Extinct Animals The Native Americans Saw

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10,000 years ago of all kinds of titans roamed America, and I mean ALL KINDS, we're talking giant beavers, mammoths, wolves and more... Thankfully for us we no longer have to worry about a not-so friendly Smilodon jumping us while out running, but the same could not be said for the Native Americans, who not only lived alongside them but also managed to thrive.
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5:21 The Largest Canine Species Ever
7:06 Giant Saber Toothed Cats
10:52 A Tyrannosaur Sized Bear
13:28 Mammoths & Mastodons
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@subaru69 Ай бұрын

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@StrawberyyExe Ай бұрын

These videos make me understand why the Native Americans had so many folklores and scary stories. Love it

@terrelldurocher3330 Ай бұрын

Bear across the board got smaller, you see alot of smaller bears these days.

@john-ic5pz Ай бұрын

looks like everything got smaller, the cats too. I wonder why...

@QwoRE112 Ай бұрын

@@john-ic5pzless prey abundance and smaller habitats

@Brown_Bison Ай бұрын

@@john-ic5pz Increasing heat. Also, there was about 35% more oxygen 300 million years ago than today which lead to animals evolving to be bigger. When it decreased and climate changed, animals either adapted and evolved to suit the conditions, or they failed and died off. Or were hunted.

@hia5235 Ай бұрын

They wiped out all these animals you know.....

@RedXlV Ай бұрын

Modern people: "How did the ancient Native Americans deal with these giant animals?" Ancient Native Americans: "By killing them, obviously."

@hia5235 Ай бұрын

Nobody wants to even say the truth: they were all hunted to extinction by natives

@TheWolfsnack Ай бұрын

...and eating as many as possible...

@washingtonrl Ай бұрын

There is only one race of people, that has never been linked to having a connection with nature without destroying nature and it is the greediest race.

@supercheese7033 Ай бұрын

They were the original invasive species...

@theoriginalkyttyn7724 Ай бұрын

And domesticating some of them.

@lithonianinja Ай бұрын

Dire Wolf bite marks have been reported on human bones. Whether these humans were hunted or if the wolves dug them out of a grave site is the question

@john-ic5pz Ай бұрын

"a dingo ate my baby!!!" I'd wager it was a fortuitous hunt. I imagine we'd not have buried a peer in a shallow grave so easily accessed by wildlife. or did they happen to do "sky burials", leaving the corpse in the wilds for animals to eat? I don't know the region and era well enough to say...hence the wager. 😁 wdyt?

@benjamindavis2896 Ай бұрын

I think you're going to win this wager

@kerianhalcyon2769 Ай бұрын

@@john-ic5pz Could have also been a scavenging opportunity. After all, these guys lived in open wilderness with many hazards - a lost/starving hunter, a fall leading to a broken limb, an illness that their immune system couldn't adapt to fast enough, any of these can take a person when on their own before others can get to them. At that point once they're dead and not found by their community the meat's free game for whatever finds it first.

@angelacrabtree2847 Ай бұрын

Could be both. Dire wolves were impressive animals.

@srobeck77 Ай бұрын

There hasnt ever been a recorded killing of a human from a healthy wolf, much like with Orcas. Now the occasional near death wolf that has been kicked out of the pack is a different story.

@Obironnkenobi Ай бұрын

Every single CGI generated interaction between the Lions and the Gliptadons is freaking hilarious. Lion: "I just wanna eat you." Gliptadon: "No!" *retracts even further winthin it's shell* Lion: "awww, come on!"

@propertyoflamb4506 Ай бұрын

"A bite only as strong as a jaguar's"? So... Strong enough to crush a caiman skull

@lorinctoth9402 Ай бұрын

Yeah.. like that's still a pretty powerful bite, being the fifth strongest bite of living animals, and the strongest of any living big cat. A smilodon's bite strenght being on the weaker side is quite a misleading phrasing.

@IDraw99 24 күн бұрын

@@lorinctoth9402 living animals is crazy, there's sharks and orcas which can have bite forces bigger than crocs jags are op but the are plenty of animals with crazier bite forces

@SahilK-xx3iy 17 күн бұрын

Full grown camians solo jaguars

@lorinctoth9402 17 күн бұрын

@@IDraw99 Yes, I'm not saying that, I'm saying that a jaguar's bite force is still strong, and not "on the weaker side".

@billyguyjoe1858 10 күн бұрын

@@SahilK-xx3iylol no

@itswizardtime63 Ай бұрын

Idk why, but this part of history always interests me

@orlandowilliamson691 Ай бұрын

I wanna see how the big cats and the trex looked the most.

@wesleyezell2361 Ай бұрын

Not that long ago in reality

@MarshalMarrs-eu9yh Ай бұрын

It would be very interesting if the Pleistocene extinctions in the Americas were not as severe as in this timeline!

@DannieKamete Ай бұрын

maybe because it's interesting?

@billyshakespeare488 29 күн бұрын

It's not told, the Spanish burned the Aztec books when they colonized. Who knows what knowledge was lost. We're only beginning to piece it together now. Even what we do know the American government will be reluctant to teach in public school as they don't want citizens to sympathize with the victims of their brutal past.

@theosnepenthes8751 Ай бұрын

If they looked up in the sky, they would see flocks of Passenger pigeons, the most common bird in North America, that took hours to pass by and were so dense they actually had the same effect as solar eclipses and dimmed the daylight by blocking out the sun. A single rifle shot upwards without even aiming would down 15 or more birds. Imagine the killing rate that it took to drive 5 billion birds to extinction in less than 300 years.

@HungryCats70 Ай бұрын

...or to wipe out almost all bison in about two decades.

@AEB1066 Ай бұрын

American Burbon changed flavour due to the loss of the white oak that needed passenger pigeons to spread its seeds.

@johngalt97 Ай бұрын

Weren't nets employed to great effect?

@serahloeffelroberts9901 Ай бұрын

I saw a stuffed passenger pigeon in a museum. It was about the size of a parakeet.

@melhawk6284 Ай бұрын

I would rather NOT! Those little birds were gorgeous, and human greed is some bullshit!

@assimilatedarchivist1173 Ай бұрын

Fascinating how the Arctodus Simus recognized Canadian and US borders thousands of years ago

@luisa.acevedo3326 Ай бұрын

Yeah, referring to the US as America on a science video is lazy. I was confused at first.

@SuperTah33 Ай бұрын

There’s an accurate range map on the Wiki article

@lorinctoth9402 Ай бұрын

Yeah it's so bad, it sees the would be US border and teleports to Alaska and Hawai'i. (But honestly it's also funny)

@SolitaryMan41 Ай бұрын

It was Mexican

@tohaason Ай бұрын

Yeah. Very good video, but the graphics depicting living areas were really bad. Following not just Canadian and US borders, but state borders too.

@AussBosss Ай бұрын

The giraffe lifting up the kid is wild 😂

@cplmpcocptcl6306 Ай бұрын

It happened again 2 weeks ago at the drive thru safari in central Texas. The giraffe was going for the food but grabbed the toddler.😅 2min video on YT.

@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 Ай бұрын

I replayed that a few times. To go from family fun to complete panic is pretty funny lol. The dad is like oh shit! 😂

@bradleybeeson6932 Ай бұрын

Bison basically have a single huge lung, an unusual weakness that was exploited by Natives and settlers alike. A single arrow or bullet would collapse their entire respiratory system and they would drop in just a few steps.

@KineticTaco Ай бұрын

Ah yes. They were all shot… definitely not drove off cliffs in droves by the beloved natives.

@meowmachine9147 Ай бұрын

@KineticTaco What are you so smug about? They didn't say all of them were shot, and none were killed in other ways. Also, your comment about beloved natives is really weird, as in sarcastic. What's your issues with ancient Native Americans? They hunted just like virtually all native people

@james.s7133 Ай бұрын

No, American bison (Bison bison) have both lungs in a single pleural cavity, which is unusual for mammals. This is because bison have an incomplete mediastinum, which is a condition that separates the pleural cavities. This single cavity is called "buffalo chest", and it can be a life-threatening condition.

@itsdabees Ай бұрын

@@KineticTacothis reeks of racism

@ganjalfcreamcorn8438 Ай бұрын

@@KineticTaco found the racist guy lol

@sidlazzar1002 Ай бұрын

I’m Native American, Muckleshoot from Washington state. I’m so excited to watch this. My hands go up to you 🙌🏼

@madizo9056 Ай бұрын

What’s your opinion on the term “native american”?

@sidlazzar1002 Ай бұрын

Rather be called Native American or First Nations. Definitely not Indian

@sapphonymph8204 Ай бұрын

@@sidlazzar1002how about Asian immigrant?

@Gyati Ай бұрын

@@sapphonymph8204is 12,000 years ago long enough for you pal?

@user-kz6pf5zk6w Ай бұрын

Native Americans aren't Indians.. Native Americans were placed on reservations by the government while Indians owned the land...You even have full blown white Europeans claiming to be native Americans... Stealing the identity of the true indigenous people will cost some greatly in the near future... People are benefitting from all the lies so they don't want the truth to come out

@rfjohns1 Ай бұрын

Left out one of the most impressive predators, the American Lion.

@benmcreynolds8581 Ай бұрын

Yeah it's pretty crazy the amount of diversity America had then. Cave lions, American cheetah, a whole array of different saber toothed cats, etc., etc.

@eddysgaming9868 Ай бұрын

I did think of the cave lion during the smilodon segment.

@serahloeffelroberts9901 Ай бұрын

Pronghorn antelope evolved to be so fast to outrun the American cheetah which has been extinct for a long time

@benmcreynolds8581 Ай бұрын

@@serahloeffelroberts9901 yeah that's a awesome little fact. Pronghorns are so stupid fast. I wish we could have seen what a beast American Cheetah was like. When I was young I was obsessed with cheetahs because of how fast they were. As a kid I was obsessed with trying to be faster than everyone. Then I grew up and learned more about cheetahs and it bums me out. I wish cheetahs weren't so genetically bottlenecked. I wish we could see a more impressive well rounded kind of cheetah. Currently They struggle so much to survive compared to all the other animals around them. It's a bummer how much they are struggling

@robertmartinjr.4537 Ай бұрын

I was recently at the Labrea Tarpit Museum in Los Angeles. I saw some skeletons of American Lions. Even as a display skeleton you could see how large they were.

@cybernetic_crocodile8462 Ай бұрын

It is honestly very impressive, that prehistoric humans managed not only to thrive alongside all those impressive animals but even outcompeted some of them. You would be suprised how much just a sharpened stick and stones can achieve.

@Highspeedoffset1 Ай бұрын

Human endurance and team hunting with ranged weapons ( Bow and Atlatl) vs. Well, Anything. I'd bet on the Humans.

@Ispeakthetruthify Ай бұрын

You mean you'd be surprised how far human intelligence, ingenuity, mastering of fire, weapon making, language/teamwork, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc....can achieve. Modern humans, and our close human relatives, have been the dominant species on this planet for nearly 2 million years for a reason. These animals stood NO CHANCE against our prehistoric human ancestors.

@serahloeffelroberts9901 Ай бұрын

Especially a large group of humans armed with pointy sticks.

@billwilliamson9842 22 күн бұрын

you left out how these so called "natives" caused the extinction of these animals. so much for that whole "they only took what was needed bs" the leftys spew out lol

@Jb22372 4 күн бұрын

@@Highspeedoffset1comet impacts help too

@erinrising2799 Ай бұрын

I was not prepared for what an absolute unit the Giant Beaver was

@johnwingate8799 Ай бұрын

In texas..

@nathanbaker6033 Ай бұрын

They can be quite intimidating and should always be approached with caution.

@Buster_Piles Ай бұрын

Beaver is great. Love 'em.

@CrashNTheBoys2002 5 күн бұрын

Beavers are still a unit don’t get it twisted, I would rather get chased by a bear instead of a beaver.

@user-rs8ky8hv6s 3 күн бұрын

Ah yes, Casteroides. A beaver as big as a black bear. Must've been QUITE a sight to behold when they were alive.

@poogissploogis Ай бұрын

Gotta give some major credit to the oral traditions of a lot of these tribes. There are cautionary tales about dangerous creatures told to children to this day that describe these ancient creatures. It's amazing that 10,000+ years of telephone hasn't degraded the original memory much at all.

@sapphonymph8204 Ай бұрын

Oral traditions of murder and genocide of the mega fauna. Something to be very proud of.

@eddysgaming9868 Ай бұрын

One that remains with me are the stories of the Thunderbird. There actually was a bird as large as the legend says (22 ft. wingspan, I believe), who rode the thermal drafts from South to North America. Which must have been terrifying, especially for parents, hence the stories.

@sapphonymph8204 Ай бұрын

@@eddysgaming9868 PFFT

@amicableenmity9820 Ай бұрын

@sapphonymph8204 pfft yourself, look up extinct giant vultures. I wish this guy had covered them in this video. They were massive.

@KimberlyMartinez-vu2qy Ай бұрын

@@sapphonymph8204all humans killed the megafauna in each continent stop acting as if the we were the only ones!

@John-fo4wp Ай бұрын

I don’t know what’s scarier: The fact that they managed to take down these giant Mammoths or the fact that I’m taller than the America Mastodon

@spyrofrost9158 Ай бұрын

Well, clearly you know what you must do. Find a great club and ride to glory.

@infinitemonkey917 Ай бұрын

Yet it was much heavier than modern elephants.

@reigoemon2229 Ай бұрын

@@infinitemonkey917 Not as heavy as CaseOh (Sorry i just had to do it. It was like right there just begging to be turned into a caseoh joke)

@infinitemonkey917 Ай бұрын

@@reigoemon2229 Pretty sure I'm too old to get that.

@reigoemon2229 Ай бұрын

@@infinitemonkey917 Probably. Everyone just likes making jokes about CaseOh being fat

@niharg2011 Ай бұрын

Last time I was this early, India was still an Island

@MattiasSvanberg1987 29 күн бұрын

Iceland is an island.

@balung 25 күн бұрын

@@MattiasSvanberg1987some early European Explorers thought India was an Island, hence the joke.

@melanimatejak6821 14 күн бұрын

@balung Who thought that India was an island? First time heard this 🤔

@Altraiid Ай бұрын

There is so, so much history and records from native americans (South and North) lost forever...

@katyungodly Ай бұрын

Humans globally have lost a lot of information, I'd love to know what various cultures were in Africa 50,000 years ago

@dillonhillier Ай бұрын

Records are hard to make when you don't have a written language.

@theratgod8194 Ай бұрын

@@dillonhillier yeah.. though there were still a *few* written languages of sorts before contact, notably in hieroglyphic forms in centeral america and (i think) the northeast had a small hieroglyphic system

@dillonhillier Ай бұрын

@@theratgod8194 yeah, glyphs and pictographs in mesoamerica. Not sure about the NE. Regardless, nothing that could keep detailed records.

@burrrn___ Ай бұрын

that’s what happens when colonizers also destroy cultures into extinction, destroy literature and history recorded by those ppl

@rickdenesha9473 Ай бұрын

I find it interesting as I love this kind of thing, that when you show North American range you stop at the Canadian border then continue once again at Alaska

@planescaped Ай бұрын

They also had to take down fully grown buffalo without the use of horses, as they weren't reintroduced to America until Europeans arrived. Also, it's crazy to think that the great plains once resembled the serengeti with bison instead of wilderbeast.

@jimc4839 Ай бұрын

They would herd them off of cliffs in some cases.

@KineticTaco Ай бұрын

@@jimc4839some? Most.

@DementedFilms7767 Ай бұрын

@@KineticTacoSome, if our ancestors had done that for all hunts there wouldn't have been much left for the next hunting season, and different tribes and individuals had different preferences for hunting bison.

@asin8757 Ай бұрын

I was thinking of that when dire wolves having a strong bite to take down horses was mentioned.

@selthafour6948 Ай бұрын

There were relatives of horses that they killed off. Long before horses were brought from the old world.

@warmist8197 Ай бұрын

I saw a hunter drop a cape buffalo with a compound bow. It flinched when the arrow hit then went back to grazing. Within 10 feet it layed down and passed on. I was MAD impressed 😮

@edie4321 Ай бұрын

I quit eating meat because of the way the animals are treated. I always questioned how the natives (Earth Honoring) beings did it. You gave me a view, I had not yet imagined. Thank you.

@warmist8197 Ай бұрын

@@edie4321 it was incredible. He was just squatting in some thick brush, he popped up, shot the arrow and squatted right back down. The animal probably felt a bee sting at most, looked around like no big deal and went back to its business. The hunter just sat and waited patiently. It was such a calm process it really felt like the cruelty was taken completely out. That's a master level hunter that everyone at one point strived to become.

@edie4321 Ай бұрын

@@warmist8197, It sounds amazing, and something I would not imagine, but want to. Thank you for sharing.

@stefthorman8548 Ай бұрын

he used poison, it's not really that impressive, any semi competent hunter can do it

@warmist8197 Ай бұрын

@@stefthorman8548 no, he did not use poison. The shot was perfectly placed hitting both lungs.

@tm43977 Ай бұрын

Native Americans encounter and witness America's big beasts

@beastmaster0934 Ай бұрын

Lucky bastards.

@patsyleeoswald9912 Ай бұрын

And hunted them to extinction.

@Galaxia7 Ай бұрын

@@patsyleeoswald9912probably not, they coexisted with them for thousands of years.

@MrKkoool Ай бұрын

Now facing peeslamic beasts.

@DarkKnight_prodzz Ай бұрын

@@beastmaster0934 I don’t think you would want to open your door to the sight of your friends getting brutally mauled by a Saber Toothed Cat or Dire Wolf

@johnszoo8460 Ай бұрын

That's a giant beaver 😂

@patsyleeoswald9912 Ай бұрын

That's what he said.

@SuperCoolTeenisGuy Ай бұрын

you're a giant beaver

@justing1810 Ай бұрын

@@patsyleeoswald9912dang you beat me to it

@livy1962 Ай бұрын

Love that USA-centric map at 11:23. Looks like they knew about the Alaska purchase in advance of the event.

@thevvitch7585 Ай бұрын

Hawaii pog

@Altraiid Ай бұрын

A millisecond long TF2 reference 😻

@patchpasch7147 Ай бұрын

Time stamp? ❤

@diegoquezada3193 Ай бұрын

@@patchpasch7147 13:48

@dispatcher22z20 Ай бұрын

6:42 mistake found, the dire wolf didn't out number other animals as the environment just cant support that but instead 1 prey item would be getting chased by a pack of dire wolfs and all would get stuck in the tar that is why there are so many dire wolfs to not dire wolfs in those pits

@Dragoon.. Ай бұрын

I think he was talking in relation to other predators granted if so he could have been clearer

@glyptodongaming5629 Ай бұрын

Another mistake is pretending the Native Americans taught Europeans how to farm

@HungryCats70 Ай бұрын

@@glyptodongaming5629 Europeans didn't know how to grow North American crops. Like maize/corn.

@ericschulze5641 Ай бұрын

@HungryCats70 it wasn't/ isn't hard to grow & matures quickly, no need to teach anybody

@eddysgaming9868 Ай бұрын

I hate to be that guy, but it's "wolves." The plural of "wolf."

@mjolninja9358 Ай бұрын

Man I wish for the best to all Natives, they have such amazing history and culture.

@hallamhal 28 күн бұрын

"Half a ruler in size" is my new favourite Americans using anything but the metric system 😂

@tvbnine793 Ай бұрын

Can we make a petition for Extinct Zoo to make "Extinct Animals The (insert ancient people of a particular place) Saw" a series. Were there any magnificent creatures in North America that went extinct sometime notably after the last Ice Age ended? Ngl I wish American Lions and Camels still existed

@serahloeffelroberts9901 Ай бұрын

The horse who evolved in North America also vanished completely, not to return until the Spanish brought the horse back to the continent. Wild horses on the plains undoubtedly were descended from warm blood stock who were bred in desert conditions.

@MatthewTheWanderer Ай бұрын

This is already a series and this isn't the first video they made with that exact format.

@serahloeffelroberts9901 Ай бұрын

The only members of the camel family in the Americas who survived were the llama, the alpaca and the wild vicuna in South America.

@MatthewTheWanderer Ай бұрын

@@serahloeffelroberts9901 And the guanaco.

@Chamuko_03 Ай бұрын

@@serahloeffelroberts9901the llama? Fr?😂😂😂😂😂😂 That thing survived all those monsters like creatures 🤦‍♂️😭

@henriknielsen9674 Ай бұрын

Concluding that there was a huge amount of dire wolfs because way more is found in a tar pit, is really not scientific at all. Tar pits are traps with often live bait calling out in desperation, that attracts wolfs

@amicableenmity9820 Ай бұрын

What is interesting is that they never found American lions in the tar pits.

@melanimatejak6821 14 күн бұрын

@@amicableenmity9820I think American lion has been found in tar pits? Just it is very rare, maybe because the animal itself was rare

@CodeCasanova Ай бұрын

The bear map was funny af. Bear be like, Ill live in the lower 48 and Alaska, but F Canada.

@brianbailey5504 Ай бұрын

Actually jaguars have the most powerful bite force out of all big cats at 1,500 psi and is double that of a tiger

@jancyvargheese5351 Ай бұрын

Wrong, that is incorrect. Jaguars only have the strongest bite force pound for pound, not in real life. In real life, their bite force is around 750 pounds, which is still impressive for their size, but lions and tigers have the strongest bite force at over 1000psi

@user-wg4tk8xz2j Ай бұрын

Do you realize how big a tigers mouth is compared to a Jaguar lol. Cmon

@iPhantom287 Ай бұрын

Y’all are arguing about this when Jaguar is P4P big cat king. Tiger crush necks to suffocate, Jaguar crushes the skull to get it over with. That tells you everything you need.

@alvargas5095 26 күн бұрын

Reportedly they can crush a caiman skull with a single bite. That's impressive

@kelvin4910 20 сағат бұрын

@jancyvargheese5351 and when I look it up you're wrong 😂

@Domzdream Ай бұрын

My favourite bit was the kid feeding the girafs. Up ya Go!

@cplmpcocptcl6306 Ай бұрын

😂Love it. Did you see it happened 2 weeks ago in central Texas? The giraffe was going for the food but nabbed the toddler.

@superdinotv3298 Ай бұрын

Suggestion for next similar video: Extinct animals the ancient Roman’s saw

@Varphi_ Ай бұрын

And the first group of humans!! Imagine what kind of creatures were running around then 😳

@angelacrabtree2847 Ай бұрын

Ancient Egyptians go back farther

@glennnolasco6892 Ай бұрын

I think I saw a video with that exact title. I would like ExtinctZoo to tackle this topic too, as the Roman Empire caused the extinction of some of these said extinct animals

@darrenshaw6724 Ай бұрын

The romans caused the extinction of the atlas lion. So many were used in gladiator fights.

@angelacrabtree2847 Ай бұрын

@@darrenshaw6724 There was a plant that was supposed to prevent pregnancy that they wiped out also.

@mwj5368 Ай бұрын

Wow great writing the script and also the spot on film editing so well synchronized with your narrative. You should get some kind of award for this! Thank you for such a fine documentary! I never had such a lucid view of what the native North Americans faced in their era. I also never knew 500 people die a year from large cats!

@snr.froggymooopew7781 Ай бұрын

Your vids rock man! As a life-long learner and zoology and archeology buff, I love starting my day with your vids. Rock on brother 🤘🏻

@alvargas5095 26 күн бұрын

Man I love this video. It takes me back to my childhood when I was fascinated by nature and wildlife. I bought every issue of Funk & Wagnells wildlife encyclopedia and the Time/Life series. I wish you would've covered the Passenger Pigeon. The Passenger Pigeon is considered to have been the single most numerous species of bird in North America with flocks numbering in the billions. It is recorded that when they passed over on their annual migration from the northern forest to the south a clear cloudless day would turn to night dark for hours as the innumerable flock would fly overhead raining down guano like a heavy rainstorm. Sadly, its downfall as a species began upon the arrival of European settlers and it went into extinction only 27 years after its scientific classification. If you want to know more about the Passenger Pigeon highly recommend Allen W. Eckert's "The Silent Sky".

@skechers28227 Ай бұрын

I just started the video, so i dont know if it features, but the very concept of a giant sloth breaks my brain. Utterly terrifying. I imagine it like some lovecraftian fiction and not like a thing that existed. Lol

@Kolbjornelenano 29 күн бұрын

15:34 a few years ago during the construction of the new Mexico City airport, near to was once lake Texcoco, the bones of 480 mammoths were discovered, including 70 full skeletons, many of them with marks of being hunted by humans. Archaeologist also found bones of saberthots, gliptodons, camels, horses and humans.

@wuh-huw9950 Күн бұрын

Holy shit saber thots

@adambermingham737 Ай бұрын

Man this has to be one of my favourite channels on YT. I could literally watch paleo-art on repeat all day.

@NLEcoppa1 Ай бұрын

Been waiting so long for this ❤

@ZomBeeNature Ай бұрын

I wish Glyptodonts were still around.

@DarkKnight_prodzz Ай бұрын

Honestly, they’d probably be hella chill

@DarkKnight_prodzz Ай бұрын

unless some idiot f’ed with one

@luisa.acevedo3326 Ай бұрын

They got killed to build housing. 😒

@sqrt2295 Ай бұрын

Glyptodonts alongside terror birds and sebecids are some of the few Cenozoic animals that I'd really love to see alive today, they're all so alien when compared to most modern land vertebrates.

@user-rs8ky8hv6s 3 күн бұрын

You can thank the ancient people for that.

@Trad_chad1122 Ай бұрын

Suggestion for a next similar video: "Extinct Animals The Ancient Norse Pagan's Saw."

@user-ot5ty9mf1z 7 күн бұрын

You mean seen? Not saw

@kellypowell6317 5 күн бұрын

Or Mongols saw

@OrigenTheThird Ай бұрын

Love your channel! Keep up the great work

@derickcastillo9083 Ай бұрын

GREAT VIDEO! Your channel feeds my addiction to learning so well. Thank you!

@kerianhalcyon2769 Ай бұрын

Not surprising at all that camelops would have been largely avoided as a food item. Camels today are usually not liked as a food item - their meat's allegedly really tough and tastes bad. The main reason why they're used as a domestic animal has more to do with their survivability and use as a pack animal than for food.

@5riversdeep628 Ай бұрын

True. I never heard of anyone wanting to grill up some camel steaks, but I have heard that camel milk is considered a health food.

@kerianhalcyon2769 Ай бұрын

@@5riversdeep628 I wouldn't know myself, but from what little I do know of what we consider "health food" it probably wouldn't taste very good.

@marlonmoncrieffe0728 Ай бұрын

But why didn't the indigenous people domesticate them as beasts-of-burden?

@kerianhalcyon2769 Ай бұрын

@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 Likely something they didn't figure out about doing yet, not to mention it would have required certain tools and an excess of food. Part of what made animal husbandry possible was basic agriculture and the ability to store food that wasn't needed to feed people/their families. It's usually assumed that up until after the passing of the ice age the prehistoric Native Americans were largely hunter-gatherers. By then most of the big megafauna would have died out, including the stuff we normally associate with animal domestication like camels and horses.

@melanimatejak6821 14 күн бұрын

Um no, camels have quite good meat, and are eaten with appetite in their native range.

@CollinDavis-jd1qr Ай бұрын

My hat goes off to the Native Americans tribes who had encountered the Short-faced bear 🐻 😵‍💫😵‍💫

@gang-ridertv5433 Ай бұрын

13:10 "Glad you are around to tell us these things. Chewie take the professor out back and plug him into the ships computer"--Captain Han Solo

@YsabetJustYsabet 28 күн бұрын

Excellent video! I particularly love the size comparisons, those always help (and yeah, I saw 'Justin Bieber' on the beaver chart!) I've been to one of the mammoth-kill sites, the Murray Springs Clovis archaeological site in Sierra Vista AZ-- it's between my home and Tombstone, so I and a couple of friends went on one of the Friends of the San Pedro guided walks and got to listen to a local archaeologist explain the whole thing, show us the black mat and soforth. Pretty impressive, and all that area is open range with the rare small house-- you can look out there from my friends' home in Sierra Vista AZ and just imagine mammoths meandering across the landscape. We were allowed to examine some actual Clovis points, too, and one replica of a bone shaft-straightener from the period of the kill site; I do a little knapping myself, and those points were *amazingly* made-- way past my skill level.

@weshard1 Ай бұрын

13:48 “Suffered from island dwarfism" makes it sound like it had a disability, when in truth, it was an adaptation that enabled it to survive and thrive in its insular environment.

@alvargas5095 26 күн бұрын

Good point Then he should've said, it benefitted from island dwarfism

@wickedprophet2375 Ай бұрын

I just spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to pronounce parapropalaeheplophorus! Bruh who named this!!? 🤯 😂

@jordanguiboche7986 Ай бұрын

Thank you for making this! The more I learn about my ancestors, the more I find that they were badasses and surely among the wisest on the planet 🙌

@Fearlesslyobedient 4 күн бұрын

My mom is Cherokee! Most of the time I'm just like my Scottish dad....but when life is difficult or I face opposition that's when I realize there's a strength in me that comes from the things she's taught me through the years. Thanks for posting this video. We're not forgotten and our history is not forgotten. ❤

@fossilsfromray Ай бұрын

I dive in a lot of rivers and beavers are a true fear of mine. They are very territorial and if the giant one still existed, I don’t think I would go into any slow moving body of freshwater

@Jay-jb2vr Ай бұрын

*This channel is SO COOL!!*

@louieo.blevinsmusic4197 Ай бұрын

20:50 the goose has never and will never be afraid of anything.

@TimeToGetSchwifty Ай бұрын

Love your vids dude, keep it up

@kevinpoe8137 Ай бұрын

Pt 2 should definitely include the American lion and the American cheetah

@user-wg4tk8xz2j Ай бұрын

Can't forget the American rhinocheraus

@dannyhernandez265 Ай бұрын

How I wish I can see these creatures for just one day.

@JauntyCrepe Ай бұрын

I live for videos like this. Thank you!

@chrisd7733 Ай бұрын

Great video! I really liked the casteroides segment. You might be interested to know that a paracamelus tibia was found in Ellesmere Island in the high arctic of Canada - suggesting they had a wider range. There's an article in The Conversation about it from March fifth 2013 online with a link to the study.

@WK_MERCURY Ай бұрын

A jaguar has a weak chomp? Excuse you?

@amicableenmity9820 Ай бұрын

This guy has a lot very wrong

@alvargas5095 26 күн бұрын

You caught that too. Ha!

@billybimbo985 Ай бұрын

Makes me wish there was a show or movie based around this time

@nigel900 Ай бұрын

It would be thoroughly bastardized with copious amounts of Political Correctness… Wokeism and CGI. It’s what Gen-Z demands these days…

@meowmachine9147 Ай бұрын

I'd watch that

@benmcreynolds8581 Ай бұрын

I really hope we start seeing a bunch of things that cover the Pleistocene era. It's fascinating to learn what things lived during that era. The biodiversity was insane then

@JasonBellows Ай бұрын

Awesome Video! Hope you can do a video on Extinct Animals of Ancient Greece! 😎👍🎬💯

@paulofearghail9408 Ай бұрын

Very well-done video. I especially appreciate the real human narration instead of the annoying machine narration that so many channels use now. Good job!

@pinchevulpes Ай бұрын

Eastern and western coast woodland natives have different names for Bigfoot. These tribes have to our knowledge never shared contact prior to European arrival

@ckkjgc Ай бұрын

Different European groups had different names for trolls and fairies. Doesn't make them any more real.

@pinchevulpes Ай бұрын

@@ckkjgc I’m not talking trolls and fairies. Weird strawman argument. Lil weirdo

@pinchevulpes Ай бұрын

@@ckkjgc where did I say it was real? I just said certain figures bear striking similarities in cultures. Even those creatures you speak of were shared across Europe, trolls and such. I’m saying these people had zero contact with each other, and basically describe the same thing. Not every thing has to be Eurocentric buddy

@missesmew Ай бұрын

Sabe(sawbay) is the name us Ojibwa gave the Sasquatch. Way before colonial contact.

@andrewleonard3514 Ай бұрын

I wanted to comment here that your thumbnail for this video was awesome, not clickbaity, and gave the info of what animals you'd be covering. For this reason alone I'm subbing and watching your vids lol.

@carjack5356 Ай бұрын

Keep these videos up man

@GlebNerzhin Ай бұрын

Where did the natives get the buffalo-taking-down horses from?

@HungryCats70 Ай бұрын

Horses that escaped from European explorers, I believe. The horses native to North America had gone extinct some thousands of years earlier.

@Ispeakthetruthify Ай бұрын

The Spanish brought horses to the Americas when they first arrived. Those horse became feral, and spread throughout the Americas. But that was roughly 500 years ago. The original horses of the Americas had been extinct thousands of years before European contact.

@eros5420 25 күн бұрын

I saw a giant beaver once. It was big and hairy. Looked unkempt. Smelled of fish. After getting wet, it tried to munch on my wood but a beaver that size has probably destroyed a lot of wood before so I used protection and from my wood, i got it off.

@A_Rainworld_Fan. 2 күн бұрын

Huh?? There exctinct.

@eros5420 2 күн бұрын

@A_Rainworld_Fan. Actually they're more common than you think. Just gotta know where to look. Even know a woman who did OF in college but is a game warden now. She took me out in the woods at a local reserve and showed me a massive beaver. I couldn't believe how big it was!

@john-ic5pz Ай бұрын

kudos to whoever named Smilodon, considering the big toothy grin it must've had 😁

@AlwaysDreaming Ай бұрын

Great video! Quite lucky to not have been born in prehistoric America 😅 kudos to my ancestors for going through it for me to be here today.

@isla3263 Ай бұрын

ice age theme intensifies

@user-rs8ky8hv6s 3 күн бұрын

Or Walking with Prehistoric Beasts! 😄

@dispatcher22z20 Ай бұрын

11:21 that is a map of the countrys the bear inhabiited not its range this is labeled incorrectly how did you expect us to believe that it lived in Alaska and Hawaii but not Canada

@IngeniousOutdoors Ай бұрын

The fuck is your problem.

@mnmul1 Ай бұрын

love the vids bro

@alvargas5095 26 күн бұрын

Man I love this video. It takes me back to my childhood when I was fascinated by nature and wildlife. I bought every issue of Funk & Wagnells wildlife encyclopedia and the Time/Life series. I wish you would've covered the Passenger Pigeon. The Passenger Pigeon is considered to have been the single most numerous species of bird in North America flocks numbering in the billions. It is recorded that when they passed over on their annual migration from the northern forest to the south a clear cloudless sunny day would turn to night for hours as the innumerable flock would fly overhead raining down guano like a heavy rainstorm. Sadly, its downfall as a species began upon the arrival of European settlers and it went into extinction only 27 years of its scientific classification. If you want to know more about the Passenger Pigeon highly recommend Allen W. Eckert's "The Silent Sky".

@CowboyPrestige101 Ай бұрын

I have something in common with these ancient natives. I was born in the late 1900s (1992) and I have seen the homo sapiens with common sense go extinct. All jokes aside the thought of a Kodiak bear sized big cat with swords for teeth leaping 12 feet in the air. Gives me anxiety.

@HassanMohamed-rm1cb Ай бұрын

@stephenbahrmarbles Ай бұрын

Awesome video! Thank you for sharing. One serious question though, from one content creator to another…How do use all of these video clips and imagery without getting a copyright strike?

@srose1088 Ай бұрын

I think we had a wooly mammoth skeleton at my college that was found nearby. I remember it reached the second floor of the building. Pretty neat.

@intricacy9490 Ай бұрын

For some reason I was distracted when the giraffe lifted the kid

@exalt2674 Ай бұрын

11:21 what, were they allergic to Canada?

@S0m35uy 29 күн бұрын

It’s amazing that no giant mammals ever lived north of the modern border with Canada except the few that magically existed within the confines of Alaska and only therein.

@tableslam Ай бұрын

my dumb dyslexic ass saw Tremarctinae on the screen and i was like "holy shit Mark Tremonti from Creed has a bear clade named after him"

@HAB-BITUAL Ай бұрын

i am a glyptotherium.. yes, we're still here 🙄

@john-ic5pz Ай бұрын

the ridges on the beaver's teeth would technically make a higher pressure on the wood, making the cutting more efficient... penetrating the top layer(s) of wood easier at least, the edge then peels the wood along the grain and incises the far end of the piece it's biting off? ahh logic....coming to (possibly) the wrong conclusion, but with confidence!! 🤭

@DonkeyYote Ай бұрын

Pygmy Mammoth is one of my favorite oxymorons. I also wish that you covered ground sloths because they are so different from their current relatives.

@magneticbears Ай бұрын

Smilodon is the BEST

@ObsidianNomad Ай бұрын

Shoutout to Opera. Been using it for over 15 years. I enjoyed the video and just subbed.

@ProEcsin 28 күн бұрын

Absolutely amazing If only we could go back in time to see this

@The_Darke_Lorde 9 күн бұрын

Glyptotherium: Looks like Ankylosaurus My ass: That is a Turtle, Your Honor

@EastBayFlipper Ай бұрын

Bring back the giant beaver 🦫 😂

@sapphonymph8204 Ай бұрын

Just visit downtown Chicago late at night. Vu

@louishaddon4351 29 күн бұрын

@@sapphonymph8204just stay strapped,and wrapped

@sapphonymph8204 29 күн бұрын

@@louishaddon4351 always

@anthonyridgewood2509 Ай бұрын

That map at 10:11 has an odd northern border at the top of Smilodon fatalis’s range. Is Canada not reporting or something?

@jessehughes8274 Ай бұрын

I just saw that, hahaha. I guess smilodon just didn't like the smell of maple syrup or smth, smh

@Buster_Piles Ай бұрын

Imagine being savaged to death by a ferocious giant beaver. Gives me the shudders.

@piousminion7822 Ай бұрын

Opera is just Chrome with some patches, but that techno-mammoth looks cool AF. lol

@kittydranae1762 Ай бұрын

I’m sorry but why is peoples information about the land bridge never updated, we did not come across the land bridge, the New Mexican footprints proved that already. We did not arrive here 30 thousand years ago in fact it’s seemingly much farther back than that.

@maxwellgarner3445 Ай бұрын

using my wicked time travel powers to create Native American cataphracts and mammoth archer units

@dillonhillier Ай бұрын

How good are you at blacksmithing? Would have to teach them that, could also introduce them the wheel and written language while you're at it 😂😂😂

@maxwellgarner3445 Ай бұрын

@@dillonhillier I read the Iroquois had wooden armor, I was thinking wicker baskets and shields

@johnrey1001 Ай бұрын

@@dillonhilliernatives had black smithing and the wheel. Both of which just weren’t used as much because they weren’t needed. And meso-natives had writing systems before colonization.

@geechyguy3441 Ай бұрын

@@johnrey1001 I know atleast the Inca didn't have the wheel or Aztecs I believe, cause they were lugging stones to build their cities on the backs of their men. If they didn't have it I doubt the natives in North America would have it

@johnrey1001 Ай бұрын

@@geechyguy3441 no they did. They’ve been found on many toys. You can google them. Wheels just weren’t used as much .

@calebchristensen900 Ай бұрын

A jaguar is bite is actually very strong. It can get through a Caymans hide as well as punch through tortoise shell. For pound it’s actually the strongest bite of any big cat alive currently

@missesmew Ай бұрын

Seen a couple dead humans in Brazil on bestgore bitten straight through the skull. Like a hydraulic machine had done it. Amazingly strong