As an Australian I’ve always wondered what happened in the past to give our marsupials such a big advantage over placental mammals. I have no idea if it deserves its own video but i would love for you to address the topic at some point! Also, why are marsupials and monotremes so terrible at competing with placental mammals just about everywhere else?
@William Pulsfus yes but didn’t some placental mammals get stuck on Australia as well? Why didn’t they compete with the marsupials. If there were never any placental mammals then why not? And why are there only two monotremes left?
Lack of competition from other types of mammals and separation of Australia from Asia made marsupials dominate. One of the reasons why S. America had some really distinct mammals is because it was separated from the other land masses for so long.
Theres an oceanic trench between islands north of your country. Even at the lowest shoreline so far in the age of mammals, there was still uhhh, a 30-60 miles wide channel. Far enough at least that a deer or something wouldnt see the other shore, plus, sharks. So its evolutionary isolation, much like madagascar who had fewer large predators so the monkey/small ape population took over. Yours was marsupeals, who made a nice synergy with the capybara who likes digging looooots of holes that other species move into. As for plascental mammal invasions, well, I would be curious about that. Its probably something to do with the low energy consumption of the mother vs weaker offspring to begin with. But i am no expert.
Having grown up in Florida, myself, I know exactly what you mean about leaving and coming back. My first summer home after going to college overseas, I realized there were tropical lizards just hanging out on the outside of the living room window all the dang time, realized that the air was almost humid enough to chew on, just in general opened my eyes to how, regardless of what the official biome name is, I **basically** grew up in a tropical rainforest. I live in Alaska now, and I don't see myself ever moving back to Florida, but man, every time I visit it just hits me all over again what a special place it is for nature.
@@amicaaranearumThe way I like to put it, I spent the first 30 years of my life never experiencing even a single winter, so now I've gotta make up for lost time.
I'm a Florida native that moved to Maine for a few years, I missed the green anoles and giant southern live oaks covered in resurrection fern and Spanish moss
I'm all for a paleo history of Florida, dude. It's a place that doesn't get a lot of mainstream attention. Even if I don't have a connection to the state (having lived in Colorado and now Montana for the majority of my life), I'd still love to hear about it, especially from someone passionate about the subject.
"It's a place that doesn't get a lot of mainstream attention." Well, other than the everyday news segments of some bath-salts fiend doing some sort of Florida nonsense lol. Jk jk. Us Californians and Floridians are kindred spirits.
@@homosexualitymydearwatson4109 cue meme of bugs bunny sawing off florida into the Caribbean ha, yeeeeaaah... but Ron DeSantis is running for prez now...
Would be also curious to know how many times and how long each time Florida didn't even exist except as part of the floor of an ocean or maybe some small, scattered islands.
I've lived in Florida for over 46 years and would love to hear more about Floridian life during the pleistoceine. Our wildlife is awesome, and being so close to alligators and Sandhill cranes is amazing.
As an Aussie I know what you mean. As weird as they seem to foreigners, for a while Australian animals were boring and normal to me for a while, but I find as time goes on I appreciate them more and more. So definitely keen to hear more about your Florida animals
Our Aussie exchange student fully believed the jackalope (rabbit with deer antlers) was real, but could not believe in bison. Until we took her to the bison overlook and showed her what, to us, are perfectly ordinary animals. The jackalope is understandable. I mean… the platypus. The echidna (which are freaking adorable!!!) and kangaroos. Cassowaries (good thing the war was on emus and not the Jurassic comebacks)
I'm surprised that this was even a major question. I never heard anyone ask this before let alone have I thought about it myself. I think, like you stated, that this misconception of the Ice Age as a "Snowball Earth" scenario comes from the very name itself and the countless pictures of frozen landscapes inhabited by woolly mammoths that accompany the presentation. Even today, during winter, you can simply travel toward the equator if you want to bask in the sun like the reptiles do. It's called VACATION. Crocodiles and alligators have essentially been on a 200 million year holiday.
another thing people don't actually know is the world in currently in a state of a mini ice age that's why we have ice at all it is naturally melting while humans are making it melt faster its not as if that's abnormal we will most likely undergo another iceage in the future [beyond our lifetime tho as 100 is nothing to earth]
@@admiralkaede To get technical, an "Ice age" is the longer term trend of glaciated poles. We are currently in the Quaternary Ice Age, although humans seem to be intent on ending that (bad idea as humans are quite well suited to an ice age planet). The individual periods of more/less ice are glacials/interglacials, we are currently in an interglacial period. There have been slight downturns in temperature, notably the "little ice age" up until about the 1800's, but things have gotten decisively warmer since then.
Florida's wildlife is amazing. I just moved here a few years ago and I love it. Looking forward to any museum tours you do here. I love natural history museums both large and small. Heck, maybe you can even do a tour of the Jurassic Park Discovery Center to let us see it through paleo eyes!
I would love to see a series on Florida Wildlife. There is so much that the Sunshine States has to offer. And maybe a Museum tour of the Florida Natural History Museum would be another good update for your museum series
Follow your passion my man. I’d definitely like to see more videos of Floridian animals. Your videos are fun to watch and very informative. My son and I watch them after he gets home from school. Keep up the great work!
As someone who’s lived in Florida their whole life, I would absolutely love it if you made videos going into depth about the wildlife in Florida from the past and present.
Just wanna say man, I stumbled across one of your videos on a UA-cam deep dive one night and I actually couldn't be happier ! Your way of explaining everything while also making it entertaining is brilliant! Can't wait to see what else you have for us ! :)
I have to say, I love the evolving avatar thing. I only found out about you because of your supercut, and going through your other videos, it feels endearing that your persona evolves with the continuation of the series.
As a Floridan I would love it if covered more of its animals and environmental history, Always felt I took all the lizards and birds for granted too so many animals other regions don't have in such abundance or at all!
Really great video! i always figured this was the reason reptiles in general survived, it's not like the ice age was snowball earth lol but it's nice to have a confirmation. Do a video on the daily life of animals going through the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs because i'm clueless about it. Like was it years and years of little to no sunlight from the ash or was it more like a butterfly effect and maybe a few key plants when extinct and it generated a whole cascade of extinctions. It's hard to believe there wasn't some sort of lizard like burrowing dinosaur occupying the same niches of the animals that did survive that could have made it... i just want somebody to paint me a picture of how drastic the events were that made most of the dinosaurs go extinct, maybe if wasn't drastic at all and it was simple just enough to pull them over the edge.
Well part of the problem was that by some calculations the atmosphere was heated up to roughly the same temperature as a pizza oven by the burning of debris re-entering the atmosphere. That triggered worldwide wildfires and in itself killed most of the larger animals. There were also tsunamis and earthquakes, as well as the worldwide wildfires destroying a lot of plant life. The animals that survived were generally small and unspecialized, meaning they needed less food and could eat more different things.
I love that youre getting the attention you deserve! I really enjoyed this video. Its funny when people say ice age they dont think of those animals who had to toughen up and survive through it. It's really awesome to hear you speak about this topic. Thank you for making an amazing video! I cant wait to see more.
Wow man, I was having a moment of nostalgia when you started discussing Florida in general. I’m fascinated by its ancient history. Brought a tear to my eye when you said you were from here and started mentioning the animals that I see everyday, love the biosphere here.
As a 35 year resident of The Bikini State😉, I would love to see videos on our wild life. The diversity is amazing. Especially when just going 10 or 20 miles in another direction, can put you in a very different environment, complete with different plants, animals, and even fungi. This state never ceases to amaze me.
I'd like to see a video on why the placental mammals outcompeted the marsupials in most places around world during the Cenozoic when in the Mesozoic the marsupials were the dominant mammals.
A video about Floridas wildlife would be much appreciated! From being the only place on earth where crocodiles and alligators naturally meet, having some of the largest migrations of sharks in the world, even some of the invasive species such as Rhesus Monkeys and Pythons.
I’m moving to Florida next year partly because my girlfriend and I just love the wildlife there. I’m big into reptile keeping and can’t wait to build an outdoor zoo of my own and have a glimpse into our history. I actually am going to be building a MASSIVE outdoor enclosure for a cuviers dwarf caiman when I move and can’t wait. It’s like owning a piece of natural living history. Crocodilians are the best!
@@kenneth9874 I would never release any, they’re my babies. And cage security is a top priority. They’re a massive investment time and money wise but are so worth it.
A video about forest-dwelling sabertooth cats would be super interesting. Most coverage of them focuses so much on the big ones roaming the mammoth steppes, it would be nice to see a bit of love for the ones who adapted to different, more unusual environments that we don't often think of as typically "ice age"
As a Floridian and an environmentalist I think it’s a great idea to show people how amazing this state’s biodiversity really is, both in the present and in the past. Also late Pleistocene- early Holocene Florida was a wild place. Maybe one day some forested areas will go back to the way it was, who knows. I have a petition regarding that but I’m not really having much luck in that reguards.
If you haven't done it already I would love to hear about the evolution of fruits. I know some trees developed thorns to protect their fruits but a deep dive into the evolution sounds interesting to me. So my official question would be, How did fruits evolve into what we see today?
Craziest bit is, there isn't really any good theory as to where flowering (and thus fruiting) plants, angiosperms, even came from. There's a few half decent theories out there (I have over time developed my own as a huge nerd for geology and botany lol) but none of the established ones are particularly satisfying. Starting from the earliest angiosperm groups around today, the basal angiosperms and magnoliids, and you already have pretty recognizable basic fruits. Most of the really crazy stuff popped up a bit later as angiosperms underwent a massive diversification, and I highly doubt you could really cover much of that due to the sheer variety of unique fruits and all the various evolutionary paths they took. Still might be fun to cover some of the leading theories of the origins of angiosperms and then a handful of interesting modern plants' evolution.
I moved away from Louisiana and then went back (and left again) but when I was back after leaving? WOW! I had taken so much for granted with the wildlife and nature. I grew up driving a boat, saying “hi” to alligators in the water, having snakes fall out of the tree on my head which probably should’ve scared me, and then I left and a lot of the wildlife could be surmised as “hey, squirrels! Oh wait, pigeons!” Everywhere has cool wildlife but I definitely relate to not realizing how many cool, ancient animals are around you until you leave lol
Although there appears to be some uncertainty as to the exact degree, from my analysis of papers about the"Last Glacial Maximum", the average temperature of the whole tropics is believed to have been between 2-6C below the 1750 (pre-industrial baseline). Whilst that alone at first glance seeems catastrophic it is no where near as catastrophic as the cooling which would have taken place at the sites of the Laurentide and Scandinavian ice sheets themselves where the cooling would have been in excess of 20C. The milder cooling in the tropics would have also taken place at a slow enough rate for life there to successfully adapt.
I'm looking forward to some more of the earth's history videos but I do have a question. I live in Ohio and we mainly find Mastadons, Glyptadons, and Ground Sloths, but as far as I know there's never been a dinosaur discovered here. Is that due to the Glaciers? I'm pretty sure we weren't covered by ocean the whole Mesozoic Era and you have a great record of explaining and answering questions which I really do appreciate. Glad to see you back by the way.
As someone who lives in this cursed state (which I'm still not convinced isn't actually a part of Hell that somehow collided with and got stuck in our universe), I'd love to hear more about the evolutionary history of our resident big toothy archosaurs Fun fact for all the non-Floridians, we sometimes capture them and use them as mounts to ride through the orange groves to the Publix to get our pub subs on our way to Disney World. They actually teach you how to do this in the seventh grade here 👀
I love absolutely true crazy facts about people from Florida! 😁 Is it true that by adulthood your feet become so tough you don't need shoes, even on concrete?
TLDW: Crocs adapted feathers during the ice ages which then molted off when climates changed to warmer ranges. This is with the exception of the east asian "woolly crocodile", which actually grew a thick coat of quills that created enough insulation to survive colder climates. You're welcome.
PLEASE do a Florida special! The fossils are so abundant along the Peace River, and the flora and fauna of today is just as exciting. I would love that. Thanks!
You know... now I wonder just how many fossils may lay beneath the ocean floor, if any, considering how much more land was available at a variety of times in the past. I know there's almost certainly no way of knowing. Just an interesting thought.
Yay Florida! I've grown to appreciate Florida's natural beauty more and more as I've grown older. Florida scrub is my favorite habitat. :) I bought heavily wooded property in Citrus county & will build a house there as soon as we're able. I'm very much looking forward to being surrounded by natural Florida. And of course, I'd love a series on Florida! So would my Canadian friend, who is obsessed with Florida! In fact I'm going to go make him come watch this video and comment here in support of it. :)
As one Florida dude to another, I’d love if you made more videos about our crazy state’s history. It’s a subject I should really know more about than I do.
I will support this channel no matter what man. You’re great as you are, just as long as you follow your passion and finish the History of the Earth Series :)
I'm a new viewer and I gotta say I love the idea of you changing the visualization of yourself in timing with a series of videos. keep up the good work, I look forward to some good uploads 👍
I would love to see a series on Florida wildlife. I had no idea black bears lived that far south, for one! We see them here in the southwest mountains all the time, but I never thought of them as suited to the climate of the southeast.
Fantastic channel. I just recently moved out of Florida and I'm already missing the squamates. I lived there for four years and I can easily say the best thing about the state is the wildlife.
I'm a South Florida native that ALSO took the beauty around me for granted - until I moved to Utah for 3 years. Granted, I lived in the most beautiful, almost magical part of Utah - but I guess that exposure to different climates and environs got me more aware about the environment down here. This video earned you a sub! Thank you for the great work!
Was at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller and the layout of the museum is the same starting with the begging of life to modern time. I love the globes they have showing what the contents and seas looked like back at the time period your in.
I subscribed to your channel because of yours "complete history of the earth series" with I'm loving. So man, please keep on making content. I will be very much enjoying your series about Paleoflorida, even though I live in Argentina. Wish you the best.
A series about your local wildlife is a great idea. As someone who has never been to Florida State, I am interested in differe t creatures, past and present.
Always excellent, I have subscribed since less than 1,000 subscriber count. I think it was around 300, and remember being surprised at the low count. Congratulations !
Northeast Central Floridian here who'd love more vids about the state in various periods. One I recommend is Florida flora and fauna when Vero man arrived and lived here.
i assumed that there must have been fossils in the iced areas dated to being from throughout the ice age for this to be a question, and i then myself wondered, “well, how did they, then?” didnt expect such a simple answer, it’s hilarious though, and you still turned the rest of the video into an interesting feed of info
To the point. Explains the prerequisites in an easy to digest way without going kn massive tangents then gets to the point and tells me the thing that made me click. (While also throwing a few other facts at me without changing the entire topic of the video) + 1 sub sir Good video
I love your videos. Please consider doing a super chill relax video with deep underwater fishies. Where its a lot of footage of underwater fishies and then you narrate over how dank the fishies are
I actually like that your avatar evolves as you make more videos, it's like watching a kid actor grow up on screen, except you're a bacteria that's growing
I assume the question was why did they survive and dinosaurs didn't not so much in relation to the recent ice age, though you did basically answer this. Great videos, don't be afraid to go into more detail, that's why this is great.
Catching up on some of your videos now that I've found the channel, and yes I'd love to see lots of Florida content! I wasn't born there but I lived there a long time and I miss the environment and wildlife (and weather!) so much. There is a lot of paleo history there that people don't know about, and I'd like to learn more of it myself.
I'm the same way I was born, raised and have lived most of my life this far (about 24 years) in Florida. I took Florida totally for granted because it was the only environment I'd ever known. I've lived in California for 6 months and the last two years in Wisconsin having gone back to visit family in Florida only about 3 times so far and whenever I do I always immensely enjoy what Florida has to offer. Don't get me wrong there's a lot I don't like about Florida as well (like being way too hot for most of the year) but ultimately I've come to love and appreciate it for what it is since I've moved away (such as its amazing biodiversity like you've pointed out)
As an Australian I’ve always wondered what happened in the past to give our marsupials such a big advantage over placental mammals. I have no idea if it deserves its own video but i would love for you to address the topic at some point! Also, why are marsupials and monotremes so terrible at competing with placental mammals just about everywhere else?
I gotta say, I hope this gets more up votes.
@William Pulsfus yes but didn’t some placental mammals get stuck on Australia as well? Why didn’t they compete with the marsupials. If there were never any placental mammals then why not? And why are there only two monotremes left?
Lack of competition from other types of mammals and separation of Australia from Asia made marsupials dominate. One of the reasons why S. America had some really distinct mammals is because it was separated from the other land masses for so long.
And by extension why did mammals shift from egg laying marsupials to live birth?
Theres an oceanic trench between islands north of your country. Even at the lowest shoreline so far in the age of mammals, there was still uhhh, a 30-60 miles wide channel. Far enough at least that a deer or something wouldnt see the other shore, plus, sharks. So its evolutionary isolation, much like madagascar who had fewer large predators so the monkey/small ape population took over. Yours was marsupeals, who made a nice synergy with the capybara who likes digging looooots of holes that other species move into.
As for plascental mammal invasions, well, I would be curious about that. Its probably something to do with the low energy consumption of the mother vs weaker offspring to begin with. But i am no expert.
Having grown up in Florida, myself, I know exactly what you mean about leaving and coming back. My first summer home after going to college overseas, I realized there were tropical lizards just hanging out on the outside of the living room window all the dang time, realized that the air was almost humid enough to chew on, just in general opened my eyes to how, regardless of what the official biome name is, I **basically** grew up in a tropical rainforest. I live in Alaska now, and I don't see myself ever moving back to Florida, but man, every time I visit it just hits me all over again what a special place it is for nature.
From Florida to Alaska -- talk about extremes!
@@amicaaranearumThe way I like to put it, I spent the first 30 years of my life never experiencing even a single winter, so now I've gotta make up for lost time.
I'm a Florida native that moved to Maine for a few years, I missed the green anoles and giant southern live oaks covered in resurrection fern and Spanish moss
My ant and uncle moved from FL to AK after 20 years theyre slowly moving back. Its tough when your life revolves around the seasons
I'm all for a paleo history of Florida, dude. It's a place that doesn't get a lot of mainstream attention. Even if I don't have a connection to the state (having lived in Colorado and now Montana for the majority of my life), I'd still love to hear about it, especially from someone passionate about the subject.
"It's a place that doesn't get a lot of mainstream attention."
Well, other than the everyday news segments of some bath-salts fiend doing some sort of Florida nonsense lol.
Jk jk. Us Californians and Floridians are kindred spirits.
@@grimblegromblethegnome I meant in terms of paleontology, obviously. Not the exploits of Florida Man.
Tbh as an American I like to think about Florida as little as possible
@@homosexualitymydearwatson4109 cue meme of bugs bunny sawing off florida into the Caribbean ha, yeeeeaaah... but Ron DeSantis is running for prez now...
I appreciate your love for our paleo history, as a native miamian
I'd love to see videos on Florida's wildlife, both on what's currently there and what used to live there at different times in history
Yes! Florida has lots of invasive species
"The Taxonomy of Florida Man"
@@KM-mt5gx Hey man, I'm sitting right here.
Ancient Florida man
Would be also curious to know how many times and how long each time Florida didn't even exist except as part of the floor of an ocean or maybe some small, scattered islands.
I've lived in Florida for over 46 years and would love to hear more about Floridian life during the pleistoceine. Our wildlife is awesome, and being so close to alligators and Sandhill cranes is amazing.
Imagine paleo Florida Man.
The cranes are literal dinosaurs
And then we have Australian wildlife.
@@LauderIX Nah man, the animals on there and wildlife are mad scary bruh.
Ancient Florida man
As an Aussie I know what you mean. As weird as they seem to foreigners, for a while Australian animals were boring and normal to me for a while, but I find as time goes on I appreciate them more and more. So definitely keen to hear more about your Florida animals
Our Aussie exchange student fully believed the jackalope (rabbit with deer antlers) was real, but could not believe in bison. Until we took her to the bison overlook and showed her what, to us, are perfectly ordinary animals.
The jackalope is understandable. I mean… the platypus. The echidna (which are freaking adorable!!!) and kangaroos. Cassowaries (good thing the war was on emus and not the Jurassic comebacks)
@@VanyaTheSlavic there’s a restaurant with several jackalopes, a variety of antlers… and a bigass bison head!
I'm surprised that this was even a major question. I never heard anyone ask this before let alone have I thought about it myself. I think, like you stated, that this misconception of the Ice Age as a "Snowball Earth" scenario comes from the very name itself and the countless pictures of frozen landscapes inhabited by woolly mammoths that accompany the presentation.
Even today, during winter, you can simply travel toward the equator if you want to bask in the sun like the reptiles do. It's called VACATION. Crocodiles and alligators have essentially been on a 200 million year holiday.
Not to mention, if everyting is frozen all the time, what is a gigantic land herbivore like a mammoth eating? 😉😉😁😁
It’s definitely a mix of Television and poor schooling that lead many people to think that the whole world was completely frozen over.
another thing people don't actually know is the world in currently in a state of a mini ice age that's why we have ice at all it is naturally melting while humans are making it melt faster its not as if that's abnormal we will most likely undergo another iceage in the future [beyond our lifetime tho as 100 is nothing to earth]
@@admiralkaede To get technical, an "Ice age" is the longer term trend of glaciated poles. We are currently in the Quaternary Ice Age, although humans seem to be intent on ending that (bad idea as humans are quite well suited to an ice age planet). The individual periods of more/less ice are glacials/interglacials, we are currently in an interglacial period. There have been slight downturns in temperature, notably the "little ice age" up until about the 1800's, but things have gotten decisively warmer since then.
@@admiralkaede hmmm... no all planets with life have to have that amount of ice we had that ice since the first creature walked on land
Florida's wildlife is amazing. I just moved here a few years ago and I love it. Looking forward to any museum tours you do here. I love natural history museums both large and small. Heck, maybe you can even do a tour of the Jurassic Park Discovery Center to let us see it through paleo eyes!
I'm Adam. I want my dino genome restored. Florida, you let Disney fall to the dark side. I'm love. I'm beyond light and dark so figure it out
Make sure you checkout gatorland
The fragile, exquisite natural Florida is being smothered under greed and short-sighted development.
I would love to see a series on Florida Wildlife. There is so much that the Sunshine States has to offer. And maybe a Museum tour of the Florida Natural History Museum would be another good update for your museum series
That thumbnail is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen! Thanks for making all of these educational videos.
Follow your passion my man. I’d definitely like to see more videos of Floridian animals. Your videos are fun to watch and very informative. My son and I watch them after he gets home from school. Keep up the great work!
Exactly what I was thinking.
_His passion_ is what I want to see!
As someone who’s lived in Florida their whole life, I would absolutely love it if you made videos going into depth about the wildlife in Florida from the past and present.
Just wanna say man, I stumbled across one of your videos on a UA-cam deep dive one night and I actually couldn't be happier ! Your way of explaining everything while also making it entertaining is brilliant! Can't wait to see what else you have for us ! :)
I have to say, I love the evolving avatar thing. I only found out about you because of your supercut, and going through your other videos, it feels endearing that your persona evolves with the continuation of the series.
As a Floridan I would love it if covered more of its animals and environmental history, Always felt I took all the lizards and birds for granted too so many animals other regions don't have in such abundance or at all!
I think I know why you reuploaded this videos. Was it cuz of your misspelling of Conclusion?
Really great video! i always figured this was the reason reptiles in general survived, it's not like the ice age was snowball earth lol but it's nice to have a confirmation. Do a video on the daily life of animals going through the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs because i'm clueless about it. Like was it years and years of little to no sunlight from the ash or was it more like a butterfly effect and maybe a few key plants when extinct and it generated a whole cascade of extinctions. It's hard to believe there wasn't some sort of lizard like burrowing dinosaur occupying the same niches of the animals that did survive that could have made it... i just want somebody to paint me a picture of how drastic the events were that made most of the dinosaurs go extinct, maybe if wasn't drastic at all and it was simple just enough to pull them over the edge.
Well part of the problem was that by some calculations the atmosphere was heated up to roughly the same temperature as a pizza oven by the burning of debris re-entering the atmosphere. That triggered worldwide wildfires and in itself killed most of the larger animals. There were also tsunamis and earthquakes, as well as the worldwide wildfires destroying a lot of plant life. The animals that survived were generally small and unspecialized, meaning they needed less food and could eat more different things.
I love that youre getting the attention you deserve! I really enjoyed this video. Its funny when people say ice age they dont think of those animals who had to toughen up and survive through it. It's really awesome to hear you speak about this topic. Thank you for making an amazing video! I cant wait to see more.
Wow man, I was having a moment of nostalgia when you started discussing Florida in general. I’m fascinated by its ancient history. Brought a tear to my eye when you said you were from here and started mentioning the animals that I see everyday, love the biosphere here.
As a 35 year resident of The Bikini State😉, I would love to see videos on our wild life.
The diversity is amazing. Especially when just going 10 or 20 miles in another direction, can put you in a very different environment, complete with different plants, animals, and even fungi.
This state never ceases to amaze me.
I'd like to see a video on why the placental mammals outcompeted the marsupials in most places around world during the Cenozoic when in the Mesozoic the marsupials were the dominant mammals.
Yeah id like to know about the whole placental versus marsupial versus monotreme competition
In the Mesozoic there weren't any marsupials but there were non marsupials metatherians
@@sqrt2295 But we haven't got their fossils also first marsupials evolved in the earliest paleocene.
You’re thinking of non-marsupial metatherians. Marsupials never had a worldwide dominance.
... I did indeed believe everything was covered on ice during the ice age, so thank you so much for clearing that up for me!
A video about Floridas wildlife would be much appreciated! From being the only place on earth where crocodiles and alligators naturally meet, having some of the largest migrations of sharks in the world, even some of the invasive species such as Rhesus Monkeys and Pythons.
Shout out to the Gopher tortoise. I have one that lives in my back yard. Named him Henry. Even pulled a tick off him once.
@@wadeere no way, I had one named Herman in my backyard! Nice of you to remove the tick for him
Yes, please make videos about Florida! The beauty of Florida--beyond its beaches--is severely underrated.
I’m moving to Florida next year partly because my girlfriend and I just love the wildlife there. I’m big into reptile keeping and can’t wait to build an outdoor zoo of my own and have a glimpse into our history. I actually am going to be building a MASSIVE outdoor enclosure for a cuviers dwarf caiman when I move and can’t wait. It’s like owning a piece of natural living history. Crocodilians are the best!
Just don't let anything escape or release any, there's too many invasive species already!
@@kenneth9874 I would never release any, they’re my babies. And cage security is a top
priority. They’re a massive investment time and money wise but are so worth it.
A video about forest-dwelling sabertooth cats would be super interesting. Most coverage of them focuses so much on the big ones roaming the mammoth steppes, it would be nice to see a bit of love for the ones who adapted to different, more unusual environments that we don't often think of as typically "ice age"
As a Floridian and an environmentalist I think it’s a great idea to show people how amazing this state’s biodiversity really is, both in the present and in the past. Also late Pleistocene- early Holocene Florida was a wild place. Maybe one day some forested areas will go back to the way it was, who knows. I have a petition regarding that but I’m not really having much luck in that reguards.
You are so passionate about paleontology that Im super excited to become a new subscriber of yours 😭❤️ can’t wait for more uploads!
If you haven't done it already I would love to hear about the evolution of fruits. I know some trees developed thorns to protect their fruits but a deep dive into the evolution sounds interesting to me. So my official question would be, How did fruits evolve into what we see today?
fruit?
Craziest bit is, there isn't really any good theory as to where flowering (and thus fruiting) plants, angiosperms, even came from. There's a few half decent theories out there (I have over time developed my own as a huge nerd for geology and botany lol) but none of the established ones are particularly satisfying. Starting from the earliest angiosperm groups around today, the basal angiosperms and magnoliids, and you already have pretty recognizable basic fruits. Most of the really crazy stuff popped up a bit later as angiosperms underwent a massive diversification, and I highly doubt you could really cover much of that due to the sheer variety of unique fruits and all the various evolutionary paths they took. Still might be fun to cover some of the leading theories of the origins of angiosperms and then a handful of interesting modern plants' evolution.
I searched for this video for months and never could find a proper answer and this video is like a god scent
I moved away from Louisiana and then went back (and left again) but when I was back after leaving? WOW! I had taken so much for granted with the wildlife and nature. I grew up driving a boat, saying “hi” to alligators in the water, having snakes fall out of the tree on my head which probably should’ve scared me, and then I left and a lot of the wildlife could be surmised as “hey, squirrels! Oh wait, pigeons!”
Everywhere has cool wildlife but I definitely relate to not realizing how many cool, ancient animals are around you until you leave lol
Although there appears to be some uncertainty as to the exact degree, from my analysis of papers about the"Last Glacial Maximum", the average temperature of the whole tropics is believed to have been between 2-6C below the 1750 (pre-industrial baseline). Whilst that alone at first glance seeems catastrophic it is no where near as catastrophic as the cooling which would have taken place at the sites of the Laurentide and Scandinavian ice sheets themselves where the cooling would have been in excess of 20C. The milder cooling in the tropics would have also taken place at a slow enough rate for life there to successfully adapt.
As a floridan i would absolutely love to see the history of Floridas fauna. I hope you release a video on the subject soon!
I'm looking forward to some more of the earth's history videos but I do have a question. I live in Ohio and we mainly find Mastadons, Glyptadons, and Ground Sloths, but as far as I know there's never been a dinosaur discovered here. Is that due to the Glaciers? I'm pretty sure we weren't covered by ocean the whole Mesozoic Era and you have a great record of explaining and answering questions which I really do appreciate. Glad to see you back by the way.
As a native Floridian who has recently started to appreciate the bounty of Florida’s wildlife, I would love to see this!!
Coelacanth vs. Dunkleosteus video please
As always, your videos are informative and entertaining. Thank you for taking the time and energy to make it.
As someone who lives in this cursed state (which I'm still not convinced isn't actually a part of Hell that somehow collided with and got stuck in our universe), I'd love to hear more about the evolutionary history of our resident big toothy archosaurs
Fun fact for all the non-Floridians, we sometimes capture them and use them as mounts to ride through the orange groves to the Publix to get our pub subs on our way to Disney World. They actually teach you how to do this in the seventh grade here 👀
I love absolutely true crazy facts about people from Florida! 😁
Is it true that by adulthood your feet become so tough you don't need shoes, even on concrete?
That happens way before adulthood
As a fellow Floridian, I can confirm this to be true
@@apexnext Yes. I can confirm this (about being able to walk on concrete without shoes).
@@mikest8758 And yes, I can confirm this too. In my experience, Native Floridians are able to walk on HOT concrete by the age of 7 or so. Lol
Since I got to the end, man make whatever you want all the ideas you mentioned about potential videos seem really interesting! love the content
Did you ask why I’m a man? why should I question your fishdom? you are a handsome fish!
Can’t believe I found this channel. I love paleontology this channel is an awesome gem.
TLDW: Crocs adapted feathers during the ice ages which then molted off when climates changed to warmer ranges.
This is with the exception of the east asian "woolly crocodile", which actually grew a thick coat of quills that created enough insulation to survive colder climates.
You're welcome.
You are joking?
@@ollejohansson6572 no it's true
@@ollejohansson6572 it's a joke
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PLEASE do a Florida special! The fossils are so abundant along the Peace River, and the flora and fauna of today is just as exciting. I would love that. Thanks!
Earlier than sharks on earth.
@PaleoAnalysis You're very good at what you do. Please keep working hard making these amazing videos, thanks for all you do!
You know... now I wonder just how many fossils may lay beneath the ocean floor, if any, considering how much more land was available at a variety of times in the past.
I know there's almost certainly no way of knowing. Just an interesting thought.
Greater Zealandia, the missing 8th Continent just under the water surface
As a born and raised Floridian, I would love to learn more about past and present native wildlife!
Also from Florida! Would absolutely love a series on the life around here. The wildlife in Florida is truly unique.
As a Floridian too I would love the videos about our current and past wildlife.
Yay Florida! I've grown to appreciate Florida's natural beauty more and more as I've grown older. Florida scrub is my favorite habitat. :) I bought heavily wooded property in Citrus county & will build a house there as soon as we're able. I'm very much looking forward to being surrounded by natural Florida. And of course, I'd love a series on Florida! So would my Canadian friend, who is obsessed with Florida! In fact I'm going to go make him come watch this video and comment here in support of it. :)
As one Florida dude to another, I’d love if you made more videos about our crazy state’s history. It’s a subject I should really know more about than I do.
I will support this channel no matter what man. You’re great as you are, just as long as you follow your passion and finish the History of the Earth Series :)
You have a great knack for plain speaking science facts. I’m Really impressed. Thank you !
This channel is blowing up! Congrats dude. Great content.
I’m okay with learning more about how Fla used to be, go for it man!
As a native Floridian I know there's so much about the state I'm educated on and so much more I don't know about. Please do more!
Another great and informative addition to your video library of paleontological knowledge. Thank you!
Just moved to Florida after over 40 years in MN. I love the wildlife. Gators fascinate me. Such a survivor!
I'm a new viewer and I gotta say I love the idea of you changing the visualization of yourself in timing with a series of videos. keep up the good work, I look forward to some good uploads 👍
Finding a new good channel is rare, I cherish these moments.
I would absolutely love a series on the history of the animals in Florida! Yes please!
I would love to see a series on Florida wildlife. I had no idea black bears lived that far south, for one! We see them here in the southwest mountains all the time, but I never thought of them as suited to the climate of the southeast.
Would love to see the passion projects bro, keep up the great vids!!
The concept that you have with this channel is absolutely genius. Can’t wait for the next installment of the history of the earth.
Here is a guy from NYC hoping for a series on wildlife in Florida. Thank you for the great content.
my man your channel is the most interesting new channel ive come across in a long time.
I love that the avatar carries over to your other content, not just your flagship series.
Fantastic channel. I just recently moved out of Florida and I'm already missing the squamates. I lived there for four years and I can easily say the best thing about the state is the wildlife.
The natural history of Floridia sounds like it would make a great topic.
I would love to see a series on pleistocene Florida
I'm a South Florida native that ALSO took the beauty around me for granted - until I moved to Utah for 3 years. Granted, I lived in the most beautiful, almost magical part of Utah - but I guess that exposure to different climates and environs got me more aware about the environment down here. This video earned you a sub! Thank you for the great work!
Was at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller and the layout of the museum is the same starting with the begging of life to modern time. I love the globes they have showing what the contents and seas looked like back at the time period your in.
Give me a hurrah when Paleo Analysis uploads!
Thank you so much for your Anylsis and critiques. I'd love to hear more about Florida. Your commentary was interesting and insightful.
From a fellow Floridian, PLEASE do a series on the living and extinct species.
I subscribed to your channel because of yours "complete history of the earth series" with I'm loving. So man, please keep on making content. I will be very much enjoying your series about Paleoflorida, even though I live in Argentina.
Wish you the best.
Great video, very informative. Don't let off the gas, youtube is recommending your videos to everyone right now! Time to blow up!!
A series about your local wildlife is a great idea. As someone who has never been to Florida State, I am interested in differe t creatures, past and present.
Always excellent, I have subscribed since less than 1,000 subscriber count. I think it was around 300, and remember being surprised at the low count. Congratulations !
Yes please do a video on the Pleistocene Era of Florida. I grew up there myself (I'm now living abroad) so I know how you feel. Good video Man.
I've had this question for many years. Great video, and great channel too! Greetings from Tepic, México. 👍
Northeast Central Floridian here who'd love more vids about the state in various periods. One I recommend is Florida flora and fauna when Vero man arrived and lived here.
i hope this channel blows up more , good shit
i assumed that there must have been fossils in the iced areas dated to being from throughout the ice age for this to be a question, and i then myself wondered, “well, how did they, then?”
didnt expect such a simple answer, it’s hilarious though, and you still turned the rest of the video into an interesting feed of info
I would LOVE to see a video about Floridian ecosystems and stuff. Nature and Biology are my jam and I enjoy your content so much.
As someone who lives in Florida I definitely would love to see a video all of the present and prehistoric wildlife of the state
To the point. Explains the prerequisites in an easy to digest way without going kn massive tangents then gets to the point and tells me the thing that made me click. (While also throwing a few other facts at me without changing the entire topic of the video)
+ 1 sub sir
Good video
Please make a Florida fauna series. It sounds like an excellently untapped idea and as an animal nerd of Florida I must vote for this
You had less than 2k subs this April? Holy shit congratulations man on hitting 100k that's huge.
Congratulations on the growth of your channel. You deserve it.
Born and raised Floridian of 36yrs here!
Yea please on the wildlife of Florida videos!! Also, would love to see you do a workshop around here one day!
I love your videos. Please consider doing a super chill relax video with deep underwater fishies. Where its a lot of footage of underwater fishies and then you narrate over how dank the fishies are
Would love to see more on Florida’s ancient biology and geography!
Love to learn more about Florida as a fellow Floridian
I actually like that your avatar evolves as you make more videos, it's like watching a kid actor grow up on screen, except you're a bacteria that's growing
"How Did Crocodiles Survive the Ice Age?"
They're damn Crocodiles, that's how lol
I assume the question was why did they survive and dinosaurs didn't not so much in relation to the recent ice age, though you did basically answer this. Great videos, don't be afraid to go into more detail, that's why this is great.
Wow, this channel really blew up! Congrats, man.
Catching up on some of your videos now that I've found the channel, and yes I'd love to see lots of Florida content! I wasn't born there but I lived there a long time and I miss the environment and wildlife (and weather!) so much. There is a lot of paleo history there that people don't know about, and I'd like to learn more of it myself.
I'm the same way I was born, raised and have lived most of my life this far (about 24 years) in Florida. I took Florida totally for granted because it was the only environment I'd ever known. I've lived in California for 6 months and the last two years in Wisconsin having gone back to visit family in Florida only about 3 times so far and whenever I do I always immensely enjoy what Florida has to offer. Don't get me wrong there's a lot I don't like about Florida as well (like being way too hot for most of the year) but ultimately I've come to love and appreciate it for what it is since I've moved away (such as its amazing biodiversity like you've pointed out)