THIS "FOSSIL FOREST" WAS SUBMERGED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- On a small island in Puerto Montt Chile lies a graveyard of 45,000 year old Alerce Trees (Fitzroya cupressoides) that was submerged for thousands of years until an earthquake lifted it up into the low tide zone.
Owing to Alerce's remarkably rot-resistant wood, we are offered a glimpse at an ancient, long-gone forest that once grew where now only a handful of invasive species now stand.
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It’s been years of watching your content and I still do not understand how you aren’t in the millions, your videos are so informative and interesting without being intimidating or dragging!
Very good question.
Probably because brain rot is addictive and brain nourishment in the form of knowledge is not for most brainwashed individuals.
Education is no longer valued. Unfortunately, the system has made it a necessity, and with media being everyone's primary distraction nowadays, it serves as a better escape from reality from a system that prefers to force workers to be made or force problems to be laid.
Sadly it's because botany doesn't pay. Some of the most brilliant scientists are relegated to obscurity. People can tell you every player's stats for their fantasy football team, but can't tell you what is growing in their yard or their toes.
The same reason the podcast "In defense of plants" still has a really small community for the quality interviews they do.
Probably something to do with the foul mouthed blasphemy present in every episode 😅
This channel is criminally under-subscribed.
For sure mate
I love your channel. Fascinating. I hope Botany pays for you in the future.
Well thanks to his mule work he can travel as a botanist and make a pretty penny doing it
"Take me back to the Pleistocene." "Fourty thousand years you were buried."
What mindblowing, heartfelt greeting.
It is hard to wrap my mind around finding preserved wood from that long ago, even after it has been touched by open air and water again.
A truly magical place you showed us, man. Again!
Some of the best content on youtube!
Agreed 👆🏽
The intro was a new format to me, and I thought it worked really well! Thanks as always for teaching
I work as an ecologist on the east coast of Australia (mainly Queensland) and it always blows my mind when I see you looking at plants in the same genera, on the other side of the world, that I see all the time. Diospyros, Dodonaea, Goodenia, etc. I hope you can come to the east coast of Australia one day and spend some time; particularly in the rainforests and vine thickets.
Just realizing that this guy would be perfect at wildlife education for guided nature walks and whatnot. If anyone would be able to get people young and old excited about plants in and informative and non-stuffy way, it's this guy. His appreciation for nature and excitement are infectious!
Thanks for showing me places I'll never get to see in person 😊
Way cool!
Super cool
Such impressive geology and its interaction with plant life! What an exquisite habitat!
Thanks for trekking out there and sharing!
You're going to be in heaven if you go to Parque Nacional Alerce Andino, Cochamó, or further down the Carretera Austral into Parque Nacional Pumalín.
The eastern slopes of Volcán Osorno near Petrohue is also quite a unique ecosystem.
The west and south coast of Chiloé as well is just covered with interesting stuff.
In love with this episode. Redwood trees and especially Giant Sequoia trees hold such a special place within my experience. So cool to see similar trees so incredibly far away.
Those trees are about as dense as a rock or piece of marble. Absolutely incredible.
Your video just reminded me to finish my seed order so I can grow a Fitzroya cupressoides for Bonsai >.> Thanks for sharing your botanic adventures.
Isnt growing a giant tree bonsai style doing it on the hard level?
@@mattiasdahlstrom2024 You would think that, but no, even yamadori style taken wild from the woods, if still able to be pruned into a pot, ironically, will work as a bonsai. There are redwoods that have been bonsai'd th-cam.com/video/v1qlmPlVOo4/w-d-xo.html Peter Chan is a living Bonsai legend.
@@BonsaiBlacksmith huh, I learned something new - thank you !
Was google earthin this area recently, it's even cooler than I imagined.
I would love to meet this tree in person. Fricking incredible! Thanks for showing me all this cool shit I may never get to see.
I hope you continue to be able to freely roam and show us obscure and remote nature stuff. Sending good vibes from New Mexico. 🌵☀
Your Chile expedition has been amazing, thank you!
In Cardigan Bay, Wales, specifically Shell Island, Harlech, the remains of the Forests, (Oak, Elm, Birch etc), that ran westwards out of Wales towards Eire, can be seen at low tide. These were lost following the rise in sea levels and the Storegga Tsunami that hit the East coast of the British Isles submerging Doggarland approx 8000BC. Nowhere near as old as the Chilean remains but still stunning to see the root systems and feel them under your feet 2-3 inches below the sand. These are the trees that colonised the British Isles after the ice melted prior to the Younger Dryas 15-20,000 years ago.
This is another fantastic video, that Is some beautiful country,thank you for your hard work👍👍.
Dude… 4200 years is insane, but 42,000!! Holy crap!
Thanks for taking us on your journey ❤
Awesome production from Mother Nature ❤. What a remarkable story to bring back home rocks from alerce beach!
Fascinating. Walking by those stumps I would have never guessed how old they are, they just look weathered by the water. Geez. Loved that bright yellow lichen too, I’d love you to do a video on lichens somewhere…but many thanks for this one! 🌲🤗
THANKS FOR SHARING STUFF LIKE THIS
The intro sounds like you were reading a script with a gun to your head, but it was still great. I'll watch whatever you put up, though, I've learned a ton.
There's an irony that Monterey pine is endangered in the native range up here, but survives as an annoying invasive elsewhere!
I've watching your vids for years now. Your commantary and info just never gets old or boring. I want you to know you're one of the most important reasons for me getting a second master's degree in plant ecophysiology. Thank you for all that you show and teach.
Nice work 👍
Damm Blue Gums... Australia getting its own back for all the international botanical backpackers growing across the country...
Appreciate the info and atmosphere as always, safe travels and on the road to a Billion Subs💪🏽
Fascinating, thanks ❤
sick! that wood has survived so many countless tides washing it day in and day out
Amazing thank you for sharing
Cool. Thanks for sharing. 🖖
Glad to see you down under here! ❤
So another knowledge packed video. Thank you! So we know about the botany part. What about the crime pays part?? 😎
Come sometime 😢 to eastern TN. we got some Oak trees in the park where I take me walk daily that are AWESOME!!❤ Love your videos!
😊Wow!!!
I love your videos! Keep making cool videos about plants and rocks and ancient fossil trees!
I enjoyed this video and learned something new, thank you.
As a woodworker in Hawai`i who specializes in exotic woods, this is fascinating. The stumps appear undisturbed, is this area protected from collection?
I wouldn't want to support tourists stripping the beach to resell or anything, but do any of the Puerto Montt locals have some of this material for sale? Is the ancient material used locally for crafting anything?
Another banger Joey.
Love your handle!
Awesome!
If you ever get the chance to visit I think you'd love the Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia, Canada. It's 15 kilometers of coastline that's exposing over 200 species of plants and animals as it erodes into the Bay Of Fundy, including one of the earliest 'forests' (if you can call it that, the plants were more like giant ferns if I recall) that's ~300 million years old.
Thank you😊 I did not know that
The intro was nice. Audio sounded good on the voiceover. Good change.
Goodenia is a pretty good name 👌
i went to school in charleston IL, and there was lake nearby where in the shore, deep down in the exposed layers were old pine branches poking out that our professor said dated back to ice age. it was very cool. that day i randomly guessed a bird was grebe, and he said i must have know what it was to guess that. but it was shot in the water bird dark sort of
I dig the narration brother.
What is weird is that the invasive Pinus radiata is endangered in its native range. And one of the biggest groves at Rancho Del Oso was recently decimated by fire. I saw some little pines coming up there, I have to get back and see if they are surviving.
These pines are adapted to fire, like many California conifers
so freakin cool, thank you
there is a flood called a Lahar you get after a volcano ..The one from mount st helens chopped massive trees down and it looked identical to this ! must of been what happened.
Really good video man you got a new fan !
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great video!
I’m actually surprised they haven’t all been logged considering their dense, rot resistant timber. I remember hearing that’s why there’s so few mature oaks in Europe- their wood was it extremely valuable.
Those growth rings were incredible, so cool
Woa i love the intro with the narration
Is this still wood or already fossilized and rock? Fascinating!
that blows my mind. I watched first 5 minutes assuming that they are petrified.
OMG this farkn channel rocks. Thanks Algorithm for putting me onto this bloke. From Australia
Thanks for sharing. You've really opened my eyes to appreciate nature and despise the bullshit asphalt landscapes we live in
wow they are not petrified but still wood!! Broken off like that probably a tremendous pyroclastic flow or giant mud flow or lahar
Good example of the transition between a live tree and petrified wood.
Wish I could travel back in time and see these trees in their prime untouched by humans
Wow. That’s a huge lake near there
That's the bay of Puerto Montt
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That is soooo cool!
Great video, great channel. I don't think the trees were snapped off at the base by a volcanic eruption. That seems (from my reading and seeing similar stumps along the Sandy River in Oregon) to result in a mass of splinters bent away from the direction of the volcanic material flow. This was noted on the Toutle River after the 1980 eruption of Mt. Saint Helens, and more recently along the Sandy River from a much older lahar from Mt. Hood, Oregon.
I think the ground they were growing on subsided due to a subduction zone earthquake and they died from saltwater intrusion. The bases were probably protected from rotting by being buried in anoxic sediments, possibly from a tsunami, and by the tannins and resins in the wood below that level.
Later, the subducting slab/accretionary wedge uplifted the ghost forest above sea level and what you get is this mass of preserved stumps, until the next big earthquake. This has been documented on the coasts of Oregon and Washington and is attributed (via dendrochronology) to the great 1700 subduction zone earthquake that produced the "Orphan Tsunami" recorded in Japan in that year (they didn't experience an earthquake just prior to the wave).
I could be wrong, but that's what I think happened, with zero research into the particular location. I will look it up.
Have you considering offering paid botany tours? That would be one for my bucket list!
Trying to understand: is it truly petrified (100% mineralized), or just preserved organic material that didn't rot?
It's not permineralized at all. It is still wood. That's why "fossil" was in quotes.
seawater probably save it , if its inland more , it would be gone
50,000 year old Kauri in NZ is recovered from swamps in NZ, and milled.
@@sdqsdq6274 seawater doesn't preserve wood
The parks in Phoenix AZ have that algae growing by the picnic tables too. What do you know? Everything is interconnected.
It is so awesome to imagine, that among these alerce trees giant sloths and other beasts once roamed, that were sadly killed off when humans came. The habitats remained, but they are much emptier now and missing some keystone species surely.
The voiceover intro was 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽
All the old “Salt-box” fisherman houses on Long Island (and all along the North Eastern Atlantic Shore) have cedar shingles. Cedar acts like a natural bug repellant and they are weather
There are a few similar sites here in Auckland.
damn the wood is still there and hasn't rotted yet? that's crazy
i like this guy
These shorter bite-sized vids are legit.
What camera & lens do you mostly use ?
That talking hand sure cusses alot but it is highly informative
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Feel so special getting a voiceover intro oooh ahh
I liked the format on dat one
god-damn it, not only pines, but eucs too, I hate how humans do that shite
Well, there is a _Condon_ Park in Grass Valley, CA.
That plant at 12:45 reminds me of sea purslane from the southeast united states.
Myrteola mummularia and Ugni molinae are supposedly delicious when they have ripe fruit.
Is that a synonym for Myrtus ugni? If so then yep, they are delicious. In New Zealand we call the Chilean Guava
@olsim1730 I believe Ugni molinae ("splitter" taxonomy) = Myrtus ugni ("lumper" taxonomy). They are called "Chilean guava" by most USA authors as well, though we don't see them in stores, so the plant is only known by fruit growing hobbyists, primarily in the Pacific Northwest and northern California, which have the ideal climate (similar to their native area in the rainy portion of Chile) for the species. I personally think ugni (/unyi/) or Chilean myrtle would have been more appropriate, since tropical guava is quite different (big fruit, tooth-cracking seeds...), but that's me.
huh. no tenía idea que se la llevaban a otros países. acá en chile le decimos murta, es aromátca y dulce. las flores son preciosas. y son especialmente buenas remojadas en licor, como aguardiente.
Goodeniaceae example from Florida: Scaevola plumieri is a rare plant in FL while Scaevola taccada is invasive !
OKAY THANK YOU MR S
That'd make some really expensive furniture 🫰
You’re much calmer outside of the U.S.
Lets see the stromatolites up in the andean lakes in Chile
Nice title
Are you kidding me? is it not petrified? it retained the characteristics of wood after ALL that time!???@??@?!?
Yes
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Stop the Leftist whining that now takes up 90% of your videos. You ARE the "ugly American Hipster" that is causing sprawl in Austin and elsewhere that requires these trees to be planted in the first place. Oh, and burning fossil fuels galore so you can "jet set" around the world to look at plants. Who's the dilettante now?
@@KarlKarsnarknobody cares what you are annoyed about Karl. Start your own channel, you can post anything you like. The rest of us enjoy this content.
@@katiekane5247 You're whining too.
Oh my God that is so cool! I was thinking it was all petrified! That's even more amazing that it's still wood! Jesus that's cool!
Wood that doesn't rot. Why isn't that at home depot
I'm surprised some artist doesn't turn bowls out of the stump's wood on a lathe.
Wait, it's not fossilized tree turned into rock it's still burnable wood??? 42,000 years later?
Correct
Any chance those “fossils “ have extractable dna and could be cloned?
This is random but ginkgo trees are native to China and occur in a few very small tiny wild populations this makes them an endangered species in the wild. Ginkgo trees are not invasive when grown in other places in the world. Ginkgo trees can grow in temperate and sub tropical climates. Ginkgo trees can live up to 3,000 years! Ginkgo trees have been around for roughly 270 million years and barely changed! Ginkgo trees have existed during the dinosaurs! Ginkgo trees are the last and only living member of their genus, family, order, class, division! This means they have no living relatives! Ginkgo trees unfortunately are commonly grown as male cultivars these cultivars don’t make seeds and have low genetic diversity because they are all clones of the same tree. An example of low genetic diversity was the gros michel banana these banana plants were all grown from clones of the same plant when one could get a disease all of the clones were equally susceptible and it nearly got wiped out. This could happen to the ginkgo tree while no serious disease infects them now diseases mutate and evolve quickly and often so it’s better to be safe then sorry. A way to grow ginkgos with high genetic diversity is to grow them from seeds. Seeds have higher genetic diversity because of genetic recombination and genetic crossing and increased chances for mutations. A ginkgo tree grown from seeds may die of a disease while another may have resistance. Ginkgo seeds or trees grown from seeds can be bought online on websites like Etsy or eBay for a few dollars. You can also find ginkgo seeds under a female tree in fall. Ginkgo trees grown from seeds have a 50% chance of being male or female. Male ginkgo trees make pollen while female ginkgo trees need this pollen to make seeds. Many say to only plant male ginkgo trees because the seeds smell bad I say both are equally important. Female ginkgo trees are actually a good thing because they absorb male ginkgo pollen in spring reducing allergies. Female ginkgo trees also make seeds which many people eat and these seeds are great for growing genetically diverse healthy trees. Some animals seem to eat these seeds as well such as squirrels. Male ginkgo trees are important because they make pollen and without them female ginkgo trees won’t make seeds. Ginkgo trees are truly amazing grow some native trees too!
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