Terror Birds May Have Ruled Prehistoric Antarctica | 7 Days of Science

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[@The_PokeSaurus]

Antarctica still has predatory flightless birds. Penguins.

[@aaronareese1997]

“Mom! Can we have predatory flightless birds?” “We have predatory flightless birds at home.” The predatory flightless birds at home: 🐧

[@kawawangkowboy9566]

And now I can't stop replacing terror birds with giant penguins in every memory of every artistic reconstruction I've seen since the late 70s/early 80s

[@thaxasaurian]

Dear god! We didn’t escape them

[@jredmane]

Aaaaay!

[@Adhappynobrainrotkid]

The only meat that penguins can eat that i can think of are fish

[@Scrinwaipwr]

Terror birds are awesome and I'm surprised nobody did a horror movie about them yet because they look like they could be scary too.

[@Idate._intrepidus7]

Their is Called terror bird but I think it a cheap b movie horror type movie all I remember is the terror bird had dromaeosaurid arms

[@MrDDiRusso]

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND from 1962 features a terror bird. The special effects are cheesy but it's based on a Jules Verne novel. The movie TERROR BIRDS is a b movie about cloning the extinct animals.

[@zerodadutch6285]

They're scary enough in general people probably don't think we need a horror movie about them.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

​@@Idate._intrepidus7*There (not "Their") is.

[@kawawangkowboy9566]

10000 BC had terror birds in it. They were sufficiently scary

[@tec-jones5445]

Now this is a find! And it makes perfect sense with current data. Antarctica only had a final split with S. America (forming the Drake Passage) between 49 to 17 mya, well within temporal range for phorusrhacids (or other closely related cariamiformes) to migrate there. Definitely makes my next D&D session set in Antarctica more interesting...

[@madsgrams2069]

Yes, the oldest phorusrhacid fossil, belonging to the genus Paleopsilopterus, dates back all the way to the Paleocene, around 60 million years ago, which is a time in which both Australia and South America were still connected through Antarctica.

[@Sarafimm2]

@@madsgrams2069 That gives even more interest to a D&D setting with those three continents connected.

[@bkjeong4302]

Terror birds only became apex predators in the Oligocene, like most lineages of top predators they started small and got bigger over time. At this point they were still small and only going after small prey.

[@CresentWolf]

It's finally time boys, SCP's are real.

[@takenname8053]

Oh no!

[@seretith3513]

Damn, now i know the SCP-Foundation is in Corals

[@patreekotime4578]

Thank you Cardboard Doug!

[@mikeg2306]

This news about terror birds brings up the possibility that there may be terror bird remains frozen in perma-frost (like the lion and mammoth carcasses found in Siberia). That’s very exciting indeed! Would also be a great plot for a horror movie.

[@J242D]

This

[@tikaalik]

Unfortunately not. There are no glaciers that last 50 million years, or even into the millions of years.

[@josephapsey9965]

Sadly there wouldn’t have been any permafrost for them to get persevered in at the time, Antarcticas climate was much warmer than it was today so no ice to get persevered in I’m afraid

[@DanGamingFan2846]

Makes total sense given hat Antarctica was like at the time. They may be gone, but the penguins carry on their Predatory traditions. Underwater.

[@frankiemarcil1530]

I swear i see you everywhere... HOW?!!??

[@ThrowerTimothy]

Great to see the whole band together again!

[@Very_Angry_Citizen]

Cardboard Doug is my spirit animal. A handsome 2D personality.

[@Sarafimm2]

Every time that cut out twists it gives the image he's wearing a pin stripe suit because of the cardboard texture.

[@davidfiore4677]

Are you flipping kidding me?! There were terror birds that lived in Antarctica!?!?

[@Sarafimm2]

Could you imagine a volcano in the center of Antarctica surrounded by greenery with versions of it's old fauna--like a cross between a Penguin and a Terror Bird.

[@anthonybusch4407]

Well, it’s a start of a discovery you could say.

[@screamingalgae9380]

Antarctica was connected to South America into the early Cenozoic, so terror birds were able to settle there. By between 25 and 20 million years ago, however, plate tectonics changed ocean currents so that Antarctica froze, with all its land life dying out.

[@GTSE2005]

It's wild to think that France used to be located at where Antarctica is now

[@benmcreynolds8581]

The thought of what could be found under the ice & Snow in Antarctica has always fascinated me! Especially since in the past different ecosystems existed there. So it would be awesome to see a ton of archeological studies done across Antarctica.

[@hollowmass738]

ah. the last new world to discover.

[@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz]

Terror Birds in Antarctica be like: *ICE* to meet you!

[@AnonymousTranquility]

Those are the only safe class SCP’s that we know of

[@Wortnik]

Tell that to SCP 999! 😆

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Makes sense when you think about it. Marsupials used the same connection to get from South America to Australia. So stands to reason that other animals did the same too.

[@IanPendleton-gh6ox]

Monotremes as well migrated from Australia into South America via Antarctica. We have the genus Monotrematum from the Paleocene and another genus named Patagorhynchus from the Maastrichtian, both of which are known from fragmentary fossils found in southern Argentina.

[@DryptosaurusDavid]

Kind of sad for the wildlife there because they were doomed to extinction because of the glaciers.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Kind of sad for wildlife *there (not "their").

[@michaellewellyn9080]

There? Everywhere. Life sucks and then you go extinct, then someone digs you up and puts you on a coffee table. Just you wait.

[@DryptosaurusDavid]

@@Eidolon1andOnlyfixed it.

[@joelsaid83]

We're also doome5to extinction but unexpectedly we don't care too much about it.. Weird isn't it 🤔

[@persianking44]

Doug: The pollutants, or SCPs for short..... Me: * *nervous sweating* * SCP Foundation: *get the amnesia pills ready...*

[@rexyjp1237]

Imagine getting your neck snapped by a piece of coral.

[@gabrieljvelez-perez9275]

@@rexyjp1237 Which would be possible considering that there’s an anomalous species of coral that’s composed entirely of human flesh and tissues.

[@rexyjp1237]

@@gabrieljvelez-perez9275 i was talking about 173

[@spicybeast1018]

*amnestics

[@alharron2145]

*"Tekeli-Li! Tekeli-Li!"*

[@KoalaMeatPie]

Loving this trio! I feel ow closeness of your bond, it shows how much you love your work

[@nazzkid23]

love seeing you all together having fun! Great video 🎉

[@a787fxr]

All do respect. This channel is top notch on many levels!

[@germanomagnone]

a truly "chilling" bird of terror (seeing not only as a predator but also as its location of discovery).

[@Ektor-yj4pu]

Antarctica was warm and semi-tropical 50 million years ago.

[@germanomagnone]

@@Ektor-yj4pu I know that at that time Antarctica was warm and semi-tropical. it was just a little play on words, that is, "chilling" not only for the modern cold but also for the ferocity of the terror bird

[@michelfraenkel4920]

U guys deserve all of your succes.!! ❤

[@falcolf]

I look forwards to this weekly update, thank you team!!!❤

[@tardismole]

I have to say, I do like the background music. Very Take Hart (you might have to ask your parents what that was. ☺) I especially like that it isn't so loud that it drownds out what is being said.

[@thomast7794]

I love your videos. They are a perfect way to end the day after a long day in the lab.

[@piippiz]

I subscribed like a year ago, and I have never before seen the cardboard man in 3D. What a world we live in.

[@AncientAnimalAtlas]

What an interesting video!!! Great work, learned a lot!

[@benmcreynolds8581]

SCP's for short? Was that a pun to the backrooms SCP world lore? Lol

[@skullsquad900]

You do know SCP's aren't just the Backrooms right?

[@spicybeast1018]

SCP and Backrooms aren’t even the same thing. That’s like saying Star Trek and Star Wars are in the same universe

[@AustinThomasPhD]

It is the whole nerdy gang together!

[@albatross4920]

Nice intro 🤘🏾🎶

[@oiocha5706]

What if they're not terror bird claws, but perhaps therapod claws?

[@jonathanhuertas1977]

It seems Antarctica was always meant to be ruled by dinosaurs to this day.

[@CollaateraL]

Amazing as always thank you all!

[@TheEbrithil2]

Corals eat SCPs, does the foundation know that?

[@Cecona]

You heard them, there are SCPs in the coral

[@kwanarchive]

2:30 OMG, how old is the software they used in that screenshot?

[@jeffclark1129]

Terror birds in prehistoric Antarctica! I wouldn't mind living in Antarctica millions of years ago!

[@julii3329]

3s in and loving it

[@asriellian3058]

...did you just say that the corals have SCP's in them?

[@TVAVStudios]

"Hey, is there a Seymour Island here? Hey, everybody, I wanna see more island!"

[@ecurewitz]

Those terror birds are so famous they are in-famous

[@trilobite3120]

I believe this was mentioned in Otherlands

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

You three are all very good looking, its like you were all made to be on film, presenting dinosaur and anthropology and paleontology (senior moment with that word suddenly....help!) films. You should all be doing exactly what you are doing now but to a much wider audience!

[@giulianoforti542]

Love you guys

[@Nightscape_]

While I'm happy I get to live during a time of Emperor Penguins and Polar Bears, I am sad I'll will miss out on all the great paleontology and paleobotany when Antarctica losses it's ice in about a hundred years. It will be like a new Gold Rush but for fossils (and meteorites).

[@takenname8053]

Super Nice

[@johnsalisbury3768]

Science gang!

[@ghosttheoremproductions5469]

I recently learned that ganymede is larger than mercury ... wild

[@bkjeong4302]

Terror birds were still tiny back in the Eocene. We’re not talking about the apex predator of Eocene Antarctica here.

[@ScionStorm1]

Tiny terrors

[@Eye_Exist]

When you've escaped the forest rockets to the south pole but they're there too.

[@RockawayCCW]

Terror Bird has to be the coolest animal name ever.

[@bbbenj]

Thank you.

[@mann_man8556]

Maybe the Antarctic terror birds are like the ratites in that they all independently evolved flightlessness

[@anthonybusch4407]

Only, what particular “species” of Terror Bird ruled Prehistoric Antarctica?

[@reeyees50]

Science is hip now

[@esoteric_mememaster]

What was he doing under the table.... facing towards brad....

[@SnoweyLeopards]

We were the SCPs all along( or their cause at least).

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

I'm so glad that there was no mention of what I was going to say before I was slammed about saying glad I didn't and not going to either because they wasn't found in a super exotic place just in hillbilly country that no one cares about. Good.

[@trilobite3120]

7:32 Wasn't soom glacial?

[@Jamiejohnwarren]

I’m just here for Doug !

[@Brannington]

omg, late surviving Imperobator

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

I heard that a fossil of a what could have been a terror bird was also found in africa years ago right?

[@lucasbussard6241]

Antarctica fossils!!! K I’m interested

[@emom358]

Need to update your tshirts

[@edgeeffect]

I liked the behind the scenes bit... I think that's the first time I've seen you as a real-life human being rather than your more usual cardboard-cut-out persona.

[@ScionStorm1]

Corals are eating SCPs???! What is the Foundation doing anout this?

[@Shatterverse]

Okay they need a new acronym for SCPs. That means something very different these days.

[@Tsumami__]

I didn’t realize you guys were all like under 20 years old

[@WobblesandBean]

My ancestors!

[@jdw1483]

Scp? Secure contain and protect they are destroying the oceans

[@DneilB007]

The 3 gas giants of our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, and me since I ate something with dairy in it yesterday.

[@taplast2503]

You tryna tell me 🐥+❄️?

[@Idate._intrepidus7]

Pretty cool news updates

[@ShahzodaArtikbayeva]

Pure jet 31

[@kellykane7586]

Ohh the polluted corral is a huge problem. 😢we are laying waste to our planet

[@user-pj9uv1gi5l]

Delicious beast 74

[@user-bc6wi6zy3k]

Presentation a bit flat I thought, lift your game Ben. M.

[@SenorTucano]

The idea of an Anthropocene is utterly laughable and illustrates that human arrogant and hubris are boundless.

[@steveneighner7543]

C'mon guys, I can tell he's lip syncing and his performance came off a bit flat :)

[@indyreno2933]

Birds of Prey (order Falconiformes) are a very large and diverse order of birds, filling many ecological niches, there are only nine extant families of birds of prey, Cariamidae (Seriemas), Sagittariidae (Secretarybird and Fossil Relatives), Aquilidae (Eagles), Accipitridae (Hawks, Buzzards, Harriers, and Kites), Pandionidae (Ospreys), Aegypiidae (Old World Vultures), Caracaridae (Caracaras), Falconidae (Falcons, Kestrels, Hobbies, and Falconets), and Cathartidae (New World Vultures), there are also extinct families of birds of prey like the well known brontornithids (family Brontornithidae), the dromornithids (family Dromornithidae), the gastornithids (family Gastornithidae), the terror birds (family Phorusrhacidae), and the teratorns (family Teratornithidae).

[@robert9ish]

Big thumbs up to you all, but I don't care for the cardboard cut-out host. I'd much rather see a living being, even as we examine the extinct. ;)

[@nonsequitor]

Not seconded. But also, consider that you're watching a bunch of University students who are still managing to make time to create absolutely top notch content for us. Any one aspect of what they're doing is equivalent to a full time job, and there's no way they're making enough money to in any way cover that effort. I personally think it's a great solution to the issue, and it fits with their humour. But mainly, what you're asking is way bigger than you'd think as you can discover yourself if you try to produce a single well scripted, filmed and edited KZbin video to get a better understanding of what your preference would cost.

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

Well we don't know that these birds are still terror birds or are just convergent evolution

[@calgakispict3652]

This channel is a little bit of voice work and production skills away from going from 630k subs to 3 million subs. It's not much needed either, just small tweaks because the topics and information are relayed very well already.

[@deshazo_henry]

I really don't understand this video the cardboard cut out that's animated and as a narrator why do you guys do this is this a high ranking post in the channel? I'm a new subscriber I don't know?

[@AndrewTBP]

It’s a long running Doug joke

[@deshazo_henry]

@@AndrewTBP ahhhhhh ok, thanks! I'm new here 😁

[@Zebred2001]

So Europe was industrializing between 1969 to 1992? Trying to revise the history books in service to your agenda are we?

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Right? Didn't even say how what they found was a pollutant or what harm it poses.

[@hughmann6975]

Do you think industrialisation was only a single step, that the modern Method of industry was done in entirely at once. They are describing a period of increased industrialisation.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

@@hughmann6975 Do you think carbon, a building block of life, is a pollutant?

[@hughmann6975]

In certain contexts yes, such as spheroidal carbonaceous particles (scp). In a context of wanting a stable ecosphere, excess carbon can cause unwanted heating.

[@patreekotime4578]

So, neither science nor history are exactly your specialty huh? Europe built a hell of alot of power infastructure from the 1960s to the 1990s because the vast majority of the early electric generation was BOMBED TO DUST in WWII. So yes... Europe was REindustrialized after the war. He didn't say this was the first time Europe was burning coal... just that the coral samples where dated from the 1960s through the 1990s. Presumably, since the 1990s, scrubbers have been actively removing coal fly ash from the exhaust. And also, presumably older coral samples would reveal similar contaminants from the industrial revolution.

[@user-bj8de4vl7c]

Tall girl 22

[@Stilton_Steak]

All these out takes are getting really boring now. Please just be passionate about science like you used to be.