It's honestly scary how historians and scienstists always come up with specific and purely descriptive names for extinction events, but this one was so absolutely heinous, the only thing they could come up with was "The Great Dying"
Well there was so many things trying to kill organic life at this time, trying to narrow it down to something specific would be inelegant. It was like a nested for loop of death.
The lucky thing is, even if 99% dies out, there's still gonna be those absurd extremophiles that can live anyways. Until the core goes cold or the sun dies out, life WILL exist on earth in some form.
@@Katze822228 no because there are still plenty of bacteria at the bottom of the ocean that feed off off of chemicals from underwater volcanoes. They live in an environment not really impacted too much by global warming. On the other hand, like the commenter above stated, a cold, solid core would definitely kill all life on earth since the suns radiation would not be stopped by the earths magnetic field.
The "Great Dying" is terrifying. Picture a red sky and toxic air. It's hard to imagine anything surviving that nightmare. Just thinking about it feels suffocating.
And not to mention it took thirty MILLION years to recover. In comparison it only took life about 100,000 years to bounce back after the Yucatan asteroid impact. Millions of years of a seemingly infinite, lifeless desert
@anticksss imagine being some poor animal trying to make it during such a time. I'm a big fan of and advocate for animals, the thought of so many essentially innocent lives being influenced so negatively for so long makes me feel very deeply.
I remember that one time when I was 10, there was this massive thunderstorm, and the sky turned dark green with pitch black clouds. I was in school at the time, but it was as dark as if it was midnight. I thought the great dying #2 had started because DARK GREEN SKIES? For context, I live in the Netherlands, so I had never seen any form of actual extreme weather before.
Canada was on fire last year. I saw the sky turn orange. Felt like something out of an apocalypse movie, yet...everyone just went on as normal. Am I crazy for feeling like we will not survive the future?
I have no doubt that trilobites would be very popular aquarium pets nowadays had they carried on. Everyone with a fish tank would have a couple of them scuttling around on the floor.
The closest we got were those little horse shoe crab guys. Triops is what they are called I think, we used to get them all the time as kids and raise them. They would just keep breeding and breeding we had them forever. They’d get pretty big but only a couple inches.
The great dying makes the Dinosaur killer asteroid looks like a merciful event. Also cyanobacteria who thrive in low oxygen waters took over the oceans putrefying the waters and killing more sea life, so any human would no be only overwhelmed by the smell of chlorine in land but also by the smell of rotten eggs close to the sea.
@@H41030v3rki110ny0u correcting proper use of words is educating. Stop getting offended for something that improves the world People have such an ego over being corrected these days. It's why nothing gets in and people are mentally ill these days
What's additionally so interestingly terrifying to me is how long this went on. Hell on earth, literally, for hundreds of thousands of years. Countless creatures being born and dying in this period, never experiencing anything else different.
I think to myself how did humans become so egotistical that they think they actually know what happened 100,000 years if that’s even a number that’s in the ball park then I remember most of you think light years are a real thing or big bang THEORY. Paganism is wild in this comment section
@@Machoman50ta You do know that the Big Bang's afterglow can still be seen, right? Also, Light-years are a measuring unit, it's like not believing in meters
Im jealous of thoese species living 251.9 million years ago, because they actually got to play that game called the floor is lava for real, while I have never had the opportunity to play that game in my childhood for real.
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions." "Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed." From 'Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history'
Think Hawaii, but on a continental scale. Think Krakatoa, but instead of one volcano, it was fifty going off at once. Think the worse year in human history (536 A.D.), but lasting for thousands of years. Think death valley temperatures in high summer, in the middle of winter at the poles. Toxic clouds, acid rain, nuclear winters, global droughts, and boiling temperatures . . . truly, hell on earth.
@@ragnardunderdase3473 considering Nasa has had a hard time getting equipment to survive long periods on Venus' surface due to the highly acidic atmosphere, it is not possible, no.
Poor critters that overheated to death.. I have chickens and live I mid-southern Arizona, I've lost some to overheating and damn near lost some had I not been there to rush them inside and get them under the cold water coming from the tap, in the tub. And it's not like "oh, ok, got em wet so they're fine" no, it was a battle for days afterward to keep them alive as thy were in some sort of recovery coma. But my point is, it was extremely sad. It does not seem a peaceful death whatsoever. So, poor critters that died from overheating. I feel badly for them. And don't worry, I do all I can during the hot summer months for my chickens so they don't overheat and keep a much closer eye now that I've seen what I need to do. Luckily I was already keeping a close eye before, and thats how I was able to save a few when I found them sprawled out and dying, unconscious, hyperventilating, and mere moments from true death. God it was so sad, even when they came back because I felt so badly.. I cried. I cried when my nicest one, Sweetie is her name, when I knew she was going to make it because I was so relieved.. I love my girls...
We've had to rescue calves from overheating too. It's an ugly thing to deal with - and we've succeeded, the few times it's happened, and they grew up to be healthy adult cattle, but it was very touch-and-go at the time. G'day from Australia.
@@cerdic6305 Humans can't survive in those conditions either. We get through extreme heat waves by building shelter and cooling the insides. OP already said they learned from their hens' suffering and provides them better protection from the heat now. The real cruelty is that there are millions of humans living in places that lethal heat is becoming the norm - and we not only don't allow those people to move to cooler countries, we also don't use our excess wealth to pay to provide them with the shelter that would make these conditions an inconvenience instead of a death sentence. We have the technology, and we have the wealth largely through exploiting them with unfair trade agreements. But having stolen their wealth, we leave them to die from the consequences of the global warming that we created with that wealth.
Crazy to realize that somewhere in that hellscape there were our ancestors (quite unrecognizable to their descendents, though) , somehow surviving all that calamity.
10:48 It's crazy seeing how wildly Earths oxygen level variers over time because we need such a narrow range to survive. I wonder how we'd have evolved differently if oxygen levels were different.
To quote Ian Malcolm. 'You don't understand. We don't have the power to destroy life on Earth. We don't have the power to save it either. We might have the power to save ourselves.' Life is going to survive. Whether humanity does is a question which, in my opinion to which the answer is 'no.'
when we try to "save the earth" we're saving it for ourselves in the same way one might wanna save ones house from burning up cause we dang live here, its counterproductive to value the lives of animals higher than those of humans like some activists believe, but its also incredibly stupid to wantomly destroy this beautiful garden and wealth of life that we were born into, not to mention how incredibly unneighborly it is to throw toxic waste into the public pool and smoke cigarettes indoors
There have been 5 mass extinction events, and life survived them all. I doubt that humans will; we're currently in the middle of destroying ourselves. But life in general will survive. Maybe not in a way that we recognize, but life will go on.
I would be very surprised if we will still be there ten thousand years from now. It’s only a matter of time before a dictator mad enough to push that red button rises to power in one of the nuclear nations.
9:09 volcanic eruptions are and have always been devastating to civilization . Mass eruptions like what happened during this extinction would be catastrophic for humanity
Thanks for the great content. Humanity has seen eruptions like that before, the Laki eruption in Iceland. It was only for a year though, so imagine the Laki fires happening for 250k years and you’ll understand how horrifying the peak eruptive activity was during the Siberian Traps.
20% of Iceland's population perished because of Laki, mostly due to famine from failed crops. Just one island of fire and ice in the middle of the North Atlantic. To see that worldwide x4.5 boggles the mind.
@@hyrulehero7834 damn, that's amazing and terrifying at the same time for some reason. The first example was already good, but your example really put me into perspective
Idk about that, humans have been around 200 to 300k years, ears been around four billion years which means the beach would have to be 40000 grains of sand, a grain of sand is 0.06mm to 2mm, but the grains of sand would have to be 0.04mm which is underestimating the length of a grain of sand by a decent amount and that's without including air gaps
what's even more terrifying is that this is the closest for earth to have pretty much a Jupiter level storm, as these hyper hurricanes is almost as powerful as Jupiter's red spot.
We have since built museums to celebrate the past, and spend decades studying prehistoric lives. And if all this has taught us anything, it is this: no species lasts forever. -Kenneth Branagh Walking with beasts 2001
The Permian is honestly the single coolest period in the history of life on this planet, and I am _tired_ of pretending that it's not. The Great Dying is proof that the best stories also usually have the best endings.
Nah. The coolest period in history is from 1815, when the Great Divergence began, to the present. Without it you wouldn't even know the Permian ever happened.
This must have been really bad as well, even though we would see like nothing of it when time-travelling to this period because it was just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another and the life on earth only existed in the form of microbes. I'm not sure if this one is put on the list of the big extinction events, maybe because it's really hard to get good numbers for the amount of species that existed back then. Since this was before life started to leave macrofossiles, we can only rely on chemical information which doesn't always tell the full story.
@@Mis7erSeven Except that for the entire rest of the then-biosphere of Earth that _wasn't_ cyanobacteria, it quickly saturated both air and water with basically highly toxic gas. so it wasn't exactly "just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another"
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions." "Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed." - Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history
im picturing it as an album name for a melodic/symphonic death metal and some of the tracks are inspired by different extinction events, used as metaphors for a plethora of things. "the great dying" is too poetic
The Permian was nearly as cool as the whole Mesozoic, also learning about the fact that life only fully recovered during the Jurassic is crazy, the Triassic was basically a mini Permian, I never really though about how close the great dying was to the Dinosaurs and how it affected them
The oceans boiling tells me there was a single, very small timeframe in earths history where there were millions of perfectly cooked fish in the ocean, all at once.
Tells you something about how fragile this biosphere really is, and how easily it can turn to hell in a handbasket. You'd think that when we know we're walking a knife-edge, people would be less keen to test how far and how fast they can push the system out of balance.
when you learn about some of them they were just as wild as the big five. My favorite is Snowball Earth. When the earth decided shits not cold enough and cranked an ice age to an 11. Ice age on crack... Like the earth basically became an ice planet with what scientist think was just slush at the equator similar to what you would find in the artic. Its even more wild when you find out it happened twice. The earth went ima heat up, sike.
Honestly an interesting comment. When I watch videos like this I immediately get insane existential dread and regret clicking on them (no offense to the creator of course)
It's all so over the top. Not just the extinction events, but the universe in general. So much so that i often wonder if life is actually real. Surely it only appears real whilst being alive? Once dead it never was or will be.
Nah you give humans too much credit. Every nuke could be dropped and it still wouldn't even come close to matching the kt extinction event. It's extremely likely humans would live on in a full blown nuclear war as real life radiation rapidly decays and generally dissapears as quickly as 10 years to a century. Why do you think hiroshima and nagasaki are perfectly habitable locations despite being directly nuked less than a century ago? Before you state modern nukes are even more deadly that's only partly true as they are more explosive.....but they are also less radioactive than the nukes dropped on Japan. I conclusion every nuke could be dropped and it wouldn't even kill off mankind much less other more resilient lifeforms. Humans are not the destroyer of worlds. It's the height of arrogance to think we have somehow achieved this
To me the craziest thing about the great extinction is how the current biodiversity on earth makes up only 4% of the species that survived. One could only imagine how different earth would look like if another 4% survived, or how different this planet would look like
This is why the early Triassic is more dramatic than it seems. This is when life on earth began flourish once again. The survivors on land found themselves in a massive, deserted, empty Pangaea. They evolved, multiply, and filling that emptiness little by little.
My dad still has a tub full of the ash from Mount St. Helens. He was a kid when it happened, grabbed a little margarine tub and filled it with ash. We have about 6 cups of it still in that tub to this day. Would be cool to use it somehow as an art piece to remember the big event !
As he was talking about the heat around 10:00 i was going to post a comment saying maybe all the freshwatet dried up. Then he says the same thing seconds later.😮😅
Fantastic video on the Great Dying, possibly the best I've seen to date and I've seen many. Unlike most who are into paleontology, I find the P-T event the most fascinating of all the great extinctions, even surpassing my interest in the K-T event. Very good presentation of the various statistics with a clear explanation of the ramifications for life during and following this extinction. One thing regarding the comment at the end: unfortunately, the earth will experience an extinction event that will equal and surpass the Great Dying - the death of our sun as it expands into a red giant, roasting the planet if not entirely engulfing it. Fortunately, that won`t transpire for at least another half billion years...
15:55 what do you mean problem with pressure as in 3 000 metres elevation? There is no problem at that height for humans. I've been going to mountains often like that.
I think the danger is in the rapid changes in pressure. Especially for creatures who are more adapted to higher amounts of oxygen. Earlier in the video he brought up that many places in higher elevations were likely uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen.
Sea scorpions was tragic bro, bc they probably would have evolved to be much smaller today, like a crayfish or lobster. Imagine keeping a sea scorpion in ur aquarium
As someone from a state that gets hot, I'm surprised that temps 20-30f lower than our summers here are viewed as so inhospitable. It's very normal to see the hottest summers weeks at 110+f and coldest winter weeks at -5f or lower. I wouldn't have even considered 95f as a difficult environment to work in outside let alone have to "survive" through it. I guess it's just down to conditioning but very interesting.
Just FYI, when I watch this on my TV it cycles through all the audiotrack throughout the video 😅 Works fine on mobile tho. thank you for covering this topic, it's so fascinating!!
Thought I'd come back before EZ changes the thumbnail for the third time. Also, at the risk of sounding like a maniac, I do wish there was a caldera somewhere on earth or at least in the Solar System so we can see what that actually looks like...preferably the latter given the effects.
I wonder if the extreme radiation led to mutations in populations that allowed for massive speciation to occur in the clades that survived the Permian 😮
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions." "Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed." - Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history
@ Marriam-Webster lists a single definition as “used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern”. The Cambridge Dictionary has two definitions, both starting with “an expression of great sadness or disappointment”. Pretty sure it has to precede a bad thing
There's a reason why in the OG canon of the Monsterverse, the Great Dying is when the Titan species started to appear. Especially with the rampant amount of radiation which they feed on.
so you saying some monster broke into earth and check out the place but don't know how to get back home? well portals are a thing so this isn't to far off for a backstory for the giant monsters on earth.
@@randomguy8976 was tired as hell and not know what og was at the time. but the thing is. I wasn't making a theory. because I was ASKING what he was talking about.
great job on the video, super informative and eye-opening! but honestly, i can't help but think that sometimes the focus on extinction can be a bit overblown. sure, it’s serious, but nature has this incredible ability to adapt and evolve. what do you all think?
It is worth noting that as horrific and tragic these mass extinction events were, we wouldn't be here if any one of them had not occurred, which is quite a sobering thought. It is also likely that our demise (along with that of many other species) will pave the way for the rise of species that thrive later. Such is the nature of life on this planet.
In Russia in the summer of 2010 60 people died due to forest fires. Not 50k only 60. It is a huge tragedy, but still... (or did I misunderstand the meaning of this number?)
Hundreds of people have argued with me, that, a hot planet is easier to live on, than a cold one. The thing is, it's hard to get rid of heat. It's 10 times easier to heat up a space, than cool it.
Fr because if there’s heat you can’t escape it because the water would be hot the only thing you could do was go into caves or be under shade and even then depending on the heat you would be cooked
Makes you wonder if some of these exoplanets we're discovering harbor life at this very moment, and we're just looking at an earlier epoch because light takes so long to reach us
I dont think were that far away. The meteor asophis misses the gravity of the earth ever so slightly less. Our luck will run out sometime. When theirs a 7 year waiting time. How many wars are going to happen to ignore the issue
I think the K-Pg is still my pick for the most metal extinction event of all time, but continent-sized lava flows causing a wide array of global catastrophes for 200,000 years straight is definitely up there.
I'll stick with the Great Oxygenation. Toxic caustic gas in the atmosphere and dissolved in the seas, oceans filling with red sludge as dissolved iron literally turned to rust, and the perpetrators were single-celled plants with no idea they were doing anything harmful by dumping their waste gases into the air.
Here's a scary thought: we can't predict weather exactly as it goes, one week we might think there will be rain, the very same day it's dry as a desert. Meaning that we don't know how the weather is going, we only know that everything that goes up will eventually go down and we are in 2000 years of "good" weather.
Nah, cyanobacteria coined this spot long ago. Caused near total extinction of life by saturating water and atmosphere with a toxic corrosive gas called oxygen.
With these giant impacts, I like the theory that suggests there is an equal and opposite earth eruption roughly opposite on the globe to where the impact occurred.
It's a pretty solid theory. The flood basalts all seem to have an impact crater roughly opposite them, give or take tectonic drift, dating from about the same time. Hard to settle it as a confirmed fact without it happening again .. which I'd really rather we didn't let happen, personally.
It's honestly scary how historians and scienstists always come up with specific and purely descriptive names for extinction events, but this one was so absolutely heinous, the only thing they could come up with was "The Great Dying"
Well there was so many things trying to kill organic life at this time, trying to narrow it down to something specific would be inelegant. It was like a nested for loop of death.
Could have called it "The 7 unsealings" because of all the different factors, like the angels breaking the 7 seals to end the world.
the grimmest reaping
The world rasing
Surtr age
Days of wrath
Age of fire and brimstone
@@zephlodwick1009 best to avoid biblical comparisons i would imagine. the rapture already happened, and the trilobites were saved (we weren't)
"The Turbo Anal Devastation of Doom" was a period of great prosperity and peace in the Tiwanaku culture.
The lucky thing is, even if 99% dies out, there's still gonna be those absurd extremophiles that can live anyways. Until the core goes cold or the sun dies out, life WILL exist on earth in some form.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. If there's a runaway greenhouse effect, likely nothing will survive.
@@Katze822228 no because there are still plenty of bacteria at the bottom of the ocean that feed off off of chemicals from underwater volcanoes. They live in an environment not really impacted too much by global warming. On the other hand, like the commenter above stated, a cold, solid core would definitely kill all life on earth since the suns radiation would not be stopped by the earths magnetic field.
@Katze822228 that's never happened tho life has always survived and evolved since it began
I think you guys forgot about cockroaches.
@@dra9onl3oyand tardigrades
The "Great Dying" is terrifying. Picture a red sky and toxic air. It's hard to imagine anything surviving that nightmare. Just thinking about it feels suffocating.
And not to mention it took thirty MILLION years to recover. In comparison it only took life about 100,000 years to bounce back after the Yucatan asteroid impact. Millions of years of a seemingly infinite, lifeless desert
@anticksss imagine being some poor animal trying to make it during such a time. I'm a big fan of and advocate for animals, the thought of so many essentially innocent lives being influenced so negatively for so long makes me feel very deeply.
sounds like bushfire season in Australia
I remember that one time when I was 10, there was this massive thunderstorm, and the sky turned dark green with pitch black clouds. I was in school at the time, but it was as dark as if it was midnight. I thought the great dying #2 had started because DARK GREEN SKIES?
For context, I live in the Netherlands, so I had never seen any form of actual extreme weather before.
Canada was on fire last year. I saw the sky turn orange. Felt like something out of an apocalypse movie, yet...everyone just went on as normal. Am I crazy for feeling like we will not survive the future?
I have no doubt that trilobites would be very popular aquarium pets nowadays had they carried on. Everyone with a fish tank would have a couple of them scuttling around on the floor.
Probablemente nosotros haríamos que esas cosas esten en peligro de extinción en la actualidad
Well there is also a possibility Trilobites would take our place instead
The closest we got were those little horse shoe crab guys. Triops is what they are called I think, we used to get them all the time as kids and raise them. They would just keep breeding and breeding we had them forever. They’d get pretty big but only a couple inches.
@@auntbecky7649those things are ancient as well so they are the closest thing we have to them.
I would have loved keeping a trilobite as a pet as a kid!
The great dying makes the Dinosaur killer asteroid looks like a merciful event.
Also cyanobacteria who thrive in low oxygen waters took over the oceans putrefying the waters and killing more sea life, so any human would no be only overwhelmed by the smell of chlorine in land but also by the smell of rotten eggs close to the sea.
*would not only be overwhelmed
@@slappy8941guy is pretty good for english not being their first language lol
@@slappy8941 🤓
@@H41030v3rki110ny0u correcting proper use of words is educating. Stop getting offended for something that improves the world
People have such an ego over being corrected these days. It's why nothing gets in and people are mentally ill these days
Cyanobacteria are photosynthesisers. They thrive in low oxygen environments because they release oxygen as a waste product.
What's additionally so interestingly terrifying to me is how long this went on. Hell on earth, literally, for hundreds of thousands of years. Countless creatures being born and dying in this period, never experiencing anything else different.
I think to myself how did humans become so egotistical that they think they actually know what happened 100,000 years if that’s even a number that’s in the ball park then I remember most of you think light years are a real thing or big bang THEORY. Paganism is wild in this comment section
@Machoman50ta very nice grandpa, time for bed now
@@Machoman50ta If you had graduated from high school then you would understand what a theory is. Do us all a favor and keep to yourself next time.
@@Machoman50taBro what
@@Machoman50ta You do know that the Big Bang's afterglow can still be seen, right?
Also, Light-years are a measuring unit, it's like not believing in meters
Goodbye, trilobites, you were too beautiful to live.
Okay, y'all did do a _lot_ of living, but *_still..._*
They had a good run!
I wish they were still here, they looked so cool like abalone but instead of snails they were crustaceans (weird opinion by me but whatever)
hello fellow albertan
@@MatthewTheWanderer The best run
@@SevenCompleted Cheers! Whereabouts do you hang your touque?
Jeez. One of those, ‘The floor is lava’ situations, but for realsies.
Wait till you hear about the hadian eon
Oh please no, not that one
Im jealous of thoese species living 251.9 million years ago, because they actually got to play that game called the floor is lava for real, while I have never had the opportunity to play that game in my childhood for real.
@@Jout8-re1ij lava can burn you severely even if you're not touching it, so I don't think that game would be fun in real life
English or Spanish?
We humans are currently at Season 4 of Earth's game update after the major server wipeout millions of years ago in game time
check out the weed DLC
More like the 7th.
We should get ready for the next extinction event, but I don't see us doing that - we couldn't go that far.
We are Earth’s Cousin Oliver
@@gedwardpeeromg is that a reference from The Brady Bunch??😂
I am surprised and very impressed that anything survived this extinction event
Life really do be findin a way ig
I'm surprised that the asteroid impact actually seemed tame when factoring in how long it took for life to recreate.
If there is a will, there is a way.
@@KaiHung-wv3ulI need more will.
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions."
"Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed."
From 'Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history'
Think Hawaii, but on a continental scale. Think Krakatoa, but instead of one volcano, it was fifty going off at once. Think the worse year in human history (536 A.D.), but lasting for thousands of years. Think death valley temperatures in high summer, in the middle of winter at the poles. Toxic clouds, acid rain, nuclear winters, global droughts, and boiling temperatures . . . truly, hell on earth.
That's so metal.
It’s giving the book: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. It was pretty dark
"The worst year in human history" has some serious competition. The 14th, 17th, and 20th centuries saw some absolutely miserable times.
@@BiggieTrismegistus 20th century? im interested, probably world war 2 right?
Yea I read about 536. That was during emperor justinians reign I think
This was the closest Earth has come to becoming like Venus.
*so far.
Yet
Imagine visiting Venus and doing paleo digs and findin Dino bones there lol
@@SorryImKindaShy it isnt impossible no?
@@ragnardunderdase3473 considering Nasa has had a hard time getting equipment to survive long periods on Venus' surface due to the highly acidic atmosphere, it is not possible, no.
The boss at work in the Great Dying: "You're still coming in though, right?"
“There’s still five percent chance that you’re alive, so get your lazy ass back to work!”
Poor critters that overheated to death.. I have chickens and live I mid-southern Arizona, I've lost some to overheating and damn near lost some had I not been there to rush them inside and get them under the cold water coming from the tap, in the tub. And it's not like "oh, ok, got em wet so they're fine" no, it was a battle for days afterward to keep them alive as thy were in some sort of recovery coma. But my point is, it was extremely sad. It does not seem a peaceful death whatsoever. So, poor critters that died from overheating. I feel badly for them. And don't worry, I do all I can during the hot summer months for my chickens so they don't overheat and keep a much closer eye now that I've seen what I need to do. Luckily I was already keeping a close eye before, and thats how I was able to save a few when I found them sprawled out and dying, unconscious, hyperventilating, and mere moments from true death. God it was so sad, even when they came back because I felt so badly.. I cried. I cried when my nicest one, Sweetie is her name, when I knew she was going to make it because I was so relieved.. I love my girls...
Poor chickies
We've had to rescue calves from overheating too. It's an ugly thing to deal with - and we've succeeded, the few times it's happened, and they grew up to be healthy adult cattle, but it was very touch-and-go at the time.
G'day from Australia.
Cold water on someone or thing that is overheating can throw them into shock
Why on earth would you continue to keep chickens when you know they can’t survive in the heat where you live?? That seems immensely cruel to me
@@cerdic6305 Humans can't survive in those conditions either. We get through extreme heat waves by building shelter and cooling the insides. OP already said they learned from their hens' suffering and provides them better protection from the heat now.
The real cruelty is that there are millions of humans living in places that lethal heat is becoming the norm - and we not only don't allow those people to move to cooler countries, we also don't use our excess wealth to pay to provide them with the shelter that would make these conditions an inconvenience instead of a death sentence. We have the technology, and we have the wealth largely through exploiting them with unfair trade agreements. But having stolen their wealth, we leave them to die from the consequences of the global warming that we created with that wealth.
Crazy to realize that somewhere in that hellscape there were our ancestors (quite unrecognizable to their descendents, though) , somehow surviving all that calamity.
10:48 It's crazy seeing how wildly Earths oxygen level variers over time because we need such a narrow range to survive. I wonder how we'd have evolved differently if oxygen levels were different.
Look at the Sherpas In Nepal they can survive with way less oxygen
You are mixing partial pressures with oxygen concentration
To quote Ian Malcolm.
'You don't understand. We don't have the power to destroy life on Earth. We don't have the power to save it either.
We might have the power to save ourselves.'
Life is going to survive. Whether humanity does is a question which, in my opinion to which the answer is 'no.'
Goated character imo
when we try to "save the earth" we're saving it for ourselves in the same way one might wanna save ones house from burning up cause we dang live here, its counterproductive to value the lives of animals higher than those of humans like some activists believe, but its also incredibly stupid to wantomly destroy this beautiful garden and wealth of life that we were born into, not to mention how incredibly unneighborly it is to throw toxic waste into the public pool and smoke cigarettes indoors
There have been 5 mass extinction events, and life survived them all. I doubt that humans will; we're currently in the middle of destroying ourselves. But life in general will survive. Maybe not in a way that we recognize, but life will go on.
I would be very surprised if we will still be there ten thousand years from now. It’s only a matter of time before a dictator mad enough to push that red button rises to power in one of the nuclear nations.
9:09 volcanic eruptions are and have always been devastating to civilization . Mass eruptions like what happened during this extinction would be catastrophic for humanity
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@@Nektor9-iq20 The feeling of connection 😊
Yellowstone is overdue for another super eruption
@@AdamZimmerman-c6i
Eruptions frighten me tbh
I’d hope the volcano would erupt right under me so I’d be spared the pain of trying to survive that
No more trilobites 😢
At least we still have the horseshoe crabs.. they’re kinda trilobite-y :)
Rest easy, trilobites. We'll miss you 🫡❤️
I am fine with trilobites existing only in the distant past and far future, thanks
No more anomalocarises 🫠😑
Two of the greatest lost, trilobite and ammonite 😢
Thanks for the great content. Humanity has seen eruptions like that before, the Laki eruption in Iceland. It was only for a year though, so imagine the Laki fires happening for 250k years and you’ll understand how horrifying the peak eruptive activity was during the Siberian Traps.
20% of Iceland's population perished because of Laki, mostly due to famine from failed crops. Just one island of fire and ice in the middle of the North Atlantic. To see that worldwide x4.5 boggles the mind.
Fun fact. If the Earth's age was a mile long sandy beach, humans time here would be in the form of one grain of sand.
Like tears in the rain...
Reminds me of the ad to save the earth. It said if the earths age was put on the scale of 24 hours, we’d have been here for 3 seconds
@@hyrulehero7834 damn, that's amazing and terrifying at the same time for some reason. The first example was already good, but your example really put me into perspective
Idk about that, humans have been around 200 to 300k years, ears been around four billion years which means the beach would have to be 40000 grains of sand, a grain of sand is 0.06mm to 2mm, but the grains of sand would have to be 0.04mm which is underestimating the length of a grain of sand by a decent amount and that's without including air gaps
@@ju1cyjon3s31Holy midwit answer
what's even more terrifying is that this is the closest for earth to have pretty much a Jupiter level storm, as these hyper hurricanes is almost as powerful as Jupiter's red spot.
We have since built museums to celebrate the past,
and spend decades studying prehistoric lives.
And if all this has taught us anything, it is this:
no species lasts forever. -Kenneth Branagh
Walking with beasts 2001
"Except water bears. Wtf is up with those little guys?"
ExtinctZoo you are my goat🐐I was looking for something to watch with breakfast and you just posted🔥right on time
My boi about to fire up the hub 😂
Sitting with my favourite stir fry breakfast and big mug of tea haha
@@Introverted100 ?? Not during this month😭🙏
I also watch these videos almost exclusively in the morning. Something about these videos just turns my brain on
Crocodilians: I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah
Feeling like a true survivor
And a large number of birds..
crocodilians didn't exist yet, they appear after the extinction
should have been sharks
It's a miracle anything even survived the extinction events. Life always finds a way.
This planet was almost forever empty like Mars around this time. Scary.
I really appreciate this channel for talking about the pre-historic stuff that isn't as prevalent in pop culture, cause this shit's wild
The Permian is honestly the single coolest period in the history of life on this planet, and I am _tired_ of pretending that it's not.
The Great Dying is proof that the best stories also usually have the best endings.
Why do you say its the coolest period?
Nah. The coolest period in history is from 1815, when the Great Divergence began, to the present. Without it you wouldn't even know the Permian ever happened.
you are a massive dweeb
The Permian is the opposite of cool, its very fucking hot actually
@@jsw973 good one ;)
What about the extinction event that was caused by life creating oxygen?
This must have been really bad as well, even though we would see like nothing of it when time-travelling to this period because it was just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another and the life on earth only existed in the form of microbes.
I'm not sure if this one is put on the list of the big extinction events, maybe because it's really hard to get good numbers for the amount of species that existed back then. Since this was before life started to leave macrofossiles, we can only rely on chemical information which doesn't always tell the full story.
@@Mis7erSeven Except that for the entire rest of the then-biosphere of Earth that _wasn't_ cyanobacteria, it quickly saturated both air and water with basically highly toxic gas. so it wasn't exactly "just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another"
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Weren't the oceans just rust water for millions of years? Plus there were 2 snowball earths.
the oxygen one it's just a speculative extinction event, as there is no geological evidence for extinction what so ever.
The time when life almost died
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions."
"Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed."
- Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history
"The Great Dying" may have been apocalyptic in the most horrifying of senses but that could be the greatest deatmetal band name of all time
im picturing it as an album name for a melodic/symphonic death metal and some of the tracks are inspired by different extinction events, used as metaphors for a plethora of things. "the great dying" is too poetic
Really enjoyed this video. Thank you.
The Permian was nearly as cool as the whole Mesozoic, also learning about the fact that life only fully recovered during the Jurassic is crazy, the Triassic was basically a mini Permian, I never really though about how close the great dying was to the Dinosaurs and how it affected them
Here's how it affected the dinosaurs: If The Great Dying hadn't happened, dinosaurs would have never existed.
>he didn't mention the destruction caused by the Finno-Korean hyperwar
Few know of its destruction...
The oceans boiling tells me there was a single, very small timeframe in earths history where there were millions of perfectly cooked fish in the ocean, all at once.
Big soup
Doesn't add up to me
@@regenbogen_sim sadly the soup was poisoned and irradiated
when you learn that there have been 31 extinction events THAT WE KNOW of, it definitely conjures up some existential dread.
We may never know exactly how many due to the lack of evidence.
Tells you something about how fragile this biosphere really is, and how easily it can turn to hell in a handbasket. You'd think that when we know we're walking a knife-edge, people would be less keen to test how far and how fast they can push the system out of balance.
when you learn about some of them they were just as wild as the big five. My favorite is Snowball Earth. When the earth decided shits not cold enough and cranked an ice age to an 11. Ice age on crack... Like the earth basically became an ice planet with what scientist think was just slush at the equator similar to what you would find in the artic. Its even more wild when you find out it happened twice. The earth went ima heat up, sike.
you are the reason i still live thank you for entertaining me every saturday i know you put time into these vids and im grateful
Well he definitely didn’t save the trilobites… Not that he could. The poor trilobites deserved better 😢
What a pointless life
*gives virtual hug* Im glad you are here buddy
Honestly an interesting comment. When I watch videos like this I immediately get insane existential dread and regret clicking on them (no offense to the creator of course)
Damn, that was a tough week
It's all so over the top. Not just the extinction events, but the universe in general. So much so that i often wonder if life is actually real. Surely it only appears real whilst being alive? Once dead it never was or will be.
ExtinctZoo and The Budget Museum are the only paleontology related channels I can stand to watch.
And maybe Ben G Thomas
Ironically, Siberia today is known for how COLD it is.
I could easily imagine life completely eradicated at this point in time.
Nah you give humans too much credit. Every nuke could be dropped and it still wouldn't even come close to matching the kt extinction event. It's extremely likely humans would live on in a full blown nuclear war as real life radiation rapidly decays and generally dissapears as quickly as 10 years to a century. Why do you think hiroshima and nagasaki are perfectly habitable locations despite being directly nuked less than a century ago? Before you state modern nukes are even more deadly that's only partly true as they are more explosive.....but they are also less radioactive than the nukes dropped on Japan. I conclusion every nuke could be dropped and it wouldn't even kill off mankind much less other more resilient lifeforms. Humans are not the destroyer of worlds. It's the height of arrogance to think we have somehow achieved this
@@zaingamingtv2242I was referring to the great dying. Life almost completely went extinct then.
Very good video! Always interesting to hop onto youtube when Extinctzoo have released a new video! Super big fan!
"I was there, Gandalf. 251.9 million years ago, when the strength of Trilobites failed us."
To me the craziest thing about the great extinction is how the current biodiversity on earth makes up only 4% of the species that survived.
One could only imagine how different earth would look like if another 4% survived, or how different this planet would look like
Nothing survived.....wait minute
This is why the early Triassic is more dramatic than it seems. This is when life on earth began flourish once again. The survivors on land found themselves in a massive, deserted, empty Pangaea. They evolved, multiply, and filling that emptiness little by little.
My dad still has a tub full of the ash from Mount St. Helens. He was a kid when it happened, grabbed a little margarine tub and filled it with ash. We have about 6 cups of it still in that tub to this day. Would be cool to use it somehow as an art piece to remember the big event !
As he was talking about the heat around 10:00 i was going to post a comment saying maybe all the freshwatet dried up. Then he says the same thing seconds later.😮😅
Fantastic video on the Great Dying, possibly the best I've seen to date and I've seen many. Unlike most who are into paleontology, I find the P-T event the most fascinating of all the great extinctions, even surpassing my interest in the K-T event. Very good presentation of the various statistics with a clear explanation of the ramifications for life during and following this extinction. One thing regarding the comment at the end: unfortunately, the earth will experience an extinction event that will equal and surpass the Great Dying - the death of our sun as it expands into a red giant, roasting the planet if not entirely engulfing it. Fortunately, that won`t transpire for at least another half billion years...
I look forward to when Extinct Zoo covers the Anthropocene mass extinction next 🤩
"Huh, turns out you can move things with highpressured steam."
200yrs later...
We don't need a recap episode.
17:48 Pokémon
😭😭
"The day that hell opened wide"
That name works so well for that extinction
15:55 what do you mean problem with pressure as in 3 000 metres elevation? There is no problem at that height for humans. I've been going to mountains often like that.
I think the danger is in the rapid changes in pressure. Especially for creatures who are more adapted to higher amounts of oxygen. Earlier in the video he brought up that many places in higher elevations were likely uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen.
Sea scorpions was tragic bro, bc they probably would have evolved to be much smaller today, like a crayfish or lobster. Imagine keeping a sea scorpion in ur aquarium
Comfort channel of the week
As someone from a state that gets hot, I'm surprised that temps 20-30f lower than our summers here are viewed as so inhospitable. It's very normal to see the hottest summers weeks at 110+f and coldest winter weeks at -5f or lower. I wouldn't have even considered 95f as a difficult environment to work in outside let alone have to "survive" through it. I guess it's just down to conditioning but very interesting.
I’m pretty sure he means 95° yearly average temperatures, including winter months.
The thumbnail changes like 70 times 🤣
i had seen two different ones, which made me assume that there where two different channels / videos about the same topic
It's an unfortunate problem because UA-cam couldn't care less so changing thumbnails is a small way to counter it.
The poor Gorgonopsids... i only learned about them like a month ago but their head shape was cool af... and poor damned trilobytes...
The great oxidation event never gets enough recognition…
Just FYI, when I watch this on my TV it cycles through all the audiotrack throughout the video 😅 Works fine on mobile tho. thank you for covering this topic, it's so fascinating!!
Amazing that graboids survived all of this.
Good job. I enjoyed the video and you narrated well.
Thought I'd come back before EZ changes the thumbnail for the third time.
Also, at the risk of sounding like a maniac, I do wish there was a caldera somewhere on earth or at least in the Solar System so we can see what that actually looks like...preferably the latter given the effects.
Isn’t crater lake a caldera tho? What do you mean? Maybe I’m confused
@@SorryImKindaShy yellow stone is one of them
Basically, Io?
I love this channel, hope it continues on for a long time.
The Great Dying is indeed not an overstatement.
I wonder if the extreme radiation led to mutations in populations that allowed for massive speciation to occur in the clades that survived the Permian 😮
So the T-rex's ancestor is just a Lizard with Mega-cancer
@@KeiTh0rlol
"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions."
"Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed."
- Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history
What’s awesome is that I just learnt some of this in the geology course I’m taking. Good to know you’re quite accurate.
21:00 to my knowledge "but alas" precedes a bad thing, are you sad life bounced back ?
Was thinking the same thing
doesn’t have to precede a bad thing, although it usually does. it just implies an “and yet” sort of thing
@ Marriam-Webster lists a single definition as “used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern”. The Cambridge Dictionary has two definitions, both starting with “an expression of great sadness or disappointment”. Pretty sure it has to precede a bad thing
Always great to see a new video from y'all!
Keep it up. I'm still binge watching older episodes.😅
There's a reason why in the OG canon of the Monsterverse, the Great Dying is when the Titan species started to appear. Especially with the rampant amount of radiation which they feed on.
so you saying some monster broke into earth and check out the place but don't know how to get back home? well portals are a thing so this isn't to far off for a backstory for the giant monsters on earth.
@@rickydiscord7671 "og canon of the monsterverse" this isnt a theory dude
@@randomguy8976 was tired as hell and not know what og was at the time.
but the thing is. I wasn't making a theory. because I was ASKING what he was talking about.
"The monsterverse"
Please stop trying to make that a thing.
“It seems you always lived your life like a Trilobite in the wind…” 😢😢😢
Cool vid
great job on the video, super informative and eye-opening! but honestly, i can't help but think that sometimes the focus on extinction can be a bit overblown. sure, it’s serious, but nature has this incredible ability to adapt and evolve. what do you all think?
I would argue that the closest life has ever come to going extinct was the oxygen catastrophe but still good video
These videos are so goated to go to bed to or fall asleep to. The somewhat deep and calming voice is perfect
I’ve tried an extinction event once,new reminder,never trust a conch shell.
The magic conch ?
Yeah, cone snails are abominations
So you're saying releasing a ton of carbon dioxide all at once is bad?
Sure glad we aren't doing that.
Anything is a buttplug if you’re not a quitter
Rip piggy
It is worth noting that as horrific and tragic these mass extinction events were, we wouldn't be here if any one of them had not occurred, which is quite a sobering thought. It is also likely that our demise (along with that of many other species) will pave the way for the rise of species that thrive later. Such is the nature of life on this planet.
In Russia in the summer of 2010 60 people died due to forest fires. Not 50k only 60. It is a huge tragedy, but still... (or did I misunderstand the meaning of this number?)
You heard him correctly. There are quite a few things wrong in this video.
I think he’s including things also caused by the heat. Heat stroke, cardiac events, etc
Think more people have froze than heat stroke anywhere anytime
@@Cedric76767 like in all total history? Yeah I think you’re right.
The Great Dying is such a metal name. But it fits for such a terrifying event
Poland and life has a lot in common. The universe keeps trying to take us out, but we keep coming back. We're dug in like ticks. 🤣 🇵🇱 🌎
polska gurom
Imagine being one of the generations of creatures that lived through an extinction event. Shit would be tough.
Hundreds of people have argued with me, that, a hot planet is easier to live on, than a cold one.
The thing is, it's hard to get rid of heat. It's 10 times easier to heat up a space, than cool it.
Fr because if there’s heat you can’t escape it because the water would be hot the only thing you could do was go into caves or be under shade and even then depending on the heat you would be cooked
251 Million years isn't that mind boggling to me I was there when it happened
I wouldn't be surprised if the next extinction event is inadvertently caused because of us.
it already is
Google Holocene extinction
Unless someone gets rid of the big companies.
Ur voice is so calming
So it sounds like Earth 🌏was basically another Venus just a planet of pure hell 🔥🔥
Makes you wonder if some of these exoplanets we're discovering harbor life at this very moment, and we're just looking at an earlier epoch because light takes so long to reach us
@theussmirage That's a really good question I wouldn't be surprised if there were other forms of life around that time🤔
This would be the worst time to be alive, full-stop. And I’m surprised that anyone lived through it at all
Imma predict that human-caused shenanigans will cause "The Great Dying 2: The Electric Boogaloo"
Not anytime soon.
I dont think were that far away. The meteor asophis misses the gravity of the earth ever so slightly less.
Our luck will run out sometime. When theirs a 7 year waiting time. How many wars are going to happen to ignore the issue
I think the K-Pg is still my pick for the most metal extinction event of all time, but continent-sized lava flows causing a wide array of global catastrophes for 200,000 years straight is definitely up there.
I'll stick with the Great Oxygenation. Toxic caustic gas in the atmosphere and dissolved in the seas, oceans filling with red sludge as dissolved iron literally turned to rust, and the perpetrators were single-celled plants with no idea they were doing anything harmful by dumping their waste gases into the air.
The extinction event happening right now, isn't as bad as the Permian-Triassic, yet....I'll check back in 50,000 years to see how this comment ages.
Here's a scary thought: we can't predict weather exactly as it goes, one week we might think there will be rain, the very same day it's dry as a desert. Meaning that we don't know how the weather is going, we only know that everything that goes up will eventually go down and we are in 2000 years of "good" weather.
school will remain open
Walking with Monsters told me all about this era.
Geologists: "There have been 5 large Extinction events in Earths history."
Climate Scientists: "There is another..."
Great video
And the only extinction event caused by a single species, is happening right now.
Nah, cyanobacteria coined this spot long ago. Caused near total extinction of life by saturating water and atmosphere with a toxic corrosive gas called oxygen.
With these giant impacts, I like the theory that suggests there is an equal and opposite earth eruption roughly opposite on the globe to where the impact occurred.
It's a pretty solid theory. The flood basalts all seem to have an impact crater roughly opposite them, give or take tectonic drift, dating from about the same time.
Hard to settle it as a confirmed fact without it happening again .. which I'd really rather we didn't let happen, personally.
The great dying of the Permian also a living hell
No shet Sherlock
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@@posticusmaximus1739 I don't care you saying
@@Tofu699 bruh
No shit, it's what the video is about also was said in the video