Place your bets here. How long do you think it will be until the next episode comes out?? (Also, sorry if I sound stuffy in the video, I was a bit under the weather) All jokes aside, just want to thank you guys for 45k subs! Trying to hit 50k before the next mass extincti- I mean, before the end of this year. Got a cool special planned out as well that I'm sure you guys will like :)

gotta admit, the idea of a perpetually dark primordial world filled with bizarre monstrous creatures sounds really really cool

I live for these icebergs. I love hearing theories about things like how dinosaurs were made up by Tyson Chicken just to sell their Dino nuggets

"that light could not break through their smog filled atmosphere" Can't wait for dolphin archeologists 13 million years from now to say this about humans

So it seems about half or more of fossil examinations goes like this - This creature had this sick ass features - Decades pass - Gets re examined out of nowhere - It actually is just a pretty mundane creature

I appreciate the fact that they named a second Dinosaur after the poor man that went insane just in case it turned out that the one he discovered turned out to already be named.

An occultist paleontologist trying to do necromancy in Boston is just the plot of a Lovecraft story in real life.

Honestly, the theory that maybe a dinosaur species, likely a Dromaeosaur of some kind, did evolve higher intelligence to the point of creating tools, even primitive ones, is a theory I love to think about even if there's no evidence. It's a fun thought experiment at the very least. Love the iceberg so far, can't wait to see what the other theories on it are!

Dude, take as much time as you could ever possibly need. These videos are long enough and in depth enough to ALWAYS be worthwhile, but there's also the fact that you don't owe us anything and your life and health come first I'mma lean back and get some popcorn to enjoy the crazy.

The mysterious honeycomb sea fossil look like enlarged plant cells. Would be cool to see some type of massive celled ocean floor algae or something like that.

51:11 “can earth periodically restock ice cream into my mouth?” -my mother

12:16 this looks more like something out of comic book more than anything. In fact outdated depictions like the upright stegosaurus, the flying marsupial, the first megalosaurus depiction and iguanodon with a nose horn look they would make interesting sci fi monsters.

I've actually kinda heard about the iguanodon tongue hole theory before. What's really funny about it to me is that some of my old dino books portray iguanodon with a prehensile tongue, but without the hole in its lower jaw. And please make a video on "Who is sleeping" once you got your copy because that sounds pretty interesting

I love how this series will be educational for ten minutes and then slap you upside the head with something absolutely insane.

Almost an hour? This was definitely worth the wait.

25:10 Imagine how surprised that psychic was that her random guess came true. She probably thought to herself "Now I can fool even more people when they see my 'correct' predictions"

3:57 There's a coincidental 27 million-year mass extinction cycle, which might coincide with how long it takes the solar system to go up and down through the galactic disc 8:10 The idea behind the aquatic ape hypothesis is that earlier primates spent a lot of time in shallow water, as monkeys who traverse shallow water do so standing upright There's also the matters that humans are mostly hairless, have a subcutaneous fat layer and mammalian diving reflex, all of which give advantages to a semi-aquatic lifestyle

The grestlysaurus story also sounds like a good concept for a horror story akin to The Metamorphosis or lovecraftian stuff.

I don't know if I missed it in earlier videos but the various astronomical causes for extinctions popping up this deep on the list remind me of the one scientist and his team who pitched the idea that the Ordovician Extinction was caused by a gamma ray burst, and that there was a cycle of extinctions about every 60ish million years that coincided with the solar system's oscilating orbit around the galaxy bringing it to the upper part of the galaxy where it was less shielded against extragalactic cosmis rays caused by the galaxy ploughing into the inergalactic trace gasses at a percentage of the speed of light.

25:24 so on this… it’s honestly a really good guess, car accident are one of the most common type of accident to result in fatality and 10 years is honestly a really generous time frame for a statistically common thing to occur

But all aquatic mammals have the same bone structures in their fore limbs. Whales also have a humorous, radius, ulna and phalanges ( finger bones ) . As do dolphins

These are not only entertaining but surprisingly inspirational for me. I'm working on a book series involving dinosaurs, and without getting too detailed just yet, I've considered a kind of museum or gallery detailing past successes and flops in how dinosaurs were portrayed and understood. Obviously, there are a lot more flops than successes to choose from, but that's life. lol

Absolutely living for these vids. I might even start rewatching the first tiers since it's been a while. Your work is appreciated!

"Sorry these episodes take so long; they take lots of time to research and lots of work to put together." We know, man, don't stress. We can tell they take work; it shows and it's a big reason why they're so pooular! 😊

Hey bro, just randomly got recommended your video, looking forward to watching it. Without knowing your situation I just wanna say I hope it all works out for you and that you’re doing well!

Time to drop whatever it was I was doing and get sucked in! Thanks, Diego!

I subbed from this series and just caught up, can't wait for the next one. And your other videos really informative too 💪🏻

You and pigpin are keeping my favorite KZfaq genre alive. Thank you so much

I read Elaine Morgan's book, years ago, and remember it well. She was opposed to the African savanna origin story. She derided the male fantasy of Tarzan, the Australopithecus, swinging out of a tree and giving a leopard a fatal bash on the head with an antelope leg bone! She imagined a mommy Australopithecus, running across the savanna, with one baby in each hand and one in her belly, trying to out run a leopard. And if she didn't survive and her babies got killed and eaten, how did we, her descendants get here? She claimed it made lots more sense to imagine our ancestors living by a river side or ocean side. Hunting clams & muscles & crabs and less dangerous critters than leopards and less challenging than antelope. Hand fishing. Maybe picking up some pieces of drift wood and bashing an occasional baby seal. It makes a lot of sense to me! ALSO: Physiologically, humans are among the few animals that lost their hair and gained body fat. Only mammals associated with an aquatic or semi-aquatic lifestyle have. Also we have semi-webbed feet & hands and noses that are designed for swimming & diving. (Our nose is streamlined for diving where water would push up a gorilla's nose!) ALSO: Nearly every human civilization you can imagine is associated with some river, delta or body of water, because we humans are comfortable living by the water. I found her arguments compelling but modern paleoanthropology dismisses her as irrelevant.

I really like this iceberg series, many of theories could be good materiel for a science fiction book. A planet with an entire layer made up of a single tiny species sounds interesting

Now, this is a little off topic, but thank you so much for the April fools carnivores video. I got into carnivores with that video, and it is a big part of my life now. Thank you so much! (If you see this, what was your favorite moment in carnivores? Mine stumbling across the radar dish in delphaeus hills)

I hope by "most popular thing on my channel" you don't mean "the series keeping me channel relevant" because all your content is really good.

Just stumbled upon your channel and I subbed after 5 minutes of this video. What a gem of a Channel . I got really lucky finding this 😀

this channel got me into paleontology, now i’m about to take archaeology in college yay!

Glad things are resolved. I love these though, so the wait is worth it.

So happy for longer vids. Keep up the great work

Thanks to this channel for showing me how all of paleontology is basically crackpot theories moving from fringe, to mainstream, and back again.

I would say the tongue hole makes you, and me, uncomfortable, not because it's different because how you're used to seeing iguanodon, but because it's so different from ANY animal we're familiar with, that it feels unnatural.

Giant rock fossils... Are you enrolling us into Mudfossil University in the next tier? no thanks lol

If that book "Who Lies Sleeping" is any good, you should make a full on video about it!

evolution being an alien virus is such a cool idea

JBS Haldane was the coolest scientist most people have never heard of. His father was the biologist John Scott Haldane, and he performed poison gas experiments on JBS as a child because John Scott thought experimenting on animals was unethical. JBS got a commission in the Black Watch and fought in WW1. In 1932 he wrote about how much he had enjoyed going on trench raids and killing Germans with "bombs" (which is what they called grenades at the time). General Douglas Haig called him "the bravest and dirtiest officer in my army". Eventually he moved to India and became an Indian citizen, a vegetarian, an atheist, and a Marxist. He also wrote science fiction. His contributions to early 20th century biology are too immense to summarize.

Dude, love your content, especially this series, and I value that you take your time with it so we can get the best content possible But can you please turn the volume up a notch, I'm on mobile listening to this on max volume and even then it's tough to hear

I can't belive It! My Blackback art was featured at the end of the video!!!

Aw, around 55:15, I wholeheartedly nodded my head in agreement before hearing the sarcasm at the end.

To be honest the similarities of manatee's and humans are quite similar to ones of elephants and humans...which with knowledge of genetics makes sense.

i just watched all the other videos for the first time yesterday, my timing was incredible! youre doing great ty for the work youre putting in for this its a lot of fun

51:08 I'm just more surprised that this happened in my hometown 11 years ago.

I am having a bad day. Thank you for the manatee baby photo.

Paleodicteon is so freaky to me... this thing has been around for literally millions of years, is STILL occurring in modern day, yet we have no clue what it is or what's causing the pattern. It's a true scientific mystery with no explanation whatsoever yet, which is so rare with all the technology we have now.

Worth the wait

The best iceberg series on yt

Hey, thanks for the shoutout

Those markings that keep showing up even after 500 million years? IT WAS ME BARRY! I'VE BEEN DRAGGING AROUND FISHNETS!

I love how you pronounce "Solothurn". I live only 20km from there.

I completely forgot that the iceberg wasn't finished yet.

Subbed for part 2. Can't wait :3

No need to apologize! Thanks for the videos I love them and I hope everything is going okay with you!

Just out of curiosity, have you ever accidentally misread any of your "Paleontology Fringe Theories Iceberg" titles as "Paleontology Fridge Theories Iceberg"? Because I did.

As a Swissman I have sadly never heard of Amanz Gressly, his contributions and his sad fate. I understand now why the only true sauropod found in my country bears his name, Amanzia.

these videos keep me alive

Subbed man ! Thanks and good luck

I like how the tagline on the cover of "Who Lies Sleeping" says proudly "More sensational than Jurassic Park", when the concept is literally the plot background of the Super Mario Bros Movie or something, which wasn't all that sensational actually.

Cool video, can't wait to watch the others in this series. I think I'll subscribe! As far as my opinion on the mystic who predicted the death of the paleontologist... I just can't help but think that if you say to someone that they'll die from a car accident in the next 10 years you've got a high enough chance of being correct, sadly. A lot can happen in ten years! Especially in a time when less people owned cars anyway, someone who did own a car or was a frequent driver probably had a much higher chance of being in an accident than most of his contemporaries. And early cars were notoriously dangerous and ran on twisty dirt-roads and narrow cobbled streets that were designed for horse and carts. Not that it isn't still a creepy coincidence...

53:32 Oh, Rupert Sheldrake? That's an uncommon name. Is he related to Cosmo Sheldrake? Turns out he is his father! What a neat factoid about one of my favorite musicians! I bet a lot of people here would greatly enjoy his music about marine biology and birds.

If Aquatic apes did exist, they would have lived near the oceans around the coastlines. The main reason or one of many reasons why modern humans lost their fur and start developing sweat glands. In order for aquatic apes to be more adaptable underwater, they had to lose their fur. If there was a group of aquatic apes that had evolved, there was a possibility that they interbred with the apes that originated from Africa. If we were to dig up fossils, we need to look into the pre-historic coastlines.

car crashes were almost always lethal back then and 10 years is a long time…. psychic got a lucky guess

34:33 "how did smaller organisms make shapes as precise as these" ...? bees? ants? termites? smaller organisms do this all the time

I think it’s awesome that your videos inspire art

Was Hawkins, Indiana named after Thomas Hawkins?? His hypothesis sounds a lot like the upside-down

Love your stuff - just a heads up that your audio is quite soft. This isn't really a big issue because the volume can just be turned up but it is a bit jarring when an advertisement plays and the volume is excruciatingly loud. It's not a big deal but maybe something to consider in the future :) thank you for all the work you put into making these!

Just found this channel. Good stuff. I do want to mention about the whole Permian extinction hypothesis that while the spiral arms may cause comets to hurl into the system due to an increase in gravitational forces, it will take literally millions of years for some comets to eventually line up with coming into the inner solar system. In face the vast majority of comets are now thought to not even enter within the orbit of Neptune and basically just swing by the Kuiper belt. So the timing of the extinction with the sun being out of the spiral arm is not indicative of the spiral arm not being the cause since astronomical distances like I said earlier can have effects millions of years in difference between cause and effect.

I was watching this video, at around 4:19 ish, and my retired astronomy professor grandfather saw my phone screen. He couldn’t hear the video but he got a bit interested by the images on screen. Also, take all the time you need for videos. They’re very informative and interesting and it always reminded me of when I was in class learning about dinosaurs.

1:25 "Before there was time. Before there was anything. There was nothing. And before there was nothing, there were monsters"

Brilliant!!!

Your credit to others is commendable. TOP NOTCH.

the dwarf joke killed me on the spot. I wasn't ready for so much freedom of speech Best joke of the video

This is my favourite thing on youtube right now- thank you so much for your hard work, but don't feel bad about delaying your content! You're well being is much more important than any video (no matter how cool)

Oh damn, my buddy and I have dozens of Paleodictyon samples that we pulled out of a mudstone fossil bed in North Texas. Never could find much info on them, glad to finally learn what they're called.

10:58 That parrot with it's mouth open and it's tung moving. Makes it almost look like it's talking.😂

You would not believe how accurate The thumbnail that you have for this video really is.

these are one of my favourite things on the platform! I love these videos so much, thanks!!

Being a fortuneteller is really about understanding how often things happen. Car accidents are among the most common cause of death in America, so if a dude comes in and seems hale and hearty but a bit reckless, "you're going to die of car sometime in the next ten years" is a safe bet (and if you're wrong it's probably not going to be remembered).

I'd love to see an alternate history where the jurassic extinction never happened and they instead became the sapient dominant species. would that end up as t rex doing the nae nae in Walmart or something unrecognizable? would they develop art, science, monument building?

One thing about the galactic one earlier, not only does our solar system orbit the center, it also wobbles up and down through the plane, exposing it to different dangers from outside the galaxy.

Thanks for putting in so much hard work into this. I really enjoy them

i was not expecting to learn so much about hinduism from a paleontology iceberg

I'm not normally into icebergs but you've made this very interesting to listen too. This brought me to your channel, and I love listeni g to your videos.

Breathe deep. Seek peace. It's ok if life gets in the way of these videos.

the big dum is my favorite band

25:23 Dude died at the hospital, Prediction failed.

Is there a way to bump the audio up? I can barely hear it without earphones

Metasequoia is found all over the northern hemispere, it was quite a wells spread out species with a lot of it's first fossils placing it at least 150 MYA. Of course it was only a few years later the found the live ones.

I can easily sit here and listen to Diego talk about dinos for 2 hours but can’t focus on a movie for half that time…

i just joined the cult ! i mean the channel! keep this videos coming; thanks!!

SCEPTICS: "Pterosaurs can't walk!" MARK WITTON's PTEROSAUR: "Gotta go fast!"

You're way too kind about the insane manatee lady and I have no idea why given how you shat on other stupid fringe theories in past videos.

2:24 HELP what did he think the planets were orbiting 😭😭

Love your videos, but would love if the audio volume was increased. I'm a delivery driver and can't hear anything over road noise even if my volume is all the way up. Keep up the great content!

The next part you do for this series, can you put ways to show you much you actually know about the topic at hand :)