Moschorhinus: The Ferocious Permian Survivor

[@AntoekneeDE]

Absolutely love this and appreciate these synapsid groups getting some good coverage lately. The fresh artwork was spectacular as well 😎

[@posticusmaximus1739]

Awesome, you narrated this one again! Really loving these early synapsid deep dive videos. Learning so much!

[@TeyuYagua]

Looks like CHimera's voice is back on menu boys!

[@BigotSmalls1488]

Yes dood

[@Thechezbailey]

*roars and brandishes seax*

[@Vercur]

I hope only for this video though.

[@KAZVorpal]

@@Vercur I agree, it's distracting.

[@micahsmith4612]

I like his voice more too. It’s less, idk, generic?

[@dinohall2595]

And with that, this channel officially reaches 100 videos! (I'm sure it's not the true 100th upload since some earlier videos were taken down and replaced with reuploads, but it's still a milestone worth celebrating.)

[@youregonnaattackthem]

I learn something new every single video

[@AntsAndNature]

I love the discussions about how the different groups transitioned between levels of dominance around the mass extinction periods and how their physiologies caused it. Super interesting. And the paleoart of the synapsids throughout this video is pretty cool. The pronunciation of venomous as “vemonous” two times gave me a good laugh. Love it!!

[@caseypalmateer4515]

Dude, this video is so much better than yoir last one. I don't mean offense, but that guy had a hard time with your script, and you always do excellent. This one is way better, but the last one was not bad at all. I appreciate all your stuff. Keep it up please. Thank you for your work brother

[@MaksymTyshchuk-tf8se]

Great vid! Love it. Synapsids are still criminally underrated even though they do seem to get a lot more coverage nowadays. Thank you! ❤

[@kersebleptes1317]

Very good illustrations! Top score.

[@vinny184]

16:52 those plants the Lystrosaurus are eating aren’t horsetails. It’s a species of Pleuromeia, a lycophyte.

[@aottadelsei980]

I think it’s cool that your bringing to light that the transition of rule from synapsids to archosaurs wasn’t immediate after the great dying like how it wasn’t after the KT extinction which tends to be brought up more.

[@posticusmaximus1739]

Agreed. It irritates me how mainstream paleo just sweeps spynapsids & parareptiles under the rug after the Great Dying

[@posticusmaximus1739]

Agreed. It irritates me how mainstream paleo sweeps lineages like synapsids & parareptiles under the rug after the Great Dying

[@cirujatucuman3363]

Excellent video as always, very informative about this little unknown survivor from the Permian-Triassic extinction. The way that you put the information into your videos, the organization, and the voice that it's easy to understand even for the ones who are not English speakers makes you for me one of the best and my favourite KZbinrs. These are for me little documentaries to watch in my Friday's morning. Keep it up, and cheers from Argentina

[@tinyelvenmitten1774]

Thank you for yet another great video, you're one of my favourite youtube channels of them all! I love these deep dives to lesser known paleoanimals :3

[@Alberad08]

A pleasure to watch - thanks a lot!

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

I always forget Therocephalians did survive into the Triassic (they didn’t last very long but still) along with Cynodonts & Dicynodonts

[@posticusmaximus1739]

The latter made it all the way to the end of the Triassic and Cynodonts rule the world today!

[@redparr8490]

I love when the video drops right at my graveyard lunch, never miss one this😂

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Another great video, and great art work. I don't think i would survive this era. :D

[@themightymrpink]

6:07 This is a common classification mistake I hear all too often in regard to big cats. While big cats like leopards are felids, they aren’t felines, they’re pantherine cats. Felines are any species of cats in the subfamily Felinae which leopards, lions, tigers, jaguars, and snow leopards don’t belong to. They belong to the Pantherinae subfamily.

[@mlggodzilla1567]

Another great video 😎

[@SyIe12]

👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐EXCELLENT!! THANK YOU. I LOOK FORWARD TO NEW VIDEOS!

[@Gfan2015-o5g]

Hey, as I've it seems like your on a therapsid kick, a good video idea would be Rubidgea, the gorgonopsid genus with the only species to rival Inostrancevia in size.

[@chimerasuchus]

Rubidgea is actually one of the options on the Patreon poll for the next video about a Permia/Triassic synapsid.

[@Gfan2015-o5g]

Sweet. I hope it wins. 😁 I'd become a patron, but I'm not financially stable enough, so I guess I'll just send good vibes.

[@posticusmaximus1739]

​@chimerasuchus when's that poll coming out?

[@chimerasuchus]

@@posticusmaximus1739 Tomorrow.

[@posticusmaximus1739]

@chimerasuchus awesome! Just casted my indecisive vote

[@alexandrbatora9674]

Thanks for the video!

[@substantialcarp]

I do understand the naming loophole to allow the use of a newer, more common name for sake of ease and prevention of confusion, but bring back Manospondylus Gigas! 😤😤 M. Gigas is a sick name! I guess that means it's now available for a new genus to use, though?

[@vinny184]

No that’s not how that works. It will create confusion when using a nomen oblitum for another animal while it’s also a well known synonym for T. rex in the paleontological community. The only thing that can possibly happen, although very unlikely in this case is if any of the originally described material used to name one of the two species of Manospondylus, turns out to be different enough from T. rex to be a new genus. Then Manospondylus can be resurrected as a genus. BTW the species name is never capitalized, it’s thus Manospondylus gigas.

[@Bookstorewalla]

I know Moschops is a dinocephalian rather than a therocephalian, but close enough in appearance to Moschorhinus to be cousins. In any case, tthe BBC cartoon MOSCHOPS was one of my favourites. So nice to watch such a clear explanation of all the different lineages. Thank you.

[@bibia666]

CHimerasuchus drops a new video.., I drop a new like! 👍🙏Thanks for the uploads. Greetings bibia 👋

[@KAZVorpal]

This narrator sounds EXACTLY like Princess Snake from the Dragonball Z Abridged videos.

[@overworlder]

He sounds fine. But he’s self conscious about his voice so thanks for that. We’ve been trying to encourage him to narrate his own videos.

[@KAZVorpal]

@overworlder No, he has the voice of an artist. A painter. And there's nothing wrong with that. Plenty of people have a voice that does not work well for narration. His is pitched too high, nasal, and he has a kind of drawl. Think of the silent movie stars that had similar voices when talkies came around, and went on to become real estate agents. Voice lessons, or teach himself the same methods. But as it is, it sounds way too much like princess snake has been hired to narrate these videos. Distracting.

[@lh3540]

It's crazy to think this all happened directly on top of our property and not on another planet. These guys were chilling under our garages and whatnot.

[@rileymanders2167]

so good

[@rileymanders2167]

stay safe

[@ecurewitz]

Poor moscorhinus couldn’t compete with proterosuchus

[@wagashi]

The picture of him yawning is too cute 🥹

[@substantialcarp]

Hey, CHimerasuchus! Why did you choose the name CHimerasuchus for your channel? I'm pretty sure it's a type of crocodylomorph, right? And why the capital H also? Just curious 😁

[@AncientWildTV]

great video! i really enjoyed the depth of info you covered. but i have to say, it's fascinating how some people still debate whether Moschorhinus was truly as ferocious as it’s portrayed. i mean, could it have been more of an opportunistic scavenger than a top predator?

[@threebythestreet]

Great video! Btw are there any good Paleo books that you would recommend? I want to learn more about the stuff you discuss on this channel but I'm not sure what books to get.

[@louaymasri7873]

Can you do a vid about the synapsid monkey?

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

I’ve got some great ideas and some great suggestions for you to make KZbin Videos Shows about some more Prehistoric Extinct Crocodilian Species, such as Lazarussuchus, Plesiosuchus, and Metriorynchus adding that to the episodes on the next Saturday on the next Chimerasuchus coming up next!!👍👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@irradix213]

what good bad dogs

[@Cancoillotteman]

damn the Permian was some serious grim-dark fantasy

[@5daboz]

To me it seems likely that energy efficiency would have a little to no impact on high-metabolism selection, given that such animals tend to be more energy-inefficient. Smaller body alone burns energy way faster than larger body-size, so even on size alone such animal would be less efficient, not to mention that warmer body looses heat faster than body closer to surrounding temperature (volcanic winter). While higher temperature might be needed as you mentioned, the reason would likely not be energy efficiency. You do not heat home at winter to be efficient, you do it to more likely stay healthy and alive, more inefficient you are, more you burn, more comfortable you are when temperature drops. It seems to me more likely that there is only or mainly one benefit to smaller and quickly maturing body. Genetic cycles. Chaotic times need an animal that is most able to adapt on yearly basis and animal that reproduces on 2 years is only half as adaptable as the one that does so every year. Also, while smaller body is less efficient, difference is marginal, so same environment would be able to support more members of the same species, enlarging the gene-pool, again boosting evolution as long as that is your main requirement. Also, if we can take our last ice age as an example, shrinking body-size sound strange. Most mammals grew larger to conserve heat, again because that is how you get more efficient with energy along with other adaptations, fur and fat for isolation, maybe hibernation, chunky look for less surface-to-volume ratio. This is not how those animals look like, at least if ice-age standards apply. There is one more situation where small, fast reproducing burrower would have a clear advantage. Radiation. If ozon layer would be damaged due to all that volcanic chemistry, you would want to spend as much time underground as possible and have short reproduction cycles, so less mutations would have a chance to accumulate in your body before multiplying your genes, so you would less likely be too mutated or infertile to keep evolution going. So, I am not saying those were the reasons for what happened to the species, but it seems to me more likely. Nice video bdw, PBS Eons also had a few videos on this topic :)

[@wraithofsolidarity]

All the pain suffered on this planet... it's just like WTF

[@aceundead4750]

Hey look, a video about great great great great great great great great great etc. grandpa Moscho

[@Kroggnagch]

How do we know these critters didn't have some sort of outer ear poking up or out or anything? It just looks like we skinned right over the skeleton or at last the skull. Can we tell from the ear canal that that is, indeed, the best guess and very likely how the animal truly looked??

[@Soundofwindonsand]

It looks like it would have the locomotion similar to a honey badger I bet they had the same temperament Not unhappy their not around anymore I don't think our ancestors would have any chance on the ground

[@KwizzyDaAwesome]

They look so weird without ears. When did big fuzzy ears evolve?

[@robertomontini5479]

Were there archosauriformes in the Permian?

[@chimerasuchus]

Yes but they were rare. Most were lizard-like, but Archosaurus itself was already fairly large.

[@robertomontini5479]

@@chimerasuchus thanks

[@keithstimpyys3497]

They were so cute its not fair If we lived back then they would still be alive to this day There's no way we wouldn't have domesticated the hell out of these things

[@hyper8545]

👏

[@LDrosophila]

😊

[@freedog632]

Vemonous?

[@thedimple773]

happening

[@robertomontini5479]

😮

[@michelfraenkel4920]

Is this AI voice?

[@chimerasuchus]

No. I just my voice.

[@MrMalvolio29]

This is one of the *most* boringly condescending narrative voices on KZbin. It’s remarkable that your fascination with the minutiae of clade and genus names can actually make one of the most intriguing periods in evolutionary history--the Permian Period--and make it profoundly DULL. A true “talent” indeed.

[@serbsi2922]

Dude - love ur vids - but fr, get an ai voice changer or something - it's unlistenable

[@bingbird77]

Is this a character voice. Do you really talk like that to your girlfriend?

[@lh3540]

The fck is wrong with you. I'm so tired of people bullying everything. Just shut up and enjoy some dinosaur facts or leave.

[@marinorezan9250]

I suggest you work on your pronounciatiooOonnNn 💅