Yeah, that's honestly dissapointing, the "mammals in all but name" group are the sapients while the Birds becomes...insects. I am fascinated with the idea of sapient birds and that was sad.
…..sapient birds outnumber sapient terrestrial guppies? Edit: The canary descendants have produced multiple sapients on Serina by this point in the story. The guppies have produced just one.
Aliens during the dinosaur era, commenting on a video predicting raptors as modern birds like quail, cassowary and the albatross: “I must admit that I don’t look at my archaeopteryx in the same way since I discovered this channel”
Great video. I wish you'd gone into a little more detail about why the boundary trees were so important to the Gravediggers, though. For anyone who hasn't read it, the Gravediggers started as solitary, highly territorial hunters. As a result, they only experienced social interactions as juveniles, until their instincts took over and they became aggressive to any others of their species except during mating or raising offspring. As a result, they had limited abilities to communicate, exchanging ideas and developing culture. The artwork on the boundary trees, which eventually became a form of writing, was the work-around they developed to create social interactions and exchange information. That artwork helped them to develop beyond simply making tools and traps.
This artwork ended up becoming written language not only for gravediggers, but also for woodcrafters (which had no written language before the gravediggers taught them)
Theres still hope, theres a possibility intelligence develops fast enough that they could stop the cooling of their planet, either accidentally through Carbon emissions or deliberately through some sort of geo engineering. They could also just leave entirely and find a new world.
Earth: *The world of prokaryotes* Intelligent life: Eheheh fish with legs go brrr Naked monkeys: Allow us to introduce ourselves... Tis the way of life
@@DarkDoughnutsVids A dressed naked monkey of true intellettual power! In every way, the fish, at some point, are going to dominate (thetrapods) Power to the evolved fish!
Well, just go read the actual project so you don't gotta wait for when the next of these vids releases A lot more of the story has been published there after the release of this vid. Like, the woodcrafters are already long dead while the gravediggers are now an oceanic fishermen culture. Also, about the insects, just wait till you see what the ants are getting up to
When you really think about it from the sort of timescale that evolution happens at, humanity has hardly existed for long at all. They can probably develop a complicated society and maybe even space travel before their world ends.
@@thepip3599 i doubt they will : the creator voiced it's opinion on sentience in a past post that got deleted , he said that the story has changed but i doubt his opinion has , imo it will be a kind of bittersweet ending as the gravedigger unevolves sentience and then goes extinct ... i kinda miss the old ending where the last bird on serina was a antlion like metamorph that released males occasionally , this very old individual released many many males until one day it whent into hibernation , and never woke up ... this for a long time was the confirmed ending of serina
I’ve read that story so many times, and it still brings a tear to my eye! The world of Serina is so beautiful and fascinating, it deserves its own movie/show!
@@megakillerx This is the first thing I thought of when hearing that word and why I spelled it that way. th-cam.com/video/ZB5ig6vpQug/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=beggindogs
I know Dylan has stated previously that he has no interest in getting his world made into a book, but I really hope that changes one day. I would buy a Serina book in a heartbeat.
What? If you're referring to the human-ant dynamic, not only are they completely different species in completely different conditions, but biological altruism is incredibly unlikely to unfold in any world, especially in Serina. Firstly, ants are little tiny insects which operate in a hive mind behaviour using pheromones to convey very basic messages. An ant alone is as intelligent as any other non-hive mind insect. Humans on the other hand, are the most intelligent animal on earth and have been for millions of years since the dawn of mankind. Naturally, being the omnivores we are, intraspecies altruism would never develop, except if you consider the domestication of pets and livestock as such. The "Fish-Deer" and "Bird-Badger" dynamic as you call it is also extremely unlikely. The moon is vast and it would take ages for one single specimen to convey information to the entire species. Just because they're herbivorous doesn't mean they're pacifists.
@@iSyriux well the gravediggers and woodcrafters got over a couple million-year long rivalry and forged peace between their species whilst humanity cant seem to get along with its own species. plus humans basically operate on a hivemind anyay. go onto twitter and see for yourself.
@@iSyriux dude we homo Sapiens last of our homo species we evolved 300,000 years ago if your talking about the extinct species of humans they lived for like 2 million years
@@iSyriux Biological altruism is common on Earth, so what makes you think it would not happen on another world seeded with Earth life? Besides, what humans have is just plain old altruism, any intelligent creature with a strong social structure will engage in altruistic behavior, and it isn't much of a stretch for this altruism to extend to other species. Humans are not the only animal shown to engage in interspecific altruism (not biological altruism, which doesn't require any degree of altruistic thoughts but is helping another organism reproduce while decreasing its likelihood to reproduce, you can engage in altruism for another species without reducing your own likelihood for reproduction). The fact that we see many species engage in both biological altruism AND interspecific altruism, and they're not isolated examples, disproves your premise that they're unlikely to develop.
It's funny how a goddamn YT summary review video on Serina made you cry. Like, wait till you read that actual article on the actual Serina project. It's 50 times sadder 😭
@@florisbekke7754 Sentience means the ability to feel things, the ability to perceive things. Any living thing that has some degree of consciousness is sentient e.g. Bugs, Lizards, Dogs etc. And Sapience is the ability to think, the capacity for intelligence, the ability to acquire wisdom wisdom e.g. humans.
The art of the Serina project always blows me away. Well-thought out creature design (major understatement), and a robust understanding of biology and evolution makes for some stunning visuals. Thanks for making this three-part series on Badja's work! It deserves way more attention, and is solid proof that scientific knowledge and speculative evolution can spur imagination to fantastic and wondrous heights. 😁
Not many good channels who cover Speculative Evolution. This series was what made me subscribe. I wonder if there's any involving Kaiju inspired creatures.
I think making creatures In specualtive evolution media that are isnpired by popular media are a bit of an oxymoron, the genre is seen as hard science fiction, where realism and accuracy is highly valued, making creatures that have a design influence other than the world they are set in seems foolish to say the least.
I didn’t expect to find a tale as wholesome as this from an originally kinda dumb project about what would happen if you left birds on a earth like planet to survive without interference.
If someone made a movie about serina I would cry at the end (Edit)think about it. Those canaries and guppies were forever intertwined since the start. From the first canaries and guppies staring at eachother from the waters edge to the last grave digger and antleer huddled around eachother as the frostbite of a dying world creeps in. It’s tragic.
This ice age won't be the end though. There will be 1 more warm period after this, and only THEN the final ice age comes. Both these fellas will be long dead by then though.
I’ve been simply adoring this series, the illustrations and narration is outstanding, whilst I also love the fact they took into account realism for the evolution of the creatures of Serina, making the saga seem more realistic and really, for me anyway, loads more engaging, making this series seriously stand out to me!
I think it might be a little too early too make a part 3 of this series since the Middle Ultimocene is subject to change/retcon at the moment. And making a part 4 with only the EndUltimocene might end up being too short a video.
@@dylanbajda1808 I am rooting for the intelligence life on serina to escape the clutches of doom so hard, but considering that one of the sentient species is water bound and the other clumsy and has not discovered metalworking, I don't see things ending well :( Realistically they are doomed but in my heart I have headcannoned humanity placed life on the moon and are now hyper evolved and they come back and save the survivors. What an excellent work the whole project is.
It seems to me that the intelligence worked the way it would if dragons really existed and they really did start out destroying villages and stealing hoards and all that. Such a story would probably end the same way as this saga. With the dragons being the ones doing simple art and other signs, a human adopting a dragon, and - basically the same kind of thing. Any of those fantasy worlds with a dragon rider plot might have had a similar backstory. heck, How To Train Your Dragon kind of did, although the dragons in that series of movies seem more comparable to cetaceans in terms of intelligence and development, though with a different social organization.
This made me want to read more about the gravediggers and the woodcrafters. I’m curious what would’ve changed if they went to the ocean sooner, but I don’t think the author would write an alternate timeline.
I got this Serina series recommended and after the first episode, I instantly subscribed. I love speculative evolution, and the fact that there are incredible channels like these to talk about them is amazing
Unfortunatley, the alliance between the woodcrafters and the gravediggers would be tragically short. After only 10000 years, the climate cooled to a point where the woodcrafters could no longer sustain their groves or their offspring. While the gravediggers spread out to the oceans, developed their technology, and became canoe rowing fishermen, the woodcrafters were unwilling to change their ways. By the time the woodcrafters followed the gravediggers to the sea and found that they could eat the seaweed there, their numbers had fallen beyond the point of return. The last woodcrafter died among her gravediggers friends and encouraged them to remember her kind in the ocean age to come.
I was not expecting to be so emotionally effected by this world of birds I really want things to go well for them both and all other life on Serina even as I believe it won't
I can read Dostoyevsky and feel nothing but this man fantasizes about pressing “shuffle” on God’s playlists and I am nearly brought to tears by the heartwarming inter-species empathy of genera that never even existed. OH - and the “neck beards” evolved “extra large pouches” to carry eggs in? I feel personally attacked and I am not even sure why. I didn’t even mean to watch this video. What the hell going on these days
Maybe they will be tough enough to survive in the colder and colder environment and finally get tech that can be used to escape Serina?Some spaceship mayb
That would be nice, but don't forget the major time differential that humans spanned between painting on cave walls and going into space! It would be interesting, but highly unlikely. Great idea though...
@@koriw1701 Why would it be? we were painting on cave walls 40,000 years ago, then around 10,000 years ago the first cities began to arise. 3000 years ago we then got the classical era of Greece followed by the Roman Empire...and things really began to speed up.
I never really considered the possibility that two independently evolved sapient species would not immediately recognize one another as intelligent, but it makes sense that they wouldn't. It's sad enough that we hunt whales, but it would be heartbreaking if whales had always been just as intelligent as humans.
I commented a few weeks ago that I couldn't believe you guys didn't have more than 1k subscribers. I'm amazed at how fast your channel grew! 101K! You deserve it. Every single one of your videos has been fantastic. I'd love to see more projects like Serina. The creativity of the SpecEvo community truly inspires me. Keep it up! :)
I love that last part about the intelligent species joining together! I wanna make fanart now Two intelligent species; one evolved from birds, the other from fish… What a great story.
The detail of intelligence evolving twice and at the same time due to a direct predator prey relationship is a nice way off handling the statistical improbability of both appearing at the same time. However, it still doesn't make complete sense. If the Ear Deer Fish People were much more able to avoid the Badger Fish People traps then the Badger Fish People would just focus on the animals that were far too stupid to potential evolve sapience... However, if the Ear Deer Fish People were literally the only large game then that would still drive the Badger Fish People to strive to catch them, even if they could still subsist off of smaller game during the hard times. It's an unstable dynamic that could easily have led to one species suddenly being wiped out by the other, but it could work out as described.
spoilers There’s another intelligence that did arise coincidentally during the same time frame completely removed from the woodcrafters and gravediggers, and then another one five million years later There’s also another sapient that’s sapient because of the former sapient
The gravediggers did switch to hunting other animals after the woodcrafters became sapient (because the woodcrafters were now smart enough to match them and so too much of a challenge). The woodcrafters still continued with their war.
These videos are amazing, ever since your dive into the world of the Birrin I've been waiting for each new video you release. The worldbuilding here is wonderful.
The wood crafters weren’t killing the monsters they wanted to wipe out, they became the monsters they never thought they would become. That actually is really sad, they didn’t even realize they were the monsters until the Gravedigger’s art shown them who and what the monsters really were.
So I'm gonna guess they're gonna both rapidly go through the ancient, medieval, classic, modern, etc and I'm guessing it'll end off with them spreading off their freezing moon, to spread onto other planets. Or at least I hope.
Yes!!! I was worried it would be a much longer wait for this video! This amazing content you’re putting out and the amazing artists you’re featuring are fantastic!
Mysterious creator : I'm going to make a planet for bird with the fish as the prey Birds : so we're gonna be the dominant species that hunt the fish right? Mysterious creator : ......... Birds: we're gonna be the dominant species.....right??
Please do a video about *'THE FUTURE IS WILD'* It's another speculative evolution documentary about what future animals might evolve on Earth millions of years from now.
Ahhh! That cliffhanger ending killed me! I hope the next video isn’t too far off. That said, please don’t rush yourself with content creation. Your fans are patient and we will gladly wait for something it it matches this
(Kinda funny how you're talking to the guy making the review video as if he's the actual creator of the project, ngl) But anyways, the wait will be a long one. Seeing current progression rate on the project, Sheather might finish it like all the way in the beginning of 2023 at most. Which is a good thing at least, coz it ensures a biiig, thorough and good story with lots of love poured into it.
@@velocipastor676 sorry for the miscommunication. I did not mean to misattribute credit for the original work. I was just saying in terms of rushing content creation. I have actually started following the original artist as well. His stuff is so good.
Please cover Wayne Douglas Barlowe's 'Expedition'! Really cool speculative alien biology book about his fictitious planet, 'Darwin IV'. It was also adapted into a TV series by Discovery Channel (Alien Planet). Barlowe is also the creature designer for James Cameron's Avatar and you should totally do a video about Pandora too!!
Woodcrafters: kill, no predators, die Gravediggers: peace, friends, happiness Woodcrafters: ok Woodcrafters and Gravediggers: happiness! Ice Age: hehe >:3
Dude I saw art of this thing a few years ago. OMG! I love this, thank you so much for making vids on these speculative worlds! I'm not great at reading so these vids help explore the ideas.
4:10 this image is literally what we called : a simple exemple of evolution Birds become fishes and tripods have hand ears...THAT'S IT, I'M OUT OF HERE
Given how quickly sentience leads to higher technology and science, I'm fairly sure that the Gravediggers and Woodcrafters will find a way to leave Serina and become an interplanetary civilization long before the moon becomes uninhabitable. Especially given that their culture seems pretty effective at discouraging war and encouraging cooperation and creativity
Pretty crazy how all of the most intelligent forms of life - dolphins, elephants, and crows were the smartest in the Sea, Land and Air. Almost like its what nature intended.
In setting aside their mutual animosity, the Woodcrafters and Gravediggers may be able to escape a dying world. Sentience has its benefits. They won’t be the last of their kind helplessly awaiting the sunset of inevitable, remorseless, cold extinction.
This is so cool, I can't wait to see how the story ends. It's so great, the level of detail and how it takes the whole story of the world's evolution step by step, moving for the very probable to the plausible speculation.
I would strongly recommend covering Nea by Joschua Knüppe (Hyrotrioskjan on deviantArt), which similarly to Serina depicts an alien world where Earth species have been introduced
Really liked the last two video about the speculative biology in the world of Serina, and I was kinda bummed seeing the last episode had come out recently, I did not expect the next video to be released so soon. Appreciated.
i really enjoy seeing this theoretical evolution stuff! the ideas and creature designs, all the complexity and thought put into every little detail is absolutely amazing! maybe if we had people like yall working on ME Andromeda it wouldn't have been such a failure XD still salty about the dlc cancels.
Serina: The world of birds
*Sapient life proceeds to evolve from fish*
Not so weird if you consider that both of them are fish.
Whoever did this experiment must be like: "Not exactly what i had in mind, but i think it's gonna work..."
Yeah, still BRUH...
Yeah, that's honestly dissapointing, the "mammals in all but name" group are the sapients while the Birds becomes...insects.
I am fascinated with the idea of sapient birds and that was sad.
…..sapient birds outnumber sapient terrestrial guppies?
Edit: The canary descendants have produced multiple sapients on Serina by this point in the story. The guppies have produced just one.
Gravedigger is like “Am I a joke to you?”.
I must admit that I don't look at my canaries in the same way since I discovered this channel.
@@Drion086 Life is weird.
@@Drion086 Horrific? I find it beautiful.
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Aliens during the dinosaur era, commenting on a video predicting raptors as modern birds like quail, cassowary and the albatross:
“I must admit that I don’t look at my archaeopteryx in the same way since I discovered this channel”
I decided to make this project about canaries because I keep canaries too C:
100K in two months? Let's fucking go baby.
Yo!
Cool to see you here lmao
To the moon! No wait.. to Serina!
Wait, I binged your channel today, didn't expect to see you here
NORMAL CANARY
Calm down
Great video. I wish you'd gone into a little more detail about why the boundary trees were so important to the Gravediggers, though.
For anyone who hasn't read it, the Gravediggers started as solitary, highly territorial hunters. As a result, they only experienced social interactions as juveniles, until their instincts took over and they became aggressive to any others of their species except during mating or raising offspring. As a result, they had limited abilities to communicate, exchanging ideas and developing culture. The artwork on the boundary trees, which eventually became a form of writing, was the work-around they developed to create social interactions and exchange information. That artwork helped them to develop beyond simply making tools and traps.
This artwork ended up becoming written language not only for gravediggers, but also for woodcrafters (which had no written language before the gravediggers taught them)
Basically, one can compare them to antisocial basement-dwellers who use social media instead to interact with other people.
@@velocipastor676 that's Convergent Evolution for ya 😂🤣
@@velocipastor676 I love this example of convergent evolution 😂
@@a-10warthog72
Convergent evolution in the most literal sense lmao
It's sad that serina is dying I wish we could of seen both of intelligent species grow and prosper and advance
Theres still hope, theres a possibility intelligence develops fast enough that they could stop the cooling of their planet, either accidentally through Carbon emissions or deliberately through some sort of geo engineering. They could also just leave entirely and find a new world.
@@Yjeshuaa The woodcrafters are gone, but the gravediggers seem to have an interesting future ahead.
@@alexx.476 why do you say that the woodcrafters are gone?
@@andresmarrero8666 The website has some more recent entries detailing the woodcrafter’s extinction
@@alexx.476 Oh
OMG YES!!!! I freak out anytime you put out a video!
This is video Aleori approved
Hmm guppie deer
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So...POV vid?
Sameeeeeeeeeeeeee! :D
"A related group are the neckbeards" is about the funniest thing I've heard on this channel.
Incel Bird
Good evening m'lady, can I offer you some oishi seeds?
exactly lol
This is literally a massive project on how a bird and a fish can, indeed, be friends
These videos on speculative zoology have inspired me to create my own spec evo creatures and world, keep making 'em man
Videos like these are far too inspiring.
same, like i started drawing all types of creatures for almost a year
Show us!
post them on the spec evo forum
Same, Im planing to turn my amonia hellhole into a short-film series
Serina is one of the most impressive works of speculative biology and fiction I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
You just stole the words out of my mouth. Agreed!
Serina: *The world of birds*
Intelligent life: Eheheh fish with 3 legs goes brrr
Badger penguins: Let us introduce ourselves...
Earth: *The world of prokaryotes*
Intelligent life: Eheheh fish with legs go brrr
Naked monkeys: Allow us to introduce ourselves...
Tis the way of life
@@DarkDoughnutsVids A dressed naked monkey of true intellettual power!
In every way, the fish, at some point, are going to dominate (thetrapods)
Power to the evolved fish!
@@s.f.fallax822 ALL HAIL OUR FISH OVERLORDS !!!!!!
@@ethanpolley1085 Glup Glup!
cucked
Omg... I don't want this to end.
What a beautiful part of the story.
I am so sad because i know that the woodcrafters are gona die... And the gravedigers, we need some domestication and farming!
@@ultraapple3997 I hope we get more videos of this.
About the end and about some insects.
Like what happens to them.
If you know dont spoil.
Well, just go read the actual project so you don't gotta wait for when the next of these vids releases
A lot more of the story has been published there after the release of this vid. Like, the woodcrafters are already long dead while the gravediggers are now an oceanic fishermen culture.
Also, about the insects, just wait till you see what the ants are getting up to
@@Littlekoji-df1cf well it has been five months and ca finally uploads again
its sad how the world ended it was fun seeing the gravediggers and woodcrafters eventually rise together.
It’s not over yet!
When you really think about it from the sort of timescale that evolution happens at, humanity has hardly existed for long at all. They can probably develop a complicated society and maybe even space travel before their world ends.
@@thepip3599 i doubt they will : the creator voiced it's opinion on sentience in a past post that got deleted , he said that the story has changed but i doubt his opinion has ,
imo it will be a kind of bittersweet ending as the gravedigger unevolves sentience and then goes extinct ...
i kinda miss the old ending where the last bird on serina was a antlion like metamorph that released males occasionally , this very old individual released many many males until one day it whent into hibernation , and never woke up ...
this for a long time was the confirmed ending of serina
@@thepip3599 Maybe for the gravediggers… you need to read the most recent page of the Serina website.
Maybe the wood rafters would become so intelligent before their moons end and travel to the stars. Or maybe they can save their world, who knows.
A Watership Down-esque movie, depicting the Woodcrafter/Gravedigger conflict, would be stellar!
Animated in the same art style?
OMG YES!
@@helenajakobsen6220 and the main characters would be the Woodcrafter warrior and the little orphan gravedigger he adopts.
@@anon9579 and then there is an angsty scene when bridge relasies she isnt like the other woodcrafters
@@helenajakobsen6220 I guess where she is looking at her reflection in the water. Or is that a cliche
I’ve read that story so many times, and it still brings a tear to my eye! The world of Serina is so beautiful and fascinating, it deserves its own movie/show!
Walking with the birds
Lol yes
@@aidonpor8211 walking in serina
Walking with Canaries
Can you imagine the same studio that made the Walking With series behind this speculative world?
They unknowingly were becoming monsters by thinking they were killing monsters
Ironic
Time for humans
Humans be like:
The dark side of the force is indeed a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... Unatural
Nietszche was right even millions of years in the future on a different world.
If you think this *wholesomeness* would continue I *assure* all of you that the next or Fİnal Chapter will be *depressing* *demoralizing* to its core!
Having enough millenia left in their time they could still go interplanetary
@@thekramer1097 I dont want to give you spoilers I just want to repeat be prepared to be depressed
@@thedoruk6324 Oh then nevermind. It is what it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not everything last forever I guess.
I am just glad it happened. But also sad it's ending :(
Neckbeards and Newts well I've gotta say the author does have a fantastic sense of humor. 😂
They're spelled "Noots" because they have long snoots. They are magnificent creatures.
@Something Mildly Homophobic
It’s a pingu reference. With newt sounding a lot like NOOT NOOT
@@megakillerx This is the first thing I thought of when hearing that word and why I spelled it that way. th-cam.com/video/ZB5ig6vpQug/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=beggindogs
@@ArcaneAxolotl noot noot!
One species of neckbeard is called the euphoric boomerbird, which i find hilarious
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I’m saying this right now, SOMEONE MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THE WOODCRAFTERS AND GRAVEDIGGERS!
The ending of intelligence overcoming instincts is such a wholesome story
I know Dylan has stated previously that he has no interest in getting his world made into a book, but I really hope that changes one day. I would buy a Serina book in a heartbeat.
Fish-Deer and Bird-Badgers are better humans than Ape-Ants.
What? If you're referring to the human-ant dynamic, not only are they completely different species in completely different conditions, but biological altruism is incredibly unlikely to unfold in any world, especially in Serina. Firstly, ants are little tiny insects which operate in a hive mind behaviour using pheromones to convey very basic messages. An ant alone is as intelligent as any other non-hive mind insect. Humans on the other hand, are the most intelligent animal on earth and have been for millions of years since the dawn of mankind. Naturally, being the omnivores we are, intraspecies altruism would never develop, except if you consider the domestication of pets and livestock as such.
The "Fish-Deer" and "Bird-Badger" dynamic as you call it is also extremely unlikely. The moon is vast and it would take ages for one single specimen to convey information to the entire species. Just because they're herbivorous doesn't mean they're pacifists.
@@iSyriux well the gravediggers and woodcrafters got over a couple million-year long rivalry and forged peace between their species whilst humanity cant seem to get along with its own species. plus humans basically operate on a hivemind anyay. go onto twitter and see for yourself.
@@iSyriux dude we homo Sapiens last of our homo species we evolved 300,000 years ago if your talking about the extinct species of humans they lived for like 2 million years
@@ceratoraptorthedestroyer you do understand that serina is fiction right? which is exactly his point.
@@iSyriux Biological altruism is common on Earth, so what makes you think it would not happen on another world seeded with Earth life? Besides, what humans have is just plain old altruism, any intelligent creature with a strong social structure will engage in altruistic behavior, and it isn't much of a stretch for this altruism to extend to other species. Humans are not the only animal shown to engage in interspecific altruism (not biological altruism, which doesn't require any degree of altruistic thoughts but is helping another organism reproduce while decreasing its likelihood to reproduce, you can engage in altruism for another species without reducing your own likelihood for reproduction).
The fact that we see many species engage in both biological altruism AND interspecific altruism, and they're not isolated examples, disproves your premise that they're unlikely to develop.
I actually started crying at the end of this. That was such a sad story but also beautiful
wait until you read about the last woodcrafter
@@highlyvurgultis3706 do I even want to? Haha 😂😭
It's funny how a goddamn YT summary review video on Serina made you cry. Like, wait till you read that actual article on the actual Serina project. It's 50 times sadder 😭
The Antlear and Gravedigger story is very sweet, I wonder what the final stretch of Serina will bring.
Also I'd love it if you covered Snaiad!
Wish granted!
I really hope you compile all these when you're done with the Serina series
yes
I quite like how you don’t say everything about these amazing worlds people create, it encourages people to go and support these creators
2:36 They have evolved to use their trunks to tip their fedoras
A World for birds...
In which nearly all predatory birds got killed by sapient fish-deer.
I appreciate your effort to differentiate sentience and sapience.
Then what’s the difference?
@@florisbekke7754 Sentience means the ability to feel things, the ability to perceive things. Any living thing that has some degree of consciousness is sentient e.g. Bugs, Lizards, Dogs etc. And Sapience is
the ability to think, the capacity for intelligence, the ability to acquire wisdom wisdom e.g. humans.
The art of the Serina project always blows me away. Well-thought out creature design (major understatement), and a robust understanding of biology and evolution makes for some stunning visuals.
Thanks for making this three-part series on Badja's work! It deserves way more attention, and is solid proof that scientific knowledge and speculative evolution can spur imagination to fantastic and wondrous heights. 😁
Not many good channels who cover Speculative Evolution. This series was what made me subscribe. I wonder if there's any involving Kaiju inspired creatures.
I think making creatures In specualtive evolution media that are isnpired by popular media are a bit of an oxymoron, the genre is seen as hard science fiction, where realism and accuracy is highly valued, making creatures that have a design influence other than the world they are set in seems foolish to say the least.
Canary and Guppy
And grashoppa
Never clicked on a video faster
I love this surge of popularity for spec zoo
I didn’t expect to find a tale as wholesome as this from an originally kinda dumb project about what would happen if you left birds on a earth like planet to survive without interference.
its not dumb :((
If someone made a movie about serina I would cry at the end
(Edit)think about it. Those canaries and guppies were forever intertwined since the start. From the first canaries and guppies staring at eachother from the waters edge to the last grave digger and antleer huddled around eachother as the frostbite of a dying world creeps in. It’s tragic.
Spoiler the woodcrafters, die before the gravediggers. And possibly the gravediggers make spaceships and abandon serina
@@davidskere3355 and seeded other like humans
This ice age won't be the end though. There will be 1 more warm period after this, and only THEN the final ice age comes.
Both these fellas will be long dead by then though.
I’ve been simply adoring this series, the illustrations and narration is outstanding, whilst I also love the fact they took into account realism for the evolution of the creatures of Serina, making the saga seem more realistic and really, for me anyway, loads more engaging, making this series seriously stand out to me!
Feels incredible that these animals came from birds and fish
I think it might be a little too early too make a part 3 of this series since the Middle Ultimocene is subject to change/retcon at the moment.
And making a part 4 with only the EndUltimocene might end up being too short a video.
Nothing in the video is subject to change
@@dylanbajda1808 I am rooting for the intelligence life on serina to escape the clutches of doom so hard, but considering that one of the sentient species is water bound and the other clumsy and has not discovered metalworking, I don't see things ending well :(
Realistically they are doomed but in my heart I have headcannoned humanity placed life on the moon and are now hyper evolved and they come back and save the survivors. What an excellent work the whole project is.
@@duitk it ain’t over till the last birdie sings. But even if there’s no happy ending, there’s always fan-fiction to dull the pain.
It seems to me that the intelligence worked the way it would if dragons really existed and they really did start out destroying villages and stealing hoards and all that. Such a story would probably end the same way as this saga. With the dragons being the ones doing simple art and other signs, a human adopting a dragon, and - basically the same kind of thing. Any of those fantasy worlds with a dragon rider plot might have had a similar backstory. heck, How To Train Your Dragon kind of did, although the dragons in that series of movies seem more comparable to cetaceans in terms of intelligence and development, though with a different social organization.
This made me want to read more about the gravediggers and the woodcrafters. I’m curious what would’ve changed if they went to the ocean sooner, but I don’t think the author would write an alternate timeline.
I got this Serina series recommended and after the first episode, I instantly subscribed. I love speculative evolution, and the fact that there are incredible channels like these to talk about them is amazing
I love both the narration and these types of stories, Incredible!
Unfortunatley, the alliance between the woodcrafters and the gravediggers would be tragically short. After only 10000 years, the climate cooled to a point where the woodcrafters could no longer sustain their groves or their offspring. While the gravediggers spread out to the oceans, developed their technology, and became canoe rowing fishermen, the woodcrafters were unwilling to change their ways. By the time the woodcrafters followed the gravediggers to the sea and found that they could eat the seaweed there, their numbers had fallen beyond the point of return. The last woodcrafter died among her gravediggers friends and encouraged them to remember her kind in the ocean age to come.
I was not expecting to be so emotionally effected by this world of birds I really want things to go well for them both and all other life on Serina even as I believe it won't
I saw it today and said:
So sorry that it has only two episodes.
Then you posted the 3 part. Thank you
i lost it when the name "neckbeard" was introduced lol
I can read Dostoyevsky and feel nothing but this man fantasizes about pressing “shuffle” on God’s playlists and I am nearly brought to tears by the heartwarming inter-species empathy of genera that never even existed.
OH - and the “neck beards” evolved “extra large pouches” to carry eggs in? I feel personally attacked and I am not even sure why. I didn’t even mean to watch this video. What the hell going on these days
Maybe they will be tough enough to survive in the colder and colder environment and finally get tech that can be used to escape Serina?Some spaceship mayb
That would be nice, but don't forget the major time differential that humans spanned between painting on cave walls and going into space! It would be interesting, but highly unlikely. Great idea though...
@@koriw1701 Why would it be? we were painting on cave walls 40,000 years ago, then around 10,000 years ago the first cities began to arise. 3000 years ago we then got the classical era of Greece followed by the Roman Empire...and things really began to speed up.
Meeting a human be like: you know, I met god once
I never really considered the possibility that two independently evolved sapient species would not immediately recognize one another as intelligent, but it makes sense that they wouldn't. It's sad enough that we hunt whales, but it would be heartbreaking if whales had always been just as intelligent as humans.
Sorry about the cooling of Serina, I was really expecting Serinians to make part of the Galactic Community, maybe some Jedi heroes too. Sniff!
I commented a few weeks ago that I couldn't believe you guys didn't have more than 1k subscribers. I'm amazed at how fast your channel grew! 101K! You deserve it. Every single one of your videos has been fantastic. I'd love to see more projects like Serina. The creativity of the SpecEvo community truly inspires me. Keep it up! :)
I love that last part about the intelligent species joining together! I wanna make fanart now
Two intelligent species; one evolved from birds, the other from fish… What a great story.
The geological time spans vs the span of intelligence are vastly different. They could more than easily build spacecraft and leave
LOVE THESE VIDEOS! they're so interesting
The detail of intelligence evolving twice and at the same time due to a direct predator prey relationship is a nice way off handling the statistical improbability of both appearing at the same time. However, it still doesn't make complete sense. If the Ear Deer Fish People were much more able to avoid the Badger Fish People traps then the Badger Fish People would just focus on the animals that were far too stupid to potential evolve sapience... However, if the Ear Deer Fish People were literally the only large game then that would still drive the Badger Fish People to strive to catch them, even if they could still subsist off of smaller game during the hard times.
It's an unstable dynamic that could easily have led to one species suddenly being wiped out by the other, but it could work out as described.
spoilers
There’s another intelligence that did arise coincidentally during the same time frame completely removed from the woodcrafters and gravediggers, and then another one five million years later
There’s also another sapient that’s sapient because of the former sapient
The gravediggers did switch to hunting other animals after the woodcrafters became sapient (because the woodcrafters were now smart enough to match them and so too much of a challenge). The woodcrafters still continued with their war.
So incredibly creative.I can't say more about this hole project.Extremely good work
Damn hearing that they were named Bridge almost made me cry ngl
These videos are amazing, ever since your dive into the world of the Birrin I've been waiting for each new video you release. The worldbuilding here is wonderful.
The last part was highly unexpected. I was thinking we would only see fancy bird. This is amazingly made.
The wood crafters weren’t killing the monsters they wanted to wipe out, they became the monsters they never thought they would become. That actually is really sad, they didn’t even realize they were the monsters until the Gravedigger’s art shown them who and what the monsters really were.
This was my favourite part of the Story of Serina. I'ts a major shame its story ends...
I went to the creators website and the last story about the end of the woodcrafters made me cry....
I would imagine before serina dies whoever put the finches there would come back to save the wildlife that evolved.
Plot twist they work to make a power house to make carbonxide to warm the moon
So I'm gonna guess they're gonna both rapidly go through the ancient, medieval, classic, modern, etc and I'm guessing it'll end off with them spreading off their freezing moon, to spread onto other planets.
Or at least I hope.
Yes!!! I was worried it would be a much longer wait for this video! This amazing content you’re putting out and the amazing artists you’re featuring are fantastic!
All the story and all the art is from one dude, actually.
Mysterious creator : I'm going to make a planet for bird with the fish as the prey
Birds : so we're gonna be the dominant species that hunt the fish right?
Mysterious creator : .........
Birds: we're gonna be the dominant species.....right??
Please do a video about *'THE FUTURE IS WILD'*
It's another speculative evolution documentary about what future animals might evolve on Earth millions of years from now.
Ahhh! That cliffhanger ending killed me! I hope the next video isn’t too far off. That said, please don’t rush yourself with content creation. Your fans are patient and we will gladly wait for something it it matches this
(Kinda funny how you're talking to the guy making the review video as if he's the actual creator of the project, ngl)
But anyways, the wait will be a long one. Seeing current progression rate on the project, Sheather might finish it like all the way in the beginning of 2023 at most. Which is a good thing at least, coz it ensures a biiig, thorough and good story with lots of love poured into it.
@@velocipastor676 sorry for the miscommunication. I did not mean to misattribute credit for the original work. I was just saying in terms of rushing content creation. I have actually started following the original artist as well. His stuff is so good.
Yeah no worries, l know what you really meant, l was just making a joke on your funny wording. All cool ;)
Now I kinda want to see hamster's paradise covered like this, especially once the harmster's story is complete.
Please cover Wayne Douglas Barlowe's 'Expedition'! Really cool speculative alien biology book about his fictitious planet, 'Darwin IV'. It was also adapted into a TV series by Discovery Channel (Alien Planet). Barlowe is also the creature designer for James Cameron's Avatar and you should totally do a video about Pandora too!!
Next time:
Deer Fish and Badger Birds:
I N S P A C E
Truly amazing story so far. Can't wait for more
Woodcrafters: kill, no predators, die
Gravediggers: peace, friends, happiness
Woodcrafters: ok
Woodcrafters and Gravediggers: happiness!
Ice Age: hehe >:3
And then, eventually, those who planted life on the planet return. They ask, “what do you want to do?”
Dude I saw art of this thing a few years ago. OMG! I love this, thank you so much for making vids on these speculative worlds! I'm not great at reading so these vids help explore the ideas.
Squork. Squork! Squork? SQUUUUOOOORK~!! Boomsinger & Stormsonor sound like the names of weapons & vehicles from "Warhammer 40k".
more of these please! Love speculative zoology... always trying to shoe horn it into my lessons!
Well you look at that, fish and birds coming together. Wholesome.
what if this whole project was to somehow find a way to justify bullsquids
Okay so we got:
Sauropod birds
Deer guppies
Caterpillar birds
T-rex bird
Hands down my favourite spec-evo project ever.
My favorite channel on TH-cam hands down
4:10 this image is literally what we called : a simple exemple of evolution
Birds become fishes and tripods have hand ears...THAT'S IT, I'M OUT OF HERE
Given how quickly sentience leads to higher technology and science, I'm fairly sure that the Gravediggers and Woodcrafters will find a way to leave Serina and become an interplanetary civilization long before the moon becomes uninhabitable. Especially given that their culture seems pretty effective at discouraging war and encouraging cooperation and creativity
global warming will buy them some time at least lmao
Who's gonna tell him?
@@Mondy667 :( that story made me tear up.
Woah Congrats On 100k subscribers! Subscribed since 110 subs :) Love Your Videos!
Pretty crazy how all of the most intelligent forms of life - dolphins, elephants, and crows were the smartest in the Sea, Land and Air. Almost like its what nature intended.
And Humans are the Fire Nation
2:38 "A related group are the neckbeards" *imagines creature tipping a fedora with it's yellow tentacle*
Congrats on 100k this has been truly amazing to see you grow so fast you’ve made such high quality content
This biography was very intriguing to learn about
I would love to have time maschine so I can zap from one time of period to another and observe evolution of natural life
In setting aside their mutual animosity, the Woodcrafters and Gravediggers may be able to escape a dying world. Sentience has its benefits. They won’t be the last of their kind helplessly awaiting the sunset of inevitable, remorseless, cold extinction.
Uhh. Who's gonna tell him?
@@connorsimmons8781 don’t tell him is to sad
You should read the actual source instead of just watching TH-cam recaps
This is so cool, I can't wait to see how the story ends. It's so great, the level of detail and how it takes the whole story of the world's evolution step by step, moving for the very probable to the plausible speculation.
Brb, making Gravedigger and Woodcrafter ocs because I’m WAY too invested in this lore
I would strongly recommend covering Nea by Joschua Knüppe (Hyrotrioskjan on deviantArt), which similarly to Serina depicts an alien world where Earth species have been introduced
The blue-throated boomsinger looks like a certain being I know
Really liked the last two video about the speculative biology in the world of Serina, and I was kinda bummed seeing the last episode had come out recently, I did not expect the next video to be released so soon. Appreciated.
Things wents from “evolution is out of control” to “we live in a society”
i really enjoy seeing this theoretical evolution stuff! the ideas and creature designs, all the complexity and thought put into every little detail is absolutely amazing! maybe if we had people like yall working on ME Andromeda it wouldn't have been such a failure XD
still salty about the dlc cancels.