25 Amazing Prehistoric Predators
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Prehistoric times contained some of the largest and most terrifying predators to have ever roamed the earth. Some relied on raw strength and speed while others utilized the element of surprise to satisfy their hunger. Despite these two dissimilar styles of hunting, each of these predators shared a common characteristic: they reigned as one of the top hunters of their time. These 25 amazing prehistoric predators had their own particular ways of hunting that kept them at the top of the food chain.
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Megalania
Titanoboa
Sarcosuchus
Smilodon
Pterygotus
Cameroceras
Plesiosaurus
Thylacoleo
Giganotosaurus
Basilosaurus
Gorgonops
Dakosaurus
Tyrannosaurus
Ornithosuchus
Megalodon
Kronosaurus
Carnotaurus
Liopleurodon
Utahraptor
Allosaurus
Quetzalcoatlus
Tylosaurus
Koolasuchus
Spinosaurus
Dunkleosteus
"It's a Leoplurodon, Charlie"
"A magical Leoplurodon"
"It's gonna guide our way to candy mountain" XD
Meanwhile some channels are going 4k
You just made me laugh. :) don`t be mean he makes good lists most of the time.
SO TRUE, YOU AND WATCHMOJO NEED TO DO SOMET ABOUT YOUR 18th CENTURY QUALITY
Saul Goodman You don't need 4k when your your looking at pictures and probably 90% of people don't have a 4K monitor!
Dude I would take 720p-1080p but 360p man... Even 480p-720p is low these days, shieet you cant even buy a 720p monitor anymore! but the channel is still awesome =D
Yep and the file sizes are huge and the rendering takes just as long!
Shouldve scaled it using a person next to the images
a banana
Good list but I don't know how you can talk about Megalodon without mentioning its size. People will just see this picture of a shark and be like "Oh that's not so scary". Megalodon was basically an 18 meter long great white shark. It's a 60 foot shark that ate freaking whales. Also this guy did a pretty good job at mispronouncing most of the animals on this list :P
Like if you can do better.
Ezio Auditore I'm just sitting here facepalming.
Of course I cpuld pronounce 'em all right.
LoL
Please at least 480p! PLEASEEEEEE
Shut up
FUCK OFF
I am angry at you }¦-|
Why do you need 480p to look at pictures?
come off it...
What about obamasaurus?
spykrab > obamasaurus
Red Pentalpha
what about the Mitt-osaurus?
AvWorgen What about the Cheneysaurus? Man's been alive long enough, he's starting to look like one
I bet it's a dinosaur with a afro that says "It depends on your point of view"
Any1 notice the 1st part says obama
Dinosaurs and prehistoric predators were my hobbies as I was a kid. Very nice video :P
Awwwwww yeah!!! Dunkleosteus is number 1!!! Ur ma fave!
So many mispronunciations, but I can see past that. Another great vid man! :D
Hi. A small correction; Nº7, the name is actually "Giganotosaurus" and no "Gigantosaurus".
The Gigantosaurus was a sauropod (herbivore, long neck and tail, big body...)
I saw a few people in the comments asking about velocoraptor. The reason it is not on this list is because it was about the size of a chicken and couldn't anything bigger than itself and was mostly a scavenger. Many people believe to be the velociraptor from the movie Jurassic Park, but their velociraptor was based on a Utahraptor and as explained in the movie that it's genes didn't come out correctly or something of that sort causing to be bigger. T-rex may have placed higher if it wasn't for its many limitations, it would also have preferred to scavenge than hunt. I am working towards a doctorate in paleontology, and have been studying these two and many other dinosaurs for years. Please let me know if something is off.
1:20 Fun fact about Pterygotus, Paleontologists believe it was the largest Arthropod to ever exist,Oh not to mention it lived in water also its closest modern relatives are Scorpions.
Jaekelopterus was bigger
Congrats on 1,000,000 subscribers! I was here since about 20,000-30,000
Maybe some of these sea animals still live somwhere deep in the ocean... Who knows...
I bet you'd be interested as the unknown sound known as the bloop. Unfortunately, it was likely just an icequake, but still...
Merpelicous The Bloop is cool, but we have no idea what it is. You should check out the 55 Hertz Whale. Scientists have been tracking it's song for several years, but have never seen it.
very accurate great video :)
Trains will rise up and destroy humanity
trains = prehistoric animals
Wat
But you forgot the greatest of Dinosaurs. The Thesaurus able to turn a bad essay into a good one with a single chomp.
0:18 that's a Komodo dragon. wtf?
That's an artist's rendering of what it would have looked like. It is the creature that the Komodo dragon evolved/descended from.
Evolution is a theory. So say it was believed that it is the ancestor of the dream Komodo dragon
Chris Roque
*faceplam*
Yes, Evolution is a scientific theory, not a "theory" as misused in common vernacular. A scientific theory is "a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity."
When most people say "I have a theory" what they mean is "I have a hypothesis", or and "educated guess".
RantingRamsay It's still a theory. You may believe it to be true, but it's still a theory.
TomsCastle3
*bangs head on desk*
Your inability to grasp the very basic, fundamental concept between how you use the word "Theory" and a "Scientific Theory" is laughable.
A "scientific theory" is proven. The theory of Gravity. The theory of Relativity. The theory of Plate Tectonics. The theory of Evolution.
Please learn the difference between a Scientific Theory and the plebeian misuse of the term.
There is actually no such thing as a 'Sabre-Toothed Tiger'. The correct terminology is 'Sabre-Toothed Cat', the 'tiger' bit is, I think, the work of Hollywood. *cough Ice Age cough*
Sabretooths where called 'tigers' decades before Ice Age. Its skeleton was big and heavy-ish, like a tiger. So chances are that's why it was called as such.
Heck, even the Thylacine was called the Tasmanian Tiger. But that was because it had a row of stripes.
Psythr666 Nonetheless the term is still technically incorrect, as there were multiple sabre-toothed cats. Smilodon was the largest and is the source of the wrong name. Smilodon may have been the biggest, but far from the only.
TheRealXboxNerd
It's annoying, granted, but you can't stop people from saying it because it's "inaccurate". Heck, over a hundred years later, people still refer to the Mary Shelley Frankenstein Monster and Frankenstein.
Psythr666 Doesn't mean I can't try!! :D Don't worry I see your point.
TheRealXboxNerd
:D
4:28 Correction, that dinosaur is called Carnotaurus, Carno means Meat/Flesh in Latin, Taurus means bull.
carnotaurus means meat eating bull
Freddy Garcia It doesn't actually mean that, at least not literally, there's no 'eating' in the latin word, if there was it would have been something like Carnivorataurus.
Stormeris meat bull, then I guess.
He also mispronounced 'giganotosaurus'. it's not gigant-osaurus
amazing every one of these have adapted and still have ancestors
These are the facts I enjoy learning about. Good job.
The Magical Liopleurodon !
congrats on 1.000.000 subs bro keap up the good work love and respects from all your arubian subs
I must say that I was surprised that you didn't mention Utahraptor's size. It was the largest raptor ever discovered, standing 6 ft (1.8 meters) tall at it's hip. It was also 23 feet (7 meters) long from nose to tail tip! These guys were huge! They were also the inspiration for the raptors on Jurassic Park, even though Velociraptors were actually far smaller than their Utah cousins. :)
Just thought I'd clarify some things about this awesome video, in case if you guys were curious:
#25 - Megalania was a varanid lizard, which is the primary group of animals such as the Komodo Dragon, the Perentie/Goanna, the Nile Monitor, and others. It's believed that it looked and behaved much like its smaller counterparts, much as how we believe that the Megalodon looked and behaved like its only current living relative, the Great White Shark.
#23 - Sarcosuchus was one of the biggest living Crocodilians to date, big enough to make a meal out of some of the largest dinosaurs back in the day. It is believed that it lived around the same time as Spinosaurus and would have competed for similar food sources such as large fish.
#22 - The term "Saber Tooth Tiger" is a defunct term, as it is instead referred to as a Saber Toothed Cat. It's a term likely to have originated from Hollywood, though this was back during the older days of film such as in the 1920's rather than as recent as today. The term is still widely used simply because of the same reason why we still call other things by their defunct terms, since people are so used to calling it that it's become difficult to change how they call it.
#21 - Pterygotus isn't that small, it is actually one of the biggest known arthropods (groups that include insects, spiders, lobsters, and crabs) known to exist, and was as big as a living Crocodile. Not something you'd want to find hiding under the sand of a local beach.
#19 - Plesiosaurs are considered good predators because they are ambush predators, meaning they kept their big bodies out of eyesight from schools of fish and picked off stragglers in a school one by one, snacking at its leisure. It's probably the closest animal we can get to a Sea Giraffe, meaning that while it was a carnivorous animal it ate like a herbivore, growing a massive body as a result of needing more and more food to keep itself alive.
#17 - Giganotosaurus is pronounced Giga-noto-saurus, not Giganto-saurus.
#16 - Basilosaurus was a prehistoric whale, ancestor to toothed whales and believed to be an active apex predator hunting a wide variety of animals, including other, smaller whales such as Dorudon (I actually got to see fossils of these in person, they're amazing-looking)
#15 - Gorgonopsids are so special because they're among the creatures known as Mammal-like reptiles, which showed up before the dinosaurs and went extinct during the Permian Extinction. Gorgonopsids bore several features that made them very similar to mammals, such as distinct fang-like teeth for ripping open tough hide and a forward pointing nose, but still bore several reptilian traits such as a hairless body and lizard-like lungs, which made it difficult to perform endurance hunting like most mammals can such as wolves.
#13 - Cerebral scans of Tyrannosaurus have shown that their brains were more developed for smell than sight, with massive bulbous receptors near where the nasal nerves would be located. Their eyesight was not as good, but it's believed they had decent eyesight due to their forward-pointed eyes, unlike other Tyrannosaurs like Albertasaurus, which had eyes on the sides of its head like a herbivore's. This is one of Paleontologist Jack Horner's leading arguments in depicting T.Rex as primarily a scavenger (even though I personally think it was more like a bear, bullying predators away from a kill but still capable of killing its own food on its own).
#11 - The reason why we know that Megalodon is a whale hunter, despite it being a cartilaginous animal, is primarily because of its teeth. Its teeth alone are big enough that, if compared to its living relative in matters of scope, would make its jaw massive in proportion. We also have compared whale fossils at the time and I'm fairly certain some of the Megalodon's teeth and or marks have been found on said fossil whales.
#10 - We still don't know how big Kronosaurus is, or even what group it comes from. This thing, for all we know, could be the actual Predator X everyone keeps talking about, but we still don't know. Until we get more fossil evidence we can only guess that it's related to prehistoric marine reptiles like Liopleurodon.
#9 - ...Carno-Taurus. TAUR-us. Not Carnatosaurus. Carnotaurus. Even Disney got that right.
#7 - Utahraptor is one of the biggest known raptors, and believe it or not is the actual size-comparison raptor to the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, though slightly bigger. We've yet to find a bigger Dromaeosaur, though it's believed that Achillobator could be bigger.
#4 - Tylosaurus would make the shark from Jaws look like Dory from Finding Nemo in terms of ferocity. This is due to the region it lived in, which was a fossil bed in the Late Cretaceous that was literally called Hell's Aquarium due to the vast variety and ferocity of its marine predators. Given that it was a large, powerful predator, it likely could out-compete the others in a kill-or-be-killed, ever fish for himself shallow sea.
#2 - Spinosaurus was an apex predator but was also a specialist, as its regions were confined primarily to river deltas and floodplains, which is why we only found them in one fossil bed in Egypt. Despite having powerful claws, its bite was not strong; its teeth were built for gripping while its spine was buffed by the muscles in the mighty sail on its back. Its giant claws were what it used to tear prey to suitable chunks, as its own teeth could not cut through flesh like those of an Carnosaur (same group as Charcharadontosaurus, its immediate competitor) or an Abelisaur (same group as Carnotaurus, which are also found throughout Africa)
Thanks for taking the time to read this comment. ^^
4:37
"It's a liopleurodon!"
"A magical liopleurodon!"
0:30 Was the Boa named after the ship, or the ship named after the boa? The world may never know...
I liked this it had good information and it was faster, it's his best work in my opinion.
great video man :)
Its the Leoplurodon Charlie! A magical Leoplurodon!
Oh and thanks for mentioning quetzalcoatlus my
FAVORITE
No music? Whatever, still love it!
Can You 25 Amazing Prehistoric Predators Part 2
25 : Terror Bird
24 : Mosasaur
23 : Dimetrodon
22 : Suchomimus
21 : Baryonyx
20 : Nothosaurs
19 : Rhizodus
18 : Elesmosaurus
17 : Albertosaurus
16 : Majungasaurus
15 : Pyroraptor
14 : Icthyosaur
13 : Cryolophosaurus
12 : Albertosaurus
11 : Postosuchus
10 : Velociraptor
9 : Ceratosaurus
8 : Platacarpus
7 : Globidens
6 : Megalosaurus
5 : Pyroraptor
4 : Ptenadon
3 : Deinosuchus
2 : Dilophosaurus
1 : Oviraptor
That's my favorite video to watch
Thanks for also putting the names in a list for us.
The big fishes are cute. Especially the Loch Ness Monster one. I'm from Scotland and I have had a ride on it, really fast!
Ngl bu I love you voice, fits great with the videos.
awesome video :D
ITS THE MAGICAL LIOPLEURODON CHARLIE
Titanoboa means titanic boa. You dont say?
Some of the prenounciations sounded a bit off but apart from that good video :)
My list:
25. Daeodon
24. Phorusrhacos
23. Sarcosuchus
22. Cave Bear
21. Pterygotis
20. Cameroceros
19. Plesiosaurus
18. Dire Wolf
17. Spinosaurus
16. Basilosaurus
15. Inostrenstrevia
14. Dakosaurus
13. Carcharodontosaurus
12. Postosuchus
11. Megaraptor
10. Kronosaurus
9. Ichthyovenator
8. Liopleurodon
7. Cryolophosaurus
6. Albertosaurus
5. Tyrannosaurus
4. Mosasaurus
3. Koolasuchus
2. Velociraptor
1. Dunkleosteus
Would be great if all these 25 predators exist again
The fact that Andrewsarchus is missing from this list makes me cry.
Birds are related to dinosaurs.
I'm planning to become a paleontologist, and I still find it hard to believe that some of these animals actually existed.
I actually knew quite a few of these :)
First of all allosaurus has a weaker bite force the t rex is by far stronger
thank you so much
Oops I read the debate about which measurement system to use instead of watching the video :/
I want a pet gorgonops.
Yay Utahraptor!!
awww yea the carnotauros is my fav dino cause its horns are awsome i also like them from thatdisney film dinosaurs
It would me nice to know the size of these animals, but still good information
MEGALODON SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE
Koolasuchus master race
There have been sightings and documentaries of the Megaladon still existing.
There have also been likewise about the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, and North Dakota.
Red Pentalpha Don't be silly. Everyone knows that North Dakota is pure myth!
I also saw there was one about Nazis and UFOs. Tho Nazis believed the earth was a hollow sphere and the universe was all inside it
Red Pentalpha are you being serious or not. Because there actually has been sightings of all those.
Letsdothings99 Sightings are as credible as eye-witness testimonies: they aren't credible.
The Dunkleosteous was as big as a school buss and could ear almost everything in the seas at its time
It's GIG-A-NO-TOSAURUS. Not GIGANTOSAURUS. But still, cool video.
he also said carnotaurus wrong
Yeah
***** that is so retarded.
GiganOtOsaurus
Gigantosaurus is a medium-sized Sauropod from Europe...
Also, Gigantosaurus was the name of the Disney Junior show
1:03 hey look its Diego from ice age lol
Could you please learn how to pronounce these scientific names before posting them to UA-cam? Especially Giganotosaurus. It's pronounced "Jye-ga-NOTOS-Saurus". It's important not to leave out the "-notos" part of its name since that's the part that translates to "From the South". Carnotaurus is pronounced "Carno-Taw-roos" not "Carnotosaurus", there are only 4 syllables. Liopleurodon is pronounced "Lye-oh-pluro-don" not "Lioplirdon".
To me this is the best video you`ve made till now.
But I also know that there are a lot cooler pictures of at least some of the dinosaurs out there, and that it would be more awesome if you found some pictures that could compare the animal to a human. I saw that you wanted the white background, but it is just a suggestion ;)
Liopleurodon for the win :D
Magical Leopleuridon! It's gonna guide our way to Candy Mountain!
AllonsYcustard
Hahaha, so true XD
AllonsYcustard Magical flying Lying Plural don
Number one is the best, always see that killer fish in books lol
Number 25.... Not telling us how big that lizard is, that's a paddlin'
Velociraptor ?
2:23 Giganotosaurus not Gigantosaurus.
The gorganops (I don't remember how to spell it) Also had an enormous jaw. That entire head in that drawing is in scale a whole meter in length.
I love the Utharaptor!!!!!!!
get higher quality vids bro
they are only pictures or short clips so i dont think he really needs them to be fair
:)
he does
akwlb2 lmfao lowblow
cough that was 1 year ago
Cough there are older videos that are higher quality
I like this. :D
So is #25 an ancestor of the Komodo Dragon? From what I remember they have poison glands too and it looks strikingly similar...
Where did Megalodon come from?
Not to mention Utah Raptor was more recognizable by its size compared to other raptors and not its claws. Other raptors had that claw on their foot.
Nice!
Just as a suggestion. If you ever redo this video a size scale to be added to them would help. some of these are massive (T-Rex) but some are no bigger than a small dog.
I'm surprised that Predator X wasn't mentioned. Though it is a Pliosaur, so Kronosaurus/Liopleurodon would have taken its place.
I think the Mosasaur was the scariest sea creature to ever exist
Kronosaursus was my main vivosaurs in fossil fighters
Basilisaurus is the state fossil for my home state,Alabama!
The Megalania looks like a bigger version of the Komodo Dragon.
I have a suggestion for you! Top 25 games of all time
YAY DINO VIDEO
Plesiosaurus was only 10 feet long
Giganotosaurus not gigantosaurus
You butchered the names of the animals
yee
No Velociraptor's?
Disappointed.
Honorable mentions:
Dinofelis
Cave Hyena
Machairodus
Eurypterus
Elasmosaurus
Carcharodontosaurus
Monolophosaurus
Sinraptor
Gasosaurus
Deinosuchus
Tarbosaurus
Proceratosaurus
Albertosaurus
Guanlong
Dromaeosaurus
Deinonychus
Velociraptor
Bambiraptor
Pterodactylus
Pteranodon
Dimorphodon
Rhamphorhynchus
Irritator
Baryonyx
Hi There
What about the Brontosaurus, the Triceratops and the Stegosaurus?
Regards
Gerann
am i the only one that thinks number 7 explains why slash from the new transformers looks the way he does?
hey can you do 25 most famous horses?
LOL!! I think it is funny how people say as if it is fact how these dinosaurs/predators behaved and certain attributes they relied upon! All we have are a bunch of bones people!! lol We have 0 ideas on how they actually lived and interacted! Only assumptions.
we can compare with actual lizzards. So predictions can be quite accurate
Raz0rking don't mean to be brash but exactly which lizards did we look at to understand the allosaurus or trex's behavior? See what i'm getting at.
STSairman
it is a hunting reptile/lizzard. It wont behave like a bird that searches for korn. Every classification of animal has its pattern of wich can be derived that prehistoric animal X wich fall under classification X behaves like its classification should behave.
That is exactly what we have. Ideas. We can assume, sometimes with great accuracy, how prehistoric animals behaved, most notably by comparing their skeletons with the skeletons of modern animals. An assumption is an idea. They are literally the same. You might argue that we have no proof, to which I would say that we can (and do) compare the skeletons we find with modern animals, but you can't say that we have no idea and that we can only assume, because that is what we do.
Well if it has bones that are well adapted for certain kinds of things then we can be pretty sure it did those things. A dinosaur with herbivore teeth isn't going to eat meat. If it has bones that would be good for certain things then it means they most likely were doing those things to get that adaptation. Like if they have certain features that would help with catching fish, we can be pretty sure they were catching fish, If not why would they have adapted to be like that in the first place.
what about cthulhu
You're right. Where is the 50 meter tall chaotic god of the ocean on this list. I don't get it XD
killthenerd5 Ohh come on, be realistic XD
killthenerd5 See THAT'S rational thinking!
We also need the rancor.
Davy Jones wants to know exactly where the fuck the Kraken is
Chronosaurus: Animal with the ability to control time.
KRONO-saurus, you mean. Named after the Greek Titan Kronos, the father of Zeus. He ate his own children in a paranoid binge to retain his power.
Psythr666 I children, I children. Relax.
6:16 INCORRECT, they used to eat carcasses and hunt everything, it was the most feared dinosaur.
they could and would if they had to, but he is still right because he was adapted for fishing. so YOU are INCORRECT too.
cmon guys, dont be stupid
Its what is ''believed'' based on educated theories,
You cant say it is incorrect as no one actually knows.
To top it of.. most animals in this present day have no self awareness of death, so its safe to assume millions of years ago little to no animals had awareness of death either,
leaving '' most feared animal'' debunked as it is likely no animal feared for their own life.
Xenosmilus was like a mix between a Homotherium (scimitar tooth cat) & a Smilodon (dirk tooth cat)
but the way it killed prey was wrestling and grappling plus biting off chunks of meat and flesh until it died...like a shark and a bear put together
"Gigantosaurus"
Jig-Ah-Noe-Toe-Sore-Us
"Carnatosaurus"
Car-Noe-Tore-Us
Idc what came after Megalodon, it is the most terrifying predator on this list. JAWS has nothin' on them.
list25, Why u no put Mososaur on list!
He did tylosaurus was a species in the mosasaur group
9 still exists. At least I personally believe it does. We know it as the Loch Ness Monster or Nessie