Prehistory’s Most Extreme Natural Weapons

Allosaurus bullied Ceratosaurus and nature did not appreciate that, so it created Stegosaurus specifically to punish the Allosaurus.

Anomalocaris is just the only extent evidence we have for time-traveling Zoidberg

I would have put triceratops and torosaurous in the overkill tear

@TheVividen Gunna throw an honorable mention for nasty Natural prehistoric weapons- Gastonia Tail-Plates, or as I call them "The Great Cretaceous Hedge-Trimmers".

Yes but you're forgetting Spinosaurus' laser eyes.

why always anomalocaris? Laminacaris is much bigger, Tamisiocaris has really cool apendages used to aid in swimming, Caryosyntrips has cool nut-cracker appendages to crack hardshelled prey, Amplectobelua is cool and larger than Anomalocaris too. I like your videos a lot, but please make obscure creatures more known instead of just regurgitating the popular ones. Please thank you there are so so many cool Paleozoic Creatures that are NOT Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Jaekelopterus, Acutiramus, Dunkleosteus, Dimetrodon, Inostrancevia, Meganeura or Arthropleura.

I’ve been waiting for a video like this for ages, thank you so much!

8:30
Wife, Sister-in-Law, Mother-in-Law

The greatest thing about being a human is that I don't have to wait a million years for weapons to grow out of my head I can just pick one up

I'm sure it was all innocent fun posing your wife and sister-in-law in front of a 14 foot tall bear but weren't you the least bit concerned what two obviously ferocious women could do to that poor bear?

Enjoyed the video.

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I don't really understand how sabre teeth of the likes of Smilodon are ranked lower than that of Eurypterid claws despite what seems to me to be much better evidence the former was used for hunting much bigger prey than the latter.

Also I think some kind of Proboscideans tusks warrant a mention, and also the claws of a giant ground sloth like Megatherium since they seem more suited to combat compared to Therizinosaurs. Of also, Deinocheirus's claws.

where venom

Find its crazy that deinochirus wasnt mentioned..

Great video

glad Vividen brought attention to my favorite dinosaur (spiked collar or Spicomellus)

I had the privilege of seeing some of these bones in real life last Sunday at the Dinosaurs Live Exhibition, currently being held at The Annexe of Singapore Science Centre. I went bonkers when I saw the casts of both Stan & Scotty, though

Vividen I got your book man 😅
It's peak dude, I'm at chapter 5 rn 😂

could sperm whale survive subnautic or subnautic below zero which ever one is more interesting

You missed out on Allosauroid jaws

Could bloop survive in subnautica?

Thanks, buddy. Keep up the good work.

Question for vivden could deinosuchus survive hell creek

I'm convinced that if somehow gorgonopsids survived into this era humans would have domesticated them and we'd have lizard dogs.

can we get a "Dunkleosteus in subnautica" vid?

woah woah woah
we need a part 2 for all the crazy ones you missed
Pachyrhinosaurus having a ridiculous boulder on its face
Pachephalosaurus with a helmet and spikes
Iguanodon with a foot long knife thumb
Diplodocids with stupidly long tails
Sivatherium with leaf shaped antlers
Phorusrhacid hatchet beaks and sickle claws
Bison latifrons and Syncersus antiquus having mile long horns
Dunkleosteus for having bolt cutters on its face
Thylacoleo for having giant thumbs claws and knife like teeth
Ankylorhiza for having forward facing teeth to ram you with
Xiphiorhynchus for having a two sided sword-like beak
Edestus and Helicoprion cus cmon..

you get the point and free list to use!!
plus there could be more if you do more research!

The fact you haven't made any videos about Ark survival evolved is pretty criminal bro

Day 6 of asking broski to do if any theropod could survive in the Croodaceous(Croods universe.) I almost forgot to do it today:P

Day 5 of asking broski to do if any theropod could survive the Croodaceous(The Croods universe)

vertebrate central nervous system

cerebrospinal fluid ~ nucleic acids if you've ever drank enough to "bleed" from you're sinuses

poop! is good as well is what you're tonsils are for btw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=olHl4-5nKsM&pp=ygUQbXJyaGV4eCBldHRlcmNhcA%3D%3D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OalW7U3rFe4&pp=ygUIZXR0ZXJjYXA%3D

witch craft ~ irl "head bang"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NDnQ4pAjBUg&pp=ygURcmVhbCBzY2llbmNlIGJlZXM%3D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmItUxgnUo&pp=ygUac3BhY2UgZ2hvc3QgY29hc3QgdG8gY29hc3Q%3D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rKJf_DWecU&pp=ygUfZ2FyeSBudW1hbiBhcmUgZnJpZW5kcyBlbGVjdHJpYw%3D%3D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A1_hdM1NGf4&pp=ygUbc2hvb3RlciBqZW5uaW5ncyBjYXQgcGVvcGxl

sorry for the british music; it's like you're dna is quantum machinery if you "stick a fork in it" you are going to get feelings of unprotected consciousness + stuff it's like gulf war syndrome it's kind of vague and complex

you also think with the stuff it's nucleic acid computing you're brain is really more like a modem than the tower, or hard drive, itself

I mean it would have heavy loaded ankylosaurs but no Gastonia?

Thumbnail goes hard asf! 🔥

Day 4 of asking broski to do if any theropod could survive in the Croodaceous.(After 4 days of consideration, this is a serious suggestion.)

10:23 That's me Patrick! That's me!!

Vividen changing the thumbnail three times, really wanting us to watch it. XD

"I'm an Anomalocaris and I do my best!"

I skipped just to see when rex was gonna show up and I was almost amazed rex wasnt on here. Then it showed up...

Imagine if a sauropod stepped on your foot. XD

3:50 Finally somebody gets it.

Day 3 of asking broski to do if any theropod could survive in the Croodaceous(The Croods universe) This may or may not be an unserious suggestion

Until i see actual evidence that triceratops used it's horns and that ankylosaurus used it's tail club, and that any sauropod over 30 tons used their feet/tail/legs as defensive tools against predators, i am inclined to believe they were exclusively used in intraspecies combat over mating rights and territory. Especially the ankylosaurus. The rigidity of the tail, being able to only swing 45 degrees to either side, makes the tail entirely useless as a defensive weapon against predators. And they're are no injuries to any t.rex specimen with broken ankles or shins that might come from an ankylosaurus. But we have seen evidence that they used those tail clubs against each other in ritualistic combat.

As far as triceratops goes, i am unaware of any evidence of an injury to a t.rex that is likely to come from a triceratops. Meanwhile, most triceratops skulls have obvious injuries from the horns of other triceratops. This tells me those horns were for fighting each other, and not predators. Many extant animals with horns or antlers use them exclusively on each other and not on predators.

I actually don't think the larger sauropods had any ability to fight back. They didn't have any weapons to fight with. They were too big and slow to use their legs to kick with. Imagine being a 60 ton sauropod and you want to kick the predator next to you. Before you can even lift that leg off the ground, you need to shift your considerable weight onto the other 3 legs. That takes time. Time in which the predator you wanted to kick isn't even there anymore. And i know a lot of people think that a sauropod could "just step on" a predator. But the truth is that sauropods are not so much larger than their predators that they could just step on them. Usually, the hip level of a sauropod is even with, or only slightly higher than that of the predators. Basically, they are nearly the same height at the back. The front (longer) legs of brachiosaurus were about 12-14 ft long. A t.rex or giganotosaurus stood 12-14ft tall. The brachiosaurus couldn't lift it's leg high enough to step on a predator. And don't even get me started on the ridiculousness of "tail whips". That would just shatter the tail to literal pieces.

Animals are under no obligation to behave the way you think they should. Just because you think they should obviously use their horns for predator defense, that doesn't mean they did.

It's one thing to speculate and draw conclusions based on what seems reasonable, but it's a whole other thing to say that these animals definitely behaved this way just because you think they should have.

Such a great video, really well edited and researched! Awesome to see a channel dedicated to delivering high quality paleo-communication in such times of clickbait and disingenuous content. The art used for the thumbnail and at 17:42 is mine, and I'm really glad my work got to be included in and be the face of this really awesome video, tysm for that :D

Nice Video!
Honorable mentions for a possible part 2 (?)
1-Terror birds and their massive bludgeoning beaks and kicking abilities
2-Giganotosaurus/carcharadontosaurus and their slashing teeth/jaws
3-Haast Eagle annd their huge crushing talons/striking power
4-Hyaenodon and their bone crushing jaws
5-Deinocheirus and its huge clawed arms
6-Onchopristis and its sawed rostrum/snout (giant sawfish relative)
7-Dunkleosteus and its razor jaws/bite
8-Paleoloxodon and its huge tusks/trunk/size/strength
9-Titanoboa & Vasuki Indicus with their size/constricting ability
10-Megaloceras & Stag Moose with their immense antlers
11-Andrewsarchus/Enteledonts and their Jaws/teeth
12-Thylacoleo with huge foreclaws/killing bite
13-Pachycephalosaurs with their Battering-ram heads
14-Mosasaur bite effectiveness/jaws
15-Equus Giganteus/pleistocene kangaroos with their kicking power
16-Azdharcids and their giant beaks
17-potentially venomous species in prehistory-Megalania/theracephalains?
Regards :)

What, no bovids, canids, extinct hyenas, hyaenodonts!, proboscideans, cervids, avians, marsupials, megalania, gigantopithecus, entelodonts, pterosaurs or ground sloths!?!

nice

Surprised carcharodontosaurids with their shredding teeth didn't make it into the video

I think you massively underestimated the threat of Ceratopsian and Elephant Horns and Tusks. A large Triceratops would be one of the few animals able to take down on of the largest sauropods by simply impaling it (even though it would most likely die in the process) same goes for something like Paleoloxodon antiquus. I think these would be at the very top of most formidable fighters in a deathmatch scenario.

For the fighting dinosaurs the protoceratops definitely started it but it was provoked by the raptor whatever it was doing