I can't express how much I love that they named it Higgs Bison 😂
@AccidentalNinja2 жыл бұрын
It is great.
@christopherbrand53602 жыл бұрын
If you hadn’t said it, I was going to. The bison that gives matter mass. Who knew?
@jozz22482 жыл бұрын
As science jokes go, top notch 😄
@Taneth2 жыл бұрын
Now picture a spherical Higgs Bison in a vacuum.
@svenmorgenstern95062 жыл бұрын
And, they're so cute when they're small. 🥰
@Living_Life2422 жыл бұрын
It’s pretty dope that some ancient artist painting the world around them on the wall of a cave would help humans living tens of thousands of years later see the world through their eyes and answer questions that they had no idea would be asked. That artist’s hobby had become an accidental time capsule.
@levilukeskytrekker Жыл бұрын
+.
@ellenbryn2 ай бұрын
I seem to recall that cave art helped with reconstructing the horn of one of the Ice Age rhino species as well!
@Master_Therion2 жыл бұрын
1:30 lol "Higgs Bison" Wait, if the Higgs Boson is the "god particle" does that make the Higgs Bison the "holy cow?"
@cyrilio2 жыл бұрын
It is now!
@Beryllahawk2 жыл бұрын
A divine comedy! :D
@Dark0neone2 жыл бұрын
cows are already holy :p
@thelionsshare66682 жыл бұрын
The Higgs Bison might actually be the ancestor of the cattle throughout the Indo-European cultures, which would mean it would be the basis of THE holy cow of India, Kamadhenu.
@Al13n1nV8D3R2 жыл бұрын
Bart Simpson would approve!
@rebeccaallsopp2864 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact - the process of concretion which lead to the formation of the Klerksdorp spheres is similar to how kidney stones and bladder stones form! That's why they also often look unnaturally round with perfect concentric layers
@fernbedek63022 жыл бұрын
Palaeontologists still taste fossils plenty. The lick test is well respected for separating fossils from rocks.
@makeupdiaries64382 жыл бұрын
*what* how can they tell?
@fernbedek63022 жыл бұрын
@@makeupdiaries6438 Fossils are generally significantly more porous than the rocks around them, so will instantly absorb saliva and feel try on your tongue. I haven’t done it myself, so can’t say much more than what I’ve heard.
@geologyjoerocks2 жыл бұрын
It’s true; we also chew on bits of soil to discern silt and clay contents!
@realityjunky2 жыл бұрын
And sometimes rocks from rocks.
@moxxy35652 жыл бұрын
@@geologyjoerocks username checks out
@unsounddestroy55822 жыл бұрын
I love how cavemen helped solve a mystery thousands of years in the future. Science.
@lenabreijer13112 жыл бұрын
Yes and then I think of my art teacher " just adjust the shape to make the picture look better, nobody will know or care!" 10,000 years later "what exactly is that tree that used to grow on the north Pacific coast? Let's look at these art works we just dug up!"
@now_waitaminute24532 жыл бұрын
@@lenabreijer1311iui iijuiiijijujuuuuuuuuiuiuuuuuuuuuuu too bbbbbobbb
@Cheekster152 жыл бұрын
Artist Child: see mom, I should get an art degree, because my art could unlock the mysteries of the world for generations to come.
@vardogor2 жыл бұрын
@@now_waitaminute2453 cat on the keyboard?
@cosmicHalArizona2 жыл бұрын
4:21 on the left that's a soccer ball
@rickseiden12 жыл бұрын
6:12 "How are these communities surviving?" Say it with me, "Life, uh, finds a way."
@apathetic_aesthetics2 жыл бұрын
Auroch: "Steppe Bison, what are you doing?" And that, kids, is how the ancestor of European Bison came to be.
@johnnyrr26432 жыл бұрын
This is so dumb it made me chuckle :D
@TheBimGreaper2 жыл бұрын
Came down to make that exact joke, glad to know I’m not the only one with an awful sense of humor lol
@br3atheitin197 Жыл бұрын
As soon as i heard It i literally looked for this comment.
@gradesam6306 Жыл бұрын
steppe bison, i'm stuck between 2 rocks
@ravencloud72 жыл бұрын
I love that some victorian thought they were getting to the end of science then they found dinosaurs and they were like wtf
@caterpie45462 жыл бұрын
A similar thing happened right before someone (Max Plank I think) discovered quantum mechanics.
@rokkraljkolesa93172 жыл бұрын
victorian scientist: "I think we're just about done with understanding life" some dude in oxfordshire: "hey check out this femur" scientist "what in the goddamn-"
@nicklasbentsen4042 жыл бұрын
I can never remember where I got this quote from. but it has remained with me. Science is not just about finding answers, but also finding new questions
@GrahamJyc12 жыл бұрын
Imagine being so strong that you can survive being frozen and thawed multiple times without a care in the world and don't need to eat anything but AIR. That's pretty badass!
@bcubed722 жыл бұрын
Or you could be the aquatic equivalent: _Spicoli Ridgemontus,_ which, in order to survive, only "needs some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine."
@adriennefloreen2 жыл бұрын
Whatever scientist first typed "Higgs Bison" probably spent the next few hours on the ground rolling in laughter thinking he made the best science pun ever, then a few days later when every KZbinr was repeating it it happened to him again. That's brilliant. Why can you say Arctic but say Antartica instead of Antarctica?
@MrAdryan16032 жыл бұрын
I was taught to pronounce it Antarctica...?
@chickenmonger1232 жыл бұрын
@@MrAdryan1603 Me too.
@20firebird2 жыл бұрын
"antarctica", pronounced as spelled, is a clunky word, and when people have to say clunky word often they tend to smooth it out into something easier to pronounce (e.g. "antartica")
@adriennefloreen2 жыл бұрын
@@20firebird Americans who speak English do that but that is not universal, some cultures enunciate those clunky letters harder leading to languages with heavily thunked or rolled consonants for emphatic effect so other people will hear and repeat them. Try to speak German for example and slur out or mutter or omit a letter... No they do the opposite they emphasize it to the point that if you've never spoken it will hurt your mouth to try to sound like them. So yes you pronounce the c, if you're pronouncing it correctly, and pronounce it with enough emphasis that other people hear it and don't omit it when they repeat it.
@sealyoness2 жыл бұрын
Some people don't get much practice using gutterals, if their language doesn't require it. Same with rolling one's rrrrrrs.
@Soy_boi2 жыл бұрын
I love that Higgs bison may just be ancient beefaloo.
@youmaycallmeken2 жыл бұрын
I'm envisioning talented artists painting on animal skins thousands of years ago, and the art society at the time would tell the less talented artists that they weren't good enough yet and "Go practice in the caves". The skins decomposed and the rest is history.
@marcochimio2 жыл бұрын
When I was a postdoc in biological chemistry at Berkeley, one of the professors, the late great Allan Wilson (his team discovered the Mitochondria Eve), had stored samples of both quagga (an extinct zebra species) and mammoth in our research building's walk-in freezer (yes, freezer, not fridge). A fellow researcher (a grad student) and I used to joke about sneaking in one night, taking a sample of the mammoth, cooking it, and then claiming to be the only people on earth to know that taste of mammoth. Obviously, we never did it, but it was fun to fantasize about.
@xINVISIGOTHx2 жыл бұрын
1:48 what are you doing, steppe bison?
@naufalap2 жыл бұрын
said the auroch
@JarrodCoombes2 жыл бұрын
"We should avoid eating the discoveries" Words to live by.
@morgancoulter58652 жыл бұрын
a cowards words
@badideagenerator23152 жыл бұрын
Charles Darwin is rolling in his grave right now.
@YUN6_V3NUZ2 жыл бұрын
dutch sailors:
@WestsideMas2 жыл бұрын
I can't believe I exist in the same time as Bill Nye and Hank Green
@angrypastabrewing2 жыл бұрын
Bill Nye is a liberal sellout
@cargo_vroom97292 жыл бұрын
"a hybrid between steppe bison" I heard that as "step-bison" and was very confused for a second or two.
@hugoalvord27792 жыл бұрын
Yo we solved Tanystropheus!!! I love that guy, seeing him in dinosaur safari was crazy. Neck so long, hanging over the water like a stork. I wish they'd remake the game with updated portrayals of the Beasts
@ToastyNoneofyourbusiness2 жыл бұрын
I kinda figured the spheres were just weird crystals. Pyrite tends to grow in cubes. With the right conditions uncut pyrite can look man-made
@DavidBeddard2 жыл бұрын
Klerksdorp Spheres: Anyone else looking at those and seeing Cricket balls? I wonder if they inspired Douglas Adams to write that every intelligent species in the universe has created a variant of the game Cricket. EDIT: I was getting muddled up with Gin & Tonic. Earth was the only planet to think that turning the events of an attempted galactic massacre by the inhabitants of the planet Krikkit into a game. Clearly I'm due a re-read!
@Foolish1882 жыл бұрын
On Babylon 5, the big question was why do all intelligent species have a food that looks and tastes like Swedish Meatballs?
@zacm.23422 жыл бұрын
I saw the thumbnail and thought "okay, what's up with cricket balls?" :P
@AccidentalNinja2 жыл бұрын
I thought that was Gin & Tonics.
@Dark0neone2 жыл бұрын
@@AccidentalNinja well, everyone needs something to hate.
@DavidBeddard2 жыл бұрын
@@AccidentalNinja Oh, silly me! Yes, you're right! I was getting muddled up. Earth is the only planet to think it suitable to turn the events of the Krikkit attack on the galaxy into a game. My bad!
@TacComControl2 жыл бұрын
Locating the higgs bison is cool and all, but I'll be far more excited if I can use it to generate a Bison field by surrounding myself with crystallized tulips that lets me teleport through space and/or time.
@JalnorTheGreat2 жыл бұрын
Reminded of a quote watching the start of the video and I suspect the writers know it... "that's why we're out here - not just in search of answers, but in search of new questions" - Ben Sisko
@JustMeJH2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! If there are more stories like this, I’d love to see a sequel!
@SameAsAnyOtherStranger2 жыл бұрын
Ima find a mysterious porcine species and call it the Hoggs Boson.
@mushmush49802 жыл бұрын
😭
@Beryllahawk2 жыл бұрын
The mammoth meat story just made me holler out loud: "CAN YOU LICK THE SCIENCE?"
@jackx43112 жыл бұрын
The one about the microbes living in the Arctic tundra - it seems that no matter how unpromising the conditions, if there is ANY source which could provide basic nutrients, some lifeform will adapt to make use of it, and create a livable niche for itself. (microbe 1) "Look around you, Pete; there's no humus in the soil, everything freezes solid for months on end, and some clot keeps forgetting to pay his electricity bill, so the lights keep going off for months at a stretch, and photosynthesis wouldn't keep a virus alive, let alone us. What a no-hope DUMP, eh?" (microbe 2) "Yeah, but that's exactly why there's no urban sprawl, Harv! There's plenty of space, lots of air with carbon, and hydrogen,and stuff - once we've cracked how to extract it, we're home free. I mean, where's the competition for living space, eh? You want to build yourself a split level ranch-style hole in the ground, with your own bowling alley, a six-car garage, and a half-acre pool out the back, who's going to even NOTICE, let alone complain?"
@brianmckeever52802 жыл бұрын
Did you just skip over the possibility that vast numbers of the bacteria from Antarctica could help scrub/sequester green-house gasses from the air? Do they exist in Arctic soils? Could they be introduced? What are their waste products? Charcoal briquettes? Simple organic compounds that can be turned into carbon-neutral fuels? Talk about science causing more questions!
@jethroblinman30312 жыл бұрын
i think they made a video about this once
@jacobscanlon48752 жыл бұрын
And a number of viruses that could be 5x worst than Covid-19 lol.
@benthomason33072 жыл бұрын
@@jacobscanlon4875 if a virus is geared towards infecting refrigerated bacteria then it it _not_ going to be able to jump to humans. That's an even bigger leap than if you jumped from eating cows to eating oak trees.
@jacobscanlon48752 жыл бұрын
Yes but that's not what I'm on about there a many frozen viruses that can still be revived in Antarctica
@MrColourful2 жыл бұрын
I was just thiking that would help solve the carbon emissions crisis
@someguy95632 жыл бұрын
The Martian blueberries are interesting, studied them briefly while at University doing a Planetary geology course. The main 2 hypothesis regarding their formation are, firstly concretions like the stones in this video, possibly formed from volcanic fluids or periodic seasonal melt of sub surface ice, the issue is that none of them have any evidence (at least as of 2020) of concentric rings, indicative of concretions, also they are only found (so far by various Mars missions, including ones that have drilled a few ft in to the regolith and studied cliff faces) on the very surface of the planet, they also appear to be concentrated in long elliptical shapes on the surface, some scientists think they may be melted blebs of meteorite that intercepted the planet at a very low angle and heated up in the atmosphere for a long period of time allowing high temperatures in such a thin atmosphere, they also only seem to be a very limited range in diameter which some papers say may be because the melted meteorite would break apart preferably to a size somewhere between 0.5 and 2 cm due to the atmosphere/air resistance, surface tension of the blebs and instability at greater diameters when spinning. Not to mention that a few similar sized objects appear to have hit a Mars Rover from above leaving dents and one apparent blueberry was seen on top of the Rover by its on board camer. A video on this would be cool. (Currently don't have access to the papers I read, I will add references if I can find them again, I know, bad science practices, hopefully have them saved somewhere on my old Laptop)
@laerr2 жыл бұрын
fingers crossed for the references
@nenmaster52182 жыл бұрын
PUTIN-SUPPORTING Americans do exist and get covered by KZbinr Telltale, among many other problems-needing-attention.
@alexisjuillard48162 жыл бұрын
imagine paying 10 grand for an exclusive deluxe meal that advertised exotic meat, and getting served termites
@maryrosekent82232 жыл бұрын
You looked so pleased with “Higgs Bison” and it was adorable!
@boopsboy2 жыл бұрын
Concretions can also occur in your eyelid, but in no way do they look like Klerksdorp Spheres. If you pull your lid down and see a whitish bump, that's a concretion in Ophthalmology. They're benign, but can interfere with your tear film, and if big enough they can be annoying enough to necessitate removal. I've had them and they just used the stick end of a swab to "scrape them off". But if too big then excision would be needed.
@Ikajo2 жыл бұрын
Do you know if they can occur on the upper eyelid?
@JacquieLewis2 жыл бұрын
Are they called styes?
@NoahSpurrier2 жыл бұрын
Is this condition different than chalazion?
@1.41422 жыл бұрын
If microbes can eat air, then lays can claim that their bags are full of 100% food.
@mawio37632 жыл бұрын
As a South African, the way he pronounced Klerksdorp is very amusing to me.
@FreeCaderyn2 жыл бұрын
I love your attempt at pronouncing "klerksdorp". It is funny, I live in Klerksdorp and have never knew the klerksdorp ball existed.
@ericthompson39822 жыл бұрын
The base premise of this video is the reason I'm so fascinated by science and keep studying.
@chelseashurmantine81532 жыл бұрын
I thought I wouldn’t like this video, but as soon as we got to cave paintings, I literally was screeching with excitement about these facts
@DilonMoodley2 жыл бұрын
"Which ancient animals taste the best... "😂 "Possibly we should avoid eating the discoveries "
@SpringyTheNPC2 жыл бұрын
Higgs Bison: Help Steppe Bison I'm stuck in a cave Cavemen: Write that down! Write that Down!
@thepackerssmacker81882 жыл бұрын
Giant ground sloth... HUM!!! The steak that comes with its own mushrooms
@JimGobetz2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the mention of The Explorers Club, one of the great old societies of like minded individuals who push the frontiers of many sciences. At the annual dinner which is coming up, we look forward to eating many alternative proteins prepared by one of the world's leading Insect Chefs David George Gordon. My fav has been farm raised Tarantula in a Panko crust, it's quite similar to soft shell crab in texture.
@alexmorrison34422 жыл бұрын
Tasting your specimens was once much more common. Egyptologists: I have never met that mummy before in my life.
@dogbackwards76582 жыл бұрын
Imagine finding well preserved remains of a long gone animal and going “is it tasty?”
@realityjunky2 жыл бұрын
That's basically how humans colonized the planet. We are the ultimate omnivores.
@carl_smiley_face13962 жыл бұрын
“Help Step-Bison! I’m stuck in a mystery about my past!”
@schnauzersrule88862 жыл бұрын
Hank is damn good at this. Love these videos
@youmaycallmeken2 жыл бұрын
At a farm (if that's what you'd call it) that is working on "lab-grown meat", clone wooly mammoth cells and use them to grow meat without the need for a similar enough animal to give birth to a cloned baby animal.
@OatmealTheCrazy2 жыл бұрын
One problem The diet and lifestyle of an animal heavily affects how it tastes. Without introducing those factors, lab grown meat is effectively unrelated to the meat from the actual animal from a culinary standpoint. Effectively, authentic mammoth meat (at least fresh) will be an impossibility without also recreating the entire biome, and cloned meat would be even further removed
@kated4422 жыл бұрын
The Explorer’s Club story might be what inspired that Neil Gaiman story about the club that ate exotic and fantastical creatures until it killed them.
@TonyHammitt2 жыл бұрын
If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend the movie "The Freshman" with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando. It includes such a club
@edenmullins49492 жыл бұрын
Tanystropheous was really just god laughing hysterically...
@Until-When2 жыл бұрын
So the Explorer's Club is like the real life version of the Extinctionists from Artemis Fowl?
@realityjunky2 жыл бұрын
The Freshman, Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick
@amrys_argent2 жыл бұрын
Or the Epicurean Club from Neil Gaiman's "Sunbird."
@iloveplasticbottles2 жыл бұрын
Higgs Bison... This is why I love scientists!
@sealyoness2 жыл бұрын
An Elk Club friend invited our family to the annual wild game night years ago. Amongside many interesting dishes there I noted 'smoked wild boar'. I was amused; wild or domestic, it's still ham. There was turtle soup too. I don't recall if the type of turtle was stated, but after sampling I decided it was leatherback. I couldn't chew it.
@justaguy61002 жыл бұрын
Emanuel Kant called this "question propagation." "Every answer begets more questions."
@BBZ90002 жыл бұрын
"Oh no steppe bison, i'm stuck!"
@vizzair2 жыл бұрын
klerksdorp sheres are non other than fossilized crickets balls obviously sent back in time by an advanced cricket loving nation
@gabormolnar22082 жыл бұрын
I was studiing geology in Czech republic, and one of our old paleontology professors also claimed, that when they went to Siberia for a research in the 1960-1970 (or later), they ate mammoth meat. To spice up the story, later he was told that it was quite dangerous to eat mammoth meat, because it had some kind of pathogen (bacteria or virus) that was potentially life threatening. Fortunatelly nothing happened to them, but still to this day i dont know if he told us the truth or just wanted to be funny.
@du57072 жыл бұрын
Of course he would be fine. We hunted mammoths and eat them.
@RadeticDaniel2 жыл бұрын
@@du5707 not we, our geologiically recent relatives some imunologic properties may remain in a population if we revisit the risks every now and then, such as the common cold but others may fade as we no longer need them, such as the plague, no modern human has any sort of resistence so it is pretty dangerous to assume we could do something just because a few humans did it a couple thousand years ago xD
@du57072 жыл бұрын
@@RadeticDaniel nah, I can assure you modern human are immunological stronger than ever having been exposed to every ecosystem on earth than ever before. An ancient virus will find an advance and well prepared immune response.
@RadeticDaniel2 жыл бұрын
@@du5707 and there is the falacy that newer means better... something that once went extinct is not harmless to modern life forms just becausee we are newer. We are good and ready for today, not for all of existence. Global temperatures, oxigenation levels, water ph levels, every species alive is adapted to what we have now. Same goes for imune systems, old means it didn't work back then, not that we all remember how to avoid it or kept the needed tools.
@RadeticDaniel2 жыл бұрын
@@du5707 and on a side note on "every ecosystem on the world", homogeneity is far more prone to weekness than strength when it comes to adaptability. It is at the core argument against using GMOs in farming and what got the Gros Michel Banana nearly extinct in a similar case to what humanity has been living in the past couple years
@llabronco2 жыл бұрын
Love when you do this style of video!
@aellalee47672 жыл бұрын
Can confirm tasting has been a part of archaeology. We make the joke when someone new (or sometimes not) asks "Is this bone?" We say "I dunno, lick it and find out!"
@francinesmith18892 жыл бұрын
These are my favorite types of videos on this channel!
@chrishei31112 жыл бұрын
They ate the mummies in Egypt, but don't take my word for it!
@stubbsmusic5432 жыл бұрын
Hank, no wonder you’re so popular. In every way, you’re the perfect teacher for this job.
@himat42 жыл бұрын
2:33 “What are you doing Steppe Bison?”
@durrik72 жыл бұрын
00:25 *astigmatism* MY EYES!!! 😵💫 That shirt is wild!
@andywomack34142 жыл бұрын
There is a story from Russia, possibly "The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, about some forced laborers who came across salamanders frozen in the Siberian Arctic permafrost. "They dined on the salamanders with relish," according to Solzhenitsyn. The point being, these men were starving.
@lenabreijer13112 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately anthrax has also been found in frozen reindeer in Siberia.
@pheart23812 жыл бұрын
Gulags wernt/arnt holiday resorts!
@derpderp52892 жыл бұрын
People be losing it over Higgs Bison when I’m over here finally learning what the blitzball team in FFX was named after
@SpiritoftheSands2 жыл бұрын
Now then, when are we going to clone wooly mammoths?
@accaliamurraymusic2 жыл бұрын
okay is it actually called the Higgs Bison? that's absolutely brilliant lmao
@draconbacon63952 жыл бұрын
Long neck, Aquatic, lived in Europe. Bro they found the Loch Ness monster.
@mooselove2 жыл бұрын
I think it’s so funny that I saw that Dino and thought “yeah, that’s an underwater boi right there”
@shanerooney72882 жыл бұрын
Science is at it's best when it's raising questions. Science is that it's worst when it's raising the dead.
@Dark0neone2 жыл бұрын
I disagree tbh. If humans can revive species that were wiped out by us or because of us, I think we should.
@JarodM2 жыл бұрын
Raise the dead~🧟♂️
@petrifiedangel2 жыл бұрын
thats what YOU say
@keyiahmcclain42292 жыл бұрын
I heard young limestone has been discovered cased in much older rock and that many types of rock may actually be capable of aging much faster than we think. Maybe that’s why the spheres were hiding inside older rock?
@eljanrimsa58432 жыл бұрын
And your point is? Do you suggest aliens made them a mere million years ago?
@keyiahmcclain42292 жыл бұрын
@@eljanrimsa5843 yeesh I never said that. I just remember watching a different episode about the rocks I just don’t recall the exact wording. I’m saying there might be an explanation that we’ve already touched on scientifically but haven’t connected to it yet
@eljanrimsa58432 жыл бұрын
@@keyiahmcclain4229 I would agree, if the question was why is there younger rock inside older rock. But the question is: Why are there perfectly rounded spheres of rock? The argument with the age of the embedding rock was just to make clear the rocks are way too old to be formed by ancient humans.
@keyiahmcclain42292 жыл бұрын
@@eljanrimsa5843 idk why you’re so set on arguing and being low key rude by putting words in my mouth. I’m not at all saying the information I heard on a different episode is a definite explanation for this. It just reminded me of it because like he said those orbs were found inside rock much older than the balls. Not once did I say it was aliens or ancient people yeesh.. I’m not sure you even read my comment correctly if you think that’s what I was saying. I literally was talking about the rocks aging and forming naturally
@studioyokai Жыл бұрын
@@keyiahmcclain4229 ah, you must have misheard or misreembered then, because I see the source of confusion now: Hank in the video doesn't say the balls themselves were in "much older rock [than the balls themselves]", he just says they're in rock billions of years old, which means they predated all known life on Earth. Including humans. In other words: there is no indication that there is a difference in age between these rocks and what they are embedded in, but there IS the logical implication that they were extremely unlikely to be formed by anything alive let alone humans, and therefore it was already reasonable to expect there was a purely geological process behind them. Which there is - they are a type of geological product called a concretion, and we know how concretions like that form. As for the "young" limestone supposedly in older rock... I could be recalling incorrectly myself, but I believe limestone is somewhat water soluble, is it not? I know that limestone caves are a thing, at least, typically eroded out by water. I could easily imagine dissolved minerals like that flowing into cracks and crevices. In fact, earlier this year, they figured out that was one of the reasons the old Roman recipe for concrete is superior to modern ones: the ancient Roman recipe used saltwater instead of fresh water, and included quicklime, which would react with the saltwater to create water soluble chunks that, if cracks ever developed yo let moisture in, would dissolve and fill in some of those gaps, basically making the concrete self-repairing. (Which explains why structures built with it by the Roman Empire are still standing in a lot of locations, while modern concrete tends to crack after a few decades)
@guillermoalejandro45372 жыл бұрын
The satisfaction that this video gives me! Specially the second point
@TigerHawk7092 жыл бұрын
Antarctic Microbes be singing: "Believe it or not, I'm living on air. I never thought I could feel so free-ee-ee."
@coconutologist2 жыл бұрын
Hank's really rockin' the dad bod!
@oO0catty0Oo2 жыл бұрын
I think we’ve established that it’s always a good idea to lick the science.
@jaredmitchell13022 жыл бұрын
Europeans used to eat mummies so it is not really far fetched that they would eat a mummified mammoth.
@shaider19822 жыл бұрын
4:46 those spheres look and seemed to have been formed like kidney stones but in the ocean. 10:31 yup, I have read of mammoth meat being eaten in old books. Surprising that this has been debunked.
@h7opolo2 жыл бұрын
now i have a new favorite dinosaur: tanystropheus.
@bugglest0n2 жыл бұрын
2:37 Auroch be like: what are you doing steppe bison?
@JonRichfield8 сағат бұрын
In South Africa where I live (and I am sure elsewhere) where mountain streams passing through suitable rock, such as sandstone, form waterfalls with potholes at their bases, lumps of rocks get tumbled by the falling water for thousands of years, and projecting irregularities get smoothed off against each other and against the walls of the potholes.The insides of the potholes themselves get beautifully smoothed and drilled a couple of metres deep in the process, and some of the rock lumps end up stunningly smoothly spherical. I have seen a few myself, that were some 10cm to 15 cm in diameter. I don't know the details of the specimens that you mention, nor of their surrounding grooves, but I imagine that if the original included layers of a softer, clayey material, they could have been naturally etchable, and leave regular grooves.
@JonRichfield8 сағат бұрын
Oh, and I meant to add: these sandstone cannonballs are straightforward sandstone, with no hint of concretion.
@ncrnmcn2 жыл бұрын
Giant tortoises got that experience. Live samples never made it to the scientists bc the sailors kept eating them in the journey
@Tamo82 жыл бұрын
Higgs Bison made me chuckle, I love the pun.
@pheart23812 жыл бұрын
Nice shirt. The symmetry of those buttons😘
@scottforwoodii79402 жыл бұрын
Why does the Megatherium look like a bear trying to disguise itself by wearing a cheap Halloween costume of a Sid from Ice Age? 10:40
@ReverendRaff2 жыл бұрын
"What are you doing Steppe Bison?"
@Articulate992 жыл бұрын
Always interesting, thanks.
@Gurupimp102 жыл бұрын
Brilliant as always :)
@Lumberjack_king2 жыл бұрын
"Higs bison" is the best species nickname I've ever heard
@ThatMykl2 жыл бұрын
Help me, steppe bison, I'm stuck!
@beastemeauxde70292 жыл бұрын
The microbes that were consuming trace gases from the air: what did they exhale/excrete?
@lunasuuli4847 ай бұрын
Tanystropheus was almost definitely not aquatic in the slightest beyond the occasional swim, but the rest of the video is good It's more accurate to call it a living fishingrod
@srpskihayk Жыл бұрын
There was an episode of Northern Exposure about eating wooly mammoth meat.
@PLuMUK542 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that you think that we will never know everything, obviously we already do, and the answer is 42!
@erik537411 ай бұрын
During my trip through Patagonia I read Darwin's 'The Voyage of the Beatle'. It seemed to me that hunting, cooking and tasting the specimen was part of his research. The book contains several descriptions of the taste and structure of animals, some of which are now extinct or endangered.
@justinbarion22692 жыл бұрын
I can't wait until they clone mammoths because I really want to know what they taste like!
@sharkbait_hoohannah2 жыл бұрын
Science puns are my fave 💕😂
@wizardfromthewest2 жыл бұрын
I haven't laughed so hard in a while, higgs bison epic bro. 🤣
@mortarn Жыл бұрын
Aurochs: W-what are you doing, steppe-bison?
@21millionreasons2 жыл бұрын
That mammoth must of had some serious freezer burn
@rogerhorky72582 жыл бұрын
@2:38 caption writer misspelled "aurochs," omitting the final S.