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@@john-ic5pz Increasing heat. Also, there was about 35% more oxygen 300 million years ago than today which lead to animals evolving to be bigger. When it decreased and climate changed, animals either adapted and evolved to suit the conditions, or they failed and died off. Or were hunted.
"a dingo ate my baby!!!" I'd wager it was a fortuitous hunt. I imagine we'd not have buried a peer in a shallow grave so easily accessed by wildlife. or did they happen to do "sky burials", leaving the corpse in the wilds for animals to eat? I don't know the region and era well enough to say...hence the wager. 😁 wdyt?
@@john-ic5pz Could have also been a scavenging opportunity. After all, these guys lived in open wilderness with many hazards - a lost/starving hunter, a fall leading to a broken limb, an illness that their immune system couldn't adapt to fast enough, any of these can take a person when on their own before others can get to them. At that point once they're dead and not found by their community the meat's free game for whatever finds it first.
There hasnt ever been a recorded killing of a human from a healthy wolf, much like with Orcas. Now the occasional near death wolf that has been kicked out of the pack is a different story.
If they looked up in the sky, they would see flocks of Passenger pigeons, the most common bird in North America, that took hours to pass by and were so dense they actually had the same effect as solar eclipses and dimmed the daylight by blocking out the sun. A single rifle shot upwards without even aiming would down 15 or more birds. Imagine the killing rate that it took to drive 5 billion birds to extinction in less than 300 years.
There is only one race of people, that has never been linked to having a connection with nature without destroying nature and it is the greediest race.
Yeah.. like that's still a pretty powerful bite, being the fifth strongest bite of living animals, and the strongest of any living big cat. A smilodon's bite strenght being on the weaker side is quite a misleading phrasing.
@@lorinctoth9402 living animals is crazy, there's sharks and orcas which can have bite forces bigger than crocs jags are op but the are plenty of animals with crazier bite forces
Every single CGI generated interaction between the Lions and the Gliptadons is freaking hilarious. Lion: "I just wanna eat you." Gliptadon: "No!" *retracts even further winthin it's shell* Lion: "awww, come on!"
It's not told, the Spanish burned the Aztec books when they colonized. Who knows what knowledge was lost. We're only beginning to piece it together now. Even what we do know the American government will be reluctant to teach in public school as they don't want citizens to sympathize with the victims of their brutal past.
It is honestly very impressive, that prehistoric humans managed not only to thrive alongside all those impressive animals but even outcompeted some of them. You would be suprised how much just a sharpened stick and stones can achieve.
You mean you'd be surprised how far human intelligence, ingenuity, mastering of fire, weapon making, language/teamwork, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc....can achieve. Modern humans, and our close human relatives, have been the dominant species on this planet for nearly 2 million years for a reason. These animals stood NO CHANCE against our prehistoric human ancestors.
you left out how these so called "natives" caused the extinction of these animals. so much for that whole "they only took what was needed bs" the leftys spew out lol
Bison basically have a single huge lung, an unusual weakness that was exploited by Natives and settlers alike. A single arrow or bullet would collapse their entire respiratory system and they would drop in just a few steps.
@KineticTaco What are you so smug about? They didn't say all of them were shot, and none were killed in other ways. Also, your comment about beloved natives is really weird, as in sarcastic. What's your issues with ancient Native Americans? They hunted just like virtually all native people
No, American bison (Bison bison) have both lungs in a single pleural cavity, which is unusual for mammals. This is because bison have an incomplete mediastinum, which is a condition that separates the pleural cavities. This single cavity is called "buffalo chest", and it can be a life-threatening condition.
Native Americans aren't Indians.. Native Americans were placed on reservations by the government while Indians owned the land...You even have full blown white Europeans claiming to be native Americans... Stealing the identity of the true indigenous people will cost some greatly in the near future... People are benefitting from all the lies so they don't want the truth to come out
Gotta give some major credit to the oral traditions of a lot of these tribes. There are cautionary tales about dangerous creatures told to children to this day that describe these ancient creatures. It's amazing that 10,000+ years of telephone hasn't degraded the original memory much at all.
One that remains with me are the stories of the Thunderbird. There actually was a bird as large as the legend says (22 ft. wingspan, I believe), who rode the thermal drafts from South to North America. Which must have been terrifying, especially for parents, hence the stories.
15:34 a few years ago during the construction of the new Mexico City airport, near to was once lake Texcoco, the bones of 480 mammoths were discovered, including 70 full skeletons, many of them with marks of being hunted by humans. Archaeologist also found bones of saberthots, gliptodons, camels, horses and humans.
Recently they found out that the population of humans in the Americas at the time was around 300 thousand while the amount of Mammoths was close to 2 million or more. Findings of these massive sites with hundreds of bones aren’t from humans killing them with most of these bones are broken bones shattered in places that couldn’t of been caused by human. With new discoveries in the past 20 years we now know that at the end of the last Ice Age there was immensely huge extinction level occurrences that happened continuously throughout the next hundred years from a huge one that happened right at the End of the Last Ice Age around 12 thousand BC witch maybe lasted damaging the earth so much that civilization wasn’t able to recover until the “first writings” showed up around 6000 BC. Huge astroids plummeting the earth the size of Texas causing 400 foot tsunamis impacts causing volcanoes to erupt killing most of the living things on earth. Hence why every single animal that was in the ice age dying in a span of a week, for 2 miles thick of ice covering 80% of the world, to have that sudden change that quick its either an extinction event or the sun must of been so hot to boil every breathing thing on earth to crisps either way it wasn’t the humans who made these animals go extinct its the way of life that got them. Witch will happen to us someday. With the generations of humans who had immense knowledge and resources completely wiped from history. Where we are now think about where they were when that shit hit. We know these pyramids where created before or around the same time as the ice age. Thousands of years of knowledge passed down and lost to time to be stolen and taken thousands of years later once everything settled on land. They say the first civilization started 5000-6000 bc i think the previous ones were thousands of years advanced in their learnings just for it to be lost in time. They say it started 6000 years ago with the first writings i think they just showed up at these places and called it their own with no knowledge or explanation how these megalithic structures were built and who built them. Its too bad the real archaeologists and historians are the ones not letting the people who built this world know how we got here.
Yeah it's pretty crazy the amount of diversity America had then. Cave lions, American cheetah, a whole array of different saber toothed cats, etc., etc.
@@serahloeffelroberts9901 yeah that's a awesome little fact. Pronghorns are so stupid fast. I wish we could have seen what a beast American Cheetah was like. When I was young I was obsessed with cheetahs because of how fast they were. As a kid I was obsessed with trying to be faster than everyone. Then I grew up and learned more about cheetahs and it bums me out. I wish cheetahs weren't so genetically bottlenecked. I wish we could see a more impressive well rounded kind of cheetah. Currently They struggle so much to survive compared to all the other animals around them. It's a bummer how much they are struggling
I was recently at the Labrea Tarpit Museum in Los Angeles. I saw some skeletons of American Lions. Even as a display skeleton you could see how large they were.
It happened again 2 weeks ago at the drive thru safari in central Texas. The giraffe was going for the food but grabbed the toddler.😅 2min video on YT.
@@dillonhillier yeah.. though there were still a *few* written languages of sorts before contact, notably in hieroglyphic forms in centeral america and (i think) the northeast had a small hieroglyphic system
@@patsyleeoswald9912 No, i wouldn’t think they killed all of them, these things are fucking massive People adapt yes, but i wouldn’t say they all killed them Pretty sure there were a lot of carnivores/omnivores to wipe out most of these animals It’s the cycle of life, it happens with every animal, the disappearance for these animals aren’t the native Americans to blame
I saw a hunter drop a cape buffalo with a compound bow. It flinched when the arrow hit then went back to grazing. Within 10 feet it layed down and passed on. I was MAD impressed 😮
I quit eating meat because of the way the animals are treated. I always questioned how the natives (Earth Honoring) beings did it. You gave me a view, I had not yet imagined. Thank you.
@@edie4321 it was incredible. He was just squatting in some thick brush, he popped up, shot the arrow and squatted right back down. The animal probably felt a bee sting at most, looked around like no big deal and went back to its business. The hunter just sat and waited patiently. It was such a calm process it really felt like the cruelty was taken completely out. That's a master level hunter that everyone at one point strived to become.
I find it interesting as I love this kind of thing, that when you show North American range you stop at the Canadian border then continue once again at Alaska
They also had to take down fully grown buffalo without the use of horses, as they weren't reintroduced to America until Europeans arrived. Also, it's crazy to think that the great plains once resembled the serengeti with bison instead of wilderbeast.
@@KineticTacoSome, if our ancestors had done that for all hunts there wouldn't have been much left for the next hunting season, and different tribes and individuals had different preferences for hunting bison.
6:42 mistake found, the dire wolf didn't out number other animals as the environment just cant support that but instead 1 prey item would be getting chased by a pack of dire wolfs and all would get stuck in the tar that is why there are so many dire wolfs to not dire wolfs in those pits
Concluding that there was a huge amount of dire wolfs because way more is found in a tar pit, is really not scientific at all. Tar pits are traps with often live bait calling out in desperation, that attracts wolfs
Can we make a petition for Extinct Zoo to make "Extinct Animals The (insert ancient people of a particular place) Saw" a series. Were there any magnificent creatures in North America that went extinct sometime notably after the last Ice Age ended? Ngl I wish American Lions and Camels still existed
The horse who evolved in North America also vanished completely, not to return until the Spanish brought the horse back to the continent. Wild horses on the plains undoubtedly were descended from warm blood stock who were bred in desert conditions.
Despite that, I've lost a lot of respect for them in the last few years, as more and more research proves it was their fault for the demise of most of the megafuana. It just goes to show-people are people, no matter what race, religion, etc. We're all to blame for the degradation of our world. Honestly, we humans should all hang our heads in shame.
13:48 “Suffered from island dwarfism" makes it sound like it had a disability, when in truth, it was an adaptation that enabled it to survive and thrive in its insular environment.
Wrong, that is incorrect. Jaguars only have the strongest bite force pound for pound, not in real life. In real life, their bite force is around 750 pounds, which is still impressive for their size, but lions and tigers have the strongest bite force at over 1000psi
Y’all are arguing about this when Jaguar is P4P big cat king. Tiger crush necks to suffocate, Jaguar crushes the skull to get it over with. That tells you everything you need.
Not surprising at all that camelops would have been largely avoided as a food item. Camels today are usually not liked as a food item - their meat's allegedly really tough and tastes bad. The main reason why they're used as a domestic animal has more to do with their survivability and use as a pack animal than for food.
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 Likely something they didn't figure out about doing yet, not to mention it would have required certain tools and an excess of food. Part of what made animal husbandry possible was basic agriculture and the ability to store food that wasn't needed to feed people/their families. It's usually assumed that up until after the passing of the ice age the prehistoric Native Americans were largely hunter-gatherers. By then most of the big megafauna would have died out, including the stuff we normally associate with animal domestication like camels and horses.
I think I saw a video with that exact title. I would like ExtinctZoo to tackle this topic too, as the Roman Empire caused the extinction of some of these said extinct animals
I saw a giant beaver once. It was big and hairy. Looked unkempt. Smelled of fish. After getting wet, it tried to munch on my wood but a beaver that size has probably destroyed a lot of wood before so I used protection and from my wood, i got it off.
@A_Rainworld_Fan. Actually they're more common than you think. Just gotta know where to look. Even know a woman who did OF in college but is a game warden now. She took me out in the woods at a local reserve and showed me a massive beaver. I couldn't believe how big it was!
A jaguar is bite is actually very strong. It can get through a Caymans hide as well as punch through tortoise shell. For pound it’s actually the strongest bite of any big cat alive currently
My mom is Cherokee! Most of the time I'm just like my Scottish dad....but when life is difficult or I face opposition that's when I realize there's a strength in me that comes from the things she's taught me through the years. Thanks for posting this video. We're not forgotten and our history is not forgotten. ❤
Nobody faced life’s difficulties and opponents like the Europeans did. If anything cherokees were conquered and given casinos out of sympathy and mercy from the Europeans who conquered them. So is what you’re saying is when life gets tough you wait for someone with a handout to rescue you?
@@Fearlessdove you’re not Cherokee tho. No such thing as a blonde and white Cherokee. Time for white people (especially the women) to take pride in their OWN people and quit grasping at straws to try to belong to some group the hateful media deems more exotic and interesting. It’s obvious BS anyway. Europeans are a tiny minority on this earth and created the most beautiful and prosperous cultures and societies the worlds ever seen. Quit falsely claiming others and take some pride in your own. Nothing less moral and more disgusting than betraying your own people.
I have something in common with these ancient natives. I was born in the late 1900s (1992) and I have seen the homo sapiens with common sense go extinct. All jokes aside the thought of a Kodiak bear sized big cat with swords for teeth leaping 12 feet in the air. Gives me anxiety.
The paleoart of the smilodon snarling atop a trapped mastodon at two trapped direwolves is gorgeous. I love the early 1900s-1930s Pleisticine paleoart ...
Man I love this video. It takes me back to my childhood when I was fascinated by nature and wildlife. I bought every issue of Funk & Wagnells wildlife encyclopedia and the Time/Life series. I wish you would've covered the Passenger Pigeon. The Passenger Pigeon is considered to have been the single most numerous species of bird in North America with flocks numbering in the billions. It is recorded that when they passed over on their annual migration from the northern forest to the south a clear cloudless day would turn to night dark for hours as the innumerable flock would fly overhead raining down guano like a heavy rainstorm. Sadly, its downfall as a species began upon the arrival of European settlers and it went into extinction only 27 years after its scientific classification. If you want to know more about the Passenger Pigeon highly recommend Allen W. Eckert's "The Silent Sky".
I really hope we start seeing a bunch of things that cover the Pleistocene era. It's fascinating to learn what things lived during that era. The biodiversity was insane then
I just started the video, so i dont know if it features, but the very concept of a giant sloth breaks my brain. Utterly terrifying. I imagine it like some lovecraftian fiction and not like a thing that existed. Lol
Glyptodonts alongside terror birds and sebecids are some of the few Cenozoic animals that I'd really love to see alive today, they're all so alien when compared to most modern land vertebrates.
11:21 that is a map of the countrys the bear inhabiited not its range this is labeled incorrectly how did you expect us to believe that it lived in Alaska and Hawaii but not Canada
Can you confirm that horses originated in North America, but towards the end of the Ice Age, some migrated over the still-frozen Bering Straits. They then spread over Northern Asia and eventually reached Europe. Meanwhile they became extirpated in the Americas. They became domesticated by humans. It is possible that humans saved horses from extinction and horses pulled humans out of the Stone Age. Meanwhile horses were absent from the Americas until they were reintroduced by Europeans in the 16th century AD.
The last mammoths died in Siberia only 4000 years ago. This was 500 years AFTER the great pyramids of Giza were built, and thus at a time when human high civilizations already existed, and at a time when humans in Europe already lived in houses, practiced agriculture, and knew how to make tools and weapons out of bronze (but about 800 years before they started to make tools out of iron).
8:58 The jaguar actually has an extremely strong bite, the strongest of any land predator including polar bears, with the official bite force recorded by guiness at 1500 psi. The only land animal with a stronger bite than the jaguar is the hippo. Jaguars need such a strong bite because they kill caiman by crushing their skulls.
Very well-done video. I especially appreciate the real human narration instead of the annoying machine narration that so many channels use now. Good job!
The Spanish brought horses to the Americas when they first arrived. Those horse became feral, and spread throughout the Americas. But that was roughly 500 years ago. The original horses of the Americas had been extinct thousands of years before European contact.
From the Europeans. Native Americans did not domesticate animals or farm. They also didn’t need to show Europeans “how to live off the land” of course, seeing as how Europeans came from a much scarcer and harsher climate instead of the giant and easy to migrate landmass of America. Europeans had been “living off the land” so successfully without the native American’s help as a matter of fact that they were able to use the land to invent tools and farm and store food well enough that they sailed across the ocean and then created their own colonies on America that mirrored the ones they had already set up on their own native Europe.
Just a clarification here: *The first documented European arrival in the Americas were the **_Norse_** around the mid 900s.* They would not have required any assistance to farm or hunt, both of which they successfully did wherever they went. Norse explorers attempted to establish trade with cultures they encountered during voyages, and in north America, they likely did so with First Nations peoples as well. Just sayin' since a Spanish conquistador was shown at the beginning of clip in reference to first European arrivals. The Spanish and Portuguese arrived 500 years _after_ the Norse.
Sure, but saying they wouldn’t require assistance is a bit of stretch considering how quickly those colonies died out. Either they were not thriving, contracted diseases from the natives, or were wiped out in hostilities.
@@Snailz5 Not at all a stretch since in examining the latitude of known landing and settlement sites, and a comparison to flora and fauna on *both* continents, climate and huge similarities in genera emerge. It would have been very easy for the Norse not just to survive, but do very well. The Norse _chose_ not to remain in Greenland and North America because they did not establish consistent and reliable trading partnerships. They weren't interested in staying for long-term settlement purposes. Claiming otherwise is simplistic stereotyping in contradiction with established historical findings - some of it written down by the Norse themselves with those written histories surviving in Iceland.
@luisa.acevedo3326 Oh, but they did. Your unwillingness to comprehend that achievement means _less than nothing._ Spain wasn't the first European arrivals. _Get over it._
@@EyeSeeThruYou except spain was the first to share the discovery, you know, which is far more important than just arriving first, then not telling anyone else about it
I don’t know if people understand that 5cm (50mm) of amour on an animal is more armor than what was on early WW2 tanks such as the Panzer II and Stuart
Excellent video! I particularly love the size comparisons, those always help (and yeah, I saw 'Justin Bieber' on the beaver chart!) I've been to one of the mammoth-kill sites, the Murray Springs Clovis archaeological site in Sierra Vista AZ-- it's between my home and Tombstone, so I and a couple of friends went on one of the Friends of the San Pedro guided walks and got to listen to a local archaeologist explain the whole thing, show us the black mat and soforth. Pretty impressive, and all that area is open range with the rare small house-- you can look out there from my friends' home in Sierra Vista AZ and just imagine mammoths meandering across the landscape. We were allowed to examine some actual Clovis points, too, and one replica of a bone shaft-straightener from the period of the kill site; I do a little knapping myself, and those points were *amazingly* made-- way past my skill level.
I dive in a lot of rivers and beavers are a true fear of mine. They are very territorial and if the giant one still existed, I don’t think I would go into any slow moving body of freshwater
I'm thinking climate took most of them out. First, because that is what takes most animal out and the humans of that time were essentially part of the natural ecosystem. No food, their numbers drop just like any other predators/prey relationship. Also, during this time they had limited means of travel. Walking or canoe could only take them so far. It would be difficult to wipe out a population of animals with such broad ranges and the numbers of humans alive were not that great.
@@TmanRock9 we're still in the 'ice age', just in an interglacial, and there have been many interglacial and glacial periods over the past 2 million years that didn't kill off every animal over 1 ton across two continents
@@chir0pter yes I’m aware but I figured you’d know what I was talking about. About 12,000 years ago global temperatures became warm enough to begin melting much of the glaciers causing a rise in sea level and dramatic changes to earths climate cause the extinction of much of the megafauna. Every animal weighing more than a ton didn’t die during this period, they still exist today across multiple continents. Perhaps I should say that human hunting played a role but it appears this change in the climate played a role as-well considering megafauna generally didn’t start going extinct until this current interglacial period. And this was often tens of thousands of years after human contact with this megafauna in these regions.
@@TmanRock9 "Every animal weighing more than a ton didn’t die during this period" IN THE AMERICAS yes they did. Some exceptional bison can reach 1 metric ton but the ones that average >1ton are gone. In North America alone that was 10 species. Also lost in NA were 34 genera of mammals. None of this happened during previous interglacials because humans were necessary and sufficient to k ll off megafauna in all environments with naive animals and/or a lack of tropical disease keeping human populations in check. Humans were initially very small in population in North America and they had primitive technology plus abundant megafauna but their populations grew with no natural limits and their technology got better, culminating in the Clovis style of megafaunal hunting gear. E.g. Johnson 2009 Science (professional journal) "Megafaunal Decline and Fall"
@@TmanRock9 UA-cam doesn't want to post my reply it seems. Let's try again (worked this time not for my follow-up so that is below). "Every animal weighing more than a ton didn’t die during this period" yes they did IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. Some exceptional bison can reach 1 metric ton but the ones that average >1ton are gone. In North America alone that was 10 species. Also lost in NA were 34 genera of mammals. None of this happened during previous interglacials because humans were necessary and sufficient to k ll off megafauna in all environments with naive animals and/or a lack of tropical disease keeping human populations in check. Humans were initially very small in population in North America and they had primitive technology plus abundant megafauna but their populations grew with no natural limits and their technology got better, culminating in the Clovis style of megafaunal hunting gear. E.g. Johnson 2009 Science (professional journal) "Megafaunal Decline and Fall" Edited since UA-cam keeps censoring me: No, I don't agree with you lol. We have proxy evidence showing large herbivore decline for at least a thousand years before their disappearance in one area of Indiana. They could have been declining for even longer, and saturated the detection limit until the last 1000 years, or humans could have arrived en masse to that locale 1000 years prior to extinction. Like I said, there was a long lead time as humans built up populations and moved to new areas! All 10 species weighing over 1 ton in the Americas went extinct, which is what I said. 34 genera of mammals went extinct in NA alone. A similar thing happened in Australia btw- there weren't suddenly 1,000,000 people in Australia, and the megafauna didn't all die out at once. Humans were necessary and sufficient. Megafauna survived many periods of changing climate. Nothing special about the last deglaciation. The NA megafauna declined over a long period and went extinct during a period of relatively quiescient climate. The same thing happened in Eurasia- even earlier, and PRIOR TO the deglaciation- and even Africa and tropical Asia saw extinctions, but peoples there were more primitive and also were kept in check by long coevolution with prey species and by tropical disease.
Lmao it's hilarious this meme of "environmentally sensitive" "Native" americans is still going strong. They didn't "live alongside" the megafauna, they killed it off.
Wow great writing the script and also the spot on film editing so well synchronized with your narrative. You should get some kind of award for this! Thank you for such a fine documentary! I never had such a lucid view of what the native North Americans faced in their era. I also never knew 500 people die a year from large cats!
@@aerondight3029knowing how to build ships,=/= knowing how to survive in an unfamiliar land. There is a reason the first settlements in North America failed.
The climate of Europe and North America at the same latitude and even more south are very different. North America is vulnerable to unexpected cold snaps hence the reason why the first settlers had a hard time farming the land like they did in Europe.
@@rarelife1 Yea but even the west and east coasts of America, at the same lattitudes, don't have identical weather. My point is that generally speaking, it's not THAT different. It's not like going from the Arctic circle to the Tropics. Also, the Europeans taught the Indians how to farm and raise livestock... not the other way around. Hell, in the Southwest the Indians used to literally starve every year waiting for the prickly pear cactus to bloom, until the Spanish taught them how to farm and domesticate animals.
I heard on a Big Cat documentary that Cougars also went extinct in North America during the mass extinction event about 12,000 years ago. North America was later repopulated with Cougars from South America.
Camelops surprised me the most. Camels are the last thing I would imagine being in the Americas. I wish they were still around. They sound and look so chill.
I remember looking up Native American folklore, and I would find tales of a craze wooly mammoth. I had no idea that Native Americans had encounters with such an extinct creature, but I would read it while thinking “wow, I’m reading a story about human beings encountering a wooly mammoth, holy hell!” Also I was actively looking up folklore, but I’ll be honest, the tale didn’t sound that mythological, if u get my drift. I mean was the mammoth talking to the human characters and setting them on to a journey, could that be why it was considered folklore? Well it wasn’t. The mammoth was described as being a hairy beast with tusks, the villagers were concerned of the mammoth’s ferocity, because it was angry around the humans because it was territorial and nothing more. The tale wasn’t all that fictional. So why was it considered folklore? Because ppl were overwhelmed when they discovered a story that had a wooly mammoth in it and were like “no way did human beings see those things!” But here’s the thing, paleontologists already discovered the fossils of Woolly Mammoths. So if the description of woolly mammoths pops up in Native American culture, then you can bet your ass that that event did happen.
I'm Northern Cheyenne and we remember the giant animals, they were bigger than they tell you. We didn't kill them off they died out from the weather getting warmer. We were told this by the people who brought us here, some kind of metallic ship we referred to as a giant turtle. Interestingly we called Spanish knights turtle men due to their metal armor. This turtle ship brought us here from an island place where we were starving. Someone took pity on us.
the ridges on the beaver's teeth would technically make a higher pressure on the wood, making the cutting more efficient... penetrating the top layer(s) of wood easier at least, the edge then peels the wood along the grain and incises the far end of the piece it's biting off? ahh logic....coming to (possibly) the wrong conclusion, but with confidence!! 🤭
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These videos make me understand why the Native Americans had so many folklores and scary stories. Love it
Bear across the board got smaller, you see alot of smaller bears these days.
looks like everything got smaller, the cats too. I wonder why...
@@john-ic5pzless prey abundance and smaller habitats
@@john-ic5pz Increasing heat. Also, there was about 35% more oxygen 300 million years ago than today which lead to animals evolving to be bigger. When it decreased and climate changed, animals either adapted and evolved to suit the conditions, or they failed and died off. Or were hunted.
They wiped out all these animals you know.....
Dire Wolf bite marks have been reported on human bones. Whether these humans were hunted or if the wolves dug them out of a grave site is the question
"a dingo ate my baby!!!"
I'd wager it was a fortuitous hunt. I imagine we'd not have buried a peer in a shallow grave so easily accessed by wildlife. or did they happen to do "sky burials", leaving the corpse in the wilds for animals to eat? I don't know the region and era well enough to say...hence the wager. 😁
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@@john-ic5pz Could have also been a scavenging opportunity. After all, these guys lived in open wilderness with many hazards - a lost/starving hunter, a fall leading to a broken limb, an illness that their immune system couldn't adapt to fast enough, any of these can take a person when on their own before others can get to them. At that point once they're dead and not found by their community the meat's free game for whatever finds it first.
Could be both.
Dire wolves were impressive animals.
There hasnt ever been a recorded killing of a human from a healthy wolf, much like with Orcas. Now the occasional near death wolf that has been kicked out of the pack is a different story.
If they looked up in the sky, they would see flocks of Passenger pigeons, the most common bird in North America, that took hours to pass by and were so dense they actually had the same effect as solar eclipses and dimmed the daylight by blocking out the sun. A single rifle shot upwards without even aiming would down 15 or more birds. Imagine the killing rate that it took to drive 5 billion birds to extinction in less than 300 years.
...or to wipe out almost all bison in about two decades.
American Burbon changed flavour due to the loss of the white oak that needed passenger pigeons to spread its seeds.
Weren't nets employed to great effect?
I saw a stuffed passenger pigeon in a museum. It was about the size of a parakeet.
I would rather NOT! Those little birds were gorgeous, and human greed is some bullshit!
Modern people: "How did the ancient Native Americans deal with these giant animals?"
Ancient Native Americans: "By killing them, obviously."
Nobody wants to even say the truth: they were all hunted to extinction by natives
...and eating as many as possible...
There is only one race of people, that has never been linked to having a connection with nature without destroying nature and it is the greediest race.
They were the original invasive species...
And domesticating some of them.
"A bite only as strong as a jaguar's"? So... Strong enough to crush a caiman skull
Yeah.. like that's still a pretty powerful bite, being the fifth strongest bite of living animals, and the strongest of any living big cat. A smilodon's bite strenght being on the weaker side is quite a misleading phrasing.
@@lorinctoth9402 living animals is crazy, there's sharks and orcas which can have bite forces bigger than crocs
jags are op but the are plenty of animals with crazier bite forces
Full grown camians solo jaguars
@@IDraw99 Yes, I'm not saying that, I'm saying that a jaguar's bite force is still strong, and not "on the weaker side".
@@SahilK-xx3iylol no
Every single CGI generated interaction between the Lions and the Gliptadons is freaking hilarious.
Lion: "I just wanna eat you."
Gliptadon: "No!" *retracts even further winthin it's shell*
Lion: "awww, come on!"
ikr? i imagine its a much more frantic and violent interaction than depicted here
I could imagine them being rolled/batted by the lions towards water.
Idk why, but this part of history always interests me
I wanna see how the big cats and the trex looked the most.
Not that long ago in reality
It would be very interesting if the Pleistocene extinctions in the Americas were not as severe as in this timeline!
maybe because it's interesting?
It's not told, the Spanish burned the Aztec books when they colonized. Who knows what knowledge was lost. We're only beginning to piece it together now. Even what we do know the American government will be reluctant to teach in public school as they don't want citizens to sympathize with the victims of their brutal past.
It is honestly very impressive, that prehistoric humans managed not only to thrive alongside all those impressive animals but even outcompeted some of them. You would be suprised how much just a sharpened stick and stones can achieve.
Human endurance and team hunting with ranged weapons ( Bow and Atlatl) vs. Well, Anything. I'd bet on the Humans.
You mean you'd be surprised how far human intelligence, ingenuity, mastering of fire, weapon making, language/teamwork, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc....can achieve.
Modern humans, and our close human relatives, have been the dominant species on this planet for nearly 2 million years for a reason. These animals stood NO CHANCE against our prehistoric human ancestors.
Especially a large group of humans armed with pointy sticks.
you left out how these so called "natives" caused the extinction of these animals. so much for that whole "they only took what was needed bs" the leftys spew out lol
@@Highspeedoffset1comet impacts help too
Bison basically have a single huge lung, an unusual weakness that was exploited by Natives and settlers alike. A single arrow or bullet would collapse their entire respiratory system and they would drop in just a few steps.
Ah yes. They were all shot… definitely not drove off cliffs in droves by the beloved natives.
@KineticTaco What are you so smug about?
They didn't say all of them were shot, and none were killed in other ways.
Also, your comment about beloved natives is really weird, as in sarcastic. What's your issues with ancient Native Americans? They hunted just like virtually all native people
No, American bison (Bison bison) have both lungs in a single pleural cavity, which is unusual for mammals. This is because bison have an incomplete mediastinum, which is a condition that separates the pleural cavities. This single cavity is called "buffalo chest", and it can be a life-threatening condition.
@@KineticTacothis reeks of racism
@@KineticTaco found the racist guy lol
I’m Native American, Muckleshoot from Washington state. I’m so excited to watch this. My hands go up to you 🙌🏼
What’s your opinion on the term “native american”?
Rather be called Native American or First Nations. Definitely not Indian
@@sidlazzar1002how about Asian immigrant?
@@sapphonymph8204is 12,000 years ago long enough for you pal?
Native Americans aren't Indians.. Native Americans were placed on reservations by the government while Indians owned the land...You even have full blown white Europeans claiming to be native Americans... Stealing the identity of the true indigenous people will cost some greatly in the near future... People are benefitting from all the lies so they don't want the truth to come out
Fascinating how the Arctodus Simus recognized Canadian and US borders thousands of years ago
Yeah, referring to the US as America on a science video is lazy. I was confused at first.
There’s an accurate range map on the Wiki article
Yeah it's so bad, it sees the would be US border and teleports to Alaska and Hawai'i. (But honestly it's also funny)
It was Mexican
Yeah. Very good video, but the graphics depicting living areas were really bad. Following not just Canadian and US borders, but state borders too.
Gotta give some major credit to the oral traditions of a lot of these tribes. There are cautionary tales about dangerous creatures told to children to this day that describe these ancient creatures. It's amazing that 10,000+ years of telephone hasn't degraded the original memory much at all.
Oral traditions of murder and genocide of the mega fauna. Something to be very proud of.
One that remains with me are the stories of the Thunderbird.
There actually was a bird as large as the legend says (22 ft. wingspan, I believe), who rode the thermal drafts from South to North America. Which must have been terrifying, especially for parents, hence the stories.
@@eddysgaming9868 PFFT
@sapphonymph8204 pfft yourself, look up extinct giant vultures. I wish this guy had covered them in this video. They were massive.
@@sapphonymph8204all humans killed the megafauna in each continent stop acting as if the we were the only ones!
I was not prepared for what an absolute unit the Giant Beaver was
In texas..
They can be quite intimidating and should always be approached with caution.
Beaver is great. Love 'em.
Beavers are still a unit don’t get it twisted, I would rather get chased by a bear instead of a beaver.
Ah yes, Casteroides. A beaver as big as a black bear. Must've been QUITE a sight to behold when they were alive.
15:34 a few years ago during the construction of the new Mexico City airport, near to was once lake Texcoco, the bones of 480 mammoths were discovered, including 70 full skeletons, many of them with marks of being hunted by humans. Archaeologist also found bones of saberthots, gliptodons, camels, horses and humans.
Holy shit saber thots
Recently they found out that the population of humans in the Americas at the time was around 300 thousand while the amount of Mammoths was close to 2 million or more. Findings of these massive sites with hundreds of bones aren’t from humans killing them with most of these bones are broken bones shattered in places that couldn’t of been caused by human. With new discoveries in the past 20 years we now know that at the end of the last Ice Age there was immensely huge extinction level occurrences that happened continuously throughout the next hundred years from a huge one that happened right at the End of the Last Ice Age around 12 thousand BC witch maybe lasted damaging the earth so much that civilization wasn’t able to recover until the “first writings” showed up around 6000 BC. Huge astroids plummeting the earth the size of Texas causing 400 foot tsunamis impacts causing volcanoes to erupt killing most of the living things on earth. Hence why every single animal that was in the ice age dying in a span of a week, for 2 miles thick of ice covering 80% of the world, to have that sudden change that quick its either an extinction event or the sun must of been so hot to boil every breathing thing on earth to crisps either way it wasn’t the humans who made these animals go extinct its the way of life that got them. Witch will happen to us someday. With the generations of humans who had immense knowledge and resources completely wiped from history. Where we are now think about where they were when that shit hit. We know these pyramids where created before or around the same time as the ice age. Thousands of years of knowledge passed down and lost to time to be stolen and taken thousands of years later once everything settled on land. They say the first civilization started 5000-6000 bc i think the previous ones were thousands of years advanced in their learnings just for it to be lost in time. They say it started 6000 years ago with the first writings i think they just showed up at these places and called it their own with no knowledge or explanation how these megalithic structures were built and who built them. Its too bad the real archaeologists and historians are the ones not letting the people who built this world know how we got here.
Love that USA-centric map at 11:23. Looks like they knew about the Alaska purchase in advance of the event.
Hawaii pog
Left out one of the most impressive predators, the American Lion.
Yeah it's pretty crazy the amount of diversity America had then. Cave lions, American cheetah, a whole array of different saber toothed cats, etc., etc.
I did think of the cave lion during the smilodon segment.
Pronghorn antelope evolved to be so fast to outrun the American cheetah which has been extinct for a long time
@@serahloeffelroberts9901 yeah that's a awesome little fact. Pronghorns are so stupid fast. I wish we could have seen what a beast American Cheetah was like. When I was young I was obsessed with cheetahs because of how fast they were. As a kid I was obsessed with trying to be faster than everyone. Then I grew up and learned more about cheetahs and it bums me out. I wish cheetahs weren't so genetically bottlenecked. I wish we could see a more impressive well rounded kind of cheetah. Currently They struggle so much to survive compared to all the other animals around them. It's a bummer how much they are struggling
I was recently at the Labrea Tarpit Museum in Los Angeles. I saw some skeletons of American Lions. Even as a display skeleton you could see how large they were.
The giraffe lifting up the kid is wild 😂
It happened again 2 weeks ago at the drive thru safari in central Texas.
The giraffe was going for the food but grabbed the toddler.😅
2min video on YT.
I replayed that a few times. To go from family fun to complete panic is pretty funny lol. The dad is like oh shit! 😂
@@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 I think some replayed it for the mama! LOL
@@Methadone4Life Same lol
There is so, so much history and records from native americans (South and North) lost forever...
Humans globally have lost a lot of information, I'd love to know what various cultures were in Africa 50,000 years ago
Records are hard to make when you don't have a written language.
@@dillonhillier yeah.. though there were still a *few* written languages of sorts before contact, notably in hieroglyphic forms in centeral america and (i think) the northeast had a small hieroglyphic system
@@theratgod8194 yeah, glyphs and pictographs in mesoamerica. Not sure about the NE. Regardless, nothing that could keep detailed records.
that’s what happens when colonizers also destroy cultures into extinction, destroy literature and history recorded by those ppl
The bear map was funny af. Bear be like, Ill live in the lower 48 and Alaska, but F Canada.
😂😂😂😂
He didn’t have his international visa, I can relate
As a Canadian I was kinda glad to see that there weren’t even bigger bears here before. Thank god for boarders lol
Well pretty much most of Canada was under 2 giant ice sheets during that time period so it kinda makes sense.
They ended up in Chicago
their lives were beyond brutal but they saw some amazing things that will never be seen again.
Native Americans encounter and witness America's big beasts
Lucky bastards.
And hunted them to extinction.
@@patsyleeoswald9912probably not, they coexisted with them for thousands of years.
Now facing peeslamic beasts.
@@patsyleeoswald9912
No, i wouldn’t think they killed all of them, these things are fucking massive
People adapt yes, but i wouldn’t say they all killed them
Pretty sure there were a lot of carnivores/omnivores to wipe out most of these animals
It’s the cycle of life, it happens with every animal, the disappearance for these animals aren’t the native Americans to blame
I saw a hunter drop a cape buffalo with a compound bow. It flinched when the arrow hit then went back to grazing. Within 10 feet it layed down and passed on. I was MAD impressed 😮
I quit eating meat because of the way the animals are treated. I always questioned how the natives (Earth Honoring) beings did it. You gave me a view, I had not yet imagined. Thank you.
@@edie4321 it was incredible. He was just squatting in some thick brush, he popped up, shot the arrow and squatted right back down. The animal probably felt a bee sting at most, looked around like no big deal and went back to its business. The hunter just sat and waited patiently. It was such a calm process it really felt like the cruelty was taken completely out. That's a master level hunter that everyone at one point strived to become.
@@warmist8197, It sounds amazing, and something I would not imagine, but want to. Thank you for sharing.
he used poison, it's not really that impressive, any semi competent hunter can do it
@@stefthorman8548 no, he did not use poison. The shot was perfectly placed hitting both lungs.
I don’t know what’s scarier: The fact that they managed to take down these giant Mammoths or the fact that I’m taller than the America Mastodon
Well, clearly you know what you must do. Find a great club and ride to glory.
Yet it was much heavier than modern elephants.
@@infinitemonkey917 Not as heavy as CaseOh
(Sorry i just had to do it. It was like right there just begging to be turned into a caseoh joke)
@@reigoemon2229 Pretty sure I'm too old to get that.
@@infinitemonkey917 Probably. Everyone just likes making jokes about CaseOh being fat
I find it interesting as I love this kind of thing, that when you show North American range you stop at the Canadian border then continue once again at Alaska
They also had to take down fully grown buffalo without the use of horses, as they weren't reintroduced to America until Europeans arrived.
Also, it's crazy to think that the great plains once resembled the serengeti with bison instead of wilderbeast.
They would herd them off of cliffs in some cases.
@@jimc4839some? Most.
@@KineticTacoSome, if our ancestors had done that for all hunts there wouldn't have been much left for the next hunting season, and different tribes and individuals had different preferences for hunting bison.
I was thinking of that when dire wolves having a strong bite to take down horses was mentioned.
There were relatives of horses that they killed off. Long before horses were brought from the old world.
6:42 mistake found, the dire wolf didn't out number other animals as the environment just cant support that but instead 1 prey item would be getting chased by a pack of dire wolfs and all would get stuck in the tar that is why there are so many dire wolfs to not dire wolfs in those pits
I think he was talking in relation to other predators granted if so he could have been clearer
Another mistake is pretending the Native Americans taught Europeans how to farm
@@glyptodongaming5629 Europeans didn't know how to grow North American crops. Like maize/corn.
@HungryCats70 it wasn't/ isn't hard to grow & matures quickly, no need to teach anybody
I hate to be that guy, but it's "wolves." The plural of "wolf."
Concluding that there was a huge amount of dire wolfs because way more is found in a tar pit, is really not scientific at all.
Tar pits are traps with often live bait calling out in desperation, that attracts wolfs
What is interesting is that they never found American lions in the tar pits.
@@amicableenmity9820I think American lion has been found in tar pits? Just it is very rare, maybe because the animal itself was rare
Can we make a petition for Extinct Zoo to make "Extinct Animals The (insert ancient people of a particular place) Saw" a series.
Were there any magnificent creatures in North America that went extinct sometime notably after the last Ice Age ended? Ngl I wish American Lions and Camels still existed
The horse who evolved in North America also vanished completely, not to return until the Spanish brought the horse back to the continent. Wild horses on the plains undoubtedly were descended from warm blood stock who were bred in desert conditions.
This is already a series and this isn't the first video they made with that exact format.
The only members of the camel family in the Americas who survived were the llama, the alpaca and the wild vicuna in South America.
@@serahloeffelroberts9901 And the guanaco.
@@serahloeffelroberts9901the llama? Fr?😂😂😂😂😂😂 That thing survived all those monsters like creatures 🤦♂️😭
Man I wish for the best to all Natives, they have such amazing history and culture.
Despite that, I've lost a lot of respect for them in the last few years, as more and more research proves it was their fault for the demise of most of the megafuana.
It just goes to show-people are people, no matter what race, religion, etc. We're all to blame for the degradation of our world. Honestly, we humans should all hang our heads in shame.
@@JoshTrager-j9g literally all humans
@druidic4353 I know. I mean like native peoples as a whole. Pacific Islanders, Australian Aborigines, etc.
@druidic4353 Also, what are you getting at? I literally said before ALL people. As in Aborigines too.
As a native of North America, I thank you for
13:48 “Suffered from island dwarfism" makes it sound like it had a disability, when in truth, it was an adaptation that enabled it to survive and thrive in its insular environment.
Good point
Then he should've said, it benefitted from island dwarfism
Last time I was this early, India was still an Island
Iceland is an island.
@@MattiasSvanberg1987some early European Explorers thought India was an Island, hence the joke.
@balung Who thought that India was an island? First time heard this 🤔
@@balung Wasn't it an *actual* island during the time of the Dinosaurs? Or is it still too big to count?
@@balung also india used to literally be an island
"Half a ruler in size" is my new favourite Americans using anything but the metric system 😂
Because the metric system is gay.
@@Rockhound6165the imperial system is British so it’s more gay
Actually jaguars have the most powerful bite force out of all big cats at 1,500 psi and is double that of a tiger
Wrong, that is incorrect. Jaguars only have the strongest bite force pound for pound, not in real life. In real life, their bite force is around 750 pounds, which is still impressive for their size, but lions and tigers have the strongest bite force at over 1000psi
Do you realize how big a tigers mouth is compared to a Jaguar lol. Cmon
Y’all are arguing about this when Jaguar is P4P big cat king. Tiger crush necks to suffocate, Jaguar crushes the skull to get it over with. That tells you everything you need.
Reportedly they can crush a caiman skull with a single bite. That's impressive
@jancyvargheese5351 and when I look it up you're wrong 😂
Not surprising at all that camelops would have been largely avoided as a food item. Camels today are usually not liked as a food item - their meat's allegedly really tough and tastes bad. The main reason why they're used as a domestic animal has more to do with their survivability and use as a pack animal than for food.
True. I never heard of anyone wanting to grill up some camel steaks, but I have heard that camel milk is considered a health food.
@@5riversdeep628 I wouldn't know myself, but from what little I do know of what we consider "health food" it probably wouldn't taste very good.
But why didn't the indigenous people domesticate them as beasts-of-burden?
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 Likely something they didn't figure out about doing yet, not to mention it would have required certain tools and an excess of food. Part of what made animal husbandry possible was basic agriculture and the ability to store food that wasn't needed to feed people/their families. It's usually assumed that up until after the passing of the ice age the prehistoric Native Americans were largely hunter-gatherers. By then most of the big megafauna would have died out, including the stuff we normally associate with animal domestication like camels and horses.
Um no, camels have quite good meat, and are eaten with appetite in their native range.
Thank you for making this! The more I learn about my ancestors, the more I find that they were badasses and surely among the wisest on the planet 🙌
Suggestion for next similar video: Extinct animals the ancient Roman’s saw
And the first group of humans!! Imagine what kind of creatures were running around then 😳
Ancient Egyptians go back farther
I think I saw a video with that exact title. I would like ExtinctZoo to tackle this topic too, as the Roman Empire caused the extinction of some of these said extinct animals
The romans caused the extinction of the atlas lion. So many were used in gladiator fights.
@@darrenshaw6724
There was a plant that was supposed to prevent pregnancy that they wiped out also.
A millisecond long TF2 reference 😻
Time stamp? ❤
@@patchpasch7147 13:48
That's a giant beaver 😂
That's what he said.
you're a giant beaver
@@patsyleeoswald9912dang you beat me to it
Yur mom..
Thanks I stuffed it myself
I saw a giant beaver once. It was big and hairy. Looked unkempt. Smelled of fish. After getting wet, it tried to munch on my wood but a beaver that size has probably destroyed a lot of wood before so I used protection and from my wood, i got it off.
Huh?? There exctinct.
@A_Rainworld_Fan. Actually they're more common than you think. Just gotta know where to look. Even know a woman who did OF in college but is a game warden now. She took me out in the woods at a local reserve and showed me a massive beaver. I couldn't believe how big it was!
@@eros5420Damn I thought you were joking at first that's crazy!! 😂 I can believe it though.
@@eros5420How big did it look estimate of weight?
@orlandowilliamson691 Reread my reply slowly 😂
A jaguar is bite is actually very strong. It can get through a Caymans hide as well as punch through tortoise shell. For pound it’s actually the strongest bite of any big cat alive currently
Seen a couple dead humans in Brazil on bestgore bitten straight through the skull. Like a hydraulic machine had done it. Amazingly strong
0:47 was I the only one who initially read that as "ice-coffee corridor"? 😂
My mom is Cherokee! Most of the time I'm just like my Scottish dad....but when life is difficult or I face opposition that's when I realize there's a strength in me that comes from the things she's taught me through the years. Thanks for posting this video. We're not forgotten and our history is not forgotten. ❤
21:33 21:33 😮😮😮
Nobody faced life’s difficulties and opponents like the Europeans did. If anything cherokees were conquered and given casinos out of sympathy and mercy from the Europeans who conquered them. So is what you’re saying is when life gets tough you wait for someone with a handout to rescue you?
@@DumHeather Jeremiah 29:11 is for our Cherokee people today! And for anyone who reads this.
@@Fearlessdove you’re not Cherokee tho. No such thing as a blonde and white Cherokee. Time for white people (especially the women) to take pride in their OWN people and quit grasping at straws to try to belong to some group the hateful media deems more exotic and interesting. It’s obvious BS anyway. Europeans are a tiny minority on this earth and created the most beautiful and prosperous cultures and societies the worlds ever seen. Quit falsely claiming others and take some pride in your own. Nothing less moral and more disgusting than betraying your own people.
I have something in common with these ancient natives. I was born in the late 1900s (1992) and I have seen the homo sapiens with common sense go extinct.
All jokes aside the thought of a Kodiak bear sized big cat with swords for teeth leaping 12 feet in the air. Gives me anxiety.
The paleoart of the smilodon snarling atop a trapped mastodon at two trapped direwolves is gorgeous. I love the early 1900s-1930s Pleisticine paleoart ...
Man this has to be one of my favourite channels on YT. I could literally watch paleo-art on repeat all day.
Your vids rock man! As a life-long learner and zoology and archeology buff, I love starting my day with your vids. Rock on brother 🤘🏻
Man I love this video. It takes me back to my childhood when I was fascinated by nature and wildlife. I bought every issue of Funk & Wagnells wildlife encyclopedia and the Time/Life series.
I wish you would've covered the Passenger Pigeon.
The Passenger Pigeon is considered to have been the single most numerous species of bird in North America with flocks numbering in the billions. It is recorded that when they passed over on their annual migration from the northern forest to the south a clear cloudless day would turn to night dark for hours as the innumerable flock would fly overhead raining down guano like a heavy rainstorm. Sadly, its downfall as a species began upon the arrival of European settlers and it went into extinction only 27 years after its scientific classification.
If you want to know more about the Passenger Pigeon highly recommend Allen W. Eckert's "The Silent Sky".
My hat goes off to the Native Americans tribes who had encountered the Short-faced bear 🐻 😵💫😵💫
My favourite bit was the kid feeding the girafs. Up ya Go!
😂Love it.
Did you see it happened 2 weeks ago in central Texas?
The giraffe was going for the food but nabbed the toddler.
I really hope we start seeing a bunch of things that cover the Pleistocene era. It's fascinating to learn what things lived during that era. The biodiversity was insane then
Video starts around 2:30
Legend
MVP
Thank you😊💅
MVP
The first humans on the North and South American continents probably got here by following the herds of mammoths, mastodons, etc.
Scientists now say Mammoth’s lived up to 10,000 years ago on an Island in the northern pacific.
Makes me wish there was a show or movie based around this time
It would be thoroughly bastardized with copious amounts of Political Correctness… Wokeism and CGI. It’s what Gen-Z demands these days…
I'd watch that
kudos to whoever named Smilodon, considering the big toothy grin it must've had 😁
20:50 the goose has never and will never be afraid of anything.
I just started the video, so i dont know if it features, but the very concept of a giant sloth breaks my brain. Utterly terrifying. I imagine it like some lovecraftian fiction and not like a thing that existed. Lol
I wish Glyptodonts were still around.
They got killed to build housing. 😒
Glyptodonts alongside terror birds and sebecids are some of the few Cenozoic animals that I'd really love to see alive today, they're all so alien when compared to most modern land vertebrates.
You can thank the ancient people for that.
11:21 that is a map of the countrys the bear inhabiited not its range this is labeled incorrectly
how did you expect us to believe that it lived in Alaska and Hawaii but not Canada
The fuck is your problem.
Can you confirm that horses originated in North America, but towards the end of the Ice Age, some migrated over the still-frozen Bering Straits. They then spread over Northern Asia and eventually reached Europe. Meanwhile they became extirpated in the Americas. They became domesticated by humans. It is possible that humans saved horses from extinction and horses pulled humans out of the Stone Age.
Meanwhile horses were absent from the Americas until they were reintroduced by Europeans in the 16th century AD.
The last mammoths died in Siberia only 4000 years ago. This was 500 years AFTER the great pyramids of Giza were built, and thus at a time when human high civilizations already existed, and at a time when humans in Europe already lived in houses, practiced agriculture, and knew how to make tools and weapons out of bronze (but about 800 years before they started to make tools out of iron).
Bro jaguars have the strongest bite of any big cat alive today
Yeah, I didn’t get that like,bro… they merk crocs….
@@blammela*caimans
Pt 2 should definitely include the American lion and the American cheetah
Can't forget the American rhinocheraus
How I wish I can see these creatures for just one day.
8:58 The jaguar actually has an extremely strong bite, the strongest of any land predator including polar bears, with the official bite force recorded by guiness at 1500 psi. The only land animal with a stronger bite than the jaguar is the hippo. Jaguars need such a strong bite because they kill caiman by crushing their skulls.
Very well-done video. I especially appreciate the real human narration instead of the annoying machine narration that so many channels use now. Good job!
Where did the natives get the buffalo-taking-down horses from?
Horses that escaped from European explorers, I believe. The horses native to North America had gone extinct some thousands of years earlier.
The Spanish brought horses to the Americas when they first arrived. Those horse became feral, and spread throughout the Americas. But that was roughly 500 years ago. The original horses of the Americas had been extinct thousands of years before European contact.
From the Europeans. Native Americans did not domesticate animals or farm. They also didn’t need to show Europeans “how to live off the land” of course, seeing as how Europeans came from a much scarcer and harsher climate instead of the giant and easy to migrate landmass of America. Europeans had been “living off the land” so successfully without the native American’s help as a matter of fact that they were able to use the land to invent tools and farm and store food well enough that they sailed across the ocean and then created their own colonies on America that mirrored the ones they had already set up on their own native Europe.
Just a clarification here:
*The first documented European arrival in the Americas were the **_Norse_** around the mid 900s.*
They would not have required any assistance to farm or hunt, both of which they successfully did wherever they went.
Norse explorers attempted to establish trade with cultures they encountered during voyages, and in north America, they likely did so with First Nations peoples as well.
Just sayin' since a Spanish conquistador was shown at the beginning of clip in reference to first European arrivals.
The Spanish and Portuguese arrived 500 years _after_ the Norse.
Sure, but saying they wouldn’t require assistance is a bit of stretch considering how quickly those colonies died out. Either they were not thriving, contracted diseases from the natives, or were wiped out in hostilities.
@@Snailz5 Not at all a stretch since in examining the latitude of known landing and settlement sites, and a comparison to flora and fauna on *both* continents, climate and huge similarities in genera emerge.
It would have been very easy for the Norse not just to survive, but do very well.
The Norse _chose_ not to remain in Greenland and North America because they did not establish consistent and reliable trading partnerships. They weren't interested in staying for long-term settlement purposes.
Claiming otherwise is simplistic stereotyping in contradiction with established historical findings - some of it written down by the Norse themselves with those written histories surviving in Iceland.
Who cares? They didn't achieve anything.
@luisa.acevedo3326 Oh, but they did. Your unwillingness to comprehend that achievement means _less than nothing._
Spain wasn't the first European arrivals. _Get over it._
@@EyeSeeThruYou except spain was the first to share the discovery, you know, which is far more important than just arriving first, then not telling anyone else about it
I don’t know if people understand that 5cm (50mm) of amour on an animal is more armor than what was on early WW2 tanks such as the Panzer II and Stuart
Anti-artillery armor but for really big weird dogs
Excellent video! I particularly love the size comparisons, those always help (and yeah, I saw 'Justin Bieber' on the beaver chart!)
I've been to one of the mammoth-kill sites, the Murray Springs Clovis archaeological site in Sierra Vista AZ-- it's between my home and Tombstone, so I and a couple of friends went on one of the Friends of the San Pedro guided walks and got to listen to a local archaeologist explain the whole thing, show us the black mat and soforth. Pretty impressive, and all that area is open range with the rare small house-- you can look out there from my friends' home in Sierra Vista AZ and just imagine mammoths meandering across the landscape. We were allowed to examine some actual Clovis points, too, and one replica of a bone shaft-straightener from the period of the kill site; I do a little knapping myself, and those points were *amazingly* made-- way past my skill level.
I dive in a lot of rivers and beavers are a true fear of mine. They are very territorial and if the giant one still existed, I don’t think I would go into any slow moving body of freshwater
As a white woman…. I would 1000% try to rescue one and put it in jammies lol
I'm thinking climate took most of them out. First, because that is what takes most animal out and the humans of that time were essentially part of the natural ecosystem. No food, their numbers drop just like any other predators/prey relationship. Also, during this time they had limited means of travel. Walking or canoe could only take them so far. It would be difficult to wipe out a population of animals with such broad ranges and the numbers of humans alive were not that great.
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I think we had a wooly mammoth skeleton at my college that was found nearby. I remember it reached the second floor of the building. Pretty neat.
Pygmy Mammoth is one of my favorite oxymorons. I also wish that you covered ground sloths because they are so different from their current relatives.
Suggestion for a next similar video: "Extinct Animals The Ancient Norse Pagan's Saw."
You mean seen? Not saw
Or Mongols saw
"Extinct Animals The Native Americans Killed Off"
End of the ice age it appears
@@TmanRock9 we're still in the 'ice age', just in an interglacial, and there have been many interglacial and glacial periods over the past 2 million years that didn't kill off every animal over 1 ton across two continents
@@chir0pter yes I’m aware but I figured you’d know what I was talking about. About 12,000 years ago global temperatures became warm enough to begin melting much of the glaciers causing a rise in sea level and dramatic changes to earths climate cause the extinction of much of the megafauna.
Every animal weighing more than a ton didn’t die during this period, they still exist today across multiple continents.
Perhaps I should say that human hunting played a role but it appears this change in the climate played a role as-well considering megafauna generally didn’t start going extinct until this current interglacial period. And this was often tens of thousands of years after human contact with this megafauna in these regions.
@@TmanRock9 "Every animal weighing more than a ton didn’t die during this period" IN THE AMERICAS yes they did. Some exceptional bison can reach 1 metric ton but the ones that average >1ton are gone. In North America alone that was 10 species. Also lost in NA were 34 genera of mammals. None of this happened during previous interglacials because humans were necessary and sufficient to k ll off megafauna in all environments with naive animals and/or a lack of tropical disease keeping human populations in check. Humans were initially very small in population in North America and they had primitive technology plus abundant megafauna but their populations grew with no natural limits and their technology got better, culminating in the Clovis style of megafaunal hunting gear. E.g. Johnson 2009 Science (professional journal) "Megafaunal Decline and Fall"
@@TmanRock9 UA-cam doesn't want to post my reply it seems. Let's try again (worked this time not for my follow-up so that is below).
"Every animal weighing more than a ton didn’t die during this period" yes they did IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. Some exceptional bison can reach 1 metric ton but the ones that average >1ton are gone. In North America alone that was 10 species. Also lost in NA were 34 genera of mammals. None of this happened during previous interglacials because humans were necessary and sufficient to k ll off megafauna in all environments with naive animals and/or a lack of tropical disease keeping human populations in check. Humans were initially very small in population in North America and they had primitive technology plus abundant megafauna but their populations grew with no natural limits and their technology got better, culminating in the Clovis style of megafaunal hunting gear. E.g. Johnson 2009 Science (professional journal) "Megafaunal Decline and Fall"
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No, I don't agree with you lol. We have proxy evidence showing large herbivore decline for at least a thousand years before their disappearance in one area of Indiana. They could have been declining for even longer, and saturated the detection limit until the last 1000 years, or humans could have arrived en masse to that locale 1000 years prior to extinction. Like I said, there was a long lead time as humans built up populations and moved to new areas! All 10 species weighing over 1 ton in the Americas went extinct, which is what I said. 34 genera of mammals went extinct in NA alone.
A similar thing happened in Australia btw- there weren't suddenly 1,000,000 people in Australia, and the megafauna didn't all die out at once.
Humans were necessary and sufficient. Megafauna survived many periods of changing climate. Nothing special about the last deglaciation. The NA megafauna declined over a long period and went extinct during a period of relatively quiescient climate. The same thing happened in Eurasia- even earlier, and PRIOR TO the deglaciation- and even Africa and tropical Asia saw extinctions, but peoples there were more primitive and also were kept in check by long coevolution with prey species and by tropical disease.
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Imagine being savaged to death by a ferocious giant beaver. Gives me the shudders.
Lmao it's hilarious this meme of "environmentally sensitive" "Native" americans is still going strong. They didn't "live alongside" the megafauna, they killed it off.
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For some reason I was distracted when the giraffe lifted the kid
Wow great writing the script and also the spot on film editing so well synchronized with your narrative. You should get some kind of award for this! Thank you for such a fine documentary! I never had such a lucid view of what the native North Americans faced in their era. I also never knew 500 people die a year from large cats!
Many accounts of the native Indians were luckily found in cave painting should be preserve, Nice presentation and educational for students
I love how you imply that European explorers were used to an easy life, and that somehow the weather is vastly different in Europe. Lol, very funny.
Kind of reminds me of Better Call Saul, where the scenes in Mexico have a yellow tint, and when Lalo went to Germany it had a blue tint.
Lol isn't it funny? The stone age people taught the people arriving on ships capable of circumnavigation how to survive, okaaaaayyy 😂🤣
@@aerondight3029knowing how to build ships,=/= knowing how to survive in an unfamiliar land. There is a reason the first settlements in North America failed.
The climate of Europe and North America at the same latitude and even more south are very different. North America is vulnerable to unexpected cold snaps hence the reason why the first settlers had a hard time farming the land like they did in Europe.
@@rarelife1 Yea but even the west and east coasts of America, at the same lattitudes, don't have identical weather. My point is that generally speaking, it's not THAT different. It's not like going from the Arctic circle to the Tropics.
Also, the Europeans taught the Indians how to farm and raise livestock... not the other way around.
Hell, in the Southwest the Indians used to literally starve every year waiting for the prickly pear cactus to bloom, until the Spanish taught them how to farm and domesticate animals.
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I heard on a Big Cat documentary that Cougars also went extinct in North America during the mass extinction event about 12,000 years ago. North America was later repopulated with Cougars from South America.
Camelops surprised me the most. Camels are the last thing I would imagine being in the Americas. I wish they were still around. They sound and look so chill.
I remember looking up Native American folklore, and I would find tales of a craze wooly mammoth. I had no idea that Native Americans had encounters with such an extinct creature, but I would read it while thinking “wow, I’m reading a story about human beings encountering a wooly mammoth, holy hell!”
Also I was actively looking up folklore, but I’ll be honest, the tale didn’t sound that mythological, if u get my drift. I mean was the mammoth talking to the human characters and setting them on to a journey, could that be why it was considered folklore? Well it wasn’t. The mammoth was described as being a hairy beast with tusks, the villagers were concerned of the mammoth’s ferocity, because it was angry around the humans because it was territorial and nothing more. The tale wasn’t all that fictional. So why was it considered folklore? Because ppl were overwhelmed when they discovered a story that had a wooly mammoth in it and were like “no way did human beings see those things!”
But here’s the thing, paleontologists already discovered the fossils of Woolly Mammoths. So if the description of woolly mammoths pops up in Native American culture, then you can bet your ass that that event did happen.
A jaguar has a weak chomp? Excuse you?
This guy has a lot very wrong
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I'm Northern Cheyenne and we remember the giant animals, they were bigger than they tell you. We didn't kill them off they died out from the weather getting warmer. We were told this by the people who brought us here, some kind of metallic ship we referred to as a giant turtle. Interestingly we called Spanish knights turtle men due to their metal armor. This turtle ship brought us here from an island place where we were starving. Someone took pity on us.
We are Cheyenne! I love the movie powwow highways man . Native from Arizona here.
@@axlneztsosie3176 my grandma appeared briefly as a background person in the courtroom lol. I miss her. That movie was the truth. 👍
Great story. Hope this is actual tribal lore.
@@JamesObertino lol sucks not being part of a tribe huh? It wasn't always so....
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the ridges on the beaver's teeth would technically make a higher pressure on the wood, making the cutting more efficient... penetrating the top layer(s) of wood easier at least, the edge then peels the wood along the grain and incises the far end of the piece it's biting off?
ahh logic....coming to (possibly) the wrong conclusion, but with confidence!! 🤭
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"Relatively weak comp, comparable to the jaguar"
Yeah you know, the feline with the strongest bite.
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