We strangely found a land mammal fossil in new Zealand, but we have no clue how it got there.
@beastmaster0934 Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, St. Bathans Mammal
@Feisty_Elfgirl_5258 Жыл бұрын
ALIENS! (Sadly I can't but the gif of the History Channel Weird Hair Alien dude in the comments)
@scottmccrea1873 Жыл бұрын
As I said, it proves some of Zealandia stayed above the waves.
@Vo_Siri Жыл бұрын
Magic powers
@Dr.Chibbins Жыл бұрын
I wanna know what that thing looked like
@ladypangaea4801 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
An important taxon he didn't discuss was the Saint Bathans mammal
@jakcobblack6890 Жыл бұрын
fax who does not
@HenrythePaleoGuy Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Great job! I love how you got appreciated here!
@HenrythePaleoGuy Жыл бұрын
@@sassa82 :)
@niccy266 Жыл бұрын
So cool Henry!
@HenrythePaleoGuy Жыл бұрын
@@niccy266 It really is! :D
@trevstrucknrc7010 Жыл бұрын
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_ Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Gandalf probably did this
@nickq8093 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I honestly can't wait till the next part because it has the Moa and Haast's Eagle in it
@mhutch5082 Жыл бұрын
Sadly my ancestors ate them all :( KFC here would be great if they were still alive lol
@roseyuen6916 Жыл бұрын
@@mhutch5082 or maybe KFMoa
@dinonuggett2968 Жыл бұрын
@@roseyuen6916I’d prefer to eat KFHaast imo, to assert my dominance as the apex 😈
@fallenangel_899 Жыл бұрын
@@mhutch5082omg😭
@sovietelmo1019 Жыл бұрын
@@mhutch5082 don’t sweat it bro. Us Pakeha have done worse. Y’all are good
@Xo-3130 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Not just mountains.
@KnightsWithoutATable Жыл бұрын
The Pacific would be a lot less open for sure.
@PinkxPnther Жыл бұрын
As a New Zealander, and a nerd I can confirm this.
@dustedstar5158 Жыл бұрын
there are some great maps of Zealandia online if you want to search abit
@birbdad1842 Жыл бұрын
@@trilobite3120 Huh, accurate.
@VayliraKayvex Жыл бұрын
Most underrated lost world (besides possibly pre-human Madagascar)
@mhutch5082 Жыл бұрын
It's not that special I live here
@miadodson1938 Жыл бұрын
It's not lost - we are here, along with 5 million others
@ericwolff6059 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Need to get out more
@adamthespinygiant Жыл бұрын
We’re just glad to know you and TimTim are feeling better. We can’t let anything happen to you two.
@emeraldcrusade5016 Жыл бұрын
Who’s TimTim?
@adamthespinygiant Жыл бұрын
@@emeraldcrusade5016 TimTim is the Procynosuchus (little brown stem mammal) that was talking about the little eagle towards the end at 13:34
@funfairordnance Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Hopefully the mighty Tuatara gets a mention in pt. 2!
@bobrulz666 Жыл бұрын
New Zealand Mentioned!!
@thepolishnzКүн бұрын
Outside of lord of the rings and rugby
@collectpanda3350 Жыл бұрын
Finally, OLD Zealand
@martijn9568 Жыл бұрын
Nah, that one flooded much more than once😅
@VertMade7 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I love Henry Paleo Guy, Ive followed him for years!
@brianspendelow840 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Paleo Analysis, thank you for your hard work, we all appreciate it. Your an incredible, wonderful, amazing, and awesome person. ☺️😊😄😃🤩😍 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@Xnaut314 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
You taught me more about my country than anyone in my country did, we need a part two
@furlizard Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I've been bingeing all of your videos, now you are doing my country! Awesome!
@manic2360 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Much appreciated for sticking around. :)
@billymaverick794812 күн бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
That Bird at 02:08 is absolute fabulous! Glad to see you're back!
@williamhornabrook8081 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@williamhornabrook8081 Aye it does look like a kea! Plus your description makes them really likable.
@bethanysmith5856 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Zealandia: 🎶Don't call it a comeback..🎶 Great video Paleo! Been waiting for this! Glad you are feeling better! From Dave in Alaska!
@chheinrich8486 Жыл бұрын
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_ Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
And don't forget the ferns!
@StuffandThings_ Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!
@a_tired_wendigo Жыл бұрын
When Paleo Analysis uploads its a good day
@juanrinawi8458 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for covering one of my literal top 5 favorite ecosystems of all time!
@fnansjy456 Жыл бұрын
Cool when will part 2 be out?'
@exomake_mehorololo Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Glad to have you back! Hope health will stay with you for the rest of the year:)
@ruben7820 Жыл бұрын
Oh yeeeaaah. Can't wait for you to talk about the Haast's Eagle in the next part.
@josiahhockenberry9846 Жыл бұрын
9:57 nice nod to Ze Frank. Btw, love this channel. Thanks for all your great work.
@maxplanck9055 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your channel,it’s interesting and informative, I like natural history and evolution, this channel educates me and entertains,much appreciated ✌️❤️🇬🇧
@PaleoAnalysis Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@PaleoAnalysis We're addicted !
@boopy3919 Жыл бұрын
Captivating content as always dude, it's my fave on this platform.
@alexgiles9031 Жыл бұрын
Ayy, my country!
@PinkxPnther Жыл бұрын
Same!
@jennawalsh8019 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Remember to vote each week for which bird..
@HenrythePaleoGuy Жыл бұрын
I hope you enjoy the content. :)
@RemusKingOfRome Жыл бұрын
Excellent, Thank you. MOA ...
@tomatosaurusrex832 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Good video man! It was a great time listening to your presentation.
@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster Жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention the St. Bathens Mammal which prooves that at least some of Zealandia stayed above the waters
@georgiak6017 Жыл бұрын
Apart from moa, we had a flightless goose and giant adzebills, and a giant gecko.
@ktulurob Жыл бұрын
Really Great Work, looking forward to part two.
@daultonhuskey2804 Жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear you were sick! Happy to hear you are better! Appreciate your content!
@AnEcologistPlays Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Oh that's really awesome!
@AnEcologistPlays Жыл бұрын
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Oh man, it's the legend himself! I particularly enjoyed your recent video on Sussocaris. 🙂
@HenrythePaleoGuy Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
@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 Жыл бұрын
AWWWW YEAH NEW VIDEO!
@BayBerry1337 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I have been SO looking forward to this one! Yay! Thank you for all of your hard work.
@Tsuruchi_420 Жыл бұрын
PALEO ANALYSIS VIDEO POG
@trilobite3120 Жыл бұрын
St. Bathans where Heracles inexpectatus us from is also home to a three metre long Mekosuchine crocodilian and a Meiolaniid turtle.
@scalyschisms6263 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
An exceptionally good episode! So interesting and fun to hear about this lost world.
@korkad_ Жыл бұрын
Islands and birds adaptive radiation, name a better combo
@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574 Жыл бұрын
No mention of insects, not even the wetas
@HummusFan Жыл бұрын
Can't wait for number 2
@HummusFan17 күн бұрын
Hey still here somebody bring water
@exalt2674 Жыл бұрын
The Hercules parrot. God, that's amazing.
@exalt2674 Жыл бұрын
So we get to hear about Haast's eagle and the Moa next time?
@Elgnirp Жыл бұрын
LETS GOOOOOO NEW PLAEO ANALYSIS UPLOAD
@SuperTah33 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
The magpie image used at *11.16* is from the collingwood football club in Victoria, ausralia
@angeladawn805 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
SUPER NICE, more then happy to wait for the next one!
@arijitghosh1151 Жыл бұрын
Please make a video on lost world of india
@justinw-s1694Ай бұрын
Still waiting for part 2.
@InternetDarkLord Жыл бұрын
7:35 2 meters and 200 pounds. Interesting combination of units.
@thejudgmentalcat Жыл бұрын
I bet it was delicious
@felixschrider9037 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
❤❤
@TroyColey Жыл бұрын
Certified Bird Classic
@samuel2985 Жыл бұрын
Great video you could do your own series! Love this one.
@godfreypigott10 ай бұрын
It's been more than 5 months. Where is part 2?
@miadodson1938 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
For the little eagle!
@barron204 Жыл бұрын
I live in New Zealand and the place is amazing.Looking forward to part 2.
@RocketPawcalypso Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
New Zealand also has very unique frogs
@rahowherox1177 Жыл бұрын
Yep ... Quiet and no tadpole stage.
@dream_state9 ай бұрын
Where is part 2? 😢
@missfoxylocksnz Жыл бұрын
I'd love to go on a fossil hunt. our country is just so magical looking it's amazing ♥ great video
@tecumsehcristero Жыл бұрын
You Blue Balled us with the Haast’s Eagle!!!!
@frostyguy1989 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Probably because there are many more sea going birds than bats
@Spitefulrish Жыл бұрын
Oooh are we going to talk about the Haaast Eagle. That big boy was the apex
@bulldog71ss337 күн бұрын
Is this Lost Worlds series ever going to get a reboot? We got 3 episodes and then.....
@KF18 ай бұрын
Megapenguins. Sweet!
@DinosaurianDude Жыл бұрын
At 11:00 Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!
@BiggestBigBoy10 ай бұрын
Bird: *colonizes new island* Bird: *"Return to dino"*
@blodpudding Жыл бұрын
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-cn5bb11 ай бұрын
Amazing Video :)
@trilobite3120 Жыл бұрын
Also the cannel Prehistoric New Zealand
@TeHokioi Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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.