When Gorgonopsids Reigned

Nochnitsa (Ночница) is pronounced with the ch sound like in "chicken."

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It looks like it had a tiny brain.

This dude puts out constant banger videos under rated asf

Couldn’t The short legs aided in a digging lifestyle

It looks like the upcoming Netflix series Life on our Planet will feature Gorgonopsids. The trailer showed by far the best depiction of one on screen. I can’t wait

Nature is amazing

Estemmenosuchus wasn't described as having scaly skin. It was described as glandular skin more akin to a hairless mammal.

I was introduced to Gorgnopsids with both Walking with Monsters & Primeval featuring Inostrancevia (although it’s unnamed in both shows) since then it’s become one of my favourite Paleozoic animals.

so ni la dia makhluk bernama gorgon tu

Did Gorgons hunt Dicynodonts?

All hail to our great grandpa/grandma

I love ur work

What an amazing animal!!😁

more videos on permian animals definitely need to be done! they're so much more interesting

Funny how they’re almost always drawn like scaly streamlined monsters, while they probably looked a lot like modern mammals.
Some ear bones have even been found, so they probably had perky ears just like canine ears.
They also most likely had fur covering.
Another common thing with illustrations, is that the teeth are bare, while they almost definitely had lips covering their teeth.

What's the evidence saber-toothed cats were social? Never heard that before.

Its amazing how far life has come when a form of it can feel sad that another type of life 200 million years before it evolved in a dying world that would wipe the slate of life nearly clean.

Mind bottling..(.like when your thoughts are so crazy , it's like they're trapped in a bottle.) Or is it boggling?, I don't know words.

Saber tooth tigers didn’t actually bite their prey to deliver the kill shot. They used their neck muscles to thrust their saber teeth into the prey.

If I had a time machine.. If I had a time machine!!

255 million years ago you weren't born ..... the end

What’s the music called?

2) There are many species of fish that travel in various age related family & non-family groups or schools over various lengths of time while others are in colonies or harems (one male & several female).

There are two points:
1) unless the reacement teeth were in place ready to immediately replace the previous teeth, as in the case of many sharks, the lost of a tooth would temporarily disadvantage the gorgonopsid until the replacement tooth grew out. Smilodon fossil have been found with at least one tooth broken or missing.
2) There are species of fish that travel is groups or schools

Going to work on making a dnd stat block of inostrancevia for my current campaign.
I knew it was a gorgonopsid but I couldn’t remember the species name

Crazy how the main herbivores almost shifted a first time from stem mammal to reptiles before even the dinosaurs came up.

Viatkogorgon is a genus of gorgonopsian (a type of therapsid, the group that includes modern mammals) that lived during the Permian period in what is now Russia. The first fossil was found at the Kotelnich locality near the Vyatka River and was made the holotype of the new genus and species V. ivachnenkoi in 1999. The generic name refers to the river and the related genus Gorgonops—the gorgons of Greek mythology are often referenced in the names of the group. The specific name honors the paleontologist Mikhail F. Ivakhnenko. The holotype skeleton is one of the most complete gorgonopsian specimens known and includes rarely preserved elements such as gastralia (abdominal ribs) and a sclerotic ring (a bony ring inside the eye). A larger, but poorly preserved specimen has also been assigned to the species.

I love gorgonopsids

Wow this is something I did not really know about.. could you cover a video of cold Blooded and Warm blooded origins and divergence. As well as unique case's like salmon sharks that have the rare unique ability to be in cold water, probably has the greatest thermoregulatory ability of any shark, internal body temperatures up to 60.1°F (15.6°C) greater than sea surface temperature have been recorded. That could be really facinating to learn about. As well as a video that covers a cluster of different unique abilities some animals have evolved, like UV vision for the reindeer, bioluminescence, sonar detection type vision, thermal sensing vision, electrical impulse sensory receptors, creating slime, electrocution attacks, venom, poison, hibernation, anti freeze enzymes in blood, shooting acid like that one beetles chemical weapon, spider silk web lines, stingers/harpoons like in jellyfish with their micro harpoons. How sperm whales can use their sonar to stun prey like a freaking sci-fi weapon. I can't think of anymore right now so I'll call it but it would be a really interesting video experiment concept.

Is that Radiohead playing in the back?

They could kick the ass of any futur predator I'll tell you!

I wish I could go back in time and meet a Gorgonopsid.

What if Archosaurs never existed? How would have Bird ecological niche and Croc eco niche evolved from Stem Mammals?

We are just the lucky inhabitants of an alien world

Hair can also be in excrement because they ate a furred animal. You see this a lot in coyote scat.

So much shrink wrapping

I watched so many of these episodes, now I don't even need to know if there was fossil evidence or not. I will believe all sorts of creatures lived in the past. You can draw anything imaginable with varied proportions of body sizes, chances are such things existed. Its mind baffling.

As a perpetual gamer at heart, I just hope that at some point someone makes a video game similar to The Isle or Path of Titans but with creatures from the Permian, because I for one would love to see a Gorgon moving prowling and popping out of the nearest bush going "BOO, you're dead!" I know it's niche subject and probably not that many people will be interested, but then again in 5-10 years [people will get bored of the same dino game with different skins and I see this since mammal games are starting to appear, I'm one of the few that enjoyed Ancestors: the humankind odyssey, and I'm sure I'll enjoy a game about protomammals and reptiles duking it out in an arena of Death gore and destruction! ( aaah the 90's) !

I don’t understand why mammals didn’t keep the ability to replace their teeth their entire lives. Makes no sense to get rid of it.

Tigrex origin story

Stem mammals are my main interest. Keep up the great videos

triassic animals just are seriously the coolest take me back

I believe that world is 6,000 years old and dinosaurs lived together with humans. Rather than trusting historical science, I believe the Bible. You can even believe that God does not exist as long as you do not command others what exists and what not.

This is in my top favorite episodes

Can you please not use the blatantly inaccurate terminology “cold-blooded” and “warm-blooded”. It makes videos like this borderline unwatchable to have such blatant falsities present throughout.