Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years 

Most likely explanation indeed. I was thinking the same

I mean any other conclusion would just be ridiculous

Brand new sentence right here folks step right up

It's bee people 100%

Lava bees

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They're better than all the restagons

Y'all are shapist! ;D

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I've seen that, always found it cool that it defaulted to hexagons.

PEOPLE? WHAT SHAPE IS THE BESTAGON

There's a hexagon cloud at the poles of the Saturn.

honey combs

​@@TheTuxedoCreeper Yes that is there and completely expected based on how thermal convection works. You can see the same effect in some cloud formations from a passenger jet looking down.

it is most likely ancient building.

@@WeWereOnline Actually, unless it was somewhere where buildings were or had been, it most likely wasn't. And given that people hiking in the Alps are statistically far more likely to be in areas where there aren't buildings in their locale, then it's also more likely not to be from a building.

@@aphanez have you ever considered a cataclysm?

@@WeWereOnline have you ever considered that you are stupid?

​@@WeWereOnline have you ever considered not bullshitting on the internet

Something I think is interesting is that it could be made from frequency given off from earth. At the bottom of the ocean we see this perfect hexagonal pattern formed near the surface and requires not much weight to be on to so it can form. At the surface land level bees form perfect hexagonal designs and studies on how bees inform other members of the hive where flowers are is done through a "dance" where they state that clockwise and counterclockwise rotation plus the time taken to do this give direction but, they also shake during this which isn't mentioned as useful even though to me bees would navigate using 3 points since they fly. Finally perfect snowflakes also form symmetrical hexagonal patterns as they form in the atmosphere.

@@ryanadcox2654 Basalt erodes in hexagonal columns as well (think "Devil's Tower" & Giant's Causeway). Then there's the hugest hexagon in the solar system on the north pole of Saturn! What's up with nature settling into hexagons?

Fish egg beds. Squishy spheres aligned together will make that pattern. Think on it. You're welcome, - Not my real name, attribute "in honor of Da Vinci"

Hell, people can't even accept the fact transgender people are born. It amazes me how ignorant most people are and how truly little we know even about the human race.

@@donivanpotter2762 ... I could interpret that a few ways... the interpretation most likely what you mean doesn't fair well for you.

Every time I talk to my grandmother about extinct animals I preface with "it is no longer alive" and she still tries to say it could still be out there.

Who's to say it isn't Megalodon creating these patterns?

@@boyinblue. I mean technically she has a point there have been multiple examples of species thought to be extinct, just for scientist to find the animals years sometimes decades later.

@@cwillis92 She is one of the Bigfoot crazed people, she keeps telling me that she thinks mammoths are in the artic causing earthquakes. I'm pretty sure her points are just coming from those paranormal shows.

@@boyinblue. aww yea that's a bit much. It's always crazy how even the most logical ideas can still lead us to some of the most illogical ideas in other areas of life lol

There 3d cubes , the nature of space

Not necessarily. Look up images of Petoskey stones and fossilized Hexagonaria corals.

Scientists: "What are you?" Paleodictyon: ...⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡... Scientists: "That's no answer." Paleodictyon: ..........

Maybe they are related to bees

@@wallylasd highly unlikely

reminded me of the quote: "Starfleet was founded to seek out new life - well, there it sits! ...waiting."

@@wallylasd Or they are related to things that have realized that hexagons are one of only three geometrical figures with which you can tile an even surface completely. :) (The other two being squares and triangles.)

You just gave me an idea. If biscuits were cut into hexagons instead of circles, there wouldnt be waste dough between the biscuits when they are cut out.

You could have written something a lot more crazy than that. Perhaps there's evidence out there that the source of the fossils is organic, but I wonder if it's not even produced by an organism, but by crystallization of some sort. It would be a bit more surprising if the modern things on the sea floor weren't made by an organism, though.

@@alexanderlapp5048 is this the start of a cookie revolution??!

And many places with basaltic columns. You can find them in multiple places in the US; including the Devil’s Tower which is composed of such basaltic columns. I have been a number of places where they can be found on the side of the road where a highway has been cut right through them.

Cookie theory is true, I've baked many

You probably meant exoplanets, haha, or, you're just _reeeaaallly_ old.

@@Games_and_Music correct.. Exo

These videos have end credits with the names of all the people who worked on them if you're curious. They list "Kallie Moore" as one of the hosts, that must be her [seems they don't change the credits per episode to reflect who the current host was]

Lmao someone just outed themselves as a vampire I see

@@67comet The boy band? Oh no I've been listening too many Kpop songs lately

you still dont know. not for sure, at least

The flood

Eh, we might discover another giant fish, or another species of giant squid. You never know.

Honestly, we’re more likely to find a fish sized mosasaur species than megalodon

She is brutal.

I'm an antitist

@@tsmspace you mean antitheist?

@@BackYardScience2000 no, a non-protist xD

@@BackYardScience2000 well, not a protist anyway

Ah, seaweed. The plantiest non-plant to ever plant.

I was just thinking how unneeded the music is.

honeycomb is right. contrary to popular opinion, bees do not make honeycomb structures; they make round structures which, when they crowd in on each other, become hexagonal.. i wonder if a similar process is at work here.

o think it has something to do with the stability of the angles inside, although, when you study carbon rings deeper, you learn that they arent exact hexagons, they have boat and hat arrengements, cause molecules are 3D

@@pbajnow Saturn's pole has a pentagonal ring caused by a double vortex. Oddly, we know what causes that, but not the ocean floor hexagons. Jupiter has a hexagonal pole vortex. It's remarkable such huge shapes exist in nature. And how small these shapes get too, atomic scale. This one is a puzzler. Hopefully we don't drive it to extinction before we figure out what caused these hexagons

Because hexagon is the bestagon

@@brentweissert6524 I’ve never heard this, more research is needed. ADHD dive into bees incoming lol

Ikr, I have a similar. I'm in Iowa. I assumed someone, just not me, knew what it was

Got any Twitter where we can see pictures of these bathed in vinegar?

Same here on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin!

@@PerfectionHunter for some reason I can’t say goo gull in the comments or it gets erased. This will be the third time I’ve tried to reply to you. Search the G word for “fossils in vinegar” or something similar. It’s commonly used to clean and/or expose fossils

Fellow Hoosier here, but more north. Didnt know we had common bestagon fossils hanging around.

YES. I saw that film, but I could never remember the name! I even tried to Google it once, but I couldn't find it!

@@patlee8539 It's called Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, I've had a blu ray copy of it for years

I don't suppose you have any images or footage of that? Because if you do, and you're at liberty to share them, I imagine that'd look super interesting! And who knows, it might give someone more educated than I some ideas they hadn't thought of yet ;)

Big deal.

Did you catch it and eat it? If so what does paleodycteon taste like?

It's the fabric of space.

@@benvinar2876 The 'fabric of space isn't Spandex?

Maybe they are extremophiles, flourishing inside volcanic vents and expanding out to the surrounding sea floor at times when the water is heated during periods of volcanic activity. When the water cools, or maybe when some vented material dissipates, they retreat back into the vents or die off.

Maybe when a hot spring or vent brings up certain sulfur compounds or petroleum, this creature colonizes the area, scavenging the chemicals as its food source. It could even be a familiar organism that changes its behavior to build the hexagon structures only in certain scenarios to take advantage when an underwater eruption provides its favorite food. Or maybe it builds and uses the structures as a survival tactic only when food is particularly scarce or the environment is hostile. Maybe when exposed to rising levels of toxic gases, it builds the hexagons as a filtered environment to live in until a return to more livable conditions.

@@_Painted I've thought maybe they are a crustacean that built hives similar to a wasp/muddobber that would have, as you said, sought food sources around geothermal vents. Or perhaps even some kind of organized microbial colonies or some kind of coral-like organism. Hard to say, but I tend to believe it is biological in origin.

I like my giant bee hypothesis. 😆

There 3d cubes, the nature of space

See their podcast!

Pretty sure they have an episode about the Tully Monster

Those are hermit crabs. If you dig deep and quick enough you can catch them.

I'm in SC, and love the beaches.

Thats cuz they dig once you start to

I like it when there are multiple competing theories for what it is and all of them are equally possible until further evidence is found.

@@WanderTheNomad *appear equally possible The rules, while including things like observer effects, are not themselves subject to observation effects. The right answer was right the whole time, it only appeared to be as likely as the other wrong answers. The difference is subtle, but important.

@@demonzabrak I didn't think I would ever say this, but isn't that just semantics?

@@WanderTheNomad in a surprising plot twist, semantics are important. It’s literally how any of us can convey information reliably. (Yes. It is 100% semantics. Feel free to ignore the rest) That said, I’ll try and make more sense. The original phrasing you used implies that the rules of physics become concrete and definite when observed, which is something you should avoid implying about a rule set that includes literal changes based on if something is observed or not. Double slit experiment, electron uncertainty, quantum states changing between entangled particles, things of that nature. It muddies the waters a bit, and I kinda feel like a lot of modern problems could be significantly mitigated if we were all sorta just better at communicating. So I make a lot of semantic arguments and meta arguments about other peoples arguments to people on RU-vid. It’s basically trolling, but in a way that hopefully makes people better at communicating.

@@demonzabrak If your goal is improving people's communication skills, this seems like quite the roundabout way to do it.

Indeed he would have.

​@@Ragnarra Perhaps he wrote it...😐

I feel like the people working on this have probably either ruled that out or they don't have enough info to do that yet.

Can probably tell by the chemical make up of the fossil, or samples from these in the ocean, there would inherently be chemical deposits from the venting.

Hexagonal lattices are a common crystal shape but typically they'd get this property from their molecular structure and it becomes less uniform as you scale up. These are uniform at large scales and made of sediment so that suggests a living creature rather than a geological phenomenon.

It happens more often than you’d think; I mean, it’s still unlikely and quite rare but they’re called Lazarus taxon. I’m not sure if that applies to this thing entirely since it never really disappeared from the fossil record, but was found to still exist in modern times after fossils of it were found… so maybe?

English, please.

@@JohnVKaravitis Sorry, not first language.

@@diegog1853 Your english is perfectly fine. Perhaps John was referring to some of the scientific terminology in Pigeon Lord's comment?

Amogus

all i can think of is sea ants and how wierd they might look (edit: so there is a species that is called a sea ant/lice but i was thinking more litteral sea ants)

Hmmm could a biofilm create tubes? That would be scary

considering it's age it might be unlikely to be anything with legs

The host said that it couldn't be dug burrows, because the corners were too sharp (4:11-4:22). Given the info in this video, which is all I know so far, I'm leaning toward paleodictyon being a glass sponge, rather than a xenophyophore. But, I wonder if it could possibly be both!? Could a xenophyophore have symbiotically combined with a glass sponge, the way algae combined with corals? Mmm, or maybe not symbiotically; hiding in the hexagonal tubes and waiting for the food to be swept in would benefit the xenophyophore in feeding and avoiding predation, but I'm not sure how the glass sponge would benefit from the arrangement. ////Bunny kisses for all!

Well, given that it’s likely that they need or at least want the water circulation they’d probably die if buildup is too fast for them to outgrow

dont be mad, it's a fossil. It might have been land based - like ancestors of bees building these things ... for their degree courses.

Same 😂😅

I have trypophobia as well

That’s awesome! You did your own exposure therapy 😊 (Side note: I am sincere, I know tone can read obscure at times.)

It was kind of hard for me, i had to just listen at some points

Lol, that “fad” was a few years ago. You can all drop the quirky act now. We get it, you’re different.

schizoposting

We shot a squirt gun at it.

She mentioned that sediment only builds up in the areas they are found at a rate of 1 cm every 650 years or something like that, so these whole could be abandoned for decades or even centuries and would be nearly unchanged in appearance.

@@BobbyHill26 oooo yah that makes sense.

@@BobbyHill26 I really hope whatever made these shapes hasn't gone extinct in that time

@@limiv5272 well the bottom of the ocean is pretty much untouched by humans thankfully so whatever it is it has a better chance down there.

beehive was my first thought as well! but if it's known from 500 million years ago from deep sea sediments, I don't think it's a beehive :P

check out the video "hexagons are the bestagons" by CGP Grey!

@@audreydeatherage2131 Yeah! That's a great one!

Hollow hexagons occurring is no surprise, since any group of multiple things of malleable form, but equal size (like bubbles), will automatically seek to fill in as densely as possible (because gaps are weak spots, and as 'nature abhors a vacuum', natural movement will 'seek' to fill in the weaknesses in the pattern) and form hexagons. However, what makes these formations so interesting is that they are solid hexagons with hollow sides (tubes)! This means it's NOT forming from the automatic process of the settling of malleable equal size bodies, but forms theoretically UNDER a fully opaque mass (mud), yet with extreme regularity! As the diagram showed when she was talking about the vent tubes not all being the same height, those vent tubes form in the MIDDLE of single submerged tube lines, NOT at the intersections...but how did those positions end up so constantly equidistant, and spaced exactly as needed to keep from crowding any OTHER coming (or prior) tube positions? The tube height difference WOULD seem to point to the organism(s?) originating from the center point and expanding outward, but then WHY would the tubes be so perfectly spaced in relation to each other even as it expanded outward?? Logic (and normal biological patterns) would call for the arrangement to get more widely spaced the further the growth of the creature (colony?) got from the point of origin, yet in total denial of that tendency to expand through growth, the pattern remains consistent, no matter how far from the high tube 'center' of the organism (colony). And the fact that ALL tubes connect to ALL OTHER tubes in the same way, without ever breaking away on the edges... I'd never been aware of this fossil before this video (that I recall, I'm old enough that memory no longer serves so well), and I find the whole thing fascinating!

Sonja, you gotta watch CGP Grey’s hexagon video. It’s fascinating. I’d link it but RU-vid will assume I’m a bot, it’s easy to find and worth a watch. ✨

Writers are humans whatever inspiration we have is always connected to what we know . Being too abstract in Sci-fi can also ended up ruining it like a random brush stroke of paints that doesn't resemble anything

It's not that sci fi is unimaginative. It's more that the process of natural selection is the ultimate random number generator for species differentiation. The human brain cannot hope to compete with over 600 million years of continuity with that process .

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Yo can you tell me more about Ur trip?

Seen that same netting.

I was on Shrooms and every i looked I saw fractals and hexagons like that. Nuts what we can create with some chemicals in our mind

yea yea yea. OK druggie

That's just the grid map. We're in a Turn based strategy

You’re right that this particular pattern is definitely a tiling, and not really a fractal, but things are little more complicated than that. First, a tiling can also be a fractal, in the case of tessellated squares or equilateral triangles, for example. But also, fractals need not be self-similar at all, and don’t need to have repeating elements except in the most abstract sense. For example, the rough shape of a coastline is a fractal, since it will exhibit that roughness more-or-less at any distance scale.

Tessellations are fractal in nature, by definition. You are wrong.

@@UnitSe7en Please cite a source for your claim. Even a simple search shows that "Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales." and they are "an irregular geometric structure that cannot be described by classical geometry"

Things are always more complicated, if you dive deeper.

there a lot of idiots in florida that need to be reminded of that daily 😂