building of Kaimere got me fascinated with Megaraptorians and its so cool to see the clade getting more attention now in the paleo community and the public eye (new papers, discoveries art and in the game beast of Bremuda)! They're so cool and I hope this upwards streak of public fascination for them continues.
I actually remember seeing a news article regarding this recently discovered beastie so it's nice to see you cover it, too. The various sketches and drawings are also very well done. And again, the way you describe the megaraptorans and their role in Earth's and Kaimere's ecosystem is awe-inspiring. They're definitely growing on me with each video you make and revelation I have while doing research. Keep up the good work. :)
Great video !
That’s really cool! I think I found my new favorite dinosaur! I’m excited to see further reconstructions and studies into this species!
That had to be a fate. Especially that would interesting for future "what if dinosaurs never extinct" scenarios. Before that it was thought, that abelisaurids were the only macropredators in late cretaceous Gondwana, but since it's no longer the case, I think now there would more projects with Megaraptorans as apex predators in South America, after Cretaceous. Basically, Great American change would be riots, Tyrannosaurids vs Megaraptorans
This discovery than show there were large robust Megaraptorian as like on Kaimere as local Apex predators, being ironic because you completely invented these later BEFORE this discovery remind me a lot to many others cases.
Real life to Tales of Kaimere: I would like to give you the highest honor i can bestow
To think that Kaimere and earth are not so different... Then again, it's a small wonder. I mean, Megaraptorans and Abelisaurs are the biggest benefits from the downfall of the Carcharadontosaurs and Spinosaurs in North Africa so.. Yeah.
:0 awesomeness overload !
So cool! Congrats on the prediction!