Perucetus colossus | The Ultimate Prehistoric Chonk Whale!

[@NaturesCompendium]

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[@chillinqq3079]

bro giving away pehistoric kingdom when i just bought it a week ago :(

[@NaturesCompendium]

@@chillinqq3079 ooof a tragedy 😭

[@pyrotron22]

#Perucetus

[@PikachuIno]

​@@NaturesCompendium Thank you

[@PikachuIno]

​@@NaturesCompendium I like Basilosaurus

[@paleopal]

That T-REX poster was painfully accurate. I've seen everything from crocodylomorphs to pterosaurs to bony fish said to resemble T. rex in headlines...

[@AmericanAdvancement]

I can’t really fault the article writers for referring to T-Rex all of the time. When you really think about it, T-Rex is the general public’s most recognized point of reference for the scale of prehistoric life and for good reason. When pressed further, some may know about the ice age or about other creatures like dimetrodon, triceratops, stegosaurus, allosaurus, etc, but that’s about the full extent of the average person’s knowledge on the topic. Paleoenthusiasts have to recognize that prehistory in general is a niche topic that few people are interested in. Some IP’s like Jurassic Park and Ice Age have given prehistoric life more attention, but that’s usually the most exposure that the general public will receive about the topic.

[@Scarshadow666]

Shows why things like Prehistoric Planet and various paleontology KZbin channels, like this one, is really important (and that there should be more adult programs at museums to get people excited about paleontology, beyond the kid/family-friendly ones)! Now we just need algorithms to be able to get lesser-known paleontology facts out to the public, instead of showing too much stuff about T Rex over and over.

[@jochemjojo]

The fact that #Perucetus was only described so recently while it was such a huge animal just shows how hard it is to find fossils.

[@parth8548]

Hats off to the penguin standing on the whale.

[@bkjeong4302]

The idea of Perucetus being too slow to be an active predator and having to rely on scavenging ignores that all other slow-swimming basilosaurids were dedicated shallow-water ambush predators, often raptorial predators too.

[@evanlephrog7337]

Imagine being like, a shark or something, and thinking you're the most powerful creature in the ocean, and then getting bodied by a giant sea sausage.

[@Scarshadow666]

Yeah, makes me wonder if they could hunt similar to how some fresh-water dolphins do, or when orcas push themselves up on land (like if that's the only time they have a quick moment of energy)?

[@bkjeong4302]

@@Scarshadow666 Only one pod of orcas can beach themselves like that so probably not.

[@gattycroc8073]

I really hope more expeditions are made to the Paracas Formation in order to learn more about the environment Perucetus lived in.

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

*I LIKE EM BIG, I LIKE EM CHONKY.* Thank you so much for covering this prehistoric early cetacean. Happy early New Years. Hope you make more videos like this.

[@PaleoGeek]

#Perucetus here to give us a whale of a time. Dope work on this! Love the patterns and colours you chose for all the critters featured.

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

As I said before Perucetus is now easiest one of my favorite newly discovered prehistoric animals, and you've done a great job on this amazing animal and it's relatives. Hope you had a great 2023 and continue to soon have a great 2024 ❤😊

[@NaturesCompendium]

Thank you so much! Happy new years man 🎉

[@abdulazizrex]

I absolutely love the Dreadnoughtus pun!😄

[@dino_drawings]

I love how so many people criticize about them using sirenians, when it was using them that got to the lower estimates of 65 ton, and estimate using whales that got 300+ ton. The weight estimates where very rough, because they didn’t have much material, so they used expected skeleton weight, and what that would be proportional to the rest of the animal. Sirenians have a high skeletal to body weight, so the skeleton takes of up more of the total weight. Baleen whales have relatively light skeletons, so that’s what gives the higher weight estimates. Also: #Perucetus

[@bkjeong4302]

The issue is that other basilosaurids with dense sirenian-like bones didn’t have nearly as much bulk as the official Perucetus reconstruction assumed, which massively cuts down on its mass.

[@dino_drawings]

@@bkjeong4302 they also didn’t have quite as dense bones.

[@legogodzilla]

I kinda want an animated background of those eagle rays and sawfishes swimming in the shallows now.... Maybe toss in a few other critters so it doesn't get stale, it'd be pretty good.

[@NaturesCompendium]

I definitely want to make something like this when I get to spinosaurus! Would love an onchopristus scene in this style down the line

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

4:32 THE FULL SCALE OF "GET OFF ME BACK"

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

In fact, mosasaurs also evolved quite quickly after the extinction of ichthyosaurs. The "rapid" evolution of whales should not be so surprising.

[@AmericanAdvancement]

And yet icthyosaurs managed to do it faster with cymbospondylus growing to over 17 meters in length just 5 million years after the great dying

[@robinator789]

OH LAWD HE'S HERE, HE'S BIG, HE'S CHONKY!!! Seriously though you have been improving! I love your videos, they're so interesting and informative while also being fun to watch. Your art is awesome.

[@NaturesCompendium]

Thank you so much!!

[@robinator789]

@@NaturesCompendium you're welcome

[@PaleoSteno]

I wanna travel back to the eocene just to see what these early whales were like.

[@NextToToddliness]

Beautiful artwork and animation!

[@NaturesCompendium]

Thank you very much!

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Perucetus truly is the coolest whale discovered this year.

[@evanlephrog7337]

I've heard someone describe it as a "Giant Sea Sausage." They mentioned that it might have been the heaviest animal ever, and the sentence was something like, "That means the largest animal to ever exist might have been a giant sea sausage."

[@luryyn843]

Man i can't wait to watch the video when i get home! #Perucetus

[@tm43977]

A new cenozoic beast wanted into the spotlight

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

It ps so big, even if it's not at the biggest size, to always be in the spotlight hpno matter where it is

[@JaxanOBirdy]

You mean "Wandered?

[@dinomation]

I really love this giant whale!

[@jeanclaudejunior]

me too

[@shanicestella2226]

Really Gigantic Chonky Whale of Peru , Love this Giant Mammal

[@cemilhan725]

This video is pretty underrated. Fake and outdated Paleontology channels (A.K.A Top 5 channels) get more than they deserve, but keep what you are doing!

[@DawnRiseCheetah]

I like how you put the “animal” ambient at the end

[@awesomeproductions7755]

Seriously, marine animals can't come to Prehistoric Kingdom soon enough! I sure hope this *_MEGA_* thicc boi gets in when or if that happens, given all the buzz around its discovery! Heck, Tutcetus might even be worth considering , being so tiny for a prehistoric whale.

[@DemitriVladMaximov]

Now that is a whale of a tale. Bad jokes aside, great video as always.

[@PatataChip_Alt]

Majung now has competition from le whale #Perucetus

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

Absolute chonk level creature right there

[@takenname8053]

What an ABSOLUTE UNIT !

[@dennisgill4871]

Love it! #Perucetus

[@imdliamdragonlucha6827]

*OH LAWD HE COMIN'*

[@valentinfejes]

Icadyptes' sound reminds me a bit of the scream of the injured T. rex baby from JW2... Happy New Year in advance! Many thanks for all of your hard work!

[@skitsfossil16]

What a nice and informative video as always! Keep it up! #Perucetus

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

Damm this place is awsome, we gotta get nigel in here

[@NaturesCompendium]

Getting Nigel Marvin to narrate one of my videos would be a dream come true!

[@eybaza6018]

I love how #Perucetus was essentially a giant marine roomba whale,just sucking copious amounts of hard-shelled prey into it's mouth😅 It's your 1st video in a while,but it was sure worth the wait.The new animals look amazing,and I love the sound design,something I didn't really notice before in your videos,good job as always!

[@tybulsombut]

#Perucetus

[@bibia666]

Great video..., I liked... But the audio quality could use some improvement 😉. Greetings and thanks 👋🙏 bibia.

[@mistydragonfan1008]

Cool!

[@pedrovianadesouza2585]

#Perucetus Let's gooo the CHONK is here baby!!!

[@helenashellhouse]

YAAAAYYYYY

[@maozilla9149]

nice video

[@KinshipCadet]

#Perucetus: Absolute Unit

[@naturalworldexplored]

Really interesting video! #perucetus

[@1998topornik]

The mighty chongus!

[@LLCL2012]

I love that a lot of artists draw #Perucetus as chunky as possible. XD

[@theangryholmesian4556]

Oh lawd he swimmin'

[@ChrisMayfield-nh1nf]

I saw a bird from the Cretaceous period and it looks Cool And it's called Hesperornis regalis a bird with teeth

[@shelhawke7206]

That's a lot of speculation without a complete skeleton

[@macwelch8599]

Finally!

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

Though a lot of hype was build around this animal, it is an incredible achievement of evolution. I wonder what else lurks in the Eocene’s fossil record!

[@Dantae2612]

I think #Perucetus would look more like an baleen whale because of its HUGE size compared to other basilosaurs (i know its a strange guess)

[@triplestrikero6392]

#Perucetus this creature is new but is one of my favorite(don't kwon why)

[@KalugaOfficial]

I'd personally love to see a video on Ornimegalonyx

[@demetriouskenrixdelmundo218]

He should go in the whale chonk chart

[@Demeter2004]

I’ve got an idea for a video!

[@Elephant-Puppet]

What’s your idea

[@Demeter2004]

@@Elephant-Puppet Scientifically Accurate ICE AGE. If the 2002 animated film was much more accurate at representing the environment and the time it takes place in (if I’m not mistaken, it’s a North America 20 000 B.C.). Redesigning some animals and replacing some of them with those that did actually live there during that time.

[@Elephant-Puppet]

@@Demeter2004 That’s actually a good idea

[@TheHannahcast]

#Perucetus this thing is massive

[@parkerpshebnisky1051]

I love this whale! 🐋

[@mirandahelman9372]

Can you do a video on carcharodontosaurus please!

[@posticusmaximus1739]

I wonder what pre-pakicetus whale relatives looked like

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

Make a vídeo about Australopithecus

[@SandManOnTop]

Hey can u make a video about Sauropods I don’t really care about what sauropod u pick I just want to watch one of ur videos about my fav type of dinosaurs sauropods It can be about regular sauropods or Titanosaurs

[@NaturesCompendium]

Amargasaurus is coming out next year!

[@RaptorFH]

​@NaturesCompendium looking forward to it!

[@SandManOnTop]

@@NaturesCompendiumthanks bro

[@presidenttogekiss635]

Wait wait wait? So semi-aquatic land walking whales survived THAT long? I assumed they went extinct as soon as the main fully aquatic family developed. That is WILD

[@NaturesCompendium]

So Peregocetus is from the same formation but at least 4 million years older then Perucetus. However, it's one of the youngest members of Protocetid and is the first one known to live near the Pacific Ocean!

[@HungrySharkGamerthesharkojira]

Perucetus = sausage I N C R E A S E

[@Mich289]

So many biga animal like whales and others

[@pasmorgan7609]

Can't wait for the ark update

[@Onefilipinokid]

This video is really cool btw mobile

[@DreadEnder]

Me whenever a new documentary comes out: PLEASE STOP COMPARING EVERYTHING TO TYRANNOSAURUS!!!

[@AnkanBob]

penguin beak evolution

[@DrBidoofenshmirtz]

#Perucetus It’s honestly really cool that we finally found an animal that even kind of matches the scale of the Blue Whale. I’ve always wondered why something that large only came about relatively recently

[@MrEmilable]

i wonder if an Eocene Version of an Orca(not talking about basilosaurus it´s kinda Sticking to the shallows right?) will be found sooner or later now we did find an animal as big as Perucetus colossus. Like im talking about a Super Predator whale that is capable of three-dimensional swimming during the Eocene Epoch here, like imagine a Dorudon acting like a killer whale or livyatan melvillei.

[@AmericanAdvancement]

Maybe, but I think that role was filled by the ancestors of Megalodon and other giant prehistoric sharks. There’s a good reason why the basilosaurids stuck to the shallows and that’s because of the megatoothed sharks.

[@mlgodzilla4206]

Big Chungus Whale

[@2ndJB]

The most interesting discovery of 2023 #Perucetus

[@MrFossil367ab45gfyth]

Some illustrations of this animal make it look like a chonky sausage with a small head and fins.

[@ashleymesser6792]

#Perucetus.

[@turtlecroc]

#peucetus

[@billyr2904]

In my opinion, Perucetus colossus has a name as cool as Tyrannosaurus rex. Like T. rex, it has a cool meaning, 'colossal whale from Peru'. Pretty self-explanatory, but still a cool name. I imagine that most people in the foreseeable future, will refer to it by its full binomial name, like Tyrannosaurus, and not just being called Perucetus.

[@Ledinosour673]

GIGACHONK

[@spicyboi8535]

#perucetus

[@TheMegAxolatl4836]

Update: My boy Perucetus lost some weight

[@sansundertale4943]

* whale whale whale, this is a very whale done video. * I had a whale of time watching this video about #Perucetus.

[@valentinfejes]

also, #Perucetus 🐋

[@unleashthekraken7548]

Great video I haven't heard of any of these animals before, ocucajea has me wanting to see more information about. #Perucetus

[@user-ks8fq6jp1c]

next can you put How Scientifically Accurate is Jurassic World's SPINOSAURUS?

[@NaturesCompendium]

Im making that video for the end of 2024!

[@user-ks8fq6jp1c]

@@NaturesCompendium what?!?!😱😵

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

Unfortunately, most of these Eocene whales still had to beware of the large mega tooth sharks, which includes the ancestors of Megaldons. But at least they still thrived for a long time.

[@Saurus619]

#Perucetus is Big

[@CoolersAndUttpSmokers]

Aight bet

[@Society.263]

Bro it’s Caseoh

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

Lowrd chonkerton

[@Redonns_mCstudios]

Pericetus looks like a mosasaurus

[@CosmicCaribbean]

Perucetus is to mammals like how Argentinosaurus is to reptiles, you the biggest thing on Earth by damnit can’t we get your entire body to stay in one place in time 😭😂

[@porquenao7822]

#Perucetus big whale goo

[@tafhimulhossain]

Big Chungus

[@DreadEnder]

#PERUCETUS is big boned

[@Ons_TV]

Ok be honest how many times did u have to try to pronounce the name at 4:40😂

[@NaturesCompendium]

Maybe like 12 times 😅

[@AifDaimon]

BOLSTER WHALE

[@deinocheirusgaming6920]

#Perucetus was a beautiful scientific failure. I remember laughing at the 340 ton estimates and reconstructions like my depressed ass hasn't for years. Like how tf is it even feeding itself?!

[@jukeman9291]

I thought Perucetus was a giant seal

[@LegeFles]

#Perucetus hope to see extinct marine mammals in PK some day.

[@notoriousbigmoai1125]

Do you know why female Baleen whales evolved to be larger than males while male toothed whales evolved to be larger than females?

[@jamesmedalla7043]

What?