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[@jurassicsteph]

Younger me needed documentaries like this.

[@jameswoodridge7712]

T-Rex wolf packs!? Yet another reason to never step foot outside your time machine.😱😲😬😨😳🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

[@brigidtheirish]

Yep! The best part, for me, is I'd been comparing tyrannosaurs to wolves since I was *eight,* back in the early '90s, as a counter to the then-common argument that they were oversized scavengers.

[@Skye0721]

Dinosaur documentary from Net Geo is always amazing! Thanks for the great content

[@wesknitter407]

Hahahahaha

[@Saberrex1]

The tyrannosaurs they talk about in this documentary are Teratophoneus, which were native to Utah; a southern tyrannosaur living at the same time as its more famous and northernly relatives, Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus. The quarry where this unique find was discovered was also given a name; the Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry due to the extraordinary nature of the expedition. I read about the original discovery in an academic journal, so that's where I got the information from.

[@seeDiersoilcrossrowds]

*Well they still deny the dino bones that were found with living tissue inside them, Proving that dinos were not millions of years old but more like thousands.*

[@corporateturtle6005]

Source: Trust me bro. -- "Professor" Clownrex1

[@squawkwardscience]

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen! 😎 Now someone please tell my mom I can totally handle having a pet dinosaur.

[@PMGans]

Interesting facts about the dinosaur era! I love how this video depicts the long journey from the beginning to the end of the age of dinosaurs. 🦕🌎

[@ryanreedgibson]

193k views and only 3.5k likes? People must be watching on their TVs. Great video! I love the energy from the scientist AJA. Seeing all that coal being dug out in Alberta makes me think we won't be around a long as these dinosaurs were.

[@sapphonymph8204]

Coal is our friend.

[@mikehardman7566]

the worries about coal are interesting, I just wonder why no one worries about nuclear pollution , nukes destroy everything, for centuries... while burning coal feeds plants, plants feed animals so animals can feed plants,. it's a beautiful cycle of carbon life forms existence. but the truly un-natural poisons seem to get a free blind eyed pass,. it's just really interesting to see people only complain about oil/coal and remain completely silent about nukes and lab made poisons.

[@ryanreedgibson]

@@mikehardman7566 Nuclear power, when ran properly has no waste and is completely safe and it ads NO CARBON to the air or environment. The new models also have no risk of criticality.

[@mikehardman7566]

@@ryanreedgibson Thank you, for proving my point.

[@BisBoss]

Really enjoyed this!

[@johnmcnulty4425]

This creature inspires awe and terror even 77 million years later!

[@user-cn2ny1zz4h]

NatGeo volviendo a sus raíces,de mostrarnos los mejores documentales

[@1603shadow]

That was so interesting, I visited the Royal Tyrell Dinosaur museum in Drumheller Alberta in 2023 it quite a fascinating place to visit.

[@spenserkao2709]

In terms of making fixture to document live animal movements, BBC is second to none; but when comes to the use of CGI to render imaginary activities of huge mammals on land and shipwrecks in the ocean, National Geographic has to be the best!

[@khanghn7483]

Amazing!! I love love you so much! NG

[@Gingerwalker.]

Fantastic documentary!!! So glad I stumble across it.

[@MarkDeMuylder]

i love your yt channel i learn so much keep going

[@tonyman1971]

Mind blowing !!! Astonishing documentary !!!

[@brianmsahin]

Very interesting information here. Our neice who is only 6 years old absolutely loves dinosaurs, she even knows the names of many of them. She has no interest in Disney +, (which is a good think given the questionable content that kids shouldn't be exposed to at that age) and is only interested in finding Dinosaur documentaries. She's already decided to be a paleontologist!

[@air4334]

Love it....Thanks NatGeo :))))

[@idkidk8278]

Awesome!!! Thank you!

[@Pyr3x_Living]

Amazing video, thanks

[@dougbrown9048]

Unfortunately we will never know the quirks of their behaviors. Some of them will be very normal to us but there will also be some unexpected things we will never be able to experience

[@UsielX]

the way they lifted that "rock" was painfull. As someone who worked 12 years on luxury furniture delivery you know you just dont lift something and think its structure will be able to sustain its weight.

[@erikaleonard2848]

Love this episode it was awesome 😊😊❤❤

[@QuestionsStuff]

I loved this ..really really interesting ..

[@DBZluvz]

let's be honest, every small kid that discovered Dinosaurs wanted to be a Paleontologist when they were young....... at least all the kids i knew did.

[@fuzzy3440]

love all your content

[@bugs62]

amazing stories!

[@sammy61187]

What an awesome doco

[@waterandshovelgardening]

Really cool episode.

[@cryptoclyps5049]

fantastic!

[@Plug042]

we love you nat geo

[@Marswxn]

Ofc it broke you have 2 pressure points on this rock that you only guessed how strong it was, a full platform would’ve easily prevented this, not a big deal but you’d think these people would be smarter

[@chakattailswisher]

Will you be posting the rest of Drain the Oceans series? I'm trying to find the elusive episodes like "Drain the Sunken Pirate City" and "The Mississippi River".

[@katastrofygames]

Sometimes I think creatures like dreadnautus would use their tails to knockdown trees to clear paths and to eat the leaves.

[@Gokash4672]

Brilliant!!👍🇨🇦

[@8888Rik]

Very nice documentary. I would just point out that Dreadnoughtus and Borealopelta were Cretaceous animals, and although tyrannosauroids go back to the mid-Jurassic, all the tyrannosaurids are Cretaceous as well.

[@vladline1882]

Seeing horizontal neck Sauropod Titanosaurs trend = means old, a decade.

[@19-fk1mb]

⇖💐

[@doormatthew3995]

This episode of Drain the Oceans came out March 19th, 2023

[@wildlifewonders01_]

Beautiful :)

[@unknown50902]

The history of great dino-adds

[@streetkidgaming868]

Amazing

[@fizzyizzy8261]

Good stuff!

[@rellyasistio658]

Nice

[@icekangaroo9392]

I really wonder how big the Dreadnoughtus actually was.. like how close the calculations were to the living creature. Was it bigger? Or maybe smaller? I think there’s truly no way to know 100%

[@leechild4655]

They have to guess as to what shape the head was. I think it must have had some sort of headcreast if only a boney hump for combat. I dont think it would have to rely sololy on its tail to fend off trouble.

[@Simp_Zone]

22:01 I one hundred percent knew that was going to happen with how widely spaced those beams were. If they had placed them more central with equal spacing on either side of the beam it would have been perfect. And these are their "best rigging and hoisting guys" ... Hey mining company! can I have a job over there?

[@czgator9000]

Same here. I wondered why they did not support the middle.

[@doormatthew3995]

they’re probably used to regular rocks, I’m assuming they’d be less likely to collapse.

[@deadwaterblacksmithing]

Gator tail that is 5 ton or so moving at even 10 feet per second will absolutely rock every bit of your world... thats probably like 10-15k ft-lbs of energy if it has like 15 feet of swing. To think of something moving at 1.5 seconds to cover 5 yards that seems pretty slow, I imagine it could flip that tail way faster with all those attachment points for muscle. The weight is probably low as well, needs to be enough to offset the weight of the neck and head at full extension and keep full balance so probably around 1/5 of the total mass in the tail? Anyone got any mass ratio info on something like this?

[@scottgordon8902]

The first dinosaur. Except.. no neck bones... 1 bone you think was in the neck. Maybe it had a short neck.. super short neck. No skull.. maybe it had a different shaped skull.

[@X-075]

Was that the Ark Giga???

[@Yamahog]

The T-Rex family issue makes me think of Tornado rather than a flash flood , which would have dispersed the bodies further apart from each other. So Say a tornado had whipped the family into a nearby stream, or flood plane, then water flow may have left their carcasses next to a log jamb, hence the proximity to each other when they were unearthed.

[@sherintv478]

Very very super nice video my finding super niice good ❤❤

[@Simp_Zone]

Very super awesome!

[@dominicrosariodominicrosar8255]

Watching little ❤graphic eye 🎉🎉🎉

[@johnconnor6725]

Video played fine for me.

[@user-le5cz3vq2v]

Thx

[@ticzonabrahim]

LOVE

[@xuliabritto]

22:03 my heart broke at the same time as the fossil

[@yourstepfatherrrr]

Not all the way through, but why is this titled “The Real Jurassic Americas” when the first 17 minutes is about a sauropod that lived during the Cretaceous 😂

[@rogerdudra178]

I always felt I'd peaked in life when I found T-Rex.

[@teddygunzbarno2102]

This means there could be hundreds of other species wow

[@rodneypantony3551]

I'd ask the mining giants to fund your questions. The mechanics and information processing of dinosaurs may translate into better mining equipment. I'd approach an artificial intelligence institute like amiithinks, University of Alberta, to describe the various aspects of seniors, feedback and intelligence your new dinosaurs apparently had. Ask DARPA for funding too to design safer Bradleys and Humvees. For one thing, the levers, forces, masses, BIPM derived units could be standards to be emulated or striven for, in big machines. Relevant too to materials science.

[@rodneypantony3551]

Sensors not seniors.... Android typo

[@sukruoosten]

BEHEMOTH as written in job 4000 years ago

[@MidKnight_Mysteries]

Should probably be "Fugax Gigus" as often the larger species are more timid and shy, and the smaller the more bold ..... They call it "little guy syndrome" for a reason, and this translates from octopi's to dogs, even humans and let's not forget the classic elephant vs a mouse...

[@MidKnight_Mysteries]

How can we say for sure though, no better then the guesstimate CGI of what we thought they looked like to name it off speculations like that..... Just saying

[@Fallenangel_85]

I mean, we only need to look at Orcas and Lions to see that pack hunting is not uncommon among Apex predators. Even though we also have Tigers ofc and Bears.

[@KelticTim]

The leg bone was 6’3”? Holy smokes, I’m 6’5”, that’s insane to think of a bone as big as me

[@ItsRedLoaf]

Water Dinosaurs? I think they might existed...

[@FeliDJrah]

Not dinosaurs, but there were plenty of marine reptiles that were around at the same time.

[@captin3149]

@@FeliDJrah Why would there not be actual marine dinosaurs among the marine reptiles? We just may not have discovered them yet. The fossil record is HORRIBLE at recording actual biodiversity

[@kennethsatria6607]

​​@@captin3149Yeah but not usually for aquatic animals whom are safe from elements and get buried underwater quicker than land. Safe to say its likely dinosaurs even aquatic living would still be bound to the coast.

[@user-cq5kn7tc7g]

Those might be the mosasaurs

[@8888Rik]

Speaking as an evolutionary biologist (now retired), I think it's quite possible that over the 150+ millions of years that nonavian and avian dinosaurs existed (avian theropod dinosaurs still exist, of course, we just call them "birds"), I think it's entirely possible that some taxonomically true dinosaurs may have been aquatic or marine.

[@teddygunzbarno2102]

You souldve called Dave Sparks to get that 2nd fossil

[@Calvin.of.Martin.Street]

So..."Jurassic" Americas? Everything is from the Cretaceous

[@mikeshook5095]

The T. rex was really just a large rooster 😂

[@SD_Chosen]

With many teeth

[@wendybarbe9221]

Having been chased by a rooster as a kid, I'm glad it wasn't any bigger

[@dh3824]

Since it's 1 adult T-rex and a bunch of juveniles, couldn't they be compared to bears? They stay with parent for protection and to learn how to hunt. Then go their separate ways when of age.

[@obifachinabi]

Why when paleontologist wonder how so big animals could move, there is no one that think about the fact that the gravity force on earth, due to the moon position, was much weaker 70 millions years ago than today. 🤔

[@keepfaithful]

❤ it

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

What Tyrannosaurs were they? Lythronax? Teratophoneus?

[@al20o33]

how do we know that sediments in the Sea did not change/alter/influence the color of the skin of the dinosaur??

[@emmajolene98]

why wouldn’t they support the middle portion of the armored Dino, just the sides? of course it would break

[@Friskee62]

I love T-Rex so much, I have a tattoo of one on my inner right forearm...

[@chuckkline2970]

What are you going to do if you ever divorce her?

[@michelecox5241]

Excuse me, crocs and gators all hang out together as well. Just saying.

[@user-db9bm6cw2h]

Poor family T Rex. He died by flood because usually auditory the fossil

[@gamingtamil6034]

Today i watched the movie 65. It shows how the dinosaurs destroyed 65 million years ago.

[@Teacher2Polis2XtraRice]

It looks like a crocodile with a body of turtle.😂

[@meowman-kj6hg]

land before time

[@GamingShocker]

They're like lions / wolves

[@bradschoeck1526]

The dinosaurs were killed by commercials.

[@SheshaZilla]

Megatheropod dinosaurs max size ( All 5+ tonnes Megatheropods In May 2024) 1. Tyrannosaurus rex- 11.7 tonnes 2. Giganotosaurus- 10.2 tonnes 3. Mcraeencies- 8.8 tonnes 4. Carcharodontosaurus- 8.5 tonnes 5. Mapusaurus- 8.4 tonnes 6. Spinosaurus- 8.3 tonnes 7. Saurophaganax- 8.3 tonnes 8. Sauroniops- 7.6 tonnes 9. Tyrannotitan- 7.5 tonnes 10. Bahariasaurus- 7.2 tonnes 11. Deinocheirus- 7.1 tonnes 12. Zhuchengtyrannus- 7.1 tonnes 13. Alamotyrannus- 6 tonnes 14. Titanovenator- 5.8 tonnes 15. Meraxes gigas- 5.7 tonnes 16. Acrocanthosaurus- 5.7 tonnes 17. Torvosaurus- 5.5 tonnes 18. Therizinosaurus- 5.5 tonnes 19. Suchomimus- 5.4 tonnes 20. Sigilmassasaurus- 5.3 tonnes 21. Tarbosaurus- 5.3 tonnes 22. Suciasaurus- 5 tonnes

[@dinossauroextinction4042]

when you're going to do some 3D dinosaur representation, call some paleoartist why tyrannosaurids look horrible

[@johnryan2193]

I'd be looking over my shoulder for the dog that buried that bone.

[@chuckkline2970]

That's the best comment here. LOL

[@user-tb8ku3tg7g]

I first thought this channel would be solely about stuff like shipwrecks.😅

[@Ari-pw6nu]

How do you know the colors are made up?

[@chrisjordan7592]

No bigger than a brontosaur😮

[@xXxLeon21xXx]

Dinosaurs the best.

[@voycressv460]

They did,Mesa sour,Montana, was ocean ,and this type swam these ocean.

[@JohnNobody-sp7sj]

I jacket my giant bone too. Where's my documentary?

[@Beetwate305]

12:35 😂 such a nerd!!!

[@dmitrysivolovskiy]

33:19 quite beauty intern)) or maybe not just intern))

[@theyak2930]

STL PLZ

[@PonderStone]

I wonder what it would be like if Dinosaurs lived today. Have you?

[@klozedkazket509]

But they do. Birds are dinosaurs 🤷‍♂️

[@bronco1199]

" we were in the sun for 8 to 10 hours? Welcome to the real world.

[@kyyomilo]

less about the time and more about the heat of the sun, remember this was in july in utah.

[@jennifermiller2040]

It was an herbivore, and you guy's really blew it naming it.

[@OhAwe]

Is this made for restarts?

[@kordak197]

@0:37 Are we going to overlook the fact that National Geographic just stooped to shamelessly ripping the giga and triceratops from ARK for a fake movie scene instead of just paying a small fee to use footage from one of the hundreds of classic dinosaur films from over a century of cinema?

[@eduarortiz8647]

The T Rex 🦖 is my favorite dinosaur

[@erkascazuchi8443]

my condolences go to the souls of those poor innocent dinosaurs