Dunkleosteus: The Armoured Mega Fish That Terrorized The Devonian Sea
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Created by Dylan Dubeau
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Please make a video about Quetzalcoatlus.
how bout giganotosaurus
Pelagornis please.
ARK model :3
I don’t want to feel like a dick, but I don’t think dunkie would have given the megalodon a run for it’s money.
You know that fish isn't messing around when even the eyeball is protected with armor.
I would be more afraid of what it's being protected from...
@@paulsammut6176 highly likely parasites and pressure
@@paulsammut6176 A fish with spear gun
@@baetong1987 a cat with a speargun
Most probably to support the eyes from pressure while it swim
This is the kind of creature that you would see in a science fiction movie and people would call it out as unrealistic
Only ignorant people who never noticed how miraculous nature is.
@@josephsalmonte4995 Impressive yes, but way too flawed to be miraculous.
@@josebenardi1554 lol Please enlighten me as to the flaws of nature & its creations
@@josephsalmonte4995 when you see an animal with a broken slong bone you know nature is flawed
There was a similar creature in the new Avatar movie, I wouldn't be surprised if that was supposed to be a nod to it
Other predators : your eyes is still vulnerable we can poke and defeat you The eyes : 🛡️
I SNAP MY HEAD AROUND TO CHOP YOU’RE BODY IN HALF BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN GET CLOSE
@@sirfarhantheone1YEAP ONLY OTHER DUNKLEOSTEUS ALL SHARK WERE WAS PREY
@@Childmolestor666Megalodon appeared 23 million years ago, Dunkleosteus went extinct 360 million years ago. In fact, Dunkleosteus was older than flowering plants.
As a German speaker I thought the name Dunkleosteus comes from dunkel which means dark, made it sound even more scary and menacing.
No, its from the Name Dunkle , David Dunkle. A Palaentologist
"dunkle" sounds cute.
Only to a German. Like hitler is the universal term to people we don't like in english
I thought the same thing! Wo wohnen Sie?
I know dinosaurs usually take top billing as far as prehistoric animals go, but I really wish other periods of Earth's life would get the spotlight in popular culture 😊
ikr!
The Cambrian explosion is my favorite period
Even animals during the Mesozoic. I want more land croc representation.
NO ONE talks about early mammals😭
@@komayru65 ikr, someone should.
I love that this channel doesn't focus on dinosaurs too much in their paleo videos, extinct non-dinosaurians need more love. I would love it if you did a video on Gorgonopsids or my favourite gorgonopsid Inostrancevia.
@@mhdfrb9971 ?
As someone who has ever played Dino Crisis 2, I hate Inostrancevia... The only way to hurt them with moderate caliber weapon is when they stand up to attack, exposing their less armored legs. And that requires correct timing...
Your dream came true
Your dream came true 😫
I'm casting my vote for triassic dinosauromorphs and triassic archosauromorphs. The triassic is by far the most interesting of the three Mesozoic in terms of evolutionary experimentation and diversity, in my opinion. And I say that as a die hard dinosaur fan.
As a child I saw a drawing of Dunkleosteus in a book. it was terrifying! It's great to see it animated like this.
Not gonna lie, I don’t like how people call people without degrees, “amateurs”. This “amateur paleontologist” discovered a new prehistoric monster fish, I think he deserves to be remembered as an actual paleontologist
He didn't have a traditional education which would classify him as an amateur. He wouldn't have had any experience either.
Im glad how ceritification is starting to be recognized as just societally as just a faux gatekeep when in the age of interconnectivity knowledge is widespread
@@grimsgraveyard3598Uhh what? How does not having a degree = not having experience? So you think a green behind the ears 22 year old with a bachelor's degree who's never even seen a real fossil has more "experience" than a 70 year old who's been digging up fossils his whole life and read every paper written but doesn't have a degree? It's sad that there are still 🐑 out there that don't realize knowledge is universal... The laws of physics don't change regardless of whether or not I have a physics degree. And honestly in today's world, outside of STEM, the rest of "higher education" is just an expensive indoctrination camp where you're giving yourself government debt to have yourself indoctrinated and turned into an "obedient model citizen" that will keep droning on as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, all the while the middle class is slowly erased 😂
The term 'amateur' just refers to them not getting paid, apposed to a 'professional' that does get paid. Even though their work could be better than a professional. For example I used to be a member of a model making group. A bloke their made an R2D2 replica which was far far better than the original (because he spent years on it, apposed to a few weeks for the actual one). He got into the local newspaper and he got called an Amateur model maker despite his work being of far better quality.
@@grimsgraveyard3598 You can have a lot of experience in something and not be a professional though, those two things aren’t mutually exclusive
I love how you properly drawn Dunkleosteus with shark-like tail. Based on 2017 reconstruction, it has been concluded that shark-like tail is much more efficient for active predatory lifestyle of Dunkleosteus than the traditional eel-like tail. The eel-like tail depiction was based on Coccosteus, a foot long relative of Dunkleosteus which was a freshwater fish and has preserved post cranial section.
Also the armor would be covered in skin and the teeth would have had lips
@@unholyhardy4359 very likely. In my opinion, it probably looks like some catfish that have hard and armoured head, but also covered by skin (e.g redtail catfish)
@@unholyhardy4359 That is probably true but the armor look is cooler
@@hsalfesrever3554 that is true
Dunkleosteus is BADASS af! One of the most cool looking & dangerous creature of the sea ever, with Megalodon & Livyatan
@Ewan Callister Ahh the Mesozoic three. And don’t forget our modern day top dog (in terms of popular culture). Great White Sharks
imagine a humanoid-dunk hybrid
@@quickstep2408 British
Livyatan is my fave.
I like how "dated" some of these artworks are. Recent research have speculated that Dunkleosteus have a more "conventional" design with their bony head being mostly covered with tough scale (similar to the modern day snakehead) instead of being "naked" like a piece of external armor, fins and tails like those of sharks instead of eels because of their active lifestyle
Gotta love the adaptability of the modern mythology
I am not surprised that this fish was found in ohio
LMAO
Jesus🌝
swag in ohio
Average pet in Ohio
You need a new joke bro
If this fish were still around, neither shark nor diver would ever be safe again.
Anything short of a steel tanker wouldn't be safe.
If they survived they might have evolved to be smaller but if they were their normal size than there’d be an aquatic world war between orcas, sharks, and the dunks lol
@@dr.stronk9857 Orcas would shit on these fish ngl
@@watergaming7543 the armor would disagree. However if the armor slow them down, then orcas got an edge in feeding
@@thecommentguy9380 Orcas would quite quickly find away around the armor
The Dunk That has too much potential, pun and novelty... Unless it was Terrible, I couldn't resist!
Nice to see the ARK Survival Evolved Dunkleosteus model getting some side work outside of the game.
There has recently been a new size update for dunkleosteus! Shining a more detailed way of estimating size, paleontologists have estimated dunkleosteus at 4 meters (12-13 feet).
It looks quite dumb now tbh
That's still massive, especially for its time
@@DMZZ_DZDM It's still massive, even for today.
„Shining“ 💀 Well now it’s less cool so I dunno…
They shrunkle the dunkle, now it is skrunkle
You all have been knocking it out of the park with Paleologic! Keep it up! I still need to tame one in ark
the intro model kinda reminds me of ARK especially with the animations
@@MazdaTiger im pretty sure it is the same model
if you're trying to tame it, avoid hitting it in the head as it takes less torpor there due to it's armor
Ah, my favorite fish! I would 100% watch The Dunk.
i wouldn't, i'm already afraid of the deep ocean as it is!
When I was a boy I first saw the fossilized skull of this creature in a dinosaur book I had. I was always drawn to primitive power evident in the remains. A decade ago I got to see the skull of this monster at the Chicago Field Museum. It was even more impressive in person.
OK, but the name "Dunkleosteus" totally sounds like a dinosaur Dunkin Donuts made for an ad campaign.
or a limited edition of dunkaroos
“Dunkin Dinos” hahahaha get it
your brain on consoomerism
Would you consider doing a video on Homo floresiensis? I understand that they were a species of human, and therefore might be a touchy subject. However, they are fascinating in their own right and were the focal point a lawsuit by the Tolkien estate.
I don't think that would actually be beyond the realm of possibility for Animal-logic, as they did do a video on humans as a joke against the Honey Badger, but still treated the subject of us as seriously as they do with other animals.
@@jasonalcatraz5817 I remember that video. It refer to us all as "the most dangerous animal on the planet," or a synonym of "planet." Abd I still agree with that sentiment.
@@Chaos89P It’s not too edgy for KZhead. Casual Geographic did a feature on the Harpy eagle, and ended on a photo of a dude beside a Harpy eagle, and he said something like, “you are looking at the most dangerous predatory animal in the jungle. And beside him is a Harpy eagle.”
Why would it be a touchy subject?
O yea, " the hobbit".
It’s mind blowing to me that animals like this and megaladon existed. I mean imagine seeing one of these monsters from a boat or a mossasaur or a pleasiasaur. Would be absolutely incredible.
I'd love to see a megalodon. Sharks are already usually docile and I can imagine one that size would be even more so since we'd be far too small for it to view us as prey. It would be such a beautiful thing. I would love to swim with a megalodon for a day.
Wait till you find out about the mosasaur.
there were also van sized early sea turtles
They found part of the lower jaw of this fish at gravel yard at Canmore, Alberta, Canada back in the 1990's
Must be so cool to stumble over something so ancient while doing menial things in a random yard.
@@biazacha makes u wonder what could be under your very feet
Can we just appreciate how they used the ark dunkleosteus model in 0:04
The title hade thinking this fish was terrorising Devon (a rural county in England). 😹 "Cream, cows, and terrifying sea monsters!" - Devon tourist board.
I'm curious if that's where the Devonian period gets its name
As I suspected it is named after your county. Many thanks to Devon for yielding it's secrets to the name of science. 🍺
This made me so happy to watch! I've been following Animalogic for years, and when they started doing Paleologic I was ecstatic!! I had hoped they would eventually make a video on my favorite prehistoric creature, and I was far from disappointed - as always! ♥️ Thank you for such lovely and educational videos!!!!
I saw the skull of this amazing nightmare fish years ago at the Natural History Museum in NYC. I've been fascinated by it ever since. If you ever get the chance, see one in person. Awe inspiring.
New methodologies for determining size show it being much shorter than once believed, with a stockier build. Only about 4m, or 11-13ft.
4m is the size of the largest one too, the average ones are like 3.5
Its bite power was impressive for its size. Talk about a slam Dunk!
just when I thought i knew enough of the ancient earth and its creatures im left mesmerized by videos like this...keep up the great work !!
They're also great for gathering underwater resources such as Metal, Oil and Obsidian
But why bother farming them underwater when argy+anky is so efficient
I was waiting to see this comment 🤣
Petition to do a movie called Meg vs Dunk .
You ask the Goji channel they do this all the time, just watched The MEG vs InGen's Mosasaurus battle.
You guys always find pretty cool and interesting topics. Love watching your videos and learning stuff
I'd personally love one about Leedsichthys problematicus.
POG fish needs more love
Problematic pogging fish
i would've love to eat that one. i dunno, it just looks eatable lol. don't you ever look at any of the ancient species and wonder what they might taste like cooked? we're all carnos here heheh
@@quickstep2408 Ever since I heard of the chicken being the closest relative to the T-Rex (which is false as all birds are equally related to it) I’ve had this fascination with giant KFC
This thing just got massively nerfed lol
It's still a sedan-sized predator.
They shrunkle the dunkle
This was fascinating! I’d love to learn more about mosasaurs from this channel.
I came for the fish, stayed for the host.
Boy did this video age like milk after Dunk's resizing.....
Could you do a video about the new find of the human ancestor that was very short and using fire in deep caves to possible cook food, and they lived side by side with ancient modern humans. They were using fire over 1 million years ago to cook possible!
What I love most about a lot of these kinds of videos are all the various details. "This fish was 6 meters long, had grey mottled scales, preferred cooler waters, ate primarily bla bla, lived a solitary life, loved long walks on the beach, wrote poetry in iambic pentameter and never called its mother. We know all of this, because we found... a tooth."
2:35 = Dunkleosteus may have had 10 species, but it wasn’t the most varied placoderm genus. That honour goes to Bothriolepis with between 70-100 valid species.
Here after the nerf
They actually not so long ago discovered it was wayyy smaller than originally thought.
"Until now, researchers thought Dunkleosteus was about 30 feet long (gray fish), but a new study finds it was likely no longer than 13 feet (black fish)." (2023)
Ah yes, my consistently favorite prehistoric creature since I was a lil bitty boy. I just love how articulate its appearance. It’s literally a creature you don't wanna mess with based on how it looks and how it acts. The bite force alone lmao is incredible and how fast it’s mouth is.
You might be disappointed to know that they shrunkle the dunkle :(
I sure do.
You guys have such amazing personality for science vids. You ladies rule!
Would be interesting if you guys covered Helicoprion, weirdest shark in the fossil record by far. Edit: Fish*
aka the Helicopter Shark aka the Buzzsaw Shark.
Or edetsus. No much info
@@hoibsh21 Helicopter? You mean it can fly?!
It’s more closely related to chimaeras than to sharks.
@@sml7564 Only the kryptonian subspecies
Never thought I'm gonna find ARK model in a documentary, nice! :)
This aged like milk 🤣🤣🤣
They're very good for harvesting stone, metal, and oil underwater. If you know, you know.
Ah, a Ark player.
One of the most gnarly nightmare Fulelish animals that have ever lived. I've always loved it
If anyone wants to see the fossil skull of this thing than visit the Chicago Field Museum they have a replica of the Dunkleosteus skull on display there I should know I saw it the last time I visited the museum.
Having a sponsor for the vid and still putting multiple 15 sec adds is WILD.
I love how it looks like it’s constantly angry and screaming
Came back here after 4 months later, ma boi dunky is nerfed to 4 meters
That's the size of the largest one too, average ones are even smaller. Seriously the biggest downsize I have ever seen.
When I first viewed the skull of this armored monster fish at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, I kept thinking, "Snapping turtle and metal shears." Thanks, Animalogic, for this fascinating view!
Maybe you could do a video on Parioscorpio, a bizarre arthropod from Silurian Wisconsin. We don’t really know what it is and we have classified is as a crustacean, Scorpion, and a trilobite relative but it still remains enigmatic. I think it would be a fun and interesting creature to tackle
My absolute favourite is Anomalocaries! Could you do them soon?
That thing is a nightmare though... :P
same! I'm especially fascinated by the species that evolved into large filter feeders and it's one of the first examples of large marine predators becoming filter feeding giants.
@@SquirrelGamez But so friend-shaped! I have a plushie of one, even
@@justinjacobs1501 You. You get it. Cambrian creatures in general are fascinating!
a huge fossil of a dunkleosteus was found right in my backyard valley!! its so cool, and it's now in the museum in my city
We not gon talk about how scary and good the thumbnail art is?
There was a bit in a novel called 'The Scar' by China Melville where one of these attacked these divers who were working on a mysterious project involving massive chains and a harness under a floating city made of ships and boats. The city would move through the ocean. The attack was so cool and had nothing to actually do with the story, except to splice prehistory with another time.
Wasn't there a study that showed it was likely much smaller than we thought?
Yeah I saw it
this video is before that study was released
@@homogeiThat was really unfortunate timing. If they just waited a few months it would be a lot easier.
This aged well😂
Dunkleosteus: “Look at all these rookies. Back in my day everyone was food, even family”
I knew about these guys for several years now. They still are quite impressive even though they are no longer alive. Remind me of the coelacanth.
I'm.from Cleveland and I've seen that Dunk skull in our natural history museum countless times. But I never knew they were first discovered in Ohio! Cool!
can you guys do deinonychus next? it had an important and inserting history in paleontology for starting the dinosaur renaissance and starring in the Jurassic park franchise as the "Velociraptors"
Hey! We mentioned deinonychus in one of our recent Snapchat projects, check it out! story.snapchat.com/p/ab7789d9-3500-4699-8f00-f3f3a05ca6bf/2599461408516096
Error: @2:00 "in fact at the time [Devonian Period, 419-359 MYA] there were no terrestrial vertebrates at all" Internet: "amphibians are considered the first terrestrial vertebrates." "The researchers focused on 35 early tetrapods that lived between 385 million and 275 million years ago." "Devonian period was from 419 to 359 MYA" "The vertebrate land invasion refers to the aquatic-to-terrestrial transition of vertebrate organisms in the Late Devonian period." Of course such channels are for kids and the visual effects are what we are here for...
I remember this bad boy in pictures. So cool armoured guy.
Thank you. Dunkleosteus is one of my all time favorites. Seems unfair to compare it to a megalodon as they were alive during two completely separate time periods.
My favorite fish ever. Such a hardcore animal.
I haven't watched Animalogic for awhile. It's great seeing Danielle Dufault drawing again!
Dunkleosteus: Exists Other fishes: Let me try out the land thing
It’s this fish and this fish alone that drives me to be a paleontologist I wish for nothing more than to study this animal and others like it for a living
"Let's hope we don't cause another mass extinction event"?!?! Uhhh, we're currently in a mass extinction event, like half-fold at this point.
I vaguely remember seeing a fish similar to this when i had visited the Iowa City River Museum when i was a child.
this would be insane to find living today. Like the coelacanth, How crazy would it be to find that they found a way to adapt at crazy deep depths and that they have just been keeping to themselves eating stuff that is way down deep that we do not notice is missing?
My beloved armored fish.
Aww .... haha.
Not sure why the Ark model was used, since they didn't even get the head right, but great video nonetheless. Dunkleosteus was a beast.
Ark is an addiction. You don't quit the game, you just take a break from it.
@@PureSalty101 I've managed to stay clean of it for a couple years, but that siren call is always there. The annoying thing is that the game isn't even fun, it's just frustrating, and yet....
Being recognizable as "the Ark model" says it all I'd say. :P
Megalodon: "that's a pretty stupid name." Dunkleosteus: "what's that? I couldn't hear you....why don't you come a little closer."
I noticed the 3D animation is the one from ARK: Survival Evolved and lemme tell ya; that thing is terrifying to come across in that game already so sseeing one of these irl must be mesmerising.
KEEP GOING! GREAT VID AS ALWAYS I GUESS....
This is my favorite fossil weve ever found! Yay!
Other fish be like where the hell did this fish get armor from that's cheating.
When I unlocked this fish in Hungry Shark Evolution, I thought it was pronounced dun-cleo-stoos. I just learned how to pronounce it properly today. Nice.
This species was first discovered not far from where I grew up.
Bro shrunk
Big fan! Thank you for what you do
This brings a whole new meaning to a metal song I like by a band called The Ocean, called Devonian:Nascent lol. This fish was metal AF
Terrorbirds next please!
I'd say the closest equivalent to the kind of Bite that this fish Had is that of the Snapping Turtle, either Common or Alligator. both works, their beaks can snap shut in an instant, and quite literally slice fish into pieces, even decapitating them in a single snap. And while an Alligator Snapping Turtle would rather lie in wait with its mouth open, the Common Snapper would actively hunt, using the speed of its snapping bite to snatch fish in the water.
Nice video! But also seeing the Ark Model made me chuckle. But very insightful video!
Some believed the Dunkleosteus had lips ... I refuse to believe that because of how much cooler it looks without lips.
But every other predatory fish alive today does have lips, so it ought to have lips too
one of the generation eight pokemon fossils is based on dunk and the butchered it lol they combined it with 3 other ancient pokemon inspired by ancient animals they put the dunks head on a tiny raptor body and vice versa, they put a tiny lizard head on the dunks body but they didn't do the actual animals lol
I know, I was so disappointed.
@@Jelly_Skelly me too the actual intended forms would have been great to include I see those fossil Pokémon in gen 8 and I think they are in pain lmao they just scream in agony as a way to communicate constantly
Thats most likley an intentional reference to the slapdash way early paleoartists put fossils together my dude
@@librowyrm8332 I get it, but it still would have been nice to have the choice to make them "correctly" if we wanted to.
I wish they’d add something where you get the full proper forms Doubt it’s happening in SV but would be cool for a future game lol
I live nearish to its discovery site, have to check that out. I grew up in dayton area and that bedrock is ordivichian, used to find all kinds of stuff in river beds.
If I’m living during that era, I’m building a treehouse as far away and as high from the ocean as possible
Let's be thankful that this Armored chomper isn't around in today's Ocean's
This video is somewhat misleading about the size now that they have Shrunk the Dunk
I really want to know more about the aurochs in the next episode of Paleoligic! 🐂
Wonderful video about one of my favourite prehistoric animals though the timing couldn't be much worse considering we got a massive size update not even 6 months later :c
Size update? Nah, we got a Size nerf