Funny how in Walking with beasts, Gastornis behaves more like a Terror bird than the actual Terror birds

Gastornis: The “terror bird” that was actually a herbivore, but something you don’t wanna mess with nonetheless

When we needed him most, HE CAME BACK!

How I’d choose to define “Terror-Bird”. Terror-Bird: An informal paraphyletic grouping of large and terrestrial birds that are typically carnivorous. Glad to see you’re back. : )

The return of the king

Paleo misconception: Giganotosaurus lived alongside Argentinosaurus. Actually,it was mapusaurus that lived woth Argentinosaurus.Giganotosaurus live a few million years before

I really glad your back!! I really miss seeing your scientific analysis on documentaries and Paleo info videos! I really hope your Monsters Resurrected video’s will be out soon

Another way to tell them apart is Gastornis has a nut cracker for a beak where as Terror Birds have Axes for beaks

I’ve got a Paleo Misconception: Thylacosmilus and Smilodon living together or Smilodon living with Titanis, and by that I mean S. fatalis or S. populator as opposed to S. gracilis

Eight months, man. Eight...FREAKING....MONTHS!!!!!! Do you have ANY IDEA how worried I was that you'd simply abandoned your channel altogether?!?!?!

The King has returned...

I’m so glad your back I was worried that you gave up KZfaq videos I hope your monsters resurrected comes out soon

Welcome Back to the World Paleo Nerd. It’s been a while since we’ve been seeing you and hearing your voice in your videos on KZfaq. Great video partner and keep it up.

Can you please do a paleo misconception on T.rex's eyesight?

He returned!

I'm glad you return from 8 months,you so awesome,that I love your new Megaraptorian avatar and I wish you a great day. Also this video was awesome,and cleared some misconception on the amazing big duck.

This was uploaded one day before my birthday, and I wasn't aware of this! Welcome back lad!

Im Glad to see you returning, and is... antique, health as well. Your video is also nice and is a way to help the world be a better place

Just glad to have you back.

Bootiful glow up. Awesome video as always

after so long you are finally back

Nice to see you are back.

Bro, you had me worried at the beginning (I mean covid hit us all)and I'm sure you good looking, but luckily it was sequway to new pfp. Good luck on new ventures!!!

I am glad to see that you are back paleo nerd

So glad your back!!

Its Great to see you again.

Gastornis: That Big Ol' Duck Relative

It's great to see you back again, Paleo Nerd!

Great to see you're back! You could always do the classics "T rex was a scavenger" and "Azdarchids couldn't fly", other topics could be "feathers initially evolved for flight", "mammals ONLY diversified after the KPg extinction", "Many theropods were strategic pack hunters similar to lions", and "ceratopsians initially evolved frills for fighting off predators". You could also do more general topics regarding how inaccurate weight estimates can be (especially when massive sauropods and/or fragmentary remains are concerned), issues with inferring the behaviour of animals from fossils, and that theropods and other extinct predators weren't killing machines/monsters but were instead just regular carnivores that experienced all the ups and downs modern carnivores go through throughout their lives.

I'm thinking of the sauropod horizontal neck misconception.

Here are some more to sink your teeth into: 1. Short faced bears were cursorial hunters. 2. Big cats evolved from sabre teeth. 3. Crocodiles have remained unchanged since the Mesozoic.

I actually never knew this! Very informative video!

Love your megaraptor with glasses from

The Nerd is back and better than ever!

Welcome back !

Wait wait wait... so, if Gastornis was a herbivore, and thus not a terror bird, then does that mean Gastornis was... a... chocobo?

Just came across this underrated channel. Would you consider doing a "How would I update/improve Walking With Dinosaurs" video, as it's nowhere near as bad as Jurassic Fight Club. As for a possible misconception debunk video, the whole "T-Rex was an obligate scavenger" nonsense could be a good one. Keep the good work up !

welcome back buddy.

The man is back

Glad your back * happy honking noises *

Even after an 8 months absence you still made half a thousand views in a quarter of a day. Now that's power.

Welcome back,

In terms of common paleo-misconceptions to cover in this new series, here a few that come to mind: "Sharks haven't changed since the Paleozoic!" "Crocodiles haven't changed since the Triassic!" "Oxygen levels in the age of dinosaurs were much higher than today!" "(insert non-mammalian synapsid here) is a kind of reptile" "Pterosaurs were all fish-eaters that hunted by skimming the water's surface with their lower jaw." "Pterosaurs were *pterrible* at any form of locomotion other than gliding."

He’s back!

Dang dude. I’m so glad you are back, I just discovered your channel and binge watched a bunch of your videos. Got worried when I noticed you hadn’t updated in a while! Also what kinda dinosaur is your avatar/mascot?

Ayyy he's back!

He has returned

great video!!!!

>Monster Ressurected. Please be prepared for THAT one dinosaur. Also could you do a profile on Pycnonemosaurus? It's my personal favorite Abelisaurid!

Good one to start with.

Love this guy

He´s back =D

Interesting fact finds. 👍

He is finnaly back

HE IS BACK YESSSS!!!!!!!!

Finally your back

Paleo nerds back !!

So gastornis is basically a terror bird imposter

Good informative video

How long have been man i missed i though you were gone 😔 😪 but is good your are back 😀😃😄😁😂🤣

You should do a video about the Triceratops/Torosaurus mess.

Maybe you could do a special involving fossil Pokemon (or Pokemon that are based off of prehistoric animals) and their inaccuracies

aww your new mascot is such a sweetie, is he an Aerosteon maybe? i know its one of those more armsy lads like Australovenator

* That sigh *

yeah! a whole new nerd!

I'm kinda similar to how you're describing those who remember those three birds off the top of their heads when they think of Terror Birds, except in my case, replace Gastornis with Kelenken. Also, when I was growing up, I never knew anything about a bird called "Gastornis". The "giant bird that hunted primitive horse ancestors" when I was a kid was called "Diatryma". Then when I saw Walking With Beasts I heard about Gastornis for the first time, and only when I saw the behind the scenes featurette did I learn these two birds were actually the same creature.

Hello there, youtube ramdomly reccomended a video of yours 2 days ago. And I can't do anything more than just watch your videos. I see you haven't posted recently, not sure why, I hope you're okay. I really enjoyed your videos. Greetings from Brazil P.s: sorry for bad English I'm not good writing it.

Hello. When will the review be available on Resurrected Monsters?

“It is time” - Rafiki

Great video greetings from Serbia

A misconception you should do is about the actual size of liopleurodon

Here's a common misconception I'd like to see tackled: O. megalodon supposedly being outcompeted by raptorial cetaceans (and the idea of cetaceans outcompeting sharks in general)

Buddy, I'm having a very big question... Allosauroidea and megalosauroidea are together, forming Carnosauria, right? But on other sites says that Allosauroidea is close to Coelurosauria, forming Avetheropoda , and Megalosauroidea is separated. What would be the most correct phylogeny/taxonomy?

Wow, it's been so long, but I have an idea for another misconception: Thylacosmilus using its saber teeth to kill like smilodon.

Since Gastornis is a relative of waterfowl i think they could be opportunistic omnivores. Like, duck beaks appear to be specialized for eating seeds and soft algae of the lakes; but they can totally eat things like worms, arthropods, crustaceans, and even amphibians. Plus, many birds that are considered strict herbivores usually tend to eat meat; like how the Antipodes parakeets enters the burrows of grey-backed storm petrels to kill (and devour) the nesting adults. So i can totally imagine a Gastornis eating nuts and then feasting on a Propalaeotherium that got careless and got too close to it ;P

So its not a terror bird. And it did not eat meat. But its closest living relatives include geese/swans. Terrifying.

This must your new video it was good

Long time since you make a video

2:00 no keleken?

Is your new icon a Megaraptorid?

after 8 something month, he's back, yes! Wasn't this misconception in a lot off documentary?

Hey Paleo Nerd, a wee question about Allosaurus; I keep hearing time and time again that Allosaurus was a species w/a weaker bite force than a lion, yet in one of your Jurassic Fight Club analysis videos, you said this was likely not the case as that measurement was made from Big Al 2, a juvenile allosaurus. However, given that the video of yours in question is dated to about 2 years ago, I just wanted to ask; is this still the case? Did Allosaurus have an extremely weak bite force given its size?

Why do i feel that your sound has changed or my ears are cursed

When is that

Still though gastornis is a pretty terrifying bird

He got thanos snapped. But then he came back!

So, having not listened to this entire video before asking my question. Was the DODO a TERROR BIRD relation?

Where s is monster ressurected videos?

Is triceratops a juvinile sinomnim of torosaurus

i like your videos but i think you could try buying a better mike to improve your audio

I mean. It may not eat meat. (Although eggs may potentially be a different case. Lots of primarily herbivorous birds seem oddly keen on eggs for whatever reason) But. It’s also still a man sized bird with a beak entirely capable of cracking the average skull. Lookin at a cassowary. You don’t need to eat meat to be scary. I think it can still be called a “terror bird” even as a herbivore. We just need to remember that it’s not actually carnivorous.

Thanks for telling the truth about gastornis

FINALLY YOU GOT THE MILK

Ah yes the Gastornis which was related to ducks

Walking with Beasts is why people think it's a Terror Bird

Most of the women on my Maternal side were Pterodactyls....eventually evolving into the FLYING MONKEYS used in the film in the Wizard of OZ!!!

Gastornis Sorry for my spelling is not a terror bird it’s nuts

2:03 kelenken:

Well, I can tell you right away that the reason Xenosmilus hodsonae is not associated with Titanis walleri is because the two predators might never have overlapped. Fossils of Xenosmilus are very rare as it is, but the first two specimens (which are well preserved) are believed to have come from the Irvingtonian (which dates from 1.8 mya to 250,000 ya), which came after the extinction of Titanis (which died out during the previous Blancan age). I have heard some sources claim that Xenosmilus first showed up in the late Blancan, but others do not support that, saying that it was strictly from the Irvingtonian. I’m not sure what the reason behind these contradictions is; could be that these older fossils are fragmentary, or their identification as Xenosmilus is dubious or the age of those fossils is uncertain, so you should look that up first. On the other hand, S. gracilis and Edward’s wolf, along with a whole host of other small to medium-sized predators, like the American Chasmaporthetes, early forms of Arctodus, Homotherium and Miracinonyx and late-surviving Borophagus are known from the lame localities as Titanis, so there’s little doubt that Titanis overlapped with these carnivorans. Also, don’t fall for the misconception that Titanis has been “downsized”, as some people will claim. This is not based on any recent study and is only being perpetuated by people who have randomly started emphasizing a 2005 study, which mentions its height as 1.5 meters (it’s pretty much just the “half-sail Dimetrodon” or “Droopy-Lipped Smilodon” thing all over again). But the known fossils of Titanis vary in size, which could suggest sexual dimorphism or age differences, and size estimates suggest a height range from 1.5 to 2 meters, and there is no reason to treat the higher estimates as invalid. Yes, Titanis certainly was not 3 meters tall, but nobody has taken that idea seriously in 15 years, and both Prehistoric Predators and Monsters Resurrected gave it a very accurate size and shape, down to giving it a robust build.

Imagine being a carnivore and trying to bring down a gastornis naw