How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

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    In the middle of the Cambrian, life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the world colder, drain much of the oxygen out of the oceans and eventually, it would help cause a massive extinction event.
    Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi for the excellent illustration of early terrestrial plants. You can find more of Fabrizio’s work here: / artoffabricious
    And special thanks to Paul Strother for sending us an incredibly cool photo of an Ordovician plant spore for this video. Check out Paul’s website here:sites.google.com/bc.edu/paulk...
    Credit for Paleogeographic Map: Scotese, C.R., 2019. Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Ice Ages, TH-cam video: • Scotese Plate Tectonic... .
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  • @Shimada.
    @Shimada. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2627

    "So why are you vegan?"
    " *Revenge* "

  • @Pika250
    @Pika250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3577

    No wonder Grass is super effective on Rock in Pokémon.

    • @violetdusk1968
      @violetdusk1968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      Pokemon is actually educational to a degree. Idk if you know this but it's initial intentions were to teach kids to read.

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      And Rock Beats scissors! ✂️ It all makes sense now.

  • @vandagostyle5994
    @vandagostyle5994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1785

    Title: How plants caused the first mass extinction
    Me looking at my plants outside:
    *They are just standing there...*
    *MENACINGLY*

    • @paryudisaditya8845
      @paryudisaditya8845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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      @lloydlutz3288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      😆😂👌

    • @schoo9256
      @schoo9256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The day of the triffids is upon us

    • @kornkernel2232
      @kornkernel2232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@paryudisaditya8845 Plants probably are the real perfect being.

    • @zackguerr9659
      @zackguerr9659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I just went out front and tore out every plant in my front yard. No mercy

  • @Itherei
    @Itherei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +311

    meteor: lol I killed the dinosaurs
    moss on a rock: hold my spores

    • @epauletshark3793
      @epauletshark3793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      What if we gave the big space rock some moss? Would it kill everything?

    • @izzylevi.
      @izzylevi. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@epauletshark3793 ultimate power...

    • @Alice_Walker
      @Alice_Walker 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂 Great comment! 💜

    • @HogBurger
      @HogBurger ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Permian Volcanoes in siberia: Hold my lava.

    • @reuireuiop0
      @reuireuiop0 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Humans working in oil industry
      _hold my fracking fluid_

  • @mrtokigan
    @mrtokigan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2261

    Me cramming spinach into my mouth: *For* *my* *fallen* *brethren.*

    • @anthonyamatruda5937
      @anthonyamatruda5937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Revenge is sweet

    • @mrtokigan
      @mrtokigan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @Oshe Shango Pfft.
      Breathing oxygen is overrated.

    • @romella_karmey
      @romella_karmey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Kyle Griffin lol poisons are not meant to be that weak

    • @butterskywalker8785
      @butterskywalker8785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@romella_karmey you do understand that everything is a poison if you consume enough of it,which means even if the poison wasn't designed to be poisonous it will also take the needed dosage to kill somebody

    • @daloabrown4011
      @daloabrown4011 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao

  • @goober3676
    @goober3676 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1990

    Who would win:
    An entire ocean filled with animals that have evolved over millions of years
    One mossy boi

    • @AlgaeEater09
      @AlgaeEater09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Algae baby.

    • @butterskywalker8785
      @butterskywalker8785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      @@AlgaeEater09 is it algae time?it's algae time

    • @jmtejada8290
      @jmtejada8290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      More like one billion mossy boys

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      @kinkybon-bon5346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@butterskywalker8785 I get that reference

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  • @derkach7907
    @derkach7907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    Humans:"plants are harmless, they can't kill us."
    Tiny plants:" is this a challenge?"

    • @NicolasMendoula
      @NicolasMendoula 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      To be fair there's a lot of plants that can kill us. Plants actually try to kill us every time.

    • @lauralishes1
      @lauralishes1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Did you even watch the video? If it wasn't for plants humans wouldn't even exist.

    • @99999bomb
      @99999bomb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Carnivorous plants

    • @refkiriswansyah2830
      @refkiriswansyah2830 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lauralishes1 foxgloves/Digitalis lanata. Eat a bunch of that, have fun with aritmia or heart attack.
      Taxol/Taxus baccata, have sitotoxic compound, you dont even need to eat that, just touching it is enough to kill your cell one by one very slowly. Use it to make house, have fun with appoptosis or necrosis.
      I study pharmacy, at some point pharmacognosy, i know a bunch of 'life saving'/miracle drugs we can get plants, but in the end i know, all that drugs is just "coincidentally" can save us if used in correct dose. The producer of all that compunds (plants) never really intend to make that to save/help us, it just their 2ndary effect from what they intended to: to protect themselves by killing us.

    • @Rockstar-vs1nb
      @Rockstar-vs1nb 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The smell of cut grass is grass’s attempt at chemical defence.

  • @laughablelarry9243
    @laughablelarry9243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6385

    It puts things into perspective to know that sharks have existed longer than trees and grass.

    • @joecerone
      @joecerone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +216

      Woah

    • @danielmeanor2995
      @danielmeanor2995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +866

      Proves vegans are obsolete

    • @KINGBADASS100
      @KINGBADASS100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +440

      Hell, they’ve been around longer than insects & arachnids, or at least as long.

    • @danielmeanor2995
      @danielmeanor2995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +633

      Prehistoric shark do do do doo

    • @yourstruly4817
      @yourstruly4817 4 ปีที่แล้ว +863

      Just to add something: There is less time between the existence of Humans and Tyrannosaurus Rex than between T. Rex and Stegosaurus.

  • @official.izanami
    @official.izanami 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4464

    Plants today: "We give you oxygen so keep us healthy and we'll let you live."
    Plants millions of years ago: "Die peasants."

    • @BandAid350z
      @BandAid350z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +324

      In a weird way, we are plants slaves. They give us just enough oxygen. We give them more than enough of CO2. We also work tirelessly to ensure to grow and spread their seeds. Not really a fair deal, tbh.

    • @aniksamiurrahman6365
      @aniksamiurrahman6365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      It seems like all of us have a violent past. Plants had theirs in past, we're having ours now.

    • @TheFourthWinchester
      @TheFourthWinchester 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      @@BandAid350z Humans are not spreading seeds. We are actively killing plants and trees and only growing specific plants we need for factory farmed animals to eat which weakens the entire chain.

    • @ls200076
      @ls200076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@BandAid350z Humans: Seeds? You mean potential plants to be eaten.

    • @alofii6106
      @alofii6106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oop

  • @user-ot4ix3db9v
    @user-ot4ix3db9v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    "moss covered rocks released 60 times more phosphorus than rocks without moss".
    feels like a tongue-twister..

    • @daydreamer226
      @daydreamer226 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Randy Moss questions, "What's all this about me?"

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    @hotpuppy72 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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  • @tahauzun3735
    @tahauzun3735 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1954

    100 million years later:
    The dolphin people: How human caused the 6th mass extinction

    • @dslayer218
      @dslayer218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      While causing their own mass extinction

    • @isaacb5968
      @isaacb5968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      Imagine dolphins with religion and nukes. Lol

    • @cerebrumexcrement
      @cerebrumexcrement 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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    • @paulclarke7571
      @paulclarke7571 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Dolphins with friggin' lasers....lol

    • @HellyeahRook
      @HellyeahRook 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      The dolphin people? Pffft the crows will be the ones to tell our story.

  • @DTSephiroth
    @DTSephiroth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1814

    Humanity: "Oh noes, we're causing a mass extinction."
    Nature: "First time?"

    • @Giganfan2k1
      @Giganfan2k1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      This is the quality memes I was looking for on this topic.

    • @aleisterlavey9716
      @aleisterlavey9716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Humanity: starts selectional breeding
      Nature: hm...
      Humantiy: invents GMOs
      Nature: Hey, wait a minute...
      Humanity: invents Crispr
      Nature: STOP YOU AMATEUR, YOU DON'T KNOW, WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!
      Humanity: ... ... ... ... Connects genespliceing nanobots to an experimental AI

    • @AlamoOriginal
      @AlamoOriginal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Probably the only time in natural history that an organism deliberately caused an extinction, i could say any of the big five extinction is unique but none are deliberate attempt

    • @Kolazola
      @Kolazola 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      @@AlamoOriginal I don't think anyone is doing what they are doing to deliberately cause a mass extinction. We aren't driving cars to cause a mass extinction were driving cars to travel, just as the algae wasn't mass producing to cause an extinction it was mass producing to have more kin

    • @AlamoOriginal
      @AlamoOriginal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Kolazola humans are concious about the possibility of us creating and wreaking havoc on nature, these are examples that we are aware that the more we advanced, the more nature crumbles, atomic bomb is just miniscule example that we are aware that whoever launches it will deliberately cause a massive extinction

  • @Manj_J
    @Manj_J 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    5:22 I just wanna say that I appreciate the visual of the phosphorus being washed out of it's square and swept away while Kallie speaks about it, very nice :)

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    @Aconspiracyofravens1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +554

    Lumber companies: write that down, write that down

  • @jsalmeiida
    @jsalmeiida 4 ปีที่แล้ว +402

    Marine life minding their own business 500m years ago
    Plants: I'm about to end this man's whole career

  • @ar4imond
    @ar4imond 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "Those damn plant bastards murdered your ancestors! So stop screwing around and finish that broccoli! Show no mercy!"

    • @akamal92
      @akamal92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How were they your ancestors if they went extinct?

    • @zainarif1654
      @zainarif1654 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akamal92 🤯🤯🤯u right

    • @mochachino56
      @mochachino56 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akamal92 e v o l u t i o n. Like T-rex turning into a chicken

  • @urmumwazhere3188
    @urmumwazhere3188 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I’m glad I mow my lawn every month

  • @lucadanna3682
    @lucadanna3682 4 ปีที่แล้ว +400

    How about a video on the evolution of corals and other polyps?

  • @Weretyu7777
    @Weretyu7777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +304

    Plants: Yay, we did it! We finally colonized the land!
    *Causes mass extiction*
    Plants: Oops.

  • @gregfroude4226
    @gregfroude4226 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    As a palynologist I love seeing EONS incorporating more palynomorphs into their videos. I work on Acritarchs and Dinoflagellate Cysts (Dinocysts). Maybe you could make a video about these microfossils?

  • @funny-video-YouTube-channel
    @funny-video-YouTube-channel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Possible correction : It was algae more likely than plants !
    They produce the oxygen that wreaks the climate for cyano-bacteria.

    • @everynametaken
      @everynametaken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Did you watch the video, it described how it was land plants that caused this one.

    • @vinnie3731
      @vinnie3731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      You're both right and wrong! Algae is a plant, and it's not just an aquatic plant. Here's the literal definition from google. "A simple, nonflowering, and typically aquatic plant of a large group that includes the seaweeds and many single-celled forms. Algae contain chlorophyll but lack true stems, roots, leaves, and vascular tissue".

    • @alexbanks4219
      @alexbanks4219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cyanobacteria is an algae. Blue green algae.

    • @brianmader7206
      @brianmader7206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      All land plants descended from a green algae ancestor. So the first colonists on land were probably algal-like, but needed to have certain characteristics (like a cuticle) to live on land. Plants are not algae, Cyanobacteria are not algae (the name blue-green algae is a misnomer). Algae are protists, with their own diverse kingdoms.

  • @camillerains3728
    @camillerains3728 4 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    I still want to see an episode about how the Appalachian Mountains and Lake Baikal formed. An episode on Lake Baikal and species that live in it would be amazing.

    • @ljvahle1532
      @ljvahle1532 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They likely won't make a video about that

    • @AK47Prepper
      @AK47Prepper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm not 100% sure but there is a scishow epside on Baikal already

    • @AK47Prepper
      @AK47Prepper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      th-cam.com/video/AjJUFyd4Cac/w-d-xo.html

    • @qdtsg8
      @qdtsg8 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AK47Prepper Thanks, bud!

    • @mushmush4980
      @mushmush4980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That would be awesome, as it's literally its own mini ocean with deep sea life. Even if scishow covered it, this channel can talk about its known history and biology of its mysterious species.

  • @warren286
    @warren286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    Hard to imagine a world without soil. Just rock, sand, and ice.

    • @faybrianhernandez2416
      @faybrianhernandez2416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I say the same about birds. How, on a lush green Earth are there no birds till after the dinosaurs? no sir, I don't believe it, birds didn't evolve from dinosaurs, they were there all along.

    • @TheMathias95
      @TheMathias95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@faybrianhernandez2416
      I mean, as far as I know we haven't found any bird fossil from that era, so they must've evovled later on.

    • @secularmonk5176
      @secularmonk5176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "just rock, sand, and ice" That's the surface of Mars ... or the Dry Valleys in Antarctica

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@TheMathias95 The first creatures we'd recognize as birds evolved from non-avian dinosaurs some time in the Jurassic... significantly later than the period of the video.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheMathias95
      Yeah, bird are amniotes and they started way after the origin of the amniota clade
      Watch Aron Ra's 50 part series 'Systematic Classification of Life'

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    @stevenhill3136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Just discovered you today and been binge watching for hours. Keep up the great work.

  • @goodman25
    @goodman25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +607

    Me:Is that you?
    * shows a photo of plants almost killing all of the entire life in the planet *
    Plants:Yeah but that's a old Photo.

  • @Felixkeeg
    @Felixkeeg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    As a wise man once said: "Life, uh, finds a way"

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      @recess7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      uh..

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      @klittlet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Life........ERM.........finds a way?!?!?

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      @bethiaprosser1189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Is this a reference to Jurassic Park?!

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      @klittlet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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    • @bethiaprosser1189
      @bethiaprosser1189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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    @87321opc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The whole PBS Eons series is amazing!

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      Best education there is.

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    @penguin8572 ปีที่แล้ว

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    @AbrahamSamma 4 ปีที่แล้ว +255

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    • @alexsclewis
      @alexsclewis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      unless you find yourself in an afterlife unbound by space and time 🤷

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      @donnyhh313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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      @connorquartz6701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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      @bleuemoone8710 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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    @nakenmil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    7:24 I love that pic. You use it a lot for volcanic activity mentions, and everytime I see it I'm just mesmerized by the color contrast, depth, the texture of the smoke, etc. Might be weird, but I just think it's really neat.

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      It's pretty neat but also weird

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    This channel is just awesome. Watching these videos make me feel better even when i spend my whole day not reading anything

  • @karissaknudson514
    @karissaknudson514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've been watching Eons for a few months now and I really enjoy in, but what I've really come to look forward too is "Steve". So thanks Steve for your consistent support. Now I don't just look forward to a show, but to the end of it and your shout out. Keep it up Eons and "Steve".

  • @tobyw9113
    @tobyw9113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    Could you do a video on Pleistocene Australia, which had giant wombats and 30 ft lizards. As well as carnivorous kangaroos and a marsupial lion!

    • @kizombooooo8457
      @kizombooooo8457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Toby W I was just gonna ask this!

    • @abloodorange5233
      @abloodorange5233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I rhink they did

    • @TheDinosaurus99
      @TheDinosaurus99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Would love that

    • @lansean9
      @lansean9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      There goes my good night's sleep, "carnivorous kangaroos"?

    • @tobyw9113
      @tobyw9113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Bahri Gumustekin they have referenced it but never made a video on Pleistocene Australia.

  • @robertyang4365
    @robertyang4365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1667

    “How plants caused the first mass extinction”
    _that’s not vegan_

    • @helmaschine1885
      @helmaschine1885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Veganism is starving babies to death for an ideology and destroying millions of wildlife through mono farming fields. Vegans even admit that humans dying out is their ultimate goal, encouraging vasectomies and women losing their periods.

    • @crystalleyvonne818
      @crystalleyvonne818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      HelMaschine you’re fun at parties eh

    • @a2e5
      @a2e5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      HelMaschine Are you drunk? Expansion of crop farming is needed because we need to keep churning out meat in factory farms, where animals use energy not only for growing meat, but also for surviving their stinky lives. If y’all can just eat less meat or switch to more efficient stuff like chicken we can feed one or two billion more people with the crops we already grow.

    • @takeoffyourblinkers
      @takeoffyourblinkers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@crystalleyvonne818
      Like bbqs, meat and beer, sounds great to me.

    • @takeoffyourblinkers
      @takeoffyourblinkers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@a2e5
      Chicken is meat you clown.

  • @siyacer
    @siyacer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Could you do a video on the multituberculates? They were the 4th, lesser known type of mammal (others being placentals, marsupials, and monotremes) and one of the most successful and long living mammals, appearing in the Triassic and going extinct about 30 million years ago. I haven't heard about them until quite recently, and I would like to learn more about them.

    • @Ragnarra
      @Ragnarra 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Interesting.

  • @AyaJuni
    @AyaJuni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    "Cooling the earth in just 44M years, which is fast in a geological timeline."
    Yeah, we warm up the earth in just a century.

    • @timestamp2525
      @timestamp2525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Cedar Hatt did someone "Dig a hole" in your cranium?

    • @timestamp2525
      @timestamp2525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Cedar Hatt 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @yanlopez674
      @yanlopez674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Cedar Hatt What kind of high are you on? And for logic's sake can you cite any sources?

    • @groovyhoovy9793
      @groovyhoovy9793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yanlopez674 it is possible that our sun will die in a couple thousand years but there’s no real way to confirm that except to just wait and see what happens

    • @BahadurSingh-ip9rd
      @BahadurSingh-ip9rd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Cedar Hatt your blowing things wayyyy out of the water, any star that can go supernova close enough to kill us would have been spotted us. Also, human society is more likely to collapse into smaller groups of people before we manage to destroy the wildlife that bad

  • @francoislacombe9071
    @francoislacombe9071 4 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    Didn't the first mass extinction happen much earlier in precambrian times, when cyanobacteria started releasing massive amounts of oxygen that nearly killed off everything that was living at the time? 🤔

    • @KellyClowers
      @KellyClowers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      The big 5 are multicellular life extinctions, the great oxygenation event was more like 2.45 billion years ago and before multicellular life was a thing

    • @Lexivor
      @Lexivor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Also the Edicaran life forms went extinct during the Cambrian revolution.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Yeah, having the pesky oxygen was an issue in the first place.

    • @lloydy272
      @lloydy272 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes came here to say that too!

    • @zacharylakier3433
      @zacharylakier3433 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      cyan bacteria did have a part

  • @UGNAvalon
    @UGNAvalon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +262

    Ordovician Life: _Happily going about their day._
    Terrestrial Plants: *The Happening, episode 0.*

    • @gimbit7583
      @gimbit7583 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I got scammed

    • @Joshisbored1
      @Joshisbored1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You have no idea how many times I have clicked the read more

  • @chrisbevan1992
    @chrisbevan1992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is fascinating, thanks for being so generous and sharing this!!
    I found this very interesting!

  • @cassv9541
    @cassv9541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No really the thing with this channel is that however dramatic the titles might be, they’re not clickbait at all. Really loving it I’m on a binge

  • @vraelbliz
    @vraelbliz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +531

    Murderous Plants sound like a plot straight from Stephen King novel

    • @andreasimon2752
      @andreasimon2752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I like it

    • @kendrickoyola4290
      @kendrickoyola4290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Mark Wahlberg the happening

    • @TheSaneHatter
      @TheSaneHatter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      It literally IS the plot of "Day of the Triffids."

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Little shop of horrors

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Little shop of horrors

  • @hallofo8107
    @hallofo8107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +538

    The last time I was this early, cyanobacteria still ruled the earth.

    • @Guoldisney
      @Guoldisney 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      They still do: prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic organism.

    • @lansean9
      @lansean9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Guoldisney I heard that "it" is responsible for our oil, as well.

    • @zacharymoss2994
      @zacharymoss2994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      When I was this early, the animal kingdom was only made of worms, sponges and jellyfish

    • @anthonymort5202
      @anthonymort5202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This joke is getting old

    • @thefrustrateddoc
      @thefrustrateddoc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The last time i was this early i still dreamt of having sex

  • @alexkairis3927
    @alexkairis3927 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's nice to see PBS doing conservation. I could nit-pick on theories being stated as descriptive all the time, but .... I'm still glad to see the conservation.

  • @jonvelz4170
    @jonvelz4170 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These videos really are infinitely rewatchable.

  • @brotlowskyrgseg1018
    @brotlowskyrgseg1018 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    4:07 "It's a big, beautiful, old rock. Oh the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles."
    When you realise Spongebob was actually educational content.

    • @wienzard36
      @wienzard36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Stephen Hillenburg was literally a marine biologist tho. so....

    • @albertamalachi3560
      @albertamalachi3560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The creator of SpongeBob was known to sneak educational content and _'educational content'_ once in a while.

    • @bugglemagnum6213
      @bugglemagnum6213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wienzard36 shut up.......

    • @diegopugaquintanilla4344
      @diegopugaquintanilla4344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bugglemagnum6213 why so salty lol

    • @recess7
      @recess7 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ooh now I understand.

  • @carl1592
    @carl1592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    "april showers may bring flowers" they said
    it'll be fun they said

    • @MDAdams72668
      @MDAdams72668 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Douseiaisha In my neighbors garden it is April showers may bring flowers or not

    • @mikaelgaiason688
      @mikaelgaiason688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *April showers bring May flowers...

    • @ugoeze7360
      @ugoeze7360 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nah, what the OP said makes sense in the context of the video

  • @priapus6145
    @priapus6145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The end of the video was unusually wholesome

  • @vandecasa3795
    @vandecasa3795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ordovician Life: * exists *
    Terrestrial Plants: "Hello there!"
    Ordovician Life: "Why do I hear boss music?"

  • @mossdaemon
    @mossdaemon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    PBS Eons really be helping me get through this pandemic

    • @3088sd
      @3088sd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I listen to them like a very informative bedtime story

    • @number62
      @number62 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Go outside.

  • @sriraotherandomguy3806
    @sriraotherandomguy3806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    It is very interesting how the most important forms of life caused the first extinction

    • @victorbruant389
      @victorbruant389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Weed didn't exist back then

    • @jasodu1
      @jasodu1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      It's called character development

    • @kaibigbang8308
      @kaibigbang8308 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Reminds me of a certain very important species that is causing the most recent mass extinction

    • @lansean9
      @lansean9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kaibigbang8308 "Ouch"

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Twice in fact, as photo-synthesis bacteria (ancestors of phytoplancton ^^) had caused a big extinction event by releasing oxygen in the atmosphere :D

  • @sheriherrick4420
    @sheriherrick4420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thia girl is my FAVORITE!!! I love how easy she makes it to understand her videos. She doesn't talk too fast and explains things very well!

  • @mariagraciamorenovegas7722
    @mariagraciamorenovegas7722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Steve out here being the mvp, I've seen my guy thanked at the end of every single one of these videos

  • @mrx4022
    @mrx4022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Ordovician life: Boy it sure is a lovely day today! I don't think anything could ruin it!
    Plants: *_Allow me to introduce myself_*

  • @dyne313
    @dyne313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    Just remember, we humans aren't the first species to cause mass extinction.
    But we are the first to have a choice in the matter.

    • @number62
      @number62 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What choice?

    • @ClandestineMerkaba
      @ClandestineMerkaba 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Not really. Everything is going exactly according to plan, and programming.

    • @recess7
      @recess7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ClandestineMerkaba 'The Simulation'

    • @ClandestineMerkaba
      @ClandestineMerkaba 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@recess7 Yes- It's what we came "here" for.

    • @cerebrumexcrement
      @cerebrumexcrement 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      how do we know these plants didnt do it on purpose?

  • @topsideplanet234
    @topsideplanet234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Would love to see more of these videos on plants.

  • @TidBitOf
    @TidBitOf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m in a Botany Class this semester and I love this video!

  • @joshualakdawala8040
    @joshualakdawala8040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    Plants: Cause a mass extinction
    Vegans: *I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that*

    • @TerexJ
      @TerexJ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *says the "pro-science" communists*

    • @uvwuvw-ol3fg
      @uvwuvw-ol3fg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hopefully next mass extinction will not be caused by ideologies like efilism and antinatalism based on consent. Inherent optimism bias and terror management theory always helps though.

    • @FeralHydra75
      @FeralHydra75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Jacob H What on earth are you talking about?

    • @thespcrewroy8716
      @thespcrewroy8716 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didn't the same thing happen to the Devonian

    • @jonahs8261
      @jonahs8261 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TerexJ u would suffocate,
      Without plants XD

  • @kaydkaydkayd
    @kaydkaydkayd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    this entire channel is so cool for no reason

  • @Petrov3434
    @Petrov3434 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A fantastically well done -- BRAVO !!!!

  • @SohanDsouza
    @SohanDsouza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    I love microbial films, but I can only ever watch them under a microscope. 🤷‍♂️

    • @yakbutterfly1
      @yakbutterfly1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Their earlier experimental work was better.

    • @heatherswanson1664
      @heatherswanson1664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So microfillms?

    • @SohanDsouza
      @SohanDsouza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@yakbutterfly1 Yeah, I still have a few cells from their animation studio stock.

  • @dylansp4049
    @dylansp4049 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Humans: We're the deadliest on Earth we're causing climate change which is killing countless species.
    Plants: Hold my oxygen.

  • @OMGitshimitis
    @OMGitshimitis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you do a video on conservation palaeoecology? I know it sounds like a very niche topic but I watched a video about how looking at predation scars on modern sea snails can tell us about previous populations of Crabs along the West Coast of America and listening to how the lady who'd done it had come to her conclusions was like watching a detective show- so so interesting!

  • @DUMBPISCESCHILDISH
    @DUMBPISCESCHILDISH 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank for teaching me a lot of ancient things ! Love your vids!

  • @bluefinmanta5373
    @bluefinmanta5373 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    If I recall, plants (specifically the first trees) also had a major role in the second mass extinction.

    • @depralexcrimson
      @depralexcrimson ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes because trees would pile up over billions of years until a bacteria developed that would eat them

  • @PaulPaulPaulson
    @PaulPaulPaulson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    5:16 Minor nitpick: To visualize "60 times more" I wouldn't change the ratio of the radii to 60. The ratio of the areas is now 3600 and that gives a false impression.
    Otherwise, great video as always! Love these topics!

  • @alitheamounika7546
    @alitheamounika7546 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very well made. Thank you so much 💝

  • @ikkirr
    @ikkirr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    the background music for this is so soothing

  • @pastlife960
    @pastlife960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    You should do a whole series on all the mass extinctions (including the modern one).

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow448 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Between this science series and the "Nick on the Rocks" geology/seismology series, I am enjoying myself even during the social distancing.

    • @regular-joe
      @regular-joe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have you seen his "Nick from Home" series? He's live streaming every couple of days, he's up to #38 or 40 now.

    • @briangarrow448
      @briangarrow448 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@regular-joe Yes I have. They are wonderful. Nick is a great science communicator.

    • @cdemr
      @cdemr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Brian Garrow Do you know the series "Alien Biospheres", by Biblaridion? It's available on TH-cam and it's great.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Watch Aron Ra's 50 part series 'Systematic Classification of Life'

  • @MrGrombie
    @MrGrombie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm happy this content is on TH-cam.

  • @Unicorgo
    @Unicorgo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool video, exactly what I needed as a good-night story. Thank you ☺️

  • @whydoihavetoaddachan
    @whydoihavetoaddachan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I'd love to see an episode on mitochondria and how they came to be a part of our cellular biology.

  • @mirroredchaos
    @mirroredchaos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    humans "suddenly disappear"
    plants: its free real estate

  • @jchanukya9805
    @jchanukya9805 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Incredible and excellent info with details regarding how scientists got that info.

  • @Clauds1005
    @Clauds1005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All jokes aside this was super super interesting, I feel like I learned something new. like who ever talks about ancient plants

    • @Giganfan2k1
      @Giganfan2k1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I see you don't go to the same pubs as me. XD

  • @mutantmonkey2301
    @mutantmonkey2301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    When I was about 3 or 4 years old I found livermoss in our garden and I thought I found an alien lifeform straight out of a lovecraft novel 😹👍

    • @epiccollision
      @epiccollision 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AzathothTheGreat inorite?

  • @user-uj8og9cm9d
    @user-uj8og9cm9d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The fact that we don't have time machines will never cease to break my heart.

    • @scottishastronomer
      @scottishastronomer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It would mean David Attenborough could do a series on dinosaurs. That would be amazing.

    • @andresvillanueva5421
      @andresvillanueva5421 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me, too. 😭😭

    • @iTsEfFiNsTePhh
      @iTsEfFiNsTePhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fr wish all of these paleontologists and scientists would stop wasting time on trying to figure out what ifs about extinct animals and instead focus on building a time machine then we’d know for sure! 😂 If they’re invented in our life times my family and friends would probably never see me again lmfaoo

    • @HeyItsTheWykydtron
      @HeyItsTheWykydtron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      What are you talking about, I have a time machine hanging on my wall right now and it says 7:56 AM.

    • @SunGodCadena
      @SunGodCadena 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@iTsEfFiNsTePhh i mean yes and no, if you have a time machine you could return back to the time after you left by however much time lol assuming time machine functions perfectly

  • @gracelovesgaia5117
    @gracelovesgaia5117 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sooo cool. So grateful for your channel, thanks for the free education!

  • @kkhanhp
    @kkhanhp 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great to see another plant-focused video! I have a minor critique in that it's a bit misleading to show Archaefructus as your example of one of the first angiosperms. Phylogenetic studies have placed it deep within the angiosperm clade and not at the base (Doyle 2008, Int J Plant Sciences), indicating that it probably doesn't resemble the ancestor to the angiosperms. Paleobotanists tend to favor fossils with structures which could developmentally resemble the carpel bearing the female organs in modern angiosperms as a stronger indicator of being an ancestor to the flowering plants. The article cited has more detail on that.

  • @cristianvillanueva8782
    @cristianvillanueva8782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Plants then " Wanna see me cause the first Mass Extinction?"
    Plants now "Wanna see me do it again?"

    • @mr.racooniep3326
      @mr.racooniep3326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Illegal Loggers, Business men: ?

    • @thatguy7155
      @thatguy7155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@mr.racooniep3326 fool for you to think that
      They are secretly letting themself die just so they can give us reason why them killing us is justified

    • @mr.racooniep3326
      @mr.racooniep3326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@thatguy7155 I don't think plants will kill us tho since it's not predicted in the Simpsons.

    • @souljastation5463
      @souljastation5463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shamanmanmanlan was right, and you all mocked him (I liked that movie).

    • @Ignasimp
      @Ignasimp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The first mass extinction event was caused by cyanobacteria way before the event of this video, and it almost extinguished all life on earth. This video is just spreading misinformation.

  • @CoalCoalJames
    @CoalCoalJames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Me: *lives* .
    Mass extinctions: "You're wellcome" .

  • @memomorph5375
    @memomorph5375 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best channel ever! Hypoxic zones are also responsible for fish die offs when the water is too warm. The water has less ability to hold dissolved gasses. Same way hot soda goes flat more quickly than cold

  • @ente866
    @ente866 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never would I expect a comment section this good on this type of videos

  • @idonnow2
    @idonnow2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    >"back in the 1990's"
    >shows modern world map
    You thin you can fool me? i can see south sudan right there

    • @angledgaze6203
      @angledgaze6203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I see you are a man of culture as well.

    • @sybrandvandermolen7732
      @sybrandvandermolen7732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Even worse, they show the borders of New Mexico when it definitely wasn't around in the Ordovician.

    • @GrowingViolet
      @GrowingViolet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@sybrandvandermolen7732 I know, right? New Mexico wasn't around until at least the Carboniferous period.

    • @LarsUelf
      @LarsUelf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@sybrandvandermolen7732 That makes it sound like Texas was around back then

    • @philliambillingsworth7806
      @philliambillingsworth7806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @Lars Uelf Texas is eternal, it has always been here, when the world is old and dying, Texas will remain. Texas will always remain...

  • @trosan2here719
    @trosan2here719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Just before midnight in Germany, but wide awake... especially now

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Damn you, plants! When I eat a salad, it's _revenge!_

  • @beestorm7609
    @beestorm7609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you pbs! I’m gonna donate!

  • @awesomebroke
    @awesomebroke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Do not underestimate plants, they made us addicted to rice.

    • @rewer
      @rewer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And potatoes, and flour

    • @gobzanuff5078
      @gobzanuff5078 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eat rice? Yeah because the world resolve around you huh?

    • @agimasoschandir
      @agimasoschandir 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      "I like rice, rice is good when you're hungry and want 2000 of something." - Mitch Hedberg

  • @Burt1038
    @Burt1038 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Animals: *exist*
    Ancient Plants: I'm gonna end this man's whole career.

  • @southside6315
    @southside6315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Let’s take a second to thank the amazing camera man who got this footage

  • @andrabook8758
    @andrabook8758 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    keep these coming guys :D they're so awesome

  • @casper.airsoft
    @casper.airsoft 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I watch PBS Eons so much, the new videos show up in my feed even on my "TV" account that isn't subbed to any channels 😂🤣😁
    Keep up the great work!

  • @kevinelrick6605
    @kevinelrick6605 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I would love to see you guys do a video on trilobite fossils since I recently heard that most trilobite fossils are from shedded exoskeletons and I have no idea how to tell the difference between a fossilized shed and a fossil of an actual trilobite.

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm pretty sure there's no way of distinguish the two, so that might be an assumption from a palaontologist based on almost nothing ^^'

  • @dr.ashishgopaldewan1225
    @dr.ashishgopaldewan1225 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a great presentation 👏

  • @antoniogerardo7696
    @antoniogerardo7696 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    yeah I want to nerd out, thanks pbs

  • @WhereFunnyResides
    @WhereFunnyResides 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I literally just found this channel I love it already.