Correction! At 9:19, we erroneously refer to Dimetrodon as an herbivore. It was definitely a carnivore. We even made a whole video about Dimetrodon and their carnivorous ways in a previous episode: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SR3OOP9mImI.html Thanks to everyone who pointed out our error!
"Historians" talking about Lenin in the year 2999, shown in infra-colour and 4th dimentional depth on the post historical channel about the time when Elivs went back in time to save the indians by moving them through history to help the Leninistic indianism in Russia, known at the time as the USSR
Five major ones known for over 60 years, and new ones cropping up whenever in-depth studies of fossils in an area are possible. Of course, the older you get the less spectacular the problems are, as life has less far to fall, but anything that wipes out 70% of everything needs to be studied.
@@puncheex2 Ummm do you even science. The Great Permian Extinction (PT extinction) was beyond spectacular. The rise and falls in life were absolutely incredible! Want you want your mind blown? Every time you eat chicken...You're eating a dinosaur.
Fun fact, the word Cambrian is the latinised form of Cymru, which is the Welsh word for Wales, where the Cambrian rocks are best exposed in the UK (and where I live :D)
Up until you hear her attempt to say niche - it is *not "nit-ch" in the same way as chassis is not "char-ssisss". Every time some Inbredistani makes either of those mistakes it grinds on my very soul. So please please please *STOP*
Ordovician is my favorite. Everything was a prototype, an experiment in features. Features were tried that never appeared again and the body plans that still appear today were devised. Super cool!
@@scalpingsnake that'd be harsh though. Imagine it's semi-difficult to "aim" the time jumps, and you end up pre-carboniferous and there's too little oxygen to breathe. Considering how MUCH of our planet's time was spent as "uninhabitable" to us, it would bw frightening to travel back, even IF we could mitigate the dangers of predators or diseases.
fishinforfun33 hey. If you enjoy presentations on evolutionary history, I think you’ll appreciate this series, if you aren’t already familiar with it. ru-vid.com/group/PLXJ4dsU0oGMLnubJLPuw0dzD0AvAHAotW It’s a fantastic resource for understanding evolution and our place in it.
Man the Great Dying was a time when the devs nerfed almost everything. Heck some builds were downright removed from the game. Just to appear as easter eggs in the later expansions. They also tease us with -gorgonopsids added -gorgonopsids removed in the patch notes. They do this every update with a strong build that was previously removed like come on! Last time it was -tyrannosaurus added -tyrannosaurus removed Give us a break devs! Stop making me salty!
Rexie’s ban was at least understandable: the Saurapsid meta had turned into a game of just trying to max out your base stats, and got kinda stale. The Cenozoic, while facing an even more OP build, at least has a more interesting dynamic that forces more unique stat spreads.
I was personally a fan of the Oligocene patch from Cenozoic expansion. I had an Andrewsarchus reaper build before carnivorous artiodactyls got wiped from the server. Bummer.
Finnieboy 1203 but too be fair, 200 million years of the dinosaur meta was way too long. I’ll give the devs props for finally putting their foot down after the Cretaceous
If I ever discover a new species I'm naming it "The Dude"... just because of this post (Far out, man). Of course, I'll have to take up paleontology but... it could happen!
We still need 1. the evolution of eggs from it's simplest form to the largest, shelled eggs 2. the evolution of eyes from simple, light detecting eyespots to the highly complex eyes of vertebrates and cephalopods
The problem there is that neither of thise structures fossilize well, so what is known is from the very rare fossil find and extrapolating from what is there today. Alittle reverse-engineering helps too. We haver today a lot of example of eyes from the miniscule to the eagle, but that's now - what was in use in dinosaurs, for example, is to an extent a guess.
MrStensnask We actually know how eyes evolved, we have examples of different stages of eye development from organism that are alive today. We don't need fossils for that, we can just look out the window.
I've always found the Cenozoic to be the most interesting epoch. It got loads of mammals, birds, and interesting looking reptiles (crocs, turtles, snakes, big lizards). The separated continents also increased diversification. I'd love to see a video on the Eocene, it's particularly interesting due to global rainforests, mammal diversification, terror birds, and loads of reptiles.
This series tells the extraordinary story of life before the dinosaurs. A time when strange and savage creatures fought a ruthless battle to rule the Earth. Amongst them were our own earliest ancestors whose survival would decide whether we humans would exist at all. As they evolve, these bizarre creatures created the blueprints not only for our bodies but for everything living today. This is life's forgotten story. An epic war for our world. A war between monsters.
The music in this series is particularly effective. Also, I learned something today from the graphic of Eons/Eras/Ages; kudos to you for making quality educational content!
@@leoalvarez5907 It's not this... but it's quite similar to Takotsubo by Maybeshewill. Might scratch your itch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A3gMYgMa_Fk.html
Yes man, the carboniferous was a special chapter in the history of the life, the amazing forests, the huge oxygen level and those giant arthropods. This period looks friendly to me
There certainly was a lot of fascinating creatures in the Paleozoic As for any ecosystem there is always some risk or danger they only look placid on the scale
This was perfect! -It used visuals to show eons/eras, to scale. -Animals were shown with the host for scale. -The continents were shown as they would appear at the time. -The info was like a presented summary, so it was easier to follow.
The Paleozoic was truly an alien time, paleontologists should study more about the organisms that lived during that era so that we can get a clearer view
I can't explain how much I love this channel, I really like the others channels of PBS, but this one just hits right in the spot, I love the way you intertwine Earth's history with the evolution of life, please keep doing more of these!
As a student palaeontologist, this is the best channel to review material we’ve learned in lectures! I absolutely love your content, please keep doing what you’re doing!
@@fargoth391 Yes The are. You know what is in them is backed up by science and can see the references. By asking one can tell you are not well educated or you would have known that right away.
I really have to say, this is one of the best channels with the most interesting subject matter I have ever found on the internet. The presentation of the wealth of information is absolutely incredible. I have grown an entirely new appreciation for life on earth. I knew life on earth was something special and unique, for some reason I never realized just how /cool/ it is. These videos have given me a feel for evolution that I've never had before. Seeing how life evolved to take advantage of the environment, and how intertwined it is with geology and other creatures is remarkable. I can't get enough of the fossil record!
Paleozoic is my favorite era! That traces back to a seven year old me watching Walking With Monsters: Before the Dinosaurs, and falling head over heels in love with Anomalocaridids.
I don’t know. I think the Precambrian contains potential extinction events that make the Phanerozoic ones small. Granted, all we had were microbes. Great video!
Steven Baumann she also mentioned exciting and cruicial changes. Microbes would be in numbers far greater. And if they were wiped out thats the end of the story but it was over a far greater time span that any changes happened when your barely a multi celled organism.
aussie oi oi oi I generally agree. I just did a geo rant where I identify at least 3 possible quick Precambrian extinctions. 2.4Ga, 1.85Ga, and 1.086Ga. It seems no one has bothered to explore this in detail.
You are right. The great freeze or Snowball Earth around 700 million years ago probably wiped out 99.9% of all life existing by then. There might have been other similar but less severe episodes.
Are you referring to the oxygen crisis? The oxygen produced by cyanobacteria slowly concentrated in the oceans 2 billion years ago and led to the extinction of many other organisms. Oxygen was a cell toxin for most of the early microbes
I feel like Kallie Moore is the best host on this series. Not that the other hosts are not good, but she's great at this. This is great series and I'm always excited to see the new content. 96% of marine species. Oh god.
Thanks for posting her name! I've been trying to find it out so that I can follow other content by her. I agree, she is very interesting to listen to and does a great job.
I wouldn't say better than the other hosts. She's the hardest to listen to imo. Vocals are far to subjective to claim she's the "best" when there's such a high level of talent on this channel
I love learning about this stuff. To me, the Devonian is definitely my favorite period to learn about. Plants becoming large and animals emerging on land are so cool.
Fun fact: Dimetrodon is a stem mammal, meaning mammal like reptiles which includes Ssynapsids, the family which you and me are in. So, evolutionary speaking, Homo sapiens and Dimetrodon are very, very distantly related
I'm a geology and paleontology major, so I already have a pretty good grasp of everything that was talked in this video, but I still watched it all. Soothing and very well illustrated :)
Please cover the early evolution of primates, including strepsirrhine evolution. Discussing the Ida debacle would be good to discuss. Also, please discuss the giant, subfossil lemurs.
What's a sub-fossil? The "Ida debacle" was a museum-media hype-money mistake, not an event that said anything about the paleontology. But, yeah, primates.
puncheex2 "Subfossil" means younger than younger than 50k years. Basically not old enough to have become rock. Pleistocene megafauna fall into this category, but few shows have ever talked about the giant lemurs, which are called "subfossil lemurs" in the literature. As for Ida, there was a lot to be learned from that debacle. Basically a small group of paleoanthropologists was trying to push an outdated view on the evolution of primates. The reason it took off wasn't just because of the chance to make money. The outdated view of primate evolution is still very much alive and can be see all over signs in zoos and in some general textbooks. Basically they tried to claim that Ida was a lemur, and a missing link between lemurs and anthropoid primates. No such missing link exists because anthropoids didn't evolve from lemurs. In fact, this is tied to an even bigger upheaval in our understanding of primate evolution. Primates did not originate in Africa; they came from Asia. In fact, the earliest fossils in Africa had long been labeled as anthropoids (by the same group that gave us Ida), but have recently been shown to actually be stem strepsirrhines. The early monkeys first started evolving in Asia and were probably nocturnal, whereas the lemur ancestors evolved in Africa and were diurnal. That's big, and an episode should be devoted to it.
OK, thank you for the courteous re[lies. I appreciate the education you have given. I agree that this would be a very good topic for Eons to spend some time on.
puncheex2 No problem. I just hope the Eons staff see this and consider it. If they do... I volunteer to help write the script(s). I wrote the Wikipedia articles about lemur evolution, lemurs, and strepsirrhines. I also have a lot of good contacts.
Maybe in the same video, or maybe in another, I'd love to see an in depth examination of hominin evolution- the news that indisputably Neanderthal rock art was found in Spain might create more interest in the topic of archaic humans!
Id say this is probably the best one of these I watched yet. There was a lot I didnt know as it didnt hash over what I've heard (maybe) hundreds of times already. Now its time to start 'digging' for more information on some of what I just learned. Thank you!
Wow! Just may be the most succinct and efficient documentary I've ever witnessed. Not one wasted syllable. Feels like I just read an entire encyclopedia. I need to take a nap now...
You always make such great videos but this one was just fantastic, in depth and informative about a period often neglected or only given a couple minute summary for the whole time.
I really appreciate that they didn't decide to fill this video with constant jokes, the way that a lot of channels would. It feels so much more respectful to it's viewers.
Eons made an earlier video presented by Hank Green that explains how the Cambrian extinction never actually happened... so it would be a good idea to relate to that video when she says "it is not well understood". Keep up the great work :)
It's impossible to comprehend how much time we're talking about here. Even just one sentence from this girl's mouth represents more time than human beings have existed!
I wish that people would say that too..I was thinking the same thing...tryna get the audience as much information as possible it gets overlooked..we talking thousands of generations or hundreds of thousands of years atleast..but we were somewhere..just nowhere near this form
IDK about the first 0:40 seconds. When I was a kid I never cared too much about the parts in my natural history books about dinosaurs. I was always infinitely more fascinated by the pages about the Pre-Permian Paleozoic but more than anything else the Cambrian. I would glance over the dinosaurs and go yea that's pretty interesting but stare for hours at the artwork about the Cambrian.
I like how diverse this was for life. In the Mesozoic there was mostly dinosaurs. In the Cenozoic there was mostly mammals. In the paleozoic you had anomalaceris, sea scorpions, giant squid, fish, amphibians, giant Arthropods and therapsids.
@@zackakai5173 I know there were other creatures and diverse archosaurs in the Triassic. I meant that dinosaurs were the dominant land animals for most of the Mesozoic, not all of it
Wonderful! Just finished the Meglodon episode while traveling today. Saw this coming home and couldn’t wait to see. Also, will catch the link you showed. Really giving Fermi Lab and Space Time a real run. Joyous times!
This is so condensed and dynamic ! it summed up the important part of a 2h lesson on evolution and fossils I had a couple weeks ago. Really helps me study and remember all the major info I need to know for my exams tomorrow thanks a lot !!!
I'm curious how scientists determine the atmospheric oxygen levels and sea level depths over the last eon. I would love to see a video on that and other archeological methods.
The "Cambrian Explosion" was a "Great Dying", evidencing the decimation of lifeforms present at the time of the Great Flood judgment... The sediments containing this prodigious range of creatures is obviously a death collection, gathered fairly quickly under catastrophic circumstances. The fossilization processes depended upon these unique circumstances, and owe their efficacy to the one-off chemistries brought about by a globe in wholesale turmoil.
Thanks for this amazing video! I've watched it several times at this point, mainly for the science and history, of course, but also because the music for this one is AMAZING!!!! Thank you, APM, for helping to make this such a memorable learning experience! I love this channel so much!
