The question about how they would sustain itself with that size specifically: The paraceratherids as a wider family lived during the early-to-mid Cenozoic, before the onset of the ice age. This meant that, when they were around, the world was generally warmer and more humid, due to less water being locked up in glaciers, and consequently more of the Earth's surface was covered in plant-rich environments. These guys in particular mostly lived around Central Asia, which in those times consisted mostly of rich floodplains and forests around the shores of the inland Tethys Sea. This would have provided them with lots of trees and brush to browse on, which would have helped sustain their size. It would have had to spend the majority of its life just eating, but that's the norm for most big grazers and filter-feeders anyway. Eventually, the ice age set in, climates dried and cooled, the Tethys mostly vanished (the Black and Caspian seas are what's left of it today), and the central asian floodplains became the dry scrub and steppe of the modern era. This is believed to be one of the primary reasons why these giants went extinct.
One of my favourite extinct animal ever! I can't imagine what be like if I stand right in front of adult Paraceratherium, their size is truely massive especially for mammal.
I have a pet Paraceratherium that we keep in our backyard and unfortunately it escaped from our backyard and stripped most of the leaves off the branches of our neighbor's multiple trees. Yes, a Paraceratherium is a very expensive pet to keep and very difficult to control and walk on a leash on any street. A very large shovel and extra big industrial strength hefty plastic trash bags are needed when walking a Paraceratherium on a leash in the neighborhood.
In land, various Hyenodonts, Entelodonts and maybe some Amphicyonids (bear-dogs) could have been able to take down a baby. One of the largest crocodilians, Astorgosuchus, would pose a threat to older and larger juveniles of pakistani species (Paraceratherium bugtiense). We have evidence of bite marks made by large crocodile at jaw bones of juvenile Paraceratherium.
Paraceratheres are not rhinos, the word "rhino" applies only to the family Rhinocerotidae, both rhinos and paraceratheres belong to the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, where the correct word is "rhinocerotoid", just like the word "elephant" applies only to the family Elephantidae not the order Proboscidea as a whole as the correct word for the order Proboscidea as a whole is "proboscidean" as deinotheres, mastodons, gomphotheres, and stegodonts are all not elephants and the word "armadillo" applies only to the family Dasypodidae not the order Cingulata as a whole as "cingulate" is the correct word for the order as a whole since pachyarmatheres (family Pachyarmatheriidae), pampatheres (family Pampatheriidae), and glyptodonts (family Glyptodontidae) are not considered armadillos.
I’ve never heard of invasive plants as a theory for prehistoric animal demises. Some events of planets and even crustaceans can cause the land scape to change as a contribution. As some browsing animals have died out when Forest and jungle gives way to grassland
The question about how they would sustain itself with that size specifically:
The paraceratherids as a wider family lived during the early-to-mid Cenozoic, before the onset of the ice age. This meant that, when they were around, the world was generally warmer and more humid, due to less water being locked up in glaciers, and consequently more of the Earth's surface was covered in plant-rich environments. These guys in particular mostly lived around Central Asia, which in those times consisted mostly of rich floodplains and forests around the shores of the inland Tethys Sea. This would have provided them with lots of trees and brush to browse on, which would have helped sustain their size.
It would have had to spend the majority of its life just eating, but that's the norm for most big grazers and filter-feeders anyway.
Eventually, the ice age set in, climates dried and cooled, the Tethys mostly vanished (the Black and Caspian seas are what's left of it today), and the central asian floodplains became the dry scrub and steppe of the modern era. This is believed to be one of the primary reasons why these giants went extinct.
One of my favourite extinct animal ever! I can't imagine what be like if I stand right in front of adult Paraceratherium, their size is truely massive especially for mammal.
Isn't the largest animal that we know of a mammal? The largest to ever exist.
They are just giant dumber rhinos without horns and having long necks that eat soft plants.
@@irdcsas of right now, it is. But paleoloxodon might’ve been bigger.
@@Vermin115 isn't that also a mammal? And no, the largest mammal/animal we know of is much,.much larger than that. That'd be the blue whale
@@irdcs the largest land mammal.
Now we need a palaeoloxodon namadicus video!
I remember watching this on walking with beasts and it was extraordinary
The only paleodocumentry ever to feature these giants was the 'Walking with Beast'
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Thus was great! Very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The largest species of hyaenodon could reach 300 kilograms!
I was about to say, didn’t H. Gigas obtain similar sizes to the largest Polar Bears?
I have a pet Paraceratherium that we keep in our backyard and unfortunately it escaped from our backyard and stripped most of the leaves off the branches of our neighbor's multiple trees. Yes, a Paraceratherium is a very expensive pet to keep and very difficult to control and walk on a leash on any street. A very large shovel and extra big industrial strength hefty plastic trash bags are needed when walking a Paraceratherium on a leash in the neighborhood.
I wonder what the natural predator was to these giants? Cause the giraffe and elephant has the lion, so who is this giant predator?
In land, various Hyenodonts, Entelodonts and maybe some Amphicyonids (bear-dogs) could have been able to take down a baby. One of the largest crocodilians, Astorgosuchus, would pose a threat to older and larger juveniles of pakistani species (Paraceratherium bugtiense). We have evidence of bite marks made by large crocodile at jaw bones of juvenile Paraceratherium.
It was Hyaenodon gigas,over 300kgs in weight, definitely a threat to juveniles
astorgosuchus bugtiensis.
@@19megamustaine85 Yeah that too
I'm off to the bookshop to order that book by Donald Prothero ... 🏃♀
Awesome video!
Love the vid Overseer but can we stop it with the comparisons to Trex?
If it was not the most heavy mammal then it was the tallest.
How do we know what we consider to be rhinos are actually "true rhinos"?
They're also like tapirs!
nice
But less power than normal rhino
2.5x the bulk of a large African Elephant with the height of a Giraffe.
Rhinosaurus! wild AF lol
Godzilla 98 cartoon had this name
Nkw there's palaeoxodon namadicus
yessssss first!
Congrats on being first!
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Id hate to be on paras bad side.
Paraceratheres are not rhinos, the word "rhino" applies only to the family Rhinocerotidae, both rhinos and paraceratheres belong to the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, where the correct word is "rhinocerotoid", just like the word "elephant" applies only to the family Elephantidae not the order Proboscidea as a whole as the correct word for the order Proboscidea as a whole is "proboscidean" as deinotheres, mastodons, gomphotheres, and stegodonts are all not elephants and the word "armadillo" applies only to the family Dasypodidae not the order Cingulata as a whole as "cingulate" is the correct word for the order as a whole since pachyarmatheres (family Pachyarmatheriidae), pampatheres (family Pampatheriidae), and glyptodonts (family Glyptodontidae) are not considered armadillos.
Respectfully,🤓
The paraceratherium is actually 9 meters tall at head
Source
No, it's not lol
The gigantic feet behind a woman was for argiantinosaurs not him actually
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Where is the cotylorhynchus case study ( im going to boycott this series if cotylorhynchus not get a case study )
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I’ve never heard of invasive plants as a theory for prehistoric animal demises. Some events of planets and even crustaceans can cause the land scape to change as a contribution. As some browsing animals have died out when Forest and jungle gives way to grassland
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