The Evolution of Sauropods

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Komentáře • 482

  • @dinohall2595
    @dinohall2595 Před rokem +560

    It's crazy how the sauropod group containing the biggest animals to ever walk on land (the titanosaurs) also had Magyarosaurus, which was only the size of a cow, and lived at the same time as the other giant titanosaurs like Alamosaurus (right before the big extinction at the end of the Cretaceous). It makes my brain happy thinking of a "mini" sauropod.

    • @thehiddencryptid
      @thehiddencryptid Před rokem +38

      Ah the wonders of tiny islands

    • @invisiblejaguar1
      @invisiblejaguar1 Před rokem +22

      A tiny giant

    • @genghiskhan6809
      @genghiskhan6809 Před rokem +28

      It’s also crazy to me how we could’ve had cow size elephants in the modern day if humans hadn’t hunted or exported them to extinction (Mediterranean and Southeast Asian Island elephants).

    • @farhanatashiga3721
      @farhanatashiga3721 Před rokem +16

      Hateg island is an underrated oddity of the Cretaceous

    • @ekszentrik
      @ekszentrik Před rokem +1

      Still would absolutely mog the biggest Mammalian predator of today.

  • @raynelaroux1547
    @raynelaroux1547 Před rokem +98

    Love how you got so excited about the fossil at the Natural History Museum and then with a throat clearing your back to the video. It's great to see some personality in your video than just all facts

    • @weasele1
      @weasele1 Před rokem +1

      was this at the musium in NEW YORK ? to bad im in floruduh

    • @johnchao2422
      @johnchao2422 Před rokem

      Yeah which natural history museum is it??

    • @GosarX
      @GosarX Před 5 dny

      i liked your comment before i got to that part just because i agreed that its nice to see our youtubers personalities shine in here and there! but i def felt his energy! i had the same when i first went to the denver museum when i was younger than 10. and seeing those replication skeletons in person really makes you feel something. i grew up in phoenix and people always said, "i seen pics of the grand canyon, im good" nah you need to go there at least once in person to truly appreciate it, one of those "pics dont do it justice" things

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate Před rokem +449

    it's crazy to think these behemoths started out as small, carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs that looked like Velociraptors.

    • @user-pakshibhithi10
      @user-pakshibhithi10 Před rokem +61

      They started out as omnivorous.

    • @raylopez99
      @raylopez99 Před rokem +31

      It's also crazy that these beasts, weighing up to 100 tons, about half the size of the largest animal ever to live (today's blue whale), had brains and intelligence about the same as a chicken, sometimes literally, and sometimes in proportion to their body mass.

    • @fabrizioart1928
      @fabrizioart1928 Před rokem +72

      ​@@raylopez99 just pointing out that chicken are not exactly as dumb as pop culture drilled into us tho.

    • @mhdfrb9971
      @mhdfrb9971 Před rokem +4

      They started as Omnivores

    • @franciscozapata7625
      @franciscozapata7625 Před rokem +12

      But velociraptors had complex feathers and wings, the early sauropomorphs barely had protofeathers

  • @kingdaniel5060
    @kingdaniel5060 Před rokem +57

    Imagine all the little dinosaurs that probably lived their lives on sauropods that we will never know existed

  • @fireraid2336
    @fireraid2336 Před rokem +112

    The largest land species to once walk the land. Probably hitting the limits on how far a land species can get so big while still being sustainable.

    • @kpoper4lyf269
      @kpoper4lyf269 Před rokem +7

      Also things grew to massive sizes due to the O² levels being much higher than they are today.

    • @gojizard704
      @gojizard704 Před rokem +5

      Dude. Your thinking of insects

    • @joema500
      @joema500 Před rokem +17

      @@kpoper4lyf269 False, that applies more so to the giant insects of the carboniferous.

    • @curious5887
      @curious5887 Před rokem +1

      @@kpoper4lyf269 nope

    • @TheProfyx
      @TheProfyx Před rokem +1

      they would probably evolve even further and rule the world even nowadays.

  • @reign9093
    @reign9093 Před rokem +18

    I felt that little tangent at the end there on a personal level, dinosaurs never cease to ignite that childlike wonder and awe that overwhelms me in the best way

  • @dillon26
    @dillon26 Před rokem +127

    Dude, your first dinosaur video and easily one of your best videos period. So happy you’re expanding out into other organisms!

  • @adamkidman
    @adamkidman Před rokem +30

    A separate video on titanosaurs? YES PLEASE 🤩

  • @mickhack8034
    @mickhack8034 Před rokem +67

    I sometimes wonder how long it would take for a Argentinosaurus to walk past you.. that sounds weird but just imagine standing there, the earth thundering underneath you as that thing stomps forward. It couldnt have been very fast right

    • @ongong5496
      @ongong5496 Před rokem +22

      Imagine how much longer to stop hearing/feeling it's footsteps 😮‍💨 a whole herd of them prolly feels like the rumbling from aot

    • @realdaggerman105
      @realdaggerman105 Před rokem +12

      I mean, they’d be relatively fast right? Big ol steps.

    • @TellEmB290
      @TellEmB290 Před rokem +13

      @@realdaggerman105 They may only have been able to move one leg forward at a time though due to their size and weight
      ...I believe they’ve also found evidence of sometimes multiple dinosaurs and other small animals drowning in mud churned up by sauropod footprints

    • @kyrab7914
      @kyrab7914 Před rokem +1

      Sauropod crossing 🚸 😂

  • @EChacon
    @EChacon Před rokem +43

    Alright now onto our first Dinosaur Evolution video centering on Sauropods.
    Hope you do an evolution on the Theropod dinosaurs, the Ceratopsians, Mosasaurs, Turtles, the Stegosaurus, the Pterosaurs and the Birds.

    • @duder7396
      @duder7396 Před rokem

      Not to be that guy but I hope you’re aware that 3 of those groups are not dinosaurs

    • @EChacon
      @EChacon Před rokem

      @@duder7396 I didn’t say that these 3 groups (e.g. Mosasaurs, Pterosaurs, Turtles) are Dinosaurs I just want him to cover them, you didn’t have to sound like a dick.

    • @joema500
      @joema500 Před rokem +1

      @@duder7396 He didn't even say that they were? 🤣🤣

  • @MultiDudeman
    @MultiDudeman Před rokem +10

    😂 loved how crazy excited u were about that skeleton at the museum, heck I would be too, great video

  • @biggnesss7192
    @biggnesss7192 Před rokem +12

    Nigersaurus is my favourite dinosaur for no particular reason I just like it.

    • @macmaczee3485
      @macmaczee3485 Před rokem

      dark humor mfs when i commit SA hate crime or their babies 😨.

    • @biggnesss7192
      @biggnesss7192 Před rokem +4

      @Empty Glass this is the best reply I've ever seen.

  • @jaycejones4928
    @jaycejones4928 Před rokem +28

    You should absolutely do more videos about Mesozoic life. This was a treat

  • @Nora-vv9fz
    @Nora-vv9fz Před rokem +8

    That rant about the sauropod you saw in a museum was funny as hell, please do more of that shit.

  • @v0rtvixen
    @v0rtvixen Před rokem +16

    As a biology student I really love your channel- would love to see more videos on the evolution of extinct animals! There is an near endless supply to choose from. I would suggest gorgonopsids or cephalopods but thats just my bias 😁

  • @vice.nor.virtue
    @vice.nor.virtue Před rokem +19

    Your enthusiasm over the massive Patagotitan you saw in the museum was a thing of beauty. It was a really enjoyable video overall, however it was this expression of joy towards something so marvellous that you earned yourself a like and a sub. 🎉
    Also!! The memes were good. Mr Crabs doing bench presses are the cherry on the cake. 🎂

  • @Charlie._.Niron22
    @Charlie._.Niron22 Před rokem +4

    A video about my favourite group of Dinosaurs?!?
    Sweetness 😊

  • @Gigazilla-pm2on
    @Gigazilla-pm2on Před rokem +8

    All right here we go our first dinosaur evolution video

  • @georget4141
    @georget4141 Před 8 měsíci +1

    i have to say that you’re by far the funniest and most entertaining paleo youtuber. the rest are out here making dumb jokes for toddlers the whole time. you’re just actually funny in a really deadpan way

  • @walterfechter8080
    @walterfechter8080 Před rokem +3

    When I was a kid, I told my first grade teacher that I had an invisible brontosaurus in my family's barn. I also mentioned that the hay within our barn kept disappearing. I owed that to the bronto munching on the hay bales. I never mentioned to my teacher that local farmers would use our barn to store hay for them to take away anytime they needed it. One of my all-time favorite fictional dinos was the brachiosaur-like radioactive monster in "The Giant Behemoth" (1959). I've loved brachiosaurs ever since. Thanks, Animal Origins, for this very informative video on my favorite dinosaurs.

  • @dinomation
    @dinomation Před rokem +5

    Glad to see your talking about my favorite dinosaurs and explaining their history!

  • @Sarafimm2
    @Sarafimm2 Před rokem +17

    They just recently found out through scanning the neck bone fossils that they may be hollow like bird bones and stacked in such a way like puzzle pieces to balance those super long necks.

  • @Gamerafighter76
    @Gamerafighter76 Před rokem +4

    Sauropods 🦕 are some of my favorite dinosaurs because of how big they are; their size is really something to behold. Also, that’s so cool with that fossil in the museum. Also, big congrats on this being your first dinosaur video.

  • @Joemama-cd1zg
    @Joemama-cd1zg Před rokem +2

    Babe wake up animal origins just posted

  • @ilyaslebleu1947
    @ilyaslebleu1947 Před rokem +5

    Small detail: the prosauropods were in fact not the only giants of the Triassic, having to contend with huge dicynodonts like Lisowicia - weighing as much as an elephant, and surprisingly closer to us than to dinosaurs! It is only when dicynodonts went extinct at the end of the Triassic that prosauropods and then sauropods became truly uncontested in size

  • @fredwood1490
    @fredwood1490 Před rokem +13

    I absolutely LOVE the way those impossible names just float off your tongue like music! I've watched Dinosaurs change since my days in grade school, back in the 1950s, sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much, but several things remain unchanged, for me: I wonder what they tasted like and, can you imagine the enormous piles of poop where ever those puppies went!? Must have been Heaven for whatever kind of Scarab beetle lived back then, not to mention the Monkey Puzzle trees.

    • @wolfie1703
      @wolfie1703 Před rokem

      I think scientists tried to figure out what a t rex tasted like a bit ago. Look up "what would a t rex taste like"

  • @RishiRose_
    @RishiRose_ Před rokem +1

    I love how at some point the narrator gets super excited then goes back to talking like normal after a cough like nothing happened.

  • @TheFoshaMan
    @TheFoshaMan Před rokem +2

    Welp, gotta say, this was a great video, glad to have you back my guy

  • @recreantjournals6723
    @recreantjournals6723 Před rokem +4

    Littlefoot mother didn't make me fall in love with sauropods for nothing . This however was informing . Great content love this channel .

  • @sarahlynn4798
    @sarahlynn4798 Před rokem +2

    I love sauropods. Easily my favorite dinosaur clade. Thanks for the in-depth video!

  • @SeamusGould-le2td
    @SeamusGould-le2td Před rokem +1

    This guy keeps upping his game. Good job animal origins!

  • @johnhanover2229
    @johnhanover2229 Před rokem +3

    Over at Dinosaur National Park ( straddles Colorado and Utah ) there is a partially excavated skull of a Camarasaurus. It is almost the size of a Smart Car, which blows your mind knowing that that was the smallest feature on it. Thermopolis, Wyoming has built a two story building to house the juvenile Diplodocus they found there.

  • @mckinleyt98
    @mckinleyt98 Před rokem +1

    how you felt about that giant fossil is so relatable i think i would cry if i saw it in person

  • @spaceman5996
    @spaceman5996 Před 5 měsíci

    Man the number of different Dinosaurs sure has grown since I first got interested in them back in the 1960's.

  • @Purealienstar
    @Purealienstar Před rokem

    Just found this channel and I LOVE it

  • @johnnijenhuis2296
    @johnnijenhuis2296 Před rokem

    Amazing video as always!

  • @edwardmungai9954
    @edwardmungai9954 Před rokem +4

    Where do the beautiful dinosaur names come from ¿

  • @bibia666
    @bibia666 Před rokem +1

    Great vid, great channel.
    We want more.
    Just remembered not to talk too fast😉.., good stories like these deserve time to be heard and seen by everyone on this planet, non natural english speaking people too.
    Thanks for the uploads and greetings bibia.

  • @siddsen95
    @siddsen95 Před 6 měsíci

    Few things bring as much joy as seeing a zoologist geek out about their favorite dinosaur.

  • @martakeczek6476
    @martakeczek6476 Před rokem +3

    Wow, if not your video, I would have not known of Eoraptor reclassification into sauropodomorhps!
    Reclassification goes almost always under a radar, articles and Twitter posts share almost always
    info about new species or new study about lifestyle or anatomy, I almost never see something
    about reclassification.
    Where did you got an info about Efraasia's cheeks?
    Btw, wonderful video. Very well done on informative side.

  • @TheGBZard
    @TheGBZard Před 11 měsíci +1

    My favorite dinosaur is brachiosaurus too. i always find it cool when youtubers I watch share similar favorite things with me. Also the scene in walking with dinosaurs with the dinosaur is really cool

  • @thisissostupidqsdfva
    @thisissostupidqsdfva Před rokem +2

    Love 10:27
    How I imagine these majestic creatures really looked like on the horizon. Sad they have been extinct for over 60m years. Still, they are able to be appreciated by you and me thanks to science and the curiosity of our species. Sad, yet a beautiful thought. Cheers

  • @edvardskalva
    @edvardskalva Před rokem

    this channel is amazing

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 Před rokem

    Sick post, thanks for sharing Big Dog.

  • @EvilSnips
    @EvilSnips Před rokem +1

    So excited to see you do a dinosaur video! I'd love to see the evolution of any other Meoozoic or Pre-Mesozoic creatures!

  • @wesleywatson2009
    @wesleywatson2009 Před rokem +1

    The humor in this video was PEAK 🦕 🦕 🦕

  • @davidlange1000
    @davidlange1000 Před rokem

    Fascinating video my dude

  • @reneeglover4819
    @reneeglover4819 Před rokem

    Best sauropod video ever!❤

  • @nourmasalkhi9004
    @nourmasalkhi9004 Před rokem +1

    Do it. A whole video on Titanosaurians is what we want.

  • @fabuloussloth8670
    @fabuloussloth8670 Před 4 měsíci

    This is really interesting! As a kid, I never thought about how they appeared. 😅

  • @Strykenine
    @Strykenine Před rokem +1

    From dropping dino facts to casually roasting reddit mods. Good stuff.

  • @OmegaWolf747
    @OmegaWolf747 Před rokem +2

    I guess the secret of sauoropods being able to achieve such a huge size and still stand on land is their hollow, air-filled bones. They probably weighed about half what people thought they did when they thought the bones were solid.

  • @gertballyhead
    @gertballyhead Před rokem

    informative and hilarious. great job

  • @violetlight1548
    @violetlight1548 Před rokem

    Brachiosaurus is my favourite too. Thanks for sharing!

  • @medmcmedmc
    @medmcmedmc Před rokem +3

    Cool stuff

  • @eacalvert
    @eacalvert Před rokem

    Dude that display at the museum sounds amazing!!!!!!

  • @Dionaea_floridensis
    @Dionaea_floridensis Před rokem +4

    My boys!!

  • @Fede_99
    @Fede_99 Před rokem +6

    Hi, I would like to gave you some corrections regarding this video:
    - Prosauropods is an obsolete term, it has been replaced by "non sauropod sauropodomorphs".
    - It's Antetonitrus, not Antenotritus, a very cool name, it means before the thunder.
    - Spinophorosaurus didn't have a spiked club, only Shunosaurus had it, and also Mamenchisaurus even if it was very small.
    - No, numerous studies showed that Diplodocus and other long tailed sauropod couldn't use their tails for defense, it was too thin to be an effective weapon and the bones would've easily broke. It has been hypothesized that it could've had some communication purpose.
    - It's not sure Alamosaurus shared its environment with T. rex, they come from different formation, but there are fossils of an undescribed Tyrannosaurid from the same formation of Alamosaurus, which may be T. rex or a close relative.
    Hope this could help and good luck for your future videos.

  • @jacquelinethorpe8510
    @jacquelinethorpe8510 Před 4 měsíci

    We went to see patagotitan at the Natural History Museum in London. So cool. And once we got over the size of it, we had fun playing with the sauropod fart button.

  • @antonioferrari241
    @antonioferrari241 Před rokem +5

    Sauropods in media: Biggests punching bags in history, just there to show how powerful carnivorous dinosaurs were.
    Sauropods in reality:
    Brontosaurus: Excuse me sir. You’re just in time for the event.
    Allosaurus: What event?
    Brontosaurus: *W E I N E R C O M P R E S S I O N D A Y*
    Allosaurus: What the fu-

    • @SWOTHDRA
      @SWOTHDRA Před rokem

      Bruh, ephanterias amplexus ate those for breakfast. The ancestor to ths giganotosauridae, rules the jurassic, not the big al variant or what I call allosaurus minus

  • @Chaotic-warp
    @Chaotic-warp Před rokem +1

    6:38 Surprisingly accurate

  • @invisiblejaguar1
    @invisiblejaguar1 Před rokem +1

    That description on the titanosaur skeleton... you had me imagining it (which I'm sure doesn't do it justice) and I just... I can't... I understand the science of why sauropods got so huge, but I still can't and never will be able to get my head around them.

  • @v0rtvixen
    @v0rtvixen Před rokem +1

    Wow this is crazy! Never thought that sauropod ancestors would look like theropods! Really fascinating

    • @mhdfrb9971
      @mhdfrb9971 Před rokem +1

      Sauropods are closer to theropods than to the Ornithischians

  • @obibraxton2232
    @obibraxton2232 Před rokem +1

    Yay more dinosaur videos please can you do the Chasmosaurus and related next ?

  • @obibraxton2232
    @obibraxton2232 Před rokem +1

    12:05 woah I thought you were a laidback book worm nerd 😂 the BRO in you really came out 😳🫣🤣

  • @bnwstudios9040
    @bnwstudios9040 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Since you've touched your feet onto dinosaur evolution, I would like to learn the evolution of Pachycephalosaurids. They're one of my favorite groups in dinosaurs and I generally wanna learn how they got their iconic domed-heads

  • @freddie6307
    @freddie6307 Před 5 měsíci

    this is one of the best natural history channels on yt. you're funny as fuck while also being informative. keep it up dude 👌🏼

  • @AnonymousTranquility
    @AnonymousTranquility Před rokem

    I’m using this video to study for a dinosaur exam, thanks for the vid dude. You should cover the history of the ornithopod dinosaurs.

  • @bentramer682
    @bentramer682 Před měsícem

    Evolution of Ankylosaurs would be a cool video

  • @jonathanhernandez8853

    Lol i love that hype when u were talking about ur museum trip

  • @untitledpornstar5530
    @untitledpornstar5530 Před rokem

    Amazing video

  • @wildlife8975
    @wildlife8975 Před rokem +3

    Could you do an evolution of lemurs/prosimians vid? I know there's one for monkeys but prosimians would be great to see too

  • @peterhaag5225
    @peterhaag5225 Před rokem

    One of my favorite features of the carnegie nature history museum is that you can see diplodocus and apatosaurus from the stacks in the library next door

  • @jamesivie5717
    @jamesivie5717 Před rokem

    Excellent!

  • @LimeyLassen
    @LimeyLassen Před rokem +9

    I wonder if they really reached the size limit. The asteroid killed them off, so we'll never know if they could have gotten even bigger.

    • @rplanet_ua
      @rplanet_ua Před rokem

      They didn't die out because of the meteorite, they just evolved into birds because of climate change.

  • @fgialcgorge7392
    @fgialcgorge7392 Před rokem

    Nice! More!

  • @gattycroc8073
    @gattycroc8073 Před rokem +2

    next do a video about Notosuchia.

  • @MegaWunna
    @MegaWunna Před rokem +1

    My favorite dinosaur is either Agentinosarus or Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. Both of them are estimated to have weighed over 50 metric tonnes

  • @citrus5797
    @citrus5797 Před 10 měsíci +2

    I love sauropods :)

  • @LesTua
    @LesTua Před rokem +4

    That's probably why Fred Flintstone and crew used them in their construction job's... 🤔

  • @CJ-du3wm
    @CJ-du3wm Před rokem

    blew my mind. I literally grew up thinking Eoraptor was an early theropod.

  • @theimaginarium
    @theimaginarium Před 9 měsíci

    You should do a video on the Bruhathkayosaurus--possibly the largest sauropod ever discovered at up to 190 tons.

  • @cro-magnoncarol4017
    @cro-magnoncarol4017 Před rokem +4

    Even as a Ceratopsian guy, I have to admit Sauropods where awesome.

  • @jamesrussell7760
    @jamesrussell7760 Před rokem +1

    I agree how cool it would be to witness these giants in real life. But, of course, being wary of those tail whips. A herd of them must have shaken the ground as they walked past. And I wonder what their calls sounded like.

  • @olir6910
    @olir6910 Před 11 měsíci

    That was cool

  • @KL-hr2kj
    @KL-hr2kj Před rokem

    Actually, every science class ever should be exactly like this

  • @SepiaChild
    @SepiaChild Před rokem +4

    Sauropods show similar evolutionary trend to Plesiosaurs and
    Theropods show similar evolutionary trend to Pliosaurs

    • @tjarkschweizer
      @tjarkschweizer Před rokem

      Small problem with your analogy. Pliosaurs are Plesiosaurs.

    • @SepiaChild
      @SepiaChild Před rokem +2

      @@tjarkschweizer and theropods share a common ancestor with sauropods

    • @tjarkschweizer
      @tjarkschweizer Před rokem

      @@SepiaChild That's different. Theropods aren't sauropods but pliosaurs are plesiosaurs.

    • @SepiaChild
      @SepiaChild Před rokem +2

      @@tjarkschweizer so i never said that long neck Plesiosaurs aren't large head Pliosaurs

  • @bigmike4758
    @bigmike4758 Před rokem

    4:25 what book is in from? I think I read it when I was a kid.

  • @Andy_Babb
    @Andy_Babb Před 4 měsíci

    I’ve always wondered how evolution would have changed for everything, including us, had the dinosaurs never gone extinct.

  • @peterrabbit2965
    @peterrabbit2965 Před rokem +1

    Science should serve to make things as cool as possible: total agreement from me.

  • @HeliumQueen
    @HeliumQueen Před rokem +1

    That Reddit moderator joke had me dying lmao

  • @MrEmilable
    @MrEmilable Před rokem

    sounds like you should cover more dinosaurs

  • @kwgm8578
    @kwgm8578 Před rokem

    With that severe overbite, Sauropods didn't smile much.

  • @shelbymessenbird9279
    @shelbymessenbird9279 Před rokem

    You should definitely make more dino vids

  • @matthewtyppo5727
    @matthewtyppo5727 Před rokem +1

    Would be cool to see another group from this time that still are alive today get an evolution the crocodiles

  • @corbydaniel4256
    @corbydaniel4256 Před rokem +1

    I've seen that same skeleton at the Natural History Museum and felt exactly the same way. I walked the length of it like 4 times and took way too many pictures.

  • @shinix2581
    @shinix2581 Před rokem

    3:16 what was the name of thar documentary?

  • @reeyees50
    @reeyees50 Před rokem +1

    6:40 🔥

  • @bennettssciencechannel2563

    YES I LOVE SAUROPODS

  • @KhanMann66
    @KhanMann66 Před rokem

    Yo you should do Tyrannosaurs next. They have just a complex evolution just like Sauropods.