The 10 Oldest Fossils Ever Discovered
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- Sometimes it's hard to identify exactly what a fossil is from-but wouldn’t it be cool to be able to point at a fossil and know that it’s the first plant? Join Michael Aranda for a fun new episode of SciShow where we've put together a list of the oldest fossils of their kind that we know of so far! Let's go!
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It's so nice to see a well-researched top 10 video about paleontology with appropriate background information about the field.
I love how humble this channel is... it’s refreshing
This guy's voice is really soothing idk why
The fact that all birds are dinosaurs still blows my mind every time I think of it
Except there were birds around WITH dinosaurs so there goes that
@@sandypeters2257 So? Birds are considered a subset of dinosaurs. That's like saying that because both mammals and cats exist currently, this somehow proves that cats aren't mammals.
@@DJFracus what do cats have to do with this?
@@monkeypec9041 Its the same situation with a different representative.
Saying birds are dinosaurs is like saying cats are mammals.
Unless you want to argue that cats and birds are not mammals and dinosaurs respectfully.
Towards the end of the era of the Dinosaurs more and more "birds" were turning up, but, you had everythign between the fluffy Tyrannos to birds. You have birds with all modern bird features except things like beaks or they were missing the kneel bone in the chest. You have some with hands still and others with not. You had raptors that looked like they took a bird and pulled its skin ove its body. Evolution didn't care that these creatures were bird or otherwise, these dinosaurs just filled the niche and did the job and therefore were able to reproduce and produce off spring, its not like evolution has a direction so... Anything that works goes so long as it has its niche.
The end of that era was a wild time because more and more feathered dinosaurs of all sorts of things and everything in between had risen and with the advent of feathers there was a possiblity it brought colour. So the late Cretaceous was a fantastic time between which was arid at times but had maginificant feathery dinosaurs of all walked of the Therapoid family, and with them brought colour.
You would have difficulty point to something that looked like a bird and tell if it was 100% bird or not quite there.
Thats the whole point of this.
@@AngelEmfrbl hmm
I found a beautiful stromatolite fossil on a hill in Wyoming, which was once an ocean. My fascination is the first amphibians, and the transition in eggs: wet, internal, dry that give them freedom from the sea. I have also read that the ginkgo was one of the earliest trees (200M), and was believed extinct until 1100, when examples were found in Buddhist monasteries.The ginkgo leaf veins radiate from the stem, while most leaves we see are branching.
I’ve accumulated an extensive collection of both personal finds and bought fossils, some very rare and pretty expensive, but my favorite is still my examples of stromatolites. It’s not the rarest of fossils, but there’s just something special about holding a once-living piece of prehistory and knowing that it’s over 3 billion years old. It’s crazy to think that such simple organisms like that diversified into hundreds of millions of various complex organisms.
It’s also crazy to think that, while sparsely distributed, living stromatolites still exist 3.5 billion years later.
I love gingko trees, and ordered one from another state in 1971. It arrived with almost no dirt on its roots, but we babied it and now it's about 70 feet tall. Sometimes I look at it and imagine a dinosaur munching away.
I found a fossil too, your Mom.
I know a Jeremiah. I didn't know he is an ancient shrew, but it kind of makes sense now~
Square Squid Studios he is also a bullfrog and was a good friend of mine lol
@@elktheindianspotteddeer1331 I was totes gonna say that, but you beat me by 5 months.
NO
Juramaia, genius. Not Jeremiah. 🙄
@@MaryAnnNytowl hey dumbass that's the joke
Are you telling me those are dinosaurs screaming outside, then?
Dinosaurs/Reptiles/Birds or annoying flying pests are all acceptable terms
+TheRedKnight Flying rats
Yes! Just very, very high-pitched screams.
Yeah.
We can safely say we live in a world where house cats regularly hunt dinosaurs.
Technically, yes.
I found a bunch of trilobite parts outside my college dorm, that was the best day ever
3:01 I wrote a haiku about Haikouichthys. I hope you like it:
The Haikouichthys
An extinct species of fish
Tastes good with butter
Small Juramaia
A splitting point for mammals
With a full placenta
I'm a fokin walrus m9
I'm a fokin walrus fossil m9
The end
Where did you get a lactating animal to make butter 520 millions years ago?
LOL
Frederic Purenne Great question. Before mammals the only source of butter was from butterflies.
"The oldest fossiles are really, really old"
-Michael Aranda 2016
No s*&$.
@James Ratliff Not when done properly and in combination with other methods.
@@Raydensheraj Carbon dating can only measure back 40 000 years.
@@samuelswanepoel7926 But Carbon dating is only ONE method of dating. We do not only use the Carbon dating method...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-do-scientists-date-fossils-180972391/
Together with stratigraphic principles, radiometric dating methods are used in geochronology to establish the geologic time scale.[3] Among the best-known techniques are radiocarbon dating, potassium-argon dating and uranium-lead dating. By allowing the establishment of geological timescales, it provides a significant source of information about the ages of fossils and the deduced rates of evolutionary change. Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological materials, including ancient artifacts.
Different methods of radiometric dating vary in the timescale over which they are accurate and the materials to which they can be applied.
Then there is Luminescence dating (including thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence) - a type of dating methodology that measures the amount of light emitted from energy stored in certain rock types and derived soils to obtain an absolute date for a specific event that occurred in the past. The method is a direct dating technique, meaning that the amount of energy emitted is a direct result of the event being measured. Better still, unlike radiocarbon dating, the effect luminescence dating measures increases with time.
www.thoughtco.com/luminescence-dating-cosmic-method-171538
New developments in laser ablation mass spectrometry permit the in situ analysis of U-series isotopes, thus providing a rapid and virtually non-destructive dating method back to about 300,000 years.
For those highly funded scientists like Svante Paabo there is also Accelerator Mass Spectrometry available...as used on his Neanderthal research.
www.radiocarbon.com/accelerator-mass-spectrometry.htm
@@Raydensheraj Your reference is not reliable. Smithsonian is renown for keeping secrets and destroying evidence.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/smithsonian-giant-skeletons/
Great video, I find evolution very interesting :) I think the word theory is misinterpreted by many people. "Scientific theory" does mean something that is universally accepted throughout the community. It MUST NOT be confused with the daily use of the word theory, meaning something uncertain
Martin Rosén a 'scientific theory' is most certainly *not* necessarily universally accepted within the scientific community.
@@VisualiseTheFun a theory is a claim that survived scientific criticism and explains the best,so they're mostly kinda facts till some other observations say otherwise
Where is the theory? It is a mess, and full of assumptions and ignorance of basic simple question.
Waste of time!
@@VisualiseTheFun mean that bait and switch you did to try and prove god
Shouldn't we start reporting those bad anus jokes as spam?
We REALLY should at this point ._.
No because they were boiled for safety.
Here are the options:
• Unwanted advertising content or spam
• Pornography or sexually explicit material
• Hate speech or graphic violence
• Harassment or bullying
• Copyrighted material
Which is it?
They should add a • Very old and bad joke section
I've already been reporting them for spam.
I've been watching this channel for years, and I think this is one of your better episodes. Lots of information, presented smoothly and interestingly. Woo!
Outstanding episode! Lots of information, and very well presented. Great pronunciations of the taxonomic names, and I love your choice of pronouncing winged.
IT'S THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION!
*THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER*
Time to conquer all of India ...... Most of India
QUICK, DUCK!
Wow, that’s animals and stuff, but we’re still in the ocean. Hey, can we go on land?
N O
why?
T H E S U N I S A D E A D L Y
L A Z E R
Oh, ok.
Notanymorethersablanket.
Now the animals can go on land.
Nobody ever expects the Cambrian Explosion!!!!
As a paleontologist, I approve of the contents of this video. All correct! :-O A rare thing on UA-cam...
@Grayson Kyng nice scam.
@@timdeathly dumbass didn’t even try spacing it
@@foreverareaper191 ikr
That’s great to know!
Oo a paleontologist I got this rash on my back. I need help fedor
You guys are the best! You dont waste time you provide accurate info ( I trust) Thanks for posting
Great episode! I would also like to thank the Patreon supporters. I can't be one right now, so thank you for supporting SciShow!
LOVE IT!!!! Very diverse depiction of the subject matter, so you actually learn a lot :)
That's very interesting! It's cool to see the timeline of various forms of life as well, laid out so chronologically.
Hi, I'm a dinosaur.
Quak.
ok
ironically, ducks do come from dinosaurs ...
*****
yes, quak ...
You know the old saying "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck... it's a dinosaur."
As a real dinosaur that hides among you humans with a human disguise. I find this very offensive.
Cliff notes. As amazing as the discoveries we have made, we have a LOT more to discover in Palaeontology, which is exciting!
This videos are so helpful, fun and interesting. Subbed!
this was super duper cool!!! it's so fascinating to hear about how all of these creatures have shaped our understanding of the world :)
🤔...So dinosaurs sing to me in the morning now...🎶🐦☀️
I want a timemachine just to see all of these.
If time travel were possible, which it is not, you would most likely suffocate as the atmosphere would not be conducive. Plus the oxygen level was way higher from the Mesozoic epoch.
@@moogmike1 this is why we have space suits!
Time travel to the future is possible. But to the past is unlikely
Don't we all?
I'm super excited for this mini-series of the history of life on Earth. That sounds awesome.
You guys should do another livestream, the last one was super fun. On a side note, awesome video, keep up the great work!
Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!
If you see this, don't read any other comments, 'cause it mostly consists of this:
1. Anus jokes.
2. People not understanding how basic science works.
3. Just straight up ignorant people who spew their beliefs at everything that moves.
Have a good day :D
And people being early
+Sakuya Izayoi IX and here i am being late
dam straight
Imre Oláh thank you. I almost scrolled down
So basically, UA-cam comments........
You did a fab job on this. Always seem to learn something from your videos and this is no exception.
A mini series? You guys sure are making big strides with our donations. Well done.
Omg “eyes on stalks” is the new “brows on fleek”
I thought juramiah was a bullfrog ;)
Best comment.
Spark Gap...he was a good friend of mine.
Sure do wish I would have scrolled down a few comments before I typed the exact same thing! LoL
Same!
Was a good friend of mine.
For those who have studied science/Geology,like me,I do find your presentation attractive,straight to the point &of course without the awkward saying aaaaa frequently. Very good work,keep it up man !
Excellent video, as always.
I'm not going to remember any of this, great video though. Impressive amount of research
Awesome video as always Sci show however A time line graphic would have been good.
SUPER FOSSILE
Dear Sci-Show-mates, first of all I d like to say that I really love your chanel and enjoy all your videos. So, I d like to contribute to this one. There are mistakes about the crustaceans. (1) only some groups of crustaceans have their body divided in 3 tagmata (not segmentas as it stays in the video), but see Remipedia, Ostracoda, even many malacostracans (like crabs) don't have this 3-parts-bodyplan. Also stalked eyes is present in some groups but is not the most common (sessile eyes is the most common), see copepods, cephalocarids, anostracans, ostracods, mystacocarids and almost all groups, except some decapods. I hope I have helped ;) All the best, Simone
Well researched and well presented.
There are hundreds of tiny shell fossils on a large hill not too far from where I grew up. My brothers and I found them when were kids. Was a very interesting to find them so high above the sea level.
The next time I see a bird, I shall yell "Dinosaur!" and run away.
Incredible video guys! Loved it!
This was an awesome video! Great job!
incoming comments about creationist comments despite there being no creationist comments.
Indeed
The anus "jokes" ARE the creationist comments.
That is a meta-meta-creationist comment, and since this comment is talking about it, you are currently reading a meta-meta-meta-creationist comment.
those people still exist??????
isn't this a comment about creationist comments???
I have no idea which comments are jokes and which are not.
Yes.
This was great! Thank you!
AMAZING VIDEO ! i found myself many times thinking about one fact and forgeting about the video needing to go back where i stopped paying attention x)
GIMME THAT MINI SERIES ABOUT LIFE ON EARTH , GIMME !!!
You know what would be awesome? If I could see a video of my own, personal evolutionary background. I can just imagine a video starting with me and then changing to my father and his father and his father and so on all the way back to the first life. Gods, it would be so incredible to see that. It'd probably be a damn long film, even if transitions were made extremely quickly, but I'd still love to be able to see it.
It just fascinates me that there's this... unbroken chain between me and the first life. An event which happened billions of years ago and is still going on, in me. A wheel that's been turning this entire time.
Same here. I always wonder about that yoo.
Look into genieology.
You know what's depressing? We're related to cockroaches.
It's not all about "you" or "me" It's about all of us! And ya,. Pretty amazing to see the tree of life
if i remember correct (probably dont lol) its alot but surprisingly less that you’d think. like 10,000 generations of humans or less have lived since we first evolved into our current iteration. tho again idr all to well. i know iv heard somewhere reputable the number give or take some but i honestly cant remember at all what it was, 10k or less just feels right
Me no believe in evolution because me not like it and me close eyes whenever someone show me the tons and tons of obvious evidence.
finally, a comment i can get behind.
I like you
My room mate is convinced that all fossils are manufactured because we can't dig deep enough to get to actual fossils. this is one of literally hundreds of absurd things he believes.
+Jacob S get him/her out of thur
You, I like you
i love when scishow does videos on topics i'm interested in/took a class in and was at least slightly interested in it... but then sometimes that just means i'm thinking "...debatable" a lot throughout the video lol
also i still like what my invertebrate zoology TA said: insects are probably just "derived crustaceans" but maybe don't tell that to an entomologist
So SciShow has become a top ten list channel now, huh? The drop in quality is complete. Well done.
"milestone blobs" now one of my fave phrases
I am the last thing that is not a bird
you are an anime
No. I am a bird, too. Oh, wait. NOT a bird. I see..
Have you heard about the bird?
buh buh buh bir bir bird bir bir birds the word
cory Sensei
The bird bird bird the bird is the word
The bir-bir-bird the bird is the word
The bir-bir-bird the bird is the word
Don't you know about the bird, everybody knows about the bird
The bir-bir-bird the bird is the word
The bir-bir-bird the bird is the word
Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh
"we never stopped being fish" will never stop being the funniest way to explain ancesteral taxonomic classification
Can you do a video on the shortest or longest survided species please? So which species lived the shortest period of time before becoming extinct and which species has lasted the longest? I think this would be a cool insight into things like this
Dunkleosteus is probably my favorite prehistoric animal. :) Always happy to see it mentioned.
It was found in the gorge cliff of the Rocky River (near Cleveland) in Ohio!!!!
The first tetrapods apparently had flowers for eyes~
So poetic.
same
I thought those were early pineapple slices. :-)
+Reginald Finley or they forgot to remove their cucumber facial masks
I love it very educational and easy to understand, funny fact! the guy barely blinked when he was talking.
Adderall
Awesome Show! Thank you very much!!!
Was one of the oldest fossils a nokia
Lachlan Tomlinson its iphone
I Bet If A Nokia Was Fossilized, It Would Still Work.
Yes.
I believe the trilobites were infamous for using blackberries......
if so, it sure has some charge left in the battery!
Are there fossils of memes?
Yes, except for the pepes. that's what makes them so rare.
+Nicholas Hightdudis this comment is gold.
Yes, I recenlty found a vestigial rickroll.
lol
comedy silver!
OH, and well done. I like this channel. It actually takes the time to get people who appear to know something about the subject to speak on it, at the least they take the time to research the topic extensively, that is my take. Looked to me like you probably even pronounced those ridiculous names correctly, as opposed to other channels I see, that mess up EVERYTHING.
mini-series! I can't wait!
Why do peppermints get holes in them when you suck on them?
1:25 , If I'm not mistaking the oldest rock in the world is the Acasta gneiss (Canada). It's a metamorphic rock, as oposed to the sedimentary rock showed on the video, but it's dated around 3.5 - 4.0 billions y.o. Maybe the rock showed in the video is the oldest sedimentary rock?
I also heard the oldest rock is in Canada ... maybe some more research is needed ...
Foghorn Leghorn
I stand corrected, thanks.
Foghorn Leghorn
yes but that's only a crystal. Obviously zircon are the oldest possible crystal. A rock (such as a gneiss) is an aggregation of crystals. The zircon in this rock is older than the rest of the parts
the article even says "The Australian zircons, from the Jack Hills, aren't the oldest rocks on Earth - those are in Canada - but about 3 billion years ago, the minerals eroded out some of Earth's first continental crust and became part of a riverbed."
very nice talk. thank you.
Good and interesting episode. Thank you
An episode about living fossils would be nice! Like the horseshoe crabs, tardigrades and... Well, that's all i know ☺
Yes, I love evolution series!
Oh shit, a new mini series in the works! Looking forward to it
Very interesting show! Good job!
we know evolution is a long slow process. Just look at the extinction of creationists.
@A G In a video like this your not gonna see much creation posts because they know they'll just be ridiculed. But there are plenty of creationists making videos and posts out there. Some of them are convinced that evolution is a dying "religion" and they stick to there guns. They simply don't want it to be true
Where did the first form of matter in the universe come from?
Hahaha
@A G
The Great Mistake. Neo-Darwinism.
www.flickr.com/photos/truth-in-science/40869105864/in/album-72157642914154485/
@@SirCatholicStudent It came from energy.
we still have dinosaurs.... *puts on glasses* YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Mmmm.... Fried dino with mashed potatoes and gravy, don't forget to sit around the roasted 25 lb dinosaur at the table on thanksgiving
Always interesting, thanks.
awesome stuff Frank!
*Fossil #11:* Ken Ham, and he has nothing good to say about evolution.
Ken Ham looks alot like a caveman, kinda ironic.
+Fjolltzu He has several abnormally vestigial organs, the brain and the penis.
oh Ken Ham........
Oh he exists? I thought Bill Nye obliterated him to oblivion.
Fossil #12: A replica of a boat from a fairy tail but made with modern technology, created to somehow prove that a 900 year old man and his wife could make such a boat with primitive technology.
incoming "there is no proof for evolution" comments
Evolution is a lie, we were created from a piece of bone
well what is the proof? what about all the living fossils that show no change over millions of years
+supermatti78 What about creatures like dogs that have diversified quickly over the last hundred years because of manual selection, thus being a quick analogue to what is possible through natural selection.
+Goku it's easy to make fun of the other side of a debate but actually debating them is a better idea.
+Satanic Cabal no offence but your English needs work and to answer your question we split from two packs and we became more advanced.
I'm looking forward to that mini series
It is simply incredible to see the different directions of evolution lead to.
We're devolving nowadays.. 😑
I have wings so you're devolving. I'm not. *flies away*
Greeeeat... fossilized plant semen~
I'm glad that I'm watching this video, which I think is cool and interesting, instead of watching videos that I fundamentally disagree with just so I can be angry in the comments. It seems like a better way to spend my time.
great presentation, we can never be 100% sure but we can always wonder.
"show me the evidence!" - Wendy Wright
One example of evolution is the modern Morgan Horse. Accidental arrangement of genes between a nothing special stallion and a nothing special mare Sometimes evolution jumps. Ahh, I don't know if someone who studies evolution would say the Morgan is a good example, but it's a strange and wonderful example of a completely new breed in one generation.
Retired librarian
Everyone here is complaining about creationists, but I haven't seen any comments by people who don't believe in evolution. I just see a bunch of annoying people talking about things that are irrelevant to this video. Why don't you talk about what you learned from this video instead of complaining about the few people watching this who don't believe in evolution? If you are looking for a debate, go find a Young Earth Creationist video.
Tyler Mauldin I'm so tired of these atheists thinking they're intellectually superior, yet I don't see _any_ hateful comments from creationists in this video. Plus, most religion don't dispute evolution, because religion is open to interpretation
Looks like im not the only neutral person under the debate
You don't have to believe in science.
You must have a brain and focus on deep learning based on evidences, and then use your brain in a non-magical way.
Hard to do for believers.
And they used to say that humans and dinosaurs didn't live at the same time. Now we learn that dinosaurs have been with us all along. With feathers and birdsong.
I'm so impressed by his pronunciation of all these big dinosaur names. He did it so flawlessly too as if it's no big deal to him lol
Evolution isn't an opinion it's fact anyone who thinks otherwise is ignorant
or christian
zealot*
+patrick Katalenas
Thing is, I'm a Lutheran and I believe evolution exists.
+Masterman PG The correct term for that belief is, "hypocrite".
sure ok
Every living thing that exists today including you, represents and unbroken chain of ancestors right back to the beginning of time who were successful to survive this planet long enough to reproduce. You already won the lottery, so be thankful for your individual existence every day. Have an amazing day!
Upcoming Mini Series!! Yes please!!
Its rather fascinating how spotty the fossil record is, like...what if how we picture the world is much more different than ot actually was. I wonder what species we will never find due to how rarely things fossilize?
Why do the wheels of cars sometimes look like they spin backwards?
They only do so on film and it's because of the recording speed. A typical camera only records 24 images per second. If a wheel spins faster than one 1 round per 1/24th of a second, it will apear to go backwards. The problem is easily solved by buying a highspeed camera and a tv with a high refresh rate
because they spin in a circle so fast that they can make a near complete rotation to behind where it was before to make it appear that the wheel moved backwards
@@koffieslikkersenior actually it can also happen with your eyes if you look at the right thing spinning like a propeller of a helicopter.
ハビエルヘクター only if the propellor is lit by a pulsating light source. Natural light (fire and the sun for example) is continuous, so no stroboscopique effect will take place. Your brain will blur the image instead
Huh, here I was thinking Juramaia was a bullfrog.
That's a good song.
Darn it... just realized you had too many interesting videos... subbed. :)
I gathered a lot of valuable Intel from this. Going to have lots of fun evaluating everything.
what is story of the naming uranus and uranium ???
Uranus was a god in ancient greek mythology, he was Zeus's granddad. thats where all the names of the planets come from, but sometimes they use the roman version.
Now "Uranus (Ουρανός)" is the modern greek word for the "Sky"
REVANTH E K look up cgp greys video on uranus
Did number 10 get the worm?
No, but it came before the egg.
Great speaker. Interesting vid.
There are stromatolite fossils in the US too. I listen to a Central Washington University Geology prof, Nick Zentner, and he showed some from big rock formations in a national park in Montana with the fossilized stromatolites, looking just like what is shown in this vid. BTW, Nick's lectures are great, just look up CWU Geology on UA-cam. He talks mainly about central and eastern Washington state, but it's fascinating to anyone who loves geology.