A Giant Extinct Swan
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- At one point in time giant swans inhabited Sicily and Malta alongside dwarf elephants, resulting in a pretty unique ecosystem. But what were these swans - Cygnus falconeri - like when they were alive?
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"Peace was never an option"
-Untitled Giant Swan
ya got it first
ruth3076 more like
peace will never be an option
-Untitled Giant swan
See the difference?
@KONG YASUKE the meme is from the game untitled goose, it means when somebody or something eliminates a organism like:
"Cat kills his owner"
"Cat: Peace was never an option"
mistake why is your pfp lana from pokemon sun and moon doing the agehao
@Anna K I'm guessing you didn't read the whole thread?
Imagine the loudness of its honk!
*that's geese my friend,swans don't do that*
Swans hiss!
Sounds more like a big snake
Fiona Embleton I looked it up swans do you honk but you’re probably thinking of the mute swan which typically does not honk.
Honk if Thatcher's dead.
Of course there's a giant prehistoric swan.
There's a giant prehistoric version of everything other than whales. God, i wish could travel back in time...
Whales had minature versions of themselves, with small baleen whales. Same for tiny elephants and tiny horses.
@@presidenttogekiss635 Whales actually became true giants relatively recently in last 3 millions of years. When last ice age started and Megalodon go extinct.
@@presidenttogekiss635 in the future we'll have giant version of todays small animals , and todays giant will get smaller
@@davidegaruti2582 Can't wait for tiny elephants again!
@Paul Lamonte you're right!
All these "elephant sized swan" comments forgetting these were dwarf elephants shorter than humans.
Robert Culen nice try illustrators!!
Dwarf elephants sized swan still far less scarier than if you call it human sized swan
@@c.dundee4313 the illustrators did fine and captured the size proportions, most of these people in these comments though are misinterpreting them.
I love this channel, but I feel like the channel is at fault here.
They should have been more specific about the size.
@@FuzzyLittleBastard well the video did show a picture to scale and mentioned that they were dwarf elephants, I think a lot of people in these comments missed that.
Remember that time when swans were larger than elephants
ah good times...
Luke Skywalker Jedi Knight I remember it like it was yesterday🌚🌈
Cursed swan
I also remember that time when i saw an idiot trying to be funny in the comment section.
Pepperidge Farms remembers
Question of the day: Would you rather fight one elephant sized swan or 30 swan sized elephants?
Elephant Sized Swan is basically a dinosaur, so I'll take my chances with the mini-elephants.
NazRigar and also i think elephants wont really fight you either, but a swan of any size wont think twice.
You ever pissed off a swan??? Now make it dinosaur size, and you pretty much have Godzilla...
@@BiglyChungus Exactly.
How strong are these mini elephants?
and the ugly duckling became a beautiful swan, and proceeded to stomp all the ducks that bullied him as a child into a pulpy, bloody mess
Dracodracarys 233
OMG 😂😂😂😂😂
Yep, that’s totally in character for a swan!
That one duck who called him small: holy shi-
And the geese, and the signs warning of passer-bys of its presence XD
That’s the dark ending
Okay that's nightmares. I kinda wanna ride one tho... Galadriel style.
Ohhh have two hooked up to one of those chariots, with armor all over them too!
Old straddlin Galadriel....that takes me back
Jay imagine flying that to school
Where do you think those European folklore originate from.
Its way too small, those are dwarf elephants its compared to
Birds are honestly some of the most interesting things on our planet. Mini elephants would’ve been a spectacle. I wish I was capable of time travel JUST so that I could see some these amazing creatures.
Are you me?
Richard
She is not you, baka!
Just to see? Why not ride some, like the giant swan?
there are still so many incredible organisms to see and appreciate in this world, nature is a wonderful thing :) but yes, i wouldn't mind seeing miniature elephants in flesh lol
@@falcoperegrinus82 just watch an elephantino!
I still get surprised at how light birds are, and how heavy mammals are. Is that truly just from bone density? Becuase the fact that similarly sized swan and elephant having more than 280 kg of difference blows my mind.
Then again, elephants are pretty massive, and I assume most mammals of that size weren't that heavy.
I don't think that's a modern elephant, but more likely the dwarf elephant mentioned.
I think the difference also comes from birds having additional airways and chambers, which lower the overall density quite a lot.
I've heard it speculated that one of the reasons dinosaurs were able to get so large is because of that system of improved respiration and lower relative mass.
They are not that similarly sized. The swan is long and skinny and the elephant is stocky but has a muuch larger body. Just look at them and forget the neck and wings
@@Vespuchian yes you are correct
I think bird skeletons weigh similarly to mammals. They just have less marrow and thicker bone walls.
Swans are scary enough when they get angry.
Danmark and it’s beautiful fucking swans. These motherfuckers are aggressive and I’ve been attacked more then 5 times. Cool national bird to have but people don’t realise how dangerous they can be
i was mugged by one for a bag of corn
Bruh swans are bitches, think about this, long thin necks, hollow bones, you get me
but still if you kill one the queen doesn’t care how solid your bones are she’ll put you in her embryo smoothie machine
Wanna hear the something very sad?
Probably not but okay
There is a large park that I went to,it had massive,beautiful swans that would go up to you (no,they would not start ripping you to shreds) they would make these adorable sounds and were friendly,I wanted to hug or at least pet one S O M U C H but I decided not too,I felt that they would still rip me to shreds,but here is the sad bit (no I didn't witness it) apperently a teenager FUCKING KICKED ONE OF THESE GRACEFUL,CUTE SWANS,AND HE FUCKING KILLED IT,JUST TO SHOW OFF. TO HIS FRIENDS
I got trampled by one when I was 5 or 6 years old.
I find it hilarious that its prehistoric ancestor is just an enlarge version of itself. No saber teeth, armor, wool, or any other unique prehistoric abilities. Just bigger.
Trust me, it don't need nothin' more.
You can't improve upon the perfect threat
Imagine wooly sabertooth swan
This is legitimately unnerving. Imagine the temper of a swan but now it's twice as big.
Maybe they were like dogs, where they get nicer as they get bigger
Swans were my childhood nemesis, so this terrifies me.
Deer were mine, apparently.
@@ElysetheEevee then Megaloceras must scare the crap out of you!
A 50 pound gaint evil bird
Fear not my friend. I have heard from a confirmed swan culinary connoisseur, that swans taste like chicken!
I remember throwing a rock to make them run end up with me running away from them, my childhood was never the same after that...
I went to England once, a swan attacked me just because I looked at it. Imagine giant swans...
The worst part is that you'll go to jail if you fight back
@SubversiveMemes yeah, all swans in England are property of the queen
I saw one cross a whole lake just because a dog was taking a swim. There was plenty of room but no, it went all the way just to hiss at the dog.
Swans are impressive. Mute swans are very much so, but they cannot, contrary to what some alarmists claim, drive out trumpeter swans. If trumpeters want a nesting site occupied by mutes, they're likely to kill them.
Now, picture Cygnus Falconeri, apparently closely related to the whooper and the trumpeter...only bigger.
@SubversiveMemes That is so bad, very very bad 🤬
I don't have a good reputation within my local community of swans and geese, so now I know this thing existed I will never sleep again.
What about the extinct giant goose, garganornis?
Just awesome video. People sometimes forget that modern swans are powerful birds that don't shy away from a fight. Imagine these giants.
Normal swan: Hjönk Hjönk
Giant swan: *HJÖNK HJÖNK*
Any evidence in these fossils for elongated, coiled trachea like modern swan species? If so, that would be an impressive windpipe and presumably equally impressive vocalizations.
Big honk
Ah Swans..
Beauty, Grace, Hatred, Rage....
Me : enjoying my normal life
Ben G Thomas : *giant swan*
Imagine the wing-punch from these guys.
*Omae wa mo shindeiru...*
One hit K.O.
Nani?!
You should see Wee man vs the Black Swan in one of the jackass movies. It punches the crap out of him.
Pokèmon ? Lol
Which one would you fight?
30 swans or 1 elephant sized swan?
I'd run. swans & geese are terrifying
Is that a minecraft story mode reference?
edge lord The Giant swan wasnt even that big, this video is wrong, they were up to shoulder height of Homosapiens, the elephants featured in this video are Palaeoloxodon. Palaeoloxodon were extremely small elephants
@@izuto727 yes!
@@Master-mu8pl That's still a big ass bird!
Don’t tell the Queen about these. She’ll try an have them resurrected.
Chinese/Russian bio research funding intensifies!
Fascinating, Captain! Is the Queen a cygnophile?
Why would she? To ride one if possible? I would if possible.
If you kept selecting from the largest Whoopers and Trumpeters, you wouldn't get *exactly* that, but you'd get something impressive. You couldn't put them on Malta these days, though, because the climate is a lot hotter than in the days of Cygnus falconeri, which probably died out because Malta had become an island, it had gotten too big to fly north, and it fried.
@@reymohammed7040 I know it's a different species, but how would she react to the Garganornis, the giant extinct goose.
The question now is, how big of a bread bag should we be bringing
You shouldn't feed bread to birds period
when I first read your comment I thought you meant you wanted to fry it like a schnitzel
“I’ve had some run-ins with swans in the past”
Another puzzle piece concerning youtuber’s dark personal history falls into place.
As long as there's no UA-camr Apology (TM) to the Swan community about how terrible bastards the birds are, and of the retaliation taken place we good
TF2 Heavy voice: I fear no man, But I fear, this thing.
Correction: TF2 Heavy voice: I fear no man, but that thing...it scares me
@@sarsath7481 I was thinking the same thing lol
When you thought swan were big already.
Tommy Arnold The Giant swan wasnt even that big, this video is wrong, they were up to shoulder height of Homosapiens, the elephants featured in this video are Palaeoloxodon. Palaeoloxodon were extremely small elephants
Master 811 To reach the shoulders of a human is still pretty big by Swan standards, not a true giant true, but still fairly large
Would be fun to ride if they were still around though.
imagine raising one from baby swan to adulthood so it would imprint on you so then you could ride it and fly on it
Considering swans' tempers you'd better travel light, cause if it doesn't like you on its back it will let you know.
You would crush it because the human weights 4x as much as that giant swan
@@DanielPereira-ey9nt not if you are technically a walking skeleton, im very light
Hell yeah, that's what I was thinking when I saw the image of this bird while looking up prehistoric animal images. Let's ride one.
Shrek 4- rumplestilskin and his goose
I love how you called the exceptional mute swan a "Unit", because man that's heavy for a birdo!
Still though, this is pretty amazing! Imagine if we still had dwarf elephants and giant swans still living today in the modern era.
Dinosaurs didn't went extinct
Their descendants created havoc for mammals 😂
Doraemon Universe The Giant swan wasnt even that big, this video is wrong, they were up to shoulder height of Homosapiens, the elephants featured in this video are Palaeoloxodon. Palaeoloxodon were extremely small elephants
Doraemon Universe No they werent
@@Master-mu8pl shut up spammer
@@Master-mu8pl paleaoxodon was larger than paraceratherium
Fun fact; The whooper swan is the national bird of Finland and is featured on the Finnish 1 euro coin. There's also many tales and legends of these birds in the Pagan Finnish folklore, most notably the Tuonenjoutsen roughly translated to the "Swan of Doom" or literally "the swan of the land of the dead".
Rockpaintings depicting a swimming/floating swan are an iconic image from the pre-history of the finnish people. It is said that killing one of these sacred birds meant certain death and doom for the perpetrator.
My daughter and I managed to get caught up between two swans fighting in the park.
They are indeed very imposing when angry and determined.
0:40
So you're tellin me i could lift a goose taller than an elefant? Damm
It is a small elephant
I just wanna say that I’ve been with u since about 10k and it’s crazy how fast your channels grown keep the good work up love your vids 👍
God I’m glad I’ve never encountered a giant swan before. Dealing with a small one was enough.
I wonder if Simon on Wildlife Aid knows this? He's had several run-ins with swans.
Sophie Robinson
He would definitely need a bigger swan bag😂😂🦢
I love swans and geese but I don't know about confronting a Giant Swan and trying to hand feed it. To be honest I think it is a bad time to be traveling especially when you are older.
The first *Cursed* thumbnail picture !
[| The Chad Swan vs Beta Elephant |]
lmao
Imagine being attack by a swan the size of a small elephant, and we thought regular swans were terrifying 😳
I rather imagine riding the said swan.
Imagine the *pecking* power of this bird
So.. peace was never an option even in the pleistocene?
Yes because it will *NEVER* be a option, not even in the future
Normal swans would attack people if they get angry. BUT THESE SWANS WOULD EAT YOUR KIDS
Giant Swan approaches
Little elephant running away:"Oh lord he comin!"
My boyfriend uses a swan motif a lot and every time I see or hear about swans I think of him 💙 bet this one would amuse him
Elsa you gae
@@drakula4727 no, and I'm not Elsa either
@@drakula4727 oh
Oh. So the giant swan mod on monster hunter wasn’t kidding with this.
Man i need to get out in nature more, i did enjoy your video but it's reminded me how little i spend actually out there with Nature. It's funny how just a video on UA-cam can motivate you to stop watching UA-cam so much 😁😁
0:37 wait did you say that Cygnus falconeri was 16KG? seems a bit light for an elephant swan
@@aviangamer6367 ok, but an ostrich weighs 120kg
It's a dwarf elephant. The illustrators are just messing with you
Today i learned i could theoretically bicep curl a gigantic swan
Jonah The Giant swan wasnt even that big, this video is wrong, they were up to shoulder height of Homosapiens, the elephants featured in this video are Palaeoloxodon. Palaeoloxodon were extremely small elephants
First Pelagornis, then Argentavis, then the Haast Eagle. Now...a giant Swan.
CHEEP!
Also the Garganornis, the extinct giant goose.
@@whitewolf3051I doubt they're extinct. Why, even now, we have big quacks giving us medical advice that has killed about ⅓ million Americans so far.
@@reymohammed7040 Quacks comes from ducks, not geese. But I do see what you mean from a certain point of view. Quite a few medical "professionals" are indeed quacks.
@@whitewolf3051 Garganornis was an anatine, but may not have fit squarely into any modern classification. Maybe it had roast person for Christmas.
*when you realize the miniature elephants compared to them were only around half the height of a human,so these swans may have only been a few centimetres taller than regular swans*
imagine just
one day minding your own business and then all of a sudden
giant swan
Great series. Keep it up! But it's pronounced "hooper", the "W" being silent for some reason.
so it's not a BK sandwitch?
Like 'whooping cough' etc.
Thats how they speak in Europe
imagine a full grown dog sized elephant. I wonder if it could have been domesticated considering how intelligent elephants are.
Imagine the size of the hot wings you could cook from it
Imagine how many bones you would break even TRYING to hunt this majestic,dangerous beast
Fiona Embleton It would be worth the pain
@@user-lz5wp5cg4y ah yes,but then you would be in hospital for 6 months,missing that much time of your life just for some hot wings,plus,you would probably be dead by the time you even come close to killing it
Fiona Embleton You underestimate my determination. I will die for those hot wings and have no regrets
@@user-lz5wp5cg4y *ah yes but imagine the trauma of even seeing this thing look at you angry,plus,how u gonna eat them hot wings when u ded?*
*sees the height chart* Now I wanna pet a dwarf elephant and a giant swan
We had a 10kg endemic swan in NZ - hunted to extinction (of course) in the last few hundred years.
It's weird that I quite never thought of swans as real animals that need to avoid predators and find food. They always felt like some kind of magic fairy-elve-like creature.
There IS something otherworldly about them. Sometimes I feel the same way about big colourful butterflies with iridescent wings that live in the tropics.
Thanks, pretty sure I'll never sleep again.
I wonder if it's possible to bring these giant swans back to life like mammots.
They would be just as fascinating and terrifying as dinosaurs.
Seeing all those elephant sized swans really captures the imagination. I was a bit disappointed when you said they were dwarf elephants. Still a very fun and informative video.
I was greatly impressed until you mentioned those were Dwarf Elephants :(
Still, that’s a pretty damn large swan. Around the size of mini jersey cattle (which while smaller than most cattle, are still quite big).
"Giant extinct swan"
Yeah we call those gigantoraptors
XD
I thought that Gigantoraptors were supposed to called “giant murder turkeys”. :P
I can just imagine Nicolas Cage fighting off a horde of killer giant swans with a pair of hedge trimmers, but eventually being overwhelmed;
“THE BEAAAAKS!! Not the BEAAAAAAAAKS!!!!!”
Perfect.
I love how dwarf elephants are the standard for size comparison in the illustrations😂
Swans are cool.
Giant swans and miniture elephants. So cool to know they existed once.Are there any native swans on Malta today? If no maybe they could import some and let them evolve into a new giant form?
Honestly, if this bird were introduced to Malta, they would probably hunt it.
Talk about Odette being such a giant swan.
another one. who new I wanted to learn about a prehistoric swans. learning about the earths historic habitats and the creatures that existed in the ancient ecosystem is so fascinating.
knew
I feel like so many animals were just cooler in the past!
Well, Cygnus Falconeri doesn't look that much of a giant when compared to modern swans. It was only slightly bigger. But it would be still fascinating to have seen how similar and different it was from the swan species we know today.
“As someone who had run-ins with swans in the past...” Dude! What are you doing to piss off swans?
I wonder if Rumpelstiltskin ever rode these giant swans
I wouldn’t mind riding one of these.
Long live the mighty Swans, which are part of Ornithoscelida!
There should be a documentary about these swans and other Prehistoric creatures from Malta and Sicily.
The only thing missing from this dragon swan thingy is it’s fiery breath.
If you thought swans are c*nts now think about how our ancestors must have felt
Omg I litterally live in Oxford and go to school in abingdon. I'm definately coming!
You’d think a swan is peaceful, but I’ve seen too many videos of them beating up old people in the park.
LOL imagine my confusion when I started watching this video without having read the summary.
Giant swans…
BIGGER THAN ELEPHANTS
Do one on the "Delcourts giant gecko" the largest species of. Gecko that ever lived and went extinct 300 years ago.
ua-cam.com/video/V14TTOYVDSw/v-deo.html
*HJONK*
Thats what you get for teasing me when I was a duckling sh*thead!
It's a lovely day in the village and you are a Giant Swan.
Why do I feel that all the giant swan images in this video look like shoddy photoshop edits by a shitpost page?
This is cool that the giant swan gets a video dedicated to it when it's usually the pygmy Elephant that gets the spotlight .
Ah
Giant Swan
That’s how Princess Bubblegum gets around by the way
i really would not have liked being on the recieving end of an eager peck of one of these graceful bohemouths, an eager peck from an average sized swan leaves quite the painful bruise. A great upload!
0:06, no kidding, I think most British kids have had a run in with one when they went to feed the ducks
I remember riding this huge high horse next to a lake, with swans. Then the swans took off, and so did the horse :D I swear, the horse flew higher.
Kilos, meters. This channel had such good potential. This is why I love English channels that give both sides of measurements.
Interesting that modern geese are so well adapted to terrestrial environments, while being prodigal long range flyers, too.
Sorely tempted to add these big boys to my next tabletop game campaign.
I don’t know. Every swan has a plan until they catch a left hook to the beak.
"Peace was never an option"
- a Giant Swan to Dwarf Elephants
Remember that time when giant swans would swoop down and mount elephants (the thumbnail)!!!😂😵😂
Swan: so I hear elephants never forget...😂😂😂😂
:)
Swans - beautiful "geese" with the bite to back up their bark...
Swans oversimplified
2:40 first thought it was a tiny human in that bird's mouth.
An average swan chasing me is already terrifying enough and I can’t imagine this thing being here today
This left me more interested in the tiny elephant than the giant goose. I want a ranch with sheep sized elephants wandering around.
Yum.
A pretty unique ecosystem, indeed.👍🦢🐘👍