A Timeline of Life on Earth: 4 Billion Years of History

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  • Опубліковано 8 сер 2017
  • Have you ever wondered how we got here on Earth, and how it all began? From the Archean Eon to the Holocene Epoch, some pretty amazing stuff has happened. Check out this SciShow mini-series hosted by Stefan Chin for a glimpse into prehistoric life on earth, all the way through our advancements today!
    For the full series of life on earth visit: / eons
    Part 1 - Survival is Hard: 0:41
    Part 2 - When Life Exploded: 9:34
    Part 3 - Dinosaur Time!: 19:46
    Part 4 - Rise of the Humans: 28:14
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  • @azfarshaik8058
    @azfarshaik8058 2 роки тому +182

    The fact that we were able to uncover all this information over the last 100 years of our existence is miraculous

    • @lewmaca
      @lewmaca 8 місяців тому +14

      Its not 100% confirmed though, information and “facts” always change with more and more research

    • @BigDaddyDelliott
      @BigDaddyDelliott 4 місяці тому +7

      Imagine what we will learn in the next 50 with the way technology is advancing.

    • @karimecolettadominguez
      @karimecolettadominguez 2 місяці тому +3

      The fact that it happened in the first place is miraculous. Science is so cool.

    • @VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes
      @VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes Місяць тому +1

      Ikr can’t believe I’m alive during this time. Although, I am not my body, I am pure consciousness ❤

    • @nicolebrooks4350
      @nicolebrooks4350 28 днів тому +1

      Cheers for being the only eon that's aware of the other eons. 🎉

  • @paulawolanski3237
    @paulawolanski3237 3 роки тому +1340

    In one episode of the Simpsons, Flanders's pet fish crawls out of the aquarium and starts gulping air. Flanders then pushes it back into the water and goes "oh no you don't!"

    • @flickcentergaming680
      @flickcentergaming680 3 роки тому +104

      I wish I had seen that one! That's probably one of the best one-off jokes that the Simpsons have ever done.

    • @zacdailey7053
      @zacdailey7053 3 роки тому +9

      @@flickcentergaming680 yzzyz do zyzyzyyzyzy zd zyzy

    • @zacdailey7053
      @zacdailey7053 3 роки тому +3

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    • @ir693
      @ir693 3 роки тому +38

      "not on my watch" :'D

    • @BroadcastingCN
      @BroadcastingCN 2 роки тому +2

      @@zacdailey7053 Too Olitica

  • @TheMusicUser
    @TheMusicUser 3 роки тому +755

    "There were probably other factors, but the meteor didn't help."
    Understatement of the era.

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 роки тому +9

      Theres so much Fun and Education,
      some things are even both.
      So let me 'randomly' recommend:
      -Cinema Therapy.
      -Veritasium.
      -Krimson Rogue.
      -Raised by Zombies.
      -Cliffside.

    • @vinnieg6161
      @vinnieg6161 2 роки тому +9

      I love this channel, it makes me learn and I actually enjoy it

    • @DudeWhoSaysDeez
      @DudeWhoSaysDeez 11 місяців тому +1

      Understatement of the eon

  • @JDoe001
    @JDoe001 2 роки тому +34

    “life is easy, but survival is hard”

  • @zhugedai1279
    @zhugedai1279 3 роки тому +207

    This is literally my favorite video on all of UA-cam which sounds like a ridiculous thing to say, but after coming here to watch it or listen to it in the background as I do other things so many times I think its time I said thanks. Something about the balance of its grand encompassing reach, general sense of direction, lack of full diving into overly specific scientific details, and condensed easy to digest nature really hits it home for me. Many episodes or shows delve too deep into details or don't give a good sense of the overall timeline in a way that I can connect with and I think that's what I needed most for a general understanding of the evolution of life and development of our planet. This video ties together all the details I've heard for years and does so in a step-by-step timeline that I can easily explain to someone who asks. Thank you SciShow, for this amazing combo-episode.

    • @joeKisonue
      @joeKisonue 2 роки тому +7

      Same but in 2X speed

    • @timothyj4702
      @timothyj4702 Рік тому +8

      @@joeKisonue Damn. You two must be a lot smarter than me because I had to rewind and stop to google stuff several times before I had even half an understanding of what he was talking about lol. Don’t get me wrong, I loved this video and love this channel overall, but so much information was spewed out over these 36mins that I’ll be surprised if I end up retaining even 10% (probably only 1% if I listened it at 2x) of everything.

    • @coalminer6278
      @coalminer6278 Рік тому +4

      Very well said! I couldn’t agree more!! I too enjoyed the way the video time-lined, and spoke of many things I had learned and heard of over the years!!

    • @ifitzh
      @ifitzh Рік тому +2

      And w do you wanna watch love

    • @juliav.mcclelland2415
      @juliav.mcclelland2415 9 місяців тому +2

      I just discovered it yesterday, and it's now my favorite UA-cam video of all time, too.

  • @romessson
    @romessson 3 роки тому +71

    2:52: "there was no ozone layer"
    me: the sun is a deadly laser

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 3 роки тому +4

      BillWurtz*: the Sun is a deadly laser.

    • @Giganfan2k1
      @Giganfan2k1 2 роки тому +8

      So one of the things we just found out about the Moon.
      It use to be *very* magnetic. Like stronger than Earth is today. It only stopped being magnetic around 100 million years ago.
      The distance past we basically had a double magnetic fields protecting early life for billions of years.

  • @mel0dymak3r
    @mel0dymak3r 3 роки тому +15

    It's wild knowing there are people who believe that humans couldn't possibly affect the climate when life has been changing earth's climate from the very beginning

    • @FreedomAnderson
      @FreedomAnderson 3 роки тому +3

      I know some of those people.

    • @wiggletonthewise2141
      @wiggletonthewise2141 27 днів тому

      Humans have effected the global climate 1 million times faster than any other species ever

  • @clima9726
    @clima9726 4 роки тому +29

    "Life is easy but surviving is hard." Words of wisdom.

    • @skg901
      @skg901 4 роки тому

      Eating is easy....pooping is hard....-- howwwzzzaaat?

  • @michaelhough5003
    @michaelhough5003 Рік тому +20

    The thagamizer was first named in a "far side" comic. Scientists read the newspaper, thought the weapon needed a name, and liked the name so much they made it official. RIP Thag Simmons.

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli 11 місяців тому +2

      I still find that hilarious. I was a fan of paleontology as a kid when that comic came out in calendar form and Dad and I laughed about it. At the time, I never would have guessed it would be officially adopted, but Dad and I were using it jokingly for decades before I ran across something officially calling it that.
      When I was young, they were still putting the spikes vertically on dinosaur toys, and I was the sort of kid who left his toys out on the floor, so as you can imagine, the thagomizer is something Dad feels very passionate about. It's his one-up any time someone mentions stepping on a Lego.

  • @HeyBroRelaxx
    @HeyBroRelaxx 6 років тому +374

    The amount of information we've learned in such a small time frame is awe-inspiring.
    Thinking about the huge leap we made as a species really makes you wonder how things are going to change in the future. How far will we reach?
    It's shameful how people are still killing each other over religious views or disregarding scientific evidence because it conflicts with something they were taught growing up. Times change, and i hope they change some more.

    • @camogrrl
      @camogrrl 4 роки тому +12

      Relax science does not disprove spiritual experience

    • @denissavic500
      @denissavic500 4 роки тому +4

      Relax its 2020 and its seems thats it,it ends here with corona.

    • @BenMelluish
      @BenMelluish 4 роки тому +26

      @@camogrrl It doesn't need to. Spiritual experiences need to be observed in reality, which they're not.

    • @iordannelucas
      @iordannelucas 3 роки тому +4

      @@camogrrl it just reduces it to software running on outdated hardware

    • @fransiscozip1459
      @fransiscozip1459 3 роки тому +1

      Crisper...hacks on the rna side of things are. Forever..evolution is out sophomoric experimentation is in...pass the stem cells...every idiots a frankenstein savant..the gorilla guards run amuck

  • @jasonlake5403
    @jasonlake5403 3 роки тому +103

    I’m comin out of the lake and I’ve been doing just fine, gotta gotta get out because I wanna walk.
    Started out as a fish, how did it end up like this.
    I was only a fish, I was only a fish.

    • @TheBfutgreg
      @TheBfutgreg 3 роки тому +12

      Jealousy, making fish walk out the sea, treading under new blue skies, my rough and scaly skin now dries

    • @otto7969
      @otto7969 3 роки тому +5

      of all the creatures in the sea my favorite is the bass. it climbs up all the rocks and trees and slides down on its hands and knees

    • @john-paulsilke893
      @john-paulsilke893 3 роки тому +6

      Open up my eager eyes, I’m Mr fish eyes.

    • @jesseflores9087
      @jesseflores9087 3 роки тому +4

      Now i’m swimming asleep, and she’s fishing a cab, and he’s grabbing a smoke.

    • @john-paulsilke893
      @john-paulsilke893 3 роки тому +3

      @@jesseflores9087 and he’s taking a drag.

  • @MRptwrench
    @MRptwrench Рік тому +46

    Thanks so much SciShow for not only creating these wonderful videos, but also for making compilations such as this one. It makes it so much easier to watch and share with my grandchild!
    My smirky observation of Hank thoroughly explaining (perhaps doubling down) on the dino to bird connection @ 25:05 : I can't explain how happy it makes me to know that just 5 yrs later the term "non-avian theropod(s)" is now a widely accepted across not only the research oriented demographic and amateur paleontologists but also to the more pedestrian among us (such as myself!) In just my short lifetime I've witnessed our understanding of dinosaurs evolve from tail dragging lumbering beasts, and I'm excited to see how much more my granddaughter's generation will learn.

  • @dimetrodon2250
    @dimetrodon2250 5 років тому +197

    Scientists really missed the chance to call the oxygenation event “Extinction O”. I mean, the double meaning is right there. It was a mass extinction event that took place before the conventional “Big 5” (Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, and K-T) hence the O as in zero, and O also happens to be the symbol for the element responsible for the extinction.

    • @willhaney96
      @willhaney96 4 роки тому +5

      not all science is in english.

    • @markrounseville6998
      @markrounseville6998 4 роки тому +11

      @@willhaney96 A lot of it is in Latin

    • @mansanraps
      @mansanraps 4 роки тому +6

      The big O

    • @Psyckonautic
      @Psyckonautic 4 роки тому +12

      @@willhaney96 yeah but periodic table symbols are universal and most of the earth uses Arabic numerals so the connection works in just about every country

    • @willhaney96
      @willhaney96 4 роки тому +1

      @@Psyckonautic 7 8 9 is funny in english, not in other languages though.

  • @johntuel2375
    @johntuel2375 3 роки тому +10

    The Thagomizer name for the spiky end of a stegosaurus tail is from the comic strip The Far Side. The joke is some cavemen are discussing what to name the end of the tail. It turns out because their colleague Thag was recently killed by one, so they named it the Thagomizer.
    It actually really had no name until an archiologist saw the cartoon and made it official in real life.

  • @beanfant_jesus
    @beanfant_jesus 3 роки тому +31

    Michael : It changed the course of evolution for every species that encountered it. I'm talking about of course....
    Me : We all know where this is going.
    Michael : grass
    Me : ........ I think I may have jumped the gun here.

    • @bethoney96
      @bethoney96 3 роки тому

      Why was this so funny to me lmfaooo

    • @scipio109
      @scipio109 2 роки тому

      Same😂

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 роки тому

      @@scipio109 Theres so much Fun and Education,
      some things are even both.
      So let me 'randomly' recommend:
      -Cinema Therapy.
      -Veritasium.
      -Krimson Rogue.
      -Raised by Zombies.
      -Cliffside.

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 роки тому

      @@scipio109 Embrace the Randomness of my Comment!!

  • @Catman2123
    @Catman2123 3 роки тому +123

    I imagine that a lot of aliens don’t have endosymbiotic cells so when they try and do genetic analysis of eukaryotic life on earth they’ll be really confused when they find two separate genomes in every cell.

    • @vinnieg6161
      @vinnieg6161 2 роки тому

      lay of the movies, most probable ''aliens'' are bacteria living on a planet we'll never see or meet

    • @joeKisonue
      @joeKisonue 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah it will really mess the up

    • @widetoad9255
      @widetoad9255 2 роки тому

      Which will inevitably pique their curiosity and lead to centuries of anal probing

    • @iambetterthanyouseriously9811
      @iambetterthanyouseriously9811 Рік тому +1

      It it could have it would have but it didnt

    • @liquidlar
      @liquidlar Рік тому +8

      We dont really know that. Its possible endosymbiotic cells tend to be the ones that become complex and eventually intelligent live.

  • @Patrick_The_Pure
    @Patrick_The_Pure 5 років тому +226

    34:35 The ice is supposed to return eventually.
    Mankind: Hold my beer.

    • @DarkParagon
      @DarkParagon 4 роки тому +12

      What if global warming is actually a human attempt to subvert the next 'ice age', so that we'll be comfortably warm? O_O

    • @CloudsGirl7
      @CloudsGirl7 4 роки тому +9

      @@DarkParagon
      More like the return of the Hadean... "Hell-Earth"... 🔥🌎🔥
      I'd rather take a Snowball, thanks.

    • @michaelmagnimedia3331
      @michaelmagnimedia3331 4 роки тому +1

      @@DarkParagon yeah if we didnt drown ourself with polar ice water maybe....i mean global temperature is rising not decreasing i think we should focus on that problem first

    • @cameronmarler6223
      @cameronmarler6223 3 роки тому +8

      @Honudes Gai This is false, ice ages are caused by the axial tilt of earth leveling out.

    • @reasonsvoice8554
      @reasonsvoice8554 2 роки тому

      @@cameronmarler6223 and we are on our passage into a new change in the stars seasons are probably going to be flipped
      I love how humans think they are so special they can affect things
      Nature will wipe us off this planet without missing a heartbeat
      You are a spec that is less than nothing just a small collection of cells and energy

  • @be2Gee
    @be2Gee 5 років тому +518

    Wife: Honey, what time is it?
    Me: The Anthropocene
    Wife: What???

    • @earlefrost5512
      @earlefrost5512 5 років тому +14

      lol good one!! That said, i think your response would best apply to the question "What era is it"... Time is normally referring to discreet units, rather than semi-arbutrary time-frames.

    • @raebaconowo9910
      @raebaconowo9910 5 років тому +6

      No, he’s correctEarle Frost

    • @raebaconowo9910
      @raebaconowo9910 5 років тому +19

      Earle Frost r/iamverysmart

    • @Bluudclaat
      @Bluudclaat 4 роки тому +23

      We’ve crossed into the Toiletpaperassic

    • @jessicaevans7847
      @jessicaevans7847 4 роки тому +1

      Curiosity Stream candidate?

  • @paulmcdonald7535
    @paulmcdonald7535 Рік тому +11

    I haven't finished watching this episode yet, but I gotta say that the writing and delivery in this one are incredibly great, and funny!

  • @boreduser1583
    @boreduser1583 6 місяців тому +2

    The “Thag o miser” was coined by Gary Larson in his Far Side comic! So classsic!!

  • @melikepamuk4368
    @melikepamuk4368 6 років тому +492

    my brain: You should go to bed it's 2 am
    also my brain: oh new video yey

  •  6 років тому +236

    Take a shot each time Stefan blinks.
    You won't get drunk.

    • @Pbalix
      @Pbalix 6 років тому +8

      Tímea Tarjányi - you are very observant and funny 👀😆

    • @ExquisiteRainImports
      @ExquisiteRainImports 6 років тому +15

      You know, I think they're all robots

    • @krshna77
      @krshna77 3 роки тому +3

      @Timea -- sitting through 36 minutes of condensed earth history, and leaving with knowledge about how much some guy blinks, in relation of course to the booze you're dreaming of... Glad I'll never meet you.

    • @gregoryolenovich6440
      @gregoryolenovich6440 3 роки тому +17

      @@krshna77 she left with knowledge of history & knowledge of how often he blinks. The two are not mutually exclusive. With no grasp on humor, your life must be horribly boring.

    • @jacobcottom265
      @jacobcottom265 3 роки тому +7

      @@krshna77 Wow, you must be real fun at parties. You can be intelligent and funny, you know. Though I doubt you're capable of either

  • @ComboBreakerHD
    @ComboBreakerHD 3 роки тому +17

    Hank: ..and if you were one of those kids who had a Dimetrodon in one of your coloring books
    Me **ohh yeah I remember those!**
    Hank: ..I'm about to ruin your world.

  • @brandonkrebbs
    @brandonkrebbs 4 роки тому +27

    I'm no slouch in science but this topic is tricky and kinda inconclusive. I'm extremely grateful that you guys made this video. It lays out an amazing foundation for independent research. Thank you! 😊

  • @tomkenney5365
    @tomkenney5365 5 років тому +104

    "Thagomizer" comes from Gary Larson's "The Far Side." It's named after the late Thag Simmons.

    • @HutcH68
      @HutcH68 3 роки тому +13

      And the name was made official.

    • @jenniferleehughes7437
      @jenniferleehughes7437 3 роки тому +4

      Too, there exists the GaryLarsoni- entomologist named an owls- I forget which one in particular, I believe but could be wrong, The North American barn owl- louses mite. So nice to know there are creatures that can make life just a wee bit miserable for creatures known to bring us, and the poor owl, discomfort and itchiness, not to mention a quick note home from school faster than you can say “COVID”

    • @meyerrosen2398
      @meyerrosen2398 3 роки тому +1

      The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

    • @elihyland4781
      @elihyland4781 3 роки тому +2

      That fact is fckng fuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!

    • @david2869
      @david2869 3 роки тому +2

      @@jenniferleehughes7437 The louse that you are talking about is in the genus Strigiphilus

  • @brinkyinohio
    @brinkyinohio 6 років тому +46

    Oh god. It's like getting a clip show just before the series finale.

  • @jimchallender4616
    @jimchallender4616 Рік тому +4

    SciShow and Eons should be made available to schools. This video is the best "History Of Life On Earth" presentation I've seen. Additional documentation in the hands of students, i.e. Time Line Charts etc would help students absorb and link the many Ages Of Earth presented in half an hour. I could watch this video a hundred times and still not grasp all of the "History of Life On Earth.

  • @catatonicbug7522
    @catatonicbug7522 Рік тому +4

    I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like to present just the information in this video to my elementary school teachers trying to teach us about prehistoric life. The amount of stuff here that was unknown/not taught even 40 years ago is huge!

  • @coldspade1590
    @coldspade1590 6 років тому +1266

    What if there are anaerobic life forms that saw earth and thought “huh. Nothing could survive with that much oxygen.”

    • @Ian.langford823
      @Ian.langford823 5 років тому +145

      This deserves more likes. I think the issue though is that anaerobic life doesn't have efficient enough energy production to support advanced intelligence. Although I guess we don't know enough to just assume that about all anaerobic life.

    • @YellowToomNook
      @YellowToomNook 5 років тому +47

      But planets with tons of oxygen need a constant supply of new O2; it scapes the atmosphere easily. Therefore, something unusual must be producing it (like us, Alien life!)

    • @lordgarion514
      @lordgarion514 5 років тому +5

      @@jeffpalmer9326
      They could do with no oxygen, or you could do with them having no oxygen? (If you know what I mean)

    • @lordgarion514
      @lordgarion514 5 років тому +35

      @@YellowToomNook
      Oxygen really doesn't escape. It's just too heavy and needs too much energy to get its velocity up high enough.

    • @justinbent5848
      @justinbent5848 5 років тому +8

      I think that's the premise of a scifi story by Bradbury actually

  • @hapshan
    @hapshan 6 років тому +523

    "Life is easy, but survival is hard" true that

    • @stephentrueman4843
      @stephentrueman4843 4 роки тому +12

      we make it more difficult for each other

    • @revolver265
      @revolver265 4 роки тому +5

      Yeah. It applies to us too... people make babies every night, but "making it" in life is rather difficult.

    • @dirtyweapons3459
      @dirtyweapons3459 4 роки тому +4

      People don't think it be like that but sometimes it really do be like that

    • @michaelmagnimedia3331
      @michaelmagnimedia3331 4 роки тому +2

      And thats why theres people died of starvation....

    • @ThePecanpie13
      @ThePecanpie13 4 роки тому +3

      And then imagine thriving on top of surviving

  • @megan5867
    @megan5867 Рік тому +10

    I've never had anyone break it down like this before. Absolutely fascinating and way better than anything you'll get in most American schools.

    • @KenyaCaples
      @KenyaCaples Рік тому +1

      As I replied before it so very interesting and informative with truth documented very educational.

  • @LittleTreeBlue
    @LittleTreeBlue 3 роки тому +43

    So good! I’d been wanting a show to untangle the different ages so that I could figure out when things were. I love when lots of different pieces all get laid out and connected - like filling in a map!

  • @TimiSterr
    @TimiSterr 6 років тому +158

    My biology teacher at school did not except evolution. And although she taught it to us cause she had to, we also had to listen to her comments that "yeah, for me that seems impossible", "it is strange, but that's what the book says".
    so sad :(

    • @ahm6006
      @ahm6006 5 років тому +28

      Timi Sterr You should report her.

    • @UltimateInnerSpirit
      @UltimateInnerSpirit 5 років тому +4

      In fairness, a lot of what evolution produces is strange...I know that’s not what meant tho ;P

    • @SwilyStaff
      @SwilyStaff 5 років тому +6

      @@UltimateInnerSpirit The monotremes....

    • @frankytoad12
      @frankytoad12 5 років тому +27

      Should've asked her why she was teaching something she didn't agree with... no one forced her to stay at that job. lol

    • @greenkhmer4043
      @greenkhmer4043 5 років тому +19

      Timi Sterr I get so mad when I hear stories like this. Seems to me that the teacher is a cowardly imposter. He/she accepts to make a proffesional life of teaching kids what he/she believe to be false - what a loser. Non-religious people are often competent to teach religious philosophy - too bad it seems to seldom be the other way around. I would've wished a better quality education for you, but luckily you seem to have turned out fine :)

  • @demonking86420
    @demonking86420 4 роки тому +86

    Tired of living at the bottom of the ocean?
    *NOW YOU CAN EAT SUNLIGHT*

  • @austinnerd2343
    @austinnerd2343 Рік тому +5

    Despite being 36 minutes long I would definitely still classify this as "brief"

  • @smallestcharles
    @smallestcharles 3 роки тому +4

    Came for the axolotl, stayed because I still really wanted to see the axolotl

  • @BionicleFreek99
    @BionicleFreek99 6 років тому +452

    *IT'S THE- CAMBRIAN- EX-PLO-SION!*

  • @b.c.9358
    @b.c.9358 6 років тому +420

    The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

    • @wilholloway2924
      @wilholloway2924 5 років тому +11

      But did you spend a lesson on current event, or just study the old American west?

    • @alexbedel6320
      @alexbedel6320 5 років тому +8

      @@wilholloway2924 ?

    • @BABerg11
      @BABerg11 5 років тому +3

      @@safir2241 Must not have been a good rap. That, or it is just that irrelevant to the topic at hand (mitochondria).

    • @markrounseville6998
      @markrounseville6998 4 роки тому +2

      @@BABerg11 It deals with Respiration, so, very important.

    • @ronwillis3167
      @ronwillis3167 3 роки тому +1

      To complicated to have come into being without a creator

  • @varphotography
    @varphotography Рік тому +7

    It is just so crazy to consider how remarkable the history of life on our planet rolls on. It shows how much life had to adapt and go through so many hoops to get us to where we are. Absolutely incredible !!

  • @samanthabailey02
    @samanthabailey02 3 роки тому +6

    In all of the crazy stuff society is going through, hearing plain old science is calming.
    "I love this show!"
    ~G.E.R.

  • @jotarodripjo4449
    @jotarodripjo4449 6 років тому +369

    Weather update...
    It's raining

    • @sciblastofficial9833
      @sciblastofficial9833 5 років тому +19

      Munch, munch, delicious crunch
      that's land

    • @sciblastofficial9833
      @sciblastofficial9833 5 років тому +26

      something's alive in the ocean

    • @arjunasokan2661
      @arjunasokan2661 5 років тому +5

      It blithering started raining as soon as I clicked on this comment. Like wtf

    • @cybernite99
      @cybernite99 5 років тому +26

      THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER

    • @zegamingcuber857
      @zegamingcuber857 4 роки тому +6

      Weather update...
      It's still raining space rocks

  • @grimeto7323
    @grimeto7323 6 років тому +74

    People rarely think that all the species we know about during these ancient times barely reach 1% of the actual number of species that evolved during this time. All the information we get is from fossils and they only form under specific conditions, not to mention all the fossils that were destroyed by numerous reason over time ... Makes you wonder what horrific/amazing things roamed our Earth and we will never find out about it .

    • @Justwantahover
      @Justwantahover 5 років тому +4

      And creationists seem to think we have found all the fossils to be found and therefore there "should" be no holes in the fossil record.

    • @legionreaver
      @legionreaver 4 роки тому +3

      @@Justwantahover and global warming alarmists seem to think that if all the polar ice caps melt away we'll all die even though dinosaurs and most of the planets life did just fine without them for most of the time that large land animals have existed.

    • @Justwantahover
      @Justwantahover 4 роки тому +4

      @@legionreaver We won't die but a lot of species will. Do you think the ice caps are melting as fast as the scientists claim?

    • @legionreaver
      @legionreaver 4 роки тому +2

      @@Justwantahover I don't really care to be honest. Climate changes, species go extinct and life recovers. It's how it works. There are bigger problems to worry about. Like getting to mars or hardening the power grid against failure from solar events.
      If we were serious about worrying about climate change then we should be going to war and killing everyone in the third world as they are the ones likely to cause the most pollution as they industrialize and modernize their societies. They are a massive threat to the global climate if they are allowed to continue to clear land for agriculture.

    • @Justwantahover
      @Justwantahover 4 роки тому +3

      @@legionreaver You avoided the question by saying that you don't care. If you don't care about whether climate change is happening or not, then why are you having this conversation? You must care about something. So it's more important to go to Mars than doing something about climate change? All I want is your opinion on whether the ice caps are really melting as fast as they say. If your opinion is "yes they are" than why are you not worried that we may be in trouble? And why not try to do something about it instead of wasting our money on a one way ticket to Mars? Send all the flat earthers there and they can form the "Flat Mars Society".

  • @mauriciomalaver4003
    @mauriciomalaver4003 4 роки тому +17

    I am so glad that i live in era when we can see how our ancestors looked like. I mean even if we don't know all facts it is still very good. Because generations before us didn't have this pleasure. Every one of us can work with our imagination to complete the dots. Even that in the future people will probably learn a lot more, our generation is starter with giving all those pictures for everyone to see. Human brain interacts with this informations in the way that we imagine ourselfs near all those animals and plants through history and we can give our gratitude for every one of them for our big brain and evolution. Someone finaly can appreciate their lifes and lots of them who are extint now are not forgotten. They live in us!!

    • @matttube9369
      @matttube9369 3 роки тому +1

      Yes!!!!! Fascinating

    • @swmguest2906
      @swmguest2906 2 роки тому

      @MauricioMalaver exactly !! I totally agree

  • @amezification
    @amezification Рік тому +3

    have watched these episodes many times, enjoy them every time I watch them. :D

  • @jazzfusionsoul
    @jazzfusionsoul 6 років тому +27

    This has to be by far the most epic presentation you guys have ever made, Thank you so much Sci show, enjoyed through and through.

    • @juancano5110
      @juancano5110 3 роки тому

      yuayardy

    • @KenyaCaples
      @KenyaCaples Рік тому

      I agree that it was a very awesome presentation. It was very interesting and very informative. Just imagine all of it's true to the life in the past and documented.

  • @two-face1041
    @two-face1041 6 років тому +83

    30:17 oh you mean huma...grass ok sure

    • @demonking86420
      @demonking86420 4 роки тому +1

      Wheat and rice are related to grass soooo

    • @darth856
      @darth856 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah, they got me with that one too lol

    • @caseyhansen4467
      @caseyhansen4467 3 роки тому +1

      That’s exactly what I thought he was going to say too 😂

  • @blazetownsend8785
    @blazetownsend8785 Рік тому +3

    That was an amazing presentation for the History of Life on Earth. Great job!

  • @mehrdadhasanpour2866
    @mehrdadhasanpour2866 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks guys, I was looking for something summarized. :) Keep on the great job.

  • @cometdude6789
    @cometdude6789 6 років тому +692

    Longer and more complex version of "history of the entire world, i guess" by bill wurtz

    • @lasagnamafia
      @lasagnamafia 6 років тому +24

      It's actually "History of the entire world I guess"

    • @cometdude6789
      @cometdude6789 6 років тому +6

      you right

    • @PistonAvatarGuy
      @PistonAvatarGuy 6 років тому +36

      That focused more on human insanity.... er, I mean, human society.

    • @fernandotrevinocastro1018
      @fernandotrevinocastro1018 6 років тому +17

      HOW did this HAPPEN??

    • @Jimmy-lv8su
      @Jimmy-lv8su 6 років тому +2

      Alex is Unstable It's actually 'history of the entire world, i guess'

  • @lasagnamafia
    @lasagnamafia 6 років тому +408

    *THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER*

    • @vivalastatic
      @vivalastatic 6 років тому +5

      Alex Is Unstable ban light particles

    • @life42theuniverse
      @life42theuniverse 6 років тому +7

      laser
      noun
      1.
      a device that generates an intense beam of coherent monochromatic light
      I'm sorry but the sunlight isn't coherent or monochromatic :\...

    • @dyland5277
      @dyland5277 6 років тому +4

      *NOOO*

    • @kirksnyder2698
      @kirksnyder2698 6 років тому +1

      Yes

    • @kirksnyder2698
      @kirksnyder2698 6 років тому +2

      Alex Is Unstable reference goes too hard

  • @julieortega4461
    @julieortega4461 4 роки тому +4

    This was AWESOME!! Thank y'all so much for making this video. Great job everyone!!! 😁🥰

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 3 роки тому +1

      I can't do it. I'm a nerd but this is like nerds on speed.

  • @tanya.borealis
    @tanya.borealis 4 місяці тому +1

    Wow! To fit Earth's history into 40 minutes!!! This is the best concise summary of geology! This should be shown in schools/universities.

  • @The_Vanished
    @The_Vanished 6 років тому +80

    my favorite quote: "sand is less than amazing for your teeth"

    • @chefgiovanni
      @chefgiovanni 3 роки тому +1

      I prefer "Coconut Pie" Our Chefs are sharing a recipe : ua-cam.com/video/c7NziJv7iw4/v-deo.html

  • @josephdillard9907
    @josephdillard9907 6 років тому +40

    I can understand all the people comparing this to Bill Wurtz's awesome video (I did too at first) but its actually not at all the same, this video is about a completely different topic altogether

    • @genericalias5756
      @genericalias5756 6 років тому +7

      Joseph Dillard there just using it as a joke

    • @demonking86420
      @demonking86420 4 роки тому +3

      Here's an asteroid--
      *and the dinosaurs are gone*

  • @simonj1971
    @simonj1971 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you. This is the best video ice ever seen. You simplified a very complicated piece of info....and earned a permanent subscriber here! :)

  • @amandaramos3652
    @amandaramos3652 2 роки тому +2

    This is incredible. Me and my kids could watch your videos all day!

  • @sonoraorchard6153
    @sonoraorchard6153 4 роки тому +4

    This was an awesome video! Thank you for your research and all the work that went into this series!

  • @GingerGingie
    @GingerGingie 6 років тому +20

    This is absolutely fantastic! What an amazing show! Thank you so much for making this; just a joy to watch and totally fascinating. Well done, this show takes the cake! Wow!

  • @naomipatrao
    @naomipatrao 2 роки тому +1

    WHAT A GREAT VIDEO!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 SciShow has some of THE BEST programming. 😍😍😍😍

  • @anonanon-fm3dv
    @anonanon-fm3dv 3 роки тому +4

    I laughed out loud when you said to jump in the Tardis and go to Archaen Earth. Way to go with the reference!
    Now Silurian reference! Someone in your writing staff is a Whovian and I love it!

  • @theextraterrestrialsscienc7122
    @theextraterrestrialsscienc7122 6 років тому +11

    The Anthropocene epoch started in 1950 CE. So yeah, if you're older than 67, or 68 ish, you're actually born on the previous epoch of geological history.

    • @ckpn4771
      @ckpn4771 3 роки тому +2

      @CL Melonshark nice

  • @mitchellpeterson8644
    @mitchellpeterson8644 5 років тому +15

    11:54 "....another Celtic tribe which started 443 million years ago ..." Completely out of context but that is what I heard while listening and doing something else at the same time

    • @prollymunna
      @prollymunna 3 роки тому

      That is one ancient tribe! Those are the humans you see fighting dinosaurs in B movies.
      It’s ironic for a show so focused on explaining really complex systems to make boo-boos like that. A good editor would’ve caught it.

    • @Hiznogood
      @Hiznogood 2 роки тому

      “named from a another Celtic tribe” - so nothing to see here, move along, please!

  • @venkataponnaganti
    @venkataponnaganti Рік тому +1

    A wonderful talk, lucid and easy to understand such a complex and inclusive topic,Thanks.

  • @djschultz1970
    @djschultz1970 4 роки тому

    Excellent episode! Its two years old now and you have learned so much and researched so much. I would compliment newer episodes but I have not had time to watch them all yet, I need 1 more week! I swear.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 3 роки тому

      'Systematic Classification of Life'
      ua-cam.com/play/PLXJ4dsU0oGMLnubJLPuw0dzD0AvAHAotW.html
      'The Whole History of the Earth and Life'
      ua-cam.com/video/NQ4CUw9RcuA/v-deo.html

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion 6 років тому +471

    The history of life is written in the language of genetics. Unfortunately, many nuances of this story are lost in... translation.

  • @glifosfato
    @glifosfato 6 років тому +160

    hi. you're on a rock floating in space. pretty cool, huh?

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 6 років тому +7

      F**k it actually most of it’s water. I can’t get from here to there without buying a boat.

    • @thecomprehensionhub4612
      @thecomprehensionhub4612 5 років тому +11

      If you zoom out far enough, we're on a flake of dust floating with other flakes of dust in a giant intergalactic dust storm.

    • @mariapaiz2971
      @mariapaiz2971 4 роки тому +6

      *weather update*
      It’s raining

    • @TheRealFlenuan
      @TheRealFlenuan 4 роки тому +1

      It's not floating; it's falling around the sun

    • @nanaAnn96
      @nanaAnn96 3 роки тому +1

      I wish I didn't read this after i smoked 😭😭 mind BLOWN

  • @Phrenotopia
    @Phrenotopia 4 роки тому +1

    Top notch content as always! This is one of the best educational channels on UA-cam.

  • @ruppedogg
    @ruppedogg 3 роки тому

    Succinct yet astonishing. Thank you for the superb video/compilation. Works like these are tools to help the species; let's keep it going everyone!

  • @jimbrewer498
    @jimbrewer498 3 роки тому +12

    Dinosaurs also laid eggs millions of years before chickens evolved.

  • @timlentz5399
    @timlentz5399 5 років тому +4

    Hey guys I love you show. I've been watching it since 2009. What I would really like to know is why some people have a better work ethic than others

  • @studiosandi
    @studiosandi 2 роки тому

    Thank you for taking the time to make such an interesting video.

  • @esrefcelikcelik8789
    @esrefcelikcelik8789 Рік тому +2

    Millions of cosmic accidents and miracles of billions of years. And here we are.
    A good story before the sleep.

  • @ujustgotpwned2008
    @ujustgotpwned2008 5 років тому +66

    This is like watching the first series of a great show but knowing that the main character who turns up at the end is going to ruin it for everyone.

    • @krshna77
      @krshna77 3 роки тому +3

      looks like the show is gonna get cancelled, the whole cast is turning to dust piece by piece because of the mad pseudoscientist on drugs

    • @lilianflower3017
      @lilianflower3017 3 роки тому

      Better chance we live at least couple millions years. They said 200,000
      So far for us. It’s about surviving the changes
      Next Bigfoot age!!!

  • @TheCooldudenike
    @TheCooldudenike 6 років тому +326

    I swear I saw grass in the Land Before time....

    • @oldspicedood
      @oldspicedood 5 років тому +28

      TheCooldudenike This video didn't exist when the land before time was made, so there is no way they could have known lol

    • @Xenotaris
      @Xenotaris 5 років тому +60

      You do know that Land Before Time had dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals from different time periods all living together right? Little Foot (Apatosaurus - Late Jurassic), Cera (Triceratops - Late Cretaceous), Ducky (Saurolophus - Late Cretaceous), Petrie (Pteranodon - Late Cretaceous) , Spike (Stegosaurus - Late Jurassic), Chomper (Tyrannosaurus - Late Cretaceous), and Ruby (Oviraptor - Late Cretaceous). Original Sharptooth, Chomper's Parents, and most of the Sharptooths (Tyrannosaurus - Late Creatceous) other Sharptooths (Allosaurus - Late Jurassic. Giganotosaurus - Early Cretaceous. Baryonyx - Early Cretaceous. Spinosaurus - Early Cretaceous. Deinonychus - Early Cretaceous) Underwater sharptooth (Mosasaurus - Late Cretaceous and Lipleurodon - Late Jurassic) and that Sailed Back Reptile in the first movie (Dimetrodon - Middle Permian). So Grass being Land Before Time is just continuing the misplaced wildlife trope.

    • @demonking86420
      @demonking86420 4 роки тому +23

      @@Xenotaris wait they had a Dimetrodon in it? Dimetrodon. A synapsid. A sphenaconodont. More related to us than chicken.

    • @Xenotaris
      @Xenotaris 4 роки тому +14

      @@demonking86420 Yes very briefly, although inaccurately depicted with a fork tongue and behaving extremely lizard-like but it was in the first movie

    • @demonking86420
      @demonking86420 4 роки тому +3

      @@Xenotaris oh no

  • @fossillife8372
    @fossillife8372 4 роки тому

    Very well done and very informative. Thank you for this video!

  • @brainstormingsharing1309
    @brainstormingsharing1309 3 роки тому +1

    Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @rchuso
    @rchuso 6 років тому +9

    13:25 reference to Doctor Who #3 (Pertwee) of the original series.
    24:57 reference to Gary Larson's Thagomizer.

    • @michaelturano3296
      @michaelturano3296 6 років тому +5

      Rand Huso The scientists actually got the name thagomizer directly from a far side comic

    • @trevorwilliams6362
      @trevorwilliams6362 4 роки тому

      Thank you so damn much! I thought Hank or I had a stroke for a second there

    • @chubbiMommi
      @chubbiMommi 3 роки тому

      Haha omg! That is so awesome!

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 2 роки тому +10

    I think I knew most of this coming into the video, but it is cool to have everything laid out clearly. The tree of life has been pruned by mass extinctions, allowing such an amazing variety of life forms to have their day. I think of all the animal groups shown the one I'm most curious about now is the pseudosuchians.

  • @shashidharshettar3846
    @shashidharshettar3846 3 роки тому

    Thank you Soooo Much for extensive information in such short time.

  • @whatdoiput807
    @whatdoiput807 2 роки тому +1

    I really wish videos like these were around when I was a kid. Discovery and history channels have nothing on channels like this when it comes to easily digestible and relevant information.

  • @juniormynos9457
    @juniormynos9457 4 роки тому +26

    Cyanobacteria: I completely changed the atmosphere, wiped out most life forms and turned the earth to a snowball
    Humans: Hold my beer

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 3 роки тому +5

      Plants: Haha cyanobacteria go brrrrr

    • @sumreensultana1860
      @sumreensultana1860 3 роки тому +2

      HUMANS :- ahh well I ma Do something bad

  • @brandonnicholaschance5111
    @brandonnicholaschance5111 3 роки тому +8

    It's so refreshing to see positive, insightful, or pleasant comments.. You guys are awesome, keep it up!
    Go Science!!

  • @tahirkamrankhan
    @tahirkamrankhan Рік тому +1

    Awesome - will watch again and again

  • @IanForsythWestCoast
    @IanForsythWestCoast Рік тому

    Terrific video, guys..... most impressive and informative.

  • @dianeridley9804
    @dianeridley9804 4 роки тому +7

    This discussion is infinitely more exciting than the "notion" of intelligent design

    • @ronwillis3167
      @ronwillis3167 3 роки тому

      Trouble is they dont have a clue how the billions of extreamly complicated strands of DNA couldn't have accidently formed without a grand intelligent designer... as famous scientist have said it would be much easier for a tornado plowing through a junkyard to create a fully functioning 747 jumbo jet then for life to have begun by accident ... go figure.

    • @39401JLB
      @39401JLB 3 роки тому

      @@ronwillis3167 LOL! If by 'respected scientist' you mean someone espousing crank views well outside their field of expertise, be my guest. When it comes to biology, I will trust the biologists more than any astronomer. But hey, lets get to your silly claim:
      www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CF/CF002_1.html
      Essentially, the demand that all of a modern cell form spontaneously, complete in every detail, in a single instantaneous event is ridiculous -- and it is the central claim behind the religious 'special creation' and all of its' disguises. Evolution works incrementally, as anyone who Actually Watched The Video would understand; variations arise, and some of those variations survive better in the environment they are in. Those variants usually leave more offspring; less successful variants leave fewer (or no) offspring. Over time even small variations add up to big changes.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 3 роки тому

      'Systematic Classification of Life'
      ua-cam.com/play/PLXJ4dsU0oGMLnubJLPuw0dzD0AvAHAotW.html
      'The Whole History of the Earth and Life'
      ua-cam.com/video/NQ4CUw9RcuA/v-deo.html

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 3 роки тому

      @@ronwillis3167
      Why does each and every child born have about 80 genetic mutations different from their parents?
      Put it together, you can do it.

    • @Tornadopelt
      @Tornadopelt 3 роки тому

      @@ronwillis3167 "it would be much easier for a tornado plowing through a junkyard"
      _You raaaaaang?_
      "...to create a fully functioning 747 jumbo jet then for life to have begun by accident"
      ...well, I can't make a jumbo jet after tearing through a junkyard, but I can turn a rusted-out Delorean into an 88-mile-an-hour time machine...

  • @blueckaym
    @blueckaym 5 років тому +8

    It's surprisingly easy to kick the bucket when you haven't even evolved legs yet

  • @laratheplanespotter
    @laratheplanespotter Рік тому

    My top favourite video on all of UA-cam! Thank you!

  • @throckmortensnivel2850
    @throckmortensnivel2850 Місяць тому

    Excellent! Filled with knowledge and easy to understand.

  • @mamdouhhajaj
    @mamdouhhajaj 5 років тому +7

    Great video guys, or videos. But when you talk about the endosymbiosis (minute 8:16) "one cell ate but didn't digest" another cell, there is a question... how could that cell self-replicate? regarding how did the development of internal new acquired organelles (mitochondria) get their own mitosis during cellular division.. or how did the new organelle get sequenced in the DNA of the cell so all new descendents will have mitochondrias? i know its a hard question, is there any info about it?

  • @johnkiljan7441
    @johnkiljan7441 6 років тому +3

    I've read it in books before, but it was really nice to see this video. I can't help but wonder what the next 40,000 years or so will bring. Thanks!

    • @marcperez2598
      @marcperez2598 5 років тому +1

      The 40k years... pfft easy. The Imperium of Mankind conquers and then slowly falls.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 3 роки тому

      3 words:
      "Anthropocene Extinction Event"

    • @injunsun
      @injunsun 2 роки тому

      I want the Star Trek bright future, but even the original series predicted a WWIII, where we almost wipe ourselves out. With greed, mass psychological manipulation via religion and politics, and the anti-Science, anti-education throngs, it will be bumpy for at least the next couple hundred years.

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking78 3 роки тому +1

    So good, I just watched the whole thing for a second time

  • @Kell_M
    @Kell_M 3 роки тому +1

    Awsome video guys, great work ..!!

  • @joshuastreet8664
    @joshuastreet8664 5 років тому +6

    It's the *CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION*
    (wow, that's animals and stuff)

  • @thomasstegelmann5708
    @thomasstegelmann5708 3 роки тому +4

    You guys are so awesome.
    I have learned so much.
    I just wish you could talk a little slower and have a few more graphics so I can anchor the information.
    Please keep up the fantastic work that you do, it is so important that we know who we are.
    Multiple thumbs up!

    • @joeKisonue
      @joeKisonue 2 роки тому +1

      You can change playback speed with the gear icon

  • @MintBG
    @MintBG 4 роки тому

    One of my favourite videous.... I've watched it like a hundred times already

  • @marqessanzcora4089
    @marqessanzcora4089 4 роки тому

    Love it, guys . Thanks !

  • @noahwail2444
    @noahwail2444 Рік тому +12

    Well done. The name Thagomizer (at 24.46) origins from the cartoonist Gary Larson, who coined the name in a cartoon showing the late Simon Thago getting ended.. It was later taken up by people working in the area of these animals, and stuck.

    • @tomlord5398
      @tomlord5398 Рік тому +2

      Ahem, Thag Simmons.

    • @NavigatorMother
      @NavigatorMother Рік тому +1

      I so remember Gary Larsons- his cows and his dogs going to work in their bus wearing their ties; and the two deer standing there chatting, one with a target on his chest... and the other one saying, "Bummer of a birthmark, Carl."
      So those genuine and brilliant science nerds took a name from a genuine, brilliant comedy writer/cartoonist's work to create an actual name for an actual brilliant creature from our deep past- kinda incorporating all that together. My head is whelming out of control. That's wonderful!

  • @jeagerpoelse
    @jeagerpoelse 6 років тому +1675

    you can make a religion out of this

    • @savethebees72
      @savethebees72 6 років тому +145

      jeagerpoelse no, don't

    • @ziploxian8516
      @ziploxian8516 6 років тому +138

      It's called science, science is fact, religion is not, science cannot be religion. Simple.

    • @savethebees72
      @savethebees72 6 років тому +158

      ziploxian Aslanyan LMAO THAT WAS A REFERENCE TO A DIFFERENT VIDEO THAT WENT VIRAL😂😂😂😂 nothing actually about religion... your ignorance is hilarious

    • @cousinchaos896
      @cousinchaos896 6 років тому +1

      jeagerpoelse yes

    • @illuminasianyt7541
      @illuminasianyt7541 6 років тому +118

      ziploxian Aslanyan The sun is a deadly Laassser

  • @blorac9869
    @blorac9869 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you very much, I've enjoyed your original video!

  • @lorez6063
    @lorez6063 4 роки тому

    Such an awesome video. Thank you.