I remember having a book when I was a kid showing a T-rex fighting a stegosaurus. It blew my mind when I found out that we live closer in time to the T-rex than the T-rex lived to Stegosaurus.
Even more amazing is the fact that between the last dinos, the T-rex among them, and the first ones to appear some 250M years ago, there is a span of time THREE TIMES bigger than the one between the last dinos and us.
@@joeybulford5266 You may be confusing them with some other dinos. They actually lived from 84 millon years ago to the very arrival of the asteroid. In fact in the episode Death of A Dynasty of the BBC series Walking With Dinosaurs the main character, a female T-Rex, is mortally wounded by one just hours before the rock strikes Earth.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of the ankylosaur "mummy" found in Canada. It was a type of Nodosaur. It's scales, spikes, and plates were absurdly well preserved. Look into it.
Predators like T. rex would have learned early in life to go after easier prey. After all, having just two legs, if it suffered a broken bone in one of it's lower legs from an Ankylosaurus club, that would be a death sentence. And as I think about it, populations of Ankylosaurus wouldn't need large numbers to survive as a genus (species?) due to a very low predation rate once achieving adulthood. A pretty ingenious animal.
Not really. They were unlikely to encounter most animals in their lifetime. Just like how we have a heightened ability to detect snakes biologically engraved in us, t-Rex’s would when also evolved such aversions towards certain type of animals. Basically ones that didn’t have this aversion would die… and those that did (to some extent) would survive. More accurately the injuries would hinder it and if they didn’t avoid certain creatures they were much more likely to suffer this injuries which would shorten their life on average.
I can imagine they would investigate these animals but soon found out it just wasn't worth it. I wouldn't want Food that fights back either. I'd say "fk that" too if I was a T-Rex. 😆😆
Wonder if where they were so successful in repelling predators they might have (at least in adulthood) developed some Aposematic coloration to ward off predators even further
Ankylosaurs have always been my favorite kind of dinosaur. They're like easily underestimated, not very bright, grumpy armored tanks. There is something about them I find oddly adorable.
I would argue that if a T-rex was desperate enough to attack a full grown Ankylosaurus, and had its leg shattered, there is a very slim chance it would hobble towards an area that would be ideal for fossilization like a swamp or someplace where two working legs are necessary.
Ankylosaurus strikes me as a dinosaur that best embodies the concept of personal space. The fact that it was essentially an armoured tank armed with a literal wrecking ball strikes me as not the sort of thing that a particularly sociable animal would have.
@@M-nerd800 I think you are wrong mate because biology tends to respond to the environment. That's why carnivores have teeth and digestive systems designed to eat meat while herbivores have it to eat plants. That's why humans that live in northern latitudes are white and have blonde hair and why humans that live in africa are black and I could go on and on...
@@youyoutobio yes there is evolution to a certain degree, its adaptation. humans that have adapted to african environments and humans that have adapted to northern environments are different yes, but both still the same species. humans have adapted wolves to dogs, but a German shepherd can reproduce with a wolf, because they are both canines. just as African people can reproduce with Caucasian people because both are people, whos ancestors were people.
@@M-nerd800 I think you just proved my point because adaptation is just evolution imprinted into the DNA, but ok. So what part of the evolution theory you think is wrong? Just curious
Only five incomplete Ankylosaurus specimens have ever been found. Contrast that to the literal tens of thousands of Edmontosaurus and Triceratops specimens that have been discovered, and it’s no surprise that we haven’t any Ankylosaurus specimens with T. rex bite marks on them. It’s not because T. rex never fed on them. It’s because the available sample size for Ankylosaurus specimens is so insanely tiny that the likelihood of finding any evidence of feeding on them would be a statistical wonder.
@@Letsberealish oop I misspoke. I meant to say tens of thousands. There is an Edmontosaurus bonebed with disarticulated remains from an estimated 10,000 - 20,000 individuals. Triceratops remains are even more numerous in the Hell Creek formation. They're so abundant that paleontologists don't bother collecting them because the ground is literally littered with them. So, like I said, it's no surprise that we have evidence predation on those species but none on Ankylosaurus. We have an absolute glut of Edmontosaurus and Triceratops specimens but only a few scant remains of Ankylosaurus'.
@@SmashBrosAssemblerex prey tier list. A tier: edmonto. Strong but still prey C tier: trike. More dangures edmonto. F- tier: anky. Why would it even ettempt to
Servosaurus: Welcome to Jurassic Restaurant! What'll you have? Ankylosaurus: How about a club sandwich? Servosaurus: You're in luck! That's our bony-plate special of the day.
@@rgerberto be fair but that blow hit its head, it probably got concussed, in high school i had someone punch me in the head, apparently i collapsed in a very similar manner
Truer than you realize. I forget the study and can't find it now. Female T-rexs were often twice the size of males, did all the hunting and defending. Males were for gene diversity and baby rex guarding.
So.. You're Still saying.. A Measurement of Time.. By the way.. Time is still perhaps the Most Mis-Understood happening ( it's far more a Measurement of where then anything else !! )
@bobmuller8806 it's a measure of force accumulated over a time as opposed to a rate of force per time. so like your electric bill is measured in kW*h (kilowatt-hours) because what's important is the power (kW) in total that you use over a time (hour). it wouldn't make sense to have an electric bill that is kW/h (kilowatt per hour) cause that just tells you the rate when in this context the accumulation is what matters. so in this video what matters in that measurement is the total force across that time that the tail applies. in other contexts the rate of force may be important. I don't know what the rest of what you said even means. but good luck ig
@dysonkennedy6796 Time is a Place Nothing more..Nothing less The scales of time naturally moving forward Is Nothing more then a human construct Thst essentlually Doesn't Exist Length..width..Height and Time The 4th dimension
Ankylosaurus is an interesting animal with a special build for survival. It’s probably the only animal in Cretaceous period that’s not afraid of the T Rex.
damn, that picture at 9:15 just captured bird like essence of t rex, yet kept him terrifying, "ptero-vultures" waiting between trees just ad bizzarreness to whole scene...love it!
The original Ankyl breaker. Honestly thats how I pronounce the name of this guy. Ankle-o-saurus. Because thats probably the easiest spot to hit with a tail club.
The Phillip Currie Dinosaur Museum at Wembly Alberta , near Grand Pairie has an intact Ankylosaurus on display, first one found. It was found near there at the Pine Tree river dinosaur dig , I believe. It is in a flattened state.
6:35 “and there goes his ankles Jimmy” “yes bob he’ll be on crutches for the res of his life, oh wait THEY DONT EXIST YET WOMP WOMP!” (Prehistoric fight coverage)
Utter bullshit It to close to the ground and would be to heavy to do so Only way it could happen was if it accidentally flipped itself (falling from a slope and roll on its back) Its also to most bullshit fight scene in JW with the indo rex 1) no way it would get out of the fight unscaved when being hit in the head by that tail (scattered skull or at least broken jaw) The flipping over was also unrealistic
@@stormwarrior007 I mean, I'm definitely on the anklosaurus's team, but there simply isn;t enough evidence to say something is utter bullshit when talking about dinosaurs, what if the t rex COULD flip them, like a elephant flipping a truck.
@lickdickrick to be able to do that the Trex would need to be able to get its head on the side And push it over in one swoop (cause if you start pushing it it will just move and the trex would just tip over from the sheer force it had to put into it) We are talking bout an animal that weight around 5 tons and low point of gravity Altough I understand where you comminh from, I just dont see it happen with an animal that is defending itself
That’s a bit flawed considering its weight and how low it is to the ground. Being a quad-petal animal it would’ve had great balance enough to prevent from being ripped over by a Rex.
Not sure I'd place bets on that. While it probably could stand its own, T. rex had bone-crushing teeth and jaws, so the Ankylosaurus's armor wouldn't have been as effective against T. rex as it would have been against other, smaller predators with weaker bites. The tail club would've been a massive advantage, for sure, but we don't know much about how stealthy the T. rex was or was not able to be.
@@brassbucklesTRex would’ve had a lot of difficulty trying to attack an herbivore like this, aside from their extensive armor they had a very keen sense of smell so sneaking up on this tank would’ve been impossible as it would’ve known ahead of time where you were leading it to be prepared to defend itself I wouldn’t want to risk it if I were a TRex one well placed hit of that club to the leg or head at 48mph would be devastating if not outright a fatal blow
@@FunzPlays12 you’re welcome the armored dinosaurs and the Sauropods are my favorite animals There was an armored sauropod with a tail club just like Ankylosaurus called Shunosaurus I’d hate to get hit by the tail club of a gigantic dinosaur like that 🥴
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Wouldn't T. rex also be scared of the fully grown, largest specimen of Edmontosaurus and even Triceratops as well? (Though that still wouldn't stop it from hunting them, which makes T. rex more badass than it already is.)
The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller has an extraordinary fossil of a Borealopelta, a close relative of ankylosaurus that shares a similar appearance. It's remarkable to behold something that so closely resembles a living dinosaur.
AS we monkeys know stubbing your toe on a door or chair leg or grinding your shin or ankle bone off the lowered dishwasher door , the thought of been smacked by that club, i dont doubt the T rex just knew to not bother attacking the Rock
Always my favorite dinosaur when I was a kid. I used that tail to beat ALL the other dinos I had in my classic group of animal stuff. He’d take out bulls, elephants, gorillas, all other big critters, including the mighty T-Rex! Yeah, the little dinosaur that could..!!
4:01 there's that 'mummified' one (I appreciate it's just the one individual, but should give an idea of plate arrangement) Editted to add: I also appreciate this is not the same species, but a similar family member
I think it's less so that it was the only one it was afraid of, as it was the one it was the MOST afraid of. A T. rex that doesn't have a healthy level of fear of its prey would die. It has to fear its prey to some extent so it will be perfectly on edge the whole time while hunting. A fearless rex is a careless rex. Not that it's healthy to be too afraid either, because then it'd panic. It would need to just be on edge, to ensure it never gets cocky.
With these slow-moving behemoths about, one wonders whether there was a terrestrial version of the cookie-cutter shark about in the Mesozoic. Perhaps a toothy pterosaur? A small theropod? Or even a Mesozoic vampire bat analogue?
The art of it knocking down a tree for fruit is an interesting theory, im sure it could, but seems unlikely also since itd then have to DODGE the tree lol
The remains of an ankylosaurus were found on a river bluff in sandstone while crews were excavating for a new road in San Diego, CA. And... I have seen petrified ankylosaurus dung on a present day hill top which was long ago a sea shore mud reef just east of Abilene, TX.
Maybe I am misunderstanding when you say "no specimen has been found with it's armor in place", but there actually has been one specimen found that shows the osteoderms in their original placement - it's a different species of ankylosaur, but it's so cool to see a well-preserved example. It's named Borealopelta - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borealopelta Just wanted to point this out in case you hadn't seen it before! I was blown away when it came out in the news. (And awesome video, btw!)
Bite marks on bones don't mean much due to animals always taking advantage of injured, sick, weak or dead carcasses. It doesn't mean that a trex took them all down. Just as lions today cannot take down strong healthy large prey. They go for the weakest or one that died from health issues.
Exactly! There’s no way a Trex would be willing to go up against such a colossal beast that could stomp you into the next time or swing that whip like tail right at your face
If I could build a time machine, my sole purpose would to go back to the Cretaceous to see a full sized T-Rex shaking like a leaf as it runs away because it's so scared, fussing his little arms in a frenzy as he bawls like a little girl.
Definitely a favorite dino of mine, was always curious about how it interacted with the rest of its environment. I can imagine experienced T-rex's and other predators definitely going for younger members of the species, but i willing to bet the adults had to fend off more than their fair share of predators as well, it strikes me that more seasoned rex's could tell that the anky would have trouble defending itself from the front, who knows, perhaps a fossil will be found one day telling another story.
Hi again. Another interesting video. Used to remind visitors to DMNS’ Prehistoric Journey that the most dangerous animals in Africa and North America are not the carnivores but herbivores like America’s bisons and Africas hippos, Cape buffalo, and rhinos and elephants. The idea of a passive herbivore likely comes from domesticated cattle-which were bred for docility-and sheep, the very picture of docile herbivores. I’d also add that Scott Sampson told us one time that the tyrannosaurid-ceratopsid pair is a classic case of species co-evolution. Jaw size and frill size seemed to march in lockstep for much of the Cretaceous culminating in the matchup of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.
I could see it also using that tail to bury itself. ;O)- First making a pat-down hole, then flinging dirt up around it's edges as it sits in that hole.
"Armour strong enough to withstand small firearms." Yeah... the thing weighted 5 tons. Pretty sure you can mag dump any 5 ton animal and have a good chance to only annoy it.
@@StopYTShorts How many thousands of people walked, ran around and fought after having multiple holes put in them? Humans weight an average of 80kg. Just admit you have no idea how much 5000 kg is.
I mean, annoy is an understatement. imagine getting a bunch of toothpicks stuck in your leg, I think it'd be a bit like that. Sucks to hell but the monsters still gonna smash you flat if you use anything not rated for literal tanks.
My favorite dinosaur. Been that way since my youth. Have a special place in my heart for the epitome of FAFO. No TRex damage ever found. Kind of says it all. Respect.
At this level, you'd need a much higher INT stat to make up for that huge gap in weight between Rex and the next largest therapods, not just a few meters extra length. Most animals don't have quite the same concept of 'reach' professional boxers have, after all.
The overall design that came with their tail club is surprisingly pretty clever. Nature sure is an engineer. Normally predators will prefer to attack from a blindspot, and is usually from the rear of herbivores. Especially in the case of the Triceratops, where they are most vulnerable. But the tail club fixes that weakness.
Hi author, don't hope for your reply but still want to ask something about. There is a russian channel "The Last Dino" that took two of your videos (as I know, maybe there are more of them), this one and the one about tarbosaurus. He might be translating your videos, but I didn't saw links in the description
Thank you and thank you for a great presentation and taking the time to pronounce this wonderful animal's name correctly! Presenters are just getting lazy with these wonderful and mellifluous Greek words. Linguists consider Greek to be a most beautiful language in the world.
Back when I played Durango: Wild Lands, we could get a tamed one of these, and since I was a ranged player, he was absolutely perfect to distract and soak up damage. I loved him, I named him Tanky Boy 😂
9:36 Now Tyrannosaurs may have been smart as a baboon, and I also know they probably were not that inteligent to pull this off. but this would actually be terrifying to see this level of inteligence from T. Rex
Imagine being so badass that evolution not only gives you natural heavy plate armor but also a war hammer.
Robert Baratheon of dinosaurs
Evolution was so great to never make such creatures again 😂😂😂
Evolution 😅. Anything to eliminate God, right. Everything just popped into existence from nothing makes zero sense.
@@warlordofbritanniaI wasn't expecting a Robert Baratheon reference, unexpected, but its still welcomed
@@davidwebster6005Yes, Why believe Evolution when we can trust in the sky Daddy? Stupid twats.
The "I'll break your ankles" saurus.
"Talk dumb get the thumb" don.
“You mess with bull you get the horns” ceratops.
Yep. That is what it does.
🤣
The "defenceless when thrown on its back- ylosaurus"
I remember having a book when I was a kid showing a T-rex fighting a stegosaurus. It blew my mind when I found out that we live closer in time to the T-rex than the T-rex lived to Stegosaurus.
Even more amazing is the fact that between the last dinos, the T-rex among them, and the first ones to appear some 250M years ago, there is a span of time THREE TIMES bigger than the one between the last dinos and us.
I don’t think ankylosaurus lived alongside T-Rex either. I’m pretty sure the dinosaur that T-Rex had the most fights with was the triceratops.
@@joeybulford5266 You may be confusing them with some other dinos. They actually lived from 84 millon years ago to the very arrival of the asteroid. In fact in the episode Death of A Dynasty of the BBC series Walking With Dinosaurs the main character, a female T-Rex, is mortally wounded by one just hours before the rock strikes Earth.
@@joeybulford5266do your research
Cool fact: Tyrannosaurus Rex lived 85,000 human lifetimes ago
I'm surprised you haven't heard of the ankylosaur "mummy" found in Canada. It was a type of Nodosaur. It's scales, spikes, and plates were absurdly well preserved. Look into it.
Yeah, I'm surprised that specimen wasn't mentioned
absolutely gorgeous specimen aswell
The specimin is in the pic at 1:54
For an ugly animal
(my interpret 🤓)
that one is a Beaut!
Woah
Predators like T. rex would have learned early in life to go after easier prey. After all, having just two legs, if it suffered a broken bone in one of it's lower legs from an Ankylosaurus club, that would be a death sentence. And as I think about it, populations of Ankylosaurus wouldn't need large numbers to survive as a genus (species?) due to a very low predation rate once achieving adulthood. A pretty ingenious animal.
Not really. They were unlikely to encounter most animals in their lifetime. Just like how we have a heightened ability to detect snakes biologically engraved in us, t-Rex’s would when also evolved such aversions towards certain type of animals. Basically ones that didn’t have this aversion would die… and those that did (to some extent) would survive. More accurately the injuries would hinder it and if they didn’t avoid certain creatures they were much more likely to suffer this injuries which would shorten their life on average.
I can imagine they would investigate these animals but soon found out it just wasn't worth it. I wouldn't want Food that fights back either. I'd say "fk that" too if I was a T-Rex. 😆😆
Wonder if where they were so successful in repelling predators they might have (at least in adulthood) developed some Aposematic coloration to ward off predators even further
All a dinosaur needs to do is somehow flip the ankylosaurus its back is armored but it stomach was thought to be very soft
@@Hawks2354 That's a big "If".
Ankylosaurs have always been my favorite kind of dinosaur. They're like easily underestimated, not very bright, grumpy armored tanks.
There is something about them I find oddly adorable.
Same here. 😀
I would argue that if a T-rex was desperate enough to attack a full grown Ankylosaurus, and had its leg shattered, there is a very slim chance it would hobble towards an area that would be ideal for fossilization like a swamp or someplace where two working legs are necessary.
agreed, and not unlike current day cougars that are down bad.
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Dayum imagine resting in a swamp and getting ambushed by a deinosuchus
@@Cabeza.47there were no giant crocodiles that lived with Rex
Ankylosaurus strikes me as a dinosaur that best embodies the concept of personal space. The fact that it was essentially an armoured tank armed with a literal wrecking ball strikes me as not the sort of thing that a particularly sociable animal would have.
I wonder how much pain and broken bones his ancestors had to endure for this beast to develop this massive armour
Thats one reason i dont beleive in evolution, because ones mishaps and endeavors just cannot affect ones offspring.
@@M-nerd800 I think you are wrong mate because biology tends to respond to the environment. That's why carnivores have teeth and digestive systems designed to eat meat while herbivores have it to eat plants. That's why humans that live in northern latitudes are white and have blonde hair and why humans that live in africa are black and I could go on and on...
@@youyoutobio yes there is evolution to a certain degree, its adaptation. humans that have adapted to african environments and humans that have adapted to northern environments are different yes, but both still the same species. humans have adapted wolves to dogs, but a German shepherd can reproduce with a wolf, because they are both canines. just as African people can reproduce with Caucasian people because both are people, whos ancestors were people.
@@M-nerd800 I think you just proved my point because adaptation is just evolution imprinted into the DNA, but ok. So what part of the evolution theory you think is wrong? Just curious
@@M-nerd800if it wasn't so politically charged, humans would absolutely be classed into dirrerent sub-species.
I love Ankylosaurus and Tyrannosaurus- two amazing dinosaurs.
all I am hearing is fact
Ankylosaurus is my favorite dinosaur, always has been, always will be
Me too! I have always loved the style of those low slung tanks.🤗
Mine too. I love Ankylosaurus.
It's a TANK! With THORNS! Seeing borealopelta (different but closely related) was like THE highlight of 2023 for me.
Why?
Like like therizonosaur
@@TheSmartestManonEarth Well why should everyone therizinosaurus
Only five incomplete Ankylosaurus specimens have ever been found. Contrast that to the literal tens of thousands of Edmontosaurus and Triceratops specimens that have been discovered, and it’s no surprise that we haven’t any Ankylosaurus specimens with T. rex bite marks on them. It’s not because T. rex never fed on them. It’s because the available sample size for Ankylosaurus specimens is so insanely tiny that the likelihood of finding any evidence of feeding on them would be a statistical wonder.
No there's three hunnid and fiddy of em
@@Letsberealish oop I misspoke. I meant to say tens of thousands. There is an Edmontosaurus bonebed with disarticulated remains from an estimated 10,000 - 20,000 individuals. Triceratops remains are even more numerous in the Hell Creek formation. They're so abundant that paleontologists don't bother collecting them because the ground is literally littered with them.
So, like I said, it's no surprise that we have evidence predation on those species but none on Ankylosaurus. We have an absolute glut of Edmontosaurus and Triceratops specimens but only a few scant remains of Ankylosaurus'.
And yet there is only one dinosaur positively known to have injured a T-Rex other than T-Rex. That is Triceratops.
@@Letsberealish oop I meant to say tens of thousands.
OR… they were so tough they were almost immortal!
T. Rex more than likely wasn’t scared of it, but probably knew it wasn’t able to get past the armor so it didn’t waste its time.
Triceratops & Edmontosaurus are more worth while prey.
@@SmashBrosAssemblerex prey tier list.
A tier: edmonto. Strong but still prey
C tier: trike. More dangures edmonto.
F- tier: anky. Why would it even ettempt to
It's like playing Dark souls, everytime you complete the game it gets 2x harder, But Anky is the mode you get once you complete the game 100 times ...
You don’t say professor! I never knew T Rex didn’t feel human emotions of fear, anxiety, trepidation, etc. What a revelation!
How could you possibly know??
Could I pet it tho?
No.
He might send you to heaven with his Bony Club
If you raised it from an egg after surviving the effort of stealing said egg, maybe.
Ever seen a dog clear a table with its tail ? If this good boy got excited, you'd be dead. 😂
I mean being an herbivore if you don’t scare it and you don’t come off as a threat the you probably could
Doctor: "Your BMI is way off"
Ankylosaurus: "Yeah yeah I hear it every time. C'mon Doc, don't you account for bone structure and muscle mass??"
Servosaurus: Welcome to Jurassic Restaurant! What'll you have?
Ankylosaurus: How about a club sandwich?
Servosaurus: You're in luck! That's our bony-plate special of the day.
😂😂😂😂
Omg please stop 😂😂😂😂
Ever since, I found out about Ankylosaurus. I thought it was a impressive beast of a dinosaur.
Gotta love them!
8:02 was savage.. he couldnt even be bothered to get up to do it 🤣
Deserved. He was an idiot for going after the club
yeah but the Ankyl barely touched him and the dino was like "aaaaaaah, im dying!"
@@rgerberto be fair but that blow hit its head, it probably got concussed, in high school i had someone punch me in the head, apparently i collapsed in a very similar manner
reminded me of a cat and a dog (or another cat) 😂 fuck around and find out
The power creep was insane
The one dinosaur T-Rex was afraid of was Mrs. T-Rex.
funny
She had Marc Bolan's hair.
Only losers like you would say this
Truer than you realize. I forget the study and can't find it now. Female T-rexs were often twice the size of males, did all the hunting and defending. Males were for gene diversity and baby rex guarding.
You got that Right !!!
Hey, great vid. Physicist here!Just wanted to point out that Impulse is measured in N*s (Newton-seconds) not N/s (Newtons per second)
Oops, my high school physics teacher would be ashamed - thanks for the correction!
What ?
So..
You're Still saying..
A Measurement of Time..
By the way..
Time is still perhaps the Most
Mis-Understood happening
( it's far more a Measurement of where then anything else !! )
@bobmuller8806 it's a measure of force accumulated over a time as opposed to a rate of force per time. so like your electric bill is measured in kW*h (kilowatt-hours) because what's important is the power (kW) in total that you use over a time (hour). it wouldn't make sense to have an electric bill that is kW/h (kilowatt per hour) cause that just tells you the rate when in this context the accumulation is what matters. so in this video what matters in that measurement is the total force across that time that the tail applies. in other contexts the rate of force may be important. I don't know what the rest of what you said even means. but good luck ig
@dysonkennedy6796 Time is a Place
Nothing more..Nothing less
The scales of time naturally moving forward
Is Nothing more then a human construct
Thst essentlually Doesn't Exist
Length..width..Height and Time
The 4th dimension
Ankylosaurus is an interesting animal with a special build for survival. It’s probably the only animal in Cretaceous period that’s not afraid of the T Rex.
damn, that picture at 9:15 just captured bird like essence of t rex, yet kept him terrifying, "ptero-vultures" waiting between trees just ad bizzarreness to whole scene...love it!
Looks too "spiky" for me.
I completely understood dinosaurs when I watched a bunch of chickens eat two frogs.
i love how some of the drawings are super expressive
The original Ankyl breaker.
Honestly thats how I pronounce the name of this guy. Ankle-o-saurus. Because thats probably the easiest spot to hit with a tail club.
Ankylosaurus the hell creek formation Resident the america's Armoured Tank while T.rex Was an Anti tank gun which robert T bakker said it
The trex wasn't an anti tank gun if it couldn't feed on and got clubbed by the tank
@@hakanbrakankrakan to be fair, a 37mm anti-tank gun wouldn't punch through a 100mm RHA plate
The Phillip Currie Dinosaur Museum at Wembly Alberta , near Grand Pairie has an intact Ankylosaurus on display, first one found.
It was found near there at the Pine Tree river dinosaur dig , I believe. It is in a flattened state.
Are you talking about the borealopelta? I was quite surprised that was not included in the video
@@9656311because that wasnt an ankylosaurus
That fossil is not ankylosaurus
Since they were herbivores, I wonder if they ever used their clubs for slamming tree trunks to make leaves fall when times are tough?
Not a bad theory especially if they can think on dire times and especially since they don't have long necks to reach trees
Do you think the caloric offset makes sense when times are tough to expend the most possible energy by whacking trees as hard as possible?
@@BradHuhnold17fruits could be worth it, if they ate them
Of course, how else would they be able to get at and eat the delicious ‘tree stars’?!?!?
That is an adorable mental image and I want you to be right.
8:24 that was brutal 😂😂😂
I like the way you paint a picture of the ecosystem of the animals you describe.
6:35 “and there goes his ankles Jimmy” “yes bob he’ll be on crutches for the res of his life, oh wait THEY DONT EXIST YET WOMP WOMP!” (Prehistoric fight coverage)
I did hear some paloentologists suggest that it didn't have bite marks because it was flipped on its back to get to the soft under belly, as it were.
Utter bullshit
It to close to the ground and would be to heavy to do so
Only way it could happen was if it accidentally flipped itself (falling from a slope and roll on its back)
Its also to most bullshit fight scene in JW with the indo rex
1) no way it would get out of the fight unscaved when being hit in the head by that tail (scattered skull or at least broken jaw)
The flipping over was also unrealistic
Weirdo
@@stormwarrior007 I mean, I'm definitely on the anklosaurus's team, but there simply isn;t enough evidence to say something is utter bullshit when talking about dinosaurs, what if the t rex COULD flip them, like a elephant flipping a truck.
@lickdickrick to be able to do that the Trex would need to be able to get its head on the side
And push it over in one swoop (cause if you start pushing it it will just move and the trex would just tip over from the sheer force it had to put into it)
We are talking bout an animal that weight around 5 tons and low point of gravity
Altough I understand where you comminh from, I just dont see it happen with an animal that is defending itself
That’s a bit flawed considering its weight and how low it is to the ground. Being a quad-petal animal it would’ve had great balance enough to prevent from being ripped over by a Rex.
Excellent! Love the narration, excellent transition work, and love how you don’t just tell, but show! 10/10!
The fact the Ankylosaurus is my favourite dinosaur and it could withstand the T-Rex just makes it even cooler for me❤️
Not sure I'd place bets on that. While it probably could stand its own, T. rex had bone-crushing teeth and jaws, so the Ankylosaurus's armor wouldn't have been as effective against T. rex as it would have been against other, smaller predators with weaker bites. The tail club would've been a massive advantage, for sure, but we don't know much about how stealthy the T. rex was or was not able to be.
@@brassbucklesTRex would’ve had a lot of difficulty trying to attack an herbivore like this, aside from their extensive armor they had a very keen sense of smell so sneaking up on this tank would’ve been impossible as it would’ve known ahead of time where you were leading it to be prepared to defend itself
I wouldn’t want to risk it if I were a TRex one well placed hit of that club to the leg or head at 48mph would be devastating if not outright a fatal blow
@@brizzle3903 THANK YOU! U GAVE ME MORE COOL FACTS ABOUT MY FAV DINO❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@FunzPlays12 you’re welcome the armored dinosaurs and the Sauropods are my favorite animals
There was an armored sauropod with a tail club just like Ankylosaurus called Shunosaurus
I’d hate to get hit by the tail club of a gigantic dinosaur like that 🥴
I discovered your channel last night and I’m enjoying it so much. You’ve a fine talent for presentation, and I say so from the perspective of a lay person with little grounding in science. I subscribed, of course. Thank you!
Wouldn't T. rex also be scared of the fully grown, largest specimen of Edmontosaurus and even Triceratops as well? (Though that still wouldn't stop it from hunting them, which makes T. rex more badass than it already is.)
Indeed if it could flip an Ankly over than it would be able to kill it easier
Tyrannosaurus could just cow tip an adult Edmontosaurus
@@SmashBrosAssemble Or ram into it by using its bulk to knock it over
And Alamosaurus (and all Titanosaurs).
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That’s what I mean
I loved seeing TheDinosaurMann's art shown at 10:29 I have a few art pieces from him that I have commissioned
Definitely one of the most intimidating herbivorous dinosaurs to have ever existed!
Thank you for this video, this is my favourite dinosaur!
Mine too
One of my favorite dinosaurs. Its design is so beautiful, like every other living creature. But this one intrigues me a lot.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller has an extraordinary fossil of a Borealopelta, a close relative of ankylosaurus that shares a similar appearance. It's remarkable to behold something that so closely resembles a living dinosaur.
Just subscribed. Great work
Still traumatized with Jurassic World with what happened to the Ank fighting Indominus. 😭😔
That's a bs Hollywood movie.
U must be a toddler
I’m still traumatized with how bad the Jurassic World sequels were.
Reinforced legs? Sure I can maybe buy Indominus having that. But it took the club to THE FACE.
Everything after the lost world was hot garbage. Even the lost world was only ok. That first film was lightning in a bottle.
AS we monkeys know stubbing your toe on a door or chair leg or grinding your shin or ankle bone off the lowered dishwasher door , the thought of been smacked by that club, i dont doubt the T rex just knew to not bother attacking the Rock
"we monkeys"?!?!?? you mean "you monkey"......!!!!!
Thanks for covering the cretaceous mammals great content!!
Always my favorite dinosaur when I was a kid. I used that tail to beat ALL the other dinos I had in my classic group of animal stuff. He’d take out bulls, elephants, gorillas, all other big critters, including the mighty T-Rex! Yeah, the little dinosaur that could..!!
What an elaborate description covering almost every aspect of this fascinating animal.
Fun fact, ankylosaur Zuul Crurivastators species name means destroyer of shins
So, in summary, going up against this thing would be like a T-Rex playing a game of candy crush. Got it.
The Ankylosaurus was always my favorite because of that biological shield and mace.
Another masterpiece of information. It is of course a dinosaur that I had heard of often but never realized how unique it was.
4:01 there's that 'mummified' one (I appreciate it's just the one individual, but should give an idea of plate arrangement)
Editted to add: I also appreciate this is not the same species, but a similar family member
Fascinatingly informative.
I think it's less so that it was the only one it was afraid of, as it was the one it was the MOST afraid of. A T. rex that doesn't have a healthy level of fear of its prey would die. It has to fear its prey to some extent so it will be perfectly on edge the whole time while hunting. A fearless rex is a careless rex. Not that it's healthy to be too afraid either, because then it'd panic. It would need to just be on edge, to ensure it never gets cocky.
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With these slow-moving behemoths about, one wonders whether there was a terrestrial version of the cookie-cutter shark about in the Mesozoic. Perhaps a toothy pterosaur? A small theropod? Or even a Mesozoic vampire bat analogue?
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The art of it knocking down a tree for fruit is an interesting theory, im sure it could, but seems unlikely also since itd then have to DODGE the tree lol
Just recently starting watching you. Keep it up! Nice channel man.
The remains of an ankylosaurus were found on a river bluff in sandstone while crews were excavating for a new road in San Diego, CA. And... I have seen petrified ankylosaurus dung on a present day hill top which was long ago a sea shore mud reef just east of Abilene, TX.
randomly clicked on one of these channels videos now im obbsessed and probably gonna binge watch dino vids today... never would of guessed that lol
Heres what i wanna know. How on earth did this thing mate with that giant tail in the way
With Great Dexterity ...
@@erichtomanek4739 hahaa. Maybe they were built like a turtle ir armadillo if you know ehat i mean
Probably with long.... You get the point
@@DjrekrenRace like a turtle
Location location location
They swam on their backs
They did the salmon thing and fertilized the eggs by, you know
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8:27 - Bet that Allosaur didn't have the balls to do that again. 😂🤣
I thought they recovered a fully intact fossil a few years ago
It's a relative species.
Maybe I am misunderstanding when you say "no specimen has been found with it's armor in place", but there actually has been one specimen found that shows the osteoderms in their original placement - it's a different species of ankylosaur, but it's so cool to see a well-preserved example.
It's named Borealopelta - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borealopelta
Just wanted to point this out in case you hadn't seen it before! I was blown away when it came out in the news. (And awesome video, btw!)
Please make a video on maip macrothorax megaraptors 😭
Bite marks on bones don't mean much due to animals always taking advantage of injured, sick, weak or dead carcasses. It doesn't mean that a trex took them all down.
Just as lions today cannot take down strong healthy large prey. They go for the weakest or one that died from health issues.
Did Alamosaurus and Rex live in the same area? If so I'd imagine T. Rex would be very afraid of it, and rightfully so.
Exactly! There’s no way a Trex would be willing to go up against such a colossal beast that could stomp you into the next time or swing that whip like tail right at your face
If I could build a time machine, my sole purpose would to go back to the Cretaceous to see a full sized T-Rex shaking like a leaf as it runs away because it's so scared, fussing his little arms in a frenzy as he bawls like a little girl.
i don't know why but i see Ankylosaurus is a living version of a razor push scooters...🛴
“You don’t want this heat bro.”
Definitely a favorite dino of mine, was always curious about how it interacted with the rest of its environment. I can imagine experienced T-rex's and other predators definitely going for younger members of the species, but i willing to bet the adults had to fend off more than their fair share of predators as well, it strikes me that more seasoned rex's could tell that the anky would have trouble defending itself from the front, who knows, perhaps a fossil will be found one day telling another story.
Hi again. Another interesting video. Used to remind visitors to DMNS’ Prehistoric Journey that the most dangerous animals in Africa and North America are not the carnivores but herbivores like America’s bisons and Africas hippos, Cape buffalo, and rhinos and elephants. The idea of a passive herbivore likely comes from domesticated cattle-which were bred for docility-and sheep, the very picture of docile herbivores.
I’d also add that Scott Sampson told us one time that the tyrannosaurid-ceratopsid pair is a classic case of species co-evolution. Jaw size and frill size seemed to march in lockstep for much of the Cretaceous culminating in the matchup of Tyrannosaurus and
Triceratops.
I could see it also using that tail to bury itself. ;O)-
First making a pat-down hole, then flinging dirt up around it's edges as it sits in that hole.
Love the anky. Favorite Dino ever. Would love to see a video on bone crushing dogs if you're looking for new ideas!
"Armour strong enough to withstand small firearms." Yeah... the thing weighted 5 tons. Pretty sure you can mag dump any 5 ton animal and have a good chance to only annoy it.
Hence the specialty Elephant guns, and ammunition
just admit you have no experiance with weapons.
@@StopYTShorts How many thousands of people walked, ran around and fought after having multiple holes put in them? Humans weight an average of 80kg. Just admit you have no idea how much 5000 kg is.
the emu war is also a good example
I mean, annoy is an understatement. imagine getting a bunch of toothpicks stuck in your leg, I think it'd be a bit like that. Sucks to hell but the monsters still gonna smash you flat if you use anything not rated for literal tanks.
My favorite dinosaur. Been that way since my youth. Have a special place in my heart for the epitome of FAFO. No TRex damage ever found. Kind of says it all. Respect.
0:15; largest when you go by weight.
At this level, you'd need a much higher INT stat to make up for that huge gap in weight between Rex and the next largest therapods, not just a few meters extra length. Most animals don't have quite the same concept of 'reach' professional boxers have, after all.
Didn't they find a t rex with a shattered leg close to an ankylosaurus?
T rex could crush bones but ankylo has armour and a tail that could crush bone.
Not only that, they are really good at harvesting metal, crystal, and obsidian. 😊
The overall design that came with their tail club is surprisingly pretty clever. Nature sure is an engineer.
Normally predators will prefer to attack from a blindspot, and is usually from the rear of herbivores. Especially in the case of the Triceratops, where they are most vulnerable. But the tail club fixes that weakness.
Ankylosaurus my beloved ❤
Wow. Our creator is an awesome creator.
Five year old me would be so excited if this channel was around in the early 80’s. Damn you last pre internet childhood!!! 😂😂😂
I love the Bonkosaurus
Thank you.
Nice drawings
Dakotaraptor video please 🥺
Exaptation: When the butt hammer you bought to fight your brothers randomly comes in handy for warding off Ol' Dirty Rex down the street
To OP: Thank you for including the imperial measuring system and not just the metric system! We Americans appreciate it!
Hi author, don't hope for your reply but still want to ask something about. There is a russian channel "The Last Dino" that took two of your videos (as I know, maybe there are more of them), this one and the one about tarbosaurus. He might be translating your videos, but I didn't saw links in the description
Megaraptor maip microthorax video please 😢
The only creator who fully mastered thumbnails
Idk man. I’m scared of mice sometimes.
Anklylosaurus. "Welcome to the club" "My club".
Thank you and thank you for a great presentation and taking the time to pronounce this wonderful animal's name correctly! Presenters are just getting lazy with these wonderful and mellifluous Greek words. Linguists consider Greek to be a most beautiful language in the world.
Woo! My favorite dinosaur was a badass!
Back when I played Durango: Wild Lands, we could get a tamed one of these, and since I was a ranged player, he was absolutely perfect to distract and soak up damage.
I loved him, I named him Tanky Boy 😂
Imagine all the bad ass dinosaur fights we missed.
Love this guy, really made the grind for metal easier
9:36 Now Tyrannosaurs may have been smart as a baboon, and I also know they probably were not that inteligent to pull this off. but this would actually be terrifying to see this level of inteligence from T. Rex