Prehistoric Australia Was Pure Nightmare Fuel

[@ExtinctZoo]

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[@vyron-topic9592]

yez

[@poppyclose38]

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[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thanks y'all..... Old F-4 Shoe🇺🇸

[@brohannmgcee]

your first sentence of the vid, is the exact thing I tell people when I explain to them why I will never ever be found on the aus continent.

[@carminemacellaro3165]

​@@vyron-topic9592😮⁶

[@blazingtrs6348]

gotta give it to the ancient australian aboriginals for picking a nightmare difficulty server and making it their home.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

I don't think any of these animals would attack a group of a dozen or so adult men with spears

[@RCSVirginia]

@@joshuaortiz2031 And that same group of humans could coordinate an attack that could kill a large animal that might not have even recognized humans as predators.

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@RCSVirginia no the aboriginal hunting strategies would suck against larger animals. Their whole strategy is just hitting something really hard after chasing it. There’s a certain point where an animal gets so large that this strategy doesn’t work anymore Edit: mammoths went extinct because humans chased them off cliffs and dropping rocks on top of them. Aboriginals neither did this nor hunted mammoths. Also the indigenous population of Australia only used arrows and spears for fishing. Also also, no I’m not saying they used the boomerang. One of their most used weapons was a basic club, simple and effective. Why do you think the native population is so good at tracking and has a whole language focused around it? Because it was useful at chasing targets to smack with a club.

[@steventheo6077]

​@@zzodysseuszz tell that to mammoths who went extinct solely because of humans

[@bennettfender9927]

@@steventheo6077Nope Mammoths we’re likely wiped out by climate change and there is a lot of debate over how often humans would’ve even hunted mammoths and the success rate of these hunts was likely not as good as people think keep in mind modern elephants are tough to kill with guns much less freaking spears not saying we never hunted mammoths but I wager it wasn’t as common as some people think.

[@Foogi9000]

Bro the humans who arrived there 50k years ago were genuinely built different to even exist in that environment.

[@threethrushes]

@ChaOzTheory We are the survivors of an innumerable number of generations of humans who survived. Sometimes it blows my mind.

[@Recipe_For_Disaster_TV]

We’re built the same, you just have to get out there and do it

[@MegaMrsuperawesome]

​@ChaOzTheorybest guess is 48-50 thousand years ago. People only reached India 65k years ago.

[@straypaper]

​@ChaOzTheorydon't even think about claiming the achievements of your great great great great great grandpa. You're probably half their size and can't accomplish half what they did. You're just a softened offspring that was a byproduct of your ancestors making their home more comfortable.

[@jean-lucpicard581]

@ChaOzTheory Yeah and we the descendants of the middle European region also are still living here - yet our ancestors were absolutely build differently lol. "Bro"...

[@rezaganjizadeh4263]

Most civillizations: "I farm." Aussies: "monster hunter."

[@orionbeattie5197]

😂

[@BeatEngine-qr7if]

Japan: Pokemon/Digimon America: Monster Rancher Australia: Monster Hunter

[@Wolf_3125]

​@@BeatEngine-qr7if"Gohan! Use Head Butt"

[@savioalmeida1103]

"Proof of a Hero starts playing"

[@nestyandfoz]

Fr

[@mojo_joju]

I grew up in Australia and have met many wonderful Aboriginal Australians who are honestly just the most humble, hardiest people I’d ever met in my life. Their connection to the fauna and the flora is incredible, and they’ve been taught for generations by their elders to survive in the harshest environments you could imagine. It’s fascinating, but also extremely useful because if you’re not careful, you could easily go missing, badly hurt, or die out in the bush, even around civilization.

[@jeffo4817]

But none of them live off the land anymore. Similar to modern American Indians

[@Marshallmatthewww]

HOW DO U KNOW YOUR NOT EVEN ABORIGNALL

[@h2ogames77]

@@Marshallmatthewww MAYBE BECAUSE THEIR RELATIVES MOVED THERE FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY

[@dennraeh]

im aboriginal and live in the west side of Queensland, and even though most of the other aboriginals there are my mob, im actually incredibly scared of them because all of them have a criminal record

[@user5661]

@@dennraehjudging from the videos on your channel,,, you just need to go outside a bit more bud

[@RodneyMunch8767]

Ha Ha - That photo of the kid holding the Bunya pine cone against his head at 0:52 seconds is my son Oscar. It was taken in 2012 after we walked in the Cumberland State Forest, Sydney, NSW. One of the trails was closed because these massive pine cones could potentially fall out of the trees and kill someone, but we picked up one of the fallen pine cones, and I took this photo when we got home. Someone suggested I upload it to the Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) Wiki page, so I did. I'm thrilled that ExtincZoo used the photo; it brought back happy memories.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Perhaps KZbin's algorithm has identified you as the uploader of the photograph and because of this offered you a thumbnail of the video to click at.

[@Hawk7886]

​@@HansDunkelberg1nah, turns out the sort of dude who watches extinctzoo overlaps with someone who would post photos of pine cones on Wikipedia

[@yourmom8845]

no way what are the odds of that

[@sanaypradhan4352]

Wow, what a coincidence! 😄

[@110Ironfist]

thats actually pretty cool.

[@me-ree5185]

Bro im convinced that australia is just one huge endgame dlc expansion. All we're missing is the lore

[@Alan_GA]

😂😂😂

[@YourLocalPlushAddict]

And that's a theory.....A Game thoery!

[@yomama3926]

Map expansion

[@QuartzVideozYT]

Look up aboriginal Australian dream time stuff, that's all the lore you need.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

😄🤣😅😆😂👍

[@lolzorkid]

So basically if we had tamed it, we could have called it the 'combat wombat'.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

*MORTAL WOMBAT!!!*

[@doragonsureia7288]

@@Flesh_Wizard both are hilarious

[@Ze_Moose]

"Let's go toe to toe on bird law" - Charlie

[@mechwarrior13]

Dundundun Dundun Dundundun Dundun MORTAL WOMBAT!

[@eclectic.explorations]

Invasive feral cats in Australia are increasing in size to the point where they are being mistook for panthers. I think some of them are evolving into Australia's new superpredator.

[@HoneymanAudioProductions]

Ancient human: "Oh don't worry, that's not technically a crocodile. Hey wait, where's Jerry?"

[@adamamar5100]

They was homo sapien and also homo nethertale and sapien hybrids (us) they were so good

[@joshuapatrick682]

Humans: maybe we're the Monsters?!? Australia: nah bruh...

[@a_crow_carcass]

the rest of the world: holy shit that spider is h- aussies: nah.. thats steve.

[@Ispeakthetruthify]

And the "monsters" in Australia were wiped out by humans with relative ease. Humans: The most terrible "monsters" the planet has EVER seen.

[@phlvn100]

Who fo you think killed all those monsters?

[@Yungpshoota]

@@a_crow_carcassshut the hell up

[@KremWorld]

We'd say "Yeah, nah" 🤣

[@oilybat3269]

They should make an ancient Australian survival game

[@dhruvshukla2389]

That would be awesome!

[@EotechGreen]

Elden Ring ?

[@meteorarcade165]

@@EotechGreen bro ancient Australia was harder to survive than any souls type game bro, like the bosses are crazy.

[@capolean2902]

conan exiles? 😂

[@ahira4369]

Ark

[@toby8149]

What’s even more ironic is that Australia’s direct neighbour New Zealand has pretty much no dangerous wildlife at all with a lot of there birds evolving without wings because there were no predators on the ground to eat them up

[@haydanoc8779]

New Zealand's initial inhabitants landed on Australian shores, saw what the hell was going on here and then they all just put their paddles in the water at the shoreline and paddled so hard and fast in their fear that part of the land cracked off and floated away creating their islands and country. Of course all that commotion scared all of the big scary animals away from them and so the new country remained safe! True legends they were. 😂😂😂🤣

[@FC-eh7ll]

They all went to Australia 😂

[@noobsaibot7006]

Haast Eagles were known prey on humans. Maori Legends talked about this.

[@daltonv5206]

That's the starter/spawn area on the server

[@fire_titan5735]

As an Australian I think you people are crazy. I'd rather deal with poisonous snakes and spiders that we rarely ever see compared to USA bears and mountain lions.. we have nothing on land that will chase us and eat us

[@02alleyboo]

Ancient Australians are actually believed to have arrived 65,000 years ago making them the oldest known human settlements. It’s crazy to think of what they would have encountered daily that long ago. Their history is amazing and I highly recommend for everyone to look into it.

[@Crackandsmoke]

Also very unique in that they came across a land mass (island) that size by boat, with flora and fauna that hadn’t encountered man before in any way.

[@All_Might371]

How can it be the first if humanity started in Africa

[@aussiegoldtrolls]

​@All_Might371 exactly! A question I've asked many times, never had an answer, it's proven the 1st aboriginal people migrated from Africa, there bloodlines still trace back to Africa, and questioning is always ignored

[@luxy748]

@@aussiegoldtrolls its oldest living culture

[@aussiegoldtrolls]

@luxy748 again they migrated from Africa. Which I'm sure Africans had already established many cultures of their own so I still question that claim

[@davidliddelow5704]

If you needed more nightmare fuel; there were also carnivorous kangaroos.

[@hunterwillems3135]

for some eye-bleach, we have tree-kangaroos

[@colew.5744]

Deer and horses have also been known to eat meat occasionally.

[@tiddybearkush]

The Christmas woodland critters are originally from Australia

[@KayIveysspecialmessage]

Dear GAWD!

[@aazatargaryan7146]

I got my skull fractured and my belly ripped to shreds by a normal kanga would hate it if they ate me

[@mateorios1636]

Prehistoric Australia: Ark Modern Australia: Pokemon

[@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511]

Australia future: Digimon

[@Datscrazi231]

@@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511palworld:

[@zian01000]

Australia when red giant sun: 2b2t

[@tameematiqul3290]

I also play ark 🎉

[@Datscrazi231]

Future australia: palworld

[@tonimarx6405]

I live in Perth, Western Australia. Back in 2013 i was training for a half marathon. I used to run alongside Swan River on a long track that weaved in and out of bushland. One particular day i was busy jogging along and realised really needed to urinate. So i quickly ducked into the bush to relieve myself. All of a sudden, as i was stood there, a gigantic Eastern Brown Snake lunged directly at my crotch and missed it by about an inch. I was so startled that i fell back and pissed all over myself. I managed to jump back onto my feet and momentarily gawped at the huge snake that was still in front of me. It must have been at least 2 metres long and i was stunned at how thick and powerful it looked. I had never seen such an imposing wild reptile up close. It's head looked truly prehistoric, with a remarkably angry expression. It quickly began coiling up into a striking position again, so i bolted in the opposite direction as fast as my legs could carry me. Sometimes i get a shudder down my spine thinking about how close i came to getting tagged on my pecker by a deadly Eastern Brown Snake and how dreadful my death would have been if it had succeeded in its mission.

[@user-vr8fs8gg6h]

Thats terrifying i wouldve packed my bags the same day and gotten out of Australia

[@_letstartariot]

There is antivenon. Brown snake and tiger snake bites are common in Australia, especially in the eastern states.

[@yggdrasil4986]

This was just added to my list as reason 589 of “Why I’d rather visit New Zealand if I ever travel to Oceania”

[@Vihloah]

I think this is “Darwinism” or whatever they call it

[@SiriProject]

@@_letstartariot Antivenom or not, you don't want that thing biting off your crotch lmao

[@cIeetz]

Australia is a good example of how the cold slows evolution. When things have to hibernate, they spend more energy surviving than evolving and thriving, hence in places like central Canada where it gets extremely cold, the spiders tend to be small and arent poisonous/deadly. Even if you travel west to warmer climates in Canada, the spiders start to become dangerous.

[@cIeetz]

which also makes it a trade-off if you wanna live somewhere cold. At least you dont gotta deal with the creepy crawleys.

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

There might be some true to that regarding ectothermic animals, but as far as mammals go, hell no! Have you seen what North America megafauna used to be like? 😅

[@Reladan187]

Only one venomous snake and spider in Finland. The spider resembles bee's sting and the viper can't kill a grown man so not that terrifyin

[@PressA2Die]

Yeah, cold dwelling wild life is way safer than hot countries. No worries. Polar bears just want hugs after all.

[@divinity_4]

​@@Reladan187imma move to Finland then

[@pythoncasey]

As an Australian I always wondered why Mexico, Brazil, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia don't get the sensational "everything will kill you" hype Australia does. All of them have deadly snakes and deadly crocodiles, if they have oceans they all have sharks, jellyfish, and stingrays, and yet Australia is the only one of those countries that doesn't have any bears or big cats... So what does Australia have that makes us stand out from those countries? My theory: Abundance of British people comparing Australia to Europe instead of Indonesia, it's the only one considered "First World/Developed" so we are a lot more dramatic about having relatively normal tropical wildlife

[@HansDunkelberg1]

That's an interesting observation. Do you think that Australias' dangerous animals are mostly in the continent's north?

[@GamesXanimeX3]

Well, in my case, it's cuz all the deadly creatures here in Brazil are either on the countryside(you can only see them IF you want to risk your life where the forest is deep tho), a closed off island which you need explicit permission from our military forces to enter. Or in the northern (where the amazon forest is) and northeastern states(where there are sharks whom are capable of invading rivers through the sea), which are obviously far away as most of our population lives on the southern/southwest regions. Though, when storms occur then go away animals from different states can appear, which ends up on the news, and in some states people can eat our jacarés(not crocodiles or aligators) and wildboars to cull some of their populations and farmers are allowed to defend their livestock from predators.

[@harshsharma03]

I'm Indian and a lot of our folk tales have mentions of weird creatures and a lot of stories about crazy creatures passed down too. Even when the brits colonized us, they met with a lot of predators, including man eating tigers and other big cats (most of which they hunted to extinction for game), down south India and in the eastern parts of India, wildlife can get even more extreme but I think there is a great difference in culture. Partly because of the majorly hindu religion which has a lot of gods based on nature and animal, people learnt to respect them and tried to coexist. If you want to see something crazy, just google lion and leopard sightings in india lol, a lot of them just show up in cities too even at times XD. Personally I'm no expert but I think the australian landscape and wildlife is crazier because it was probably left untouched for longer and evolved freak animals against the freak climate. India may have it all, coldest mountains, wettest forests but they're all limited to smaller regions and local fauna don't have to compete as much. Say an animal evolved for cold won't ever get to compete with an animal evolved for forest life.

[@manhphanhoang9555]

@@GamesXanimeX3 I'm Vietnamese and its the same here. Not to consider urbanization kind of robbed a lot of those species places to live so they die out. Nowadays unless you go deep into the jungle then you probably rarely encounter snakes or tigers or any extreme dangerous animals. We also have sharks but our sharks are the small kind and they really don't want to fuck with sth bigger than them

[@GamesXanimeX3]

@@manhphanhoang9555 Oh yeah, I also remember that on the video: Five extremely rare animals caught on camera by All.About.Nature, people are really searching for the localization of you guys' Saola(saht-supahp), poor thing it really doesn't want to be found.

[@Wierdman69]

Nothing is scarier than seeing a giant lizard walking in its two feet run towards you 😢

[@prettyricky9676]

The thing from the thumbnail(giant otter would be so much worse. Yall have no idea. Its such a good thing all living Mostelidae are small. They have fast metabolisms, eat constantly, all meat, immune to pain, very tough skin, intelligent, fearless, relentless and untiring.

[@HerrinSchadenfreude]

Well evidently there was something worse, because the weird otter-lion thing merking the upright lizard from behind at 10:11 seems to have been completely uninvited and unprepared for

[@Xbxllx2]

Fallout gecko be like

[@Neal_Riggers4]

I can relate lol

[@orion789]

I would propose that present Australia is still a nightmare.

[@20footAmethystinePython]

As an Aussie myself, ya sure are right mate,

[@frogbee9162]

Do you have an Aussie gyatt?​@@20footAmethystinePython

[@20footAmethystinePython]

@@frogbee9162 TF

[@hankskorpio5857]

I mean.. this scene depicted in the thumbnail still happens so... ya kinda hard to disagree with you 😟

[@nckojita]

and despite popular belief it’s not for the reason you’d think - the biggest nightmare in australia is the amount of fucking flies that incessantly go for your face

[@Mike-Lascow]

A survival horror movie about a prehistoric family or tribe trying to survive in Australia would be cool to watch .

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

It’s insane the dynamic nature of humans, where one alone is quite rather weak and hopeless, but when in a group, we are absolutely deadly and literally unstoppable. Nothing stands a chance against humanity, despite our inherent resounding weaknesses

[@argh100100]

It's not group behaviour that sets us apart though. It's brainpower + hands. It only takes a few humans to take down a large predator if they can plan ahead.

[@pearlspacejam8639]

And with the way things are going nowadays, not even humanity stands a chance against humanity

[@tennesseewilliams101]

Crazy how opposable thumbs and sapience can trump serrated teeth and giant man eating reptiles

[@TouchMeIfYouCan007]

Cope harder Human sucks

[@kraken6183]

​@@TouchMeIfYouCan007We're the apex predators of the world, we've survived in every environment and conquered it

[@albatross4920]

I have a bit of a hypothesis that the reason why Australia has so many venomous snakes, jumbo spiders, and mad cassowarys etc. is because those animals had to live alongside the psycho Pleistocene critters. They had to be tough and over-the-top crazy, otherwise they'd get flattened by land crocs and killer marsupials.

[@thhseeking]

The "jumbo spiders" aren't the deadliest ones, though. Redbacks and Funnel Webs aren't that big :P One of the worst jellyfish, the Irakanji, is minuscule.

[@BugsandBiology]

Australian spiders aren’t that “jumbo”. Plenty overseas completely dwarf them.

[@Foogi9000]

iirc the Goliath bird eater Tarantula is considered one of if not the biggest spider to exist currently.

[@stopbullshitin]

So is the high concentration of venomous snakes because of psycho pleistocene critters or land Crocs and killer marsupials?? 😂

[@pihermoso11]

The ability to fight other animals and incorporate venom might depend on how big the land mass is, Australia is huge, it has been known that on smaller tropical islands, large venomous snakes living there become smaller and lose their venom when they have no prey, that's what evolution does over time, if competition is always there, it doesn't make sense for them to lose their venom

[@FISHYY_MTB]

As an Australian, it’s hilarious to tell tourists to watch out for “venomous kangaroos.” It cracks me up when we walk past a kangaroo and they ask if that’s the dangerous one we need to look out for 😂

[@breathnt_]

Then they don’t believe you when you say that magpies are the real ones we have to keep a lookout for

[@FISHYY_MTB]

@@breathnt_man they should… those magpies are so dangerous…. Their teeth are lethal…

[@cockee4889]

@@FISHYY_MTBhahah

[@pinkdragon4830]

@@FISHYY_MTBfym teeth???

[@FISHYY_MTB]

@@pinkdragon4830yeah mate… watch out… be safe out there

[@MauricioBarragan]

Bro sometimes humans amaze me. Their intelligence and teamwork was a nightmare for other animals.

[@GAJENDRASINGH-t9t]

Those prehistoric humans were playing ark in real life 💀

[@MrByars]

On a primitive plus server

[@KalEl7802]

Meanwhile Baby boomers like to brag about how tough they are.

[@thefinestgames]

Cringe

[@tmsplltrs]

@@MrByars and taming turned off

[@__meilleur]

“Humans arrived” God made us to thrive, we were always going to thrive.

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

If Australia right now is hard mode, then Australia just a few million years ago must've been hell mode.

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

It peaked around 50K years ago like the video said

[@lahoku]

@@ThomasTheThermonuclearBombjust because the video said so doesn’t mean it is

[@reecejoyce5183]

​@@ThomasTheThermonuclearBombprobably peaked around the dinos I'd imagine

[@RachelJayne92]

Australia is a beautiful country. You don’t know what you’re missing! 🥹🇦🇺

[@themasonexperience6844]

@@RachelJayne92don’t tell them we are full

[@taran5747]

bro imagine being a prihistoric human - you arrive in Australia after months of rafting - you take a deep breath, touch the land and stretch - sees a lizard as big as a school bus 😂😭😭💀💀

[@joshuamuriki576]

That Soo fucked up

[@BoysinBlue-zn5db]

Nothing is more dangerous than an angry man.

[@schnek8927]

@@BoysinBlue-zn5dbIn the long run, sure. When we have time to use our intellect and creativity. In the moment, against an animal ten times your size which is trying to murder you, not so much. Humans are amazing though, so there’s a slight chance.

[@h0ly208]

In a race against a spikey lizard just as big to see who can eat you first.

[@wetalkinb0utpractice]

One of the funniest comments I've read in a while

[@woople6049]

00:01 Still is buddy

[@BriannaMarie1828]

Are you sped

[@goldengodBnW]

🫃

[@KL8T0N_SLU2HIE]

@@goldengodBnWwhy…

[@SucMaDicTillitcoem]

🫃

[@ofateisi2615]

@@KL8T0N_SLU2HIE🫃

[@zerefkunal9368]

Now we need a survival game in Prehistoric Australia.

[@Lumberjack.guy5973]

😂would be a good game

[@Ayogenius67]

contact MR BEAST for this

[@disguy6168]

Ark.

[@danielfennessy46]

Naw, try surviving the upcoming tribulations mentioned in the Bible! Good luck with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Humanity has 20 years tops.

[@idehenebenezer]

Jesus is returning soon🔥 Repent and turn away from your sins to obtain salvation,,

[@Ryuzaki14YT]

I understand why Australians are as fearless as they are now

[@nicholascharles9625]

It's the alcoholism

[@book2121]

not all, my uncle is absolutely terrified of everything 😜

[@cdel4391]

not really they are scared of everything on the news lol

[@lindarushton6502]

I'm in rainforest, with security screens everywhere. Cassowary birds roam our yards, and the rest..

[@an0rmalp3rson70]

Nah bindis terrify us, the fuckin bastards

[@oscarread5205]

The indigenous people of Australia were incredible to survive amongst these monsters. It is believed that the fastest human existed during this time. A bare footprint left mid-stride in mud was recorded in Australia (20,000 years ago), and was calculated to be running at 37km/h just shy of Usain Bolt’s top speed. Not only were they bare foot running in wet mud, but from the way the footprint was set, it is likely they were still accelerating, yet to hit top speed.

[@major2707]

Runner 😎

[@kumaranvij]

Source? I highly doubt all that can be calculated through an ancient mud footprint.

[@yanicemtl]

​@@kumaranvij I dont have the source of it but yes you can. 1 - Based on the size of their foot, you can estimate their height. Compare it to the foot size of other complete specimens from that era to know what their proportions looked like and you will then scale the found footprint to estimate the height of the running specimen. 2 - You then scale down a current human skeleton running to the size of the found specimen to estimate what the distance between 2 steps would be at a given speed with maximum range of motion. 3 - By calculating the distance between the footprints, knowing the size of the squeleton and it's range of motion, you can estimate the speed it was running at. The depth of the footprint can also help to determine the speed because if you know the weight of the specimen (which is not too hard to find or estimate) + the area of their footprint + the density of the mud, you can find what force was needed to create a footprint that deep with that given surface and weight, which could confirm the speed that human was running at. And for the acceleration part of it, it's quite simple, you just have to measure if the distance between the footprints, if it keeps increasing, you'll know that it was clearly accelerating. Hope that helps a bit!

[@kumaranvij]

@@yanicemtl Did they have two or one footprints? Your idea only works if they have two, when you only wrote "footprint." You can't "estimate" that. And you can't know if the distances "keeps increasing." For that matter, there are short people with big feet and tall people with small feet! Sorry, you're a good talker, but I don't think your arguments hold water. You can't just estimate everything based on one footprint, that makes no sense. I really doubt if an ancient short guy running in mud could be as fast as Usain Bolt.

[@cooledtie2460]

@@kumaranvij you could use google find your source that you probably wont even read but I'm more concerned about your disbelief that there werent extreme versions of every animal to exist.

[@DavidisEepy]

A prehistoric survival game based in Australia would actually be pretty lit though

[@CropDuster-kz6uq]

So basically some dinosaurs survived in Australia until 50k years ago. Amazing.

[@adamcallaway3762]

Some say that still do like crocs and cassowary

[@xxillicitxx]

Mega fauna was crazy

[@BitMan1010]

@@adamcallaway3762 crocs and birds are literally dinosaurs

[@carlod5818]

*12000

[@scorpixel1866]

​​@@BitMan1010Crocodiles are an entirely different branch of reptilians dating back to the Triassic, and saying birds are dinosaurs is like saying humans are mammalian-reptiles. Avians originate from a very small subset of theropods, and evolution means that they share little with those Jurassic ancestors, even back during the end of mesozoic.

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

A Croc that could run perfectly on land sounds terrifying.

[@snekhuman]

they already can. lots of crocs have to ability to out run humans. although their turn speed is pretty bad, so if you have to run from a crocodile, go in a zigzag.

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

@snekhuman Not perfectly, in a straight line they can. But they can't turn on a penny like a cat or dog. So no, they can't move perfectly on land.

[@snekhuman]

@@bio-plasmictoad5311 my bad, i didn’t read your comment correctly. i thought you said ‘fast’ not ‘perfect’

[@Burn_Angel]

@@snekhuman You know, that's interesting. Going in a zigzag is a common fleeing strategy, but I didn't expect it would be particularly effective against crocs. It makes sense why they called crocs (the shoes) that way. Unless you out them on in 'fast mode', you can't runefectively with them on either, haha.

[@narendramartosudarmo6112]

Spinosaurids: We concur.

[@Moonlight_Tide]

Having two monitors fighting over a human prey item is the perfect thumbnail for a video on even present day Australia with how Komodo dragons will kill and eat humans and even dig up our graves to eat our corpses. Great video too.

[@44krishnan79]

One is a Quinkanna

[@zzodysseuszz]

Uh Komodo dragons aren’t in Australia and can only POTENTIALLY kill humans, I’m still not certain if any human has actually been killed before

[@WeerdWulf]

Komodo dragons aren't native to Australia but the Indonesia islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang.

[@WeerdWulf]

​@zzodysseuszz attacks are rare but there have fatalities both in the wild and captivity

[@concon9107]

​@@WeerdWulf Actually interestingly enough during the time period in the video komodo dragons were in Australia and were like the black bear to megalanias grizzly bear.

[@theycallmechiefpiggum]

"So today, I came across a venomous lizard the size of a small family car that was fighting a three and a half ton hyper wombat." "And what did you do?" "Nothing. Out here, we just call it an average Tuesday."

[@kingdorm2001]

Australia: "We got the biggest, heaviest, deadliest and most brutal killing machines to ever roam the earth. Most of us could literally take down a damn dinosaur." Humans: *"Does that lower rent?"*

[@ambrosemorningstar]

as an aussie absolutely not the house prices are ridiculous here 😭

[@chrisquintrell7116]

😂😂😂.... $700 a week for a One bedroom studio apartment where i come.. fuckin dog cunts.. 😭 I'd rather the Dino fuckin saurs

[@Neal_Riggers4]

@@ambrosemorningstar fr

[@Perma-Gard]

Im an Aussie, and its amazing how the indigenous people are so bloody friendly and hospitable when historically this is the hell they were dealing with. Edit: be warned, there are a TON of racists in the replies.

[@mrpancakes1984]

Gotta be friendly between humans to tackle down the bigger problems

[@valthenvega2434]

Given those conditions, I’d honestly imagine indigenous Aussies would’ve been like the people from Sentinel Island, but maybe they probably descended from some of the most chill caveman explorers so many millennia ago

[@xiiza6268]

We talking about the same indigenous?

[@grantts7]

Sarcasm?

[@akaroth7542]

They fought between themselves just like all humans do, did, and will.

[@StonrMoose69]

Ah good to see some things never change

[@joshuawilson-s2t]

All country’s expect Australia: yeah our life are pretty hard without our technology AUSTRALIA: you on easy mode mate

[@cheeks7050]

Aboriginals arriving in Australia created an extinction event, especially of large fauna. The Australia that Europeans discovered was already highly denuded, and the Europeans proceeded to denude it even further through hunting and introduction of foreign species.

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

Humans will exploit the environment to the best that their technology allows. It's what we do.

[@RCSVirginia]

To @cheeks7050 Yes, the worst extinction events in new lands, not just in Australia, but in the Americas, Madagascar, Hawaii and the Polynesian islands, came when the first non-European colonizers arrived.

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

Humans will exploit their environment to the best that their technology allows. It's what we do as a species.

[@user-ms9go9ko5y]

Must be why nature put us here.

[@0Anubi0]

@@user-ms9go9ko5y To ruin itself? Sounds like a dumb argument.

[@jodofe4879]

The most terrifying predator in prehistoric Australia definitely were the humans. The nightmarish efficiency with which homo sapiens drove all these competing predator species to complete extinction is truly horrible. Big size, sharp teeth and venom are no match for big brains, advanced pack hunting tactics and spears. The same thing happened in the Americas and Eurasia as well. Megafauna everywhere just goes extinct the moment the first humans show up. The only exception is Africa because the megafauna there evolved alongside humans and found habitats and niches where they don't directly compete with humans. But even a lot of the African megafauna is threatened nowadays by human expansion and encroachement.

[@MrLeedebt]

Indeed, when humans arrived everywhere on Earth it was extinction time for the Megafauna. It's interesting about African megafauna.

[@fikretdemir4818]

Or humans of Subsaharan Africa were bad at hunting

[@armyofninjas9055]

Threatened? Dude. We're in a mass-extinction event right now. All megafauna are dying. All. Humans suck.

[@ViriatoII]

@@fikretdemir4818 Hehehe, yes. But the many diseases also controlled their population. Now we opened the pandora box by giving them food and medications.

[@joseph8298]

We need megafauna to replant and rebreed seeding across the States so biochemical scientists can engineer an algae that keeps up, or a land plant that keeps up with climate change. We’re all gonna die because of changing global temperatures otherwise.

[@Heavenly.Harlot]

"Terrestrial Crocodiles" is the scariest sentence I have ever heard.

[@jasonrist6582]

and it could run as fast as you

[@atmosphericus970]

technically it's only the second scariest sentence, since 'terrestrial crocodile' sort of implies 'extra-terrestrial crocodile'.

[@all_mesa_man922]

Good thing it's not a sentence

[@user-gn4uk1jv3c]

If you think that's scary just imagine Extra-Terrestrial Crocodiles wOoOo

[@joshualove3073]

Slaying and encounters with Megalania has got to be partly where certain dragon slaying myths originated.

[@Joshua-fq9tm]

Post K-Pg in the rest of the world: Time for Mammals Post K-Pg in Australia: Reptile nostalgia

[@austin-ug4ts]

South America too, it also had non-mammalian apex predators like Terror Birds and Land crocodiles with the largest one called Barinasuchus

[@Giovanni-le4fv]

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[@Keith_online]

I really love indigenous australian history and just to add some additional information: the first nations people (indigenous australians) practiced something called 'firestick farming' in which was a method of ecosystem management they used to keep the land suitable for themselves as the dry and often shrubby landscape of most of australia is very susceptible to natural wildfires. firestick farming was basically the practice of creating controlled fires on a schedule to get rid of the excess plant life like grass or shrub that - if left unchecked - would increase the likeliness and detrimental affect of a wildfire.

[@zoolboy8398]

this should be mandatory kzbin.info/www/bejne/ml6cmaB7nq1raJo

[@haleypirio921]

They still drove all the megafauna extinct

[@snuffcarl]

A technique still used today, at least in sweden

[@jenconvertibles]

@@snuffcarlused very widely in aus to this day mate,

[@adrija9340]

Interesting. There’s a similar practice among some tribes in India, called jhum cultivation.

[@EdOfSchmed]

This is what I love about humans- we sailed into oceans with no shores visible and found land full of the most dangerous creatures still alive, but we didn't run away; we stayed, we survived, we thrived, and with nothing but stones and sticks we wiped them out. Edit: Humans may have walked across a no-longer existing landbridge too, but there's still contention.

[@TanmaySaha1]

Well there are nuances, but mostly yeah

[@_TheDarkHalf]

That’s nuts to think about. Great comment.

[@supercrazy03]

Wouldn’t happen today tho! Today’s human are much weaker and dumber than what we used to be when we Actually needed to be smart. The fact that humans are the top of the food chain and are basically untouchable now means that we no longer have that survival instinct that prehistoric humans had.

[@darealkry]

i dont wanna be that guy, but back then the shores of Australia where visible from a lot of places and Australia was connected to Papua new guinea. 🤓

[@eewweeppkk]

I'd say that's a pretty good argument to NOT love humans - going from continent to continent wiping out the megafauna willy nilly.

[@BigDaddy136]

I once saw a comment that said "Australia is where the devil keeps all his pets" lmaoo

[@Bananasplitsssz]

Anyone who hasn’t been to Australia, remember, If your in the dessert, your biggest worry is snakes and spiders If your in the tropical rainforests, your biggest worry is snakes, spiders and the birds If your in the city’s, your biggest worry is the eshays (and magpies)

[@idehenebenezer]

Jesus is returning soon🔥 Repent and turn away from your sins to obtain salvation,,

[@full-timelesbian1075]

I felt the last part

[@m0-m0597]

@@idehenebenezer Jesus is king

[@kabo2246]

I'm curious about which birds and how are dangerous to humans? I'm from Europe where the only real dangerous animals are bears (rare), wolves (mostly mind their own business), boars (just don't approach one), moose (mostly peaceful) and vipers (only if you are allergic or dumb)

[@uniquechannelnames]

Juat a tip for spelling dessert and desert. Dessert has two s letters because you'd like to eat a second round (you eat dessert after supper). While a desert has one s cause you don't want to go back for seconds. (nothing against deserts lol they are special places, it's just a spelling tip)

[@althechicken9597]

Landing in Australia was like loading into ARK for the first time. Ooh a berry! AGGHH A THING THAT CAN FIT ME IN ITS MOUTH!

[@invschematics]

pretty much what I was thinking, this is just The Island redwoods/swamp in one continent.

[@mustizgaming]

Damn I just realised the drop-bear myth might've came from the Thylacoleo. It does check out: large claws, could possibly climb trees, a nasty bite and existed 50k years ago when the first Australians came into being.

[@jontycampbell5213]

yeah a type of drop bear was proved to exist

[@lukas4228]

In ark(a video game) the thylacoleo sits on trees waiting for something it can jump on and attack so i think its pretty much confirmed that he is the drop bear

[@Nikkska]

Drop bears still exist mate, they just prefer the flesh of tourists because they have a different smell…

[@1379andre]

Australia is So big there might be some out there still!

[@idehenebenezer]

Jesus is returning soon🔥 Repent and turn away from your sins to obtain salvation,,

[@Fruityflootloops]

9:17 WHY IS THIS IMAGE SO CUTE

[@slackerofhell]

*Humans arrive on Australia* Nature: Not on my watch, pal

[@oiltoast3723]

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[@Monchegorx]

Humans: I didn't ask.

[@slackerofhell]

@@Monchegorx Nature: These things are nuts

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

​@@Monchegorx Humans: We can't lose.

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

​@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25humans: hello there

[@rolandlemmers6462]

The problem all of these critters had was that they were edible.

[@RCSVirginia]

@rolandlemmers6462 Kudos! Excellent point!

[@rubric-eo5yj]

@@RCSVirginia there is no evidence of humans hunting things such as megalania,quinkana or the giant snakes that existed in australia it's more likely that the opposite would have happened

[@bunnystrasse]

Send in the chinese!

[@noahthedoomer]

@@bunnystrasse 😂

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

@@rubric-eo5yj They just hunted the animals the large predators relied on for food. Once that became scarce, the large predator days were over.

[@ilyasharin1976]

"Prehistoric Australia Was Pure Nightmare Fuel" I don't think modern Australia got that much of an update.

[@book2121]

i do nto understand what you mean, is it that Australia hasn’t change that much? or people are just as fearless? orrrr?

[@SumeriyaYaxlaka]

1:01 Crocodonkey jumpscare

[@Itashasarecool]

Thank you for the warning, the anticipation was killing me and then BOOM, crocodonkey jumpscare

[@theghosthero6173]

You didnt mention it but a year ago a new apex predator was described, Dynatoaetus gaffae, a type of very large eagle similar to the harpy eagle, with large talons, probably capable of taking down kangouroos

[@monticore1626]

You do realise modern wedge tailed eagles occasionally hunt adult kangaroos too

[@fury1186]

@@monticore1626 Maybe a small one but I don't see any wedgies taking down a full size roo

[@monticore1626]

@@fury1186 they can attack large animals in groups, according to wikipedia: “Large animals may be attacked by pairs or, occasionally, by groups acting cooperatively. One record shows 15 wedge-tailed eagles hunting kangaroos, two actively chasing at a time, then repeatedly being replaced by two more from the circling group overhead” I could not access the source but 4 were cited

[@demonzone2571]

The First humans to set foot man on Australia: "what can possibly go wrong?" *5 seconds later* "WHAT KIND OF HELLSCAPE DID WE JUST ENTERED?!" *While running from giant monitor lizards*

[@MuhammadReza-te9ct]

And then they said "you know what, I like it here, let's stay"

[@demonzone2571]

@@MuhammadReza-te9ct is this before or after they discovered drugs?

[@-Mas3]

It’s why they call it the Dreamtime

[@AlienGurl-ow8qp]

@@demonzone2571 ya nan

[@saffron97]

Other animals: Joins a arms race for strong bites, claws, tails and venom. Humans pick up a rock: I am gonna end this mans whole career.

[@MangaGamified]

idk but I can imagine it was a slow war of attrition style pestering them from afar with spears or shepherd sling, arrows, traps and spike barricades ironically it was their size was their downfall cause they couldn't avoid detection. If they're still alive today, ironically their best defense would be local laws lol

[@fidus868]

​@@MangaGamifiedThey just set a gigantic fire, thats how the mega fauna became the australian desert

[@MangaGamified]

@@fidus868 that's interesting in itself outside the consequences of the aftermath, for a race that always used fire, I wonder why we didn't evolved a bit of resistance to it lol Also, wont they burn the meat they hunt and the fruits/veggies they gather?

[@hpw.9582]

Wow, this is both fascinating and terrifying. If you haven't already could you do a video on prehistoric New Zealand?

[@Sylmarys24]

Wonambi was only the 3rd largest man-eating size snake in ice age Australia, both Yurlungurr and the Bluff Downs Giant Python grew to 8 and 9 metres long respectively. Larger than any living snake and both fully terrestrial.

[@dontcallthemliberals3316]

9 meteres is insane! would make a freight truck look like a toy.

[@johnscanlon8467]

Almost true, but I've yet to see any Yurlunggur I'd estimate as over 6.5 m. Only the Wyandotte specimen is probably bigger (single vertebra, not from near midbody) but I think it's not Yurlunggur, rather a third giant madtsoid lineage that was smaller (and still undescribed) in the Miocene. The giant python may have been partly aquatic...

[@OldNavajoTricks]

Yurlungurr sounds suspiciously like Jormungandr...

[@johnscanlon8467]

@@OldNavajoTricks You might not think so if you heard German people trying to pronounce Yurlunggur (lol). I'm sure I noticed the similarity before attaching the Ngolyu name to the fossil, so there's no reason to invoke a common cultural source shared by north-Europeans and one of the language families of northeast Arnhem Land.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Can confirm, wasps were MUCH larger back then.

[@h0ly208]

Didn't even consider the wasps. Thanks for that.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@@h0ly208 And significantly more painful. Imagine a blood donation needle, but it's injecting you with venom over and over, there's seven of them, and they all fly and hate you with the rage of a thousand suns.

[@cossoccocsoc]

Would it be possible to hop onto ones back and fly away on it?.

[@h0ly208]

@@cossoccocsoc probably not, but you can bet your sweet ass it'll carry you away lol

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@@cossoccocsoc Not for a human, Fortunately. Imagine the utter terror of giant-wasp-riding Sky Pirates.

[@TheFirstCurse1]

I love how Honey Bees (some of the friendliest and least dangerous Insects) are on the map at 0:07.

[@maryeckel9682]

I chuckled at the fearsome giant stick insect.

[@rezonantsarachnids5351]

They do kill more people annually than our spiders (think sting allergies), but it feels unfair to chuck them on the list when they are introduced from Europe!

[@kalmarfamily6874]

ironically they kill more people than snakes & spiders combined - it turns out allergies beat venom for deadly factor

[@D1Thorn]

I missed these destiny exotic accounts haven’t seen one in literally years 🥹

[@Whatevsbabes]

Honestly, that map is nonsensical.

[@oops6876]

0:09 “Oh what spooky animals ar- HONEY BEE??”

[@Ytgfddddccvvt]

The thumbnail craaazzzyyy 😂

[@abluemug]

You are the only person who mentioned it. I can’t stop laughing like what?? 😂

[@Sir_Squid]

Ikr, why is that person white if it's supposed to be thousands of years ago

[@Professor_Genki7]

What?

[@charlie11ng42]

That lizard is big enough to swallow a person whole, good grief.

[@runnyhunny786]

Then Indigenous people of Australia arrived - and DINED on lizards... 😎

[@Ceres4S2D1]

​@@runnyhunny786You actually think you're cool?

[@runnyhunny786]

@@Ceres4S2D1 Well - put it this way. It CERTAINLY doesn't matter to me what your opinion is anyhow. WHO are you to me ? Nobody that's who ! Just like I may be to YOU !!!

[@runnyhunny786]

@@Ceres4S2D1 Well I certainly don't consider you " COOL " anyways !

[@runnyhunny786]

@@Ceres4S2D1 🤔

[@FlyingFocs]

I always thought a novel about humans arriving to Australia, told from the perspective of animals like Thylacine (which were around on the mainland), would be really cool.

[@chiaroscuroamore]

I’d read that!

[@FlyingFocs]

@@chiaroscuroamore SWEET! Gitta publish my first novel first, but YAY!

[@chiaroscuroamore]

I’ll be keeping an eye out for it!! 📖📖📙📙

[@RCSVirginia]

To @FlyingFocs Good luck with the current novel on which you are working! A work based on the viewpoint of a Tasmanian Tiger who was experiencing the arrival of Australian Aborigines with their canine companions might be a little on the downbeat side. However, you could give it the title of, "The Dingoes Ate All My Babies!"

[@sforza209]

@@RCSVirginiawho said there was a novel in the works? You just make that bit up in your mind?

[@edwinchigozie215]

That thumbnail is brutal

[@Von-tpc]

0:33" this is Flecher, the bully in our school" ahhh timing 😂😭

[@Ami-jc2oo]

Actually when I saw that frame I thought of the "No b*tches?" Megamind meme.

[@MonkeyOwl]

gotta love how SCP-682 was just chillin in Australia back in the day

[@groove179]

Was ready for you to go over some ancient bugs

[@STOPPEDINCOLORADO]

Your closing statements really hammer home the tenacity of the human race and its adaptability. Makes me love my fellow wo/man even more.

[@inky3541]

9:50 Junkies in Australia when they hear coins in your pocket

[@Neal_Riggers4]

fr

[@thespiralillusion]

Or when you are having a ciggie

[@revengance4149]

2:41 I thought he was gonna say "medium sized American" lol

[@godshowman1878]

Nah bro you can't even compare them to americans

[@hohoho1st]

I clicked on it because it kept popping up in my feed throughout the day, and I loved it.

[@lennarthoekveen9339]

This reminds me of playing the WoW demo and skipping Durotar and heading straight for the dinosaur infested islands.

[@NerevariXStefPower]

Fax bro

[@agmuntianu]

you forgot that the gimmpy-gimmpy exists also there , the suicide plant

[@Breeza-s5t]

Yep!! They don't tickle either😂 the bastards

[@CensorTube84]

I thought Venus fly trap was bad but “suicide plant” sounds crazy..going to look it up now lol

[@gregg6113]

​@@CensorTube84Venus flytraps are harmless to us

[@BigHomieJordi]

Young uneducated person here, im curious on why everything was so giant and so scary back then but then they just got smaller.

[@josuedanielsandi710]

Simple, because humans killed most megafauna.

[@angelsibrian5085]

One theory is that hunters would keep attacking larger animals in packs therefore as time progresses smaller was better, as in the creature can run away more smoothly

[@adamamar5100]

Cause they needed to eat so much calories that they didn't find also cause high oxygen events

[@josuedanielsandi710]

Because we hunted most big things to extinction.

[@senkuu_ishigamii]

Younger Dryas 💀

[@marcoslovato877]

I'm glad this channel was recommended to me! Very informative I didn't really know about some of these animals until now thanks!

[@graysonsamuel7915]

Alternate video title: "Prehistoric Australia was straight SMOKE 24/7"

[@eclectic.explorations]

Invasive feral cats in Australia are increasing in size to the point where they are being mistook for panthers. I think some of them are evolving into Australia's new superpredator.

[@space3828]

Your video just popped up in my feed but this is so interesting im gonna watch more after its over

[@piratefilmco]

A giant croc that can sprint on land? Nope. I'll stay in Wisconsin.

[@mrpickles-hb6zx]

Wisconsin... CHEESE?!

[@huntercool2232]

6:40 That’s actually a fire name for a snake species! 🔥🔥

[@garrgravarr]

I'm proud of our indigenous people here in Oz. They were and are true survivors, and it's disappointing to see so many ignorant and incorrect comments here on a channel for lovers of scientific prehistory...

[@abhirajteotia5794]

Well ,those indigenous people killed by your forefathers(Britishers ).

[@lisalibunny1012]

Couldn't agree more. What's wrong with people...

[@shasmi93]

You gotta ignore the negative people in the world mate. There will ALWAYS be people that say or bring things down. Their childhood trauma, way they were raised, life experiences, brain chemical imbalances, there are many reasons people may be suffering internally and that suffering makes them do and say things that aren’t good. That is their struggle and journey. You just have to ignore it and wish them the best to grow and find their way to the light.

[@garrgravarr]

@@shasmi93 Thank you

[@adamamar5100]

Ye your homo sapien were so godlike they made Australian monsters fear them

[@freeedom22]

LOOOOL that thumbnail! Well played

[@KrispyAimAssist]

Yeah man it was crazy. I remember those days quite fondly, having to mask our scent just to get to school

[@categoricallybiased1673]

Good to see a modern day documentary about Australia

[@timewarpblackhole]

i’m australian and i can confirm it’s not too scary here, i actually live in one of the safest countries on earth and i’ve never been scared of any wildlife lol

[@Neal_Riggers4]

Rural or Urban

[@Bigsoot7393]

@@Neal_Riggers4I’m rural and same here, nothing here is gonna go you on land. We don’t have bears or anything

[@Neal_Riggers4]

@@Bigsoot7393 im from qld

[@Bigsoot7393]

@@Neal_Riggers4 I'm from nt

[@Neal_Riggers4]

@@Bigsoot7393 lol

[@TungB]

Very entertaining. The Diprotodon is adorable. This whole environment seems like a surprisingly untapped backdrop for a superhero cartoon series or video game.

[@kaynesworld4900]

Very informative video thanks for the knowledge 🙏

[@VoidStudios2908]

Me, and Australian: 🎵But at least we dont have AR15's..🎵

[@arnbo88]

It should be pointed out that that Australian Aborigines who claim to have always lived in harmony with the land were the very same people who wiped out at least 40 species of this mega fauna. Firestick farming was an effective tool to drive out these large animals from heavily forested areas. Killing one large animal could feed the entire tribe. Another side effect of this practice was to change the landscape of the Australian continent. Much of the rainforest canopy was destroyed permanently turning Australia into the arid environment we see today.

[@Drew-p7p]

😂😂 you making up your own story now 😂

[@Dharma_Bum]

@@Drew-p7phe’s not making it up. Sediment core sampling shows spores from fungus that lived on megafauna dung. The spores were abundant before the arrival of humans and took a massive nosedive over a period of only a few thousand years, completely disappearing 45,000 years ago. There is no evidence of significant climate change during the time of the megafauna extinction. This is strong evidence for humans wiping out the megafauna.

[@eezaak21]

Aboriginal culture is thought to have been present in Australia for over 46000 years. Maybe they made these critters extinct?

[@tracenjez]

Quite possibly, although climate change is another factor

[@raclark2730]

Aboriginal culture forbids the over harvesting of any plant or animal.

[@eezaak21]

@@raclark2730 Sure that is a nice sounding idea. I think the reality was different. If your a starving tribe and there is a giant wombat nearby....it's going to get eaten. Regardless.

[@raclark2730]

@@eezaak21 The Idea is to prevent starving tribes, including other tribes that may want to use the same resource. Etiquette and monitoring. If a resource was seen to be dwindling they moved to another area. Not sure if that was always the case but I would put money on it being ancient practice. Most research is now pointing towards climate shift for the majority cause. Big animals are more sensitive to such things.

[@MrLeedebt]

@@raclark2730 Interestingly Harari in his book, Sapiens, is dismissive of climate change for the coincidental arrival of humans in Australia and America (for example) and the extinction of megafauna. He says that megafauna endured climate change in the past and had survived. He also says, eucalyptus only became common here after the arrival of humans, due to fire. This tends to indicate fire would have been a common and easier way of hunting these enormous and dangerous creatures, compared to other methods.

[@theshadowking3198]

Honestly a game about primal Australia would be fire def giving off ark vibes

[@rewild6134]

Hey, ecologist in Australia here. Just wanted to point out that you read the marsupial cladogram incorrectly for the Thylacoleo. Thylacoleonidae are equally as related to koalas as they are to other Vombatiformes, being either a basal lineage of Vombatiform or potentially basal to Diprotodontia. Easy mistake to make :) , love your content.

[@echigoyaono8739]

1:41 balls.

[@user-rx2jw1kk3o]

…

[@Nungit22]

Female?

[@StellaLouiseKing]

What did you expect? Don't you hav3 balls too?

[@pizza-ve1vo]

​@@Nungit22those are balls not big lips

[@Ispeakthetruthify]

These animals were no match for the most dangerous animal that EVER graced this planet....US!!! There was NOTHING in Australia that people who arrived their, had not seen before in Africa and Eurasia, as far as danger goes. In fact: The ONLY reason Australia's unique wildlife lasted so long, was because the continent was in splendid isolation for so long. If big cats, bears, canines, hyenas, large placental herbivores like elephants, rhinos, hippos, bovines, pigs, etc, etc, etc...had made it to Australia hundreds of thousands to millions of years ago...Australia's unique wildlife would have been LONG GONE before humans arrived. And once humans arrived 40-50 thousand years ago, Australia was a land of plenty, full of naive animals.Australia was "easy work" for humans.

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

Or the Australian fauna would adapt to new animals.

[@Ispeakthetruthify]

@@Polosatiy_Varan Australia and South America were similar in many ways: They both had large numbers of marsupials, and other unique wildlife found nowhere else on the planet(Australia, South America, and Antarctica were once all connected). And they both were isolated from the other continents for tens of millions of years. This isolation gave the unique wildlife on these two continents a chance to thrive, and evolve undisturbed for millions of years in splendid isolation. This isolation also made the flora and fauna on these two continents, extremely vulnerable to invasive species from North America, Africa, and Eurasia.. These continents for a good portion of their history, were all connected. So animals could move throughout them. So you had extreme competition between herbivores and carnivores, from Africa, Eurasia, and North America, constantly competing with each other. And over time this made them hardier than species that are isolated(Australia, South America, various islands). In the case of South America, it's native fauna was DEVESTAED during the Great American Interchange. Very few of it's native species, and nearly all of it's marsupials, were wiped out during this event. They were outcompeted by hardier placental herbivores and carnivores. Australia would have suffered the same fate if placental carnivores and herbivores, would have been able to get there from Asia hundreds of thousands to millions of years ago.

[@Polosatiy_Varan]

@@Ispeakthetruthify Most of the megafauna of South America became extinct as a result of ice ages and the general cooling of the planet's climate, and not because of placental predators. By the way, apex predators of South and Central America are mainly reptiles (alligators, crocodiles and anacondas).

[@thatsusguy-j6e]

well in that case i wish those animals came to australia much earlier, because i live here and fucking hate insects!

[@HansDunkelberg1]

This will certainly have to be considered as a clear, and essential, explanation.

[@girlbuu9403]

Piranhaconda was real. Thanks Australia.