Why Australia was SO MUCH SCARIER in the Past! (2 NEW SPECIES!)
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0:00 Is Australia Really That Dangerous?
4:41 It’s Dangerous to Go Alone… (Ekster Ad)
5:59 Shadows on the Forest Floor
8:44 At the Waters Edge
11:47 The Death of Monsters
15:04 Outro
Australia has always had a bit of a bad reputation. Many people who have never been there are fearful of the animals of the outback because of the potential threat they pose to human life. Saltwater Crocodiles, the Eastern Brown Snake, the Box Jellyfish, the Sydney Funnel-web Spider and the Great White Shark are some of the first names that come to mind when ever people talk about the subject of visiting Australia.
Well in my opinion, Australia does not entirely deserve it’s murderous reputation. There are animals you should give their distance and respect but in my opinion the danger posed by modern Australian animals is nothing compared to how dangerous this continent would have been in the distant past!
And ironically, two recently discovered species now give us a better understanding of what perils the early marsupials had to face as they tried to gain control of the Miocene Australian jungle. The giant trap door spider Megamonodontium and a new species of Baru Crocodile!
Now I need to learn why and how that spider's venom evolved to kill primates!? What were its ancestors thinking??? Or should we just applaud for their forsight? I need answers...
Ah yes piramates. Terrific.
@@sauron6977 Happy now?:)
@@mrlmrl8904don’t you love how autocorrect messes up the words you intentionally spelled and then doesn’t catch the ones you wish it would!
Maybe they were in an evolutionary arm race with some smaller primates which are now extinct?
@@teddnaing6851 It would be so interesting and great to see evidence of primates in Australia (and since absence of fossil evidence doesn't prove nonexistence (only that said fossils haven't found... yet) we may hope😆)
Imagine evolving venom that specifically kills a group of animals that, up until a certain point, did not exist on the continent you live on.
It's not that they evolved it to work so devastatingly well on Primates, but rather that, for whatever reason, we evolved to be uniquely susceptible to said venom.
nature is crazy like that, sometimes you just end up with "neat" side effects.
Just because the venom is especially effective on primates doesn`t mean it evolved for us,that would be like saying chocolate evolved to kill dogs.
It'a one of like 5 things.
1. A conincidence
2. There WERE mammals that the spiders evoled against.
3. Bobobo levels of planning where they set up a perfect trap for a future battle that they aren't even aware of.
4. Aliens are fucking with us.
5. The future spider species got pissed at us and sent one of their operative species back in time to annoy us.
Those spiders are 4 parallel universes ahead of us.
One of my high school teachers, many many years ago, was living in Australia and was bit by a spider in a movie theater. This was pre-antivenom. Since they couldn't locate the spider to id it, they rushed him to the hospital, where he was told to get comfortable. He'd either have 10 minutes, or the rest of his life. They'd know in about, oh, 10 minutes or so.
It would be Hard for Me to get comfortable if I was told I Only had 10 minutes to Live.
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Did he make it??
@@FritoBanditoify He did.
@@mickaleneduczech8373how in the actual bloody fuck did he live
As someone who grew up in Australia many many years ago, I too have heard this story,
Your teacher picked up some Aussie humour.
As an Australian, I can confirm that the scariest part of Australia is the government.
Well that makes sense the animals are just being animals the government however does whatever the fuck they want
Yeah the government is more scary that the animals
Also from Australia and I can second this 😂
for sure the worst parasite getting round in Australia
Yep, the gov has well and truely ruined this continent
They use Steve Irwin as a size comparison for the croc - that made my day!
They forgot to portray his infant son in the picture.
Australia does have a few native species of placental mammals besides bats, mostly aquatic rodents descended from Indonesian species that arrived via New Guinea about 5 million years ago. Placentals have a big advantage over marsupials in aquatic niches.
Joey's inna pouch can suffocate underwater, yup.
@@DinosaurianDudeBruh, apostrophes don't make words plural.
@@slappy8941 He tested a friend named Joey in a waterproof pouch, lowering it into water, and found that Joey could suffocate eventually.
The only marsupial with an aquatic lifestyle is the yapok, a marsupial from South America.
The females have special muscles around the opening of their pouch that keeps it water tight so their joeys don’t drown.
@@slappy8941 Pardon me, English isn't my native language.
De joey's in de buidel kunnen onderwater stikken.
Is that better for you?
Yes Australia has some deadly creatures but we really don't encounter them all that much and there are ways of avoiding risk with them. I often see videos of people hiking in North America and wonder why they aren't afraid of bears, wolves, coyotes, mountain lions and any other wild predator over there. I am guessing it's for pretty much the same reason.
They are usually more afraid of people than people are of them, so you're pretty safe coming across them unless its a mother protecting its young.
I've come across a bear before while deer hunting and it ran away.
Because black bears are timid, brown bears mostly live in alaska and canada, cougars barely kill anyone, wolves barely kill anyone and alligators also barely kill anyone.
@@Sylmarys24That applies to basically all Australian animals too. The most dangerous animal here is the horse.
soo is the comment claiming that there's really no safe way to swim in the north of australia except in a pool way off base?@@BugsandBiology
@@ciragoettig1229nah thats fair. But crocodiles dont live in most of the country.
They are technically mega-fauna that never went extinct.
The standard advice for dealing with them is "dont go amywhere near where they might be" they are twice the weight of an american aligator and more aggresive. But by and large they live pretty far from most humans.
Ah yes, who doesn't love the feeling of waking up in the morning and starting the day with milking your funnel web spiders
🥲😭😭
I think prehistoric Australia has got to be my favorite part of the Cenozoic era. Back then, truly outrageous creatures roamed the land.
I'm not sure if Australia was truely devoid of placentile mammals until 60,000 years ago, the reason I think this is because Australia does have a few endemic rodent species found in the north of the continent, and these are true rodents. Maybe they arived on the continent in a similar time that humans got their but I suspect that they could have rafted there independantly from south east asia a few glaciation periods ago.
[Edit] just did some of the research and it turns out I was right, there was 2 waves of rodent colonization, the first was 6 million years ago and the second was only a million years ago. This time is long enough that the rodent lineages that settled Australia became their own unique group of rodents seperate from any of the other continents. So the idea that Australia was simply devoid of plencentile mammals other than bats until 60,000 years ago is not entirely true.
Yes, though, it's more like some 60 native species of mice and rats, and they're found all over the continent plus in Tasmania.
Meh. It's yt
A few issues with this. Salt-water crocs are only present in our Northern waters and rivers, and Sydney funnel-webs are only found around Sydney. The crocs only get the unwary, and the spiders haven't killed anyone since the anti-venom was developed 40+ years ago. The most dangerous common animal in Australia is the Eastern brown snake.
And I believe that there haven't been any fatalities attributed to eastern brown snakes since the development of an antivenom.
The animal most likely to kill you in Australia is most likely another human.
@@andrewsmallacombe9468 Eastern brown snakes still kill people, but we don't usually hear about it. A 36 y.o tradie was bitten in my town only a few years ago. He was taken to the hospital and antivenom administered within half an hour, but he died less than an hour after being bitten.
@@andrewstrongman305 A quick search indicates that, yes, I was incorrect about no deaths, but Australian medical records indicate very few fatalities, averaging less than one per year.
@@andrewsmallacombe9468 I'd hope so. The point is, no other native animal is more dangerous in Victoria. Cows, horses, and dogs are all more dangerous.
And we average two snake bite deaths a year despite having something like 17/20 of the deadliest snakes
Tbh the Bogans are probably Australia’s scariest animal and even then they’re pretty friendly. Their sub species the cashed up bogans aren’t as bad unless you spot them at their local habit, a pokies and bar
WTH is a bogan? What is this a reference too???
@@Lily-ge4tm Aussie redneck/hill billy
Im Australian and I nearly choked on water laughing
@@thatoneguy8146 Water? Why not VB longneck?
14:16 - to be fair, you failed to mention that in Florida they teach us how to tame and ride alligators in the sixth grade so we can use them as mounts to pick up a pub sub on the way through the orange grove to Disney World. Once you've mastered that skill it's easy to avoid being bitten.
Alligators are nothing...
@@LawnMower_gaming1Alligators are very chill compared to Crocodiles.
Actually they were very distant relation to modern crocodiles. Shows illustration of animal that looks almost exactly like a crocodile?
Ron Desantis, i hope you read that and introduce thoses classes!
Antarctica held a diverse population of marsupials that would rival Australia forty to fifty million years ago. The climate then was fourteen degrees hotter on average compared to today. Climate change may take away some coastlines. However, we gain a new continent.
You are the first other person to bring up this about Climate Change and Antarctica. The first being myself.
If all the ice of antarctica melts, it does not take away "some" coastline. In that case we are completly screwed, since the majority of the human population lives close to the cost. A new barren and cold piece of usable land doenst make up for that.
@@oO0Xenos0Oo your assessment isn't accurate. The melting of the polar caps would be a gradual event. Not something that would happen over night like in the way of Doggerland flooding out in two years.
Both Antarctica and Greenland will not be very cold like today. I am every bit confident that people in the future will find a way to grow crops on both land masses. Think of it as a practice run at terraforming.
@@oO0Xenos0Oo it's a canon event and there's nothing you can do about it
@@minraja Even if Antarctica warms you're still looking at six months of complete darkness giving one good crop harvest, and that's assuming there's fertile soil below the ice which there isn't, and if people are desperate enough to move to Antarctica odds are they won't have our global fertiliser supply chains to rely on.
As a Brazilian, I'm quite happy to see that people don't imagine that jaguars & pumas can be found in farmlands *really* near our federal capital. I've heard stories of family members who saw such kittens in farms that are as close as 40km (or 24,85 miles) to the National Congress.
Its always a good day when paleo analysis posts❤🎉
May Australia be as dangerous or even more than it was in the far future.
Yes, please
I’m looking forward to your dropbear video next April, I’ve lost two family members to those monsters and people need to be educated to stay safe 🙏❤️ thankyou
As an Australian crocodiles are mutch more abrasive than alligators and soulties are some of the more agro crocks and it's relatively hard to stay away up in Darwin a big soultie was spotted in an era where it was deemed safe. And megalenia was cool
Spellchecker is your friend 😉
@@mikes5637 yes it is
There's no such thing as a "safe" swimming spot that isn't a pool in the north of Australia. More fool people for believing it to be safe. And yes, crocodiles in general are feistier than alligators.
You are right. Salties are agressive
@@seanmckelvey6618Yes, it’s very unusual that even a large alligator would attack an adult human for food. People swim in water with alligators not far away all the time, and attacks are rare. But it would be unusual for a crocodile (whether Saltie, Nile, Mugger, or American) NOT to attack a human swimming nearby if it’s even a little bit hungry. Crocs just seem to specialize in large mammalian prey, while alligators specialize in fish and small terrestrial prey, and only occasionally go after large mammals, even if they’re large enough to do so.
Yeah as an Australian living in Canada I'm much more terrified of bears eating me than dying to a snakebite.
Mostly because of so called conservationists there are far too many big bears for the available food sources . This results in most of the bears being in a shocking state of near starvation which promotes cannibalism ,deadly encounters with human beings and farm animals, culling two thirds of big bears
would greatly improve matters both for the bears and any humans they might meet
Dying from a bear is much worse than a snake bears won't give 2 damns and just get to eating also can't forget that they run a lot faster than a human so trying to outrun them is basically useless
Glad to see you back :) I recently discovered you from your Complete History of the Earth series, and to be honest, have watched it several dozen times already to watch and to fall asleep to 😂 Keep up the good work. We’re here for you!
Ack! I’m so excited for this!
I do agree, Australian dangers are easy to avoid. They're all trapped on a land mass surrounded by water. They can't get to me from over there.
Just you wait...
Emagine if the animals in Australia just start to swim across the ocean somehow within
Glad to know that everything is alright, and have you back, I was really worried about you last days.
My favorite lost Aussie megafauna was definitely the 9-foot-tall kangaroo... that was carnivorous.
Drop Bears are such an important part of the ecosystem, I can't wait for their video in 6 months time!
Glad to see a new Paleo Analysis video, i missed them ❤
Ok, somehow was unaware of Australia’s deadly reputation, but now you’ve shown me that spider and I am shook!
This was cool and terrifying in equal measure! Great video! 10/10 would recommend (unless you want to have nightmare free sleep, of course^^)
To be fair just because something is more dangerous in the past doesn't mean it's not dangerous now. But regardless a great video,
These new extinct creatures are very neat, and under known
Dude I have been awaiting new content from you and this did not disappoint.
Glad you're recovering. I really like your channel, and this was another nice video on an interesting topic. It often feels like Australia's paleobiology gets ignored because of the better fossil preservation conditions in central Asia, Europe, and North America. Thanks for tipping the balance a bit. And BTW, the way you worded it made it sound like the gold coast is the whole east coast. It's not. It's just a region near Brisbane. But apart from that, nice work. Can't wait for the drop-bear video. Look up and live!
I love how Aussies live on such a brutal continent yet have the most adorable nicknames for pretty much everything
It's great to see you back, man!
YAY!! Ive been trying to be patient for new videos and its paying off!
I just subscribed yesterday and was sad you hadn't uploaded in a few months - I'm glad you're feeling better, and looking forward to more!
(Hi from Australia, btw 😜)
Hey, I'm glad things are going better. You're absolutely my favorite prehistory channel. I've checked almost daily. I really can't wait for some long form stuff particularly on the miocene, also my favorite epoch, you do it better than anybody. The miocene is criminally underrated. Feel better, be healthy!
I'm glad you are feeling better and I'm looking forward to seeing what you have planned!
Thank you for that opening. It's a tired meme at this point. I'm more on guard hiking in the US than I am here. I've also pointed out to people that we have no bears, wolves nor big cats, but I think the most significant thing is Aussie wasps are chill af. I have disturbed nests while trimming hedges and all they've done is buzz around going 'wtf was that?' with not one of them even attempting to come for me. The flying hymenoptera in a lot of other places will swarm you for looking at them funny. Snakes and spiders you just need to take two steps back to "escape" from but neither are uniquely Australian hazards, and we don't even have a scorpion species with medically significant venom. As for the funnel web thing, I've lived in Sydney and the surrounding region on and off for nearly 30 years and found a total of 0 funnel webs in the house. Wandering spiders in South America are scarier to me, but I suspect someone from there might also say they've never seen any!
Shhhh
Just hope you never run across any yellow jackets if you’re in the Southeastern US. These little wasps look like brightly-colored honeybees from a distance, but they’re actually a hybrid between a wasp and Satan. They have been known to attack people who even get near their nest, even if they don’t disturb it. I’ve been stung by them, and their stings burn for a good 12-24 hours.
Glad you are feeling better.
Love your Videos.
I used to collect funnelwebs and donate them for venom extraction, before there was an antivenom. Not psychotic at all!
Can also vouch for the information in the video on Baru and other mekosuchines: I've excavated and prepped a lot of their fossils, and read the recent papers, and I find no errors here.
(But seems you missed that we have native murid rodents making up nearly a third of the non-marine mammal species)
YOU’RE BACK!! Love to see the new vids pop up on my feed:) and take ur time with the big boi, we all love the vids and can wait as long as u need so don’t feel like there’s any pressure ❤
Good to see you back. Been missing my favorite Paleo channel.
Thanks for another excellent educational video! Most of what I know about Australia’s nasty residents is from my dedicated viewing of Steve Irwin’s Crocodile Hunter TV show. Never missed an episode and even have the silly but entertaining movie he made. I cried when I’d heard of his untimely death. Wish I could have visited that marvellous continent and country. Too busy as a single parent to my kids and my nursing career. Now I’m just old and a grandma! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
Just a heads up - the ‘Gold Coast’ is a very small portion of the East Coast (in case anyone wants to travel here haha)
Man we missed you! Glad your feeling better, hope to see more great content from you. Your one of my favorites along with EDGE and Trey the Explainer
Welcome back :) I really enjoy your videos.
welcome back!
Glad to see you again! And glad youre feeling better.
In the video you seemed to say that eastern Australia is the Gold Coast, which is incorrect. The Gold Coast is a 70km (43 miles) stretch of beaches that starts at the state border for New South Wales and Queensland and continues northward towards Brisbane (our third largest city).
Side note - it's funny how many people think that we're all living in the country when we're actually really urbanised. In each of our six states, the majority of it's citizens actually live in the state capital. Queensland is the exception, however if you include the Gold Coast to the south of Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast to the north and Ipswich to the west then that adds up to a majority. Another fun fact is that over 90% of Australians live within 100km (60 miles) of the coast.
Yes, I have heard of the drop-bear, but have you heard of the hoop-snake?
Thank you for the new video! Thoroughly enjoyable and informative.
love your content, thank you for this super relaxing, enjoyable and informative video
I'm so happy you're back! Hope you're feeling better, too.
Happy to see you back!
YAAAAY!!! Welcome back!!! Yes, your videos have endless rewatch potential, but, I gotta know what happens in the Triassic episode for the complete history of earth series, and Tim tim!!! And all your other "pt 1 of 2" or more. These are endlessly entertaining, and beautifully educational!
So happy to see you back, stay well.
Oh you came back with a big one! Excited to watch
I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better! Thank you for this fascinating video.
I bet you enjoyed Richard Smith’s wonderful four-part paleohistory of Australia, aired some years back in the US as Nova (PBS) episodes under the title “Australia: The First Four Billion Years.” (It was shown in Australia earlier under a different title - I think it was something like “A Time-Traveler’s Guide” - and slightly modified for the home audience.) If you have NOT seen this series, you must.
Gratitude to your weird friend who is saving lives while risking his own by milking venom from those terrifying spiders.
I love your work, man! Keep it up!
That intro jingle is pure gold btw it puts a smile on my face for it announces the start of an enjoyable video.
Glad yer back😊. Was wondering
I enjoyed the story you developed by putting the different segments in that particular order.
Hey man, glad to see you back after all these months. Hope you've been well!
glad you're doing better, keep up the good work.
Your audio volume has become much more consistent. Great, that was the only thing to complain about. Love your content!
Fun fact: the scorpions here in Australia aren’t deadly at all, with stings causing minor irritation at worst. You’re infinitely more likely to become past tense by falling out of bed
Your voice and the way that you present everything in your videos is so much better than all of the other paleontology accounts I follow here on the tube.
Great to see you back, man :)
Great to have you back, Paleo analysis!
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!!!
Have been waiting for the new video! Yay!
I love this video,👍👍
hope to see more, because you were gone for a long while🦖
So happy you’re back ❤
Yay!!! I’m so glad you’re back! You are my son’s favorite TH-cam channel 👍🏻 stay healthy bro
These videos are always a treat.
So nice to see a new video 🎉❤
nice to have you back for the time
How am i only discovering your channel now! this is so fascinating
Not sure if it has been mentioned but Australia has native placental mamals that are not bats, it has native mice and rats that arrived in Australia way before humans. I think the mice came around 5 million years ago and the rats about a million. They are relatively unknown and closely resemble introduced species so it can be hard to tell the difference unless very close. Unfortunately many are under threat of extinction partially due to competition from introduced species.
It’s worth mentioning that Megamonodontium is still very small compared to other trapdoor spiders in Australia. The 4x larger is referring to the genus Monodontium found throughout south-east Asia, which is tiny. This fossil of Megamonodontium only has a body length of 50mm or 5cm. It’s all media hype calling it a ‘giant’, when it obviously wasn’t. It’s still very interesting to find a spider fossil in Australia though.
What a great video. Ty man
As an Aussie you're taught young to stay away from spiders and snakes..
But if I'm honest I'd be terrified to go camping in let's say the northern states of America!! Bears, wolf's, big cats.... that's wild
Great video. Thank you.
Glad to see you and Timtim.
Dude you are actually one of the sickest TH-cam channels I have found. I love the personality you add to the videos while also delivering so much detail.
I’d love to know your opinion on the different theories about human society and evolution, And the younger drias.
Welcome back legend
I'm just happy to see a new video
good to see your stuff again.
Very cool! I feel like everywhere was probably so much scarier in the past. My favourite 'Scariest Australian Monster From The Past' has got to be Megalania. That guy was so cool!!
As its starting to warm up here in Aus, we have a huge snake problem. I work in a 24hr vet clinic as a vet nurse and we've had a huge influx of emergency patients, majority have been snake bite envenomation. we've even had some snake sightings out the back of our hospital D:
We had stocked up on antivenom to be ready for this summer, and while it's a life saver, not all still make it unfortunately. So always seek medical attention ASAP if you even suspect a possible snake bite!!! the earlier you get in, the greater your pets chances!
Whooo new paleo analytics video 🎉🎉
Welcome back!
I agree with you but I'm also an arachnophobic, who's very interested in spiders, go figure. The shiny almost horror movie quality to their abdomen does me, I know it can't hurt like the fangs and venom but as with the legs on these and redbacks, too shiny, like miniature evil goths! However, if you want to be a bit cured, watch Bugs and Biology, he's an Aussie who keeps funnel webs and he highlights their more comical features, they are slow and can't move on a smooth service without doing a sort of cartoon getting up to speed sprint permanently! Makes the murderous 8 legged ministry fans seem less ominous!
Hey, thanks for the shoutout! Much appreciated.
Finally you upload vidio❤
So cute! My funnel spiders are all either hibernating or dead. Miss them.
from Melbourne - thanks for another Oz-focussed vid, you guys have gotta head back down here some time! :)
Awesome video, I love the idea of a funnel web spider 20” leg diameter with 4” fangs making holes around a foot in diameter and snatching squirrels and chihuahuas that get to close.
I got bitten by a Sydney funnel web when I was hiking in the blue mountains and at first it felt like i had brushed a thorn but when i looked up, i had slapped my hand directly on top of this big ol wandering male spider, my first though was "well, I'm dead" but luckily i had my friends shortly behind me who carried snake bandages in their bags. they snuggly wrapped my arm and carried me back to the car where I would be taken to the Sydney hospital where I was administered 4 vials of antivenom and stayed in the hospital for 3 days, truly the most terrifying experience of my life.
You may be luckier than you think. If it was there, then it was also quite likely to be Hadronyche versuta, the Blue Mountains Funnel Web. A much larger, and more venomous species than the Sydney (Atrax robustus).
@@Th0ughtf0rce yeh, it was quite large, roughly 5-6cm from the thorax down to the spinnerets, so it probably was a blue mountains funnel web haha
You know what would be a really good idea for a video? Talking about prehistoric creatures that had venom. You never hear about the snakes, spiders and other venomous creatures that lived in prehistoric eras.
I understand information on this would most likely be very limited, as you're hardly going to find fossilied venom... But I'm sure there is some interesting information out there on the subject.