Hey man love the content u got a fan for life if u keep this quality up! Would love to see a subnautica story vid or vids on the biomes or whatever, anyway love your content can't wait for more!

@@Anchorwing. Thanks Anchorwing, I'm sure there will be more in the future, especially in this Leviathans series!

@iAletho looking forward to it! I can see your channel blowing up based on your voice, narration style and format really good stuff!

Not today but tonight

@@iAletho For some reason I read your handle to the tune of Calypso

The Gargantuan fossil is 3 million years old so its been dead for a little while Sprite! xD

Yeah they get bigger

Are we sure they're all extinct? They aren't in the biomes we see, but we explore one small plateau in the ocean, who know what's out there once you're past the deadzone.

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@@virtualshark9203 That is a valid question, after all, the ecological dead zone might house these massive Leviathan class creatures, that feed on the Reapers and Sea Dragons that one may encounter, and we know that there are multiple Reapers as to where they can be found. The planet might be a massive water planet, with few land masses and aquatic habitats.

That's actually what it says on the wiki lmao about the ghost lavaithin

Imagine you're an unspeakably huge creature just chilling in your dark void water. And every so often huge ships smash into your planet. Given how sound travels in water, I'd be pretty ticked off too

That makes 0 sense. " Realistically" speaking, humans are slow AF in the water. It wouldn't take a leviathan class organism any energy to eat a human. They don't even need to take speed up. Even In their normal swimming speed they could catch up and just open close mouth. And you are wrong. Look at the modern world: bears eat humans, so do sharks, orcas or other whales. Furthermore, we know from dino fossils that that size of creatures require constant eating. Titanosaurs were eating almost non stop to support their gargantuan size. And given how there's not that much prey in Subnautica, I'd say they go for anything. Animals only give up prey if the prey is resistant enough so they know during the fight it won't work. Example: polar bear vs seal. U can see BBC earth episode the bear hunts for the seal, gets in water, fights for a while but let's it go. Because it's hide too thick the bear realizes it's pointless to continue. But not before fighting. The bear only realizes it's pointless once it has attacked and sinked it's teeth with full strength in it. So your assessment is wrong. If you still claim it true try swimming in great white infested waters or hiking with hungry grizzlies.

that and possibly infection from kharaa changing their behaviour (though i don't think the bacterium is stated to do that in-universe). but the actual reason is to facilitate more interesting gameplay.

@@vizthex It Doesnt specifically state it, but it is heavily implied and proved as the sand sharks does not attack in the prison of the emperor. The pda actually says ' shows unusual passive behavior'. Based on this, it's very likely that the bacterium does behavioral changes.

the gargantuan leviathan is 5+ kilometers long

@@user-vn1kj8xc3l no 1100-1500 metres aka 1.1 to 1.5 km

@@arandomyoutubewatcher Thats a huge boy

​@@arandomyoutubewatcher He's referring to the Adult Gargatuan Leviathans. Your figure comes from the Juvenile in the lost river. Yeah these things are unholy big.

@@lavans5721 where in the game is that figure said?

That's the most logical theory, also I never thought about how it's body possibly could've been the catalyst for creating the whole of lost river, makes it even more cool and a massive part of the game's lore.

@@Laban6112 a potential problem with the theory tho is we dont know if the rock making up the cave walls is sedimentary or igneous or however the hell ya spell it, but in the case of igneous i guess that could be handwaved by saying the garg got covered up by lavaflow as the volcano was forming. All that really matters for the theory is that the garg got buried and over time decomposition created a cavity. The science aint great but i doubt the devs cere Too Much about geology lmao

​@@Mae_Dastardly Has fossils. Not igneous. Fossils are destroyed in igneous rock.

@@damenwhelan3236 Wait really? I knew lava's hot but I didn't think it was THAT hot

@Mae Dastardly It's molten rock under the ground. That's magma. Magma under pressure is full of acids and heat and pressure. That chemical soup and physical conditions transforms sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock. This process destroys the structure of the sedimentary rock. Odds are the crater os an impact of some sort that damaged the rock and allowed wave action to reveal the fossil. But who knows.

Pretty sure that’s a good portion of the body

@@mapleflag6518 the two actual details regarding the ancient skeletons size is the PDA entry stating that it would’ve been larger than any creature currently living on the planet and that the devs originally called the skeleton the ancient skull before changing the name to the ancient skeleton, which would imply that the devs were potentially envisioning it as being significantly larger than what can be seen

I'm thinking those holes in the side of the skeleton socketed tentacles, seeing as tentacles aren't bone but coils of muscle when the body eventually decayed the tentacles wouldn't be visible

@carvermatthews9617 I don't think tentacles need holes though but I might be wrong.

@@kakahass8845 Most creatures with tentacles that I've seen don't really have bones, or at least not like that, so I made an assumption that a creature with bones that have perfectly symmetrical holes on either side had tentacles

It's going to have to be a very big building xD

it *IS* the museum.

As a British I can confirm that we steal and stab anything we come across.

⁠@@iAlethodo you have things to drain that plant so we can put it in our museum

canonically the crater is part of a volcano so maybe there was some kind of volcanic event or something that managed to kill them off

I like to think it outgrew it’s food sources and couldn’t sustain itself anymore on top of that over the years many of its prey would likely evolve to live in conditions that they couldn’t to avoid them meaning they didn’t only get too big but it’s current food sources also disappeared causing it to slowly die and it’s body would lay on the sea floor and overtime the lost river started to form around its remains.

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Maybe the habitable land/Sea was bigger 3 million years ago, and some tectonical plate shifting caused the "Void" to expand and the crater to be lifted more up to be the last part that can contain life.

It'd be about the length of the Aurora, maybe a little longer, but probably not as wide and tall.

@@JoJoGaminG36 That's the opposite : the "void" is the deep ocean, covering most of the planet, where Gargantuan leviathan used to live feeding from Ghost Leviathan. The crater is the rest of a volcanic eruption millions of years ago that lift the ground and the body with it.

Wait its still alive????

​@@frostbitedragon9 that explains how we cure it, at least i think

It’s confirmed by the devs to be dead

Didn't the story of Subnautica Below Zero confirmed that the Kharaa virus feeds on the decomposing Body of the big leviathan?

Below Zero isn't worth discussing

Ear holes on fish?

@@NoFlyZone31It’s a fantasy creature, not a fish. Anything is possible

@@ghoultooth but that isn't contusive to the somewhat believable designs of the creatures in both subnautica games. also it's a *sci-fi creature.

@@ghoultooth Sci-fi, an everything else so far has been within the realm of possibility for fish. The game clearly has rules for its creatures, the same we use for fish, so, I repeat: Ear holes on fish?

@@NoFlyZone31Yeah I agree. Earholes are unlikely as sound travels faster, farther and is louder in water. Probably just have simple interior ears like fish no need for complex ear holes.

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Seems like the end of Below Zero had us travel to the Architect planet though, right?

​@@AstralArbourSys it's been a while so I might be wrong but did we even see anything on that planet and also the original comment means on the main planet that both games take place on. I've heard it all takes place on top of a volcano so there could be millions of miles of things to explore

maybe they could bring back the single-cell landscape concept and expand it into a full creature.

@@AstralArbourSys yeah, but that's stupid as fuck lol plus you play as different characters in both games, so they could just do that again in the third game.

Could be the ancestor to one of the eel/snake type creatures then. Some people have depicted it as turtle and isopod like with either turtle flippers or small isopod legs

Obviously other leviathan species in the ecological dead zone

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glad you enjoy the ocean i have submechanifobia the fear of underwater manmade objects or ships

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The atmosphere was the same on dino times, there was mlre oxygen tho. Dino were big cause they had hollow bones, that where ligther and bigger flora

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Oh I've actually got this one! It's in the lost river, which is essentially a giant brine pool. This occurs (in real life btw) when the water becomes so saturated with salt that it sinks to the ocean floor, and is toxic to even microscopic life. However, this also means that anything that finds itself dead in the brine pool will be EXEEDINGLY well-preserved because of the salt! Now, obviously the skeleton in the river is. A skeleton. But that brine has probably saturated and essentially fossilized that skeleton. So... yea

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That’s terrifying

What about for combat within the species?

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Also subnautica ties for the best game with a few others. CHANGE MY MIND.

Punch it back to life 👊

Kratos: finally a worthy opponent

I mean we already have subnautica 2. I know It’s not a great game but it exists atleast

@@Thinepickles i know. Below zero aint bad. But its not like the first game. The reason why i said "Subnautica 2" is because the devs themselves named it that

and you see Riley but you should not get seen cause paradox stuff

@@Miliradian i mean even further in time. Approximately 3 million years in the past.

there’s the gargantuan mod but that’s pretty much it. I’d really wanna see the ancient leviathan

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