How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
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They have survived every catastrophe and every mass extinction event that nature has thrown at them. And by being the little, filter-feeding, water-cleaning creatures that they are, sponges may have saved the world.
Thanks to Franz Anthony and Julio Lacerda for their wonderful illustrations of sponges and snowball earth and other things. You can find more of their work here: 252mya.com/
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Earth: *mass extinction*
SeaSponges: "I'M READY I'M READY I'M READY I'M READY"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“I’M READY! EXTINCTION! I’M READY! EXTINCTION!”
Spongebob
😂😂😂
Good meme!
Thanos: snaps finger
Sponges: *y'all felt that breeze*
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I love this.
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*MASS EXTINCTION ARRIVES*
Tardigrade: *sips tea*
Sponges: LETS DO THIS
Jellyfish: Here we go again
Everyon's finally here for the Doomsday Party! Who's turn is it to host this time?
Humans:(Lauches spaceships into space to find a new home)GOODBYE!!!!!!BASTARDS!!!!!!
Algae: I'm all over that.
Ayy, we’re hosting the mass extinction party, then we’ll probably die haha
@@vbgvbg1133 "We'll probably die"
Social Darwinsm and Darwinsm : Nah mate, humans are too op, that they can change the meta at their convenience, these cheaters
Are you ready kids?
Who lives in acidic and cold freezing seas?
Sponges
Immortal beings that do what they please
Sponges
Survivors of all mass extinction events
Sponges
The soon to be dominant species next
Sponges
Sponges, sponges, sponges sponges!!!!!!
(Plays flute)
This is a slept on comment. Well done, mate. Well done
Actually good not cringe
Would've been better if you said sponges x2 lol
One of the best comments ever on TH-cam. Bravo hahaha
Roflmao!!!!
No wonder spongebob is always so happy and a goofball. He`s basically immortal.
Plus he hangs out with a starfish, which can regrow it's entire body from a single limb.
unless he gets canceled by Nickelodeon.
@@marcpeterson1092 But wasn't he?
ImmortalInvincible
@@marcpeterson1092 hillenburg is oof, spongebob oof with him
RIP
Spongebob is immortal confirmed
This is actually a plot point in the movie and some episodes... As in, Spongebob survives drying out now and again.
Kinda ironic that Sponges are immortal and Spongebob as a show has been airing new episodes sense 1999 making the show seem immortal like something that will outlive all of us just like The Simpsons, Pokémon & Family Guy.
None can kill Spongebob. He is eternal. He is forever.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache I suddenly find myself wondering if Spongebob is a kitchen sponge that was adopted by his parents
I would have liked but you have 69 likes
Wait until they evolve into crabs. That's gonna be fun
Yea 🤣
I think it’s more likely for crabs to become sponges
@@krisherbst6162 barnacles did, well, sort of
Spongbob won't even let a mass extinction stop him from working at the Krusty Krab.
SpongeBob was a serial killer
His grind mindset was un-shakeable
Hundreds of millions of years before any of the other cast were born
Tardigrade: I can survive extreme hot and cold temperatures, not to mention the vacuum of space.
Sponges: Sup
Love it
yea but they're squishy when not in survival state
"can survive up to 20k years"
Why isn't this common knowledge??? I feel like I should already know this amazing fact. That's an astonishing long time. And I thought a 1000 year old tree was epic...
@@grubbybum3614 I can't even keep a potted fern alive for more than a month or two.. sponges are such show-offs. pfft..
If space were a vacuum..
Wait - the Sponge *ate* Plankton? Well, this just got dark. 💀
I guess spongebob got tired of Plankton stealing his crabby patties
And Squid wouldn't even exist without Sponge.
*FOUR HEAPING POUNDS OF FRESHLY GROUND*-- Plankton?
They mostly eat phytoplankton and cyanobacteria (algae and photsynthetisizing bacteria) instead of zooplankton (animals), Sheldon Plankton is a copepod
Spongebob isn't the organism sponge, he is the artificial one. So its ok.
Eons: Sponges are unkillable!
Me: *looks nervously at the jurassic sponge fossils in the room*
By that case sponges are basically pillar men
@@resortisland8977 AYYAYAYAYA
@@janelletaboada6673 Wammoponge
th-cam.com/video/YPm8n9ugMGg/w-d-xo.html
It basically turn into Spongar
Even in "snowball Earth", there was tectonic activity, volcanoes, and ocean currents.
There must have been areas where these effects combined to create open water. Also, many areas where the ice was broken up and/or thin. We know from current sea ice, that sea ice actually a wonderful place for bacteria and plankton to thrive.
So, as Jeff Goldblum said, "Life will find a way.".
Jeff should know
We can see ice-covered moons in our solar system that are without any exposure of the underlying water and amonia oceans.
Spongebob is 500 million years old and STILL doesn’t have his drivers license smh my head 🤦♂️
Shake my head my head?
He's trolling dude
Priya Malhotra I mean he said ‘smh my head’ which means ‘shake my head my head’.
@@Hatsukoi839 yes that's the joke
Car is a new invention, not like car already there 500 million years ago. He need more time to adapt with the new things along the timeline of his immortality. He probably didn't get dinosaur riding license before they all extinct.
3:58 Suddenly that dramatic scene in the movie where Spongbob and Patrick survived being dried out in the souvenir shop makes a whole lot more sense...
2:07 _“but sponges aren't all soft squishy yellow squares with pants...actually, none of them are!”_
why did that hurt so bad to hear.
Right in the childhood
Crazy how sponges have been around since the beginning of life. I'd say if that's true, they have evolved the perfect plan to survive all conditions on Earth and are perfectly adapted to just live.
Since the beginning of complex life, but that's only the last 20% of the timespan over which cellular life has existed on Earth
Actually, sponges are not known for their planning capacities.
Pbs: maybe theres a plan to send sponges through a small black hole
NASA: *sweats nervously*
Bruh that is going to be higher than 20x earth gravity like at least 21x
Kyan Connor sponge bob don’t give af he’s READY
That are the conditions on Jupiters moon Europa.
Send sponges, reap the fruits 500 Million years later.
millions of years later: all signals originating from black holes are now spongebob clips
@@GerardMenvussa lmao the government doesn’t tell you the truth about where the money goes. They “lost” billions of dollars. No record where it is
When you come down here to comment about spongebob but realize...
*the whole population beat you to it*
...you mean, down here under the sea? :)
As Absorbent and yellow and porous is he.. ;)
spongebob squarepants!
Makes sense that sponges are so unkillable considering that they’re basically made out of multiple tiny shards of glass
So, does this mean that the Crystaline Entity from Star Trek TNG is essentially a giant free roaming space sponge?
@@slipstreamxr3763 ye.
@@slipstreamxr3763 That's it!
Hilariously Sponges are notorious difficult to keep in a home aquarium since you'll have to keep feeding the darn things filter food
Thank you, Mr.Squarepants
You're welcome? 😕
You're just a low class human vampire Dio ! Never forget that ! WHAMUUU !
@@ledernierutopiste everybody gangster till I achieve heaven
Lol
Very cool.
Tardigrades: We are immortal
Sponges: Hold my beer!
Spongebob: hold my spatula
But tardigrades can survive at and below boiling temps, near absolute zero, stay frozen for years, go without water for years, and withstand 1000 times the radiation it would take to kill a human. The sponges only really beat it in the dry time and probably the frozen time.
IsoInsignia tho tardigrades have no armor whatsoever and are killed by snails and basically everything around them (including themselves) them being able to withstand that much doesnt really help them out while with sponges it really makes them invincible because they can consume and live around those harsh conditions while tardigrades wouldnt find anything to eat and just stay put forever
Sponges were around before tardigrades existed.
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But there weren’t any snails back then, were there?
Earth: *freezes over*
Sponges: "Bring it on punk."
9:38 "...big beautiful animals..."
Shows some kind of Lovecraftian bladder-thing with fronds.
lol
Spongebob should feel proud about himself, it's like he lives in a family tree of superheroes!
Veggieboy Ultimate
lmao
At first I read the title as :" How Earth's First, unlikable Animals Saved the World" :)
Squidward doesn't like them.
Did you not watch Venom the movie?
Yeah I'm dyslexic so that's how most titles end up, its makes watching the videos more entertaining tho, like I know that's probably not what it says but I'm still interested
I only realized I read it wrong when I saw your comment
Same!
Besides having remarkably low oxygen needs, sponges also form symbiotic relationsips with cyanobacteria, providing them with the CO2 food they need, such that this combo actually is a net O2 generator.
I love how we learn about this immortal creature that's lived for billions of years and we're just here meming it.
@Shorty - Those things have seen me NAKED!
We really need to thank pineapples for first giving sponges a place to live on the bottom of the sea floor.
dan parish no we shouldn’t , sponges would have just lived under rocks like sea stars ⭐️
Ahmed M. El-sayed wtf you on about, all sponges live in pineapples?
Duh
This one 😂
lmao u guys HAHAHA
Can you guys make a video about how each of the different kingsoms evolved? It'd be incredibly interesting to see how each branch of life formed into being the unique kingdoms they are today.
Felafnir Elek and they should make it into a special series of videos
Ok... that was terrific.
Awesome to see you here
@@SevenPr1me
This is a con channel
@@tobiaszczarnota7879got any proof
Woah! Never thought I would see you here! :0
Well atleast we now know that the sponges will survive the coming cataclysm :-)
@@tobiaszczarnota7879 so got any proof?
*inhales* WHO SAVE THE EARTH FROM KILLING ALL LIFE?! SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS! WHOS BIG AND YELLOW AND SURVIVED MASS EXTINCTION?! SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!
Is it sad I actually read this while singing the theme lmao?
Why I hear the pirate voice when I read this?
Oooooooooooooo
@@pierrebegley2746
Did it too. ^^"
That doesn't rhyme
I am Sponge. You are Sponge. We are Sponge. Love thy Sponginess and squeezeth thou holiness eternal.
What? 😄
We are not sponges, sponges are not true animals like us.
*_Humans: We'll save the world!_*
*_Sea Sponges: Pathetic._*
Spongebob has always been my hero, so it's nice to see others recognize that.
But for real, fascinating
0:52 SUSS??!!!!!!
AMONG US?!?!?!!?
I like how they don't mention SpongeBob™ directly, to avoid copyright infringement 😆😆😆
Viacom is just that aggressive of a company. I still remember them going after many TH-cam Poops.
Big brother is watching. TH-cam. No no. They herd me. Demonetized $$$"
Jk I don't make money off TH-cam
@@troyjardine5850 I watched some video on how they were trying to sue the creators of TH-cam for copyright infringement during the early days of youtube which end up in them losing millions of dollars but now they directly hire companies to make channels to upload their content hiding it as stolen content but siphoning the profits while they strike similar channels that do the same.
Mishine gluposti
™, don't forget ™
CAN YOU FEEL IT NOW MR. KRABS??
Love how shes explaining that sponges aren’t at all relatable to SpongeBob, then shows a sponge with a body that is suspiciously familiar to a cartoon spatula… one you might expect SpongeBob to use. 2:17
This is officially one of my favorite Eons videos. I really enjoy the deep time stuff.
Are you telling me that sponge I've been rubbing all over my body might still be alive!?
Nice
That was my first thought too. 😂
OwO your body.
Rub on me UwU
not anymore it aint
People used to use living sponges as cleaning sponges, now a days most sponges used are artificial.
@@TheRedKnight101 hooray for a big ball of plastic built to replicate sea life.
Can't wait until one finds it's way into the water.
There were actually three Snowball Earths with the first being the Huronian Glaciation 2.4 billion years ago.
Yea. But the first one, sponges didn't exist yet. So they only survived snowball earths twice, no?
So this is why Spongebob never died from everything he’s been through.
Seasponges: *vibing*
All of earth: Thank you, brother.
Neato. Now we would like a video on the story of the hyena family. The tree climbing hyenas, the dog-like running hyenas, and the bone-crushing hyenas and that one hyena that made it to North America. Chasmaporthetes.
The dog-like running hyenas are called the African wild dogs if I correctly assumed the animal you're talking about :)
@@rubengivoni6823 Those are Canidae(Dogs) The hyenas I mention were actually hyena that was more dog-like or cursorial in the past. It is kinda strange, their niches past and present criss-cross. The dogs in the past were arboreal and bone-crushing but now are all running dogs. Whereas hyenas, for the most part, today, are all bone-crushing with some exceptions, I think there one was dog-like insectivore(Aardwolf), but in prehistory, the hyenas were arboreal too and dog-like too. (They were long distant runners).
what was the name of the tree climbing Hyena?
@@ddpzzp553 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena#Evolution. I can't name one off the top of my head but here are various hyenas mentioned as well as their evolutionary history. Their probably a better source than wiki. I am looking at Donald Prothero's book The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals.
@@jacaliber
The spotted hyena is the bone crusher. Pretty strong jaw.
cockroach: I'm the most durable animal!
Sponge: hold my soap...
Why does the background music make me so reminiscent of the underwater world in Mario 64. the underwater barren aesthetic of this video also suits it too funnily enough.
Tardigrades: I can persist in a lot of environments!
Sponges: hold my plankton
This things evolved 210 million years before the Cambrian started
insane
B-b-but all life began during the Cambrian slow-burn.
/s
Now I want a mma showdown between sponges and tardigrades!
Sanguine Sophrosyne tardigrades live centuries sponges can live up to10000 years
Add rotifers to that list
They both sit there doing nothing for 500 years
Sponges are absolutely kill-able. Freshwater sponges form gemmules, but very few marine sponges do! Also, trawling activity can certainly kill a sponge - high sediment concentrations can also cause their filters to become blocked. Sponges can sneeze and cough out some sediment, but human activity can cause irreparable damage to sponges.
an entire video about how badass sea sponges are. i was not disappointed
Thank you for this very interesting episode
I would love to see a episode about the recovery of vegetation after the Permian extinction, because it is a fascinating story as well.
seconding this
I'm reeeeady! I'm reeeeeady! I'm reeeeeady! To resist nature to kill meeeee!
Hey Squidward!
Squidward: *_EXTINCTIONAL SCREAMING_*
I feel a little warmer inside by knowing when we will all die from our stuipidity, somewhere deep in the ocean, a live being will thrive
Nice to know that there’s probably a sponge older than human civilization
How about one on thermal vent life origin theory?
They may even be older than 640 million years
Sure. But if they ate plankton, plankton must still be older.
yeah she said 780 mya at 3:24
That’d be Zooplankton. Phytoplankton is photosynthetic.
@@dublinerscraic7946 there's also some sponge related chemicals from over a billion years ago, last I checked, but no fossils of course.
so what you’re telling me is that everything will evolve into a crab EXCEPT for sponges cuz they’re just that hardcore? damn
The next time I see a sponge I will respect it even more then I ever did
Sponge:*is unkillable
Humans:Are you challenging me?
They will outlive us for sure.
@@arjayjames7384 Not necessarily.
@@arjayjames7384 probably not, we are killing a lot of them by some side effects of global warming like reducing ocean’s oxygen levels and rising its temperatures
With the summer we are having in Europe this earths period sounds like a great place for a vacation.
They may not be planning to send them into black holes, but sponges are considered among the various life forms that could be sent to other planets to terraform them to create conditions we or other forms of life could survive in. They could survive on planets that would kill most other creatures.
All the things that had to happen over millions of years... for "life" as we know it. It is just mind blowing.
Thanks sponges!
Sponges: I have survived all of major extinctions in history.
Mankind: I'm About to End This Man's Whole Career
not even
Hopefully they at least outlive the tired Whole Career TH-cam post meme
It's possible I suppose, but it would probably not be as easy as you'd think it'd be. Jut getting rid of the ones on the seafloor, river bottom, lake bed, etc. and the ones in aquariums would probably not be enough because those are just the adults. Their asexually reproduced offspring, the gemmule, are apparently even tougher. No oxygen, 5 times the radiation that'd kill a human, drying out for months at a time. We'd be more likely to kill ourselves off trying to kill them. You'd have to pull some Thanos stunt.
We could send those mofos to Mars to give 'em a proper challenge.
The world was literally on the brink of destruction and they still survived so I doubt it.
I’ve waited for this episode for so long.
I love how the titles of their videos sound like clickbait, but then they actually talk about what the title says
I need more. Every video I end up rewatching older stuff. Our world is so captivating.
This lady makes it 100% better 😨
Why that emoji tho?
I like her voice.
Because her enthusiastic presentation grabs your attention and makes you care about her story and not just her facts. Great presenter; phenomenal channel.
@@sasshole8121 I like her figure. She rocks the jeans and T shirt.
cute
Please do the evolution of fungi.
@Levi Atha I could only find one video related to fungi:
th-cam.com/video/-G64DagHuOg/w-d-xo.html
It focuses on a specific fungus, and says little about the evolution of fungi, so I think there's justification for another video
2:05 "Actually none of them are in real life.." Well thanks for shattering my hopes and dreams.
Not only did "The Sponge" save Bikini Bottom, He saved the entire realm.
Why is Eons my favorite TH-cam channel? Thanks a million guys, keep up the great work!
People say the Orks from Warhammer 40k are fungi but I disagree. I think they are more like sponges considering how resilient their species are and how quickly they reproduce.
Sounds like Heretical Xenos propaganda to me! Please report to your nearest Administratum office for detainment and reprogramming
@@tiepilot1217 you have sullied yourself with heretical information Serf! How do you plea!?.....
TOO LATE! *BLAM*
What are yall on about I wanna be in the know
Sponge,
I owe you my life.
"In Optimus Prime voice"
eontologist: a neologism for someone who writes for PBS Eons (eons + ontologia, "study of being").
Well done - you made me look that up.
I will give a fat kiss to the next sponge that i see for allowing us to be here.
Jellyfish: woah is this what extinction feels like?
Sponges and Tardigrade: First time?
Girl, those highlighted cheekbones are everything.
I think there is more on Spongebob that we do not know. That is why Mr. Crabs hire him to guard Krabby Patty from Plankton. Oh man, it is all making sense
Can you make a video on how placental mammals marsupials and monotremes broke apart from each other
I always tell my kids, “don’t get me started on sponges!” I am admonished from saying thank your sponges that you’re alive.😊
Three pillar men consist of: Sponges, Tardigrade, and Jellyfish
One of the most informative channels ever :)
That shirt rocks, yo.
As does anything about snowball Earth, of course.
Snow ball earth: the period when the earth is down and depressed.
SpongeBob and his kind: enjoying their icy world
This channel makes me love zoology and geology.
Plz, do a vid about an evolution and advantages of placentas... I am not going to call from his name (cough cough) but someone said to have set a reminder about that idea 😝
yes! i got hopeful when they tackled the heart and blood episodes earlier in the year, thinking this might be next.... and we're still waiting. :(
I immediately thought, "Living sponge space suit!" And then.
They may survive lots of radiation but I doubt they'd be good radiation shielding.
@@tlrad2007 layering
@Los Fromla that's for me to know and you to find out
@Los Fromla my point is they survive compression, radiation is a separate issue and yes, layering. Do you think a spacesuit is made out of just one material? The internal structures of sponges exhibit something called a Clausen profile, a way of shaping a column for maximum resistance to buckling, a type of mechanical failure. Also this is youtube, we're sharing and discussing ideas not defending and attacking dissertations.
Seasponge: The day that Mass Extinction Event arrived was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
Human : we have Big Brain, we can survive 🤓.
Sponge :I don't need big brain to survive kiddo! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Human: 😒 show off.
20,000yrs and freshwater species? It's amazing what you can learn!
Brilliant video. Thanks heaps!
Very few channels make me go "huh, just look at that!", And this is one of them, it happens with almost all videos published
Sponges: we are super immune, ultimate units that saved the world.
Humans: let me cut you and use you to clean my butt.
So if sponges survived on snowball earth, then are sponges the ancestors of Canadians?
would explain a lot
If so sponge bob is my distant cousin
Look up neoteny in sponges, you'll crap yourself... XD
reshiram0verl0rd I just got a bunch of scientific articles, couldn’t find any images of neotenous sponges
@@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 check out treytheexpainer, he explains the hypothesis of how a "larval" stage of a sponge has a nodochord and how neotenic evolution could have been how "protofish" (not sure if this is a real term, but sounds fitting) evolved. Hopefully this helps.
That was absolutely fascinating. I've been chasing up snowball earth, particularly the first great ice age, ever since I saw a Tony Robinson doco about it.
All we really know is that unicellular species went into the first great ice age and that multicellular creatures came out.
That's gotta get your curiosity cells buzzing.🌐❄️
It does make sense that ice at the equator might not only be thin but constantly cracking and breaking open only to freeze closed again due to tidal bulging. The moon was a lot closer back then so the tides would be comparatively much stronger than they are today
6:48 Spongebob's ancestor. You're welcome.
I never knew SpongeBob would be tough despite him being a weenie