10 Records Totally Owned by Mother Nature

The usual candidates for this kind of list would be things like the highest mountain, or the longest river, or the biggest forest, or canyon, or other obvious stuff like that. But you probably already learned those things in school, and we here at TopTenz aren’t about the obvious and instead focus on bringing you other records. The ones people rarely talk about. So let’s do exactly that. Here are 10 other records owned by Mother Nature.
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10. The Deepest Underwater Cave in the World - The Czech Republic
9. The Oldest River in the World - Australia
8. The Oldest Mountain Range in the World - South Africa
7. The Heaviest and Longest Living Organism - United States
6. The Largest Rocks in the World - Australia
5. The Tiniest Mammal in the World - Thailand
4. World’s Largest Ice Cave - Austria
3. The Oldest Forest in Existence - Australia
2. The Largest Single Living Organism of Earth - United States
1. Fastest Moving Continent - Australia… again
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[@c8Lorraine1]

I’m an Australian and except for the rainforest and Ayres Rock, the rest was news to me.

[@ProudDad1976]

The only thing I would add is if you live to be 70 the land mass would have moved over 11 feet. That is an awesome thing to think about, even now our world is changing shape and fast! I love this channel

[@jpaior]

Proud Liberal Dad It’s 3.3 meters mate.

[@thecraftycyborg9024]

Ive been watching videos from this channel pretty much exclusively for a week now. I don't have a tv, so I do most of my entertainment on my iPad with KZbin being the most common app I use- all of which adds up to a LOT of your videos watched in the last week. And I'm still fascinated. You guys have some interesting topics, with such a wide variety of issues covered. I love it.

[@icatz]

I actually learned some of these things from an episode of The X-Files (when Mulder and Scully were trapped by a massive hallucinogenic fungus). But I learned a lot from your ep. Thanks, as always, Simon.

[@loretta5653]

Whoa, which ones?

[@lizc6393]

@@loretta5653 I have the same question! I'm a totally obsessive X-Files fan, but I'm having trouble remembering which episode (not because it's not true, it's just a lot of TV to remember.) Regardless, the truth is out there 😉

[@sgtmayhem7567]

Many Australian rivers don’t empty into the ocean, they empty into its center and are filling it with silt. Over the eons Australia’s ancient-surface has been so eroded that from space the continent looks like a shallow saucer. I enjoyed the rest of the video also. Thank you.

[@joannamaria1353]

Incredibly insightful content accompanied by an alluring tone, thanks for sharing 🤗

[@MissVerdine]

Excellent video! Thank you, Simon!

[@mckinleydaigle7388]

love videos on this subject. top notch job as usual.

[@agerven]

Now that is really interesting stuff about the world we live in. Thank you so much!

[@beautifulblackbeauty8641]

what can i say? i will never tire of being mesmermized by all of your channels. amazing. and, simon, you are very easy on the eyes!

[@amberbranks4209]

My favorite so far! Thanks Simon!

[@deborahromilly2766]

Great one, thank you!

[@amhk5918]

Wohoo Austria!! But honestly don't go to the Eisriesenwelt if you are not fit. You have to climb the damn mountain for 2 hours and inside the cave you have to survive 1400 stairs and than go back down again. It's totally worth it but still.. And please please put on proper shoes and warm clothes. I hate nothing more that ignorant tourists in hot pants and flip flops complaining that the stairs are slippy it's cold in an ice cave. I mean what did you expext?

[@francissreckofabian01]

Australia has 4!!! Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie!!! Oi! Oi! Oi! (you'd have to be an Australian to understand that - be grateful that you have never heard it).

[@Bluebirdfalling]

Ozzy Osbourne

[@johnspera8369]

Francis Srečko Fabian i'm from the US, and i have. i think it"s great!

[@garrettallen7427]

Francis Srečko Fabian But, you just told me about it

[@shebbs1]

We also have the second largest exposed rock as Mt Wudinna SA, which is of granitic igneous composition. It is not the largest exposed lacolith, but is, so far as is known, the largest complete one as the others are fractured or eroded into remaining sections. Used to live near it. Lovely area.

[@CarMad97ci]

Bloody oath!

[@BiscuitsOfWrath]

Simon is the man. Hes given me countless hours of entertainment and knowledge. Thank you bub.

[@diedertspijkerboer]

From the title, I had been hoping for a different list which compares nature with man made things, like fastest object (photons versus planes or spaceships), biggest explosion (H bomb versus supernova or big bang) etc.

[@agerven]

Seeing this video its all about nature and I'm very happy with that. It will outlive all manmade things.

[@MxRavenJay]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[@deathbycognitivedissonance5036]

In conclusion. Australia is reeeeeally old.

[@malan9903]

Death By Cognitive Dissonance the earth is all the same age bro matter cannot be created not destroyed that rock you threw around is infact older than even the dinosaurs

[@deathbycognitivedissonance5036]

Starmite Yes, but we can identify Certain land masses and their formation via plate tectonics. So, the current rock that I throw, Might not have actually been part of the Earth's crust at one point in history. Also, not all of Earths mass is the same age. We receive tons of different debris from space each year. Plus different Cataclysmic events like Earth shattering asteroids provided more material as well.

[@sleepingcity85]

@@deathbycognitivedissonance5036 But this is 0,0001% of earth's landmass or so. Starmite is correct, Australia is exactly as old as the other continents are. Your conclusion is just wrong. You could conclude that Australia is very special under the continents, because it holds a lot of records.

[@franl155]

fascinating, thank you!

[@Pfromm007]

Simon Whistler talks about the origins of the game Simon Says.

[@camsky904]

I’m South African and Witwatersrand is pronounced with the w’s as v’s because its an Afrikaans name 🌵😌

[@amberbranks4209]

Camryn-Skye Gibb say it 3 times fast!😁

[@amberbranks4209]

It is actually prettier said that way w's as v's

[@malan9903]

Ja south africans are some of the only people that can pronounce “v” with such vigor also “r” which we can roll instead of making the sound by rolling wind off of our tongues. ;)

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

Afrikaans is a language id like to learn someday!

[@entropygardens7253]

Best top ten video I've seen.

[@ruthmeow4262]

The bat is so cute!!!

[@johnspera8369]

love the tiny bats; cool! great job as always guys!

[@gram.]

3:03 - faintly heard the Windows "New device plugged in" sound haha

[@chasindigo]

Lake Eyrie is pronounced Lake Air.

[@chasindigo]

Ul-or-roo

[@FelixMeister]

I thought Uluru was pronounced closer to Oo-loo-roo? But yeah Ayre and Eyre are both pronounced pretty much as air.

[@israelmoosekavich8094]

And I thought it was the rive was pronounced Fink River? You don't pronounce the "E"

[@jpaior]

It’s cringe worthy when it’s “our” bizarre pronunciation that Simon gets wrong. I truly feel sorry for the Europeans. Lol.

[@chloemarie91]

Uluru was pronounced a bit too French for my bogan tongue - oo-leur-roo

[@ravindave01]

Simon just FYI it's called Northern Territory not "The Northern Territories". Also Lake Eyre is pronounced as "Air", as is Ayers Rock.

[@MichaelAyden]

Woops, Simon, you made a blunder! When you mentioned the gold in the Makhonjwa mountains of South Africa. You said that the gold found here is the oldest ever created on the planet but you will probably know that gold is never created on planets but only within exploding stars (Supernovas) billions of years ago. That gold is merely seeded on new planets throughout any solar system formed like that way ours did. Billions of years later we come along and dig it up. A stuff that's older than the solar sytem and even the sun it's self.

[@sherrylee5116]

Australia seems to be the teacher's pet, let's all beat it up at recess.

[@shebbs1]

Bring it on, I will set my pet Drop Bear on you!

[@TinkersTales]

right, we'll through a snake at you

[@allandavis8201]

Nah, not worth it, teacher will give us a detention and then we would miss the next episode of “top tens” and I think tomorrow’s episode has something to do with a fellow called “porky pigs and how they fly”.

[@itsmeblank4028]

I think the animals have us covered no need to get our hands dirty

[@Eleonorexanny]

You just jelly. We’ve got the Platypus too, an egg laying marsupial that feeds milk to its young making it the only creature who can make its own custard.

[@annettefournier9655]

There's a fungus among us!

[@lauralynnasteriahathaway6819]

There's a humongous fungus among us!

[@martinbaxter6414]

I was about to complain that no one had jumped on that one.

[@TimSavage-drummer]

That picture of the Blue Mountains looked suspiciously like the Blue Mountains in Australia!

[@RR-qv8uz]

Australian here 🙌🙌🙌🙌 🇦🇺 And Simon , we don’t do feet and miles, mate! 🤣🤣 Thanks world ...

[@marclemieux1030]

Supe, just super... what an earth, what a planet, what a great video. Thanks. WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THIS PLANET.... never mind Mars or others.... thanks Simon.

[@shinjisan2015]

The oldest known species of tree still alive is in Australia, part of the Gondwanaland rainforest, however the location of the trees has been kept secret to protect them.

[@CommunistKiro]

Can I blame my fast moving continent for being late to work?

[@shebbs1]

Maaate, we are just in a hurry to get north out of the cold!

[@JeremyThille]

Mother Nature owns the record for the oldest river and the biggest rock. I mean, who else? Isn't she the only one to compete? :)

[@brianarbenz1329]

When I saw the headline I thought of her owning Tony Bennet and Perry Como records. Those performers seem like Mother Nature’s tastes.

[@felicitybywater8012]

I am sitting here on my sofa at midnight Sydney time, stunned and awed by the fact that I am only a few hours drive from the oldest forest on earth. And I intend to visit it.

[@MichaelAyden]

Woops, Simon, you made a blunder! When you mentioned the gold in the Makhonjwa mountains of South Africa. You said that the gold found there is some of the oldest ever created on the planet, but you will probably know that gold is never created on planets but only within exploding stars (Supernovas) billions of years ago. That gold is merely seeded on new planets throughout any solar system formed like that way ours did. Billions of years later we come along and dig it up. A stuff that's older than the solar sytem and even the sun it's self.

[@agerven]

You are right, but let Simon be forgiven for not knowing all. I don't, and that's why I love these videos. Anyways, the history of most chemical elements beyond hydrogen and helium is, because of that, another record of nature (or should we say the cosmos?).

[@88happiness]

I'm always really impressed by how you pronounce so many difficult names and places. Just a friendly correction though that Lake Eyre is pronounced Lake Air and Ayres Rock is pronounced Airs Rock. 🤣

[@50shadesofgday64]

And ''Finky'' river is just Fink

[@xessenceofinsanityx]

And that's not even touching on "oo-LOO-roo" 😂

[@dragon01b]

seeing this makes me so proud to be an Australian :)

[@canadiandee6342]

I’m so used to your heavy sarcasm on Blaze, when you said “don’t worry, the problem will be fixed soon” I thought people were claiming to fix the movement, not gps

[@JamesF0790]

Same and I'm Australian. I was just picturing "Right mate. We've got to sort out this continent business. It's making me yard too hot to enjoy a tinnie in"

[@phyllindaiam2494]

Simon you’re the best history teacher 🙋🏽‍♀️

[@joshuasingletary8977]

10 Records Totally Owned by Mother Russia

[@sleepingcity85]

Russia isnt in Australia.

[@dogmac123]

This explains why my Geocaching coordinates are always out! Bloody moving Australia.

[@wheelslifts851]

Jeez Simon, with those hand pictures on the bat (number 5) .. what kind of bees are you looking at? If a bee is that size, I'd run inside and prepare for the beepocalypse

[@mrpeabody6581]

Big diff between Uluru and Urulu, great channel but don't confuse the Aussies, we thought we had a whole new rock

[@pringleton]

Its an interesting episode (as ever) but I'm confused by the title, is there any competition to mother nature for these records??

[@jasonrogers1576]

Another interesting fact about GPS satellites, their on-board clocks have to be adjusted from time to time due to time dilation. Because they're moving so fast and due to their altitude, time moves at a slightly different rate for them compared to the surface of the planet...

[@bxbank]

Can you do something on the Tarkine in Tasmania?

[@WolfSpiritAD]

Well I realize this is an old vid, Just now seeing it though in my bing watching of his channels lol I am curious now what the speed is of each continent XD

[@fatalshore5068]

Erm it's just called the "Northern Territory" not territories, this isn't Canada mate!

[@shebbs1]

Fatal Shore yep, all one, big territory.

[@GregMikeska]

Hey can you please make a 10 most expensive food items video?

[@colinr1960]

Also…re-discovered in the 1990’s was a species of pine tree - the Wollemi Pine. It was thought to have gone extinct around the same time as dinosaurs but in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney a small copse of these were discovered. The pine cones have been carefully protected and grown to such an extent that you can now buy them through garden nursery’s and they have been planted all around the country. Fro only a handful of trees 30 years ago they are now thriving. Sometimes, people get it right…

[@vixendoe2545]

Sqqrreee! Love the Bumblebee Bat!!!

[@Weirdoid]

Oddly enough one of the oldest rivers in North America is the New River.

[@ryproar11]

I live in Christainsburg VA so I know that little fact. Appalachian mountains are the oldest as well.

[@tedtyro2961]

ooo-looo-rooo. nice try. It's 'oool-u-rooo' mate. And yes, all our stuff is mega old. We're in the middle of a tectonic plate so no seismic activity means no volcanos + no earthquakes + everything's flat = stuff just stays the way it is.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Best one

[@kaidas732]

Can you please do top ten things that would happen of america became a monarchy

[@SevCaswell]

eh it's more likely to become a dictatorship first...

[@hasenhirn1965]

Continental drift is damned fast ^^

[@theAndys]

Please use the metric system.

[@alexanderheinricher346]

11:35: "..slowly took up their current locations on the globe." If there's any situation where you can assign an adverb to plate tectonics _other_ than "slowly", it needs a "Today I Found Out" video.

[@ettanasf]

Hey Simon and company. Love your channels! A couple of small things, regarding GPS, the satellites are transmitters, your handheld device, like a phone, is strictly a receiver in terms of GPS positioning (and 3-4 satellites are required for GPS position to include elevation). I’m laughing as I write this thinking about your How To video on TIFO on making your vids and how EVERYTHING gets corrected in comments like this one. Lol. Plus, do a “Shirtless Simon” ep FTW! :)

[@ljenk5]

My GPS drives me crazy, Australia, damn it!

[@sventer198]

Australia here! You’re welcome 😂

[@katielancaster6376]

Just a few nights ago Google listed my address as my neighbors (when using current location)... And now i know why

[@jasonrogers1576]

Well, there's: Radiocarbon dating - for dating organic materials Dendrochronology - for dating trees, and objects made from wood, but also very important for calibrating radiocarbon dates Thermoluminescence dating - for dating inorganic material including ceramics Optically stimulated luminescence or optical dating for archaeological applications Potassium-argon dating - for dating fossilized hominid remains Archaeomagnetic dating - Clay lined fire hearths take on a magnetic moment pointing to the North Pole each time they are fired and then cool. The position of the North Pole for the last time the fire hearth was used can be determined and compared to charts of known locations and dates Lead Corrosion Dating. Amino acid dating Obsidian hydration dating - a geochemical method of determining age in either absolute or relative terms of an artifact made of obsidian Rehydroxylation dating - for dating ceramic materials.

[@loretta5653]

Whoa. Thanks.

[@MrMrdelivery]

Amazing that with all the empirical proof that Australia is so old, but that infamous Aussie Ken Ham says the earth is no more than 4,000 years old..And like; ' The Flintstones', man walked with the dinosaurs...

[@jeffrichards1537]

The oldest mountains in the world are still lower than the highest point in the state of west virginia. Spruce knob is over 6,000 feet above sea level.

[@allandavis8201]

I don’t dispute any of the facts quoted Simon but the way the oldest river was dated blew my tiny brain away, I mean how do scientists definitively prove their findings, not just the oldest river but in general, how on earth can they know exactly what went on 300 million years ago? Guess I just don’t understand the maths/ science used. The rain forest in Oz looks beautiful, a place that I wish I had heard of many years ago, before I became unable to travel, as it is my idea of where you go to see something totally unique and unspoiled. Believe me when I say make use of your life and follow your dreams, because one day it will be to late, something I regret every single day.

[@jeffrichards1537]

Deer eat everything. Had a garden last summer with tomatoes plants and sweet bell peppers. Deer ate all but 5 out of 30 plants.

[@Shria9]

Okay, it's not a mountain range any more but the Cambrian Shield is 3.96 billion years old.

[@Shria9]

Folks are also digging up some pretty old water in them there hills.

[@thegismobile]

the gondwana rainforest id also found in nz

[@alanrogers7090]

What a coincidence, my belly button is moving at two inches per year, outward. I'm one of those obese Americans you hear about. I have traveled out of the country, however, but I returned. Now that I'm retired, I can no longer afford to travel. My Mother is living in a nursing home, but I cannot visit her. She is 96 years old, but has Dementia. I do talk with her at least once a week however, even if She doesn't remember.

[@andrewgreaves56]

You really needed to talk to an Aussie about pronunciation here haha

[@bxbank]

The Tarkine in Tasmania is the oldest cold temperate rainforest in the world.

[@ReeoftheDELL]

Sorry but I just have too. The Finke River has a silent e and Lake Ayre is pronounced Air. All is forgiven and thank you for filling my virus times with educational material 👍🏼

[@adamk8639]

If I saw a bee the size of that bat I'd be freaking the heck out!

[@joshuarisker5525]

I think we all need to hear Simon say "what the deuce" like Stewie Griffin

[@recentlydeleted]

Didn't they recently say that Pando was larger than the fungus in Oregon?

[@fuzzy4461]

Its pronounced oo-la-roo

[@greygalah]

Uluru is pronounced "oo_loo_roo" altho many australians say "oo_la_roo"

[@sunnylovett5533]

Its pronounced Lake Air. Also, Uluru is pronounced Ooleroo, or Aye's Rock is again pronounced air's rock. And while it is often referred to as The Rock, no one calls it The Ayers's Rock. Kata Tjuta.

[@fatalshore5068]

Ya we all call it Uluru now :)

[@robinburt5735]

So all Bumblebee Bats are Taurus's? Interesting.

[@bluedestructor4475]

australia ftw

[@amandajones661]

Australia wins all the crazy awards! 😅😅😅

[@thegreenbastard5171]

Simon Whistle To The Wheat Field

[@ElyasBinYahya]

So, Australia is going to smash into the Indonesian archipelago and push it up into the Eurasian mainland. Whoa.

[@dudepool7530]

Its weird hearing simon measure things in Freedom Units.

[@lowfreak]

Hi Toptenz. Great channel, but are you only making videos for a US audience? How many countries uses imperial measurements anymore. Feet, gallons, miles, fahrenheit and olympic swimmingpools makes no sense to most of the world.. Please include metric references for your modern and "foreign" viewers.. :-)

[@MotoHikes]

To be fair, TopTenz is a British channel. Here, we *do* in fact use feet and miles.

[@slobdog7394]

DareWolfRL exactly plus it’s probably aimed at slightly older people that remember when things were done properly.

[@mybackhurts7020]

So how are they going to stop Australia from Moving? You did say the problem was going to be fixed

[@icatz]

Some Nobody LOL! Yes it could've been worded a little better.

[@killer13324]

i think he meant the GPS accuracy problem.

[@icatz]

Jormungand13324 We know that, we're just making a word play joke.

[@agerven]

@jormungand13324 No, GPS will not be more accurate because of this. They'll make a correction for Australia's map with respect to the unfaillable GPS location.

[@shebbs1]

Well, In our usual Australian manner, we will have a government panel, especially featuring all demographic groups, plus unions and policical parties and interest groups. It will sit and debate for years, costing billions, achieve SFA, but still come up with a plan, possibly involving boomerangs, or meat pies and beer to weigh the country down, making it too hard to move because it will be populated by fat bastards, so it will bog down. The plan of the government will inevitably fail, be subject to a costly Royal Commission that goes nowhere but blames Climate Change. Then millions more will be spent on studying what went wrong. By that point we will have breached Indonesian territorian waters, and their descendants, and ours, will get together, drink beer and eat Beef Rendang. The original committee, in our usual fashion, will not yet have set an agenda. Meanwhile some sensible people will simply adjust the GPS system.

[@cyberherbalist]

Simon, "Eisriesen" is pronounced "Ice Ree Zen" not "Ice Rye Zen"

[@harpo3196]

it's ul lar roo or airs rock

[@sarahreckles4559]

The pronunciation of Uluru is killing me

[@trystanjames2687]

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! (Originating from Cymru). Thanks for the strong Aussie call-out mate, but please check your pronunciation mate.

[@curiousworld7912]

Very enjoyable, but you're speaking so fast!

[@rogerszmodis]

Gold is produced in neutron star mergers. It isn't produced on earth save for extremely tiny amounts from radioactive decay

[@itersman1013]

Too bad you missed the oldest tree in the world located in Sweden, but I guess that little country is out of your scope.

[@harrybarber3255]

Just say nature

[@diggs59]

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