Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils? (w/ Monstrum!)

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People have been discovering the traces and remains of prehistoric creatures for thousands of years. And they’ve also probably been telling stories about fantastic beasts since language became a thing. So, is it possible that the monsters that populate our myths and legends were influenced by the fossil record?
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@eons 4 года назад

Hey Eons viewers! Producer Seth here. Monstrum is one of my favorite channels so it was a thrill to be able to collaborate with them on this episode. Make sure you check out their new video on cyclops and tell them Eons sent you! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s-pMfIWl4kI.html

@elmurdoc 4 года назад

Ahhh, i was wonder if today is the day of cyclops :)

@Pyro-et9vs 4 года назад

PBS Eons happy Halloween!

@pbsstoried 4 года назад

Thank you Seth! Working with the Eons team was a blast.

@shepp765 4 года назад

11:35 peace was never an option

@mamabear_books1417 4 года назад

Yaaaaas omg I was so excited for these episodes between you guys! Mind blown!🤯

@Demongotoo 4 года назад

If I have a gold mine and can't guard it 24/7 I'd make up stories about monsters in them too.

@aidantheraider6324 4 года назад

Ingenious

@Alusnovalotus 4 года назад

Daisy Dee lol just posted something similar. Plus the beaks look the same.

@MrAlwaysRight 4 года назад

I'd talk about how big my PP was.

@luckychips2283 4 года назад

@@aidantheraider6324, and then Science had to go and ruin it for everyone by disproving these stories.

@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 4 года назад

@@luckychips2283 What am I supposed to use for protecting my gold and treasures now?

@TragoudistrosMPH 4 года назад

Why were dragons in so many cultures?? Eons: Fossils? History Channel: Dragons were real?

@moosemaimer 4 года назад

"Much like how early humans wiped out most of the Eurasian megafauna, this conclusively proves Sasquatch hunted the chupacabra to extinction!"

@thatman8562 4 года назад

VSauce: Instinct?

@VendPrekmurec 4 года назад

Dragons were real

@ralphjosephacobo8014 4 года назад

Wasn't there a fake documentary like that?

@ralphjosephbanghulot7159 4 года назад

Or ancient aliens...

@littlesnowflakepunk855 4 года назад

Japan's water dragons being more likely to act in anger makes sense given the prevalence of typhoons and tsunamis.

@hisholiness4537 4 года назад

Imagine being your average everyday Wooly Rhino, doing Wooly Rhino things, completely unaware of the fact that one day people will immortalize your remains as that of a Dragon, the most legendary of all creatures.

@xkoala303x 3 года назад

That’s how I want to go out tbh

@fernandohgfg6847 3 года назад

Oh yes. The Wooly Albino Rhino Gyno who also happens to be a wine addict.

@UrSoulsBelong2No1 3 года назад

@@fernandohgfg6847 Bojack Horseman reference....nice 1 ;-;

@TheAkwarium 3 года назад

then imagine your ancestors in the Ice Age seeing these animals every day and not thinking much about it, it was just their everyday life

@restezlameme 3 года назад

There are actual instances of Ancient Greeks discovering ancient fossils, who mistook them for bones of creatures/demigods/heroes, and so reburied them with some measure of ceremony. I forget where I read this, but it was mentioned alongside the ancients' interpretations of a massive fossil hotspot in Samos, Greece, as a battleground between Amazons and heroes of some kind.

@chiseler151 4 года назад

"my queen, i have slain the fire-breathing dragon. look at the hardened burnt skull. pay me"

@MechanicaMenace 4 года назад

@Hernando Malinche more likely monitor lizards, with forked tongues in artwork becoming flames as copies got more elaborate.

@prismitits9005 4 года назад

@Hernando Malinche monitor lizards actually CAN be scary too, even the smaller species

@Starshock119 4 года назад

@SPINKZOR Queen Elizabeth I of England actually purchased and owned a narwhal horn from a group of Norwegian merchants for £60,000 (roughly the value of an entire castle/manor in the exchange rate of that era) believing it to be a Unicorn horn. It was one of her crown treasures IIRC.

@barbarahouk1983 4 года назад

Oh that is sad that Queen Elizabeth I got taken.

@josephdonais8091 4 года назад

"hardened" the basilisk did it!

@JG-on2wx 4 года назад

I remember how I went to the beach as a small kid, maybe 8 years old, and searched for funny looking stones. I was also a huge dinosaur fan and I always dreamt of finding the remains of a creature that lived millions of years ago. And sometimes, I actually found little stones that didn't quite look like stones. I still have them, one of them looks like a layer of skin with scales, or the imprints of scales. I'm still not sure what exactly caused the weird structure, but when I found it, I felt like I had just discovered a miracle. The excitement hasn't faded away. I recently started going to university, and I'm studying archeology. I love it.

@JG-on2wx 4 года назад

@J G thanks, yes I really enjoy it, although I'm still at the start. And I just noticed that we both have the same username 😃

@JG-on2wx 4 года назад

@J G :o

@warfighter1988 4 года назад

Nice you've chosen unemployment

@rustyshackelford3590 4 года назад

Well dinosaurs are paleontology, archeology is the study of remains of past human material culture.

@codylgarcia 4 года назад

Soooooo........ Dr. Grant?

@JuanHernandez-nl9wo 4 года назад

Whales' skulls might be the inspiration behind those sea monsters with tusks that appear sometimes in older maps of the world.

@ethanwesterfield6478 4 года назад

Oh absolutely, the lower jawbones look like tusks to someone who wouldn't know any better.

@JaymeSplendid 4 года назад

Except sailors would know what whales where as they breach often out of the water, plus the early whaling that has been going on ever since large boats that could carry many people went out to sea. Bones found on land where always thought to be just that: Land living animals. People didn't know that water covered most of the land we see today. Most sea monsters where just misidentified from actual sea creatures. Bones found where never thought to be sea creatures, people couldn't fathom that very shallow seas would cover most of today's land masses.

@samiamrg7 4 года назад

Someone else said that whale bones could be the inspiration for monstrous serpents like the Wadjet or Wurms/Wyrms. Just because sailors know what a whale looks like doesn’t mean they know what their skeletons look like.

@EvilLeprechuan 4 года назад

Oar fish, dragon sharks, and other deep ocean fish.

@StarShine-Ranch 4 года назад

Uh, NARWHALES, duh!

@OlOleander 4 года назад

I came back exhausted from one of my last days at this job, realized I'd already set up a cup of tea, and saw an Eons episode. It's the small things, guys.

@Eontologist 4 года назад

Manatee Man tea and Eons is my favorite combination ❤️

@MrAlwaysRight 4 года назад

NOT like my PP. My PP is real big.

@cookiepowerx9251 4 года назад

@@MrAlwaysRight this is small pp comment

@danoconnor5138 4 года назад

Hope your new Job is going well.

@akiyamamoto6661 3 года назад

@@cookiepowerx9251 no it’s true I am their pp

@PerryTrails 4 года назад

Ancient Egypt was the home of the Amphiptere, a type of dragon that was a giant serpent with wings. It looks a lot like the whale fossils found in near Faiyum, which are actually pretty serpentine-looking. The front fins could have been seen as wings, and the head a does look a little bit like that of a giant snake.

@drsharkboy6568 4 года назад

Basilosaurus was effectively a snake-whale, and were it still here, folks would’ve mistaken it for a sea serpent.

@MarkVrem 4 года назад

Dinosaurs are more related to birds than lizards. Dragons fly. The ancients were on to something lol

@NickLavic 4 года назад

Egypt? As far as I can see, Amphiptere is a European myth, not Egyptian. Maybe you were thinking of Wadjet, the winged snake goddess.

@grubbybum3614 4 года назад

Australian Aboriginals have a myth about the 'Bunyip', a creature that dwells in billabongs, and devours unsuspecting swimmers... Is probably a 60k year old tale about the Mega fauna creature of similar habits.

@wadespencer3623 4 года назад

@@drsharkboy6568 It's called Basilosaurus (king lizard) because the first guy to reconstruct it put parts from two skeletons together and declared it to be a real sea serpent. Unfortunately, due to the rules of nomenclature, we're stuck with the inaccurate name even though other scientists were immediately calling the guy out on his fakery.

@marcustulliuscicero5443 4 года назад

Fun fact: In China, what we call dinosaurs are called _kong long_ , which translates to *terrifying dragon* So while dragons might be inspired by dinosaur remains, to the Chinese dinosaur remains are certainly inspired by their ancient stories about dragons.

@tiffyw92 4 года назад

If you think about it, dinosaurs ARE dragons. They just had horns in different places, some were really long, others had huge claws, and even others were feathered and could fly. Who knows, there may have been some that were really keen with sensing moisture in the air and knew when rain might come; "summon the rain," if you will. Not to mention that China is home to several different "Dinosaur Valley" provinces, so yeah, it really is the Land of the Dragons.

@SherriLyle80s 4 года назад

Tyrannosaurus Rex means "tyrant lizard king" kind of parallels that. Makes sense that other cultures would have similar names or meanings.

@LordLazo 4 года назад

Marcus Tullius Cicero Don’t chinese people think they’re dragons too

@spindash64 4 года назад

Aren’t Eastern Dragons almost more akin to minor Gods in their role in Chinese and Japanese mythology than they are akin to, say, monsters like the Hydra? Like, Japan seems to like to slap the name Dragon on everything somehow and make it work

@NamelessKing1597 4 года назад

@@SherriLyle80s not to mention dinosaur means terrible lizard in latin which is arguably even closer.

@Xagzan 4 года назад

Everyone knows dragon myths were inspired by King Ghidorah coming down from space.

@NanoWoo 4 года назад

rakat sceptic indeed, old bean

@denistyrant 4 года назад

Godzilla: How many times are we going to tell you this listen old man!

@rex90pawprint 4 года назад

Ah, I see you are a fellow man of culture!

@Udontkno7 4 года назад

Exactly. This channel is as bad as the History channel.

@enriqueae7532 4 года назад

Hahahaha

@manowlad 4 года назад

Here in Brazil theres a legend about a creature called Mapinguari. Some say its appereance was based by giant sloth fossils

@whoareyou56101 3 года назад

The first dragon I’ve seen was when I woke up in a wagon to “hey you there, you’re finally awake”

@ArchFiendFolio 4 года назад

I love the crossover on this episode. Well done ladies and your teams.

@johnortmann3098 4 года назад

""...spent all their time tending sheep." Shows picture of goats. 9:20

@patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад

Mythical sheep that just happened to look exactly like goats. It's like you never even read The Odyssey in original Greek. ;)

@johnortmann3098 4 года назад

@@patrickmccurry1563 It's all Greek to me.

@wrathayush 4 года назад

Lol

@wrathayush 4 года назад

@@patrickmccurry1563 ohu

@qwertyqwerty6099 4 года назад

Lmao!

@DeathbyProxy 4 года назад

That would explain now dragons in Chinese myths have feathers/fur, since fossils in China are often very well preserved and show integument

@wendygold8527 4 года назад

Dinosaurs had feathers

@DeathbyProxy 4 года назад

Wendy Gold Yeah

@Solitude2500 4 года назад

The Velociraptor could have been mistaken for the Basilisk.

@eskadecci3400 4 года назад

@@Solitude2500 no wtf, the velociraptor is like the size of a turkey

@Solitude2500 4 года назад

Maybe not the velociraptor but the feathered dinousaurs in the region.

@synonymous1079 4 года назад

What fantastic beasts! If only someone could tell me where to find them...

@Roguefem76 4 года назад

**rimshot**

@stavristavrev6795 4 года назад

@@Roguefem76 Archer ?

@Roguefem76 4 года назад

@@stavristavrev6795 Sorry, what?

@pipborebor2875 4 года назад

Make some of your own by looking at fossils, and then draw the fossils but with weird stuff combined and then put flesh and skin on dat boi and BOOM a mythological beast

@TheClickbaiterA 4 года назад

Just dig and dig and dig

@ls200076 4 года назад

When you're a deformed (human) being but people consider you as a mythical being. Deformed being: "I see this as an absolute win."

@BibleStorm 4 года назад

@Manophire. com I think you mean "markiplier prostate and the projectile uterus" Or maybe marsupial and placental.

@lidiatarczewska7206 4 года назад

There are some examples of congenital deformity that also can be insipiration for legends, like cyclopia or sirenomelia

@laurensahanna5826 4 года назад

@Manophire. com I think you mean Marsupial and Placental?

@randomguy263 4 года назад

Yeah, the problem is, people with these deformities generally die after a few hours.

@italucenaz 3 года назад

There is no evidence of any adult person with an eye on the forehead, even the one that born like that, they eventually die for the other health conditions, it is extremelly unlikelly that cyclops were really inspired in humans, I'm sure people at the time just invented it, just like almost everything in mythology

@veggieboyultimate 4 года назад

I never knew how many monsters were thought of because of fossils.

@youcankillgod 4 года назад

The Demon Amon horns are literally amonites.

@cryptidliam8452 4 года назад

Yeah like pretty sure a unicorn is based off a type of rhino and then kinda slowly brought to be more elegant through time and people telling stories

@360.Tapestry 4 года назад

keep fighting. i want to see who's smartest

@patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад

None of this has been proved. They're just speculations based on what we think ancient people believed. Some may have been based initially on fossils. But which if any of them were, we have no idea.

@antoniaburnett6067 4 года назад

preying mantis miniature = Alien from the movie Aliens 😐.

@marilu3173 2 года назад

As a folklorist, I would love more videos like these! Thank you PBS Eons. I love this channel.

@JoshuaSeed 4 года назад

A few years ago, maybe 1989, I was visiting new york city. I was walking on 6th avenue, which was congested with pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk. The crowd parted, and being young I darted for the opening thinking to get ahead a bit. I am 6'5" and was starkly skinny then. The crowd had parted for a beggar. He had a metal teapot for his cup and he shook it at me. He had one extra large eye, centered on his face, and a small vestigial one crowded out to it's right. His nose was like a stack of leaves, too many folds like his sinuses were exposed. He was taller than me. Maybe 6'8 or 6'10. I've never doubted where myths about cyclops, giants, ettins and other monsters come from. They are us.

@mz00956 4 года назад

😅🤦‍♂️ I just read "1898" and was like: wait what?

@andrewhendy5920 4 года назад

a few years ago *almost 30 years ago*

@fulviopontarollo2952 4 года назад

Andrew Hendy ok zoomer

@victorfaja2110 4 года назад

Man lay of the drugs

@Mael_Str0M 4 года назад

For a second I thought you were talking about Percy Jackson

@helsiclife 4 года назад

Omg I live in China in the Sichuan province, I visited the place where the dinosaurs used to nest. There are tons of fossils in that place and the excavation site is huge! So cool

@cthulhufhtagn2483 4 года назад

5:44 The world's most depressed looking _Protoceratops_ .

@enterpheionex566 4 года назад

BIG MOOD

@wils_conor 4 года назад

@Leandro Aude As if he was HOPING extinction was coming lol

@cthulhufhtagn2483 4 года назад

@International Harvester Eeyorosaurus.

@jamesburnett4443 4 года назад

It not a phase mom *ITS AN ERA*

@Burn_Angel 4 года назад

Well, he's hornless and sheep-sized, of course it's depressed.

@montialarson 3 года назад

I would like to thank the patreons and everyone involved with this channel. I love this channel. I love biology and history and stories. This channel combines all of the that and more.

@ohmoenay 4 года назад

It's so wild and beautiful how so many cultures could share the same mythology and ideas when they are miles apart

@skyem5250 4 года назад

Eons is literally my favorite channel on all of the RU-vid. I just have one complaint. "Prehistoric" is only applicable to human history. In terms of paleontology, it's about as meaningful as "pre-WWII"

@skyem5250 4 года назад

@@emmettbattle5728 There are other words that can be used. There's no point simplifying something to explain it if you get it wrong.

@renerpho 4 года назад

"Prehistory" can refer to deep history (anything since the beginning of the universe). The term "human prehistory" can be used to disambiguate it from the period where humans existed on Earth.

@freedapeeple4049 4 года назад

Pffft. "Prehistoric" simply means "before recorded history" which means that EVERYTHING further back than about 10,000 years ago is prehistoric.

@tiacho2893 4 года назад

I would say that the term is being used literally and colloquially. Literally, there are no first hand accounts either written or oral. And colloquially as denoting prior to what we loosely call the age of "humans". Also, it infers that this is an interpretation of evidence. I agree that the term is imprecise, like Asian to describe Russian, Chinese, Korean, East Indian (South Asian), Malaysians, etc. as anything but living on the same continent. But very precise terms are usually only relevant to experts and very dedicated amateurs; not for a general audience.

@Gerry565656 4 года назад

"Planet Earth has seen MUCH stranger creatures in it's 4.5 billion year history" Yeah, the Drepanosaurs.

@bronybro1616 4 года назад

For anyone who loves to explore the cultural and historical aspects of monsters in mythology and folklore; Monsturm is the channel for you my dudes

@Alwis-Haph-Rytte 4 года назад

Next thing they'll claim 'How to train your Dragon' and 'Dragon riders of Berk' weren't based on real Viking history. It's enough to make Little Jackie Paper roll in his grave.

@Cypresssina 4 года назад

So, you probably don't want to talk about Skyrim either?

@Ruiluth 3 года назад

R.I.P. Little Jackie Paper, he didn't live forever.

@bece00 4 года назад

I always thought monster myths probably came from fossils! I also think the global “flood myth” probably came, at least in part, from finding fish fossils on the tops of mountains.

@orlkorrect Год назад

That was definitely the case with the ancient Greeks, who speculated that such fossils were evidence of several worldwide floods. They couldn't have been the only ones to come to that conclusion.

@leaguemastergg3647 4 года назад

11:27 Ah, imagine if humans had domesticated the small elephants and today we had tea cup elephants instead of dogs

@demonking86420 4 года назад

to insert a trey the explainer meme here: it's either a basking owl or a barn shark-- damn it

@damenl5695 4 года назад

Oh, I heard that "dragon tales" reference. Well played PBS EONS, well played.

@nziom 4 года назад

I mean it would make so much sence that most mystical creatures were inspired by fossils at least this means they were real but not in the way ancient civilizations thought.

@deirdregibbons5609 4 года назад

This is a great idea to combine Eons and Monstrum together for an episode!

@Paul_Ch52 4 года назад

9:58 Hilarious how the cyclops throwing the boulder at Odysseus' ship has a bloody right eye. His left eye appears to be fine.

@aalejosetv 4 года назад

LMAOO

@currently_In_stealth_behind_u 4 года назад

but he only has one eye

@havable 3 года назад

@@currently_In_stealth_behind_u Well he had two but then one got injured and bled away

@liamflynn1120 4 года назад

This is one of my favorite videos of yours! I love mythology and it's absolutely thrilling to see it intersect with science.

@OrangeEpsilon 4 года назад

I was eating while watching this and nearly choked at 0:06 when they mentioned Klagenfurt. I'm from Ferlach which is about 10 km south of Klagenfurt but I never heard of this skull discovery and that it is the origin of the Lindwurm which is displayed at 0:36. Thanks for this cool knowledge

@tylerjames1716 4 года назад

6:55 my face when I accidentally touch the toilet water when wiping

@Sickvideos19 4 года назад

Hahaha now that is probably one of the best comments I've seen in a while

@modest123 4 года назад

How do you wipe that your hand comes remotely close to the toilet bowl

@yourstruly4817 4 года назад

They mostly come at Eons...mostly.

@andysbg77 4 года назад

Great Video!! As an austrian, I appreciate the mention of the "Lindwurm" in Klagenfurt, Austria!!!

@mz00956 4 года назад

Me too. 🇦🇹

@vili9626 4 года назад

Austria boys party 🇦🇹

@Sir-Complains-a-Lot 3 года назад

this is very well made all around! thank you very much for your working and dedication to educating the public.

@09Dragonite 4 года назад

This is wonderful, I've always suspected fossils to link so many myths around the globe to dragons. It makes sense, especially because of the creatures that left fossils behind in places such as Eastern Asia and the Americas. Thunderbirds in Native American culture have always reminded me of avian megafauna and pterosaurs, while Quetzucoatl shares qualities with Chinese Dragons such as the snake like form- and titanoboa fossils were found in Columbia while Gigantophis fossils were found in Egypt (and could also explain the myths of giant snake creatures there!)

@malekdelacruz3842 4 года назад

Yess this collab is amazing ! Love both channels, I hope to see more 💖 Great jobs!

@seafoamturtle2280 4 года назад

Love Monstrum!! Would recommend the channel to everyone

@chelsey8737 4 года назад

I do too I just hate that the videos are so short. Id watch a 20 min break down

@seafoamturtle2280 4 года назад

@@chelsey8737 right?!!!

@user-mv6yv9ec1b 4 года назад

All these PBS guys are great

@pbsstoried 4 года назад

You're the best! Thank you.

@alaskankara 4 года назад

THANK YOU for this video, sincerely. I'm working on my graduation thesis which is about the History of Paleontology and I really needed these sources for my first chapters. I will be citing you on my thanks page 🙇‍♀️

@rockthered8706 4 года назад

I've always thought dragons were inspired by fossils

@CareerKnight 4 года назад

We'll never really know for sure and it might be a chicken or egg situation. Were fossils inspirations for dragons or were fossils used to support the belief in dragons?

@pbsstoried 4 года назад

We have a video about European dragons if you want to get some more info. about what inspired them.

@mikebarnes7441 4 года назад

Well congratulations you must be smarter than all of us normies huh?

@rossfromfriends8468 4 года назад

Imagine finding a Dino skull back Then. What a trip

@rockthered8706 4 года назад

Ross from Friends there is a theory that the cyclops the Greeks talked about were likely mammoth or elephant skulls. Look up pictures, you’ll see why.

@jeromeriedl 4 года назад

I loved hearing about ancient people keeping fossils. I want to hear about the Dino shaped sculptures found in South America and if the people who made them kept any fossils

@404EncrytedError 4 года назад

I needed this for my history class..THANK YOU

@Sickvideos19 4 года назад

What did you have to do for history class?

@karyldavidkidd7111 4 года назад

I am so pleased this channel exists

@leemaples1806 4 года назад

What if no large bones of any animal were ever discovered. Would we still have myths of monsters? I`d say not likely.

@nicholaslewis8594 4 года назад

Som speculate werewolves were based on early serial killers and vampire myths on the misunderstanding of human decomposition. When people found corpses that hadn’t decomposed as much a sense they’d expect it was assumed they were vampires.

@spindash64 4 года назад

Nicholas Lewis Iirc, Vampires were also originally associated with Wolves and not bats. Really, you could have a whole series just dedicated to the convoluted origins of stories of the Undead: Vampires, Ghosts, Zombies, Revenants (aka, local man literally too angry to die), and so on

@nephene00 4 года назад

Great episode! Great topic! I remember having had discussions about weather dragons were dinosaurs mistaken for dragons with friends and in school as a kid. It was great to see it covered. well done =)

@mhorram 4 года назад

I could just see Jordan Peterson presenting this information to BBC's Cathy Newman Peterson: "But the cranium didn't come from a fire breathing reptile. It came from a rhino, a woolly rhino to be precise Newman: "So, what your are saying is that woolly rhinos breathed fire".

@konichihuahua5736 4 года назад

yes

@nyar2352 4 года назад

Austria represent! I always felt like there's something mammalian about that Tatzelwurm...

@prinzessinpummelfee7495 4 года назад

Was ist denn ein Tatzelwurm? Ist das sowas wie ein Lindwurm?

@nyar2352 4 года назад

Prinzessin Pummelfee Genau das, nur ein bissi kleiner. Ich weiß daß der Klagenfurter ein Lindwurm ist, aber ich finde er sieht so lieb aus daß 'Tatzelwurm' sich einfach anbietet 😉

@nyar2352 4 года назад

Czech-Ourselves • The Tatzelwurm is somewhat smaller than the Lindwurm (which is the name of the 'dragon' of Klagenfurt); however, I prefer to call it a Tatzelwurm because it looks effing adorable: check out the image at en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatzelwurm

@daniellane8517 4 года назад

I'm a little surprised that there was no mention of the present day Oarfish with respect to some Chinese dragons! These fish wash up on shore and are not immediately recognizable as a fish, their ornamentation and color is very similar to the dragons used in Chinese New Year parades, for example, and the mention in this episode of dragons living in the sea makes this connection seem even stronger. An image at this link: images.app.goo.gl/h72ojSdfjcPQcok19

@ilustrado7291 4 года назад

"Ancient theorists suggests...."

@Xnaut314 4 года назад

Something that most people never seem to realize about Chinese dragons is that the basis of their body design and mythology has a living analog: the Chinese Alligator (NOT the Komodo Dragon). Not only do they share a similar base body plan but the deep association with water, not fire, and the ability to become invisible to all but the enlightened matches the lifestyle of an alligator perfectly.

@gamingxmachina6718 4 года назад

Keep up the great work pbs eons.

@cavemancyproductions 4 года назад

The dwarf elephant of Cyprus... I've seen the actual fossil skeleton in a friend's house here in Cyprus, it was amazing!

@bluemooneatlions 4 года назад

You guys are so good at pronouncing Chinese names this is INCREDIBLE

@keselekbakiak 11 месяцев назад

If i remember correctly around yangtze river, there was a record of people finding fossil of long vertebrae , which might inspire the story of dragon. And in india around the area presumed to be the place of epic war Mahabharata, there was a history of people finding large bone fossils. So it's very possible.

@biglil771 4 года назад

I have a video suggestion Could you talk about the huge variation in lions in the pleistocene and maybe include the Natodomeri lion.

@biglil771 4 года назад

It was a giant lion found in Kenyan rocks around 200,000 years ago

@biglil771 4 года назад

The various forms of panthera leo definitely need more discussion

@gygy2095 4 года назад

The Natodomeri lion had a basal length of at least 380mm and this minimum estimate provides us with a figure of 460mm as its greatest skull length making it at, least in skull size, as large if not larger than the panther atrox or fossilis.

@natodomerilion5392 4 года назад

Hey

@biggay8140 4 года назад

Fascinating

@menkomonty 4 года назад

Not too long ago, a newspaper reported that some scientists have captured footage of a very large eel in Loch Ness and concluded that the Loch Ness monster might have been just some overgrown eels. Maybe you guys could do a video on the evolution of eels or what kind of prehistoric monsters once roamed Scotland.

@nina-eh6vg 4 года назад

If you guys released a Podcast oh gosh I'll never leave my room

@lordmaxwell1520 3 года назад

I am Austrian and my mother grow up near Klagenfurt. So i seen this statue multiple times. It really raised my mood seeing it in one of your videos

@bosertheropode5443 3 года назад

I kumm a aus Kärnten, also sig i den a öfters, von wo kummst denn?

@lordmaxwell1520 3 года назад

@@bosertheropode5443 Niederösterreich, zwischen Wien und Retz, aber meine Mutter kommt aus Kühnsdorf beim Klopeiner See

@Chris3121996 4 года назад

I'd love multiple Episodes on this Topic since the insights so far been amazing.

@JohnZ117 4 года назад

@Manophire. com Maybe they are worried that youtube will have problems with it.

@denistyrant 4 года назад

Dragons: Who are you? Dinosaurs: I’m you but real. Who else thinks dinosaurs inspired dragons?

@nosferatuoddz7974 4 года назад

Me, lol, lol, lol, lolol, yolo.

@denistyrant 4 года назад

乔评论者 Your not alone. But *YOLO*

@shinyshoes4312 4 года назад

Denis Tyrant Dragons are dinosaurs but dinosaurs aren’t dragons.

@shinyshoes4312 4 года назад

Basically, I do.

@denistyrant 4 года назад

Shiny Shoes Dinosaurs did inspired dragons but I get your point.

@GothosRedux 4 года назад

I thought the scientists for this channel would know the difference between a clan shell and a scallop shell.

@grafficjam6863 4 года назад

Oh bloody hell! “Clam” shell! Clam.

@wecantbefriends1660 4 года назад

Ok but that giant goose at 11:23

@AndrewHislop1066 4 года назад

Dr Zarka. Awesome super villain name.

@RodneyAllanPoe 3 года назад

Superb video, as usual. Thanks!

@Myself-yf5do 7 месяцев назад

Imagine Alice hanging out with a mock turtle and a protoceratops lol

@bloodsword6577 4 года назад

I think in light of your previous video, the obvious one we're missing out on here is the folklore of the puckish little people from Flores and surrounding islands.

@bougieratti1519 4 года назад

Me: reads Percy Jackson Also me: Ah yes, this definitely makes sense.

@tylerjames1716 4 года назад

8:07 *a pine apple* -shows pinecone

@rickcharlespersonal 4 года назад

Eons-Monstrum crossovers are lit.

@Kairikey 4 года назад

This is such an amazing topic!

@BobSaget69 3 года назад

Has there every been a mass burial where there have been multiple different animals mixed together and scientists completely mixed it up and made a “mutant” dinosaur?

@kahlilme2025 4 года назад

Eons: Uploads video about monsters inspired by fossils with cyclops in thumbnail. Monstrum: Uploads cyclops video literally seconds later. Hmmmm

@Beryllahawk 4 года назад

....because they are doing a collaboration....? As said in the video...? ???

@kahlilme2025 4 года назад

@@Beryllahawk I commented this before watching. The Monstrum note popped up as I was tapping the Eons note.

@avishalom2000lm 4 года назад

In ancient Near Eastern religions, a griffon-like supernatural creature was often engraved inside temples and sanctuaries, portrayed as guardians. In the Old Testament they are referred to as "cherubim" (not the cute chubby babies with wings, but more like winged sphinxes). They appear in Genesis guarding the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, and later are displayed on top of the Ark of the Covenant- which incidentally, was a box coated with solid gold.

@colddrakequeen 4 года назад

The word dinosaur is a relatively new word. I suggest that the word “dragon” (and many other mythological creatures) are what we called them before the creation of this word. We just never took the old word out of circulation.

@MrAlwaysRight 4 года назад

Circulation? Circulation of blood is what makes my PP real big.

@thestarlight6168 3 года назад

@@MrAlwaysRight did not see that coming-

@s0ul216 4 года назад

Ebu Gogo of Flores island of Indonesia is even inspired by our long distance cousin, Homo Floriensis. Mythological creature is truly fascinating if you think about the implication of their stories.

@shibolinemress8913 4 года назад

Native American cultures must have also found fossils. I'd love a show on how they were influenced by them!

@picksalot1 3 года назад

A year or two ago, I saw a documentary about the greek gods that mentioned the size of some of the gods, about 35 get tall, could have been deduced from dinosaur bones. Fortunately, there are a few Greek temples that still have some "bones of the gods", and documentary said they were dinosaur bones. Fossil dinosaur bones are a good explanation for European dragons as well.

@MrDisaster88 4 года назад

9:00 "One-eyed cyclopes" huh? Doesnt the word cyclopes imply one eye? :P

@aalejosetv 4 года назад

no. the plural of cyclops is cyclopes, with an e lol

@SunogWunk 4 года назад

Well, "cyclops" translates to "round eye" and not "one eye" as might be believed. So the number of eyes is not given.

@zeon_zaku 4 года назад

It is believed, that the true etymological breakdown is: ku + klops (pku + klops) = cow + thief The folk-etymology "round eye" is believed to come from a misreading of the morphemes in the word: kykl + ops (kuklos + ops) = circle + eye And this is thought, because the word "peku" was lost over time in Greek. So the speakers could not remember the original meaning.

@jumbomacaroni 4 года назад

@ 9:06 that cyclops is rocking those joggers with style.

@LadyViscera 4 года назад

Mythology is basically the same thing as palaeontology. Just humans trying to explain how things work.

@josephdonais8091 4 года назад

... however advantageous the explanation might have been for the 'local' powers that be at the time

@tommycundy 4 года назад

Isn’t every science ‘just human trying to explain how things work’.

@unknowngojira742 3 года назад

that iconic eons intro made me say in my head, woah spooky t rex

@michaelmeining889 4 года назад

I know this has already been requested a lot (also by me) but can you please make a video about the Australian megafauna

@camithewitch5265 3 года назад

Dwarf elephants sound like the cutest thing ever

@lilcrooky 4 года назад

OMG I LOVE THAT TOP!

@Beryllahawk 4 года назад

Me too, I love that both of them had dinosaur shirts

@bradacker8028 10 месяцев назад

"There's nothing to be afraid of. It's just science.....". Y'all got a twisted sense of humor. I do look forward to each new video. Thank you

@DAYBROK3 4 года назад

“Don’t worry it’s just science, and monsters” 😱😱😱🐉🐲🐲🐲

@adawnicusautocon 3 года назад

Science and Monsters, two of my favorite subjects 😁😁

@spindash64 4 года назад

Dragons are fantastical magic dinosaurs Birds are dinosaurs Ducks are birds Donald Duck is a fantastical magic duck Therefore, Donal Duck is a Dragon

@RevealedAtLastDotCom 2 года назад

Human children born or still born with birth defects or mutations can explain a lot of myths. There are babies with one eye in the center of their head like a cyclops. There are babies with legs and feet fused together like a mermaid. The are babies with fur all over their bodies like Big Foot or Sasquatch. There are babies with scales, which could be interpreted as a human hybrid with snakes, fish, dragons, etc.

@akezhantoleukhan2510 4 года назад

Science can be scary, know why? -What's scarier than our nightmares? -What we can't even imagine or comprehend

@awtqrtrkjsrs 2 года назад

Māori mythology contains stories of the pouakai, an enormous eagle which is said to have carried off and killed people, and it's possible that this is based off of the extinct Haast's eagle which used to inhabit New Zealand's South Island.