The most TERRIFYING Prehistoric Animal you've NEVER heard of | Omnidens
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Everyone knows, or thinks they know, that Anomalocaris was the biggest animal in the Cambrian period - the "top dog" so to speak. But fragmentary fossils from China suggest that this terror of the early Paleozoic may very well have been dethroned. Meet Omnidens, an enormous lobopodian that could have grown to over one and a half metres long!
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Well, crap. It seems I flubbed the word “organism” in a most unfortunate way…
Or the most fortunate way? 🤔
lmao
Reminds me of the time AVNJ (a marine biology related channel) accidentally said “cervix” instead of “serval” lmao
😂😂😂 perfectly executed
dont you just love cambrian orgasms? so fascinating
The fact that they could've named it Unicron never fails to dissapoint me.
“Behold, Galvertebrate. These orthocones shall be your minions. Now go, and destroy the Anomalobot Matrix.”
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Having Anomalocaris be dethroned by an equally weird animal which is essentially a velvet worm god, is pretty cool, ngl. I got genuine education, you have my subscription.
“Velvet worm god” is the best description of Omnidens I’ve ever heard haha
@@BugsandBiology To me he looks more like the love child of a Bobbit worm and a Velvet worm
@@BugsandBiology After doing some research google just called Omnidens a Penis Worm
You learn something new every day
“Penis worm” is the common name for Priapulids, which Omnidens was previously suggested to have been.
Agreed!
[3:00] Quite adorable when you start talking about how awesome a two-meter-long Anomalocaris would be, your spider buddy (who I named Octavius) stood on your glasses and streeeeeetched his legs out as long as he possibly could in an attempt to show you, "See? I'm awesome too!" in the only way he knew how.
This is the cutest thing I’ve seen in a while :’)
The Cambrian truly was a Lovecraftian horror show.
Except they were small instead of bagglingly large ...
What's funny is it was his book Mountains of Madness that made me really start researching the old time periods
The opposite is true imo.
During the Cambrian, you'd have been the biggest, baddest thing around by far.
Now there's plenty of animals that can rip you apart easily, and there's whales that fit dozens of you into their mouths.
@@MrCmon113 true. But i am used to those shapes and body types. Its the strangeness that defined lovecraftian horror and what i was referring to in the cambrian.
Not all mass-extinctions were created equal ;)
"... a rich fossil assemblage of Cambrian orgasms ..." - had to rewind to check I'd heard that correctly :-) It really is amazing the things Science can deduce from the smallest traces ! Great content - Subscribed.
The oceans were full of swimmers back then.
I heard that at first too lol
I'm glad someone else hurt that too:D going to go play it a third time and giggle.
I went 'Huh that was interesting pronunciation of organisms" lol i thought i heard wrong
You got a critter on ya.. just thought I'd let you know lol
What gets me the most is that he knows!!!!!!!!
I thought it was a filter
That Spider Hat is disturbing. 😱
An adorable little huntsman :)
Yeah I was sitting here going aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Bro, I thought that spider was a Snapchat filter…
Hey mate, not sure ur aware but there appears to be a large arachnid hunting for food on ur head...Lol. Great vid. I learn something new from ur channel every time I watch it. Keep up the great work!!
Really? I though I felt something crawling around on me...
Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@BugsandBiology I wonder if one could use personal spiders to combat external parasites like lice and fleas.
I don't think there are spiders who hunt these, but if would be awesome if there were. Maybe there are some generalist species who would also hunt lice and fleas.
@@johannageisel5390If they manage to catch one they will but usually they become the target of mites.
Help keep down the flys
I love the fact that you have a huge spider nonchalantly crawling across your face during narration lol. The content was great and very informative. I also couldn't help but giggle when you slipped up on organism lol, definitely gonna like and subscribe, keep em coming brother!
Thanks!
The lengths I'll go to hide my extreme awkwardness on camera seem to know no bounds - even using a giant spider as a distraction.
@@BugsandBiology Loads of respect to you - I really admire your creative approach to tackling your own self... you're the sort of person I'd want to include in a feature film, even if just to preserve your unique nature.
I love learning about the discovery and classification of Cambrian fauna because of how often it takes several tries over years and dozens of specimens to figure out what it is, what parts go where and sometimes which side is "up" or what end is even the head. And the end result is often the weirdest looking arthropod your fever dreams could supply
I’ve been anticipating this one for a while, I love your narration style and this is a creature I knew very little about before watching this. And it was so cool seeing how you incorporated community feedback while creating it too… shows how much you care!! :)
Also at 1:30 did you intend to say this? 😭😭
Thanks!
I’m honestly surprised at how little Omnidens has been discussed, especially given there’s quite a lot of paleo channels on YT that routinely cover obscure taxa.
i can hazcambirian orgasms..? @@BugsandBiology
Bro really said cambrian orgasms
We need a whole new “Walking With”. And Burgess Park.
A Prehistoric Planet-type documentary set in the Cambrian would be a dream. But I can't see it becoming a reality given the limited marketability of early Paleozoic animals.
I vote for more public figures speaking with giant spiders on their heads.
Haha, the lengths I’ll go to hide my awkwardness
A well presented video, and I love your use of a co-host. I can tell you get extremely excited about the Cambrian explosion, as evinced by your faux pas at 1:30
2 years ago I did presentation about Omnidens and I see that nothing has changed. It would be amazing see more papers about this gigantic creature
Video is excellent
,,There's always a bigger fish"
-Qui-Gon Jinn
一山還有一山高
_You're going to need a bigger boat_
Chief Brody / Roy Schneider, Jaws, 1975
Lol, I love your spider and, as ever, your dry sense of humour. But seriously, this was great all around! Looking forward to more paleo invertebrates on the channel.
By the way, if you do your own reconstruction of Arthropleuridae, wouldn't it be interesting to give it a different colour pattern from the red and black that it always gets? I realize this is pretty typical of millipedes but, I don't know. Most reconstructions feel kind of samey in that regard, don't they?
Thanks!
I’ll definitely do a video on Arthropleura, and I’ve already decided against the classic red/black colour palette. The thing’s second only to Carnotaurus in terms of how much that same colour combination is used in reconstructions.
@@BugsandBiology Could you cover the Chasmataspids?
Thanks for letting me know about those! They seem really interesting. Definitely a good topic for a future video.
Upon starting this video, I am immediately offended that you'd allow a spider to casually just crawl on your face like that as you calmly proceed with the subject.
You have earned a subscription.
It's not unlikely that it could have been a large animal, there were certainly plenty of trilobites and radiodonts for it to feed on. For size, 1.5 - 2 meters is of course not unheard of for early arthropods, even if you set aside the giant sea scorpions like Jaekeloptyrus, there was a filter feeding radiodont called Aegirocassis that got even bigger than Omnidens though I suppose it did appear in the early ordovician.
Agreed, though if I recall correctly, Aegirocassis was from the Ordovician, not the Devonian.
Since Anomalocaris was probably an open water, soft-bodied animal hunter, maybe Omnidens filled the niche attributed to Anomalocaris in Walking With Monsters and Life On Our Planet - hunting armored trilobites on the seafloor.
@@BugsandBiology mistype, i got the two confused
I’m pretty sure jaekelopterus was a Devonian exclusive.
@@Pseudoscience-is-a-scam yeah my mistake, they were early devonian, though there were still some pretty big sea scorpions preceding it in the Silurian
I am a binger of all things zoology and you are hands down my favorite TH-cam right now along with mywildbackyard. You both do content that is fun to watch and educational.
Cool to see you diving into ancient life now. I love anomalocaris
Thanks!
I’ve done a couple videos on prehistoric inverts a year or two ago, but they both terribly underperformed.
However, it seems my recent review of Life on our Planet has brought me an influx of new subscribers who are interested in paleontology. Which means I’ve now got incentive to make paleo content a more regular part of my channel.
Love the way you carry on with your dialogue with a spider crawling all over you face and glasses . Brilliant . It was a bit distracting to what you were explaining 🙂 Not sure i could do that ,even though i like spiders . Your video today was really good and the explanations of Prehistoric creatures was very informative . Even though i cannot get my tongue around some of those names .
The spider was just a little distraction from how awkward I look on camera. Not sure if I'll ever be able to present naturally and confidently.
@@BugsandBiology You did extremely well . The more you present yourself on video the more confidence you will get over time ,and eventually you will think nothing of it and it will just become second nature to you with out even thinking about it . I am sure , even Sir David Attenborough had first time nerves doing a nature presentation for the very first time on camera . .I bet even Spencer Hoffman ,of My Wild Backyard felt a bit awkward . the first time . Would love to see more of you ,and now i can put a face to the voice ,that did all the commentary on all the videos that i have watched so far . A job well done .
I love spiders but i'm not much for handling the bigger ones, jumping spiders seem smart enough to be reasoned with so they don't bother me at all
@@BugsandBiologyyou got this 🔥
Why did that spider look so fake?
WOOOO!!! Always great to see a paleo-video here! And the huntsman was a great touch.
How's that bary going?
The huntsman was a very radical form of diversion to hide my unavoidable awkwardness on camera. The fact that I'll use a giant spider to mask my nervousness of being on film says a lot about me...
@@BugsandBiology Awww, that nervousness only makes you more human and relatable. Many of us can understand that tension.
@@euantheyutyrannus just finished it actually!
@@ichthyovenator3351 YAHOOOOOOOOO
I had wondered if there were larger predators during the Cambrian period.
Going from this to velvet worms is just about the biggest glow down in all of history.
The T-posing huntsman cracked me up so much 😂
Love your narration and for your lovely guest presenter/producer making an appearance
Enjoyed your presentation very much. Thank you for sharing.
Imagine recording almost an entire video without noticing that there's something in your face. How embarassing
DUDE DONT DO THAT!!! U HAD ME THINKING I WAS TRIPPING WITOUT EVEN TAKEN ANYTHING!! LMFAO!! 🤣 🤣
Awesome video dude! Continually striving for perfection. Great work! I have an idea though, can we have a tour of your animal collection?
💡Great idea! I'd be interested to see the collection as well.
This video on a lobopodian which I had never before encountered was fascinating! But from lobopod to chelicerate... I kept worrying that your pretty yellow spider friend would fall. I hope they enjoy crawling so bravely on your head, as I enjoyed watching them while learning about the Cambrian.
Glad you enjoyed it!
As for the spider, huntsmen have a good grip, and are also very lightweight for their size, which makes falling pretty much a non-issue for them.
@@BugsandBiology Thank you for allaying my fears! I wish you and all your buggies the best. :)
Imagine going to the beach and seeing that crawling towards you menacingly. Also nice spider
To be honest I don't think any Cambrian animal would be especially dangerous to humans (unless they possessed weapons we don't know about, like venom). Either way, I reckon it'd give most people a good ol' fright!
@@BugsandBiologywould venom developed in the Cambrian even be effective against modern animals? I feel like evolution may have eliminated or changed most of the pathways ancient venoms would have used. Then again, i could see some ancient venoms targeting essential universal parts of your cells, like ATP production.
The canbrian really had a thing for lovecraftian bodyplans.
personally, I’d wanna see if I could take one in a fight
@@tigertoxins584 Of course You'd beat it, the poor thing was not fit to fight a Goliath with incomprehensibly smarter brains, enhanced limbs mobility and limbs fitting to use other objects as weapons. It probably didn't even have complex hunting strategies like using other limbs or wrapping around the victim, so the only things it would have would be weak. But why would You want to fight it in the first place? If it was still around today, I highly doubt it would be aggressive towards humans, since they're way out of it's league, but even if it was, the best it could do is a bite or two, so most of the time it would just move around looking for more fitting prey. It's also somewhat cute in a weird way, so having as much as a thought of fighting it is unacceptable and cruel.
I wouldn't be surprised if Lovecraft was inspired by the first illustrations of ancient sealife.
Sych a fantastic and intriguing subject, and a fascinating creature. I really enjoy your narration and choice of music gives this a great vibe. I dont know what other word to use.. but great work!
Also, awwww at spider friend!
Stumbled on here seeing thumbnail.. Subbed immediately.. love the content..a big Anomalocaris fan and Burgess in general...spent our youth in a woods below the house seeing true Bugs and other critters like false Scorpions, legless lizards, Velvet Ants (don't ever touch one) Wish your show could be seen by thousands of school students..so much better than some of that stuff masquerading as knowledge. Your research and documentation speaks of your care with details and proper study. Peace out.
Cambrian Park... I can't see that being a particularly scary movie.
Looking forward to your next reading of incomprehensible comments.
You & your team bring very interesting information for us on this long gone creatures that inhabited our world.Keep doing a great job & be safe out there !!!
Thanks very much! Though I don’t have a team as of yet; all filming/editing is done by me.
I'm glad that I found your channel.
*guy talking about the Cambrian*
The Huntsman spider on his head: "ain't nothing gonna break my stride, nobody gonna hold me down"
Imagine being able to time travel and see these creatures with Your own eyes.
Quite interesting, TY.
I found this topic truly fascinating.
It's interesting to follow updates on the discovery of new fossils and the meticulous reconstruction of bizarre (by modern standards) Cambrian flora and fauna.
Excellent content and presentation! Did bring back memories of showing my saltwater tank and fish off to my two 7th grade science teachers (dates me, teachers would never venture to a student's home now, probably get fired). I was explaining the filtration and mentioned the "microscopic orgasms" in the substrate, to my immediate horror. Microscopic orgasm, sounds like something a "film star" named Stormy may have, allegedly, had to deal with.
Thought of one other hero Biologist William Beebe - whose books we read like crazy as teens. Besides being the first Biologist to descend to the deepest dive in a Bathysphere in the 1930s he did so many other amazing things. Following his Bathysphere dives, Beebe returned to the tropics and began to focus his study on the behavior of insects. Whilst hurrying to board ship for return he asked a fellow member to just dig up a bucket of earth to study. He opined that the animals found within that lump of dirt took more than a year to discover.
This was a very educational video, thank you for telling me about something that the "Anomalocaris" had to watchout for because I never new about this thing.
This is the kind of stuff I wished my high school teacher would of talked about, instead of teaching me the same stuff I learned about in freakin middle school.
Jackson you really had me there on the thumbnail I said (some kind of water bug) it didn't occur to me that it is extinkt well played mate
As a person with severe arachnophobia, being greeted with the sight of a giant spider crawling on his face startled me more than I'd care to admit- 😅
more than the giant sarlacc-like velvet worm monster he talked about in the video?
Them pre cambrian graboids though
There are so many prehistoric mysteries waiting to be solved by a detective like you!
Indeed! Although I can't take any credit for solving this one - I am but a mere communicator.
@@BugsandBiology Communicated well! You could write an article piecing all that information together and have it published!
First 20 seconds earned you a sub. Rest was for confirmation that you actually deserve it.
Thanks!
Hey it's also nice to see you getting 5 digit views in a short time. Been with you for years and YT definitely hates you lol
Great video. Love the facehugger.
0:08 sadly, anomalocaris isn't the answer to that question, but it is the answer to what is the best creature of the Cambrian is
I like how you just stand there so relaxed with a huntsman in your face 😂
I get nervous and awkward on camera, and I guess the spider serves as a way to distract viewers from that fact…
As a certified Kerygmachela enjoyer, I am both deeply pleased one of it's close relatives is the largest cambrian animal, and deeply disappointed in myself for never realizing that. I've definitely read the name Omnidens, but I don't think I ever looked into it enough to realize how big it was.
I just recently learned about these monsters. These creatures are so cool
The Cambrian Period may never be as popular as most of the following periods, but it is a uniquely weird and fascinating chapter in the history of life on Earth. Very interesting video 👍.
I am so glad the spider could save itself onto your head and did not accidentally step into your mouth and injured its foot. Imagine having to climb over a vertical moving surface with a giant maw in it. The horror!
I’ve never seen someone “accessorize” with a spider like that before.
Props…..
The huntsman: _“strolling on the head 🎶✨ Chilling in my way”_
How do you get your huntsman so chill?? Mine are crazy wild.
It seems to be a species thing. Beregama aurea in general are really chill as adults.
I was wondering that too, first time i've seen a huntsman move without teleporting
@@BugsandBiology Ah darn, I have no access to the Aussie species.
8:08
God : "Hey, Satan. How is your project goin- *dEAr ME!!!* "
Bruh the beginning is just not chill… how is he that calm and unbothered by that spider
I really like the video even if my arachnophobia make me look away from the screen every time the video change to you it was like playing a terror game from me and even after that your narration keep me in the video 10/10
Hogswallop! I've been from Edinburgh to Cape Town, and seen everything from vile sea serpents to fair princesses, and ne'er have I laid eyes on a beasty liken the one in yer moving picture. Nay, it doesn't exist!
Excuse me?
@@PrisPrivate Very well, I'll excuse you this once. But don't try my patience, ye leprous lamprey!
@@PrisPrivate Very well I'll excuse you this once, but don't try my patience, ye leprous lamprey!
You're such an unbellievable chad! I mean, how big balls one would need to stand in front of an camera and lecture the viewer seemingly effortless about ancient lifeforms, while a freaking spider crawls over ones face.
Chapeau!
Haha, whatever it takes to distract viewers from how awkward I am on camera…
@@BugsandBiology But at the end you look bold.
OMG FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT IT THIS THING IS SO UNDERRATED
Yeah I was kinda surprised that no big paleo channel had ever discussed this species, even channels that quite often cover little-known taxa. Guess that gave me an opportunity to fill in the blank, so to speak.
I remember seeing very frightening illustrations of these when I was young.
spider just hangin' out, doing its tai chi exercises
B&B: You include huntsman spiders in videos about terrifying creatures.
I include huntsman spiders in videos about terrifying creatures.
We are not the same.
*adjusts tie*
Yay omnidens finally gets recognition
Just another reason i love video games, Hidetaka Miyazaki's in particular had clear inspiration from such creatures in his games.
It's amazing that fossils from the dawn of animal evolution are so well preserved we know what they were eating. Like those rocks were in the box, mint condition for the entire goddamn Phanerozoic Eon.
Bro the creatures of the Cambrian era look like they came off a certain gibli movie
I first learned about this creature from wikipedia a few months ago; I've been waiting for so long to see someone talk about it! I never heard of this channel before but you have my subscription now!
This animal is really fascinating; it's such a strange monster from a time of major "experimentation". I mean I guess, compared to a theropod dinosaur or a megalodon, this animal wouldn't be able to do much more than bite your finger off, but it's just so alien in appearance...really impressive creature. There's a lot we don't know still, but Omnidens probably takes the cake as my favorite animal overall. Wow.
It's also worth noting that apparently spine-like fragments have been found near the mouth fossils, which may belong to the animal's frontal appendages. These were probably used mainly to help the animal feel around (it probably didn't have eyes) but they still add to the terrifying appearance.
Thanks so much!
I found it kinda strange that none of the big paleo channels I watch seem to have ever discussed this species, even though they routinely feature other obscure animals.
I haven’t done many videos on prehistoric animals cause they have a history of performing very poorly for me, but the tides have changed somewhat lately, and there’s a much bigger incentive for me to make paleo-content on a more regular basis than I used to.
I missed the introduction of your co-host(the spider). Does it have a name?
This video is amazing and somehow I want to play Spore rn
I have so much nostalgia for that game
My dude! I love the content, your delivery, and all. It's fascinating and unusual, and your delivery sounds genuine, by which I mean it sounds like you found information on these animals, and seek to lock us on as well. The ONLY suggestion I have is for you to get a little sun. Ten minutes in a tanning booth twice a week. That's it though.
That’s just the lighting in my room. I spend a lot of time outdoors.
Creatures today are enough to deal with, but all the shit in the past is ungodly.
Im just waiting for the spider to bite him....*shiver*
I like how I'm listening to this video while doing something and when I decided to look at my phone at around 3:06 i'm like tf is on his face, until I get closer... 😂
I saw the spider and was like “ nope”
Too scary 😅
just realised the spider in his face is not a filter lol
I loved this video, which told me things I hadn’t heard about a favorite subject. I noted the “organism” variant with a smile, wondering if it was deliberate and admiring the straight face. Thank you and your acrobatic 8-legged co-host.
The “organism” blooper was an unfortunate accident, but I thought it was too comedic to cut.
cool channel! does the little guy crawling on your face have a name?
Dude, I hope you have an Elvish dagger and a bottle of starlight handy.
@BugsandBiology
Did you notice that your sound mixing is off?
Just in case you don't know how to fix it. Here is a tutorial (on YT) that helped me: The Loudness Secret to Mixing TH-cam Videos with DaVinci Resolve
It can be quite painful for ppl listening on a headset, when an add kicks in and anyoing for everyone else.
I hope you don't take this the wrong way. I mean no harm.
Hey, I really appreciate it. I have noticed there was something a little off about my audio, especially when the volume is high.
@@BugsandBiology I am glad I could help
I love your lil friend!
Quite the intro you got there
Sir, I think a small bug landed on your glasses!
I wonder if his spider like or hate that he moves his head around.
I feel like it is a mistake to see the Cambrian piriod through the eyes of the fossle record because I feel as if the bulk of life during that time was soft bodied creatures that don't fosslilize.
Well, yes and no.
A lot of soft-bodied animals are preserved in sites like the Burgess Shale and Chengjiang. But you’re right that there’s a strong preservation bias in favour of animals with hard body parts.
@@BugsandBiology The vast amount of bio power in the ocian is held in unicellular creatures and many of those don't got no exoskelleton... My impression is that in the Cambrian there was an even higher percentage of these creatures and an even higher percentage of these ain't got no exoskelleton.... I am not even sure how you can discover these creatures in the geo record...
Qui-Gon Jin has entered the chat: “There’s always a bigger fish…”
1:30
The Cambrian sounds neat
Is that orange wormy boi at 4:55 hiding in a plastic bag, or is that part of the organism? :o
And then there's those odd fossils found by the Miskatonic Antartica expedition...
I was distracted by the slider stunt 😢
i cannot stop laughing at 'cambrian orgasm'.... thought i'd heard it wrong xD subbed
I could not believe I made that mistake. But it was too funny to cut.
@@BugsandBiology Well, now we know what was really on your mind!
Completely unrelated but what are your thoughts on coyote Peterson announcing that he will be bitten by scolopendra gigantea? If he has the same pain tolerance to when he did with the giant desert centipede, do you reckon he’ll survive?
That centipede isn’t even gigantea, it’s an undescribed species from Peru.
As for what the bite would be like, South American giant centipedes are weird…sometimes they deliver very weak envenomations, and other times the bite can be extremely intense.