Sarcosuchus The Giant Crocodile

[@Deform-2024]

7:22 that is not a Deinosuchus skull, that is a Purussaurus skull.

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Deform 2020 that's annoying I'll pin your comment so people know

[@Coms7274]

Sammy Young ?

[@jacobsaccount9353]

Connor McCormick?

[@jacobsaccount9353]

Moth Light Media?

[@jacobsaccount9353]

Jacob Mason?

[@jaredmn8580]

Early Cretaceous North Africa must've been one hell of a place

[@highbahamut6188]

and still is

[@gumpyflyale2542]

Mokele Mbembe still exists

[@gumpyflyale2542]

@@highbahamut6188 mokele mbembe still exists

[@callusklaus2413]

Emphasis on hell. It's wild to think about how many large bodied animals inhabited those wetlands. We, as humans, are honestly pretty big as more animals go, but we would be so regularly dwarfed by the animals of that great hell swamp.

[@chandanmohapatra7811]

The most dangerous place on the planet.

[@the-real-zpero]

Imagine you make a time machine and go back in time to study ancient living creatures and the first thing you see as soon as you leave your time machine is a 10 meter crocodile staring at you.

[@Shadeem]

"nope" *travels back to the future* "actually this is also pretty nope

[@austinoverby7161]

Run

[@gorlami9020]

I’d have to start talking to him

[@gorlami9020]

I can talk anyone down

[@jakehero95]

@@gorlami9020 I'm ded 💀😂

[@JoeJoeTheCapybara]

Damn that croc about to take down the wildebeest was huge!

[@mothlightmedia1936]

I know I was worried it was photoshopped at first

[@PhuongNguyen-uv6ji]

The wildebeest was probably a baby

[@Victor-kt6qn]

@@PhuongNguyen-uv6ji it has pretty developed horns so maybe an adolescent but still makes Tha croc huge

[@jonathanthomas4182]

No@@PhuongNguyen-uv6ji that was definitely a full grown Wildebeest and Gazelle. The Crocs are just naturally so much bigger.

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

@@mothlightmedia1936 hey i have an idea of your next video:the evolution of bovines

[@bkjeong4302]

Note that Nile crocs are actually largely piscivorous and that this is the norm for aquatic crocodylomorphs. They don’t just catch fish “on occasion” as claimed; they subsidy primarily on fish and only occasionally tackle land animals (simply due to lack of availability).

[@euphoricet862]

girl what fish are living in them dead ass ponds. they ate all the fish so they just moving on to animals from land.

[@michaelshields6326]

@@euphoricet862 They've actually been recorded eating bull sharks.

[@TasimanaOG]

@@euphoricet862 river ecosystems are huge especially one like the nile goofy

[@michaelshields6326]

@@TasimanaOG They really called the Nile River, the largest river in the world, "dead ass ponds." Lmao

[@TasimanaOG]

@@michaelshields6326 yeah I think they don't know much about geography at all XD but hey let them believe that the Nile is a "dead ass pond" LOL

[@PhuongNguyen-uv6ji]

2:00 the dots match up perfectly with the eye sockets

[@Koremel1]

And the noise

[@thedinohunter212]

@@Koremel1 u mean nose

[@kirkbupkis]

Lol at the patron who named himself Ken Ham 😂

[@MrTigerlore]

Ooooh. So nice that the sarcosuchus skull comes with a handle for easy carrying.

[@sovetskyskaiyastrigon1750]

Sarcosuchus and Deinosuchus are my favorite prehistoric Crocodile’s and prehistoric creatures followed up by Suchomimus and Megalodon

[@prehistoricplayer1132]

Awesome dude! My favorite Prehistoric Crocodile is Deinosuchus and my Favorite prehistoric creatures are Giganotosaurus and The Wooly Mammoth.

[@elxd4319]

My favorite: Sarcosuchus Deinosochus Spinosaurus Diplodocus Allosaurus

[@Waiting_to_Exhale_era]

My favorite crocodile is sarcosuchus. And my favorite dinosaurs is therizinosaurus

[@GeorgeHowze]

Sta

[@dougthedonkey1805]

6:10 I was not expecting that lmao, its face is hilarious but sad at the same time

[@legakattack4771]

I'll help. Antelope: me about to go to sleep Crocodile: the 7 paragraph essay I just remembered about that's due tomorrow

[@ajarofpickles2826]

I am sure if Steven Irwin we’re still alive today he would probably be wrestling it right now

[@siyacer]

Good luck wrestling a skeleton

[@xxDOTH3DEWxx]

Steven? That's a first

[@lordfreeza_]

@@xxDOTH3DEWxx lol

[@lordfreeza_]

@@siyacer autistism?

[@rexyjp1237]

@@lordfreeza_ whats wrong with autism? I have autism and i am normal.

[@Tentacular]

Nigersaurus: "Hey, that's OUR word!" Basilosaurus: "Oh, we're so sorry, didn't mean to appropriate the N word that way." Nigersaurus: "No, idiot. Saurus means Lizard. Stop your lies." Basilosaurus: ;-(

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Haha

[@spirameowmeow]

Wah? Dinosaurs too had reclaimed slurs? Badass

[@kinnoedar2990]

Basilosaurus is like a whale and a reptile nice

[@4lex4unk4n]

Purrusaurus: *slowly moon-walking*

[@russianpooch4711]

no

[@invisiblejaguar1]

Ken Ham... can we just take a moment to appreciate that someone called themself Ken Ham to support this channel's Patreon and Moth Light Media said it with so subtle? 😂

[@wilsonkeith3]

Haha I had to see if anyone else noticed that too!

[@leethrch]

I was gonna saw there’s no way!!! Actually went back to make sure this youtuber wasn’t a creationist or associated with answers in genesis!!!

[@invisiblejaguar1]

@Isaiah Kennedy you could say that, he's one of THE creationists out there lol

[@InformationIsTheEdge]

Yes! Let's do just that... Aaaahhh! Very satisfying.

[@Kettvnen]

What's a kem ham

[@ptauagpt]

As a scientist rather like Moth Light Media's conservative paleontological approach which is realistic as it compares associations with the present sizes, characteristics of their modern counterparts.

[@geoffreystuttle8080]

I grew up in the 70's, before the "dinosaurs for every kid" program that appears to have started in the 90's. I never cared much about them but these videos have got me on board. Fascinating. 10 meters though?!? For god's sake!

[@kenmorris8219]

"Dinosaurs for every kid"???....was this really a thing? Is this why I was obsessed with dino's as a kid? I need answers.

[@tinobemellow]

What a beautiful era, the 70s, where kid's desires and interests weren't so much influenced by media trends and were more based on what they chose themselves.

[@Vineor]

@@tinobemellow It worked for our ancestors, it will be so once more as times get tough enough again to care about meaning rather than the post modern drivel "professors" of a certain religion pound into them on a daily basis.

[@sandyruitenberg2928]

I know no one who love prehistoric animals like I do and I love your videos. They are very informative and I am happy that more people find these type of things interestings!

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Thank you I really appreciate it

[@nuao88]

Loving these videos, great work Moth Light Media 👍

[@Francois2144]

I just love Sarcosuchus. I still have a video tape of the National Geographic documentary of the discovery of the first Sarcosuchus fossil.

[@913egok]

I loved that too but I've realized since that Sarcosuchus is not quite the '10 ton prehistoric king' they claimed it to be. Other crocs like Deinosuchus or Purussaurus better fit that name.

[@PhobetorXVII]

love your work keep it up, this channel deserve more subscribers .

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Thank you

[@Ja_Mes]

He blowin up now! Almost 10k subs in like 3 days

[@andrewdrednaught]

This is the best video about giant ancient crocs on internet! Putting in the relations tree is a must.

[@ingurlund9657]

Looking at Sarcosuchus's jaw I've always thought it was not a crusher like modern crocs. I assumed maybe due to it's sheer size it would have the power to take large animals. I think what you say that it probably operated as a general predator makes sense. Thanks for the fascinating vid.

[@pedrocampos691]

Real oook.

[@GreenFors]

Honestly impressed at how fast you make these videos without sacrificing any quality. I mean you make better vids that stuff made by PBS as just one dude, and you are so good at hitting that sweetspot when it comes to topic selection as well. Excellent work as always.

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Well thank you

[@piggymag1c]

@@mothlightmedia1936 this comment is still true 3 years later

[@ConsortiumOfTheBrain]

just want to say i love your videos and youtube is criminal for taking this long to take me here. why it took over a year for such a great channel to pop up in my recommended i will never know.

[@Michael-590]

I wonder why Deinonsuchus and Purussaurus seem to get less attention than Sarcosuchus when they are more likely to have been predators of large land-based prey?

[@JonJon-vg2nv]

I'm curious about this too

[@ahsanvirk130]

Same, documentaries about Deinosuchus and Purussaurus seem far and few in between, though not much on Sarcosuchus either aside from that one documentary on Nat Geo

[@JonJon-vg2nv]

@@ahsanvirk130 Purussaurus doesn't have any documentaries iirc

[@ahsanvirk130]

@@JonJon-vg2nv True, but that video on Purussaurus by Ben Thomas, could be a sort of mini documentary, maybe ?

[@pedrocampos691]

in.

[@jaisanatanrashtra7035]

From a few months this channel has become my favorite on list becoz it is focusing on Ignored animals of Mesozoic and other Paleozoic eras unlike other channel where you only get videos of boring extinct Mammals

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Blue Robot Cat well thank you

[@charliebowen5071]

Boring mammals ??such as humans?? God you are stupid

[@iminformedbecauseisawabunc9402]

@@charliebowen5071 *extinct

[@lmatt88]

no such thing as boring extinct mammals

[@sevehayden1463]

Sarco seems to have a meatier jaw than gharials for its size, even if they're the closest analogue. That plus how the jaws get thicker at the tip makes me wonder if this was just to grab slightly bigger/tougher fish better or to snatch small critters from near the shore. (teeth/ability to grip at the tip good for grabbing things at the end of its reach, but increases in water resistance might cancel this benefit a bit when it only comes to nabbing creatures underwater)

[@brokenarrowranch9816]

I saw the replica of this beast at an exhibition in LA. Its freaky huge. A grown man could easily lay down in its jaws. Sarchosuchus Imperator

[@TheAwillz]

from a biomechanics standpoint the most likely hunting strategy for such a animal without the ability to death role would be to use its teeth to latch onto victim and then use their size to drag them into deeper water and drown them, evidence for such a strategy could be the presence of conical teeth as opposed to any other type.

[@dragonsoup2310]

I love playing with this guy and dinosaur simulator.

[@Myusernamerulez]

I don't think it's accurate to compare the skull of Sarcosuchus with that of a gharial. They may be similar a first glance but they really aren't. The skull of Sarcosuchus is still a lot more robust than that the more slender snouted fish eating crocs it's often compared to. You also have to remember that dinosaurs were less dense than comparitively sized mammals. It probably wouldn't have required as much force to bring down.

[@frost7463]

Well said

[@AStrategyGameDev]

Nigersaurus always dies first :(

[@lewisgann280]

That’s our word

[@kenchesnut4425]

Hehehehe...😅

[@NormalFurry]

For anyone that’s confused NigerSaurus is named after the place it was discovered Niger Africa

[@AndyFardly-vv2by]

😂​@@DoroteaTheMacuahuitl-Potato

[@johnmurdoch8534]

Bahahaa

Sarcosuchus isn't a crocodile, not even closely related people just throw that around because it is easier to generalize since it looks like giant croc. This channel is one of the few to actually point this out

[@stlo0309]

Thank you!

[@mothlightmedia1936]

You're welcome

[@BloodWold94]

Wonder if Sarco and Puru are going to be restudied, being Deinosuchus is currently estimated around 14,500kg as its largest size. So might vastly larger than Sarco/Puru.

[@adamdean9122]

Moth Light Media, some of the most incredible video on KZbin, rivaling BBC and PBS EONS..... KZbin: "have you guys check out this guy Paul Logan"....

[@Bigjuicydumbdumb]

@Archock Encanto 🤣🤣

[@jasonlira2755]

Or Paul Hogan

[@edenli6421]

Ben G Thomas is also very good

[@alca_pwn_2232]

The money I would pay to go back and walk the earth (with god mode activated for sure) back in those days

[@dieente556]

There are cheaper options for suicide

[@bustarogers9990]

Good God, that picture at 6.18 is terrifying, that Croc makes the Wildebeest look tiny. Crocodiles would have to be the animal i fear most, Sharks are scary but the way Crocs can snatch you up from the edge of a river and are actually quite fast on land over a short distance makes them my no.1 nightmare lol.

[@BillWiltfong]

Thanks for the support, Ken Ham.

[@AlternativaRed]

Once I saw a "yacaré" here in Argentina, which is a species of alligator. It wasn't very big, perhaps 1,5 meters and it scared me very much. Imagine a crocodile 12 meters long.

[@damienoliver5816]

Only thing I can gather from all the videos I've been watching on crocodiles/alligators. Prehistoric Crocodilians went docile. Shutting down functions. Hybernated till conditions got better. Layed eggs that also took longer to hatch and the offspring were born smaller and smaller till we have what we have.

[@MichelZongo-q3r]

I loved this amazing video.

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

I did neither expect that there were ever Gavials on the size of Gryposuchus, aswell, not that they ever coexisted with humans. A scary thought. (even though it was a piscivore)

[@needfoolthings]

Well, I suppose if it finds you close to water or in it, it's not a piscivore for a duration long enough for you to bleed out in or outside the thing. So there.

[@charliebowen5071]

They did not co exist with humans... these animals are millions of years old!!! No humans!!

[@needfoolthings]

@@charliebowen5071 You're a special one, ain't ya...

[@LordOfChaos.x]

@@charliebowen5071 we are 2 million years old

[@jksjksjsjks]

@@needfoolthings He's right though, gryposuchus died out in the mid miocene.

[@sirholycow]

Excellent vid.

[@DinoDudeDillon]

There were certainly other non-dinosaur terrestrial species larger than dogs. Other crocodilomorphs, for example. (I like you're channel, I'm just making these comments to be constructive)

[@GreenFors]

Also a topic suggestion. There is a trend on KZbin to refer to birds as "non avian dinosaurs". That always struck me as odd as would it also then not make sense to call mammals "non milk producing fish"? As you point out in this video it feels like Sarcosuchus should be considered a crocodile but it is technically not one, and I have also heard that the classification "fish" problematic for many reasons. Basically I suggest a video about Taxonomy and the problems about it.

[@dougthedonkey1805]

The birds are called “avian dinosaurs,” and non-bird dinosaurs are “non-avian dinosaurs”

[@mothlightmedia1936]

That is a good topic Idea I might actually be able to mention this as part of my next video

[@GreenFors]

@@dougthedonkey1805 right. Sorry I messed that up.

[@rahowherox1177]

Nomenclature has changed of late, the new accepted position (for eg) is that we are either milk producing fish, or that fish never existed. ie, we cannot evolve out of any clade.

[@LetsTalkAboutPrepping]

@@rahowherox1177 south park is responsible

[@davidwilsch4668]

I don't know if you are looking for more video topics but videos about evolution of pigs, giraffes or turtles could be pretty interesting. When it comes to dinosaurs, maybe stegosaurids?

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Dávid Wilsch there good suggestions, I have made a video on giraffe evolution.

[@pedrocampos691]

ooookay.

[@dominickvasquez7625]

Love this chanel keep it up 👍

[@dougthedonkey1805]

Is this a bot comment or a real one

[@dominickvasquez7625]

@@dougthedonkey1805 no

[@edwinreveron870]

Damn! That Nile crocodile at 6:15, looks like it's almost the same updated size estimate of Sarcosuchus.. That's like a 300 lbs female blue wildebeest and the head of that crocodile is almost as long as the torso of that wildebeest.... Plus, Deinosuchus was estimated to be bigger, and a caiman also, if I ain't wrong...

[@MesserTAMU]

Your videos are awesome, but the cherry on top is the Ken Ham supporter.

[@Trollo_Swaggins]

I definitely see Sarcho as having a more fish based diet than going after dinosaurs. Maybe it prioritized to eat fish and small animal on the side

[@TheSlimmshadyy]

Turn on subtitles: "Soccer Circus."

[@fortifiedmentality8067]

I'm fighting these on the game 'Ark: Survival Evolved'. Lots of scary fun!

[@patrickshanahan1617]

So if they were more aquatic would the limbs be longer as a result of aqueous necessity, or the other way around folk?

[@cristiannoel7394]

I’m asking. Whats the name of the background song thats on every song?

[@chrisgriffin7357]

It's mind boggling how scary earth would've been for a human back then. I could see aliens landing on earth, seeing a t-rex, megalodon and a 38 ft crocodile being like "Aight imma head out"

[@HkFinn83]

I have trouble seeing these as anything other than large gharial in terms of its lifestyle, from the snout shape especially

[@Skyypixelgamer]

3:53 did not expect to see beast of Bermudas lurdusaurus in this great video though

[@sealofapoorval7437]

0:53 thanks for the coloured legend. I would never have guessed that the small white figure is a human and the giant blue one is a crocodile 👍🏼

[@jonathanthomas4182]

If you look more closely at the jaw structure of Sarcosuchus you can clearly see that it’s jaws Besides being much bigger are also Considerably thicker and more robust then that of any Gharial & even the False Gharial Which only makes sense Considering the fish in those waters were giants. And while I agree that it’s quite doubtful that it would of been able to attack and dismember something as large as a Trex 🦖 with a death roll like Dinosuchus or Purussarus likely could of or how a modern Saltwater or Nile crocodile 🐊 could do the same to a 1000 lbs. zebra 🦓 or even an 1800 lbs. Buffalo 🐃 I can still see Sarcosuchus going beyond its primary diet of fish and adding on smaller 🦕dinosaurs half its size to its menu. What do you think 🤔???

[@curious5887]

Just for correction though, Gryposuchus died out in Late Miocene, the most recent mega-crocs is Euthecodon from Africa

[@jamesbrennand8178]

In Australia we have sea going saltwater crocodiles that have reached the size over 12 - 14 metres

[@FreeAimDog]

id never wanna be near one but always cool to see species of them that i dint know exist.

[@Harrier42861]

I'm sure Sarchosuchus would have opportunistically scavenged if it happened on a convenient carcass. Might not have been the most efficient feeding method, but hey, the food's RIGHT THERE, so might as well see if you can grab a couple mouthfuls.

[@w_ldan]

5:08 Uh oh, what a weird choice of name

[@ksprice45]

Crocs are some of the coolest animals out there

[@zikuga]

The sarco in ark survival evolved has scared me several times when it climbs out of the swamp when you least expect it

[@elxd4319]

Sarcosuchus and deinosochus are my favorite prehistoric crocodile

[@TheCando911]

One of the best early-ish tames you can have in Ark:Survival Evolved.

[@mauretaniafan1133]

"Watch out!" - BBC camera man on seeing a Sarcosuchus

[@ExtinctBricks]

the video is really educational and very interesting ... i made a lego like custom of SARCOSUCHUS for my channel... im a fan of dinosaur and extinct creatures... I just hope i could also make a info video like this for my SARCOSUCHUS soon ... love it...

[@sylviebleicher4903]

Le sarcosuchus fut un des plus grands crocodiles de l'histoire pouvant atteindre 12 mètres de long et plus de 7 tonnes ( 9,5-10 mètres en moyenne ) il chassait les dinosaures dans les cours d'eau de l'Afrique du Nord il y'a 110 millions d'années il été surnommé supercroc par le célèbre paléontologue américain Paul sereno qui a découvert un squelette presque entier en 2000!

[@patrickmcelrath4962]

What is the distance from on dot to another on your grid? Or is that just aesthetic

[@trauturvandrar1732]

Almost as long as a person lol. I love this channel and I'm binge watching, but that's just really funny 😁

[@lexobischof7069]

I literally just read this comment when he said Almost as Lon as a person kinda Scared me a little

[@ravenouself4181]

I am not afraid of a water crocodilian, but one that runs on land... now that's an entirely different story.

[@frost7463]

The skull is much broader than a gharial’s even proportionate to size. The best modern morphological comparison would be an Orinoco crocodile or American crocodile.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

Moth Light Media: Come for the science. Stay for the trance music.

[@realfnneato3111]

the limitations of the up and down motion of the crocodilian skull is a bit exaggerated, as most crocodiles simply clamp down and use their incredibly powerful necks to rip off pieces, and often are seen ripping prey apart by slamming back and forth on the surface of the water.

[@Cheesefist]

The shadows in the hand drawn pictures are driving me crazy! Why are the jaws always closed?

[@mikel6668]

great video

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Mikel 666 thanks man

[@evilemperorzurg9615]

Just imagine a croc with the potential to eat elephants! A human would be considered an afternoon snack!

[@djpagla1294]

Can u do one for fasolasuchus and ohter crocodilomorph

[@Clyman974]

There's a specimen at the Galerie d’Anatomie comparée in Paris, and it's incredibly large and scary when you realize their scale! Their jaw could definelty swallow a human whole

[@Gintaras64]

I feel like Ross from Friends. These things are fascinating.

[@michaeldy3157]

The biggest may have been pretty recent in comparison.

[@aliichi]

Me an American watching these, pausing every few minutes to convert meters to feet.

[@apocalypseblues3897]

knowing that these things lived on the planet i live on makes me anxious about letting my feet touch the ground

[@Neevkl_7]

Crocs are so fascinating

[@VikSun14618]

LMAO someone is donating under the name of Ken Ham

[@magnorpettersen9959]

Fantastic good videos!

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Magnor Pettersen thank you I appreciate it

[@eddieoreilly9391]

I don’t know whether it a coincidental same name or deliberate troll but I do giggle every time you list Ken Ham among your supporters.

[@simen_monkey]

Good news crocodile is Dinosaur type ❤

[@latunen5241]

What is the crocodile species mentioned at the very end? The one that lived 10 000 years ago?

[@19megamustaine85]

gryposuchus croizati.

[@trevormynatt3466]

My favorite Dinosaur

[@cdwizzerd]

just ate a raptor as a deinosuchus in the isle, now im watching this 🐊🐊🐊

[@euphoricet862]

...I feel like it may have been a giant Gharial??? They have a diet of frogs, fish, and like other vertebrates mainly in the water and im sure there was plenty of those in sarcosuchus's biome.

[@euphoricet862]

and if someone says "why did it grow so big then? to hunt bigger prey" that can't be 100 percent true... look at whales, they evolved to eat the tiniest animals in the world. KRILL.

[@frost7463]

The skull is far too broad for it to be a gharial equivalent. It evolved from piscivores but was a generalist predator. It was also the largest reptile (and animal) in its ecosystem so nothing was off the table. Bite force estimates on it reach 57,000 newtons, which is in the same league as Tyrannosaurus rex.

[@darklordfalcon3670]

Sarcosuchus a 12 meters weighing in at 15 tones can kill a spinosauras with its powerful bite 8 tones can easily over whelm the spino.

[@deanlonagan1475]

..most animals can sense when a predator has a full tummy and wont bother chasing them..we can easily sense this body language too..

[@ChrissieBear]

Ken Ham? That's gotta be a joke. xD

[@matthewharris5232]

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like 65 million years in the future. Will the world and humans still be around. What will the animals look like and what animals will still be around and how will they evolve.

[@jeancheddar4591]

Killer video