Probably a lot. Fossilization is really rare. Things have to die in the right place, under the right conditions, , not be destroyed by geologic processes, and then be in a place where we can find the resulting fossils. IIRC, I think the estimate is that only like 1% of animals leave fossils, and only 1% of that 1% ever get found.

Probably 99% of everything that ever lived

Everything leaves behind a trace. If there were things that didn't, we wouldn't know ninjas exist.

@@TacDyne ...and also how we know the invisible man existed....they leave behind traces.

There is a huge number of living things, that left no usable traces and therefore can not be found or even identified. Even if you can find a fossil, how well must it be presered to actually identify it as a certain species? How do you tell if it es a closely related species or sexual dimorphism? Take the species we have not found any traces of and add the species, that are missinterpreted as not being an own species and we are on the point, that at least 99,9% of the past is still unknown. I mean, how likely is it, that 2 physically almost identical species of song bird can be identified as two species, when we have not more of them, than the usual quality fossils that we know from ancient birds? The fossils are compressed in the sediment, they lost much of their original outer form, all of their color and in most cases some or more parts are missing. Could we tell what is sexual dimorphism and what is another species? The same with fish. Look at all the characids that are living in South America or all the cichlids that are living in Lake Malawi in eastern Africa. Could we tell one species from another, when we have nothing but the usual fossil? There are thousands of different species. The physical differences between them are often very small and sexual dimorphism is a very common thing with them. Many are hard to identify when you don't have a living animal but only one preserved in alcohol. Some closely related species can only be identified as individual species after genome sequencing, which is the main reason why more new species of freshwater fish were described in the past few years. We know almost nothing. The fossil record shows us a very small portion of what had been living and much of it probably is not interpreted right. That is a sad state, when you think of it. But what is much much worse, is that we trigger extinction of nowadays creatures faster than we discover them ore even learn what they really are.

so true

Yeah, I instantly wondered how big are/were the biggest eyes and beaks.

Glad my research helped you out :)

@@thomasclements 🙏🙏

They give the answer in the video

He kinda skipped leg day though.

He’s gotten jacked recently, good for him

@@fallinginthed33p I didn’t see their legs tho did you

@@seemysight exactly

@@seemysight 5:02. i was watching the video and reading this comment at the perfect moment

Lol, I was like. Damn this dudes jacked

Dbol

disgusting*

@@Goreuncle came here to say this…

I remember my zoology professor telling the class about another professor who had his grad students spend days watching lizards in trees to find out how often they moved. Answer: once every few hours.

@@tabcat Science!

This one time, at grad camp…

Flying squid are real, in case you didn't know :)

@@TragoudistrosMPH You mean the USO's that the NAVY released as UFO material? Could be, however improbable.

@@aresaurelian no they mean squid that jump out of the water like flying fish

"so long, and thanks for all the fish."

flying squid don't just jump and glide though. They have true, if innefficient, rocket-powered aerodynamic flight. Indeed, while they are likely incapable of reaching their stall speed as an adult, Humboldt squid can still fly ballistically even at 50 kg size and accelerate in mid air.

indeed, they are too rocky to be basic

Hahaha, you puny humans, you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS, have stolen them all! All the Fossils!! Haha. First, your keys that you thought you 'lost somewhere' and now THIS! Youre losing territory and resources more and more to US... haha... haha... ...

Too simple to fossilize ;) 😎

@@slevinchannel7589 Martians*

Yo I also don't think about squids when I'm not actively remembering them, we have so much in common!

Lol Sounds like a John Mullaney quote

I don't even know what squids are called in my native language

Yeah like i thought the nautilisks were like tge dinosuar equivilint of squids lol

Don’t worry. Squids don’t forget _you_ exist. Their day will come.

I really really like that profile picture

This seems more important than my homework

I mean this is my entire research career :)

Dude I’ve been procrastinating on my last homework assignment just watching eons lol

wait what?...*also rushes back to work*

This one especially seemed to be his favorite, no squidding around!

wash them well.

Probably a matter of concentration

I think only the legs get eaten. The ammonia is in the body

@@tbeller80 the entire squid is edible (except for the beak) and you can even eat it raw

D:

Obviously they're hiding them. This video is a wild conspiracy.

In Batman's voice: "WHERE ARE THEY?????"

Area 51 is all squid fossils

@@MegaSockenschuss Hahaha, you puny humans, you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS, have stolen them all! All the Fossils!! Haha. First, your keys that you thought you 'lost somewhere' and now THIS! Youre losing territory and resources more and more to US... haha... haha... ...

@@slevinchannel7589 I'm in shock! Now I can imagine where all the socks have gone, that were "eaten by the washing machine". Btw. the one on your left foot seems somehow familiar... Besides that, you know, at some point people on earth startet doing songs about this topic. I remember the old Pixies song "where is my mind" - they never found out who took it. Or "where's the rum gone" - a mystery until now. I mean, just could just ask, we may share. :)

So I won't be able to fossilize either.😊

@@honeybunch5765 Fossilization is actually really, really hard. You need very special conditions that need to STAY special for a loooong time.

LOL - how did we not think of that joke when we wrote this paper?

basically

“Ya basic” - Eleanor Shellstrop, The Good Place

This is the comment I was looking for…

Was it the guns that were drawing your eye??!!

@@brackguthrie9470 ?

@@brackguthrie9470 I'm a straight dude, and I couldn't help but notice he's hanging dong.

I am a graduate student and the grad student fact was so relatable to me, I believe it is spilling over and becoming relatable to others! Fascinating!

"graduate student" means peon.

Suffering knows its own kind... 😕

Having been an oceanography grad student years ago, yes you get the stinky jobs. A fellow grad student studied the nutritional value of shrimp feces.

@@grahamrankin4725 ...and the result? I need to know

Wait, do you get paid? You don't know how lucky you are 😅

Lucky indeed. Here in Brazil we don't get paid for that.

The good news is that graduate school, like High School, doesn't last forever. Eventually, you will be able to look back and laugh. A bit hysterically, but still

Do something else then

Aiä! Aiä!

waiting dreaming

Floating, falling...

When comes the time to die, squids go home.

Ia ia

Hahaha, you puny humans, you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS, have stolen them all! All the Fossils!! Haha.

Undergrads are watched by graduate students

Well, grads are slaves. You're not even human.

I friend of mine has to take home a big jar of excavation debris and sort every tiny particle into bone, rock, plant. It wasn't even an old stratum because there were recent roots mixed into it.

The undergrads are the ones decaying.

Dissect this and count the parasites. Kthnxbye!

Hashtag Not that deep, bro.

Where are the fossils?! I need to know!!!

Interest in baking more like. Just flour water yeast and rat hair and you have a fine roast, a fine roast

I can’t wait for my next dinner party to tell everyone about why there are no 🦑 fossils. But , no, I’m on my last warning.

@@Wittysquidy Where are the fossils, Summer?

@@kevincotterell3644 i bet they wouldn't give a damp squid

This is the only thing I will remember of this vid in 3 years plus

He's an octopus

And when the giant ones wash up on shore and decompose, they really stink.

Fresh squid has to be cooked quickly or they quickly turn bad in the heat.

Ok... but grammar?

@@slevinchannel7589 n o

Which would make his last name entirely inaccurate.

That is actually a fact, confirmed by the show's creator himself.

@@jchannel1980 The show's creator was an actual marine biologist, so he probably knew that but named him that anyways.

@@jchannel1980 Tennisballs?

Maybe he was adopted

I have checked it and you need to pay a lot for that patreon tier 🤑

I hope Steve is doing well

I also miss Steve !

Gone, but not forgotten

He's in a lab, watching squids rot, for science.

I have gotten my gym membership today now that I can get back there, and my objective is to be ripped just like him

Check out Pakozoic, he's an even more ripped paleo guy

lol

Other paleontologists use tools to delicately chip away at rocks, Blake just one-punches the side of a mountain and bones fall out.

@@sephikong8323 omg it's sephikong can I get your autograph?

Nice to be featured!

Thats amazing! It must be truly wonderful to make a significative contribuition to science, congrats for u and your team :)

This is really cool. So are there other known groups of soft-bodied organisms that maintain a higher pH? And if so, do they also happen to have a poorer fossil record of their ancestry than average in environments known to be suitable for fossilization?

Awesome!

Do you have anything coming soon that explains the lack of gladii? Because to me that's the weirdest thing, given that there are a bunch of them from places without soft tissue preservation, but they've all been reclassified as vampyromorphs iirc.

Hahaha, you puny humans, you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS, have stolen them all! All the Fossils!! Haha. First, your keys that you thought you 'lost somewhere' and now THIS! Youre losing territory and resources more and more to US... haha... haha...

Clearly you haven't read any of the comments.

Especially in the Cambrian and Ediacaran, when creatures had unknowable body chemistry

@@LimeyLassen we're quite lucky to have evolved enough intelligence to figure much of the natural history before the fossil layers got way more messed up and more and more of the fossil record destroyed forever. I guess it could have been the case that a species would evolve only such degree of intelligence after the fossil record only showed some random "monsters" that don't seem to have much to do with any living species or with other monsters on different layers/places. Then maybe this alternate planet's "Darwin" would only come after molecular biology, inferring a planet-wide phylogenetic tree without much of a hint of it from morphology.

I liked your movie, The Man From Earth.

I probably helped. Calamari is delicious

Hahaha, you puny humans, you will never know that WE, THE MARSIANS, have stolen them all! All the Fossils!! Haha. First, your keys that you thought you 'lost somewhere' and now THIS! Youre losing territory and resources more and more to US... haha... haha... ...

Not organ donors?

If they aren't wearing leathers they are road slugs.

Squids is helmet and beachwear / no other protection. Head stays intact, body shredded, squid.

They also tend to go extinct.

Become a Bio grad student, you can get paid to do that

I hope they are in summer break, because cancelling eons would be a shame

Octopodes and platypodes imo

Thank you for comment this so I didn't have to. You are, of course, correct.

I HATE when people say “Octopi” like they know better and try to correct you when you say “Octopuses”

Yes, but "octopuses" is not supposed to be the Greek plural, it's the "this is a loan word from Greek, but because we can't be arsed to deal with irregular plurals we'll just give it a regular English plural" plural.

@@HerrMisterTheo In that case you would have to use the thousands of loan words in English language in their “correct” plural forms. If you’r speaking English, just go with English plural forms, nothing to do with “not being arsed” as not everyone knows which word is borrwed from which language. No need to interject latin or greek plurals just because some words are borrowed from those languages.

nope. we're derived from fish

: o

wat

Like some glistening jars made out of clay

Like listening stars that laid the way...feasting on something thats cooked flambe