When Elephants Got Weird

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This extinct elephant relative had the entire garden shed on its face. This is the Platybelodon.
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Created by Dylan Dubeau
Executive Producer, Director, and Director of Photography: Dylan Dubeau
Host: Host: Talia Lowi-Merri
Editors: Jim Pitts and Cat Senior
Producer, Camera Operator: Andres Salazar
Writer: Lauren Greenwood
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Taking a deep look at the past and the animals that lived in it.

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@yerabbit Жыл бұрын

their defense was disarming predators by being goofy AF

@drunkpaulocosta Жыл бұрын

I feel attacked... this how i got every girlfriend ever.

@rainecormier2935 Жыл бұрын

"hyuck!"

@nBasedAce Жыл бұрын

@@rainecormier2935 🤣😊

@ShiftingFlesh Жыл бұрын

Funniest comment I've seen in a hot minute cx

@Okillydokilly69 Жыл бұрын

@@drunkpaulocosta 🫡

@CthulhusDream Жыл бұрын

Good ol shovel face, I remember seeing them in a prehistoric animal book as a kid and being fascinated by their goofy appearance ever since.

@juliusnepos6013 7 күн бұрын

Yeah

@watchingshows6683 Жыл бұрын

What interesting to me is that their body shape often uniformed, but their tusks and trunks variety is just wild

@DanGamingFan2846 Жыл бұрын

It just goes to show that it doesn't matter how strange an animal looks, everything has a reason, every silly looking adaptation is there to help an animal survive and continue it's species. And these definitely would be a sight to behold.

@im_agine852 Жыл бұрын

And what did these animals originate from?

@romella_karmey Жыл бұрын

It feels like there was a constant software update on Earth.. Each update animals keep getting better looking.

@anthonyhewitt9397 Жыл бұрын

I mean not always some traits are benign. But yea it's b e a utiful

@SevenPr1me Жыл бұрын

@@im_agine852 All life began as simple microbial life

@BohemianBerkeley Жыл бұрын

@@SevenPr1me how do we know that?

@JugheadJones03 Жыл бұрын

I love how these animals are ancient yet on the geological timescale its like they existed yesterday.

@mxtsy381 Жыл бұрын

well they were all wiped out by humans spreading and hunting everything they could see, and that wasnt long ago and is arguably still going on

@forestfern539 Жыл бұрын

Quick correction at 1:08! While a recent study suggested a Proboscidean to be the largest land mammal ever, this isn’t fully recognized and needs more research. Currently the animal usually given that title would be Paraceratherium, part of the order Perissodactyla (or Odd-Toed Ungulates).

@rl9217 Жыл бұрын

Elephant: With our powers combined we shall be the most specialized herbivore to ever exist, do you accept? A tool shed: … Elephant: I’LL TAKE THAT AS A YES! (Fuses into Platybelodon)

@citrineelephant6576 Жыл бұрын

as an elephant enjoyer i try so hard not to make fun of those goofy dudes lol

@Lord_of_Proboscidea Жыл бұрын

Yayyyy! An animal logic video about elephants!!!! Also thank you for mention Palaeoloxdon, my all time favorite

@prettypic444 Жыл бұрын

That mood when you're so weird looking, scientists roast you millions of years after you go extinct

@mikewestwood 7 ай бұрын

😂🤌🏻

@Ria-sd2ex Жыл бұрын

A lot of people see this as goofy, but if I saw this in real life, I'd legitimately be scared af😳

@terramater Жыл бұрын

It's so interesting how animals evolved over the years. Our crew talked about how elephants in Mozambique have a rare natural trait: tusklessness. Female elephants stopped developing them. With a surprising consequence: 51% of the surviving female elephants in Gorongosa had no more tusks after fifteen years of civil war, escaping the poacher's target. Yet, what does this mean to whole ecosystems?

@dongeonmaster8547 Жыл бұрын

Paleologic. A great addition to the ever evolving Animalogic channel.

@imperfectiaart3082 Жыл бұрын

I'm from India🇮🇳 In the ancient stories of "Mahabharata" we get evidences of four tusked elephants first, suggesting that there was a time when these creatures used to roam around earth.. Thanks to the palaeontologists finding physical evidences over time...❤️

@Q_QQ_Q Жыл бұрын

Comics aren't real .

@imperfectiaart3082 Жыл бұрын

@@Q_QQ_Q 🙂

@SeanTrn Жыл бұрын

@@Q_QQ_Qyou’re not real 😳

@natalieeuley1734 Жыл бұрын

Finally someone made a video about these. I saw them once in a book as part of an evolutionary tree for elephants and was disappointed to see little was written about them

@ohThaTairra Жыл бұрын

hey Talia! great hosting and quality content. thanks

@louiemercado5595 Жыл бұрын

Great work on the shovel tusked Platybelodon, my friend! Please continue to make more videos on prehistoric fauna and other creatures too! Also, perhaps you can make a video on Paleoxodon, the Straight-tusked Elephant.

@melanies.6030 Жыл бұрын

Yes! I can't get enough proboscideans!

@justsayalhamdulillaah9720 Жыл бұрын

I remember having an Eye Witness book and it was filled with weird other "elephants" I was so darn obsessed with them.

@UATU. Жыл бұрын

I think I low-key assumed depictions of these animals were humorously outdated and incorrect. Very interesting, thank you!

@5H11N4 Жыл бұрын

You guys should cover Paracertherium, the largest terrestrial mammal currently known in the fossil record.

@sq_uids Жыл бұрын

It WAS the largest terrestrial mammal we knew of, that title of largest got taken by paleoxodon namadicus(the asian straight tusked elephant). Paracatherium was 4.8 meters tall and weighed 17 tons, while paleoxodon was 5 meters and 22 tons, easily dwarfed the paracatherium

@airfikri9663 Жыл бұрын

@@sq_uids the largest palaeoloxodon is based on very fragmentary fossil wich is only its femur, compared to more complete fossils of paraceratherium

@trashkhan9710 Жыл бұрын

I really love those! Keep up the good work!

@zellevmusic232 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video as always, btw can you guys do Paraceratherium aka giant rhino or argentavis for paleologic thatll be cool.

@roachmancam9012 Жыл бұрын

Anyone remember those old animal magazines called zoobooks that had these among other elephant relatives depicted inside

@CherokeeAquatics Жыл бұрын

This channel never ceases to amaze me.😊👍

@SevenPr1me Жыл бұрын

Alot of animals died out in the early Holocene. It was the most recent great mass extinction event and it seemed to have resulted in humans being the dominant species

@ZarinaRoseYT Жыл бұрын

When I saw the thumbnail it full on made me remember this book I found at my school when I was little. It had like this and other family member from Elephants and I remember going crazy about this book like just looking at it and just being like "I must study how they look"

@Chrismas815 Жыл бұрын

Paleologic? My Friday just got better

@animalogic Жыл бұрын

Perfect lead into the weekend!

@callmesantos9244 Жыл бұрын

The reason why stegodons florensis are cow sized is due to island dwarfism and their natural predators are Komodo dragons and sometimes homo florensis, who are the real life hobbits

@tt-ew7rx Жыл бұрын

Having human presenters with purpose-written scripts is so much better than quoting Wikipedia articles with computer-generated voices.

@justsomeofmyfavs 6 ай бұрын

The channels that do that quoting basically steal info without giving acknowledgement, and on top of that insult our intelligence by the idiotic AI fakery.

@dudotolivier6363 Жыл бұрын

Do the Moa birds next !! The New Zealand biggest animals, land animals, terrestrial birds and biggest birds in the same time !

@shestewa6581 Жыл бұрын

Also the only birds to lose their wings entirely, I think!

@flamencoprof Жыл бұрын

Small point: These animals are referred to as just "Moa", not "Moa birds". Same applies to "Kiwi". They are not referred to as "Kiwi birds". "Moa" and "Kiwi" are both Maori words and do not have an "s" added for plurals. In the same way, "Ostriches" are not referred to as "Ostrich birds". The same applies to "Horses", they are not referred to as "Horse mammals". 🙂

@alvexok5523 Жыл бұрын

0:05 - imagine looking towards a river and seeing one of those, actually living and moving around, making noise and opening their mouths like that, and not knowing what they'll do next or what they're capable of.

@juliusnepos6013 7 күн бұрын

Yeah

@davidemesturino2341 Жыл бұрын

I would really like to know more about Arctodus , the short faced bear.

@Beedo_Sookcool Жыл бұрын

Fun video! Thank you! And of course, anyone who's a "Star Wars" fan will recognise Platybelodon as the basis for the character of Ephant Mon in Jabba's Palace.

@i.m.evilhomer5084 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you're not retelling the old "shovel-tusker/flat-trunk" Platybelodon hypothesis & talking about the more up to date reconstructions. So many people still regurgitate as if it was still true. It would be like informing people that sauropods like Brachiosaurus were aquatic.

@guntherpiedmont4529 Жыл бұрын

Sporkjaws! 7:09

@TheSolitaryEye Жыл бұрын

These weird boys were supposed to be on the Australian part of Pangea when the split happened, but they missed the memo.

@liambrandley2716 Жыл бұрын

could you do videos on other prehistoric elephants like mammoths, mastodons, deinotherium, or paleoloxodon. Even modern day elephants could be a good video.

@coprophagichobo2377 Жыл бұрын

This brings back memories, i used to see this thing in dinosaur books all the time in grade 1

@kayakat1869 Жыл бұрын

Those are terrifying!

@NewAge374 Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why the analogy of a scyther is used. Not working with farm tools often I probably don't know all the uses of each object. But when around 4:00 it's explained how the trunk drags vegetation across the tusks to cut it. But it doesn't explain how that motion is made: front to back, side to side, in between the tusks? See, what I imagine a more scythe-like swing is the animal moving it's lower jaw side to side through the grass or plants they eat, picking up the cut pieces with their trunk.

@reki_r6939 Жыл бұрын

"Actually.. Mr Predator, you can't eat me because I have the goofy defence mechanism" ☝️🤓

@MastodonMann 4 ай бұрын

6:00 I know that photograph, it was the one used for the album cover of Under Acid Hoof by Acid Mammoth

@Lord_of_Proboscidea Жыл бұрын

May I suggest you make a video on either Palaeoloxdon or Deinotherium??

@rowanmulhollem5267 Жыл бұрын

Three cheers for the Hellephants!

@Dylan-tyler-javier-carreon 10 ай бұрын

The thumbnail actually made me laugh-

@thomascircle245 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for granting my request!

@mctulkyviperbit6166 Жыл бұрын

Elephant: Trumpet Sound This guy: A-hyuck

@aoj53 Жыл бұрын

First learned of these guys at la brea (they have an elephant exhibit) and they have disturbed me ever since

@tamilarasan8940 Жыл бұрын

Even in my childhood my weirdest animal is president elephants..😂

@dapdne4916 Жыл бұрын

Always loved these like other posters. Wow!

@bluelfsuma Жыл бұрын

Wow, it's a _nightmare._ Reminds me of pictures of horses with dog mouths edited on.

@gabrielvasquez5167 Жыл бұрын

I thought paraceratherium was the biggest land animal?

@AlmostEthical Жыл бұрын

Elephants are still one of the weirdest animals, which is why most of us love them.

@Yarblocosifilitico Жыл бұрын

Everyone: haha how goofy Me: it looks like a Cthulhu beast

@Kim-lc3fv Жыл бұрын

I had never heard of them before. Thanks for broadening my paleohorizons. 🙂

@gnome_farmer Жыл бұрын

BRING IT BACK!

@PalmettoNDN Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they look goofy but that just makes them adorkable.

@deeya Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@frankmazzur5674 Жыл бұрын

"When elephants got weird" Like an animal with a seven foot long prehensile nose isn't weird to begin with.

@sassa82 Жыл бұрын

Paraceratherium is the largest land mammal ever

@eaglewolffox6275 15 күн бұрын

Platybelodon is the goofiest extinct relative of the elephant 🐘

@Poko0Chan Жыл бұрын

This animal looks like an elephant but somehow it reminds me also of a hippo

@MrShaun1011 Жыл бұрын

You know that bottom funky looking jaw was used as a dredge so they can get to tubers and things like that on land and in the water.

@justjukka Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite elephant ancestor! 😄

@muhdaqil2932 Жыл бұрын

50 years to come, scientist able to identifies dinosaurs habits, favourite food, hobbies and their glamour name in school.

@meg2831 Жыл бұрын

My favorite elephant type animal

@Noukz37 Жыл бұрын

On a side note, Talia is looking gorg

@blakerenimu9033 Жыл бұрын

That thing looks terrifying....

@mariebcfhs9491 Жыл бұрын

Ah you see this is the Ferdinand, a precursor to the Elephant. Those twos are very easily confused but the difference is kinda obvious if you know where to look!

@anon9579 Жыл бұрын

Mr Bottomtooth’s spirit animal

@sassa82 Жыл бұрын

Love it, very nice.

@Gunners_Mate_Guns Жыл бұрын

Can we all take a moment to appreciate just how beautiful Talia is?

@eggplant4367 Жыл бұрын

MY FAVOURITE ANIMAL!!!!!

@Liberablubly Жыл бұрын

This reminds me a little of those monsters from King of Thorn.

@Romanticoutlaw Жыл бұрын

honestly they make the trunk make sense

@princethedinosaurs4955 Жыл бұрын

This creature is excited

@careless3241 Жыл бұрын

If They weren't already extinct, those plus sized tusk wouldn't help not attract poachers

@DogFoxHybrid Жыл бұрын

I just remembered all the sc00p memes.

@katiedambrozio9352 Жыл бұрын

I like how you use toys for photos

@JonBon-bi7bh Жыл бұрын

She is wicked cute.

@fajaradi1223 Жыл бұрын

Shovel lipped elephant? I guess we need a pickaxe trunked elephant, and we'll have a digging party.

@floweytheflower5261 Жыл бұрын

"Whatever this is" - Rob The Amazing World of Gumball

@sennnia 15 күн бұрын

My boyfriend: so thats a first draft right?

@user-zy4wv7yx1z Жыл бұрын

It could be that I'm high, but those longboi rhinos are freaking me out.

@charlessoliman3922 Жыл бұрын

Da elephant being goofy ahh.

@Armando.Sepulveda Жыл бұрын

"let's bring this back instead of the woolly mammoth!" Right......!

@altithoraxperotorum5133 Жыл бұрын

What it's just an ordinary ele oh my goodness

@elishaeanes2442 Жыл бұрын

I was looking for the odd part for way too long T-T and then... o oh

@_MaxHeadroom_ Жыл бұрын

Why is it that every extinct animal is so strange and exotic and borderline alien looking compared to what we have today 😄

@AndrewTBP Жыл бұрын

You need to see more modern animals. Try the aye-aye.

@LimeyLassen Жыл бұрын

I wonder if they had to grind their shovel teeth on stuff to keep them sharp. Scary thought!

@Persivefire Жыл бұрын

_intriguing_

@aneeshprasobhan Жыл бұрын

*indeed*

@minescharles Жыл бұрын

Proboscideans were one of the largest land mammals but not the largest. The largest land mammal ever known is the Indricotherium

@domenikkunz9798 Жыл бұрын

Idk y'all, you might say it looks goofy, but imagine some of them being ridden into battle, it would scare the shit out of everyone involved. I say, I do have a new favorite mammal, that isn't around anymore.