When Apes Conquered Europe

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    Today, our closest evolutionary relatives, the apes, live only in small pockets of Africa and Asia. But back in the Miocene epoch, apes occupied all of Europe. Why aren’t there wild apes in Europe today?
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  • @zddxddyddw
    @zddxddyddw 6 років тому +1060

    I'd like to see an episode on the evolution of grass and how the world looked like before it existed. It's hard to imagine: a world without grass.

    • @garybutler1672
      @garybutler1672 6 років тому +94

      Excellent idea. It showed up not long ago geologically and changed the face of the earth. So much of today's life has evolved to take advantage of grass. It's also one of the staple crops that allowed agriculture to begin. 32 of the 56 species of nutritionally viable grasses evolved in Europe, that really effected history.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 6 років тому +36

      @Ambrose Burnside Pretty sure most if not all lawn grasses are European Middle Eastern or African in origin as Lawns are formed from spreading grasses and Europeans believed North American grasses were inferior and cattle didn't take well to them. Most names come from where the cultivar was first developed such as Bermuda Grass and Kentucky Blue Grass which are based off crosses of European and Middle Eastern grasses.
      Lawns also only date back to the medieval period so there isn't much of a history as it is one of those newer than it seems that only really became possible with continuous influence of servants and later toxic and environmentally destructive chemicals. Lawns are native to nowhere and are purely a product of human selection by rich nobles that wanted to show superiority over nature and nowadays are the worlds most cultivated crop despite providing no ecological or productive value whatsoever.
      Wild grasslands are instead a diverse mixing of many species of herbaceous plants most of which we have labeled as "weeds" because they are of course far better suited to the environment than our nonnative lawns that are helpless without constant human intervention.

    • @darthdrake3095
      @darthdrake3095 6 років тому +6

      Just go to the beach

    • @PallahDaOracle
      @PallahDaOracle 5 років тому +3

      @@Dragrath1 thank you. Will you be my grass husband?

    • @johncurtis118
      @johncurtis118 5 років тому +1

      Ill tell you. Rock. Not that hard.

  • @nromk
    @nromk 5 років тому +104

    There are no wild living apes in Europe
    Homo sapiens:am I joke to you

    • @bosniencommie1202
      @bosniencommie1202 4 роки тому +6

      We are superior

    • @nijinoshita3301
      @nijinoshita3301 4 роки тому +6

      thats what I wanted to comment lol yep

    • @antoniong1449
      @antoniong1449 3 роки тому +3

      Underrated comment XDDD

    • @rexyjp1237
      @rexyjp1237 3 роки тому +1

      @@bosniencommie1202 nah
      We are the dumbest creature ever

    • @brq267
      @brq267 3 роки тому +9

      Well if you count us as "wild"

  • @dogjumpsthroughahoop
    @dogjumpsthroughahoop 6 років тому +416

    PBS Eons is the best I hope they continue making videos at a good rate.

    • @Krokoklemmee
      @Krokoklemmee 6 років тому +2

      inb4 PBS Space Time

    • @TaterKakez
      @TaterKakez 4 роки тому +2

      Hopefully they won’t go extinct anytime soon
      I had too

  • @ActualLiteralKyle
    @ActualLiteralKyle 6 років тому +246

    What I want to know is the Origin of Steve and his appearance on Planet Eon

    • @ActualLiteralKyle
      @ActualLiteralKyle 6 років тому +15

      Origin of Steve-Cies?
      Sorry I had to.

    • @guyh.4553
      @guyh.4553 4 роки тому +6

      😂😅😆😁😁😆😅😂

  • @turmunhkganba1705
    @turmunhkganba1705 6 років тому +1742

    Would you cover the evolution of blood and or hearts or other organs Please

    • @magnuspeacock5857
      @magnuspeacock5857 6 років тому +26

      Yes please

    • @dust001
      @dust001 6 років тому +78

      They left a heart to your comment!! they are probably gonna talk about it👍

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 6 років тому +30

      I have no idea how they could cover this topic on a vulgarization channel. It's really not as cool as you all seem to think it is, given that we obviously have very few examples of fossilized blood and other internal organs (except brains probably).
      It's already hard to have strong opinions about things when we have a lot of skeletons to begin with, what makes you think that the evolution of blood would be interesting? It would mostly be speculative stuff based on how certain proteins look and what does arthropod blood look like.
      We do have some examples of fossilized blood (including from dinosaurs) but there's a reason why it's not a very popular topic: all there's to say about them is only interesting for specialists.
      Anyway, this is a better topic for a biology channel, not a paleontology one.

    • @WetWillie67
      @WetWillie67 6 років тому +19

      You've been asking this for so long, I hope they do it.

    • @FiftyOneCatalin
      @FiftyOneCatalin 6 років тому +9

      Of eyes.

  • @Verisky1
    @Verisky1 6 років тому +104

    Hey can you guys do "The Bone Wars". It wasnt exactly a story about natural history, but it was one of the biggest milestone of our natural history's history. So many fossils were discovered, but many were destroyed too.

  • @juniperlychen9448
    @juniperlychen9448 6 років тому +54

    I'm still eager to watch a video on the history of the placenta, as well as more on land animals that thrived in the Permian, right before the first dinosaurs. Learning about Brachiopod evolution would be cool too. :)

  • @THESAMMANCAN
    @THESAMMANCAN 6 років тому +73

    I have an idea for your next video. When did plants evolve to bear fruit? Is it possible these early apes only ate leaves because fruit didn't exist yet? I have no knowledge on this and would love to find out find out from you guys.

    • @eons
      @eons  6 років тому +36

      oo that's a good one! (bdep)

    • @mosquitobight
      @mosquitobight 6 років тому +15

      I'm no paleontologist, but my guess is fruit evolved from a covering of thick fleshy leaves grown together at the edges, originally to protect the seeds from animal bites. At first they would protect seeds by being thick and hard, and then by poison. Later, some fruits would lose the poison and evolve sweetness to reward some animals for spreading the seeds, in cases where seeds could survive the animal's digestion. Notice how some fruits are safe for some animals and poison for others, which suggests animals and their favorite fruits evolved together.

    • @paleozoey
      @paleozoey 6 років тому +19

      Photo- Scribble fruit fossils exist from the late cretaceous at the very least; considering that plus the diversity of fruits today, there were definitely plenty then. at least in the tropics/not europe, that is

    • @tiyas5378
      @tiyas5378 6 років тому +12

      Fruits have been around since the Cretaceous. Some 120 million years.

    • @yes.2913
      @yes.2913 4 роки тому

      @@mosquitobight what do you mean “Rewarding”? Do you mean they had a brain and they were conscious things who could make decisions?

  • @Ipanophis
    @Ipanophis 6 років тому +326

    I want to hear about the Neanderthal musical instruments. I.e. The bone flutes.

    • @Ipanophis
      @Ipanophis 6 років тому +15

      @Juan Cespedes Well that both enriched my knowledge and crushed my spirit. lol. Thanks for the info though.

    • @2008-wii-remote
      @2008-wii-remote 6 років тому +9

      SDD525 no? We interbred and our group had more people so we ended up overpowering them.

    • @Ipanophis
      @Ipanophis 6 років тому +18

      @@2008-wii-remote I think it's more that we have much lower metabolic rates, much better immune systems (because we are more social), much broader diets, and being endurance predators is many time less dangerous than ambush hunting like they did.

    • @2008-wii-remote
      @2008-wii-remote 6 років тому

      Tim Wolford II huh, okay, thanks!

    • @ZOOMPZ00mp
      @ZOOMPZ00mp 5 років тому +5

      Skin flutes

  • @samrizzardi2213
    @samrizzardi2213 6 років тому +269

    Please do one on the evolution of hyenas. It would complement the canid evolution videos you've already done quite nicely, by showing how convergent evolution works.

    • @Gibbons3457
      @Gibbons3457 6 років тому +32

      It would be interesting to do, especially with hyenas being more closely related to cats than dogs, could make a good way of explaining that.

    • @raminsadeghi7358
      @raminsadeghi7358 6 років тому +4

      This is my request too.

    • @ScareBear1982
      @ScareBear1982 4 роки тому +5

      This is a great idea, I second!

    • @AramatiPaz
      @AramatiPaz 3 роки тому +3

      People say that Foxes are software of cat in a hardware of dog.
      I think hyenas are software of dogs in a hardware of cat.
      kkkkkk

  • @TheGodlessGuitarist
    @TheGodlessGuitarist 5 років тому +7

    Love the image at 1:18
    Beautifully shows the relationships between ape species

  • @rolandfelice6198
    @rolandfelice6198 6 років тому +13

    Loved this video. It illustrates the nonlinear nature of evolution. And greatly expands our family tree. What fun!

    • @brendarua01
      @brendarua01 6 років тому +5

      our bit appears tree-like. But maybe the big picture is a non-linear bush?

  • @justcallmeSheriff
    @justcallmeSheriff 6 років тому +42

    Crocodylomorphs! They were super diverse and widespread all throughout the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. They filled a variety of niches as grazers, fast running predators, and possibly even filter feeders.
    And fully terrestrial and marine species died out only very recently, so early humans likely had to deal with them as a natural hazard of life! I would not be surprised if a lot of myths about dragons and sea monsters are based on these very real creatures who we shared the world with.

    • @lilitheden748
      @lilitheden748 6 років тому +1

      Sword of Tauberg an excellent choice. Those beasts are magnificent and very diverse indeed. There was even one that walked on his hind legs...

    • @ilovecheez7769
      @ilovecheez7769 6 років тому +1

      As in creatures related to crocodiles and alligators? I'm not quite sure. If so, that could be an interesting topic for a video.

    • @justcallmeSheriff
      @justcallmeSheriff 6 років тому +3

      @@ilovecheez7769 they are one of the three big groups of archosaurs, which also included the dinosaurs and pterosaurs. They survived The Great Dying, diversified alongside the other archosaurs, and some survived the Cretaceous extinction alongside the flying dinosaurs.
      They diversified again into many terrestrial and aquatic forms, including marine species. Today we have just a tiny fraction of what was around just 10,009 years ago.

  • @markbilger2851
    @markbilger2851 6 років тому +7

    A new episode of Eons is probably the best birthday present I could ask for!

  • @TheDinosaurus99
    @TheDinosaurus99 6 років тому +131

    Next episode: Evolutionary history of pinnipeds please

  • @canibaloxide
    @canibaloxide 6 років тому +51

    4:45 motorhead voice "The apes of Spain!"

  • @mrvilla310
    @mrvilla310 6 років тому +9

    I low key get excited every time I see a new eons video in my feed

  • @azdgariarada
    @azdgariarada 6 років тому +306

    "What do you want to learn about?"
    I want to date a paleontologist. Wait... no, that's not right. I want to learn about dating methodologies for various paleontological discoveries. How are we able to tell that this ape lived 16 mya, and the other ape was 12 mya? Is there always a "plus or minus 500,000 years" included? I think an entire video explaining the in-depth fundamentals of dating methodology would be fascinating. How do we know what we know?

    • @azdgariarada
      @azdgariarada 6 років тому +27

      Oooh thanks!
      I had previously searched their back catalogue, but because their titles are so obfuscated I had a hard time finding any that discussed this topic. That raptorex video really should have been called something like "how to date a raptor". Eons is great, but they need to fire whoever titles the videos.
      In case anybody else is interested in the dating methodology subject... ua-cam.com/video/LZiHLKAymdM/v-deo.html

    • @halosawz
      @halosawz 6 років тому +5

      @@azdgariarada Google Carbon dating

    • @AlexAzureOtaku
      @AlexAzureOtaku 6 років тому +14

      i want to date a paleontologist.

    • @MrIsaiahdix
      @MrIsaiahdix 6 років тому +3

      Great suggestion

    • @RileyRampant
      @RileyRampant 6 років тому +12

      radiocarbon dating gets out to 75K max. to date older fossils, radioisotopes of potassium & uranium are used. sediments surrounding the fossils are correlated with other corresponding layers of igneous deposits containing the required radio-isotopes. science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/dinosaur-bone-age1.htm

  • @naturegirl1999
    @naturegirl1999 6 років тому +81

    Can you do a video about the evolution of crustaceans?

    • @AjrAlves
      @AjrAlves 6 років тому +1

      They already talked about ancient arthropoda in various videos, the crustacean-like animals are probably the oldest arthropoda...

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 6 років тому +2

      Its interesting how diverse the whole group is there is also evidence particularly genetic that insects actually are a suborder within Crustacea having "recently" split off from fairy shrimp somewhere between the Ordovician to early Devonian time frame probably the Silurian around 400 million years ago
      Arthropods go back ways back "suddenly appearing in the fossil record as a diverse assemblage indicating they go back even further in time.

    • @syafiqjabar
      @syafiqjabar 4 роки тому

      Anyone else think crustaceans are so widespread today because the Permian extinction killed off the trilobites?

    • @search895
      @search895 3 роки тому

      First appeared as a core, a hard core, then evolved into crust, crust core, or crust punk, sharing some convergent evolution with grind core, which unlike the Earth or Death metal is not metal at its core, but a hard core of punk actually.

  • @thoperSought
    @thoperSought 6 років тому +63

    1:48
    is Dryopithecus just an Oreopithecus that ran out of milk?

  • @Deucces
    @Deucces 5 років тому +3

    Eons: why are there no wild apes in Europe?
    My brain immediately: humans?

  • @JosephOR
    @JosephOR 6 років тому +20

    One of the few channels I click the bell for. Very consistent AND high quality, keep it up steve!

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate 6 років тому +110

    Amazing 😉
    Can u do a video on the early spiders?

  • @rasmusn.e.m1064
    @rasmusn.e.m1064 6 років тому +15

    Thanks a lot for this video! Very interesting to see apes apart from humans in Europe!
    The transition from sub-tropical forest to deciduous forest mentioned in the video made we want to ask this question:
    Is it possible that you could do a video on the evolution of trees?

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 6 років тому +1

      Which type of trees? Plants seem to have independently converged towards what we recognize as trees quite a few times from the Giant Horsetails, and Scale Trees, progymnosperms(ancestors of gymnosperms) of the Paleozoic to the later "seed ferns" from which Angiosperms would emerge from to convergent achieve treelike structures multiple times even among the woody plants we think of as hardwood, if that wasn't enough even Ferns got in on the action in the southern hemisphere as has giant Bamboo in eastern Asia. So really there is no one group of trees given the plants we call trees emerged from very different branches of the Plant kingdom/family. It is just a really really popular form for convergent evolution....

    • @rasmusn.e.m1064
      @rasmusn.e.m1064 6 років тому

      @@Dragrath1 Is this a question or a replacement for a video that mightn't come? xD Jk, thanks for the info that I wasn't aware of. I really just think that plants are very underrated in popular paleontology and want to maybe learn a bit about how they came to be the way they are today, and I thought perhaps I should ask broadly if they would cover trees before specifically ditto.

  • @wonderman7166
    @wonderman7166 6 років тому +59

    PLEASE PLEASE do "The evolution of Bears and how they ended up in different places around the world" 😊😊🐻🐼🐨

    • @SkySilverFire
      @SkySilverFire 6 років тому +1

      Yessss!!!

    • @COVID-19_Crab
      @COVID-19_Crab 5 років тому +7

      Btw koala bears are actually more closely related to wombats and to the infamous Thylacoleo

  • @ReforixGaming
    @ReforixGaming 6 років тому +7

    This channel justs gets better and better

  • @John77Doe
    @John77Doe 6 років тому +38

    Apes pre-date the Himalayan Mountain range?? 😮😮😮😮😮😮

    • @baderminahdin9450
      @baderminahdin9450 5 років тому +8

      deep time is fascinating 😥

    • @iordanneDiogeneslucas
      @iordanneDiogeneslucas 4 роки тому +13

      the himalayas are so big because they are young, not enough time for nature to weather them back down

    • @gapetheapegod7976
      @gapetheapegod7976 4 роки тому +3

      @@iordanneDiogeneslucas aren't they still growing too?

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 14 днів тому

      @@iordanneDiogeneslucas
      The Rockies are rather young too, only forming between 55 and 80 million years ago.

  • @shark180
    @shark180 6 років тому +9

    Steve is the kind of guy who does most of the work but then allows himself to be credited last. Keep it up Steve!

  • @graphite2786
    @graphite2786 6 років тому +676

    Oreopithecus wasn't as tasty as Timtamopithecus. Just sayin'.

  • @kiranroye6498
    @kiranroye6498 6 років тому +14

    May you please do the evolution of terrestrial arthropods or, if possible, the differences between juvenile dinosaurs and adult dinosaurs. Thanks for the awesome videos!

  • @mailio4536
    @mailio4536 6 років тому +169

    Will you cover the history of jellyfish at some point? think that'd be a really interesting topic

    • @francescadibologna4143
      @francescadibologna4143 6 років тому +7

      i'm fascinated in all those surreal and alien-seeming soft-bodied sea creatures. i'd love to see something that covered the evolutionary trajectory from the jellyworld of the proterozoic, when almost everything was soft-bodied, to the spectra of soft-bodied sea creatures we have now; jellyfish, octopus, squid, and creatures like the cuttlefsih that are kind of inbetweeners between softbodied and crustacean.
      so a long way around of saying +1. i would def like to se this one too.

    • @francescadibologna4143
      @francescadibologna4143 6 років тому +4

      ps. @mailios if you haven't seen these already they are along similar lines to your jellyfish proposal, so may well be of interest to you. all superb eons naturally.
      How the Squid Lost Its Shell
      ua-cam.com/video/S4vxoP-IF2M/v-deo.html
      The Other Explosion You Should Know About (aka Proterozoic).
      ua-cam.com/video/Jpi2VJj5PhY/v-deo.html

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 6 років тому +2

      There is really cool stuff about Cnidarians which molecular genetic and developmental studies have found to be far more complex than anticipated with differentiated tissues analogous to those in Bilaterians which likely shared a nerve net bilateral symmetry stuff related to cell differentiation I don't quite understand and genetic stuff.

    • @francescadibologna4143
      @francescadibologna4143 6 років тому +1

      @Mac Mcskullface agreed re scarcity, but as this site (random example) shows
      www.fossilmuseum.net/Paleobiology/Precambrian-Fossils.htm
      proterozoic eon (precambrian) 'fossils' (be they physical, indexes or chemical signatures) are increasingly being identified as our understanding (of what exactly we are supposed to be looking for and where) and tech (to be able to detect ever subtler traces) advance.
      another area i'm fascinated by are those lost branches of life that existed simultaneously with LUCA for a while, a long while, until LUCA eventually out-evolved and superceded them. many wiped out by the great oxygenation event (anoxic life forms).
      jurassic gets the mainstream ateention and the clicks re web media, but the proterozoic is what gets me buzzing. along with everything else. the history of earth is a pretty big subject. hence my abiding affection for these eons vids.

    • @petarzhotev7512
      @petarzhotev7512 5 років тому +1

      They don't fossilise. Sad.

  • @indraneilpaul1309
    @indraneilpaul1309 6 років тому +67

    Please make a video on Elephant evolution including some giant recent discoveries like the Asian Straight-Tusked Elephant!

  • @hollyodii5969
    @hollyodii5969 6 років тому +10

    I just LOVE every single Eons episode! I just wish they were 2 hours long at least!

  • @celtgunn9775
    @celtgunn9775 6 років тому +6

    I love watching EONS, Thanks guys. I'd love to learn more about Horses!

  • @aaronmarks9366
    @aaronmarks9366 6 років тому +3

    I love this channel! I'd love to see a video on the evolution of elephants and manatees/dugongs. They're each other's closest relatives, but they're so different from each other. The history of their ancestors and common origin would be a fascinating video.

  • @GhazMazMSM
    @GhazMazMSM 6 років тому +57

    Do when dogs and cats were one

    • @vippsmillennial6336
      @vippsmillennial6336 6 років тому +1

      There was an old Tv series named 'The Velvet Claw' where they show it in cartoon-animation. And that show had a super-cool opening score!!

    • @istvansipos9940
      @istvansipos9940 6 років тому +6

      @Internet User it was a cog. or a dat. a cag. or a dot

    • @amogusinsuster9560
      @amogusinsuster9560 5 років тому

      So good boys expect they Actually have hunting skills

    • @user-qo6bn7jp4q
      @user-qo6bn7jp4q 5 років тому

      You mean Miacids?

    • @RobVollat
      @RobVollat 5 років тому

      That was the late 90s. CATDOG!
      (Plays intro music)

  • @hi.imalayna
    @hi.imalayna 6 років тому +7

    We appreciate your videos so much! Great channel!

  • @tomatosaurusrex832
    @tomatosaurusrex832 6 років тому +3

    This is great. I love how you keep cranking videos out. Always interesting to watch. I can't wait to see what's next

  • @AliceInChains.
    @AliceInChains. 6 років тому +6

    This is the content I signed up for ❤ I freakin love PBS Eons!

  • @amiereid3773
    @amiereid3773 6 років тому +11

    Loving this channel! Great host.

  • @andrewmazza5184
    @andrewmazza5184 6 років тому +33

    Evolutionary history of bears.

  • @Radi0ActivSquid
    @Radi0ActivSquid 6 років тому +82

    Evolution of carnivorous plants

  • @andrewstrongman305
    @andrewstrongman305 6 років тому +3

    I love your channel as one of the few top-shelf efforts available. Please keep going, and growing.

  • @AjrAlves
    @AjrAlves 6 років тому +97

    I swear I understood "Wi-Fi molars"...

    • @eons
      @eons  6 років тому +39

      Yeah but wouldn't that be awesome! Full bars everywhere you go! (BdeP)

    • @mammy188
      @mammy188 6 років тому +1

      Same here!

    • @josephb1404
      @josephb1404 6 років тому +7

      Built-in Bluetooth

  • @TheloniousBosch
    @TheloniousBosch 6 років тому +3

    Blake videos are awesome. I’d love
    to see a video on the history of canines, where they got their start, how they radiates across the globe, and how all the extant species are related.

  • @gamermthegreat8229
    @gamermthegreat8229 6 років тому +101

    How do i become a paleontologist? (Classes and stuff like that)

    • @bryndel
      @bryndel 6 років тому +27

      University

    • @gamermthegreat8229
      @gamermthegreat8229 6 років тому +8

      @@bryndel well da

    • @nw932
      @nw932 6 років тому +17

      @@gamermthegreat8229 Look up colleges/universities with good or well renowned paleo programs and start applying.

    • @Thumbsupurbum
      @Thumbsupurbum 6 років тому +22

      Study, study, study. I hope you like reading really dry science books.

    • @gamermthegreat8229
      @gamermthegreat8229 6 років тому +3

      @@nw932 im in high school and in Indiana there's not really schools for paleontology ariund here.

  • @doctor_meme9881
    @doctor_meme9881 Рік тому +3

    Those apes still inhabit Italy , we Italians call them "calabresi"

  • @thatguy04444
    @thatguy04444 6 років тому +7

    Love this channel! I'd like to see an episode on organisms that inhabit the deep earth and permafrost and other places that were once considered lifeless. When did they evolve? What do they tell us about the evolution of primitive life? And since they live so long, do they act as a repository of ancient genes that get traded with more active organisms? Thanks!

  • @Vininn126
    @Vininn126 6 років тому +6

    This music makes me feel like I'm watching a 1950's education video. "Isn't that right, billy?" Not complaining, more just... noticing

  • @Neenerella333
    @Neenerella333 5 років тому +6

    Suggested topic: I used to think that New Zealand was once attached to Australia. But having visited both New Zealand and the south west coast of South America, I noticed that the plants and climate of these two places were far more similar. Thoughts?

    • @f.g.9466
      @f.g.9466 Рік тому +2

      Antarctica was connected to Australia and New Zealand as wells as what's now the South of South America, when it was all the supercontinent Gondwana.

  • @justinagoodine5370
    @justinagoodine5370 6 років тому +3

    This is my favorite Channel, thank you

  • @RK-uw1xr
    @RK-uw1xr 6 років тому +33

    Plz do austrailias megafauna e.g marsupial lion and aboriginal interactions.
    Or the giant eagles of new Zealand 😁

    • @dankaroterdoo6912
      @dankaroterdoo6912 4 роки тому

      Say it brother or sister nice work.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌✋✋✋

  • @BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON
    @BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON 6 років тому +4

    Awesome! Thanks for the video Eons!

  • @ichifish
    @ichifish 6 років тому +1

    I really appreciate the work that PBS Digital Studios does. It helps me be a better person. This is why everyone needs PBS.

  • @jessicarenae8660
    @jessicarenae8660 6 років тому +6

    I would really like to see a video over the evolution of insect eating plants

  • @AngelRojasTV
    @AngelRojasTV 6 років тому +19

    Can you make one on fungi? From the beginning of earth to the Vikings using amanita muscaria before fighting, or why do magic mushrooms evolved to be psychedelic ?

  • @francoislacombe9071
    @francoislacombe9071 6 років тому +13

    How far back in time could a stranded time traveler still survive by living off the land?

    • @johncolasont6195
      @johncolasont6195 6 років тому +4

      Probably until about the 1750's. After that, diseases would eat 'em up quick.

    • @timothycarr5707
      @timothycarr5707 5 років тому +1

      @@johncolasont6195 you know what dafuk he meant

  • @generationfallout5189
    @generationfallout5189 6 років тому +5

    Where is my ape squad at? ApppE Squad Stand up!!

  • @Guzsable
    @Guzsable 6 років тому +5

    This channel is addictive!
    I like it ❤

  • @SlyPearTree
    @SlyPearTree 6 років тому +20

    It's great to hear about distant members of the family. How about when, how and why we grew out of having a tail?

  • @nickhowe6762
    @nickhowe6762 6 років тому +6

    An episode on felines would be awesome.

  • @samildinach99
    @samildinach99 6 років тому +2

    Love your channel, please keep making these, I'm addicted to them.

  • @amphibiousone7972
    @amphibiousone7972 6 років тому +5

    Wonderful interesting content as always. Thank You Guys!

  • @SGMIV
    @SGMIV 6 років тому +2

    I don't know how you guys keep finding great topics, thanks

  • @zooemperor3954
    @zooemperor3954 6 років тому +7

    Next episode: When Cats Dominated the Americas

  • @bryndel
    @bryndel 6 років тому +4

    Love your channel, keep it up!

  • @binky2819
    @binky2819 6 років тому +9

    Can you make a video about the origin of land plants? There seems to be no universally agreed date on when they first showed up, it would be interesting to know about the different theories and evidences we have on when and how they evolved.

  • @BJETNT
    @BJETNT 5 років тому +1

    Your videos are very well done!!! I can't think of anything I would change off the top of my head. They're short so you don't get bored there upbeat so you don't get bored. And they are chock-full of information. I'll give you a 10 out of 10. I always am grateful for people to do things like this to better educate us. I don't think these type of videos get enough praise.

  • @platosplatoon6873
    @platosplatoon6873 6 років тому +21

    2:05 - wifi molars.
    Pretty advanced stuff.

  • @johnnydtw3509
    @johnnydtw3509 4 роки тому +2

    PBS: stating scientific facts about apes
    History channel: but you forgot the aliens DNA in the neanderthals

    • @mcgritty8842
      @mcgritty8842 6 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂 The History channel really changed back in like 2008

  • @steveknight4291
    @steveknight4291 6 років тому +5

    Can I suggest doing some shows specific to Epocs, the Miocene fascinates me, but I am sure would love some shows on them all so we get an idea how the world looked and what it contained. Thanks

  • @christurnpenny2355
    @christurnpenny2355 6 років тому +1

    your videos are what keeps me on youtube. this video was amazing, thank you.

  • @Diepzeevis
    @Diepzeevis 6 років тому +3

    I love you PBS Eons

  • @magnuspeacock5857
    @magnuspeacock5857 6 років тому +19

    Can you do a video on the reptile family tree please?

  • @blackcosmos
    @blackcosmos 5 років тому +3

    PBS Eons smart channels. Always informative. I've learned so much! Thx u... 🙏

  • @earthrocker4247
    @earthrocker4247 6 років тому +1

    Cheers guys, these are perfect for my learning style. Repeated bursts that make me think.

  • @ExAstrisScientia1701
    @ExAstrisScientia1701 6 років тому +4

    4:58 KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE

  • @91abe
    @91abe 6 років тому +1

    This channel is a hidden gem!

  • @sankshaymacha5358
    @sankshaymacha5358 6 років тому +8

    Please it is time for a video on australias pleistocene megafauna

  • @philjdickinson
    @philjdickinson 6 років тому

    I've been following this channel for a few months now and it really is absolutely outstanding.

  • @joeys4289
    @joeys4289 6 років тому +11

    #PBSEONSISLOVE

  • @ladymacbethofmtsensk
    @ladymacbethofmtsensk 3 роки тому +1

    "Why aren't there wild apes in Europe today?"
    *After a night out, my friends and I would beg to differ...*

  • @eddieking2976
    @eddieking2976 6 років тому +13

    I give this video two opposable thumbs up.

  • @traceursebas
    @traceursebas 6 років тому +7

    Please do a video on the origins of pterosaurs!

  • @failed_K
    @failed_K 6 років тому +12

    Can you do a video on the extinction of the Ice age creatures

    • @dankaroterdoo6912
      @dankaroterdoo6912 4 роки тому

      Your comment warms my heart✋✋✋👍👍👍👍💜💜💜💜💚💚💚💚💚💘💘

  •  4 роки тому +2

    They are doing it again....

  • @MalacandraEnjoyer413
    @MalacandraEnjoyer413 4 роки тому +4

    The first random chimp event

  • @tigris115
    @tigris115 6 років тому +6

    I'd love to see some stuff on extinct elephants

  • @adamhonestyanddecency5054
    @adamhonestyanddecency5054 5 років тому +1

    Has fighting against natural selection through medical advances made certain diseases more prevalent? THAT would be a great episode.

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 5 років тому +1

      Well, actually it"s often the contrary, with vaccines, the diseases tend to diminish in the population and even disappeared (small pox) or are on the verge of extinction (polio) ^^

    • @adamhonestyanddecency5054
      @adamhonestyanddecency5054 5 років тому

      Krankar Volund I understand that. I was referring to terminal diseases like cancer. More survivors mean more cancer genes in the gene pool, right?

    • @adamhonestyanddecency5054
      @adamhonestyanddecency5054 5 років тому

      Krankar Volund And I would assume that survivors of treatable cancer are more likely to carry genes of cancers which are harder to treat than people with no cancer whatsoever.

  • @zuzuenhanced
    @zuzuenhanced 6 років тому +11

    Do a video about land crocodiles pls

  • @guyh.4553
    @guyh.4553 4 роки тому +1

    Wow, very interesting. As usual! 😁😁😁😁 I absolutely love EONS channel, so fascinating

  • @elliottotbc
    @elliottotbc 6 років тому +15

    Wish me luck for my test on Thursday

    • @Jiteko
      @Jiteko 6 років тому

      Elliott Harlow good luck man, I have 3 test

    • @elliottotbc
      @elliottotbc 6 років тому

      EvilHomerSimpson no much worse, first day of hell

  • @raminsadeghi7358
    @raminsadeghi7358 6 років тому +1

    Excellent as usual. Thanks for hard work.

  • @nump45
    @nump45 6 років тому +11

    In one of your previous videos you discussed a really interesting giant fungi or lichen, Prototaxites. I was wondering, are there other unique or strange fungi and/or lichen species in the fossil record which don't exist today? Also, did Prototaxites only exist in North America or was it found in other parts of the world too? I realize that these are a lot of fungi related questions, but in the future would it be possible to talk about some of the earliest known fungi from the Silurian Period too?

    • @Mr.LaughingDuck
      @Mr.LaughingDuck 6 років тому +2

      Good luck. As most fungi are microscopic, you'd need to a powerful microscope to get detailed versions of those fossils. In today's world, the current CONSERVATIVE estimate is that there's about 5.1 million fungal species, with less than 150,000 species actually documented and classified. And most of those documented species are just the terrestrial kind; fungi have been found in aquatic and marine environments, with some strains collected from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Fungi are basically ubiquitous in the land, air, water, plants, animals, etc. The point is, however diverse and strange you think fungi taxa are, it's possibly even more extreme than that.

    • @DeathPetalArt
      @DeathPetalArt 6 років тому +1

      @@Mr.LaughingDuck Thanks, now I'm terrified of mushrooms 😅

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 6 років тому

      @@Mr.LaughingDuck To complicate matters there have also been fungi found living miles underground inside rocks adaptable is a serious understatement! as our relatively close cousins to Metazoans really we have severly underestimated their presence we need to give them more respect!

  • @rockbore
    @rockbore 4 роки тому +2

    "...apes conquered the European continent."
    Imperial language just sounds so wrong now.
    The climate allowed some migration and supported those apes in Europe. They didn't subdue a continent, they just got to visit during the fine weather.

  • @memoryerror
    @memoryerror 6 років тому +8

    I would like to learn more about the evolution of brains.

    • @davlor86
      @davlor86 4 роки тому

      @victor soto lol that's a non-proof theory

  • @LukeHatchet
    @LukeHatchet 4 роки тому +1

    Anyone go back and watch all these just for satisfying documentary feels?

  • @sidilicious11
    @sidilicious11 6 років тому +3

    Talking so fast......but what I caught was fascinating.

  • @jeuxschmo
    @jeuxschmo 6 років тому +1

    a video dedicated to inaccurate fossil reconstructions throughout history would be M A D tasty.
    also this video is bananas.

  • @Repudoxio
    @Repudoxio 6 років тому +4

    Love Eons