The First Super Predator To Emerge After The Dinosaurs

[@dragodracon7785]

I always found it a unique coincidence that Basilosaurus, while accidentally called the King-Lizard, kinda fits it since of how serpentine it looks compared to most whale species. If they were around today, we would totally call them Sea Serpents.

[@rhedosaurus2251]

It really makes you wonder if they really are still alive to this day.

[@mark6302]

I would call them Barney

[@dragodracon7785]

@@rhedosaurus2251 Nope. It most likely (like 99%) was dying oarfish and drunk sailors who saw whale cocks in the air who thought they were sea serpents. That’s really it.

[@rhedosaurus2251]

​@@dragodracon7785I won't say those aren't largely responsible. But at the same time, the ocean is a large place that hasn't been completly explored. After all, the kraken was proven to be real via the giant squid. So I don't think we should write off Basilosaurus still existing, either.

[@daniels7717]

Imagine a mosasaurus facing the basilosaurus. That would be a crazy fight both are evenly matched

[@lunafragment7202]

Earth : You remove mosasaure ? Space : Yes Earth : OK let's do this again

[@HelixMaster12]

Convergent evolution and infilled niches b like

[@Spinosaurus_0]

mosasaurs* space??

[@cameronwalton8270]

@@Spinosaurus_0 space mosasaur? That would be a wild af

[@Breaching_in_3_2_1]

​@@cameronwalton8270some Animal Kaiser shit right here

[@CeruleanSword]

@@cameronwalton8270 Space invades earth with asteroid. Earth invades space with space mosasaurs.

[@SirPream]

Me - "At least the Reaper Leviathan isn't real... right?" Extinct Zoo - Video of ancient Reaper Leviathan

[@ronjaniemi6122]

I knew i wasn't the only one who had seen this silhouette in their nightmares before

[@americaanimalwildlife]

The existence of the largest marine creatures as harmless filter feeders reflects the current tranquility of the oceans. Until a few million years ago, however, massive macropredators held the top position in the food chain.

[@tessat338]

All of the extant cetaceans are carnivores. None of them are herbivories, though apparently at least one species of shark gets some of its calories from sea grass.

[@dls3781]

Yes but not archetypal macropredators as stated by the original commenter. Baleen whales eat small creatures in droves, orcas are the largest mammalian predator of large-bodied prey, and great whites likewise the largest fish predating on large-bodied prey. There has not been a huge and monstrous macropredator of extremely large prey for approximately 2 million years since Megalodon died out. There is a multitude of factors which contributed to this result but suffice to say it is relatively tranquil in today's oceans, and likewise on land as well. The Earth is in a low spot in terms of diversity and productivity and actually declining as a result of humans as well.

[@sky_pirate]

​@@dls3781I'd venture to say there's likely an extremely large production of new microorganisms to handle all the new synthetic material being introduced into organic bodies. Perhaps this is even the point where Earth 'ended' in the last 'cycle' before rebirth.

[@GudaGudaPaisen]

@@tessat338 carnivores =/= predators. One refers to what they eat, the other refers to ‘how’ they eat.

[@mark6302]

"haha i am a giant shark i am the biggest thing in the ocean nothing can st... hey what's that"

[@TowhomdoIoweexcess]

“Whale Jaws Theme Plays*

[@realdaggerman105]

@@TowhomdoIoweexcess *counter Jaws theme

[@TowhomdoIoweexcess]

@@realdaggerman105* kraken counter theme plays*

[@dante666jt]

No u moment

[@kimstuart7989]

Shark hears jaws hunting music and is genuinely confused as as it is not currently hunting

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

Reminder that there hasn’t been a a single human fatality by an orca in the wild in recorded history. They’re truly intelligent, curious and friendly creatures despite their absolute ferocity when hunting for food.

[@whitedragoness23]

Or evidence of any humans as an orca probably consume the whole human. They are smart creatures. Another thing is if they did in the past, those aggressive one could have been wiped off by humans. Which left orcas who aren’t aggressive towards humans being the survivors

[@josephstalin2606]

Or humans are just intelligent enough to not allow themselves to get killed by Orcas out in the wild 😂

[@Vootekk0815]

I can not say, that Im happy with Stalin as your pic. He was way more sadistic than Hitler. And nobody has a pic of Hitler. Are you dumb? And no, Im not offended. I am completley sure, that you are as smart as a trashcan.

[@g-lad6852]

There also hasn't been a single human fatality by a Basilosaurus in the wild in recorded history, which I think is a much more comforting statement

[@gregoryl.levitre9759]

It's not because of a lack of trying. There are many cases of Orcas attacking people's boats. People like you who toss those stats around also seem to forget that there are many people who are missing at sea and it is not known how they died.

[@rennidenni7792]

Some of the reconstructions here look a bit like a snarling leopard seal. As if those things weren't scary enough.

[@RoseGold1224]

@@rennidenni7792 must be new youtube update. When I clicked it, it searched for the highlighted word on KZbin for me.

[@infydreamer4073]

Exactly

[@Dysfunctional_Reprint]

Basilosaurus has always freaked me the fuck out. I think it's the proportions. Looks like a seaserpent The coloring pattern in that first documentary is creepy too.

[@Tyrantrum858]

Whales today: 🐳🥰 Whales then: 💀☠️

[@SarrasiHope]

Too real 😂

[@brianjay9357]

You clearly haven't heard of "Killer whale".

[@CaptainUnikitty]

@@brianjay9357killer whales, the name is like that because ancient sailors thought they hunt other whales

[@Hollyucinogen]

Orca whales are kind of assholes tho, lol.

[@zsan157]

@@CaptainUnikittyThe sailors were right, orcas commonly hunt other whales

[@吳溯凡]

When the dinosaurs disappeared, so too did the gigantic marine reptiles that once terrorized the oceans. For almost 25 million years, there was nothing around to eat the sharks. But now there're awesome new monsters of the deep - the giant whales have arrived. Forget the gentle filter feeders of the 21st century. These days, every whale is a killer. (Walking with Beasts episode 2: Whale Killers, November 22, 2001)

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

11:12 I see the artist behind the “Bröther may I have some oats”-pigs has branched out to painting extinct animals. Good for them! 😅

[@hibernianperspective6183]

"Brother may I have some Puppigerus, I am starving brother"

[@grandgojira5485]

"Bröther, may I have some ammonites?"

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

Lmao

[@dante666jt]

Bröther may i have some megalodon

[@danktyrant420]

Thats crazy! Up until now I thought the first super predator was my uncle greg

[@LuratumEmPhias]

💀

[@kerrynicholls6683]

So you think he’s a serial predator, so is that sexual or killing or predator about something else? Or did you make it up. Or should someone take this comment to the police. Because it’s an extremely serious topic. Oh and it’s criminal. As a victim of such a predator, you should delete your comment if not true. If it is true, then you should go to the police. They won’t do anything but if you don’t and someone gets hurt, then you will be an accomplice. So that will be the end of your existence in society and prison will be your new home.

[@n00b5lay3r]

What if their uncle is already in prison? ​@@kerrynicholls6683

[@exactlybasically8603]

@@kerrynicholls6683white boomer foid try to understand dark humor challenge: impossible

[@calvinpraetorius3557]

A dear friend of mine actually found one of the Louisiana variants you mentioned, his name is Gary Stringer and he used to be a professor at ULM

[@jelly434]

XD read that sentence as 'found a basilosaurus called Gary Stringer, teaching at ULM.'

[@lordnelsonmc.billionberg9166]

Ooh jelly, little confused jelly 😁

[@Kaijugan]

Oh cool! I actually met him once!

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

That is super cool. Small world I guess

[@kelenken7187]

Babe wake up ExtinctZoo made another ocean video

[@slappy8941]

Wow, so original. 🙄

[@craigs71]

@@slappy8941 Over 100 likes to that comment but you have none, the world is a crappy place enough and people like you don't help! How about waking up one morning and thinking ' I'm not going to be a dick to a random person on the internet today'?

[@rougeakane]

Kelenken is best bird

[@rougeakane]

@@slappy8941why even reply rudely lol just ignore it

[@gregoryl.levitre9759]

Are you a bot?

[@valkyrie_arts]

"No pun intended." Sir, we both know you're reading from a script, and you 100% meant the pun 🤣

[@iamlivinginyourballs4901]

saar

[@KingofBirTawil]

0:10 what do you mean arguably? They don't call them "Toothed Whales" for nothing.

[@ilebitty2811]

that's because an orca is not a whale but a dolphin

[@Mai_Kho]

Orcas and whales share same infraorder, but they are of different families

[@callmesturgeon3214]

I think he meant that orcas were "arguably" the apex predator of the ocean, not referring to their status as a whale lol

[@DasAustralisch]

I just finished your "brutal endings of these four extinct animals" and i gotta admit you do a fantastic job on every video you do. Keep up the great work 🎉

[@DAVIDPETERS12C]

Odontocete ancestor teeth are a fine example of reversal after reversal as the molars turned back the phylogenetic clock as they resembled those of cynodonts in Basilosaurus, and pelycosaurs (all simple canine-like cones) in Delphinus and Orca.

[@ifti1311]

Love the Basilosaurus - I first was introduced to it when I was like 7 or 8 years old, like 27 years ago. Glad to see it get some love

[@Paleo_P1anet]

1:21 LOUISIANA MENTIONED RAHHHHH! 🗣️⚜️🐊💛🖤

[@3452te]

I so love Basilosaurus. My #1 favorite prehistoric animal. First saw this animal when i was a kid, before JP even came out. Since this it looked like mosasaur which i found it extremely fascinating.

[@alucardfreak1800]

My fellow human! This animal is my baby!

[@maksudulislam4843]

I don't know how you do it boss. Every time I sit down to eat, you've just dropped a vid lol

[@Gaarafan007]

Interesting, I was just thinking of Basilosaurus and remembering an old documentary that had an episode about them when I saw this video released 5 hours ago.

[@patrickperalta59]

I understand when you find something new buried,,,you have trouble figuring out what it was.......but to think it was larger then the Blue Whale at one time is amazing since the Blue Whale is known to be the largest animal both in Sea and land in past and present.

[@skylargray455]

The genus Otodus got hurt and bullied so bad by Basilosaurus tot the point a branch decided to evolve into the most terrifying shark species of all time

[@free-can5609]

0:30 u gotta be sh*ing me, I never knew they formed such ghastly pods

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

Da Evil Pod

[@Erebosmagnus]

"What if Leopard Seals were whales?"

[@LeonTheBig]

I love your videos! I found your channel a few days ago and have already binged all of your videos! What I would love to see in the future is a full video just about prehistoric plants! Seeing drawings of prehistoric plants really drills in my mind that the world was much more alien than we think!

[@rch5395]

Killer whales are dolphins.

[@Imaybegotthis]

And dolphins are whales, which are mammals, which are fish. Cladistics!

[@RubyCarrots3232]

​@@Imaybegotthis Whales are also Hoofed mammals.

[@DarkContentGenerator]

@@Imaybegotthisactually I do not quite believe all cetaceans to be whales considering well while whales are cetaceans they come under the balenopteridae family while dolphins are under the delphinidae family thus , true all are mammals but mammals are not fish .. considering fish ie Pisces is a different class as opposed to mammalia or mammals thus…

[@ClobberingSocks]

@@DarkContentGeneratorall cetaceans are whales, even though we dont often colloquially refer to all of them as whales, if it’s a cetacean, it’s a type of whale

[@VoxTenebrae]

@@DarkContentGenerator But sperm whales and dolphins are both within Odonticeti, while baleen whales are not, so if you have a grouping that includes sperm whales and baleen whales, dolphins also have to be in that group. Not to mention Balaenopteridae is a group within Mysticeti (baleen whales), so not only did you not include all whales, you didn't even include all baleen whales

[@mrorphaneater2]

Brings me back to the Nigel Marvin days

[@NuclearBomb-ow4zf]

Sea monsters trilogy? That was good

[@Porururidimu]

Love how you used an anime girl at 5:43

[@adamdunn9219]

"orcas aren't horrifying" yeah I was scrapping the hull of a boat a few years back and saw one pass maybe a hundred feet away from me, I figuratively shit my diving suit sir

[@tm43977]

Basilosaurus the whale lizard

[@Tyranidus7]

Since you mentioned being chased by this thing you probably wouldn’t notice the feet, a quote came to mind “I WASN’T LOOKING AT ITS FEET! I WAS A BIT PREOCCUPIED WITH ITS HEAD[s]!”

[@kev-_-3872]

jumpscare at 3:35

[@wtfdarus]

lmao

[@IsaacHernandez-x6m]

I love your videos and how much I can learn

[@loupblanc7944]

Maybe its because we don't have anything alive today that looks like it but man does this thing look freaky sometimes. Its like the weird lovechild of a canid, mosasaur, serpent and whale. It has a look you don't really expect to see. At least with mosasaur, you expect it to look reptilian but this thing gives off some weird mammalian uncanny valley vibes. It actually looks like a chimera of unrelated genera.

[@AndrewJaworskiTV]

the GOAT is back

[@majorgalah]

Cetacean nation!!

[@ryanfitzalan8634]

i suspect they were large predatory dugong like creatures, that just slank through shallow waters at a slow pace. It legs i think were actually useful but not for on land, but instead for moving through very shallow sandy areas and helping prevent beaching in those environs. I think of the florida keys and all the shallow sandy spaces that manatees and bull sharks hang out in. They would have been very bad at catching fish in open water, and their turning radius was probably bad also.

[@realdaggerman105]

But they often preyed on Durodon, an active animal. Their legs are also only 30cm. This isn’t going to move a possibly 8 to 20 ton animal.

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

Actually giant penguins and sea snakes (Palaeophis) predate Basilosaurus as apex predators

[@Gfan2015-o5g]

I've heard of Paleophis, but what penguin was an apex predator?

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

@@Gfan2015-o5g Several man-sized genera are known from the Paleocene and Eocene such as Anthropornis

[@DogLoverBro_]

MY FAVOURITE WHALE THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO

[@Schproemftell]

For those that don't know what's wrong with the Thumbnail : Hippos actually cannot swim Hippos are distant relatives of Whales and have a truly ginormous amount of muscle Mass and relatively low Fat despite them looking Chubby which means beneath their Chubby appearance lies a Meat Tank so heavy it lacks any realy boyancy so instead they sink to the ground and "swim" by pushing themselves from the ground

[@dovesraven]

wait why is the thumbnail bad ? it’s just a picture of the basilosaurus behind a tiny shark that says “scariest whale ever”

[@ヒブ]

bro changed the thumbnail 3 times 😭

[@adamfrost1881]

This channel is BOOMING!!!

[@sarahcook1775]

Love ur videos pls keep making em

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

For around twenty five million years after the giant marine reptile disappeared, there was nothing around to eat the sharks. Until 41 million years ago.

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

Peru was extremely interesting during the Tertiary Period. Specifically Western South America closer to North America. Being mostly underwater.

[@marginbuu212]

Those serrated teeth remind me of the teeth of the crabeater seal ((Lobodon carcinophaga), which is a filter feeder that mostly eats krill. Given time and opportunity, I could see those evolving into baleen which is hyper specialized for filter feeding.

[@OneEyedJack1970]

Maybe, but I can't see their nostrils migrating through their brain to the back of their heads.

[@toughluv873]

Extinct Zoo is well on the way to 10 million subs. Great channel

[@saurianakanyansaber3900]

Fun fact: Basilosaurus is the state fossil of my home state Mississippi.

[@suddieo1]

Basilosaurus was a truly bizzare creature for sure. It seemed to be an in between stage of basal whales and today's whales. It had such a strange body which resembled the mosasaurs that came before it's time than most other whales. Possible convergent evolution at play here ?

[@michaeleisenberg7867]

I've never heard of these. Super fascinating! 🙏

[@DarrylMainHere]

best upload schedule, hands down.

[@jared_slouch395]

Fantastic video 👏🏼

[@paytonkremers7083]

9:10 couldn't the lack of a spermaceti organ be indicative of it being a basal member of the whale group rather than it being solitary.

[@Dj_Kicki]

6:00 "YEEEET !"

[@eldraque4556]

love this channel, do you only get one length of ruler in America? how long is it?

[@pvail329]

12 inches. 1 ft. A framing square is 2ft one way and 1 ft the other way I think . . .

[@pvail329]

1ft or 16 inches. But a ruler is usually 1 ft maybe 2 ft.

[@Hippohurter]

2:20 Man, that guy must have been on some crazy "koch" when coming up with those ideas

[@DAVIDPETERS12C]

Correction: the clade "Cetacea" is no longer valid. "Whales" had two separate origins. Odontocetes arose from taxa like Basilosaurus, which in turn arose from Pakicetus and extant Tenrec from Madagascar, which also has a long, toothy skull and uses echolocation. Mysticetes arose separately from hippos and desmostylians. They sing for social cohesion. Google: 'triple origin of whales' for details and citations.

[@kade-qt1zu]

There only seems to be one article suggesting this idea, and cetacea is still listed as a valid classification on most websites.

[@williamwalt3437]

David, please stop this shit. There are clear transitional forms between the basal Basilosaurus-like whales and both Odontocetes and Mysticetes. Your Photoshop hallucinations are at odds with reality.

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

@@kade-qt1zu Its David Peters, he's a nutjob.

[@DAVIDPETERS12C]

@@kade-qt1zu Understood. This is the nature of paleontology. Discoveries are not accepted for decades. Witness 'birds are dinosaurs' only accepted in the 1990s. In this case see: Van Valen, L. 1968. Monophyly or diphyly in the origin of whales. Evolution 22 (1):37- 41. Yes, this hypothesis goes back to 1968.

[@VoxTenebrae]

@@DAVIDPETERS12C Just because discoveries often aren't accepted for decades doesn't mean that ideas will eventually be accepted and it's just a matter of time. Plenty of fringe hypotheses get posited and are eventually abandoned because there just wasn't enough support for them. It's entirely possible that this idea is valid and Cetacea is indeed paraphyletic, but it's also possible that this idea is flawed and Cetacea is still monophyletic

[@PolarBearFan24]

Dang

[@pumaconcolor2855]

How is Basilosaurus by far the largest in his family when Perucetus is another member?

[@byzantineroman2407]

Nigel Marven was my introduction to the Basilosaurus.

[@Leadblast]

Ah, Zeuglodon mi viejo amigo

[@zxl3857]

Extinct zoo have you heard about the livyatan

[@adriannegrete9586]

He did already.

[@TyrianHaze]

So many amazing creatures, and they are just the ones we find fossils of. Just imagine all of the amazing creatures that weren't even fossilized.

[@noahmoffitt8419]

How does this guy have so few subscribers?! Criminally underrated

[@skylargray455]

So few subscribers? Dude ExtinctZoo has 452k subscribers he's one of the top, if not the top paleontology channel in KZbin

[@Yuk1sky]

The heid legs could've helped with balance as well. Since they were thin, they probably needed that balancing

[@jeffandjoannbauer9567]

1:49 shows a humpback whale, but labels it a blue whale.

[@teeth_meat1175]

For some reason on all your new KZbin videos there no English option in the settings???

[@cdkw2]

The audio tracks are a welcome!

[@Traumasamanen]

Thank you! These are really awesome!

[@barbatoslupusrex8712]

Please do a video about a large hyaenodont next! Do Simbakubwa! There aren’t many videos about it!

[@hirannes2217]

Didn't know that. Thankyou, fren.

[@PaulDekleva]

The Valley of the Whales comes alive with Extinct Zoo.

[@j.w-b.y1504]

Les orques ne sont pas des baleines 🐳 ❌ mais font partie de la famille des dauphins ! 🐬 ✅ Une orque est en fait un gros dauphin🐬 et pas du tout une baleine 🐳.

[@Sterbo_soljuh]

Wow that's crazy I loved this video

[@thisisntnyx]

peak content

[@Crakinator]

U shoulda kept the original thumbnail, its just rlly cool

[@calvinjones4480]

The basiliosaurus is what the leopard seal is to the sensors to the cetacean world 😂 serpentine looking hyper carnivores.

[@quirtis9297]

One of the BEST Dino In ARK...

[@fahdrightone7428]

The memes in this video are very nice.

[@abdu7095]

I still cant believe to this day that, the family of Whales are mammals (marine mammals), so they basically not 100% fish.. but they live in sea or ocean all the time its fascinating..

[@TheGreatestDarn]

Since you are covering whales today, would be cool to have a video of the Perucetus.

[@RonaldKnop]

Thanks for the analysis! I need some advice: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

[@taloon3472]

The Basilosaurus teeth at 5:25 look like little houses.

[@akumaking1]

What’s going to be the Halloween episode?

[@davidraper5798]

Very interesting. Thankyou.

[@smarksruinedwrestling5020]

Finally basilosaurus gets the spotlight!

[@lezapanimalier7286]

Merci beaucoup superbe vidéo ❤🎉

[@tvbnine793]

Wow, I'm kinda surprised that the Eocene-Oligocene extinction invent isn't included in the major mass extinctions with the Great Dying and KT events.

[@dh-ck2om]

I think orcas look terrifying. Their color scheme

[@FerretTwister]

If this thing replaces a megalodon as a horror villain, we will have a super terrifying movie, because it could possibly do that thing dolphins do, and grab someone off the beach from at least 30 feet from the shore. The Basilosaurus would be a terrifying aquatic movie villain.

[@andrehenkel9121]

Why does a mamal is called saurus?! 🤷‍♂️

[@8menincostume]

You made me remember watching walking with prehistoric beasts

[@The-recolored-clone3354]

Devious thumbnail.

[@kytim89]

Could you do a video on the Otodus shark, please?

[@Prince_Of_Fish]

i wouldnt confuse people ny asserting that a creature that derives name from "killer of whales" is a type of whale. that was a missed opportunity to introduce to the audience the term "cetaceans"

[@scalyboi8918]

I would like to see your take on the Otodus genus.

[@noeraldinkabam]

Booth and Lincoln had me distracted, had to go back because the 4 minutes after were a blur.