Marsupial Lion - you've never seen anything like!

[SuperSecretYTAccount]

kitty

[doctorh2005]

I like how they just assume that its "millions" of years ago without substantiating that claim.

[Hoopermazing]

If it was so great, it would still be here. Humans showed up with dogs, and this ugly bastard went extinct.

[AceofDlamonds]

@Hoopermazing

You're an idiot.......not that the early humans knew any better, but because of them, all these megafauna went extinct. Burning bushes, killing off large animals, bringing in pests and disease.

[roselinatiger99]

we basicly know nothing about it except for the fac it existsand its name

[MuLatina]

australians wish they had such a wild cat lol

[Albacorewing]

Millions of years ago in Australia, biting like hell.

[ptango666]

are they kidding?

andrewsarchus would have swallowed it in one

[LUVMEN21]

@ptango666 yeah now he was DANGEROUS!!!!

[Calzonebaby]

@ptango666 What are they claiming that u dont agree with??

[ptango666]

@Calzonebaby they said that it could "outbite every known mammal alive or extint"

[Calzonebaby]

@ptango666 I hear what u are saying but they are only saying that in terms of bite pressure though.....particularly those two rear teeth, which work like boltcutters do. The Tassie Devil and the Hyena have the 2 highest bite pressures of the living mammal world but they are nowhere near the most dangerous mammals around.

[vguyver2]

@ptango666 think about it, this small Marsupial Lion can outperform an animal twice it's size, and it's got a but 2x to 3x the strength of a large lion. andrewsarchus brought down to comparable scale wouldn't of had a bite nearly as powerful.

[Hoopermazing]

@vguyver2 Blah, blah, blah. It couldn't survive competition from fucking dingos. ROFL. 

[vguyver2]

@Hoopermazing that doesn't mean squat. We've seen entire species wiped out by the introduction of new small insect species and incredible animals wiped out because they couldn't out breed other species. It's nature, shit happens. Don't be narrow minded.

[MaxPower30au]

They are still around alive and well in small numbers from Victoria to Northern Queensland and the Australian Government has known for years ~!!! Ask Parks Victoria they have been hiding and covering up the mainland Victoria sightings of native big cats and tassie tigers for years ~!!!!

[littleseezer]

wow I wonder how it became extinct... I would like to see that vs a saber tooth tiger!

[N00bcrunch3r]

@littleseezer

Duh! Humans! Humans were the only new predators to have entered Australia around the time this behemoth went extinct. Suggesting climate change would not work because there was no significant climate change 35,000 years ago.

[TheGreaterGood80]

I've seen different renderings of thylacoleo. The first thing that came to my mind with this one was "big fast angry wombat with killer beaver teeth"

dig the claw swat combos too

[frankxc13]

that shit scared the crap out of me .. :llll 0:00

[littleseezer]

@frankxc13 LOL Me too!

[Fisharecool11]

2:39... OMG IT'S A GIANT RAT!!!

[WolfZeroBlade]

0:31

Somethign about that size just dosen't seem right, we'd be like the size of it's hand bull rofl.

[nancy1pants]

@WolfZeroBlade it was probobly like a crocodile or something

[WolfZeroBlade]

@nancy1pants Yeah it was i know, actually it was probly more like a dinosaur but yeah i know what you mean it's a Reptile like a giant lizard, i just don't think the size is realistic nothing on earth is like that big in my opinion.

[ogglepuss]

ha!

[Ibalon2012]

giant rat from hell,,must have been scary for the early Aboriginis to meet

[PantheraAtrox]

Bet this thing was an omnivore rather than a full fledged carnivore like Thylacosmilus or the Thylacine.

Judging from the shape of the jaw it may had fed more on carrion.

[Dinoman217]

Not likely! I think it use it's incisors to puncture a hole in the prey!

[PantheraAtrox]

Rats & squirrels are omnivores which sometimes kill other animals for food.

Check out "Killer Squirrel Eats Bird" on You Tube

[BHHerper]

Very true! Have you heard of the pack of squirrels that attacked and killed a dog in search of new protein, since there was a shortage of nuts and pinecones in the forest? They were carrying pieces of the dog's flesh with them as the locals tried scaring them off. And the articles about it said that it was a fairly large dog, as well.

[PantheraAtrox]

Whoah that's a little hard to swallow, gotta link on that?

If true maybe they they were rabid? Or found a very sick and dying feral dog?

[BHHerper]

The dog started barking at them, and it was a stray, so there was no human companion with him at the time. The locals just spotted them killing the dog. It was a pack of Russian grey squirrels, in a park, in Russia.

[PantheraAtrox]

facinating.

[BHHerper]

I could PM you a couple of links on this topic.

[PantheraAtrox]

No need, I found some articles online.

Did a search "Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog" (BBC news)

Wow they litterally gutted the feral dog.

[criticalage]

Everything is maybe.... Perhaps...... Who knows....

[Splinterkill]

bullshit.

[bv2thetiger]

it's genuinely fascinating, but i'm not a fan of so much speculation

good watch nonetheless

[Voodoofilmsinc]

You do mean when the first "white" humans came to Australia, lets not forget about the Aboriginals, they would have been around with they for 40,000 years before us.

[itneverrainsonmars]

PREHISTORIC??... yes im sure that was sdurin the 19th century...

[StorytellerMedia]

Yes we made Bone Diggers with Nova and Animal X with Discovery and Animal Planet

[LUVMEN21]

Great job on the video!!! and the info!!

[ceitiosaurus]

so yr usinf animal x and bone diggers from nova

[frangipani1974]

It looks likea cat so I imagine it behaved like one.

[FreecapZ]

weird.......

[sedgegrass]

I love thylacoleos, I making ones skull in ceramics xD

[ifurn0]

Most probably is.

[RocketmanXO]

Thunderbirds?

[amethystducky]

Giant birds of prey rather than puppets.

[RocketmanXO]

I know. They're supposed to be myths... A different continent and a different meaning altogether. Northern American legends abound with them. Apparently big birds in AU are called thunderbirds.

[o0wolfspirit0o]

Big birds are called thunderbirds? x3 lol. I've never heard of that and I live in australia. Maybe people in the country call them that, but I've never heard that. lol.

[RocketmanXO]

@wolfspirit

You seen American Indian totem poles? That's what they are.

Ever heard of the Thunderbirds, top aces from the airforce? That's what they're named after.

[cornelius851]

there are a couple of life sized replica statues at Kings Park in Western Australia, along with other Prehistoric creatures that used to live in the area

[Dinoman217]

Actually they're the dromornithids!

[ikbenonfire]

Nice googling.