Disaster Taxa: How Animals and Plants Survive

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Hey it's good to hear you're not only employed but busy. Not everyone is so lucky right now. Keep taking care of yourself and your family and we'll wait patiently for your videos!

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I'm so happy you're back! I have always loved your lessons!

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Great to see you back Benjamin🙂

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Saved this video the other day to watch later and have been looking forward to it ever since - was not disappointed, this was excellent as always!

[@Thrashdragon]

I knew there was something geologic missing in my life. Good to see you back man!

[@AphidKirby]

Taxa that survive... Hopeful Taxa! what a nice topic!

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I needed something educational amidst all the political turmoil. Great to see you back!

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[@blip1]

Found this channel last week while trying to learn about the P-T extinction (among other geology topics) Cool stuff!

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Welcome back Dr. Burger.

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EXCELENT VIDEO GLAD TO SEE YOU UPLODING CONTENT AGAIN

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[@johnhodge6893]

Hey, finally a chance to comment so I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you, not just for this video but for all of yours videos. We're hunkering down here in Grand Junction but we do miss doing the 'geology thing' in eastern Utah like we often do. Your videos have been doing a good job of filling that gap. Huge thanks! Maybe we'll run into you in the field some day when all of this is over.

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[@tennisguyky]

Always been interested in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, looking at the specific species that survived the asteroid/comet impact at that time. Even without the pretty substantial direct evidence of impact, in the form of crater, iridium, etc., you can infer a lot of what happened then from the survivors that made it into the Paleocene. Nothing over 25lbs on land survived, & animals that were not specialists but generalists that were small and could crucially burrow and also live under water and feed off of dead organisms and that were semi aquatic like crocodiles and frogs and and small mammals made it through, alonf with non-toothed birds that could feed off of seeds rather than being restricted to specific types of fish etc survived. Also nautiloids that lived in the deep ocean survived perhaps because they were more tolerant of no sunlight as opposed to ammonites which evidently laid their eggs near the surface, and all went extinct along with non avian dinosaurs, marine reptiles, and pterosaurs, who were specialists and once that specific food chain collapsed, along with the direct effects of the impact, all disappeared. And, in the fossil record, there was a significant fern spike after the impact, which suggests a wasted landscape that ferns were the first to colonize. This has also been observed in the modern era after volcanic eruptions such as Mt. St. Helens where ferns were first to colonize the desolate landscape. So the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction is a very interesting example of which plants and animals survived a catastrophe and what can be inferred from that.

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By the way, Benjamin, I can not activate the notification function of your youtube channel, I get the "this function is deactivaced for contents specifically for children" notification if I click on the bell icon. Please check your youtube account, there is something going wrong with it.

[@rd264]

I guess the question is whether humans are going to be among disaster taxa

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Subscribed

[@TealCheetah]

The audio on this is very quiet

[@coreofnothing]

Sometimes I bury myself in the garden and act like I’m a carrot

[@SOS-School_Of_Survival]

Why do yiu turn your comments off on other videos? Its a great way to engage and let us pick your brain!

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

KZbin turned off my comments after the court ruling in the USA. Google LLC and its subsidiary KZbin settled to Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General that KZbin videos were sharing service illegally collected personal information from children without their parents' consent, including things showing in comments. Comments to my videos were switched off. I have to manually add comments, which means that they are not visible on several of the KZbin apps, here in the USA. It was kind of a mess....Many of my videos lost their comment sections during this transition. It effected videos that were aimed to kids under 18 (including a lot of my videos on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals).

[@SOS-School_Of_Survival]

@@BenjaminBurgerScience oh man i am sorry to hear it. Im working down in Moab and i watch your stuff frequently. Great content

[@srogamina]

We love your videos for the systemathic and well presented knowledge. I got a technical comment: please, give more time for the images or put a smaller window with you describing them in the corner. Also the sound is too quiet. Greetings from Poland!

[@789563able]

We’ll put together. But you need a better microphone. Your voice is a little little lispy and hard for me to understand More bass needed.

[@petrairene]

Why did you have to cancel field work? That should be the safest in a pandemic. A small group of people without much outside contact social distancing somewhere out in nature should be the best recipy to not catch a respiratory virus!

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

The university restricted all travel during the summer, I did some quick day trips, but overnight and a long multiweek trip was out of the question. Where I work is very remote, and hundreds of miles from the nearest clinic. If one member of the crew gets sick, everyone gets sick. Since we travel in trucks and living in close quarters in tents, if one person is sick then we all get sick. I’ve been in a camp when we got struck by norovirus. Not fun! So, we held off. A colleague of mine got special permission to continue some local fieldwork during the summer, they had to travel in separate trucks and wear masks 24/7. Not really ideal. I’m glad I did not do fieldwork, as in most of my classes I teach, at least one student has become ill because of the virus. Part of doing good field work is making sure everyone is safe, and returns healthy and excited about fossils.

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I bet a large amount of the people watching your videos wish you’d use standard units of measurement along with metric. I’d say a large portion of people don’t know what your talking about with metric. Would it be so hard to be inclusive and diverse?