I’m fascinated by the megafauna of the Pleistocene epoch. I saw a recent video where paleontologists and anthropologists were arguing over the origins of human involvement in the mass extinction of these animals with the Clovis group being the biggest culprit. I believe there were groups before clovis that had been hunting megafauna for centuries, but they had less advanced technology and likely more regulated hunting practices that were localized and specialized. They made megafauna populations fragile but not enough to push them to extinction. The arrival of the clovis group and their sharper spears and more advanced technology was likely the nail in the coffin. The Clovis group had the tools to indulge in overhunting and overconsumption which led to the disappearance of megafauna (that were already suffering from climate shifts and years of prior hunting). The Clovis groups technology allowed them to shift from specialized hunters to mass hunters, able to kill multiple different animals simultaneously. Even in the postmodern world, human intervention is the leading cause of species extinctions. Imagine the biodiversity that would’ve existed on modern earth if we simply practiced self-control?
And humans are continuing on the same destructive path today. Man, I would've loved to have seen these animals and this level of amazing biodiversity. It makes me sad actually.
It doesnt make much sense to be honest, only mammoths populations estimates were larger than human population in north america just before the YD. And that is for mammoths only, unless humans decided to push to extinction large herbivores for no reason since there was plenty enough to eat I dont see why they would do it. And they would not have hunted their predators like the cave lions or the short faced bears. I think the YD cataclysm is more plausible since it produced a decline in humans also. I think we tend to see ourselves as a problem all the time and be too egocentric but the reality is that we were just a normal specie of the food chain during the pleistocene and were not at the top at all. Some people dont realize that against the short faced bear or some other mega predators unless you have a whole army to take on one (and still many will die) theres nothing you can do against them with prehistoric sticks and spears. Some people dont realize the absurdity of saying humans drove those species to extinction.
@@1legend517 great counterpoints! The truth is we can’t be 100% certain but it’s likely that a mix of many factors led to the depletions and eventual extinctions. I think that seeing humans as a central problem is not egocentric but rather the opposite. It places us in a place of responsibility over how we behave and interact with the rest of nature and its functions. We are in charge of mitigating all the traumas our species has inflicted upon the earth as a result of our industrialization. We look back at history to understand our environmental footprint. Humankind must learn how to take a step back and let nature function without always focusing on our technological advancement or doing things just because we can and have the means.
I was looking for a list of all the Eurasian megafauna that died out in the Quaternary extinction event (at the end of the last ice age) but I guess this is just a random list of species that died out at various times throughout the whole Pleistocene.
44 kg (97 lbs) seems pretty small to be classified as a megafauna. This means that the early humans were also considered megafauna. Are you sure you don't mean 440 kg (970 lbs) was the minimum weight requirement?
and after coexisting with them for thousands and thousands of years, we apparently got tired of them one day and managed to exterminate nearly all of the megafauna in a 900 year timespan 14800 years ago somehow
@@DragonoidBerserker1 Humans, especially Homo Sapiens, knew how to hunt them (fire). For what I read, the only big problem for humans where hyenas in Ural that managed to slow down humans colonization for a while.
apparently there was a giant mandible found of a tiger from one of those islands that is even bigger than the ngandong tiger and has a chance to rival the weight of smilodon populator, which currently is the heaviest and strongest cat that ever lived
Has anyone ever compared the climates during these eras to ice core samples to determine if the cold or expanded or receded ice pack had an effect on their extinction? Probably so, I’m just curious.
Any idea how the woolly mammoths survived the last major extinction by living in just the two areas? What is it about those two locations that would have protected them when others of their kind went extinct in the rest of the world? Or did they?
@@joshuizer4870 how did humans do it if they had already been on all of the continents for at least tens of thousands of years, before the huge sudden megafauna population collapse that happened from 14800 years ago and then the younger dryas onset which further decimated that already collapsed population of megafauna, which then the last of which died out at around 11000-10000 years ago
@@21LAZgoo If it was the Younger Dryas period causing the extinction, than explain how on the Islands (Cuba, Crete, Cyprus) megafauna died out after the Younger Dryas period (on Cuba something like 5000 BC, which was when humans arrived). And on the other hand the megafauna of Australia, which died out 50.000 BC. Also when humans arrived. New Zealand, Madagascar, Wrangel Island. Same thing. In South America paleontologists found Toxodon skulls pierced with 22 arrow heads! No, sorry. Humans caused the Quartinary Extinction. And the reason they could do it, was probably the invention of bows and arrows. it's much easier to kill a mastodont from a distance with bows and arrows, than with a spear. One would have to get quite close with a spear to kill it.
@@joshuizer4870 humans were already in australia 25,000 years after the megafauna suddenly started going extinct because of the increased fires, loss of freshwater, more aridity of the landscape and many other huge quick environmental changes. As for humans being able to develop bows because of them being able to kill them easier at distance, a couple javelins were found which are sharp and very light wooden spears that were being used in germany 380000 years ago which can be used at long distances, and also the younger dryas onset itself didnt decimate the megafauna, first it was the huge warming spike at 14800 years ago which caused megafaunal populations to collapse by 98% based off fungal spores, and then the younger dryas came and it decimated this already super low population of animals even more, and the last of them died at the start of 10000 years ago, as for that toxodon skull i couldnt find it online but yes things like that definitely did happen in hunting, theres some video of an african tribe throwing tens of spears into an elephant, so yes a toxodon with 22 arrow heads is very much believable. Also, people say that the reason african megafauna wasnt affected as much was because they had adapted with us and knew the danger we posed, yet theres literally videos of african tribes hunting all those types of african animals and they react the same to any other animal on any other continent also, there was a total of 88 species of megafauna in australia and 74 already went extinct around 65000 years before humans arrived, and the 8-14 species that went extinct around 50000-45000 coexisted with humans for around 20000 years before their populations suddenly collapsed because of increased aridity and much less available water
@@aleksandarvil5718I think he means because 1)modern cows are bred from aurochs, most likely the n.african subspecies, so their descendents are still around & 2)scientists have used primitive cattle breeds, such as spanish fighting bulls, to recreate the appearance of the original aurochs (heck cattle & others) the way they did with the tarpan horse.
Glad your new channel is going. I really like it.
I’m fascinated by the megafauna of the Pleistocene epoch. I saw a recent video where paleontologists and anthropologists were arguing over the origins of human involvement in the mass extinction of these animals with the Clovis group being the biggest culprit. I believe there were groups before clovis that had been hunting megafauna for centuries, but they had less advanced technology and likely more regulated hunting practices that were localized and specialized. They made megafauna populations fragile but not enough to push them to extinction. The arrival of the clovis group and their sharper spears and more advanced technology was likely the nail in the coffin. The Clovis group had the tools to indulge in overhunting and overconsumption which led to the disappearance of megafauna (that were already suffering from climate shifts and years of prior hunting). The Clovis groups technology allowed them to shift from specialized hunters to mass hunters, able to kill multiple different animals simultaneously. Even in the postmodern world, human intervention is the leading cause of species extinctions. Imagine the biodiversity that would’ve existed on modern earth if we simply practiced self-control?
And humans are continuing on the same destructive path today. Man, I would've loved to have seen these animals and this level of amazing biodiversity. It makes me sad actually.
It doesnt make much sense to be honest, only mammoths populations estimates were larger than human population in north america just before the YD. And that is for mammoths only, unless humans decided to push to extinction large herbivores for no reason since there was plenty enough to eat I dont see why they would do it. And they would not have hunted their predators like the cave lions or the short faced bears. I think the YD cataclysm is more plausible since it produced a decline in humans also. I think we tend to see ourselves as a problem all the time and be too egocentric but the reality is that we were just a normal specie of the food chain during the pleistocene and were not at the top at all. Some people dont realize that against the short faced bear or some other mega predators unless you have a whole army to take on one (and still many will die) theres nothing you can do against them with prehistoric sticks and spears. Some people dont realize the absurdity of saying humans drove those species to extinction.
@@1legend517 great counterpoints! The truth is we can’t be 100% certain but it’s likely that a mix of many factors led to the depletions and eventual extinctions. I think that seeing humans as a central problem is not egocentric but rather the opposite. It places us in a place of responsibility over how we behave and interact with the rest of nature and its functions. We are in charge of mitigating all the traumas our species has inflicted upon the earth as a result of our industrialization. We look back at history to understand our environmental footprint. Humankind must learn how to take a step back and let nature function without always focusing on our technological advancement or doing things just because we can and have the means.
Steppe Bison's teeth exposed mummy looks like a horror movie villain.
I was looking for a list of all the Eurasian megafauna that died out in the Quaternary extinction event (at the end of the last ice age) but I guess this is just a random list of species that died out at various times throughout the whole Pleistocene.
Not even watching this...too busy crafting some moves to this wicked acid house! Dig it,it's totally evil,man!!
Are you Extinction Blog dude?
Yes.
@@ExtinctionTalesOfForgotten1 you haven't uploaded in 11 months it's almost a year
Wasn't there a Prehistoric Eurasian Wolf too?
Yeah the steppe wolf
@@souljahaden6184 cave wolf
Dire wolf?
@@robertlennihan3113 Dire Wolf only lived in North and South America
I'd subscribe if these were narrated...I can not read most of this from my phone...bummer...I really enjoy this type of stuff...
Damn it, if I wanted to read I'd pick up a book, not watch a video on UA-cam! 🤷🤦
I’m just here to add wild animals into my age of Conan type table top game I’m running pfft. Thank you for making this video.
44 kg (97 lbs) seems pretty small to be classified as a megafauna. This means that the early humans were also considered megafauna.
Are you sure you don't mean 440 kg (970 lbs) was the minimum weight requirement?
according to wikipedia, the minimum weight requirement is either "over 45 kg" or "over 1000 kg"
pretty crazy that steppe bison survived until only 400 years ago in the yukon
If 97lbs was correct. The average Walmart would be the ultimate magefauna watering hole.
@@error4159 LOL, you are so right
Some of these might walk the Earth again.
19:35 holy sheet Batman, what a beautiful specimen.
I can't be the only one that played this video at .25x speed for the sick beats.
Just imagine living 20k years ago. Ultimate survivor EXTREME. No wonder we were living in caves. We were hiding from those things.
and after coexisting with them for thousands and thousands of years, we apparently got tired of them one day and managed to exterminate nearly all of the megafauna in a 900 year timespan 14800 years ago somehow
No we were out hunting them.
@@magnagermania9311 I am pretty sure they were hunting us too
@@DragonoidBerserker1 Humans, especially Homo Sapiens, knew how to hunt them (fire). For what I read, the only big problem for humans where hyenas in Ural that managed to slow down humans colonization for a while.
@@DragonoidBerserker1 It was a different world, just as there were wild landscapes and nomad tribes, there were likely civilized areas in other parts
This are amazing mammals
Perfect :)
The music feels like an 80 thriller
Can u make video on mammoths
Can I request the extinct megafauna of Indonesia?
apparently there was a giant mandible found of a tiger from one of those islands that is even bigger than the ngandong tiger and has a chance to rival the weight of smilodon populator, which currently is the heaviest and strongest cat that ever lived
Straight tusked Elephant, I believe it contends with Indricotherium for being the largest land mammal of all time
Fine👍
Has anyone ever compared the climates during these eras to ice core samples to determine if the cold or expanded or receded ice pack had an effect on their extinction? Probably so, I’m just curious.
The steppe mammoth was the biggest.
Any idea how the woolly mammoths survived the last major extinction by living in just the two areas? What is it about those two locations that would have protected them when others of their kind went extinct in the rest of the world? Or did they?
Absence of humans.
which 2 areas
oh wrangle island i think is one of them, dont know the other though
@@joshuizer4870 how did humans do it if they had already been on all of the continents for at least tens of thousands of years, before the huge sudden megafauna population collapse that happened from 14800 years ago and then the younger dryas onset which further decimated that already collapsed population of megafauna, which then the last of which died out at around 11000-10000 years ago
@@21LAZgoo If it was the Younger Dryas period causing the extinction, than explain how on the Islands (Cuba, Crete, Cyprus) megafauna died out after the Younger Dryas period (on Cuba something like 5000 BC, which was when humans arrived). And on the other hand the megafauna of Australia, which died out 50.000 BC. Also when humans arrived. New Zealand, Madagascar, Wrangel Island. Same thing.
In South America paleontologists found Toxodon skulls pierced with 22 arrow heads! No, sorry. Humans caused the Quartinary Extinction. And the reason they could do it, was probably the invention of bows and arrows. it's much easier to kill a mastodont from a distance with bows and arrows, than with a spear. One would have to get quite close with a spear to kill it.
@@joshuizer4870 humans were already in australia 25,000 years after the megafauna suddenly started going extinct because of the increased fires, loss of freshwater, more aridity of the landscape and many other huge quick environmental changes. As for humans being able to develop bows because of them being able to kill them easier at distance, a couple javelins were found which are sharp and very light wooden spears that were being used in germany 380000 years ago which can be used at long distances, and also the younger dryas onset itself didnt decimate the megafauna, first it was the huge warming spike at 14800 years ago which caused megafaunal populations to collapse by 98% based off fungal spores, and then the younger dryas came and it decimated this already super low population of animals even more, and the last of them died at the start of 10000 years ago, as for that toxodon skull i couldnt find it online but yes things like that definitely did happen in hunting, theres some video of an african tribe throwing tens of spears into an elephant, so yes a toxodon with 22 arrow heads is very much believable. Also, people say that the reason african megafauna wasnt affected as much was because they had adapted with us and knew the danger we posed, yet theres literally videos of african tribes hunting all those types of african animals and they react the same to any other animal on any other continent
also, there was a total of 88 species of megafauna in australia and 74 already went extinct around 65000 years before humans arrived, and the 8-14 species that went extinct around 50000-45000 coexisted with humans for around 20000 years before their populations suddenly collapsed because of increased aridity and much less available water
Can you use chapters please
So we can share each chapter
Sure. I will do it within couple of days. Good idea.
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megafauna of africa
WHYYY
Terrible muzak.
Megafauna of australia
And new zelandia
The Time Set World King
100 Years Ago Blue Extinct Kingdom Animals
Aurochs aren't technically extinct
Explain?
@@aleksandarvil5718I think he means because 1)modern cows are bred from aurochs, most likely the n.african subspecies, so their descendents are still around & 2)scientists have used primitive cattle breeds, such as spanish fighting bulls, to recreate the appearance of the original aurochs (heck cattle & others) the way they did with the tarpan horse.