Cenozoic Beasts animated size comparisons video

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This is pretty neat. The sizes of some of the animals are off (too large) but it is intriguing nonetheless. The species gradually increase in size as the video plays. The list of species is in the video description rather than on the video itself which is a bit annoying.

 
You mean Dinopithecus ingens? No. As previously mentioned by Chli, quite a bunch of the sizes are "slightly" exaggerated.
 
The dinosaur version is quite interesting as well.I particularly liked the Megalania and Titanoboa.
 
DavidBrown said:
Was there really a baboon species as large as a cave bear?
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maybe a young Cave Bear. But, no, there are some exaggerations in the video, probably simply through the animator not fact-checking properly rather than being deliberately misleading. Dinopithecus ingens is usually said to be 1.5 metres high, which would be about twice the size of a living baboon (according to what I just looked up on the internet that would be up to 0.7 metres high, either standing or at the shoulder - it seems to be much the same height in either case) but illustrators tend to draw monstrous baboons. I found a photo (below) which may be closer to the size of a male Dinopithecus. On the other hand, estimated weights I've seen for Dinopithecus seem pretty low at 40kg.

https://i2.kknews.cc/large/1c5c00069d969f34afd9
 
A very good video whose content is not often shown. I had never known a video like this existed
before I found it. As a fan of paleontology myself though, there are many animals that could have been included though I would've liked to see such as:
Megistotherium
Ngandong Tiger (Panthera tigris soloensis)
Hippopotamus gorgops
Pelorovis
Giant Cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis)
Machairodus
Syrian Camel (Camelus moreli)
Palaeeudyptes
Pelagornis
Argentavis
Titanis
Sivapithecus
Archaeoindris
Nakalipithecus
Tyrant Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus tyrannus)
Josephoartigasia
Giant Hyena (Pachycrocuta)
Purussaurus
Pygmy Elephant (Palaeoloxodon falconeri)
Sarkastodon
Patriofelis
Megalochelys
Dwarf Ground Sloth (Megalocnus)
Falkland Islands Wolf (Dusicyon australis)
Dwarf Panda (Ailuropoda minor)
 
Loxodonta Cobra said:
A very good video whose content is not often shown. I had never known a video like this existed
before I found it. As a fan of paleontology myself though, there are many animals that could have been included though I would've liked to see such as:
Megistotherium
Ngandong Tiger (Panthera tigris soloensis)
Hippopotamus gorgops
Pelorovis
Giant Cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis)
Machairodus
Syrian Camel (Camelus moreli)
Palaeeudyptes
Pelagornis
Argentavis
Titanis
Sivapithecus
Archaeoindris
Nakalipithecus
Tyrant Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus tyrannus)
Josephoartigasia
Giant Hyena (Pachycrocuta)
Purussaurus
Pygmy Elephant (Palaeoloxodon falconeri)
Sarkastodon
Patriofelis
Megalochelys
Dwarf Ground Sloth (Megalocnus)
Falkland Islands Wolf (Dusicyon australis)
Dwarf Panda (Ailuropoda minor)
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Here's some that I thought of
Quinkana
Titanotylopus
Trilophosuchus
Teratornis
Ambulocetus
Eurotamandua
Enarliarctos
Eremotherium
 
An interesting mixture of up to date, out of date and exaggerated. Hopping sthenurines? Quadropedal megatheres? Very tired. Andrewsarchus as an artiodactyl? Very wired. The giant baboon for example is oversized: wtf it is bigger than the Gigantopithecus, whose size is entirely speculative at that...

The coolest fossil animals people don't know about - Paradolichopithecus, Hyaenodon, Patriofelis, Thalassocnus, Macroeuphractus, Stylinodon and the like.
 
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