It's honestly scary how historians and scienstists always come up with specific and purely descriptive names for extinction events, but this one was so absolutely heinous, the only thing they could come up with was "The Great Dying"
Well there was so many things trying to kill organic life at this time, trying to narrow it down to something specific would be inelegant. It was like a nested for loop of death.
The lucky thing is, even if 99% dies out, there's still gonna be those absurd extremophiles that can live anyways. Until the core goes cold or the sun dies out, life WILL exist on earth in some form.
@@Katze822228 no because there are still plenty of bacteria at the bottom of the ocean that feed off off of chemicals from underwater volcanoes. They live in an environment not really impacted too much by global warming. On the other hand, like the commenter above stated, a cold, solid core would definitely kill all life on earth since the suns radiation would not be stopped by the earths magnetic field.
The great dying makes the Dinosaur killer asteroid looks like a merciful event. Also cyanobacteria who thrive in low oxygen waters took over the oceans putrefying the waters and killing more sea life, so any human would no be only overwhelmed by the smell of chlorine in land but also by the smell of rotten eggs close to the sea.
@@H41030v3rki110ny0u correcting proper use of words is educating. Stop getting offended for something that improves the world People have such an ego over being corrected these days. It's why nothing gets in and people are mentally ill these days
I have no doubt that trilobites would be very popular aquarium pets nowadays had they carried on. Everyone with a fish tank would have a couple of them scuttling around on the floor.
The closest we got were those little horse shoe crab guys. Triops is what they are called I think, we used to get them all the time as kids and raise them. They would just keep breeding and breeding we had them forever. They’d get pretty big but only a couple inches.
Im jealous of thoese species living 251.9 million years ago, because they actually got to play that game called the floor is lava for real, while I have never had the opportunity to play that game in my childhood for real.
The "Great Dying" is terrifying. Picture a red sky and toxic air. It's hard to imagine anything surviving that nightmare. Just thinking about it feels suffocating.
And not to mention it took thirty MILLION years to recover. In comparison it only took life about 100,000 years to bounce back after the Yucatan asteroid impact. Millions of years of a seemingly infinite, lifeless desert
@anticksss imagine being some poor animal trying to make it during such a time. I'm a big fan of and advocate for animals, the thought of so many essentially innocent lives being influenced so negatively for so long makes me feel very deeply.
I remember that one time when I was 10, there was this massive thunderstorm, and the sky turned dark green with pitch black clouds. I was in school at the time, but it was as dark as if it was midnight. I thought the great dying #2 had started because DARK GREEN SKIES? For context, I live in the Netherlands, so I had never seen any form of actual extreme weather before.
Canada was on fire last year. I saw the sky turn orange. Felt like something out of an apocalypse movie, yet...everyone just went on as normal. Am I crazy for feeling like we will not survive the future?
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions." "Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed." From 'Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history'
What's additionally so interestingly terrifying to me is how long this went on. Hell on earth, literally, for hundreds of thousands of years. Countless creatures being born and dying in this period, never experiencing anything else different.
@Machoman50ta You do know that the Big Bang's afterglow can still be seen, right? Also, Light-years are a measuring unit, it's like not believing in meters
@@ragnardunderdase3473 considering Nasa has had a hard time getting equipment to survive long periods on Venus' surface due to the highly acidic atmosphere, it is not possible, no.
Think Hawaii, but on a continental scale. Think Krakatoa, but instead of one volcano, it was fifty going off at once. Think the worse year in human history (536 A.D.), but lasting for thousands of years. Think death valley temperatures in high summer, in the middle of winter at the poles. Toxic clouds, acid rain, nuclear winters, global droughts, and boiling temperatures . . . truly, hell on earth.
Crazy to realize that somewhere in that hellscape there were our ancestors (quite unrecognizable to their descendents, though) , somehow surviving all that calamity.
Makes me really, really proud for them. They managed to overcome this hell. Thank you, grand-grand-...-grandmothers and grand-grand-...-grandfathers, that you were tough.
Thanks for the great content. Humanity has seen eruptions like that before, the Laki eruption in Iceland. It was only for a year though, so imagine the Laki fires happening for 250k years and you’ll understand how horrifying the peak eruptive activity was during the Siberian Traps.
20% of Iceland's population perished because of Laki, mostly due to famine from failed crops. Just one island of fire and ice in the middle of the North Atlantic. To see that worldwide x4.5 boggles the mind.
10:48 It's crazy seeing how wildly Earths oxygen level variers over time because we need such a narrow range to survive. I wonder how we'd have evolved differently if oxygen levels were different.
Poor critters that overheated to death.. I have chickens and live I mid-southern Arizona, I've lost some to overheating and damn near lost some had I not been there to rush them inside and get them under the cold water coming from the tap, in the tub. And it's not like "oh, ok, got em wet so they're fine" no, it was a battle for days afterward to keep them alive as thy were in some sort of recovery coma. But my point is, it was extremely sad. It does not seem a peaceful death whatsoever. So, poor critters that died from overheating. I feel badly for them. And don't worry, I do all I can during the hot summer months for my chickens so they don't overheat and keep a much closer eye now that I've seen what I need to do. Luckily I was already keeping a close eye before, and thats how I was able to save a few when I found them sprawled out and dying, unconscious, hyperventilating, and mere moments from true death. God it was so sad, even when they came back because I felt so badly.. I cried. I cried when my nicest one, Sweetie is her name, when I knew she was going to make it because I was so relieved.. I love my girls...
We've had to rescue calves from overheating too. It's an ugly thing to deal with - and we've succeeded, the few times it's happened, and they grew up to be healthy adult cattle, but it was very touch-and-go at the time. G'day from Australia.
@@cerdic6305 Humans can't survive in those conditions either. We get through extreme heat waves by building shelter and cooling the insides. OP already said they learned from their hens' suffering and provides them better protection from the heat now. The real cruelty is that there are millions of humans living in places that lethal heat is becoming the norm - and we not only don't allow those people to move to cooler countries, we also don't use our excess wealth to pay to provide them with the shelter that would make these conditions an inconvenience instead of a death sentence. We have the technology, and we have the wealth largely through exploiting them with unfair trade agreements. But having stolen their wealth, we leave them to die from the consequences of the global warming that we created with that wealth.
To me the craziest thing about the great extinction is how the current biodiversity on earth makes up only 4% of the species that survived. One could only imagine how different earth would look like if another 4% survived, or how different this planet would look like
9:09 volcanic eruptions are and have always been devastating to civilization . Mass eruptions like what happened during this extinction would be catastrophic for humanity
what's even more terrifying is that this is the closest for earth to have pretty much a Jupiter level storm, as these hyper hurricanes is almost as powerful as Jupiter's red spot.
important to remember that they are completely hypothetical and a very out of the box idea. there is absolutely no evidence to support them besides the heat
@STAGISTODAYI think the science is growing in confidence, though. The 500 mph wind thing is probably WAY overstated in popular literature. But the concept itself is simply applying known meteorological models to the highest-confidence proposed early Triassic conditions. At this point, no one has come up with any serious counter to the hypercane model. I think the less sensational modeling proposes wind speeds comparable to very strong tornadoes observable today. To be clear, that would still be devastating, as we're talking about tornadic conditions that persist for days and days. Hypercanes are a "fun" idea to play with, especially as we see strong tropical cyclones occur more commonly. They're my answer to the people who ask, "Why is there no Cat 6 hurricane?" The proposed theoretical top range of Cat 5 would already be locally unsurvivable and generally disruptive to an extreme. Any experts still around in the aftermath to a supposed Cat 6, would call it a hypercane.
Yeah if I'm not mistaken, part of the "perfect storm" factor was the fact that Siberia was at the time close to the equator. Eruptions in the tropics have much greater impact on global atmospheric conditions.
@@hyrulehero7834 damn, that's amazing and terrifying at the same time for some reason. The first example was already good, but your example really put me into perspective
Idk about that, humans have been around 200 to 300k years, ears been around four billion years which means the beach would have to be 40000 grains of sand, a grain of sand is 0.06mm to 2mm, but the grains of sand would have to be 0.04mm which is underestimating the length of a grain of sand by a decent amount and that's without including air gaps
To quote Ian Malcolm. 'You don't understand. We don't have the power to destroy life on Earth. We don't have the power to save it either. We might have the power to save ourselves.' Life is going to survive. Whether humanity does is a question which, in my opinion to which the answer is 'no.'
when we try to "save the earth" we're saving it for ourselves in the same way one might wanna save ones house from burning up cause we dang live here, its counterproductive to value the lives of animals higher than those of humans like some activists believe, but its also incredibly stupid to wantomly destroy this beautiful garden and wealth of life that we were born into, not to mention how incredibly unneighborly it is to throw toxic waste into the public pool and smoke cigarettes indoors
There have been 5 mass extinction events, and life survived them all. I doubt that humans will; we're currently in the middle of destroying ourselves. But life in general will survive. Maybe not in a way that we recognize, but life will go on.
I would be very surprised if we will still be there ten thousand years from now. It’s only a matter of time before a dictator mad enough to push that red button rises to power in one of the nuclear nations.
We have since built museums to celebrate the past, and spend decades studying prehistoric lives. And if all this has taught us anything, it is this: no species lasts forever. -Kenneth Branagh Walking with beasts 2001
im picturing it as an album name for a melodic/symphonic death metal and some of the tracks are inspired by different extinction events, used as metaphors for a plethora of things. "the great dying" is too poetic
There's a song called "Permian: The Great Dying" by the band The Ocean which ties the Permian period to a theme of nihilism. It's actually really good.
This must have been really bad as well, even though we would see like nothing of it when time-travelling to this period because it was just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another and the life on earth only existed in the form of microbes. I'm not sure if this one is put on the list of the big extinction events, maybe because it's really hard to get good numbers for the amount of species that existed back then. Since this was before life started to leave macrofossiles, we can only rely on chemical information which doesn't always tell the full story.
@@Mis7erSeven Except that for the entire rest of the then-biosphere of Earth that _wasn't_ cyanobacteria, it quickly saturated both air and water with basically highly toxic gas. so it wasn't exactly "just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another"
It’s crazy to think the atoms that make up my body, were part of animals/plants/environments that existed millions of years ago and will live on in others millions of years from now (hopefully).
One of my favorite quotes from Carl Sagan is: "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." I find it equally interesting and beautiful because on one hand, it would be the damnedest thing to live life with the person who was made from the same stardust as you were, and on the other, its cool as fuck to be made from a star
The oceans boiling tells me there was a single, very small timeframe in earths history where there were millions of perfectly cooked fish in the ocean, all at once.
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions." "Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed." - Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history
This is why the early Triassic is more dramatic than it seems. This is when life on earth began flourish once again. The survivors on land found themselves in a massive, deserted, empty Pangaea. They evolved, multiply, and filling that emptiness little by little.
The Permian is honestly the single coolest period in the history of life on this planet, and I am _tired_ of pretending that it's not. The Great Dying is proof that the best stories also usually have the best endings.
Nah. The coolest period in history is from 1815, when the Great Divergence began, to the present. Without it you wouldn't even know the Permian ever happened.
My dad still has a tub full of the ash from Mount St. Helens. He was a kid when it happened, grabbed a little margarine tub and filled it with ash. We have about 6 cups of it still in that tub to this day. Would be cool to use it somehow as an art piece to remember the big event !
Honestly an interesting comment. When I watch videos like this I immediately get insane existential dread and regret clicking on them (no offense to the creator of course)
Tells you something about how fragile this biosphere really is, and how easily it can turn to hell in a handbasket. You'd think that when we know we're walking a knife-edge, people would be less keen to test how far and how fast they can push the system out of balance.
when you learn about some of them they were just as wild as the big five. My favorite is Snowball Earth. When the earth decided shits not cold enough and cranked an ice age to an 11. Ice age on crack... Like the earth basically became an ice planet with what scientist think was just slush at the equator similar to what you would find in the artic. Its even more wild when you find out it happened twice. The earth went ima heat up, sike.
16:34 I love how this graph presents the current rate of extinction compared to previous extinction rates. While not an excuse to avoid change, it shows how unimpactful humanity has been.
It's all so over the top. Not just the extinction events, but the universe in general. So much so that i often wonder if life is actually real. Surely it only appears real whilst being alive? Once dead it never was or will be.
Before clicking this video I thought I would get a description of the Dinosaur extinction event, the asteroid. But instead of this, I got a description of absolute, utter hell.
Fantastic video!! I was really intrigued by the brief section on trilobites and how it was such a stable family that was finally killed off by the Permian extinction. I would love to see a video about other “legendary” families that eventually met their fates or are still surviving to this day! Thank you!
Fantastic video on the Great Dying, possibly the best I've seen to date and I've seen many. Unlike most who are into paleontology, I find the P-T event the most fascinating of all the great extinctions, even surpassing my interest in the K-T event. Very good presentation of the various statistics with a clear explanation of the ramifications for life during and following this extinction. One thing regarding the comment at the end: unfortunately, the earth will experience an extinction event that will equal and surpass the Great Dying - the death of our sun as it expands into a red giant, roasting the planet if not entirely engulfing it. Fortunately, that won`t transpire for at least another half billion years...
@ Marriam-Webster lists a single definition as “used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern”. The Cambridge Dictionary has two definitions, both starting with “an expression of great sadness or disappointment”. Pretty sure it has to precede a bad thing
Imagine dying in one of the other 30 mass extinction events to not even be listed in a RUclips video about how bad it was millions of years in the future
15:55 what do you mean problem with pressure as in 3 000 metres elevation? There is no problem at that height for humans. I've been going to mountains often like that.
I think the danger is in the rapid changes in pressure. Especially for creatures who are more adapted to higher amounts of oxygen. Earlier in the video he brought up that many places in higher elevations were likely uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen.
Thought I'd come back before EZ changes the thumbnail for the third time. Also, at the risk of sounding like a maniac, I do wish there was a caldera somewhere on earth or at least in the Solar System so we can see what that actually looks like...preferably the latter given the effects.
I watched an excellent documentary from the BBC which had an episode on the Great Dying, and I think they summed it up really well - the Earth seemingly _turned against all living things_ and every physical system on the planet that helps sustain life instead became hell-bent on killing it off.
Does anyone know what the clip at 10:22 is from? I know it’s a documentary on the prehistoric earth but I don’t remember the name, if someone knows I’d love to watch it again for nostalgia purposes, thank you
I will never not completely fathom the utter stretch and width..of 500 million years gone. My little human mind lives by centuries, and we can never relate to such ungodly lengths of time like that. It just.. it always blows my mind. We are just a quick little..BLIP.. on the timeline of our planet. It's crazy. It's fascinating.
A progressive metal band The Ocean has a song titled "Permian: The Great Dying" which is a part of an album that goes over eras around then in Earth's history.
I wonder if the extreme radiation led to mutations in populations that allowed for massive speciation to occur in the clades that survived the Permian 😮
Great video! I found myself rewinding a lot to make sure I heard things right. It’s insane to think that lava 3x the size of the Empire State Building was large enough to drown the entirety of the US… how does anything survive that! And the fact that 50k people died in Russia due to heat is hard to grasp. Not saying that it’s impossible because 87 degrees is hot, but I would imagine it would take the temperatures of let’s say Death Valley to kill people off like that. I guess poor infrastructure and a lot of other things played a role in it.
Nah you give humans too much credit. Every nuke could be dropped and it still wouldn't even come close to matching the kt extinction event. It's extremely likely humans would live on in a full blown nuclear war as real life radiation rapidly decays and generally dissapears as quickly as 10 years to a century. Why do you think hiroshima and nagasaki are perfectly habitable locations despite being directly nuked less than a century ago? Before you state modern nukes are even more deadly that's only partly true as they are more explosive.....but they are also less radioactive than the nukes dropped on Japan. I conclusion every nuke could be dropped and it wouldn't even kill off mankind much less other more resilient lifeforms. Humans are not the destroyer of worlds. It's the height of arrogance to think we have somehow achieved this
Just FYI, when I watch this on my TV it cycles through all the audiotrack throughout the video 😅 Works fine on mobile tho. thank you for covering this topic, it's so fascinating!!
There's a reason why in the OG canon of the Monsterverse, the Great Dying is when the Titan species started to appear. Especially with the rampant amount of radiation which they feed on.
so you saying some monster broke into earth and check out the place but don't know how to get back home? well portals are a thing so this isn't to far off for a backstory for the giant monsters on earth.
@@randomguy8976 was tired as hell and not know what og was at the time. but the thing is. I wasn't making a theory. because I was ASKING what he was talking about.
The great dying and Chicxulub were terrifying but in their own ways. The great dying being a hell you literally couldn't escape, the air getting hotter and filled with gasses that you can't even comprehend, storms raging across entire continents with such extremities that if you so much as stepped foot into it-- it would tear you to shreds. The rain which you so relied upon-- endless-- yet acidic. And this is all you've ever known-- all your ancestors ever knew, and what your descendants will ever know until your kind succumb to the harshness finally. Chicxulub was sudden and violent, a day that was like any other suddenly erupting into madness and chaos. The glow on the horizon that you happened to see from your perch 5000 miles away, almost looks like the rising sun. But it spells doom, and you'll feel it in the earthquakes that rang the globe-- and before you know it a cloud hot like the sun is racing towards you-- and it's raining fire. It was so normal just hours ago-- and now you're about to be baked alive and there's no where to hide.
as someone whos never watched this channel. i saw this recommended and thought the title was talking about something happening right now. needless to say I was worried lol
Sea scorpions was tragic bro, bc they probably would have evolved to be much smaller today, like a crayfish or lobster. Imagine keeping a sea scorpion in ur aquarium
It's honestly scary how historians and scienstists always come up with specific and purely descriptive names for extinction events, but this one was so absolutely heinous, the only thing they could come up with was "The Great Dying"
Well there was so many things trying to kill organic life at this time, trying to narrow it down to something specific would be inelegant. It was like a nested for loop of death.
Could have called it "The 7 unsealings" because of all the different factors, like the angels breaking the 7 seals to end the world.
the grimmest reaping
The world rasing
Surtr age
Days of wrath
Age of fire and brimstone
@@zephlodwick1009 best to avoid biblical comparisons i would imagine. the rapture already happened, and the trilobites were saved (we weren't)
"The Turbo Anal Devastation of Doom" was a period of great prosperity and peace in the Tiwanaku culture.
The lucky thing is, even if 99% dies out, there's still gonna be those absurd extremophiles that can live anyways. Until the core goes cold or the sun dies out, life WILL exist on earth in some form.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. If there's a runaway greenhouse effect, likely nothing will survive.
@@Katze822228 no because there are still plenty of bacteria at the bottom of the ocean that feed off off of chemicals from underwater volcanoes. They live in an environment not really impacted too much by global warming. On the other hand, like the commenter above stated, a cold, solid core would definitely kill all life on earth since the suns radiation would not be stopped by the earths magnetic field.
@Katze822228 that's never happened tho life has always survived and evolved since it began
I think you guys forgot about cockroaches.
@@dra9onl3oyand tardigrades
The great dying makes the Dinosaur killer asteroid looks like a merciful event.
Also cyanobacteria who thrive in low oxygen waters took over the oceans putrefying the waters and killing more sea life, so any human would no be only overwhelmed by the smell of chlorine in land but also by the smell of rotten eggs close to the sea.
*would not only be overwhelmed
@@slappy8941guy is pretty good for english not being their first language lol
@@slappy8941 🤓
@@H41030v3rki110ny0u correcting proper use of words is educating. Stop getting offended for something that improves the world
People have such an ego over being corrected these days. It's why nothing gets in and people are mentally ill these days
Cyanobacteria are photosynthesisers. They thrive in low oxygen environments because they release oxygen as a waste product.
I have no doubt that trilobites would be very popular aquarium pets nowadays had they carried on. Everyone with a fish tank would have a couple of them scuttling around on the floor.
Probablemente nosotros haríamos que esas cosas esten en peligro de extinción en la actualidad
Well there is also a possibility Trilobites would take our place instead
The closest we got were those little horse shoe crab guys. Triops is what they are called I think, we used to get them all the time as kids and raise them. They would just keep breeding and breeding we had them forever. They’d get pretty big but only a couple inches.
@@auntbecky7649those things are ancient as well so they are the closest thing we have to them.
I would have loved keeping a trilobite as a pet as a kid!
Goodbye, trilobites, you were too beautiful to live.
Okay, y'all did do a _lot_ of living, but *_still..._*
They had a good run!
I wish they were still here, they looked so cool like abalone but instead of snails they were crustaceans (weird opinion by me but whatever)
hello fellow albertan
@@MatthewTheWanderer The best run
@@SevenCompleted Cheers! Whereabouts do you hang your touque?
Jeez. One of those, ‘The floor is lava’ situations, but for realsies.
Wait till you hear about the hadian eon
Oh please no, not that one
Im jealous of thoese species living 251.9 million years ago, because they actually got to play that game called the floor is lava for real, while I have never had the opportunity to play that game in my childhood for real.
@@Jout8-re1ij lava can burn you severely even if you're not touching it, so I don't think that game would be fun in real life
English or Spanish?
The boss at work in the Great Dying: "You're still coming in though, right?"
“There’s still five percent chance that you’re alive, so get your lazy ass back to work!”
LMAO
Lmao to do WHAT, for WHO, that's the big question. Sortin through papers during the acid rain hurricane lol
"If not you gotta find someone to cover your shift, if you can't youvhave to come in"
Waffle House would be booming
The "Great Dying" is terrifying. Picture a red sky and toxic air. It's hard to imagine anything surviving that nightmare. Just thinking about it feels suffocating.
And not to mention it took thirty MILLION years to recover. In comparison it only took life about 100,000 years to bounce back after the Yucatan asteroid impact. Millions of years of a seemingly infinite, lifeless desert
@anticksss imagine being some poor animal trying to make it during such a time. I'm a big fan of and advocate for animals, the thought of so many essentially innocent lives being influenced so negatively for so long makes me feel very deeply.
sounds like bushfire season in Australia
I remember that one time when I was 10, there was this massive thunderstorm, and the sky turned dark green with pitch black clouds. I was in school at the time, but it was as dark as if it was midnight. I thought the great dying #2 had started because DARK GREEN SKIES?
For context, I live in the Netherlands, so I had never seen any form of actual extreme weather before.
Canada was on fire last year. I saw the sky turn orange. Felt like something out of an apocalypse movie, yet...everyone just went on as normal. Am I crazy for feeling like we will not survive the future?
We humans are currently at Season 4 of Earth's game update after the major server wipeout millions of years ago in game time
More like the 7th.
We should get ready for the next extinction event, but I don't see us doing that - we couldn't go that far.
We are Earth’s Cousin Oliver
@@gedwardpeeromg is that a reference from The Brady Bunch??😂
@exyou-fd7eu bro i bought the dlc 8 months ago
I am surprised and very impressed that anything survived this extinction event
Life really do be findin a way ig
I'm surprised that the asteroid impact actually seemed tame when factoring in how long it took for life to recreate.
If there is a will, there is a way.
@@KaiHung-wv3ulI need more will.
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions."
"Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed."
From 'Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history'
What's additionally so interestingly terrifying to me is how long this went on. Hell on earth, literally, for hundreds of thousands of years. Countless creatures being born and dying in this period, never experiencing anything else different.
@Machoman50ta very nice grandpa, time for bed now
@Machoman50ta If you had graduated from high school then you would understand what a theory is. Do us all a favor and keep to yourself next time.
@Machoman50taBro what
@Machoman50ta You do know that the Big Bang's afterglow can still be seen, right?
Also, Light-years are a measuring unit, it's like not believing in meters
@Machoman50ta Wow a real idiot in the wild. Lookit!
This was the closest Earth has come to becoming like Venus.
*so far.
Yet
Imagine visiting Venus and doing paleo digs and findin Dino bones there lol
@@BikiniBottomBankRobber it isnt impossible no?
@@ragnardunderdase3473 considering Nasa has had a hard time getting equipment to survive long periods on Venus' surface due to the highly acidic atmosphere, it is not possible, no.
Think Hawaii, but on a continental scale. Think Krakatoa, but instead of one volcano, it was fifty going off at once. Think the worse year in human history (536 A.D.), but lasting for thousands of years. Think death valley temperatures in high summer, in the middle of winter at the poles. Toxic clouds, acid rain, nuclear winters, global droughts, and boiling temperatures . . . truly, hell on earth.
That's so metal.
It’s giving the book: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. It was pretty dark
"The worst year in human history" has some serious competition. The 14th, 17th, and 20th centuries saw some absolutely miserable times.
@@BiggieTrismegistus 20th century? im interested, probably world war 2 right?
Yea I read about 536. That was during emperor justinians reign I think
Crazy to realize that somewhere in that hellscape there were our ancestors (quite unrecognizable to their descendents, though) , somehow surviving all that calamity.
Makes me really, really proud for them. They managed to overcome this hell. Thank you, grand-grand-...-grandmothers and grand-grand-...-grandfathers, that you were tough.
Thanks for the great content. Humanity has seen eruptions like that before, the Laki eruption in Iceland. It was only for a year though, so imagine the Laki fires happening for 250k years and you’ll understand how horrifying the peak eruptive activity was during the Siberian Traps.
20% of Iceland's population perished because of Laki, mostly due to famine from failed crops. Just one island of fire and ice in the middle of the North Atlantic. To see that worldwide x4.5 boggles the mind.
10:48 It's crazy seeing how wildly Earths oxygen level variers over time because we need such a narrow range to survive. I wonder how we'd have evolved differently if oxygen levels were different.
Look at the Sherpas In Nepal they can survive with way less oxygen
You are mixing partial pressures with oxygen concentration
Yes we would have.
Poor critters that overheated to death.. I have chickens and live I mid-southern Arizona, I've lost some to overheating and damn near lost some had I not been there to rush them inside and get them under the cold water coming from the tap, in the tub. And it's not like "oh, ok, got em wet so they're fine" no, it was a battle for days afterward to keep them alive as thy were in some sort of recovery coma. But my point is, it was extremely sad. It does not seem a peaceful death whatsoever. So, poor critters that died from overheating. I feel badly for them. And don't worry, I do all I can during the hot summer months for my chickens so they don't overheat and keep a much closer eye now that I've seen what I need to do. Luckily I was already keeping a close eye before, and thats how I was able to save a few when I found them sprawled out and dying, unconscious, hyperventilating, and mere moments from true death. God it was so sad, even when they came back because I felt so badly.. I cried. I cried when my nicest one, Sweetie is her name, when I knew she was going to make it because I was so relieved.. I love my girls...
Poor chickies
We've had to rescue calves from overheating too. It's an ugly thing to deal with - and we've succeeded, the few times it's happened, and they grew up to be healthy adult cattle, but it was very touch-and-go at the time.
G'day from Australia.
Cold water on someone or thing that is overheating can throw them into shock
Why on earth would you continue to keep chickens when you know they can’t survive in the heat where you live?? That seems immensely cruel to me
@@cerdic6305 Humans can't survive in those conditions either. We get through extreme heat waves by building shelter and cooling the insides. OP already said they learned from their hens' suffering and provides them better protection from the heat now.
The real cruelty is that there are millions of humans living in places that lethal heat is becoming the norm - and we not only don't allow those people to move to cooler countries, we also don't use our excess wealth to pay to provide them with the shelter that would make these conditions an inconvenience instead of a death sentence. We have the technology, and we have the wealth largely through exploiting them with unfair trade agreements. But having stolen their wealth, we leave them to die from the consequences of the global warming that we created with that wealth.
It's a miracle anything even survived the extinction events. Life always finds a way.
"Life......finds a way" -Jeff Goldblum
"So I hope that this story told you no matter what happens, nature always finds a way."
To me the craziest thing about the great extinction is how the current biodiversity on earth makes up only 4% of the species that survived.
One could only imagine how different earth would look like if another 4% survived, or how different this planet would look like
Nothing survived.....wait minute
9:09 volcanic eruptions are and have always been devastating to civilization . Mass eruptions like what happened during this extinction would be catastrophic for humanity
This wasn't edited I started reading them saw it became edited so I commented
@@Nektor9-iq20 The feeling of connection 😊
Yellowstone is overdue for another super eruption
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Eruptions frighten me tbh
I’d hope the volcano would erupt right under me so I’d be spared the pain of trying to survive that
what's even more terrifying is that this is the closest for earth to have pretty much a Jupiter level storm, as these hyper hurricanes is almost as powerful as Jupiter's red spot.
important to remember that they are completely hypothetical and a very out of the box idea. there is absolutely no evidence to support them besides the heat
@STAGISTODAYI think the science is growing in confidence, though. The 500 mph wind thing is probably WAY overstated in popular literature.
But the concept itself is simply applying known meteorological models to the highest-confidence proposed early Triassic conditions. At this point, no one has come up with any serious counter to the hypercane model.
I think the less sensational modeling proposes wind speeds comparable to very strong tornadoes observable today.
To be clear, that would still be devastating, as we're talking about tornadic conditions that persist for days and days.
Hypercanes are a "fun" idea to play with, especially as we see strong tropical cyclones occur more commonly. They're my answer to the people who ask, "Why is there no Cat 6 hurricane?"
The proposed theoretical top range of Cat 5 would already be locally unsurvivable and generally disruptive to an extreme.
Any experts still around in the aftermath to a supposed Cat 6, would call it a hypercane.
Ironically, Siberia today is known for how COLD it is.
Yeah if I'm not mistaken, part of the "perfect storm" factor was the fact that Siberia was at the time close to the equator.
Eruptions in the tropics have much greater impact on global atmospheric conditions.
Fun fact. If the Earth's age was a mile long sandy beach, humans time here would be in the form of one grain of sand.
Like tears in the rain...
Reminds me of the ad to save the earth. It said if the earths age was put on the scale of 24 hours, we’d have been here for 3 seconds
@@hyrulehero7834 damn, that's amazing and terrifying at the same time for some reason. The first example was already good, but your example really put me into perspective
Idk about that, humans have been around 200 to 300k years, ears been around four billion years which means the beach would have to be 40000 grains of sand, a grain of sand is 0.06mm to 2mm, but the grains of sand would have to be 0.04mm which is underestimating the length of a grain of sand by a decent amount and that's without including air gaps
@@ju1cyjon3s31Holy midwit answer
Crocodilians: I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah
Feeling like a true survivor
And a large number of birds..
crocodilians didn't exist yet, they appear after the extinction
should have been sharks
*pseudosuchians
I really appreciate this channel for talking about the pre-historic stuff that isn't as prevalent in pop culture, cause this shit's wild
No more trilobites 😢
At least we still have the horseshoe crabs.. they’re kinda trilobite-y :)
Rest easy, trilobites. We'll miss you 🫡❤️
I am fine with trilobites existing only in the distant past and far future, thanks
No more anomalocarises 🫠😑
Two of the greatest lost, trilobite and ammonite 😢
To quote Ian Malcolm.
'You don't understand. We don't have the power to destroy life on Earth. We don't have the power to save it either.
We might have the power to save ourselves.'
Life is going to survive. Whether humanity does is a question which, in my opinion to which the answer is 'no.'
Goated character imo
when we try to "save the earth" we're saving it for ourselves in the same way one might wanna save ones house from burning up cause we dang live here, its counterproductive to value the lives of animals higher than those of humans like some activists believe, but its also incredibly stupid to wantomly destroy this beautiful garden and wealth of life that we were born into, not to mention how incredibly unneighborly it is to throw toxic waste into the public pool and smoke cigarettes indoors
There have been 5 mass extinction events, and life survived them all. I doubt that humans will; we're currently in the middle of destroying ourselves. But life in general will survive. Maybe not in a way that we recognize, but life will go on.
I would be very surprised if we will still be there ten thousand years from now. It’s only a matter of time before a dictator mad enough to push that red button rises to power in one of the nuclear nations.
Of course life will go on but we're pretty much capable of creating another mass extinction
We have since built museums to celebrate the past,
and spend decades studying prehistoric lives.
And if all this has taught us anything, it is this:
no species lasts forever. -Kenneth Branagh
Walking with beasts 2001
"Except water bears. Wtf is up with those little guys?"
ExtinctZoo you are my goat🐐I was looking for something to watch with breakfast and you just posted🔥right on time
My boi about to fire up the hub 😂
Sitting with my favourite stir fry breakfast and big mug of tea haha
@@Introverted100 ?? Not during this month😭🙏
I also watch these videos almost exclusively in the morning. Something about these videos just turns my brain on
This planet was almost forever empty like Mars around this time. Scary.
"I was there, Gandalf. 251.9 million years ago, when the strength of Trilobites failed us."
"The Great Dying" may have been apocalyptic in the most horrifying of senses but that could be the greatest deatmetal band name of all time
im picturing it as an album name for a melodic/symphonic death metal and some of the tracks are inspired by different extinction events, used as metaphors for a plethora of things. "the great dying" is too poetic
It’s too badass not to be used more
There's a song called "Permian: The Great Dying" by the band The Ocean which ties the Permian period to a theme of nihilism. It's actually really good.
@@lordofthegeckos533 I came through this comment section seeing if anyone was going to mention The Ocean. I love that band so much.
@@Crosshill Listen to The Ocean's Phanerozoic 1 and 2. They go over various eras in Earth's history and mention The Great Dying as a part of it.
this actually made me more optimistic because life STILL persists! despite all that! it's marvelous
What about the extinction event that was caused by life creating oxygen?
This must have been really bad as well, even though we would see like nothing of it when time-travelling to this period because it was just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another and the life on earth only existed in the form of microbes.
I'm not sure if this one is put on the list of the big extinction events, maybe because it's really hard to get good numbers for the amount of species that existed back then. Since this was before life started to leave macrofossiles, we can only rely on chemical information which doesn't always tell the full story.
@@Mis7erSeven Except that for the entire rest of the then-biosphere of Earth that _wasn't_ cyanobacteria, it quickly saturated both air and water with basically highly toxic gas. so it wasn't exactly "just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another"
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Weren't the oceans just rust water for millions of years? Plus there were 2 snowball earths.
the oxygen one it's just a speculative extinction event, as there is no geological evidence for extinction what so ever.
It’s crazy to think the atoms that make up my body, were part of animals/plants/environments that existed millions of years ago and will live on in others millions of years from now (hopefully).
One of my favorite quotes from Carl Sagan is: "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." I find it equally interesting and beautiful because on one hand, it would be the damnedest thing to live life with the person who was made from the same stardust as you were, and on the other, its cool as fuck to be made from a star
The oceans boiling tells me there was a single, very small timeframe in earths history where there were millions of perfectly cooked fish in the ocean, all at once.
Big soup
Doesn't add up to me
@@regenbogen_sim sadly the soup was poisoned and irradiated
Very radioctive fish. Could have powered nuclear reactors.
>heat wave
>87 degrees
Imagine dying from a nice day out
The time when life almost died
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions."
"Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed."
- Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history
the time when god almost gave up
Really enjoyed this video. Thank you.
This is why the early Triassic is more dramatic than it seems. This is when life on earth began flourish once again. The survivors on land found themselves in a massive, deserted, empty Pangaea. They evolved, multiply, and filling that emptiness little by little.
Damn, that was a tough week
The Permian is honestly the single coolest period in the history of life on this planet, and I am _tired_ of pretending that it's not.
The Great Dying is proof that the best stories also usually have the best endings.
Why do you say its the coolest period?
Nah. The coolest period in history is from 1815, when the Great Divergence began, to the present. Without it you wouldn't even know the Permian ever happened.
you are a massive dweeb
The Permian is the opposite of cool, its very fucking hot actually
@@jsw973 good one ;)
The poor Gorgonopsids... i only learned about them like a month ago but their head shape was cool af... and poor damned trilobytes...
My dad still has a tub full of the ash from Mount St. Helens. He was a kid when it happened, grabbed a little margarine tub and filled it with ash. We have about 6 cups of it still in that tub to this day. Would be cool to use it somehow as an art piece to remember the big event !
"The day that hell opened wide"
That name works so well for that extinction
was less of a day and more like thousands and thousands (and some more thousands) of years
"That time when hell spilled over the earth" sounds better or "When hell tried terraforming the earth"
you are the reason i still live thank you for entertaining me every saturday i know you put time into these vids and im grateful
Well he definitely didn’t save the trilobites… Not that he could. The poor trilobites deserved better 😢
What a pointless life
*gives virtual hug* Im glad you are here buddy
Honestly an interesting comment. When I watch videos like this I immediately get insane existential dread and regret clicking on them (no offense to the creator of course)
Horseshoe crabs really “Nah, I’d win”-ed the apocalypse
when you learn that there have been 31 extinction events THAT WE KNOW of, it definitely conjures up some existential dread.
We may never know exactly how many due to the lack of evidence.
Tells you something about how fragile this biosphere really is, and how easily it can turn to hell in a handbasket. You'd think that when we know we're walking a knife-edge, people would be less keen to test how far and how fast they can push the system out of balance.
when you learn about some of them they were just as wild as the big five. My favorite is Snowball Earth. When the earth decided shits not cold enough and cranked an ice age to an 11. Ice age on crack... Like the earth basically became an ice planet with what scientist think was just slush at the equator similar to what you would find in the artic. Its even more wild when you find out it happened twice. The earth went ima heat up, sike.
16:34 I love how this graph presents the current rate of extinction compared to previous extinction rates. While not an excuse to avoid change, it shows how unimpactful humanity has been.
It's all so over the top. Not just the extinction events, but the universe in general. So much so that i often wonder if life is actually real. Surely it only appears real whilst being alive? Once dead it never was or will be.
17:50 nooooo not the Cambodians! 😢
Not the therapists 17:43
Imagine all the species that will just never be discovered
for some reason when i saw the title i thought you were congratulating the dinosaur on how well it had died
good job buddy!
Before clicking this video I thought I would get a description of the Dinosaur extinction event, the asteroid. But instead of this, I got a description of absolute, utter hell.
Very good video! Always interesting to hop onto youtube when Extinctzoo have released a new video! Super big fan!
Fantastic video!! I was really intrigued by the brief section on trilobites and how it was such a stable family that was finally killed off by the Permian extinction. I would love to see a video about other “legendary” families that eventually met their fates or are still surviving to this day! Thank you!
ExtinctZoo and The Budget Museum are the only paleontology related channels I can stand to watch.
And maybe Ben G Thomas
Fantastic video on the Great Dying, possibly the best I've seen to date and I've seen many. Unlike most who are into paleontology, I find the P-T event the most fascinating of all the great extinctions, even surpassing my interest in the K-T event. Very good presentation of the various statistics with a clear explanation of the ramifications for life during and following this extinction. One thing regarding the comment at the end: unfortunately, the earth will experience an extinction event that will equal and surpass the Great Dying - the death of our sun as it expands into a red giant, roasting the planet if not entirely engulfing it. Fortunately, that won`t transpire for at least another half billion years...
21:00 to my knowledge "but alas" precedes a bad thing, are you sad life bounced back ?
Was thinking the same thing
doesn’t have to precede a bad thing, although it usually does. it just implies an “and yet” sort of thing
@ Marriam-Webster lists a single definition as “used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern”. The Cambridge Dictionary has two definitions, both starting with “an expression of great sadness or disappointment”. Pretty sure it has to precede a bad thing
Imagine dying in one of the other 30 mass extinction events to not even be listed in a RUclips video about how bad it was millions of years in the future
02:11 approximately 251.9 million years to be exact
bye bye edit audio skull emoji 😭
What about it
This just in: because this clip was posted two months ago, the event in question occurred 251,900,000 years and sixty-one days ago
i remember when dis happened lol.. it was pretty scary bro
15:55 what do you mean problem with pressure as in 3 000 metres elevation? There is no problem at that height for humans. I've been going to mountains often like that.
I think the danger is in the rapid changes in pressure. Especially for creatures who are more adapted to higher amounts of oxygen. Earlier in the video he brought up that many places in higher elevations were likely uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen.
I love this channel, hope it continues on for a long time.
Thought I'd come back before EZ changes the thumbnail for the third time.
Also, at the risk of sounding like a maniac, I do wish there was a caldera somewhere on earth or at least in the Solar System so we can see what that actually looks like...preferably the latter given the effects.
Isn’t crater lake a caldera tho? What do you mean? Maybe I’m confused
@@BikiniBottomBankRobber yellow stone is one of them
Basically, Io?
Easily my favorite video on this channel so far
17:48 Not the Blastoise 😭
Awesome! Well done, I really like your videos, I learn so much even havened studied biology since the 80's! Thanks for your excellent work!
I look forward to when Extinct Zoo covers the Anthropocene mass extinction next 🤩
"Huh, turns out you can move things with highpressured steam."
200yrs later...
We don't need a recap episode.
I watched an excellent documentary from the BBC which had an episode on the Great Dying, and I think they summed it up really well - the Earth seemingly _turned against all living things_ and every physical system on the planet that helps sustain life instead became hell-bent on killing it off.
Does anyone know what the clip at 10:22 is from? I know it’s a documentary on the prehistoric earth but I don’t remember the name, if someone knows I’d love to watch it again for nostalgia purposes, thank you
I think it’s Walking With Monsters, released in 2005?
@ thank you!
@ no problem!
Good job. I enjoyed the video and you narrated well.
The great oxidation event never gets enough recognition…
I may have just found my new favorite channel
Comfort channel of the week
I will never not completely fathom the utter stretch and width..of 500 million years gone. My little human mind lives by centuries, and we can never relate to such ungodly lengths of time like that. It just.. it always blows my mind. We are just a quick little..BLIP.. on the timeline of our planet. It's crazy. It's fascinating.
krezy right
The Great Dying is such a metal name. But it fits for such a terrifying event
A progressive metal band The Ocean has a song titled "Permian: The Great Dying" which is a part of an album that goes over eras around then in Earth's history.
These videos are so goated to go to bed to or fall asleep to. The somewhat deep and calming voice is perfect
I think bill wurtz put it best: “oh f*ck now everything’s dead”
What’s awesome is that I just learnt some of this in the geology course I’m taking. Good to know you’re quite accurate.
Always great to see a new video from y'all!
Keep it up. I'm still binge watching older episodes.😅
I wonder if the extreme radiation led to mutations in populations that allowed for massive speciation to occur in the clades that survived the Permian 😮
So the T-rex's ancestor is just a Lizard with Mega-cancer
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Great video!
I found myself rewinding a lot to make sure I heard things right.
It’s insane to think that lava 3x the size of the Empire State Building was large enough to drown the entirety of the US… how does anything survive that! And the fact that 50k people died in Russia due to heat is hard to grasp. Not saying that it’s impossible because 87 degrees is hot, but I would imagine it would take the temperatures of let’s say Death Valley to kill people off like that. I guess poor infrastructure and a lot of other things played a role in it.
I could easily imagine life completely eradicated at this point in time.
Nah you give humans too much credit. Every nuke could be dropped and it still wouldn't even come close to matching the kt extinction event. It's extremely likely humans would live on in a full blown nuclear war as real life radiation rapidly decays and generally dissapears as quickly as 10 years to a century. Why do you think hiroshima and nagasaki are perfectly habitable locations despite being directly nuked less than a century ago? Before you state modern nukes are even more deadly that's only partly true as they are more explosive.....but they are also less radioactive than the nukes dropped on Japan. I conclusion every nuke could be dropped and it wouldn't even kill off mankind much less other more resilient lifeforms. Humans are not the destroyer of worlds. It's the height of arrogance to think we have somehow achieved this
@@zaingamingtv2242I was referring to the great dying. Life almost completely went extinct then.
Just FYI, when I watch this on my TV it cycles through all the audiotrack throughout the video 😅 Works fine on mobile tho. thank you for covering this topic, it's so fascinating!!
Amazing that graboids survived all of this.
Honestly, I find it more impressive that anything survived at all, rather than all the dying itself.
9:48 that guy got brutalized
Ur voice is so calming
There's a reason why in the OG canon of the Monsterverse, the Great Dying is when the Titan species started to appear. Especially with the rampant amount of radiation which they feed on.
so you saying some monster broke into earth and check out the place but don't know how to get back home? well portals are a thing so this isn't to far off for a backstory for the giant monsters on earth.
@@rickydiscord7671 "og canon of the monsterverse" this isnt a theory dude
@@randomguy8976 was tired as hell and not know what og was at the time.
but the thing is. I wasn't making a theory. because I was ASKING what he was talking about.
"The monsterverse"
Please stop trying to make that a thing.
@CoralCopperHead Unfortunately, it's a thing. It's best to just ride it out until it dies out like The Fast and Furious movies.
The world saw the loss of sea scorpions. So, in other words, a massive W
The thumbnail changes like 70 times 🤣
i had seen two different ones, which made me assume that there where two different channels / videos about the same topic
It's an unfortunate problem because RUclips couldn't care less so changing thumbnails is a small way to counter it.
The great dying and Chicxulub were terrifying but in their own ways. The great dying being a hell you literally couldn't escape, the air getting hotter and filled with gasses that you can't even comprehend, storms raging across entire continents with such extremities that if you so much as stepped foot into it-- it would tear you to shreds. The rain which you so relied upon-- endless-- yet acidic. And this is all you've ever known-- all your ancestors ever knew, and what your descendants will ever know until your kind succumb to the harshness finally.
Chicxulub was sudden and violent, a day that was like any other suddenly erupting into madness and chaos. The glow on the horizon that you happened to see from your perch 5000 miles away, almost looks like the rising sun. But it spells doom, and you'll feel it in the earthquakes that rang the globe-- and before you know it a cloud hot like the sun is racing towards you-- and it's raining fire. It was so normal just hours ago-- and now you're about to be baked alive and there's no where to hide.
I’ve tried an extinction event once,new reminder,never trust a conch shell.
The magic conch ?
Yeah, cone snails are abominations
So you're saying releasing a ton of carbon dioxide all at once is bad?
Sure glad we aren't doing that.
Anything is a buttplug if you’re not a quitter
Rip piggy
“It seems you always lived your life like a Trilobite in the wind…” 😢😢😢
17:48 Pokémon
😭😭
the fact thats the only thing in this video that led you to comment is concerning.
as someone whos never watched this channel. i saw this recommended and thought the title was talking about something happening right now. needless to say I was worried lol
Cool vid
Meanwhile I as a Floridian, scoff and say. "Those are rookie numbers"
Sea scorpions was tragic bro, bc they probably would have evolved to be much smaller today, like a crayfish or lobster. Imagine keeping a sea scorpion in ur aquarium