The Age of Giant Insects

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Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods weren’t always so small. About 315 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period, they were not only abundant: they were enormous.
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  • @mocca3633
    @mocca36336 жыл бұрын

    you mean The Age of Nope.

  • @penni006

    @penni006

    5 жыл бұрын

    I literally said nope as soon as she said that bug was as big as a pigeon.

  • @eazybaby5094

    @eazybaby5094

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lmaoooo

  • @unknown-ue6qv

    @unknown-ue6qv

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @noobnoob3489

    @noobnoob3489

    5 жыл бұрын

    This comment caught me off guard I lol

  • @sachinraghavan4556

    @sachinraghavan4556

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Holocene is the Age of Nope.

  • @tyrantt-1004
    @tyrantt-10044 жыл бұрын

    Australian insects: We are big! Prehistoric insects: hold my oxygen

  • @osmankalif3500

    @osmankalif3500

    4 жыл бұрын

    Best comment

  • @demarcusfaulkner7411

    @demarcusfaulkner7411

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome comment

  • @bradleywells1071

    @bradleywells1071

    4 жыл бұрын

    they stayed big and safe because you on a island lol.

  • @edmind47

    @edmind47

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dinos:hold my feathers!

  • @hmmokay314

    @hmmokay314

    4 жыл бұрын

    Edmind Sundaram since when were dinos insects 😂🤨

  • @saintfolk5167
    @saintfolk51674 жыл бұрын

    Insects got nerfed in update 1.811

  • @SivakumarRelangi

    @SivakumarRelangi

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤣😂

  • @NeoDarkness

    @NeoDarkness

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @Lumberjack_king

    @Lumberjack_king

    3 жыл бұрын

    teir zoo fans? your far from home jk

  • @suntzu7520

    @suntzu7520

    3 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else notice how hard the nerfed spinous in the Moroccan update they went from terrifying Lizards to fish catching duck faced over sized crocodile they used to be such a cool feature now they suck frik this game

  • @NeoDarkness

    @NeoDarkness

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@suntzu7520 lol

  • @redrum252
    @redrum2524 жыл бұрын

    Imagine a forrest fire with that much oxygen in the atmosphere! Wow

  • @WoozyCool

    @WoozyCool

    3 жыл бұрын

    ka boom

  • @jamesbugbee6812

    @jamesbugbee6812

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WoozyCool Intristing idear!

  • @J75Pootle

    @J75Pootle

    11 ай бұрын

    Forest fires were probably the only things that prevented tree trunks from piling up taller than the trees themselves during that period lol

  • @WokeandProud

    @WokeandProud

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@J75PootleMost of them rotted in peat and became coal.

  • @J75Pootle

    @J75Pootle

    11 ай бұрын

    @@WokeandProud Trees didn't rot for most of that period, that's the point. There were no bacteria or insects that had evolved to eat/break down wood by that point, so the trees just sat there and either got burned by wildfire or got buried and eventually became coal - in fact most coal in this planet comes from the carboniferous because the wood wasn't being broken down

  • @thirdeye3750
    @thirdeye37505 жыл бұрын

    "take a deep breath" My athsma: "hello"

  • @tristanlopez1777

    @tristanlopez1777

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its me.

  • @nikitao8153

    @nikitao8153

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're looking for

  • @hamsterbrehbruhbreh1670

    @hamsterbrehbruhbreh1670

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nikitao8153 rip grumpy the cat

  • @cdemr

    @cdemr

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same :/

  • @nvwest

    @nvwest

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nikita O I can see it in your eyes

  • @edbouhl3100
    @edbouhl31006 жыл бұрын

    Someday a squid descendant may be lecturing about how the Age of the Hominids ended with an explosion of carbon dioxide levels that led in just a few million years to the Rise of the Octopods

  • @chiggsytube

    @chiggsytube

    5 жыл бұрын

    The dolphins already hated us for filling the ocean with boat noise. I wonder what they make of the jellyfish?

  • @lolbosss

    @lolbosss

    5 жыл бұрын

    Squidward?

  • @thecrimsoncreep6665

    @thecrimsoncreep6665

    5 жыл бұрын

    Splatoon?

  • @dulzkyriveratovitch256

    @dulzkyriveratovitch256

    5 жыл бұрын

    No. A sudden explosion of radioactive material. That still a mystery to where it came from according to Octopod scientist.

  • @jaysonklein6018

    @jaysonklein6018

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'd be ok with that.

  • @dmenace9827
    @dmenace98274 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Darwin, in Australia's remote tropical north. There was a Dragonfly about 6 inches long, and yes it was green, so it looked like a military helicopter. There was also a Stick Insect about a foot long, it could fly and had crimson wings.

  • @christinamann3640

    @christinamann3640

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me: reaches for sawed-off shotgun

  • @Leitis_Fella

    @Leitis_Fella

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmao get stick bugged lol

  • @daisiesofdoom

    @daisiesofdoom

    Жыл бұрын

    As beautiful as the country is, as nice the people come across... I could never wrap my head around why people want to go to Australia

  • @camsky8764

    @camsky8764

    11 ай бұрын

    Grew up in Cairns can confirm iv got a photo with a stick insect biger bout that size on my face with its wings out most people dont know they hav them

  • @Cyberbully34

    @Cyberbully34

    9 ай бұрын

    Only in Australia 💀

  • @ZeMarkKrazee
    @ZeMarkKrazee3 жыл бұрын

    “You know those cute little millipedes...?” Me: “No. I have never known a cute millipede.”

  • @HH-ru4bj

    @HH-ru4bj

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because you're wrong.

  • @28_ranggaclio

    @28_ranggaclio

    3 жыл бұрын

    Infidel!

  • @IcyHalo

    @IcyHalo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah i was like “wtf you mean cute 😂”

  • @NafeeDoesStuff

    @NafeeDoesStuff

    3 жыл бұрын

    But the small ones are so cute

  • @ZeMarkKrazee

    @ZeMarkKrazee

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NafeeDoesStuff HERETIC!

  • @eddieking2976
    @eddieking29766 жыл бұрын

    "I don't think a can of Raid is going to do it."

  • @TragoudistrosMPH

    @TragoudistrosMPH

    4 жыл бұрын

    Some milipedes produce cyanide gas... They probably look at modern mammals the same way :P

  • @xxCrimsonSpiritxx

    @xxCrimsonSpiritxx

    4 жыл бұрын

    A can't* of raid

  • @GreasyBeasty

    @GreasyBeasty

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's just insect pepper spray

  • @rachdarastrix5251

    @rachdarastrix5251

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey! Get your damn pesticide away from from my carbiniferus survival strategy. Step 1: Large cauldron full of water Step 2: Hot fire Step 3: Butter. Step 4: After eating the giant arthropods, die of poison because you sprayed them.

  • @christopherschuch5328

    @christopherschuch5328

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not even Mortein can do the trick.

  • @nevermore7310
    @nevermore73106 жыл бұрын

    "Cute little millipedes" try terrifying.

  • @usernamewastaken4829

    @usernamewastaken4829

    6 жыл бұрын

    One of my most hated creatures on this planet.

  • @space__hobbit

    @space__hobbit

    6 жыл бұрын

    Whoever calls millepedes cute has never been to Australia during millepede season.

  • @spiritualcoconut4478

    @spiritualcoconut4478

    6 жыл бұрын

    Joseph Burchanowski What did you say in japanese?

  • @lapissed9620

    @lapissed9620

    6 жыл бұрын

    Millipedes are never cute but they're also not terrifying though centipedes... Not even "terrifying" could describe them

  • @lithobreak3812

    @lithobreak3812

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nah mate, have you ever seen one up close? They have cute big round eyes in a cute round face and they don't do nothing to anyone or anything.

  • @ruebenaragon493
    @ruebenaragon4934 жыл бұрын

    "A living carpet" thats a terrifying image for something with million legs 🦵

  • @agentbarton8972
    @agentbarton89722 жыл бұрын

    The thing that really hits me is the fact that there is a roughly 6 million year period between the extinction of arthropleura and meganeura. That's just absolutely wild to me. That means meganeura was flying around for millions of years longer than humans have even existed purely during the DECLINE of the age of insects. And the species itself was around for a whole lot longer than that. The sheer scale of time is really scary sometimes.

  • @WokeandProud

    @WokeandProud

    11 ай бұрын

    Yep it's easy to see why some people refuse to believe the ridiculously old age of the earth four and a half billion years is almost impossible to get your mind around it's a soul crushing amount of time it might as well be eternity from our perspective.

  • @AndresSanchez-pp3ho

    @AndresSanchez-pp3ho

    8 ай бұрын

    The comprehension of time and space is what’s scary , now you realize why infinit is scary and end of space is scary. Time is the construct it’s not scary. You understanding 100 million years and paining a picture is scary.

  • @andres510bxtr
    @andres510bxtr6 жыл бұрын

    The scientist at Arizona State NEED TO BE STOPPED. I refuse to live in a 50's monster movie just because they got carried away with oxygen tanks!

  • @omarabe26

    @omarabe26

    5 жыл бұрын

    B-but *SCIENCE*

  • @davidrosner6267

    @davidrosner6267

    5 жыл бұрын

    The mega bugs these scientists produced in the lab probably wouldn’t survive outside their oxygen rich enclosure.

  • @zeburancher9480

    @zeburancher9480

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@davidrosner6267 if there are mad scientists somewhere producing an army of giant bugs, they would know to attach the oxygen tanks to the giant bugs.

  • @grande521

    @grande521

    5 жыл бұрын

    And then you notice her wedding ring and all your Hopes and dreams set suffocated like the bugs on this video.... :(

  • @davidrosner6267

    @davidrosner6267

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@zeburancher9480, they'd need to attack them to all the insects' breathing pores.

  • @braincraft
    @braincraft6 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of life in Australia 🕷

  • @keeganmcleod4135

    @keeganmcleod4135

    6 жыл бұрын

    BrainCraft Nothing in venomous in Australia can compare in size to these creatures.

  • @guillermo2868

    @guillermo2868

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh sweetie , as a Melbournian, the insects that you usually come across are only the size of your thumbnail or nail from your pinky. Only in the outback do you find huge insects , where less that ~2% of our population exists. Except you'll often come across possums , small spiders, insects and parakeets. Except the occasional kangaroo that goes jumping in front of you house.

  • @ayaan3348

    @ayaan3348

    6 жыл бұрын

    that offends me so much because im australian

  • @MatthewSmith-sz1yq

    @MatthewSmith-sz1yq

    6 жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile, in Arizona... we use blowtorches to kill rat-sized scorpions.

  • @masterimbecile

    @masterimbecile

    6 жыл бұрын

    Australia has 35% atmospheric oxygen? Must be nice.

  • @DNTMEE
    @DNTMEE4 жыл бұрын

    Captain, we're going to need a bigger shoe.

  • @christianleitel7906

    @christianleitel7906

    4 жыл бұрын

    Time to bust out the big boi boots.

  • @2s0lidkchannel75

    @2s0lidkchannel75

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is why flame throwers exist

  • @tylerjones7592

    @tylerjones7592

    4 жыл бұрын

    DNTME hire a sauropod

  • @chromiakocosmos8888
    @chromiakocosmos88885 жыл бұрын

    "Now imagine a giant centepede" Other people: NOPE Me: *I wanna ride on it's back*

  • @nfrmis4825

    @nfrmis4825

    5 жыл бұрын

    Skatepede its just a centipide you can ride haha yeaaa...

  • @robinchesterfield42

    @robinchesterfield42

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can you IMAGINE, an army who rides into battle on _those_ things instead of horses? NO-ONE WOULD MESS WITH THEM. XD

  • @hlcepeda

    @hlcepeda

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably the safest spot to come in contact with.

  • @tiffanywilliams6040

    @tiffanywilliams6040

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Jerry Gonzales Training

  • @Omosani

    @Omosani

    4 жыл бұрын

    YO THAT'S A MOOD

  • @rockstar32734
    @rockstar327346 жыл бұрын

    "Take a deep breath" *does as instructed and ends up sneezing uncontrollably*

  • @tristanlopez1777

    @tristanlopez1777

    4 жыл бұрын

    Grows 10 feet

  • @stephenphillip5656

    @stephenphillip5656

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can I breathe out yet? Only, she hasn't told me I can and I'm struggling a bit now...

  • @ps92809

    @ps92809

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stephenphillip5656 are you still alive

  • @KQEDDeepLook
    @KQEDDeepLook6 жыл бұрын

    You had us at Griffinflies. And spiracles. Great video!

  • @jacobduran8256

    @jacobduran8256

    6 жыл бұрын

    Deep Look!! I LOVE YOUR STUFF

  • @leohuynh7405

    @leohuynh7405

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hi Deep Look :)

  • @KQEDDeepLook

    @KQEDDeepLook

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hi!

  • @bazeidrhook3528

    @bazeidrhook3528

    6 жыл бұрын

    I love you guys :)

  • @fatimacruz9724

    @fatimacruz9724

    6 жыл бұрын

    legends supporting legends

  • @ReginaRegenbogn
    @ReginaRegenbogn Жыл бұрын

    I knew the oxygen levels were much higher once, allowing for big insects. However, I did NOT know about decomposers and funghi! Thank you for teaching me new things!

  • @indiankid8601

    @indiankid8601

    11 ай бұрын

    Fun guy 😂

  • @electric_sway
    @electric_sway5 жыл бұрын

    Learns of giant dinosaurs “OMG that is awesome” Learns of giant insects “Ahh Heck No!!!”

  • @collegemaster5683

    @collegemaster5683

    3 жыл бұрын

    Weird, huh?

  • @adreantejed4199

    @adreantejed4199

    3 жыл бұрын

    im not fat, i just have too much oxygen. lolll

  • @TheGuitarislove

    @TheGuitarislove

    2 жыл бұрын

    I mean I’d much rather die at the hands of a giant dinosaur than a giant insect … dinosaurs were scary… but are insects are CREEPY

  • @RosinGoblin
    @RosinGoblin6 жыл бұрын

    I welcome our ant overloards with this giant bottle of spilled Coke

  • @salometipsandtricks2786

    @salometipsandtricks2786

    4 жыл бұрын

    Reptar you overlord is a lamb with seven horns and seven eyes get your story straight.

  • @brian96_

    @brian96_

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@salometipsandtricks2786 you know nothing let's be real

  • @bananamilk6155

    @bananamilk6155

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rice n Beans ah yes hail the ant AAAAAAYYYYYYAAAAAAAA AAAAYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAA HAIL THE ANTS

  • @thereaIjesuschrist

    @thereaIjesuschrist

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rice n Beans I love ants

  • @SanPot123

    @SanPot123

    4 жыл бұрын

    Did these giant insects eat any animals?

  • @snitcheyes411
    @snitcheyes4116 жыл бұрын

    You know how we have lots of museums with animatronic/robotic dinosaurs? Where's the museum of moving giant insects? I need this in my life!

  • @Marylandbrony

    @Marylandbrony

    6 жыл бұрын

    Also called the nope museum.

  • @Thumbsupurbum

    @Thumbsupurbum

    6 жыл бұрын

    It could double as a haunted house around halloween.

  • @zarwrites

    @zarwrites

    5 жыл бұрын

    Go to the Field Museum in Chicago. They have an insect section where you're "shrunk" and the insects are huge. Some are even animatronic.

  • @wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus

    @wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@zarwrites That sounds so cool. Unfortunately I won't ever get to go there as I don't live in America.

  • @Knightwolf1994

    @Knightwolf1994

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Thumbsupurbum It's a haunted house all year round bro.

  • @HH-dd2xq
    @HH-dd2xq3 жыл бұрын

    With how incomplete the fossil record is, it makes you wonder what other weird, giant insectoid creatures existed at that time that we have no idea about.

  • @nickbriggs8059

    @nickbriggs8059

    Жыл бұрын

    It takes a lot of perfectly timed things to all happen in order to form a fossil. Your right there is so so much we haven’t a clue about. Exoskeletons are very rare fossils and not many exist at all considering we are talking millions of years. Idk the ratio but seems like it would be like .0001 fossils annually or something crazy

  • @danielcorpuz1873

    @danielcorpuz1873

    Жыл бұрын

    This is why i think there's still a giant spider from Carboniferous. Megarachne is just a very very bad coincidence

  • @m13848

    @m13848

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@danielcorpuz1873 mega what?

  • @loucifer9618

    @loucifer9618

    Жыл бұрын

    @@m13848 megadeeznuts

  • @WokeandProud

    @WokeandProud

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@danielcorpuz1873Spider's can't handle getting big thier anatomy would make it too difficult to breath.

  • @ecojosh1
    @ecojosh14 жыл бұрын

    The animals that lived before the dinosaurs are so underrated.

  • @jannahnurul
    @jannahnurul5 жыл бұрын

    im not fat, i just have too much oxygen. lolll

  • @zonde2941

    @zonde2941

    5 жыл бұрын

    @33kaus holokaust what is your problem?

  • @DeliciousFood69420

    @DeliciousFood69420

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lmfao

  • @rebeccaluis1223

    @rebeccaluis1223

    4 жыл бұрын

    Weird flex but ok

  • @rebeccaluis1223

    @rebeccaluis1223

    4 жыл бұрын

    @33kaus holokaust that was random

  • @luzvibes4981

    @luzvibes4981

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @sjenkins1057
    @sjenkins10576 жыл бұрын

    As the late Steven J. Gould wrote, if you count by either number of organisms, or by total biomass, it is neither the age of mammals, nor the age of insects: it is now and always has been the age of bacteria.

  • @limiv5272

    @limiv5272

    6 жыл бұрын

    counting by number of individuals, this is the age of viruses, if you count them as living www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro2644

  • @wichitazen

    @wichitazen

    5 жыл бұрын

    And you are why humans are in trouble.

  • @wholeNwon

    @wholeNwon

    5 жыл бұрын

    We are merely incubators and motility systems for bacteria.

  • @randomuser6306

    @randomuser6306

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bah. Gould was a chump. It was and always will be the age of rock. There is more rock than anything else on the planet, by any measure. Therefore rock wins. See how stupid that one of reasoning is?

  • @arminharper510

    @arminharper510

    5 жыл бұрын

    But rocks arent living beings, bacteriae are.

  • @Xesh001
    @Xesh0014 жыл бұрын

    I notice that you didn't mention that fungi, at this time, weren't able to break down lignin or cellulose, as trees with these chemical components had evolved relatively recently. This is another major reason why trees didn't decompose, and instead formed coal. That's why virtually all coal was formed around this time (the only exceptions being under very rare circumstances otherwise) and peat is the only analogous material formed since.

  • @keysn9070

    @keysn9070

    8 ай бұрын

    That's a theory of right now

  • @casper6405
    @casper64055 жыл бұрын

    Time travel tip Always bring a huge newspaper

  • @simonz5905
    @simonz59055 жыл бұрын

    0:14 "there are way more of them than there are of us" We're working on it

  • @valiroime

    @valiroime

    3 жыл бұрын

    Losing battle

  • @wanderingwade8877
    @wanderingwade88776 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure the age of the giant bugs was the 1950's. That's what late night movies tell us.

  • @deucewayne449

    @deucewayne449

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wandering Wade Beginning of the end

  • @GillianMStarlight

    @GillianMStarlight

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Deadly Mantis!

  • @robinchesterfield42

    @robinchesterfield42

    4 жыл бұрын

    (reads replies) (gets a sudden urge to bust out some oldschool MST3K) Seriously, I kind of love the cheesy '50s monster movies. They're just silly fun. :)

  • @2msvalkyrie529

    @2msvalkyrie529

    3 жыл бұрын

    MANT....!!

  • @Ren_zuki
    @Ren_zuki4 жыл бұрын

    ".......ok google: how do i build a flamethrower"

  • @desireelane8956

    @desireelane8956

    4 жыл бұрын

    I said this out loud by accident and my phone actually looked it up.... Lmao

  • @whafflete6721

    @whafflete6721

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hans Get the Flamethrower

  • @M0US3EE

    @M0US3EE

    4 жыл бұрын

    :/

  • @NUSORCA

    @NUSORCA

    4 жыл бұрын

    With a spark and oxygen overload you can burn a whole Carboniferous rainforest in a day

  • @thedarkside6712

    @thedarkside6712

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@NUSORCA probably a whole continent within a week at fastest.

  • @claraazevedo1826
    @claraazevedo18264 жыл бұрын

    i’ve never been so glad for a creature’s extinction in my life

  • @lucidboy6568

    @lucidboy6568

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hehe

  • @philipgali6205

    @philipgali6205

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cool what's your insta

  • @v.i.p4923

    @v.i.p4923

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@philipgali6205 ah hell no

  • @lmeza1983

    @lmeza1983

    4 жыл бұрын

    If things would have gone differently maybe humans wouldn't exist and animals would be so glad.

  • @user-xi4yk7et3s

    @user-xi4yk7et3s

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm actually really sad.. I'd love to see cute big bugs!

  • @Digitalneo1
    @Digitalneo16 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the Great Arthropod War of 299M, it was a brutal war but many exoskeletons were crunched that day.

  • @wj9855

    @wj9855

    6 жыл бұрын

    👏👏

  • @BADVlBES

    @BADVlBES

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Jagred PeaceMocker your actually right, if we put a family of humans in a chamber full of 100% oxygen and let them live on and reproduce id assume after a few generations they would be taller than the original parents

  • @williamjordan5554

    @williamjordan5554

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@BADVlBES they would anyway because the women would choose the tallest men.

  • @williamjordan5554

    @williamjordan5554

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Jagred PeaceMocker exoskeleton would be too heavy.

  • @tristanlopez1777

    @tristanlopez1777

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes my ancestors hid in a hole. Cowards.

  • @pummisher1186
    @pummisher11866 жыл бұрын

    Remember 99 Million Years ago? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

  • @titanusrodan8344

    @titanusrodan8344

    5 жыл бұрын

    "99 Million Years Ago" You literally Gets 99 likes

  • @titanusrodan8344

    @titanusrodan8344

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nevermind i've just liked

  • @arisebeats1851

    @arisebeats1851

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes I was trying to make a wheel out of stone

  • @tiffanywilliams6040

    @tiffanywilliams6040

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@arisebeats1851 i turned a rock into a smaller rock and said to my self "this rock, had a child"

  • @itskevinjustkevin
    @itskevinjustkevin4 жыл бұрын

    "goodbye ocean.... Aaaaaannnnnnd everything is huge, including bugs" -bill wurtz

  • @sanstheskelespook100yearsa9

    @sanstheskelespook100yearsa9

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lmfao

  • @itskevinjustkevin

    @itskevinjustkevin

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@sanstheskelespook100yearsa9 bill wurtz is best

  • @debopriyokar4921

    @debopriyokar4921

    3 жыл бұрын

    Legendary

  • @azipoor3468
    @azipoor34685 жыл бұрын

    Meganeura anatomy and physiology was almost as the same as today's dragonfly so dragonflies have one of the oldest anatomy. Thanks for your awesome video

  • @HannahZiad
    @HannahZiad6 жыл бұрын

    It just creeps me out knowing that scintests are trying to make bigger bugs ! Who is funding this evil plan ? 😒

  • @emeraldz6744

    @emeraldz6744

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ngl I think bigger bugs would be pretty cool but scary at the same time

  • @pallesudate4677

    @pallesudate4677

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why evil?

  • @josullivan5189

    @josullivan5189

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s not to make bugs bigger regularly it’s just an experiment

  • @epauletshark3793

    @epauletshark3793

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would

  • @ericjohns8522

    @ericjohns8522

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its actually better! They made the world a better place to live! Well you guys wont feel it cuz only dino fans and paleontologists love this idea. I wish there were dinosaurs in 2021 and i want big ol' artheopods too.

  • @Jungy_Mungerson
    @Jungy_Mungerson5 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't it be more accurate to compare the number of insects to the number of mammals, rather than just humans?

  • @thanksforthemessdick

    @thanksforthemessdick

    5 жыл бұрын

    There are 7.2 billion humans on the planet today - if we take everyone over the age of 15, they weigh a combined total of about 332bn kg. If we imagine there are 10,000 trillion ants in the world, weighing an average of 4mg, their total weight comes to just 40bn kg. Feel better?

  • @regular-joe

    @regular-joe

    5 жыл бұрын

    Logic rules! (This shouldn't have been able to slip past the writers' notice - appreciate you pointing it out!).

  • @hlcepeda

    @hlcepeda

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think 'humans' was used as a point of comparison since humans are considered to be the dominant species. The message was, "Hey! Think YOU"RE the 'big dog'?! Well... get a load of THIS!"

  • @winstonsmith11

    @winstonsmith11

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Jerry Gonzales But in what arena? On land, they die. In water, we die. Not much of a battle to even be fought, in either scenario.

  • @Xesh001

    @Xesh001

    4 жыл бұрын

    The insects would still be more numerous though. An interesting point to note is that if all mammals disappeared from the Earth then the ecosystem would still go on. If all the insects (or more accurately, arthropods) disappeared then the ecosystem would collapse!

  • @robertbrown5319
    @robertbrown53193 жыл бұрын

    With a 35% Oxygen level in the atmosphere, spontaneous combustion and fire would have been a problem.

  • @michellebrown4903

    @michellebrown4903

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's what l was thinking. A forest fire would pretty quickly have become a firestorm?

  • @ericjaramillo1381
    @ericjaramillo13815 жыл бұрын

    Im learning about this in my college biology class. When my professor talked about there being a lot of oxygen in the air millions of years ago i knew where it was heading and I was like “HES GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE INSECTS FKJSNANSM” in my mind.

  • @cowardlysludge
    @cowardlysludge5 жыл бұрын

    I really like the hosts on this channel! They seem very friendly and passionate about the subjects. Keep it up Eons!

  • @joeycook6526
    @joeycook65266 жыл бұрын

    I always love watching Eons, and the other PBS science productions. They do a wonderful job. That being said... a pigeon is larger than a robin in every respect.

  • @BR-hi6yt

    @BR-hi6yt

    3 жыл бұрын

    PBS American commies - you wouldn't like it all the time. Advising you on ALL things. 1984 Brave New World

  • @amandaoneil5779

    @amandaoneil5779

    Жыл бұрын

    She says that meganeura had a wingspan of 70 cm, about the size of a pigeon and stephanotypus had a wingspan of 40 cm, about the size of a robin.

  • @megannzzz
    @megannzzz4 жыл бұрын

    {big bugs} Me: *M O V I N G T O M A R S*

  • @attilathechilla.1383

    @attilathechilla.1383

    4 жыл бұрын

    watch the anime Terraformars. and you will rethink your decision.

  • @teemusid

    @teemusid

    4 жыл бұрын

    Marvin is looking forward to his new human slave's arrival.

  • @jamesmueller8701

    @jamesmueller8701

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@teemusid ,,, Sooo, that's, "whats up doc" ???

  • @ulyssesjoyce2793
    @ulyssesjoyce27932 жыл бұрын

    A history of oxygen gas on earth and its cycle changes over eons would be very interesting. If current plants are being decomposed and O2 is being captured again, is O2 level decreasing millennia by millennia since carboniferous?

  • @BZAKether
    @BZAKether6 жыл бұрын

    "cute" and "millipedes" can't be used in the same coherent phrase.

  • @lancewedor5306

    @lancewedor5306

    6 жыл бұрын

    you must be confused - Millipedes are cute as well mas amazing. Centipedes, the nasty vicious creepy, some poisonous - ugh! Now these are anti-cute.

  • @idot3331

    @idot3331

    5 жыл бұрын

    Milipides are pretty cute, centipedes are tiny demons

  • @reisenbunny1235

    @reisenbunny1235

    5 жыл бұрын

    Millipedes are herbivores and Centipedes are........ devils

  • @Galiant2010

    @Galiant2010

    5 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqasuZijc8XOnaQ.html

  • @sffb8295

    @sffb8295

    5 жыл бұрын

    What?! But they’re so adorable!Look at how they creep on the garden floor and curl up when you touch them: balls of anxiety,just like me lmao

  • @sbellaharris
    @sbellaharris6 жыл бұрын

    Are you telling me I can grow giant insect today?

  • @JohnSmithEx

    @JohnSmithEx

    6 жыл бұрын

    Playing with the oxygen level may be redundant. Just allow the big ones to reproduce. Make sex forbidden for the medium and small ones.

  • @JohnSmithEx

    @JohnSmithEx

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Dan Nguyen +laser325 look at the comment of Fruchtpudding (6 hours ago). He disagrees with the video's claim that high oxygen is growing bigger insects, and he gives sources. «The study you mentioned that found dragonflies getting larger in high oxygen atmospheres also tested other insects, and 10 out 12 grew smaller in an hyperoxic environment. Concluding from this that higher oxygen = bigger insects seems absolutely ridiculous to me. Why did you leave this out? It was the main point of that paper.»

  • @peterii3512

    @peterii3512

    6 жыл бұрын

    Evi1M4chine edgy

  • @nakyer

    @nakyer

    6 жыл бұрын

    *Evi1M4chine* I'd have given your post some thought, except for the fact you were so sloppy and incoherent.

  • @AdmiralBison

    @AdmiralBison

    6 жыл бұрын

    Don't 😐 There are people like me who have a genuine terror and phobia when it comes to insects and spiders, let alone giant versions of them. Knowing this, I expect you are more determined now.

  • @nicolascoast9653
    @nicolascoast96535 жыл бұрын

    Just discovered this channel, very educational, I like it

  • @gouraviyerankollu525
    @gouraviyerankollu5254 жыл бұрын

    I don't know why I get emotional while watching your videos and the mass extinctions.... 💙

  • @Pfhorrest
    @Pfhorrest6 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: all that carbon that Carboniferous forests were sucking in that never got released by decomposition? That's where our coal comes from, and it's finally all getting released back into the atmosphere now.

  • @atwaterpub

    @atwaterpub

    5 жыл бұрын

    EXACTLY.. And it will return the Earth to a similar climate as the one described here.

  • @MellowWater

    @MellowWater

    5 жыл бұрын

    Purpose of life? Humans were designed to release the carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere and plastic.

  • @atwaterpub

    @atwaterpub

    5 жыл бұрын

    Humans exist because they create more entropy than any other form of life or matter.

  • @chriswillb

    @chriswillb

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@atwaterpub The reason those conditions existed in the first place was because the CO2 was trapped in the non-decomposed wood. If anything, burning coal takes us further away from those conditions.

  • @atwaterpub

    @atwaterpub

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@chriswillb HAHA That is ridiculous. I am not talking about the super-oxygenated Earth atmosphere in the "Age of Insects" (Proterozoic Era...BEFORE the Age of Dinosaurs). I am talking about the early "Age of Dinosaurs (The Paleozoic Era .. when trees and coniferous trees started growing). The CO2 content in the atmosphere at that time was 15 times present day.

  • @calebr7199
    @calebr71996 жыл бұрын

    I like big bugs and I can not lie!

  • @sweetleaf9668

    @sweetleaf9668

    6 жыл бұрын

    You other buggers can't deny

  • @kennethsatria6607

    @kennethsatria6607

    6 жыл бұрын

    YESSS

  • @MsMarkleaf

    @MsMarkleaf

    6 жыл бұрын

    Couldn't resist, either.

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    Orange Boy +

  • @stevenbaumann8692

    @stevenbaumann8692

    6 жыл бұрын

    Orange Boy well played sir.

  • @einaredlund253
    @einaredlund2534 жыл бұрын

    Earth: Gets More oxygen Insects: haha body go big

  • @sudarshanpradhan5290
    @sudarshanpradhan52903 жыл бұрын

    I am literally hooked to this channel. Just love the content and their video titles they are so creative. Just love your content ❤️

  • @tranquil_dude
    @tranquil_dude6 жыл бұрын

    0:23 Humans are one species whereas insects are an entire class of animals. It would be more appropriate to compare the population of humans to, say, a particular species of ant. Or, alternatively, compare the population of all mammals to all insects.

  • @LeBaldJames23-

    @LeBaldJames23-

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alot of people dont really think that humans are mammals and i hate it

  • @sandroskronias

    @sandroskronias

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@LeBaldJames23- but we scientifically are mammals how can they be like "wE aReN't MaMmAlS". Of course we are.

  • @smoky3302

    @smoky3302

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well there are atleast 10000 trillion ants so they are more than humans . It is difficult to compare between total number of insect species to o mammals as we are still finding new species of insects so quite a difficult one.

  • @siyacer

    @siyacer

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sandroskronias same people that think bugs aren't animals

  • @siyacer

    @siyacer

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@smoky3302 because ants are tiny

  • @metime00
    @metime006 жыл бұрын

    I love how much longer and thorough this channel's videos are than other science channels

  • @michaeldy3157
    @michaeldy31572 жыл бұрын

    I love this stuff. Eons etc. I suggest drachfinel if you love military ships. Dry humor and great stories.

  • @samueljohnson4806
    @samueljohnson48063 жыл бұрын

    Her voice is so soothing and her enunciation is very clear. Subscribed!

  • @netsquall
    @netsquall6 жыл бұрын

    You remember those cute little millipedes? *NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOOOOOOOOOPE*

  • @chellyd.7977

    @chellyd.7977

    5 жыл бұрын

    I hate bugs, I get anxiety when I see cockroaches running towards me

  • @calamar1e320

    @calamar1e320

    4 жыл бұрын

    Millipedes are herbivores and are incapable of hurting anything. When I was in elementary school my friends and I would always go looking for them in the woods and we thought they were adorable. CENTIPEDES, however, are the real nope I think you're thinking about

  • @b00i00d
    @b00i00d5 жыл бұрын

    we don't "make the rules" - we only think we do! nature is far bigger and more powerful than we'll ever be

  • @gauismaximus595

    @gauismaximus595

    4 жыл бұрын

    Universal nature.

  • @perrocan.8143

    @perrocan.8143

    4 жыл бұрын

    Like todays,the men wants to be woman,and viceversa,they can go against Nature.

  • @marcuriosky4015

    @marcuriosky4015

    4 жыл бұрын

    Juan jose Canales your right that is going against nature

  • @rizytravelwithrizny777

    @rizytravelwithrizny777

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes you right bro ...

  • @fisherroastedpeanut

    @fisherroastedpeanut

    3 жыл бұрын

    We ARE nature

  • @molchmolchmolchmolch
    @molchmolchmolchmolch5 жыл бұрын

    Love the Super Mario-inspired growth-animation and soundeffects😍😍😍😍😍👌👌👌👌👌

  • @M-o-s-u-r-a
    @M-o-s-u-r-a4 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the carboniferous period, the era when I was born. Very interesting and educative video by the way.

  • @macewindu4070

    @macewindu4070

    Жыл бұрын

    stfu moth you aren't a Arthropod

  • @cashkearns
    @cashkearns5 жыл бұрын

    PBS: Age of insects Me: AGE OF NOPE

  • @antdonkop
    @antdonkop6 жыл бұрын

    "You know those cute little millipedes?" Yeah, adorable.

  • @sadwingsraging3044
    @sadwingsraging30444 жыл бұрын

    Insects: This is OUR age human! Man: Hold my DDT.

  • @corruptplex9179

    @corruptplex9179

    4 жыл бұрын

    If mrbeast keeps planting trees insects are going to be big again

  • @blaneycrabbe3390

    @blaneycrabbe3390

    3 жыл бұрын

    You mean your ccl4 ?

  • @nicholaskelly6375
    @nicholaskelly63753 жыл бұрын

    Not only was there somewhere between 50% -100% more oxygen in the Carboniferous atmosphere . That ancient atmosphere appears to have been twice as dence as today. So you had vastly more oxygen available. Another factor was that there were no other flying animals apart from insects and relatively few land animals apart from the arthropods.

  • @binky2819
    @binky28196 жыл бұрын

    Now we need an episode on giant arachnids. Pulmonoscorpion!

  • @glaceonpokemon4712

    @glaceonpokemon4712

    6 жыл бұрын

    binky2819 An athropod enemy

  • @heraticjaps3468

    @heraticjaps3468

    6 жыл бұрын

    Weeb

  • @Synovia

    @Synovia

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kotonoha Katsura IM A PROUD WEEB

  • @Synovia

    @Synovia

    6 жыл бұрын

    Stop the anime avatars WEEB LIVES MATTER

  • @heraticjaps3468

    @heraticjaps3468

    6 жыл бұрын

    Synovia Oh dear, I've been in your phase and I can tell you'll want to forget this period in your lyf

  • @The_Serpent_of_Eden
    @The_Serpent_of_Eden6 жыл бұрын

    This is such an amazing channel. I love it and I thank you for making such great vids! Interesting info, perfect visuals, and talented hosts, love it all!

  • @yellabyrd5821
    @yellabyrd58215 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for a great episode

  • @brickosaurbuilderofworlds
    @brickosaurbuilderofworlds3 жыл бұрын

    I keep thinking the brown cube eons sticker is a post it note stack and THAT WOULD BE SO COOL I'D BUY IT SO FAST

  • @docterfantazmo
    @docterfantazmo6 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see a vid on the diversity of Crocodylomorphs, they had some crazy shapes back in the day.

  • @whitneyempey4429
    @whitneyempey44296 жыл бұрын

    Well that's terrifying

  • @DaveBuildsThings
    @DaveBuildsThings Жыл бұрын

    I love dragon flies. Would love to have seen a dragonfly that big.

  • @tiap.c1052
    @tiap.c10524 ай бұрын

    I love this video! I’ve rewatched it a few times over the years. Would love if y’all did another video on the big insects of this period! (:

  • @sumukh3
    @sumukh36 жыл бұрын

    Loving this channel more and more. Amazing content, excellent hosts, interesting topics and timely videos. Keep it up guys.

  • @kento369
    @kento3696 жыл бұрын

    I wanna have an insect room where I can adjust the oxegen levels.

  • @dementiasorrow

    @dementiasorrow

    4 жыл бұрын

    you crazy? this is how horror movies start!

  • @bugloverspiderlover8490

    @bugloverspiderlover8490

    4 жыл бұрын

    dementiasorrow I want bigger spiders! Hell a spider the size of a dog is my dream!

  • @darkhorse381

    @darkhorse381

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bugloverspiderlover8490 Psychopath...

  • @mrevilducky

    @mrevilducky

    4 жыл бұрын

    You would have to do it over several hundred generations. You would also have to adjust the flora

  • @levihuerta9393

    @levihuerta9393

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ha! I’d turn that nob to zero!

  • @ele_inad8440
    @ele_inad84405 жыл бұрын

    Please, do a video on the evolution of sound. When and how did hearing evolve and when and how did making noise happen? Thank you!

  • @teemusid
    @teemusid4 жыл бұрын

    Sun Devils or Spartans? Who ya gonna believe?

  • @LTdrumma
    @LTdrumma6 жыл бұрын

    You're telling me there's not only PBS spacetime but also another just as amazing show :3 Oh my!

  • @TheVividen
    @TheVividen6 жыл бұрын

    Great video as usual.

  • @metrunui8224
    @metrunui8224 Жыл бұрын

    I don't even want to imagine a roach a size of a slipper. Let alone it flying around.

  • @severini8153
    @severini81533 жыл бұрын

    Punctual teachings with beautiful music, thank you!

  • @USSAnimeNCC-
    @USSAnimeNCC-6 жыл бұрын

    Their were probably giant roach how horrifying

  • @insectilluminatigetshrekt5574

    @insectilluminatigetshrekt5574

    6 жыл бұрын

    Actually, there was normal roaches

  • @fredthompson7947

    @fredthompson7947

    6 жыл бұрын

    Steven Anchundia. 11 to 13" huge..imagine.that on your coffee maker.

  • @shadowtail4063

    @shadowtail4063

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fred Thompson I found one inside my coffee maker. Guess roaches like coffee

  • @RikoJAmado

    @RikoJAmado

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roaches. The one insect that I cannot stand!

  • @pedrosaabedra5653

    @pedrosaabedra5653

    6 жыл бұрын

    I heard there was a giant spider as big as a human head

  • @helsiclife
    @helsiclife6 жыл бұрын

    great video as always!

  • @Bidarius
    @Bidarius2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine a praying mantis running towards you with those 2m forelegs.

  • @bigol7169
    @bigol71692 ай бұрын

    Absolutely loved the music in this vid ❤

  • @bobbysantiago5659
    @bobbysantiago56596 жыл бұрын

    I'd love a video saying where plants came from. I mean, the first plant was like "Hello, I just popped out of nowhere! I'm gonna give you some oxygen because I love your other gases. :3" And then there were more plants, and more, and more, and more, and more, and... Wow!

  • @xaviersmith2004

    @xaviersmith2004

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nate Dagreat Who said anything about atheist btw dipshit you have no life commenting on a 2 year old comment 😂😂😂

  • @anon5725

    @anon5725

    4 жыл бұрын

    Captain here. Plants originated from cyanobacteria which basically invented photosynthesis. Later they would fuse together with larger protozoa or other bacteria and became chloroplasts which is very similar to how mitochondria and such originated. Then came algae and it took them a few million years before starting to grow on the oceans floor or move to the land and discover growing upwards is a good idea

  • @AudieHolland

    @AudieHolland

    4 жыл бұрын

    Plants were probably the first original lifeforms. All life started with single cell organisms. Plants are renowned for feeding on sunlight and some gases. Then the first plant eating organisms appeared. [correction] Animal life started as multiple cell organisms evolved. Most started feeding on plants. Then the first predators appeared.

  • @andrewgrimm4590
    @andrewgrimm45906 жыл бұрын

    This was also the Age of Giant Cans Of RAID. You kinda needed them.

  • @tylerjones7592

    @tylerjones7592

    4 жыл бұрын

    Andrew Grimm I bet the troodon’s where spraying raid on their nests

  • @jackmerlotdoesntliveherean9652

    @jackmerlotdoesntliveherean9652

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tylerjones7592 I bet the damselflies got COMPTIA certified & started building RAID 5 arrays everywhere.

  • @dpeasehead

    @dpeasehead

    3 жыл бұрын

    My guide advised me to never use RAID or anything similar on them because it only makes them mad.

  • @rubenalbertoni1065
    @rubenalbertoni10655 жыл бұрын

    1:20 that moment when you’re in a cave in Ark and an Arthropleura comes by and you already know that you’ll come out naked

  • @harpervee

    @harpervee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or when you see a terror bird in the redwoods and hope it doesn’t see you but then the next thing you see is it running after you

  • @christophecoudret2073
    @christophecoudret20734 жыл бұрын

    A topic for Eons: how (and when?) living cells became able to perceive light?

  • @TeaRex12
    @TeaRex126 жыл бұрын

    I hate insects, but this was super interesting. I love this host too

  • @jiyzo

    @jiyzo

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hate them too...

  • @arthur78
    @arthur786 жыл бұрын

    I love this series!

  • @MarkAhrens-HeritageFilms
    @MarkAhrens-HeritageFilms4 жыл бұрын

    Great job by the graphics crew. Creative and funny.

  • @awesimo4684
    @awesimo46843 жыл бұрын

    I, for one, welcome our insect overlords

  • @johnboone9917
    @johnboone99176 жыл бұрын

    Interesting video. I've always found these giant bugs to be quite interesting. I do have one question. As most people know, there's evidence that forests made up of large treelike plants spanned almost the entire globe during this time. All forests seem to require soil as a foundation. Now, in tropical rain forests, the soil is generally thin and poor quality, but it's there and is important. Decomposers, in part, are needed to produce soil. Without decomposers, you have no soil. No soil likely means no forest. So, my question is thus: if there were no decomposers in existence during the Carboniferous, how does one explain the existence of such vast tracts of forest?

  • @sebastianschrader838

    @sebastianschrader838

    2 жыл бұрын

    Late response but, bacteria are the most common decomposers in the world. There wasn’t terrestrial life, but there were certainly microbes living on land that filled that role. Hope this helps!

  • @theunholyadventurer2376

    @theunholyadventurer2376

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fungi also paved the way of soil, using their acid to melt away rocks, breaking them down to soil as well as exposing rich minerals.

  • @GerOutside
    @GerOutside5 жыл бұрын

    Freaking love bugs! Fascinating video guys! Can't wait for summer when they all wake up and i can go exploring again! 💚✌🐜🕷

  • @MrKross-tc9yy
    @MrKross-tc9yy4 жыл бұрын

    Carboniferous: full of swamps Shrek: Far far away!

  • @Exotic3000
    @Exotic30002 жыл бұрын

    Wow! That was good info!

  • @ChumlyFernando
    @ChumlyFernando6 жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite new channel :D

  • @Krakenjmed
    @Krakenjmed6 жыл бұрын

    Topics like this interest me so much

  • @a9udn9u-vanced
    @a9udn9u-vanced Жыл бұрын

    This video gives me goosebumps.

  • @jellyfishfingernail
    @jellyfishfingernail8 ай бұрын

    i wish these still existed :( i would give one a big hug

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