The HUGE Sea Scorpion that was actually a River Monster - Jaekelopterus

Haha! "I just KNOW that I'd try to pet it--even if it cost me my hand, or worse!" This is one of the many reasons why we love you.

Screams like the heroine of a 50s B- movie

I freaking love Eurypterids. Absolute units.

0:54 From what I've seen, they're closely related to both scorpions and horseshoe crabs, being more derived than the horseshoe crabs and basal to the arachnids

eurypterids .. pterygotids.. my favourite prehistoric guys in the world. was so so excited to see this in my notifications!!

Bro I didn’t see the spider on ya shoulder til 5:25 😂😂

The morphology, hunting tacics, and method of locomotion of Jaekelopterus reminds me a lot of modern day giant water bugs. A brilliant example of convergent evolution.

5:08 “….id just try to pet it…” That’s how I met my girlfriend ten years ago….

Eurypterids seem to be at least reasonably well known yet criminally underrepresented. I want to see how these things moved yet i hardly ever find good depictions of it.

Would be cool if there was an undiscovered underground cave with pigmy Eurypterids. Also epic video🗿

Chelicerae is one of my favourite words lol

Thanks a lot for creating & sharing! BTW really love your background music - and off course your little buddy.

Awesome video, always down for prehistoric Arthropods what really would have been funny as April fools joke was trying to confirm Mesothelae as a actual spider rather then a Eurypterid Ps that huntsman was like, ‘how do I climb this tall awkward tree’

The one thing to make any jaekelopterus start shaking with fear: JEREMY WADE

The not-so-arthropod-friendly Walking With Monsters introduced me to this guy when the show came out, and it really captured me more than any of the other characters at the time. I wonder, was it re-dated to the Devonian or did the filmmakers carelessly throw into the Silurian? With regard to its extinction, while it's always interesting to ponder why a particular species or family suffers, it is at the end of the day the norm in Earth history; and paleozoic in particular is completely littered with chaotic extinctions events/biodiversity crises. One might as well call it the deathozoic. So perhaps it's the survivors who are the true weirdos, and whose oddity is more demanding of an explanation? Well, either way, how lucky we are to be alive. [Insert obligitory griffinfly video request]

i dont blame u 4 wanting 2 pet it lol

Omg Jeremy Wade needs to know about this now! Another great prehistory vid for sure. I think some interesting candidates for future subjects would be Pulmunoscorpius, Hibbertopterus or Marrella. And petting a Jaekelopterus would both be awesome and net the end of that one Brontoscorpio in WWM.

Interesting stuff 🤔 👍

Love the video, trying to raise triops now more info when I get it reliable

How do you think large individuals would have handled molting?