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@MysticLGD2 жыл бұрын
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@ButterDawg52 жыл бұрын
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@rosejohnson51272 жыл бұрын
The sound effects on this video were so distracting. I really liked this topic though! Monitors are so cool.
@jjhggdcqz2 жыл бұрын
Please make a video about quetzalcoatlus.
@abhishekborgaonkar2862 жыл бұрын
Looser
@GuywithaTrexskullonhishead2 жыл бұрын
Calling this a 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' would actually make sense, it's literally a tyrant lizard king.
@MaxV_GC2 жыл бұрын
@@Attendez_Jarrive what?
@slayer24502 жыл бұрын
@@Attendez_Jarrive ?
@jasonk.2 жыл бұрын
@@Attendez_Jarrive well, guess who's the dumb here when don't even know the meaning of Tyrannosaurus Rex. 🤣
@DefHuman2 жыл бұрын
@@Attendez_Jarrive mm I love proper grammar
@alifandaniakbars.ip.36932 жыл бұрын
Don't mind the 10 year old kid comment, you dropped this 👑
@demetrialowther7272 жыл бұрын
Well on the theme of giant reptiles of Australasia and one with a oddly similar name, "Meiolania" was a massive tortoise from New Caledonia, also found on nearby islands and apparently also some fossil evidence in Australia. I believe they were the largest megafauna on New Caledonia and were pretty interesting, namely their distinct horned skulls. Definitely a forgotten beast and worthy of some love.
@thecrimsonfuckeralucardlor50872 жыл бұрын
Drednaw irl
@abhishekborgaonkar2862 жыл бұрын
Got that right 👍
@killdozer77922 жыл бұрын
Sadly, the only love it seems to have gotten is an appearance in Zoo Tycoon, specifically its expansion Dinosaur Digs. They were cool, but not my favourite animal of the pack.
@overthegardenwall71432 жыл бұрын
were they related to the carbonemy?
@Svensk71192 жыл бұрын
Nice. Didn't know. Takk skal du ha.
@DanGamingFan24062 жыл бұрын
Megalania is one of my favorite prehistoric creatures of all time. Australia is already scary, but imagine a car-sized carnivorous lizard roaming the Outback.
@timgersh67872 жыл бұрын
ya at that size it eats what ever it wants also running at around 20mph its faster than most thing
@AnimeSunglasses2 жыл бұрын
Must I?
@Terrorwanderer2 жыл бұрын
Same dude. I just love reptiles, especially the monitor lizards.
@AirIUnderwater2 жыл бұрын
NOPE!!!!!
@dudotolivier63632 жыл бұрын
@@AirIUnderwater Nope on and for what ?
@peterjones8192 жыл бұрын
Monitor lizards, in general, are awesome and Megalania truly was the crowning achievement for this family of lizards.
@oiltoast37232 жыл бұрын
Nah I think mosasurus is better that monster could kill a t-rex.
@ziyuan19892 жыл бұрын
Asian water monitors are common to be seen here in the rural area of Malaysia here and we Chinese call them 'four legged snakes' , they look quite scary as giant lizards, but at most times are afraid of huamans themselves due to their size, and yes I had scared away (by no hurting) some before😂
@merryn90002 жыл бұрын
@@oiltoast3723 wasn't a monitor though
@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles2 жыл бұрын
@@merryn9000 It was a varanoid lizard, not quite a varanid (monitor lizard). It's taxonomically nearly as closely related to monitor lizards as modern day earless monitor lizards.
@Saurian256 ай бұрын
@@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles How is it a varanoid? A most recent study on them suggested a close relationship to Varanoidea within Anguimorpha, but never said that they were varanoids themselves.
@windtalker4191 Жыл бұрын
Megalania was the biggest lizard to live on land. Technically, Mosasaurus was the largest lizard to ever exist.
@thhseeking2 жыл бұрын
Sir Richard Owen DID NOT discover the first Megalania specimens. He described the specimens which were purchased by the British Museum, and he described it from three vertebrae.
@geehammer15112 жыл бұрын
yeah the research on this channel appears to be a bit rushed, like they don't fact check anything just pull a script from Wikipedia or something.
@deanfirnatine7814 Жыл бұрын
That is the second major error in their video
@adamgreenspan49882 жыл бұрын
It’s a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming. On days like this, kids like you… should be digesting in my stomach! (Megalania goes with everything)
@SaerosTheDragon2 жыл бұрын
Regarding the "largest lizard that ever lived" - wouldn't that be a mosasaur? If I'm not mistaken, mosasaurs were squamate lizards and some species were over 10 meters long. Anyway, great episode, monitor lizards are my favorite animals! I hope that paleontologists will some day find a more complete megalania skeleton, maybe even with preserved impressions of its stomach content. Considering mosasaurs, I'd *LOVE* to see an episode about them, a mesozoic lizard equivalent of an orca, probably...
@GandalfTheTsaagan2 жыл бұрын
True! Mosasaurs are squamates and they were closely related to varanids and snakes Although, snakes should also be lizards, philogenetically
@leoornstein39632 жыл бұрын
Lizards on land only, excluding snakes and other marines representations.
@cocoduck77452 жыл бұрын
@@GandalfTheTsaagan mossa laid eggs?
@terriblelizardnbtapioles52792 жыл бұрын
yeah, specially since "lizards" are anything within squamata, so M. hoffmannii and T. proriger are the largest
@GandalfTheTsaagan2 жыл бұрын
@@cocoduck7745 Probably not since they couldn't go to land and amniote eggs don't fare well underwater. They were most likely ovoviviparous or viviparous, like some snakes today.
@YouGuessIGuess2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I think about how much more incredible our world would be if giant creatures like these still lived.
@turkeyman1002 жыл бұрын
And how much more terrifying and dangerous.
@legendarypussydestroyer69432 жыл бұрын
That would make Australia even more Australian
@thevindudissanayake46522 жыл бұрын
nothing i would like better
@lucasb92852 жыл бұрын
They went extint thx to the ice age, we are finally leaving the ice with the globe getting warmer, obce the polds fully melt we finally be post ice age. And since heat is better for megafaune new animals inc
@Vangaurd_tiger Жыл бұрын
If this things existed we would be on its menu. Or we would have killed the entire species because of the sheer threat they pose. Homo species that lived in indonesia had it bad
@Fern_Paleo2 жыл бұрын
Glad you said largest land bound lizard because everyone knows and loves the amazing lizards that where the mosasaurs
@holycrusader31192 жыл бұрын
mosasaurs werent lizards though, they were very closely related but they were a whole other thing
@rianfelis31562 жыл бұрын
@@holycrusader3119 Mosasaurs were absolutely lizards. Recent studies are inconclusive but they all say the closest living relatives are either the monitor lizards, or snakes, which are also lizards. And both of which raise the speculation that they were also venomous.
@Fern_Paleo2 жыл бұрын
@@holycrusader3119 yea mosasaurs along with snakes and other lizards are all lizards
@holycrusader31192 жыл бұрын
@@rianfelis3156 they're closely related but we dont call mosasaurs lizards, we call them mosasaurs.
@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles2 жыл бұрын
@@holycrusader3119 We call mosasaurs mosasaurs the same way we call iguanas iguanas. They're all still lizards. Mosasaurs were in speculated to be in the group of animals called varanoids which includes modern day monitor lizards and earless monitors, so monitors were far more closely related to mosasaurs than any other non-monitor group of lizards.
@altithoraxperotorum51332 жыл бұрын
Megalania wasn't the only giant reptile in Australia . There was an turtle with horns called meilolania, quinkana a terrestrial crocodile and wonambi an ancient 6 meter long snake
@erichtomanek47392 жыл бұрын
Lord Howe island once had horned tortoises.
@wash23612 жыл бұрын
There was also a mekosuchian called plaudirex that inhabited the rivers and waterways, probably preyed on megafauna and may have reached up to 8 meters long
@lucasb92852 жыл бұрын
6 meterd is not that long for a snake rigth
@wash23612 жыл бұрын
@@lucasb9285 I’d say it’s in the upper medium range for snake size
@tradehut27822 жыл бұрын
how Australians survive is a real mystery
@darthphilfy2 жыл бұрын
Not constantly having mass shootings makes it a safer place to live.
@yaboibuggles8188 Жыл бұрын
We thrive off the coasts and don’t touch anything we see that knows how to swim
@antonboludo88862 жыл бұрын
0:26 - Leaping Lizards! What a glutton to burp like that!
@michaelbuick6995 Жыл бұрын
Megalania is not the largest lizard. It's the largest terrestrial lizard, but Cretaceous mosasaurs are squamates, which makes them true lizards. In fact they're quite closely related to varanids; a clade which includes megalania, the komodo dragon and other lizards commonly referred to as "monitors".
@partyleswine51552 жыл бұрын
A video on the Permian animals, such as Gorgonopsid would be awesome! Still, this was very cool to watch and learn from!
@MourningCoffeeMusic Жыл бұрын
Technically mosasaurus is the largest lizard that ever lived and were also distant relatives of monitor lizards.
@isaiahmcguire18222 жыл бұрын
Can you guys please do a video on prehistoric cetaceans like Basilosaurus or Dorodon?! Many people don't think about this group.
@eamonahern74952 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard of megalania was when watching a documentary that went with the fire theory for their extinction. It based it on stories and rock paintings passed down through generations of aboriginal Australians. Basically the theory was that magalania was cold blooded and needed to bask in the sun in the morning to warm its body. Humans took advantage of this by starting fires to over heat and probably burn any lizards that were a predatory threat. They then consumed the cooked meat.
@lancegauthier489 Жыл бұрын
Once again, ask the Aborigines what happened. They were actually there fighting these things and passed the stories down.
@emilybrackett28402 жыл бұрын
0:28 Me after drinking a bottle of soda.
@Terra2000Z2 жыл бұрын
That burp intro 0:18 at the beginning was so satisfying🔥💚🔥!
@mikeyjhilli2 жыл бұрын
Ok. So I wasn't the only one who thought that was a burp.
@youngstergaming94332 жыл бұрын
Loved the video was lovely seeing some stuff on megalania also may I suggest palaoloxodon it's a very interesting elefantine
@MystieeRBlx2 жыл бұрын
"this was the biggest lizard to ever exist" Tyrannosaurus rex: Am i a joke to you?
@raptorzilla07102 жыл бұрын
not lizards but you made an attempt
@6too6scratch611 ай бұрын
Mosasaurus: Bruh
@flamencoprof2 жыл бұрын
Gathering the eggs would be a low-risk way of over-exploiting this species to extinction. One for the ladies.
@macelarul32192 жыл бұрын
So we get biger chikens?
@flamencoprof2 жыл бұрын
@@macelarul3219 I do not understand your question. Please explain.
@macelarul32192 жыл бұрын
@@flamencoprof i mean you said their eggs wold be easy to be talent right?... Dosent that mean that wold make them a other kind of chicken? Just for the eggs not the meat
@macelarul32192 жыл бұрын
Colected not talent
@allluckyseven2 жыл бұрын
I had no idea this awesome creature existed! Cool video, and great art!
@111LMBL2 жыл бұрын
@ 0:26 that was a loooong lizard Burp! Lol 😂
@Jormunrek_av_Bakromene Жыл бұрын
Aboriginal Australians were the original dragonslayers in real life. I still like to think Megalania was the ancient inspiration for dragons that has been passed on to other parts of the world.
@gattycroc80732 жыл бұрын
I would love it if you made a video on Sebecus, Daeodon, Quinkana, and Amphicyon.
@Astrapionte2 жыл бұрын
Definitely talk about Elephant birds next 🙏🏽
@Todoolidoo2 жыл бұрын
0:26 the roar was just someone burping 😂
@charlinalupus33002 жыл бұрын
Idea: Maybe a video on Triceratops or Pterodactyl?
@jr95292 жыл бұрын
I love how it burped once it was introduced XD
@nicogr62272 жыл бұрын
You guys should make some videos about the other reptiles of Australia, like the horned tortoise, Mieolania, or the terrestrial crocodile, Quinkana
@mindripperful2 жыл бұрын
An Australian Komodo Dragon. As in a Komodo Dragon with the temper of an Australian. Why am I not surprised
@sarban16532 жыл бұрын
We should introduce the Komodo dragon to Australia to serve as a proxy for the extinct megalania.
@ZOMBuckaCurt Жыл бұрын
Komodos originated from australia and went to indonesian islands about 50k yrs ago
@landak1362 жыл бұрын
Suggestion? How about scary pre-Mesozoic fish? Pick your weapon: Dunkleosteus or Helicoprion?
@williamblansett57862 жыл бұрын
Megalania compete with two land crocodiles, two water crocodile and giant komodo dragons.
@LoverGirl.-2 жыл бұрын
can we just appreciate the drawings for a moment?
@varanid92 жыл бұрын
What the hell was that at 00:26?? Lizards don't roar, or burp, or whatever that was supposed to be.
@thefatraptor44242 жыл бұрын
Where’d you get the megalania model from ???
@TheTbet Жыл бұрын
0:25 Didn’t know megalania drunk beer
@babraham87122 жыл бұрын
“What’s scarier than a Komodo dragon” *tongue noises* that’s so funny
@sallytiew4454 Жыл бұрын
I LOVE MEGAINA THE EXTINCT KOMODO DRAGON 🦎
@davidbirch984 ай бұрын
At the start, it shows the giant mega lizard, burping!!!😂 that was great. All aside, i think they still live.
@germanomagnone2 жыл бұрын
personally the Megalania is the most dinosaur-like animal that prehistoric man has ever encountered.
@germanomagnone2 жыл бұрын
0:25 he should learn manners (maybe he's done digesting) 🤢🤢🤢 more than a roar that must terrorize, it is more at a burp that only makes me laugh
@dibershai60092 жыл бұрын
And the elephant bird
@iamsorryforbeingrudebefore16262 жыл бұрын
Humans lived with dinosaurs, they called them dragons.
@dibershai60092 жыл бұрын
@@iamsorryforbeingrudebefore1626 The only dinosaurs that humans have ever lived with (and still do) are birds.
@iamsorryforbeingrudebefore16262 жыл бұрын
@@dibershai6009 In almost all ancient civilization there is some sort of recount or legend about some kind of giant lizard beast.
@issotti4822 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for making this video! This is one I recommend! I hope to see a Megaloceros next!
@grrttr2 жыл бұрын
"weighing between 97-1,940 kg (214-4,277 lb), but the fragmentary nature of known remains make estimates highly uncertain" .wiki
@Hello.1012 жыл бұрын
6:15 sorry if i got this wrong but did the Megalania just burp
@GreedyGlo2 жыл бұрын
I couldn’t imagine running into one of these after she gave the measurements plus its speed
@jackthewinter50662 жыл бұрын
Always loved komodo dragon family of species!!!
@bloodbathdiablos63593 ай бұрын
And I heard that megalanias used to coexisted with populations of komodo dragons in Australia, as you know or if you don’t know, komodo dragons were presented in Australia during the Pleistocene as well, and that make Australia basically dangerous place that you can call it’s a hell
@jakerubino32332 жыл бұрын
Lol, that sound effect at the end of the info was more fake burp than mega monitor 😂😂🤣
@adelyn89432 жыл бұрын
A little correction; Zaglossus hacketti is no longer considered part of that genus! It is now part of its own genus; Murrayglossus
@sarojandongol14822 жыл бұрын
With a name that's just two letters off Megalovania, it does sound cool.
@jacktheron29002 жыл бұрын
next you should do the mosasaur
@shermanhouston74332 жыл бұрын
Mosasaurs were aquatic monitors that would make komodos look tiny and harmless in comparison.
@ReeveProductions2 жыл бұрын
This giant horned turtle sounds amazing!
@legionluciano2 жыл бұрын
Dunkleosteus would be an interesting creature
@kymanibrown76362 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video on the vulture bee and its weird meat honey? is it strange that i kinda wanna try it
@ChristopherFranklinSr2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for them info
@babraham87122 жыл бұрын
“The lost lizard king of Australia” *burps like your drunk dad at the BBQ* this is great
@danielnunez38462 жыл бұрын
This channel is amazing😮💨
@quentincompson91677 ай бұрын
Multituberculates! Most amazing and successful and overlooked critters ever. :)
@janekschmidt90152 жыл бұрын
great episode, thanks Talia!
@Gintama65947 ай бұрын
It has to be Australia every single time.
@SanRafaelSwell Жыл бұрын
Mosasaurs are the largest lizards known to have ever lived. V. priscus is the largest terrestrial lizard known to have lived.
@israelhernandez1452 жыл бұрын
You guys always have the cutest presenters teaching me about amazing animals. Cheers.
@zac31772 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on the Ivory Billed Woodpecker?
@xscaliersolid11942 жыл бұрын
Looks like I've got my next Jurassic-Park-style project...
@uteliasmajava52102 жыл бұрын
"Roar" at 0:25 LMAOF
@vazak112 жыл бұрын
Great coverage!
@mikijwa Жыл бұрын
Did you use a burp for the sound effect?
@harison5482 жыл бұрын
Who made that wonderful drawing?? :)
@katrinayoung79492 жыл бұрын
I would say bush fires would have been a huge factor in their extinction, would have wiped out a lot of eggs and young as well as their prey animals.
@adiprajapati2 жыл бұрын
Deinonychus or Brachiosaurus
@walterfechter80802 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see a Megalania fight a giant saltwater crocodile. My money would be on the croc, even though the croc might eventually succumb to its wounds. It's all about the power of an animal's ability to "chomp." Crocodiles have a tremendous downward bite force.
@adriansantiagojr.83782 жыл бұрын
If megalania was still around, you would see some people pulling up to school on one of these.
@LarzGustafsson2 жыл бұрын
Please, do one on the mosasaur. Thank you!
@salaltschul36042 жыл бұрын
We've still got goannas! But thankfully they're less....scary.
@poggersbro55052 жыл бұрын
Ah yes my fav ancient giant lizard, Megalovania
@GandalfTheTsaagan2 жыл бұрын
Undertale was a metaphor for the human colonization of Australia confirmed
@SuperMrHiggins Жыл бұрын
I know that if I saw a giant killer monitor lizard I would definitely want them all dead if I was living with the technology of thousands upon thousands of years ago.
@stayweird85442 жыл бұрын
LOVE THE VID!!!! Could you do a video on Adopodentotis?
@TehSymbiote2 жыл бұрын
the more i see there prehistoric videos the more i appreciate Ark's dino models
@arkinyte132 жыл бұрын
Props to the ancient aborigines for battling with this freaking death dragon.
@guntherpiedmont45292 жыл бұрын
I wish they lost that battle.
@peabrain68722 жыл бұрын
@@guntherpiedmont4529 why?
@guntherpiedmont45292 жыл бұрын
@@peabrain6872 man has caused more extinctions than anything other than volcanoes and meteors. Give us time, we will beat them both. The advantages of mankind over nature will be everything's downfall.
@erichtomanek47392 жыл бұрын
@@peabrain6872 Extinction bad.
@peabrain68722 жыл бұрын
@@erichtomanek4739 i see
@shomaafrin15282 жыл бұрын
Title :Megalania biggest lizard of all time Mosasaurus: am I a joke to you
@khoado95122 жыл бұрын
Now imagine an invasive amphibian that nowadays can take these guys' home with ease.
@RagShop12 жыл бұрын
For in depth reading on this topic, check out the 2004 book, "Dragons In The Dust" by Ralph Molnar.
@TyreseGRazon2 жыл бұрын
Please do a sivatherium i love ur videos thank u.
@plat61642 жыл бұрын
"Komodo Dragon that's about twice the length of a car" so just a straight up dragon then
@keelothebeardeddragon4202 жыл бұрын
This is literally the real life SCP 682, The Hard to Destroy Reptile!!!
@davidfiore4677 Жыл бұрын
When you think about it, Megalania was pretty much like the T. Rex of Prehistoric Australia.
@Celebesdalamkeemasan Жыл бұрын
Yeah its true
@terryenglish71322 жыл бұрын
Ah , the old over hunting . Certainly egg gathering rather than direct hunting would be a factor, but that had been going on for tens of thousands of years. Their demise coincides w that of the mega fauna of North America which were killed by the Comet strike of the Younger Dryas. Strikes occured in Africa and South America also . Perhaps Australia as well. If not by the strike itself, then by the "Nuclear Winter" as Earth plunged back into a new ice age having its start back to warmer times quashed by the impacts.
@Hurricayne922 жыл бұрын
I mean I feel that Megalania would have also seen humans as food, likely leading to them being killed out of defence. Also as far as I'm aware there has been no evidence of widespread cooling from something like a meteorite strike in Australia in the last 50,000 years.
@rhysearch1512 жыл бұрын
The comet strike theory is complete bunk. Almost all extinctions happened substantially earlier (as in Australia) or much later (as in the arctic and South America). At best it can explain some of the North American extinctions, but even that is doubtful. Human impact remains the theory most consistent with the global pattern of extinctions.
@terryenglish71322 жыл бұрын
@@rhysearch151 Explain all the evidence if you think its bunk.
@rhysearch1512 жыл бұрын
@@terryenglish7132 What evidence? There's still debate as to whether there even was an impact at all. If there was, I've already explained how the timing of extinctions doesn't match over most of the planet, disqualifying a YDI as the explanatory factor.
@estervillafane2 жыл бұрын
Excelente y hermoso documental felicitaciones 👏 👍
@_masssk_2 жыл бұрын
I just LOVE your guys illustrations, they are amazing
@KissyKat2 жыл бұрын
Yeah that seems about right. Where man goes extinction seems to follow. 😞
@jbarnard20002 жыл бұрын
Plz do an episode on Quetzalcoatl the giant of the skies
@therizinosaurus1932 жыл бұрын
Quetzalcoatl isn’t a real animal
@therizinosaurus1932 жыл бұрын
But Quetzalcoatlus would be better
@jbarnard20002 жыл бұрын
@@therizinosaurus193 sorry auto correct the giant flying reptile quetzalcoatlus was what I meant
@DwarfLivingInTheMines2 жыл бұрын
Wrong, I am the Lizard King of Australia.
@jamesfarquhar85072 жыл бұрын
So all I need to ride a giant lizard like Obi-Wan is a time machine, and an infinite supply of meal-worms.
@arkprice792 жыл бұрын
0:13 where did that figure come from
@kathrynck2 жыл бұрын
I doubt any prehistoric humans thought "oh that looks fun to hunt". More realistically, they organized raiding parties to try to wipe out the menace they faced in the forests.
@AlexanderThePilgrim2 жыл бұрын
You don’t even know my real name... I’m the f*cking lizard king.