Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @MrDoesntcare
    @MrDoesntcare 3 года назад +1191

    Makes you wonder just how many things have come and gone without leaving a single trace

    • @vincentcyr3719
      @vincentcyr3719 3 года назад +235

      Probably a lot. Fossilization is really rare. Things have to die in the right place, under the right conditions, , not be destroyed by geologic processes, and then be in a place where we can find the resulting fossils. IIRC, I think the estimate is that only like 1% of animals leave fossils, and only 1% of that 1% ever get found.

    • @boffutt87
      @boffutt87 3 года назад +67

      Probably 99% of everything that ever lived

    • @TacDyne
      @TacDyne 3 года назад +32

      Everything leaves behind a trace. If there were things that didn't, we wouldn't know ninjas exist.

    • @Tylerpierre99
      @Tylerpierre99 3 года назад +30

      @@TacDyne ...and also how we know the invisible man existed....they leave behind traces.

    • @Itsjustme-Justme
      @Itsjustme-Justme 3 года назад +45

      There is a huge number of living things, that left no usable traces and therefore can not be found or even identified.
      Even if you can find a fossil, how well must it be presered to actually identify it as a certain species? How do you tell if it es a closely related species or sexual dimorphism?
      Take the species we have not found any traces of and add the species, that are missinterpreted as not being an own species and we are on the point, that at least 99,9% of the past is still unknown.
      I mean, how likely is it, that 2 physically almost identical species of song bird can be identified as two species, when we have not more of them, than the usual quality fossils that we know from ancient birds? The fossils are compressed in the sediment, they lost much of their original outer form, all of their color and in most cases some or more parts are missing. Could we tell what is sexual dimorphism and what is another species?
      The same with fish. Look at all the characids that are living in South America or all the cichlids that are living in Lake Malawi in eastern Africa. Could we tell one species from another, when we have nothing but the usual fossil? There are thousands of different species. The physical differences between them are often very small and sexual dimorphism is a very common thing with them. Many are hard to identify when you don't have a living animal but only one preserved in alcohol. Some closely related species can only be identified as individual species after genome sequencing, which is the main reason why more new species of freshwater fish were described in the past few years.
      We know almost nothing. The fossil record shows us a very small portion of what had been living and much of it probably is not interpreted right. That is a sad state, when you think of it. But what is much much worse, is that we trigger extinction of nowadays creatures faster than we discover them ore even learn what they really are.

  • @johngogo17
    @johngogo17 3 года назад +607

    That feeling when the "nerd" is freaking JACKED while you look like the squid that he's giving you a lecture about.

    • @fallinginthed33p
      @fallinginthed33p 3 года назад +31

      He kinda skipped leg day though.

    • @SpidrJenn
      @SpidrJenn 3 года назад +58

      He’s gotten jacked recently, good for him

    • @seemysight
      @seemysight 3 года назад +21

      @@fallinginthed33p I didn’t see their legs tho did you

    • @wilsoniothegreat6162
      @wilsoniothegreat6162 3 года назад +3

      @@seemysight exactly

    • @mickyok710
      @mickyok710 3 года назад +2

      @@seemysight 5:02. i was watching the video and reading this comment at the perfect moment

  • @walterkennedy9474
    @walterkennedy9474 3 года назад +2849

    Once again, eons poses a question I had never thought about and now desperately want to know the answer to.

    • @aday277
      @aday277 3 года назад +11

      so true

    • @twonumber22
      @twonumber22 3 года назад +17

      Yeah, I instantly wondered how big are/were the biggest eyes and beaks.

    • @thomasclements
      @thomasclements 3 года назад +27

      Glad my research helped you out :)

    • @twonumber22
      @twonumber22 3 года назад +6

      @@thomasclements 🙏🙏

    • @imconfusednow
      @imconfusednow 3 года назад +3

      They give the answer in the video

  • @TJCKWC
    @TJCKWC 3 года назад +111

    I think we need a PBS Eons episode explaining the sudden shocking swoleness of host Blake.

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 3 года назад +1107

    "Where are all the fossil squids?"
    Squids: "Cover has been blown. Request emergency evacuation."
    Squids: *begins flying using jet propulsion*

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH 3 года назад +30

      Flying squid are real, in case you didn't know :)

    • @aresaurelian
      @aresaurelian 3 года назад +8

      @@TragoudistrosMPH You mean the USO's that the NAVY released as UFO material? Could be, however improbable.

    • @kevinmathewson4272
      @kevinmathewson4272 3 года назад +21

      @@aresaurelian no they mean squid that jump out of the water like flying fish

    • @connorp3764
      @connorp3764 3 года назад +9

      "so long, and thanks for all the fish."

    • @petersmythe6462
      @petersmythe6462 3 года назад +6

      flying squid don't just jump and glide though. They have true, if innefficient, rocket-powered aerodynamic flight.
      Indeed, while they are likely incapable of reaching their stall speed as an adult, Humboldt squid can still fly ballistically even at 50 kg size and accelerate in mid air.

  • @Alexander-is9jo
    @Alexander-is9jo 3 года назад +151

    Any patreon when they make Blake sigh after reading a pun:
    *mission accomplished*

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music 3 года назад +10

      This one especially seemed to be his favorite, no squidding around!

  • @psycologo121
    @psycologo121 3 года назад +1526

    Professor: We have a discusting thankless job. Get the grad students.

    • @Goreuncle
      @Goreuncle 3 года назад +101

      disgusting*

    • @authenticufo4822
      @authenticufo4822 3 года назад +16

      @@Goreuncle came here to say this…

    • @tabcat
      @tabcat 3 года назад +162

      I remember my zoology professor telling the class about another professor who had his grad students spend days watching lizards in trees to find out how often they moved. Answer: once every few hours.

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 года назад +53

      @@tabcat Science!

    • @authenticufo4822
      @authenticufo4822 3 года назад +25

      This one time, at grad camp…

  • @cloroxbleach850
    @cloroxbleach850 3 года назад +69

    Eons can’t fool us, we know his arms are gonna fossilize-they get more rocky in every video

  • @capitanflemish
    @capitanflemish 3 года назад +670

    I should be working but instead: "where are all the squid fossils?"

    • @sumeriancoppermerchant650
      @sumeriancoppermerchant650 3 года назад +22

      I really really like that profile picture

    • @francisabellana445
      @francisabellana445 3 года назад +10

      This seems more important than my homework

    • @thomasclements
      @thomasclements 3 года назад +13

      I mean this is my entire research career :)

    • @buttstallion9004
      @buttstallion9004 3 года назад +9

      Dude I’ve been procrastinating on my last homework assignment just watching eons lol

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH 3 года назад +6

      wait what?...*also rushes back to work*

  • @0RecklessAbandon0
    @0RecklessAbandon0 3 года назад +57

    I'm in and out of this channel depending on how much time I have so the transformations the hosts go through make me feel like I've missed decades.
    Homeboy is yolked.

  • @LabRattKio
    @LabRattKio 3 года назад +924

    “where are all the squid fossils?”
    me, a person who barely remembers squid exist in a normal setting: yeah, where ARE all the squid fossils??

    • @machina5
      @machina5 3 года назад +7

      Yo I also don't think about squids when I'm not actively remembering them, we have so much in common!

    • @JonOroMusic
      @JonOroMusic 3 года назад +1

      Lol Sounds like a John Mullaney quote

    • @VaskiiiBuff
      @VaskiiiBuff 2 года назад +6

      I don't even know what squids are called in my native language

    • @genericsinger
      @genericsinger 2 года назад

      Yeah like i thought the nautilisks were like tge dinosuar equivilint of squids lol

    • @4rkain3
      @4rkain3 Год назад +1

      Don’t worry. Squids don’t forget _you_ exist. Their day will come.

  • @LimeyLassen
    @LimeyLassen 3 года назад +80

    "50-60% of a squid's body is ammonia"
    How are these things edible??

    • @The.Heart.Unceasing
      @The.Heart.Unceasing 3 года назад +8

      wash them well.

    • @Doping1234
      @Doping1234 3 года назад

      Probably a matter of concentration

    • @tbeller80
      @tbeller80 3 года назад +3

      I think only the legs get eaten. The ammonia is in the body

    • @FransLebin
      @FransLebin 3 года назад +20

      @@tbeller80 the entire squid is edible (except for the beak) and you can even eat it raw

    • @bluekalamari3632
      @bluekalamari3632 3 года назад +1

      D:

  • @alonealien1474
    @alonealien1474 3 года назад +126

    4:07 Graduate student here and yes, that does sound like something I'll be asked to do. We rarely get acknowledged for such work and the pitiful pay does not help either.

    • @Goreuncle
      @Goreuncle 3 года назад +10

      Wait, do you get paid?
      You don't know how lucky you are 😅

    • @CassiodoSul
      @CassiodoSul 3 года назад +6

      Lucky indeed. Here in Brazil we don't get paid for that.

    • @andrewbobb3170
      @andrewbobb3170 3 года назад +7

      The good news is that graduate school, like High School, doesn't last forever. Eventually, you will be able to look back and laugh. A bit hysterically, but still

    • @kalebzehr6850
      @kalebzehr6850 3 года назад

      Do something else then

  • @abbydabbs5519
    @abbydabbs5519 3 года назад +373

    Squids: why can’t we fossilise?
    Scientists: ya basic

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 3 года назад +1

      Hahaha,
      you puny humans,
      you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS,
      have stolen them all! All the Fossils!!
      Haha.
      First, your keys that you thought you 'lost somewhere'
      and now THIS! Youre losing territory and resources
      more and more to US... haha... haha...
      ...

    • @jordandino417
      @jordandino417 3 года назад

      Too simple to fossilize ;) 😎

    • @katherinevidal4803
      @katherinevidal4803 3 года назад

      @@slevinchannel7589 Martians*

  • @alexfirefly1956
    @alexfirefly1956 3 года назад +653

    Me running into every museum and institute in the world: "WHERE ARE YOU KEEPING THEM!??!?!"

    • @MegaSockenschuss
      @MegaSockenschuss 3 года назад +52

      Obviously they're hiding them. This video is a wild conspiracy.

    • @hieutruong4519
      @hieutruong4519 3 года назад +36

      In Batman's voice: "WHERE ARE THEY?????"

    • @culwin
      @culwin 3 года назад +15

      Area 51 is all squid fossils

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 3 года назад +4

      @@MegaSockenschuss Hahaha,
      you puny humans,
      you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS,
      have stolen them all! All the Fossils!!
      Haha.
      First, your keys that you thought you 'lost somewhere'
      and now THIS! Youre losing territory and resources
      more and more to US... haha... haha...
      ...

    • @MegaSockenschuss
      @MegaSockenschuss 3 года назад +1

      @@slevinchannel7589 I'm in shock!
      Now I can imagine where all the socks have gone, that were "eaten by the washing machine".
      Btw. the one on your left foot seems somehow familiar...
      Besides that, you know, at some point people on earth startet doing songs about this topic.
      I remember the old Pixies song "where is my mind" - they never found out who took it.
      Or "where's the rum gone" - a mystery until now.
      I mean, just could just ask, we may share. :)

  • @burnttires6243
    @burnttires6243 3 года назад +6

    i’m so thankful you add actual captions to your videos, it helps a lot with not only reading the information but able to read along as i hear it too. thank you!

  • @sephikong8323
    @sephikong8323 3 года назад +332

    Why did I find the Graduate student part extremely relatable despite the fact I am not one myself ?

    • @jacobwoodbury6073
      @jacobwoodbury6073 3 года назад +29

      I am a graduate student and the grad student fact was so relatable to me, I believe it is spilling over and becoming relatable to others! Fascinating!

    • @anthonymorris6473
      @anthonymorris6473 3 года назад +16

      "graduate student" means peon.

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH 3 года назад +20

      Suffering knows its own kind... 😕

    • @grahamrankin4725
      @grahamrankin4725 3 года назад +19

      Having been an oceanography grad student years ago, yes you get the stinky jobs. A fellow grad student studied the nutritional value of shrimp feces.

    • @kevincotterell3644
      @kevincotterell3644 3 года назад +11

      @@grahamrankin4725 ...and the result? I need to know

  • @anthonyhewitt9397
    @anthonyhewitt9397 3 года назад +13

    What an amazingly simple breakdown. Well done. Imagine all the creatures that lived and never fossilized or will never be found even.

  • @CH-se6ki
    @CH-se6ki 3 года назад +65

    Blakes arms look incredible, dude must be working out a lot

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 3 года назад +1

      Hahaha,
      you puny humans,
      you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS,
      have stolen them all! All the Fossils!!
      Haha.

  • @lungshenli
    @lungshenli 3 года назад +3

    just a super niche thing: the repeating drone around 3:30 in the music sound just like my phone vibrating on a table when Im getting a call. that sure as hell threw me for a loop.

  • @RandalReid
    @RandalReid 3 года назад +229

    "Where are all the squid fossils?"
    In R'lyeh of course

  • @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4
    @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4 3 года назад +104

    I can't seem to focus on the topic at hand when we have a muscular host carrying around all those guns.

    • @rdrgz6217
      @rdrgz6217 3 года назад +16

      This is the comment I was looking for…

    • @brackguthrie9470
      @brackguthrie9470 3 года назад +14

      Was it the guns that were drawing your eye??!!

    • @fallendevonish1869
      @fallendevonish1869 3 года назад

      @@brackguthrie9470 ?

    • @cf453
      @cf453 3 года назад +3

      @@brackguthrie9470 I'm a straight dude, and I couldn't help but notice he's hanging dong.

  • @Thousandpp
    @Thousandpp 3 года назад +56

    Thank goodness for these people still taking the time to make science as interesting and accessible as it should be.

  • @lafoca3000
    @lafoca3000 3 года назад +13

    1:49 damn he's been working out? he looks great!

  • @DutchBane
    @DutchBane 3 года назад +8

    I am not a intelligent man but a long shot but i always feel smarter after watching any of your videos, thank you for making me feel better about myself and hopefully having made others feel the same way.

  • @jacobmamiye
    @jacobmamiye 3 года назад +27

    I've been following PBS Eons for a few years now and I recently heard Kelly's interview about Eons on Paleocast podcast! From one science teacher to another, I am amazed by your portrayal of/wealth of information in your videos. I am also super glad you brought up taphonomy and included the bit about that new naked ammonite finding. Thank you for invigorating a new generation of paleontologists!

  • @eliasquid6549
    @eliasquid6549 3 года назад +7

    Thanks a lot PBS Eons for this video. As you maybe can tell, I love squids. It's always nice to learn more about them :)

  • @eww7270
    @eww7270 3 года назад +56

    the music yall chose after 3:30 seconds sounded like my phone vibrating and I freaked out lol

  • @TranShar
    @TranShar 3 года назад +8

    One of my favorite parts of the Eons videos is watching Blake wince and grimace at the puns and bad jokes.

  • @nicks1451
    @nicks1451 3 года назад +247

    If you think the “watching things decay” job for graduate students is bad, just imagine what us undergrads have to deal with.

    • @bunstructors8591
      @bunstructors8591 3 года назад +40

      Undergrads are watched by graduate students

    • @andrewsuryali8540
      @andrewsuryali8540 3 года назад +30

      Well, grads are slaves. You're not even human.

    • @CanalTremocos
      @CanalTremocos 3 года назад +7

      I friend of mine has to take home a big jar of excavation debris and sort every tiny particle into bone, rock, plant. It wasn't even an old stratum because there were recent roots mixed into it.

    • @Duiker36
      @Duiker36 3 года назад +11

      The undergrads are the ones decaying.

    • @VanishingPuppet
      @VanishingPuppet 3 года назад +2

      Dissect this and count the parasites. Kthnxbye!

  • @cyberhikikomori5326
    @cyberhikikomori5326 3 года назад +15

    I'm sorry, my head's still preoccupied with that tentacle vs arm bombshell

  • @derrickthewhite1
    @derrickthewhite1 3 года назад +102

    wait, is that why squids look so bloated? They're little ammonia balloons?

    • @tbeller80
      @tbeller80 3 года назад +22

      And when the giant ones wash up on shore and decompose, they really stink.

    • @fallinginthed33p
      @fallinginthed33p 3 года назад +13

      Fresh squid has to be cooked quickly or they quickly turn bad in the heat.

  • @auri1075
    @auri1075 3 года назад +21

    Its so amazing to think about how many millions of species might have never even fossilised. How much did we lose? How much past cant we see no matter how hard we try?

  • @thearmchairpsychologist27
    @thearmchairpsychologist27 3 года назад +3020

    So what you're saying is: Squids don't fossilise because they're basic.

    • @honeybunch5765
      @honeybunch5765 3 года назад +161

      So I won't be able to fossilize either.😊

    • @blobbertmcblob4888
      @blobbertmcblob4888 3 года назад +157

      @@honeybunch5765 Fossilization is actually really, really hard. You need very special conditions that need to STAY special for a loooong time.

    • @thomasclements
      @thomasclements 3 года назад +81

      LOL - how did we not think of that joke when we wrote this paper?

    • @karlbischof2807
      @karlbischof2807 3 года назад +23

      basically

    • @markadonia1658
      @markadonia1658 3 года назад +25

      “Ya basic” - Eleanor Shellstrop, The Good Place

  • @brookegravitt4117
    @brookegravitt4117 3 года назад +2

    One of my favorite recent eons episodes, cephalopods are just too cool. Also, Blake, you’re one wig shy of doubling for Thor in Love and Thunder. Welcome to the gun show! I’m just jealous of those biceps 💪

  • @cravidana1182
    @cravidana1182 3 года назад +34

    Perfect. I just finished watching seaspiracy and I was wondering what I should watch next. Eons saves me from boredom once again. 🙌🏿

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 3 года назад

      Hahaha,
      you puny humans,
      you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS,
      have stolen them all! All the Fossils!!
      Haha.
      First, your keys that you thought you 'lost somewhere'
      and now THIS! Youre losing territory and resources
      more and more to US... haha... haha...

  • @biscuitEMT
    @biscuitEMT 3 года назад +4

    I love how the accumulated knowledge over generations leads to such specific new discoveries!

  • @EryxUK
    @EryxUK 3 года назад +106

    Fascinating topic.
    I still miss Steve.

    • @OscarSR84
      @OscarSR84 3 года назад +3

      I have checked it and you need to pay a lot for that patreon tier 🤑

    • @Ksweetpea
      @Ksweetpea 3 года назад +18

      I hope Steve is doing well

    • @1Fracino
      @1Fracino 3 года назад +8

      I also miss Steve !

    • @Kuwagumo
      @Kuwagumo 3 года назад +10

      Gone, but not forgotten

    • @DFloyd84
      @DFloyd84 3 года назад +8

      He's in a lab, watching squids rot, for science.

  • @kevincotterell3644
    @kevincotterell3644 3 года назад +30

    Mystery solved. Steve had a high pH and that’s why he left without a trace.

  • @MissBlueEyeliner
    @MissBlueEyeliner 3 года назад +125

    22 minutes ago: no interest in squids
    21 minutes ago: _OMG I HAVE TO WATCH THIS NEW VIDEO IN SQUIDS RIGHT NOW._

    • @Wittysquidy
      @Wittysquidy 3 года назад

      Where are the fossils?! I need to know!!!

    • @imconfusednow
      @imconfusednow 3 года назад +1

      Interest in baking more like. Just flour water yeast and rat hair and you have a fine roast, a fine roast

    • @kevincotterell3644
      @kevincotterell3644 3 года назад +1

      I can’t wait for my next dinner party to tell everyone about why there are no 🦑 fossils. But , no, I’m on my last warning.

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 года назад

      @@Wittysquidy Where are the fossils, Summer?

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music 3 года назад

      @@kevincotterell3644 i bet they wouldn't give a damp squid

  • @TheRysiu120
    @TheRysiu120 3 года назад +2

    Im always waiting for new Eons episode, and its over after 8 mins! I would really love to see some longer videos from you guys!

  • @michaelspero6157
    @michaelspero6157 3 года назад +8

    Love watching PBS Eons. I learned about a lot of this stuff in Biology class during my high school years but always nice to get a refresher course.

  • @DeinosDinos
    @DeinosDinos 3 года назад +1

    In the short time I tried and failed to become a palaeontologist, I did see fellow students working on taphonomy-related research and was so glad I hadn't been assigned to it. LETS JUST GET A BUNCH OF STUFF AND SEE THEM ROT wasn't quite what I expected, but massive hats off for those who do it.

  • @davidhanson4909
    @davidhanson4909 3 года назад +5

    I attended a dissection of a large squid (Clubhook, I think) in Alaska once and I can attest to the presence of a LOT of ammonia. It was enlightening. I had never realized an invertebrate could have such an intricate and tough internal structure.

  • @nishadhsingh4059
    @nishadhsingh4059 3 года назад +24

    Graduate Student 1: they are rotting
    Graduate Student 2 : aren't we all..
    Graduate Student 3: that's deep

  • @younevergofulllibtard4583
    @younevergofulllibtard4583 3 года назад +4

    PBS Eons, once again, asking the questions I’d never think of yet can’t wait for the answer

  • @EarwigQueen
    @EarwigQueen 3 года назад +2

    This is the best episode you've made so far!

  • @InfamyLP
    @InfamyLP 3 года назад +8

    thank u for using and explaining the correct plural of octopus

  • @codyparrish6674
    @codyparrish6674 3 года назад +1

    one of the few channels that's not bologna clickbait, ty!!!

  • @sciencewolf7775
    @sciencewolf7775 3 года назад +114

    The squids and octopuses decided they didn’t want to be fossilized, so they escaped the tank in a 2010 snail heist

  • @thomasclements
    @thomasclements 3 года назад +263

    If anyone is interested this is my research! Thanks @PBSeons for showcasing cool fossils and our cool experiements! It's pretty gross - and it's not just graduate students :)

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH 3 года назад +9

      Nice to be featured!

    • @Kuwagumo
      @Kuwagumo 3 года назад +15

      Thats amazing! It must be truly wonderful to make a significative contribuition to science, congrats for u and your team :)

    • @Viatoreptil
      @Viatoreptil 3 года назад +10

      This is really cool. So are there other known groups of soft-bodied organisms that maintain a higher pH? And if so, do they also happen to have a poorer fossil record of their ancestry than average in environments known to be suitable for fossilization?

    • @KellyClowers
      @KellyClowers 3 года назад +2

      Awesome!

    • @dgodfrey9189
      @dgodfrey9189 3 года назад +1

      Do you have anything coming soon that explains the lack of gladii? Because to me that's the weirdest thing, given that there are a bunch of them from places without soft tissue preservation, but they've all been reclassified as vampyromorphs iirc.

  • @usergiodmsilva1983PT
    @usergiodmsilva1983PT 3 года назад +3

    YES! I had this question on the back of my mind for years, after reading an article about fossil octopi, and realizing there are no fossils of squids! Thank you!

  • @charlyluevano308
    @charlyluevano308 3 года назад +252

    Plot twist: Squidward is actually an octopus, not a squid

    • @jchannel1980
      @jchannel1980 3 года назад +16

      Which would make his last name entirely inaccurate.

    • @zddxddyddw
      @zddxddyddw 3 года назад +50

      That is actually a fact, confirmed by the show's creator himself.

    • @michaelyu2744
      @michaelyu2744 3 года назад +18

      @@jchannel1980 The show's creator was an actual marine biologist, so he probably knew that but named him that anyways.

    • @g.3581
      @g.3581 3 года назад +12

      @@jchannel1980 Tennisballs?

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 3 года назад +10

      Maybe he was adopted

  • @kevinaarondeguzman5470
    @kevinaarondeguzman5470 3 года назад +2

    Hi EONS im still looking forward for new episodes PLEASSSEEE!!!!

  • @marcellus_h7930
    @marcellus_h7930 3 года назад +261

    Hey you're the most ripped paleo-guy I've ever seen on RUclips 😆

    • @sephikong8323
      @sephikong8323 3 года назад +29

      I have gotten my gym membership today now that I can get back there, and my objective is to be ripped just like him

    • @AntonEsteveGualofficial
      @AntonEsteveGualofficial 3 года назад +6

      Check out Pakozoic, he's an even more ripped paleo guy

    • @anagentofdoingstuff6735
      @anagentofdoingstuff6735 3 года назад

      lol

    • @madam_mim
      @madam_mim 3 года назад +58

      Other paleontologists use tools to delicately chip away at rocks, Blake just one-punches the side of a mountain and bones fall out.

    • @thehuman2cs715
      @thehuman2cs715 3 года назад +1

      @@sephikong8323 omg it's sephikong can I get your autograph?

  • @sewisinc.4545
    @sewisinc.4545 3 года назад +1

    You just gotta love Blake's blooper-like phrases and added comments. Thanks for making my day already. Also, yeah, grad students are always biting the bullet and paying the price of science.

  • @emmettbattle5728
    @emmettbattle5728 3 года назад +42

    once again asking for the evolution of his biceps

  • @Phoenix____
    @Phoenix____ 3 года назад +1

    Your lecture with sense of humour amaze me everytime !! Blake !

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate 3 года назад +22

    Once again Eons, u taught me a bunch of new things in paleontology that I never did.

  • @TheAmazingCowpig
    @TheAmazingCowpig 3 года назад +1

    Super educational as always, but man did the writing in this episode also score extremely high in the entertainment factor

  • @ibi6262
    @ibi6262 3 года назад +56

    The amount of people simping for Blake in the comments section is unreal lmao
    Good vid btw

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 3 года назад

      Hahaha,
      you puny humans,
      you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS,
      have stolen them all! All the Fossils!!
      Haha.
      First, your keys that you thought you 'lost somewhere'
      and now THIS! Youre losing territory and resources
      more and more to US... haha... haha...
      ...

  • @jrdahlst56
    @jrdahlst56 3 года назад +3

    This episode suggests a followup: in general, what kinds of living things will fossilize easily and what don't? What might be missing and how does that affect our interpretation of the fossil record and evolution?

  • @mgaus
    @mgaus 3 года назад +18

    When will we see models predicting how many missing taxa there might be from the fossil record because of issues similar to this?

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 3 года назад

      Especially in the Cambrian and Ediacaran, when creatures had unknowable body chemistry

    • @petitio_principii
      @petitio_principii 3 года назад +1

      @@LimeyLassen we're quite lucky to have evolved enough intelligence to figure much of the natural history before the fossil layers got way more messed up and more and more of the fossil record destroyed forever. I guess it could have been the case that a species would evolve only such degree of intelligence after the fossil record only showed some random "monsters" that don't seem to have much to do with any living species or with other monsters on different layers/places. Then maybe this alternate planet's "Darwin" would only come after molecular biology, inferring a planet-wide phylogenetic tree without much of a hint of it from morphology.

  • @shadowspotted
    @shadowspotted 3 года назад +1

    I always love watching your videos! I'm a zoology graduate (been watching for four years ever since I was in college)!

  • @Mallusq
    @Mallusq 3 года назад +11

    I’ve been waiting for a video like this 🦑

  • @malcaniscsm5184
    @malcaniscsm5184 3 года назад +5

    Guys it's been a while... everything OK?

  • @the_gaming_hyena24
    @the_gaming_hyena24 3 года назад +5

    Nice video! I was wondering if you could do a video on prehistoric hyenas and their relatives...I’d love to see my prehistoric cousins on the channel!

  • @SikWidiT390
    @SikWidiT390 3 года назад

    Oh man !! My man !!! This phenomenal host has been working out!!! That vascularkty is on point !! Good for you man!!! I'll keep applying to join the squad . I have high hopes !!

  • @anthustenebris9202
    @anthustenebris9202 3 года назад +34

    "Where are all the fossil squids?"
    Sorry, that was me. They're so delicious that I eat them before they fossilize.

    • @mmseng2
      @mmseng2 3 года назад

      I liked your movie, The Man From Earth.

    • @Twinklethefox9022
      @Twinklethefox9022 3 года назад

      I probably helped. Calamari is delicious

  • @seagurl9369
    @seagurl9369 3 года назад +1

    Thanks guys! I'm enjoying these contents waay to much :)

  • @charleschamp9826
    @charleschamp9826 3 года назад +22

    The music in this episode made me and my family think our phones were going off.

  • @lil----lil
    @lil----lil 3 года назад +1

    A phone's vibration can be heard middle of the video loud and clear. I'm really surprised the video/sound editor let it keep going. Thats' crazy!

  • @mootziezoo
    @mootziezoo 3 года назад +35

    Am I the only one who is here to swoon over Blake de Pastino and his gun show?

  • @jackwilliams4087
    @jackwilliams4087 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for another nugget of knowledge delivered with genuine joy. Felt your pain at the pun.

  • @Krylov223
    @Krylov223 3 года назад +15

    I was just reading Michael Crichton's Sphere, and wondering why the attacking giant squid comes with the smell of ammonia.

  • @thefozofoz
    @thefozofoz 3 года назад +2

    This channel is just great. I hope it's inspiring young people to be the next generation of paleontologists. I certainly would have been inspired if this existed when I was young.

  • @DeliveryMcGee
    @DeliveryMcGee 3 года назад +50

    Because it's Greek, isn't the plural properly "octopodes"?

    • @LolUGotBusted
      @LolUGotBusted 3 года назад +7

      Octopodes and platypodes imo

    • @LuinTathren
      @LuinTathren 3 года назад +7

      Thank you for comment this so I didn't have to. You are, of course, correct.

    • @precursors
      @precursors 3 года назад +4

      I HATE when people say “Octopi” like they know better and try to correct you when you say “Octopuses”

    • @HerrMisterTheo
      @HerrMisterTheo 3 года назад +20

      Yes, but "octopuses" is not supposed to be the Greek plural, it's the "this is a loan word from Greek, but because we can't be arsed to deal with irregular plurals we'll just give it a regular English plural" plural.

    • @precursors
      @precursors 3 года назад +4

      @@HerrMisterTheo In that case you would have to use the thousands of loan words in English language in their “correct” plural forms. If you’r speaking English, just go with English plural forms, nothing to do with “not being arsed” as not everyone knows which word is borrwed from which language. No need to interject latin or greek plurals just because some words are borrowed from those languages.

  • @66kbm
    @66kbm 3 года назад +2

    Great info simply explained. Thank you. Looking forward to more.

  • @JM1993951
    @JM1993951 3 года назад +3

    You got me. As an inquiring mind with limited time I initially thought “who cares?” But I realized that I care. This is information I need.

  • @1cruzbat1
    @1cruzbat1 3 года назад

    Another lesson in "what I didn't know I didn't know"! Well done and fascinating!

  • @011keepers
    @011keepers 3 года назад +4

    Speaking of arms. Goodness someone has been staying in shape...

  • @pcstar123
    @pcstar123 3 года назад +1

    Nature's puzzles are always so interesting, thanks for the scientific research and reporting!

  • @arlondwilliams971
    @arlondwilliams971 3 года назад +10

    Damn.. now I gotta take back all the times I corrected people when the said 'octopuses'

  • @hrisavrakshit6548
    @hrisavrakshit6548 3 года назад +1

    It will awesome to see a video about rajasaurus by eons

  • @leambarrameda6789
    @leambarrameda6789 3 года назад +4

    I love this channel so prehestoric

  • @SageThyme23
    @SageThyme23 3 года назад +1

    God i love this channel teaching me just interesting information i would never have even thought about before

  • @oliviapellicer7376
    @oliviapellicer7376 3 года назад +4

    Hey, my beloved Eons, are you ok? You haven't posted a fascinating paleo video in 3 weeks ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

    • @ycasto1063
      @ycasto1063 3 года назад +3

      I hope they are in summer break, because cancelling eons would be a shame

  • @FlowerHornSecret
    @FlowerHornSecret 3 года назад

    Thank you PBS Eons. Always learning something whenever watches your videos💝

  • @WhamBang
    @WhamBang 3 года назад +29

    Squids is also the proper term for when you see two people riding a motorcycle wearing no helmets

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 3 года назад +13

      Not organ donors?

    • @edcrichton9457
      @edcrichton9457 3 года назад +5

      If they aren't wearing leathers they are road slugs.

    • @dylancoon6312
      @dylancoon6312 3 года назад +3

      Squids is helmet and beachwear / no other protection. Head stays intact, body shredded, squid.

    • @fallinginthed33p
      @fallinginthed33p 3 года назад

      They also tend to go extinct.

  • @vixxxxx4502
    @vixxxxx4502 3 года назад +1

    Can you make a playlist with every video you've made? I like to binge these while working!! But it usually sends me to another channel if I let it go on auto, so PLEASE PLEASE MAKE A PLAYLIST!!

    • @becauseimafan
      @becauseimafan Год назад +1

      Oh hey I have a playlist with their episodes in chronological order! They have a few playlists with videos by topic, but they haven't made one with all their episodes, not yet.
      I don't make content, I'm only a viewer, but I update my playlists as soon as a new video comes out, cuz I love to binge watch from the beginning! 😊

  • @danielbickford3458
    @danielbickford3458 3 года назад +5

    Where are all the squid fossils? My guess, a time traveler with a hankering for calamari

  • @jayfeather11000
    @jayfeather11000 Год назад +1

    "This means that Squidward is not a true squid" checks out since he's an octopus and not a squid anyway

  • @thorium222
    @thorium222 3 года назад +3

    One minute of silence for all the grad students finding out amazing things while their profs get all the credit.

  • @AndreasJepsenMusic
    @AndreasJepsenMusic 3 года назад +2

    "The three main plurals for octopus come from the different ways the English language adopts plurals. Octopi is the oldest plural of octopus, coming from the belief that Latin origins should have Latin endings. Octopuses is the next plural, which gives the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word. Lastly, octopodes stems from the belief that because octopus is originally Greek, it should have a Greek ending." From Websters dictionary .

  • @bearistotle2820
    @bearistotle2820 3 года назад +3

    I still have one very important question: What happened to the Eontologist "and Steve"?

  • @captain_torket3254
    @captain_torket3254 3 года назад

    6:36 Holy Ship ! Christian Klug is curator and professor at the Paleontological Museum of Zurich where I started my master degree. He's one of the friendliest guys ever :) So glad he got mentioned on a PBS episode !

  • @fardeenbora8084
    @fardeenbora8084 3 года назад +2

    Blake has got some very hard tissues 🤣🤣🤣

  • @StrawberryCelebi
    @StrawberryCelebi 3 года назад +1

    I feel like these science channels have the weird potential to become really fun and personable like the original Bon Appetit test kitchen (obvious issues aside lmao). Like I kinda just want to see scientists and researchers hanging out in a lab discussing their experiments and studies and walking into each other's shoots while they tell me about squids.

  • @danmueller4021
    @danmueller4021 3 года назад +3

    Makes you wonder what else we're missing out on