Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves

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This is not a Game of Thrones fan fiction episode. Dire wolves were real! And thousands of them died in the same spot in California. Their remains have taught us volumes about how they lived, hunted, died and way more about any animal’s sex life than you’d ever want to know.
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  • @realthirteen.3471
    @realthirteen.34715 жыл бұрын

    Putting 'Sex' in the title attracts KZread viewers in the same way La Brea tar pits attracted predators.

  • @2008-wii-remote

    @2008-wii-remote

    5 жыл бұрын

    mike wilson lol yeah

  • @cinnamoncyanide_

    @cinnamoncyanide_

    4 жыл бұрын

    They wanted... food?

  • @jocelynhyde2197

    @jocelynhyde2197

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jav Sanchez Yeah that’s the reason I chose this video 😂

  • @PandaNFriends23

    @PandaNFriends23

    4 жыл бұрын

    Touche

  • @321womble

    @321womble

    4 жыл бұрын

    I bow to you Master of the Internet

  • @Jobobn1998
    @Jobobn19985 жыл бұрын

    "Fighting while mating can cause your baculum to breakulum." -What I wish he would have said

  • @Anayaah421

    @Anayaah421

    5 жыл бұрын

    I died 😂😂😂

  • @luciferangelica

    @luciferangelica

    5 жыл бұрын

    naw, scott baculum could only travel back within his lifetime

  • @oppressormk2op547

    @oppressormk2op547

    4 жыл бұрын

    baculum to crackulum

  • @casperko8311

    @casperko8311

    4 жыл бұрын

    Snapulum

  • @cerealbutwarm2649

    @cerealbutwarm2649

    4 жыл бұрын

    Personally, I think it would’ve sounded better as “Fighting while mating can cause your baculum to snapulum.”

  • @7oqu_ra
    @7oqu_ra4 жыл бұрын

    The fact that a genital can snap just makes me goosebumps

  • @Sk8thud

    @Sk8thud

    4 жыл бұрын

    I mean human genitals can as well

  • @crgkevin6542

    @crgkevin6542

    4 жыл бұрын

    The freaky thing for me is how it was healed in a bent position. Horrifying on so many levels from the conditions that led to it healing crooked, to wondering if it could still be used afterwards...

  • @tanyanikolaevagizdova6571

    @tanyanikolaevagizdova6571

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@crgkevin6542 Even if it could it probably wasn't pleasant.

  • @nikirb4956

    @nikirb4956

    4 жыл бұрын

    They called him Captain Hook.

  • @glennsommer8901

    @glennsommer8901

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Sk8thud But isn't that more of a 'blood snap' instead of baculum

  • @Losaru
    @Losaru5 жыл бұрын

    Dead puppies and broken phallus bones. What an awkward episode. XD

  • @r.i.pyoutube6881

    @r.i.pyoutube6881

    5 жыл бұрын

    Losaru not really

  • @luciferangelica

    @luciferangelica

    5 жыл бұрын

    dead puppies aren't much fun

  • @yanikt.8918

    @yanikt.8918

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a really weird fetish.

  • @jonahs8261

    @jonahs8261

    4 жыл бұрын

    could be worse

  • @puffel8145

    @puffel8145

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@harpervee dead chicks 😣

  • @brianmessemer2973
    @brianmessemer29735 жыл бұрын

    Ironically, those tar pit animals perished in dire circumstances.

  • @carriertaiyo2694

    @carriertaiyo2694

    5 жыл бұрын

    Da bum tiss

  • @LuisSierra42

    @LuisSierra42

    5 жыл бұрын

    Get out

  • @brianmessemer2973

    @brianmessemer2973

    5 жыл бұрын

    🤪🤪🤪

  • @BarbarosaAlexander

    @BarbarosaAlexander

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's not irony.

  • @christophergraffam3552

    @christophergraffam3552

    5 жыл бұрын

    It is irony, specifically it is verbal irony, not situational irony.

  • @nerdyninjatemptress
    @nerdyninjatemptress5 жыл бұрын

    I love that moment where he actually looks off camera and complains about having to talk about dead puppies. Strangely hilarious.

  • @brooklynbeaulne8242

    @brooklynbeaulne8242

    2 жыл бұрын

    He looked so mad, lol.

  • @JiaruiChen_

    @JiaruiChen_

    2 жыл бұрын

    that was scripted

  • @JubioHDX

    @JubioHDX

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JiaruiChen_ obviously? it was still funny

  • @greysquirrel404
    @greysquirrel4043 жыл бұрын

    As an update, Dire Wolves are no longer thought to be wolves. They are canines, but they're less closely to true wolves than various other canines such as dholes and golden jackals.

  • @Nelo_Wolf

    @Nelo_Wolf

    3 жыл бұрын

    That means that we haven't truly found the actual ancestor of the modern day wolf. But it's believe we tammed them even then. Cause man and wolf do have a history so we did make companions of ancient dogs

  • @daliborjovanovic510

    @daliborjovanovic510

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Nelo_Wolf Dire wolves were never considered to be the ancestors of gray wolves to begin with. It was known for decades that they evolved around the same time, one in North America, the other in Eurasia.

  • @Nelo_Wolf

    @Nelo_Wolf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@daliborjovanovic510 that's theoretically that they aren't related to wolves. But this debate will one be put an end.

  • @Nelo_Wolf

    @Nelo_Wolf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@daliborjovanovic510 they found a dire wolve buried with it's master a homid Indian

  • @Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    @Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Nelo_Wolf No they didn’t

  • @Dodoraptor4
    @Dodoraptor45 жыл бұрын

    People always focus on the large wolves like dire wolves and extant European and American wolves but my favorite wolf is the highly overlooked Arabian wolf. Thousands of years ago, a lot of the Middle East has turned into some of the harshest deserts in the world, and that wolf got over the odds and adapted for such a harsh change by adapting and being ready to eat almost anything that passes by. It is currently the apex predator there with the only non human threat being the striped hyaena (which occasionally scare each other away from carcasses). It just got me to think about a video idea: the change of many forests a few thousand years ago to deserts (like the Saharan desert)

  • @raiderxs1570

    @raiderxs1570

    5 жыл бұрын

    Technically the (Now extinct) Arabian lion was the apex predator of those dunes, bring able to single handily even take down the migratory ibex's.

  • @Ezullof

    @Ezullof

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Arabian Wolf is just a subspecies of wolf (Canis lupus arabs). It's a good example to show that Canis lupus is a very adaptive species that thrives in a variety of environments, hence its success as a species. They do have some adaptations to desert life, mainly behavioural ones (but also different colours and smaller size), but there's nothing really special about them. All wolves are opportunist predators, and generally apex predators in their environment. It would also be very hard to know exactly when their differenciation as a subspecies started. It's an interesting example of how life adapts to new environments, but not even the best example. The lions of the Namib are another example - those are lions who live in an extremely arid environment, even more than were the Arabian Wolves live.

  • @Dodoraptor4

    @Dodoraptor4

    5 жыл бұрын

    Raider xs I’m not very sure if the lion existed in the harsher parts of the deserts or in the non deserted parts of the Middle East...

  • @Dodoraptor4

    @Dodoraptor4

    5 жыл бұрын

    Napishtim I know that it’s a subspecies of grey wolf and that the species is already a highly adaptive opportunistic predator. I am impressed by the fact that it’s succeeded to do so in a short period of time. I am impressed by their hunting abilities for their smaller groups, even resulting in a fail of reintroduction of ostriches to the Negev desert, by killing the adults brought there. I am impressed by their diet, which is very generalist even for a wolf, hunting almost every animal they can kill (even fish in the few creeks) as well as eating fruits.

  • @Dodoraptor4

    @Dodoraptor4

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sekai -sama meanwhile, I am talking about areas like the Judean desert the Negev desert, which are harsher and more difficult to survive in.

  • @BlaineTog
    @BlaineTog5 жыл бұрын

    Now that's one heck of a title.

  • @GigawingsVideo

    @GigawingsVideo

    5 жыл бұрын

    Those wolves live like superstar.

  • @Coelacantha
    @Coelacantha5 жыл бұрын

    Can you do a video on the development of bioluminescence? Were some prehistoric sea creatures bioluminescent?

  • @Ezullof

    @Ezullof

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seems very, very hard to figure.

  • @gendoikari7195

    @gendoikari7195

    5 жыл бұрын

    How will we know that, Skin decomposes.

  • @Coelacantha

    @Coelacantha

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe they could briefly talk about how it evolved in the first place? I would think that the first creatures that glowed in the dark would have been easy targets!

  • @msctbeats

    @msctbeats

    5 жыл бұрын

    Would LOVE that.

  • @randzopyr1038

    @randzopyr1038

    5 жыл бұрын

    We don't know enough about most of the creatures that are bio-luminescent so it would likely be more speculation than science. With the exception of some cuttlefish/squid that do migrate to the surface of the water, most live in the deep seas which have barely been explored. We know about as much about Mars as we do about the deep sea. I suspect as drones become more sophisticated we will see an increase in deep sea exploration because a partially or fully automated drone would significantly reduce the cost. Unfortunately the first to do so will likely be private companies looking for a way to tap deep sea oil reserves.

  • @Jude3e
    @Jude3e5 жыл бұрын

    Gee talking about weiners snapping in half makes me feel uncomfortable for some reason...

  • @CuddlytheCuttlefish

    @CuddlytheCuttlefish

    5 жыл бұрын

    Your avatar tho... it's just too perfect for your comment.

  • @christopherlongsworth2591

    @christopherlongsworth2591

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hmm... I wonder why...

  • @benskelly1217

    @benskelly1217

    5 жыл бұрын

    CuddlytheCuttlefish You beat me to it, lol...

  • @GigawingsVideo

    @GigawingsVideo

    5 жыл бұрын

    CuddlytheCuttlefish Beast boy was asked to change into direwolf by Raven and then she lose her stepping and fell sideway.

  • @roberthoff6670

    @roberthoff6670

    5 жыл бұрын

    lmffao me too

  • @richardwasserman
    @richardwasserman2 жыл бұрын

    I seem to recall reading that one of the fossil dire wolves had a badly broken leg bone. It lived for quite a long time after that, enough time for the bone to heal as much as possible. It must have been in a lot of pain but kept going anyway. What a hero!

  • @absurdum-the-artist

    @absurdum-the-artist

    6 ай бұрын

    Also potentially got cared for by its pack

  • @morganduda3274
    @morganduda32745 жыл бұрын

    i don't know why but when he looked past the camera and said "I can't believe you're making me talk about dead puppies" I lost it.....I couldn't stop laughing

  • @movedchannels1329
    @movedchannels13294 жыл бұрын

    “About one-third of the dire wolves found in the pits were juveniles, puppies” **Stares at Camera crew/ scripting Crew** *_I can’t believe you’re making me talk about dead puppies_*

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT5 жыл бұрын

    LACMHC 7345: "Hey, LACMHC 8291, how's it hangin'?!" LACMHC 8291: "A little to the left. _Thanks, LACMHC 6419!_ ... That was sarcasm, by the way."

  • @toddbruce940

    @toddbruce940

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @UpcycleElectronics
    @UpcycleElectronics5 жыл бұрын

    ...and here I thought getting kicked in the nad'erlands was bad.... The fact that one could recover from an injury like that is remarkable. I bet that poor pouch walked like a lizard for weeks.

  • @crgkevin6542

    @crgkevin6542

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how well it worked once it healed crooked...

  • @stanthestegosaurus1457
    @stanthestegosaurus14575 жыл бұрын

    Only on PBS Eons do you learn that Dire Wolves were pretty much hung like a horse compared to other wolves. Thanks KZread. Lmao!

  • @GigawingsVideo

    @GigawingsVideo

    5 жыл бұрын

    Walrus is crazier.

  • @sdean3903

    @sdean3903

    5 жыл бұрын

    When he said how big the wolves "Member" was I just sat there like .....did I really need to know that? (Im a girl) .....

  • @stefantherainbowphoenix

    @stefantherainbowphoenix

    4 жыл бұрын

    A dire wolf wiener!? Now, THAT's dangerous! Guys, don't let your guard down!!

  • @sushidope1701

    @sushidope1701

    4 жыл бұрын

    The 18-24 inches was the walrus. The dire wolves were more or less like a human’s.

  • @akafozzy

    @akafozzy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Facebook

  • @PlainsPup
    @PlainsPup3 жыл бұрын

    Update: new genetic analysis from Perri et al. 2021 in the journal Nature shows that dire wolves were not very closely related to gray wolves and coyotes (Canis spp.), putting them back in their original genus, Aenocyon.

  • @PaulThronson
    @PaulThronson5 жыл бұрын

    So if I read this correctly, breaking bones was a risk to their teeth. So they probably didn't eat them unless they absolutely needed the food. No wonder dogs bury bones.

  • @inputname2727

    @inputname2727

    5 жыл бұрын

    Paul Thronson I feed my pit bull raw meet...raw bones are okay but weight bearing bones we as a community warn one another not to feed. I'm a raw feeding rooky...only been doing it a few months but I've gathered a leg bone from a bison could break my dogs teeth. As a rooky I still am not quite sure why the restriction but I'm assuming it has a lot to do with the fact perhaps that wolves can eat bones to a certain extent...once passed that....teeth break...I guess. No ones really taken the time to explain it but I'm hoping someone will, preferably with graphic video lol

  • @h.r.9563

    @h.r.9563

    5 жыл бұрын

    Any veterinarian worth their salt will tell you to just avoid giving your domesticated animal bones altogether. They see the shards that cause choking, intestinal tears, need surgery, and can often cause death. For what? So you can brag you give your dog a raw diet that supposedly makes it healthier when you could just make bone broth to pour on their food for the same nutrients. Dogs that eat raw food versus dogs that don't, have negligible differences in longevity and overall health.

  • @totolasti

    @totolasti

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@h.r.9563 Dogs love chewing on bones, that's why.

  • @Person-nu4jp

    @Person-nu4jp

    4 жыл бұрын

    I could barely even understand what you're saying.

  • @Dirtbag-Hyena

    @Dirtbag-Hyena

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@h.r.9563 Unless you have A domesticated hyena ,then by all means .😁

  • @chocolatedoughnut1305
    @chocolatedoughnut13053 жыл бұрын

    I'm a camp counselor for a bunch of 4 y/o's and we asked them what their favorite animal was and this one kid goes "Dire wolves!"

  • @rewild6134
    @rewild61342 жыл бұрын

    I love how they're now known to not be wolves or even in the genus Canis. They're more closely related to true jackals and in their own genus Aenocyon. Fascinating but an even sadder loss, another utterly unique species lost to humanity in the late Quaternary extinctions.

  • @PaleoTheExaminer

    @PaleoTheExaminer

    Жыл бұрын

    We don’t know what caused their extinction

  • @jojoschauman6055
    @jojoschauman60554 жыл бұрын

    "I cant believe you are making me talk about dead puppies " Mood

  • @InfiniteGyre069
    @InfiniteGyre0695 жыл бұрын

    Visiting La Brea Tar Pits as a child is what fostered my love for archaeology today. I remember a play area for the kids and being 8 I was therein and they had a sealed clear glass container of the Tar from the pits and inside it was a plunger that stuck into the tar, it was so bloody hard to pull that thing out of the tar even for my grandfather who was with me at the time, I couldn't imagine getting stuck and dying in that stuff.

  • @guillermojrboy3292
    @guillermojrboy32925 жыл бұрын

    I wonder why the devs didn't bother to patch the glitch at LaBrea.

  • @KhanMann66

    @KhanMann66

    5 жыл бұрын

    Too busy with new update and upgrades to grey wolf players. Pretty obvious the devs were gunning for dire wolves.

  • @41-Haiku

    @41-Haiku

    5 жыл бұрын

    Since it was such a known bug and easy enough to avoid, it was eventually rebranded as a hazard feature.

  • @michaelhoffmann2891

    @michaelhoffmann2891

    5 жыл бұрын

    Would you believe I'd never heard "hazard feature"? I will steal that and use it for all bugs in my code from now on! Thank you!

  • @roddyaxolotl8519

    @roddyaxolotl8519

    5 жыл бұрын

    ah well ill see you guys in mexico cuz im an axolotl main also too bad all those critters you have are going extinct not that i care life is life and if you cant make it in life you may have never truly lived

  • @isaachutsell2077

    @isaachutsell2077

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think it helped balance the Dire Wolf guilds in that server. Trust me, I played a Woolly Mammoth build there. Those Dire Wolf guilds were everywhere, and overpowered!

  • @canag0d
    @canag0d5 жыл бұрын

    Ouch... This episode hurt!!! I’ll probably only watch it 3 more times.

  • @stevevicari5523
    @stevevicari55235 жыл бұрын

    Please! Can we please get an episode about Australian megafauna (or at least Thylacoleo carifex) Please! I'm gonna keep saying this until it happens lol

  • @michaelmeining889

    @michaelmeining889

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah please do a video about that

  • @mraBJJ33

    @mraBJJ33

    5 жыл бұрын

    Megalania please!

  • @fenndoggett2977

    @fenndoggett2977

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes!!!!

  • @ShirinRose

    @ShirinRose

    5 жыл бұрын

    +

  • @rachaelhart1670

    @rachaelhart1670

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good call!! Would LOVE one on Thylacoleo! And marsupial evolution in general!

  • @brunocosta5337
    @brunocosta53375 жыл бұрын

    My immediate reaction after he said "snap" was cover the front of my pants...ouch

  • @shriyanv4407

    @shriyanv4407

    4 жыл бұрын

    All male mammals can relate it seems

  • @toddbruce940

    @toddbruce940

    2 жыл бұрын

    U and me both brother lol

  • @walt776
    @walt7763 жыл бұрын

    Now you are going to have rewrite this whole episode after the new genetic study finding dire wolves were not wolves, but a much older canid linage.

  • @mehmetgurdal

    @mehmetgurdal

    Жыл бұрын

    so? they could add more jokes. ı see that as an absolute win :D

  • @Liononline
    @Liononline5 жыл бұрын

    Can you guys do a video on the last common ancestor of cats and dogs and when they split?

  • @MrGinw6

    @MrGinw6

    4 жыл бұрын

    Arabella Drummond anyone made this yet

  • @HorsesIC
    @HorsesIC5 жыл бұрын

    I have many questions about the raccoon.

  • @stanrogers5613

    @stanrogers5613

    5 жыл бұрын

    But they're everywhere! Ask one!

  • @GigawingsVideo

    @GigawingsVideo

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I want to know the ancestor of Racoon and Red Panda

  • @sacrecharlemagne2262

    @sacrecharlemagne2262

    5 жыл бұрын

    GigawingsVideo From what I recall, the two are examples of convergent evolution. The Red Panda is not closely related to any other living animal. It belongs to the same superfamily as raccoons but that superfamily also includes bears and seals so they are only very distantly related. It just so happened that the same diet, behaviors and markings that were advantageous to raccoons also were advantageous to red pandas.

  • @dinogamergaming

    @dinogamergaming

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@GigawingsVideo lmao r/whoosh

  • @brightdoe5904

    @brightdoe5904

    5 жыл бұрын

    6:01 🤔

  • @SharksandDinos
    @SharksandDinos4 жыл бұрын

    "I can't believe you're making me talk about dead puppies."

  • @eightbitsurrenderomi4148

    @eightbitsurrenderomi4148

    2 жыл бұрын

    And wolf dingus

  • @Stonewren
    @Stonewren2 жыл бұрын

    New research has come out that dire wolves weren't wolves: their genome was actually more related to foxes, they just convergently evolved into the wolf shape

  • @tarden132

    @tarden132

    Жыл бұрын

    and more importantly they were a last of a genus that evolved in north america that left no descendants

  • @exalt2674

    @exalt2674

    11 ай бұрын

    I've been trying to find artist reconstructions of them post the re-classification. But no luck.

  • @jinik8059
    @jinik80595 жыл бұрын

    Two canine/canidae videos in a row!

  • @brokenacoustic

    @brokenacoustic

    5 жыл бұрын

    Channel is clearly Felinist! lol

  • @GigawingsVideo

    @GigawingsVideo

    5 жыл бұрын

    Doggo month?

  • @keithharper32

    @keithharper32

    5 жыл бұрын

    dog days of summer I guess

  • @eyelessjack2825
    @eyelessjack28254 жыл бұрын

    6:05 What I want to know is why a raccoon has a bigger ‘you know what’ then a bear

  • @SlaughterDog

    @SlaughterDog

    4 жыл бұрын

    But look toward the bottom, at poor Martin

  • @moriahspaulding321

    @moriahspaulding321

    3 жыл бұрын

    They probably don’t have to reach as far if you understand what I’m saying

  • @affirmingtoe15
    @affirmingtoe153 жыл бұрын

    You guys are gonna have to make a new video on Dire Wolves now that we found out they actually aren't wolves at all.

  • @imunmire

    @imunmire

    2 жыл бұрын

    What do u mean

  • @kade-qt1zu

    @kade-qt1zu

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@imunmire Dire wolves were genetically not closely related to modern wolves.

  • @reforgedexile8922
    @reforgedexile89225 жыл бұрын

    "I can't believe your making me talk about dead puppies" True

  • @Naiadryade
    @Naiadryade5 жыл бұрын

    ANOTHER doggo episode?! YAAAS I am SO here for this!!

  • @HoopsAndDinoMan
    @HoopsAndDinoMan5 жыл бұрын

    0:59 (Smilodon's face) When you see a new Eons video in your subscriptions

  • @undead475
    @undead4754 жыл бұрын

    Literally jut broke the 18th wall. This guy said”Wait, why did the music stop” just as an alarm went off on my phone.

  • @zachh6214
    @zachh62144 жыл бұрын

    A video about wolves has never caused me more pain. That poor poor bachula

  • @Never_heart
    @Never_heart5 жыл бұрын

    I have ling wondered about the excavation methods used in the Tar Pits? Does the location of the natural asphalt move and expose fossils? Or is it manually moved by researchers?

  • @daynanielsen6956

    @daynanielsen6956

    5 жыл бұрын

    I believe some areas are removed and dug into to find the bones. At least that's just what I have seen in documentaries.

  • @MaureenLycaon

    @MaureenLycaon

    5 жыл бұрын

    The older asphalt is hardened, sort of like the asphalt on a driveway once it has hardened. Newer, still-liquid asphalt does move. Asphalt seeps up from huge reservoirs in the bedrock, so there are distinct pools and ponds of the stuff. When fresh asphalt stops seeping in, the old stuff hardens off, and you end up with this plug of dry asphalt in the ground, often full of bones. It can no longer catch any animals, but it can be excavated. (Even then, during our hot summers, fresh tar tends to leak in from the ground itself, making it impossible to dig in. The pits can only be excavated in winter and spring, when the cold has chilled all the asphalt.) If you ever visit La Brea, during the winter you can see students excavating in Pit 91 under the guidance of professional paleontologists. Be sure to visit the George C. Page Museum while you're there, too.

  • @Dragrath1

    @Dragrath1

    5 жыл бұрын

    pretty sure you mean bedrock not bedroom :P

  • @jeanettewaverly2590

    @jeanettewaverly2590

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Tar Pits and the museum are wonderful! That illuminated wall o' wolf skulls alone is worth a visit!

  • @tanyadawn2217
    @tanyadawn22175 жыл бұрын

    This was a great episode! Thank you!

  • @zeekwolfe6251
    @zeekwolfe62512 жыл бұрын

    The Dire wolf is an example of convergent evolution. Hawks and owls are essentially the same animal filling slightly different niches but not closely related and unable to breed. Their anatomies are similar. The Dire wolf, canis dirus and gray wolf, canis lupus and coyote, canis latrans, and even the now extinct thylacine or Tasmanian "tiger" share similar anatomies and behaviors, but only the gray wolf and coyote could interbreed. The Dire wolf is now known to be a separate species, this via DNA analysis finished recently. The the gray wolf and Dire wolf are now considered extreme cousins separated by several million years. The Dire wolf is similar to the pronghorn "antelope" in becoming a species unique with no close relatives unlike other extinct mega fauna like mammoths, sloths, horses, camels and even the American lion and cheetah.

  • @PlainsPup
    @PlainsPup5 жыл бұрын

    Yes, more stuff about prehistoric canids! I love it! And new information about dire wolves, too ... well done, Eon, and thank you!

  • @CannonRanger2023
    @CannonRanger20235 жыл бұрын

    What's that Lassie? Ole '91 fell in the asphalt pit? Bad for 91, great for science! Great show!

  • @GigawingsVideo

    @GigawingsVideo

    5 жыл бұрын

    Throw various modern dogs to tar pit? To confuse scientists in the far future.

  • @roddyaxolotl8519

    @roddyaxolotl8519

    5 жыл бұрын

    HELL NO DONT DO IT ONLY THROW THE RANDOM HORRIBLE THINGS FROM HELL IN THERE

  • @6099x
    @6099x5 жыл бұрын

    great video! I would love a video on the rise of eggs, or the evolutionary process that led to shelled eggs. finally put the chicken or egg question to rest ;)

  • @calla_playz8515
    @calla_playz85154 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for teaching me this! It was so fascinating to learn about the dire wolves that lived long ago. It was worth watching it before my phone died. Thank u.

  • @keshav_singh2154
    @keshav_singh21545 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for doing this video, keep up the amazing work.

  • @nab-rk4ob
    @nab-rk4ob5 жыл бұрын

    I made sure I put the vid to full-screen. What an awesome video! Great job. I had no idea that dire wolves were real. Thanks for enlightening me.

  • @KSWfarms
    @KSWfarms5 жыл бұрын

    I'm honestly surprised he managed to get through that without cracking up.

  • @jackashmore
    @jackashmore5 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if the last fire wolf looked at the mammoth dying in the pit, and after seeing his entire pack die trying to eat it, he thought to himself "I got this..." then died in the pit

  • @snow.flower
    @snow.flower5 жыл бұрын

    I ALWAYS watch your channel. Thank you PSB Eons for these awesome videos.

  • @beastmaster0934
    @beastmaster09345 жыл бұрын

    5:48 I can’t believe I’m hearing about dead puppies

  • @Shenron557
    @Shenron5575 жыл бұрын

    Its good that you included some common objects (like matches and ruler) in most of the pictures. It helps in imagining the apparent size of the main object in the picture.

  • @kasperneedspeace
    @kasperneedspeace5 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel sooooo much! The BEST hosts ever!

  • @toki1965
    @toki19655 жыл бұрын

    I think this was one of your best videos thus far - thank you! How about doing a future video about aurochs (yet another GOT animal)?

  • @justthatguyben
    @justthatguyben5 жыл бұрын

    Loved this episode, great story telling!

  • @Celeste-in-Oz
    @Celeste-in-Oz5 жыл бұрын

    An impressive effort, talking through that without looking particularly uncomfortable.

  • @diogoaugusto5189
    @diogoaugusto51895 жыл бұрын

    It’d be really great if you guys did a series of episodes on each of Earth’s relevant periods, in chronological order. You could discuss climate, fauna, flora, what it looked like and how each evolved into the next one.

  • @r3mpter736
    @r3mpter7363 жыл бұрын

    The wolf’s be like Oh and he’s stuck better go get him Oh now he’s stuck gotta save him And on and on and on

  • @johnnydough4048
    @johnnydough40485 жыл бұрын

    "i can't believe you're making me talk about dead puppies"

  • @dhruveshpatel1109
    @dhruveshpatel11095 жыл бұрын

    The opening scene description is same as prologue of the book Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson.

  • @antonisloussidis8476
    @antonisloussidis84765 жыл бұрын

    Another excelent video,TY for the info,keep up the good job! Can you please make a video about nimravids and the barbourofelidae?I know they are not true cats but what differentiates them(is it claw retractability?),do we know anything about their lifestyle,what lead them to prominence over other carnivores and what eventually lead to their extinction???

  • @repugnus
    @repugnus4 жыл бұрын

    This channel is the best. Thank you

  • @ROTSTarge
    @ROTSTarge5 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see more on dire wolves, they are my favorite extinct species, and the fact we have such an unusually rich fossil record makes them even better! I would love to see more on them from time to time

  • @citiesskyscrapers4561
    @citiesskyscrapers45615 жыл бұрын

    Another great video!

  • @BumKnuckle
    @BumKnuckle2 жыл бұрын

    I chose a playlist from this channel to fall asleep to, and when I woke up, this was in my face...7:04

  • @carli-wandafivaz1876
    @carli-wandafivaz18765 жыл бұрын

    Hi Eons I would really love it if you would do a video of Basilosauridae particularly Basilosaurus. Thank you. I really love your channel

  • @DangerVille
    @DangerVille5 жыл бұрын

    Well said haha. Loved this video!

  • @bradbradthebrad

    @bradbradthebrad

    3 жыл бұрын

    why has no one replied to this

  • @josiahdowdson5890

    @josiahdowdson5890

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because there isn't really anything to say

  • @janejanebobanebananafannaf2522

    @janejanebobanebananafannaf2522

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed

  • @vippsmillennial6336
    @vippsmillennial63365 жыл бұрын

    Nice foreshadowing on the La Brea tar pits at the beginning.

  • @lancelefevre351
    @lancelefevre3515 жыл бұрын

    I love this show lol. It's awesome. My favorite hosts along with PBS space. That guy rocks too

  • @SmallAndSoft
    @SmallAndSoft5 жыл бұрын

    you guys are some of the most amazing and intelligent and information

  • @t2farlop3zzz77
    @t2farlop3zzz773 жыл бұрын

    How about a review about this now that we have new information about Dire Wolves? No longer looking like a giant grey wolf...

  • @Ian64
    @Ian645 жыл бұрын

    Once you go dire you never go higher

  • @gabriellashimone6546
    @gabriellashimone65464 жыл бұрын

    So very interesting, the lore of the past. Thank you. I really liked this.

  • @griffin20
    @griffin203 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos keep em coming

  • @Tamo8
    @Tamo82 жыл бұрын

    Watching this in 2021 and amazed that the Dire Wolf is no longer classified under the genus Canis or as a true wolf, now its classified under the genus Aenocyon as DNA evidence supports that it diverged from Canis. They are still badass Canidae bois regardless of their taxonomic status .

  • @suchapill3077
    @suchapill30774 жыл бұрын

    So that's what Lennon meant when he said, "I am the walrus." 🙄

  • @tehbonehead

    @tehbonehead

    4 жыл бұрын

    Goo goo ga-joob.

  • @arandomdude1992

    @arandomdude1992

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wat

  • @rogerlock348
    @rogerlock3485 жыл бұрын

    LOVED this video!

  • @halg3625
    @halg36252 жыл бұрын

    I have to admit defeat, here. I finally got it through my thick skull, that I can't have this show as background noise when I go to bed. It's just too dang interesting! I love this show and I really want to see special episodes that stretch out to 30 minutes! Even though the beauty of this show is it's ability to be incredibly captivating and concise, I need more. Y'all say you read the comments, so I have a request. Would it be possible to cover geologic time, from the collision of Theia, (not sure if that's spelled correctly) the planet that collided with Earth, causing the chain reaction that eventually made our planet habitable, to the Hadean Eon, on into our current time? Could you list the names of each measurement of geologic time (Eons, Eras, Periods, Epochs, and ages) and explain the conditions and life forms, if any, of each time frame? It would have to be an unusually long video, but I want it done, by this studio, so badly! Please consider this as a possible project. All that stuff I would do for a Klondike Bar, I'll do ten fold for this. Lol. I'll relinquish the Klondike Bar for this, forget the Klondike Bar, lol.

  • @marchismo8514
    @marchismo85145 жыл бұрын

    I would love to get your take on the Younger Dryas and the various Younger Dryas mass extinction hypotheses (e.g., traditional man-made extinction vs. Comet impact vs. Solar coronal mass ejection).

  • @M00s3r
    @M00s3r5 жыл бұрын

    So can we talk about the lineage of Canis species? Like different extant and extinct wolf species and coyotes vs jackals?

  • @stukevideo
    @stukevideo5 жыл бұрын

    Good video! Accurate, relevant, appropriate, lucid and interesting.

  • @redthe_hound
    @redthe_hound3 жыл бұрын

    its very kind enjoyable to listen to this guy, talks exactly like my highschool video production teacher

  • @trilobite7308
    @trilobite73085 жыл бұрын

    Can you do a video on euryipterids

  • @fenndoggett2977
    @fenndoggett29775 жыл бұрын

    And the award for best title goes too...

  • @Leomoon101
    @Leomoon1015 жыл бұрын

    Love the video. I hope to one day visit the tats pits. A suggestion on the next video how about talking about the evolution of spiders or the most dangerous seas in natural history.

  • @dylanpotter1807
    @dylanpotter18075 жыл бұрын

    Bravo! This was brilliantly intelligent and funny!

  • @alexa.alaska8376
    @alexa.alaska83765 жыл бұрын

    7:51 That poor basturd

  • @yusefdanielhassounharmouch1520
    @yusefdanielhassounharmouch15205 жыл бұрын

    How did cats split from dogs? (Canids from felids)

  • @mmseng2

    @mmseng2

    5 жыл бұрын

    That was covered in the last Eons video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pY6c2qWOkdybm9Y.html

  • @treeaboo

    @treeaboo

    5 жыл бұрын

    No it wasn't, the last video covered how Canidae was split into 3 familes with the video covering one, and this video covering another. It did not cover the split of Carnivora into Feliformia and Caniformia.

  • @MaureenLycaon

    @MaureenLycaon

    5 жыл бұрын

    Would've happened way back in the Paleocene, I think. We actually don't know much about it yet, unless there have been a whole lot of new discoveries I haven't heard about. The last common ancestors might not even have been the miacids after all.

  • @kungfuasgaeilge

    @kungfuasgaeilge

    5 жыл бұрын

    It was a messy divorce. They still don't see eye to eye.

  • @frankstein7631

    @frankstein7631

    5 жыл бұрын

    kungfuasgaeilge They fought like cats and dogs.

  • @darkmoonthedirewolf9231
    @darkmoonthedirewolf92313 жыл бұрын

    I heard you were talking about my kind. 👌🐺 Cool video dude

  • @Dogrin
    @Dogrin5 жыл бұрын

    Very nice talking speed! I could retain much more information at this pace.

  • @quentinedge1698
    @quentinedge16984 жыл бұрын

    5:58 I hope no one walks in on me.

  • @user-kt7xp9mk7n
    @user-kt7xp9mk7n5 жыл бұрын

    Please tell us about South American ungulates!!!!!!!!!!!! Your videos are cool and it will be so interesting to hear about so uncharacteristic animals.

  • @abbydabbs5519
    @abbydabbs55193 жыл бұрын

    My favourite host of eons :) just like the vibes.

  • @user-qy1up4bj1w
    @user-qy1up4bj1w5 жыл бұрын

    I think a video about the evolution of anapsids, diapsids, synapsids and therapsids would be great!!

  • @PoofyThePandaPro
    @PoofyThePandaPro5 жыл бұрын

    yo why didn't you talk about LAB290-90? and LAB365-69?

  • @miquelescribanoivars5049
    @miquelescribanoivars50495 жыл бұрын

    Big Doggo Edit: *OOF!

  • @lachancla6118
    @lachancla61185 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel!

  • @dersitzpinkler2027
    @dersitzpinkler20275 жыл бұрын

    Love this channel

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