Should More Species Be Extinct?
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I vote for mosquitoes!
@@greenyleen7974let's start petition for that!
I'm doing my part, are you?
@@cody5535 Yes
i’m strangling as many squirrels as i can
Personally i think we should just make the MIA category more widely known. Extinct is a strong and effective word but if it can't reasonably be used we kinda do need a good alternative for these cases.
I think this is a better approach, because the true extinction category loses its impact a bit if species get unextincted, which does happen rarely to MIA critters
The IUCN lists them as “Critically Endangered; Possibly Extinct”. The first one of these I learned about was the Baiji river dolphin.
@@bosstowndynamics5488 it doesn't happen as rarely as you think, it is very very highly common for a species to go missing and then reappear in a few years or months again. A huge number of them do get rediscovered sooner or later.
We do have data deficient
@@thetachyon456 Data deficient is more for species of dubious taxonomic status or when we don't have enough information about their population status. It doesn't mean they are extinct.
The coelacanth species in the fossil record are absolutely extinct. What we found is another species in that order, the coelacanthiformes. The living species are pretty distantly related to the fossil coelacanths. They're just a lot more closely related to them than to anything else. I'm not trying to be annoyingly pedantic, but since we're talking about the species level it's good to be precise about what we found with the coelacanth.
Absolutely agree, there’s a lot of people who have the wrong takeaway from this whole coelocanth thing. Also the modern species has some notable, albiet minor differences in anatomy as well
I also wonder about that whole statement about alligators being unchanged for millions of years when all we have access to are fossils. How do we know the soft tissue didn't change?
When talking about fossils you are almost never talking about species anyway.
Almost every “species” of dinosaur you can think of is actually a genus.
I mean, if we go by that, humans also acquired lots of mutations over the past 100000 years, so at what point are we considered a different species from the original human?
@@battlesheep2552 I think it's best to just interpret statements like that as being lay-person speak, not scientific speak. The same species of crocodilians has absolutely not been alive and unchanged for millions of years. The fossils we have are just very closely related species that haven't had any super dramatic skeletal changes. "Unchanged" here is relatively speaking, not absolutely unchanged.
Sadly science communication is always a compromise between precision and getting random people to actually understand what is being said. There is a reason that science talk can feel like a foreign language to Joe Schmoe, average non scientifically literate person. Well, ok, there is a lot of latin but I am not talking about that, I am talking about how it needs to be precise for scientific reasons and that precision requires some amount of education or familiarity to interpret.
Maybe we need a in-between stage for those missing creatures like we have endlings for species with too low a population count to not become eventually extinct
I completely agree with you, if you was to come up with a index for that, you might make millions. I would call it the IUCN Red index.
That's called functionnaly extinct or missing species.
@@davesdatasystems Why would they make millions off of it, lol?
"The list of extinct species is incomplete. You can help by expanding it"
"The Forbidden Pokedex" XD
@@lasercraft32 LOL
My biggest takeaway from the video is knowing there's a catfish simply called the fat catfish.
Anyone knows its scientific name?
Maybe Rhizosomichthys totae, if I found the correct Wikipedia page.
Garfieldus Aqua Catus
If we knew her name she wouldn't be a catfish.
This totally made my day
Obesitus Aqua Catus
There's also "functionally extinct" where there are known individuals still alive, but so few that the species will never recover and the individuals no longer provide a meaningful ecosystem function, like the northern white rhino.
Given the broad definition that "there is not enough genetic diversity in the population left for it to recover" this could actually expand the number of species to ones with quite high overall populations, but whose genetic capacity to repopulate, due to habitat destruction / isolation of breeding populations, means that without drastic human intervention, species like the koala could be considered functionally extinct.
Cheetahs have actually undergone a serve population bottleneck. The current population comes from very narrow bottleneck. One study looking at DNA analysis suggested this bottleneck was at one point 2 individuals... for 3 generations. Getting down to a single mating pair and recovering is just about as little genetic diversity as you can get and doing it for multiple generations in a row is even harder. So I'm not willing to accept the concept of "there is not enough genetic diversity in the population left for it to recover." If you have a single mating pair and both parents are viable, sure incest among the next generation might make a lot of 2nd generation have all sorts of defects. But the possibly of further descendants who are not defective is not zero.
@@alex_zetsu that's true, and I was considering mentioning it as a counter-example, but didn't know enough about the details to comment. I didn't know they had gotten down to only 2 individuals! I do know that the genetic bottleneck has significantly impaired the cheetah's gene pool though, and has left them susceptible to immune deficiencies. But you're absolutely right that so long as there are two viable mating individuals, it's not impossible for a species to recover.
@@MrARock001 The most conservative estimate used on the DNA studies show there was a population bottleneck. Further assuming random mating and negligible selection of the studied markers during that time would give a high certainty the modern population came from a mating pair. Worse, rather than being a mating pair for one generation, the next two generations were also reduced to a mating pair and that compounds the problem if you know how inbreeding works.
I think we should relax those assumptions since no one mates randomly and whatever caused the bottleneck was likely excreting a selection pressure and it could have affected one of those markers. With more relaxed assumptions, we can conclude there was a bottleneck and it could have been as low as one mating pair, but it might not have been that bad. If we relax the criteria from "reduced to one mating pair" to "severe bottleneck" then it's not just cheetahs but many others which had recovered from such a state.
As such, I don't really take the concept of a minimal level of genetic diversity to be viable all that much. Inbreeding is basically just playing lottery with genetics with worse odds than normal, but it doesn't eliminate all good outcomes.
@@alex_zetsu Bottle necking also occurred with the Tasmanian Devil, and now they have contagious cancer. They bite each other playfully and those bites can pass on cancer.
Northern White Rhinos might make a comeback if scientists can figure out how to use the embryos, eggs and sperm that were collected to get them to gestate in a southern white rhino.
But very few seem like they're viable, so... not a lot of room to fuck up
Wollemia nobilis have been thought to be extinct for 65 million years and in 1994, they found this plant hidden in Australia. There are only 100 plants left on earth, one being in a small park in Germany, so they might become extinct again.
There are only 100 adult Wollemi pines in the wild, but there are surely plenty more being grown elsewhere. I happened to come across one at the Babbacombe Model Village in Torquay, England, just a couple of months ago, and I've seen others at various Botanic Gardens (mostly in Australia, but still)
Wrong. Just like the coelacanth situation, Wollemia nobilis is a modern species of Araucariaceae which is not known from any fossil material. It's a rare member of a very ancient lineage but it was never thought to be extinct because it simply wasn't known to science prior to the discovery of living specimens. So it's absolutely not thought to be extinct for 65 millions years lmao
@@ShirinRose We have a wollemi pine in our backyard. They are very slow growers, which would explain the lack of adult trees, but you can buy young trees and it's not crazy expensive.
@@Usulcardotbf, the first fossils were discovered in the 19th century and their lineage was thought to have gone extinct.
While it may be accurate to say "science didn't know about this specific type of coelacanth it so it was never considered extinct" that is not entirely true.
Sure they might not have considered that exact kind extinct. But it shares many similarities with ones they did consider extinct and they thought the entire line had gone extinct millions of years ago so considered every member of the species within the line extinct until the discovery in 1938.
Wollemia type fossils vanish from the fossil record 2 million years ago, not 65 (given Australia doesn't even have a latest Cretaceous terrestrial fossil record to begin with)
Probably they should have an extra category, like "presumed extinct", for such species
NatureServe's ranks of species endangerment has a "Persumed Extinct" rank rather than Red List's "Extinct" rank
I think a good idea is to make a category named presumably extinct. This will allow for animals that are possibly not extinct to be labeled based on their length of MIA, but the title will make people presume that they may still be alive to make sure protection acts aren’t disabled.
There is only one animal species I want to go extinct.
It's the mosquitoes.
I second that! Mosquitoes are the most deadliest animal in the world! Personally for me, if there were no mosquitoes, my life would be so much better.
@@irrelevant2235 Agree :)
bro only female mosquitos drink blood from humans the male mosquitos are actually necessary for plants to grow if we didn't have mosquitos we wouldn't have many plants either so yeah be thankful that you have mosquitos even though they might be annoying they still have a purpose
Ivory-billed woodpecker sightings haven't been confirmed, but there is growing evidence they are critically endangered, but not extinct.
Mark Michaels, of Project Principalis, and his team just recently published in the scientific journal _Ecology and Evolution_ about their decade-long survey in Louisana where they collected strong evidence for the ivory-billed still be with us. Some of his work can be found here on YT, also.
It's not definitive, but the evidence is mounting.
Can you send me link to his channel?
@@dominikzelenak7423 YT doesn't allow links in comments. I don't think he has his own channel, but others have featured him and his work. Just search for it.
When there is a will there is a way and these species are fighting hard enough to stay hidden from us which is a good thing sadly
Just as you've said: if there's a will there's a way; We have to work harder to make them extinct then!
I don't think they're that much safer when we can't see them. For better or for worse, humans are a powerful species that can make huge impacts that we might not be able to see immediately.
Seems like some sort of additional "Likely Extinct" category would make sense
What about accepting that "extinct" always means "extinct unless we find one" ?
@@ghislainbugnicourt3709yes lol, we should protect extinct species just in case they aren't actually extinct
@@ghislainbugnicourt3709
What about species like Tyrannosaurus rex, the dodo, Stellar sea cow, etc.
These are 100% gone, so we shouldn’t waste our efforts on these animals when they could be put on actually endangered species.
@@laurentrobitaille2204 We're never 100% sure and it's fine, I'm not saying we should act differently because of this. It's just about fighting our urge to have definitive boxes to put stuff into.
@@laurentrobitaille2204 I forget the species, but in Australia there was this tiny mouse-like thing that had been declared extinct and some kid found it after like 80 years of "extinction". He recognised it because he happened to have read about it (in a book of extinct species, weirdo) and realised that it wasn't a common mouse or a small bandicoot.
__this list is incomplete, help Wikipedia expand this list__
It's a shame that we can't have more accuracy due to the predation of companies that'd happily swoop in if more species were classified in the way that's believed.
People tend to do the same with their hair. They refuse to admit that their gone. The fact of admitting alone has some kind of finality to it. And it can end all efforts to save them. So even when someone hasn't seen their hair for years, they don't like it being pointed out.
lol what
"More Spieces Should Be Labeled As Exctinct"
If there's always a chance a member of an exctinct spieces is discovered, maybe we shouldn't mark any as definitely exctinct.
i meran then you can label them as not extinct again
the thing is
jsut lets say thers really just 100 induviduals of an extinct spec left but we say its extinct
then this spec can mostly live there in peace
if we label it as missing ppl wil lgo out and look for it searchign for it
disturbing it and in worse cases ruin its habitat with it
like humans can be super destructiv ,,,,even if they dont want to or have actually just good things in mind
in my area once an albatross showed up (im from central europe) so an albatross is a really rare sight
it stayed on a lake where a lot of other birds nest and rest
so many ppl rushed there to see this albatross that some birds there lost over 50 % of theyr nesting ground cause ppl would run around trampling eggs and chicks /nests into the ground without a care cause all they wantet is this "special" photo of this albatross
but all these ppl where "Naturelovers and Birdlovers"
Yeah, what if a T-rex is still out there somewhere on some undiscovered island.
1:04 "There are almost certainly species that we know of, that have gone extinct, and we haven't noticed"
The idea that this could be true is shocking and depressing. Wow.
There very well could be many plants or insects like that. Not like many people are looking for them so easy to slip through the cracks I suppose.
Now we’ll never know unless we have miraculous evolution luck.
I’m not even sure if that’s possible. Can a non-extinct animal evolve into an animal that used to be extinct or at least have an incredibly high amount of similarities?
That is not entirely true, we would have noticed them, certainly. Especially in continents like north America, Asia, Europe or Australia, there are a lot of scientists looking for them, most of the uncertainties are about undescribed species not described ones.
@@harubynspades if the IUCN can’t make a flawless track of extinction, then of course there will be species we know that have gone extinct and we haven’t noticed.
Scientists don’t monitor species 24/7.
Of course, we’ll eventually notice, if not then humanity has effectively forgotten the existence of an animal
@@daforkgaming3320 Not the same animal, but an animal with the same ecological niche, which may result in convergent evolution, as seen with ichthyosaurs, dolphins and sharks.
I love how so much of whether we declare a species extinct depends on how much hope we have in it still being alive 😂
There are species, such as the Lilliputian violet, which have been found only once, despite repeated search. Close behind is the Niumbaha bat (the name means "rare"), which has been found only five times, in places widely spread across Africa. How can we tell if these are extinct?
If it has been found only once, how do we know that it's not just a one-off mutation of something more common?
The Niumbaha bat is listed as least concern because it was sighted quite recently, it is just rare by nature.
"This list of extinct species is incomplete, you can help by expanding it!"
We should start with mosquitoes
Nah, ticks. Let's start with ticks.
How about the plasmodium that causes malaria? That’s pretty high on my list of species that could go extinct without being missed.
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Mosquitos is a keystone species, can't remove 'em without screwing both a ton of plants and animals.
@@SioxerNikita "mosquitos is a keystone species" 🤓. Yeah, I don't care
One interesting fact:protecting the nature and animals it is a recent endevour,like from 1900 onwards with the major impuls after ww2.Until 1900 all the people,from common people to governement did not give a thought about protecting the nature.They killed,destroyed,poluate and consume everthing they could.Think only how the whales became a specie in danger.And this is as old as the human species.From neolithic peope to Rome and Greece,from India and China to South and North America civilizations,from Africa to Australia and Greenland,every civilization destroyed the nature without a care,worse then any modern day capitalist bc,compared to today,there was nobody who cared enough to try to stop them.
So yes,we could do better but at least we try to do something compared to our ancestors.Nature park and reservations and protected animals are a modern idea.
If there are 3M-100M undiscovered species, how many new species are appearing? This is also extremely hard to estimate because we would have to be somehow sure that a given specie wasn't present in the past.
Evolution doesn't happen fast enough, generally, for us to observe a new species forming in the time we've looked.
@@CAMSLAYER13 It's also quite a gradual process.
Is it not possible to determine probabilites for missing species to be extinct ? In this case, we can estimate the real number of extinct species, even if we don't know exactly which one is extinct or missing.
Boy that fish blew my mind, it's like finding a dinosaur alive.
But now relegion use it as "proof" for god existing
@@billcipher4368 yea, like "god did it " ever explained anything -.-
@@CraftyF0X also it somehow gives proof that evolution doesn't exists?
I just hate relegion for being so aggrasive of spreading it's belief
@@billcipher4368 it's just their nonsense
You mean aves, a clade within dinosauria?
A commenter said that they have seen an ivory-billed woodpecker 1 minute ago, from what i can remember.
Entertaining and informative as ever, thank you!
The Blanco Blind Salamander hasn’t been seen for so long likely because it lives in a place that’s extremely hard to reach, in fact, there’s only a single confirmed sighting of them in their natural habitat
I mean, thats what happens when people who haven't scoured every single square inch of every part of the world to confirm such things are extinct so we just use hypothetical math to decide how many are going extinct every year.
We should know more about the endangered species also. Like give people hope to protect them even if there is a slim chance u know
I was expecting pun at the end, was highly disappointed… but I love the video regardless ❤😊
Great video but I'm confused. You make a point that there are so many species we have never even discovered yet so maybe the ones we haven't seen in years just need to be rediscovered.
Speaking of poor monitoring of species, I once looked up something I can across and it showed as being extinct, the Wikipedia listing has since updated but it still shows as possibly extinct, granted it is native to Jamaica and I’ve only seen it in mountainous areas
You could list them as “Missing in Action”…
I feel like these arguments only really allow for two rational outcomes. If we're worried about not being able to argue for continued protection of species we should just stop declaring _anything_ ever extinct, or we actually start declaring things we think are extinct as such until they aren't. The current system seems entirely unuseful.
I don't understand your reasoning. You say that if we care most about preservation of potentially non-extinct yet missing species, then we should stop declaring any species extinct, not just MIA ones. How does that follow?
What good would it do to not declare extinct a species where there's "no reasonable doubt that the last individual of a species has died"?
@@somebodyelse9130 "No reasonable doubt" is completely arbitrary though. If we've ended up finding species actually alive after 100 years of not finding any of them, when are there actually no reasonable doubts?
My argument is that these restrictions mean that the labeling seems entirely arbitrary and that if it's entirely arbitrary then the labeling is actively unhelpful.
I feel clickbaited by this title
So what I'm hearing is that there are a lot of animals that should be in another category, *Presumed Extinct...but they might not be!" lol
And then there's the fun concept of species re-evolving themselves to existence
Stop it with the coelacanth myth ! Modern coelacanths (genus Latimeria) are different from fossil genera of ancient coelacanths and were not even known to exist prior to their discovery in 1938. So saying they pulled out a live one as if it was the same genus, let alone the same species than the fossil ones is completely misleading. The truth is that the large group of coelacanthiformes fish (many ancient species) was only known from fossil material before they found out that two modern species of coelacanths still exist. These two species were never thought to have gone extinct because we simply didn't know their existence.
Oil miners seeing this: Way to go guys, lets shoot for 1000!
There was a spit-turning dog and it worked in pairs to turn a spit to power something that cooks food. on sunday it gets a break and works as a foot warmer in the church. But eventually the species died out when machines were invented.
How do we know there are millions of possibly undiscovered species out there?
What about some of those species where, as far as we know, there are only females or only males left? They're essentially 1 step behind extinction, so do researchers still hold back giving them the extinct status?
Not all species need both, and not all species we thought needed both actually did.
They're considered to be functionally extinct.
Most probably, what matters is which species are extinct by bad human activities. Other than that, it is natural selection.
We have top men working on it right now.
There should be a tastiness scale to use to determine if something is extinct. If it tastes like chicken it isn't coming back
How about a “presumed extinct” for animals not sighted in 50 years and there being reasonable evidence that this isnt just because theyre hard to spot?
If this presumed extinct status persists for long enough maybe a species can then be declared extinct. The example of coelacanths also really doesnt work - its like emphasising the protection of habitats triceratops could live in because birds still exist. Sure, coelacanths still exist, but in many ways theyre nothing like the ancestral species, so trying to protect them using methods based off of the niches their ancestors filled wouldnt help.
1:23 I remember back in college a professor told us that when aliens ask us how many species that are on Earth our answer will be like, “we don’t know & we will never know because we wiped so many out”.
Dont think you can hide a Vulpix, Ekans, and Paras in the mystery species!
Wow few seconds ago and alredy reply
And Pikachu and Slowpoke
"... when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again."
~William Beebe
On the other hand, we don't need to kedp track of all extinct species.
Nor should we prevent all extinctions.
We just have to keep our impact, that causes extinctions, to a minimum.
Whole world worrying about losing biodiversity and MinuteEarth is here making the bold claims in their video titles
Considering that supposedly 150 animals goes extinct every day... yeh
Makes me so sad, Honestly.... 💔💔💔
There are almost 8.4 million species of life on earth according to the Ancient Rishis of Bharat,
Who's that Pokemon.......time 1:10
So my question is, how did they prove that those 900 and so animals and plants are extinct beyond a reasonable doubt?
CORRECTIONS: When looking at the bottom of a stamp, the image you see is a *reflection* of the image that gets stamped. To stamp the word 'EXTINCT", what you'd see on the bottom of the stamp is the word, reversed.
Wait, am I in the right place? Is this... where am I?
They get this right at 0:26 but not in the thumbnail image lmao
No worries, we're actually looking at the reflection of the stamping taken from a mirror
@@jackic23 Masterclass response, there. Bravo.
Let's join the war on Extinction, on the side of Extinction
Things for sure that I want them to be extincts: Roaches, Flies, Mosquitoes, and pretty much any other abomination that god brought upon this world LOL, like seriously if anyone can even came up with even one proper reason why those critters should even exists now I'm gonna cried
This is kinda sad 😢
And the precambrian death masks 0:47
I grew up in the green swamp of Florida. I am pretty sure I have seen that woodpecker about decade ago.
Yeah that’s why disagree with Emily’s take here as many extinct creatures still have numerous reported sightings.
@@orangecat504non confirmed tho
@@americanmapper2445 yes I would say thiers a difference between reported and official sightings.
that’s not where i was expecting this video to go. i was picturing more like “here are the species we need to eradicate for the good of the environment.”
… which sounds contradictory, if not downright villainous, now that i type it out.
When will humans extinct? 😊
And what is necessary to categorize a species as extinct?
Love how the unknown species silhouettes have multiple pokemons in it.
I mean, the anopheles mosquito should be imo
they can’t find a submarine where they know they sent it. we’re not as smart as we think we are. hopefully daddy AI will save us cause we dumb asf 😂
well, the problem is we don't know where they sent it precisely - the ocean is big and a sub is tiny by comparison
also "daddy AI" still has to search every likely cube inch of the ocean just like the rest of us meatware intelligences
So with the conclusion un mind, how did they reach the conclusion that the ones currently classic extinct should be so?
“Listed as Extinct because it has not been recorded since 1996, and extensive searches in the appropriate habitat, during the appropriate season within the known range, have failed to locate this species. Its disappearance has been attributed, at least in part, to chytridiomycosis-related declines.” Justification for the extinction of the Chiriqui Harlequin Frog.
Just make a new label that means "appears to be extinct".
We're never going to know if something is objectively extinct regardless of what we label it.
The number of potential species on earth is a massive overestimate. The largest possible number is likely around 5,000,000
I was hoping to watch a video about how our preservation efforts are contrary to nature. Without our artificial help many more SHOULD be extinct. Millions of animal species have gone extinct before humans. Its weird we put so much effort into trying to prevent inevitable processes.
Let the mosquitoes burn in hell.
As the history of life showed, species extinction isnt actually a bad thing.
Its the norm.
Just like death.
The important part is that extinctions dont happen in to rapid a pattern.
Otherwise it will drag the entire system, that both nature and we humans rely on, down.
And while life will survive,
We humans might not.
So we have invested interest in keeping nature stable.
Not frozen, not regressing or removed.
But stable.
The issue is when actually Extinct organisms pull funds away from Critically Endangered Species, like what we have seen with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
At first i thought that by "more species should be extinct" you were saying that with all the catastrophic events that occured in Earth's past coupled with all the damage that human intervention has done today, way more species have managed to survive till today than one would think
1:42 "The IUCN only declares a species extinct when there's no reasonable doubt that the last individual of the species has died."
That's nonsense. That would be a totally impractical standard. There's always the possibility that an individual or population of the species had been overlooked and will be found later.
The IUCN is aware of this possibility and uses a different approach when to declare a species extinct. If a species hasn't been sighted in a certain timespan that corresponds with the generation length of the species, and a scientific expedition has been carried out looking for this species in the location where it most likely could have survived, and this expedition finds no evidence, then the species is declared extinct.
look at the silhouettes at 1:10 ... I'm pretty sure Pikachu is NOT extinct.
We should call most “extinct” animals missing unless it is very old and very dead like synapsids and hadrosaurs
All the living things in an area are intertwined with each other. They all have a job to do, so to speak. So if a species numbers have been reduced down so low that we can't even find one, they most definitely are not doing their job, and all things considered, almost none will ever be able to recover. Both the weather and the climate are going to get worse, and humans are only increasing in numbers, so no matter what the cause, if what's happened so far has made them invisible to us, it is not in our best interest to keep spending money trying to save them.
The entire world is pushing its money pretty much to its limit now, and with things getting worse, we're going to need a lot more money to be spent. Funds are limited unfortunately. So priority must be made.
Mosquitos should be extinct, no question. End then all
Just blood suckers. A lot of them are usefull.
I will never have the opportunity to bite into a freshly grilled Tasmanian Tiger burger. 😢
unless they figure out how to clone one lmao
Sum of the extinct species probably aren't technically extinct. Animals go through rapid evolution all the time. The animals appearance we knew is extinct, but not the animal itself.
Hot take: some species deserve to go extinct, like koalas, pandas, and sloths. We're just artificially keeping them alive when evolution backed them to a corner where they're regressing rather than adapting to new environments.
Thank you for another informative video!
Little Owl! 😍
Because it's Pride month... How about a video about some of the MANY species, other than humans, that have been observed to be gay or can switch sexes? 🏳🌈🏳⚧
How did this fish not evolve into another fish after 240 million years?
Can someone explain this to me in simple english?
By that logic only large, land dwelling mammals can go extinct. For everything else we can never be certain if there aren't somewhere some individuals surviving.
First 8 seconds of video. What???? Get the nukes ready i guess 😆 😆 😆 😆
Actually watches video ahh okay that makes sense now
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I'm a little late to this, but if a selacamp hasn't been seen for millions of years and it was presumed to be extinct, but was really alive still how does ICUN determine with no shred of a doubt that a species is extinct?
Which of those 902 confirmed recently extinct species would make the best pet?
Fun fact: if mosquitoes went extinct there would be little to no negative effects on the ecosystem
1:10. FYI, pokemon are not real.
2:33. Coelacanth isn't a species. Its an order of fish with at least 90 species in the fossil record and 2 species alive today.
it's funny that we're too scared to list species that haven't been seen in almost 100 years as extinct. I would think that it would be better to have a previously thought to be extinct species turn out to be not extinct instead of just labeling it as missing. I do understand for conversational reasons why they would keep a species classified in a way that protects its natural habitat. fascinating stuff!
Naw, more things should be extinct...
for reference, I would also endorse an endless winter... I don't like the other seasons.
Then thank you, IUCN, for not allowing for more environmental regulations to be canceled
Maybe that shouldn’t be the only reason we’re keeping the planet somewhat clean it shouldn’t be just because oh this animal might be alive so it’s still the right thing