The Bear-Sized Beaver That Couldn’t Build A Dam
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It’s important to us that you understand how big this beaver was. Just like modern beavers, it was semiaquatic -- it lived both on the land and in the water. The difference is that today’s beavers do a pretty special thing - one that the giant beaver probably didn’t, or couldn’t, do.
Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations:
Julio Lacerda (including the thumbnail for this video!): / juliotheartist
Ceri Thomas: nixillustration.com
Fabrizio de Rossi: / artoffabricious
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Im going to lose my mind when the evolution of Grass video is made lol
@Barely Fishing damn you spoilers always ruining the fun of new episodes 😂
@Barely Fishing
And corn is 100% "man-made".
Sounds about as interesting as watching grass grow -- or evolve.
(Just kidding; sounds good!)
@@lordgarion514 Not quite. Wild corn exist but it doesn’t look like corn we know.
@@KhanMann66
No, we started with teosinte grass, but we made it into corn.
And in fact, corn would literally cease to exist without us planting it.
Almost as big as Eon Dad's biceps!
Though if they keep growing at this rate, that may change.
They're evolving.
What do you think his diet is like to get those muscles? Keto? South Beach?
...Paleo?
@@Bacteriophagebs Hah! Puns. :D
Gotta make those gains to stay the dominant species.
PBS Eons: This animal is like it's modern day counterpart, but big.
Us: 👁️👄👁️ no way
PBS Eons: Way
PBS Eons: This animal is like it's modern day counterpart, but big.
Us: Dam...
@@20quid Take your dam like, you deserve it!
Impressed by the fitness gains. Respect
If you check his videos 2 to 3 yrs ago he was already been pretty fit even back then. He just wears more form fitting clothes lately.
He needs those muscles to cart around all those giant animal bones.
Yeah I'm a bodybuilder I noticed that too. Good for him
It seems he's been cutting recently.
Fitness gains in middle-aged men totally mean, "I'm divorced and back on the market."
Blake: "Castoroides were about the size of a small Black Bear--or three-quarters of a me!" *FLEXES*
*Cue Gaston music*
Blake is becoming Muscle Hank?
@@WilliamAndrea when did this begin? Old mate is swole.
Would love to see episodes about the evolution of placentas and one about the evolution of grass. I know both of these have been suggested before, just adding my support.
There is an episode on placentas. It’s titled “how the egg came first” and it covers the evolution of birth from amniotic egg to placental births. You can find it here: ua-cam.com/video/c_CCmae8Wrc/v-deo.html
There`s already been videos on grass. Check out the ones on flora and you`ll find it eventually
This video talks about it a good bit
ua-cam.com/video/XXzFO1kEBfY/v-deo.html
I've had the fortune to see a wetland I grew up near be transformed by beaver. It truly is amazing the positive impact they have on other flora and fauna, water quality and flow control. The stream that runs from the dam used to run high in spring, and dry up in summer. Now it has, give or take, pretty much the same flow rate year round.
STEVE WHERE ARE YOU???!!!
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS EXACT COMMENT FOR FOREVER
This man making great progress in the gym, if anything he's the one evolving. Keep it up💯
Frrrrr 👌🏿😳
His sleeves keep getting tighter and tighter
Got to look good for Eons groupies.
I thought I was going crazy I was like damn he’s getting swole
It was at 69 likes. Sorry, I liked it so much I had to make it 70.
This is one of my favourite channels
This IS my favorite channel.
Reminds me of the golden age of science TV channels
@@Alexander-is9jo aàhhh same.
FACTS(SAME)
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Thus the engineers prove their superiority to the jocks.
Loving how frustrated Blake sounds by the fact that the giant beavers aren’t around anymore
So, the ancient giant beaver did not build dams.
I guess for them it was a case of dam if you do, and dam if you don't.
Nice
Me likey (that pun is actually genius for this case lol) =P
Good one. 👏👏👏
ancient beaver couldn't give a dam
Would love to see an episode when and how flora and fauna split up. How did some single cell organisms go in the direction of plants and others developed into animals? I’m sorry if this is an ignorant question
@Otto Rocket not an ignorant question at all.
This is the most interesting question i found
@@apillow666 I'm watching 👀 you Bill Cipher.
@@osonhouston ;_;
Not an ignorant question in the slightest. I would love to see this too.
My people (Dene) have stories about giant beavers. Our stories tell us our greatest hero Yamoria who chased down the last giant beavers and put an end to them. You can still see the giant beaver hide remains on Bear Rock in Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada. This leads me to believe that our people coexisted with the megafauna.
There's evidence that people did so for 5000 years at least, if I recall my archeological anthropology prof's lectures correctly. It's been a while though...
I'm not 100% sure _we_ don't coexist with giant beavers.
I used to live and work on either side of a small Native American reservation. To get to work, I commuted through the rez. One day, on the way to work, I saw what seemed to be a small bear or very large dog lying on the side of the road, on a small (~20-foot-long) bridge over a creek. My coworker's car was pulled over just past the animal. Thinking my coworker had hit the big beast and possibly disabled his car, I also pulled over.
The animal was a beaver. It was hunched up in death, but was still over three feet long, not including the tail, which was easily another two. Stretched out, it would likely have been over six feet long, all told.
My coworker told me that as he'd driven by, several smaller beavers had jumped from the bridge into the creek. This was the early 2000s, so neither of us had camera phones, but my coworker had a digital camera at work. We drove to work, and he got his camera and went back to take a picture of the giant beaver.
It was gone.
Only after this revelation did he and I realize that we'd seen no blood, no broken plastic, or any other signs of collision at the scene. The giant beaver had just been taking a nap on the side of the bridge, ignoring us as we goggled at it for several minutes, from as little as a single step away, talking loudly.
@@Bacteriophagebs holy crap, a cryptid beaver. Beavsquatch.
Yes the Australian Aboriginal people also have records of now extinct megafauna going back 40000 years.
It is a beautiful vista, you're lucky to call Tulita home. I still have pictures on my phone from September 2013 (the day the Moose hide boat came in).
It's still wierd not hearing "and Steve" at the end of the shoutouts
Right? I guess it just got too expensive for Steve.
who?
I miss Steve. He was a real one.
I miss and Steve.
Hope Steve is doing well.
I really love how Eons uses the metric system, thanks for that! ❤️
I wish that more megafauna were still around today, it would just make everything way more interesting like, “why are you late for work today? Because a giant beaver was in the idle of the road”
In some places you can use the moose excuse
"Back then, Florida was a mix of forests and swamps." Sounds like it hasn't changed in over a million years...
Now it’s a mix of crap housing and strip malls
@@rbb9753 also true
@@rbb9753 That's why it's the perfect natural habitat for the wild Florida Man
@@rbb9753
Isn’t that what he just said?
"It's definitely extinct now because you'd know if it wasn't" THATS JUST WHAT YOU WANT US TO THINK, PBS!
Kinomora have you seen a giant beaver? I'll wait.
(x files theme)
@@amandawilcox9638 it's a joke sweetie
man with the biggest muscles discusses the biggest beavers
I wouldn't say he has the biggest muscles! He's made some damn good improvements. Good for him I'm 511 and 30 lbs heavier than him muscle wise. But I probably overdid it.I'm just putting hairs I promise you I'm not that much of a jerk. I give props to anybody that's doing what he is. Cuz there's a lot easier to sit on Facebook and talk s*** then go to the gym.
5:58 Is that you? ;-1
@@FilterYT close
I would love to see something on paleonto-parasitology
Ooooh, me too!! Parasites are fascinating
Came for the gun show ..... stayed for the beaver !
That was funny lol!! I'm a bodybuilder so I got that one. It amazes me how many people won't get that
@@BJETNT How do you know someone is a body builder?
@@edman79 Normally they are bigger than normal people. Not hard. But I am pretty sure that's a rhetorical question.
@@edman79 come on I’m waiting for the punch line!
@@unidentifiedbipedallifeform Don't worry, they'll tell you
To be honest, when I see that Blake is the host, some petty part of me looks forward to Kallie making him squirm with puns at the end. :-)
Me too, and that part is around 99% of me hehe
An episode about giant beavers lends itself to SO much unscholarly humor: thanks to all viewers for not taking the bait . . . and for giving a dam.
I bet a lot of teenage boys were really disappointed when they clicked on this link.
Boo
I'd like to see a video of our gracious host's evolution from paleohistorian to male model.
I really love the fact that you acknowledge native American people, that's great !
0:39 “The devils corkscrew”!!!!!!!! Yay continuity.
I only watch these videos to see how progressively buff this guy keeps getting.
This guy isn't waiting thousands of years for the next step in human evolution.
LOL, half the comment's are about Blake's muscles. 🤣
Because he
Because he's looking really fine!
The other half is about the absence of Steve.
hehe
I was expecting a lot more immature beaver jokes tbh.
I'm slowly working my way from the oldest videos. What happened to Hank? Did he stop narrating videos?
As someone who plays i ARK: Survival Evolved, I love this channel, because I get backstories to all the dinos and animals in game
I've been thinking about starting to that game.
How is it? Does it require too much time? I can't spare too much time on gaming nowadays.
@@mehmetgurdal Its a game you want to spend a lot of time on. I too have had periods where i didnt have time to play, so i stopped completely. On PvP you have to be on all the time, or your base will be raided. On PvE its a lot more relaxed. I highly recommend the game. I have 1500 hours since i got the game in summer 2018. I have also tried my ways with both PvE and PvP and both are a blast
@@andersbuchjeppesen5493 how about the taming? How log does it take to tame a dinosaur?
I can only spare about 2 hours for myself.
PBS Eons video notification pops. Me: drops everything.
I know this sounds like a boring topic, but I'm really curious about the evolutionary history of grass. Could you guys make a video about that?
I really enjoyed how y'all credited those indigenous people, very amazing and thoughtful, keep it up!
This comment section is thirsty people making beaver puns, hopefully Blake doesn't lodge a complaint
“Lodge” - I see what you did there 😎 😂 👏🏼
The acknowledgement of First Nations at the end of the video is a good step. Thanks to Eons for including it.
Beaver's building skills are, like, Dam!
For some reason, at the beginning I thought you were going to say, "The biggest beaver that ever beaved." I Think it was only funny in my head.
I’m actually glad the giant beaver isn’t around today. I’m imagining a beaver that’s as territorial as a bear and a temper that matches a hippo.
Or a giant thing with the temperament of a beaver
Dude you are looking jacked, MA man on the rise
Blake also has impression proportions. Look at that those arms, I mean, dang!
They were dammed from the start!
Blake is looking jacked. He's been hitting the gym hard. Hoping they will open my gym up again soon. Love learning about these past critters.
Not this year.
If possible, I'd like to see more video's on ecosystem engineers and how /why they evolved those traits.
Blake is my favorite host.I love how excited he gets when he describes the animals
Agreed
Forget about the beaver for a second and look at those gains
Mad props to the Eons crew who always prints out them dimensions in freedom units. I'm an SI person myself but I appreciate the dedication.
So you could say they were "rodents of unusual size"?
Inconcevable
How about a video on the evolution of lactation, while we’re on a mammal?
I second that.
@@oiawoo9168 any specific topic on the migration or just an overview of it? Because it's a lot more complex than you'd think.
@@oiawoo9168 ok that sounds interesting enough.
I keep imagining what Blake is thinking when he sees comments on his sweet bod instead of comments on the actually lesson about extinct beavers.
😂
the story of the mega-beaver (Castoroides) reminds me a lot of the tale of The Ant and the Grasshopper, because the mega-beaver does not "work" for a living, maybe for this reason it was extinct.
Small beavers: better build a dam, George
George: shush, I'm picking flowers.
Big beaver should have enlisted small beavers: "Like, build me one of dem water holdy things, right, so as I can have my sedges dat I like and don't sit on youse, right."
@@Aelric78 perhaps "George" was a devotee of the "hakuna matata" philosophy
Beavers' main advantage, shaping their environment, is in my opinion the same reason humans were able to go from just another ape to the uncontested dominant species of the planet (except maybe cats)
My man is making gains! Well done mate 👏
paleo daddy back again being adorable as always. lets learn about megafauna
Wheter you big or small, if you could shape the world arround you, it could means the difference between survival and extinction. I love how PBS EON always put some motivational speech in the end of every videos, especially in this early 2021, you guys are awesome. Stay awesome guys, and i hope y'all doing well.
I knew this video would come eventually! I remember leaning about this fella in vertebrate natural history.
Beavers use to be really big?
Well I'll be damned!
Some still are.
Everything was bigger back then.
Nice joke
I've got some VHS tapes from the 1980s with particularly big.... actually that's another story.
...but modern ones eat a lot of wood
thank you for making a video on beavers : ) they are one of my favorite animals and also are the symbol for my family! I am Tlingit Deisheetaan, and that means I am Tlingit from the beaver house : )
‘Adventures in deep time’ Just marvellous.
Thank you so much and long may you continue.
I absolutely love you guys use meters so the rest of the planet can understand all of it! Thank you a lot😊😊
Luckily American nerds learned the metric system via Star Trek
Could you consider a video on the Indian subcontinent split from Africa and then introduction to Asia and how the temporary isolation and then reintroduction to the mainland affected things?
We probably were a factor in their demise as well, due to their size they almost certainly would have been a target for early humans.
I wonder how they tasted?
doing my thesis on burrowing beavers, so I got super excited reading this title.
Out of all the animals that could be giants in the Ice Age, beavers are one of them
This video carries an important message, "Whether you are big or small, shaping the world around you could mean the difference between survival and extinction 🌍🐆🐎🦊🐗🦒🦇🦃🦘🦚🐍🦈🐌🐬🌲🌷🌵
I love these shows. Thanks so much Eons and Blake!!
That dinosaur vertebra joke was on point.
One of my friends is The Beaver King, and he started an empire all about beavers. He says the giant beavers are still around because beavers don't die
I really like the puns they make me smile
Hold up I just found out after living my entire life in south Florida that we have beavers!
I come to this channel to learn about stuff while also being in the comfort of not doing physical sheets of work. tis very relaxing
Thank you guys so much for providing the acknowledgement of Indigenous lands - it means a lot :)
Can you do an episode on leviathan melviliai or dunkleosteus?
My kid would do terrible things for a dunkleosteus video. I mean, he's incorrigible so he'll probably do terrible things anyway... but he's a big fan of giant armored fish.
@@Aelric78 I can't blame him, big armored fish are badass as hell!
Leviathan would be good as part of an video about megaraptorial sperm whales over all.
The last time I was this early we didn't know birds were dinosaurs
Mans has always seemed in shape but he looks jacked now. That polo hugging him like a scared koala. Good on him
Thanks for acknowledging the indigenous land where the fossils were found, it makes a difference!
Let's take a second and just appreciate this mans shoulders
It's too late, but I can't sleep till I know what happened to them beavers
i love beevers they are so clever how they build dams and underwater houses they must be so cosy snuggled in their houses in winter while its snoe and ice outside
I love the soundtrack on this episode, it's so melodic and nice
Damn. You've been hitting the gym? Good for you man, get those gainz!
Can you imagine if they did had the ability to make a damn!
One of my favorite channels!
I've watched every video on this channel I was so excited to see this video posted. I was waiting 3 weeks but I hope the eons team had a lovely holiday season
0:32 Alright, haven't even seen this video yet, so before I do, I'll take a wild guess on why this beaver isn't around anymore.
*It was us, wasn't it?*
Looks like you've been lifting those giant beavers.
What a big boi, really cool. I've gotten to see modern beavers in the wild (as well as their lodgings and the their stumps left behind) many times, they are fascinating creatures.
So happy about this video. These are my favorite animal.
Very interesting and informative, enjoyed ! Thanks.
Blake, you're awesome!
I love it that they added the slide in the end about the indigenous land
We still miss you Steve...wherever you are
I feel like all the comments just noticed the size of this guy's arms. He was always, on PBS Eons, a swole guy.
You're telling me that ROUS's are real?! 😲
No I don’t think they exist.
*Laughs in Josephoartigasia.
One was spotted recently and trending on social media. The video shows the giant beaver running towards a dog and owner when startled it jumped back in the water. The beaver was bigger than the dog.
The whiplash of getting an ad for a local horror movie and then hearing "hey lemme tell you about this rad beaver!!"
Every time they show the reletive size of a large extinct animal I want to ride it. How weird am I?
Not weird at all. I play Ark, so it's the next best thing, at least I can ride on virtually lol
@@KSWfarms I wanted to comment something similair!
Although now I feel cheating when I gather wood with my Castaroides..
have i just not seen him in awhile or has he gotten super god damn jacked since ive last seen him
Every time something has gone extinct in the last 30,000 years and the answer to "what happened to it?" isn't "We did" it feels like a victory.
Probably not to them, obviously, but it brightens my day.
I know of a beaver dam in Maine that was on my parents property that was over a kilometer long and was very much 12 meters high. Climbing the dam's face was something my brothers and I used to do for fun, then sit on top thereof to go fishing.