The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World

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  • Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
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    Researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…a time when the first-ever mass extinction may have turned Planet Earth into Sponge World.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 433

  • @alexcamacho1842
    @alexcamacho1842 19 днів тому +770

    "if mass extinction be something you wish!"
    _"Spongebob Squarepants!"_

    • @kenrickman6697
      @kenrickman6697 19 днів тому +104

      Who survived the apocalypse under the sea?
      Spongebob Squarepants!

    • @lacucaracha111111
      @lacucaracha111111 19 днів тому +57

      Then junk up the oceans and flop like a fish!

    • @likebot.
      @likebot. 18 днів тому +4

      Spongebob's your uncle

    • @jamesleatherwood5125
      @jamesleatherwood5125 18 днів тому +10

      would work better for the tune if you threw the word big between the words if and mass! :)

    • @noone3708
      @noone3708 18 днів тому +9

      ​@@lacucaracha111111SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

  • @Shantosh9550
    @Shantosh9550 19 днів тому +677

    Apocalypse approaches...
    Sponges: I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm Ready!!!!

  • @1ochotnik
    @1ochotnik 19 днів тому +279

    "We're all going to die!"
    Sponge: "Skill issue"

  • @christopherjustice6411
    @christopherjustice6411 19 днів тому +696

    SpongeBob is eternal.

    • @fish-champ
      @fish-champ 19 днів тому +28

      Ah hell nah spunch bop done survived the apocka lips

    • @mecahhannah
      @mecahhannah 19 днів тому +7

      Agreed 😂

    • @destronia123
      @destronia123 19 днів тому +9

      Especially since he can reproduce by budding.

    • @Goku17yen
      @Goku17yen 19 днів тому +4

      El esponjibop

    • @Rabbit0wnzu
      @Rabbit0wnzu 19 днів тому +16

      I mean, spongebob has been employee of the month for 300 plus months since 2002 😂

  • @impressions9558
    @impressions9558 19 днів тому +455

    Humans: hahaha you brainless creatures.
    Sponges: You just wait.

    • @philp4684
      @philp4684 19 днів тому +4

      Ray: Of course you forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea unexplained mass sponge migration.
      Peter: Ray, the sponges migrated about a foot and a half!

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart 16 днів тому +1

      @@philp4684 - I forgot about that. Thanks for the funny reminder.

  • @danesorensen1775
    @danesorensen1775 19 днів тому +386

    Imagine how much deeper the oceans would be without all the sponges.

    • @420Khatz
      @420Khatz 19 днів тому +50

      lmaooo that's so stupid and yet so funny.

    • @Imperiused
      @Imperiused 19 днів тому +19

      This comment made me giggle extremely stupidly

    • @paddor
      @paddor 18 днів тому +13

      Haha. Now get out lol

    • @birdwatchingwithdrrajasaur4410
      @birdwatchingwithdrrajasaur4410 18 днів тому +9

      as deep as rock bottom may be? 🤔

    • @TommyEfreeti
      @TommyEfreeti 18 днів тому +6

      Stephen Wright just chuckled
      "Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen."

  • @Xidnaf
    @Xidnaf 18 днів тому +66

    "sponges soak up mass death like a... come on, don't make me say it." ashamed to admit i stared into space for about 30 seconds going "? don't make him say what?????" before it clicked for me

  • @TragoudistrosMPH
    @TragoudistrosMPH 19 днів тому +140

    Sponges: Everyone's dead, ugh, guess I gotta clean it up...😒

  • @Warmaker01
    @Warmaker01 18 днів тому +103

    [Mass Extinction Hits]
    Sponges: "I didn't hear no bell."

  • @dominicharvey6048
    @dominicharvey6048 19 днів тому +93

    Spongebob must have been sad when Patrick died during the mass extinction

    • @studtistics2448
      @studtistics2448 19 днів тому +1

      Lmao

    • @londonjackson8986
      @londonjackson8986 18 днів тому +9

      @dominicharvery6048 Uh... Guys?! Should I tell him that in real life, Starfish (& Pufferfish) actually occasionally EAT Sea Sponges? Because... it ain't pretty...

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart 16 днів тому +2

      @@londonjackson8986 - Nooooooo!

    • @ericbrown1101
      @ericbrown1101 16 днів тому +3

      ​@@londonjackson8986I think we should probably leave that part out 😂

    • @dragonflied3
      @dragonflied3 11 днів тому +2

      @@londonjackson8986 Mrs Puff and Mr Krabs too...

  • @ritevalier
    @ritevalier 19 днів тому +133

    Spongebob is both comically and scientifically immortal

  • @crisptomato9495
    @crisptomato9495 19 днів тому +59

    “Been spending most our lives livin’ in a sponge’s paradise…”

    • @Hugh.Manatee
      @Hugh.Manatee 16 днів тому +8

      Filtered water once or twice, living in a sponge's paradise

  • @philipswede7299
    @philipswede7299 19 днів тому +102

    Everytime he said spongeworld, I thought "you mean gloveworld"

  • @Dr.Kraig_Ren
    @Dr.Kraig_Ren 19 днів тому +128

    Meanwhile Tardigrade: sitting on a meteoroid on his way to Andromeda after surviving all mass extinctions.

    • @matthewlantz1677
      @matthewlantz1677 18 днів тому +4

      Mass Effect 4

    • @bengoodwin2141
      @bengoodwin2141 18 днів тому +20

      Tardigrades are surprisingly not nearly as hardy as people think. They can survive a lot, but they die to mundane things all the time, like things eating them.

    • @ppsaha1994
      @ppsaha1994 18 днів тому +12

      @@bengoodwin2141 That's true but those predators would die in the extreme environments where tardigrades survive.

    • @bengoodwin2141
      @bengoodwin2141 18 днів тому +11

      @@ppsaha1994 That is also true, but it's not like exclusively predation kills tardigrades, and many other microscopic organisms are just as resilient, or more. For example, tardigrades do their drying out trick to survive unfavorable conditions, but other microbes just keep on living normally in those conditions, and the ones that don't have other strategies like forming spores.

    • @apexnext
      @apexnext 18 днів тому +4

      You can call me Tardi, but I'm _always_ on time.

  • @sundragon7703
    @sundragon7703 19 днів тому +46

    The universe will throw a lot at sponges, they will just soak it up.

    • @kyrab7914
      @kyrab7914 6 днів тому

      So... When life gives you lemons, get a sponge?

  • @noaccount2494
    @noaccount2494 17 днів тому +14

    I would not have guessed Sponges being a cornerstone species but wow

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate 19 днів тому +75

    This makes me think that if all the other characters in SpongeBob had died, SpongeBob and his relatives would be partying like no tomorrow.

    • @americanwoman6246
      @americanwoman6246 19 днів тому +3

      Does SpongeBob have sponge relatives? I can only remember Patrick and Mr.Krabs.

    • @anthonycrowley2264
      @anthonycrowley2264 19 днів тому +15

      @@americanwoman6246 yeah, spongebob's parents and grandma were in a few episodes,so he does have sponge relatives

    • @americanwoman6246
      @americanwoman6246 19 днів тому +2

      @@anthonycrowley2264 😃😁

    • @woahemiee
      @woahemiee 2 дні тому

      He also has a brother that is featured Ina couple episodes

  • @HANKTHEDANKEST
    @HANKTHEDANKEST 18 днів тому +25

    Humans: oh no, a mass extinction!
    Sponges: first time?

  • @primrosevale1995
    @primrosevale1995 19 днів тому +39

    So SpongeBob really could’ve never left his house. Used Napkin, Chip, and even Penny probably would’ve wasted away before he did.

  • @JayBenOh
    @JayBenOh 18 днів тому +25

    Could you make a video summarizing the five big mass extinction events? It would be great not only to gain perspective over the whole topic, but also to get a comparison about the causes, impact and aftermath of these events.

  • @LimeyLassen
    @LimeyLassen 18 днів тому +13

    You may not like it, but this is peak performance. This is the ideal sponge body.

  • @gattycroc8073
    @gattycroc8073 19 днів тому +33

    sponges, coral, and plants of prehistoric times have to be one of the most under looked parts of the worlds before use. sure, there not as entertaining as moving organisms but they do make up a major part of their environments and are important for us to understand what the past of our planet looked like.

    • @Patrickballhater
      @Patrickballhater 16 днів тому +2

      See plants coral are other things of that sort are the ones that actually construct the large scale physical environment other organisms live in. Reefs forests grassland etc.

  • @51max50
    @51max50 19 днів тому +33

    Can you feel it Mr. Krabs?

  • @420Khatz
    @420Khatz 19 днів тому +20

    It was once a no bone zone out there.

  • @robertschnobert9090
    @robertschnobert9090 18 днів тому +6

    RIP Steve Hillenburg. He taught us so much about sponges. I had no idea they like living in pineapples! 🌈

  • @Shantosh9550
    @Shantosh9550 19 днів тому +53

    Please do an episode on when India was an isolated island before it crashed into asia and the kinds of flora and fauna living during that period.

  • @Gaming1Doge
    @Gaming1Doge 19 днів тому +100

    Humans: "OH NO APOCOLAPSE IS APPROACHING!"
    Sponges: "We win these"

  • @duhduhvesta
    @duhduhvesta 19 днів тому +19

    Yay Blake! His voice rocks

  • @slevemcdichael4481
    @slevemcdichael4481 19 днів тому +25

    spongebob series finale lookin grim tbh

  • @Animeal_Tv
    @Animeal_Tv 19 днів тому +31

    I am watching this while washing my dishes

    • @helldronez
      @helldronez 18 днів тому +10

      With sponge 🧽

    • @krokuta3355
      @krokuta3355 18 днів тому +3

      Using a real dead animal oder just the sponge inspired plastic one?

  • @judylearn7971
    @judylearn7971 18 днів тому +6

    Blake's snarky, funny delivery, makes him my favorite EONS host!

  • @larrymccandless8723
    @larrymccandless8723 19 днів тому +13

    He's got Dad Jokes and I approve

  • @malkong2784
    @malkong2784 19 днів тому +22

    thank yall for giving me a fun educational video every day for years, it’s helped me through a lot

  • @Will-dh1qk
    @Will-dh1qk 19 днів тому +23

    So strange that sponges are animals

  • @matthewgordon3281
    @matthewgordon3281 19 днів тому +13

    this puts a whole new spin on spongebob's chaos

  • @southron_d1349
    @southron_d1349 18 днів тому +7

    I've never watched SpongeBob so those jokes would go over my head anyway. I've noticed he's drawn as an artificial kitchen sponge rather than something shown in the video.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart 16 днів тому +5

      @southron_d1349 - _Spongebob Squarepants_ is not a documentary, but a fun cartoon. Even to this adult, it is hilarious and adorable. He lives in the town of "Bikini Bottom" and his best friend is a starfish. It's a whole funny watery world.

    • @nooneinparticular681
      @nooneinparticular681 15 днів тому +3

      ​@@MossyMozartsuccinctly summarized my friend

  • @kyleward3914
    @kyleward3914 18 днів тому +5

    I'm reminded of the quote from Ralph Wiggum on the Simpsons: "I beat the smart kids! I beat the smart kids!"

  • @hindigente
    @hindigente 16 днів тому +2

    It is weird how our whole understanding of the first mass extinction must be reassessed in light of a handful of samples containing thousand of sponges. What a discovery!

  • @jaydee975
    @jaydee975 19 днів тому +86

    Sponge Bob would’ve loved sponge word! 🙃

    • @LivingWithGout
      @LivingWithGout 19 днів тому +11

      Sponge bath.

    • @Dont-jy5ox
      @Dont-jy5ox 19 днів тому +2

      No he wouldn't, he will lose this uniqueness.

  • @iVebre
    @iVebre 19 днів тому +45

    Sponges are the freakiest animal

    • @WeeWeeJumbo
      @WeeWeeJumbo 18 днів тому +1

      mmmmm but siphonophores, though
      siphonophores are real, and they can hurt you

    • @extragoogleaccount6061
      @extragoogleaccount6061 16 днів тому +1

      Colonial organisms are all kinda crazy. Same DNA, same species, but can vary wildly in shape/size, jobs done, etc

  • @C-Farsene_5
    @C-Farsene_5 19 днів тому +23

    So in conclusion: Spongebob feeds on the suffering of others, explains why would he keep torturing squidward and Mrs Puff

    • @ccvcharger
      @ccvcharger 19 днів тому +5

      That oddly makes sense.

    • @jobot1978
      @jobot1978 19 днів тому +6

      His laugh makes more sense, too...

    • @londonjackson8986
      @londonjackson8986 18 днів тому +4

      @C-Farsene_5 That would so much damn sense... if it weren't so PAINFULLY out of character for him to actually do that intentionally!
      This is SPONGEBOB we're talking about! Not Zim or Kefka!!!

  • @ToaOfFusion
    @ToaOfFusion 18 днів тому +16

    Life: *vibing*
    The Ordovician Extinction: "Are ya ready, kids?"

  • @vernacularbarnarchitecture
    @vernacularbarnarchitecture 18 днів тому +4

    Always just so well written.

  • @GBart
    @GBart 19 днів тому +7

    Oooooooohhhhhhh
    Who lives through apocalypses under the sea?

  • @MossyMozart
    @MossyMozart 16 днів тому +2

    All the other sea critters: "Sponges are stupid, weak, and fragile!"
    Sponges: "Hold my dish soap!"

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 19 днів тому +14

    And they make great fry cooks

  • @andrewvaldez8689
    @andrewvaldez8689 19 днів тому +8

    This is great, but how did the pineapple get under the sea?

  • @Cudddlefish
    @Cudddlefish 19 днів тому +3

    So that’s why I have those nightmares about spongebob consuming everything.

  • @raphaelgarcia9576
    @raphaelgarcia9576 17 днів тому +2

    Sponge World! Sponge World! Party time, excellent! 🎸🎶🎵

  • @theendoftheworld9921
    @theendoftheworld9921 17 днів тому +2

    I have a lot of respect for fungi and sponges and trees. Sometimes i wonder how they experience time. I mean they are alive, arent they?

  • @tyrannosauruswrex123
    @tyrannosauruswrex123 19 днів тому +24

    Long live the Sponges!!! 😂

  • @Jellysfrickingstuff
    @Jellysfrickingstuff 19 днів тому +8

    I just got a dinosaur book lol, sponges have been around since the VERY early days relatively unchanged

  • @liamflynn1120
    @liamflynn1120 19 днів тому +4

    Stephen Hillenberg would've loved this 🥺

  • @Iku00
    @Iku00 9 днів тому +1

    Sponges, Tardigrades, Rats, and Cockroaches, the four horsemen of thriving in mass extinctions

  • @Balthazare69
    @Balthazare69 19 днів тому +5

    SpongeBob would be proud & while Patrick ate everything 😂😂😂

  • @deepquake9
    @deepquake9 19 днів тому +6

    Great series! Thank you.

  • @melaniabladeofmiquella
    @melaniabladeofmiquella 18 днів тому +4

    Love PBS ❤ Thanks for this amazing insight 👍

  • @arvantsaraihan5777
    @arvantsaraihan5777 19 днів тому +7

    Oh, how much I hoped to be a sponge that can watch the last days of life on Earth.
    Still sad that no life will survive by the time of the collision between Milky Way and Andromeda though, it must've looked so cool 😢.

    • @ccvcharger
      @ccvcharger 19 днів тому +5

      Maybe there is hope that we will spread the seeds of life to other worlds, so that Earth’s legacy won’t die with it.

  • @Nmethyltransferase
    @Nmethyltransferase 19 днів тому +37

    Meanwhile, corals be like, "Help me, mothertrucker! Help... me...:

  • @mal2ksc
    @mal2ksc 17 днів тому +2

    Imagine how much deeper the ocean would be if it wasn't for all the sponges... 🤣

  • @mypal1990
    @mypal1990 19 днів тому +7

    "Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis."

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 19 днів тому +3

    Hi Blake, Very interesting episode!

  • @raphaelgarcia9576
    @raphaelgarcia9576 17 днів тому +1

    (Shaking cane made of sponge) Oh I remember when all was sponges, those were the days.

  • @ignaciobarilignaquy8111
    @ignaciobarilignaquy8111 18 днів тому +1

    Been spendin most their lives
    Livin' in a regional sponge paradise

  • @jamesraymond1158
    @jamesraymond1158 17 днів тому +1

    Great, information-packed video, as always. Nova could learn a few things from you guys.

  • @cratorcic9362
    @cratorcic9362 19 днів тому +4

    SpongeBob, how could you!?

  • @eileen7303
    @eileen7303 13 днів тому +1

    that is so freaking cool... I now have a whole new attitude about sponges!

  • @Seasonalginger
    @Seasonalginger 16 днів тому +3

    Thank you for this incredible content!

  • @TiggerIsMyCat
    @TiggerIsMyCat 18 днів тому +1

    Well this makes sense, since you already did an episode on how sponges kept animal life going through Snowball Earth

  • @BloxfruitKatakuri461
    @BloxfruitKatakuri461 15 днів тому +2

    I would really like more long form episodes

  • @jaalsburg
    @jaalsburg 15 днів тому

    "Life Finds a Way" is what I was thinking. Oh Malcolm, we will never forget you.

  • @leechild4655
    @leechild4655 18 днів тому +1

    The grim reaper always overlooks sponges cause they already look dead.

  • @danvernier198
    @danvernier198 19 днів тому +9

    Hmm gamma-burst...
    Sponge-Hulk Purplepants?

  • @PratikMukherjee
    @PratikMukherjee 18 днів тому +1

    Ironic that, after a mass extinction, life recovers by sponging off sponges!

  • @meikahidenori
    @meikahidenori 16 днів тому +1

    Glad to see you back! Missed seeing you deliver awesome science!

  • @user-cx9cv1yd7i
    @user-cx9cv1yd7i 7 днів тому

    There were a butt load of SpongeBob's gigglin away back then. The whole world wriggling with giggles.

  • @coeal2680
    @coeal2680 15 днів тому

    i love the Crash Course TB episode, and would love to see John do more episodes like it

  • @AroundTheBlockAgain
    @AroundTheBlockAgain 4 дні тому

    Sponges: "What an extinction... pass the detritus!!"

  • @KaiseruSoze
    @KaiseruSoze 19 днів тому +3

    Those sponges are real preppers.

  • @amirmoradi9595
    @amirmoradi9595 19 днів тому +2

    4:12 the origins of the Apple home pod

  • @Secret_Takodachi
    @Secret_Takodachi 11 днів тому +1

    "I am become death absorber of worlds"
    - Spongebob SquarePants

  • @helmann9265
    @helmann9265 17 днів тому +1

    Fantastic one 👏

  • @OgoidAlucard
    @OgoidAlucard 18 днів тому +1

    I wonder how many Krusty Burgers those guys would make

  • @LittleTreeBlue
    @LittleTreeBlue 18 днів тому +2

    I love Blake!!! All Blake, all the time, for my money!

  • @Sxcheschka
    @Sxcheschka 17 днів тому

    Lifeforms like sponges and worms are my faves, so chill and vibing.

  • @brucewayne000
    @brucewayne000 16 днів тому +1

    Awesome content, awesome!!

  • @dalesnider8040
    @dalesnider8040 19 днів тому +2

    Sponges survive when ocean too acidic.

  • @MrJacksonstudios
    @MrJacksonstudios 19 днів тому +25

    I came for the gun show but I stayed for the SpongeBob jokes.

    • @paszmaty
      @paszmaty 19 днів тому

      I um... came for the 'whole package'. Damn!

  • @pandoraeeris7860
    @pandoraeeris7860 19 днів тому +1

    Sounds like a clean time to be alive!

  • @thatotherted3555
    @thatotherted3555 12 днів тому

    Very cleanly produced.

  • @Binarokaro
    @Binarokaro 18 днів тому +1

    Do fungi play a similar role in mass extinctions? Given their role as decomposer and the environmental impact they have on ecosystems in refreshing nutrients and terraforming the soil

  • @Alex-qf2gx
    @Alex-qf2gx 18 днів тому +1

    Make more sponge videos! Sponges only please.

  • @pdbowman
    @pdbowman 18 днів тому +1

    what a great show!

  • @scaper8
    @scaper8 19 днів тому +3

    I'm gonna say "true" for the triva. I know that the length between the beginning and end of the Mesozoic is longer than between the end of the Mesozoic and now. And I think that the three parts were fairly long each.
    EDIT: Well, shoot. I guess I guess I was wrong.

  • @mhick3333
    @mhick3333 15 днів тому

    Great presentation

  • @MrDan708
    @MrDan708 17 днів тому

    In one sense, the sponge was the lystrosaurus of its day, only 200 million years earlier.

  • @acuddlyheadcrab
    @acuddlyheadcrab 19 днів тому +1

    Yay more sponge content!

  • @internalizedhappyness9774
    @internalizedhappyness9774 18 днів тому

    SpongeBob: Hi SpongeBob!
    SpongeBob to SpongeBob: Hi SpongeBob!
    SpongeBob: Hi SpongeBob!
    Essentially The Ordovician Period…

  • @scriptorpaulina
    @scriptorpaulina 19 днів тому +2

    You forgot to mention them surviving two mass extinctions in the Tonian 🥺

  • @mountainousman
    @mountainousman 19 днів тому +2

    Anyone else read the title as Spongebob Will Survive The Apocalypse