The croc that scared even the big dinosaurs...

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
  • Now we take a look at the REAL apex predator that would have scared the biggest dinosaurs of its region: Deinosuchus...
    Be sure to like, comment and subscribe!
    Also don't forget Dino-gen is on Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok
    If you're looking for an informative blog or just some cool dinosaur merch, be sure to check out www.dino-gen.com
    If you’d like to support this channel and gain access to some cool features, please check out my patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=76749337
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:30 Discovery
    1:16 Description
    3:32 Environment
    5:33 Diet/interactions
    7:15 Q&A: How do we tell the difference between species?
    All pictures are either licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0 International license or come under the fair use policy Image credit: www.deviantart.com/greeni-stu... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... A Deinosuchus lunges at an Albertosaurus in an artist's conception. ILLUSTRATION BY RAUL D. MARTIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STOCK commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... www.deviantart.com/amorousdin... www.deviantart.com/ashere/art... www.artstation.com/artwork/B1... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Di... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Deinodon By Ashley Patch on @palaeoshley commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... www.artstation.com/artwork/Aq... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

КОМЕНТАРІ • 82

  • @chichiboypumpi
    @chichiboypumpi 11 днів тому +37

    I remember that docu hyping the sarcosuchus, "it didn't walk with dinosaurs, it ate them"

    • @llgatorll4527
      @llgatorll4527 8 днів тому +2

      I would hate to meet either one😂

    • @mechwarrior13
      @mechwarrior13 6 днів тому +1

      Not to take anything away from its sheer size, but sarco was just a massive gharial

    • @chichiboypumpi
      @chichiboypumpi 6 днів тому +1

      @@mechwarrior13 I reckon its jaws would snap biting at dinos.

  • @PrehistoricMagazine
    @PrehistoricMagazine 11 днів тому +14

    It didn’t walk with dinosaurs, it ate them. Actually that’s the slogan from 2001 natgeo Supercroc doc but feels appropriate here. Mike

    • @chichiboypumpi
      @chichiboypumpi 7 днів тому

      right? hyping the sarcosuchus imperator

    • @chichiboypumpi
      @chichiboypumpi 7 днів тому

      Right? Hyping the sarcosuchus imperator.

  • @Opossum_Wizard
    @Opossum_Wizard 11 днів тому +13

    I'm of the opinion that Deinosuchus was likely to be the largest crocodilian to ever walk the Earth. Only with Purussaurus being its closest competitor. Other species just don't seem to come near the sheer weight and bulk those two species have. I believe that while Purussaurus is gargantuan, it was likely to be the largest animal of its environment, with little to no competition or necessity for it to be any larger than it was. While Deinosuchus was a giant living among giants, it would grow to be as big as physically possible in order to take the widest variety of prey in its ecosystem, the Laramidian species being particularly large in order to predate on the larger animals from that side of the Western Interior Seaway.

    • @loowick4074
      @loowick4074 6 днів тому

      Multiple species of crocs have been discovered of massive size.
      Give it a few more decades we will find other big ones

    • @mechwarrior13
      @mechwarrior13 6 днів тому

      Big as in heaviest probably. Its a wide boy.

  • @LoudmouthReviews
    @LoudmouthReviews 11 днів тому +12

    Minor mistake you made. Sarchosuchus was not a crocodilian. It was a crocodilomorph that lived before the first true crocodilians

  • @josephroberts5243
    @josephroberts5243 10 днів тому +6

    ‘Gremlin’

  • @peterburridge9346
    @peterburridge9346 11 днів тому +10

    Thank you for taking time in making these videos much appreciated

  • @andrewdewit4711
    @andrewdewit4711 8 днів тому +2

    Excellent work, fact-filled and engaging at the same time.

  • @myleswelnetz6700
    @myleswelnetz6700 6 днів тому +1

    Unlike the other crocodile-like reptiles that have come and gone, Deinosuchus was a true crocodilian, but is more related to alligators than to crocodiles.

  • @francissemyon7971
    @francissemyon7971 11 днів тому +7

    I thought you would mention Fadeno's work, not published but quite interesting and solid IMO where he estimates specimens CM 963 and TM 43632-1 could possibly indicate animals 13-14 m TL, 12-15 t, with bite forces arond 130Kn. I recall have read some comments that some neck bones in Deinosuchus were more robust than those in Purussaurus. If all of this is correct, this might make it the true king of the crocodilians. Nice work as always, I laughed at the Hatcher and Schwimmer joke.😂
    I see a parallel between Deinosuchus taking the apex predator position in a dinosaurs dominated environment and the Otodus lineage which became successful in cetaceans dominated ecosystems.

    • @rodrigopinto6676
      @rodrigopinto6676 8 днів тому +1

      "12/15 t" is unreliable or unrealistic

    • @francissemyon7971
      @francissemyon7971 8 днів тому +3

      @@rodrigopinto6676 Check Fadeno's work instead of arguing for nothing.

    • @rodrigopinto6676
      @rodrigopinto6676 8 днів тому +1

      @@francissemyon7971 again is unreliable "size"

    • @frost7463
      @frost7463 8 днів тому +1

      @@francissemyon7971 he is a very delusional tyrannosaurus fanboy, there is no point in talking to him

  • @dantemedici8179
    @dantemedici8179 11 днів тому +5

    Hey … great video ! You’re rekindling my long buried interest in dinosaurs… do you have a favourite paleo artist ?

    • @dino-gen
      @dino-gen  11 днів тому

      Thank you! Really glad I’m reawakening a love for natural history 😊 oooo I can’t say I have a favourite but definitely a top 3 in no particular order: Fred Weirum, Emily Willoughby and Mark P. Witton 😃

    • @ZachiEvenor
      @ZachiEvenor 10 днів тому +1

      @@dino-gen I still think Raul Martin's "Deinosuchus attacks Albertosaurus" for National Geographic 2009 is the best paleoart work I've ever seen, it is so realistic and dynamics - you can actually see Deinosuchus clamps its jaws on the dinosaur.

    • @dino-gen
      @dino-gen  10 днів тому

      You’re right, that is an awesome piece 😎

  • @dmitryi8822
    @dmitryi8822 11 днів тому +5

    Amazing video…! Your videos make for such interesting breaks in my day. Your way of speech intrigues me in prehistoric animals.

  • @ZachiEvenor
    @ZachiEvenor 10 днів тому +1

    Deinosuchus was the king of crocodylians, 10-12 m long and 5-8.5 t. I recommend the book "King of Crocodylians: Paleobiology of Deinosuchus" by Prof. David R. Schwimmer, it is from 2002 and I hope he will write an updated additions, especially after Brochu and Cossett paper from 2020.

  • @andrewdrednaught
    @andrewdrednaught 11 днів тому +2

    Nice, a deino episode!

  • @brucefsanders
    @brucefsanders 11 днів тому +1

    Distractingly cute... Watching these clip out of sequence makes you notice the frequent hair style changes, parted left to right and back, shaggy and long, short and spiky.... But always distractingly cute....
    What an educator ‼️🤔😀👍🏻

  • @DemitriVladMaximov
    @DemitriVladMaximov 8 днів тому

    Just so you know, that isn't a barrel roll but instead is more related to a aileron roll. Barrel roll is called that because you do a loop that follow the outline of a cylinder, or a barrel shape. An aileron roll is one that you rotate the aircraft so that the nose is the center point for the rotational axis. Also I would like to add that the type specimen of appalachiosaurus has evidence of a failed deinosuchus attack when it was younger.

  • @killervic7379
    @killervic7379 11 днів тому +3

    Scary big

  • @robcanisto8635
    @robcanisto8635 11 днів тому +1

    There he is ❤

  • @stevemorrison2174
    @stevemorrison2174 11 днів тому +1

    I think purussaurus would be heavier than deinosuchus but maybe not longer.

  • @oscarstainton
    @oscarstainton 11 днів тому +5

    After seeing their domination of Albertosaurus in Prehistoric Park, Deinosuchus are not a species to be sneezed at. Quite interesting that these giants didn't live past 73 million years ago. If remains are found in the Maastrichtian, that would make for a truly terrifying time...

    • @rylandfrederick431
      @rylandfrederick431 11 днів тому +2

      Deinosuchus would be the terrified one lmao, it would have to contend with mosasaurus and tylosaurus much bigger and way more deadly in the water than deinosuchus, tylosaurus especially has been known to crack skulls open on other mosasurs. And the land wouldn't be safe either, giant herds of edmontosaurus are to big to take down and triceratops surely wouldn't mind goring a croc stuck in land. And deinosuchus would have a much harder time when the tyrannosaurs they used to feed on are now 10 tons with a bite to match.

    • @charlesmartin1121
      @charlesmartin1121 11 днів тому +1

      Exactly. The Late Maastrichtian in North America usually has the biggest of the big.

    • @frost7463
      @frost7463 8 днів тому +2

      @@rylandfrederick431 Deinosuchus is outright larger than mosasaurus and very close in size to mosasaurus. It's also larger than tyrannosaurus.

  • @WilliamWalls-iz2rv
    @WilliamWalls-iz2rv 11 днів тому +2

    Just leaving a "Yikes!" for algo. As if things weren't bad enough on land -- where's a guy going to go to get a drink in peace?

  • @Sensekhmet
    @Sensekhmet День тому

    I propose to rename the Simlodon Populator to S. Depopulator.

  • @funyun
    @funyun 11 днів тому +1

    Gremlins?...

  • @Do27gg
    @Do27gg 3 дні тому

    You would think a deinosuchus would be tougher/larger than a purrusaurus because it lived with dinosaurs

  • @JustThat1Guy304
    @JustThat1Guy304 8 днів тому +1

    How do scientist find out about the size of animals and especially they re mass? If so how is it done?

  • @incubustimelord5947
    @incubustimelord5947 11 днів тому +1

    This is probably more than likely the biggest one ever. But is this the same prehistoric animal as the Super Croc that often fought against the Titan Boa? Or is the Super Croc just another similar species?

    • @Zakraktak
      @Zakraktak 8 днів тому

      they didnt even live in the same time period.

  • @jimkirby1799
    @jimkirby1799 8 днів тому +3

    Comparing the two prehistoric crocks for size is like comparing the nile, and salt water crocks today.

  • @thomashastings5694
    @thomashastings5694 11 днів тому

    I would say a solid maybe on the size/weight

  • @Zakraktak
    @Zakraktak 8 днів тому

    Deniosuchus Hatcheri

  • @wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457
    @wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 10 днів тому

    On land, megs crocodilians stand no chance against mega theropods. Only if the theropods crossed the river, they would get hunted when in deep water.

    • @frost7463
      @frost7463 9 днів тому

      This one is much bigger than any theropod by like 3 tonnes.

    • @rodrigopinto6676
      @rodrigopinto6676 8 днів тому +1

      @@frost7463 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Jay-lv3oy
    @Jay-lv3oy 10 днів тому +4

    If Deinosuchus was "the REAL apex predator," it probably wouldn't have an extinction coinciding with the evolution of T. rex (the real apex predator.)

    • @frost7463
      @frost7463 9 днів тому +5

      Deinosuchus went extinct due to the shrinkage of the western interior seaway. Not anything to do with tyrannosaurus.

    • @rodrigopinto6676
      @rodrigopinto6676 8 днів тому +1

      @@frost7463 is breakfast for a tyrannosaurus rex.!

    • @myleswelnetz6700
      @myleswelnetz6700 8 днів тому +2

      It was another apex predator.

  • @thomasgeorgecastleberry6918
    @thomasgeorgecastleberry6918 11 днів тому

    Godzilla was pretty BIG!

  • @subraxas
    @subraxas 11 днів тому +2

    Super-sexy Henry Cavill's younger brother is heeeeeerrrre again!!!!!! YEAY!!! 🙂 ❤

  • @Phytosaur
    @Phytosaur 11 днів тому

    How could you make a video on Deinosuchus & not show any clips from prehistoric park ?

  • @A_C_E_R...
    @A_C_E_R... 11 днів тому

    I could've had a fight with it I'd have it me

  • @mudgetheexpendable
    @mudgetheexpendable 11 днів тому

    GAWD I hope it was the biggest suchian ever. I'm havin' severe anxiety knowin' it ever existed, if somethin' bigger existed I'll never ever sleep again

  • @Dimetropteryx
    @Dimetropteryx 10 днів тому

    Was it the biggest crocodilian in Earth's history? Very likely not. It already has some serious contenders, and who knows what we haven't discovered yet and what species didn't leave any fossils.

    • @mechwarrior13
      @mechwarrior13 6 днів тому

      Lack of evidence is not evidence though

    • @Dimetropteryx
      @Dimetropteryx 5 днів тому

      @@mechwarrior13 Nobody suggested it was.

  • @rodrigopinto6676
    @rodrigopinto6676 11 днів тому +2

    Giant croc is breakfast for a tyrannosaurus rex.!

    • @frost7463
      @frost7463 11 днів тому +2

      Deinosuchus reaches 14 tonnes and has a much more powerful bite than tyrannosaurus does.

    • @rodrigopinto6676
      @rodrigopinto6676 11 днів тому +1

      @@frost7463 wrong

    • @rodrigopinto6676
      @rodrigopinto6676 11 днів тому +1

      @@frost7463 "14 tonnes" no evidence

    • @Dimetropteryx
      @Dimetropteryx 10 днів тому +1

      Sure maybe, if a T. rex could surprise it on land.

    • @toughbutsweet1
      @toughbutsweet1 10 днів тому

      Maybe T-Rex would have bitten the top of the croc's skull the way a jaguar kills a caiman?

  • @raylopez99
    @raylopez99 11 днів тому +2

    There's nothing scary about Deinosuchus... I have a 12 inch scale model on my desk in fact.