'Crash-tested' skulls throw light on extinctions

[jambozx]

she has the most annoying voice ever and that's why I hate these videos

[Cdabek]

wow they had cameras 3000 years ago?! XD

[DanFrederiksen]

it doesn't take a big jaw to swipe the credit card at the super market : )

[fog0death]

our own lineage survived not because of how strong we bite... rofl...

[dunandidit]

Something to get yer teeth into....

[emersonran]

Did this lady say the Tasmanian tiger was extinct 3000 years ago?!

They were extinct by British settlers 150 years ago. Furthermore there are no dingoes in Tasmania, so they offered no direct competition to the Tassie Tiger.

[fog0death]

lol she said 3000 years ago but yet she showed some pictures of some tasmanian tigers

[Valkyriefury]

Yeah guys, I hate being this mean to you, but you're both retarded. She said Australian *mainland* for a reason.

[fog0death]

so tasmanian tigers lived in more areas not only australia? how can they become extinct then if they were so widely spread

[Tapecutter59]

@fog0death Grab a map and find Australia. Tasmania is the little island, the Australian mainland is the big island. Tasmanian Tigers died out on the big island 3000 years ago, they died out on the little island in the early 20th century. Dingoes were brought from SE Asia to Australia by aborigibes ~4500yrs ago, the little island split from the big island at the end of the last ice age, 10,000yrs ago which explains why Dingoes are not found on the little island.

[oboztas]

No. She didn't say that. Hope that answers your question.

(She said it was wiped out from the Australian mainland 3,000 years ago. And there are dingoes in Australia.)

[Nefariusi]

I was just about to ask what she said... I was thinking on how good definition the 3000 years ago B&W cameras had. And I also read about dingoes still not extinct.

[midare]

Emerson... she said, "from the Australian mainland," where from it is believed to have been wiped out BEFORE settlement. The Reason it is called the "TASMANIAN Tiger" is because they found them *gasp* in Tasmania, not on mainland Australia 0:50 ... extend that to the rest of your comment about Dingos who WERE on the mainland and likely contributed to their extinction in THAT particular location.

[skylinegtrz]

Oh Penis!

[The1HuLuvStewie]

well, this was boring

[fortythiefs]

Where do you get your infomation from. The tasmainion tiger was wiped out by modern day man no more than 200 hundred years ago or less get your facts straight

[uoieaz]

australian mainland

[Activeswiss]

Realy bored of this shit

[Crazycardfreak]

Yeah....'cause our 'ancestors' went around trying to bite into live prey...nooooooo, probably not

[madapaja]

Attack of the Killer Apple!

Attack of the Killer Apple!

Attack of the Killer Apple!

Attack of the Killer Apple!

[Settii]

@omble: LOL!!!! Well Said!!!

[levitk421]

Maybe the previous Humanoids got bored of doing skull crash tests on yout u tube and commited suicide >.>

[omble]

this data concludes nothing but the fact of how hard animals could bite based on stress tests of skulls. any information provided will do jack shit in helping figure out why certain humanoid species lived while others died.

[shaigan007]

wow

[TheUnbound123]

The Tazmanian Tiger was wiped out from the mainland 3000 years ago, which is true. The mainland is the Australian Continent as a whole. Tazmanian Tigers continued to survive on the islands surrounding the mainland that is how we got the pictures. Simple really once you think about it and not jump to conclusions ^^

[catfishredneck88]

tell this to those who think we were just sat into the garden of eden,lol. i think myth has been busted.

[insertlettucehere]

wow, that is so cool.

What a backwards way to discover something about where we came from.

[Symeris]

Wait, I don't understand at all how they could relate this technique to the way animals kill their prey. It's probably just a load of rubbish. =\

[deleriousclock]

dude the larger the mouth the greater the force an animal has in its bite. also like they say, a larger mouth gives the ability to take down larger animals. if a great white shark had a five inch mouth they couldnt do shit. but they have a massive mouth and thus gobble up fucking humans dude. so yeah seems pretty obvious as to how this relates to killing prey.

[chikkychappy]

wow. you conclude it's rubbish because you didn't understand something explained in a 90-second video? maybe you could first, i don't know, read an article or two before judging?

this just ridiculous, arrogant, and do not pay due respect to the hard work of these scientists.

[QT5656]

Finite Element Analysis has been used to design and check the structure of aeroplanes and bridges for several years now. Hence, its pretty well tested. It can be used to demonstrate how strong a skull is and that in turn can allow inferences with respect to bite force and perhaps feeding strategy.

[masterpiraka]

Wow...What a prick you are.

[AVerbene]

waaaaaaaaaahh????

[Black6x]

Wiped out "from the mainland". Helps top actually listen to the whole thing.

[ImEasilyOverIt]

All i really cared about was the shark bite not some ratty ass tazmanian squirrel

[andreschato]

uh, tazmanian tigers were not wiped out 3000 years ago...

[cRAzYSHORTiExOxO]

THIS WAS SILLY!!

[mauilovin]

WE HAVE A MAKO SHARK JAW ITS PRETTY SICK

[dragonsteelmods]

Cool.. technology is amazing at what it can do sometimes..

[TeenWithAttitude]

wow!! that iz kwl!!

[Brycecool]

sucked

[howtorickroll]

nice

[skm100]

this iz cool

[SilentBombr]

interesting

[bianchiaz]

Sabrina and Amanda can you reflect on your great findings to CMB?

[swesomeguy]

Thats cool, i think xD

[TheShinyDemon]

The gist of the video:

ITS GONNA FUCKING HURT IF IT BITES YOU.

[heymanhaha]

we're a bunch of monkeys

[speeddemon217]

No wonder there's so much shit thrown around on the internet...

[kornkiller03]

huh realy intresting

[keriannee]

the tazmanian tiger died in 1994 in austrailia. and its called a tazmain wolf. nickname is tasimain tiger...

[jcrist]

those caveman dumbasses died because we killed them

[dimple5]

is tahat tasmanian tiger,taz:))))

[masteroink]

tell me this, why is it important for us to know how they kill us? We know they kill us allready.

[Auztyn24]

knowledge is power

[towlierocks]

NERDS!!!!

[Narutoslilsis0]

B.O.R.I.N.G!!!!

[ruxer24]

lol

[ballg]

the Tasmanian Tiger went fully extinct in the 20th century, not more than a hundred years. It disappeared from the Australian mainland 3000 years ago, but survived for a while on the island of Tasmania.

[Lutgerion]

Cool :O

[JWJSSIF]

fucking anoying voice

[elpresidio]

the voice of the lady must remind you of your ex,lol.

[riverastyle]

Interesting, but not that good.

[pthodor]

Extinct 3000 years ago??? I suppose they had cameras back then.. or it's a surprisingly accurate painting technique.

I guess the new scientists aren't as good as the old ones used to be :))

[JoeKehr]

Yeah, I was puzzled by this, too - at first :-). But you have to listen carefully, she said they were extinct on the Australian mainland 3000 years ago. But they are called *Tasmanian* for a reason - some survived on Tasmania.

I just wonder why they mention this - it is much more informative to tell when they became completely extinct.

[nomographer]

It's informative to know that they became extinct on the mainland since they were shown to be second-rate predators of large game. On the island, they may have had less competition or some advantage not mentioned.

[nokia7654]

i didnt understand a word of DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[topoftheline25]

The Tasmanian tiger is not extinct I hit one with my car the other day

[Rikotistic]

The computational simulations have really opened the door on all kinds of testing. I always wondered if such capability would be applied to skull and jaw strength. Are they factoring in bioenergetic efficiency?

[nokia7654]

what does that mean?

[CrashGames2108]

The shark still looks fake.

[ihavenopatience4u]

poor tazmanian tigers

[danydevil123]

was it jus me or is that womens voice really agitating? i usually like the narrator on these science videos aswell...

[BeechSundowner]

Good video!

[sweetgrannie]

Extremely good

[dapnd]

prolly the most annoying voice I've heard in a while...

[niekas]

They took very interesting subject and made it sound very monotonous and boring. Good job. Wink wink...

[kylielan]

umm the last captive Tasmanian tiger to die was in 1933 and the last known tracing of the Tasmanian tiger was 1959 where footprints were found.. they were declared extinct in 1986.. they def weren't extinct 3000 yrs ago.. maybe on Australia mainland, but not on Tasmania which is also part of Australia.

[YawnGod]

Ok, you answered your own question. Congrats! :)

[danydevil123]

yeah thats why it said mainland. tasmania isnt the mainland its an island off the coast ( i amsure you already new that), what i mean is that isolands off the coast are not part of the 'main land mass' thus are not considered 'the mainland' so what she said was correct. and if you listen again she says soemthign like "TT's were extinct 3000 years ago on the mainland" yet they still survived on tasmania. hope that clears it up...

[bitRAKE]

This analysis doesn't seem like a tough nut to crack.

[Gregoryxlz]

k...worthless

but cool i guess

[zfmduel]

00:55 if those Tigers were wiped out some 3000 years ago, then why is there pictures of them? are they just figures?

[HeadoftheHydra]

I believe they were shipped elsewhere. The last one died in the late 1800's...I think...Or early 1900's...I forget. :P

[ArthBHx]

The Tasmanian tiger died out around 2000yrs to 3000yrs ago on the Austrailian mainland, but carried on living on Tasmania until fairly recently. It's proper name is Thylacine because it is not a tiger, but a marsupial. The last known specimen ('Benjamin') died in Hobart Zoo, although the species didn't become officially extinct until 1986. Their extinction is attributed to competition from invasive dingos and indigenous humans.

[ArthBHx]

P.S Benjamin died in 1936 and was probably female.

[danydevil123]

they were wiped out on the australian 'maniland' but survived on the austarlian island of tasmania. hence the name. the footage is actually real footage of these animals (they had a few in captivity befroe they became extinct). i believe the last confirmed 'sighting' of a tasmanian tiger in the wild came when a farmer shot one dead when it came onto his sheep farm. as it turns out though these tigers were harmless to sheep... so he killed one of the last TT's for nothing...

[fighter4rent]

intresting subjest material but a very boring delivery

[eraserhead321]

My muscle gets plenty of wear and tear.

[jerms88]

Somebody call a plumber... cause these pipes are about to explode!

[joescho93]

lmao

[eraserhead321]

I think it depends mainly on the density of my bone. Heh heh. My bone is very dense right now.

[joescho93]

lmfao

[hartnell114]

wouldnt it also depend on density of bone ?

[TECHKLEC]

I would think so, along with muscle density.