What Was the Biggest Dinosaur? - Part 1

The sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals to ever walk on our planet - but which one was the biggest of them all? This is a very complicated and heavily debated question, so let's investigate.

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[boreopithecus]

There's actually a country called Argentina that was named after Argentinosaurus, and two US states named after Dakotaraptor.

[juliomartinez]

I love when educational youtubers apologize to us about their videos running long.

No. Please. Stop. Don't continue to explain INCREDIBLY INTERESTING scientific shit to me for an additional 10 minutes that I am likely to spend literally watching another one of your videos anyways.

I like to learn Ben, please take the hour; I'll be here the whole time.

[ThisIsMark]

Growing up as a kid in Argentina was such a delight with all its rich history concerning dinosaurs

[patrick_j_lee]

Are you going to discuss the various mega-sauropods known only from footprints? That's one of my favourite parts of the giant sauropod debate.

[garypfeiffer]

I love Argentinosaurus being the biggest but in all honesty, my favorite 1 out of ALL of these is Supersaurus

[beastmaster]

It seems fitting that the sauropod group that Argentinosaurus, and so many other massive sauropods belongs to, is called “titanosaurs”

[mariskaajoy]

You dont know how happy that 'part 1' makes me😂Cant wait for the rest!😍

[S-T-E-V-E]

These huge Sauropods must have been a food source for weeks (once dead) for the surrounding scavenger community!

[vjbele]

My favorite paleontology topic. Ben G Thomas, you have sincerely made my evening today

[AntoniusTyas]

It would be hilarious if _Argentinosaurus_ turned out to have relatively short neck like _Dicraeosaurus_ or _Brachytrachelopan_

[paranoiia]

They could use heavily modified idea of software used in mechanical simulation where they make whole model with every part down to smaller screw and see how it behave under gravity, heavy load and moving. It's damn time consuming method but with some group work of modelers and engineers i think it would be possible to create model of dinosaur with all bones, muscles tendons and even circulating blood, expansion of body during breathing or even temperature and see if animal could actually move and live having such mass or size, even limiting simulation to just gravity would help to see if dinosaur could withstand mass

[eacalvert]

Dinosaurs are famous the world over for being big and being dead

Love the deadpan delivery

[atilabaezapalerosi]

Excellent work, but... where is part 2? We are waiting for the conclusion! Thank you very much

[eronpowell]

Hope the series does really well. Y’all deserve it!!

[EveryoneElseIsWeirdImNormal]

I have a friend in iraq who I like to send pictures of extremely large and extremely well "scary" looking ancient animals because he doesn't really know about this stuff and it's entertainig

[luciusfucius]

Nice to see an actual in depth video on this topic that doesn't leave anything out for once.
Looking forward for part 2!

[winter]

For anyone wondering what to expect in part 2, here you go:

Mamenchisaurus, Apatosaurus, Barosaurus, Diplodocus hallorum, Supersaurus, Brachiosaurus, Giraffatitan, Sauroposeidon, Alamosaurus, “Antarctosaurus” giganteus, “Bruhathkayosaurus, ” Futalognkosaurus, Notocolossus, Paralititan, and Ruyangosaurus. I’m sure I even missed a few.

Poor Ben.

[laurachapple]

Having grown up in the 90s, I always find something incredibly satisfying about really CHONKY depictions of dinosaurs. Yes, please, let them eat, it's what they evolved for.

[merrickmoriel]

At dinosaur ridge in Colorado, we have a replica of the Maraapunisauras vertibrae, everybody is in awe of the size of one spinal column on these creatures.

[marksheppard]

"Huge organism" yeah, I swear the OG script said, "proper massive unit of a sauropod"