That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

"Tectonic shifts let the water flow back in." Fools, it was Heracles, noble Greek hero and son of Zeus, who split the rock of Gibraltar in twain!

[@kobusg7460]

Are you sure? Was this whole thing not caused by Moses?

[@mme.veronica735]

@@kobusg7460 Didn't Moses split a sea and not make one? Sounds luke he's pretty anti-sea to me

[@ivanpeniche5472]

@Trabzon duzkoy lmao, you're so brainwashed by Hollywood you forget that both of these stories are older than what we now call the US

[@17njl01]

Trabzon duzkoy literally what

[@kobusg7460]

@@mme.veronica735 Dear Miss Vivian. The story of Moses is complicated, I am afraid to say. You see, Moses (who lived for a long, long, long, long time) operated when the seas were together; then he split it; then he made it come together again. That is one theory / fact; another theory / fact is about greeks gods' influence, and yet another theory / fact is as explained by PBS.

[@diebesgrab]

“it could possibly happen again” I guess that’d be one way to stop Venice sinking.

[@annakilifa331]

As far as I know the tectonic plate that the African border of the Gibraltar passage belongs to is currently moving north. At a rate of about 1 cm per year (roughly). So while that would close the passage again, it would be far too late for Venice, which is on its way to sink far, far earlier than that.

[@karellen00]

As a venetian I admit that it would be cool if it would happen, but it would be hugely overkill! It would be far easier to seal the entrances to the venetian lagoon, with dams or even dumping sand/clay. The current project (that should be completed soon) adds two layers of complexity: the first is that it can open and close the lagoon so that it won't become a salty swamp and to preserve the local ecosystem, the second is that they wanted it to be invisible when inactive. It would have been far easier, cheaper and faster to build movable dams like the ones they have in Holland, but it was decided that it would be too visually impacting. We have instead a set of boxes hinged to the ground under the water at the harbor mouth, that will be filled with air to rise them and block the water.

[@ConstantChaos1]

@@karellen00 how is the project going btw? I havent heard anything about it recently

[@karellen00]

@@ConstantChaos1 It should be completed by 2021 but the "hardware" part is already done, they even tested it and it seemed to be working (they used one compressor for all the boxes instead of like 10 of the ended project). What needs to be done should be just compressors, actuators and electronics. Anyway there is a big unknown that is maintenance: we don't know how long the hinges will work (they already had problems in the past when small scale tests were done, but I think they made a new beefier design) especially if there's an abnormally strong wind like the one we had in November. Also we have yet to see if the space between the boxes and the see floor will stay clean, there are high pressure water nozzles for this task, but we'll have to see if they work in the real word against mussels that may block the boxes.

[@bearcubdaycare]

It would somewhat change the vibe to have dry canals and to be surrounded by mudflats or eventually fields.

[@dinocharlie1]

Eons every video: "Here's one theory" Me: "That makes sense" Eons: "But this theory is wrong" Me: "Of course it is, that idea makes no sense"

[@rparl]

Reminds me of the technique of St Thomas Aquinas. He srarted by saying It would seem that .... But instead (all the reasons it cannot be true). And then he would say what was true instead. We read two of his books in college humanities class.

[@benmountaingangster]

r/meirl

[@DripDripDrip69]

That's why she didn't call them theories, but hypothesis

[@lisa2stewart]

If they didn't make at least some kind of sense they wouldn't be viable hypotheses.

[@gbrinch]

@@rparl then you might want to check out Rudolf Steiner...

[@atvaddiction9621]

New hypothesis: the giant beavers dammed it up

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

Aww, you took my comment away....lol.. That is what I was thinking.

[@Mykxfyre-sims]

I back this claim.

[@unknownentity6578]

@Myles Connor we all know that the site is fake just by looking when ur account got created

[@larsb2999]

Or the Ever Given got stuck again

[@MrRabraham]

P

[@lucasbaker349]

Subtle brag, my grandfather was a key member of the original team to discover the Mediterranean had dried up. It had something to do with looking for oil, and finding what looked like a river valley extending from the Nile river delta on the sea floor, along with what looked like multiple deltas under the sea. Edit: this happened in the 60s by the way.

[@denni4941]

Nice :)

[@CeLonski]

Weird flex but ok

[@fallinginthed33p]

The paleo-Nile cut a massive valley a few thousand feet deep from Aswan downstream to the sea. All that's been buried by thousands of feet of sediments.

[@uranusismightybig5111]

@@CeLonski why weird flex..? The guy just shared something from his familys history.

[@Madmun357]

Geologists from your grandfathers era were a REALLY smart bunch. I majored in geology.

[@Zia01023]

This makes me wonder about the salt deposits and a story my mom used to tell us long ago. Being born and raised in Calabria Italy, until her early 40's before migrating (legally) to the U.S., Calabria was a short ferry ride to Sicily...she would tell us stories of women going Sicily to smuggle salt placed in pockets in their undergarments which was illegal to purchase in order to bring back to the mainland. She had said that the salt from Sicily was far much better quality than the salt they were able to purchase in Calabria and smuggling it out of Sicily was a common practice among the Calabrese.

[@nickpaine]

Hmm...that may explain why my nana smelled like sardines.

[@jkcarroll]

I was going to ask if anyone was mining those salt deposits. Be stupid not to.

[@GK-zu8zs]

So it's OK to smuggle salt (clearly an illegal activity) but not OK to smuggle yourself? What's the difference?

[@Zia01023]

@@GK-zu8zs Where are you reading that I said it's not ok or ok to smuggle oneself?

[@omgpix]

@@GK-zu8zs The difference is one is an inanimate object and the other a human being, you potato.

[@mirhasanoddname]

This sole phenomena happened during 600.000 years... it truly feels like a slap to the face how short is our time on Earth compared to it's history

[@giupiete6536]

'Our time' is literally our lifetimes, what we do will be forgotten, misrepresented or misunderstood at best even in those lifetimes, let alone after.

[@mirhasanoddname]

@@giupiete6536 That's what I alluded to, yes

[@rickbaldwin6291]

Only to a fool that believes the psyence of men. This whole article is trash science.

[@electrofan1796]

@@giupiete6536 Typical why I stay away from social media and put importance on history.

[@mwatts-riley2688]

As with lake Meade ?

[@sambeck2510]

The illustration for that rabbit looks like a capybara

[@JoeJoeTheCapybara]

It does look similar to a capybara.

[@HenriqueErzinger]

really large rodent body plans are all more or less similar after all

[@WenzelSays]

+

[@jaredmitchell1302]

That because they are all related to a common ancestor.

[@klyanadkmorr]

It's click baity calling it a rabbit when it was far from near the recent rabbit species and more like those older herbivore leading to the range of including capybaras.

[@gregoryeatroff8608]

There's an award-winning science fiction story called "Down in the Bottomlands" about humans evolving in a world where the Mediterranean never refilled.

[@quantumleaper]

A seven-book series is 'The Gandalara Cycle' by Randall Garret and Vicki Ann Heydron it's about apes evolving at the bottom of the Mediterranean. I wonder if Harry got the idea from Randall and Vicki's books? Considering theirs is about a decade and a half after Harry's started.

[@gregoryeatroff8608]

@@quantumleaper I've never read those, but I loved Randall Garrett's "Frost and Thunder" enough that his name on a book cover is enough to get me interested.

[@quantumleaper]

@@gregoryeatroff8608 Finding paperback versions of those books might be a little hard but I do know they have an Audio version of the books. I know I found used copies Gandalara Cycle 1, 2, and the last book which I found used at the World Sci-Fi convention in 2000. The two 'Cycle' versions are collected 1-3 and 4-6 of the books. Since I also have the first book from around 1980 when I bought it, new.

[@NH2112]

A dry Mediterranean was also a major plot device in Julian May’s “Saga of Pliocene Exile.”

[@MattMajcan]

wow that graphic showing the flow of water through the medditerranian was awesome

[@alterego3734]

Look for 'NASA | Perpetual Ocean'

[@ericgraham8150]

I thought you were clowning me, but it was awesome.

[@MrAtrophy]

I don't know what I want more a giant rabbit , or a tiny hippo.

[@FireFog44]

Want no longer my friend, Pygmy hippos exist and are alive today!

[@istvansipos9940]

rabbit tastes so fine that I risk it without knowing the taste of a hyppo. the bunny, please. Wabbit season, hahahahahahahahaha!

[@christelheadington1136]

I like the mini elephant.

[@Divert486]

Hippos are extremely aggressive.. You wouldn't want one.

[@cartoonfreak9]

Good news! There are giant rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus) that are 15-20 pounds and so fluffy!

[@anxiousfoodperson8116]

"They named this big bunny nuralagus rex" Was Chungus Magnus taken?

[@fadhlihamid1446]

Darquimbertus McNarington idk

[@royalteluis623]

That should have been the name

[@Unnamed7964]

Lmaooo

[@kitcutting]

Chungus Magnus was not accepted as your password. That password is too strong.

[@76rjackson]

Lagomrphus bugsus bunnyus

[@ontaka5997]

This giant bunny must have been the rabbit that massacred the knights in the "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

[@lsd25records]

nih !!!!!!

[@bradbutcher3984]

That rabbit's dynamite.

[@garethbaus5471]

Too bad these fossils predate the holy hand grenade.

[@Valerio_the_wandering_sprite]

Run away! (X5)

[@pocadon]

Haha!

[@LPArabia]

The American football field, a scientific unit of length and area.

[@_dbzeibert_1718]

I know, it drives me crazy wherever it's used. I wish we'd stop with that comparison.

[@pakde8002]

You caught that too. Dropping head in despair. The rest of the world knows what 100 meters looks like. Americans know what a football field looks like. ..an American football field that is.

[@pakde8002]

@@_dbzeibert_1718 it's easier to visualize than two thousand hot dogs end to end.

[@adamdean5881]

PBS is the American Public Broadcasting System and an American football field is something that an average American could relate to. If you can't relate it is probably because you are not the intended audience.

[@gododoof]

To be fair ancient Romans used stadia as a unit of length, so there is precedent for it.

[@gaucidaniel1444]

Her explanations are so easy -to-follow and drift so well from one point to the next

[@alexisquim4502]

They drift like a vivid imagination with no real concept and no direction.

[@Hertog_von_Berkshire]

Mostly without mention of any evidence, just a bunch of assertions.

[@IIISentorIII]

Thats why i cant watch it, its made for 5 year old

[@davidw2417]

Geologist here, I look forward to every upload from the team at PBS Eons! Fantastic way to educate the public on one of Earth's most fascinating topics, and to geek out over the science! Love it.

[@debralucas2224]

When I become filthy rich, I'm going to hire a geologist and make them follow me around the world, explaining everything as we go lol.

[@destree6348]

Debra Lucas I honestly hope that comes true for you!

[@massspectrician]

Geologist here, this presentation is dismissive and asserts certainty through aversion to the null hypotheses as "wrong". I'm happy to question the quality.

[@zarathustra498]

@@massspectrician Geochemist here, widespread dissemination of scientific results by charismatic presenters is extremely important. Even if you are no-fun pedantic and could try to challenge these assertions with technical lingo I would say they did amazingly wonderful job presenting such complex topic packed with information in just 12 min. Just 1 photo they show is typically the result of years of fieldwork and interpretation, they cannot read the whole paper just for the sake of technicality.

[@jamesb5864]

I'm sorry for everyone in this thread who wasted their time and money in a mental institution!

[@shishgeor]

It was actually a group of ancient giant beavers that build a dam. Scientists always make it complicated.

[@pakde8002]

Actually now that you mention it the so called rabbit looks a lot more like an average to large beaver.

[@sergelevesque2718]

And it was Eric Cartman and Stan Marsh that broke the dam to refill the sea...

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

@Bat Georgi You're right, it was Billy and Bemus. Most people only know them as the ancestors of Romulus and Remus, so I'm glad you pointed out their initial important work.

[@Hollywood2021]

I broke the dam

[@henryhorner3182]

But by building the dams, the beavers invoked a lot of hatred and anger from the tourist industry. The drying up of the Med causing a number of tourist liners to become landlocked.

[@smacpost3]

I once found a giant dust bunny in the geographic zone between my bed and the wall.

[@stellamaris5405]

☘️ 😂😂

[@jamesu1540]

😂😂😂

[@JilynnFurlet]

Chonkidustus lagamorphoides?

[@smacpost3]

@@JilynnFurlet, yes, exactly right :)

[@st3wham1]

I think you mean The *Mediterdrainean*

[@divinekitty1831]

Stewart Hamilton That was so terrible I had to give it a like

[@paulrussell1207]

Ha *Maltaple* people like your pun. Those who don't are just salty!

[@st3wham1]

Paul Russell I’d quicker describe them as a *Spain* in the arse! There are probably quite a few, would really be difficult to *Italy* them up!

[@paulrussell1207]

@@st3wham1 Ha, you're so sicily, I am too of corsica!

[@connornavich]

Womp womp wawawawawa

[@mikesands4681]

That ocean current graphic reminds me of VAn Gogh’s Starry Night painting. Lovely.

[@TheHaz84]

Small correction, in the video the presenter mentions that the last time Sicily and Malta were connected was during the MSC (~5 Mya), but we know that there was a land bridge connecting the islands during the peak of the last ice age (~ 20 Kya).

[@yondie491]

Sincere question, how is that a correction? It's not wrong.

[@koeniging]

@@yondie491 I’m pretty sure what they’re getting at is that the video states that the last time these land masses were connected was five million years ago, but that’s incorrect since there’s evidence to support that there has been a landbridge there as recently as 20,000 years ago, and it was even at its peak size at this point. Therefore the info in the video is incorrect; they were not last joined 5mya. May be wrong tho

[@yondie491]

@@koeniging "between land masses that haven't been connected since the MSC, like Malta and Sicily" Thank you

[@snerg64]

I absolutely love this but... one little but. I would really appreciate small little Date stamp each time some crucial periods are mentioned. I understand it adds to editing but if you have script anyway why not? It would tell people not only where but when things happened. One more switch activated in people's brains to visualise and get real perspective of spoken topics. :) I truly enjoyed this particular vid. Thank you.

[@meaninglesscommenter8457]

Bloodworm when didn’t they mention dates?

[@snerg64]

@@meaninglesscommenter8457 I didn't say they do not mention dates. They do at the beginning however later on few times we hear end of MSC and so on. My point was that simple date stamp within the film would help people to place this period better - I am talking from kids (educational) point of view.

[@ConstantChaos1]

Agreed

[@buddy5335]

Nick Lucid over At the Science Asylum is the Gold standard of time lines. They really help get his points across.

[@LoPhatKao]

part of learning is learning how to learn is it so hard to pull up a wikipedia page?

[@mariakayed5555]

Finally! an episode about this event!!! sums it up perfectly. Can you do an episode about the tectonics in the Eastern Mediterranean? African rift, Lebanon's faults, the Dead Sea, the Red Sea, etc.

[@corey_the_bird3086]

“It would take decades...” that doesn’t seem like enough ti... “...and lots of research...” ...ohhhh they were talking about something else

[@Fodonyx]

It would be interesting to know more about that time when the Sahara desert was a rainforest...

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

It wasn't. It was a grassland.

[@swallowsometruth9550]

Or when the Antarctic was a forest region

[@VVabsa]

@@swallowsometruth9550 They did a video about that one. Just search it.

[@yllbardh]

Sahara was Savana at the time this video is.

[@razorransom1795]

Well even Egypt was a forest at the time of the pyramids being built.

[@fxlxp]

I study Geology and we mentioned this event on the Historical Geology course, but this was more in depth and the visuals helped a lot, thanks!

[@smalltime0]

Bit of an old post, but I remember it being mentioned off-hand in relation to the 1920s idea to dam the strait of Gibraltar (Atlantropa). Like getting over you're cutting off shipping to the Mediterranean states, effectively killing migratory fish and that it is basically impossible to do.... the land you end up with is a salty quagmire and the sea itself would be hostile to most life.

[@sheriherrick4420]

I absolutely LOVE these videos! I LOVE learning about just about everything (now that I'm an adult) and the way these are put together and the people who are narrating do it in a way that people of all ages can understand and makes it more interesting to keep people's attention. They are just long enough! Thank you all for the hard work you put into all these videos & keep them coming please!

[@SimpleTruth1309]

The educational system has failed to put video technology to its best use. For example, a video mini-series about Columbus or Magellan’s adventures and discoveries, done with a storyline and actors Netflix style, would be remembered by school kids better than reading it from a text book.

[@VioletWhirlwind]

1:27 That salt wall looks really awesome!

[@destree6348]

I would love a framed picture of that to hang on my wall

[@roccogennari2545]

It's a salt mine in Sicily, near Agrigento

[@thanesgames9685]

Look up pictures from the Salt mine in Turda, Romania. Much finer strata, but just as amazing!

[@wiezyczkowata]

look up salt mine in Wieliczka, Poland

[@cleanthegreen]

Makes you think why and how ancient Greeks believed and came up with their myth that Hercules pushed apart the pillars of Gibraltar.

[@Zaxares]

All of this happened way, WAY before Homo Sapiens was on the scene, but if you're a believer in racial memory (or perhaps if oral tradition stretched back farther into the past than paleontologists have managed to unearth), it's not impossible for our earlier ancestors like, say, Homo Erectus to have perhaps witnessed such an event (an enormous flood that seemed to never end, for nearly two years!) to have passed on stories about it to their descendants, and it survived/evolved into modern myths about worldwide floods.

[@erikboris8478]

Because Pillars of Hercules didn't refer to Gibraltar back then. It was later that romans started to refer to the mountains on each side of the gibraltar strait as pillars of Hercules.

[@erikjarandson5458]

Oh, that time! I remember it well. Most disappointing Mediterranean vacation, ever...

[@hiltonchapman4844]

@Erik Jarandson: Re your "Oh that time! I remember it well. Most disappointing Mediterranean vacation ever...!" Refund, I wonder? HC-JAIPUR (20/04/2021)

[@lycossurfer8851]

@@hiltonchapman4844 ....... no Trip Insurance back then. They were out of luck

[@davidhaines2894]

I remember it well. I took comfort in the Margarita cocktails - just dipped the rim of the glass in the moist salt then topped up the lime juice and tequila. Again and again and again. Didn't notice the lack of the Mediterr........err Metideran.......{hic) Temideramean.......Semiderangean Tea......at all (hic).

[@akumaking1]

*The Future is Wild flashbacks intensify*

[@Krypto137]

lol My thoughts exactly!

[@melloickii]

That was a suggested video on the right xD.

[@TheAutobotPower]

The great Mediterranean salt plain, predecessor of the Mediterranean Cordillera.

[@albatross4920]

@Josh nice reference

[@AifDaimon]

@@Krypto137 Yeap.. I loved watching that series..

[@Idktesthandle1234]

My 12 year old bunny passed away yesterday, loved learning about ancient rabbits. :)

[@martinbondesson]

I'm sorry to hear that! Yes, it was an interesting video :)

[@Rebecca-oh5yh]

I am sorry for your loss. It is so hard to lose a pet.

[@andyjay729]

Sorry to hear that. Coincidentally, the one pet rabbit I had as a kid got to be pretty big; about the size of a small dog.

[@jjjordayn7691]

My condolences. My rabbit died before Christmas, at 13 years old.

[@1943maryellen]

The loss of a beloved PE T is heartbreaking, my deepest sympathy to you, what was your bunnies name , if I might ask? 💗💗💗💔💔💔

[@guywelsh9589]

I thought insular gigantism was when you stay indoors all day never leaving your house and do nothing but stuff your face in front of the TV.

[@mkvv5687]

That would be "insular covidism".

[@guywelsh9589]

@@mkvv5687 Well played sir.

[@timmullens9479]

@@mkvv5687 yea tell me about it -worked hard -lost all my gut -then gained 20 lbs in the Ontario lockout.

[@lisa2stewart]

For some reason I find this very funny. I think this comment is underrated.

[@guywelsh9589]

@@lisa2stewart Yeah the internet is full of hidden gems.

[@marcotedesco8954]

As a Mediterranean person the thought of our sea drying up again instinctively fills me with dread even though there's no way I'm gonna be there to see it happen (we're closer to being submerged, right now)

[@demoraptorplays5645]

I love this channel so much. I've learned more about the earth and its life than I ever did in school

[@user-ii9bl6de2j]

Careful... as all science is just theory until proven.

[@demoraptorplays5645]

@@user-ii9bl6de2j same can be applied for anything. But it's the flame that gets lit that makes you wanna search for the truth. And having multiple sources saying how something most likely happened is the best we have so far other than testing soil samples and the flora and fauna that are buried in the cement to see how much life lived in a certain area based on the traffic and the amount of bones that are from life and death.

[@demoraptorplays5645]

@@user-ii9bl6de2j what I'm saying is, School drained my passion to learn. And having outlets like this are giving me a new sense of purpose in life. And even if it's not proven to a T right now who knows, I might be the one to fill in the missing pieces one day.

[@randomguy263]

@@user-ii9bl6de2j You can't really prove anything, you can just figure what seems really likely and what works, and that's our best view of what the reality is. That's also what a theory is, it is a hypothesis that has been tested very rigorously. So, saying that something is just a theory doesn't really make sense.

[@kevincable4099]

@@user-ii9bl6de2j saying "all science is just theory until proven" seems misleading. Science is both a process of discovery AND a body of knowledge complied from those discoveries. The word "theory" in science also has a specific meaning, which someone else has pointed out.

[@dlo111]

Hands down my favourite new YT channel. Where has this been all my life?

[@CloudsGirl7]

Radagast: "Now where did I leave that rabbit? Oh well, I'm sure he'll turn up eventually."

[@silverjade10]

Meanwhile, the lost rabbit was hardcore into steroids and bunny growth hormone.

[@icollectstories5702]

Thanks for depicting science as a dynamic process based on evidence and argument.

[@Randomyoutubeuser414]

Unit of length- Others-meter, km Americans- football field.

[@stevenscott2136]

As if we've all spent a lot of time on football fields. I work in shipbuilding, so I think something like "oh, that's halfway up a destroyer standing on end".

[@juliusadams9517]

metre

[@MightyInHiding]

.... a Yard and a Meter aren’t so different. So 100 meters and a Football Field aren’t bad comparisons when grounding their mostly American Viewerbase to the measurements. Instead of just saying “oh also a few hundred yards” Most Americans are shown meters and Yard sticks side by side so the comparison isn’t bad. Stop pretending to be better.

[@juliusadams9517]

@@MightyInHiding its METRE and the difference is 3 inches

[@MightyInHiding]

@@juliusadams9517 You’re correcting the “color” vs “colour” thing, not worth the time

[@jimmcintosh9045]

The giant bunnies knew that drunk and crazy hippies were going to holiday in Ibiza and Mallorca so decided to chill out in Minorca!

[@stefanhensel8611]

Hippos, not hippies. The latter evolved only some million years later.

[@MAA-gf5it]

Mallorca has drunk Germans, not Hippies...

[@diazinth]

MAA if by Germans you mean angles and saxons, then yes 😂

[@MAA-gf5it]

@@diazinth the Germans are usually drunk in Can Pastilla & Arenal...The English are drunk everywhere else.

[@diazinth]

MAA I must admit I’ve never been there, so I can just parrot what I’ve seen in various media on this, with the addition of some historical knowledge. I don’t know what any of those places are :)

[@germwarfare]

I wonder if this event could explain some of the “flood stories” we see in ancient cultures.

[@byronveilleux5376]

There were no humans then. Hard to come up with a flood story prior to our existence, sorry

[@zedantXiang]

There were ALOT of floods everywhere likely to have been the cause

[@Shouziroku]

@@byronveilleux5376 600.000 years ago there were "humans". A few hominids at least. Homo Erectus for sure, but a few more too.

[@beanlegume9965]

@@byronveilleux5376 it must be interesting to go through life as arrogant as you.

[@JoseFernandes-js7ep]

@@Shouziroku Wrong order of magnitude.

[@vanderj8]

Three things I missed: 1. The many human settlements near the coasts of Greece, Italy and the Black Sea that now lie underwater and are a testament of lower sea levels. 2. The link with the nearby Dead Sea. 3. The link with the flood and sea-parting stories in the scriptures that originated in these parts of the world.

[@monicamadrigalbeckford4281]

As a valenciana (someone from Valencia in Spain) who is now doing a master in oceanography I really appreciate this episode 💙💙💙💙

[@paulliddle9975]

Monica Madrigal Beckford so your Spanish then

[@monicamadrigalbeckford4281]

@@paulliddle9975 Yes

[@chadwickmacarthur4760]

Marry me I'm an American

[@chheinrich8486]

On question, on the iberian peninsula, do more people live on the smaller mediteranian coats of the llnger atlantic coast

[@RisalBadboy]

Big Floods and History... Sooo Intertwined!!!!

[@erikboris8478]

This has nothing to do with history. This is way back in prehistory. And of course there are big geological events in prehistory.

[@lokigamerofmischief171]

The final boss that only appears when you defeat all the rabbits

[@leto-nl]

a bowser rabbit?

[@ahumanontheinternet8614]

ALL HAIL THE RABBIT KING 🐰👑

[@istvansipos9940]

is it duck season or...

[@Lolibeth]

KING BUN, LONG MAY HE REIGN

[@hamzasat]

Pipkin 😃

[@MayankPrasad111]

*Big Chungus*

[@wyzasukitan]

I, for one, welcome our new rabbit overlord 😭❤️

[@jackryan702]

Who did the animation at 2:02, and where can I find more like it

[@SilverScarletSpider]

I have no clue how big an american football field is and don't know why it is frequently used as a measurement for scale.

[@Achiyugo]

It's 100 yards. Or 300 ft. Or 36,000 inches.

[@petergray2712]

91.4 meters long. And it-and Olympic swimming pools- are often used as analogical measurement by USA science shows.

[@_dbzeibert_1718]

It drives me nuts whenever I hear that size reference, and I'm an American.

[@nickisnyder3450]

@@Achiyugo If they don't understand how big an american football field is THEY ARE NOT AMERICAN so why would they know what the heck a yard or a foot or an inch is? The whole rest of the world uses metric

[@chrissr318]

This is an american show/channel stop getting triggered when they use american measurement units

[@Xnaut314]

First PBS Eons video of the new decade!

[@celiabrickell2500]

Concise science. No wild speculation. Good work! Not like most on U Tube.

[@derekpalo5287]

Hercules opened up the straights of Gibraltar in 1 of his tasks hence , thats why it was called the pillars of Hercules

[@nellyfarnsworth7381]

duh

[@gillianlovell9578]

Derek Palo: "straits"

[@dannyboywhaa3146]

Gillian Lovell nope... it’s defo ‘pillars’ - it‘s the straits of Gibraltar etc...

[@qibli7679]

It's always nice to see a new PBS eon's upload in your subscriptions

[@davidspiewak3569]

I did it... I watched every video of this channel. Keep up the the great work.

[@Smonserratm]

Lmao, I'm from Menorca. The most famous fossil found around the archipelago must be the Myotragus, a dwarf goat.

[@cloudfa1177]

I love how you guys refer to previous videos because it really establishes this as a learning environment and it's so much fun!

[@njm3211]

Lots of ice melted when the last of many ice ages ended. Sea level rose in the Atlantic and refilled the Med which in turn topped off the Black Sea which had been a freshwater lake.

[@albatross4920]

1:22 lots and lots of salt ...kinda like Twitter

[@AyubuKK]

Albatross flight 😂

[@coreytaylor447]

take that, triple it, and you get tumblr

[@jyggalagdaedricprinceoford6239]

Make it 4chan

[@juliendacoolien3454]

@@jyggalagdaedricprinceoford6239 4chan's more like uranium. It can accomplish great feats, but will likely give you cancer if you stick around it for long enough.

[@tenin982000]

welcome to pansies in social media such as twitter/tumbler etc. the offended well are a lot of the salt.

[@NicholasHay1982]

Have you been spying on my search history? I was reading about the refilling of the Mediterranean literally yesterday. I love you guys! PBSDS is the best programming PBS offers these days.

[@TywinLannister666]

You and the rest of the MC big on PBS, eh?

[@22steve5150]

On their last upload, a bunch of us were requesting this topic in the comments, and about 2 days ago I was where you were yesterday, wiki-trekking on both the messian salinity crisis and the various theories on the history of the black sea.

[@Skyprince27]

@Nicholas Hay FYI, YT spies on everybody’s search history all the time. Even if you watch YT not logged in to a channel, it still happens ! 🤯

[@stevensonDonnie]

There is a cave, just the one small cave, in Malta. They have found hippos and elephant bones there.

[@mjyfs]

Several years ago I saw a documentary which brought up the MSC, and the picture it painted was kind of horrifying yet fascinating. In it they speculated that at some point almost all the water in the basin evaporated, leaving the whole area completely inhospitable to life. The air pressure would have been higher than at sea level (given that it was now just a huge hole in the ground) and the temperature in the basin would have been high enough to boiled away the water that fell into the basin from the connecting rivers. Just imagine such a thing at such a scale existing in the world today. Anyway, this was several years ago and the data they based it on might not add up to what we have available to day so some of those speculations might not hold up.

[@alihyari7358]

You don't have to imagine, go visit the deadsea

[@Leomoon101]

I'm glad I found this video five minutes after it was uploaded. The Mediterranean sea is an interesting subject to talk about. Give a thumbs up if any one wants to see a video of how placenta, concerning with early mammals, have evolved. Or the evolution of seals.

[@meneither3834]

that sea filling in two years would still be a very impressive river.

[@tonyprice1786]

Perfect for white-water rafting or kayaking eh?

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Don't you just hate it when you want to go to the beach and the whole sea disappears?

[@christelheadington1136]

I thought that only happened to Moses.

[@petergray2712]

It's called an incoming Tsunami. The tides recede before the wave strikes land.

[@samuelodonoughoe1091]

Aren’t they called deserts??

[@geoffmower8729]

That's when it's time to start running....before the Tsunami hits.

[@olesuhr727]

Low tide.

[@ichbins173]

In my biology class ecology was probably my favorite topic. I just find it fascinating how life spreads and is even possible.

[@paulmiddleton8699]

Great video we live in south west Turkey the Med is ten minutes walk from our apartment so it nice learn some history about our new home. Thank you.

[@sterkar99]

I love how the ending phrase is always the title

[@scaper8]

Damn! I never noticed that! I'm going to have to go back amd rewatch to see if they all do that.

[@merbst]

Or, is the Title always the final phrase? Or are they both symptomatic of a deeper truth?

[@jessicabir1107]

Had a hard day at work , this was soooo needed

[@philonius21]

Thanks for the great video. Educational videos like this are further proof of the benefit of funding PBS.

[@jasonhacker7270]

Everyone knows Heracles opened up the straights as one of the 12 labors ......right?

[@aviemoreno9721]

*PBS Eons uploads* Oh, yeah, it's all coming together.

[@anakinskywalker7289]

Avie Moreno jyes

[@michelleobamafootcream9292]

no

[@danielmcwhirter]

It would have been nice to also mention how the sand and silt blown out of the dry Mediterranean abyss covered north Africa's mountains and valleys to create the Sahara. What I recall from National Geographic about sixty years ago was that this closure and dry-out occurred seven times over the geologic record. And I just realized that our area of Texas, south of the Buried Ouachita mountains, has been under the sea seven times, per the geological record between the surface and the metamorphic basement. Some believe the apparent basement (metamorphic rock) is actually overthrusted by tectonic plate movements on top of even older sediments (the Buried Ouachita mountains once stood high like the Appalachians) which could be rich in gas and oil.

[@billwilson3609]

One can see how the Ouachita Range snaked across Texas into Oklahoma then Arkansas by looking at a map showing where oil and gas wells have been drilled since those are east and west of the range. Geologists say that the Ouachita Range were once connected to the first Appalachian Range that still has sections visible in Scotland and in Russia as the Ural Mountains.

[@fluffydevil13]

Today has been such a bad day for me, seeing a new video from this channel really redeemed it for me!

[@LiLi-or2gm]

Sorry to hear that Maia. I sure hope things are turning around for you! I had a seriously dismal day yesterday, too- and watching interesting videos does help. And animals doing funny things, too. : )

[@wrennspencer6070]

Me too. Lmao @"scientists" who ain't got enough to do...

[@Bethelaine1]

The Pillars of Hercules closed, just as mythology said.

[@5000mahmud]

W M hotel trivago

[@1Guy12]

@W M They had a different name even older, but I cannot recall the name of the Giant...Perhaps you or someone else could mention it!

[@alecblunden8615]

@W M And some realise that there is often a basis in fact for legends, myths etc. How did Schliemann find the site of Troy? By reading - and believing - the Iliad.

[@jaredwellman8899]

@@leeroberts4850 wrong

[@jaredwellman8899]

@@leeroberts4850 twat

[@DJThorb]

Gotta love tectonics and those floating plates.

[@stephenpawlik2286]

This is the best channel ever. Thank you for existing

[@therealdave06]

"Thank you for existing" sounds like something Vsauce says

[@Rebecca-oh5yh]

Great episode. I would love to hear about the ancient mountain range in what is now New York City.

[@WilliamWrigley-z5u]

Most informative. Thank you

[@beastmaster0934]

When I red the title. I immediately thought of The Future Is Wild.

[@slappy8941]

Herp derp!

[@francepri2415]

Greetings from Spain!🤗

[@Rose-yx6jq]

Bro, I've got this wicked idea for a prank. The prank:

[@shawnadyment]

Thanks for this! I was recently at the Lodève museum (which by the way is AWESOME for such a small community of less than 10,000 inhabitants) and there was an animation in the earth sciences exhibit that one could interact and scroll thru the ages, and there was a blip where the Mediterranean sea dissapeared. I was so curious as to what happened! Perfect timing to release a video about it while it was fresh in my mind :)

[@ahmedwael3824]

Last time I was this early , Africa and Australia were still one continent

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@vallaurent2035]

I want to bring the giant bunny and the midget elephant back to life!❤

[@SoupyMittens]

The bunny kinda looks like a rat to be honest

[@Bacon_XDiop]

All fun and games until it's hostile

[@TheGBZard]

Me: sees giant rabbit My brain: is that big Chungus

[@phyllisschapiro7894]

It's HARVEY!!!!! 😉

[@abyssstrider2547]

Chugnus Magnus

[@nakenmil]

Have you done a video on Doggerland yet? I'd love to see something about that. ^^

[@anonymous-zn5em]

It's out there. Just search, using your typey lil fingers in YT. I found it interesting. Enjoy.

[@matthewgillam149]

@si james It was not multicultural enough I'd say. Nor would there have been enough diversity in Doggerland. lol

[@danrichdrivingandmore5348]

I love the simple yet detailed explanations offered through this channel. The cute female helps as well.

[@RolynRoseOfficial]

0:19 he exists.. Big Chungus

[@fluffydevil13]

B I G C H U N G U S

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

I swear, if a giant rabbit fossil turns up in Uganda...

[@somedude8714]

comedy

[@obi-wankenobi4056]

Vlaamse reus jonge

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

Ganaram Inukshuk Knuckles is an echidna tho

[@joelt2002]

"It could conceivably happen again." Well the water might be blocked, but humans would quickly have a canal dug out and water ways would be restored.

[@stefanhensel8611]

Maybe. Otoh, we couldn't even save the Aral Sea.

[@angelopueyygarcia43]

Stefan Hensel cause humans destroyed it in the first place. Blame that on Stalin and his “brilliant” plans.

[@stefanhensel8611]

@@angelopueyygarcia43 Sure, but the "Free World" has managed to devastate nature in comparable scales. The most striking example might be Amazonia. We don't even stop when we already can see the consequences. And in this case, the effects on global climate are much worse than those caused by the Aral catastrophe. A bunch of investors can be worse than a megalomaniac communist dictator.

[@angelopueyygarcia43]

Stefan Hensel to that I agree 100%

[@brandondavis7777]

@@stefanhensel8611 "has managed to devastate nature in comparable scale" Where? It's common practice(and in most cases legally binding) to replant more than what you destroy in "the Free World" and the data proves this. More trees exist now in most places than they did a thousand years ago. More species are kept safe, in protected parks, reserves, and private sanctuaries than ever before.

[@richardguyatt6435]

Ive lived in Menorca for 30 years and never heard this story, thanks it was so interesting.

[@AnarKhaos]

I missed you. Finally a new video!

[@JesPulido]

Wow, I never knew about this. Fascinating!

[@sophiepedigree7139]

That's no ordinary rabbit! It can leap about... It's got huge, sharp... Look at the bones!!

[@chrisbaldwin1156]

I wonder what kind of unique fossils might exist trapped within those salt crystals...

[@JimRFF]

By the time those salt crystals were precipitating out of the water, it was already too salty to support significant life. There may be unique fossils found *under* the salt layers, but extremely unlikely that anything would be found *within* the salt layer

[@ccrozz99]

psykkomancz cocky nerd

[@tylerparaz6786]

psykkomancz You’re the kinda guy to listen to techno

[@PajamaMan44]

psykkomancz Oh yes, is this why when I accidentally spill salt on my hands I get chemical burns? Wait... that doesn’t sound right

[@12am12am]

PaleoExtremophile bacteria trapped in liquid pockets within the salt crystal. Look it up.

[@MrAqr2598]

@PBS Eons Could you please do a video on the Ediacaran period, and how multi-cellular life started?

[@cactusaur5622]

That would be amazing! I know most people aren't that interested in celluar and small scale multicelluar life. But it'd still be very cool if this channel had atleast one whole video on how it happened.

[@nixter888]

This is Aigeis,which was the single land that covered the Aegean Sea and much of present-day mainland Greece, about 2,000,000 years ago. There was a great Civilization,the bigining of everything!

[@sellers737]

Yes! One of my favorite topics! Please do more ancient floods! The Lake Missoula flood in particular is incredibly interesting since a ton of scars and formations from it's aftermath is still perfectly visible today.

[@Dragrath1]

Check their video list they did an episode on the Ice age mega floods since those events were pretty local for the Eon's team they live within the former lake basin

[@sellers737]

@@Dragrath1 wow I somehow completely missed that one :/ should've known they covered that by now. thanks for the heads up!

[@LiLi-or2gm]

Indeed! I live in a valley that was carved out by the Missoula Flood (or one of them- I think there were a few times it let out massive amounts of water).

[@oscarmedina1303]

Look up Nick Zentner and Ice Age Floods on KZbin. Several excellent presentations for his online and local classes at Central Washington University. This spring he is planning an entire series that will cover the Lake Missoula floods (more than 1). Everyone is welcome.

[@eliscanfield3913]

"Giant hamsters" makes me giggle for some reason

[@petergray2712]

How about giant hamsters and "Rod Stewart"?

[@boipoi_78]

Go see some capibaras. They ARE Giant Hamsters.

[@jdangel98]

Boo, the miniature giant space hamster came to mind for me.

[@revan0890]

Giant hamsters are no laughing matter. They are extremely dangerous. Haven't you ever watched South Park?

[@Britonbear]

Miniature giant space hamsters are the funniest.

[@MatthewChenault]

Actually, the Mediterranean Salt Giant was formed during the Third Punic War when Rome salted Carthage so much that it left a permanent geologic feature in the entire Mediterranean basin. Carthage always demands salt.

[@Patrick_The_Pure]

Ah yes, American Football fields, the most acurate way of calculating any form of distance.

[@merbst]

Hey, we Americans may be ignorant of the metric system, but we love our concussion sports!

[@HubertofLiege]

And we don’t need VAR to measure something

[@VasileIuga]

That would have been the dream event for Herman Sörgel.