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What If The Dinosaurs Never Went Extinct? The Drakozoic Era: South America

Vividen: Paleontology Evolved

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Imagine a world still ruled by the ancient reptiles of the Mesozoic, in a timeline where the end-Cretaceous extinction never happened and mammals still lived in the shadows. How would life evolve differently? To answer this question, the Vividen Corporation split the timeline and prevented the asteroid from ever impacting Planet Earth, recording our observations and compiling them here for your viewing pleasure. If you’ve already seen the North American episode in this series, you know what’s up. But if not, welcome to the South American edition of the Drakozoic Era: the Age of Dragons. We hope your stay has a high survival rate.

Check out Paleogdy’s channel here: @paleogdy

00:00: What If the Dinosaurs Never Went Extinct?
01:13: The Haimanian Period
10:28: The Ymirian Period
15:11: The Nidavellirian Period

REFERENCES
El Tio footprints https://bicyt.conicet.gov.ar/fichas/p...

Biogeography of Maastrichtian Patagonia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Additional Stegouros-like parankylosaur https://bicyt.conicet.gov.ar/fichas/p...

Significant multi-factor variation in South American paleoclimate https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Pliocene supernova as potential driver of speciation and extinction https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/co...

#speculativeevolution #paleontology #carnotaurus #megaraptor #pseudosuchia

20 Comments

@TheVividen Creator 8 days ago Pinned

The next Drakozoic episode will be in Africa! Which Maastrichtian paleofauna would you like to see highlighted?

@FieryRed_BE 8 days ago

Thank you for including my art, it was a pleasure working with you!

@gendygoblin8391 8 days ago

I like how the non dinosaur species find their own large niche in this timeline while maintaining the dragon theme of this timeline. Seems fitting for non dinosaurs to rise the same way Terror Birds rose in that time period.

@lordrath9674 8 days ago

I loved the LOTR villains theme for this ep, and what fantastic spec evo goodness

@Benozoic 8 days ago

A fantastic video! I had a lot of fun drawing my interpretation of the Grond. Thank you for including my art, and for the shout out!

@justinianthegreat1444 8 days ago

Vividen and Keenan Taylor collab when?

@joaovictorsilveiracosta9950 8 days ago

Its strange to think one of the most famous scenarios "what if the Kpg extinction never happen", feel strangely refreshing, by today standards with the whole speculative biology variety

@thedinoliker-23 8 days ago

At 13:41 you displayed my drawing! Ty so much! I love your videos and I'm actually already working on a spec evo and Abelisaurs are relatively successful pursuit predators, and I am thinking of a giant apex predator from these pug nosed sausages. Again, thanks so much!

@dragodracon7785 8 days ago (edited)

7:05 I was the one who talked about a speculative fisherman Megaraptoran in that post you made a while back, so cool to see somone actually make it into fruition!

@WesMcI-u9b 8 days ago

You should also check out other projects that focus on the same alternate Cenozoic.
These include The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution by Dougal Dixon and The Speculative Dinosaur Project.

@youtubeandchill-f5i 8 days ago

2:43, keanan taylor camo, today is a good day.

@JurassicDaikaiju 8 days ago (edited)

One thing I love about terrestrial pseudosuchians is how they sometimes resemble outdated dinosaur depictions, the Glaurungasuchus Gigas perfectly represents that.
Also, Tales of Kaimere is what got me into spec evo & is a big reason why I plan to start my own worldbuilding project once I finish college. I actually have some rough drafts already. Needless to say, it always puts a smile on my face to see Keenan's work mentioned.