When Gorgons Ruled the Earth

The Earth was a very different place 250 million years ago. The dinosaurs had not yet appeared, and instead ruled a very different group of animals; the Gorgonopsids.
Thanks to Wretched for suggesting I make this video back in the Q&A!
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[@wretched8195]

Nice video, Thanks for taking my suggestion!

[@BenGThomas]

No problem, thanks for the great suggestion! :D

[@aquashockwave3455]

Wretched i love this channel

[@martinsoledad5830]

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[@phoenixdavida8987]

Good suggestion!😄

[@DJSkandalous]

its amazing how many extinction events had to occur just for us to be here today. Seems like random chance to be sometimes. If it wasnt for the Gorgons and other animals dying out during that time period, the dinosaurs may not have existed either. Also amazing how the Gorgons (with fur) resemble saber tooth cats, tigers, lions, hyenas and even dogs. I guess in a way species eventually evolve in similar ways.

[@chrismorris5321]

yep and that's why paleontologists dislike bible thumpers cause they'll throw a brick through your car windshield and call it an act of god because you described how science works and then they got mad cause most bible thumpers can't accept that both happened jesus was a real man his presence was known in history but the countless extinct creatures that used to roam earth are gone like bro I'd love to a woolly rhino or a carnotuars in person even if it meant being eaten jp3 style it'd still be dope or even therizinosuars point being it's all history some things may have been exaggerated in history like jesus being able to heal people by touch and walking on water I mean he might've given people medicine and built boats but also people think we do a lot of psychedelic's today they were breathing it that stuff back then oh and weed did originate from the middle east so just saying that I theorize that the catholic/Islamic/Christian faiths are all based on fat dudes tripping mad cow balls in the desert like come on the burning bush god appearing before the dude bet he really he just ran into another shepherd and thought his torch was a bush and that the dude was god it's happened before addicts and junkies see god all the time you know the bright light at the end of the tunnel or any source of light like eh tbh I don't like Christians or Catholics but I'm actually chill with Islamic people they may not like you to much because of a few different things but at least they don't quote bits and piece from the worlds best science fiction book and also islams may not be chill with gay people but again they let you know and usually that's it but a christian will try and argue that being gay is wrong where as the catholic will either engage in a fist fight or try and drag them to church either way it's gonna be a fuck no and me calling the cops cause christian and catholics are rarely in any shape to do well anything like ok whens the last time a christian or a catholic did anything that was productive and it wasn't for god tldr never trust the christians or catholics watch a sci fi movie they're always the first doomsday cult usually sacrificing live people too and no way is it not gonna happen that way

[@Kaisersaurus]

didn't expect to see you here, Skandalous

[@billteneyck3766]

Good comment! I’m reading Peter D. Ward’s book Gorgon, right now! Very well written.

[@Kenfren]

@@chrismorris5321 wtf was this nonsense

[@monkestronk1227]

@@chrismorris5321 speech - 1000

[@eu.co.5627]

Sabertoot tiger + Komodo dragon = awsome

[@chu.u.u]

sabertoot

[@policemctittit217]

chu I can't get over that. Sabertoot 😂

[@edwinreveron870]

But bigger than both...

[@lukaavaliani9294]

saber... *T O O T*

[@Trypod-uk3zl]

* Sabertooth CAT

[@mercarios_star5932]

Gorgonopsids have always looked so breathtaking to me. Something about their rather rectangular faces and large jaws is really aesthetically pleasing to me! I would have loved to see them in real life, from a distance of course.

[@Averagepoetrylover]

Look at yourself your you who is you which means this dino is you

[@ReanimationLabs2000-et9ve]

I agree, they don’t even look real. They look like they belong in some fantasy story, it’s really amazing to see that such wonderful and fantastic-looking creatures truly existed!

[@rageraptor7127]

Im glad people like you educate people on other prehistoric creatures other than just dinosaurs

[@alysononoahu8702]

I like how he says "Prey item".... lol

[@Sassy_Witch]

Yeah the age before dinosaurs was pretty crazy

[@LordCaltricBlue]

*Sharks have entered the chat*

[@fobbitoperator3620]

Because kids most definitely will not learn about this sort of awesomeness in school. It's more important these days to teach liberal arts, cinema study, & gender fluidity in this PC tainted common core hell, we call education...

[@JosephFlores-yn4yi]

@@fobbitoperator3620 i wouldnt say that cinema falls in the PC category but ok

[@ted73318]

It's so insane when you take a look at what happened at the end of the Permian. This is, as far as I can tell, the only topic on which you get to read the word "apocalyptic" in the scientific literature. So for example, during the end-Permian, there is something called the "Equatorial Vertebrate Eclipse", during which virtually all vertebrates (marine & terrestrial) disappear from the tropics and subtropics. There is even an interval at the Permian-Triassic boundary where all evidence of forests disappears and the world seems to mostly be ruled by ferns and fungi again.

[@BenGThomas]

Wow, I was not aware of that level of destruction. I knew it was bad, but that does sound truly apocalyptic.

[@Len124]

Yeah, it's astounding what raising the temperature of the Earth by almost 10 degrees can do. As I imagine you know, when there's massive die offs of seed plants, ferns move into to fill the void with their easily spreadable spores. The Earth was almost sterilized, especially in the oceans.

[@matthewfarrell317]

Except for the temperatures around that time were 15+ degrees warmer when the temp spike occurred, and that CO2 (which was nearly 3000-4000ppm) was violently stripped from the air. A lot of the scientific literature points to the deaths of the forests due mainly to this ripping out of the CO2. Which is thought to have occurred in the Arctic when a particular bacteria went into overdrive and just sucked in the CO2 in masse. Fun fact the only other time CO2 has got that low is in modern times, and we can see the same effect over the last 10-20 million years with forests shrinking from the poles and moving towards the tropics, and deserts expanding.

[@shae2330]

TheOldOne >Humans causing it >Earth works in cycles >Ignores current less sun activity Many conflicts within your comment.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@BenGThomas Apparently things got so bad that rivers flowed in the same way they flowed in the Ordovician (big, straight, braided streams), because there were literally not enough plants left to support the formation of riverbanks. And note that this was around rivers, where conditions aren't as hostile as in more arid areas!

[@Someone-sq8im]

Normie: Mammal-Like Reptile Me an intelectual: Reptile-Like Mammal

[@cgyoboi]

Big brain time

[@tubbyqueen]

Ah yes

[@Sawrattan]

You know how waxwork dummies look creepy to humans because they look like us but aren't us? Gorgonopsids are like that to mammals.

[@deathproofduck6897]

Two different things. A reptile-like mammal would feed its young with milk but a mammal-like reptile would not. Both of these groups existed.

[@MB32904]

@@deathproofduck6897 "mammal like reptiles" are animals that are constantly called an outdated term. the terms you SHOULD use are "stem mammals", "proto mammals", or "paramammals"

[@tr0_0rt]

Teacher: Why are you laughing? Me: Nothing Also me: Gorgon Ramsy

[@irexzilla2392]

OMG i almost laughed

[@russtralia6428]

Demogorgon Ramsay

[@l.ch.6447]

Damn 😂😂

[@Simipourfangirl]

Instead of him getting angry and cursing at others, he eats them for getting the food wrong.

[@asgfasgssga]

Greetings. I am Archer, Emissary of the Gorgonites.

[@gojigoomba1619]

I understood that reference.

[@johnmichaelandales5233]

halt who goes there

[@shrikefenris6844]

Fucking loved that movie as a kid

[@SimoTheSergal]

That was a lesser known kids movie and I'm glad I knew it

[@megalodonhendrix4228]

You are the tryclops from my underhead!

[@thenerdbeast7375]

Regardless of how much hair they had, Gorgonopsids likely did not possess scales. When know from other proto-mammals that Gorgons probably had scale-less, gland filled skin similar to later mammals.

[@superscaryguy01]

And possibly fur as well. Don't forget about that.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Leathery skin like an elephant or more like a rhino's sensitive hide?

[@Ezullof]

Fur would be going a bit far imo. We don't know exactly when the synapsid acquired this trait, and there's much more evidence for non-fur than fur.

[@Dragrath1]

Also note that since we now know from study of embryonic development and genetics that fur, scales and feathers are all modifications of the same structure during development meaning having one precludes the other two on the part of the body.

[@Dragrath1]

@Jakjak Oh yeah you can have both just not at the same place as they develop from the same embryonic structure that was what I had meant sorry for the confusion

[@Crescent1400]

Primeval (2007) introduced me to this creature. I miss that show especially the Gorgonospid vs the Future Predator.

[@BenGThomas]

That's how I was introduced to these animals too :) Primeval was awesome!

[@metoo3342]

Silent Creeper I knew about them before.

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire]

me too wooooooow you must be so smart

[@metoo3342]

thesexybadger Well I try

[@otakudragonlover2563]

Walking With Monsters was how I met these guys XD

[@ravenouself4181]

When You are so OP that it takes the single most devastating mass-extinction event to finally kill You and yet... Your family survives and returns to dominance after many millions of years

[@Averagepoetrylover]

Humans alwase on top #packwatch

[@analothor]

AND MEDUSA AS THEIR QUEEN! wait.....wrong gorgons

[@lucasfarnell6488]

1:15 good doggo

[@DOMINGUEZCHRIS]

He looks like Chester Cheetah from Cheetos

[@oualidbro.c6196]

@Dominguez Christopher ikr

[@ammarsiddiqui3602]

He does doesn't he

[@oualidbro.c6196]

@Ammar Siddiqui r/bruuuuuh

[@redruby9564]

It's not easy being Cheesey 😏

[@zozidedodo780]

@@redruby9564 made my day 😂

[@GlennKNeyra]

It remind me of Small Soldier movie , in which the main character are called Gorgonite also look like a Gorgons.

[@jayromebabag5313]

Their accurate names still has the word mammal in it, so it still technically means that mammals ruled the Earth before and after the age of dinosaurs.

[@LetsGoGetThem]

Why ya writin this like a 16 year old

[@williamjordan5554]

Names can be inaccurate.

[@smartacus88]

This is true. The dinosaurs were an evolutionary fluke brought on by a renegade plate tectonic event that'll likely never happen again.

[@Princess2Warrior]

@@smartacus88 *That's an interesting way of looking at it.*

[@Bignonbinarydem]

@@smartacus88 All of life as we know is a fluke if you really want to see it that way.

[@filipliljekvist2902]

Thank you for saying "sabertoothed cat" instead of "sabertoothed tiger". :)

[@BenGThomas]

Don't worry, I know the difference between cats and tigers lol ;)

[@BenGThomas]

Although tigers are a type of cat, the sabretoothed cats are not tigers at all, they're in a completely different group to them. Within felids (the cat group), sabre-toothed cats are in the group Machairodontinae, whereas tigers are in the group Pantherinae. I'm not sure why it became popular to call them sabre-toothed tigers, but it's incorrect to do so.

[@luckydominguez2654]

sabertoothed tiger sabertoothed tiger sabertoothed tiger sabertoothed tiger sabertoothed tiger sabertoothed tiger

[@Lionwoman]

@ lucky dominguez Hey kid, i.imgur.com/dyMO3Vf.jpg

[@Dunkleosteusenjoyer]

If you know what the word Tiger meant you'd see it applies to all cats pretty well.

[@nerine9301]

The Permian has always fascinated me. The creatures were so different but so well adapted to their environment. Thank you for posting. Just subscribed, btw...👍

[@sylendraws1249]

I want one as pet so it can guard my house.

[@BenGThomas]

A pet Gorgonopsian would be so cool! Also terrifying.

[@blooky102]

depends on which species , some were quite small

[@hattedmoron555]

it will eat u

[@MatthewGaming-]

If anybody breaks into your house than ooo boy are they in for one helluva surprise.

[@Volvith]

This says more about the human species than i think was intended... :'D

[@memofromessex]

Great video thanks. Thanks to KZbin I am getting back into my childhood obsession with space, rockers and paleontology! :)

[@BenGThomas]

That's wonderful! KZbin is a great place to learn new things :)

[@darrenlaker3204]

Same here

[@MichaelSHartman]

Thanks for presenting a much underrated period. There is so much concentration on dinosaurs to the exclusion of almost everything else. I had not heard about possible hair before.

[@DarkZholt]

Odogaron was based on these guys

[@BenGThomas]

That's pretty cool, I didn't know that.

[@hhydra420]

DarkZholt you have no idea how long it took for me to find out what Odogaron was Based off of.

[@theghosthero6173]

Hail Hydra lol it tooked me less than a second. Also, gorgonopsian probably didn't had scale, but rather skin like us

[@Radical.J]

Nooooooo Nooo, please no. Not looking forward to that fight.

[@hhydra420]

GameNLad Odogaron isn't that bad

[@gam8859]

I just want to to know that your videos helped me realize my passion for Paleontology, and I am now working towards my undergrads with an intention to head into Paleoecology, focusing on therapsid evolution from the Carboniferous to the later Permian. But that's just the current trajectory. Regardless, thank you so much.

[@Volvith]

Gorgons: "We are cool." God: "You _WERE_ cool." Gorgons: "What's that supposed to mean." God: **stares in extinction**

[@georgiaball3772]

Pre-mammals: Will we dominate the world?

[@Threepeater6447]

@@georgiaball3772 The rise and fall and rise again of mammal

[@vielvladimirvaldez6917]

these are literally the most badass looking things in this earth next to dinosaurs.

[@ThePrimevalSite]

Excellently informative video! I was first made aware of this family of animals from Primeval back in 2007, and I was very glad they introduced such an interesting creature. The species featured in the show was most likely the larger Inostrancevia!

[@BenGThomas]

Thank you! And that's exactly how I first learned of these animals too, I was a huge fan of Primeval! I love looking through the clips on your channel to remind myself of what an awesome show it is :D

[@ThePrimevalSite]

That's great and I appreciate that a lot! It's the Anniversary on the 10th February so I hope so have some special content ready for that day ready! I hope you enjoy it! And keep up the good work with these information videos, they're a great and accessible way for people to learn about prehistory!

[@BenGThomas]

Thank you so much, and I will certainly keep a look out for the anniversary content :D

[@jtsiens2]

The Primeval Site or walking with dinosaurs

[@stevegardner9258]

I learned about the theraspids and other stem-mammals in an Advanced Vertebrate Natural History course when I was at MIT back in the late '70's. The Great Dying has always held me in morbid fascination...

[@dank_smirk9971]

I can only bloody imagine what monstrous beasties would evolve from these things if the Permian extinction never occurred

[@Averagepoetrylover]

Yeah..... These things did evolve and survived the mass extinction they turned out to realllll monsters

[@Averagepoetrylover]

I can only wonder what this mammal is today 👨👧.....

[@informationyes]

Hunted to extinction by the Commando elite

[@entlex6889]

THIS CREATURE HAS TO BE IN THE ISLE!!!! sombody has to send it to the, The Isle creators!!!

[@eebu4053]

pooshit

[@daddyleon]

3:30 oaw.... that makes it sound somewhat nostalgic/romantic.

[@starhunterterra9849]

Yeah, unless humans were food for them.

[@Sawrattan]

Starhunter Terra and the descendants of the eutheryodonts would dominate the earth and tear each other apart :)

[@andrewkawam2603]

Beautiful quality and intelligent narration. Keep up the great work!!!!!!

[@Slippery_CCTV]

This was extremely interesting good job

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks :)

[@SebastianGonzalez-jc4wz]

These guys are so awesome yet so severely underrated they should be on popular media much more

[@catqueensupreme7804]

Gorgonsids- “wow things are going really great for us” The great dying/Permian extinction event- I’M A BOUT TO RUIN THIS SPECIES WHOLE CAREER

[@My_eyesburn]

I love how chill you are in your videos. Thanks for bringing this information to us in such a clean way. Subbbeddd

[@EDGEscience]

You know how to edit my friend! What music do you use?

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks :D In this video I used some royalty free music by Alex Arcoleo and some by TeknoAxe. I also have a friend who composes music for use in many of my other videos, you can check out his work here: kzbin.info/door/zaaopratnya8zt4CUuojPg

[@THEprimo6711]

What were the titles of the tracks used?

[@Pseudoscience-is-a-scam]

Primo6711 this is a little late, but the song used in the majority of this video is Alex Arcoleo’s “Picturesque”

[@smoke2351]

I love the way you ended this episode, their descendants wrote papers and make videos about them 🤣 That was pretty clever

[@brandyrose9997]

Gorgonopsids are *weird*, like a furry, saber-toothed monitor lizard. Great video, thank you.👌💕

[@manuga2001]

Great video. I really should be studying but this was too damn interesting not to stop watching. Keep making more of these videos and i assure you your sub count will increase.

[@BenGThomas]

Haha, thank you so much! :D

[@djukor]

Wonder if they had mammal like emotions. Or if they had reptile level emotions. Or to be more specific if you brought a baby gorgon to modern times could he be tamed and show affection like most mammals can. Or would it be more like a reptile that can tolerate you but not truly love you.

[@MB32904]

why must animals have emotions like reptiles or mammals? they are animals, they have emotions. I'd definitely consider gilled fish & the arthropods as a counterpoint, but reptiles don't have fairly different emotions than what mammals have

[@draw2death421]

Id say yes. Snakes dont have complex emotions yet they cant be tamed.

[@MrPtrgun]

This was a great video! I really learned from the video. Since early boyhood I have been fascinated by the life this planet has produced. And the strange adaptations said life has taken. Up to this day and this video I would have ever known of these animals! I do not reminder having encountered them in any museum, so Thank You!

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Amniota Synapsida Therapsida Gorgonopsia

[@bkjeong4302]

I've actually heard stuff on some gorgonopsians (Sauroctonus was used as an example) becoming well-adapted for grappling prey, much like the big sabre-toothed true mammals that came after them.

[@ian_b]

"When Gorgonzola ruled the Earth". This video sponsored by the Italian Cheese Makers Association.

[@dinohermann1887]

Bruh

[@gavinkailey332]

I love inostrancevia and hope he gets his own toy with articulation like the beasts of the Mesozoic line

[@Wilantonjakov]

I have a Gorgonopsid great x1000000000000000 great uncle

[@BenGThomas]

Haha, yeah I guess we all do

[@ArchangelLucifer0]

I don't think you're that far removed. With an average generation span (for all our ancestral species) of, say, 5 years - that's only 50 000 000 generations.

[@legendarypussydestroyer6943]

x50 000 000 great aunt 1 000 000 removed.

[@sebs4622]

more like a cousin since they aren't direct ancestors

[@ariannavitone556]

Nah, it'd be the aunt/uncle that never had a kid.

[@gideonjones8088]

You know Gorgonopsids always stood out to me as something I would imagine to be wandering the earth in its dying days, not its early ones.

[@skolex3121]

2:03 Sabre teeth alone are not a sufficient condition for classifying an animal as a carnivore. Just look at musk deer.

[@CurbYrDogma]

The rest of a musk deer's teeth, as well as its skull structure, indicate a plant-based diet. They have lightly-built skeletons which is not indicative of an animal which would stalk or take down prey. The skull of of a Gorgonopsid is heavily built with indications of powerful muscle attachments in the jaw and neck area. The whole skull/neck anatomy indicates an animal which actively and powerfully using its jaws and neck for biting and holding on, as a hunting animal would. Also, you can't really compare this to a modern day mammal as it's one of the oldest creatures discovered with differentiated teeth like this. Modern day mammals have a much greater variety of tooth structures.

[@skolex3121]

CurbYrDogma I agree. That's why I said "sabre teeth alone".

[@justinbrown2474]

skolex or a hippo

[@maniacram]

skolex Gorgonopsid not Gorgonospid you squid.

[@dynamosaurusimperious6341]

Gorgonsip was basically a edgy 12yr old desgin of a cool four legged dinosaurs.

[@carnifexvain7444]

Good video. Just one issue I have. Why not say just a "thick skin " or thick hide", instead of scales 2:45? This just makes more sense considering earlier in your video you said they should be called Stem-mammals instead of a mammal-like reptile. I assume the only reason some people still draw them with scales is that that name makes them seem more like reptiles, who need a reptilian skin covering.

[@mierulpunk9611]

Some mammal do have scale.

[@Averagepoetrylover]

Ever heard of a father figure? U need onr

[@samoafa841]

Fascinating, I love history! We live in the greatest age for the sharing of information! Thanks for sharing yours.

[@cabin4445]

Awesome youtube video!

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks! :D

[@cabin4445]

Your welcome

[@AUSSIEMADMATT]

Really well done mate!

[@jackiesantos2121]

The Gorgon look like a lizard dog hybrid well. Looks like we are related to them evolutionary

[@serghini11]

That was a funny ending where you mentions us, their descendants, write papers and makes videos of them. That was certainly unexpected and funny.

[@Athril]

coolest creature ever.

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Very good video I like it alot, theres never enough videos on therapsids!!

[@carlchristianv299]

cool video

[@BenGThomas]

Thank you :)

[@Comrade_Jason]

The Gorgons are the good monsters from Toy Soldiers. The name makes sense now!

[@bestversion8159]

outstanding video man

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks :D

[@happyotter9]

Wait a minute, is that an ear hole below zygomatic arch at 2:48?

[@BenGThomas]

It looks like it, I hadn't noticed that before...

[@ashimotosuperdeluxe1291]

Great artwork throughout the video

[@CrimeaRiver]

2:43 - Its fangs kept growing, it became aquatic and terribly obese. Its closest living relative is now known as the Walrus. Or Gorgonus Americanus.

[@dreamsoft1361]

im eating granola in my PJs watching "When Gorgons Ruled the Earth" Gotta say, didnt think this would be a situation I'd be in back when I was a kid in school lol

[@elliottotbc]

Ark devs, do your work!!!

[@thegreatcannoli189]

Elliott Harlow Scorched earth only pleeeease. We have enough shit to deal with on the island and center.

[@hydrofrog6496]

Nah make it for extinction dlc

[@elliottotbc]

Hydrofrog64 yeah extinction would be pretty cool tbh

[@jaydensaw2947]

Any idgaf lol

[@aiperthatgotmutatedbytruth5638]

extinction would be cool if beast queen looks like a highly mutated dinosaur and not a mammal

[@ChubbyTeletubby]

Whatever they looked like - they were cool!

[@svsadineni]

Percy told me that Medusa was waaaaaay uglier than that thing.

[@SSSyndrome214]

I love this channel.

[@gevorgpashayan2876]

very good

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks :)

[@Bigkahkistan]

I've always found depictions of scaly, shrink-wrapped gorgonopsids with no extraneous soft tissue features to be highly unlikely. So much of their morphology reminds me of modern predators like cats and weasels, so it seems likely that, like them, they'd have substantial layers of fur, fat, and skin that would've significantly altered their living appearance. I for one would like to see more reconstructions of them with things like manes and patterned fur.

[@TheStupidRaptor]

FALSE ADVARTISING! There were no sexy snake girls in this video!

[@andrewgan557]

TheStupidRaptor luckily the thumbnail shows what it means

[@ls200076]

TheStupidRaptor aaaaaaah

[@chubby_cheesecake_cheeks]

😂😂😂

[@rattyeely]

Gorgons aren't even supposed to be sexy...

[@rockk9753]

They didn't turn anyone to stone either with their glare

[@plebulus]

For 2 minutes I thought the title said "when George ruled the earth" and couldn't breath lmao

[@chatter_bones1762]

XD

[@t.b.cont.]

Ancient Chester Cheetah

[@logan____]

I remember watching an episode of Primeval featuring the Gorgonopsid as the main ‘villian’.

[@v4l3nt1nn]

gorgonopsid vs T. rex? who whould win? my money on the gorgonopsid ;)

[@spinosauruswetherilli2615]

T-rex, its way bigger than that

[@counterstrikerify]

Vali Tsunami that's like a wolf vs a grizzly

[@heydiahrea]

banana the terrible it’s like an ant vs lion nowhere close in size 😂😂😂

[@glint3924]

it's like a rat vs lion

[@heydiahrea]

FinalGlint_the_Ending same thing you get my point T. rex was 40-50 feet long the largest of these guys was like 10 feet

[@loganlorn]

Thanks so much! That was a very interesting video! Outstanding! Thanks!

[@BenGThomas]

No problem :) And thank you!

[@Pensionkillerkeir]

They look like Komodo Dragons

[@septiwidi9132]

Looks like Komodo dragon

[@mmike855]

Excellent video!!!

[@WorivpuqloDMogh]

Basically a proto- mammalian. Freaking awesome how evolution works

[@loladuvoo9019]

Awesome videos keep up the good work

[@thesortingcat774]

That was the best conclusion I have ever heard in my life

[@leadersuccess3761]

Great documentary thanks.

[@Magneticlaw]

Those long legs would have been a game changer, as far as their effectiveness as hunters goes - as I was watching the video, I was picturing crocodilians, but without the stubby limbs, thus widening the techniques that they could employ beyond just ambushing prey - just a tad unnerving. 🐊

[@amyhendry5821]

Loved the artwork

[@ElazarY]

Pretty much the most badass thing ever made.

[@damiruhoda3255]

interesting evolution tree !! nice video full of information!! keep on the good work !

[@BenGThomas]

Thanks! :D

[@ropellimuna6514]

I subscribed!

[@MNZGamin]

“and so, hundreds and millions of years after the last gorgonopsians disappeared, the descendants of the eutheriodants discovered what remains of some of their ancient relatives”

[@Nvcturnal]

I always imagined Gorgons having felt-like skin. Not quite fur, but also not just bare skin.

[@N-Collective]

That old 3d model show had an episode on these animals was super cool.

[@TheReviewSpace]

They are even older than dinosaurs, which is just insanely ancient. It's like....even a T-rex back then would be like "damn, them Gorgonauts are super old school!"

[@Sawrattan]

They're the biological "uncanny valley" where they're meant to look like mammals but look eerily different at the same time.

[@pokoirlyase5931]

Im always awed by the idea that these animals had no idea what was coming 100s of millions of years after them

[@yellabyrd5821]

This is great!Thanks

[@luigi1456]

I saw the gorgon specimen at Melbourne museum and its a sight to behold.

[@danielsantillan7775]

who's a good little sabertoothed giant dog lizard??

[@stonelessdruid5stoneless193]

Just found this channel... why is youtube hiding those treasures from me :( subbed and liked

[@Ploskkky]

Very interesting predators. I love the way they look. Great characterful heads.