Its possible. There was a human / mantis hybrid in my football team. Most people called him Rex because of his weird arm posture while running but to me he was mantis.
it doesnt sound like AI it sounds like someone who doesnt read far enough ahead to understand where the sentence is going. kind of when a sentence in a book goes off onto another page and you read it in the wrong inflection because you didnt see the meaning of the sentence until you read rhe whole thing, and youre like oh shit lemme start over. inflection can completely change the meaning of a sentence.
Have you ever had a big ole hummingbird fly by you? they sound like tiny prop planes lol. insects are crazy. they are, as my dad put it, natures maintenance machinery. theyve evolved gear structures, physically-antibacterial-structures, hydraulic systems and so many more bad ass structures. I've always wanted to replace some things in my life with insect farms where possible. who needs a garbage disposal when you can have a beautiful ant colony? who needs raid spider and red wasp killer when you have a fleet of docile Mud Dauber wasps to keep things tidy? we have run just a bit too far from nature and would do well to reintroduce ourselves to the natural world where possible.
or like a small 1 lb drone as was its weight, or maybe as silent as now due to the wings being so delicate and very flexible as all owels are silent flyers no matter how big they are,and some weigh 5 lb
You know how it goes, and I do this too, we get one snippet of information and suddenly a whole sleuth of stuff begins to make sense. It's like solving a puzzle, and it's pretty cool. It might have happened.
@MrRhovanion Natural climate change is one thing. We humans this time have been causing climate change in burning fossil fuel and more which damages the atmosphere which then damages the climate we live in.. These changes in climate can heavily effect us or other animals/insects or plants which can lead to an extinction of a species.. If you watched the whole video or at least a hour in, the whole message here is that climate change causes changes in species which is how we got to where we are currently. Natural changes are suppose to happen, Us humans should not be effecting the climate and causing climate changes, this is not natural.. That is why it's attached to this video
@@Towelie42Osimply evolution or adapting to weather through centuries of time. In our Hopi way of life, our Hopi elders of now and from long long ago have taught us that we will be planting in the snow. So now, we have to adapt to the weather changes and plant later then usual. The winter season has now been lasting into our planting season of April KÖYANISQATSI...An ancient Hopi prophecy word meaning...A world without balance MAY THE GREAT SPIRIT BE WITH YOU ALL ALWAYS
Murray Leinster wrote a couple of novels about a group of humans who lived on a planet with gigantic insects. Most of the science is wrong but the story is still terrifying.
I want to watch this video but there is something off about the way the narrator speaks and it kinda creeps me out. It literally feels weird and uncomfortable to listen to him speak. I mean no offense if the narrator is a real person but the voice seems artificial.
i really do find insects and other invertebrates fascinating. They've been around for so long, are so vital to earth's ecosystems, and represent an entirely different path animal life has taken on earth. people hate them because they are so different to vertebrates but personally I just find this difference fascinating. There are so many forms of insects which can fill so many roles in the world and I think more people should learn about them instead of simply giving in to their instinctual disgust of them. These tiny animals represent one of the most successful lineages of life, persisting through extinction after extinction. it's a shame humanity in it's industriousness and careless acquisition of resources is inadvertently putting this ancient lineage of life at risk of extinction.
The sad thing is, they are sick enough to call the beautiful pristine land that nature herself created "undeveloped", as if it's not worth anything unless humans have already destroyed and polluted out with a bunch of man-made structures. And they call their cities, which from space at night look like plague scars across the earth's body, beautiful...
I don't hate insects, amphibians and, crustaceans I do love them but, being primordial forms of life they tend to be very unpredictable. I still love them lol.
The earth’s ability to pull itself back from catastrophe climate changes again and again. From snow ball earths to volcanic hells. It’s quite amazing to see how resilient life is and how it adapts to climate again and again. It just shows that if a simple form of life can ever get started then short of getting rid of all water and earth’s deep ocean volcanic activity then life that’s simple is hard to kill off.
It was water. And would always be water.🚣♀️ We sent down water from the sky in right measure, and caused it to stay in the earth, and We have the power to cause it to vanish (in the manner We please) 23:18.) And Allah has sent down rain from the sky and given life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who listen. 16:65)
I live in the philippines. Love it and the people. I sometimes get spiders in our house that are huge. Occasional cockroach and some small lizards. I'm ok with the lizards they eat ants. Cockroaches are not around enough to be an issue. But lately. 🥺Spiders with big long legs, good size body, and very fast. I dont know how they get in.
When the spiders are babies they crawl in your mouth and into your stomach and grow there. Once they reach a considerable size they crawl out through your mouth when you’re sleeping.
Cockroaches are not around enough because of the spiders you are seeing. Those are huntsman spiders. If you see one, be thankful it's there. Totally harmless and only produce webs when laying eggs.
Insects are some truly complicated beings, I imagine on some planets they evolved to be the dominants species on their planet where the environment made it so.
With insects that huge it's amazing anything else had a chance to evolve. I mean, they multiply SO QUICK it would be hunting season year 'round and maybe some safety in the winter. So lucky we don't live in a world like that anymore. It would be Starship Troopers every day
The larger a creature is, the slower it develops, because the cells work just as fast for any size. Large insects live longer and also take longer for reproduction (in general, not the act itself). The number of "eggs" is also less. Energy.... It's no coincidence. Eat, eat, eat. My opinion, have no knowledge about it.
I enjoyed your video while recovering from an injury recently. While I was resting, I got to listen to a number of RUclips videos and this one was very fascinating. Thank you!
The bot voice I could perhaps understand if it was just a matter of security or a strange voice, but the script suggests that there's a much deeper issue.
Actually the limitation of insect size has to do with how their exoskeleton works and gravity. Basically interior volume increases at a cubed rate while exterior skeleton size increases at a squared rate. This is why anything larger than a chihuahua generally has an endoskeleton as it's much easier to support mass when the fleshy parts are on the outside, but it provides poor protection from damage. Now you may be thinking are there animals that combine both surely that would be the ideal way to go. There are a few. Turtles and armadillo's for example. But it seems like the trade off is being slow and clumsy.
Thankyou, very interesting, I knew about the gravity being the limit to the size from a doc I saw years ago about these giant insects, I think they said on that did that the oxygen was about 40% as opposed to about 12 % today. It was a BBC doc years ago so I may misremember those details, your comment just reminded me, thanks.
There have been much larger insects than a chihuahua. I see what you're saying, but the earth was no smaller (no less gravity.) when these giants existed.
I just had a vivid and concerning flash of reality hit me hard. I’ve thought about this concept a lot but not to this extent before. *Everything around us, humans have the ability to manipulate and recreate using technology and use it to our benefit, the only evidence we need to know what’s possible is an example of it in our reality.* I just saw a robotic surveillance system made of ants with the same reproductive capacity 3D printers, basic components use to watch and colonies planets.
The animal at 0:34 isn't a spider, though it is an arachnid. It's an amblypygid (also, confusingly, called a 'tailless whip scorpion', though it's not a scorpion).
I've seen giant centipedes in Arizona camping in the desert, it's like an alien. Not as big as some of these, but probably 20x bigger than any insect/spider I've ever seen.
Seen scolopendras in Southern Spain: monstruous, hyper fast creatures that love the freshness of houses😱 They are as fascinating as they are terrifying.
According to the last part of this video... ruclips.net/video/-wQLKMUWANg/видео.html ...it’s been tried (for a few insect generations, anyway): the insects do grow larger in high-oxygen atmospheres - no “*selective* breeding” required.
massive arthropods (especially Arachnids) are absolutely my favourite creatures to ever exist, good to see more content talking about these awesome creatures. However, I feel I have to be the bearer of bad news to all the other Average Spider Enjoyers out there, because Megarachne Serveni (the giant Mesothele Spider) never existed. It was a misidentified Sea Scorpion fossil, admittedly, that group of Sea Scorpions do look spider-esque, but none the less it wasn't a Spider. Spiders didn't even evolve from the Sea Scorpion to add insult to injury, as we have fossils of much smaller Spiders from roughly the same time period, if not before. However, there were a lot of giant arthropods back then, and the world is a huge place, so I have no doubt in my mind that there were multiple giant Arachnids, Spiders, and Insects that we still haven't discovered yet, Arthropods don't fossilise as easily as most other animals, so fingers crossed we find more giant bugs.
I would highly recommend Children of Time by Adrian... taichovsky? The last name definitely isn't correct. But it's a scifi that surprisingly goes down a storyline that involves arachnids and it is SO COOL. Its my favorite book ever and has completely changed the way I look at speeders.
@@gandalfthegrey8236 would probably still be my favourite, honestly, the thing could savagely rip my throat apart, and I'd still be thinking "damn, look at how big that spider is, that's so cool" XD
It's not imagine, that is what is real. Despite how wide ranging the fossil record is, for every fossil species we find there's hundreds more lifeforms we'll never ever know existed.
It's software where the person recorded phonetic sounds of English and has it speak out types words. You can make your own for your voice. Sounds the same way. Just the sounds out together for words.
Ok how long ago did they discover Megarachne was a fresh water Eurypterid and not a spider? I could forgive if this was years old but come on! Meganeura wasn't even the largest griffin fly let alone the largest flying insect (that would be the titanopteran gigatitan of the triassic and Meganeuropsis of the Permian respectively). It's too bad because aside from a handful of glaring misinformations the rest of this documentary is generally very informative and well written.
Somebody said in another comment that at the time the episode aired they had realized their mistake but they didn't have enough time and it would have cost too much money to do a replacement That's what it said in the comments personally I don't know and I don't comment on shit I don't know.
Higher atmospheric pressure and higher Oxygen content are known to have been the case and give rise to larger versions of all organisms that also have greater longevity. Another factor would be lower gravity - if that could have been the case. The truly gigantic size of some reptiles is down to the fact that even today some of them continue to grow as long as they live, coupled with their greater lifespan in ancient times.
Ikr! I can't concentrate on the story he's telling because of how he pronounce the end of the words! At this point I have no idea what this is even about! 🤷🏾♀️🤣
Many moons ago, when I was a very young university student one of my professors have the same tone of voice . Used to put me to sleep. But very informative. Thanks.
For an educational documentary, this misses some things. Spiders, scorpions, millipedes, and centipedes are not insects. Arthropods, yes, but not insects. Megarachne was an Eurypterid. Talking about insects and showing a hermit crab just makes this look off. At least it didn't try to cram this into a 6,000-year-old Earth. I'm looking at you, Ken Ham! :P
There is an underlying theory the entire planet was larger as a whole back millions of years ago. But over time began to shrink. It was this thought that gave skull island and king kong it's start.
Because good voice work makes or breaks a documentary. If your voice work sounds like an OSHA training video, your audience isn't going to enjoy it nearly as much. The caveat here, of course, is that voice actors are expensive.
Because it fncking sucks. It's so clearly non-human computer generated. Now we have channels not even putting an effort into creating actual content themselves anymore, but making money off AI generated material. I'm off it.
An excellent and great video! As a bit of an ex biologist ... the greatest story of insects is the co-evolution of flowering plants. (No flowers before pollinators). Insects pollinate 75% of crop species, 35% of global crop production, and up to 88% of flowering plant species. All fruit, all nuts, most grain. With out bees and critters, we would starve, most animals would starve. Even vegans would starve. Soya, almonds, apples, ... avocados ... need bees.
Unfortunate that they keep saying “insect”. I’m thinking it’s just to make it palatable for the layman. But insects only have 6 legs. The video discusses animals beyond that scope.
Man, this video is so cool. Very interesting topic. Had to scroll away because i really cannot look at centipedes and millipedes because they just creep the hell out of me
HA organized: *Swimming in the ocean for 100 million years and poof new joints appear giving me feat instead of fins uhoh got to run through the water and find land now.
I wrote this response in another section of the comments: Sometimes I think people just make videos by letting an AI narrator plagiarize a textbook. This documentary is horrible. A large section of the video is just general insect biological facts, unrelated to large insects. Several times the narrator is talking about insects, and spiders or other arthropods are visual. I also would not be surprised if some of these positive comments are AI generated. I find all this creepy as hell and annoyed that people make money from putting out junk like this.
@@lorenzod9575 agree, I've come across multiple channels that seem AI made ( not only narrated by one as I'd do it,too, as I have not the best voice and a thick accent) recently and that's only in the paléontologie and evolutionary biology field so there are likely maaany more
Learned about this in college. TLDR: Due to a number of factors there is a ton of oxygen in the air at the time (way more than there is now). Insects absorb oxygen directly from the air (no lungs) and limited predators so they get huge. Oxygen is a limiting factor in their growth.
That was my first thought. Absolutely 💯 %, however could they be worse than the angry smaller versions, Irish and UK Autumn spiders are very terrifying and always go for me. I recently had one in my bed, crawling to me..! An Australian huntsman or tarantula would traumatise me for life. I remember as an au pair I had a bedroom right under the stairs the bed fit perfectly underneath outside steps, with 3 walls and the only exit through the head of the bed, like a tomb, I loved it! I remember watching a little Spanish spider walk along the wall one night it walked all the way along until he got to me, where he jumped off onto me! But that's nothing, nothing, to what my mother experienced one night. Not one to be afraid of them, she was however disgusted when she told me about her night, when a particularly aggressive Irish Spider bit her on the face, her forehead which actually woke her up from sleeping. She turned on her bedside light, grabbed her newspaper and beat the life out of it. Legs everywhere. She probably had me hoover up the remains! Ugh. We lived next door to a wild field the worst of times. We also had a plague of beetles, black on the outside, white on the inside 🤢 who knew..sorry!
The spider in the video never actually existed. The theory of it being a prehistoric spider got disproved many years ago. It actually is a type of ancient freshwater sea scorpion called a euryptid.
At 1:10:20 you name the largest insect known currently, found in India, is a moth called Atticus Atlas, then the very next sentence you call it a butterfly. The picture shown is that of a moth. You can immediately tell because of the type of antennae. Moths have feathery looking antenna vs the butterflies long, thin, smooth looking antenna. There have been numerous other small mistakes but this one needed correction.
Grandpa Abraham Simpson once said: "If you ever travel back in time, don’t step on anything! Because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can’t imagine."
The A.I channels usually have a script or story that is so redundant and stooooopid u can't listen to it..this one ...not sure ..pretty good channel most times..nothing like History of the Earth or Universe
@@kenchesnut4425 Yeah that's crazy, History of the Earth is WAYYY better than this channel. This dude 6fucks up the majority of stuff he talks about. Its like he gets his info from the first page of each chapter of a 1920's science book. Every time I have had even the most cursory knowledge of the topic he is discussing, generally Space but often ancient animals ones like this he makes a shit ton of mistakes. Major ones like spitting long refuted claims as fact and small ones like messing up on the majority of names and descriptions. This channel is fine for what it is but for the most part its decent background noise. The series Entire History of Earth is decent enough idk why people hate on it so much in the comments of it. I presume it became a Reddit thread or something which brings all the idiots and scum of the internet together especially the... um... "Intellectuals". Plus, that dudes voice is tolerable. I am not sure this is a real person speaking its so weirdly forced. Pretty sure its real simply because our AI voices are way better than this but I really dunno.
@@stargazer46 I mean, to them, with their big huge eyes and large bodies. Like they can goto space and back with their size. I know what you mean, I didn't mean it in that way!
If anything this is BS, let me tell you something... When I was 9, back in 1975 I lived in Denver at the time and the school went to the Denver museum and they had on display an entire room full of real, giant insects. Dragon flies as big as an adult arm, bees bigger than a fist. Flies that were bigger than a fist. I ended up going another time with my family on the weekend before moving back to L.A. Years later after I had my own family I told my son about this and we finally were able to visit the museum... They had some years earlier removed the entire display of giant insects. When I asked a worker they said they had removed them some time ago and had them stored. No explanation as to why they were removed.
Its always cool to see "context" on how humans are responsible for climate change, on a video describing, among other things, climate change from hundreds of millions of years before humans.
I am almost certain this was a computer generated voice and someone failed to notice that it was using Christopher Walken style speech patterns. :) lol
4:07 "-425 million years ago".. That negative sign means 425 million years in the future, right? That's like saying Death Valley is -500' below sea level.
I fully believe the narrator is in fact a giant insect
Its possible. There was a human / mantis hybrid in my football team. Most people called him Rex because of his weird arm posture while running but to me he was mantis.
Yeah I couldn't listen to more than 2 minutes of that retarded dialogue. Obviously generated by shitty ai.
That would explain how weird he pronounces certain words. That... or an AI narrator.
Buzzing sound. Yep
Yes he’s hissing 🐍 a lot maybe he’s a shapeshifter 😮
I guess the little up-tick at the end of most of its sentences are supposed to make it sound more human. I'm not fooled.
Are you assuming this is Ai lmao
it doesnt sound like AI it sounds like someone who doesnt read far enough ahead to understand where the sentence is going.
kind of when a sentence in a book goes off onto another page and you read it in the wrong inflection because you didnt see the meaning of the sentence until you read rhe whole thing, and youre like oh shit lemme start over.
inflection can completely change the meaning of a sentence.
It is annoying me, and I would like to see someone push him down in the dirt.
It has a strange twang to it that reminds me of Forest Gump somehow
Yeah its weird to hear what words its decises to emphasize lol
Imagine how the giant dragonflies really sounded when they flew. It would be mind-blowing to hear that low rumble like a helicopter almost
Have you ever had a big ole hummingbird fly by you? they sound like tiny prop planes lol.
insects are crazy. they are, as my dad put it, natures maintenance machinery.
theyve evolved gear structures, physically-antibacterial-structures, hydraulic systems and so many more bad ass structures.
I've always wanted to replace some things in my life with insect farms where possible. who needs a garbage disposal when you can have a beautiful ant colony?
who needs raid spider and red wasp killer when you have a fleet of docile Mud Dauber wasps to keep things tidy?
we have run just a bit too far from nature and would do well to reintroduce ourselves to the natural world where possible.
or like a small 1 lb drone as was its weight, or maybe as silent as now due to the wings being so delicate and very flexible as all owels are silent flyers no matter how big they are,and some weigh 5 lb
@@humility-righteous-giving are you an ai
@@Crowfist 2 question's 1)what prompted you to think i may be an AI? 2)why would they have an AI working in this politics free channel?
@@humility-righteous-giving lol asking me for prompts??? veeerrryyy suspicious
I dont even fear large carnivorous beasts, but a look at an insect larger than my ankle would send me shivers.
I appreciate them for figuring out time travel and being brave enough to capture this footage for us.
You know how it goes, and I do this too, we get one snippet of information and suddenly a whole sleuth of stuff begins to make sense. It's like solving a puzzle, and it's pretty cool. It might have happened.
it's them stolen alienz tech
but why is there a message about climate change attached to this video? doesnt climate always change ? so dumb.
@MrRhovanion Natural climate change is one thing. We humans this time have been causing climate change in burning fossil fuel and more which damages the atmosphere which then damages the climate we live in.. These changes in climate can heavily effect us or other animals/insects or plants which can lead to an extinction of a species.. If you watched the whole video or at least a hour in, the whole message here is that climate change causes changes in species which is how we got to where we are currently. Natural changes are suppose to happen, Us humans should not be effecting the climate and causing climate changes, this is not natural.. That is why it's attached to this video
@@Towelie42Osimply evolution or adapting to weather through centuries of time.
In our Hopi way of life, our Hopi elders of now and from long long ago have taught us that we will be planting in the snow. So now, we have to adapt to the weather changes and plant later then usual. The winter season has now been lasting into our planting season of April
KÖYANISQATSI...An ancient Hopi prophecy word meaning...A world without balance
MAY THE GREAT SPIRIT BE WITH YOU ALL ALWAYS
I didnt know there was an AI Forrest Gump narrator voice now, what a time to be alive!
Can’t wait for the Morgan freeman patch to drop
It isn't ai.
dude I used to know this guy who spoke like this hes fully pronoucing every part of every word cause he was in speak therapy all his life.
Murray Leinster wrote a couple of novels about a group of humans who lived on a planet with gigantic insects. Most of the science is wrong but the story is still terrifying.
Thank you I just looked it up, I think I'll order it and give it a read
@@raymondjones1601 You may be able to get them for free: the copyrights have expired and they're now public domain.
@@raymondjones1601 one of them is on RUclips believe, I think it's called Forgotten Planet or something like that
Thank for bringing up this author. I'm always looking for new authors to explore.
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist9 religion is a lie
I want to watch this video but there is something off about the way the narrator speaks and it kinda creeps me out. It literally feels weird and uncomfortable to listen to him speak. I mean no offense if the narrator is a real person but the voice seems artificial.
yeah i feel you, it feels wrong to listen to a voice that doesnt belong to a human
It's bc everything he says ends in almost a question. Awkward and It sounds like a real person trying really hard to over pronounce every word
I really like documentaries with AI narration. Screams of love, care and effort.
It helps a lot if you speed up the audio to 1.25. Sounds more natural. Actually listenable.
@@PaulHarwood-pf7dzHad half of this left but was going crazy listening to him. This saved me
i really do find insects and other invertebrates fascinating. They've been around for so long, are so vital to earth's ecosystems, and represent an entirely different path animal life has taken on earth. people hate them because they are so different to vertebrates but personally I just find this difference fascinating. There are so many forms of insects which can fill so many roles in the world and I think more people should learn about them instead of simply giving in to their instinctual disgust of them. These tiny animals represent one of the most successful lineages of life, persisting through extinction after extinction. it's a shame humanity in it's industriousness and careless acquisition of resources is inadvertently putting this ancient lineage of life at risk of extinction.
This guy is a bug catcher Pokémon trainer.
The sad thing is, they are sick enough to call the beautiful pristine land that nature herself created "undeveloped", as if it's not worth anything unless humans have already destroyed and polluted out with a bunch of man-made structures. And they call their cities, which from space at night look like plague scars across the earth's body, beautiful...
Lots of insects are very beautiful like butterflies and moths.
But I like woodlice too haha
I don't hate insects, amphibians and, crustaceans I do love them but, being primordial forms of life they tend to be very unpredictable. I still love them lol.
you like ur insects like you like your women? spineless?
Never thought I'd be watching a documentary on giant bugs narrated by G-Man's cousin but here we are
Bot narration, bruh. Welcome to the singularity. More coming soon!
is it really a bot?? I cannot tell.
It's the inflections that get to me. Sometimes using one that doesn't fit, and sometimes using ones i can't place or understand...
Ends sentences like he's trying out for the role of Forrest Gump.
Cheap AI I guess
The earth’s ability to pull itself back from catastrophe climate changes again and again. From snow ball earths to volcanic hells. It’s quite amazing to see how resilient life is and how it adapts to climate again and again. It just shows that if a simple form of life can ever get started then short of getting rid of all water and earth’s deep ocean volcanic activity then life that’s simple is hard to kill off.
It was water. And would always be water.🚣♀️ We sent down water from the sky in right measure, and caused it to stay in the earth, and We have the power to cause it to vanish (in the manner We please) 23:18.) And Allah has sent down rain from the sky and given life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who listen. 16:65)
@@stargazer46Allah was a pedophile and islam is a modern religion because judaism and christianity existed much longer. Bye
I believe the planet is a complete organism and were just a bacteria living on the planet
@@stargazer46 the fuck are you talking about bro
This does not fit the climate change cult narrative
The random inflection dips make every paragraph a roller-coaster
as a botanist, the section about prehistoric flora was a pleasant surprise! what a well made video
Thank the robots
AI video mate
I’d rather a T-Rex or sabertooth tiger mess me up than to have any of those insects fly/crawl towards me.
The “spider” in the intro is not a spider. It’s a tailless whip scorpion, which is an arachnid but technically not a spider or a scorpion.
It’s actually none of the things which you described it to be. It’s a type of freshwater sea scorpion called a euryptid
I thought it was a Serio dico or the Well-Actually species.
I live in the philippines. Love it and the people. I sometimes get spiders in our house that are huge. Occasional cockroach and some small lizards. I'm ok with the lizards they eat ants. Cockroaches are not around enough to be an issue. But lately. 🥺Spiders with big long legs, good size body, and very fast. I dont know how they get in.
Spiders eat pests too, we used to keep banana spiders in Okinawa otherwise it would be roach central
When the spiders are babies they crawl in your mouth and into your stomach and grow there. Once they reach a considerable size they crawl out through your mouth when you’re sleeping.
@@alceusrydan6237lmao
@@alceusrydan6237 😄
Cockroaches are not around enough because of the spiders you are seeing. Those are huntsman spiders. If you see one, be thankful it's there. Totally harmless and only produce webs when laying eggs.
Insects are some truly complicated beings, I imagine on some planets they evolved to be the dominants species on their planet where the environment made it so.
With insects that huge it's amazing anything else had a chance to evolve. I mean, they multiply SO QUICK it would be hunting season year 'round and maybe some safety in the winter. So lucky we don't live in a world like that anymore. It would be Starship Troopers every day
We would be EFD
The larger a creature is, the slower it develops, because the cells work just as fast for any size. Large insects live longer and also take longer for reproduction (in general, not the act itself). The number of "eggs" is also less. Energy.... It's no coincidence. Eat, eat, eat. My opinion, have no knowledge about it.
I enjoyed your video while recovering from an injury recently. While I was resting, I got to listen to a number of RUclips videos and this one was very fascinating. Thank you!
If this was 3D.... That would be dope af!!!!!
Can't take the voice over artist's bizarre affectations, especially at the end of his sentences.
This is how you do a documentary!!!
I missed watching things like this on PBS.
No it's not
The bot voice I could perhaps understand if it was just a matter of security or a strange voice, but the script suggests that there's a much deeper issue.
Actually the limitation of insect size has to do with how their exoskeleton works and gravity. Basically interior volume increases at a cubed rate while exterior skeleton size increases at a squared rate. This is why anything larger than a chihuahua generally has an endoskeleton as it's much easier to support mass when the fleshy parts are on the outside, but it provides poor protection from damage.
Now you may be thinking are there animals that combine both surely that would be the ideal way to go. There are a few. Turtles and armadillo's for example. But it seems like the trade off is being slow and clumsy.
Thankyou, very interesting, I knew about the gravity being the limit to the size from a doc I saw years ago about these giant insects, I think they said on that did that the oxygen was about 40% as opposed to about 12 % today. It was a BBC doc years ago so I may misremember those details, your comment just reminded me, thanks.
Correction. Turtles and armadillos both have normal (endo) skeletons. That is nothing similar to what arthropods have.
There have been much larger insects than a chihuahua. I see what you're saying, but the earth was no smaller (no less gravity.) when these giants existed.
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I've seen lobsters and crabs much bigger than a chihauha for sure.@@coreyholmes8205
I just had a vivid and concerning flash of reality hit me hard. I’ve thought about this concept a lot but not to this extent before. *Everything around us, humans have the ability to manipulate and recreate using technology and use it to our benefit, the only evidence we need to know what’s possible is an example of it in our reality.* I just saw a robotic surveillance system made of ants with the same reproductive capacity 3D printers, basic components use to watch and colonies planets.
The animal at 0:34 isn't a spider, though it is an arachnid. It's an amblypygid (also, confusingly, called a 'tailless whip scorpion', though it's not a scorpion).
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@@jdubo1998being 24-25 thinking ignorance is cool 😬 you probably have no education or money
I've seen giant centipedes in Arizona camping in the desert, it's like an alien. Not as big as some of these, but probably 20x bigger than any insect/spider I've ever seen.
Seen scolopendras in Southern Spain: monstruous, hyper fast creatures that love the freshness of houses😱
They are as fascinating as they are terrifying.
I've often wondered if you could selectively breed giant insects in an oxygen rich environment?
Probably. It would be interesting to see how many generations it takes to adapt and grow.
According to the last part of this video... ruclips.net/video/-wQLKMUWANg/видео.html ...it’s been tried (for a few insect generations, anyway): the insects do grow larger in high-oxygen atmospheres - no “*selective* breeding” required.
In that case someone needs to build a Carboniferous Park with giant dragonflies @@Raven-01
The narrator is an AI bot.
massive arthropods (especially Arachnids) are absolutely my favourite creatures to ever exist, good to see more content talking about these awesome creatures.
However, I feel I have to be the bearer of bad news to all the other Average Spider Enjoyers out there, because Megarachne Serveni (the giant Mesothele Spider) never existed. It was a misidentified Sea Scorpion fossil, admittedly, that group of Sea Scorpions do look spider-esque, but none the less it wasn't a Spider. Spiders didn't even evolve from the Sea Scorpion to add insult to injury, as we have fossils of much smaller Spiders from roughly the same time period, if not before.
However, there were a lot of giant arthropods back then, and the world is a huge place, so I have no doubt in my mind that there were multiple giant Arachnids, Spiders, and Insects that we still haven't discovered yet, Arthropods don't fossilise as easily as most other animals, so fingers crossed we find more giant bugs.
I would highly recommend Children of Time by Adrian... taichovsky? The last name definitely isn't correct. But it's a scifi that surprisingly goes down a storyline that involves arachnids and it is SO COOL. Its my favorite book ever and has completely changed the way I look at speeders.
Yeah they are your favorite til you see one and it runs off with your pet dog or baby
@@codirennke1109 oooo, I'll have to look into that
@@gandalfthegrey8236 would probably still be my favourite, honestly, the thing could savagely rip my throat apart, and I'd still be thinking "damn, look at how big that spider is, that's so cool" XD
As someone who is terrified of spiders I find your fondness of them intriguing.
Imagine only a small portion of what was around got fossilized. There's a huge amount that we don't even know about.
It's not imagine, that is what is real. Despite how wide ranging the fossil record is, for every fossil species we find there's hundreds more lifeforms we'll never ever know existed.
@@sorrenblitz805 yeah, all those without a skeleton for example.
Wow, what an incredible documentary. Thank you.
500 million years of evolution and insect intelligence stayed the exact same. what a relief.
Let's not forget that Earth was more colorful in the atmosphere due to high oxygen than it is today when oxygen diminishes. We are rather tiny.
Think the movie mom ive shrinked the kids
Super informative, and thought-provoking, digging it.
Beetles such as beetles
@@mansart26🎉
@@mansart26clean your room
Great video but the narrator made me want to cry.
There is no narrator, it is a machine
Imagine getting blood sucked by a mosquito in this time, youd turn into an empty pouch of caprisun
'Giant' and 'insect' should forever be mutually exclusive lol
the voice is AI. listen to the words that end in "s" and how every word /sentence that ends in S has an upward inflection
Yup...those upward inflections are ruining this for me
It's software where the person recorded phonetic sounds of English and has it speak out types words. You can make your own for your voice. Sounds the same way. Just the sounds out together for words.
Ok how long ago did they discover Megarachne was a fresh water Eurypterid and not a spider? I could forgive if this was years old but come on! Meganeura wasn't even the largest griffin fly let alone the largest flying insect (that would be the titanopteran gigatitan of the triassic and Meganeuropsis of the Permian respectively). It's too bad because aside from a handful of glaring misinformations the rest of this documentary is generally very informative and well written.
Meganeura. Sound like the name of a porn star.
Information gets corrected and re corrected over time new learning new discovery leads too more accurate assumption 😁
In other words they keep getting it wrong continuously
Somebody said in another comment that at the time the episode aired they had realized their mistake but they didn't have enough time and it would have cost too much money to do a replacement That's what it said in the comments personally I don't know and I don't comment on shit I don't know.
Higher atmospheric pressure and higher Oxygen content are known to have been the case and give rise to larger versions of all organisms that also have greater longevity.
Another factor would be lower gravity - if that could have been the case. The truly gigantic size of some reptiles is down to the fact that even today some of them continue to grow as long as they live, coupled with their greater lifespan in ancient times.
How do you figure there could've been lower gravity?
@@ruledtrendy5066 I don't know.
@@ruledtrendy5066 less mass of the earth at time possibly or position of sollar system
😊pp dv
Came here to agree.
They didnt become extinct, they are still here, just stopped being huge
Their bigger ancestors went extinct.
that praying mantis shot was amazing if it wasn’t special effects!
people that can hear this dude end sentences without wanting to kill themselves are saints
Ikr! I can't concentrate on the story he's telling because of how he pronounce the end of the words! At this point I have no idea what this is even about! 🤷🏾♀️🤣
AI
Sounda like a you problem
Came here to find this comment. Not a you problem.
Are connected to the thoraxzzzz😅😅😅
I want to say Thank You so much for this Amazing Video and All the Knowledge that You're Teaching Every Person who watches this!
learn something everyday. well done.
Amazing video! A bit distracted whenever a word ends in 'S' the AI narrator glitches.
Many moons ago, when I was a very young university student one of my professors have the same tone of voice . Used to put me to sleep. But very informative. Thanks.
For an educational documentary, this misses some things. Spiders, scorpions, millipedes, and centipedes are not insects. Arthropods, yes, but not insects. Megarachne was an Eurypterid. Talking about insects and showing a hermit crab just makes this look off. At least it didn't try to cram this into a 6,000-year-old Earth. I'm looking at you, Ken Ham! :P
Could you not read the section titles? 'Giant Insects Are Not Alone'. 'Marine Life', etc? Such a dumb comment.
@@EobardFerguson No, I didn't read the section titles. I shouldn't have to. Stupid response to my comment.
@@thhseeking 👍🏼
There is an underlying theory the entire planet was larger as a whole back millions of years ago. But over time began to shrink. It was this thought that gave skull island and king kong it's start.
Very interesting content. We live on a world every bit as amazing as Avatar we just need to open our eyes to it.
This was back when music was real music. I wish I could go back,
Felt I needed a flamethrower ready to pull out and operate *IMMEDIATELY* while watching this.
Very well done video.
I find it amazing that a tiny insect has a no less complicated biology than a human does.
I often think if some giants organism was looking down at us we'd look as idle and as significant as an ant.
Can you imagine someone with arachnophobia seeing a 4 foot spider?
I'm freaking out rn 😧makes me uncomfortable
@@jzsbff4801 Lol
Nah a 16 foot tall spider
Why are y’all being mean about his voice 😭
Because good voice work makes or breaks a documentary. If your voice work sounds like an OSHA training video, your audience isn't going to enjoy it nearly as much. The caveat here, of course, is that voice actors are expensive.
It's A.i....so is the script
its laid on too thick
Cuz you have to listen to almost two hours of it.
Lol jk it's fine
Because it fncking sucks. It's so clearly non-human computer generated. Now we have channels not even putting an effort into creating actual content themselves anymore, but making money off AI generated material. I'm off it.
An excellent and great video! As a bit of an ex biologist ... the greatest story of insects is the co-evolution of flowering plants. (No flowers before pollinators). Insects pollinate 75% of crop species, 35% of global crop production, and up to 88% of flowering plant species. All fruit, all nuts, most grain. With out bees and critters, we would starve, most animals would starve. Even vegans would starve. Soya, almonds, apples, ... avocados ... need bees.
I would really want to go back in time and walk through those forests
You wouldn't make it out alive to tell the story my friend.
@@texastiger903 I sure as hell would
Unfortunate that they keep saying “insect”. I’m thinking it’s just to make it palatable for the layman. But insects only have 6 legs. The video discusses animals beyond that scope.
"Coelurosauravus" is pronounced "SEE-low-sawr--a-vuss." Its origins are Greek, and in Greek, "coe" is always pronounced "see."
What do you expect from an AI? Haha
@@mafiadabest I just wish he didn't end half of his sentences sounding like Forrest Guu-uummmmp.
@@lonedragon3261 fuck i thought i was the only one, i was waiting to see if it said jenn aay
bottomline: Birds aren't to be trusted
Man, this video is so cool. Very interesting topic. Had to scroll away because i really cannot look at centipedes and millipedes because they just creep the hell out of me
3m centipedes? Imagine a house centipede 3m long. THAT would be terrifying
Some insects I know and other insects I never seen , thank you so much for sharing this video.
I think this doc gave a lot of useful info, just not in the most organized way.
yeah thats ai for ya
HA organized:
*Swimming in the ocean for 100 million years and poof new joints appear giving me feat instead of fins uhoh got to run through the water and find land now.
Am I losing it or was this written by AI as well? There's so much redundancy in its first few minutes even
I thought the same.
I wrote this response in another section of the comments: Sometimes I think people just make videos by letting an AI narrator plagiarize a textbook. This documentary is horrible.
A large section of the video is just general insect biological facts, unrelated to large insects.
Several times the narrator is talking about insects, and spiders or other arthropods are visual. I also would not be surprised if some of these positive comments are AI generated.
I find all this creepy as hell and annoyed that people make money from putting out junk like this.
Exactly. This is the dawn of a shitty, new age in media unfortunately.
@@lorenzod9575 agree, I've come across multiple channels that seem AI made ( not only narrated by one as I'd do it,too, as I have not the best voice and a thick accent) recently and that's only in the paléontologie and evolutionary biology field so there are likely maaany more
Learned about this in college. TLDR: Due to a number of factors there is a ton of oxygen in the air at the time (way more than there is now). Insects absorb oxygen directly from the air (no lungs) and limited predators so they get huge. Oxygen is a limiting factor in their growth.
Lmao , everyone's pissed off about the narrator .
It's such a smooth brain thing to get pissed off at honestly lmao
A gigantic spider would chill me to my bones.
That was my first thought. Absolutely 💯 %, however could they be worse than the angry smaller versions, Irish and UK Autumn spiders are very terrifying and always go for me. I recently had one in my bed, crawling to me..!
An Australian huntsman or tarantula would traumatise me for life.
I remember as an au pair I had a bedroom right under the stairs the bed fit perfectly underneath outside steps, with 3 walls and the only exit through the head of the bed, like a tomb, I loved it!
I remember watching a little Spanish spider walk along the wall one night it walked all the way along until he got to me, where he jumped off onto me!
But that's nothing, nothing, to what my mother experienced one night.
Not one to be afraid of them, she was however disgusted when she told me about her night, when a particularly aggressive Irish Spider bit her on the face, her forehead which actually woke her up from sleeping.
She turned on her bedside light, grabbed her newspaper and beat the life out of it. Legs everywhere.
She probably had me hoover up the remains! Ugh.
We lived next door to a wild field the worst of times.
We also had a plague of beetles, black on the outside, white on the inside 🤢 who knew..sorry!
There is a reason mankind didn't exist during this time, because man was not yet ready to kill giant spiders like that, not even for there wives! :P
The spider in the video never actually existed. The theory of it being a prehistoric spider got disproved many years ago. It actually is a type of ancient freshwater sea scorpion called a euryptid.
I really like this video. How everything is explained in detail. Excellent 👌
I think everything gets smaller and smaller even universes get smaller and smaller imagine a spider the size of a universe
Narrator sounds like if Forrest Gump became a news presenter.
Could only get 3 minutes in before stopping the video... the voice is so annoying 😑
Let’s go ❤
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Would love to watch this but the narrator is unbearable.
He's not that bad
At 1:10:20 you name the largest insect known currently, found in India, is a moth called Atticus Atlas, then the very next sentence you call it a butterfly. The picture shown is that of a moth. You can immediately tell because of the type of antennae. Moths have feathery looking antenna vs the butterflies long, thin, smooth looking antenna.
There have been numerous other small mistakes but this one needed correction.
Grandpa Abraham Simpson once said:
"If you ever travel back in time, don’t step on anything! Because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can’t imagine."
@@jzsbff4801 Good to know. After watching the trailer, I passed on the movie.
AI narrator? Or does he just talk weird?
The A.I channels usually have a script or story that is so redundant and stooooopid u can't listen to it..this one ...not sure
..pretty good channel most times..nothing like History of the Earth or Universe
@@kenchesnut4425 Yeah that's crazy, History of the Earth is WAYYY better than this channel. This dude 6fucks up the majority of stuff he talks about. Its like he gets his info from the first page of each chapter of a 1920's science book. Every time I have had even the most cursory knowledge of the topic he is discussing, generally Space but often ancient animals ones like this he makes a shit ton of mistakes. Major ones like spitting long refuted claims as fact and small ones like messing up on the majority of names and descriptions. This channel is fine for what it is but for the most part its decent background noise. The series Entire History of Earth is decent enough idk why people hate on it so much in the comments of it. I presume it became a Reddit thread or something which brings all the idiots and scum of the internet together especially the... um... "Intellectuals".
Plus, that dudes voice is tolerable. I am not sure this is a real person speaking its so weirdly forced. Pretty sure its real simply because our AI voices are way better than this but I really dunno.
He's an insect...duh
Forest Gump s cousin. It's a greenbow Alabama accent.
@@Neyo360 that was harsh, taking the comments kind of personal Not that you have a discerning ear.
Ah shit, is this one of those scammy science channels loke Ridddle or whatever it's called? The ones that Kyle dude called out?
Thats what I'm thinking yeah.
Some of the info is outright inaccurate.
There is literally nothing better to fall asleep too
2:05 I got woken up yesterday at 4am to a bloodcurdling scream because there was a katydid in the house
his accent is so unbearable
Does it “bug” you? Lol
@@drinks_menuI’m a month late, but you deserve an award for this.
The world must have been very small to those giant insects!
No, the land was also huge due to sea level
@@stargazer46 I mean, to them, with their big huge eyes and large bodies. Like they can goto space and back with their size. I know what you mean, I didn't mean it in that way!
If there's a land counter for every sea creature... where's ours 😰😰😰
Whales.
If anything this is BS, let me tell you something... When I was 9, back in 1975 I lived in Denver at the time and the school went to the Denver museum and they had on display an entire room full of real, giant insects. Dragon flies as big as an adult arm, bees bigger than a fist. Flies that were bigger than a fist. I ended up going another time with my family on the weekend before moving back to L.A. Years later after I had my own family I told my son about this and we finally were able to visit the museum... They had some years earlier removed the entire display of giant insects. When I asked a worker they said they had removed them some time ago and had them stored. No explanation as to why they were removed.
Thanks for the content. Well done, indeed.. Wow, what an incredible documentary. Thank you..
Its always cool to see "context" on how humans are responsible for climate change, on a video describing, among other things, climate change from hundreds of millions of years before humans.
Oh god my brain at the beginning with the huge dragonfly all I could think of was helicopter sounds and Fortune Son playing in the background
I want this to be narrated by Forrest Gump.
I like this wacky comment
The insects evolved about as much as the narrator..both had a creator
I’ve never heard that an any can carry 1,000x its own weight before 🤔. Strong as they are I’d heard more along the lines of 150-200x body weight.
I am almost certain this was a computer generated voice and someone failed to notice that it was using Christopher Walken style speech patterns. :) lol
What getting high at 3:21 AM has brought me to 😂😭💀
I love how the narrater emphasises plurals. It comforts me
I watched the 1st minute and started to have the opposite reaction
@@jsp9918 i had the same reation at first, but it grew on me
*They did not become Extinct, they Devolved according to the changes of the Earth's regression in natural adaptations ...*
This with a huge budget would be fire
4:07 "-425 million years ago".. That negative sign means 425 million years in the future, right? That's like saying Death Valley is -500' below sea level.
I really just took a whole gram of wax to the dome to watch this because I saw a TIKTOK lol.