Imagine being an average villager in Italy during Roman times and seeing soldiers riding elephants...

@inesnaglic472

2 жыл бұрын

😳

@jamesswanson7213

2 жыл бұрын

Roman soldiers walked

@nightman7930

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesswanson7213 he talking about seeing Carthaginian soldiers

@DeCavalcante

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesswanson7213 actually Romans did have war elephants too.

@arrietty1619

2 жыл бұрын

It used to be normal see elephants walking around in Thailand in the 2000s. I visited Thailand when I was 6 and rode an elephant there.

The world even just 500-600 years ago seems so magical and mysterious

@khan0491

2 жыл бұрын

The Roman Empire ended more than 1500 years ago

@voornaam3191

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just did a vacation in 1450, went to Manhattan and it surprised me. No Yanks yet, but you know...

@AlexanderDiviFilius

2 жыл бұрын

@@khan0491 only the Western half

@TillowFrik

2 жыл бұрын

And murderous. The reason most of these animals are extinct is because the Romans imported them, then slaughtered them for fun.

@AlexanderDiviFilius

2 жыл бұрын

@@TillowFrik to be honest, it’s a habit Humans don’t seem to have grown out of much. There are plenty of places today which force animals to fight and whatnot for entertainment. Very sad to be sure.

One of the saddest extinctions for me is the Tasmanian Tiger. Such a unique and majestic animal that died solely because of human activity

@froggygirl999

6 ай бұрын

not just human activity, specifically colonialism. Indigenous people lived with them for thousands of years

@Immigrantlovesamerica

4 ай бұрын

@@froggygirl999CoLiOnAlisM. It’s like you guys never got past your college ideological bs. The animal was hunted down for the same reason foxes and boars are hunted down today: they leech off of farms.

@jimbobpeters620

3 ай бұрын

They are alive in Tasmania

@SanctusPaulus1962

2 ай бұрын

​@@froggygirl999 If the aboriginals had the technology that the Europeans had, they absolutely would've drove them to extinction as well. Let's not act as if the aboriginals were somehow any more moral than the European settlers. They hunted the Thylacine as well. The Europeans were just better at it than they were.

@verward

2 ай бұрын

@@froggygirl999 This is a very misleading take. The Inidigenous people took dingos to australia which caused most of the population decline Thylacine. Europeans just killed the last of them. So claiming this is like saying most of europe lived peacefully with aurochs for hundreds of year, but Polish royals came and killed them off. Killing the last of something doesn't make you solely responsible for it's extinction.

Im shocked that you didnt mention the Dwarf elephants of Cyprus and Crete, which were several species roughly between 4-7 feet tall. There are paintings possibly depicting people having them on leashes because they were so small. Just the concept of an elephant that was shorter than a child and lived in Europe alone is such a crazy concept to me. By far the saddest for me are the Moa, Haast's Eagle, and Elephant Bird. All of them died at roughly the same time in history and all of them were probably alive around the time of Christopher Columbus, which would begin the European exploration phase.

@pelopidasa147

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget dwarf hippopotamuses that also used to inhabit Cyprus and which where even smaller than dwarf elephants

@Gostwriterindisguise

Жыл бұрын

Except they were exterminated by the Maori.

@bloopboop9320

Жыл бұрын

@@Gostwriterindisguise i didnt say they werent.

@techanina5308

Жыл бұрын

Wow i had no idea such a small elephant existed once, how amazing it must’ve been to witness a living one

@naruto654_

Жыл бұрын

Dwarf elephant are present in Indonesia

You don’t really think of cows being intimidating… but to stumble upon a wild territorial giant bull would definitely be something to fear

@Necroskull388

2 жыл бұрын

That’s my understanding of what it’s like to meet a bison. I’ve heard that they’re peaceable, but not docile - with a critical stare that’s so much more aware than a cow’s.

@Faustaine

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine getting dropped off in the Philippines and someone pulls up on you riding a Carabao.

@TheSulross

2 жыл бұрын

got chased by our bull on multiple occasions, one time when was about five, barely made it to a barn in time

@BoaConstrictor126

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and the auroch was bigger than any species of living cattle 🐄. Even bigger than a gaur or bison 🦬

@TheSulross

2 жыл бұрын

Tigerman126 🐅 in North America there was a giant species of Bison that is now extinct - it may have been comparable to or even larger than the giant cow of Eurasia

“The worst part of liking cool animals is knowing we missed out on most of them” is the best sentence ive ever heard

@mrgehbak6713

2 жыл бұрын

As cool as seeing live dinosaurs would be I’ll stick with fossils.

@pepearown4968

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrgehbak6713 We still have some pretty wacky not-extinct animals though, especially in the oceans.

@thelong-hairedleapinggnome7939

2 жыл бұрын

Right on. People are awful.

@diegone080

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrgehbak6713 living dinosaurs are here, go check what is a bird

@thatonerotom8999

2 жыл бұрын

@@thelong-hairedleapinggnome7939 You and I both on hating our species.

It breaks my heart the library at Alexandria was burned. I can’t begin to imagine the immense volumes of ancient knowledge we lost. A tragedy.

@agathar7115

7 ай бұрын

believe it or not there was nothing really unique about the library at Alexandria. historians today have a better understanding of how academia worked in the ancient world. there weren’t any important works in Alexandria that weren’t in any of the other massive libraries of the time or other collections. there were dozens of private and public libraries throughout Italy, Turkey, and elsewhere that were just as large or larger. like the Palatine library in Rome. Even within Egypt there were several other large libraries that were just as or more significant than Alexandria. just like today, no library was the single repository to a work that was significant beyond the immediate area. the book trade was huge back then so any work people cared about was copied. regional manuscripts and records are a different matter of course. the library in Alexandria burning would be a big shock to Egyptians like if any monument in your country was destroyed, but in the grand scale of history the fire had almost zero effect on which works were copied and passed down through the ages. learned men of the time didn’t see it as a loss to academia. that misconception is much more recent and became a thing only in the past few decades. it really is based on little more than romanticism.

@pb_monkey

7 ай бұрын

​@@agathar7115i ain't reading allat

@L.P.1987

6 ай бұрын

@@pb_monkey Lazy

@BringDHouseDown

6 ай бұрын

@@agathar7115 newsflash, those libraries got burned by Islam too

@carpenoctem3257

6 ай бұрын

@@pb_monkeysomeone wouldn’t like the library of Alexandria

We always talk about extinct animals but extinct plants can often be more important since they might have some amazing medicinal property

@sammalsikuri3828

Жыл бұрын

For sure. I remember some years ago I heard (in a video) of an eurasian plant that was great for preventing pregnancies, or something of the like that made it popular to use as a contraceptive (and thus was highly sought after, until eventually there were none left) 🤔 I haven't tried looking it up afterwards so I don't know how true that is, just something I remember hearing when I was younger.

@thegameranch5935

Жыл бұрын

@@sammalsikuri3828 I am amazed no one tried to grow those plants

@sammalsikuri3828

Жыл бұрын

@@thegameranch5935 it's been years since I saw the video so I unfortunately can't quarantee on how true my statement is, or if it just was something fake on the internet. Edit: so, googling "contraceptive plant extinct" will lead to stuff about silphium, which was used by Romans before the fall of the Roman Empire. It's most likely that plant the video was talking about, so hey, I had it vaguely right.

@towleyjr1589

Жыл бұрын

@@sammalsikuri3828 you're right! The plant is most likely silphium. Apparently it had a wide range of amazing medicinal properties. If I remember correctly, it grew in limited places, like Cyprus. Romans did try to cultivate the plant, but according to some, plant failed to grow anywhere else. Who knows how did it reproduce! Even Julius Caesar, coming back from one of the conquests, brought back some silphium to Rome, alongside with gold and other treasures. Perhaps there are still some places where the plant still exist.

@pricesmith8450

Жыл бұрын

@@sammalsikuri3828 afaik, that's dong quai. Never confirmed myself but I've heard enough.

In ancient times, very, very few people travelled more than 20 miles from their birthplace. There were some high-end soldiers that travelled far, but even during the Roman Empire, the Roman soldiers posted in areas far from Rome were often the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Roman soldiers who made the journey from Rome. That said, can you imagine the looks on the faces of the Roman City guards when Hannibal shows up riding a huge grey horse with a snake for a nose and two giant swords coming out of its face?

@lucignolo8333

2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine when prisoners that lived in farmlands and villages for most of their lives were brought to rome to be used as cannonfodder in the coloseum games. Imagine the awe of those countrymen seeing all that marble, glorious gigantic statues and tall buildings engraved with golden details

@Efishrocket102

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucignolo8333 Gladiators were trained heavily and paid well. The Romans wanted to see a good, fair, exciting fight. Not just slaves being slaughtered.

@lucignolo8333

2 жыл бұрын

@@Efishrocket102 sometimes the spectacle was literally some christians being mauled to death by lions, there weren’t only gladiator fights in the colosseum. Sometimes the romans felt bad about an elephant being killed and sometimes they cheered when the lions were eating people alive. They were weird people

@maniacram

2 жыл бұрын

Intelligent aren't ya?.. No one would mistake an elephant for a horse. No even in the ancient world.

@LegendLeaguer

2 жыл бұрын

@@maniacram ancient people's would have no frame of reference for an elephant. Now we see pictures of them on cookies since we were children, but Roman's of the time would have thought they were looking at a monster.

"The world used to be a bigger place." "World's still the same. There's just less in it."

@laniedmd1126

2 жыл бұрын

Aye

@pocketmarcy6990

2 жыл бұрын

But there’s always more people

@xSoulhunterDKx

2 жыл бұрын

Aye

@wadefadle960

2 жыл бұрын

Jack sparrow

@mrgehbak6713

2 жыл бұрын

@@pocketmarcy6990 or insects

Cave paintings in France include hyenas and rhinos, different types of big cats. Amazing that they ever lived that far north.

Video Timestamps: 0:52 The Eurasian lion 3:54 The Syrian/Chinese elephant 7:28 The Atlas Bear 9:23 The auroch 14:01 Conclusion

I used to think that European painters and sculptors had a difficult time getting their lions correct or done accurately, but then I found that their models were Barbary Lions. The classic British lion depictions associated with royalty are very similar to photographs of the Barbary Lion which survived in small pockets into the 20th century. Some say that there are still captive descendants. It was a very regal looking animal and the last known aerial photo of one in the Atlas Mtns looks very proud indeed. Look it up. Going back thousands of years - the Irish Elk had the largest antlers of any relative in the deer family and stood nearly 7 feet at the shoulder. Many good skeletal remains can be found in museums. Those antlers are spectacular!

@pablovazquez8200

2 жыл бұрын

Man, I've been looking for that photo for years and now I found it thanks to you

@SCSU93

2 жыл бұрын

That last photo of the lion in the Atlas Mountains is stunning and very sad at the same time.

@lucabrasi8420

2 жыл бұрын

I first seen that photo when I was around ten. At 31 it's still cemented in my mind somewhat and always thought of it being a rather sad image.

@MrEst97

2 жыл бұрын

There's an Irish Elk exhibit in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow, it's incredible how tall it is

@OldNew45

2 жыл бұрын

Seven feet at the shoulder!?! I guess we know why they were hunted to extinction.

The Maori actually have stories about the 'haast eagle', and i read a paper a few years ago comparing the way the animal is coloured in stories from all over, and they find it consistent, as if the oral traditions are faithfully recording it and not drifting anywhere near as much as people would assume. Also some of the stories are about the eagles taking children, which is terrifying.

@tisbutascratch2045

Жыл бұрын

Oral history has recently been proven to be far more accurate than what was once was believed. It's said that oral histories were passed down with little to no change (changes were only generally allowed with permission from a community or the community's leaders), so the major details of these stories tend to stay exactly the same and are recited by heart. Super interesting to see the part that these ancient stories can play in helping us identify certain extinct species of animal today.

@chairmanmeow2413

Жыл бұрын

13 separate species are proven to be made extinct my the Maori in the 200-300yrs they were in New Zealand before Western Discovery.

@rhiAction.

Жыл бұрын

@@jacksprat6391 omfg

@thetruthchannel349

Жыл бұрын

@@tisbutascratch2045 Ya thats why the early Popes tried to claim an 'oral history' that could trace them back to the Apostles. Problem with that was there just wasn't one. So when that didn't pan out they moved to plan B. where they forged the Book of Popes.

@danielawesome36

Жыл бұрын

@@jacksprat6391 bruh💀

This makes me really feel for our descendants. All the animals that are around today that we take for granted and see as "nothing special or out of the ordinary" - our descendants will be watching a video (or whatever future equivalent) just like this about our modern day animals that are no longer around in their time.

@kyrab7914

10 ай бұрын

It makes me wonder how we'll be seen by them. Like the Romans prob killed so many species, and I get this like... Not angry at them but def wish I could see those plants and animals. Even so, I do try to remember that they don't know what we do now.

@CHRB-nn6qp

9 ай бұрын

Don't be a pessimist. We are much better educated than our ancestors, and many of us are working towards saving endangered animals. In many cases we have been successful, but if we believe that we can't save them, then we won't.

@kyrab7914

9 ай бұрын

@@CHRB-nn6qp honestly proportionally I think we have the same amount of education they did. There's a LOT of ppl who don't believe in climate change, and more who are invested in encouraging that. And then there's the ppl hunting endangered species bc they can.

@CHRB-nn6qp

9 ай бұрын

@@kyrab7914 The difference lies in the fact that we can now make a difference. If we remain pessimistic, we are allowing these terrible people to have their way with nature. We often hear most about the bad stuff, as that will get the most attention. There is still a lot of good in the world, and if we continue to spread positivity, it will outweigh the negativity.

@Sketchy_2

9 ай бұрын

​@@CHRB-nn6qpI agree, being nihilistic and just saying "humans bad" does nothing to solve the problem.

considering we’ve found human structures that are over 12000 years old, i can only imagine how life was back then with the animals still alive

i absolutely mourn the loss of dodos the most. they were such peaceful and timid creatures, having known no predators before humans, and i believe they wouldve been amazing companions. especially when you look at their only living relatives, the pigeon, and how incredibly sweet and friendly they can be. instead their timidness were taken advantage of and they were hunted for their, supposedly not even well tasting, meat. a shame.

@archravenineteenseventeen

2 жыл бұрын

Being good is punishable in the eyes of the universe

@NeostormXLMAX

2 жыл бұрын

@@archravenineteenseventeen good and evil are subjective. In the universe peace is evil

@GoneCarnivore

2 жыл бұрын

I either watched a show or read somewhere that the Dodo birds bones were not found around the old camps in Mauritius that have been excavated. Instead what is believed now is that the hogs that were let loose on the island ate the dodo birds eggs or rooted and disturbed the birds so much that they couldn't reproduce.

@dfredankey

2 жыл бұрын

@@archravenineteenseventeen I swear thoughts and the acceptance of such thoughts will always lead to no change

@dfredankey

2 жыл бұрын

@@NeostormXLMAX same with this

We definitely need a part 2 of this video, there's so many more interesting animals.

@megumin-staff6937

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

2 жыл бұрын

But first we must call Lumi so she rescues this man from bears.

@papabird4425

2 жыл бұрын

Looks Iike we have a lot of animals to kill for the next video...

@implausibleimpossiblehypot4006

2 жыл бұрын

@@papabird4425 time is animals if ya know what I mean

@riograndedosulball248

2 жыл бұрын

Atlas Lions...

The lion thing is interesting. Cougars were native where I live but I can’t think of anyone who had ever seen one when I was growing up. Now that I’m in my 50’s they are starting to come back as they’ve been displaced once again from where they went after they were displaced from here. I’ve seen 7 so far in the last 3 years.

I’ve always been fascinated with the remaining population of Asiatic lions so thank you for recognizing them

The photograph of the last Barbary Lion in the wild is so haunting. It just strides off into the beautiful desert that its species called home.

@bestbread3446

10 ай бұрын

when does that come up?

@MadAtreides1

8 ай бұрын

@@bestbread3446 just look at wikipedia -> upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Barbary_lion.jpg

@justcameron9500

8 ай бұрын

@@bestbread3446it’s not in the video but I was absolutely expecting that photo to be in it. I imagine it is easily googled.

@bakielh229

3 ай бұрын

As a native Berber from Morocco, nothing makes sadder than the extinction of the Barbary lion

@David-gh6vp

2 ай бұрын

Find some DNA material, bro, and it can be inserted into a near relative. The Romans really did suck. @@bakielh229

For me, the animal that I'm upset I never got to live to see was the Thylacine, it looks like such an interesting animal and it's so sad how it went extinct specifically because of us.

@TomFWA

2 жыл бұрын

And they went extinct due to hunting etc so recently when we should have known better. Truly disgusting.

@netherdominater9960

2 жыл бұрын

Supposedly a few have been sighted in recent years but this hasn't been confirmed by any scientists or wildlife experts yet

@jhtsurvival

2 жыл бұрын

Most animals that have gone extinct while civilization has been around was because of humans

@b.lloydreese2030

2 жыл бұрын

@@netherdominater9960 i have a friend from Aus who moved to tas and he's visitied tas alot. He asked park rangers and there wasn't a big enough breeding population. It would be nigh impossible for it to have survived, sadly

@slipstreamxr3763

2 жыл бұрын

@@TomFWA The 19th century was the most F'd up century in human history in general.

I've always been interested in the Thylacine myself! I'm reminded about it every few years and I was totally intrigued when I first saw it as a kid!

@kieranhurley5902

Жыл бұрын

They have a Taxidermy Thylacine at the Natural History Museum in London. Amazing to see it, but I’d much rather it was alive and kicking. Apparently all the technology and research to bring Thylacines back already exists, and they think we will see a return within the next decade.

You should look into the animals in ancient Arabia it was apparently filled with deers in the desert which is really fascinating

The Barbary Lions were most revered by the Romans. It’s the largest of all lions with mane that goes down to it’s belly. It’s no wonder that this beautiful species is now extinct in the wild. There are only handful of them left in about 80 zoos worldwide and although they are being bred again, experts don’t want to take the risk of introducing them to the wild just yet for fear of poachers.

@TheAzozoi

2 жыл бұрын

The romans were the reason why the barbary lions are functionnally extinct (the only surivivng members are individuals that are mixed with african lions), they over hunted them for their circus.

@normalhuman9878

2 жыл бұрын

I say we hunt the poachers for sport

@johnnylara7032

2 жыл бұрын

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@knightwind6628

2 жыл бұрын

@@normalhuman9878 I second that motion.

@petiteexplication6249

2 жыл бұрын

One of the reason their numbers went down dramatically is because of colonial powers the french generals in Morocco would hunt them to near extinction

To paraphrase So many wondrous animals, lost like tears in rain.

@planescaped

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen the burning orange sun rising over the ice sheets of the frigid north, and torrential mudslides of the Eurasian steppe turn the land asunder. And it will all be lost with me. ~Polish Auroch's last words or something.

@josue.ortega

2 жыл бұрын

@@planescaped beautiful words depicting a beautiful scenario.

@davidatkinson5858

2 жыл бұрын

Lol ok but do aurouchs dream of electric 🐑?

@Revelation6_7-8

2 жыл бұрын

"Time to die"

@JohnSmith-vk4ex

2 жыл бұрын

Like a fart in the wind

I just found this channel. This is the first video I've watched. These are topics I truly enjoy. Animals and ancient history are my favorite things. I will be looking for your videos

Just found your channel and I'm in love with it. Love the information, the tone and the subjects. Thank you so much.

Keep in mind that we have the privilege of living alongside the single biggest living organism, ever, to inhabit the Earth: the Blue Whale - more massive even than some of the extinct sauropod dinosaurs. Were that not the case, we'd probably looking at their fossilized bones with wonder, and theorizing on what a creature so huge would even look like.

@skylarmercer1530

2 жыл бұрын

biggest living animal*

@jcrc1

2 жыл бұрын

@@skylarmercer1530 right, the biggest organism is some kind of fungus I think

@toddyrocket296

2 жыл бұрын

@@jcrc1 The great barrier reef

@realshit6061

2 жыл бұрын

@@toddyrocket296 no

@brendenheil

2 жыл бұрын

@@jcrc1 the honey fungus

Another tragic loss is that of the ezo wolves of Hokkaido, Japan. They were hunted to extinction during the Meiji restoration due to the Japanese wanting to protect their recently imported cattle.

@juansanchez209

Жыл бұрын

The people who actually live in the region swear that they’re still around, just in very sparse numbers

@Chrischi3TutorialLPs

Жыл бұрын

There are some reports of people seeing a few, but there's no evidence for it.

@AbdulGabagool83

Жыл бұрын

So is this a problem? The wolves being hunted to extinction so the people can survive? I feel like this comes off as a modern concern because nowadays we don’t have animals threatening to kill is

@Chrischi3TutorialLPs

Жыл бұрын

@@AbdulGabagool83 It's enough of a problem that a lot of european countries are actually trying to get wolves back. See, there's this concept called a keystone species, wherein there are certain species within an ecosystem which are necessary for its stability. At one point, the US decided to eliminate grey wolves in Yellowstone National Park, and succeeded. However, this threw the entire ecosystem off balance. The deer, now unpredated because of the lack of wolves, started exploding in population, as their numbers were no longer being kept in check by anything. This resulted in overgrazing by the increased population, which resulted in less tall grass. This caused a drop in small herbivores such as rabbits, which were now easier prey for the local raptor populations. The overgrazing also affected the food supplies for the local beavers, as the deer now started encroaching on their food supplies as well. This caused their populations to dwindle as a result. The lowered beaver population resulted in higher erosion along the riverbanks, as the beavers that were now no longer present couldn't build their dams, which would normally regulate the flow of water. This then caused all kinds of havoc for the species living in these rivers, which had adapted to beavers being around and building their dams. As a result of eliminating the grey wolves in Yellowstone, the entire ecosystem became unbalanced, as the lack of a predator for the local deer population caused an overpopulation of deer, which had a ripple effect on all the other species in the park. Reintroducing the grey wolf to Yellowstone caused the entire ecosystem to recover within just a few years of reintroduction. So yes, hunting predators to extinction can very much be a problem.

@chairmanmeow2413

Жыл бұрын

These Wolves as well an multiple other species were made extinct by the Yamato People (Japanese) NOT by the Native Ainu people.

I just found out your channel and I really lovea it! I'm a biology student and it's heartwarming to find out someone as amazed by the same subjects inside biology as i am :D

Wow! This was a really interesting video with great, aesthetic presentation, and nice chilled voiceover. Really well done and well researched!

The tazmanian tiger is the animal im most angry at humans about. They didnt have to go extinct, we did it and not that long ago. I wish they were still around, they were so wild looking and unique.

@Sawrattan

2 жыл бұрын

Worst of all, it was recent enough for us to know better. I can forgive the Romans hunting bears, but 20th-Century Brits on the tiny island of Tasmania... 😡

@DarkPsychoMessiah

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sawrattan >Brits I think I found the problem

@daig8817

2 жыл бұрын

There's been a lot of sightings of the Tasmanian tiger

@chuckaddison5134

2 жыл бұрын

I read, a while back, that there have been a few recent sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. Though these are considered apocryphal.

@no_peace

2 жыл бұрын

And Ivory billed woodpecker 😭

14:16 the biggest eagle in the world. The Maoris had stories of their children being taken away by them. They died out because their main prey, the Moa, was hunted into extinction by the Maori long before Europeans arrived.

@Sawrattan

2 жыл бұрын

New Zealand and Madagascar top the list for tragic extinctions since they have absolutely no surviving parallel elsewhere.

@slippyseconds8357

2 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing that humans weren't nutritious enough to sustain the health of those giant eagles when they had to switch to preying humans as it's primary food source. The combination of our ability to use tools, be very deadly ingenious, and vengefully motivated didn't help it survive much longer after the moa's extinction.

@coyote_0056

2 жыл бұрын

The Moa looks like a variation of the emu, ostrich. They’re probably related, would be easy to clone one using an emu, ostrich as the carrier, if they got the DNA of the Moa.

@slippyseconds8357

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sawrattan Shows just what kind of unique variations of species and one of a kind species that can evolve within a island. It also shows how fragile those species are since their evolutionary traits tend to be less general and more specific adaptions based upon unique particularities of those islands ecosystems. A little tweak by an outside force (almost always humans for the past several millennia) on the food chain, flora/fonna, climate, etc. can spell doom to the wildlife. Evolution is amazing, but also slow. Force the need for a rapid adaption for a species within a changing environment too quickly and the whole evolutionary process falls apart for said species and extinction is the end result.

@nonenoneonenonenone

2 жыл бұрын

So much for the wisdom of indigenous people.

Glad this video showed up on my feed! Outstanding work!

The auroch reminds me of Texas Longhorn Cattle. Longhorns are decended from spanish cattle that went feral in Mexico and Texas. Longhorn bulls are usually 1200 to 1500 lbs, and they are about 6 feet tall at the shoulders. So they are impressive animals, but not as large as an auroch. Modern longhorns are bred to have ridiculously long horns, some exceeding 10 feet tip to tip. But 100 years ago, 6 feet was more common. They were wild, tough, and fierce animals in the early 1800's. Now they are kept by weekend ranchers due to their hardiness, beauty and docile nature. They are considered the best bred of cattle to ride. They are long lived and good mothers, and they thrive on forage that other cattle don't do well on. Their meat is lean and resembles venison more than traditional beef. I live in Texas and I love seeing herds of them grazing on some ranches. I really like Irish Cattle as well. And who wouldn't want a few dwarf elephants like those that lived in SE Asia?

This is a great example of why we need to protect the animals that still exist

@BigWheel.

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly some of these animals are pretty dangerous to humans. It's not hard to figure out why we didn't have much issue killing them off.

@nosebleed1826

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigWheel. yes but in the process we have done irreparable damage to the ecosystems they once inhabited. So in the long run we have done more harm to ourselves and to our world as a whole

@olyvia1380

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigWheel. humans aren’t the center of the world, even though you wanna make them out to be. we can’t just kill whatever we don’t like. that’s not how that works. there’s an order and a reason for everything. in the last few hundred years especially, it’s gotten completely screwed up.

@whatsit2ya247

2 жыл бұрын

@JerryRupprecht I know right? Just imagine how much more diverse our weekend BBQ's. could be!

@thatonerotom8999

2 жыл бұрын

Soon it’s just going to be us and bugs

“Mammoths existing with ancient Egypt” Only true chads would get this

@zaidlaurio9975

2 жыл бұрын

Wrangle Island

@oldmech619

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaidlaurio9975 Thanks.

@Memememe-is1yn

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, didn't know I was a Chad.

@JamesTheFoxeArt

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

@jhtsurvival

2 жыл бұрын

Ancient aliens

So glad I found this channel. History is the scratch to my itch.

So interesting.. thank you for posting. This is the first episode I've watched as just found your channel ☺️

As to finding viable DNA in soft tissue and breeding back extinct species; the one I'd really like to see is the Irish Elk! A magnificent animal.

@villus9384

2 жыл бұрын

agree completely

@wilfdarr

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but those didn't go extinct because of human hunting, those died because they evolved to be unfit for life. Like koalas or Tasmanian tigers.

@jointcerulean3350

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, but the best bet Currently would be gene editing on a closely related species to look as close as possible to the extinct species, and using it as a taxon substitute, than when the technologies advance to a point, than such endeavors can become a reality when it comes to cloning.

@villus9384

2 жыл бұрын

@@wilfdarr but they're cool

@wilfdarr

2 жыл бұрын

@@villus9384 I don't disagree with that part. Imagine that rack over the mantle.

For the last several years, I've been following the conservation efforts of the giant softshell turtle. Believed to have played a role in Asian mythology, these creatures are currently teetering on the very edge of extinction, with the only known specimens being at a number you could count on one hand. It'll be quite sad if they go, though thankfully there is still some hope for them. The last captive female died in 2019, after years of unsuccessful breeding attempts. It was looking rough, but then a wild female managed to be discovered a year later. There's no telling if there're any more wild specimens out there, or if they just got really lucky on this one, but here's hoping that the conservation efforts manage to see more success now that she's here.

@Rystefn

Жыл бұрын

One female? They're already dead. No breeding program could save them. At most, you get a few generations of horrible inbred turtles before the end.

@talisikid1618

Жыл бұрын

Truly sad to hear this. Hope they can be saved.

@kane2875

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully the Yangtze giant softshell turtle pulls through, although the odds are slim to none.

@austinbevis4266

Жыл бұрын

On the bright side soft shell turtles are really good at hiding in the mud. So there’s a good possibility that there’s more than we think

@YamatoFukkatsu

Жыл бұрын

@@austinbevis4266 Is that true of the giant softshell, specifically?

just discovered your channel and I immediately loved it. Great video on a passionating subject, was great to listen to and watch!!

I remember wondering this years ago. Thanks for making!

The one animal that I most regret going extinct is the Carolina Parakeet. It would've been cool to seen these parrots in my area.

@yeldarbarrow3172

2 жыл бұрын

Passenger Pigeon- lotsa good eatin' we're missing out on from all out overharvesting. (Doves are Delicious)

@katherinek2709

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I saw an ancient grainy pic of an old man and his Carolina, and it was playing like a sun conure and it just made me so sad

@hugzpls

2 жыл бұрын

I would’ve loved to see the Dodo. They look so cute

@funzjag

2 жыл бұрын

I do wish that the Carolina Parakeet was still around. On the other hand, I definitely would like to see the Kentucky Spirochete go extinct!!!

@HullsColby

2 жыл бұрын

also, the blue parrots from the movie Rio there are lots of animals that didn't deserve to go extinct

The real bummer to me is the ones we almost got to see; things our grandparents or great grandparents might have seen, like thylacines and passenger pigeons. Or ones we maybe did see but our kids or their kids won't, like the pyrenean Ibex.

@blacktigerpaw1

2 жыл бұрын

That species of ibex may be introduced thanks to cloning or IVF.

@jointcerulean3350

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly there have been stories of people with pet thylacines, and were very good and trusting pets from what I’ve heard, and who knows, it’s possibly they might still persist, best bet for there survival is in New Guinea, people living in the region have reported animals that match such descriptions. And during the Pleistocene of Australia, sahul, New Guinea was connected to Australia at one point, temporarily as land bridges. And fossils have been found in new Guinean as well.

@blacktigerpaw1

2 жыл бұрын

@@jointcerulean3350 I know a species of leopard largely thought extinct was caught on camera a few years ago. We can only hope.

@Sawrattan

2 жыл бұрын

@@jointcerulean3350 interesting to think parallel evolution might not just be physical but also mental, if thylacines showed almost canid-like behaviour.

@danielj.dababy3420

2 жыл бұрын

Should have been born earlier bruh

Damn I’m late, was gonna say this is the first time I’ve seen this channel and it’s incredibly well done. Definitely deserving of a sub.

Being in the UK where our most dangerous wildlife are adders or badgers makes it seem surreal that bears and wolves used to live here, I think some sort of reintroduction of wolves is going on in Scotland though!

@chanshengsupremacy8889

8 ай бұрын

I live near the project to reintroduce bison in the south, they are incredible to see

The Ancient Greeks and Etruscan had tales about savage Pygmies waging a constant war against giant storks. This was considered folklore until the recent discovery of Homo Florensiensis, the Hobbit of Flores Island in Indonesia, that was indeed preyed upon by a species of giant marabou stork.

@TheZapan99

2 жыл бұрын

@Simon Farley There's local folklore evidence that a relictual population of Hobbits survived until the 15th C, to be eradicated by modern humans after they kidnapped a baby. South-East Asia was far more traveled and documented at the time than the Congo Valley, where the gorilla remained a myth until the early 20th C. The same population of archaic humans on the continent (Homo Erectus) is also believed to have inspired the legend of Hanuman, the monkey god of India, that led his people to build the land bridge that existed between the tip of India and Sri Lanka. That legend in turn reached Europe, under the form of Cynocephalus Saint Christopher, the dog-headed saint.

@kemurinine4272

2 жыл бұрын

India was much more influential than a remote island in Indonesia. I’d like to believe what you’re saying but I doubt those stories would have reached the Mediterranean

@TheZapan99

2 жыл бұрын

@@kemurinine4272 If you want to learn more about the hidden connection between India and the Mediterranean world, read the paper "Brahma and Abraham: Divine Covenants of Common Origin" that's your missing link. Let's just say that the more you go East, the more a certain foundational monotheism of the Middle East is seen as nothing more than a sectarian offshoot of the Vedic tradition.

@Miller_Time

2 жыл бұрын

This would be a great short story idea. From the perspective of a villager.

@JohnDoe-fu6zt

2 жыл бұрын

@@kemurinine4272 " ... would HAVE reached the Mediterranean."

Aurochs then: badass beasts, inspiring awe and fear Aurochs now: just regular cows, mass bred for milk and meat, those badass ones were hunted down completely Disappointing, for sure

@josecastilho6652

2 жыл бұрын

Just like humans

@M50A1

2 жыл бұрын

@@josecastilho6652 i sure hate how we're bred for milk ))))

@dayhawkify

2 жыл бұрын

Lament the passing of the autochs, and the slaying of the ancient worm

@jkirk1626

2 жыл бұрын

than ≠ then

@vladprus4019

2 жыл бұрын

@@jkirk1626 Corrected

Great info, fun commentary and very interesting. Thanks for the effort!

Megatherium were also present in Roman times. I find it crazy that someone could have seen a massive sloth just grazing on trees back then.

@smo-king6504

Жыл бұрын

Not really, they died out before the first pyramids and lived just in south america

Jurassic Park just needed better fences...

@sirasack-chan659

2 жыл бұрын

Fr tho

@KoxenBols

2 жыл бұрын

And more qualified staff

@userequaltoNull

2 жыл бұрын

Or big fuck-off pits, like we already do for literally every big dangerous animal in most zoos around the world.

@ashole3216

2 жыл бұрын

@@userequaltoNull why does everybody ignore the effectiveness of big holes in the ground

@properfunny

2 жыл бұрын

They also spared the expense on their IT. If they hadn’t been underpaying him he probably wouldn’t have done what he did. Then again he was greedy.

Recently found the channel, dig the content dude!

@paein9642

2 жыл бұрын

Found him last week, quickly finished all his videos, and just as quickly became one of my favorite channels.

@hardanalljr.3138

2 жыл бұрын

Just subscribed

@trejubei

2 жыл бұрын

@@paein9642 same bro

@MeemOnU

2 жыл бұрын

Yah found out about this guy 2 weeks ago. Love this channel better then mothlight

@your_local_road_cone1194

2 жыл бұрын

Same here! This guy is a gem.

Txs just watched very informative and I learned a lot. Txs for your time and talent bringing us the information

Absolutely love your videos. I'm endlessly fascinated by animals and creatures of the earth as well 🌎🌍

Aurochs selective breeding program was actually first tried by the nazis back in 1920s and 1930s, who had an obsession of bringing back the aurochs, the result is a large, agressive bovine breed similar to aurochs that were still around today called the Heck cattle

@slipstreamxr3763

2 жыл бұрын

Texas Longhorns also have similar characteristics to Aurochs.

@uberfeel

2 жыл бұрын

> by the nazis in 1920s > Hitler became chancellor in 1933 What?

@Rynewulf

2 жыл бұрын

@@uberfeel The party had existed since the 20's, and they were kind of batshit from the get go so it's entirely believable that between paramilitary assaults and political speeches they were cow breeding

@richie_23

2 жыл бұрын

@@uberfeel one of the heck brothers were a prominant member of the nazi party since its beginning in early 20s, and when hitler rises to power, he and göring personally funded the heck brothers project and eventually release the cattles into the wild. However the heck cattle is much smaller, shorter legged, and short snouted then the original aurochs. This is why heck cattles are used as the basis for germanys projekt taurus, a more modern attempt to crossbreed the aurochs

@uberfeel

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rynewulf Yes, I know they exist during the early 20's but, hitler joined the party in 1924 also they had to paramilitary assualt and also defend themselves form the Marxists all the time because if they didn't the Marxists would've kill their SA men one by one in the streets. Also just checked about that cow plan. It was planned in the 1926 but, it started in 1934.

The American bear dog was a 300 pound dog that existed in the plains of North America about 15 to 20,000 years ago. Take a guess as to why scientists nicknamed it Bone Crusher. Native Americans also lived with the American lion, which was 20% bigger than the African lion. The ancient aborigines of Australia lived with a monitor lizard twice as big as the Komodo dragon. The short nose cave bear of Alaska and Canada is interesting too.

@az12223

2 жыл бұрын

Neee dont really belive the lion size part

@brandoncruise6398

2 жыл бұрын

At 8ft long and 3.9 feet tall at the Shoulder, along with being a little broader, this is about 20 to 25% larger than the modern African lion.

@chadwickst.clair-smythe4217

2 жыл бұрын

I posses a bear dog. Though he is no match for the might of my Bear Cat. Woe to the person who refuses to play patty cake with the bear cat when he rears up on his hind legs. Tis Greenies or death!

@harsha1989able

2 жыл бұрын

Inaccurate about the first part. The bear dog was not a dog at all but it was totally another group of species known as Amphicyon, the biggest species of it is estimated to have weighed up to around 800 kgs. It did not come under the dog (Canidae) family. They were NOT the ones termed as the bone-crushing dogs. The bone-crushing dogs were dogs, coming under the borophaginae sub-family of the Canidae family. The biggest species of this the Epicyon Haydeni, (the largest canid ever) is estimated to have weighed upto around 300 pounds as you mentioned.

@harsha1989able

2 жыл бұрын

And the Cave Bear used to live in Europe and Asia... The giant Short-faced bears lived in North and South America...

Awesome video. Newly hooked fan here

It’s really crazy how this stuff is out there so cool!

Aurochs were actually under the protection of the Polish rulers back in the day. While their numbers systematically dwindled, concious effort was made to preserve the species back in the medieval period. Beginning with Jagiełło II, the aurochs were under the protection of the king, later after the kings death, his dynasty kept this tradition, eventually, even the Waza dynasty protected the animals. At some point, a group of foresters, alongside their families were relocated to a village next to Jaktorów forest, where the last remaining aurochs were living. They were given land, free of obligations to the king, and their only job was to protect the aurochs, keep track of their numbers, prevent farmers from destroying their habitat, and make sure that poachers don't kill the animals. They were also tasked with giving the information about the number of animals to a local official. Moreover, people were also reminded to keep the other types of cattle away from the aurochs, as it was believed that aurochs need their own space to thrive, and for their numbers to stop dwindling. Sadly, even when the concious effort was taken to protect the species, eventually they all died out, most likely as a result of diseases that were passed on from other types of cattle. These diseases would probably not be as lethal to the population if it was bigger, but it was a small and isolated population, which couldn't adapt to the enviroment. It is, however, important to stress, that effort was made to prevent their extinction, and despite our failure, other efforts, such as the reintroduction of european bison to its natural habitat, after its extincion in the wilds, succeded. If humans work together, they can sometimes save some pretty cool species.

@echofoxtrot2.051

Жыл бұрын

Yep. The last cow of the species died in Poland several hundred years ago. They would have been gone a lot sooner had it not been for Poland's protection.

@superelizabeth9253

Жыл бұрын

Based poland

@maxvarjagen9810

Жыл бұрын

I hate the English spelling of Aurochs. Etymologically its literally just Ur (original) - Ox (cow/bull). Urox. Then some Victorian dude added an A to imply a connection to Aurum (Gold) that doesn't exist.

@LyNguyen33739

Жыл бұрын

@@maxvarjagen9810 aurochs is a German loanword it has nothing to do with Victorians relating it to aurum

@maxvarjagen9810

Жыл бұрын

@@LyNguyen33739 Huh. You're right. It was the Germans that corrupted the spelling, not the English. Usually its safe to blame the English for stupid spelling, but I guess not this time. According to wiktionary, middle high german spelling was Urochse, but they messed it up along the way to become Auerochse.

Reading about gladiators, I found that the games they held were responsible for many species extinction. The beast hunts held in the amphitheater were wildly popular. There was an entire industry devoted to the capture and transport of exotic animals for the entertainment of Rome.

@angles18

Жыл бұрын

Not much different from today huh

@yesfinallygot1

Жыл бұрын

@@angles18 human gon human

@Pollicina_db

Жыл бұрын

@@angles18I believe people have changed, not many people want to come to an arena to see a slaughterhouse

Thank you. I not heard of some of these animals before and did not know of their range.

New subscriber here! This is the first video I’ve watched on your channel. I love what you’re doing, bud!

One zoo in Europe (Chester, England) has a small pride of Asiatic lions and i've been to see them, theyre absolutely stunning animals. Despite them being much smaller than what you imagine a lion to be, seeing the male with his extremely dark mane and bright eyes was so striking

@NoirL.A.

Жыл бұрын

the L.A. zoo had a pair until about 1998. i also seen a male asiatic at a wildlife sanctuary. quite amazing. chester zoo also had a baby elephant that was a hybrid african/asian elephant but it didn't live very long. that wuda REALLY been somethin' to see. 4.bp.blogspot.com/-_sG98B7KY9c/Tr0hiY7z6kI/AAAAAAAAows/6bv-ezpJvbU/s1600/motty7.jpg

@connorbutler5900

Жыл бұрын

I’m from Chester myself and live a few miles away from the zoo. If anyones thinking of visiting, I couldn’t recommend it enough. It’s a fantastic zoo, and is involved massively in conservation programmes and animal welfare. It’s an awesome day out.

@madama3844

Жыл бұрын

@@J.Wolf90 if you think zoos are cruel you should visit a real zoo. Sure its not the wild but many of the animals in zoos arent capable of living there either due to being too friendly to humans or because they are disabled, and most are well cared for, stimulated and happy. Zoos do more for education and breeding population than they are given credit for and most zookepers are highly knowledgeable about the animals they care for. If it were not for zoos we simply wouldnt have the knowledge and cures for zoonotic diseases that we do have. The zoo I mention in the above comment were the worlds first to find a cure for a 100% fatal elephant disease similar to herpes. Those animals would die without the hardwork the zoo put into caring for them.

@madama3844

Жыл бұрын

@@J.Wolf90 if thats what you need to tell youself to justify not trying so be it.

@Deveshi.A.

Жыл бұрын

Come to india you can see Asiatic lions for real not in zoo but in wild ( Gir Forest, Gujarat, India)

We used to have barbary lions or Atlas Lions in the Atlas mountains living along side Atlas bears. Barbary Lions were truly a marvelous creature. They have a very thick mane.

@Okiedog1

2 жыл бұрын

I know of a wildlife sanctuary nearby that has two male barbary's on display.

@blacktigerpaw1

2 жыл бұрын

Their cousins are still alive and they plan on reintroducing them.

@abyabraham6646

2 жыл бұрын

@@Okiedog1 they are not pure barbary lions. They are bred with other species of lions. But through selective breeding we might able to replicate barbary lions physically and genetically thus reintroducing them back in the wild.

@jointcerulean3350

2 жыл бұрын

@Aby Abraham That would be awesome, more reintroductions and rewilding efforts for severely threatened species is always good. Tho I would think such a process of selective breeding and other factors would be a lengthy one, but I could be somewhat incorrect. But nonetheless, it’s good Barbary lion Hasn't been lost completely. Also is it possible there could be a couple of pure breds? Or are all confirmed completely mixed?

@abyabraham6646

2 жыл бұрын

@@jointcerulean3350 there are no confirmed pure Barbary lions just the ones with some of their genes. Reintroduction is possible and is being planned right now and as i said before, we might not get pure barbary lions but we might get a mix which are physically and genetically closer to barbary lions.

This was a great video, the thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger would have been a great addition. They survived into the 20th century along with Yangtze River Dolphin surviving into the 21st century… notable mentions & still extant: the Giant Salamanders of Japan & freaking Komodo Dragons of Komodo Island!

Amazing video, people don't normally think of the animals in ancient times, more of this please, lol

Until 4000BC there was a species of dwarf elephant on the Greek island of Tilos. It was a relative of the straight tusked elephant Paleoloxodon. Males reached a shoulder height of 0.96m (3ft) and weighed around 300kg.

@kingt0295

Жыл бұрын

Crazy some dogs are taller than elephants

@totower9597

6 ай бұрын

Cool story, how many trunk nubs they got? 😂

For the record, man was definitely aware of the Moa and Haast’s Eagle.

@kureed79

2 жыл бұрын

Garuda might be based on Haast Eagle because the furthers far east for Hinduism is the island of Bali. Hindu sailor might encounter them in NZ.

@highlandus

2 жыл бұрын

@@kureed79 lol no

@slippyseconds8357

2 жыл бұрын

@@kureed79 Gotta itch my Bali's. Always wear a sheep skin condom. You can purchase them through the following link...

Instant sub, just loved the video it was fantastic

Would love to see more!

I found out about the Aurochs that they became extinct because my grandmother lived in a small village where the last living Aurochs in our country were killed/hunted. But indeed - a majestic creature.

@oborze

Жыл бұрын

​@@Boojum_Tree Village was named after that last animal - 300-400 ya - killed by some prince or duke in that area. That's why i find out.

@Boojum_Tree

Жыл бұрын

Mb

@lben1962

Жыл бұрын

Poland?

@taleandclawrock2606

9 ай бұрын

Which country?

This dude seems like the kinda guy to get drunk and instead of doing something fun or irresponsible he just talks about how there are more cats on the island of Cyprus than people or those pterodactyls with the huge heads and long necks

@absolutelyyousless7605

2 жыл бұрын

...what happened to the other responses...

@xPumaFangx

2 жыл бұрын

@@absolutelyyousless7605 Your new to this whole trolling thing. Ain't ya.

@iam-retarded-but

2 жыл бұрын

if this isn't fun idk what fun is.... acting stupid ?

@summersong5876

2 жыл бұрын

I thought im the only one. Guy sounds like a sober person but its kinda cool

@derealized797

2 жыл бұрын

That's what i was like. Until i quit drinking.

I like your piece, I feel a profound sadness over the loss of so many animals.

Came on this app to watch either curious archive or paleo analysis and wandered over here. This works for a substitute

The tiger also has a very similar story to the lion. They actually roamed a little farther north into current day Bulgaria as well and, similar to the Lions, were hunted extinction except for some spots in Asia.

@mr.d00m37

2 жыл бұрын

Incorrect; the only records of tigers in Europe are in the Caucasus

@Ispeakthetruthify

2 жыл бұрын

Tigers once roamed as far West as the Middle East, all the way East to China and Siberia(where they still remain). The tiger never roamed as far West as Bulgaria or Eastern Europe.

@Ispeakthetruthify

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.d00m37 Tigers once lived on the Asian side of the Caucasus, but never crossed over them into Europe.

@mihail6446

2 жыл бұрын

Bulgaria ? Lol. No they didn't.

@jaybe2908

2 жыл бұрын

Sabre toothed tigers went as far as Britain, so at one point there were big cats in all of Europe, I guess it depends on the prey species being there before we wiped them out.

A couple years back I went through all the old Roman art I could find looking for anomalous animals. I found two depictions of uniquely patterned big cats with strange shaped heads. I believe them to be some kind of sabertooth. I also found one mosaic of straight tusked elephants. Though these were the pygmy type said to have been found on some islands in the Mediterranean, but supposedly went extinct before Rome existed. I noticed them because they were smaller than the humans in the image, and yet they had fully formed straight tusks, and small ears.

@LakshyaD

Жыл бұрын

it's crazy to think about the different, weird kinds of animals our ancestors might've seen that we will never know about (maybe because they were not represented in art). hell, it also boggles my mind about the extremely old civilizations we don't know about yet, simply because we haven't found any proof. maybe a civilization that existed 30,000 years ago, even before that? it's crazy because we can't deny it

@sharkquark6252

Жыл бұрын

Could you maybe share what depictions these were and where you found them? I’m interested in reading a bit further into it. Maybe you even made a big discovery, ever thought of messaging an archeological or paleontological museum?

@nirotanaxamandbear533

Жыл бұрын

@@sharkquark6252 I found them on Instagram after spending several hours looking through mosaics. Unfortunately I lost many interesting images I found at that time, and I only have a couple screenshots of one of the sabertooth type cats. I no longer use IG, but it shouldn't be impossible to find them again.

@monember2722

Жыл бұрын

@@LakshyaD the earth isn't that old. Scientists are starting to tell the truth.

@hubertdenise3100

Жыл бұрын

I feel like the chance of the romans encountering rare endling holdovers is likely.By the end of the roman empire( main, 400 AD) a lot of the world was still wild and unexplored, and peoples impact on wildlife was much lower then today.plus, we did recently find that a sabre tooth cat, the only one to live in europe during the ice age and when people were around during then, was still alive at 28,000BC from a skull in the north sea, before everyone believed they went extinct based on dating 200,000 years ago.So, therefore and since unlike smilodon it wasn’t restricted to America, the chance that they may have survived to the very early AD times is possible, it was smaller then smilodon so less dependent on big heavy prey.Plus bison were still very common then and aurochs too, so again they may have clinged on.Or, romans found the skulls of a sabre tooth, maybe very recent ones, and reconstructed it in a depiction.They believed in a land called hyperboria, and so probably would have assumed a sabre tooth was a inhabitent from there, if hyperboria was a part of eurasia, then it would fit.

Great video!

Cool channel! I❤extinct fauna

The "Aurochs" is really Ur-Ox, meaning the original or primordial ox. I wish they were still around

@brucegilliland5382

2 жыл бұрын

The nearest thing would be wild cows. Check out the chillingham cattle in North East England.

@jamesswanson7213

2 жыл бұрын

Heck cattle

@Sawrattan

2 жыл бұрын

Cross-breeding animals many times will recreate the ancestral form. Darwin did that with his pigeons and doves, similarly cats which are constantly cross-bred will start resembling wild cats again. I'm sure if we cross-bred all breeds of domestic cattle, we'd get the aurochs back.

@nonenoneonenonenone

2 жыл бұрын

I have an Oreck vacuum cleaner.

@hyperion3145

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucegilliland5382 Also the Spanish bull

The American Bison came very, very close to joining these other most recent extinct animals. I had heard that there is an attempt to back engineer the ancient Aurochs. I think they have successfully engineered the Auroch's distinctive forward pointing horns.

@beastmaster0934

Жыл бұрын

Same with their European relatives, the wisent.

@PiousMoltar

Жыл бұрын

Dude did you even watch the video, he covers that.

@rockym2931

Жыл бұрын

The whitetail deer were reduced to a half-million by 1900, as well.

@dylanb4494

11 ай бұрын

​@@rockym2931 and now they are like rats. Can't go ten feet without seeing one.

Love this video much respect to ya

OMG this makes so much sense. I always wondered how they would haul these exotic animals to get them to the arena. Turns out they didn't have to. WOW thank you for stretching out my brain a little today.

@tedleimbach3724

2 жыл бұрын

First one of your videos I have seen. Liked and subscribed.

First min in the video. all the animals i want back: dodos, thylacine, passenger pigeons, wooly mammoths, elephant bird and any of the south american megafauna or big cats of arabia that died out recently.

@alvianekka80

2 жыл бұрын

How about Stellar Sea Cow? I want those chonky bois back.

@malnutritionboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@alvianekka80 oh yea those are awesome too.

@wannabewyvern

2 жыл бұрын

what about great auk? supposedly there were friendly like dodos and would go up to people because no predators where they lived.

@poppers7317

2 жыл бұрын

I want my cat back.

@BuetifullPersun

2 жыл бұрын

I want t rex back and raptors and released into cities then they can eat people 😁

This is the first video im seeing from you I like it and your voice I’ll subscribe

Liked and subscribed!

*Humans; Making life more pathetic since Mesopotamia.*

@royalkumar795

2 жыл бұрын

Really, what about religion/ideology of humans, do you think they really care about Animals , or use animals to put own agenda and protest after they become raw meat in the market

@christiancinnabars1402

2 жыл бұрын

[Ice Age humans driving countless megafauna to extinction noises]

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

2 жыл бұрын

You think we are the only predator which made animals extinct? We are at least aware of our acts. Others won't even record theirs.

@M50A1

2 жыл бұрын

Commit died

@fawnieee

2 жыл бұрын

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo bruh, the only other thing that has caused such massive amounts of extinction are catastrophic natural disasters. Why are people so sensitive about the truth?

“So impressive to humans, our first instinct is to brutally murder them” So true 🤦🏼‍♀️

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

Ugh. Yeah, it seems like everything humans didn't kill for fun, they ate to death 😣

@pazreyes7794

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm, is that bad?

@kevint1910

2 жыл бұрын

@@pazreyes7794 apparently they think early human settlements should have allowed their members and live stock to be consumed so that modern liberals would not have to feel guilty over their survival....tbf that was pretty much the entire tone of the video

@janewright315

2 жыл бұрын

@@pazreyes7794 yes unless you're just a pos

@fredo69ification

2 жыл бұрын

Cry about it

very interesting. thank you for the video.

Awesome video ❤

As much as I like dry, rigid, formal documentaries, this is the first paleo/bio channel ive come across that doesn't take itself too seriously. And y'know what, I'm liking it. Subbed dude, great content

@keithklassen5320

2 жыл бұрын

I love this channel for that, Casual Geographic is also good for the same thing, but a different flavour.

We have forests in Algeria (north Africa) that looks similar to the ones that hold bear species and I always wondered if I'd see a bear sighting when I venture deep in the forests, it's crazy how they're wiped out of all the forests even though some of the forests are extremely hard to explore even today let alone back then.

@damionkeeling3103

2 жыл бұрын

Germany was known for its dark forests in ancient times, no such places exist now. Even the Black Forest is not the original forest, it's mostly pine forest when the original forest was oak. That's true so many places. Lebanon was once famous for its forests, those are now gone too. We should at least be replanting forest in the more inaccessible places.

@mr.anderson2241

2 жыл бұрын

@@damionkeeling3103 how did it go from oak to pine?

@mariomouse8265

2 жыл бұрын

Morocco is the only country in Africa that has Deer for this reason. The Atlas Bear and Barbary Lion used to live in Morocco and Algeria (maybe also Tunisia)

@barbieblues7639

2 жыл бұрын

@Mr. Anderson logging...

@eVill420

2 жыл бұрын

@@damionkeeling3103 if you want to see forests just go to Scandinavia

I love you! Subscriber without a doubt 😊

Fun fact: Mammoths were still alive during the time of Ancient Egypt. There was an isolated population on an island off the coast of Siberia. They eventually died out, but if i remember correctly they almost made it to the switch from BCE to CE.

This was an utterly fascinating topic. Your style of sprinkling in some (but not too much) humor is great. I'm glad to see that your channel is gaining subscribers, you really deserve it!

"I understand how silly it is to want the Dinosaurs to roam the Earth after not being around for tens of millions of years." Birds: "Am I a joke to you?"

@Sillybillyilly

2 жыл бұрын

And other animals...I say dragons existed too... just left over dinos

@slippyseconds8357

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sillybillyilly My uncle was a grand dragon before he was raped to death in prison. A country boy can survive! Unless butt raped to death by members of the Black Gorilla Family.

@no_peace

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sillybillyilly well i hate to be that person but they wouldn't be dinosaurs Dinosaurs walked on two legs Maybe wyverns could be dinosaurs I'm so sorry I have typed this out

@lucaslindseyJESUSBOY

2 жыл бұрын

Jehovah God created Earth and man as told in Genisis. The Earth is only a few thousand years. In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth then created Adam and Eve

@larryscarr3897

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucaslindseyJESUSBOY yea sure, and his carpenter wizard son will be right back, he just stepped out for a pack of smokes. 🤣😂

This topic I'm very interested in!! Show all animals

Moa are said not to be extinct by New Zealanders and their are multiple encounters deep in the dense bush every single year, even encounters by respected scientists have been recorded while out studying other species existing in small pockets far from where humans tend to venture. Let’s hope there’s pockets of stable breeding populations still out there which is likely unless people are encountering some unknown large species of birds like them in NZ.

I think it’s neat how magical and fascinating their world would’ve been to us and how our world would be equally as magical and fascinating to them.

@cowmaster9180

Жыл бұрын

@Boyer Ranch I think just planes/ helicopters alone skews it

@griggorirasputin6555

8 ай бұрын

@@reinhardvonlohengramm6296 I think they'd be happier with it, less war generally, but there's still plenty of wonderful thing that have been lost, even if progress seemingly surmounts them.