Australia is scary...but it used to be a lot worse...

[@hellegennes]

Australia is gorgeous, the same way Interstellar's black hole is gorgeous... from a safe distance of 500 billion kilometres.

[@lian3101]

What do you mean I would love to go to Australia it's so interesting

[@subraxas]

😀 😀 😀

[@subraxas]

@@lian3101 You should better prepare your Last Will in advance before you leave for.... ehm.... 'that place'. 🙂

[@chief2379]

I have never learned more about the prehistoric earth than with you man I love your channel 😭❤️ keep it going 🔥

[@dino-gen]

That's awesome, so glad you're learning so much, thank you so much for watching!

[@subraxas]

You have obviously been visiting all the wrong YT channels then. 😀

[@MarshalMarrs-eu9yh]

@@dino-genI would rather live in anywhere that is below freezing than live in Australia!

[@daxbashir6232]

I like the cockatoo being everywhere. 🙂❤

[@dino-gen]

Same :D

[@daxbashir6232]

@@dino-gen 🙂

[@subraxas]

Aye! 🙂

[@erichtomanek4739]

I've read that the Australian Magpie is the world's most dangerous urban bird. It blinds one or two people per year.

[@JanikBouchette]

Thank you for doing a video on the amazing, rabies-free, land down under. I salute you, dino-gen!

[@alexanderren1097]

Australia may be the land of “NOPE!” to most of the rest of the world EXCEPT for Florida Man, Cajuns, and Slavs

[@MQuadrucci]

😄

[@s_crylly7751]

Pretty incredible content, brother. I appreciate your nuanced takes on a subject like prehistory. Using qualifiers like, "it is believed/possibly/current evidence suggests" goes a very long way for establishing credibility and is very underappreciated these days. I love too, that you post your sources. Hope to see a reasonable and humble voice do well.

[@dino-gen]

I appreciate that! Thank you for the kind words and I'm glad you're enjoying it :)

[@lynnmitzy1643]

Imagine how big the drop bears used to be😂❤🐨

[@bkjeong4302]

Keep in mind that these animals were evolutionarily modern; they’re not animals from an ancient time before modern fauna evolved, but CONTEMPORARIES of living animals that coexisted with them. So Australia when humans arrived would have had everything alive in Australia in the 21st century as well as native megafauna.

[@HammboneBob]

Oh sweet new upload! Thanks 👍🏻

[@nbell63]

Wa'Hey - that giant green stick insect [Eurycnema goliath] lives in my front yard! (quite chuffed!) 🥰 "barely mammals"... were you trying to say "bearly koalas"? oh, and spiders? we have the Communal Huntsman [Delena cancerides] - "Highly unusual among spiders, the flat huntsman spider is a social species, even sharing prey. They are often found in colonies of up to 300 [and] hunt their food rather than spin webs for it."

[@IcepickedWalrus]

In my opinion, the worst part of Australia is the heat (despite living in a desert myself, where we regularly get 37°-45° weather)

[@bradschoeck1526]

37°-45° ain’t hot! That’s cold! Unless you’re using that communist measuring stuff…. Only joking!

[@steelcrown7130]

Ha ha! I am sitting here in the capital city with my hoodie's hood up and a blanket round my shoulders. Oh, and the heater is on. This morning's frost was epic.

[@subraxas]

@@steelcrown7130 Can of Berries 🙂

[@steelcrown7130]

@@subraxas Absolutely car-wrecked!

[@tecumsehcristero]

At least you don’t have black Bears, grizzly bears, alligators and crocodiles, mountain lions, mouse, rattlesnakes, copperheads and water moccasins

[@steelcrown7130]

Nice summary of our megafauna, thanks. Now that you mention it, having a short-faced kangaroo wander around on two feet rather than hopping is indeed moderately creepy...

[@malcontender6319]

The Gympie-gympie. I rest my case.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Bring back the shovel mouth and 4 tusk elephants, terrestrial crocodiles, that giant elk, the 13 recently extinct giant tortoises, smilodons, proto birds, the real flying dragons (discovered last year. Membrane wing dinos) the rest of the extinct deer and antelopes, larger cat like mustilidea, aurox (sp?), the giant terrestrial scorpions, spiral jaw sharks, trilobites. Mostly for studying, some for eating. Nothing gigantic that we couldn't implant in a surrogate to start. And also some hadrasaurs that are thought to be be very vocal, something with a hyoid would be interesting also. Things thought to exhibit extremely early co-parental care in colonies or suspected of unique behaviors, structures or morphology.

[@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural]

The membranous winged dinosaurs have been known since at least 2015 assuming that there isn’t another specimen sitting forgotten on a shelf somewhere. They called it Yi Qi.

[@thomasgumersell9607]

Enjoyed your video on ancient Australia. The ancient Australian Fauna was truly incredible. 💪👃✨

[@dino-gen]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dantemedici8179]

Great channel ! ❤❤❤

[@dino-gen]

Glad you enjoy it! Thank you :)

[@gratefulot360]

I really enjoy your channel!🦖

[@dino-gen]

I'm so glad! thank you :)

[@johninnh4880]

One of my favorite shows on KZbin!

[@Mr.BlingIsRizzy]

Happy seeing this guy every morning.

[@SirCasticComics]

The bringing back mammoths question is really interesting because I have heard it as a potential way to limit the effects of climate change by reintroducing the animals that maintained the Siberian steppe. Basically, back when there were big ole mammoths tromping around Siberia, what is now dense pine forests was vast grasslands and steppes. This was possible because the large animals would knock trees down opening space for grasses. The potential good this could do for climate change is that because grass grows faster than trees, when it does it is quickly covered and buried which creates a much more stable layer of permafrost underground. This permafrost trapped a lot of the carbon on the dead grass and other such things much more effectively in a steppe than a forest because rarely does the carbon of the forest get buried fast enough to become part of the permafrost before decomposing and being released into the atmosphere. That’s probably a terrible summary of the idea, but i think it’s pretty interesting, and probably the best reason I can think of to bring mammoths specifically back if we were to do something like that.

[@unterdessen8822]

Why do you remind me of Henry Cavill? 🤔

[@subraxas]

😀 😀 You're not the only one to see the resemblance! I and several other people have already "bothered" him here with this on multiple videos. 🙂

[@alexanderren1097]

In reference to your closing question about de-extinction, I think it’d be pretty cool if they can bring back Mammoths but I don’t think they’re going to survive or thrive without SIGNIFICANT human intervention. At one point in time, I believed the “Overkill” hypothesis. However, after learning a lot more about the last Ice Age, particularly the catastrophic events that ended it, especially the meteor/comet impacts and air bursts that occurred and melted the ice sheets. This coupled with the estimates of human populations at the time, has made be completely reject the Overkill hypothesis. Mammoths and other megafauna were killed by events and catastrophic climactic changes that had NOTHING to do with humans and Mammoths and other Ice Age megafauna simply won’t be able to survive on their own in our current climate

[@laurachapple6795]

I'm sorry, you're telling me that the first humans arrived in Australia, saw this landscape crawling with monsters, and decided to stay?!

[@subraxas]

😀

[@erichtomanek4739]

Imagine if Tasmania was say 90% the size of Australia and NO people reached it until just a few centuries ago. Not so many mega reptiles but mega marsupials and monotremes aplenty!

[@EpicJasonX9000]

Question: if you could theoretically domesticate and train a carnivorous dinosaur similar to a dog to be a pet, which one would you choose & why?

[@subraxas]

0:39 - About 14 years ago, I and my mates met one jolly Aussie at a pub here, in London, UK. He revealed to us with a big proud smile on his face that his family have become Australian, because his English great-grandfather (maybe I forgot one "great-") had stolen a sheep here. The authorities managed to catch him and he then got tried, sentenced and shipped.... ehm.... "down under". 😀 😀

[@Joss0051]

Mammoths are thought to control the Tundra, and it is believed that they could help mitigate, slightly, a little of global warming. Affecting their environment like Wildebeest do, which were reintroduced in some parts of Africa. A keystone species perhaps? Just a thought. All the best, and a great video, Warm Regards Joseph

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I'm so fascinated with prehistoric life, ice age creatures, etc. etc. It's ridiculous just how many crazy forms of critters once existed. I badly wish we could witness how things were when they were alive & there's probably so much more we haven't discovered or can't due to the limitations of the fossil record. Would be awesome if we had a way of learning what an animals behavior & attitude was like but thats completely impossible. I still day dream about it tho lol

[@youngg2517]

This is like hearing your dad swear for the first time

[@HammboneBob]

My dad always swore

[@subraxas]

@@HammboneBob 😞

[@yezothebear]

💙

[@sevenidols607]

12:00 good for you. Glad to you see you support de-extinction, albeit responsibly.

[@cheeks7050]

The arrival of humans was disastrous for Australian biomes.

[@Sparky8472a]

Do we get the Golblum pose from you next video?! 😂

[@subraxas]

😀

[@subraxas]

0:33 - 😀 😀 😀

[@mattjohnson1620]

0:17 🤣🤣🤭

[@willcarroll8438]

The hair tho… you tried it, it didn’t work.. and no Oz is fine there’s dangerous stuff but only in the wild and 99% of people live in urban areas I saw a snake once and I’m now 42.. that’s as dangerous as it gets lol

[@jasminsmithies898]

Have to totally disagree with you there, looks great! Suits the Aussie theme as well 😂🤠🐨

[@Artlsm]

0:38 Nah mate,it’s not *THAT* bad!

[@Artlsm]

This comment is gonna come back and bite me in the a*s ain’t it

[@subraxas]

@@Artlsm 😀

[@mariablackett6830]

You are so smart you should be a geography teacher

[@dino-gen]

Naaa, I'd be terrible...

[@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural]

Australian animals are not scary. Their most venomous snake has zero kills and their biggest land predators are a medium sized monitor and dogs. North American animals are way more hardcore. We have bears and pumas and rattle snakes etc.

[@kennethsatria6607]

It doesnt take the deadliest venom to kill humans

[@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural]

@@kennethsatria6607 true and besides my point. Fun fact, it is not the potency alone that makes a venom deadly. Venom that is highly potent can be harmless. The venom of a ring neck snake will kill a king snake but has no effect on mammals. A rattlesnake has venom that can kill a human but king snakes shrug it off. Venom is complicated.

[@joannakeenan3355]

Great Galloping Mammoths! Surely they didn't gallop for the same gravity-related reasons that modern elephants don't 😂

[@abdulazizrex]

There was a kangaroo significantly larger than Procoptodon, though it has yet to be named.

[@abdulazizrex]

Kangaroo’s are the only dangerous marsupials.

[@EpicJasonX9000]

Since Carnotaurus is my favorite dinosaur, would you be willing to do a video based on it and other Abelisaurids? Thanks. ^-^

[@subraxas]

Didn't he already? I am not sure now....

[@graydoncarruth5044]

Don’t forget the drop bears!

[@hollypinky7702]

What happened if dinosaurs came back 😊

[@subraxas]

It depends on their numbers and the variety of species . . . . and numerous other aspects and circumstances.

[@tymon5349]

this topic has been done dozen times before.