The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World

[@alexcamacho1842]

"if mass extinction be something you wish!" _"Spongebob Squarepants!"_

[@kenrickman6697]

Who survived the apocalypse under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants!

[@lacucaracha111111]

Then junk up the oceans and flop like a fish!

[@likebot.]

Spongebob's your uncle

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

would work better for the tune if you threw the word big between the words if and mass! :)

[@noone3708]

​@@lacucaracha111111SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

[@Shantosh9550]

Apocalypse approaches... Sponges: I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm Ready!!!!

[@karansjet3823]

IIIII CANT HEAAAAAR YOUU!!!

[@davidc8543]

@@karansjet3823 OHHHHH...Who lives after an extinction under the sea?!

[@beatricetreadwell5785]

HAHAHA!!!

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

WHAT I LEARNED IN BOATING SCHOOL IS!!!

[@karansjet3823]

@@davidc8543 SPONGE AND SPONGE FRIENDS

[@1ochotnik]

"We're all going to die!" Sponge: "Skill issue"

[@Warmaker01]

[Mass Extinction Hits] Sponges: "I didn't hear no bell."

[@robertab929]

Well, not first time. Sponges survived also big extinctions in Cryogenian.

[@valivali8104]

​@@robertab929 and every other mass extinction, including Great Dying.

[@robertab929]

@@valivali8104 You are correct. We can look at them today.

[@sonfrieza]

Vertebrates: "I thought this was America!"

[@impressions9558]

Humans: hahaha you brainless creatures. Sponges: You just wait.

[@philp4684]

Ray: Of course you forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea unexplained mass sponge migration. Peter: Ray, the sponges migrated about a foot and a half!

[@MossyMozart]

@@philp4684 - I forgot about that. Thanks for the funny reminder.

[@danesorensen1775]

Imagine how much deeper the oceans would be without all the sponges.

[@rottingsun]

lmaooo that's so stupid and yet so funny.

[@Imperiused]

This comment made me giggle extremely stupidly

[@paddor]

Haha. Now get out lol

[@birdwatchingwithdrrajasaur4410]

as deep as rock bottom may be? 🤔

[@TommyEfreeti]

Stephen Wright just chuckled "Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen."

[@JayBenOh]

Could you make a video summarizing the five big mass extinction events? It would be great not only to gain perspective over the whole topic, but also to get a comparison about the causes, impact and aftermath of these events.

[@patrhiannongriffith810]

There's a great book on this, The Ends Of The Earth

[@Xidnaf]

"sponges soak up mass death like a... come on, don't make me say it." ashamed to admit i stared into space for about 30 seconds going "? don't make him say what?????" before it clicked for me

[@Laurpud]

Me too 😂

[@SreejithKSGupta]

Can you say it? I didn't get it 😅

[@SreejithKSGupta]

Sponge?

[@SchrödingersCat27]

What is it?

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Sponges: Everyone's dead, ugh, guess I gotta clean it up...😒

[@MossyMozart]

... _AGAIN!_

[@smashlee6181]

it's the after party!

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

@@smashlee6181 LOL

[@misspat7555]

Fungi: “Tell me about it! 🙄”

[@sundragon7703]

The universe will throw a lot at sponges, they will just soak it up.

[@StonedtotheBones13]

So... When life gives you lemons, get a sponge?

[@erincurley1234]

We can clean up the mess! Get some 🧼

[@primrosevale1995]

So SpongeBob really could’ve never left his house. Used Napkin, Chip, and even Penny probably would’ve wasted away before he did.

[@CoralRaeAllDay]

This is a gold comment 😂👏

[@BKStarlet08]

I mean yeah, he was filter feeding in his house too

[@dominicharvey6048]

Spongebob must have been sad when Patrick died during the mass extinction

[@studtistics2448]

Lmao

[@londonjackson8986]

@dominicharvery6048 Uh... Guys?! Should I tell him that in real life, Starfish (& Pufferfish) actually occasionally EAT Sea Sponges? Because... it ain't pretty...

[@MossyMozart]

@@londonjackson8986 - Nooooooo!

[@ericbrown1101]

​@@londonjackson8986I think we should probably leave that part out 😂

[@dragonflied3]

@@londonjackson8986 Mrs Puff and Mr Krabs too...

[@veggieboyultimate]

This makes me think that if all the other characters in SpongeBob had died, SpongeBob and his relatives would be partying like no tomorrow.

[@americanwoman6246]

Does SpongeBob have sponge relatives? I can only remember Patrick and Mr.Krabs.

[@anthonycrowley2264]

@@americanwoman6246 yeah, spongebob's parents and grandma were in a few episodes,so he does have sponge relatives

[@americanwoman6246]

@@anthonycrowley2264 😃😁

[@72ratsinatrenchcoat]

He also has a brother that is featured Ina couple episodes

[@hollytheanimalcrossingfan]

​@@americanwoman6246 He has a couple of cousins. One that was clumsy and one that wrestled with him a lot. That's not something inappropriate, I meant he used to bully SpongeBob when he was younger.

[@christopherjustice6411]

SpongeBob is eternal.

[@fish-champ]

Ah hell nah spunch bop done survived the apocka lips

[@mecahhannah]

Agreed 😂

[@destronia123]

Especially since he can reproduce by budding.

[@Goku17yen]

El esponjibop

[@TheMysticRabbit0wnzu]

I mean, spongebob has been employee of the month for 300 plus months since 2002 😂

[@gattycroc8073]

sponges, coral, and plants of prehistoric times have to be one of the most under looked parts of the worlds before use. sure, there not as entertaining as moving organisms but they do make up a major part of their environments and are important for us to understand what the past of our planet looked like.

[@Patrickballhater]

See plants coral are other things of that sort are the ones that actually construct the large scale physical environment other organisms live in. Reefs forests grassland etc.

[@robertab929]

Red algae (Rhodophyta), fungi are even more overlooked. Imagine that multicellular red algae were already 1600 Ma (millions years ago).

[@AncientWildTV]

yeah, these organisms were foundational in shaping ancient environments, influencing biodiversity, and contributing to the formation of various geological structures.

[@malkong2784]

thank yall for giving me a fun educational video every day for years, it’s helped me through a lot

[@LimeyLassen]

You may not like it, but this is peak performance. This is the ideal sponge body.

[@Seasonalginger]

Thank you for this incredible content!

[@philipswede7299]

Everytime he said spongeworld, I thought "you mean gloveworld"

[@codemonkeyslikeme]

Blehh >.< glove flavors!

[@noaccount2494]

I would not have guessed Sponges being a cornerstone species but wow

[@pobodysnerfect9175]

Everybody else: "it's the apocalypse!" Sponges: "Says you, bone-haver."

[@crisptomato9495]

“Been spending most our lives livin’ in a sponge’s paradise…”

[@Hugh.Manatee]

Filtered water once or twice, living in a sponge's paradise

[@Julian_Hopf]

When the icecaps have no ice, living in a sponge's paradise

[@ritevalier]

Spongebob is both comically and scientifically immortal

[@eaglewolffox6275]

Which makes sense considering that the show was running since 1999

[@4thdimensionalexplorer]

99? That wasn't long ago. Just a few years for sure

[@rottingsun]

It was once a no bone zone out there.

[@matthewgordon3281]

this puts a whole new spin on spongebob's chaos

[@judylearn7971]

Blake's snarky, funny delivery, makes him my favorite EONS host!

[@duhduhvesta]

Yay Blake! His voice rocks

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

Humans: oh no, a mass extinction! Sponges: first time?

[@Gaming1Doge]

Humans: "OH NO APOCOLAPSE IS APPROACHING!" Sponges: "We win these"

[@sforza209]

Should have said, “We got this”.

[@Gaming1Doge]

@@sforza209 nah, we win these

[@kevincotterell3644]

Happy days are here again....

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

“IM READY! IM READY!”

[@Manj_J]

Blake heavily implying that he's an immortal who's been around since the pre-dinosaurs eras is my new favourite thing XD

[@brucewayne000]

Awesome content, awesome!!

[@deepquake9]

Great series! Thank you.

[@Cudddlefish]

So that’s why I have those nightmares about spongebob consuming everything.

[@cranialzoo]

Always just so well written.

[@robertschnobert9090]

RIP Steve Hillenburg. He taught us so much about sponges. I had no idea they like living in pineapples! 🌈

[@unvergebeneid]

6:31 no in fact I was surprised you held back for so long!

[@Sinfully-handsome]

I am watching this while washing my dishes

[@hellz23456]

With sponge 🧽

[@krokuta3355]

Using a real dead animal oder just the sponge inspired plastic one?

[@reyonXIII]

@@hellz23456 Giving him the Sponge Treatment

[@C-Farsene_5]

So in conclusion: Spongebob feeds on the suffering of others, explains why would he keep torturing squidward and Mrs Puff

[@ccvcharger]

That oddly makes sense.

[@jobot1978]

His laugh makes more sense, too...

[@southron_d1349]

I've never watched SpongeBob so those jokes would go over my head anyway. I've noticed he's drawn as an artificial kitchen sponge rather than something shown in the video.

[@MossyMozart]

@southron_d1349 - _Spongebob Squarepants_ is not a documentary, but a fun cartoon. Even to this adult, it is hilarious and adorable. He lives in the town of "Bikini Bottom" and his best friend is a starfish. It's a whole funny watery world.

[@nooneinparticular681]

​@@MossyMozartsuccinctly summarized my friend

[@primrosevale1995]

He is an actual sea sponge.

[@MossyMozart]

All the other sea critters: "Sponges are stupid, weak, and fragile!" Sponges: "Hold my dish soap!"

[@meikahidenori]

Glad to see you back! Missed seeing you deliver awesome science!

[@mellissadalby1402]

Hi Blake, Very interesting episode!

[@ToaOfFusion]

Life: *vibing* The Ordovician Extinction: "Are ya ready, kids?"

[@GasStationBird]

Aye captain

[@slevemcdichael4481]

spongebob series finale lookin grim tbh

[@jamesraymond1158]

Great, information-packed video, as always. Nova could learn a few things from you guys.

[@matthewporter1376]

This is how science is best expressed, "what we know today, what we knew then" and have fun with it, great job pbs team 😊

[@arvantsaraihan5777]

Oh, how much I hoped to be a sponge that can watch the last days of life on Earth. Still sad that no life will survive by the time of the collision between Milky Way and Andromeda though, it must've looked so cool 😢.

[@ccvcharger]

Maybe there is hope that we will spread the seeds of life to other worlds, so that Earth’s legacy won’t die with it.

[@paszmaty]

Is that a sponge you're hiding in there? Damn!

[@hindigente]

It is weird how our whole understanding of the first mass extinction must be reassessed in light of a handful of samples containing thousand of sponges. What a discovery!

[@iVebre]

Sponges are the freakiest animal

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

mmmmm but siphonophores, though siphonophores are real, and they can hurt you

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

Colonial organisms are all kinda crazy. Same DNA, same species, but can vary wildly in shape/size, jobs done, etc

[@robertab929]

I think that water bears (Tardigrades) can be also intriguing :)

[@Jellysfrickingstuff]

I just got a dinosaur book lol, sponges have been around since the VERY early days relatively unchanged

[@GBart]

Oooooooohhhhhhh Who lives through apocalypses under the sea?

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

SpongeBob SquarePants

[@Shantosh9550]

Please do an episode on when India was an isolated island before it crashed into asia and the kinds of flora and fauna living during that period.

[@bbirda1287]

Nice!

[@samwill7259]

And they make great fry cooks

[@coeal2680]

i love the Crash Course TB episode, and would love to see John do more episodes like it

[@eileen7303]

that is so freaking cool... I now have a whole new attitude about sponges!

[@theendoftheworld9921]

I have a lot of respect for fungi and sponges and trees. Sometimes i wonder how they experience time. I mean they are alive, arent they?

[@Will-dh1qk]

So strange that sponges are animals

[@robertab929]

Why?

[@Sxcheschka]

Lifeforms like sponges and worms are my faves, so chill and vibing.

[@theodoresmith3829]

1:30 i thought this said "Balkanism" not "Volcanism" and was almost like "what did the Balkans do THIS time???"

[@MeanBeanComedy]

I promise it's not Serbia. I blame Bosnia!

[@andrewvaldez8689]

This is great, but how did the pineapple get under the sea?

[@Jurassicparkfan1025]

Long live the Sponges!!! 😂

[@51max50]

Can you feel it Mr. Krabs?

[@tombondcrispy6585]

I'm feeling like total Barnacle head!

[@Helmann9265]

Fantastic one 👏

[@Nmethyltransferase]

Meanwhile, corals be like, "Help me, mothertrucker! Help... me...:

[@NightSkyNyx]

Tabulate and rugose corals be like: 💀💀

[@MandrakeFernflower]

Soft corals are pretty tough

[@mypal1990]

"Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis."

[@garrettjohnson6738]

Thanks!

[@TheSaneHatter]

Never mind Spongebob: consider this . . . "You forget, Venkman: I was present at an undersea, unexplained, mass sponge extinction!" "Ray, the sponges survived extinction two or three times."

[@BloxfruitKatakuri461]

I would really like more long form episodes

[@pdbowman]

what a great show!

[@Binarokaro]

Do fungi play a similar role in mass extinctions? Given their role as decomposer and the environmental impact they have on ecosystems in refreshing nutrients and terraforming the soil

[@WAVE0025]

Sponges, Tardigrades, Rats, and Cockroaches, the four horsemen of thriving in mass extinctions

[@larrymccandless8723]

He's got Dad Jokes and I approve

[@OriginalCreatorSama]

I love the idea that SpongeBob sees this and goes on an episode-long adventure where he temporarily dethrones Neptune and realizes being King sucks and his grandad sponge gives some life advice about moving on and not dwelling on the victories of the past or whatever you'd tell someone who just found out their family used to be royalty. Grandsponge: Royalty??? No kiddo the royal sponges are long gone. We've always been a family of average sponges.

[@CuteCuteJames]

I guess the real treasure is the fronds we made along the way.

[@liamflynn1120]

Stephen Hillenberg would've loved this 🥺

[@ignaciobarilignaquy8111]

Been spendin most their lives Livin' in a regional sponge paradise

[@internalizedhappyness9774]

SpongeBob: Hi SpongeBob! SpongeBob to SpongeBob: Hi SpongeBob! SpongeBob: Hi SpongeBob! Essentially The Ordovician Period…

[@Balthazare69]

SpongeBob would be proud & while Patrick ate everything 😂😂😂

[@baraskparas9559]

Pikaia and Haikouicthys derived chordate species from the Cambrian period must have survived this mass extinction and the Permian to give us our vertebrate ancestors. Eloquent and informative presentation as always with enough humour to make it entertaining as well. From Chemistry to Life on Earth by Austin Macauley Publishers publication date 21/06/24

[@raphaelgarcia9576]

(Shaking cane made of sponge) Oh I remember when all was sponges, those were the days.

[@amirmoradi9595]

4:12 the origins of the Apple home pod

[@drumzone5]

Sponges seem to be the fungi of the ocean! Are they related at all???

[@AndrewTBP]

No more or less than all animals are related to all fungi. The fungi and the animals have a common ancestor. Sponges are animals, they are more closely related to you than to any fungi.

[@mal2ksc]

Imagine how much deeper the ocean would be if it wasn't for all the sponges... 🤣

[@raphaelgarcia9576]

Sponge World! Sponge World! Party time, excellent! 🎸🎶🎵

[@acuddlyheadcrab]

Yay more sponge content!

[@TiggerIsMyCat]

Well this makes sense, since you already did an episode on how sponges kept animal life going through Snowball Earth

[@robertab929]

And big extinctions were also in Cryogenian (Slashball/Snowball Earth), he should mention about that.

[@random_stylzz]

Favourite youtube channel frfr

[@dianewallace6064]

PBS Eons teaches me of the future of Earth. Thank you.

[@jaalsburg]

"Life Finds a Way" is what I was thinking. Oh Malcolm, we will never forget you.

[@dantherpghero2885]

I remember Sponge World. There were some weird stores in the mall back in the 90's.

[@dsracoon]

Ah yes reminded me of that song "We've been standing most our lives, living in a sponge world's paradise"

[@thatotherted]

Very cleanly produced.

[@a2pabmb2]

So, when there's a mass extinction event do we find a corresponding layer/group of layers of strata with significantly higher fossil counts/densities than average or does it not work that way?

[@Jobobn1998]

I'm honestly surprised there's not more spongivore animals out there, given that sponges are clearly an apocalypse-resistant food source. But, then again, the time scales these mass extinctions occur on are probably too slow and spread out to really push that as a sustained predation strategy.

[@spindash64]

From what i understand, there's not really much TO eat in a sea sponge

[@pandoraeeris7860]

Sounds like a clean time to be alive!

[@leechild4655]

The grim reaper always overlooks sponges cause they already look dead.

[@PratikMukherjee]

Ironic that, after a mass extinction, life recovers by sponging off sponges!

[@jmh8817]

In hindsight it makes perfect sense that if they thrived after the first one, they would also thrive after the subsequent events as well. Keep on keepin' on, sponges. We're countin' on y'all.

[@captsorghum]

Hmmm, I guess natural selection would tend to favor the ability to survive mass extinctions.

[@jmh8817]

right? i really should have seen it coming sooner

[@Andreas_42]

What is that, sponges in my path? I shall keep them and build my castle with them!