I mentioned this in the community post, but I'll say it again here. I have a Crested Gecko (endemic to New Caledonia) and I can't wait to learn about his distant ancestors!
I bet there'll be kids who remember this channel as a core part of their childhood (like Walking with dinosaurs for me) and this thought is indescribably comforting to me. TH-cam is amazing because it allows for stuff like this channel and I bet people will be able to learn so much more, so much easier in the future.
@@Sporeboy87 untrue, you just had to be a nerdy kid like I was, but unfortunately when I was a kid, I was busy watching Smosh, because at that time, there wasn't much in the sphere of Educational TH-camrs.
An interesting fact about a species of Araucaria (A. columnaris) from New Caledonia: they lean towards the equator when planted north or south of it. When planted in the Northern Hemisphere, they lean south, and vice versa in the Southern Hemisphere
Plants scare me because I just cant look into their eyes and feel like a get them, some of those plants can be suspicious too. Boquila trifoliolata is a plant that can make its leaves look like other plants, but what is it hiding from!? The Idea that this vine can look like any plant it grows on and that it might be because it can somehow see scares me, plants can already detect and react to light and this one can apparently mimic fake plants and how could it do that without being able to see? There are also the Devil's gardens in South America where this one species of tree has teamed up with these ants to take over the forest! There are large patches of forest with only one type of plant and the ants clear the forest for the trees. Its scary. There is also the quaking aspen which is able to be one tree, but also an entire forest by connecting underground and the Bengal fig can do the same but though the canopy! Cotton plants can team up with wasps to destroy caterpillars, what if they go after us next? Plants cant use fungi to talk to other plants which basically means the forest is talking to each other, also dont get me started on fungi! These organisms scare me because they are in charge of the atmosphere, drive the carbon cycle, are the basis of the food web, and do things that I dont like and therefore I just cant trust them. Plants are weird and I dont like them, but I also need them to breath. They are holding me hostage! We need more vegans! Sorry for my decent into madness, but any time I hear weird things about plants I have to do this and now I must add A. columnaris to the list of plants that are obviously planning something.
From what I could find after a super cursory bit of Google-fu, they're a super tall, somewhat thin species of conifer (common name Cook's Pine after Captain James Cook) and they only do this 'lean' outside of their native habitat, presumably because New Caledonia is almost exactly on the equator. What's odd, though, is that while all other known species of plants - including other New Caledonian Araucaria species - eventually correct this lean to stop themselves from falling over, A. columnaris trees don't. They just keep growing at the same ~8 degree angle. So while there is the possibility that it's just an extreme form of phototropism/phototaxis, it's as yet uncertain that quirky genetics, gravity, or even the Earth's magnetic field aren't involved to some extent. Keep in mind that this tree and its lean haven't been studied very much yet, and even the article I found was about a study from 2017 involving a sample size of only 256 trees; which is just far too small to draw any meaningful conclusions from. Source: www.sciencealert.com/the-strange-case-of-the-pine-trees-that-always-lean-towards-the-equator
New Caledonia is actually almost on the Tropic of Capricorn, not the Equator. The Equator passes through Borneo. And 256 individuals is arguably enough to get some significant results, but it depends on a number of statistical things like the variance and mean and that sort of thing. 30 samples is technically the minimum number for a useful study. I wonder if it is a primitive way to keep its leaves angled at the sun? I can imagine it looking much like an ancient clubmoss. Pretty interesting anyway
You should deffinetly do Cuba and St.Helen's island on the series next, those are very underrated island ecosystems with incredible fauna that's sadly mostly lost now. On second thought non-Mediterranean Atlantic paleofauna could get an entire section of the series on it's own.
@@Fede_99 Yeah, not counting the Carribean and Mediterranean Atlantic island paleofauna is incredibly obscure even in the Paleo community, it sure needs more attention.
@@emperorofgondar Since I'm a sucker for island fauna I hope I'll see something about Japan too, it had some very cool animals and some of them are still alive today (both from Japan itself and from some small islands around it).
This is another wonderful video. As a kid in the 1960s. I read about tree ferns and have imagined a forest of them ever since. Not until today did I know that we still have them. This is a special thrill.
As a huge fan of New Caledonia, I like to see it as sort of an alternate reality of if Chicxulub never hit. The lineages are all extremely ancient, and yet speciation has changed them from their original Cretaceous forms. Meanwhile, in NZ to the south, many of the species themselves are extremely ancient and haven't changed much in all that time, though the diversity is lower and not exactly representative of a true Cretaceous forest. Zealandia is far and away my favorite part of the world, as I ended up digging a tad too deep into paleobotany and ended up with a strange longing for Paleozoic and Mesozoic forests, of which only Zealandia can truly provide some semblance of. Some day perhaps I'll end up living there, amongst an alien looking landscape of birds and tropical conifers. I've already been to NZ and next year will be off to New Caledonia!
I hope you have a great time there! There aren't as many of the different creatures that were mentioned in this video since they all went extinct, but I'm sure by now there are roles being filled by other animals.
@@silverhowl9331 I'm more into the plants tbh, which are still generally doing alright (though the amount of endangered species is certainly worrying). The forests of tropical conifers, basal angiosperms, magnoliids, and ferns really are something quite special!
18:35 My cousins live on Maori tribal land in northern New Zealand. There's a reason why when you go there, one of the first things you see is a sign saying something like, "Dogs and Cats without leads will be shot on sight!"
Fascinating. Makes sense, though. New Zealand is working very hard to eliminate predators, so of course the Māori wouldn’t want them invading their lands any more than they already are.
@@mircallakarnstein5564 Yeah, New Zealand's making a lot of effort there. Funnily enough, my cousin said gorse was one invasive species that's more welcomed than others. A kiwi won't care if it runs into the prickles and a dog or cat won't go in after it.
Yeah, absolutely gaudious ! Birds, Beetles, Spiders and Fish are the best dressed people on the planet. They make fashion shows look drab. Such is the creativity of the Creator. Thank you, God.
Wow 👀 So much of the geography, flora & fauna of New Caledonia is so reminiscent of our own here in NZ/Aotearoa! Can totally see their shared heritage as surviving remnants of the submerged Zealandia continent... Awesome to learn so much about a relatively near neighbour that I didn't know a lot about!
This year kicked me in the teeth every other week and seeing a new video of yours was a needed pick me up that made me excited every time. You made my year a little more tolerable with each upload. 2024 will be better and I hope it kicks off phenomenally for you. You definitely deserve it xx thank you for paleo filled 2023
Thank you for making this video, please make more about New Caledonia I'm totally fascinated by this island and its hard to find good content about it.
Greetings from New Caledonia ! 🇳🇨😄 Feels kinda good to see my homeland not being talked about just for tourism or independance (or nickel mining) ! For that I truly thank you 🙂
Yet again, Paleo analysis man blends interest, a little humour and a bit of wide-eyed wonder in his unique style... America's answer to Sir David Attenborough, which is the highest of praise!!!
Fantastic video! The end there with the somber music was a great touch, which really made me sad to hear that a bunch of the endemic life has disappeared.
I suppose it's fortunate that New Caledonia's gecko species make excellent and amicable pets. The crested, gargoyle, and even the giant (popularly called the Leachie) geckos are pretty easy to care for when it comes to lizards and have been captive bred for years, if not decades now.
@@nerysghemor5781 it depends on the species. There are a lot of crested geckos that have been bred to be slightly different (simply more robust) than their wild counterparts. There is also color and pattern mutations that have been bred for which are a bit annoying when considering rewilding but nothing that makes the idea impossible. But there still is many zoological facilities and professional breeders who do work in programs from a conservation lense that work with what’s basically wildtype genetics. The main things we have done with them genetically is usually thing to make them more robust as I’ve stated. General Size, build, head size, crest size musculature, and even things like general long term health quality and even temperament. For gargoyle geckos they face a similar story as crested geckos. The giant geckos are often bred specifically to maintain their genetics from different localities from around the island chain. So it will be a lot easier to source animals for rewilding The chameleon gecko and the many of the other lesser known and kept New Caledonian species are all bred as purely wild types as well.
If anyone is interested in a deeper dive into the flora of New Caledonia I would suggest the channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t. He went to NC a couple of years ago and there are a number of videos from that trip.
I absolutely love this series. So fascinating. There's an emotion that lost worlds/creatures give me that is very unique. It's sad and mysterious but beautiful and comforting all at once, to know that this single planet has experienced so much and produced such incredible fauna and flora, which I will never personally witness. It makes me feel small, but in a good way, like I am surrounded by beauty, and I am just one detail in the big picture.
Just have to comment one more time to say thank you for all your hard work and your dedication to educating people! I love all the new things I learn from you.
I really love your channel, because I love learning about prehistoric animals I’ve never heard of! Your channel has helped me discover so much about our earth’s past!
Thank you, I'm really enjoying these videos - I honestly don't have preferences for which places you cover; I feel like all of them would no doubt be interesting to learn about. :)
This was a fascinating island! The sheer number of species that came and went and evolved to be the species we still have today. It was so informative. Well researched and presented! Thanks Paleo!
You always seem to be just one step ahead of me! I was researching New Caledonia yesterday. Fascinating, isolated chunk of land from a lost continent. Thank you again for a great, acuminate trip through the past
Hey just wanted to let you know this channel has reinvigorated my passion for paleo history, and I’d just like to say thank you for giving me that drive to learn more. Keep it up and I look forward to future content!
Thank you for talking about New Caledonia! I love the island and even visited. I hope to do research there in the future too. Thanks as well for all the interesting videos.
I love how you manage to cover everything in a logical order yet still create an interesting narrative of sorts throughout the video - great job, a really entertaining and informative watch:)
All Corvids are AMAZING! Just watching them every day where I work is fascinating (magpies, crows and the occasional jackdaw). I am entranced watching their behaviour.
Your knowledge about species is absolutely amazing. I'm very impressed about this fact. 😮 This episode is again unique and quite interesting. I learned some new things. 🤓 Especially about Zealandia and the development of this unique ecosphere. So, thanks for your always fascinating content! 🤗🥳 🦖
Up until recently my admission and progress notes in hospital were all handwritten in cursive. To me, because writing by hand was slower amd considered, the act of having to write notes by hand was part of the thinking process and crucial to formulation of my impression and plan for the patient. On a personal level it was also one way I could make my life more aesthetically pleasing in the hospital.
Really appreciate that you do impress upon us the profound impact human activities, direct or incidental, have on environments, as we likewise (should) have the capacity to avoid the oversights and overreaches of our past.
To someone who knows Australian rainforest very well, New Caledonia looks like a part of Australia/New Guinea or more precisely Gondwana. The species are different but the genuses are all the same or closely related. Australia is also a land of skinks geckoes and birds.
Such an awesome video. I have always been fascinated with the strange world of New Caledonia. Now I got a much more clearer image of what the environment of the islands looked like and I think I got some new ideas for my speculative evolution project of Zealandia/Aotaeroa . Can't wait to see what the next lost world episode will be.
12:42 The largest known gecko is Hoplodactylus delcourti, discovered thanks to a specimen in a museum in Marseille, but it's country of origin has been contested recently, it has been proposed to come from New Zealalnd or New Caledonia.
A very lovely island a friend of mine who has now passed away served there with the Australian military during and after WW2 and he had hundreds of photos he'd taken . He really loved the people there and maintained several lifelong friendships.
If I ever get round to making palaeontology videos myself, I'd like to work with you one day. I only recently found your channel while searching for different geological periods, which put me onto your series about the evolution of life on Earth. It was pretty good if I may say so. I liked it. Definitely seem like you've had formal palaeontological training. And if not, that is great; it makes it even better, because I'd say you have the natural ability to understand it very well.
Love your videos and love the effort. Just a few minor quibbles -- no 'true' finches on New Caledonia. Roughly 20% of the world's ~300 pigeon species are mostly green. And the bulk of the catastrophic wave of extinctions that happened in Caledonia and elsewhere in Melanesia/Polynesia/most other islands happened well before the arrival of the Europeans. Hawaii and New Zealand are maybe 50/50 (Europeans never saw a living moa, for example). One exception was Mauritius, which had no previous native inhabitants, where European arrival really was apocalyptic for the island's fauna such as the Dodo Bird, Mascarene Parrot, and nearly every other native bird there.
not exactly an island but definitely in the same wheelhouse, but I'd love to see a video on the Driftless Region and how its landscape preserved what the Neogene was like pre-Ice Age!
New to this series and I’m heartbroken to see it hasn’t been update. Island ecology with island dwarfism/gigantism are some of my favorite topics surrounding paleontology. I was really looking forward to seeing more from this list
After dealing with the absolutely massive and nearly incomprehensible time scales that this channel has covered, when he says 40,000 years ago around the 16 minute mark, my mind went "Well dang that was really not that long ago", but that is still a really really really long time ago. Lmao
I would love love love to see a whole series of episodes dedicated to corvids. The New Caledonian crow is definitely one of the smartest, and… yes, I did want one as a pet. Only to learn it’s actually illegal to have a pet crow
The talk about how island ecosystems are often quite vulnerable to not just humans but many potential invasive species makes me hope for the eventual Langberg Archipielago and Gargano Islands videos :D
I mentioned this in the community post, but I'll say it again here. I have a Crested Gecko (endemic to New Caledonia) and I can't wait to learn about his distant ancestors!
I have a chahoua gecko and same! Squeeee
Show it to him so he can learn his ancestry!
"see how many extinction events your grandpa went through just to go to school?" - gecko's mom
I plan on getting a leachie gecko myself in the future.
I've got a crestie and a chameleon gecko (eurydactylodes). The herpetological biology of this island is utterly fascinating!
I bet there'll be kids who remember this channel as a core part of their childhood (like Walking with dinosaurs for me) and this thought is indescribably comforting to me. TH-cam is amazing because it allows for stuff like this channel and I bet people will be able to learn so much more, so much easier in the future.
The algorithm doesn’t recommend this kind of stuff to kids
@@Sporeboy87unfortunately you are correct. A very sad truth!
@@Sporeboy87 well that sucks
@@Sporeboy87well hopefully there’s some parents who watch with their kids 🤞
@@Sporeboy87 untrue, you just had to be a nerdy kid like I was, but unfortunately when I was a kid, I was busy watching Smosh, because at that time, there wasn't much in the sphere of Educational TH-camrs.
An interesting fact about a species of Araucaria (A. columnaris) from New Caledonia: they lean towards the equator when planted north or south of it. When planted in the Northern Hemisphere, they lean south, and vice versa in the Southern Hemisphere
I wonder if this is phototaxis? After all, in the northern hemisphere the sun does rise and set in the southern sky and vice versa.
Plants scare me because I just cant look into their eyes and feel like a get them, some of those plants can be suspicious too. Boquila trifoliolata is a plant that can make its leaves look like other plants, but what is it hiding from!? The Idea that this vine can look like any plant it grows on and that it might be because it can somehow see scares me, plants can already detect and react to light and this one can apparently mimic fake plants and how could it do that without being able to see? There are also the Devil's gardens in South America where this one species of tree has teamed up with these ants to take over the forest! There are large patches of forest with only one type of plant and the ants clear the forest for the trees. Its scary. There is also the quaking aspen which is able to be one tree, but also an entire forest by connecting underground and the Bengal fig can do the same but though the canopy!
Cotton plants can team up with wasps to destroy caterpillars, what if they go after us next? Plants cant use fungi to talk to other plants which basically means the forest is talking to each other, also dont get me started on fungi! These organisms scare me because they are in charge of the atmosphere, drive the carbon cycle, are the basis of the food web, and do things that I dont like and therefore I just cant trust them. Plants are weird and I dont like them, but I also need them to breath. They are holding me hostage! We need more vegans!
Sorry for my decent into madness, but any time I hear weird things about plants I have to do this and now I must add A. columnaris to the list of plants that are obviously planning something.
From what I could find after a super cursory bit of Google-fu, they're a super tall, somewhat thin species of conifer (common name Cook's Pine after Captain James Cook) and they only do this 'lean' outside of their native habitat, presumably because New Caledonia is almost exactly on the equator. What's odd, though, is that while all other known species of plants - including other New Caledonian Araucaria species - eventually correct this lean to stop themselves from falling over, A. columnaris trees don't. They just keep growing at the same ~8 degree angle. So while there is the possibility that it's just an extreme form of phototropism/phototaxis, it's as yet uncertain that quirky genetics, gravity, or even the Earth's magnetic field aren't involved to some extent.
Keep in mind that this tree and its lean haven't been studied very much yet, and even the article I found was about a study from 2017 involving a sample size of only 256 trees; which is just far too small to draw any meaningful conclusions from.
Source: www.sciencealert.com/the-strange-case-of-the-pine-trees-that-always-lean-towards-the-equator
Well, that’s the coolest thing I’ll learn today, thanks!
New Caledonia is actually almost on the Tropic of Capricorn, not the Equator. The Equator passes through Borneo.
And 256 individuals is arguably enough to get some significant results, but it depends on a number of statistical things like the variance and mean and that sort of thing. 30 samples is technically the minimum number for a useful study.
I wonder if it is a primitive way to keep its leaves angled at the sun? I can imagine it looking much like an ancient clubmoss. Pretty interesting anyway
You should deffinetly do Cuba and St.Helen's island on the series next, those are very underrated island ecosystems with incredible fauna that's sadly mostly lost now.
On second thought non-Mediterranean Atlantic paleofauna could get an entire section of the series on it's own.
Try malta
Almost non of our native animals still exist
@@joshuaborg3907 I've actually never heard of native Malta animals. This just shows how much they have been eradicated
@@emperorofgondar The endemic fauna of Malta was very similar to that of Sicily
Also props to you for saying St. Helen, very underrated
@@Fede_99 Yeah, not counting the Carribean and Mediterranean Atlantic island paleofauna is incredibly obscure even in the Paleo community, it sure needs more attention.
@@emperorofgondar Since I'm a sucker for island fauna I hope I'll see something about Japan too, it had some very cool animals and some of them are still alive today (both from Japan itself and from some small islands around it).
This is some of the most wholesome and awesome channel on TH-cam! Thank you for being so kind and generous person Paleo!
This is another wonderful video. As a kid in the 1960s. I read about tree ferns and have imagined a forest of them ever since. Not until today did I know that we still have them. This is a special thrill.
As a huge fan of New Caledonia, I like to see it as sort of an alternate reality of if Chicxulub never hit. The lineages are all extremely ancient, and yet speciation has changed them from their original Cretaceous forms. Meanwhile, in NZ to the south, many of the species themselves are extremely ancient and haven't changed much in all that time, though the diversity is lower and not exactly representative of a true Cretaceous forest. Zealandia is far and away my favorite part of the world, as I ended up digging a tad too deep into paleobotany and ended up with a strange longing for Paleozoic and Mesozoic forests, of which only Zealandia can truly provide some semblance of. Some day perhaps I'll end up living there, amongst an alien looking landscape of birds and tropical conifers. I've already been to NZ and next year will be off to New Caledonia!
Good luck
I hope you have a great time there! There aren't as many of the different creatures that were mentioned in this video since they all went extinct, but I'm sure by now there are roles being filled by other animals.
@@silverhowl9331 I'm more into the plants tbh, which are still generally doing alright (though the amount of endangered species is certainly worrying). The forests of tropical conifers, basal angiosperms, magnoliids, and ferns really are something quite special!
@@StuffandThings_ Thats so cool!! :0 I'm an animal person but plants are awesome.
18:35 My cousins live on Maori tribal land in northern New Zealand. There's a reason why when you go there, one of the first things you see is a sign saying something like, "Dogs and Cats without leads will be shot on sight!"
Fascinating. Makes sense, though. New Zealand is working very hard to eliminate predators, so of course the Māori wouldn’t want them invading their lands any more than they already are.
@@mircallakarnstein5564 Yeah, New Zealand's making a lot of effort there. Funnily enough, my cousin said gorse was one invasive species that's more welcomed than others. A kiwi won't care if it runs into the prickles and a dog or cat won't go in after it.
@@dndsl3436 Native forest eventually grows up through gorse and supplants it.
Ever been to New Caledonia?
A place that is hell to dogs can't be heaven to humans - just leave altogether, you don't belong there.
New Caledonia is a very amazing place. Such a unique and beautiful eco system. Hope I will one day see it in the flesh. Great video
Fascinating. I know very little about that part of the world.
The green pigeons are gorgeous!
Yeah, absolutely gaudious ! Birds, Beetles, Spiders and Fish are the best dressed people on the planet. They make fashion shows look drab. Such is the creativity of the Creator. Thank you, God.
Wow 👀 So much of the geography, flora & fauna of New Caledonia is so reminiscent of our own here in NZ/Aotearoa! Can totally see their shared heritage as surviving remnants of the submerged Zealandia continent... Awesome to learn so much about a relatively near neighbour that I didn't know a lot about!
This year kicked me in the teeth every other week and seeing a new video of yours was a needed pick me up that made me excited every time. You made my year a little more tolerable with each upload.
2024 will be better and I hope it kicks off phenomenally for you. You definitely deserve it xx thank you for paleo filled 2023
Thank you for making this video, please make more about New Caledonia I'm totally fascinated by this island and its hard to find good content about it.
Greetings from New Caledonia ! 🇳🇨😄
Feels kinda good to see my homeland not being talked about just for tourism or independance (or nickel mining) !
For that I truly thank you 🙂
Yet again, Paleo analysis man blends interest, a little humour and a bit of wide-eyed wonder in his unique style... America's answer to Sir David Attenborough, which is the highest of praise!!!
As a Cuban, learning about Cuba having Giant Flightless owls sounds so Badass
Fantastic video! The end there with the somber music was a great touch, which really made me sad to hear that a bunch of the endemic life has disappeared.
I suppose it's fortunate that New Caledonia's gecko species make excellent and amicable pets. The crested, gargoyle, and even the giant (popularly called the Leachie) geckos are pretty easy to care for when it comes to lizards and have been captive bred for years, if not decades now.
I wonder if it would ever be possible to breed them for release back into the wild, or have we already altered the pet versions beyond that point?
@@nerysghemor5781 it depends on the species.
There are a lot of crested geckos that have been bred to be slightly different (simply more robust) than their wild counterparts. There is also color and pattern mutations that have been bred for which are a bit annoying when considering rewilding but nothing that makes the idea impossible.
But there still is many zoological facilities and professional breeders who do work in programs from a conservation lense that work with what’s basically wildtype genetics.
The main things we have done with them genetically is usually thing to make them more robust as I’ve stated.
General Size, build, head size, crest size musculature, and even things like general long term health quality and even temperament.
For gargoyle geckos they face a similar story as crested geckos.
The giant geckos are often bred specifically to maintain their genetics from different localities from around the island chain. So it will be a lot easier to source animals for rewilding
The chameleon gecko and the many of the other lesser known and kept New Caledonian species are all bred as purely wild types as well.
@@themotions5967 Good to know…it sounds like we do have a few insurance populations that could be released if necessary.
I enjoy these series. I learn a lot. Well dosed information. Dont forget Europe. Thank you.
wow, New Caledonia really looks like a island grabbed straight from the Mesozoic. The flora looks bizzare, so does the fauna
I cannot stop watching your videos!
Your channel is so great! You have proven to me how truly underrated New Caledonia is!
If anyone is interested in a deeper dive into the flora of New Caledonia I would suggest the channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t. He went to NC a couple of years ago and there are a number of videos from that trip.
Absolutely worth seeing
He is so good. Addicting actually
I absolutely love this series. So fascinating. There's an emotion that lost worlds/creatures give me that is very unique. It's sad and mysterious but beautiful and comforting all at once, to know that this single planet has experienced so much and produced such incredible fauna and flora, which I will never personally witness. It makes me feel small, but in a good way, like I am surrounded by beauty, and I am just one detail in the big picture.
Just have to comment one more time to say thank you for all your hard work and your dedication to educating people! I love all the new things I learn from you.
I really love your channel, because I love learning about prehistoric animals I’ve never heard of! Your channel has helped me discover so much about our earth’s past!
Fascinating stuff. Good video. TY
Thank you, I'm really enjoying these videos - I honestly don't have preferences for which places you cover; I feel like all of them would no doubt be interesting to learn about. :)
One thing that I find cool about new caledonia, is that it's home to the oldest living flowering plant... Amborella trichopoda.
FANTASTIC VIDEO!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Socotra would be a great candidate for this series. Fantastic video!
Great videos as always very informative and fun to watch!!
This was a fascinating island! The sheer number of species that came and went and evolved to be the species we still have today. It was so informative. Well researched and presented! Thanks Paleo!
Each better than then last! Thanks to you and TimTim!
You've done amazing work so far. I think this video may be one of your finest if not THE best so far. Really well done. Loved it!
Thanks for the video! Love watching and learning about anything you release!
You narrate so well ! It was all so clear and fluid, and interesting ! I'm so gonna binge your vid today
You always seem to be just one step ahead of me! I was researching New Caledonia yesterday. Fascinating, isolated chunk of land from a lost continent. Thank you again for a great, acuminate trip through the past
Hey just wanted to let you know this channel has reinvigorated my passion for paleo history, and I’d just like to say thank you for giving me that drive to learn more. Keep it up and I look forward to future content!
Thank you for talking about New Caledonia! I love the island and even visited. I hope to do research there in the future too. Thanks as well for all the interesting videos.
I love how you manage to cover everything in a logical order yet still create an interesting narrative of sorts throughout the video - great job, a really entertaining and informative watch:)
Oh my gahd!! You literally are covering everything I want!! Can’t wait 😃😊
All Corvids are AMAZING! Just watching them every day where I work is fascinating (magpies, crows and the occasional jackdaw). I am entranced watching their behaviour.
I friggen love your work man. Props to Tim-Tim too.
love your content and channel. Keep it up!
Your knowledge about species is absolutely amazing. I'm very impressed about this fact. 😮
This episode is again unique and quite interesting. I learned some new things. 🤓 Especially about Zealandia and the development of this unique ecosphere.
So, thanks for your always fascinating content! 🤗🥳 🦖
Thank you for doing your usual good job. Please keep up the good (and entertaining) work.
Loved this vid, I think imma binge this channel in the next few days hahahah
Thank you for teaching me in such an entertaining way 🤗 I love it 😻
Up until recently my admission and progress notes in hospital were all handwritten in cursive. To me, because writing by hand was slower amd considered, the act of having to write notes by hand was part of the thinking process and crucial to formulation of my impression and plan for the patient. On a personal level it was also one way I could make my life more aesthetically pleasing in the hospital.
New Paleo Analysis LET"SSSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The two ongoing series you’ve got right now are absolutely incredible. Rock on brother
Nice paleo-pun! 😁
thank you for putting my best buddy to sleep in the best of ways, you're very calming and he always rewatches what he missed after he wakes back up :)
Really appreciate that you do impress upon us the profound impact human activities, direct or incidental, have on environments, as we likewise (should) have the capacity to avoid the oversights and overreaches of our past.
Love your work. Long time viewer, I will donate when funds get stronger. Thanks for the videos.
To someone who knows Australian rainforest very well, New Caledonia looks like a part of Australia/New Guinea or more precisely Gondwana. The species are different but the genuses are all the same or closely related. Australia is also a land of skinks geckoes and birds.
Truly amazing video, can't wait for more.
Hope you have a great day
was in new caledonia about two months ago. gorgeous place, it felt like a time capsule
Such an awesome video. I have always been fascinated with the strange world of New Caledonia. Now I got a much more clearer image of what the environment of the islands looked like and I think I got some new ideas for my speculative evolution project of Zealandia/Aotaeroa . Can't wait to see what the next lost world episode will be.
12:42 The largest known gecko is Hoplodactylus delcourti, discovered thanks to a specimen in a museum in Marseille, but it's country of origin has been contested recently, it has been proposed to come from New Zealalnd or New Caledonia.
RIP *Kawekaweau* :I
I'm sure he meant it in a context of extant species. The gecko you mentioned is extinct
@@PieSpie "The largest species of Gecko to ever live as far as we know" doesn't sound like a context of extant species
A very lovely island a friend of mine who has now passed away served there with the Australian military during and after WW2 and he had hundreds of photos he'd taken . He really loved the people there and maintained several lifelong friendships.
I love these and look forward to more lost world in depths.
thx for naming this series. it helps us viewers to organise what is being seen.
Love your videos man. This is another great one!
If I ever get round to making palaeontology videos myself, I'd like to work with you one day. I only recently found your channel while searching for different geological periods, which put me onto your series about the evolution of life on Earth. It was pretty good if I may say so. I liked it. Definitely seem like you've had formal palaeontological training. And if not, that is great; it makes it even better, because I'd say you have the natural ability to understand it very well.
I just recently found out about that big Caledonian bird (forgot the name) so it's cool to see a video about it!
Hi from malta
Thanks for the mention
your video is very informative
Love your videos and love the effort. Just a few minor quibbles -- no 'true' finches on New Caledonia. Roughly 20% of the world's ~300 pigeon species are mostly green. And the bulk of the catastrophic wave of extinctions that happened in Caledonia and elsewhere in Melanesia/Polynesia/most other islands happened well before the arrival of the Europeans. Hawaii and New Zealand are maybe 50/50 (Europeans never saw a living moa, for example). One exception was Mauritius, which had no previous native inhabitants, where European arrival really was apocalyptic for the island's fauna such as the Dodo Bird, Mascarene Parrot, and nearly every other native bird there.
New Caledonia is just a few hours away by plane for me, and you have made me want to visit.
Hey!! I would love to see a video on Sardinia! Im from Sardinia myself and very little is told on his prehistoric past 🦎
Interesing hobby, interesting and well made video. subscribed and thanks for content
not exactly an island but definitely in the same wheelhouse, but I'd love to see a video on the Driftless Region and how its landscape preserved what the Neogene was like pre-Ice Age!
Such a marvelous episode! I love your content, but this was exceptionally good.
Thank you for your work. I very much enjoy it.
Corvids are my favorite animals! I would love, love, love to hear what you have to say about them.
Likewise!
I love this Lost Worlds series. Can’t wait to see more!
6:39 - Paris, Texas is a cool movie indeed, glad they named the plant after it
Great video! so glad I found this channel!
So good. So accessible. Well researched and presented.
Taiwan seems like a very underrated topic especially because of The fossil record in Taiwan being slightly more obscure
New to this series and I’m heartbroken to see it hasn’t been update. Island ecology with island dwarfism/gigantism are some of my favorite topics surrounding paleontology. I was really looking forward to seeing more from this list
I definitely would want to see a vide done by you on Corvids! This video was amazing too. If not a bit depressing.
I like your videos, you do a great job, and you should feel good as a result. Thank you.
Love your videos! I hope you get to do a video about corvids at some point. I'm fascinated with them the more I learn.
Love this channel, keep up the great work
Very nice video of our country ! Great work.
After dealing with the absolutely massive and nearly incomprehensible time scales that this channel has covered, when he says 40,000 years ago around the 16 minute mark, my mind went "Well dang that was really not that long ago", but that is still a really really really long time ago. Lmao
Meiolania when it sees dinosaurs: time to invent the railgun
Great video as always. Love your work
Very enjoyable. I boarded with an older woman who went to New Caledonia specifically because thats where her father's plane went down in the war
A channel about in depth biogeography that is more than 10 mins long this is the dreaaammmm. Do New Guinea next...
Yaaaay you posted!!
I would love love love to see a whole series of episodes dedicated to corvids. The New Caledonian crow is definitely one of the smartest, and… yes, I did want one as a pet. Only to learn it’s actually illegal to have a pet crow
Lots of fascinating stuff - thank you very much for this!
Great series the lost worlds.
Can wait for the time that India was an isolated island
The talk about how island ecosystems are often quite vulnerable to not just humans but many potential invasive species makes me hope for the eventual Langberg Archipielago and Gargano Islands videos :D
Aaahh yess. Always a good day when you post
Thanks for the awesome content and great video!!!!
fascinating stuff, fully intend on looking into the french penal colony there
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