Lost Worlds: New Zealand (Part 1)

[@billyr2904]

We strangely found a land mammal fossil in new Zealand, but we have no clue how it got there.

[@beastmaster0934]

Ah yes, St. Bathans Mammal

[@Feisty_Elfgirl_5258]

ALIENS! (Sadly I can't but the gif of the History Channel Weird Hair Alien dude in the comments)

[@scottmccrea1873]

As I said, it proves some of Zealandia stayed above the waves.

[@Vo_Siri]

Magic powers

[@Dr.Chibbins]

I wanna know what that thing looked like

[@ladypangaea4801]

As a New Zealander, I always get excited whenever people discuss the wildlife from here, both extant and extinct. I love the amount of research you've done so far and already can't wait for part two. *Little Eagle Foreshadowing* 😉

[@loopernoodling]

Foreshadowing indeed! I was like; 'New Zealand eagles? Ooooh, we know where this is heading!', and then it turns into a cliffhanger, and I'm like; 'Ahhh, darn it!'.

[@carlosalbuquerque22]

An important taxon he didn't discuss was the Saint Bathans mammal

[@jakcobblack6890]

fax who does not

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Awesome video man! I really appreciate the shoutout. It's been a very long and often arduous journey, but it's all been worth it, especially seeing other creators like you making it big covering content we enjoy covering so much. :) Looking forward to the next part!

[@sassa82]

Great job! I love how you got appreciated here!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

@@sassa82 :)

[@niccy266]

So cool Henry!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

@@niccy266 It really is! :D

[@trevstrucknrc7010]

40 odd years living in the south island and you 2 are talking about animals I know nothing about. Henry Im off to your channel to learn some shit lol

[@StuffandThings_]

I'm almost certain that New Zealand did not entirely sink. The rifting that broke it away would have for some time provided at least a little warmth in the mantle to keep it afloat, and even today there are some anomalous volcanic fields in the north likely due to some warm bits underneath New Zealand (once again keeping things a bit more afloat). All that drifting would have also caused at the very least a little subduction and uplift. The presence of Ratites, early mammal fossils, all those reptiles, and lots of ancient plants all in this one place make a full sinking pretty unlikely too. The idea of New Zealand being purged of life is just a convenient excuse for how some of the more modern bird groups ended up so successful.

[@RicochetII]

The presence of the primitive frogs (Leiopelma) would also support at least part of New Zealand never sinking. I don't think frogs handle rafting between islands well, and they are absent from places like New Caledonia.

[@1DeathDemon11]

Not to mention Tuatara, who’s ancestors have existed for over 200 million years and all other ancestors thought to have died out 60 million years ago.

[@mafiamoth3960]

Gandalf probably did this

[@nickq8093]

It's likely only a very small portion or portions of it stayed above the waves, providing just enough of a habitat for a select few small animals like the tuatara, leiopelma, and saint bathans mammal.

[@infectedbait5693]

Couldn't link a source but it's talked about a lot, that a small part of the top of the South Island (near Blenheim) never sank or submerged, which is how older species like Tuatara were able to survive

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

I honestly can't wait till the next part because it has the Moa and Haast's Eagle in it

[@mhutch5082]

Sadly my ancestors ate them all :( KFC here would be great if they were still alive lol

[@roseyuen6916]

​@@mhutch5082 or maybe KFMoa

[@dinonuggett2968]

@@roseyuen6916I’d prefer to eat KFHaast imo, to assert my dominance as the apex 😈

[@fallenangel_899]

@@mhutch5082omg😭

[@sovietelmo1019]

@@mhutch5082 don’t sweat it bro. Us Pakeha have done worse. Y’all are good

[@Xo-3130]

To think that both New Zealand and New Caledonia are just mountains popping up from a submerged continent. Wonder what everything could look if it was less submerged and a bit further from Australia.

[@trilobite3120]

Not just mountains.

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

The Pacific would be a lot less open for sure.

[@PinkxPnther]

As a New Zealander, and a nerd I can confirm this.

[@dustedstar5158]

there are some great maps of Zealandia online if you want to search abit

[@birbdad1842]

@@trilobite3120 Huh, accurate.

[@VayliraKayvex]

Most underrated lost world (besides possibly pre-human Madagascar)

[@mhutch5082]

It's not that special I live here

[@miadodson1938]

It's not lost - we are here, along with 5 million others

[@ericwolff6059]

Lost, only in terms of human perception. Unfortunately since the first human colonisation of these lands the native flaura and fauna have had a tough time. Since the second wave of colonisation over 85% of New Zealand's forests and bush have been wiped out in favour of farming and urbanisation.

[@morganfoy3652]

Need to get out more

[@adamthespinygiant]

We’re just glad to know you and TimTim are feeling better. We can’t let anything happen to you two.

[@emeraldcrusade5016]

Who’s TimTim?

[@adamthespinygiant]

@@emeraldcrusade5016 TimTim is the Procynosuchus (little brown stem mammal) that was talking about the little eagle towards the end at 13:34

[@funfairordnance]

@@emeraldcrusade5016 He also appears in the history of the earth series as a little funny side character! :3 I’m very new to this channel, and TimTim is already my son XD

[@jach99]

I think the ancient land species like the tuatara and also plants like Agathis, Podocarpus and Nothofagus make it likely that some little part of Zeelandia must've never sank. Also the St. Bathans Mammal which is I think a Multituberculate so maybe descended from a Zeelandic survivor of the K-Pg extinction.

[@williamwallace9944]

Hopefully the mighty Tuatara gets a mention in pt. 2!

[@bobrulz666]

New Zealand Mentioned!!

[@thepolishnz]

Outside of lord of the rings and rugby

[@collectpanda3350]

Finally, OLD Zealand

[@martijn9568]

Nah, that one flooded much more than once😅

[@VertMade]

Part 2 please!!!! ❤ I'm a tour guide in New Zealand and this is extremely useful for myself and coworkers, huge thank you for Part 1

[@sassa82]

I love Henry Paleo Guy, Ive followed him for years!

[@brianspendelow840]

Excellent video. Looking forward to the follow up and learning more about Haast's Eagle. I hope you also give a mention to my other favorite extinct bird, the Laughing Owl. Like the eagle , it did not go down without a fight. .

[@TroyColey]

Paleo Analysis, thank you for your hard work, we all appreciate it. Your an incredible, wonderful, amazing, and awesome person. ☺️😊😄😃🤩😍 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Xnaut314]

Aww, no shoutout for the St. Bathans mammal here. I get that it's extremely obscure and very little is understood about its very meager fossils but the speculation of its phylogeny to other mammals is truly fascinating.

[@logukkkjohnston8979]

You taught me more about my country than anyone in my country did, we need a part two

[@furlizard]

Love NZ bird of the week! I remember being amazed that NZ used to have coastal ravens that probably lived on shellfish and baby seals

[@djulianerenbourgh4969]

Oh, Tim-Tim has survived the Permian and is getting better, great news. And I am really glad to see you back, truly relieving.

[@gaius_enceladus]

As a New Zealander, one of the amazing things is that the tiny Chatham Islands (waaay out to the east of the main islands of NZ) have dinosaur fossils on them! There seems to be some agreement among scholars that they used to be connected to the mainland by a long land-bridge about 80 million or so years ago (when the sea-level was much lower). That would have allowed the dinosaurs to get there. Still, I really wish we had more trilobite and ammonite fossils!

[@superkai6483]

I've been bingeing all of your videos, now you are doing my country! Awesome!

[@manic2360]

Ive been voting on Henry PG Bird of the Week for a few years now... endlessly fascinating. Excellent video can't wait for part 2...

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Much appreciated for sticking around. :)

[@billymaverick7948]

Just found this bro , new subscriber from New Zealand 🇳🇿 was wondering if the part 2 was out ? Looking forward to diving in to the rest of your videos 🙏🏼

[@boodashaka2841]

Quite a few mammal remains have been found in the St Bathans area down south. The St Bathans Mammal and actually a couple of others from memory. Little shrew-like mammals most likely

[@servit0r]

That Bird at 02:08 is absolute fabulous! Glad to see you're back!

[@williamhornabrook8081]

I think that is a kea. It has bright plumage under the wings. They are known to be both intelligent and mischievous. They can solve puzzles like a raven, but are also known for stealing food from humans and damaging cars.

[@servit0r]

@@williamhornabrook8081 Aye it does look like a kea! Plus your description makes them really likable.

[@bethanysmith5856]

I slightly regret using your past videos to help me fall asleep in the past. But I'm glad I'm listening to this in the evening, your voice is soothing

[@robrice7246]

4:55 This feels like it needs to be an ongoing project for paleontology. It's also a probable reason why the Prehistoric Planet team focused more on the marine fauna since they're more complete.

[@ZeFroz3n0ne907]

Zealandia: 🎶Don't call it a comeback..🎶 Great video Paleo! Been waiting for this! Glad you are feeling better! From Dave in Alaska!

[@chheinrich8486]

New Zealand, origin of the the strangest families of birds ever, the penguins and the moas, one has bo wings, the other uses its wings very efficiently for swimming

[@StuffandThings_]

Ah, yet another piece of what can be best described as cretaceous park. While the animals (especially in the modern day after humanity killed off a lot of them) can be mildly underwhelming and maybe not exactly dinosaurs, the botany is still fantastic and quite representative of the latest Mesozoic (well, at least where it hasn't been cut down). The Kauri forests are like taking a step back into deep time. Subtropical conifers, magnoliids, and a few ancient monocots still rule the land.

[@meriosan4333]

And don't forget the ferns!

[@StuffandThings_]

@@meriosan4333 Well funnily enough, the oh so famous tree ferns aren't _that_ ancient - that group does predate the most modern fern groups and does have its origins in the Cretaceous, but its certainly not the most ancient of the groups put under the umbrella of tree fern (that honor would probably be best given to the Marratiales). Some of the other ferns such as the filmy ferns, however, along with the many lycophytes there, definitely do belong as something very ancient! I just failed to mention them, there's so many ancient groups in New Zealand it would be quite tedious to list them all.

[@boganbushcraft]

It's videos like this that make me proud to be a New Zealander, thank you for this! I look forward to part 2, then 3 then 4 and then 5!

[@gtbkts]

Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!

[@a_tired_wendigo]

When Paleo Analysis uploads its a good day

[@juanrinawi8458]

I remember my self facinated with NZ distinct Evolutionary History and Biogeography during the early and mid 90s. Though Mammalian fissils from the Miocene were found in New Zealand later: (Trevor H. Worthy et al. 2006) Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific.

[@bipedalcynodont962]

Thank you for covering one of my literal top 5 favorite ecosystems of all time!

[@fnansjy456]

Cool when will part 2 be out?'

[@exomake_mehorololo]

Yay shout out for Henry!!!! 🎉🎉🎉His videos are great! He puts so much effort into the series and holds weekly pills for the next bird to be covered

[@sizanogreen9900]

Glad to have you back! Hope health will stay with you for the rest of the year:)

[@ruben7820]

Oh yeeeaaah. Can't wait for you to talk about the Haast's Eagle in the next part.

[@josiahhockenberry9846]

9:57 nice nod to Ze Frank. Btw, love this channel. Thanks for all your great work.

[@maxplanck9055]

Thanks for your channel,it’s interesting and informative, I like natural history and evolution, this channel educates me and entertains,much appreciated ✌️❤️🇬🇧

[@PaleoAnalysis]

Thank you so much for the kind words and support! I can't express how wonderful it is to know that my work is being enjoyed by people all over the world!

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

@@PaleoAnalysis We're addicted !

[@boopy3919]

Captivating content as always dude, it's my fave on this platform.

[@alexgiles9031]

Ayy, my country!

[@PinkxPnther]

Same!

[@jennawalsh8019]

Awesome to give a shout out to the person who did this information partly first! Awesome doco too thank you for this I’ve been slowly learning about NZ being the other half of myself.

[@AntoekneeDE]

Thanks, this is great. Anybody voting for NZ Bird of the Week on Henry’s excellent channel, make sure you pick the SAL Shearwater!!! It’s been languishing on the polls forever, poor thing!

[@chrislusk3497]

5:22 No, Zealandia did not disappear beneath the waves in the late Cretaceous. We know that because some molecular clocks show that some of the archaic elements on the NZ flora and fauna split from their nearest Australian relatives > 85 million years ago, before Zealandia split off from Gondwana.

[@catmus1506]

Thanks for the shout out for Henry. I've never heard of him but I've now subscribed to him. Looking forward to watch his videos as I do with yours. I personally cannot get enough of palaeontology. Thank you.

[@manic2360]

Remember to vote each week for which bird..

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I hope you enjoy the content. :)

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Excellent, Thank you. MOA ...

[@tomatosaurusrex832]

There is the Moa's Ark hypothesis that fragments of Zealandia never sank which is why sphenodonts, moa and our weird frogs are still here. I think the book Ghost's of Gondwanna cover it pretty well.

[@TheBangBang04]

Good video man! It was a great time listening to your presentation.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

You forgot to mention the St. Bathens Mammal which prooves that at least some of Zealandia stayed above the waters

[@georgiak6017]

Apart from moa, we had a flightless goose and giant adzebills, and a giant gecko.

[@ktulurob]

Really Great Work, looking forward to part two.

[@daultonhuskey2804]

Sorry to hear you were sick! Happy to hear you are better! Appreciate your content!

[@AnEcologistPlays]

Oh man, this was such an awesome video to watch, thanks! I will be lecturing my students about insular ecology (including flightlessness) soon, so this viedo is definitely going to be recommended watching to understand what happened on New Zealand. Thanks for always making such awesome videos!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Oh that's really awesome!

[@AnEcologistPlays]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Oh man, it's the legend himself! I particularly enjoyed your recent video on Sussocaris. 🙂

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

@@AnEcologistPlays Hello hello! That was definitely one of the more surreal and fun videos I've worked on in a good while! I'm really glad you liked it. :)

[@AnEcologistPlays]

@Henry the PaleoGuy And super educational to boot! It's all fun and games to make something like Sussocaris up, until people who do not do due diligence believe that hoax creature to exist, and it spreads like wildfire. And that's where we've got to come in and set the record straight🤣

[@posticusmaximus1739]

AWWWW YEAH NEW VIDEO!

[@BayBerry1337]

Bizarre that I am subbed with notifications, but I do not recall seeing the vid in my sub box or recommended over the last 4 days.

[@kellyharrison5184]

I have been SO looking forward to this one! Yay! Thank you for all of your hard work.

[@Tsuruchi_420]

PALEO ANALYSIS VIDEO POG

[@trilobite3120]

St. Bathans where Heracles inexpectatus us from is also home to a three metre long Mekosuchine crocodilian and a Meiolaniid turtle.

[@scalyschisms6263]

I know I said this before in the New Caledonian video, but I really hope he covers the Delcourt's giant gecko, the largest species of gecko to ever live, and it was around up until about 1870.

[@joanfregapane8683]

An exceptionally good episode! So interesting and fun to hear about this lost world.

[@korkad_]

Islands and birds adaptive radiation, name a better combo

[@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574]

No mention of insects, not even the wetas

[@HummusFan]

Can't wait for number 2

[@HummusFan]

Hey still here somebody bring water

[@exalt2674]

The Hercules parrot. God, that's amazing.

[@exalt2674]

So we get to hear about Haast's eagle and the Moa next time?

[@Elgnirp]

LETS GOOOOOO NEW PLAEO ANALYSIS UPLOAD

[@SuperTah33]

Great video! I feel obliged to point out though that there weren't exactly a lack of predators in Miocene NZ, as mekosuchine crocodiles have been found in New Zealand as well (16mya, St Bathans fauna). Likely went extinct when New Zealand further cooled down due to climate change.

[@gruzza9000]

The magpie image used at *11.16* is from the collingwood football club in Victoria, ausralia

[@angeladawn805]

I always thought that the Tuatata has been around "since the age of the dinosaurs" - according to the DOC site, which can't be the case if Aotearoa did the Atlantis thing 🤔🤨

[@takenname8053]

SUPER NICE, more then happy to wait for the next one!

[@arijitghosh1151]

Please make a video on lost world of india

[@justinw-s1694]

Still waiting for part 2.

[@InternetDarkLord]

7:35 2 meters and 200 pounds. Interesting combination of units.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I bet it was delicious

[@felixschrider9037]

to clarify an apparently global misunderstanding. Zealandia is not a sunken continent. it is a rising continent. the vast majority of it has never been above sea-level. even some scientific papers seem to claim that Zealandia is a sinking/sunken continent. it is not. Tectonic plate movements are currently the pacific plate sliding under the Australian plate, in the center of what is currently New Zealand. furthermore, recent (ish) earthquakes have visibly extended the coastline in places like Kaikoura. On top of that, here in Whanganui you can visibly see the shelf differences as you travel inland and rise above sea-level. Finally. New Zealand is commonly accepted to have moved away from Australia about 80 million years ago. at that point the landmass above water was less than 1/10 of its current size. On that small strip of land, there exist numerous fossils and dinosaur bones, including marine reptiles and so on. Almost everywhere in the country it is not difficult to find elevated sea beds containing fossils of shellfish and so on.

[@Chartruse5]

❤❤

[@TroyColey]

Certified Bird Classic

[@samuel2985]

Great video you could do your own series! Love this one.

[@godfreypigott]

It's been more than 5 months. Where is part 2?

[@miadodson1938]

Wow! Really happy to find this vide..... I have lived in this amazing country since 1980 and haven't explored much of it, although having said that, the parts I have been to are incredible. I have lived in various places in NZ, stretching from Christchurch up to Auckland...now wondering if I should move to the next city up, and keep going until I reach the northernmost tip of NZ, then start the southern migration 😂🇳🇿

[@laurachapple6795]

For the little eagle!

[@barron204]

I live in New Zealand and the place is amazing.Looking forward to part 2.

[@RocketPawcalypso]

I love Henry, he's really nice and I've spoken to him in discord voice chat before. The topic was bird picture shitposting and it was hilarious.

[@merryn9000]

New Zealand also has very unique frogs

[@rahowherox1177]

Yep ... Quiet and no tadpole stage.

[@dream_state]

Where is part 2? 😢

[@missfoxylocksnz]

I'd love to go on a fossil hunt. our country is just so magical looking it's amazing ♥ great video

[@tecumsehcristero]

You Blue Balled us with the Haast’s Eagle!!!!

[@frostyguy1989]

New Zealand has only a few fragmentary fossils of land animals because it is so geologically active. It's a long, narrow land mass with a subduction zone and slip-strike fault going right through the middle of it, meaning fossils are routinely obliterated by eruptions, earthquakes and millions of years of rock shifting and twisting around. And that's not even taking into account that most of Zealandia is underwater, making any fossils down there inaccessible. Conversely, New Zealand is one of the best places in the world for marine fossils. The plesiosaur, ichthyosaur, mosasaur and other marine animal fossils found here are remarkably complete.

[@erichtomanek4739]

There'll be nothing little about that eagle! Excellent video, informative and visually interesting. Just a thought: Why are isolated island ecosystems dominated by birds? Why are there no islands where bats dominate to the extent birds do? If there are, please advise.

[@martijn9568]

Probably because there are many more sea going birds than bats

[@Spitefulrish]

Oooh are we going to talk about the Haaast Eagle. That big boy was the apex

[@bulldog71ss33]

Is this Lost Worlds series ever going to get a reboot? We got 3 episodes and then.....

[@KF1]

Megapenguins. Sweet!

[@DinosaurianDude]

At 11:00 Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!

[@BiggestBigBoy]

Bird: *colonizes new island* Bird: *"Return to dino"*

[@blodpudding]

Hi! I love your videos, but I am not super familiar when different periods took place as it is and english is not my first language so I wonder if you could say or put up year on the screen when mentioning time periods? I feel it would be easier to grasp the time line in your videos then. Thanks! Can't wait for part 2. I had no idea about New Caledonia and after your last video about it it is on top of my list for travel destinations

[@troycoley-cn5bb]

Amazing Video :)

[@trilobite3120]

Also the cannel Prehistoric New Zealand

[@TeHokioi]

Thanks for making it to an NZ video! Sing out if you need any help with pronunciation of Māori words or names in part 2, would be happy to support as a local!

[@benmcreynolds8581]

It would have been so cool to see an ancient New Zealand in action. I'm so curious about "what was these creatures behavior and personality like?" Even if we could see through a video device, that would be great, to see a entire ecosystem in action and the behavior of these creatures in action. Man that would be so facinating.

[@roachdoggjr3786]

cant wait for part 2 man!