Andrewsarchus: We Know One Bone. It's Enough to Break Every Record

Everything we know about the largest carnivorous land mammal in the history of life comes from one bone. One skull. Found in the Mongolian desert in 1923. We have never found another piece of this animal. That skull is 83 centimeters long. A lion skull is 38. The Andrewsarchus skull is more than double. In this video: the real size, why the teeth were built for crushing bone not cutting flesh, the detail that stops everyone — it had hooves not claws, its closest living relatives are whales and hippos, why it was probably both the apex predator and apex scavenger of its world simultaneously, the discovery story, and why the most significant carnivore record in mammal history comes from one bone in a museum in New York. One skull. The record. The unknown giant. Subscribe and hit the bell — new video every week. #Andrewsarchus #PrehistoricAnimals #Paleontology #Mammals #NatureDocumentary