The Evolution of Rhinos

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  • Опубліковано 18 тра 2023
  • There are currently only 5 living rhino species and four of them are endangered. However turn the clock back 5-35 million years ago and the rhino super family was considerably more diverse and widespread spreading to continents where they no longer live.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 400

  • @douglasgorde5823
    @douglasgorde5823 Рік тому +1289

    The biggest takeaway I’ve gotten from this series thus far is the fact that most, if not all, mammals were friend-shaped at some point in their evolution

    • @post-leftluddite
      @post-leftluddite Рік тому +59

      What is "friend-shaped"?

    • @douglasgorde5823
      @douglasgorde5823 Рік тому +243

      @@post-leftluddite in the simplest terms possible, its appearance makes you want to go up and pet it and try to make it your friend

    • @cleanerben9636
      @cleanerben9636 Рік тому +71

      round a cute.

    • @douglasgorde5823
      @douglasgorde5823 Рік тому +19

      @Its me or whatever not in way too long but yes I love drawfee

    • @joeshmoe8345
      @joeshmoe8345 Рік тому +9

      What does that mean “friend-shaped”?

  • @grey4904
    @grey4904 Рік тому +536

    if you want to be terrified, i highly suggest seeing a fossil of a paraceratherium in person. pictures just don’t do it justice, those things were HUUUGE

    • @peabrain6872
      @peabrain6872 Рік тому +17

      Its was gonna be HUUGE - paraceratrumpium

    • @johnortmann3098
      @johnortmann3098 Рік тому +27

      There used to be a full-sized, full-body reconstruction of one in Elephant Hall in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln natural history museum. It towered over the mounts of a group of African elephants.

    • @blarpnarp
      @blarpnarp Рік тому +38

      @@peabrain6872 “i talked to aaaalll the other megafauna… and they said i was yuuuuge, way yuger than any other megafauna… sleepy joes megafauna wish they could be like me”

    • @thatdogguy9838
      @thatdogguy9838 Рік тому +3

      Where did you see one? Please say somewhere in europe

    • @awepossum1059
      @awepossum1059 Рік тому +2

      i wish i saw one in real life, they should use its dna to bring it back to life

  • @fieldfrost4220
    @fieldfrost4220 Рік тому +350

    hats off to Dmitry Bogdanov for drawing every single species of animal to have ever existed !

  • @bekakilov9656
    @bekakilov9656 Рік тому +21

    This channel cures depression. Makes me feel very human and connected with the world.

  • @zoltanperei4789
    @zoltanperei4789 Рік тому +207

    Elephants already look like they are gonna break under their massive size, so the fact that there was a mammal this big and capable for walk is beyond me.

    • @fredbloggs8072
      @fredbloggs8072 Рік тому +50

      And modern elephants are also dwarfed by some of their extinct cousins. It's astounding that Palaeoloxodon, the giant extinct elephant mentioned, probably weighed the same as 3 full-grown African elephants. Taller & far heavier than a T-Rex.

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen Рік тому +7

      @@fredbloggs8072 Makes me wonder if they had long lifespans to match

    • @rafexrafexowski4754
      @rafexrafexowski4754 Рік тому +20

      ​@@LimeyLassen Almost definitely, large animals almost always have long lifespans.

    • @jimsmith3715
      @jimsmith3715 Рік тому +1

      dinosaurs go brrr

    • @rafexrafexowski4754
      @rafexrafexowski4754 Рік тому +13

      @@jimsmith3715 Sauropods had hollow, air-filled bones, they were in a different league. They could have even grown about 20% larger than Argentinosaurus but there wasn't enough food to sustain such body mass. But, as I said, it's really impressive for an animal with non-hollow bones to reach the size of a small sauropod.

  • @Papastudder
    @Papastudder Рік тому +22

    Babe hurry, new rhino video dropped!

  • @chheinrich8486
    @chheinrich8486 Рік тому +77

    I love how the few extinct rhinos that had 2 horns side by side on their nose still had smaller horns than arsinoitherium, one of my favorites mammels from the eocene

  • @jameskazd9951
    @jameskazd9951 Рік тому +44

    i really love these "evolution of" videos, hope you keep it going for a long time Moth Light

  • @adreabrooks11
    @adreabrooks11 Рік тому +9

    Paraceratherium always reminds me of that old joke:
    "What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino?"
    "'Ell if I know!"
    I'll see myself out...

  • @gattycroc8073
    @gattycroc8073 Рік тому +33

    I'm sure many of you myself included where introduced to Paraceratherium in Walking with Beast. I really hope we get another documentory Oligocene Asia because one creatures that was not in the third episode of that series is Astorgosuchus.

  • @OdorGod
    @OdorGod Рік тому +25

    Let’s all take the time to praise the 1st single cell organism that fought to survive so we can all hit the like button today

  • @post-leftluddite
    @post-leftluddite Рік тому +12

    A new Moth Light video is a great thing

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 Рік тому +142

    Just yesterday I was telling a family member about Paraceratherium and how huge they were, so this is especially timely. I can't help but feel we humans missed contact with all the coolest animals just barely. If we'd evolved just a few thousand years earlier... oh well, no use pondering what might have been.

    • @eljanrimsa5843
      @eljanrimsa5843 Рік тому

      Paraceratherium went extinct 23 million years ago

    • @NawniColes
      @NawniColes Рік тому +29

      We might have missed paraceratherium, but humans were around to see a bunch of giant (post-dinosaur) animals. It's just that we also killed a lot of them off. We're kind of an invasive species.

    • @priyathammanoharkoka4300
      @priyathammanoharkoka4300 Рік тому +9

      Let us just stive to save those that we have atleast..... so that our grandkids dont like a comment like this

    • @GodlyAtheist
      @GodlyAtheist Рік тому +5

      You chase your family members down to talk to them about random extinct dead mammals?

    • @rafexrafexowski4754
      @rafexrafexowski4754 Рік тому +1

      ​@Its me or whatever It's now speculated that populations of humans would have been too small to hunt any pleistocene megafauna to extinction. Humans would have only been a nail in the coffin after a more natural mass extinction due to climate change. So let's not rush to blame everything on humans. We've only recently become so destructive for the environment.

  • @vermillion8249
    @vermillion8249 Рік тому +29

    Can you do a video on the evolution of arthropod exoskeletons?

  • @ZombieChicken1310
    @ZombieChicken1310 Рік тому +19

    Please could you do a video on the evolution of the parrots? Messelastur need to be recognized

  • @MathiasEG
    @MathiasEG Рік тому +18

    I know the DNA is way too old. But i wish i could see a Paraceratherium in real life. The creature in the thumnail ❤

    • @Thulgore
      @Thulgore Рік тому +6

      This comment............but on everything. It's like having a riddle with no absolute solution. A movie/book/story where the ending is completely debatable........all of which annoy the shit out of me. I wish I could see them. I wish I could see them as they were. I can't, never will be able to. Hell, even if they were "resurrected" from extinction I would doubt the truth of their social structure as being "true".
      I shouldn't comment while drunk.

  • @kostasl1808
    @kostasl1808 Рік тому +21

    Great video. Original topic as well.
    Can you consider doing the "story" of the first fish? There aren't many videos around about this topic and the occurrence of chordates is a really interesting case.
    Thanks.

  • @Eye_Exist
    @Eye_Exist Рік тому +5

    This is the best animal and paleontology related channel on this site, thank you very much again for your upload.

  • @robrice7246
    @robrice7246 Рік тому +23

    I often wonder why those two Ice Age rhinos never made one last push into North America during the Pleistocene (were there various factors that may have restricted them)?

    • @AztecCroc
      @AztecCroc Рік тому +6

      Elasmotherium lived mostly in the Ukraine and Middle East and the surrounding area.
      The Wooly Rhino probably did, given how it's range stretched over most of Eurasia, but we've yet to find one in North America so they likely weren't too successful.

    • @JrIcify
      @JrIcify Рік тому +5

      They didn't think there would be dandelions

    • @Jdne199311
      @Jdne199311 10 місяців тому

      @@JrIcify hahahahaha I got this reference!!!! U are amazing

    • @usmanya5110
      @usmanya5110 7 місяців тому

      ​@@JrIcify maybe the sloths ate them all. 😂😂😂

  • @marclytle644
    @marclytle644 Рік тому +15

    One of my favorite extinct mammals, Paracerathrerium.

  • @--INDIGO--
    @--INDIGO-- Рік тому +5

    First time being relatively early with a new video. Been subbed for over a year and haven’t seen a single bad video from you. Hope you keep at it and thanks so much for all the work you’ve put out. 👍

  • @justinwilliam6534
    @justinwilliam6534 Рік тому +20

    Could you do a video on the evolution of ducks please.

  • @rat_dragon
    @rat_dragon Рік тому +5

    Hey bro! Glad to see you uploading again!

  • @gabrielkessler6363
    @gabrielkessler6363 Рік тому +7

    Absolutely love this series. It would be great though if you could do a rapid recap at the end of each video to summarize the key events/lineages.
    The effort you put In is amazing

  • @shingshangshong2745
    @shingshangshong2745 Рік тому +6

    You will probably never read this but
    i have watched every single one of your videos and I love all of them.
    Your style of presentation, the structure, the amount of details and, above all, your soothing voice made you my favourite channel on all of UA-cam.
    I hope you keep going forever and please don’t change your style. It is perfection!

  • @nickzaytz5712
    @nickzaytz5712 Рік тому +4

    Moth Light Media, thank you! Great video as always😍

  • @Jan_Koopman
    @Jan_Koopman Рік тому +6

    I always love your videos. You have such a calm voice and such a beautiful way of explaining things. I feel like I'm in a biology class¹!
    ¹I love school and I love biology, so this is in all the good ways

  • @ulalaFrugilega
    @ulalaFrugilega Рік тому +3

    It's such a lovely channel, this, both meditative and informative. In other words: perfect!

  • @kanealoha
    @kanealoha Рік тому +5

    So happy to get a new video! Loving it!

  • @hsdinoman2267
    @hsdinoman2267 Рік тому +3

    nice to have you back man

  • @sassa82
    @sassa82 Рік тому +1

    Its always a good day when Moth light Media uploads a new video!

  • @jonathandentler7158
    @jonathandentler7158 Рік тому +1

    Hey, love your channel - aside from the content, I gotta say that I love the music, it’s very calming.

  • @angelalewis3645
    @angelalewis3645 Рік тому +1

    Amazing video! Super high quality, and fascinating!

  • @louisboyum3461
    @louisboyum3461 Рік тому

    I love your channel and your videos, I’ve learned so much!!! Please keep doing what you’re doing :)

  • @marcelogaea1064
    @marcelogaea1064 Рік тому +1

    Been waiting with bated breath for this. Worth it. Thanks, MLM.

  • @tylerball665
    @tylerball665 Рік тому +1

    IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS INSTALLMENT . thanks hottie!!!

  • @bramstedt8997
    @bramstedt8997 Рік тому +2

    I love your content and your narration. Touched on a lot here. Honestly though, it seemed you were just scratching the surface and this could’ve easily been a 20 min video. I certainly wouldn’t mind some videos at a length similar to your Madagascar video

  • @JorginCarlos
    @JorginCarlos Рік тому

    love your vids man. pls don't stop uploading

  • @Ph4ntomHourGlass
    @Ph4ntomHourGlass Рік тому +1

    I was literally thinking yesterday, "There hasn't been a Month Light Media video in a while" and now I wake up to this notification 😁

  • @Jaggerbush
    @Jaggerbush Рік тому

    I NEED a two hour drive episode. I NEED this in my life!

  • @CHRB-nn6qp
    @CHRB-nn6qp Рік тому +7

    The fact that Paraceratheriidae were once the size of horses makes me imagine an alternate history where we domesticated and rode around on them instead

  • @rankcascade9627
    @rankcascade9627 Рік тому +1

    Wake up babe, Moth Light Media just dropped a new Vid

  • @sixthousandblankets
    @sixthousandblankets Рік тому +1

    I wish you would post more often. I always look forward to your videos.

  • @glenngilbert7389
    @glenngilbert7389 11 місяців тому

    Another excellent and succinctly presented video on this amazing group of animals

  • @TheJuwailes
    @TheJuwailes Рік тому

    Great video! The sources are the for the past video I believe. I hope you can update them soon as I'm eager to read more!

  • @therealzilch
    @therealzilch Рік тому

    Another great video, thanks.
    cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

  • @Arktic06
    @Arktic06 Рік тому +2

    Holy shit new Mothlight Media video :o

  • @GodlyAtheist
    @GodlyAtheist Рік тому +1

    That zebra rocking out in the background at the end.

  • @user-eh6th9wj5k
    @user-eh6th9wj5k Рік тому

    Fantastic content!

  • @zionne2716
    @zionne2716 Рік тому

    Very soothing voice and great infos.

  • @Funkiotologist
    @Funkiotologist Рік тому +2

    YEEES when paleocontent creators upload it’s a great day

  • @camacakegd3714
    @camacakegd3714 Рік тому +2

    Wonderful video!
    Although it is a little odd hearing you miss a syllable in the name of Paraceratherium every time you said it.

  • @thelaughinghyenas8465
    @thelaughinghyenas8465 Рік тому

    Thank you very much for the video.

  • @Okayzy
    @Okayzy Рік тому +1

    I love your videos so much can you do a video on the evolution of humans?

  • @untitledpornstar5530
    @untitledpornstar5530 Рік тому

    Love this video

  • @vanishingfolklore
    @vanishingfolklore Рік тому

    love your vids

  • @martykitson3442
    @martykitson3442 Рік тому +1

    Thanks always interested in new information about extinct species

  • @johnkelly7757
    @johnkelly7757 Рік тому

    Fascinating video.

  • @account-yi2cn
    @account-yi2cn Рік тому

    how have you not run out of video ideas yet, nice

  • @mrmanmanmanmanman537
    @mrmanmanmanmanman537 Рік тому

    babe wake up moth light media posted a new video

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 Рік тому

    Wonderful, thanx big G

  • @andrewsarchus4238
    @andrewsarchus4238 Рік тому +1

    Could you please do a program on the evolution of the passerine birds including the little song-birds (robins, bluetits etc.)

  • @krantidasud1385
    @krantidasud1385 Рік тому

    The video was very very nise and ypur channel is very good and I suggest you make a video on palaeoloxodon.

  • @Peepeepoopooman420justblaze
    @Peepeepoopooman420justblaze Рік тому +4

    YES, RHINOS, LET'S GOOOOO!!!! 🦏🦏🦏🦏🦏

  • @BinroWasRight
    @BinroWasRight 10 місяців тому

    This was lovely as always. Paraceratherium beggars belief in how large it is. Were there even bigger terrestrial mammals? Time may yet tell.

  • @injunsun
    @injunsun Рік тому +2

    @Moth Light Media, just a pronunciation point: Paraceratherium, you keep missing the middle "ra." You keep pronouncing it as if it is spelt, Paracetherium. It should be, "Peh-rah-Seh-rah-THII-RII-uhm," not, "Peh-rah-seh-THII-RII-uhm." Para means around, and Ceratherium, the ending just means an individual group of Ceratheres, whatever that is in Latin. Perhaps grass eaters? But it is definitely "Seh-Rah-thiirz," not, "Seh-thiirz."

  • @bnwstudios9040
    @bnwstudios9040 Рік тому

    Would love to see a video detailing the evolution on Pachycephalosaurids.

  • @urmwhynot
    @urmwhynot Рік тому +1

    The no background sound or music makes your videos more easily consumable

  • @solaireofastora4091
    @solaireofastora4091 Рік тому +3

    The northern white rhinoceros is functionally extinct; there are two females left in captivity. In the next decade we will see the end of this animal probably forever.

  • @SpiceWyrm
    @SpiceWyrm Рік тому

    I knew today was gonna be a good day.

  • @neoream3606
    @neoream3606 Рік тому +1

    This is my favorite prehistoric animal.

  • @normancocksmell
    @normancocksmell Рік тому +5

    It's amazing that paleontology has come this far where we now know the names that these animals used to refer to each other as.

    • @Thulgore
      @Thulgore Рік тому +2

      I assume you have pseudo human-centric social political opinion you want to expand upon? (I could be wrong)

    • @normancocksmell
      @normancocksmell Рік тому +1

      @@Thulgore No. I just smoked a joint to my face and that popped into my head while watching the video so I figured I would share my stupid thoughts.

  • @malthesse
    @malthesse Рік тому +1

    Paraceratherium inspired George Lucas when creating the AT-AT Imperial Walkers for Star Wars. The similarity really is striking.

  • @chheinrich8486
    @chheinrich8486 Рік тому +4

    Can you make video on other afrotheres besides elephants and sea cows

  • @tyranitarxd2819
    @tyranitarxd2819 Рік тому +2

    If they're closely related to horses, then does that mean unicorns really existed

  • @bird-watcher-91
    @bird-watcher-91 2 місяці тому

    How cool would've it have been to see Paraceratherium alive? I also find it amazing how rhinos can distribute their weight even better than an elephant.
    My favorite living rhino species are the black rhinos. I don't know why but I find their prehensile lips more aesthetically pleasing than the flat, square lips on the southern white rhinos. People did a great job bringing the southern white rhinos numbers up; now the critically endangered black rhinos need help more than ever (same for the Javan and Sumatran, and the Sumatran rhino is the closest living relative to the woolly rhino).

  • @christysank7705
    @christysank7705 Рік тому

    that is so cool

  • @HassanMohamed-jy4kk
    @HassanMohamed-jy4kk Рік тому +3

    Why don’t you think about making a suggestion and creating a UA-cam Videos that’s all about the Evolution Of The Pliosaurs on the next Moth Light Media coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

  • @lauravansanten7804
    @lauravansanten7804 Рік тому +3

    Yay, finally a new MLM video ❤

  • @Andy_Hendrix_9842
    @Andy_Hendrix_9842 Рік тому +1

    Nice.

  • @afrikanoalg3551
    @afrikanoalg3551 Рік тому

    A Very intresting and fun topique 🗿

  • @Charles36.
    @Charles36. Рік тому

    They are so cool

  • @michaelholly4866
    @michaelholly4866 Рік тому

    Please do one on the evolution of annelid worms.

  • @agathoklesmartinios8414
    @agathoklesmartinios8414 Рік тому +1

    Hey, Moth Light Media, it appears you accidentally pasted the sources for your previous video on the evolution of insect flight in the description of this video. Could you please correct this?

  • @ulalaFrugilega
    @ulalaFrugilega Рік тому +2

    Does anyone know why DNA wants to copy itself?

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Рік тому +8

      It doesn’t want anything, these are chemical reactions

  • @JuicyJam
    @JuicyJam Рік тому

    DRINKING GAME!!!
    Take a sip of your drink when there is:
    - a time lineage
    - a genetic tree
    - a new illustration
    - a size comparison
    Take a shot when:
    - the narrator says "however"

  • @matthewlahaie8202
    @matthewlahaie8202 Рік тому +1

    Hey mothlight, would you consider making a video about the evolution of fresh water predatory fish? Such as northern pike or large mouth bass?

    • @MikeIsCannonFodder
      @MikeIsCannonFodder Рік тому +1

      You just want to hear him pronounce muskellunge!

    • @vincentx2850
      @vincentx2850 Рік тому +1

      The freshwater fishes of North America today is an interesting case, as the assemblage is almost completely constituted by lineages that moved in from East Asia. The sunfish family, for instance, are most closely related to oriental perches.

    • @MikeIsCannonFodder
      @MikeIsCannonFodder Рік тому

      @@vincentx2850 How do those two relate to North American perches?

    • @vincentx2850
      @vincentx2850 Рік тому

      Not very closely related. Yellow perch is in the same family as walleye and darters, while white perch has a marine ancestry.

    • @indyreno2933
      @indyreno2933 Рік тому

      @vincentx2850, actually, freshwater sunfish are more closely related to the serranids and icefish and are grouped with them under the order Serraniformes, whereas both oriental perches and true perches belong to the order Perciformes.

  • @edwardfischer2628
    @edwardfischer2628 Рік тому +1

    Finally!

  • @Croationman
    @Croationman Рік тому +1

    Rhinochads…are we gonna make it?

  • @forexbatman998
    @forexbatman998 Рік тому +1

    What’s the background music you use on your video sir

  • @hereitalkabouteverything
    @hereitalkabouteverything Рік тому

    Hey, your video is great, but can you please add subtile it? Its really helpfull for non-English speaker

  • @Thulgore
    @Thulgore Рік тому +6

    I absolutely HATE that rhinos are so endangered! Yes, they are dangerous. Leave them alone. I grew up around moose. The things I did as a kid I would be dead were I to do them now. Don't mess with moose either. (how my brother and I made it to adulthood is a mystery)
    Edit: There exists a huge difference! Moose can see very well what they go aggressive against. The two shouldn't even be compared. I did it so I am the one at fault. Maybe someone else can see the mentality though...........

    • @danielled8665
      @danielled8665 Рік тому +3

      They aren't endangered because they're dangerous. It's because rich people in China think the horn will make their peepee bigger or cure cancer.

    • @stormisuedonym4599
      @stormisuedonym4599 7 місяців тому

      You can thank Traditional Chinese Medicine (which isn't actually all that traditional, being invented in the 20th century) for the continued extermination of the rhino.

  • @fenrirgg
    @fenrirgg Рік тому

    I imagine that every time an extinct species gets described there's someone at the world natual history research center whose only job is to contact Julio Lacerda and ask him to draw it 😂

  • @invisiblejaguar1
    @invisiblejaguar1 Рік тому +1

    If these things lived into modern or at least ancient times, you can bet the Romans would have put archers on them and rode them into battle.

  • @kaiganardea9275
    @kaiganardea9275 Рік тому

    Saw tooth whale slull and tism brain took over but Basilosaurus is my state fossil. Farmers used to plow up rib fossils and skulls that mineralized in the clay. We still find shark teeth in the creek, hundreds of miles from the sea

  • @archwolfgamer5772
    @archwolfgamer5772 Рік тому +1

    Hello there

  • @dragonmares59110
    @dragonmares59110 Рік тому

    This is so weird, i am subscribed to you but none of your msot recents videos showed in my feed :(

  • @SA-np5yy
    @SA-np5yy Рік тому

    Which songs do you use in your videos? They are quite pleasant.

  • @fishybusinessco.8398
    @fishybusinessco.8398 Рік тому

    A 5 m Rhino what a truly terrifying creature to be charging at you

  • @NodKeras
    @NodKeras Рік тому +1

    Oh yeah