The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

[@carlymoore2182]

I have been DEVOURING these videos like they are going extinct! Lol I grew up not being allowed to "believe" in evolution and basically everything that is talked about in these videos, but now I feel like I am rediscovering the whole world again! I love how there is so much info packed into relatively short "episodes" and the info provided is easily understandable for us common folks who are craving the learning experience but don't have a degree in the field. You all are amazing for creating these fascinating glimpses into our past and you can count on me to watch EVERY episode! THANK YOU EONS STAFF!!!

[@Drahko12]

I know is awesome. From my end is that sadly my school did not teach me any of this that much or the teachers didn’t make it interesting so is cool this channel exists

[@robfranklin6412]

My discovery of these videos all started with a Starscream video by Lindsey Ellis.

[@amaliabarefoot8931]

wow .. not many people would be excited to learn, you go girl (or boy)

[@oliviajohnson7305]

I completely understand how you feel - I also grew up in an environment where I was told that evolution and whole chunks of science was a lie. Enjoy these videos!

[@TheKaileylusby]

@@Drahko12 if your teacher showed you this video in class you probably still wouldn't have found it interesting

[@thebahooplamaster]

4:49 Did I just hear Bill Wurtz...?

[@enlightedenlightment1065]

yes

[@TheRampagingFrodo]

Amazing!

[@mirthfulmiasma]

no it was something better

[@maliaisboring]

It's the caaammbrian explosionn

[@Petepeatpeet]

my thoughts exactly

[@SeanAsgari]

it's the Cambrian Explosion

[@insertinsulthere920]

Sean Asgari literally sat scrolling through the comments to see if anyone mentioned it

[@RendraKusuma]

so funny they referenced it lmao

[@billy6044]

use ctrl+f

[@StoutShako]

I half expected airhorns.

[@TheRotundRider]

r/unexpectedbillwurtz

[@Deeplycloseted435]

I really want to thank PBS for this channel. I like many of them, especially Space Time. However, “It’s Okay To Be Smart” has become a ritual viewing with my 8 year old daughter. You have to know that when I was a kid, I would have KILLED to have had access to these videos to learn from. I used to set the VCR to record shows and would rewatch them over and over again. Now my daughter is getting into dinosaurs and learning about Earth History on this channel has been great for her. They get VERY LITTLE of this information in school. This channel is a great resource for kids and adults alike. We usually watch one video, sometimes two at bedtime. Reading books and stories is also great, but watching her mind wonder as she learns about the amazing things that have happened in her world, is just great! My little scientist may choose to follow in her father’s footsteps, maybe not, but that’s her choice. Still, its great that we can share these videos together, and talk about the amazing people who figured all of this stuff out.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Wow, this is really heartwarming to read, you're such a great family, bless you!)

[@laurajames6739]

i dislike name its pretty insensitive to constipated people. Next time think about what you say before you say it. Lots of love laura xx

[@epauletshark3793]

As soon as I get stable footing in my life, I learn the ground is moving.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

lol

[@Rhiannonganon]

Aww bless you Mr epaulet shark (or miss!)

[@freshysqueeze]

You guys put so much work into these videos even though you don't get a lot of views. I love these videos so much and they definitely deserve more attention for how amazing they are. :)

[@brunosouza3326]

The channel is fairly new, i'm sure they'll be getting millions of views soon enough.

[@EmmaDilemma039]

My thoughts exactly. There's lots of click bait videos about prehistoric creatures and time periods, but these videos are the best I've found so far.

[@jonathanclark5240]

I think they also get seen on the PBS and their subsidiary sites, like OPB. But yes! This info should be common knowledge--so glad it's easily available now.

[@GetMeThere1]

I agree. This is exactly the stuff I want to have out there: the opportunity to see and learn a lot in a short period.

[@therighteousmoose5036]

Yeah this channel is awesome

[@ohno4458]

Its the "♪♪♪Cambrian explosion♪♪♪"

[@marghiecanas9744]

bill wurtz reference OMG

[@buzz10014]

i thought it was the channel oversimplified

[@applemauzel]

@Zimmit's FunHouse Adventure It won't be that cheery when you have that explosion after a really spicy burrito~

[@applemauzel]

@Zimmit's FunHouse Adventure Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well~

[@talhajawed848]

Moosd

[@l0lLorenzol0l]

Fun fact: H. P. Lovecraft heard of the Continental Drift theory and used it in his stories, because he loved the concept of entire continents being lost to time. He ended up accidentaly future proofing his tales.

[@TheVirtualObserver]

Love it! H.P. Lovecraft truly was a master of his craft. :’)

[@Mona-kg6hy]

Knowing HP, he probably thought it was terrifying and was like "yeah I have to write about this" lmao

[@juanausensi499]

He was very interested in the science of his time. You can tell he was also keeping up with the new advances in physics and maths reading "The dreams in the Witch-House", where he mentions Einstein and Minkowski by name, among others, and from these concepts he extracted one of his favorite descriptions for eldritch things: 'non-euclidian'.

[@JayStorm199]

@@juanausensi499 didn't he think air conditioners were weird?

[@juanausensi499]

@@JayStorm199 He didn't like cold air currents. At all. That's probably the reason. He wrote a history about this phobia, 'Cool Air'.

[@AlexWalkerSmith]

I’m so proud of Bill Wurtz for sparking an interest in the history of our planet. It looks like Eons has embraced it as well! Bill gave the Cambrian Explosion a jingle that has shoved the term and concept into the category of “common knowledge”. :’)

[@hollowvoices1268]

Nobody: Earth: "THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM."

[@DrReginaldFinleySr]

It's over 4.5 billion!!!!!

[@twistedtachyon5877]

Would that be "charred by an expanding sun" or "cast adrift in space", then?

[@GooberThe4th]

It’s final form is a dying black hole

[@autismman6360]

@Tazzy World No one asked

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Lmao

[@introspection461]

Well I was a little surprised. I thought Pangea was the first super continent. Could you imagine a 1st grade class learning about tectonics and the teacher says "the first super continent is Pangea" and then a kid stands up and sais " actually several came before Pangea, one of the earliest being kenorland which formed at the end of the archean era. It's an understandable mistake this was a fairly recent discovery and our text books are only updated every few decades or so😂"

[@scaper8]

Speaking from personal experience, the kid will probably be sent to the principal's office. One only hope that the kid's parents are supporting enough of actual learning to back them up and encourage their kid to being in the research and evidence and fight the ignorance as mine were.

[@introspection461]

It would depend on how open the teachers is to new information, and how respectful the tone of the child is. If you don't mind me asking, what is it that you corrected a teacher about?

[@puncheex2]

Actually Kenorland isn't quite the ealiest either. Or at least that's suspected.

[@introspection461]

puncheex2 so, is it at least the earliest that is confirmed?

[@introspection461]

Well if I Remember correctly, my teacher definitely told me it was the first super continent, though I may be wrong, in any case I will continue to correct my knowledge, and attempt to remove as many inaccuracies as possible. You also bring up a good point, we often forget to question the knowledge we where given, which leads to incorrect information, this being a good example.

[@stephenwurz]

Eons is such an amazing series. Thanks to everyone whose hard work goes in to creating it. (I dig the Bill Wurtz reference, by the way!)

[@mustardsfire22]

Eons is so amazing. Keep doing what you're doing.

[@robinchesterfield42]

"...then you also have to understand how HERE got here!" I love that line. :)

[@Cipher71]

4:47 This guy really just referenced Bill Wurtz lmao

[@naysebtc]

They’ve done it a couple times. Real recognise real!

[@woolycooly9595]

hehe i noticed

[@catherinephelan2565]

I nearly spat out my water

[@KleinesHendl]

I realize I'm not the only one always singing "the caaambrian explosion" 😁

[@holnrew]

"Euramerica" No YOU'RE America

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

Sounds like tag.

[@appleslover]

Russia: *IT'S **_OUR_** AMERICA*

[@newkat3731]

everybody gonna be america.

[@tametabby]

I thought I was lesbian????

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Lmao

[@Banditomojado]

Geologist here! Be careful using continental drift when you really mean plate tectonics. The original theory of continental drift was pretty much what it sounds like. The continents just drifting around like ducks on a pond. But plate tectonics takes into account convergent and divergent boundaries as well as things like transform faults, which you covered. Those are the true areas of movement and change. My structural geology professor made sure to correct us when we didn’t use plate tectonics. Just trying to help clarify! Also, you should do something on the history of grass. We look around today and see it everywhere and think that it has always been around. That’s not the case!

[@eons]

Hi David. We made a point (I think) of only using continental drift in the context of Wegener's theory, because that's what he proposed. Plate Tectonics is the theory about the mechanism behind it, which came later. But you're right, they're often mistakenly conflated. So thanks for sharing your expertise! (BdeP)

[@Vulcano7965]

Alfred Wegener probably would have laughed at you if one would say to him, the crust gets submerged into earths interior and massive mountain ranges divide the oceans. It is mind blowing to know, that we had no proof of this until the 60s.

[@duhduhvesta]

David Hahn I second the video on grass

[@mandira_draws]

Ahh you remind me of studying this in uni.

[@Luke-xx1ri]

Yes I like smoking grass too🤣 Due to the meat trade grass has become vast.its only going to get worse.there are videos of this on KZbin use key words to find🤙

[@fingernailclipper2152]

I guess the plate tectonic theory was “ground breaking”

[@angieduncan8417]

Ba dum tssss

[@Classica_1750]

:clap: :clap: and that's a fact

[@joerionis5902]

This needs more likes

[@kevinhurd4258]

Give that man the clap!

[@justanotherhomosapian5101]

Omg🤣

[@grizmizzle]

This channel is so good. It's become the way I start every work day over breakfast! It's good to recognise that vastness of our world and the depths of time we owe our lives to over toast. I would really appreciate an episode covering a (mostly) complete rundown of human's evolutionary ancestory including LUCA, Cynodonts, and all the rest. I want to know who to be particularly grateful to. Thank you for your beautiful work!

[@Patrick_The_Pure]

7:40 Goodbye South Europe, we'll always remember your food.

[@nodeberiaestaraqui93]

@[BosS] HITMAN 20 Not really, It's bound to be hit by Africa and form a giant mountain range in the future

[@mysteepulcine2510]

Wow I didn't know about supercontinents before Pangaea. So cool. And the pacing was much better this time. Thanks!

[@kindlin]

I had always wondered about this. As pangea was only ~200mya, what happened in the other 4 billion years? I guess all this started going down around 2.5bya ago tho. This was a fascinating video.

[@uTubeMeltsYourBrain]

Pacing can maybe be difficult when you’re trying to summarize billions of years in under ten minutes

[@notlikely4468]

Well to be fair.... If you're studying the continents based on BIOLOGY not geology (Fossil evidence) Then Pangea would be your start Everything before that was really just a rock surrounded by pretty much dead ocean

[@nachodorito6955]

Unfortunately what he says in the end that humans will diverse doesn’t have a strong point to us because we can move by water, land and air. Even a mass extinction event wouldn’t because we’re to adaptive and our brains are fragile but highly advanced. If we picked apart “races” and said culture can change we all eat of the same sources through trade with other Homo sapiens. We all have the same bone structures and move a lot compared to other species of hominids in the past. The color of our skin is similar to how different dog breeds have different colors of fur. There not adaptations towards climate change lol. I’m the next million years we would change integrity but our appearance would be mostly tan with chocolate or blonde hair colors and brown eyes being the dominant trait aside from blue eyes. So really everyone going to look Asian and African with underlining features of an Caucasian.

[@cz2301]

@@uTubeMeltsYourBrain i think they speed up their videos, to make them fit the 10’ mark. I always set the speed to 0.75 when watching Eons’ videos. It takes me time to absorb the contents. It’s a science channel, not a frigging horse race, damn it lol

[@karenpivaral]

Oh my... I really love, enjoy and every single word that exists to describe how inspiring is this channel. It's like watching Interstellar

[@mulllhausen]

the music on this one reminded me of interstellar too

[@sawspitfire422]

So glad I subscribed, Its given me a whole new interest I never thought would suit me, but man is it interesting!

[@wonderfulfable]

Towards the end of the video when Blake was explaining the future of Earth tectonics, that is when the "Interstellar" music crept in. It just feels so surreal.

[@theawecabinet]

It's very inspiring, but unfortunately the theory of plate tectonics is incorrect. Continental plates do not slide about and crash into each other. That is ridiculous, they are very big and rooted in the mantle, like giant concrete paving slabs sitting on a bed of clay. Paving slabs do not slide about and crash into each other do they!

[@Meganopteryx]

It's the music.

[@nataliagonzalez1698]

Eons is my favorite PBS show

[@Trex-or6cd]

same I think my second favorite is pbs spacetime. But paleontology is my favorite subject so this show is my favorite.

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

Spacetime > Infinite Series > Eons but still pretty awesome

[@vampyricon7026]

Spacetime is my favorite but Eons is a close second.

[@SophiaAstatine]

Don't forget the common ancestor of them all. Idea Channel.

[@symbolotali]

RIP wegener, they weren't ready for the truth u were spitting 😔✊

[@sarwaankk]

Man was genius

[@maxfochtmann9576]

He vanished during a flight over greenland.

[@TenThumbsProductions]

Kenorland would be a sweet band name.

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

TenThumbs Productions ... I was into Kenorland before it was cool. The Earth... before the Earth was cool from the first major ice age.

[@robinchesterfield42]

As would Laramidia.

[@arthurdent6828]

There was a band in Australia named Pangaea. Not sure if any of the other super continents have been done. I have played with the idea of using Sahul as a band name. That's one of the technical names for the continent of Australia incorporating Papua, which hardly anyone seems to know about. Can I play bass in Kenorland?

[@noliyoshida7486]

Or a theme park for Knorr

[@SkywalkerSamadhi]

Then we would have two bands sharing names with ancient Earth terms.. the first being Coheed and Cambria of course!! The most underrated band of the 21st Century.

[@elcabbage2306]

Was the way he said Cambrian a reference to that beautiful Bill Wurtz video?

[@SophiaAstatine]

I think it was. And it made me so happy.

[@venomissocute3448]

Yes

[@vampyricon7026]

+

[@wingusmcdingus8115]

Gabe Grothaus yes

[@JPFanBoy2]

Not the first time they've referenced it either.

[@noah480]

4:49 Was that a Bill Wurtz reference?!?

[@tubebrocoli]

soap

[@pedrolmlkzk]

HELL YEAH

[@jairiske]

Aaaaww yeah

[@nataliagonzalez1698]

They could do without it. I prefer it the way it is.

[@dontask2421]

It was horrible.

[@Taneth]

Gotta love how when referring to the dinosaur extinction, you now have to specify non-avian dinosaurs. I have pet dinosaurs. I ate dinosaur for lunch.

[@remliqa]

"I have pet dinosaurs. I ate dinosaur for lunch." Hopefully those two aren't the same.

[@DanielHarveyDyer]

I was literally eating a dinosaur sandwich while watching this video. On a related note, my honest and non-trolling top three dinosaurs are 1) Stegosaurus 2) Triceratops 3) Penguin

[@TheOneWhoMightBe]

@@DanielHarveyDyer Budgerigar, Kookaburra, Peregrine Falcon. :)

[@gr8oone007]

You don't really have to, but scientists enjoy being smug about things.

[@mandira_draws]

After watching a few of their videos on dinosaurs I kept referring to the chicken at home as dinosaurs for a few days. XD

[@matthewbernobich9413]

"the notion was so outlandish..." you guys crack me up

[@loganlawson1766]

PBS eons - thankyou very much for allowing me to fInd you!! Absolutely love your channel, you deserve to be way bigger then this, which I have no doubt you will!. I just sent this video to everyone in my contacts and told them to subscribe. I hope it helps!!! Much love❤️🙏🏼🍄

[@kjlk59]

words can not describe how amazing this channel is like oh my god you guys make me feel like a child again when i used to feel all giddly and excited to learn about the history of the earth, much love from a lone guy in Canada

[@jivejunior8753]

Natural history is often taught as if it were a progression toward humanity. As soon as eukaryotes, then fish, then tetrapods, then mammals evolve, the focus leaves the rest of life forever, only to focus on this small branch of life's tree. So far, this show has gone against that convention, and I hope it will never fall to that level again.

[@kaizokujimbei143]

I believe it is called anthropocentrism.

[@simonmasters3295]

I'm not sure. The new Geology with its emphasis on Biology (or vice-versa) is also a Natural History taught from a perspective that life appears to bring more and more "earth abundant" elements into play as life adapts to it's habitat. O², N, K, Mg, Ca, Fe, Mo..

[@forreal7403]

One of my proudest subscriptions

[@marvelous1358]

I love this channel.

[@ThelBosch]

Big love for Blake. He’s my favorite! He’s just so fun to listen to! Thanks for all the great videos, Eons, and especially to Blake for being such an awesome presenter!

[@ammonite400]

I’m obsessed with your videos, and I usually watch so many of them on specific topics that I don’t really have any idea of the whole timeline of history. Really helpful for me to get a bigger picture!! Thanks for all your amazing work Pbs!

[@moldytaters4190]

This stuff is just so darn interesting!

[@cheaterman49]

Loved this episode! Blake's voice and narration are awesome, and paleogeography sounds like the forgotten child of natural history :-)

[@SophiaAstatine]

Blake has been apart of SciShow and Crashcourse for so long. All these years and I had no idea how amazing a host he was.

[@katipunan4212]

or the middle child who went to college before human history was born

[@azdgariarada]

Have you done a video yet on dating methods? I'd love to see a general explanation of how geologists can pick up a rock and say "this rock is this old, or that rock is that old". Which methods work for various ages? What are the effective ranges and limitations of differing methods?

[@Wingedshadowwolf]

azdgariarada I'd like a video on this as well!

[@azdgariarada]

I hear they use Bouldr

[@hamstsorkxxor]

Geologists do date a lot, but many of them prefer steady, long relationships. Which is not very surprising, as they are generally very down to earth, and don't take gneiss things for granite. They are also accepting of faults, and when schist happens they will be there for you. If you think that sounds boring, be assured that they do know how to make the bedrock! They do throw around a few cheesy pick up lines when dating, though. Had one geologist tell me that if I'd follow her home, I'd be cummingtonite:)

[@Vulcano7965]

U238/Pb206 and U235/Pb207 should be fairly known. Those are used for billions of years since the half life of U238 is ~4.5Ga (U235 ~0.7Ga). Other dating system being used are (depending of the type of rock/mineral you use, because not every element is abundant in every mineral) Sm147/Nd143, Lu176/Hf176 (in Ca2+ rich minerals like feldspars) and Sr87/Rb87. The whole procedure might be a little complicated to comprehend when fleshed out tho. Fun Fact: We know the age of the earth not from zircons from earth (the oldest are merely ~4.2Ga), but from the U238/Pb206 Ratios in Chondrites (undifferentiated meteorites) which are to be belived the first solid preticipations of the inner solar system. So when you say: the earth is 4.567Ga old, you really mean: the first rocks that will form planet earth in a million years or so existed at that time. Earth was just a Pebble.

[@dundee6402]

azdgariarada Search "Carbon dating" up

[@alexross5714]

Finally, an episode that covers, literally, “eons” in the space of a few short minutes.

[@xway2]

I love this. I would absolutely watch like an hour long documentary going into even more detail about this. It's really interesting to see what sort of life existed at the time of these various continents, it puts it both the geology and the biology into perspective in a much better way than just saying something existed 400 million years ago or whatever.

[@binky2819]

Please do a video on the pseudosuchians! The sometimes forgotten cousins of dinosaurs and pterosaurs that also evolved into huge and terrifying forms.

[@somedude140]

I really want to see them talk about armadillosuchus.

[@electrichanoi7244]

@@somedude140 I wanna know about the armoreddildo

[@BaggiBoi]

The six dislikes are from flat-earthers

[@wj9855]

Haha! Nice one

[@jamesathersmith2191]

Most likely

[@jasonpyre8572]

It's funny because of how plausible that actually is

[@sogerc1]

I was gonna say that the 74 dislikes came from religious people 'cause they think Earth was created by God or something.

[@andreblanchard8372]

Could just be people who think humans should not sound like chipmunks.

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

The land positions relative to the poles and equator were a mind-blowing concept. I could watch an entire series on the continents!

[@arijitkundu5577]

One of the most wonderful videos from Eons. Many , many, many thanks to all the workers ( in all capacities) of Eons.

[@fr4me.01]

Thank you guys for your work, your vids are really chill to watch in the background.

[@mangaluver1231]

Paleogeography is one of my all time favorite subjects; I'm so glad you guys made a video on this!!

[@Soraviel]

It makes a lot of sense, because whenever earth changes, the living creatures that live on it also change along side it

[@JoeARedHawk275]

Moses Jonson Yes, the study of it is known as biogeography and is a fact that supports evolution and natural selection

[@Kinarr.]

They assume continental drift is a proven theory. But there is a newer explanation that this video is unaware of, but also answers the same clues. This theory is that continents did not drift, but that the world grew, splitting the continents apart, instead !

[@JoeARedHawk275]

Mark Robins Can I see the article or source?

[@katipunan4212]

@@Kinarr. you lost me at "unaware"

[@QUIRK1019]

Love Blake (and Kallie and Hank), love Eons, love the Bill Wurtz reference. Keep up the great work!

[@mysticoversoul]

Thank you for your very informative educational videos. Not only do they inform, they correct misinformation or outdated knowledge that may have been acquired earlier over time. I appreciate the time and efforts you bring to your video projects. More power to your organization.

[@rontubbs4707]

Thanks!

[@ngochainguyenvan5942]

THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION

[@Pellsk]

I would love to learn more about the evolution of things like eyes, teeth, hearing. I find it very interesting! ! Love this show!

[@CCumva]

Everytime Eons was referencing continental movement animation I thought: "Damn, I really want the whole episode on continental movement and tectonics". And here we are.

[@latronqui]

I've just discovered this channel. How did I live for so long without it!

[@ijaH000]

Great job running these channels! You do a huge service to humanity.

[@perrysanders2899]

Hello. Love these videos. Can you guys do the evolution of mammals and reptiles from therapsids please

[@gemmatweedy7585]

Also, could you do a video about the history of Australia and New Zealand. I find both continents (Yes, New Zealand is a continent) so fascinating with it's prehistoric birds, penguins and the fact that New Zealand was once completely submerged at one point.

[@TheDevian]

You could check out Aron Ra's series, The Systematic Classification of life, he is working on it. kzbin.info/aero/PLXJ4dsU0oGMLnubJLPuw0dzD0AvAHAotW

[@lewismassie]

4:48 That Bill Wurtz reference tho

[@unoriginalusernameno999]

Great content! I used to read Encyclopedias as a kid! They were so cool! Now this. This is much much more effective in teaching! Keep it up mate!

[@ramondanas7566]

One of the best youtube channels available today. I appreciate all the work guys! Keep it up

[@regular-joe]

The pace of presentation (and content, of course!) is what brings many of us here, and keeps us engrossed, like the Crash Courses and related series. Please don't slow down the pace - others can adjust the speed down as they like, to where they're comfortable.

[@natemars9258]

Thanks for slowing down a bit Blake. Still pretty rapid fire but much easier to follow.

[@cardinal8200]

4:50 was... was that a history of the entire world reference, that’s awesome

[@liamflannery3910]

I love the “history of the entire world, I guess” reference

[@Catpanl]

Excellent presentation and information. EONS is the top 1 percent of scientific and educational information available on social media.

[@timvdhorst2398]

Brilliant Series !!!!! Thank you guys/girls for your hardwork and dedication. Super informative and interesting!

[@PinkChucky15]

I’m really enjoying this series :-)

[@wj9855]

More supercontinents wow

[@ObjectsInMotion]

Can't tell if this is a comment or a request.

[@NovaGirl8]

@@ObjectsInMotion The answer is yes

[@joeywall4657]

So far away -- so long ago. So terribly desolate and alien to me. I feel great despair when I see our world so many eons ago. How I love life here in the late Cenozoic.

[@sion8]

*+*

[@LimeyLassen]

It wouldn't be lonely if you brought a friend

[@joeywall4657]

(: thank you -- you are right

[@brenmoyer4896]

I feel like this is a form of time travel!! It's so exciting, I literally shouted, "yes!!" When you strated talking about the future movement of the continents! I would love to see how life may have changed on earth if humans had never evolved.

[@scottlyons8130]

I really love your channel. After some thought, it came to me that at its bases everything you cover has one thing in common; it is stone. From continents to fossils. From the beginning of all to Paleolithic. You guys totally rock....

[@stevenbaumann8692]

Rifts can also die. Like the mid-continental rift (about during Rodina). I’m glad you brought up Kenorland! The Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic is my bag. I’m kind of upset you didn’t mention Wilson Cycles.

[@MAGA2024GODBLESSTRUMP]

Steven Baumann h

[@ahegaochan2675]

Hi ! I am from Russia. Rodinia -Rodina (Родина-motherland) . Translated from Russian

[@lalezzy__]

4:48 gonna use that as a ringtone.

[@pesti_ja1]

Thanks for these. How about one on the evolution of spiders? You already said they evolved from sea scorpions and were amongst the first animals to colonize the land but there's gotta be a lot of interesting stuff between then and now. : )

[@brendarua01]

This is a wonderful production. The graphics really help support the really nice presentation. Plate tectonics and continental drift have had a big unifying effect in explaining geologic phenomenon. Just one example is the distribution of life across the older continents that we see via paleontology. Thanks for sharing!

[@KatherineSundgren]

These videos are super awesome. They're bite-sized and really capture my attention! I feel like I'm learning more with this channel than I retain from any science course I've taken.

[@andriypredmyrskyy7791]

Bill Wurtz reference. This marks you as the world's premiere edutainment channel.

[@shubh.bapi_9423]

3:58 When North India is in south and South India in the north.😂

[@nab-rk4ob]

That was fascinating. Thanks!

[@CCumva]

My proudest subscription so far! For some strange reason I enjoy Blake's videos the most. Is it a coincidence or different hosts specialize/prefer and pick different topics ("loving high level things", huh)?

[@RebeccaFrailey]

When he tried to do the "Cambrian Explosion" jingle from "history of the entire world I guess", I just about died. 😂😂😂

[@kirbyarmstrong9174]

What I really want to see is about an eight hour movie that shows the evolution of the Earth from beginning to about 5,000 years ago. When I say beginning I mean about 1 million years before life started. With images telling about continental drift and the evolution of life.

[@harrisonj.3615]

An 8 hours well spent

[@commonsense3921]

Sounds more like a documentary.

[@mattiasselin4955]

5:23 No, YOU'RE America! >:-(

[@sion8]

?

[@mattiasselin4955]

sion8 Euramerica == you're america :P

[@sion8]

+Mattias Selin Yeah I got it after watching the part you pointed out.

[@analisaacosta974]

😂

[@bradyonyx174]

Talk about strange fish from the Ordovician please!

[@Eltuine]

Man, these videos are so cool. I can't believe that I didn't find this channel until yesterday!

[@jacksmith3189]

Excellent video Thanks

[@thecloudwyrm7966]

I kinda wanna go back in time and just yell at everyone for being mean to Alfred.

[@Biskawow]

Pbs eons is the best channel ever! But...talk slower, ok?

[@SoleaGalilei]

Seriously. I have to set the speed to .75 just to understand this guy. The videos are great otherwise, just slow down a little, it's not a race!

[@regular-joe]

Many come here from Crash Course, and enjoy them because of the speed. KZbin lets you slow the speed down, without sacrificing audio quality.

[@acercampbell4124]

What is the first pig species and how did it live

[@Soraviel]

Interesting

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

The first pig was the A-10 Warthog. It roamed the vast oil fields of the Middle East in the Oligocene.

[@miasmom1920]

This is fantastic! Just what I was looking for. Thank you!

[@Sacha199205]

I love digging in your sources after each video so thanks for sharing them ! Your serious work is very appreciated, and I hope this playlist goes on

[@lncerante]

Please do "largest dinosaurs" and more human evolution!

[@RuffinItAB]

History of everything reference lol

[@sellers737]

I hope I don't break some unspoken rule by putting a link in the comments but if you guys wanna know more about Earth's geography here is an interactive map you can play with that shows where modern borders and cities were located over Earth's history: media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/earthviewer_web/earthviewer.html

[@thelaughingtiger146]

Great information from a trusted source. Thank you

[@melissarainchild]

Your channel is an inspiration, thank you for being here...

[@venomissocute3448]

Just finished learning about this for 3 weeks in science. This was easier.

[@sent4dc]

Wow, all those mass extinctions make so much more sense when they are coupled with the continental drift. PS. So it's pretty much volcanism and an occasional asteroid strike or two that can wipe us out, hah? Request: Guys, can you research that proposed asteroid strike in Antarctica that could be the cause of the mantle plume in Siberia that caused the mass extinction 250mya? (The antipodal impact that is also later linked to creation of the hot-spot that gave us Hawaiian islands.)

[@zarasha8220]

sent4dc if memory serves, I think at least one of the biggest extinction events was caused by continental drift itself, when it shut down the primary oceanic current (I may be completely wrong due to misremembering and/or misunderstanding what I saw in a documentary from years ago)

[@reelreflections-us]

@@zarasha8220 You are correct - you are referring to a continental configuration that led to a "snowball" earth.

[@antaresharrison8269]

I'm grateful that I got away from the religious culture that wouldn't let me learn this.

[@naseemakhtar2736]

Thankyou for helping me to pass my geography exam

[@deepgardening]

I have watched this scientific revolution happening since I was 13 and read my dad's Scientific American magazine article about the mid-Atlantic ridge and all. I've traveled in the Rift Valley of Africa and flown over the head of the Gulf of California where a transform fault is moving, and had the head of Vertebrate Paleontology Preparation at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology show me fossil reptilesr of the same species from Texas, Argentina and South Africa, which he had collected. I've grown related bamboos from Chile, South Africa and SW China and seen how similar they are to each other. This has been one of the great revolutions in science, and it has been so cool to have lived in the middle of it, and this viddy is the best exposition I've seen. Thumbs Up!