These are the Largest Creatures that Ever Existed

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Dive into the ancient past and discover the largest creatures ever to roam the Earth! From colossal ocean behemoths to towering land giants and sky-dominating pterosaurs, explore the fascinating world of prehistoric giants!
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@malkyboi1610 Ай бұрын

As a dinosaur kid it’s weirdly comforting to know there’s still cool dinos being discovered relatively frequently

@tripsaplenty1227 Ай бұрын

you see a dinosaur everytime you see a bird.

@proudtobeapothead Ай бұрын

You didn’t grow into a dinosaur adult?

@mansnothot1284 Ай бұрын

@@proudtobeapothead Bruhathkawhat?

@unintentionalprovocateur2158 Ай бұрын

You were a dinosaur when you were a kid!?

@unintentionalprovocateur2158 Ай бұрын

Sorry, joke was already made :(

@the80hdgaming Ай бұрын

I may as well start calling it "SimonTube" with the amount of channels he has in my feed... 😂😂

@rossharper1983 Ай бұрын

I've renamed the app on my phone to "whistleverse"

@wk8219 Ай бұрын

Simon is the internet’s Dad

@antiisocial Ай бұрын

Pretty sure SimonTube is his OnlyFans channel.

@Hilarious.Hobo666 Ай бұрын

Or just give him his own streaming service 😂 "Simon+, all the Simon you want, but with swear words " Who's with me?

@zakadams7102 Ай бұрын

You should, you will, you must.

@SundayBacon72210 Ай бұрын

Watched this with my 9 year old, her jaw was on the floor the whole time. Good stuff Simon

@benhac Ай бұрын

I envy you. My 13 yo niece doesn't give a shit about anything that is not stupid and dancing on tiktok

@jakethomson531 Ай бұрын

That sounds like a serious problem you should take your kid to the doctor's for treatment

@awakenow7147 Ай бұрын

@@benhac Thats...unfortunate.

@aleisterdenven Ай бұрын

Be Not Deceived! Just think - Why were no Dinosaur bones or skeletons discovered before The 1800s and The 1900s?If The Dinosaurs truly existed then Why didn't The Romans discover any Dinosaur skeletons?Why didn't The Indians who were roaming around discover any Dinosaur skeletons?If Dinosaurs were real there would be Millions,Billions even Trillions of Dinosaur skeletons scattered on Absolutely Every Single land and property across The Earth!People would be discovering Dinosaur skeletons every single day!The people digging to build a brand new House would discover Dinosaur skeletons!People would be discovering Dinosaur skeletons in their gardens!Children on the beach digging to build the latest sand castle would discover Dinosaur skeletons!If Dinosaurs truly existed Everyone Everywhere would be uncovering/unearthing them!There would be Dinosaur skeletons sitting right under every single House including Your own House right now!Every single backyard in The World would be a Dinosaur grave! People think that The Dinosaur skeletons in The Museums are real.They Are Not.The Dinosaur Skeletons in museums are made from a strong plaster fiber material.The few real bones are just small little fragments hidden inside a restricted section.All-Dinosaur skeletons in All-Museums in The World are Artificial Fakes!Using plaster fiber you can manufacture any skeleton or any body part you desire. If Dinosaurs were really real - "The Beach" would be the ideal place to search for Dinosaur skeletons as The Beach is located near The Water and Water is "The Source Of Life" as Biologists and Evolutionists like to say.In order to prove 100% that Dinosaurs don't exist;All you need is a few Thousand children.Take those Thousands of children to The Beaches and let them dig at will.If All of those Thousands of children don't discover any Dinosaur bones or skeletons in a couple of days or weeks,then we must All-Ultimately conclude that Dinosaurs are a massive hoax! Dinosaurs are like Santa Claus or The Easter Bunny or The Tooth Fairy or The Globe Earth or Satellites or Outer Space or Planets or Solar Systems or Galaxies or The Multiverse or Gravity or Evolution or The Big Bang or Nuclear Weapons or Alien Life......All of these things are FICTIONS!They are not real!They don't exist!Stop lying and teaching your kids about these things with a smile on your face!You tell your little kids that Santa Clause is real,while knowing full well that he is Nothing but a fake made up character and then when the poor kid grows up you reveal the shattering truth to them if they don't already know themselves.This World is a lie.The Earth is Flat and Motionless and enclosed with a Armoured Dome.Jesus Christ Is Real and it is He that created You and died on The Cross for You and then resurrected 3 days later into Heaven.If You don't believe me,then just look at Yourself in The Mirror or look at Your reflection in The Water - You have a Human face and Jesus Christ has a Human face,if Jesus Christ didn't exist then You wouldn't exist,but since You are real then Jesus Christ is also real! Do not lose your faith in Christ over The Imperfect Science of Man!

@wvt5825 Ай бұрын

@benhac Let me guess, she likes listening to Billie Eilish?

@cgsweat Ай бұрын

2:26 "In a single gulp, they can consume half a million calories..." Steven Seagal: "hold my beer"

@pineapplepenumbra Ай бұрын

I watched a video on the "most horrible celebrity" a couple of days ago. No prizes for guessing his name.

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

He'd tell you he ate more after putting the whale to sleep with a sleeper hold, then ate the whale.

@pineapplepenumbra Ай бұрын

@@jackbridge5780 Lol.

@jean-lucpicard5510 Ай бұрын

@@jackbridge5780All he needs to do to put it to sleep is show it one of his post 2000s films.

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

@@jean-lucpicard5510 hopefully he doesn't make it so...

@Werevampiwolf Ай бұрын

I actually went to a museum as a kid that had some tubes for kids to play in that were the size of a blue whale's arteries, plus a to-scale chamber in the middle for the heart

@PhilDanielsStorr Ай бұрын

Unless I'm very much mistaken, when Simon starts talking about the Blue Whale, the swimmer is alongside a Sperm whale.

@KremWorld Ай бұрын

Soon we'll discover Simon is just a really advanced AI and that's how he can be on so many videos and channels in such a short amount of time

@mwatson7474 Ай бұрын

That would explain his distain of Siri and love affair with ChatGPT. Lol.

@FitzgeraldStanburyWeissV 22 күн бұрын

@@mwatson7474 Hahaha! Perhaps you guys are on to something here

@klaasvanmanen8214 Ай бұрын

1:34 To anyone who would have put some effort into checking images, it would immediately have become clear that the animal shown here is not a blue whale (a baleen whale) but a sperm whale (a toothed whale). It makes me question how reliable the rest of this video will be.

@LemurDreamer87 Ай бұрын

Yeah, looks like the editor screwed up a bit there. I'd also give Simon crap for mispronouncing "Giraffatitan", but mispronunciations are kinda his thing.

@John-lp5xh Ай бұрын

This is a video factory type channel

@user-om1pp5qe5z Ай бұрын

You should not believe anything you see on youtube. Question everything

@debbylou5729 Ай бұрын

I mostly question comments and replies. Pronunciation? Really?

@thejoshandcharles1 Ай бұрын

There was a whale in that shot? I didn't see any whale.

@SmashBrosAssemble Ай бұрын

“The Blue Whale.” ~ Alan Davies

@NP-zl7dz Ай бұрын

Quite Interesting that

@SteveAustin-zv1nn Ай бұрын

*Davies

@choughed3072 Ай бұрын

🚨🚨klaxon noises 🚨🚨

@julianaylor4351 Ай бұрын

😆

@Hippozippowhippo Ай бұрын

No better way to correct Simon than with this perfect QI reference. Bravo!

@user-ul6dc4qc4j Ай бұрын

I'm sure, in 400 million years some weird ass creature will be posting videos about us saying, "Evidence suggests these creatures could split the atom at will & yet they went extinct. It's even thought that they have been to Mars."

@aleisterdenven Ай бұрын

@pineapplepenumbra Ай бұрын

I wonder if there would be any evidence of a Mars colony left by then?

@pineapplepenumbra Ай бұрын

Now, will these creatures be descended from Meerkats or Raccoons? My money is on the latter, Raccoon Federation Forever!

@andrewbetances1203 Ай бұрын

@@pineapplepenumbrawe will know within 5-10 years

@thatsmyassbrostop Ай бұрын

In 400 million years, there won't be a speck of evidence left that we were ever here. That's maybe a more disturbing idea. Shit, in 100,000 years there wouldn't be anything left apart from possibly soil samples that would suggest it.

@AgustePerry Ай бұрын

I'd like to see a visual size comparison between the creature and humans

@stephanybrown3226 Ай бұрын

Prehistoricwildlife is a website with a good size comparisons. Keep in mind not all may have them especially the lesser known ones on this list.

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

"gives you keys to a deloreon"

@DneilB007 Ай бұрын

How many Danny DiVitos is it in length?

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

@@DneilB007 the longest blue whale was 112 feet, Danny divito is four feet ten. It is 23.1 Danny divito's

@pineapplepenumbra Ай бұрын

@@jackbridge5780 I drove past one the other week. You don't see many in the UK.

@Godeater42 Ай бұрын

If ya gonna educate folks, don’t show a spermwhale when you’re talking about the Blue Whale 🐋

@FitzgeraldStanburyWeissV 22 күн бұрын

So it's not "educating" because one picture was wrong? Lol, nice logic penis fingers. It can't be educating if one minor detail is incorrect. LMAO

@stxticnathan6627 Ай бұрын

Hatzegopteryx was the biggest flying animal ever, remember size is measured in mass

@GoatTheGoat Ай бұрын

You forgot about my mother in law!

@BradBalch Ай бұрын

He’s talkin about animals dude, not bacteria! Man that was a shitty joke my bad it’s late here

@ignitionfrn2223 Ай бұрын

0:40 - Chapter 1 - Giants of the ocean 2:50 - Chapter 2 - Dominating the land 5:20 - Chapter 3 - King of the skies 8:25 - Chapter 4 - Supersized bugs

@soudino2723 Ай бұрын

have you heared about the recently described Ichthyotitan? the few specimens we have are sub adults and are estimated to be over 100 tons in weight

@majnuker Ай бұрын

I was surprised he didn't mention Amphicoelius, but tbh it's just a fun pipe dream fantasy of a god-sauropod lol

@evilsharkey8954 Ай бұрын

Or Livyatan, which was likely heavier than the blue whale because it was chonkier.

@soudino2723 Ай бұрын

@@evilsharkey8954 livyatan was the size of a sperm whale, so no

@evilsharkey8954 Ай бұрын

@@soudino2723 It was a lot heavier than a sperm whale, based on the thickness of its bones. I believe some newer fossils suggest it may have been a lot bigger than previous estimates, since the reconstructions were based on sperm whales, and its body type wasn’t necessarily sperm whale shaped.

@soudino2723 Ай бұрын

@evilsharkey8954 even if that's the case, it wouldn't not be bigger than the blue whale as it competed with octodus megladon for resources

@Hillbilly001 Ай бұрын

It's the Lizard Overlords. It's always the Lizard Overlords

@heman6169 Ай бұрын

Hail Nimrod

@peterresetz1960 Ай бұрын

At 1:34 Simon is talking about the Blue whale, and a video clip of a Sperm whale is shown. Whoever did the video editing for this, really needs to intently study the flora and fauna of the animal kingdom so they can know the difference between the two whales. Insignificant mistakes in editing, compromises the validity of everything else that is stated, or shown within the video, leaving one with a feeling of no confidence regarding the information told.

@sarkastodon30 Ай бұрын

I noticed that too. So much stock footage is available which shows Blue Whales and their awesome size.

@donkeykong6426 Ай бұрын

the picture looks a 11 year old did that

@clintfrederici3928 Ай бұрын

so obvious too, a sperm whale doesn't even LOOK like a blue whale, I could see if they accidently included a clip of a whale similar to a blue whale.................but moby dick? I'm glad someone pointed this out, sad really.

@AifDaimon Ай бұрын

Whoever was editing the video needs TO BE FIRED FOR INCOMPETENCE

@Vikingocazar Ай бұрын

They literally showed a blue a few seconds before… no excuse for this. My god, sperm whales aren’t even baleen whales🤦🏼

@martinstallard2742 Ай бұрын

0:35 giants of the ocean 2:43 dominating the land 5:16 king of the skies 8:19 supersized bugs

@the80hdgaming Ай бұрын

Do you do this in real time?

@martinstallard2742 Ай бұрын

@@the80hdgamingyes I do

@jasonvorhees7598 Ай бұрын

@@martinstallard2742 why? Whats the point of that breakdown

@Zencaste Ай бұрын

Personally if I think something specific is cool and want to tell a friend/family member about it these timestamps are super helpful @@jasonvorhees7598

@India.R120 Ай бұрын

@@jasonvorhees7598in case someone is more interested in one part of the video or another, they know when the timestamp for that section is so they can skip to that part.

@bahamutbbob Ай бұрын

I remember, in elementary school, they had tape on the floor in one of the hallways showing how long a blue whale was. That was, like, 30 years ago now, but I still remember it!

@goosenotmaverick1156 Ай бұрын

1:50 I'm sad we used Toyota Corollas instead of Danny DeVitos to measure it. Anyone else with me? 😂

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

i was wondering if it was a real life lore reference lol

@peterpan408 Ай бұрын

Which generation Corolla? They got bigger and heavier over the years until new Corollas are similar to old Camrys.. So much so they had to bring in the Yaris 😉

@goosenotmaverick1156 Ай бұрын

@@peterpan408 this is why Danny DeVito would be a better unit of measure 😎

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

@@goosenotmaverick1156 him in two inch heels would be a easier measurement lol

@jmik6229 Ай бұрын

AmiRIGHTpeter?!?

@Ben_D. Ай бұрын

A scorpion the size of a bed pillow. Ya naah… I’ll pass on that one.

@reggiefurlow1 Ай бұрын

I like your videos because they are easy to digest and listen too. Didn't ever change! Long time fan here❤

@ianalli491 Ай бұрын

All his channels are great, watch multiple every day for months. On my way to work, at work and while eating dinner

@DragonKingGaav Ай бұрын

Kanye West's ego is the biggest thing to ever exist!!!

@snakething87 Ай бұрын

A zoo near me has a full scale model of a standing quetzalcoatlus, and I have never felt so unnerved standing near it.

@robsquared2 Ай бұрын

Time to fix the white balance or exposure or something, Simon's so pale he could be a ghost on decoding the unknown.

@megret1808 Ай бұрын

I thought that was because he lives in the UK

@SugarandSarcasm Ай бұрын

@@megret1808he actually lives in Prague (Czech Republic)

@derekwhistler4957 Ай бұрын

Mr Whistler, Mr Whistler here. Just wanted you to know that I enjoy your content!

@bandit6272 Ай бұрын

I was just thinking what a life this guy has. For a living, he narrates interesting videos. I mean, if I could get paid for talking about cool stuff all day, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. Well played sir, well played

@AeroGuy07 Ай бұрын

The Toyota system of measurement. My favorite!

@stusacks2220 Ай бұрын

Great stuff! Thank you for frequently blowing me away!

@nicholascox4545 Ай бұрын

Very low saturation on this edit, strange... But love love love every one of your videos. You make me much more interesting at dinner parties

@seandelap8587 Ай бұрын

How many more of these creatures that have yet to be discovered I mean fossils are being discovered all the time so who knows what else are out there

@migueljardim8177 Ай бұрын

Quetzalcoatalus was not the largest flyer ever. That title goes to Hatzegoperyix as it was heavier and more stockily built than Quetzalcoatalus.

@Gloriousturtlechan Ай бұрын

Yep it is. Keep in mind that the normies generally mean length when it comes to being larger rather than mass. In which case Quetzalcoatalus is correct. 🤷

@migueljardim8177 Ай бұрын

@Gloriousturtlechan In science, when we measure 'largest' animals, we always mean mass. That is why T-rex is bigger than Spinosaurus even though Spinosaurs is longer than T-rex. It makes no sense to measure size in any other metric, and thankfully, in Science, it isn't.

@Gloriousturtlechan Ай бұрын

@@migueljardim8177 I am aware yes, thank you.

@KhanMann66 19 күн бұрын

They flip flop every year. The fossils are so fragmentary no one knows for sure.

@edwardcody1671 Ай бұрын

Maybe when talking about blue whales, show video of a blue whale...a sperm whale is a toothed whale and completely off the subject you were speaking on.

@dfgdfg_ Ай бұрын

They just churn these out, it's not really a proper science program, sadly.

@inorbit5236 Ай бұрын

No credibility....

@Paintedfigs Ай бұрын

Oh get over yourselves... If you don't like them "churning" out free content, go watch something else!

@michaelb1761 Ай бұрын

First thing I thought.

@michaelb1761 Ай бұрын

@Paintedfigs why would it be a greater effort to get a video of a Blue Whale, though?

@OneAngryPagan616 Ай бұрын

No mention of Dreadnoughtus...

@Gloriousturtlechan Ай бұрын

That is because estimates put it under some of the other sauropods.

@girthbloodstool339 Ай бұрын

30% oxygen is 50% more than it is today.

@wesleehoilo9207 Ай бұрын

That's how animals could be so big back then

@HuckleberryHim Ай бұрын

They meant 10% more as in 10 % points more (20% vs 30%). It is ambiguous though

@edmond4005 Ай бұрын

He says "That's 10% higher than it is today". If you try to correct some information, please try to be accurate. This is at minute 9:12.

@HuckleberryHim Ай бұрын

@@edmond4005 They are both correct, it is ~20% today so 30% is 50% more, but also 10 percentage points more. I think the way this comment says it is actually less confusing than the video though

@FitzgeraldStanburyWeissV 22 күн бұрын

@@edmond4005 The same goes for you - when trying to correct a comment, be sure that you are accurate about reading all the comments related to that thread, instead of jumping to conclusions.

@Lethgar_Smith Ай бұрын

...on Earth. That we know of so far.

@tahneegilbert8682 Ай бұрын

I saw a museum exhibition with an Argentinosoraus set up, and that thing was HUGE!

@sussekind9717 Ай бұрын

Right? Even a Tyrannosaurus Rex on the the hunt, would look at it and say to themself, that is a big b*tch! I am going the other way.😂

@tahneegilbert8682 Ай бұрын

@@sussekind9717 T-Rex would run right under it and not even touch it 😅

@sussekind9717 Ай бұрын

@tahneegilbert8682 If the T-Rex was nice to it, it could maybe become its pet😂

@tahneegilbert8682 23 күн бұрын

@@sussekind9717 🤣🤣🤣

@geishasha Ай бұрын

Does not include my mother-in-law AMIRITE????

@bluekaye5123 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@eaphantom9214 Ай бұрын

Megalodon 🦈 Paleoloxidon Namadicus (Columbian Mammoth) 🦣 Largest land mammal so far discovered! 3-4x the weight of a fully grown african elephant so broadly - 20-30 tonnes!

@thomaspaine7098 Ай бұрын

Linxia Giant Rhino was larger then the mammoth

@abmantis4441 Ай бұрын

@@thomaspaine7098 the paleoloxodon wasn't a mammoth it is a recently discovered (elephant) that was larger than the paraceratherium.

@abmantis4441 Ай бұрын

Sorry I kind of got it wrong the title of largest terrestrial mammal is between 3 different species the palaeoloxodon namadicus, paraceratherium and mammut borsoni.

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

i thought it was paraceratherium, tho im wrong often lol

@ObsidianQuasar Ай бұрын

Chapter 1: interesting, Chapter 2: cool, Chapter 3: wow, Chapter 4: NOPE

@FitzgeraldStanburyWeissV 22 күн бұрын

Man, is it weird that I can't imagine a world without Simon in it?

@jacobharris6444 Ай бұрын

Huge shoutout to Nigel Marvin’s prehistoric park for the millipede

@SugarandSarcasm Ай бұрын

No thanks 🫣

@TheWigglergler Ай бұрын

It's worth noting with Bruathkayosaurus that we only have one specimen. Although the largest blue whales are 200+ tons, the average is about 110 tons. It is most likely that if you found a single blue whale fossil it would be close to this. If the fossil of Bruhathkayosaurus was close to average size at 110-170 tons (Paul and Larramendi 2023), that would make it a strong contender for being the largest animal of all time, given that we have no idea what the maximum size of this species could have been. Also, the degraded femur theory is unlikely given current evidence and the paleontologist who proposed it (Gregory S. Paul) later worked on the 2023 study.

@ego4551 Ай бұрын

Sry for rant and ad hominem here, but a lot of it is Paul’s head canon, just like the split of T.Rex into three different species. One thing which rubs me personally the wrong way about him is how much he downplays the size of Ichtyosaurs. In the 2023 paper, he referenced himself for the size estimates. At the time he publish his original “estimates” described ones were 2-7m larger. And just two weeks ago a paper was published discussing a new species called Ichtyotitan. A not full grown specimen was 20-25m aka 10m larger than his estimates “can’t get larger than” numbers, he pulled from his head canon. He’s been trying to make Sauropods the biggest animals ever for a while now. Ichtyotitan might have been worth a mention in this vid, since a fully grown one has a high chance of rivaling blue whales. In the flying animal section Hatzegopteryx should’ve also been name dropped since it was likely heavier. Besides this there will be a paper published soon on a new specimen which with high likelihood is a hatzegopteryx species and significantly bigger.

@TheWigglergler Ай бұрын

@@ego4551 Paul has jumped to some conclusions on the past (the T. Rex thing especially), but he and Larramendi are some of the top experts when it comes to scaling sauropods. In fact, they're typically among the ones to downsize sauropods deemed the "largest ever". They do enough downsizing of sauropods that I doubt that this is because Paul is "trying to make Sauropods the biggest animals ever". His downsizing would be actively counterproductive if this was his end goal, and he even published a far smaller estimate for Bruhathkayosaurus itself in the past. He re-evaluated this given more evidence (hence the 2023 study), which seems like good practice for a paleontologist. I don't think he has an agenda with this (and Larramendi certainly doesn't). The self-reference was on other sauropods which were not the subject of the paper, and was among many other references. Self-referencing is common for things like this. In fact, Dean Lomax referenced himself in the Ichthyotitan paper. Granted, I haven't seen his ichthyosaur estimates, but those just sound like him trying to be conservative rather than setting up sauropods as the largest animal, especially given that ichthyosaurs weren't even considered real contenders for that title until quite recently. Various people such as Darius Nau have given more conservative estimates for Ichthyotitan, and they're not trying to make sauropods or whales the largest animals ever to the exclusion of ichthyosaurs.

@ego4551 Ай бұрын

The scaling itself isn't the issue. It seems well done. The issue is what they are scaling from. B. redescription is based on photos since the material disintegrated very quickly. Now, it's difficult to for certain get the actual size of the material from references in the photos. Likely the reason why the redescription avoided the topic. It's like claiming there are 200+ tons blue whales based on some old Fotos without an extremely certain scale, when the next biggest ever found was 110t. The other animals in the paper have similar issues. For example the vertibrae placement can make the animal a very large sauropod or a kaiju. The majority of possibilities makes it a behemoth, but the smaller ones are just as valid. The last one is based on a description of lost material noone else could take a proper look at from a guy who was in a dick measuring contest and pumped out stuff like crazy. B. is so far out there alone in terms of size, it requires extraordinary evidence. His reference for Ichtyosaur size is his field guide. Overall it reads like they saw mosasaur and the largest pliosaurs got downsized and he applied the same downsizing to conservative Ichtyosaur estimates at the time, just in case.

@TheWigglergler Ай бұрын

@@ego4551 The material having disintegrated isn't ideal, but the size seems to be accurate. The photos had some objects to get rough scale, which seems to align with the given size. It would have made very little sense for the original discoverers to lie about the sizes, given that they never claimed it was the largest sauropod. At the time, Giraffatitan was thought to be the largest sauropod, so giant titanosaurs were barely a consideration. I don't think that the degree of increase matters all that much. Perucetus is 3-7 times the size of Basilosaurus, the next largest basilosaurid (using the downsized estimates from Motani and Pyenson 2024). Smaller estimates are indeed just as valid as the larger ones, but for Bruhathkayosaurus, the only estimates under 100 tons have assumed the tibia was a different bone. In fact, Ichthyotitan has more estimates making it signifigantly smaller than the most common figures (I'm not saying those are any more accurate, just that there's more of them than with Bruhathkayosaurus). Vertebral scaling has its flaws, but it's usually possible to tell where a vertebra goes. As an aside, circumstantial evidence does suggest Maraapunisaurus probably existed (although there is still some doubt). Marsh had spies who were watching Cope, yet never challenged him on this claim. Oramel William Lucas, the collector of the fossil, made specific mention of it in his autobiography and repeated the claims without modification on other occasions as well. Lucas was known to make and annotate his own measurements of fossils, so it would be out of character to go along with a false claim for his whole life. There's some other evidence as well, although none of it is conclusive. I think the confirmation of the existence of Hector's Ichthyosaur, which was also generally considered exaggerated or entirely fabricated, bodes well for Maraapunisaurus.

@Kholdilocks Ай бұрын

I think more recent theories suggest that the lower oxygen concentration isn't really the main thing responsible for decreasing arthropod size but rather vertebrates were becoming increasingly more able to compete, so they were pressured to decrease in size.

@Aleksandrlawgaming Ай бұрын

Ayo who forgot to color grade the video

@stephanybrown3226 Ай бұрын

Daily I am reminded how huge some of these were. T-rex length of a semi trailer, acrocanthosaurus tall as the sliding door on our shed, shed 100ft long good measure for sauropods. Finding objects to do this with really make you feel small.

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

i live in a 7 storey building and hearing sauropods size makes me imagine one stood next to it and im amazed each time lol. makes me wanna remake the scene in jurassic park where they feed the bronto in a tree.

@moshonn9318 Ай бұрын

Great Vid, though the largest flying thing ever is outdated. By now, the Hatzegopteryx from modern day Hungary is considered to be even larger than Quetzalcoatlus. Something that's as large as a giraffe, flew and was described by the researchers as "a mix of a shoebill stork, a ground hornbill, and the Terminator".

@Votrae Ай бұрын

For whatever reason this thumbnail looks odd, so I'm hoping sometime in the next eleven minutes you'll talk about the shark that my brain thinks is covered in velvet

@thecraftycyborg9024 Ай бұрын

The creature shown isn’t mentioned once… angers me a bit.

@TeaDrivenDev Ай бұрын

3:30 Giraffatitan, not whatever he said, and that's a genus; the species is Giraffatitan brancai. Simon has always sucked at names and doesn't seem to care or want to improve. (The writers/researchers also don't seem to make much of an effort of giving him direction there.) Also Quetzalcoatlus, gfdi.

@darknesshorizon3742 Ай бұрын

At this point I can't even imagine how many KZfaq channe this man owns ♾️

@carvelvance7577 Ай бұрын

I do enjoy your side project this segment was very enjoyable🎉

@svenlima Ай бұрын

I didn't know much about "The largest creatures that ever existed". However I know the creature with the largest ego that ever existed: My ex wive.

@Spooky_Platypus Ай бұрын

Funny mine is my ex boyfriend. Should we get them together?😂

@svenlima Ай бұрын

@@Spooky_Platypus 👍 Excellent idea. Send him here, to Switzerland. 😉😉

@colingunn5227 25 күн бұрын

Those of us who have played Ark are familiar with most of these creatures, but I didn't realize how true to life the game got most of them

@molsonmuscle613 Ай бұрын

maybe make a video of the biggest dinos throughout the eras?

@szeredaiakos 29 күн бұрын

The first minutes is a great exercise on avoiding the metric system.

@multiyapples Ай бұрын

Animals and plants are amazing.

@MorbiusTheMenace Ай бұрын

Thank god we still have a large one among us, Maggie De Block

@ARabidPie Ай бұрын

That huge pterasaur could probably also have snatched smaller pterasaurs out of the sky and swallowed them whole without needing to land and take off again.

@DEADG6D Ай бұрын

The huge pterasaur actually prolly flew in very short burts and ran on the ground more usually. Or so ive read

@ARabidPie Ай бұрын

@@DEADG6D Then why even have wings for something that huge if it's gonna spend most of its time on the ground? I figure it probably would have glided on updrafts and wind gradients as much as possible and minimized the need to do an energy intensive flapping takeoff or powered flight like with albatrosses.

@jackbridge5780 Ай бұрын

@@ARabidPie yeah thats what i figured they did, is it the wandering albatros that does this while its asleep? be like me as a kid falling asleep when goin on holiday and waking up ath the other end of the country lol

@jameydunne3920 Ай бұрын

@@ARabidPieAre you thinking similar to what condors and vultures do? Because that makes sense

@sussekind9717 Ай бұрын

Because they seem to be built kind of like jet fighters, I've always imagined them coming in at high speed, and attacking a ground dwelling prey. A sneak attack so fast, that the prey wouldn't even see it coming. Probably small to moderate sized dinos. Things that range in the size of humans. Terrifying.

@jamesjoyce3174 Ай бұрын

Do more about giant insects!

@BinroWasRight Ай бұрын

This is delightful, thank you!

@Evilbunk15 Ай бұрын

I first said OH HELL NO to the giant centipede but then thought ... you could ride one of those probably.

@hoofhearted4 Ай бұрын

Its cool how everyone things of how massive the TRex (which wasnt much bigger than an elephant, it didnt tower over trees like commonly depicted). was or even things like the Titanosaurs, and yet, the Blue Whale is still bigger than all of them.

@_Accurate_spino Ай бұрын

As a Dino nerd it was very entertaining hearing him pronounce dinosaur names Hahaha

@fasihhaider7187 Ай бұрын

All hail Simontube

@mattysykes2121 Ай бұрын

Heart rate 2 beats per minute!? That is really impressive!

@adamthompson4072 Ай бұрын

And here i thought the moa from New Zealand were the largest birds to have existed. They may have been taller than the elephant birds but they weren't as heavy. And we know the moa went extinct in the 1400s from māori histories and rock art

@Reggies-ii9xk Ай бұрын

The quetzal is literally famous for how massive it was, how have you never heard of it

@eccentricwallflower Ай бұрын

"Nothing you can't outrun or stomp on with a fairly thick shoe" *laughs in australian with huntsman spiders the size of dinner plates*

@frjoji5685 Ай бұрын

First thing first, a big thank you to speak about paleontology, a subject which you aren’t specialized in but nonetheless super cool! I was highly surprised by the level of details in your video, so great work to you all. I, however, have a few precisions to make 🤓 - 1:34 this is a sperm whale, not a blue whale, I don’t know if this was intentional or not. - 3:42 Argentinosaurus lived around 96 to 92 million years, so that was during the Cretaceous, the Jurassic having at ended around 145 million years ago, so it was definitely not a Jurassic Dinosaur. - 5:30 the Mesozoic (more precisely the Cretaceous), the age of dinosaurs, actually ended 66 million years ago, and with it went the pterosaurs. I know this isn’t a big difference in terms of millions of years, but that’s still a difference that is widely accepted in the scientific community . - 5:34 for the little story, we found a family of flying reptile who are called Weigeltisauridae that weren’t a Pterosaurs by any means who lived in the late Permian (around 255 Million Years ago), so that’s before any dinosaurs or pterosaurs ever existed! But to be fair, they aren’t exactly flying reptile, for they would have been more gliding than truly flying. I just wanted to talk about them for I find the Weigeltisauridae pretty cool. Of course, you only have tens of minutes to speak about such a large subject, and did it pretty well, so thank you again and bravo!

@davearbuthnut241 Ай бұрын

Learned of a new (to me) sauropod, but wish you'd included largest true fish Leedsicthys

@user-zg2ok3od3j 3 күн бұрын

My main question is just how many sets do you have in that basement

@DreadEnder Ай бұрын

It’s cool to think I like in the area where potentially the largest animal ever resided.

@bahamutbbob Ай бұрын

Also, the footage of Simon in his room is noticeably washed out, still. You have too many channels, so I can't remember which, but a recent video maybe on Megaprojects that uses the same camera angle was noticeably darker and more natural looking.

@kamron_thurmond Ай бұрын

Half a million calories in krill. Is that why I can't buy Krill oil and my grocery store anymore?

@YltimateUIM Ай бұрын

Fact boy sunday

@bjaymac1712 Ай бұрын

Love the new music queues btw

@VikingVern7 Ай бұрын

the illistrations should have had size comparisons with things we would be familiar with, like a person or bus

@stxticnathan6627 Ай бұрын

His dinosaurpronunciations 💀

@oxcart4172 Ай бұрын

Why doesn't someone breed dragonflies in a huge tank with more oxygen? Isn't the reduced oxygen level the only thing stopping them from growing as large as they were?

@markferguson5924 Ай бұрын

Not growing as individuals, but evolving as species. That would be like giving a domestic cat enough food to grow into a lion: the DNA is not up to it - it has to know how to make use of the extra food/oxygen to make the different body with the information from natural selection. BUT - since insects reproduce quickly, I'm sure you COULD artificially select for some huge new insect in a high O2 environment after a few hundred generations.

@oxcart4172 Ай бұрын

@markferguson5924 I heard somewhere (I think) that because of the difference in the way they breathe that they grow according to how much oxygen they get. Thanks for putting me straight

@markferguson5924 Ай бұрын

@@oxcart4172 If that were true, you know the weird kid in every school would be making huge bugs and spiders. More time is needed.

@trespire Ай бұрын

" Think we're going to need a bigger boat ! "

@joshuaevans6295 Ай бұрын

3:52 You imply that Argentinasaurus lived in the Jurassic but it actually lived in the Cretaceous.

@IBEWSparky Ай бұрын

I didn’t know how insects breathe until now. Someone needs to tell all those Fallout extended lore people that all the giant insects are probably not possible.

@the-chillian Ай бұрын

I wonder how many tries it took for Simon to successfully pronounce Bruhathkayosaurus.

@NeutroniousTemp Ай бұрын

Simon seems to have many 'sideprojects'

@sonschwarz Ай бұрын

Lots of comments here about the video editor showing sperm whales and not blue whales. If you watch at 2:18 they do show a video of a baleen whale. Yes, a sperm whale is not of the baleen whale family but they are the largest of the toothed whales. I suppose they could have either mentioned that, or left out the video of the sperm whale but honestly not such a big deal. Keep up the good work Simon. Love your channels and the content that you put out.