Could A Mammal As BIG As King Kong Ever Exist? DEBUNKED

Could King Kong ever evolve to exist? Could we simply scale up a gorilla? How and where could this giant ape develop? Join us as we explore the science behind the king of monsters!
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CHAPTERS:
Could King Kong Ever Actually Exist? 00:00
What Makes An Animal Grow Big? 00:35
Why Were Dinosaurs So Big? 01:30
What Was The Biggest Land Mammal? 06:49
Why Is There An Animal Size Limit? 07:53
Physics Problems With Scaling Up A Gorilla 10:49
King Kong Wouldn't Be Able To Move 12:27
A Scientifically Accurate King Kong 14:54
How Big Was The Gigantopithecus? 15:27
The King Kong Thought Experiment 17:35
Resurrecting The Wooly Mammoth 18:43
Learn More With The Brilliant Learning Platform 19:13
CREDITS:
Stu K - Researcher / Writer | Illustrator | Producer | Presenter
Mark W - Researcher | Writer
PAU S - Illustrator | Editor | Animator
Ross W - Illustrator | Editor | Animator
Mark W - Palaeontologist | Palaeoartist (www.markwitton.co.uk/)
Vaia A - Physics Consultant
Robin M - Guest VO
MUSIC CREDITS
Epidemic Sounds
Story Blocks Audio
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gspauldino.com/Models.pdf
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/1...
www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/p...
www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
www.dinox.org/sizelimit.html
screenrant.com/kong-height-ta...
www.aqua-calc.com/
www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/genet...
www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...

[@kylelieb2977]

Once huminoids developed the spear, being a large mammal became a disadvantage.

[@dv9239]

Elephants still survived

[@cringycam2546]

@@dv9239so? Still a disadvantage

[@JerryLeeHowell2]

​@@dv9239 Elephants are critically endangered, numb nuts.

[@atlf3357]

@@dv9239ivory trade has entered the chat

[@jgrandson5651]

​@@dv9239 only 3 species of the 20ish thar dominated the world before us. And they probably survived because they learnt quicly that humans must be mauled in sight or avoided at all cost.

[@immerda4244]

So its prooven, that there has to be life on Mars, because Kong exists. Very nice

[@DebunkedOfficial]

😆 I like your train of thought 👌

[@denifnaf5874]

Theres no life on mars Because chuck norris took a trip there once

[@bhuggins6059]

@@denifnaf5874 did you know: the only animal Chuck Norris fears is the chuckwalla Stolen from clints reptiles

[@ChupacabraRex]

Plot twist: Kong is just the size of a gorillla or a gigantopithicus. However, the human's shown in king kong are tiny, the size of a real-world monkeys. Kong isn' that giant, but the humans shown are that small.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

😂

[@moro3475]

then we would be super strong like ants

[@lameguy9862]

Who wins ants or humans if they was the same size

[@nedmartlew5277]

​@@lameguy9862colony vs colony or 1 on 1?

[@lameguy9862]

@@nedmartlew5277 1v1

[@inshort58]

I love the scientifically accurate Kong 😆

[@DebunkedOfficial]

We enjoyed making that! All credit to Mark Witton though for his guidance www.markwitton.co.uk/

[@NinjaNezumi]

@@DebunkedOfficialKong isn't a normal species of gorilla so what you did isn't even remotely close to being scientifically accurate :P You should know that.

[@Goaty_1]

@@NinjaNezumiWell yeah he’s a giant fucking monkey💀

[@marekdzurenko3449]

@@NinjaNezumiWatch the video again. And again. And again until you actually start getting the point.

[@NinjaNezumi]

@@marekdzurenko3449I got the point, they wasted time on a stupid exercise without understanding they fucked up the myth they were trying to bust. Kong is not a "normal" animal/creature, but they were trying to compare him to normal animals/creatures. Literally, in the newer movies, they have exotic matter to explain the big animals and the hollow Earth theory.

[@jennyfeare1702]

Now we need vids on scientifically correct godzilla, giants, merfolk, undead like zombies and vamps, and dragons!

[@mastermewtwo5503]

Mermaids, I think they only need gills (which is rarely depicted to my knowledge) to be feasible. There are numerous reasons zombies don't work, vampires only have a bunch of unrealistic traits and abilities (transforming and somehow ignoring light physics to not have reflections; realistically it would just be a human with fangs)... would be interesting though.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

A great idea! If this video does well then we’ll certainly explore some of those ideas 👍 Thanks for your comment

[@mastermewtwo5503]

@@DebunkedOfficial I'd especially enjoy one dissecting how likely or dangerous a real zombie apocalypse could be.

[@diyeana]

​@@DebunkedOfficialI agree! This is a great idea. I love all of them, especially zombies because it fascinated me. We've seen zombie type behavior with ants & fungus. While we might not see undead with an insatiable love for the living, I can see the possibility of a fungus taking over and changing our behavior, even to the point where we'd bite to spread fungal spores.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

@@diyeana I believe this is the theory behind 'The Last Of Us', loved the first season and can't wait for the next!

[@NickLavic]

Giraffatitan isn't a titanosaur, it's a sauropod from the Jurassic period and is more closely related to brachiosaurus than the titanosaurs from the Cretaceous period.

[@eduardofreitas8336]

yep. its a macronarian.

[@proxsin3748]

A true 🦕 enthusiast lol

[@gregp6210]

As the person who named Giraffatitan, I can affirm that it is not a titanosaur, although it and other brachiosaurus are close relatives of titanosaurs. Giraffatitan was not super sized, it probably maxed out at 40-50 tonnes, at best half the mass of the largest titanosaurs and other sauropods, which may have greatly exceeded 100 tonnes.

[@user-kr6vb3gq1m]

I think they're closer to the macaroniodon

[@curious5887]

Giraffatitan is a brachiosaurid like Brachiosaurus itself, but you are correct, Giraffatitan is not a Titanosaur

[@bradsmckay]

If scientists really are intent on trying to bring back extinct animals, then the woolly mammoth(or any ice age fauna) would be the ideal candidates for de-extinction as they only went extinct around 4000ya and if you released them in areas such as Siberia or Greenland where the conditions are similar to when they lived, I'm sure they'd thrive. Also on the whole dinosaur cloning thing, DNA has a half life of a few hundred years, so even in perfect conditions all traces of DNA would be lost after a few million years

[@bhuggins6059]

You are right, but only until I get nigel

[@baha3alshamari152]

DNA expires after 200 years of death

[@Loli4lyf]

and how do they reproduce? through endless inbreeding between their fellow clones?

[@averageeughenjoyer6429]

Not in Greenland, only the temperature matches there

[@rishabhadarsh5227]

What about dodo or Tasmanian tiger or cape tigers

[@mtranchi]

8:55 The only problem with the hypothesis about the heat is that the. cells would have adapted and produced less heat. Mammal cells produce the heat they do because it's advantageous for moving around or whatever. But if size had been a better advantage thEn the cells would have adapted to produce less heat like like reptiles.

[@ianlanford6922]

mammal isnt reptiles. its misconception that any animal can force to adapt with mere "natural selection". if that the case, then, eskimo ppl will have lots of hair or fur covered their body in an adaptation to such harsh cold place they live. even human. with less hair cover our body. we still need a lot, i mean huge amount of sweat just to cool down our bodies. animal needs water to survive this. and many species use it to take bath.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Edit: I replied too soon! Sorry!

[@Spenceham-km3nv]

ok hey I get it for what is important is if you and i want something like king Kong in real life I'd sejust genetically megasizing some species of gorillas to be 25ft large and change up there genes all just to make them unkillable and indestructible

[@freddyvonfazbear]

Thank you for telling me that a giant 335 feet tall gorilla that fights radioactive giant lizard scientifically could not exist

[@dawoof5119]

scientifically accurate Kong looks like a giant ground sloth

[@bhuggins6059]

I wouldn't say that's the only option

[@KurNorock]

"All large herbivores have small heads." Really? Name one. All of the large herbivores i can think of have enormous heads. Elephants, rhinos, hippos, moose, horses, elk, bison, buffalo, etc.. all of them have heads relatively large for their body size.

[@kj_H65f]

🦒

[@KurNorock]

@@kj_H65f a giraffe skull is 2ft long which is pretty large. It only looks small because of the long neck and legs. But compared to the actual size of the animal, the head isn't especially small.

[@us3rG]

The brain

[@SharksandDinos]

I really have to disagree with Mark Witton's reconstruction of King Kong as it seems to be reconstructed purely around size alone instead of taking ape evolution and adaptation into account. This is mainly because there was a selective advantage for apes to not only climb but to swing around into the trees for navigation but to also grasp food with their hands so they can eat it. Even when giant apes like Orangutans, Gorillas and Gigantopithecus evolved to be quadrupedal, they retained this feature as it helped them to not only battle one another or to defend themselves from predators but to reach for food especially when they had to climb high into the trees. But since a hypothetical Kong would be too big and heavy to climb trees, he would solely use his arms to reach for food high into the trees along with using them and his body weight to break them down if he can't reach it. This is different from animals like a Paraceratherium which not only evolved from a running ancestor but also there was a selective advantage for it to evolve a long neck when it evolved gigantic body sizes. . Since you brought in different incarnations including the Monsterverse Kong, I am going to go into two scenarios where one remains as a bipedal ape and the other evolved to be a quadrupedal ape. If the former happened, well I am going to let Tiina Aumala's (aka Osmatar's) reconstruction of Kong titled the King Ape to speak for itself (which you can freely search up for yourself.) If the latter happened, his body plan would more likely resemble that of giant ground sloths as especially Eremotherium as they basically would have a very similar lifestyle to apes minus the tree climbing due to their size. Coincidentally, the biggest Eremotherium would be bigger than the original Skull Island Kong who was 5.8 meters/18 feet tall. . That is basically what I think and you can feel free to disagree if you think my reasons aren't sound enough. Besides, good job on making this video.

[@Jesse-bl2qz]

Heres the thing, sometimes in the older movies, King Kong was only like 15-20 feet, so there very well could have been, and probably has been a technically "king Kong" species before on earth

[@brianhowe201]

The largest known species of ape, gigantopithecus, was estimated at about 9 - 10 feet tall. The largest today is the gorilla, at about 6 feet tall.

[@ChineduOpara]

Do we know how long and thick his 🍆 was? 😅

[@Lizzyisontop]

"• dwayne johnson." 😂

[@jmchez]

You left out power (in watts or horsepower) or energy (in joules). In movies, they show creatures that are 10 times taller than normal, moving ten times faster. They do that because showing a huge creature moving its fist at 1 meter per second looks very slow. So they make it move its fists and legs at 10 m/s . That means that is moving a fist that is a thousand times heavier (10x10x10) ten times faster. At 1/2mv^2 (m is mass and v is velocity), the kinetic energy would be 100,000 times more for that creature that is, "only" ten times taller. In those movies like Pacific Rim, Transformers, Kong v. Godzilla, etc. every step would be the equivalent of nuclear bombs and just having them move around would be devastating.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks for adding that point! Maybe we could explore that with another Debunked video about movie giants!

[@jmchez]

@@DebunkedOfficial Please do! I'd look forward to that.

[@ianlanford6922]

@@aaakkk112 flash and earth protected by speedforce. thats why flash still alive and not become a giant nuclear bomb when hitting those air molecules in light speed. but supes in other hand...

[@diyeana]

​@@aaakkk112😂

[@TomDoesEverything]

i wonder how big creatures could get if their bones were of some other material, like if somehow they were a titanium alloy or some sort of carbon structure. along with having more efficient muscles of course

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Or Adamantium 😉

[@thabzmad7265]

Ok, unobtanium it is! 😅

[@Kerry-G]

Definitely not titanium alloy for living things

[@Skarrier]

I mean, there're an underwater snails that incorporates iron into their shell composition. I doubt that anything like that is possible for animals more complicated than a 10cm slug tho, or such evolution hack would've been "discovered" by megafauna ages ago. On the other hand, human intelligence is practically an evolution hack too (because, technically speaking, our brain development allowed us as an animals to use such a thing as a nuclear bomb, for example, which, i'd say, is a pretty weird thing for a life to be able to do). So, who knows? Maybe after another billion years some big creature will try to eat some weird rocks rich in special mineral compounds, strengthening its bones and allowing it to grow for a hundred meters long))

[@esteemedmortal5917]

Very informative! I never thought of how avians and mammals are different in their number of offspring, with mammals being affected by size scaling.

[@davidmccann9811]

Is there a theoretical limit to how heavy a land animal could be? If we've already discovered dinosaurs that could have been 100 + tons, is it possible that we will discover dinos of say 150 tons or 200 tons, or have we pretty much found the biggest land animals that could have existed?

[@benjystrauss2524]

@2:22 unless the gravitational constant itself has changed (which we have no evidence for) I would like to see a movie where they gave an explanation for Kong's giant size that, at the very least, couldn't be disproved. You might need new physics and/or exotic matter though.

[@ObsidianRadio]

I have a slight problem with the current weight estimates of Gigan Blackii. At 16:30 his weight is dramatically too low for an organism of that size. Consider the fact that adult male Gorillas can reach weights of about 400 to 500 lbs at around 5 feet tall. Now that puts them at 5 feet shorter but only 150 lbs lighter than Gigan Blackii. Following the square cube law that weight estimate feels really really off. Other than that good presentation. 🙂

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Agree, this was Mark Witton's point that we cover at 17:13. The Gigan Blackii weights overlap with Gorilla sizes so he believes that Gigantopithicus was maybe a little bigger than a large gorilla, but not much bigger. Thanks for watching 👍

[@ellagrant6190]

It's worth noting, your statement that the oxygen in the atmosphere may have been as high as 35% 300mya is also 100m years before the dinosaurs.

[@proxsin3748]

The big sauropods were already slow and built for energy efficiency Can't imagine a mammel that size zumping around lol

[@bentri7964]

I had been thinking of this same concept for a video, I even had a half finished script and 3d models for my speculative real world King Kong. most of my info is identical to what's in this video as well (specifically regarding the limiters for size, and info on the extinct giant mammals). I still might make the video, but I would have to focus more on the speculative Kong's biology and behavior to not be a worse version of this Excellent video 👍

[@eugenekubak7857]

Gigantopethiticus: Am i a joke to you?

[@ChineduOpara]

Never. Please don't punch me 😅

[@vigneshmansingh875]

Nowhere near as big as kong is said to be though yeah?

[@joshvii2664]

Watch the whole video

[@KurNorock]

Correction: Hollow bones as found in dinosaurs and birds are NOT lighter than the bones of other animals. In fact, the skeleton of a mouse sized bird is heavier than the skeleton of a mouse. While the bones are hollow and have air pockets, the actual bone material is more dense, so the bone isn't any lighter.

[@nixland]

I saw video years ago about this topic and it mentioned about the heart, size and power to pump the blood, which is quite impossible. I wonder why it wasn't mentioned here 😊

[@Terrinox]

"Hm, what was i watching this video for?" 11:07 "Ah yes, kong"

[@365DaysofSilver]

I've got an idea for a video, how do I contact you?

[@japorto100]

Whats the name of the program that you use for the animations?

[@DebunkedOfficial]

We use a combination of programs from Adobe - Illustrator, After Effects and Animate. Thanks for your comment! 👍

[@pedroroque829]

Just so you know african elephants can get to 4m tall and weight over 10 tonnes. That's taller and heavier than any T rex found

[@ChineduOpara]

(Insert "yo mama" joke here)

[@wetherall1]

T-Rex grew too 12 meters so that’s far bigger than any elephant

[@pedroroque829]

@@wetherall1 Longer, not bigger

[@PrakashLV-vj6ou]

T rex can weigh up to 11-12 tonnes in some cases

[@DebunkedOfficial]

What's your favourite Kong from which movie??

[@waffleisnice]

Kong

[@inshort58]

Skull Island, I think he gets silly big after that.

[@learnmoreabout]

King Homer!

[@japorto100]

King Kong 2005. In my opinion best movie every filmed in that sci fi branch. Its not only about the big boom explosions and actions but also a nice story and overall insanely made environments.

[@inshort58]

I'll have to give that another watch @@japorto100

[@TerrinX]

I would definitely look into giraffe evolution as it's really more apparent that giraffe necks may have grown mostly for mating competition rather than food competition. They typically eat shrubs and bushes low to the ground.

[@sonpopco-op9682]

They will eat food low to the ground, but they do specialize in upper shoots of trees, especially Acacia. Heck like most herbivores, they will eat bones & even small animals if they find them.

[@TerrinX]

@@sonpopco-op9682 It's an availability, but not a good argument for evolutionary competition. Elephants can also reach tall tree leaves with their trunks, but that's not the main factor for evolving trunks.

[@sonpopco-op9682]

@@TerrinXYour straw man argument only " explains" why giraffes dont have trunks. not helpful.

[@learnmoreabout]

King Homer LMAO 😆

[@kristianferencik8685]

I think the main issue with all the theories put out of animals experiencing extreme gigantism is that they would have conventional bones and muscles. When in reality if an animal were to reach a size if a multi-story building, it's structure would be made of a material that is reinforced enough to support it's size

[@addictedtochocolate920]

I wouldn't exactly call myself a writer, but i do create lots of characters and worlds. To introduce monsters, dragons or any creature of enormous size, i always do it alongside some type of natural adaptation that enables gravity manipulation at an unconscious level.

[@AWriterWandering]

12:18 it kinda does occur actually. There is a mutation called gigantism, which has the name suggests results in people growing very tall. This mutation does put strain on the skeletal system (as well as a circulatory system). In nature, such issues would greatly reduce one’s chances of survival

[@riverbender9898]

Great video, as always. Thank you.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thank you ☺️

[@electricmaster23]

So sick of people calling it a nuclear winter when it's a volcanic winter when it's the result of a volcano (or volcanoes). Volcanoes don't spew nuclear radiation.

[@mole1769]

Sauropod-like Humanoid Kong 15:12

[@uncommonsimon5775]

Another day, another amazing video ! 🎉😊

[@uncommonsimon5775]

I love the idea so far 😄

[@uncommonsimon5775]

I love the art style.

[@uncommonsimon5775]

"Giant difficult to produce name" amazing line ! 😂

[@CaptainHindsight-xt9yd]

No. Mammalian limit is covered by Paraceratherium, "Mammut" borsoni and Palaeoloxodon namadicus. A mammal with roughly human dimensions like Kong has an even lower upper growth limit. Probably 5 metes tall would be the absolute limit for a mammal with an apish form (Gigantopethicus was nearly 4 meters tall).

[@marc.V97]

Man, this channel is unreasonably underrated 😢. You guy's production is top tier 💯

[@samuelmeier1617]

Awesome video but did you just say giraffatitan was a titanosaurus? I think it was more akin to a brachiosaurus...

[@starguard4122]

This all sounds very convincing, but can these same scientific theories explain how a bee is able to fly while at the same time proves that it cannot. According to science, a bee should not be able to fly because its wings are too small and grow from a portion of its abdomen that should not be able to support its weight, yet we can see them buzzing around very easily.

[@vinniepeterss]

interesting topic!

[@Louislemairias]

Title: could a mammal as big as king kong ever exist Paraceratherium: yes For people who don’t know: in comparison with the King Kong from Marian C cooper (the original King Kong): this Kong is up to 24ft tall while the paraceratherium is up to 24 - 26ft tall. Even in weight the para outclass him. having 15 - 20 metric tons weight compared to King Kong 1933 who have a weight of 4.5 metric tons So in conclusion: yes there is mammals that can be as big as King Kong, EVEN MORE THAN YOU THINK (because size is measured on mass)

[@Patrickballhater]

Thing is gorillas are already really robustly built so I'm not sure square cube law is much of an issue for them.

[@CaritasGothKaraoke]

The surface area to volume ratio (square-cube ratio) problem is true, but why didn’t it apply to large theropods? We know for a fact that small theropods are endothermic. Tyrannosaurs should have also overheated.

[@Kerry-G]

@Caritas GothKaraoke: since Tyrannosaurus were built similar to modern dinosaurs (birds), they had lighter skeletons, thin arms and were more active than the fat sauropods. Therefore overheating no a problem. Besides indications are that their body temperature was lower than modern birds but while still being endothermic

[@jaredtaylor4326]

I am glad we added the competition portion to the giraffe segment. We don’t want people getting the wrong idea about giraffe necks. 😆

[@gg_sam7847]

I thought the biggest known Mammal was an Elephant that got to the size of a quite respectably large Sauropod (I don't remember which), just minus the neck adding a lot to the height

[@gg_sam7847]

Oh nevermind it was shown a few minutes later

[@bryanjohnson8162]

You guys said that if it started to grow really big it's head would start to get smaller so maybe we're underestimating the size of the extinct orangutan??

[@HardCoreSciFi]

I believe Giraffatitan was not a Titanosaur, but a Brachiosaurid, while the tallest Titanosaur was Sauroposeidon, with highest estimates up to 18 meters. I learned this because I actually did a video on the similar topic several weeks ago, tho not so well-illustrated 😅 in case you are interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJK9YpWjgZJjjaM All in all, your channel is amazing and was a huge inspiration for me to start doing my own 😀

[@Adogliterally]

I forgot that this vid was about king kong mid way😂

[@Adolphus_of-bysantanium]

16:25 thats still massive and im willing to bet there were specimens that were much bigger

[@bhuggins6059]

7:55 *cries in paleoloxodon* Ah im stupid

[@mvic81818]

Just think about the tallest people in the world. Many need canes or braces to walk and in the NBA drafting people 7’3”+ always causes concern about injuries because people simply aren’t meant to be that big.

[@us3rG]

It's not easy to be huge on land

[@DinoGoofHybridHero7531]

Alright we got a scientifically accurate Kong, where’s Godzilla? I wanna see how realistic a giant fire breathing semi aquatic lizard is- XD

[@vmartins2234]

In the antient Hindu temples it talks about a prehistoric animal(yali) wich lived among humans who could catch and throw elephants by its trunk . It had a lion mane and a elephant body . So why not ?

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

However, the wooly mammoth was not more of a giant than its contemporary relatives, the Asian elephant and the somewhat larger African bush elephant.

[@CALIBA88]

i dont think the fact that co2 means plants grow is still legal in neusprech.

[@EonAJC1988]

Kong, in the new canon, comes from a pseudo parallel realm, along with the other titans. Hence their size and ability. Cause its a movie.

[@fanboygamer3e]

If we’re talking about the more iconic King Kong that everyone pictures fighting air planes on top of Empire State, Maybe. But Kong from the MonsterVerse, Not a fucking chance.

[@huldu]

How small could humans get while still functioning properly? I'm not talking about people born short but if we were to see mankind shrink down in size how far could we go before encountering problems with our body layout?

[@us3rG]

As long as wh res exist, dude will keep being bred bigger

[@theundeadsculptor6635]

Hmm. Co2 levels look pretty low at the moment on that graph. Interesting...

[@user-qg1mw5tz1q]

very intresting to see thath kong would have looked much more like paraceratherium then a ape

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Completely agree 👍

[@jmodified]

10 ft tall and 660 lbs. would be quite thin - proportionally the same as 5'10 and 130 lbs. or 6'10 and 194. 10 ft tall and 440 lbs. would be ridiculously thin for something resembling a gorilla. The picture they show for Gigantopithecus - chunky with no neck - looks like it would weigh more like 1500 lbs. if it was 10 feet tall.

[@osamashatat]

How many eggs does an ostrich lay? How many eggs do large eagles and condors lay? It seems they lay a comparatively small amount

[@Kerry-G]

It’s virtually impossible to find a fossil of ANY KIND that represents the largest example of that animal.

[@demoncore5342]

We as mammals still pay for specializing in doing tiny stuff during messozoic. None the less the biggest animal (that we know of) is a mammal and lives today.

[@humanspoder777]

Dog I've been promised a mammoth for like 20 years now.

[@TrenBolognaSandwich]

From the thumbnail i thought he was supposed to be completely hairless lol

[@ProtusMose]

If you do the math, assuming the same bone density, bipeds can't get more than ~12' before their femurs would snap

[@iancruz6617]

There was literally an ape that could stood upper right like king Kong in fact a mummy hand of it in Egypt was found it's bigger then humans not as big as king Kong but it's heavily close

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Are you referring to Gigantopithicus Blackii?

[@AbstractBlend]

What we definitely assume as a long time , is not that long on a cosmic scale.

[@AbstractBlend]

We...(humans) have barely been here for seconds on a cosmetic scale.

[@lasarith2]

I would imagine that a Kong size mammal would have a Dimond/ Graphene type structure which is at lest 70x to 80x stronger then normal bone , how much bigger that would make a Gorilla type cryptid I couldn’t say .

[@us3rG]

In a way your right, larger sea creatures exist cause they don't carry all that

[@mmsizzlak3726]

No.... There was definitely less gravity 65+ million years ago...I was there... And I was like, 19 and 3 quarters feet tall, rode a dinosaur, and painted landscapes in my free time...

[@DebunkedOfficial]

🤣

[@Agent16.9]

Scientifically accurate reaper leviathan when

[@shardinhand1243]

bone is inferior to iron woods like snake wood and even harder iron woods... restructure the animal to have thick bones made of iron wood, and the size can be increased much more.

[@ttschannel875]

Can biggest human defeat smallest gorilla?

[@DebunkedOfficial]

An interesting idea 🤔

[@januszpolak254]

smallest gorilla you mean a baby ? Then you don't even need biggest human to beat it lol.

[@ttschannel875]

@@januszpolak254 baby gorilla have crazy durability. It was good swing weapon for kong

[@ChineduOpara]

Definitely! (Pulls out gun 🇺🇸) 😂😂😂

[@huldu]

The truly horrifying things in our world are what we can't even see with our naked eye like bacteria and viruses as they can easily take the biggest creature down without breaking a sweat.

[@SideQuest8]

Gravity from back then did not exists cause Isaac newton didn’t discover it yet

[@DebunkedOfficial]

🤣

[@JermaineGayle-yr2bm]

Was there a short neck giraffe?

[@spiderlime]

kong is a fictional animal, and the sizes of it's species vary from one film version to another. famously, for the 1933 original, willis o'brien gave the figures of 30 meters tall on the island and a larger number in new york, since the sky scrapers were bigger. much of the science given here was probably known even then, and the remains of gigantopithecus were discovered a year earlier, but a single gigantopithecus-sized ape wouldn't be a math for the dinosaurs on skull island, unless there were groups of such apes who hunted in packs. that would have been impossible to achieve with the technology of the day, as advanced as it was. it would have certainly made for a very interesting plot, even if it was eventually focused on a single ape. anyhow, without an official estimate of kong's size one guess is as good as another,

[@AKayani559]

6:50 that's gaint land sloth design is letterly ripped straight from Ark I'm not saying its really similar its letterly the Ark megatherium

[@sebastiansenn6587]

You got a picture of one?

[@AKayani559]

​@@sebastiansenn6587it's letterly doing the Ark megatheriums eating animation for gods sake

[@sebastiansenn6587]

@@AKayani559 yeah wtf. They could letterly go outside and take a picture of a real one…

[@AKayani559]

@@sebastiansenn6587 honestly don't know what your yapping about

[@King_kong1933]

We need to rename mars to skull island NOW!!!!

[@DebunkedOfficial]

😆 I like your thinking

[@marcopohl4875]

Can mammals get gigantic? Well, the biggest animal ever confirmed is a mammal and so is at least one that is speculated to have been bigger.

[@saurusking9938]

Patagotitan wasn’t the biggest dinosaur, that title still belongs to Argentinosaurus.

[@morganwangunyu1318]

does this argument apply to aquatic creatures as well? (like is it possible that there were/are sea creatures bigger than whales?)

[@DebunkedOfficial]

This would be an interesting angle to approach another video of this one does well 👍 Thanks for your comment

[@ianlanford6922]

great content.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks ☺️

[@Subjectisafunnybird]

Depends what kong it is. If its the toho kong or monsterverse kong, yeah nah no way. If it was the original kong or 2005 kong, then those COULD possibly exist

[@MANIMATIONS996]

He could exist if his cells were producing less heat in the warmer days, and more heat in the cooler days.

[@stingyblue8189]

If the Earth was the same size as it is now and had the same landmass that it does today, why didn’t dinosaurs eat themselves out of house and home? You see how large an African elephant is and how much it eats. Then, you have a triceratops which was much larger and a Brachiosaurus that was much, much larger. Those two species alone ate many, many multiples of pounds that elephants eat today. How could the environment sustain them? As far as gigantism not being present in mammals like it was in reptiles, the Blue Whale is the largest animal that ever lived and it’s a mammal. The humpback whale is also enormous.And if you factor in that they live in water and they’re buoyant which helps support their weight, I still believe it’s very much possible that an ape the size of King Kong could exist.

[@birdwatchingwithdrrajasaur4410]

Kingkong grabbed Jynx from pokemon

[@stephendagg9153]

An excellent video. I've subscribed

[@hindsight2022]

I recently heard that dinosaurs were all aquatic and had to be to support their weight .

[@DebunkedOfficial]

🤔

[@PingTPunk-rq9us]

That was an old hypothesis that was often depicted in older illustrations of sauropods.

[@hindsight2022]

@@PingTPunk-rq9us it would make a couple other pieces of the puzzle fit . For example why we find large deposits of fossils in small areas . Perhaps they all lived in shallow seas . When those seas dried up they would be left in small mud puddles prime for fossilization . There are a few more pieces I could elaborate on if you'd like.

[@PingTPunk-rq9us]

@hindsight2022 I wouldn't mi d elaboration. However, I do wonder why I don't recall to be a large amount of aqua life such as plants and fish fossilized next to the dinosaurs.

[@Oscar-yy8gp]

Life was fresher before and more oxygen and they needed to be big to exist in there time-line the trees were gigantic and so were predetrors they had to be

[@paurushbhatnagar8100]

I really liked your take on gigantism. But real question is that why mammals are not as large as dinosaur. If we have proof that some dinosaurs gave birth to live babies. Coz giving birth to multiple eggs at a time is more affordable than live baby. So large dinosaurs can exist but not mammals esp on land.

[@Spenceham-km3nv]

what if someone genetically megasized some of the species of the gorillas

[@ericlipps9459]

If the atmosphere had contained 35 percent oxygen in the lushly jungled Mesozoic, fires would have raged out of control, perhaps on a continental scale. That would have meant mass starvation for supersized herbivores and therefore for the carnivores which preyed o them.

[@IftiharAbdillah]

"What could possibly go wrong?" Uhh... Sir, there are 6 movies that explains exactly that

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Indeed 😆

[@Excaliburspino]

What about Godzilla cuz he is more marine then Kong so he could just be fully aquatic then a little smaller

[@DebunkedOfficial]

If this video does well enough then we'd love to explore Godzilla too 👍

[@dimasrespatih7259]

biblically accurate kong