Dinosaur Kings of Kairul Part II: The Crocodile Cannibal Tikakatik

[@Iterator_NSH]

I am delighted that the five Kings of Kairul is four giant dinosaurs and then a pig loaded on so many steroids it could kill a God.

[@transnewt]

maybe not a god but it has been confirmed they can kill titans, so

[@YaBoiDREX]

@@transnewtEh, what’s a god to a Titan?

[@TheMegAxolatl4836]

Zeus: hold my beer

[@TheGBZard]

Seeing a chasmasaurine alive caught me off guard but I like it, honestly the episode as a whole is great

[@julianodobler2782]

Abelisaurs are very underrated in pop culture, great job as usual!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks so much!

[@aaronbeckett0714]

Thank you for another amazing episode Keenan. I can’t wait for you to see the carnivorous baboons of Priad!

[@soudino2723]

This is by far one of my favourite episodes, abelisaurs deserve their respect as one of the most unique therapods and dinosaurs in general

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! Yeah they're very fascinating animals

[@tec-jones5445]

So glad to see the Tikakatik get their due. But I am by far most blown away by the Elk Drake! I'd really like an episode on them now, since ceratopsians are uncommon in the known world. Keep up the great work Keenan!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks so much!

[@tnevy511]

Crocodile canable: I'm the king of the swamp. Kurajku: Are you sure about that punk?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Bro really thought he had something on lock

[@dudotolivier6363]

9:54 This piece called "Swamp King's Wrath" is just Marvelous ! For three things ! 1 - Firstly, because it alway funny to see a theropod's face from a completely front view, and it alway end up giving a weird and odd looking visual on the creature. So it's very entertaining to contemplate. 2 - That allow us to see better its crests on the Tikakatik's head which from this same perspective, as for its odd face as just mentionend above, allow us to see that they formed a somewhat crown on it head. Which consolidate its title of king in a way. and 3 - We can clearly see at the background a current advanced Earth's drone ! Used by the Assembly to watch and study the creatures whithout disturbing them in their natural environnement. I LOVE such kind of details. And it give a truly more immersive vibe in some aspect too !

[@LacTose90]

I would love an ark style game of this world or even an isle/Path of Titans game one day

[@lordcrusheryt]

YES. OMG YES. With seperate maps showcasing what all the dynasties looked like in full alongside what creatures roamed around them, you’d be an estranged kaimeran who’s been thrown back somehow by a “glitch” in the portal’s magic. Realizing you have to fight for your life in the past, present, AND future, ToK:Survival would make GOTY just because I said so.

[@chancegivens9390]

Absolutely fantastic episode! There's so many notable animals here The Elk Drake, Ziphonodon, the swamp drake, the fuckin swamp rhino!!! RHINO OF THE SWAMP!!! Hell yeah!! And many more. Awesome job man!

[@lordrath9674]

Abelisaurids are one of my favorite theropod families, and seeing them thrive in such a different niche sure is a relief. RIP to the spino fans, but we eatin good

[@alghoulaj7172]

It is so great to see these Ceratosaurs thriving surprisingly, also, I find it amazingly warming that they still hold on, but, there is something that I remembered. Weren't there some Tyrants survivors in Kairul or it's crown, like the Nehamu of Arvel? Also a Land Shark lives, although, they are very different from the Carcharodontosaurines that were before them ironically.

[@TalesofKaimere]

The crown of Kairul has not been finalized or taken public, but there may be some relics there

[@alghoulaj7172]

@@TalesofKaimere Thank you for that. If there are any safe heavens for them, it would be there definitely. Although, curious, do you have any plans for old dynasties or harvests or realms beyond the known world?

[@levinjoseph233]

The picture of tikakatik and kurajaku is just spectacular

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@levinjoseph233]

@@TalesofKaimere 😄

[@GreatAukEntertainment]

Now I want to know about the landsharks! The diversity of this setting still continues to surprise me!

[@andrewsart123]

What a video to wake up to this is great the Abelisaurs are my fave

[@liambrandley2716]

The Eastern continent is my favorite part of kaimere, so it's always great to hear more about it and its creatures!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks! While the known world is crazy diverse and competitive, it's fun to take some trips to a huge land with huge beasts

[@stembird8791]

Your new dinosaur drawings are really awesome, especially Moose ceratopsid.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! Am really happy with the moose boy

[@billyholland5156]

Its amazing how megafauna have stood up to hominids in this world, and how that affects everything. another great video!

[@dudotolivier6363]

Hominid ?! What are you even speak here ?! We are here about Abelisaurid and Kairulan fauna !

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@billyholland5156]

@@dudotolivier6363 i refer to the sapient hominids of the planet being unable to displace megafauna like had happened in the past on earth.

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@billyholland5156 ohhhhh! Ok sorry. My bad.

[@billyholland5156]

@@dudotolivier6363 tis okay!

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

In addition to all the information on tikakatik I'm very pleased with the reveal of some more kairulan fauna. The landshark in particular caught my attention as it looks similar to both my favourites dinosaur of all time - Carnotaurus and another theropod I really like - Concavenator. We also finally have a design for the, already mentioned several times, semi-aquatic rhinos of Kairul, as well as a conformation that chasmosaurines still persist in Kairul, plus a giant leptoceratopsid.

[@TalesofKaimere]

For sure! The land shark is basically what the weochetu'ka looked like around a decade ago. Sausage morph was more recent.

[@justanarchosaur1881]

I Just want to say that this has been one of my favorite episodes in a while, new redesigns, new creatures. lots of info on titular creature its awesome. I genuinely pogged seeing the landshark and the swamp drake designs, the new (common) crocodilian was also a pleasant surprise, seriously cool stuff!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks so much!!

[@luizgustavoalvessantos8728]

I can imagine kaimere portals teleporting kaimere animals to earth, that would be pretty cool.

[@fraan9002]

Abelisaurids are my all time favorite theropods and those present in Kaimere sure are amazing. The Tikakatik looks absolutely awesome!

[@the_blue_jay_raptor]

The Elk drake looks like a cooler version of Triceratops, I like it

[@vasantmasurekar4826]

Really loved this episode. The Tikakatik is really amazing and love this episode about them. Really hope they survive forever

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! It was a very fun episode to put together

[@ashhawk7489]

Love your take on the ableasorids this is a group that really hasn't gotten the attention I think they deserve.

[@LyricStock]

i like the art of the two theropods fighting has a drone in the background it looks like the assembly is watching

[@TalesofKaimere]

It was an excellent detail. Shiny always brings the A game

[@christinegaritey5040]

That's an amazing épisode ! Ever since the megaraptoran monarch épisode i've always wanted to learn more about the giant non megaraptoran predators of kairul

[@DeerMime]

Ooh, I love your take on a landshark!

[@krb1235]

Once again, another fantastic video on the Kairulan Kings! I’ve been exited to learn more about your ceratosaurs! The Tikakatik reminds me of this theory that Dr Robert T Bakker had on ceratosaurus, thinking that it was semi aquatic.

[@BigBossMan538]

I love all the new dinosaurs revealed here. The elk drake is very majestic and the landshark is sleek. Is ziphonodon descended from Carnotaurus?

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

It's probably unknown canonically, but I don't think so. Selacosaurus on the other hand could be related to Carnotaurus, but then again it could be convergence and it would be tough to verify an ancestral genus from 70 or more million years ago, assuming that it's even a genus which we know from the fossil record, which is also highly unlikely.

[@BigBossMan538]

@@Andrey.Ivanov their ancestors could be abelisaurs not in our fossil record. Like Kaimeran terror birds

[@TalesofKaimere]

As Andrey said, the ancestors are unknown.

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@BigBossMan538 For the Terror Birds, we do now that the Harkundi descend from something like Psilopterus, while the others two, include the Fireback, came from the lineage of the Titanis. We don't know their ancestors, which obviousely existed, but we know for sure the lineage from which they come. But for such old ancestry, discovering from which line of Abelisaurid specifically all Kaimeran Abelisaurid descend is extremely harder. The only wave of Terror Birds to Kaimere was at 6 Mya, which still very, very young in geological time, while for Abelisaurid, we must seek at least 60 to 70-80 mya. It's like deeping more and more into ocean's depth. More and more you go deeper, more and more things are obcures, dark and uncertain.

[@WILDMUTTDude]

Ceratosaurs are my absolute favorite dinosaurs! Can't wait for the video on the Noasaurs and relatives of the Known World 😊

[@dudotolivier6363]

Wasn't even on the Abelisaurid of Kaimere as a whole. Hope that one day someone sponsor an episode for them.

[@NP3GA]

The Tikakatik in the thumbnail looks somewhat sad, like it's looking over to prairie in despair, knowing that his cousins are now vasals of the megaraptorans and right now even they are under threat from this invaders who came to conquer Kairul out of nowhere. I might be just reading too much into it but I can't help it.

[@dariusrose9909]

Nice!! Glad it came out looking so great.

[@derrabbit7289]

The Elk Drake looks awesome! I love ceratopsians!!!

[@dudotolivier6363]

Great episode as always ! I do like that you refer Abelisaurid and Noasaurid as Ceratosaurs, when speaking of both at the same time, because a fact that isn't very-well shared is that both families are closely related and part of the same order that include the family of Ceratosaurus itself ! (and well to be related with this latter too). I also find interesting that Ablisaurid remained dominant, thrived, are diverses and numerous on Kairul, where Noasaurid are either extremely low in number or just absent, and that at the oppossite, Noasaurid are dominant, diverses and numerous on the Known World, Arvel and Ni'Kh'ar, where Abelisaurid are totally absent here.

[@reshi606]

I adore all the new additions in these videos

[@dkfrito]

Fun that the largest abelisaurus kind of went T-Rex, but semi-aquatic, while the giant dromaeosaurs went more of a carcharodontosaur route

[@thylaconical2840]

Big fan of this deep dive!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks!

[@dudotolivier6363]

I like that you add a section about the Giant Terrestrial Abelisaurid clade members, showing one of the most common species of this specific clade of Kairulan Abelisaurid. (which thank to it, now we have both a Carnotaurus and Concavenator asset on kaimere ina way now XD!) Because where the Giant Entelodonts, Giant (Eu)Dromaeosaurs and and Giant Semi-Aquatic Abelisaurs managed all to have at last one giant, large member of their clade each (which themselves are one of the numerous clades that they wider family/order have, since there many faimilies of more or entirely typical-sized Enelodonts, (Eu)Dromaeosaurs and Abelisaurs as a whole), the clade of the Giant Terrestrial Abelisaurid have lost all their Giant members, and only in Modern Times have few surviving species. Species that have survived justly because they were smaller. But this terrestrial abelisaurs must compete with the others terrestrial abelisaurs of the others terrestrial abelisaurs clade that never went giants. Which obviousely must no be easy, even if some of these last suriving "Giant" members still have a decent run on Kairul....

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

Landsharks are amazing.

[@CoralReaper707]

The Tikakatik and Hippo being dense enough to sink made me realize: If Armadillos can choose to walk underwater due to their carapace making them so dense that they sink...That's got a lot of spec evo potential. Just sayin'

[@TalesofKaimere]

Oh absolutely! I considered a semiaquatic glyptodont but decided the waterways are too crowded. A very fun idea for another project!

[@CoralReaper707]

@@TalesofKaimere agreed

[@seanessdracosaurus2793]

Love it

[@troycoley-cn5bb]

Amazing art and Fantastic video XD

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks so much!

[@troycoley-cn5bb]

@@TalesofKaimere Your Welcome

[@Godzilla-bu1vj]

7:44 i didn't know that Chasmosaurs that large is still exist after the Dynastic extinction

[@TalesofKaimere]

Very few but there are a couple holdouts.

[@Godzilla-bu1vj]

A proofs that even the Tyrant Dynasty has already long gone, the Chasmosaurids can still thrive and grows into giant, majestic Behemoths

[@barger5329]

Another update for my speculative evolution project megaraptorans which were driven to extinction in the known world by allosaurids. Then a few million years later a Clade of allosaurids evolved to what the people call “False Megaraptorans”

[@shingtiong9425]

The swamp drakes look high af.Also, how did you create your own magic system that you felt was just right for you as I want to create my own but don't know where to start.

[@alejandroelluxray5298]

The Alkeceratops has become my favorite dinosaur in Kairul, such a wonderful and powerful ceratopsian who embodies the legacy of the mighty chasmosaurs that called both planets home millions of years ago, and I wish to learn more about such incredible horned giant, and I am curious if Chaku Ka Bawe even dares to challenge such a heavily armed dinosaur As for the 2 abelisaurs of Kairul, I love how the Ziphonodon has taken a nicho that could be described as a aquatic tyrannosaur without being one as well as it's desing and ecology, never before I have seen such a unique abelisaur and the landshark is also magnificent, though I wonder what sort of fast prey does it hunt

[@Stooltoad5017]

I love the new additions to the Kairulan Inland sea! Not normally a huge fan of ceratosaurs but Noasaurids being diverse does put a smile on my face. Why do Kurujaku have three different sails? Always nice to see more crocodiles as well

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks! Kurajaku have these mostly for stabilization as they run along the bottom of rivers (segments mean there’s more flexibility with turns) since they aren’t quadrupeds like hippos, they benefit from the extra stability. Males also have larger ones for display, so duel purpose.

[@Stooltoad5017]

@@TalesofKaimereInteresting.

[@dkfrito]

Yes, I recently commented on how I hoped we would see some chasmosaurians in the East!

[@transnewt]

i imagine these will both make appearances in "knight and squire"? perhaps another tale within your next anthology?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Unfortunately Knight and Squire has been tabled for later works. Got to be too long lol. Might publish it independently

[@transnewt]

@@TalesofKaimere i dont know whether to feel joy for a longer bokodu story or sadness that it will be read at a mich later date time doesnt really matter to me so i guess well go with the latter

[@joshdoz9234]

The Elk Drake was just perfect. Will you expand upon the surviving ceratopsids?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Absolutely plan on expanding on them, though leptoceratopsids and protoceratopsids are way more successful than true ceratopsids

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere Whithout forgetting the Psittacosaurid, with must thrived as the true parrots, given their parrot-like beak. Psittacosaurid will even be easy to handle we making them because Psittacosaurus itself is none other than THE best dinosaur reconstructed so far to Science !

[@CanonBehenna]

Excited for life on our planet

[@TalesofKaimere]

Absolutely

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere The second Dinodoc/Paleo-documentary to be released after "Prehistoric Planet" ! And of a very high quality and production values on top of that (less than "Prehistoric Planet", but still way above decency !) Okay, third in reality, because there still "Dinosaurs with Steven Fry" which is the actual second to have come, but this documentary was just only PURE Shit in everything possible. Litterally the "Jurassic Fight Club" of this Dinodocs wave (which give you a good taste of what that is if you haven't watch it) and as such don't deserved to be even mentionned in the list.

[@loisonnut]

The landshark is definitely the highlight of the episode. Has such a demonic look. No real questions but what does Kurajaku's scientific name translate to and do you have one made for Bokodu?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks! Kurajaku’s genus means river maker, and I don’t remember the species off the top of my head.

[@TalesofKaimere]

I have one for the bokodu but haven’t gone public with it yet.

[@ScanovatheCarnotaurus]

How did Chasmosaurs reach Kaimere? I thought the harvest that kickstarted the titan dynasty was in Late Cretaceous Asia, where there were never chasmosaurines?

[@TalesofKaimere]

There were several Campanian and early Maastrichtian harvests, one of which was in North America. The Tyrant Dynasty was mostly comprised of Asian Maastrichtian fauna since that’s what primarily survived the arid period leading up to the dynasty, but there were other survivors from earlier harvests, which is also where the abelisaurids and megaraptorans come in.

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere Yep ! Because Abelisauris and Megaraptoran are South Hemisphere clades that lived at Gondwana. While Asia and North America were part of Laurasia, the North Hemisphere, from which they werent present, but here that were Carcharodontosaurs and Tyrannosaurs lived.

[@maozilla9149]

cool drawings of animals

[@Dodo-x3g]

I am very interested in what that other megaraptoran next to the Uktan was

[@tyrannotherium7873]

So this animal would be the size or if not larger than Tyrannosaurus rex I also like a Skull looks more Ceratosaurs like

[@TalesofKaimere]

It certainly gets close to rex size.

[@ReptiliansRule]

Do you have a comprehensive list of creatures that are extinct/have relics?

[@TalesofKaimere]

I do not.

[@transnewt]

i've probably said this before but im... genuinely caught off guard that we haven't seen more abelisaurs. especially in arvel, since arvelith abelisaurs wouldve coevolved with early monarchs. abelisaurs should be *thriving* as mesopredators, specialized to compete and coexist with megaraptorans... though i can easily see tyrants and noasaurs outcompeting them on the large and small ends respectively, which seems to be your explanation.

[@ryanchen1819]

Nice single animal video of an animal outside the Known World after the chimpanzee, bokodu, koga, hugoldun, and komu ka bawe. Some questions: 1. 2:31 Is this referring to during or after the Mesozoic? It seems that the mega abelisaurs, dromaeosaurs, and enteldonts in the Known World prior to the arrival of Arvelith megaraptorans may have been retconned? 2. Even though fights between males of tikakatik (not to be confused with tiktaalik) and kurajaku aren’t close, do tikakatik have at least any win conditions against male kurajaku? 3. What would happen if a tikakatik were to meet a spinosaurus?

[@TalesofKaimere]

1. Those were never intended to be part of the known world. While there may have been some big abelisaurids in Ni’Khar, the others are and I believe have always been endemic to Kairul. If I implied as much in the megaraptoran series, it’s definitely been retconned. 2. There’s a chance, but considering the largest tikakatik bulls are 12 tons and average adult kurajaku bulls are 35-40 tons, it’s nowhere near a fair fight. Normally the tikakatik just flees. A fight is basically suicide at that size differential. Grabbing the throat is the only chance for a kill, and that just puts the poor ceratosaur in easy range of the claws.

[@TalesofKaimere]

3. Since most weight estimates put Spinosaurus under tikakatik, the abelisaurid is more agile and mobile, and their bite is several orders of magnitude more powerful, I put good money on the tikakatik

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere The black-and-white illustration showing the Uktan, Komu Ka Bawe, Bokodu and Tikakatik eating together a dead Ghlanos take place on Kairul. After (some times at least) the Uktan's genus/lineages arrived on it. And its no more truly the current animals themselves, but their directs ancestors or close relatives of them. So, there any real inconsistency existing here to begin with, neither something to retcon too. But it true that when the context of a specific picture isn't gived, that can create confusions...

[@InnahaNyellaV]

Who wins in these fights Tikatik or Kurajaku, though Kurajaku are very massive and possess lethal talons they are not as aggressive as these giant aquatic sea rexes nor have impressive hide to shrug attacks

[@TalesofKaimere]

Depends on the individual, though in a fight between average mature bulls, the sheer size advantage of the kurajaku at over twice the mass means they almost invariably come out on top

[@InnahaNyellaV]

Good to know. 👏

[@leoornstein3963]

There are still big Ceratopsian in Kairul?!🤯

[@TalesofKaimere]

Extremely rare but yes, one species survived and has a few descendants

[@leoornstein3963]

@@TalesofKaimere that's awesome. It was quite sad knowing how well the Tyrant dynasty's relics do in the known world. I'm glad that they still have big representatives somewhere else.

[@bartekdraszawk4315]

are there any cursorial noasaurs like vespersaurus with them running on one toe?

[@sivanlevi3867]

You know, up until this video, I had no idea that Ceratosaurs, Abelisaurs and Noasaurs were all related. If I got my paleontology right, Noasaurs are more northern hemisphere while Abelisaurs were mostly southern hemisphere animals, although some like Indosuchus are exceptions. Ceratosaurs were once apex predators until Carnosaurs such as Allosaurus, Megalosaurus and Eustreptospondylus took over. For a resurgence, they evolved into new clades. Abelisaurs include famous species like Carnotaurus, Majungasaurus and Rugops, who were either scavengers, mesopredators, and sometimes apex predators. Luckily, they didn't have to face Tyrannosaurs, but new competition came from Carcharodontosaurus and its relatives, as well as Megaraptorans and Spinosaurs. In other words, Abelisaurs didn't get most of the running during their time on Earth. I am grateful, yet surprised that a Chasmosaurine survived the Dynastic Extinction, and with your artistry, I'm not at all surprised by how it looks. But I do have a question? When did Leptoceratopsids arrive in Kaimere? Are there more besides the Swamp Drake? Do they have a connection to the Ceratopsians of the Known World?

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

Regarding Abelisaurs and Noasaurs, both families where more prevalent in Gondwana. Abelisaurs are most well known from South America, Africa, Madagascar and India (which at the time was a large island located next to Madagascar, so I would not count is as a northern hemisphere presence). They did however invade parts of the Europian archipelago, namely what is now France, during the Late Cretaceous, almost certainly from Africa. So far no abelisaurids are known from Antarctica and Australia, but since these two continents had a lot of faunal interchange with South America at times it wouldn't be a surprise if they eventually show up there in the fossil record. As for noasaurs, they were very weird. They were also known mainly from South Africa, Africa and Madagascar, but the Late Jurassic Limusaurus from example was found in China. Some where carnivores, some where herbivores. Some had weird teeth, some had no teeth. Most were small, but Deltadromeus may have been a giant noasaur. Apparently some like Vespersaur had a monodactylus gate, with a single toe for walking and two modified into retractable raptor-like sickle claws. They are also not currently know from Antarctica or Australia but as I said for the abelisaurs, there's a chance they might have been present.

[@sivanlevi3867]

Well done, man! Well detailed too. I like that. This will be a massive help to my own project. And you're right about Europe. Tarascosaurus was found in Romania, what would've been an island, later referred to as Hateg Island. I always wondered where Deltadromeus fell into place. Were there any records of a Noasaur from North America at all?

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

@@sivanlevi3867 I don't think there's any record of noasars in North America ever. Apparently it was somehow possible for animals to migrate between North and South America during the Late Cretaceous because Alamosaurus is more closely related to South American titanosaurs then to ones from Asia and saurolophine hadrosaurs made it to South America as well. Perhaps there was a way for animals to island hop when sea levels were lower, but it was rare.

[@sivanlevi3867]

Strange. Then where was Noasaurus itself from? South America? I thought for certain there was some holdover of one of those clades in Cretaceous North America somehow.

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

@@sivanlevi3867 I can't confidently pinpoint their place of origin because Jurassic forms such as Elaphrosaurus and Limusaurs are known from Tanzania and China respectively. But they are both from the subfamily Elaphrosaurinae which means that the split between them and the noasaurine noasaurids must have already occurred by the Middle to Late Jurassic. This suggests a gap in the fossil record of early noasaurids. I believe the only definitive ceratosaur of any kind known from North America is Ceratosaurus itself. There's a fragmentary theropod from the Morrison Formation, called Fosterovenator which has been classified as a ceratosaur of some description, with noted similarities to Elaphrosaurus, but its identity as a ceratosaur has been put into question and the known remains are partial tibia and a complete fibula, so not a whole lot can be said or determined about it. There's also a controversial Campanian-aged theropod from Mexico called Labocania which is also very fragmentary and thus it has been placed all over the place. A few similarities with abelisaurids have been noted, and it was even suggested as a relic carcharodintosaur at one point, but it's most likely some type of tyrannosaur.

[@PongMan-jj4vk]

out of shear curiosity, what happened to the tyrannosaur species, did they go extinct or some thing or are they back on earth?

[@TalesofKaimere]

They went extinct

[@PongMan-jj4vk]

So they are extinct back on earth 🌎

[@liambrandley2716]

Outside of ceratosaurs, are there any non ceolosaurian theropods left on kaimere?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Too early in development to say definitively

[@Stooltoad5017]

I wonder, Are juvenile Tikakatik swimmers like juvenile Kurujaku?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Yes

[@dominiclynch6504]

1 are there any tyrannosaurus species on khiral or is the nehamu last one of the group on the planet ? 2 if so do they take the role of secondary carnivores consumers, as i think you previously said in the tyrant dynast ep comments that there's were and they were larger then nehamu, taking the role of a black bear but larger or is that not canon anymore? (i could be wrong if so my bad)

[@Stooltoad5017]

1. None Keenan has disclosed, although their is potential on the crown of Kairul.

[@thephilosoraptor8565]

Something ive just noticed now, the Kurajaku, Tikakatik and Weochetu'ka all have their first toes in contact with the ground, which has only been seen in some spinosaurs and therizinosaurs. Why exactly do all these theropods have the same unusual foot anatomy?

[@TalesofKaimere]

For kurajaku and tikakatik it’s an adaptation to walking in mucky substrate, like spinosaurs. For the weochetu’ka, it’s to stabilize an otherwise clumsy form given their short legs

[@Bake-kurijra]

I’m really curious to what crocodiles like the tapier crocodile are like

[@1998topornik]

Tic tac abelisaur looks pretty good. It reminds me of realistic glavenus from monster hunter. But the best looking creature from this episode is in my opinion elk drake. Also it seems my prediction about abelisaurs in kaimere should be scrapped due to revisions in presence of noasaurids and abelisaurids.

[@ryanchen1819]

How well would Kairulan animals like lunar oliphaunt, komu ka bawe, and tikakatik do in Known World?

[@Stooltoad5017]

Komu would probably do poorly given they don’t hunt any of the Tiller clade. Tikakaktik might do well in the Seridic Wetlands, although they’d have to have a large shift in diet though. They would still face competition from Kurujaku along with new prey and rivals they are unfamiliar with. So I am personally not sure. The Lunar Oliphuants would probably not do well given the abundance of Houze and they very desolate dry seasons. May have a chance in the southern Mosaic forests but again, still desolate in the dry season.

[@MegaRumia217]

Does Tikakatik ever met the giant wetland matsoiids?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Yes, they are on the tikakatik’s menu until they reach the size of the Dreamtime serpent of the inland sea, then the tables turn

[@EdwardWarburton]

I wonder how many weeks of straight theropods are we going to have? 3? 4? or possibly more? (I guessed that 4 is possible because of the upcoming episode on penguin raptors)

[@Stooltoad5017]

Pretty sure next week is about cryptids.

[@Storm-crow13]

The Prairie Shark seems to be more inspired by the garchomp style of land shark than the bulette style. I assume that Kairule’s marshes are a bit browner than the inland sea based on the kurajaku

[@TalesofKaimere]

That was actually a nod to fully green feathers really only intended for the largest and oldest bulls. Most have a mild algal dye like this

[@Masterplanfoiler]

I get really confused sometimes. I try to figure out if some of the creatures in the video are prehistoric and extinct or do they live on to the present day?

[@Stooltoad5017]

Animals in black and white are extinct. Animals in color are extant. (With the exception of the extinct Permian Cynodont).

[@TalesofKaimere]

Sorry yeah I don’t always make it clear. In this episode everything in color is living.

[@dudotolivier6363]

When the colored illustrations are transparents, that mean the animal is extinct. Many black-and-white illustrations Keenan made are also scenes taking place in the past and showing extinct species. Althought many of them also take place in Modern Time and display extant species.

[@Masterplanfoiler]

So black and white = chalk outline. And colorized = up and kicking.

[@thephilosoraptor8565]

Why did the rhinos lose their horn?

[@Stooltoad5017]

I’d probably think a horn would slow them down while bounding through water. Especially since a horn is useless against their main predators.

[@thephilosoraptor8565]

@@Stooltoad5017 the predator bit makes sense but water buffalo seem to manage just fine with their horns

[@Stooltoad5017]

@@thephilosoraptor8565Are Water Buffalos sinkers like Hippos? I can’t seem to find footage of them swimming/walking under water. My assumption is that the rhino sinks like a hippo and has a similar mode of transportation. Either way you might be right. I am just curious.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Never had them to begin with

[@thephilosoraptor8565]

@@TalesofKaimere Ohhhh, which species where they descended from?

[@trkagog6155]

The tikatatik is cool, but I think the real highlight was the elk drake Unrelated but what was the apex of the swamps in the tyrant dynasty?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks! The apex was something I haven't gone public with

[@trkagog6155]

@@TalesofKaimere how mysterious

[@trkagog6155]

My money is on horrible disgusting monster from the first dynasty

[@IsaacJuett]

More than likely spinosaurids as they went extinct after the dynastic extinction reduced there habitat and were eventually completely outcompeted by the larger abelisaurids like the ancestor of tikakatik.

[@EdwardWarburton]

I wonder, was their ever a Cenozoic Antarctic harvest?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Nope. The portal’s territory doesn’t go colder than temperate so it doesn’t need to go that far to the polls

[@EdwardWarburton]

Makes sense. @@TalesofKaimere

[@pangeaman0395]

wait I thought the chasmosaurines were extinct how did they survive?!

[@TalesofKaimere]

A few got lucky

[@maozilla9149]

so true@@TalesofKaimere

[@EdwardWarburton]

Are the Permian Islands, Premarin Continent, and the Jurassic Islands going to collide sometime in the far future?

[@TalesofKaimere]

It's possible

[@EdwardWarburton]

That would be an interesting faunal interchange@@TalesofKaimere

[@happynihilist2573]

Of course Kaimere has land sharks. What's next? Sky whales?

[@TalesofKaimere]

You won’t believe what I have planned for some of the magic colonies in the lower stratosphere

[@dudotolivier6363]

The worse is that you got right !!! 😆😆😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂

[@happynihilist2573]

​@@TalesofKaimere yhe I actually knew about the sky whales from the ... I want say spectober? Point is I was making a joke

[@IsaacJuett]

I just realized thanatobates is supposed to represent lions and tigers with the uktan being the lion and the chaku ka bawe being the tiger.

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

Technically zentaur is a better tiger analogue since they are solitary hunters and coloration-wise are actually tiger-like, but chaku fills basically the same role in the forests of Kairul, except it's more similar to the uktan in that pairs mate for life raising young and hunting together. I've always liked that Keenan parallels big cats of today with some of the megaraptorans designs, because on Earth in modern times big cats are the apex predators wherever they are present and it's the same with megaraptorans in Kaimere.

[@IsaacJuett]

True but i thought chaku because its in the same genus as the uktan just as lions and tigers are in the genus panthera on earth.@@Andrey.Ivanov

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@Andrey.Ivanov If anything doesn't the Chaku ka bawe more like the Asiatic lion? if the Uktan is the african lion

[@HagdoBr]

The largest Abel lizard are Brazillian, so, BRAZIL MENTIONED🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@YaBoiDREX]

Do you have a discord?

[@TalesofKaimere]

I do not. Don’t have time or energy to moderate

[@liambrandley2716]

What kinds of creatures would the peoples of the eastern continent fear most?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Probably the robust cockatrices. They are really fond of livestock, are lion sized so big enough to kill but small enough to go about anywhere a person can, quickly acclimate to settled areas, and reproduce fast to capacity so culls don’t do a whole lot

[@rylanbrewer3320]

Are the infernogallus or relatives of komu

[@Stooltoad5017]

@@rylanbrewer3320I would assume Infernogallus given those are all common traits of the Genus, although I would not know.

[@elshebactm6769]

🗿👍🏿

[@transnewt]

tur sfay!?!!?! horace

[@TroyTheCatFish]

Fantastic Art and Amazing Video as always! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤❤ 💖💖