CORRECTION: A number of people have pointed out that the moon's distance during the Ediacaran (19km) is wrong. The real estimate is more like 12,000km closer to Earth (7456 miles closer), according to Thomas Halliday's incredible book 'Otherlands'. Great feedback is important for me as a new channel, and corrections and discussions are always welcome! Thanks for the massive support so far, and hope you're all excited for the Cambrian video!
@@GinkgoTraces hello,720th subscriber here, you're basically the most high quality youtuber i know of that just started their journey,keep making videos and may the algorithm gods bless you And by the way,if you get big enough,are you gonna do collabs?if so,you should definitely do with another channel called factor trace, another high quality youtuber about paleontology that just started with beautiful original art and coincidentally has "trace" in its name too.
The animals of this time period all feel like something out of a science fiction or fantasy story, it's awesome how unique they were! Trilateral symmetry is the one that I find most fascinating. To my knowledge, banana fruits are the only other organism that split into 3 even sections (you can split bananas down the center into thirds)
very cool video my guy. edit: Wait a second the art is original and you even give us the sauce. Absolute banger of a channel to find so early, hope you grow exponentially and keep making these. i'd like to also thank mr. youtube algorithm for this recommendation
This format is really cool and it’s obvious why it’s starting to find itself on people’s front pages. It was on mine! You also have a great voice for this content. Keep it up man
Algorithm recommended this video today. Was not disappointed! Although i already know a lot about ediacaran, it’s always nice to return to the subject as it is one of my favs. Huge bonus for creating your own art for this!
Same - you love to see it! Especially with how TH-cam is flooded with videos using AI generated images, ai generated voiceover, and ai generated scripts.
I have never commented (almost never; in the last 10+ years, I have posted at most 5 comments), but I need to thank you today for creating this video. I've long been fascinated specifically by the Cambrian era and even more so by the pre-Cambrian creatures, so wonderful in their simplicity. Simple life, and the beginnings of life, always fascinated me extremely. I wonder what it would've been like to swim in the Ediacaran sea, all creatures of the domains of life at the time leading their quiet, slow lives. The music, original paleoart, and unique narrative made your video a particularly delightful experience. Even tho I am most fond of the very early eras of life on Earth, I will stick until the end due to the immersive style of your videos. Thanks for making this.
Thanks for an amazing comment! I've got some really cool videos up and coming for the future, so if you loved the world and illustrations of the Ediacaran, you're in the right place :)
Something really interesting about specifically the Avalon fauna is that they would likely all be white or pale/transparent colored, similar to jellyfish. They didn't need camouflage or display patterns back then, because no eyes had evolved, and also they were located in the deep ocean, so they'd likely just be colorless.
A great point, and something I researched when I was creating my artworks. Animals at extreme depths tend towards red and black colours because they are the most difficult to see in the blue wavelengths of light at such depths. But we have no idea what colour Ediacaran creatures really were. In the end, the artist side of me took over and I chose a few different colours for visual appeal :)
Thank you for this video. The Ediacaran is my favourite part of life's history and I'n happy for everything I can learn about it. Great art as well! (Though … would you mind tuning down the music a little bit? Thx!)
170th subscriber here. 10 hours before this, someone commented about how baffling it was that this channel only had 50 subs. Like come on boiz those are rookie numbers, this level of dedication deserves recognition. Ginkgo Traces, thank you for the uploads. I discovered your channel 21 minutes and 21 seconds more or less the time it takes to type this, and im on my way to watch another one before i log off. I'll be sure to share some links around with my friends as they also love this kind of content. Hope to see you grow as an artist, narrator and editor, the production quality in this episode makes me believe you've got the work ethic to make this seed grow big and tall. We'll be watching your career with great interest, take care man
holy SHIT this was a ton of work. I ADORE the custom illustrations and the personalized narrative. This truly felt like a PBS special or the old Discovery Channel shows which would frame the info as your journey through time. Liked AND subscribed
I'm glad that broadly the ediacaran is recieving more attention. Very influental time for the trjaectory of multicellular clades and it was the period where animals came about! Fantastic video on the subject
And it keeps getting glossed over. I know several different TH-camrs who are doing a comprehensive history of the Earth or history of life and they skip over this period. Paleo Analysis gives the Edicaran a brief mention at the end of his video about the entire Proterozoic Eon and Lindsay Nikole ignores it completely, starting her series with the Cambrian. We're still stuck in this paradigm where the Cambrian Explosion is really the start of life and everything before it is just uninteresting blobs of bacteria.
Love those channels! You're right, the Ediacaran is completely underrated and often gets overlooked. I reckon it was an extremely important stepping stone between single-celled and multi-cellular life.
Something that I like to think is that the francevillian biota is the true "lost world" of our planet since ediacaran animals didn't just evolve from bacteria and archea.
Incredible high quality content full of interesting knowledge. Grateful to witness. This is veeeery cool, I love the music, the thematic, the choice of topic, the art is satifsfying and beautiful
Great video, I enjoyed the original artwork and storytelling from the perspective of actually being there. I feel like we usually only get bits and pieces of the picture so its nice to get a feeling for what the environment was actually like. The only thing I would like to see is some pictures of the actual fossils for these creatures, I'm just not sure how it can be incorporated into the video well.
Great video! Love all sorts of ancient animals and prehistory, and this was well narrated and super informative. Love the style as well, like a story, or adventure being described. Good luck with your channel!!
WOAHHH❤ THIS IS SOME OF THE BEST CONTENT IVE EVER CONSUMED! i learned a thing or two also. amazing stuff, from the illustration to the writing. the whole vibe is goated.
I've been seeing your videos for awhile and after finally checking one of your videos, this one, i finally realized how im missing a great content creator's start all this time. Keep up all the good work, sir!!
350th subscriber here. Love your video and hope your channel does well. I adore the quality of the video and hope that maybe you can do a video on the discovery of certain species of ediacaran biota.
I loved the video and art. It's the first time I learned about the Cambrian substrate revolution which seems pretty important, thanks. Also wanted to mention: at 10:32 the distance to the Moon feels wrong, 19 km would be practically nothing, unless i misunderstood. From an internet search it was more like 50.000 km closer.
I just got this recommended, and I am very happy I did, because this is so interesting. Particularly because the Ediacaran is one of the time periods in earth's history I don't know very much about.
@@GinkgoTraces Indeed. I like the idea of just being transported back to a time where a human could make one of the loudest noises experienced for potentially months on end in one region. I also find it interesting but a bit depressing that there are potentially hundreds of species from the Ediacaran we will never know about solely because the microbial mat or rocks just didn't preserve well in that specific area.
Fun fact. David Attenborough once said it was finding charnia fossils when he was a lad that got him into zoology. And was Earth really blue-skied back when charnia lived?
Small correction: dickinsonia and spriggina (along with other proarticulates) were **not** bilaterally symmetrical. Their sections had the same glide-reflection as those in the rangeomorphs. Thus, proarticulates like dickinsonia and spriggina are almost undoubtedly not worms or proto-arthropods, but instead a unique grade of animal likely consisting of them and the rangeomorphs.
Great video just one little nit pick. At +10:30 you say the moon was 19.3 km nearer to the Earth, which seems far too small to me. The current recession rate is 3.8 cm/yr (from NASA), which is 38 km per one million years. Where did you get the number?
No, the Ediacaran life was probably not the first to be multicellular. It seems to appear out of nowhere, because the glaciers of the Snowball Earth scoured much of the world. There is no way to know how complex life had been in those areas scraped clean. There is a good chance there was complex life, but it was wiped from the fossil record. There is also the significant possibility that the islands of life existing under the frozen oceans, at thermal vents, evolved dramatically because of its isolation. This means that life may well have had its main opportunity to become complex, genetically and morphologically, during that snowball earth...but we have no evidence of it, because of the glaciers, and the way that most of the continental plates from back then are now gone, thanks to subduction, erosion, et cetera.
The issue with pre-Cambrian organisms is that it's still not possible to prove any ancestor for chordates nor arthropods. Spriggina has glide symmetry, not bilateral symmetry. Wikipedia might say that Dickinsonia is bilaterally symmetric in its lead, but it is not. People keep trying to say that it is because they need a bilateral ancestor to Cambrian organisms, but almost all studies (Glaessner & Wade 1966; Wade 1972; Runnegar 1982; Gehling et al. 2005; Gold et al. 2015; Evans et al. 2017; Hoekzema et al. 2017; Dunn et al. 2018; Reid et al. 2018) claim it has glide symmetry. Even the picture of it that appears in your video appears to have glide symmetry. :) It's difficult to claim that an organism has eyes because it doesn't burrow into someone else's burrow~ That would require sensory functions more than proving anything~ :)
If I remembered correctly, Gaskiers glaciation in Ediacaran is NOT the famous snowball earth. Said snowball earths happened during the preceding Cryogenian Period with Sturtian and Marinoan glaciation. From wikipedia about Gaskiers glaciation: "It is assumed that, in contrast to the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations, it did not lead to global glaciation."
A good point! I went back to check this and you're right. According to a paper by Judy Pu at CSIRO, "it appears that Earth narrowly escaped a third Neoproterozoic snowball glaciation". At least we know it was cold :)
CORRECTION: A number of people have pointed out that the moon's distance during the Ediacaran (19km) is wrong. The real estimate is more like 12,000km closer to Earth (7456 miles closer), according to Thomas Halliday's incredible book 'Otherlands'.
Great feedback is important for me as a new channel, and corrections and discussions are always welcome!
Thanks for the massive support so far, and hope you're all excited for the Cambrian video!
Now THIS is the hyperspecific content I require
this video covers 100 million years...how more generic can you get?
@@kalinmirYou dishonour the spirit of pedantry with this comment.
Same
Plenty more specific stuff planned for future videos!
@@GinkgoTraces hello,720th subscriber here, you're basically the most high quality youtuber i know of that just started their journey,keep making videos and may the algorithm gods bless you
And by the way,if you get big enough,are you gonna do collabs?if so,you should definitely do with another channel called factor trace, another high quality youtuber about paleontology that just started with beautiful original art and coincidentally has "trace" in its name too.
Damn this is some top tier paleoart! Incredible work
Not long til the Paleozoic fauna comes along!
The animals of this time period all feel like something out of a science fiction or fantasy story, it's awesome how unique they were! Trilateral symmetry is the one that I find most fascinating. To my knowledge, banana fruits are the only other organism that split into 3 even sections (you can split bananas down the center into thirds)
Crazy how humans made such a creature that has not existed in so long
This series is so good I was shocked to see that this channel has less than a thousand subscribers
very cool video my guy.
edit: Wait a second the art is original and you even give us the sauce.
Absolute banger of a channel to find so early, hope you grow exponentially and keep making these.
i'd like to also thank mr. youtube algorithm for this recommendation
This format is really cool and it’s obvious why it’s starting to find itself on people’s front pages. It was on mine! You also have a great voice for this content. Keep it up man
Much appreciated!
Algorithm recommended this video today. Was not disappointed! Although i already know a lot about ediacaran, it’s always nice to return to the subject as it is one of my favs. Huge bonus for creating your own art for this!
Same - you love to see it! Especially with how TH-cam is flooded with videos using AI generated images, ai generated voiceover, and ai generated scripts.
I have never commented (almost never; in the last 10+ years, I have posted at most 5 comments), but I need to thank you today for creating this video. I've long been fascinated specifically by the Cambrian era and even more so by the pre-Cambrian creatures, so wonderful in their simplicity. Simple life, and the beginnings of life, always fascinated me extremely.
I wonder what it would've been like to swim in the Ediacaran sea, all creatures of the domains of life at the time leading their quiet, slow lives.
The music, original paleoart, and unique narrative made your video a particularly delightful experience. Even tho I am most fond of the very early eras of life on Earth, I will stick until the end due to the immersive style of your videos. Thanks for making this.
Thanks for an amazing comment! I've got some really cool videos up and coming for the future, so if you loved the world and illustrations of the Ediacaran, you're in the right place :)
Something really interesting about specifically the Avalon fauna is that they would likely all be white or pale/transparent colored, similar to jellyfish. They didn't need camouflage or display patterns back then, because no eyes had evolved, and also they were located in the deep ocean, so they'd likely just be colorless.
A great point, and something I researched when I was creating my artworks. Animals at extreme depths tend towards red and black colours because they are the most difficult to see in the blue wavelengths of light at such depths.
But we have no idea what colour Ediacaran creatures really were. In the end, the artist side of me took over and I chose a few different colours for visual appeal :)
i was shocked at how few views and subs this channel has, because this is really high production quality stuff
Thank you for this video. The Ediacaran is my favourite part of life's history and I'n happy for everything I can learn about it. Great art as well! (Though … would you mind tuning down the music a little bit? Thx!)
170th subscriber here. 10 hours before this, someone commented about how baffling it was that this channel only had 50 subs. Like come on boiz those are rookie numbers, this level of dedication deserves recognition.
Ginkgo Traces, thank you for the uploads. I discovered your channel 21 minutes and 21 seconds more or less the time it takes to type this, and im on my way to watch another one before i log off. I'll be sure to share some links around with my friends as they also love this kind of content. Hope to see you grow as an artist, narrator and editor, the production quality in this episode makes me believe you've got the work ethic to make this seed grow big and tall. We'll be watching your career with great interest, take care man
holy SHIT this was a ton of work.
I ADORE the custom illustrations and the personalized narrative. This truly felt like a PBS special or the old Discovery Channel shows which would frame the info as your journey through time.
Liked AND subscribed
Thanks for the great feedback!
I'm glad that broadly the ediacaran is recieving more attention. Very influental time for the trjaectory of multicellular clades and it was the period where animals came about! Fantastic video on the subject
The Ediacaran is such an endlessly fascinating era, and yur ability to vividly describe these ancient landscapes is astounding!
And it keeps getting glossed over. I know several different TH-camrs who are doing a comprehensive history of the Earth or history of life and they skip over this period. Paleo Analysis gives the Edicaran a brief mention at the end of his video about the entire Proterozoic Eon and Lindsay Nikole ignores it completely, starting her series with the Cambrian. We're still stuck in this paradigm where the Cambrian Explosion is really the start of life and everything before it is just uninteresting blobs of bacteria.
Love those channels! You're right, the Ediacaran is completely underrated and often gets overlooked. I reckon it was an extremely important stepping stone between single-celled and multi-cellular life.
Thank you for uploading this on my birthday, I love the Ediacaran and Cambrian, they're so underrated
Honestly one of my favorite eras, back when life is so unrecognizable that it can’t even be properly classified
Something that I like to think is that the francevillian biota is the true "lost world" of our planet since ediacaran animals didn't just evolve from bacteria and archea.
Incredible high quality content full of interesting knowledge. Grateful to witness. This is veeeery cool, I love the music, the thematic, the choice of topic, the art is satifsfying and beautiful
cant wait for your video about the cambrian!!!!!!
Music a tiny bit too loud, but the drawings are awesome. 9/10 great video. Good narrating, too
Im majoring in geology and started watching your videos to help study for my stratigraphy & geohistory exam. Thank you so much for this awesome work
Oh I love this
Subbed
Can't believe I found it so early/you haven't blown up yet
0:07 …and it imploded 😱
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING. LIKE. COMMENT. SUBSCRIBE.
Great video, I enjoyed the original artwork and storytelling from the perspective of actually being there. I feel like we usually only get bits and pieces of the picture so its nice to get a feeling for what the environment was actually like. The only thing I would like to see is some pictures of the actual fossils for these creatures, I'm just not sure how it can be incorporated into the video well.
Great video! Love all sorts of ancient animals and prehistory, and this was well narrated and super informative. Love the style as well, like a story, or adventure being described. Good luck with your channel!!
the fact that you draw every frame of the video is amazing. I was wondering where you got all these images from but turns out they're all original !
WOAHHH❤ THIS IS SOME OF THE BEST CONTENT IVE EVER CONSUMED! i learned a thing or two also. amazing stuff, from the illustration to the writing. the whole vibe is goated.
Thanks for the great feedback! Plenty more cool paleo videos coming up soon!
Fantastic video. Glad the algorithm's all-seeing eye has turned upon it.
I've been seeing your videos for awhile and after finally checking one of your videos, this one, i finally realized how im missing a great content creator's start all this time. Keep up all the good work, sir!!
This videos are amazing! Thanks for them and I am eager to see the future ones :)
350th subscriber here. Love your video and hope your channel does well. I adore the quality of the video and hope that maybe you can do a video on the discovery of certain species of ediacaran biota.
These videos are super high quality for such a new channel. I think you're going places if you keep it up
What a banger video! Liked it alot. Will definitely watch your other videos.
Holy crap, why do you only have 450 subscribers?? Your efforts deserve far better then that, lets raise this channel up to at least 15k! C’mon people!
I loved the video and art. It's the first time I learned about the Cambrian substrate revolution which seems pretty important, thanks. Also wanted to mention: at 10:32 the distance to the Moon feels wrong, 19 km would be practically nothing, unless i misunderstood. From an internet search it was more like 50.000 km closer.
Thanks for the correction! I've posted a more accurate number in the comments.
Thank you for making this. I had no idea we had evidence of multicellular life before the cambrian
I just got this recommended, and I am very happy I did, because this is so interesting. Particularly because the Ediacaran is one of the time periods in earth's history I don't know very much about.
It's a very underrated period! And the mysterious element to it is what makes it so intriguing
@@GinkgoTraces Indeed. I like the idea of just being transported back to a time where a human could make one of the loudest noises experienced for potentially months on end in one region. I also find it interesting but a bit depressing that there are potentially hundreds of species from the Ediacaran we will never know about solely because the microbial mat or rocks just didn't preserve well in that specific area.
First time seeing one of your videos. I like the way you're presenting the journey. You just earned yourself a subscribe and a like.
I love hearing about this strange time!
Great work thank you❤🎉
idk how your channel only has 50 subs. Very high quality, great work.
Whoa, what a great documentary! Thank you for sharing, you got a new subscriber. Cheers!
This video is amazing! For me the soundtrack is far too loud, but everything else is simply perfect. Thanks!
Anomalocaris seeing Dickinsonia as a big pizza made me chuckle. Good video.
15:01 A small detail but: Ernietta is from the following Nama assemblage.
amazing work! subscribed
Phenomenal. Just subscribed.
Top notch video bro
Do you have any planes to cover late Silurian terrestrial life? This rocks.
He will eventually do all of history
Absolutely! I'm already working on my prototaxites landscape designs ;)
@@GinkgoTraces Awesome!! I'm super excited.
Have you seen the 2022 study by Vajda et all interpreting prototaxites as a ground-based rhizomorph?
Fun fact. David Attenborough once said it was finding charnia fossils when he was a lad that got him into zoology. And was Earth really blue-skied back when charnia lived?
Liked and subscribed, can't get enough of channels like this 👀
Sick video man
Really interesting, and beautiful art
This rules! Very inspiring. Has me dreaming about modeling some charnia
There’s so much we don’t know of this time period to how we got the life forms we have now.
Small correction: dickinsonia and spriggina (along with other proarticulates) were **not** bilaterally symmetrical.
Their sections had the same glide-reflection as those in the rangeomorphs. Thus, proarticulates like dickinsonia and spriggina are almost undoubtedly not worms or proto-arthropods, but instead a unique grade of animal likely consisting of them and the rangeomorphs.
The music was a bit loud but otherwise a very nice video
Fantastic video. Good work!
man what I wouldn't do to pet a dickensonia 😔
Love the narrative and the illustrations! I can't wait for the cambrian ep :D
ooh, this is cozy 😌
Underrated paleontology channel
just love the music track for this
Boo there’s only 5 videos!! Thank you for tackling so much
Better stay tuned for the Cambrian! Illustrations are well underway!
Great video just one little nit pick. At +10:30 you say the moon was 19.3 km nearer to the Earth, which seems far too small to me. The current recession rate is 3.8 cm/yr (from NASA), which is 38 km per one million years. Where did you get the number?
Thanks for picking this up! An oversight on my part. I have posted a correction in the comments.
No, the Ediacaran life was probably not the first to be multicellular.
It seems to appear out of nowhere, because the glaciers of the Snowball Earth scoured much of the world.
There is no way to know how complex life had been in those areas scraped clean. There is a good chance there was complex life, but it was wiped from the fossil record.
There is also the significant possibility that the islands of life existing under the frozen oceans, at thermal vents, evolved dramatically because of its isolation.
This means that life may well have had its main opportunity to become complex, genetically and morphologically, during that snowball earth...but we have no evidence of it, because of the glaciers, and the way that most of the continental plates from back then are now gone, thanks to subduction, erosion, et cetera.
great production
Really excellent - so informative
*Ginkgo Traces* = Instant subscribe 💪🙏
Thank you for your excellent.
The issue with pre-Cambrian organisms is that it's still not possible to prove any ancestor for chordates nor arthropods.
Spriggina has glide symmetry, not bilateral symmetry.
Wikipedia might say that Dickinsonia is bilaterally symmetric in its lead, but it is not. People keep trying to say that it is because they need a bilateral ancestor to Cambrian organisms, but almost all studies (Glaessner & Wade 1966; Wade 1972; Runnegar 1982; Gehling et al. 2005; Gold et al. 2015; Evans et al. 2017; Hoekzema et al. 2017; Dunn et al. 2018; Reid et al. 2018) claim it has glide symmetry. Even the picture of it that appears in your video appears to have glide symmetry. :)
It's difficult to claim that an organism has eyes because it doesn't burrow into someone else's burrow~ That would require sensory functions more than proving anything~ :)
we need more ediacaran vids on yt
i’ve watched quite a few ediacaran videos and i’d say this is the best one
I would have watched, but the background music is way too loud.
Thanks for the tip! Still new to video editing, will correct for future videos
@GinkgoTraces don’t turn it down much, just a lil during the loud parts of the track. I like the music. :)
Thank you
I love your videos so much
wow GREAT video
I love the Ediacaran period and its colorful squooshies (I hope they were colorful).
As the artist, I get to decide that all of these squooshies were as colourful as possible ;)
good stuff
Would there be marine snow without multi cellular creatures in the water column?
If Charnia is an animal for the reasons typically cited, so is welwitschia for the same reasons.
If I remembered correctly, Gaskiers glaciation in Ediacaran is NOT the famous snowball earth.
Said snowball earths happened during the preceding Cryogenian Period with Sturtian and Marinoan glaciation.
From wikipedia about Gaskiers glaciation:
"It is assumed that, in contrast to the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations, it did not lead to global glaciation."
A good point! I went back to check this and you're right. According to a paper by Judy Pu at CSIRO, "it appears that Earth narrowly escaped a third Neoproterozoic snowball glaciation". At least we know it was cold :)
@@GinkgoTraces It would have been reminiscent of Andean-Saharan icehouse at the end-Ordovician.
Excellent. The mysterious world before the Cambrian comes alive.
13:19
You mean descendants?
That's right :) Thanks!
It's worth pointing out that Snowball Earth is an hypothesis. There isn't enough evidence to conclude that a global glaciation actually existed.
Yes, but what do they taste like?
Remind that under the sun of the Ediacaran, we must stay out of the direct rays because there wasn't a completely ozone layer.
If I'm not wrong
Yes but in the water it doesnt really matter
Mmm …very interesting, weird but interesting. Difficult for me to see the Ediacaran biota as animals.
13:20 you said ancestors instead of descendants
Excellent but the music is too loud
No because i wasn't born yet