Why do Animals Look so Strange After Mass Extinctions 

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Will Wright gets a paycheck every time an extinction happens.

@@altdelet3778 Who's he?

@@thalmoragent9344 The creator of the Sims games and Spore

@@thalmoragent9344 the creator of Sims Everything lol

@@suckmybic6197 hes trying to say the animals mentally handicapped themselves

Just whut?😂😂

@@suckmybic6197 they’re fabulous let them be 🙄

@@t6amygdala they suck

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I have to say that chart was hell to figure out for me, it all looked the exact same.

i mean the MS office templates are that way too

@@kyrin408 Have you been tested for color blindness?

For me the chart is easy and clear to read. But I agree that he should have used a broader spectrum of color to make it useful for you guys. Numbers as indicators would have been evn better.

For clarity and the sake of accuracy: The leading hypothesis is that the genus homo was rather hairless by about 1 million years ago. Several lines of direct evidence converge on that time frame. There have also been about 12 instances of glacial expansion and retreat since then.

@@ErgoCogita it was a joke

@@XalconKugelBlitz I absolutely realize that it was a joke, Ash. That's why I didn't say "You're wrong" or "That's false". I merely injected some factual information so that nobody came away with the idea that your joke was based in reality.

@@ErgoCogita it is very rare to see people like you. I appreciate this. Thank you.

ErgoCogita omg finally someone who adds the facts yet takes the joke

So glad God created hand grenades, for just such an eventuality.

Our profile pictures are so similar

@@slambam2665 Convergent evolution.

*ok*

Next step in evolution would be people buying enhance artificial implants. Just because they are better than the "original" parts. Or people so hooked with virtual reality that they'll prefer to have sex inside a simulator instead of real life. Not to forget contamination or overpopulation

Yep, then as you "edit" it afterwards for a better grade, you remove all the crazy stuff and get left with the relatively "good/normal" stuff

@Not Berber Yeah, you make the corrections and then use that as a template for your final product 😅

@Not Berber Yeah, all the renovation and remodeling in evolution or random species made until Nature reaches a point where it says "OK, now we've got it" 😅 Always evolving rather well, till Continents move, causing drastic changes or perhaps an Extinction happens, and the neat evolution goes down a spiral all over again

At that point you need to seriously adaptively radiate lol...

Yep. Humans have been here for barely any time. That's really early.

This video is false, world didnt even exist back then, and evolution no exist, just read the bible morons

Leno lol you’re funny

Well, I bet he meant it in a manner relative to The Cretaceous mass extinction, because, as dinosaurs and majority of Cretaceous flora and fauna died out 65 million years ago, there is only a small window of 5 million years between the extinction and the resurgence of life he talks about. It was actually kinda of early for animals to do anything resembling a recovery and that is what I think he meant.

@@leno7492 You also think the Earth is 2020 years old, huh?

They open for the Protomen

More of a Terrorbird fan, myself.

mustve been cool randomly seeing it, more specifically seeing that another knows of and appreciates it too

That name literally just means Long Scale

soon in evolution is like a million years

Dick Grayson is it possible that it could be less time for insects because the length of time between generations is comparatively short?

@@leea8706 if so then maybe a thousand years

Killer wasps

Lee A there’s actually evidence of rapid evolution in as little as 50 years. So, given all flying insects suddenly went extinct, other insects could potentially develop flight rather quickly.

You can still compare them. The first tetrapods were objectively "weird", unusual, as chordates able to walk on land, but that was such a successful group today they're less weird. This video is about the radiations that weren't so successful.

@@jamesrochester2459 I guess my point is more philosophical... not even really a point, just a fun observation/joke on what it means to be "weird" lol. Imagine being an alien seeing Earth fauna for the first time: You wouldn't think some of them are any less weird just because they are more common. In that way, all animals are weird, some look weirder to us because they were less successful and thus we saw less of them or things similar to them

​@@myky992 In case you were not aware, certain "Designs" are common in specific niches. This is called convergent evolution. Environments prefer one trait over another. Over time all other adaptations will disappear. We call them weird because they deviate from the established "Meta."

Weird in an evolutionary point of view. Crocodiles are so adapted to their niche that they remained incredibly similar tho how they looked when the dinosaurs were around. They’re so adapted that any variation would end up in failure. So a land based crocodile out of the blue is weird and wouldn’t even be possible except in the case mentioned by the video. That’s what makes it weird.

@@joshuamcleod3442 Absolutely true, like I said mine was more of a joke but also an observation on how even the well established "designs" are incredibly weird if you manage to see them with an alien's eye, with no concept of what is "the established meta". Are you a fan of tierzoo as well by chance? XD

Thank you, and I started doing that in my most recent videos.

@@mothlightmedia1936 speaking of that, you were talking a bit too fast fore to hear what exactly you called the land crocodile, could you tell me what that's called so I could look them up?

@@jorted_julimak The family name is Planocraniidae. But "hooved crocodiles" will give you more popsci results.

Thank you

@@mothlightmedia1936 wtf two famous people rgith infront of me O-O

He should buy you some action figures, heaven forbid you buy them yourself.

@@kittygiatanidon4980 lol

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Cringe

@@luisaazul Not cringe.

Like the half upside down photoshopped cat at 1:22?

I thought it was the noobs that were free to try out whatever off-meta build they wanted after the hardcore players were wiped out by the devs.

*TierZoo want to know your location*

A decent hair stylist right now is hard to find xD

This is great on so many levels. Jokes with multiple meaning are seriously the best.

@@sehvehn7955 Lmfaooo you're fucking hilarious. Just made my week

Nature gets wasted.

@@sehvehn7955 exactly

what truly is fucked up

Giant Cockroaches and Rats

More carnivorous crows/more city bird of prey maybe ? There's no predator living entirely in cities, even though there are so many pigeons and rats they could eat

David McCarthy I’ve always thought that seagulls will start propagating out. They have a lot of characteristics - aggressiveness, brazen fearlessness, curiosity, cute offspring, relatively dominant size to the niche around - that make they a good candidate for some to become full predators, as well as maybe develop into city based versions of sea birds with adaptations to their beaks. They have a temperament that allows them to survive near traffic and humans, who can stop them?

Maybe AI will take over and controle humans as slaves

@@davidmccarthy4206 in some cities in Brazil, you can observe birds of prey filling that niche! The most common one is Rupornis magnirostris, that looks just like a pigeon and blends in well in the urban areas . It's commonly known in the Americas as the "Roadside Hawk"

Look at early RU-vid Content

Why am I on this video

Look at first condom

Looks at humor

Current state of VR

Thank you, I'm Glad you've enjoyed them

Feel the same way these are my kind of vids

All those dragon stories that popped up independently all over the world came from somewhere. Some fossils aren't buried very deep

Neat. There was a time when paleontologists thought they went extinct because they were just not good enough at life.

One more thing to note: Synapsids (mammals and animals more closely related to them than to reptiles) might actually be more impressive when it comes to surviving mass extinctions than even the dinosaurs. Their story is actually surprisingly poetic. They were first extremely diverse during the Permian after the C-P extinction that destroyed the habitat of most of the dominant crocodile-like amphibians called temnospondyls and the giant arthropods. The period was extremely harsh, possibly the harshest in Earth's history, packed with three devastating mass extinction. The first, the very poorly understood Olson's extinction, wiped out most of the sail-backed synapsids like Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus, causing giant floods near the coasts and a multi-continent sized extremely arid desert. The second was about as deadly as the K-Pg extinction, known as the Campanian extinction, causing a devastating loss in synapsid population and death of one of my favourite animals ever, the rhino-sized Anteosaurus, the biggest ever terrestrial carnivorous synapsid (including mammals). The last was the infamous P-T extinction, better known as the Great Dying, which wiped out 95% of all life on Earth, including the dominant carnivorous saber-toothed gorgonopsids. But the synapsids survived, adapting into even more forms, like Lystrosaurus which once accounted for 95% of the Earth's population. One of its descendants was the elephant-sized Lisowicia, the biggest non-mammalian synapsid. Other synapsids like the venomous wolf-like therapsids survived too and the closely related mammalian ancestors (Mammaliaformes) hang on too, but the apex predator niche was lost to the big-headed archosaurimorphs and later to the terrestrial crocodile ancestors, the pseudosuchians (some of which, like postosuchus and poposaurus, look surprisingly like bear-sized theropods). The synapsid herbivores were also slowly outcompeted by the bigger early sauropodomorphs (commonly known as prosauropods). The T-J mass extinction (or the end-Triassic mass extinction) wiped out the last non-mammaliaform synapsids, as well as the theropod-like pseudosuchians, leaving only the crocodilians and the surprisingly underrated terrestrial notosuchians (probably because they are thought of as primitive). This gave room for the theropods (which were small generalists at the time) to claim the apex predator niche, thus making dinosaurs dominant when it came to both carnivorous and herbivorous niches. Most of them, as you know, died in the K-Pg mass extinction. The last synapsids (mammaliaforms) also took a heavy blow, many groups were wiped out and all marsupials and egg-laying mammals went extinct on the northern continents (former Laurasia), leaving only the placentals there. However the southern continents (former Gondwana) were full of them, while also housing unique placentals like the xenarthrans, notoungulates, afrotheres and giant rodents, as well as many non-mammals like the famous terror birds and the biggest Cenozoic carnivores, the terrestrial notosuchians (I told you they are underrated) known as Sebecids. The northern continent was also inhabited by giant herbivorous birds like Gastornis and carnivorous hoofed terrestrial crocodiles known as Baurusuchids, but they were quickly wiped out by rapid climate change (not outcompeted though, as often thought). Unfortunately the southern continents with the most unique fauna are now mostly lost (excluding Australia). The last true one was South America, but it was going through a minor mass extinction right before the faunal interchange with North America, causing its fauna to be outcompeted. So as you can see, mammal ancestors might be even more impressive, as they once ruled the Earth in the Permian, took a massive blow in the Great Dying, bounced back in the Triassic, but then got outcompeted by dinosaurs after another mass extinction. After the near extinction of the dinosaurs, they started ruling the Earth again in the Cenozoic (although in some places they were still kept in check by crocodile relatives and birds up to very recently, like in South America and Australia).

@@rafexrafexowski4754 Very well said! The evolutionary history of the synapsids is incredibly interesting, as well as the relationships between the extant and extinct mammal clades. The multituberculates are super fascinating for instance. An order that's placed with crown mammals, yet doesn't fall neatly into the Therians or Monotremes and survived well into the Cenozoic. They had incredibly alien dental anatomy and chewing motion that's essentially nonexistent in extant mammals; chewing front-to-back instead of the opposite or side-to-side. They were superficially rodent-like, but their incisors didn't continually grow and seemed more like tweezers they'd use to manipulate food rather than doing the majority of the gnawing. Instead, they'd pass it back with their weird backwards jaw motion, where giant, lower premolars that kind of looked like partial, forward-facing circular-saw blades in more derived clades would then do the gnawing/slicing. We're not even sure how they gave birth. Based on their pelvis anatomy, they may have been similar to metatherians, giving live birth to underdeveloped young, or they could've laid eggs. Very weird. I also find South America pre-interchange interesting. In some ways it was like a bizzaro-universe version of the Cenozoic, with Sebecids almost being an echo of the Triassic pseudosuchians and theropods maintaining a dominant role in the form of the Terror birds. Not to mention the examples of convergent evolution, such as the Metatherian sabre-tooth Thylacosmilus (sp?) or the Notoungulates.

Yeah it’s like a lot of people are trying to go into the room but they are all stuck at the door . Eventually all of them except one get pushed out the door and that’s how it all ends up

@@royalteluis623 and said person splits into 9 different people because he loses his mind...

Why would it not? It applies to all animals

@@thekito4623 cause we're not animals, we are special snowflakes sent from the heavens by the gods to bless this planet. We have nothing in common with animals at all, thats why we look so different.

BlackLeo - I agree with the “snowflakes” part. Everyone gets triggered if you have your own opinions and mind. You have to be a part of the hive mind.

@@dionysus3774 the earth is flat, im tired of people hating on me cause I share a different opinion. Everyone knows the world is just a flat plain floating thru space on a turtles back.

BlackLeo - I 100% agree. We’re on a plate, we were born from the left over food some celestial being left out. We’re bacteria. Ps. All lives matter

1. They're rarely featured on any Paleo documentaries 2. Land crocs are not as cool as giant predatory birds

@@ekosubandie2094 Fair.

"Sudden boom" "deserve"? You mean for stealing the video ideas from other channels, rewording the scripts, and using shittier graphics?

@@evanroberts2771 link the videos he steals from and the scripts hes using please

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@@evanroberts2771 The videos not the channels

@@mnsmn1834 Pick ANY video topic on this channel, and you'll find it on THOSE channels, released ATLEAST a year earlier. All he's done is taken the commentary, switched it up a bit, and added piss poor animation to it. And dude, i'm not going to do a video comparison, as that'd involve me putting in more work on the subject than he did...

aaaah I love tierzoo

xKISS KISSx glad it wasn’t just me to spot that error!

These were hooves, just google it.

They were basically very carnivorous pigs.

Those are hooves. You do know horses wear “shoes” right

*Looks at hands* “What am I Mum?”

Thank you

Yeah I agree, a teepee with eyes though

@@mothlightmedia1936 Eyepee, or Teeeye?

Looks like it could be a badminton shuttle-cock too...sort of.

@@mixererunio1757 eyepee doesn't sound that good

Nah bro even the fish looked like rodents back then.

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Everything was on a cob.

@zero one nah, pretty sure they meant “all animals looked like mammals”

Cheetahs hunt solely during the day as they are capable of catching their prey in a straight up foot race; they're pretty much unique to their environment in that aspect. Other predators mostly hunt at night as they rely on ambush tactics. I'd wager if there was a slight modification to the African Savannah the cheetah would adapt far poorer than the less "strange" predators and likely quickly go extinct. If the African Savannah were to become more temperate and forested the cheetah's sprint speed would likely be far less useful and slower, ambush-based predators would be more successful.

Animals that doesn't fear humans it's already happening

@@th3_ph4ntomreborn31 i wonder what would happen if humans suddenly died out? i mean we're practically at the top of the food chain. I think there wouldnt be much difference

Common Pepe no all animals looked like rodents listen to the sentence and look at the pictures 😲

Yes he did

Fungo4 no all animals looked like mamels look at the picture u will see a crocodilian that looks like a small rodent

No he did not ... wanna know why CUS ITS TRU ALL ANIMALS WERE SmOLL RODENTS FOR A PERIOD

just randy I don’t have the time for a smoll child pretending he is right

Thank you that means a lot

What if I shaved a chimp? I bet you’d feel pretty ridiculous for making that comment wouldn’t you.

Fillip Smith do it, smartass.

Fox Wilder five days later, he was found with his limbs and dick ripped off

Your mom wasn't hairless last night

Hairless? Not even close. We have just as many hair follicles per square inch as the other great apes. Our hair is just very fine compared to the other apes.

Thank you