The North Pole Had Its Very Own ‘T. Rex’

Mr. Santa Claus had some competition during the Late Cretaceous...

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0:00 The Cretaceous North Pole
1:22 Miraculous Discovery
2:25 Classification & Relation To T. Rex
3:25 Where TF Did It Come From?
3:58 Similarities & Differences With The T. Rex
4:44 ITS SO FLUFFY (Evidence/Argument For Feathers)
5:23 Body Size (It Keeps Getting Bigger)
6:48 Big Ol Tyrannosaur Bite
8:07 Killing Animals With A Single…
9:04 Solo Life Or Packs?
10:00 High Mortality, Freezing Temps, Darkness & Blizzards
11:17 Extremely Powerful Senses
12:04 Legs Built For Snow
12:40 Bittersweet Summers
13:10 It Did Something No Other Dinosaur Could
13:51 The Animals It Lived With
13:48 Why Did Only It Escape Dwarfism?
15:46 Extinction

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[biirdtator]

wow, seeing my art in the thumbnail is really surreal lmao. i appreciate it, and i’m really glad actual paleoartists are here and not AI, but just please be sure to trace back where the art came from!
thank you!

[C_In_Outlaw]

Imagine being in an Alaskan snowstorm with very low visibility. All of a sudden you look behind you and there’s a tyrannosaur. Yea…I’m good G 😂

[skypred]

Tyrannosaurs are among some of the most adaptable and successful family to ever exist. They were truly some impressive beasts

[zandemen]

Archeologists find a fragment of bone, 0.0001% complete skeleton. "This dinosaur preferred country music, favorite color was blue, and his zodiac was was Pisces."

[CrazyBookCat]

The animation at 3:26 was done by Dead Sound here on youtube, and comes from his animated short called "Our Frozen Past." Please remember to properly credit the artists who's art you use! (I also saw other parts of his animation and art here, it would just be a lot to list them all. If you enjoyed this video I def recommend checking out the short).

[rooby]

Nanuk in my language means popsicle. So this is popsiclesaurus.

[brassbuckles]

If it was feathered, I can easily picture feathers moulting out in thick clumps in spring, making a big downy mess everywhere. Basically like modern mammals shedding their winter coats. And I can also imagine that the spring/summer coat and winter coat of feathers would differ in coloration.

[SmashBrosAssemble]

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to reconstruct Nanuqsaurus fully feathered, it’s about the same size as Yutyrannus, which we know was fully feathered & notably lived in a less colder environment than Nanuqsaurus.

[tylerjohnson]

5:02 didnt think we would notice a dino bird getting smashed?? Lmaooo

[bananajeff]

5:12 two birds going at it on a tree lmfao

[joshuab]

5:30 that’s such a cool idea for a story, somehow a guy crash lands and ends up in the Arctic, sees a white fuzzy mass moving in the distance heading towards a seal or something, then you see it’s shape become clearer and notice it’s a giant raptor

[BanilyaGorilya]

Imagine my father’s silence when I learned him that the T.Rex for the sake of filmmaking was made slow and essentially dumb for its visual acuity and sense of smell but if made science accurate, potentially we’d have Rex stalking the characters, ambushing the protagonists through bushes, low pulsating growl, and can sense our characters for miles keeping pace at every turn. No velociraptors needed. Dr. Hammond would have signed the death warrant of everyone on the island when he mentioned “We have a T.Rex😂”

[joaopedrobaggio]

The world of dinosaurs amazes me since that i was a 5 years old boy. Thanks Steven Spielberg for the movie Jurassic Park.

[deppo]

After learning there was yet another artic Tyrannosaurid aside from Yutyrannus, I think it's safe to say this was absolutely one of the most successful lines of theropod generas throughout the entire late cretaceous period.

I can't really think of another line that had that many relatives existing all at once.

[alizuhayrbinazmadymoe]

This is actually quite underrated. Good content keep it up👍

[jessehutchings]

This is why I want to see more videos on dinosaur age polar animals. We hear all about the warm weather regions but freezing temperature regions seem more interesting to me because they are more niche and extreme

[kemorein]

1:11 that transition was almost smooth

[raptor]

It's nuts how paleontologists can look at 2-3 small fragments and figure out what type of dinosaur it is down to the species. Just how on earth do you extrapolate that much out of so little!?

[ret]

there's so many beautiful paleo art pieces shown throughout the video, in future videos it would be awesome to include artist names/credits on the background art so i can find more of their work EDIT: i see the names on some of them thanks

[channelgrantito]

Nanuqsaurus has been one of my favorite Tyrannosauruds ever since its discovery. Its like a Trex and Polar bear did a dragon ball fusion dance and im all for it