When Giant Fungi Ruled

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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024

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  • @miriamlogan3733
    @miriamlogan3733 6 лет назад +2197

    "It's a giant mushroom! MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY!"

    • @MrJohanGuzman
      @MrJohanGuzman 5 лет назад +143

      Of course it is friendly. It's a fungi.

    •  5 лет назад +34

      @@MrJohanGuzman
      Exactly. Fungi are most friendly. They live on rock-eating, and sometimes dead-organism eating. And there are numerous kind of them that are symbiotic with many different organisms.

    • @trialtakagami6777
      @trialtakagami6777 5 лет назад +97

      🤣🤣🤣🤣 sokka.Musshyyy Giant friend

    • @jaxxi9036
      @jaxxi9036 5 лет назад +122

      That's enough cactus juice for you mister.

    • @jhondoe4526
      @jhondoe4526 4 года назад +2

      If u brave enough ;)

  • @mauricethegecko9700
    @mauricethegecko9700 3 года назад +452

    Me: kicks mushroom
    Mushroom: oh, you fool. Do you know who my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great....

    • @JohnDarksoul69
      @JohnDarksoul69 3 года назад +62

      "my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather helped building this world, stupid millennial!"

    • @emoticonmen
      @emoticonmen 3 года назад +36

      The fungus are among us

    • @sletelier8
      @sletelier8 3 года назад +18

      @@emoticonmen a fungus ඞ

    • @thinginground5179
      @thinginground5179 3 года назад +6

      @@sletelier8 fugus sus

    • @destroyerofturtles5024
      @destroyerofturtles5024 3 года назад +3

      @@JohnDarksoul69 his joke but worse

  • @Silkiroth
    @Silkiroth 6 лет назад +2185

    It's amazing how alien our planet actually is and we don't even realize it.

    • @CJDavis-ij4df
      @CJDavis-ij4df 5 лет назад +89

      I do.... Thanks DMT....

    • @TheCrappyZipper
      @TheCrappyZipper 5 лет назад +4

      @@CJDavis-ij4df is that what dmt does?

    • @CJDavis-ij4df
      @CJDavis-ij4df 5 лет назад +35

      @@TheCrappyZipper DMT has the power to show you where/who you were before you were even born

    • @Giganfan2k1
      @Giganfan2k1 5 лет назад +22

      Its entirely possible.

    • @takeiteasydudebuttakeit596
      @takeiteasydudebuttakeit596 4 года назад +4

      Hahhah0 oh boy, please try it and then tell me the same thing.

  • @salec7592
    @salec7592 5 лет назад +1351

    Hmm, the fungi seem like a go to address for our plastics pollution problem. They have long standing tradition of decomposing the toughest of materials there are.

    • @pandoragoldspan7012
      @pandoragoldspan7012 5 лет назад +269

      there are fungi and bacteria that are discovered to decompose plastic, which is why you should never reuse Tupperware that you've let sit for weeks on end

    • @quinxx12
      @quinxx12 4 года назад +74

      @@pandoragoldspan7012 These only eat certain sorts of plastics, like the ones of the rather flimsy sort

    • @DatBoi-mo9vc
      @DatBoi-mo9vc 4 года назад +24

      @@voicelessglottalfricative6567 the video said they decompose minerals. Minerals arent organic.

    • @voicelessglottalfricative6567
      @voicelessglottalfricative6567 4 года назад +40

      @@DatBoi-mo9vc no one mentioned minerals

    • @karolinakuc4783
      @karolinakuc4783 4 года назад +37

      Fungi and bacteria do it too slow in process of digesting plastic it takes them 400years to do so and in case of single use bags 10000 years so...

  • @cheemsandbeans7952
    @cheemsandbeans7952 5 лет назад +687

    I wish I had a time machine to witness all these amazing things.

    • @notmyopinion4981
      @notmyopinion4981 3 года назад +69

      fun fact: without protective gear you would literally kill everything on earth, bc your body is used to stronger more adaptive gems and bacteria, which have evolved over millions of years, which the animals and plants from before are not equipped to handle. In other words: You bring illness to them, illness that you don't know as illness, bc it doesn't effect you at all, bc it's so weak compared to your immune system. But it would kill everything else that didn't have the millions of years to adapt like your body did. :P

    • @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek
      @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek 3 года назад +18

      @@notmyopinion4981 big suit

    • @mazedude5911
      @mazedude5911 3 года назад

      I know

    • @shillian4770
      @shillian4770 3 года назад +1

      @@notmyopinion4981 good

    • @nick.3455
      @nick.3455 3 года назад

      @@notmyopinion4981 Bruh what other way would this guy explore what he would apparently kill then. Just ignore those things

  • @katiekawaii
    @katiekawaii 6 лет назад +786

    "File it under 'Probably Weird Algae.'"
    "As you wish, sir."

    • @lapeez2277
      @lapeez2277 3 года назад +3

      probably algae or probably weird?

    • @thebammer5166
      @thebammer5166 3 года назад +11

      @@lapeez2277 Probably both.

  • @markevns1744
    @markevns1744 4 года назад +4877

    Mycologists missed a great opportunity to call themselves Fungineers.

  • @chironOwlglass
    @chironOwlglass 4 года назад +247

    Never have i ever had the thought "YES, I need to watch this" quite so strongly as I did when I saw this video title. Show me the fungi, Blake. Show me the fungi.

  • @pluspiping
    @pluspiping Год назад +13

    "They digest rock to create soil, and derive life from death"
    That's metal as all hell. All hail fungi.

  • @blanchekonieczka9935
    @blanchekonieczka9935 5 лет назад +53

    I love this guy! He's enthusiastic and his fast talking gets to the point quickly. So much information given in half the time it would take other narrators. He made fungi exciting! Thank you!

    • @mercut10
      @mercut10 Год назад +4

      He's just like Howard Hamlin fr !

    • @allen-castle
      @allen-castle Год назад

      ​@@mercut10LMFAO

    • @ccreed50
      @ccreed50 10 месяцев назад +1

      Too speedy. c.f. Attenborough

  • @SAMURIADI
    @SAMURIADI 6 лет назад +1869

    so life started thanks to a 8 meter mushroom, minecraft is realistic after all

  • @NotHPotter
    @NotHPotter 6 лет назад +1446

    Came for the Carbon 12. Was not disappointed.

  • @Rnt911
    @Rnt911 6 лет назад +246

    Finally someone talks about the importance of fungi to life on land.

  • @TK199999
    @TK199999 4 года назад +12

    I always assumed the reason the giant fungi went away, is because when vascular plants appeared, there didn't need to be giant anymore. Meaning once the symbiotic relationship with vascular plants began, fungi didn't need create the large trunk like structure. They could stay at or below ground and live that way.

  • @MrJDozzo
    @MrJDozzo 3 года назад +328

    "Animal, plant or mineral" ah yes, the three genders

    • @dadadede9359
      @dadadede9359 3 года назад +16

      I am identified as a plant and this video offends me

    • @buckerupfpv2622
      @buckerupfpv2622 3 года назад +8

      @@dadadede9359 yes you r potato.

    • @desertflower3996
      @desertflower3996 3 года назад +4

      I'm a lichen. 🙂

    • @OsirusHandle
      @OsirusHandle 3 года назад +1

      Are we singular entity, or are we just the delusions of a compound...

    • @yeepyorp
      @yeepyorp 3 года назад +3

      @@dadadede9359 one joke

  • @cauchyhorizon5983
    @cauchyhorizon5983 6 лет назад +821

    Imagine if, in the future, we use fungi to make Martian soil arable!

    • @nittygritty7034
      @nittygritty7034 6 лет назад +82

      The Improbable Space That's a badass idea

    • @cauchyhorizon5983
      @cauchyhorizon5983 6 лет назад +68

      For one, I'm not talking about growing food on Mars for sending it to Earth, I'm talking about feeding Martian colonists living on Mars permanently (If you were wondering). Secondly, you could use modified Martian soil in the food-growing towers (not everything can be grown hydroponically). And Earth won't be sending back Earth soil for the same reason Mars won't be sending back Mars produce: Each planet needs it for themselves, and it's just too much mass to be travelling between the planets.
      As a side note, if we were to terraform Mars, we wouldn't necessarily need to make all the soil arable anyway. Not for a very long time, at least.

    • @alexanderx33
      @alexanderx33 6 лет назад +7

      Synerrox เ Think about what you are saying there. You think it would be more efficient to build a structure that would cost alot in design, foundation preperation, and construction to increase the number of plants relative to light energy available by 40, 50 times? Depending in the number of floors, which is partially moderated by the shadow the tower casts when its not noon but not really because then it is shading other towers. On a planet that aleady has way less light intensity due to the inverse square law than where we grow crops now? Im sorry but, crops need full sun (at earth's distance) to have enough energy available to make sugars. Farming on mars would require magnification of solar radiation to work, not dilution.

    • @alexanderx33
      @alexanderx33 6 лет назад +2

      Synerrox เ So you are saying it would be better to have warehouses growing the plants hydroponically with electricity (which could be derived either from mirror concentrated solar power or, more likely, from nuclear power.) And avoid the problem of procuring soil on a planet where the dust is toxic to nearly all living things. It would also avoid loosing the precious little water available on mars from heating martian soil, to infiltration back into the ground.

    • @bryanroland8649
      @bryanroland8649 6 лет назад +14

      So what would the fungi eat?

  • @lovehonourhonour7253
    @lovehonourhonour7253 5 лет назад +217

    "All we are saying, is give Yeast a chance" - John Lennon

    • @juliankirby9880
      @juliankirby9880 4 года назад +10

      Love & Honour Honour you ever listen to the Yeastie boys? What about Bruce Springsteen and Yeast street band?

    • @nmarbletoe8210
      @nmarbletoe8210 4 года назад +8

      "What you did to the yeast among ye, ye did that to me." -Jesus

    • @DJCallidus
      @DJCallidus 3 года назад +2

      John Leaven 🍞

  • @RoccosVideos
    @RoccosVideos 6 лет назад +323

    So one might say there’s fungus among us.

    • @4qtips
      @4qtips 4 года назад +5

      no

    • @tarantulaman3221
      @tarantulaman3221 4 года назад +6

      @Dunkldosteus Plants V.S. Zombies LOL!

    • @grenolf
      @grenolf 4 года назад +25

      You might even say there was Humungus Fungus Among Us...

    • @NiffirgkcaJ
      @NiffirgkcaJ 3 года назад +4

      Wait…

    • @iffatsukabumiKingOfHell
      @iffatsukabumiKingOfHell 3 года назад +41

      I thought this was an Among us joke but i looked the time this was commented it was two years ago

  • @matthewcox7985
    @matthewcox7985 5 лет назад +390

    Meet the life of the party, he's a real fungi!
    ...I hear crickets...

    • @KvDenko
      @KvDenko 5 лет назад +5

      What do you call a mushroom? A fun-gi to be with!

    • @po-qo7vd
      @po-qo7vd 4 года назад +3

      Asked to buy a fungi on cregs list, i was dissappointed.

    • @theponydalek7923
      @theponydalek7923 4 года назад +2

      Cordycepts: Sorry, that's just me...

    • @Acidfrog475
      @Acidfrog475 4 года назад +3

      You see a small smile on my face

    • @shannonleary2399
      @shannonleary2399 4 года назад +2

      THERE IT IS

  • @gocoogs01
    @gocoogs01 5 лет назад +423

    earth: **exists**
    fungus: its free real estate

    • @sakshamyasholiya6942
      @sakshamyasholiya6942 5 лет назад +12

      🌲's After Several Years : Im bout to end this man's whole Career !

    • @whhe11
      @whhe11 4 года назад +11

      Any habitable planet: exists
      Hardy dehydrated fungal spores floating in space probably: it's free realestate

    • @prexsan
      @prexsan 4 года назад +3

      @@hemishshah6666 Yo seriously!LMAO~\(≧▽≦)/~

    • @pokegard
      @pokegard 4 года назад +4

      Hasent earth always been free real estate unless your neighbors keep killing you or taking your resources?

  • @Eveseptir
    @Eveseptir 6 лет назад +36

    These primordial fungi always fascinated me. I try to imagine the landscape littered with tiny shrubs and mosses and doted with these massive fungus obelisks.

  • @Naiadryade
    @Naiadryade 6 лет назад +800

    Fungi are amazing. I love the way we owe our whole lively world to them.

    • @MorbidEel
      @MorbidEel 6 лет назад +20

      They are also delicious.

    • @Naiadryade
      @Naiadryade 6 лет назад +6

      Morbid Eel, just make sure you've got the right ones! They can also be deadly.
      LagiNaLangAko23, I know! A fascinating group. I've seen some real cool nature documentaries featuring some of them.

    • @felipewerner6670
      @felipewerner6670 6 лет назад +21

      not only our lives, but our consciousness, imagine a primitive humanoid tracking some animal, and sundenly he found some poop and some mushrooms, he is hungry and eat the mushy, massive information flood his little brain, and in aeons and aeons in this relation, the human mind is born.

    • @NathanWubs
      @NathanWubs 6 лет назад +4

      I am on team fungi

    • @AllisonChains64
      @AllisonChains64 6 лет назад +2

      I love fungi and your picture!

  • @ZackWilliamsPANCAKE
    @ZackWilliamsPANCAKE 6 лет назад +162

    Welp, my D&D campaign just got more interesting

    • @the_void996
      @the_void996 4 года назад +15

      How’d the campaign go?

    • @stowe5668
      @stowe5668 3 года назад +4

      Yeah I wanna hear what happened

    • @user-hello2
      @user-hello2 3 года назад +1

      I want to hear what happened too!

    • @rosanirodrigues557
      @rosanirodrigues557 3 года назад +1

      I want to know too! Sounds interesting!

  • @minacapella8319
    @minacapella8319 3 года назад +30

    I've always adored mushrooms and felt they were special (as well as delicious). This... really makes me feel even more adoration for mushrooms and other fungi

  • @ramironunezborjas967
    @ramironunezborjas967 6 лет назад +81

    "the fun in fungi" that really cracked me up, it made my day

  • @DCDevTanelorn
    @DCDevTanelorn 6 лет назад +709

    As a mycologist I approve this episode

    • @duhduhvesta
      @duhduhvesta 6 лет назад

      DCDevTanelorn +

    • @bernardfinucane2061
      @bernardfinucane2061 6 лет назад +15

      Then maybe you can give us a clue why these things got so big. Trees get big because they compete for sunlight. But theses things were "eaters", as the video puts it. So what was the point of growing tall?

    • @WigantX
      @WigantX 6 лет назад +13

      might be the absense of competitors, easy access to nutrients, huge amounts of oxygen and the like?

    • @alexisfloresmedina7041
      @alexisfloresmedina7041 6 лет назад +23

      Bernard Finucane May be that the pillars were so big because it was a structure to spread spores like the fructiferous body in current fungi

    • @EvilSnips
      @EvilSnips 6 лет назад +4

      That is a cool job! I have been thinking of becoming some sort of biologist but not something typical like a marine biologist or a zoologist. Maybe an entomologist?

  • @andrep4805
    @andrep4805 6 лет назад +76

    Omg my mind was blown so many times in so few minutes. I've never heard of ancient fungi being described, and I didn't know those facts about lichen either. I have a thousand new questions! Thanks!

  • @MrStensnask
    @MrStensnask 6 лет назад +60

    THE EVOLUTION OF EGGS. Would be entertaining.

  • @gustavosantiago3367
    @gustavosantiago3367 4 года назад +63

    Arbiter: What is it? More Covenant?
    MasterChief: Worse..

    • @deazy6453
      @deazy6453 4 года назад +5

      The Flood has giving me a weird thing where I gag whenever I see fungi (breathing). It looks so gross, and I want to shoot it with my Battle Rifle lol

  • @nilspace5233
    @nilspace5233 5 лет назад +26

    Next time I look at the giant fungi on my feet, I'll look at it with more love and caress and kiss it and say "thank you"

  • @crimsonking8811
    @crimsonking8811 6 лет назад +342

    I would love to see a video on the evolution of fungi. Any way that could happen?

    • @cadenrolland5250
      @cadenrolland5250 6 лет назад +13

      Great idea. That video would put some more fun in fungi.

    • @Hellheart
      @Hellheart 6 лет назад +4

      I was just coming to comment this same thing. Great minds, eh?

    • @NinaDmytraczenko
      @NinaDmytraczenko 6 лет назад +1

      +

    • @duhduhvesta
      @duhduhvesta 6 лет назад

      Crimson King +

    • @marekdzurenko3449
      @marekdzurenko3449 6 лет назад +10

      Not that simple, since we really don't have much fossil evidence to make a complete picture. Fungi have soft bodies and don't fossilize well.

  • @rogerdotlee
    @rogerdotlee 6 лет назад +36

    Blake, you are such a fun-guy. You grow on people. Har har. Loved that trunk pun as well.
    As far as what I'd like to see, I'd like to see the great extinction events get the PBS Eons treatment.

  • @duhduhvesta
    @duhduhvesta 6 лет назад +86

    More like this! Insect, plant and fungus evolution is very rarely talked about. This stuff is great

    • @24emerald
      @24emerald 5 лет назад +1

      Yes, awesome video...

  • @styromaniac6967
    @styromaniac6967 5 лет назад +57

    I owe my life to fungi. They can be symbiotic to humans, internally.

    • @alisoncircus
      @alisoncircus 4 года назад +15

      And parasitic. They'll fill any niche they're not kicked out of. But everything living above water owes it's life to fungi. That's the actual point.

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 3 года назад

      Yeah some yeast in our gut flora can help us digest food.

  • @xtrri2090
    @xtrri2090 4 года назад +40

    "Thanks for putting the fun in fungi with me today"
    Ha, I laughed so hard. Funny gi.

    • @marccolten9801
      @marccolten9801 4 года назад +1

      People have been punched in the face for less.

  • @horsymandias-ur
    @horsymandias-ur 6 лет назад +6

    From what I’ve seen, Fungi are perhaps the most underrated organisms of all time. Almost NO ONE seems to appreciate the vast contributions they have made, not in the only the past, but still today as well

    • @kramarkml
      @kramarkml Год назад

      Mushrooms of the same species will sprout at the same time across the 🌎. Coral reefs have a similar kind of connection

  • @Zer0TheProdigy
    @Zer0TheProdigy 6 лет назад +93

    Man I thought Fungi were interesting when I started getting involved in psychadelics. I hadn't realized until recently that they are pretty much the progenitors of most life as we know it

    • @AlfredTheBrave
      @AlfredTheBrave 4 года назад +34

      mushrooms made themselves psychedelic so they could transfer their ancient wisdom to whoever/whatever could understand it

    • @remynettheim4918
      @remynettheim4918 4 года назад +12

      WOLVES WWFC1887 bruh

    • @rakbar6509
      @rakbar6509 4 года назад +3

      @@AlfredTheBrave brrrruuh

    • @someguy2135
      @someguy2135 3 года назад +12

      @@AlfredTheBrave Also, the universe created man to appreciate it. As Carl Sagan said,
      "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

    • @shillian4770
      @shillian4770 3 года назад +3

      @@someguy2135 what magic mushrooms do to you is so awesome yet extremely chaotic and quite frankly terrifying.

  • @sircharlesmormont9300
    @sircharlesmormont9300 6 лет назад +21

    Your videos are so addictive! It's *noon* and I've been watching all day. I can't stop watching! You guys do an excellent job of presenting interesting information in a clear and entertaining way. Keep up the great work!

    • @nickinurse6433
      @nickinurse6433 2 года назад +6

      I listen to eons or PBS space-time every night to go to sleep just put it on shuffle and wake up smarter

  • @thefurrybastard1964
    @thefurrybastard1964 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you PBS Eons for taking us all on this amazing journey.

  • @vicariousgamer2871
    @vicariousgamer2871 5 лет назад +51

    Mushroom at the bar, "Beer me bartender."
    Bartender, "We don't serve mushrooms."
    Mushroom, "Hey , I'm a fungi !"

  • @bswtsp21
    @bswtsp21 6 лет назад +41

    I wonder how it tasted....?

  • @abramthiessen8749
    @abramthiessen8749 6 лет назад +6

    I was waiting for this episode to come.
    Thank you.

  • @orangecamo1
    @orangecamo1 6 лет назад +21

    We need a poster of geological eons like they did for crash course chemistry.

    • @eons
      @eons  6 лет назад +4

      Oo, that's a great idea! (BdeP)

    • @orangecamo1
      @orangecamo1 6 лет назад

      Somebody tell Hank!

    • @rojorohr4723
      @rojorohr4723 6 лет назад

      I'd love a calendar (;

  • @arnbrandy
    @arnbrandy 4 года назад +21

    No, thank YOU, Blake, for being the fun guy putting the fun in Fungi.

  • @hairutheninja
    @hairutheninja 4 года назад +13

    Everytime I watch an episode of this it makes me wish so badly I could travel back in time to see stuff happen or just exist

  • @maxxfioriti7494
    @maxxfioriti7494 6 лет назад +42

    1)Evolution of Eukarya and division into kingdoms
    2)What are protists, and how are they related?
    3)Molecular Evolution: how we use proteins, molecules, and genomes to piece together evolutionary relationships

    • @duhduhvesta
      @duhduhvesta 6 лет назад +1

      Maxx Fioriti +

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 6 лет назад +2

      I think Martinus lutherus was the first protist after it became distinct from the existing Catholi genus :P

    • @amyp.575
      @amyp.575 6 лет назад

      Yeah!! All these!! All these!! All these!!

  • @NimhLabs
    @NimhLabs 6 лет назад +46

    ... so... from a certain perspective, Super Mario Bros might be historically accurate?
    ... I'll show myself out...

  • @brendarua01
    @brendarua01 6 лет назад +4

    I can hear it saying, "Feed me, Seymore!"
    But seriously, this was really interesting and filled in a big gap I had. Thanks!

  • @pyne1976
    @pyne1976 5 лет назад +3

    Mushrooms are very interesting. Especially at about 5g.

  • @jamesbentonticer4706
    @jamesbentonticer4706 5 лет назад +3

    These PBS shorts are my new favorite on youtube. Our past is so interesting.

  • @IuliusPsicofactum
    @IuliusPsicofactum 6 лет назад +6

    I don't know who you are but you are a cool guy, stick around the channel, it was a pleasure to have you as host.

    • @eons
      @eons  6 лет назад +4

      Hey thanks! (BdeP)

  • @catherine_404
    @catherine_404 6 лет назад +24

    Every time I see Blake, I feel slightly intimidated.

  • @lilabrownexo4691
    @lilabrownexo4691 6 лет назад +47

    I identify as "probably weird algae" for the next century

  • @judeorbe3948
    @judeorbe3948 4 года назад +5

    the fungi are underrated gems
    they tend to get overshadowed by plants and animals
    ignoring the fact they cause diseases their not to bad

  • @MtnTow
    @MtnTow 4 года назад +16

    First signs of conscientious actions would be a cool topic.

  • @onardico
    @onardico 6 лет назад +71

    A future video about the ancient coral reefs please, thanks

  • @DrakosAmatras
    @DrakosAmatras 5 лет назад +47

    > When Giant Fungi Ruled
    THE MI-GO WERE REAL

  • @s6t6nourlord48
    @s6t6nourlord48 Год назад +3

    that giant fungi was so cool 2:32 420 milion years!? awesome

  • @rx-0862
    @rx-0862 3 года назад +2

    Everyone: “oooh informative”
    Me: “hmm wonder if can i eat them ancient shrooms”

  • @milu3779
    @milu3779 3 года назад +1

    2:28 "shaped kinda like a...... tree trunk"

  • @arielmalsireal5453
    @arielmalsireal5453 Год назад +3

    Now That Is Certified The Last Of Us

  • @aabaz202
    @aabaz202 6 лет назад +15

    I literally love when I see you guys post a video. It’s always well done and informative

  • @chaegibson720
    @chaegibson720 6 лет назад +6

    Okay so I've know about this whole mushroom thing for s long time, but I have a fossil that my friend found when he was hiking in the mountains, and we've had no idea what this fossil was, but looking at the inner structures I just had a eureka moment and I think this is exactly what that is

  • @punkandrockgirf
    @punkandrockgirf 5 лет назад +3

    This guy is awesomely built! Pecs, biceps. I gotta hit the gym.

  • @yctan97
    @yctan97 3 года назад +2

    0:22 the FUN GUY!

  • @iainhansen1047
    @iainhansen1047 6 лет назад +87

    Well eons has blessed us with another upload time to sacrifice another virgin.

    • @sofakingonmynuts1438
      @sofakingonmynuts1438 6 лет назад +11

      oh, me! pick me!

    • @iainhansen1047
      @iainhansen1047 6 лет назад +6

      sofaking onmynuts “pulls out sacrificial knife”

    • @andrep4805
      @andrep4805 6 лет назад +6

      Iain Hansen *begins chanting*

    • @sofakingonmynuts1438
      @sofakingonmynuts1438 6 лет назад +8

      yay im a part of something!

    • @iainhansen1047
      @iainhansen1047 6 лет назад +2

      “Lowers dagger towards the sacrifices heart, while chanting”
      DEUS NOSTER ACCIPERE HOR MUNES, ET VIRGINEM. ET INHABITARE FACIT UNIUS MORIS IN HISTOIRIA MAGIS!

  • @judefrancisco1463
    @judefrancisco1463 6 лет назад +2

    Fungi are the best recyclers of ecosystem. Without them nutrients cannot be available in every organism. Thanks PBS Eon for this awesome video! More power to your channel.

  • @Carbonoid1
    @Carbonoid1 6 лет назад +27

    The whole dirt thing was something I was super curious about so thanks for that!
    I'd love to know how both plants and animals evolved thorns and spines!

    • @Thegardenbetweenus
      @Thegardenbetweenus Год назад

      Thorns are modified leaves. To defend againts predation. Many people think evolution is filled with trial and errors, when in reality nature is quite intelligent. It can respond with proper adaptations quite quickly.

    • @Thegardenbetweenus
      @Thegardenbetweenus Год назад

      Vertebrae had its start in fungi...well the nervous system anyway. It become adopted by early arthropods and so on.

  • @darkeather2
    @darkeather2 6 лет назад +2

    Wow, I never knew fungus could burrow into rock, or that it is what created the original soil. I'd always wondered how dirt first got its nutrients, that's so cool.

    • @audrey2658
      @audrey2658 2 года назад

      School gave me a picture of grass growing on a thin layer of eroded rock.... which doesnt really make sense at all. Rock eating fungi though? Sensible and real.

  • @ms.pirate
    @ms.pirate 3 года назад +1

    The old world sounds so cool and creepy. A barren land of cloudy skys, with those giant mushrooms and few small mountains here and there, and green barren grown, with no animals. It gives liminal spaces vibes

  • @geraldbmullen4386
    @geraldbmullen4386 4 года назад +39

    .75 speed was much more enjoyable. Great content.

    • @predatoreusfilms9992
      @predatoreusfilms9992 4 года назад +5

      CrazyReii why ya in such a hurry? It’s quarantine

    • @RobertScottAudio
      @RobertScottAudio 4 года назад +4

      @CrazyReii .75 speed is about the speed at which normal people speak. We live in a machine dominated world but don't have to talk that way. Thanks.

    • @Phoenix88.
      @Phoenix88. 4 года назад +3

      Thank you I was looking for this comment. I just woke up and was all like why the hell is this at 1.5x slow down jeez I don't even know what day of the week is yet

    • @danielawesome36
      @danielawesome36 4 года назад

      @@RobertScottAudio File Sizes and File Compression disagrees with you.
      If you want less of those two, that is.

    • @kalakritistudios
      @kalakritistudios 4 года назад

      We're as pissed as Yanny and Lauren stuff.

  • @doppelminds1040
    @doppelminds1040 6 лет назад +12

    Fungi are so metal

  • @Raakhushili
    @Raakhushili 6 лет назад +7

    We need a video covering the Great Dying in detail. Or elephant evolution, I just want to know more about the mammoth, the mastodon, or the platybelodon and its weird mouth.

    • @TadaGanIarracht
      @TadaGanIarracht 6 лет назад

      yeah The Great Dying would be a great video, you could cover a bunch of cool ideas and theories about the cause, a giant Gamma Ray Burst, Siberian Volcanic Traps etc

    • @Keys879
      @Keys879 6 лет назад

      "OF Flash Frozen Mammoths" you're welcome.

  • @iosaturnalia
    @iosaturnalia Год назад +2

    My aunt, Dr. Regina Redman, is a molecular biologist and if I'm not mistaken is one of the international leaders on ancient fungi studies!

  • @Lippdinos
    @Lippdinos 4 года назад +4

    Such an awesome series of documentaries! I loved discovering these new facts. Thanks!

  • @cynicalfilms5734
    @cynicalfilms5734 6 лет назад +28

    Damn. Why do I have to be on an Oil rig.

    • @johnemory7485
      @johnemory7485 6 лет назад +3

      ikr...

    • @cynicalfilms5734
      @cynicalfilms5734 6 лет назад +1

      Same problem?

    • @Hellheart
      @Hellheart 6 лет назад +1

      Cynical Films
      I'm gonna guess that it was by choice (likely, for employment reasons)? No one just so happens to find themselves on an oil rig for no reason.

    • @cynicalfilms5734
      @cynicalfilms5734 6 лет назад +2

      Yeah im an on an oil rig just off the coast of New Zeland been here for a few weeks now. And yes it was by choice.

    • @johnemory7485
      @johnemory7485 6 лет назад +1

      Lol, yeah. Same problem. At least you have good scenery. I'm in north Louisiana. Been on this one a little over 60 days, now.

  • @think2086
    @think2086 5 лет назад +3

    Using genetic engineering, can we find a way to create a modern version of this but with the ability to do photosynthesis as its primary source of energy? If so, we could get it growing around toxic waste sites to break down their toxins, AND simultaneously sequester C02 from the air.

    • @konz2891
      @konz2891 3 года назад

      If the primary source of energy was photosynthesis there would be no need for it to break down the waste.

  • @Hellheart
    @Hellheart 6 лет назад +4

    I like Blake. I wanted to see more of him after seeing him host SciShow Quiz Show. Glad that he drew hosting duty on Eons.

  • @iamjeeves
    @iamjeeves 5 лет назад +5

    I learn more from this show than 3 years of college biology classes...

  • @shawnharrison7596
    @shawnharrison7596 Год назад +1

    I've talked to another mycologist and they said "New research on prototaxites shows they lived in/on soil, and crystallized minerals indicate they were mostly long, not tall, ie. they laid rather than stood. Toby Sprible in Edmunton assembled dna research that IMHO shows the genetic traces of this ancient ancestor in far flung extremophiles."

  • @cadenrolland5250
    @cadenrolland5250 6 лет назад +4

    They went extinct not from plants but from more and better adapted fungi, some of which worked with plants.

  • @Bengette
    @Bengette 6 лет назад +8

    Fungi have always fascinated me and make neat sci-fi and horror fodder. For example, the Toho Studios horror film Matango comes to mind. Then, there was that episode in the X-Files where everyone was hallucinating while being digested alive by a giant underground fungus. And let's not forget the smash hit PS4 game, The Last of Us.

  • @BenJamin-rt7ui
    @BenJamin-rt7ui 6 лет назад +16

    More on fungi and lichen please. Also evidence for first eukaryotes.

    • @eons
      @eons  6 лет назад +1

      Good ideas, Ben. Stay tuned, cause some of this stuff will be headed your way in a few weeks! (BdeP)

  • @Infamous41
    @Infamous41 5 лет назад +6

    I love the internet being my full time education

  • @supershenron9162
    @supershenron9162 3 года назад +1

    I can attest to the importance of fungi my plants wouldn't even be able to use the nutrients I use if it wasn't for microryza breaking it down for the plants to use

  • @fraserhenderson7839
    @fraserhenderson7839 6 лет назад +49

    Wow! Who knew? I thought a portobello was large.
    I wonder how these would taste, thinly sliced, sauteed in butter with black pepper and coriander?
    Your suggestion that they could not keep up with the dinner crowd seems logical to me

    • @pansepot1490
      @pansepot1490 6 лет назад +14

      Fraser Henderson, I don't know if you can make really thin slices with a chainsaw.

    • @richardbraakman7469
      @richardbraakman7469 6 лет назад +10

      It's such a shame they died out before black pepper was invented

    • @TheJhtlag
      @TheJhtlag 6 лет назад +5

      mushrooms have a lot of protein, I could very well see them be targets once terrestrial animals developed a taste for them.

    • @TheCynicalDude_
      @TheCynicalDude_ 6 лет назад +4

      Paul Stamets says that portobellos cause cancer. Google this and research before you decide whether or not to keep eating them. He's a bit secretive about talking about it though. Agaratine or something that sounds like that is the reason for cancerous tumors to grow.

    • @fraserhenderson7839
      @fraserhenderson7839 6 лет назад +2

      Thanks for the heads up. I have eaten and drunk (and breathed and been exposed to) so many cancer causing, teratogenic and otherwise toxic products of our wonderful new world that it's too late for food worries. I like 'em grilled and I understand that is a whole other bad food category.

  • @JackhammerJesus
    @JackhammerJesus 6 лет назад +18

    "The hayday of the giant fungus spanned 70 million years- a short time..."
    Well, apes came along only 10 million years ago and already some of them think they are dominating the place.

  • @raginplayer2665
    @raginplayer2665 5 лет назад +3

    The fungi probably grew smaller given the fact that more vascular plants were growing, and that they probably adapted to not spread their massive lengths of hyphae throughout the landscape knowing more plants would grow and die then decompose

    • @nycbearff
      @nycbearff 3 года назад

      The biggest living thing is a fungus - it permeates the ground for hundreds of acres. It doesn't put up a big fruiting body, though. And fungi enable a lot of plants to thrive, they form symbiotic nutrient systems. So they certainly spread massive webs of hyphae through the soil in lots of places.

  • @calessel3139
    @calessel3139 2 года назад +1

    It is a bit funny to think the 70 million year reign of Fungi as a "short" time period, especially when you consider the Cenozoic era, and the age of the mammals, has spanned only about 65 million years.

  • @sarahgray430
    @sarahgray430 4 года назад

    The thought of forests of huge, phallic-looking fungi covering the landscape makes me chuckle. People tend to be unaware of the role that yeasts and fungi play in the ecology, but there's more to them than making beer and pizza!

  • @sunnchilde
    @sunnchilde 4 года назад +4

    I heard a story that somewhere in Ohio there is a fungus that is "genetically identical" to many other samples of fungus found in many other places miles away. It was said that it may be as large as 26 miles wide and may be ther largest organism in the world.

  • @JoshuaHillerup
    @JoshuaHillerup 6 лет назад +16

    I want to know about how plants evolved from whatever they evolved from. I tried reading Wikipedia about it but it was very confusing.

    • @duhduhvesta
      @duhduhvesta 6 лет назад

      Joshua Hillerup ditto

    • @duhduhvesta
      @duhduhvesta 6 лет назад

      +

    • @proximacentauri8038
      @proximacentauri8038 6 лет назад

      tiffany norris Grand Dad

    • @proximacentauri8038
      @proximacentauri8038 6 лет назад

      Chuck Norris is my spirit animal

    • @alfonsogiampollo5153
      @alfonsogiampollo5153 6 лет назад

      they started as spore bearing little bean sprouts basically. that's like the simplest land plant to come around. from there ferns (gymnosperms/sporebesring) basically ruled, until flowering pollen plants came around after s while. angiosperms

  • @MrMysticphantom
    @MrMysticphantom 6 лет назад +16

    Dude.... you really work out a lot dont you?

  • @icarusbinns3156
    @icarusbinns3156 2 года назад +1

    I still laugh when I think of when I was (trying) to make sourdough, and Dad and I got into a debate over what yeast is… plant, or animal. He home brews beer, so yeast is needed. I was working as a Living History actor, and trying to make bread.
    Sister finally yells from the other room, “It’s a fungus!” Effectively ending the debate

  • @gwenxel4434
    @gwenxel4434 2 года назад

    Thanks so much for making this!

  • @11jeopardy11
    @11jeopardy11 6 лет назад +4

    Just imagine finding an 8m tall psilocybin mushroom :O

  • @Coillcara
    @Coillcara 6 лет назад +5

    Awesome show, thank you! What I want to know is why no proto insect fossils were found? Insects seem to appear with all the modern features we see today. Or do I miss something? Love the series!

  • @NicolasGomez-dn3oy
    @NicolasGomez-dn3oy 5 лет назад +10

    My prayers go to the unfortunate person that accidentally sits on that mushroom

  • @anteaterzhell
    @anteaterzhell 5 лет назад +1

    Those fungi forest drawings were really surreal and cool.

  • @IXSICNESS
    @IXSICNESS 6 лет назад +1

    My favourite thing about this channel is the respectful and insightful comment section