How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @thymewizard
    @thymewizard 3 года назад +1276

    I've never seen a more perfect hybrid of blazer and lab coat. I want one....

    • @LuDux
      @LuDux 3 года назад +109

      He probably bought it on Amazon

    • @otterssilver7299
      @otterssilver7299 3 года назад +44

      Needs an iron or some kind of a steamer. Way too many wrinkles.

    • @thymewizard
      @thymewizard 3 года назад +61

      @@otterssilver7299 I kinda dig the rumpled aesthetic haha

    • @otterssilver7299
      @otterssilver7299 3 года назад +11

      @@thymewizard a few wrinkles are good 😉

    • @kmw4359
      @kmw4359 3 года назад +11

      Looks like linen

  • @MJ-gd4dk
    @MJ-gd4dk 3 года назад +129

    I swear. Everyone in PBSeons would make such a good teacher

    • @monkeykoder
      @monkeykoder 3 года назад +15

      They're already excellent professors, someone who professes their love of something, this is the core of teaching and exactly what is missing from the field.

  • @beroka1462
    @beroka1462 3 года назад +411

    It’s actually crazy when you think about the impact that a single sauropod would have on an ecosystem, even a medium sized one (around 15 meters and 12 tons in weight). More research should be done in that area

    • @karthikeyank132010
      @karthikeyank132010 3 года назад +54

      Not crazy at all, especially when we look at the modern world in which exactly ONE species has tremendous impact on NEARLY ALL of the world's biosphere, let alone an ecosystem.

    • @isen2619
      @isen2619 2 года назад +16

      Elephants shape their ecosystems in the same way

    • @beroka1462
      @beroka1462 2 года назад +3

      @@isen2619 not as much as a sauropod would have

    • @isen2619
      @isen2619 2 года назад +12

      @@beroka1462 that kinda goes without saying, doesn't it?

    • @jessevanhorn3726
      @jessevanhorn3726 2 года назад +1

      Are you saying if a single sauropod impacted the earth?

  • @HuminBeenz
    @HuminBeenz 3 года назад +1284

    Yes! This is another huge reason why once the Amazon is gone, it’s gone. We just can’t recreate all the primary growth conditions.

    • @homewall744
      @homewall744 3 года назад +31

      It shows you that any destruction you fear may actually trigger the best Earth ever. We'd not have the Amazon or humans without the mass destruction and climate change that it created.

    • @mrjoe332
      @mrjoe332 3 года назад +60

      We have many satellites, we could drop them all at once

    • @italodealmeida6854
      @italodealmeida6854 3 года назад +28

      #FORABOLSONARO

    • @generationfallout5189
      @generationfallout5189 3 года назад +16

      Humanity will be gone as well.

    • @OakenTome
      @OakenTome 3 года назад +68

      @@mrjoe332 Beyond the fact that destroying all those satellites would be shooting ourselves in the foot, none of them are anywhere near big enough.

  • @danilodesouza6461
    @danilodesouza6461 3 года назад +2121

    Long ago the plants lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the asteroid attacked

    • @pierrebegley2746
      @pierrebegley2746 3 года назад +287

      Only the dinosaurs, master of eating all plants could stop it. But when the world needed them most, they vanished.

    • @CelibateCetologist
      @CelibateCetologist 3 года назад +173

      @@pierrebegley2746 But I believe avian dinosaurs can save the world.

    • @nicholasming5976
      @nicholasming5976 3 года назад +43

      I’m so proud

    • @dentoncrimescene
      @dentoncrimescene 3 года назад +60

      Some extreme fire bending by the asteroid.

    • @cuptainreese
      @cuptainreese 3 года назад +25

      This gives me so much joy

  • @smohnjith9226
    @smohnjith9226 3 года назад +589

    More recently, Amazon has caused a mass extinction of retail stores

  • @SuperBC1975
    @SuperBC1975 3 года назад +416

    Fascinating. This was well done. Nice job, PBS Eons. This video taught me something new.

  • @Xnaut314
    @Xnaut314 3 года назад +471

    There's one more factor to the rise of angiosperms after the K-PG Extinction that was basically overlooked despite appearing prominently in the stock images: the simultaneous rise of mammals. Most gymnosperms are comparatively larger bodied than angiosperms on average and are much more ancient in their history, so were more evolutionarily intertwined with reptiles and dinosaurs for the dispersal of their seeds or spread their seeds without the help of any animals. Angiosperms were smaller and lower growing in the Mesozoic so would have been mostly overlooked or completely destroyed if their seeds passed through the gut of a herbivorous dinosaur. Dispersal by mammals and birds was much more ideal for angiosperms since their smaller size enabled them to interact and eat their seeds without destroying them, and when the extinction happened their coevolution continued and grew in both diversity and physical size, while gymnosperms basically lost all of their primary dispersers. That's the main reason why the mast majority of living gymnosperms pollinate and seed disperse without animal assistance, and simply relying on wind and fire is much less efficient for rapid species dispersal than a conscious forager that is actively looking for your seeds like the angiosperms still had. Angiosperms, much like the mammals and birds, were just the right size to maintain their life cycle integrity through the extinction and rebounded quickly because of that, but the gymnosperms lost fundamental keys to their former diversity maintenance and have been underfoot to angiosperms ever since because of that.

    • @chobochobus
      @chobochobus 3 года назад +6

      neat!

    • @ethanross1506
      @ethanross1506 3 года назад +16

      I wonder if the rise of insect pollinators affected this shift at all

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 3 года назад +28

      Is there evidence for what you're saying, or is it just your hypothesis? Because without evidence either, I could just say that there's no force in evolution that forced gymnosperm to stay "ancient". They didn't evolve more slowly than angiosperms, and not all species were necessarily bigger.
      We also know that insect pollinators existed before the first flowering plants (PBS Eons made a video about that recently).
      Be careful to not become in love with an idea that sounds good. PBS Eons' content isn't about pure theory, it is all derived from paleontological evidence.

    • @chir0pter
      @chir0pter 3 года назад +34

      "so would have been mostly overlooked or completely destroyed if their seeds passed through the gut of a herbivorous dinosaur"
      Citation needed. There are plenty of seeds today that are designed to pass through the gut of megaherbivores like elephants- e.g. avocados, durians, etc.
      The rest of your comment is pretty speculative too. "gymnosperms basically lost all of their primary dispersers. That's the main reason why the mast majority of living gymnosperms pollinate and seed disperse without animal assistance" umm nah

    • @roofromthedot5457
      @roofromthedot5457 3 года назад +5

      @@ethanross1506 The rise of beetles as pollinators likely did affect this shift.

  • @LowerTheBoom
    @LowerTheBoom 3 года назад +73

    I love studying forest ecology and this was so unbelievably interesting. It makes so much sense.

  • @aengor
    @aengor 3 года назад +57

    A video about the evolution of grasses (Poaceae) and their rise in the Cenozoic in so many ecosystems would be fantastic

  • @DieNextInLINE
    @DieNextInLINE 3 года назад +11

    I got unsubscribed from PBS Eons for some reason. I normally wouldn't care that much but this is the ONLY channel where I watch EVERY video soon as it goes live.
    Love this channel and everything you guys do on it.

  • @eckosters
    @eckosters 4 месяца назад +2

    Fabulous. I’m a retired geologist, a sedimentologist who worked on peat no less - and I didn’t know this at all! Back when…. We assumed fern spores were preferentially preserved because they’re on the underside of the fern leaf , hence don’t get dispersed easily.
    I’m going to have to read some of these papers. Woo - amazing!

  • @BrianEthridge-wk6hz
    @BrianEthridge-wk6hz Год назад +3

    I cannot imagine giving a thumbs down on any of these videos. They are all extremely well done and very educational to say the least. I wish these were available when I was a child but I'm grateful they're going to be available for kids!!!! Thank you so much

  • @ariochiv
    @ariochiv 3 года назад +37

    ...also, the fires in the aftermath of the impact would have burned down much of the existing forest, giving the faster-growing angiosperms an edge when the forests regrew.

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 Год назад +3

      Yup, and the soil would be high in nutrients, with all that burnt vegetation in it.

  • @karlhenke91
    @karlhenke91 3 года назад +54

    I wanted to let you know that this is the only channel I'm subscribed to with a rotating group of presenters where I actually like all of the presenters a lot.

  • @mikaljan
    @mikaljan 3 года назад +124

    I love this channel, I'm always learning something from it!!! A blend of earth history and science presented by awesome hosts!!!

  • @charleslord2433
    @charleslord2433 3 года назад +6

    YAY! A NEW EONS!!! Discovering this web series has been a blessing throughout the pandemic.

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion 3 года назад +42

    This one is one of the good examples of Leonardo Da Vinci's saying: Our life is made by the deaths of others.

    • @peterg1664
      @peterg1664 2 года назад +1

      Abraham Lincoln said that most of the quotes online are falsely attributed.

  • @c_and_l
    @c_and_l 3 года назад +18

    I love how simply you explained the canopy effect. In my classes we spent like a full week on it. I guess granted it was an isotope class but still it was really confusing at first.

  • @hawaiianbudd
    @hawaiianbudd 3 года назад +16

    What an epic episode. This was your best one, Blake.

  • @nicks1451
    @nicks1451 3 года назад +11

    Our earth has such a beautiful story to tell. Sometimes this channel makes me tear up.

  • @eomguel9017
    @eomguel9017 3 года назад +11

    I love Eons plant episodes! I'm still waiting for the previous chapter of this plant story, the rise of gymnosperms (including conifers, cycads and ginkgos) has not been yet covered.

  • @Zarhejo
    @Zarhejo 3 года назад +36

    Dinosaurs modifying the environment reminds me to mammoths doing the same in Siberia. Pleistocene Park

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 3 года назад +1

      I mean, all forms of life affect their environment. In which way is the interesting question.

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 3 года назад +2

      I was just thinking the same thing. Canada and Russia would have been so different with herds of elephants stomping around.

    • @chir0pter
      @chir0pter 3 года назад +1

      @@LimeyLassen same with North America. In fact wherever you live now has most likely been shaped by human-caused megafauna extinctions and increased fire regimes.

    • @huldu
      @huldu 3 года назад

      They got nothing on humans however. We really take the cake.

    • @alexcontreras6103
      @alexcontreras6103 3 года назад

      Or humans, yet we never actually taken a look too see what's evolving among us, many are already in our home or urban environment

  • @highfive7689
    @highfive7689 3 года назад +1

    That "Shady" pun did not "veil" or "overshadowed" how great the your program was! Keep them coming! I just hope that people who see it will understand how fragile the Amazon really is and "plant" the "seeds" that will change the future for the better. Thank you, Eon!!!👍👍👍😊

  • @tommunyon2874
    @tommunyon2874 3 года назад +4

    When I lived on Guam I became intrigued by the number of tropical trees that were of the legume family from the mequite-like tangan tangan to the majestic poinsiana, and the giant (sweat pea) known as the orchid tree.

  • @zeldafairy69
    @zeldafairy69 3 года назад +5

    this episode was really interesting to watch! eons never fails to deliver

  • @Melanosuchusss
    @Melanosuchusss 3 года назад +182

    And now the Amazon is home to giant 18 ft caimans and crocodiles, 20 ft snakes, 13 ft fish, all kinds of flying dinosaurs, and He who kills with one bite to the skull.

    • @neyok3198
      @neyok3198 3 года назад +39

      Don’t forget poop yeeting monkeys

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 3 года назад +22

      And something that looks like a cross between a pig, a rhino, and a primitive elephant.

    • @skippy9214
      @skippy9214 3 года назад +16

      @P4to D0l4n pretty sure it’s tapir

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 3 года назад +6

      @P4to D0l4n
      Tapirs

    • @YouAreStillNotablaze
      @YouAreStillNotablaze 3 года назад +8

      don't forget the otters that can take out the crocs...
      And the super-ants that became invasive in the U.S. and have been slowly taking over the country and are resistant to extermination methods.

  • @littleravendesigns5587
    @littleravendesigns5587 3 года назад +1

    I love how Mother Nature always finds a way to balance life out and to make a comeback.

  • @kevting4512
    @kevting4512 3 года назад +16

    The illustration @2:54 reminds me of that meme of a T-rex telling the mammals to flee while the dinosaurs hold off the asteroid.

    • @AskMia411
      @AskMia411 3 года назад +1

      Awww, I've never seen that meme, but it sounds so sweet!

  • @LaughingSeraphim
    @LaughingSeraphim 3 года назад +1

    My favorite presenter from PBS.

  • @E5PY
    @E5PY 3 года назад +7

    I loved this episode so much♡ thank you, Everyone one for putting it together♡

  • @TexansFan218
    @TexansFan218 3 года назад +2

    That quick RIP for the dinos was the best part

  • @rottenroadkill3311
    @rottenroadkill3311 2 года назад +7

    I wonder if many of the non flowering plants when the forests were more open relied on wind for dispersing their spores. Having a denser forest with less wind may have also have pushed the need for flowers to attract insects if that was the case

  • @whateverittakes9000
    @whateverittakes9000 3 года назад +1

    Good to see you again Blake!!😄. Hope everything is fine.

  • @scrappyfu
    @scrappyfu 3 года назад +4

    Great vid. Thank you Eons team and patrons

    • @Mikailodon
      @Mikailodon 3 года назад +1

      Im a patron so thank you

  • @markredacted8547
    @markredacted8547 3 года назад +1

    Love the casual lab coat/dinner wear look

  • @hetspookjee
    @hetspookjee 3 года назад +6

    I love this channel so much. It really completely reinvigorated my forgotten passion of paleontology. I was reading on the extinction events and noticed on the Wikipedia of the K-Pg extinction event that it is hypothesized that the Deccan traps, which are literal antepodes of the Chicxulub crater, are caused by the impact of this enormous meteorite. I am really curious about the development over the centuries after this meteorite has impacted, and what would've (and how) perished first. It is so extremely fascinating that a meteorite struck the earth so hard it caused the other side of the planet to bulge and pour vast amounts of lava so vast it is over 2 km thick! Though it is still a hypothesis.
    Also the older you get joke was hilarious

  • @nonenones3570
    @nonenones3570 2 года назад +1

    Kudos to the Stylist.

  • @Carey365
    @Carey365 3 года назад +3

    1000 years from now historians will say of the modern age: They worshipped the Amazonian Goddess Je'bezos who was believed to have arrived on an ancient meteor.

  • @Juulnvm
    @Juulnvm 3 года назад +2

    Favorite host is back!

  • @DylanMatthewTurner
    @DylanMatthewTurner 3 года назад +10

    I'm rooting for the newcomers. Let's go Team Angiosperms!

  • @alioramus1637
    @alioramus1637 3 года назад +22

    May i suggest dinocephalian therapsids that flourished in the middle permian as a topic for perhaps a future video?

  • @ricericericericericericerice
    @ricericericericericericerice 3 года назад +3

    Blake's my favourite host.

  • @mpcg102
    @mpcg102 3 года назад +3

    Your channel should do a episode on the south west of Western Australia, amazing bio diversity in soils that are very poor in nutrients. It's a very fascinating place

  • @stephanieparker1250
    @stephanieparker1250 3 года назад +3

    Another great video! Thank you, Blake! 😁🙌

  • @odar9729
    @odar9729 3 года назад +1

    Whose excited every time there’s a new video’s . 🥰 it’s my dream to work there!

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 3 года назад +4

    Love it thanks for doing this so often, y’all’re greatly appreciated!

  • @delivanov252
    @delivanov252 3 года назад +1

    PBS EONs team, I can't wait till my kids start watching your videos.

  • @TheAstrobiologistOW
    @TheAstrobiologistOW 3 года назад +44

    I've always wondered: approximately how long did it take after the Chixulub impact for the last non-avian dinosaurs to die? A year? A decade? A century?

    • @floflo1645
      @floflo1645 3 года назад +5

      Centuries

    • @TheAstrobiologistOW
      @TheAstrobiologistOW 3 года назад +3

      @@floflo1645 that would make the most sense I suppose

    • @yodieyuh
      @yodieyuh 3 года назад +4

      Look into the timing between the impact and the Decan Traps. Some believe the impact started the decline but later events like the Decan Traps gave a finishing blow.

    • @danimotherofchickens479
      @danimotherofchickens479 3 года назад +1

      The flood, mostly instant

    • @Tatusiek_1
      @Tatusiek_1 2 года назад +2

      most probably died within the first day or week, but the next few months and years of starvation finished them off.

  • @MrHelleborus
    @MrHelleborus 2 года назад +1

    I recognised so many orchids shown throughout omg! Love that for me

  • @athanatic
    @athanatic 3 года назад +11

    This show is so smart and yet accessible that it always amazes me!
    Spark the fire of curiosity!

  • @EmilyJelassi
    @EmilyJelassi 3 года назад +2

    Very interesting video! Love this channel 😊❤

  • @genericytprofile852
    @genericytprofile852 3 года назад +16

    Spiffy coat my man! Continue looking dashing.

    • @ryanw1140
      @ryanw1140 3 года назад +4

      I knew this comment would be here somewhere

  • @tjonesauto
    @tjonesauto 2 года назад +2

    When I saw the title I thought about all the big department stores going extinct

  • @lawofseven1465
    @lawofseven1465 3 года назад +8

    As a native Brazilian this video was long awaited lol

  • @ChristopherRyans
    @ChristopherRyans 3 года назад +1

    1.99 million subscribers! Congratulations well-deserved

  • @mumatz123
    @mumatz123 3 года назад +5

    This channel is the only thing that keeps me from despairing over our current climate change/ mass extinction, because it reminds me, that life will always bounce back - even from the greatest tragedies.

  • @bradthomas7933
    @bradthomas7933 3 года назад +1

    This is why balance patches & season changes are needed people!
    Edit: TierZoo you're awesome! 👌

  • @yomamas80085
    @yomamas80085 3 года назад +3

    Love your videos!

  • @brentanllewellyn3898
    @brentanllewellyn3898 3 года назад +2

    Always great stuff.
    Thank you.

  • @rafaelvalimfernandes
    @rafaelvalimfernandes 3 года назад +12

    The Amazon is saying goodbye and it's not a meteor disaster but a disaster of human hands, when I traveled to the interior of Brazil I was shocked with such destruction in the name of agribusiness, they are bringing everything down.

    • @the_SolLoser
      @the_SolLoser 3 года назад +5

      Agreed. People dont seem to realize they could make more money from what the Amazon provides naturally rather than what they think they can create in its place

    • @nuoiptertermer4484
      @nuoiptertermer4484 Год назад

      They aren't bringing everything down. The Amazon is actually big enough that even at the highest rate of destruction of it, it would take several centuries to destroy it all. Also, I don't know of any destruction outside of Brazil. And there is a vast amount of Amazon outside of Brazil.

  • @mysteryfacebookgirl
    @mysteryfacebookgirl 3 года назад +2

    you guys do the best videos on youtube :D

  • @eljanrimsa5843
    @eljanrimsa5843 3 года назад +19

    The Amazon forest is so ancient that it watched continents drift apart and mountains grow.

  • @firstnamelastname-pp3sm
    @firstnamelastname-pp3sm 2 года назад +1

    This gives me a bit of hope. Climate change is terrifying, but nature has recovered from worse. It's sad to see the animals and plants we know dying off, but eventually they (and maybe we) will be replaced by newer, weirder life.

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas 3 года назад +16

    Fascinating as always! I definitely dig all of Blake’s episodes. (Why is there no shovel emoji?)

    • @sp00n
      @sp00n 3 года назад +2

      Here, take this to dig! ⛏

  • @Algolxxxxxx
    @Algolxxxxxx 3 года назад +1

    2:05 The Cretaceous forest didn't have grass. Grass only appeared around 40 million years ago.

  • @LuinTathren
    @LuinTathren 3 года назад +13

    Massive fertilizer bomb. Sounds like what my dog does on our walks.
    And, Blake, I definitely dig you. 😊

    • @AskMia411
      @AskMia411 3 года назад +2

      Oof, my condolences to you and your dog, that sounds unpleasant! My pupper rarely does her business on walks, she prefers the backyard, which i guess makes those the equivalent of a landmine 😆

  • @barnabyrt1012
    @barnabyrt1012 3 года назад +1

    This is great! Such a gift! Thank you ❤

  • @phileon2323
    @phileon2323 3 года назад +3

    Damn, James Bond really do be talking about the Amazon

  • @Nick-hm2dm
    @Nick-hm2dm 3 года назад +1

    This channel is so freaking awesome!

  • @jimc.goodfellas
    @jimc.goodfellas 3 года назад +9

    Love the Eons and Space Time videos..it's so nice to watch and learn something and hear about something that's not politics and vaccines

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH 3 года назад

      Space Time leaves me feeling dim 😅 (I'm not used to that lol)
      However I appreciate them not oversimplifying the science.

    • @theonebman7581
      @theonebman7581 3 года назад

      Agreed tbh, Eons and Space Time are oddly... like... uplifting tbh
      They show you there's so much to discover, and, while we will never know even half of it all... there's still the possibility of a brighter future
      Except for when ST talks about iron-56 stars or the heat death, those are pretty depressing :p

  • @OddBr18g
    @OddBr18g 3 года назад

    Thank you to the patreons . I can't afford to support, but love the shows...

  • @hollyodii5969
    @hollyodii5969 3 года назад +3

    Another fascinating episode! I’d love to see more videos on some of the truly odd creatures of the Triassic, especially vertebrates. And some videos featuring early humans, including exploring the possible link between Homo Heidelbergensis and Homo Neanderthalensis.

  • @cristianfernandezrodriguez9077
    @cristianfernandezrodriguez9077 3 года назад +1

    Fantastic video, a pretty interesting subject, PBS is doing a great job with their channels.

  • @Ngamotu83
    @Ngamotu83 3 года назад +9

    It seems like the meteor strike 66 million years ago has been one of the most consequential events in the history of this planet.

    • @kevincotterell3644
      @kevincotterell3644 3 года назад

      Certainly of this channel anyway

    • @r-gart
      @r-gart 2 года назад

      Only in recent history. 66 mi years is like just an instant given its old age.

  • @tristanray222
    @tristanray222 3 года назад

    I bought the posters and I do not regret it. Very trippy 10/10.

  • @EveloGrave
    @EveloGrave 3 года назад +3

    Gotta say, that's an awesome blazer, or jacket. Whatever they are called.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 3 года назад

    i had absolutely no idea the plant 🌱 life on the earth was so much changed by that impact 💥. all you really hear about are the animals. thank you sooo much for new (to me) insight and information. 🌷🌿🌼🌱🌷

  • @justhereforkicks8208
    @justhereforkicks8208 3 года назад +4

    I’m fascinated by the K-PG extinction event, what happened during those, minutes, hours, days? Then what right after? Like what happened to all the bodies of the dinosaurs after the last one finally died? Were there just endless fields of giant bones scattered everywhere, or just a few here and there? Did the bones just lie there until they crumbled into dust? My mind can’t comprehend it all..lol

  • @StarlightJosh
    @StarlightJosh 3 года назад +1

    Wowww this is beautiful

  • @gwenpoole1071
    @gwenpoole1071 3 года назад +25

    Big laugh from "beleafing in us." I really love when the jokes catch them off guard 🤣🤣

  • @Marlodrama
    @Marlodrama Год назад +1

    I think its so fascinating that the Dinos were essentially tending to their own garden in the amazon. Their actions directly impacting what could and couldn’t grow, how the landscape looked and even what chemicals were in the environment. It makes me think of human histories of land stewardship, and how some of our ancestors tended to their environments in natural ways that ensured beneficial balance to their ecosystems! Or maybe its nothing like that, idk!!

  • @dinodonut5776
    @dinodonut5776 3 года назад +29

    That’s ironic, because now Amazon is helping to create a mass extinction event!

    • @mr.fahrenheit6054
      @mr.fahrenheit6054 3 года назад +3

      Can anyone elaborate?

    • @MaynardsSpaceship
      @MaynardsSpaceship 3 года назад

      @@mr.fahrenheit6054 The forest is being destroyed to grow soy for cows for burgers.

    • @craftpaint1644
      @craftpaint1644 3 года назад +5

      @@mr.fahrenheit6054 Amazon the distributor is doing everything it can to replace workers and become a governing force in the global economy.

  • @craftshark3221
    @craftshark3221 2 года назад

    Fantastic narrator and topic . I enjoy the pace , choice of terms and touch of humor ! : )

  • @jacobfreeeman
    @jacobfreeeman 3 года назад +4

    Great video, I did hear another theory which argued that most of the current plant species in the Amazon has been naturally selected by humans over thousands of years. I wonder if true how much impact humans had not in destroying the Amazon as we do today. But lived with it, and designed it for their own harmonious existence with nature?

  • @falcon8357
    @falcon8357 3 года назад

    This is why I love this saying “ there is no life without death and there is no death without life”

  • @HXXIIA
    @HXXIIA 3 года назад +9

    Alternate video: How Amazon ™ could cause a mass extinction event.

  • @2facethegemini
    @2facethegemini 3 года назад +2

    Love the coat!

  • @j.f.fisher5318
    @j.f.fisher5318 3 года назад +3

    oversimplification, but I feel like you can see this in any forest fire or clearcut in a coniferous forest. The first trees to regrow are always the leafy angiosperms, but in the Amazon they were able to take over.

  • @viral_suppressor4154
    @viral_suppressor4154 Год назад

    I could have used this so much when I was in college, SO SO MUCH!
    BTW this episode was beautiful, thank you!

  • @carlitosway6041
    @carlitosway6041 3 года назад +4

    3 new videos in a week? That's what I'm talking about team Eons! 💪

  • @defiant_bard
    @defiant_bard 2 года назад

    I never knew how much I needed a blazer that also looks a little like a lab coat, thank you. (and for the knowledge as well!)

  • @jonathanthomas8736
    @jonathanthomas8736 3 года назад +3

    This is the second instance I've heard of of Megafauna having a critical climate impact. The other is mammoth steppes. There's a compare and contrast episode in there, I think

  • @petrfedor1851
    @petrfedor1851 3 года назад

    Plant evolution videos are among my favourites!

  • @Joseph-rs1rx
    @Joseph-rs1rx 3 года назад +5

    This video's host must really miss the dinosaurs.
    But it seems like he enjoys his job.

  • @bobtuckey2409
    @bobtuckey2409 3 года назад +1

    This was a fascinating talk. Thank you.

  • @alicecat8942
    @alicecat8942 3 года назад +14

    Huh, for some reason in my head I read the title as "Amazon™ Creates Mass Extinction Event", which to be fair is also a likely scenario.

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy0505 2 года назад

    Excellent video 📹
    We take our garden plants and our lawns for granted.

  • @Mikailodon
    @Mikailodon 3 года назад +15

    It be amazing to think of the Amazon being around in the final days of the Cretaceous with dinos roaming around

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 3 года назад +3

      You didn't listen to the video I see.

  • @alandoane9168
    @alandoane9168 3 года назад

    A lovely obituary for our fallen treasure.