Allosaurus | The Strange but Deadly Dinosaur
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- The Allosaurus is incredible. It embodies the very thing that fascinates me about paleontology. It's hard to believe that such a perfectly chaotic beast actually once existed. How terrifyingly exciting that monsters really do exist!
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A lot of people think Allosaurus did not ram pray with its horns, but used it's wide opening mouth to swing its top jaw down on its prey like an ax.
I believe the axe theory has been disproven. But a similar theory that suggests it used its neck to throw its open wide jaw forward into the prey, like a terror bird, is a popular one! I should make a video on this in the future!! Either way, you're certainly right that there isn't much evidence that the allosaurus rammed with its horns!! I perhaps jumped the gun with that fact!! Thank you very much for the feedback!
@@Paleofactus Thank you for letting me know the ax theory was wrong. It's hard to stay updated b/c new info comes out & often does not make headlines. Maybe you should make a video about ways they could have attacked prey - like an ax, like bull or like a terror bird - and what evidence supports / debunks each. Just an idea.
No problem! I really like that idea! Thanks very much!
The newest update on hunting strategy is it fashioned spears and traps. Always offered his friends food
@@Paleofactus for me the theory that seems to be accepted the most is that Allosaurus restrained their prey and ate them alive like a hawk
The most recent study said that saurophaganax was its own species but this will probably change again and again until we have more material from the same species.
I’ve always seen allosaurus as the “Badger” of the dinosaurs. Like badgers, I think allosaurus possibly was very aggressive but intelligent, in a way that wasn’t monstrous, and was a “fear nothing” sort of creature. Badgers are known to attack anything even if it’s bigger than it, and almost all animals fear it, so possibly allosaurus was like that, things feared it and it feared nothing and even gave bigger predators a run for their lives.
If any dinosaur had Black Airforce 1 Energy...it would be allosaurus 🚫🧢
Yea, big herbivores are dangerous enough. You don't really want to be messing with something much smaller and also very dangerous
He had all those gnarly weird wounds... they should have called him "Weird Al"
That's true!! That's a more fitting name for a flesh-tearing dinosaur!!!
Congratulations! Two weeks on UA-cam and already getting views in the hundreds!
Thank you so much!!
@@Paleofactus You are quite welcome.
Allosaurus fragilis was more of the leopard. Your Allosaurus maximus(Saurophaganax maximus) would be more of the lion.
Yeah, I like that analogy!
Now for me personally
Allosaurus = Lion
Saurophagnax = Tiger
Torvosaurus = Grizzly Bear (Or polar bear)
One of my favourite dinosaurs
This is my absolute favorite dinosaur hands down. I even have a tattoo on my right arm of one!
That's so cool! It's a shame that Allosaurus isn't in many films anymore but atleast it gets to be a tattoo!
Amazing and well accurate and detailed video. I've seen many topics of Allosaurus Fragilis and other species of its genus, but this one is by far one of the best for education. God made such an awesome and well rounded carnivore 👍
That picture in the thumbnail is literally greymons without their head gears 😁
If you are interested in suggestions about other prehistoric animals:
Choristodera. The only extinct reptile order that survived the Cretaceous mass extinction and continued to exist for millions of years.
Allocaudata. An extinct order of amphibians that resembled small salamanders, except for a scaly skin. If any extinct animal should be rediscovered like the coelacanth, it would have to be these animals considering they disappeared just two million years ago.
Edaphosauridae. The first herbivorous amniotes and belonged to the same line that would eventually lead to mammals. Like its relative dimetrodon (which was the first terrestrial apex predator among vertebrates) and other prehistoric animals, including a temnospondyl and some dinosaurs, it had a sail on its back.
Diadectes. The first herbivorous tetrapods. It is still not known how they reproduced, if they were amniotes or if they were, branched off before the split between the synapsids and the repties.
Caseidae. Like the later sauropods, these herbivores evolved tiny heads on a large body. Compared to the biggest dinosaurs they were tiny, like a bull, but once they were the largest terrestrial animals to ever walk the earth.
Eryops, the famous large amphibian. There were larger amphibians, but those were more or fully aquatic and had weaker limbs and a less ossified skeleton. And there were more terrestrial temnospondyls, like Nooxobeia, but these were smaller than Eryops and had a lighter skeleton.
Gerrothorax. A weird, flat and aquatic amphibian that was once a successful animal. It is usually portrayed with external gills, but it is now assumed the gills were internal.
Aïstopoda. The first amphibians to lose their limbs and evolve a snakelike body. Their inner anatomy was surprisingly fishlike, and it has been suggested that they were more closely related to "fishapods" than the more terrestrial vertebrates.
Rhizodus hibberti. This fish from the Carboniferous had several records. It was the largest freshwater fish to have existed (some giant sturgeons have come close) and the largest lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii). It had a pair of fangs that were 22 cm long, the longest recorded in a fish (Megalodon had teeth that were much wider and more massive, but not quite as long). And it was the largest predatory bony fish (Osteichthyes) to have lived (later teleosts came close, but lived in the ocean). Other bony fish grew larger, like the giant Leedsichthys, but these were filter feeders, not predators.
Pareiasaurs. Not the only non-synapsid herbivores that lived during the Permian, but the most successful. One species, Bunostegos, was the first tetrapod known to have evolved a fully erect posture.
Drepanosaurs. Strange Triassic reptiles that seemed to have been even better adapted to a life in the trees than chameleons.
Silesauridae. The reptile group that the ornithischian dinosars are now assumed to have evolved from.
Erythrosuchus. A large predatory relative of dinosaurs and crocodiles, but from a branch older than both of them.
Allokotosauria. Often ignored Triassic herbivores, like the horned Shringasaurus.
Rhynchosaurs. One of the more dominant herbivores of the Triassic. The earliest forms were a little boring to look at, but later forms evolved a skull more wide than long, with beaklike jaws and impressive teeth to chew their food. After the Carnian pluvial episode, their dominance had been taken over by animals like the two-legged ancestors of the sauropods.
Dicynodonts. The only synapsids except for the cynodonts (and some therocephalians that continued for a few million years after the event) that survived the Permian extinction. From tiny burrowers to size almost of a small elephant, they made it almost to the end of the Triassic. Like the rhynchosaurs, they were dominant herbivores that suffered from the Carnian pluvial event, when heavy rainfall changed the vegetation they depended on.
This is so helpful. I'm always looking for suggestions. This is greatly appreciated mate, thank you.
Who remembers the dinosaur documentary of BIG AL on animal plant
Is it just me or did this video feel like a fever dream
Haha, what makes you say that? Perhaps the over dramatic energy? Either way I hope you enjoyed!
@@Paleofactus I enjoyed it, some moments and the voice made it feel sort of off? Idk
Perfectly understandable! I usually make more comedic content and this video was experimental for me. I will certainly take your feedback on board!
@@Paleofactus Glad I could give advice. I would love to see more videos from you!
The background music remind me of Pink Floyd vibe
Beware the curse of the Gwangi!
Basically the pitbull of dinos. Pitbull not the largest but one of the most dangerous of dogs
Its jaws probably opened wide to swallow small prey whole. Just like Komodo Dragons can swallow pigs, and monkeys whole!
So it made many bites to cause it’s prey to slowly bleed to death?
Yeah! The jaw and neck were well designed for cleaving big chunks out of flesh. Given the massive prey that it fed on, multiple bites would've been necessary to bring down a sauropod for example. Compare that to the t-rex who could kill most prey with 1 well placed bite.
Can you do Australovenator for next video?
The Australian hunter! That's a splendid idea, thank you for the suggestion. I'll get straight on that! It might appear on my '60 second species' shorts playlist unless I find enough facts to make a full length video! Keep an eye out.
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