Is this the most successful animal ever? - Nigel Hughes

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Discover the creatures known as trilobites, one of Earth’s most successful early animals, and find out what led to their extinction.
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Prevailing for around 270 million years and encompassing more than 20,000 distinct species, trilobites are some of the most successful lifeforms in Earth’s history. When they sprung into existence, they were among the most diverse and sophisticated organisms on the planet and so had a unique perspective on the ancient world. Nigel Hughes details the rise and fall of these hardy creatures.
Lesson by Nigel Hughes, directed by Zsuzsanna Kreif, The Animation Workshop.
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@briocheboi423 3 года назад

The fact that it took three mass extinction events to wipe out the trilobites for good really speaks for how hardy they were. They're one of the most famous prehistoric animals for a reason.

@tabainsiddiquee7611 3 года назад

@ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ I mean it is possible, but considering the fact that we haven't found a single trilobite fossil between 252 million years ago and now, it would be very unlikely.

@maskrlzxw6823 3 года назад

horseshoe crabs are still around so um.. they really stood the test of time

@maskrlzxw6823 3 года назад

@@tabainsiddiquee7611 future civilizations: funny how chimps survived but humans didn't

@3takoyakis 3 года назад

@@maskrlzxw6823 does that make future chimp a future humans since they still able to evolve?

@maskrlzxw6823 3 года назад

@@3takoyakis hmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH you gave me a though migrane thanks

@tree.6653 3 года назад

"is this the most successful animal?" *Reject humanity, return to trilobites*

@HopeRock425 3 года назад

I think conodonts are more successful, and since they are in a way ancestors to vertebrates it is actually possible to "go back" to them.

@Luffy_wastaken 3 года назад

I mean they are dead, and who doesn't wanna die, so let's return to trilobites

@FredEdeXIII 3 года назад

Instrumentality? 👀

@ScienceNerd1.1 3 года назад

We’re the most successful in destroying ourselves and our environment 😻

@randompheidoleminor3011 3 года назад

But we never descended from them though, the last common ancestor between them and us veterbrates were probably some worms lol

@No0n3_uWWu 3 года назад

The animations and the sound effects always amazed me. 💟

@yellowstarproductions6743 8 месяцев назад

I agree.👍

@snakecharmer109 3 года назад

Trilobites are some of the most iconic prehistoric animals. You can't talk about the Cambrian without them! Love your videos!

@Amr-H 3 года назад

this voice is my favorite of all the people.

@rabbitkingofidiots 3 года назад

30 seconds into this video "but this isn't just a massive ogea" where in for a wild one today.

@crackedemerald4930 3 года назад

It really isn't

@MrEel-dc4kh 3 года назад

"Is the trilobite the most successful animal ever?" Jellyfish: "Hold my nematocysts."

@vanillajack5925 3 года назад

Sometimes you don't need a brain to be successful

@nanilama7016 3 года назад

Also jellyfish : I'm immortal but for what purpose

@jimmysgameclips 3 года назад

@@vanillajack5925 Reminds me of an old boss I had

@Tilnaor 3 года назад

@@vanillajack5925 this should be on a T-shirt. With a jellyfish of course

@Historicaladdicted 3 года назад

Loved the art style, like always!

@kingoflife100200 2 года назад

been here watched this! thank you!

@TojiFushigoroWasTaken 3 года назад

1:30 Ahh! Its creature from attack on titan

@kavyaammainathan4616 3 года назад

Yeah.....the source of all living matter

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

The source of all the pain the eldian has been through

@aves4081 3 года назад

Really interesting class of arthropods! And beautiful animation.

@marijeoostenveld5820 3 года назад

Wow intresting! I didn't know there were so many kinds of trilobites

@invox9490 3 года назад

The horse-shoe crab looks a LOT like these.

@chrisa7905 3 года назад

For the longest time growing up I just assumed that they were the same thing or related. Reoccurring patterns in evolution like that are mind blowing.

@KalkuehlGaming 3 года назад

we don't have to revive mammoths. If one animal deserves to walk on earth again, it is the trilobites.

@antarctica0938 3 года назад

I'm not first, I'm not last, but when TedEd uploads, yay! Clicked fast!

@XOPOIIIO 3 года назад

Never thought they are extinct.

@nocomment7787 3 года назад

hey ted ed can you make a video about behavioral sink? im gonna use this topic for research, can you pls make a video about it?

@aquenture 3 года назад

amazing video

@adrianchristopherx 3 года назад

If its the most successful animal ever.. then why is it dead?

@TheReasonableSkepticist 3 года назад

I assume its considered successful because it survived for more time than any other species.

@adrianchristopherx 3 года назад

@@TheReasonableSkepticist ik i was just kidding, but have you heard about tardigrades ? They deserve that title. Anyway TED-ED changed the title for this one 😄

@thecolossalquasar5722 3 года назад

Ted-Ed: Is this the most successful animal ever? Me: Perhaps it's about us. Ted-Ed: Excluding us.

@altinmares8363 3 года назад

Make videos about Aristotle Methaphysics and Four Causes

@ekosetiawan_indo 3 года назад

0:22 look at the starfish, hehehhe

@hi_there7999 3 года назад

U know your in a good mood when u watch Ted-Ed videos

@r25-j9e 3 года назад

Oh god, the titan worm is here!

@theypeedonmyrug 3 года назад

At least we know the most unsuccessful ever: H. sapiens sapiens

@xyzda2484 3 года назад

Now I'll go watch bill wurtz's history of the world to understand when the Cambrian explosion happened

@paleoph6168 3 года назад

🎵The Cambrian Explosion🎵

@vee3732 3 года назад

@@paleoph6168 I see you also watched some Eons videos!

@paleoph6168 3 года назад

@@vee3732 I also watched the Bill Wurtz video :)

@Riborwahz 3 года назад

Hey that's my grandfather from million years ago

@RafeLaet 3 года назад

Wait, what about the Horseshoe Crab?

@armartin0003 3 года назад

Kinda feel like the Horseshoe Crab should have gotten a mention in this video. No idea why they aren't considered a Trilobite.

@HeEvRiOn 3 года назад

They aren't considered Trilobite because ... they aren't. Their bodies consist of two tagmata as opposed to Trilobites' multi segment bodies and they carry chelicerae: a typical frontal appendage only found in the subphylum Chelicerata

@No.02496 2 года назад

Convergent evolution

@armartin0003 2 года назад

@@HeEvRiOn thanks for the education :D

@Noukz37 2 года назад

Thanks to Mastodon for telling me about this animal in 2002

@dempsey578 3 года назад

Reminds me of potato bugs.

@skadoodskadad316 3 года назад

Strapping in for some knowledge

@MissBeeBonnet 3 года назад

They were so successful that many later animals convergently evolved into fairly similar shapes, like Horseshoe Crabs, Isopods, and Triops - even after their extinction, the shapes and “technologies” they pioneered and the Niches they opened are still shaping life today! So, even now that most of their Genes have left the gene pool… in a very real way, their information still persists with us into the modern era. Thoughts like this give me hope - we are never truly Gone, and the things we set in motion linger on long after us. The Earth will not forget you, just as it did not forget them.

@FractalComputer 3 года назад

Evolution doesn't work like that. They merely were the first to evolve into "carcinazion"

@MissBeeBonnet 3 года назад

@@FractalComputer oh, I know that, I was just taking some poetic license with the idea of “Creating”/“Discovering” New Niches? Sorry, I should have specified that it wasn’t meant to be understood literally, my bad 😅

@Darkstar77825 Год назад

Horseshoe crabs are still alive today because of them

@aeromaster2134 3 года назад

0:20 excuse me, what. That was totally unexpected lol.

@paniccake1219 3 года назад

Ikr, totally caught me off guard

@talk1425 3 года назад

Earth has been Hot and Bothered since the beginning

@vinceb8041 3 года назад

What I would give to see the ancient earth... I imagine it like some sort of spirit world, plants and animals of a different kind and - presumably - in complete silence.

@Joe_Potts 3 года назад

Except like the swooshing of water as things swim, shifting of sand as things crawl, etc

@elvespresley2282 3 года назад

Good luck with the rising and dropping of oxygen level. Too much and too little of oxygen are both dangerous to human.

@sanssoucilucci 3 года назад

@@elvespresley2282 dude is talking about TIME TRAVEL and you’re worried about oxygen levels

@sanssoucilucci 3 года назад

@@elvespresley2282 dude is talking about TIME TRAVEL and you’re worried about oxygen levels

@vinceb8041 3 года назад

@@elvespresley2282 In a hypothetical scenario that involves time-travel, an oxygen mask is not that much of a stretch to be honest

@Blu_Moon_Owl 3 года назад

Can’t help but think of the different types of Trilobites like it’s a video game where you customize your own Trilobite to survive in the ocean with friends and against other players

@nathankurtz8045 3 года назад

Sounds like a TierZoo thing. The Cambrian Meta.

@iansmith8016 3 года назад

You mean spore?

@Blu_Moon_Owl 3 года назад

@@iansmith8016 never played it but heard of it and yeah pretty much like that now that mentioned it.

@freak8385 3 года назад

Yea spore game was pretty good

@hkayakh 3 года назад

You haven’t heard of trilobiterpg?

@Timbhu 3 года назад

3 length wise lobes - creatively named tir-lob-ites

@Joe_Potts 3 года назад

Nobody said scientists *HAD* to be creative

@cannibalrj7747 3 года назад

*TRI-lobites

@CRU22 3 года назад

Maybe if the trilobites had time to evolve intelligence they'd have come up with a trilobite-shaped god who created them in its image.

@thecorlorlesspig1993 3 года назад

I love this lol

@oliwia5877 3 года назад

@@thecorlorlesspig1993 hej

@ANDROLOMA 3 года назад

Maybe the humans will evolve that much intelligence some day.

@misc0615 3 года назад

Haha this comment is gold 😂👍

@KalkuehlGaming 3 года назад

You fell for the misconception that evolution over time will make you "human intelligent." If that would have been the case, dinosaurs would have been roaming the galaxies because they got enaugh time to evolve in super intelligent species. But they did not.

@mannyfernandez1713 3 года назад

I know it’s a pipe dream, but it would be amazing if found trilobites alive today in like a trench or something

@yellowstarproductions6743 8 месяцев назад

Same here

@justanotaku2547 3 года назад

When a 500 million years old organism is more successful than you.

@rabbitkingofidiots 3 года назад

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof

@Luffy_wastaken 3 года назад

@@rabbitkingofidiots alternatively you could just say, Ooofff size: **Large**

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

Jokes aside That kinda hurts

@rabbitkingofidiots 3 года назад

@ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ it really dosent

@alvar321 3 года назад

😔

@Ojuolape 3 года назад

It’s incredible the millions of years that have existed. What is our life but a second…

@pasqualesimonelli1513 3 года назад

@Not RickRoll 👇 things were getting philosophical and sh*t... but then I click on the replies to find you smh

@lordgemini2376 3 года назад

@@pasqualesimonelli1513 Haha

@mishaalmohammed 3 года назад

I keep seeing you again and again. Oh shoot I've been binge watching TED Ed

@abdelkhalekrahaoui5635 3 года назад

We’ve had no conduit to experience the other of millions of years so by our own perception our life is not but a second in the grand scheme of things simply by perspectives unless you are talking about some million year old hypothetical individual yes our lives might be just a second but the perception of time doesn’t change just based on how much time has passed

@panda_invention1810 3 года назад

😭

@kimmycassie 3 года назад

Kinda sad how they're all extinct, but I'm glad their relatives are alive and well

@tometani268 3 года назад

Unless my biology teacher yelled at us for no reason, I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced “neesh” at 2:02

@md.zimamahmed9584 3 года назад

"neeche" is indian English British and American English pronounce it as "neesh"

@bertramusb8162 Месяц назад

@@md.zimamahmed9584the French origin of the word is pronounced like "neesh" but Brits and many (most?) Americans use "ni-tch" I feel, once upon a time, more Americans used the francophone pronunciation, but we have gravitated toward the Brit pronunciation.

@thehyperscientist1961 3 года назад

Arguably, trilobites are among the most famous organisms from the Cambrian. Though I never knew that they were *this* amazing. More awesome facts from Ted-ed, as always

@yellowstarproductions6743 8 месяцев назад

So true

@AftabAlam-ww6tz 2 года назад

Beautiful animation, soothing voice and amazing explanation. I am not a science student but this is how science should be taught in schools. Hats off to TED-Ed!! 👏

@yellowstarproductions6743 8 месяцев назад

I agree.👍

@g-gon8869 3 года назад

3:36 Patrick did a cameo

@1.4142 3 года назад

2:02 Hate to be that guy, but it's pronounced "neesh".

@hopepope6573 3 года назад

sometimes you'll just have to fill the that niche

@TheGamesMaster6 3 года назад

If the trilobites had enough time to evolve, then they could've survived the low oxygen levels of the Permian mass extinction . I mean they could've developed special glands to store oxygen and they could've consumed the minerals released by underwater volcanoes.

@yellowstarproductions6743 8 месяцев назад

That is possible

@kavyaammainathan4616 3 года назад

1:30 *Source of all living matter* from AOT

@cachecollin6984 3 года назад

That's Hallucegenia

@atheaalvarado6820 3 года назад

1:30 the Hallucigenia on the left side is the reason why titans exist.

@paolowiser8964 3 года назад

"I see you're a man of culture as well."

@atheaalvarado6820 3 года назад

@@paolowiser8964 We are actually the "Subjects of Ymir"

@levia.6603 3 года назад

Yes.

@danielc7921 3 года назад

Watching these video's of Ted-Ed had made me feel better...

@Dan_Ben_Michael 3 года назад

I never realised how fascinating trilobites are. That was really interesting.

@yellowstarproductions6743 8 месяцев назад

I agree.👍

@kamu747 3 года назад

There was a game called evolution back in the day on Nokia phones. I loved it. You ate other organisms to evolve.

@willm1019 3 года назад

Spore is a fun game just like that if you haven’t heard of it

@thewilltheway 3 года назад

Fossilized Conga Line is gonna be my next band name.

@kailawkamo1568 3 года назад

Reject modernity, return to trilobite

@cosmicwire6356 3 года назад

I cried so hard when they all died.

@AymenDZA 3 года назад

You know you were successful when you're the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "fossil"

@hoangsoncameralabvn 3 года назад

Actually the first “fossil” thing that come to most people’s mind is “dinosaur”, but Trilobite is definitely at 2nd place

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

Well dinosaurs got that first in human eyes

@blemblemblem 3 года назад

When I hear fossil I think of Ross Geller and dinosaurs

@seanhuwadi 3 года назад

@@blemblemblem omg I thought I was the only one 😂😂😂

@blemblemblem 3 года назад

@@seanhuwadi same brain cell, bestie ¯\_༼ᴼل͜ᴼ༽_/¯

@phunkymind23 3 года назад

They couldn't go on land because the sun is a deadly laser.

@technojunkie213 3 года назад

i feel like ants are incredibly successful in terms of intelligence, hive mind, society, organization, and building empires.

@subarnapapaul9186 3 года назад

Humans are the exact same but more intelligent and can build really large empires.

@frufan100 2 года назад

Today I learned that they’re called trilobites because they had three lobes. Seems obvious now that I know it.

@this_name_is_taken 3 года назад

Trilobites: We are the most successful animal Earth: haha mass extinctions go bruh

@erikmarquez1951 3 года назад

Jajaja 😂 😂 😂

@xionnation9932 3 года назад

R.I.P Trilobite 🥲 you would have been so creepy but you are still missed

@chrisza9782 3 года назад

1:31 🎶It’s the Cambrian Explosion🎶

@dadadosa2782 3 года назад

Listen and you will not regret « يا ايها الإنسان ما غرك بربك الكريم » فيديو مؤثر تخشع له القلوب ! الشيخ عبد الباسط عبد الصمد.

@danrebs6199 3 года назад

trilobite is amazing

@kirbymarchbarcena 3 года назад

KID: Hey, dad. Do you know what a Trilobite is? DAD: That's a hermit who lives in cave eons ago. KID: Wait, that's a Troglodyte... DAD: Sounds the same to me. Now do your chores.

@nathancruz302 3 года назад

Me: *sees* 1:29 Also me: *Hol up* Titans: *"Allow us to introduce ourselves"*

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

Founding titan: hello there e

@ConcertEventsPH 3 года назад

Horseshoe crabs sure are the living trilobites today.

@gktte2574 3 года назад

those curlball bugs in the garden is closer

@lorenzobolis5166 3 года назад

KABUTO!

@peacheroseee 3 года назад

0:21 THE STARFISH THOUGH-

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

Why are you shock that he is just vibing?

@owenosteocyte7455 3 года назад

I’ve spent around 450 dollars on trilobite fossils. One of them is worth 300

@Wolfy39565 3 года назад

Nice 👌

@adrianchen9986 3 года назад

0:21 found Patrick.

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

That's his ancestor

@cringeypopsicle589 3 года назад

can someone explain how scientists have theorised these things in so much detail? is it just from the fossils or are there more ways?

@zhankazest 3 года назад

its probably not only from fossils but actually i dont know the details though.

@joellamm5266 3 года назад

At 0:49 you say you found on every continent, but South America and Antarctica are left out.

@erenhasabigdiccenergy3382 3 года назад

hi TED-Ed, i urgently need a video on why mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell

@GodricIgnatus 3 года назад

0:20

@ooghaboogha4362 3 года назад

Was the thumbnail changed? I saw a jellyfish at first

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 3 года назад

Yes

@marchernandez1644 3 года назад

I guess changing thumbnails actually works

@caspermadlener4191 3 года назад

I hope humans will last just as long as those funny insect-looking creatures!

@johnluffman7954 3 года назад

Trilobite are not so clever to build massive destructive weapons to eliminate themselves. But human beings do. So I don't think human beings would last long.

@johnluffman7954 3 года назад

@@ayyappanchithambaram4575 Do not underestimate how greedy politicians are

@Hmoo424 2 года назад

4:43 you should also put the Arabian Peninsula among the places that trilobites were found in because I have found hundreds and hundreds of fossils in the middle of a desert😃

@adriankon9693 3 года назад

New theory: the earth is not flat but not round either, its Trilobite shaped

@begiraffe8711 3 года назад

If they were so complex, why didn’t they make wifi?

@gigar9000 3 года назад

The lesson: species come and go, sooner or later.

@defgt432 3 года назад

I love trilobites ! This video is very excellent.

@gdwn2704 3 года назад

honestly, any animal untouched by humans is considered a winner for me.

@Sephiroth144 3 года назад

*pokes my trilobyte fossil*

@TristanSamuel 3 года назад

Everyone talking about how cool trilobites are meanwhile horseshoe crabs are basically the same thing.

@twistedtachyon5877 3 года назад

Makes sense. Horseshoe crabs are also really cool!

@theboyofjoyy 3 года назад

61st view 😂⚡

@siegfreddarylramirez753 3 года назад

993rd lol

@theboyofjoyy 3 года назад

@@siegfreddarylramirez753 😂🕺

@AnonymousCaveman 3 года назад

Weird how this video makes me miss am animal ourselves never saw.

@DopeThug 3 года назад

Yea

@thetinker9698 3 года назад

Me in the entire video, " It looks like a cockroach ".

@joey199412 3 года назад

Give it another 100 years and let's see if anthropoids are still doing so well. I genuinely believe humanity is going to be the only animal life left on the planet given enough time.

@jakobbaumgartner8610 3 года назад

Me in ark killing them for oil

@Freekymoho 3 года назад

i thought horseshoe crabs were trilobites

@hopepope6573 3 года назад

I mean they do look pretty similar

@dibershai6009 3 года назад

It is just convergent evolution

@iboremytherapist 3 года назад

Someday, a Ted Ed video will be made about humans: the greediest and most self absorbed species to have ever lived, which were wiped out by the great ______ extinction

@anacaeiro1049 3 года назад

wow how did u not put Portugal in the map? we have one of the most impressive collections of trilobites fossils, reaching almost 1 meter, and many smaller ones

@gutsdw 2 года назад

Cmon man, we gotta bring these guys back, love to see them in the oceans today

@kenziepeterson9579 2 года назад

Tbh with the more complex animals in earths world they would die quite quickly

@ANDROLOMA 3 года назад

Trilobites are complex marine organisms. When I try hard enough, I can give my wife multiple organisms.

@assoluto9327 3 года назад

TED-Ed videos are so addictive. Every time I watch one, I stay like 2 hours watching more of their videos. They are incredible!

@ashleyhorchem6751 3 года назад

And horse shoe crabs are very very much related And horse crabs are still alive

@teamgodlikeheros 3 года назад

Mg task se kya lana dena hai aap ka

@Trev0r98 2 месяца назад

The trilobites lasted 270 million years - I wonder why they didn't evolve high intelligence. How cool would it have been if they developed some kinds of civilizations, with languages and a written record? The fact that they didn't does seem to suggest that evolving superior intelligence is not necessarily a survival advantage.