The Evolution of the Elephant

[@nogo6880]

Moo

[@nogo6880]

I domt know why "moo" getting pinned got me so much, so many informative comments but "moo" gets pinned

[@realplaaant]

moo👍

[@stefanalexanderlungu1503]

Absolute based

[@fireplace3385]

@@stefanalexanderlungu1503 moo

[@nubberton1345]

Tigers can moo

[@slappy8941]

I find it amazing that so many elephants evolved such different tusks. Platybelodon completely blows my mind.

[@Ushio01]

It looks weird because the trunk and upper jaw/lip are merged while keeping the extended lower jaw and lower tusks.

[@roseforyoubabe]

not all of them were elephant they were different and distant ancestors

[@miahjay]

@@roseforyoubabe they’re in the family

[@thalmoragent9344]

Yep, pretty insane divergence

[@thalmoragent9344]

@@roseforyoubabe Similar families nonetheless. Cousins species and the likes still counts overall

[@vjbele]

This is such an underrated channel; Cenozoic animals don’t get enough love IMO, and they need more attention. Keep up these amazing videos!

[@booqueefious2230]

As much as I love dinosaurs, a park with resurrected prehistoric mammals would be more practical and really interesting. You'd think they'd start with that before trying to bring back actual dinosaurs

[@vjbele]

@@booqueefious2230 Agreed. I love dinosaurs too, but in a zoo setting I feel like they'd be too "out of place." Prehistoric mammals, especially the Pleistocene ones would feel more familiar.

[@shashishekhar----]

These animals are fucking dead, they need no love or shit like that 🤣

[@curious5887]

@@booqueefious2230 agree, with have more preserved Woolly Mammoth dna than Dinosaur, due to Mammoth extinct recently, while Dinosaur went extinct far much further in past time, and their dna isn’t as preserved as Woolly Mammoth

[@danzoom]

@@shashishekhar---- is english your first language?

[@pocketmarcy6990]

We’re now seeing elephants in Southern Africa develop very reduced tusks as a result of the animals with more prominent tusks being poached. Just a nice example of human induced evolution

[@wayofthekodiak3118]

🤦🏽‍♂️

[@k9m42]

That’s not evolution. That’s is adaptation.

[@pocketmarcy6990]

@@k9m42 which is part of evolution

[@jason3064]

You mean Chinese induced

[@IsaacHumo]

​@@k9m42Evolution is a conjunction of adaptations

[@fabricio-agrippa-zarate]

As an interesting note, the mammoths at the Russian island were so few, there was heavy inbreeding and the genetic pool was all messed up. Their fur grew shaggy and unable to protect them from cold, and also had lots of growth and development issues.

[@Роман-о8й2т]

Average thing in russia tbh

[@amj.composer]

@@Роман-о8й2т Bruh! XD

[@parthkhanolkar7916]

​@@Роман-о8й2т 💀

[@Ragnarra]

I just heard about that through eons! Very informative.

[@Ragnarra]

@@johnnyjericho8472 the technical issue is for you to have a stable relationship in a species you need at least a five hundred individuals to a thousand. But they didn’t have the land or surface area for that surviving on a tiny island which served as the last bastion. It causes genetic mutations to appear and only the bad ones eventually causing their dna to mutate so severely that it couldn’t be salvaged. Its called a genetic meltdown because of the spiral it sends the species into. In many ways I think it could be considered a fate worse than death because all of the individuals inherited a genetic disease which none of them could escape. Over half the calves either died in the womb or came out with deformities which again made them suffer more.

[@VideosByCal]

Mastodon - "Okay, got it..." Wooly Mammoth - "A little furry, but still a 'phant." The rest of these - "Holy fucking shit, what's going on?!"

[@LordofFullmetal]

Lol evolution has produced some reaaaally weird things. For some reason, I never thought about how the trunk must have looked mid-evolution from snout to trunk.

[@pvic6959]

@@LordofFullmetal I think you mean god created... jk jk. evolution be wild tho

[@crispyleaves123]

12:00 just *what in the world*

[@aangmaster9392]

@@pvic6959 Had me in the first half ngl XD. But seriously tho holy cow Imagine what would've happen to them if they were put on an island for a long period of time cuz for some reason evolution likes to go crazy on islands lol

[@pvic6959]

@@aangmaster9392 evolution really does enjoy islands haha

[@cynthiajelsema968]

I don't know if you read comments after a year or not. But I live in Michigan and about two weeks ago a man was removing a bunch of sludge to work on a road. Once that was out of the way, he discovered two mastodon skeletons! It's believed they were young. The femur bone is 4 ft long. 🐘🐘

[@B.Mega.D]

Cool!😁

[@wm_9640]

I’m from Michigan too. Where was this found?

[@cynthiajelsema968]

@@wm_9640 I believe it was kent city. They were taking the remains to MSU, then later back to a museum in grand rapids.

[@pailhorsegaming6762]

Holy crap, that’s so cool!

[@Svensk7119]

Four-foot femur, for a 'phantform foal? Translation: big bone for a baby... damn! I had an alliterative reaction! Anyway, would young mastodons have such long femurs?

[@dinomation]

Elephants have one of the most interesting evolutionary lineage of any mammals.

[@Anonymous-ti5yb]

Whales, too

[@Rvainlefty]

It's weird how historic versions of animals always look weird as fuck

[@Elephant-Puppet]

Yeah

[@AspireGMD]

Whale evolution is wild, as expected. Those whales discovered with legs really fucking horrify me.

[@CHIEF__]

@@Rvainlefty Imagine how weird people will think our animals looked after another 10k years of human presence? I can't even imagine after what we did do dogs

[@whenitsraining861]

Yes! A channel that discusses just what I love. There was a time I was obsessed with drawing elephants, one after another. I appreciate the content. Keep up the good work!

[@xiajiang785]

Cool!

[@DaviFigueiraChavez]

autism be like:

[@BusterCherry1]

​@@DaviFigueiraChavez Beat me to it😂

[@arminhappel2541]

Elephant Babys are, objectively speaking, very cute!

[@wildsideofthings7733]

Anyone who says otherwise is a heartless monster

[@SoulDelSol]

That's why elephant parents love their babies

[@princesseville6889]

Thats why the mammoth mummy is so depressing, too D:

[@prehistoriccreature1800]

Lol no. Idiots

[@prehistoriccreature1800]

elefart babies are ugly. Objectively speaking

[@_robustus_]

Most documentaries start the story at moeritherium. I was not aware of the 1st 3 you covered. You rock!

[@durainawan6671]

Not only in documentaries but in some books also start at Moeritherium.

[@dukenukem9770]

Great upload! Thanks for posting. I had absolutely no idea that mammoths existed 1000 years AFTER the first pyramids in Egypt were built!!! That was mind-blowing...

[@pedrocampos691]

Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.

[@johnnymcauliffe1289]

My first thought regarding that baby Woolly Mammoth was “Awww, so cute,” which then went immediately to “Oh God, wait…she must’ve died horribly.” Thanks for not reading that whole bit.

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

Knowing how intelligent and sensitive they were, this just hurts. Poor baby.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

How about the co-evolution of North America's two fastest animals: the pronghorn and its now-extinct primary predator, the American cheetah (Miracinonyx trumani)?

[@mickaleneduczech8373]

And the other relatives of the pronghorn that are now extinct.

[@erichtomanek4739]

I am so old I remember it as Felis trumani.

[@kristofwynants]

@@mickaleneduczech8373 Synthetoceras, off the top of my head...

[@RipRLeeErmey]

Now extinct primary predator, the _what_

[@jgray1831]

@Kristof Wynants what

[@prototropo]

Thankyou for the anti-poaching remarks! A world without elephants would be truly lonely.

[@tummytub1161]

People always think only humans do deforestation. Mammoth and elephants are responsible for deforesting entire continents, but the did it the right way. While mammoths roamed Siberia they prevented the growth of forests so smaller plants could grow creating tundras and vast planes of moorlands. Those areas were responsible for a huge amount of oxygen production, a lot more than forests are. They were also greatly responsible for creating deserts. While that might seem a bad thing Elephants stayed in balance with their alterations made in the landscape. If there are too many elephants a food shortage makes them die off until there's enough food again to feed the survivors, that's something humans don't tend to do. Having met with elephants, I also don't want to live in a world without them. I love elephants and am very happy there are humans that try and save the elephant from extinction they play a very important part in the survival of our planet.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

No, they didn't 'deforest entire continents'.

[@tummytub1161]

@@Dr.IanPlect Yes they did, Northern Europe, Asia and Northern America were all mainly heather and tundra because of mammoths grazing and preventing growth of large dense forests like we have now in Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@tummytub1161 Your response doesn't refute mine.

[@tummytub1161]

@@Dr.IanPlect I wasn't trying to, after some more extensive research mammoths probably did take down trees like elephants do today, but they mainly prevent forests from existing, not tearing them down by the bushes. There's no concluding evidence of it.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@tummytub1161 So, you CAN'T substantiate 'deforest entire continents', YET, YOU JUST CLAIMED SO in your first comment! Just admit it was a wildly exaggerated comment!

[@abyabraham6646]

I loved this. It's kinda hard to find such dedicated research on evolution of mammals. Nice work

[@invisiblejaguar1]

I knew I would cry when you got to modern elephants, I love them so much

[@Rittzz235]

Was introduced to your channel a little bit ago and I am so glad I was. Your videos are really well made and really informative. Keep up the good work.

[@andyb1169]

Its pretty unfair that you don't have more subscribers and views for the high quality content you put out

[@SoulDelSol]

He only has 11 videos so far, 8 of which are within last 2 months and other 3 were approx 1 year ago. Give it time, good channels catch algorithm and grow. It seems slow at first but going from 2k to 8k is 400% growth whereas it is a lot easier to go from 102k to 108k, which is same 6k increase. I agree tho, there are crap content providers with millions of subs.

[@KingofgraceSARA]

@@SoulDelSol These megatubers with contentless content souled out.

[@thereptile9467]

10:25 It's funny how utterly conditioned to Touhou soundtracks I've become that I can pick out the melody in the middle of a paleontology video about the evolution of elephants. The song here I believe is Last Remote, the Extra Stage Theme for Subterranean Animism. Most famously known for its remix into "Tsuki ni Murakumo Hana ni Kaze", an absolute banger and certified classic. Enjoy this fun Touhou Trivia on a seemingly unrelated video folks.

[@fullcapsethan]

you've recently become one of my favourite paleonthology youtuber . love your content !!!

[@charlesbragdon5200]

Honestly I love your channel keep up the good qork, but don't you dare stress yourself about making everything over the top perfect! It's magnificently done and I'm happy to follow for all your regular content

[@Gazman011969]

It never ceases to amaze how much guess work there is in paleontology, recreating a whole creature from one molar.

[@bdb1052]

true, it is crazy how little we actually KNOW about these ancient animals. An awful lot of assumptions made by paleontologists

[@carlwheezer1030]

Well they can see in other ways that the genomes are incredibly similar thus most likely resulting in a similar looking animal

[@julievonhaeften8323]

Its hard to believe anything from these so called "scientists"

[@garryabbott3474]

But it is still guess work

[@garryabbott3474]

A few bad apples Julie.

[@shrisheel]

Interesting information. Would have been good to show the evolutionary tree and come back to it everytime you introduce a new species so we could see how they are related.

[@bryanhikes7248]

Grey as a mouse, Big as a house, Nose like a snake, I make the earth shake, As I tramp through the grass; Trees crack as I pass. With horns in my mouth I walk in the South, Flapping big ears. Beyond count of years I stump round and round, Never lie on the ground, Not even to die. Oliphaunt am I, Biggest of all, Huge, old, and tall. If ever you'd meet me You wouldn't forget me. If you never do, You won't think I'm true; But old Oliphaunt am I, And I never lie.

[@GustavoLadeira42]

I hope this channel grows as much as it deserves. Keep the great work, the videos are fantastic!

[@chiaroscuroamore]

Thank you for your hard work! Your videos are always well done and super informative. I didn’t know until now just how diverse elephant evolution has been!

[@amandaharig1978]

I have kids in my life that will benefit from your videos. You helped me understand a lineage that explains so much of extinct Megafauna species in a cohesive timeline. Cheers! I've subscribed. Truly appreciate your work.

[@KingofgraceSARA]

I love this video and it was good taste to cut the tragic baby mammoth bit. As an elephant lover, I thank you. Subbed,liked, and shared🐘

[@kristofwynants]

Well done! Your's is quickly becoming one of my favourite paleo-channels. Looking forward to the next one! Mastodon is one of my favourite animals and bands. If you're ever short on ideas: anthracotheres and the evolution of pantherines please! (I've never seen the European jaguar featured in a paleo-vid...)

[@SweaterGodHavina]

Thank you for this vastly entertaining content… Nerds need love too, I’m glad you know that 😊

[@cwilson0713]

Thank you so much for making good content. Straight forward no goofy stuff and dignified! Ppl have forgotten themselves... thank you and please keep up the good work!

[@robertogrimaldit6277]

Beautiful, intelligent animals that deserve better treatment from humans ❤

[@tylowren2005]

Brilliant video and if I’m explaining elephant evolution to somebody I will definitely use this video! 👍👍👍

[@vandacarneiro980]

Rises.

[@attitw]

I clicked on the video because i love woolly mammoths with all my heart (and cheered when you started talking about them) but this whole video was incredibly interesting and informative. I’m amazed by the palaeolaxodon and i wish animals that large were still around today!

[@danangarifwidodo]

hey, can you make carnivorous hoofed mammal?

[@chasemurraychristopherdola7108]

I completely agree with you on that because I am interested in learning more about Andrewsarchus and I am sorry for the language but the hell pigs/terminator pigs aka the Enteladonts and the middle claws aka the Mesonychids and Just saying but I would love to see a video on the creodonts and they included giants like Hyenadon and Tritemnodon which are part of the family Hyaenodontidae but there was also a family called Hyainailouridae aka Hyena cats which included Hyainailouros, Megistotherium, Dissopsalis and the newly discovered Simbakubwa which in the Swahili language translates to Great Lion from Africa but besides the Hyaenodontidae there was another family called the Oxyaenidae which included the subfamilies Machaeroidinae which included Machaeroides and apataelurs and the subfamilies Oxyaeninae which included Sarkastodon aka meaty tooth and Palaeonictinae and Tythaena aka little hyena.

[@minutemansam1214]

I think he already made a video about dolphins.

[@funkuro]

*H I P P O* (I know they’re omnivores, at least I’m pretty sure. But oh god they’re scary.)

[@helixsol7171]

They're called cetaceans my friend

[@rameshshinde1193]

No

[@theelf29]

Quality - and pretty comprehensive, I daresay - illustrated overview. Keep up the great work!

[@jandrews6254]

With the species that had the massive lower jaw development, are there any specimens of the young? Because I’d be interested in what the newborns jaw development was like from when they were born to when they were weaned

[@helixsol7171]

Moeritherium just looks like a tapir ngl Edit: A lot of the early ancestors look like tapirs

[@simonj3413]

Yeah, Moeritherium actually appear in the Ice Age films, and when I was younger I thought they were meant to be tapirs… which would actually make more sense considering the time and place those movies are set in.

[@vladimirlagos2688]

Awesome video, extremely complete and detailed. If I were to suggest another video idea it would probably be on multituberculates, a group of mammals that lived from the Jurassic all the way up to the Oligocene before mysteriously going extinct.

[@eliletts1680]

Very well made video! I absolutely enjoyed watching this video! 😊

[@Salem_Rabbit]

Elephants are just giant shrews.

[@icohen1627]

Only an elephant 🐘 can look cute and terrifying at the same time

[@cerberaodollam]

Big cats too tbh 🦁🐯🐱

[@brianedwards7142]

Orca

[@davidmoore8227]

Bears

[@slipstreamxr3763]

Bison

[@thefave2]

Baby elephants are cute!

[@callmebrine_1462]

not baby platbelodons

[@simonskull666]

I think you really have a great argument here, by addressing all the elephants in the room!

[@lightningboltt5437]

Can you do the evoltion of the lungfish and lamprey and hagfish

[@shubhanshujain9827]

I have been wanting this video for so long, it was more amazing than I thought, thanks!

[@davidflitcroft7101]

Brilliant. The discipline this took is hard for me to imagine. And such noble and intelligent creatures. . . I am so sorry the great mammoths are gone.

[@GabriellavanBerk]

Very interesting video!! Since I was a child I was fashionated in Mammoths and other prehistoric elephants!!

[@geekmythologynerdic]

5:25 Wasn't expecting audio from SpongeBob, but I'm not complaining.

[@SoulDelSol]

That's who that was, what's his deal anyway

[@shuddupeyaface]

What a brilliant video. I enjoyed it immensely and I now know more than I did an hour ago. Good work.

[@carlosmendez8722]

“OMAN you figured it out” 😂😂😂

[@steveneighner7543]

Dude, you have my utmost respect being able to pronounce all of that and still have your tongue left after all that twisting. Very interesting video.

[@chancegivens9390]

Great job of telling the evolutionary story of one of my favorite mammal groups!.

[@donuts7687]

Hey buddy, long videos take lots of time and work! Do it all in your own tempo, don't rush anything! You're doing super good!! 💕

[@ethanbakerthealienking]

Elephants are my favorite Animal so learning about how they came to be throughout evolution is amazing

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Thank you so much for your amazing channel! Nice sense of humour too! Subbed.

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[@vanessarobbins7629]

Thank you for this video. I work in a Museum with a (replica) life size mammoth and get asked about elephant evolution all the time. This was very helpful and informative.

[@NanaThePeanut]

I just wish I can time travel to that time just to spectate. What a sight to behold 🤩

[@rhoff523]

A very well-done overview with lots of detail. Bravo!

[@robrice7246]

5:24 Here's a better joke, "What smells rotten and puts people to sleep?"

[@robrice7246]

@Power Alimin *NO, YOUR ACT!!!*

[@Bilalcane223]

i don’t get it

[@vinaykadam3935]

Highly underrated channel and yeah u got a subscriber 🙋.

[@ltings5806]

This is a really cool series. Really unique and super interesting learning the evolutionary pathways of modern animals. Please keep these going!!

[@xiajiang785]

I think u deserve more likes on ur comments

[@Moonzari]

I had a book as a child that explained the Elephants and their ancestors. This gave me hxc vibes from that book. Memory unlocked. And subscribed ❤

[@emarti3853]

Liked. Commented. Subscribed. Take as long as you need. 👌

[@musicbox1435]

It's so informative. You deserve more viewers

[@StayCoolKeto]

🐘 *New subscriber here! FANTASTIC well put together video mate! totally loved it! really appreciate the work you put in to it. love the detailed time stamps too! cheers mate! look forward to your next one* 🐘

[@cocosolis8240]

I wanna appreciate the fact that losodokodon is an 11 letter word with half of the letters being the same *vowel*

[@Kami-mk7tu]

It's great to hear they finally put Forrest in their own species.

[@theoheinrich529]

I see your video editing has been improving ever since your first upload, keep it up! The narration is very clear and relaxing, and the memes delightful.

[@Vornix1]

It would be nice

[@Mike-mf3ed]

My fave one is the wooly mammoths with the tusks that curve down, then out, and then in and up. I hope I’m making sense right now…

[@LordofFullmetal]

I think I get what you mean. Corkscrew tusks, right? Pretty sure those are males; I think the theory is that females had normal tusks, and males had corkscrews.

[@Mike-mf3ed]

@@LordofFullmetal I’m not an expert. But because I think you are, I’ll believe you.

[@thejurassicman661]

Well made! I love the new more informations in them. Take as long as you need. But also take cool suggestions too. Not alot on mammal history, especially on something like... Ground Sloth next?

[@haidynstewart22]

Great video and good to see the start of a new paleo yt channel :) keep up the good work and can’t wait to watch all the amazing content you produce

[@grace5317]

I didn’t understand most of the words you were saying, but I enjoyed the video and watching how the elephant has evolved!😃

[@animalorigins]

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great choice with the music!

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Just stumbled on to your channel and I'm loving all these informative videos, please keep making more!

[@KhanRiyadi]

Amazing vid !!! Commendable work👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@kookaman6095]

17:12 Frickin’ bush elephant

[@susmitabiswas377]

The elephant of the evolution looks kind of awesome

[@cptprice2483]

love this video keep it up

[@KL-hr2kj]

16:15 Me: WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOSE Stegotetrabelodon: Those are my tusks

[@mns188]

Very informative I love the content, it is a very sad story with the baby mammoth

[@retroduck5740]

I love your vids man

[@lets_fish_already_9345]

Stayed up all night to watch this.

[@lukaslambs5780]

I love all animals but elephants are my favorite. They’re just so special in so many ways!

[@indyreno2933]

However, there may actually be four living species of elephants 1) Loxodonta Africana (African Prairie Elephant) 2) Loxodonta Cyclotis (African Forest Elephant) 3) Elephas Maximus (Asian Mainland Elephant) 4) Elephas Sumatrensis (Malayan Elephant)

[@prairierider7569]

This was so well done, I’m now subscribing, as an adult who couldn’t learn in the regurgitate and memorize when I went to school way back when

[@SableScimitar]

No worries about how long it takes to make your videos. You provide some really cool content, so no worries if they take a little longer!

[@cyanotunes]

Love all the videos so far. (Just one critique . Volume mixing on your voice could be louder .)

[@brunobucciaratiswife]

I love this channel! I’m so interested in animal evolution

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[@nishamanikandan7171]

Wow,thats really a long history,elephants are an imp part of festivals here in south india

[@ahather]

wonderful video, and yes baby mammoth death description is too depressing, though I'm sure it would cover a lot of the same ground as some of your other videos, I would love to have a video on the evolution of the hippo

[@Maxon408]

Keep up the work , I’m loving this.

[@Stjoes34]

I am mad no one else thought the “oh man” joke was funny enough to bring it up. But I lol’d HARD

[@Mike-dm6nb]

It really wasn't that funny. If anything it should have been seen as an ill Oman for the rest rest of the video

[@GG_Booboo]

Awesome history of the elephant!!! Thanks!

[@joebaumgart1146]

I'm still upset that the Devs banned Wooley Mammoths.

[@spit_soup]

i never knew all of this . i want to become a biologist and zoologist (among other earth/animal sciences) and it makes me excited that i could help study these things in the future