That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared

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How could a body of water as big as the Mediterranean just...disappear? It would take decades and more than 1,000 research studies to even start to figure out the cause -- or causes -- of one of the greatest vanishing acts in Earth’s history.
Special thanks to everyone at the MEDSALT project, including Aaron Micallef, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Angelo Camerlenghi, and Luca Mariani, for allowing us to use their incredible graphics and videos in this episode. Check out their work here: medsalt.eu/ and the full version of their incredible recreation of the MSC and the Zanclean Flood here: • Zanclean Flood of the ...
This episode was written by Gabi Serrato Marks!
And thanks as always to Ceri Thomas ( / alphynix , Julio Lacerda ( / juliotheartist ) and Franz Anthony (franzanth.com/) for their wonderful paleoart used in this episode.
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@dinocharlie1 3 года назад

Eons every video: "Here's one theory" Me: "That makes sense" Eons: "But this theory is wrong" Me: "Of course it is, that idea makes no sense"

@rparl 3 года назад

Reminds me of the technique of St Thomas Aquinas. He srarted by saying It would seem that .... But instead (all the reasons it cannot be true). And then he would say what was true instead. We read two of his books in college humanities class.

@benmountaingangster 3 года назад

r/meirl

@DripDripDrip69 3 года назад

That's why she didn't call them theories, but hypothesis

@lisa2stewart 3 года назад

If they didn't make at least some kind of sense they wouldn't be viable hypotheses.

@gbrinch 2 года назад

@@rparl then you might want to check out Rudolf Steiner...

@atvaddiction9621 3 года назад

New hypothesis: the giant beavers dammed it up

@BatMan-xr8gg 3 года назад

Aww, you took my comment away....lol.. That is what I was thinking.

@Mykxfyre-sims 3 года назад

I back this claim.

@unknownentity6578 3 года назад

@Myles Connor we all know that the site is fake just by looking when ur account got created

@larsb2999 3 года назад

Or the Ever Given got stuck again

@MrRabraham 3 года назад

@lucasbaker349 3 года назад

Subtle brag, my grandfather was a key member of the original team to discover the Mediterranean had dried up. It had something to do with looking for oil, and finding what looked like a river valley extending from the Nile river delta on the sea floor, along with what looked like multiple deltas under the sea. Edit: this happened in the 60s by the way.

@denni4941 2 года назад

Nice :)

@CeLonski Год назад

Weird flex but ok

@fallinginthed33p Год назад

The paleo-Nile cut a massive valley a few thousand feet deep from Aswan downstream to the sea. All that's been buried by thousands of feet of sediments.

@uranusismightybig5111 10 месяцев назад

@@CeLonski why weird flex..? The guy just shared something from his familys history.

@Madmun357 9 месяцев назад

Geologists from your grandfathers era were a REALLY smart bunch. I majored in geology.

@Zia01023 3 года назад

This makes me wonder about the salt deposits and a story my mom used to tell us long ago. Being born and raised in Calabria Italy, until her early 40's before migrating (legally) to the U.S., Calabria was a short ferry ride to Sicily...she would tell us stories of women going Sicily to smuggle salt placed in pockets in their undergarments which was illegal to purchase in order to bring back to the mainland. She had said that the salt from Sicily was far much better quality than the salt they were able to purchase in Calabria and smuggling it out of Sicily was a common practice among the Calabrese.

@nickpaine 3 года назад

Hmm...that may explain why my nana smelled like sardines.

@jkcarroll 3 года назад

I was going to ask if anyone was mining those salt deposits. Be stupid not to.

@GK-zu8zs 2 года назад

So it's OK to smuggle salt (clearly an illegal activity) but not OK to smuggle yourself? What's the difference?

@Zia01023 2 года назад

@@GK-zu8zs Where are you reading that I said it's not ok or ok to smuggle oneself?

@omgpix 2 года назад

@@GK-zu8zs The difference is one is an inanimate object and the other a human being, you potato.

@diebesgrab 4 года назад

“it could possibly happen again” I guess that’d be one way to stop Venice sinking.

@annakilifa331 4 года назад

As far as I know the tectonic plate that the African border of the Gibraltar passage belongs to is currently moving north. At a rate of about 1 cm per year (roughly). So while that would close the passage again, it would be far too late for Venice, which is on its way to sink far, far earlier than that.

@karellen00 4 года назад

As a venetian I admit that it would be cool if it would happen, but it would be hugely overkill! It would be far easier to seal the entrances to the venetian lagoon, with dams or even dumping sand/clay. The current project (that should be completed soon) adds two layers of complexity: the first is that it can open and close the lagoon so that it won't become a salty swamp and to preserve the local ecosystem, the second is that they wanted it to be invisible when inactive. It would have been far easier, cheaper and faster to build movable dams like the ones they have in Holland, but it was decided that it would be too visually impacting. We have instead a set of boxes hinged to the ground under the water at the harbor mouth, that will be filled with air to rise them and block the water.

@ConstantChaos1 4 года назад

@@karellen00 how is the project going btw? I havent heard anything about it recently

@karellen00 4 года назад

@@ConstantChaos1 It should be completed by 2021 but the "hardware" part is already done, they even tested it and it seemed to be working (they used one compressor for all the boxes instead of like 10 of the ended project). What needs to be done should be just compressors, actuators and electronics. Anyway there is a big unknown that is maintenance: we don't know how long the hinges will work (they already had problems in the past when small scale tests were done, but I think they made a new beefier design) especially if there's an abnormally strong wind like the one we had in November. Also we have yet to see if the space between the boxes and the see floor will stay clean, there are high pressure water nozzles for this task, but we'll have to see if they work in the real word against mussels that may block the boxes.

@bearcubdaycare 4 года назад

It would somewhat change the vibe to have dry canals and to be surrounded by mudflats or eventually fields.

@sambeck2510 4 года назад

The illustration for that rabbit looks like a capybara

@JoeJoeTheCapybara 4 года назад

It does look similar to a capybara.

@HenriqueErzinger 4 года назад

really large rodent body plans are all more or less similar after all

@EarthFoodListening 4 года назад

@jaredmitchell1302 4 года назад

That because they are all related to a common ancestor.

@klyanadkmorr 4 года назад

It's click baity calling it a rabbit when it was far from near the recent rabbit species and more like those older herbivore leading to the range of including capybaras.

@anxiousfoodperson8116 3 года назад

"They named this big bunny nuralagus rex" Was Chungus Magnus taken?

@fadhlihamid1446 3 года назад

Darquimbertus McNarington idk

@royalteluis623 3 года назад

That should have been the name

@Unnamed7964 3 года назад

Lmaooo

@kitcutting 3 года назад

Chungus Magnus was not accepted as your password. That password is too strong.

@76rjackson 3 года назад

Lagomrphus bugsus bunnyus

@gregoryeatroff8608 4 года назад

There's an award-winning science fiction story called "Down in the Bottomlands" about humans evolving in a world where the Mediterranean never refilled.

@quantumleaper 3 года назад

A seven-book series is 'The Gandalara Cycle' by Randall Garret and Vicki Ann Heydron it's about apes evolving at the bottom of the Mediterranean. I wonder if Harry got the idea from Randall and Vicki's books? Considering theirs is about a decade and a half after Harry's started.

@gregoryeatroff8608 3 года назад

@@quantumleaper I've never read those, but I loved Randall Garrett's "Frost and Thunder" enough that his name on a book cover is enough to get me interested.

@quantumleaper 3 года назад

@@gregoryeatroff8608 Finding paperback versions of those books might be a little hard but I do know they have an Audio version of the books. I know I found used copies Gandalara Cycle 1, 2, and the last book which I found used at the World Sci-Fi convention in 2000. The two 'Cycle' versions are collected 1-3 and 4-6 of the books. Since I also have the first book from around 1980 when I bought it, new.

@NH2112 2 года назад

A dry Mediterranean was also a major plot device in Julian May’s “Saga of Pliocene Exile.”

@MrAtrophy 4 года назад

I don't know what I want more a giant rabbit , or a tiny hippo.

@FireFog44 4 года назад

Want no longer my friend, Pygmy hippos exist and are alive today!

@istvansipos9940 4 года назад

rabbit tastes so fine that I risk it without knowing the taste of a hyppo. the bunny, please. Wabbit season, hahahahahahahahaha!

@christelheadington1136 4 года назад

I like the mini elephant.

@Divert486 4 года назад

Hippos are extremely aggressive.. You wouldn't want one.

@cartoonfreak9 4 года назад

Good news! There are giant rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus) that are 15-20 pounds and so fluffy!

@DISTurbedwaffle918 4 года назад

"Tectonic shifts let the water flow back in." Fools, it was Heracles, noble Greek hero and son of Zeus, who split the rock of Gibraltar in twain!

@kobusg7460 4 года назад

Are you sure? Was this whole thing not caused by Moses?

@mme.veronica735 4 года назад

@@kobusg7460 Didn't Moses split a sea and not make one? Sounds luke he's pretty anti-sea to me

@ivanpeniche5472 4 года назад

@Trabzon duzkoy lmao, you're so brainwashed by Hollywood you forget that both of these stories are older than what we now call the US

@17njl01 4 года назад

Trabzon duzkoy literally what

@kobusg7460 4 года назад

@@mme.veronica735 Dear Miss Vivian. The story of Moses is complicated, I am afraid to say. You see, Moses (who lived for a long, long, long, long time) operated when the seas were together; then he split it; then he made it come together again. That is one theory / fact; another theory / fact is about greeks gods' influence, and yet another theory / fact is as explained by PBS.

@smacpost3 3 года назад

I once found a giant dust bunny in the geographic zone between my bed and the wall.

@stellamaris5405 3 года назад

☘️ 😂😂

@jamesu1540 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@JilynnFurlet 2 месяца назад

Chonkidustus lagamorphoides?

@smacpost3 Месяц назад

@@JilynnFurlet, yes, exactly right :)

@gaucidaniel1444 3 года назад

Her explanations are so easy -to-follow and drift so well from one point to the next

@alexisquim4502 2 года назад

They drift like a vivid imagination with no real concept and no direction.

@Hertog_von_Berkshire 2 года назад

Mostly without mention of any evidence, just a bunch of assertions.

@mirhasanoddname 4 года назад

This sole phenomena happened during 600.000 years... it truly feels like a slap to the face how short is our time on Earth compared to it's history

@giupiete6536 2 года назад

'Our time' is literally our lifetimes, what we do will be forgotten, misrepresented or misunderstood at best even in those lifetimes, let alone after.

@mirhasanoddname 2 года назад

@@giupiete6536 That's what I alluded to, yes

@rickbaldwin6291 2 года назад

Only to a fool that believes the psyence of men. This whole article is trash science.

@electrofan1796 Год назад

@@giupiete6536 Typical why I stay away from social media and put importance on history.

@mwatts-riley2688 Год назад

As with lake Meade ?

@ontaka5997 4 года назад

This giant bunny must have been the rabbit that massacred the knights in the "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

@lsd25records 4 года назад

nih !!!!!!

@bradbutcher3984 4 года назад

That rabbit's dynamite.

@garethbaus5471 4 года назад

Too bad these fossils predate the holy hand grenade.

@Valerio_the_wandering_sprite 4 года назад

Run away! (X5)

@pocadon 4 года назад

Haha!

@TheHaz84 4 года назад

Small correction, in the video the presenter mentions that the last time Sicily and Malta were connected was during the MSC (~5 Mya), but we know that there was a land bridge connecting the islands during the peak of the last ice age (~ 20 Kya).

@yondie491 Год назад

Sincere question, how is that a correction? It's not wrong.

@koeniging Год назад

@@yondie491 I’m pretty sure what they’re getting at is that the video states that the last time these land masses were connected was five million years ago, but that’s incorrect since there’s evidence to support that there has been a landbridge there as recently as 20,000 years ago, and it was even at its peak size at this point. Therefore the info in the video is incorrect; they were not last joined 5mya. May be wrong tho

@yondie491 Год назад

@@koeniging "between land masses that haven't been connected since the MSC, like Malta and Sicily" Thank you

@danielmcwhirter 2 года назад

It would have been nice to also mention how the sand and silt blown out of the dry Mediterranean abyss covered north Africa's mountains and valleys to create the Sahara. What I recall from National Geographic about sixty years ago was that this closure and dry-out occurred seven times over the geologic record. And I just realized that our area of Texas, south of the Buried Ouachita mountains, has been under the sea seven times, per the geological record between the surface and the metamorphic basement. Some believe the apparent basement (metamorphic rock) is actually overthrusted by tectonic plate movements on top of even older sediments (the Buried Ouachita mountains once stood high like the Appalachians) which could be rich in gas and oil.

@billwilson3609 2 года назад

One can see how the Ouachita Range snaked across Texas into Oklahoma then Arkansas by looking at a map showing where oil and gas wells have been drilled since those are east and west of the range. Geologists say that the Ouachita Range were once connected to the first Appalachian Range that still has sections visible in Scotland and in Russia as the Ural Mountains.

@LPArabia 4 года назад

The American football field, a scientific unit of length and area.

@_dbzeibert_1718 4 года назад

I know, it drives me crazy wherever it's used. I wish we'd stop with that comparison.

@pakde8002 4 года назад

You caught that too. Dropping head in despair. The rest of the world knows what 100 meters looks like. Americans know what a football field looks like. ..an American football field that is.

@pakde8002 4 года назад

@@_dbzeibert_1718 it's easier to visualize than two thousand hot dogs end to end.

@adamdean5881 4 года назад

PBS is the American Public Broadcasting System and an American football field is something that an average American could relate to. If you can't relate it is probably because you are not the intended audience.

@gododoof 4 года назад

To be fair ancient Romans used stadia as a unit of length, so there is precedent for it.

@shishgeor 4 года назад

It was actually a group of ancient giant beavers that build a dam. Scientists always make it complicated.

@pakde8002 4 года назад

Actually now that you mention it the so called rabbit looks a lot more like an average to large beaver.

@sergelevesque2718 4 года назад

And it was Eric Cartman and Stan Marsh that broke the dam to refill the sea...

@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 4 года назад

@Bat Georgi You're right, it was Billy and Bemus. Most people only know them as the ancestors of Romulus and Remus, so I'm glad you pointed out their initial important work.

@Hollywood2021 4 года назад

I broke the dam

@To.Si.Ma. 4 года назад

Justin Rex Beaver. He sang so bad that the levee collapsed...

@erikjarandson5458 3 года назад

Oh, that time! I remember it well. Most disappointing Mediterranean vacation, ever...

@hiltonchapman4844 3 года назад

@Erik Jarandson: Re your "Oh that time! I remember it well. Most disappointing Mediterranean vacation ever...!" Refund, I wonder? HC-JAIPUR (20/04/2021)

@lycossurfer8851 3 года назад

@@hiltonchapman4844 ....... no Trip Insurance back then. They were out of luck

@davidhaines2894 2 года назад

I remember it well. I took comfort in the Margarita cocktails - just dipped the rim of the glass in the moist salt then topped up the lime juice and tequila. Again and again and again. Didn't notice the lack of the Mediterr........err Metideran.......{hic) Temideramean.......Semiderangean Tea......at all (hic).

@corey_the_bird3086 3 года назад

“It would take decades...” that doesn’t seem like enough ti... “...and lots of research...” ...ohhhh they were talking about something else

@MattMajcan 4 года назад

wow that graphic showing the flow of water through the medditerranian was awesome

@alterego3734 4 года назад

Look for 'NASA | Perpetual Ocean'

@ericgraham8150 4 года назад

I thought you were clowning me, but it was awesome.

@davidw2417 4 года назад

Geologist here, I look forward to every upload from the team at PBS Eons! Fantastic way to educate the public on one of Earth's most fascinating topics, and to geek out over the science! Love it.

@debralucas2224 4 года назад

When I become filthy rich, I'm going to hire a geologist and make them follow me around the world, explaining everything as we go lol.

@destree6348 4 года назад

Debra Lucas I honestly hope that comes true for you!

@massspectrician 2 года назад

Geologist here, this presentation is dismissive and asserts certainty through aversion to the null hypotheses as "wrong". I'm happy to question the quality.

@zarathustra498 2 года назад

@@massspectrician Geochemist here, widespread dissemination of scientific results by charismatic presenters is extremely important. Even if you are no-fun pedantic and could try to challenge these assertions with technical lingo I would say they did amazingly wonderful job presenting such complex topic packed with information in just 12 min. Just 1 photo they show is typically the result of years of fieldwork and interpretation, they cannot read the whole paper just for the sake of technicality.

@jamesb5864 Год назад

I'm sorry for everyone in this thread who wasted their time and money in a mental institution!

@sheriherrick4420 2 года назад

I absolutely LOVE these videos! I LOVE learning about just about everything (now that I'm an adult) and the way these are put together and the people who are narrating do it in a way that people of all ages can understand and makes it more interesting to keep people's attention. They are just long enough! Thank you all for the hard work you put into all these videos & keep them coming please!

@ronaldtkacz1309 Месяц назад

The educational system has failed to put video technology to its best use. For example, a video mini-series about Columbus or Magellan’s adventures and discoveries, done with a storyline and actors Netflix style, would be remembered by school kids better than reading it from a text book.

@RisalBadboy 3 года назад

Big Floods and History... Sooo Intertwined!!!!

@erikboris8478 3 года назад

This has nothing to do with history. This is way back in prehistory. And of course there are big geological events in prehistory.

@st3wham1 4 года назад

I think you mean The *Mediterdrainean*

@divinekitty1831 4 года назад

Stewart Hamilton That was so terrible I had to give it a like

@paulrussell1207 4 года назад

Ha *Maltaple* people like your pun. Those who don't are just salty!

@st3wham1 4 года назад

Paul Russell I’d quicker describe them as a *Spain* in the arse! There are probably quite a few, would really be difficult to *Italy* them up!

@paulrussell1207 4 года назад

@@st3wham1 Ha, you're so sicily, I am too of corsica!

@connornavich 4 года назад

Womp womp wawawawawa

@snerg64 4 года назад

I absolutely love this but... one little but. I would really appreciate small little Date stamp each time some crucial periods are mentioned. I understand it adds to editing but if you have script anyway why not? It would tell people not only where but when things happened. One more switch activated in people's brains to visualise and get real perspective of spoken topics. :) I truly enjoyed this particular vid. Thank you.

@meaninglesscommenter8457 4 года назад

Bloodworm when didn’t they mention dates?

@snerg64 4 года назад

@@meaninglesscommenter8457 I didn't say they do not mention dates. They do at the beginning however later on few times we hear end of MSC and so on. My point was that simple date stamp within the film would help people to place this period better - I am talking from kids (educational) point of view.

@ConstantChaos1 4 года назад

Agreed

@buddy5335 4 года назад

Nick Lucid over At the Science Asylum is the Gold standard of time lines. They really help get his points across.

@LoPhatKao 4 года назад

part of learning is learning how to learn is it so hard to pull up a wikipedia page?

@alessia2757 3 года назад

Thank you so much for posting this. In a few weeks I have my paleontology exam and I have to study this as well. Thanksss😍

@stefanschleps8758 4 года назад

Just awesome. Thank you so much. Just great ! I was going fishing. Guess I'll have to stay in a binge by the Eons.

@Hypsilophodaum 4 года назад

It would be interesting to know more about that time when the Sahara desert was a rainforest...

@TheSpiritombsableye 4 года назад

It wasn't. It was a grassland.

@swallowsometruth9550 4 года назад

Or when the Antarctic was a forest region

@VVabsa 4 года назад

@@swallowsometruth9550 They did a video about that one. Just search it.

@yllbardh 4 года назад

Sahara was Savana at the time this video is.

@razorransom1795 4 года назад

Well even Egypt was a forest at the time of the pyramids being built.

@akumaking1 4 года назад

*The Future is Wild flashbacks intensify*

@Krypto137 4 года назад

lol My thoughts exactly!

@melloickii 4 года назад

That was a suggested video on the right xD.

@TheAutobotPower 4 года назад

The great Mediterranean salt plain, predecessor of the Mediterranean Cordillera.

@albatross4920 4 года назад

@Josh nice reference

@AifDaimon 4 года назад

@@Krypto137 Yeap.. I loved watching that series..

@guywelsh9589 3 года назад

I thought insular gigantism was when you stay indoors all day never leaving your house and do nothing but stuff your face in front of the TV.

@mkvv5687 3 года назад

That would be "insular covidism".

@guywelsh9589 3 года назад

@@mkvv5687 Well played sir.

@timmullens9479 3 года назад

@@mkvv5687 yea tell me about it -worked hard -lost all my gut -then gained 20 lbs in the Ontario lockout.

@lisa2stewart 3 года назад

For some reason I find this very funny. I think this comment is underrated.

@guywelsh9589 3 года назад

@@lisa2stewart Yeah the internet is full of hidden gems.

@Randomyoutubeuser414 3 года назад

Unit of length- Others-meter, km Americans- football field.

@stevenscott2136 3 года назад

As if we've all spent a lot of time on football fields. I work in shipbuilding, so I think something like "oh, that's halfway up a destroyer standing on end".

@juliusadams9517 3 года назад

metre

@mightycat866 3 года назад

.... a Yard and a Meter aren’t so different. So 100 meters and a Football Field aren’t bad comparisons when grounding their mostly American Viewerbase to the measurements. Instead of just saying “oh also a few hundred yards” Most Americans are shown meters and Yard sticks side by side so the comparison isn’t bad. Stop pretending to be better.

@juliusadams9517 3 года назад

@@mightycat866 its METRE and the difference is 3 inches

@mightycat866 3 года назад

@@juliusadams9517 You’re correcting the “color” vs “colour” thing, not worth the time

@mikesands4681 4 года назад

That ocean current graphic reminds me of VAn Gogh’s Starry Night painting. Lovely.

@VioletWhirlwind 4 года назад

1:27 That salt wall looks really awesome!

@destree6348 4 года назад

I would love a framed picture of that to hang on my wall

@roccogennari2545 3 года назад

It's a salt mine in Sicily, near Agrigento

@thanesgames9685 3 года назад

Look up pictures from the Salt mine in Turda, Romania. Much finer strata, but just as amazing!

@wiezyczkowata 2 года назад

look up salt mine in Wieliczka, Poland

@SilverWatcher. 4 года назад

Thanks for dropping the daily knowledge

@dlo111 2 года назад

Hands down my favourite new YT channel. Where has this been all my life?

@Idktesthandle1234 4 года назад

My 12 year old bunny passed away yesterday, loved learning about ancient rabbits. :)

@martinbondesson 4 года назад

I'm sorry to hear that! Yes, it was an interesting video :)

@Rebecca-oh5yh 4 года назад

I am sorry for your loss. It is so hard to lose a pet.

@andyjay729 4 года назад

Sorry to hear that. Coincidentally, the one pet rabbit I had as a kid got to be pretty big; about the size of a small dog.

@jjjordayn7691 4 года назад

My condolences. My rabbit died before Christmas, at 13 years old.

@1943maryellen 4 года назад

The loss of a beloved PE T is heartbreaking, my deepest sympathy to you, what was your bunnies name , if I might ask? 💗💗💗💔💔💔

@davidspiewak3569 3 года назад

I did it... I watched every video of this channel. Keep up the the great work.

@richardguyatt6435 3 года назад

Ive lived in Menorca for 30 years and never heard this story, thanks it was so interesting.

@fxlxp 4 года назад

I study Geology and we mentioned this event on the Historical Geology course, but this was more in depth and the visuals helped a lot, thanks!

@smalltime0 4 месяца назад

Bit of an old post, but I remember it being mentioned off-hand in relation to the 1920s idea to dam the strait of Gibraltar (Atlantropa). Like getting over you're cutting off shipping to the Mediterranean states, effectively killing migratory fish and that it is basically impossible to do.... the land you end up with is a salty quagmire and the sea itself would be hostile to most life.

@CloudsGirl7 4 года назад

Radagast: "Now where did I leave that rabbit? Oh well, I'm sure he'll turn up eventually."

@silverjade10 3 года назад

Meanwhile, the lost rabbit was hardcore into steroids and bunny growth hormone.

@germwarfare 4 года назад

I wonder if this event could explain some of the “flood stories” we see in ancient cultures.

@byronveilleux5376 3 года назад

There were no humans then. Hard to come up with a flood story prior to our existence, sorry

@zedantXiang 3 года назад

There were ALOT of floods everywhere likely to have been the cause

@Shouziroku 3 года назад

@@byronveilleux5376 600.000 years ago there were "humans". A few hominids at least. Homo Erectus for sure, but a few more too.

@beanlegume9965 3 года назад

@@byronveilleux5376 it must be interesting to go through life as arrogant as you.

@JoseFernandes-js7ep 3 года назад

@@Shouziroku Wrong order of magnitude.

@DJThorb 3 года назад

Gotta love tectonics and those floating plates.

@mariakayed5555 4 года назад

Finally! an episode about this event!!! sums it up perfectly. Can you do an episode about the tectonics in the Eastern Mediterranean? African rift, Lebanon's faults, the Dead Sea, the Red Sea, etc.

@cleanthegreen 4 года назад

Makes you think why and how ancient Greeks believed and came up with their myth that Hercules pushed apart the pillars of Gibraltar.

@Zaxares 3 года назад

All of this happened way, WAY before Homo Sapiens was on the scene, but if you're a believer in racial memory (or perhaps if oral tradition stretched back farther into the past than paleontologists have managed to unearth), it's not impossible for our earlier ancestors like, say, Homo Erectus to have perhaps witnessed such an event (an enormous flood that seemed to never end, for nearly two years!) to have passed on stories about it to their descendants, and it survived/evolved into modern myths about worldwide floods.

@erikboris8478 3 года назад

Because Pillars of Hercules didn't refer to Gibraltar back then. It was later that romans started to refer to the mountains on each side of the gibraltar strait as pillars of Hercules.

@ozziegallegos5091 3 года назад

Enjoy learning of our past world with my son. Will you be doing videos on what the Mediterranean Sea could look like in the future or other lands? Thank you again for such wonderful teachings.

@sophiepedigree7139 Год назад

That's no ordinary rabbit! It can leap about... It's got huge, sharp... Look at the bones!!

@demoraptorplays5645 4 года назад

I love this channel so much. I've learned more about the earth and its life than I ever did in school

@user-ii9bl6de2j 4 года назад

Careful... as all science is just theory until proven.

@demoraptorplays5645 4 года назад

@@user-ii9bl6de2j same can be applied for anything. But it's the flame that gets lit that makes you wanna search for the truth. And having multiple sources saying how something most likely happened is the best we have so far other than testing soil samples and the flora and fauna that are buried in the cement to see how much life lived in a certain area based on the traffic and the amount of bones that are from life and death.

@demoraptorplays5645 4 года назад

@@user-ii9bl6de2j what I'm saying is, School drained my passion to learn. And having outlets like this are giving me a new sense of purpose in life. And even if it's not proven to a T right now who knows, I might be the one to fill in the missing pieces one day.

@randomguy263 4 года назад

@@user-ii9bl6de2j You can't really prove anything, you can just figure what seems really likely and what works, and that's our best view of what the reality is. That's also what a theory is, it is a hypothesis that has been tested very rigorously. So, saying that something is just a theory doesn't really make sense.

@kevincable4099 4 года назад

@@user-ii9bl6de2j saying "all science is just theory until proven" seems misleading. Science is both a process of discovery AND a body of knowledge complied from those discoveries. The word "theory" in science also has a specific meaning, which someone else has pointed out.

@jimmcintosh9045 4 года назад

The giant bunnies knew that drunk and crazy hippies were going to holiday in Ibiza and Mallorca so decided to chill out in Minorca!

@stefanhensel8611 4 года назад

Hippos, not hippies. The latter evolved only some million years later.

@MAA-gf5it 3 года назад

Mallorca has drunk Germans, not Hippies...

@diazinth 3 года назад

MAA if by Germans you mean angles and saxons, then yes 😂

@MAA-gf5it 3 года назад

@@diazinth the Germans are usually drunk in Can Pastilla & Arenal...The English are drunk everywhere else.

@diazinth 3 года назад

MAA I must admit I’ve never been there, so I can just parrot what I’ve seen in various media on this, with the addition of some historical knowledge. I don’t know what any of those places are :)

@njm3211 4 года назад

Lots of ice melted when the last of many ice ages ended. Sea level rose in the Atlantic and refilled the Med which in turn topped off the Black Sea which had been a freshwater lake.

@celiabrickell2500 4 года назад

Concise science. No wild speculation. Good work! Not like most on U Tube.

@icollectstories5702 4 года назад

Thanks for depicting science as a dynamic process based on evidence and argument.

@monicamadrigalbeckford4281 4 года назад

As a valenciana (someone from Valencia in Spain) who is now doing a master in oceanography I really appreciate this episode 💙💙💙💙

@paulliddle9975 4 года назад

Monica Madrigal Beckford so your Spanish then

@monicamadrigalbeckford4281 4 года назад

@@paulliddle9975 Yes

@chadwickmacarthur4760 4 года назад

Marry me I'm an American

@chheinrich8486 10 месяцев назад

On question, on the iberian peninsula, do more people live on the smaller mediteranian coats of the llnger atlantic coast

@vallaurent2035 Год назад

I want to bring the giant bunny and the midget elephant back to life!❤

@SoupyMittens Год назад

The bunny kinda looks like a rat to be honest

@Bacon_XDiop Год назад

All fun and games until it's hostile

@meneither3834 2 года назад

that sea filling in two years would still be a very impressive river.

@tonyprice1786 2 года назад

Perfect for white-water rafting or kayaking eh?

@cloudfa1177 4 года назад

I love how you guys refer to previous videos because it really establishes this as a learning environment and it's so much fun!

@marcotedesco8954 4 года назад

As a Mediterranean person the thought of our sea drying up again instinctively fills me with dread even though there's no way I'm gonna be there to see it happen (we're closer to being submerged, right now)

@jessicajohnson6968 4 года назад

I really like the way this presenter speaks...clear with varied intonation. Not overly fast like some of the male presenters. I find this way more interesting to listening too!

@TJ-lb9os 4 года назад

Wow what a great edition

@lokigamerofmischief171 4 года назад

The final boss that only appears when you defeat all the rabbits

@To.Si.Ma. 4 года назад

No that s the rabbit from Monty Python.

@marcelsgroot 2 года назад

a bowser rabbit?

@aviemoreno9721 4 года назад

*PBS Eons uploads* Oh, yeah, it's all coming together.

@anakinskywalker7289 4 года назад

Avie Moreno jyes

@michelleobamafootcream9292 4 года назад

@ChannelCtrlAltDefeat 4 года назад

You guys are the best. Thank you.

@stevensonDonnie 3 года назад

There is a cave, just the one small cave, in Malta. They have found hippos and elephant bones there.

@Smonserratm 4 года назад

Lmao, I'm from Menorca. The most famous fossil found around the archipelago must be the Myotragus, a dwarf goat.

@qibli7679 4 года назад

It's always nice to see a new PBS eon's upload in your subscriptions

@user-xs4pi4hq9o 4 месяца назад

Most informative. Thank you

@audi-vide-disce 3 года назад

Another excellent video from PBS Eons! Thank you. I couldn't help but notice that the illustrations depicting the depleted level of the Med were still showing the Black Sea with its present size and shape. Current view is that it was a low (sub-sea level) fresh water lake which filled at the end of the last ice age from the Med. Would love to know more about your thoughts and views on that.

@sterkar99 4 года назад

I love how the ending phrase is always the title

@scaper8 4 года назад

Damn! I never noticed that! I'm going to have to go back amd rewatch to see if they all do that.

@merbst 4 года назад

Or, is the Title always the final phrase? Or are they both symptomatic of a deeper truth?

@Xnaut314 4 года назад

First PBS Eons video of the new decade!

@stopthecrazyguy9948 4 года назад

Sorry, the new decade starts next year.

@Raheem_1412- Год назад

Thank you for the video. I would like to know if we can find any geologic evidence around and deeper there in Gibraltar strait as consolidation for those theories

@MrWarrenwest 4 года назад

great discourse, thankyou

@Rebecca-oh5yh 4 года назад

Great episode. I would love to hear about the ancient mountain range in what is now New York City.

@ahumanontheinternet8614 4 года назад

ALL HAIL THE RABBIT KING 🐰👑

@istvansipos9940 4 года назад

is it duck season or...

@Lolibeth 4 года назад

KING BUN, LONG MAY HE REIGN

@hamzasat 4 года назад

Pipkin 😃

@MayankPrasad111 4 года назад

*Big Chungus*

@wyzasukitan 4 года назад

I, for one, welcome our new rabbit overlord 😭❤️

@paulmiddleton8699 2 года назад

Great video we live in south west Turkey the Med is ten minutes walk from our apartment so it nice learn some history about our new home. Thank you.

@philonius21 2 года назад

Thanks for the great video. Educational videos like this are further proof of the benefit of funding PBS.

@jessicabir1107 4 года назад

Had a hard day at work , this was soooo needed

@SilverScarletSpider 4 года назад

I have no clue how big an american football field is and don't know why it is frequently used as a measurement for scale.

@Achiyugo 4 года назад

It's 100 yards. Or 300 ft. Or 36,000 inches.

@petergray2712 4 года назад

91.4 meters long. And it-and Olympic swimming pools- are often used as analogical measurement by USA science shows.

@_dbzeibert_1718 4 года назад

It drives me nuts whenever I hear that size reference, and I'm an American.

@nickisnyder3450 4 года назад

@@Achiyugo If they don't understand how big an american football field is THEY ARE NOT AMERICAN so why would they know what the heck a yard or a foot or an inch is? The whole rest of the world uses metric

@chrissr318 4 года назад

This is an american show/channel stop getting triggered when they use american measurement units

@CaptainNavman 2 года назад

absolutely fascinating

@Archronis 3 года назад

I love the mood music in this episode.

@NicholasHay1982 4 года назад

Have you been spying on my search history? I was reading about the refilling of the Mediterranean literally yesterday. I love you guys! PBSDS is the best programming PBS offers these days.

@TywinLannister666 4 года назад

You and the rest of the MC big on PBS, eh?

@22steve5150 4 года назад

On their last upload, a bunch of us were requesting this topic in the comments, and about 2 days ago I was where you were yesterday, wiki-trekking on both the messian salinity crisis and the various theories on the history of the black sea.

@Skyprince27 4 года назад

@Nicholas Hay FYI, YT spies on everybody’s search history all the time. Even if you watch YT not logged in to a channel, it still happens ! 🤯

@ichbins173 4 года назад

In my biology class ecology was probably my favorite topic. I just find it fascinating how life spreads and is even possible.

@b991228 2 года назад

The filling of the sea must have been an equally dynamic event!

@cowboygeologist7772 4 года назад

Very nice work!

@Zakalwe-01 4 года назад

Hugely improved presentational style. That sing-song tone has been banished! 👍⭐️

@vanderj8 4 года назад

Three things I missed: 1. The many human settlements near the coasts of Greece, Italy and the Black Sea that now lie underwater and are a testament of lower sea levels. 2. The link with the nearby Dead Sea. 3. The link with the flood and sea-parting stories in the scriptures that originated in these parts of the world.

@alexandrubogdanviliman6933 3 года назад

Hey guys!! I'm watching you for a while now, I got an idea for a video. I'm from Romania so I want to know more about the black sea and the time when it was a lake in a depression like the Aral sea.

@danrichdrivingandmore5348 2 года назад

I love the simple yet detailed explanations offered through this channel. The cute female helps as well.

@JesPulido 4 года назад

Wow, I never knew about this. Fascinating!

@derekpalo5287 4 года назад

Hercules opened up the straights of Gibraltar in 1 of his tasks hence , thats why it was called the pillars of Hercules

@nellyfarnsworth7381 4 года назад

duh

@gillianlovell9578 4 года назад

Derek Palo: "straits"

@dannyboywhaa3146 4 года назад

Gillian Lovell nope... it’s defo ‘pillars’ - it‘s the straits of Gibraltar etc...

@brighteyes6585 3 года назад

Cool video! 🙂👍 You have a great presentation!

@MatthewChenault 2 года назад

Actually, the Mediterranean Salt Giant was formed during the Third Punic War when Rome salted Carthage so much that it left a permanent geologic feature in the entire Mediterranean basin. Carthage always demands salt.

@billstorie5161 4 года назад

Great presentation as always folks! Could you please give some information on the background music used behind the narration and whether it's available to buy? Many thanks.

@jpavlvs 4 года назад

That was interesting and informative. Thank you.

@aviation_and_things Год назад

The nuralagus rex be giving me some *"OK I PULL UP"* vibes

@Brubarov Год назад

Thanks for the video. Is this event anyhow linked to Paratheys emptying??

@beastmaster0934 4 года назад

When I red the title. I immediately thought of The Future Is Wild.

@slappy8941 4 года назад

Herp derp!

@LossyLossnitzer 4 года назад

Great explanation and very well presented, thank you

@punditgi Год назад

Exquisitely fascinating story, much like the presenter. Brava, signora!

@stacymar684 2 года назад

I laugh at what an idiot I was when I was young. In school, seeing the teacher push the TV/VCR into the classroom was escutcheon, because it meant naptime was about to begin. I looked at documentaries like they were sleeping pills. Now, I can't get enough of them. I would rather watch a good documentary than anything on network television.

@shawnadyment 4 года назад

Thanks for this! I was recently at the Lodève museum (which by the way is AWESOME for such a small community of less than 10,000 inhabitants) and there was an animation in the earth sciences exhibit that one could interact and scroll thru the ages, and there was a blip where the Mediterranean sea dissapeared. I was so curious as to what happened! Perfect timing to release a video about it while it was fresh in my mind :)