The Closest Life Has Ever Come To Going Extinct

[@Science4Real]

The "Great Dying" is terrifying. Picture a red sky and toxic air. It's hard to imagine anything surviving that nightmare. Just thinking about it feels suffocating.

[@anticksss]

And not to mention it took thirty MILLION years to recover. In comparison it only took life about 100,000 years to bounce back after the Yucatan asteroid impact. Millions of years of a seemingly infinite, lifeless desert

[@Ballistics_Computer]

​@anticksss imagine being some poor animal trying to make it during such a time. I'm a big fan of and advocate for animals, the thought of so many essentially innocent lives being influenced so negatively for so long makes me feel very deeply.

[@godofcodu13itch]

sounds like bushfire season in Australia

[@astralb.2647]

I remember that one time when I was 10, there was this massive thunderstorm, and the sky turned dark green with pitch black clouds. I was in school at the time, but it was as dark as if it was midnight. I thought the great dying #2 had started because DARK GREEN SKIES? For context, I live in the Netherlands, so I had never seen any form of actual extreme weather before.

[@MisterCynic18]

Canada was on fire last year. I saw the sky turn orange. Felt like something out of an apocalypse movie, yet...everyone just went on as normal. Am I crazy for feeling like we will not survive the future?

[@Heavilymoderated]

Jeez. One of those, ‘The floor is lava’ situations, but for realsies.

[@MisterCynic18]

Wait till you hear about the hadian eon

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

Oh please no, not that one

[@Jout8-re1ij]

Im jealous of thoese species living 251.9 million years ago, because they actually got to play that game called the floor is lava for real, while I have never had the opportunity to play that game in my childhood for real.

[@nationalfinkgamng]

@@Jout8-re1ij lava can burn you severely even if you're not touching it, so I don't think that game would be fun in real life

[@justadildeau]

English or Spanish?

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

The lucky thing is, even if 99% dies out, there's still gonna be those absurd extremophiles that can live anyways. Until the core goes cold or the sun dies out, life WILL exist on earth in some form.

[@Katze822228]

I wouldn't be so sure about that. If there's a runaway greenhouse effect, likely nothing will survive.

[@griffin8er845]

@@Katze822228 no because there are still plenty of bacteria at the bottom of the ocean that feed off off of chemicals from underwater volcanoes. They live in an environment not really impacted too much by global warming. On the other hand, like the commenter above stated, a cold, solid core would definitely kill all life on earth since the suns radiation would not be stopped by the earths magnetic field.

[@randomPATTA-ICICLE]

​@Katze822228 that's never happened tho life has always survived and evolved since it began

[@dra9onl3oy]

I think you guys forgot about cockroaches.

[@FishNamedWall]

@@dra9onl3oyand tardigrades

[@elchippe]

The great dying makes the Dinosaur killer asteroid looks like a merciful event. Also cyanobacteria who thrive in low oxygen waters took over the oceans putrefying the waters and killing more sea life, so any human would no be only overwhelmed by the smell of chlorine in land but also by the smell of rotten eggs close to the sea.

[@slappy8941]

*would not only be overwhelmed

[@H41030v3rki110ny0u]

​@@slappy8941guy is pretty good for english not being their first language lol

[@RandumBoi]

@@slappy8941 🤓

[@drunkpaulocosta]

​@@H41030v3rki110ny0u correcting proper use of words is educating. Stop getting offended for something that improves the world People have such an ego over being corrected these days. It's why nothing gets in and people are mentally ill these days

[@tealkerberus748]

Cyanobacteria are photosynthesisers. They thrive in low oxygen environments because they release oxygen as a waste product.

[@AlbertaGeek]

Goodbye, trilobites, you were too beautiful to live. Okay, y'all did do a _lot_ of living, but *_still..._*

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

They had a good run!

[@The_Darkness_of_Space]

I wish they were still here, they looked so cool like abalone but instead of snails they were crustaceans (weird opinion by me but whatever)

[@SevenCompleted]

hello fellow albertan

@@MatthewTheWanderer The best run

[@AlbertaGeek]

@@SevenCompleted Cheers! Whereabouts do you hang your touque?

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

This was the closest Earth has come to becoming like Venus.

[@Dysfunctional_Reprint]

*so far.

[@EnvelopingSuspensions]

Yet

[@SorryImKindaShy]

Imagine visiting Venus and doing paleo digs and findin Dino bones there lol

[@ragnardunderdase3473]

@@SorryImKindaShy it isnt impossible no?

[@RavenMenel]

@@ragnardunderdase3473 considering Nasa has had a hard time getting equipment to survive long periods on Venus' surface due to the highly acidic atmosphere, it is not possible, no.

[@jamesmckenna5453]

Think Hawaii, but on a continental scale. Think Krakatoa, but instead of one volcano, it was fifty going off at once. Think the worse year in human history (536 A.D.), but lasting for thousands of years. Think death valley temperatures in high summer, in the middle of winter at the poles. Toxic clouds, acid rain, nuclear winters, global droughts, and boiling temperatures . . . truly, hell on earth.

[@slappy8941]

That's so metal.

[@prxttypurin]

It’s giving the book: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. It was pretty dark

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

"The worst year in human history" has some serious competition. The 14th, 17th, and 20th centuries saw some absolutely miserable times.

[@crafterrium8724]

@@BiggieTrismegistus 20th century? im interested, probably world war 2 right?

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

Yea I read about 536. That was during emperor justinians reign I think

[@wilsere1048]

It's honestly scary how historians and scienstists always come up with specific and purely descriptive names for extinction events, but this one was so absolutely heinous, the only thing they could come up with was "The Great Dying"

[@mc_zittrer8793]

Well there was so many things trying to kill organic life at this time, trying to narrow it down to something specific would be inelegant. It was like a nested for loop of death.

[@zephlodwick1009]

Could have called it "The 7 unsealings" because of all the different factors, like the angels breaking the 7 seals to end the world.

[@zephlodwick1009]

the grimmest reaping The world rasing Surtr age Days of wrath Age of fire and brimstone

[@somethingforsenro]

​@@zephlodwick1009 best to avoid biblical comparisons i would imagine. the rapture already happened, and the trilobites were saved (we weren't)

[@UltraVegito-1995]

We humans are currently at Season 4 of Earth's game update after the major server wipeout millions of years ago in game time

[@exyou-fd7eu]

check out the weed DLC

[@ugojlachapelle]

More like the 7th.

[@trueweapon2349]

We should get ready for the next extinction event, but I don't see us doing that - we couldn't go that far.

[@gedwardpeer]

We are Earth’s Cousin Oliver

[@cathrinewhite7629]

​@@gedwardpeeromg is that a reference from The Brady Bunch??😂

[@Thisispow]

What's additionally so interestingly terrifying to me is how long this went on. Hell on earth, literally, for hundreds of thousands of years. Countless creatures being born and dying in this period, never experiencing anything else different.

[@Machoman50ta]

I think to myself how did humans become so egotistical that they think they actually know what happened 100,000 years if that’s even a number that’s in the ball park then I remember most of you think light years are a real thing or big bang THEORY. Paganism is wild in this comment section

[@katyungodly]

@Machoman50ta very nice grandpa, time for bed now

[@Supernugget45]

@@Machoman50ta If you had graduated from high school then you would understand what a theory is. Do us all a favor and keep to yourself next time.

[@mgord9518]

​@@Machoman50taBro what

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

​@@Machoman50ta You do know that the Big Bang's afterglow can still be seen, right? Also, Light-years are a measuring unit, it's like not believing in meters

[@normal-ash-76]

I am surprised and very impressed that anything survived this extinction event

[@SorryImKindaShy]

Life really do be findin a way ig

[@IbnRushd-mv3fp]

I'm surprised that the asteroid impact actually seemed tame when factoring in how long it took for life to recreate.

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

If there is a will, there is a way.

[@treystephens6166]

@@KaiHung-wv3ulI need more will.

[@BasaltWeaver]

"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions." "Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed." From 'Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history'

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

9:09 volcanic eruptions are and have always been devastating to civilization . Mass eruptions like what happened during this extinction would be catastrophic for humanity

[@Nektor9-iq20]

This wasn't edited I started reading them saw it became edited so I commented

[@Chippahwrld]

​@@Nektor9-iq20 The feeling of connection 😊

[@AdamZimmerman-c6i]

Yellowstone is overdue for another super eruption

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

@@AdamZimmerman-c6i Eruptions frighten me tbh

[@Meraxes6]

I’d hope the volcano would erupt right under me so I’d be spared the pain of trying to survive that

[@robgraham5697]

To quote Ian Malcolm. 'You don't understand. We don't have the power to destroy life on Earth. We don't have the power to save it either. We might have the power to save ourselves.' Life is going to survive. Whether humanity does is a question which, in my opinion to which the answer is 'no.'

[@mattkrupka7012]

Goated character imo

[@Kandy1343]

No more trilobites 😢

[@TheaSvendsen]

At least we still have the horseshoe crabs.. they’re kinda trilobite-y :)

[@zacharyhastings2587]

Rest easy, trilobites. We'll miss you 🫡❤️

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

I am fine with trilobites existing only in the distant past and far future, thanks

[@jeremyclares4851]

No more anomalocarises 🫠😑

[@fol4636]

Two of the greatest lost, trilobite and ammonite 😢

[@garethjudd5840]

Fun fact. If the Earth's age was a mile long sandy beach, humans time here would be in the form of one grain of sand.

[@lionelhutz5137]

Like tears in the rain...

[@Angliscwer93]

I have no doubt that trilobites would be very popular aquarium pets nowadays had they carried on. Everyone with a fish tank would have a couple of them scuttling around on the floor.

[@purplehaze2358]

The Permian is honestly the single coolest period in the history of life on this planet, and I am _tired_ of pretending that it's not. The Great Dying is proof that the best stories also usually have the best endings.

[@gamedevyoutube3.030]

Why do you say its the coolest period?

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Nah. The coolest period in history is from 1815, when the Great Divergence began, to the present. Without it you wouldn't even know the Permian ever happened.

[@number1analprincess]

you are a massive dweeb

[@jsw973]

The Permian is the opposite of cool, its very fucking hot actually

[@hsdinoman2267]

We have since built museums to celebrate the past, and spend decades studying prehistoric lives. And if all this has taught us anything, it is this: no species lasts forever. -Kenneth Branagh Walking with beasts 2001

[@solorhypercane5041]

What about the extinction event that was caused by life creating oxygen?

[@Mis7erSeven]

This must have been really bad as well, even though we would see like nothing of it when time-travelling to this period because it was just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another and the life on earth only existed in the form of microbes. I'm not sure if this one is put on the list of the big extinction events, maybe because it's really hard to get good numbers for the amount of species that existed back then. Since this was before life started to leave macrofossiles, we can only rely on chemical information which doesn't always tell the full story.

[@DarthBiomech]

@@Mis7erSeven Except that for the entire rest of the then-biosphere of Earth that _wasn't_ cyanobacteria, it quickly saturated both air and water with basically highly toxic gas. so it wasn't exactly "just the atmosphere replacing one colorless gas with another"

[@buzzmast3r546]

💀💀

[@zephlodwick1009]

Weren't the oceans just rust water for millions of years? Plus there were 2 snowball earths.

[@BasaltWeaver]

the oxygen one it's just a speculative extinction event, as there is no geological evidence for extinction what so ever.

[@Kroggnagch]

Poor critters that overheated to death.. I have chickens and live I mid-southern Arizona, I've lost some to overheating and damn near lost some had I not been there to rush them inside and get them under the cold water coming from the tap, in the tub. And it's not like "oh, ok, got em wet so they're fine" no, it was a battle for days afterward to keep them alive as thy were in some sort of recovery coma. But my point is, it was extremely sad. It does not seem a peaceful death whatsoever. So, poor critters that died from overheating. I feel badly for them. And don't worry, I do all I can during the hot summer months for my chickens so they don't overheat and keep a much closer eye now that I've seen what I need to do. Luckily I was already keeping a close eye before, and thats how I was able to save a few when I found them sprawled out and dying, unconscious, hyperventilating, and mere moments from true death. God it was so sad, even when they came back because I felt so badly.. I cried. I cried when my nicest one, Sweetie is her name, when I knew she was going to make it because I was so relieved.. I love my girls...

[@lionelhutz5137]

Poor chickies

[@tealkerberus748]

We've had to rescue calves from overheating too. It's an ugly thing to deal with - and we've succeeded, the few times it's happened, and they grew up to be healthy adult cattle, but it was very touch-and-go at the time. G'day from Australia.

[@NathanTaylor-x2r]

The time when life almost died

[@BasaltWeaver]

"Only ∼81% of marine species died out in the great terminal Permian crisis, whereas levels of 90-96% have frequently been quoted in the literature. Calculations of the latter numbers were incorrectly based on combined data for the Middle and Late Permian mass extinctions." "Life did NOT nearly disappear at the end of the Permian, as has often been claimed." - Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history

[@SprinkledFox]

I look forward to when Extinct Zoo covers the Anthropocene mass extinction next 🤩

[@zephlodwick1009]

"Huh, turns out you can move things with highpressured steam." 200yrs later...

[@MeatbagSlayer]

We don't need a recap episode.

[@12time12]

Thanks for the great content. Humanity has seen eruptions like that before, the Laki eruption in Iceland. It was only for a year though, so imagine the Laki fires happening for 250k years and you’ll understand how horrifying the peak eruptive activity was during the Siberian Traps.

[@raijinchris]

ExtinctZoo you are my goat🐐I was looking for something to watch with breakfast and you just posted🔥right on time

[@Introverted100]

My boi about to fire up the hub 😂

[@Trundlebugg]

Sitting with my favourite stir fry breakfast and big mug of tea haha

[@raijinchris]

@@Introverted100 ?? Not during this month😭🙏

[@s_napps]

I also watch these videos almost exclusively in the morning. Something about these videos just turns my brain on

[@robertbarrows6687]

There's a reason why in the OG canon of the Monsterverse, the Great Dying is when the Titan species started to appear. Especially with the rampant amount of radiation which they feed on.

[@rickydiscord7671]

so you saying some monster broke into earth and check out the place but don't know how to get back home? well portals are a thing so this isn't to far off for a backstory for the giant monsters on earth.

[@jukeman9291]

Damn, that was a tough week

[@kanealoha]

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you.

[@Redmalicious]

Comfort channel of the week

[@JamesWillmus-u6n]

The boss at work in the Great Dying: "You're still coming in though, right?"

[@grandgojira5485]

Crocodilians: I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah

[@Puidda]

you are the reason i still live thank you for entertaining me every saturday i know you put time into these vids and im grateful

[@TylerTran-rq2qf]

Well he definitely didn’t save the trilobites… Not that he could. The poor trilobites deserved better 😢

[@MrPopo-nn7kp]

What a pointless life

[@amymandeville8342]

It's a miracle anything even survived the extinction events. Life always finds a way.

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

This planet was almost forever empty like Mars around this time. Scary.

[@Doubler2324]

I wonder if the extreme radiation led to mutations in populations that allowed for massive speciation to occur in the clades that survived the Permian 😮

[@Bipolar.Baddie]

"The Great Dying" may have been apocalyptic in the most horrifying of senses but that could be the greatest deatmetal band name of all time

[@MitaniPink]

In Russia in the summer of 2010 60 people died due to forest fires. Not 50k only 60. It is a huge tragedy, but still... (or did I misunderstand the meaning of this number?)

[@wahine7556]

You heard him correctly. There are quite a few things wrong in this video.

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

I think he’s including things also caused by the heat. Heat stroke, cardiac events, etc

[@cruzada07]

The thumbnail changes like 70 times 🤣

[@t.kersten7695]

i had seen two different ones, which made me assume that there where two different channels / videos about the same topic

[@lizrengaming5133]

It's an unfortunate problem because KZbin couldn't care less so changing thumbnails is a small way to counter it.

[@Valentindk]

The deckan traps at the end of the dinosaurs were even bigger than the sibirian traps, but all only wants to talk about the astroiod

[@sypoth]

Me: Sees Title Also Me: Ohhh, are you going to talk about the oxygen crisis that occurred during the carboniferous that nearly left the planet lifeless and was only prevented because oxygen breathers emerged? You: Permiam-Triassic extinction Me: So the second time earth nearly became a lifeless rock then.

[@jamesaron1967]

Fantastic video on the Great Dying, possibly the best I've seen to date and I've seen many. Unlike most who are into paleontology, I find the P-T event the most fascinating of all the great extinctions, even surpassing my interest in the K-T event. Very good presentation of the various statistics with a clear explanation of the ramifications for life during and following this extinction. One thing regarding the comment at the end: unfortunately, the earth will experience an extinction event that will equal and surpass the Great Dying - the death of our sun as it expands into a red giant, roasting the planet if not entirely engulfing it. Fortunately, that won`t transpire for at least another half billion years...

[@CloneMalone]

I really appreciate this channel for talking about the pre-historic stuff that isn't as prevalent in pop culture, cause this shit's wild

[@S3Kglitches]

15:55 what do you mean problem with pressure as in 3 000 metres elevation? There is no problem at that height for humans. I've been going to mountains often like that.

[@snoppy17]

I think the danger is in the rapid changes in pressure. Especially for creatures who are more adapted to higher amounts of oxygen. Earlier in the video he brought up that many places in higher elevations were likely uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen.

[@MiSambra]

when you learn that there have been 31 extinction events THAT WE KNOW of, it definitely conjures up some existential dread.

[@invaderhorizongreen8168]

We may never know exactly how many due to the lack of evidence.

[@tealkerberus748]

Tells you something about how fragile this biosphere really is, and how easily it can turn to hell in a handbasket. You'd think that when we know we're walking a knife-edge, people would be less keen to test how far and how fast they can push the system out of balance.

[@morgant.dulaman8733]

Thought I'd come back before EZ changes the thumbnail for the third time. Also, at the risk of sounding like a maniac, I do wish there was a caldera somewhere on earth or at least in the Solar System so we can see what that actually looks like...preferably the latter given the effects.

[@SorryImKindaShy]

Isn’t crater lake a caldera tho? What do you mean? Maybe I’m confused

[@plnhvyx]

@@SorryImKindaShy yellow stone is one of them

[@DarthBiomech]

Basically, Io?

[@alphakky]

Like Ron White the comedian said, It's not THAT the wind is blowing, it's WHAT the wind is blowing.

[@notmyrealchannel559]

what's even more terrifying is that this is the closest for earth to have pretty much a Jupiter level storm, as these hyper hurricanes is almost as powerful as Jupiter's red spot.

[@ExtinctExplorations]

Very good video! Always interesting to hop onto youtube when Extinctzoo have released a new video! Super big fan!

[@thegamingbean953]

The Permian was nearly as cool as the whole Mesozoic, also learning about the fact that life only fully recovered during the Jurassic is crazy, the Triassic was basically a mini Permian, I never really though about how close the great dying was to the Dinosaurs and how it affected them

[@SarthakChaudhary-vu8fp]

Hey , as a long time viewer of yours I'd like to tell you that there's another ai content farm named " Prehistoric Park " that is stealing your content. I think his pfp is also similar as it's basically a skull of allosaurus but facing towards the right .

[@tm43977]

The great dying of the Permian also a living hell

[@posticusmaximus1739]

No shet Sherlock

[@Tofu699]

...

[@tm43977]

@@posticusmaximus1739 I don't care you saying

[@tm43977]

@@Tofu699 bruh

[@Hunting4knowledge]

No shit, it's what the video is about also was said in the video

[@JerryHunt92]

17:48 Pokémon

[@bestoflui]

😭😭

[@xx6489]

It's all so over the top. Not just the extinction events, but the universe in general. So much so that i often wonder if life is actually real. Surely it only appears real whilst being alive? Once dead it never was or will be.

[@mad9325]

This is why the early Triassic is more dramatic than it seems. This is when life on earth began flourish once again. The survivors on land found themselves in a massive, deserted, empty Pangaea. They evolved, multiply, and filling that emptiness little by little.

[@TheGloriousDrEggman]

I’ve tried an extinction event once,new reminder,never trust a conch shell.

[@crispy17X]

The magic conch ?

[@bloodyrose7252]

Yeah, cone snails are abominations

[@Dysfunctional_Reprint]

So you're saying releasing a ton of carbon dioxide all at once is bad? Sure glad we aren't doing that.

[@reallybig4868]

Anything is a buttplug if you’re not a quitter

[@bobbyfartz5591]

Rip piggy

[@docblade3270]

Forgot to mention the unfreezing of the methan hidrates in the bottom of the oceans, that is what is theorized pushed the heating to 10 degrees and took the extinction to the extreme.

[@Crakinator]

I think the K-Pg is still my pick for the most metal extinction event of all time, but continent-sized lava flows causing a wide array of global catastrophes for 200,000 years straight is definitely up there.

[@tealkerberus748]

I'll stick with the Great Oxygenation. Toxic caustic gas in the atmosphere and dissolved in the seas, oceans filling with red sludge as dissolved iron literally turned to rust, and the perpetrators were single-celled plants with no idea they were doing anything harmful by dumping their waste gases into the air.

[@Mr.TwoFaceGuy]

I could easily imagine life completely eradicated at this point in time.

[@zaingamingtv2242]

Nah you give humans too much credit. Every nuke could be dropped and it still wouldn't even come close to matching the kt extinction event. It's extremely likely humans would live on in a full blown nuclear war as real life radiation rapidly decays and generally dissapears as quickly as 10 years to a century. Why do you think hiroshima and nagasaki are perfectly habitable locations despite being directly nuked less than a century ago? Before you state modern nukes are even more deadly that's only partly true as they are more explosive.....but they are also less radioactive than the nukes dropped on Japan. I conclusion every nuke could be dropped and it wouldn't even kill off mankind much less other more resilient lifeforms. Humans are not the destroyer of worlds. It's the height of arrogance to think we have somehow achieved this

[@Mr.TwoFaceGuy]

@@zaingamingtv2242I was referring to the great dying. Life almost completely went extinct then.

[@davinator_peepo2102]

Ur voice is so calming

[@Potato-Eye]

Good job. I enjoyed the video and you narrated well.

[@ZrrMe]

Some little goober: Phew, the volcanic activity, extreme heat, and even radiation was a lot, but I think it'll be alright from here on out. The Cat 11 Hurricane named after a Dark Souls boss:

[@6Twisted]

10:48 It's crazy seeing how wildly Earths oxygen level variers over time because we need such a narrow range to survive. I wonder how we'd have evolved differently if oxygen levels were different.

[@taylenday]

"I was there, Gandalf. 251.9 million years ago, when the strength of Trilobites failed us."

[@toddkurzbard]

Ironically, Siberia today is known for how COLD it is.

[@ChoppedCheese311]

Great video! I found myself rewinding a lot to make sure I heard things right. It’s insane to think that lava 3x the size of the Empire State Building was large enough to drown the entirety of the US… how does anything survive that! And the fact that 50k people died in Russia due to heat is hard to grasp. Not saying that it’s impossible because 87 degrees is hot, but I would imagine it would take the temperatures of let’s say Death Valley to kill people off like that. I guess poor infrastructure and a lot of other things played a role in it.

[@DaiElsan]

With these giant impacts, I like the theory that suggests there is an equal and opposite earth eruption roughly opposite on the globe to where the impact occurred.

[@tealkerberus748]

It's a pretty solid theory. The flood basalts all seem to have an impact crater roughly opposite them, give or take tectonic drift, dating from about the same time. Hard to settle it as a confirmed fact without it happening again .. which I'd really rather we didn't let happen, personally.

[@raegardens8339]

I love this channel, hope it continues on for a long time.

[@danieldeanharrison]

What’s awesome is that I just learnt some of this in the geology course I’m taking. Good to know you’re quite accurate.

[@stedibear]

Please please please please turn off auto-dubbing for your uploads if you can. My PlayStation KZbin app can only play this video in either Japanese or Spanish audio, both of which are languages I do not speak. No option for English exists despite it being the default audio track. KZbin sucks for always messing something up like this, and they do not care one bit to fix it. Not sure if you can do anything either, and doubtful you'll see the message anyway. But I have to try don't I? Shame if this is the end of enjoying your content. Earlier videos played fine (edit: this and the previous upload 'The First Super Predator To Emerge After The Dinosaurs" do not have English tracks on the PlayStation KZbin app. Anything earlier than these were ok).

[@poolsharkATTACK]

Just FYI, when I watch this on my TV it cycles through all the audiotrack throughout the video 😅 Works fine on mobile tho. thank you for covering this topic, it's so fascinating!!

[@burnedsmackdown4209]

It is crazy how the worst mass exaction happened long long long long long before first humans were even a thing

[@RaptorRockDrakeJesus]

Wowwwwww u don't say? Careful what you wish for bro. Earth has a cycle and we will witness the next extinction believe that.

[@Introverted100]

​@@RaptorRockDrakeJesus damn you walked in here threatening mfers

[@rachelblake2350]

​@@RaptorRockDrakeJesuswhat cycle though? Most of our mass extinction events have been caused by different things. What forces drive this cycle? How did this cycle summon an asteroid to smash into the planet?

[@bornwithnoname2670]

the worst extinction event is happening right now. hundreds of species are disappearing daily, 100% due to human actions

[@rachelblake2350]

@@bornwithnoname2670 climate change and global warming are real, but if you think anything we can do will even come close to the Great Dying, you live in a fantasy world. "Hundreds of species" is nothing in the face of an event that killed *96% of all life on Earth*. Stop fear mongering, it helps literally nobody solve anything if we are unrealistic and hyperbolic about the catastrophe we currently face.

[@trenttinsley5499]

Laughs in Canadian when it gets to 40+ degrees in the summer AND -40 in the winter

[@jeandelepiechat]

I would argue that the closest life has ever come to going extinct was the oxygen catastrophe but still good video

[@rothed16]

Always great to see a new video from y'all! Keep it up. I'm still binge watching older episodes.😅

[@edwardgilmour9013]

at least 4 of those 5 were from Asteroid impacts (evidence in Southern Africa & 2 in Au ) The Volcanic eruptions were Anti-podal t those impacts.

[@evernewb2073]

...wait, why the heck is one of them missing here? the advent of early photosynthesis was by FAR the closest thing to a full extinction event both in terms of loss of biodiversity and in terms of loss of total volume of life, even the "the great dying" wasn't nearly that bad. come to think of it there's another one missing: right now _now_ now insects are dying out faster than they were during the year of that famous asteroid impact let alone the restructuring period after.

[@mathieuleader8601]

the Great Dying with its vivid red sky and toxic air reminds me of the desolate world of Charn from C.S Lewis's Magicians Nephew

[@Kolossus_]

The Great Dying is such a metal name. But it fits for such a terrifying event

[@gautehovland1632]

a better way of showing how terrible the great dying was in terms of percentage of species lost is to look at it from the other end. instead of saying "in the end permian, 96% of species died, compared to the second worst, the end ordovician with 86%", that's just a 10% difference.... but if you go from the other angle, "only 4% of species survived the end of the permian, compared to the second worst, the end of the ordovician, where 14% of species made it through, 3.5 times as many"

[@ChicanePrime]

Cool vid

[@slahser]

8:34 wow that's just a great day to have a hot coffee here lol

[@qsywastooshort7451]

21:00 to my knowledge "but alas" precedes a bad thing, are you sad life bounced back ?

[@ABagOfIce]

Was thinking the same thing

[@CollinDavis-jd1qr]

So it sounds like Earth 🌏was basically another Venus just a planet of pure hell 🔥🔥

[@theussmirage]

Makes you wonder if some of these exoplanets we're discovering harbor life at this very moment, and we're just looking at an earlier epoch because light takes so long to reach us

[@CollinDavis-jd1qr]

@theussmirage That's a really good question I wouldn't be surprised if there were other forms of life around that time🤔

[@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511]

17:24 pues del 17 al 27% no es una gran diferencia como del 57%

[@tiptoeurchin]

Unrelated, but in my head so I'm gonna share...(singing) Now the only thing that gives me hope, is my love of a certain dope. Rose tint my world, keep me safe from the trouble and pain!

[@jeffagain7516]

When I consider what life on Earth has been through with these extinction events, it's a whole lot easier to accept life on other planets out there "finding a way". Beside the fact, if there's no one else, seems like a helluva waste of space! :)

[@Miraihi]

More than anything it makes me more convinced that it'll be much easier to make Earth habitable than to terraform the other planet no matter how dire the state of ecology is.

[@aaronramsden1657]

Come to Australia, in summer it gets 40+ Celcius

[@tealkerberus748]

That's maximum daily temperatures. To be an average temperature, the nights have to be hot too - say you get 45 in the day time and 35 overnight, then you'd have an average of 40. My farm routinely gets to 43 in an El Nino summer, but the nights are still cool.

[@patrickbarnard680]

This event is regarded as the closest natural analog to current human induced climate change. It has been estimated that the Siberian Flood Basalts were on average emitting ~ 2 - 4 billion tonnes of CO2 annually. A rate twenty to ten times less than what humanity is currently dumping into the atmosphere. It goes without saying that if the worst mass extinction event is the only event that comes closest to matching human emissions then our prospects are truly grim.

[@Spielmaldingens]

considering our pace, we might have to add another one to this list very soon

[@thealientree3821]

I mean hey. Look at it this way. If we do cause a max extinction, it would be the first extinction since the Great Oxidation Event that is directly tied to an organism.

[@thomaspaine7098]

Capitalism extinction event

[@sychios]

15:17 that flag was holding on for dear life bro took “hanging by a thread” too literally

[@Rob-gx7rx]

love this channel

[@brandondabbs2593]

Lysrosaur in a hole during a pulse while " anvil of Crom" plays in the background.

[@JackieOwl94]

This would be the worst time to be alive, full-stop. And I’m surprised that anyone lived through it at all

[@gojifanpat]

8:59 *AAAAAYYYYY ITS RODAN*

[@CaptianTwug]

Mythical pull from my youtube recommendations. I found out about "the great dying" yesterday and was curious for more info on it. Then this gets shown to me just 8hrs after upload

[@tealkerberus748]

So your graph at 16:39 .. where's the Great Oxygenation in all this? Can we really have a discussion of extinction events without it?

[@PaleoEdits]

That extinction event is problematic because it is only inferred from the logic of increasing oxygen. There isn't any fossil record to quantify how big it was, or indeed if it happened at all. So it's just one of those things that gets hyped out of proportion really.

[@RoseGold1224]

Similar to the storms in Jupiter's Eye

[@Hiddensecret9]

Famous for ending the reign of the dinosaurs, this event wiped out about 75% of Earth’s species. A massive asteroid impact in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, combined with intense volcanic activity, led to a "nuclear winter" effect, with dust and particles blocking sunlight. This halted photosynthesis, collapsed food chains, and caused rapid climate shifts. Only small animals, including mammals, some birds, and reptiles, survived, eventually leading to the rise of mammals and, much later, humans.

[@SkrapMetal84]

this channel reminds me of Tier Zoo.

[@ragnardunderdase3473]

amazing video man

[@roxyamused]

The problem is that the Anthropocene extinction is beginning to look similar in effect. We're essentially our own Siberian Trapps burning the remaining coal swamps and carbon stored in silica in oil. The melting of the ice caps and warming of the ocean could start to warm and melt methane ice deposits at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. It would go in cycles but eventually could start runaway global warming. Looking to the P-TE is exactly what we could be seeing in a few hundred years. Are we generalized and clever enough to weather the Lopingian extinction?