Megafauna of the Pleistocene | Randall Carlson - Kosmographia Clips 011.3

[@billschwandt1]

Randall Carlson is one of the most intelligent, kindest men the world has to offer. You are a good man and a fine american.

[@AA11AA11AA]

Mine as well before Randall sold out to a con artist doing free energy using the sacred numbers ….. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@vapormissile]

@@AA11AA11AA broken record - broken record - broken record

[@andygirone7442]

@@AA11AA11AA watered down

[@Brzypoint]

Huge supporter of his work!

[@scottbatey3130]

@@AA11AA11AA you must be working for the oil industry

[@KenDBerryMD]

Excellent presentation! I wish we still had all these fatty megafauna to enjoy…

[@oSlicKShoT]

You’ve got my vote for president, Randall! Absolutely brilliant stuff as always!

[@RomanKosins]

Megafauna BBQ’s must have been amazing.

[@Membwayne]

You got a good belly laugh from me! Thanks!

[@thomasschweda5104]

I never thought of that! Good point.

[@azeers1975]

Mmmmm 😋

[@ericswain70]

🤣😂I think of The Flintstones.

[@paperboy...8667]

A mammoth rib delivered to your table on a forklift, imagine that.

[@nancypulley]

Just sent this wonderful episode to my grandson - good stuff - good art - always thankful for your sharing of knowledge and making it interesting and compelling to learn more - you rock, Randall !🙋🏻‍♀️

[@TonyBongo869]

We saw mastodon artifacts in Halifax Nova Scotia. The poor beasties would fall through the roof of karst formations and die. Fun facts: their skulls are made of interlaced hollow chambers that keep the weight of the massive head down (think about the inside of an Aero chocolate bar for reference), also their molars kept moving forward until they dropped out and were replaced by a fresh tooth pushing in from the back of the jaw

[@TonyBongo869]

@A R I think like a shark, they moved forward along the jaw line

[@adreabrooks11]

Modern elephant molars do the same. Interestingly, elephants have a finite number of molars (6 sets, IIRC). Once the last set has been shed, the animal grows no more, and typically dies of starvation - if the predators don't get the weakening creature first.

[@thevelikovskian6119]

Read Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval. The mastodon's didn't fall through anything; they were annihilated suddenly in a cosmic catastrophe.

[@TonyBongo869]

@@thevelikovskian6119 can you understand that mastodons lived and died for hundreds of generations prior to the Younger Dryas event? Anyways you’ll have to argue with the museum staff in Halifax if you still can’t grasp this concept

[@rodneycaupp5962]

... fantastic "also fact" that you give us. Things we have never heard before. Thank You.

[@dpost7461]

Randall Carlson is the best story teller! my childeren as is sanna can tell another story before bedtime 😉 TY RANDALL!!! all the love!

[@dpost7461]

Randall Carlson is the best story teller! my childeren ask if Sanna can tell another story before bedtime 😉 TY RANDALL!!! all the love!

[@redriver6541]

Have seen you on JRE many times. Never knew you had a YT channel.... So glad you do. Subbed and liked....and looking forward to watching them all. Has me extremely excited.

[@PaulChapman1bz]

You will also find his geocosmic rex channel very interesting

[@lelandshanks3590]

It's obvious to my mind that the Clovis people hunted young mammoth,/mastodon also older ones that were maybe injured, and took advantage of ones bogged down or trapped. But wiping them out just does not add up.

[@baneverything5580]

Cave Man climate change killed them. Cave Man Bad!

[@terrybrown7601]

Nope they all died together in the floods from the glaciers melting and the burnings from the solar plasma

[@lelandshanks3590]

This is not my idea, came from an archy in Ok.

[@shouldhavenotshouldof2031]

@@lelandshanks3590 What’s not your idea? What are you talking about?

[@shouldhavenotshouldof2031]

The Younger Dryas seems to tie it all together perfectly. After 10 years of reading about it I’m pretty convinced.

[@islandmonusvi]

My assessment: A huge coastal plain with extensive navigable bays located conveniently every few kilometers would obviate the need to compete with millions of extremely dangerous …well adapted…mega-predators lurking throughout the interior landscape. That being said, a riverine society similar to Amazonia could manage to accomplish seasonal explorations and hunting. Ditto for the North Africans… Basically, an aquatic people arrived in the Americas about 40kya and gradually populated coastal niches …culminating in the 12.9kya populations collapse of all megafaunal species including the majority of Humans. We have only begun to unravel this exquisite mega-mystery. So much inspiration…so little Time …

[@kenycharles8600]

Thank you for this presentation.

[@starrywisdom]

That''s a cyclops skull on that mastodon. Thought I was gonna die laughing. It took Randall a second to shake that one off.

[@mpetersen6]

The Greeks or their ancestors finding various megafauna fossils is one explanation for how some of their myths were formed.

[@kattanablade]

love your knowledge Randal, and love this channel, thank you from Perth Australia!

[@AA11AA11AA]

So did I before Randall sold out to a con artist doing free energy using the sacred numbers ….. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@azeers1975]

@@AA11AA11AA Care to explain?

[@caseya463]

@@AA11AA11AA cut and paste much?

[@thirdwheelproject]

I have always been fascinated by rocks and geology. I came across your channel about a year ago and I love it! Thank you for all of the hard work:) Having grown up in Alaska, I look at the land where I live now in Western WI with similar awe. Oh, the water is must have took!

[@shamsheed1726]

Every vid, Randalls flow and structure is 2nd to none

[@SuperKamiGuruu]

Makes me hate the educational system so much that this shit was never talked about.

[@kenycharles8600]

Do you think your teachers had access to this information? My teachers were more than willing to share whatever information they had with our school classes.

[@AA11AA11AA]

I thought that before Randall sold out to a con artist doing free energy using the sacred numbers ….. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@SuperKamiGuruu]

@@kenycharles8600 I would have some teachers give disclaimers before lessons about evolution, so yeah, not all teachers are built the same. It's the people in charge of the curriculum anyways

[@andygirone7442]

@@AA11AA11AA trash

[@azeers1975]

Our entire existence has been built on lies. But, why? Why wouldn't they want us to know? What are they afraid of? Are they afraid of us knowing everything is cyclical and history repeats? Maybe they don't want us to know about the cataclysms that are just around the corner? Would everyone stop working, stop paying taxes and stop living under the rule of corrupt governments?? Would there be no more slaves to stuff the pockets of the 'elites'? Hmmm 🧐

[@milly-moo9056]

I'm well late seeing this video, but I loved it ❤❤❤ thank you 😊

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

@29:30 exactly! Humans, being in a traumatized and possibly near starving state, could have desperately hunted down the last remnants of mega fauna, knowing that it was unsustainable but necessary for our survival at the time.

[@chuckleezodiac24]

yeah, it's not like humans almost wiped out Bald Eagles, Bison or Blue Whales, or did in the Dodo Bird, Elephant Bird, Great Auk, Quagga, Aurochs, Barbary Lions, Tasmanian Wolves and many other creatures. like everything else, it was a combination of factors.

[@GreenHavenFarms]

We’re talking about a Stone Age people here. Low tech, low population. Not Sailboat and rifles. Not on an isolated island like dodos. This is Asia and North America.

[@danieldowney2678]

yeah but no evidence at all that happened

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

@@danieldowney2678 there's evidence for a Paleo native American population bottleneck for the end of the ice age along with desertification in southwest. There's even a theory based on this starvation event that this event caused the genetic predisposition among native Americans for obesity and diabetes that we see today. Only individuals with a greater propensity for fat storage survived is the idea.

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

@@danieldowney2678 a starving desperate population would certainly disregard the usual rules of hunter-nature balance and hunt / scavenge whatever remaining megafauna there was left. Hunters could have been the final nail in the coffin but not the primary cause of mega fauna extinction. Specifically north America is what I'm talking about.

[@bredbeddledehautdesert4561]

Randell's "clips" are a half hour long. 😂 love it!

[@silvereagle1960]

A male Mastodon skull and tusk, was found two years ago here in Seymour Indiana, only six feet deep, and made the news! And I also own some woolly mammoth hair!

[@nawhedawhe6905]

Cheers lads, that is a beautiful tune at the end there, thanks very much for that. Keep up the great shows

[@scroopynooperz9051]

If only we could take a glimpse back in time - we could put to rest so many mysteries and cast aside all the gatekeepers.

[@AA11AA11AA]

Glimpse back in time before Randall sold out to a con artist doing free energy using the sacred numbers ….. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@scottbatey3130]

@@AA11AA11AA be careful of the words you say, and keep them soft and sweet, for you never know from day to day which words you'll have to eat....

[@vapormissile]

@@AA11AA11AA enlighten us

[@andygirone7442]

@@AA11AA11AA broken

[@AA11AA11AA]

@@andygirone7442 I mean you saying broken to every one of my comments is hypocritical?

[@jayb150]

Excellent as always, love the guitar piece at the end with the cbd promo

[@philjameson292]

Extinctions either occur due to hunting (but this is usually only single species at a time) but more usually due to loss of habitat. The loss of habitat usually is not instantaneous but takes sometime until the species ends up in pockets and becomes genetically isolated

[@danieldowney2678]

yeah but absolutely no evidence of humans causing over kill

[@johnconcerto8721]

This is incredible. I can’t believe how big those bison horns can get. That’s crazy. 21:01 Edit: I’m not sure why but the 500lb beaver is the scariest.

[@baneverything5580]

Beavers can be vicious when provoked. I had to fight off a pack of beavers that came after my dogs when I lived on the Sabine River.

[@danekender5332]

A Pack of angry beavers! 😂

[@nmarbletoe8210]

@@baneverything5580 If you see beavers hanging out on the street corner in leather jackets with the sleeves rolled up, I would not bother them. BUt seriously... how many in the pack? They are pretty big critters, I've been startled when they slap the tail

[@beaverwrassler5773]

We'll need a bigger trap

[@kylejohnson150]

Anybody think about the trees then vs the beavers... I say dam...

[@foylad4862]

Nice vid Randall and team 👍

[@melaniebrouwers452]

I read an article in Scientific American January 2021 about how scientists found that dire wolves' DNA was more closely related to American domesticated dog species than gray wolves and that dire wolves and gray wolves actually aren't related at all. Two different species following a similar evolutionary path. Perhaps the mountain lion knows a dog quite literally is a watered down version of the dire wolf?

[@thegingergrasshopper3908]

The small local news paper from the area I grew up at in Northwestern WI had a story of a guy that killed what they called a Dire wolf. They had a picture of It in the paper. The wolf was jet black and the head was about the size of a brown bear. it was in the 200+ weight and was over seven and a half feet to eight feet in length. It was killed not too far across the American/Canadian border just past International falls by a man from MN who was hunting. The article said that it came outta no where and he shot it multiple times as it came at him. Further in the article it said that it more than likely came from North of Hudson bay and followed prey all the way down. I saw the article when I was in the area around 2015 and it had happened not too long before then.

[@plj4all869]

Kool story!

[@j.m.3600]

Please never change the intro because it is perfect

[@stevenryle5709]

Very good discussion. Thanks

[@willmortimer8519]

Awesome show !

[@thomasschweda5104]

This is all good, Randall needs to write a book with a couple experts on this. It would sell.

[@mariz2361]

Which experts though...???!!! That's his point... There really aren't any 'experts' putting it all together...!!! The slides he uses... Which he only uses a small amount of... Now that collection, as a book, would sell...!!!

[@Allanhorns]

He is actually working on a title. It's in the beginning stages and should be out in a couple years or less.

[@ThillerKillerX]

@@mariz2361 Settle down bro.

[@staywoke1759]

this is my new favorite KZbin channel thank you for your knowledge:)

[@ahjgsd]

thanks for all of this information. keep it coming please

[@TerceSecreTGames]

Randall Carlson for President!

[@Ivana_Tinkle]

Genius. Thank you gentlemen.

[@DursunX]

i love how the name of the channel begins with 'THE'.. Randall is one-of-kind

[@ariheino327]

Hey. Couple of notes about biology... These are warm-blooded animals. That means that the greater the body mass, the greater the resistance to cold(as (surface area/mass) diminishes). Larger animals also tend to also require less (energy/kg of body mass). Just think of blue whales. This is to say, that big animals doesn't necessarily mean crazy abundant flora. It's possible that some type of super harsh flash colds selected these giant monsters as they were the only ones that didn't freeze to death or starve instantly.

[@emoryolsoff96]

Interesting proposal.

[@fifinutter8513]

Other than avoiding becoming their lunch, think of how awesome it was be to walk among these wondrous creatures. What happened to them makes me so sad...and I don't mean overhunting.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

I'm saving up to contribute to a Wooly Restoration project when it happens.

[@RalphEllis]

Still cannot see how the sabre-tooth tiger could eat, with those canines in the way. R

[@kaileynmceneaney5839]

Love you guys!

[@lelandshanks3590]

On Matt's question about meagafauna migrating out of America. The one specifically that did was the Camels.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

Also horses! Back and forth they went. This all makes Cerutti seem more and more plausible...

[@JimChap]

Very excited for this one.

[@StarDarkAshes]

Think of the music to Pink Floyd’s Shine on You Crazy Diamond. “Smilodon, you crazy lion”😂😊(Sorry. I’ll see myself out now.)

[@worndown8280]

I doubt Carlson will read this but the concept of werewolves, was created as an age rite. Young boys who had been gifted dogs were then taken to a sacred space when they came of age and sacrificed and consumed said dog. It killed the child. And in that moment he was dead. The young man wore the animals skin and was cast out of the tribe, he became a literally wild animal, a werewolf, with others of his age cohort and they had to survive for a period on their own. When they came back, if they survived, they were then members of the tribe. This tradition goes back probably 10-15000 years, perhaps as far back as 40k years. It is part of all Indo European cultures and its in many Native American cultures as well. Often times, many native tribes would sacrifice a dog to seal a bond or a pledge with another person. As a symbol of trust and personal sacrifice. The entomology of the word "werewolf" comes from the masculine form for Man which is "were". Man originally a term used for human. The feminine for Man was wif, that is where the word wife comes from. This rite of passage until fairly recently in some cultures. The Romans celebrated the festival of Lupercalia which is an evolution of this event. And the Germans and the Norse celebrated Odin's Wild Hunt. His dogs in that were all werewolves, literally the undead. Odin, after all is a psychopomp.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

It was an important tradition! Age rites are built into our evolution. Today we call it "eighth grade" and do it all wrong.

[@leswallace2426]

The mortality rate for the large animals would only have to have been increased slightly, for instance by predation on their young, for the Pleistocene megafauna to have been driven to extinction by people over a few hundred years. After millions of years of evolution and repeated sudden climactic changes the megafauna dies out sooner or later, usually sooner, when Homo sapiens comes on the scene. Megafauna on Madagascar lasted well past the end of the Pleistocene, but died out when people became well established, and look what happened to moas when the Moari arrived in New Zealand.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

I studied birds in Hawaii and it looks like the early wave of extinctions was due to rats, rather than hunting. People brought the Polynesian rat and there is evidence of "a great gray wave" of animals within a few years. Entire forests of lo'ulu palms even got destroyed by the cute lil things.

[@rodneycaupp5962]

The same half a dozen extinct critters are said to be the only remains found..., in 99% of these Pleistocene conversations. My collection contains those creatures that were also alive just before the impacts. EDIT; I just found a crocodile jaw in Xenia Ohio, near Dayton, in the SW corner of the state. While watching this video I took a closer look at what I suspected was a lower mandible. I have also 12 crock teeth in my small office crammed with YD Fossils. The coolest of which are 2 Human Heart6s and a left Lung. The hearts are about double or more thew volume of my heart at 6 ft tall, lets assume 12 ft tall humans at the time of the impacts here. The Colo-rectal segment of a large crock came from a Dayton Ohio suburb, above the gush zone valley. I have several 18 to 23 inch Crocodile scales. My Buffalo Tibia is a nice piece for any collection. 1s or more hominid or human finger tips. only a couple of toes of humans. Other collects have found many human stone age tools and implements. Nearly all of these are upper 2 to 3 meters of alluvial, and fluvial deposits, or on the surface/ eroded out. Ohio is the Home of over 3,000 mounds and earth works.... considered ancient earth works

[@lokdful]

this is amazing stuff, keep it up

[@Joshua_Hammer777]

Thanks for all your great work much love and respect from Kentucky ✌️

[@rogeryow1858]

😆🤣😂 I used to carry a long pointed stick as I trekked through the mountains. Bears can run a horse down. There is very little time to react as only a spear point would be the fastest protection. Never had needed the pointed stick but it helped in climbing through the rocks

[@WillyWonkenobi]

Another awesome video, love the content

[@ivannovorolnik5054]

the artis mentioned in 9 min is Zdeněk Burian. Czech painter most known for prehistoric ilustrations/reconstructions

[@Survivalist-of-war]

Thanks man.

[@Land-Shark]

There is a mountain pass in Alaska named by ancient Native hunters, called Anaktuvuk Pass. "Anak" means "poop", "tuvuk" means "caribou". Apparently, it was named after the thick layers of caribou poop that was left from the millions of caribou as they migrated in megaherds twice a year through the mountain pass. The caribou would all dump their poo in the mountain pass and the hunters made note of a good place to hunt caribou by naming the place as they found it. "Caribou Poop". I can only imagine the pasture patties left by megaherds of super bison, and of the other herd animals that roamed about.

[@BenCooke419]

I think it's pretty clear that these giants were giant due to the environment. The only way this could have happened is if the atmospheric pressure was much higher, which would mean that the Earth's atmosphere extended further into space. If that was the case, then humans would have been much larger than they are today, giving credence to the stories of "giants in those days." I think whatever happened to end the Pleistocene clearly took the thick atmosphere with it into deep space in a very short time span. I've heard of the crystalline/vapor canopy theory, but I think a thicker atmosphere makes more sense. It would also make the temperature at the -400 foot sea level much warmer and habitable for people, even during an Ice Age. My question would be, what removed the thick atmosphere and could it return to it's former state in the future, perhaps during another glacial period? I've also heard that the oxygen content was below what was capable of making fire. I think it's less than 20%. This comes from the Hadza tribe's oral tradition. It would make sense that such a large beast would have over developed air passages for extracting as much oxygen as possible.

[@xtremelemon8612]

higher surface pressure would easily explain temperatures as high as 35 celsius for global mean SSTs during the dinosaurs age as well as their sizes indeed too, but for the Pleistocene it would be more difficult. Unless for some reasons the pressure drops every time we get into a glacial, but you could not have huge ice caps during ice ages if the atmosphere is too dense. Its a really good theory that we need to explore but for further back geological times. It would also explain why Pterodactyls and other flying creatures could not fly in today atmosphere. But for the Pleistocene its a bit of a stretch. Remains to be clarified in the future though, badly.

[@lelandshanks3590]

You are right on the atmosphere from that aspect. More oxygen, bigger animals and people.

[@BenCooke419]

@@xtremelemon8612 Remember, the glaciers would have been on the continental highlands. If the global temperatures were lower, ice could still exist there even with a denser atmosphere. People would have lived on the continental shelves, near the low sea level, where there wasn't any ice.

[@mojozowa]

Think it maybe as simple as if there is sufficient food around we get larger and larger forms of life . The amount of extra growth of plants is really not fully appreciated by most people . For example ,I know I grew plants in a controlled setting with around 8-900ppm CO2 and they matured 20% or so faster with greater yield . I could only imagine how ,over 100's or 1000's of years of selection in an environment of higher temperatures and CO2 how much food would be available to the big herbivores that would then facilitate the bigger meat eaters . It sucks how politicized science has got with CO2 levels because it sure seems like a way to produce way more food in certain (or controlled) settings .

[@BenCooke419]

@@mojozowa I think CO2 did play a large role as well. Lower oxygen levels and a higher atmospheric pressure would definitely do it.

[@janklaas6885]

🕊22:08 lookslike manbearpig 😂 southpark.

[@sandrajones1609]

Absolutely aWeSoMe ❣️

[@richardlees5303]

Randall for President!!

[@brianharris4731]

There has been found recently a large meteor crater under the ice sheet in Greenland. Is this in the right time frame?

[@Alarix246]

At 26:00, why these megafauna animals didn't go also westward to Siberia - same applies for humans, right? Usually (in northern hemisphere, that is US, Europe and Canada), it's preferable to walk westward, because the wind blows eastward (that has to do with the Earth rotation). But many the annual large migrations are north-south and back. And on the Bering landbridge, there's not much room for this south-north migration. Wonder if that isn't the main reason why the animals didn't move across that land bridge too often.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

Camel and Horse are two types that moved from Americas to Eurasia...

[@Alarix246]

@@nmarbletoe8210 bingo! You're right!

[@madincraft4418]

Would people be bigger as well?

[@billbradley2370]

You know I always wondered why (prehistoric?) people would need to build with such large stone structures.

[@bridgeidiot262]

Because like the Bible states, there were giants in those days.

[@shouldhavenotshouldof2031]

Those weren’t set up as defensive structures nor would they need to be so massive for the occasional animal. There’s something far stranger with those mega-structures.

[@adreabrooks11]

Same reason people build giant things today - to show off that they can, and/or to make something impressive.

[@tardigrade9493]

Yeah, cyclopian/megalithic structures were not very accomodating for people: they had no kitchens, no bathrooms, no bedrooms, no assembly areas that weren't crowded with column, and often had stairsteps sized for giants. Beyond weird.

[@austinherrington7049]

I look at it the same way I look at European cathedrals - gigantic structures that peasants would see and wonder “how could humans even build that? They must have been helped by God.” There’s a lot of speculation about some megalithic structures being used for rituals/religious sites, and we see what appears to be religious iconography at some of these sites. I imagine creating an unnatural landmark on the scale of Gobekli Tepe means creating an easily visible landmark that people can use to gather for various reasons.

[@jr1648]

New word for Randall. Diminishing crescendo = decrescendo 27:05

[@jameslee-pevenhull5087]

Every now and then, a North Sea trawler will bring ashore a Mammoth tusk. Mammoth tusks from the North sea can be sold for up to $5000 depending on quality.

[@neilswingler4573]

The only explanation there can be for explaining the rapid freezing and preservation of some of the mastodons would be the mixing of the atmospheric layers, as the cometary fragments impacted the atmosphere allowing stratospheric freezing air to descend to the surface thus rapidly freezing any biological material coming into contact with it. Essentially they would have been blast frozen food for thought😊

[@iowafishguy9791]

Should check out The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History. It’s the second oldest museum in the United States west of the Mississippi River. They have a great exhibit on the animals that lived here in the past.

[@michaelhanford8139]

👍i remember the impact that the giant sloth made on me!

[@General_Pinkledink]

Look it's Santa Claus telling us about his pets when he was a child.

[@bradabar2012]

Fresh RC!!!

[@emoryolsoff96]

PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON FLORA & FUNGI OF THE PLEISTOCENE

[@stevecastellon1094]

Incredible.

[@joshwells3782]

Randall carlson for president heck yeah

[@1520_SEDGWICK]

What's the beautiful song they play at the end? Shazam isn't working. Would much appreciate any help :)

[@mission_new-earth]

the rest of the guys just sitting their quietly. they seem nervous, lol...I would of had so many questions in this amazing conversation. maybe Randall is an alpha dire

[@anneglass8084]

My favorite subject 🎉

[@Rainman...]

I'm probably not the only one to ask but how many of these fossils / skeletons are intact? For example the 1st Mastodon display what percentage is recreation?

[@mikedebell2242]

If one had warmer seas then one would likely have colder land and more precipitation-both rain and snow-building and/or maintaining ice sheets. What's desert now would have been green in those times supporting greater faunal variation and size. Just a thought.

[@jonmac5031]

Have you seen the Pleistocene Era sea creatures?! I’m surprised people ever took up boating 😮

[@random2829]

The "Bronze Age" is also known as the "Dvapara Yuga". These were a much more technologically advanced people than us - up to the reset about 12,000 BP. As you pointed out, there were massive changes in atmospheric conditions that led to Humans and animals becoming much smaller. Gunung Padang is helping to destroy the "narrative" of technological advances from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, etc.. Most of the pictures showing Humans >12,000 BP will depict them with stone weapons or tools. I feel that did not happen until the "reset" when most of Humanity was wiped out.

[@megalonoobiacinc4863]

that's great, I didn't know humans where bigger back then, but since you are telling us so i guess it has to be true

[@random2829]

@@megalonoobiacinc4863 Plenty of evidence if you are intelligent enough to know where to look and are not so indoctrinated to believe everything the schools or the government tells you. Sadly, those with a very low IQ (another term you may need to investigate) are not capable of something that is called "critical thinking".

[@megalonoobiacinc4863]

@@random2829 oh i see :/

[@debztully1339]

Love U! The clips are easier to digest???

[@ElsieDreamWorld]

Of the many videos posted by your group, I have seen several, but I don’t remember an explanation about the incredibly huge fields of mammoth skeletons found in and north of Siberia, nor about the fact that they were found frozen intact. What geological or atmospheric phenomena could flash freeze those large animals in seconds?

[@timhill3904]

As far as I’m aware, woolly rhinos never occurred in North America (much earlier rhinos did, however), and neither did Irish elk - Megaloceros - so the wolves in the picture are not dire wolves, as they only occurred in North America.

[@Unkl_Bob]

Excellent... when I see Kosmographia I get ready with Grasmocoffeeahhh

[@teflonsean7677]

May I ask a question? If such a mass extinction occurred, how can we explain evolution on such a relatively short time scale? I can agree with Natural Selection for small changes within a species but creation of NEW species as Darwin explains seems to be a mathematical improbability.

[@vapormissile]

What evolution are you talking about? Maybe study the coursework first.

[@paperboy...8667]

Darwin was 100% correct just not in the way he Imagined. Earth Creatures were the first intelligent life forms on this Planet, they've since migrated, millions maybe a billion or 2years ago. An left us, they're creation, to grow on this Nursery Planet.

[@vapormissile]

@@paperboy...8667 there do indeed seem to be two side to this discussion. "Humans evolved!" "Wrong! Humans didn't just evolve here on their own!" I bet we all end up proven wrong. And i trust that all of us will be pleasantly surprised by the truth.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

I'm not sure what evolution you are pointing to. What new species were created?

[@sukinardi]

what do you mean by evolution in such a short time? To be fair, the exact mechanism of evolution is an ongoing discussion to this day, with natural selection being the main axiom, but what the unit of selection is or how "fast" the process could be, and so many other things, are still debated. For one thing, a mass extinction event could be a great arena for survivors to branch out, as there are many previously occupied niches that are now free. so natural selection can benefit those animals that specialize in using a resource that is now available

[@noelsloan8103]

Randall deserves a room in the white House for his dedication a life well lived

[@ElsieDreamWorld]

That Elasmotherium surely was the one who gave origin to the legends of unicorns.😊

[@kenrik2105]

If megafauna existed throughout North America before the Younger Dryas event, is it logical that proportionate megahumans also existed? Are they the giant humans of legends and myths?

[@silencedogood6966]

I was fascinated by the recent finding of a complete Miracinonyx or American cheetah skeleton (missing small bone at end of tail) in a cave in the Appalachian Mountains. I’d always associated cheetahs with the open and flat savannah of Africa, and not densely forested mountains. Were the mountains at the time of its existence and demise sparsely forested and more grassland? Just bizarre to me I guess.

[@Canadiancromagnon]

In reality mastodon, horses and long horned bison lasted until 5000 bp in mainland North America. Radio carbon on skeletal remains in Ontario, Yukon prove this.

[@pagerhoads1531]

Gotta watch out for those giant beavers 🦫 👀

[@doctorofart]

Would the humans not also be Giant in the Pleistocene era? All the animals seem to be giant versions of animals still in existence. It only makes sense the people would be bigger also. Therefore it is just scale invariance meaning they were no more dangerous to humans then as now.

[@zeusdagmire6185]

Humans are Giants compared to most Primates around the world. You touched on some truth here. Humans needed to be tall and fast and needed weapons to survive surrounded by giants.

[@lhh6627]

No, humans weren't also giant. That was part of the reason we had to be so smart. Source: human skeletons 300,000 years old

[@zeusdagmire6185]

@@lhh6627 - Mega Fauna have been around for 2 million years. And they include the "Great" Apes and Homo Erectus and later Neanderthals, Denosian and Homo Sapians. All of these Primates and all are substantially larger than earlier distance relatives.

[@doctorofart]

@@lhh6627 isn’t that a bit naive of a stance, considering the plethora of stories and evidence of giants? The architecture alone speaks volumes to me, let alone all the other evidence or stories. I believe it will become obvious in a short time. If the weather and catastrophes continue, more bones will wash out in landslides and also new archeological discoveries will be made because of LiDAR and satellite imagery.

[@lhh6627]

@@doctorofart not really, because the stories are always very clear about the giants NOT being humans.

[@jeffcreech7010]

So...... Bigfoot could be a megafauna creature?

[@mcasteel2112]

Impossible for them to exist, yet stories dating back thousand years or more.

[@chuckleezodiac24]

perhaps as remnants of Gigantopithecus who managed to partially adapt to the loss of forests following the Pleistocene.

[@mcasteel2112]

@@chuckleezodiac24 Seen one (Or something. I know what it wasn't how's that? I know it was not a man, I know it was not a bear, and I know it was not a pig so that eliminates those three plus it eliminates a man bear pig) Anyway, walked right across the road in front of my car while driving through the Huron Nat Forest just north of Glennie Mi. One step in the middle then one step off. Mid Nineties. It changes everything you were taught to believe or not to, You question from that moment on while not being able to share openly. It was only when the internet took off that I was able to do some calculations 20 some years ago at this point. 1. 8 to 9ft foot tall. (This one was at least 8ft) 2. Weighing in excess of 700lbs 3. Bipedal (burns more calories) 4. Opposable thumbs. Caloric intake would have to be close to 30k calories a day just to sustain its bodyweight See 2 and 3. Vegetarian diet would require eating nonstop for at least 8hrs per day. Meat eater? No evidence of one or hundreds running off with farmer petes cow. Not going to run down a deer and catch one with its bare hands. No evidence of tool, fire or weapon making. See 4. I mean, you hear countless excuses as to there being enough food "they could forge for nuts and berries and stuff and an occasional squirrel" yet people Overlook the fact again that these things are 9 ft tall and they are pretty much solitary so they're not like chimpanzees who can climb trees and chase down, corner other smaller primates then rip them to shreds and the whole troop takes part in the debauchery. I mean, these things are bigger than Shaq! Can you imagine trying to sustain your body weight by digging for grubs and eating pine cones!? I mean come on. And they're not built like gorillas who are strictly vegetarians for the most part. These things are bipedal and that means they have to have opposable thumbs, there is just no way that somebody could sit there and say well you know they drag their thumbs along on the underside of their palms because at that point it would be absolutely useless! To be able to walk on two legs but yet not be able to grab a stick with any skill!?? I mean that would really suck!! So if they have opposable thumbs that means they make weapons and tools and then that means they make fire. So we have hundreds if not thousands of years of stories handed down generation after generation by countless tribes across the globe. As a side note. I now live in Western North Carolina and it's like a cult following here. I told one guy about my experience because he was wearing this t-shirt and he had a bumper sticker and it was in a parking lot at Home Depot but anyway, he was like dude I'd love to witness one in person, and I just thought to myself like, no you don't man trust me you don't.

[@chuckleezodiac24]

@@mcasteel2112 You covered a lot with that response. Did it look like the typical depiction of Bigfoot: brown and covered with hair? Were you able to see its face? Did it make any sounds? Was it ambling casually, furtively or confidently? Did the hair go up on the back of your neck when you saw it? Did you think about pulling over and chasing it? Are you saying that it's more of a hominid offshoot, a "giant" Homo Erectus type variant (with limited cognitive abilities) - (content to survive on plants and isolation) -- rather than a giant ape-like creature? Maybe their digestive systems are more efficient and can survive on less intake, or like sloths - spend a lot of time inactive with slowed metabolism... Thanks for sharing that story!

[@mcasteel2112]

@@chuckleezodiac24 It was only years later when I was reading about an encounter some lady had in Ohio when she said "it looked right through me" and that statement was exactly what I had experienced but was never able to put into words. As far as the biology? All the calculators are available on the internet but of course your trying to input numbers where the results are only going off the math. In the end, I said and will always say that, by all accounts when you add it all up? There's no way they can exist but yet they do?

[@misspineapple8732]

They could have killed off what was left if anything after the cataclysm.

[@johnryan2193]

Amazes me that such large creatures walked the earth NOT that long ago . What was the evolutionary advantage of being so BIG . ?

[@isakwilkinson2491]

I swear you and Graham are so awesome. You're right mainstream science or especially earth science doesn't really teach you this stuff it just kind of it's like blah it just spits out stuff and doesn't really explain the whole of a lot and the explanations that they give are just it makes it sound like we've only been on the planet for 12,000 years. Which we can tell and evolution in 12,000 years we have changed so yeah you guys are awesome you guys have opened my eyes to a lot of other things that I kind of already suspected. Here's my biggest one I think the pyramids are actually much older than what they say they are I mean much much older. But that's just my personal opinion I don't know if I heard it from you guys but I thought no cuz I thought about it like maybe 15 years ago that I or maybe I did hear something about it but I don't I don't believe I did about 15 years ago it popped in my head that I was like wait a minute the timelines don't match up for these pyramids they really don't some of them they do but not all of them and I'm talking about the ones in Egypt I think the Egyptian pyramids are much older than what we think they are. And I'm sure that will come out at some point but yeah and some of the other pyramids around the world I'm thinking they might be copycats or older than what they think they are. A little bit of digging and ground penetrating radar will go a long ways. Lol

[@bruceinoz8002]

Regarding the Siberian proboscidians that have been getting dug up for dog food or novelty items for a LONG time: Two things stand out, at least in my reading of the matter. One, Many seem to have died with a mouth full of half-chewed lunch. This suggests that they were caught quite unawares by a VERY fast-moving event, likely a massive "over-pressure" blast / shock front. These things are generated by the detonation of high-explosives or, in earlier times, something big and nasty coming out of the sky at hyper-sonic speed. It wold be interesting to see a serious autopsy on a couple of these beasties, to see if they have the classic "soft-tissue" (especially the brain), damage / rupture, as seen in victims of bomb blasts.. Having one's lungs pulped and brain literally scrambled inside the skull, tends to rapidly ruin one's day. Two;, these carcasses were interred WHOLE in dust and ice, with, apparently, nary a nibble from the usual scavengers. This makes it likely that the burial was quite rapid and that the local carrion-eaters may also have been "terminally inconvenienced" by the same shock-wave. If someone ever turns up a frozen pack of wolves in the nearby permafrost, we MAY find out. Anyone know of any such autopsies?

[@bigcountry5520]

The weather patterns in the NE Pacific allowed for dry air masses to settle on the vast tundra. This is why there wasn't any notable ice buildup in this region. If you look at the NW Pacific weather patterns, you'll see more moisture and therefore, more ice. I also think the oxygen mixture was higher due to the reduction in CO2. Could the abrupt cooling of the oceans due to melt water, cause the C02 levels to drop fast enough to cause a flora extinction event? Or at least cause a reduction of flora great enough to affect entire ecosystems? This could also be related to why all the megafauna died out so abruptly, and so completely. I think the probability of humans overhunting the megafauna to extinction is 0.000001%

[@kurtisengle6256]

The size of the animals may have been the inspiration behind Clovis' massive spearpoints. "Speak softly and carry a really impressive weapon" Clovis Man

[@nmarbletoe8210]

Maybe Clovis Culture was actually a sports league, like the Rodeo circuit. People from all cultures had their local teams. The games included feasting.

[@richardnott9587]

I always figured as the floods swept across the continent it swept all the animals in its path and put them into a pool by themselves after they drowned I always thought the flooting bodies would have bunched up in pools and then be covered in silt on the next wave.

[@JasonMaurath]

Mastodon State park in Kimmswick, MO (just South of STL)