How the World's Largest Lake Killed the World's Smallest Whales | The Paratethys
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- Around 12 million years ago, a giant sea was disconnected from the world's oceans. Spanning across southern europe and northwestern asia, the Megalake Paratethys was the largest lake to ever exist. This giant lake was home to a variety of marine mammals, including the worlds smallest baleen whale! Watch this science animation video to learn more about this forgotten ecosystem and it’s interesting inhabitants!
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:38 History and Size of Paratethys Megalake
1:37 Animals of the Paratethys
2:09 Cetotherium riabinini's feeding style
3:12 Extinction of the Lake
4:12 Outro and Credits
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Hello everybody I hope you all are doing well! While this is a much shorter project it still feels wonderful making videos again nonetheless! Let me know in the comments below which animal featured in this video was your favorite!
It doesn't matter how short it is, I'm glad that I learned about an ancient gigantic lake and some of its unique animals. 👍
Measurements in proper units not British Imperial or American football fields
Man, Earth used to be a beautiful planet with amazing biodiversity during the Cenozoic era before Homo Sapiens Sapiens took over. 😭
Your Videos are truly great but this one was sad and good
This should be a pbs eons video
It's a shame all the unique isolated ecosystems usually perish when theres a drastic change in the environment.
A shame, but kinda expected since isolationism leads to over specialization and over specialization leads to an increased vulnerability towards change
It’s a bit disappointing. This lake could have had so many interesting animals that are now long extinct because it no long exists :(
@@NaturesCompendium If only this mega lake & central American seaway were still around. I'd be taking a selfie in my floaties. And in a bigger boat & shark cage.
If ya think about it life is always evolving towards perfection or immortality in another term. It's always about the best way to maximize survival so while a shame it's almost inevitable that isolated places and species end up perishing when an eventual change does occur. Life needs to constantly be adapting
I mean they had about a 5 million year run. That’s pretty good if you ask me.
I can't imagine the sadness and pain these creatures suffered before their end. Whales bond so heavily with their pod members and are highly intelligent. They had to have realized something was going wrong over time, but could do nothing to stop it. How very sad. Also, this animation was incredible and I really appreciated the extra details, like the whale songs. Just excellent.
Nah, it was a while back so think cave man but whales
@@josiahponce1814 thats not how it work
@@ElisArid I mean yeah, that is how it works. Humans aren’t the only animals to have grown in brain capacity over millions of years
@@WraithLK “cavemen” still had feelings if whales evolved to be as intelligent as they are now they still wouldve noticed something just not to the same effect
@@WraithLK if we are the only ones to have grown then the animals have always been the same, therefore, I'm right. Thanks for proving my point
At least these small whales didn't have to live in constant fear with bigger predatory whales & sharks. Awesome video as always, NC. 👍
Yeah,instead they suffer a slow and painful death.
@@igorche8163 12-9M years ago?
@@igorche8163 I would've stayed in the primordial soup too.If i knew there were gonna be days like this.
Animal lovers are dumb
@@igorche8163 someone had to say it 🙄
Cetotherium riabanini definitely now has to be my favorite species of small baleen whale. I thank you all at Nature’s Compendium for introducing me to this fascinating yet little known long gone species!
Baby teeny weeny cetotherium riabanini
Well at least he’s having fun
It's always hard to believe, though even it was a REALLY GIANT lake, that these whales could exist without inbreeding. But i'm probably just underestimating the size of the lake. Life found a way… until it doesn't anymore.
The Black sea rn holds three isolate populations of dolphins (not very big ones tho) of the same size as tiny whales, so I don't think inbreeding was a problem
It's still has a chance but if we look cheetah case, size of environment can cause inbreeding
Well. The lake was larger than the Mediterranean and likely, at least by the map, had area of what at the time was Europe.
Plus these whales were as big as a dolphin so not that big.
Lots of species (snakes are the first that come to mind) don’t really react to imbreeding like humans do. Tho, honestly I’m not sure if it’s a different between being mammal or not.
Now that I think about it... it may be dolphins that are mammals and not whales.
Awesome that brackish lake baleen and beaked whales once existed.
@RealSweetKid Lmao no
Please tell us more about the other fauna in the lake. What kind of seal was it? Are there any sharks?
Sadly there's not a lot we know about animals of the paratethys lake aside from Cetotheirum riabinini 😞 We do have a lot of awesome fossils outside of the lake and before it became landlocked. This made it especially difficult for me to reconstruct the animals like the seal and heterodelphis since the remains of both are very fragmentary. I did my best to reconstruct them based on the related kentriodon for the heterodelphis and looked at modern seals like the baikal seal which also lives in a lake. There also was a stingray that was found in the paratethys but it unfortunately was from before the area became a lake
@@NaturesCompendium ask some eontologists
@@NaturesCompendium ahhh, it would have been nice to know because want happened to them is the equivalent of a part of our planet being sent to outer space
Sharks’ skeletons are made of cartilage, which doesn’t preserve well.
@@kellydalstok8900 teeth?
Too bad that isnt still around. Seeing a sea that is also a lake would be dope.
We can still see the Caspian Sea.
Well one thing's for sure, they're all safe (I believe) from everyone's favorite giant shark.
Trevor?
Loved this so much, I love marine life and such so this really scratched that itch, definitely subscribing
Welcome aboard!
Wow!! Great work.
I am soo happy to see you our work and the work of our colleagues got featured in this great video. I really enjoyed how you developed the narrative. Great work!!!
I will broadcast it on my networks because it is an excellent outreach story.
And I am looking forward to supplying and inspiring new videos and maybe future collaborations.
Dan V. Palcu
Unfortunately, we have doomed the Aral sea as well. Such a shame.
Yeah :c USSR made a HUGE mistake...
Damn communists.
This was a great video on the largest lake to ever exist and the smallest whale that inhabit in this lake,also the animation is great too,and I wish y'all a great day
Also great job to everyone working on this video
Thank you! Right now it's only just me behind all the animations, but I'd love to expand and grow a team of artists and animators in the near future 😀
I always wanted to see someone make video on what Europe was like during the miocene when megalodon was still around.
I just wanted to say how much i appreciate your content, its onestly some of the best ive ever seen. The atmosphere in this video especially is incredible, and i feel like im there swimming in the paratethys. Your videoes have helped me appreciate all life through the ages not just mesozoic stuff i just love and appreciate all you do so, thank you!
Glad to hear! I appreciate your kind words :D
Imagine if it was around today, we would have one of the biggest fresh water supplies with some of the most awesome organisms not only in Europe but in THE WORLD.
This is actually really interesting! Finally something I didn't know much about! (Although I don't remember ever going extinct In a lake so I was bound to not know about it)
WOW!!! Just saw this channel and instantly subscribed!
I knew the Gray Whales were different and would like to know more about how they fit into whale evolution.
I just discovered your channel, and I’m really loving your content. Keep it up!
Thank you for making these! This is amazing!
Wonderful video as always Jack!
Too sad that giant inland sea dried out, Seeing the smallest Baleen Whale would have been awesome and a very unique creature in general
This was a really good video covering the paratethys sea. Great job 👏 👍
Its great to see this video thriving
really cool video! Love your animation mixed with the science!
I just found your channel because I saw your comment on edges channel and damn you deserve far more subscribers I’m so happy I found your channel this is some quality and interesting content!
Glad to see you posting again
Glad to be posting again :D
Just found this channel and I'm not disappointed. Looking forward to binging your older videos
Awesome video!
This is so cool! Thank you for making this video! I had never heard of the Paratethys lake. I'm excited to hear more about it as more discoveries are made. :)
fantastic video!
Hooray!!! New video, looking forward to this
Really good video! I learned a lot!
a fun educational video snack for all that wanna know history without an hour to get to the point
Great work!! Please continue!!
I wonder what if the lake and whale species still existed, what they would be called? But I fear if it was the case we humans would have hunted the whale to extinction.
No if ands or buts about it.
Freshwater dolphin is endanger because human trow trash in river
@@seiyuokamihimura5082 wut
wait, so thats why the black sea has so much salt in it? i always wondered why the black sea was so salty
The black sea isn't even that salty, Mediterranean sea is has almost twice the salt content
First video of yours I have seen, this was good shit mate
Very good video! Cetotherium was my favorite!
Here from Stated Clearly, great channel!
great video:))
Didn't know that the Tethys Sea what made the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Good stuff! Also it's sad that this is what awaits the Mediterranean sea. All those coral reefs and countless organism perish.
It might not due to the Suez Canal bringing in water from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
Nice work
Welcome back
Very cool video! The story of the Paratethys Sea reminds me a lot of the massive saltwater lakes that existed in the Great Basin region of western North America, like Lake Bonneville.
I just realized, this is like the Cenozoic/Neogene/Miocene version of the PBS Kids show Arthur episode "Cast Away".
Just got a new subscriber. :)
I just love your Videos you are awesome nice Video but a sad story of extinction good job :-)
Hey mate how do you make these videos do you animate them? they look cool
Rip tiny whales 🐋
Never knew it existed amazing
Very interesting!
This is very interesting, too bad it does not exist today in its maximum volume.
I particularly liked the tick on the elephants right ear. Thank you.
Wow! I have done lots of research on past life during the Cenozoic era, but this is the first time I have ever heard of this lake! Thank you for uploading this video! I found it very informative!
Nice to have you back, Compendium!
Looking forward to Jurassic World Evolution 2?
Yesss but I'mma keep my expectations low until we see gameplay 🦖
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Think you’re gonna be making anymore design accuracy videos anytime soon?
@Awesome Productions Very soon, hopefully 😀
@@NaturesCompendium I want to ask you this. You've seen any of the JWE mods? Are they (for the most part) faithful to what we know from the fossil record (along with studies and paleo-art).
I'm mostly referring to ones that have existed, not any crazy/fantastical hybrid or goofy mods.
@@robrice7246 sorry I missed this comment. I have seen a lot of the mods for Jurassic world evolution and the community is super talented. I haven't seen every single mod but a lot of the ones that I have seen did a great job recreating the dinosaurs is more anatomically accurate, such as the ones by jagged fang designs and digital duck. One of my good friends "Joe's Ventures" has a whole series showcasing all the accurate Jurassic world evolution mods and I would recommend watching his videos because he goes in depth as to what each modder got right or wrong
I love this content
good show
:O wahoooo upload
How/why did the big lake disappeared? Thank you for the video!
1:45 I believe that (according to Fossilworks & Wikipedia) (if you trust them) Heterodelphis is a Kentriodontid, not a Ziphiid.
I used kentriodon as a base for my reconstruction 👍🏽
@@NaturesCompendium Fair enough and very fitting.
I just realized, you may have two different animation models/designs for C. riabinini.
I really love these videos and my favorite is the small whale.
I feel bad for cetotherium 🥺😔
3:50 Stegotetrabelodon? What species?
Yes. It's based on S. syrticus tho it is meant to represent the Pakistani species S. maluvalensis. It's also important to realize there there are teeth found near Iran but they aren't confirmed to belong to Stegotetrabelodon, so this was mostly speculative on my part.
I would really like to see a video on the vaquita and its decline
I haven't given any modern animals attention in a while, so I'll take that into consideration
**Pedro Pascal crying meme**
I wonder what kind of predators were in there....
I’m very sad now, I would have loved to have seen a small whale, but now I know I can’t.
We still have pygmy right whale's which are the last surviving relatives of cetotheriums!
2:23/2:28 Is that present in this genera, Cetotheriidae or just C. riabinini?
Yes
@@NaturesCompendium So it's all three?
@@robrice7246 if you're asking if it's a part of the Cetotheriidae family, then yes it is.
@@NaturesCompendium I was referring if that also occurs within the genus Cetotherium as a whole (not just C. riabinini).
Also, that might explain why the Pygmy Right Whale is poorly known and rarely/infrequently seen if it lives a similar feeding lifestyle.
Cetotherium had the opportunity to make it back to land and become a new Pakicetus all by itself....
When are you going to live stream prehistoric kingdom again?
Next week ☺️
3:50 he looks so sad
He either got sad about the whale bones or sad there was no water at the lake
Thumbnail: Stegotetrabelodon: ay what's that whale skeleton doing there
I have 3 questions:
1. What is the name of the seal species
2. Did the marine mammals live during the brackish period of the lake?
3.where can i find more info in the fossil faiuna of this lake?(like the fish and molusks ans stuff)
1. The seal species is based off of fragmentary remains found in Ukraine fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=52073&is_real_user=1
2. Yes
3. There aren't a lot of papers on animals that lived in this region unfortunately but the paper I linked mentions the presence of crustaceans that cetotherium may have eaten. There are also some papers on different gastropods that lived in the region: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825215000197
@@NaturesCompendium thank you very much
Imagine if this mega lake was still around today? What do you guys think what would have happened to it along with many animals?
Aww we came this close to have small whales. Evolution said no.
At least we still have minke whales 🐋
@@NaturesCompendium true. But these were so small. They could habe been a national animal for someone.
Say number 15, burger king foot lettuce
What about number 16, krusty krab sea lettuce?? 😳
@@NaturesCompendium interesting.....
@@NaturesCompendium but sir this is a wendy's
Plz do a video on only livayatan it's my favourite animal
Thx for the heart I love this channel, also the megladon video was great
Do a video about the smilodon
So does this mean I can use a Safari Toob Gray Whale as a Cetotherium riabinina? 🤩
The world is your oyster! 🦪
I really thought the whale was going to eat that duck...
Does a lake have to be fresh water or can it also be saltwater? If it was salt than wouldn't it be a sea?
The Paratethys lake was brackish water, not saltwater. Some scientists do classify it as an inland sea however.
Is this a form of island dwarfism?
Not sure if this counts as insular dwarfism since this occurred in a lake and not an island haha but it is a form of dwarfism yes
Isn'tland dwarfism
Foster's Rule
4:03 that proboscidean looks sad
He walked all this way to a lake only to see no water 😔
@@NaturesCompendium :(
new vid????
Tiny baby baleen whale babies!
No!!!! Not Cetotherium!!!!
Poor Mini whales D: May they rest in peace.
Rad AF vid though.
Cetotherium This 6 Metres Baleen Whales Was A Favorite Prey For Giant Predators Including Leviathan Melvillei and The Giant Great White Shark Carcharodon Megalodon
Long story short the lake dried up a bit and became too salty
These mini whales: *exists*
*Another day later*
Scientists: We discovered whales the size of stuffed toys!
What a wee whale, adorable
Aww, I would've loved to see a living tiny whale baby. That mental image is so stinking cute... I wonder how they sang their whale songs?
Why are all the coolest animals not alive anymore? Watching this stuff makes me depressed that theres literally no possible way in the age i live in to view these creatures the way they looked when they were alive.
Were there any sturgeons in it?
Not that I could find sadly
Think about this, we have giant salt mines all over the world. Maybe that's how those veins of salt were made. From small oceans drying up in those areas.
Intriguing. Now let's save the vaquita.