The Giant Bear That Could Have Taken On Allosaurus

Today we are taking a look at the giant short faced bear that was potentially bigger than your average Allosaurus: Arctotherium.

Also, time to answer the question: what dinosaur would make a good pet?

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:38 Discovery
0:52 Description
2:46 Environment
4:40 Lifestyle/various species
6:50 Arctodus
7:43 Q&A

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The Great American Interchange by GUILLERMO TORRES CARREÑO

[sassa]

Thank you Henry Cavills brother. This was an interesting evolutionary history of the species of giant short faced bears!

[triqniq]

I really enjoy how you show pictures along with the species you list off, which helps to visualize everything better. Appreciate all the great vids!

[MetastaticMaladies]

Imagine you’re a hunter-gatherer in South America, just doing your thing, hunting deer or something and suddenly you come upon Arctotherium, just a giant beast. Terrifying!

[dannielaston]

Absolutely incredible content creator and presenter. Deserves infinitely more interaction.

[jabbarmuhammad]

One of my favorite prehistoric predatory animal

[erichtomanek]

Arctotherium is just a big lovable teddy bear 🧸!
As long as they're well fed ...
About keeping dinosaurs:
I have a book that has all the information on keeping many different types of dinosaur.
It also has side notes that a really quite useful, such as:
Worryingly intelligent.
Worryingly stupid.
Likes children.
Likes to eat children.
Extremely flatulent.
These are just some of the quick tips.

[CryptoJordanVR]

Actually the biggest reason why mammals don't get as large as dinosaurs isn't because of our bones. It's because of our metabolism.

Mammalian metabolisms are much higher than most other animals. If you scaled up an elephant to the size of a sauropod, It would cook itself from the inside out with its own body heat.... It took a lot of evolution for sauropods to get as big as they were and this included massively slowed down metabolisms.

Whales have extremely slow metabolisms by mammalian standards but they also have the aid of the water to cool down their bodies.

[primordialpouch]

Been here since the first couple of videos, always loved your style and cadence, keep doing what you do brother!!

[brucefsanders]

Distractingly cute... I like this baby faced look... Keep up the good work ‼️ 🙊

[marsfire]

Great video. Would love to see a future one on the American Lion and a size comparison between the American Lion and Arctodus Simus. So cool to think people encountered these in the past.

[Williameagleblanket]

I remember seeing a display of this bear at a museum about 10 years ago. Along with Colombian Mammoth and other animals long gone. It was awesome. Great video. 👍

[lewisbean]

Whhh, the very high estimates for Arctotheroum came from scaling an individual with fractured femur that reheated, resulting in an artificially high estimate, that and scaling from overweight captive bears. Volumetric studies suggest more conservative weights for the fluffy boys

[debbieannsmith]

Great video. Keep up the amazing work. 😊😊😊

[LoudmouthReviews]

My zoo has 3 Alaskan male brown bears that each weighed over 1000 pounds. They are super intimidating but it’s crazy this bear was bigger than all 3 combined 😳

[jessehutchings]

Besides size and body density the body plan for bears in general is extremely stable, robust and agile. So, when you pit the short faced bear against similar sized therapod dinosaurs the bear might actually be much more adept at wrestling them, knocking them over and disabling their limbs. Bears are practically built specifically for wrestling and shredding their opponents in the process

[AngloSaxon]

Great video, really well researched and good presentation.

[brianwilcox]

Another nice video. Thanks! 

I do like the viewer's Q&A segment. If I had a big place in the countryside, I'd like to have some kind of Ceratopsian. If I could have a mammal, my pick would be a rhino.

[Qingeaton]

I have had a lot of different kinds of animals over the years as pets, and reptiles seem to have the least personality.
I had snakes, lizards and turtles and they do have different temperaments, but I never felt like they could learn much of anything.

[adamwinter]

There’s a great book by Robert Mash called how to keep dinosaurs and it’s an ironic manual on having different species as pets. It’s quite funny and worth a read

[ellagrant]

I'm usually a part of the therapod gang, but I really like the idea of a miniature sauropod. Something like 4 - 6 feet long. Maybe a magyarosaurus with dwarfism or bred to be smaller.