I grew up on a Texas farm in the 1950s-60s. The only time I ever heard my mother scream was when she stepped on a big old scorpion that curled its tail over and stung her on the top of her foot. And it wasn't even dead from her stepping on it! Biggest scorpion I ever saw.
Wow, that sounds like quite an intense experience! 😱 I can’t imagine stepping on a scorpion, especially one that was tough enough to still sting after being stepped on! It’s wild to think how big some of those ancient scorpions were back in the Carboniferous period. Do you think those massive scorpions from back then would have been just as tough, or was this one just a particularly feisty little survivor?
And some people have a silly idea to travel through time just to see and live with dinosaurs. They forget that we humans would only be food for these monsters 😂
You get the impression that nature followed thousands of different paths just to see what would work. If the above creatures were successful for a long era, imagine how many other dead ends there were that failed quickly. This is a profoundly strange world.
17:26, The dragon flies jaws, they are sharp and bite hard! ... I used to catch dragon flies, pinching them gently just behind their wings with my thumb and forefinger. I had to catch them there. Catch the dragon fly too far back behind the wings on the tail and they will curl down and back, then bite your fingers. I lost pieces of thumb or finger to those jaws! How did I catch them? I usually watched for those that landed on top of a fence line. Moved very slowly up close, then moved my hand very slowly up behind the dragon fly until I was close enough to pinch them behind the wings. I don't know how long it took, but I guess between 2 or 3 minutes of slow movement.
Wow, that sounds like quite the experience! It’s fascinating how much patience and precision it takes to catch dragonflies like that. I had no idea their jaws could cause such damage, must have been painful losing pieces of your fingers! Have you always been interested in catching dragonflies, or was it something you picked up out of curiosity?
@@RoaringEcho That was about 60 years ago. I think that I did it just to see if I could after noticing that the dragon flies would not fly away if I moved up slowly to them. First time I think I just touched them with a finger then later tried to catch them and found I could. It was the second or third time I caught one on the tail too far back and lost a piece of finger. That happened two or three more times. If I was lucky the bite only cut into the finger. It was a couple of times that they bit a chunk out. Thinking about it now, I wonder if the dragon fly swallowed the piece of human meat or spit it out! 😃 A dragon fly jaws open sideways, not like mammals and both sides move, not like mammals with the lower jaw only moving.
I've seen grown men scared of garter snakes and large wood spiders . These creepy crawleys are beyond tolerance...one look could kill a modern human!😱🐛🦂
Absolutely! It's crazy to think about the size and power of those creatures from the Carboniferous period. Even the bravest among us would probably be running if we encountered a giant millipede or spider from that era! Do you think you'd be able to handle a time-travel trip back to those creepy-crawly days?
@RoaringEcho I would like to see that giant millipede up close, but that's all I could handle. My first pets were grasshoppers and daddy long legs spiders. I saved a black widow and kept it for a year. 🐛🤗❤️🦖
@@RoaringEchowouldn’t get a chance, our planet was on the other side of the galaxy during that age so if you could only move in time and not space you’d wind up in space where you’d die, which means time travel is already invented but whoever tried it has been floating dead for In space for millions of years
I'm not a fan of disco music. But I did have some really good times during the disco era. When I hear a disco tune I think back about those times and smile.
Disco was the last time when people practiced their dance moves, showered, ironed their clothing, styled their hair, dressed up, planned for a happy evening out, laughed and smiled for hours on the dance floor.
Right? It’s like the Carboniferous was nature’s experiment with "How big and scary can we make everything?" Which creature from that era do you think is the most nightmare-inducing? For me, those giant millipedes take the prize-imagine one crawling up to you!
Imagine yourself chilling out in the Carboniferous ocean then you feel an appendage entering into your swimming shorts followed by a twinge of sharp stabbing pain in your groinal area. You look down in horror to see a tully monster swimming away with your bellend
I bet that "ironing board protrusion" on Stethocanthus (4:45) was some kind of "sensor", probably related to it's sense of smell. This is the first time I've ever seen it and it immediately reminded me of the radar dishes on the top of some airplanes. I know that sharks can "smell" or sense blood in water over ridiculously long distances and maybe this "beast" was even better at it, IF that's what the protrusion was for.
@@RoaringEcho Thanks. I AM an artist, illustrator and model builder. I don't make airplane models, but my interest in them led me to find some pictures of planes with this type of radar, and that's the first thing I thought of.
Bugs were so big at this time, the poor amphibians and reptiles had to climb trees and hide in their holes, where their fossils are found to this day!!!!😂❤😊🎉
Spiders cannot get heavier than a couple ounces or their abdomens would become ruptured by contact with the ground. This has always been the case which destroys the myth of enormous spiders at any point in history.
Gomandong cave, Sabah, Borneo. Home of ‘Bird nest soup’, vertigo inducing rattan ladders and ……..bats. Great until you look down into the guano….with your mag lite. Teaming with a billion giant insects. My favourite ever.
Thanks for sharing! Gomantong Cave sounds like a fascinating place (believe it or not, Sabah is one of my bucket list locations), especially with its abundance of insects - it almost feels like a modern-day echo of the Carboniferous period!
Haha, I don’t blame you.. giant centipedes and house-sized scorpions would make anyone say that! Which one do you think would be the worst to run into? Personally, I’d be sprinting the other way if I saw that Meganeura dragonfly buzzing around!
Insects and other land arthropods were able to get huge, because the atmosphere was much denser, and had a higher concentration of oxygen than our air now. Stars blow away their planets’ atmospheres, which is an ongoing process.
Great point! The Carboniferous period was like a giant bug’s paradise thanks to that oxygen-rich air. Do you think we could ever artificially recreate those conditions to see how modern insects might grow in size? Or would that just end up being the plot of a sci-fi horror movie?
Ha! Fair point.. guess the fish didn't get the memo about living up to its name! Do you think its curved spine was an adaptation for something specific, or just a quirk of fossilization?
@@RoaringEcho hmmm, interesting question! It's hard to say; I know flexibility is often useful, but it can come at the cost of strength. Based almost solely on the name, I'm going to guess it's a quirk of fossilization in this case
Doesn't Tullimonstrum look like the prototype for the "Nautilus" submarine in the film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?" And Edestus has the mouth of the Alien?
If the Tuli monster had gill slits then it was likely a vertebrate. On the other hand it may be more closely related to squids instead. One may be tempted to suggest Opabinia as its distant ancestor, but it sports vertebrate or cephalopod instead of arthropod fins, and no visible articulation manifested by segmented hard plates of the exosceleton, so that hypothesis would fall flat. There is no segmentation what's so ever even of musculature, so most likely it would be a cephalopod.
That's an incredibly detailed breakdown of the Tully Monster’s potential classification! Its lack of segmentation and other unique features really make it a mystery. If it were a cephalopod, what do you think that says about its ecological role in the ancient oceans?
@@RoaringEcho It used its proboscis in a similar fashion like the squids use their tentacles for catching small fish, and its proboscis is likely a modified squid tentacle. Squids are mid-water swimmers as may had been the Tully. Its tail fins are also very similar to squid's. Excellent presentation btw.
The relative glut of oxygen then allowed book lungs and haemocoels to absorb enough of it passively to grow bigger than they can today. The giant ants of THEM are just not possible today. You need active respiration to grow large as an animal.
None of these creatures compares to my ex wife. She was a double jointed two-face who could morph into a demon in .2 seconds and could devour the hope, happiness, and financial wellbeing of a man within days of contact. She was truly terrorying.
For most science/science fiction it is either tiny microbes or super intelligent beings on other planets. Rarely plain old nightmare fuel like these. But that seems what most life on earth was for a long time.
Not so vast history, only 5900 years of dwarfism of original gigantic ancient life forms born in a creation. Without death having a season in Earth's youngest days, all life bloomed, providing a extremely dense oxygen packed air. Which in term had a radically different environment with less boundaries and allowing great sizes of creatures.
Interesting perspective! The Carboniferous period indeed had a denser, oxygen-rich atmosphere, which contributed to the massive sizes of insects and other life forms. The scientific consensus suggests this was due to environmental factors over millions of years rather than a young Earth scenario, but it's fascinating to explore different views on ancient life. What aspects of the environment during that time do you think played the biggest role in shaping life as we know it?
Most scorpions are medically insignificant and are non-aggressive. Im guessing these were the same. There is no reason to assume they would be any different.
I mean; think about it for a minute; Earths oxygen levels millions of years ago were so pure ( Close to almost 100% back then; I can’t remember the exact number I heard) The Growth potential for any insects then were astronomically higher; side note even early humans could run further without feeling any tiredness for long distances. We as humans have destroyed the Purity our planet
You’re absolutely right... Earth’s oxygen levels back then were much higher, and I believe it was around 35%, give or take, during the Carboniferous period. That higher oxygen content would have allowed insects and arthropods to grow to incredible sizes, which is why we see those giant dragonflies and millipedes in the fossil record. As for humans, it’s crazy to think that our ancestors might have had an advantage in stamina thanks to the extra oxygen! It really makes you wonder how much we've impacted the planet over time. Do you think we could ever get back to something like that, or has the damage been done? Would be interesting to hear your thoughts!
Is some or all of the script AI, because some of the claims about the giant centipede comes across as a bit over the top? I don't think "it shook the ground.... leaving devastation in it's wake", because it's not a Kaiju.
Oh, those sounds? Totally accurate! They’re from a species of prehistoric insects that mimicked birds. The classification will be officially announced… sometime around 2050 😉 by the way thank you for showing love!
Wrap your head around: Wwe survived that period along with the 5 Mass Extinctions. Imagine what life will be like after the next one? All the higher animals die and the baton is passed to the lowly ones
All life on Earth is related, but separated into three different groups: plant, animal, and fungi. And we try, so try, to imagine alien life on other planets. Our imaginations fall short of any potentialities out there, in my view.
It's fascinating how all life on Earth shares a common origin yet diverges so dramatically into different forms. Thanks for the insightful perspective! 👽
@@RoaringEcho It's also facinating how inanimate matter, given enough time, can become 'living', as in, 'biogenesis'. Although I'm scientifically-minded, I still think it's a miracle.
"Struck fear into the hearts of paleontologists"? Come now, you nitwit. The ONLY thing that strikes fear into the hearts of paleontologists is the fear that their grant proposal won't be accepted.
Haha, yeah, Fallout definitely loves to throw in those big, creepy creatures! Giant scorpions in the game are a cool nod to the massive ones that roamed during the Carboniferous period. It's fun to think about how those ancient arthropods might’ve looked if they were still around today... would you want to run into one, or is that a hard pass?
Wow, that’s a crazy idea! Imagine how terrifying it would be if giant spiders like that actually existed on other worlds. What weapons would you equip yourself to survive in a giant spider apocalypse in an alien world?
@@RoaringEcho Darryl Anka as channel-er BASHAR had said this about people who had spider arachnophobia, he said that some of these SOULS had been eaten incarnated on other worlds were animals and insects were huge on the planet
Meh. I could still kill a two foot scorpion, no issue. The centipede being herbivorous will help in our survival cough, cough... Don't go into the deep oceans, EVER, PERIOD!!!
GREAT NEWS: Thank goodness those giant bugs couldn't survive in today's lower-oxygen atmosphere. If spiders grew to ths size of dogs, they would kill off everything -- including other spiders. Because -- spiders! 🕷
Haha, thank goodness for that lower-oxygen atmosphere, right? 😅 The thought of giant spiders the size of dogs is enough to make anyone’s skin crawl! Imagine how terrifying it would be to see one of those creatures hunting everything in sight-spiders definitely wouldn’t have any trouble claiming dominance. Do you think if they did exist today, they'd somehow evolve to fit the environment, or would they be even more dangerous with their size?
The arthropocene. Is the most terrifying because we're the only ones that can destroy the entire atmosphere of the planet. The only other creature ever to affect the atmosphere as much as we did was stromatolites.
I completely agree! the Anthropocene is indeed a unique and terrifying era, especially given humanity’s unprecedented impact on the atmosphere. It’s fascinating and sobering to consider how only stromatolites and now us have had such a profound effect on Earth’s environment. Do you think there’s anything we could learn from past epochs about balancing our existence with the planet’s ecosystems?
Stop with the bs ! 1000 volcanoes erupt every year ! Co2 is 04.0% of the atmosphere . We are tiny . We may make it harder for us to survive. But other then that , C02 is a green house gas...it makes plants grow larger ?!
it's good you cannot travel back there first you could not breath the air because of the high oxygen content and second of all the flora and fauna would probably kill you quickly, so much for that idea LOL!
At sea level a human being could expect to develop pulmonary oxygen toxicity after a week or two, it would vary a lot between people, but would eventually be fatal unless the victim moved higher in altitude. Humans could live permanently in higher mountainous areas. How do I have an estimate re this? I am a licensed breathing gas mixer, for what it is worth.
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So basically, The Australia Period.
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@@PaxAlotin More like Australia on steroids.
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It does feel like that over here sometimes, well, most times in summer.
I'm waiting for the first brownsnake to surprise me.
gimme a scorpion burrgah
I grew up on a Texas farm in the 1950s-60s. The only time I ever heard my mother scream was when she stepped on a big old scorpion that curled its tail over and stung her on the top of her foot. And it wasn't even dead from her stepping on it! Biggest scorpion I ever saw.
Was mom okay?!
Wow, that sounds like quite an intense experience! 😱 I can’t imagine stepping on a scorpion, especially one that was tough enough to still sting after being stepped on! It’s wild to think how big some of those ancient scorpions were back in the Carboniferous period. Do you think those massive scorpions from back then would have been just as tough, or was this one just a particularly feisty little survivor?
And some people have a silly idea to travel through time just to see and live with dinosaurs. They forget that we humans would only be food for these monsters 😂
You get the impression that nature followed thousands of different paths just to see what would work. If the above creatures were successful for a long era, imagine how many other dead ends there were that failed quickly. This is a profoundly strange world.
Such a thought provoking perspective! And yes, we do live in a strange world. Thanks for adding massive value to our comments section!
Maybe we are a dead end as well
Natures experiment is not over.
We might be one of those experiments; intelligence. We haven’t been here as long as these animals and we’re about to kaput ourselves…
@@Karl-lz2bj you are.
Awesome video, im very interested in the plants that existed in that time:3
So nice of you! Thank you for watching 😉
There's a great book if you're from the states (or even if not): Common Fossil Plants ofWestern North America
@@arklinmike that's what it's called?
@@RoaringEcho yw x3
Was there Marijuana? If not, count me out
Fantastic well made and super informative video. Subscribed
And very scary...
Great video! Enjoy the ambient creature sounds in the background as well. 👍🏼
Glad you had a great experience, your kind words means a lot to us! 😉
Thanks for posting this. Fascinating!
Our pleasure!
That's really cool that we have the tech now to send cameras back in time to film these creatures.
17:26, The dragon flies jaws, they are sharp and bite hard! ... I used to catch dragon flies, pinching them gently just behind their wings with my thumb and forefinger. I had to catch them there. Catch the dragon fly too far back behind the wings on the tail and they will curl down and back, then bite your fingers. I lost pieces of thumb or finger to those jaws!
How did I catch them? I usually watched for those that landed on top of a fence line. Moved very slowly up close, then moved my hand very slowly up behind the dragon fly until I was close enough to pinch them behind the wings. I don't know how long it took, but I guess between 2 or 3 minutes of slow movement.
My ex once told me a story about a friend of hers getting bitten by one. She also said it just curled around and went for it.
By hunt, the most successful hunter in existence.
Wow, that sounds like quite the experience! It’s fascinating how much patience and precision it takes to catch dragonflies like that. I had no idea their jaws could cause such damage, must have been painful losing pieces of your fingers! Have you always been interested in catching dragonflies, or was it something you picked up out of curiosity?
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@@RoaringEcho That was about 60 years ago. I think that I did it just to see if I could after noticing that the dragon flies would not fly away if I moved up slowly to them. First time I think I just touched them with a finger then later tried to catch them and found I could. It was the second or third time I caught one on the tail too far back and lost a piece of finger. That happened two or three more times. If I was lucky the bite only cut into the finger. It was a couple of times that they bit a chunk out. Thinking about it now, I wonder if the dragon fly swallowed the piece of human meat or spit it out! 😃
A dragon fly jaws open sideways, not like mammals and both sides move, not like mammals with the lower jaw only moving.
I've seen grown men scared of garter snakes and large wood spiders . These creepy crawleys are beyond tolerance...one look could kill a modern human!😱🐛🦂
Absolutely! It's crazy to think about the size and power of those creatures from the Carboniferous period. Even the bravest among us would probably be running if we encountered a giant millipede or spider from that era! Do you think you'd be able to handle a time-travel trip back to those creepy-crawly days?
@RoaringEcho I would like to see that giant millipede up close, but that's all I could handle. My first pets were grasshoppers and daddy long legs spiders. I saved a black widow and kept it for a year. 🐛🤗❤️🦖
@@RoaringEchowouldn’t get a chance, our planet was on the other side of the galaxy during that age so if you could only move in time and not space you’d wind up in space where you’d die, which means time travel is already invented but whoever tried it has been floating dead for In space for millions of years
No real man would be scared of a garter snake. Now, a baby rabbit, that's something else!
Well, the first impression is often not the greatest. But scared? Nah. Just gimme a sec :P
Awesome video man
Thanks for the visit 😉
On the upside, there was no disco.
Haha! I was no fan of disco back in the day. But
I have to admit that the Beejees' 'Staying Alive' was a good song.
I'm not a fan of disco music. But I did have some really good times during the disco era. When I hear a disco tune I think back about those times and smile.
@@maxwellcrazycat9204 I hate to admit it, but I'm the same way. Just don't tell anyone.
"Well you can tell by the way I walk my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk" hehe and hell yeah!
Disco was the last time when people practiced their dance moves, showered, ironed their clothing, styled their hair, dressed up, planned for a happy evening out, laughed and smiled for hours on the dance floor.
Every period in the history of life including today is a nightmare for every other lifeform. Its just the nature of life on this planet.
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This is so fascinating and terrifying
Right? It’s like the Carboniferous was nature’s experiment with "How big and scary can we make everything?" Which creature from that era do you think is the most nightmare-inducing? For me, those giant millipedes take the prize-imagine one crawling up to you!
@ definitely the millipedes, absolutely terrifying
Nature, you scarry
And you are awesome. Thank you for watching 😉
If you're going to try to be edgy and clever by posting a tired meme, at least get your spelling right. 😂😂😂
@slappy8941 F you...have a nice day
Those were the days.
Yes, the good old days before modern rap music.
Well Ty. I usually watch interesting videos before I go to bed. Now, I’ll be up all night or having nightmares, Ty very much, lol.
Imagine yourself chilling out in the Carboniferous ocean then you feel an appendage entering into your swimming shorts followed by a twinge of sharp stabbing pain in your groinal area. You look down in horror to see a tully monster swimming away with your bellend
Nope
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That’s the x rated pixar monsters inc 😅
Thank you!
You're welcome! And thank you for watching 😉
I bet that "ironing board protrusion" on Stethocanthus (4:45) was some kind of "sensor", probably related to it's sense of smell. This is the first time I've ever seen it and it immediately reminded me of the radar dishes on the top of some airplanes. I know that sharks can "smell" or sense blood in water over ridiculously long distances and maybe this "beast" was even better at it, IF that's what the protrusion was for.
It's very creative of you to think of the radar dishes! Thank you for watching 😉
@@RoaringEcho Thanks. I AM an artist, illustrator and model builder. I don't make airplane models, but my interest in them led me to find some pictures of planes with this type of radar, and that's the first thing I thought of.
Pretty sure sharks can detect electrical charges in the water too. So this might have a variation of that? Or maybe heat sensor?
@@alexinfinite7142 I definitely believe it was some kind of "sensory organ". It almost HAD to be. Unless it was a Battering Ram (I'm kidding)!
@@MikeS-um1nm what's funny is it could be😂 we seen animals have bashing weapons built in
No, it wasn't a nightmare; in fact, it was a fun time to be an insect
Bugs were so big at this time, the poor amphibians and reptiles had to climb trees and hide in their holes, where their fossils are found to this day!!!!😂❤😊🎉
That painted a vivid picture in our minds! It's awesome to imagine how these massive critters dominated the prehistoric world. Thank you!
The Centipede of that time should be able to hunt that Scorpion.🤔
No doubt it could! Thank you for visiting 😉
The carboniferous period the earth was warmer (cars) and twice the oxygen levels, that's why insects today are 3-4 times smaller!
In the 2003 King Long movie Black and company fall into a pit ironically filled with these monsters.
Spiders cannot get heavier than a couple ounces or their abdomens would become ruptured by contact with the ground. This has always been the case which destroys the myth of enormous spiders at any point in history.
This is the first time I have heard that as a reason why there can't be big spiders. Any source or reasoning behind that?
Back then they could I think gravity was different maybe because the moon was closer to earth. I'm just happy it can't happen today 😮
Image all the others that have left no trace .
Shudders
NO!! The Giant Scorpion of Death is to be used for GOOD....... ;) Message me if you get the reference!
Wow😮
The antediluvian time period had a lot of big creatures
Gomandong cave, Sabah, Borneo. Home of ‘Bird nest soup’, vertigo inducing rattan ladders and ……..bats. Great until you look down into the guano….with your mag lite. Teaming with a billion giant insects. My favourite ever.
Thanks for sharing! Gomantong Cave sounds like a fascinating place (believe it or not, Sabah is one of my bucket list locations), especially with its abundance of insects - it almost feels like a modern-day echo of the Carboniferous period!
None of these creatures would bother us, we weren't around
The only thing that came to mind was “f*** that!”
Haha, I don’t blame you.. giant centipedes and house-sized scorpions would make anyone say that! Which one do you think would be the worst to run into? Personally, I’d be sprinting the other way if I saw that Meganeura dragonfly buzzing around!
Insects and other land arthropods were able to get huge, because the atmosphere was much denser, and had a higher concentration of oxygen than our air now. Stars blow away their planets’ atmospheres, which is an ongoing process.
Great point! The Carboniferous period was like a giant bug’s paradise thanks to that oxygen-rich air. Do you think we could ever artificially recreate those conditions to see how modern insects might grow in size? Or would that just end up being the plot of a sci-fi horror movie?
6:13: "This fish, whose name means 'straight spine'...."
Shows a picture of a fish whose spine is comfortably bent into a semicircle, lol :P
Ha! Fair point.. guess the fish didn't get the memo about living up to its name! Do you think its curved spine was an adaptation for something specific, or just a quirk of fossilization?
@@RoaringEcho hmmm, interesting question! It's hard to say; I know flexibility is often useful, but it can come at the cost of strength. Based almost solely on the name, I'm going to guess it's a quirk of fossilization in this case
Bugs the size of horses..This really is a nightmare world.
Don't forget Hell Pig that came around later.
Doesn't Tullimonstrum look like the prototype for the "Nautilus" submarine in the film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?" And Edestus has the mouth of the Alien?
Can you go 2 seconds without telling us how terrifying and threatening everything is ?
It got tiresome Very quickly
If the Tuli monster had gill slits then it was likely a vertebrate. On the other hand it may be more closely related to squids instead. One may be tempted to suggest Opabinia as its distant ancestor, but it sports vertebrate or cephalopod instead of arthropod fins, and no visible articulation manifested by segmented hard plates of the exosceleton, so that hypothesis would fall flat. There is no segmentation what's so ever even of musculature, so most likely it would be a cephalopod.
That's an incredibly detailed breakdown of the Tully Monster’s potential classification! Its lack of segmentation and other unique features really make it a mystery. If it were a cephalopod, what do you think that says about its ecological role in the ancient oceans?
@@RoaringEcho It used its proboscis in a similar fashion like the squids use their tentacles for catching small fish, and its proboscis is likely a modified squid tentacle. Squids are mid-water swimmers as may had been the Tully. Its tail fins are also very similar to squid's. Excellent presentation btw.
How do they know that these creatures existed?
The relative glut of oxygen then allowed book lungs and haemocoels to absorb enough of it passively to grow bigger than they can today. The giant ants of THEM are just not possible today. You need active respiration to grow large as an animal.
Nightmare, terror, danger, horror. Please, its just some extinct animals.
None of these creatures compares to my ex wife. She was a double jointed two-face who could morph into a demon in .2 seconds and could devour the hope, happiness, and financial wellbeing of a man within days of contact.
She was truly terrorying.
Lol
just... stop.
The artwork is from "ARK Survival Evolved" - a video game.
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2 foot long scorpions
15:26 thanks a lot pal!! 🫣🫣😵
Typical RoaringEcho giving out people their daily dose of trauma 😉
For most science/science fiction it is either tiny microbes or super intelligent beings on other planets. Rarely plain old nightmare fuel like these. But that seems what most life on earth was for a long time.
Not so vast history, only 5900 years of dwarfism of original gigantic ancient life forms born in a creation.
Without death having a season in Earth's youngest days, all life bloomed, providing a extremely dense oxygen packed air. Which in term had a radically different environment with less boundaries and allowing great sizes of creatures.
Interesting perspective! The Carboniferous period indeed had a denser, oxygen-rich atmosphere, which contributed to the massive sizes of insects and other life forms. The scientific consensus suggests this was due to environmental factors over millions of years rather than a young Earth scenario, but it's fascinating to explore different views on ancient life. What aspects of the environment during that time do you think played the biggest role in shaping life as we know it?
Most scorpions are medically insignificant and are non-aggressive. Im guessing these were the same. There is no reason to assume they would be any different.
Was gravity lower because we learned in science bugs don’t get that big because exoskeletons would crush under their own weight
basically Catachan
my first thought too lol
I mean; think about it for a minute; Earths oxygen levels millions of years ago were so pure ( Close to almost 100% back then; I can’t remember the exact number I heard) The Growth potential for any insects then were astronomically higher; side note even early humans could run further without feeling any tiredness for long distances. We as humans have destroyed the Purity our planet
That oxygen level changed well before we showed up
You’re absolutely right... Earth’s oxygen levels back then were much higher, and I believe it was around 35%, give or take, during the Carboniferous period. That higher oxygen content would have allowed insects and arthropods to grow to incredible sizes, which is why we see those giant dragonflies and millipedes in the fossil record. As for humans, it’s crazy to think that our ancestors might have had an advantage in stamina thanks to the extra oxygen!
It really makes you wonder how much we've impacted the planet over time. Do you think we could ever get back to something like that, or has the damage been done? Would be interesting to hear your thoughts!
This time led to the excrexious period!
Pulmonascorpion? Well...
Remenber The Black Scorpion movie ..
I had to stop after the second animal. Arthropleura was a VEGETARIAN not a predator at all.
As if you _know_ 😂
He said so in the video why are you all worked up?
35 % oxygen? - what could have happened to reduce i to just 21 % - sounds catastrophic 🤨
Is some or all of the script AI, because some of the claims about the giant centipede comes across as a bit over the top? I don't think "it shook the ground.... leaving devastation in it's wake", because it's not a Kaiju.
Its definitely AI but almost all content like this is now
Millipedes 8 feet long
Whoa. Reptiles? In the Carboniferous?
Never heard of that.
I don't think so.
In fact, I don't think amphibians had evolved by then.
Diapsid is a place to begin
Love the channel, but... birdcalls in the Carboniferous?!?!?!
Oh, those sounds? Totally accurate! They’re from a species of prehistoric insects that mimicked birds. The classification will be officially announced… sometime around 2050 😉 by the way thank you for showing love!
Wrap your head around: Wwe survived that period along with the 5 Mass Extinctions. Imagine what life will be like after the next one? All the higher animals die and the baton is passed to the lowly ones
If human lived in this period we could be large mutated creatures too. So these giant insects arent so big too?
All life on Earth is related, but separated into three different groups: plant, animal, and fungi. And we try, so try, to imagine alien life on other planets. Our imaginations fall short of any potentialities out there, in my view.
It's fascinating how all life on Earth shares a common origin yet diverges so dramatically into different forms. Thanks for the insightful perspective! 👽
@@RoaringEcho It's also facinating how inanimate matter, given enough time, can become 'living', as in, 'biogenesis'. Although I'm scientifically-minded, I still think it's a miracle.
"Struck fear into the hearts of paleontologists"? Come now, you nitwit. The ONLY thing that strikes fear into the hearts of paleontologists is the fear that their grant proposal won't be accepted.
Is the ‘famous’ phrase, “fish eat fish world” also from the Carboniferous era? Because I’ve never heard it. Dog eat dog world, I know.
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That scorpion wasn't 'big' you could stand on it and crush it easily.
Ya, the Carboniferous was a wild time, I was there. Good times, good times.
Time travel Master, tell us more about the carboniferous please! Lol
Thank you for adding fun to our comments section! 😉
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The Carboniferous...it was an Arthoplura eat Arthoplura world.
Just another day on Catachan.
Wait, what about "The Black Scorpion"?
Seen em all on program PRIMEVIL
I see fallout went and made those giant scorpions an Easter egg in the game then 😮
Haha, yeah, Fallout definitely loves to throw in those big, creepy creatures! Giant scorpions in the game are a cool nod to the massive ones that roamed during the Carboniferous period. It's fun to think about how those ancient arthropods might’ve looked if they were still around today... would you want to run into one, or is that a hard pass?
I'm not sure what's "ominous" about the name "straight spine." Straight spines don't scare me.
Imagine wood lice 2feet long
Related to the opabinia?
Ungoliant
12:13 the nature was on some goood sht
there were no birds!
Bug boys rise up!
Bet this big bugs taste good. Like a GIANT shrimp yum
There are on other worlds were the spiders are so big they eat humans
Wow, that’s a crazy idea! Imagine how terrifying it would be if giant spiders like that actually existed on other worlds. What weapons would you equip yourself to survive in a giant spider apocalypse in an alien world?
@@RoaringEcho Darryl Anka as channel-er BASHAR had said this about people who had spider arachnophobia, he said that some of these SOULS had been eaten incarnated on other worlds were animals and insects were huge on the planet
Radscorpions ...
Meh. I could still kill a two foot scorpion, no issue. The centipede being herbivorous will help in our survival cough, cough... Don't go into the deep oceans, EVER, PERIOD!!!
That giant fish he was showing was fresh water. Even the lakes were nightmares
Megarachne kinda looks like a shrimp spider.
It does look like a hybrid of both, really. You can't entirely blame them for the misclassification!
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Well humans wouldnt survive 5 min
GREAT NEWS: Thank goodness those giant bugs couldn't survive in today's lower-oxygen atmosphere. If spiders grew to ths size of dogs, they would kill off everything -- including other spiders. Because -- spiders! 🕷
Haha, thank goodness for that lower-oxygen atmosphere, right? 😅 The thought of giant spiders the size of dogs is enough to make anyone’s skin crawl! Imagine how terrifying it would be to see one of those creatures hunting everything in sight-spiders definitely wouldn’t have any trouble claiming dominance. Do you think if they did exist today, they'd somehow evolve to fit the environment, or would they be even more dangerous with their size?
Try not to get scared, Scariest stories
The arthropocene. Is the most terrifying because we're the only ones that can destroy the entire atmosphere of the planet. The only other creature ever to affect the atmosphere as much as we did was stromatolites.
I completely agree! the Anthropocene is indeed a unique and terrifying era, especially given humanity’s unprecedented impact on the atmosphere. It’s fascinating and sobering to consider how only stromatolites and now us have had such a profound effect on Earth’s environment. Do you think there’s anything we could learn from past epochs about balancing our existence with the planet’s ecosystems?
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Give it a rest
And cow farts, don't forget the cow farts.
Stop with the bs ! 1000 volcanoes erupt every year ! Co2 is 04.0% of the atmosphere . We are tiny . We may make it harder for us to survive. But other then that , C02 is a green house gas...it makes plants grow larger ?!
More oxygen you get bigger. Wheeee!🤪
where was its mouth
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Baseball cap? 😂
It's fun to peer back in time and watch nature beta testing designs.
That's a super interesting way to describe the situation. Beta testing 😂
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You assume much.
it's good you cannot travel back there first you could not breath the air because of the high oxygen content and second of all the flora and fauna would probably kill you quickly, so much for that idea LOL!
At sea level a human being could expect to develop pulmonary oxygen toxicity after a week or two, it would vary a lot between people, but would eventually be fatal unless the victim moved higher in altitude. Humans could live permanently in higher mountainous areas. How do I have an estimate re this? I am a licensed breathing gas mixer, for what it is worth.