Giganotosaurus - The Biggest Carnivore The World Has Ever Seen... Almost

[@ClintsReptiles]

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[@chrisgaming9567]

Next video: Giganotosaurus, the best pet reptile?

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

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[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

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[@BOEING--mh6xm]

Clint would you maybe do a video on the Acrocanthosaurus?

[@AlysIThink101]

I could be entirely wrong about this (I'm a white British person so not exactly an expert in the subject) but the mandarin name communism joke did come of as a bit xenophobic. I understand that it was meant as a joke but saying that it's bad to name a Dinosaur in mandarin then saying that they should be named in one of two European languages, only giving mention to more local languages in a brief note at the end comes of as questionable at best, especially when you also then try to connect communism (Something I assume you think is bad) to it. Once again I understand that it was just meant as a joke (I do get what you were going for with it), I am not the right person to determine this and this comment isn't meant as a judgement, it's just that it came off as somewhat xenophobic and out of place to me. Once again I could be wrong, this is just meant as constructive criticism based on my first impression. Also I didn't know about that Carcharodontosaurus track way, that's incredibly interesting.

[@Tigerpuffer]

I dont think this one is the right pet reptile for me.

[@MdnghtEther]

lmao same… for a number of reasons

[@sir-ryan-the-dumb]

Handleability? ... 1, might lose your leg if you're not careful!

[@jesseestrada8914]

Omg this made me laugh so hard

[@zacg_]

I'd be on board, but I've heard availability isn't the best.

[@Devlinator61116]

​@@zacg_0 for availability. They're extinct in the wild, but a scientist on a tropical island could hook you up.

[@cen7ury]

Not gonna lie....when you said, "And good news! I have one here today" for a split second, I thought the camera was going to pan over to a Giganotasaurus, possibly wearing glasses, patiently waiting for its turn to speak.

[@mariahsart]

Miss opportunity 😂

[@andyjay729]

"Alan?"

[@chloewright1]

Brilliant comment! 😂

[@GrapeswitheldJ]

That guy is close enough

[@michaelblevins1651]

@@andyjay729AALLLAAN

[@lunathic]

It cracks me up how Ethan was introduced at 0:26 and then spends 5 minutes not saying anything like Clint is discussing if hes the best pet mammal for us.

[@chloewright1]

Availability might be an issue though. As far as I'm aware, there's only one in existence 😆

[@jimmyjames2022]

Yah that was weird, like don't bring him on till he's going to talk.

[@BiTurbo228]

​@@chloewright1I don't know, it might be hard to get that particular one, but there's millions just like him everywhere. Think the availability might still be a bit tricky though as they seem to be a protected species,. You certainly get into a lot of trouble either purchasing one or getting one from the wild.

[@GarysmostlyMonitors]

And then Clint said lets let him tell us and then jumped into a sponsor add 😂😂😂😂.

[@JD-oh6hm]

Ethan gets a 2/5 for availability, you can find Ethans anywhere, but you cannot find this specific Ethan widely available.

[@Your_local_therian_weirdo]

Every time I hear Clint say "Well, Hi There!" makes me feel like an 8 year old on a field trip to the Natural History Museum. I even get the same sense of excitement and wonder that learning about the ancient world has always brought me. Absolutely LOVE it and I hope that there are actual children here watching with that same sense of excitement and wonder

[@pdxcorgidad]

Hi there, hello.

[@surgeonsergio6839]

Acrocanthosaurus, an elephant sized superpredator leaping on to the back of a behemoth like sauroposeidon is probably my most favourite fact that I learned about carcharodontosaurids today.

[@Rodanguyy]

Same

[@varanid9]

It was already in the running as my favorite dinosaur. It just made it today. Also love the idea of the large hump of muscle running down its back giving it more strength and ability to lock its neck.

[@superxavxii421]

It's one of my favorite dinosaurs because of its name. Acrocanthosaurus is very fun to say 😊

[@LilGooberGuy]

@@Rodanguyy dude I love Acro sm and this just furthered it to another level

[@Rodanguyy]

@@LilGooberGuy i love acro too

[@t.m.breuel2670]

But is Giganotosaurus the best pet reptile for you? We rate Giganotosaurus on our five criteria: Handleability, Care, Hardiness, Availability, Upfront Costs

[@lesterone6957]

The one issue really is that… it will probably eat you.

[@zacg_]

I think the availability is going to be the main issue. An eccentric billionaire might hypothetically have the ability to have a safe enclosure built. But they would still struggle to find one on MorphMarket.

[@DavidBarkland]

Handleability: 1 out of 5. It's a hyper-carnivorous temper-tantrum the size of a big truck. Care: 1 out of 5. Nothing about its care is particularly difficult, but it needs a lot of it. Hardiness: 5 out of 5. It's huge, its durable, it's enduring. Just make sure your grandkids will want it. Availability: 0 out of 5. Unless you're Nigel Marven, availability is TARDIS-dependent. Upfront Costs: Once again, nothing about its care or enclosure is particularly expensive on its own, but the sheer amount quickly adds up. Minimum enclosure size is at least 9 square miles, and it needs both warm and cold and dry and humid environments in there. The enclosure can be made out of almost any material, but you need to build it strong enough to stop a bulldozer and tall enough to stop most cranes.

[@Tucuxi70-n6m]

Handleability: 1 (Unless it eats humans) Care: 1 (Imagine taking care of an animal that large) Hardiness:5 or 4. Availability: 0 (They are extinct) Upfront Coasts: 0-1

[@michaelbuick6995]

Handleability: 1/5 Care: 2/5 Hardiness: 4/5 Availability: N/A Upfront Costs: spare no expense.

[@stephanybrown3226]

So glad to see Acrocanthosaurus get some recognition! It's such a fascinating animal and, in my opinion tops T-rex and Spinosaurus. Yes you mentioned the trackway! Edit: One theory is the arms, more than twice the size of T-rex's able to hold up to a ton each. Although it had limited movement about 45 degrees. But it's one possibility on how it could grapple sauropods.

[@Chameleonradio]

I am not afraid of giant carnivore chasing me--I am afraid of a mid-sized carnivore that sees me as a substantial meal, or a herbivore that's had a bad day chasing me.

[@GlennKurusu]

The latter two would make an very unconventional horror scene. The latter could have a mineral (or vitamin) deficiency. Check out Casual Geographic’s “[…] Rule Of Nature,” for more on facultative herbivores. You will be amazed.

[@heyy13]

Well said!

[@AzraelThanatos]

Yep, large ones, unless you've been screwing with them and giving a reason to target you, wouldn't view you as worth the time/effort to go after.

[@varanid9]

I'm more scared of several Deinonychi sneaking up on me.

[@Chameleonradio]

@ Well, we don’t know that they were actually coordinated pack hunters like wolves, is my understanding. Ngl though, they are fast and have foot knives, so one would be enough for me.

[@robertb7293]

The real fun of seeing evidence an acrocanthosaurus attempted to jump onto a moving sauroposeidon is that the target prey, fully grown, is estimated to be at least six meters (20 feet) high at the shoulder. That's higher than a giraffe is tall. That a 4 ton plus predator can even attempt that kind of jump is proper nighmare fuel.

[@KurNorock]

It didn't jump up onto the back. It latched onto the side. Hence why the guy specifically mentioned how the tracks show the sauropod weight shifting heavily to the right.

[@matyaskassay4346]

my guy, I'm sorry but there is no such evidence.

[@KurNorock]

@matyaskassay4346 the tracks in Texas are evidence.

[@matyaskassay4346]

@@KurNorock the tracks are evidence of dinosaurs walking there, nothing more. You can't jump to wild conclusions like that based on a few footsteps.

[@johnbrobston1334]

@@matyaskassay4346 So what's your explanation? Were they like Pernese fire lizards, able to teleport? Perhaps they could fly?

[@shroomyk]

I have ADHD so I tend to obsess about random subjects and hyperfocus on them until I get bored, then find something else to obsess about. Just started really getting into paleo and prehistoric stuff. This isn't my first Dinosaur December but I'm especially happy for it this time. Thanks Clint. You look so excited which makes me excited too.

[@Wilson-obrien]

Me too

[@BeastNugget44Main]

Pretty sure hyper obsession thing is autism

[@kerstiesweeney]

Speaking from experience, it's a wonderful subject to hyperfocus on. Have fun learning!!

[@The_Zeevina]

5:47 I love that you chose a picture from a great modding community to the Ark games. I LOVE their mods and it feels so majestic seen these in the game!

[@vernonfridy8416]

21:33 Some information on this matter: frrom what I can tell, Owen (Sir Richard, the Victorian comparative anatomist; not Clint’s son) did translate the Greek “sauros” as “lizard” but never actually considered dinosaurs to be lizards. He described Dinosauria as an order of “saurian reptiles”; Sauria being a taxon (derived from that same term) that encompassed “lizards” (Lacertilia) and crocodilians (Crocodylia) but not snakes (Serpentes) or turtles (Testudines/Chelonia). Of course we no longer consider such a group to be monophyletic to the exclusion of snakes (for they fall within the Lacertilia, which became the Squamata), turtles (which no longer appear to be part of an anapsid outgroup to the rest of the reptiles), or indeed birds (without whom Dinosauria would be paraphyletic). Also for the record, “terrible” (in the modern sense of “generally just plain bad” as opposed to the “Ivan the Terrible” sense) is not an accurate translation of “deinos”, though that is the most popular one these days and the one Clint used in his “all groups of dinosaurs” video. Owen intended that term to mean “fearfully great”; so something more like “awe-inspiring” or, as Thomas Holtz says, not merely “scary” but “scary big”.

[@hellegennes]

Yep, totally right. I have myself point both of these numerous times. In general, the word "deinos" means incredible, awesome when it comes to living things and terrible when it comes to abstract things like situations (dire situation = δεινή κατάσταση / deini katastasi). We use it frequently to describe someone who is very adept at something, like diving, shooting, fighting, etc. I think Owen even outright said that was the intended meaning.

[@kurathchibicrystalkitty5146]

"Fine, we'll all learn Mandarin like in Firefly." 🤣🤣 Two things I love: dinosaurs, and Clint's sense of humour.

[@jackalbayushi5801]

I’m crying tears of joy seeing my all time favorite dinosaur getting some love! Thank you for covering Acrocanthosaurus

[@W00dyWoodp3cker]

You okay there bud? That Shaochilong rant felt a little like a personal offense to you. All jokes aside, I really enjoyed this episode. Looking forward for the rest of Dino december!

[@skwirlsan]

There was some weird energy there, I'm guessing a joke that didn't quite land. Mandarin might be in fact be spoken where the dinosaur was found. Otherwise, another great Dino-December video.

[@hope1575]

​@skwirlsan I agree, weird energy there. I mean, I also personally dislike Chinese and have similar preferences regarding scientific nomenclature... but I wouldn't say it like that on camera lol. Like, the bit itself was kinda funny but was delivered with an uncomfortable level of earnestness

[@kwanarchive]

@@skwirlsan It might, but considering how remote some of those digs are, the local language maybe one of the many other ethnic groups in China. But even so, you could argue* that the Chinese names are using Classical Chinese, and not Modern Chinese, so it's in keeping with the tradition of using a "dead" language. * Those in the know would see a glaring problem here :P

[@Wyattinous]

12:14 My Monster Hunter brain instantly thought "now THAT would make a FANTASTIC Great Sword"

[@sandwich4763]

The Anjanath Greatsword kinda looks like it, doesn't it?

[@Wyattinous]

@ totally, that and the original bone jawblade.

[@the_freakin_bat]

Saaaaame

[@joshmerchant8737]

oh hell yeah

[@nitev4407]

Happy Dinosaur December!!! I've been waiting for this all year.

[@arturleperoke3205]

Clints ability to broadcast his appreciation of Ethan and what he has to tell is so awesome! You made my day Sir!

[@Yours-Truly609]

IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR DINOSAUR DECEMBER THANK YOU CLINT❤️!!

[@TheRealRodent]

I love how Jurassic World had that scene at the start where a Rex and a Giga had a face off when they were separated by 20 million years.

[@RoScFan]

and thousands of km of ocean

[@5LbSquirrel]

Remember, this is a franchise where Velociraptors used to live in modern-day Montana

[@whitecloud2002]

I am confounded how people take that Jurassic Park and Jurassic world and try and compare it to real life, they brought Dino's back to life, nothing about that is realistic.... Yet

[@cassesque]

Even worse: in the first Jurassic Park the 'Velociraptor' (actually a Deinonychus) was separated from the 'child' (actually a juvenile Homo sapiens) by 100+ million years!

[@Noah49295]

I brought this up to a friend of mine and they said: "It's not our universe. Maybe they did live at the same time and in the same place in this universe" Which is both stupid and frustratingly impossible to argue against.

[@cristiaolson7327]

When he said they may have been social animals, and having already established that they preyed upon large saurapods, I immediately thought of that loin pride in Africa that has learned to hunt adult elephants. The thought of several dozen enormous therapods working together to bring down some of the largest creatures to ever walk on land is both awesome and terrifying.

[@majungasaurusaaaa]

The brains are simply not there for such behavior. Komodo dragons show up in huge mobs around carcasses. But they're not working together. These animals would fight and the smaller individuals often get maimed/killed and cannibalized. We don't have any evidence of actual social living or cooperation. But we do have evidence of theropod interspecies mauling and cannibalism.

[@jimmyjames2022]

Great talk about Carcharodontosauridae, Clint and Ethan!

[@morgangobin9985]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I found a blooper clip of Mr Roger’s getting “pranked” on Instagram and I was immediately reminded of Clint. He reacted exactly how I could imagine Clint reacting to being pranked while filming. 😂

[@Ofallthings089]

What was the prank?

[@morgangobin9985]

@ Someone on the crew switched Mr Roger’s shoes with theirs so they didn’t fit when he went to put them on.

[@varanid9]

@@morgangobin9985 Good one!

[@varanid9]

@@morgangobin9985 "Suddenly, Mr Rogers flew into a rage and shattered the cameraman's collar bone."

[@MystikMoon]

This is the perfect birthday present!!! Thanks Clint! ❤

[@ClintsReptiles]

Happy birthday!

[@Raye938]

Hearing Clint talk about "enormous members" is fascinating.

[@EvilToe]

considering how much Clint likes badass dinosaur names I'd love to see him talk about Dreadnoughtus

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

I would have enjoyed hearing more from the guest thoughout the video. Thank you for all the details though. So much I didn't know.

[@Kelisic]

Ok, but what I really want to know is "Is Stegosaurus the best pet dinosaur for me?"... you know, just in case I find myself in possession of a tropical island off the coast of Costa Rica at some point.

[@azuresstuff]

14:07 I’m a huge mapusaurus fan, I basically yelled the answer before you said it then went ‘YEAAAHHH’ when you confirmed it was the mapu. Such a cool dino

[@varanus5622]

Good dinosaur to be a huge fan of

[@42ZaphodB42]

Why Mapu and not Giga or Tyrannotitan? Theyre basically the same. I find them rather dull

[@azuresstuff]

@@42ZaphodB42 because its name is funny. Mapu wapu. Sounds like an enemy in mario bros

[@varanus5622]

@@42ZaphodB42 Mapu also has the most evidence for being a pack hunter. Imagine a whole pack of these swarming a Titanosaur and celebrating with a massive feast.

[@dtm4631]

Loved the awesome Acro bit, the fact that something of that size and weight was able to jump and latch on a huge prey is mind blowing. But is kind of sad that Concavenator, being a very unique carcharodontosaur that contrary to most of them is known from an almost complete specimen, wasn't mentioned.

[@ClintsReptiles]

The video would need to be twice as long to get to them. We may get there, but not today.

[@Lmpkio]

Absolutely killing it as always Clint! Always looking forward to your Dinocember vids as a paleo-enthusiast. Though I believe there's a few earlier carcharodontosaurids that you've missed - one of them being a relatively recent and popular one! Found in 2010, Concavenator was a smaller medium-sized carcharodontosaur from early Cretaceous Spain known for a tall hump/sail structure on its back. It was even thought at one point to possess quill-like knobs on its ulna (although currently a very speculative/controversial take). Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom happens to have a life-sized statue of one found in Lockwood Manner, which honestly looks pretty good aside from its more exaggerated teeth and spine. In 2020, Lusovenator was described and named as an early Late Jurassic carcharodontosaur from Portugal. The specimen we have is small, but also thought to be a juvenile specimen, meaning it could grow potentially bigger. It's also an important find, suggesting that Carcharodontosauria split off from Allosauroidea much earlier then we originally thought. Veterupristisaurus was named in 2011, being another medium-sized carcharodontosaurid from the Late Jurassic in Tanzania. It's also quite fragmentary, originally thought to be synonymous to Ceratosaurus, though it's considered to look more like Acrocanthosaurus based on the two caudral vertebrae and bits of the tail we have of it. Its name means "old shark lizard", in reference to being the oldest carcharodontosaurid we've found thus far. Sauroniops was named in 2012 and is considered as a basal carcharodontosaurid of middle-cretaceous Morocco, believed to live alongside Spinosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus itself in the Kem Kem Formation. It's also VERY fragmentary, so much so some paleontologists believed it was synonymous of Carcharodontosaurus, though the current verdict says they're separate species. It was named, unsurprisingly, after the "Eye of Sauron" from Lord of the Rings. Pretty badass/nerdy name. And lastly there's Neovenator from the Isle of Wright in England, being considered as the best known theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Europe. Described in 1996, it was originally considered as the only known allosauroid fossil in Europe, before scientists placed it in its own family "Neovenatoridae" as close relatives of the Megaraptorans (the long-clawed theropods). It wasn't until 2013 when it was placed as part of the Carcharodontosauridae family. This "New Hunter" would've shared its environment with herbivores such as the famous Iguanodon and armored Polacanthus, as well as coexisting with several different Spinosaurids such as Baryonyx and the recently named Riparovenator and Ceratosuchops (alongside a potentially 10 meter long currently unnamed "White Rock" spinosaurid too). It even lived alongside an early tyrannosaur known as Eotyrannus! Can't wait to see you review more dinosaur families in the future! I recommend looking at the Stegosauria lineage, as there's some fascinating specimens that are pretty rad. Or maybe the sauropods, given they also have their fair share of unique long-necked beauties.

[@generalputnam2990]

*Isle of Wight. (Typo?)

[@Leprechaunproduction]

I'm always happy when Acrocanthosaurus gets attention; it's one of my favorite dinosaurs, and learning that it could actually jump onto its prey only makes it even more awesome!

[@calebsmith2362]

This would've been a great opportunity to discuss Concavenator. The most unique Carcharodontosaurid known from the best material.

[@GojiSMA]

Concavenator is my favorite dinosaur I need this

[@Macumber773]

Giganotosaurus is big

[@Rodanguyy]

And there's no sauroniops which I wanted to see cause it has a cool name meaning (the eye of sauron)

[@GojiSMA]

@@Rodanguyy yeah I love lord of the rings and love that a Carcharodontosaurid is named after Sauron makes me happy

[@MetalHeadGT]

I can't believe he missed out on Concavenator

[@littlerave86]

The prefix "giga-" seems to have been created after a suggestion of a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission as a unit prefix in the metric system. The German pronunciation of "g" as /g/ (as in great) suggests the intended pronunciation of "giga-" is indeed /gɪga/ (or even /giga/). The confusion of the pronunciation of "g" in English stems from a quirk in Latin languages, in which there is a second pronunciation to the regular /g/ for this letter, which comes into play when it is followed by an "i" or "e" (or a vocalized "y"). For example: Fr: /g/lobe, /g/are, /g/obelin, /g/uichet - /ʒ/entil, /ʒ/irafe Es: /g/renada, /g/azpacho, /g/obernador, /g/uerrero - Arg/χ/entina, /χ/irasol It: /g/rammo, /g/ambo, /g/ondola, /g/uardia - /ʤ/elato, /ʤ/iacomo English took this over but, as English always does, didn't establish it as a common rule. And since Germanic languages do not share this feature, we now have some English "g"s followed by "i" or "e" with the common /g/ pronunciation, as well as some with the secondary pronuncation, which in English is /ʤ/. For example: /g/irl, /ʤ/ist - /g/et, /ʤ/ene. Thus, the pronunciation of the "g" heavily depends on the origin of the word (Germanic > /g/e-, /g/i-; Latin > /ʤ/e-, /ʤ/i-). In the acronym "gif", this is pretty simple as all the words are of Latin origin (graphicus, inter- + cambire, forma), and since the "g" is followed by an "i", the pronunciation is actually "jif" (yes, I hate it, too). Combine that with the fact that the related word "/ʤ/iant" comes from the French "/ʒ/éant", and thus needs the secondary pronunciation, we now have a very confusing situation about the pronunciation of "giga-". "giga-" is neither a Latin, nor Germanic word, but stems directly from the Greek "γίγαντας" (gígantas). In old Greek it would be pronounced /g/í/g/antas, but in modern Greek it's /​ʝ/i/ɣ/antas, which also shows different pronunciations for the "g"s; although neither is anything like /g/ or /ʤ/, but more like a breathy "y" and a lukewarm French "r". I also couldn't figure out the rule regarding the pronunciation difference. Conclusion: ...ehhhh? I would say the pronunciation /gɪga/ can make a stronger case for itself than /ʤɪga/ but neither is truly conclusive. English doesn't have a unique "correct" way of pronouncing, or even spelling, words and different regions vary drastically. Personally, I strongly prefer the former, but then again, I'm German, so I'm heavily biased. Although, a poll in the late 90's did show 84% of British shared my preference with only 9% going with the latter. I don't know about the US, so go with whatever floats your boat. If you're feeling freaky today, you could even go with /ʤaɪ̯ga/ (like the "gi" in /dʒaɪ̯/ant).

[@dr4gon166]

You must also include the fact it's a non native English speaker trying to speak English. His native language is Latin based. I'm with you & the other 84% of Brits though!

[@littlerave86]

@@dr4gon166 Hold up. Clint isn't a native English speaker? :O

[@gman1515]

​@@littlerave86 They mean the person who named the dinosaur.

[@DarkRaen666]

It's an assumption, given the dinosaur was found in South America, wouldn't the namer most likely speak Spanish, so shouldn't it be pronounced Higanotosaurus?

[@BiTurbo228]

​@@littlerave86I think his mother tongue is lepidosaur, but it doesn't have all that many phonemes so is pretty tricky to make KZbin videos in.

[@VoidViking]

I’d disagree! Since Chinese dinos have long in the name which means dragon that means their names are automatically cooler than the lizard/reptile of the others. Shark toothed dragon now that’s rad as hell

[@risunokairu]

“Spinosaurus was alive at this time; but in Africa.” Oxalaia quilombensis: Am I a joke to you?

[@Rodanguyy]

Who knows, it's a spinosaurid it might be the same as spinosaurus, it might swim, it might hunt on land, or it might not even exist

[@dibble1331]

still up for debate

[@DJFracus]

Spinosaurus was a specific species in Africa, Oxalaia quilombensis was a Spinosaurid, but it wasn't the species Spinosaurus

[@dibble1331]

@@DJFracus it’s speculated that oxalaia is a separate species of spinosaurus. it would make sense as south america and africa were once connected. nothing has yet to have been confirmed as far as i’m aware

[@DJFracus]

@dibble1331 South America and Africa were already separated by the time these two animals existed. Also, we don't have much of Oxalaia (only its snout), but that alone is already distinct from Spinosaurus. The less of its skeleton we have the less likely we are to find clear differences, but we still did.

[@mscottjohnson3424]

I'm going to defend the Chinese dinosaur naming conventions. Using Greek or Latin to name prehistoric creatures is highly Eurocentric and has roots in imperialism, as though ancient Europe should be the world's revered antiquity. And while other ancient languages have been used (Quetzalcoatlus comes to mind), all of those languages, again thanks to imperialism, are written with the Roman alphabet. And while Chinese can be written with the Roman alphabet (漢語拼音 Pin Yin is the current standard), Greek and Latin, or any language written in the Roman alphabet, or otherwise, cannot be written in Chinese. Each dinosaur has a Chinese name. Triceratops, for example is 三角龍 (San Jiao Long) meaning "three horned dragon." Quetzalcoatlus is 風神翼龍屬 (Fei Sheng Yi Long Shu) meaning "wind god winged dragon." Since Latin or Greek are unwritable in Chinese, they use Chinese. And why not use some ancient local language from near where the dinosaur is found? Because Chinese writing isn't phonetic. Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, they all use the same Chinese characters. How you read them depends on what dialect of Chinese you speak. So there's no way to write ancient Chinese names in a way that implies an ancient, or any particular pronunciation. The Characters have meanings, not sounds. So there's no good equivalents of Latin or Greek words in Chinese. Chinese today can read and understand writing from China 2000 years ago.

[@the_newt_nest]

33:19 - hey, there are still Mapuche speakers. Along with a lot of other species named in Welsh, among other languages! We can have dinosaur names in any language

[@ClintsReptiles]

But we shouldn't!!!

[@Aethuviel]

Scientific names are a combination of Greek and Latin because it works as an international code everyone can use to understand "science-talk" - whether it's names of diseases or species of organisms. The postmodern nonsense of naming animals like "Simbakubwa kutokaafrika" is just that, nonsense. "Oh it means large lion in SWAHILI". Great. But Swahili is not Greek or Latin! It's not traditionally used in scientific names! To start naming species after whatever local culture or language to "honor" them (that's silly for one, and I would protest loudly if some species was discovered in my country and it was named in Old Norse 🙄), means scientists would have to learn the vocabularies of an unlimited number of languages. Swahili-speakers are perfectly free to call it Simbakubwa in their everyday speech, the scientific name should rather be something like "Megaleo africanus", or [insert better translation]. Keep it with Greek and Latin, and it can keep functioning as it has for 250 years, which is international code that anyone can learn.

[@Symphing12]

​@@ClintsReptiles I mean, there's a very early sauropod that has the name Barapasaurus, from Hindi for “big foot.” That one was named in the early 20th century!

[@blitsriderfield4099]

I vote for at least 1 Irish named dino

[@wotanstag1512]

@@Aethuviel nah, a dinosaur name from Old Norse would be absolute fire!

[@makehappyfaces2542]

Dinosaur December is my favorite time of the year, and it kicks off with a bang! Christmas came early with an overview of my absolute FAVORITE megatheropod of all time! Thank you so so much! Edit: OMG IT'S A PHYLOGENY OF ALL OF CARCHARODONTASAURIDAE, IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN I THOUGHT

[@cryoking5025]

Fun fact: Giganotosaurus is actually bigger than Spinosaurus in weight, reaching around 8-9 tons, and spino is only around7-8 tons(obviously neither compare to T.rexes 10-12 tons, but still)

[@evilcrashbandicootthetouho2753]

Isn't mean giga was faster than t.rex if giga was slim and 8-9t but rex was 10-12t

[@garythefishable]

My single most prized possession is a 3.1 inch Carcharodontosaurus tooth I bought from a fossil dealer a few years back which was originally found in the Kem Kem beds. It's one of the coolest fossil teeth you can own if you are not rich along with maybe a meg tooth.

[@vernonfridy8416]

33:12 That could undoubtedly be confusing. I checked and the Chinese name 鲨齿龙 (shāchǐlóng, “shark-toothed dragon”) refers to Carcharodontosaurus, and the genus actually known as Shaochilong is apparently called 侏儒鲨齿龙属 (zhūrúshāchǐlóng, essentially “dwarf Carcharodontosaurus”). This reminds me of Xunmenglong (迅猛龍, “swift and fierce dragon”) whose name coincides with a common (if inaccurate) Chinese translation of Velociraptor despite actually being a compsognathid.

[@golwenlothlindel]

Also: Clint doesn't appreciate the fun of Chinese characters. 硰 is 石(gem)+ 沙 (sand), so a treasure found in the sand i.e. a fossil🤭. He's also not appreciating that the word 龙 has a LOT ot distinctive cultural baggage which the Greek word doesn't. In Chinese folklore it is said that humans descend from dragons, so using that word is a sign of respect for the fossils. Finally, it must be pointed out that Chinese characters have the same universal scholarly recognizeability within the context of Asia that Greco-latin names have in the context of Europe. Most Asian languages at least CAN be written using Chinese characters, so people learn them in school even where they aren't used on a daily basis. That rant felt like it had political resentment behind it. Scientific naming conventions should not be influenced by such petty resentments.

[@StarGiraffinum]

Truly the Giganotosaur the world has ever seen.

[@JoeyBcollects]

Wooo I know Ethan! Awesome to see him in this video.

[@sir-ryan-the-dumb]

That's awesome-- did you work together or something?

[@JoeyBcollects]

@sir-ryan-the-dumb we hung out at the Tucson Fossil Gem and Mineral Show. I worked at a different company than him

[@sir-ryan-the-dumb]

@@JoeyBcollects That's interesting, thanks for telling me

[@ameliasimper5018]

I think a Biologist reacts to an episode of Dinosaur Train would be awesome! It was the show that got me into dinosaurs as a kid, and I'm curious how much of the dinosaur facts were actually true. It would be neat to get clints perspective!!

[@DinoGuy-v8g]

Would love to see your take on a variety of different dinosaur based video games at some point this month for Dinosaur December-- not sure how feasible it would be or if anyone else would even be into that kind of thing... but I think it would be fascinating to get your take on the realism of the dinosaur adaptations in a quick dive through all sorts of games, from maybe Turok back on the N64 to more modern dinosaur games like Path of Titans -- either way looking forward to a jam-packed Dinosaur December, all the best and happy holidays to the team out there in Utah!

[@Casualete]

That would be a great episode of Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong.

[@NicholasMati]

1:33: It's Giga-Watt. I won't weigh into the jif/gif debate, but as an aerospace engineer with an MS and 10 years in industry, I feel fairly qualified to settle your question about Giga-Watt vs Jiga-Watt. It's Giga-Watt. Without question, it's Giga-Watt. You will get weird looks and/or questions asking if you're OK if you say Jiga-Watt without it obviously being a joke / reference to Back to the Future.

[@TheJLAMAR23]

Man I love these videos!!!! I was locked in from the beginning. Fantastic content as usual 👊🏻💪🏻

[@monkeydance3894]

20:51 totally agree here. Language is useful, but ever-changing. We know dinosaurs aren’t lizards, but we associate -saur with dinosaurs. Instead of being pedantic and trying to force change, I think it’s best to roll with it

[@azuresstuff]

though to be fair some of the ones that defy this naming convention like tyrannotitan sounds so cool

[@LilLouise18]

That line in the movie from a supposed palaeontologist was so cringe I could feel my soul exiting my body in the movie theatre.

[@bobert4526]

Can we please please please get a Allosaurus video? It's all I want for Christmas.

[@YochevedDesigns]

Clint, throwing out a Firefly reference and then moving on like nothing just happened. That is such a gangsta move! 😎

[@justme-b2x]

I'm so glad that i'm not a Young Earth Creationist anymore. Thanks clint for your "Reaction to Young Earth Creationism" videos! I hope you make more. Thanks man.

[@heyy13]

Congratulations. I look forward to you putting your enquiring mind into more science. :)

[@justme-b2x]

@@heyy13 Thanks!

[@colinhames7377]

Carcharodontisaurids are probably my favorite group of therapods, it’s tuff to pick between them and the Tyrannosaurids

[@maluon_the_ocean_liner]

Its interesting to see that Acrocanthosaurus was odd even by Catcharodontosaurid standards, and why that is, especially since theres decent evidence that it lived in what is now easten north america, which was not only isolated from the western portion for quite some time, but also is very lacking in the fossil record. It makes me wonder what could have happened once the separation occurred. For all we know, Acrocanthosaurus or some very close unknown relative diverged into all sorts of Theropod horrors that just never fossilized.

[@muffty1337]

I would like so know how many viewers made it to the end of this great video. Even i was struggeling, because my attention span is ruined :D My average video length is more like 20 minutes. I'd love to see more creators take the risk of longer scientific videos. Thank you Clint and the team!!

[@wotanstag1512]

43:39 "We've only found them in Texas, but it was likely all across the western central US" Acrocanthosaurus fossils have been found in Maryland.

[@-cosmicrogue-]

Y'all have successfully made me fall in love with Acrocanthosaurus with that last bit of information. What a cool theropod.🦕🦖

[@malligrub]

It's not really close anymore...Rexy specimens keep getting bigger, now multiple are over 10 tons and the biggest 12 tons - and the Holotype for Giga is still around 7 tons regardless of the hype often bandied about - like the 13.8T nonsense in this vid. Even using the ridiculous "single maxilla only" specimen projections, you still only get to around 9-10 tons max. None of the original 12-14T estimates from the 90s are taken seriously now, c'mon...

[@rodrigopinto6676]

Exactly

[@vollavolt1712]

Yesss! Dinosaur December! I hope you at some point do a nice general overview of the ornithischians!

[@justicierodelaliga]

Clint, if you don´t know Lindsay Nikole (from the channel of the same name), you should check her out. She´s doing a lot for science and also happens to be extremely fun and funny. Currently she´s doing a series on the History of Life on Earth. I´m sure you´ll like her.

[@juliestrong1947]

That we know of!

[@jeremycraft8452]

Prolly swears too much for Clint’s sensibilities.

[@justicierodelaliga]

@@jeremycraft8452 Don´t know how the Reptile Community is as a whole (I just follow some) but Clint is friend with many and, at first glance, you won´t think have a lot in common with him yet they are.

[@justicierodelaliga]

@@juliestrong1947 So glad she decided to make that her statement. Don´t know if that was something that she learned from someone at some point or if she came with it on her own but the fact is that is brilliant. Simple but extremely true.

[@Hurricayne92]

@@jeremycraft8452 It was funny seeing her do a SciShow episode on Chimps and not swear at all

[@curtis3014]

Clint, I didn’t think I could love your videos anymore, but then you go and drop Firefly in there. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

[@mscottjohnson3424]

27:32 There was a Meraxes who couldn't have swallowed a horse, because she's dead of course.

[@adriannabcustomfurniture]

I could listen to y'all talk all day, every day...for the rest of my life. I love when awesome content creators have other awesome people on their channels! I can't wait until after the New Year when I can join your Patreon again. I'm so excited to listen to the extra material from this episode! 🤘 Please have him back on your channel again. Two extremely smart, geeky and good looking men talking rad facts. Yes please! My husband is getting a bit jealous now, so I'll stop there 😂🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ kidding obviously. But honestly, these are some of my favorite episodes! The excitement radiates of your face. It's really nice to see people enjoying what they do for a living! Very inspiring! I love using your channel for science class when homeschooling my 11 year old daughter. She's on the spectrum and gets so excited when you gey excited. She laughs all the time and it makes me happy. Hopefully one day we'll have enough money to come visit from Connecticut. One can wish!

[@michaelbuick6995]

T-rex was a tank killer. Giganotosaurus was the titan slayer.

[@themeadman]

Yea, it was really more comparable to the accrocanthosaurus than the T-Rex. Edit: got a Dino name wrong

[@notmyname1038]

T rex's skeleton was actually a lot thicker than giga

[@adrixitos3339]

​@@notmyname1038 That's right but T.rex wasnt adapted to hunt sauropods like giganotosaurus wasnt adapted to hunt ceratopsians and ankylosaurs. They were adapted to different kind of preys

[@BDsatratraleague23]

T rex hunted Alamosaurus​@@adrixitos3339

[@Aorun7]

​@@notmyname1038 not by much. Only skull part maybe. But gigas skull larger. And also carcharadontosaurids bones denser

[@vizard_ichigo_3893]

I can't wait for the Borealopelta markmitchelli specimen to be ready for public viewing in The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Canada and a video of Clint explaining this incredibly preserved fossil.

[@Peepaw_Afton_Art]

Even in the Jurassic Franchise it isn’t the biggest land predator, that would be the Spinosaurus from JP3/Camp Cretaceous(they were confirmed to be the same individual by Camp Cretaceous’ show director)

[@BeastNugget44Main]

Its not very consistent since the very same guy said it wasnt the same spino

[@marcob1729]

I don't know how you did it, but you absolutely NAILED the immensity and total carnage of this predator in the intro. I was saying "oh my god" after every fact

[@Name-ot3xw]

I played Ark:Survival and can confirm that Giganotosaurus is by far the largest meat eater. At least as of the time I last played. It's also where I learned that Therizinosaurus is really called "Giant Murder Chicken."

[@RealWorldGames]

The Theri is nicknamed the tickle turkey ,also.

[@kylefriend6391]

What a way to kick off DD 2024- FANTASTIC video. I had never heard of the Carcharodontosaurida before, very interesting. The story told through footprints with sauropods running from predators was so cool. Can’t wait for next week!

[@mattryan1999]

It's wild that the guy who named Giganotosaurus mispronounced it

[@Saberrex1]

When Clint mentioned Meraxes, I geeked out because it reminded me of a painting I did of the dinosaur. Took two months to do and was by far one of my best.

[@gabbermensch]

I always assumed "Jy-GANT-o-sore-ass" meaning something giant and...angry..for some reason...turns out it's "Jiggy-naughty-saw-us" which sounds more like a dino that leads the conga-line at the party. Thanks for the clarification, Clint!

[@Wooper160atThePond]

Gigantosaurus is a different dinosaur entirely

[@andyjay729]

Gettin' Giganoto wit' it

[@umaperri4756]

Giga from gigante (giant) but it doesn't sound like "gi", sounds more like "he"

[@IdaiMakayaPublications]

Disappointed that the 'expert' suggested the 7 tonne theropod jumped onto the sauropod when its footprints disappeared from the trackway. That's the least plausible explanation. What's more likely is that it stepped around some trees, went over some rocks or harder ground, or the footprints in that section were disturbed washed away, across the last 90 million years. Why do dinosaur specialists always dramatise everything? These were elephant-sized animals. Jumping is the most unlikely thing they'd do.

[@raulalvarezfernandez6886]

it's not just that they disappeared from the trackway, but also the fact that the sauropod ones show an increase in weight during that stretch. So i'd say, from my ignorance, that it's not such a wild thing to say, specially if it comes from an expert in the field

[@johnscanlon8467]

Acro just swung up on that sauropod like Legolas on a Mumak of Harad.

[@MWSin1]

We don't know how giganotosaurus is pronounced, because there is very little surviving documentation of Greek from the Late Cretaceous.

[@theangrysuchomimus5163]

1:27 The english language is really inconsistent when it comes to the pronounciation of "gi". In fords like gift and give, it's a hard g. But in words like giant and paleontologist, it's a soft g.

[@frederickd.provoncha8671]

Wouldn't the Blue Whale be the biggest carnivore we've ever seen? They eat krill. That's a carnivore in my book. (And yes, yes, I know they recently found a giant ichthyosaur that may have been even bigger. But I don't think that's conclusive yet.)

[@maxwirt921]

Damn. When Clint said, “Good news, I have one here with me today”, I thought he was going to be interviewing an actual Giganotosaurus!

[@AtlasRandGaming]

Rudolphos mispronunciation does not mean the rest of us have to pronounce gif as jiff!

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

It appears your skeleton has come down with a bad case of... Giganotosaurus

[@danielvincent5043]

Tell it to me straight, doc.. am I gonna make it?

[@mr.cheese8097]

I'm sorry... it's terminal.

[@Yatagurusu]

The Knowledge that we have hunting trackways of a large sauropod hunt has blown my kind and probably changed my life forever

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

"the biggest predator the world has ever seen" *blue whale enters frame*

[@cassou124]

Biggest *land* predator.

[@rodrigopinto6676]

​@@cassou124tyrannosaurus rex

[@lds2484]

28m18s...did you all get those pictures backward? The Giganotosaurus is shown with spines.

[@adampogatshnik6833]

Somebody help me out with this: I have wondered this for a long time... The blue whale eats krill, which are animals. Does that not make the blue whale the largest carnivore by a really wide margin? How come whales are basically never included in these lists?

[@anthonyduffy6953]

I wondered that aswell. I think people just discount anything that filter feeds as a predator. Baleen plates are just not as cool as teeth. But i think even a sperm whale is much larger than any of these, and hunt squid and it has teeth for extra coolness.

[@Supersaggganananana]

@@anthonyduffy6953 blue whales absolutely are the biggest predator, it´s ussually out of the list as people expect to find some kind of animal that can hunt a big thing... it also probably one of the deadliest, as it probably hunts millions and millions of prey.

[@VirtualGobllim47]

2:04 I really expected just clint making a loud terrified animal sound

[@spooksbukowski63]

I realized that I read it’s name wrong all my life. My brain probably just skipped a letter for convenience but I always thought its just GIGANTO haha silly me

[@carmenschubert5001]

Not silly at all - I did the same thing!

[@georgesimon1760]

Me too. Why didn't they just call it Gigantosaurus?

[@Krona-fb4dn]

@@georgesimon1760 Because it was already taken, believe it or not. In 1893, a genus of a Sauropod from england was described and named "Gigantosaurus megalonyx". Taxonomy name rules means it can't be used when it belongs to a separate species. Also likely turns out that it wasn't a distinct genus, instead belonging to the sauropod Ornithopsis humerocristatus and the name "gigantosaurus" is kind of in limbo between several sauropods.

[@colinhames7377]

I knew the name meraxes sounded familiar! I love a song of ice and fires universe so merging that with Dino’s is a plus to me!!! Please keep up these Dino December vids they’re my absolute favorite!!

[@AlysIThink101]

I could be entirely wrong about this (I'm a white British person so not exactly an expert in the subject) but the mandarin name communism joke did come of as a bit xenophobic. I understand that it was meant as a joke but saying that it's bad to name a Dinosaur in mandarin then saying that they should be named in one of two European languages, only giving mention to more local languages in a brief note at the end comes of as questionable at best, especially when you also then try to connect communism (Something I assume you think is bad) to it. Once again I understand that it was just meant as a joke (I do get what you were going for with it), I am not the right person to determine this and this comment isn't meant as a judgement, it's just that it came off as somewhat xenophobic and out of place to me. Once again I could be wrong, this is just meant as constructive criticism based on my first impression. Also I didn't know about that Carcharodontosaurus track way, that's incredibly interesting.

[@ElliWoelfin]

No it was absolutely really gross and sinophobic, even as a joke. Been scrolling to see if anyone else was gonna comment on it. Really took me of the vid, though not the first time he's said something to do that.

[@lordbao6678]

It is Sinophobic because the naming happened to be in Mandarin and obscure enough so it is much easier to hide that under the veil of anti-communism, which is nonsensical on its own. I don’t think he is willing to make fun of Tarbosaurus as “Communist Tyrannosaur” as he did here with Shaochilong

[@AlysIThink101]

@@ElliWoelfin Same, I'm just not exactly qualified to talk on it so I tried to stress that fact just in case I was wrong. But it definitely took me out of it to.

[@thewrongperson676]

Having that hunting episode preserved through history to be examined, millions and millions of years later is so effing cool!

[@daftwulli6145]

I thought the biggest carnivore is the blue whale ? Just that he hunts very small creatures does not mean he should be disqualified.

[@johnrobert2148]

All whales and sharks are carnivores. But it doesn't count as a hypercarnivore because they don't hunt animals at least half their size.

[@daftwulli6145]

@@johnrobert2148 Fair enough but the title says carnivore not hypercarnivore so bluewhale def qualifies here. We don´t really think of them as carnivores but they do actively hunt big swarms of their food.

[@Tjsreal22]

Carcharodontosaurus is such a underrated dinosaur same with giga. They always are so underrated.

[@Makingnewnamesisdumb]

Jigga WHAT?

[@vermis8344]

1.21 of 'em!

[@AceTheBlue]

How could you talk about Carcharodontosauridae without bringing up my cool bro Concavenator? 😭 In any case, amazing video as usual!! :D

[@leandro_gass]

Ocidentals: let's call this big thing dinosaurs, because they are big and appears to be a lizard. 🤓 Chineses: let's call this thing dragon because looks like a fuking dragon 😎

[@elishafollet5347]

I kinda wish we kept calling them dragons lol

[@danloke3511]

The biggest carnivore the world has ever seen is the Blue whale. May not be our traditional view of a carnivore but its still a predator that consumes four tonnes of krill every day.

[@zoegraham594]

He specified “on land”

[@danloke3511]

@@zoegraham594 I know and I’m just specifying “in general”

[@tedarcher9120]

Filter feeders should probably not be considered carnivores as then The Great Barrier Reef is the biggest carnivore of them all

[@obambagaming1467]

​@@zoegraham594 altough in the movie they just say it's the biggest carnivore. It's just so wrong on many different levels. If if it's the biggest carnivore ever (in their universe), and large whales don't exist, then what about the Mosasaurus that is currently reaching Godzilla size?

[@obambagaming1467]

​@@tedarcher9120 even without filterfeeders, sperm whales alone are bigger

[@primarytrainer1]

33:30 not sure if that is supposed to be a joke. Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world whether we as americans like it or not.

[@handtomouth4690]

Merely by pure population size. Not exactly a fair measurement. Perhaps it should be measured in geographic coverage or something.

[@VioletOrbWeaver]

are you really unable to tell that it’s a joke? or are you just acting dumb so you can talk down to people in english about mandarin’s prominence? because the latter sounds WAY more believable

[@pdxcorgidad]

​@@VioletOrbWeaverI asleep didn't find the joke to be very funny, esp with the double "commie" references.

[@mightygnome]

Americans don't speak latin... Dinosaurs are typically named using latin, a language that no population speaks.

[@Starlight_Akira]

10:28 "One thing worse than 1 giganotosaurus chasing you, it's several..." Yah, unless you're farming them for exp.

[@bopcity5785]

And here I thought its name was Gigantosaurus

[@DinoPalaeosc]

Gigantosaurus is the name of a dubious genus of sauropod

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

I reckon since it was discovered in Argentina I reckon its pronounced like Heegano(like octopus)tosau(like ow!)rus

[@Aethuviel]

@@Sepi-chu_loves_moths But it's not Spanish. It's Latin and Greek. How Argentineans say it has no say on what's accurate.

[@sixoffcenter80]

Only recently learned that it wasn't "Giant-o-saurus"

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

@@Aethuviel idk it's funny