@@TillowFrik to be honest, it’s a habit Humans don’t seem to have grown out of much. There are plenty of places today which force animals to fight and whatnot for entertainment. Very sad to be sure.
In ancient times, very, very few people travelled more than 20 miles from their birthplace. There were some high-end soldiers that travelled far, but even during the Roman Empire, the Roman soldiers posted in areas far from Rome were often the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Roman soldiers who made the journey from Rome. That said, can you imagine the looks on the faces of the Roman City guards when Hannibal shows up riding a huge grey horse with a snake for a nose and two giant swords coming out of its face?
Can you imagine when prisoners that lived in farmlands and villages for most of their lives were brought to rome to be used as cannonfodder in the coloseum games. Imagine the awe of those countrymen seeing all that marble, glorious gigantic statues and tall buildings engraved with golden details
@@lucignolo8333 Gladiators were trained heavily and paid well. The Romans wanted to see a good, fair, exciting fight. Not just slaves being slaughtered.
@@Efishrocket102 sometimes the spectacle was literally some christians being mauled to death by lions, there weren’t only gladiator fights in the colosseum. Sometimes the romans felt bad about an elephant being killed and sometimes they cheered when the lions were eating people alive. They were weird people
@@maniacram ancient people's would have no frame of reference for an elephant. Now we see pictures of them on cookies since we were children, but Roman's of the time would have thought they were looking at a monster.
@@froggygirl999CoLiOnAlisM. It’s like you guys never got past your college ideological bs. The animal was hunted down for the same reason foxes and boars are hunted down today: they leech off of farms.
@@froggygirl999 If the aboriginals had the technology that the Europeans had, they absolutely would've drove them to extinction as well. Let's not act as if the aboriginals were somehow any more moral than the European settlers. They hunted the Thylacine as well. The Europeans were just better at it than they were.
@@froggygirl999 This is a very misleading take. The Inidigenous people took dingos to australia which caused most of the population decline Thylacine. Europeans just killed the last of them. So claiming this is like saying most of europe lived peacefully with aurochs for hundreds of year, but Polish royals came and killed them off. Killing the last of something doesn't make you solely responsible for it's extinction.
I used to think that European painters and sculptors had a difficult time getting their lions correct or done accurately, but then I found that their models were Barbary Lions. The classic British lion depictions associated with royalty are very similar to photographs of the Barbary Lion which survived in small pockets into the 20th century. Some say that there are still captive descendants. It was a very regal looking animal and the last known aerial photo of one in the Atlas Mtns looks very proud indeed. Look it up. Going back thousands of years - the Irish Elk had the largest antlers of any relative in the deer family and stood nearly 7 feet at the shoulder. Many good skeletal remains can be found in museums. Those antlers are spectacular!
i absolutely mourn the loss of dodos the most. they were such peaceful and timid creatures, having known no predators before humans, and i believe they wouldve been amazing companions. especially when you look at their only living relatives, the pigeon, and how incredibly sweet and friendly they can be. instead their timidness were taken advantage of and they were hunted for their, supposedly not even well tasting, meat. a shame.
I either watched a show or read somewhere that the Dodo birds bones were not found around the old camps in Mauritius that have been excavated. Instead what is believed now is that the hogs that were let loose on the island ate the dodo birds eggs or rooted and disturbed the birds so much that they couldn't reproduce.
That’s my understanding of what it’s like to meet a bison. I’ve heard that they’re peaceable, but not docile - with a critical stare that’s so much more aware than a cow’s.
Tigerman126 🐅 in North America there was a giant species of Bison that is now extinct - it may have been comparable to or even larger than the giant cow of Eurasia
The Maori actually have stories about the 'haast eagle', and i read a paper a few years ago comparing the way the animal is coloured in stories from all over, and they find it consistent, as if the oral traditions are faithfully recording it and not drifting anywhere near as much as people would assume. Also some of the stories are about the eagles taking children, which is terrifying.
Oral history has recently been proven to be far more accurate than what was once was believed. It's said that oral histories were passed down with little to no change (changes were only generally allowed with permission from a community or the community's leaders), so the major details of these stories tend to stay exactly the same and are recited by heart. Super interesting to see the part that these ancient stories can play in helping us identify certain extinct species of animal today.
@@tisbutascratch2045 Ya thats why the early Popes tried to claim an 'oral history' that could trace them back to the Apostles. Problem with that was there just wasn't one. So when that didn't pan out they moved to plan B. where they forged the Book of Popes.
believe it or not there was nothing really unique about the library at Alexandria. historians today have a better understanding of how academia worked in the ancient world. there weren’t any important works in Alexandria that weren’t in any of the other massive libraries of the time or other collections. there were dozens of private and public libraries throughout Italy, Turkey, and elsewhere that were just as large or larger. like the Palatine library in Rome. Even within Egypt there were several other large libraries that were just as or more significant than Alexandria. just like today, no library was the single repository to a work that was significant beyond the immediate area. the book trade was huge back then so any work people cared about was copied. regional manuscripts and records are a different matter of course. the library in Alexandria burning would be a big shock to Egyptians like if any monument in your country was destroyed, but in the grand scale of history the fire had almost zero effect on which works were copied and passed down through the ages. learned men of the time didn’t see it as a loss to academia. that misconception is much more recent and became a thing only in the past few decades. it really is based on little more than romanticism.
The Barbary Lions were most revered by the Romans. It’s the largest of all lions with mane that goes down to it’s belly. It’s no wonder that this beautiful species is now extinct in the wild. There are only handful of them left in about 80 zoos worldwide and although they are being bred again, experts don’t want to take the risk of introducing them to the wild just yet for fear of poachers.
The romans were the reason why the barbary lions are functionnally extinct (the only surivivng members are individuals that are mixed with african lions), they over hunted them for their circus.
The tazmanian tiger is the animal im most angry at humans about. They didnt have to go extinct, we did it and not that long ago. I wish they were still around, they were so wild looking and unique.
Worst of all, it was recent enough for us to know better. I can forgive the Romans hunting bears, but 20th-Century Brits on the tiny island of Tasmania... 😡
Im shocked that you didnt mention the Dwarf elephants of Cyprus and Crete, which were several species roughly between 4-7 feet tall. There are paintings possibly depicting people having them on leashes because they were so small. Just the concept of an elephant that was shorter than a child and lived in Europe alone is such a crazy concept to me. By far the saddest for me are the Moa, Haast's Eagle, and Elephant Bird. All of them died at roughly the same time in history and all of them were probably alive around the time of Christopher Columbus, which would begin the European exploration phase.
14:16 the biggest eagle in the world. The Maoris had stories of their children being taken away by them. They died out because their main prey, the Moa, was hunted into extinction by the Maori long before Europeans arrived.
I remember hearing that humans weren't nutritious enough to sustain the health of those giant eagles when they had to switch to preying humans as it's primary food source. The combination of our ability to use tools, be very deadly ingenious, and vengefully motivated didn't help it survive much longer after the moa's extinction.
The Moa looks like a variation of the emu, ostrich. They’re probably related, would be easy to clone one using an emu, ostrich as the carrier, if they got the DNA of the Moa.
@@Sawrattan Shows just what kind of unique variations of species and one of a kind species that can evolve within a island. It also shows how fragile those species are since their evolutionary traits tend to be less general and more specific adaptions based upon unique particularities of those islands ecosystems. A little tweak by an outside force (almost always humans for the past several millennia) on the food chain, flora/fonna, climate, etc. can spell doom to the wildlife. Evolution is amazing, but also slow. Force the need for a rapid adaption for a species within a changing environment too quickly and the whole evolutionary process falls apart for said species and extinction is the end result.
Another tragic loss is that of the ezo wolves of Hokkaido, Japan. They were hunted to extinction during the Meiji restoration due to the Japanese wanting to protect their recently imported cattle.
So is this a problem? The wolves being hunted to extinction so the people can survive? I feel like this comes off as a modern concern because nowadays we don’t have animals threatening to kill is
@@AbdulGabagool83 It's enough of a problem that a lot of european countries are actually trying to get wolves back. See, there's this concept called a keystone species, wherein there are certain species within an ecosystem which are necessary for its stability. At one point, the US decided to eliminate grey wolves in Yellowstone National Park, and succeeded. However, this threw the entire ecosystem off balance. The deer, now unpredated because of the lack of wolves, started exploding in population, as their numbers were no longer being kept in check by anything. This resulted in overgrazing by the increased population, which resulted in less tall grass. This caused a drop in small herbivores such as rabbits, which were now easier prey for the local raptor populations. The overgrazing also affected the food supplies for the local beavers, as the deer now started encroaching on their food supplies as well. This caused their populations to dwindle as a result. The lowered beaver population resulted in higher erosion along the riverbanks, as the beavers that were now no longer present couldn't build their dams, which would normally regulate the flow of water. This then caused all kinds of havoc for the species living in these rivers, which had adapted to beavers being around and building their dams. As a result of eliminating the grey wolves in Yellowstone, the entire ecosystem became unbalanced, as the lack of a predator for the local deer population caused an overpopulation of deer, which had a ripple effect on all the other species in the park. Reintroducing the grey wolf to Yellowstone caused the entire ecosystem to recover within just a few years of reintroduction. So yes, hunting predators to extinction can very much be a problem.
I've seen the burning orange sun rising over the ice sheets of the frigid north, and torrential mudslides of the Eurasian steppe turn the land asunder. And it will all be lost with me. ~Polish Auroch's last words or something.
Keep in mind that we have the privilege of living alongside the single biggest living organism, ever, to inhabit the Earth: the Blue Whale - more massive even than some of the extinct sauropod dinosaurs. Were that not the case, we'd probably looking at their fossilized bones with wonder, and theorizing on what a creature so huge would even look like.
Indeed, but the best bet Currently would be gene editing on a closely related species to look as close as possible to the extinct species, and using it as a taxon substitute, than when the technologies advance to a point, than such endeavors can become a reality when it comes to cloning.
For sure. I remember some years ago I heard (in a video) of an eurasian plant that was great for preventing pregnancies, or something of the like that made it popular to use as a contraceptive (and thus was highly sought after, until eventually there were none left) 🤔 I haven't tried looking it up afterwards so I don't know how true that is, just something I remember hearing when I was younger.
@@thegameranch5935 it's been years since I saw the video so I unfortunately can't quarantee on how true my statement is, or if it just was something fake on the internet. Edit: so, googling "contraceptive plant extinct" will lead to stuff about silphium, which was used by Romans before the fall of the Roman Empire. It's most likely that plant the video was talking about, so hey, I had it vaguely right.
@@sammalsikuri3828 you're right! The plant is most likely silphium. Apparently it had a wide range of amazing medicinal properties. If I remember correctly, it grew in limited places, like Cyprus. Romans did try to cultivate the plant, but according to some, plant failed to grow anywhere else. Who knows how did it reproduce! Even Julius Caesar, coming back from one of the conquests, brought back some silphium to Rome, alongside with gold and other treasures. Perhaps there are still some places where the plant still exist.
Aurochs then: badass beasts, inspiring awe and fear Aurochs now: just regular cows, mass bred for milk and meat, those badass ones were hunted down completely Disappointing, for sure
@@BigWheel. yes but in the process we have done irreparable damage to the ecosystems they once inhabited. So in the long run we have done more harm to ourselves and to our world as a whole
@@BigWheel. humans aren’t the center of the world, even though you wanna make them out to be. we can’t just kill whatever we don’t like. that’s not how that works. there’s an order and a reason for everything. in the last few hundred years especially, it’s gotten completely screwed up.
This makes me really feel for our descendants. All the animals that are around today that we take for granted and see as "nothing special or out of the ordinary" - our descendants will be watching a video (or whatever future equivalent) just like this about our modern day animals that are no longer around in their time.
It makes me wonder how we'll be seen by them. Like the Romans prob killed so many species, and I get this like... Not angry at them but def wish I could see those plants and animals. Even so, I do try to remember that they don't know what we do now.
Don't be a pessimist. We are much better educated than our ancestors, and many of us are working towards saving endangered animals. In many cases we have been successful, but if we believe that we can't save them, then we won't.
@@CHRB-nn6qp honestly proportionally I think we have the same amount of education they did. There's a LOT of ppl who don't believe in climate change, and more who are invested in encouraging that. And then there's the ppl hunting endangered species bc they can.
@@StonedtotheBones13 The difference lies in the fact that we can now make a difference. If we remain pessimistic, we are allowing these terrible people to have their way with nature. We often hear most about the bad stuff, as that will get the most attention. There is still a lot of good in the world, and if we continue to spread positivity, it will outweigh the negativity.
The Ancient Greeks and Etruscan had tales about savage Pygmies waging a constant war against giant storks. This was considered folklore until the recent discovery of Homo Florensiensis, the Hobbit of Flores Island in Indonesia, that was indeed preyed upon by a species of giant marabou stork.
@Simon Farley There's local folklore evidence that a relictual population of Hobbits survived until the 15th C, to be eradicated by modern humans after they kidnapped a baby. South-East Asia was far more traveled and documented at the time than the Congo Valley, where the gorilla remained a myth until the early 20th C. The same population of archaic humans on the continent (Homo Erectus) is also believed to have inspired the legend of Hanuman, the monkey god of India, that led his people to build the land bridge that existed between the tip of India and Sri Lanka. That legend in turn reached Europe, under the form of Cynocephalus Saint Christopher, the dog-headed saint.
India was much more influential than a remote island in Indonesia. I’d like to believe what you’re saying but I doubt those stories would have reached the Mediterranean
@@kemurinine4272 If you want to learn more about the hidden connection between India and the Mediterranean world, read the paper "Brahma and Abraham: Divine Covenants of Common Origin" that's your missing link. Let's just say that the more you go East, the more a certain foundational monotheism of the Middle East is seen as nothing more than a sectarian offshoot of the Vedic tradition.
The real bummer to me is the ones we almost got to see; things our grandparents or great grandparents might have seen, like thylacines and passenger pigeons. Or ones we maybe did see but our kids or their kids won't, like the pyrenean Ibex.
Interestingly there have been stories of people with pet thylacines, and were very good and trusting pets from what I’ve heard, and who knows, it’s possibly they might still persist, best bet for there survival is in New Guinea, people living in the region have reported animals that match such descriptions. And during the Pleistocene of Australia, sahul, New Guinea was connected to Australia at one point, temporarily as land bridges. And fossils have been found in new Guinean as well.
@@jointcerulean3350 interesting to think parallel evolution might not just be physical but also mental, if thylacines showed almost canid-like behaviour.
For the last several years, I've been following the conservation efforts of the giant softshell turtle. Believed to have played a role in Asian mythology, these creatures are currently teetering on the very edge of extinction, with the only known specimens being at a number you could count on one hand. It'll be quite sad if they go, though thankfully there is still some hope for them. The last captive female died in 2019, after years of unsuccessful breeding attempts. It was looking rough, but then a wild female managed to be discovered a year later. There's no telling if there're any more wild specimens out there, or if they just got really lucky on this one, but here's hoping that the conservation efforts manage to see more success now that she's here.
The lion thing is interesting. Cougars were native where I live but I can’t think of anyone who had ever seen one when I was growing up. Now that I’m in my 50’s they are starting to come back as they’ve been displaced once again from where they went after they were displaced from here. I’ve seen 7 so far in the last 3 years.
The American bear dog was a 300 pound dog that existed in the plains of North America about 15 to 20,000 years ago. Take a guess as to why scientists nicknamed it Bone Crusher. Native Americans also lived with the American lion, which was 20% bigger than the African lion. The ancient aborigines of Australia lived with a monitor lizard twice as big as the Komodo dragon. The short nose cave bear of Alaska and Canada is interesting too.
I posses a bear dog. Though he is no match for the might of my Bear Cat. Woe to the person who refuses to play patty cake with the bear cat when he rears up on his hind legs. Tis Greenies or death!
Inaccurate about the first part. The bear dog was not a dog at all but it was totally another group of species known as Amphicyon, the biggest species of it is estimated to have weighed up to around 800 kgs. It did not come under the dog (Canidae) family. They were NOT the ones termed as the bone-crushing dogs. The bone-crushing dogs were dogs, coming under the borophaginae sub-family of the Canidae family. The biggest species of this the Epicyon Haydeni, (the largest canid ever) is estimated to have weighed upto around 300 pounds as you mentioned.
Aurochs were actually under the protection of the Polish rulers back in the day. While their numbers systematically dwindled, concious effort was made to preserve the species back in the medieval period. Beginning with Jagiełło II, the aurochs were under the protection of the king, later after the kings death, his dynasty kept this tradition, eventually, even the Waza dynasty protected the animals. At some point, a group of foresters, alongside their families were relocated to a village next to Jaktorów forest, where the last remaining aurochs were living. They were given land, free of obligations to the king, and their only job was to protect the aurochs, keep track of their numbers, prevent farmers from destroying their habitat, and make sure that poachers don't kill the animals. They were also tasked with giving the information about the number of animals to a local official. Moreover, people were also reminded to keep the other types of cattle away from the aurochs, as it was believed that aurochs need their own space to thrive, and for their numbers to stop dwindling. Sadly, even when the concious effort was taken to protect the species, eventually they all died out, most likely as a result of diseases that were passed on from other types of cattle. These diseases would probably not be as lethal to the population if it was bigger, but it was a small and isolated population, which couldn't adapt to the enviroment. It is, however, important to stress, that effort was made to prevent their extinction, and despite our failure, other efforts, such as the reintroduction of european bison to its natural habitat, after its extincion in the wilds, succeded. If humans work together, they can sometimes save some pretty cool species.
Yep. The last cow of the species died in Poland several hundred years ago. They would have been gone a lot sooner had it not been for Poland's protection.
I hate the English spelling of Aurochs. Etymologically its literally just Ur (original) - Ox (cow/bull). Urox. Then some Victorian dude added an A to imply a connection to Aurum (Gold) that doesn't exist.
@@LyNguyen33739 Huh. You're right. It was the Germans that corrupted the spelling, not the English. Usually its safe to blame the English for stupid spelling, but I guess not this time. According to wiktionary, middle high german spelling was Urochse, but they messed it up along the way to become Auerochse.
Aurochs selective breeding program was actually first tried by the nazis back in 1920s and 1930s, who had an obsession of bringing back the aurochs, the result is a large, agressive bovine breed similar to aurochs that were still around today called the Heck cattle
@@uberfeel The party had existed since the 20's, and they were kind of batshit from the get go so it's entirely believable that between paramilitary assaults and political speeches they were cow breeding
@@uberfeel one of the heck brothers were a prominant member of the nazi party since its beginning in early 20s, and when hitler rises to power, he and göring personally funded the heck brothers project and eventually release the cattles into the wild. However the heck cattle is much smaller, shorter legged, and short snouted then the original aurochs. This is why heck cattles are used as the basis for germanys projekt taurus, a more modern attempt to crossbreed the aurochs
@@Rynewulf Yes, I know they exist during the early 20's but, hitler joined the party in 1924 also they had to paramilitary assualt and also defend themselves form the Marxists all the time because if they didn't the Marxists would've kill their SA men one by one in the streets. Also just checked about that cow plan. It was planned in the 1926 but, it started in 1934.
Until 4000BC there was a species of dwarf elephant on the Greek island of Tilos. It was a relative of the straight tusked elephant Paleoloxodon. Males reached a shoulder height of 0.96m (3ft) and weighed around 300kg.
Reading about gladiators, I found that the games they held were responsible for many species extinction. The beast hunts held in the amphitheater were wildly popular. There was an entire industry devoted to the capture and transport of exotic animals for the entertainment of Rome.
This dude seems like the kinda guy to get drunk and instead of doing something fun or irresponsible he just talks about how there are more cats on the island of Cyprus than people or those pterodactyls with the huge heads and long necks
They have a Taxidermy Thylacine at the Natural History Museum in London. Amazing to see it, but I’d much rather it was alive and kicking. Apparently all the technology and research to bring Thylacines back already exists, and they think we will see a return within the next decade.
One zoo in Europe (Chester, England) has a small pride of Asiatic lions and i've been to see them, theyre absolutely stunning animals. Despite them being much smaller than what you imagine a lion to be, seeing the male with his extremely dark mane and bright eyes was so striking
the L.A. zoo had a pair until about 1998. i also seen a male asiatic at a wildlife sanctuary. quite amazing. chester zoo also had a baby elephant that was a hybrid african/asian elephant but it didn't live very long. that wuda REALLY been somethin' to see. 4.bp.blogspot.com/-_sG98B7KY9c/Tr0hiY7z6kI/AAAAAAAAows/6bv-ezpJvbU/s1600/motty7.jpg
I’m from Chester myself and live a few miles away from the zoo. If anyones thinking of visiting, I couldn’t recommend it enough. It’s a fantastic zoo, and is involved massively in conservation programmes and animal welfare. It’s an awesome day out.
@@J.Wolf90 if you think zoos are cruel you should visit a real zoo. Sure its not the wild but many of the animals in zoos arent capable of living there either due to being too friendly to humans or because they are disabled, and most are well cared for, stimulated and happy. Zoos do more for education and breeding population than they are given credit for and most zookepers are highly knowledgeable about the animals they care for. If it were not for zoos we simply wouldnt have the knowledge and cures for zoonotic diseases that we do have. The zoo I mention in the above comment were the worlds first to find a cure for a 100% fatal elephant disease similar to herpes. Those animals would die without the hardwork the zoo put into caring for them.
We used to have barbary lions or Atlas Lions in the Atlas mountains living along side Atlas bears. Barbary Lions were truly a marvelous creature. They have a very thick mane.
@@Okiedog1 they are not pure barbary lions. They are bred with other species of lions. But through selective breeding we might able to replicate barbary lions physically and genetically thus reintroducing them back in the wild.
@Aby Abraham That would be awesome, more reintroductions and rewilding efforts for severely threatened species is always good. Tho I would think such a process of selective breeding and other factors would be a lengthy one, but I could be somewhat incorrect. But nonetheless, it’s good Barbary lion Hasn't been lost completely. Also is it possible there could be a couple of pure breds? Or are all confirmed completely mixed?
@@jointcerulean3350 there are no confirmed pure Barbary lions just the ones with some of their genes. Reintroduction is possible and is being planned right now and as i said before, we might not get pure barbary lions but we might get a mix which are physically and genetically closer to barbary lions.
The tiger also has a very similar story to the lion. They actually roamed a little farther north into current day Bulgaria as well and, similar to the Lions, were hunted extinction except for some spots in Asia.
Tigers once roamed as far West as the Middle East, all the way East to China and Siberia(where they still remain). The tiger never roamed as far West as Bulgaria or Eastern Europe.
Sabre toothed tigers went as far as Britain, so at one point there were big cats in all of Europe, I guess it depends on the prey species being there before we wiped them out.
I found out about the Aurochs that they became extinct because my grandmother lived in a small village where the last living Aurochs in our country were killed/hunted. But indeed - a majestic creature.
A couple years back I went through all the old Roman art I could find looking for anomalous animals. I found two depictions of uniquely patterned big cats with strange shaped heads. I believe them to be some kind of sabertooth. I also found one mosaic of straight tusked elephants. Though these were the pygmy type said to have been found on some islands in the Mediterranean, but supposedly went extinct before Rome existed. I noticed them because they were smaller than the humans in the image, and yet they had fully formed straight tusks, and small ears.
it's crazy to think about the different, weird kinds of animals our ancestors might've seen that we will never know about (maybe because they were not represented in art). hell, it also boggles my mind about the extremely old civilizations we don't know about yet, simply because we haven't found any proof. maybe a civilization that existed 30,000 years ago, even before that? it's crazy because we can't deny it
Could you maybe share what depictions these were and where you found them? I’m interested in reading a bit further into it. Maybe you even made a big discovery, ever thought of messaging an archeological or paleontological museum?
@@sharkquark6252 I found them on Instagram after spending several hours looking through mosaics. Unfortunately I lost many interesting images I found at that time, and I only have a couple screenshots of one of the sabertooth type cats. I no longer use IG, but it shouldn't be impossible to find them again.
I feel like the chance of the romans encountering rare endling holdovers is likely.By the end of the roman empire( main, 400 AD) a lot of the world was still wild and unexplored, and peoples impact on wildlife was much lower then today.plus, we did recently find that a sabre tooth cat, the only one to live in europe during the ice age and when people were around during then, was still alive at 28,000BC from a skull in the north sea, before everyone believed they went extinct based on dating 200,000 years ago.So, therefore and since unlike smilodon it wasn’t restricted to America, the chance that they may have survived to the very early AD times is possible, it was smaller then smilodon so less dependent on big heavy prey.Plus bison were still very common then and aurochs too, so again they may have clinged on.Or, romans found the skulls of a sabre tooth, maybe very recent ones, and reconstructed it in a depiction.They believed in a land called hyperboria, and so probably would have assumed a sabre tooth was a inhabitent from there, if hyperboria was a part of eurasia, then it would fit.
Being in the UK where our most dangerous wildlife are adders or badgers makes it seem surreal that bears and wolves used to live here, I think some sort of reintroduction of wolves is going on in Scotland though!
This was an utterly fascinating topic. Your style of sprinkling in some (but not too much) humor is great. I'm glad to see that your channel is gaining subscribers, you really deserve it!
The American Bison came very, very close to joining these other most recent extinct animals. I had heard that there is an attempt to back engineer the ancient Aurochs. I think they have successfully engineered the Auroch's distinctive forward pointing horns.
About Eurasian lions, I had no idea about the ones still around! Without doing any research, I would guess a reason they look more sad is because a lower gene pool. Also it’s to be considered an impressive male would be more attractive to kill than a nonimpressive male. Therefore, the survivors are unwillingly pressured to breed more unattractively. Just a guess. If anyone has any more ideas or knowledge let me know! Very interested.
The auroch reminds me of Texas Longhorn Cattle. Longhorns are decended from spanish cattle that went feral in Mexico and Texas. Longhorn bulls are usually 1200 to 1500 lbs, and they are about 6 feet tall at the shoulders. So they are impressive animals, but not as large as an auroch. Modern longhorns are bred to have ridiculously long horns, some exceeding 10 feet tip to tip. But 100 years ago, 6 feet was more common. They were wild, tough, and fierce animals in the early 1800's. Now they are kept by weekend ranchers due to their hardiness, beauty and docile nature. They are considered the best bred of cattle to ride. They are long lived and good mothers, and they thrive on forage that other cattle don't do well on. Their meat is lean and resembles venison more than traditional beef. I live in Texas and I love seeing herds of them grazing on some ranches. I really like Irish Cattle as well. And who wouldn't want a few dwarf elephants like those that lived in SE Asia?
Cross-breeding animals many times will recreate the ancestral form. Darwin did that with his pigeons and doves, similarly cats which are constantly cross-bred will start resembling wild cats again. I'm sure if we cross-bred all breeds of domestic cattle, we'd get the aurochs back.
As much as I like dry, rigid, formal documentaries, this is the first paleo/bio channel ive come across that doesn't take itself too seriously. And y'know what, I'm liking it. Subbed dude, great content
This was a great video, the thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger would have been a great addition. They survived into the 20th century along with Yangtze River Dolphin surviving into the 21st century… notable mentions & still extant: the Giant Salamanders of Japan & freaking Komodo Dragons of Komodo Island!
OMG this makes so much sense. I always wondered how they would haul these exotic animals to get them to the arena. Turns out they didn't have to. WOW thank you for stretching out my brain a little today.
We have forests in Algeria (north Africa) that looks similar to the ones that hold bear species and I always wondered if I'd see a bear sighting when I venture deep in the forests, it's crazy how they're wiped out of all the forests even though some of the forests are extremely hard to explore even today let alone back then.
Germany was known for its dark forests in ancient times, no such places exist now. Even the Black Forest is not the original forest, it's mostly pine forest when the original forest was oak. That's true so many places. Lebanon was once famous for its forests, those are now gone too. We should at least be replanting forest in the more inaccessible places.
Morocco is the only country in Africa that has Deer for this reason. The Atlas Bear and Barbary Lion used to live in Morocco and Algeria (maybe also Tunisia)
@@reinhardvonlohengramm6296 I think they'd be happier with it, less war generally, but there's still plenty of wonderful thing that have been lost, even if progress seemingly surmounts them.
I just found this channel. This is the first video I've watched. These are topics I truly enjoy. Animals and ancient history are my favorite things. I will be looking for your videos
Really, what about religion/ideology of humans, do you think they really care about Animals , or use animals to put own agenda and protest after they become raw meat in the market
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo bruh, the only other thing that has caused such massive amounts of extinction are catastrophic natural disasters. Why are people so sensitive about the truth?
@@pazreyes7794 apparently they think early human settlements should have allowed their members and live stock to be consumed so that modern liberals would not have to feel guilty over their survival....tbf that was pretty much the entire tone of the video
I think Indian Cheetah deserved a mention here given the term Cheetah is actually it's Hindi name चीता (Chita) (The same name is used in other Indian languages) and these guys persisted till 1950 and were present in the palaces of many Indian emperors who used them to hunt alongside them. And given it's a Hindi term and has been used for over 5-6 centuries here in India the word persists in our vocabulary to this day and like a ghost is usually used alongside तेंदुआ (Tendua) the Hindi term for leopard and often mixed and confused with the later.
Well…there was ancient trade with Africa & Africans with India. This wouldn’t be new. Can’t recall the king who had an impressive zoo that included giraffes.
I just found out your channel and I really lovea it! I'm a biology student and it's heartwarming to find out someone as amazed by the same subjects inside biology as i am :D
Just stumbling across your channel is like finding gold. Your informative style, budget animations and dry yet humorous delivery make for a wonderful mix. Your passion shines through. Amidst a sea of fake hype, clickbait, and terrible terrible noise, your channel is like a breath of fresh air and I love learning about this stuff. Hope you make more.
please make more of these videos, the amount of beautiful birds gone extinct the last few centuries is astonishing, as well as reptiles, amphibians and insects
I'm with you on this man. The Cape lion was bigger than the normal African lion. I always got sad about that as a kid. Great video. Great Channel. Keep it up :) One note is that quagga is pronounced as if you're clearing your throat. True story:)
Moa are said not to be extinct by New Zealanders and their are multiple encounters deep in the dense bush every single year, even encounters by respected scientists have been recorded while out studying other species existing in small pockets far from where humans tend to venture. Let’s hope there’s pockets of stable breeding populations still out there which is likely unless people are encountering some unknown large species of birds like them in NZ.
In the Americas I would want the Mastodon to have remained even moreso than mammoths. They were mostly forrest animals and could have still survived in our eastern forests.
Actually, American had lots of giant Animals around ice age like syberia tooth Tiger, Terror birds , Mammoth, American lion etc those got extinct because of change of climate and other reason they start to extinct .. If mammoth were domesticated by humans long ago we might be *Syberia 2* Game ending
@@royalkumar795 Not to mention those American horses and camels that died at the end of the ice age. Yes that's right horses and camels were originally native to the Americas and various different populations of horses and camels crossed over the Bering Strait during the times when sea levels dropped and a land bridge formed between Siberia and Alaska. These horses and camels that moved into Eurassia spread all over the continent where ever they could find suitable habitats and diversifying. Prehistoric horses became the ancestors of Zebras, Asses, Onagers and the Wild Horse and the Wild Horse diverged into three linages the Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii), the now extinct Tarpan (Equus ferus ferus) and the modern domesticated horse (Equus ferus caballus). The Prehistoric Camels in Eurasia diverged into the 3 modern species the Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius), Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the Wild Bactrian Camel (Camelus ferus).
@@RocketHarry865 too many animals originated from American , Now there is almost nothing there only find fossil about them also Ancient Camel 🐪 were very big as normal elephant 🐘
A couple more of interest are that the Levant and Fertile Crescent had hippos (now extinct) that were hunted for their ivory during the Bronze Age, and Sivatherium (an opaki type animal with moose-like antlers) may have survived in the same region until the early times of civilization.
@@blacktigerpaw1 Possible ones, and something like 50,000 years ago. Our species would have seen them, but not during historical times, which is what this was all about. If you're referring to the Gobustan petroglyphs, what those represent is up for debate, and beluga sturgeon is the more likely option of those discussed by researchers.
Fun fact: Mammoths were still alive during the time of Ancient Egypt. There was an isolated population on an island off the coast of Siberia. They eventually died out, but if i remember correctly they almost made it to the switch from BCE to CE.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the dwarf elephants which lived on most of the major islands of the central and eastern Mediterranean. There were even dwarf mammoths which lived on Sardinia.
The ones that really get to me are the Native American dog breeds. If there was one animal I could choose to bring back via cloning, it would be the Salish wool dog.
So what happened to all the dogs that lived among the Native Americans? Did they just interbreed with dogs imported from abroad or are there still some breeds left?
@@olliefoxx7165 europeans had diseases, but not just the humans, the animals (like dogs) they brought with them em too. So the dogs got wiped out by a continental pandem essentially. Theres a video about this subject i forget the name. But there were like double digit amount of unique breeds, but only a handful (like chihuahua) survived.
Don’t forget how massive some of the lost animals from around the last ice age were! Giant Wholly Rhinos and European Cave Hyenas, most impressively the Giant Hyena with a shoulder height of 3 meters, and it was a predator! Our ancestors had to face those beasts!
Damn a giant hyena species that big?! That’s awesome and terrifying at the same time, also yes giant wholly rhinos are beasts! the giant hairy tanks with Gnarly impressive horns. And Definitely, it was rough back then, every continent had its unique and incredible megafauna that was encountered.
Nice video. Thanks! BTW, "aurochs" is used for both the singular and plural, as in "An aurochs would be much larger than a domestic bull." In fact, the "ochs" part of the word is etymologically related to "ox," which is singular.
I think our biggest loss was the Dodo ... when i first heard about this ancient bird that couldnt fly and basically co-existed with other dinos I never thought that we as humans were the reason it went extinct. I know every animal we have today is technically part Dino and has ancient dna somewhere but the dodo was so close to the original yet so far away from us in the modern world :(
Ah... the humble dodo... it wasn't entirely caused by humans but humans were partially a part, by introducing carnivorous animals the Mauritian fauna never saw.
Great video about asiatic lion it's not really smaller than african lion but the one survived today were the smaller one when asiatic lion live in plain of central india they were bigger and can reach a weight of 300 kg because the prey is also bigger like gaur ,wild water buffalo, indian auroch , rhino and elephant but the lion that lives in gir forest mostly hunt deers . Also lion living in the Caucasus were bigger because of colder climate and bigger pray size like moose, European bison , auroch and red deer .
Yes. The surviving population of Asiatic lions are an EXTREMELY small sample size, and have been severely degraded by lack of genetic diversity. And lions evolved on the plains and savannas of Africa, so when they migrated North to Europe and East throughout Asia...the open plains of central Asia were a perfect environment for them.
I've often wondered how diet changes genetics of the same animal in a different region. May even be why people are so different or a fraction of that equation
@@MarianaTrench6699 Absolutely brilliant observation. Dietary habits show up in blood type studies. Environment plays a role too. Sickle-cell anemia developed as protection against Malaria. Lighter skin enables people to make vitamin D faster, while darker skin provides more sun protection, if not supplemented in less sunny environments, problems develop. I can think of many other examples, but this is enough to support your question, I hope.
Alexander the Great documented a large reptile creature that resembles a smaller version of the T. rex living in caves He described it as very fierce with no other beast to challenge it
I guess it's possible he described a Varanus Sivalensis,a large monitor lizard about the same size as a Komodo dragon that lived in India during the Pliocene. Maybe a small relic population survived long enough for him to encounter them.
This guy's humour, personality and delivery style really sell these videos. I like the topics covered, but even more so, I LOL my ass off at the casual wit.
I had absolutely no idea about the Auroch! I mean, I knew cattle were domesticated, but I just assumed they would've been selectively bred from something like smaller, leaner, wild bovines. Like seriously, my family *has cows* and I didn't know about this! This is the first video of yours that I've seen. It reminds me of how a friend of mine blew my mind a year or two ago when he explained how many "zoo animals" (from modern US persective) the ancient Romans had access too. Thank you for making this video, it somehow manages to make history seem simultaneously more fantastical *and* more real!
The project to bring back the Aurochs, while certainly well-intentioned, would just produce a genetic monstrosity which bears a resemblance to what the people on the project think an Aurochs may have looked like in real life. Realistically, it would be no more accurate than an artists' concept drawing.
Don't confuse the Nazi project with the modern project. The modern Auroch project is literally filtering the genes from the genomes of cow breeds. Their newest generation has even managed to replicate the dimorphism between males and females, as well as adults and calfs. To do this, they breed the animals which have the most ancestral Auroch genes together in order for the genes to express themselves in the offspring. This is done by doing genetic tests on each animal.
They’re not trying to recreate the Aurochs 1 to 1. They’re just attempting to make a new fully functional species of wild cattle to serve the same “niche” in the European ecosystem as Aurochs once did.
@@theimmigrant7953 Domestic cattle have forever been selected for being docile. Do they try to breed the docility back out of their new aurochs? But then breeding them would become dangerous and complicated.
@@eljanrimsa5843 I think that’s what they’re doing, if not something very similar. It’ll probably end up with a temperament similar to a bison, minding its own business unless bothered, instead of something like a Cape buffalo, indiscriminately aggressive. Seeing as breeding efforts are also done with dangerous animals like big cats, elephants, and rhinos it’ll still be dangerous but not impossible.
"I understand how silly it is to want the Dinosaurs to roam the Earth after not being around for tens of millions of years." Birds: "Am I a joke to you?"
@@Sillybillyilly My uncle was a grand dragon before he was raped to death in prison. A country boy can survive! Unless butt raped to death by members of the Black Gorilla Family.
@@Sillybillyilly well i hate to be that person but they wouldn't be dinosaurs Dinosaurs walked on two legs Maybe wyverns could be dinosaurs I'm so sorry I have typed this out
Jehovah God created Earth and man as told in Genisis. The Earth is only a few thousand years. In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth then created Adam and Eve
Absolutely Awesome Video! Also there is a species of horned crocodile that lived in Madagascar called voay robustus which persisted until very recently, also the skull morphology kinda looks like the Pokémon Cubone, I remember someone mentioning this and I certainly see the similarities. But what’s fascinating about this horned crocodile is that it went extinct surprisingly very recently, originally it was thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago along with most of the megafauna on Madagascar due to humans, but research done by Evon Hekkala indicated these endemic horned crocodiles persisted up until the 1860s which explores reported two different kinds of crocodiles in Madagascar, and also details from the malagasy peoples consistently referred to two types of crocodiles on the island, a large robust crocodile, and a more gracile form with a preference for rivers, the gracile form is referring to the current Nile crocodile population in Madagascar. In comparison, the fact that the Malagasy people referred to the Nile crocs which are very powerful and robust crocodiles, among the largest reptiles on earth as the gracile form, really speaks volumes as to how much more robust this Madagascar horned crocodile voay robustus really is, the postcrania shows a croc with very robust limb and girdle elements. Probably Would have been pretty terrestrial in its habits based on the robust limb bones and morphologies and skull, similarly to its closest living relative, the dwarf crocodiles of west and central Africa. It’s also possibly this horned crocodile may in fact still survive to this day in remote localities in Madagascar perhaps. Another really cool thing about crocodiles and ancient history, there was a relatively recently described new crocodile species by Evon Hekkala that was once thought to be the Nile crocodile, this new species is called the West African crocodile crocodylus suchus, and also called the desert crocodile because of populations living and surviving in oasis’s in the Sarah desert and Mauritania showing it was once much greener and wetter in the past. It’s a completely distinct species, smaller and more docile, and the ancient Egyptians already knew about this before DNA sequencing was a thing which is pretty awesome. And all the mummified Egyptian crocodiles that the scientists had sequenced were this new species crocodylus suchus, Another thing That is fascinating is that the Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the Egyptians selectively used a smaller, tamer crocodile in ceremonies and regarded it as sacred. This info in on “Nile crocodile is two species| nature” its really fascinating. And a population of these west African crocodile in Ghana’s paga croc pond really shows how tame and docile these crocodiles can be, also I’ve noticed this west African crocodile has a very flat skull compared to the Nile crocodile and different look to the eye sockets as well as two bony protrusions at the base of the skull at the edges. Also can’t help but mentioned a group of crocodiles in the South Pacific that went extinct 2,800 years which weren’t like any other extant crocodile, more in line with crocs seen in the Mesozoic. In the South Pacific Islands such as New Caledonia and Vanuatu, it had a species of small fully terrestrial and arboreal mekosuchine crocodiles called mekosuchus with a similar ecological niche to monitor lizards with long limbs and limbs held erect and high, with broad tall and deep box like heads with lateralization of orbits and nares. Meaning there eyes were more forward facing and there nostrils were as well and having powerful neck muscles with heads held high, and would have been quick gallopers. The species on New Caledonia went extinct 3,000 years ago and grew to 2m and the species on Vanuatu which was smaller was the last to have gone extinct at around 2,800 years ago. And even in Fiji There was a fully terrestrial species of mekosuchine crocodile closely related to mekosuchus called volia athollandersoni which grew to 3m making it the last large bodied terrestrial mekosuchine and going extinct around the same time as the mammoths of wrangle island 4,000 years ago. Tho in the Pleistocene of Australia terrestrial mekosuchines crocodiles were larger and more specialized for cursorial hunting. Such as the large 6m quinkana, a terrestrial ziphodont crocodile with long powerful limbs, rounded tail, tall vaulted skull with lateralization of orbits and nares, and serrated compressed backwards facing teeth like that of theropod dinosaurs and monitor lizards, and having a modified pelvis for a pillar erect stance, which other terrestrial ziphodont crocodylians like sebecids and rauisuchians had, and could not transition into a sprawling posture like the modern semi aquatic forms. So quinkana’s pelvis enabled limb posture and stances like mammals and dinosaurs without the mentioned sprawling postures modern semi aquatic crocodiles can transition into, quinkana and the other terrestrial crocodylians with a pillar erect stance couldn’t transition into a sprawling posture at all. And the last of thsee mekosuchine terrestrial crocs persisted in the South Pacific until very recently. But it’s also possibly these small terrestrial and arboreal mekosuchus crocs could still persist and survive in remote localities in New Guinea and the South Pacific given there small size and similar affinities to monitor lizards. And also regarding Madagascar during the early 1800s locals also reported seeing dwarf hippos in certain localities. And also can’t forget to mention meiolania, the horned armored clubbed tailed land turtles of Australia and the South Pacific, with the last going extinct about 2,000 years ago on lord Howe island, but they were also found on other islands like New Caledonia. These turtle are super cool convergently evolving similarly to the armored ankylosaurid dinosaurs and the armored glyptodon mammals. And lastly on New Caledonia also had a large flightless bird called sylviornis that people still living on the island remember about this birds appearance from what I’ve heard, but I’ve noticed it has a sorta retro terror bird like look from the original mysterious island movie. Also again, really awesome work on this, can’t wait for part 2, also thats super cool about hannibal war elephants, and the fact that Hannibal’s personal elephant with a broken tusk perhaps could have very well Been a Syrian sub species of Asian elephant.
I would also like to mention the giant Moa bird, which was a flightless bird similar to an ostrich native to New Zealand. These giants stood up at nearly 3 meters tall (9.8 ft) and walked the earth since 90 million years ago until they vanished in the 15th century due to human hunting. What I think it's really tragic is that these animals were living unbothered for millions of years until just 600 years ago, when New Zealand got populated by humans. We were the ones responsible for erasing them from the planet.
I remember reading in The Decline and Fall of Rome, of a species described as an ape, that was made extinct because they were captured and slaughtered to extinction in the games. It occurred to me they could have been hominid ancestor of ours.
This far back it could have been possible. All the other hominid species that lived alongside us either went extinct or got assimilated into Homo Sapiens. Not only are many animals today the product of breeding, a human activity, but our own species itself is also the product of breeding. This is why some people have Neanderthal genes, humans have bred with each other and mixed, "killing" off all other species as they all converged into the single species we are today. One might believe that this would make humans an animal close to extinction, but no that isn't what it means, it's just that we managed to harmonize all those species into a single "powerful" one that took over the world. It wouldn't be too farfetch to think that some hominids might have still been around in ancient times. After all I always believed aurochs were very prehistoric and only know to early civilizations and ancient empires, but the last one lived in Poland and she died naturally in 1627. In fact the Poles made laws that punished auroch poachers, but it was too late. So it could be a same situation for these forgotten hominids. We don't have much paleonthological and archeological evidence, if not none, of such species but it shouldn't be an idea to be mocked off or laughed at. We already know a lot on the past but we still have way more to learn about, maybe things that we would never be able to learn about.
I can’t be the only one who fantasizes about having a time machine and going back to various points in time with a little plane/submarine thing that allows me to safely explore and observe all sorts of habitats. And as morbid as it sounds, I _really_ want to go back and watch the KT extinction event. 🦕🦖☄️ 💥
I thought the same thing. But if you look at 13:53, there's an image of ancient looking times. Looks familiar like I've seen this image before in a book. But then i noticed, down in the bottom right corner. That kid looks somehow out of place.
There's a British series called "Prehistoric Park" where the main character does exactly that - time travels and brings extinct animals to his park in present day. Might wanna check it out.
The world even just 500-600 years ago seems so magical and mysterious
The Roman Empire ended more than 1500 years ago
Yeah, just did a vacation in 1450, went to Manhattan and it surprised me. No Yanks yet, but you know...
@@khan0491 only the Western half
And murderous. The reason most of these animals are extinct is because the Romans imported them, then slaughtered them for fun.
@@TillowFrik to be honest, it’s a habit Humans don’t seem to have grown out of much. There are plenty of places today which force animals to fight and whatnot for entertainment. Very sad to be sure.
In ancient times, very, very few people travelled more than 20 miles from their birthplace. There were some high-end soldiers that travelled far, but even during the Roman Empire, the Roman soldiers posted in areas far from Rome were often the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Roman soldiers who made the journey from Rome.
That said, can you imagine the looks on the faces of the Roman City guards when Hannibal shows up riding a huge grey horse with a snake for a nose and two giant swords coming out of its face?
Can you imagine when prisoners that lived in farmlands and villages for most of their lives were brought to rome to be used as cannonfodder in the coloseum games.
Imagine the awe of those countrymen seeing all that marble, glorious gigantic statues and tall buildings engraved with golden details
@@lucignolo8333 Gladiators were trained heavily and paid well. The Romans wanted to see a good, fair, exciting fight. Not just slaves being slaughtered.
@@Efishrocket102 sometimes the spectacle was literally some christians being mauled to death by lions, there weren’t only gladiator fights in the colosseum.
Sometimes the romans felt bad about an elephant being killed and sometimes they cheered when the lions were eating people alive. They were weird people
Intelligent aren't ya?.. No one would mistake an elephant for a horse. No even in the ancient world.
@@maniacram ancient people's would have no frame of reference for an elephant. Now we see pictures of them on cookies since we were children, but Roman's of the time would have thought they were looking at a monster.
Imagine being an average villager in Italy during Roman times and seeing soldiers riding elephants...
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Roman soldiers walked
@@jamesswanson7213 he talking about seeing Carthaginian soldiers
@@jamesswanson7213 actually Romans did have war elephants too.
It used to be normal see elephants walking around in Thailand in the 2000s. I visited Thailand when I was 6 and rode an elephant there.
One of the saddest extinctions for me is the Tasmanian Tiger. Such a unique and majestic animal that died solely because of human activity
not just human activity, specifically colonialism. Indigenous people lived with them for thousands of years
@@froggygirl999CoLiOnAlisM. It’s like you guys never got past your college ideological bs. The animal was hunted down for the same reason foxes and boars are hunted down today: they leech off of farms.
They are alive in Tasmania
@@froggygirl999 If the aboriginals had the technology that the Europeans had, they absolutely would've drove them to extinction as well. Let's not act as if the aboriginals were somehow any more moral than the European settlers. They hunted the Thylacine as well. The Europeans were just better at it than they were.
@@froggygirl999 This is a very misleading take. The Inidigenous people took dingos to australia which caused most of the population decline Thylacine. Europeans just killed the last of them.
So claiming this is like saying most of europe lived peacefully with aurochs for hundreds of year, but Polish royals came and killed them off. Killing the last of something doesn't make you solely responsible for it's extinction.
I used to think that European painters and sculptors had a difficult time getting their lions correct or done accurately, but then I found that their models were Barbary Lions. The classic British lion depictions associated with royalty are very similar to photographs of the Barbary Lion which survived in small pockets into the 20th century. Some say that there are still captive descendants. It was a very regal looking animal and the last known aerial photo of one in the Atlas Mtns looks very proud indeed. Look it up.
Going back thousands of years - the Irish Elk had the largest antlers of any relative in the deer family and stood nearly 7 feet at the shoulder. Many good skeletal remains can be found in museums. Those antlers are spectacular!
Man, I've been looking for that photo for years and now I found it thanks to you
That last photo of the lion in the Atlas Mountains is stunning and very sad at the same time.
I first seen that photo when I was around ten. At 31 it's still cemented in my mind somewhat and always thought of it being a rather sad image.
There's an Irish Elk exhibit in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow, it's incredible how tall it is
Seven feet at the shoulder!?! I guess we know why they were hunted to extinction.
i absolutely mourn the loss of dodos the most. they were such peaceful and timid creatures, having known no predators before humans, and i believe they wouldve been amazing companions. especially when you look at their only living relatives, the pigeon, and how incredibly sweet and friendly they can be. instead their timidness were taken advantage of and they were hunted for their, supposedly not even well tasting, meat. a shame.
Being good is punishable in the eyes of the universe
@@archravenineteenseventeen good and evil are subjective. In the universe peace is evil
I either watched a show or read somewhere that the Dodo birds bones were not found around the old camps in Mauritius that have been excavated. Instead what is believed now is that the hogs that were let loose on the island ate the dodo birds eggs or rooted and disturbed the birds so much that they couldn't reproduce.
@@archravenineteenseventeen I swear thoughts and the acceptance of such thoughts will always lead to no change
@@NeostormXLMAX same with this
You don’t really think of cows being intimidating… but to stumble upon a wild territorial giant bull would definitely be something to fear
That’s my understanding of what it’s like to meet a bison. I’ve heard that they’re peaceable, but not docile - with a critical stare that’s so much more aware than a cow’s.
Imagine getting dropped off in the Philippines and someone pulls up on you riding a Carabao.
got chased by our bull on multiple occasions, one time when was about five, barely made it to a barn in time
Yes and the auroch was bigger than any species of living cattle 🐄. Even bigger than a gaur or bison 🦬
Tigerman126 🐅 in North America there was a giant species of Bison that is now extinct - it may have been comparable to or even larger than the giant cow of Eurasia
Video Timestamps:
0:52 The Eurasian lion
3:54 The Syrian/Chinese elephant
7:28 The Atlas Bear
9:23 The auroch
14:01 Conclusion
We don't need that information we can just watch the video
“The worst part of liking cool animals is knowing we missed out on most of them” is the best sentence ive ever heard
As cool as seeing live dinosaurs would be I’ll stick with fossils.
@@mrgehbak6713 We still have some pretty wacky not-extinct animals though, especially in the oceans.
Right on. People are awful.
@@mrgehbak6713 living dinosaurs are here, go check what is a bird
@@thelong-hairedleapinggnome7939 You and I both on hating our species.
The photograph of the last Barbary Lion in the wild is so haunting. It just strides off into the beautiful desert that its species called home.
when does that come up?
@@bestbread3446 just look at wikipedia -> upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Barbary_lion.jpg
@@bestbread3446it’s not in the video but I was absolutely expecting that photo to be in it. I imagine it is easily googled.
As a native Berber from Morocco, nothing makes sadder than the extinction of the Barbary lion
Find some DNA material, bro, and it can be inserted into a near relative. The Romans really did suck. @@JeffreyBenzodiazepines
The Maori actually have stories about the 'haast eagle', and i read a paper a few years ago comparing the way the animal is coloured in stories from all over, and they find it consistent, as if the oral traditions are faithfully recording it and not drifting anywhere near as much as people would assume. Also some of the stories are about the eagles taking children, which is terrifying.
Oral history has recently been proven to be far more accurate than what was once was believed. It's said that oral histories were passed down with little to no change (changes were only generally allowed with permission from a community or the community's leaders), so the major details of these stories tend to stay exactly the same and are recited by heart. Super interesting to see the part that these ancient stories can play in helping us identify certain extinct species of animal today.
13 separate species are proven to be made extinct my the Maori in the 200-300yrs they were in New Zealand before Western Discovery.
@@jacksprat6391 omfg
@@tisbutascratch2045 Ya thats why the early Popes tried to claim an 'oral history' that could trace them back to the Apostles. Problem with that was there just wasn't one. So when that didn't pan out they moved to plan B. where they forged the Book of Popes.
@@jacksprat6391 bruh💀
It breaks my heart the library at Alexandria was burned. I can’t begin to imagine the immense volumes of ancient knowledge we lost. A tragedy.
believe it or not there was nothing really unique about the library at Alexandria. historians today have a better understanding of how academia worked in the ancient world. there weren’t any important works in Alexandria that weren’t in any of the other massive libraries of the time or other collections. there were dozens of private and public libraries throughout Italy, Turkey, and elsewhere that were just as large or larger. like the Palatine library in Rome. Even within Egypt there were several other large libraries that were just as or more significant than Alexandria.
just like today, no library was the single repository to a work that was significant beyond the immediate area. the book trade was huge back then so any work people cared about was copied. regional manuscripts and records are a different matter of course.
the library in Alexandria burning would be a big shock to Egyptians like if any monument in your country was destroyed, but in the grand scale of history the fire had almost zero effect on which works were copied and passed down through the ages. learned men of the time didn’t see it as a loss to academia. that misconception is much more recent and became a thing only in the past few decades. it really is based on little more than romanticism.
@@agathar7115i ain't reading allat
@@big_pb Lazy
@@agathar7115 newsflash, those libraries got burned by Islam too
@@big_pbsomeone wouldn’t like the library of Alexandria
We definitely need a part 2 of this video, there's so many more interesting animals.
I agree
But first we must call Lumi so she rescues this man from bears.
Looks Iike we have a lot of animals to kill for the next video...
@@papabird4425 time is animals if ya know what I mean
Atlas Lions...
The Barbary Lions were most revered by the Romans. It’s the largest of all lions with mane that goes down to it’s belly. It’s no wonder that this beautiful species is now extinct in the wild. There are only handful of them left in about 80 zoos worldwide and although they are being bred again, experts don’t want to take the risk of introducing them to the wild just yet for fear of poachers.
The romans were the reason why the barbary lions are functionnally extinct (the only surivivng members are individuals that are mixed with african lions), they over hunted them for their circus.
I say we hunt the poachers for sport
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@@normalhuman9878 I second that motion.
One of the reason their numbers went down dramatically is because of colonial powers the french generals in Morocco would hunt them to near extinction
The tazmanian tiger is the animal im most angry at humans about. They didnt have to go extinct, we did it and not that long ago. I wish they were still around, they were so wild looking and unique.
Worst of all, it was recent enough for us to know better. I can forgive the Romans hunting bears, but 20th-Century Brits on the tiny island of Tasmania... 😡
@@Sawrattan
>Brits
I think I found the problem
There's been a lot of sightings of the Tasmanian tiger
I read, a while back, that there have been a few recent sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. Though these are considered apocryphal.
And Ivory billed woodpecker 😭
Im shocked that you didnt mention the Dwarf elephants of Cyprus and Crete, which were several species roughly between 4-7 feet tall. There are paintings possibly depicting people having them on leashes because they were so small.
Just the concept of an elephant that was shorter than a child and lived in Europe alone is such a crazy concept to me.
By far the saddest for me are the Moa, Haast's Eagle, and Elephant Bird. All of them died at roughly the same time in history and all of them were probably alive around the time of Christopher Columbus, which would begin the European exploration phase.
Don't forget dwarf hippopotamuses that also used to inhabit Cyprus and which where even smaller than dwarf elephants
Except they were exterminated by the Maori.
@@Gostwriterindisguise i didnt say they werent.
Wow i had no idea such a small elephant existed once, how amazing it must’ve been to witness a living one
Dwarf elephant are present in Indonesia
14:16 the biggest eagle in the world. The Maoris had stories of their children being taken away by them. They died out because their main prey, the Moa, was hunted into extinction by the Maori long before Europeans arrived.
New Zealand and Madagascar top the list for tragic extinctions since they have absolutely no surviving parallel elsewhere.
I remember hearing that humans weren't nutritious enough to sustain the health of those giant eagles when they had to switch to preying humans as it's primary food source. The combination of our ability to use tools, be very deadly ingenious, and vengefully motivated didn't help it survive much longer after the moa's extinction.
The Moa looks like a variation of the emu, ostrich. They’re probably related, would be easy to clone one using an emu, ostrich as the carrier, if they got the DNA of the Moa.
@@Sawrattan Shows just what kind of unique variations of species and one of a kind species that can evolve within a island. It also shows how fragile those species are since their evolutionary traits tend to be less general and more specific adaptions based upon unique particularities of those islands ecosystems. A little tweak by an outside force (almost always humans for the past several millennia) on the food chain, flora/fonna, climate, etc. can spell doom to the wildlife. Evolution is amazing, but also slow. Force the need for a rapid adaption for a species within a changing environment too quickly and the whole evolutionary process falls apart for said species and extinction is the end result.
So much for the wisdom of indigenous people.
Another tragic loss is that of the ezo wolves of Hokkaido, Japan. They were hunted to extinction during the Meiji restoration due to the Japanese wanting to protect their recently imported cattle.
The people who actually live in the region swear that they’re still around, just in very sparse numbers
There are some reports of people seeing a few, but there's no evidence for it.
So is this a problem? The wolves being hunted to extinction so the people can survive? I feel like this comes off as a modern concern because nowadays we don’t have animals threatening to kill is
@@AbdulGabagool83 It's enough of a problem that a lot of european countries are actually trying to get wolves back. See, there's this concept called a keystone species, wherein there are certain species within an ecosystem which are necessary for its stability. At one point, the US decided to eliminate grey wolves in Yellowstone National Park, and succeeded. However, this threw the entire ecosystem off balance.
The deer, now unpredated because of the lack of wolves, started exploding in population, as their numbers were no longer being kept in check by anything. This resulted in overgrazing by the increased population, which resulted in less tall grass. This caused a drop in small herbivores such as rabbits, which were now easier prey for the local raptor populations.
The overgrazing also affected the food supplies for the local beavers, as the deer now started encroaching on their food supplies as well. This caused their populations to dwindle as a result.
The lowered beaver population resulted in higher erosion along the riverbanks, as the beavers that were now no longer present couldn't build their dams, which would normally regulate the flow of water. This then caused all kinds of havoc for the species living in these rivers, which had adapted to beavers being around and building their dams.
As a result of eliminating the grey wolves in Yellowstone, the entire ecosystem became unbalanced, as the lack of a predator for the local deer population caused an overpopulation of deer, which had a ripple effect on all the other species in the park.
Reintroducing the grey wolf to Yellowstone caused the entire ecosystem to recover within just a few years of reintroduction.
So yes, hunting predators to extinction can very much be a problem.
These Wolves as well an multiple other species were made extinct by the Yamato People (Japanese) NOT by the Native Ainu people.
To paraphrase
So many wondrous animals, lost like tears in rain.
I've seen the burning orange sun rising over the ice sheets of the frigid north, and torrential mudslides of the Eurasian steppe turn the land asunder. And it will all be lost with me. ~Polish Auroch's last words or something.
@@planescaped beautiful words depicting a beautiful scenario.
Lol ok but do aurouchs dream of electric 🐑?
"Time to die"
Like a fart in the wind
Cave paintings in France include hyenas and rhinos, different types of big cats. Amazing that they ever lived that far north.
"The world used to be a bigger place."
"World's still the same. There's just less in it."
Aye
But there’s always more people
Aye
Jack sparrow
@@pocketmarcy6990 or insects
Keep in mind that we have the privilege of living alongside the single biggest living organism, ever, to inhabit the Earth: the Blue Whale - more massive even than some of the extinct sauropod dinosaurs. Were that not the case, we'd probably looking at their fossilized bones with wonder, and theorizing on what a creature so huge would even look like.
biggest living animal*
@@skylarmercer1530 right, the biggest organism is some kind of fungus I think
@@jcrc1
The great barrier reef
@@toddyrocket296 no
@@jcrc1 the honey fungus
As to finding viable DNA in soft tissue and breeding back extinct species; the one I'd really like to see is the Irish Elk! A magnificent animal.
agree completely
Yes, but those didn't go extinct because of human hunting, those died because they evolved to be unfit for life. Like koalas or Tasmanian tigers.
Indeed, but the best bet Currently would be gene editing on a closely related species to look as close as possible to the extinct species, and using it as a taxon substitute, than when the technologies advance to a point, than such endeavors can become a reality when it comes to cloning.
@@wilfdarr but they're cool
@@villus9384 I don't disagree with that part. Imagine that rack over the mantle.
We always talk about extinct animals but extinct plants can often be more important since they might have some amazing medicinal property
For sure. I remember some years ago I heard (in a video) of an eurasian plant that was great for preventing pregnancies, or something of the like that made it popular to use as a contraceptive (and thus was highly sought after, until eventually there were none left) 🤔 I haven't tried looking it up afterwards so I don't know how true that is, just something I remember hearing when I was younger.
@@sammalsikuri3828 I am amazed no one tried to grow those plants
@@thegameranch5935 it's been years since I saw the video so I unfortunately can't quarantee on how true my statement is, or if it just was something fake on the internet.
Edit: so, googling "contraceptive plant extinct" will lead to stuff about silphium, which was used by Romans before the fall of the Roman Empire. It's most likely that plant the video was talking about, so hey, I had it vaguely right.
@@sammalsikuri3828 you're right! The plant is most likely silphium. Apparently it had a wide range of amazing medicinal properties. If I remember correctly, it grew in limited places, like Cyprus. Romans did try to cultivate the plant, but according to some, plant failed to grow anywhere else. Who knows how did it reproduce! Even Julius Caesar, coming back from one of the conquests, brought back some silphium to Rome, alongside with gold and other treasures.
Perhaps there are still some places where the plant still exist.
@@sammalsikuri3828 afaik, that's dong quai. Never confirmed myself but I've heard enough.
Aurochs then: badass beasts, inspiring awe and fear
Aurochs now: just regular cows, mass bred for milk and meat, those badass ones were hunted down completely
Disappointing, for sure
Just like humans
@@josecastilho6652 i sure hate how we're bred for milk ))))
Lament the passing of the autochs, and the slaying of the ancient worm
@jkirk1626 Corrected
It's a natural symbol of submitting risk and freedom to "safety" and slavery
This is a great example of why we need to protect the animals that still exist
Honestly some of these animals are pretty dangerous to humans. It's not hard to figure out why we didn't have much issue killing them off.
@@BigWheel. yes but in the process we have done irreparable damage to the ecosystems they once inhabited. So in the long run we have done more harm to ourselves and to our world as a whole
@@BigWheel. humans aren’t the center of the world, even though you wanna make them out to be. we can’t just kill whatever we don’t like. that’s not how that works. there’s an order and a reason for everything. in the last few hundred years especially, it’s gotten completely screwed up.
@JerryRupprecht I know right? Just imagine how much more diverse our weekend BBQ's. could be!
Soon it’s just going to be us and bugs
This makes me really feel for our descendants. All the animals that are around today that we take for granted and see as "nothing special or out of the ordinary" - our descendants will be watching a video (or whatever future equivalent) just like this about our modern day animals that are no longer around in their time.
It makes me wonder how we'll be seen by them. Like the Romans prob killed so many species, and I get this like... Not angry at them but def wish I could see those plants and animals. Even so, I do try to remember that they don't know what we do now.
Don't be a pessimist. We are much better educated than our ancestors, and many of us are working towards saving endangered animals. In many cases we have been successful, but if we believe that we can't save them, then we won't.
@@CHRB-nn6qp honestly proportionally I think we have the same amount of education they did. There's a LOT of ppl who don't believe in climate change, and more who are invested in encouraging that. And then there's the ppl hunting endangered species bc they can.
@@StonedtotheBones13 The difference lies in the fact that we can now make a difference. If we remain pessimistic, we are allowing these terrible people to have their way with nature.
We often hear most about the bad stuff, as that will get the most attention. There is still a lot of good in the world, and if we continue to spread positivity, it will outweigh the negativity.
@@CHRB-nn6qpI agree, being nihilistic and just saying "humans bad" does nothing to solve the problem.
considering we’ve found human structures that are over 12000 years old, i can only imagine how life was back then with the animals still alive
Tough. Go out for a bathroom break and a pack of eurasian hyenas snatches you.
@@anderewisp1 wander in the wrong area and a short faced bear comes charging
The Ancient Greeks and Etruscan had tales about savage Pygmies waging a constant war against giant storks.
This was considered folklore until the recent discovery of Homo Florensiensis, the Hobbit of Flores Island in Indonesia, that was indeed preyed upon by a species of giant marabou stork.
@Simon Farley There's local folklore evidence that a relictual population of Hobbits survived until the 15th C, to be eradicated by modern humans after they kidnapped a baby. South-East Asia was far more traveled and documented at the time than the Congo Valley, where the gorilla remained a myth until the early 20th C.
The same population of archaic humans on the continent (Homo Erectus) is also believed to have inspired the legend of Hanuman, the monkey god of India, that led his people to build the land bridge that existed between the tip of India and Sri Lanka. That legend in turn reached Europe, under the form of Cynocephalus Saint Christopher, the dog-headed saint.
India was much more influential than a remote island in Indonesia. I’d like to believe what you’re saying but I doubt those stories would have reached the Mediterranean
@@kemurinine4272 If you want to learn more about the hidden connection between India and the Mediterranean world, read the paper "Brahma and Abraham: Divine Covenants of Common Origin" that's your missing link. Let's just say that the more you go East, the more a certain foundational monotheism of the Middle East is seen as nothing more than a sectarian offshoot of the Vedic tradition.
This would be a great short story idea. From the perspective of a villager.
@@kemurinine4272 " ... would HAVE reached the Mediterranean."
The real bummer to me is the ones we almost got to see; things our grandparents or great grandparents might have seen, like thylacines and passenger pigeons. Or ones we maybe did see but our kids or their kids won't, like the pyrenean Ibex.
That species of ibex may be introduced thanks to cloning or IVF.
Interestingly there have been stories of people with pet thylacines, and were very good and trusting pets from what I’ve heard, and who knows, it’s possibly they might still persist, best bet for there survival is in New Guinea, people living in the region have reported animals that match such descriptions. And during the Pleistocene of Australia, sahul, New Guinea was connected to Australia at one point, temporarily as land bridges. And fossils have been found in new Guinean as well.
@@jointcerulean3350 I know a species of leopard largely thought extinct was caught on camera a few years ago. We can only hope.
@@jointcerulean3350 interesting to think parallel evolution might not just be physical but also mental, if thylacines showed almost canid-like behaviour.
Should have been born earlier bruh
For the last several years, I've been following the conservation efforts of the giant softshell turtle. Believed to have played a role in Asian mythology, these creatures are currently teetering on the very edge of extinction, with the only known specimens being at a number you could count on one hand. It'll be quite sad if they go, though thankfully there is still some hope for them. The last captive female died in 2019, after years of unsuccessful breeding attempts. It was looking rough, but then a wild female managed to be discovered a year later. There's no telling if there're any more wild specimens out there, or if they just got really lucky on this one, but here's hoping that the conservation efforts manage to see more success now that she's here.
One female? They're already dead. No breeding program could save them. At most, you get a few generations of horrible inbred turtles before the end.
Truly sad to hear this. Hope they can be saved.
Hopefully the Yangtze giant softshell turtle pulls through, although the odds are slim to none.
On the bright side soft shell turtles are really good at hiding in the mud. So there’s a good possibility that there’s more than we think
@@austinbevis4266 Is that true of the giant softshell, specifically?
The lion thing is interesting. Cougars were native where I live but I can’t think of anyone who had ever seen one when I was growing up. Now that I’m in my 50’s they are starting to come back as they’ve been displaced once again from where they went after they were displaced from here. I’ve seen 7 so far in the last 3 years.
The American bear dog was a 300 pound dog that existed in the plains of North America about 15 to 20,000 years ago. Take a guess as to why scientists nicknamed it Bone Crusher. Native Americans also lived with the American lion, which was 20% bigger than the African lion. The ancient aborigines of Australia lived with a monitor lizard twice as big as the Komodo dragon. The short nose cave bear of Alaska and Canada is interesting too.
Neee dont really belive the lion size part
At 8ft long and 3.9 feet tall at the Shoulder, along with being a little broader, this is about 20 to 25% larger than the modern African lion.
I posses a bear dog. Though he is no match for the might of my Bear Cat. Woe to the person who refuses to play patty cake with the bear cat when he rears up on his hind legs. Tis Greenies or death!
Inaccurate about the first part. The bear dog was not a dog at all but it was totally another group of species known as Amphicyon, the biggest species of it is estimated to have weighed up to around 800 kgs. It did not come under the dog (Canidae) family. They were NOT the ones termed as the bone-crushing dogs.
The bone-crushing dogs were dogs, coming under the borophaginae sub-family of the Canidae family. The biggest species of this the Epicyon Haydeni, (the largest canid ever) is estimated to have weighed upto around 300 pounds as you mentioned.
And the Cave Bear used to live in Europe and Asia... The giant Short-faced bears lived in North and South America...
The one animal that I most regret going extinct is the Carolina Parakeet. It would've been cool to seen these parrots in my area.
Passenger Pigeon- lotsa good eatin' we're missing out on from all out overharvesting.
(Doves are Delicious)
Same. I saw an ancient grainy pic of an old man and his Carolina, and it was playing like a sun conure and it just made me so sad
I would’ve loved to see the Dodo. They look so cute
I do wish that the Carolina Parakeet was still around. On the other hand, I definitely would like to see the Kentucky Spirochete go extinct!!!
also, the blue parrots from the movie Rio
there are lots of animals that didn't deserve to go extinct
Aurochs were actually under the protection of the Polish rulers back in the day. While their numbers systematically dwindled, concious effort was made to preserve the species back in the medieval period. Beginning with Jagiełło II, the aurochs were under the protection of the king, later after the kings death, his dynasty kept this tradition, eventually, even the Waza dynasty protected the animals. At some point, a group of foresters, alongside their families were relocated to a village next to Jaktorów forest, where the last remaining aurochs were living. They were given land, free of obligations to the king, and their only job was to protect the aurochs, keep track of their numbers, prevent farmers from destroying their habitat, and make sure that poachers don't kill the animals. They were also tasked with giving the information about the number of animals to a local official. Moreover, people were also reminded to keep the other types of cattle away from the aurochs, as it was believed that aurochs need their own space to thrive, and for their numbers to stop dwindling. Sadly, even when the concious effort was taken to protect the species, eventually they all died out, most likely as a result of diseases that were passed on from other types of cattle. These diseases would probably not be as lethal to the population if it was bigger, but it was a small and isolated population, which couldn't adapt to the enviroment. It is, however, important to stress, that effort was made to prevent their extinction, and despite our failure, other efforts, such as the reintroduction of european bison to its natural habitat, after its extincion in the wilds, succeded. If humans work together, they can sometimes save some pretty cool species.
Yep. The last cow of the species died in Poland several hundred years ago. They would have been gone a lot sooner had it not been for Poland's protection.
Based poland
I hate the English spelling of Aurochs. Etymologically its literally just Ur (original) - Ox (cow/bull). Urox. Then some Victorian dude added an A to imply a connection to Aurum (Gold) that doesn't exist.
@@maxvarjagen9810 aurochs is a German loanword it has nothing to do with Victorians relating it to aurum
@@LyNguyen33739 Huh. You're right. It was the Germans that corrupted the spelling, not the English. Usually its safe to blame the English for stupid spelling, but I guess not this time.
According to wiktionary, middle high german spelling was Urochse, but they messed it up along the way to become Auerochse.
I’ve always been fascinated with the remaining population of Asiatic lions so thank you for recognizing them
Recently found the channel, dig the content dude!
Found him last week, quickly finished all his videos, and just as quickly became one of my favorite channels.
Just subscribed
@@paein9642 same bro
Yah found out about this guy 2 weeks ago. Love this channel better then mothlight
Same here! This guy is a gem.
Aurochs selective breeding program was actually first tried by the nazis back in 1920s and 1930s, who had an obsession of bringing back the aurochs, the result is a large, agressive bovine breed similar to aurochs that were still around today called the Heck cattle
Texas Longhorns also have similar characteristics to Aurochs.
> by the nazis in 1920s
> Hitler became chancellor in 1933
What?
@@uberfeel The party had existed since the 20's, and they were kind of batshit from the get go so it's entirely believable that between paramilitary assaults and political speeches they were cow breeding
@@uberfeel one of the heck brothers were a prominant member of the nazi party since its beginning in early 20s, and when hitler rises to power, he and göring personally funded the heck brothers project and eventually release the cattles into the wild. However the heck cattle is much smaller, shorter legged, and short snouted then the original aurochs. This is why heck cattles are used as the basis for germanys projekt taurus, a more modern attempt to crossbreed the aurochs
@@Rynewulf Yes, I know they exist during the early 20's but, hitler joined the party in 1924 also they had to paramilitary assualt and also defend themselves form the Marxists all the time because if they didn't the Marxists would've kill their SA men one by one in the streets.
Also just checked about that cow plan. It was planned in the 1926 but, it started in 1934.
Until 4000BC there was a species of dwarf elephant on the Greek island of Tilos. It was a relative of the straight tusked elephant Paleoloxodon. Males reached a shoulder height of 0.96m (3ft) and weighed around 300kg.
Crazy some dogs are taller than elephants
Cool story, how many trunk nubs they got? 😂
You should look into the animals in ancient Arabia it was apparently filled with deers in the desert which is really fascinating
Reading about gladiators, I found that the games they held were responsible for many species extinction. The beast hunts held in the amphitheater were wildly popular. There was an entire industry devoted to the capture and transport of exotic animals for the entertainment of Rome.
Not much different from today huh
@@angles18 human gon human
@@angles18I believe people have changed, not many people want to come to an arena to see a slaughterhouse
This dude seems like the kinda guy to get drunk and instead of doing something fun or irresponsible he just talks about how there are more cats on the island of Cyprus than people or those pterodactyls with the huge heads and long necks
...what happened to the other responses...
@@absolutelyyousless7605 Your new to this whole trolling thing. Ain't ya.
if this isn't fun idk what fun is.... acting stupid ?
I thought im the only one. Guy sounds like a sober person but its kinda cool
That's what i was like. Until i quit drinking.
Jurassic Park just needed better fences...
Fr tho
And more qualified staff
Or big fuck-off pits, like we already do for literally every big dangerous animal in most zoos around the world.
@@userequaltoNull why does everybody ignore the effectiveness of big holes in the ground
They also spared the expense on their IT. If they hadn’t been underpaying him he probably wouldn’t have done what he did. Then again he was greedy.
I've always been interested in the Thylacine myself! I'm reminded about it every few years and I was totally intrigued when I first saw it as a kid!
They have a Taxidermy Thylacine at the Natural History Museum in London. Amazing to see it, but I’d much rather it was alive and kicking. Apparently all the technology and research to bring Thylacines back already exists, and they think we will see a return within the next decade.
“Mammoths existing with ancient Egypt”
Only true chads would get this
Wrangle Island
@@zaidlaurio9975 Thanks.
Wow, didn't know I was a Chad.
Yep
Ancient aliens
One zoo in Europe (Chester, England) has a small pride of Asiatic lions and i've been to see them, theyre absolutely stunning animals. Despite them being much smaller than what you imagine a lion to be, seeing the male with his extremely dark mane and bright eyes was so striking
the L.A. zoo had a pair until about 1998. i also seen a male asiatic at a wildlife sanctuary. quite amazing. chester zoo also had a baby elephant that was a hybrid african/asian elephant but it didn't live very long. that wuda REALLY been somethin' to see.
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I’m from Chester myself and live a few miles away from the zoo. If anyones thinking of visiting, I couldn’t recommend it enough. It’s a fantastic zoo, and is involved massively in conservation programmes and animal welfare. It’s an awesome day out.
@@J.Wolf90 if you think zoos are cruel you should visit a real zoo. Sure its not the wild but many of the animals in zoos arent capable of living there either due to being too friendly to humans or because they are disabled, and most are well cared for, stimulated and happy. Zoos do more for education and breeding population than they are given credit for and most zookepers are highly knowledgeable about the animals they care for. If it were not for zoos we simply wouldnt have the knowledge and cures for zoonotic diseases that we do have. The zoo I mention in the above comment were the worlds first to find a cure for a 100% fatal elephant disease similar to herpes. Those animals would die without the hardwork the zoo put into caring for them.
@@J.Wolf90 if thats what you need to tell youself to justify not trying so be it.
Come to india you can see Asiatic lions for real not in zoo but in wild ( Gir Forest, Gujarat, India)
We used to have barbary lions or Atlas Lions in the Atlas mountains living along side Atlas bears. Barbary Lions were truly a marvelous creature. They have a very thick mane.
I know of a wildlife sanctuary nearby that has two male barbary's on display.
Their cousins are still alive and they plan on reintroducing them.
@@Okiedog1 they are not pure barbary lions. They are bred with other species of lions. But through selective breeding we might able to replicate barbary lions physically and genetically thus reintroducing them back in the wild.
@Aby Abraham That would be awesome, more reintroductions and rewilding efforts for severely threatened species is always good. Tho I would think such a process of selective breeding and other factors would be a lengthy one, but I could be somewhat incorrect. But nonetheless, it’s good Barbary lion Hasn't been lost completely. Also is it possible there could be a couple of pure breds? Or are all confirmed completely mixed?
@@jointcerulean3350 there are no confirmed pure Barbary lions just the ones with some of their genes. Reintroduction is possible and is being planned right now and as i said before, we might not get pure barbary lions but we might get a mix which are physically and genetically closer to barbary lions.
Megatherium were also present in Roman times. I find it crazy that someone could have seen a massive sloth just grazing on trees back then.
Not really, they died out before the first pyramids and lived just in south america
The tiger also has a very similar story to the lion. They actually roamed a little farther north into current day Bulgaria as well and, similar to the Lions, were hunted extinction except for some spots in Asia.
Incorrect; the only records of tigers in Europe are in the Caucasus
Tigers once roamed as far West as the Middle East, all the way East to China and Siberia(where they still remain). The tiger never roamed as far West as Bulgaria or Eastern Europe.
@@mr.d00m37 Tigers once lived on the Asian side of the Caucasus, but never crossed over them into Europe.
Bulgaria ? Lol. No they didn't.
Sabre toothed tigers went as far as Britain, so at one point there were big cats in all of Europe, I guess it depends on the prey species being there before we wiped them out.
I found out about the Aurochs that they became extinct because my grandmother lived in a small village where the last living Aurochs in our country were killed/hunted. But indeed - a majestic creature.
@@Boojum_Tree Village was named after that last animal - 300-400 ya - killed by some prince or duke in that area. That's why i find out.
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Poland?
Which country?
A couple years back I went through all the old Roman art I could find looking for anomalous animals. I found two depictions of uniquely patterned big cats with strange shaped heads. I believe them to be some kind of sabertooth. I also found one mosaic of straight tusked elephants. Though these were the pygmy type said to have been found on some islands in the Mediterranean, but supposedly went extinct before Rome existed. I noticed them because they were smaller than the humans in the image, and yet they had fully formed straight tusks, and small ears.
it's crazy to think about the different, weird kinds of animals our ancestors might've seen that we will never know about (maybe because they were not represented in art). hell, it also boggles my mind about the extremely old civilizations we don't know about yet, simply because we haven't found any proof. maybe a civilization that existed 30,000 years ago, even before that? it's crazy because we can't deny it
Could you maybe share what depictions these were and where you found them? I’m interested in reading a bit further into it. Maybe you even made a big discovery, ever thought of messaging an archeological or paleontological museum?
@@sharkquark6252 I found them on Instagram after spending several hours looking through mosaics. Unfortunately I lost many interesting images I found at that time, and I only have a couple screenshots of one of the sabertooth type cats. I no longer use IG, but it shouldn't be impossible to find them again.
@@LakshyaD the earth isn't that old. Scientists are starting to tell the truth.
I feel like the chance of the romans encountering rare endling holdovers is likely.By the end of the roman empire( main, 400 AD) a lot of the world was still wild and unexplored, and peoples impact on wildlife was much lower then today.plus, we did recently find that a sabre tooth cat, the only one to live in europe during the ice age and when people were around during then, was still alive at 28,000BC from a skull in the north sea, before everyone believed they went extinct based on dating 200,000 years ago.So, therefore and since unlike smilodon it wasn’t restricted to America, the chance that they may have survived to the very early AD times is possible, it was smaller then smilodon so less dependent on big heavy prey.Plus bison were still very common then and aurochs too, so again they may have clinged on.Or, romans found the skulls of a sabre tooth, maybe very recent ones, and reconstructed it in a depiction.They believed in a land called hyperboria, and so probably would have assumed a sabre tooth was a inhabitent from there, if hyperboria was a part of eurasia, then it would fit.
Being in the UK where our most dangerous wildlife are adders or badgers makes it seem surreal that bears and wolves used to live here, I think some sort of reintroduction of wolves is going on in Scotland though!
I live near the project to reintroduce bison in the south, they are incredible to see
This was an utterly fascinating topic. Your style of sprinkling in some (but not too much) humor is great. I'm glad to see that your channel is gaining subscribers, you really deserve it!
The American Bison came very, very close to joining these other most recent extinct animals. I had heard that there is an attempt to back engineer the ancient Aurochs. I think they have successfully engineered the Auroch's distinctive forward pointing horns.
Same with their European relatives, the wisent.
Dude did you even watch the video, he covers that.
The whitetail deer were reduced to a half-million by 1900, as well.
@@rockym2931 and now they are like rats. Can't go ten feet without seeing one.
@@dylanb4494Almost like people, huh? 😉 Oh wait.......we're much, MUCH worse. 😠
About Eurasian lions, I had no idea about the ones still around! Without doing any research, I would guess a reason they look more sad is because a lower gene pool. Also it’s to be considered an impressive male would be more attractive to kill than a nonimpressive male. Therefore, the survivors are unwillingly pressured to breed more unattractively. Just a guess. If anyone has any more ideas or knowledge let me know! Very interested.
Wow very nice argument for the survival of the „ugly“ lions. Im pretty sure it happend like that, didnt strike me until now.
Eurasian Lion reads this "Da fux!" 😳
What a sad state of existence...
Yeah, they look bit weird because lower gene pool cause by inbreeding
Same thing with elephants having smaller tusks due to pressure by poachers
The auroch reminds me of Texas Longhorn Cattle. Longhorns are decended from spanish cattle that went feral in Mexico and Texas. Longhorn bulls are usually 1200 to 1500 lbs, and they are about 6 feet tall at the shoulders. So they are impressive animals, but not as large as an auroch. Modern longhorns are bred to have ridiculously long horns, some exceeding 10 feet tip to tip. But 100 years ago, 6 feet was more common. They were wild, tough, and fierce animals in the early 1800's. Now they are kept by weekend ranchers due to their hardiness, beauty and docile nature. They are considered the best bred of cattle to ride. They are long lived and good mothers, and they thrive on forage that other cattle don't do well on. Their meat is lean and resembles venison more than traditional beef. I live in Texas and I love seeing herds of them grazing on some ranches. I really like Irish Cattle as well.
And who wouldn't want a few dwarf elephants like those that lived in SE Asia?
For the record, man was definitely aware of the Moa and Haast’s Eagle.
Garuda might be based on Haast Eagle because the furthers far east for Hinduism is the island of Bali. Hindu sailor might encounter them in NZ.
@@kureed79 lol no
@@kureed79 Gotta itch my Bali's. Always wear a sheep skin condom. You can purchase them through the following link...
The "Aurochs" is really Ur-Ox, meaning the original or primordial ox. I wish they were still around
The nearest thing would be wild cows. Check out the chillingham cattle in North East England.
Heck cattle
Cross-breeding animals many times will recreate the ancestral form. Darwin did that with his pigeons and doves, similarly cats which are constantly cross-bred will start resembling wild cats again. I'm sure if we cross-bred all breeds of domestic cattle, we'd get the aurochs back.
I have an Oreck vacuum cleaner.
@@brucegilliland5382 Also the Spanish bull
As much as I like dry, rigid, formal documentaries, this is the first paleo/bio channel ive come across that doesn't take itself too seriously. And y'know what, I'm liking it. Subbed dude, great content
I love this channel for that, Casual Geographic is also good for the same thing, but a different flavour.
This was a great video, the thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger would have been a great addition. They survived into the 20th century along with Yangtze River Dolphin surviving into the 21st century… notable mentions & still extant: the Giant Salamanders of Japan & freaking Komodo Dragons of Komodo Island!
OMG this makes so much sense. I always wondered how they would haul these exotic animals to get them to the arena. Turns out they didn't have to. WOW thank you for stretching out my brain a little today.
First one of your videos I have seen. Liked and subscribed.
We have forests in Algeria (north Africa) that looks similar to the ones that hold bear species and I always wondered if I'd see a bear sighting when I venture deep in the forests, it's crazy how they're wiped out of all the forests even though some of the forests are extremely hard to explore even today let alone back then.
Germany was known for its dark forests in ancient times, no such places exist now. Even the Black Forest is not the original forest, it's mostly pine forest when the original forest was oak. That's true so many places. Lebanon was once famous for its forests, those are now gone too. We should at least be replanting forest in the more inaccessible places.
@@damionkeeling3103 how did it go from oak to pine?
Morocco is the only country in Africa that has Deer for this reason. The Atlas Bear and Barbary Lion used to live in Morocco and Algeria (maybe also Tunisia)
@Mr. Anderson logging...
@@damionkeeling3103 if you want to see forests just go to Scandinavia
I think it’s neat how magical and fascinating their world would’ve been to us and how our world would be equally as magical and fascinating to them.
@Boyer Ranch I think just planes/ helicopters alone skews it
@@reinhardvonlohengramm6296 I think they'd be happier with it, less war generally, but there's still plenty of wonderful thing that have been lost, even if progress seemingly surmounts them.
I just found this channel. This is the first video I've watched. These are topics I truly enjoy. Animals and ancient history are my favorite things. I will be looking for your videos
*Humans; Making life more pathetic since Mesopotamia.*
Really, what about religion/ideology of humans, do you think they really care about Animals , or use animals to put own agenda and protest after they become raw meat in the market
[Ice Age humans driving countless megafauna to extinction noises]
You think we are the only predator which made animals extinct? We are at least aware of our acts. Others won't even record theirs.
Commit died
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo bruh, the only other thing that has caused such massive amounts of extinction are catastrophic natural disasters. Why are people so sensitive about the truth?
“So impressive to humans, our first instinct is to brutally murder them”
So true 🤦🏼♀️
Ugh. Yeah, it seems like everything humans didn't kill for fun, they ate to death 😣
Hmm, is that bad?
@@pazreyes7794 apparently they think early human settlements should have allowed their members and live stock to be consumed so that modern liberals would not have to feel guilty over their survival....tbf that was pretty much the entire tone of the video
@@pazreyes7794 yes unless you're just a pos
Cry about it
I think Indian Cheetah deserved a mention here given the term Cheetah is actually it's Hindi name चीता (Chita) (The same name is used in other Indian languages) and these guys persisted till 1950 and were present in the palaces of many Indian emperors who used them to hunt alongside them. And given it's a Hindi term and has been used for over 5-6 centuries here in India the word persists in our vocabulary to this day and like a ghost is usually used alongside तेंदुआ (Tendua) the Hindi term for leopard and often mixed and confused with the later.
They still are in Iran.
@@davidfilipovic163 Yeah ik, but he did include other regionally extinct creatures
I read that 70 cheetahs from africa are gonna be released into the wilds in india at the end of this year
@@davidfilipovic163 True but Iran doesn't care about them. I heard India might try save them or something.
Well…there was ancient trade with Africa & Africans with India. This wouldn’t be new. Can’t recall the king who had an impressive zoo that included giraffes.
I just found out your channel and I really lovea it! I'm a biology student and it's heartwarming to find out someone as amazed by the same subjects inside biology as i am :D
Just stumbling across your channel is like finding gold. Your informative style, budget animations and dry yet humorous delivery make for a wonderful mix. Your passion shines through.
Amidst a sea of fake hype, clickbait, and terrible terrible noise, your channel is like a breath of fresh air and I love learning about this stuff. Hope you make more.
please make more of these videos, the amount of beautiful birds gone extinct the last few centuries is astonishing, as well as reptiles, amphibians and insects
I'm with you on this man. The Cape lion was bigger than the normal African lion. I always got sad about that as a kid. Great video. Great Channel. Keep it up :)
One note is that quagga is pronounced as if you're clearing your throat. True story:)
You don't need to be sad, what's done is done
Now , you can study about them though their fossils and bones
@@royalkumar795 It isn't the same Kumar... IT ISN'T THE SAME
@@SauloA333 who are you talking about ?
@@royalkumar795 pre sure kumar is a movie character
@@coltkillergaming5685 hmmm ok
Moa are said not to be extinct by New Zealanders and their are multiple encounters deep in the dense bush every single year, even encounters by respected scientists have been recorded while out studying other species existing in small pockets far from where humans tend to venture. Let’s hope there’s pockets of stable breeding populations still out there which is likely unless people are encountering some unknown large species of birds like them in NZ.
In the Americas I would want the Mastodon to have remained even moreso than mammoths. They were mostly forrest animals and could have still survived in our eastern forests.
Tons of fossils and bones from them in Florida. Our natural history museum has a full skeleton. Pretty rad.
Actually, American had lots of giant Animals around ice age like syberia tooth Tiger, Terror birds , Mammoth, American lion etc those got extinct because of change of climate and other reason they start to extinct .. If mammoth were domesticated by humans long ago we might be *Syberia 2* Game ending
@@royalkumar795 Not to mention those American horses and camels that died at the end of the ice age. Yes that's right horses and camels were originally native to the Americas and various different populations of horses and camels crossed over the Bering Strait during the times when sea levels dropped and a land bridge formed between Siberia and Alaska. These horses and camels that moved into Eurassia spread all over the continent where ever they could find suitable habitats and diversifying. Prehistoric horses became the ancestors of Zebras, Asses, Onagers and the Wild Horse and the Wild Horse diverged into three linages the Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii), the now extinct Tarpan (Equus ferus ferus) and the modern domesticated horse (Equus ferus caballus). The Prehistoric Camels in Eurasia diverged into the 3 modern species the Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius), Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the Wild Bactrian Camel (Camelus ferus).
@@RocketHarry865 too many animals originated from American , Now there is almost nothing there only find fossil about them also Ancient Camel 🐪 were very big as normal elephant 🐘
I would love to see the Caribbean monk seal, they once ruled the archipelago but sadly were gine extinct in the last century by overhunting
As someone who has loved history and zoology from as far as I can remember, I love this video and have subscribed.
A couple more of interest are that the Levant and Fertile Crescent had hippos (now extinct) that were hunted for their ivory during the Bronze Age, and Sivatherium (an opaki type animal with moose-like antlers) may have survived in the same region until the early times of civilization.
The Caspian Sea had dolphins before they disappeared.
@@blacktigerpaw1 Possible ones, and something like 50,000 years ago. Our species would have seen them, but not during historical times, which is what this was all about.
If you're referring to the Gobustan petroglyphs, what those represent is up for debate, and beluga sturgeon is the more likely option of those discussed by researchers.
Okapi? It's amazing and the only living relative of giraffe. It can totally lick it's ears clean :)
Fun fact: Mammoths were still alive during the time of Ancient Egypt. There was an isolated population on an island off the coast of Siberia. They eventually died out, but if i remember correctly they almost made it to the switch from BCE to CE.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the dwarf elephants which lived on most of the major islands of the central and eastern Mediterranean. There were even dwarf mammoths which lived on Sardinia.
The ones that really get to me are the Native American dog breeds. If there was one animal I could choose to bring back via cloning, it would be the Salish wool dog.
Mine is the Hare Indian Dog, not a domesticated wolf, but a domesticated coyote!
So what happened to all the dogs that lived among the Native Americans? Did they just interbreed with dogs imported from abroad or are there still some breeds left?
@@olliefoxx7165 I'm pretty sure they suffered from diseases like the human natives, but on an even deadlier scale. (Don't quote me tho)
@@olliefoxx7165 europeans had diseases, but not just the humans, the animals (like dogs) they brought with them em too. So the dogs got wiped out by a continental pandem essentially.
Theres a video about this subject i forget the name. But there were like double digit amount of unique breeds, but only a handful (like chihuahua) survived.
@@olliefoxx7165 trey the explainer made a video answering to that question, look it up it's really good
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Don’t forget how massive some of the lost animals from around the last ice age were! Giant Wholly Rhinos and European Cave Hyenas, most impressively the Giant Hyena with a shoulder height of 3 meters, and it was a predator! Our ancestors had to face those beasts!
Damn a giant hyena species that big?! That’s awesome and terrifying at the same time, also yes giant wholly rhinos are beasts! the giant hairy tanks with Gnarly impressive horns. And Definitely, it was rough back then, every continent had its unique and incredible megafauna that was encountered.
I mean those animals were dying out anyway, with or without human pressure
3 feet not 3 meter
@@natesell2615 I must’ve dreamt up that skeleton I stood infront of, or the official Wikipedia entry for Giant Hyenas
3 meter? Loll liar.
Awesome video. Newly hooked fan here
Nice video. Thanks!
BTW, "aurochs" is used for both the singular and plural, as in "An aurochs would be much larger than a domestic bull." In fact, the "ochs" part of the word is etymologically related to "ox," which is singular.
OCHSE is simply the german word for ox. So the Plural is Ochsen. Au is the fertile wood land next to rivers.
Wow, great to learn about ochs and ochsen. Growing up, I knew ox and oxen.
Wonder why it is not aurochs and aurochsen..
@@calico27 Aurochsen actually is a recognized plural of aurochs. But it isn't used as often as aurochs.
Gotta appreciate Ubisoft putting in WAY too many lions into AC Odyssey, for historical accuracy! 🤣
I used to get mad at the fact Greece was infested with lions when I was in the early game
@@kai56k57 there's still plenty of other inaccuracies in those games
In AC: Rogue, they have the Great Auk in the game (though they only have a simple animation of diving into the water when approached).
@@ANDYTAKANYAN96 never knew that - gotta check that out though, sounds like a cool easter egg
@@ANDYTAKANYAN96
Back when the games weren’t so grind heavy
i like your style of casual paleontology put in layman's terms with a good sense of humor
I think our biggest loss was the Dodo ...
when i first heard about this ancient bird that couldnt fly and basically co-existed with other dinos I never thought that we as humans were the reason it went extinct. I know every animal we have today is technically part Dino and has ancient dna somewhere but the dodo was so close to the original yet so far away from us in the modern world :(
Ah... the humble dodo... it wasn't entirely caused by humans but humans were partially a part, by introducing carnivorous animals the Mauritian fauna never saw.
But you're still kind of right.
Great video
about asiatic lion it's not really smaller than african lion
but the one survived today were the smaller one
when asiatic lion live in plain of central india they were bigger and can reach a weight of 300 kg
because the prey is also bigger like gaur ,wild water buffalo, indian auroch , rhino and elephant
but the lion that lives in gir forest mostly hunt deers .
Also lion living in the Caucasus were bigger because of colder climate and bigger pray size like moose, European bison , auroch and red deer .
Yes.
The surviving population of Asiatic lions are an EXTREMELY small sample size, and have been severely degraded by lack of genetic diversity. And lions evolved on the plains and savannas of Africa, so when they migrated North to Europe and East throughout Asia...the open plains of central Asia were a perfect environment for them.
I've often wondered how diet changes genetics of the same animal in a different region. May even be why people are so different or a fraction of that equation
And gir reserve does not allow other states to have them
Gir want monopoly over them
@@MarianaTrench6699
Absolutely brilliant observation. Dietary habits show up in blood type studies. Environment plays a role too.
Sickle-cell anemia developed as protection against Malaria. Lighter skin enables people to make vitamin D faster, while darker skin provides more sun protection, if not supplemented in less sunny environments, problems develop. I can think of many other examples, but this is enough to support your question, I hope.
Alexander the Great documented a large reptile creature that resembles a smaller version of the T. rex living in caves
He described it as very fierce with no other beast to challenge it
I guess it's possible he described a Varanus Sivalensis,a large monitor lizard about the same size as a Komodo dragon that lived in India during the Pliocene. Maybe a small relic population survived long enough for him to encounter them.
I'm surprised he didn't keep some taxidermied. Not that they would have survived intact until now but it's a thought.
Marco Polo allegedly claimed to have seen a dragon in his travels in China.
@@mikes5637 that’s true not many folks know about that he said they would pull royalty’s chariots and other carts
@@mikes5637 Wouldn't surprise me that they existed. The truth behind many mysteries around the world would have been in the Library of Alexandria.
This guy's humour, personality and delivery style really sell these videos. I like the topics covered, but even more so, I LOL my ass off at the casual wit.
Legend has it in the 19th century hunters saw a gigantic four-horned elephant in West Africa.
Man... when you said Paleoxodon... I might've lost my cool. Damnit! My favorite species of elephant...
I had absolutely no idea about the Auroch! I mean, I knew cattle were domesticated, but I just assumed they would've been selectively bred from something like smaller, leaner, wild bovines. Like seriously, my family *has cows* and I didn't know about this!
This is the first video of yours that I've seen. It reminds me of how a friend of mine blew my mind a year or two ago when he explained how many "zoo animals" (from modern US persective) the ancient Romans had access too.
Thank you for making this video, it somehow manages to make history seem simultaneously more fantastical *and* more real!
Many farm animals used to be, if not still are, really fucking badass in the wild. Pigs for example.
@@vbgvbg1133 Wild Boars, man! They do not mess around! Those tusks are dangerous!
@@eshbena almost unstoppable, those guys
@@eshbena you wouldnt want to get a full grown domesticated pig mad at you either. Theyre way stronger and heavier than a man, and pack a nasty bite.
Adding to this, horses can be very dangerous if disturbed. Wild horses would hunt you down with hooves and teeth.
The project to bring back the Aurochs, while certainly well-intentioned, would just produce a genetic monstrosity which bears a resemblance to what the people on the project think an Aurochs may have looked like in real life. Realistically, it would be no more accurate than an artists' concept drawing.
I do believe that they go beyond just looks. And more on genetic analysis of fossilized and mummified remains
Don't confuse the Nazi project with the modern project.
The modern Auroch project is literally filtering the genes from the genomes of cow breeds.
Their newest generation has even managed to replicate the dimorphism between males and females, as well as adults and calfs.
To do this, they breed the animals which have the most ancestral Auroch genes together in order for the genes to express themselves in the offspring.
This is done by doing genetic tests on each animal.
They’re not trying to recreate the Aurochs 1 to 1. They’re just attempting to make a new fully functional species of wild cattle to serve the same “niche” in the European ecosystem as Aurochs once did.
@@theimmigrant7953 Domestic cattle have forever been selected for being docile. Do they try to breed the docility back out of their new aurochs? But then breeding them would become dangerous and complicated.
@@eljanrimsa5843 I think that’s what they’re doing, if not something very similar. It’ll probably end up with a temperament similar to a bison, minding its own business unless bothered, instead of something like a Cape buffalo, indiscriminately aggressive. Seeing as breeding efforts are also done with dangerous animals like big cats, elephants, and rhinos it’ll still be dangerous but not impossible.
Cool channel! I❤extinct fauna
Enjoying the channel! It scratches that history/biology itch without a single mention of “Ancient Astronaut Theory”
"I understand how silly it is to want the Dinosaurs to roam the Earth after not being around for tens of millions of years."
Birds: "Am I a joke to you?"
And other animals...I say dragons existed too... just left over dinos
@@Sillybillyilly My uncle was a grand dragon before he was raped to death in prison. A country boy can survive! Unless butt raped to death by members of the Black Gorilla Family.
@@Sillybillyilly well i hate to be that person but they wouldn't be dinosaurs
Dinosaurs walked on two legs
Maybe wyverns could be dinosaurs
I'm so sorry I have typed this out
Jehovah God created Earth and man as told in Genisis. The Earth is only a few thousand years. In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth then created Adam and Eve
@@lucaslindseyJESUSBOY yea sure, and his carpenter wizard son will be right back, he just stepped out for a pack of smokes. 🤣😂
Absolutely Awesome Video! Also there is a species of horned crocodile that lived in Madagascar called voay robustus which persisted until very recently, also the skull morphology kinda looks like the Pokémon Cubone, I remember someone mentioning this and I certainly see the similarities. But what’s fascinating about this horned crocodile is that it went extinct surprisingly very recently, originally it was thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago along with most of the megafauna on Madagascar due to humans, but research done by Evon Hekkala indicated these endemic horned crocodiles persisted up until the 1860s which explores reported two different kinds of crocodiles in Madagascar, and also details from the malagasy peoples consistently referred to two types of crocodiles on the island, a large robust crocodile, and a more gracile form with a preference for rivers, the gracile form is referring to the current Nile crocodile population in Madagascar.
In comparison, the fact that the Malagasy people referred to the Nile crocs which are very powerful and robust crocodiles, among the largest reptiles on earth as the gracile form, really speaks volumes as to how much more robust this Madagascar horned crocodile voay robustus really is, the postcrania shows a croc with very robust limb and girdle elements. Probably Would have been pretty terrestrial in its habits based on the robust limb bones and morphologies and skull, similarly to its closest living relative, the dwarf crocodiles of west and central Africa. It’s also possibly this horned crocodile may in fact still survive to this day in remote localities in Madagascar perhaps. Another really cool thing about crocodiles and ancient history, there was a relatively recently described new crocodile species by Evon Hekkala that was once thought to be the Nile crocodile, this new species is called the West African crocodile crocodylus suchus, and also called the desert crocodile because of populations living and surviving in oasis’s in the Sarah desert and Mauritania showing it was once much greener and wetter in the past.
It’s a completely distinct species, smaller and more docile, and the ancient Egyptians already knew about this before DNA sequencing was a thing which is pretty awesome. And all the mummified Egyptian crocodiles that the scientists had sequenced were this new species crocodylus suchus, Another thing That is fascinating is that the Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the Egyptians selectively used a smaller, tamer crocodile in ceremonies and regarded it as sacred. This info in on “Nile crocodile is two species| nature” its really fascinating. And a population of these west African crocodile in Ghana’s paga croc pond really shows how tame and docile these crocodiles can be, also I’ve noticed this west African crocodile has a very flat skull compared to the Nile crocodile and different look to the eye sockets as well as two bony protrusions at the base of the skull at the edges.
Also can’t help but mentioned a group of crocodiles in the South Pacific that went extinct 2,800 years which weren’t like any other extant crocodile, more in line with crocs seen in the Mesozoic. In the South Pacific Islands such as New Caledonia and Vanuatu, it had a species of small fully terrestrial and arboreal mekosuchine crocodiles called mekosuchus with a similar ecological niche to monitor lizards with long limbs and limbs held erect and high, with broad tall and deep box like heads with lateralization of orbits and nares. Meaning there eyes were more forward facing and there nostrils were as well and having powerful neck muscles with heads held high, and would have been quick gallopers. The species on New Caledonia went extinct 3,000 years ago and grew to 2m and the species on Vanuatu which was smaller was the last to have gone extinct at around 2,800 years ago. And even in Fiji There was a fully terrestrial species of mekosuchine crocodile closely related to mekosuchus called volia athollandersoni which grew to 3m making it the last large bodied terrestrial mekosuchine and going extinct around the same time as the mammoths of wrangle island 4,000 years ago. Tho in the Pleistocene of Australia terrestrial mekosuchines crocodiles were larger and more specialized for cursorial hunting. Such as the large 6m quinkana, a terrestrial ziphodont crocodile with long powerful limbs, rounded tail, tall vaulted skull with lateralization of orbits and nares, and serrated compressed backwards facing teeth like that of theropod dinosaurs and monitor lizards, and having a modified pelvis for a pillar erect stance, which other terrestrial ziphodont crocodylians like sebecids and rauisuchians had, and could not transition into a sprawling posture like the modern semi aquatic forms.
So quinkana’s pelvis enabled limb posture and stances like mammals and dinosaurs without the mentioned sprawling postures modern semi aquatic crocodiles can transition into, quinkana and the other terrestrial crocodylians with a pillar erect stance couldn’t transition into a sprawling posture at all. And the last of thsee mekosuchine terrestrial crocs persisted in the South Pacific until very recently. But it’s also possibly these small terrestrial and arboreal mekosuchus crocs could still persist and survive in remote localities in New Guinea and the South Pacific given there small size and similar affinities to monitor lizards. And also regarding Madagascar during the early 1800s locals also reported seeing dwarf hippos in certain localities. And also can’t forget to mention meiolania, the horned armored clubbed tailed land turtles of Australia and the South Pacific, with the last going extinct about 2,000 years ago on lord Howe island, but they were also found on other islands like New Caledonia. These turtle are super cool convergently evolving similarly to the armored ankylosaurid dinosaurs and the armored glyptodon mammals. And lastly on New Caledonia also had a large flightless bird called sylviornis that people still living on the island remember about this birds appearance from what I’ve heard, but I’ve noticed it has a sorta retro terror bird like look from the original mysterious island movie. Also again, really awesome work on this, can’t wait for part 2, also thats super cool about hannibal war elephants, and the fact that Hannibal’s personal elephant with a broken tusk perhaps could have very well Been a Syrian sub species of Asian elephant.
Mucho texto
@@jonpaulcer3128 Mucho indeed.
I would also like to mention the giant Moa bird, which was a flightless bird similar to an ostrich native to New Zealand. These giants stood up at nearly 3 meters tall (9.8 ft) and walked the earth since 90 million years ago until they vanished in the 15th century due to human hunting. What I think it's really tragic is that these animals were living unbothered for millions of years until just 600 years ago, when New Zealand got populated by humans. We were the ones responsible for erasing them from the planet.
Which is why I will never forgive the Maori people for that.
I remember reading in The Decline and Fall of Rome, of a species described as an ape, that was made extinct because they were captured and slaughtered to extinction in the games.
It occurred to me they could have been hominid ancestor of ours.
This far back it could have been possible. All the other hominid species that lived alongside us either went extinct or got assimilated into Homo Sapiens. Not only are many animals today the product of breeding, a human activity, but our own species itself is also the product of breeding. This is why some people have Neanderthal genes, humans have bred with each other and mixed, "killing" off all other species as they all converged into the single species we are today. One might believe that this would make humans an animal close to extinction, but no that isn't what it means, it's just that we managed to harmonize all those species into a single "powerful" one that took over the world.
It wouldn't be too farfetch to think that some hominids might have still been around in ancient times. After all I always believed aurochs were very prehistoric and only know to early civilizations and ancient empires, but the last one lived in Poland and she died naturally in 1627. In fact the Poles made laws that punished auroch poachers, but it was too late. So it could be a same situation for these forgotten hominids. We don't have much paleonthological and archeological evidence, if not none, of such species but it shouldn't be an idea to be mocked off or laughed at. We already know a lot on the past but we still have way more to learn about, maybe things that we would never be able to learn about.
It was your mom
@@noonecares5340 nah thats joe
@@patriotic7896 joe momma
Sounds something like the "people" mentioned in Ibn Fadlan's writings.
"Want to get mad with me and go over all the cool things you and I didn't get to see?"
Subbed, this man knows what is going on.
I can’t be the only one who fantasizes about having a time machine and going back to various points in time with a little plane/submarine thing that allows me to safely explore and observe all sorts of habitats. And as morbid as it sounds, I _really_ want to go back and watch the KT extinction event. 🦕🦖☄️ 💥
I thought the same thing. But if you look at 13:53, there's an image of ancient looking times. Looks familiar like I've seen this image before in a book. But then i noticed, down in the bottom right corner. That kid looks somehow out of place.
There's a British series called "Prehistoric Park" where the main character does exactly that - time travels and brings extinct animals to his park in present day. Might wanna check it out.
@@derealized797 lol
@@anantambisht4895 seriously is it just me or is that one kid out of place?
@@derealized797 no he is .. he has a freaking backpack on in a picturing dating to mediaval times lol
So glad I found this channel. History is the scratch to my itch.