An Animal To Rival Megalodon? - The Giant Killer Sperm Whale Livyatan

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Ben G Thomas

Ben G Thomas

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@lee-royjenkins6319
@lee-royjenkins6319 Жыл бұрын
"there's always a bigger fish" - Jedi Master Liam Neeson
@atomic_wait
@atomic_wait Жыл бұрын
'Beeeg gooberfish' - Dark Lord of the Sith Jar Jar Binks
@treystephens6166
@treystephens6166 Жыл бұрын
STAR WARS EPISODE I THE PHANTOM MENACE 1999
@aceundead4750
@aceundead4750 Жыл бұрын
He also famously said, "the ability to speak does not make one intelligent," to Jar Jar lol.
@ButterBallTheOpossum
@ButterBallTheOpossum Жыл бұрын
Theres always a bigger fish Unless you are the biggest fish
@FlyingDwarfman
@FlyingDwarfman Жыл бұрын
@@ButterBallTheOpossum In which case, there's still a bigger whale
@davep5788
@davep5788 Жыл бұрын
"The big fishy of death." I hope that gets used in scientific papers.
@BenGThomas
@BenGThomas Жыл бұрын
A highly technical term 🦈
@jamesleatherwood5125
@jamesleatherwood5125 7 ай бұрын
Oh my god, i straight died! 😂😂😂
@donjuand
@donjuand 5 ай бұрын
My vocal cords are broken
@angelalewis3645
@angelalewis3645 2 ай бұрын
Yes! 😂
@emperorofholyrome5403
@emperorofholyrome5403 Жыл бұрын
I want to see a prehistoric planet like documentary set in the mid miocene pacific. It's would be really cool to see these two awesome animals on screen in one of those.
@BenGThomas
@BenGThomas Жыл бұрын
Yes I would love that!!
@Goudhaantje1993
@Goudhaantje1993 Жыл бұрын
For how awesome the mid-miocene was in terms of marine food webs and how famous megalodon is, there is a shocking lack of quality documentaries on it.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 Жыл бұрын
Seriously, this is the ecosystem that should have been #1 on the list of deadliest seas, not the Western Interior Seaway. It has a similar if not even wider array of raptorial predators and two of those predators would outright prey on any mosasaur.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 Жыл бұрын
@@Goudhaantje1993 Mostly because of all the pliosaur and mosasaur hype. The giant raptorial ichthyosaurs of the Triassic and Early Jurassic get even more badly shafted.
@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778
@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778 Жыл бұрын
@@Goudhaantje1993 Because people don't see megalodon as an animal. They see it as a mystical creature like bigfoot. I have met people who think its a myth that never existed
@bendykirby4828
@bendykirby4828 Жыл бұрын
If I had a nickel for every time a zoology/paleontology KZbin channel I follow made a video about the Megalodon/Livyatan rivalry during Shark Week, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?
@sleepless2621
@sleepless2621 Жыл бұрын
this is the third that ive seen !
@jahimuddin2306
@jahimuddin2306 Жыл бұрын
First Lindsay Nikole, no Ben. I can watch these videos all day, though.
@Godzilla00X
@Godzilla00X Жыл бұрын
Wait until you see all the amvs about them fighting
@ZoeKitten84
@ZoeKitten84 Жыл бұрын
This is like the 3 or 4 video I’ve seen on the subject
@42ZaphodB42
@42ZaphodB42 Жыл бұрын
This is the most comprehensive though
@Thao-nathos
@Thao-nathos Жыл бұрын
i love how you refer to one as "the megalodon" and the other simply as "Livyatan", it occasionally gave me the image of one being a species and the other being a singular whale that somehow terrorized all of megalodons at all times no matter what
@Angela-i9m8q
@Angela-i9m8q Жыл бұрын
What if liyavitin was a apex
@stevenunyabidness
@stevenunyabidness Жыл бұрын
that Livyatan guy's a real jerk.
@ImmaTbagyou
@ImmaTbagyou Жыл бұрын
@@stevenunyabidnessthe more I hear about him the less I care for him
@kellykane7586
@kellykane7586 Жыл бұрын
​@@ImmaTbagyou😂😂😂
@post-surreal
@post-surreal 11 ай бұрын
@@ImmaTbagyoudidn’t even know he was sick
@shervonmoonsammy4479
@shervonmoonsammy4479 Жыл бұрын
The clicks while livyathan made while echolocating would’ve been terrifying
@zenith8417
@zenith8417 Жыл бұрын
Instant death to a human in the water I’d imagine
@ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo
@ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo 8 ай бұрын
And after it's kill a man, it will grab the man an chew it like a bubble gum.
@Subjectively
@Subjectively Жыл бұрын
I’m curious to learn more about the social habits of these giant whales. One biblically-sized monster is scary enough, imagine if they lived in pods like modern day sperm whales?
@陳嘉宇-y4q
@陳嘉宇-y4q Жыл бұрын
They most likely had a similar lifestyle as sperm whales, since they're relatives ( Love the Mazah region designs btw )
@jaylicious4694
@jaylicious4694 Жыл бұрын
I didn't think I'd see this channel here
@fuzzywyverns8561
@fuzzywyverns8561 Жыл бұрын
This is something I’d also want to hear more about. I do wonder if the tendency to live in tight nit social groups is what shaped the evolution of cetacean lifespans and growth rates because there could be a link between them. Having the protection and experience of multiple mature individuals while an animal is young is extremely beneficial for the prosperity of their species. Many mammals that live in social groups will also have longer lifespans and a slower than average growth rate when compared to other members of their clades who are more solitary. It isn’t a rule though as there are also many social animals who are fast growing with short lifespans and vice versa. I think in the case of toothed whales (as most baleen whales are primarily solitary/travel in small groups or pairs, typically of mother and calf and only gather in larger numbers for breeding and/or migration) pod behaviours probably came first, and their growth rates adjusted because they were living longer as a result of reduced survival pressures.
@Eugene_TEC
@Eugene_TEC Жыл бұрын
Granted I don't think the Orca vs Great White comparisons here are entirely fair since Orcas are like 4 times the size of a White while Megs and Livyatans are much more comparable sizewise. It's unlikely adult Megalodons or Livyatans would target each other given the sheer risk of major injury.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 Жыл бұрын
THIS. This is something that Livyatan fanboys consistently ignore.
@SousukeAizen421
@SousukeAizen421 Жыл бұрын
@@bkjeong4302 yeah megalodon is also not THE KING of the ocean like the megalodon fanboys tryna picture him to be, i dont think megalodon is even at the top 3 apex predator at Livyathan era since they are 2 more raptorial sperm whale close to livyatan size
@Lotan_
@Lotan_ Жыл бұрын
​@@bkjeong4302 That behaviour comes from Megalodon "fanboys" a lot more than anyone who appreciates Livyatan.
@Lotan_
@Lotan_ Жыл бұрын
Unless Livyatan hunted in groups. Which seems like it probably wasn't the case, but towards the end when food was getting scarce, I wouldn't be surprised if Livyatans started working together to bring down larger prey.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 Жыл бұрын
@@SousukeAizen421 Livyatan was the only raptorial sperm whale around that size, and again: the two were equals.
@primrosevale1995
@primrosevale1995 Жыл бұрын
Finally, a weapon to surpass Megalo Gear.
@Pastamist
@Pastamist Жыл бұрын
“Like I said, fish are cruel, Jack, and I’m very in-touch with my ichthyo-child!”
@U-Flame
@U-Flame Жыл бұрын
I know you gotta prep material for next shark week, but I also hope you can still provide more shark content throughout the year as well. Also ye I'd love to see more Livyatan coverage!
@thebushna
@thebushna Жыл бұрын
I would love to see more videos about Livytitan. It's a massive post KPG marine super predator that I feel gets overshadowed by Megalodon too often. I'd love more videos on extinct post KPG marine animals
@beastmaster0934
@beastmaster0934 Жыл бұрын
5:14 So even if the genus name is invalid, it STILL can’t be used for a new animal? That’s dumb.
@BenGThomas
@BenGThomas Жыл бұрын
Yeah those are the rules, unfortunately. Livyatan is still a pretty awesome name though!
@jeffreygao3956
@jeffreygao3956 7 ай бұрын
It's to avoid confusion!
@moltenmermaid1517
@moltenmermaid1517 Жыл бұрын
Livyatan has literally given me nightmares.
@CP0rings33
@CP0rings33 Жыл бұрын
I could probably take it on tbh
@zura17
@zura17 Жыл бұрын
dont googlee sperm whale then
@Jawsfan2009
@Jawsfan2009 10 ай бұрын
Yeah, it’s terrifying unlike megalodon, megalodon is cute but I still think it would’ve won against the livyatan
@cugelchannel4733
@cugelchannel4733 4 ай бұрын
@@Jawsfan2009 Pretty clearly neither species dominated the other in direct conflicts or one of them would have gone extinct. Instead both survived for millions of years in the same environment eating the same food. Apex predators don't normally tolerate other top predators in their territory, they attack them like Lions and Leopards. That suggests that Livyathan and Megalodon were pretty evenly matched and the outcome of a fight would depend on surprise or the size of the individuals involved.
@lightningbolt9606
@lightningbolt9606 Ай бұрын
LOL
@highfive7689
@highfive7689 Жыл бұрын
The Livyatan report was facinating. Yes, I'd love to see more on whale evolution. Would you be so kind to give us a descriptive picture of the world of each species timelined. To give a better wholistic impression in the environmental pressures, with prey, they lived in. Thanks.
@notoriousbigmoai1125
@notoriousbigmoai1125 Жыл бұрын
In one vs one combat, these two creatures were pretty much equal and would depend on who got the first bite, but in reality whales are very social animals and would travel in pods while sharks are solitary hunters and travel alone. This really put Megalodon at a significant disadvantage. I suspect Megalodon only hunts young or sick Livyatan that was left behind by the pod.
@patrickmccurry1563
@patrickmccurry1563 Жыл бұрын
With such short lifespans though, they may have traveled in very small pods like other short lived whale species.
@MrRenanHappy
@MrRenanHappy Жыл бұрын
Sharks are also much stupider by comparison
@obambagaming1467
@obambagaming1467 Жыл бұрын
Also Livyatan was way more intelligent than Megalodon. Females probably were smaller than males, but mist likely traveled in pods, like modern sperm whales. Males on the other hand were probably larger and solitary, just like modern sperm whales.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 Жыл бұрын
@@MrRenanHappy Intelligence doesn’t really play much of a role in shark-cetacean interactions (the idea even small dolphins dominate sharks with brainpower is a myth). Size and power has far more to do with it. Orcas can dominate and even kill GWS on occasion (though this is far less common than often argued) because they have a major size advantage over GWS; other, equally intelligent species of dolphins can’t (not even in groups) because they simply lack the physical means. Considering that Livyatan doesn’t have a major size advantage on megalodon I would not be arguing it would dominate or kill adult megalodon, though it’s formidable enough in its own right that megalodon would actually take it seriously and likewise leave it alone. Also, sharks are significantly more intelligent than most people assume.
@asmagamer728
@asmagamer728 Жыл бұрын
@@bkjeong4302Finally someone who actually has a brain who knows that intelligence doesn’t mean instant win
@kuitaranheatmorus9932
@kuitaranheatmorus9932 Жыл бұрын
Simply the thumbnail of all time, I like it 👍 😊 I already like this video and I hope you all have a great day.
@kurtisgonzales37
@kurtisgonzales37 Жыл бұрын
Probably one of my favorite species EVER. It just did everything bigger and badder than anything else
@johnmoore8599
@johnmoore8599 Жыл бұрын
Really nice video essay and analysis! Quite thorough presentation!
@erichtomanek4739
@erichtomanek4739 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video and excellent week of Sharks! The extinction of Livyaton, Megalodon and co must be due to the formation of the Panama Isthmus stopping the flow of some equatorial currents and hence brought on the Ice Age two to three million years ago. But for some millions of years before the closure the islands that formed there would have slowly but surely constricted the warm water currents and hence slowly altered the marine ecologies. For millions of years these mega predators would have been put under more and more pressure to find enough food. Not to mention what their prey had to go through too.
@FloozieOne
@FloozieOne Жыл бұрын
With all the hype about Megalodon of course it has been described often, but I never heard of Livyatan until now. How could such a creature, just as big and dangerous have been ignored? Well I know about it now, thanks to you, and am appropriately awed, not to mention extremely grateful to evolution for not creating humans until these monsters had become extinct.
@adventureswithdan84
@adventureswithdan84 Жыл бұрын
Livyatan would be a terrifying creature to encounter if it were still alive today.
@johnsteiner3417
@johnsteiner3417 Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't surprise me if they found signs that Livyatan ate Megalodon livers after ripping them out live.
@theangryholmesian4556
@theangryholmesian4556 Жыл бұрын
With some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
@Jawsfan2009
@Jawsfan2009 10 ай бұрын
Wouldn’t surprise me if they found crushed livyatan bones inflicted by the Megalodon.
@johnsteiner3417
@johnsteiner3417 10 ай бұрын
@@Jawsfan2009 Not likely. Predatory cetaceans are way meaner and more sadistic than sharks or other fish.
@Jawsfan2009
@Jawsfan2009 10 ай бұрын
@@johnsteiner3417 that is true but killing for food is not sadistic.
@DonDon45-i5h
@DonDon45-i5h 9 ай бұрын
@@johnsteiner3417 dolphins themselves are fierce, Orcas literally bully everything in the ocean. There was a case of 2 orcas killing 30 sharks for no reason in one hour. So you can imagine how terrifying livyatan would've been.
@RedXlV
@RedXlV Жыл бұрын
Given that Hollywood keeps making megalodon movies, it's kind of surprising there hasn't been a megalodon vs livyatan yet.
@PhilippeZawodny
@PhilippeZawodny Жыл бұрын
Great video. Yes I would like to see more about Sperm Whale evolution. Keep up the good work.
@Zakerius
@Zakerius Ай бұрын
Thanks for the really interesting breakdown, you’ve given my son and I a lot to talk about! He’s loving the topic. Very well put together video
@professorcassowary
@professorcassowary Жыл бұрын
14:07 Oh please do make a video on Livyatan!!!! I love Whales :)
@NextToToddliness
@NextToToddliness Жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm really digging this ongoing collaboration with Animalogic... oh wait.
@leoncontorno
@leoncontorno Жыл бұрын
And thank you for such a wonderful show. Paleontology rules!
@jahcode6132
@jahcode6132 Жыл бұрын
I had heard of this creature before but didn't know it existed so recently, and that it overlapped with the Megladon and how freakin epic that is.
@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz
@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz Жыл бұрын
**Animal Face Off would like to know your location**
@anubusx
@anubusx Жыл бұрын
Glasgow.
@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz
@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz Жыл бұрын
@@anubusx?
@anubusx
@anubusx Жыл бұрын
@@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz That is where i live.
@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz
@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz Жыл бұрын
@@anubusx Oh. Good question, why did you say that?
@anubusx
@anubusx Жыл бұрын
@@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz You asked for people's locations.
@ThrowerTimothy
@ThrowerTimothy Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your dedication in putting these videos together - I always look forward to shark week
@xavier84623
@xavier84623 Жыл бұрын
Why did Livyatan suddenly get popular? There have been like 5 big new videos from popular educational channels. Did they coordinate or did livyatan randomly go viral during this years shark week?
@BenGThomas
@BenGThomas Жыл бұрын
Seems like luck 🤣 I've had this one planned for a couple months now, always good to see more love for Livyatan though!
@xavier84623
@xavier84623 Жыл бұрын
@@BenGThomas I agree. It rarely gets the spotlight but I feel like it might have been the mightiest predator earth has ever had. It’s extra big cause water, and it’s teeth are designed to fight other big things. I think a full grown livyatan might have been the most apex of apex creatures in all natural history.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 Жыл бұрын
To be frank a lot of these videos hype of Livyatan too much to the point of calling it a predator of adult megalodon: this video gives a more nuanced coverage that does both animals Justice.
@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8
@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 Жыл бұрын
@@xavier84623 unfortunately megalodon is still more likely to have occupied a higher trophic level than livyatan. Megalodon is around the same size as the whale or larger according to what estimates we have now. Cetacean shark relationships today are rather size dependant. For example orcas often eat the livers of smaller great whites. The juveniles and the subadults, not the fully grown adults are their victims, and the largest orcas notably outsize even the largest great whites. Meanwhile, Great whites are able to predate upon dolphins around their size in places like Shark bay, despite their intelligence and sociality. Granted modern day dolphins asides from orcas are not macropredatory and do not eat animals the same size or larger than them, but it it worth noting that they are the prey in this situation. This is not to say livyatan is helpless though, since it evolved in the middle of megalodon's reign, which is rather impressive in and of itself.
@xavier84623
@xavier84623 Жыл бұрын
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 dolphins are different, they hunt fish, even the orca isnt designed to fight large creatures specifically, but lyv was specifically evolved to hunt large animals. they have the largest teeth ever of anything(twice the meg), and they point out in such a way that they can bit huge surfaces and find purchase. like, havent you ever seen a sea turtle defend against a shark, they just face their shell at them and its too flat and large for the shark to do anything, but lyv jaw design can bite into a wall of flesh no problem. probably if meg tried to bite lyv it would only be able to get it jaws around a small part of it, maybe take a bite out of its fins or just give it lacerations on its body or something, but lyv is designed to lay into large creatures, its bites are angled to rip into giant pieces of of flesh with massive teeth, not just catch smaller prey. sure meg and lyv are about the same size (the meg estimation is 10-17m while lyv is 12-16), but the difference is clear, the jaw shape, doubled the tooth size, and general design makes lyv and apex of apex predators. im not saying it intentionally predated adult megs tho, it almost certainly didnt, would have been an unnecessary risk since there were easier whales to eat everywhere. just in a silly animal planet meg vs lyv way, i bet the lyv comes out on top most of the time.
@skywise001
@skywise001 Жыл бұрын
This is really interesting - they found megladon fossils in shallower seas where they grew up in relative safety. They probably did it in part to hide hem from this whale :)
@doomfeast1102
@doomfeast1102 Жыл бұрын
Moby Dick 2: The Revenge from the Trench. Megaladon and Livayatan must join forces to stop the mad mariner, and this time it's personal. "Now there's two of them, capt'n!" -"Agh, then bring two harpoons, Ishmael!"
@kwanarchive
@kwanarchive Жыл бұрын
I wonder if there could have been an evolutionary arms race that pushed both Megalodon and Livyatan to get that big together.
@takenname8053
@takenname8053 Жыл бұрын
Thank you guys for another wonderful Shark Week!
@fromp2u
@fromp2u Жыл бұрын
super interesting. excellent presentation. more please and thank you!
@Nmethyltransferase
@Nmethyltransferase Жыл бұрын
Shark Week is now Shark & Rivals Week
@littlemandarren
@littlemandarren Жыл бұрын
As the old saying goes ‘plenty of fish in the sea’ and this one takes the cake
@ANwk-eh7mg
@ANwk-eh7mg Жыл бұрын
Interesting in the sense Megalodon likely had similar sensory organs as smaller sharks. Levytan the sonar of modern whales
@AndAllWeAreIsAllWeMadeBB
@AndAllWeAreIsAllWeMadeBB Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love how you give your mom a shout out at the end❤
@gojitsar7505
@gojitsar7505 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Theres a paper I read a while back that studied isotopes of shark and whale teeth, but it essentially boiled down to the fact that Megalodon and macroraptorial sperm whales didnt compete for food, rather filled different niches. You can also see rhis in the jaws,as the curve of livyatans teeth was made to grip and pin small prey in its mouth, while Megalodon could wrap its jaws around larger whales. You can also see this in a fossil of a macroraptorial sperm whale (As you mention in the video) with a puncture in its tooth by a similarly sized otodus shark indicating that megalodon had no problem attacking larger whales. I think that this was an active predation attempt personally, because if the shark was directly feeding off the carcass, it shouldve chewed directly through the bone. There had to be some struggle and back and forth face biting if the whale made it out with only scratches. (And of course, Im considering your reasoning too.)
@WANDERER69H8
@WANDERER69H8 Жыл бұрын
Liv & Meg ⚡🔥
@Awakeandalive1
@Awakeandalive1 Жыл бұрын
Yes please to more videos about ancient predatory cetaceans!
@carbonara2144
@carbonara2144 Жыл бұрын
Meg vs Liv. That's a movie title right there!
@physetermacrocephalus2209
@physetermacrocephalus2209 Жыл бұрын
This is the second livyatan video I have seen released this weekend. Now im obviously biased and am subbed too many chad animal channels but its always interesting seeing the odds align like this in real time.
@AM-qc4qt
@AM-qc4qt Жыл бұрын
I really loved this week's content!! Great work
@TheWynM
@TheWynM Жыл бұрын
Thank you for great video! I would have liked to see a sketch of Megalodon and Livyatan together, to compare their sizes. 😊
@osmosisjones4912
@osmosisjones4912 Жыл бұрын
The Megalodon was not an over grown great white they might have even been able Suck water to their gills and asofigus to save energy
@tonyhaslam186
@tonyhaslam186 Жыл бұрын
Loved it. You guys are awesome. Paleontology rules.
@michaelbarnes7351
@michaelbarnes7351 Жыл бұрын
I can't remember which book in the series it is,but in the Meg books these two super predators fight amd it is awesome.
@Purrbeast
@Purrbeast Жыл бұрын
i always love hearing about whale evolution!
@CptPandy-tj9ty
@CptPandy-tj9ty Жыл бұрын
Megalodon vs levyatan? How about ben vs lindsay
@davidboyle1902
@davidboyle1902 11 ай бұрын
From the Triassic to the Eocene, fishing in the oceans of the world would have been a trip! The problem is, I’ve never figured out what the fishing boat would look like. I mean, there were some very large bad guys prowling those waters. Which brings me to my suggestion. How about a series on the baddest times to be a fisherman? When were the confluences of the most terrifying predators to have ever lived? Love these episodes.
@DoctorChange106
@DoctorChange106 7 ай бұрын
GREAT VIDEO AND hope for new vid on whale evolution
@susanandrews2294
@susanandrews2294 Жыл бұрын
Excellent content, love the vid, subscribed 🙂
@tunite12
@tunite12 11 ай бұрын
The Whale wins. Whales are smart, big Whales with big teeth have no problem dealing to big Sharks.
@tm43977
@tm43977 Жыл бұрын
Livayatan Melvillei did live alongside with otodus meg but Sigma on Megalodon
@sciencenerd7639
@sciencenerd7639 Жыл бұрын
1) Lindsay Nikole 2) Animalogic 3) Ben G Thomas It's so cool that I follow enough zoology/paleontology channels that I get three Livyatan videos in as many days
@ArifRWinandar
@ArifRWinandar Жыл бұрын
Talking about a whale during shark week is like nominating a bat for bird of the year.
@b.a.erlebacher1139
@b.a.erlebacher1139 Жыл бұрын
Hey, New Zealand did that! Last year their bird of the year was the only native bat, an endemic genus in an endemic family.
@Dr.Phelix
@Dr.Phelix Жыл бұрын
Dude sweet sharky themed background brah 👍🏻
@bluedragon219123
@bluedragon219123 Жыл бұрын
6:35 I have found a new scientific word today: Junk...I wonder what it actually is? Fat maybe? Still Great Job! :)
@DanielBMaximoff
@DanielBMaximoff Жыл бұрын
Livytitan being a ancestor of the Orca means that it would have flipped the Meg over to split it in two.
@BugsandBiology
@BugsandBiology 11 ай бұрын
But it wasn’t an ancestor of orcas. It was an early relative of sperm whales
@azaanimations319
@azaanimations319 5 ай бұрын
It wasn’t an ancestor of orcas. It was a cousin of sperm whales.
@DanielBMaximoff
@DanielBMaximoff 5 ай бұрын
@@azaanimations319 behavior wise is the killer orca
@amandastakeonit7402
@amandastakeonit7402 Жыл бұрын
This did not disappoint!
@eshbansuleman9501
@eshbansuleman9501 Жыл бұрын
Finnaly! Some appreciation for this beautiful creature!
@anubusx
@anubusx Жыл бұрын
Really excited for The MEG 2.
@andreagriffiths3512
@andreagriffiths3512 Жыл бұрын
Me too!
@mokuroh14
@mokuroh14 Жыл бұрын
Yes please, make a video on sperms whale evolution! I've really enjoyed this coverage of Shark Week this year
@BinroWasRight
@BinroWasRight Жыл бұрын
Brilliantly researched and presented! 🦈💙
@Sarafimm2
@Sarafimm2 Жыл бұрын
I find Sperm Whales to be quite mysterious. I'd love a video on them.
@witheredjr2887
@witheredjr2887 Жыл бұрын
A perfect way to end of shark week 😊
@seansmith3058
@seansmith3058 Жыл бұрын
I saw the exhibit about this while visiting the natural history museum in Lima. My Spanish wasn't good enough to get the details right but the artifacts and pictures got the point across without difficulty.
@MainFrameGamerz
@MainFrameGamerz Жыл бұрын
Seems it mirrors the present day Great White sharks vs Killer whales competition :O
@Birbatron
@Birbatron Жыл бұрын
If the livyatan had a similar ecological niche to an orca, it might have a similar body plan, leading to a possibly 20+m in length and 120+ tons in weight
@unnatralblizrd
@unnatralblizrd 7 ай бұрын
120 tons is pushing it by alot
@londonbudgetgardner5205
@londonbudgetgardner5205 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video Think about it The end of the dinosaurs was just the beginning of gigantic supermassive predators.
@VitchAndVorty
@VitchAndVorty Жыл бұрын
Goddammit. Mammals love to dominate any habitat. We should probably try the skies next time. Come on, bats, we are rooting for you guys!
@dragonfox2.058
@dragonfox2.058 Жыл бұрын
fascinating...yes please more
@theajshortman
@theajshortman Жыл бұрын
Yes, more of that ! ❤
@tobilikebacon
@tobilikebacon Жыл бұрын
Best palaeontological channel!
@Svensk7119
@Svensk7119 Жыл бұрын
"Big fishy of death"! Hah! Ibstill love that!
@Morningstarwho
@Morningstarwho Ай бұрын
This prehistoric speem whale always fascinated me
@SuperMrHiggins
@SuperMrHiggins Жыл бұрын
The amount of stuff they have found in the past decade has truly been astounding.
@SuperMrHiggins
@SuperMrHiggins Жыл бұрын
Seeing Orca's in the wild with a healthy dorsal fin is so nice. I'm not even into animal rights in a huge way and it's just so damn sad seeing the "sad" dorsal fins.
@joshuaashby4720
@joshuaashby4720 Жыл бұрын
Prehistoric Jaws vs. Prehistoric Moby Dick! That’s the best way to describe this rivalry.
@lancertheanswer6351
@lancertheanswer6351 Жыл бұрын
The Meg vs Moby Dick sounds like a crazy cool idea for a Meg sequel but actually was a thing a few million years ago.
@kolakoala6702
@kolakoala6702 11 ай бұрын
I'm shure somebody stated that already, but the bite marks in the physeteroid tooth are an excellent indicator for scavenging and not predation! This is exactly what we see today when big whales get predated (exclusivly by orcas). Since they are so massive, the curvature of their body is so flat that the angle of the jaw opening needed to get a bite is not possible for the predator. So the orcas go for lips and eyes etc. just to get a start, since those are the only areas where they can get a hold (In this context we also found that matriarchs of orca pods seem to eat blue whale tongs in a ritualistic manner, not kidding). I have no clou about the max. angle of the jaw of otodontidae but since the pray seems to have been bigger still, they might have faced the same obstacle. In anyway: Those marks are no indication for active predation. ... (Puh... 😮‍💨😅 Imagine, somebody makes a video, that you enjoyed so much that you where willing to spend such an enormous amount of time to get your argument across, about the ONE thing that you think was not correct, knowing the creator will never even read it)
@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302
@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302 Жыл бұрын
Bloody exciting ep. guys. I want the movie now
@loupblanc7944
@loupblanc7944 Жыл бұрын
I would love to hear more about Leviathan its honestly such a cool predator. Heck, I would love to hear more about predatory whales in general, like the pseudo mosasaur revival in early whales.
@benevolentintelligence2677
@benevolentintelligence2677 Жыл бұрын
Livyatan video! for sure!
@notyourrealfather
@notyourrealfather Жыл бұрын
Dude! I have two copies of "Sharks: Silent Hunters of the Deep" (the first copy is extremely worn out, so I bough a second last year) It's a bit dated now, but it was the first book I ever checked out from the library back in 1993, I was roughly 6 years old and my dad took after I saw Jaws and fell in love with sharks. I hope you like it as much as I do, and it's not just a prop!
@chrisrus1965
@chrisrus1965 Жыл бұрын
6:30 Why does it say "junk" under the nasal passage?
@tinamclaughlin1991
@tinamclaughlin1991 Жыл бұрын
Yes please! More, and.... More please!
@evilcow666
@evilcow666 Жыл бұрын
I want to ask the big question of how strong was livytan bite force
@jonathanbouranel7743
@jonathanbouranel7743 Жыл бұрын
Cool vid. Your awesome.
@paulbags123
@paulbags123 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating video and yes we need a (route to leviatan) a sperm whale evolution video 😊🤙
@sassa82
@sassa82 Жыл бұрын
Maybe Livyatan hunted Megalodon just like Orca hunt great white sharks.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 Жыл бұрын
This ignores how much of a size advantage orcas have on great whites, something Livyatan didn’t have over megalodon.
@Oinker-Sploinker
@Oinker-Sploinker Жыл бұрын
@@bkjeong4302 They probably worked in pods so the minor size difference doesn't matter and even then they are smarter and probably faster
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 Жыл бұрын
@@Oinker-Sploinker There isn’t anything to indicate Livyatan was faster than megalodon, and even in groups cetaceans rely very heavily on individual physical capabilities to get the better of sharks.
@jamesabernethy7896
@jamesabernethy7896 Жыл бұрын
Nice video, I have a few more of yours to catch up on later. Sorry for going slightly off-topic, I heard of this species while listening to the audiobook of 'Vostok' by Steve Alten. I assumed it was just made up, although his version would have been exaggerated it's surprising to know that there was a real version of it.
@dirremoire
@dirremoire Жыл бұрын
With that thumbnail, you're going to get about 2.5 million views.
@migueljardim8177
@migueljardim8177 Жыл бұрын
Have any studies been done on the potential bite force of Livyatan? Would it have had an even more powerful bite than Megalodon itself?
@michaelweeks9317
@michaelweeks9317 Жыл бұрын
Well done young man! Well done indeed! Potty Mouth Mike, San Antonio, Texas.
@amberrichards2778
@amberrichards2778 Жыл бұрын
Shark week is considerably better on this channel than on Discovery
@rajus3011
@rajus3011 Жыл бұрын
Wait why are there so many videos about Livyathan recently
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