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Vividen: Paleontology Evolved
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Vividen: Paleontology Evolved covers groundbreaking paleontology news and discoveries as well as analyzes ecological factors of prehistoric life. Vividen is a paleontologist-in-training and brings cutting edge science to the public through educational videos.
Dragons of the Deep: The Mega Ichthyosaurs
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Hector's Ichthyosaur speculative reconstruction by Diocles305 x.com/Diocles305
Music by Unicorn Heads.
The Mesozoic was terrifying, and ichthyosaurs were one of the biggest reasons why.
Ichthyosaurs are what happened when evolution took the blueprints for an orca, an eel, and a lizard and put them in the blender. Predatory marine reptiles that spanned nearly the entire Mesozoic, ichthyosaurs were incredibly diverse and successful, and may have been even older than we thought. A brand-new study reports large-bodied ichthyosaurs from only two million years after the end-Permian extinction, implying that ichthyosaurs likely evolved in the Permian and developed large sizes very quickly. Growing huge was far from their only talent, however. This video will focus on the mega ichthyosaurs that dominated the Triassic and early Jurassic, looking at their physical adaptations, ecology, and what we know about their lives. There’s also some juicy unpublished info I’ve gotten permission to share. For the sake of the video, I’ll define a “mega ichthyosaur” as any ichthyosaur that reached a maximum body mass of 15 tonnes or more. And for any documentary producers watching this: please highlight the Triassic more.
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Hector's Ichthyosaur speculative reconstruction by Diocles305 x.com/Diocles305
Music by Unicorn Heads.
The Mesozoic was terrifying, and ichthyosaurs were one of the biggest reasons why.
Ichthyosaurs are what happened when evolution took the blueprints for an orca, an eel, and a lizard and put them in the blender. Predatory marine reptiles that spanned nearly the entire Mesozoic, ichthyosaurs were incredibly diverse and successful, and may have been even older than we thought. A brand-new study reports large-bodied ichthyosaurs from only two million years after the end-Permian extinction, implying that ichthyosaurs likely evolved in the Permian and developed large sizes very quickly. Growing huge was far from their only talent, however. This video will focus on the mega ichthyosaurs that dominated the Triassic and early Jurassic, looking at their physical adaptations, ecology, and what we know about their lives. There’s also some juicy unpublished info I’ve gotten permission to share. For the sake of the video, I’ll define a “mega ichthyosaur” as any ichthyosaur that reached a maximum body mass of 15 tonnes or more. And for any documentary producers watching this: please highlight the Triassic more.
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That's crazy
The giga cope is real😂 No other carnivore will beat the 1 tap king
#1 gotta be alduin
If this thing is big, imagine it has a rival which may be even bigger! Also I’d imagine Monsterverse Godzilla probably fed on this giant Ichthyo as a snack during its time period.
What's with the surangulars? Why don't we find other bones from ichthyosaur jaws or skulls? (Although IIRC Lomax speculated that Aust 'bone shafts' might be premaxilla).
These things are even more insane than I imagined!
Great vid!!
Dinosaurs: When natured needed to take a chill pill and calm down.
As I always say, Ichthyosauruses are mosasaurs running a dolphin software with a blue whale main frame.
Kindly, let me get this right, you evolutionists deny thermodynamics, that’s the first requirement, tweek it, then tell me that entropy has nothing to do with evolution and the rapid flourishing of life in that few yrs between pre Cambrian and Cambrian periods.. and this premordial soup ..where is it located? Smh
Ichthyosaurs are quite underrated in my opinion. These specimens are proof that there were other predators besides the more famous ones, like mosasaurs, that could rival them in size and power.
Rival? More like surpassing them at times.
These things have got to be about the scariest critters nature ever concocted…that we know of…real life monsters
ichyotitan fans tap in
The ocean is still "glitched", my man forgetting about whales and especially the mighty largest animal of all time which can weight over 270 tonnes, the blue whale
Love your videos, pls do could megalodon survive the Triassic seas.
Bissekty Giant is probably a Megaraptoran
yes about time! Im just sick of people saying that megalodon was the biggest sea predator of the past. I just love representatives from the dinosaurs age
Imagine being transported back in time to the Triassic in the middle of the ocean and seeing a huge ichthyosaur coming right at you...only for a far larger one to surface, grab it in its jaws, and drag it to the depths. There's always a bigger fish.
This was awesome!!!!
I could imagine a drunk blue whale drowning his sorrows because he lost the title of the biggest animal to have ever lived on earth To a big lizard 😂😂
Im gonna still say the hectors icthyosaur is a cannon marine reptile.
you'd think people who study these things could actually use more common sense with scaling these creatuers up but half the time you guys are circle jerking some estimate that is super off in 5 years time
The people who are studying these ichthyosaurs are using the most common sense available. According to the information scientists have, these animals did get this big. I don't know what you would propose the alternative to be. And sure, there might be a lot of sensationalism around these creatures, and sure, their size estimates are a bit finnicky especially for the largest like ichthyotitan, but vividen is presenting the most up to date info. I don't know what kind of circle jerking you're even trying to describe here.
@@rh_4m your average paleo community circle jerk, the same trends you bash in the early 2000s like giganotosaurus's sizing are the exact ones that occur now even with more 'accurate' methods. Its yap fest of going back to square one. Essentially meaningless and the other half of paleo fans are just closet scalies with bad deviantart accounts. Your community
Paleontologists digging up a fossil: Holy shit that’s 3 Jerrys long!
Surely there are some who survived
Im so uncomfortable thinking when there’s a massive sauropod lost to time because none of their bones fossilized.