What If Prehistoric Animals Were Alive Today?

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[@Nikontube]

If megalodon would still exist, you could probably eat it in some Japanese sushi place.

[@youngralphy20]

and buy the fins on the black market 😂😂

[@MatchaTeaSan]

Indeed Japanese people eat everything

[@CerbeyHQ]

This is already normal with normal sharks in Asia. Not cool either our sharks are going extinct and we need them

[@divyanshagrawal7623]

@@CerbeyHQ need them for eat ? Or need them to keep them as a showpiece in a sanctuary park or an ocean ?

[@user-dk5vj2br1o]

😂ohh not just Japan ALL them Asian countries!!😂 Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines ect!deff the Chinese!there the worst!theyd "believe " eating its sexual organs give man uagh!😅 no joke they all eat everything n anything!thats just sadly the truth!

[@bloodguts6786]

"What if Prehistoric animals were alive today?" "Then they wouldn't be prehistoric would they?"

[@PraveenSriram]

That is very true

[@FRBSUPREMEMAGNETAR963]

Lol 😂

[@thomasleonardis711]

Well I mean as they were originally from before history then they would in fact still be Prehistoric. That one rediscovered fish is still considered a prehistoric fish. I think it’s even called an artifact species but that could have just been a term used online and not be official in anyway.

[@yeaiknow3557]

coelacanth?? He’s still alive

[@budisanemma6487]

Lol 🤣

[@justicesmith-stevenson9920]

Because my kids are always asking "what if" 😅 so I turn this on and they will have all of their imagination satisfied . Love it

[@macwelch8599]

Imagine the amount of excitement people would have if any dinosaur species were found in Early Paleocene rocks, just 10 million years after they supposedly went extinct

[@OptimusPrime-od3zh]

Any non avian dinosaur alive today would be impossible since they all died out unless you mean all dinosaurs including avian dinosaurs

[@Daniel-pt4sm]

It’s not ours

[@PraveenSriram]

It definitely would be very exciting!

[@OptimusPrime-od3zh]

@@PraveenSriram but highly unlikely since all non avian dinosaurs died out in the kpg mass extinction event

[@timothyvanhoeck233]

Birds are Dinosaurs. Also, they have found some non-avian dinosaur stragglers from just after the K-Pg boundary, though whether their fossils were displaced or they indeed were just barely alive (until they weren't) is still up for debate.

[@wii7876]

A meg tooth was found In South UK dated only 4000 years ago, that's after the ice age so lasted longer than we knew 😮

[@MotownDubbz]

It’s always that person that’s gonna try to catch a school bus sized fish 😂

[@joeanderson444]

I'd love to see a 13m snake wrap itself around a 19m shark enough times to get itself in a position to squeeze well enough. I'm guessing the 60-foot Meg was 30-foot around in circumference so the Titanaboa would only be able to wrap it once! Snakes need to be able to get a better grip to torque down enough to suffocate their pray, especially a beast like the Meg!

[@coffeetalk924]

Megalodon would still not be the top predator in today's oceans. That title would still go to the Orcas (Killer Whales). Orcas swim in packs and are several times more intelligent and strategic than sharks. One on one, an Orca might lose to a prehistoric Megalodon shark, but not if a pack works together. Orcas are brilliant creatures and act alot like wolves with their clever tactics and strategies.

[@menukamajhi3118]

The meg was 12 to 15m average

[@Famousfire97]

it would be really cool to see a meg in real life but even if the climate and the food was enough for them to survive im pretty sure orca's would hunt them to extinction pretty quick

[@Famousfire97]

@@yeetmanpokemon9270 orcas hunt is pods so sure its twice the size but that dose not really matter when the smartest marine animal is atleast 10 times as fast and nimble, has a taste for shark livers and knows very well where it is and fights 5-6 v 1. The megs would get absolutly fucked by orcas, orcas do hunt Wales and other huge animals with little to no effort so a huge slow shark would just be a big easy target.

[@Famousfire97]

@@yeetmanpokemon9270 and even tho the meg has a massive bite it wont matter as it will never be able to chomp down on orcas who works as a team and is super strategic when hunting. The meg is maybe the coolest ocean hunter ever but orcas are just simply OP and would hunt the megs to extinction for sport and then add the fact that orcas hate sharks and will activly hunt and kill them just to kill them, the meg stands no chance

[@armanhossain5335]

Orcas? ❌human ,scientist✅

[@jestinnawelch35]

Megalodons could still be around. I mean, only like 5% - 7% of the Earth's oceans have been explored. There could totally be some undiscovered tropical area they migrated to, in order to get away from humans. I mean, wouldn't you try to stay away from humans if you could? I sure would 😅

[@pachecomp]

Nah bro, no way.. I’m a dinosaur fan and sometimes I think it could be cool (it wouldn’t tho) it’s just not possible, he wouldn’t have enough food.. plus.. aren’t the animals back then bigger and all that due to the atmospheric characteristics that we had but changed due to the meteors or whatver?

[@jestinnawelch35]

@@pachecompIk ik, I was mostly just being facetious about not wanting to be around humans lol 😅 .. My other comment was also me just being silly. Like, yes, mother nature obviously did change their appetite and size and we started calling them by different names. The megalodons became the tiger sharks and great whites, basically lol

[@christiankalisa2699]

I’d recommend the megalodon tartare as it’s one of our most popular appetizers. If you’re open to something new, you could also try the seared mosasaur if you wish.

[@lilysantiago679]

''you'd need to find DNA at least 66 times older than that." *Flashes a picture of the dear old woolly mammoth.*

[@maz1ah]

🤣🤣

[@Cxcainaxx]

Lmfaooooo BYE

[@itzmaddie5751]

if megladon was still alive, it would have evolved to look less like a great white and more like a slimmer, cold water shark probably. Scientists have actually found a fossilized tooth of a Megladon that was 14 thousand years old. If you thought you saw something that you thought looked like a megladon, it was probably a great white shark with gigantism , it's a condition only a few animals of one species would have, it's were they would probably grow 2x or 3x times bigger then the average animal of that species.

[@mikeframe4135]

Don't forget about the Meg tooth found a few years ago! They dated it back right at 10,000 years!

[@jaisallakumstudios]

Both of you fools the teeth was misdated.

[@PraveenSriram]

If Tyrannosaurs Rex was still alive it would probably destroy humanity.

[@valhalla7567]

There was no humanity when the dinosaurs never extinct.

[@PraveenSriram]

@@valhalla7567 I see what you did there…lol

[@valhalla7567]

@@PraveenSriram lol.. what?

[@dudeman7826]

Don’t a think a T. rex would do well against modern rifles and weapons 😂

[@segura9]

I don’t see it handling a missile to the gonads well.

[@Shanggggggg]

What of this prehistorical animals don't actually look like this?What if those large tooth is just a large tooth?What if they're actually small but has a massive mouth and teeths??I mean there's no wrong because all of it is still mythical

[@dereka5310]

I think it's likely there are some species living in the ocean we just haven't discovered them. We still have like 95% of our oceans to explore😅😅

[@lilysantiago679]

''Components of dinosaur blood were discovered in a fossilized mosquito from the Eocene Epoch." No. It's not a mosquito. It's a beetle.

[@CGormanR35]

Nothing of this size from those timezones are alive today.

[@supesisfodder7427]

@@CGormanR35blue whale Moron

[@melomaniacmusiq]

As a learning music composer, separate and matching music themes intro for each predator. Awesome work. I personally appreciate the thinking and theme selection throughout the video. Kudos to the team and the editor Edit: : it's my 3rd cmnt on this 50+ mins video, as I am high a f and enjoyed the whole video!😂🎉

[@RaptorFPV]

Then You understood the fundamentals of music composing! Cheers! 🍻

[@maria_doblaje]

Very cool episode. I missed the LIVE.

[@SRC267]

The only way we can "bring meg back" is to create a mechanical/robotic one with an A.I. brain all covered in real skin or life-like skin and flesh. Just throw it in an aquarium.

[@xfactor3000]

There would be massive mounds of pooh everywhere

[@kevinkettler5336]

Yeah, for the last part, there is no chance in hell a titanoboa could deal with a meg that is bigger and outweighed the snake 12x

[@mystery2877]

There is actually alot of prehistoric animals still alive to this day.

[@javierhez86]

Since it's been millions of years thats plenty of time to evolve

[@REDSTONENOOB.]

What if we brought back the mosasaurus, but only the 1meter kind?

[@morning_youtube_star]

Dolphin victim

[@joerelogoc264]

Claire's scream is really hilarious 😂 😂😂 4:12

[@joeanderson444]

I don't care how big a megalodon was, it was no match for an 1100 foot ocean vessel carrying 7-8 thousand people. It would make the cruise lines more popular if anything!

[@nonamegonzalez5711]

Imagine jogging away from a T-Rex

[@nazo87]

i wud love if you made a video where the loch ness monster existed

[@shanewilliams8945]

Something big could definately be down there.. would be insane if we disturbed something down there with all the activity in the past week or two.

[@SexyxSeds]

There’s giant squid n stuff but no megs

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

It's impossible for something even remotely as big as the blue whale to exist without us knowing.

[@bricknmotor]

​@@elektrik_exekutioner6822oh ok smarty pants. You debunked his theory on yt comments. You feel good about yourself now? 🤣🤣🤣

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

@@bricknmotor I do.

[@fusionmasterable]

Well we would definitely have to all live on land no more sea travel unless the ships were three times the size of the shark

[@fahimredwan]

Love what if videos❤❤❤

[@DinkWhit]

I was just asking chatGPT if it’s possible that there’s any dinosaurs that survived that are living in a remote area. Now I’m being suggested this.

[@foxsier]

So, what is it said?

[@icakabg889]

You know somethin that we don't know

[@DinkWhit]

@@foxsier it more or less said it’s possible but extremely unlikely.

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

There are living dinosaurs today, they're called birds.

[@DinkWhit]

@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 no, they’re related. They are absolutely not dinosaurs.

[@bekahpetersen1268]

So what I’m hearing is with any prehistoric ocean animal coming back we can say goodbye to the internet

[@terryking3476]

"They needed a lot of food." Terrestrial, carnivorous dinos did too. That's why I'm puzzled why land predators in Jurassic Park spent so much energy chasing tiny humans. Snacks???

[@mamanmohamed7544]

Props to the cameraman

[@NothingMaster]

Although I appreciate the entertainment value of this video, I must say it’s not a ‘what if’ scenario . Even if by some fantastic miracle of nature these ‘dangerous’ prehistoric creatures came back to life, how long do you think it would take the human population to actively hunt them down and wipe them off the face of the Earth?!

[@jabbarmuhammad8804]

I love prehistoric wildlife

[@sciguyjeff]

The main problem here, with the terrestrial animals, you would have to also presume that others animals of the same time period also survived. In this case, with T-rex, none of the mammals would have evolved as they did since their evolution was based on the extinction of the dinosaurs. It is highly unlikely humans would have evolved - hence, we wouldn't be here to worry about it. Now if they suddenly popped up, like Jurassic Park, they would not survive unless they were small and were confined into small areas, otherwise, lack of a proper place to live with food, or hunted to extinction, they wouldn't be around for long

[@bricknmotor]

Yea but it would still suck to be one of the unlucky ones that fell prey to a T Rex while it was still around. 😭 Haha

[@javierhez86]

It would probably be a giant Greenland shark type

[@vincentpaulpapa1130]

If I see a horde of those coming from some road or something while in the car I’d be jumping out the window immediately

[@antoniogeester5251]

Livyatan is saying right now, "Am I a joke!"

[@Monsterkun_]

W8 now i am confused... In one part they said T rex has good eye sight(31:43 ) but then at the same time in another clip they say it's had bad eye sight and tht they rely on their sense of smell rather than vision(18:45)

[@ccrn3500]

WTH

[@ccrn3500]

Ur right

[@supaMiguel]

They were very inaccurate on the Rex in this video. Tyrannosaurs actually had really good eyesight, similar to that of a Hawk.

[@AbsoluteAnna.-du3ux]

You would most likely hear the mossusaurs before you see the mossesaurs due to its heavy screeching cry

[@Captain.AmericaV1]

It's their ocean not ours, we are invaders to them. It's like a stranger letting themselves into our property without invitation, helping themselves to amenities and watching our TV.

[@mwhitelaw8569]

If dinosaurs were actually around I really don't think our species would have made it this far. Our early ancestors had enough problems with cats and birds, let alone dinosaurs.

[@timothyvanhoeck233]

Pretty sure dinosaurs aren't the only prehistoric creatures you wouldn't want to be alive today. Giant pliosaurs like Liopleurodon and Brachauchenius and mosasaurs like Platecarpus, Mosasaurus and Tylosaurus, ravenous ichthyosaurs like Temnodontosaurus, huge predatory azhdarchid pterosaurs like Hatzegopteryx, giant sharks and rays like the megalodon, Cretoxyrhina, and Onchopristis, massive predatory fish like Rhizodus, Protosphyrhaena, and Xiphactinus, placoderms like Dunkleosteus, massive predatory whales like Basilosaurus and Livyatan, giant arthropods like Paradoxides, Jaekelopterus, Meganeura, Arthropleura, Arthrolycosa, or Titanomyrma, huge cephalopods and other shellfish like Cameroceras, Parapuzosia, Platyceramus and Tusoteuthis, giant snakes like Titanoboa, huge crocodilians and their relatives like Dakosaurus, Deinisuchus and Purrussaurus, synapsid predators like Dimetrodon, and Inostrancevia, strange hooved predators like Hyaenodon, sabertoothed cats like Smilodon, among countless other terrifying creatures. Yeah, none of those sound like fun living companions.

[@DBelloZabler]

The Meg has always been my favorite shark.❤

[@sandiekelley8513]

There is super warm water and a lot of fish, sharks, and other food sources around black smokers that are found in deep places in the oceans. Big fish have been recorded there. Just saying How big is the biggest great white shark?

[@melomaniacmusiq]

A What if, that i thought while watching this video! We all hear people say that a pretty giant asteroid hit earth and wiped out the maximum of existed living beings...where is that 15 km rock or is that mount Everest? I mean what happened to the asteroid? Did it go back? Or does it melt? Or is that even a rock? Otherwise how come that much of an explosion? Edit: What if we were able to see the astroid that hit us in the past? How many states will it cover?

[@hmhsbritannic1292]

I love T-Rex's they are my favorite Dinosaurs

[@javierhez86]

We've only searched like 15% of the ocean

[@davidstephan5116]

I’ve swam the complete ocean floor looking for treasures

[@cesarvictorino4301]

What if Wild Animals Suddenly Had Human Intelligence and speech?

[@stratisapostolou6284]

I hate to say this they have so much intelligence than you can ever imagine. They run from fire. You all walk into one. Wheres your intelligence . 🤪dahh! Giving money to zelenski instead of your own people. Just to show you how you all lack intelligence 😂👍

[@NithidayaSJ]

Zootopia will happen...

[@davidstephan5116]

Some animals already are more intelligent than humans. Have you ever been to Arkansas, Mississippi, or Alabama?

[@Whos_Gia]

“Hey lets clone all the dinosaurs and make Jurassic park real ☺️”

[@kenc8411]

You labeled both the megalodon and the mosasaurus as apex predators of the ocean. So what if the two comes across each other, like King Kong and Godzilla?

[@slashcrazyfo0xx481]

4:11 “ Glass breaks” Ahhhh high Quality💀🗿

[@patrinaphillips8330]

Before doing A & P I thought vertebrae was an animal 😂

[@user-yn7qf5iq6c]

I love your videos and I love sharks

[@Mark-mu4pj]

Brilliant video

[@horrorrealm3175]

T rex was up 10 tons 43 plus feet long. And like 15 feet tall at the head

[@dhruvchoudhrie7606]

Do what if xenomorphs (from alien the movie) appeared on earth

[@flyone8350]

What about germs?, like a human sneezing on a dinosour

[@AaronMaybe]

Bro you forget urban legends in the sea like the bloop,El gran maja,

[@takumiinthe86]

I think the megaladon theory was wrong. Humans win against every other species when competing for food. We would make them starve. Plus I doubt they'd willingly hunt ships considering no animal in the sea hunts ships so why would Meg do that? Also consider even tho it is 60ft it still is nothing compared to the size of whaling or cruise ships

[@annanardo2358]

No T-Rex. NO Titanaboa. NO Meg NO Mesasauras. However, the prehistoric bird living in Australia is doing ok, they are seeding the forests, that without them it would be impossible. Forgot what the bird is called, but it is a quite dangerous bird. 🤔

[@AbsoluteAnna.-du3ux]

The t-Rex was too clumsy and too heavy to keep its balance

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

T. rex

[@AbsoluteAnna.-du3ux]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect thxs

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

@@AbsoluteAnna.-du3ux A second glimmer of hope. x

[@AbsoluteAnna.-du3ux]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect k

[@boiledliddo]

if any of these giants are alive today. People would hunt them, and make them food source.

[@zb8293]

After watching this video, tiger and cheetah looks cute to me😂😂😂

[@SirRickBangga]

There are other sea creatures to worry about. My theory is that the orcas probably would handle a meg with ease.

[@CLOCKCHASER2222]

Megalodons are real, there was a filmd/documentary about them, it was called sharknado or something

[@davidstephan5116]

Don’t mock the sharknado. I heard it happened in a far away land. Canada I think

[@luverigtous116]

The also found intact cells in the Dino bones, intact, like the blood was still there.

[@luisandrade5500]

@WhatIf I was just wondering if you could do a video on a healthy wild liger I

[@meatheadz4468]

If a megalodon existed today, Joe rogan would be interviewing it on his podcast.

[@charlesgarber5911]

I'm curious, where did you get the information for the t. rex? From what I've read/watched, there's more consistent belief that t.rex was an active predator, as it had forward facing (or binocular) eyes, giving them a higher visual acuity, more closely aligned with eagles and other raptors...

[@CGormanR35]

They just make shit up. Half of this stuff is wrong they do it for clickbait

[@HNIN1973]

Dinosaurs would be as friendly as dogs in months

[@johnjones4096]

Carbon dating on a Meg tooth recently found was only 10,000 years old.

[@Ash220IQ]

Do you mean *carbonating?

[@spenceglumer2529]

hey guys what would happen if us humans extinguished megalodons from tyrannosaurus rexes and also a robotic creatures that are both robotic komodo dragons and robotic crocodiles but except more robotic komodo dragons then robotic crocodiles

[@jacksonfox7727]

bro just shot the meg with like a sniper or a auto shotgun

[@annanardo2358]

No no no, nix the T-Rex, they're high maintenance carnivors.😱

[@spazznameleftblank4092]

Interesting video but I couldn't even make it through 10 minutes of the sports announcer vocal style.

[@AbsoluteAnna.-du3ux]

And I Ooop …guess shrek didn’t stand a chance in his swamp against the titannoboa lurking in the shadows lmao 😂❤

[@charlesw6199]

T-Rex had vision equal to a hawk or eagle. Your suggestion that they had weak vision is absolutely absurd.

[@tingyiyang7274]

4:12 I was 😂

[@shanemotown295]

How do they go from saying a TRex had amazing vision better than hawks and eagles, then say TRex vision were weak.

[@Ash220IQ]

*T-REX

[@luverigtous116]

That's alot of tuna

[@orionx79]

You could kill a t rex without a gun IF you can run faster or outsmart them......Pit traps.

[@PraveenSriram]

How are you so sure?

[@davidstephan5116]

I’d use my bare hands, because I’m old school😎

[@orionx79]

Because the reason we are apex predators is not because we are the strongest the faster or the most duarble. Its because we are like ants that swarm and can use tools and brains.@@PraveenSriram

[@user-pj8gg5zv6w]

This is what would have happened if dinosaurs were alive? We would be dead and not even know what dinosaurs are.

[@Ash220IQ]

He not really

[@melissa2068]

Technically they could exist in the new hold they found in the ocean that is actually bigger than the Mariana trench. You can fit the Mariana trench in it and still have room. It's also located in warm water

[@CGormanR35]

Same chance of finding a live T-Rex as finding a Meg

[@user-bu6sj2rs7b]

I honestly believe they are still alive, we haven’t search more than 2% of the world ocean, and it’s only considering that’s just the few meters of the surface.

[@Ash220IQ]

More than *5%.

[@master-kq3nw]

Imagine dynasourus jumping and run into you he would killed people every day

[@scolli8993]

They actually found meg teeth in cold water

[@JamesMilanese123]

The water off the coast of California is freezing because the flow of water comes down from Alaska.

[@Stutterin_Steves]

Mosasaurus- LITERALLY GODZILLA

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

no

[@strawberrystich247]

I heard that scientists are trying to bring back the megalodon the oceans will not be safe anymore😢

[@javierhez86]

What if the megladon evolved to live is cold deeper waters

[@lonesoul663]

I want to see other types of ancient marine life other than megalodon.

[@aniyacanales8648]

I put this jawn on to gts n this nigga over here being enthusiastic as hell. Made it a whole 2 mins and 17 secs in

[@luverigtous116]

But YOU DID once walk next to them

[@Waters-tk4en]

Kinda feel humans will make this dinos into Dinner..

[@cjvellow1260]

if we brought dinos back they would never be able to reach the sizes they once were they would all be miniature to scale in our air quality today

[@PraveenSriram]

Dinosaurs 🦕 got extinct 65.9 million years ago which was very sad for the fate of dinosaurs 🦖

[@angelinamaria6323]

I think that they gonna come out now because the waters are getting warm ..

[@nicksingh3672]

Meg in front of a cargo ship ⛴️