The Extinction That Never Happened

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  • @Papa_Waffles
    @Papa_Waffles 3 года назад +1276

    "They didn't cheat death, they cheated extinction."
    That's too powerful of a line

  • @colinchristensen6029
    @colinchristensen6029 3 года назад +1918

    PBS Eons has been spoiling Attack on Titan for years, and we didn’t even know it

    • @jayr12745
      @jayr12745 3 года назад +110

      The thumbnail is literally page 1 of Chapter 137. How about that haha

    • @jimrustler
      @jimrustler 3 года назад +5

      i came to write that too, hahaha

    • @firewatch9224
      @firewatch9224 3 года назад +9

      You guys watch heaven designer anime? The small boy also spoil AOT by creating it

    • @kenraymondvillamonte5118
      @kenraymondvillamonte5118 3 года назад +1

      PBS Eons you goat

    • @nikewalker96
      @nikewalker96 3 года назад +3

      @@jayr12745 so isayama drew inspiration for the chapter from this thumbnail?

  • @celestialfish9348
    @celestialfish9348 3 года назад +1790

    everybody gangsta till the weird spiked wormy boi touches a girl's back

    • @yoshikagekira631
      @yoshikagekira631 3 года назад +81

      Imagine seing à giant skeleton doing Fortnite dances as he destroys thousand of soldiers.

    • @DeepakKumar-ud9by
      @DeepakKumar-ud9by 3 года назад +37

      Aot reference.

    • @dari9345
      @dari9345 3 года назад +25

      @@yoshikagekira631 Truly a devil.

    • @arcticchain5264
      @arcticchain5264 3 года назад +10

      *r u m b l e : )*

    • @zawwin1846
      @zawwin1846 2 года назад +11

      Worm chan never dies. It just keeps moving forward living

  • @striveknight4782
    @striveknight4782 3 года назад +884

    Fun Fact: Hallucigenia only has forward facing motion, so it's only movement is to keep moving forward, until his enemies are destroyed.

    • @GrievyRZ
      @GrievyRZ 2 года назад +59

      shutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup

    • @squamousthomas3267
      @squamousthomas3267 2 года назад +15

      As much as I want to like this comment, it’s already at 69 likes

    • @Dakka-do4cu
      @Dakka-do4cu 2 года назад +9

      @@squamousthomas3267 Now it's not

    • @ivanribnikov2001
      @ivanribnikov2001 2 года назад +28

      Tatakae

    • @lyrimetacurl0
      @lyrimetacurl0 2 года назад +2

      @@squamousthomas3267 nice

  • @hiroshima7589
    @hiroshima7589 6 лет назад +2877

    So what your telling me is that there could be millions of species that went extinct and they never fossilised and maybe some survived and are in the present day and we won't even realise it

    • @martinsmallwood5581
      @martinsmallwood5581 4 года назад +192

      Ding ding ding.

    • @whimpypatrol5503
      @whimpypatrol5503 4 года назад +83

      Whatever he's meant to say, he invariably admitted and dogmatically claimed that 1) everything biologists state as scientific fact is based on a scant bit of evidence 2) though the evidence is small, it is a random, generalizable and a more-or-less complete representation of life on earth, and 3) no change in the explanation of life and evolution would occur if every organism's remains had fossilized and been found and studied down to the DNA level. In other words, modern biology is a religion.

    • @dondragmer2412
      @dondragmer2412 4 года назад +11

      "You're," not "your."

    • @fulviopontarollo2952
      @fulviopontarollo2952 4 года назад +79

      I hope it’s not that damn 2 meters-long millepede

    • @erick289777
      @erick289777 4 года назад +349

      @@whimpypatrol5503 What? have you ever checked how they decode genetic code of living organisms? Biology is a science. And it is updated with every new discovery, which means they totally admit when they have something that's inaccurate or wrong... unlike religion.

  • @wdietsche7258
    @wdietsche7258 5 лет назад +2484

    The realization fossils probably 'missed' a lot of animals really blew my mind. Just think of all the organisms that could have existed that weren't easily preserved.

    • @heavenleigh111
      @heavenleigh111 4 года назад +36

      Like where coal and diamonds come from?

    • @ledeux
      @ledeux 4 года назад +6

      Who care if we missed

    • @austinmattis1217
      @austinmattis1217 4 года назад +271

      Ratedr 711 everyone who likes science 😂 why are you even watching this video if you don’t care tf

    • @skippychurch2965
      @skippychurch2965 4 года назад +204

      @@ledeux comments like this are why the thumbs down button on RUclips comments would be helpful.

    • @ledeux
      @ledeux 4 года назад +5

      @@skippychurch2965 helpful how so you waste 2 sec on something that will have no impact in your life later on.

  • @gyanprakash3671
    @gyanprakash3671 3 года назад +1175

    "feeling cute, might cause a global genocide later idk"
    - Hallucigenia

  • @RicardoMoralesMassin
    @RicardoMoralesMassin 5 лет назад +779

    This made me sad for all the wonderful animals that are lost in time forever.

    • @dariabusek3566
      @dariabusek3566 4 года назад +14

      >>lost in time forever

    • @erikswanson5753
      @erikswanson5753 3 года назад +53

      Yes. It really makes me wonder how many species lived, thrived came and went and left no trace.

    • @TheSexysteph69
      @TheSexysteph69 3 года назад +15

      Erik Swanson I was thinking the same thing, like how many species have we missed that are super different and may even complete other animals diets and other things

    • @cookeymonster83
      @cookeymonster83 3 года назад +14

      Be thankful that they are. Every lost species, every extinction event, every death led evolution to creating you.

    • @adrianbridgeman8769
      @adrianbridgeman8769 3 года назад +3

      Trilobite...

  • @blartblart
    @blartblart 3 года назад +1150

    they didn't go extinct they just transferred their consciousness to the snk universe and asserted their dominance there

    • @Chibi_Nagisa
      @Chibi_Nagisa 3 года назад +15

      👁️_👁️

    • @blartblart
      @blartblart 3 года назад +10

      @@Chibi_Nagisa 👁️👄👁️

    • @jux3283
      @jux3283 3 года назад +16

      GABI GANG

    • @ShinyMew151
      @ShinyMew151 3 года назад +5

      Theory, that Hallucigenia is a living fossil.

    • @bababooey7418
      @bababooey7418 3 года назад +12

      not the Hallucigania shifting realities 😭

  • @buttersddragon
    @buttersddragon 6 лет назад +950

    "I'm not going to describe using my words"
    Good choice.

  • @101brittanyrox
    @101brittanyrox 5 лет назад +1142

    The world and the entire history of it is so overwhelmingly beautiful it makes me emotional lol

    • @cindysnow802
      @cindysnow802 4 года назад +41

      Only a cool person with a sensitive sould would say that

    • @clarawonders4812
      @clarawonders4812 4 года назад +29

      The entire history of the world in a nutshell:weird creatures turning into weirder creatures then dying and randomly evolving into even weirder creatures *cough cough* hUmaNs

    • @out_of_the_BOX
      @out_of_the_BOX 4 года назад +3

      Agreed my friend.

    • @out_of_the_BOX
      @out_of_the_BOX 4 года назад +1

      @@clarawonders4812 lol

    • @stevedenis8292
      @stevedenis8292 4 года назад +1

      @@clarawonders4812 Will humans evolve into something even more weird or are we just a dead that will fizzle out.

  • @navidakimikosovanne.1787
    @navidakimikosovanne.1787 3 года назад +637

    Hallucigenia: *EXISTS*
    Me who is an AoT Fan: I see.. Ymir reached the bottom floor of the ocean and this weird animal attacked itself to the spines. I liked that

    • @thorsal6208
      @thorsal6208 3 года назад +25

      You know what. I think, the water below that tree is an ancient water from million of years ago. That's why there's still a parasite thing in there

    • @setsuna7618
      @setsuna7618 3 года назад +11

      What if...that weird thing actually 'mating' with ymir but in its own way. Oh boi

    • @phuct4980
      @phuct4980 3 года назад +6

      @@thenhentaiguy8353 nah, worm parasite tag, it would be extremely cursed more than tentacles

    • @Lost_OZ13
      @Lost_OZ13 3 года назад

      @@thenhentaiguy8353 Bruh

    • @agentorange9867
      @agentorange9867 3 года назад

      @@setsuna7618 please go outisde,and thats tentacle hentai.

  • @unitystarlight13
    @unitystarlight13 3 года назад +348

    3:04 Mappa leaked frame

  • @char-la-tan
    @char-la-tan 3 года назад +857

    AoT bois are going to flood this vid

    • @zaggitoriuzgamez4402
      @zaggitoriuzgamez4402 3 года назад +11

      2:19

    • @kenimprov
      @kenimprov 3 года назад +2

      so that is why this was suddenly in my recommended after 4 years...

    • @05GITRO
      @05GITRO 3 года назад

      Hell yeah

    • @ATERAH
      @ATERAH 3 года назад

      why?

    • @05GITRO
      @05GITRO 3 года назад +1

      @@ATERAH SPOILERS
      aot aka attack on Titan they're referring to the spine attachments of yamir fritz, so yeah this is probably the reason why this is getting recommended to aot fans

  • @faris9108
    @faris9108 3 года назад +273

    3:04
    6:40
    7:32
    *Attack* *on* *Titan* *chapter* *137*

  • @frankrubio1546
    @frankrubio1546 4 года назад +560

    “I’m not even going to describe using my words..” 😂😂😂

    • @mask_vids9834
      @mask_vids9834 4 года назад +1

      First few minutes of video not worth it.

    • @somnorila9913
      @somnorila9913 4 года назад +7

      I am. It's like a tree with only two branches.

    • @jmsgridiron5628
      @jmsgridiron5628 4 года назад +15

      It did look awful phallic didn't it?

    • @mradhayuda1
      @mradhayuda1 4 года назад +1

      Ditch?

    • @LJayyBeh
      @LJayyBeh 3 года назад +1

      Lmaooooooo

  • @dryboneskirby
    @dryboneskirby 6 лет назад +3752

    Imagine if there are other creatures in the ancient seas that we will never discover because they never fossilised at all

    • @dryboneskirby
      @dryboneskirby 6 лет назад +611

      Alex the thought of it both amazes me and disappoints me a bit. Lots of undiscovered species that we will never discover in the fossil record because conditions have to be just right to fossilize

    • @elmohead
      @elmohead 6 лет назад +580

      We've only discovered less than 1000 dinosaurs. They lived for 160 million years.

    • @williamhayes2077
      @williamhayes2077 6 лет назад +285

      dryboneskirby I think I saw something about how we’ve only discovered 1% of all species

    • @thatdutchguy2882
      @thatdutchguy2882 6 лет назад +67

      dryboneskirby Easily done because it happened all the time.

    • @puncheex2
      @puncheex2 6 лет назад +208

      There was a whole family of related multicellular creatures who existed just before the Cambrian. They had, of course, no bones or other hard structure; they only are known by very rare soft-bodied fossils. They are known as the Ediacaran biota, for the period they lived in which in turn refers to a mountain range in Australia. They went completely extinct, probably out-competed by Cambrian species and are not represented in today's biosphere.

  • @honeybadgerftw2383
    @honeybadgerftw2383 5 лет назад +301

    "They didn't live in the right places to leave their bones behind so we could find them" a very scientific thing to say

    • @dariabusek3566
      @dariabusek3566 4 года назад +22

      He's explaining to LAYMEN!

    • @erenjeager4369
      @erenjeager4369 3 года назад +1

      They are intelligent and might have a power to do something like what happened to ymir..
      Soo they want to keep stay away from human..

  • @sonya1157
    @sonya1157 3 года назад +342

    Scientists: the coelacanth is officially extinct.
    Me having just caught one in animal crossing: 👁👄👁

  • @metalfly.
    @metalfly. 3 года назад +48

    This channel constantly have these little casual moments that make me appreciate the incredible level of expertise of these scientists. "That creature look all wrong, it's found in rocks from 378 million years ago but it should have disappeared 20 million years earlier."

  • @Rezail_Uhhh
    @Rezail_Uhhh 6 лет назад +779

    I'm sad, there could be so many animals that lived and yet we know zero about. "I'm thinking about you mystery creatures!!"

    • @GeraltofRivia22
      @GeraltofRivia22 6 лет назад +19

      David Jordan Pretty much the vast majority of all species

    • @bjl510blkman
      @bjl510blkman 5 лет назад +1

      Lol this guy hilarious

    • @zezekingyo2374
      @zezekingyo2374 5 лет назад +5

      We know more about dinosaurs, but we obviously don't know the animals and reptiles before dinosaurs. Such animals back then were very primitive and four legged.

    • @BradShreds
      @BradShreds 5 лет назад +3

      金魚ZeZeKingyo whaaaaat?

    • @wisdomleader85
      @wisdomleader85 5 лет назад +7

      Fun fact: the alleged ancestor for all vertebrates is called "Dickinsonia". Don't we love it when scientists have a sense of humor? (I'm looking at you, Uranus)

  • @JoshFromGA
    @JoshFromGA 6 лет назад +1660

    This channel's comment section seems to have the highest number of smart people and lowest amount of trolls I've ever seen. I feel dumb by comparison when I scroll through.

    • @JoshFromGA
      @JoshFromGA 6 лет назад +3

      Well played!

    • @kevingordon4984
      @kevingordon4984 6 лет назад +86

      As an ethnically troll Scandinavian I feel offended by the appropriation of my culture.

    • @lethos8811
      @lethos8811 6 лет назад +20

      Im trolling all the way around because of that. I feel dumb and need to trigger soneone

    • @godemperorofmankind7255
      @godemperorofmankind7255 6 лет назад +5

      #FeelTheCancer

    • @7MonarC
      @7MonarC 6 лет назад +14

      It's kinda hard to start a fan war here

  • @cdcv2186
    @cdcv2186 3 года назад +117

    2:03 Ok Ymir and Eren this is how things happened.

  • @MJ-eb7jt
    @MJ-eb7jt 3 года назад +140

    POV: You read Attack on titan chapter 137 and now RUclips keeps recommending you these videos

  • @steelex709
    @steelex709 6 лет назад +1711

    🎶It's the Cambrian explosion🎶

  • @portugueseeagle8851
    @portugueseeagle8851 6 лет назад +641

    Araucaria is a tree genus that has existed since the early Triassic (245 ma). I have a fossil of it and a LIVING ONE in my balcony. It's so awesome! ^.^

    • @wj9855
      @wj9855 6 лет назад +19

      Wow, that's cool!

    • @cassia1797
      @cassia1797 6 лет назад +30

      PortugueseEagle That's fascinating! We have Araucarias at Serra do Rio do Rastro National Park in south Brazil as well :)

    • @brunomattos1130
      @brunomattos1130 6 лет назад +19

      We have a lot of Araucarias in South Brazil. The Araucaria is actually the symbol of South Brazil.

    • @mexa_t6534
      @mexa_t6534 4 года назад +30

      That sounds insane and so weird to think about. A rock of millions of years old that by sheer chance was in a place that someone could find it in, holding the impression of a dead organism that also by sheer chance was in the perfect conditions to be fossilized...next to the same organism, living, breathing, right in your garden...time is weird.

    • @thedarkestowl4224
      @thedarkestowl4224 4 года назад +4

      Auracaria includes Norfolk Island Pines and Monkey Puzzle Trees. Both do well here in coastal Florida!

  • @alphasearch
    @alphasearch 3 года назад +1643

    Got this recomended after watching Attack on Titan

  • @jarfrar
    @jarfrar 3 года назад +37

    I came back looking for information about Hallucigenia in order to better understand Attack on Titans

    • @anushkasinha4524
      @anushkasinha4524 2 года назад +2

      Damn aot really made us all study science more than school ever did

  • @timberwolfdtproductions3890
    @timberwolfdtproductions3890 4 года назад +98

    Very informative. I really liked the use of “a film with frames missing” as an analogy for the fossil record. Cleverly simple.

    • @eugwx9956
      @eugwx9956 4 года назад +4

      or. . . "still shots" with "film" imagined. Or. "broken record" but I like your thinking.

  • @Figgy_23
    @Figgy_23 4 года назад +383

    "The extinction that never happened" Yea, that's what I'll tell them when they find the bodies.

  • @frzferdinand72
    @frzferdinand72 4 года назад +109

    Imagine how many creatures and fossils we have lost forever at subduction zones

    • @eugwx9956
      @eugwx9956 4 года назад +1

      Or to The Smithsonian; lots of species lost to THAT subduction zone. . .

    • @neolexiousneolexian6079
      @neolexiousneolexian6079 3 года назад +6

      Or, ya know, just eroded away or been ground up for jewellery and medicine.

    • @a-bird-lover
      @a-bird-lover Год назад

      tbf I don't think there's be many, if any, fossils in the environment of the bottom of the ocean, especially in such old rock. I don't think we'd be digging at the bottom of the ocean anyway lol. What's sad is all the fossils lost to private collections

  • @dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668
    @dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 4 года назад +38

    Coelacanth are one of my most favorite fish, simply because their simple design has lasted for so gosh darn long.
    And also because Relicanth was one of my favorite Gen 3 Pokemon.

    • @vitriolicAmaranth
      @vitriolicAmaranth 3 года назад

      For me it was the other impossibly rare one, milotic.

  • @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758
    @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758 6 лет назад +2079

    Does that mean my social life can come back to life too?

    • @AlexanderWeixelbaumer
      @AlexanderWeixelbaumer 6 лет назад +131

      No

    • @adumsundler4397
      @adumsundler4397 6 лет назад +25

      I really hate making up names for this kind of stuff Underrated comment

    • @PyrrhosHans
      @PyrrhosHans 6 лет назад +16

      fuccin relatable

    • @chtoffy
      @chtoffy 6 лет назад +35

      It has to be found in the fossils first. Otherwise, it's not a comeback.

    • @MrIsaiahdix
      @MrIsaiahdix 6 лет назад +2

      Nope

  • @shifujameswaters8417
    @shifujameswaters8417 6 лет назад +348

    12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the seas were much lower. Civilizations center round coasts and down rivers. Imagine what discoveries there are, silted over, under the sea beds!

    • @mnvikings1973
      @mnvikings1973 5 лет назад +1

      @fukthegoog "Amen"

    • @Xiccarph1
      @Xiccarph1 5 лет назад +15

      Well, there are lots of now-underwater archeological sites that have been dumped by mainstream archeology into the "forbidden archeology" domain...

    • @chadcastagana9181
      @chadcastagana9181 5 лет назад

      The Dryocine Epoch ended 8,200

    • @patrick7775
      @patrick7775 4 года назад

      How do you know its 12 ,000 years ?

    • @patrick7775
      @patrick7775 4 года назад +1

      @Dan Ryan You mean scientism .

  • @irenemellia9083
    @irenemellia9083 3 года назад +126

    So basically he is spoiling attack on titan story and we don't even realised it

  • @VG_164
    @VG_164 3 года назад +24

    They just keep moving forward...

  • @midgetspinnner
    @midgetspinnner 3 года назад +30

    This is the second video in a row that RUclips has recommended 3 years late that has nothing to do with AoT and yet has everything to do with AoT. I’m sensing a pattern here.

  • @marusdod3685
    @marusdod3685 3 года назад +114

    We really are the same

    • @Mound_Maker
      @Mound_Maker 3 года назад +6

      Reiner

    • @zombieblood1675
      @zombieblood1675 3 года назад +3

      @@Mound_Maker I just keep moving forward. Until my enemies are destroyed.

    • @orangenade3707
      @orangenade3707 3 года назад

      @@zombieblood1675 80% of the world*

    • @zombieblood1675
      @zombieblood1675 3 года назад

      @@orangenade3707 manga chapter 139 correction*
      I keep moving forward until 80% of my enemies are destroyed . So that the remaining 20% is to scared to attack us.

    • @Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737
      @Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737 2 года назад

      Tatakae

  • @haisesasaki3944
    @haisesasaki3944 3 года назад +16

    I'm already subscribed to this channel, but I never expected that Eren was behind everything.

  • @hash2715
    @hash2715 3 года назад +150

    Imagine if a person is just interested in science and watches video but gets spoilers of Attack On Titan 😂

  • @SeanA099
    @SeanA099 6 лет назад +625

    Coelacanth is really cool. It was the inspiration for the Pokémon, Relicanth.

    • @TheNamelessOne888
      @TheNamelessOne888 6 лет назад +93

      Yes. And anomalocaris is the basis for Anorith and Armaldo.

    • @glaceonpokemon4712
      @glaceonpokemon4712 6 лет назад +29

      Sean Whearty and arceopteryx and archaeops

    • @glaceonpokemon4712
      @glaceonpokemon4712 6 лет назад +47

      Don't forget trex and tyrantrum, archelon and carracosta, aurorus and some species of sauropd, bastiodon and protoceratops, cradily and some Cambrian creature, kabutops and horshoe crab, ammonites and omastar,

    • @Lexivor
      @Lexivor 6 лет назад +12

      Anomalocaris was also the inspiration for the 8th angel, Sandalphon, in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

    • @Dantick09
      @Dantick09 6 лет назад +3

      armaldo looks like crap

  • @christopherstory514
    @christopherstory514 4 года назад +69

    Death: I have come to collect you, individually
    Extinction: Hold my scythe

    • @vitriolicAmaranth
      @vitriolicAmaranth 3 года назад +3

      The reason death is depicted with a scythe in the first place is because it cuts people down in countless numbers with every swing, like a farmer reaping grain or clearing grass.

    • @tylerbozinovski427
      @tylerbozinovski427 3 года назад

      @@vitriolicAmaranth A massive and deadly sickle.

  • @kuchesezik
    @kuchesezik 3 года назад +49

    gives different meaning to "if a tree falls in the forest..."

    • @jirehchoo2151
      @jirehchoo2151 2 года назад +8

      If a Girl falls into a tree

    • @paulthiede
      @paulthiede 2 года назад +1

      @@jirehchoo2151i wonder if @kuchesezik meant that

  • @luciuszogratis9557
    @luciuszogratis9557 3 года назад +179

    Fun Fact:
    The Hallucigenia will keep moving forward, until it’s enemies are destroyed.

    • @jvccr7533
      @jvccr7533 2 года назад +1

      How does one make themselves their enemy?

    • @aaronstone6443
      @aaronstone6443 2 года назад +2

      Underrated comment, deserve more likes

    • @aaronstone6443
      @aaronstone6443 2 года назад +2

      @@jvccr7533 it's a reference of anime called Attack on titan

    • @jirehchoo2151
      @jirehchoo2151 2 года назад

      @@jvccr7533 when you commit global genocide

  • @kirstenmeltesen315
    @kirstenmeltesen315 6 лет назад +17

    As an aspiring paleontologist, I can't tell you how excited I am about this series! So glad I stumbled upon it

  • @erenmademewritethis9833
    @erenmademewritethis9833 3 года назад +20

    2:19 , that thing is great at keeping secrets and whenever you think you got the hang of it , something new is discovered and it changes how you look at it 👀

  • @Yasminevds
    @Yasminevds 3 года назад +30

    After reading chapter 137 in SNK... why RUclips suggest me this video?? xD

  • @njohh
    @njohh 2 года назад +42

    Fun fact: It is also thought that because of its body anatomy, this creature cannot move backwards or side by side, so it is therefore forced to *Keep moving forward* .

  • @ladysmans.t9807
    @ladysmans.t9807 3 года назад +48

    Who would've known that the founding titan is this important 😰😂

  • @Russtopia
    @Russtopia 6 лет назад +230

    Wow! Once in a while, amongst the crapflood of "Top 10" videos on youtube, there's some genuinely educational stuff. I browse all the time for something educational relating to paleontology and this is the first I've found this year that had something truly new since my Uni history of life classes. Marella and other Burgess shale descendants surviving into the Ordovician?! Truly new info and nicely presented. Subscribed!

    • @edgeeffect
      @edgeeffect 5 лет назад +7

      I've found that after about THREE YEARS SOLID of clicking on "not interested", I've managed to hold the crapflood more-or-less at bay.

    • @mastermercury4105
      @mastermercury4105 4 года назад +5

      All my friends are too busy wasting their time watching garbo Netflix shows while I'm here multitasking - bingeing Eons and learning at the same time!

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 4 года назад +2

      Learning and learning?

    • @pourkmeat
      @pourkmeat 3 года назад

      thats more like a bot :/

    • @pourkmeat
      @pourkmeat 3 года назад +1

      because it like has full grammar real people dont use grammars like seriously everybody hates grammar

  • @yibithehispanic
    @yibithehispanic 3 года назад +40

    Bro I just saw the tribute to anomalocaris you can't break my dreams this way

  • @DerVagabundli
    @DerVagabundli 3 года назад +7

    I've started watching these in my breaks while learning for my geography states exam. Sometimes it feels like 3 minutes is your videos help me more than 20 pages of intense reading. So thanks for that!

  • @CybershamanX
    @CybershamanX 6 лет назад +139

    This really reinforced the fact of how amazing it is that we can find _any_ sort of fossilized remains at all. I find it fascinating that scientists can zero in on specific areas where fossils (especially, certain _types_ of fossilized animals) are likely to be found.

    • @CybershamanX
      @CybershamanX 6 лет назад +5

      Definitely. You catch scientists briefly saying things like "well, we knew where to look because this used to be a sea..." in documentaries, but I've never really seen exactly _how_ they sleuth these things out.

    • @Vulcano7965
      @Vulcano7965 6 лет назад +7

      For example, dry land will never produce vast amounts of calcite or chalk sediments.
      That kind of rock is produced by plancton with an exoskeleton.
      Or you do find marine fossils like sponges or corals on these sediments which can also be an indicator.

    • @CybershamanX
      @CybershamanX 6 лет назад +3

      +Vulcano Thanks for the input! I think the seafloor example is one you hear about when they do talk about how they find them. I would like to know about continental drift, forests, lowlands, wetlands...the whole shebang! :)

    • @Vulcano7965
      @Vulcano7965 6 лет назад +2

      Well you are talking to a geology student here.
      What questions do you have?
      I'll try to answer them the best I can.

    • @mastermercury4105
      @mastermercury4105 4 года назад +1

      Yup, easy ones include the California Tar Pits. Hundreds of Dire Wolf fossils have been extracted there..

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion 6 лет назад +1102

    In other words, the Burgess Shale got greedy. "I've shaled out enough fossils. I'm not going to shale any more with you."

    • @ezrawyrd9275
      @ezrawyrd9275 6 лет назад +19

      Booooo

    • @Zifoduk
      @Zifoduk 6 лет назад +7

      Well that didn't work out.. did it

    • @sakanaforty-six1216
      @sakanaforty-six1216 6 лет назад +6

      Master Therion I approve this message. I'm a chicken.

    • @diGritz1
      @diGritz1 6 лет назад +12

      That crack made my bones hurt.

    • @annoyed707
      @annoyed707 6 лет назад +8

      Thou shale not make puns about the Burgess Shale.

  • @offsetgalaxy4503
    @offsetgalaxy4503 3 года назад +8

    I just noticed the thumb is really similar to the page of AoT ch137, the one with those two same animals

  • @muramasa7537
    @muramasa7537 4 года назад +95

    And this is just *OUR* planet . Imagine other planets with life with different types of metabolism n environment . How many did got extinct or escaped extinction there ?

  • @thexcodec
    @thexcodec 6 лет назад +371

    Is it just me or is the music some of the best part of these videos? Makes everything sound so epic. Anyone know the source of the music?

    • @Hemomancer
      @Hemomancer 6 лет назад +6

      XCodec I do not know it but it is nice, isn't it?

    • @themightychickens
      @themightychickens 6 лет назад +18

      Alongside Hank's absurdly good narration in this series, listening to these episodes is just brilliant.

    • @1234kalmar
      @1234kalmar 6 лет назад +4

      Honestly? It's suuuper depressing...

    • @teethgrinder83
      @teethgrinder83 6 лет назад +1

      XCodec if you like that you might like some Mogwai songs. Check them out 👍

    • @NerdsForTheWin
      @NerdsForTheWin 6 лет назад

      Thought it was pretty tasteful in this time. In previous episodes I've found it super distracting though

  • @jesusramirezromo2037
    @jesusramirezromo2037 6 лет назад +542

    I give it two days before pepole say this proves Megalodon is still alive

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 6 лет назад +4

      Jesus Ramirez Romo people*

    • @ahsoka_polo
      @ahsoka_polo 6 лет назад +7

      Jesus Ramirez Romo most likely evolved to the great white

    • @lordarkay272
      @lordarkay272 6 лет назад +1

      Jesus Ramirez Romo I mean why not they could've moved to deeper oceans as to eat the larger deep sea creatures

    • @jony4real
      @jony4real 6 лет назад +42

      Megalodon got mutated by radiation in the 1950s and became Godzilla. I learned about it in the recent 2014 documentary.

    • @thatonedog819
      @thatonedog819 5 лет назад +4

      This is actually a species that I wouldn't be surprised if it were still around. I don't think it is based on the info I have, but I wouldn't be shocked to be proven wrong.

  • @lilaott6495
    @lilaott6495 3 года назад +5

    honestly, hanks voice is so soothing and the way he talks about this so passionately but so calmly makes me at peace

  • @3_ellsa_pkmlokpaikat_fkder572
    @3_ellsa_pkmlokpaikat_fkder572 3 года назад +8

    Legend said if you got every hallucigenia’s video in your daily recommendation , you are probably the subject of ymir..

  • @mancheaseskrelpher8419
    @mancheaseskrelpher8419 6 лет назад +78

    You can't offhandedly mention not one, but TWO Anomalocarids without telling their full story! These beasties are some of the most strange, anomalous creatures to live on Earth -- hence the name!

  • @salvadorvillanueva6229
    @salvadorvillanueva6229 3 года назад +69

    Hallucigenia can make you transform into a titan according to Attack on Titan manga

  • @pottedplant8542
    @pottedplant8542 3 года назад +102

    this breaks my heart. i wish there was a way to see into the past, see the creatures. if i could go back in time i would travel to the cambrian period and kiss an anomalocaris

    • @adrianbridgeman8769
      @adrianbridgeman8769 3 года назад +21

      Bruh you trippin...

    • @alexmuller6752
      @alexmuller6752 3 года назад +6

      @@adrianbridgeman8769 you are the on who's talking to a potted plant ;)

    • @BookWyrmOnAString
      @BookWyrmOnAString 3 года назад +3

      I want a pet anomalocaris

    • @aetvrna
      @aetvrna 3 года назад

      And go suck some herpetogaster

    • @artonrhb8611
      @artonrhb8611 3 года назад

      the amount of oxygen level during that period will kill you instantly

  • @Honeysenqai
    @Honeysenqai 3 года назад +5

    I can’t with these Aot recommendations 😭✋🏽

  • @Silverwind87
    @Silverwind87 6 лет назад +31

    Coelacanth: Hey, guys!
    Bird: Coelacanth? I thought you died.
    Coelacanth: ;_;

  • @doukyuuseii99
    @doukyuuseii99 2 года назад +8

    5:51 This is exactly why Archeology is actually insanely fascinating when you think about it. Just imagine what we have yet to dig up, and what we won't ever dig up because it's gone.

  • @rachelquinn9458
    @rachelquinn9458 4 года назад +45

    "Which... I'm not going to describe with my words..." LMAO!!!

  • @drakekay6577
    @drakekay6577 5 лет назад +40

    5:08 The answer is simple. Fossilization is NOT the normal process after death. The true process after death recycles the entire corpse!

  • @danielchristie9011
    @danielchristie9011 6 лет назад +32

    I totally love this content style and this channel. Without doubt, this is one of my favorites.

    • @baladar1353
      @baladar1353 6 лет назад

      Yes, it's purpose was to broach the brain of the average Joe. American school system failed miserably relatively to others, so they thought "why don't we do their job in a bit less boring way". But don't let yourself be fooled, there are deeper things in the stream you haven't realized yet.

  • @rgmtb
    @rgmtb 6 лет назад +628

    Such a great channel! I love this kind of stuff 👍👍👍

    • @zainabe9503
      @zainabe9503 6 лет назад +4

      Cambrian extinction & explosion didn't happen just because some few stray animals survived? So apparently according to this video's logic, dinosaurs never went extinct just because some few lizards and crocs are still alive today?
      And then he puts forward how "rare" and "puzzling" the fossil records are to support that theory. Such argument can be easily reversed to disprove those "treasure trove of fossils" that claim to bust the Cambrian explosion myth, don't you agree? That they are a rarity and thus an exception to the rule, instead of the "rule" itself?

    • @ellsworth1956
      @ellsworth1956 6 лет назад +12

      Hate to break the news to you Dinosaurs didn't go extinct either. Over 9k species of them are alive and well living around us! Better be careful when you step outside.

    • @StarWarsomania
      @StarWarsomania 6 лет назад +4

      Zen RD Well, for starters, lizards and crocs aren't descended from dinosaurs so...

    • @ireallydontcare7630
      @ireallydontcare7630 6 лет назад +6

      RSECOMIC 12 As are birds I believe descendants.

    • @ireallydontcare7630
      @ireallydontcare7630 6 лет назад +2

      RSECOMIC 12 So extinction might be wrong word, evolution changed them into other forms.

  • @elijah0557
    @elijah0557 3 года назад +16

    Hallucigenia:exist
    Eren:ah yes, time to rumble

  • @ephesus
    @ephesus 4 года назад +13

    2:41 "I'm not going to describe using my words" haha

  • @isabellerickards5919
    @isabellerickards5919 6 лет назад +22

    Yes, keep these videos coming!

  • @astaroth0316
    @astaroth0316 6 лет назад +5

    I'm already a regular viewer of PBS's channels spacetime and infinite series, and I need to say that I love this new channel, I would love to have this kind of content back when I was a kid.
    Keep going, great videos, great work! thanks a lot!

  • @annyrhale4877
    @annyrhale4877 3 года назад +9

    Ok why do these things keep showing up after I read chapter 137 of attack on titan?

  • @ShmuelWeintraub
    @ShmuelWeintraub 4 года назад +4

    Seriously... how do 1.2k people dislike this? What are the reasons for the dislike? Science?

  • @snowsong7108
    @snowsong7108 6 лет назад +4

    Fascinating! I love it when more parts of our geologic history are uncovered, it's like errata for paleontology.

  • @simonk.4338
    @simonk.4338 6 лет назад +13

    I just found this chanell as a coincidence and subscribed before i even watched a single video :) After watching it i can say it is worth it

    • @mattojeda1491
      @mattojeda1491 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah because the strain of moving a mouse cursor over to a sub button is so physically exhausting. Well worth the effort though. One question, did you go the extra mile and click the notification button as well? If you did you are a true hero and deserve the Congressional Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart.

    • @evasmojang
      @evasmojang 4 года назад

      @@mattojeda1491 Woah man rude much?

  • @MarkAhrens-HeritageFilms
    @MarkAhrens-HeritageFilms 4 года назад +3

    I love the pace of your videos! The antithesis of normal broadcast TV!!!

  • @granolabarrzzz01
    @granolabarrzzz01 3 года назад +8

    Me:finds hallucigenia
    "Forces it to go stuck itself on my spine"

  • @insectilluminatigetshrekt5574
    @insectilluminatigetshrekt5574 6 лет назад +36

    The ordovician gave rise to many of the more familiar animals such as jawed vertebrates, cephalopods, sea stars, and arachnids

  • @rolandfelice6198
    @rolandfelice6198 6 лет назад +4

    I'm really glad I found this program. I was an abiding fan of Stephen Jay Gould, while he was alive. Like many other people I devoured all his writings, at least all that I could get my hands on. My favourite of these was the one on the Burgess Shale findings 'Wonderful Life'. How cool is it to know that these creatures lived on for millions of years beyond what was believed!

  • @strassboom2612
    @strassboom2612 3 года назад +564

    Who else came here from the Evanescence tribute to the Anamalocaris?

  • @jasonwojtkiewicz4340
    @jasonwojtkiewicz4340 4 года назад +2

    That was extremely well done, and quite informative, I say. Truly, there was info I hadn't known, or possibly considered, and it explains quite in depth.

  • @akaste9
    @akaste9 5 лет назад +3

    I'm really grateful I happened across PBS Eons. These videos are so illuminating.

  • @kermit101
    @kermit101 3 года назад +3

    I can honestly watch this guy explaining without getting bored (he explains stuff my nature and life professor never knew about)🤣

  • @takaanimation3820
    @takaanimation3820 3 года назад +22

    2:18 Erehhh

  • @nika56_56
    @nika56_56 3 года назад +3

    Thanks for the recommendation Eren 👍🤝

  • @backstreetlife4225
    @backstreetlife4225 3 года назад +13

    2:19 "We now know it as 'Life'."

  • @moldytaters4190
    @moldytaters4190 6 лет назад +37

    I honestly wish this stuff would come out faster! I love this stuff! :)

    • @A3jose348sf
      @A3jose348sf 6 лет назад +7

      Kason Zechiel , that'll be PBS Hours; this one takes eons :)

  • @inastasia4871
    @inastasia4871 4 года назад

    Accidentally stumble onto this channel. It's the best thing ever!

  • @danielschechter8130
    @danielschechter8130 4 года назад +6

    I've been to the Burgess Shale! It's just a short hike to get there but you have to go with a licenced guided group. There's not much to see there, as paleontologists have taken all the important stuff, but it's still cool to stand in a place that changed our understanding of the evolution of early multicellular life. Read Stephen Jay Gould's book, Wonderful Life.

  • @lalo360elite
    @lalo360elite 6 лет назад +80

    I love this channel! I'm gonna comment this every single time I watch a new episode! Lol

  • @alopiaspelagicus1628
    @alopiaspelagicus1628 6 лет назад +4

    I love this channel, it's the most interesting one on youtube!

  • @nikewalker96
    @nikewalker96 3 года назад +2

    D-did Isayama drew his inspiration for chapter 137 from this video's thumbnail? It is almost shot for shot with the manga panel

  • @whoops8412
    @whoops8412 4 года назад +13

    Wow as a 28 year old, I never knew how interesting paleontology was until this amazing channel... which apparently is for kids 😂 thank you for blowing this adults mind with some amazing information! I wish you guys sold books on topics you talk about to dive deeper into some amazing topics. Specifically for me I love learning about evolution and climate change over the years of our planet. Would love to dig deeper and support your channel while growing my knowledge, with books.

  • @Swenthorian
    @Swenthorian 6 лет назад +8

    Wow, I didn't know Hank Green was with PBS now! That's awesome! Congratz!

  • @sciencepuptheamericanjoe5812
    @sciencepuptheamericanjoe5812 6 лет назад +11

    As an avid Animal Crossing player, I lit up when I saw the Coelacanth. :3

  • @siddharthsingh4223
    @siddharthsingh4223 3 года назад +88

    Who are here for AOT 😶

  • @Lost_OZ13
    @Lost_OZ13 3 года назад +2

    I gotta thank aot for bringing me here because this just shows me how big the world is