That's when fossil fuels were made. Turns out nothing could digest all those dead trees yet. How is that tar sands region up in Canada doing? jus axin.
I would’ve loved if a few of the Carboniferous’s freshwater eurypterids were included. Like the human-sized horseshoe crab lookin hibbertoperus, that would occasionally crawl on land. And the megarachne, named like a spider because it was once thought to be one, before the discovery that it was actually a eurypterid. Also would’ve liked to have seen the Tully monster and a few of the Carboniferous’s giant amphibians!
"It could eat it's own weight in food every 30 mins..." what?? That doesn't make sense! It might have done it 2 or 3 times a day, but every 30 mins? - it would have to constantly rip apart, digest and excrete a huge amount of material really fast, or get so heavy they couldn't even fly!
@@nigelmaund9057 Well, it's worth noting the word choice. Could doesn't necessarily mean that it did. I could eat an entire pizza in one sitting, doesn't mean that I will.
Even this short video is rife with mistakes. For instance, there is no mystery why the fires and the giant centipedes disappeared at the same time - the oxygen levels dropped, reducing the fire hazard and making the insects smaller because their rudimentary oxygen system could not support large insects. Another - when the humidity is high, the air density is *lower*, not higher, because a water molecule is lighter than and displaces either an oxygen or nitrogen molecule.
Very good presentation. But evidently, as the maps shown indicate the carboniferous era did not extend beyond the American borders. Living in Canada I am well aware that the carboniferous era extended into what is currently known as the Maritime region. I believe that there is even a National park named after it. Despite this, excellent presentation and caution for the future.
Imagine how many critters we will never know about because they either didn’t fossilize, we haven’t found the fossils just yet, or they’re so old they’ve been thru the Earths geological cycle and been ground down below some continental shelf and therefore we’ll never know of them. Just think how many weird things there were that we can never know existed... God I’d give nearly anything to be able to go back in some sort of bubble with the proper O2 levels and it would protect me from the environment and the environment from me potentially contaminating it, and be able to actually see the strange ancient critters and creepy-crawlies of the time.
People say you would pass out due to oxygen poisoning. But since it's not pure oxygen like in a tank I think you would have enough time to adapt to it. But that's my 2 cents.
Let's say if humans existed during this time. We would be about 70% bigger than today. We would also be 70% smarter, stronger, and have more energy than we do today. We could easily break today's records if we lived in this time. Oxygen allows us to be alive, and have energy for our bodies to do whatever. Life over 300 million years ago was a world filled with giants.
A superb presentation ! But why, @00:34, would humans not have survived the higher oxygen atmosphere ? Wouldn't it just make us more energetic? Easier to climb Everest, etc.? After all, we supply medical & emergency oxygen to aid people.
Then a forest fire big enough to blot out the sun for long enough to kill a critical amount of vegetation makes all the plants die at once in a time before there was bacteria that could digest cellulose... so all the carbon captured by the trees broke down and formed a layer of black tar that was eventually buried and formed the only coal and oil we have. 99 percent of the worlds coal and oil lay in the end years of the carboniferous period. Without the high oxygen from trees the super bugs died and animals that use lungs like lungfish were able to take the land and start evolution over again!
wouldn't it be more correct to say that the high oxygen content made the air more supportive of fire? oxygen is not flammable per se, but it makes fire possible.
Continental plates move over time and the edges of them fold into the crust of the earth and rub against each other. When the pressure from continental plates grinding against each other is too great it results in earthquakes. That’s why there are so many earthquakes in California. It’s on the Pacific and North American continental plates.
Ancient Earth. it was on curiositystream a while back but it doesn't seem to be there anymore (not as a US viewer anyway) the series is pretty good tbh well worth the watch
@@sonofcronos7831 They have videos with the same name but They allowed me to watch one on the Permian Extinction, that had interviews with American scientists. Not sure if it that same then. Plus the series of videos, each episode was approximately fifteen minutes. Evidence that it was started by jilted people on youtube, they took with them their inability to make longer videos.
But why, with so much more hyper-flammable oxygen, did that period manage to geologically sequester so much carbon??? Could it be that... much more of the planet's surface at that time was covered with seas and shallow swamps that did not favor fires let alone large fires?
There were no bacteria capable of breaking down wood so when trees died or were covered with sediment they didn't decompose. Almost all the coal we use came from this period. High oxygen level promote more aggressive fires, but high humidity reduces that tendency. The planet was covered with trees and the instant a tree died it was replaced.
@@Raptorman0909 the oxygen content of the atmosphere was around 30% at that time. Most all the temperate forests today would be toast under those conditions. We are talking Pangea, so the planet was hardly covered with trees. I do agree that humidity/rain slows fire. I guess my point was that the large carbon deposits today likely all came from swampy tropical areas. Temperate/drier forest likely hardly existed. 😉
I @@archstanton_live trees plants shrubs existed and thrived during the Carboniferous period. Again, funguses and bacteria that could break down trees did not exist yet, so no carbon was being released back into the atmosphere that the trees were absorbing. Because trees were not decomposing.
@@adriananic8258 Has mirror neurons and is aware of its own consciousness. Is able to process information and interact with its environment by predicting the behavior of the physical world and the behavior of plants and animals imo.
@@namechange4919 yeah but there are sentient and intelligent bacteria also bacteria do have forms of nervous systems and can feel the world around them. You’re definitions of sentience being able to recognize plants and animals is super weird.
The oxygen we get is what makes us the height we are. So yes, 35% oxygen will make us bigger. This period was a world filled with giants. We would be around 11 feet tall. (And yes, we could be faster, stronger, and recover faster) Trees towered above clouds too.
I wish this was like 4 hours long.
Just download it and slow its speed enough so that its 4 hours long.
@@patricknowacki9675 You have saved me!
This documentary comes from Curiosity Stream Ancient Earth, so you can watch there
That's what she said
Hands down my favorite time period!
Yeah everything was dope then
That's when fossil fuels were made. Turns out nothing could digest all those dead trees yet. How is that tar sands region up in Canada doing? jus axin.
Yeah everything was dope then.
@@agasifliyev4023 Affirmative.
Yeah everything was dope then.
ah the good ol' days
I remember like it was today
No cell phone in sight
no meddling kids
There weren't cypress back then... forests were composed mostly of fern-like trees...
Excellent content! Thanks 🙂
If I saw a dragonfly that big I’m running for my life
Pretty sure you will get out runned.
You bet!
You run from free food?
@@adriananic8258 Maybe my finger is the food
@@DreamPitStudios certified itadori yuji moment...
Some how this reminds me of a few EPs of Stargate SG1. Just picturing O’Neill’s and Jackson’s sarcasms. Then you have Teal’c’s indeed.
*best content, hoping for more, should be atleast mim. 30 min*
more of this :D
good channel
Amazing
needs 1 million views hell 100 even
02:03 pwned!
idk why, but I laughed so hard when that poor thing was offed.
Is this the time when lawyers and politicians crawled out of the swamps? 🤭
that came later
Very first view, like and comment....
when
I would’ve loved if a few of the Carboniferous’s freshwater eurypterids were included.
Like the human-sized horseshoe crab lookin hibbertoperus, that would occasionally crawl on land.
And the megarachne, named like a spider because it was once thought to be one, before the discovery that it was actually a eurypterid.
Also would’ve liked to have seen the Tully monster and a few of the Carboniferous’s giant amphibians!
Weres full doc?
I was there too it was so hot and muggy back then
I didn't know there were cypress back in the carboniferous
Where is the whole docu of this plsss 😭😭😭😭
"It could eat it's own weight in food every 30 mins..." what?? That doesn't make sense! It might have done it 2 or 3 times a day, but every 30 mins? - it would have to constantly rip apart, digest and excrete a huge amount of material really fast, or get so heavy they couldn't even fly!
Yep something technically wrong there!
@@nigelmaund9057 Well, it's worth noting the word choice. Could doesn't necessarily mean that it did. I could eat an entire pizza in one sitting, doesn't mean that I will.
What are you talking about just look at the pray mantis lol
@@indigneouschupacabra43 A pray mantis only eats every few days, not every 30 mins! What YOU talking about?!? 😆
Even this short video is rife with mistakes. For instance, there is no mystery why the fires and the giant centipedes disappeared at the same time - the oxygen levels dropped, reducing the fire hazard and making the insects smaller because their rudimentary oxygen system could not support large insects. Another - when the humidity is high, the air density is *lower*, not higher, because a water molecule is lighter than and displaces either an oxygen or nitrogen molecule.
Very good presentation. But evidently, as the maps shown indicate the carboniferous era did not extend beyond the American borders. Living in Canada I am well aware that the carboniferous era extended into what is currently known as the Maritime region. I believe that there is even a National park named after it. Despite this, excellent presentation and caution for the future.
WOW!
My favorite Creatures Is Insects XD
Imagine how many critters we will never know about because they either didn’t fossilize, we haven’t found the fossils just yet, or they’re so old they’ve been thru the Earths geological cycle and been ground down below some continental shelf and therefore we’ll never know of them. Just think how many weird things there were that we can never know existed... God I’d give nearly anything to be able to go back in some sort of bubble with the proper O2 levels and it would protect me from the environment and the environment from me potentially contaminating it, and be able to actually see the strange ancient critters and creepy-crawlies of the time.
2:05 😂😂😂😂😂
How big were roaches 358 million years ago?
Is it me or does the narrator sound like Scar from The Lion King? (the animated og one)
So what would happen to a human just spawned in the carboniferous period out of no were ?
People say you would pass out due to oxygen poisoning. But since it's not pure oxygen like in a tank I think you would have enough time to adapt to it. But that's my 2 cents.
@@plainsabertooth7828 nice nice
Let's say if humans existed during this time. We would be about 70% bigger than today. We would also be 70% smarter, stronger, and have more energy than we do today. We could easily break today's records if we lived in this time. Oxygen allows us to be alive, and have energy for our bodies to do whatever. Life over 300 million years ago was a world filled with giants.
@@Brey Humans would have to adapt and evolved to do that, Our bodies were evolved to live in this kinda of oxygen and environment of modern time.
@@Brey if humans had specialized pores all over their bodies to better absorb oxygen like insects do then sure but if not we would die.
A superb presentation ! But why, @00:34, would humans not have survived the higher oxygen atmosphere ?
Wouldn't it just make us more energetic? Easier to climb Everest, etc.?
After all, we supply medical & emergency oxygen to aid people.
There would be dangers like the giant Arthropods, flammable oxygen, and natural disasters
More oxygen actually makes us feel drunk. Breathing %100 pure oxygen is equal to drinking a whole gallon of whiskey, with similar health effects.
Fact is any gas out of proportion to what we are accustomed to is toxic
Randyll Tarly narrates
What doc is this
Extra oxygen.... and ahs from forest fires... perfect for plants..and bugs that live off them.
Then a forest fire big enough to blot out the sun for long enough to kill a critical amount of vegetation makes all the plants die at once in a time before there was bacteria that could digest cellulose... so all the carbon captured by the trees broke down and formed a layer of black tar that was eventually buried and formed the only coal and oil we have. 99 percent of the worlds coal and oil lay in the end years of the carboniferous period.
Without the high oxygen from trees the super bugs died and animals that use lungs like lungfish were able to take the land and start evolution over again!
Evidently they didn't have the metric system back then.
wouldn't it be more correct to say that the high oxygen content made the air more supportive of fire? oxygen is not flammable per se, but it makes fire possible.
bro wot
Bro wot
2:37 weren’t coniferous trees not around or barely starting to appear around this time? It makes no sense that the environment would have Cypresses
Seed trees where around but there further inland but tree farns where more common.
Wait! The continents are connected under the water. So how were they able to spread so far apart?
Continental plates move over time and the edges of them fold into the crust of the earth and rub against each other. When the pressure from continental plates grinding against each other is too great it results in earthquakes. That’s why there are so many earthquakes in California. It’s on the Pacific and North American continental plates.
Too short you tease!
What documentary is this?? Can someone help!
I think it's from "A New Prehistory" 2017
Ancient Earth. it was on curiositystream a while back but it doesn't seem to be there anymore (not as a US viewer anyway) the series is pretty good tbh well worth the watch
correction: its still available actually
Are you sure humans would not survive a 35% oxygen atmosphere?
Where is the complete documentary that was butchered to make this? Tell me, tell me now!
Ancient Earth, you can find in Curiosity Stream
@@sonofcronos7831 They have videos with the same name but They allowed me to watch one on the Permian Extinction, that had interviews with American scientists. Not sure if it that same then. Plus the series of videos, each episode was approximately fifteen minutes. Evidence that it was started by jilted people on youtube, they took with them their inability to make longer videos.
Their not extinct, still here, much smaller numbers, but still here, our mother earth is bringing them back
👍
Wth
“giant insects thrived”
*giant insect dies*😅
But why, with so much more hyper-flammable oxygen, did that period manage to geologically sequester so much carbon??? Could it be that... much more of the planet's surface at that time was covered with seas and shallow swamps that did not favor fires let alone large fires?
There were no bacteria capable of breaking down wood so when trees died or were covered with sediment they didn't decompose. Almost all the coal we use came from this period. High oxygen level promote more aggressive fires, but high humidity reduces that tendency. The planet was covered with trees and the instant a tree died it was replaced.
@@Raptorman0909 the oxygen content of the atmosphere was around 30% at that time. Most all the temperate forests today would be toast under those conditions. We are talking Pangea, so the planet was hardly covered with trees. I do agree that humidity/rain slows fire. I guess my point was that the large carbon deposits today likely all came from swampy tropical areas. Temperate/drier forest likely hardly existed. 😉
Funguses and things that decompose and release carbon from dead things into our atmosphere did not exist yet
I @@archstanton_live trees plants shrubs existed and thrived during the Carboniferous period. Again, funguses and bacteria that could break down trees did not exist yet, so no carbon was being released back into the atmosphere that the trees were absorbing. Because trees were not decomposing.
Yee nah mate I think ill pass on that.
Fairy roleplayers be like
The first sentient being on Earth was an insect, and not a Mammal.
Define sentient.
@@adriananic8258 Has mirror neurons and is aware of its own consciousness. Is able to process information and interact with its environment by predicting the behavior of the physical world and the behavior of plants and animals imo.
@@namechange4919 still not true. It’s bacteria.
@@Joe-gw9wh Bacteria do not have nervous systems or the capacity for consciousness. WTF are you thinking?
@@namechange4919 yeah but there are sentient and intelligent bacteria also bacteria do have forms of nervous systems and can feel the world around them. You’re definitions of sentience being able to recognize plants and animals is super weird.
I think humans would have adapted to the high oxygen levels. Maybe we would've become giants.
No we wouldn't have become giants, but we would have become faster stronger and recover stamina faster
@@goldendemise3165 it was just thought, I get that we wouldn't be giants but maybe faster and and stronger.
The oxygen we get is what makes us the height we are. So yes, 35% oxygen will make us bigger. This period was a world filled with giants. We would be around 11 feet tall. (And yes, we could be faster, stronger, and recover faster) Trees towered above clouds too.
We would probably adapt to the swamps and evolve into different species
358 million...bull shit
Oh right it's like 5000 years and it was all made by magic sky daddy in a week so he had something to torture?
Ya I feel like a giant white sky dad making everything makes a lot more sense.
Humans would have done juat fine in 35% oxygen.
I never had any like interest in those animals cause there are so rare in a sense. Never knew much about them.