How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
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Elongated tubes, flat ribbons, and other “worm-like” body plans were so varied and abundant that a part of the Ediacaran is sometimes known as Wormworld. But in the end, the ancient Wormworld was ended by the actions of its very own worms.
Thanks to Franz Anthony (franzanth.com) for the incredible illustrations of Ediacaran life!
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Worm millions of years ago: "I think I'm gonna move over there"
Big apes in 2021: "Interesting"
Cali is #1 !!!
haha monke go brrr
Wormworld 3.0 Sandworm Emperor rules the Galaxy!
THIS
@@thijsjong the spice must flow
Never heard someone saying “Some worms even invade our body” so excited before
Yeah shuahsuahsuahsua
Those call themselves "American"
🌚
My favorite photographs are of worm eggs from some guanaco poop. Internal parasites are SO MUCH FUN.
@@slwrabbits MOOOOM worm people are weird
*Looks at pet worm*
Me: Your ancestors once ruled these lands
someone has a pet worm?
@@idromano yes and no it’s name isn’t wormy 😂 but Caracalla
@@matthewgardner5364 Your ancestors once ruled the *Waters*
This is so underrated
@@julianfejzo4829 extremely 😂 *sad worm noises*
It's neat how there had to be a first time for even the simplest things. >half a billion years ago "today's bleeding edge tech: Digging a hole!".
Thank goodness we've moved on from destroying our environment for the sake of short term gains. Or maybe we're just the first species to realise what we're doing but, like our extinct predecessors, not care.
@@immortalsofar5314 Actually, many people do care
about the money, that is. As long as they're safe in a space station while they watch the world they destroyed burn, why would they care? Topple the 1%, and destroy capitalism. It is a bigoted, prejudiced, and evil system which only aims to benefit the 1%.
Bleeding edge tech? Lead with that.
It's not like it would have been very "smart" to dig a hole through hard compacted food to get to... toxic inedibles.
@@memesarekeem bruh
seeing PBS Eons upload worms my heart
Subway surfers
@@MrDerek-km6xw yes
No you didnt
Ba dum ttssss!
You should probably get those heart worms removed
One creature's apocalypse is another creature's genesis
Until It isn't
Destruction is the most simple form of chaos and chaos is nothing but pure potential for anyone/anything to take.
@@ramon-theyseemerollintheyh1982 My thought too
@@ramon-theyseemerollintheyh1982 You mean when the sun explodes or fades out and there is no more life possible in our solar system?
@@Panteni87 думаю это конец для земли
That is nice substrate you have. It would be shame is someone dig into it.
- probably some ediacaran worm
As a ediacaran worm I can confirm this is very accurate.
I've always found the Ediacaran super interesting, everything is so strange
Its like the very first pre-alpha test for complex life. An endless Unity sandbox, filled with things that look like they might be attempts at character models... that keep falling through the floor.
I don't,it's so boring.No macropredators,no swift prey,none of the things that make life interesting.
@Ethan Mulder Everything changed when the solid bois came
I just realized I’ve been pronouncing Ediacaran wrong all this time 😐
@@dan240393 That is a very interesting characterisation of the period.
"The age of alive feathers is over, the time of the digging worm has come"
Gothmog, Third Age.
Lieutenant of the WitchｰKing from Minas Morgul.
Gothmog, First Age (Balrog) was obviously a different Gothmog.
@@Yajna007 Gonna change my name to Gothmog just to give you more to keep track of.
@@blarg2429 This (2021) would probably be the Sixth Age {or maybe the Seventh Age} in Tolkien Legendrium. J∙R∙R∙ Tolkien had at times hinted at that.
@@Yajna007 That's pretty cool.
--Gothmog, Sixth Age.
Ah yes, back when the sea floor was covered with phallic innuendos
Still is.
Always has been
Am expecting a culinary recipe from Nigella Lawson
Under its bacterial mat, it was naked!
Given that worms came first, aren't phallic symbols actually worm references?
I've always been fascinated by the Ediacaran period. Such a mysterious time period with animals that have no living relatives, like some which had tri radial symmetry.
The further back you go, the more species exist that left no still living descendants. That's both obvious in retrospect but also so incredibly cool. But also imagine how much more difficult it must be to imagine what they looked like when we're still having issues with non-avian dinosaurs which do have more than a few close relatives still kicking.
What are these tri radial creatures you speak of?
@@sailorgoon501 Bananaworms
@@sailorgoon501 it essentially means it’s using three limbs to move, such as having three legs in a “triangle” formations and using those to move
@@sailorgoon501 Tribrachidium is an example
3:54 "Life... uhhh... finds a way". Well played.
HAHAHAHAHHA!!!! Dr Ian Malcolm would be smiling
They sneak that in every so often, it’s a nice touch
I don’t get it.. could somebody explain? I’m very interested. Haha.
I chuckled
@@PanchoKnivesForever DID YOU NOT WATCH THE ORIGINAL JURASSIC PARK TRILOGY!?
Never thought Eons would reference Tremors but I am so happy they have!
Thought the same thing! So awesome!
Oh I thought they were talking about Deep Rising 😅
Age gaps.
You quote south park or simpsons.
I use the same quote from the original movie.
My grand dad quoted the book / author.
Fronds of Charnia is the name of my new fantasy novel.
Written in a frondly and welcoming environment, I hope.
Looks like I can't name my deathcore band that anymore eh?
Part of the Chronicles of Charnia series?
Aladdin: I can show you the worm
Aladdin: writhing, wriggling, splendid
Aladdin: chewing matground asunder while the Vendibionts died
Jasmine: what
Jasmine: Your worm doesn't impress me... no way it's getting in this cave of wonders.
A WHOLE NEW WORMMM
"Ashes to ashes, dirt to dirt. We are the worms, you're gonna get hurt"
A new 10000 holes to view
Unbelievable slime! Indescribable wiggling. Zic zaggiling throught and endless ocean floor! A whole world!!!!!!
On the naming thing: “priapulid” would appear to be a reference to Priapus, so I think it’s fair to say the taxonomists knew exactly what they were calling them.
Most people don't know who that it; I learned it from Wikipedia. Greek mythology really is disgusting.
quick tip: DONT LOOK IT UP WITHOUT SAFE SEARCH.
For those who don't know: Priapus was a man in Greek mythology cursed with a giant pp
@@sanerui honestly i sent one remark about the influence of the weirder bits of the Roman pantheon on the naming of sprcies and i’m still getting alerts about it 2 years later. What have i done with my life?
Saruman: "The Skolithos delved too greedily and too deep; You know what they awoke in the darkness!"
We do not fear what lies beneath, we can never dig too deep!
I am a _worm_ and I'm digging a hole!
Diggy-diggy hole, diggy-diggy hole!
I've been waiting for Eons to talk about the Cambrian substrate revolution for ages, I'm so happy it finally happened
Well, I mean... "priapulid" means "little Priapus," so it's basically the scientific name as well.
If you must get a rise out of the audience...
The last time I was this early I had just gotten a severe intestinal blockage from a cyanobacteria that I simply couldn't digest
Subway surfers
babycj0 yes
Enslave it and its family for your personal gain.
That story is a little hard to swallow.
man I hate it when that happens!
i feel like worms have always been around, and i guess they have lol
Do a Peter Griffin impression on your channel and I will subscribe
@@eradacles same
In reality they are the dominanting species
As bilaterians are we not all very specialized worms? Even Cnidarian larvae called Planulae are pretty much stubby little worms that swim with cilia.
Thus it can be argued at among animals today there are only Sponges Ctenophores and Worms ;)
Abdul Hayi literally, even though we call them parasites because they need a host, worms can even kill us. There's so many different types of worms out there it's not funny. Microscopic to a foot long. They have been here before us, they'll be here after us.
Second best title for an Eons video. First place is 'The Hellacious lives of the hell pigs'
My personal favorite is “Why do things keep evolving into crabs?”
@ Jordan Anderson
If you met my wife, you would ask thus everyday.
Lmao true. SciShow’s “why do humans have butts?” Comes in second place for me
Playing ark I was shocked how much the bastards eat, I thought oh cool I got a pig!!! Gave it a bunch of food and in a day it was alll gone. I wasn't able to keep it fed, turned it into meat itself.
@@Tayl0r_ i'm glad they got to the bottom of it. haha
Wow. That's absolutely incredible. I just assumed it was always sandy on the ocean floor.
Broke : Return to Monke
Woke : Return to Worm
so ur gonna make an ancient worm song?
Bespoke: Return to Star.
The Qu: We got you, fam
@@Not-The-Fox Can I be a giant skin cell instead?
@@averagedemocrat9546 only if i can be a giant mitochondria
I study C.elegans and parasitic worms and this content makes me soooo happy.
I like learning about parasites too, I can’t do experiments yet but I like learning about them, especially the ones that can change host behavior I’m wondering about how parasitism evolves in the first place
@@daniellewilson8527 It would be an awesome thing for @PBS Eons to do an episode about.
wormworld may be gone, but it still lives on forever in our hearts 💔
Along with other areas of the human body...
Did I just hear a Tremors reference... this is the kind of education that RUclips needs!
I'll never tire of hearing Jeff Goldbloom impressions in these episodes. keep up the good work.
When you can say “Some worms even invade our body” with so much enthusiasm than you'll be able to sell the South Pole to a Polar bear 😉😁
The one dislike is from the wormworld
This overused joke predates the wormworld.
Its Charnia
It's Mitch McConnell. The only living descendant of these species.
@@Yojimbokun someones always gotta bring politics into it
@@mustardguy whether you like him or not it’s kinda true
I hope there's never a video made in the future that says "this is how the human world was ended by the very actions of the humans themselves"
There will not be any video with such a title. If the human world ended, there wouldn't be any human to make a video with this title in the first place 😅.
All jokes aside, I understand the spirit of your comment.
@@Shenron557 maybe there gonna be new Dominates Species do that
The sapient corvids will make use of the internet left behind by the extinct humans.
We may all end in a museum one day.
And the scientists then will have a hard time to figure out how we survived with that weak teeths.
We’re probably the worms 🐛 for a civilization far in the future 🤭
I clicked on this thinking it was a PBS Space Time episode
I clicked on this because Eons is more exciting to me
worm holes on that channel are gonna be different
@@ericsuarez834 I like Eons too lol I just was very confused for a second
I click on them but hope Baz Battles might have a new episode
This Dune prequel is hella weird.
(Btw, Eons, love the Vangelis-like soundtrack on this one.)
Wow, even the ground itself had a revolution before. Now I’m convinced that everything on earth had a revolution at some point.
Please do a video on the Cretaceous Green Revolution.
The Cretaceous Green Revolution sounds interesting. Is that related to the rise of the flowering plants (angiosperms)?
@@JaniceLHz That and how grass took over the ground. There used to not exist grasses
Grass is a flowering plant (angiosperm), so that's all related. :-)
@@JaniceLHz guess I didn’t think of that
@@paytonallen1027 flowers took over at the start of the Cretaceous. Grass became Dominant around the start of the Eoceen (iirc). Big difference: grasses are (mostly) wind pollinated, the Creataceous flowers were mostly insect pollinated
world :exist
Worms: i took that personally
Those of us who lived through the Cambrian always remember it as a special time when exciting things were happening to the substrate.
How was it like there, as opposed to living on the ocean floor nowadays?
I have goosebumps when she said "even some invade our body today."
Happened to me when i saw her butch figure... This woman has no curves at all. Makes you wonder if she diidnt stuff her face, would she even look better?
The assassin snail at 2:50 wont leave much of a trail! They are predators that feed on other snails
Was the rhyme intended?
They don't leave witnesses either.
PBS Eons genuinely is one of the rare, valuable channels worth following on RUclips. Thanks for the content guys, keep up the great work!
I really like that you guys are adding land acknowledgements to your videos! Very cool :)
They’ve always done that
@joshua terry if you stuck around till the end of the video, you'd have seen the land acknowledgements already
agreed, i just wish it was at the beginnings of the videos.
@joshua terry you know the British came to India/Africa, took a bunch of stuff and put in London Museum, yeah, it's like that, very political
@joshua terry A land acknowledgement is a way to state awareness that one is working and living on land that has been colonized. It's paying a bit of respect to the nations of people who even today have been continually ignored and mistreated on the land their families have lived on for thousands of years.
Thanks, now whenever I think about the classic 'Tremors' monsters, I'll be imagining giant PPs...
Funny thing is according to the producers early drawings of the graboids were called just that
I'm digging this episode.
That acknowledgement was great - thanks PBS Eons!
Worms! They can literally shape worlds!! I never actually saw this in any history biology books I ever read, so this is amazing to see.
@a.kitcat.b - Have you never read the "Dune' books?
We are still using the worm body plan. One opening at the top, another at the bottom. A tube within a tube. Meet every human you've ever known.
Difference is, we aren't just tubes, we have limbs and stuff
3 years ago when you guys only had the first 5 episodes I wonder what on Earth were you guys going to keep talking about. Wow. There's so much history I've just been ignorant about. You guys are great; The hosts, the music team, the animators and anyone else involved, fantastic job.
I have never had worms reserve my attention like I’m binging Netflix. Great job PBS so interesting!
So anyways, I started digging.
Cambrian agronomic revolution is such a freakingly cool name for such an event
"Some worms even invade our body" uhmmm you know, that some unnecessary fact that i didnt want to be reminded of
@RITVIK MENON what about those worms? Do *they* all have worms in their bodies?
@RITVIK MENON are you sure?
@RITVIK MENON I'm tempted to look it up now, but I fear what I might find
@RITVIK MENON well, hyperparasites *are* things that exist. It wouldn't even surprise me if these existed either
@@John_the_Paul Spongebob voice: "Is there an endless chain of worms inside worms?"
The patreon is worth it if anyone is wondering
I would like to point out that the first modern aquatic (freshwater in this case) snail you showed will never leave these marks. Its a Clea Helena also known as an Assassin Snail. Its a predatory snail that preys on other snails. That pipe on the front? Its the proboscis of the snail and just like its distant relatives the cone snails it can fire a poisoned harpoon out of it. Just i that case completely harmless to humans, but deadly to other snails.
I'm not sure if you were talking about the cone snail or the assassin snail but cone snails ARE dangerous to humans
Always fascinating stuff! By the way, Kallie, the hair down looks nice!
Was wondering if anybody was gonna mention that. I thought her hair looked great!
...she's a wholesome hottie 👍
The host of Brain Scoop commented the most commonly asked question she ever got on her videos was "Emily, how do you do your hair?" She finally did a tongue-in-cheek video showing how.
"Who, me? No, I'm just a worm."
Worms *end their dominance with their own actions*
Great Apes: "I'm gonna steal that meme"
Nobody:
Literally Nobody:
Scientists: "P***s Worm"
Thank you, PBS Eons, this has been my favorite upload so far. The host enthusiasm, plus the articulated narrative, and the acknowledgement of Aboriginal nations are just exquisite.
PBS Eons: Uploads a video with the word "worm" twice in its title
Me, a loyal Ben G Thomas Viewer: Finally, the youtube algorithm understands what I want
I love how Kallie nailed the quote "Life, uh, finds a way"
Yay! I love the ediacaran fauna, theyre so weird!
then you probably love the weird oceanic creatures of today too, we can actually watch 'm in action!
Ediacaran/Cambrian and Triassic fauna are my absolute favorites. The weirdest animals in history but also some of the coolest
@@fukpoeslaw3613 and I do like them! (And non-deep sea fauna too!)
@@semaj_5022 absolutely lol
It's the tiny RL version of D&D's Purple Worm. Cool.
Love this channel, the topics you choose and the many views each video has. These are topics I cannot talk to a lot of people, so I realy enjoy watching the videos.
These worms are very intriguing. And in such huge abundance. No wonder they were so varied in size and looks.
You done it now, PBS. You've wormed into my heart.
But seriously. Loved the video.
Amazing content! I love learning about things I couldn't have even fathomed!!!
I'd never heard of the worm revolution and always wondered about how the ocean floor worked.
That was a HOLE-bunch I didn't know! Also, the jokes!
What a totally fascinating video. Thank you RUclips and PBS for this blessed content.
Just want to say this channel is phenomanal. Thanks so much for the great content!
“This is the story of how the worm world was ended by the actions of worms.”
There will be a similar story about us one day.
It's already happening, we just have to pay sufficient attention...
Ediacaran! One of my favorite mysteries.
Hi! i was wondering if you guys could make a playlist of all your ocean related content? prehistory regarding the ocean in particular is my special interest! and it would make binging ur ocean videos alot easier! thank u sm i love you guys
I can't believe I stayed, seeing it until the end! Excellent job for such an "arid" subject!
YESSS. im so excited every time yall upload
Great insight on how ancient ocean floor substrates changed due to evolution of life.
PBS Eons is my favorite channel for leaning about prehistoric life and Deep Look is my favorite channel for learning about present day life. Eons always has something fascinating to watch and learn. 🙂
I love the message at 9:29. It would be even better if the host could say it aloud so as to draw more attention to it.
That was a really interesting video!! Thank you!! While the history of worms is interesting in itself, as a student of environmental geology I was particularly interested in the extreme bioturbation (churning over of soils by biological, mechanical process), and the subsequent development of, the sea floor's structure itself. Love it!
Me: editing my short story.
Also me: it can wait. Eons is here. Screw the deadline.
I feel this!
What's the story about?
@@maxgrozema1093 oh, thanks for asking. It's a short story about a girl navigating the world. It basically tackles violence against women.
same, but for coffee lolol
@@cravidana1182 are you planning on getting it published, or is it a writing exorcize? Sounds like an interesting setting with this topic.
You worked in a tremors reference and became my favorite presenter.
You know you're an ediacaran kid when you played "The seafloor is bacteria" instead of "The floor is lava"
This was a very enlightening video, I had seen material on the earliest animals in the ediacharan but had no idea those creatures were responsible for environmental changes on (in?) the seafloor
Watch David Attenborough "First Life"
“Hi there” “what are you doing in my waters?” **Old Greg voice**
I love watching this channel SO MUCH..I get to learn about stuff I've never even HEARD of
Thanks for those wonderful videos!
Aw yeah. PBS Eons videos!
Hey eons could you do a special about the sturgeon it's a fish that first appeared 200 million years ago and has branched into many fresh and saltwater species and they was supper successful in there respective habits but when humans started industry fishing them a lot of species became vulnerable and endangered or threatened, if you guys can make a video of the sturgeon it would really make me happy because then the sturgeon can hopefully get more support that they need
This is such beautiful knowledge. I don’t know why, but I’ve seen most of your videos and the knowledge contained in this one is some of the most fascinating to me. Such an important part of earth’s history. Thank you.
A suggestion: I'd like to learn more about horseshoe crabs and how the hell they managed to still be around to this day^^
Or how some recent genetic research indicates that they may be far more closely related to spiders than previously believed.
@@patrickmccurry1563 Good addition!
What about my boy, Dickinsonia? :( You showed it's picture but didn't mention this awesome name!
wormworld
party time - excellent
You guys did my suggestion!😁 Thanks for the great educational videos as always
you know when I clicked on this video I was confused because I thought it was like the wormholes in space that take you through space-time, but got to say this type of worm hole makes far more sense.
I hope my man Steve is okay.
Title sounds like a great intro to a game.
I love that you acknowledge the lands of the first peoples.
Worms: He he we cause a mass extinction just by drilling into the Earth.
Oil Companies: Interesting.
Ah Tremors, a true woman of class you are
I think my parent still have Tremors on tape. :D
I want an episode that talks about the more recent ancestors of big cats, we've seen a lot about them but I haven't found a video about the more recent ones. Also I'd love to see a Clouded Leopard themed episode if there is one to be made.
Mk bye.
Nat Geo Wild has a video on Cloud Leopards. It is a documentary filmed in India. Highly recommended
@@nomadicroadrat oo maybe I'll check it out.
Great video! Didn't realize how the seafloor substrate change provoked just a massive change in the organisms above
I love this channel. Wishing all the success to all individuals involved with this channel. Such a pleasant experience to have such quality content.