To anyone who sees this, Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Hope everyone has a good time, and that nobody goes extinct before the new year starts. It sounds nice to be the subject of a Dr. Polaris video, but the downside they don’t tell you about it is that you won’t be around to watch it.
Elephant fact 🐘: War elephants are still used in modern warfare, noticeably in Burma as they are still the best all terrain jungle vehicle, can clear foliage for troops and are capable of moving in complete silence.
The Kachin Army were using them up until recently. I don't believe The Tatmadaw are using elephants. They tend to fly over in planes and bomb villages. With the nation-wide civil war reaching its third year I would not be surprsed if other rebel armies are using elephants, in particular The Karen who are renowned mahouts, but any images or video I've seen of the fighting and military manoeuvers have not shown elephants in the battlefield; though it would be very reasonable that The Karen would use them to transport supplies and equipment. If true then I hope the elephants are remembered for their role in helping to bring down MAL and The Tatmadaw once the rebel forces win.
Wishing you a speedy recovery from the vertigo! I had a dose of that a few years ago, and know what you're going through. Such a relief when it clears up. I always love your videos and learn so much from them! You're a credit to TH-cam.
Nice "Walking With Beasts" joke meme 😄 Dr. Polaris should mention animals appearances in the BBC "Walking With..." Series when one specific animal/genus part of the subject of the video is mentionned/explained. To show and compare what hold up or not between the documentaries and the current reality/knowledge about the animal.
Glad to hear you're feeling better! Take care of yourself. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm certainly not going to abandon the channel simply because of a delay in a video being uploaded.
Thank you very much for sharing this and - my heart goes out to you! I struggled with vertigo attacks for quite a while because of an essential head tremor, which increases when I overwork, and in turn makes me 'seasick'. It took me some years, but, by now, I have it under controll, just by being sensitive to early warnings. Best wishes from Dortmund, Germany
Oh vertigo is possibly the worst. Please do your best to get some rest and if you have to move around be very, very careful and stick as close to a wall as you can. ❤
Hope you feel better, Dr.Polaris! My grandmother just passed away yesterday and this video was here to help me cope. Thank you Dr. Polaris. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
🐘tastic! I ❤️ this clade so much. Thanks for this very informative video. 🤓 It's simply impressive what evolution has "produced". 😮 And you always manage to make compact and exciting videos with all relevant data. Hats off! 🐻❄️ 🎩. 😅 I wish you and everyone who reads this a wonderful Christmas time. 🎅🏻🎄🦌🎁 And don't worry. Sometimes you're just sick. 🤗 We're happy to wait a week longer for your videos. It's just worth it. 😍
Hey Doc, really hope you feel better and happy holidays. Also big thank you to for talking about the deinotheres, you did it pretty thoroughly. Funny story, your original video on them might’ve been the first one I ever saw from you. Real shame that and the Gomphothere episode are gone. Please consider re-uploading them if you can. Finally good luck. For you and the channel in the new year, you mean a lot to me.
Yeah, I think I understand why Eritherium was often depicted as being hairless. A similar thing happened with dinosaurs, until fossils were found that preserved feather-like structures, and forced us all to re-think our views on how they looked. I guess that, the moment the paleo artist heard they were part of the elephant lineage, an image of an almost hairless animal popped into their heads. Had they been told Eritherium was an early kind of hyrax, things might have been different. Even today, if you ask someone in the street what they know about elephants and their relatives, most would say something about mammoths, but very few would mention hyraxes. The two kinds of animal look so different that it's hard to absorb they are related, but there we are. We as a species tend to jump to conclusions all too readily, and in paleontology at least, we often get things seriously wrong as a result!
Dr Polaris - I look forward to each of your new videos --and one arriving on Christmas Eve is a special treat. I'm glad to hear you're on the mend, and I wish you and yours all the best for the holidays and the New Year. Please take care of yourself, and, whenever possible, please keep these fascinating accounts of ancient fauna coming. (Last but not least, I extend best wishes to all Dr. Polaris fans!)
Early Proboscideans are underrated animals and they are overlooked by their descendants like members of mammutidae and Elephantidae and many people get them wrong as you near the beginning of the video they would probably have hair instead of being hairless if we take a look to modern animals that look like them for example, tapirs are a decently large animal with a small trunk with fur
On Sauropods ? On an extent yes. But what archaics and true Elephants and their relatives all togethers all accomplished remain very TAME compare to what sauropods achieved. Between the earliest proboscidean, to the first True Elephants with the appearance of the first Elephantiformes to Palaeoloxodon namadicus, there a time frame of around 55-50 mya. Sauropods get bigger than P. namadicus way quicker in theit evolution. Appearing at the beginning of the Jurassic and with already giant sized genera making Palaeoloxodon namadicus a dwarf in comparison.
I think Eritherium would be a fantastic creature to add in the documentary about the Paleocene I've always wanted with it explain how this little mammal will give rise to the mighty elephants.
Don't worry for the video delay. It's things that happen and we will not die of it anyway. Hope you recover good. I know what being sick is. I justly myself had a severe temporary gastro only some days ago. Was already good as if anything never happen the next day, but on the moment, that was extremely bad to experienced. Outside that, pass a merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
Hey Dr.Polaris, right after the evolution and the history of the Pelagornithidae, why don't you also get to make a suggestion to create the TH-cam Videos Shows about the evolution and the history of the Extinct Prehistoric Primitive Ancestors Of The Modern Birds called the Ornithothoraces in the next couple of weeks to think about that one coming up next?!👍👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I gotta say, by no means do I think you’re lying- I love your vids btw- hearing someone casually throw out that they are sick from vertigo of all things is outlandish
It's not that uncommon an affliction. It can be linked to inner ear infection, or to sudden sensorineural hearing loss, and in recent years there has been a noticed increase by ENT doctors suggesting a possible link to post-Covid side-effects.
I wonder if this genus would have dominated all continents during the Jurassic or Cretaceous period? Or who'd win between Cenozoic mammals & Triassic reptiles in evolution race?
I really hope that Apple Plus who made "Prehistoric Planet" show Earth in the Paleocene after the Mesozoic Era ended. Or an updated version of the "Walking with Beasts" series.
Yeah, really, it would be so easy to give such productions, about prehistoric times and locations never seen before, to give secondary, lesser or barely know animals get spotlight and to made sort of Remakes of the successfull yet terribly outdated originals productions.
How the hell can people copyright claim educational content? YTs copyright policies are absolutely looney; strike first & ask questions later. Many musicians are feeling this pain as well, & it's why I've started moving away from featuring too much unattested artwork in my content.
Great video! Do you think that the appearance of larger mammal species was a result of the dinosaurs' disappearance? It seems there might be a cause/effect relationship between those two things.
Wikipedia states that Embrithopods may need not even be afrotheres and that their relationship within eutheria needs to be better studied. Is the paper they cite dubious? Also, why is Arsinoitherium shown as living alongside moeritheriun in chased by sea monsters? It's the same time and habitat, and though not outright stated, it is implied. I've seen no evidence they lived alongside each other.
Nope. Anthropocene isn't even an accepted period by scientists. Why even accepting a new period ? Holocene is defined itself as the period of human rise and domination. The Anthropocene era suggestion have the same overall concept. So why bother ?
To anyone who sees this, Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Hope everyone has a good time, and that nobody goes extinct before the new year starts. It sounds nice to be the subject of a Dr. Polaris video, but the downside they don’t tell you about it is that you won’t be around to watch it.
Elephant fact 🐘:
War elephants are still used in modern warfare, noticeably in Burma as they are still the best all terrain jungle vehicle, can clear foliage for troops and are capable of moving in complete silence.
I thought it's called Myanmar
The Kachin Army were using them up until recently. I don't believe The Tatmadaw are using elephants. They tend to fly over in planes and bomb villages. With the nation-wide civil war reaching its third year I would not be surprsed if other rebel armies are using elephants, in particular The Karen who are renowned mahouts, but any images or video I've seen of the fighting and military manoeuvers have not shown elephants in the battlefield; though it would be very reasonable that The Karen would use them to transport supplies and equipment. If true then I hope the elephants are remembered for their role in helping to bring down MAL and The Tatmadaw once the rebel forces win.
Wishing you a speedy recovery from the vertigo! I had a dose of that a few years ago, and know what you're going through. Such a relief when it clears up.
I always love your videos and learn so much from them! You're a credit to TH-cam.
Thanks for your support!
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Merry Christmas, Doctor Polaris!
And best wishes, good sir!
@@dr.polaris6423 "...in the comfiest way you can..."
Sorry Dr. Polaris but my Avatar / Living Lion is currently biting the $hit out of me...
6:16 "The Moeritherium are too big for the sharks to devour"
Gigantophis: "Are you challenging me?"
**Otodus angustidens** 😈
@@miquelescribanoivars5049 How did they not go extinct by Basilosaurus?
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25 While Basilo may had been mostly a shallow sea predator I doubt it would overlap much in habitat preference with Moeritherium.
Nice "Walking With Beasts" joke meme 😄
Dr. Polaris should mention animals appearances in the BBC "Walking With..." Series when one specific animal/genus part of the subject of the video is mentionned/explained.
To show and compare what hold up or not between the documentaries and the current reality/knowledge about the animal.
@@miquelescribanoivars5049 didn’t it need oceans? Too deep to moeritherium?
Glad to hear you're feeling better! Take care of yourself. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm certainly not going to abandon the channel simply because of a delay in a video being uploaded.
Thank you very much for sharing this and - my heart goes out to you! I struggled with vertigo attacks for quite a while because of an essential head tremor, which increases when I overwork, and in turn makes me 'seasick'. It took me some years, but, by now, I have it under controll, just by being sensitive to early warnings. Best wishes from Dortmund, Germany
Oh vertigo is possibly the worst. Please do your best to get some rest and if you have to move around be very, very careful and stick as close to a wall as you can. ❤
Yay! Early Proboscideans. I hope you feel better soon.
Glad to hear you’re feeling better
Glad you are feeling better. Your content is something I always look forward to!
Wow I love the paleoart of Eritherium. I was reading about it on wiki but no pictures, was wondering what it would look like
Get well Dr.!
Hope you get to feeling better soon Dr. P! Merry Christmas and a very happy holidays to everyone! Get better soon!
Hope you feel better, Dr.Polaris! My grandmother just passed away yesterday and this video was here to help me cope. Thank you Dr. Polaris. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Wishing you a rapid and complete recovery sir.
Vertigo. Ugh! Take care of yourself and we hope you feel better soon. Great video!
Thank you so much for uploading this. I hope you continue to get better and that you have a wonderful Christmas.
Merry Christmas Eve, and a great early present here!💯✌️🎄
🐘tastic! I ❤️ this clade so much. Thanks for this very informative video. 🤓
It's simply impressive what evolution has "produced". 😮 And you always manage to make compact and exciting videos with all relevant data. Hats off! 🐻❄️ 🎩. 😅
I wish you and everyone who reads this a wonderful Christmas time. 🎅🏻🎄🦌🎁
And don't worry. Sometimes you're just sick. 🤗 We're happy to wait a week longer for your videos. It's just worth it. 😍
Hey Doc, really hope you feel better and happy holidays. Also big thank you to for talking about the deinotheres, you did it pretty thoroughly. Funny story, your original video on them might’ve been the first one I ever saw from you. Real shame that and the Gomphothere episode are gone. Please consider re-uploading them if you can. Finally good luck. For you and the channel in the new year, you mean a lot to me.
Yeah, I think I understand why Eritherium was often depicted as being hairless. A similar thing happened with dinosaurs, until fossils were found that preserved feather-like structures, and forced us all to re-think our views on how they looked. I guess that, the moment the paleo artist heard they were part of the elephant lineage, an image of an almost hairless animal popped into their heads. Had they been told Eritherium was an early kind of hyrax, things might have been different.
Even today, if you ask someone in the street what they know about elephants and their relatives, most would say something about mammoths, but very few would mention hyraxes. The two kinds of animal look so different that it's hard to absorb they are related, but there we are. We as a species tend to jump to conclusions all too readily, and in paleontology at least, we often get things seriously wrong as a result!
Thanks for the effort. No one's gonna read this.
Mery Christmas always neat to see some basal species of proboscideans discussed I remember a video series I did on the subject some time ago
Great work as always. Thanks!
Dr Polaris - I look forward to each of your new videos --and one arriving on Christmas Eve is a special treat. I'm glad to hear you're on the mend, and I wish you and yours all the best for the holidays and the New Year. Please take care of yourself, and, whenever possible, please keep these fascinating accounts of ancient fauna coming. (Last but not least, I extend best wishes to all Dr. Polaris fans!)
Thanks for another informative video. I hope you're feeling fine right quick. Merry Christmas, Doc!
There is a bass in the soundtrack I've never noticed or maybe its new but man, it's making my heart race for some reason. It's making me anxious.
Happy Holidays! Your videos are always super fun and informative! Take care of yourself!
This once great and diverse order is in the midst of its swan-song.
Hey man don’t beat yourself up over it, you gotta take of yourself first, don’t want to burn yourself out pushing too hard when you’re not doing well.
Early Proboscideans are underrated animals and they are overlooked by their descendants like members of mammutidae and Elephantidae and many people get them wrong as you near the beginning of the video they would probably have hair instead of being hairless if we take a look to modern animals that look like them for example, tapirs are a decently large animal with a small trunk with fur
From Proboscidea the size of puppies to Palaeoloxodon namadicus weighing 25 tons, radiation with a vengeance.
On Sauropods ?
On an extent yes.
But what archaics and true Elephants and their relatives all togethers all accomplished remain very TAME compare to what sauropods achieved.
Between the earliest proboscidean, to the first True Elephants with the appearance of the first Elephantiformes to Palaeoloxodon namadicus, there a time frame of around 55-50 mya.
Sauropods get bigger than P. namadicus way quicker in theit evolution.
Appearing at the beginning of the Jurassic and with already giant sized genera making Palaeoloxodon namadicus a dwarf in comparison.
Hope you have a great Christmas and New Year Dr Polaris, and many thanks for your invariably fascinating and informative videos!
Your videos are worth the wait. Happy Holidays, Doc.
I love some of the paleo art in your videos just beautiful works of art
Love you videos, definitely improved my Christmas eve
Always the best to you my friend!
Doctor Polaris! Merry Christmas, indeed!
Glad to see you back on your feet, Merry Christmas, do a gimlet 👀
I think Eritherium would be a fantastic creature to add in the documentary about the Paleocene I've always wanted with it explain how this little mammal will give rise to the mighty elephants.
Hey mate, sorry to hear about your vertigo hope you're back to 100% soon
Merry Christmas! Wish you the best.
I do love elephants.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Get well soon!
I'm sorry about your vertigo. It sounds terrible. I hope you get much better
Dr. Polaris busted for copyright violations.........I'm shocked. All kidding aside, some of the best videos on extinct animals on youtube.
Video number 12 asking dr polaris to cover medonychians (awesome video btw, merry christmas)
Don't worry for the video delay. It's things that happen and we will not die of it anyway.
Hope you recover good. I know what being sick is. I justly myself had a severe temporary gastro only some days ago.
Was already good as if anything never happen the next day, but on the moment, that was extremely bad to experienced.
Outside that, pass a merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
8:10 Damn. Sorry to hear that.
Merry Chrysler everybody!
Merry Christmas Dr Polaris. I hope you're feeling better and thanks for another fascinating video.
I Hope you start feeling better soon Merry Christmas
The good doctor knows my mind here 😁
Glad you're feeling better!
Merry christmas bro
They were peculiar. Bizarre even
Hey Dr.Polaris, right after the evolution and the history of the Pelagornithidae, why don't you also get to make a suggestion to create the TH-cam Videos Shows about the evolution and the history of the Extinct Prehistoric Primitive Ancestors Of The Modern Birds called the Ornithothoraces in the next couple of weeks to think about that one coming up next?!👍👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Excellent video. So much fun.
I love this channel!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Merry Xmas
Imagine being born as a low growing shrub only to be eaten by some weird little nugget creature, smh
Merry Christmas❤❤👍👍
Merry Christmas everyone.
I gotta say, by no means do I think you’re lying- I love your vids btw- hearing someone casually throw out that they are sick from vertigo of all things is outlandish
It's not that uncommon an affliction. It can be linked to inner ear infection, or to sudden sensorineural hearing loss, and in recent years there has been a noticed increase by ENT doctors suggesting a possible link to post-Covid side-effects.
Also can be a post-concussion issue for some serious head injuries
TH-cam is crazy especially when it comes to educational videos, I gave up using it as a teaching tool.
Merry Christmas 🎉🎉
I wouldn't mind seeing something on early chameleons or amphibians
I wonder what these ancestral proto Elephants sounded like in life? I hope scientists does this in the near future.
Seems like youtube has something against the deinotheriums
What do you mean, friend?
I wonder if this genus would have dominated all continents during the Jurassic or Cretaceous period? Or who'd win between Cenozoic mammals & Triassic reptiles in evolution race?
It is okay. I was drunk all last week.
I really hope that Apple Plus who made "Prehistoric Planet" show Earth in the Paleocene after the Mesozoic Era ended. Or an updated version of the "Walking with Beasts" series.
Yeah, really, it would be so easy to give such productions, about prehistoric times and locations never seen before, to give secondary, lesser or barely know animals get spotlight and to made sort of Remakes of the successfull yet terribly outdated originals productions.
Well, maybe not easy given how much time it took to make, but given the amount of money it made I'd be shocked if there weren't several sequels
How the hell can people copyright claim educational content? YTs copyright policies are absolutely looney; strike first & ask questions later. Many musicians are feeling this pain as well, & it's why I've started moving away from featuring too much unattested artwork in my content.
Evolution of reindeer and artic fauna would have been more ad hoc for the christmas season
When will cryptids return? Anyway, Merry Christmas!
Brilliant
Good looking family
what’s the name of that background music that starts at 0:20?
Hope that you got better
Great video! Do you think that the appearance of larger mammal species was a result of the dinosaurs' disappearance? It seems there might be a cause/effect relationship between those two things.
EORL le JEUNE.
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What are the most bizarre elephants ever?
Wikipedia states that Embrithopods may need not even be afrotheres and that their relationship within eutheria needs to be better studied. Is the paper they cite dubious? Also, why is Arsinoitherium shown as living alongside moeritheriun in chased by sea monsters? It's the same time and habitat, and though not outright stated, it is implied. I've seen no evidence they lived alongside each other.
Maybe there is a copyright on Ron Perlman image you are using.
Have you done one on corvids?
Isn't the Holocene over as it's now the Anthropocene since the 1950s? Merry Christmas. 🎄
Nope. Anthropocene isn't even an accepted period by scientists.
Why even accepting a new period ?
Holocene is defined itself as the period of human rise and domination.
The Anthropocene era suggestion have the same overall concept.
So why bother ?
Imagining myself with tusks just grosses me out. Nose bones seem disgusting
what was the earliest Alexandraforme?
if there are no fossilized trunks of Deinotherium how do scientists know they had short “trunks” 🤔
can talk about Moha Moha a Australia cryptid ??
🦣🐘Deinotherium❤❤❤
Arnt dycynodonts the first animals with treu tusks?
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Those
How did I know he was going to be British just by looking at the pfp
vertigo sucks.