The Age of Giant Insects

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  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025

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  • @tyrantt-1004
    @tyrantt-1004 5 лет назад +3182

    Australian insects: We are big!
    Prehistoric insects: hold my oxygen

  • @thirdeye3750
    @thirdeye3750 6 лет назад +670

    "take a deep breath"
    My athsma: "hello"

  • @saintfolk5167
    @saintfolk5167 5 лет назад +733

    Insects got nerfed in update 1.811

    • @SivakumarRelangi
      @SivakumarRelangi 5 лет назад +8

      🤣😂

    • @NeoDarkness
      @NeoDarkness 4 года назад +7

      Yes

    • @Lumberjack_king
      @Lumberjack_king 4 года назад +22

      teir zoo fans? your far from home jk

    • @suntzu7520
      @suntzu7520 3 года назад +9

      Anyone else notice how hard the nerfed spinous in the Moroccan update they went from terrifying Lizards to fish catching duck faced over sized crocodile they used to be such a cool feature now they suck frik this game

    • @NeoDarkness
      @NeoDarkness 3 года назад +2

      @@suntzu7520 lol

  • @redrum252
    @redrum252 5 лет назад +301

    Imagine a forrest fire with that much oxygen in the atmosphere! Wow

    • @WoozyCool
      @WoozyCool 3 года назад +25

      ka boom

    • @jamesbugbee6812
      @jamesbugbee6812 3 года назад +5

      @@WoozyCool Intristing idear!

    • @J75Pootle
      @J75Pootle Год назад +23

      Forest fires were probably the only things that prevented tree trunks from piling up taller than the trees themselves during that period lol

    • @WokeandProud
      @WokeandProud Год назад +2

      ​@@J75PootleMost of them rotted in peat and became coal.

    • @J75Pootle
      @J75Pootle Год назад +22

      @@WokeandProud Trees didn't rot for most of that period, that's the point. There were no bacteria or insects that had evolved to eat/break down wood by that point, so the trees just sat there and either got burned by wildfire or got buried and eventually became coal - in fact most coal in this planet comes from the carboniferous because the wood wasn't being broken down

  • @dmenace9827
    @dmenace9827 5 лет назад +281

    I grew up in Darwin, in Australia's remote tropical north. There was a Dragonfly about 6 inches long, and yes it was green, so it looked like a military helicopter. There was also a Stick Insect about a foot long, it could fly and had crimson wings.

    • @christinamann3640
      @christinamann3640 3 года назад +47

      Me: reaches for sawed-off shotgun

    • @Leitis_Fella
      @Leitis_Fella 3 года назад +18

      Lmao get stick bugged lol

    • @daisiesofdoom
      @daisiesofdoom 2 года назад +16

      As beautiful as the country is, as nice the people come across... I could never wrap my head around why people want to go to Australia

    • @camsky8764
      @camsky8764 Год назад +3

      Grew up in Cairns can confirm iv got a photo with a stick insect biger bout that size on my face with its wings out most people dont know they hav them

    • @Cyberbully34
      @Cyberbully34 Год назад +2

      Only in Australia 💀

  • @edbouhl3100
    @edbouhl3100 6 лет назад +3656

    Someday a squid descendant may be lecturing about how the Age of the Hominids ended with an explosion of carbon dioxide levels that led in just a few million years to the Rise of the Octopods

    • @chiggsytube
      @chiggsytube 6 лет назад +277

      The dolphins already hated us for filling the ocean with boat noise. I wonder what they make of the jellyfish?

    • @lolbosss
      @lolbosss 6 лет назад +92

      Squidward?

    • @thecrimsoncreep
      @thecrimsoncreep 6 лет назад +130

      Splatoon?

    • @dulzkyriveratovitch256
      @dulzkyriveratovitch256 6 лет назад +151

      No. A sudden explosion of radioactive material. That still a mystery to where it came from according to Octopod scientist.

    • @jaysonklein6018
      @jaysonklein6018 5 лет назад +24

      I'd be ok with that.

  • @ZeMarkKrazee
    @ZeMarkKrazee 4 года назад +1209

    “You know those cute little millipedes...?”
    Me: “No. I have never known a cute millipede.”

    • @HH-ru4bj
      @HH-ru4bj 4 года назад +48

      Because you're wrong.

    • @28_ranggaclio
      @28_ranggaclio 4 года назад +13

      Infidel!

    • @IcyHalo
      @IcyHalo 4 года назад +52

      Yeah i was like “wtf you mean cute 😂”

    • @NafeeDoesStuff
      @NafeeDoesStuff 4 года назад +22

      But the small ones are so cute

    • @ZeMarkKrazee
      @ZeMarkKrazee 4 года назад +13

      @@NafeeDoesStuff HERETIC!

  • @KQEDDeepLook
    @KQEDDeepLook 7 лет назад +1210

    You had us at Griffinflies. And spiracles. Great video!

  • @agentbarton8972
    @agentbarton8972 3 года назад +75

    The thing that really hits me is the fact that there is a roughly 6 million year period between the extinction of arthropleura and meganeura. That's just absolutely wild to me. That means meganeura was flying around for millions of years longer than humans have even existed purely during the DECLINE of the age of insects. And the species itself was around for a whole lot longer than that. The sheer scale of time is really scary sometimes.

    • @WokeandProud
      @WokeandProud Год назад +8

      Yep it's easy to see why some people refuse to believe the ridiculously old age of the earth four and a half billion years is almost impossible to get your mind around it's a soul crushing amount of time it might as well be eternity from our perspective.

    • @AndresSanchez-pp3ho
      @AndresSanchez-pp3ho Год назад +2

      The comprehension of time and space is what’s scary , now you realize why infinit is scary and end of space is scary. Time is the construct it’s not scary. You understanding 100 million years and paining a picture is scary.

  • @ReginaRegenbogn
    @ReginaRegenbogn 2 года назад +39

    I knew the oxygen levels were much higher once, allowing for big insects. However, I did NOT know about decomposers and funghi! Thank you for teaching me new things!

  • @andres510bxtr
    @andres510bxtr 7 лет назад +936

    The scientist at Arizona State NEED TO BE STOPPED. I refuse to live in a 50's monster movie just because they got carried away with oxygen tanks!

    • @omarabe26
      @omarabe26 6 лет назад +111

      B-but *SCIENCE*

    • @davidrosner6267
      @davidrosner6267 5 лет назад +118

      The mega bugs these scientists produced in the lab probably wouldn’t survive outside their oxygen rich enclosure.

    • @zeburancher9480
      @zeburancher9480 5 лет назад +82

      @@davidrosner6267 if there are mad scientists somewhere producing an army of giant bugs, they would know to attach the oxygen tanks to the giant bugs.

    • @grande521
      @grande521 5 лет назад +17

      And then you notice her wedding ring and all your Hopes and dreams set suffocated like the bugs on this video.... :(

    • @davidrosner6267
      @davidrosner6267 5 лет назад +8

      @@zeburancher9480, they'd need to attack them to all the insects' breathing pores.

  • @cowardlysludge
    @cowardlysludge 6 лет назад +97

    I really like the hosts on this channel! They seem very friendly and passionate about the subjects. Keep it up Eons!

  • @rockstar32734
    @rockstar32734 6 лет назад +248

    "Take a deep breath"
    *does as instructed and ends up sneezing uncontrollably*

    • @tristanlopez1777
      @tristanlopez1777 5 лет назад +7

      Grows 10 feet

    • @stephenphillip5656
      @stephenphillip5656 3 года назад +5

      Can I breathe out yet? Only, she hasn't told me I can and I'm struggling a bit now...

    • @ps92809
      @ps92809 3 года назад +1

      @@stephenphillip5656 are you still alive

  • @chromiakocosmos8888
    @chromiakocosmos8888 5 лет назад +886

    "Now imagine a giant centepede"
    Other people: NOPE
    Me: *I wanna ride on it's back*

    • @nfrmis4825
      @nfrmis4825 5 лет назад +31

      Skatepede its just a centipide you can ride haha yeaaa...

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 5 лет назад +85

      Can you IMAGINE, an army who rides into battle on _those_ things instead of horses?
      NO-ONE WOULD MESS WITH THEM. XD

    • @hlcepeda
      @hlcepeda 5 лет назад +8

      Probably the safest spot to come in contact with.

    • @tiffanywilliams6040
      @tiffanywilliams6040 5 лет назад +10

      @Jerry Gonzales Training

    • @HydeKuon
      @HydeKuon 5 лет назад +2

      YO THAT'S A MOOD

  • @HH-dd2xq
    @HH-dd2xq 3 года назад +92

    With how incomplete the fossil record is, it makes you wonder what other weird, giant insectoid creatures existed at that time that we have no idea about.

    • @nickbriggs8059
      @nickbriggs8059 Год назад +5

      It takes a lot of perfectly timed things to all happen in order to form a fossil. Your right there is so so much we haven’t a clue about. Exoskeletons are very rare fossils and not many exist at all considering we are talking millions of years. Idk the ratio but seems like it would be like .0001 fossils annually or something crazy

    • @DanielCorpuz223
      @DanielCorpuz223 Год назад +1

      This is why i think there's still a giant spider from Carboniferous. Megarachne is just a very very bad coincidence

    • @m13848
      @m13848 Год назад

      ​@@DanielCorpuz223 mega what?

    • @loucifer9618
      @loucifer9618 Год назад +3

      @@m13848 megadeeznuts

    • @WokeandProud
      @WokeandProud Год назад

      ​@@DanielCorpuz223Spider's can't handle getting big thier anatomy would make it too difficult to breath.

  • @nevermore7310
    @nevermore7310 7 лет назад +2145

    "Cute little millipedes" try terrifying.

    • @usernamewastaken4829
      @usernamewastaken4829 7 лет назад +57

      One of my most hated creatures on this planet.

    • @space__hobbit
      @space__hobbit 7 лет назад +95

      Whoever calls millepedes cute has never been to Australia during millepede season.

    • @spiritualcoconut4478
      @spiritualcoconut4478 7 лет назад +1

      Joseph Burchanowski
      What did you say in japanese?

    • @lapissed9620
      @lapissed9620 7 лет назад +46

      Millipedes are never cute but they're also not terrifying though centipedes... Not even "terrifying" could describe them

    • @Stackoverkill
      @Stackoverkill 7 лет назад +50

      Nah mate, have you ever seen one up close? They have cute big round eyes in a cute round face and they don't do nothing to anyone or anything.

  • @braincraft
    @braincraft 7 лет назад +2798

    Reminds me of life in Australia 🕷

    • @keeganmcleod4135
      @keeganmcleod4135 7 лет назад +13

      BrainCraft Nothing in venomous in Australia can compare in size to these creatures.

    • @guillermo2868
      @guillermo2868 7 лет назад +37

      Oh sweetie , as a Melbournian, the insects that you usually come across are only the size of your thumbnail or nail from your pinky. Only in the outback do you find huge insects , where less that ~2% of our population exists. Except you'll often come across possums , small spiders, insects and parakeets. Except the occasional kangaroo that goes jumping in front of you house.

    • @ayaan3348
      @ayaan3348 7 лет назад +4

      that offends me so much because im australian

    • @MatthewSmith-sz1yq
      @MatthewSmith-sz1yq 7 лет назад +39

      Meanwhile, in Arizona... we use blowtorches to kill rat-sized scorpions.

    • @masterimbecile
      @masterimbecile 7 лет назад +15

      Australia has 35% atmospheric oxygen? Must be nice.

  • @eddieking2976
    @eddieking2976 6 лет назад +749

    "I don't think a can of Raid is going to do it."

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH 5 лет назад +23

      Some milipedes produce cyanide gas...
      They probably look at modern mammals the same way :P

    • @xxCrimsonSpiritxx
      @xxCrimsonSpiritxx 5 лет назад +15

      A can't* of raid

    • @GreasyBeasty
      @GreasyBeasty 4 года назад +6

      That's just insect pepper spray

    • @rachdarastrix5251
      @rachdarastrix5251 4 года назад +2

      Hey! Get your damn pesticide away from from my carbiniferus survival strategy.
      Step 1: Large cauldron full of water
      Step 2: Hot fire
      Step 3: Butter.
      Step 4: After eating the giant arthropods, die of poison because you sprayed them.

    • @christopherschuch5328
      @christopherschuch5328 4 года назад +1

      Not even Mortein can do the trick.

  • @ruebenaragon493
    @ruebenaragon493 4 года назад +42

    "A living carpet" thats a terrifying image for something with million legs 🦵

  • @DNTMEE
    @DNTMEE 5 лет назад +351

    Captain, we're going to need a bigger shoe.

  • @mocca3633
    @mocca3633 6 лет назад +7105

    you mean The Age of Nope.

    • @penni006
      @penni006 5 лет назад +304

      I literally said nope as soon as she said that bug was as big as a pigeon.

    • @eazybaby5094
      @eazybaby5094 5 лет назад +49

      Lmaoooo

    • @unknown-ue6qv
      @unknown-ue6qv 5 лет назад +17

      lol

    • @noobnoob3489
      @noobnoob3489 5 лет назад +54

      This comment caught me off guard I lol

    • @sachinraghavan4556
      @sachinraghavan4556 5 лет назад +26

      The Holocene is the Age of Nope.

  • @joeycook6526
    @joeycook6526 6 лет назад +55

    I always love watching Eons, and the other PBS science productions. They do a wonderful job. That being said... a pigeon is larger than a robin in every respect.

    • @user_375a82
      @user_375a82 3 года назад +3

      PBS American commies - you wouldn't like it all the time.
      Advising you on ALL things. 1984 Brave New World

    • @amandaoneil5779
      @amandaoneil5779 Год назад

      She says that meganeura had a wingspan of 70 cm, about the size of a pigeon and stephanotypus had a wingspan of 40 cm, about the size of a robin.

  • @snitcheyes411
    @snitcheyes411 7 лет назад +117

    You know how we have lots of museums with animatronic/robotic dinosaurs? Where's the museum of moving giant insects? I need this in my life!

    • @Marylandbrony
      @Marylandbrony 7 лет назад +32

      Also called the nope museum.

    • @Thumbsupurbum
      @Thumbsupurbum 7 лет назад +23

      It could double as a haunted house around halloween.

    • @zarwrites
      @zarwrites 5 лет назад +19

      Go to the Field Museum in Chicago. They have an insect section where you're "shrunk" and the insects are huge. Some are even animatronic.

    • @wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus
      @wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus 4 года назад

      @@zarwrites That sounds so cool. Unfortunately I won't ever get to go there as I don't live in America.

    • @Knightwolf1994
      @Knightwolf1994 2 года назад

      @@Thumbsupurbum It's a haunted house all year round bro.

  • @electric_sway
    @electric_sway 5 лет назад +210

    Learns of giant dinosaurs “OMG that is awesome”
    Learns of giant insects “Ahh Heck No!!!”

    • @collegemaster5683
      @collegemaster5683 4 года назад +3

      Weird, huh?

    • @adreantejed4199
      @adreantejed4199 4 года назад +5

      im not fat, i just have too much oxygen.
      lolll

    • @TheGuitarislove
      @TheGuitarislove 3 года назад +9

      I mean I’d much rather die at the hands of a giant dinosaur than a giant insect … dinosaurs were scary… but are insects are CREEPY

  • @Xesh001
    @Xesh001 5 лет назад +86

    I notice that you didn't mention that fungi, at this time, weren't able to break down lignin or cellulose, as trees with these chemical components had evolved relatively recently. This is another major reason why trees didn't decompose, and instead formed coal. That's why virtually all coal was formed around this time (the only exceptions being under very rare circumstances otherwise) and peat is the only analogous material formed since.

    • @keysn9070
      @keysn9070 Год назад +1

      That's a theory of right now

  • @sjenkins1057
    @sjenkins1057 7 лет назад +512

    As the late Steven J. Gould wrote, if you count by either number of organisms, or by total biomass, it is neither the age of mammals, nor the age of insects: it is now and always has been the age of bacteria.

    • @limiv5272
      @limiv5272 6 лет назад +12

      counting by number of individuals, this is the age of viruses, if you count them as living
      www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro2644

    • @wichitazen
      @wichitazen 6 лет назад +3

      And you are why humans are in trouble.

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 6 лет назад +30

      We are merely incubators and motility systems for bacteria.

    • @randomuser6306
      @randomuser6306 6 лет назад +36

      Bah. Gould was a chump. It was and always will be the age of rock. There is more rock than anything else on the planet, by any measure. Therefore rock wins.
      See how stupid that one of reasoning is?

    • @arminharper510
      @arminharper510 6 лет назад +20

      But rocks arent living beings, bacteriae are.

  • @jannahnurul
    @jannahnurul 6 лет назад +1441

    im not fat, i just have too much oxygen.
    lolll

  • @metime00
    @metime00 7 лет назад +17

    I love how much longer and thorough this channel's videos are than other science channels

  • @casper6405
    @casper6405 5 лет назад +44

    Time travel tip
    Always bring a huge newspaper

  • @itskevinjustkevin
    @itskevinjustkevin 5 лет назад +81

    "goodbye ocean....
    Aaaaaannnnnnd everything is huge, including bugs"
    -bill wurtz

  • @Digitalneo1
    @Digitalneo1 7 лет назад +329

    Ah yes, the Great Arthropod War of 299M, it was a brutal war but many exoskeletons were crunched that day.

    • @wj9855
      @wj9855 7 лет назад +1

      👏👏

    • @BADVlBES
      @BADVlBES 5 лет назад +1

      @Jagred PeaceMocker your actually right, if we put a family of humans in a chamber full of 100% oxygen and let them live on and reproduce id assume after a few generations they would be taller than the original parents

    • @williamjordan5554
      @williamjordan5554 5 лет назад +2

      @@BADVlBES they would anyway because the women would choose the tallest men.

    • @williamjordan5554
      @williamjordan5554 5 лет назад

      @Jagred PeaceMocker exoskeleton would be too heavy.

    • @tristanlopez1777
      @tristanlopez1777 5 лет назад +2

      Yes my ancestors hid in a hole. Cowards.

  • @RosinGoblin
    @RosinGoblin 6 лет назад +322

    I welcome our ant overloards with this giant bottle of spilled Coke

    • @salometipsandtricks2786
      @salometipsandtricks2786 5 лет назад +1

      Reptar you overlord is a lamb with seven horns and seven eyes get your story straight.

    • @nobody88767
      @nobody88767 5 лет назад +4

      @@salometipsandtricks2786 you know nothing let's be real

    • @bananamilk6155
      @bananamilk6155 5 лет назад +2

      Rice n Beans ah yes hail the ant AAAAAAYYYYYYAAAAAAAA AAAAYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAA HAIL THE ANTS

    • @thereaIjesuschrist
      @thereaIjesuschrist 4 года назад +3

      Rice n Beans I love ants

    • @SanPot123
      @SanPot123 4 года назад +1

      Did these giant insects eat any animals?

  • @wanderingwade8877
    @wanderingwade8877 6 лет назад +239

    I'm pretty sure the age of the giant bugs was the 1950's. That's what late night movies tell us.

    • @deucewayne449
      @deucewayne449 6 лет назад +4

      Wandering Wade Beginning of the end

    • @GillianMStarlight
      @GillianMStarlight 5 лет назад +3

      The Deadly Mantis!

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 5 лет назад +8

      (reads replies)
      (gets a sudden urge to bust out some oldschool MST3K)
      Seriously, I kind of love the cheesy '50s monster movies. They're just silly fun. :)

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 3 года назад +1

      MANT....!!

  • @Ren_zuki
    @Ren_zuki 5 лет назад +329

    ".......ok google: how do i build a flamethrower"

    • @desireelane8956
      @desireelane8956 5 лет назад +7

      I said this out loud by accident and my phone actually looked it up.... Lmao

    • @whafflete6721
      @whafflete6721 5 лет назад +15

      Hans
      Get the Flamethrower

    • @M0US3EE
      @M0US3EE 5 лет назад +2

      :/

    • @NUSORCA
      @NUSORCA 4 года назад +8

      With a spark and oxygen overload you can burn a whole Carboniferous rainforest in a day

    • @thedarkside6712
      @thedarkside6712 4 года назад +2

      @@NUSORCA probably a whole continent within a week at fastest.

  • @ecojosh1
    @ecojosh1 5 лет назад +11

    The animals that lived before the dinosaurs are so underrated.

  • @Pfhorrest
    @Pfhorrest 7 лет назад +385

    Fun fact: all that carbon that Carboniferous forests were sucking in that never got released by decomposition? That's where our coal comes from, and it's finally all getting released back into the atmosphere now.

    • @atwaterpub
      @atwaterpub 6 лет назад +37

      EXACTLY.. And it will return the Earth to a similar climate as the one described here.

    • @MellowWater
      @MellowWater 6 лет назад +35

      Purpose of life?
      Humans were designed to release the carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere and plastic.

    • @atwaterpub
      @atwaterpub 6 лет назад +12

      Humans exist because they create more entropy than any other form of life or matter.

    • @chriswillb
      @chriswillb 6 лет назад +32

      @@atwaterpub The reason those conditions existed in the first place was because the CO2 was trapped in the non-decomposed wood. If anything, burning coal takes us further away from those conditions.

    • @atwaterpub
      @atwaterpub 6 лет назад +3

      @@chriswillb HAHA That is ridiculous. I am not talking about the super-oxygenated Earth atmosphere in the "Age of Insects" (Proterozoic Era...BEFORE the Age of Dinosaurs). I am talking about the early "Age of Dinosaurs (The Paleozoic Era .. when trees and coniferous trees started growing). The CO2 content in the atmosphere at that time was 15 times present day.

  • @Jungy_Mungerson
    @Jungy_Mungerson 6 лет назад +622

    Wouldn't it be more accurate to compare the number of insects to the number of mammals, rather than just humans?

    • @thanksforthemessdick
      @thanksforthemessdick 6 лет назад +90

      There are 7.2 billion humans on the planet today - if we take everyone over the age of 15, they weigh a combined total of about 332bn kg. If we imagine there are 10,000 trillion ants in the world, weighing an average of 4mg, their total weight comes to just 40bn kg. Feel better?

    • @regular-joe
      @regular-joe 5 лет назад +12

      Logic rules! (This shouldn't have been able to slip past the writers' notice - appreciate you pointing it out!).

    • @hlcepeda
      @hlcepeda 5 лет назад +92

      I think 'humans' was used as a point of comparison since humans are considered to be the dominant species. The message was, "Hey! Think YOU"RE the 'big dog'?! Well... get a load of THIS!"

    • @winstonsmith11
      @winstonsmith11 5 лет назад +22

      @Jerry Gonzales But in what arena? On land, they die. In water, we die. Not much of a battle to even be fought, in either scenario.

    • @Xesh001
      @Xesh001 5 лет назад +26

      The insects would still be more numerous though.
      An interesting point to note is that if all mammals disappeared from the Earth then the ecosystem would still go on. If all the insects (or more accurately, arthropods) disappeared then the ecosystem would collapse!

  • @HannahZiad
    @HannahZiad 6 лет назад +437

    It just creeps me out knowing that scintests are trying to make bigger bugs ! Who is funding this evil plan ? 😒

    • @emeraldz6744
      @emeraldz6744 3 года назад +47

      Ngl I think bigger bugs would be pretty cool but scary at the same time

    • @pallesudate4677
      @pallesudate4677 3 года назад +14

      Why evil?

    • @josullivan5189
      @josullivan5189 3 года назад +17

      It’s not to make bugs bigger regularly it’s just an experiment

    • @epauletshark3793
      @epauletshark3793 3 года назад +2

      I would

    • @ericjohns8522
      @ericjohns8522 3 года назад +8

      Its actually better! They made the world a better place to live! Well you guys wont feel it cuz only dino fans and paleontologists love this idea. I wish there were dinosaurs in 2021 and i want big ol' artheopods too.

  • @azipoor3468
    @azipoor3468 5 лет назад +26

    Meganeura anatomy and physiology was almost as the same as today's dragonfly so dragonflies have one of the oldest anatomy. Thanks for your awesome video

  • @ericjaramillo1381
    @ericjaramillo1381 5 лет назад +17

    Im learning about this in my college biology class. When my professor talked about there being a lot of oxygen in the air millions of years ago i knew where it was heading and I was like “HES GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE INSECTS FKJSNANSM” in my mind.

  • @pummisher1186
    @pummisher1186 7 лет назад +237

    Remember 99 Million Years ago? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

    • @titanusrodan8344
      @titanusrodan8344 5 лет назад +1

      "99 Million Years Ago" You literally Gets 99 likes

    • @titanusrodan8344
      @titanusrodan8344 5 лет назад

      Nevermind i've just liked

    • @arisebeats1851
      @arisebeats1851 5 лет назад +1

      Yes I was trying to make a wheel out of stone

    • @tiffanywilliams6040
      @tiffanywilliams6040 5 лет назад +2

      @@arisebeats1851 i turned a rock into a smaller rock and said to my self
      "this rock, had a child"

  • @simonz5905
    @simonz5905 6 лет назад +70

    0:14 "there are way more of them than there are of us"
    We're working on it

  • @sbellaharris
    @sbellaharris 7 лет назад +831

    Are you telling me I can grow giant insect today?

    • @JohnSmithEx
      @JohnSmithEx 7 лет назад +54

      Playing with the oxygen level may be redundant. Just allow the big ones to reproduce. Make sex forbidden for the medium and small ones.

    • @JohnSmithEx
      @JohnSmithEx 7 лет назад +11

      +Dan Nguyen +laser325 look at the comment of Fruchtpudding (6 hours ago). He disagrees with the video's claim that high oxygen is growing bigger insects, and he gives sources.
      «The study you mentioned that found dragonflies getting larger in high oxygen atmospheres also tested other insects, and 10 out 12 grew smaller in an hyperoxic environment. Concluding from this that higher oxygen = bigger insects seems absolutely ridiculous to me. Why did you leave this out? It was the main point of that paper.»

    • @peterii3512
      @peterii3512 7 лет назад +52

      Evi1M4chine edgy

    • @nakyer
      @nakyer 7 лет назад +12

      *Evi1M4chine*
      I'd have given your post some thought, except for the fact you were so sloppy and incoherent.

    • @AdmiralBison
      @AdmiralBison 7 лет назад +15

      Don't 😐
      There are people like me who have a genuine terror and phobia when it comes to insects and spiders, let alone giant versions of them.
      Knowing this, I expect you are more determined now.

  • @claraazevedo1826
    @claraazevedo1826 5 лет назад +511

    i’ve never been so glad for a creature’s extinction in my life

    • @lucidboy6568
      @lucidboy6568 4 года назад +2

      Hehe

    • @philipgali6205
      @philipgali6205 4 года назад +5

      Cool what's your insta

    • @v.i.p4923
      @v.i.p4923 4 года назад +52

      @@philipgali6205 ah hell no

    • @lmeza1983
      @lmeza1983 4 года назад +13

      If things would have gone differently maybe humans wouldn't exist and animals would be so glad.

    • @モナー-r4t
      @モナー-r4t 4 года назад +13

      I'm actually really sad.. I'd love to see cute big bugs!

  • @samueljohnson4806
    @samueljohnson4806 4 года назад

    Her voice is so soothing and her enunciation is very clear. Subscribed!

  • @L3d_z3pp
    @L3d_z3pp 7 лет назад +13

    Loving this channel more and more.
    Amazing content, excellent hosts, interesting topics and timely videos. Keep it up guys.

  • @calebr7199
    @calebr7199 7 лет назад +1464

    I like big bugs and I can not lie!

  • @binky2819
    @binky2819 7 лет назад +157

    Now we need an episode on giant arachnids. Pulmonoscorpion!

    • @glaceonpokemon4712
      @glaceonpokemon4712 7 лет назад +1

      binky2819 An athropod enemy

    • @heraticjaps3468
      @heraticjaps3468 7 лет назад +3

      Weeb

    • @Synovia
      @Synovia 7 лет назад +1

      Kotonoha Katsura IM A PROUD WEEB

    • @Synovia
      @Synovia 7 лет назад +3

      Stop the anime avatars WEEB LIVES MATTER

    • @heraticjaps3468
      @heraticjaps3468 7 лет назад +3

      Synovia Oh dear, I've been in your phase and I can tell you'll want to forget this period in your lyf

  • @michaeldy3157
    @michaeldy3157 3 года назад +2

    I love this stuff. Eons etc. I suggest drachfinel if you love military ships. Dry humor and great stories.

  • @gouraviyerankollu525
    @gouraviyerankollu525 5 лет назад +2

    I don't know why I get emotional while watching your videos and the mass extinctions.... 💙

  • @tranquil_dude
    @tranquil_dude 6 лет назад +106

    0:23
    Humans are one species whereas insects are an entire class of animals.
    It would be more appropriate to compare the population of humans to, say, a particular species of ant.
    Or, alternatively, compare the population of all mammals to all insects.

    • @LeBaldJames23-
      @LeBaldJames23- 4 года назад +9

      Alot of people dont really think that humans are mammals and i hate it

    • @sandroskronias
      @sandroskronias 4 года назад +9

      @@LeBaldJames23- but we scientifically are mammals how can they be like "wE aReN't MaMmAlS". Of course we are.

    • @smoky3302
      @smoky3302 4 года назад +6

      Well there are atleast 10000 trillion ants so they are more than humans .
      It is difficult to compare between total number of insect species to o mammals as we are still finding new species of insects so quite a difficult one.

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 4 года назад

      @@sandroskronias same people that think bugs aren't animals

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 4 года назад

      @@smoky3302 because ants are tiny

  • @BZAKether
    @BZAKether 7 лет назад +1199

    "cute" and "millipedes" can't be used in the same coherent phrase.

    • @lancewedor5306
      @lancewedor5306 6 лет назад +83

      you must be confused - Millipedes are cute as well mas amazing. Centipedes, the nasty vicious creepy, some poisonous - ugh! Now these are anti-cute.

    • @idot3331
      @idot3331 6 лет назад +64

      Milipides are pretty cute, centipedes are tiny demons

    • @reisenbunny1235
      @reisenbunny1235 6 лет назад +26

      Millipedes are herbivores and Centipedes are........ devils

    • @Galiant2010
      @Galiant2010 6 лет назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/4rxW6jCbhmA/видео.html

    • @sffb8295
      @sffb8295 6 лет назад +36

      What?!
      But they’re so adorable!Look at how they creep on the garden floor and curl up when you touch them: balls of anxiety,just like me lmao

  • @kento369
    @kento369 6 лет назад +44

    I wanna have an insect room where I can adjust the oxegen levels.

    • @dementiasorrow
      @dementiasorrow 5 лет назад +18

      you crazy? this is how horror movies start!

    • @bugloverspiderlover8490
      @bugloverspiderlover8490 4 года назад +6

      dementiasorrow I want bigger spiders! Hell a spider the size of a dog is my dream!

    • @darkhorse381
      @darkhorse381 4 года назад +8

      @@bugloverspiderlover8490 Psychopath...

    • @mrevilducky
      @mrevilducky 4 года назад +6

      You would have to do it over several hundred generations. You would also have to adjust the flora

    • @levihuerta9393
      @levihuerta9393 4 года назад

      Ha! I’d turn that nob to zero!

  • @nicolascoast9653
    @nicolascoast9653 5 лет назад +6

    Just discovered this channel, very educational, I like it

  • @sudarshanpradhan5290
    @sudarshanpradhan5290 3 года назад +4

    I am literally hooked to this channel. Just love the content and their video titles they are so creative. Just love your content ❤️

  • @docterfantazmo
    @docterfantazmo 7 лет назад +10

    I'd love to see a vid on the diversity of Crocodylomorphs, they had some crazy shapes back in the day.

  • @b00i00d
    @b00i00d 6 лет назад +146

    we don't "make the rules" - we only think we do! nature is far bigger and more powerful than we'll ever be

  • @LTdrumma
    @LTdrumma 7 лет назад +4

    You're telling me there's not only PBS spacetime but also another just as amazing show :3
    Oh my!

  • @Bidarius
    @Bidarius 2 года назад +1

    Imagine a praying mantis running towards you with those 2m forelegs.

  • @megannzzz
    @megannzzz 5 лет назад +71

    {big bugs}
    Me: *M O V I N G T O M A R S*

    • @attilathechilla.1383
      @attilathechilla.1383 5 лет назад +4

      watch the anime Terraformars. and you will rethink your decision.

    • @teemusid
      @teemusid 5 лет назад +2

      Marvin is looking forward to his new human slave's arrival.

    • @jamesmueller8701
      @jamesmueller8701 4 года назад

      @@teemusid ,,, Sooo, that's, "whats up doc" ???

  • @antdonkop
    @antdonkop 6 лет назад +7

    "You know those cute little millipedes?"
    Yeah, adorable.

  • @bobbysantiago5659
    @bobbysantiago5659 7 лет назад +26

    I'd love a video saying where plants came from. I mean, the first plant was like "Hello, I just popped out of nowhere! I'm gonna give you some oxygen because I love your other gases. :3"
    And then there were more plants, and more, and more, and more, and more, and... Wow!

    • @xaviersmith2004
      @xaviersmith2004 5 лет назад +2

      Nate Dagreat Who said anything about atheist btw dipshit you have no life commenting on a 2 year old comment 😂😂😂

    • @anon5725
      @anon5725 4 года назад +2

      Captain here. Plants originated from cyanobacteria which basically invented photosynthesis. Later they would fuse together with larger protozoa or other bacteria and became chloroplasts which is very similar to how mitochondria and such originated. Then came algae and it took them a few million years before starting to grow on the oceans floor or move to the land and discover growing upwards is a good idea

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland 4 года назад

      Plants were probably the first original lifeforms. All life started with single cell organisms.
      Plants are renowned for feeding on sunlight and some gases.
      Then the first plant eating organisms appeared. [correction] Animal life started as multiple cell organisms evolved.
      Most started feeding on plants.
      Then the first predators appeared.

  • @TheVividen
    @TheVividen 7 лет назад +65

    Great video as usual.

  • @metrunui8224
    @metrunui8224 2 года назад +1

    I don't even want to imagine a roach a size of a slipper. Let alone it flying around.

  • @gokulcj
    @gokulcj 2 года назад +1

    Imagine the humongous underwater creatures that could have existed back then, which we never got to see or learn because their fossils are all miles below the ocean?

    • @AndrewTBP
      @AndrewTBP Год назад

      Lots of marine sediments end up on continental margins, so we do have marine fossils in various places, like the Himalaya.

  • @cashkearns
    @cashkearns 6 лет назад +22

    PBS: Age of insects
    Me: AGE OF NOPE

  • @whitneyempey4429
    @whitneyempey4429 7 лет назад +17

    Well that's terrifying

  • @brickosaurbuilderofworlds
    @brickosaurbuilderofworlds 4 года назад +3

    I keep thinking the brown cube eons sticker is a post it note stack and THAT WOULD BE SO COOL I'D BUY IT SO FAST

  • @ele_inad8440
    @ele_inad8440 5 лет назад +4

    Please, do a video on the evolution of sound. When and how did hearing evolve and when and how did making noise happen? Thank you!

  • @M-o-s-u-r-a
    @M-o-s-u-r-a 4 года назад +5

    Ah yes, the carboniferous period, the era when I was born.
    Very interesting and educative video by the way.

    • @macewindu4070
      @macewindu4070 2 года назад

      stfu moth you aren't a Arthropod

  • @netsquall
    @netsquall 7 лет назад +171

    You remember those cute little millipedes? *NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOOOOOOOOOPE*

    • @chellyd.7977
      @chellyd.7977 5 лет назад +2

      I hate bugs, I get anxiety when I see cockroaches running towards me

    • @calamar1e320
      @calamar1e320 5 лет назад +1

      Millipedes are herbivores and are incapable of hurting anything. When I was in elementary school my friends and I would always go looking for them in the woods and we thought they were adorable. CENTIPEDES, however, are the real nope I think you're thinking about

  • @helsiclife
    @helsiclife 6 лет назад +8

    great video as always!

  • @ulyssesjoyce2793
    @ulyssesjoyce2793 3 года назад +16

    A history of oxygen gas on earth and its cycle changes over eons would be very interesting. If current plants are being decomposed and O2 is being captured again, is O2 level decreasing millennia by millennia since carboniferous?

  • @tiap.c1052
    @tiap.c1052 11 месяцев назад

    I love this video! I’ve rewatched it a few times over the years. Would love if y’all did another video on the big insects of this period! (:

  • @HarrisonHanson-hy7or
    @HarrisonHanson-hy7or Год назад +1

    This explains the bugs in the King Kong movie. I never knew this was actually real tho.

  • @johnboone9917
    @johnboone9917 7 лет назад +17

    Interesting video. I've always found these giant bugs to be quite interesting. I do have one question. As most people know, there's evidence that forests made up of large treelike plants spanned almost the entire globe during this time. All forests seem to require soil as a foundation. Now, in tropical rain forests, the soil is generally thin and poor quality, but it's there and is important. Decomposers, in part, are needed to produce soil. Without decomposers, you have no soil. No soil likely means no forest. So, my question is thus: if there were no decomposers in existence during the Carboniferous, how does one explain the existence of such vast tracts of forest?

    • @sebastianschrader838
      @sebastianschrader838 2 года назад +5

      Late response but, bacteria are the most common decomposers in the world. There wasn’t terrestrial life, but there were certainly microbes living on land that filled that role. Hope this helps!

    • @theunholyadventurer2376
      @theunholyadventurer2376 2 года назад +3

      Fungi also paved the way of soil, using their acid to melt away rocks, breaking them down to soil as well as exposing rich minerals.

  • @TeaRex12
    @TeaRex12 7 лет назад +57

    I hate insects, but this was super interesting. I love this host too

    • @jiyzo
      @jiyzo 4 года назад +1

      I hate them too...

  • @andrewgrimm4590
    @andrewgrimm4590 6 лет назад +55

    This was also the Age of Giant Cans Of RAID.
    You kinda needed them.

    • @tylerjones7592
      @tylerjones7592 5 лет назад +2

      Andrew Grimm I bet the troodon’s where spraying raid on their nests

    • @jackmerlotdoesntliveherean9652
      @jackmerlotdoesntliveherean9652 5 лет назад

      @@tylerjones7592 I bet the damselflies got COMPTIA certified & started building RAID 5 arrays everywhere.

    • @dpeasehead
      @dpeasehead 4 года назад

      My guide advised me to never use RAID or anything similar on them because it only makes them mad.

  • @molchmolchmolchmolch
    @molchmolchmolchmolch 5 лет назад +3

    Love the Super Mario-inspired growth-animation and soundeffects😍😍😍😍😍👌👌👌👌👌

  • @robertbrown5319
    @robertbrown5319 3 года назад +11

    With a 35% Oxygen level in the atmosphere, spontaneous combustion and fire would have been a problem.

    • @michellebrown4903
      @michellebrown4903 3 года назад

      That's what l was thinking. A forest fire would pretty quickly have become a firestorm?

  • @bluefinmanta5373
    @bluefinmanta5373 7 лет назад +8

    I feel that you missed a great opportunity to introduce *Mazothairos enormis* and its kin to the public here.
    Also, there was one group of large insects that lived well after the Carboniferous: the *Titanopterans,* perhaps you can feature them sometime?

  • @USSAnimeNCC-
    @USSAnimeNCC- 7 лет назад +377

    Their were probably giant roach how horrifying

    • @insectilluminatigetshrekt5574
      @insectilluminatigetshrekt5574 7 лет назад +20

      Actually, there was normal roaches

    • @fredthompson7947
      @fredthompson7947 7 лет назад +9

      Steven Anchundia. 11 to 13" huge..imagine.that on your coffee maker.

    • @shadowtail4063
      @shadowtail4063 7 лет назад +5

      Fred Thompson I found one inside my coffee maker. Guess roaches like coffee

    • @RikoJAmado
      @RikoJAmado 7 лет назад +31

      Roaches. The one insect that I cannot stand!

    • @pedrosaabedra5653
      @pedrosaabedra5653 7 лет назад +9

      I heard there was a giant spider as big as a human head

  • @GerOutside
    @GerOutside 6 лет назад +6

    Freaking love bugs! Fascinating video guys! Can't wait for summer when they all wake up and i can go exploring again! 💚✌🐜🕷

  • @joelboardgamerpger5393
    @joelboardgamerpger5393 Год назад

    Kallie Moore! You are a terrific speaker. thanks for making my time enjoyable.

  • @MargoMB19
    @MargoMB19 4 года назад

    Finally making myself watch this video despite my intense bug phobias, but come on it's Eons, I can't just not watch an old Eons video. Though I admit I looked away from the screen a lot, lol.

  • @nicholaskelly6375
    @nicholaskelly6375 4 года назад +4

    Not only was there somewhere between 50% -100% more oxygen in the Carboniferous atmosphere .
    That ancient atmosphere appears to have been twice as dence as today. So you had vastly more oxygen available. Another factor was that there were no other flying animals apart from insects and relatively few land animals apart from the arthropods.

  • @rubenalbertoni1065
    @rubenalbertoni1065 5 лет назад +4

    1:20 that moment when you’re in a cave in Ark and an Arthropleura comes by and you already know that you’ll come out naked

    • @harpervee
      @harpervee 4 года назад +1

      Or when you see a terror bird in the redwoods and hope it doesn’t see you but then the next thing you see is it running after you

  • @christophecoudret2073
    @christophecoudret2073 5 лет назад +3

    A topic for Eons: how (and when?) living cells became able to perceive light?

  • @jellyfishfingernail
    @jellyfishfingernail Год назад

    i wish these still existed :( i would give one a big hug

  • @ImageRedacted
    @ImageRedacted Год назад +1

    Bro just imagine giant prehistoric spiders roaming around in your home...

    • @yumalove7223
      @yumalove7223 Год назад

      They had the world back then just don't disturb them

    • @WokeandProud
      @WokeandProud Год назад

      Spiders never really got that big.

  • @einaredlund253
    @einaredlund253 4 года назад +13

    Earth: Gets More oxygen
    Insects: haha body go big

  • @jisatsu25
    @jisatsu25 2 года назад +3

    What would humans look like today if oxygen was 35%?

  • @sadwingsraging3044
    @sadwingsraging3044 5 лет назад +6

    Insects: This is OUR age human!
    Man: Hold my DDT.

    • @tapiaanthony
      @tapiaanthony 5 лет назад

      If mrbeast keeps planting trees insects are going to be big again

    • @blaneycrabbe3390
      @blaneycrabbe3390 4 года назад

      You mean your ccl4 ?

  • @llLittleNicky
    @llLittleNicky 5 лет назад +1

    She just called a millipede cute....let that sink in.

  • @ToyoTheBear
    @ToyoTheBear 4 года назад

    Thats like waking up in a nightmare to see a bug that big in person

  • @argsgsgsgnngndg9894
    @argsgsgsgnngndg9894 6 лет назад +6

    a question to people who know about fossils and stuff: if a 100 meters long artropod existed, would we be able to find what's left now?

  • @MrKross-tc9yy
    @MrKross-tc9yy 5 лет назад +4

    Carboniferous: full of swamps
    Shrek: Far far away!

  • @metime00
    @metime00 7 лет назад +15

    You said "ferns, mosses, and some of the earliest vascular plants," that's a misleading statement, since ferns are vascular plants!

    • @TheRedKnight101
      @TheRedKnight101 7 лет назад

      Some mosses are also vascular though it is believed to have been derived separate from truely vascular plants.

    • @Blue_Anzu
      @Blue_Anzu 7 лет назад

      It depends on how you say it, I think they way they meant to say it was kinda like "Some vascular plants, and some of the earliest vascular plants" something like that

  • @DaveBuildsThings
    @DaveBuildsThings Год назад +2

    I love dragon flies. Would love to have seen a dragonfly that big.

  • @marymary83436
    @marymary83436 4 года назад

    Im going to need a rolled up billboard for this one.