“After Man” Explained | Speculative Zoology

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @CuriousArchive
    @CuriousArchive  3 года назад +685

    Quick correction to this video: the chicken isn't actually the closet living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex -- the study I was citing is outdated. Chickens are related to therapods, but aren't uniquely close to the T-Rex when compared to other bird species.

    • @cognytee
      @cognytee 3 года назад +7

      Ok

    • @stevenandersen6989
      @stevenandersen6989 3 года назад +18

      Yeah, because if the Chicken was closely related to the T rex, they all would be.

    • @alvaronavarro4895
      @alvaronavarro4895 3 года назад +16

      So what's the current closest living relative of T-Rex? (An specific species, not "BirDs" (everyone knows that)

    • @stevenandersen6989
      @stevenandersen6989 3 года назад +17

      @@alvaronavarro4895 I don't know they exact species it descended, but I know the Bird they descended from. Archaeopteryx, in the late Juassic, was either one of the first Birds, or the first bird to ever exist, and is the ancestor to all living and non living birds.

    • @alvaronavarro4895
      @alvaronavarro4895 3 года назад +5

      @@stevenandersen6989 I know that already Bro, but thanks for the knowledge anyway :D!

  • @yaafl817
    @yaafl817 3 года назад +3773

    People: "What will animals look like in the future?"
    Dixon: "H O R N S"

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 3 года назад +289

      What's particularly funny is the obsession with downward-bent horns.
      Mammals had all kinds of funky horns across their evolutionary history, but downward horns are very rare.

    • @Rhyolite-hyena
      @Rhyolite-hyena 3 года назад +81

      and Rodents

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 3 года назад +5

      @@Ezullof Hi.
      Ever thought 'If i could only help RUclips become
      less of a Mess! Cause it annoys me that its a Mess!
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      ?

    • @FarawayFragrance
      @FarawayFragrance 3 года назад +35

      You could say he thinks all the animals are horny

    • @tijanamilenkovic3425
      @tijanamilenkovic3425 3 года назад +15

      @@FarawayFragrance good one

  • @TheRougeFearow
    @TheRougeFearow 3 года назад +949

    "bats evolving to mimic flowers is absurd."
    The tawny frogmouth mimics flowers sometimes. It's a bird with a bright yellow mouth that attracts bugs.

    • @brettthebest3978
      @brettthebest3978 3 года назад +44

      Yeah it’s probably one of most accurate in this book

    • @joela6895
      @joela6895 3 года назад +38

      The praying mantis does this too

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 3 года назад +2

      #OOF

    • @Cheez_yus
      @Cheez_yus 3 года назад +1

      There are also mantis

    • @kaical8273
      @kaical8273 3 года назад +3

      Except mammals and amphibians are not really that related. Technically most of these are "possible" anatomically speaking but they wouldn't ever occur realistically speaking.

  • @everything-yd4xm
    @everything-yd4xm 3 года назад +5387

    Queen Elizabeth is so lucky to witness these beautiful animals in the future

  • @2intense857
    @2intense857 3 года назад +700

    Pokemon Company:
    "Write that down, write that down"

    • @Randomdudefromtheinternet
      @Randomdudefromtheinternet 3 года назад +19

      I’ve never wanted something so much that I didn’t know I wanted in my life

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 3 года назад +23

      Dougal is very popular in Japan. He even had a book that was ONLY published in Japan.

    • @swampertsbud02
      @swampertsbud02 3 года назад +3

      Lmao true

    • @BUKWulfSh0t
      @BUKWulfSh0t 3 года назад +3

      @@dubuyajay9964 what's the name of the book?

    • @toymagmadon07
      @toymagmadon07 3 года назад +6

      @@BUKWulfSh0t Green World

  • @theonly6blake911
    @theonly6blake911 3 года назад +2549

    So in 2021 we have entered the Speculative Zoology Renaissance, I don’t mind this one bit

    • @spikyballoon6207
      @spikyballoon6207 3 года назад +22

      ikr

    • @spikyballoon6207
      @spikyballoon6207 3 года назад +10

      @Lukas Verloy me 2

    • @shoeberrypie
      @shoeberrypie 3 года назад +7

      Also in tandem with the Dune hype

    • @idkjordash
      @idkjordash 3 года назад +75

      People want to move on from 2020 so bad we’re already imagining a world where we’ve all died

    • @overlorddante
      @overlorddante 3 года назад +14

      aye, hopefully the newfound appreciation will generate more quality speculative evolution content.

  • @jasperfitzgerald2760
    @jasperfitzgerald2760 3 года назад +1874

    Love how people are getting into speculative zoology so interesting!!

    • @reganwilliams7830
      @reganwilliams7830 3 года назад +12

      It is really interesting

    • @hdirkfosd2546
      @hdirkfosd2546 3 года назад +4

      It is indeed really interesting

    • @frog6054
      @frog6054 3 года назад +18

      I found it to be extremely interesting 2 years ago. I'm glad many people share the same passion as me now.

    • @roachead6271
      @roachead6271 3 года назад +3

      Love to see that everybody else has these kind of videos in their reccomended

    • @AlfredoPuente8
      @AlfredoPuente8 3 года назад +13

      People have been into it since the birth of man, just look at hydras, goblins or wendigos.

  • @GlassesnMouthplates
    @GlassesnMouthplates 3 года назад +1514

    Dixon: Here we have the Aeropanda.
    Me: Cool, a Panda with wings?
    Dixon: Despite its name, it resembles more like a squid with rocket thrusters.
    Me: Odd..., still a cool evolution of the squid though.
    Dixon: Despite its look, its ancestor was actually the Tibetan Fox.

    • @Lettucem3n
      @Lettucem3n 3 года назад +20

      HA

    • @CanaldoCaDiversoes
      @CanaldoCaDiversoes 3 года назад +17

      What minute

    • @inky3944
      @inky3944 2 года назад +8

      @@CanaldoCaDiversoes its a joke

    • @mightyandray7260
      @mightyandray7260 2 года назад +32

      I have the book! There are some animals he skipped but they are just like that!

    • @kotzka4626
      @kotzka4626 2 года назад

      Also Dixon: Swimming monkey. A monkey that swims.

  • @kalechips4564
    @kalechips4564 3 года назад +177

    It would be very fun if at the end he wrote something like “this is the horseshoe crab, it remains unchanged”

    • @JayMoore-e8o
      @JayMoore-e8o Год назад +8

      Genius

    • @Mr_Reaps25
      @Mr_Reaps25 Год назад +2

      Yessss

    • @ashgonza92
      @ashgonza92 Год назад +4

      Tbh a lot of animals probably won't change

    • @ornitorinco78
      @ornitorinco78 Год назад +10

      In the book, Dixon mentions that while there are changes in the marine environment, they would only be of interest to the specialist. Similar idea. I loved looking at the diagrams of which orders still survived in the posthomic.

    • @rosiechavez2615
      @rosiechavez2615 2 месяца назад

      The horseshoe crab is God's perfect creature

  • @curiouscreation55
    @curiouscreation55 3 года назад +11

    A channel that focuses on speculative biology as well as realistic fantastical storytelling and world building is the perfect content for me and some of the rarest, most well done on the internet

  • @bigpapa8225
    @bigpapa8225 3 года назад +944

    I feel like we can’t come even close to understanding what the future animals would look like without first understanding the climate and ecosystem

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 3 года назад +114

      The first dozen of pages of the book covers that.
      In fact, currently it's much easier to predict future climates, and how future ecosystems will work as a whole, than to predict what animals specifically will fill each niche.

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 года назад +6

      @@Ezullof Indeed. Well said.
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    • @lolomgwtfkaya6066
      @lolomgwtfkaya6066 3 года назад +5

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    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 года назад

      @@lolomgwtfkaya6066 I know what you mean.

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 года назад +1

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  • @deadly_golem
    @deadly_golem 3 года назад +1285

    "Im glad that wolf-sized rats aren't something we have to deal with in our time"
    Capybaras: Am I a joke to you

    • @ewanhogg3068
      @ewanhogg3068 3 года назад +205

      "No, but you're more accurately described as a guinea pig the size of a regular pig."

    • @deadly_golem
      @deadly_golem 3 года назад +64

      True... but I decided the stretch was worth it for the joke.

    • @shafiqjames6767
      @shafiqjames6767 3 года назад +4

      It does

    • @Valerio_the_wandering_sprite
      @Valerio_the_wandering_sprite 3 года назад +45

      Except that capybaras don't eat long pork and along with their fluffier cousins they are among the friendliest critters in South America. 🥩

    • @ardademir1661
      @ardademir1661 3 года назад +34

      Wtf capybaras are like the most chill animal ever

  • @wargriffin5
    @wargriffin5 3 года назад +780

    "rabbits have evolved to fill the same niche that deer once did..."
    - Wait, what happened to all the deer?

    • @narxes
      @narxes 3 года назад +228

      The same thing that happened to all animals too big to survive mass extinctions.

    • @mushrooms5601
      @mushrooms5601 3 года назад +66

      @Mother Rab I don’t like where this is going

    • @ewanhogg3068
      @ewanhogg3068 3 года назад +185

      Presumably, they died out in a mass extinction and left their niche open for a smaller creature that then became large - just like what happened with the original mammals.

    • @classichorrorenthusiast
      @classichorrorenthusiast 3 года назад +10

      @@mushrooms5601 me neither

    • @handleisntfkinavailable
      @handleisntfkinavailable 3 года назад +23

      @Mother Rab to fight to the death in a battle royale with nothing but their own skills and claws/horns/jaws/venom

  • @Zamiiz
    @Zamiiz 3 года назад +52

    What’s interesting to me is what people of the future will think about these Future Zoology documents, and how they could line up the current events from when they were written to gain an idea of the authors’ perspectives of the future

  • @orf5223
    @orf5223 2 года назад +8

    "Hopefully wolf sized rats aren't something we have to deal with"
    Capybara : Am I a joke to you?

    • @orf5223
      @orf5223 2 года назад +2

      Thanks for liking my video random guy

  • @madeofmandrake1748
    @madeofmandrake1748 3 года назад +141

    I read this book growing up and was astounded by how inventive some of these species are. My favourite was the Meaching; a descendant of the lemming, which build colonies under the snow using dead vegetation like half-ant/half-beavers. Another is the Pfrit, a small rodent with an anteater-shaped mouth that uses fine hairs on its feet and tail to skate on top of the water, eating the insects below the surface.
    Glad to see that this book hasn't been forgotten!

    • @monstermaker73
      @monstermaker73 3 года назад +6

      I am quite glad I wasn't the only one to find After Man truly fascinating!
      One of my favorites was the Raboon. I found it impossibly intriguing that a primate could evolve a more theropod-esk build theoretically, but then again, speculative evolution is never necessarily wrong.

  • @ylussjoel
    @ylussjoel 3 года назад +393

    This channel is criminally underrated.

    • @_SUPERN0VA_
      @_SUPERN0VA_ 3 года назад +1

      No

    • @ylussjoel
      @ylussjoel 3 года назад +9

      @@_SUPERN0VA_ it is

    • @ylussjoel
      @ylussjoel 3 года назад +6

      @@_SUPERN0VA_ it deserves at least 3M subs

    • @ArtisticlyAlexis
      @ArtisticlyAlexis 3 года назад +8

      The algorithm gods were smiling today, because they have another sub from me!

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 3 года назад +7

      I mean, this vidéo is just about saying out loud the content of a book. It doesn't add anything to it. Still interesting, but come on.

  • @starset4life175
    @starset4life175 3 года назад +1333

    Me and the boys evolving into new species 50 million years after man:

    • @blazingtrs6348
      @blazingtrs6348 3 года назад +15

      you mean man after man

    • @spikyballoon6207
      @spikyballoon6207 3 года назад +24

      @@blazingtrs6348 then he would say:
      Me and the boys evolving into species 50 million years man after man

    • @unknownusers0000
      @unknownusers0000 3 года назад +12

      Swimming monke

    • @LuLu.Leigh420
      @LuLu.Leigh420 3 года назад +15

      @@unknownusers0000 mermonke

    • @j-core2895
      @j-core2895 3 года назад +11

      @@LuLu.Leigh420 aquamonke

  • @Imperiused
    @Imperiused 2 года назад +34

    The Nightstalker, the Vortex, and the Rabbuck were always my personal favorites from After Man. I seriously question the concept of Swimming Anteater though. :D

    • @David-S.130
      @David-S.130 2 года назад +3

      maybe ants evolved into water insects so the anteater had to evolve with it

  • @leviroch
    @leviroch 8 месяцев назад +1

    My grandma was an english teacher with a massive library. I remember staying at hers as a kid and scouring through said library and finding this book. . . I attribute that moment as forming the basis for my utter adoration towards biology as a whole.
    That memory is such a fundamental aspect of the way i perceive the word as it is.

  • @shan3622
    @shan3622 3 года назад +1471

    Let’s just hope the Qu doesn’t screw our anatomy in the next 10 million years

    • @colk5373
      @colk5373 3 года назад +116

      “those goddamn rats keep shitting into our creation’s mouths”

    • @viktorbirkeland6520
      @viktorbirkeland6520 3 года назад +79

      Honestly, creationism is so boring. Like, it's wrong, but it's also so boring. Evolution is wild. It's insane. I love it

    • @corvoattano4223
      @corvoattano4223 3 года назад +41

      Man After Man: screw the Qu i have the shibaladabaladigabdaa

    • @simonsalisbury7606
      @simonsalisbury7606 3 года назад +13

      Excellent reference

    • @ApetheWizard
      @ApetheWizard 3 года назад +2

      The qu is fictional

  • @shamanbc9952
    @shamanbc9952 3 года назад +195

    Hopefully the All Tomorrow’s and Man after Man boom in popularity going on right now will give this a boost, great video it’s crazy it doesn’t have more views!

    • @CuriousArchive
      @CuriousArchive  3 года назад +22

      Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

    • @gustttttttt
      @gustttttttt 3 года назад +5

      they both did lol

    • @bobydigital2450
      @bobydigital2450 3 года назад +8

      All tomorrow >man after man

    • @megazillasaurus
      @megazillasaurus 3 года назад +2

      I've seen lots of all tomorrow's videos on RUclips

    • @maximocosta9415
      @maximocosta9415 3 года назад +9

      @@bobydigital2450 i mean yeah, both of those books are good but all tomorrows is better by a large margin.
      However i think after man (the book in the video) is definitely better than those two for being an actual, way more realistic, speculative zoology book, going by it's purpose of investigating evolution and biology and not trying to tell some science fiction history.

  • @amfvideos6810
    @amfvideos6810 3 года назад +275

    Awesome, looks like All Tomorrows is opening up doors to other types of spec. I'm glad my favourite genre is getting more attention.

    • @HuskySansVergogne
      @HuskySansVergogne 3 года назад +20

      You don't know much about your "favorite genre" it seems

    • @ComradePilas
      @ComradePilas 3 года назад +5

      Poser moment

    • @MigWith
      @MigWith 3 года назад +11

      @@HuskySansVergogne did you think about people founding about a genre turning it in their favorite even not knowing much about it? Yeah... It happens a lot, you don't have to know everything about it to be you favorite, because you could just found it out

    • @melod_1144
      @melod_1144 3 года назад

      me too ☺️

    • @the_Googie
      @the_Googie 3 года назад +11

      @@HuskySansVergogne im sure what they meant is that the popularity of All Tomorrows sheds light on previous, current and furure alliterations of the genre, not that AT came first..

  • @newtdockery9575
    @newtdockery9575 3 года назад +11

    I’ll never forget the Bat that walks on the front legs. We read that book when I was in first grade back in 1993. A paleontologist came to our class and showed us fossils. We also went to a tar pit.

  • @justjones5430
    @justjones5430 3 года назад +61

    I've had this book since the early 80's, it's waaaaay out of date.
    I'd love to see a new edition that encompasses more up to date info. 🙂

    • @Jelly_Juice2006
      @Jelly_Juice2006 Год назад +1

      Lol how can something speculating 5 billions years be out or date

    • @youdonotcare
      @youdonotcare Год назад +7

      @@Jelly_Juice2006 the way it speculates on how animals would evolve would be ood

    • @GentlemanQ
      @GentlemanQ Год назад

      You mean more up to date pseudoscience illustrations.

    • @amelliamendel2227
      @amelliamendel2227 Год назад

      No, the new evidence that oxygen continues to decline which will perpetuate species continuing to reduce in size. Not one single example of any species gaining in size in the last 200 years. 2 years ago we didn't understand how much oxygen is reducing over time on earth.

    • @TheHolladiewaldfeee
      @TheHolladiewaldfeee 11 месяцев назад

      ​​@@youdonotcareyeah tbh we would speculate 99,9 % now as much as 40 years ago

  • @danny08390
    @danny08390 3 года назад +41

    I remember reading his books back in primary school. Man those were the days

    • @陳嘉宇-y4q
      @陳嘉宇-y4q 3 года назад +2

      I got a original copy in my bookshelf

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 3 года назад

      There's nothing like 80s-90s kids science books. Miss those Scholastic book catelogs.

  • @yorhaunit21o32
    @yorhaunit21o32 3 года назад +205

    To be honest the only one i see ACTUALLY being evolved in the future are the penguins into fully aquatic animals.

    • @pbroski92
      @pbroski92 3 года назад +26

      And seals and comparable aquatic carnivores to take on more of an Orca/Dolphin/Whale role since those are declining

    • @nebulousisgod
      @nebulousisgod 3 года назад +7

      Because we’re screwing with the planet’s ecosystems so much it’s tough to imagine how it’ll effect everything, besides killing it.

    • @osmanthewoodsman5040
      @osmanthewoodsman5040 3 года назад +1

      How would they hatch their eggs if they were fully aquatic and couldn't go on land?

    • @pbroski92
      @pbroski92 3 года назад +19

      @@osmanthewoodsman5040 to answer that question just look at sharks :) even ichtyosaurs and plesiosaurs were revealed to hatch live young as the fossil record reveals

    • @Ozraptor4
      @Ozraptor4 3 года назад +14

      @@pbroski92 seems to be extremely difficult for animals with heavily calcified eggshells to develop viviparity. Livebearing reptiles belong to groups with parchment-type eggshells. Turtles, crocs and birds (all of which have calcified eggshells) seem to be permanently stuck with egg laying.

  • @bread5350
    @bread5350 3 года назад +152

    Imagine Ark but with these creatures.

    • @gonzalo600
      @gonzalo600 3 года назад +5

      It will be strange

    • @kontroller5304
      @kontroller5304 3 года назад +11

      genesis part 3?

    • @monstermaker73
      @monstermaker73 3 года назад +8

      God, it would be a spectacle.

    • @PlanetShlorpian
      @PlanetShlorpian 3 года назад +8

      Imagine Ark but single player focused and good.

    • @monstermaker73
      @monstermaker73 3 года назад +4

      @@PlanetShlorpian If it is good or not is a matter of perspective. Hard? That is without question.
      Though I do feel like we will be getting a more individualistic-styled experience with Ark ||.

  • @rodcab2973
    @rodcab2973 3 года назад +26

    I love to compare these speculative evolutionary possibilities to those of Renaissance artists drawing animals they'd only ever hear of but had never actually seen.

    • @WhiteDove73-888
      @WhiteDove73-888 2 года назад +2

      You mean exactly like they did with the past…😅

  • @viniciuspaiva3578
    @viniciuspaiva3578 3 года назад +22

    I’m working on my own speculative biology project, one that involves that starts with a post nuclear war Earth, with the humans leaving the Earth, with all the wildlife and many of the flora in arks, leaving the pests and majority of the pets and livestock to die.
    But, nature finds a way, and Earth gets restored with the new species filling as many niches as possible

    • @VincentEdelstein
      @VincentEdelstein 3 года назад

      Uhoh we both have the same idea 😅

    • @viniciuspaiva3578
      @viniciuspaiva3578 3 года назад

      @@VincentEdelstein hey!

    • @blartversenwaldiii
      @blartversenwaldiii 2 года назад

      @@VincentEdelstein it is a pretty good idea

    • @entertainment-ox8gl
      @entertainment-ox8gl 2 года назад

      When will it be released? Is there a video about it?

    • @Kraziguhy
      @Kraziguhy 9 месяцев назад

      That's literally what in my mind.
      I wonder what the animals would look like.

  • @certifiedbruhmoment2173
    @certifiedbruhmoment2173 3 года назад +30

    I love how creative people can get

  • @kwek2798
    @kwek2798 3 года назад +45

    This book *shows canine looking animal*
    “This is a descendant of the snake”

  • @somedude2468
    @somedude2468 3 года назад +19

    Imagine a world where you see these animals roaming around futuristic city ruins and architecture worn by time covered in plantation and overgrowth. Rabbucks grazing on plains with giant radio towers and floating broken windmills, gigantelopes pushing away huge metallic fragments hidden underneath snow and ice, it’s crazy how cool and beautiful this concept is.

    • @Captianmex1C0
      @Captianmex1C0 3 года назад

      Until all the Nuclear Power Plants Have a meltdown without Humans there to Contain them. And the world enters a Nuclear winter

    • @Artemis_NMRN
      @Artemis_NMRN Год назад

      Yea

    • @Vivealgerieforever
      @Vivealgerieforever Год назад +2

      I don't think any of our buildings will last 50 million years, even if they are more advanced.

    • @ThePheonix66
      @ThePheonix66 Год назад

      At the rate nature and time naturally decays, overwhelms, and reclaims man made structures, I highly doubt anything manmade will last more than a few thousand years let alone 1 million.

    • @somedude2468
      @somedude2468 Год назад

      @@ThePheonix66 some things we made or will make in the future will stay there for a long damn time. If pyramids can last a few thousand years just being rocks, then the stuff we have now must last way longer

  • @mindOverMatter_14
    @mindOverMatter_14 3 года назад +29

    Animals in 50 million years:
    "Well, I guess its time to be a carnivore"

  • @TheChangeling13
    @TheChangeling13 3 года назад +55

    Will admit, had me in the first half, but after the animal with the horns to push snow out of the way, I started critiquing more of these speculations and realized a lot of them are baseless speculation. Not to say no one can do any speculating on what the future holds, but for educational purposes, not enough research went into these changes.
    If an animal needed horns to push snow out of the way, why don't deer do that? A lot of the way animals evolved is about energy conversation. Having to constantly shovel snow out of the way is a lot of work and its extremely inefficient. Heavier animals like bears hibernate, and animals that hunt in the winter, like the lynx, have larger feet to act like snowshoes to keep them from sinking in.
    There's more I want to touch on but for the sake of not getting lengthy, This is my big example of why a lot of these are unrealistic. The nature of speculation is still fun though.

    • @Shenordak
      @Shenordak 3 года назад +18

      Reindeer, the only deer in which both sexes have horns, do just that: they use their horns to scrape and shovel away snow to get to the plants underneath.

    • @groovi35
      @groovi35 3 года назад +1

      I was looking for a comment like this

    • @sephirothcrescent5768
      @sephirothcrescent5768 3 года назад +5

      I think only a few of these speculations are more realistic but not everything. like the one for the monkeys and the bats i think those are far more unrealistic same for the penguins and rabbits.

    • @dokusa2173
      @dokusa2173 2 года назад +7

      Squirrel with barb tail would need to keep it high enough not to drag on the ground, or else the barbs will be damaged, lost, wasted, etc. The tail can't curl in on itself like usual, or the squirrel might stab itself. So already we need a heavier muscle system to support the tail along the back and keep it off the ground. Which means the squirrel has less agility and requires more to eat. This is the sort of trend that just keeps happening. It's not very realistic just like you said, but it is fun! :>

    • @mitchderise
      @mitchderise 2 года назад +1

      I agree. It seems more imaginative than speculative which is still interesting but has it's own place

  • @kenet362
    @kenet362 3 года назад +130

    So basically everything in the future gets bigger, oh and I couldn’t forget R A T S lots of them

    • @bobliboggin7375
      @bobliboggin7375 3 года назад +1

      Human killed to extinction most non rat animals

    • @shafiqjames6767
      @shafiqjames6767 3 года назад +4

      Funny how evolution renders animal smaller for millions generations untill they decide to draw it bigger

    • @bobliboggin7375
      @bobliboggin7375 3 года назад

      @@shafiqjames6767 Well, the Rabbuck is a real animal today, and it lives exactly there. You can pet a dolichotis patagonum on many zoo.

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 3 года назад +9

      Not really. The modern megafauna disappeared, so smaller animals fill the niches left empty. And yes it means getting bigger. But it doesn't mean that there are no small animal left.
      It's a very old story. Everytime there's a big extinction event, the bigger animals disappear and the smaller ones evolve to fill the ecosystems.

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 3 года назад

      @@shafiqjames6767 It doesn't though. Humans are directly responsible for the disappearance of megafauna around the globe. We are an extinction event. Evolution is a force we are fighting against.

  • @gandsproductions5105
    @gandsproductions5105 3 года назад +87

    I really do love the designs of these animals. There so imaginative but yet realistic.

    • @gandsproductions5105
      @gandsproductions5105 3 года назад +4

      @Chazzerine well that's an exception to the norm. Of all things that one really doesn't make sense. Why would you flip your legs around like that idk

    • @capootiscrepitoos
      @capootiscrepitoos 3 года назад +6

      @@gandsproductions5105 It makes sense if you look at how present bats work. The legs are used for grabbing, and the arms are used for locomotion. The Nightstalker works the exact same way but for the ground, the arms now running instead of flapping. Not really the best evolution, but makes sense as the quickest path from modern bats.

    • @gandsproductions5105
      @gandsproductions5105 3 года назад

      @@capootiscrepitoos well weren't the flooers also bats? And they had normal arms and legs.

    • @capootiscrepitoos
      @capootiscrepitoos 3 года назад

      @@gandsproductions5105 They just sit still all day waiting for food, so their legs barely need to evolve to do anything really

    • @gandsproductions5105
      @gandsproductions5105 3 года назад

      @@capootiscrepitoos it still stands that they have fully formed fingers and hands. I just think it's a bit backwards

  • @davidlie3103
    @davidlie3103 3 года назад +51

    Extremely underrated hope this got more views

  • @caesarsalad9288
    @caesarsalad9288 3 года назад +2

    watching this video feels like looking at a picture book as a little child while getting read the texts by a grownup, so wholesome^^

  • @AnAmbientGrey
    @AnAmbientGrey 2 года назад +2

    I discovered a copy of this book in my nan's house in the early 2000's and thought it was the coolest, most inspired thing I'd ever seen

  • @JackTWT
    @JackTWT 3 года назад +91

    Imagine the Future Humans living with these abominations
    Also, Monke Swim

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 3 года назад +11

      Well the concept of the book is precisely to imagine how animals would evolve if humans were to disappear today.
      If humans were still around, then it would be a completely different story... For once, I very much doubt most wild animals would survive.

    • @dietrevich
      @dietrevich 3 года назад +18

      Humans are already an abomination, think naked hairless ape.

    • @moonooze6171
      @moonooze6171 3 года назад

      @@dietrevich you are so brave to say that.

    • @cloud2578
      @cloud2578 3 года назад +1

      @@dietrevich 😲 wow vary brave!

    • @gnochhuos645
      @gnochhuos645 3 года назад +9

      Today’s animals are also abominations, we are just too used to them. Imagine seeing an elephant or a giraffe for the first time and being terrified at their abnormal appearances

  • @minestar2247
    @minestar2247 3 года назад +9

    After man, even the title is an art form ,there should be a best title award

  • @alexanderstottlemyre3679
    @alexanderstottlemyre3679 3 года назад +17

    so basically almost everything is a descendant of a rodent and penguins are now whales and dolphins
    10:13 i now immediately love this thing to cause it's so goofy looking

  • @danielcooper3332
    @danielcooper3332 3 года назад +11

    This is really interesting. However, if the Vortex and Porpin had evolved from Penguins they would more likely be found in the Antarctic and southern oceans rather than the Arctic circle.

  • @urphakeandgey6308
    @urphakeandgey6308 2 года назад +1

    I love All Tomorrows because it starts off rather dark, but ends with the rather positive message of "Love Today and Sieze All Tomorrows."

  • @redeye4516
    @redeye4516 3 года назад +17

    All this speculative zoology reminds me of a creepypasta I read back in middle school. The government had some secret program where they left a bunch of animals and plants to evolve in a space station with zero gravity. Wolves became parasites latching onto trees, rabbits grew into predators that swam through the air and had large bug eyes on top of their heads, trees and plant life grew all over the place. It was written as horror and the protagonist blew it up and then cried in his spaceship IIRC.
    Today, this is stuff is not horror, but a hobby and source of memes. It's like this "creepy" video I saw from 2009 called "who wants to gnaw on human bones" that's basically just the same as the average shitpost now. In fact, it's being treated as one now.

    • @VincentEdelstein
      @VincentEdelstein 3 года назад +1

      Woah what’s it called I wanna read it?

    • @redeye4516
      @redeye4516 3 года назад +1

      +Wtf Am I Doing
      I don't remember tbh, it's been years. It's probably still there, unless the site was shut down without my knowledge between then and now. I'll try to find it anyways, but you may have luck finding it first with my busy schedule.

  • @dank_smirk2ndchannel200
    @dank_smirk2ndchannel200 Год назад +5

    8:06 who would have guessed that this whole time, while humans wished to return to monke, monkes wished to return to dino.

  • @benjaminbrand3714
    @benjaminbrand3714 2 года назад +4

    Anyone else think the Horrane look like a lifelike Dr. Seuss drawing? 😂
    Incredible work though! I love this area of biology

  • @zomatsi8161
    @zomatsi8161 Год назад +3

    6:03 i heard him trying to hold in his laugh lol

  • @saphiregoji9652
    @saphiregoji9652 2 года назад +3

    3:03 im happy this isn't how sonic looked like
    But man he be evolving

  • @ancientgamer246
    @ancientgamer246 3 года назад +4

    That Desert Leaper looked cute as hell and now I want one.

  • @Sloth_Guy_Alex
    @Sloth_Guy_Alex 3 года назад +6

    8:55 *🎵🎶LIFE COULD BE A DREAM, LIFE COULD BE A DREEEEAM🎶🎵*

  • @jerrybailey5797
    @jerrybailey5797 3 года назад +3

    I'm loving this speculative zoology , makes you think and wonder about what life could be like in millions of years time on earth

  • @smoceany9478
    @smoceany9478 Год назад +2

    guy: so what will the future be like
    dixon: small get big

  • @maryangel207
    @maryangel207 3 года назад +1

    "I'm glad wolf sized rats is not something we have to deal with"
    Capybara: OKAY I PULL UP

  • @Anna-po1sb
    @Anna-po1sb 3 года назад +10

    The giant rat actually reminds me of the Thylocene, its gone full circle xD

  • @AzraelAngel945
    @AzraelAngel945 3 года назад +7

    This deserves more views

    • @CuriousArchive
      @CuriousArchive  3 года назад +1

      Thanks!

    • @nugrahadwianggoro
      @nugrahadwianggoro 3 года назад

      @@CuriousArchive does Douglas mention another highly intelligent being that would replace humans in the speculative zoology? Agree, this deserve more views!

  • @ZUEnt2785
    @ZUEnt2785 3 года назад +8

    I actually have After Man
    I always loved looking at how animals would look like in the future.
    I was also thinking of drawing them in my own style.

    • @Lettucem3n
      @Lettucem3n 3 года назад +1

      Make a deviantart account and go ahead.

    • @ZUEnt2785
      @ZUEnt2785 3 года назад +1

      @@Lettucem3n I'm trying to make a DeviantArt account

  • @jenna1931
    @jenna1931 2 года назад +1

    I've seen most of these animals in a book collection my mother had. There were only a few pages in one book, so it was far from being complete, but it was my favorite one. It was something like 20-25 years ago! I'm so glad to see these creatures again!!

  • @revcrow7154
    @revcrow7154 3 года назад +4

    6:49 Rootsucker looks exactly like a Pink armadillo. Smallest of the species and probably the oldest still existing

  • @LensBlurr
    @LensBlurr 3 года назад +4

    50 million years into the future... The dogs have become the world's most intelligent lifeform and they are working hard to collect human bones, studying its history and displaying it to their museums. Some dog archeologists even named us the dog's best friend saying how helpful we were back in the days where they had us not just a pet but a companion.

  • @roblamb8327
    @roblamb8327 3 года назад +9

    Interesting, very interesting. Thanks for posting it.
    But it would be interesting to know the climatic and environmental conditions assumed for these evolutions; also possible deviations based on different changes.
    Subbed to see if you consider this as a future topic.

  • @noxoltherat4194
    @noxoltherat4194 3 года назад +8

    Thanks to this video, for the first time in my life I’m asking for books from my parents.
    I’m gonna have the time of my life when showing these books to my friends at middle school
    : D

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 года назад +3

      I thought this channel's comment-section/s, if any place,
      would have smarteristic and smarttastic people.
      So i wanted to ask your opinion of a Project of mine,
      trying to help youtube help itself - getting it to become less
      of what can only be described as 'Messy' without wanting
      to use hard swearing...
      P0rn, Racism, Sexism, Scam, Spam-Bots, P0rn-Spam-Bots
      and much more. Oh, and of course the new Kid in Town:
      The Covid-Denier/Mask-Hater.
      All of them are non-subtle (some more than others)
      and therefore easy to find.
      I used the reportbutton as it was originally intended;
      not as Cancel-Culture but to help.
      Just this week, i got 1 Covid-Denier-Channel (yes, the entire thing,
      not just 1 video) and 2 Open Racists (Users, not RUclipsrs) removed.
      And this feels good.
      No, its not a 'Wonder-Miracle-Solution!!', but who needs that? Do you need that?
      If so, ok, i dont have anything for you.
      Yet, i feel confident about this enough to ask: Wanna join the Fun? The helping?
      Both?

    • @noxoltherat4194
      @noxoltherat4194 3 года назад +1

      @@loturzelrestaurant I would honestly love to, but I’m 11 XD
      And unfortunately I don’t know enough about the topic to help or participate. I do love your idea though. I hope you the absolute best in making your project!!! Tysm for the offer, but no ty

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 года назад +3

      @@noxoltherat4194 Dont worry, Mr.Mac-Rat.
      At 11 years old, you should indeed not try to find weird and s-ual stuff,
      but that does not make your Options drop to 0.
      Not Zero, no.

    • @noxoltherat4194
      @noxoltherat4194 3 года назад +3

      @@loturzelrestaurant I can 100% help with reporting the Anti-maskers and Covid-deniers! I think I will join, tysm for offering this to me and bringing it to my attention! I’m in

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 года назад +2

      @@noxoltherat4194
      I mean, those dumb videos for dumb people about a 'Russian Guy Gropes 1000 Boobies!!' is probably not so intense that you couldnt real quick go there and report it and then leave,
      but ok, i get it.
      Totally fine and understandable to not want to deal with that Nonsense.
      But what about 'Harald TV'?
      If you check his channel with exact 4 Videos out, you will see from the Like-Dislike-Ratio alone that he's... toxic... and the comment-section will prove even more that he's absolutely funny-in-the-head.
      Check him out.

  • @dordonake
    @dordonake Год назад +3

    Some people would laugh at my face for saying it, but Dixon is a freaking genius. He came up with a creative setting that nobody can hold anything against, both because 50 million years is too far in the future to be accurate and because it can be interpreted as a social commentary if you look deep enough (example: The weird tree whom fruits stay on the mother tree and keep growing there until something takes them to direct sunlight predicted the Y generation and its commitment problems). That, and the creatures are just awesome.

    • @JayMoore-e8o
      @JayMoore-e8o Год назад

      I have tried propagating the idea that genius isn't knowing a bunch of shit, it's being able to figure out shit you don't know. He is the absolute embodiment of this theory.
      I like your brain

  • @brandonbloch7868
    @brandonbloch7868 3 года назад +3

    My favorite book as a kid. Really sparked my imagination. So cool to see it's coming back up!

  • @Gleann
    @Gleann 3 года назад +3

    I actually owned this book when I was a kid. Some of the animal concepts are wild!

  • @jasonsanders8797
    @jasonsanders8797 2 года назад +3

    I've never seen or read this book, but I feel like it should have a section about how cockroaches and horse-shoe crabs still haven't changed.

  • @easytiger6570
    @easytiger6570 3 года назад +8

    5:28 Aquatic dinosaurs back on the menu boys

  • @NanobanaKinako
    @NanobanaKinako Год назад +2

    The last animal looks so cute. I want that as my pet.

  • @Tom-bm2kt
    @Tom-bm2kt 3 года назад +2

    Book title: What if dinosaurs never went extinct.
    Birds: Am I a joke to you?

  • @angelique7618
    @angelique7618 3 года назад +6

    I absolutely love this channel. In saying so, I have seen large bullfrog eat medium size rats, rabbits and other large frogs.

    • @fionagibson7529
      @fionagibson7529 2 года назад

      You would probably be interested in beelzebufo, an extinct frog probably about the size of a chihuahua that is thought to have eaten baby dinosaurs.

  • @rap7771
    @rap7771 2 года назад +3

    "I'm glad there's no wolf sized rats today"
    Just go to New York bro

  • @some_dude_maybe
    @some_dude_maybe 3 года назад +3

    5:33 sir, that's a puffin.

  • @Skanking-Corpse
    @Skanking-Corpse 6 месяцев назад

    So this unlocked a memory for me. I'm 43, and as a very little kid I clearly remember watching a show on what I think was the Discovery channel that had the Night Stalker featured in it. I remember that a full sized model was made as well and it was a truly weird and terrifying thing to see. Does anyone else remember seeing this? Maybe you could direct me to what show it was.

  • @AdamEmond
    @AdamEmond 3 года назад +4

    There are no penguins in the northern hemisphere, let alone the arctic.
    That's quite a speculation.

  • @123cityperson
    @123cityperson 3 года назад +6

    finally, someone talks about it

  • @FrostyFoxDrake
    @FrostyFoxDrake 3 года назад +8

    It’s interesting to see Dixon’s speculations, especially how he (and a lot of people at that time) didn’t realize that we as a species could have such a profoundly detrimental impact on our environment. I think, given that were this post-human earth, most modern animals wouldn’t be able to inhabit the polluted world we’ll leave behind, and just go extinct

    • @IgnisDomini97
      @IgnisDomini97 3 года назад +3

      I mean, why do you think almost all the animals here are descended from small animals like rats, bats, rabbits, etc.? All the big ones went extinct.

    • @monstermaker73
      @monstermaker73 3 года назад +2

      I suppose that is just the depressing undertone of his species, yet he still manages to realize that life will go on.
      And it makes sense that all current megafaunal creatures would go extinct based on Dougal Dixon's thesis; overhunting, rapid climate change, and habitat instability/depletion would be their undoing.

  • @gomezgarciaeduardoi.4165
    @gomezgarciaeduardoi.4165 2 года назад +1

    I have a Book of The year 1982 that has a mention to this exactly book, looks so interesting the HUGE variety of models that the animal kingdom has to show.

  • @FabianoTAzevedo
    @FabianoTAzevedo 2 года назад

    The chance of each of these species evolve that very way is one in millions, yet nice speculative ideas.

  • @garganrose
    @garganrose 3 года назад +5

    So Wayne Barlowe Dogal Dixon and C.M. Cosman are basically the holy Trinity of speculative evolution.

  • @TheunwantedTane
    @TheunwantedTane 3 года назад +6

    imagine an animal that has brown feathers, long yellow beak, looooooooooong neck like an emu but is a fully evolved kiwi. ._.

  • @Ragnarok182
    @Ragnarok182 3 года назад +4

    Imagine if Humans returned to Earth 50 million years later and wonder if these animals existed when their ancestors lived on Earth.

    • @a.dennis4835
      @a.dennis4835 Год назад

      Dixon was considering writing a book with that premise but executive meddling turned it into "Man After Man".

  • @mayhewstorm1473
    @mayhewstorm1473 8 месяцев назад

    I love like ALL your speculative biology videos. I always want them to be longer lol

  • @Dehalove
    @Dehalove 3 года назад +1

    Dixon's work feels more like the Monster Manual of DnD, whereas Koseman's challenges convention with purpose.

  • @EkardRimidalv
    @EkardRimidalv 3 года назад +6

    And ladies and gentlemen this is how Pokemon started out...

  • @ramoartup1921
    @ramoartup1921 3 года назад +3

    CA: " I'm certainly glad that wolf-sized rats aren't something we have to deal with in our time."
    People from the future" I'm certainly glad that we don't have to deal with tiny vampire bugs, oversized water geckos, and furious fat river cows."

  • @GreaterGrievobeast55
    @GreaterGrievobeast55 3 года назад +4

    Of the trilogy this ones probably my favorite I think!

  • @ipotatosenpai7002
    @ipotatosenpai7002 2 года назад +2

    THIS BOOK WAS SO IMPORTANT FOR ME WHEN I WAS A BABY

  • @MartenIsTaken
    @MartenIsTaken 3 года назад

    Curious archive: I'm glad wolf sized rats don't exist
    Capybaras: am I invisible to you?

  • @low-phas
    @low-phas 11 месяцев назад +3

    This video has just appeared in my recommendations.
    How the hell did you get a picture of my mother-in-law for your thumbnail?

    • @Caratrox
      @Caratrox 10 месяцев назад

      Thats not true....
      The night stalker is beautiful.

  • @matenzo
    @matenzo 3 года назад +6

    Why does the anteater develop swimming capabilities like that? Do ants become aquatic?

    • @ATEG8374
      @ATEG8374 3 года назад +1

      Yes, in After Man descendants of Army Ants develop into floating bivouacs that catch fish prey in ways similar to the Portuguese Man-o-War

  • @metaloverlord7465
    @metaloverlord7465 3 года назад +13

    Curious Archive: Imagine a world 50 million years in the future, after humanity has vanished.
    Me: Waaaay ahead of you, I already imagine a future devoid of humans everytime a politician opens their mouth 😂

    • @metaloverlord7465
      @metaloverlord7465 3 года назад

      @@cobinasaur Go lie down before you hurt yourself because you are trying WAY too hard hoss.

  • @jerrbear5958
    @jerrbear5958 3 года назад +1

    The Rootsucker is adorable and no one can change my mind.

  • @garthdavis6223
    @garthdavis6223 3 года назад +1

    There already was a show about this. It was called The Future Is Wild. It was followed by a short lived animated series.

  • @fauxyeahjandy
    @fauxyeahjandy 3 года назад +5

    Imma need this to come back with new creatures

  • @hil449
    @hil449 3 года назад +3

    8:25 these are NOT baboons

  • @kfcroc18
    @kfcroc18 3 года назад +3

    Thats not a baboon. 8:15

  • @AnnoyedSonic
    @AnnoyedSonic Год назад +1

    I feel like so many of these were just made to go "Hah! You thought this was desendant of this creature, but it was ACTUALLY a decendant of THIS creature HAH I fooled you!" and not much else.

  • @Official_Rz
    @Official_Rz 3 года назад +14

    Alright seriously, whoever made this takes speculation to a new level when it comes to horns. Almost everything has horns. Let me guess, if fish developed in 50 million years, they'd have horns. Goldfish, chickens, crickets, anything this guy, Dixon can think of, has horns.

  • @thomasrdiehl
    @thomasrdiehl 3 года назад +4

    I do not think the hedgehog is a good representative of insectivores. While it is a member of the group, it is a highly derived one. More typical members of the group would be the shrews. The book had a hedgehog decendant, but that was a completely different animal (and sadly one of those that made the least sense, being a less defensible hedgehog).

    • @Shenordak
      @Shenordak 3 года назад

      Insectivores are paraphylectic, meaning they contain unrelated groups of animals, like hedgehogs and shrews. This was not known in the early 80s. But I agree that the shrew is a more likely ancestor.