This Was the True Rival of the Spinosaurus
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2023
- In the wetlands of Late Cretaceous North Africa, a giant stalked the lands. It was one of Earth's largest predators ever, and weighed more than 88 people! You may think I am talking about the Spinosaurus, but I am referring to the forgotten king of those times, the Carcharodontosaurus.
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Thumbnail shows two Charcharadontosaurus helping a friend get home after having too many drinks. What a kindhearted, generous creature.
At first my sleepy just woken eyes read that as Chad-aradontasaurus!
😂😅
@@allisoncurtis30790:16
Faxx
Oh.. And here I thought they were gonna do the Lady and the Tramp kiss.
😊
1914: "There was political tension in the region at the time"
That's one way to put it 🤣
if only bro didnt drive that day
@@8flash100still would probably have gotten assassinated on an other day
Great to see Charcharodontosaurus gaining some more recognition, he's always been my pick when it came to Megatherapods.
My all time favorite, I liked allosaurus too. I think they’re related to some extent, but the charcharodonto is basically the allosaurus on steroids
This is my sleeper CIA agent trigger phrase
Man carchar is my alltime fav
@@2freezing both allosaurus and carcharodontosaurus are a part of carnosauridae.
@@theotheseaeagle allosauria*
And most importantly, Carcharodontosaurus wasn't a punching bag for Spinosaurus (tbh, that design was GOAT, far better than PD)
Other way around it seems
@@theeyeofthebeholder9583they both weren’t punching bags for each other
@@theeyeofthebeholder9583not really
They don’t have much a reason to fight anyways, they both occupy different niches
@@Train_lizard there is some evidence that they may have come into conflict during droughts or when food was scarce but for the most part they wouldn’t bother each other. There is a spinosaurus which appeared to have one of the vertebrae of its sail broken off which matches with the bite of a carcharodontosaurus
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis introduced me to this animal and it has been one of my top favorites since. 😊
Its design is to me more badass than all other carnivores
Hella facts same here. Lol
@@markreyes7454 Jurassic Park may not always be accurate with prehistoric animals, but at least they were awesome enough to showcase animals that aren't well known. 😁
Same
@@Soul93Takernah acro is the most badass but tbf this is its succesor
Thank you so much for covering my favourite dinosaur of all time. Carcharodontosaurus is so underrated and i hope more people can appreciate it more in the future, especially with people like you sharing info surrounding it.
It should be noted that ALL theropods with serrated teeth had reinforced serrations similar to surgical saws, so even theropods specialized for cutting through flesh were able to bite through bone (they would just have been slicing it rather than crushing it).
Also, with Carcha and all other allosauroids, the *effective* bite force is actually far greater than the bite force generated by the jaw muscles, because the allosauroid killing bite worked in the same way as a sabretoothed cat’s killing bite: using the neck muscles to both “aim” an open-jawed head strike and, critically, to drive the upper jaw into prey teeth-first while the lower jaw snapped shut to provide leverage. Because of this you actually have to add the strength of the neck muscles to the strength of the jaw muscles to find the actual amount of force involved in an allosauroid bite.
can it destroy a nokia?
i can@@krippaxxuseredarlordofthes9940
They had powerful neck muscles, sure, but as far as I know they didn't use them to drive their teeth into their prey. The hatchet theory for allosaurids has proven to be quite unlikely. It's more likely that they used their powerful necks to rip their teeth through the prey's flesh, or thrash their prey around, similar to modern monitor lizards. Regardless, bite force isn't a direct comparison to the lethality of a bite. Plenty of other factors contribute to it. A snapping turtle's bite force is lower than that of a human, but they'll still take your finger off with ease.
@@joost1120
I’m not talking about the hatchet head idea, I’m talking about pushing the upper jaw in with the neck AT THE SAME TIME as the mouth closing TO rip through the prey’s flesh, almost exactly like the killing bite of sabretoothed cats.
Thrashing prey is unlikely given that the skull was mostly adapted to take dorsoventral stresses, rather than lateral ones.
And yes, bite force is not the only significant variable in what makes a bite dangerous, but part of the reason for that is that a predator with the right adaptations can outsource the power behind its bite to other parts of its anatomy so it can bite with much more force than its actual bite force allows for-which is what is going on here.
When bone isn't dried, it's soft enough for me to bite through.
My favorite African dinosaur.
My favorite African dinosaur is Cosby
@@silent_stalker3687 He's my favorite bartender.
I remember the first time I had ever heard of the Charcharodontosaurus was when I saw this special on the Spinosaurus when the said dinosaur was being rediscovered and when we learned a lot of new things about the Spinosaurus like aside from it's size that it had literally had flat feet and could swim like it was shown doing in Jurassic Park 3.
Can you imagine just how devastating a bite from it would be? Even on a giant prey item? With such sharp, serrated teeth, and biting hard and deep enough to lose teeth, the second that thing gets a hold and pulls away, that's a HUGE chunk of flesh gone, and a tremendous amount of blood loss
It’s bite was only 3,000 psi so for a large theropod isn’t too strong but the teeth are devastating with the serrated edges and the amount of bleed they caused
@@tvvistedv3nom26 and their claws. They still have big claws everyone forget their 2nd weapons.
5:20 I wouldn't be surprised if headbutting was a common strategy among large carnivores to knock large prey over and attack their vulnerable under sides
Would be risky tho
You know your an Ark player when you call the Gigantosaurus a Giga
Yea when it comes to large tames, I prefer haver carcha's over those freaking psychopaths
I liked the Ark artwork in there too, Bloodstalker in the background, lol!
@@cjsaurus4120acros are my favorite
Everyone calls gigantosaurus as giga
@@cjsaurus4120 Carcha's are better than giga cuz they don't kill the rider like the giga does when raged
I been waiting for a charcar vid and it was delivered 🔥🔥🔥
Imagining how a fight between 2 of these beasts would go is so badass! They're so cool looking!
I loved this video so much, great work!
The real apex of Egypt
Descendant of a long lineage of elite predators
That thumbnail is both brutal and hilarious
I was introduced to this dinosaur through the miniseries Dinosaur Planet. And through an encyclopedia I had and Dinosaur King, I’ve grown to love this creature. It is among many favorites.
The carch is probably my favorite theropod (or honestly favorite dinosaur overall) since the first time i heard about it about a couple years ago
I first met it in Fossil Fighters. It had a cool pharaoh aesthetic. That game taught me to love sauropods though, not carnivores. Brachio and Amargo main.
Me too. It was my favorite vivasaur
Thanks for the video. Carchar is a much poorly understood dinosaur compare to T-rex, Spino, even Giga because only a partial skull was found so far, but teeth fossils are rather common, the teeth are thinner than Trex and have much sharper edge, allowing paleontologists to be almost certain that Carchar is a predator not a scavenger. Hopefully in near future a more complete skeleton can be found somewhere in Morocco, there are just too much we don't know about this dino
Could open his mouth wider then trex
You know it's bad when a dinosaur is less understood than the Spino (given it's long history of annoying scientists with it's scarcity) fingers crossed we get more Carc specimens soon.
The dinosaur that started my Palaeontology aspirations
I hope someday they'll find more Carcharodontosaurs in Africa I believe they were common like in South America only difference is they are highly concentrated in South America I guess it is because of big abundance of huge Sauropods or it had little competition with other theropods probably this allowed them to be so huge as predators but that's just my personal guess overall interesting creatures
South America didn't have huge swaths of land blown up in a global conflict; thus one of the reasons why carcharodontosaur fossils seem more common there as opposed to Northern Africa.
Also the conditions condusive for fossilization may have been vastly different between the two regions during the period in which fossilization occured (even if they were closer to one another then than they are now, they were still thousands of miles apart and separated by an already modestly wide early Atlantic Ocean).
Contrary to popular opinion, the process of fossilization isn't nearly as simple or easy as many seem to think. Not to mention, the volatile nature of the Earth itself can easily destroy fossil evidence given enough time; with 250 million years being generally accepted as the general time frame in which the processes of plate tectonics can start to wipe entire portions of the fossil record from existence.
This is one of the reasons why it's so difficult to find geological evidence linking certain cataclysmic events like flood basalt eruptions to a common source, especially those which occured prior to the end-Permian extinction. Much of the evidence has long since been destroyed.
@@timothyvanhoeck233 interesting detail thank you for explaining
My fav therapod. I got a carchar saharicus tooth a while ago and I stare at it every day wondering what it’s story was
Me favourite dinosaur since me childhood thx for the video there are not much videos about the carchar saharicus.
The Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, a theropod of enormous size and the super predator of its ecosystem and coexisting with the Spinosaurus Eagyptiacus, is a shame because these are some of the dinosaurs that were rarely talked about or mentioned. Greetings 👋
Yes my boi is getting the recognition that he deserves
Great video!!! I love it. I’m not sure if Dricraeosaurus coexisted with Charcharadontosaurus tho. They both lived in Africa for sure but former genus was from Jurassic.
You're underappreciated man
Carcharodontosaurus is an underrated dinosaur. I think T.rex, Spino, and Giga overshadows it in terms of popularity. Nonetheless, it's still one of my favorite dinosaurs.
10:00 I am very interested in the idea that many morphological adaptations aren't actually all that new and many basic animal types alive today already existed in slightly different forms during the eras of the dinosaurs. It's tragic that biodiversity in our time is in a state of virtual freefall because of human settlements cutting off most of the best ecological zones (that's where we tend to build our major cities especially on coast lines). Learning about the ecology of dinosaurs makes me feel ripped off that our biomes today have become so barren by comparison
They were around when the Spinosaurus was still kicking, so they definitely had a good run :)
Great video!
Sadly with this video being 2 months old there are already some flaws in the details to some of the sizes of these beasts. The Spino ideally is the heaviest beast of its time. But with recent findings the T-rex is now found to be the biggest and heaviest predator to ever walk the earth. Scotty use to be the general size baseline for the biggest Rex discovered. But there is now findings of a Rex discovered that now trumps her in size.
Carchar is my favorite
Carcharodontosaurus may have also eaten fish from time to time, since there were more fish than herbivorous dinosaurs in its flooded environment. Though not to the extent as spinosaurus.
As a Spinosaurus fan, just because my favorite is the Spinosaurus doesn't mean I don't love all dinosaurs. Always learning more about them each day. So it's nice to learn more about a carnivore that shared the lands with Spinosaurus.
Carcharodontosaurus is truly an underrated animal. Hopefully more of its remains are unearthed so we can learn more about this brilliant creature.
Hell nah . Carcharodontosaurus is a heavily overrated dino with exaggerated sizes and capabilities
@@Shimosevilbrother99 how?
Carchar is overrated. It's no way underrated when fans say It grew up to 13.7 meters long and Carcha > Rex
Great Artwork ❤
Every dinosaur video I watch makes me miss Fossil Fighters even more
Man, just getting lifted up by your neck and tail being completely screwed. That's so brutal.
All time favourite for me
It’s one of my favorite large carnivores and I’m glad it’s getting more recognition.
Carchar is so underrated, by far my favorite dinosaur. I know, all dinosaurs are amazing animals.
Carchar was THE land predator of modern day Africa.
Carcharodontosaurus was the king of Africa.
Accepted by a Sauroniops fan
The stuff of nightmares...
Love the Bloodstalker Cameo
Is your voice getting deeper or did you get a better mic?
Love your videos
@3:44 I wonder who would of won in a battle vs those 3. Absolutely crazy looking!
It depends on circumstances if spinosaurus attacked from the water I could see it wrecking both tyrannosaurus and carcaradontosaurus but if it was on a flat plain then probably either carcaradontosaurus or tyrannosaurus would win due to their bite force unless spinosaurus stayed on the side not fighting until the other 2 hurt each other enough
That thumbnail is brutal
I'd not say flesh. It'd say tissue. Even small sharks cut through bone without any issue, because they saw through it, if you're not squimish you can literally see videos of kommodo dragons doing the same thing to goats. You need to be able to break up a carcass if you are a large predator and that includes dealing with bone. In my opinion the allosaurid skull and therefore carcharodontosaurid skull is designed to maximise the cut, like a shark, and like a bonesaw. It's long and narrow to maximise the length of the sawing tooth row, it's high arched to take stress from the tooth row, even the micro structure of the serrations take stress off the teeth and the skull top is thickened to absorb stress.
There was a survey in the morrison formation where they found the idea of predatory dinosaurs avoiding bone was as simple as collection bias. They collected every single piece of bone at the site(shockingly including the damaged bone specimens that other digs would usually pass over, because they are damaged) and found that the bone damage ratio was similar to what you see in modern carnivores when feeding. This included damaged osteoderms from creatures like Gargoyleosaurus or Mymoorpelta. So it would seem they got hungry enough to chew on/through even the toughest carcasses available.
We have plenty of evidence that Allosaurus was dealing with large amounts of bone, and I'd say that the carcharodontosaurs were a further refinement on what already worked. We have things like camarasaurus hip bones with Allosaurus jaw shaped furrows gouged in them, and sections missing entirely. We also have a number of corprolites from the morrison including the following article, which I will attach in whole as it's actually getting hard to track down. It's a record of the largest and most bone filled corprolite discovered to date.
A LARGE MEAT-EATING DINOSAUR COPROLITE FROM THE JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION OF UTAH
Author(s): STONE, Dwayne D., Dept. of Geology, Marietta College, Marietta, OH 45750; CRISP, Edward L., Geology Dept., West Virginia University at Parkersburg, Parkersburg, WV 26101, ecrisp@alpha.wvup.wvnet.edu; BISHOP, John R., Rt. 2 Box 137, Ravenswood, WV 26164
Keywords: Coprolite, Jurassic, Morrison Formation, Allosaurus
A theropod dinosaur coprolite has been excavated in Emery County, Utah from a red-brown mudstone of the Upper Jurassic Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation. The coprolite is nearly complete and is divisible into two parts, the main mass and a dribbling zone. The well-indurated main mass, which tapers at both ends, is 1.52 m in length, 0.457 m in maximum width, and 10.2 cm thick. The 1.52 m long dribbling zone consists of small isolated coprolites that curve towards the end of the dribbles. The coprolite geometry is interpreted to indicate that the main mass was defecated first, then the animal walked forward to release smaller amounts of feces. The coprolite consists of dark gray bone fragments, ranging from pebble to sand size, in a red-brown matrix. Bone fragments represent about 50% of the mass and have broken, jagged ends, possibly indicating breakage by the biting action of a carnivore. XRD analysis of the bone fragments and matrix reveal that both are primarily composed of carbonate fluorapatite. The large size of the coprolite and its geometry and stratigraphic location indicate that it represents fecal droppings from a large Allosaurus. Further support for this hypothesis is the fact that a broken distal end of an Allosaurus tooth was found within the coprolite, indicating that during mastication a tooth was broken and ingested. The carnivore did not grab a portion of flesh and bone from a prey animal and then swallow it whole. Instead the eater masticated its meal and broke the bones into smaller portions. This is the largest and oldest theropod dinosaur coprolite known. Work is continuing on a second theropod coprolite higher in the section at this location and pieces of theropod coprolites from two additional localities have been identified. Morrison Formation theropod coprolites are no longer considered to be absent or scarce and future searching should reveal additional large specimens.
3:49 talking about carcharodontosaurus
*shows giga drawing*
*mentions T-rex*
Hardly forgotten
1:10 I had this photo in a great textbook sized children's book on dinosaurs as a kid in the 90s. If anyone knows the artist or the possible book title please let me know
Fabulous beastie!
10:11 does anybody remember the documentary When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs because I believe it took place in this formation.
The primary idea behind the ambush predator idea is it's slow speed. Bit if a brother is eating bloody sauropods how fast does he need to be LOL?
The Charcharodontosaurus is by far my favorite dinosaur!
I am binchwatching while taking a dump on the toilet of my job
That thumbnail is brutal...
could you do a video on yuangchanosaurus?
My favourite carcharodontosaurid is meraxes with carcharodontosaurus being second
The King of Africa
my absolute favourite dinosaur 👍
Triggered spino fanboy entered the chat
Yup that’s me
Real spinos were kinda lame.
@@atlsooner85 are you kidding? It’s a school bus-sized, gharrial--heron-river serpent-thing with a fricking billboard sprouting out of its back. Apex predator or not, that is such a fantastically improbable animal that I don’t know how anyone could look at it and go: “eh lame”.
@@Saurophaganax1931 I'll agree there
I have a question, do gigas go in packs or do they hunt alone
your videos are very accurate, well done♥
I was surprised to see you imply that the Luftwaffe took part in the bombing campaign against Berlin!
Never heard of the phrase if you cant beat them join them 😝
Has there been a new discovery? Last I heard was carcharodontosaurus was bigger than Trex but the size chart shown it to be smaller.
Who did that spino skeleton at the start
It would be terrifying to have seen these alive
Spinosaurus vs. Charcharadontosaurus and Saltwater Crocodiles vs. Great White Sharks is very similar
Car car is so underrated
There was no mention of its air box. Which allowed this creature to outrun its prey.
2:00 were they really that big or is that a juvenile that they are attacking?
River of monsters 💯
That's My fav Dinosaur and rank my theropod to Spinosaurus Tyrannosaurus Rex Giganotosaurus Mapusaurus and tyrannotitan, Carcharodontosaurus the shark tooth lizard it's name
My favorite theropod rank
1. Tyrannosaurus Rex - 10.4 tonnes
2. Giganotosaurus- 10.1 tonnes
3. Deinocheirus- 8.4 tonnes
4. Mapusaurus- 8.4 tonnes
5. Spinosaurus- 8.2 tonnes
6. Carcharodontosaurus- 8.2 tonnes
7. Saurophaganax- 7.8 tonnes
8. Sauroniops- 7.5 tonnes
9. Tyrannotitan- 7.3 tonnes
10. Bahariasaurus- 7.1 tonnes
Spinosaurus vs Carcharodontosaurus is one of the greatest rivalries in the Mesozoic. Even GSP talked about it on Joe Rogan
No it's not. It's a stomps in favor of carchar
@@Shimosevilbrother99 Still coping huh? Paleontologists wouldn't call Spino and Carchar 'rivals' if it was actually a squash match, they would have outright stated "Spino was preyed.." which they NEVER did aside from fans 💀
@@carnoraptor79 To add onto your comment, giant predators generally do not fight each other unless they absolutely have to, plus Spino and Carchar occupied 2 entirely different niches so conflicts were most likely not as common.
@@carnoraptor79carcharodontosaurus slams spino mid diff.
Rex ( 10.4-11.5t) > Giga ( 10.1t) > Mapu ( 8.4-8.8t) > Snax ( 8.3t) > Carchar ( 8.2t) > Titan ( 7.5t) > Sauroniops ( 7.7t) > Deino ( 8.4t) > Spino ( 7.8-8.1t)
@@Shimosevilbrother99 All of those estimates aren't even from paleontologists, but a fan made doc sheet that isn't peer-reviewed.
It was actually 8.4 tons for c.saharicus and the second species was about 10 meters and about 4-5 tons but in my opinion I think the second species could get larger up to 11.5 feet and 6 tons maximum and possibly 7 tons because it had to complete with dinosaurs such as sauroniops and bahariasaurus
Just here to say that the sauropod in the thumbnail is getting wrecked.
This SOB is a beast in ark!
How are they not in Jurassic world the game yet it’s been like 8 years
the isle needs this
On the river of giants monsters are born
Bahariasaurus too .
nice work
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The spinosaurus wasn't even a rival to the carcharodontosaurus, they had separate diets and were specialists in their respective environments
These things were put in Ark a little over a year ago
Just think that in millions of years if the earth is still around and there is a new creature digging around bones, and they figure out the Apex Predator of that time came in all shapes and sizes and most were too lazy to get out of bed.
Giga be like: am i a joke to u
Do giga next !!
Here because Ark 😅
4:24 Ayo aint that the ark carcha, I see dat bloodstalker over there
Correct lol
Wow look at all the experts here commenting like they had one as a pet 😂😂😂😂
Can u make a video of the giganotosaurus (I’ll check if u have)
Africa has always been known for its exotic wildlife, and the dinosaurs that lived there were no exception. These animals made T Rex look like a house pet.
Wait these were bigger than Gigas!? Imagine them in Jurassic Park
Giga was bigger
Giga is a little bigger.
Gigs was slightly larger
Yep, Giga is the largest member of the Carcharodontosauridae family
Giga was bigger, about the same size as a T.rex, maybe a bit smaller, but with the limited fossils we have of Giga, it may have been larger too.
Just imagine if that charcharodontosaurus met pickle from baki.
Instant rip for the dinosaur, pickle eat that thing immediately😢😅
in all fairness, people pay more attention to spinosaurus aegytpicas because paleontologists can't make up their mind about the thing
Every Dinosaur King fan knows Carcharodontosaurus.