Just what I was thinking! Dinosaur eats mammal. Next, mammal eats dinosaur.

This has been going on a long time 😊 I went and looked how long. Morganucodon is usually considered the first mammal but its oldest fossils, only represented by isolated teeth, date from around 205 million years ago. Based on the age of the specimens that we do have, that first dinosaur may well have lived in the early Triassic Period. The earliest dinosaurs for which we do have well-documented fossils are found in Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation in northern Argentina. Skeletons discovered in these rock layers include the meat-eating dinosaurs Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor, as well as the plant-eating dinosaur Pisanosaurus. Some rock layers from this formation are composed of ancient volcanic ash, which has yielded a radioisotopic age of 228 million years ago. So it looks 205 million years of mammal-dinosaur warfare.

I mean better than Pelican death I guess. I've seen instances where those just swallow squirrels and whatever else can fit in its mouth whole while they are still very much alive. That would be like getting swallowed by a Titan in Attack on Titan.

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Yeah once I started getting into birds ... And really it's just been the last few months where I've kind of gotten the bug, they are just Savage. Siblings killing siblings, parents killing siblings, Intruders and cuckoo brood parasites and so. And just their hunting prowess, even when things are relatively normal is insane. The way a kestrel and a barn owl can just go out and grab a rodent in 10 seconds and come back is so impressive.

Thanks. Honestly I think the best secret for photography is finding a subject that lets you get close and lets you move around for the best angle. This bird lets me be its paparazzi.

Yeah it surprised me when it put it down but it seemed the gopher hadn’t made a good plan to escape.

​@@jimzenor9148 I mean by then he was probably too exhausted to make a break for it.

Thanks. I think this heron’s level of big game hunting is unusual for his species. I saw this particular heron hunting gophers a couple years ago. Also I saw one with all its toes trying to catch gophers but it wasn’t until this week did I actually document one catching one.

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Indeed!! Just served to make it more disturbing! Seeing the gopher struggling and grimacing!! Truly Disturbing! I need to be slapped!

Yeah it was. I felt sorry for that gopher but I also felt happy for the bird. This particular bird, unlike most night herons, goes after prey that provides massive calories but big prey is hard to dispatch quickly. It seems to be this heron’s expertise.

Welcome to the reality of nature. Must see how young lions kill their old father lions. Truly painful

Very similar to what we humans go through here on the flat earth realm!

it is still sad tho 😔 nature is metal

Well as said it cant kill as fast as its larger relatives. However agonizing it is thats how it is.

These guys are clever. I watched one carry a beef rib into the water to use as bait.

Yes they do. I love how they stalk gophers. I have a couple videos where they stalk fish too. They use similar tactics for different prey but they smart and adaptable if they need to be.

Here in California they primarily hunt Botta’s Pocket Gophers. The vast majority of my videos are Great Blue Herons hunting gophers. They are really good at it.

It's called the Bennu heron with a height of 2 m / 6.6 ft. Would be interesting to watch. Not to be watched... 😅

And the storks were so big that kidnapped human childrens

What kind of ransom did the heron demand

they didint hunt humans....if anything they venerated them

There’s storks in Brazil taller than people! Biggest flying bird I believe

Thanks. Honestly this bird was interesting enough for me to make following it easier.

It is amazing. I was just talking with my brother about that. They look so different with the long and short necks.

Yes it is interesting how the very different preys have similar strategies to hunt. I have videos of this type of heron hunting fish and in both cases they are very stealthy and use similar techniques.

Rubbish.

Imagine you would have a few Braincells more..

Imagine you have a 50 cal

@HanginInSF I think fire was only thing that worked back then. Once we mastered fire, we took control. Great tool.

There is no such animal, I’m not sure what you’re even talking about? Do you mean terror birds? Because the largest known species reached 10-11 ft tall max, and they were extinct before humans ever made it to the Americas

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Thanks and you’re welcome.

Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks Joanna. That really is an exceptional bird. It is so easy to video and it really is an exceptional hunter.

Little dude was in shock

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Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks. Yeah I’m glad I’m not a gopher.

@@jimzenor9148 We had a couple of dozen chickens, not little ones, Chochins, BIG fighting chickens. Mice and inexperienced rats would come to take the spilled grain. Never twice. Them girls could move faster than you could see, literally so fast that you had to work out what they had done after the fact. And they would RACE each other for the mouse, and just VICIOUSLY peck and peck and then fight to be the one who swallowed it whole. Half grown rats were too big for them to swallow whole, so they would crowd around it, and grab a part each and just pull it apart, "pop". And two of them even would try to take sparrows out, I didn't see them ever succeed because the sparrows knew the story too, and would be SUPER on edge once they were in the pen trying to steal grains.

@@uncletiggermclaren7592wow cool story. I’ll bet your chicken eggs are really good compared to what we can get here in the store. I have watched turkeys being really predatorial eating large snakes and rodents. Some birds are so fast.

@@jimzenor9148 Oh, yeah the eggs were pretty good. We used to have a sign on the gate "Pick your own eggs !" :) Lots of people in the neighbourhood sold their eggs to a company that supplied vegetarian restaurants, and we did that too on occasion, but we ate so many of them, they would ring up and we would say "Yeah, we have a couple dozen" and they would flag driving down our long road, wasn't worth their time..

Yeah I agree. Great Blue Herons are better at taller grass. I found the ones around here are reluctant to go into tall grass maybe because predators might hide there.

Yeah that’s what I thought too.

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Queria vê tu de frente de aves gigantes do mioceno seria relaxante.

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Thank you. That is very nice of you to say.

I think it generally does a grab but I took another video the next day (yesterday) where the bird did seem to impale a gigantic gopher. I’m not sure when I’ll have time to process it but I hope to post early next week. It quickly dropped it and then did the neck grab and shake for nearly a half hour.

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Yeah and the Dinos win the mammals this match.

Yeah this guy is a big game hunter compared to most night herons.

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Yeah they do. I saw a night heron flying with what I thought was a rat a couple years ago but in hindsight I’m pretty sure it was a gopher.

I made a video once that I titled Silence of the Gophers.

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Yes being a gopher is hard. So many things want to eat them.

Yeah I think my adrenaline shot up on that one. I’ve sounded like Darth Vader a couple times when I had to run after a heron flying to the river.

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Thanks. I’ve tried narration but that seems to distract too much. Honestly the video quality surprised me when I saw it on the 4K monitor. I knew the light was good but it was really good.