The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2021
- The Wrangel Island mammoths would end up being the final survivors of a once-widespread genus. In their final years, after having thrived in many parts of the world for millions of years, the very last mammoths that ever lived experienced what’s known as a mutational meltdown.
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Crazy to think that mammoths managed to hold on till recorded history. Shame they didn’t make it to today however.
If they did survive to modernity, the'd probably die out in like 16th or 17th century when Russian explorers would find them and eat them. Just like the dodo.
(except the russians part)
Maybe a Pliestocene Park could be viable in the future
@@gaetano_kojj dodo wasn’t really eaten a lot. they weren’t nutritious at all, had little meat and tasted terribly. the reason they went extinct is cause of pigs whom the humans brought over as an invasive species. dodo lost all survival skills since they had no predator and couldn’t fly so all their eggs was exposed and on the ground
Human beings hunted mammoths. Can you imagine going out to take one down? Our ancestors we're down to survive!😄
@@gaetano_kojj I went down a wikipedia rabbit hole. Apparently the island was discovered in the mid-17th century, but most of the real exploration of the island (ie landing and not just passing by it) was done by Americans in the mid-1800s. We actually claimed it like half a century before Russia did (they only claimed the island in 1916, a year before their revolution). Obviously the presence of mammoths might've changed everything, but by the mid-1800s natural sciences may have been developed enough for a conservation effort.
I have never met them, but I sure miss them.
I think that fairly often
How I feel about my foreskin
@@GamingGamer22 my dad
Right??… strange
@@GamingGamer22 a world where scat/puke porn doesn't, and will never exist
I don't know if Mammoths were "smart" enough to feel existential dread, but can you imagine looking around and being aware that you're most certainly the last mammoth? That last individual's life must've been awful.
Given they apparently had some serious developmental defects, and that we know whales who have mutations that put them outside the range of other whales hearing them or at least acknowledging them, continously search for companionship....
The poor mammoth probably spent what time they didn't spend trying to eat, trying to find more mammoths.
It was comfortable in it's familiar surroundings and fulfilled it's task until it was 'time'.
Reminds me of the movie Ice Age 2 where Manny thinks he is is the only mammoth left on earth. That scene was depressing (although he finds other mammoths in the movie).
@@Zeder95 😢
It was definitely smart enough to feel any kinds of emotions, really. Elephants are among the smartest animals alive today, and are very capable of feeling emotions as complex as ours. And Mammoths must’ve been no exception. Poor thing, that last one must’ve been
Genetic drift is probably the strongest evidence against most cryptids. If a lake is supposed to accomodate a creature of a certain size and biology such as a plesiosaur, the minimum population must be 500 as stated in the video. Given the lack of observations, the frequency in which these creatures are spotted and much less recorded does not corroborate a sustainable, breeding population of extant prehistoric animals in these finite lake habitats.
Not a believer in cryptids but I've never seen a more compelling argument against them like this.
I keep telling people this, but they look at me like I have two heads. Good luck using facts and logic, some people just want to believe.
This sounds like something the Jersey Devil would say to throw people off his trail. Nice try!
Thats where inter-dimensional beings come into play
@@sgtstr3am785 This is a good one. But one of my favorite for things like big foot, is the fact we have no hard evidence it exists. No good video, no bodies found, no remains, no poop, nothing liek that. But even the giant squid, which lived in the deep sea, and was no where near where humans are, we had evidence of before we caught it on tape. Not to mention, we caught it on tape, clearly and undeniable. Somethign that hasn't happened with big foot. But that was in the ocean, a much larger area and with far less cameras in it for far less time. Meanwhiel Bigfoot has carmeras recording his supposed terria almost non stop, and at the vast majority of it. If we coudl find the squid, not not him?
It blows my mind mammoths were around just 4 thousand years ago. It also is staggering humans had a campsite there just a hundred or so years later. Insane!
Well, humans lived among mamoths for most of human existence so that does not really surprise me.
It makes me wonder what those people were hoping to see in that place. They had to row their boats for a hundred or so KM into the unknown. Not to mention its a isolated and hostile area to begin with. 4000 yrs ago that seemed like a scary endeavor.
Even weirder is the fact that the first civilisations have fallen into history before the end of mammoths.
Wasn't the last non homo sapiens human died in the Indian Ocean around the same time? Homo erectus or something, imagine if people met them, the minds blown by seeing something that is human but not human at the same time
Siberians 3800 years ago: Dammit, we JUST missed them!
The last poor beasties hapsburged themselves out of existence.
Lol
You have won the conversation in this chat, dear sir or madam.
The mammoths didn't make themself extinct. This is an interesting and clever figure of speech (possibly a neologisms or a synecdoche) but it doesn't really apply. Wrangle Island mammoths didn't chose isolation. They were isolated by nature. Once that occurred they had no option but to live as they could they didn't chose to mate with genetic relatives. Hapsburgs had real choice. There's a diffdrence.
They must have had massive chins
They all have the same long face.
When Kurzgesagt mentioned that when the pyramids were being built there were still mammoths on the Earth, I imagined herds of them sweeping majestically over the Steppes... didn't really think of a tiny, declining island population up in the arctic.
Oh so that's where I heard this information prior to watching this video
I was wondering that I heard it somewhere before
lmao. I heard about Wrangel island before and it came to mind when they mentioned that.
If it makes you feel better, some archeological and geological evidence suggests the Egyptian Sphinx might have been 20000 years old, and there are about 20-30 megalithic sites around Europe and the Near East including the likes of Stonehenge there are around 10000 years old. Mammoths and other famous fauna from the Last Glacial Maximum (ground sloths, saber-toothed cats, and Mastodons) certainly would have been around on the mainland 10-20 KYA.
Who the hell is Kurazigzagazogebobsaget ??
Translucent fur would have appeared white, like polar bears. That mammoth was white.
I was thinking that! White Mammoths is a cool idea I don't think I've ever seen depicted in art!
White mammoths!!! Amazing!!!
That would be epic to see.
Maybe the Targaryens would've had a similar mutation
Woah, tantalizing!
Time plays tricks on the mind. The Egyptians and mammoths at once always boggled me. And dodos too, which always seems to me to be prehistoric. Yet it’s a matter of centuries.
Lol.You mean 'ancient' Egyptians right? Hope they don't end up like the dodo or mammoths
@@macmcskullface1004 Similarly, Emmett Till was born just over a year before Joe Biden. They would have been 1 grade apart had they gone to the same school.
@@macmcskullface1004 I've got another example. It blew my mind when I saw a photo of a group of samurai visiting the pyramids. Iirc, they visited several countries, but just the combination of samurai existing at the same time as cameras, and taking a photo in front of the pyramids, broke my brain.
*B O G G L E ?*
Yeah did you know trex more closed in time with human than with stegosaurus
Time is funny. Stegosaurus was further back in time from T-Rex than T-Rex is to us. Cleopatra lived closer to us in time than to the people who built the pyramids. Homo Erectus used fire to cook at least a million years ago. Homo Sapiens was around 300,000 years ago. In fact, just 30,000 years ago at least a dozen different types of homonids were alive.
Yeah, but a dozen hominid species 30,000 years ago isnt just human species, it includes the rest of the great apes. Theres only evidence of 4 human species 30,000 years ago, so far anyhow.
Time goes fast until you are born, then it slows down dramatically
We like to think of time periods as occuring at specific, seperate blocks of time, but really they all flow in between in eachother, in different places at the same time, with few clear boundaries. Honestly the only time period change that I can think of that really completely changed everything in a short time was the K2 extinction.
Vary bizarre
It’s likely that our last remaining cousin species would have been lumped into Homo sapiens sapiens had they survived into modern times. All extant humans are considered the same species, not just because we can and do interbreed, but also because if any group was considered a different species or even sub species, some humans would compare them to each other and assign value to them just like some people do with race, which isn’t even as real as people think it is, and then use that as an excuse to mistreat the ones they consider lesser.
I think humans also just like to sort other organisms that are capable of interbreeding but don’t because of geographical isolation into different species.
Cheetahs were in a similar boat 10k year ago when they almost went extinct. They believe all modern Cheetahs evolved from about 100 ancestors from then. Fortunately they had enough room to expand their population and survive.
So they managed to cheetah'n extinction
@@vaimantobe3034 pa dam bishoom
Apparently it was due to various climatic changes & migrating out of North America. That last one doesn't surprise me, cheetahs are closely related to cougars.
@@i.m.evilhomer5084 While the cheetahs closest relative is the cougar, it seems the american cheetahs were even closer related to cougars and evolved their cheetah qualities separately from old world cheetahs. The oldest cheetah fossils in africa, europe, and china are l million years old, far older than the genetic bottle neck and enough time erase one. So the current cheetah diversity is probably more from barely surviving mass extinction of the younger dryas period. If i remember correctly jaguars originated in europe before migrating to the americas and they don't show as much bottlenecking as the cheetah.
Sadly, they're still lacking in genetic diversity, which makes them extra vulnerable to disease. The genetic bottleneck they find themselves in now means that one major disease outbreak could be the end of them. Even if some survived, they'd likely suffer a similar fate as the Wrangel mammoths.
small, silky and smooth shinny mammoth who cannot smell flowers, living on a remote windy island, last of its breed. what a character
Was the Wrangel Mammoth a sub species?
I always wondered about their full story....
That "mammoths were still alive on island when the great pyramid was built" was the reason
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Lol they as old as 12500 years old
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This may not get mentioned often, but your addition of the title, authors and DOI of the studies you're referencing should be standard of EVERY video citing science, I wish the media would start doing this, or even be required to.
Keep up the good work.
Guarantee that if you read the actual studies the scientists that wrote them don’t push their theories as facts like this guy does. But hell, at least he cited the work I guess.
@@williambrandondavis6897 sorry mate but your assessment is kind of ignorant, opinion is mostly irrelevant in a published article, frankly if your putting your opinion in any publication you're look to be ridiculed, but scientists love pushing their ideas. Also using the term "theory" in the context of science is a collection of facts. You don't push your theory, a theory is established and you do your science understanding that the theory is what is real.
It makes me so sad that they no longer live. PLEASE protect the wild elephants that we still have today.
I'm fertile enough to repopulate the whole species
Indeed, also the African forest elephants needs dire protection and conservation, and there aren’t any captive breeding populations of the African forest elephant species, there needs to be in case the wild population is severely threatened or when things are looking bleak which unfortunately it’s becoming a bigger problem do to poaching in the west and central African rainforest’s it’s easier for the poachers to hunt and evade being spotted. Rewilding African forest elephant, as well as the other elephant species would help the species and the other elephant species a lot. Also they could use crispr gene editing and copy the genome of a mammoth into an existing Asian elephant and you would get an Asian elephant that looks pretty much identical to a mammoth.
@@jointcerulean3350 I know about the theoretical possibility of using crispr to essentially "pseudo-clone" mammoths, or elephants that resemble mammoths back into existence. But we don't even adequately protect the elephants we have NOW. And elephants are such incredible animals. Perhaps I'd be more enthusiastic about the idea of reviving mammoths, if we actually WERE better about the protection and conservation of elephants.
We did it boys, elephant hunting is no more
@anonyarena Right, I completely understand what your saying and agree that our current species must be conserved first.
Island dwarfism/gigantism: when the mammoths shrink & the bunnies grow, & pretty soon you have to squint to tell them apart at distance...
"It's a really big bunny!"
It gets really interesting when the rabbit gets big enough to grow tusks and run 80 miles an hour.
Fosters Rule
until the bunnies evolve into a megaherbivore known as the Big Chungus
Was the Wrangel Mammoth a sub species?
I appreciate that you mentioned Siberian Yupik people; not many people realize how many different ethnic groups are in Russia.
… not even the Russians themselves.
Yeah. In Alaska there’s an older Yupik group that moved in earlier and a Yupik group that’s more connected to those in Russia.
And Russians went East all the way to the end of Siberia. They weren’t great to the native Siberian people.
@@grioulaloula8594 at that russians and americans are very similar
@@grioulaloula8594 Until the Soviets came to power the Russian occupation was far better than most other Europeans up until Peter the Great they weren't even taxed. The Orthodox church was also less aggressive with their conversion methods.
Meanwhile, one knocked up animal hitches a ride on a raft of flotsam, lands on an island, and starts an entire lineage leading to dozens of species.
the cinch on the doom of the mammoths on that island was the fact that it was limited in resources AND mammoths where huge. Are you talking about the finches of Galapagos? Because they could fly to other islands if push came to shove and they had enough habitats to diversify
What's that? Primate? Cat? Rat? What? Lot of them...
Elephants are actually great swimmers. Guess they're kinda floaty.
@@KlavierMenn I think hes talking about african civets in madagascar, probably
@@deplorablecovfefe9489
They have a great snorkel.
Decades ago my moms uncle found a tusk from a Mammoth in an area in southern Minnesota which is now a park. He had it for sale for $10,000 for years and he never sold it before he passed away. His son gave it to a museum. I saw it in 1994 inside a tube. It’s texture was like a drying bar of soap with layers of flakes. It was very straight.
Perhaps it was a mastodon tusk? Their tusks are typically straighter than a mammoth’s.
Marrying "commoners" saved European monarchs from this fate.
Well some of them. The Romanovs and Habsburgs were already dealing with harmful birth defects and medical conditions
Just look at English royalty
Hey, look on the bright side! If you have Hemophilia you're probably related to royalty
@@slithra227 That doesn't make up for it. 🤣🤣Any cut could potentially kill you.
@Mark Hepworth They were closely related to those nobles too.
There's a sad, depressing movie in here just waiting to be written. The kind of thing where you need to binge baby laughter and kitten videos to remember what happiness feels like.
The final sequel to " ice age" in which everybody goes extinct.
@@furthereast6775 Ice Age: Mutational Meltdown
Pft this is child's play try watching mexican cartel executions.
Ice Age was basically like this. Manny was the only mammoth left, or so he thought :)!
@@furthereast6775 kinda like Dinosaur TV show
So mammoths instead of going the way of the dodo, the went the way of the Lannisters.
I'm just fine.
Or Targaryens
crushed by a collapsing castle?
@@justinkautz7733 Or by an infectious dragon scratch.
Terrible Writing?
The very first thing I thought of when you started talking about small isolated population was "Oh crap, the cheetahs, what about THEM"
I am glad that there is still some small chance that we might be able to save at least a few of the species whose numbers we've decimated. I feel like we kind of owe it to them.
It’s so crazy to think only 4000 years ago there were still some mammoths as the Pyramids were being built! I love these videos so much!
@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω Have a thought of you own? Lol.
Time is relative, and in terms of the age of the planet(billions of years old), and in terms of how long life has been on Earth(hundreds of millions of years), 4,000 years ago is a relative blink of any eye.
Hell...50,000 years ago, when the much of the world was full of mammoths, other megafauna, and archaic human species/ancestors...is a relative blink of an eye in terms of geologic time.
@JEFF MAYNE I didn't see it, did you?
But the age of the Earth can be measured through carbon dating, and other methods. And geologic process like plate tectonics(continental drift), mountain building/mountain erosion, etc, etc, etc...take MILLIONS of years to achieve, and are still going on to this day.
And yes life... the earliest forms of life on this planet, bacteria and algae, have existed on this planet for at least 1 billion years. This can be dated as well.
And we(people today) may have not seen mammoths, but not too long ago, the people living on the planet did. This is evidenced by mammoth remains actually found along with people, and evidence that people hunted them. People also painted them and made shelters of their remains. This can all be proved by hard evidence. Isn't archeology, paleontology, DNA, radio carbon dating, etc, etc, etc... great?
And you may have not seen a crime committed, but that doesn't mean it wasn't committed. There is thing called evidence, traces, and clues that are left behind. These things often lead to what happened, and who did it.
You'd made a poor detective, and a poor scientist.
They probably helped build the pyramids.
The pyramids were already 500 years old when Mammoth went extinct .
*Island connected by land bridges*
MammothBeast6000: LAST TO DIE IN THE ISLAND KEEPS IT
Last mammoth to die with the biggest tusks wins!
😂
A great truth.
what about mammothlegend27
xXxTUNDRAFAN69xXx: hey where's everybody
It's well known that the name of the very last mammoth was Steve.
"Slightly Cannibalistic Steve"
No one respects the 2nd to last mammoth Kevin. Kevin did some great things, better than Steve anyway.😒
@@williamsurname4669 Kevin was a whiner who always wanted things his way And he was always complaining about his dating life, or lack thereof. It's no wonder Steve invited him to go for a short walk with him along the cliffs that one foggy morning.
Well guys that scrpit is sure worth a movie
@@MacacoKuiko By Pixar, right? Or is that too obvious?
Only partially related to the mammoths on Wrangel Island but the game Syberia was a great point-and-click series that talks about them, and has the island as a location goal.
0:19 Damn, this guy is also a mammoth where it counts. :)
Very packed!
I'm looking for this comment 😂
Why did they do that to him lol
Mutational Meltdown sounds like the sequel to Film of the Year 1993, Body Melt, and my God do I wish it was real.
Ice Age: Mutational Meltdown sounds like a good title!
Mutational Meltdown sounds like a great name for a band or a song.
Metal Band name 😎👍
Oh man, I haven’t thought about Body Melt since probably not long after 1993 when it was always prominently featured at the front of the horror section at the video store. Never saw it, but now I really want to. Nice reminder, and good call👍
Sound like a Cattle Decapitation album
Our cities and roads are currently causing this kind of extinction by cutting entire populations off from each other. For example, highways in California are fragmenting the mountain lion gene pool. It's crazy to think of a world without them.
Just look what happened to the cougars on the East Coast. They were contained in Florida & with no new gene flow, the Florida panthers became majorly inbred. Kittens were being born with odd proportions & deformities, while adult males had Cryptorchidism (missing testes). Conservationists had to introduce unrelated cougars from Texas to help the population avoid a inbreeding depression & a potential population crash.
@JEFF MAYNE Because native apex predators like cougars have a place in the ecosystem. They reduce prey numbers to make sure they don't overpopulate. Watch "How Wolves Change Rivers" on RUclips if you want the basics on a another apex predator that was removed from an ecosystem & how it impacted everything.
Mountain lions will be just fine. There's more now than ever and since the youngest have never had a reason to fear man, there are now many more opportunities to have up close and personal interactions with the western hemisphere's most widespread mammal. Very nearly top to bottom.
@@i.m.evilhomer5084 is there any reason why these can happen?? Does us human might also suffer from that?
Not only did mammoths survive up until the construction of the pyramids, but elephant birds were alive on Madagascar in the 11th century and Moas and giant eagles lived in New Zealand until the mid 15th century. There were also likely small ground sloths in the Caribbean until the early middle ages.
*This guy has big balls, I can tell.*
My first thought after I read the title: pygmy mommoth because of insular dwarfism. Anyway, I am so excited. Eons makes me so happy 😭😭😭.
Omg throwback to that episode
My fave episode!
Interestingly enough, the woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island were smaller than those of the mainland, but they were not small enough to be considered "island dwarfs". We've seen how tiny elephants & mammoths could get on islands, these mammoths were still pretty big. Though like many island elephants, they may have been "island tame", which could've led to their downfall had any predators got onto the island.
Omg me too
That was the best episode that I've seen in a while. Great job!
Yeah I really liked this one and did a better job at explaining possible questions that are brought up as you watch. I'm not saying they never do that. All of their episodes are good I enjoy watching them all but this one was particularly good I think.
Is it wrong for me to still miss Steve being mentioned in the end credits? I hope Steve is doing well!
I miss him, too.
I still say his name out loud every time "...and STEVE"
@@vivimaze I do the same but maybe not at loud. Though I think it loud enough XD
who’s Steve?
@@michaelz5633 He was one of the Eontologists for absolutely ages. The lack of a surname made it a little bit of a laugh as all the hosts would just say "and STEVE" - I guess if you overemphasise the first name, it makes up for there not being a second?
The extinction of mammoths give me a special kind of sorrow. I read somewhere a lot of emotions are obscurely named and are difficult to define. Feels like they kind of still belong and would have a special place, but they are gone forever.
Those mammoths wrangled with extinction for a long time
Yeah in fact there's a theory that they could have successfully managed to adapt to their life conditions on the long term. Low genetic diversity made the population vulnerable, that's totally true.
But it's also true that we don't know very well all the mechanics behind the apparition of new, radically divergent species of animals in isolated environments. Maybe the genetic meltdown is also a way that life has to find new solutions very fast. A lot of the observed mutations could be observed that way: getting rid of useless genetical material, trying to randomly find new ways of adaptation. Maybe on the long term, they would have grown much more slowly, become much smaller, with slower metabolism, allowing the island to sustain a bigger population. Of course we'll never know and it's pure speculation. It's also a fact that they went extinct - however scientists found traces of a very sudden extinction that might have been related to water poisoning. So they might not even have died of inbreeding, but simply of being a too small population to survive one disastrous event.
I wish PBS Eons mentioned the last works on the topic because it's actually not that clear that low genetic diversity always lead to extinctions on its own. Low genetic diversity might sometimes lead to fast, hyper-adaptation to hard environment, which creates population that are really vulnerable to change. But they may still survive the genetic meltdown bottleneck... maybe like the Homo florensiensis did...
@@Ezullof interesting take on the subject
…XD
I saw what you did there, the like was earned
Islands? Mammoths? Sign me up. I'll go sacrifice myself for their survival.
Petition for human sacrifices to bring mammoths back.
I'd also sacrifice you to bring the mammoths back
@@jacobhoover1654 I thank myself for my sacrifice 🖖
You're a few thousand years too late.
every time this channel uploads im excited to watch. thanks for always providing awesome educational content to enjoy! the passion of the people involved here is evident. much love! ❤️❤️❤️
"I don't get paid enough to..." I felt this man right there.
It's amazing to see you guys giving respect to the indigenous communities ❤
Love seeing my PI cited in this show! A crazy coincidence! Excited to work on some of these ancestral protein reconstructions myself!
Do you have a Twitter account to keep tabs on this?
So was the Wrangel Mammoth a sub species?
Wow that’s incredible, thank you for contributing to this major discovery!
Dude’s been hitting the gym
As always Eons! thank you for this quality
Hey Eons. Just so you know, the thumbnail says "Surving" instead of "Surviving".
Looks like it has been fixed!
yup, it's been fixed!
you just got surved
@@gg3675 "You just got served."
Kek
Mammoths manage major mutational mystery
Now I'm upset thinking about how sad and lonely the last Mammoth on the island was 😭😭😭😭😭
Now imagine the factory farms you get your meat from
@@maillardsbearcat shut up. Mammoths and Elephants have been observed to show loneliness and human emotions. Cows and chickens can't do that
@@bcharan6481 Lol
@@bcharan6481 Nope. Watch a few dozen mixed pet videos-people with not only house pets and horses, but chickens, ducks, cows, goats, rabbits etc. Hell, there are movies and videos about animals keeping each other for pets/friends. Mostly for affection and to keep loneliness at bay. That's as human as it gets...Or was that "warmblooded"?
@@amandawilcox9638 ok then.
Thank you PBS for these extremely informative videos that I love to watch and learn while high as heck!
watching this I couldn't help thinking of amur leopards. their population size is so small that incest is the rule and not the exception, even though there is a breeding program for captively held leopards.
True. Thankfully, the North Chinese leopard of Northern China & Korea is now considered a population of Amur leopards. They were formerly consider a distinct subspecies, but it turns out they only separated in the 20th century by humans. This allows more genetic diversity for the subspecies in breeding programs & a larger reintroduction range.
The most shocking thing in this video is when he said that sea otters were his favorite out of a group that also included cheetahs and gorillas
They're so adorable tho! (BdeP)
@@eons And brutal monsters! lol
To be fair, sea otters are like the bumblebee of weasels. Who can resist that face? It's a natural plushie.
I love Joey ❤️ 🦦
very@@eons
Thank you so much for sharing this piece of beautiful history.
Thank you for the acknowledgment at the end. Thank you so much
Every day is a good day when a new Eons video gets posted :)
The Eons made me happy today. I love you so much, Eons. Thank u 😍😭❤
Glad to see new episodes! You guys rock!
First time visiting this channel...I'm glad I found it...the information was relayed so clearly and concisely👏👏 love it!!
I didn't understand mammoths lived until so comparatively recently. Very interesting and well done, PBS Eons!
Thank you! That was HIGHLY informative. I've been fascinated by mammoths since I was a boy. Please keep up the good work!
This is foocking interesting, I thank you people for this upload! I've known about the Wrangel island's mammoth population for years but presenting this information in a such way was intriguing.
It’s so weird to think that Mammoths were still alive while the Giza Necropolis was being built! History is so fun!
Thank you PBS Eons for this amazing free content. I wear my PBS Eons shirt once a week. I love you guys.
I hope Steve is living a happy healthy life 💖
I miss the "... And STEEEEEEVE."
Who Steve
I hope Steve is okay too!
@@alienmemesakeiakeksk5972 Steve was an Eontologist
Great as always 🙌🙌. Thank you 🙏
I love RUclips videos like these, puts a smile to my face and I get to keep learning after years out of school
Always a good morning when I get to learn about mammoths hahaha hello from new Zealand, keep up the amazing content.
Who are the people giving this video a thumbs down? You cant choose to not like facts. Facts are facts your feelings be damned.
I know right
I remember doing a case study for my genomics class about this topic a few years ago. So glad to see this video uploaded.
I'm so glad I subscribed to your Channel.
Thank you for all of the amazing videos.
Much respect from Katrinka in the San Francisco Bay Area
Hey, I really like that end message, it's a good addition and something I like being aware of
MY Man Packing
Please share.
Yeah, I think we figured out where the last mammoth is hiding
You guys have definitely stepped up your production game, great work!!
Dude you are awesome!!
Amazing episode to learn more about mammoths and I'm so thrilled having learned that the siberian yupik people and the island of Wrangel were probably the inspiration for a wonderful video game which I recommend to all of you called Syberia.
Was the Wrangel Mammoth a sub species?
Man, PBS EONS is the new "Bill Nye the Science Guy"
Finally! An episode on the Wrangel mammoths! I've been waiting for this! Thanks, Eons!
Please do more about Pleistocene megafauna. I know there’s already a lot but ITS MY FAVORITE! I always feel joy when I see that you’ve uploaded a new video.
You are an excellent narrator. I always hope for you to be narrating when I see a new video.
*Pyramids and mammoths combined is truly mind blowing.*
Great Video thanks Zak
Another great video from you guys :)
SO happy you finally did a Wrangel Island mammoths episode!! This is one of my favorite ecological sagas ever. How I wish the mammoths had held on just a little bit longer...
Let's give our respect to our boy Manny.
Hello Brittany Venti
The pfp says it all
Great stuff. Thanks
What a good episode, what a good channel
After an episode on the Mammoths of the Channel Islands and this one, hope I'll see at least another video on the other small proboscidians which became smaller such as the various elephants/mammoths from Mediterranean Islands like Malta, Crete ecc
Love your videos, keep doing what your doing
@@glennjpanting2081 thanks; if you hadn't done it, I would have. 😄😉
Lol, are we referring to?
I am envious of anyone who got to work on this truly fascinating study.
Thanks, very interesting stuff
Islands are such interesting places
I love the acknowledgement of indigenous land :) very appreciated ! And great video!
Great stuff!
Lessons for the future!. That´s what science is all about. Awesome chapter. It astonished me that in an 150 x 125 km artic island a whole species could stand for a while in the fight for living a little while. Hope that we can study much more. My best regards!.
Once again, what made a group of animals last longer than what they would have otherwise also is the cause of their downfall. Tragedy at its finest.
Oh, the irony.
Eons is hands down the best content of its kind online. Thanks for the hard work guys. If you could just make episodes 2 hrs long please 🙏 😂 big fan from the 🇬🇧
Amazing video!
This was a sad video for me but also a happy one because I could imagine this last band of mammoths Taking their last stand. All they they were and all that there was, lived and died on wrangle Island.
I live in Santa Barbara and we had Pygmy mammoths on our Channel Islands!!! Amazing!!♥️Wish they were still there!😉🤗🌸
Mutational meltdown kinda sticks a fork in all the folktales about how all the people in the world or in a specific group were born from one couple or a handful of nuclear families.
That's funny when Eons had a video describing the first two humans we're all related to
@@mariacuevas8331 Those two humans (or hominins, to be more accurate, as this was a long, long time before Homo Sapiens was on the scene) lived hundreds of thousands of years apart though. They weren't a breeding couple. They're just the earliest known matrilineal and patrinileal DNA fragments that we can nail down. It's fairly reasonable to assume that at the time there were already thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of hominin individuals around.
How so?
Videos like this are simplified so that they can address one topic at a time. Species growth and mutation are a lot more complicated than this. The group our genetic branch came from was still pretty small
Amazing episode, i always found mammoth fascinating.
Thank you.