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I’m literally sleeping over those Deccan traps. I live in the city of Ballari near historic city of Hampi, in the middle of Deccan plateau of southern India . We have these massive continuous granite hill ranges, but I never imagined they caused the mass extinction!
@@molybdaen11Truthfully, they wouldn't have to suffer at all. Most likely, if they were found to be ready to erupt again, it would be after any of our lifetimes. As Kurzgesagt said, the beast is slow. And us humans are very, very fast.
6:36 the ability to describe a living creature vomiting foam while being bathed in acid in such a calm manner is an underrated skill... well done, narrator...
For those wondering, the most likely source of the next flood basalt eruption will be the same plume that probably created the Deccan Traps: the Réunion Plume, currently located beneath South Africa all the way to the East coast of Madagascar. It’s one of the largest subterranean structures on Earth (possibly dating back to the beginning of Earth, maybe even caused by the theorized Theia impact that formed the moon), and currently it’s pretty quiet. Small plumes branch off of it to form individual active volcanoes. However, it has a massive blob of magma located beneath Southern Africa that would dwarf the Deccan Traps and rival the Siberian Traps in size if it ever managed to surface. Luckily for us it would take tens of millions of years at minimum to do so. So y’all can sleep soundly knowing that we probably won’t be seeing fiery volcanic doom within our lifetimes! Probably.
TESTAMENT to the perfect adaptability of dinosaurs that they survived a divine symphony of impossible calamities lasting hundreds of thousands of years. Dinosaurs were so potently perfect to nature that it took a virtual war of the heavens to humble them down to birds a still pretty badass species. There's no way in any universe humans would have evolved without this. This may be the only hypothetical universe humans evolve because how insanely improbable is all of that occuring. Truly Tyrant Lizard Gods of the past.
A deeper video on the Permian mass extinction would be really interesting. Large drops in oxygen levels, mass desertification, ocean acidification, the devastation of basically every single genera of living thing (not even the *insects* got through this one without getting hit hard). When scientists call something 'The Great Dying', you know they're being serious.
The desertification was probably largely a consequence of all the continents being in more or less one group. Most of the interior was a LONG way from a sea, from which the atmosphere could pick up moisture. I wonder what the configuration of MORs was like, and if that contributed to reduced oceanic oxidation? OTOH, the interiors of the oceans would have been a long way from mineral nutrients, in the same way that most of the land was a long way from water.
Yeah but considering how large we need telescopes to be to look at things the size of our solar system that are within our own galaxy, only a couple thousand light years away, you'd probably need a telescope the size of a galaxy, and at that point it would definitely not work anymore because of the speed of light causing delays
Yes you could. You'd just have to travel 65 million light years, build the telescope, and start looking, all instantly, in order to get an accurate reading.
You do realise that there are nearly twice the number of dinosaur species today (we call them birds ; they are dinosaurs, in the same way that humans are apes) as there are mammals. 11000+ versus 6000+. Tell me more about this "domination" of the world by mammals since the "extinction" of the dinosaurs.
This is somewhat hilarious because the Deccan Traps were one of the prevailing theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs before the asteroid impact theory was proposed in 1980. It wasn't until evidence of the impact was found globally in the geological record (the K-Pg or K-T boundary) that the Deccan Traps were largely dismissed as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs, and yet about 40+ years later, evidence is suggesting that things are still not so cut and dry. On a somewhat related note, it wasn't until I read about this in the book "T. rex and the Crater of Doom" that I realized that the asteroid impact theory of extinction was a relatively new theory. As someone born in the 1980s, the asteroid theory was what I was taught and I had no reason to think that it was published only four years before I was born. The Chicxulub crater wasn't even discovered until the early 90s. Wild.
I'm an early 90s kid and yeah I thought that much of what we think we know on the matter was at least 40-50 years old by the time I came into the picture, not like 5-10 years, that's insane. Props to the education system for adapting to that one reasonably fast I guess?
@@Taima When I was a kid in school in the mid-1980's, I saw a Nova documentary on PBS about the K-T asteriod impact theory. When I asked my science teacher at school about it, they had never heard of it and were dismissive about the theory.
Dinos opposite of the Deccan Traps: "Noo! Our kin on the other side of the planet! We must be the only ones left... Allow us a moment of silence for our fallen..." The approaching Asteroid: "...mine mine minemineMINEMINEMINEMINE!"
Well, thanks to man made climate change, storms and other extreme weather events are getting and will continue to get more extreme and frequent, but this is truely next level. I wouldn't wanna be around if such a monster storm formed (probably wouldn't survive it long anyways), but since we now monitor the Earth pretty closely, we can sleep relatively safe and sound knowing this won't happen in our livetime
@@l-dogtheman1685 See the truly terrifying part is current projections don't put that on the time line but they do put the giant murder storms as almost inevitable. This is one of those issues that being educated on makes it scarier, the good news is comically hyperbolic, the bad news is only ever the tip of the iceberg. Hurray for nihilism!
@@_TheDudeAbides_yes correct, but we would experience the pain, the most able beings on earth. Meaning we r the best at expressing our pain hence more horror for the future generations
They were much more than a single species. They were more than a single genus or family. If I'm not mistaken, they were an entire Order all unto themselves (maybe a larger clade than that).
no, they know what they're doing. the first thumbnail/title is made to entice current subscribers. after that, they change it to appeal to the more general youtube audience
@loveableheathen7441 it is to help with click through rate, Veritasium did a video about it. Most channels have multiple titles and thumbnails and they see which one does the best.
@@loveableheathen7441 Pretty sure that's a youtube feature now, to automatically show different thumbnails to different people so that the creator can choose which one to pick by looking at the data.
@@loveableheathen7441 That guy is wrong. Many big youtube channels do this for algorithm purposes. RUclips lets you choose multiple thumbnails/titles and sends them all out to different people for a while, so that you can then pick whichever one gets more clicks as the final one.
You should do an episode on traffic patterns and like how traffic jams start in cities and on freeways and such. It’s a pretty interesting topic with a lot of research behind it
@@JoyLovesHollowKnight it's a pretty bad video that gives a very condensed overview of it. His "solution" of automated driving is also complete bull, like it's been disproven decades ago that no matter of car infrastructure will ever solve traffic. The only answer to that is railway
@@juannaym8488 he never said that the solution to car traffic was the manufacturing. He never actually gave a solution at all, just pointed out that it could only be solved if every single driver was perfect which he acknowledged wasn't a solution at all. I do agree though that it's a very condensed video
Even if the Deccan Traps caused a lot of devastation, it's very likely that the asteroid was the main culprit since we have found mummified dinosaurs killed exactly by the asteroid, so they actually survived until that point.
Yeah, I remember a dino documentary from years ago that acknowledged that biodiversity was really low by the time of the impact, which is why T-rex basically occupied every predatory niche In what would North America over its lifespan.
I like the asteroid as the final coup de grace in a slowly dying environment the volcanic gases slowly strangling the planet over millions of years, while the asteroid became a sudden and devastating end to 70% percent of life on earth.
certainly able to gain information by unimaginable means, they may have some gadget of some sort to do it; maybe they are actually ancient aliens describing the *real* history of our planet...
I'm surprised you didn't mention the lensing effect. The fact that the Yucatan impact was almost exactly on the other side of the planet to the decan traps, would mean the impact shockwaves would be focused on the decan traps, rupturing the crust and sending the traps into overdrive.
Except the Earth's core stops such sesmic waves - nor do they travel in a straight line through the mantle. Besides, the deccan started erupting hundreds of thousands of years prior to the impact. The Earth has seen plenty of LIP's (we even have an active one today in Iceland) without cosmic intervention. The deccan is by no mean an odd case, nor the largest LIP volcanos in Earth history. Some are connected to extinction event, but most are not.
@@wundurrThey don't speed up, but they travel faster through liquids (such as the outer core) than solids, yes. Still, the timing between the impact and the start of the eruptions is very off indeed.
This gives the volcanoes contribution to dinosaur extinction a lot more weight. In school it had only really been described as a LOT of volcanoes for a long time, which didn’t sound as sensational as the meteor. The extra depth this video goes into makes it seem a lot more plausible, and in hindsight, makes way more sense that it wasn’t just the dust and ash kicked up by the meteor blocking out the sun, but all the volcanic gases that were already in the atmosphere
The meteor finished off the dinosaurs that survived the Decan traps because there were mummified dinosaurs near the place the meteor hit proving that at least some survived the Decan Traps
There were species that survived after the impact, even according to The Impact Theory. The extinction took place over a long period of time that began long before the impact, and ended shortly after. Nobody ever said the extinction was already complete before the impact occurred. @@SomeKindOfDodo
@@game_boyd1644by that definition mammals are a joke to us so is every other group on earth as well as other people. We have been messing with everything cause it is what animals do when given the opportunity.
at least Yellowstone is just a single mega volcano, so it would be on the weight class as a hefty asteroid the Deccan Trap & other mass eruption events mentioned here are different though: imagine if all volcanoes on Earth come to life again, and all of them continue spewing out lava and ashes for decades, centuries or even millennia to come, without stop
If you _are_ nervously eyeing Yellowstone, may I recommend Soup Emporium's video about it? It's a bit long, but it'll be more than worth the time if you've even a glancing interest about volcanoes like I do.
Yeah bro look up the TIMEFRAME OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, humans didn't even exist when the dinosaurs existed. How could a cameraman exist?!?!?! (Goteem, whoop whoop!). Suck it, dork
@@kevinmccarthy6324 Yeah look at THE TIMEFRAME OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. How could a cameraman be there if humans didn't even exist yet? (goteem, look how smart I am, whoop whoop!!). Better do your research next time, Einstein
Not that this is out of character for the channel in the slightest, but it's always refreshing watching a Kurzgesagt video and being presented with solid theories backed by research, always left up for future scientific debate and consideration. Always just enough to start an interesting conversation and come away with some wonder and existential awe at the history (and future) of our planet.
Each video they put out tells a story and educates like no other out there!..the narrator plays a huge part in this channel's success and deserves all praise
Except the theories aren’t solid nor backed by reputable research. The Alvarez Hypothesis has already been confirmed as factual beyond a doubt. This is conspiracy theory meeting radical left wing climate change alarmism propaganda.
@@Ted_RUclipsrThey don’t deserve praise they are spreading conspiracy theories. The asteroid impact has already been confirmed as irrefutable. This video is literally the equivalent of saying 2+2 = 5. It’s just radical left wing climate change alarmism pretending to be science. No different than the people who say men can give birth and women can have penises.
Except this is kinda not. Volcanism as an explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs is not a new theory, it’s an old idea rooted in a false understanding of geology that has been time and time again disproven. There is zero mention of the various counterarguments against the theory presented in this video. I highly recommend the book “The Mass Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis” for a better understanding of the entire history of this topic.
@@stegotops7415this channel is known for pushing out not the entirety of the truth, it has heavy backing from a lot of bigger companies and they use their platform to promote these backers by presenting false or omitting the entirety of the truth. (Maybe not in this video but look it up it’s pretty awful lol)
It was a slow domino effect: Tectonic plates shifting, triggering earthquakes. Those earthquakes caused one of the deadliest known volcanic eruptions in history. The K2 asteroid was the finishing blow to a once-proud ecosystem.@@dat_fast_boi
@@paul-antonywhatshisface3954Yeah, but you mean plural: causes and effects. There is no such thing as a single thing. Humans came up with this to feel better, it is a soothing thought error, call it a thought virus like superstition.
Scariest is the subtext for 4:00 until 5:00 The oceans heated up only 2°C because of a mix of massive CO2 and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) cooling Yes cooling Our oceans just overheated last year in the northern summer and stand to do so again this year. Why? Because we had sulfur in ocean shipping fuel. This is emitted into the atmosphere as SO2. Which is not a normal greenhouse gas as it only stays up there a few months and then comes down as mildly acidic rain, it also REFLECTS more heat due to this. Sulphur was removed from most terrestrial fuels a few decades ago. Meanwhile in 2020, while the news was dominated by covid, the international shipping industry ordered a massive reduction in their sulphur in fuel. This was to reduce acid rain, but had the side effect of removing the cooling effect of SO2 from the massive amount of shipping between the US, the EU and China across the northern seas. SO2 was effectively a global shield to global warming, which we have only just removed. The oceans are projected to go over 2 °C of change within a decade. This is scary subtext. What is scariest is we as humanity are too stupid as a whole to do anything about it until it is too late. Too many people make too much money to do anything different until its unstoppable. Lookup what the wetbulb event will be, this will likely become reality in the equator in the next few decades. If you live there, make it a life project to leave if you can.
well, to be fair, it's impossible for climate change to kill us all, but the problem is that at a minimum it'll kill 100 million to 2 billion and set us back decades
As a resider of Central Washington state and Geology student, people who do not live near or seen these massive basalt fields have no idea just how insane these large trap eruptions truly are.
@@cihloun While I was watching the video the first time the house did catch my attention and I did go back to check it again. But I did not make the connection with the Flintstones until your comment.
Well, even if the Deccan traps were to be found to be the main cause of extinction, I think it is safe to say that the asteroid impact certainly did help things along quite a bit, with that much energy being released in basically an instant.
As much as I love kurzgesagt, this video brings more questions than answers: why did birds survive? If planet was such inhospitable place at that time how did mammals survive?
For any catastrophe that significantly reduces the nutrients in a given ecosystem, smaller animals are much more likely to survive. There is no big trick or secret to it. It’s the simple arithmetic of calorie needs. Smaller animals need fewer calories, so they’re more likely to satisfy their need when calories are scarce. The avian dinosaurs and mammals that survived were those that had filled the small animal generalist niches. Non-avian Dinos were victims of their own success-dominating all the large niches resulted in them being severely under represented in small niches. There is also some evidence that mammals and avian dinosaurs were a bit better at dealing with temperature swings. Add up those two advantages-already suited to being small and dealing with temperature variation-and you get enough edge to out compete any surviving non-avian dinosaurs.
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@@CafeConLechi 🍅So this is the magic word you need to search🔍. Start with "H", then 🅰️, put an ®️ after it, then ®️ again, put a "I" after it and ending the word with an "💲". Give a space Write 💲 then "U" followed by "L" then "T", put an "🅰️" after it and end the word with "N".
The Deccan Traps and KT asteroid impact is definitely the two major factor that decimated and extinguished the dinos of the Cretaceous Period. Both contributed in damaging the ecosystem with the former slowly killing the planet's biosphere. The KT asteroid dealt the final blow that prevented any surviving dino species from bouncing back.
4:14 ocean temperatures rising 2 degrees in 100,000 years is just barely survivable... I think that gets lost when we talk about man-made climate change raising temperatures 0.5-1 degree in under 200 years.
The most compelling theory to me was always the increase in fungal infections as earth cooled (= better climate for funghi), which then gave the warm mammals an edge given their higher body temperature and resulting higher resistance to fungal infections. Of course, this is compatible with either theory here. Thanks for an amazing video - I wasnt aware of this!
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Kurzgesagt's favourite topics, in no particular order:
1. Black holes
2. Dinosaurs
3. Ants ANTS *ANTS*
4. Very large things
5. Apocalypses of unforseen dread
6. Existential horror
So, everything
😂😂😂 So basically, TOTAL existential horror????
Based. These are all amazing topics.
You forgot about the immune system
Ants are the best ones.
7:38 The imagery of the earth struggling while taking a flaming hot dump and getting hit in the head with a flaming rock is memorable
I'm cackling 🤣🤣
The metaphor of earth shitting itself as a giant rock is flying towards it was not missed on me either XD
When you forget earth is just a floating rock
Wow! So, that episode of history is basically a Hindi Movie.
She ate too many flamming hot cheetos.
I’m literally sleeping over those Deccan traps. I live in the city of Ballari near historic city of Hampi, in the middle of Deccan plateau of southern India . We have these massive continuous granite hill ranges, but I never imagined they caused the mass extinction!
Well, at least you would not have to suffer long if the awake again.
@@molybdaen11Truthfully, they wouldn't have to suffer at all. Most likely, if they were found to be ready to erupt again, it would be after any of our lifetimes.
As Kurzgesagt said, the beast is slow. And us humans are very, very fast.
@@molybdaen11 Actually they can't awake because they are dead.
How does it feel, to be sleeping on a bomb?
Ohhhhhhh
Deccan Trap :- Dammit!! I can't get the ones on the other side.
Asteroid:- I got you bro.
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I bet the W.A. Parish Coal Power station has released more carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide than the Deccan Traps could have dreamed of emitting.
6:36 the ability to describe a living creature vomiting foam while being bathed in acid in such a calm manner is an underrated skill... well done, narrator...
Steve Taylor
@@TheRealSkeletor is that the narrator's name...?
@@joshuaohuka7719more commonly Stephen
First time here?
@@bndlett8752 no... it just struck me this time... I'm a pretty big Kurtzgesagt fan...
For those wondering, the most likely source of the next flood basalt eruption will be the same plume that probably created the Deccan Traps: the Réunion Plume, currently located beneath South Africa all the way to the East coast of Madagascar. It’s one of the largest subterranean structures on Earth (possibly dating back to the beginning of Earth, maybe even caused by the theorized Theia impact that formed the moon), and currently it’s pretty quiet. Small plumes branch off of it to form individual active volcanoes. However, it has a massive blob of magma located beneath Southern Africa that would dwarf the Deccan Traps and rival the Siberian Traps in size if it ever managed to surface. Luckily for us it would take tens of millions of years at minimum to do so. So y’all can sleep soundly knowing that we probably won’t be seeing fiery volcanic doom within our lifetimes! Probably.
To rival the siberian traps would make an incredibly devastating event, considering the permian extinction wiped out a little over 90% of all life.
95% to be precise
@@rogaldorn2312 yep, hopefully we'll have achieved spacefaring civilization status or the ability to control Earth's atmosphere by then though
@@Nadiki if we didn't achieve it by that point we probably have been long extinct.
@@Cell_lab_tutorials iirc that was for the oceans. Life in general was around 90-91%
It's wild that _anything_ survived this period
TESTAMENT to the perfect adaptability of dinosaurs that they survived a divine symphony of impossible calamities lasting hundreds of thousands of years. Dinosaurs were so potently perfect to nature that it took a virtual war of the heavens to humble them down to birds a still pretty badass species. There's no way in any universe humans would have evolved without this. This may be the only hypothetical universe humans evolve because how insanely improbable is all of that occuring. Truly Tyrant Lizard Gods of the past.
@@shawnscientifica6689 *ahem* dinosaurs died here sir...
@@TheJerbol We still have birds
reminder that roaches are still alive
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Decant traps : *erupt
Trilobites who survived the Permian extinction to the Siberian traps: ahh shit here we go again.
Trilobites didn't survive the Permian.
I think you mean Ammonoids?
A deeper video on the Permian mass extinction would be really interesting.
Large drops in oxygen levels, mass desertification, ocean acidification, the devastation of basically every single genera of living thing (not even the *insects* got through this one without getting hit hard).
When scientists call something 'The Great Dying', you know they're being serious.
It’s definitely the most interesting and mysterious
The desertification was probably largely a consequence of all the continents being in more or less one group. Most of the interior was a LONG way from a sea, from which the atmosphere could pick up moisture.
I wonder what the configuration of MORs was like, and if that contributed to reduced oceanic oxidation?
OTOH, the interiors of the oceans would have been a long way from mineral nutrients, in the same way that most of the land was a long way from water.
Sometimes I wonder.
Will I ever have the courage to say something smart in a fuckin kurzgesagt vid
oof
As an Indian, I sincerely apologise to the dinosaurs.
yeah , 😂😂. we do apologise for everything.
XD
but more importantly we should be asking for our cut on all that oil money
you genocided and entire range of species a simple apology wont do bruh😂
@@manikandan1111lol
The dinosaurs on the opposite side of the world: “Haha get fucked”
The asteroid:
Yes
the asteroid: bro needs to hide of the opposite side of the fucking world 💀
😂
Exactly!
the asteroid: 🗿
What if we teleported to a planet 65 million light years away and made a giant telescope. We would be able to view the extinction event for ourselves.
Depending on how far you're looking at our planet from, someone out there might be watching the extinction event 65 million years ago.
@@zolem2008 thats crazy you know
Yeah but considering how large we need telescopes to be to look at things the size of our solar system that are within our own galaxy, only a couple thousand light years away, you'd probably need a telescope the size of a galaxy, and at that point it would definitely not work anymore because of the speed of light causing delays
Yes you could. You'd just have to travel 65 million light years, build the telescope, and start looking, all instantly, in order to get an accurate reading.
Dinosaurs: We made it through the the storm.
Asteroid: Nah not really.
Lol
Was that double "the" deliberate?
The dinosaurs really got spitroasted by volcanoes and a meteor.
@@elslfdsoiudhd5384🤓🤓 uh actually
You do realise that there are nearly twice the number of dinosaur species today (we call them birds ; they are dinosaurs, in the same way that humans are apes) as there are mammals. 11000+ versus 6000+.
Tell me more about this "domination" of the world by mammals since the "extinction" of the dinosaurs.
This is somewhat hilarious because the Deccan Traps were one of the prevailing theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs before the asteroid impact theory was proposed in 1980. It wasn't until evidence of the impact was found globally in the geological record (the K-Pg or K-T boundary) that the Deccan Traps were largely dismissed as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs, and yet about 40+ years later, evidence is suggesting that things are still not so cut and dry.
On a somewhat related note, it wasn't until I read about this in the book "T. rex and the Crater of Doom" that I realized that the asteroid impact theory of extinction was a relatively new theory. As someone born in the 1980s, the asteroid theory was what I was taught and I had no reason to think that it was published only four years before I was born. The Chicxulub crater wasn't even discovered until the early 90s. Wild.
Yes I remember learning about the asteroid theory and there being excitement that a crater had actually been discovered.
I'm an early 90s kid and yeah I thought that much of what we think we know on the matter was at least 40-50 years old by the time I came into the picture, not like 5-10 years, that's insane. Props to the education system for adapting to that one reasonably fast I guess?
Wild indead🕵️
@@Taima When I was a kid in school in the mid-1980's, I saw a Nova documentary on PBS about the K-T asteriod impact theory. When I asked my science teacher at school about it, they had never heard of it and were dismissive about the theory.
I googled "Chicxulub crater" and google had a little astroid fly across my screen and shook my screen with it's "impact"
this is why kids practice the floor is lava
They know much more than we know
yay
This is why the birds always won those games
😂
They still have fresh memories from past lives.
Dinos opposite of the Deccan Traps: "Noo! Our kin on the other side of the planet! We must be the only ones left... Allow us a moment of silence for our fallen..."
The approaching Asteroid: "...mine mine minemineMINEMINEMINEMINE!"
VEGETA NO
DIBS!!
@@harg5544 VEGETA YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
Vegetables and Going to
Wow
Ohhh yes babeeeey
As somebody that fears tornados and their bigger relatives, a storm so big it rips a hole in the ozone layer is just terrifying to me
I can relate on a personal level. My worst nightmare’s always inc tornadoes
Well, thanks to man made climate change, storms and other extreme weather events are getting and will continue to get more extreme and frequent, but this is truely next level. I wouldn't wanna be around if such a monster storm formed (probably wouldn't survive it long anyways), but since we now monitor the Earth pretty closely, we can sleep relatively safe and sound knowing this won't happen in our livetime
@@l-dogtheman1685 See the truly terrifying part is current projections don't put that on the time line but they do put the giant murder storms as almost inevitable. This is one of those issues that being educated on makes it scarier, the good news is comically hyperbolic, the bad news is only ever the tip of the iceberg. Hurray for nihilism!
Even global warming and 185 mph hurricanes seem like child's play compared to what the earth has already been through.
During the Cretaceous, our planet was s lot hotter and terribly humid.
So, Florida
3:41 Imagine not being able to do anything to stop yourself from burning alive
Hell
couldnt be me
@@badlydrawnslide2109 is this person literally him?
Pray!
@@nonine09 ouch, yeah, if you add emotional damage and your skin regenerating, that's pretty much hell
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I'm so happy I came across this channel. So informative, whilst being a pleasure to watch. You guys are doing an amazing job!
"damn, tough luck bro" is the best phrase that can explain the dinosaur mass exctinction
"That's rough buddy."
@@xylenex8037Thanks for the smile!
@@xylenex8037 dammnit, you beat me to it 😆
*Unlucky*
@@xylenex8037 Iroh is proud of you
My bad bro… It was me
bro shat on the earth
How could you
How dare you!!!!
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Why did u do this?? 😡😡
2021 covid-19: This is the worst year ever.
Cretaceous period: Hold my asteroid
The permian mass extiction: Hold my Siberian traps
2030 : Hold my nukes and Global Extinction
@@Ted_RUclipsr I think nukes will be less effective than the Siberian traps, globally.
@@_TheDudeAbides_yes correct, but we would experience the pain, the most able beings on earth. Meaning we r the best at expressing our pain hence more horror for the future generations
Shocked the staff at komradgesat didn't try to find a way to blame white people
the fact such a cool species as dinasours existed here is pretty great
They were much more than a single species. They were more than a single genus or family. If I'm not mistaken, they were an entire Order all unto themselves (maybe a larger clade than that).
My favorite part of kurzgesagt videos are the first few hours when they can’t decide on the thumbnail and title
no, they know what they're doing. the first thumbnail/title is made to entice current subscribers. after that, they change it to appeal to the more general youtube audience
@@svkonainteresting theory. What about channels like EWU that change their thumbnail/title 3 or 4 times?
@loveableheathen7441 it is to help with click through rate, Veritasium did a video about it. Most channels have multiple titles and thumbnails and they see which one does the best.
@@loveableheathen7441 Pretty sure that's a youtube feature now, to automatically show different thumbnails to different people so that the creator can choose which one to pick by looking at the data.
@@loveableheathen7441 That guy is wrong. Many big youtube channels do this for algorithm purposes. RUclips lets you choose multiple thumbnails/titles and sends them all out to different people for a while, so that you can then pick whichever one gets more clicks as the final one.
You should do an episode on traffic patterns and like how traffic jams start in cities and on freeways and such. It’s a pretty interesting topic with a lot of research behind it
That hoenstly sounds pretty interesting
CGP grey has a vid on that
@@JoyLovesHollowKnight it's a pretty bad video that gives a very condensed overview of it. His "solution" of automated driving is also complete bull, like it's been disproven decades ago that no matter of car infrastructure will ever solve traffic. The only answer to that is railway
@@juannaym8488 he never said that the solution to car traffic was the manufacturing. He never actually gave a solution at all, just pointed out that it could only be solved if every single driver was perfect which he acknowledged wasn't a solution at all. I do agree though that it's a very condensed video
@@juannaym8488in other words, you are bad, not his video.
Even if the Deccan Traps caused a lot of devastation, it's very likely that the asteroid was the main culprit since we have found mummified dinosaurs killed exactly by the asteroid, so they actually survived until that point.
Yeah, I remember a dino documentary from years ago that acknowledged that biodiversity was really low by the time of the impact, which is why T-rex basically occupied every predatory niche In what would North America over its lifespan.
I like the asteroid as the final coup de grace in a slowly dying environment the volcanic gases slowly strangling the planet over millions of years, while the asteroid became a sudden and devastating end to 70% percent of life on earth.
Was it the AIDS or the COVID? Having both simultaneously did not help.
@@Bern_il_Cinq But survive the COVID often is very likely, survive AIDS is not
@@longforgotten4823 ok but that isnt what happened
Finally another kurzgesagt video that doesn’t give me crippling dread over my place in time and space
I love how the colour pallet contrasts with the subject matter. Such cheerful colours.
You should check out the videos about terraforming Venus and Mars.
0:18 vsauce music starts playing
😂
Was here to comment the same 😂
hey vSauce, Michael here. Your dinosaur is very safe. Or is it?
Wait, it's literally sauce music
I miss vsauce ngl
These birds are too smart man
They are, mate, they are.
These birds are spies for the FBI
certainly able to gain information by unimaginable means, they may have some gadget of some sort to do it; maybe they are actually ancient aliens describing the *real* history of our planet...
BIRDS ARE NOT REAL
@@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781
Way to kill the fun, man. Then why do pigeons and eagles exist then, Huh? Punk?
This was so informative, thank you!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the lensing effect. The fact that the Yucatan impact was almost exactly on the other side of the planet to the decan traps, would mean the impact shockwaves would be focused on the decan traps, rupturing the crust and sending the traps into overdrive.
Except the Earth's core stops such sesmic waves - nor do they travel in a straight line through the mantle. Besides, the deccan started erupting hundreds of thousands of years prior to the impact. The Earth has seen plenty of LIP's (we even have an active one today in Iceland) without cosmic intervention. The deccan is by no mean an odd case, nor the largest LIP volcanos in Earth history. Some are connected to extinction event, but most are not.
Maybe it really was Chixulub
@@Cell_lab_tutorialsbased cell lab pfp
@@PaleoEdits What about P waves? Don’t those just speed up when they hit the core?
@@wundurrThey don't speed up, but they travel faster through liquids (such as the outer core) than solids, yes. Still, the timing between the impact and the start of the eruptions is very off indeed.
The scariest part is at 3:01, where the CO2 Emissions of ONE year aren't that much smaller than the Deccan Trap's Emissions for HALF A MILLION years
Underrated comment!
i didnt even think of that when i saw it but holy shit
That was the actually terrifying part
The correct interpretation of that is that volcanoes release very little CO2 before they erupt lava, not "oh no, CO2 is deadly poison!"
Oh shit, you're right
No one can replace the current narrator, but how awesome would it be if they got David Attenborough to narrate one of these.
The animators for this show are incredible, y'all deserve a Discovery Channel show or something
no, they don't need corporate BS. being a channel on youtube is as free as it gets in terms of what they can do and wanna do.
They technically are but in Germany, the German version of Kurzgetzat is sponsored by the German government.
They are no longer with Funk
Theyre perfectly fine here on youtube. Im sure the majority of Kurzgesagt viewers would say the same.
Maybe not tv but they definitely deserve to be checked and distributed for lazy teachers to put on bangers in class
3:58 I'm loving these new transitions and how it fits in with the scene. Great work as always Kurzgesagt!
This gives the volcanoes contribution to dinosaur extinction a lot more weight. In school it had only really been described as a LOT of volcanoes for a long time, which didn’t sound as sensational as the meteor. The extra depth this video goes into makes it seem a lot more plausible, and in hindsight, makes way more sense that it wasn’t just the dust and ash kicked up by the meteor blocking out the sun, but all the volcanic gases that were already in the atmosphere
The meteor finished off the dinosaurs that survived the Decan traps because there were mummified dinosaurs near the place the meteor hit proving that at least some survived the Decan Traps
@SomeKindOfDodo it was basically a 1 2 punch, the system was weakened by the traps before the knockout
There were species that survived after the impact, even according to The Impact Theory. The extinction took place over a long period of time that began long before the impact, and ended shortly after. Nobody ever said the extinction was already complete before the impact occurred. @@SomeKindOfDodo
Hindsight-hindu-india get it 😂😂
@@WaterShowsProd Yeah after the impact a kind of nuclear winter happened.
This was some awesome information. So fascinating
"But we did trace the call... The extinction is coming from inside the house!"
And if he goes away it will be really bad too
Chicxulub was an inside job
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Toss it in the bin of things are not real, like climate change
Good one 🤣 ...i approve 🇮🇳
3:01 i love how casually you provide evidence of "human pollution is ruining the planet FAST"
The thing is that Kurzgesgat makes videos about topics we think but never ask. This channel is worth watching. Thanks for another amazing video
*you may never ask
ok but the volcano theme song goes HARD ngl they seriously went all in for this video I fear
Epic Mountain did an incredible job with the climax of this music. When Deccan Traps exploded at 5:10, the music is just perfect
For real
Honestly all of the music on this channel is underappreciated.
It's so cute how Kurzgesagt calms people down at 10:00
“Had it stopped here, there might still be dinosaurs today.”
Birds: Am I some kind of joke to you?
*dinosaur
"Dude... you've seen 'Chocobos,' right?"
We eat them, or keep them for our amusement. They are definitely a joke to us.
At 8:00 it says the same
@@game_boyd1644by that definition mammals are a joke to us so is every other group on earth as well as other people. We have been messing with everything cause it is what animals do when given the opportunity.
Honestly id love to see the people behind Kurzgesagt do a video on the cambrian explosion
Sir, a second plane has hit the Yucatan peninsula
Womp womp
The dinosaurs were a black-op by time traveling CIA agents.
Womp womp
Womp Womp
Did you just say womp womp the the genicide of one the successful groups of animals in the history of the world. How dare you.
The animation, music, sound design just keep getting better and better! I have no words for it, stunning!
"wait, some of you guys survived the lava?
no way! here's a meteor.."
I love how they out the video in chapters!
9:06 Cover the 5 big mass extinctions PLEASE! I know it from a game but I really want to know how they look like!
Oh yeah, I agree
Which game???
They are kinda similiar earth farts high co2 and other toxic stuff in the sky everyone dies
Cell to singularity Event: Life after apocalypse.@@Hunter-jx8jl
Kurzgesagt: "Do you need to worry about this?"
Me, nervously eyeing Yellowstone...
YUP same thought xD
Deccan traps is here💀@@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416
at least Yellowstone is just a single mega volcano, so it would be on the weight class as a hefty asteroid
the Deccan Trap & other mass eruption events mentioned here are different though: imagine if all volcanoes on Earth come to life again, and all of them continue spewing out lava and ashes for decades, centuries or even millennia to come, without stop
I mean, yes...
But also no, cuz there's literally nothing we can do so it's useless to worry.
If you _are_ nervously eyeing Yellowstone, may I recommend Soup Emporium's video about it? It's a bit long, but it'll be more than worth the time if you've even a glancing interest about volcanoes like I do.
08:04, happy for the guy who found his grandma!
😂
While also wearing his grandma's skull like a hat💀
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Great video! I love learning about the past.
Wow, I just saw your shop for the first time, and your posters and graphics are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! 😮
Impressive how the cameramen survived through all this
Yeah bro look up the TIMEFRAME OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, humans didn't even exist when the dinosaurs existed. How could a cameraman exist?!?!?! (Goteem, whoop whoop!). Suck it, dork
@@kevinmccarthy6324i think he was just joking
@@kevinmccarthy6324 Yeah look at THE TIMEFRAME OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. How could a cameraman be there if humans didn't even exist yet? (goteem, look how smart I am, whoop whoop!!). Better do your research next time, Einstein
@@kevinmccarthy6324take a joke 😂
Not that this is out of character for the channel in the slightest, but it's always refreshing watching a Kurzgesagt video and being presented with solid theories backed by research, always left up for future scientific debate and consideration. Always just enough to start an interesting conversation and come away with some wonder and existential awe at the history (and future) of our planet.
Each video they put out tells a story and educates like no other out there!..the narrator plays a huge part in this channel's success and deserves all praise
Except the theories aren’t solid nor backed by reputable research.
The Alvarez Hypothesis has already been confirmed as factual beyond a doubt.
This is conspiracy theory meeting radical left wing climate change alarmism propaganda.
@@Ted_RUclipsrThey don’t deserve praise they are spreading conspiracy theories.
The asteroid impact has already been confirmed as irrefutable.
This video is literally the equivalent of saying 2+2 = 5.
It’s just radical left wing climate change alarmism pretending to be science.
No different than the people who say men can give birth and women can have penises.
Except this is kinda not. Volcanism as an explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs is not a new theory, it’s an old idea rooted in a false understanding of geology that has been time and time again disproven. There is zero mention of the various counterarguments against the theory presented in this video. I highly recommend the book “The Mass Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis” for a better understanding of the entire history of this topic.
@@stegotops7415this channel is known for pushing out not the entirety of the truth, it has heavy backing from a lot of bigger companies and they use their platform to promote these backers by presenting false or omitting the entirety of the truth. (Maybe not in this video but look it up it’s pretty awful lol)
I love how they changed the colour scheme and dinosaur design .
"Time has the nasty habit of erasing evidence" 8:49
Time was a culprit confirmed?
@@zpinn8242only habitually
@@zpinn8242 More of an accomplice, covering up the (alleged) serial killer's murders.
It was a slow domino effect: Tectonic plates shifting, triggering earthquakes. Those earthquakes caused one of the deadliest known volcanic eruptions in history. The K2 asteroid was the finishing blow to a once-proud ecosystem.@@dat_fast_boi
4:40 "Skill issue"
_mockingly said the dinosaur_
jg diff
@@xooq_ Omg that's hilarious XD
It was actually me guys. I messed up. I'm sorry.
It happens, no biggie.
As long as you own up to your mess
Promise to do better in the future?
deccan traps apology video when
bro i told you dont touch anything, you literally changed the timeline
This is the dopest video you guys have made yet!
I love the 'Spirited Away' reference at 0:38 ❤
What reference? I don’t get it
@@nerdy8644 Floaty dark bits. The loneliness particles from My Neighbour Totoro.
@@nerdy8644those black ball thingies, aka Soot Sprites
@@nerdy8644the black soot creatures (I forget what theyre called)
@@ItzPeechYTSoot sprites. And they’re in My Neighbor Totoro, too.
kurzgesagt never ceases to create new existential crisis for me
I couldn’t agree more
This one actually gives some good news, look how much life on earth can take and still survive
You are floating on a sea of magma that is only about 35 km bellow you. Do you need to know more?
@@elmojackson6621please; do continue….
Why has no one mentioned that the background music at 2:10 is a callback to the one from the super volcanoes video? That's an amazing touch.
Yeah they love doing that with their music motifs, that are a little more noticeable in there space themed videos from a few years ago
You know I will say this your channel and the videos that are animated are amazing who came up with the creation of the video ideas and how they look
The animation and presentation just keep getting more impressive. I loved watching this. Thanks guys
God after realizing dinosaurs can't build churches:
😂😂😂
Underrated comment
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I love it when researchers argue about what single thing did another single thing, like the world has a plot or something.
It does, it's called cause and effect.
@@paul-antonywhatshisface3954Yeah, but you mean plural: causes and effects. There is no such thing as a single thing. Humans came up with this to feel better, it is a soothing thought error, call it a thought virus like superstition.
Historic materialism™
This backgorund music slaps! I love it! Great Video and Topic aswell!
Kurz's voice feels like hes the uncle at campfire telling cool stories for fun
It's clear that he would be the smartest uncle in the world and an ornithologist as well.
WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE??
His name is Steve Taylor, and he's a professional voice guy, he gets payed for his amazing narration
@@minestar2247 This channel wouldn't be the same without him tbh.
@@pauloazuela8488 frfr
2:49 that’s a humbling comparison…
damn.
We’re fucked.
Scariest is the subtext for 4:00 until 5:00
The oceans heated up only 2°C because of a mix of massive CO2 and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) cooling
Yes cooling
Our oceans just overheated last year in the northern summer and stand to do so again this year.
Why?
Because we had sulfur in ocean shipping fuel. This is emitted into the atmosphere as SO2. Which is not a normal greenhouse gas as it only stays up there a few months and then comes down as mildly acidic rain, it also REFLECTS more heat due to this.
Sulphur was removed from most terrestrial fuels a few decades ago. Meanwhile in 2020, while the news was dominated by covid, the international shipping industry ordered a massive reduction in their sulphur in fuel. This was to reduce acid rain, but had the side effect of removing the cooling effect of SO2 from the massive amount of shipping between the US, the EU and China across the northern seas.
SO2 was effectively a global shield to global warming, which we have only just removed. The oceans are projected to go over 2 °C of change within a decade. This is scary subtext.
What is scariest is we as humanity are too stupid as a whole to do anything about it until it is too late. Too many people make too much money to do anything different until its unstoppable.
Lookup what the wetbulb event will be, this will likely become reality in the equator in the next few decades. If you live there, make it a life project to leave if you can.
@@ToxicTurquoise454seems like we are speedrunning it. And if we don't see the end of the speedrun it won't be because of old age.
well, to be fair, it's impossible for climate change to kill us all, but the problem is that at a minimum it'll kill 100 million to 2 billion and set us back decades
As an Indian, I sincerely apologise to the dinosaurs.
As a dinosaur it's ok
As a human who loves dinosaurs, I will never forgive you
@@PVE_GUY *forget
Remember the Alamo
@@WordlessWorldforgive
So the eruption was the perfect 200 hit combo and the asteroid was the finisher, damn
Never knew about the Deccan Traps, had to look up and make sure those are dormant after you mentioned them.
I love the information you have for such over used topics that aren’t understood
As a resider of Central Washington state and Geology student, people who do not live near or seen these massive basalt fields have no idea just how insane these large trap eruptions truly are.
I’m reading about the end Permian extinction right now you guys should do a full video on it
7:12 “It was just a prank bro.”
April fools
Kurzgezagt's art is becoming scarier and scarier every video
3:56 Nooo, the Flintstones
Is that what it is! Thanks! 😄
@@awatercolourist ye, their house. You are welcome
@@cihloun While I was watching the video the first time the house did catch my attention and I did go back to check it again. But I did not make the connection with the Flintstones until your comment.
@@awatercolourist same
@@awatercolourist well, I'm glad I made that connection for you
Well, even if the Deccan traps were to be found to be the main cause of extinction, I think it is safe to say that the asteroid impact certainly did help things along quite a bit, with that much energy being released in basically an instant.
As much as I love kurzgesagt, this video brings more questions than answers: why did birds survive? If planet was such inhospitable place at that time how did mammals survive?
For any catastrophe that significantly reduces the nutrients in a given ecosystem, smaller animals are much more likely to survive.
There is no big trick or secret to it. It’s the simple arithmetic of calorie needs. Smaller animals need fewer calories, so they’re more likely to satisfy their need when calories are scarce.
The avian dinosaurs and mammals that survived were those that had filled the small animal generalist niches. Non-avian Dinos were victims of their own success-dominating all the large niches resulted in them being severely under represented in small niches.
There is also some evidence that mammals and avian dinosaurs were a bit better at dealing with temperature swings. Add up those two advantages-already suited to being small and dealing with temperature variation-and you get enough edge to out compete any surviving non-avian dinosaurs.
We lost a lot of bird and mammals from this time period as well. You don’t see any birds with wing claws do you?
*Kurzgesagt is my favorite science teacher*
*Oversimplified is my favorite history teacher*
Vsauce is my favourite *or is it?* teacher.
Same
TierZoo is my favorite biology teacher
@@Caterpillar_Gaming lets smash our both nuts by ourself and see if it releases heat or sperm
@@ДенисПалуха IKR
The music that was added throughout this video made the watching experience much more crazier 🔥🔥🔥
🍅So this is the magic word you need to search🔍.
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@@OmarHamza-nz9ob I don't really understand your gibberish.
The drums at certain parts were incredible
@@CafeConLechi 🍅So this is the magic word you need to search🔍.
Start with "H", then 🅰️, put an ®️ after it, then ®️ again, put a "I" after it and ending the word with an "💲".
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@@HoursOfMind Just type and search thos out. Actually I can't write it straight forward try to understand.
Kurzgesagt can you make a video on the evolution of worms.
Probably one of the best channels on you tube
Kurzgesagt: Move out of the way 10:18
Mars: 😨😨
Insane how good the visual effects are
If you were living as or how l live my life you don't know the meaning of INSANE
Are we just gonna ignore how cool the thumbnail is
I absolutely love that the soundtrack has a recurring theme, heard in other historical videos
The Deccan Traps and KT asteroid impact is definitely the two major factor that decimated and extinguished the dinos of the Cretaceous Period. Both contributed in damaging the ecosystem with the former slowly killing the planet's biosphere. The KT asteroid dealt the final blow that prevented any surviving dino species from bouncing back.
4:14 ocean temperatures rising 2 degrees in 100,000 years is just barely survivable... I think that gets lost when we talk about man-made climate change raising temperatures 0.5-1 degree in under 200 years.
How about this soundtrack!!!!
Mighty well done, Kurzgesagt team.
3:52, was not expecting to see Barney!
The Deccan Traps eruptions were the two shots to the chest, the Chicxulub impact was the shot to the head.
3:01 Puts into perspective how close we are to ruining everything
No it does not.
@@aAaa-gj1lh keep believing that
@@aAaa-gj1lhok boomer
@@morbillionaire2785 how is he the boomer?
Elaborate?@@aAaa-gj1lh
The most compelling theory to me was always the increase in fungal infections as earth cooled (= better climate for funghi), which then gave the warm mammals an edge given their higher body temperature and resulting higher resistance to fungal infections. Of course, this is compatible with either theory here. Thanks for an amazing video - I wasnt aware of this!