The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time

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The short-faced bears turned out to be remarkably adaptable, undergoing radical changes to meet the demands of two changing continents. And yet, for reasons we don’t quite understand, their adaptability wasn’t enough to keep them from going extinct.
Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi and Studio 252mya for the Arctodus and Arctotherium illustrations. You can find more of their work here: 252mya.com/gallery/fabrizio-d...
And thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Plionarctos and Arctotherium reconstructions! Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at / alphynix and nixillustration.com
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@stephanies6636 4 года назад

I'm Native American and in my tribe's oral history, our elders tell us of huge bears that existed, much larger than modern bears. It makes me wonder what my ancestors witnessed.

@jrgarza1964 4 года назад

Stephanie S Yeah it's very interesting.. I'm thinking they witnessed a lot of animals that we were never aware of.. they seen cave bears.. and the short faced bears.. before they went extinct.

@MrZpeppers 4 года назад

Monsters, they experienced monsters.

@hulkmeister23 4 года назад

I highly doubt they were talking about short faced bears; oral tradition doesn't go back that far. The tales of "Stiff Legged Bears" in north eastern tribes may have been about polar bears following walrus groups back when they used to be found in New England waters.

@mrmister1657 4 года назад

Stephanie S it was probably horrifying in person lol

@Celebrian666 4 года назад

the large short faced bears died out long before humans came to the americas.

@metal123498 5 лет назад

I'd like to see an episode on grass, since it's so common now and yet it only showed up at the end of the age of the dinosaurs so it's kind of hard to imagine a world without it but for a long time it didn't exist.

@RadioactiveKetchup 5 лет назад

Ok now im interested. Cmon EONS please!

@daniellewilson8527 5 лет назад

metal123498 which period? Cretaceous?, Carboniferous? Jurassic?

@dinodino5602 5 лет назад

@Dragrath1 5 лет назад

Yeah it is mind boggling how recently grasses appeared. And grasslands are far far younger still. If memory serves I think the first fossil evidence of grass was even from a sauropod coprolite. Additionally the grass showed the hallmarks of a few separate lineages indicating they must have been far older :D Though I do have to wonder whether there might be something similar to what happened with angiosperms in general where the oldest fossil evidence at the time suggested they were super recent based of a primitive fossil from the middle to late Jurassic. Then some excellent fossil discoveries in the last few years helped push the date of the first appearance of angiosperms 50 million years back into the early Jurassic. Interestingly enough while 50 million years older than the previous earliest fossil flower the new record holder looks to be significantly more "advanced" than the previous oldest flower (The one PBS Eons mentioned back in their angiosperm video) which suggests Angiosperms likely originated sometime in the Triassic and that the previous flower may have already been a living fossil when it was fossilized lol. On that note perhaps they ought to redo the earliest flower video? I had felt they were unusually conservative in that episode opting to disregard the molecular clock studies as well as the fossil pollen and coprolite evidence.

@metal123498 5 лет назад

@@daniellewilson8527 End of the Cretaceous

@Naiadryade 5 лет назад

I really, really appreciate your practice of putting the art of the animal next to the host for scale. For me, it provides a visceral understanding of these animals in a way that even goes beyond size. It results in me imagining being next to these bears myself.

@mogyesz9 4 года назад

I cant get the imagine of humans with stone age technology fighting with a rhino sized bear out of my head.

@guledosman8512 4 года назад

@@mogyesz9 think humans would survive against such big animals

@kyle18934 4 года назад

@@guledosman8512 humans are very smart and adapt with their environment. I bet we would see people in trees with big rocks to drop on the bears as well as spears in the trees and maybe spike traps in the ground. Simple yet effective. Maybe the spikes would be at the bottom of cliffs.

@StressBurger 3 года назад

"OH! That big!?"

@quantranminh4553 3 года назад

Supprisingly, us human have much better match up against big bulky animal than medium-sized stealthy/agile predator. Mammuth is an example.

@BigBossMan538 3 года назад

Today’s grizzlies and polar bears are already terrifying. Imagine seeing one of these giant bears and just how horrific that’d be

@kyrab7914 2 года назад

Bruh any of the animals our ancestors saw tbh. Imagine seeing a mammoth and going "imma poke it with a pointy stick until it dies"!

@thegracklepeck 2 года назад

@@kyrab7914 well, when you're really hungry... Poking that mammoth starts to sound like a better and better idea

@kyrab7914 2 года назад

@@thegracklepeck I would go for the berries and smaller prey but a crowd of hunters would be more helpful. Or like one suicidal person who isn't me

@maler8429 Год назад

future here. we would make tik tok dancing video with him

@justsain3236 8 месяцев назад

Nothing that a group of men with sharp spears cant deal with.

@Demane69 5 лет назад

The plus side of being mauled by a 1200 lb bear: It wasn't a 3000 lb bear!

@coleweede1953 5 лет назад

Less to brag about in val hala

@DelusionalDaniel990 5 лет назад

@@coleweede1953 its valhalla, you *pan paniscus*

@briandoolittle3422 5 лет назад

I don't know man. I feel like a 1200 lb bear might leave you in pain and bleeding to death, whereas a 3000 lbs bear might just tear your head off killing you instantly.

@spacedad3550 5 лет назад

Zanzibar Haberdasher a normal bear could still tear your head off

@briandoolittle3422 5 лет назад

@@spacedad3550 Not very likely to though. There is no documentation of a bear ever decapitating a person. given the right positioning and the right swipe, I'm sure a polar bear or grizzly could do it. But I don't think its particularly likely. Most grizzly attacks do not result in instant death. A 3000 lbs bear is much more likely to kill you immediately.

@ChristianNeihart 5 лет назад

'Ey Booboo, you think these humans will give us their pic-a-nic baskets? I think they're running away in fear, Yogi.

@AifDaimon 5 лет назад

You beat me to the Yogi Bear references.. Hahaha

@donfields1234 5 лет назад

Lol, i wrote a similar comment before reading yours...hey booboo. Lol 😊

@aaronmarks9366 5 лет назад

Lmao

@josephmoore5422 5 лет назад

Bunch of Kleptoparasites

@ijustpulledthetrigger5482 5 лет назад

Dont say pic-a-nic that has a dark meaning, picnic Is better

@TerrariaGolem 5 лет назад

Nature: *land bridge forms* Humans: *Panama Canal*

@phxnigtmare 5 лет назад

Let's make a water bridge across the land bridge!

@Person01234 5 лет назад

@@phxnigtmare And then build a regular bridge over the water bridge.

@VioletWhirlwind 4 года назад

@@Person01234 Bridge-ception!

@al3xx3991 4 года назад

We needed that for goods though so 🤷🏻‍♂️

@enotsnavdier6867 3 года назад

It isnt a sealevel canal like the suez. So while africa is technically no longer connected to Eurasia, South and North America still are

@casualskeleman6377 5 лет назад

Where tv dropped the ball, you guys pick up the slack. Thank you.

@mr.stealyogirl4078 4 года назад

Headass

@user-os5xe7ev5u 4 года назад

@ArmchairWarrior mgh

@JoeBob79569 3 года назад

Yea, Discovery could have probably turned this into an hour long episode with ads every 5 minutes, for 5 minutes, and then a 2 minute refresher after every ad..

@DinoBot65 5 лет назад

"When Pigs were Predators", an episode on Entelodonts?

@Dodoraptor4 5 лет назад

Dinobot65 1. They aren’t related to pigs 2. Modern pigs eat have a varied diet that includes meat

@vincentx2850 5 лет назад

More like leggy hippos or land whales

@bluefinmanta5373 5 лет назад

A better title would be: *"The Terrible Pig that Wasn't"*

@Preuen-zs1fz 5 лет назад

In Soviet Prussia Bacon eats you!

@globin3477 5 лет назад

Pigs are still predators... although I didn't know the entelodont is no longer considered a pig.

@corn4121 5 лет назад

every single one of these videos just inspire me to work harder in school so I study fossils as a career

@fhhfhdfdhhdhhdfhdf138 5 лет назад

pretty sure you don't get paid for that either

@ChiTownGhost913 5 лет назад

Don't listen to these fools and follow your dreams. There's a career for you somewhere

@georgesalama4826 4 года назад

Follow your dreams.

@tobyw9113 4 года назад

Same man. I’m gonna pursue wildlife biology and try to track down ‘extinct’ creatures as well as field work and gathering data in Zanzibar.

@jwscheuerman 3 года назад

Awesome dream! Hope you achieve it!

@xLolwat 4 года назад

Woah, I'm from South America (specifically Argentina) and I didn't know we had giant bears here!! I should really look up more stuff about the ancient life of my country/area, it's really interesting. Thanks for letting me know of this particular bear!

@beau589 2 года назад

look into the argentinasaur!!

@xLolwat 2 года назад

@@beau589 Haha thanks, I did know of that one!! Went to see it (I assume a replica tbh) in a museum when I went on vacation near the site it was discovered. It's amazing to think something so big ever walked the land!!

@beau589 2 года назад

@@xLolwat great!

@aminahmahmood1737 5 лет назад

This is the only channel where I love all of the hosts! Normally, it's somewhat hard for me to absorb auditory information. Yet with Eons, I'm always looking forward to listening to one of the three hosts to educate me on something often untouched. Thank you for existing!

@connorkenyon 5 лет назад

I feel the extinct ones just didn't learn to eat marmalade.

@krb1235 5 лет назад

They probably would if they could

@mr.ramfan8100 5 лет назад

Say what?

@conormcmullen6437 5 лет назад

Never wore their rain jackets either

@yeetthephone2341 3 года назад

hmm.... Paddington?

@Xnaut314 5 лет назад

I want an episode on Mesozoic mammals. The stereotype that mammals were just helpless dinosaur fodder with no significant evolution until the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs has been shattered by the discovery of species like Repanomamus and Castoracauda. And the genetic coelescense of many modern mammal orders appears to occur before 65 millions ago which means mammals were already diversifying into their current forms even in the midst of dinosaurs.

@richardbidinger2577 5 лет назад

I was not aware of this information, I will second your request, because I want to know about this now.

@jasonvoorhees5180 5 лет назад

Mammals were heckin diverse in the Mesozoic, the world must be aware of this

@garymeaney60 5 лет назад

Yeah, before the dinosaurs went extinct there were already gliding mammals, aquatic ones, maybe marine ones, spiny ones, myrmecophagous ones, and fairly large carnivores and herbivores.

@ekosubandie2094 5 лет назад

it's pretty surprising that mesozoic mammals are just as diverse as today just smaller and less distinctive physically compared to the one that came later

@vguyver2 5 лет назад

@@ekosubandie2094 They just didn't get a chance to grow big enough to fill dominant predator niches. Still they were some of the most common and diverse animals on the planet even back then. If I'd have to compare in their common niche to ecosystems between those eras and today, it would be rabbits and tree dwelling rodents if you want to dumb it down.

@Jarrett.p 5 лет назад

Please do a video on the “great American biotic exchange” if you haven’t already

@angeliparraguirre7329 5 лет назад

They sure talk about the consequences of it in many vids.

@dumoulin11 5 лет назад

The human to bear size comparison was extremely useful.

@himeros5527 5 лет назад

Please, make an episode about the evolution of bats. Im sorry if Im always commenting this but I think it would be really interesting. Please.

@dayalasingh5853 5 лет назад

I agree

@cadenrolland5250 5 лет назад

You make it. It wont be easy as there are few bat fossils.

@thejurassicman661 5 лет назад

True. Even as early as 50 mya, bats were already the way we see them today. So an evolution video of the years between 66 to 50 mya of the evolution of bats, and how they widespread across the world. Even to Australia and New Zealand.

@finter4644 5 лет назад

@@Burn_Angel I believe they're more closely related to shrews than anything. As a whole bats are rather derived, and there aren't many animals around today that we can easily point to as close ancestors.

@RedStefan 5 лет назад

Most bats species are closely related to shrews, but there are some fruit eating related to squirrels i believe.

@MistikaManiac 5 лет назад

Can you make a video about where ears came from?

@therealone4113 5 лет назад

thats actually a great idea

@brianmorse8811 5 лет назад

Fish gills

@mikeo759 5 лет назад

They come out of the head

@mattfry6716 5 лет назад

I can wiggle mine.

@daniellewilson8527 5 лет назад

Mike O I think he meant origin of the ear

@RobleViejo 3 года назад

Yay! The Ursidae family is my favourite in the Mammalia class and this group, the Arctodus, was discovered in my city!!! La Plata, Buenos Aires, not only has some of the best universities in all Argentina, it also has the best Natural Sciences museum in the whole SouthAmerica Its amazing that these bears were discovered in this very soil, meters away from the university were it was studied and the museum that hosts the remains. Crazy stuff!

@sauron6977 2 года назад

Arctodus existed on North America, and Arctotherium belongs to South America

@celtichound9889 Год назад

That horrifying moment when prehistoric Paddington could look a full grown elephant in the eye.

@veggieboyultimate 5 лет назад

I always love when PBS eons talks about a whole family of extinct animals. Makes prehistoric life even more fascinating!

@brianmorse8811 5 лет назад

I love Bears from a distance!

@generaljj577 4 года назад

Video Bears

@MonochromaticMonsters Год назад

The t shirt promo though. "It's comfy and nice." Sold!

@annarose3354 3 года назад

I'm really impressed by how subtle but effective the background sounds are

@barrageballoon4845 5 лет назад

Maybe do a video on the evolution of crocodiles and crocodylomorphs

@nick0tina 5 лет назад

Crocodylomorphs... Xenomorph crocodiles, I like ot

@titan133760 5 лет назад

exactly!

@lv7952 5 лет назад

Yes please, they occupied almost every niche that exists during millions of years, that would be a great video.

@holhorse6367 5 лет назад

Always pleistocene mammals

@leemaples1806 5 лет назад

after while crocodile...

@carissstewart3211 5 лет назад

Big, (possibly) hypercarnivorous teddy Bears.

@domcasmurro2417 5 лет назад

Bears beer bees bean when i was learning english all looked the same. I would say things like: i'm scared of a bean attack. Or i'm going to dring a bee.

@domcasmurro2417 5 лет назад

@Stephanie Logan 😂

@havenmirabella3003 4 года назад

I know the pain! When I was learning Japanese ここ、どこ、そこ、just sounded like random sounds (and sounded the same). Now I understand them and they no longer sound funny.

@jaram2369 5 лет назад

a video on vocal communication and speech as we know it and how it has come about not only in us but other species, would be really interesting. On all levels complicated or simple it really is an incredible thing.

@Dodoraptor4 5 лет назад

I think it will be very interesting to have a video that covers up animal groups that made it through the K-T extinction but didn’t make it to this day like Multituberculata or Choristodera

@melskunk 5 лет назад

Paddington Bear got jacked

@teemusid 4 года назад

@Stephanie Logan They also take UGH (Ursine Growth Hormones). Yogi and Boo-boo make it in a cave and Smokey supplements his DoF income by delivering the contraband, using speaking engagements as a cover for his illegal activities.

@marcusvachon845 5 лет назад

Thank you for the content. I enjoy the videos. Can't wait to see more of what you and your colleagues have in the works. Again, thanks!!!

@juliorojas2788 5 лет назад

Sees Kallie. Immediate thumbs up.

@Niinkai 5 лет назад

I'd love to see an episode on Antarctica, specifically how why and when it became inhospitable to most forms of life

@nerner266 5 лет назад

Arctotherium extinction coincides with the disappearance of savanna-like grasslands and the rebirth of the Amazon rainforest. Big animals have trouble competing in closed biomes, so maybe that's why they adapted to smaller sizes.

@spindash64 8 месяцев назад

It just occurred to me that there may be another reason for modern bears (or least for some of them) to be smaller than the short faced bears of the past: trees. The Americas used to be much grassier, but with the forest showing up more after the glaciers moved thru, there would be significant advantages to being small enough to climb trees to grab whatever might be hiding in them. Grizzlies are too big to get much in them as adults, but still CAN climb them. Polar Bears have no direct excuse in that regard, but as members of the same genus, they still could have inherited the slightly smaller size for climbing reasons

@guichom.6924 5 лет назад

I love how y’all illustrate the size comparison. Keep it up!

@Burn_Angel 5 лет назад

"Arctodus Simus disappears from the fossil record about 10,000 years ago". Uh, I think we may be responsible for that then. Directly, i mean.

@MaxwellAerialPhotography 5 лет назад

Unlikely, humans wouldn't have arrived in sufficient numbers in the Americas yet.

@Burn_Angel 5 лет назад

@@MaxwellAerialPhotography Yet we're known to have killed large herbivores to eat them and wear their skin. Plus, if we killed off North American bison that quick, I wouldn't say it's that unlikely.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat 5 лет назад

Burn Angel 😳 North American bison were slaughtered almost to extinction by the use of firearms, which early humans did not possess!

@Burn_Angel 5 лет назад

@@sirmeowthelibrarycat Firearms are just ranged weapons, and pretty loud ones at that. You can do almost the same with bows and arrows, which humans from 10K years did possess.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat 5 лет назад

Burn Angel 😖 Sigh! Please ask a firearms specialist about the difference between a rifle and a bow and arrow. In particular, the rate of fire each offers. Then claim that they were equally responsible for the slaughter of bison. In passing, also note that the native plains people who hunted these animals with simple weapons did not attempt to eradicate them. That was up to the colonists who aimed to exterminate the indigenous population by starvation. Have you heard of one ‘Buffalo Bill Cody’ and his throngs of hunters posing for a photograph whilst standing beside a huge pile of bison heads?

@laurenceiswaycool 5 лет назад

Great episode!!! Im so glad this series keeps going! It may be nice too look at the plants that supported all these crazy animals? Also I would like to see the arc of conifers, specifically Araucariaceae, I find that family interesting. Thanks!

@mackjohnson7302 5 лет назад

Waiting just two weeks for a new video has been torture, but worth the wait!

@damianabbate4423 Год назад

You guys always do such a great job in these videos. Thanks so much for this.

@xBlackDawnx 4 года назад

How did I miss this 7 months ago!? I watch this channel like a hawk for its approx bimonthly uploads

@rosswebster7877 5 лет назад

How about something like “Andrewsarchus: The Real-Life Killer Sheep.”

@rosswebster7877 5 лет назад

@Stephanie Logan Actually I was referring to a horror-comedy movie from New Zealand about a town terrorized by flesh-eating sheep.

@smashtoad 4 года назад

What a monster Andrewsarchus must have been.

@vincentx2850 5 лет назад

Given the recent discovery of Simbakubwa, let's do an episode on Creodonta, or maybe on that unique window in Miocene African natural history where there is no cats and everyone from weasels, civets to bears try to fill in the niche of the large hyper-carnivore that lions leopards and cheetahs fill in today (and then got owned by one of largest and most awesome cats of all time Amphimachairodus and their company)

@WiicBoyHunto 5 лет назад

Vincent X great comment hope they see it

@monsoon_magic2874 5 лет назад

Refer to Synapsida blog. There's a recent entry on the Miocene "cat gap".

@garymeaney60 5 лет назад

It's looking as though Creodonta might not be a valid taxon anymore, so there's a lot of controversy that they could talk about in a video. I agree.

@megamario345 3 года назад

Yeah no, bears are still the greatest mammalian carnivores of all time

@DA-xe7fg 3 года назад

@@megamario345 you meant to say omnivore chief.

@parichehrmhrpyn964 3 года назад

Eons is one of my favorite channels it's part of my daily routine to watch it Pure informarion and clear explaination also a little bit humor and beautiful arts!!! It's extraordinary! Educational system is terrible also scholl's environment i learned almost nothing ! But here in youtube ...now i have a new perception, now i know what i want to do in the future ...i found my passion something that i love no matter what ! It even inspires me to work harder !! Thank you!

@sapphiresong7 5 лет назад

These videos always make me so happy to watch.

@thomasjack8710 5 лет назад

I absolutely love you guys' work. So interesting XD

@TheNewNumberTw0 5 лет назад

These EONS vids keep getting better and better.

@AquilaLupus9 5 лет назад

Placentas! Blake stated he would some day talk about the evolution on placentas. I'm still waiting on that video. I will blitz spam every Eons upload until I get my placenta video.

@cdbsergentmalarki3283 4 года назад

A very interesting video as always, thanks for all

@WickedWildlife 5 лет назад

🐊Could you do a video on when crocodiles ran down prey on land?

@littlesnowflakepunk855 5 лет назад

Gators still do, idk about crocs. I got chased for about two blocks by a gator one time lol

@Riceball01 5 лет назад

@@littlesnowflakepunk855 I think the OP is referring to terrestrial crocodillomorphs that lived and hunted on land instead of in/from the water like modern crocodilians do today.

@crankykong5836 5 лет назад

@@Riceball01 like how postosuchus and other land crocodillians were the second bipedal runners.

@KhanMann66 5 лет назад

Even stranger when crocs chomp on plant matters.

@mitchellskene8176 5 лет назад

So like the Quinkanna, or other species?

@Roxanewolfie 5 лет назад

as usual, the comment section is full of demands... so i'm just gonna say THANK YOU for this episode! i personally love bears and it was so interesting to learn about some of the extinct bear species.

@realdaggerman105 4 года назад

Dimitri LK Not demands, suggestions, indicating they enjoyed the content and would very much like to see more of it.

@HogBurger 4 года назад

Daggerman105 - True,here is an example. Demanding: DO THIS NOW OR I WILL UNSUBSCRIBE! Suggesting: Can you please make a video on _insert some video name_ ?

@realdaggerman105 4 года назад

Plush Productions I absolutely agree with you!

@Evili555 3 года назад

@@realdaggerman105 I’m revive this

@whos_a_goodboy7401 3 года назад

This is the most enjoyable video I found on the history of bears on YT.

@Diescenesterdie 4 года назад

I enjoy these videos a lot. Thanks.

@lemoncola1164 5 лет назад

i used to not trust this channel bc of its style, its a similar style to many flashy af misinforming channels, but i grew out of that, ive learned to love eons

@rehabilitator 5 лет назад

I've been waiting all week!

@kevinavila7551 5 лет назад

Rehabilitator 2 weeks actually. They didn’t post last week.

@coryjenkins4179 5 лет назад

Great video thanks for sharing this story.

@ascensionmusic3713 4 года назад

I'm officials hooked on your video's - thank you so much!

@Musketeer009 4 года назад

Love the picture of an extinct bear ambling through a field that has recently been harvested.

@MeleeTiger 5 лет назад

"You know what a dire bear is don't-cha? S'like an ordinary bear, only dire."

@Articulate99 Год назад

Always interesting, thank you.

@bonniehoke-scedrov4906 2 года назад

Great video! Thanks!

@JcDizon 5 лет назад

I like how the video kept showing that cute footage of the spectacled bear on the tree

@Chrysaetos11 4 года назад

I love natural history and glad to have found this channel. And Kallie is a fantastic host!! She's very enthusiastic about this.

@odizzido 5 лет назад

Another great video, I love these :)

@JustinSable 5 лет назад

aww I'm so sorry I had to drop off the donation list for this show. have to save up some cash to move out of my apartment D: you guys keep being awesome! Will contribute again when I can

@AifDaimon 5 лет назад

Kinda makes me thankful that the only bears I get to see are the tropical ones residing at the Singapore Zoo

@danc6167 5 лет назад

I absolutely love bears so this episode gets a 10 from me. Any chance we could get an episode on when and how bears split from other Carnivora like dogs?

@luminyam6145 Год назад

That was wonderful, thank you. Our family loves bears🥰

@edibleapeman2 5 лет назад

Another kickass episode! Y'all rock!!

@derailed2157 5 лет назад

Anyone else read The Clan of Cave Bear??

@heathert5455 5 лет назад

Many-many years ago I did

@GrahamCStrouse 4 года назад

Original 11030 Long ago, yeah.

@angeladansie4378 4 года назад

The whole series...several times. Such a vivid portrait of pleistocene Europe. It's also what started my fascination with edible & medicinal plants

@bantamdude 4 года назад

No. How does it go?

@susancassan6870 4 года назад

Cannot recommend these books enough. The research is incredible and the human characters are well developed and interesting.

@timsullivan4566 5 лет назад

(at 9:27) Modern-day bear tragically unaware it is being stalked by a Short-beaked Raven!

@lasigna0212 5 лет назад

It's an Hooded Crow, commonly found in Western Europe.

@timsullivan4566 5 лет назад

@@lasigna0212 Thanks. I also originally thought it was a Hooded Crow except that it was stalking what I thought was a North American bear. (Actually I was just kidding around, playing off the name "Short-faced Bear."). Take care.

@lasigna0212 5 лет назад

@@timsullivan4566 👍👍👍

@raebaconowo9910 5 лет назад

Ohh no poor bear

@UltraNooob 4 года назад

Damn so these birds were behind the disapperances of the Huge bears, hate em wings

@prudhvi2416 3 года назад

Very clear explained thanks madam

@Kronosbattlemaps 5 лет назад

Very informative and well made! despite looking at the same pictures over and over again ;p

@TragoudistrosMPH 5 лет назад

Bear: 🎵We need the beeeear necessities, so that we can rest at ease Or else we bears will be extinct from life 😭

@joshuabrickman493 3 года назад

I would love to see an episode on the origin of bears and their split from the rest of Carnivora!

@Okowa407 2 года назад

Short faced bear do survive though it evolved as the little Andean short-faced bear

@ronaleck9777 5 лет назад

you are awesome like the way you present topics

@johnstevenson4611 5 лет назад

Love this series!!!!

@diedoncealready6989 5 лет назад

Oddly enough I could watch her talk for hours.

@dave-ish8098 5 лет назад

My favorite host talking about my favorite animals

@theglanconer6463 3 года назад

Very good. Thank you !!

@SplatoonLover915 2 года назад

I really enjoyed this video, i really love bears they are my favorite animals in the world and now i have knew knowledge about them so thank you so much

@chloedog47 3 года назад

The short faced Bear reminds me of the short faced Kangaroo from Australia, Procoptodon, it had a short face because it browsed on food mainly in shrubs and branches above ground unlike modern Kangaroos which graze on the ground and need eyes much higher than their mouth to avoid predators. Maybe the short face Bear had the same adaptation and fed largely above ground?

@pay1370 5 лет назад

i'll buy that shirt if i get the deets to where all those awesome brooches come from!

@DemLottBoyz 5 лет назад

It's spelled Bro-Oche and you can get them Cinco Men.

@Burn_Angel 5 лет назад

I read "bury" instead of "buy".

@GaryWNorman 5 лет назад

Excellent video. Arctodus simus fascinates me to no end lol it's immense size is staggering.

@derickviana9831 5 лет назад

Thx for the amazing content! Can you guys do a video about the origin of horns?

@DavidGonzalez-lt6wx 5 лет назад

Love your videos. Would love to learn about the story of metallurgy. It's such a hard subject to learn about. What about the understanding of fire, combined with rock tools made the first prehumans, or humans figure out that some rocks had a byproduct that can be separated and forged to create more efficient and deadly tools.

@jonathanryan9946 5 лет назад

Could you do an episode on Lyall's wren? I'm really curious how such a small flightless bird was able to survive, until house cats were introduced to New Zealand.

@Okowa407 2 года назад

Cats have even made North American bird species extinct like the Carolina parakeet and the Heath hen

@kenneth9874 Год назад

@@Okowa407 there's not a quarter of the songbirds that there were not so long ago, feral and domestic cats are a plague

@Okowa407 Год назад

@@kenneth9874 exactly

@LemnaTrisulca 5 лет назад

I was JUST wondering about bear evolution today!!! Thank you Eons!!!!

@lllllsp1d3rlllll 2 года назад

Loved this one

@user-mj6ui4kx7i 5 лет назад

You are the best ❤❤❤ keep it up

@benispeckner3114 5 лет назад

Can you make an video about Gorgonopsids? Pls

@cevosok3124 5 лет назад

Benni Speckner

@kevinavila7551 2 года назад

Great video 👍🏼

@bicknell67 5 лет назад

Love your videos

@sublimelime292 5 лет назад

I have needed a real pocket for some time now.. eons you always got me.

@nyeti7759 3 года назад

This is fascinating! I'd heard of short-faced bears but I didn't know how different they were to modern bears. Or how big.

@yehudasam 4 года назад

Great content! Each video contains a lot of knowledge presented simply and clearly. If you can please make a small "rap- up" at the end of each episode- it would be very helpful. Thanks a lot!

@berni1602 5 лет назад

What a great video. I was enjoying it and then you trow 'kleptoparasitism' right to my face. I discovered that term two years ago because of my thesis research and it's quite interesting this kind of relationship. Anyway, love your videos!

@emilypresleysee 5 лет назад

I just love your voice and demeanor. You are adorable! Thank you for brightening up my day!

@regularfather4708 5 лет назад

Makeup totally unnecessary and honestly disappointing.

@emilypresleysee 5 лет назад

@@regularfather4708 what are you talking about?

@regularfather4708 5 лет назад

@@emilypresleysee makeup too often detracts from natural beauty. This woman is intelligent, has a welcoming personality, as well as a beautiful appearance... makeup distracts from all three.