The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

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The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place in our world.
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@romanmeneghinister1584 5 жыл бұрын

Woah, as a kid I saw one just sitting on this old shack on our yard not 200 yards away, it was pretty freaky because it was massive, didn't realize it was so endangered

@itrthho 5 жыл бұрын

Their were a few Condors in Saugus, California. Seen a couple when traveling through Soledad Canyon a few times...

@elbethelsabbathdaychurch1336 5 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing one flying in the sky when I was a little kid... Sister Sue

@MrGksarathy 5 жыл бұрын

You saw one? Sweet.

@pandahsykes602 5 жыл бұрын

Roman Meneghinister i hear people used to mislabel these condors as the mythical Thunderbird

@niftycritter1870 5 жыл бұрын

Birds are cool

@longtail4711 5 жыл бұрын

I remember as a little girl growing up during the 80's following the conservation efforts of the California condor and bald eagles after the DDT crisis. They had only 24 condors left in existence then. A few years ago I visited the Grand Canyon and got to see three California condors flying wild. It was a breathtaking moment. All the people who worked so hard to care for the last living population have my deepest gratitude. They are incredible, and the world would be a darker, sadder place without them.

@zarago4614 4 жыл бұрын

not really

@oscargonzalez5710 4 жыл бұрын

longtail4711 not sure if there condors where I live but there is a whole lot of them here and they look like condors

@franchufranchu119 4 жыл бұрын

I've seen Andean condors

@Rams495 4 жыл бұрын

To show how little the creators of this video know, they didn't even mention ddt. They blamed it on condors being from a bygone era. All the animals alive lived through that era. It's not like they've evolved in the last 10kyrs. What surprised me they didn't blame humans when they were the cause but they did blame humans for the mega fauna which is ridiculous.

@acehighjohn1759 4 жыл бұрын

I also remember this, it was back when WWE was stil called WWF and Jake the Snake Roberts was having a big run then was suddenly written out with an 'injury'. Little did we know then what he was really doing was travelling the USA hunting Condor's to put his finisher on them. If he got their numbers down to 24 i can see why this is a DDT crisis....I never liked him tbh

@thatcherrycat1198 5 жыл бұрын

My aunt was actually one of the people re-introducing condors to the Grand Canyon so love this video

@lisah9992 5 жыл бұрын

The gaming cherry Cat nice, my uncle used to poach them

@chrisjensen8369 4 жыл бұрын

Jason - Humans were the reason the California Condor almost went extinct. Prior to the 19th century they were doing fine. During the 19th & 20th centuries some ranchers killed them. They assumed that because they found them scavenging a dead ranch animal (cow, sheep, horse) that this very large bird did the killing. They didn't know that the Condor was an obligate carrion eater. However, most died due to lead poisoning. Mid 20th century research showed that dead birds that were collected had extremely high lead levels in their blood. As much as 10 times the level humans can tolerate. Further research showed that they ate the gut piles that hunters left in the wilds after field dressing their kill (deer, elk, moose, & other large game animals). Even further research (late 20th & early 21st centuries) showed that the bullets, even modern copper jacketed ones, fragmented into hundreds of small pieces when a game animal was shot and much of the fragmentation stayed in the middle of the carcass (the stuff that made up these large gut piles). So, it turns out that modern man (19th & 20th centuries) was the proximate cause of the California Condor's final approach to extinction. The Peregrine Fund is a major partner in the research into the Condor. They're also the organization that does the Grand Canyon releases at Vermollion Cliffs.

@icanhasyellow 4 жыл бұрын

I thought you were gonna write that your aunt was a Condor xD

@loganmoon380 4 жыл бұрын

Lisa don't you realize that poaching is illegal and you just exposed your uncle lol

@mainaccount3087 4 жыл бұрын

@@loganmoon380 Maybe that was her plan all along

@yoshyxl1822 5 жыл бұрын

This condor surviving since the pleistocene impresses me more than the horseshoecrab surviving for like 240 million years.

@Yumemaru. 4 жыл бұрын

@@guyontheinternet8891 nO, rEaLlY!? 😯😮😲

@dasher3532 4 жыл бұрын

@@guyontheinternet8891 My goodness, *what an idea!*

@tactic34wot52 4 жыл бұрын

@@guyontheinternet8891 great Scott we must tell the scientific community!

@riograndedosulball248 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, technically, the changes (in scale) that Condors saw in their habitat are far grater than the horseshoecrabs witnessed

@MDCxThePG 4 жыл бұрын

@@guyontheinternet8891 They mean as a species, genius. Not that an individual crab lived for 240 million years.

@julianadams3710 5 жыл бұрын

This video was great just for introducing me to the short necked turbo giraffe, that thing is amazing

@michaelhutchings1307 4 жыл бұрын

short necked turbo giraffe, LOL

@sendmorerum8241 4 жыл бұрын

I would like to see if an African cheetah could catch it.

@Rams495 4 жыл бұрын

I bet a modern cheetah wouldn't catch these prong horn or if they did wouldn't be able to kill it. They are faster than a gazelle and much larger. I've heard that the ancient cheetah was a bit bigger and probably a little faster than the African cheetah of today. It would be interesting to see them together. Though the prong horn are so nervous from their past predation its be hard for all but the best hunters to get near one.

@AriDelgato 4 жыл бұрын

As someone who's lived alongside Pronhorn for over a decade (and only just learned they're related to giraffes) I laughed so hard at this that I cried

@edweefication 3 жыл бұрын

Pronghorn eating peacefully A big cheetah appears Pronghorn: *SCREEECH*

@TheRocknrolla12 5 жыл бұрын

Godbless the people who have helped in this massive effort to save this majestic birds for the future generations

@agimasoschandir 5 жыл бұрын

That totally does not make sense, unless... Which branch of Christianity are you pronouncing the blessings from?

@transakira 4 жыл бұрын

Why make it about US tho'?

@11Survivor 3 жыл бұрын

@@SimonWoodburyForget I mean the california condor is the only species of condor in the US. There are about another 4 species in south america.

@isanazario9616 5 жыл бұрын

a video discussing why so many deadly (venemous/poisonous) organisms evolved in Australia could be quite interesting

@ijustpulledthetrigger5482 4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@the_kraken6549 3 жыл бұрын

As long as they promise no pictures of spiders.

@AlamoOriginal 3 жыл бұрын

@@the_kraken6549 oh they will, certainly they will, Australia is not complete without spiders

@sarban1653 3 жыл бұрын

How is Australia uniquely venomous compared to the rest of the world? It's not like snakes and spiders are a specifically Australian thing.

@SeaIify 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlamoOriginal Maybe the "s" in Australia stands for snakes and spiders, huehue

@foolwise4703 5 жыл бұрын

Its really refreshing to hear that, just once in a while, we humans also saved a species :-)

@seokjinkim8964 5 жыл бұрын

that we threatened to destroy in the first place lmao. I do think though that every species will have their time, with or without human intervention, including us. Byeee xD

@frodobaggins6684 5 жыл бұрын

@@seokjinkim8964 what? Your comment made no sense. They are endangered because a lack of large food. Not because we're killing them.

@keeponliving3585 4 жыл бұрын

@@frodobaggins6684 Lack of food and poisoning from corpses that we killed, and sometimes we killed them directly since you know, they're scavengers.

@frodobaggins6684 4 жыл бұрын

@@keeponliving3585 poison??? Never heard that one before.

@keeponliving3585 4 жыл бұрын

@@frodobaggins6684 Did you watch the video? it explains that.

@ivanclark2275 5 жыл бұрын

You should do a video about the evolution of stomachs, and how multi-chambered stomachs work.

@lawrencemorris2261 5 жыл бұрын

Yase

@ShapeDoppelganger 5 жыл бұрын

More than that I'd like to know the evolution of the human liver. We can digest almost anything. So incredible, much enzyme.

@avii_9371 5 жыл бұрын

Ruminant stomachs are used for digestion of hard forage like grass and hay. Cows for exaple would eat the grass and it would go into the ruman ( first chamber) to be broken down by the accumulation of bacteria. After this the grass it thrown up back into the cows mouth and is called "cud". Once chewed again it is swallowed and goes through the ruman again, then the abomasum, the omasum and the reticulum each time getting broken down more and more until it reaches the intestines.

@Ahmed-qg7rp 5 жыл бұрын

@Nazzy Gaming nah it would be fascinating learning about how bees make honey with their nectar stomach and normal stomach

@yungtraps9417 5 жыл бұрын

laser325 same

@IceSpoon 5 жыл бұрын

The Andean Condor is the national bird in many southamerican countries, and it's a symbol of respect down here. I had no idea that the northern counterpart almost got extinct. Super interesting video! Wish you could make one about giant southern birds. I'm sure that Argentavis, Pelagornis and our own Andean Condor won't be boring :)

@fragolegirl2002 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah plus condor is a quechua word.

@kevinvolk968 5 жыл бұрын

yeah, and they were almost all killed by Johnny Cash. look it up.

@ztlabraptor211 5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Volk nah that’s proven false with any basic research on condor behaviour

@roantombado2088 5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a vulture 😂🤣🤣

@laurelcook9078 5 жыл бұрын

Icespoon yeah I know the San Diego zoo is working very hard to revive the birds. They have brought the population up from a couple (as in like 7) to over 2000 in the wild in the past years.

@talonflame_brawlstars.7208 2 жыл бұрын

Such an interesting and aww inspiring topic. The sentence “evolved for an ecosystem that no longer exists” is just so thought provoking, it makes you feel a sense of empathy because of that.

@AL-fl4jk 2 жыл бұрын

We owe a lot to scavengers too, our early civilizations might not have survived bc of disease before we developed the concept of waste management

@DonSoledadGroup 4 жыл бұрын

These California condors accompanied me in the skies during my many long mountain biking excursions in San Jose California during my childhood. Glad there on the up!

@gls600 4 жыл бұрын

They were waiting for you to die.

@DonSoledadGroup 4 жыл бұрын

gls600 ain’t that the truth

@morganstarchild5359 3 жыл бұрын

My first thought lol smh 🤣

@janettedugenia3651 3 жыл бұрын

@sabrinarosario6499 3 жыл бұрын

When I die, just throw me over a cliff and let the condors eat my decaying body. What do I need it for?

@AdanAndNicki 5 жыл бұрын

When i was young, i saw one fly past my door and i was so traumatized because it was so big and i kept telling my family members til this day that i saw a monster bird and no one believes me 🤷‍♀️

@KitchenerLeslie2 4 жыл бұрын

Jon Bjornssen this didn’t age well. Corona got him.

@AdanAndNicki 4 жыл бұрын

Dr. Remulack who

@rainbowosprey1619 4 жыл бұрын

Emerald On The Moon probably Jon.

@dino_nuggett4079 5 жыл бұрын

I think avocados might be an anachronism too, simply because of its huge seed

@Siddhartha040107 5 жыл бұрын

if someone or something could poop out that big seed today, then it might not be. lol

@novaraptorus6250 5 жыл бұрын

@@Siddhartha040107 It used to be giant GROUND SLOTHS

@michaeljordan4457 5 жыл бұрын

Well the seed in natural avocados isn't as big but it is big. Giant sloths used to munch on them

@MostlyPennyCat 5 жыл бұрын

Avocados are genetically engineered by us over the last 10,000 odd years. Their evolution was tailored.

@SenhoritaF. 5 жыл бұрын

Avocados were saved from extinction by humans! When the megafauna went extinct, shortly after, before the avocado plants went extinct too, indigenous peoples domesticated it. The name itself comes from the Aztec for testicle (lol). SciShow has a great episode on this called "Why Avocados Shouldn't Exist ".

@petekinne2702 2 жыл бұрын

I was very pleased and awed to see a Ca. Condor 3 days ago here in Sylmar CA. I live next to Angeles National forest, and leaving my house, the sound of my door closing must have startled it. Across the street I saw it rise and take flight. I'm used to seeing our local ravens and red tailed hawks. The condor was more than twice the size of any of these, and as it circled to gain altitude I was treated to the sight of the color pattern on the underside of it's wings - exactly like the image shown at the beginning of your video. Later that day I learned there are only about 500 in existence currently. I won't forget that sight ever.

@Mortthemoose 13 күн бұрын

I bet!

@kenweller2032 5 жыл бұрын

The condor's cousin, the turkey vulture, really took off when the interstate highway system was established. They followed the roadkill and now they are well established here in New England, as well as upstate NY. They never used to get this far north, but I saw a few as early as late February this year. It would be great if there were a manmade niche for the condors as well, like the vultures around here and the falcons of NYC.

@hollyodii5969 5 жыл бұрын

Not one! Never a lame episode of Eons! Best channel on KZfaq!

@michaelmeining889 5 жыл бұрын

Could you plz make a video on thylacoleos and the the Australian megafauna in general

@that_pizza_drive6687 5 жыл бұрын

Ya YEEEE

@maggiehydeck8182 5 жыл бұрын

They are super interesting, cause they’re all marsupials.

@internetduck1520 5 жыл бұрын

QUINKANAAA

@Fede_99 5 жыл бұрын

@@maggiehydeck8182 quinkana, megalania and wanobi were giant reptiles and there were big birds

@Newbmann 5 жыл бұрын

@@Fede_99 DEMON DUCKS FOR LIFE OR Death since there dead DEMON DUCKS CAUSED THERE OWN DOOM

@djoseph2475 4 жыл бұрын

I saw a california condor while rafting the grand canyon. Theyre massive, it was surreal.

@willgraham8878 Жыл бұрын

Thank you to all who were actively involved with helping to raise this chick to adulthood and the final release!!!! This must be tremendously rewarding. So many obstacles also to get over along the way. I have yet to see one of these birds in the wild but it is a dream of mine to make that a reality!!

@OlOleander 5 жыл бұрын

Eons uploads are perhaps my very favorite thing these days. Another great episode!

@mathewanograh2653 5 жыл бұрын

why ?

@porosus8182 5 жыл бұрын

The relatively recently extinct Haast's Eagle last took to the skies only a few hundred years ago in New Zealand but would have snacked on a California Condor had they met! These badass eagles had an average wingspan just a little larger than the condor but were quite a bit heavier (approx 15kgs instead of 8-10kgs) and where condors are scavengers, Haast's Eagles were apex predators. Perhaps the craziest fact about the Haast's Eagle is that their staple diet (which they hunted remember!) was the 200kg Giant Moa - a flightless bird more than twice the weight of the largest ostriches. Haast's Eagles would attack from height, striking the Moa with the same force as a bag of concrete dropped from a three storey building. And of course, humans would have also been easy pickings for such a predator and I imagine the Maori were pretty happy to see the last of them. Rumours that Haast's Eagles still hunted in New Zealand's more remote areas until about 200 years ago are unverified, with most scientists believing they disappeared about 500 years ago.

@unkownuser3851 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah the haast eagle is pretty badass

@leanmeatponce 4 жыл бұрын

COEXTINCTION with the moa tho. That was the sad part

@redbaron5308 3 жыл бұрын

You seem to want to take away from California Condor than actually appreciate the two birds.

@secredeath 3 жыл бұрын

Just few hundred years ago that haas eagle would run into the argentavis magnificens in north america and would of gotten smashed. Kiwi bird send home packing

@aqvamarek5316 3 жыл бұрын

The eagle is counted a man hunter bird, and it is relative sure, that the eagle got hunted to extintion by the real "apex" predator of this planet. Never hunt a prey, which can systematically destroy your nest.

@phowns 3 жыл бұрын

"yo dude is that an argentavis?" "Oh sh*t that is an argentavis lets go tame it." "Alrite i'll make some kibble."

@liquidfire21 3 жыл бұрын

When its knocked out, taming effectiveness:100% Dilo: *Ima end this mans whole career*

@justchris814 3 жыл бұрын

I can give you some superior kibble, that one looks weak though.

@magpie3908 3 жыл бұрын

*ark theme plays*

@graxmccoar8678 2 жыл бұрын

Send me a Teratorn chick and I'll show you all how to domesticate Very Large Birds.

@flo6051 4 жыл бұрын

Condors are one of our national animals here in Chile💕 Not the prettiest but they're really cool!

@ReiTheRabbit 5 жыл бұрын

*GASP* finally a mention of the American Cheetah ! 💖💖💖 love you guys

@farticlesofconflatulation 5 жыл бұрын

R E Iウサギ evolved to hunt the pronghorn antelope

@nevermindoff-27 5 жыл бұрын

Your channel and your work are outrageously underrated!

@bryant8307 5 жыл бұрын

this is on trending bro

@FirstNameLastName-gq4tb 5 жыл бұрын

Nevermindoff they’re growing at a considerable pace now

@munkey3961 3 жыл бұрын

0:11 AMONG US!?!!?

@Aurora-oe2qp 2 жыл бұрын

I love how whenever they say any of the words "among us", "imposter", or "sus(s)" there's always these comments

@sgt.roachsanderson9639 Жыл бұрын

AMOGUS

@leona.x1 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite host😭 the videos are just better when blake’s here💕

@eons 5 жыл бұрын

Aw hey thanks! (BdeP)

@Len124 5 жыл бұрын

"Cycle nutrients back into the ecosystem." Translation: poop

@taahasiddiqui1071 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah no one needed that.

@mayday6916 4 жыл бұрын

Or manure.

@AsuraRaver 4 жыл бұрын

When you need your English paper to sound like you actually payed attention

@sabastian2814 3 жыл бұрын

road kill.

@ltpa152 5 жыл бұрын

4:48 Killed me. 😂😂😂 “Way faster than it needs to be.”

@MsSonali1980 5 жыл бұрын

When you not honoured for your talent :(

@dylankrogers 5 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear that these amazing birds are still around. I remember learing about them in grade school in the mid 80s and there were barely a couple dozen left.

@icedragonair 3 жыл бұрын

Such an amazing story. Such an old species, a living piece of ancient history that was almost lost. Thank god for the people who worked tirelessly to preserve them. I watched a documentary once on the monarch butterfly migration abd how its disappearing. The narrator ended with saying "what do we lose if we lose the great monarch butterfly migration? Its like asking what do we lose if we lose the mona lisa?" There will be no great catastrophe if the condors disappear, yet at the the same time, we will have lost something priceless, which has defied the odds to survive. And we will never get it back. They are the closest thing we have to being able to litteraly see back in time.

@trevorslovick3313 5 жыл бұрын

I love your guys' videos on birds. Please keep making content forever!

@WhyDidntIInventYT 5 жыл бұрын

this confirms what I've thought for awhile: ecology has been unbalanced since the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, as megafauna are needed for a healthy ecosystem. this is also why the Mammoth Steppe disappeared, to be replaced by tundra, although there are current efforts to restore it. in fact, I think the mammoth steppe would make a great topic for a video.

@abdullahsaur 5 жыл бұрын

Pleistocene park ftw! Wonder if they'll ever decide to release these condors there when Mammoths are introduced?

@thebermudaI 5 жыл бұрын

I recommend the book The Sixth Extinction, which talks about unbalanced ecological systems of the distant past. Really interesting

@abdullahsaur 5 жыл бұрын

@@thebermudaI Sounds interesting, I'll check it out. Thanks man!

@guyontheinternet8891 4 жыл бұрын

@@abdullahsaur well they got mammoth dna and they wanted to try to make a mammoth/elephant hybrid so mammoths may one day be back again...

@davidschwartz8125 4 жыл бұрын

Well that or the system needs to permitted "space" to evolve new lifeforms that will fill those niches.

@sirbattlecat 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastically informative. Makes me happy I support you guys on Patreon (I was not paid to write this).

@AirIUnderwater 5 жыл бұрын

I came here for knowledge, but got feels instead. :(

@socioisbackapparently661 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Spike_The_Beach_Buddy 2 жыл бұрын

Don't be so gloomy about this video!!!!!!!

@CarlosSanchez-en6mr 5 жыл бұрын

Was waiting on another Eons video I wasn’t disappointed Keep up the awesome work 👍

@oddish2253 5 жыл бұрын

That time when you brought a wrong build to a mission.

@Dafins100 5 жыл бұрын

What a cool tie between the present and past! Please do more like this!!!!

@sheriffbutterball7824 5 жыл бұрын

The California condor is one of my fav birds and I’m really happy you did a video on them :)

@scriptorpaulina 5 жыл бұрын

I recognize those diorama paintings! That’s from the fossil collection on Kansas University’s campus in Lawrence- one of my favorite museums ever!

@dekutree64 5 жыл бұрын

Yes! I love that place. And so cool that most of it is unchanged since I first saw it around 30 years ago.

@jamesbednar8625 5 жыл бұрын

LOL!!!! I have been there as well!! I live about 80 miles west of there in Kansas.

@PlainsPup 5 жыл бұрын

This is really excellent, and one of my new favorite Eons. Great job covering some of the major topics of Pleistocene-Holocene biology. Please do one on Pleistocene rewilding, too. In the meantime, thank you!

@WorldReserveCurrency 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent! I remember the plight of the California Condors as a kid... I remember they even made a cartoon about it that played in the evening. It was a huge deal on media.

@Sedithke 5 жыл бұрын

This one is among the most interesting episodes of the series! Thank you!

@chethankrishnan6639 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, that was excellent. Informative and inspiring.

@eelkev.8547 5 жыл бұрын

Extremely interesting! And love the reference to pronghorn! Saw many when I lived in Wyoming! Greetings from the Netherlands!

@MrSexyRac00n 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, one of my favorite videos this channel has ever produced and that’s really saying something. I learned a lot

@humblesoldier5474 5 жыл бұрын

I got so happy, and then very sad with bitter sweet happiness over these Condors. The music for this video just fit the story so well.

@mistyminnie5922 5 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting, I've never heard of this concept. I'd love to hear more about these kind of animals.

@alexwhalley7481 5 жыл бұрын

So early and ready for this video. 🤩

@bosarama 5 жыл бұрын

Magnificent as always. thank you for making my sundays more interesting!

@chrisioannidis2295 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic channel. I work as a programmer and sometimes, behind the screen of the computer, I lose sight of how magnificent the world is. Thank you for reminding us in such a great way.

@Danfish42 5 жыл бұрын

Paul Collins! I know him!! He helped me with my college paper about the Channel Island foxes! (Also where those pygmy mammoths are from featured in a previous video). The California Condor is also the mascot of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History where Paul Collins works (along with many other scientists...including my father!).

@steakslapn9724 5 жыл бұрын

This channel is such high quality. Surprising your subs aren't way higher.

@casienwhey 3 жыл бұрын

This was nicely done. Great overview of condors and how they survived. It's a good thing we had people who cared enough to intervene.

@ThirdEyeScribe 2 жыл бұрын

We learned about the plight of the Condors when I was in the 4th Grade back in 1993. I’ve loved them ever since. Still haven’t seen one IRL but I’m hoping to make it down to Big Sur and find one soon! Such majestic creatures.

@asiancarpczar411 5 жыл бұрын

This video was super interesting! In the future I would love to see a video on past species of birds like Argentavis and Pelagornis :)

@veggieboyultimate 3 жыл бұрын

You seem to talk about the La Brea Tar Pits a lot, maybe you can do a video about that some day. Just a suggestion.

@starvingartist7089 4 жыл бұрын

I went to the Grand Canyon this summer with my camera and caught photos of a juvenile California condor flying above and below me. It was really cool!

@b-17theflyingfortress 2 жыл бұрын

"Wherever I look I see knew avian cousins, new preys and soon I questioned...am I suppose to be alive in this era?" -The condors

@komunicanti 4 жыл бұрын

Love your videos Eons, and this one about condors was particularly fascinating given their story. If you go into the foothills (of the Andes) where I live on the eastern side of Santigo de Chile, they soon appear. One swooped so low above my head once i called almost touch its feathers. Sadly, there's not a lo of them around, and some idiots down here enjoy the 'sport' of killing birds. Also affected by food shortages, and we're in the midst of a long drought - which i imagine isn't helping them much in their natural ecosystem. You rarely see more than two or three together in central Chile at a time, but i did once enjoy the wonderful sight of a couple of dozen or more circling the skies all at the same time - but that was on a far-southern fjord while aboard Greenpeace's 'Arctic Sunrise' - an experience i'll treasure for the rest of my life. Hey, as to programme suggestions - when did humans start using clothing (well, i guess when our race stared reaching cooler climes and reaslised that the skin of that slaughtered, hairy beast was useful when slung across the shoulders)- but it would be interesting perhaps the development of that unique trait of ours. Keep well and safe all the team - cálidos saludos from South America p.s. if you ever want to delve into a fascinating and jolly read about how our continent got its name (a cartographer's mistake - it should all actually be called 'Colombia' ) do read Stefan Zweig's 'Amerigo: a comedy of errors in history' (1942).

@wyattblaine7066 5 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for this video since eons started, here in Idaho antelope run in herds and it's impressive to watch them move. I hope to see more modern pleistocene animal videos. Maybe an episode on de-extinction itself? Thanks. Long time subscriber, big time fan of the program.

@christybrandt9419 4 жыл бұрын

The Condor has always been on my bucket list... Seeing one would be the ultimate for me...

@jelmargerritsen 5 жыл бұрын

I love your videos! The presenter is awesome (as well as the team behind the videos, of course)

@Angelicspoof 5 жыл бұрын

Seeing the reintroduction of the condors into the ecosystem makes me happy and proud. I'm glad that (so far) they aren't just another species on the list of those that humans (whether intentionally or not) drove into extinction.

@worleyzack 4 жыл бұрын

They were alive for millions of years about to go instinct in our generation. So glad we saved them.

@benwinkel 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad they're still around!

@marisaveilleux8533 4 жыл бұрын

I moved to the Monterey area a few years ago and haven’t seen one yet but they’re often seen at Big Sur and Pinnacles National Park, and sometimes are Point Lobos. Can’t wait to see one!

@PhoenixOT78 5 жыл бұрын

Saw one at the grand canyon last year. Such a great site!

@zooasaurusrex 5 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a feature on the evolution of sharks as we know them. So many bizarre steps along the way, should make for a fascinating watch!

@rexlupusetxe8367 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Beautiful video thanks.

@videosbymathew 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice program and channel you have here, thank you.

@jaehwasa6850 5 жыл бұрын

Could you make a video about where hyenas come from?

@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 5 жыл бұрын

Look up Anthony pain

@Quoteory 4 жыл бұрын

When a mommy Hyena and a daddy Hyena love each other very much... you know the rest

@akiontube1 4 жыл бұрын

@@Quoteory 😂😂

@lunchwagondavis9983 4 жыл бұрын

You probably already know this, but hyenas are related to cats, along with mongooses, meerkats and aardwolves.

@sugiyantoedi5570 5 жыл бұрын

Wait.. So I Always See “prehistoric” Condors. Everyday!?!

@generalblade7504 5 жыл бұрын

Oh yea, a few creatures alive today lived during the dinosaur times and after it. Freaky when you think about it.

@guyontheinternet8891 4 жыл бұрын

@@generalblade7504 Its not really freaky cause it aint like the animal is like 100 million years old nothing lives that long.... theres a thing called breeding.... animals breed parents die then children grow up and breed they die and their children grow up and have children then they die its just the process of life....

@Yumemaru. 4 жыл бұрын

@@guyontheinternet8891 yes, we know, we mean the species.

@aarons.7646 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, this was extremely fascinating!

@MariaAdelina 3 жыл бұрын

Eons...you teach me so many beautiful things ❤️❤️❤️

@mightymasochist 5 жыл бұрын

And here I was hoping this was a video about extinct condor argentavis magnificient. The largest bird to ever fly

@ZombieBarioth 5 жыл бұрын

Pelagornis Sandersi is considered the bird with the largest wingspan, not the largest bird overall. That title still belongs to argentavis magnificent, which was nearly twice as heavy. Either was a much stronger flyer than pelagornis, or is indeed closer to the original estimate of 26ft to be pushing that much weight.

@KhanMann66 5 жыл бұрын

Largest is measured in mass, not length. Argentavis still holds that title.

@tsilgero 4 жыл бұрын

@@maxfieldkane2901 bruhhh lol

@Oxysaurus 5 жыл бұрын

I saw a Condor as pinnacles park once... I was the only one with binoculars in a group of twenty it was great

@carlholter328 5 жыл бұрын

amazing contribution. Keep it up guys!

@rickcharlespersonal 4 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the conservation message in this video.

@arachnophilegrrl 5 жыл бұрын

This is very interesting. I am in North America and I've seen a lot of Moose, Elk and both sp. of deer but I've never seen a P.H. antelope ever. I've crossed the prairies over my whole life, and they are the more elusive wildlife. California Condors aren't the only ones in trouble. Even our native and wide-spread Turkey Vultures are struggling. They are hit harder by diseases like the West Nile Virus. :(

@saltcreekammo 4 жыл бұрын

I see pronghorns all the time from the freeway in Utah.

@FunkyHonkyCDXX 5 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see an episode dedicated to the formation of the Appalachian mountains.

@TroodonJesus156 5 жыл бұрын

Another amazing video, keep up the good work guys :)

@leonguzman1647 4 жыл бұрын

Nice videos guys.. More power on pbs eons..

@nohbdy1122 5 жыл бұрын

Cool video. I never thought about how Paleontology can be applied to wildlife conservation before.

@paleontologi052 5 жыл бұрын

We need to bring back teddy Roosevelt He can solve all our problems

@gelgamath_9903 5 жыл бұрын

I always wondered why speed goats were so fast. It turns out there running from dead cheetahs. Who knew

@MsSonali1980 5 жыл бұрын

Tell that (domestic ) horses, who running from plastic bags or whatever.. because it could be deadly -_-

@user..-. 4 жыл бұрын

These condors are magnificent. They definitely fit in the era with mammoths etc.

@leongreen8088 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely! Thanks!

@micaelcarestiato 5 жыл бұрын

I have never heard of biological anachronism, very interesting! Thank you for this video =)

@andreslires 3 жыл бұрын

because there is not such a thing

@nofreewill Жыл бұрын

@@andreslires Are you sure about that?

@egotrpn 4 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing about there only being 4 condors left in California and over hunting was one of the main culprits. I saw one at the oakland zoo and it was massive!!