@@lordgrunwalder1607 You'd be surprised how many people are still ignoring this basic life principle. That's why we still have cholera, type A hepatitis and a whole lot of other easily preventable diseases killing people around the world every day.
For everyone who doesn't know: sloths are known for dying while pooping, because they climb down to the ground to do their No. 2. They're actually somewhat aware of the danger this imposes and thus hold on to their poop for a week or more, so that they don't have to go to the ground as often. Nobody knows why they don't just poop from the branch they hang on. Maybe it hasn't occured to them, yet, that this is a possibility.
Every fossil is nothing more than a snapshot, and a collection of luck that the snapshot would be preserved. Whatever we've figured out is only a fraction of what actually existed, maybe probably. Who knows what lived and wasn't fossilized
I suppose gaps in TH-cam posts worry us all, but I just assumed they were probably taking vacation or something. So, I hope that at least a couple weeks of their month away was spent relaxing!
I am a geologist from Ecuador, I knew about the find, it is good to see new research being done in the area. Keep up with your videos, I enjoy them a lot!.
I was 4 minutes in before I realized I should probably watch this after I finish my dinner... I just blindly clicked on a new eons video not even looking at the title. XD
I just wanted to let you guys know, I've been having a lot of anxiety attacks and I'm working on getting in to a doctor for it, but anytime I'm having a full blown attack and I'm alone I turn to your videos. You guys have really soothing voices and help distract me and ground me. Plus all the information is incredible. But I really wanted to thank you for all you guys do. I've probably watched every single one of your videos at least twice if not more
If there's a gem and mineral show near you they'll probably have some trilobites or ammonites. Plus the folks there are almost always willing to talk to a fellow fossil enthusiast.
Fascinating. Disgusting, but fascinating On a related note, are there other known fossilized latrine sites like this? Not only for the sake of latrine deposits.. I'm wondering if there's been anything like the guano in bat caves or the poop from nesting penguins in the fossil record.
Red guano is the fossilized, "aged", version of guano, and coprolite mining is actually a thing. If we are looking at sites with more scientific attention, again sloth is quite the culprit. There are caves literally filled with Nothrotheriops dung in the southwest US, giving us a pretty good idea of their diet
I don't think they're quite fossilized, but Rock Hyrax latrines have been used for studying the history of climate change in Africa over the last 50,000-ish years. SciShow did a video on it last year. th-cam.com/video/v360hZbwnPs/w-d-xo.html
Another awesome video, thanks guys! I'd love to see a video on why ceratopsian dinosaurs have such a diverse range of head ornamentations. Also another more quirky suggestion would have to be how the zebra got it's stripes :)
I was expecting something to be discussed about their diet and how they probably had explosive diarrhea or something horrible like that. It ended up being a much crappier way to die. I'm glad we're not giant animals.
He probably just has too much going on! He’s involved in sooooo many science channels AND I think he’s tiktok’s uncle now? You can’t click on a biology video without finding his name in the credits. Poor guy probably doesn’t have time to poop. I hope he still pops up occasionally!
It was a couple years ago, I'd say something around 2019. So yeah it's refreshing to have a new host in the crew and the idea to do a 3 host episode to introduce the newcomer is pretty clever. All in all : Welcome Michelle :)
@@paranoidrodent He is indeed the producer of many shows. I guess his clever strategy is to host a starting show to boost it up using his own notoriety then slowly disappearing in the shadow to start another.
I love this channel. Such a perfectly paced, well written episode again, and this wasn't even the best one by far. Im not even that into biology but man Eons is maybe the best yt channel I've ever seen. Its a got damn delight to watch every time.
Thank you, Kallie, for having all of you in the one video, so that I can stop thinking that Michelle is actually just you after you reinvented yourself!
Greetings from Ecuador! Glad to see there is real research on Science and Paleontology around :) Local media never publishes (they don't even know, I bet...)
@@EyeOfEld Hank's doing SciShow and SciShow Space and Bizarre Beasts and who knows what else. And he's a New York Times bestselling author. And of course there are the Vlogbrothers and the Project for Awesome and Complexly LLC, the video production company he co-founded. So I'd guess his schedule is kinda crammed to the brim.
It is always so neat to see, to SEE, a specific event that happened to temporally specific individuals rather than a longer trend as happened to generations of lifeforms.
I MISSED YOU!! I've been waiting patiently (thats a lie, I wasn't patient at all lol) for a new episode and this is certainly a great return video! Welcome Michelle to the team and I can't wait to see you in future videos
I am amazed by the narration skills of all the three narrators. Hats off guys, you magically convert words on such complex topics so effortlessly into easy to understand language.
Welcome Michelle! Love your speaking style and your outfit has very awesome Evie from the Mummy vibes ☺️. Both stylish and on point for this channel lol
Very articulate presenters. Presumably animals normally realise when a watering hole is no longer functioning as a survival refuge and set off to try and reach a better one, but perhaps slow moving sloths knew they would not have stood a chance and died of thirst on the way, so their only chance was to stay put and wait for rain.
It's always interesting how living animals can help provide information about how extinct animals would have lived, even if they aren't related, just by occupying a similar niche.
So I was sort-of correct in my initial guess: that they ate or drank something that gave them acute dysentery, or a similar disease. I did NOT expect the contaminant to be their own poop, though - figured the piles of poop were the symptom, not the cause. Also interesting to hear modern-day critters can make the same mistake. (Welcome, Michelle! Heck of an introduction, and heck of a start for the new season: CoproDoom.)
I wonder what the prompts that PBS gave their illustrators for this video were like: Giant sloths at watering hole, dead giant sloths at watering hole surrounded by poop. Lol
Hank is still around! He stepped away from hosting Eons a couple years ago to focus on other projects (including the incredible shows Bizarre Beasts and Journey to the Microcosmos) but he's still executive producer/our boss!
@@eons I think 1 thing that you may have not considered is poisoning of the water by say toxic cyanobacteria. The poop could easily cause an algae bloom and contaminate the water and then kill everything off, then after the bloom died back the water would be good enough to drink again. So that would possibly explain why there's mainly sloths there.
Welcome aboard Michelle. Looking forward to seeing what quirky energy you bring to the channel (cause Kallie and Blake are a quirky duo to hang with, in all the best ways).
With a title like that, how could we not watch?
Hello!
Pure clickbait, yes.
Hi minute earth
Yes, how could YOU not watch it?! 😂
This made me laugh more than it should have.
Moral of the story: Don’t poop where you drink.
Yes,it is that hard?
@@lordgrunwalder1607 You know about the Broad Street pump and John Snow?
@@lordgrunwalder1607 You'd be surprised how many people are still ignoring this basic life principle. That's why we still have cholera, type A hepatitis and a whole lot of other easily preventable diseases killing people around the world every day.
@@lordgrunwalder1607 as someone with pets, yeah, it's a hard concept for many animals.
@@lordgrunwalder1607, people of 19th century: yes
"Died surrounded by their own poop."
Look, we've all been stuck inside for a long time, but...
What can you expect without toilet paper?
@@TragoudistrosMPH hahahaha
When you gotta go you gotta go...
Imagine cholera riddled group of people forced to be quarantined into a small pool. The nightmares! Worse than the Saw movies.
I love toilets.
Missed opportunity to refer to the "death by poop hypothesis" as the "hyPOOthesis"
💩
Geeet OUT!
NO
Yes
Very clever!😹
Gotta' admit, that'd be really on-brand for sloths.
It sucks how true you are
For everyone who doesn't know: sloths are known for dying while pooping, because they climb down to the ground to do their No. 2. They're actually somewhat aware of the danger this imposes and thus hold on to their poop for a week or more, so that they don't have to go to the ground as often.
Nobody knows why they don't just poop from the branch they hang on. Maybe it hasn't occured to them, yet, that this is a possibility.
Lol dammit William that's so true.
@@lonestarr1490 it's not just that, sloths poop in the same place (I think).
So it's on brand for sloths to be surrounded by poo too.
@@lonestarr1490 they are a little stupid
Sloth 1: Chief! Our kinsmen are dying out rapidly and we don't know why
Sloth 2: Well, sh*t!
*sloths continue shitting and mysteriously dying* :P
Sir, yes sir!!!
Sloth 2: do you mind not talking to me while I’m going number 2.
Got hit by that notification and was like
"Wow, that...that sure is a title."
How did no one think to call this “death by scat-tastrophe”?!
there were not enough autistic weebs around
@@mogyesz9 guys look we’ve got an edgy cool guy over here
You win the Internet for today.
@@ianharac5153 oof
@Ringonus I'm sure he'll no longer use that word since you told him not to on the internet.
Never expected to hear "Death by Poop Hypothesis" spoken on a science channel, but this is still really fascinating
The Familial Fecal Fatality Phenomenon
Just checked out some of your vids, good stuff!
Poop is part of science, and lots of people have died from poop. Look up cholera.
8:08 - the glint of sheer joy in Callie’s eyes when she talks about sloth poop is truly a delight to behold! 👁
her enthusiasm is unfailing and adorable
I think it was more an attempt to control her immature thoughts...
You give off foot worship vibes.
@@samwilts6016 wtf?
@@dwaynowilli6822poop jokes are dumb lmao but I can see it being hard not to make a pun xD but I think she could also just be happy to learn?… 😅
Imagine where we would be if these mass death sites didn't exist. They capture so much of the life of these eras.
We would probably be in front of our computers looking at a different video
Rather literally.
Every fossil is nothing more than a snapshot, and a collection of luck that the snapshot would be preserved. Whatever we've figured out is only a fraction of what actually existed, maybe probably. Who knows what lived and wasn't fossilized
But then with the dinosaurs humans can’t evolve because of thanks to a drought in Africa which is million years after the dinosaurs extinction
I had a really dark thought.
Manny : "Poor Sid..."
Diego : "Yeah, these guys don't even know what a latrine is..."
Little known fact: Their final words?…”Oh Crap.” lol
Lol
🤣
*craps
So true!
That would be weird as hell that they spoke English, wow, nature shure is wheird
I'm gonna be honest, I was getting real worried once I saw Eons hadn't released a new video in a month. I'm thrilled you guys are back at it!
I suppose gaps in TH-cam posts worry us all, but I just assumed they were probably taking vacation or something. So, I hope that at least a couple weeks of their month away was spent relaxing!
Its cause they are doing there jbs
Me seeing the title: Huh. That sounds weird
Me and hour later: *I need to know if those giant sloths pooped themselves to death*
Same
What
I am a geologist from Ecuador, I knew about the find, it is good to see new research being done in the area. Keep up with your videos, I enjoy them a lot!.
Finally some relatable content
ty, i was worried i was the only one.
hihihihi!
I laughed way to hard at this
Please tell me you use a toilet...
The happiest I've ever seen a person be while saying "that's gross and weird."
Finally!!! They’re back!!!
And about time too!
I'm excited ლ(・﹏・ლ)
Yeah!
@@minecraftstation6422 I@q
@@isaiahgarza87 The newest member of the Eons crew..(?)
I love the way the three hosts pass the ball between each other. Energy! Vitality! No time to sleep!
My lord. Never seen such a brutal, yet hilarious title on a science channel 😳😂
I was 4 minutes in before I realized I should probably watch this after I finish my dinner...
I just blindly clicked on a new eons video not even looking at the title. XD
With what we get from Washington DC we are all going to die from *oop.
I just wanted to let you guys know, I've been having a lot of anxiety attacks and I'm working on getting in to a doctor for it, but anytime I'm having a full blown attack and I'm alone I turn to your videos. You guys have really soothing voices and help distract me and ground me. Plus all the information is incredible. But I really wanted to thank you for all you guys do. I've probably watched every single one of your videos at least twice if not more
I know it's been 3 years but I really hope you're doing better!!
The kind of notification you only find acceptable when it's from PBS Eons.
PBS eons: did these sloths poop themselves to death?
Ark players: nahh I forgot to feed them and they just pooped while they were dying
Never realized how much I love learning about the era before humans. I'm starting to look on the internet for trilobite fossils because of you guys
If there's a gem and mineral show near you they'll probably have some trilobites or ammonites. Plus the folks there are almost always willing to talk to a fellow fossil enthusiast.
Eons team gotta tell you, when you do a show together with many hosts
Gets me excited, and it feels serious beautiful
Welcome to the team, Michelle! You're great! Would you have ever guessed your first appearance on the channel would involve you saying poop so much? 😂
Dude for real 💯🤣 and welcome though
Cheers! It’s a great intro for this channel 😂😂😂. She has a really nice speaking style!
Him: "...sloths go solo or "HANG SOLO."
~badoop pa~
Me: grooooooan~so bad it's funny 🤣🤣
Fascinating. Disgusting, but fascinating
On a related note, are there other known fossilized latrine sites like this? Not only for the sake of latrine deposits.. I'm wondering if there's been anything like the guano in bat caves or the poop from nesting penguins in the fossil record.
Fossilized guano! What a cool idea!!
oohh pterasaur guano (if they produced it...)!!?!?
Red guano is the fossilized, "aged", version of guano, and coprolite mining is actually a thing. If we are looking at sites with more scientific attention, again sloth is quite the culprit. There are caves literally filled with Nothrotheriops dung in the southwest US, giving us a pretty good idea of their diet
I don't think they're quite fossilized, but Rock Hyrax latrines have been used for studying the history of climate change in Africa over the last 50,000-ish years.
SciShow did a video on it last year. th-cam.com/video/v360hZbwnPs/w-d-xo.html
Hyraceum is the petrified and rock-like excrement composed of both urine and feces excreted by the Cape hyrax
@@TragoudistrosMPH that's a good point: were caves an unexploited niche before birds since pterosaurs couldn't hang?
Every channel should return from hiatus with a poop video.
Woohoo!!! Yeah I missed you guys!!
💖Welcome @Michelle Barboza-Ramirez!💖
Another awesome video, thanks guys!
I'd love to see a video on why ceratopsian dinosaurs have such a diverse range of head ornamentations. Also another more quirky suggestion would have to be how the zebra got it's stripes :)
Welcome to Eons Michelle!
Yesss
I was expecting something to be discussed about their diet and how they probably had explosive diarrhea or something horrible like that. It ended up being a much crappier way to die. I'm glad we're not giant animals.
I really enjoyed all three hosts in one video!
A big hello to Michelle! Always nice to see some new faces in your videos.
And also please always keep Blake. I love his adorable dad jokes.
I've been waiting for your next video for so long! Can't wait to watch this
I love how this channel basically formed my personality. What would I have BEEN without this wonder of a channel.
Welcome aboard Michelle!
Just a quick question: So, when exactly did Hank stop hosting on this channel? I feel it's been a while now...
He probably just has too much going on! He’s involved in sooooo many science channels AND I think he’s tiktok’s uncle now? You can’t click on a biology video without finding his name in the credits. Poor guy probably doesn’t have time to poop. I hope he still pops up occasionally!
He's been hosting on the PBS Bizarre Beasts channel.
It was a couple years ago, I'd say something around 2019. So yeah it's refreshing to have a new host in the crew and the idea to do a 3 host episode to introduce the newcomer is pretty clever.
All in all : Welcome Michelle :)
Pretty sure Hank is spread thin between projects and just managing everything. He's the executive producer on this video for example.
@@paranoidrodent He is indeed the producer of many shows. I guess his clever strategy is to host a starting show to boost it up using his own notoriety then slowly disappearing in the shadow to start another.
Congrats to the artist @8:19 who had to portray sloths pooping themselves to death
Glad to see the PBS Eons team growing! Looking forward to even more bizarre discoveries!
06:55 You had "The Fatal Feces Hypothesis" right there.
Sloths are terrifying animals.
I will never forget the Sloth victim in Se7en
... ... trapped in a room, unable to go anywhere for months... 😬
I love this channel. Such a perfectly paced, well written episode again, and this wasn't even the best one by far. Im not even that into biology but man Eons is maybe the best yt channel I've ever seen.
Its a got damn delight to watch every time.
That is one nasty way to go out.😕
Sid went out in the most embarassing way
"Did these giant sloths poop themselves to death?"
To quote a certain youtube channel "Intriguing, but highly disturbing".
lol, whats that quote from
@@michaelwerkov3438 Gamerpoop
Thank you, Kallie, for having all of you in the one video, so that I can stop thinking that Michelle is actually just you after you reinvented yourself!
Michelle has a wonderful voice! Can't wait for more content!
Cool pants, too!
Really enjoyed having the contributions of 3 great hosts! Thank you!
“We’re bringing in all Eons hosts to solve this mystery.”
Holy crap.
Wait.
they forgot John Green
Michelle is great! Excellent cadence and captivating presenter. Glad to see the team expanding!
"Dead by poop hypothesis" is now my favorite hypothesis.
Greetings from Ecuador! Glad to see there is real research on Science and Paleontology around :) Local media never publishes (they don't even know, I bet...)
What is it with sloths and dangerous pooping 😂
Welcome back to my favourite educational channel! And welcome Michelle!
I've been watching you on TikTok for a while and absolutely forgot Michelle is considered new lol
What happened to Hank? When did he leave the program?
@@EyeOfEld probably went on to do other projects, as he usually does.
@@yuvalne Thanks.
@@EyeOfEld Hank's doing SciShow and SciShow Space and Bizarre Beasts and who knows what else. And he's a New York Times bestselling author. And of course there are the Vlogbrothers and the Project for Awesome and Complexly LLC, the video production company he co-founded. So I'd guess his schedule is kinda crammed to the brim.
we're finally back!!! \o/ Welcome Michelle! And, as always, Steve!!!!!!!!!!
So that’s what happened to Sid.
It is always so neat to see, to SEE, a specific event that happened to temporally specific individuals rather than a longer trend as happened to generations of lifeforms.
I MISSED YOU!! I've been waiting patiently (thats a lie, I wasn't patient at all lol) for a new episode and this is certainly a great return video! Welcome Michelle to the team and I can't wait to see you in future videos
I am amazed by the narration skills of all the three narrators. Hats off guys, you magically convert words on such complex topics so effortlessly into easy to understand language.
This is frickin MIND BLOWING, way to make one of my favorite animal groups even more ridiculous!!
Love the new format of having numerous hosts
CSI: Paleontology
GIL: How do you think they died?
Horatio: Slowly...very slowly 🦥
This opens up the possibilities of a group of prehistoric cats that died from their own poop, until they evolved to bury their poop
More please 😁( I just love this channel so much)
Yay!! Eons is back! I missed you guys!
1) Michelle is great, caught the accurate Ecuador pronunciation, her voice is great for narration. 2) still love Blake being the dork
Welcome Michelle! Love your speaking style and your outfit has very awesome Evie from the Mummy vibes ☺️. Both stylish and on point for this channel lol
oh my god the title just made me burst out LAUGHING AHAAHA
Very articulate presenters. Presumably animals normally realise when a watering hole is no longer functioning as a survival refuge and set off to try and reach a better one, but perhaps slow moving sloths knew they would not have stood a chance and died of thirst on the way, so their only chance was to stay put and wait for rain.
new host yay! they're great!
I love that PBS digital studio titles often sound like click bait but they always live up to it, because the universe is really that weird
It's always interesting how living animals can help provide information about how extinct animals would have lived, even if they aren't related, just by occupying a similar niche.
Welcome, Michelle!
Your style is immaculate, and your voice is nice to listen to! I look forward to seeing you present in future videos!
Whatever the proponents of Hypothesis 2 think caused that is now my sleep paralysis demon
The best part about this click-bait title is that it's 100% accurate!
So I was sort-of correct in my initial guess: that they ate or drank something that gave them acute dysentery, or a similar disease. I did NOT expect the contaminant to be their own poop, though - figured the piles of poop were the symptom, not the cause. Also interesting to hear modern-day critters can make the same mistake. (Welcome, Michelle! Heck of an introduction, and heck of a start for the new season: CoproDoom.)
Welcome Michelle! Your eyeliner and your narration are both on point.
Always nervous when new hosts are introduced, but Michelle seems great already! 👍
I wonder what the prompts that PBS gave their illustrators for this video were like: Giant sloths at watering hole, dead giant sloths at watering hole surrounded by poop. Lol
So those rhinos should have been scared if Sid
I really love this mystery solving format. gj
this channel never stops getting better
Me at 3am: I should sleep
TH-cam: Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
Me: ok well I have to know
This is not the video I was expecting...
new host did a friggin great job. keep going.
Michelle has everything needed to present Eons: good delivery, clear understanding and perfectly timed puns.
Absolutely stoked you guys are back
It's called deathication
1. Come to existence
2. Poop aggressively
3. Dies
What a legend
Greatest. Clickbait. Ever.
What a welcome back 😎🏆
What. This isn't even clickbait lol
First things first: I like your new way of integrating more than one host in the same subject without cutting the flow, it was really really nice : 3
New girl debut starts strong with a death by poop hypothesis.
Michelle is actually non-binary and goes by they/them pronouns, not a girl
@TRICYCLØPLØTS pronouns are gender, not sexuality
The new host seems natural and relaxed which is good of course. I need my regular fix of Kallie and Blake too though. Great that Eons is back!
So if Giant Ground Sloth's had just gotten out of the pool to poop, would they still exist today?
Well, you see what people did to every species of megafauna except moose and bison in North America.
The fauna and the climate, has changed since they disappeared. They probably wouldn't be able to find enough food to survive today.
I love how all of you contributed to this group project
What happened to Hank? He was a host too right?
I was just wondering the same thing.
Hank is still around! He stepped away from hosting Eons a couple years ago to focus on other projects (including the incredible shows Bizarre Beasts and Journey to the Microcosmos) but he's still executive producer/our boss!
@@eons I think 1 thing that you may have not considered is poisoning of the water by say toxic cyanobacteria. The poop could easily cause an algae bloom and contaminate the water and then kill everything off, then after the bloom died back the water would be good enough to drink again. So that would possibly explain why there's mainly sloths there.
Welcome aboard Michelle. Looking forward to seeing what quirky energy you bring to the channel (cause Kallie and Blake are a quirky duo to hang with, in all the best ways).