Extinct & Enormous: The Massive Marsupials of Australia
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- čas přidán 18. 02. 2018
- This week, we'll be exploring the rise and fall of the incredible megafauna that used to roam Australia; from 3m tall kangaroos to giant wombats. We'll discover how just one species of small marsupial evolved and radiated to create an ecosystem of giants.
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Here after, Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens.
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For anyone wondering where I am; these two videos I made opened up an incredible opportunity for me which has been taking up all of my free time for almost a year now. But I've not forgotten Nature Atlas; I'm really keen to make a comeback so please hang around. It will all be worth it! Thanks guys x
Hell yeah, man can't wait!
Bring it on. Just fell in love with both your videos. If you can also give an understanding of the direction of march of first humans on these new lands and some fossil records that show an extinction sweep of sorts, correlating with the landing and then deeper incursions of us, it'll be helpful.
@@vibhupande The Journey of Man/A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells and SBS Australia DNA Nation with Ernie Dingo , Ian Thorpe and Julia Zemiro. Will help you with the first humans march.
Wasn't the marsupial lion called a thylacoleo
so the marsupial lion had a bite force on par with modern Jaguars. Jaguars pound for pound are almost twice as strong as the lions
For someone who's fascinated about paleontology it's nice to see a new paleo related channels like yours. youtube needs more paleontology related channels like you.
I know this is an old video, but I just want to mention that Thylacoleo was heaps bigger than leopards. Leopards may occasionally get close to 100kg but the biggest marsupial lions could exceed 160kg, it's probably more accurate to compare them to a chunky jaguar.
There used to be Carnivorous Kangaroos...... Imagine that!!!
Megalania was a lizard Bigger than the komodo.......
There used to be Terrestrial Crocodiles in Australia and more!!! A Marsupial Lion etc. It's amazing!!!
Humans have extinct this animals humans are evil
@@infinitygaming7192 yeah, human is the main reason when the animal lived way far before human exist. You are a genius i cant believe it!
@@yuryv.2188 i am not genius i have read it in a book know as sapiens and i was curious about these animals thats why search it in google
@Captain Cook humans not animal you dumbdumb
@General William T. Sherman i"m not animal maybe you are asshole
Interesting choice of the highly specialized (and placental) aardvark as the image profile for a generalist marsupial...
I found that funny too xD
The Creator is special,Halleluyah.
Aboriginees saw them!! Australia had the weirdest animals wierd is cool.
And aboriginals ended them talk about power no human currently could hunt them btw the aboriginals were 6ft and over
@@iwaidja1482 // btw the aboriginals were 6ft and over// citation needed.
We still have some very weird animals here, like the marsupial mole for example.
@@iwaidja1482 Mammoths in Europe and North America were much larger, and yet humans hunted them?
Aboriginals are not on average 6ft tall, where the hell are you getting this from?
The aboriginals also killed most of our megafauna and single handedly caused desertification in most of Australia.
I just want boop diprotodon's nose.
Dafaq!
*boops* your nose
Interestingly the oldest marsupial fossils were found in North America so although Australia is now the land of marsupials, North America is their original homeland.
What about fossils that got destroyed etc no one really knows the truth , that’s why new discoveries are constantly changing what we think is “fact”
@@percnowitzki1724 so until they find something else? The original comment is still true
It was South America, get your facts right.
@@ermacdoesnotexist There's some evidence that North America has the oldest marsupial, it's not conclusive though the fossil is just small fragments.
@@greathornedowl1783 interesting
Great videos, I love your channel. Looking forward to more!
Good content
Good stuff. Keep up the good work
Man I love learning stuff like this. It reminds me of Pokémon in so many ways, they must have been inspired from prehistoric life
Like key chain and pile of sludge
@@annedrieck7316 well yea it’s a cartoon some of the Pokémon are ridiculous to look at. But it does add a bit of realism; pokemon having the ability to evolve much like the dinosaurs.
I don’t like the idea of a kangaroo walking like a human. Not that I disagree with the study, just that picturing it in my head leaves a cursed image. Almost as cursed as becoming your 666th subscriber.
3 legs tripod walking
Evilution is a big fat lie and a crime against sensible thinking.Our loving Creator gave us all life ! Halleluyah! So be it.
@@markdemell3717 stfu
@@markdemell3717 yes, please do stfu.
great video - a good summary for students and integrates both evolutionary concepts and ecological concepts
Great video. I look forward to seeing more of your content 👍🏼
I don’t believe humans could have wiped out so many species with primitive tools. The environment (weather and habitat) probably played the primary role.
It’s a trend to blame all climate change or extinctions on humans when 45,000-3,000 years ago the Earths climate was changing sporadically. About 20k years ago all of Europe and most of Asia would have looked like the African Savannah with grasslands stretching from Iberia to the Pacific coasts of Russia. All the way up to 2k years ago most of Northern Africa was very lush and tropical.
Homo Sapiens have been around for a long time but it would have taken 10-20x more humans around the world to have killed off all of those megafauna. Killing a single mammoth during the ice age was a team effort and would be extremely dangerous to do alone.
Not saying man hasn’t killed enough species but it’s several shots in the dark to blame it all on man when there’s plenty of evidence to show otherwise.
"They found Sporormiella spores, which grow in herbivore dung, virtually disappeared around 41,000 years ago, a time when no known climate transformation was taking place. At the same time, the incidence of fire increased, as shown by a steep rise in charcoal fragments. It appears that humans, who arrived in Australia around this time, hunted the megafauna to extinction".
Maybe that's why the aboriginals feel a strong connection to the land and its flora and fauna? cause they wiped most of it out and burnt the country to a crisp.
If procoptadon still it may evolve the human niche in Australia
Can't wait for more!
Don’t forget Australia and New Guinea were one continent back then know as Sahul or Greater Australia so they also shared a lot of mega funa such as the diprotodon.
Of the hypotheses relative to the disappearance of the Australian megafauna, the most compelling based on circumstance has to be the introduction of man into this realised hunting paradise with these magnificent enormous creatures regarding us with curiosity, while we regarded them as food. It's also the saddest hypothesis. But equally, there is nothing at all adversely reflective of the Koori (indigenous Australians) people if that was the case. We are predators, they were prey, that is literally the nature of things.
How about change of vegetation. Not enough food to feed such magnificent beasts as a result of drying out of continents.
@@iggytull624 which indigenous Australians burned as part of surving in open prairie.
Mate yu need to broaden yur research and yor thinking, just a smidgen of critical thinking and research and yu will find human predation is a blatant falsehood.
@jmaxg
I think you have your countries wrong
Indigenous Australians are Aboriginal, Torres strait Islander or just Australians, the Koori I believe is for indigenous peoples of new Zealand
@@jasperbrown4238 Sorry mate. The term "Koori" is specific to the indigenous peoples of Australia and the Torres Straight Islands - more particularly to the indigenous peoples of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) on the Australian mainland. It was adopted by all indigenous languages and modified to mean "our people".
With respect to New Zealand, I think you are referring to the "Maori".
Solid work mate. We need more content
Awesome video!!!! Great video!! Wow im subbing and supporting.
This is the best video on marsupials i've watched and btw I've watched a lot of videos.thnx for the the video.really wish there's more of this kind of videos on other topics
Keep making more videos like this!
Just last week I got to explore the caves where a lot of these megafauna were discovered and where they’re still digging up and studying fossils, it was so interesting but one of the caves I wanted to explore I was told “no sorry it’s no longer safe” one of the people studying the fossils later told me that it’s actually because they have just discovered something major in that cave so they’ve temporarily closed it off to the public to study it more but couldn’t tell me what, she said that they will be making an announcement on the news in the next few months, also another One of the caves I did explore was so creepy and almost felt haunted, as though a thousand eyes were watching me
Interesting. Where was the dig. I'd be interested in reading up on it.
I think there is a lot of stuff yet to be published, that if they released it would turn the whole archeological world on its ear, and totally refute much that has been theorized up to now, and which has been written up as fact.
The indigenous australian is the missing link to a lost civilization, and may well hold the key to the origins of mankind.
What was it?
Really interesting tale. The giant mammals of the past 200 thousand years or so are such a facinating bunch. I saw a Lestadon skeleton in the NY Museum of Natural history the other day. So cool! Also recently saw a Manta Ray photo from 1933, 5k lbs, I don't think we have them that big anymore
1933 was only like 90 years ago… not evolutionarily significant.
That manta was probably just a record-setter. The largest of a large species, yknow?
@@apexyl5135 he’s saying humans contributed to decline of the population of giant manta rays
I find these incredibly interesting!
AMaazinggg!!!! Really well done, helped a lot in my studies!!!!
Must ask - are you using an image of an aardvark intentionally (because why the hell not?) or confusing it for an image of an opossum-like animal?
Excellent
very informative and visually appealing!
Why isn't Thylacoleo not considered Megafauna? The definition of Megafauna is that they are "large animals that exceed 100 lbs in weight" and with Thylacoleo weighing between 223 - 373 lbs it certainly meets that requirement!
yeah, it was the size of a bloody African lioness.......
The largest specimens topped out around 300 pounds, not close to 400 pounds.
@@Ispeakthetruthify Note the date the original comment was made, back then the largest estimates were 350+ lbs before more recent data lowered the estimate. Even then however Thylacoleo was still megafauna sized and should have been included.
You deserve more subs.
I believe the extinction of the larger slow herbivorous spelled the end to the marsupial lion since they were not fast predators.
Very good video!
The Megalania was literally just a crocodile sized komodo.... That would probably be the most terrifying animal to ever exist if we didn't know about dinosaurs and what used to swim in the oceans and such. And I mean considering Komodo's already give crocs a run for their money in the power category anyway one could only imagine how insanely strong that thing must've been.
Okay... literally already knew all of this but go off
When animals get so huge, you know they're trying to outgrow some terrifying predator.
Wow.. Awesome
SKIP to 4:26 for the list to actually start!
Thanks
Great channel
Oh wow. I am reading Sapiens right now and stumbled here and this video is amazing!
This makes me wonder what lived in Australia before the marsupials arrived.
Dr.Bright australia was a giant rain forest
like most of the world at the time
@@binozia-old-2031 That doesn't tell me what lived in Australia before the marsupials showed up. I wonder if monotremes were dominant?
Dr.Bright you may be referring to before the asteroid impact.
@@HoundofOdin
Dinosaurs, birds, monotremes and monotreme like mammals.
Humans arrived at least ten thousand years before large marsupials were extinct.
They didn't all suddenly go extinct, but they went extinct over a few thousand years of continuous human hunting. If humans are going to arrive to a new continent, do you think the animals are all going to go extinct in a single day? No, it will take time.
Sarban still less then a thousand humans existed ,one mammoth would of supplied entire tribe today,like the African elephant would supply a village for a week in Africa high contains hundreds of millions of people,wouldn’t the elephant become extinct for so many people
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U don't understand... These people are 6ft + and a tribe then is far bigger than current day tribes and aboriginal tribes are linked. Climate change plays a small factor when it's teamed with all predators and off the top of my head I can think of five including humans. Btw we had a lot of tribes
Humans have been in Australia for at least 70k years and thought to be upward of 80k years. Recent archeological finds confirmed it this year I believe. Just like the Clovis first model had to be thrown out due to the human steps found in white sands that date to 25kya.
marsupial superstars
Please do the smilodon next
Don't forget also that the Aboriginals bought wild Dingoes with them into the Australia. Hunting Dogs and set them free.
That wasn't till about another 30'000 years later - though the introduction of Dingoes is thought the be the direct reason that Thylacines went extinct on the mainland.
HEY a CZcams channel called *" Extinction Blog"* makea videos on all megafauna Australian too. Go to his channel he had a video on the Giant wombat!!
How To Vegan you know extinction blog too? I just watched a video he made!
5:05 that bunyip looks exactly like a diprotodon it all makes sense now!
:( wish there were more of these videos
This fella is so good
Where has he gone
Just thought I would chime in and state, around 20 years ago I personally came very close to a large grey roo down around the Vic NSW border and it stood at least 2 metres tall, also on another location I have seen roos close to the same hight.
Do more please
I'd love to see a video of if Marsupials (especially the megafauna) were a bit more successful.
If you think this was awesome you should hear about Australia's reptiles , sealife or spiders!
Imagine scientists would discover a koala that’s about as big as a rhino, they would call it “Meganarctos gigantuim”, and discover it is too big for trees and has weak climbing muscles, leading to the common name “giant ground koala”. They would discover it could eat carrion to supplement its diet, and could stand on its hind legs to defend itself from predators like thylacoleo, quinkana and megalania. It could walk on its knuckles like ground sloths and chalicotheres. The meganarctos would be part of a different family of marsupials, called “meganarctidae” or “ground koalas”.
What are those dislikes...
JtktΘmb I'm not sure! Got them all (bar 1) within the first 5 mins of uploading, and none since, seemed really odd to me.
It look like a bot
JtktΘmb That's what it looked like! I know this is my second video but I didn't think it was that bad :p
It's an amazing video, i actually studied this subject a bit in college :)
Nature Atlas Films I found you on reddit. /r/MealTimeVideos if you wanted to know. Did you link a lot to reddit when you posted this one? I have you on alert and watched within minutes with too many dislikes. In less time than a whole watch through so I wouldn't worry since they clearly couldn't have watched.
Australia still has red kangaroos over 7ft tall, and evidence of humans in southern Australia dating back 130,000 years.
This makes me want to make a worlbuilding/specualtive evolution project anout marsupials called wakipi
Thylocene leo was more closely related to the Thylocene dog, numbats and the Tasmanian Devil than wombats and kangaroos as you said. You also didn’t mention that marsupials in Australia reached their highest level of diversity 1 million years ago, well before Aboriginal colonization, though there is a consensus that they largely wiped the megafauna who were left. Good job, enjoyed your video immensely 😊
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Possible tree wombat uses it's mouth to grip while clawing prey to death. For some reason, that theoretical behaviour is really interesting to me.
There are modern red kangaroos that are pretty close in height with the extinct procoptodon.
But definitely not in weight lol
good content, sad to see you gave up so fast.
Hey! I've far from given up. These two videos actually opened up an incredible opportunity for me which is taking up all available time but I'm hoping to get back to this soon, the feedback has been really positive!
How about making one about prehistoric crocs. I heard that there may have been one that walked on its hind legs!
Bzrrrt. There was a 60 foot ocean dweller.
@@russpearson9802 What was it called? I would like to look it up.
@@franksmoakjr9037my pop used to say never trust a man wearing a pork pie hat or a man who is named junior after his father. Yu dont call girls junior after their mother.
Now come on frank yu havent got the nouse to go google the shit. I can give yu co ordinates but, yu wont learn a bloody thing that way. Listen try doing what i do when i find something that peaks my interest.
Its real easy, go to yor browser, type in 60 foot prehistoric croc, press send, see what comes up and scroll down clicking on each entry to see what it contains.
When yu find an article that tickles yor fancy, save or download. See how easy it is frank.
Would that be postosuchus?
@@russpearson9802 Einstein, If your going to try to be a troll, at least remember that Frank is spelled with a capital F and the word "YOU" has an "O" in the middle also learn to use proper grammatical form when writing. The words "DON'T", and "HAVEN'T" are typed correctly for you here and remember that the letter "I" must be capitalized when not used in a word that is not first in a sentence. If you don't have full details of a subject, you shouldn't put it out there, and I found out that there was never a 60ft ocean going croc after all it was a Plesiosaur so that not only makes you a sorry excuse for an internet troll but also a liar.
I was always lead to understand that mega fauna were ant creature over 45kg. The bite force claims of the thylacaleo have been revised in recentvyears. I would look into that.
They did not include the meat eating kangaroo.
Oh shoot that's scary
Not bad.
POST MORE VIDEOS PLEASE
Earth atmosphere was hyperbaric. THATS why everything was gigantic- BEFORE THE FLOOD.
11:43
Modern land kangaroos and dingos: are You shure about that
Only in Aus would they refer to drop bears as lions.
It probably did originate from marsupial lions
I find it hard to believe that the number of humans in Australia would have been great enough to hunt these animals to extinction.
Of course not just marsupials but the giant reptiles that also went extinct this time the famous megalania and quinkana.
But what about the *Giant Ducks*
Convergent evolution: hummingbird vs sunbird
It’s funny they call it a “marsupial lion”. Like so many of these creatures they are just their own incomparable kind of animal gone extinct.
And they say the youtube algorithm doesn't work was just recommended this channel and its great. looking forward to you coming back.
Lo interesante es la diferencia en la dentadura entre mamíferos Y placentarios.
Dang, I am sure that giant kangaroo was able to kill some of the humans that hunted it, from the size of that thing it could kick down a human with no problem!
Also worth noting early Australian Aboriginal people would've bought the Asiatic Wolf with them, (the ancestor of the modern Dingo) which would've competed with the Marsupial Lion.
Dingos must have arrived in Australia less than 8000 years ago, after Bass Strait was inundated (hence why they never made it to Tasmania). Marsupial lions we're already long extinct, but the arrival of the dingo probably did contribute to the mainland extinction of the Tasmanian Devil and Thylacine (which survived in isolated Tasmania).
i think that megalanias would have hunted the bigger animals like procoptodon and diprotodon while the thylacoleos would hunt the small to medium sized creatures like red kangaroos seeing as they didn't need the large animals
i realy hope they bring back this type of lion
It’s easy to blame the destruction of human from 40,000 years ago when your sitting in an air conditioning room with a fridge full of food and beers.
@Nature Atlas Films - we still have tall (nearly 2m) kangaroos, look up red kangaroos. M/F will scare the shite out of you driving down a hwy at night. Taller them your average car, and when they fright the are known to jump, so lots of unlucky ppl have had massive kangaroos half broken/dead kicking in the smashed up car cause they jumped/ smashed through your window
Procoptodon was way heavier
I wonder why a lot of creationists are commenting.
I would have loved to have a pet diprotodon
23 placental mammals disliked this video
Fantastic video, learned a ton from this.
Our Creator is a loving creator.Halleluyah!
mark demell I don’t believe in god.
@@tobyw9113 That's your problem!
mark demell stop coming to this video and responding to people with messages like this. You’re clearly here to stir shit. Then you wonder why people aren’t fans of religion...
Imagine if there is a giant koala that lived in ground, they should call it “Meganarctos Giganteus” or by common name, “Giant Ground Koala”.
It is a herbivore, but it may have eat carrion to supplement its diet. If it does, nothing gets in its way. It is too big to be on trees, this makes it defensive against the marsupial lion, the quinkana and the megalania. It went extinct because of climate change. It walks on its knuckles.
Why wasnt the thylacine mentioned.....?
Well the video was about megafauna mostly. So, you know...
Making it clear that marsupial lions are not really related to Lions "like the name suggests" is like saying
Tiger sharks are not really related to tigers *like the name suggests*
Australia,the bigger florida.
I was hoping it wasn't humans... But if course
You know the burning off of grasses would have killed other herbal plants growing in amongst grasses that animals rely on. That's what also happened to the Mammoths on the American Planes as well as over hunting. So with the climate drying and humans burning and hunting. They got starved out and eaten in the little parts of land they had left.
And my guess is if the poor things had a small breeding season , like the Tasmanian Devil they would't of had a chance. Only an hour or so on one day so the male hides her in a den with him. And usually large animals have long gestational periods of up to two years and then suckle their young for just as long , before the next.
Have you also noticed in nations that have been burnt over for thousands of years that forests and grass lands tend to become mono tone of dominant species.
"No other animals have evolved to fill these niches"
So I guess we are ignoring invaders like Dingoes?
RRW well they sort of invented a new niche. Yes they inherited the apex predator niche on the island, however they also created the pack-predator niche, one of which that wasn’t present in that environment before. They had the tree-hunter leopard like niche (marsupial lion) and the large solitary predator niche (Megalania), and the semi-aquatic predator niche (Crocodiles), Though no pack-predator niche.
Dingoes didn't arrive until 4-5 thousand years ago, so many of these large marsupials had already gone extinct by the time they arrived on the continent
@RRW - honestly? The stupidity in that post was impressive.
Andrew O'Brien exactly
So Australia never just had the most poision animals, they also had the most powerful! It's the spritual high altitude training platform!!!
Dude, everywhere we've been, animals have been extinct and ecosystems have been destroyed. We are a damn walking disaster....what a HUGE shame.....