How Scientifically Accurate is Jurassic World's GIGANOTOSAURUS?

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Giganotosaurus was the largest and mightiest terrestrial predator of it’s time. It has recently become more famous thanks to it's inclusion in Jurassic World Dominion. But how different is the real animal from what was shown in the movies? Watch this awesome facts and fun filled animation to find out!
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:18 Discovery and Description
1:45 The Carcharodontosauridae Family
2:38 Size of Giganotosaurus
3:07 Warm Blooded Killers
3:59 Speed of Giganotosaurus
4:19 Social predators?
5:21 Biteforce and Feeding habits
6:36 Life in the Candeleros Formation
7:56 Jurassic World Comparison
8:06 Head Anatomy
9:34 Body
10:05 Arms
10:37 Time Period
11:55 Conclusion
13:07 Outro
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~ARTWORK~
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~SOURCES~
Giganotosaurus Description
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Giganotosaurus Skeletal by Dan Folkes
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Carcharodontosauridae
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Giganotosaurus Warm Blooded
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Mapusaurus
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Bite Force
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#Giganotosaurus #JurassicWorldDominion #JurassicWorld

[@NaturesCompendium]

Be sure to comment #Giganotosaurus below for a chance to win a copy of Prehistoric Kingdom! Three years ago I made my first large scale animation for the channel, where I took a look at how scientifically accurate the Jurassic World Mosasaurus was. Now, I'm beyond happy to bring this series back from extinction and kicking things off with the newest antagonist dinosaur in the franchise: Giganotosaurus! For the rest of this year and next year, these kinds of videos will be my primary focus for the channel going forward. I'm beyond excited to see what the future holds and I can't wait to bring more animated dinosaur content for you all to enjoy!

[@yin-yangbrandon7852]

OMG!!! Now I can't wait to see what other animated videos that we'll get to see from the revival of this series!!!!

[@NaturesCompendium]

@@yin-yangbrandon7852 Thank you! I'm excited to make more too :D

[@macwelch8599]

It would’ve been awesome to keep the prologue in the movie with real life dinosaurs, so people could see why the modern day dinosaurs are mostly inaccurate

[@SCR_ProductionsYT]

#Giganotosaurus

[@keelyngraves4638]

#Giganotosaurus

[@JamalGreenMusic]

I had an absolute blast writing music for this episode, thanks for having me on it! Jealous of Giga’s absolute chad chin though.

[@NaturesCompendium]

Lol I think we all should be a little jealous 😉

[@ushathingbaijam4562]

@@NaturesCompendium can u PLEASE make a video about the possibility of the scientific existence of a Meg living in the Marina trench

[@shuckle5013]

@@ushathingbaijam4562 Megalodon wouldn’t be able to live in the Mariana trench

[@legalwaterdrinker3286]

@@shuckle5013 And even if one was to live down there, it wouldn't be a megalodon anymore

[@D1S0-]

@@ushathingbaijam4562 not possible

[@rehvan8669]

When you compare the T-Rex to other large therapods you truly see how terrifying they were.

[@combat-greyhound565]

I love how the "real" T-Rex you made looks mostly like the Prehistoric Planet one (which is by far the better Dinosaur Content compared to Dominion)

[@Captianmex1C0]

Well that one is based on "Sue" the Trex

[@combat-greyhound565]

@@Captianmex1C0 in its dimensions yes. But the color design etc. is very much Prehistoric Planet.

[@DankMadness12]

I prefer dominion tbh but opinions

[@robinator789]

People can have opinions

[@igotplentyofdicktoshare]

No it's not stfu😂😂

[@swanqlord3048]

Can I just say, it is unfathomably badass that we know so much about dinosaurs. Not only do we know this thing existed, we have an idea of its speed, it's metabolism, how much it ate, how it hunted, it's ancestry, among so many other things. These aren't animals we can go an observe in the wild. This thing lived tens of MILLIONS of years ago and yet we can still infer so much about it. The field of paleontology never ceases to amaze me, and thank you for making videos like this to teach us!

[@pebblemint1750]

Yes all these things from some bones lol. I don’t really understand how we know so much

[@pleaseenteraname2745]

@@pebblemint1750 yeah, you're ignorant, cool.

[@CapREX77]

@@pebblemint1750 We don’t know. It’s called speculation. And even scientists, paleontologists, and researchers acknowledge this. The idea that we could actually “know” anything for sure about dinosaurs is pretty absurd when you take into account just how little we know about our own world in the present day. There are still creatures here and now in the 21st century that baffle us. How on earth could we be expected to have “facts” on creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Lol! For all we know, sauropods could have been fire breathing dragons, and we would never know, and though, unlikely, anything is possible. Raptors could have flown like pterosaurs. Old bones and fossils can only give us so much information. The rest is just guesswork.

[@pebblemint1750]

@@CapREX77 so true

[@devildogentertainment4904]

They’re just guesses for the most part bro! Based off of bone structure , and other animals that existed during its time. It’s a possibly to also say we can be wrong about most dinosaurs, but not all! Spinos , rexes, Argentina, and velociraptor and Utah raptor , and deinonychus. Are all very well intact fossils that we can accurately almost to the point of how they were alive.. everythjng besides their actual look

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

Funnily enough, Biosyn-made animals are meant to be "pure", implying that they're accurate in-universe. It's kinda sad that Universal wants their world and creatures to be real to the point of trying to copyright their names but they won't give the same treatment in the movies.

[@godzillakingofthemonsters5812]

To be fair you can argue that Biosyn are lying when they say that and their animals would just be more accurate..... except....for the prologue.

[@IndominusRex-wc1ey]

Hold on, *universal trademarks fucking dinosaur names?*

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

@@IndominusRex-wc1ey They have tried at least a couple of times to trademark "Jurassic" (they literally threatened to sue a museum exhibition about the Jurassic back in the day unless they changed the name) And online shops like etsy and redbubble have taken down products with the names of the dinosaurs featured in the movies claiming issues with copyright

[@IndominusRex-wc1ey]

@@GandalfTheTsaagan what in the actual fuck? Thats like me trademarked the animal lion, evolution has to give me an infinite supply of money now because evolution made my oh so precious copyrighted animal

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

@@IndominusRex-wc1ey I mean, Disney copyrighted "hakuna matata", and that's a saying in a real language Big studios and companies just want to cash in every aspect of their products, even if they screw over everyone else

[@evolutioncircle8849]

#Giganotosaurus I like the design that was used in dominion, but to me it kind of seemed like another attempt at an indominus. Some of the aspects of the design were also kind of goofy and weird, but I guess they really wanna sell those toys. Good video regardless!

[@Bagelgeuse]

Yeah, tbh it's just a worse Indominus rex. Hell, Lego used the I.rex head for their Gigano toy.

[@evolutioncircle8849]

@@Bagelgeuse Exactly, and the fact that *spoilers for dominion* the prologue was cut from the final movie made the giga even less intimidating and evil in a sense. Your average fan that just watches every movie wouldn't have known the giga killed Rexy in ancient times, and it made the teamup at the end a little useless too. There really was no big bad in this movie to me, and I think one thing JW got right was building up the Indominus and its abilities from the start.

[@pakochanchan881]

I think they wanted the Giga to have a more unique silhouette, since regular viewers won't really see Giga as a special threat since it looks a lot more similar to the T Rex without its spikes. Some argue they could have just used concavenator if they wanted a dinosaur with a taller back, but it's simply not as big and like the reason Deinonychus was renamed to Velociraptor in the first JP, Giga simply sounds cooler.

[@joshuaded1052]

Indominous rex does have giga dna in it

[@Randomrainfrog]

@@evolutioncircle8849 it kinda just felt like watching giganotosaurus torture porn by the end

[@WalkinStereotype]

It seemed to me that, at one point during the film’s creation, they wanted to have the giganotosaurus in modern day be a hybrid of some kind, but that got lost in development at some point. Probably around the time the prologue was in development, they’d spent too much on the hybrid model and so they decided to use that instead of making a more accurate giganotosaurus model. They probably figured people didn’t really care if it was accurate, they’d spent too much, the toys were already in production and ready to be sold.

[@lillipton8838]

Giga actually had indoraptor teeth in earlier designs, so it looks like they wanted a biosyn indominus hybrid or something

[@AleRees]

Besides being 33 million years apart, Giganotosaurus lived in South America which was an isolated continent with no land bridge (think Australia). So an encounter with a T Rex was a double impossible. Thank you for the video! It was very detailed and complete.

[@andresvalentin6924]

Same with T-Rex and Spinosaurus. Spinosaurus live in the region of what is now the Sahara.

[@rayhanmustakim7073]

@@andresvalentin6924 At least JP3 doesn't have a prologue that shows Spino & T-rex live the same place and time.

[@toragon2736]

Story and comedy if anyone interested Movie makers be like:- He swam! HE SWAM ALL THE WAY FROM AUSTRALIA TO AMERICA JUST TO KICK A T-REX'S BUTT Fans, Scientists and all people with basic common sense:- 💀 But how will will u explain the time gap Movie makers:- oh.... 🤔 Turns out dinosaurs are extremely intelligent creatures, he built a time machine to go into the time of t rex and finally kill it Fans and everyone else:- but do you even know what all animals lived ocean, they might tear him apart Movie makers:- ohh that was not a big issue, he made a biggest baddest and meanest boat of time !!! Fans and everyone else :- how ? HOW?!! U mean with his small hands ? Movie makers:- 💀(shit didn't think this through) Of course the same way he made the time machine (close call) Then his boat sank mid way and he swam rest of the journey battling all sorts of creatures and won all the battles 👻, He found trex and kicked his butt Bonus:- Movie makers:- due to the accelerated time experience by giganotosaurus and fighting with all sorts of sea creatures it experienced accelerated evolution Fans:- u mean growth right? Movie makers:- no Evolution, u are not paying attention, ugh why do we even have to work so hard to make you guys happy, audience is dumb 😫 Fans:- ok 💀..... ( Secretly contacts got tier critics) Movie makers:- in the battles he fought he met many sea creatures and crocodilians, that's why he has scaly and spiny back like them Fans:- ....... ........ only thing right about this theory is THAT ITS FUCKING WRONG movie makers:- ........ Calls secretary* Call the men in black we need to rewind this 🖊️💡(2 days later) JURASIC WORLD DOMINION

[@Rayantoc]

@@rayhanmustakim7073 are you stupid??

[@kailawkamo1568]

My heart melted when that baby Mapusaurus started chirping

[@zooemperor3954]

This was an impressive video and nice to see Giganotosaurus having its own video and being compared to Jurassic World. Plus, you’re doing a good job in making the public interested in dinosaurs in a healthy manner

[@RealKlausSchwab]

A healthy manner? What is UNHEALTHY then?

[@zooemperor3954]

@@RealKlausSchwab going awesomebro and making them like monsters

[@andronmillerjr.9158]

Indeed

[@TerriazeCAPCUTeditor]

@@zooemperor3954 bruh shut up

[@TerriazeCAPCUTeditor]

@@zooemperor3954 no one cares

[@Melanosuchusss]

God your animation and models are so good I’m honestly very impressed, also thanks giving a REAL giga to the fans. We don’t need another “Rex killer”.

[@NaturesCompendium]

Precisely! The real animal is interesting enough and I hope I was able to portray that here!

[@demontorvo5384]

3rd T Rex killer will be Carcharodontosaurus after Spinosaurus & Giganotosaurus confirmed by Colin Trevorrow

[@zebgiganotosaurusgaming]

Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Saurophaganax are longer, taller & overral bigger & stronger than a T Rex and could kick the T Rex ass

[@demontorvo5384]

@Biosyn Giganotosaurus agreed Tarbosaurus & Acrocanthosaurus also can trash the T Rex like a ragdoll

[@Melanosuchusss]

@@NaturesCompendium look at these ridiculous fanboys commenting, you can see what I mean now 💀

[@bruhmoment3306]

the thing that they need to understand is the real look of these dinosaurs is just as awe inspiring as the ones they make in the movies. Prehistoric planet on apple Tv had alot more realism and yet was still amazing to look at

[@BugsandBiology]

Yeah, regardless of accuracy, the PP Tyrannosaurus is still the best looking one I've seen on TV.

[@Bagelgeuse]

Agreed. If people are fascinated by the fossilized bones of these animals, then there's no need to make them bigger or spikier.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

A silver-lining of the JW Giga is it probably acts the most realistic out of all the antagonist dinosaurs we have seen to date. It mostly just acts territorial to threats in its environment rather than being an over the top psychopath like Indominous or a straight up serial killer like the Indoraptor.

[@VivianaSilverback]

Apart from the fact it just kills a t rex for no reason in the prologue. Real life carnivores don't immediately go for the kill if they see a rival in their territory. They will try to scare the trespasser off first, and then attack if the tresspasser doesn't go away. But animals rarely kill eachother for territory, especially solitary animals.

[@dimetrodon2250]

Weird considering the infamous "its Jurassic world's joker"

[@thebox1720]

The sound the baby Mapusaurus made was adorable.

[@gfanatic9447]

i just wanna point out how the giga in the film literally had fire in its mouth and was completely fine afterwords. Didn't even go to the river for a quick drink and last time I checked Gigas were living animals and all animals no matter what time they lived feared fire. Need I say more?

[@ginam5497]

Perhaps it creates a lot of saliva and could drown a person in it

[@Ligerbee]

@@ginam5497 i doubt that

[@ginam5497]

@@Ligerbee i know thats why i said it it's ment to be a joke

[@alternativeuniverse6257]

@@ginam5497 I imagine this as giga is just drowning a person with just his spit

[@Bagelgeuse]

​@@alternativeuniverse6257 A disgusting and humiliating way to die.

[@JPOG7TV]

I really wish they stuck with a more realistic design. It felt like Universal thought people wouldn’t know the difference between it and a T.Rex so they tired hard to make it look like a different animal. While I like the end design, it doesn’t scream giga to me. Heck a realistic design with a vibrant colour palette would have been enough to distinguish it from the Rex for the average audience since that Dino is still from the 90s.

[@LadyMekona]

That could make sense but oh boy.. If someone would mistake the scientificaly accurate look of T. Rex with the Giga's I would be really shocked. Both have a really interesting and unique skull build in my opinion because that's one of their most liked and recognized traits. I was really sad when I saw they didn't go for a more realistic look for the giga because I'm in love with them. (And honestly the Dominion Giga had a reeeeally strong Indominus vibe not gonna lie.. I did not like that either..) Oh and I strongly stand with that the more realistic chad-chin Giga even looks more frightening than this croocked teethed abomination with a hump on its back LOL!

[@Bagelgeuse]

Awesome video as always. Btw, the Carcharodontosaurus at 2:00 looks like the JPOG Carcha, which IMO should've been the inspiration for the JW3 #Giganotosaurus, instead of Indominus rex 2.0.

[@NaturesCompendium]

Finally, somebody figured out the inspiration for me Carcharodontosaurus design!

[@GaiusIntrepidus]

@@NaturesCompendium accurate or not, JPOG Carchar is still the best

[@jurassicturtle3666]

@@GaiusIntrepidus that roar too was so unique

[@robinator789]

Indominus rex was a giga 2.0

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

The sound effects you use for the Giga (and other dinosaurs) makes them feel so much more alive, this is one of if not your best video yet!

[@jakesutton4603]

You’re welcome ;)

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

@@jakesutton4603 you do some epic sound work!

[@SaurianStudios1207]

This was a fantastic video! I really like the scientific accurate reconstructions you created for the dinosaurs featured in this video, the animation is great and I really appreciate that you try your best to educate the public about how dinosaurs were really like and comparing the differences between the fossil record and the fictional renditions, without tarnishing the movies for being inaccurate. I’ve always liked scientifically accurate depiction of dinosaurs and dinosaurs that are treated more like animals than monsters, but I also grew up with movies like Jurassic park, King Kong, the land before time and in general, fictional dinosaurs are right up my alley, as long as they’re done correctly since not all are great.

[@MetaFanWing]

I definitely agree. For instance, the Spinosaurus is one of my favourite dinosaurs, and grew up with the JP3 version. Though I do really like the modern reconstructions of the Spino, the JP3 Spino will always hold a special place in my heart.

[@makai5749]

The realistic version always look better in my opinion and I guess birds would really be the main or first things mixed with their DNA so.

[@Tabi-Kun]

I like the accurate and dominion look, but I wish they would have gone with dominion giga being modified with the prologue having a real giga (I would have ignored the time period inaccuracy)

[@dacksonflux]

I thought from the get-go that Indominus looked stupid. The teeth alone were so jagged, it's a wonder the thing could even eat. Indominus, Indo, and Giga were just Frankenstein's monster, that's all.

[@Ismael-kc3ry]

@@dacksonflux I mean that was kind of the point. Idk why people complain about realism in the movies, they’ve never been realistic. Behind the scenes footage had the director talking about how they wanted to desire the Indominus to look like a horror monster, which makes sense since the franchise has always been horror to an extent, just PG 13

[@spinosaurusstriker]

​@@Ismael-kc3ry excuses for mediocrity, one important plot point on this franchise is that these dinos are not supposed to be accurate to their real counterparts, not the prologue just shits all over it.

[@Ismael-kc3ry]

@@spinosaurusstriker I’m not saying they’re good or bad, just that’s always been the point of these movies

[@Jackpesaurus99]

I love your statement at the end of the video, you're not critiquing the design of the movie in a bad or insulting way but to teach people, I personally never see the big issue with inaccurate designs for dinosaurs (in fictional movies or series of course), as you said, they are a good way for people to get interested in learning more about these animals. To me it's always fun to see these wacky and admittedly monstress looking dinosaurs (cuss again, it's a movie) and then seeing how different the real animal is. Great video.

[@italucenaz]

The problem is that for a large audience, the take away they'll get from Giganoto was that it was like that, 90% of the people won't think about the inacuracies and search more about the real animal, for most people dinosaurs are still monsters with spines all over and crocodile like teeth, JW as the largest outlet that depicts dinosaurs have a responsability them wanting it or not

[@Jackpesaurus99]

@@italucenazSee I never understand that argument, why would people use JP and JW dinosaurs as the real thing. It's the same with almost any movie or series out there, to me that would be the same as using Star Wars as a way to learn about space just because it's the most famous franchise involving space travel. If that's the case and a large number of people really use a franchise involving perfectly cloning dinosaurs that started in the early 90s as a way to learn about these animals, then unfortunately that just means that they aren't interest in dinosaurs.

[@italucenaz]

@@Jackpesaurus99 this is not a contientious thing, imagine a very famous accont that usually talks about medieval europe and they got a lot of fact wrong, if confrontend they say oh, but I'm not supposed to be accurate, it's just for enternement, if you want real things go to a museum", but ultimatelly, millions of people consume their content and them wanting or not, they will get a lot of things wrong and even perpetuate harmful ideas from that, unfoutunatelly people are not 100% rational and curious beings, we often believe what we're told, and multi billion dollars franchises would do a lot of good if they just get some facts straight

[@italucenaz]

@@dvssaur the dinosaurs were always supposed to be accurate, the JW just invented the hybrid thing to explain the inaccuracies of the past movies that we know they did just because they didn't had all the info at the time

[@dvssaur]

@@italucenaz no, they were supposed to be inaccurate lol. It’s all part of the plot, they wanted more tourists, so they made hybrids.

[@dynamoterror7077]

Everything about this video is so, so awesome!!! It’s always a treat to see someone using the popularity of the JW/JP franchise to teach people more about extinct creatures, and your animations are lovely! Also, since I’ve seen some people wondering whether or not the JW Atrociraptor and Theri are real dinosaurs or not, videos for those fellas might be a good idea (although I’m sure you’ve got plenty more stuff already planned).

[@DreamsPits]

This sound of the smaller dinosaur next to the gigantosaurus is absolutely unexpected.

[@TasselledWobbegong]

I was around way back during Jurassic Park's release, and it's really hard to relay just how monumental the discovery of Giganotosaurus was then. Tyrannosaurus had been holding the crown for "history's biggest predator" for nearly a century, then at the peak of the whole JP/Dinosaur Renaissance era it was dethroned! I was lucky enough to live near a museum that had both Giga and Rex on display, so Dominion was like a wish come true. Granted, Giga's time in the limelight turned out to be rather short -- suddenly there was a whole host of contenders for the throne, including the ever-changing tyranno-slaying Spinosaurus -- so I appreciate this video acting as an update on a dino I've kinda forgotten about.

[@murasamekaini8786]

I’m glad this was covered heh I was a little disappointed with how the prolog giga was the exact same as the clone and also so was the Rex honestly other then small about of feathers which either means ingen was very freaked close to the whole dna to the point it even sounded the same as it’s original or the film still did it want to go fully accurate. Still loved that movie though will watch again ^w^

[@Sounder1995]

My personal head canon is that the Prologue is not meant to be taken as literal truth. My reasoning for this is a strange inversion of the oft quoted Dr. Wu quote from JW about how nothing in JW is natural. Ramsey explicitly states that BioSyn at least can extract 100% of an extinct animal's genome, heavily implying that their creatures at least can be more accurate than InGen's / Masrani's. However, the Pteranodon and Ankylosaurus in the Prologue look exactly the same as InGen's / Masrani's. This gives leeway, I'd say, to argue that the Prologue is not meant to be an actual literal flashback to what the Cretaceous was like in the JP universe. Of course, the behind the scenes reasoning is way simpler. Since this scene is short and was cut from the final theatrical cut of Dominion anyway, I'm not surprised that they didn't create more accurate versions just for this scene.

[@WhyTho525]

@@Sounder1995 It would've been cool if the Prologue was actually a footage made by people who wanted to make a dinosaur documentary and Alan Grant points out the inaccuracies as an advisor.

[@govardhanposina17]

@@WhyTho525 I wish the writers put in that much effort into the script

[@WhyTho525]

@@govardhanposina17 I loved the film, but it could've been SOOOOOOO much better.

[@dodowithajetpack3348]

Yeah I thought it was a little weird how the prologue rex was the exact same but it had a little fuzz added on. They could've at least fixed the wrists, lips and not made it shrink wrapped.

[@coolpeopleit]

A clip of Trex and Giganotosaurus 65 Million years ago kind of sums up the level of paleontological understanding the J-world trilogy has. There isnt room in an ecosystem for 2 apex predators to adapt to eat the same prey. The closest would be Spinosaurus and Charcharadontasaurus, with the former being heavily adapted for a swamp lifestyle, whilst the later is a terrestrial adapted predator.

[@tmac1kobe8vc15]

This is fantastic. With lots of details. Your Giganotosaurus design is spectacular. It is as if the Prehistoric Planet team designed it. That is top notched. Love the Carcharodontosaurus cameo as well. Lots of people find these giant Theropods generic, but they are actually have very interesting characteristics and are versatile and efficient predators that do not need brute force to survive.

[@dinoboiis8147]

When the Giga looks more like a hybrid than the Indominus does

[@reshi606]

The production quality of this is through the roof!

[@Commander_cheezy]

"come at me weak sauce chin boy" *The giganotousaurus have never felt so much sadness in it's entire existence*

[@ghuff4694]

The Jurassic world games original giganotosaurus design was much more realistic to the movie sad they didn’t go with that design

[@MourningCoffeeMusic]

Giving Sue the Prehistoric Planet design was such a smart move. They really nailed the natural look of a tyrannosaurus based on the bones plus all the features I loved about JP’s design. Truly awesome.

[@CalvinTheCarnotaurus]

anyone else think that the Giganotosaurus for Jurassic World Dominion looks like a redesign of Indominus? like a darker, more sinister looking variant or something.

[@NaturesCompendium]

I was thinking the same too. Kinda wish they went with something a little more interesting and not so over the top

[@CalvinTheCarnotaurus]

@@NaturesCompendium they should've just called it "Dark Indominus Rex"

[@Bagelgeuse]

It looks almost exactly like the Indominus, save for the arms. It's a real shame that the only way Universal knows how to spice up a dino design is to give it spikes. Ark did a better job (yeah I know Ark's Gigano is oversized and has the wrong head shape, but at least it doesn't look like it was an edglord's dinosaur OC).

[@CalvinTheCarnotaurus]

@@Bagelgeuse I was thinking it looked a little like something an egdelord would make.

[@BigAl2-u7e]

I get that it's been a long time since the original Jurassic World film came out in 2015 but the Giganotosaurus looks nothing like the Indominus Rex other than just having the general body shape of a large theropod dinosaur.

[@LBTElectricDinoOnline]

Finally, this looks amazing and I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time ever since 2018 and I adore the animation of the actual dinosaur characters and the Jurassic World dinosaur characters and nice comparison partner. I really hope more of these amazing videos in the future because I’m enjoying them so much and great work and keep it up.

[@NaturesCompendium]

Next two dinosaurs I plan on working on are teased at 12:34 👀

[@LBTElectricDinoOnline]

@@NaturesCompendium, yep, I’m still excited for those, yep, yep, yep. I can’t wait to see them.

[@Mikailodon]

That chin makes the natural Giganotosaurus a real Gigachad

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

Now, I see what you did there. 😉👍

[@supergladiat0r789]

I'm an avid dinosaur enthusiast, so I love that you got to teach all of us more about the #Giganotosaurus, especially that rapid growth rate and how much they needed to eat in a day!

[@lando2743]

Just discovered your channel and I’m incredibly impressed. Going to binge through as much as I can

[@NaturesCompendium]

Welcome aboard!

[@ripzaurus]

I would've at least taken out the back spikes and osteoderms of the prehistoric #Giganotosaurus from JW, that way it wouldn't confuse the audience and they would still understand that that dinosaur and the one in the present are the same but with some differences from the cloning process. I understand not being able to create a complete different model for the prehistoric giga since that could definitely confuse casual viewers as to why they're completely different from one scene to the next, but it would've been a neat detail to at least make them a bit more different while still recognizable.

[@Bagelgeuse]

Primeval managed to make the Giganotosaurus distinct from the T.rex without giving it spikes, so idk why Jurassic World couldn't.

[@italucenaz]

They could just do them in very different colors, you have to understand they both convergently evolved a similar body shape like small arms and big head, it's not their fault they's similar, it would be like a movie where a leopard and a jaguar fight but you put saber tooths on the jaguar and also some horns to differenciate

[@spinosaurusstriker]

@@Bagelgeuse Damn , even the real things are already different enough , lmao

[@Aethra.]

Ngl but when they released the Giganotosaurus into the Prologue, me and many of my friends thought it was a Acrocanthosaurus or a Allosaurus on steroid lol

[@wairarimamoyano919]

Giganotosaurus has been my favorite for years, your video was very good. At least in that brief confrontation with the rex, both the giga and rexy acted more like animals than monsters. Greetings from Argentina :3

[@Betweentheraindrops8]

I love your models. Can’t get enough. Besides using the Prehistoric Planet T. Rex model and color, you made it even chunkier than the documentary. I love it. Can’t wait for your dilophosaurus video!

[@KDohSteel]

The weak sauce chin comment had me laughing hysterically longer than I’d like to admit lol

[@kierancowface]

I feel like they basically got a T-rex, slapped a few extra colours and features on it, and called it a giganotosaurus just to get a scary villain. They had little regard for how Giganotosaurus would be realistically.

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

This is my new favorite video from this channel, I really love Giganotosaurus Also hope you're doing great mate,also ?my favorite part of this video was *ABSOLUTEL CHAD-CHIN* Also happy birthday to me :3

[@NaturesCompendium]

Happy birthday! 🎂

[@ryansmith-sounddesigner7831]

This was worth the wait! Excellent work on your video. Definitely loved your mention of Giga’s “chad chin.” Fantastic artwork and very detailed of the animal and its discovery. If possible when making a new video, I would like to volunteer for sound design. What ever time era you may choose. ~ Ryan S.

[@DionPlays_Games0719]

The fact that the Giganotosaurus in JWE2 Without the dominion skin was way more accurate😭

[@kade-qt1zu]

You know, I'm really conflicted on the Dominion Giga Design. As a design for some fictional hybrid, it's pretty cool. But as a design for a Giganotosaurus, it is just terrible.

[@catpoke9557]

The dinos in JW are canonically all hybrids of some kind due to them being unable to obtain full DNA of the dinosaurs. So it really is more of a hybrid than a giganotosaur, which explains why it looks so weird.

[@kade-qt1zu]

@@catpoke9557 As stated in the video though, the giga in the prologue and the cloned giga are identical, implying that this is what the real life giga looked like in the JP universe. So even that doesn't work here.

[@Bagelgeuse]

It was cool as a fictional hybrid, the Indominus rex. They're identical save for the I.rex's arms and the Gigano's colors and extra spikes.

[@catpoke9557]

@@kade-qt1zu Didn't know that. I probably should have finished the video before reading comments, haha

[@BigAl2-u7e]

Eh, it's not too bad. Just remove the spikes and shrink the arms and its fairly accurate. Obviously, the issues with the teeth and crocodile skin are still there but for the Jurassic series, it's fairly accurate.

[@antonioaguilar3016]

#Giganotosaurus it’s funny that JW wanted to exaggerate the Giga’s design to make it scarier and cooler but failed to give it its coolest feature, the chad-chin.

[@AlopiasTale]

I was wondering why the sound of the Juvenile at 5:07 sounded so familiar! It's a call from the go-away bird! I think that's very clever use of an animal call that isn't your generic baby animal sound! Thank you for the video! I have learned more about dinosaurs today!

[@MBtooth]

I would love to see more of these videos, this was extremely entertaining!

[@jakesutton4603]

Definitely a worth while experience working on this video with you 👍

[@dhyeyapatel8688]

Been waiting for a video for so long and now its finally here!

[@marcospinheiro352]

Wow! I loved everything in this video about Giganotosaurus! I liked it and shared it with my friends and paleogroups I know! Great paleoinformation, great editing, great animation and great artworks by Julio Lacerda! Great job, Nature's Compendium! Bravo! I'm looking forward for your next videos for sure! :D

[@NaturesCompendium]

Thank you! A lot of love went into this video and I'm glad that it's being received so well!

[@Kisseyhersh123]

Honestly when I clicked this video I genuinely wasn't expecting this level of quality and detail. Great stuff!

[@NaturesCompendium]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :D

[@nakaitheonlinewanderer1553]

YES, the series is back! I been for this for quite a while.

[@manalojoshuastepheng1977]

Love the vid! Been waiting for this. I actually like the giga next to acro keep up the great work Nature's compendium!

[@enderethan144]

I’ve never had any problems with the dinosaur designs in the franchise but the Gigi’s design kinda bothered me a bit because it looks nothing like one, it looks like a Mapusaurus-Concavenator hybrid. I get that the dinosaurs in this franchise are clones of their palaeo-accurate counterparts but the fact that the Giga still looks like its ancestor in present day is kinda lazy from the film makers I mean couldn’t they have used the JWE design for the movie.

[@roachman1002]

Some people who don't know much about dinosaurs told me i would love this new movie as it is more accurate to dinosaurs than the previous, guess they are talking about the little walking with dinosaurs intro, and one part in the movie, there are many, but this part made me roll my eyes, the Giganotosaurus was not the biggest land carnivore of all time, the Spinosaurus holds that title.

[@HYBRID_EXT]

Tyrannosaurus is the largest, as size is measured by mass, but Spinosaurus is definitely the longest

[@nachotrystan]

#Giganotosaurus Awesome video as always! Personally liked Dominion. Ironically the Giga was the most animalistic large theropod in the World films. I’d love a video on Therizinosaur’s in the future! Keep up the awesome work

[@NaturesCompendium]

Therizinosaurus is on the list, I even put a preview of it in the video around 12:34 :D

[@TheTRexPaddock]

Lovely video Nature’s Compendium! Outstanding animation and great content.

[@dinoboy204]

Great video! Content was very informative yet understandable and the animation and models were great. Enjoyed the video immensely.

[@NaturesCompendium]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Hunter_anims]

0:22 Spinosaurus: OK guess I don't exist

[@vladprus4019]

This format came back after some long time, nice

[@Skyypixelgamer]

#Giganotosaurus I love the design you gave the accurate giga. Also keep up with these comparison videos as they are really fun to watch.

[@batspidey7611]

Great video! It's always fun comparing the Jurassic Park/World animals to the real deal.

[@demontorvo5384]

Nope the video has many inaccuracies

[@chillinqq3079]

@@demontorvo5384 please list them in a comment where we can have a discussion rather than just saying that without telling us what you think the innacuracies are

[@zalomanakbar2350]

The Giga looks more like a mixture of a Acrocanthosaurus and a Charcharodontosaurus. Or maybe just an over sized Acro

[@boofypoofy3938]

could you make some more of these dinosaur videos? Especially the Spinosaurus. I love the way you recite the various info about these ancient beings, especially since it's hard to find info about some of the (especially the spinosaurus aegiptiacus) because of franchises like jurassic park (not that they're bad, just that there's more info about the beings in the movies than the info about what accuracies we've discovered so far). Keep up the great work!

[@macabrevoid]

Doood this is so goood! I made a similar infographic motion graphic for my Motion Graphic class this year (it was about Trex instead) and I’ve been wanting to do more videos like it talking about the Yixian Formation. This has really lit a fire in me to want to continue that, so thank you!! I hope one day to make motion graphic videos as good as yours. As well, this video was just amazing, the the creature design and animation was well done and You articulated the information very well. Ver nice job!!

[@NaturesCompendium]

Thanks man I appreciate it and would love to see that T. rex project of yours! My very first animation about what tyrannosaurus meat would have tasted like was actually for my food biology class when I was in college 😅

[@TheIntestineInspector]

The giga model you made looks like it could be in prehistoric planet.

[@TheNOBODY2810]

Hey Calico it’s been a while since I last saw your last video. It’s great to see you again I really enjoyed this video on the giganotosaurus. Keep up the good my man 👍

[@dinkleberg684]

Going back to the old days of Jurassic World evolution. Miss that goat video

[@robrice7246]

11:56 Were you gonna do another one of those "let's see what modern animal DNA was used to make this dinosaur" type of fun speculation?

[@NaturesCompendium]

Not for this one but maybe a future installment

[@nozmoscadinha]

I loved the video, please make one about Tylosaurus proriger!! :D

[@feferis]

This is really interesting and informative! For some reason I got really into dinosaurs like 2 months ago which compelled me to go watch Jurassic world dominion without seeing anything other than the first ever Jurassic Park, but this video was suggested and I really appreciated it!

[@NaturesCompendium]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rageflame9895]

Great video man

[@trollking6315]

You should make a video like this on the Spinosaurus from JP3. Just to showcase how inaccurate that movies portrayal of it is.

[@BigAl2-u7e]

To be fair, it was made in 2003. Pretty much everyone thought spinosaurus looked that way.

[@tronus961]

@@BigAl2-u7e 2001, not 2003

[@BigAl2-u7e]

@@tronus961 Shit, you right. But either way, my point still stands.

[@tronus961]

@@BigAl2-u7e I was just correcting what you said.

[@BigAl2-u7e]

@@tronus961 I know, I was just saying

[@Laskoeditzz]

Man I really wished they had a accurate giga in the movie especially with your design

[@MSA]

So glad you added Araucarias or monkey puzzle trees with the giganotosaur, as they are the native trees of Patagonia and they survived all the way to now

[@redraptorwrites6778]

Amazing video! Loved the animation and focus on the science.

[@dankmouse632]

I would've LOVED to have seen them use a giga based off of the Jurassic World Evolution model (or an even more accurate one) for the prolouge

[@awesomeproductions7755]

You gonna do this for some of the other new creatures like Therizinosaurus, Pyroraptor and Dimetrodon?

[@NaturesCompendium]

Check the end of the video at around 12:35 👀👀👀

[@awesomeproductions7755]

@@NaturesCompendium Btw, seeing as The Prologue was cut, do you think it should even be counted as canon?

[@banthecookie2651]

You absolutely need to do one of these for Jurassic World Evolution! Would love to see the comparison!

[@dimetrodon2250]

"Giganotosaurus will be the Joker of Jurassic World" somehow ends up making it behave like a regular animal instead of a movie monster like the Hybrids of the first two films.

[@morlartegaming5339]

Original giganotosaurus is a giga chad

[@AmecyThePlayer]

Great video! However I am still jealous due to the absolutely chad chin of real giganotosaurus.

[@turkeyman100]

Thanks a lot, now whenever I see a Giga reconstruction I have to check whether it has a chad chin or a weak sauce chin 🤣

[@3hermans]

Great quality vid!

[@ganeshramsivaraman9679]

#Giganotosaurus in Jurassic World Dominion was clearly meant to be a typical movie monster. While I really liked the design of it as a movie monster, it is truly a shame that it did not get the glorious chad chin, hahaha. But I am glad that these movies exist, so we can continue the discussion about these amazing animals in an informative and a friendly manner.

[@jacobsomebody9266]

My headcanon is that the Giganotosaurus in the movie is *actually* a descendant of either Giganotosaurus or some other Carcharodontosaur, perhaps Concavenator. This explains some of the morphological differences, the time period, and its location. It's also not unprecedented, as the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park are basically confirmed to have actually been Deinonychus. 🤔

[@friendlyneighborhoodkelbea7258]

I think it's an Acro descendant

[@laurachapple6795]

Something about the repetition of 'absolute chad chin' made me laugh so hard.

[@Nightout88]

something a lot of people don't take into account is the line from JP2/3 is "these things aren't dinosaurs they are theme park monsters" [i might be miss remembering the quote as i have a REALLY BAD MEMORY] they aren't supposed to look like actual dinos they are "theme park attractions" designed to draw in a crowd.

[@Nightout88]

i mean they have shrink wrapping and all.

[@Nightout88]

oh you actually brought it up and made a good point to boot i didn't even notice both the dinos were the same since i got distracted by my little brother.

[@lillipton8838]

Stop using the jp3 line out of context. Grant was suffering from ptsd because of the events of jp1 and thats why he saw the dinosaurs as monsters, but when he went to the island and saw dinosaurs roaming around, he actually saw them as animals again

[@matejajanic6932]

Except they said giga was gonna be accurate

[@BigBossMan538]

I appreciate your more nuanced take on Jurassic franchise accuracy. I do wonder, however, why the filmmakers hired paleontologists or paleo artists for the movies if they're gonna miss the mark so badly with dinosaur designs and, most importantly, behavior?

[@frivolousarguments8578]

Because Jurassic World is a monster movie, there's no need for 100% scientific accuracy.

[@pugasaurusrex8253]

@@frivolousarguments8578 Monster movies are to make money right? So why waste money on something you’re not even going to use

[@spinosaurusstriker]

​@@frivolousarguments8578 its not even a good monster movie.

[@matteomastrodomenico1231]

@@pugasaurusrex8253 They did use them, however. That's the whole reason the hands now are pronated. The main reason they wanted to make the giganotosaurus this way is that they felt a realistic design could have been easily mistaken for a t-rex.

[@spinosaurusstriker]

@@matteomastrodomenico1231 so they are basically wortless, lmao

[@Zazume_]

The spikes, osteoderms and the hump are so out of place. I get that they change the appearance of the dinosaurs a bit, to make them a look a bit more cooler, but those characteristics are so far away from reality, that it's completely unrecognizable for big Giganotosaurus fans like me.

[@Eggnog88]

Great video btw. These videos definitely help spread info.

[@jevariesbumatay8444]

This a Great explanation bro.

[@Gabiman66]

Jw giganotosaurus looks more like a wingless dragon than a dinosaur

[@alecmcgrathofcanada9175]

What I hate is, why bother calling it a Giganotosaurus if it lacks the very features that make a Giga a Giga? Like, if I made a movie about bloodthirsty African lions, I wouldn't give them 9" long saberteeth, remove the manes, and colour their fur black and green. That wouldn't be an African lion anymore. If you change something enough, it'll no longer be what you're calling it.

[@HYBRID_EXT]

They really just made a knockoff Indominus Rex and slapped Giganotosaurus’ name onto it 😭

[@umarminhas5209]

I love your videos and you sir!

[@dinomation]

Another great video with great designs!