Cuz Epanterias is 4.2 tonnes, Saurophaganax is 5.3-8.3 tonnes

These talks are true for Epanterias which is 4 tons

So you are saying Spinosaurus was a sauropod specialist

i hard of it two years ago with skull : 1.3 meters same length of tarbosaurus skull it massive predator useing ratio of corcdiles put it length : 10.4 meters mass : 4.5 tones however the ratio might be different bcause it distant relative in loricata out of rauisuchidae although thought to be rauisuchid before 2011, loricata part of paracorcdylomorpha part of suchia part of pseudosuchia i did not see 65 but i hard that they made Quatropidal dinosaur that end like fasloasuchus also baby anyklosaurus end like jakpil

The design was ridiculous. It looked like Godzilla. Acrocanthrosaurus had what we believe to be a sail structure. Giganotosaurus had osteoderms sticking out of its back.

Wait why- why does it seem like you're crying- The puffy, red eyes The glisten below them The Constant blinking The Flushed cheeks The strained throat The Voicecracks ARE YOU OKAY?

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Maybe, rather than to jump, he would be able to klimb onto his victim's back, whilst using those claws? Another thought: given their superior breathing system, 'birds' are definitely more athletic than mammals. I could also think that those claws were especially meant to puncture the blood vessels in a sauropod's neck, but then he just would have had to come from the front - and by this also being able to evade the sauropod's main weapon, it's devastating tail.

Gotta love the visceral detail of the fasolasuchus attacks in Predatory!

Fascinating never heard of it ,its good to here about less well known animals well done Mike.

You really believe in dinasours

I had never heard of it and haven't seen 65 yet. Did it survive into the late Cretaceous or is that another inaccuracy of the film to go with the size portrayed and the title (66?)? Also, what was it and why not considered a dinosaur? I know there's many pre-dino-like creatures but this one is living with sauropods?

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Fascinating animal. Do we have any status on the upcoming paper regarding the saurophaganax size estimate?

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Maybe they specialize in juvenile sauropods

I would compare it to lions jumping on the back of a giraffe rather than an elephant and could see that.

My thought on it very easy could have been a sauropods specialists I think sauropods where strong but once there hit in the neck there done just my thoughts think about lions grabbing necks sauropods have giant necks with all those arteries and veins plus wind pipe be punched just my thoughts I also think saurphaganax went on to become acro

I do think sauropods were on their diet but i dont think they will attack a fully grown sauropod i think they would attack the young or the sick BUT i think they would have hunted in loose packs not coordinated more like meet ups and then hunted i have this theory bc of the mapusaurus fossil being found all in a close area

I will be honest - this vid is just a talking head ie you. I don't even know what Saurophaganax looks like . Why not post pics of it in your vid?

Short answer: Yes The mid caudal chevrons are similar in appearance to Tarbosaurus baatar, Tyrannotitan chubutensis. The fourth trochanter of its femur is poorly developed and indicates that it wasn't very cursorial. Also the Kenton quarry of Oklahoma had yielded a considerable amount of Apatosaurus ajax remains, unearthed by Stovall, with some specimens approaching 25 to 30 tonnes. The presence of a large elephant sized predatory theropod dinosaur is necessary to regulate the population dynamics and ecological stability in that particular area as it wasn't cursorial enough to chase down smaller herbivores such as Camptosaurus and Dryosaurus. Although Saurophaganax maximus would have preferred smaller and weaker individuals. It's also possible that a mob of Saurophaganax maximus attacked a large but weakened adult sauropod injured by battling a rival over breeding rights with bites and claw slashes, further weakening the already injured animal for a comparatively easier kill. Feel free to share your opinion about my Point of View. Also Tarbosaurus and Tyrannotitan were also living alongside sauropods and likely preying on them so it would also make sense for Saurophaganax maximus to be an equivalent in that way.

saurophganax and carcharosaurid excel at hunting sauropods with sharp teeth for sliceing and dicing however there is arcocanthosaurus and saurophganax Have large claws in addition to the sharp teeth thus they are exception , saurophganax is the first sauropod specialist although will not attak fullgrown sauropod on theropod will the risk out wight the benefit .

I thought somewhere I have read that there is a formula for predator to prey size. Normally the prey is smaller than the predator. There at least to my knowledge no HIPPO, ELEPHANT, or CAPE BUFFALO specialist predator. Once the prey gets so many times bigger than the prey they are off the menu

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the head of maraxes gigas 1.27 meter skull, giganotosaurus MUCPv-CH-1 meter 1.64, MUCPv-95 meter 1.78 meter largest from Chile

Mike is so handsome 😘

Your eyes tell me you've flesh grazed before and will again

Modern day crocodilians also lay dozens of eggs with the certainty that a large portion will be predated either before or after hatching. I imagine theyd have a pretty high predation/mortality rate.

The longest Salvador Monitor lizard was measured at 15 ft 7 in long according to the Guinness World Records, they are in New Guinea just north of Australia! They are good swimmers, maybe that's what people have been seeing!

I want a river chase scene for James Cameron’s Jurassic park

The first thing that came to my mind where sea turtle hatchlings who have to pay a huge toll to predatory dinosaurs - to compensate for this, they do lay pretty sizeable clutches. I can think of sauropods doing it in a similar way.

Interesting topic and interesting answers. Sorry, I have nothing intelligent to add to the discussion.

I am pretty sure that the mortality rate for young sauropods in the Mesozoic was far higher than that of elephants and other proboscidians of the Cenozoic era.

I would say the mortality rate would be high 60 to 70% thats why they laid so many eggs as Turtles do today.

LOL 😅

So after sone thought what is the mortality of elephants? It seems that in general few are born in the herd at a tine and the herd goes above and beyond to protect the little guys. I feel elephants are more endangered by loss of habitat and disease rather than predatory attacks

I'd be surprised if it were more than 30%. If I'm not mistaken, didn't many sauropods grow fairly quickly to a size that would protect them from the majority of predation attempts? I'm curious if very young/hatchlings stayed with the adults and adolescents or if they stayed hidden in vegetation until they were large enough to venture out and join the herd, so to speak.

Depends on how the youngling was raised, in herds, in family, alone, with the the rest of the nestlings, where and when...so many factors

What do we think the mortality rate would have been for baby sauropods? Mike

That’s truly magnificent and terrifying. I can’t imagine how horrible it would be to have been swallowed alive

how did experts take for account the homoiothermic body temperature despite having ectothermic activity temperature like nile crocodile because life doesn't fit into easy boxes for example poikilothermic is ectothermic or homoiothermic is endothermic , because of that going back to nile crocodile it does have homoiothermic body temperature however It have ectothermic activity temperature so how they take into account the homoiothermic body temperature ? i learn that from andrew marray channel form it dinosaur profile on brachiosaurus also sauropods produce a lot of waste and that include green house gas that pollute the environment of dinosaurs might let to their extinction , i learn that form topman2.0 channel form it dinosaurs with super power video .

Have we ever figured out how much they need to eat to survive..

Just north of the Grand Canyon in Tuba, Arizona, I visited the Indian reservation there, which looks like a mud-flat stretching for miles to a mesa in the distance. It was a mudflat 80 million years ago and today is preserved so well it looks like it rained last night and is still wet even though it's petrified stone. Dinosaur tracks of T-rexes and raptors and smaller predators, plus huge sauropod prints the size of manhole covers crisscross the entire plain. There was even a therapod nest of eggs like foot-long candy corns sticking point up out of the nest, and a half-eaten carcass with bones sticking out of the ground. It's absolutely astonishing if you get a chance to visit. There's a tiny sign pointing off the highway in Tuba heading north on the highway and you could miss it if you blink and leads to a gathering of curio stands selling souvenirs and guided walking tours of some of the nearby highlights. (It's also a notorious speed-trap, so don't speed.) Anyway, there were piles of Sauropod crap everywhere like road-apples the size and shape of beachballs stacked three feet high. Pretty impressive! LOL. The local Indian tribe told me an interesting mythology about the place which they thought showed a time before humans when the gods made an inferior type of people out of mud that the gods decided to destroy in a great flood. I think the three-toed raptor tracks were the "people" who got wiped out because the gods were displeased with them.

In your opinion how much waste would a 50 ton sauropod produce? -Mike

It's a very fascinating topic, thinking how these animals could have interacted with one another, how theyr ecosystem could have worked and the saurophaganax hunting a big sauropod scenario, reminds me the mapusaurus hunting the argentinosaurus scene, from Dinosaur Planet more and more than ever! where the mapusaurus grips on the argentinosaurus flank, but saurophaganax would have had a stronger grip for sure with it's massive claws which btw, i didnt know how big they actually were! I knew he had big claws like the other allosauroids but wow that claw is HUGE compared to the rest of it's bone, imagine how many muscles were attached to that thing and how strong those arms actually were!

I can't believe you are taking this seriously, try googling Hogganfield loch LOL😁

I have been thinking what happened to this channel lately since I had not seen anything from this channel in a while, but see you are back! By the way, what are your thoughts as to how long non-avian dinosaurs might have survived after the meteor impact that started the K-Pg extinction event ?