Barinasuchus: The Reptile That Was The Largest Terrestrial Predator During The Age Of Mammals.
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Barinasuchus was massive reptile distantly related to crocodilians that lived in South America from 37 million to 12 million years ago. While only known from skulls, comparisons with other members of the terrestrial Sebecidae suggest it was six meters long and weighed 1,600 to 1,740 kilograms, larger than any other known land predator since the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Anatomy
02:02 - Size
03:57 - Sebecidae
04:29 - Temporal Range
05:22 - Competition
05:53 - Hunting Strategy
06:35 - Extinction
07:28 - Conclusion and Outro
UPDATE: Barinasuchus now shares the title of "largest terrestrial Cenozoic predator" with the newly discovered Dentaneosuchus. Although it was also a sebecid, Dentaneosuchus appears to have obtained its massive size independently. It lived in what is now southern France during the Middle Eocene.
Between Barinosuchus and the Terror Birds, South America seems to have still been the land where Archosaurians reigned supreme.
the next prehistoric documentary really needs to take place in Cenozoic South America.
Its also theorized to be where a lot of archosaur taxa started IIRC
@@krislochlan5366 If South America is where the lineage itself began, then I guess it sort of makes sense that it was also the final stronghold of their reign.
Mammals: “Yay the dinosaurs are finally extinct, time for us to-“
Terror Birds and Land Crocodiles: “Hol up”
Hkshkglkkhs😂😭
Lmao bruh
Otodus sharks: "Let me in"
In south America and to some extent Australia, it's like they didn't quite get the memo about the K-T boundary... Kinda makes me wonder if climate and ecological conditions will ever again select for land crocs and terror bird type predators as well. I should write a book about that, perhaps.
Otodus shark when certain rat be whale : we fuck up now
this guy was such temporal oddball, still thinking it was the triassic, altough quinkana was weirder, surviving long enough to being able to meet humans
There were also a lot of terrestrial Crocodylomorphs during the Cretaceous. Like Baurosuchus
Many people probably hate the comparison, but I can't get enough of these T. Rex analogues from different geologic times. Excellent video.
Nice to see some of my work on Barinasuchus being featured in a video! I am the person who made the skull in wikipedia as well as added some of the information in it. In regard to the Eocene "Barinasuchus," I have the suspicion that it might be a much earlier species or a deferent genus but closely related. The proper Barina remains are mainly from the Middle Miocene in Venezuela and Peru from areas rich in all sorts of whack fauna. Also funny thing many dont know, during the excavation of the big skull there was more stuff found but got lost since they had to take it in a hurry. Its currently somewhere hidden in Venezuela, but at least we know it exists, it has to be found again one day. Keep up the good work!
The mammals: good the gig reptiles are gone
Barasuchas: are you sure about that
The thing about modern crocs is they are really really energy conservative because that suits a large semi aquatic predator. A terrestrially adapted croc, with longer more upright legs, osteoderms and gastralia more firmly grlirdling its trunk and lighter bones that do not need to act as ballast is going to be a whole different kettle of fish. Especially when you pair that with the hothouse climate and thermal maximums of the early eocene and the balmy tempretures of the miocene. But it'd be pretty active and a damn good ambush predator. Sorta like a budget crocodilian trex.
That moment when nature is on a budget
(Cool description tho)
I agree , it is almost certain that they had better hunting capabilities than the more primitive Komodo dragons . I hope that we can find more remains to uncover more about these amazing animals .
Modern *Crocodyliforms* also have an interesting anatomical adaption in that there's a specialised artery specifically feeding their stomach, helping to produce large quantities of stomach acids / digestive enzymes (it's amazing what they can break down) to both digest their food at a marginally higher metabolic rate & perhaps compensate for the high bacterial load in decayed meat. This gives them an advantage over other reptiles, which must digest their food at baseline body temperature.
It's unsurprising that related species have repeatedly evolved to become such large, efficient predators (both here & back in the Triassic).
I'm pretty sure it's this video which shows the anatomy I'm referring to:
*Necropsy of a Nile Crocodile*
[ ua-cam.com/video/GKrhj0uUZVY/v-deo.html ]
@@Ninth_Penumbra thanks for the link ^^
“Budget Crocodilian T-rex” sounds as equally terrifying, if not more so, than “T-rex”
Either way, I’d love to see the Barinasuchus appear in popular media more frequently in the future!
Asteroid: kills the dinos, ends the age of reptiles
Barinasuchus, aka age of reptiles continued: I'm sorry, was that supposed to do something?
I legit thought the thumbnail was just a whacky mashup of Triassic and Miocene fauna, I had no idea the galloping crocs made a comeback after the dinos. Fascinating.
Thank you for making a video on this very underrated giant predator
You're welcome. And thank you for the suggestion. Beforehand I assumed sebecids were a lot better known than they are. There is barely anything about them on UA-cam.
@@chimerasuchus hey man great video was it bigger than the short faced bear?
@@joshfeehan6929 Bigger.
@@chimerasuchus that's a whole lot of nastiness 😂
@@joshfeehan6929 u
Basically, this guy basically became what older land crocs from the Mesozoic did, looking almost identical to those older land crocs, only being able to be the top predator in its environment, and not stomped on by non-avian dinosaurs, very chad move.
They didn't got stomp by dinosaurs did tier zoo tel you that
Cenozoic South America: *exists*
Avian and Crocodiloform Archosaurs: "It's free real estate"
Very interesting animal. I like how giant terrestrial crocodylomorphs (Rauisuchids) ruled in the Triassic period and after they went extinct, evolution just kept restoring them occasionally across the ages.
Wouldn’t these terrestrial crocodylorphs have lips covering their mouths\teeth?
So many reconstructions have them resemble their aquatic cousins.
Surely lip coverings would be positively selected for in the dry environments to avoid excess water loss?
A valid point. I wish I had something more specific to say.
Worth noting, if it was several related genre instead of a single species, some might have taken to dry environments and adapted like you have suggested; others might have taken to wetter forests and wetlands and been able to get away with exposed teeth.
That is good observation
Big lipped alligator moment?
Good point , but we need more specimens to determine more about them . Also the tail in the drawings showed in the video is probably incorrect as they have simply placed crocodile parts on animal that was mostly terrestrial.
Honestly, I wasn't even considering that. I myself was simply pondering just how amazing modern era crocodilians are in comparison to their extinct relatives. I mean, they're the ones not extinct sooo... 😂💯
But now you have me wanting to re-evaluate these renditions. Also, just saying now in case someone comes to a bad conclusion, in no way am I trying to say these extinct species weren't amazing. I'm simply stating that our modern day crocs have survived so much (Including us) and are still thriving. That's got to count for something.
Fascinating stuff; I'm aware of crocodylomorph diversity but that's mostly limited to the Triassic radiation and the Kem Kem fauna, so I've only loosely heard of sebecosuchians. Your channel is a very pleasant late-night discovery and I'm loving the croc focus. Keep it up!
'Age of mammals'
Modern archosaurs: 'lol'
Absolutely Awesome! Barinasuchus was with out a doubt an incredible terrestrial sebecid croc, being largest predator since Tyrannosaurus rex and largest known predators of the Cenozoic gives me chills when I really start to think about it. Seeing one in the flesh would have been extremely awesome and frightening as well, snap, like could you imagine seeing barinasuchus hunting rhino sized Cenozoic mammals?! the way it would have dispatched its prey would have been quite gruesome and certainly brutal. Im still shocked that this giant terrestrial crocodilian hasn’t received enough attention, but it looks like it’s starting to get more attention which is good.
If im not mistaken this might be one of the first video overview on barinasuchus. But anyhow, it’s flabbergasting that there’s hardly any videos on this beast of terrestrial land croc. It’s really dope that you made a video on barinasuchus, it’s one imposing land croc, and that skull is Insane to! And them teeth on that sucker, holy crap. I’m looking forward to your upcoming vids on other crocodilians, especially the terrestrial forms. As a suggestion it would be cool to see future vids on mekosuchus, volia, and trilophosuchus. As for barinasuchus, I wonder what speeds would be achievable as an adult, pretty fast for something it’s size I’d imagine, tho 3.5 meter specimens would be much faster I reckon given its lower weight compared to the massive weight of adults. A prolonged galloping gait while chasing mammalian prey as an adult would preferably be for a limited time, preferring to ambush as adult specimens, but smaller barinasuchus would possibly be more inclined to actively chase prey, or both as apposed to adults. Tho I wonder if it could reach speeds of 30 mph. It’s possible that barinasuchus might have had a higher metabolism, Argus monitors have a pretty high metabolism for a reptile, and also for most monitor lizards which is really fascinating.
Another thing that comes to mind, I wonder how close the Pleistocene quinkana is to barinasuchus in size, given quinkana’s much more fragmentary remains, it’s hard to say, the largest specimen is based on a fragmentary skull piece if I’m not mistaken, and barinasuchus has a large partial skull with part of the upper and lower jaw and teeth intact in the jaws. And more fossils overall, and same for the group. But sebecids, Sebecids really are actually insane, as you mentioned they are a really old lineage within notosuchia, from way back in the Mesozoic to almost making it to the Pliocene. Contenting and competed with dinosaurs, and mammals, they sure left there mark and went out swinging. Who know, if the the gradual rise of the Andes mountains never occurred and the climates did not change so noticeably, we might had still had surviving sebecids, or at least smaller species. A cool thought, also if herbivorous notosuchians survives we would probably have rhino and elephant sized plant eating crocs. Another thing pertaining to terrestrial crocodiles. We know of sebecids, planocraniids, and terrestrial mekosuchines as the three terrestrial groups of crocodiles in the Cenozoic. But there might be an unknown fourth group, or at least a current known group that is discovered to have a wider range than previously thought.
I remember watching a panel on African crocodiles by Christopher A. Brochu which was really cool, it’s called
“The Giant Horned Crocodiles That Ate Our Ancestors” At 15:34 in the vid it shows skull morphologies that are associated with ecological niches for each crocodilian, one shows all the skull forms associated in Australia even the terrestrial ziphodont species quinkana, but they also have one for Africa, an African ziphodont crocodile during the Cenozoic, which I’m guessing is referring to the ziphodont croc tooth from Algeria during the Eocene, or maybe a unpublished new species based on more tangible fossil material? Very curious hearing more about that, very interesting. On a final note, I always wondered what was the maximum size that a terrestrial crocodilian would be capable of growing to? And great content as always, super cool seeing more videos on crocodilians and other archosaurs, and a pinch of Dino content time to time which is always cool.
Haha cool, basically when postosuchus and relatives died out, crocodiles went: alright we’re doing this again after the dinosaurs😂
Razanandrongobe didn't even wait that long. I made a video about already, but it is one of my earlier ones were the narration is pretty bad. The remake of it should be up on Saturday.
Our largest terrestrial predator in modern times is the polar bear. Around half the length and weight of this behemoth but still really incredible that something so large lives in the same era as us. It gets even more surreal when you realize that we haven't taken into account our aquatic animals yet. Like the orca. They're roughly twice the weight of this amazing dino (Thanks for doing a vid on it btw. This was really fun to watch) and around 3 meters shy of being twice their length. So once you realize that our largest aquatic predator could turn this guy into little more than a chew toy, it really makes you appreciate the fact that we're not on the menu. 😂😂😂💯💯💯
The largest obvious aquatic predator today is the sperm whale, which also dwarfs the orca at between two to three times larger. (If you consider filter feeding to not be predation, which has always been a weird distinction to me... if you don't then the blue whale would be the largest predator to have ever lived and about 1.5 times as long and 4 times as heavy as a sperm whale).
Also... this isnt a dino! A more appropriate nickname would be a "croc".
Me actively waiting for quadrupedal carnivorous dinosaur: *Me sad, No Real Rhedosaurus*
Rauisuchians and Sebecids: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Reminds me of the late Triassic Postosuchus and Prestosuchus.
the revenge of the archosaurs
Oh Look! I found an truly good but underrated Paleochannel!
not as underrated as Regretful Reads though.
and I know that's not a paleochannel, but it is a very underrated one.
@@gattycroc8073 really
@@thedoruk6324 do you not like Regretful Reads?
sometimes i wish a small relative of barinasuchus was still alive today to have at least one example of these animals in life, definitely one of my favourite cenozoic animals due to how unique it is for the world it lived in
Awesome video, I'm obsessed with terrestrial crocodilians and even I had never heard of this creature
Its sad how few people have.
@@chimerasuchus This creature, megalania, titanis, and quinkana are proof that mammals didn't have full dominance of the cenozoic era. Have you ever considered making a video about prehistoric giant sea snakes?
@@hyd3n376 Not really though I will keep it in mind.
@@chimerasuchus either way you earned my subscription, love these types of videos
It's weird that a triasic Era like crocodile was living fairly recently really mind blowing.
Dinosaurs: *Die out*
Small Mammals: ha, they're gone, it's our time to shine!
Barinasuchus: *laughs* *in* *reptilian*
Croc boi:go bois
South America during those times is essentially in age of repriles 2.0.
prehistoric South America has a lot of cool creatures.
@@gattycroc8073 I wish South America could of stayed separated as a continent
Here’s to the first video I watch in 2022!
I consider myself pretty well versed in most dinosaur/early era topics but I honestly had no idea about this apex predatory during the mammalian era. Really cool predator and one I hope we can get more info on.
Just knowing creatures like this actually existed is so cool. Knowing things like Dinos actually walked this earth in the distant past is mind boggling. My greatest dream is to experience seeing a giant theropod 🦖or a giant Sauropod 🦕 In real life.....
Heart breaking
“Age of Mammals”.
It was a blast from the past! This animal reminds me of prestosuchus from the Triassic Period.
Crocodiles and friends are like sloths: the interesting ones are all dead.
Gharials?
Salties😢
I was not aware that crocodyloporphs of that particular body shape existed past the K-Pg extinct event! Really interesting! Thanks for uploading the video! I definitely learned something new watching it!
It’s fascinating seeing this relic from the dinosaur age securing a dominant spot in the age of mammals. It feels so out of place, and that’s what I love about it. Guess that’s South America for ya.
Just wish climate change hadn’t come along and ruined everything; would’ve been awesome to see this guy in zoos.
Jjjjm
It’s amazing that in some places of the world the age of reptiles didn’t end with the K-Pg mass extinction
How about Australia
Yes. In Brazil we yet have some dinossaurs and others bizarre new species in our parliament, all big predators !
@@armandosabre4111 lol
@@armandosabre4111 lmao
Given how land "crocs" have evolved many times since the Triassic, it's reasonable to think that they may evolve again in the far future. And perhaps to the same monstrous sizes as their ancient relatives.
I LOVE your channel and content! I'm so down for the focus on Crocodylomorpha. The Sebecids were probably my most anticipated group for you to talk about - South America and Australia/Oceania truly were lost worlds. With the Sebecids and Quinkana lineage, it feels like archosaurs were almost going through a second Triassic period - oh what could have been.
Also can't wait for you to do vids on Crocodylus anthropophagus, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni and Voay robustus at some point.
Wow this is another surprise to me. A double surprise. I had no idea there was a terrestrial crocodylomorph this big post-KT, nor that any of those crocodylomorphs more distantly related to modern crocodilians had made it into the Cenozoic.
Such irony that a reptile was the largest
Dinosaurs may be extinct but reptiles are still number one.
Technically, since birds are dinosaurs, there is one dinosaur lineage still around. Indeed, there are more species of birds than mammals.
@@chimerasuchus I meant non-avian dinosaurs, forgive my lack of clarity.
I never even heard of Barinasuchus until today, but I'm definabsotively looking forward to hearing about as many other little-known prehistoric animals as you have videos of!!!!! KEEP 'EM COMING!!!!!
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Good video. Continue with this sort of content and I am sure your channel will continue to grow.
Just discovered and subscribed to your channel! Great content. Looking forward to binging all your videos and to future uploads. Hope you make it to the top!
Latin America really had a period where it went "Y'know what? Double the giant Crocs"
thank you for introducing those different crocs and give clear comparisons. It really help me out!
Between this and the terror birds dinosaurs tried really hard to re evolve
Of the three big South American predator lineages, while all three of them started doing badly from the Late Miocene onwards, it seems the sebecids took the worst of the hit (sparassodonts barely made it into the Pliocene with Thylacosmilus, and large-bodied terror birds barely made it to the GABI with Titanis)
yep, climate change is a bitch.
@@chrisdonish And placentals.
@@xanshen9011 placentals just took advantage of their dissaperance, they were all long gone by the GABI, titanis was the last large south american predator and it was in north america which is why it survived for so long. how it even got there s a mystery but there must have been a tremendous factor pushing it north.
@@chrisdonish
Titanis evolved in North America and was there since the start of the Pliocene-it was its immediate ancestor (which we have no fossil evidence for) that made the hop across from South America.
@@bkjeong4302 yes i know titanis evolved in north america but i was just saying that it was the last descendant of the apex south american predators as all terror birds are ancestrally south american.
I just discovered your channel and I love it.
I'm very curious about that first artwork painting of Barinasuchus confronting tusked mammal? What is that mammal?
The astrapothere Granastrapotherium. While it may look a bit like an elephant or tapir, there is no consensus on the classification of Astrapotheria.
@@chimerasuchus Thanks for info. Those were strange mammals. Some similarities to elephants.....
Barinasuchus is big for a terrestrial croc, but some modern species like the saltwater crocodile or common gharial can get bigger than it with maximum lengths of around 7 meters
It's great to see a youtube video that makes me want to grab a piece of paper and take notes!
How come I never heard of this massive beast before!?
Because for some reason Barinasuchus and other sebecids have remained obscure even within the paleo-community. I am not sure why beyond obscurity being hard to beat until they make at least one major appearance somewhere. It doesn't help that they lived before the more well known South American ice age fauna, like Megatherium and Smilodon. Language barriers could also be a factor.
@@chimerasuchus that makes sense; if not many people within the paleo community know about this creature, I can’t imagine how little it is know by someone from the general public. For instance, in Peru very little is known even about its most “popular” megafauna, and that is quite disappointing.
Yeah it's surprising that such an impressive beast would remain obscure, even *with* only incomplete skulls to work with. Giant apex predators are exactly the kind of extinct animals that usually get the most attention, and "biggest terrestrial predator since T. rex" is quite a boast to throw in a headline.
I would like to correct you, the species of Purussaurus that lived with Barinasuchus was Purussaurus neivensis a 2-3 ton caiman and the “smallest” species of Purussaurus, Barinasuchus now has estimates of 7.7 meters and 3 tons, compared to the older estimate of 6.7m and 1.8-2t. Barinasuchus would of been the apex predator, competing with Purussaurus and maybe even preying on them from time to time.
Source for 3 ton barina?
@@the90thhunter92 There was a article stating the size described here is from using other small sebecids, (6.1-6.7m and 1.8-2t) but if they added some other crocodyliamorphs to the picture they got a animal up to 10m, so basically I and other people who scale prehistoric animals cut that estimate almost in half giving the 3 ton estimate, it’s very much possible but the head of Barina would be slightly smaller then in some reconstructions, the limbs would be shorter and with more meat too instead of the lanky thing used in the smaller estimate.
a lot of your videos seem to be about strange crocodiles, cool
I love how you say this has some similarities to my own species
Makes me wonder if some lineage of terrestial crocodylomorphs survived to human age and were source of many of the dragon myths. There were so many of them in the past that it feels weird that there are none surviving today, just semi-aquatic crocs, caimans and alligators.
There actually were some, such as Quinkana.
Cool video, subscribing!
Nice video 👍
Just found the channel and I love it
New to channel , very well done prehistoric vlog. ✌️✌️✌️
never heard of this amazing animal. thank you and definitely expect another sub 👍
I was wondering about their metabolism. I've read that modern Crocs' ectothermy, foramen of Panizza, etc. may be adaptations to the aquatic ambush predator role. But apparently recent bone histology work by Cubo et al. implies that Notosuchians such as Sebecids also had ectothermy.
The Mammals of Cenozoic South America, had a monster among them!
Subscribed. Excellant
I appreciate channels like yours that feature animals most ignore.
Holy hell! I had no clue this thing existed!
So it was basically something like a mammal-age Postosuchus it seems; very interesting indeed.
this is a thing that has interested me. thank you for covering this!
Clearly, up until the late Pliocene, South America didn’t get the memo that archosaurs no longer ruled the earth.
I had no idea this thing even existed. That’s so cool to imagine.
Something about that bodyplan makes my mammalian brain shudder in fear
Супер репортаж фантастик ! ! ! 😎🙂😀
When you thought South America ran out of secret.
Secret come out like "HERE I AM, ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE!"
I never knew any sebesuchids, or ANY land rocs survived the mesozoic extinction! The other animal in the picture looks like a pyrotheriu, and that got e interested.
CHimerasuchus, Dr. Polaris, or any other paleo channel needs to do a video about the sebecids.
Excelente documental, soy de Barinas, Venezuela y he tenido la oportunidad de ver el fósil, muy interesante
Great presentation, just subscribed.
Just a friendly FYI, there is no "g" at the end of "orangutan"
Never knew that this beast existed. Nice!
Thanks, never heard of it. Nice suprise :)
I wish paleontology was a career in Venezuela
I hope Barinasuchus gets more pop culture love.
God i can't imagine if this croc were not extinct and are still roaming the earth till now... The horror it would cause of just sighting one in the wild... I'd just shit my pants and die from shock.
Thank you. Indeed, very impressive. Who would have thought!
i think Barinasuchus is Kinda of a Good Reminder it´s Still been just 66 million years ago that dinosaurs Died out,
and for the Future, Maybe Mammals might Reach those Size´s of Big Predatory dinosaurs.
Not while we're still around lmao
Somewhat obligatory like and humorous or insightful comment for the Almighty Algorithm, here. 👋😊 Carry on.
Convergent evolution strikes again this one looks like one of those Dino like Crocs during the triassic period.
Good stuff
Thanks a lot for creating & sharing this interesting video! BTW a weight of under two tons for an adult Allosaurus seems somewhat low to me - given the fact that the weight for an adult T. rex is estimated 9 tons upwards now.
I was comparing it to the average size of Allosaurus. The largest Allosaurus were over 2 tons while the average Tyrannosaurus adults were below 9 tons.
It seems that whenever in the planet prehistory they had a chance to fill a niche crocs were always succesful to do it.
Good stuff thank you
Your welcome!
Imagine having a 22 foot and 1400 pound gator that could chase you down!!! ☠️☠️
hey little guy.
Thank you, very interesting. But what about Australian Quintana, which some of subspecies were up to 7 meters long and vanished only 40K year ago? Mega Lanka? Interesting fact, but Australia had even larger giant birds (Dromornidae) and by far formidable marsupial predator (Thylacoleo Carniflex) that South American counterparts
It's "Quinkana" and "Megalania". And yes, Quinkana had very large subspecies, and they did indeed die out around 40,000 years ago. Megalania also died out rather recently(40,000-50,000ya), and both of them were seen by the first humans who colonized Australia.
And marsupial predators, whether they were from South America or Australia, were not as formidable as their placental counterparts on Africa, Eurasia, and North America. This is evidenced by predatory niches being filled by predatory reptiles and birds. On the connected continents, that had large predatory cats, canines, bears, hyenas, and even large predatory pigs...this was unheard of.
And the isolation of South America and Australia, for millions upon millions of years, was the key to the success of these species. Large terrestrial reptile predators and large predatory birds, had died out and been driven to extinction LONG ago on the large connected landmasses. In isolation, the land crocs and terror birds, didn't have to deal with the predators I listed above, but they also didn't have to deal with large , dangerous mammalian herbivores like Elephant ancestors, rhino ancestors, and large bovines.
This is why you see these unique ecosystems and biodiversity, on isolated island continents and islands themselves.
@@Ispeakthetruthify Sorry, autocorrect typos, indeed. Yes, marsupials are failed to compete with placental mammals due to isolation and just because they simply more primitive in terms of evolutionary lineage. However, marsupial lions considered pretty much successful species, and it was kind of unique by its own anatomy. Using rodents to kill instead of canine, with unprecedented bite force more than twice stronger than modern African lion. Was able to use fingers for grip like in now days apes and bear-like shoulder muscle, much stronger than large cats.
@@ildarsayfullin6552 Marsupial lions were indeed impressive. And in fact, they are one of my favorite extinct mammalian megafauna. It's always good to chat with somebody who knows a lot about this severely underrated/understudied animal.
But even they were a beneficiary of extreme isolation.
I actually have already made a video about Quinkana.
@@chimerasuchus Oh, missed it, thank you. Brief, but thorough, knowledgeable and comprehensive videos, you doing great job, thank you. I’m pure amateur who keeping an eye on palaeontology time time as a childhood hobby, nothing more actually.. Since English is not exactly my first language, I usually watch some other channels carried on at my native one, , however, your channel is true gem.
Cheers mate,
Seems like Megalania would at least share the crown as the largest terrestrial predator with Barinasuchus....
Absolutely love prehistoric crocodilians
It’s just so crazy to think that these things were around after the dinosaurs! These belong in the Triassic, not post Mesozoic! It’s just crazy to picture “dinosaurs”*
with mammals in the Cenozoic!
*I know they’re not, but other than genetically, they basically are!
Ah yes the majestic Crocodoggo
Nice
Brilliant