When Giant Fungi Ruled

Ғылым және технология

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to to.pbs.org/DonateEons
↓ More info below ↓
420 million years ago, a giant feasted on the dead, growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on land possible -- the fungi.
Produced for PBS Digital Studios.
Thanks to Franz Anthony of 252mya.com and Jon Hughes of jfhdigital.com for their tremendous reconstructions of Prototaxites.
Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook - / eonsshow
Twitter - / eonsshow
Instagram - / eonsshow
References:
www.davidmoore.org.uk/21st_Cen...
news.nationalgeographic.com/n...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
www-news.uchicago.edu/releases...
www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
link.springer.com/content/pdf...
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/devonian...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.or...
books.google.com/books?id=gSA...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/li...
science.sciencemag.org/content...
www.newsweek.com/fossilized-fu...
www.bbc.com/earth/story/201512...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
www.nature.com/articles/natur...
news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...
science.psu.edu/news-and-event...
academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
qz.com/630770/a-scientist-ide...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/sc... ~419mya
horseshoecrab.org/research/sit...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...
www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2396...
www.academia.edu/891357/Early...
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4094...

Пікірлер: 2 200

  • @miriamlogan3733
    @miriamlogan37335 жыл бұрын

    "It's a giant mushroom! MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY!"

  • @MrJohanGuzman

    @MrJohanGuzman

    4 жыл бұрын

    Of course it is friendly. It's a fungi.

  • @trialtakagami6777

    @trialtakagami6777

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣🤣 sokka.Musshyyy Giant friend

  • @jaxxi9036

    @jaxxi9036

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's enough cactus juice for you mister.

  • @jhondoe4526

    @jhondoe4526

    4 жыл бұрын

    If u brave enough ;)

  • @randyrankin682

    @randyrankin682

    4 жыл бұрын

    P S I L O C Y B I N I S R E V E R S E P S Y C H O L O G Y

  • @markevns1744
    @markevns17444 жыл бұрын

    Mycologists missed a great opportunity to call themselves Fungineers.

  • @adjjal

    @adjjal

    4 жыл бұрын

    YES MARK

  • @jayknight139

    @jayknight139

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's never to late. I'll be using that from now on.

  • @ProfresherBlacklight

    @ProfresherBlacklight

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its the name of a psychedelic puppet show/ band thing search on youtube :)

  • @leseulmecsansnom1088

    @leseulmecsansnom1088

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jayknight139 why would they late?

  • @kamerad_marzuki3631

    @kamerad_marzuki3631

    4 жыл бұрын

    Big Fungus

  • @mauricethegecko9700
    @mauricethegecko97003 жыл бұрын

    Me: kicks mushroom Mushroom: oh, you fool. Do you know who my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great....

  • @JohnDarksoul69

    @JohnDarksoul69

    3 жыл бұрын

    "my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather helped building this world, stupid millennial!"

  • @chillkrill6951

    @chillkrill6951

    3 жыл бұрын

    The fungus are among us

  • @sletelier8

    @sletelier8

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chillkrill6951 a fungus ඞ

  • @thinginground5179

    @thinginground5179

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sletelier8 fugus sus

  • @destroyerofturtles5024

    @destroyerofturtles5024

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JohnDarksoul69 his joke but worse

  • @cheemsandbeans7952
    @cheemsandbeans79525 жыл бұрын

    I wish I had a time machine to witness all these amazing things.

  • @notmyopinion4981

    @notmyopinion4981

    3 жыл бұрын

    fun fact: without protective gear you would literally kill everything on earth, bc your body is used to stronger more adaptive gems and bacteria, which have evolved over millions of years, which the animals and plants from before are not equipped to handle. In other words: You bring illness to them, illness that you don't know as illness, bc it doesn't effect you at all, bc it's so weak compared to your immune system. But it would kill everything else that didn't have the millions of years to adapt like your body did. :P

  • @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek

    @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@notmyopinion4981 big suit

  • @mazedude5911

    @mazedude5911

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know

  • @shillian4770

    @shillian4770

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@notmyopinion4981 good

  • @nick.3455

    @nick.3455

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@notmyopinion4981 Bruh what other way would this guy explore what he would apparently kill then. Just ignore those things

  • @katiekawaii
    @katiekawaii6 жыл бұрын

    "File it under 'Probably Weird Algae.'" "As you wish, sir."

  • @lapeez2277

    @lapeez2277

    3 жыл бұрын

    probably algae or probably weird?

  • @thebammer5166

    @thebammer5166

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lapeez2277 Probably both.

  • @Silkiroth
    @Silkiroth6 жыл бұрын

    It's amazing how alien our planet actually is and we don't even realize it.

  • @CJDavis-ij4df

    @CJDavis-ij4df

    5 жыл бұрын

    I do.... Thanks DMT....

  • @TheCrappyZipper

    @TheCrappyZipper

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@CJDavis-ij4df is that what dmt does?

  • @CJDavis-ij4df

    @CJDavis-ij4df

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@TheCrappyZipper DMT has the power to show you where/who you were before you were even born

  • @Giganfan2k1

    @Giganfan2k1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its entirely possible.

  • @takeiteasydudebuttakeit596

    @takeiteasydudebuttakeit596

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahhah0 oh boy, please try it and then tell me the same thing.

  • @salec7592
    @salec75925 жыл бұрын

    Hmm, the fungi seem like a go to address for our plastics pollution problem. They have long standing tradition of decomposing the toughest of materials there are.

  • @pandoragoldspan7012

    @pandoragoldspan7012

    5 жыл бұрын

    there are fungi and bacteria that are discovered to decompose plastic, which is why you should never reuse Tupperware that you've let sit for weeks on end

  • @quinxx12

    @quinxx12

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@pandoragoldspan7012 These only eat certain sorts of plastics, like the ones of the rather flimsy sort

  • @DatBoi-mo9vc

    @DatBoi-mo9vc

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@voicelessglottalfricative6567 the video said they decompose minerals. Minerals arent organic.

  • @voicelessglottalfricative6567

    @voicelessglottalfricative6567

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DatBoi-mo9vc no one mentioned minerals

  • @karolinakuc4783

    @karolinakuc4783

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fungi and bacteria do it too slow in process of digesting plastic it takes them 400years to do so and in case of single use bags 10000 years so...

  • @chironOwlglass
    @chironOwlglass4 жыл бұрын

    Never have i ever had the thought "YES, I need to watch this" quite so strongly as I did when I saw this video title. Show me the fungi, Blake. Show me the fungi.

  • @devonhedinger4132

    @devonhedinger4132

    2 жыл бұрын

    All the fungi🍄🍄🍄

  • @SAMURIADI
    @SAMURIADI6 жыл бұрын

    so life started thanks to a 8 meter mushroom, minecraft is realistic after all

  • @merrittanimation7721

    @merrittanimation7721

    6 жыл бұрын

    SAMURIADI Apparently

  • @leovigild_

    @leovigild_

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, those mushroom biomes are just piles of rock that are transitioning to a beautiful, luscious, boxy forest.

  • @bulletsfordinner8307

    @bulletsfordinner8307

    5 жыл бұрын

    There was life before the shroom

  • @zackwood8310

    @zackwood8310

    5 жыл бұрын

    Roblox is shook

  • @Lumberjack_king

    @Lumberjack_king

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mooncraft

  • @NotHPotter
    @NotHPotter6 жыл бұрын

    Came for the Carbon 12. Was not disappointed.

  • @NinaDmytraczenko

    @NinaDmytraczenko

    6 жыл бұрын

    +

  • @TheDigitalNerd

    @TheDigitalNerd

    6 жыл бұрын

    400th like

  • @baconology

    @baconology

    6 жыл бұрын

    Michael Wade why do you need 12, seems greedy

  • @RustOnWheels

    @RustOnWheels

    6 жыл бұрын

    You’re such a fungi.

  • @pluspiping
    @pluspiping Жыл бұрын

    "They digest rock to create soil, and derive life from death" That's metal as all hell. All hail fungi.

  • @lovehonourhonour7253
    @lovehonourhonour72534 жыл бұрын

    "All we are saying, is give Yeast a chance" - John Lennon

  • @juliankirby9880

    @juliankirby9880

    4 жыл бұрын

    Love & Honour Honour you ever listen to the Yeastie boys? What about Bruce Springsteen and Yeast street band?

  • @nmarbletoe8210

    @nmarbletoe8210

    4 жыл бұрын

    "What you did to the yeast among ye, ye did that to me." -Jesus

  • @DJCallidus

    @DJCallidus

    3 жыл бұрын

    John Leaven 🍞

  • @Rnt911
    @Rnt9116 жыл бұрын

    Finally someone talks about the importance of fungi to life on land.

  • @cauchyhorizon5983
    @cauchyhorizon59836 жыл бұрын

    Imagine if, in the future, we use fungi to make Martian soil arable!

  • @nittygritty7034

    @nittygritty7034

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Improbable Space That's a badass idea

  • @cauchyhorizon5983

    @cauchyhorizon5983

    6 жыл бұрын

    For one, I'm not talking about growing food on Mars for sending it to Earth, I'm talking about feeding Martian colonists living on Mars permanently (If you were wondering). Secondly, you could use modified Martian soil in the food-growing towers (not everything can be grown hydroponically). And Earth won't be sending back Earth soil for the same reason Mars won't be sending back Mars produce: Each planet needs it for themselves, and it's just too much mass to be travelling between the planets. As a side note, if we were to terraform Mars, we wouldn't necessarily need to make all the soil arable anyway. Not for a very long time, at least.

  • @alexanderx33

    @alexanderx33

    6 жыл бұрын

    Synerrox เ Think about what you are saying there. You think it would be more efficient to build a structure that would cost alot in design, foundation preperation, and construction to increase the number of plants relative to light energy available by 40, 50 times? Depending in the number of floors, which is partially moderated by the shadow the tower casts when its not noon but not really because then it is shading other towers. On a planet that aleady has way less light intensity due to the inverse square law than where we grow crops now? Im sorry but, crops need full sun (at earth's distance) to have enough energy available to make sugars. Farming on mars would require magnification of solar radiation to work, not dilution.

  • @alexanderx33

    @alexanderx33

    6 жыл бұрын

    Synerrox เ So you are saying it would be better to have warehouses growing the plants hydroponically with electricity (which could be derived either from mirror concentrated solar power or, more likely, from nuclear power.) And avoid the problem of procuring soil on a planet where the dust is toxic to nearly all living things. It would also avoid loosing the precious little water available on mars from heating martian soil, to infiltration back into the ground.

  • @bryanroland8649

    @bryanroland8649

    6 жыл бұрын

    So what would the fungi eat?

  • @blanchekonieczka9935
    @blanchekonieczka99355 жыл бұрын

    I love this guy! He's enthusiastic and his fast talking gets to the point quickly. So much information given in half the time it would take other narrators. He made fungi exciting! Thank you!

  • @mercut10

    @mercut10

    Жыл бұрын

    He's just like Howard Hamlin fr !

  • @allen-castle

    @allen-castle

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@mercut10LMFAO

  • @ccreed50

    @ccreed50

    7 ай бұрын

    Too speedy. c.f. Attenborough

  • @MrJDozzo
    @MrJDozzo3 жыл бұрын

    "Animal, plant or mineral" ah yes, the three genders

  • @dadadede9359

    @dadadede9359

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am identified as a plant and this video offends me

  • @buckerupfpv2622

    @buckerupfpv2622

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dadadede9359 yes you r potato.

  • @desertflower3996

    @desertflower3996

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a lichen. 🙂

  • @OsirusHandle

    @OsirusHandle

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are we singular entity, or are we just the delusions of a compound...

  • @yeepyorp

    @yeepyorp

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dadadede9359 one joke

  • @RoccosVideos
    @RoccosVideos6 жыл бұрын

    So one might say there’s fungus among us.

  • @4qtips

    @4qtips

    4 жыл бұрын

    no

  • @tarantulaman3221

    @tarantulaman3221

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Dunkldosteus Plants V.S. Zombies LOL!

  • @grenolf

    @grenolf

    3 жыл бұрын

    You might even say there was Humungus Fungus Among Us...

  • @NiffirgkcaJ

    @NiffirgkcaJ

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wait…

  • @iffatsukabumiKingOfHell

    @iffatsukabumiKingOfHell

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought this was an Among us joke but i looked the time this was commented it was two years ago

  • @ZackWilliamsPANCAKE
    @ZackWilliamsPANCAKE6 жыл бұрын

    Welp, my D&D campaign just got more interesting

  • @the_void996

    @the_void996

    4 жыл бұрын

    How’d the campaign go?

  • @stowe5668

    @stowe5668

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I wanna hear what happened

  • @user-hello2

    @user-hello2

    3 жыл бұрын

    I want to hear what happened too!

  • @rosanirodrigues557

    @rosanirodrigues557

    2 жыл бұрын

    I want to know too! Sounds interesting!

  • @TK199999
    @TK1999993 жыл бұрын

    I always assumed the reason the giant fungi went away, is because when vascular plants appeared, there didn't need to be giant anymore. Meaning once the symbiotic relationship with vascular plants began, fungi didn't need create the large trunk like structure. They could stay at or below ground and live that way.

  • @matthewcox7985
    @matthewcox79855 жыл бұрын

    Meet the life of the party, he's a real fungi! ...I hear crickets...

  • @KvDenko

    @KvDenko

    5 жыл бұрын

    What do you call a mushroom? A fun-gi to be with!

  • @po-qo7vd

    @po-qo7vd

    4 жыл бұрын

    Asked to buy a fungi on cregs list, i was dissappointed.

  • @theponydalek7923

    @theponydalek7923

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cordycepts: Sorry, that's just me...

  • @Acidfrog475

    @Acidfrog475

    4 жыл бұрын

    You see a small smile on my face

  • @shannonleary2399

    @shannonleary2399

    3 жыл бұрын

    THERE IT IS

  • @Eveseptir
    @Eveseptir6 жыл бұрын

    These primordial fungi always fascinated me. I try to imagine the landscape littered with tiny shrubs and mosses and doted with these massive fungus obelisks.

  • @crimsonking8811
    @crimsonking88116 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see a video on the evolution of fungi. Any way that could happen?

  • @cadenrolland5250

    @cadenrolland5250

    6 жыл бұрын

    Great idea. That video would put some more fun in fungi.

  • @Hellheart

    @Hellheart

    6 жыл бұрын

    I was just coming to comment this same thing. Great minds, eh?

  • @NinaDmytraczenko

    @NinaDmytraczenko

    6 жыл бұрын

    +

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    Crimson King +

  • @marekdzurenko3449

    @marekdzurenko3449

    6 жыл бұрын

    Not that simple, since we really don't have much fossil evidence to make a complete picture. Fungi have soft bodies and don't fossilize well.

  • @minacapella8319
    @minacapella83192 жыл бұрын

    I've always adored mushrooms and felt they were special (as well as delicious). This... really makes me feel even more adoration for mushrooms and other fungi

  • @TheKarachiwanderer

    @TheKarachiwanderer

    2 жыл бұрын

    Seems like you are suffering from mycophilia

  • @ramironunezborjas967
    @ramironunezborjas9676 жыл бұрын

    "the fun in fungi" that really cracked me up, it made my day

  • @Naiadryade
    @Naiadryade6 жыл бұрын

    Fungi are amazing. I love the way we owe our whole lively world to them.

  • @MorbidEel

    @MorbidEel

    6 жыл бұрын

    They are also delicious.

  • @Naiadryade

    @Naiadryade

    6 жыл бұрын

    Morbid Eel, just make sure you've got the right ones! They can also be deadly. LagiNaLangAko23, I know! A fascinating group. I've seen some real cool nature documentaries featuring some of them.

  • @felipewerner6670

    @felipewerner6670

    6 жыл бұрын

    not only our lives, but our consciousness, imagine a primitive humanoid tracking some animal, and sundenly he found some poop and some mushrooms, he is hungry and eat the mushy, massive information flood his little brain, and in aeons and aeons in this relation, the human mind is born.

  • @NathanWubs

    @NathanWubs

    6 жыл бұрын

    I am on team fungi

  • @AllisonChains64

    @AllisonChains64

    6 жыл бұрын

    I love fungi and your picture!

  • @andrep4805
    @andrep48056 жыл бұрын

    Omg my mind was blown so many times in so few minutes. I've never heard of ancient fungi being described, and I didn't know those facts about lichen either. I have a thousand new questions! Thanks!

  • @gustavosantiago3367
    @gustavosantiago33674 жыл бұрын

    Arbiter: What is it? More Covenant? MasterChief: Worse..

  • @deazy6453

    @deazy6453

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Flood has giving me a weird thing where I gag whenever I see fungi (breathing). It looks so gross, and I want to shoot it with my Battle Rifle lol

  • @gocoogs01
    @gocoogs015 жыл бұрын

    earth: **exists** fungus: its free real estate

  • @sakshamyasholiya6942

    @sakshamyasholiya6942

    4 жыл бұрын

    🌲's After Several Years : Im bout to end this man's whole Career !

  • @whhe11

    @whhe11

    4 жыл бұрын

    Any habitable planet: exists Hardy dehydrated fungal spores floating in space probably: it's free realestate

  • @prexsan

    @prexsan

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hemishshah6666 Yo seriously!LMAO~\(≧▽≦)/~

  • @pokegard

    @pokegard

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hasent earth always been free real estate unless your neighbors keep killing you or taking your resources?

  • @MrStensnask
    @MrStensnask6 жыл бұрын

    THE EVOLUTION OF EGGS. Would be entertaining.

  • @DCDevTanelorn
    @DCDevTanelorn6 жыл бұрын

    As a mycologist I approve this episode

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    DCDevTanelorn +

  • @bernardfinucane2061

    @bernardfinucane2061

    6 жыл бұрын

    Then maybe you can give us a clue why these things got so big. Trees get big because they compete for sunlight. But theses things were "eaters", as the video puts it. So what was the point of growing tall?

  • @WigantX

    @WigantX

    6 жыл бұрын

    might be the absense of competitors, easy access to nutrients, huge amounts of oxygen and the like?

  • @alexisfloresmedina7041

    @alexisfloresmedina7041

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bernard Finucane May be that the pillars were so big because it was a structure to spread spores like the fructiferous body in current fungi

  • @EvilSnips

    @EvilSnips

    6 жыл бұрын

    That is a cool job! I have been thinking of becoming some sort of biologist but not something typical like a marine biologist or a zoologist. Maybe an entomologist?

  • @nilspace5233
    @nilspace52335 жыл бұрын

    Next time I look at the giant fungi on my feet, I'll look at it with more love and caress and kiss it and say "thank you"

  • @dannyboots

    @dannyboots

    3 жыл бұрын

    ew

  • @styromaniac6967
    @styromaniac69674 жыл бұрын

    I owe my life to fungi. They can be symbiotic to humans, internally.

  • @alisoncircus

    @alisoncircus

    3 жыл бұрын

    And parasitic. They'll fill any niche they're not kicked out of. But everything living above water owes it's life to fungi. That's the actual point.

  • @ooooneeee

    @ooooneeee

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah some yeast in our gut flora can help us digest food.

  • @duhduhvesta
    @duhduhvesta6 жыл бұрын

    More like this! Insect, plant and fungus evolution is very rarely talked about. This stuff is great

  • @24emerald

    @24emerald

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, awesome video...

  • @bswtsp21
    @bswtsp216 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how it tasted....?

  • @MtnTow
    @MtnTow4 жыл бұрын

    First signs of conscientious actions would be a cool topic.

  • @hairutheninja
    @hairutheninja3 жыл бұрын

    Everytime I watch an episode of this it makes me wish so badly I could travel back in time to see stuff happen or just exist

  • @rogerdotlee
    @rogerdotlee6 жыл бұрын

    Blake, you are such a fun-guy. You grow on people. Har har. Loved that trunk pun as well. As far as what I'd like to see, I'd like to see the great extinction events get the PBS Eons treatment.

  • @horsymandias-ur
    @horsymandias-ur6 жыл бұрын

    From what I’ve seen, Fungi are perhaps the most underrated organisms of all time. Almost NO ONE seems to appreciate the vast contributions they have made, not in the only the past, but still today as well

  • @kramarkml

    @kramarkml

    10 ай бұрын

    Mushrooms of the same species will sprout at the same time across the 🌎. Coral reefs have a similar kind of connection

  • @s6t6nourlord48
    @s6t6nourlord4811 ай бұрын

    that giant fungi was so cool 2:32 420 milion years!? awesome

  • @thefurrybastard1964
    @thefurrybastard19645 жыл бұрын

    Thank you PBS Eons for taking us all on this amazing journey.

  • @onardico
    @onardico6 жыл бұрын

    A future video about the ancient coral reefs please, thanks

  • @orangecamo1
    @orangecamo16 жыл бұрын

    We need a poster of geological eons like they did for crash course chemistry.

  • @eons

    @eons

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oo, that's a great idea! (BdeP)

  • @orangecamo1

    @orangecamo1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Somebody tell Hank!

  • @rojorohr4723

    @rojorohr4723

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'd love a calendar (;

  • @judeorbe3948
    @judeorbe39484 жыл бұрын

    the fungi are underrated gems they tend to get overshadowed by plants and animals ignoring the fact they cause diseases their not to bad

  • @arnbrandy
    @arnbrandy4 жыл бұрын

    No, thank YOU, Blake, for being the fun guy putting the fun in Fungi.

  • @Zer0TheProdigy
    @Zer0TheProdigy6 жыл бұрын

    Man I thought Fungi were interesting when I started getting involved in psychadelics. I hadn't realized until recently that they are pretty much the progenitors of most life as we know it

  • @AlfredTheBrave

    @AlfredTheBrave

    4 жыл бұрын

    mushrooms made themselves psychedelic so they could transfer their ancient wisdom to whoever/whatever could understand it

  • @remynettheim4918

    @remynettheim4918

    4 жыл бұрын

    WOLVES WWFC1887 bruh

  • @rakbar6509

    @rakbar6509

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AlfredTheBrave brrrruuh

  • @someguy2135

    @someguy2135

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AlfredTheBrave Also, the universe created man to appreciate it. As Carl Sagan said, "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

  • @shillian4770

    @shillian4770

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@someguy2135 what magic mushrooms do to you is so awesome yet extremely chaotic and quite frankly terrifying.

  • @catherine_404
    @catherine_4046 жыл бұрын

    Every time I see Blake, I feel slightly intimidated.

  • @xtrri2090
    @xtrri20904 жыл бұрын

    "Thanks for putting the fun in fungi with me today" Ha, I laughed so hard. Funny gi.

  • @marccolten9801

    @marccolten9801

    4 жыл бұрын

    People have been punched in the face for less.

  • @gwenxel4434
    @gwenxel44342 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for making this!

  • @sircharlesmormont9300
    @sircharlesmormont93006 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are so addictive! It's *noon* and I've been watching all day. I can't stop watching! You guys do an excellent job of presenting interesting information in a clear and entertaining way. Keep up the great work!

  • @nickinurse6433

    @nickinurse6433

    2 жыл бұрын

    I listen to eons or PBS space-time every night to go to sleep just put it on shuffle and wake up smarter

  • @maxxfioriti7494
    @maxxfioriti74946 жыл бұрын

    1)Evolution of Eukarya and division into kingdoms 2)What are protists, and how are they related? 3)Molecular Evolution: how we use proteins, molecules, and genomes to piece together evolutionary relationships

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    Maxx Fioriti +

  • @feynstein1004

    @feynstein1004

    6 жыл бұрын

    I think Martinus lutherus was the first protist after it became distinct from the existing Catholi genus :P

  • @amyp.575

    @amyp.575

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah!! All these!! All these!! All these!!

  • @jamesbentonticer4706
    @jamesbentonticer47065 жыл бұрын

    These PBS shorts are my new favorite on youtube. Our past is so interesting.

  • @Lippdinos
    @Lippdinos4 жыл бұрын

    Such an awesome series of documentaries! I loved discovering these new facts. Thanks!

  • @IuliusPsicofactum
    @IuliusPsicofactum6 жыл бұрын

    I don't know who you are but you are a cool guy, stick around the channel, it was a pleasure to have you as host.

  • @eons

    @eons

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hey thanks! (BdeP)

  • @brendarua01
    @brendarua016 жыл бұрын

    I can hear it saying, "Feed me, Seymore!" But seriously, this was really interesting and filled in a big gap I had. Thanks!

  • @DrakosAmatras
    @DrakosAmatras5 жыл бұрын

    > When Giant Fungi Ruled THE MI-GO WERE REAL

  • @koisov4401

    @koisov4401

    3 жыл бұрын

    the what

  • @chronus4421
    @chronus44215 жыл бұрын

    Thanks PBS!

  • @abramthiessen8749
    @abramthiessen87496 жыл бұрын

    I was waiting for this episode to come. Thank you.

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    Abram Thiessen +

  • @Carbonoid1
    @Carbonoid16 жыл бұрын

    The whole dirt thing was something I was super curious about so thanks for that! I'd love to know how both plants and animals evolved thorns and spines!

  • @Thegardenbetweenus

    @Thegardenbetweenus

    Жыл бұрын

    Thorns are modified leaves. To defend againts predation. Many people think evolution is filled with trial and errors, when in reality nature is quite intelligent. It can respond with proper adaptations quite quickly.

  • @Thegardenbetweenus

    @Thegardenbetweenus

    Жыл бұрын

    Vertebrae had its start in fungi...well the nervous system anyway. It become adopted by early arthropods and so on.

  • @arielmalsireal5453
    @arielmalsireal5453 Жыл бұрын

    Now That Is Certified The Last Of Us

  • @yctan97
    @yctan973 жыл бұрын

    0:22 the FUN GUY!

  • @chaegibson720
    @chaegibson7206 жыл бұрын

    Okay so I've know about this whole mushroom thing for s long time, but I have a fossil that my friend found when he was hiking in the mountains, and we've had no idea what this fossil was, but looking at the inner structures I just had a eureka moment and I think this is exactly what that is

  • @Raakhushili
    @Raakhushili6 жыл бұрын

    We need a video covering the Great Dying in detail. Or elephant evolution, I just want to know more about the mammoth, the mastodon, or the platybelodon and its weird mouth.

  • @TadaGanIarracht

    @TadaGanIarracht

    6 жыл бұрын

    yeah The Great Dying would be a great video, you could cover a bunch of cool ideas and theories about the cause, a giant Gamma Ray Burst, Siberian Volcanic Traps etc

  • @Keys879

    @Keys879

    6 жыл бұрын

    "OF Flash Frozen Mammoths" you're welcome.

  • @darkeather2
    @darkeather25 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I never knew fungus could burrow into rock, or that it is what created the original soil. I'd always wondered how dirt first got its nutrients, that's so cool.

  • @audrey2658

    @audrey2658

    2 жыл бұрын

    School gave me a picture of grass growing on a thin layer of eroded rock.... which doesnt really make sense at all. Rock eating fungi though? Sensible and real.

  • @exitolaboral
    @exitolaboral5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this video!

  • @doppelminds1040
    @doppelminds10406 жыл бұрын

    Fungi are so metal

  • @Viatoreptil
    @Viatoreptil6 жыл бұрын

    Ah! Prototaxites! Love you guys! Great presentation as always.

  • @brianmartinez749
    @brianmartinez7497 ай бұрын

    Wow such a cool video! Thanks for uploading!

  • @nashaiti
    @nashaiti4 жыл бұрын

    Plus some more info on fungi,thanks for the great vids guys

  • @Zanza300
    @Zanza3006 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. THIS BLEW MY MIND.

  • @cynicalfilms5734
    @cynicalfilms57346 жыл бұрын

    Damn. Why do I have to be on an Oil rig.

  • @johnemory7485

    @johnemory7485

    6 жыл бұрын

    ikr...

  • @cynicalfilms5734

    @cynicalfilms5734

    6 жыл бұрын

    Same problem?

  • @Hellheart

    @Hellheart

    6 жыл бұрын

    Cynical Films I'm gonna guess that it was by choice (likely, for employment reasons)? No one just so happens to find themselves on an oil rig for no reason.

  • @cynicalfilms5734

    @cynicalfilms5734

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah im an on an oil rig just off the coast of New Zeland been here for a few weeks now. And yes it was by choice.

  • @johnemory7485

    @johnemory7485

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lol, yeah. Same problem. At least you have good scenery. I'm in north Louisiana. Been on this one a little over 60 days, now.

  • @zuakaa
    @zuakaa Жыл бұрын

    Amazing video! So comprehensive. Thanks!

  • @rx-0862
    @rx-08623 жыл бұрын

    Everyone: “oooh informative” Me: “hmm wonder if can i eat them ancient shrooms”

  • @aabaz202
    @aabaz2026 жыл бұрын

    I literally love when I see you guys post a video. It’s always well done and informative

  • @BenJamin-rt7ui
    @BenJamin-rt7ui6 жыл бұрын

    More on fungi and lichen please. Also evidence for first eukaryotes.

  • @eons

    @eons

    6 жыл бұрын

    Good ideas, Ben. Stay tuned, cause some of this stuff will be headed your way in a few weeks! (BdeP)

  • @yourmother9834
    @yourmother98345 жыл бұрын

    Love this guy! Im hooked on these videos now

  • @ayior
    @ayior6 жыл бұрын

    Just discovered this channel and wooow, so many interesting subjects. Subscribed for later bingewatching.

  • @SB-qm5wg
    @SB-qm5wg6 жыл бұрын

    Love the channel. Cheers

  • @HoopsAndDinoMan
    @HoopsAndDinoMan6 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel.

  • @Ekaterina12ification
    @Ekaterina12ification5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @iamjeeves
    @iamjeeves4 жыл бұрын

    I learn more from this show than 3 years of college biology classes...

  • @Hellheart
    @Hellheart6 жыл бұрын

    I like Blake. I wanted to see more of him after seeing him host SciShow Quiz Show. Glad that he drew hosting duty on Eons.

  • @MrMysticphantom
    @MrMysticphantom6 жыл бұрын

    Dude.... you really work out a lot dont you?

  • @bvandersonify
    @bvandersonify5 жыл бұрын

    What a great video! Way to go PBS!

  • @troncarter777
    @troncarter7775 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! You're a very good teacher and i love the way you explain you're topics! it makes the subject matter easy to learn and fun! i truly look forward to your videos!

  • @Bengette
    @Bengette6 жыл бұрын

    Fungi have always fascinated me and make neat sci-fi and horror fodder. For example, the Toho Studios horror film Matango comes to mind. Then, there was that episode in the X-Files where everyone was hallucinating while being digested alive by a giant underground fungus. And let's not forget the smash hit PS4 game, The Last of Us.

  • @iainhansen1047
    @iainhansen10476 жыл бұрын

    Well eons has blessed us with another upload time to sacrifice another virgin.

  • @sofakingonmynuts1438

    @sofakingonmynuts1438

    6 жыл бұрын

    oh, me! pick me!

  • @iainhansen1047

    @iainhansen1047

    6 жыл бұрын

    sofaking onmynuts “pulls out sacrificial knife”

  • @andrep4805

    @andrep4805

    6 жыл бұрын

    Iain Hansen *begins chanting*

  • @sofakingonmynuts1438

    @sofakingonmynuts1438

    6 жыл бұрын

    yay im a part of something!

  • @iainhansen1047

    @iainhansen1047

    6 жыл бұрын

    “Lowers dagger towards the sacrifices heart, while chanting” DEUS NOSTER ACCIPERE HOR MUNES, ET VIRGINEM. ET INHABITARE FACIT UNIUS MORIS IN HISTOIRIA MAGIS!

  • @HonorTrees
    @HonorTrees4 жыл бұрын

    That was fun, thanks guy.

  • @johnwolfenden7599
    @johnwolfenden75996 жыл бұрын

    Arthropods pls. they are sooo cool and everywhere and I love them

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    John Wolfenden +

  • @gregoryfenn1462

    @gregoryfenn1462

    5 жыл бұрын

    They done one on giant insects which are arthropods

  • @pyne1976
    @pyne19765 жыл бұрын

    Mushrooms are very interesting. Especially at about 5g.

  • @Infamous41
    @Infamous415 жыл бұрын

    I love the internet being my full time education

  • @maryh5748
    @maryh57485 жыл бұрын

    Wow never heard of this! Learned something new, Thx's

  • @lilabrownexo4691
    @lilabrownexo46916 жыл бұрын

    I identify as "probably weird algae" for the next century

  • @judefrancisco1463
    @judefrancisco14635 жыл бұрын

    Fungi are the best recyclers of ecosystem. Without them nutrients cannot be available in every organism. Thanks PBS Eon for this awesome video! More power to your channel.

  • @thekarmafarmer608
    @thekarmafarmer6082 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Thank you for posting

  • @anteaterzhell
    @anteaterzhell5 жыл бұрын

    Those fungi forest drawings were really surreal and cool.

  • @JoshuaHillerup
    @JoshuaHillerup6 жыл бұрын

    I want to know about how plants evolved from whatever they evolved from. I tried reading Wikipedia about it but it was very confusing.

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    Joshua Hillerup ditto

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    +

  • @proximacentauri8038

    @proximacentauri8038

    6 жыл бұрын

    tiffany norris Grand Dad

  • @proximacentauri8038

    @proximacentauri8038

    6 жыл бұрын

    Chuck Norris is my spirit animal

  • @alfonsogiampollo5153

    @alfonsogiampollo5153

    6 жыл бұрын

    they started as spore bearing little bean sprouts basically. that's like the simplest land plant to come around. from there ferns (gymnosperms/sporebesring) basically ruled, until flowering pollen plants came around after s while. angiosperms

  • @samanthazelner1113
    @samanthazelner11136 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this episode very much thank you.

  • @duhduhvesta

    @duhduhvesta

    6 жыл бұрын

    Samantha Zelner +

  • @yeetman4953

    @yeetman4953

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@duhduhvesta what is with your plus

  • @bluemoon9346
    @bluemoon93465 жыл бұрын

    I love these thumbnail illustrations on this channel!!

  • @vickilindberg6336
    @vickilindberg6336 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing. I'd never heard of this. Thanks.

  • @CMichaelEH
    @CMichaelEH6 жыл бұрын

    if they aren't lichen(-like), then what is the reason they got so large? what selective pressures would cause that?

  • @CMichaelEH

    @CMichaelEH

    6 жыл бұрын

    but how would the size NOT be a detriment if it didn't also increase surface area for photosynthesis - esp at that magnitude of increase?

  • @ProfessorPolitics

    @ProfessorPolitics

    6 жыл бұрын

    To tack on to what EvilMachine said, you have to think less about what factors caused X to happen and more about what factors wouldn't impose a cost/would confer a competitive advantage. There are a lot of animals with vestigial organs, for example. There's nothing in the environment that provides an advantage for them. Rather, there's nothing that imposes a cost for having them.

  • @user-ed9qu5im2y

    @user-ed9qu5im2y

    6 жыл бұрын

    Possibly further spore-spreading ability. Could also be a side effect (due to particular developmental pathways) of growing large fields of hyphae that wasn't detrimental. Could also have unknown symbiotic relationships with certain other organisms that made it beneficial to be large. Or they could actually be lichen, as you wondered.

  • @practicaloccultist231

    @practicaloccultist231

    6 жыл бұрын

    Maybe because it had a symbiotic relationship with another organism in which an tall size is necessary like perhaps that large structure gave more surface area allowing bugs to live and defend the fungus. Edit: Tall size would also allow spores to travel longer distance.

  • @CMichaelEH

    @CMichaelEH

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, guys, this is really interesting. It's great to be able to watch an informative video and then have an informative conversation -- like an extension of school (in a good way!)

Келесі