The solar system has moved 1.8e+18 kilometers since the time of the Anteosaurus. Even relative to Earth's center, South Africa has moved something like 900-1000 km since the middle permian, so it depend on how you define 'the same spot'. Permian Earth pretty much was an alien planet. Oxygen levels at this time were somewhere in the range of 25%-28% at sea level and would be litterally leathal to humans and most contemporary life. The day was shorter, Earth's mass and atmospheric pressure would be slightly different. There would be more CO2 but the sun would be very slightly dimmer. The Earth's orbit would be different, the moon would be closer to the Earth and tides would be more pronounced, the stars in the night sky would be noticably different. etc. etc.
@@AnnoyingNewslettersPage6 that's true, but if you go to a bar and the tender ask you "Why a so long face".😄 Hopefully Anato would't bit off the tenders head🙂
Great work, you'd be shocked at how little the Permian is actually covered in academia, let alone education, yet Paleoartists do the period so much justice. I honestly love the community for making the past so much more real for all of us.
@@rogerwilson53 It took me ages to find resources & reliable sources for the Permain for my own content, it's honestly sad how little the period is actively being researched, but we have such limited fossil data from that time that there's only so much paleontologists & naturalists can do until we keep making more finds.
I love the Permian animals. Something about them makes them much stranger and just as cool as dinosaurs were. I'm actually doing a coloring book of Permian animals and the colors are giving me grief, lol.
Dear Josh, l agree. I was astonished to learn years ago about the Permian and its plants and animals have been just as interesting to me as those of the Mesozoic.
I mean, just make an educated deduction on the likelihood of the plants and geology in their environment and base colors on that (camouflage) and add a little flair of wild color that will get them seen and killed (mate attracting patterns of sexual display).
Tails, instead of being a hindrance, are very useful when running: they keep the animal's course straight, have strong fibula-attached muscles, and much help with turning sideways.
@@chimerasuchus for longer running, yes, but for an explosion of action they help provide the crocodile something to push off with. Crocodiles can outrun a person in a 10 meter dash on land because of their tail.
This channel never fails to impress me. Seriously; even if the sub count isn’t growing too fast, you can definitely count me in for the ride. The educational content and just overall awesomeness this place radiates is more than enough for me. Highly recommend a video on Koolasuchus, one of the strange amphibian carnivore holdouts :)
Anteosaurus was actually MUCH larger than 500-600kg based on GDI scaling using Titanophoneus and known Anteosaurus rib material; it actually weighted around 1500kg (!!), making it the largest predatory land synapsid of all time. Still smaller than a white rhino, though.
@@19megamustaine85 Depends on Wich species, Arctodus Sinus would have a very tough fight, meanwhile Arctotherium angustidens would find a worthy opponent.
Its always inportant to look at an animal in the context of its contemporaries. Might have short legs but if everything else at the time has short legs its not a problem.
I never knew that this existed! Reminds me of a prehistoric Hippo, based on the skull. Therioceophalians, I know I butchered this, but they seem interesting to me. This channel fascinates me, always have to watch an episode twice to make sure I understand it. Cheers all!
It'd be so cool to go back to the Permian to see what Anteosaurus and other therapsids actually looked like...as long as you were riding in an APC. Wouldn't want to encounter one of these things on foot.
Honestly i'd really appreciate a video on moscops : it's just soo primal and mejestic as an animal imo , and it's extremely underrated because it's not a dinosaur and it's comparatively unimpressive as an animal , I think it should deserve a nice show off And to be showed fighting against anteosaurus , wich would have been it's predator , It would be a nice to two sprayed leg synapsids wrestle an scuffle like two oversized lizards
I like the description of the similarities to other animals at the start of the video, and I'm tempted to call it a "Bearometrodon T-Hippo" in the future. 😉
Very great subject matter for a video. I approve this. Indeed Anteosaurus and other such therapsids fascinating. Thank you for this work of education you are sharing with others on this website.
Great videos! Love the Permian stuff. Have you ever heard of The Whiteside Museum of Natural History? It's a tiny but utterly amazing museum in Seymour, TX - smack-dab in the Permian Basin - with great fossils found by and worked on by the staff right there. Very impressive.
Thank you so much for creating and sharing this fascinating video! When it came to head butting, my thoughts were, what about head pushing? Might have been enough to settle a dispute between two grizzly bear sized predators in a sound way.
@@Dr.IanPlect They are,both Sauropsids and Synapsids are Amniotes, however, they are sister lineages so any Sauropsids(so reptiles) are more closely related to eachother than to any Synapsid as far as I'm aware.
@@eybaza6018 Ok. Note also that; "both Sauropsids and Synapsids are Amniotes, however, they are sister lineages so any Sauropsids(so reptiles) are more closely related to eachother than to any Synapsid as far as I'm aware." ...doesn't conflict with synapsids being related to reptiles. (It's accurate though, you got that bit right!).
Great program, man! I love everything Synapsidian and, until very recently, I had never heard of the Anteosaurus. You have earned my Like and my Subscribe so keep up the good work!
Such a interesting but severely underappreciated animal. I think the best ecological equivalent would be a Jaguar, since it often chases prey underwater.
Seeing as how the video alternates between furless and furred reconstructions of Moschops, could you could do a video on the debate over whether Permian ancestors of mammals had fur?
May i suggest the extinct hanyusuchus for your next video? The idea of such large gharial/crocodile living in essentially 1600s at the latest is both fascinating and disheartening.
Fantastic video and a fantastic channel! Love to see all the topics delved into and this is one of my favorites. Could I field a critique for the video format? Not a big criticism I assure, just something I noticed.
@@chimerasuchus Your voice and mic are quite good, but the empty air between your words gets noticeable in certain places. A subtle background music track might help out there. Nothing with vocals or loud of course, could be something as simple as quiet forest and nature sounds.
Even when referring to the protomammals the writer had to tie in Tyranosaurus Rex. These animals were separated by many, many millions of years from and not related to the T Rex. It seems people's minds are dominated by thoughts of this monster when it comes to the Mesozoic Era. Yet the tyranosaurs never appeared til the very end of that Era. There were other dinos that looked mysterious, majestic, beautiful, even cute, as well as dangerous, but all one hears about is T Rex, T Rex, T Rex. Do l sound sick of that animal?
I’m still astonished we can go back billions of years by finding fossils, using the measure of light to see things no longer there theoretically, see planets and what they are made of; yet can’t see into the depth of our own oceans and explore the remainder
Picture at beginning of video could be in Ararat, Vic , Eastern Australia. North-Eastern side of Green Hill Lake Reserve up thi canal/second lake, going up into Langi Ghiran Mountain.
Wow 🤯 how have I never seen any of these animals before. I have always loved watching Dino docs since childhood and never have I seen this Era of animals. These pictures absolutely prove that evolution exists. Here are the animals half way between dinosaurs 🦕 how we know them and animals of today. That's like a t Rex head stuck on a kamodo dragon body. That's soo cool to me to see very neat to see how dinosaur transformed in to what we see today
Synapsids like Anteosaurus were not the ancestors of dinosaurs but were instead more closely related to mammals. The relatives of dinosaurs and crocodilians, the archosauromorphs, came to dominate in the following Triassic Period.
@@chimerasuchus ohh OK 👍 well that not quite what I was thinking then thank you but still really cool to see 😎. Life has definitely changed a lot over the years and nature has definitely come up with some cool and crazy looking creatures. 😀
Anteosaurus is probably one of my favorite Paleozoic beast. However, I personally do not like the T-Rex comparison because dinosaurs should not be viewed as a unit of measurement in layman's terms when it comes to prehistoric life before, during, and after the Mesozoic.
But its the same as saying the Carcharadontosaurus is a shark toothed dinosaur, or that protoceratops are the sheep of the cerataceous. We use animals as a unit of measurement all the time. And I see no reason why its head looking like a rex should be ignored just cause dinos are mainstream.
The comparison was made due both of Anteosaurus and Tyrannosaur both have massive, bone crunching skulls (which appear similar from the front), their sheer size when compared to the other predators of their time period, and how their juveniles reminiscent of their smaller, less bulky ancestors. In general though, I agree that comparison to Tyrannosaurus are overdone and often unwarranted.
Hopefully one day u can also do a video on Parahelicoprion I dont see much videos on it and nothing in depth I know they are not well known but it looks crazy like an insane pokemon evolved form of helicoprion
Hippo: absolute beast Tyrannosaurus: a super predator, and has the word "Suarus" at the end of its name Dimetrodon: Really cool looking Anteosuarus: WITH YOUR POWERS COMBINED I AM ANTEOSUARUS!
Compared to crocodilians and dinosaurs early therapsids had diverse sets of teeth. With different kinds of teeth in different parts of the mouth. Like mammals. I wonder if they had cheeks and mammal like tongues.
Your program was very interesting. On the question of determining how terrestrial or aquatic an animal, in this case an Anteosaurus, is using oxygen isotopes, why not use the oxygen isotopes of Komodo dragons, Asian Water monitors, Marine Iguana lizards, Common Basilisk lizards, Green Iguana lizards, Sea snakes, Indian Cobras, Common Kraits, Water Moccasins, Tuataras, Jaguars, Fishing cats, Giant Amazon otters, Sea otters, Common hippopotami, Pygmy hippopotami, Asian tapirs, Javan Rhinoceroses, Black Rhinoceroses, Dugongs and Mantees then compare? Such an investigation would uncover much more information than just about Anteosarusus. Also many of the big universities should want to help in the investigation.
... but what if there _are_ no more bones, like 1:46 is all there is and in reality it was some sort of rubbery squid-thing that evolved its beak into a horrible toothy skull-analogue.
This had the same sort of posture as a bulldog just with a larger head. Bulldogs have a small, therefore they're amphibious. Do paleontologist even learn anything about biology anymore?
To an extent it's probably due to their understanding of evolution at the time. In the past it was viewed that animals evolved towards becoming "better" or "superior", so people thought that all those extinct early lineages including the dinosaurs and the early synapsids were primitive beings that were still not well adapted to live on land. That's why they were often depicted as very slow, sluggish, dumb, coldblooded, reptilian and often amphibious beings who were destined to die and be replaced by more advanced and sophisticated organisms. Today we know that's not how evolution works and that the animals evolve according to the ecological context at their time and what animal would be more successful at a given time depends on numerous factors. This is why we can't claim that the current animals are superior to the ones that lived 100 million years ago for example. Now that we have updated our concept of evolution we find that a lot of traits that we consider advanced actually evolved far earlier that we originally thought. Like for instance the discovery that feathers evolved in non-avian dinosaurs or perhaps even earlier before the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Or the fact that many archosaurs and non-mammalian synapsids had higher metabolisms than modern reptiles. In this case we discovered that Anteosaurus was quite competent on land and was much more nimble predator then previously understood. However a century ago all this was unknown and many of the more modern methods for research haven't been introduced so it's not hard to imagine why there were a lot of misconceptions.
@@Andrey.Ivanov modern reptiles were were underrated the same way, even though the seemingly sluggish lifestyles of some are also ingenious adaptations unattainable by mammals. Most of the researchers of the past also came from cold climates in the northern hemisphere, where the effects of recent glaciations and the open expansive grasslands they made benefited tall-legged digitigrade high aerobic capacity animals. So they naturally thought that highly aerobic mammals and migrating birds are the end point of evolution. The Earth was much warmer and much more forested for most of the Phanerozoic though.
Well they're still got it correct. The estimated speeds of average sauropods generally never surpass 7.2 km/h. You can't be fast when you weighing over 40 tons
It's crazy to think of these animals running around where modern houses are. They seem like they're from an alien planet.
if their would be life and oxygen of curse on mars they would fit their .
@@19megamustaine85based on what the other large animals living on mars?? What are you even saying bro
Well tully monster was swimming around what is now Illinois. Go figure
The solar system has moved 1.8e+18 kilometers since the time of the Anteosaurus. Even relative to Earth's center, South Africa has moved something like 900-1000 km since the middle permian, so it depend on how you define 'the same spot'. Permian Earth pretty much was an alien planet. Oxygen levels at this time were somewhere in the range of 25%-28% at sea level and would be litterally leathal to humans and most contemporary life. The day was shorter, Earth's mass and atmospheric pressure would be slightly different. There would be more CO2 but the sun would be very slightly dimmer. The Earth's orbit would be different, the moon would be closer to the Earth and tides would be more pronounced, the stars in the night sky would be noticably different. etc. etc.
i like how anteosaurus' skull looks like a mix between a bear's and a large theropod's skull
or a horse with terrifying teeth XD
@@Neonblue84that's why you're not supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth. 😦
@@AnnoyingNewslettersPage6 that's true, but if you go to a bar and the tender ask you "Why a so long face".😄
Hopefully Anato would't bit off the tenders head🙂
a bearopod you can say
Yeah they had really unique skulls, even as dinocephalians go, which had strange skulls in general.
Anteosaurus, Barinasuchus, and the African Hyaenodonts definitely deserve more attention in media.
Exactly my friend...💯👍
Great work, you'd be shocked at how little the Permian is actually covered in academia, let alone education, yet Paleoartists do the period so much justice. I honestly love the community for making the past so much more real for all of us.
Ive only ever found ONE book on the permian about the fauna.
ironic because a huge chunk of permian fauna are a part of our origins
@@rogerwilson53 It took me ages to find resources & reliable sources for the Permain for my own content, it's honestly sad how little the period is actively being researched, but we have such limited fossil data from that time that there's only so much paleontologists & naturalists can do until we keep making more finds.
Walking With Monsters was the only available resource for learning about this period back in the day.
I love the Permian animals. Something about them makes them much stranger and just as cool as dinosaurs were. I'm actually doing a coloring book of Permian animals and the colors are giving me grief, lol.
Dear Josh, l agree. I was astonished to learn years ago about the Permian and its plants and animals have been just as interesting to me as those of the Mesozoic.
@@richardmorin5967 they don't get enough love. I could really go for a nice thorough encyclopedia of all those animals.
I mean, just make an educated deduction on the likelihood of the plants and geology in their environment and base colors on that (camouflage) and add a little flair of wild color that will get them seen and killed (mate attracting patterns of sexual display).
Tails, instead of being a hindrance, are very useful when running: they keep the animal's course straight, have strong fibula-attached muscles, and much help with turning sideways.
Usually this is true but crocodilian tails are so heavy they slow them down on land.
@@chimerasuchus for longer running, yes, but for an explosion of action they help provide the crocodile something to push off with. Crocodiles can outrun a person in a 10 meter dash on land because of their tail.
@@BartJBols not me tho
@@alcyon7536 lol!
Tails also are great at balancing and is a major reason why theropod dinosaurs got so large.
This guy makes the ONLY videos on the permian. Respect dude. Ive never been able to find books on permian fauna.
This channel never fails to impress me. Seriously; even if the sub count isn’t growing too fast, you can definitely count me in for the ride. The educational content and just overall awesomeness this place radiates is more than enough for me.
Highly recommend a video on Koolasuchus, one of the strange amphibian carnivore holdouts :)
Awesome video, I really like your detailed examination of animals. You and Moth Light Media are really the best prehistoric youtubers.
North 02 is also another excellent channel
MOCHOPS - It sounds f$#!ng creepy. Imagine you go to the Park in the middle of the night. SEE HIM - He says. Me MOCHOPS, MOORE CHOPS.
Always makes my day when I see non-mammalian synapsids getting the love and attention they sooooo deserve! Great video!!!
I very much appreciate that finally somebody comes up with a popularly relatively poorly known apex predator like Anteosaurus.
Yess, ive waited for a video about my favorite stem mammal Anteosaurus, which was the equivalent of tyrannosaurus.
Anteosaurus was actually MUCH larger than 500-600kg based on GDI scaling using Titanophoneus and known Anteosaurus rib material; it actually weighted around 1500kg (!!), making it the largest predatory land synapsid of all time.
Still smaller than a white rhino, though.
So its size like a black rhino ,you think a short faced bare would stand a chance ?
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Maybe, but it’s at a significant size disadvantage.
@@bkjeong4302 Would anteosaurus not have the advantage with its massive head or arctodus intelligence and its paw would win ?
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My money is on Anteo (worse bite plus size advantage), but the bear’s going to go down fighting.
@@19megamustaine85 Depends on Wich species, Arctodus Sinus would have a very tough fight, meanwhile Arctotherium angustidens would find a worthy opponent.
Its always inportant to look at an animal in the context of its contemporaries. Might have short legs but if everything else at the time has short legs its not a problem.
Good point
The age of Rumptiles...
The different kinds of biodiversity that our planet has known trough the eons is wonderful and still in large part unknowed
Thank you for making my transition to college life a little easier with an in-depth video about a fascinating prehistoric animal!
You're welcome and good luck with college!
Ah yes the ultimate paleontological metric. The tyrannosaurus rex scale ahaha 🤣
finally a video talking about this animal ! This is the first video talking about Anteosaurus on UA-cam !
There was another one that had low viewer count if u look its by the channel Universe Science International
Universe Science International made one previously, but it came out before the studies about its ear canals and bone histology.
@@chimerasuchus i dont know if you make request ,but i would like to hear your opinion on Sillosuchus.
I never knew that this existed! Reminds me of a prehistoric Hippo, based on the skull. Therioceophalians, I know I butchered this, but they seem interesting to me. This channel fascinates me, always have to watch an episode twice to make sure I understand it. Cheers all!
Very much liked the video. Never really knew much about the Permian other than aquatic species from my college paleontology class. Very informative
It'd be so cool to go back to the Permian to see what Anteosaurus and other therapsids actually looked like...as long as you were riding in an APC. Wouldn't want to encounter one of these things on foot.
"let me quickly mention every famous prehistoric animal with remote resemblance to this guy, at every remote interval"
WOW!!! Incredible content. Excellent video. I didn't even know Anteosaurus existed before this video. Very well done.
Thanks for covering this ancient beast.
Honestly i'd really appreciate a video on moscops : it's just soo primal and mejestic as an animal imo , and it's extremely underrated because it's not a dinosaur and it's comparatively unimpressive as an animal ,
I think it should deserve a nice show off
And to be showed fighting against anteosaurus , wich would have been it's predator ,
It would be a nice to two sprayed leg synapsids wrestle an scuffle like two oversized lizards
Wonderful video. Thanks for creating and posting!
Yes thank you ive been waiting for this video
This was great! Keep producing videos! 🐺
Ah yes, Anteosaurus: the daschund T-rex.
Thank you for your class I appreciate your great detail into the subjects which I need very much.
I'm so happy Alan from Smiling Friends has started studying paleontology
I like the description of the similarities to other animals at the start of the video, and I'm tempted to call it a "Bearometrodon T-Hippo" in the future. 😉
Very great subject matter for a video. I approve this. Indeed Anteosaurus and other such therapsids fascinating. Thank you for this work of education you are sharing with others on this website.
Great videos! Love the Permian stuff.
Have you ever heard of The Whiteside Museum of Natural History? It's a tiny but utterly amazing museum in Seymour, TX - smack-dab in the Permian Basin - with great fossils found by and worked on by the staff right there. Very impressive.
Great video, super informative, love the presentation.
But you kinda sound like the new pinnochio
Oh yeah it's a t-rex on four leg and I love this so much
Ngl this video was very good and hope to see more,hope you have a great day
T-rex: "Who are you?"
Anteosaurus: "I'm you but quadrupedal and stronger!"
Actually… *pulls out nerd glasses* Tyrannosaurus still solos Anteosaurus low difficulty
@@EndreaiYT Anteosaurus: "Nobody cares, Pac-Man!"
Nope anteosaurus was weaker, the size of anteosaurus only at the same size as India gaur adult female T-Rex has weight 9 tons for male 6 tons
Or more like: "I am you but mammal"
@@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz Doktor, turn off my “giving a fuck” inhibitors
Thank you so much for creating and sharing this fascinating video! When it came to head butting, my thoughts were, what about head pushing? Might have been enough to settle a dispute between two grizzly bear sized predators in a sound way.
These things are like the perfect blend between mammal and reptile.
@@eybaza6018 Synapsids are of course related to reptiles.
@@Dr.IanPlect They are,both Sauropsids and Synapsids are Amniotes, however, they are sister lineages so any Sauropsids(so reptiles) are more closely related to eachother than to any Synapsid as far as I'm aware.
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- you just contradicted yourself by agreeing with my correction, so why state "Synapsids are literally unrelated to reptiles"?
@@Dr.IanPlect Sorry, that was bad wording on my part.
@@eybaza6018 Ok. Note also that;
"both Sauropsids and Synapsids are Amniotes, however, they are sister lineages so any Sauropsids(so reptiles) are more closely related to eachother than to any Synapsid as far as I'm aware."
...doesn't conflict with synapsids being related to reptiles. (It's accurate though, you got that bit right!).
I think I remember suggesting that you should do a video on dinocephalians, awesome stuff!
Thanks so much for your work!
You're welcome!
Another great video 😎
Great program, man! I love everything Synapsidian and, until very recently, I had never heard of the Anteosaurus. You have earned my Like and my Subscribe so keep up the good work!
Great video! I'd love to know more about the Capitanian mass extinction
Something about the inflection used in this video grates my ears immensely.
Happy to see my beloved therapsyds covered on UA-cam
bro anteosaurus magnificus is one of the coolest scientific names ive seen
Such a interesting but severely underappreciated animal. I think the best ecological equivalent would be a Jaguar, since it often chases prey underwater.
One of my favorite prehistoric predators.
Yes! Anteosaurus! It needs some attention badly
Really cool, thanks
Ah yes good ol Hipposaurus Rex.
well presented thanks for bringing synapsids to light.
Great video - I have to say Anteosaur's skull appears positively massive!
Very nice👍👍👍
Thank you!
Seeing as how the video alternates between furless and furred reconstructions of Moschops, could you could do a video on the debate over whether Permian ancestors of mammals had fur?
Permian therapsids likely had furs, but anything more archaic than that (i.e, Sphenacodont-grade synapsid) probably didn't have hair though
I really, really, REALLY like this thing.
Love.! The Baboon Dog Rex.!
Niiiice name. 👍🏼
I didn't even know I needed this.
It looks like a lystrosaurus/moschop but more agressive looking and territorial, with a rex/daspletosaurus-like head.
I could imagine that instead of headbutting, rival anteosaurs just pushed each other around. For that its skull roof must have sufficed.
May i suggest the extinct hanyusuchus for your next video? The idea of such large gharial/crocodile living in essentially 1600s at the latest is both fascinating and disheartening.
Anteosaurus my beloved
Do a video on limnoscelis. A temnospondyl amphibian that was already directly evolving into a synapsid, and probably a direct ancestor of anteosaurus.
"protomammal version of a tyrannosaurus"? more like permian grizzly bear
Anteosaurus could get a lot larger than a grizzly, and it ate far more meat than opportunistic Grizzlys.
Fantastic video and a fantastic channel! Love to see all the topics delved into and this is one of my favorites. Could I field a critique for the video format? Not a big criticism I assure, just something I noticed.
Sure. Criticism is welcome.
@@chimerasuchus Your voice and mic are quite good, but the empty air between your words gets noticeable in certain places. A subtle background music track might help out there. Nothing with vocals or loud of course, could be something as simple as quiet forest and nature sounds.
Even when referring to the protomammals the writer had to tie in Tyranosaurus Rex. These animals were separated by many, many millions of years from and not related to the T Rex. It seems people's minds are dominated by thoughts of this monster when it comes to the Mesozoic Era. Yet the tyranosaurs never appeared til the very end of that Era. There were other dinos that looked mysterious, majestic, beautiful, even cute, as well as dangerous, but all one hears about is T Rex, T Rex, T Rex. Do l sound sick of that animal?
They are of course related to T. rex!
What a cool animal!
woah so anteosaurus was semi aquatic ... such an underated creature
It'd be cool as shit to be able to go back in time and see the permian in first person
I’m still astonished we can go back billions of years by finding fossils, using the measure of light to see things no longer there theoretically, see planets and what they are made of; yet can’t see into the depth of our own oceans and explore the remainder
Water is a hell of a barrier
This was a damn good video
Can you do a video on Erythrosuchidae since they were crazy bobbleheaded predators and very interesting animals
It is certainly on the list!
Amazing content
Picture at beginning of video could be in Ararat, Vic , Eastern Australia. North-Eastern side of Green Hill Lake Reserve up thi canal/second lake, going up into Langi Ghiran Mountain.
Lol @ 11:23 He gettin the BEST back rub you can tell
Wow 🤯 how have I never seen any of these animals before. I have always loved watching Dino docs since childhood and never have I seen this Era of animals. These pictures absolutely prove that evolution exists. Here are the animals half way between dinosaurs 🦕 how we know them and animals of today. That's like a t Rex head stuck on a kamodo dragon body. That's soo cool to me to see very neat to see how dinosaur transformed in to what we see today
Synapsids like Anteosaurus were not the ancestors of dinosaurs but were instead more closely related to mammals. The relatives of dinosaurs and crocodilians, the archosauromorphs, came to dominate in the following Triassic Period.
@@chimerasuchus ohh OK 👍 well that not quite what I was thinking then thank you but still really cool to see 😎. Life has definitely changed a lot over the years and nature has definitely come up with some cool and crazy looking creatures. 😀
great video
Anteosaurus is probably one of my favorite Paleozoic beast. However, I personally do not like the T-Rex comparison because dinosaurs should not be viewed as a unit of measurement in layman's terms when it comes to prehistoric life before, during, and after the Mesozoic.
But its the same as saying the Carcharadontosaurus is a shark toothed dinosaur, or that protoceratops are the sheep of the cerataceous.
We use animals as a unit of measurement all the time. And I see no reason why its head looking like a rex should be ignored just cause dinos are mainstream.
im guessing the comparison is made because they fill the same niche as a hypercarnivorous apex predator
The comparison was made due both of Anteosaurus and Tyrannosaur both have massive, bone crunching skulls (which appear similar from the front), their sheer size when compared to the other predators of their time period, and how their juveniles reminiscent of their smaller, less bulky ancestors.
In general though, I agree that comparison to Tyrannosaurus are overdone and often unwarranted.
i now think i need an apex predator thru time shirt
Definitely not an irritating nasal tone of voice
Hopefully one day u can also do a video on Parahelicoprion I dont see much videos on it and nothing in depth I know they are not well known but it looks crazy like an insane pokemon evolved form of helicoprion
Superb
It was a crocobear, or a bearigator.
Hippo: absolute beast
Tyrannosaurus: a super predator, and has the word "Suarus" at the end of its name
Dimetrodon: Really cool looking
Anteosuarus: WITH YOUR POWERS COMBINED I AM ANTEOSUARUS!
Our very distant ancestor relatives. Cynodont are our direct mammal Ancestors.!!
Compared to crocodilians and dinosaurs early therapsids had diverse sets of teeth. With different kinds of teeth in different parts of the mouth. Like mammals.
I wonder if they had cheeks and mammal like tongues.
Your program was very interesting. On the question of determining how terrestrial or aquatic an animal, in this case an Anteosaurus, is using oxygen isotopes, why not use the oxygen isotopes of Komodo dragons, Asian Water monitors, Marine Iguana lizards, Common Basilisk lizards, Green Iguana lizards, Sea snakes, Indian Cobras, Common Kraits, Water Moccasins, Tuataras, Jaguars, Fishing cats, Giant Amazon otters, Sea otters, Common hippopotami, Pygmy hippopotami, Asian tapirs, Javan Rhinoceroses, Black Rhinoceroses, Dugongs and Mantees then compare? Such an investigation would uncover much more information than just about Anteosarusus. Also many of the big universities should want to help in the investigation.
So its 50% bear, 50% t-rex, 50% dimetrodon, 50% hippo? Where's Al Gore when we need him? Lol.
... but what if there _are_ no more bones, like 1:46 is all there is and in reality it was some sort of rubbery squid-thing that evolved its beak into a horrible toothy skull-analogue.
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can you do videos on mesonychids?
This had the same sort of posture as a bulldog just with a larger head. Bulldogs have a small, therefore they're amphibious. Do paleontologist even learn anything about biology anymore?
You can't even type sense.
I like to think these synapsids had ears and fur
5:48 OH GOD IT REALLY IS GETTING SIMILAR TO TYRANNOSAURUS.
Why did the older animal experts think all animals of the past to be slower?
To an extent it's probably due to their understanding of evolution at the time. In the past it was viewed that animals evolved towards becoming "better" or "superior", so people thought that all those extinct early lineages including the dinosaurs and the early synapsids were primitive beings that were still not well adapted to live on land. That's why they were often depicted as very slow, sluggish, dumb, coldblooded, reptilian and often amphibious beings who were destined to die and be replaced by more advanced and sophisticated organisms.
Today we know that's not how evolution works and that the animals evolve according to the ecological context at their time and what animal would be more successful at a given time depends on numerous factors. This is why we can't claim that the current animals are superior to the ones that lived 100 million years ago for example.
Now that we have updated our concept of evolution we find that a lot of traits that we consider advanced actually evolved far earlier that we originally thought. Like for instance the discovery that feathers evolved in non-avian dinosaurs or perhaps even earlier before the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Or the fact that many archosaurs and non-mammalian synapsids had higher metabolisms than modern reptiles. In this case we discovered that Anteosaurus was quite competent on land and was much more nimble predator then previously understood. However a century ago all this was unknown and many of the more modern methods for research haven't been introduced so it's not hard to imagine why there were a lot of misconceptions.
@@Andrey.Ivanov modern reptiles were were underrated the same way, even though the seemingly sluggish lifestyles of some are also ingenious adaptations unattainable by mammals. Most of the researchers of the past also came from cold climates in the northern hemisphere, where the effects of recent glaciations and the open expansive grasslands they made benefited tall-legged digitigrade high aerobic capacity animals. So they naturally thought that highly aerobic mammals and migrating birds are the end point of evolution.
The Earth was much warmer and much more forested for most of the Phanerozoic though.
Well they're still got it correct. The estimated speeds of average sauropods generally never surpass 7.2 km/h. You can't be fast when you weighing over 40 tons
Also prob seeing its sprawled out posture made ppl think this creature was slow.
Your voice. I cant.
It just LOOKS awkward for an active predator
Perhaps but it looks less awkward than most of its prey.
Dinosaurs took Earth from our ancestors. We took it back.
To be fair, a giant space rock killed the dinosaurs
@@iluvyurbles You're not wrong, but it is by exploiting that, just as they exploited the end-Triassic extinction.
@@extremosaur True, pretty much true.