Rise of the Mammals FULL SPECIAL | PBS America

A major discovery shows how life came back after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. With exclusive access to a fossil trove from the key first million years after impact, the film charts the rise of a new living world from the ashes.
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[@CroneLife1]

The pride on Aeon Way-Smith's young face as she is being given recognition for a great find is so heartwarming. That is confirmation for her that her world can open up in ways she hadn't considered before. I wish for every young person to be able to have a moment like that. Beautiful, beautiful moment.

[@dannyarcher6370]

Nice natural history doc. Refreshing not to be teased every ten minutes and not having the narrative being repeated ad nauseum. Also low on over-egged drama. Four thumbs up.

[@ronnronn55]

A very nicely presented documentary without the need to be hyper just to get attention. Thanks, Ronn

[@Nunavuter1]

I stop watcing any "documentary" that has a hyperactive narrator and overly dramatic presentation. I want information and context.

[@ronnronn55]

Thanks. I also avoid titles with words like "shocking" or "insane truth" And especially, "blow your mind." Do I really want my mind blown or shocked? etc. I guess someone likes this approach or they wouldn't continue to do it. Ronn@@Nunavuter1

[@mehmetramadan2656]

Absolutely amazing how they work out the details from the fossils. Wouldn’t be incredible if we had a Time Machine and could compare reality to what they have concluded

[@melwinjohnthomas4177]

Incredible documentary...watched by holding breath Thankyou for uploading

[@juanmanuelestevez62]

Rise of The Mammals: The story of a remarkable discovery. A puzzling question, perseverance, serendipity, ingenuity all at play.

[@smroog]

EXCELLENT !!!! EXCELLENT !!!! Absolutely FACINATING how Humans can discover so much from so long ago !!! We have been SO LUCKY to have the ancestors we had. Real SURVIVORS !!!! Ans SO LUCKY to have people that enjoy discovering our past. So many different areas of knowledge coming together to give us such a wonderful picture of where we come from. CURIOSITY is the fuel of discovery, giving us all a better understanding of who we are TODAY. Now if we could figure out how to make the POLITICIANS go extinct ????? Or at least develop a sense of honesty and integrity,

[@dianaalbuquerque2189]

100% agreeing with you!!

[@cuddlepaws4423]

How do know when a politician is lying ??? Their mouth moves ............

[@edwigcarol4888]

Sadly what makes a politician or a general or a criminal or a scientific, a murder or a wise peaceful person are traits of our human brains that we all share. Sadly for you, and sadly for me! Therefore for politicians to go extinct humans must go extinct. There will never ever be the end of wars... it can only take different forms..

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Thanks for posting this on the channel, great fan of this doc 😄

[@francisnjoroge]

Now that's a man who knows how to narrate a documentary

[@fruitylerlups530]

thats Keith David! i recognized his voice immediately! Amazing voice actor

[@judithcampbell1705]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful documentary. Where the mammals came from is very interesting. That big boom was epic. Thank you 💛 for this beautiful documentary. Much appreciated Sir.

[@themyceliumnetwork]

Air Date: Oct 30, 2019

[@judyklein3221]

Awesome documentary!

[@garycothren1294]

Not exactly the worst day on earth but still pretty epic.

[@brettwilson3142]

Correct, I believe the Permian-Triassic Extinction was the big one. 96% of life lost 😮

[@mightymike2192]

I've had worse.😂

[@edwigcarol4888]

In geological times say 2 billions years there has been roughly 5 or 6 Mass extinctions, crisis for the existing biosphere of the time. The causes were different from one another..

[@brettwilson3142]

@edwigcarol4888 correct, but the topic is life lost I believe..

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Still a likely contender for the singular worst day endured by complex life forms on Earth. Specially since most other mass extinctions don't appear to have been all that abrupt.

[@parallaxnick637]

Don't ever mess with another mammal's fries.

[@domquixote56]

Fantastic video! Even for a geologist such as myself! Thanks a lot!

[@stabbrzmcgee825]

There is a job I could NEVER do: drill rock samples to reveal the contained fossil. I can't imagine having either the patience (incredible patience) or the fine motor control such work would require. Much prefer hard rock geology and smashing things with my sledge hammer. However, I am extraordinarily thankful for the work folks do that I never could. Kudos for them. We learn so much from what they do.

[@osmangultekin9567]

excellent narrative...liked it

[@shendaraalshedir5403]

Oh PBS I miss you sooo much in the years since l cut cable & got wifi, so l am so darn happy when l can catch some episodes on utube!! Thanks for another great one!:👍😊🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦

[@robertm3730]

I crack up thinking about these mice-sized mammals scrambling around a T. Rex and Triceratops having a cage match. 😂

[@ryannicklow2030]

Extraordinary documentary revealing how mammals came to rule

[@mightymike2192]

Do we?

[@edwigcarol4888]

What we see might be not what is ruling - if we consider all life beings in their equal contribution to the biosphere. My guess the rulers are bacteria. They are everywhere and great chemists. In our bodies there are as many bacteria as the human cells making it. Not forgetting the incredible resilience and old age of: insects. They are billions of years old... The last witnesses of life on earth as the sun will be bloating and cooking the earth will surely be insects and : bacteria.

[@rositasultana3958]

@@mightymike2192what do you mean?

[@mightymike2192]

@@rositasultana3958 On what basis are we to decide on what lifeforms rule the planet? I'd probably argue that bacteria or arthropods have been more succesful.

[@rositasultana3958]

@@mightymike2192 yes, debatable…mammals are cool, but I’m fascinated by the mollusks too.

[@martinbadoy5827]

I was listening to the first minute of the narration, and I was like, "Admiral Anderson!!?!" (from the Mass Effect original trilogy)

[@fruitylerlups530]

yes it is! Keith David!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@ulysissira9808]

This is a great,great for all kids in the world this year its starting to get involved to discover a new type of fossil ..

[@lukelewkowicz2233]

I've been feeding a tiny shrew since last winter, one found on my walk and then again twenty minitues later again on my return back.

[@tahirkamrankhan]

Excellent- thoroughly enjoyed - isn’t case that cycads came before palms ?

[@dannyarcher6370]

Proud mammal here! 💪🏻💪🏻

[@jnielsen90]

I don't know about proud.....we are the one's who are going to make Earth uninhabitable for our form of life as well as most of the others living here and don't seem to want to change our ways at all in spite of this. It may have been better for every form of life on the Planet that we didn't evolve or become what we have today

[@dannyarcher6370]

@@jnielsen90 You must be fun at parties.

[@jnielsen90]

I am, how did you know@@dannyarcher6370

[@mikeclarke952]

Don't you have to give alternative facts for the creationist zealots? I guess they'll just have to work very hard to bend these facts to their liking. Good show, thanks for posting.

[@rositasultana3958]

You can lead a horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink it.

[@jnielsen90]

Yes you can.....by denying him any alternative source of water, the horses self preservation, thirst and will to live will "make" him drink it before he dies every single time......try it yourself. So if we took away all the Bibles and refrences to Religons as alternatives to actual facts and reality.....the bible thumpers would drink up Science as they know no alternative facts, made-up dieties, or beliefs to brain-wash you're childrens heads with from birth and could grow up with an education taught from fact based/proven explanations of things instead of a belief based, alternative facts, there are no such thing as Dinosaurs.....kind of learning enviroment. So see you can lead the horse to water and make him drink it, you may have to wait a day or two for him to be dehydrated.....but, he'll damn well drink it LOL@@rositasultana3958

[@CaptHollister]

You might have to make those alternative facts up because nature isn't going to provide them.

[@getzvalerevich6565]

nice doco

[@Emiko0807]

Worst day? It wasn't the only extinction.

[@CaptHollister]

Not even the worst one.

[@robertopettyo]

Dinosaurs did not roar. They whistled like birds.

[@oneshothunter9877]

That exact thought has occurred to me, too. T-rex even scarier if it said some kind of bird. But again, there were many species of dinosaurs..

[@edwigcarol4888]

Actually there is this kind of contrast between voice and muscle mass, I believe that is the Leopard.. 😊

[@sarcasmo57]

And the rest is history and prehistory.

[@alexisdespland4939]

what brought the end to the massive fosssil resve at coral bluffs to an end.

[@jadenalmeida8592]

I thought this will be a documentary how mamals survived while dinosaurs perished

[@bananaposo]

Wowwwww

[@Milos_Adventure]

its blows my brain how evolutions reshapes mammals humans that plants have the power to feed to change the needs of creatures in earth so why these people now destroying our forest lands and even in sea`s that many of them is religious and saying god provide this to our needs but thier exploiting it and that is why i truly loves the science just because it answers all my questions on how the nature provides all we need reshaping us

[@oneshothunter9877]

We are all part of this abuse of nature. You - and I of course are writing on things that requires a certain degree of destruction of nature by mining and processing a lot of different minerals. Sadly there's No easy solution. But maybe our creativity can make up for this, but we got not much time, as we are destroying habitats for all creatures inclusive our own..

[@Tiffany_Turbo]

Narrated by Captain Anderson.

[@mightymike2192]

I thought it was lemuel kane. Haha.

[@Tiffany_Turbo]

I had to look that name up. You're also right!

[@davidmanchester8978]

Makes you wonder about the unique ecosystem following the impact. These early mammals may have survived only by eating the bugs that themselves had specialized on decaying plant matter and fungi. It is very possible that lack of sunlight and the resulting loss of plant species (food) killed the majority of the species that were lost, not the initial impact. You have to suspect that any residual animal matter would not have been able to sustain these populations but something that could eat the worms that could live in the fungal recyclers and fallen deadwood would be doing OK. A skunk-like organism does make sense; travelling the wasteland smelling out and eating bugs in the recycling dead matter. Some birds also would be well equipped for finding such worms in fungus and rotting wood and eating them for their sole sustenance. It was rapid forced specialization of a world without photosynthesis that killed everything that could not adapt.

[@davisoaresalves5179]

Mammals lineages had already split by 66 millions years ago.

[@fruitylerlups530]

this is about how they came to dominate the land, not necessarily when they started to diversify

[@amandasmart1125]

Took forever for this doc to get going

[@amandasmart1125]

Thos doc says nothing. Just the same thing over and over again

[@abrahammmotla2885]

Assalamu alykum. Yeah! Youuu. right! But He knows You exist!

[@Ebatista]

En español por favor para seguir disfrutando de sus interesantes documentales

[@Tourimatsa]

Such an apocalypse and death that we still tremble in even mentioning of it 65 mln years after 😢

[@babakgholian3467]

With all the deforestation and violence towards nature and each other what will remains for the future of humans and animals ?

[@orwellboy1958]

You do know that 99% of all life on earth went extinct eons before man even existed?

[@abrahammmotla2885]

Assalamu alykum. Mammals, those mamas that give milk - are devolving: Thinkin' brain and all.... Ameen!

[@malakwaqasawan4371]

The background voice seems to be heard somewhere, yeah... In 'Rick and Morty' . . The president.. Can someone else hear the similarities.

[@Brruhmine]

It's literally him, Keith David

[@itadaku23]

I'm sure it's narrated by Keith David. Nobody else think so?

[@Zeropadd]

❣️

[@jensanges]

I like to think that the destruction of the megafauna of plants and dinosaurs occurred because the projectile(s) hit earth with such velocity it (they) sunk right into the earth’s iron core; expanding the earth into such a large sphere it tore apart the continent into the pieces of today, which can be put together exactly if the sphere shrunk back again. I like to think the thickness of the atmosphere thinned to today’s atmosphere, that gravity suddenly became more forceful, and everything large could not withstand the intense pressure. Only the tiny survived, and in surviving began to adapt and grow. Some took to the water for additional help, hence the whales, etc.

[@jnielsen90]

I'd love to be a Proud Mammal, but I am in reality the exact opposite.......we are the one's who are going to make Earth uninhabitable for our form of life as well as most of the others living here and don't seem to want to change our ways at all in spite of this. It may have been better for every form of life on the Planet that we didn't evolve or become what we have today.....wouldn't you agree?

[@dropperknot]

To suggest that mammals are predominant is nonsense. Plants are far more important than any creature. Without plants, nothing lives.

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

"Without plants, nothing lives." - tripe

[@dropperknot]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect You will find that we need cows to make tripe, without plants there are no cows. They are herbivores. did you not know that?

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

@@dropperknot "You will find that we need cows to make tripe, without plants there are no cows. They are herbivores. did you not know that?" - a lame attempt to divert from your moronic statement - and, wrong again, you don't need cows for tripe

[@jadenalmeida8592]

6:40

[@AaaSWE]

Poor dinos. Good for us.

[@peterdollins3610]

Yes, and now we're threatning that life again. So? I support 7 wildlife/enviromental organisations, Amnesty & Labour in the UK.

[@g_y.rtz420]

If only mammals didn't happen

[@abrahammmotla2885]

Assalamu alykum. Mamals didnt rise! THEY FELL!!!

[@adriangeh6414]

"But the bible..."

[@jadenalmeida8592]

It's my toilet paper

[@oneshothunter9877]

Fairy tales.

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

@@jadenalmeida8592😂

[@Cleeon]

We're free, but please don't jokes with other beliefs, except, they're who start to mocking you.

[@yolamontalvan9502]

Luckily, the crock survived.

[@Landrew0]

How does a PBS documentary afford the rights to a Tom Petty song? And moreover, how does it not get a copyright strike on You Tube?

[@timoneill8283]

Tony needs to suffer to a win....and he will

[@martiansoon9092]

And the fall of mammals. 10 000 years ago humans were below 1% of total mass of the mammals. But now we with our domesticated animals are over 99% of the mass of mammals. We have taken out the space from other mammal species. And that devastation does not end there.

[@scotthcomyns3426]

The Younger Dryas Comet Impact made way for the rise of humans.

[@melbournewolf]

I rarely have quibble with PBS about anything, I'm Australian and so my taxes don't contribute, but I must protest at the overtly triumphalist tribalism in the opening remarks - this is one of the problems we are trying to rectify: our separation from nature due to b/s from religion and/or political ideology.

[@이이-n4z8y]

Not watching a dei doc

[@alexisdespland4939]

so dinsaurs didn't eat legumes.

[@dannyarcher6370]

Eat your legumes!

[@alexisdespland4939]

ha ha i love my vegies. @@dannyarcher6370

[@edwigcarol4888]

Actually I began to read on wikipedia on the crater of Chicxukub and the opposing theory of the balsamic trapps in West India.. for the extinction of dinosaurs.. that is enough.. Facts.

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

It’s free real estate yo

[@KeivanHH]

I hate when docs are so dramatic. Like that part where they are so surprised to find fossils in concretion and that makes a turn in their research. Bro, that must be one of the first thing they teach you at university when you study to become a palaeontologist!

[@rositasultana3958]

I’m not a palaeontologist, so I appreciate the info and like the enthusiasm. My grandchildren may find an inspiration in these documentaries.❤

[@conservatives1684]

I identify as someone who does not believe in the existence of god. I hold the view that there is insufficient evidence or rational justification to support the belief in any gods or supernatural entities. I rely on reason, logic, and empirical evidence to form my worldview and do not find compelling evidence or arguments to support the existence of god.

[@oneshothunter9877]

I agree 100%. God and evolution seems to be an oxymoron.

[@smiffmcsmiff3721]

But you mentioned God in your statement a few times 🤔 🙏 ?? If God does not exist? So what are you referring to?

[@smiffmcsmiff3721]

But you mentioned God in your statement a few times 🤔 🙏 ?? If God does not exist? Who or what are you referring to?

[@smiffmcsmiff3721]

Anyway if you want to 👀 proof of God?? I can show you how...

[@jnielsen90]

The word "God" does exist it's in the dictionary and we used it ourselves just now, evidence proving the word exists we agree......as to what it refers to only you can tell us that, you made him up and named him this word....it wasn't us so we have no idea what it refers too, only what it describes@@smiffmcsmiff3721

[@이이-n4z8y]

Why is there a non euro fleemail taking about this? That's dei and cultural appropriation.

[@TheSimba1960]

Neil Shubin states that 'three out of four species died' - that's 75%. Then he states 90% of all planetary life died. Contradictory is it not?

[@EdwardFirmo]

No... You can have 75% of species losing all it's individuals and the rest os species losing many of it's individuals, in total 90% disappearing. Imagine a zoo with 100 animals of 4 distinct species with exactly 25 individuals each. If something happens and 3 (75%) of those species loses all individuals, and the remaining specie looses 15 individuals, that would be 90% of life disappeared. ;)

[@PeloquinDavid]

The two sentences that made the distinction were literally next to each other in the documentary: the first figure refers ro species, the second one to the number of individual animals of all species that were alive at that point. Both these numbers are very rough estimates since many smaller animals, plants, etc. simply don'tfossilize well, but it is hardly surprising that huge numbers of animals (and other undocumented life forms at the time) of all species died. In a large number of cases, that includes every animal of that species (i.e. extinction of that line) while in others, some survived to repopulate the earth and create new ecosystems.

[@CaptHollister]

Not at all contradictory since they refer to two different things.

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

@@EdwardFirmo No, '3 out of 4 species' doesn't allow for your silly breakdown within a species. It means the entire species!

[@EdwardFirmo]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect yeah, this is what I said. 3 out of 4 died, which means 75% of the species disappeared completely. But still can be 90% of life died, which means apart of those 3 species that completely disappeared, the species who survived lost lots of its individuals, so 90% of life disappeared.

[@samuelruakere7728]

It's the worst day in the history of Earth is actually A false statement because ah 1 it never happened and 2 the uh um the flood in Noah's time happened and was the only extinction that wasn't because of man every other extinction is because of us the sinfull ones.

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

drivel

[@walkergarya]

Nope. Earth was hit with an asteroid to end the time of the dinosaurs and your Noah's ar is a fairy tale.

[@sH-ed5yf]

Your flood never happened kiddo

[@ready1fire1aim1]

[Lions 🦁 and leopards 🐆 and bears 🐻,oh my!]: Revelation 13 Names of God Bible The Beast from the Sea 13 I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns, seven heads, and ten crowns on its horns. There were insulting names on its heads. 2 The beast that I saw was like a *leopard.* Its feet were like *bear’s* feet. Its mouth was like a *lion’s* mouth. The serpent gave its power, kingdom, and far-reaching authority to the beast. 3 One of the beast’s heads looked like it had a fatal wound, but its fatal wound was healed. All the people of the world were amazed and followed the beast. Hosea 13 Names of God Bible 4 “I am Yahweh your Elohim. I brought you out of Egypt. You have known no god besides me. There is no savior except me. 5 I took care of you in the desert, in a dry land. 6 When I fed you, you were full. When you were full, you became arrogant. That is why you forgot me. 7 So I will be like a *lion.* Like a *leopard* I will wait by the road to ambush you. 8 Like a *bear* that has lost her cubs, I will attack you. I will rip you open. Like a lion I will devour you. Like a wild animal I will tear you apart. 9 You are destroying yourself, Israel. You are against me, your helper.

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

😂. A myriad of vacuous Words . 😂 vivid imagination and a good dollop of myth.

[@ready1fire1aim1]

@@bernardofitzpatrick5403 The true Word of God is Elohim from Genesis 1.

[@rositasultana3958]

Poetry and delusion.

[@hanssolos3699]

8:29 this docu was so good until anjali appeared 😂😂😂 she speaks like a 5 yr old girl with no substance....where did yall dig her from??? she ruined this entire docu as a child's comic book 😂😂😂

[@athanasioslianoudakis9119]

Realy? I thought at my stupid school that we came from Adam and Eve!🙃

[@bobdakers3794]

This is so slllooow moving that most people checked at minute one! Get your act in gear! Try to get some people engaged!

[@Harry..Highpants]

So when are they’re getting the animals off the ship that’s been held in WA??? The government turned a Middle East bound ship around 3 weeks ago. It has been sitting for weeks with the livestock still aboard! No word yet on when the government will be giving the livestock transport company permission to unload. This government is a massive failure to every single Australian

[@HeIsNakedLunch]

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