The Mass Extinction you've Never Heard About

[@fionacankat]

Last time I was this early crown mammals hadn’t evolved yet

[@GreenFors]

Video suggestion: What are beaks, how do they work, and why do different animals evolve to have them?

[@JustAnotherDinosaurFan]

They are modified teeth. But I'm curious too.

[@The_SOB_II]

"What are beaks? We just don't know."

[@birkavese]

@@JustAnotherDinosaurFan they are most definitely not teeth, beaks are made of horn

[@latheofheaven1017]

You always seem to find subjects that I didn't know about despite having consumed popular palaeontology for several decades now. Thank you for another great video.

[@Jaggerbush]

I always appreciate a map of earth when these time periods are discussed. Its a nugget of info that a lot of vidoes will leave out. 👏👏 1:16

[@DreadEnder]

Great to see you uploading again!

[@binbagorbucket4756]

Glad the intro’s back!

[@DeclanDG]

This channel is awesome! Keep up the great work MothLight!

[@JustAnotherDinosaurFan]

I thought you were gonna talk about the Ordovician...

[@xanshen9011]

I was expecting the end Guadalupian extinction event

[@WormBurger]

I just quit my job so I would have time to watch this!

[@colton4554]

Real

[@CatFighterForce9]

bruh

[@bob1234881]

This is why the western world is slowing down.

[@colton4554]

@bob1234881 You are derp

[@toddberkely6791]

worth it.

[@BudiBeliever]

New mothlight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@psychokinrazalon]

I’ve heard almost nothing about the dividing line between the Jurassic and Cretaceous and what caused it. Is it just poorly understood? What were its effects?

[@BananaCake26]

There's no dividing line between the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. It's the only geochronological boundary without a defined GSSP. There's no global extinction or geochemical layer to define one. The first appearance of an ammonite species is traditionally used as the lower Cretaceous boundary but that species has a limited geographical distribution, so it can't be used for a globally defined boundary. TLDR: the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary is a WIP, it's mostly there for classification purposes because science needs to classify things.

[@stefanstraka7517]

Small correction on 4:20 - dicynodont means "two dog tooth", i guess due to the shape of the teeth, similar to canine... canines. Great video otherwise, keep up the good work!

[@lauravansanten7804]

a new moth light video? Best start of the weekend 🙌

[@cleanerben9636]

Perfect timing. Thank you.

[@BriEnr]

Thank you for the upload. I’m sick and just got home from a tough day of work, this is the perfect way to relax

[@bonecanoe86]

You could say it's the "Korean War" of mass extinctions between the Permian-Triassic "WW2" and the K-T Extinction "Vietnam".

[@stephaniet9875]

Love the vids

[@sassa82]

🎉 a new video!🥳

[@tektyrant]

2:35 The Shovel Lizard. My son ❤

[@johnnijenhuis2296]

Amazing video, as always

[@ChristineInNornia]

6:50 looks like the Giants Causeway here in County Antrim💚

[@luciusfucius]

Great vid as always but you don't need that ai thumbnail

[@YEAGfishy]

ai thumbnail doesn't go hard :(

[@Bloodmuffin6]

Yeah I'm disappointed to see that

[@tektyrant]

How do you know it is AI?

[@YEAGfishy]

@@tektyrant i looked at it

[@tektyrant]

⁠@@YEAGfishy my screen is too small, I can’t see it well.

[@supercell615]

​@@tektyrant The details of the skeleton make absolutely no sense when examined closely.

[@Rob-wr8ep]

one of the earliest sauropods *Schleitheimia schutzi* could be an interesting example for a future video about the early triassic :)

[@qoombert]

nice video

[@malthesse]

I find the Triassic so fascinating, with its strange and diverse mix of animals. It definitely feels the most alien out of the three Mesozoic periods. Just a few years ago a still unnamed theropod dinosaur from the late Triassic about the size of Allosaurus was found in Scania in southernmost Sweden, along with several smaller theropods. It was the oldest theropod of this size ever found, and might suggest that dinosaurs were on their way to increase significantly in size already before the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. And around the same time an elephant sized herbivorous late Triassic synapsid (stem mammal) was found in Poland. And considering the proximity between southern Sweden and Poland, it is possible that their ranges might have overlapped - so that giant theropods were hunting giant mammal relatives during the Triassic! There is still so much more to discover about this fascinating time period.

[@hassansyed4135]

I hope that's not AI on the thumbnail, please don't use AI images

[@birkavese]

how related some groups are should not be based on the names we put on them crocodile/reptile/dinosaur/mammal etc. but only on how long ago they had common ancestor. Suchians, dinosaurs and mammals are much more closely related to each other in the middle triassic than sauropoda, ornithiscia and teropoda at the end of the cretatious. This i think already solves the "one group" filling the niches problem

[@Toxicgoose22]

AYOO NEW VID!

[@luudest]

How did the food chain of the dinosaurs look like? Did the carnivorous feed on herbivorous dinosaurs?

[@happy_owl565]

Yes, thats why there were such big and powerful carnivorous dinosaurs, they couldn’t just have survived on snakes and small mammals

[@Pangolin-6312]

Cool

[@Alsayid]

Ah, Moth Light Media... one of my favorite ancient creature channels.

[@_vallee_5190]

The Permian was still worse for land animals then the Triassic-Jurassic extinction.

[@ridleyroid9060]

I have heard of the end triassic extinction, but it is definitely not as talked about as the great dying, and the end cretaceous extinctions.

[@KR-tk8fe]

It always blows my mind how trees evolve too.

[@iigeminiii3754]

If you were to scroll to this vid on Facebook, the first 100 comments would be people calling you stupid and that earth is only 6,000 years old

[@cipaisone]

00:11 the only thing stranger than the name Hatzegopteryx, is the animal named so

[@varicosevaynes]

Let’s gooo

[@RubbittTheBruise]

Great show. Actual conclusions from a broad history.

[@101rotarypower]

Such a good channel! Are there similar channels fans of this MLM content would recommend?

[@lassebirkhenriksen]

Hellooooo new video!

[@Torvosaurusgurneyi]

Have you made a video about the Toarcian extinction yet? I think it's very interesting and important but not a lot of people talk about it.

[@12time12]

Isn’t North America the largest continent? Pretty sure when all orogens are included it is, as Greenland is part of the North American tectonic plate.

[@happy_owl565]

north america(including greenland) is the third biggest continent

[@The_SOB_II]

Yo but the crocodilia are nested within the pseudosuchia... The graphic is wrong nooooooooo I'll be okay

[@The_SOB_II]

I'll be okay

[@greyideasthetheliopurodon4640]

Why did you use Ai for the thumbnail?

[@_Wombat]

Can't wait for the video on the current mass extinction to drop (only a few hundred million years to wait).

[@bingcringing]

LETS GOOOOOO

[@dennisdegasEDG]

That's AI in the thumbnail dawg

[@gajxo]

I think there are only a few groups of poeple that are more likely to have heard about the end Triassic extinction than your audience.

[@AchyParts]

I believe this video's thumbnail is AI generated, is it from an online source?

[@Druchii]

Don’t use AI you’re talented and shouldn’t lessen and devalue your hard work using that utter slop

[@MrSyrup-vn7wq]

Coolest channel 😎

[@sosa2mars]

AI thumbnail I just fell down to my knees

[@crowbar12121]

Please please please don't use AI thumbnails. You are better than this

[@happy_owl565]

he isnt, i’ve used google’s reverse image search to check and it is a pre-existing image

[@hornetscout2579]

AI thumbnail... please... don't go down that road...

[@anautisticswede6748]

Why not? I can't be the only one who liked it.

[@PurplePartyParasaur]

The thumbnail looks like AI, which I’m not on board with frankly

[@happy_owl565]

it’s not i’ve reverse image searched it, this guy is not only passionate for these topics but he’s very careful with these kind of things so it’s pretty sad that everyone thinks its ai just because it looks like it. I dont blame you, ai is already becoming very sneaky but things like google image search is a good way to check (it is a bit finicky tho)

[@Joakim1400]

Could you not use AI for your thumbnail?

[@fabianschobinger2765]

Am I the only one who likes that thumbnail?

[@grokeffer6226]

👍👍👍

[@comrade1158]

I have heard about this before, clickbait

[@Eye_Exist]

You are seriously the master of the most irrelevant scales of the nature videos. for example, 3:10 - 3,75m width for scale for a human and a reptile that's roughly half of the 3,75m scale - just wtf seriously? first of all a scale is supposed to be intuitive, which a specific 3,75m is not to anyone, and it's supposed to be round milestone number which it also obviously isn't. and it's numerous times the width of the human and roughly twice the length of the reptile so it's completely useless to estimate either of them. the scales you use are most often so out there i have to bet you do it just for the lols.

[@Chris-lr2qb]

Can we stop with the condescending titles please?

[@KennyEspling]

Clickbait bullshit title. Do better.