PBS Eons Small visual correction if you don't mind me pointing it out: when you talk about the rise of rodents (@6:28)you are showing a picture of something that spookily resembles to a modern day shrew (insectivore) which is fine as they probably also started to evolve, just that it is a wrong/confusing visual. Your videos are super helpful and amazing. So otherwise you receive all of my respect and admiration for the great and important educational work! Keep it up! :)
PBS Eons, please don't stop making these little programmes. I live in the UK, and these episodes are exactly what I wanted to watch as a child and what I want to show my own kids. Your programmes are interesting and informative, as well as fun, which is what programmes like yours need to be. You educate as well as entertain, which is all anyone can really ask for. Thanks for the new episode, we all eagerly await more!
Surprise at the BBC hasn't made a series of UA-cam channels just like this because it seems like that the best documentaries are being made about stuff are made on UA-cam
TBH the BBC makes great documentaries: Planet Earth, Blue Planet etc. But not enough programmes are made about ancient life, and this is so interesting and enjoyable that I eagerly await each episode. I just wish more people were interested in what happened before today, and not just relating to what humans did, but how we evolved, what we evolved from and everything in between.
@@shhimbob6825 We've wiped out 60% of the population of non-human non-domesticated animals in the last 50 years alone, primarily through direct habitat destruction. In 50 years... when in geologic time a 20,000 year span is considered quick...
@@cros13 that type of thing happens all the time. Asteroids, volcanoes erupting, etc. Humans are just one of the hundreds of thousands of "catastrophic" events to happen to the Earth... Really we are just the most adaptable animal, being able to fill almost all general niches... Naturally we kill out our competition. Just Evolution at its best
@@shhimbob6825 Sure... we're not a real threat to life continuing on earth in some form... and our intelligence and adaptability will probably allow us to adapt quicker than other species that need to change inherited behaviour or physiology.... it's just very likely that we're creating a habitat for ourselves that's likely to cause substantial problems for us in the very near future. Damaging our ability to produce or distribute food, pushing areas of the planet to exceed the 35C maximum wet-bulb temperature humans can survive outdoors in and changes in fresh water availability.
This is so crazy. Just imagine the place where you are sitting right now, and now imagine what it might have looked like 10 million years ago, and what type of animals were walking around on the place you now call home. Anyone else also really curious to discover things like this?
@@prototypeone985 mine too, am from the Netherlands. But that’s even crazier, to realize the place you call home had all sorts of now-extinct marine animals swimming around, 10 million years ago.
this would be a fascinating topic! however not that much is known. sound doesn't preserve very well :) so I think most of what we have to go on is anatomy of speech organs in combination with brain size
Doesn't really fit in with the theme of the channel that well. An interesting topic though, and I would recommend another UA-cam channel called Xidnaf or NativLang. Both do a good job explaining origins of languages, words, and phrases.
As someone who loves to know the details of how everything evolved to the way it is now and how the world transformed over time, I was amazed by this episode, even if it touched over the subject superficially (though it did the best it could within the time limit). I hope that in future episodes there will be more details about the animals and events mentioned, I got really curious
Bruno Souza I've already watched every single video of this channel, since the beginning. There are many subjects yet to cover, but this is actually a good thing, as we will have good material for a long time
João Pedro Watch the Nat Geo documentary: Evolutions: The Walking Whale, if you haven't already. I remember watching that epsiode as a kid, realising how amazing evolution is.
It's really cool, but what pains me is the fact that we will never know for sure every single detail that led to the rise of conscious rational life, or a real reason why it happened
Funny how these UA-cam channels produce amazing documentaries while the multibillion dollar TV channels like Fox, CNN, history channel waste their resources
@@helloitsahmed Thats the difference between BROAD casting and NARROW (or niche) casting. Big networks have a broader section of people to target, while this distribution and funding method allows them to target a very specific group.
The true fortune of our existence is incredible. We're just one blip in an evolutionary rollercoaster that's been occurring for hundreds of millions of years and it just so happened to lead to a species that is smart enough to realize itself. Amazing.
PBS Eons will be the most popular Hank produced channel soon. I'm really quite torn on whether I should watch Eons or Space Time first. Last week it was Eons, this week was Space Time. ❤
It always makes me sad thinking about prehistoric wildlife from around the last Ice Age. I get that we'll never see dinosaurs since they died 65 million years ago but we just barely missed these guys. All those cool wildlife that we ALMOST got to see.
If it's any consolation, there is one ice age mammal still living. It's called a musk ox, and you can see them in Alaska. They live in some other arctic areas, too.
@@lindamedrano3313 Evidence is how we know humans didn't exist at the same time. We've radiometrically dated the relevant fossils, and the human remains and they aren't even close. Off by millions of years. We aren't located in the same sediment layers. We would expect to find human fossils in the same layers as non-avian dinosaurs, but we don't. Tho if you are talking about right now in modern times, there are living dinosaurs all over the place. They're called birds.
this is absolutely fascinating; i've always wondered how the tiny mammals from the dinosaurs' time grew and diversified into us and all the other mammals. a lot of natural history that i've seen only focuses on pre-human time
Francois Lacombe With a little skill and _a lot_ of luck, I'd say whenever the first large plants appeared. You'd have to know which ones provided what nutrients and which had toxins, hence the skill and luck, but nutrition and clean water (which you can get from any water with skills) and you're golden.
scaper8, because the first plants were seedless, hence fruitless, you could go probably as far as the first big river fish, because you'de need their proteins. And I don't know how you'de get vitamin C, I don't think there is enough in animals that you could have your share of it by eating meat without dying because there is simply too much meat in your diet.
Beautiful and sad real story at once. From the dark , frightening and yet wonderful ages to the slow realization the world has become what it is. Like an old man remembering his lifetime , like closing a book , like a peaceful awaking after an incredible dream... There is poesy and grandeur in this History.
the book isn't closing... depending on how we form our future, our species is just a longer or shorter chapter. We might be responsible for a lot of species going extinct but in the grand scheme of things we are just making room for ecological niches to be filled again when we are gone. No one knows what might have been if we were never here or behaved differently and no one can tell if we made the future of biological life more or less interesting. Maybe give it another billion years and after us, a couple more self-aware species evolve and go extinct (or maybe we transcend our biological bodies and become gods? A collective hive mind floating through space as a supercomputer, looking for things to assimilate? Maybe we are just the jumping stone for artificial intelligence, which is an unavoidable step in evolution). I can't really comprehend what you meant with "sad" back when you wrote this and hope you'll learn you look at life in a different way.
@@notlisztening9821 the only way I try to comfort myself is humans have single-handedly orchestrated the beginning of new species by helping 'vermin' (rodents, feral cats, foxes, raccoons) to dominate and evolve into new future species
I am so lucky, to live in a time where shows like this are a click away. I am soo sooo lucky I get to exist and believe I am significant while knowing so well how insignificant I am in the history of the Earth. No matter how crappy your life might be, you are so damn lucky just to be alive, and be conscious thinking humans, aware of your place in time.
This episode sets an example all previous ones should have followed and all new ones should. Starts by setting the scene, including climate and predominant forms of life, covers plate tectonics, plant life and general scenery, evolution of main lineages - particularly the ones we care about - and sets up anticipation of the next episode. Perfect!
I really hate snakes and some of the really expressive pics he put into the video for reptile examples will haunt my dreams tonight. Obviously a dislike is what will follow now.
One little thing might be there to present: How crustaceans (maybe) crawled onto land and became the predecessors of insects. And later how they learned to fly. Well, if any of this is known, it would make a great video. If.
I so enjoy the story-telling narrative method of presenting this information! We process the information much better when it is presented in such a way, especially if the narrative is engaging, as yours is. And while I am at it, let me also say Thank You, Hank and all of your staff, for all the different channels you have developed to diversify your efforts in telling the story of science in its many different forms.
WOW!!! loved it! So glad I've found a channel that is going to save my brain from atrophy. Love the speed at which the information is dispelled. Thanks! Going to pass it on to my 20 year old son. At one time he wanted to be a Zoologist. Now he's about to study Psychology. 👍🏾🇹🇹
btw, love your program, (actually wish our taxes went toward this...) I think some graphics could help make it more clear the order of Eons Eras Periods Epoches Ages you’re talking about. Maybe even a consistent timeline on the bottom of the screen, in scrolling segments like what the Kurtzgezat channel does.
I'd love to have the last bit of this series: the quaternary. I know you have done all sorts of videos about topics during this period but it would be amazing if we get a big picture about it. Love all your videos. Thank you so much
It is pronounced as, "Waimanu," as in "whymanu" with a fast, short "a" sound than a long, slow "a" sound if you spelled it like you would say it. So, you are both wrong; sorry I am late.
No c'mon, Tarzan and Conan were the first humans. They lived inside Hollow Earth, and when they emerged through the hole at the North pole people started roaming the rest of the planet. Of course, they had to meet the Amazons to procreate.
@@johannageisel5390 makes you wonder how those two type A personalities got all the way to the Amazon without killing each other. Of course, what were they doing for sex?
They were a strange group of mammals that formed the sister group to the therians (placentals + marsupials). They held niches very similar to those of modern day rodents and rabbits and went extinct for unknown reasons. They may have also laid eggs. That's all I know about them.
Since they are cold blooded, they were able to adapt to the changing temperatures. If it cold very cold.. They had the ability to hibernate to stay alive.
Wonderful video, as allways. What I would personaly like to see is more on early human civilisation, stone age and hunter/gatherers type of comunities.
I would love to learn more about the life on Antarctica when the earth was so warm that there was no ice, but forest's. This seems to have happened more often in the history of the earth and I find it particularly interesting because the continent, despite the warm climate, was always half a year in the light and half a year in the dark. The video was as always fantastic and very educational and I'm looking forward to the next one :)
But, if the Earth's axis of rotation were perpendicular to the plane of it's revolution around the sun, rather than be tilted as it is today, then there would be a day-night cycle at the poles, so organisms would adapt to that as they have with today's organisms.
Really. Whole forests "going to sleep", dropping their leaves in preparation for the long dark and continuously photosynthesizing during the Summer. I guess the animal response would have to be hibernation or extreme migration
I wonder about the evolution of mammals: from the Permian, through the Mesozoic, surviving two mass extinctions. What was the last common ancestor of all mammals and when did it appear?
I always get a pleasant burst of nostalgia when seeing Hank as the host of the earlier videos on channels like these. I hope y'all have a delicious bean-filled chom chom
Thank you for this recap of the last million of years, I'll be sure to do much more research (that my school doesn't recognize) and learn even more. Ps: Thank you for helping me through my difficult time of school, they won't give me the education that I so desperately want.
I'm sorry you're stuck in a backwards school, & it's amazing that you're seeking out more knowledge on your own 😊 If you ever see this comment, PLEASE check out Aron Ra & Trey the Explainer, they're my favorite paleontology/evolutionary science UA-cam channels.
Like! They can expand on this by presenting evidence as to whether extant komodo dragons are examples of island gigantism relative to smaller varanids OR an example of island dwarfism relative to Megalania.
KSound Kaiju goanna are an entire pylogenic assembly. and yes goanna in general, especially the parante monitor, and komodo are thought to be the closest living relatives.
@PBS Eons when mentioning CARBONEMYS the background of this artistic recreation shows lepidodendrals, some lycopods that died out long before carbonemys lived. Apart from this small thing, I really enjoy all of your videos.
The Anthropocene is a (proposed) epoch, and still part of the Quaternary period within the Cenozoic era, which they're going to cover next time. Eon > era > period > epoch > age. The Quaternary period and Cenozoic era do not yet RIP, even if the Holocene epoch does.
Doesn't seem like it's for us to name. Either humans will survive and our descendants millions of years from now, however they've evolved, will recognize this as a true epoch or we'll just be another world-spanning dividing line like the K-Pg for another species to make note of when determining the geologic history of this planet, assuming evolutionary lightning will strike twice and intelligence like ours arises again
Bring on the Rise of the Humans video! Finish the series! (But also don't rush because your videos are awesome due to your attention to detail) But also hurry because I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER PLEASE!
Best thing and my reason to love science, are the evidences they show. We do not just believe in science but there must be a clear description with evidence for a topic.
They skipped over a lot of things and focused on a few random details. I think the main point of this series was to talk about our origins and what the world was like at the time, but I still have no idea why they devoted so much time to titanoboa.
At various points in time, most, if not all kingdoms of life ventured out of the seas onto land. The challenges to adapting to terrestrial life are many. Here are just some I could think of; surely there are more. For starters, you have to find a way to keep your insides moist. You must also cope with larger and more frequent temperature fluctuations, as well as greater exposure to damaging UV light. The reduced buoyancy of air vs water makes locomotion more difficult and effectively confines you to only two dimensions. When, how, and in what transitional forms did the various kingdoms rise to meet the challenges of establishing a terrestrial presence?
I don't know how Hank successfully grabs my attention for the whole length of the video; my grad professors couldn't keep me interested past three minutes.
Climate change deniers: The earth is only 6,500 years old. Also climate change deniers: Videos like this prove that climate change has been a constant for millions of years. Its not new.
Every time I watch these, it reminds me how insignificant our lifespans are. So many changes happened before we were even brought about. We're still infants compared to most species that exist. It always makes me wonder what is capable in the next million years. Will we die out in the blink of an eye? or evolve into something we simply can't comprehend? Or are we done evolving? Have we reached a point where we don't need spectacular new traits to compete anymore?
link to the poster please!
Here you go! store.dftba.com/products/eons-poster
You should put it in the description, or pin this comment.
It certainly would have helped in my case!
PBS Eons Small visual correction if you don't mind me pointing it out: when you talk about the rise of rodents (@6:28)you are showing a picture of something that spookily resembles to a modern day shrew (insectivore) which is fine as they probably also started to evolve, just that it is a wrong/confusing visual. Your videos are super helpful and amazing. So otherwise you receive all of my respect and admiration for the great and important educational work! Keep it up! :)
NICE! Thanks man :D
PBS Eons, please don't stop making these little programmes. I live in the UK, and these episodes are exactly what I wanted to watch as a child and what I want to show my own kids. Your programmes are interesting and informative, as well as fun, which is what programmes like yours need to be. You educate as well as entertain, which is all anyone can really ask for. Thanks for the new episode, we all eagerly await more!
Surprise at the BBC hasn't made a series of UA-cam channels just like this because it seems like that the best documentaries are being made about stuff are made on UA-cam
TBH the BBC makes great documentaries: Planet Earth, Blue Planet etc. But not enough programmes are made about ancient life, and this is so interesting and enjoyable that I eagerly await each episode. I just wish more people were interested in what happened before today, and not just relating to what humans did, but how we evolved, what we evolved from and everything in between.
wholesome
True i idnt know how much i wanted this
I wanted to be a paleontologist a decade or so ago when I was his age. Now I'm a teenager and want to be something else.
Wow! I’m Navajo from New Mexico and at 2:35 that bird Tsidiiyazhi in Navajo language means “small bird”. That’s amazing.
lol.
“What should we name this small fossil bird?”
“Tsidiiyazhi”
“Oh cool, what does that name mean?”
“Small bird”
“…”
It's crazy how small of a blip on the radar humanity is in the grand scheme of things.
And yet we have destroyed so much in the minuscule amount of time that we've been here.
@@BananaCake26
On the mass scale, humans haven't affected that much
@@shhimbob6825 We've wiped out 60% of the population of non-human non-domesticated animals in the last 50 years alone, primarily through direct habitat destruction. In 50 years... when in geologic time a 20,000 year span is considered quick...
@@cros13 that type of thing happens all the time. Asteroids, volcanoes erupting, etc. Humans are just one of the hundreds of thousands of "catastrophic" events to happen to the Earth...
Really we are just the most adaptable animal, being able to fill almost all general niches... Naturally we kill out our competition. Just Evolution at its best
@@shhimbob6825 Sure... we're not a real threat to life continuing on earth in some form... and our intelligence and adaptability will probably allow us to adapt quicker than other species that need to change inherited behaviour or physiology.... it's just very likely that we're creating a habitat for ourselves that's likely to cause substantial problems for us in the very near future. Damaging our ability to produce or distribute food, pushing areas of the planet to exceed the 35C maximum wet-bulb temperature humans can survive outdoors in and changes in fresh water availability.
This is so crazy. Just imagine the place where you are sitting right now, and now imagine what it might have looked like 10 million years ago, and what type of animals were walking around on the place you now call home. Anyone else also really curious to discover things like this?
That's so cool to think about. Thanks :)
I am
My home would be underwater
@@prototypeone985 mine too, am from the Netherlands. But that’s even crazier, to realize the place you call home had all sorts of now-extinct marine animals swimming around, 10 million years ago.
I would be in the middle of the ocean because Oahu did not exist 10 million years ago
this is the REAL greatest story ever told .i can’t get enough of it!
Everything changed the day the Grass Nation attacked.
Enthused Norseman lol
I wish I could still watch that show it was so good
Robert Merrill Buy the box set. Not that expensive. Sucks that it's only regular DVD and not blu ray.
Only the even-toed ungulates, masters of all 4 stomachs could stop them.
@@robertmerrill8918 look for it online
could you do a video on how language evolved in humans?
Eitan A B This would be v difficult
this would be a fascinating topic! however not that much is known.
sound doesn't preserve very well :) so I think most of what we have to go on
is anatomy of speech organs in combination with brain size
Doesn't really fit in with the theme of the channel that well. An interesting topic though, and I would recommend another UA-cam channel called Xidnaf or NativLang. Both do a good job explaining origins of languages, words, and phrases.
It just gets lazier and lazier as time goes on.
I don't think they can do a video on how language developed because we don't know.
8:13 one of the cutest things i've ever seen.
Nobody:
Me hearing I'm related to an ancient bacteria: I knew I was a parasite
Mmm
Mmm
@@rosoro465 Mmm
Mmm-hmm.
*MMMM*
As someone who loves to know the details of how everything evolved to the way it is now and how the world transformed over time, I was amazed by this episode, even if it touched over the subject superficially (though it did the best it could within the time limit). I hope that in future episodes there will be more details about the animals and events mentioned, I got really curious
João Pedro It was amazing.
many of the mentioned subjects are covered by other videos. I suggest you watch them if you havn't done so yet.
Bruno Souza I've already watched every single video of this channel, since the beginning. There are many subjects yet to cover, but this is actually a good thing, as we will have good material for a long time
João Pedro Watch the Nat Geo documentary: Evolutions: The Walking Whale, if you haven't already. I remember watching that epsiode as a kid, realising how amazing evolution is.
It's really cool, but what pains me is the fact that we will never know for sure every single detail that led to the rise of conscious rational life, or a real reason why it happened
"Because that's the era we're in now"--my first thought: this is like when the TV show catches up with the book.
🤣🤣🤣🤭
... and you realize the t.v. show runners aren't 1/10 as talented at the author of the book.
EONS is so awesome!
Please keep doing these videos!!!
For real! This is like someone made my 5th grade self's dream television show.
Now if only they would have a presenter who could talk, instead of yell at you.
no thx
Funny how these UA-cam channels produce amazing documentaries while the multibillion dollar TV channels like Fox, CNN, history channel waste their resources
@@helloitsahmed Thats the difference between BROAD casting and NARROW (or niche) casting. Big networks have a broader section of people to target, while this distribution and funding method allows them to target a very specific group.
him talking about how we don't look like reptiles but I'm over here thinking about the snakes in my family 👀
rightttt😫
Damnnn
Preach
👀
OML noo😭😭
Now I’m thinking about the snakes in my school🤣
the ability to explain concepts so important so fast is exceptional.
I get very emotional everytime I read or watch something discussing the evolution of humanity. Anyone else? It's just so beautiful.
Wtf
Do a video on the evolution of plant self-defense mechanisms such as poisons, thorns, and alert signals spores.
That sounds fun....
That *bruh moment* when the reply gets more likes then the comment
@@DuelingFrog huh?
Man, can't leave a single vid in this channel without liking
The true fortune of our existence is incredible. We're just one blip in an evolutionary rollercoaster that's been occurring for hundreds of millions of years and it just so happened to lead to a species that is smart enough to realize itself. Amazing.
Watching these always leave me in awe that I happened to be born.
PBS Eons will be the most popular Hank produced channel soon. I'm really quite torn on whether I should watch Eons or Space Time first. Last week it was Eons, this week was Space Time. ❤
SciShow!
THE BEST SHOW ON UA-cam! PBS eons is absolutely captivating!
What does that mean
@@mkhanman12345”Captivating” means that it catches the attention of a large group of people, or is interesting
This is how you compile a year's homework into one video. Great job.
It always makes me sad thinking about prehistoric wildlife from around the last Ice Age. I get that we'll never see dinosaurs since they died 65 million years ago but we just barely missed these guys. All those cool wildlife that we ALMOST got to see.
If it's any consolation, there is one ice age mammal still living. It's called a musk ox, and you can see them in Alaska. They live in some other arctic areas, too.
We saw dinosaurs. Who's so sure we didn't not.
@@lindamedrano3313 Evidence is how we know humans didn't exist at the same time. We've radiometrically dated the relevant fossils, and the human remains and they aren't even close. Off by millions of years. We aren't located in the same sediment layers. We would expect to find human fossils in the same layers as non-avian dinosaurs, but we don't.
Tho if you are talking about right now in modern times, there are living dinosaurs all over the place. They're called birds.
this is absolutely fascinating; i've always wondered how the tiny mammals from the dinosaurs' time grew and diversified into us and all the other mammals. a lot of natural history that i've seen only focuses on pre-human time
How far back in time could a stranded time traveler still survive by living off the land?
As long there is enough food and water, I say pretty far. Maybe Carboniferous Period?
Francois Lacombe With a little skill and _a lot_ of luck, I'd say whenever the first large plants appeared. You'd have to know which ones provided what nutrients and which had toxins, hence the skill and luck, but nutrition and clean water (which you can get from any water with skills) and you're golden.
Ask this question in quora
scaper8, because the first plants were seedless, hence fruitless, you could go probably as far as the first big river fish, because you'de need their proteins. And I don't know how you'de get vitamin C, I don't think there is enough in animals that you could have your share of it by eating meat without dying because there is simply too much meat in your diet.
Oxygen would become more of a problem the further back you went
Beautiful and sad real story at once.
From the dark , frightening and yet wonderful ages to the slow realization the world has become what it is.
Like an old man remembering his lifetime , like closing a book , like a peaceful awaking after an incredible dream... There is poesy and grandeur in this History.
the book isn't closing... depending on how we form our future, our species is just a longer or shorter chapter.
We might be responsible for a lot of species going extinct but in the grand scheme of things we are just making room for ecological niches to be filled again when we are gone. No one knows what might have been if we were never here or behaved differently and no one can tell if we made the future of biological life more or less interesting. Maybe give it another billion years and after us, a couple more self-aware species evolve and go extinct (or maybe we transcend our biological bodies and become gods? A collective hive mind floating through space as a supercomputer, looking for things to assimilate? Maybe we are just the jumping stone for artificial intelligence, which is an unavoidable step in evolution).
I can't really comprehend what you meant with "sad" back when you wrote this and hope you'll learn you look at life in a different way.
@Erik Lerström I don't think you have looked far enough for one
@@notlisztening9821 the only way I try to comfort myself is humans have single-handedly orchestrated the beginning of new species by helping 'vermin' (rodents, feral cats, foxes, raccoons) to dominate and evolve into new future species
Amazing trip into my evolution, really made me imagine how much ancestors endured so one day we could exist in a more complex life form
I am so lucky, to live in a time where shows like this are a click away. I am soo sooo lucky I get to exist and believe I am significant while knowing so well how insignificant I am in the history of the Earth. No matter how crappy your life might be, you are so damn lucky just to be alive, and be conscious thinking humans, aware of your place in time.
Please never stop hosting these videos. No one does them better. could listen to you lecture all day . I only wish you did math videos
I love Eons.
This episode sets an example all previous ones should have followed and all new ones should. Starts by setting the scene, including climate and predominant forms of life, covers plate tectonics, plant life and general scenery, evolution of main lineages - particularly the ones we care about - and sets up anticipation of the next episode. Perfect!
Discovered Eons recently. I can't stop watching.
Why would anyone dislike these videos?
It is beyond me. Probably some theists.
Yep, theists and evolution deniers
I really hate snakes and some of the really expressive pics he put into the video for reptile examples will haunt my dreams tonight. Obviously a dislike is what will follow now.
@@mightsystem1 Sorry about that.
Proven wrong, do the math
One little thing might be there to present: How crustaceans (maybe) crawled onto land and became the predecessors of insects. And later how they learned to fly. Well, if any of this is known, it would make a great video. If.
I so enjoy the story-telling narrative method of presenting this information! We process the information much better when it is presented in such a way, especially if the narrative is engaging, as yours is. And while I am at it, let me also say Thank You, Hank and all of your staff, for all the different channels you have developed to diversify your efforts in telling the story of science in its many different forms.
I love these videos but I still wanna see one that talks about Ice Age megafauna in Australia!
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I will feed you to my pet Thylacoleo, megalania
Relax I won't really. I just have to comment to push Steve's comment up the list.
Keep it going guys! 😃 HEAR ME HANK GREEN! THE PEOPLE WANT THIS!!!
yeh this video REALLY should have covered Australia, how marsupials evolved & how rafting caused herbivores to turn into Thylaco's
oh boy me too!
WOW!!! loved it! So glad I've found a channel that is going to save my brain from atrophy.
Love the speed at which the information is dispelled. Thanks!
Going to pass it on to my 20 year old son. At one time he wanted to be a Zoologist. Now he's about to study Psychology. 👍🏾🇹🇹
Where has this UA-cam channel been my hole life
Please do an episode about volcanic activity throughout geologic history.
btw, love your program, (actually wish our taxes went toward this...)
I think some graphics could help make it more clear the order of Eons Eras Periods Epoches Ages you’re talking about. Maybe even a consistent timeline on the bottom of the screen, in scrolling segments like what the Kurtzgezat channel does.
These are my go to videos while I snack
I'm enjoying a frappucino while watching the episode lol
Cristhian Perez lol!
These videos make me lose my appetite but i still love them
@@Cristhian_Perez I am enjoying ginger Tea
Coco pops brah coco pops
I'd love to have the last bit of this series: the quaternary. I know you have done all sorts of videos about topics during this period but it would be amazing if we get a big picture about it. Love all your videos. Thank you so much
The waimanu is pronounced wai-mah-nu. The a in te reo māori is pronounced ‘aaah’ :)
Just for next time!
It is pronounced as, "Waimanu," as in "whymanu" with a fast, short "a" sound than a long, slow "a" sound if you spelled it like you would say it. So, you are both wrong; sorry I am late.
Found this channel and watched every video in 3 days. Amazing covent. Amazing personalities as the hosts. Well done.
I’m going to do the same thing.
A lot of interesting information to take in, but I got the basics:
Vikings used to keep dinos as pets, and then we invented the cellphone.
No, the dinosaurs used to keep the Vikings as pets and the cellphones invented the dinos duh
No c'mon, Tarzan and Conan were the first humans. They lived inside Hollow Earth, and when they emerged through the hole at the North pole people started roaming the rest of the planet. Of course, they had to meet the Amazons to procreate.
@@keithfaulkner6319 The Amazons lived in the Amazonas basin, where The Lost World is also located. Which, of course, also contains dinosaurs.
@@johannageisel5390 makes you wonder how those two type A personalities got all the way to the Amazon without killing each other.
Of course, what were they doing for sex?
@@keithfaulkner6319 I think they used the Nautilus.
They used a Navajo name to name an ancient bird.
Beautiful educational video, I learned so much! Thank you for everyone's hard work putting this video together.
So you learned and posted nothing about the topic?
It's awsum to live a human life
so So SO many years after life
began. Earth's history is epic!
8:14 one of your cutest videos yet
I’d love too see why are appearance changed and when certain characteristics developed I love your channel keep up the great work
You mentioned mammal groups that went extinct during the Paleogene. How about making a video on one of them, the multituberculates?
They were a strange group of mammals that formed the sister group to the therians (placentals + marsupials). They held niches very similar to those of modern day rodents and rabbits and went extinct for unknown reasons. They may have also laid eggs. That's all I know about them.
The origin of bats. How dinosaurs cared for their eggs. Thanks for a great channel. I'm enjoying the eon overviews.
Really nice video but I have a question:When the world started getting colder and an Ice age began how did the reptiles survive ?
Since they are cold blooded, they were able to adapt to the changing temperatures. If it cold very cold.. They had the ability to hibernate to stay alive.
This is just stupendous ! PBS is terrific.
The BEST Channel in UA-cam!
This episode is so well made and beautifully illustrated
Wonderful video, as allways. What I would personaly like to see is more on early human civilisation, stone age and hunter/gatherers type of comunities.
Is anyone else addicted to these evolution and natural history vids?
Man, Eons really loves that running dude. Hyenas be everywhere, so he runnin'
i LOVE PBS Eons!!!!
I would love to learn more about the life on Antarctica when the earth was so warm that there was no ice, but forest's. This seems to have happened more often in the history of the earth and I find it particularly interesting because the continent, despite the warm climate, was always half a year in the light and half a year in the dark.
The video was as always fantastic and very educational and I'm looking forward to the next one :)
YES! I'd love to see a video about life at the poles before the ice caps formed.
Chris Brkbsch they probably can’t find much tbh
Walking with dinosaurs did a ep for this topic.
But, if the Earth's axis of rotation were perpendicular to the plane of it's revolution around the sun, rather than be tilted as it is today, then there would be a day-night cycle at the poles, so organisms would adapt to that as they have with today's organisms.
Really. Whole forests "going to sleep", dropping their leaves in preparation for the long dark and continuously photosynthesizing during the Summer. I guess the animal response would have to be hibernation or extreme migration
In life, you're either a CreoDo or a CreoDont. Okay, I'll leave now.
There is no CreoTry.
Y Dad? Is that you?
You go to the corner and think about what you just said!
Don’t leave me bro
I wonder about the evolution of mammals: from the Permian, through the Mesozoic, surviving two mass extinctions. What was the last common ancestor of all mammals and when did it appear?
I always get a pleasant burst of nostalgia when seeing Hank as the host of the earlier videos on channels like these. I hope y'all have a delicious bean-filled chom chom
Great video as always!
Please tell us about the history of life in Australia. I watch this channel a lot and I don't remember seeing any episodes about life in Australia.
That's because Australia doesn't exist.
Thank you for this recap of the last million of years, I'll be sure to do much more research (that my school doesn't recognize) and learn even more.
Ps: Thank you for helping me through my difficult time of school, they won't give me the education that I so desperately want.
I'm sorry you're stuck in a backwards school, & it's amazing that you're seeking out more knowledge on your own 😊 If you ever see this comment, PLEASE check out Aron Ra & Trey the Explainer, they're my favorite paleontology/evolutionary science UA-cam channels.
Hank, I will never get tired of you telling me all of the bizarre organisms I'm related to.
Im crying evolution is so beautiful
Put a cork in it.
It’s really not, all it is death for every living thing.
Can you talk about temnospondyls and other weird Paleozoic amphibians
How close are squirrels to primates?
quite close, but lagomorph (rabbit and hare) are closer to rodent (squirrel, rat and beaver)
Afif Brian I haven't even thought of squirrels as rodents but you're right.
Afif Brian And thank you.
There's one about 3m away outside.
Sorry I had to :)
Elrey Sosa XD
Could you do a Video on Varanus Priscus Aka Megalania?
Like! They can expand on this by presenting evidence as to whether extant komodo dragons are examples of island gigantism relative to smaller varanids OR an example of island dwarfism relative to Megalania.
Edward Ramirez. Isn't the Megalania more related to the Goanna Lizard?
KSound Kaiju goanna are an entire pylogenic assembly. and yes goanna in general, especially the parante monitor, and komodo are thought to be the closest living relatives.
This idea works hand in hand with my suggestion about Pleistocene Australia in general so im gonna help push it! :)
A video on Australia in general because of how many evolutionary oddities it has had over its existence?
@PBS Eons when mentioning CARBONEMYS the background of this artistic recreation shows lepidodendrals, some lycopods that died out long before carbonemys lived. Apart from this small thing, I really enjoy all of your videos.
All I can say is thanks. What an amazing journey and so well presented.
Vid on ceratopsians?
RIP, we've entered the Anthropocene.
True not official; but pretty sure it will be.
The Anthropocene is a (proposed) epoch, and still part of the Quaternary period within the Cenozoic era, which they're going to cover next time. Eon > era > period > epoch > age. The Quaternary period and Cenozoic era do not yet RIP, even if the Holocene epoch does.
Doesn't seem like it's for us to name. Either humans will survive and our descendants millions of years from now, however they've evolved, will recognize this as a true epoch or we'll just be another world-spanning dividing line like the K-Pg for another species to make note of when determining the geologic history of this planet, assuming evolutionary lightning will strike twice and intelligence like ours arises again
The people who disliked this are either flat earther‘s or people who don’t believe in evolution
I know, why do they even bother watching this channel?
They're all a disgrace to humanity
Bring on the Rise of the Humans video! Finish the series! (But also don't rush because your videos are awesome due to your attention to detail) But also hurry because I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER PLEASE!
Best thing and my reason to love science, are the evidences they show. We do not just believe in science but there must be a clear description with evidence for a topic.
why were the terror birds omitted? they were all over the world, and i would think they were significant
They skipped over a lot of things and focused on a few random details. I think the main point of this series was to talk about our origins and what the world was like at the time, but I still have no idea why they devoted so much time to titanoboa.
7lllll There's already an episode on them.
At various points in time, most, if not all kingdoms of life ventured out of the seas onto land. The challenges to adapting to terrestrial life are many. Here are just some I could think of; surely there are more. For starters, you have to find a way to keep your insides moist. You must also cope with larger and more frequent temperature fluctuations, as well as greater exposure to damaging UV light. The reduced buoyancy of air vs water makes locomotion more difficult and effectively confines you to only two dimensions. When, how, and in what transitional forms did the various kingdoms rise to meet the challenges of establishing a terrestrial presence?
nature finds a way
"Behold. PURGATORIUS! CONSUMER OF NUTS AND ACORNS!"
is humming bird the smallest living dinosaur??
It's just crazy how I love watching videos like this even though I don't understand a thing hahaha.
Love these episodes.
11:27 That dude better be a better runner or he's in real trouble.
I wish I had an exact list of every single life-form, from the first to the most recent!
its insane that the past few million years and our evolution is a sliver of a sliver of a fraction of all the periods of life.
we went through the entire earth's time, from the cambrian explosion to us, AND WE STILL HAVEN'T FOUND OLD ZEALAND!!!! SMH MY HEAD!!!!
Im too lazy to look it up but I think Zealand is in Denmarl or the Netherlands or something
The Netherlands
I love this channel it just made my day😀
Better put my tin foil hat on and go through the comments
I don't know how Hank successfully grabs my attention for the whole length of the video; my grad professors couldn't keep me interested past three minutes.
*Next era*
From the Fall of Humans, to the Rise of Octopuses
As a pearson who wants to now everything posible for me this video was amazing
An episode on dire wolves or canid evolution would be so interesting.
What a fantastic video! Cheers dude!
Climate change deniers: The earth is only 6,500 years old.
Also climate change deniers: Videos like this prove that climate change has been a constant for millions of years. Its not new.
Every time I watch these, it reminds me how insignificant our lifespans are. So many changes happened before we were even brought about. We're still infants compared to most species that exist. It always makes me wonder what is capable in the next million years. Will we die out in the blink of an eye? or evolve into something we simply can't comprehend? Or are we done evolving? Have we reached a point where we don't need spectacular new traits to compete anymore?
Being a student of anthropology its gem for senses.
Sad I’ve learned more on UA-cam than my entire school life.