THYLACOLEO — THE MARSUPIAL LION THAT DEFIED EVOLUTION
Nicknamed the “marsupial lion,” Thylacoleo carnifex was one of the most bizarre prehistoric creatures to ever walk Australia. It lacked the fangs of cats, yet wielded oversized incisors, blade-like premolars, and retractable claws — an apex predator designed not for suffocating, but for slicing with brutal efficiency. The Koala-Lion Hybrid That Became Australia’s Apex Predator | Thylacoleo Documentary
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✅ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 Australia’s Lost World
2:10 An Apex Predator Like No Other
7:34 Signs in Stone: Evidence of Behavior
12:04 The Road to Extinction
16:52 Conclusion
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These are the ancestors of drop koalas
Hippopotamus……….. Sized, your AI is hanging out. Try using a Human narrator.
GOOD JOB MATE .. MAYBE THAT IS YOUR DROP BEAR .. HAVE A GOOD DAY
😅和訳がのんびり話したら急に早口になり😢なんだかなぁ〰？わがままですみません。内容、映像🎦とても素晴らしいです😭
That there is the original Drop Bear 😉
Drop Bears
Jeeezuz you pronounced almost EVERY SINGLE animal and every place name WRONG !!!
I was a Volunteer at Naracoorte Caves. I went on a dig with Dr Prideaux, the Paleontologist who discovered the complete skeleton in the Nullarbor cave. This video makes me CRINGE !!
It's "Thy·luh·kuh·lee·oh"
NOT 'Thy la cole eooh"
01:03 "Narra cortay" ?? Seriously ?
We speak English in Australia, you're pronouncing words like we're Spanish ! 🤡
You don't even have the excuse of being an American to get everyone wrong, you're just making up your own way !!
Why don't you use Google ?
It has phonetic transcription and audio of all the words you're getting wrong !!
I know you used Wikipedia, because you've Plagiarized whole sections of text for your script !! 😕
The 'e' is silent at the end of Naracoorte. As a South Australian that is how we say it.
So, it was possibly Australia's first drop bear!
🤔🇦🇺💪
It was not Australia’s Apex Predator Quinkana the Terrestrial Crocodile was. Quinkana could easily capture and Eat Thylacoleo. Quinkana was the Australian Apex Predator from 40,000,000 years ago till 42,000 years ago when the Laschamp magnetic polar Excursion killed it and the rest of Australia’s mega fauna in a mass extinction.
AI isn’t very Bright or it would know this as it is all out on the WEB.
In Australia we call it a Drop Bear.
Speculation – made up about why they 'evolved' larger – because other animals didn't and survived
6:21
A Hyena and a Caribou.
Not very Australian.
Are there any representations of thylacoleo in native art.
You say the vulture niche was taken by monitor lizards in pliestocene australia but there was a vulture Cryptogyps aswell,just as today in africa there is vultures and hyenas
WOW!! This is the most vivid reconstruction I have ever seen.
In the past, there was a theory that this was an herbivore due to its unique dentition.
What a scary creature. Love the presentation
this is the Drop Bear ..
How do we know for sure these Drop Bears are really gone tho?
Thigh lakka layo
I'll remember this information the next time there's an unsuspecting tourist that has their face torn off by our famous Drop Bear – Koala Hybrid
A few years ago, I kept an eye in a website (can’t find it anymore) that documented sightings of Thyacoleo in East Gippsland and they maybe behind the sightings of large black cats in the area. Occasional reports would also claim sheep being attacked and taken. I know this cryptozoology stuff is nonsense, but at the same time kinda cool and scary to think that there may be a remnant populations deep in those wild forests! I love how marsupials and monotremes evolved to fill the ecological niches occupied by plancental mammals elsewhere. Nature is amazing.
For a video that gets most of the facts right, you are in grievous error regarding the timespan and range of the carnivorous marsupials. Whilst the Thylacoleo died out ~ 40,000 years ago (coinciding with climate changes, the arrival of humans and the extinction of Australian megafauna), Thylacines and Tasmanian Devils survived in mainland Australia until well after the arrival of dingoes, dying out only 3,200 years ago. This ignores the success of these species over millions of years, and their successful co-existence.
In fact, the genus Thylacoleo is the youngest at ~ 2 million years. Next is Thylacinus at ~ 4 million years, and the oldest, Sarcophilus (Tasmanian Devil line) at ~ 8 million years. Fossils of all three have been found in the Naracoorte Caves in South Australia.
These animals were, in fact both sympatric (overlapping in space), and synchronous (existing together for 1 million+ years). They did this by niche partitioning, in the same way that carnivores have always interacted.
Thy-laco-leo, pronounce it right 😂
You carefully avoid going into the question whether man was the ultimate reason for the extinction of this wonderful beast, as well as for the number of other large marsupials going extinct rapidly after arrival of humans in Australia. My guess, without humans arriving we still would have wonderful megafaunas both in Australia and the Americas.
Why is there ai at the start of the video you just ruined a good peace of paleoart.
I dont think this is what you call a documentary but maybe the definition is something different than from what I thought.
As an Aussie that’s spent my whole life travelling to remote parts of the nation(& other parts of the world) there’s a part of me that wishes we still had our megafauna. It amazes me how few people know about it. Lake Mungo in NSW has some amazing fossils and was one of the last places they held on….
So, because Australia had a mass extinction of the LARGE animal species [ marsupials in the case of Australia ], like what happened in North America, and to a lesser extent in South America, and also western Europe, Australia was also in the ejecta field of the cometary rubble pile events at the beginning of the Younger Dryas. And this is what some researchers have already since arrived at.