What Happened To Primates In North America?
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Early primates not only lived in North America -- our primate family tree actually originated here! So what happened to those early relatives of ours?
Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations:
Nobu Tamura: spinops.blogsp...
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Fabrizio de Rossi: / artoffabricious
Patrick Lynch: commons.wikime...
Thanks to Amy Atwater for the Omomyiform fossil photo. / mary_annings_revenge
The paper discussing Panamacebus:
Bloch, J., Woodruff, E., Wood, A. et al. First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange. Nature 533, 243-246 (2016). doi.org/10.103...
This video features this Paleogeographic Map: Scotese, C.R., 2019. Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Ice Ages, RUclips video: • Scotese Plate Tectonic... .
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Blake has improved so much as a speaker. He's a great host for this show.
He's getting ripped too. Do I see a future discovery channel dude?
He looks like the drummer for Mastodon
They should do a video on the evolution of Blake :D
I started watching these in like December 2018 and he's always been one of the best speakers imo.
This is my favorite
ruclips.net/video/rWp5ZpJAIAE/видео.html
Every time I hear about ocean-crossing rafts, I can't believe some little animal was able to survive that journey. Can they do a Madagascar prequel about this? lmao
That would be awesome
Well there is a precedent for it, which is why it's seen as plausible in cases where we don't have further evidence of any other methods. But it always kind of feels like a cop-out at the same time.
We’ve observed it happen with iguanas going some quite crazy distances. It’s an interesting phenomenon
It's worth pointing out that sea levels fluctuated a lot over the lest 66 million years, and that there were many more islands between North and South America in the Atlantic when sea levels were significantly lower. So what may seem like one continuous raft, was actually a series of events between various continents and islands spread out over tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. And may not just be limited to rafting, but may include swimming too. Islands that, largely, have since disappeared. Still an incredible journey on a taxonomic level. And rafting for hundreds of miles is no small task either way. But it probably did not often happen the way you're instinctively inclined to think of it.
I wonder how many monkeys died cus their raft sank
I would love a video that expands on owl relatives. I know that there is a video that briefly touches on giant owls, but one primarily of owls would be awesome.
Yeah, what's the closest thing to an owl that isn't? A were-hawk??
I love owls! Yes!
The Atlantic Ocean was a lot narrower when the primates rafted over than it is now. There were probably islands scattered around as well. It wasn't like crossing the whole way across the modern Atlantic.
What happened to the (non-human) primates in North America? Come to Oregon and Washington! 👍
@dinyhotmailI think one of the main reasons for the pushback against humans arriving to the Americas through Polynesia is that Polynesians did not have the numbers to populate the New World in the time frame that they did. However, I do not doubt that Polynesians sailed to the Americas early on
45 million years ago, the distance between Africa and South America was a third of what its today, the Atlantic Ocean had not yet formed, the two continents where within sight of other and the cross channel currents favoured westward dispersal. A small animal could raft to South America from Africa in two weeks! The monkeys and hystricognant rodents both made the journey. That’s why South America is home to primates and rodents that originated in Africa.
Tyrannosaurus Flex out here teaching us about North American primates
Thank you. That made me chortle; repeat your quip and then smile.
YUM!
This is probably the greatest comment on the internet
@@jigglejaw5464 the best meme ever 😅
@@synthia8703 I would rather call him like Paleo Beefcake 'cause you know 💪💪🐬🦈🤤😍
I really wanted to hear him to try to pronounce “Ekgmowechashala”
Right? I wanted to him try lol
Try saying that.
@@kinghal123 eck-mow-eh-cha-sha-la
primate: exists in north america
indian plate: im about to end this guys whole career
*bruh that's gotta be hacks*
*ez*
BOOM Himalaya baby!!!
Primate: now it’s our turn to f$&k s!?t up
😂😂😂😂
I can often tell a scientist from his eyes and how enthusiastic they get for this field. You sir are very passionate!
Meanwhile experienced engineers can sound quite similar to a scientist, but with a dead dispassionate look in the eyes from years of confronting the realities of capitalism outside the pure research sector lol
Poor guy's muscles barely fit in his sleeves.
Its all the heavy books he's been lifting to get to smart.
Poor shirt.
Yes, and I really enjoy that!
He really did discover the gym over the course of this channel's life. He's doing it right, too, since his whole physique is improved, as evidenced by the way his wardrobe fits his waist and thighs.
Dunno if he got a personal trainer or just knows what to do, but his diet and exercise are on point.
Yeah my first thought when watching was "are his arms getting bigger"
Every PBS Eons video starts like...
“62 Million years ago a creature closely related to our common ancestor slipped in a crevasse....and that’s why we have bananas now”
"And we wouldn't know anything about it if it weren't for a lowly grad student in 1988 ..."
"And dinosoars."
"...because they spread their preferred food via their... poop!"
5:26 Primate shown here looks as if they're only just learning this tidbit.
Thank you for that. Literally made me laugh out loud when I clicked the time link.
Poggers Monke
"...tidbit."
@@newtscamander7713
Perhaps "TURDbit" would've been better.
_"...because they spread their preferred food via their... poop!"_
And yet, I get in trouble when I try to do that! It's not fair. :)
You guys are awesome for acknowledging native Americans and their homelands. Too often scientists disregard their culture and disrespect their sacred grounds.
wait...was that about the credits or the subject of the episode?
or both.
@@evernewb2073 The credits. They did the same for the Australian Aboriginals in a previous episode.
I'd take it seriously only if native Europeans, our homelands and sacred grounds were comparably acknowledged.
@@useodyseeorbitchute9450 bro you're joking right
@@OAKODE I mean, unless he's referring to the Saami people, he better is... 😅
Thank you so much for acknowledging the Indigenous people and their relationship with the land where these fossils were discovered. I've worked in anthropology and museology, and it's an ongoing topic of conversation about the history of archeologists, anthropologists, and other researchers not respecting, consulting, or even stealing from Indigenous peoples.
@Munray Greighton Your message implies that you don't understand the issue at hand. Indigenous cultural values state that we belong to the land, not land belonging to us. Land ownership is a belief that Europeans brought with them when they came to North America.
The museum that I worked at had one section in their collection containing human remains of Indigenous people were dug up and studied. There's so many stories of archeologists and anthropologists digging up the remains of Indigenous people to collect the material culture buried with them. Not for the benefit of their descendants, but for the benefit of the researchers themselves.
@@Agluvak Lol yeah the Indians all lived in happy land sharing communes and didn't have genocidal wars to lay claim to territory or anything like that
@@chir0pter Your comment is a red herring fallacy that doesn't touch the topic of discussion. What does socio-territorial behaviour have to do with the history of anthropologists, museologists, and archeologists taking material and oral culture from Indigenous people without reciprocity?
Also, this subject is about Indigenous people in North America. Indians are from India. You're referring to a people on the other side of the globe.
@@Agluvak The claim is that the Indians are owed an ongoing apology. They are not. There's not even a claim that the paleontologists did anything wrong, just that the fossils come from "stolen land." This is the same energy as the "indigenous day of rage" in Portland pulling down statues of Abraham Lincoln because the city is on "indigenous land". Whichever tribe lived there when the music stopped and the Europeans conquered it have no more claim to it than the tribe whichever tribe dispossessed have a claim to it, or Germany has to Strasbourg.
@@chir0pter No one here made the claim that Indigenous people are owed an ongoing apology. And you continue to use outdated language that sends the message that you don't have respect for people other than yourself.
Again, you're using more red herrings that aren't a part of this conversation to, from it looks, push your own agenda.
Thank you for all your videos I dream of becoming a palaeontologist and my school does not teach anything of the sort so I usually just watch videos or read articles so thank you.
Follow that dream! 😊👍
If you’re in College, seek out geology classes as those are about as close as you can get if there isn’t anything paleontology related.
See if there are any online resources for museums in your area. That might be helpful
Ok
Become something useful. A lot of politics and too many theories as this video proves. You may discover something and the rest of the scientific field will shun or cancel you for going against the grain.
Primates simply switched servers from North America to more tropical areas like South America, Africa and tropical Asia
dont tropical places have like water? why's Africa on the list
토끼 국 rainforests as well as grasslands where patas monkeys and high tier baboons live
And Asia has the proboscis monkey build, which have specced into aquatic adaptations to live in the mangrove forests
Africa has the Congo rainforest as well, which is virtually impenetrable to juman dataminers
Whos tierzoo
Aiden Delbridge I’m kind of just speaking his language
He’s my favorite youtuber here
They left because they were crewmate
PBS: "last north american primates"
Homo Sapiens: "am i a joke to you?"
Thought this also. XD
@Google User it didnt say native it said north american. There are currently primates in NA so it doesnt matter where they came from
@Google User as a species we're native to every continent now.
PP Hyjynx nah we are native to Africa but we’re invasive in any other continent
@@jbfanta nope thats wishful thinking. Were native to every Continent
Am I the only one who just realised how buff he is? Or is it that this shirt makes it way more obvious than usual 💪🏼
He was always huge, the shirt is just tight.
He's made some gains throughout this show. Proud of him
I rather think that Kallie makes him wear those ahem "tight" shirts to show off his arms because she knows the ratings will "rise". When he's on an episode I usually have to watch it at least twice to soak in all the content. Sometimes more. Depends on how boring the content or how buff he looks that day.
That's not even his final form
Came down here to say he´s looking distractingly good today. Not that I´m complaining... Great shirt, too!
Wow, that's an excellent addition to see recognition of the Indigenous people and the land these fossils were taken from, as well as acknowledgement that permission wasn't always given to remove them.
We have every right to remove those fossils in the name of science. Science trumps tribal beliefs every time.
The tribes shouldn't own the fossils, not should anyone else. It's in the interest of furthering science.
@@DarDarBinks1986 Those fossils were being used by Native Scientists as essential components in Dream Catchers and witch-doctor rattles.
Since their removal, bad juju is up 4.7 percent.
Should they also apologize for taking fossils from the land of whatever tribes the Crow, Cheyenne, Sioux, Blackfoot, Metis, Assiniboine, Kumeyaay, Mnicoujou, Oohenumpa, Oglala, Arapaho, Paiute, Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla tribes pushed out when they laid claim to those lands?
Or do you think the arrangement of tribal hegemonies has lasted from the Pleistocene until the arrival of Europeans?
Yikes look at these replies, especially that B dude.
Love these videos!! You guys should do a video on the evolution of the new world vultures (Carthartidae) and how they are thought to be more closely related to storks and herons rather than other vultures.
@@skyem5250 I know I've seen it, That's talking about how the California condor is a environmental encratisim not about the evolution of condors
PBS Eons, can you guys do a video on the new tail of spinosaurus?
Oh yeah they did a Spinosaurus video a while ago but the new tail changes a lot about what we knew.
Spinosaurus a sea dwelling, swimming dino akin to a seal.
It's just crazy enough to work!
planescaped Rivers•
LMAO! Good for you! Keep it up!
3:02 Fellow San Diegans, you might be very interested to know that the Friars Formation mentioned here was in our fair city. Yes, it was named after Friars Road. Some of our distant ancestors are lying beneath all those apartments and dying malls. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friars_Formation
Fellow Irvinian (idk what we call ourselves? lol) here, it’s definitely cool to think that under all these costal hills are the remains of our first ancestors who started out right where we are now! full circle lol!
San diegan here - had no idea! Thank you for sharing
You're always doing a great job, but thanks also for emphasising the part indigenous peoples have to play in this world! They are too often forgotten and left unconsidered.
I find that messaging comically ironic given the topic of this video. It's clear that the regions of this planet have been home to many different plants, animals, and peoples off and on sporadically, as each of those inhabitants evolved naturally into different species and the land itself morphed through plate tectonics. Some groups of humans have lived on certain plots of land longer than others, but the idea that certain human tribes have a special kind of objective and eternal ownership over certain plots of land is patently absurd. As if these tribes never waged war, conquered or acquiesced lands before Europeans showed up? Isn't this channel supposed to be about what ACTUALLY happened in history?
@@lashankuanetteshesothicc4242 yep, natives were violent barbarians, like the Aztecs, europeans civilized these tribal people
The indigenous peoples are completely irrelevant to this topic, they play no 'part' in it. They should be 'considered' in cases where they are relevant, such as the history of the area during the time when they have lived there; this case is not one of them.
Monke gone. Think about monke. Regret.
Mmmmmm Monke
not "monkey"
Favourite channel on RUclips! Thanks PBS Eons for the amazing content.
Paleodaddy looking fit.
He's gotten so much fitter and not enough people are talking about it!
Wait, were you not talking about Purgatorius?
would this feel appropriate if he was a lady
@@nathanlevesque7812 yes
@@nathanlevesque7812 Can you believe I called him fit!?! Escándalo! How inappropriate! How vulgar!
Thank you for sharing this footage it was very interesting and educational.
I'm now 47 yrs old and have just realized what an absolute passion I have for primates. My dream is to go to Africa live and work with the primates and all the wonderful animals. I now have cancer and I realize that is just that, a dream but I am home a lot and go to chemotherapy a lot so that gives me the opportunity to watch and learn about these animals I cherish so much.
Thanks again these videos makes my bad situation a little easier to take. I will most definitely will be one of your regular viewers now that I've found your channel.
Blake looks like he could box a prehistoric primate and win.
I didn’t know primate lineage originated here in North America, amazing!!! 🤯🤯
It’s theory not fact
Camels & horses also originated in North America, only to disappear from there, until brought back by Europeans thousands of years later.
@@chrismcdonald6554 considering fossils where found here earlier than anywhere else it’s quite a plausible theory.
@@chrismcdonald6554 idk why youre so aggressively against the theory lol
would never expect that prehistoric primates would live in North America like USA and Canada. Great video to really like it.
Wow! Super fascinating!
And thank you for the acknowledgement at the end.
What I would love to see an episode of Eons on is lots of times we see an artist rendering of what a creature might have looked like but usually all we have from the actual animal are a handful of bones or maybe even just teeth. How do scientists use that little information to determine or guesstimate what a creature may have look like?
That’s a great idea
Modern scientists approximate by cross-comparing thousands of specimens, comparing bone pieces by animal "kingdom", then genus, then so on more specifically until we discover it's a new whatever or that it belongs to an already existing taxonomy
I know this is an old comment, but look up the book "All Yesterdays". Its about paleo art and the assumptions people make along the way (and why a lot of them were wrong). If you like it the sequel "All Your Yesterdays" had a bunch of speculative paleoart, one of which correctly predicted a recently discovered species. The other sequel "All Tomorrows" is a speculative evolution book about humanity & earth animals in the future.
PBS Eons: There are no more primates in America
Sasquatch: And who decided that?...
Americans: say what ?
@@crappyblueangel74 Dogmen: It's true bro
@@albinakemet how can you be so sure?
KSound Kaiju this guy must clearly not have heard of the dogmen
What about humans.
Thank you for continuing to make and post videos. There isn’t a lot for me to look forward everyday so when I see a video by you guys, it makes me really happy:)
I guess you could say the early primates first invented trans-Atlantic transportation. A trait that would eventually be taken to the next level.
yikes
Later to be improved by other (hairless) primates
Have you forgotten the rats?
"last primates"
People in America: sad American noises
we didn't evolve here though.
**Gunshot noises**
That was the first thing that I thought after reading the title lol
@@chickadeestevenson5440 Evolution is a continuous process.
@@thewhovianhippo7103 Native american didn't evolve here either. They migrated from North East Asia.
Great video! Just one thing though: Purgatorius was very likely not an early primate relative but a non-placental Eurherian instead.
Some studies do place Purgatorius as a basal eutherian, but most place it in the Plesiadapiformes.
"[homo sapiens in North America] are here to stay.. or, at least, I hope so?"
Is that a little 2020 getting to you, Blake?
When I was a kid my aunt would tell me there were pine monkeys in the woods and would hoot and hollar trying to get their attention
Scared the crap outta me
Tell me more. About where in the world was this? I'd say your aunt was a hoot, but she would have scared me, too.
@@icollectstories5702 it was in the mountains around where I used to live in Idaho. So definitely no monkeys that I'm aware of now
Might have been a squirrel or lemur type creature. If it chatters funny and lives in trees it would easily be called a 'monkey'.
I can only speak for myself but I'm actually really not the rainforest kinda primate.
Be open: we prefer cold, harsh winters, as they boost brain size. ;)
Yeah well, You only have oxygen and are alive coz of it. No biggie.
@@AbhishekKumar-vp7ey I was talking as a habitat.
No, we are more a tropical riverine savannah kinda primate, at least until we invented clothes and could modify our immediate environment.. After that, we went everywhere on earth! BUT we still need more water each day than most mammals do, and we still must keep the micro environment against our skin inside our clothing within a very narrow moist tropical range to survive, I.e. a humid 86 -98 degrees F. Outside that, we only last about three or four hours before we expire.
Naked and without technology, we are adapted to survive in an incredibly small part of the world. Most of us don't live there. We need to remember that.
Have y’all done an episode on the development of the Himalayas yet? Because I’d definitely be interested
The Paleontology of Primates in North America and Europe is so fascinating. Thank you for this episode. BTW Blake your working out is really showing. Your arms are huge! Looking good!.
Every video he is getting more buffed up, What a chad
Extra Credit for Indigenous Blessings. May they continue & grow in involvement.
My favorite prehistoric Channel thanks for sharing
Fascinating! Thanks again for another quality video.
I was surprised to see you talking about voting and where to find the rules for voting in every state. Thank you for helping voters stay informed.
Yes, thanks for that. If we primates here in America want to stick around much longer, we'd better *vote.*
@@albinakemet They are a public information channel and it's the duty of public services to provide that sort of information. Informing people the rules of voting in their state isn't political, it's informative. If you have nothing valuable to contribute to the conversation refrain from commenting.
Steve must've given quite a stash to Eons' patreon. He's everywhere.
Hello Eons, information in brain peaked from this channel, need more.
Nice to see that little chunk of text about the native peoples land being used in fossil hunts.
Never really thought about that before just now.
While the formation of the Himalayas is a factor in end of the Paleocene and Eocene Thermal Maximum, the final separation of Australia and South America from Antarctica and establishment of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and subsequent glaciation of Antarctica was a much bigger factor.
I love hearing Blake and also thank you so much for acknowledging native peoples at the end :)
You guys should make a video on the Primordial Soup, and Miller-Urey Experiment!
That is seriously old stuff by now. Not wrong exactly, but we've got a much more refined ideas of how life may have began than a vague soup. And genetic evidence suggesting that all the oldest branches of life were chemosynthetic, hydrothermal vent life. Which puts it in the right place to be stabilized by layered clays -- not so much 'soup' as 'sandwich'.
Thank you for listing the different homelands for the different Peoples.
@@albinakemet watch til the end
I think if I referred to primates as people, I'd sound silly. Thanks for making me imagine that. "ARE YOU CALLING MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT.... (times infinity plus one) a primate!?
Um, well, yes. All our relatives were unless your belief is that they weren't then I won't insult your beliefs. Either way though I think we can agree primates aren't people. It's like how a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't a square.
(I am probably embarrassing myself. I hope someone else laughs with me, at me)
@@albinakemet sincerely Albina, the tribes of north America is listed at the end of the video. I mean real people. I am curious about the first American communities
Eons added a list, of the tribes, on the lands, paleontologists found fossils on. You can read it at 8:39 time marker
Primates, horses, camels... it's just odd how many well known groups evolved first in America. I swear I wouldn't be surprised if the next episode is about how penguins evolved here in Oregon. lol
The Great Auk, which looks like a penguin but isn't that close, probably evolved in the Northern hemisphere.
Awesome video, please continue making more of these
I love being the only species of ape in North America.
Great video guys. U guys are great as always and make paleontology so interesting. About the strange primate that lived 29 million years ago, I think to me at least it was able to adapt in the environment and get used to the resources there until maybe it couldn’t handle the climate or arrival of other animals. Don’t forget the evolutionary history of pinnipeds and tyrannosaurids.
This is a great video but I just noticed something really small that might really not matter much,
but at 0:27 its Alberta not Saskatchewan (because its Medicine Hat, not far from where I am)
Love this channel have watched all videos and watched some more then 2 times, keep it up😊
I'm so glad to see the acknowledgement of first nations people & lands. It's a teeny step towards justice, but the habit of being conscientious makes an impact & has a ripple effect.
What justice are you refering to?
Have you been wronged?
FFS, forced relocation, land theft and government-sanctioned genocide. Read history.
@@gyozakeynsianism All of that's true, but it's still quite irrelevant to the fossils. Everyone knows all land in North America originally belonged to the Indigenous people, it's silly to to repeat it whenever you mention anything located somewhere in North America.
I really wonder what justice you expect to come. Reparations? Unlikely, and in any case no one-time payment won't change much. The descendants of Europeans aren't going back to Europe, they have reproduced too much since then and there's no place left there. This injustice won't and can't ever be amended. People repeating on all possible occasions that the land originally belonged to the indigenous - which is well-known anyway - won't change anything.
Uh Medicine Hat is in Alberta, not Saskatchewan. 😬
Just wrote the same thing, I shoulda read comments first. Even mentions it's along the south Saskatchewan river.
Medicine Hat is located in AB, but fossil yielding Medicine Hat Brick and Tile Quarry is indeed located in SK, is early Paleocene in age (Puercan, Long Fall and Rav W-1 horizons, Ravenscrag Formation)
@@skrecu2 Got an address for that? Everything I could find shows Medicine Hat Brick and Tile as being in Alberta.
@@yellowwoodstraveler
MHB&T Quarry is name of the site, held by company from Medicine Hat, AB
As far as know (paleo literature, I have my personal PDF files storage atm) mentioned quarry is non-operational, all fossiliferous horizons are exploited and not being sampled since then, although not all specimens were described (mostly UALVP collections)
Check info from this book (available on books google): Dawn of the Age of Mammals in the Northern Part of the Rocky Mountain, eds by Bown and Rose, pp 51-55, GSA Spec Pap 243, 1990
Yay! A Blake video. My week is now happier!
Thank you, SO MUCH, for adding land acknowledgment for the indigenous peoples of the Americas 🙌🏻💕 very much appreciated. chi-miigwech
"Ekgmowechashala" is, so I read, from the Sioux word(s) for "little cat man." That being said, still have absolutely no idea how to pronounce "Ekgm."
A+ start on the acknowledgement of country! I have warm hopes PBS Eons and other productions continue recognizing the lands, waters and ices. It is important to know in which country/ies you are and which nations have what connections to it.
"The First and Last North American Primates"
Americans and Canadians who are Human which is a primate species: Am I a joke to you?
Me: Are we the last North Americans now?
Scientists: (0)_(0)
It's a joke......
Please discuss Darwinius (the Ida debacle from 2009) while also discussing strepsirrhine evolution in Africa and how modern strepsirrhines (toothcombed primates or lemuriforms) evolved.
This is important because it demonstrates that Scala Naturae thinking is still alive in science. Too many researchers consciously or unconsciously see evolution as directional, with humans as the pinnacle.
I have a question. There are a lot of little mousey animals in different groups. Rodentia/Scandentia, Eulipotyphla, and Afrosoricida. Are they all descended from a continuous line of small mousey mammals, or did any of them evolve into a different lifestyle and then convergently evolve back into a small mousey mammal?
Maybe a bit of both, the mousey like body plan has alot of advantages when it comes to adapting and surviving.
Quite a bit of convergent evolution. Each of those orders is more related to some non-mouselike animals than they are to each other. Tenrecs are closer to the lineage of elephants than they are to rodents.
I just imagine a tiny primate on a huge mass of plant debris floating out in an open sea just thinkin “f**k, now what”
I love u, PBS Eons. You're the best😎👍🔥
Tarsier was mentioned. That made my day!
he didn't cold-read a pun :(
Fascinating! I learned so much from this episode! And thank you for crediting the source of the fossils to indigenous lands.
Could you make a video going into detail about how animals could raft from one continent to another, please? How would they survive such a long journey without potable water or a steady food source? Unless they could fish or drink sea water, I mean. Thanks.
They already did
ruclips.net/video/bXueqJfYV9c/видео.html
I love this channel, please more content.
YES land and indigenous peoples acknowledgement!
At 0:26 this video places Medicine Hat in Saskatchewan. It's in Alberta. Great series of videos, I'm addicted.
I’m really loving the land acknowledgement at the end of the video.
Excellent topic! Thank you for this enjoyable episode.
America : i have monkey
India : Im about to end this whole man career
I love this channel so much!!
I saw a spider monkey in Panama once. He was absolutely adorable.
is it possible for you guys to do a video on Dinopithecus and other early baboons and how they evolved? and whether or not they interacted with early Hominins?
0:26 hi, medicine hat is not in saskatchewan, thanks
Yes, I have a friend who noticed! I wonder if maybe there is a quarry that shares the name "Medicine Hat" in Saskatchewan though.
The medicine hat brick and tile quarry is a historic site in southern alberta, I found a paper they might have used for the video which claims it's in southwestern Saskatchewan. But all official records have it in alberta.
The medicine hat brick and tile quarry is a historic site in southern alberta, I found a paper they might have used for the video which claims it's in southwestern Saskatchewan. But all official records have it in alberta.
@@Spasmatic_spasm mystery solved!
Liked for crediting the indigenous peoples.
Its nice to know one of my closest cousins is a bush baby...I'm less cute but just as helpless.
I wanna learn more about trilobites. A video on the matter would be awesome.
I like that you acknowledged the First nations.
What a wonderful series. The scripts are extremely well done and the presenters have great charisma. I have one very trivial complaint. Why do you chop feet off on the long shots. As I said . . . very trivial. Keep up the good work.
Bravo for the mentioned indigenous people! Truly inspiring. Thank you.
@@albinakemet i don't understand your comment
It's ridiculous to find this inspiring. The mention of the indigenous people was completely irrelevant.
prehistoric mammals had amazing rafting skills.
upvoted for the acknowledgement of indigenous sovereignty + encouragement to vote at the end!
It reminds me a lot of the journey of horses from North America to Eurasia then back to North America
Ah yes, I watch PBS Eons mainly for the “science” 👀
I watch the show for the plot I swear
3:18 to 3:28 Is there like an interactive google earth like version for this plate movement animation? Cuz it's super dope.
Ekgmowechasala are responsible for the veneer boom
It's fascinating that both primates and carnivora both originated in North America.
Yo I live in Montana and it drives me crazy how you never tell us what town you are in.
missoula, same as hank green. just a guess, but most likely.
I just watched a video of dubious quality on Doggerland. I would love Eons taking it on!
I really appreciate the message about indigenous land. I know it’s a tiny thing and honestly doesn’t help much, but I think bringing these issues into people’s minds more often can only be a good thing.
I find that messaging comically ironic given the topic of this video. It's clear that the regions of this planet have been home to many different plants, animals, and peoples off and on sporadically, as each of those inhabitants evolved naturally into different species and the land itself morphed through plate tectonics. Some groups of humans have lived on certain plots of land longer than others, but the idea that certain human tribes have a special kind of objective and eternal ownership over certain plots of land is patently absurd. As if these tribes never waged war, conquered or acquiesced lands before Europeans showed up? Isn't this channel supposed to be about what ACTUALLY happened in history?