How The Dinosaurs Actually Died

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A ruthless murder was committed! Someone killed the dinosaurs and we have the murderer! Witnesses say that an Everest-sized asteroid hit Earth, devastated the planet and caused a mass extinction. A simple, fascinating and convincing explanation. Or… is it?
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Oo

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[@tabbytabt]

pluh

[@oreosaurs2658]

Ok

[@raj2raj5]

Oo

[@shepinel]

The dinosaurs on the opposite side of the world: “Haha get fucked” The asteroid:

[@Oreothepig]

Yes

[@goober374]

the asteroid: bro needs to hide of the opposite side of the fucking world 💀

[@N0RZC]

😂

[@JackieOwl94]

Exactly!

[@rj119x]

the asteroid: 🗿

[@NickAndriadze]

Kurzgesagt's favourite topics, in no particular order: 1. Black holes 2. Dinosaurs 3. Ants ANTS *ANTS* 4. Very large things 5. Apocalypses of unforseen dread 6. Existential horror

[@TrixTheFox]

So, everything

[@thesavvyaphrodite5806]

😂😂😂 So basically, TOTAL existential horror????

[@neochris2]

Based. These are all amazing topics.

[@stickguy9109]

You forgot about the immune system

[@Decodeish1]

Ants are the best ones.

[@Nadiki]

For those wondering, the most likely source of the next flood basalt eruption will be the same plume that probably created the Deccan Traps: the Réunion Plume, currently located beneath South Africa all the way to the East coast of Madagascar. It’s one of the largest subterranean structures on Earth (possibly dating back to the beginning of Earth, maybe even caused by the theorized Theia impact that formed the moon), and currently it’s pretty quiet. Small plumes branch off of it to form individual active volcanoes. However, it has a massive blob of magma located beneath Southern Africa that would dwarf the Deccan Traps and rival the Siberian Traps in size if it ever managed to surface. Luckily for us it would take tens of millions of years at minimum to do so. So y’all can sleep soundly knowing that we probably won’t be seeing fiery volcanic doom within our lifetimes! Probably.

[@rogaldorn2312]

To rival the siberian traps would make an incredibly devastating event, considering the permian extinction wiped out a little over 90% of all life.

[@Cell_lab_tutorials]

95% to be precise

[@Nadiki]

@@rogaldorn2312 yep, hopefully we'll have achieved spacefaring civilization status or the ability to control Earth's atmosphere by then though

[@rogaldorn2312]

@@Nadiki if we didn't achieve it by that point we probably have been long extinct.

[@rogaldorn2312]

@@Cell_lab_tutorials iirc that was for the oceans. Life in general was around 90-91%

[@anora8973]

“Had it stopped here, there might still be dinosaurs today.” Birds: Am I some kind of joke to you?

[@DalesDubs]

*dinosaur

[@musted.]

this is why kids practice the floor is lava

[@gabuge2928]

They know much more than we know

[@thevictory3092]

yay

[@Imagine_Beyond]

This is why the birds always won those games

[@awatercolourist]

😂

[@cariyaputta]

They still have fresh memories from past lives.

[@SUPRFC]

As an Indian, I sincerely apologise to the dinosaurs.

[@manikandan1111]

yeah , 😂😂. we do apologise for everything.

[@mammamia2418]

XD

[@punterash]

but more importantly we should be asking for our cut on all that oil money

[@bhekisizwepride5946]

you genocided and entire range of species a simple apology wont do bruh😂

[@mrraamsridhar]

​@@manikandan1111lol

[@Dirtnap12]

A deeper video on the Permian mass extinction would be really interesting. Large drops in oxygen levels, mass desertification, ocean acidification, the devastation of basically every single genera of living thing (not even the *insects* got through this one without getting hit hard). When scientists call something 'The Great Dying', you know they're being serious.

[@Prometheus7272]

It’s definitely the most interesting and mysterious

[@a.karley4672]

The desertification was probably largely a consequence of all the continents being in more or less one group. Most of the interior was a LONG way from a sea, from which the atmosphere could pick up moisture. I wonder what the configuration of MORs was like, and if that contributed to reduced oceanic oxidation? OTOH, the interiors of the oceans would have been a long way from mineral nutrients, in the same way that most of the land was a long way from water.

[@wraithship]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the lensing effect. The fact that the Yucatan impact was almost exactly on the other side of the planet to the decan traps, would mean the impact shockwaves would be focused on the decan traps, rupturing the crust and sending the traps into overdrive.

[@PaleoEdits]

Except the Earth's core stops such sesmic waves - nor do they travel in a straight line through the mantle. Besides, the deccan started erupting hundreds of thousands of years prior to the impact. The Earth has seen plenty of LIP's (we even have an active one today in Iceland) without cosmic intervention. The deccan is by no mean an odd case, nor the largest LIP volcanos in Earth history. Some are connected to extinction event, but most are not.

[@Cell_lab_tutorials]

Maybe it really was Chixulub

[@lenarianmelon4634]

​@@Cell_lab_tutorialsbased cell lab pfp

[@wundurr]

@@PaleoEdits What about P waves? Don’t those just speed up when they hit the core?

[@PaleoEdits]

​@@wundurrThey don't speed up, but they travel faster through liquids (such as the outer core) than solids, yes. Still, the timing between the impact and the start of the eruptions is very off indeed.

[@briant4266]

Dinosaurs: We made it through the the storm. Asteroid: Nah not really.

[@magshdz]

Lol

[@panda-yi6mg]

Was that double "the" deliberate?

[@elslfdsoiudhd5384]

The dinosaurs really got spitroasted by volcanoes and a meteor.

[@Monkeyboi367]

⁠@@elslfdsoiudhd5384🤓🤓 uh actually

[@a.karley4672]

You do realise that there are nearly twice the number of dinosaur species today (we call them birds ; they are dinosaurs, in the same way that humans are apes) as there are mammals. 11000+ versus 6000+. Tell me more about this "domination" of the world by mammals since the "extinction" of the dinosaurs.

[@filterock]

My bad bro… It was me

[@epicgamerreal69]

bro shat on the earth

[@Hobby-Linguist]

How could you

[@Mysterium-zy6ri]

How dare you!!!!

[@Soap_Eater_2024]

How dare you

[@morbillionaire2785]

Why did u do this?? 😡😡

[@crispest_npc]

God after realizing dinosaurs can't build churches:

[@athensarker2731]

😂😂😂

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Underrated comment

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😂❤

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😂

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😂😂😂

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Wow, I just saw your shop for the first time, and your posters and graphics are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! 😮

[@Say-Hello]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="458">7:38</a> The imagery of the earth struggling while taking a flaming hot dump and getting hit in the head with a flaming rock is memorable

[@not-a-raccoon]

I'm cackling 🤣🤣

[@TheMunchkin9]

The metaphor of earth shitting itself as a giant rock is flying towards it was not missed on me either XD

[@user-fp5qd7fi6w]

When you forget earth is just a floating rock

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

Wow! So, that episode of history is basically a Hindi Movie.

[@WyvernVin]

She ate too many flamming hot cheetos.

[@pavanyaragudi]

I’m literally sleeping over those Deccan traps. I live in the city of Ballari near historic city of Hampi, in the middle of Deccan plateau of southern India . We have these massive continuous granite hill ranges, but I never imagined they caused the mass extinction!

[@molybdaen11]

Well, at least you would not have to suffer long if the awake again.

[@hencethebeetroot]

​@@molybdaen11Truthfully, they wouldn't have to suffer at all. Most likely, if they were found to be ready to erupt again, it would be after any of our lifetimes. As Kurzgesagt said, the beast is slow. And us humans are very, very fast.

[@KartikChauhan__KC]

​@@molybdaen11 Actually they can't awake because they are dead.

[@cowlinator]

How does it feel, to be sleeping on a bomb?

[@steenymobiny]

Ohhhhhhh

[@dracosummoner]

This was so informative, thank you!

[@shaneseward7139]

Great video as always, many thanks! I wonder if the Deccan Traps was infuenced at all by seismic focusing of the Chicxulub impact.

[@Polydoros66]

2021 covid-19: This is the worst year ever. Cretaceous period: Hold my asteroid

[@someguy3049]

The permian mass extiction: Hold my Siberian traps

[@Ted_Youtuber]

2030 : Hold my nukes and Global Extinction

[@_TheDudeAbides_]

@@Ted_KZbinr I think nukes will be less effective than the Siberian traps, globally.

[@startgame5033]

​@@_TheDudeAbides_yes correct, but we would experience the pain, the most able beings on earth. Meaning we r the best at expressing our pain hence more horror for the future generations

[@Lindsey_Lockwood]

Shocked the staff at komradgesat didn't try to find a way to blame white people

[@joshuaohuka7719]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="396">6:36</a> the ability to describe a living creature vomiting foam while being bathed in acid in such a calm manner is an underrated skill... well done, narrator...

[@TheRealSkeletor]

Steve Taylor

[@joshuaohuka7719]

@@TheRealSkeletor is that the narrator's name...?

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@@joshuaohuka7719more commonly Stephen

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First time here?

[@joshuaohuka7719]

@@bndlett8752 no... it just struck me this time... I'm a pretty big Kurtzgesagt fan...

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Finally the new perspective about this world. Thank you kursgezagt

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Congratulations on your sponsorship that's awesome

[@TheJerbol]

It's wild that _anything_ survived this period

[@shawnscientifica6689]

TESTAMENT to the perfect adaptability of dinosaurs that they survived a divine symphony of impossible calamities lasting hundreds of thousands of years. Dinosaurs were so potently perfect to nature that it took a virtual war of the heavens to humble them down to birds a still pretty badass species. There's no way in any universe humans would have evolved without this. This may be the only hypothetical universe humans evolve because how insanely improbable is all of that occuring. Truly Tyrant Lizard Gods of the past.

[@TheJerbol]

@@shawnscientifica6689 *ahem* dinosaurs died here sir...

[@technopathic7599]

@@TheJerbol We still have birds

[@darkfl2153]

reminder that roaches are still alive

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O ​@@shawnscientifica6689

[@NKolehmainen]

"damn, tough luck bro" is the best phrase that can explain the dinosaur mass exctinction

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"That's rough buddy."

[@hanzzel6086]

​@@xylenex8037Thanks for the smile!

[@morijin6903]

Damn, that’s crazy. *continues to the next video*

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@@xylenex8037 dammnit, you beat me to it 😆

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*Unlucky*

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I love your channel shop and spirit never stop doing them

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I love this channel so much, please never stop doing what you do🥺

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Woman...

[@Imnotamused444]

What tf is that supposed to mean?

[@danx4813]

That emoji is typical woman behaviour

[@daenite2480]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="221">3:41</a> Imagine not being able to do anything to stop yourself from burning alive

[@nonine09]

Hell

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couldnt be me

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​@@badlydrawnslide2109 is this person literally him?

[@minestar2247]

Pray!

[@minestar2247]

@@nonine09 ouch, yeah, if you add emotional damage and your skin regenerating, that's pretty much hell

[@adamh1991]

As somebody that fears tornados and their bigger relatives, a storm so big it rips a hole in the ozone layer is just terrifying to me

[@annaaboualfa383]

I can relate on a personal level. My worst nightmare’s always inc tornadoes

[@l-dogtheman1685]

Well, thanks to man made climate change, storms and other extreme weather events are getting and will continue to get more extreme and frequent, but this is truely next level. I wouldn't wanna be around if such a monster storm formed (probably wouldn't survive it long anyways), but since we now monitor the Earth pretty closely, we can sleep relatively safe and sound knowing this won't happen in our livetime

[@Blewlongmun]

@@l-dogtheman1685 See the truly terrifying part is current projections don't put that on the time line but they do put the giant murder storms as almost inevitable. This is one of those issues that being educated on makes it scarier, the good news is comically hyperbolic, the bad news is only ever the tip of the iceberg. Hurray for nihilism!

[@Jeff-66]

Even global warming and 185 mph hurricanes seem like child's play compared to what the earth has already been through.

[@josephvisnovsky1462]

During the Cretaceous, our planet was s lot hotter and terribly humid. So, Florida

[@bilinasmini3480]

The initial hours of Kurzgesagt videos, when they struggle to choose a thumbnail and title, are my favorite parts.

[@sv3527]

LOVE your videos, love your merch, love your spirit

[@aramisdagaz9]

This is somewhat hilarious because the Deccan Traps were one of the prevailing theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs before the asteroid impact theory was proposed in 1980. It wasn't until evidence of the impact was found globally in the geological record (the K-Pg or K-T boundary) that the Deccan Traps were largely dismissed as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs, and yet about 40+ years later, evidence is suggesting that things are still not so cut and dry. On a somewhat related note, it wasn't until I read about this in the book "T. rex and the Crater of Doom" that I realized that the asteroid impact theory of extinction was a relatively new theory. As someone born in the 1980s, the asteroid theory was what I was taught and I had no reason to think that it was published only four years before I was born. The Chicxulub crater wasn't even discovered until the early 90s. Wild.

[@hazb8026]

Yes I remember learning about the asteroid theory and there being excitement that a crater had actually been discovered.

[@Taima]

I'm an early 90s kid and yeah I thought that much of what we think we know on the matter was at least 40-50 years old by the time I came into the picture, not like 5-10 years, that's insane. Props to the education system for adapting to that one reasonably fast I guess?

[@leonestello8519]

Wild indead🕵️

[@juliavixen176]

​@@Taima When I was a kid in school in the mid-1980's, I saw a Nova documentary on PBS about the K-T asteriod impact theory. When I asked my science teacher at school about it, they had never heard of it and were dismissive about the theory.

[@puppymew]

I googled "Chicxulub crater" and google had a little astroid fly across my screen and shook my screen with it's "impact"

[@nightnite6517]

My favorite part of kurzgesagt videos are the first few hours when they can’t decide on the thumbnail and title

[@svkona]

no, they know what they're doing. the first thumbnail/title is made to entice current subscribers. after that, they change it to appeal to the more general youtube audience

[@loveableheathen7441]

@@svkonainteresting theory. What about channels like EWU that change their thumbnail/title 3 or 4 times?

[@maxb4085]

​@loveableheathen7441 it is to help with click through rate, Veritasium did a video about it. Most channels have multiple titles and thumbnails and they see which one does the best.

[@kirby1225]

@@loveableheathen7441 Pretty sure that's a youtube feature now, to automatically show different thumbnails to different people so that the creator can choose which one to pick by looking at the data.

[@MrRizeAG]

@@loveableheathen7441 That guy is wrong. Many big youtube channels do this for algorithm purposes. KZbin lets you choose multiple thumbnails/titles and sends them all out to different people for a while, so that you can then pick whichever one gets more clicks as the final one.

[@blackreaper2343]

the video is a classic as always, BUT MY GOD THE SOUNDTRACKS SLAPS SO HARD

[@undergroundcugar]

ty, i had to do a presentation for a debate on who was the murderer and this helped.

[@Porcays]

The music was outstandingly good on this one

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Bot

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Not bot

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checkmark

[@invisiblemiles]

The music is good 👍🏻😊

[@LK_EBM]

Anyone know what song this is? It's really good

[@Wattson-ston]

These birds are too smart man

[@Mr.Quietness]

They are, mate, they are.

[@Weird0Memer]

These birds are spies for the FBI

[@_King_Tiny_]

certainly able to gain information by unimaginable means, they may have some gadget of some sort to do it; maybe they are actually ancient aliens describing the *real* history of our planet...

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

BIRDS ARE NOT REAL

[@Xetta_Mode]

@@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781 Way to kill the fun, man. Then why do pigeons and eagles exist then, Huh? Punk?

[@codybeasenburg6275]

I'd love to see a video on the Permian Extinction and the Siberian Traps too 💕💕

[@NicholasIrvin]

You know I will say this your channel and the videos that are animated are amazing who came up with the creation of the video ideas and how they look

[@Tga1146]

You should do an episode on traffic patterns and like how traffic jams start in cities and on freeways and such. It’s a pretty interesting topic with a lot of research behind it

[@pali2005]

That hoenstly sounds pretty interesting

[@JoyLovesHollowKnight]

CGP grey has a vid on that

[@juannaym8488]

@@JoyLovesHollowKnight it's a pretty bad video that gives a very condensed overview of it. His "solution" of automated driving is also complete bull, like it's been disproven decades ago that no matter of car infrastructure will ever solve traffic. The only answer to that is railway

[@JoyLovesHollowKnight]

@@juannaym8488 he never said that the solution to car traffic was the manufacturing. He never actually gave a solution at all, just pointed out that it could only be solved if every single driver was perfect which he acknowledged wasn't a solution at all. I do agree though that it's a very condensed video

[@7he4040]

​@@juannaym8488in other words, you are bad, not his video.

[@FO18L]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="181">3:01</a> i love how casually you provide evidence of "human pollution is ruining the planet FAST"

[@andi_pasti]

A video about all the other mass extinctions would be great. Media is mostly talking about the 5th, but the other ones are of interest as well.❤

[@Gooning.Twacker]

This is the dopest video you guys have made yet!

[@fumikato]

"wait, some of you guys survived the lava? no way! here's a meteor.."

[@ariadneschild8460]

I love how the colour pallet contrasts with the subject matter. Such cheerful colours.

[@arbiterskiss6692]

You should check out the videos about terraforming Venus and Mars.

[@BladesofMagic]

I love how you used the Supervolcanoes soundtrack, but modified it! Props to the audio designer.

[@Littlebadanimator]

My favorite science/space KZbinr! 1: kurzgesagt 2: kurzgesagt 3: kurzgesagt 4: kurzgesagt 5: kurzgesagt (I am learning so much now)

[@NewMessage]

"But we did trace the call... The extinction is coming from inside the house!"

[@samplastik13]

And if he goes away it will be really bad too

[@dryued6874]

Chicxulub was an inside job

[@user-yx5su6lf3v]

.

[@tackontitan]

Amazing how just the planet doing its own thing will become a giant hellscape.

[@Dantick09]

Toss it in the bin of things are not real, like climate change

[@mivmilos]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="18">0:18</a> vsauce music starts playing

[@Timmeh_The_Chosen_One]

😂

[@TheArtsyAviary.]

🤔🤔🤔

[@vatsalpande]

Was here to comment the same 😂

[@kkg3004]

hey vSauce, Michael here. Your dinosaur is very safe. Or is it?

[@minestar2247]

Wait, it's literally sauce music

[@user-bj6ry3kl9e]

i love all the references in your videos

[@adipie7805]

Probably one of the best channels on you tube

[@CJ-nv6yw]

Sir, a second plane has hit the Yucatan peninsula

[@RecRoom-Clover]

Womp womp

[@toahero5925]

The dinosaurs were a black-op by time traveling CIA agents.

[@yessirBR]

Womp womp

[@RecRoom-Clover]

Womp Womp

[@blissboudif]

Did you just say womp womp the the genicide of one the successful groups of animals in the history of the world. How dare you.

[@fabriziobiancucci7702]

Even if the Deccan Traps caused a lot of devastation, it's very likely that the asteroid was the main culprit since we have found mummified dinosaurs killed exactly by the asteroid, so they actually survived until that point.

[@matthewbooth8487]

Yeah, I remember a dino documentary from years ago that acknowledged that biodiversity was really low by the time of the impact, which is why T-rex basically occupied every predatory niche In what would North America over its lifespan.

[@longforgotten4823]

I like the asteroid as the final coup de grace in a slowly dying environment the volcanic gases slowly strangling the planet over millions of years, while the asteroid became a sudden and devastating end to 70% percent of life on earth.

[@BernardCounte]

Was it the AIDS or the COVID? Having both simultaneously did not help.

[@fabriziobiancucci7702]

@@BernardCounte But survive the COVID often is very likely, survive AIDS is not

[@nanuqo2006]

@@longforgotten4823 ok but that isnt what happened

[@cassistagner1854]

Great video! I love learning about the past.

[@captainobunga7539]

Kurzgesagt try not to make me more terrified than ever: Impossible

[@mj.ray0898]

The animators for this show are incredible, y'all deserve a Discovery Channel show or something

[@harnageaa]

no, they don't need corporate BS. being a channel on youtube is as free as it gets in terms of what they can do and wanna do.

[@nubeZamurai-mh9pq]

They technically are but in Germany, the German version of Kurzgetzat is sponsored by the German government.

[@semih-lq8ji]

They are no longer with Funk

[@hello_MeNutty]

Theyre perfectly fine here on youtube. Im sure the majority of Kurzgesagt viewers would say the same.

[@Draconic404]

Maybe not tv but they definitely deserve to be checked and distributed for lazy teachers to put on bangers in class

[@sudarshanjs7988]

The scariest part is at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="181">3:01</a>, where the CO2 Emissions of ONE year aren't that much smaller than the Deccan Trap's Emissions for HALF A MILLION years

[@CanadisX]

Underrated comment!

[@CelestialityRW]

i didnt even think of that when i saw it but holy shit

[@iaial0]

That was the actually terrifying part

[@ShankarSivarajan]

The correct interpretation of that is that volcanoes release very little CO2 before they erupt lava, not "oh no, CO2 is deadly poison!"

[@ArrowMaster_]

Oh shit, you're right

[@IceCreamMan945]

"Mr. Pterosaur, a second asteroid has hit the planet"

[@Kdbddbdjsn]

Your channel is the most informative bro!

[@kaseywashington1477]

Kurzgesagt: "Do you need to worry about this?" Me, nervously eyeing Yellowstone...

[@dazley8021]

YUP same thought xD

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

Deccan traps is here💀​@@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416

[@quoccuongtran724]

at least Yellowstone is just a single mega volcano, so it would be on the weight class as a hefty asteroid the Deccan Trap & other mass eruption events mentioned here are different though: imagine if all volcanoes on Earth come to life again, and all of them continue spewing out lava and ashes for decades, centuries or even millennia to come, without stop

[@mcmewsen]

I mean, yes... But also no, cuz there's literally nothing we can do so it's useless to worry.

[@twotothehalf3725]

If you _are_ nervously eyeing Yellowstone, may I recommend Soup Emporium's video about it? It's a bit long, but it'll be more than worth the time if you've even a glancing interest about volcanoes like I do.

[@Seltyk]

Epic Mountain did an incredible job with the climax of this music. When Deccan Traps exploded at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="310">5:10</a>, the music is just perfect

[@adamjensen9463]

For real

[@althelor]

Honestly all of the music on this channel is underappreciated.

[@bananewane1402]

When I was a kid learning about dinosaurs, late 2000s, the books I read always talked about the dinosaur extinction as being caused by a combination of volcanic eruptions and the meteor impact.

[@user-li8nm8nz9b]

gotta say the soundtrack for this ones awesome

[@dracojester2971]

This gives the volcanoes contribution to dinosaur extinction a lot more weight. In school it had only really been described as a LOT of volcanoes for a long time, which didn’t sound as sensational as the meteor. The extra depth this video goes into makes it seem a lot more plausible, and in hindsight, makes way more sense that it wasn’t just the dust and ash kicked up by the meteor blocking out the sun, but all the volcanic gases that were already in the atmosphere

[@SomeKindOfDodo]

The meteor finished off the dinosaurs that survived the Decan traps because there were mummified dinosaurs near the place the meteor hit proving that at least some survived the Decan Traps

[@puffleoftypos]

​@SomeKindOfDodo it was basically a 1 2 punch, the system was weakened by the traps before the knockout

[@WaterShowsProd]

There were species that survived after the impact, even according to The Impact Theory. The extinction took place over a long period of time that began long before the impact, and ended shortly after. Nobody ever said the extinction was already complete before the impact occurred. @@SomeKindOfDodo

[@97y59j]

Hindsight-hindu-india get it 😂😂

[@SomeKindOfDodo]

@@WaterShowsProd Yeah after the impact a kind of nuclear winter happened.

[@aparajitachattopadhyay9942]

The thing is that Kurzgesgat makes videos about topics we think but never ask. This channel is worth watching. Thanks for another amazing video

[@cooldude-qz1gf]

*you may never ask

[@bimtheball2366]

This is basically just earth vomitting and getting hit by a big rock Great explination keep it up :)

[@salsabilrayyaa]

I love the animation and how they explain it in such detail, it fits perfectly with the animation.

[@rifqifathulazhar3010]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="546">9:06</a> Cover the 5 big mass extinctions PLEASE! I know it from a game but I really want to know how they look like!

[@lightening_ward8121]

Oh yeah, I agree

[@Hunter-jx8jl]

Which game???

[@asghlv5841]

They are kinda similiar earth farts high co2 and other toxic stuff in the sky everyone dies

[@NgocLe-mz4ns]

Cell to singularity Event: Life after apocalypse.@@Hunter-jx8jl

[@anotherpersonontheweb5558]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="238">3:58</a> I'm loving these new transitions and how it fits in with the scene. Great work as always Kurzgesagt!

[@murgel2006]

There is a documentary called "A Volcano Odyssey" which is about the hot spot that caused the Decan Traps. Interesting and fun to watch, great pictures.

[@emilykingpaddle7617]

This is my favourite KZbin channel in the universe. I only watch you guys.❤🎉 It’s the best thing in the world what are you guys? I’m really into science now. I love learning now and I wanna learn more about science and everything like that.

[@TibasBR]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="484">08:04</a>, happy for the guy who found his grandma!

[@awatercolourist]

😂

[@FadazMada]

While also wearing his grandma's skull like a hat💀

[@jellocrackers9107]

Impressive how the cameramen survived through all this

[@DAMfoxygrampa]

Yeah bro look up the TIMEFRAME OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, humans didn't even exist when the dinosaurs existed. How could a cameraman exist?!?!?! (Goteem, whoop whoop!). Suck it, dork

[@o-hogameplay185]

@@kevinmccarthy6324i think he was just joking

[@DAMfoxygrampa]

@@kevinmccarthy6324 Yeah look at THE TIMEFRAME OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. How could a cameraman be there if humans didn't even exist yet? (goteem, look how smart I am, whoop whoop!!). Better do your research next time, Einstein

[@Plague_Doctor-]

@@kevinmccarthy6324take a joke 😂

[@randompanda4649]

I’m reading about the end Permian extinction right now you guys should do a full video on it

[@Bread2698]

Honestly id love to see the people behind Kurzgesagt do a video on the cambrian explosion

[@4bitglobe]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="265">4:25</a> bro: it’s just a prank The prank:

[@gabrielloumayvin9767]

It's so cute how Kurzgesagt calms people down at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="600">10:00</a>

[@Jellydoughnuthole]

Finally another kurzgesagt video that doesn’t give me crippling dread over my place in time and space

[@yasure1535]

Can you guys please make a video on the lyme dieses?

[@eltiospike7672]

It was actually me guys. I messed up. I'm sorry.

[@termsservice9396]

It happens, no biggie.

[@Minecraftiano1204]

As long as you own up to your mess

[@josephtrapanese3310]

Promise to do better in the future?

[@GuyThePerson]

deccan traps apology video when

[@reichserzmarschall]

bro i told you dont touch anything, you literally changed the timeline

[@emanuelvanrijn]

@kurzgesagt How much water could be stored underneath or inside earth's crust? Could it escape, and if so, what could that look like? Given how many different "historical records" we have of floods, how likely is it that is has already happened in the past?

[@anthonyprivy]

Love the music on this one!

[@Tylerpierre99]

I love the 'Spirited Away' reference at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="38">0:38</a> ❤

[@nerdy8644]

What reference? I don’t get it

[@MasterAdamonia]

​@@nerdy8644 Floaty dark bits. The loneliness particles from My Neighbour Totoro.

[@thefrey9588]

​@@nerdy8644those black ball thingies, aka Soot Sprites

[@ItzPeechYT]

@@nerdy8644the black soot creatures (I forget what theyre called)

[@DanielNogueiraLeitao]

@@ItzPeechYTSoot sprites. And they’re in My Neighbor Totoro, too.

[@cabbage426]

Why has no one mentioned that the background music at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="130">2:10</a> is a callback to the one from the super volcanoes video? That's an amazing touch.

[@VibrantEyesOfficial]

Yeah they love doing that with their music motifs, that are a little more noticeable in there space themed videos from a few years ago

[@kboski]

@kurzgesagt can you make a video on the Phoenix A black hole

[@Dark_nightsky]

This is my favorite Kurzgesagt video

[@Sysel.]

The animation, music, sound design just keep getting better and better! I have no words for it, stunning!

[@Leo_one]

"Time has the nasty habit of erasing evidence" <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="529">8:49</a>

[@zpinn8242]

Time was a culprit confirmed?

[@Mint4589]

​@@zpinn8242only habitually

[@dat_fast_boi]

​@@zpinn8242 More of an accomplice, covering up the (alleged) serial killer's murders.

[@GaiaX5]

It was a slow domino effect: Tectonic plates shifting, triggering earthquakes. Those earthquakes caused one of the deadliest known volcanic eruptions in history. The K2 asteroid was the finishing blow to a once-proud ecosystem.@@dat_fast_boi

[@wilsamabdul8520]

Can you make a game like that, the graphics is so amazing

[@ag-1748]

Este canal nunca de sorprenderme ❤

[@mammamia2418]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="280">4:40</a> "Skill issue" _mockingly said the dinosaur_

[@xooq_]

jg diff

[@mammamia2418]

@@xooq_ Omg that's hilarious XD

[@tomato-sn1cx]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="432">7:12</a> “It was just a prank bro.”

[@NguyenMinh792]

April fools

[@patrickvillarruel2052]

It’s amazing to know the full background on the extinction of the Dinosaurs! 🦕

[@dennisjecool]

Could you please make a video on reviving dinosaurs and why it is (not) possible, when it would, and what we still need/what bottlenecks are?❤

[@Calloflunacy]

Never knew about the Deccan Traps, had to look up and make sure those are dormant after you mentioned them.

[@yasuke1550]

kurzgesagt never ceases to create new existential crisis for me

[@Thewayofthedodo]

I couldn’t agree more

[@constants_are_variable]

This one actually gives some good news, look how much life on earth can take and still survive

[@elmojackson6621]

You are floating on a sea of magma that is only about 35 km bellow you. Do you need to know more?

[@sillythewanderer4221]

@@elmojackson6621please; do continue….

[@of5458]

Barney cameo gonna give me more nightmares than the liquid asteroid

[@Tayvin4042]

Dinos opposite of the Deccan Traps: "Noo! Our kin on the other side of the planet! We must be the only ones left... Allow us a moment of silence for our fallen..." The approaching Asteroid: "...mine mine minemineMINEMINEMINEMINE!"

[@GGBlaster]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="169">2:49</a> that’s a humbling comparison…

[@user-ds4yc2nr1k]

damn.

[@ToxicTurquoise454]

We’re fucked.

[@slimjim2584]

Scariest is the subtext for 4:00 until 5:00 The oceans heated up only 2°C because of a mix of massive CO2 and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) cooling Yes cooling Our oceans just overheated last year in the northern summer and stand to do so again this year. Why? Because we had sulfur in ocean shipping fuel. This is emitted into the atmosphere as SO2. Which is not a normal greenhouse gas as it only stays up there a few months and then comes down as mildly acidic rain, it also REFLECTS more heat due to this. Sulphur was removed from most terrestrial fuels a few decades ago. Meanwhile in 2020, while the news was dominated by covid, the international shipping industry ordered a massive reduction in their sulphur in fuel. This was to reduce acid rain, but had the side effect of removing the cooling effect of SO2 from the massive amount of shipping between the US, the EU and China across the northern seas. SO2 was effectively a global shield to global warming, which we have only just removed. The oceans are projected to go over 2 °C of change within a decade. This is scary subtext. What is scariest is we as humanity are too stupid as a whole to do anything about it until it is too late. Too many people make too much money to do anything different until its unstoppable. Lookup what the wetbulb event will be, this will likely become reality in the equator in the next few decades. If you live there, make it a life project to leave if you can.

[@grine6966]

@@ToxicTurquoise454seems like we are speedrunning it. And if we don't see the end of the speedrun it won't be because of old age.

[@2010hyundaielantra]

well, to be fair, it's impossible for climate change to kill us all, but the problem is that at a minimum it'll kill 100 million to 2 billion and set us back decades

[@tombombaddie]

The animation and presentation just keep getting more impressive. I loved watching this. Thanks guys

[@UnrealZmeu]

What a banger of a track behind the video

[@thffkfltm]

outro song is amazing.