@iTz Hell Raptor ._. so? Its still an acceptable way to say it? "They" has always been used sometimes as an interchangeable singular with "he/she", it's only lately with people getting their drawers in a knot over not wanting to be accepting of nonbinary that literally anyone has cared. Weird how the people who say they don't care about pronouns get the most upset about pronouns
@@danielled8665 , As someone who is old enough to remember when sex was binary and nothing but binary, I can speak about how the words used to be back in the BC (Before Cellular) days. He or she referred to a singular individual of the appropriate reproductive plumbing. They didn't specify gender and wasn't limited to a singular individual. English is very lacking in pronouns. We don't have you familiar singular or you familiar plural, except for thou when used in liturgical English or y'all/all y'all in Southern English.
I'm sure he would have loved to have worked with them! I almost teared up when I saw that. Steve Irwin was certainly one of a kind. May he rest in peace. ❤He's definitely one of my heroes.
@@ZeFroz3n0ne907 absolutely loved the crocodile hunter when i was a kid, always had an interest in animal stuff, living and extinct. was definitely a hero of mine as well.
I love how this channel always explains the evolutionary significance of the animals it describes, like how they were ecologically different than their close relatives or how they revealed something about the adaptation of specific clades or how they challenged previous hypotheses about prehistoric ecosystems. I doubt I'll ever find a channel which makes better videos on extinct crocodylomorphs!
Absolutely amazing video! I also had an idea on how it could have fed, I wonder if it used that big, wide head like a platypus? Swinging it side-by-side in the mud and silt and letting the electroreceptors pinpoint it's preferred food? Just a thought. I also think it could have sat under water with it's mouth open and let fish or possibly soft-shelled turtles get close and then scooped them up? Maybe even snails or whathaveyou. Just an idea that crossed my mind. Love the content you produce! Keep up the amazing work!
It might me just me, but I feel like the paleoenvironment section should have probably come a little earlier. I like to know what time period I'm in when learning about a prehistoric creature, but other than that I'm glad to have learned about this bizarre beast
I dont think, ingesting non digestible matter is much of a problem. The sand fish skink for example just passes the sand alongside its food through the intestines. And balline whales for example have a very small opening to the stomach, so if anything big ends up in their mouth, they physically can't swallow it and spit it back out.
Crocodilians can go for a long time between meals. Perhaps it relied on eel or salmon run kinds of situations where it could reliably gulp down tons of spawn or fish during a season and live off of that for the rest of the year?
The more I think about it, the more the plant eating hypothesis makes sense. Mourasuchus really looks like a duck, and specifically a shoveler - which is a duckweed specialist. Duckweed likely to be a really dominant plant in large wetland, and is very starchy for a leafy green, making it easy to digest and nutrient dense.
very cool. perhaps its skull shape maximized the amount of Integumentary sensory organs enabling it to hunt in very dark muddy waters. this fits with the idea that it hunted in shallow muddy backwaters or seasonally flooded wetlands, using its many small teeth (and perhaps a pelican pouch) to hold onto slippery prey like lungfish or eels. yum!
To me the ultra broad and flat pancake snout looks like frog feeding, reliying on stealth and oportunity and using the mandibles to catch prey and swallow whole, plus the thin snouth would allow it to stay in very shallow water possibly waiting for smaller animals to go and drink.
What's up with Miocene South America, that it had not one but several crocodilians larger than any seen today? I don't recall of any crocodilians coexisting with Deinosuchus or Sarcosuchus that were even close to that size.
Most likely niche partitioning,as mentioned in the video purussaurus was the one better built for megafauna, mourasuchus is not yet well understood, and the fish eating gryposuchus (even though this one unlike many gavialids, it has been shown of having an extraordinarily powerful bit),not to mention that the habitat specifically needed for these animals were much more abundant and helped obviously with their survival. A much more famous analogy is that of the giant theropods spinosaurus and carcharondontosaurus (also sauroniops and possibly deltadromeus)
Its habitat kinda suggests arthropod larvae and juvenile amphibians or fish being more available as a dietary staple, maybe amphipods and fairy shrimp as well if there was wide variation in local wetlands size d/t seasonal weather.
And because it was only eating small fish it probably spent a good portion of the day doing this which is probably why it stayed in water most of the time
08:50f _Another much older crocodilomorph was Anatosuchus, nicknamed the duck croc._ It's not a nickname, it's the literal translation of its Greek name.
To me it looks like the crocodile could have had a pouch or maybe not how to poach but it looks like it fed by having its head open waiting for something to come by like little minnows or smaller fish or what-have-you it probably literally stayed still camouflage waited till something swim near into it smells and just shut its mouth quickly then it probably pushed the water out through its teeth leaving the small fish or small animals trapped in its mouth it may have even possibly had a small luer on its tongue like those turtles do that look like a little worm that lure small fish in
Thanks for the video by the way it is possible to recreate stomatosuchus by mixing DNA (with most of its DNA being crocodiles and some DNA being baleen whales for its size and toothles snout with a throat pounch) creating giant filter-feeding stomatosuchus is there a chance that this will work or am i wrong(opinion)?by the way i like the topic of cloning
If you're eating by those and other things with shells you need some good hard teeth in there to be able to chew up the shells so I don't think that is an option normally animals like that have a hard group of teeth on the roof of their mouth and circle forms that crushed the shells so unless they have that then I don't think that is the case I think it's a mixture of sit and wait with the mouth open or lure and then slam shut letting the water pour out between the teeth trapping small fish and other small prey
Isn’t filter feeding the future? Animals had to evolve to filter feed so what comes after that, body filter feeding to eventually not worry about eating at all with smaller and smaller organisms. Also, aren’t the horns to protect its eyes when it swings its head back and forth and death rolling.
I am wondering what if this animal were a sea caiman? Sea level in the time when this animal live was very different then is today, eating sea food like plankton an molusc. .
They were higher, but not that high. Every formation Mourasuchus has been found in has been determined to have been freshwater environments. Indeed, alligatorids like Mourasuchus lack functional salt glands.
I'd wager it used the killer whale tactic of driving fishes to the bank of the river or gape it's mouth open as it rushed up from the river bed trapping whatever fish was swimming on the surface with its massive maw or between the dry river bank and it's gaping mouth.
Now hear me out maybe it could’ve swallowed small to medium sized animals whole filled it’s gular pouch with water drowned it’s prey the once it was said and done it would swallow it’s prey whole
Keep the narrator. They did a good job. Those are WEIRD critters - and that's what makes them fascinating. Thank you for bringing this to us.
*He
@iTz Hell Raptor ._. They is an acceptable pronoun to refer to either gender.
@@danielled8665 narrator is clearly a male.
@iTz Hell Raptor ._. so?
Its still an acceptable way to say it?
"They" has always been used sometimes as an interchangeable singular with "he/she", it's only lately with people getting their drawers in a knot over not wanting to be accepting of nonbinary that literally anyone has cared.
Weird how the people who say they don't care about pronouns get the most upset about pronouns
@@danielled8665 , As someone who is old enough to remember when sex was binary and nothing but binary, I can speak about how the words used to be back in the BC (Before Cellular) days.
He or she referred to a singular individual of the appropriate reproductive plumbing. They didn't specify gender and wasn't limited to a singular individual.
English is very lacking in pronouns. We don't have you familiar singular or you familiar plural, except for thou when used in liturgical English or y'all/all y'all in Southern English.
Damn man, seeing that graphic with Steve makes me think of how much how would love all these crocodilymorphs. Awesome video as always, thanks!
I'm sure he would have loved to have worked with them! I almost teared up when I saw that. Steve Irwin was certainly one of a kind. May he rest in peace. ❤He's definitely one of my heroes.
@@ZeFroz3n0ne907 absolutely loved the crocodile hunter when i was a kid, always had an interest in animal stuff, living and extinct. was definitely a hero of mine as well.
I love how this channel always explains the evolutionary significance of the animals it describes, like how they were ecologically different than their close relatives or how they revealed something about the adaptation of specific clades or how they challenged previous hypotheses about prehistoric ecosystems. I doubt I'll ever find a channel which makes better videos on extinct crocodylomorphs!
Awesome video! I didn't even know we used to have fiter feeding giant caimans!
Thanks for talking about my favorite!
You're welcome!
2:27 Caimans to the Capybara like "Damn I didn't know you were chill like that"
Wow. VERY interesting. Each proposed method of feeding has it problems. I'll be looking to see what else we figure out about these weird crocs
Absolutely amazing video! I also had an idea on how it could have fed, I wonder if it used that big, wide head like a platypus? Swinging it side-by-side in the mud and silt and letting the electroreceptors pinpoint it's preferred food? Just a thought. I also think it could have sat under water with it's mouth open and let fish or possibly soft-shelled turtles get close and then scooped them up? Maybe even snails or whathaveyou. Just an idea that crossed my mind. Love the content you produce! Keep up the amazing work!
gotta love more creatures being featured here
Yay a new vid
Another great video 😎 (I missed your content man, glad you are back)
It might me just me, but I feel like the paleoenvironment section should have probably come a little earlier. I like to know what time period I'm in when learning about a prehistoric creature, but other than that I'm glad to have learned about this bizarre beast
Great video, as always, with amazing artwork that just makes me want to see these in life!
🎉Yes.., a new video.., and as usual I've liked it😊..
Thanks and greetings bibia.
Great video! Very interesting to learn that all those crocodilians lived in the same place.
Heckin sick, preciate ya doin these.
Crocodylomorphs are such an amazing group. It’s too bad there aren’t any mega crocs or highly specialized crocodylomorphs left today.
The bizzare twists and turns of evolution.
Purussaurus is the coolest in my opinion
Love how they used Steve Erwin in the scale!
Steve cameo!
(I will admit that the original host’s voice holds my attention to the narration better.)
Can we call this dude a Pelicaiman? Eh? Eh? Eh?
cool video maybe make a video on purussaurus and gryposuchus.
W video fr ngl can't wait for more epic video such as these.
Also I wish yall are having a great day
2:35
Which ALSO got a downsize in the same study, albeit not as drastic.
From 10 meters, to 9 meters.
Still big as hell, but not the largest.
Thank you for the explanation.
I dont think, ingesting non digestible matter is much of a problem.
The sand fish skink for example just passes the sand alongside its food through the intestines.
And balline whales for example have a very small opening to the stomach, so if anything big ends up in their mouth, they physically can't swallow it and spit it back out.
*Balline
It's Baleen
Let’s go a new video!
Crocodilians can go for a long time between meals. Perhaps it relied on eel or salmon run kinds of situations where it could reliably gulp down tons of spawn or fish during a season and live off of that for the rest of the year?
The more I think about it, the more the plant eating hypothesis makes sense. Mourasuchus really looks like a duck, and specifically a shoveler - which is a duckweed specialist. Duckweed likely to be a really dominant plant in large wetland, and is very starchy for a leafy green, making it easy to digest and nutrient dense.
Gryposuchus & Purussaurus would be great video topics! Once you get these 2, you'll have covered all the major mega crocs
Don't forget Rhamphosuchus!
Excellent video
This is very unique because there is no caiman like this in the modern time like
such a cool animal!
If its throat poach was sizeable enough, it probably might have hunted fish like a pelikan?
very cool. perhaps its skull shape maximized the amount of Integumentary sensory organs enabling it to hunt in very dark muddy waters. this fits with the idea that it hunted in shallow muddy backwaters or seasonally flooded wetlands, using its many small teeth (and perhaps a pelican pouch) to hold onto slippery prey like lungfish or eels. yum!
Maybe its a filter feeder eating tiny planktons or krill ... Just like whales they dont need to be fast they just need wide surface area.
Liking solely for the Steve Irwin used for scale oh also the video is truly good.
Good narration
So awesome!!!!!!!!
What a mystery that how it fed! Thanks 💚
Even filter feeding seems energetic in the context of crocodilians 🐊 . 😅
cool video
To me the ultra broad and flat pancake snout looks like frog feeding, reliying on stealth and oportunity and using the mandibles to catch prey and swallow whole, plus the thin snouth would allow it to stay in very shallow water possibly waiting for smaller animals to go and drink.
What's up with Miocene South America, that it had not one but several crocodilians larger than any seen today? I don't recall of any crocodilians coexisting with Deinosuchus or Sarcosuchus that were even close to that size.
Most likely niche partitioning,as mentioned in the video purussaurus was the one better built for megafauna, mourasuchus is not yet well understood, and the fish eating gryposuchus (even though this one unlike many gavialids, it has been shown of having an extraordinarily powerful bit),not to mention that the habitat specifically needed for these animals were much more abundant and helped obviously with their survival.
A much more famous analogy is that of the giant theropods spinosaurus and carcharondontosaurus (also sauroniops and possibly deltadromeus)
Thanks, caimans are somewhat neglected when compared to other crocodilians.
Bruh.
A channel that talk of ancient animals, and focuses on crocodilians!?
Sing me in.
S. America was truly a giant island of weirdness during most of the Cenozoic
Amazing video! You probably don’t take requests but I was wondering if you could make a video about the theropod yutyrannus.
There's also the migratory caiman: Caiman went.
Love the nod to Steve Irwin
Love the video. Did we get a new Narrator?
Its habitat kinda suggests arthropod larvae and juvenile amphibians or fish being more available as a dietary staple, maybe amphipods and fairy shrimp as well if there was wide variation in local wetlands size d/t seasonal weather.
Could it potentially have evolved to hunt birds? At the water surface Or would a smalller jaw be better there.
There is always the fact that this crocodilian skull did not tolerate high amounts of stress coming from struggling animals, but who knows really
And because it was only eating small fish it probably spent a good portion of the day doing this which is probably why it stayed in water most of the time
Yep the alligator snapping turtle that's the one I meant with the worm luer in it's mouth! I'm getting good at this!
the just LOVE going to the Filter feeder trope dont they
Wut?
Steve Irwin would have loved your channel.
08:50f
_Another much older crocodilomorph was Anatosuchus, nicknamed the duck croc._
It's not a nickname, it's the literal translation of its Greek name.
It technically means "Duck crocodile".
@@chimerasuchus
What I said.😎
@@jensphiliphohmann1876 "Duck crocodile" is what the name means, "DuckCroc" is the nickname.
@@chimerasuchus
Ah,o.k..
A school of small fish could have been swept in by the vacuum int s quickly opening mouth as well.
12:01 is that a Megalodon or other shark
Yes
It's megalodon.
So this is the inspiration for Disney animators' croc design?
To me it looks like the crocodile could have had a pouch or maybe not how to poach but it looks like it fed by having its head open waiting for something to come by like little minnows or smaller fish or what-have-you it probably literally stayed still camouflage waited till something swim near into it smells and just shut its mouth quickly then it probably pushed the water out through its teeth leaving the small fish or small animals trapped in its mouth it may have even possibly had a small luer on its tongue like those turtles do that look like a little worm that lure small fish in
Thanks for the video by the way it is possible to recreate stomatosuchus by mixing DNA (with most of its DNA being crocodiles and some DNA being baleen whales for its size and toothles snout with a throat pounch) creating giant filter-feeding stomatosuchus is there a chance that this will work or am i wrong(opinion)?by the way i like the topic of cloning
Just how many crocodilian evolutions do they have?
My cousin Jay♡ had one for decades named Dundee 🐊 RIP
08:45 The original Crocoduck??
I can imagine it a lunge feeder or suction feeder, ambushing schools of fish.
If you're eating by those and other things with shells you need some good hard teeth in there to be able to chew up the shells so I don't think that is an option normally animals like that have a hard group of teeth on the roof of their mouth and circle forms that crushed the shells so unless they have that then I don't think that is the case I think it's a mixture of sit and wait with the mouth open or lure and then slam shut letting the water pour out between the teeth trapping small fish and other small prey
Now you can talk about the other crocodylomorphs of Pebas system? Like Purussaurus or Gryposuchus, sorry for the hassle and the bad english.
It puts me in mind of a platypus. Maybe it was a crustacean eater.
Isn’t filter feeding the future? Animals had to evolve to filter feed so what comes after that, body filter feeding to eventually not worry about eating at all with smaller and smaller organisms.
Also, aren’t the horns to protect its eyes when it swings its head back and forth and death rolling.
Your comment of it being bigger than any salt water croc is inaccurate because there have been saltys caught that were up to and over twenty foot.
😮
I am wondering what if this animal were a sea caiman? Sea level in the time when this animal live was very different then is today, eating sea food like plankton an molusc.
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They were higher, but not that high. Every formation Mourasuchus has been found in has been determined to have been freshwater environments. Indeed, alligatorids like Mourasuchus lack functional salt glands.
the isle; intensely writing down
New narrator.
Now that my friends is a large mouth right there not gonna lie
Please narrate yourself your voice is so good!
I own a smooth fronted caiman
it would have been the catfish of crocodilians using suction feeding, not filter feeding
Oh okay well you went on to say exactly my suggestion I got to stop making comments in the middle of videos LOL
I'd wager it used the killer whale tactic of driving fishes to the bank of the river or gape it's mouth open as it rushed up from the river bed trapping whatever fish was swimming on the surface with its massive maw or between the dry river bank and it's gaping mouth.
Sudden capybara. So undisturbed.
Like stereotypical Disney crocodiles presented in their movies. Short, fat jaw, etc.
Gigachad caiman
Hey is this Ai generated content?
No.
Was the chilling Capybara an Easter egg? 🤭
Pelicans in Australia.
“Caiman” is both plural and singular. Please don’t add an “s”.
Yu got the Grammer wrong prehistoric cross were called sarcosuchus or something like Dat
Sarcosuchus was a different genus of crocodylomorph.
Scientific names are in latin, not English. Check out any tutorial on latin pronunciation. All best.
Spinosauridae theropoda Spinosauridae + crocodylia lion =
First
Mourasuchus, crocodile that wanted to be a whale.
Pelican bird, ghirial crocodiles.
I miss the original narrator....
Pelican caiman lol
Now hear me out maybe it could’ve swallowed small to medium sized animals whole filled it’s gular pouch with water drowned it’s prey the once it was said and done it would swallow it’s prey whole
This fuy is so silly