5 Mythical Creatures That (Kinda) Actually Existed | Answers With Joe

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  • @TheWhiteDragon3
    @TheWhiteDragon3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1915

    I'm only 23, and I still remember when some of the first film footage was taken of a Giant Squid, and people we deriding it as fake, and "there's no such thing as giant squids". Makes you really think about what else is down there.

    • @kashutosh9132
      @kashutosh9132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      You are right

    • @mannycorona3669
      @mannycorona3669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      There are huge creatures down there 100%

    • @hazonku
      @hazonku 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Yup, I remember that too & telling numerous people, "You know we've had washed up corpses for many years now right? It was only a matter of time before someone found a live one."

    • @adamdonovan4071
      @adamdonovan4071 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      It should also demonstrate the arrogance to involved in declaring that one knows all there is to know…
      All science will continue to develop; and often results in surprising discoveries.

    • @abird5575
      @abird5575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@mannycorona3669 I won’t be satisfied until I see Godzilla

  • @sketcharmslong6289
    @sketcharmslong6289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    I'm furious the underpants scale wasn't about how scary the monsters were

    • @jommeissner
      @jommeissner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah, scary like the underpants at the bottom of the scale. I tried to avoid looking at it...

    • @notyoyoma
      @notyoyoma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I was really hoping the sponsor of the episode was the underpants company. It would have been a perfect fit... :]

    • @GiraffeLoverJen
      @GiraffeLoverJen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jommeissner Same! Those were some pretty gnarly undies.

    • @rodh1404
      @rodh1404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm just surprised he didn't have Mack Weldon as the sponsor for this episode.

    • @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT
      @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I wouldn't expect him to waistband width talking about it.

  • @idontlikespam9594
    @idontlikespam9594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    On cyclops. There’s also a birth defect called cyclopia (don’t recommend looking it up) where the brain and body fail to divide into left and right sides which causes the baby to have one eye on the center of the face. It’s rare but probably could be part of the myth too

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      You don't recommend looking it up? You now know what I must do don't you!! 🤣🤣

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      OMFG!! I looked it up. 😭😭
      Mice get it too BTW. Or some scientists are sick puppies is probably the explanation with mice being tested on so often for human conditions.

    • @greenanubis
      @greenanubis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Goddamn, this shit is real! I dont think its such a stretch(get it?) for someone to survive with less severe forms of it.

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@greenanubis I didn't look that far into it, I take it all those poor kids died then?

    • @drbigmdftnu
      @drbigmdftnu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I've seen pickled cyclops babies in med school. Our anatomy lab had formaldehyde - filled jars with all sorts of oddities. "Gross" anatomy indeed.

  • @barttenn7408
    @barttenn7408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This is by far one of the best (if not the best) channels out there. Everything from content to delivery including Joe’s high likability sets it apart…

  • @malcomyoung2240
    @malcomyoung2240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    For the dragon, their is also the possibilities of the Australian's mega fauna where a gigantic version of the Komodo Dragon lived and was killed until extinction. It was so dangerous by day, the natives had to wait until night to put the forest in fire around it, hoping to burn it alive (and it didn't worked so much). Facing it by day was suicide.

  • @jonathansantiago1794
    @jonathansantiago1794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2499

    Imagine being the first person to see a gorilla, must’ve been scary as shit😂

    • @kalvaxus
      @kalvaxus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      Imagine what the gorilla must think!

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      Considering human pubic lice are more closely related to gorilla lice than human head lice, I’d doubt it.

    • @badabing3391
      @badabing3391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@joshuahadams no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no fuck whyyyyy

    • @TuAFFalcon
      @TuAFFalcon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This explorer was first to write about them. He named them they name they have.

    • @atypical1000
      @atypical1000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Dude, your profile pic makes me suspect you have African ancestry. African people knew about gorillas since forever. Quit your "first person" bull shit.

  • @GhengisJohn
    @GhengisJohn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +561

    1:55 _"A few skeletons and an endless imagination can go a long way."_ If you ever find yourself saying these words in court, something has gone wrong.

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      🤣🤣

    • @Think_Inc
      @Think_Inc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don’t get it.

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Think_Inc because you are clearly a psychopath who thinks that having a few skeletons in the closet is a literal meaning of the phrase 😂🤣
      Please don't murder me.

    • @sirmiles1820
      @sirmiles1820 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Either I will be having a BONEr or she will get the BONEzone

    • @AnalystPrime
      @AnalystPrime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Can't a necromancer just raise his family in peace?

  • @AnalystPrime
    @AnalystPrime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1088

    "We used to think giant squids were a myth, until we found whales with sucker marks on their sides."
    -Some science dude I can't recall.

    • @darrenhenderson6921
      @darrenhenderson6921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Collosal squids were never really disputed, they just hadn't actually caught one.

    • @It-b-Blair
      @It-b-Blair 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@darrenhenderson6921 I remember when if you said you thought they existed people would ask if you believed in Bigfoot and Nessy too 🤷‍♂️

    • @darrenhenderson6921
      @darrenhenderson6921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@It-b-Blair Nessy is real, I'm from Scotland trust me it's real, as for big foot, had you never seen an ape, you would be astonished yet if some other group of ape was suggested it's as if it's Aliens or Unicorns. If an animal exists, you will have exceptions when it comes to size, this is true from human to larvae.

    • @Dylan_Sterling
      @Dylan_Sterling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@darrenhenderson6921 Yeah but where’s the hard evidence though?

    • @darrenhenderson6921
      @darrenhenderson6921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@Dylan_Sterling for Nessy? I've got selfies with Nessy and she has a whole family there, there is one named kilo and another named peach, we don't like people knowing as they would torment her and she just lost her husband.

  • @Kellas_Kat
    @Kellas_Kat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    I recently read "The Immortality Key" by Brian Muraresku, which was fascinating and makes total sense to me. The idea that ancient people frequently ingested hallucinogens (intentionally or unintentionally) probably contributed to quite a few myths.

    • @josemaldonado3385
      @josemaldonado3385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The bible 🙌🙃

    • @whyiseverysinglehandletaken2
      @whyiseverysinglehandletaken2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@josemaldonado3385 no comments

    • @pandakicker1
      @pandakicker1 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Eleusinian Mysteries come to mind.

    • @pandakicker1
      @pandakicker1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@josemaldonado3385The Bible might have been sober delusions. There is truth in all religions, but not everything they offer is truth.
      - a random friendly polytheist

    • @rustomkanishka
      @rustomkanishka ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Soma/Haoma has epinephrine as an active ingredient. It's quite important to the steppe horselords. Communing with sky father might have just been tweaking.

  • @Trollogrefey
    @Trollogrefey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Minor point, we've actually mapped about 20% of the ocean which is still small but hardly the insignificant number of 5% that it used to be. Great video.

    • @DayMan..
      @DayMan.. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Try 100

    • @daniel-bg5nq
      @daniel-bg5nq 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No it's 20, but 5 is the amount where humans have been

    • @daskollektiv4593
      @daskollektiv4593 หลายเดือนก่อน

      both numbers are extremely false, we've mapped much closer to 95%, humans have only been in about 10-30% of the ocean because the ocean is overwhelmingly empty

  • @Artak091
    @Artak091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +922

    I think most monster stories make sense if you've ever hung out around guys that like to fish. "You should have seen it! It was 13 feet long! Had to weigh 200 pounds or more!"
    Now apply that logic to the dude that saw an alligator or something and said it was a dragon...

    • @aserta
      @aserta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I mean, they make sense if you acknowledge the knowledge gap between us and them (the people of then). If you've had even marginal contact with limited knowledge groups, people living in remote areas, these kinds of things become apparent. Lack of knowledge = a rampant mind, able to confabulate and throw a "logical" (by their standards) answer.
      It's not about a specific category of people, it's about the gap of knowledge between us and them. Us, knowing what we see because we've seen it before, them, not knowing what they see because there's no body of knowledge to fill the existing thing they saw.
      So an out of time swan turns to Nessie, an escaped circus chimp turns to Sasquatch, a large squid turns to the kraken, an albatross turns to a ... well, whatever they might come up with.
      Oh and the reason there's plenty of them today as well, is because education is not as common as you'd think. You're biased to your group, your experience. Most of the people who come up with these things ... suffice it to say they need to be reminded that in rain, they should close their mouth.

    • @morganrobinson8042
      @morganrobinson8042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      There are actually a disturbing number of freshwater fish that grow large enough to occasionally kill and/or eat humans that are still alive. They don't even need to be lying about the size, just a few details on how it looks. Just because they aren't magic doesn't mean that the word monster is inapplicable.

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Some whales are big as whales.

    • @squarewheels2491
      @squarewheels2491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Deep Sea Oarfish has most of the characteristics of Eastern Dragons. They occasional come to the surface when dying. I really think they were some of the inspiration for those myths.

    • @johnathanmandrake7240
      @johnathanmandrake7240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why are we right that dinosaurs weren't dragons?
      Birds have hollow bones and dont fossilize.

  • @c.a.fontaine1074
    @c.a.fontaine1074 3 ปีที่แล้ว +817

    I'm starting to think most ancient myths were people trolling each other.

    • @qwertyferix
      @qwertyferix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Including troll myths? 🤔

    • @carlogaytan7010
      @carlogaytan7010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      And the smart ones used them to control the masses.

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@qwertyferix
      Does trolling each other is a myth?

    • @sd8213
      @sd8213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Well when you go into the dark black ocean at night high as fuck on psychedelics after eating mushrooms before setting sail yoir going to see some funky shit

    • @9Achaemenid
      @9Achaemenid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly

  • @superscatboy
    @superscatboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    So glad you mentioned the elephant skull / cyclops thing. The first time I heard about that I was completely convinced that's where the cyclops myth comes from, and I've been excitedly telling people about it for years lol

    • @chinabluewho
      @chinabluewho 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I have often wondered about the Yeti/bigfoot legend just being an escaped Gorilla that some circus had and lost on a journey in the late 1890's

    • @davidflitcroft7101
      @davidflitcroft7101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@chinabluewho there have been over a thousand sightings, prints, and recordings of screams, et c. over the past 200 years. And NO gorilla runs 30 mph, or even half that, through the forest. This "cryptid" is a real animal.

    • @chinabluewho
      @chinabluewho 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ​@@davidflitcroft7101 Wow, just wow, you are living the dream man.

    • @annamaria9073
      @annamaria9073 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidflitcroft7101 and all of those have been debunked. Prints were made with casts, fur is either goat or pallas cat. Screams are literally just people screaming their lungs out.

    • @annamaria9073
      @annamaria9073 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@chinabluewho I doubt there were circuses with gorillas in the most mountainous regions of the himalayas where the Yeti myth came from.

  • @edmonddyogi6411
    @edmonddyogi6411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    He's was a purple-people eater. He he. This is in the song "And he said, "Eatin' purple people and it sure is fine"

    • @ellavek1998
      @ellavek1998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I loved that song

  • @Galaxia7
    @Galaxia7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Speaking for many marine biologists I've heard complain about this, I have to point out that we've explored 20 % of the oceans and the 80 % left is mostly very deep almost empty places

    • @EEsmalls
      @EEsmalls 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If we haven't explored it, how do we know it's almost empty?

    • @daskollektiv4593
      @daskollektiv4593 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@EEsmalls because we dont have to physically be some where to know its empty, we've mapped most of the ocean with sonar and other methods

  • @unusedTV
    @unusedTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    "Kraken the case" had me choke in my coffee. Fantastic.

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unfortunately it only works if you mispronounce 'Kraken' (it's an 'ah', not an 'a'). Reminds me of the great Beach Boys line "went to the dance, looking for romance" - in (southern) British English this sounds very wrong - went to the darnce, looking for romarnce...

    • @SilverionX
      @SilverionX 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulhaynes8045 Well, it all depends on what language you pronounce it in. For example in Swedish the a sounds really different.

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SilverionX In Swedish everything sounds different! We have a similar problem, as my wife is Hungarian and they pronounce 'a' more like the 'au' sound in 'aught' - so, for instance, we call Aldi 'Auldi', whereas everyone else else in the UK rhymes it with 'pal' . Hungarian actually has no English 'a' sound (as in 'pal') at all (their other 'a' sound, 'á' is more like 'ah'. They use 'e' where they have to - so 'sandwich' for instance is pronounced 'sendvich' (spelt szendvisc!). Languages, eh??

    • @knowntotheworld1390
      @knowntotheworld1390 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulhaynes8045 stop deeping it tf

    • @Cheezit12345
      @Cheezit12345 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulhaynes8045 crackin the case

  • @TheOneWhoMightBe
    @TheOneWhoMightBe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +360

    "... and their feathers can cure blindness."
    And now we know why they're extinct.

    • @pandakicker1
      @pandakicker1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Whatever you do, don’t look into Roman birth control methods. >__

    • @failurenotsorry6600
      @failurenotsorry6600 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@pandakicker1 😰

  • @planetdisco4821
    @planetdisco4821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    You should do an episode on Australian megafauna. Very few people know about it these days but amongst other things we had a 25 foot long goanna that’s would’ve regarded Komodo dragons as an appetiser, a marsupial lion, hippo sized wombats, giant killer emus, and a land crocodile that would’ve regarded a 25 foot long goanna as an appetiser! Many of these animals were alive only a few thousand years ago but most died off after the end of the last ice age. Which meant that Indigenous Australians lived with them for about 40 thousand years or so. The whole subject fascinates me and I’d love to see your take on it Joe…

    • @jamessullivan4391
      @jamessullivan4391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Good thing there aren't Giant Emus anymore. Oh wait... you still lost the war.

    • @garymaidman625
      @garymaidman625 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wrong on some of the sizes but pretty accurate, except for the crocodile you described, of which there is no record of any crocodile larger than the saltwater crocodile ever living in Australia. The largest crocodiles ever found are from Africa. Also, the Indigenous Australians only lived with some of the species, not all of them. You also forgot the gigantic eagle, which is arguably the scariest of them all.

  • @elenahauser4389
    @elenahauser4389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "and 1 partridge in a pear tree" - that unexpected bit so early into the video made me spit out my soda laughing. and I was not even drinking anything...

  • @WhiteNucklin
    @WhiteNucklin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that you can’t go more than 2 videos without bringing up how smart the writing for your cephalopod video is. It’s wholesome
    Thanks Jason

  • @billiehudspeth5015
    @billiehudspeth5015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    And that, my grandchildren, is how the underwear scale became a standard of measurement.

    • @ZedaZ80
      @ZedaZ80 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Underwear for scale?

    • @pandapounce
      @pandapounce 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Americans will use anything other than the metric system

  • @Llerrah508
    @Llerrah508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1609

    Joe's great

    • @imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158
      @imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158 3 ปีที่แล้ว +224

      You’re great :)

    • @jonodan1
      @jonodan1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Comment of the year

    • @whocares2214
      @whocares2214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Agreed...Joe IS great!

    • @noahmead4652
      @noahmead4652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Greatest man, I even had a dream about him once

    • @whocares2214
      @whocares2214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@noahmead4652 now if we can get a woo woo alarm clock he can wake you up too!

  • @lluma8153
    @lluma8153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    “There’s always a bigger fish”
    Qui-Gon Jin

    • @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan
      @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Unless you're a whale shark :)

    • @opshlds
      @opshlds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      and then they hear, "Release the Kraken!"

    • @XenXenOfficial
      @XenXenOfficial 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That quote originally was a painting caption from a art piece made in 1556 called "Big Fish Eat Little Fish", but the very first occurrence of "There is always a bigger fish" actually came from a book called "The Fishing Gazette" made in 1910.

    • @Feefa99
      @Feefa99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Cthullhu 2024 🐙
      # Nolivesmatter

    • @jeremyhillaryboob4248
      @jeremyhillaryboob4248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@XenXenOfficial no star wars was a long time ago
      more than 500 years ago

  • @michaelarsenault7385
    @michaelarsenault7385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm so happy I found this channel, there's so much great content to go back and watch. Big fan Joe!

  • @toughluck8012
    @toughluck8012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    0:30 the whole list i couldn't concentrate because I was anticipating and hoping you'd make that joke and I got too excited when you did lol

  • @CaseyBurnsInvesting
    @CaseyBurnsInvesting 3 ปีที่แล้ว +307

    The fact that we’ve only explored 5% of the ocean is why I refuse to swim in it.

    • @Doug_Hannon
      @Doug_Hannon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      If it helps, public beaches are usually in the explored part ;-)

    • @qwertyferix
      @qwertyferix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@OnkelShlimpo-vr6bf If you're a duck in a space station, then there are probably humans around. Humans like to eat ducks.

    • @qwertyferix
      @qwertyferix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@OnkelShlimpo-vr6bf Yeah, sorry to be a wet blanket. My advice is to not be a duck, or at least one trapped with people who might get hungry.

    • @rookmaster7502
      @rookmaster7502 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You don't know what you're missing.

    • @MrDJAK777
      @MrDJAK777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nah you'd be fine as a duck on the ISS. Noone wants poorly cooked soggy duck and seeing as the best they can do is the warm water the they use for freeze dried food thats the best they could do. More likely you'd just want to be a female duck so they'd keep you around for eggs they could make soft "boiled".

  • @Gh0sb0ss
    @Gh0sb0ss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    0:21 A list of all the animals that crawled into my house when I opened the window to let a fly outside

  • @jakerubino3233
    @jakerubino3233 3 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    When megafauna was roaming ancient Australia, the relative of the Komodo Dragon, Megalania, made the current version look like a lightweight and they were known to exist at an overlap with Aborigines for quite a time. This absolutely could be a source of real encounters at a truly ancient age at possibly 50+ thousand years ago.

    • @imyourmaster77
      @imyourmaster77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Crazy as shit, imagine fighting off a literal dragon with some sticks and a rock 😂

    • @pottyputter05
      @pottyputter05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@imyourmaster77 then it's cut in half by a speeding semi truck..... don't question it.

    • @Timbo6669
      @Timbo6669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@pottyputter05 These things were that big, that the semi driver will be as dead as the Lizard.

  • @criticalmaz1609
    @criticalmaz1609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The taniwha of Māori myth might have been based on the giant frickin' eels they have down here.

  • @andrewkawam2603
    @andrewkawam2603 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    5:50 Also in Australia there was Megalania, a giant relative of modern Komodo dragons that went extinct about 40 000 years ago and it was HUGE (average length was probably around 7 meters (23 ft), with some exceptionally large individuals being 8 or 9 meters long (26-30 ft)).

  • @roccov3614
    @roccov3614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    "... and a partridge in a pair tree."
    It's subtle comedy like this that makes me laugh.

    • @arjunsatheesh7609
      @arjunsatheesh7609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now what I want to know is whether the Partridge was the new species or was the Pear tree the new species or both.
      Please don't explain the joke again to me, I am just going along with it.

    • @whyiseverysinglehandletaken2
      @whyiseverysinglehandletaken2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am not gonna ruin 69 likes cuz
      funni

  • @Nekratal1
    @Nekratal1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    "A few skelletons and an endless imagination can go a long way" ... do you happen to play a necromancer in D&D?

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    "Dragon" is just a word for a fantasy dinosaur, fight me.

    • @agustinvenegas5238
      @agustinvenegas5238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      except in DnD, where there are actual dinosaurs too

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@agustinvenegas5238 But they aren't fantasy dinosaurs, they are just fictional dinosaurs in a fantasy setting. Jurassic Park is dinosaur fiction, for example.

    • @herrschmidt5477
      @herrschmidt5477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nah cats are purrific

    • @Jackyll-x3o
      @Jackyll-x3o 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's also a word for what I be doing with the bodies.

    • @icarusbinns3156
      @icarusbinns3156 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dinosaurs used to be called dragons

  • @ceejno7861
    @ceejno7861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    The 'every culture has dragons' thing always gets to me, because the definition of 'dragon' is pretty arbitrary. We tend to apply it to anything large and reptilian - or even not reptilian; some Asian dragons are more based on fish and even have mammal features. They may or may not be winged; they may or may not have serpentine bodies; they may or not breathe fire or be venomous. In short, yeah, everyone has dragon stories if you're just going to lump all of these things into the 'dragon' category.
    Anyway, dinosaur bones almost certainly inspired dragons (especially in China, have you SEEN the sauropod skeletons coming out of China?), as did living crocodilians and monitor lizards. Though the Nile monitor probably had a wider reach in the western world than the Komodo dragon, which wasn't even known outside of Indonesia until relatively recently. The Nile monitor isn't AS large, but it's still big enough to scare the pants off of someone not used to reptiles of such size... and it has a forked tongue that flickers out of its mouth like flames. As for crocodiles, well, no need to explain THAT association. The Biblical Leviathan is almost certainly based on a crocodile, right down to its armored hide.
    Not buying the Protoceratops-gryphon explanation, though, cool as it is. Protoceratopsids are only known from China and Mongolia. Also, the Greeks especially had a whole thing for hybrid animals, or chimaeras (including the chimaera itself), so the gryphon was probably just another example of that, and doesn't need further explanation. Funny enough, some of these hybrids DID turn out to be based on real animals. The camelopard, for instance, was a camel-leopard that was almost certainly based on descriptions of the giraffe.

    • @sarahberkner
      @sarahberkner ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The leviathan probably was a crocodile, although not sure what, "spits fire from its mouth" which the Bible does say, is supposed to be a metaphor for?

    • @pandakicker1
      @pandakicker1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your use of the archaic spellings is delightful! Do you know ancient Greek?

  • @wesnewman11
    @wesnewman11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I wanna see a segment in a video about how flies repair themselves and how the saw blades on grasshopper legs can kill spiders and other things like this, im sure you can elaborate

  • @bbd121
    @bbd121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    There's going to be an underwear ad from Joe later, isn't there?
    ...Wait, there isn't? I don't want to say it's a missed opportunity, but...

    • @joescott
      @joescott  3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I "subverted your expectations." I'm the Rian Johnson of TH-cam.

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@joescott you're reaching M. Night Shyamalan levels even

  • @mastershubhamverma
    @mastershubhamverma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Me: *eagerly waiting for Joe to say Mermaids*
    Joe: ...
    Me: :(

    • @MrVkull
      @MrVkull 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was expecting Narwals

    • @pablohammerly448
      @pablohammerly448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was surprised that Joe didn't mention the creatures that inspired mermaid mythology. 🙄

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Be honest, you were waiting for Joe to say, "Mermaids were probably just shapely blonde women swimming topless," and of course include illustrations.

    • @worthyisback5652
      @worthyisback5652 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      beluga whales?

    • @MrVkull
      @MrVkull 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@worthyisback5652 Manities I believe

  • @shelby8101
    @shelby8101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Joe in the song Sheb sings “Mr. Purple people eater what’s your line? He said “eating purple people and it sure is fine’” so don’t worry, you’re safe but I’m not so sure about the Fugates.

    • @sechran
      @sechran 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They're explicitly blue though... though, do they turn purple with a bad enough sunburn...?

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who does this song everyone is talking about lol. Sounds funny af

    • @jbirdmax
      @jbirdmax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That song is ancient 😂

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jbirdmax it does sound like lyrics to an older song. Imagine Adele belting out those words in a new album lol. People at the concert be like 😳

    • @dewiz9596
      @dewiz9596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beat me to it. . .

  • @michiganscythian2445
    @michiganscythian2445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When I was in Europe, I saw several Griffon vultures and thought that they were the inspiration for the griffin myth. They are HUGE, up to 9 foot wingspan, and almost 4 feet tall when standing. Huge beaks that are vaguely Eagle looking, huge claws, and a feathery ruff around their neck, and a golden brown color. Someone could have easily described a Griffon vulture as a “lion-eagle” and someone hearing that imagined something completely different.

    • @icarusbinns3156
      @icarusbinns3156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Funnily enough, of nearly all mythological creatures, griffins tend to be the ones that act more like… animals. In older tales, they did not talk, did not approach humans. They were just… wild animals.

  • @genericstaticshock705
    @genericstaticshock705 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh God Idk why but the little noise and the chair spin combination always makes me happy. Its literally the perfect intro :D

  • @obadiyah2124
    @obadiyah2124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    5:02 He said," shimera" (Chimera)
    Let's Get Him!!!!
    🔱🔥🔱🔥

    • @thrashandburn10221
      @thrashandburn10221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      angry atlantean villagers

    • @qwertyferix
      @qwertyferix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      How dare he! It's /kīˈmirə/, Joe!
      (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

    • @MonkeyDefenceForce
      @MonkeyDefenceForce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Looking for this comment.

    • @chraffis
      @chraffis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep! String him up! (I had to do this twice because I'm an idiot.)

    • @harschness
      @harschness 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kai'Mer'Ah

  • @melissahourihan2344
    @melissahourihan2344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    “A few skeletons and a bit of imagination can go a long way” sounds like something off tumblr

  • @terryhasan
    @terryhasan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    Very minor correction: When discussing the gorilla, you said that “ the first reported gorilla sighting from outside of Africa…” You go on to say it was by a Carthaginian. Carthage was in Africa.

    • @maximusmidnight2591
      @maximusmidnight2591 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I think he means the first recorded sighting by someone who didn't already live in Africa?

    • @terryhasan
      @terryhasan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@maximusmidnight2591 Well, I guess every people come from somewhere else. And agreed, the Carthaginians weren't indigenous to Africa, having come from Phoenicia. But they had been been in Africa since the 900s BC. So when the gorilla sighting was made by one of them, they were there for about 400 years at that point. I think it might be fair to say they were living in Africa by then- just as we live in America. I think maybe he means sub-Saharan Africa. At any rate, it is such a minor point. Joe is one of my favorite You Tubers - smart, entertaining, and just a good guy.

    • @erikjarandson5458
      @erikjarandson5458 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@terryhasan Also, by 500 BC, they were a thoroughly mixed people, the main ancestry being Phoenician, followed by Greek, but with some ancestry from virtually every nation living along a connected trade route. Hannibal's elephants were imported from India, along with riders and the riders' families. While the Sahara was a greater barrier than oceans, we know that there was trade across it, as well as trade through Egypt. The Carthaginians were genetically South of Sahara Africans. And South Europeans, and Indians, and a lot more. Culturally, though, they were Mediterranean, which became Roman culture, which became Medieval European culture, and ended up as modern European culture. Their "Known World" was about the same as that of Romans and Greeks, and very different from that of Africans south of Sahara.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The best description probalby would've been "sub-saharan africa", as even today the cultures are different, with the north more mediterranean or arabic, something that has been for quite some time back into ancient times.

    • @thebookman1036
      @thebookman1036 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@erikjarandson5458 NO Hannibal's elephants did not come from India, nor did their riders or their families. His elephants belong to a now extinct species of elephant called the African Forest Elephant

  • @bemusedbandersnatch2069
    @bemusedbandersnatch2069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think it's become fairly certain in recent years that many tales of sea serpents were inspired by oarfish, very large very long deep dwelling fish that very rarely come up to the surface. Aside from the fact that they're not actually snakes they basically are sea serpents just based on size alone.

  • @PixelPenguin77
    @PixelPenguin77 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    16:05 ngl, first thing that came to mind when I heard this description is the sloth bear. Although they're a mainland India thing (not found in the Andaman islands afaik), it could still explain how ancient greeks "knew" about them (as it would be more likely for them to be in contact with northern regions rather than the Indian Ocean).

  • @myscreen2urs
    @myscreen2urs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    There's some speculation that unicorns were based on this one type of ancient woolly rhino. It's tusk was quite gigantic. You should do a part 2. There a few more mythical creatures I feel could have been covered.

  • @TBizzell68
    @TBizzell68 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    You showed the head of Medusa, I turned to stone, this is really hard to type

    • @Siska0Robert
      @Siska0Robert 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Impossible! Why don't you turn to stone?"
      "I'm already rock hard, baby."

  • @historybuff7491
    @historybuff7491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I have always thought that dinosaur bones inspired the myths of dragons. Dinosaurs were world wide, but often different in different areas of the world. Dragons are in many cultures around the world, but also different depending on the area of the world where the myth developed. The first time I saw pterosaur bones hanging in a museum, I saw a European dragon.

  • @Serpents_and_Doves
    @Serpents_and_Doves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Joe Scott. Always in my top 3, but somehow never in recommended, or even notifications. I'll never understand it. But I'm here for you Joe!

  • @sebastianfletcher-taylor1024
    @sebastianfletcher-taylor1024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I always love your style of humor, but I literally cracked up and applauded at the Blue Fugates of Kentucky reference (before remembering that my partner's asleep in the next room and feeling mildly embarrassed). I may be a geek. I may also have spent too much time working with colloidal silver electrophoresis stains, which can cause similar discoloration.

  • @randenrichards5461
    @randenrichards5461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The kraken indeed does exist, however they are definitely a little different then the kraken shown in old pictures consuming a large wooden ship lol.

    • @nirui.o
      @nirui.o 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kraken may not exist, but Karens do.

    • @nesta8273
      @nesta8273 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wink wink, well of course Kraken exists and you know all about its apperance. Btw its me, your "friend" at the mental hospital. Will you come iwth me please, you forgot to take your pills during breakfast today. We can do this hush-hush so you can continue your day and nobody will know.

    • @jjohnston94
      @jjohnston94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We're all still waiting for Sidney Powell's kraken.

    • @johndanzer8181
      @johndanzer8181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Let's say you are a fisherman on Europe before 700 AD, most ships are under 100 foot long and fishing boats are usually under 20 feet. You find a Giant Sea Squid washed up on the beach that's 12 or 13 meters long and you've never seen anything like it before. Having never seen it alive you can only imagine what it could do to a fishing dory and it's one or two man crew.
      You tell everyone, including the local priest who writes up a report to send to the local bishop, who sends a report to the Archbishop, who sends a report to the Papacy. By the time the story gets there the "Kraken" can stop a merchant ship in the middle of the ocean and pluck sailors from the deck before dragging it prize to the bottom. Helps explain all those missing merchant ships the Vikings were capturing ...

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@johndanzer8181 Vikings were more like late 700s - 1000s, not "before 700". Also, the priests were well aware of their existence as Vikings frequently raided monasteries.

  • @jeremytheimer7443
    @jeremytheimer7443 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    this is weird. I just received my how it works magazine and one article is about the origin of mythical creatures and now 1 week later I see this. also fun fact: Marco polo saw Rhinoceros and had no idea what they were so he mistook them for unicorns so he wrote.
    "Tis a passing ugly beast to look upon, and is not in the least like that which our stories tell of as being caught in the lap of a virgin; in fact, 'tis altogether different from what we fancied. There are also monkeys here in great numbers and of sundry kinds; and goshawks as black as crows"

    • @faroncobb6040
      @faroncobb6040 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually, it is quite possible that the mistake was not made by Marco Polo, but rather by European artists who drew unicorns with horse bodies and a narwhal tusk for a horn because they didn't know the proper way to draw them.

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@faroncobb6040 In any case, he said they don't look "in the least" like mythological unicorns, according to the quote above, indicating that the horse with a horn depiction already existed at the time.

    • @erikjarandson5458
      @erikjarandson5458 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeffbenton6183 Norse traders from Greenland spent a few centuries living high on passing off narwhal tusks as horns of unicorn. They were worth more than their weight in gold. Every king and nobleman with sneaky enemies (so, every king and nobleman, period) needed a drinking cup and a plate made of it, to neutralize any assassin's poison. In powdered form, it could cure absolutely everything. The Norse Greenlanders were quite adamant about all of that, especially the price. Anyway, they were probably responsible for the idea of unicorns having long, slender, twisted horns.

  • @Rage_Harder_Then_Relax
    @Rage_Harder_Then_Relax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    The Southern Ocean has been known as the "Southern Ocean" for years.

    • @TheStonedEvo
      @TheStonedEvo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yea...but it’s now official instead of just colloquial

    • @Faisaldegrt
      @Faisaldegrt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wasn't it the Antarctic Ocean?

    • @sirius_b_13
      @sirius_b_13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Faisaldegrt I learned about the Arctic ocean and was told the Antarctic Ocean wasn't an official name. At least that's what I learned in European school so maybe Americans learned Southern Ocean? As most Americans are more comfortable with cardinal directions than Europeans

    • @Faisaldegrt
      @Faisaldegrt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sirius_b_13 looks like it

    • @imjustlookingformywatch
      @imjustlookingformywatch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@sirius_b_13 I'm an American and I can say that we didn't from my experience. I vividly remember nearly 20 years ago coming home from elementary school and telling my father that the Antarctic ocean was now called the southern ocean and his maps were wrong. He jokingly called it a plot by the liberals.

  • @jpsts-6
    @jpsts-6 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just received my Answers with Joe t-shirt, one with your logo, and I have been proudly wearing it all around Uptown here in Dallas! Love your channel Joe!

  • @AlyssaL731
    @AlyssaL731 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is my new favorite channel to fall asleep to and I mean that in the best way possible

  • @artdonovandesign
    @artdonovandesign 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I finally figured it out.
    Sing this along with Joe's guitar intro:
    "Answerswith"...
    "Answerswith"...
    "Answerswith"...
    "Answerswith...
    "JOE!"

    • @gero9369
      @gero9369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nice

    • @Boysermusic
      @Boysermusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cringe

    • @Bigjuicydumbdumb
      @Bigjuicydumbdumb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *snap* ho ho this one is going in my cringe compilation

  • @ryantwombly720
    @ryantwombly720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Wait, they just discovered a new Seabiscuit? That is one sneaky horse.

    • @AmaraJordanMusic
      @AmaraJordanMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣 I enjoyed this more than I should have. 😂

    • @lynngatrell7965
      @lynngatrell7965 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe that was the new seahorse he was talking about.

    • @Cillana
      @Cillana 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I just looked it up. Sea biscuits are chonky sand dollars. 😁

    • @TAROTAI
      @TAROTAI 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seabiscuit? That race horse has been around since the 1940's. He was a champion thoroughbred who was the top money-winning racehorse - didn't these scientists know that?

    • @Cillana
      @Cillana 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TAROTAI scientists didn't give it the name sea biscuit. Both the animal and the horse are named after the food. Sea biscuits are sailors' rations also called hardtack. The animal was probably named first since nowadays everyone thinks of seabiscuit as a horse and not a food that a sea creature may resemble.

  • @Nikenik2001
    @Nikenik2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Imagine being a little drunk and getting caught out in the rain in ancient Crete, staggering into a cave and finding a bunch of dwarf elephant skulls and then trying to sleep. 😯

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why would you drink around a cave?

    • @Nikenik2001
      @Nikenik2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fajaradi1223 You haven't had a drink at your friends place and decided to walk home at the end of the evening?

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nikenik2001
      I did, but I stayed there.

  • @itzsammyboiz
    @itzsammyboiz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:37 as good as an explanation that would be, there just simply aren't any traces of dragon folklore from indigenous Australian cultures (as far as we know) aside from large snake creatures- i think we can guess where that inspo came from.

  • @Hugging_Cactus
    @Hugging_Cactus 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    a video on the development of film going from stills to movies with sound etc … now all medium digital. great work Joe!

  • @clarimm6675
    @clarimm6675 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    ummm wait I feel like we glossed over the fact that a dude with an apparent dog head became a saint waaaay too quickly?!

    • @joshjones6072
      @joshjones6072 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Saint Lemur. 🤣
      Sounds like a Monthy Python skit.

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He might not be a literal saint, or it could be a legend told about his otherwise unknown past

    • @sadsworth4605
      @sadsworth4605 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Everyone loves doggy

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Maybe he just had a long face.
      My be was just "misformed" and devoted his life to religion after being shunned for his looks. Thinking of modern freak shows it iisn't even uncommon today

  • @eymd3067
    @eymd3067 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Fun fact: Hafgufa means Ocean Steam. That's it. That's the whole fact.

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    You just forgot about the biggest source for all those stories, Joe: alcohol! 😬
    People tend to drink a lot! 😂

    • @davidbeppler3032
      @davidbeppler3032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Also bad water, moldy bread, spoiled foods, disease, and insanity.

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@davidbeppler3032 Very true!

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mushrooms and weeds, along with alcohol, can lead to a lot of story telling.

    • @hermanrobak1285
      @hermanrobak1285 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, the Incline Wolf is practically invisible to sober people. I'm pretty sure the Slope Badger is more abundant around drunks, too.

  • @nathanb5579
    @nathanb5579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The kraken was most likely a gigantic octopus type. Back in those old days there was probably still some ancient living animals that were absolutely massive. Like, beyond what you could imagine.

  • @myleswillis
    @myleswillis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:51 Can we just take a moment to appreciate this mans fabulous hair.

  • @Your_local_therian_weirdo
    @Your_local_therian_weirdo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Have you seen early depictions of Saint George fighting the dragon? It totally looks like a Komodo Dragon, with a forked tongue and all. As time went on artists kept adding forks to the tongue, which started looking a lot like fire.

  • @raymondwhatley9954
    @raymondwhatley9954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I've always found the claim that every culture has stories of dragons to be a weak one. "Dragon" is, of course, and English word so when we look at "dragons" from other cultures we are applying the word to something which has its own name in that culture and when you start to look at a lot of these creatures you come to realize that our definition of what counts as a "dragon" is so broad you could drive a truck through it. It includes creatures as diverse as the European dragons which were snake/lizard/bird hybrids to the Chinese Long which is sort of a lizard/snake/fish thing with a lion's face and deer antlers. If your definition of "dragon" is "mythical creature with scales" then it's not impressive that just about every culture has one.

    • @psychopathrik1152
      @psychopathrik1152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was about to point this out, but you did it for me.

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Very good point indeed. I guess it's just our brains again desperately trying to see patterns where there are none.

    • @jennifersalt3194
      @jennifersalt3194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Overly Sarcastic Productions did a good video on this very topic.

    • @agustinvenegas5238
      @agustinvenegas5238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "mythical creature with scales" isn't quite there either seeing as how Quetzalquoatl is often called a dragon and he has feathers, i like to think of it as "these things are vaguely scimilar and i myself think that's pretty neat"

    • @roro-mm7cc
      @roro-mm7cc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      “Dragon” is an English word but you can check if it has the same root in other languages through etymology ect - the English word for dragon derives from both the ancient Greek word drakon and the ancient Latin word “draco”. I’m not sure if people have been able to trace the origin of all of the written words for “dragon” in Eurasia right back to the same root though. Certainly Europe. You can also tell that Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese “dragons” all originate from the same word looking at the characters for dragon in these languages. Whether the Chinese dragon / European dragon also have the same origin word/character further back in time idk. But it wouldn’t surprise me if there was an initial origin for this.. the fact that large flying reptilian beasts have a such a high significance in both East Asian and European mythologies is definitely notable - if anything it says something about human psychology but it could be based on the misidentification of fossils ect.

  • @ZapAndersson
    @ZapAndersson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    I'm perdy sure "chimera" is pronounced with a hard K sound....

    • @eldestaroma
      @eldestaroma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thats wat i thot....i have always read it as Kai-mera ...

    • @joewilliams9436
      @joewilliams9436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My brain makes it very easy to take that pronunciation too far and I end up with shimmery.

    • @scifino1
      @scifino1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I guess it depends. In German the word "Chimäre" is definitely pronounced with a soft ch-sound, rather than a k-sound.

    • @ZapAndersson
      @ZapAndersson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@scifino1 Swedish too.. But this is English last time I checked :)

    • @bobfg3130
      @bobfg3130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes
      It's Greek.

  • @melstark3466
    @melstark3466 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thx for these videos…you make me ponder new information, your humor makes me smile and you are a breath of fresh air on TH-cam. Keep doing what you’re doing!

  • @lavendergalaxy9996
    @lavendergalaxy9996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was such a good video!! Would love to see a part 2 with more cryptid/monsters?
    Like mothman being an (enormous) barn owl, unicorns being rhinos because of poor translation, and my personal favorite, people misidentifying whale penises as sea monsters. (seriously, look it up)

  • @FlyingHangman
    @FlyingHangman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    It was a purple-people eater, it says so in the song.
    "I wouldn't eat you cos you're too tough"
    "Eating purple people and it sure is fine"

  • @grahamcann1761
    @grahamcann1761 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'd seem to recall hearing/reading that Unicorns were thought to have originated because of descriptions sent to Greece of Rhino's.
    As always thank you so very much for the video.

  • @michaeljf6472
    @michaeljf6472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Kraken, the scariest of sea monsters"
    [Laughs in SCP 1128]

  • @mannym8ker
    @mannym8ker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    13:13 I think it's also possible that there was a giant squid back then and it just... died. So now there aren't any. If the USS Cyclops is still missing now imagine the remnants of a dead squid.

  • @susanbrennan5511
    @susanbrennan5511 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes Joe is great! He goes from one topic to the next so different but I’m never bored.

  • @thomashiggins9320
    @thomashiggins9320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hey, if you're going to evoke Sturgeon's Law, you should attribute it! :)
    So, the word, "manticore" is based on the ancient Persian word, "merthykhuwar," which directly translates into, "man-eater."
    It describes a beast with the face of a man, the body of a great cat with scales, wings, and a long tail with a barbed spike on the end. it has three rows of teeth, and it eats people.
    The Persians reported that it lived in the jungles of India, and that's the key to unlocking the myth.
    The fur around the face of a tiger makes it appear round, instead of triangular, like most cats.
    An ancient Hindu word for "scales" is very similar to a Hindu word for "stripes."
    Tigers supposedly have a long bone at the end of their tails, although it's usually covered by skin and fur, but anybody who hunted one (successfully) might know that.
    Many of a tiger's teeth have three points -- a central one, and two lesser spikes on either side. This helps them tear the flesh, which they gobble down in chunks, without grinding it down much.
    Finally, of course, tigers are ambush hunters. They kill with a long pounce -- up to 25 feet.
    And, yes, they eat people -- especially older tigers that have started to lose their teeth.
    So, yeah. The word, "manticore" comes from a Persian word for the garbled description of a tiger they learned from travelers to ancient India.
    That mythical creature earns a heavily soiled pair of tighty-whiteys. :)

  • @MarlenNurmakov
    @MarlenNurmakov 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Deinotherium Gigante: one of the world's largest animals that ever walked the earth.
    Sauropods: Are we a joke to you?

    • @ExtremeMadnessX
      @ExtremeMadnessX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of largest mammals that ever walked on Earth, not animals.

    • @MarlenNurmakov
      @MarlenNurmakov 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ExtremeMadnessX well Joe said "animals"

    • @JAGzilla-ur3lh
      @JAGzilla-ur3lh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean, it's still right up there near the top. Out of all the species that have ever walked the earth, far less than one percent were bigger than Deinotherium.

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You should possibly cover the story about the stories about the creature in Lake Baikal of Russia, also the isolated body of water in Antarctica that supposedly had a creature that freaked out the Russian marine biologists. Either way those bodies of water are amazing, even without a unknown creature.

  • @bipedalcynodont962
    @bipedalcynodont962 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I LOVE that you showed an anteosaur skull at 0:46!!!! They're some of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE extinct animals; in fact, dinocephalians in-general are probably my favorite extinct taxon!!!!!!

  • @TV-xm4ps
    @TV-xm4ps 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am amazed that you manage complex texts while being stoned. Love your channel... :))

  • @mervjohnson8010
    @mervjohnson8010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "When a Komodo Dragon is afraid-"
    Hold up. WTF scares a Komodo Dragon!?

  • @robertthompson90
    @robertthompson90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    How about the mythical creature that is a new GPU at a reasonable price? 😅

    • @ChaosPootato
      @ChaosPootato 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Gottem

    • @blksmagma
      @blksmagma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dude. Stop talking about fables.

    • @6smallBIG9
      @6smallBIG9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nonsense... More likely to find bigfoot

    • @jr2904
      @jr2904 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's been stories that they released new consoles, but most chalk them up to a myth

    • @joshjones6072
      @joshjones6072 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahaha!

  • @leoornstein3963
    @leoornstein3963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You know, ancient people in Australia actually have to deal with actual Dragon-Like animal such as Megalania, a giant monitor lizard, and Quinkana, a terrestrial Crocodyliform. They all went extinct at the end of Pleistocene, but for a brief Windows of time, native Australian actually co-exist with them.

  • @dakotasmith9873
    @dakotasmith9873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    12:56: "Absolutely breathtaking" is a good way to describe it, but I feel like that's the polite way of saying "fucking terrifying" in this case, especially if they weren't sending robots and witnessed that in person on a submarine

  • @SavannahSedai
    @SavannahSedai 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I typically enjoy your videos but you have won a full blown fan with that “passions” reference 😂 oh I used to get in so much trouble when my mom would catch teenage me watching passions in the summer or when school was out 💀

  • @mogomotsitlhone5990
    @mogomotsitlhone5990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'd like to know more about the "Submarine" sighted in the oceans near Cape Town. It's described as a shark but during a freak accident with a tour boat accident, a horrific shark eating frenzy occurred but the 10s of sharks scattered. I think the species might be associated to the Mexican "demon shark". It's larger than a great white and can breath while stationery, which is impossible for a regular species of shark.

    • @MattJDylan
      @MattJDylan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dude, that mockumentary was fake...

    • @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan
      @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The biggest type of fish, the whale shark, lives in the waters of South Africa (among other places). They dwarf great whites (estimates ranging from 14 to 21.9 meters (46 to 72 ft) in length).
      But they generally feed on plankton and small fish and are a docile species

    • @mogomotsitlhone5990
      @mogomotsitlhone5990 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MattJDylan you serious!? Dammit... well my inquisition came to a non-dramatic ending. Thanks

    • @MattJDylan
      @MattJDylan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mogomotsitlhone5990 yeah, shark week has been doing that for years... I was a bit bummed too when I found out

    • @herrschmidt5477
      @herrschmidt5477 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      if it could breathe while standing still it would also most likely disqualify as a shark.

  • @Begnsteal
    @Begnsteal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    VAMPIRES WITCHES AND WEREWOLVES do a supernatural one

  • @potatertots2060
    @potatertots2060 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent video! Just one thing that’s bothering me, aren’t saltwater crocodiles the largest crocodile species? Or did he just mean at the time in that part of the world the biggest they’d seen were Niles? I know this is pedantic asf but I’m just curious.

  • @lkblondie8061
    @lkblondie8061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:15 does that include already known species that got reclassified? I know with tarantulas, there will be species that names change based on new discoveries strictly about how to classify them and not on "new" found species alone.

  • @timbruns1636
    @timbruns1636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey when are you doing a video on orbital rings around earth? There have been proposals on that (seems to be doable) and it solves some of the problems one encounters when dealing with other concepts like space elevators, permanent and geo-stationary space stations and so on. Could be interesting to dig deeper into that ;)

  • @KingNedya
    @KingNedya 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Did you know that there's now a fifth ocean?"
    Me: "Wait, was there not?"

  • @lolagyable
    @lolagyable 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Joe: "Nile crocs are the largest crocodile species."
    Big Salty boi: "Am i a joke to you?"

    • @qwertyferix
      @qwertyferix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was my thought.

  • @AP-yi2do
    @AP-yi2do 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    He pronounced it as -'shimeras'....🧐 Chimera is pronounced 'kaimera' ...right?

    • @qwertyferix
      @qwertyferix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes. He shall pay! 😡

    • @nassimabed
      @nassimabed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In molecular biology the term is used for antibodies that are half human half mouse

    • @architeuthis3476
      @architeuthis3476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's correct. Chi... (to rhyme with "try") ...me... (almost like "may") ...ra (to rhyme with "duh")

    • @okaydetar821
      @okaydetar821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@architeuthis3476 kai-may-ruh? Nah bruh, it's kai-mere-uh if you wanna brake it down phonetically.

    • @architeuthis3476
      @architeuthis3476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@okaydetar821 Eh, that's why I said "almost" for the middle syllable. Some of it comes down to accent (some people pronounce the words Mary, marry, & merry identically). Most English speakers would also pronounce the "ch" in chimera as a hard k whereas some would pronounce it as a guttural as in "Loch". The point is, its not anything like what was said in the video.

  • @CriminaIlyInsane
    @CriminaIlyInsane 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finally someone who doesn't beg for subscriptions comments and likes and keeps his sponsors at the end of the video needless to say I have subscribed

  • @amptaxman
    @amptaxman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    @ 40 seconds “and a partridge in a pear tree”.
    I was furiously typing that, as you were going down the list, thinking I was SO clever. 🤣
    Nicely done.

  • @jimg9820
    @jimg9820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Not a spectacular example, but in ancient and medieval times the Black Swan was used as an example of something that didn't exist. Right up to 1697 when they were found to actually exist in Australia.

    • @m.lhenderson5885
      @m.lhenderson5885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      By the Dutch in Western Australia?

    • @jimg9820
      @jimg9820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@m.lhenderson5885 That's right!

    • @m.lhenderson5885
      @m.lhenderson5885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jimg9820 I had an inkling but wasn’t sure. I’m Australian.

    • @jimg9820
      @jimg9820 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@m.lhenderson5885 I have seen them in the UK in stately homes' grounds - beautiful but look "wrong" to my European eyes!

    • @m.lhenderson5885
      @m.lhenderson5885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jimg9820 it’s kind of the opposite for us lol

  • @bilindalaw-morley161
    @bilindalaw-morley161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @12:00…and everybody clapped?

  • @hakaandavor2789
    @hakaandavor2789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I find myhtical creatures more intersting than mythical gods, i don't know something about them is alluring

  • @HashsirHaroon1
    @HashsirHaroon1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your video about Cephalopods is my favourite.

  • @Batolsai
    @Batolsai 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "It had the head and neck of a snake, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion and the hooves of a deer"
    Acient description of African giraffe