Hallucigenia - The Cambrian Enigma

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

For all those who watch AOT, be warned, there will be spoilers in this comments section, so either catch up with the manga or wait for the next part of the anime to come out. Thank you, and enjoy the video guys! :)

[@iansahleen1173]

They’ll have to keep reading forward

[@jeff1liam2]

@Imagine Dinosaurs bruh

[@Chill-Guy97]

Dragon tails?

[@The_PokeSaurus]

How the hell did that anime get involved with this video?

[@Ozraptor4]

@@The_PokeSaurus Hallucigenia (or something very similar) plays an integral part in the entire story of Attack on Titan. This will be revealed in the final season of the anime (Manga readers already know).

[@krys9463]

Scientists are probably so confused that people have such a huge interest in this critter suddenly 🤣

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Most definitely! A lot of them must be thinking, who or what is this Eren?

[@nigelvanzanten227]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy And how everyone is suddenly telling people that it can’t walk backwards, it can only keep moving forward until it’s enemies are destroyed.

[@DkKombo]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy nobody: The scientist who named an animal after a pokemon: *they called me a madman...*

[@dailydoseofexistence7159]

Maybe that's because eren is manipulating them

[@franciscoastorga8299]

Nah, scientists watch anime too.

[@ikki6792]

Hallucigenia: *does nothing* AoT Fans: "it just keeps on moving foward"

[@jingbangdingdong1193]

@Rain4D Michael Jackson.... Dance of breathing:Moon walk

[@stefilordofsmugness4108]

Because its free

[@knoxarrian6302]

@Rain4D Dance of breathing form 3:Smooth criminal

[@soulfire1081]

@Rain4D dance of breathing form 4: space walk dance of breathing form 5: straight letdown

[@edricpranatajoe4259]

@@soulfire1081 dance breathing form 6 : hee hee

[@sirgeo7047]

It just keeps moving forward.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Tatakae!

[@solk.posner7201]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Tatacaw!

[@k_tess]

@@solk.posner7201 Talacaw!

[@Rolonok]

until its enemies are dead

[@Petey0707]

Because it is free..

[@purplehaze2358]

When an animal gets its name from the fact that it looks like something you’d see in a psychedelic hallucination, I think that’s an excellent testimonial for it being weird as all hell.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Very true! What strange animals!

[@miguelangelhernandezsolis7849]

Dr Bright you are allow to post comments in KZbin?

[@diegoviniciomejiaquesada4754]

LCD Ancient Bug.

[@thatmeme1360]

It's a mean sea cucumber. The Urcumber. The sea urchin , sea cucumber hybrid.

[@marcopohl4875]

and that means a lot coming from you ;)

[@ruslanhouk]

Crazy to think this thing massacred 80% of human life 😔

[@suicune690]

Seems kinda unfair, as the real animals were probably harmless little things just eating bits of crap off the seafloor...I'll just assume the AoT one is an undiscovered member of the family XD

[@SUPERRRSAIYANNNNN]

@@suicune690 All it ever wanted to do was eat and evolve, it never wanted to get involved. All it ever wanted to do was swim free, it never wanted to start a killing spree.

[@markadonis9835]

@@SUPERRRSAIYANNNNN he sweaeeerrr~~!

[@angelicalush]

Tatakae

[@tinienteabanil2922]

@@SUPERRRSAIYANNNNN headless , eating , swimming , swimming

[@navo159]

Cats: Meow meow Dogs: Woof woof Cows: Moooo Hallucigenia : *Tatake tatake*

[@pokki.blossom]

I can not look at these anymore without seeing Eren’s genocidal face.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Same here, man. Especially with the thumbnail: attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Source_of_all_living_matter?file=Jean_sees_the_source_manifest.png

[@whathell6t]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Technically! Evangelion did it first at Episode 26 during the Freedom Explanation scene.

[@calibula95]

Curious, i only see his simp face now.

[@sibertronssc5618]

@@calibula95 🥲

[@apostrofo-c8x]

@@whathell6t wut

[@mechanomics2649]

Ah the Cambrian Explosion, evolutions "Let's throw absolutely everything at the wall and see what sticks." moment.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Most definitely!

[@OldSchool82]

thats a funny but accurate way of seeing it lol

[@nabuchodonosormcgalapatram6941]

Another time channeling thing energy to a lesser extant is the Triassic... I mean, what even in the Sharovipteryx?

[@mikeg4972]

I think of the Cambrian Explosion when I watch battlebots. The bots have weapons or defenses to help them survive. Only the good ones make it. The not so good ones go extinct.

[@lovell8983]

@@mikeg4972 more like the good enough ones make it

[@kira-dk2mx]

Weird as this worm is, I can't blame it for making Titans. The Cambrian period was really, REALLY fucking wild.

[@rainbowskeleton2721]

Wild as going in eren😌

[@CahtNotCat]

All AoT memes aside, this fella actually is pretty interesting.

[@chaos5429]

Yeah it just keeps moving forward

[@tatarsauce6314]

@@chaos5429 until it destroys its enemies

[@JoeGamer500]

@@tatarsauce6314 80% of it

[@icantthinkofaname6799]

TATAKAE

[@cicly6231]

True

[@isko1032]

This is the world where Ymir hadn't fallen to the tree and these animals just went extinct. And therefore 7.8 billion strong.

[@acropolismauve8496]

Thank goodness we didn’t get a really angry teenager with god like powers.

[@blackwing9514]

@@acropolismauve8496 and thank god America isnt over populated cuz the purge

[@blackwing9514]

But seriously I wanna bring this animal back from extinction:)

[@konodioda1268]

@@blackwing9514 not possible since DNA is lost forever just like dinosaurs

[@blackwing9514]

@@konodioda1268 I know that i meant it would be cool through

[@mbshotstarteaching7612]

My Fellow Eldians , This Was'nt A Coincidence , We Were All Lead To This Path

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

We were all brought into Paths for this moment.

[@daninit1743]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy yup totally true

[@boomerraptoons8323]

you also saw the vision?

[@GjeladinJaha]

Wasn't*

[@vergil2218]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy, you and I must spread that the world can attained peace if I had that worm. Let our fellow Eldians rise!!!

[@Rolonok]

Today I found out that Henry is both an AoT fan and a Plastic Lover Lover

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

The more you know!

[@serioussilliness2064]

. , .

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

??? Enlighten me, somebody!

[@Rolonok]

@@peterashby-saracen3681 Henry referenced the Manga "Attack on Titan" in the comments. In AoT a Creature strongly resembling the Hallucigenia, and dubbed Hallucigenia by the Community, plays a critical role towards the end of the Story. Also he used the Song "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi as Background music in this Video.

[@jannaa.7891]

Wow, what an interesting creature! Scientists must have a blast studying it. I just hope it doesn't attach itself into a girl's spine haha.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Most definitely! And, well, let's hope not. XD

[@gamergaming4304]

I see what you did there

[@nicholasforrester8587]

Tingler?

[@elhuevo7274]

*distant lightning strike*

[@space8862]

Me: *sees hallucigenia* My brain: aot

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

:)

[@Nik-6675]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Tatake.

[@pablonortes1883]

@@Nik-6675 tatakae*

[@pmis_relgnepsnoge]

TATAKAE

[@raviqirvansyah1304]

Tatakae Tatakae Tatakae ...

[@shan3622]

Fun Fact: Ymir discovered this first

[@DiegoHerrera-cd6dh]

Jajajaja the founder titan XD

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Very true. Science tends to overlook that account.

[@ineedmorecarrots6063]

​@@HenrythePaleoGuydamn scientists trying to take the fame all by theirselves

[@l.u.i.s._.8452]

My theory: it doesn’t walk, it just simply moves forward until it’s enemies are destroyed

[@Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737]

So to avoid genaside get behind it

[@sinofsanity6593]

"there is also one other species, hallucigenia titanus, with the only known traces believed to have been about 3 or 4 feet in length, found in the spine of the remains of a young woman who lived around 2,000 years ago. unfortunately, it seems this girl was involved in some practice of cannibalism and much of the specimen may have been eaten by other people. prof Hanje Zoe says..."

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Really cool description. :)

[@firevin3183]

i see what you did there

[@harshmeena4]

I thought until i read it was found in spine

[@IrisStellaGrace09]

What?!😧

[@1984jaunary1st]

based on a real story

[@jennifercarriger6168]

It looks like a three year old tried to draw a dragon and god looked at it, said “well heck I’m in the mood for a challenge” and decided to make it a thing.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

XD

[@injunsun]

In the late '70s, there was a syndicated Japanese show I used to watch after school, dubbed into English, called, "Ultraman." In one episode, some sort of radioactive accident made it so anything a kid drew in chalk on the pavement came to life and became large enough to destroy parts of Tokyo. No idea why, or how that was supposed to work, but hey, it was entertaining.

[@jennifercarriger6168]

@@injunsun Godzilla vs Hallucio, the fate of the earth will be decided. 😂

[@Ptaku93]

@@injunsun sounds like one episode of Powerpuff Girls as well

[@justarandomperson6401]

*dies in flood*

[@ey992]

Everybody gangsta until wormy boi starts releasing smoke from its body

[@penny3984]

Funfact: If you rub these creatures on your back You will gain super powers

[@hochigaming14yearsago90]

If you free the pigs first

[@blackwing9514]

Ah yes now I will name my son eren:)

[@toilet2902]

@@hochigaming14yearsago90 yeah you have to do the side quests first

[@VergilDarkslayer]

@@hochigaming14yearsago90 and be a slave

[@angelicalush]

Tatakae

[@obamacares8386]

I love how Plastic Love is playing in the background

[@the_medicine_peddler8324]

Noticed that too ♥️

[@andrewflynn6883]

I had to do a double take and make sure I didn't have another video open in the background lol

[@Rolonok]

seems henry is a plastic lover lover aswell

[@chumplestiltskin7927]

It's awesome lol

[@piotrskwerrl]

I'm not the only one!

[@onetwo5155]

Nature being Lovecraftian once more.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Indeed! And there's even more of them out there to cover as well. :)

[@ilovecoffeev]

Thank you. I was getting sad that there were no other Lovecraft references. This thing looks straight out of his Dreamscape.

[@teibdavies242]

@@ilovecoffeev yeah it looks like aot has taken over this entire comment section lol

[@compatriot852]

Everybody gangsta until the wormy boy results in people turning into giants

[@MrDeeman17]

then you have to destroy 80% of humanity to stop racism

[@allendepacheco3419]

@@MrDeeman17 Can't be racist if there's only one race

[@MrDeeman17]

@@allendepacheco3419 I can't argue with that logic 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@Mekfearsom]

And then the Chad worm just dies off screen and is literally completely irrelevant to the story and might as well just not have existed at all.

[@netherdominater9960]

Technically the wormy boy makes one girl into a giant and then it becomes 9 after she dies and her family eats her

[@jonathannavarro3522]

The fact that you used AOT for the background music is just genius. If I remember well it was used for the Rod Reiss titan. It starts at 9:39

[@gamergaming4304]

Timestamp?

[@jonathannavarro3522]

@@gamergaming4304 9:39 It starts a little sutile a few secons before that timestamp

[@simonthedigger1857]

Ah KZbin recommending this after Ymir’s back story. Thank you Eren

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

The true power of the Founding titan.

[@trickyagent127]

I love how videos covering Hallucigenia have just started trending cuz of AoT XD

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

It's been really amazing to see. I'm sure this video will keep gaining more views because of it, haha.

[@chadintraining308]

Too late to become a titan but not too late to like the Paleo guys video

[@erichtomanek4739]

Considering their size and world wide distribution, I would not be surprised if a deep sea submersible blunders into one. Although they would have to be looking very, very carefully.

[@iansahleen1173]

It’s definitely possible that they have living descendants down there

[@foxhound963]

Thats would be awesome

[@sephikong8323]

That would be far from the most outlandish possibility out there

[@injunsun]

Yes, for instance, giant hot water vent loving tube worms are essentially a "living fossil," only discovered late last century.

[@marcopohl4875]

that reminds me of that one SCP, 169 I think?

[@supremeverdict359]

It will just keep moving forward until all it enemies are destroyed.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Tatakae. Tatakae.

[@Jesse11788]

10:40 I see what you did there, you cheeky bastard. AOT references aside, this species of panarthropod is fascinating in it's own right. Cambrian period animals are just freaky but cool in general.

[@packallgaming7687]

Whats the reference there?

[@hannibalsmyth6779]

You can see eren’s founding titan in the background at around 10:48

[@Jesse11788]

@@packallgaming7687 What Hannibal Smyth said.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

The only sound it makes is "TATAKAE"

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Tatakae.

[@arch455]

Tatakae

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

@@arch455 Tatakae.

[@arch455]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Tatakae.

[@soyallgotanytea684]

Tatakae

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

I love an animal who name is essentially hallucination lol

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Same here! :)

[@graphite2786]

I've always had a problem with most of hallucigenias reconstructions. I believe that the neck and limbs are distended at their full extent because of the decomposition process. I've seen this with cephalapods, (squid and cuttlefish,) when in death their hunting arms that are normally retracted, become flaccid and extended. Drowned caterpillar legs will also jut out as will drowned peripetus. My opinion is that hallucigenias limbs were retracted to a third of their length in the living animal as was the "neck". Claws point to a static existence, probably on sponges or corals. The head and neck would be extremely suited for grazing ( algae, polyps, biofilm) as are the jaws. Extending the neck would allow it to conserve energy, minimising locomotion when feeding. The gular tentacles would work as sensory organs both tactile and chemical. The dorsal spines would only offer protection in one direction, predators could easily attack from the front or sides if it walked with the stilt like posture depicted in the reconstructions. In my opinion hallucigenia lived a cryptic and virtual sessile existence on exposed coral reefs. Hugging tightly to corals while extending it's head to graze on the polyps and raising it's spines as a defence to predators. It may have lived in areas of high flow ( the scales on the spines are very similar to a shark's dermal skin ) and the opposable claws would anchor it safely again the current. The other species with the featherlike sensory tentacles may have had a similar lifestyle on the reefs but was a filter feeder. Anyway that's my opinion looking at the morphology. As I'm not a qualified biologist I'm probably wide off the mark but I've observed hundreds of species, both terrestrial and aquatic, and the spiny, snake, stilt worm just looks wrong.

[@lindamaemullins5151]

You sound like you know what you are talking about 🤔👍

[@PoFFizdaMan]

you're not a "qualified biologist" but you sound more educated on biology than anyone i know!

[@glint3924]

very true

[@JoshKnoxChinnery]

If you wriyte a paper detailing the examples you just gave, I think people would listen

[@WobblesandBean]

I completely agree on all points. I'm a zoology postgrad with a background in art, I think I'd like to draw this far more plausible description of the organism.

[@zealox1148]

I've never read the manga but after watch the recent AOT episode and then I found this video telling about this creature, I know there is some kind of connection here. Not disappointed at all.

[@dhelsgade]

Well, too bad you got spoiled from the very start XD

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

It's incredibly cool to see!

[@DegenDuelist]

It was the paths that brought us here

[@thegyaaniinsaan8784]

Hear me, all Subjects of Ymir. My name is Eren Yeager. I now speak to all the Subjects of Ymir, by way of the Founding Titan's power. Every wall on the island of Paradis has been unhardened. the Titans buried within them have begun to walk. My goal...is to protect the people of Paradis, who bore, and raised me. But the world desires the extinction of the people of Paradis. Over countless years, their hatred has grown beyond this island. They surely will not stop until they have killed every last one of our people. I reject their desire. The Titans of the Walls will trample and rumble all the lands beyond this island. Until the lives there... are eliminated from this world!

[@thelocalbard5415]

Did anyone else recognize Plastic Love starting up in the background at 3:05 or just me? EDIT: I just realized that it's listed in the video description, nevermind.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

A great song indeed!

[@thebesthomiegever]

the fact that they are so small is crazy to me... i guess i actually pictured them to be like the size of your hand or something

[@philippegohier6992]

Remember, it was the begining of complex life. At that time nothing bigger than 3,5 feet. Hallucigeania was very average at 5 cm

[@Dragrath1]

@@philippegohier6992 Yep the earliest definitively bilaterian fossils Ikaria wariootia is only a few millimeters in length with specimens varying from 2 to 7 millimeters long. The oldest recognized Deuterostome fossil Saccorhytus coronarius is only 1.3 mm long, about the size of a grain of sand, dating to the Early Cambrian so the size increases to centimeter scales here were already pretty huge though protostomes seem to have gotten bigger first among identified fossils with macroscopic specimens as old as the Ediacaran. It seems likely that the absence of older metazoan fossils probably has to do with them being microscopic though the two mentioned fossils which were the result of painstaking study of individual sediment grains via microscopy guided largely based off suspected trace fossils made by tiny motile animals which seems to possibly suggest that the Cambrian explosion was to some degree more of a gigantism event making it possible to spot fossils without a microscope.

[@jollykeropii__1071]

There small but in AOT its very big

[@ifureadthisyouregaylol2115]

Yeah now imagine it being near 300 meters tall follow by millions of 60 meter walls of flesh. The earth gets kinda rumbly

[@laubra5227]

Ya I pictured them to be like…….. The length of a young girl’s spine or something

[@christosvoskresye]

"Recognizing similarities is often more important than celebrating differences." I agree. But back to paleontology ....

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Well, that can be implied for a whole range of things. :)

[@injunsun]

Words to live by.

[@automah2724]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy based paleoguy

[@GypsyDanger2000]

I genuinely love prehistory. But holy crap after watching AOT stuff, I've been getting Soo many hallucigenia vids.

[@l.s.8590]

Same

[@samcorbett8783]

I loved this video! My favorite part was right near the end when my walls started rumbling

[@rsethmika]

Wait, doesn't Eren's final founding titan form look like one massive and bony hallucigenia

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Yes indeed!

[@MrVigill]

Correct

[@noir3662]

R/woooosh

[@justsomegirlwithoutamustache]

I think it looks like a cage too

[@Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737]

@@noir3662 no he just got it it don’t count

[@rdlegends3988]

Me: *watches a single AoT video on youtube My recommendation feed: H A L L U C I G E N I A

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

XD I'm really glad it's reaching more of the wider anime community! :)

[@KonaSuba]

That thumbnail is nightmare fuel

[@TrajGreekFire]

The true villian

[@EckosamaGhostTsushima]

did it have a *friend* named reiner? or does it just move forward?

[@fusionabstracta5056]

3:07 Plastic love + Cambrian fauna?!?!??? GENIUS Losing my mind, thank you so much for this gift of editing

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

Nice use of Plastic Love!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thank you! A great song that I really need to use in more videos.

[@youregonnaattackthem]

Wooooowwww. Stegosaur worm!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Quite similar!

[@runakovacs4759]

That moment when becoming an SnK fan to bond with a weeb friend gave me a fancy new science channel to bingewatch at night! Sweet!

[@ironpulcinella3586]

Aw shit I main iori yagami, who do you main?

[@michaelwerkov3438]

thats so sweet. i dont know any of these weeby references

[@Solirhaps]

@@michaelwerkov3438 eh 😂😂

[@mattthedestroyer2804]

God forgot to close spore when he made this thing 😂

[@johnlittle8975]

A lot of progress has been made since I last watched a video on this

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Most definitely!

[@thesunskimmer5348]

They say this animal cannot move backwards, it can only move forward until all its enemies are destroyed.

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

Fascinating! Thank you for this - I've been aware of Hallucigenia for a while and have always wondered about its appearance. The relationship to velvet worms really makes sense.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

That was truly fascinating. Thank you!! I've finally learned SOMETHING about a Cambrian Creature BESIDES Anomalocaris and Trilobites. I hope there's more like this!!

[@StarShine-Ranch]

Read Stephen Jay Gould's book "Wonderful Life" for some REAL eye-openers!

[@xirb-4007]

There's Attack on Titan. How could you miss the fact that this worm has descendants?

[@Gnarpgnarpzorpy]

There are some EXTREMELY ALIEN LIKE ANIMALS from the cambrian.

[@therealzilch]

I had to watch this again. It's very satisfying to me to see the evolution of our understanding of Hallucigenia going from a very weird and implausible animal, to a still pretty weird but quite plausible critter. Thanks again. Cheers from rather warm Vienna, Scott

[@uruigi]

I lept out of my seat as soon as I saw the single frame of Kanepixels animation tucked away in your video. Thanks for the silent jumpscare

[@christosvoskresye]

12:49 That looks like some sort of demon from a movie or video game -- if you scale it up to about 3 meters long.

[@thedarkangelthe2]

Something I really like coming here now and then is that the vid maker here is a big AoT fan too. Makes it perfect.

[@thedefenestrator2994]

The Hallucigenia would later evolve into the Tatake family Eldian vertebrates. Of which you can see the ancient similarities in the spinal structure of the later Eldian vertebrate, to the Hallucigenia overall structure being similar to the currant spinal nervous system.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

It's so cool to see how the were incorporated into the story.

[@viking8796]

3:15 Background song is "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi.

[@FerociousMit]

Anyone realize that erens founding Titan doesn't look like the others due to Eren getting his head shot off, and the body was made by his spine, and when made it took it's look from this worm, just super large. It had a human Skelton legs, but from the hips to the head, it resembles the worm itself.

[@Lisabpp]

It’s not his spine, it’s the worm itself that attached to Eren

[@YamiKisara]

I'm sitting here like "is that Rod's titan theme? Nah, that can't be, it's a biology video..." and a moment later "yes, that's definitely his theme..." then I check the description and it really is, lol! What a surprise to findspoiler warnings too, lol. Cheers!

[@Wolf-vy7et]

Time please ?

[@YamiKisara]

@@Wolf-vy7et starts around 9:30, you can hear it properly at 9:50.

[@Wolf-vy7et]

@@YamiKisara thanks

[@MagnumForce51]

lol quite cheeky of you to sneak some AoT music near the end of this. :D

[@dusk_ene]

thank you for playing Plastic Love in the background

[@a.randomjack6661]

A fascinating creature with a fascinating history of discoveries. Al that in a fascinating presentation. Thank you very much, this is the one mystery creature I really wanted to know more about.

[@ydodel6707]

What an interesting little fella! I sure hope it doesn't start an unending cycle of destruction and suffering!

[@_red_scorpion_]

Glad to see some more cambrian creatures being covered. Keep them coming!

[@nickcosimano5028]

Cambrian animals are the coolest. Thanks hope for more.

[@mihan2d]

That thing: exists Hentai artists: *WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN*

[@injunsun]

Don't google that. Gods only know what would pop up, so to speak.

[@rommdan2716]

GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT!

[@eertikrux666]

King Fritz has done shit

[@deviousN]

Hajime Isayama too

[@lunariousmoon]

King Fritz: I Saw it first boys

[@ferintown6628]

When plastic love started playing around 3:20 it caught me off guard

[@lawjones1993]

La-la-la-la-la Ri-ras-ra-ra-ti-ti-ti-tas Ri-ri-ras, ri-ras-ra-ra-ti-ti-ti-ta Ra-ri-ras-ra-ra-ti-ti-ti-tas-ti-ri Rastis! Rastis! Ra-ti-ti-la!

[@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712]

Let’s start a new life from the darkness till the light unveils the end.

[@teibdavies242]

@@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712 sinister faces growing curses

[@yohanesbobbysanjaya3541]

THIS IS MY LAST WAR

[@jirehchoo2151]

LA LA LA LA LA

[@soyallgotanytea684]

Angels playing disguise with devil faces

[@johnc6158]

When I heard plastic loves in the background I couldn’t stop singing so I had to rewatch this twice lol

[@jamesstammel5885]

The shape of the creature almost makes it look like it adapted to be parasitic, it's really cool. I like to imagine that the shape of the creatures might be based on what predators they sought to attach to, as the spines look like they would be perfect to use as a mechanism to anchor into the mouth of a would-be predator, and then using the other appendages to feed itself by grabbing whatever they would have eaten out of the water when the mouth of whatever they are in opens up. You could think of it like getting a free (and much easier) ride around, as the creature that would attempt to eat them would surely be more mobile than they are. They would potentially get easier food because of being hidden within this other creature and having the opportunity to snatch it once it's mouth opens up, and the creature they attach to would also serve as protection, like how snails and turtles rely on shells for shelter, the creature it would hide inside of would be like a shield for it.

[@Gnarpgnarpzorpy]

They are likely detrovores. Sorry if I didn't spell it right. It basically means that they eat dead and rotting material.

[@masamune2984]

I just love that no matter how the discussion or disagreement on how Hallucogenia oriented itself or walked went, it’s universally agreed upon that regardless, it kept moving forward.

[@JustMissie]

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW EREN???!!??!!?! I'M WATCHING ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT HALLUCIGENIA FROM MY RECOMMENDATIONS AGAIN

[@user-cn6kq9ip1r]

I love how this was recommended to me after I watched that one episode.

[@kevincrady2831]

0:35 - "The remains of these peculiar animals were originally described by -H.P. Lovecraft- Charles Walcott."

[@Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737]

isayama 10:43 pause it

[@Pinnaporaptor]

When I was younger, I had a small book on prehistoric animals, with each page featuring a different one. These little guys were the first ones featured, and the image featured for them made them look like a sausage frank with toothpicks sticking out. It's fascinating how much more was discovered about them!

[@Deathscythe91]

nice dino! i have question about it where can i possibly find its spine/spinal fluid

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

You just need to step into a malformed-looking tree to do so.

[@Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737]

Do not

[@northernzeus768]

Evolution kicking it up a notch to full OG weird. Kudos....

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

It can be a strange process indeed. :)

I think I just found my new favourite animal!

[@teibdavies242]

@nick sweeney very

[@gaufrid1956]

A number of years ago I saw a peripatus in my back garden in Australia. It's great to know the link between those beautiful animals and their ancestors in the Cambrian!

[@ashleylastname9091]

Plastic Love playing in the background is great

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Indeed! I couldn't resist.

[@nika56_56]

Eldians be like : "Go grandpa go!" 💪

[@bloodandempire]

Yay! I was really looking forward to this ❤️

[@Bruh.Master]

looking forward until you destroy all your enemies

[@Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737]

@@Bruh.Master tatakae

[@captianbrave]

Imagine this dude coming at you screaming Rumbling...... But all you hear is some tiny worm mumbling 😂

[@davidgrech4574]

Thank you for sharing your insights and your positive energy and hope you know how much I appreciate your fascinating video. Bless you and I shall be looking forward to your next video 🙏❤️

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thank you so much! I've got a lot planned out, and I've got two more paleontology videos in the works as I'm typing this, so stay tuned for more. :)

[@flamencoprof]

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History is a 1989 book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould which I read at the time. No doubt some of it is overtaken by more recent research, but it would still be a good overview and starting point if you are interested in the life of this period.

[@Ozraptor4]

Outstanding book, but science has well and truly marched on since then and large sections are now outdated. Shame that Gould didn't live long enough to produce a revised edition.

[@flamencoprof]

@@Ozraptor4 I should have known how outdated it is by your account; perhaps younger viewers might benefit from a recommendation of something more modern?

[@Ozraptor4]

@@flamencoprof The Crucible of Creation (1998) by Simon Conway Morris (somewhat dated, but an interesting refutation to Gould) First Life by Mark Kaplan (2010) - companion volume to David Attenborough's First Life. The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity by Douglas Erwin & Jame Valentine (2013) Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America by John Foster (2014)

[@flamencoprof]

@@Ozraptor4 Thx, obviously I need updating.

[@jarniwoop]

Thank you for this excellent review of the recent fossils and studies on this animal. I read Stephen J. Gould's book 'Wonderful Life' years ago, and among all the Burgess Shale critters he discussed Hallucigenia stuck out as the oddest. Standing on spines just didn't make sense.

[@jasmineclontz6105]

Great video! I love hallucinogenia :) such a neat creature

[@ChainsawDunDeez]

Damn...they where kind of cute little velvet worm, sea dragon things...

[@injunsun]

That pink one he showed that still picture of, just leaned over a bit, almost looked like it was smiling and dancing. I could see someone using that in a cartoon.

[@Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737]

Tree pond dwelling

[@brooke6472]

This is a great video on the creature

[@zorubark]

Attack on Titan fans when they discover worms are real

[@Bruh.Master]

Stuff From Dogelore when he sees someone making a joke

[@zorubark]

I'm not a he and I did not say that the jokes should be stoped, I would do that if it was in a fanbase I'm in

[@melinda2763]

love how plastic love is just playing in the background for no damn reason

[@Wryyy-diø]

i will keep moving forward, until my enemies are destroyed

[@therealzilch]

I'm watching this for probably the fourth or fifth time. Fascinating stuff, very well presented. cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

[@krinkrin5982]

14:15 This one should be called the Samurai Slug.

[@shrikelet]

Great video! I hadn't read about the current state of reconstruction of _Hallucigenia_ in years, so I didn't know about the eyes, or the new genus in the family. Thanks! I'll crossing my fingers and hoping there's an _Opabina_ episode coming!