We have a small update on this topic: A researcher who works at the hobbit site of Liang Bua reached out to us on social media to point out that the evidence for Homo floresiensis using fire comes from papers published before the dating of the site was revised. More recent research says that the evidence for fire in the cave comes from a time period after the hobbits were gone and suggests that modern humans were responsible. There also appears to be no evidence of burned Stegodon bones.

@helmaschine1885

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrTotosaurus yeah, at this point the video is spreading misinformation and should be taken down and revised.

@Person12216

4 жыл бұрын

Although I agree with the both of you, the videos are overall interesting

@-touya_todoroki

4 жыл бұрын

Imagin cloneing a human species but then someone has to voluntarily be a surget for such humans...

@sjappie5034

4 жыл бұрын

@@helmaschine1885 I don't completely agree because remaking videos are very expensive. However, some videos can be reupload with corrected "TEXT" flashing across the screen. Not the most professional, but I would respect this much more. Otherwise, a pinned comment is kind of okay for now, until this channel gets more funding

@cripdyke

4 жыл бұрын

@@helmaschine1885 Nope. Don't take it down. Do we ban "walking with dinosaurs" because it's outdated? It is a product of its moment and the humans who made it. Science learns more and gets closer to the truth in increments over time. Science documentaries should do the same. To take down every documentary that is erroneous in any relevant detail is a form of historical erasure. Pinning a note is a great way to handle an error discovered so soon after the making of the video. If another error is revealed by research published next year, it won't even merit a note. That's how it works.

Bruh imagine being a hobbit that live on an island where you eat tiny elephants and get hunted by dragons

@dfk2199

4 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: did you know on the island of Komodo there is no such thing as human rights there is only "animal rights"

@thestudentofficial5483

4 жыл бұрын

@@dfk2199 TF you're talking about

@binayadhikari3828

4 жыл бұрын

I am stoned.

@Juan-mj3bm

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@AverchenkoMiroslav

4 жыл бұрын

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

The "Missing Link": Fake Hobbits and Direwolves: Real You guys have taught me so much.

@Albert_Herring

4 жыл бұрын

You mean wargs*

@BradShreds

4 жыл бұрын

Ceratosaurus Studios isn’t the warg the person who can connect and “slip into the skin” of the animal?

@ezramalzbender7934

4 жыл бұрын

@@BradShreds I think you are referring to wargs from a song of ice and fire, he is referring to wargs from the lord of the rings

@lukaseldenrust2637

4 жыл бұрын

PJ yeah, and I don’t think they have a video on that... maybe Monstrum will?

@mrrodriguez2947

4 жыл бұрын

@@BradShreds in one sense yes very much indeed, but I think he was referring to Tolkien's Wargs,who some say were inspired by dire wolves....I could be completely wrong though 😂

“Dragons??? Nonsense! There hasn’t been dragons in these parts for a thousand years!” 🐉

@ivarbrouwer197

4 жыл бұрын

Brian Messemer - if you become smaller, big animals might indeed start to look like dragons...

@transnewt

4 жыл бұрын

So... Lizards look like dragons to roaches and ants?

@HighLordSythen

4 жыл бұрын

@@transnewt Komo dragons look gargantuan to ants.

@bobkob

4 жыл бұрын

Dinorex 109 yes,

@elktheindianspotteddeer1331

4 жыл бұрын

And how any animals have went missing for thousands or years in the folasle record then just showed up to say hi were still alive latter (many)

4:04 - "It's possible that the hobbits might have been hunted by the dragons" has got to be the most Tolkien thing I've ever heard in a paleontology documentary.

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”~ J.R.R. Tolkien

@briggasnax8575

4 жыл бұрын

God I've never heard or read such an excellent and quotable opening to a book ever.

@ObligedUniform

4 жыл бұрын

Was gonna comment that XD. Nice

@crashcalvin7050

4 жыл бұрын

Am I wrong in saying its the greatest fantasy epic of all time?

@rileydinkleman1022

4 жыл бұрын

CrashCalvin idk man, song of ice and fire is amazing. It has that nice mix of medieval fantasy, less high fantasy. Tolkien is a beautiful writer though.

@TerrariaGolem

4 жыл бұрын

@@briggasnax8575 Read the series man. It's worth it. It's what inspired modern fantasy. From D&D to Skyrim & even more unique stories like Darksouls. JRR Tolkien is a legend. My other favorite legend is HP Lovecraft

I love how we draw extinct animals all majestic and pretty, and then we just draw other humans like old drawings of gnomes.

@lococomrade3488

2 жыл бұрын

Why our lil hobbit friend so close to that epic battle between two dragons and a bird-demon?

@chadangeles3856

2 жыл бұрын

Whats wrong with that

@Secter84

Жыл бұрын

​@@lococomrade3488 that picture bothered me so much. And then they kept showing it over and over again 🤦🏼‍♂️ smh It looked liked a miniature, naked version of "the weekend", not our long lost extinct ancestor.

@JubioHDX

Жыл бұрын

​@@Secter84 thats what they were, we didnt even evolve FROM them, they arent a extinct ancestor, just a shorter smaller cousin. They lived at the same time as Homo Sapiens, and theyre just one of the many we lived alongside (we are truly only unique today, there were at least a dozen of human-like apes throughout time that split off from us). They were just smaller as a product of their environment. The art is never supposed to be exact anyway, theyre just artist renditions to help people who have trouble visualizing things theyve never seen before in life (over 3% of people cannot physically create a mental picture in their head, and thats alot more people than it sounds like when theres nearly 8billion of us, nearly 240 million, nearly twice the entire population of mexico) The only real difference they may have had other than scale differenced is they were probably still hairier too, except thats a weird think to try and include when we cant tell anyway. Even modern humans have the same amount of hairs as a chimpanzee to this day, it just all grows to different lengths than a modern chimp. We had alot more in common with the earlier hominins than you probably think.

@helldronez

6 ай бұрын

​@@Secter84LMAOOO the weekend 😂😂😂😂😂😂

“Fool of a Took.” 🧙‍♂️

@ivoryghost7080

3 жыл бұрын

“Throw your self in next time and rid us of your stupidity “

@CarlosHenriqueXavierEndo

3 жыл бұрын

A fool, but an honest fool he remains

Could you imagine being a three feet tall, running in the wilderness while being hunted by a 10ft long Komodo Dragon. Good lord, how did these little guys survive at all.

@michaelschrute2346

2 жыл бұрын

Hiding in small cave where the predator couldn't reach

@56th.

Жыл бұрын

They must have been expert runners

@flowzerr4550

Жыл бұрын

Not for long!

@76rjackson

Жыл бұрын

They spent a lot of time in trees according to legend. They could run along the large lower branches and ambush prey by dropping down on them from above. Very fierce for their size, again, according to legend.

@pravashi_382

Жыл бұрын

That's the thing, they didn't 💀😅

"When hobbits were real" Me looking at my 4"11 friend:" they still are..."

@johnnyjoestar9723

4 жыл бұрын

Holy crap you freaking killed them dude

@joegrizzly999

4 жыл бұрын

These were like 3 feet

@joedartonthefenderbass

4 жыл бұрын

That's not that short

@granttube6881

3 жыл бұрын

@@joedartonthefenderbass thats pretty short to human standards

@joedartonthefenderbass

3 жыл бұрын

@@granttube6881 short but not hobbit short

So there were hobbits, dragons, giant birds, and volcanoes? Makes Lord of the Rings look like a documentary!

@timetochronicle

4 жыл бұрын

Tolkien actually intended the Lord of the Rings to be a fictional history of the Earth. The idea was borne out of an initial project to make an independent "English mythology". Over time, a lot of that was lost, but a lot of presentation of the Lord of the Rings was on the idea that Samwise's family "preserved" the Red Book (which compiled The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings) and that in modern day, someone translated it

@cdemr

4 жыл бұрын

And it was not that long ago

@destree6348

4 жыл бұрын

This is why I feel like our imaginations aren't far from reality

@simpleyeteffective5863

4 жыл бұрын

@Håkan Bråkan Kråkan thats why the lord of the rings was filmed in new zealand... haha

@howiseeit5326

4 жыл бұрын

What do u mean like? You mean "is".

As a short person, I think I've found my ancestors...

@HN-kr1nf

4 жыл бұрын

even more so if you're from south-east asia

@gigibritannia

4 жыл бұрын

@@HN-kr1nf I am. Lol

@HN-kr1nf

4 жыл бұрын

@@gigibritannia 😂

@shawtyslikeamelody7595

4 жыл бұрын

Indo short gang rise up😔

@namaske2594

4 жыл бұрын

5'5" boys put your hands up

The giant Komodo dragons should be called “Smaugs”

@CloudsGirl7

4 жыл бұрын

"I am king under the mountain!" "No, *I* am!" Probably what they were arguing about in the artist's rendering...

@slappy8941

4 жыл бұрын

Smaug had wings though; Glaurung the Golden was wingless.

@zekezzekekan2144

4 жыл бұрын

@@slappy8941 lazy too

@Zeithri

4 жыл бұрын

Looked more like a Brohug to me.

@lashalursmanashvili162

4 жыл бұрын

And neanderthals should called dwarfs

"Experts can't figure out if it was a pathological case or a new species " All right then keep your secrets...

@SGGCREATIVES

4 жыл бұрын

lol

"Little people of the forrest" in most histories and myths.

@lylachristopherson865

4 жыл бұрын

You mean as an hallucination due to chemical abuse, right?? LOL. Leprechauns!!!

@yourstruly4817

4 жыл бұрын

And catchy tunes that stick in your head for over 20 years

@greatskytrollantidrama4473

4 жыл бұрын

@@lylachristopherson865 these tiny folk are all over the Ancient map. From fairies and pixies, leprechauns and fae, seeli and unseeli, all over, and every single one. Is magically delicious 😉

@greatskytrollantidrama4473

4 жыл бұрын

@@yourstruly4817🎵 Frosted Leprechauns are magically delicious🎵🤗

@zekezzekekan2144

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah the town I grew up instead in the woods that there was a town where 50 dwarfs lived in tiny houses. I thought they were kidding but I went there one day and it exists. You guys best believe I went there the next Halloween as Willow.

As a human biologist and researcher, I think it's funny to think about how very different species of the familiy Hominidae might have lived together in the past. To give an example, at roughly the same time Homo erectus dispersed in different parts of asia, the so-called Gigantopithecus existed. This extinct species of the genus ape is said to be roughly 3 m (9.8 ft) high and weighing as much as 540-600 kg (1190-1320 lb). They existed to as recently as one hundred thousand years ago and might have looked similar to gorillas or orang utans (would love to make a video about them). Just imaging walking around with your tribe, discovering a 3 m ape!

@stanisawkaminski887

4 жыл бұрын

They did a video on Gigantopithecus kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y6WLlJdvoLjKico.html

@OfficialDenzy

2 жыл бұрын

KING KONG

I once read a really interesting idea in an article about Homo floresiensis were the author speculated that as their brain reduced in size to adapt to their small island, they apparently also lost the ability to innovate. This because their tools which span around a hundred thousand years don't seem to have ever changed. It was almost as if they were manufacturing them mechanically from memory and failing to search for ways to improve them. The hypothesis seems a little harsh (maybe their environment was stable enough or their tools versatile enough that they could afford to forego changes in design) but the thought that human intelligence could devolve to a more primitive stage under the right environmental pressures is fascinating, even if a bit heretical.

@CrankyPantss

4 жыл бұрын

Vladimir Lagos The island wasn't huge, and if part of it was volcanically active, that would make their accessible area even less. I don't know if the climate of the island would have varied much when they were alive. Maybe, because they were on such a condensed space that didn't change much, the need to try to innovate to adapt just wasn't there?

@teergeret

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe the innovation requires lots of exchange between different populations and the isolated Island was home to just very few individuals who didn't come across any other humans to exchange ideas. I mean, even today, the more isolated a population the more basic their tools and way of life seem to be from our point of view. What I'm trying to say is, if you have a group of 100 people who never meet anyone outside that group and stay at the same place, the potential for innovation is obviously much smaller than that of a similar group surrounded by other groups who live in different environments that require different adaptations and who meet occasionally.

@CrankyPantss

4 жыл бұрын

Gre Gre Also, if the small isolated group was very busy just trying to survive, they wouldn’t have had the luxury of extra time to sit around the campfire pondering changes. The population might not have ever gotten big enough for that.

@randompheidoleminor3011

4 жыл бұрын

Like how ants and termites instinctively build nests. Neat.

@priscillafalzirolli3833

4 жыл бұрын

100,000 years seems very little time for change in such a small population. We're probably talking about no more than a few million individuals throughout this entire time. Take a million human children and see if any of them can find any way to improve or even fathom how to produce said tools.

NGL, when he said "the last time a hominin with a brain THAT small was around", I thought he was going to finish it with "was when you were born". I hang around too many young people.

@mellane4608

4 жыл бұрын

There are several of those running for president right now.

@cyberash3000

4 жыл бұрын

@@mellane4608 and the orange man baby himself :)

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no telling where you might be swept off to.

@susie9893

4 жыл бұрын

My favorite line from that book!

@aspektx

4 жыл бұрын

You might end up on an island in Southeast Asia.

"And it looks like there were changes in the island's climate and volcanic eruptions around 50,000 years ago, which might explain why this species disappeared." That's a nice way of saying "volcanoes probably killed them."

@reptilianskin

4 жыл бұрын

John Lisowski after Frodo tossed the one ring in, the volcano erupted and killed them all. No eagles saved them.

@LuisAldamiz

4 жыл бұрын

He said 50,000 years ago, not being very specific anyhow: all the region is strongly volcanic and people usually survive those catastrophes. I strongly suspect it's a wishful thinking pretext not to face the obvious: we killed them. Those dates are roughly the dates of migration to Australia (probably before 60.000 but close enough), we didn't let any other Homo species survive anywhere, sometimes we even killed our own kin, either directly or indirectly by pushing them to extreme conditions. Even the brainy and strong Neanderthals could not resist us in the long run...

@r-t9266

4 жыл бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz We haven't exactly stopped killing our own kin.

@john.james.110

4 жыл бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz Thank you. I'll correct it now. And yeah, homo sapiens do seem to be the cause of most of our relatives dying off.

@user-yj4qz5lo6k

4 жыл бұрын

Luis Aldamiz well we actually mated with Neanderthals which is why everyone outside of Africa shares DNA with them that Africans do not

I was so glad when this hobbit was found. It meant all the stories from my grandmother about menehune or “Hawaiian hobbits” were in fact real. I felt that way again when researchers were able to prove that the giant moai 🗿 on Rapanui walked in place. My grandmother always said they walked there baby.

@gpl992

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@gpl992

3 жыл бұрын

As a Moluccan from the nearby island of AMBON I feel like a partial descendent of Homo Floriensis aka Mehehune.

@lilmama6689

3 жыл бұрын

@@gpl992 Wow. I’m on the shorter side and have always wondered about the possibility of intermingling between the two.

@Eowyn3Pride

2 жыл бұрын

🥰

@my_other_side473

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilmama6689 Hawaiian ancestors the Austronesians actually came from Southeast Asia. So maybe that's where the oral story came from, and the story were brought to Hawaii by their descendants. About the Hobbit like creatures.

I always knew lord of the rings was a scientific documentary

@limiv5272

4 жыл бұрын

And who was the actual eye of Sauron?

@Friendship1nmillion

4 жыл бұрын

🙄 . *WHAT ARE THE CHANCES* that someone's put a mixture of little human skulls and chimp bones together in a cave and is watching this video having a laugh? 🤔💭->😅🙈👨‍⚖

@ashleyludwig6281

4 жыл бұрын

Stories, myths and random things Smr amen to that

@michaelschrute2346

3 жыл бұрын

@@Friendship1nmillion well you should publish a scientific article about your theory then,maybe you're right and gonna win a lot of noble prize for that

These little cousins are probably my favorite hominids. Thank you for covering them. It's been awhile since I delved into their story and it's come a long way since then.

Can you guys discuss the evolution of mollusks in general? It would be quite interesting. Like why clams became sessile

@momon969

4 жыл бұрын

You made me google a word, and I learned something. Thanks!

@OviraptorFan

4 жыл бұрын

Momon no problem!

@TheTesseractor

4 жыл бұрын

I for one am very interested in the ancestor of mollusks.

@eddiepopcopter5902

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve been wanting a molluscs vid too

Every time he says "LB-1" I hear "Obi Wan." H E L L O T H E R E

@zddxddyddw

4 жыл бұрын

General Kenobi!

@darthgorthaur258

4 жыл бұрын

"that's no elephant....it's a stegadon"

@yourstruly4817

4 жыл бұрын

@@zddxddyddw You are a bold one!

@LoLotov

4 жыл бұрын

So uncivilized.

@culwin

4 жыл бұрын

A name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

We KNEW it! The Precious told us Hobbitses are still around ...SNEAKING!

@susie9893

4 жыл бұрын

Actually I saw a few documentaries some years back about a small group of hikers who were, supposedly, attacked by some small humanoid primates whilst hiking thru the jungle of an Indonesian island (can't remember the name); when the 1 survivor managed to return to civilization he was charged with murder because no one believed his story and he'd been trying to prove it ever since. I found it, hmm, interesting, that no reference to this story was made particularly since tales of these creatures are common in local native lore and THEY certainly believe those creatures are out there. I'm not saying I believe it, don't really care either way, but it is interesting in the light of THIS finding I think

@kentgil2526

3 жыл бұрын

@@susie9893 stop snorting glue

@az397

3 жыл бұрын

@@kentgil2526 be nicer

Imagine one of these small people drifting or sailing into Australia by accident, and running into megalania!

@genghiskhan6809

4 жыл бұрын

That's like meeting Glaurung.

@horse14t

4 жыл бұрын

That would be a cool movie!

This is very interesting. In Solomon Islands, the people from one of the provinces have legends passed down from generations that when they first came to the islands where they currently live, there was a group of small hairy people who already lived there. The stories say that they fought and eventually overcame these people. In another province located far away, they also have stories of small hairy people that exist in their islands and possibly still do. They're known as Kakamora and they were featured in Disney's Moana.

@TM686K

3 жыл бұрын

I was just about to mention this! That perhaps this race was not only endemic to Flores Island. In Kiribati where I'm from there are stories of the first people to arrive in the islands and they met a people who were "dark skinned, short, hairy and with large floppy ears" for which they clashed and intermingled at various times until they became a uniform population. Samoan, Tongan and Hawaiian mythology have stories of them too, they called them the Menehune/Meneuli who lived in caves.

@aniisnotok5099

3 жыл бұрын

@@TM686K woah, that's fascinating. I thought they were only in our legends in the Solomons. Perhaps they're not just legends, but actual events in history passed down through generations

@TM686K

3 жыл бұрын

@@aniisnotok5099 Very much possible. It cannot be coincidental. In most Polynesian and as a whole Pacific Island mythology, there is usually a similar structure of epochs in time: The Age of Spirits The Age of Half Spirits Half Humans The Age of Humans My theory (and I do stress my theory) is that this could be a metaphorical interpretation of the Human Taiwanese/Melanesian Migration when they first came into contact with Autochthonous races in the Pacific (other hominids like hobbits and possibly giants) who they met with, eventually interbred with them until they lastly became extinct with modern day Pacific Islanders carrying remnants of them in their DNA.

Much love from Indonesia. I saw the discovery of the bones as well as the early debate about it from the news. This video summarizes many studies about "The Hobbit" and makes it easier for the people in this archipelago to understand the story before our ancestors came to the place we call home. Thanks a million.

8:28 Homo luzonensis was found not "on a remote island in Southeast Asia" but, in fact, on the main island of the Philippines: Luzon, the planet's 15th largest island. The dig site, however, is located in a rural area in the northeast section of the island.

@ra_alf9467

Жыл бұрын

The name is literally there, "Luzon"ensis

@VidAudioJojo

Жыл бұрын

The point was that describing Luzon as a ". . .REMOTE island in Southeast Asia" is simply wrong on many levels. For one thing, how can Luzon be described as "remote" when in the year Homo luzonensis was announced the island of Luzon already had about 50 million Facebook and internet users?

@JCarlosCS1221

Жыл бұрын

​@@VidAudioJojo Luzon is remote from a hominid's perspective: you can't get there without a boat or a ship, that may mean that hominids were seafaring way before we thought they could.

When Hobbits were real. Or- Concerning Hobbits.

@zekezzekekan2144

4 жыл бұрын

Well even this video is not saying hobbits where ever real.

@iqbalarsyah215

4 жыл бұрын

they missed the chance

@zekezzekekan2144

4 жыл бұрын

@@iqbalarsyah215 maybe they didn't have enough time?

@brentgreeff1115

4 жыл бұрын

He called them "creatures" - If they were still around Vice would be going crazy about this.

@animelinkup2529

4 жыл бұрын

*Vsauce music starts playing*

Can you please make a episode on the evolution of the Brain? From how clumps of specialized cells in prehistoric fish evolve to become our complex brain in the modern time.

After that i will eat my second breakfast.

@jade410

4 жыл бұрын

Mingo Dupal hmm don’t forget elevenses

@Albert_Herring

4 жыл бұрын

knock knock* "Dwalin, at you service."

Being killed by a stork would be a very embarassing death. 😂

@mynamehasspacesinit8687

4 жыл бұрын

The very thing that brought you into this world can take you out of it as well.

@jr2904

4 жыл бұрын

@@mynamehasspacesinit8687 hahahaha, same thing crossed my mind. My mom always told me, she brought me into the world and she can take me out.

@bri1085

4 жыл бұрын

Babies are actually kidnapped hobbits 🤯

@BaronSaturday66

4 жыл бұрын

My sister was killed by a sugar glider.

@bri1085

4 жыл бұрын

@@BaronSaturday66 are you serious?

1:53 I love that they use the squid as a transition complete with dramatic whoosh

damn them hobbits ate dragons

@darthgorthaur258

4 жыл бұрын

Brings a very different view of Bilbo first meeting smaug doesn't it lol.

@hpdutra

4 жыл бұрын

Is roasting necessary when eating a dragon. I imagine they are naturally well done

@r3zaful

4 жыл бұрын

Rare steak dragon

@ashleyludwig6281

4 жыл бұрын

Dicky Adhadyanto rip Smaug

@Eowyn3Pride

2 жыл бұрын

What we need is a few good taters!😉🤣🤣🧙‍♂️

There was a smaller species found this year in the Philippines which has been named Homo Luzonensis. The sapien “evolutionary bush” is fascinating Edit: Just saw that part of the video. This channel is amazing and covers many points of Human Evolution that others miss. Great Work guys!

1:41 Yep. That's me. You may be wondering how I got into this situation.

@buraksimsek7264

4 жыл бұрын

hahahahaaaaa hunting after shiny gligars? lol

1:54 "an unexpected discovery" I see what you did there

I really like the image used of the "hobbit" running away from the scary bird. His expression is so sassy!

YES finally ! we got a hobbit episode!

This episode could easily be a couple hours longer! Completely fascinating!

I'm obsessed with any episode in PBS Eons about human evolutionary progress. Thank you so much for this episode :D

An island near the Equator, "the Middle of the Earth" with Hobbits and Dragons (Komodo Dragons). I'm just saying where are the elves and dwarves? Keep up the good work PBS Eons!!!😁

@miguelmontenegro3520

4 жыл бұрын

There are mountains inside the Amazon and ruins too... Im not saing It is mirkwood, but It is mirkwood

@samsunguser3148

4 жыл бұрын

I think the race of Elves and Dwarves failed. The Elves went to the Havens to the Undying Lands and the Dwarves mined very deep and kept to themselves. oof?

@miguelmontenegro3520

4 жыл бұрын

@@samsunguser3148 The elven race isnt made to be a middle Earth dweler. They stayed for so long because they were the noblest of the races there. But! in the next realm they were the lowest of Peoples. Like the middle men in ME.

@samsunguser3148

4 жыл бұрын

@@miguelmontenegro3520 ye

@LoLotov

4 жыл бұрын

Homo erectus: tall, graceful, firstborn of the truly human Homo neanderthalensis: short, stocky, underground dwelling craftsmen Found em!

1:42 _record scratch_ _freeze_ *Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.*

@az397

3 жыл бұрын

did click, wasn't deceived. *You deserve GOLD*

God I love pbs eons.

"Alright, then. Keep your secrets."

@Liz-sc3np

4 жыл бұрын

guilmon182 I didn’t want to know your secrets anyways so whatever

3:36 OK that dude doesn't look nearly scared enough considering what's chasing him.

@BonaparteBardithion

4 жыл бұрын

Because he knows what's waiting for the bird when he gets to safety. He's the bait.

@darthgorthaur258

4 жыл бұрын

I think I'd just be praying the dragons didn't notice me an kept fighting each other instead tbh...

Fossilization is a rare process, especially in tropical jungles. We are fortunate to know as much of our ancestry already as it is. Who knows what kind of animals and plants have lived on this earth that we will never find fossils of.

In my opinion among the best content on KZread. Fascinating. Keep up the great work!

It blows my mind that so many different kinds of hominids used to exist but have now gone extinct. It would be so cool to have other species more like us around.

@legendarypussydestroyer6943

Жыл бұрын

There will probably be some kind of next level racism. Regular racism among homo sapiens and next level racism between homo sapiens and other human species lmao

@SuperWeenieHutJuniors

11 ай бұрын

There would be some type of conflict to establish superiority. If there's racism within our own species, I could only imagine what tensions would be like if a different species of humans walked the earth. Genocide, most likely.

Great Episode! Now some suggestions for future episodes -Titanoboa -Australian Megafauna -Diprotodon -marsupial Lion -Giant Kangaroos -Megalania *tbh I feel each of these could and deserve to get their own separate episodes -Domestication of Dogs? (“How Dogs became mans best friend”)

"When hobbits were real, and lived alongside dragons in the shadows of Mount Doom". Also, I think, if the idea of a hominin different from erectus left Africa first holds out, that a habilis line hominin spread throughout Southern and maybe Eastern Asia, but where outcompeted by invading erectus line hominins except on a few remote islands, giving us the hobbits and their mixed bag of features.

A new Eons video! Thank you for always making such interesting and thought-provoking videos :) Do you think you will ever do a video on the lions of Europe (ex. cave lions)?

Thank you guys from PBS EONS for bringing all these amazing discoveries to us. I'm currently working on a project (a novel) in which sapiens, floresiensis, neanderthals and denisovans live together...in present times... let's see how it goes.

@jtktomb8598

4 жыл бұрын

cool idea

@THLott

4 жыл бұрын

@@jtktomb8598 thx!

@taricanarain8453

3 жыл бұрын

The Sapiens probably enslaved the other hominins.

Imagine being on the planet at a time when multiple species of pre-human existed.

Yes! Thank you for uploading this video! I can't believe the hobbits were covered on this channel! I'm not much of an archaeologist but i do find research on h. floresensis and h. neaderthalis to be fascinating! The mere thought that other species of "humans" were once walking the planet is crazy to me. Great video! Now if a video on the scimitar cats (genus homotherium) could get uploaded, my wishlist for this channel would be complete. The scimitar cats are so under-appreciated.

Makes me wonder a bit about the reports of the "Orang Pendek" on the nearby island of Sumatra.

So much info crammed in such a short graffic video. Wonderful job PBS team

Love the picture of the hobbit peacing out from the massive bird.

Bones prove that they existed, no matter where on the tree.

I saw a new vid from pbs eons, I like first before I watch because I'm sure I'm going to like it and replay it many times.

FINALLY! I watched a documentary about them ages ago and never forgot. Was waiting for this video.

so glad you finally covered this.

They moved to the Undying lands with Frodo and Bilbo.

@jollebee991

3 жыл бұрын

Mortals do not have that kind of gift. Only the one knows

8:00 looks ready to say floresiensis with a hard r

Snoop Dogg, whatever Miley Cirus, Whatever EONS, awe shoot, gotta try these raycons

As a LOTR fan, I did read loads of Tolkien books, and I somehow remember him talking about extinct hobbits hahaha.

I just realized when this guy finishes talking I have to catch my breath. Anyway, LOVE this channel, fun, instructive and AMAZING: Keep this way.

Guys...I love your videos so much that I've clocked through all of them in the past week. You guys kick ass. While I'm not an expert in the field and while I know that there are limitations on how much info you can access or provide, I was wondering if you guys could enlighten us all as to why pandas are such terrible parents and how they have managed to survive this long?

Fascinating, and great presentation!

So let me get this straight -Indonesian -Tiny -long feet -Causes controversy I think that’s just my grandma

The Hobbit couldn't take down a full grown elephant but didn't they do that in Rohan?

@ricois3

4 жыл бұрын

And it was an Oliphant on top of that

@janiwirman

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, Legolas did. haha

@ricois3

4 жыл бұрын

@@janiwirman But it still only counts as one

@Burt1038

4 жыл бұрын

@@ricois3 Which is roughly 10 times the size of an actual elephant.

@sigitcahyo8772

4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe 20 times the size of a pygmy elephant

Good stuff ! JRR Tolkien was on to something. Love this channel. Take care.

Another great video 👍 keep the anthropology videos coming!

So much to learn! Thank you for this amazing channel.

If we knew every mystery of human history (all of it) I have a lurking feeling that we would be completely blown away and have our entire perceptions on reality irreversibly altered.

@outlawmakaveli3969

4 жыл бұрын

I know right it's like everything they tell us that's folklore and fantasy is actually real and exist. Just on a higher frequency and vibration.

I love your videos!!! Thanks from iceland😁

This was a really good video. Particularly comprehensive.

Makes me think of the "menehune", little mountain people in Hawaiian folklore. They were said to be skilled crafters and engineers of sorts building fish ponds (stone enclosures to place caught fish along the banks of rivers), as well as ditches and dams. Folklore states you pay them with one freshwater shrimp (opae) each menehune. Is it folklore, or is it a seafaring hobbit of Flores...?

@judsonwall8615

Жыл бұрын

Polynesians originally migrated from Southeast Asia about 4500 years ago. In the video, it was saying there was possible evidence from as recently as 15,000 years ago. Perhaps a few survived another 10,000 years and those ancient ancestral Polynesians had some run ins with these little Flores peoples in the deep woods of island Southeast Asia. Then, a few thousand years later, when those ancient Polynesian’s descendants finally made it to Hawaii, they brought the stories of their ancestors with them: of little people in the hills and the woods; of Menehune.

Dangit! I JUST bought some Raycon earbuds, and NOW there's a link to support one of my favorite channels! Oh well. At least I can vouch for their quality. Me likey.

Brilliant video. Clearly we have a lot left to discover,, which makes the "old guard anthropologists" defending there existing hypothesis to the bitter end a bit sad.

@Eowyn3Pride

2 жыл бұрын

Just like the tower guards guarding the white tree of Gondor...😔🎖

2:16 One of the authors of that paper, M. J. Morwood, was in my class at high school, Mount Albert Grammar, Auckland NZ, and I'm very proud of him. I have been following the debate since the discovery was announced. The Hominin tree is getting bushier and bushier.

Sure one of my mates is one of these

0:41 was during the Corona Era when a specie called Homosapien thought to buy all the toilet paper in existence would prevent them from being infected.

This was in my recommended. I've been on a news binge lately... Thanks, YT algorithm.... You knew my psyche needed a break 👍🏼

Another brilliant episode. Many thanks.

love learning more about hominins

I love how you said that the Hobbit was from The Shire!! LOL. Love The LOTR comment too.

Thanks for this playlist

Not only the hobbits but jeeezzz, little elephants and giant marabou storks? Hell yeah!

This man is beautiful

African mega fauna (Natodomeri lion) video please

Amazing as always. Keep it up!

Imagine dieing one day and 20,000 years from now your bones are on a documentary about humans

I'm 34 years old and 5'1. I've been called a Hobbit since I've been alive.

@KevAlberta

4 жыл бұрын

You hobbit ;)

@Eowyn3Pride

2 жыл бұрын

There is nothing wrong with being a Hobbit. They have proven time and time again to be resilient and fond of the comforts of home.❤❤❤😌🍻🧙‍♂️

What if Homo Flourensis was the last surviving member of the Australopithecines and, like they said, were just a dawrf species of that family?

@robertisham5279

4 жыл бұрын

I think they are descended from the Homo Erectus

@kamilpotato3764

3 жыл бұрын

It has been perfectly explained before. Those "hobbits" were devolved ancient Humans after loosing their war to Forerunners.

Imagine dying just to be dug up and called a small brained hobbit

this is my new favorite channel. everything is so interesting and educational. i'm by no means a science-oriented person (my things is history and english) but this is so cool!!!

This new species or pathological human already has my respect, that is a perfect deep squat