I mean, they didnt commit to the land plan but they stayed long enough to never go back... And they're dead 😭.

same as whales

r/woooosh

you can always change your mind, nothing wrong with it. I mean, they were consequent in their final decision.

@Hit or miss woOOoooOoOOOsh

I counted, that would be 17 shots

Every time there’s sad music, finish your drink.

If I did that, I'd feel as if I were living through it myself.

The result will be known as the Great Hangover.

Tragic Tragedy you're gonna mess up someone's liver XD

Joshua Fernandes estate

Joshua Fernandes all those dead fish must've stunk up the ocean

Unfortunately a whole bunch of them went extinct in the End-Triassic Mass Extinction.

Triassic-Jurrassic Mass Extinction: Weird flex, but ok .... Anoxic Event: Imma about to end this man whole career

The oofening

And the way he says Cambrian explosion

They never got Ethiopia.

It's the second time they've referenced the Cambrian Explosion jingle.

@@NekoYami13 What was the first time?

@@dirtyyy7668 I also remember they did it previously, but I have no memory of which video it might have been.

Rennis Tora *F*

Rennis Tora F

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*F* for our arthropod friends

I love it so much

i can't read it any other way now😂

@@tannerdenny5430 I see him as a non moving pac man equivalent. Waiting all the treats fly into his mouth.

No joke, I read this comment as he was saying it. GG

I noticed this kind of self-deprecating humor in precious episodes, I think it's a part of Blake's touch :)

@@alexixeno4223 Me too.

U maght b an ichthyosaur!

YESSS

I'd love to see that, too.

Yes please

YES MAN! And about mammal's relatives in the mesozoic.

Yes, please! I’d love to see this as well!

Is your name a reference to the game or King Gizzard?

nice Platinum

*Seas

Communism

Comrade Californosaurus

Thing is, that even happened just a few million years after tetrapods emerged with fully secondarily aquatic amphibians.

Ichthyosaur: Finally made it onto land, it was overated.

I agree lol

Evolution is so dumb

At least fish stay where they belong .. mostly

*reptilian dolphin noise*

lmfao I actually laughed out loud when he did that

when was the reference being made?

​@@221_safwansami9at around 2:11

Frank D97E I was wondering this exact thing, thank you for taking the time to point it out!

Mammals discriminated against... AGAIN!

@@robertpryor7225 that "sucks" 😂😂😂😂😂

Why is that distinction even necessary? Are there ANY mammals or reptiles that aren't air-breathers?

@@antred11 re-read what I said. I specifically stated that in one case it is always expressly stated, yet in the other, it rarely is.

Guess you have to get a new mouse every now and then ...

Pretty funny stuff isnt it?

Fo damn sho

And it must have happened more than once! Other lineages returned to the sea too. I wonder what the different lizard seals looked like, ate, how they swam, laid eggs etc. Needs another episode!

So basically like modern marine iguanas

But could it balance a ball on its nose?

Nah. More like lizard dolphins/whales.

@@pandawok301 The more basal ichthyosaurs were lizard seals.

Ya I think that's a great idea!!

mightymasochist It was thought to be the King (Basileus) Lizard (of the sea) as there was a King (Tyrranos) Lizard on land.

yes I am aware where the name comes from. but it was thought to be a marine reptile first

Basilosaurus, the greasiest and most underrated animal

@@mightymasochist you know you can be aware of both?

theres giant lemur,giant crocodile,giant tortoise, and elephant bird

Yesss that would be so cool!

thats got ti be wild madagascar damn

Or prehistoric Australia

@Frances Snowflake Anything is possible of you believe.

so a video on sharks and crocodiles

crazuu crocodiles have changed a lot

@@G0die16 sharks too but once they found their main thing, they stuck with it with not much variation

Funnily enough, one of the oldest and most successful living creatures on earth today are ducks. I'm not joking. Their ancestors were dinosaurs, they were one of the first true birds ever to evolve, and have stuck around ever since. To give you some idea of just how successful they are, they live in massive numbers on every single continent. Yes, INCLUDING Antarctica! They're amazing creatures, and it saddens me to know how underrated they are. Ducks are awesome. 💜

Australopithecus says hi.

Its probably a different story in terms of biomass tho. We probably beat them, but we will never beat the biomass of a species of trees.

We will never last that long. I don't even think humanity will survive to see the end of this century.

It's the stars that shine the brightest, not the longest...

@@WobblesandBean Thats just being nihilist for the fun of it

Quinkana > Megalania

Don't know what Quinkana is.

DinoBot65 trey the explainer: *Has vietnam flashbacks*

@@ksoundkaiju9256 OMG😂

Quinkana is a Giant Terrestrial crocodile of Australia

I know, right? You know you're a true Eons viewer, when they show you THAT and your first reaction is "Oh look at YOU!" (voice goes up two octaves) It's just...it's so _cute_ . For some reason. XD

​@@robinchesterfield42 IDK, you think our appreciation of paleontology is altering our cuteness perception that much? ^w^ I mean, look at him! Smoothe flabby boie! With a silly face! When he's on land, you could probably pet his butt, and he wouldn't be fast enough to turn around and bite you... :3

Starwall too bad the iceberg melted a month ago It’s a joke in case it comes off as rude

Me too, although with me it's mainly due to their uncanny resemblance to dolphins

@@passthebutterrobot2600I totaly agree with you reptilian dolphins for the win!

Same! Dolphins in my opinion are the mammalian version of ichthyosaurs and improved upon their notes. The ichthyosaurs might be proud to see somebody carrying their legacy

I'd like to call them a new type of reptilian/mammalian though... Which part of them was left reptilian..? even their scales became a softer smoother skin.. they live-birthed and I guess were warm-blooded as well.. It's almost like a transition between 2 classes of vertebrates.. Don't see the reptile vibe at all except for their name.. Can someone counter-argue me please, I want to know why I shouldn't call them a transition.. I'm really into researching these things

i agree

Australia isn't real.

Tasmanian wolf is a really interesting animal, so recently extinct

Robert Pryor I would say more lesser known animals as well

Well a million years ajnt really long the earth is like what 4 billion years old and the universe is way older were starting of youngnbut dast for life on our planet

Yeah!! I second that notion.

Yesssss we Need that that will be an amazing video

Agreed!!

are you still saying it?

Thank you for this comment, I learned so much! I hope they do your video suggestion! 🌈🤓

Interesting did not know about this! I find it quite interesting that this occurred shortly after the first round of snowball Earth events. Regarding the Cambrian explosion however that event has lost a lot of its significance as a "first" radiation event to the Avalon explosion which seems to be the real I guess re-evolution of multicellularity. That isn't to say it was insignificant just that multicellularity was well established by that point with major animal lineages having already diversified by that point. In fact I have recently read an article in scientific american talking about how the boundry of the Cambrian and Ediacaran is breaking down with fossils of Ediacaran biota having been found well into the Cambrian and early ancestors of Cambrian animals found back in the Ediacaran. The Avalon explosion previously covered on this channel transition occurs right in the aftermath of the Neoprotozoic snowball Earth in the wake of spiking oxygen levels. Recent research suggests based off multiple lines of evidence that the diversification of key metazoan lineages directly coincide with the Snowball Earth events and more advanced models indicate that oxygen rich meltwater pools and fractures within the equitorial ice likely provided not only the safe haven for Eukaryotes but the conditions to spur the development of multicellular life. This is why this Franceville's Biota is so amazing as it indicates the same underlying process likely occurred after the first snowball Earth episode and shockingly quite soon after the emergence of Eukaryotes. This is a one to one correlation with a sample size of two suggesting Snowball Earth like events may in fact be a prerequisite for complex life as we know it! Absolutely fascinating, If I hadn't done a term paper for my atmospheric physics class and then kept up on the field I would never have made the connection! The question this raises is why did this first radiation fail and the second succeed? I have so many questions I'll probably end up bringing what I can about the Franceville's Biota and see what else is out there.

I had never heard about that, that sounds really interesting! I agree, they should definitely do a video on that!

@@Dragrath1 Absolutely fascinating. I don't know about snowball events in particular, but the more we learn the more it appears evolution is mainly driven by environment changes. I bet the key is that it frees or opens niches where new life variations get a chance to prosper before competition or predation stifle too radical changes. Complex life would require a lot of changes while remaining habitable enough, this would be very rare.

@@musaran2 Yeah it is quite remarkable currently on campus I've read some articles on the subject and it seems there was a remarkable radiation that occurred right after the Huronian glaciation or equivalently Makganyene glaciation 2.4 billion years ago (Gya) to 2.1 Gya i.e. first Snowball Earth. It is fascinating that there even seems to be a gradual rise in complexity within these fossil beds with traits such as motility becoming more complex within shallow microbial mat environments at the time. At the end of the period however these fossils as well as the chemical markers for free oxygen seem to disappear after 1.6 Gya at the latest leaving no modern descendants. It seems the Earth climate system for some reason reverted back to anoxic state unable to support complex multicellular Eukaryotes until the Neoprotozoic Snowball Earth events. This strongly supports oxygen levels as the key driver of multicellularity and more interestingly the evidence of fossils predate molecular clock analysis of the origin of Eukaryotes by about 300 Ma suggesting that either the molecular clocks are under counting or that an independent endosymbiosis event may have occurred. Normally I would in accordance to Occam's Razor suspect the prior but in light of the discovery of the Asgardarchaeota, complex unicellular archaea sharing the non bacterial genetics and presumably structure of Eukaryotes to a degree that the last common ancestor of Eukaryotes can be confidently placed within the clade it seems quite plausible that previous endosymbiosis events occurred during the oxygenation event and subsequent glaciations as the adaptations towards edosymbiosis were already present within this diverse group of anaerobic archaea. The above is mostly what I gathered from summarizing several papers from Nature and PNAS and to a minor extent the abstract to a paper in the journal of Paleobiology. Sadly all the papers on the subject above are behind paywall some of which my university doesn't give free access to as far as I can tell the oldest research on these fossils date back to the early 1990s, 1992 more accurately having been met with skepticism but increasing scientific discoveries in recent years have really provided the irrefutable evidence towards this event in Earth's history. I really have to thank Miki P for bring this to my attention. This is absolutely worth an episode on Eons probably more than one. Environmental changes seem to be without a doubt a driving force behind macroevolution with rapid development of new innovative traits before slowing back down to a lower background mutation rate. I think they have even found the genetic mechanisms which life uses to increase or decrease mutation rates. Furthermore I am beginning to suspect that living fossils i.e dead taxon walking are what happens when this mutation control mechanism and (possibly or?) when genetic diversity is lost.

Its a reference to bill wurtz's history of the world.

@@iatsarulashvili3893 yes. I know, thats why i made the comment about them referencing it.

Confirmation of evolution

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sarika love they showed on tv last week

elephante

sarika love go ahead and do it

You're not the only one I'm sure.

I mean you weren't wrong they're kinda related :0

@@sleepinqjupiiter9231 no their not. Icthyosaurs are reptiles, and Dolphins are mammals

Miles Bradshaw Huh, I thought they were :0

@@sleepinqjupiiter9231 many people thought that way too.

Jaxen Maynor old zealand?

@@amehak1922 yeah 😂

how new zealand is secretly gigantic but under the ocean

And ireland island wildlife is awesome

@@stormintheshell5130 | Hmm, that'd actually be quite interesting.

with taht will be a slew of innovation and evolutionary mutations. Too bad we won't get to see what comes after

It's called convergent evolution, which is when two or more unrelated animal species develop similar traits to fill environmental niches. The perfect example of this is flying around above us in the skies: birds and bats..

@@AifDaimon Yes, I know that, what I mean is that it didn't happen just twice, that will make you think that it's just an accidental case, but three times! And all three look a lot similar, not just vaguely!

@@karellen00 evolution works in weird but amazing ways

@@AifDaimon also since they have similar body type, does this mean dolphins, ichthyosaurs and sharks have muscular bodies?

@@tijanamilenkovic9442 seems that way

Would most likely taste the same as some other food

Well celocanths are still around, but apparently their flesh has a natural laxative, though you can eat it if it's been dries supposedly.