The Extinction That Never Happened
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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.
Like where coal and diamonds come from?
Who care if we missed
Ratedr 711 everyone who likes science 😂 why are you even watching this video if you don’t care tf
@@ledeux comments like this are why the thumbs down button on RUclips comments would be helpful.
@@skippychurch2965 helpful how so you waste 2 sec on something that will have no impact in your life later on.
"They didn't cheat death, they cheated extinction."
That's too powerful of a line
ye
soooo fkin true
Yes, the power of the Titans have been passed down for 2000 years
I cheated extinction too 😏
@@lyrimetacurl0 Ayo
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
Ding ding ding.
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.
"You're," not "your."
I hope it’s not that damn 2 meters-long millepede
@@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.
This made me sad for all the wonderful animals that are lost in time forever.
>>lost in time forever
Yes. It really makes me wonder how many species lived, thrived came and went and left no trace.
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
Be thankful that they are. Every lost species, every extinction event, every death led evolution to creating you.
Trilobite...
PBS Eons has been spoiling Attack on Titan for years, and we didn’t even know it
The thumbnail is literally page 1 of Chapter 137. How about that haha
i came to write that too, hahaha
You guys watch heaven designer anime? The small boy also spoil AOT by creating it
PBS Eons you goat
@@jayr12745 so isayama drew inspiration for the chapter from this thumbnail?
Fun Fact: Hallucigenia only has forward facing motion, so it's only movement is to keep moving forward, until his enemies are destroyed.
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As much as I want to like this comment, it’s already at 69 likes
@@squamousthomas3267 Now it's not
Tatakae
@@squamousthomas3267 nice
The world and the entire history of it is so overwhelmingly beautiful it makes me emotional lol
Only a cool person with a sensitive sould would say that
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
Agreed my friend.
@@clarawonders4812 lol
@@clarawonders4812 Will humans evolve into something even more weird or are we just a dead that will fizzle out.
they didn't go extinct they just transferred their consciousness to the snk universe and asserted their dominance there
👁️_👁️
@@Chibi_Nagisa 👁️👄👁️
GABI GANG
Theory, that Hallucigenia is a living fossil.
not the Hallucigania shifting realities 😭
everybody gangsta till the weird spiked wormy boi touches a girl's back
Imagine seing à giant skeleton doing Fortnite dances as he destroys thousand of soldiers.
Aot reference.
@@yoshikagekira631 Truly a devil.
*r u m b l e : )*
Worm chan never dies. It just keeps moving forward living
3:04 Mappa leaked frame
R E A L
Eh?
Anime online go brrrr😂😂😂😂
@@erenjeager4369 spoilers
@@Nano-ih3ig hmm...
Imagine if there are other creatures in the ancient seas that we will never discover because they never fossilised at all
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
We've only discovered less than 1000 dinosaurs. They lived for 160 million years.
dryboneskirby I think I saw something about how we’ve only discovered 1% of all species
dryboneskirby Easily done because it happened all the time.
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.
"I'm not going to describe using my words"
Good choice.
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3 pain
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basically teachers
P E N I S
T R E E
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.
Well played!
As an ethnically troll Scandinavian I feel offended by the appropriation of my culture.
Im trolling all the way around because of that. I feel dumb and need to trigger soneone
#FeelTheCancer
It's kinda hard to start a fan war here
3:04
6:40
7:32
*Attack* *on* *Titan* *chapter* *137*
@SYNimation me too 😀
Tatakae
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."
"They didn't live in the right places to leave their bones behind so we could find them" a very scientific thing to say
He's explaining to LAYMEN!
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..
I'm sad, there could be so many animals that lived and yet we know zero about. "I'm thinking about you mystery creatures!!"
David Jordan Pretty much the vast majority of all species
Lol this guy hilarious
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.
金魚ZeZeKingyo whaaaaat?
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)
Very informative. I really liked the use of “a film with frames missing” as an analogy for the fossil record. Cleverly simple.
or. . . "still shots" with "film" imagined. Or. "broken record" but I like your thinking.
“I’m not even going to describe using my words..” 😂😂😂
First few minutes of video not worth it.
I am. It's like a tree with only two branches.
It did look awful phallic didn't it?
Ditch?
Lmaooooooo
AoT bois are going to flood this vid
2:19
so that is why this was suddenly in my recommended after 4 years...
Hell yeah
why?
@@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
Got this recomended after watching Attack on Titan
just like ymir intended
Hahahaha
It's fine
respect
Same
Paths
"feeling cute, might cause a global genocide later idk"
- Hallucigenia
Lol why genocide?
Lol copy
Also don't spoil the aot.
@@elliott7706 Aot reference
@@elliott7706 you didn't get it..
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! ^.^
Wow, that's cool!
PortugueseEagle That's fascinating! We have Araucarias at Serra do Rio do Rastro National Park in south Brazil as well :)
We have a lot of Araucarias in South Brazil. The Araucaria is actually the symbol of South Brazil.
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.
Auracaria includes Norfolk Island Pines and Monkey Puzzle Trees. Both do well here in coastal Florida!
Imagine how many creatures and fossils we have lost forever at subduction zones
Or to The Smithsonian; lots of species lost to THAT subduction zone. . .
Or, ya know, just eroded away or been ground up for jewellery and medicine.
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
POV: You read Attack on titan chapter 137 and now RUclips keeps recommending you these videos
Lmao no
Scientists: the coelacanth is officially extinct.
Me having just caught one in animal crossing: 👁👄👁
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.
For me it was the other impossibly rare one, milotic.
Does that mean my social life can come back to life too?
No
I really hate making up names for this kind of stuff Underrated comment
fuccin relatable
It has to be found in the fossils first. Otherwise, it's not a comeback.
Nope
I came back looking for information about Hallucigenia in order to better understand Attack on Titans
Damn aot really made us all study science more than school ever did
We really are the same
Reiner
@@Mound_Maker I just keep moving forward. Until my enemies are destroyed.
@@zombieblood1675 80% of the world*
@@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.
Tatakae
"The extinction that never happened" Yea, that's what I'll tell them when they find the bodies.
Heyo!
ok, Pinkie Pie.
pinkie pie nooooooo
pinkie pie what are you doing here
big mood
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!
@fukthegoog "Amen"
Well, there are lots of now-underwater archeological sites that have been dumped by mainstream archeology into the "forbidden archeology" domain...
The Dryocine Epoch ended 8,200
How do you know its 12 ,000 years ?
@Dan Ryan You mean scientism .
🎶It's the Cambrian explosion🎶
Daniel Allen the sun is a deadly lazer
Daniel Allen _"Not anymore, theres a blanket!"_
Yes
We can make a religion out of this...
Space dust
2:03 Ok Ymir and Eren this is how things happened.
Yeah
Fun Fact:
The Hallucigenia will keep moving forward, until it’s enemies are destroyed.
How does one make themselves their enemy?
Underrated comment, deserve more likes
@@jvccr7533 it's a reference of anime called Attack on titan
@@jvccr7533 when you commit global genocide
I'm already subscribed to this channel, but I never expected that Eren was behind everything.
only ymir knows
@@paulthiede true
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!
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.
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!
Learning and learning?
thats more like a bot :/
because it like has full grammar real people dont use grammars like seriously everybody hates grammar
Death: I have come to collect you, individually
Extinction: Hold my scythe
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.
@@vitriolicAmaranth A massive and deadly sickle.
So basically he is spoiling attack on titan story and we don't even realised it
Imagine if a person is just interested in science and watches video but gets spoilers of Attack On Titan 😂
me lol
@@cherrysdiy5005 me too, lol
As an aspiring paleontologist, I can't tell you how excited I am about this series! So glad I stumbled upon it
They just keep moving forward...
FREEDOM!
Until my enemies are destroyed 👁👁⚡⚡⚡
at least they found sea on the other side of the wall
@@ezekielteguh4241 they are all the same
TATAKAE
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.
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.
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.
+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! :)
Well you are talking to a geology student here.
What questions do you have?
I'll try to answer them the best I can.
Yup, easy ones include the California Tar Pits. Hundreds of Dire Wolf fossils have been extracted there..
Who else came here from the Evanescence tribute to the Anamalocaris?
Same dude
Emotional video
bruh
I cried 69 times watching that video
RIP Cousin Anamalocaris :(
honestly, hanks voice is so soothing and the way he talks about this so passionately but so calmly makes me at peace
Coelacanth is really cool. It was the inspiration for the Pokémon, Relicanth.
Yes. And anomalocaris is the basis for Anorith and Armaldo.
Sean Whearty and arceopteryx and archaeops
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,
Anomalocaris was also the inspiration for the 8th angel, Sandalphon, in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
armaldo looks like crap
I give it two days before pepole say this proves Megalodon is still alive
Jesus Ramirez Romo people*
Jesus Ramirez Romo most likely evolved to the great white
Jesus Ramirez Romo I mean why not they could've moved to deeper oceans as to eat the larger deep sea creatures
Megalodon got mutated by radiation in the 1950s and became Godzilla. I learned about it in the recent 2014 documentary.
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.
gives different meaning to "if a tree falls in the forest..."
If a Girl falls into a tree
@@jirehchoo2151i wonder if @kuchesezik meant that
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 👀
I also watched that video
Your username
Who would've known that the founding titan is this important 😰😂
In other words, the Burgess Shale got greedy. "I've shaled out enough fossils. I'm not going to shale any more with you."
Booooo
Well that didn't work out.. did it
Master Therion I approve this message. I'm a chicken.
That crack made my bones hurt.
Thou shale not make puns about the Burgess Shale.
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* .
Until all of its enemies are destroyed
Underrated
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?
XCodec I do not know it but it is nice, isn't it?
Alongside Hank's absurdly good narration in this series, listening to these episodes is just brilliant.
Honestly? It's suuuper depressing...
XCodec if you like that you might like some Mogwai songs. Check them out 👍
Thought it was pretty tasteful in this time. In previous episodes I've found it super distracting though
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!
Bro I just saw the tribute to anomalocaris you can't break my dreams this way
He was a great one, but all things end
Same lool
Hallucigenia can make you transform into a titan according to Attack on Titan manga
True .
no
@@corrosalizlanodensis8093 ya
Isayama is doing 4d biology
After reading chapter 137 in SNK... why RUclips suggest me this video?? xD
paths
5:08 The answer is simple. Fossilization is NOT the normal process after death. The true process after death recycles the entire corpse!
Legend said if you got every hallucigenia’s video in your daily recommendation , you are probably the subject of ymir..
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 ?
Subarashii
I totally love this content style and this channel. Without doubt, this is one of my favorites.
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.
Such a great channel! I love this kind of stuff 👍👍👍
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?
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.
Zen RD Well, for starters, lizards and crocs aren't descended from dinosaurs so...
RSECOMIC 12 As are birds I believe descendants.
RSECOMIC 12 So extinction might be wrong word, evolution changed them into other forms.
Coelacanth: Hey, guys!
Bird: Coelacanth? I thought you died.
Coelacanth: ;_;
Press *F* for the Coelacanth.
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
Bruh you trippin...
@@adrianbridgeman8769 you are the on who's talking to a potted plant ;)
I want a pet anomalocaris
And go suck some herpetogaster
the amount of oxygen level during that period will kill you instantly
"Which... I'm not going to describe with my words..." LMAO!!!
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
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.
@@mattojeda1491 Woah man rude much?
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!
The ordovician gave rise to many of the more familiar animals such as jawed vertebrates, cephalopods, sea stars, and arachnids
I don't know. Am I? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Victorbrine Cassini What's that?
Right, but this barely have any conection with the video content.
It was a great Epoch to be a fish, I have heard. . .
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.
Seriously... how do 1.2k people dislike this? What are the reasons for the dislike? Science?
No it's saiyanz and teknolaji
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!
I honestly wish this stuff would come out faster! I love this stuff! :)
Who are here for AOT 😶
Weeee
Me my fellow eldian brother
Not me, goddammit.
Tatakae
I can’t with these Aot recommendations 😭✋🏽
Tatakae Tatakae
I just noticed the thumb is really similar to the page of AoT ch137, the one with those two same animals
Same animal
I love this channel! I'm gonna comment this every single time I watch a new episode! Lol
hugo garcia love you victor!
Hallucigenia:exist
Eren:ah yes, time to rumble
a
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.
Who else came here for Attack on Titan
We are all on the same PATH
Same
I can honestly watch this guy explaining without getting bored (he explains stuff my nature and life professor never knew about)🤣
Fascinating! I love it when more parts of our geologic history are uncovered, it's like errata for paleontology.
Yes, keep these videos coming!
People coming for AOT say JAAEGEERRR
Ereh Iyeeahgah
EreH
Gabi
Tatakae Tatakae
@@terpsidance. no
The mass extinction did happen. 2:18 that little worm sought freedom to the extent that it would keep moving forward until all it's enemies were destroyed. It caused a global mass genocide and completely changed history as we know it
Tatakae
2:19 "We now know it as 'Life'."
Tatakae
Wow, I didn't know Hank Green was with PBS now! That's awesome! Congratz!
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!
Thanks for the recommendation Eren 👍🤝
Yeageist Yeageist Yeageist
@@Scrongly-the-bean-terrorist ok?
the great cambrian rumble... kinoyama-san... i kneel...
Tatakae
7:25 Isayama is the best writer
Eh?
I like that analogy, understanding evolutionary history from just the fossil record is like piecing together the plot of a film from dcences you happened to find on the cutting room floor.
Matthew McNeany but it's a m night movie so it has twist and turns
Or putting together a 1,000,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that you only have 30 pieces for.
Ok why do these things keep showing up after I read chapter 137 of attack on titan?
Me:finds hallucigenia
"Forces it to go stuck itself on my spine"
Keep moving forward
Until all your enemies are destroyed
I'm really grateful I happened across PBS Eons. These videos are so illuminating.
What are the chances that the Moroccan site was just a relic population due to isolation in Cambrian-Ordovician Morocco?
Zootycoonman223 +
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Whether they were an isolated pocket or not isn't the point. The point is that at least some of these groups of animals didn't go extinct when they were previously thought to. And that meant that there wasn't really a mass extinction at the end of the Cambrian after all.
I don't get the logic. If an isolated population survived somewhere, why does that mean that the mass extinction didn't happen at all?
Joachim Pense, that was the angle I was taking. The idea being that the Moroccan site was just an exception to the rule as opposed to proof of lack of fossilization. Parsimonious logic would lead you to conclude that fossilization did not just stop; unless a causative factor is identified that occurred in the model sites that lead to the theory of the Cambrian-Ordovician Mass Extinction. I don't know how many sites lack fossilization after that threshold but taking that the number is greater than one, it would suggest the Moroccan site harbored protection against whatever eradicated species across the other sites. I sort of didn't favor the notion from the start because it's the equivalence of saying: if we found a non-avian dinosaur post K-Pg Boundary then the K-Pg Mass Extinction never happened. When it is much more likely this hypothetical dinosaur was an exception, rather than proof that the original theory is incorrect.
As an avid Animal Crossing player, I lit up when I saw the Coelacanth. :3
Why didnt i know this channel existed
Patrick Bateman B'cuz it probably disappeared from the channel record and suddenly came back.🤣
I gotta thank aot for bringing me here because this just shows me how big the world is
2:41 "I'm not going to describe using my words" haha