This Prehistoric Sperm Whale Was A Leviathan

[@Amy-il7mq]

I love the skulls of theses whales because they look like something you'd find in a video game that was made up to look as scary as possible.

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Whales in Dishonored have a design inspired by this (although you don't get to fight one).

[@NikoKyunKyun]

​@@akechijubeimitsuhideyou get to "save" one though

[@flightlesschicken7769]

Subnautica Leviathans..

[@spitfirebird]

They look like the skull of something from a sci-if movie

[@Kingjustin1019]

Iron Lung anyone?

[@DanGamingFan2406]

They sound like a leviathan straight out of Subnautica If I had the chance to see any prehistoric predator, it would be this one.

[@watershipup7101]

A person of culture, I sea.

[@waterbullstudios9195]

​@@watershipup7101 I sea what you did there. Nice.

[@tnargs2693]

Who sees who first?

[@notinusesoon4975]

@@tnargs2693 bruh you broke da chain!!!

[@Dan-rw2dq]

For me id like to see a mosasaur

[@mcsmith732]

Danielle does the most soulful critter illustrations! That "Livyatan" looks so happy! Probably because it's so nice to be brought back to life and remembered when your entire species has been extinct for 9 million years.

[@jeffrasmussen7388]

I got hooked on channel because of her art

[@Jordy120]

@@jeffrasmussen7388 Same here.

[@Hotdogwater421]

I bet y’all all whales that can go down deep and see everything we can’t. I doubt most these creatures swim around blind it’s just not there nature. I know they can see the darkest of oceans. You can tell by there graceful movements at depths that only subs can go and they fly by with grace.

[@SpaghettiToaster]

@@Hotdogwater421 Can't see if there's no light

[@randomnickify]

Neah, it looks happy because it just have some tasty meal, nice juicy baby whale.😂

[@TheBigG4]

*“Multiple leviathan class lifeforms detected are you sure whatever your doing is worth it?“*

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

Yeah, gonna have to fire up a new game :D

[@cow12344]

*cocks stasis rifle* No.

[@alleredetagetafmig]

a person of culture, i sea

[@theiviachine]

Was looking for this comment

[@fishanhunter]

“You’re the best captain on the planet, im not even squidding”

[@Jimera0]

When I learned about this thing recently I was both shocked and annoyed that I hadn't heard of it until then, considering it's the leading contender for the largest active predator in the planet's history. I couldn't understand why such an awe-inspiring beast had so little presence in pop culture. Hopefully with videos like this one giving it some overdue exposure, we'll start seeing more of it!

[@strategicperson95]

Probably like how with tanks, it's a marketability thing. Like who wants to talk about the Hungarian Toldi tank when you can talk about the German Tiger tank or Soviet T-34 for the thousandth time.

[@josiahws5]

It was discovered in 2008, while the megalodon was discovered around 200 years ago. So that's probably why.

[@andrewbowen6875]

Lol me too. How did we not know about this amazing creature

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

You mean "largest active macroraptorial predator" because the largest known active predators still roam our oceans and livyatan is not among them.

[@Jimera0]

@F1ll1nTh3Blanks yes I do know, but I felt the qualifiers would read as pedantic. Baleen whales may technically be predators but no one really thinks of them as such.

[@PaperThinArmor]

The thought of this living around the time of megalodons and maybe even preying on them is interesting

[@yellowandbrown1864]

Modern orcas pray on whites so livyatins almost definitely preyed on megs. And megs might’ve eaten young livyatins

[@migueljardim8177]

The two apex predators of the sea. We probably won't see anything like that ever again sadly.

[@Nubloot]

They’d probably avoid one another. Though if they did end up throwing down my money would be on the whale because of that sweet mammal brain factor. That said a megs bite would probably have been slightly more devastating.

[@ninjiango9126]

Like Great Whites vs Orcas, but bigger.

[@theman9048]

​@@Nublootnah I think the whales hunted the shark like they do today

[@CoralReaper707]

Livyatan is such a beautiful and epic creature that deserves more credit and respect.

[@thehellyousay]

Deserves? It simply existed. No desert involved. 99.9999999% of everything that has ever lived on this world is extinct,and we've "discovered" the faintest traces of the remains of less than 0.0001% of that. What the living f**k does deserve got to do with anything?

[@thegrimstreaker4669]

My first thought upon seeing this was, so moby dick was real at some point in time.

[@PhyrexJ]

Credits? For what? Do you even know what you're saying?

[@it3ly800]

Fr

[@UncomfortableShoes]

Check out the song Levithan by Schooner Fare if you haven’t already. It’s a lovely song about whales

[@tonyp6631]

I can't get over how good Danielle's illustrations are. I sometimes miss parts of the presentation watching the sketch unfold. Very cool

[@touremuhammad5983]

Fun fact: Scientists have speculated that Livyatan went extinct due to competition with Orcas, which hunted the same prey but were smaller. This was similar to how competition with Great White Sharks caused Megalodon to go extinct, which was around the same time as Livyatan.

[@ellidominusser1138]

Lmao, both giants got out-competed by their smaller counterparts

[@ultraextraorca7644]

That's actually not true at all. Orcas didn't hunt Marine Mammals until after Megalodon and Livyatan went extinct. The prehistoric orcas that they lived wuth were smsller and hsd teeth adapted for hunting fish, not mammals. The great white one is accurate tho. As the climates cooled, Megalodon's major prey sources migrated to colder waters leaving them less to eat. Great White sharks need to eat less so they srivuved while the Megalodon did not.

[@jacobbrown1690]

Orca pods hunted the meg into extinction

[@CollegeBallYouknow]

@@jacobbrown1690 What would eventually become the modern orcas only started to develop AFTER Meg died out because they realistically had no chance against a shark of that size

[@arminhashtroodi8432]

​@@jacobbrown1690That can't be true otherwise the great white would have also went extinct and probably many other shark species

[@ondry8780]

got to see the skull in the national museum of natural history in lima, peru. AND IT'S HUGE

[@FKyoutubeSERIOUSLY]

Makes it more believable that ancient people finding these thought they were monsters of myth.

[@IDontKnowWhatIamDoingHelpMe]

​@@FKyoutubeSERIOUSLY in a sense they are

[@ahsanhaider6549]

I am deeply impressed by the channel's artist who creates these meticulously accurate anatomical sketches.

[@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667]

Woah, this Leviathan and the Megalodon were truly the terror of the prehistoric sea.

[@陳嘉宇-y4q]

If you wanna know more, The Pisco formation represents the oddness of the Miocene fauna perfectly Not only do we have these two, we also got marine gharials, marine ground sloth, penguins, toothed albatross, double sworded swordfish, and more

[@serfranklin6022]

Livyatan! She must have said it 70 times in this video, and you STILL.... !!!! 😮🤯😵🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🙇🏽‍♂️

[@exalt2674]

@@陳嘉宇-y4q Marine ground sloth and double swordfish? Wow.

[@陳嘉宇-y4q]

@@exalt2674 Thalassocnus and Xiphiorhynchus respectively

[@exalt2674]

@@陳嘉宇-y4q Thanks

[@majinvegeta9280]

Deep dives in a prehistoric ocean must have been quite the experience. One of my favorite marine animals has always been the dunkleosteus with the 2nd either the meg or leviyatan. Life amazes me to this day but I find it absolutely fascinating some of the creatures that have roamed this planet. The mesozoic era was a cool time in earths history and would be really cool to visit the jurassic, triassic and cretaceous periods separately to see how much things changed between each epoch

[@zazugee]

dunkleosteus looks like a piranha on steroids

[@Dumbledalf1]

Livyatan would probably have been my worst fear, tbh

[@chandekam1826]

Mine too, but only because I would not have been able to spell its name.

[@jjoohhhnn]

stun with the sonar before those 1 ft teeth get to you, yeah they're OP.

[@arjunakorale6166]

@@jjoohhhnnTry 3 foot long teeth, NOT 1 foot long!

[@jjoohhhnn]

@@arjunakorale6166 I am the Walrus...

[@Scarlet_Soul]

@@arjunakorale6166 Psst, 30cm is 1 foot

[@gEtar87]

Title: "This was a leviathan" First words: "Don't call this a leviathan"

[@kelly6677]

I scrolled down alarmingly far, past numerous comments calling it a leviathan, to find this comment... I'm so confused

[@baldbeaverhunter-oh7bz]

Because it "was" named leviathan until the name change

[@318greenman]

They to change the name to the Hebrew form of the word because there was already a mastodon called a leviathan​@@kelly6677

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

Leviathan vs Megalodon is going to be a movie now huh 😅

[@TeethToothman]

Livyatan**

[@zwiebeldogs]

You and Lindsay Nikole uploading about the same topic within an hour. That's a sign for me to travel to the deep seas

[@napoleonfeanor]

Don't use OceanGate ;)

[@nckojita]

right? talk ab lucky!

[@ytalgorithmperfected3561]

ikr i love animalogic but Lindsay takes the W on this one

[@boxy2k8]

Ben G Thomas too

[@Voc_spooksauce]

Not only are the hosts in this channel well-versed, but also stylish as hell

[@Makabert.Abylon]

Except the pronunciation of the creature itself then.

[@76rjackson]

She explained that. It's the Hebrew pronunciation.

[@Voc_spooksauce]

@@Makabert.Abylon You're not paying attention to the videos at all, are you?

[@Arin-3]

@@Voc_spooksaucethey didn’t have subway surfers in the bottom panel, give ‘em a break.

[@Torbu6286]

You guys are too damn underrated for such quality content, how y'all won't stop doing it

[@dingokidneys]

I'm really enjoying these videos and watching Danielle's drawings come together is a fun element.

[@Renisanxious]

If we're doing prehistoric sea creatures I either need a liopleurodon video or anomalocaris, opabinia, or tully monster video. The precambrian and cambrian seas were wild, i would also accept a sea scorpion video!!

[@DrJuice1]

The way she pronounces livyatan feels very passive aggressive

[@jamieholsey1106]

Fr!

[@ethandollarhide7943]

Animalogic and Lindsay Nikole doing a video about Livyatan on the Same Day? Coincidence or Planned: You decide.

[@Tsuruchi_420]

The way she says levyatan boggles me so much, it's like she's trying to imitate a french person, binomial nomenclature gets people talking in such a weird way sometimes

[@ytalgorithmperfected3561]

me saying "le-VAI-ah-tin" mentally every time she says "le-vee-ah-tun"

[@mariusciobanu2025]

It drives me crazy

[@TheRealAaronSmith]

Maybe because she's not saying "Leviathon" when she says that, you id10t. She even explained why. "Leviathon" is assigned to a Mastodon. They can't call two separate animals the same thing, so they named it after the Hebrew translation of the same word/name.

[@TheRealAaronSmith]

@@mariusciobanu2025 the part that's driving you crazy is that you're wrong, not her.

[@laurieb3703]

​@@TheRealAaronSmithapparently they're both wrong. I looked it up and it's said like "leave-yah-tun". Interesting!

[@RevanAlaire]

Liv-Ya-Tan would be the most accurate pronunciation.

[@deadlydingus1138]

Finally. A video about your mom.

[@briannormant3622]

Thanks. I proud of my mom's massive and powerful jaw able to kill and hunt great sharks.

[@bigkahunamenor]

You are such a great spokesperson and scientist. The scientific community owes you a huge debt of gratitude for making science more exciting and new. Keep up the great work 🤙🏾

[@Karyuvtuber]

This is one of my favorite prehistoric animals! I want to buy that print! Also a Dilophosaurus video would be cool.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

The thing I like about Livyatan vs megalodon is unlike spino vs rex its an even match and it realistically happened

[@massimookissed1023]

It should obviously be called a Shark Whale. (We have whale sharks, so why not ?)

[@yollysantos6195]

it doesn't look like a shark and it's not related to any sharks.

[@jjoohhhnn]

Gah, prehistoric oceans are too cool! I love Livyatan, imo it's probably the most powerful single predator to ever roam the oceans, that sonar might be able to stun a megalodon the same way GWSs are stunned by orca and even dolphin sonar? It'd be awesome if you covered Palaeophis colossaeus, imo it's cooler than titanoboa. Almost the same size, but it's a literal sea-serpent. Possibly grippy scales, possibly venomous? Probably one of the coolest snakes of all time, and one of the coolest linnaean reptiles since the dinosaurs.

[@alexcisneros2980]

Wow! Didn't know sea serpents really existed! Sailors thought the oarfish was a sea serpent but if only the knew there really were sea serpents! Only 38 million years too late! 🤧

[@No.1GodzillaGlazer]

Damn, that sounds cool, gotta check it out but yeah Meg vs Livy is basically a coin flip due to Livy having a slight advantage in head to head and Meg having the advantage in a wild battle

[@Nobody-su9km]

Megalodon had something GWS don't though, they were absurdly faster and way more lethal, the size difference specially in mouth makes meg way more lethal on a single bite, realistically, no animal had a chance against meg in The sea.

[@jjoohhhnn]

@@Nobody-su9km IDK if megalodon would be faster than the KO of the whales sonar but meg is still very cool.

[@gecko-saurus]

​@@Nobody-su9km Measurements of Livyatan's teeth and jaws are actually higher than Otodus megalodon's.

[@Nikki0417]

I'm still stuck on the fact sailors saw white fluid come from an animal's *head* and we're like "well, that must be sperm."

[@RealBradMiller]

Naturally.

[@christophercox936]

They were at sea for three yes….well yes.

[@joea.9969]

They were prob a rather uncouth bunch

[@913egok]

Very informative video. Loved it. A video about smilodon, showing how it interacted with other predators in its environment, would be great 😁

[@rxg9er]

I like to think they could hold their breath for an hour like sperm whales. But instead of diving deep, they lurked beneath the waves (and possibly thermoclines) so they could ambush their prey

[@williamcozart8158]

I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be pronounced like "leviathan", but with "tan" at the end...not "livvy ottin"

[@laurieb3703]

I just googled it and it sounds like leave-ya-tun

[@louiemercado5595]

Wonderful work on the video on Livyatan, my friend. Please keep on the work on your videos on these magnificent prehistoric creatures that we all we love.

[@randomnickify]

Don't give Hollywood more ideas, they already made Meg and dinosaurs living in the same timeframe 😅

[@martinh5402]

This is awesome thanks kindly Animalogic!

[@pritamsri]

Amazing info for a zoologist... Thanks for all the hard work put into this 😃👍🙏

[@knightofarkronia9968]

A literal Leviathan!

[@MJAY_NFFC]

Great video as ever Talia 🙂

[@ironclad7177]

the squid shall have their revenge on the whales.

[@eonarose]

Danielle’s drawing looks like a big smiling beluga. ❤

[@Fyreblade2000]

My favorite whale!!! Thank you Talia and Animalogic!!

[@barrymccaulkiner7092]

How long until a film franchise starring Jason Statham comes out called _The Livy_

[@MaliciousMollusc]

Theory: What if the whale in Moby Dick wasn't actually a Sperm Whale, but the last surviving Livyathan? That could explain why it was so aggressive and weird looking.

[@dinonuggett2968]

They went extinct 5 million years ago so no😊

[@nathwhit3980]

Says you.

[@lackland231]

They are definitely extinct

[@Doctor-vn8es]

There's also the fact that Moby Duck is a fictional story. So, yeah, there's that as well.

[@MaliciousMollusc]

@@Doctor-vn8es Not entirely fiction. It was based off a real event. The crew existed. And White (probably Leucistic) Sperm Whales have been confirmed to exist too.

[@PenitentHollow]

Crazy that Lindsay Nikole released a video on these guys right before you guys did 😅

[@edwinreveron870]

By the look of that drawing, it looked more like giant beluga whales, than sperm whales..

[@sciencenerd7639]

first lindsay nikole, then animalogic delightful double whammy of Livyatan

[@AnnHiroCh]

My brain keeps stopping at "Prehistoric Sperm" whenever i read the title.

[@sabersroommate8293]

I'm surprised people aren't aware of this creature. Then again its rarely covered by big channels.

[@cmkwan59]

So beautiful, glad it live in the era without human messing around.

[@brev653]

Well, this is weird. Lindsay Nikole posted a video about this same whale less than 20 minutes ago

[@Fortunes.Fool.]

The oceans were even scarier and they’re already scary now.

[@mikeyjhilli]

Cool. More nightmare fuel. Thanks Animalogic.

[@Hermit541]

I didn't call it a leviathan, you did in the title of the video

[@takenname8053]

By far the most popular prehistoric whale!

[@AlainSTO]

Prehistoric oceans are what gave me my thalassaphobia. I'm looking at you Dunkleosteus.

[@CountGremlin]

Shout outs to Mother Nature for making sure we wouldn't come across the Livyatan and THE MEG™ out in the real life wild 😂😂

[@Animal-spotting]

Animalogic never misses! Beautiful.

[@Ranstone]

0:05 Leviathan has never been described as a serpent in any setting...

[@prod.swoopy]

The Bible?

[@effingwrecked1917]

Setting Deez nutz

[@JackFrost008]

the spermaceti is for diving and part of creating the sonar sound

[@dairydregone7146]

How disappointing that y'all didn't explain what their relationship with the Megs

[@m.d.diablos4423]

The two most likely avoided each other

[@clarkvelasco4697]

Drove my chevy-yatan to the levee-yatan

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

I believe it is pronounced "Livy-O-tan" ....ok that was a horrific joke and I do feel the shame of it

[@spitfirebird]

I’ll forever be waiting for an episode on Microraptor, or maybe one about Caudipteryx, or basically any jehol biota animal, particularly the dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs, and mammals that lived in the formations that form its greater whole.

[@danielrobinson7872]

I’m genuinely upset that a mastodon was named leviathan instead of behemoth.

[@joea.9969]

Well paraceratherium fits it better

[@BRIANBURNS-y7g]

This NEEDS to be in the MEG III when the time comes..

[@napoleonfeanor]

We all need at least one mellon.

[@tmc3178]

2 videos on one of my favorite subjects can't complain 🤗

[@Oinker-Sploinker]

you and Lindsay nikole released a video about livayatan at the same time

[@ghoraxe9000]

Beavis : Woah! Butt head: She said Sperm...

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Interesting how Lindsay Nikole released a video on this exact same subject just about an hour BEFORE y'all did. Coincidence?

[@reppepper]

“Differs” is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable. The word you said is “defers”, which stresses the second.

[@ninamo3523]

We need more native language names of flora and fauna.

[@uranomichiaruki1]

🥱

[@hhhsp951]

Y'all should do a video about Morning Glory seeds

[@KingJay6912]

Aren't Killer whales a type of dolphin?

[@arjunakorale6166]

Yes.

[@Titanium-Fury06]

When i was eight i was traumatized by the skull of this beast it just looked terrifying and even today im still terrified of this thing

[@baikia777]

I think judging by the shape of teeth and jaw structure, they might looked closer to orcas but with a more bulbous forehead

[@TeethToothman]

Oh, wow! You must be an expert!!

[@piglin469]

How is this thing not in Ark

[@wilgarcia1]

lol Lindsay Nikole uploaded hers minutes before this =P

[@differous01]

"The real purpose of the spermaceti" [5:30] is not "up for debate" but DUAL. ie. It is BOTH an echo-location/navigation system, AND a means of stunning its prey/ defending against attack: divers who've been 'clicked' say it feels like being kicked.

[@journeymanX]

Girl: "leavey yatan" Leviathan: and i took that personally (Chomp)

[@jamieholsey1106]

Fr 😂

[@gregoryrolin9738]

That was really interesting. What about a video on Stellar's Sea Cow? I know it went extinct more recently, but it was such an odd member of the manatee family, and there is still so much we don't know about it.

[@blokin5039]

It love you in a cosy house with pizza.

[@diGritz1]

The name Leviathan is not just for describing a sea serpent. In can and has been used as a moniker for, not only sea serpents, but whales and crocodile as well. So yes you can call this a leviathan.

[@dream__soda7900]

Can you imagine the amount of untapped fossils at the bottom of the ocean? Such a shame. Hopefully we can reach there one day.

[@onemorekayaker1934]

Who thought it was a great idea to name a *mammoth* Leviathan? Oof.

[@TeethToothman]

Ummmmmmmmm what?? It's a whale and it's called Livyatan.

[@l-knight7294]

⁠@@TeethToothmanwatch the entire video, the reason it’s called Livyatan was because Leviathan was a name for a mammoth species so instead of leviathan melvillei they called it livyatan melvillei

[@TeethToothman]

@@l-knight7294 yep, but it's pronounced and spelled differently.

[@christophercox936]

@@TeethToothmanLove how you think you know what you are talking about when you have no clue. Dah

[@TeethToothman]

@@christophercox936 you're right, I just made that up

[@QUIRK1019]

Here's a request for a video on the fascinating Kayentatherium and its Jurassic babies

[@Slurpified]

They can also be known as bull sperm whales

[@GoonieLord]

This toothed beast did hunt the Meg

[@DoggosAndJiuJitsu]

I’m pretty sure your mom wasn’t swimming in the ancient oceans. 😶🤨

[@wghd6782]

I Love how Mastodon made an album called Leviathan

[@jonathankerr4859]

Yeah I always get mixed up with mammoths and whales. Also there was a mythological monster of the ocean from Ancient Greece where the name Leviathan comes from. Doubt many thought is was a hairy elephant.

[@eMAyeX16]

Yes, the *hebrew* word came from Ελλάδα. Because that makes sense /s

[@gacrazy65]

Two videos on this monster whale in one day? Nice!

[@IFledFromKansas]

I love me some whales.

[@duelingdragons82]

"...for eons to come." someone on the writing staff is optimistic about human survival.

[@lovemcurvy3126]

Lee-Vee-Ah-Tin.... Ya okay

[@Pizza653]

Love the drawing at 6:55! Beautiful style

[@Nick-Nasty]

Is that really the correct pronunciation..?

[@sciencenerd7639]

best topic coincidence since Forrest and Dave both did vids on Behe