Prehistoric Australia Was Pure Nightmare Fuel

You’ve probably heard that the country down under, Aka Australia, is the land of nope. Well, its kind of true, as Australia does have way more lethal animals that the average country does, but in true Australian fashion, it turns out that in the past it was 100x worse.
0:00 Australia's Wildlife is Unhinged
1:01 Prehistoric Australia Was So Much Worse
1:43 Land Crocs That Could Outrun You
3:53 'Komodo Dragons' The Size Of Rhinos
6:33 Giant Man Eating Snakes
8:31 A Killer Koala/Lion Hybrid With Knife-like Teeth
11:05 The Elephant Sized Wombat
12:11 Ostriches On Steroids
13:09 And Prehistoric Australia Keeps Getting Worse...
9:00 What Happened To The Humans That Met These Megabeasts?
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[@ExtinctZoo]

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[@vyron-topic9592]

yez

[@poppyclose38]

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[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thanks y'all..... Old F-4 Shoe🇺🇸

[@brohannmgcee]

your first sentence of the vid, is the exact thing I tell people when I explain to them why I will never ever be found on the aus continent.

[@carminemacellaro3165]

​@@vyron-topic9592😮⁶

[@blazingtrs6348]

gotta give it to the ancient australian aboriginals for picking a nightmare difficulty server and making it their home.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

I don't think any of these animals would attack a group of a dozen or so adult men with spears

[@RCSVirginia]

@@joshuaortiz2031 And that same group of humans could coordinate an attack that could kill a large animal that might not have even recognized humans as predators.

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@RCSVirginia no the aboriginal hunting strategies would suck against larger animals. Their whole strategy is just hitting something really hard after chasing it. There’s a certain point where an animal gets so large that this strategy doesn’t work anymore Edit: mammoths went extinct because humans chased them off cliffs and dropping rocks on top of them. Aboriginals neither did this nor hunted mammoths. Also the indigenous population of Australia only used arrows and spears for fishing. Also also, no I’m not saying they used the boomerang. One of their most used weapons was a basic club, simple and effective. Why do you think the native population is so good at tracking and has a whole language focused around it? Because it was useful at chasing targets to smack with a club.

[@steventheo6077]

​@@zzodysseuszz tell that to mammoths who went extinct solely because of humans

[@bennettfender9927]

@@steventheo6077Nope Mammoths we’re likely wiped out by climate change and there is a lot of debate over how often humans would’ve even hunted mammoths and the success rate of these hunts was likely not as good as people think keep in mind modern elephants are tough to kill with guns much less freaking spears not saying we never hunted mammoths but I wager it wasn’t as common as some people think.

[@Foogi9000]

Bro the humans who arrived there 50k years ago were genuinely built different to even exist in that environment.

[@threethrushes]

@ChaOzTheory We are the survivors of an innumerable number of generations of humans who survived. Sometimes it blows my mind.

[@Recipe_For_Disaster_TV]

We’re built the same, you just have to get out there and do it

[@MegaMrsuperawesome]

​@ChaOzTheorybest guess is 48-50 thousand years ago. People only reached India 65k years ago.

[@straypaper]

​@ChaOzTheorydon't even think about claiming the achievements of your great great great great great grandpa. You're probably half their size and can't accomplish half what they did. You're just a softened offspring that was a byproduct of your ancestors making their home more comfortable.

[@jean-lucpicard581]

@ChaOzTheory Yeah and we the descendants of the middle European region also are still living here - yet our ancestors were absolutely build differently lol. "Bro"...

[@oscarread5205]

The indigenous people of Australia were incredible to survive amongst these monsters. It is believed that the fastest human existed during this time. A bare footprint left mid-stride in mud was recorded in Australia (20,000 years ago), and was calculated to be running at 37km/h just shy of Usain Bolt’s top speed. Not only were they bare foot running in wet mud, but from the way the footprint was set, it is likely they were still accelerating, yet to hit top speed.

[@major2707]

Runner 😎

[@kumaranvij]

Source? I highly doubt all that can be calculated through an ancient mud footprint.

[@yanicemtl]

​@@kumaranvij I dont have the source of it but yes you can. 1 - Based on the size of their foot, you can estimate their height. Compare it to the foot size of other complete specimens from that era to know what their proportions looked like and you will then scale the found footprint to estimate the height of the running specimen. 2 - You then scale down a current human skeleton running to the size of the found specimen to estimate what the distance between 2 steps would be at a given speed with maximum range of motion. 3 - By calculating the distance between the footprints, knowing the size of the squeleton and it's range of motion, you can estimate the speed it was running at. The depth of the footprint can also help to determine the speed because if you know the weight of the specimen (which is not too hard to find or estimate) + the area of their footprint + the density of the mud, you can find what force was needed to create a footprint that deep with that given surface and weight, which could confirm the speed that human was running at. And for the acceleration part of it, it's quite simple, you just have to measure if the distance between the footprints, if it keeps increasing, you'll know that it was clearly accelerating. Hope that helps a bit!

[@kumaranvij]

@@yanicemtl Did they have two or one footprints? Your idea only works if they have two, when you only wrote "footprint." You can't "estimate" that. And you can't know if the distances "keeps increasing." For that matter, there are short people with big feet and tall people with small feet! Sorry, you're a good talker, but I don't think your arguments hold water. You can't just estimate everything based on one footprint, that makes no sense. I really doubt if an ancient short guy running in mud could be as fast as Usain Bolt.

[@cooledtie2460]

@@kumaranvij you could use google find your source that you probably wont even read but I'm more concerned about your disbelief that there werent extreme versions of every animal to exist.

[@EdOfSchmed]

This is what I love about humans- we sailed into oceans with no shores visible and found land full of the most dangerous creatures still alive, but we didn't run away; we stayed, we survived, we thrived, and with nothing but stones and sticks we wiped them out.

[@TanmaySaha1]

Well there are nuances, but mostly yeah

[@_TheDarkHalf]

That’s nuts to think about. Great comment.

[@supercrazy03]

Wouldn’t happen today tho! Today’s human are much weaker and dumber than what we used to be when we Actually needed to be smart. The fact that humans are the top of the food chain and are basically untouchable now means that we no longer have that survival instinct that prehistoric humans had.

[@darealkry]

i dont wanna be that guy, but back then the shores of Australia where visible from a lot of places and Australia was connected to Papua new guinea. 🤓

[@eewweeppkk]

I'd say that's a pretty good argument to NOT love humans - going from continent to continent wiping out the megafauna willy nilly.

[@lolzorkid]

So basically if we had tamed it, we could have called it the 'combat wombat'.

[@FleshWizard69420]

*MORTAL WOMBAT!!!*

[@doragonsureia7288]

@@FleshWizard69420 both are hilarious

[@Ze_Moose]

"Let's go toe to toe on bird law" - Charlie

[@mechwarrior13]

Dundundun Dundun Dundundun Dundun MORTAL WOMBAT!

[@eclectic.explorations]

Invasive feral cats in Australia are increasing in size to the point where they are being mistook for panthers. I think some of them are evolving into Australia's new superpredator.

[@me-ree5185]

Bro im convinced that australia is just one huge endgame dlc expansion. All we're missing is the lore

[@Alan_GA]

😂😂😂

[@YourLocalPlushAddict]

And that's a theory.....A Game thoery!

[@yomama3926]

Map expansion

[@RollandMcGriggs]

Look up aboriginal Australian dream time stuff, that's all the lore you need.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

😄🤣😅😆😂👍

[@rezaganjizadeh4263]

Most civillizations: "I farm." Aussies: "monster hunter."

[@orionbeattie5197]

😂

[@BeatEngine-qr7if]

Japan: Pokemon/Digimon America: Monster Rancher Australia: Monster Hunter

[@FISHYY_MTB]

As an Australian, it’s hilarious to tell tourists to watch out for “venomous kangaroos.” It cracks me up when we walk past a kangaroo and they ask if that’s the dangerous one we need to look out for 😂

[@breathnt_]

Then they don’t believe you when you say that magpies are the real ones we have to keep a lookout for

[@FISHYY_MTB]

@@breathnt_man they should… those magpies are so dangerous…. Their teeth are lethal…

[@cockee4889]

@@FISHYY_MTBhahah

[@pinkdragon4830]

@@FISHYY_MTBfym teeth???

[@FISHYY_MTB]

@@pinkdragon4830yeah mate… watch out… be safe out there

[@RodneyMunch8767]

Ha Ha - That photo of the kid holding the Bunya pine cone against his head at 0:52 seconds is my son Oscar. It was taken in 2012 after we walked in the Cumberland State Forest, Sydney, NSW. One of the trails was closed because these massive pine cones could potentially fall out of the trees and kill someone, but we picked up one of the fallen pine cones, and I took this photo when we got home. Someone suggested I upload it to the Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) Wiki page, so I did. I'm thrilled that ExtincZoo used the photo; it brought back happy memories.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Perhaps KZbin's algorithm has identified you as the uploader of the photograph and because of this offered you a thumbnail of the video to click at.

[@Hawk7886]

​@@HansDunkelberg1nah, turns out the sort of dude who watches extinctzoo overlaps with someone who would post photos of pine cones on Wikipedia

[@yourmom8845]

no way what are the odds of that

[@sanaypradhan4352]

Wow, what a coincidence! 😄

[@110Ironfist]

thats actually pretty cool.

[@joshuapatrick682]

Humans: maybe we're the Monsters?!? Australia: nah bruh...

[@a_crow_carcass]

the rest of the world: holy shit that spider is h- aussies: nah.. thats steve.

[@Ispeakthetruthify]

And the "monsters" in Australia were wiped out by humans with relative ease. Humans: The most terrible "monsters" the planet has EVER seen.

[@phlvn100]

Who fo you think killed all those monsters?

[@Yungpshoota]

@@a_crow_carcassshut the hell up

[@KremWorld]

We'd say "Yeah, nah" 🤣

[@kaynesworld4900]

Very informative video thanks for the knowledge 🙏

[@backup-en4pg]

Get this thumbnail out my face

[@davidliddelow5704]

If you needed more nightmare fuel; there were also carnivorous kangaroos.

[@hunterwillems3135]

for some eye-bleach, we have tree-kangaroos

[@colew.5744]

Deer and horses have also been known to eat meat occasionally.

[@tiddybearkush]

The Christmas woodland critters are originally from Australia

[@KayIveysspecialmessage]

Dear GAWD!

[@aazatargaryan7146]

I got my skull fractured and my belly ripped to shreds by a normal kanga would hate it if they ate me

[@oilybat3269]

They should make an ancient Australian survival game

[@dhruvshukla2389]

That would be awesome!

[@EotechGreen]

Elden Ring ?

[@meteorarcade165]

@@EotechGreen bro ancient Australia was harder to survive than any souls type game bro, like the bosses are crazy.

[@capolean2902]

conan exiles? 😂

[@ahira4369]

Ark

[@garrgravarr]

I'm proud of our indigenous people here in Oz. They were and are true survivors, and it's disappointing to see so many ignorant and incorrect comments here on a channel for lovers of scientific prehistory...

[@abhirajteotia5794]

Well ,those indigenous people killed by your forefathers(Britishers ).

[@lisalibunny1012]

Couldn't agree more. What's wrong with people...

[@shasmi93]

You gotta ignore the negative people in the world mate. There will ALWAYS be people that say or bring things down. Their childhood trauma, way they were raised, life experiences, brain chemical imbalances, there are many reasons people may be suffering internally and that suffering makes them do and say things that aren’t good. That is their struggle and journey. You just have to ignore it and wish them the best to grow and find their way to the light.

[@garrgravarr]

@@shasmi93 Thank you

[@freeedom22]

LOOOOL that thumbnail! Well played

[@toby8149]

What’s even more ironic is that Australia’s direct neighbour New Zealand has pretty much no dangerous wildlife at all with a lot of there birds evolving without wings because there were no predators on the ground to eat them up

[@haydanoc8779]

New Zealand's initial inhabitants landed on Australian shores, saw what the hell was going on here and then they all just put their paddles in the water at the shoreline and paddled so hard and fast in their fear that part of the land cracked off and floated away creating their islands and country. Of course all that commotion scared all of the big scary animals away from them and so the new country remained safe! True legends they were. 😂😂😂🤣

[@FC-eh7ll]

They all went to Australia 😂

[@noobsaibot7006]

Haast Eagles were known prey on humans. Maori Legends talked about this.

[@daltonv5206]

That's the starter/spawn area on the server

[@fire_titan5735]

As an Australian I think you people are crazy. I'd rather deal with poisonous snakes and spiders that we rarely ever see compared to USA bears and mountain lions.. we have nothing on land that will chase us and eat us

[@pythoncasey]

As an Australian I always wondered why Mexico, Brazil, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia don't get the sensational "everything will kill you" hype Australia does. All of them have deadly snakes and deadly crocodiles, if they have oceans they all have sharks, jellyfish, and stingrays, and yet Australia is the only one of those countries that doesn't have any bears or big cats... So what does Australia have that makes us stand out from those countries? My theory: Abundance of British people comparing Australia to Europe instead of Indonesia, it's the only one considered "First World/Developed" so we are a lot more dramatic about having relatively normal tropical wildlife

[@HansDunkelberg1]

That's an interesting observation. Do you think that Australias' dangerous animals are mostly in the continent's north?

[@GamesXanimeX3]

Well, in my case, it's cuz all the deadly creatures here in Brazil are either on the countryside(you can only see them IF you want to risk your life where the forest is deep tho), a closed off island which you need explicit permission from our military forces to enter. Or in the northern (where the amazon forest is) and northeastern states(where there are sharks whom are capable of invading rivers through the sea), which are obviously far away as most of our population lives on the southern/southwest regions. Though, when storms occur then go away animals from different states can appear, which ends up on the news, and in some states people can eat our jacarés(not crocodiles or aligators) and wildboars to cull some of their populations and farmers are allowed to defend their livestock from predators.

[@harshsharma03]

I'm Indian and a lot of our folk tales have mentions of weird creatures and a lot of stories about crazy creatures passed down too. Even when the brits colonized us, they met with a lot of predators, including man eating tigers and other big cats (most of which they hunted to extinction for game), down south India and in the eastern parts of India, wildlife can get even more extreme but I think there is a great difference in culture. Partly because of the majorly hindu religion which has a lot of gods based on nature and animal, people learnt to respect them and tried to coexist. If you want to see something crazy, just google lion and leopard sightings in india lol, a lot of them just show up in cities too even at times XD. Personally I'm no expert but I think the australian landscape and wildlife is crazier because it was probably left untouched for longer and evolved freak animals against the freak climate. India may have it all, coldest mountains, wettest forests but they're all limited to smaller regions and local fauna don't have to compete as much. Say an animal evolved for cold won't ever get to compete with an animal evolved for forest life.

[@manhphanhoang9555]

@@GamesXanimeX3 I'm Vietnamese and its the same here. Not to consider urbanization kind of robbed a lot of those species places to live so they die out. Nowadays unless you go deep into the jungle then you probably rarely encounter snakes or tigers or any extreme dangerous animals. We also have sharks but our sharks are the small kind and they really don't want to fuck with sth bigger than them

[@GamesXanimeX3]

@@manhphanhoang9555 Oh yeah, I also remember that on the video: Five extremely rare animals caught on camera by All.About.Nature, people are really searching for the localization of you guys' Saola(saht-supahp), poor thing it really doesn't want to be found.

[@hamsandwich1860]

Great video man.

[@BrandonSmith-qx8jx]

Thanks

[@GalvyTheTom]

Yikes this video got big fast. You struck gold with this champ

[@mateorios1636]

Prehistoric Australia: Ark Modern Australia: Pokemon

[@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511]

Australia future: Digimon

[@Datscrazi231]

@@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511palworld:

[@zian01000]

Australia when red giant sun: 2b2t

[@tameematiqul3290]

I also play ark 🎉

[@Datscrazi231]

Future australia: palworld

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

It’s insane the dynamic nature of humans, where one alone is quite rather weak and hopeless, but when in a group, we are absolutely deadly and literally unstoppable. Nothing stands a chance against humanity, despite our inherent resounding weaknesses

[@argh100100]

It's not group behaviour that sets us apart though. It's brainpower + hands. It only takes a few humans to take down a large predator if they can plan ahead.

[@pearlspacejam8639]

And with the way things are going nowadays, not even humanity stands a chance against humanity

[@tennesseewilliams101]

Crazy how opposable thumbs and sapience can trump serrated teeth and giant man eating reptiles

[@TouchMeIfYouCan007]

Cope harder Human sucks

[@kraken6183]

​@@TouchMeIfYouCan007We're the apex predators of the world, we've survived in every environment and conquered it

[@BobBob-tr7wi]

Congrats on 5 mil!

[@Xenya90]

I’ve lived in Australia my entire life and only saw a snake once, 2000 kms away from my home

[@dnyulr7457]

Living in Vic ive only ever seen one, 25 years ago and it was dead

[@alexstone9099]

What about insects and spiders?

[@Cherixo_]

I was about to comment something similar lived here my whole life never had a dangerous encounter most I’ve seen is a red back spider or funnel web and as long as you’re educated you’ll be fine

[@shawz7291]

Jesus do you guys go outside

[@tigervalley62]

May I ask? Have you ever gone hiking?

[@tonimarx6405]

I live in Perth, Australia and back in 2016 i was training for a half marathon. I used to run alongside Swan River on a long track that went in and out of bushland. One day i was running along and realised i really needed to pee. So i ducked into the bush to relieve myself. All of a sudden, as i was stood there, a gigantic Eastern Brown Snake lunged directly at my crotch and missed it by about an inch. I was so startled that i fell back and pissed all over myself. I managed to jump back onto my feet and momentarily gawped at the huge snake that was still in front of me. It must have been at least 2 metres long and i was astounded at how thick and powerful it was. It quickly began coiling up into a striking position again so i bolted out of there as fast as i could. I have never seen such a powerful looking wild reptile up close. It's head looked absolutely prehistoric and unbelievably pissed off. Sometimes i get a shudder down my spine thinking about how close i came to getting tagged on my pecker by a deadly Brown Snake and how dreadful my death would have been if it had actually got me.

[@user-vr8fs8gg6h]

Thats terrifying i wouldve packed my bags the same day and gotten out of Australia

[@_letstartariot]

There is antivenon. Brown snake and tiger snake bites are common in Australia, especially in the eastern states.

[@yggdrasil4986]

This was just added to my list as reason 589 of “Why I’d rather visit New Zealand if I ever travel to Oceania”

[@Vihloah]

I think this is “Darwinism” or whatever they call it

[@SiriProject]

@@_letstartariot Antivenom or not, you don't want that thing biting off your crotch lmao

[@orion789]

I would propose that present Australia is still a nightmare.

[@SpinosaurusEnjoyer]

As an Aussie myself, ya sure are right mate,

[@frogbee9162]

Do you have an Aussie gyatt?​@@SpinosaurusEnjoyer

[@SpinosaurusEnjoyer]

@@frogbee9162 TF

[@hankskorpio5857]

I mean.. this scene depicted in the thumbnail still happens so... ya kinda hard to disagree with you 😟

[@nckojita]

and despite popular belief it’s not for the reason you’d think - the biggest nightmare in australia is the amount of fucking flies that incessantly go for your face

[@connornimrod1972]

Man, this is intense! Heavy metal! 🤘 This is gonna keep me up at night. 😂

[@Wierdman69]

Nothing is scarier than seeing a giant lizard walking in its two feet run towards you 😢

[@albatross4920]

I have a bit of a hypothesis that the reason why Australia has so many venomous snakes, jumbo spiders, and mad cassowarys etc. is because those animals had to live alongside the psycho Pleistocene critters. They had to be tough and over-the-top crazy, otherwise they'd get flattened by land crocs and killer marsupials.

[@thhseeking]

The "jumbo spiders" aren't the deadliest ones, though. Redbacks and Funnel Webs aren't that big :P One of the worst jellyfish, the Irakanji, is minuscule.

[@BugsandBiology]

Australian spiders aren’t that “jumbo”. Plenty overseas completely dwarf them.

[@Foogi9000]

iirc the Goliath bird eater Tarantula is considered one of if not the biggest spider to exist currently.

[@stopbullshitin]

So is the high concentration of venomous snakes because of psycho pleistocene critters or land Crocs and killer marsupials?? 😂

[@pihermoso11]

The ability to fight other animals and incorporate venom might depend on how big the land mass is, Australia is huge, it has been known that on smaller tropical islands, large venomous snakes living there become smaller and lose their venom when they have no prey, that's what evolution does over time, if competition is always there, it doesn't make sense for them to lose their venom

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

If Australia right now is hard mode, then Australia just a few million years ago must've been hell mode.

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

It peaked around 50K years ago like the video said

[@lahoku]

@@ThomasTheThermonuclearBombjust because the video said so doesn’t mean it is

[@reecejoyce5183]

​@@ThomasTheThermonuclearBombprobably peaked around the dinos I'd imagine

[@RachelJayne92]

Australia is a beautiful country. You don’t know what you’re missing! 🥹🇦🇺

[@themasonexperience6844]

@@RachelJayne92don’t tell them we are full

[@Aeiroq]

Great knowledge based channel. Subbed 🎉

[@King-Fishing-Navsar-masi]

What kind of animal species are these, but it's a beautiful presentation, well done!

[@user-rn6si1ge7y]

Those prehistoric humans were playing ark in real life 💀

[@MrByars]

On a primitive plus server

[@KalEl7802]

Meanwhile Baby boomers like to brag about how tough they are.

[@thefinestgames]

Cringe

[@tmsplltrs]

@@MrByars and taming turned off

[@__meilleur]

“Humans arrived” God made us to thrive, we were always going to thrive.

[@CropDuster-kz6uq]

So basically some dinosaurs survived in Australia until 50k years ago. Amazing.

[@adamcallaway3762]

Some say that still do like crocs and cassowary

[@xxillicitxx]

Mega fauna was crazy

[@BitMan1010]

@@adamcallaway3762 crocs and birds are literally dinosaurs

[@carlod5818]

*12000

[@scorpixel1866]

​​@@BitMan1010Crocodiles are an entirely different branch of reptilians dating back to the Triassic, and saying birds are dinosaurs is like saying humans are mammalian-reptiles. Avians originate from a very small subset of theropods, and evolution means that they share little with those Jurassic ancestors, even back during the end of mesozoic.

[@ilyasharin1976]

"Prehistoric Australia Was Pure Nightmare Fuel" I don't think modern Australia got that much of an update.

[@emantsrifemantsal2834]

Love how you mentioned both units

[@GeorgeRamsey22]

I honestly would find it funny if he used anything but the metric system. Maybe just for one video lol.

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

A Croc that could run perfectly on land sounds terrifying.

[@snekhuman]

they already can. lots of crocs have to ability to out run humans. although their turn speed is pretty bad, so if you have to run from a crocodile, go in a zigzag.

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

@snekhuman Not perfectly, in a straight line they can. But they can't turn on a penny like a cat or dog. So no, they can't move perfectly on land.

[@snekhuman]

@@bio-plasmictoad5311 my bad, i didn’t read your comment correctly. i thought you said ‘fast’ not ‘perfect’

[@Burn_Angel]

@@snekhuman You know, that's interesting. Going in a zigzag is a common fleeing strategy, but I didn't expect it would be particularly effective against crocs. It makes sense why they called crocs (the shoes) that way. Unless you out them on in 'fast mode', you can't runefectively with them on either, haha.

[@narendramartosudarmo6112]

Spinosaurids: We concur.

[@taran5747]

bro imagine being a prihistoric human - you arrive in Australia after months of rafting - you take a deep breath, touch the land and stretch - sees a lizard as big as a school bus 😂😭😭💀💀

[@joshuamuriki576]

That Soo fucked up

[@BoysinBlue-zn5db]

Nothing is more dangerous than an angry man.

[@schnek8927]

@@BoysinBlue-zn5dbIn the long run, sure. When we have time to use our intellect and creativity. In the moment, against an animal ten times your size which is trying to murder you, not so much. Humans are amazing though, so there’s a slight chance.

[@h0ly208]

In a race against a spikey lizard just as big to see who can eat you first.

[@wetalkinb0utpractice]

One of the funniest comments I've read in a while

[@TungB]

Very entertaining. The Diprotodon is adorable. This whole environment seems like a surprisingly untapped backdrop for a superhero cartoon series or video game.

[@mariekandi6914]

I love this channel

[@zerefkunal9368]

Now we need a survival game in Prehistoric Australia.

[@Lumberjack.guy5973]

😂would be a good game

[@Ayogenius67]

contact MR BEAST for this

[@disguy6168]

Ark.

[@danielfennessy46]

Naw, try surviving the upcoming tribulations mentioned in the Bible! Good luck with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Humanity has 20 years tops.

[@idehenebenezer802]

Jesus is returning soon🔥 Repent and turn away from your sins to obtain salvation,,

[@BettyBo-zg1ok]

Having two monitors fighting over a human prey item is the perfect thumbnail for a video on even present day Australia with how Komodo dragons will kill and eat humans and even dig up our graves to eat our corpses. Great video too.

[@44krishnan79]

One is a Quinkanna

[@zzodysseuszz]

Uh Komodo dragons aren’t in Australia and can only POTENTIALLY kill humans, I’m still not certain if any human has actually been killed before

[@rubberduck306]

Komodo dragons aren't native to Australia but the Indonesia islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang.

[@rubberduck306]

​@zzodysseuszz attacks are rare but there have fatalities both in the wild and captivity

[@concon9107]

​@@rubberduck306 Actually interestingly enough during the time period in the video komodo dragons were in Australia and were like the black bear to megalanias grizzly bear.

[@Jaredcracksrocks]

I LOVE THIS THUMBNAIL SO BEAUTIFUL 😃😃😃😃

[@justanormaldilo.249]

Love the Monster Trucks at the beginning.

[@jodofe4879]

The most terrifying predator in prehistoric Australia definitely were the humans. The nightmarish efficiency with which homo sapiens drove all these competing predator species to complete extinction is truly horrible. Big size, sharp teeth and venom are no match for big brains, advanced pack hunting tactics and spears. The same thing happened in the Americas and Eurasia as well. Megafauna everywhere just goes extinct the moment the first humans show up. The only exception is Africa because the megafauna there evolved alongside humans and found habitats and niches where they don't directly compete with humans. But even a lot of the African megafauna is threatened nowadays by human expansion and encroachement.

[@MrLeedebt]

Indeed, when humans arrived everywhere on Earth it was extinction time for the Megafauna. It's interesting about African megafauna.

[@fikretdemir4818]

Or humans of Subsaharan Africa were bad at hunting

[@armyofninjas9055]

Threatened? Dude. We're in a mass-extinction event right now. All megafauna are dying. All. Humans suck.

[@ViriatoII]

@@fikretdemir4818 Hehehe, yes. But the many diseases also controlled their population. Now we opened the pandora box by giving them food and medications.

[@joseph8298]

We need megafauna to replant and rebreed seeding across the States so biochemical scientists can engineer an algae that keeps up, or a land plant that keeps up with climate change. We’re all gonna die because of changing global temperatures otherwise.

[@OsirisRyan]

Im an Aussie, and its amazing how the indigenous people are so bloody friendly and hospitable when historically this is the hell they were dealing with. Edit: be warned, there are a TON of racists in the replies.

[@mrpancakes1984]

Gotta be friendly between humans to tackle down the bigger problems

[@valthenvega2434]

Given those conditions, I’d honestly imagine indigenous Aussies would’ve been like the people from Sentinel Island, but maybe they probably descended from some of the most chill caveman explorers so many millennia ago

[@xiiza6268]

We talking about the same indigenous?

[@grantts7]

Sarcasm?

[@akaroth7542]

They fought between themselves just like all humans do, did, and will.

[@King-O-Hell]

That video thumbnail pic is on the tourism brochures for Australia

[@matiasgaray470]

Incredible video! And it got so many views, wow.

[@Joshua-fq9tm]

Post K-Pg in the rest of the world: Time for Mammals Post K-Pg in Australia: Reptile nostalgia

[@austin-ug4ts]

South America too, it also had non-mammalian apex predators like Terror Birds and Land crocodiles with the largest one called Barinasuchus

[@Giovanni-le4fv]

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[@cheeks7050]

Aboriginals arriving in Australia created an extinction event, especially of large fauna. The Australia that Europeans discovered was already highly denuded, and the Europeans proceeded to denude it even further through hunting and introduction of foreign species.

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

Humans will exploit the environment to the best that their technology allows. It's what we do.

[@RCSVirginia]

To @cheeks7050 Yes, the worst extinction events in new lands, not just in Australia, but in the Americas, Madagascar, Hawaii and the Polynesian islands, came when the first non-European colonizers arrived.

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

Humans will exploit their environment to the best that their technology allows. It's what we do as a species.

[@user-ms9go9ko5y]

Must be why nature put us here.

[@0Anubi0]

@@user-ms9go9ko5y To ruin itself? Sounds like a dumb argument.

[@Kzxo]

Why does this pop up on my feed when I planned to travel to Australia in August lol. I’m still excited, Australia looks beautiful

[@toooes]

Well good news for you- they offer last will and testament services and notaries on flights there

[@timewarpblackhole]

i’m australian and i can confirm it’s not too scary here, i actually live in one of the safest countries on earth and i’ve never been scared of any wildlife lol

[@kingdorm2001]

Australia: "We got the biggest, heaviest, deadliest and most brutal killing machines to ever roam the earth. Most of us could literally take down a damn dinosaur." Humans: *"Does that lower rent?"*

[@ambrosemorningstar]

as an aussie absolutely not the house prices are ridiculous here 😭

[@chrisquintrell7116]

😂😂😂.... $700 a week for a One bedroom studio apartment where i come.. fuckin dog cunts.. 😭 I'd rather the Dino fuckin saurs

[@Keith_online]

I really love indigenous australian history and just to add some additional information: the first nations people (indigenous australians) practiced something called 'firestick farming' in which was a method of ecosystem management they used to keep the land suitable for themselves as the dry and often shrubby landscape of most of australia is very susceptible to natural wildfires. firestick farming was basically the practice of creating controlled fires on a schedule to get rid of the excess plant life like grass or shrub that - if left unchecked - would increase the likeliness and detrimental affect of a wildfire.

[@zoolboy8398]

this should be mandatory kzbin.info/www/bejne/ml6cmaB7nq1raJo

[@haleypirio921]

They still drove all the megafauna extinct

[@snuffcarl]

A technique still used today, at least in sweden

[@jenconvertibles]

@@snuffcarlused very widely in aus to this day mate,

[@adrija9340]

Interesting. There’s a similar practice among some tribes in India, called jhum cultivation.

[@glennritz1453]

You had me at, ‘giant crocociles’

[@carlterver5217]

This opening alone is enough has done thr work of completing the scare in our minds.

[@mustiz1898]

Damn I just realised the drop-bear myth might've came from the Thylacoleo. It does check out: large claws, could possibly climb trees, a nasty bite and existed 50k years ago when the first Australians came into being.

[@jontycampbell5213]

yeah a type of drop bear was proved to exist

[@lukas4228]

In ark(a video game) the thylacoleo sits on trees waiting for something it can jump on and attack so i think its pretty much confirmed that he is the drop bear

[@Nikkska]

Drop bears still exist mate, they just prefer the flesh of tourists because they have a different smell…

[@1379andre]

Australia is So big there might be some out there still!

[@idehenebenezer802]

Jesus is returning soon🔥 Repent and turn away from your sins to obtain salvation,,

[@Bananasplitsssz]

Anyone who hasn’t been to Australia, remember, If your in the dessert, your biggest worry is snakes and spiders If your in the tropical rainforests, your biggest worry is snakes, spiders and the birds If your in the city’s, your biggest worry is the eshays (and magpies)

[@idehenebenezer802]

Jesus is returning soon🔥 Repent and turn away from your sins to obtain salvation,,

[@full-timelesbian1075]

I felt the last part

[@m0-m0597]

@@idehenebenezer802 Jesus is king

[@kabo2246]

I'm curious about which birds and how are dangerous to humans? I'm from Europe where the only real dangerous animals are bears (rare), wolves (mostly mind their own business), boars (just don't approach one), moose (mostly peaceful) and vipers (only if you are allergic or dumb)

[@uniquechannelnames]

Juat a tip for spelling dessert and desert. Dessert has two s letters because you'd like to eat a second round (you eat dessert after supper). While a desert has one s cause you don't want to go back for seconds. (nothing against deserts lol they are special places, it's just a spelling tip)

[@user-wp3uh6nl1k]

"Terrestrial Crocodiles" is the scariest sentence I have ever heard.

[@BigHomieJordi]

Young uneducated person here, im curious on why everything was so giant and so scary back then but then they just got smaller.

[@josuedanielsandi710]

Simple, because humans killed most megafauna.

[@angelsibrian5085]

One theory is that hunters would keep attacking larger animals in packs therefore as time progresses smaller was better, as in the creature can run away more smoothly

[@connor_mosteller8668]

Ah good to see some things never change

[@althechicken9597]

Landing in Australia was like loading into ARK for the first time. Ooh a berry! AGGHH A THING THAT CAN FIT ME IN ITS MOUTH!

[@invschematics]

pretty much what I was thinking, this is just The Island redwoods/swamp in one continent.

[@Jordan-fs1ft]

10:38 ahh, the hidden blade. Quite exquisite craftmanship - leonardo da vinci

[@DimaMuskind]

Nice video, very interesting. I wonder why all these species died out? They seem to be almost invincible. Did the environment in Australia changed much?

[@goongoose1180]

The amount of oxygen in atmosphere decreased resulting in animals reducing in size.

[@theghosthero6173]

You didnt mention it but a year ago a new apex predator was described, Dynatoaetus gaffae, a type of very large eagle similar to the harpy eagle, with large talons, probably capable of taking down kangouroos

[@monticore1626]

You do realise modern wedge tailed eagles occasionally hunt adult kangaroos too

[@fury1186]

@@monticore1626 Maybe a small one but I don't see any wedgies taking down a full size roo

[@monticore1626]

@@fury1186 they can attack large animals in groups, according to wikipedia: “Large animals may be attacked by pairs or, occasionally, by groups acting cooperatively. One record shows 15 wedge-tailed eagles hunting kangaroos, two actively chasing at a time, then repeatedly being replaced by two more from the circling group overhead” I could not access the source but 4 were cited

[@rolandlemmers6462]

The problem all of these critters had was that they were edible.

[@RCSVirginia]

@rolandlemmers6462 Kudos! Excellent point!

[@rubric-eo5yj]

@@RCSVirginia there is no evidence of humans hunting things such as megalania,quinkana or the giant snakes that existed in australia it's more likely that the opposite would have happened

[@bunnystrasse]

Send in the chinese!

[@noahthedoomer]

@@bunnystrasse 😂

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

@@rubric-eo5yj They just hunted the animals the large predators relied on for food. Once that became scarce, the large predator days were over.

[@matthewyeldig4608]

I am now convinced God put the Aboiginals on Austrelia to contain the monsters. If they weren't there fighting the fell-beasts, I am convinced we would be living in freaking Caticha right now. Flying Emus, 7 foot spiders, titan Boas, mass hysteria!

[@ianingwersen2558]

I'm glad you added those cute words so kids 12-16 would click the video. Watch (walking with prehistoric beasts. It's documentary about this but a real vedio.

[@Sylmarys24]

Wonambi was only the 3rd largest man-eating size snake in ice age Australia, both Yurlungurr and the Bluff Downs Giant Python grew to 8 and 9 metres long respectively. Larger than any living snake and both fully terrestrial.

[@dontcallthemliberals3316]

9 meteres is insane! would make a freight truck look like a toy.

[@johnscanlon8467]

Almost true, but I've yet to see any Yurlunggur I'd estimate as over 6.5 m. Only the Wyandotte specimen is probably bigger (single vertebra, not from near midbody) but I think it's not Yurlunggur, rather a third giant madtsoid lineage that was smaller (and still undescribed) in the Miocene. The giant python may have been partly aquatic...

[@OldNavajoTricks]

Yurlungurr sounds suspiciously like Jormungandr...

[@johnscanlon8467]

@@OldNavajoTricks You might not think so if you heard German people trying to pronounce Yurlunggur (lol). I'm sure I noticed the similarity before attaching the Ngolyu name to the fossil, so there's no reason to invoke a common cultural source shared by north-Europeans and one of the language families of northeast Arnhem Land.

[@demonzone2571]

The First humans to set foot man on Australia: "what can possibly go wrong?" *5 seconds later* "WHAT KIND OF HELLSCAPE DID WE JUST ENTERED?!" *While running from giant monitor lizards*

[@MuhammadReza-te9ct]

And then they said "you know what, I like it here, let's stay"

[@demonzone2571]

@@MuhammadReza-te9ct is this before or after they discovered drugs?

[@-Mas3]

It’s why they call it the Dreamtime

[@AlienGurl-ow8qp]

@@demonzone2571 ya nan

[@madrx2]

As an Australian I can confirm our White tail spiders, tiger snakes and centipedes are the biggest issues in Melbourne.

[@gothicapple5865]

the giant snake reminds me of the australian scrub python. old mate had one and she'd try to eat him after he couldnt get pray big enough for her. she was about 6m and still growing, i think they can get up to 8m

[@FlyingFocs]

I always thought a novel about humans arriving to Australia, told from the perspective of animals like Thylacine (which were around on the mainland), would be really cool.

[@chiaroscuroamore]

I’d read that!

[@FlyingFocs]

@@chiaroscuroamore SWEET! Gitta publish my first novel first, but YAY!

[@chiaroscuroamore]

I’ll be keeping an eye out for it!! 📖📖📙📙

[@RCSVirginia]

To @FlyingFocs Good luck with the current novel on which you are working! A work based on the viewpoint of a Tasmanian Tiger who was experiencing the arrival of Australian Aborigines with their canine companions might be a little on the downbeat side. However, you could give it the title of, "The Dingoes Ate All My Babies!"

[@sforza209]

@@RCSVirginiawho said there was a novel in the works? You just make that bit up in your mind?

[@aubreythegoatofficial9209]

The thumbnail craaazzzyyy 😂

[@abluemug]

You are the only person who mentioned it. I can’t stop laughing like what?? 😂

[@Sir_Squid]

Ikr, why is that person white if it's supposed to be thousands of years ago

[@94marci]

I am playing on this server for a year now as a biologist in the outback and can proudly say, I survived a combat with a brown snake, killed it and got a solid stat buff even tho it was a baby that was just unlucky enough to be squidhed by me at nighttime

[@julioservantes8242]

In a parallel universe young lizards are taught about little nightmarish monkeys that would gang up on you and attack you with pointy sticks.

[@slackerofhell]

*Humans arrive on Australia* Nature: Not on my watch, pal

[@oiltoast3723]

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[@Monchegorx]

Humans: I didn't ask.

[@slackerofhell]

@@Monchegorx Nature: These things are nuts

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

​@@Monchegorx Humans: We can't lose.

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

​@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25humans: hello there

[@TheFirstCurse1]

I love how Honey Bees (some of the friendliest and least dangerous Insects) are on the map at 0:07.

[@maryeckel9682]

I chuckled at the fearsome giant stick insect.

[@rezonantsarachnids5351]

They do kill more people annually than our spiders (think sting allergies), but it feels unfair to chuck them on the list when they are introduced from Europe!

[@kalmarfamily6874]

ironically they kill more people than snakes & spiders combined - it turns out allergies beat venom for deadly factor

[@D1Thorn]

I missed these destiny exotic accounts haven’t seen one in literally years 🥹

[@Whatevsbabes]

Honestly, that map is nonsensical.

[@emmadrew3911]

5:52 I wonder if it could stand on its hind legs and run like some monitors today!

[@nolancampbell4451]

The land croc had to be a nightmare most crocs today can comfortably reach land speeds of 15 to 22 mph one designed for land had to be ruthlessly fast and powerful.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Can confirm, wasps were MUCH larger back then.

[@h0ly208]

Didn't even consider the wasps. Thanks for that.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@@h0ly208 And significantly more painful. Imagine a blood donation needle, but it's injecting you with venom over and over, there's seven of them, and they all fly and hate you with the rage of a thousand suns.

[@cossoccocsoc]

Would it be possible to hop onto ones back and fly away on it?.

[@h0ly208]

@@cossoccocsoc probably not, but you can bet your sweet ass it'll carry you away lol

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@@cossoccocsoc Not for a human, Fortunately. Imagine the utter terror of giant-wasp-riding Sky Pirates.

[@saffron97]

Other animals: Joins a arms race for strong bites, claws, tails and venom. Humans pick up a rock: I am gonna end this mans whole career.

[@MangaGamify]

idk but I can imagine it was a slow war of attrition style pestering them from afar with spears or shepherd sling, arrows, traps and spike barricades ironically it was their size was their downfall cause they couldn't avoid detection. If they're still alive today, ironically their best defense would be local laws lol

[@fidus868]

​@@MangaGamifyThey just set a gigantic fire, thats how the mega fauna became the australian desert

[@MangaGamify]

@@fidus868 that's interesting in itself outside the consequences of the aftermath, for a race that always used fire, I wonder why we didn't evolved a bit of resistance to it lol Also, wont they burn the meat they hunt and the fruits/veggies they gather?

[@Beef3rSutherland]

Good to know that nothing has changed.

[@DemonetisedZone]

as insane as it sounds i would loved to have seen it all, a giant wombat predator, how cool is that!😮

[@MonkeyOwl]

gotta love how SCP-682 was just chillin in Australia back in the day

[@miss_pancake]

First time viewer... I have been pausing this video and gaping "wtf?!" at the images of these animals with humans! Thanks so much for this presentation, thoroughly enjoyed :)

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

8:49 turns out the drop bear was a real animal after all.

[@charlie11ng42]

That lizard is big enough to swallow a person whole, good grief.

[@runnyhunny786]

Then Indigenous people of Australia arrived - and DINED on lizards... 😎

[@Ceres4S2D1]

​@@runnyhunny786You actually think you're cool?

[@runnyhunny786]

@@Ceres4S2D1 Well - put it this way. It CERTAINLY doesn't matter to me what your opinion is anyhow. WHO are you to me ? Nobody that's who ! Just like I may be to YOU !!!

[@runnyhunny786]

@@Ceres4S2D1 Well I certainly don't consider you " COOL " anyways !

[@runnyhunny786]

@@Ceres4S2D1 🤔

[@eclectic.explorations]

Invasive feral cats in Australia are increasing in size to the point where they are being mistook for panthers. I think some of them are evolving into Australia's new superpredator.

[@Adityakumar-px8xd]

Just think for a moment, there's stories from different people from different centuries and timeline, so many things happened in past and we will never get to know about that

[@johnkamadeva4747]

So in other words Prehistoric Australia is the real life Ark Survival “Scorched Earth” Map eh?! Very rad 😂😆😁👍

[@groove179]

Was ready for you to go over some ancient bugs

[@sofaygo275]

0:33" this is Flecher, the bully in our school" ahhh timing 😂😭

[@Ami-jc2oo]

Actually when I saw that frame I thought of the "No b*tches?" Megamind meme.

[@julz19]

when the convicts from the first fleet set foot in Australia, it was a nightmare fuel for the aboriginals also, even now, they're still living in that nightmare.

[@infernorider]

Were never afriad of the settlers tf you mean? "Still living in that nightmare" lol you seem to be afraid of us for still being here even though this is our land thanks

[@julz19]

@@infernorider It's a caucassian land now, After European settlers arrived in 1788, thousand of aborigines died from diseases; colonists systematically killed many others. At first contact, there were over 250,000 aborigines in Australia. The massacres ended in the 1920 leaving no more than 60,000

[@infernorider]

@@julz19 Caucasusian land? Lmao nice try now growing back already taking this land by far still not there but eventually everyone from around the world know this s the First Nations land also funny how whites try to complain about other immigrants coming to Australia when there also immigrants case closed.

[@VELVETPERSON]

Well, we just need to put SCP-682 on it's homeland and maybe it will calm down

[@marcoslovato877]

I'm glad this channel was recommended to me! Very informative I didn't really know about some of these animals until now thanks!

[@agmuntianu]

you forgot that the gimmpy-gimmpy exists also there , the suicide plant

[@user-zu8co4dp4d]

Yep!! They don't tickle either😂 the bastards

[@mathewsbusiness1263]

I thought Venus fly trap was bad but “suicide plant” sounds crazy..going to look it up now lol

[@fozzle6503]

Awesome thumbnail

[@Violet70725]

Quinkana reminds me Komodo from our country. They look scary to me.