6 Animals That Could DESTROY An Elephant In A Fight

Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/CreatureChallenge What animals could beat an elephant in a fight? Well, we will have to go prehistoric for this one, so watch to the end to find out :) Let’s be brutally honest for a second. There is not a single land animal breathing today that wakes up and decides to pick a fight with an African bush elephant. Entire lion prides scatter, rhinos get tossed around like toys, and even hippo know exactly when to shut up and get out of the way. But before y’all start glazing the elephant as some unbeatable animal, we need a reality check. Because if we want to find animals that can actually obliterate this thing, we have to roll the clock way back and go prehistoric. And believe me, the fossil record is hiding some absolute nightmare creatures you’ve probably never even heard of that would completely wreck an elephant in a fight. The mentioned prehistoric animals are columbian mammoths, triceratops, ankylosaurus, paraceratherium, deinotherium, and the T.rex (Tyrannosaurus rex). Columbian mammoth: If you were to send a modern African elephant back to the Pleistocene grasslands of North America to take on one of these things, you'd see the undisputed king of the savanna get humbled real fast. First, let’s look at the tale of the tape, because the size gap here is clinically insane. While your average bush elephant is an impressive 6 tons, the Columbian mammoth was a literal mountain of meat and bone, weighing anywhere from 10 to 14 tons. That means, at minimum, the mammoth is nearly 75% heavier than the elephant. But, other than size alone, did y’all know the mammoth and elephant were actually built pretty differently? You see, the African elephant has a flatter back that sits parallel to the ground. But the mammoth possessed a sloped posture with a massive, muscular shoulder hump that connected and reinforced its insane neck muscles needed to power its primary weapons: those absurd, 14-foot spiraling tusks. Triceratops: An adult Triceratops horridus clocked in at 6-9 tons on average. But where the elephant truly loses this fight is in anatomy and leverage. An elephant stands 11 feet tall on straight legs, giving it a dangerously high center of gravity. The Triceratops is 9 feet tall and built like a sprawling, armored bulldozer. And we need to pause for a second and talk about its head. The Triceratops walks around with a reinforced skull that weighs an incredible 3,000 pounds. So in a shoving match, the elephant physically cannot push the Triceratops over; it’s getting completely uprooted. And oh, and it gets even worse for the elephant when we talk about weapons. Elephant tusks are ivory (they can and do snap under extreme stress). The Triceratops, on the other hand, packs 4-foot horns made of solid bone, explicitly designed to survive multi-ton collisions with a T. rex. The Triceratops fights T.rexes every day, end of story. Ankylosaurus: These two are basically in the exact same weight class, but they are built completely differently. While the elephant is tall and mobile, the Ankylosaurus is a low-profile, heavily armored bunker. I mean, this thing’s entire body was covered in bony plates embedded in the skin, which were likely capped with a hard layer of keratin. They were so protected from their arms race with the T. rex that even their eyelids were armored. And aside from its defense, it’s packing serious heat. At the end of its tail is a giant, 2-foot-wide bone club that it could swing with enough force to straight-up shatter a T. rex’s ankle. Once again, if the Ankylosaurus successfully fends off attacks from T.rexes, it could beat an elephant in a fight. Paraceratherium: Remember when I said modern rhinos get bullied by elephants like little kids on a playground? Well, consider this the ultimate revenge of the rhino. It was a giant, prehistoric, hornless rhinoceros, and it is arguably one of the largest land mammals to ever exist. It stands at a whopping 16 feet at the shoulder and weighs anywhere from 11-17 tons. The paraceratherium easily bodies the elephant. Deinotherium: Basically, think of it as the elephant's oversized, mutated prehistoric great-uncle. And when I say oversized, I mean it. This thing stood 13 feet tall and weighed between 9-13 tons, aka double the size of the elephant. It simply bodies the elphant. T.rex: Whether it's a T. rex, Giganotosaurus, or Characharadontosaurus, if it’s a bipedal apex predator in the elephant's weight class, the result is exactly the same. We're talking a 13 ft tall, 7-9-ton carnivore packing a 5-foot-long, 600-pound skull. Its head alone weighed as much as a grizzly bear, supporting a 12,000 PSI bite force engineered purely to crush bone and thick hide. Its daily job was dismantling multi-ton, heavily armored tanks like the Triceratops and Ankylosaurus we just talked about. When the T.rex fights an elephant, it will just be another simple, unchallenging hunt. Tags: elephant fight, t.rex fight