What Was Prehistoric Earth Like?

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00:05 - What Was Earth Like Before the Dinosaurs?
10:13 - What If You Lived in the Cambrian Period?
15:10 - What If Pangea Never Broke Apart?
19:02 - What If You Lived in the Devonian Period?
25:47 - What If Dinosaurs Never Went Extinct?
29:15 - What Was Earth Like in the Cenozoic Era?
37:20 - What If You Lived in the Paleozoic Era?
43:40 - What If the Titanoboa Lived Today?
48:35 - What If Earth Was Half Land and Half Water?
53:58 - What If the Argentinosaurus Was Alive Today?
01:00:22 - What If Giant Bugs Roamed the Earth?
01:07:47 - What If Mosasaurus Were Still Alive?
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[@williamkennedy2474]

It's also fascinating how the strongest apex predators are the least likely to survive extinction events, since they are always the most vulnerable to any collapse in the food chain. Smaller animals appear to be way more adaptable while the strongest almost never survive.

[@rodneywhitley1323]

I think it's omnivores vs. Herbivores or carnivores.

[@WVa007]

Like hunter O'Biden... Weak gene pool.

[@fredkelly6953]

If dinosaurs had of survived the asteroid we'd still be rats.

[@sheilakirby5616]

ABSOLUTELY MY FRIEND ❣️ IMAGINE THAT 🤔🤨😲🤯🤫

[@agridulce3532]

Srsly

[@Zxtx5Kim-sw5ep]

🤯🤯🤯

[@Zxtx5Kim-sw5ep]

Mind blown

[@jdan7547]

Uyiugiuyuyiyyi​@@agridulce3532

[@burgundybabyy]

Everyone saying they’re unsubscribing from an educational channel because he expressed his opinion are the same ones who call people snowflakes. Grow up. Get over it.

[@gordo1163]

God forbid people have different opinions!

[@miami444]

I mean if you claim to be an educational channel you can't openly be a biden boy and expect people to not unsubscribe. Ima still watch cuz i do what i want but those comments shouldn't shock you.

[@nicksweeney5176]

You need to grow up and get over yourself. He's just devalued himself and discredited himself; he's so degraded himself as to serve as pitch boy for a corrupt regime.

[@Siatsgaming]

Simple, leave politics out of education

[@staticshock8361]

I will still watch because I love the content, but there is no need to bring political opinion in an educational documentary.

[@Onlinewealthgroup]

19:44 when she said how long could you last? Got me feelin bro😂😂😂

[@YusufTV]

So did u say 15 sec? 🫣

[@Onlinewealthgroup]

@@YusufTV wonderful now you not only know when but how long it took to make you

[@ktkalicka]

Really cool compilation, such fascinating facts and worlds. Paints a good picture of prehistoric life.

[@buddhidev7877]

In the middle of Pangaea, rain was scattered.

[@mrdavman13]

Yep vast deserts actually sprang up because of the lack of established terrestrial plants as well as low amounts of water in the area due to the huge amount of area between the ocean and middle of the super continent. Eventually it balanced out more tho but it definitely created all sorts of weird climatological effects.

[@KevinRicoski]

When ancient people found their fossils, they thought it was a dragon... so every ancient civilization has this dragon thingy

[@wildcatrewind]

Just bc you are talking about the time period that Biden grew up in doesn't mean you have to mention him 😉

[@kayleelindley9651]

He just mentioned bidens program to aid the climate you'll be okay maybe go plant a tree

[@MacCanma]

are those scenes from walking with dinosaurus? i loved that show as a kid.

[@Gi_sketcher]

Shout to the camera who time travel to the past 😂

[@user-ts9jj7sy6e]

This guy always has nice videos on KZbin but i just wanna say keep it up 👍😊

[@DaniMetro803]

Wanting to get a tattoo that represents this channel to say thanks for teaching me so much (I'm thinking about Pangia's outline)

[@Siatsgaming]

Great video, just crazy how much we still don’t know about the history!

[@megzkirana3824]

Thanks for this knowledge ❤

[@Huginn9129]

Dimetrodon was NOT a lizard

[@indigolarsen3191]

I realise that adding captions to long videos/documentaries like this would be time consuming, but autogenerated is incredibly hard to follow along with given the inaccuracies and lack of punctuation. I’m assuming this channel could afford doing that, and that it would be greatly appreciated by deaf and hard of hearing folks (I am neither). And personally I would just love to be able to see the scientific terms spelled out, so I can do further research afterwards. I hope you would consider this, Anyways, I’m only 8 minutes into the video so far and enjoying it immensely, so thank you!😊

[@DarkHelixia]

My granddad said that they used to have a toilet at the end of the garden, no hot water and no internet - no thanks!

[@user-mm4bb7wt8u]

Your Granddad must be my age!

[@melissasemanonko5567]

Did anyone else loose audio around 45 min mark

[@barbarahiggins583]

Yup watching right now and tge audio just went out.

[@BIGatorEJ]

Yes right at the good part titanboa

[@user-mm4bb7wt8u]

mine is still out!!

[@nobodyO1]

2:45 for me.

[@emmanuelzozobrado5981]

Creatures were really huge back then.

[@RubyBoby-ne4qw]

We are all cells in a body of energy, your body has 30trillion cells, you are a universe to those 30 trillion cells. Just as how these solar systems are cells to cosmos

[@fr57ujf]

There was no terrestrial vegetation during the Cambrian.

[@user-mm4bb7wt8u]

How large were the Oceans during that time??

[@rk-pl5mk]

Very large 😂

[@Link-on5bl]

You just called where I lived a blue marble 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@yassasloan7308]

Nope. The Apollo II astronauts were the first to say that...

[@Kalicious79]

Lived? Where do you live now? Uranus?😂😂😂😂 (sorry I just had to😅😅)

[@Link-on5bl]

BRO DID I JUST READ THE PAST THEN

[@yassasloan7308]

@@Link-on5bl yep!😁

[@patrickcarnahan9512]

You're a good story teller.😂

[@kygal]

Yeah, until he started promoting Biden.

[@Drillbit993]

Are these long form vids compilations or completely new content

[@RubyBoby-ne4qw]

We should not be going to mars, we should have interstellar fortifications. Such as asteroid cannons. So what ever threat heads to earth is eliminated

[@user-fc2zo8mu1x]

No devil running the world peaceful when Adam ran things for just a little season

[@suem6004]

The earth is ever changing but we humans know exactly how to manipulate earth’s temperature: the global thermostat.

[@barbarahiggins583]

What happened to the audio at the 45min mark?

[@Ripsaw17]

There'd be no Wars because we'd all be in one nation

[@BeautyRepublicUnited]

Civil war.

[@grantx6]

Civil war has entered the chat, rewandan genocide has entered the chat

[@vulan3424]

Did Safiya do the voice from minute 19th??

[@drumlinekelly630]

A bird sized cockroach is not okay

[@fahimredwan]

Love what if videos❤❤🎉🎉

[@driii9504]

I always enjoy your videos!

[@AdrianEnriquez-dr8of]

What if the meteors that mentioned is called the visitors which is the space ship of annunaki hahahah

[@catmamameowsdewdropinn]

What did it look like pre-Pangea?

[@RubyBoby-ne4qw]

We are cells in the Milky Way, stand corrected

[@tiredsocks]

hearing Nova Scotia on the pangea bit was a nice surprise cuz i feel like the rest of canada (and the whole world tbh) sometimes forgets that we exist ;-; is creator from the maritimes too or is this just coincidence?

[@gatorbaitfishing466]

The cover photo is gorgeous .. I'd go there

[@malsomakawlni3228]

The Iceage started about 2.4 ml years ago and lasted to about 11500 years ago. So, the iceage ended about 11500 year ago and not 300 ml years ago.

[@mayrlong5039]

What if aliens drop all their sea animals in our home 😮

[@aniketnaik8054]

What If deserves more than 100 million subs.

[@randomguy0113]

I want to try pre historic drug plant substances 😊

[@FENRIS-400]

Well done, I like your content

[@meaar-uf8wh]

my too

[@akshaysharma9589]

According to the timeline of earth t rex is closer to i phone than starting of life on earth

[@QwertyQwerty-ri4if]

Philippines temperature now 45°c

[@notpegamer]

i need to know aobut the mesazoic era like ( the jurassic , triassic , and the cretaciouse ) and actually thanks for the 1 hour long of info edit : you know what is gonna happen when the ice age ends and the golden age rises the final time ?

[@mrdavman13]

We go extinct when the ice age ends.

[@tirlonburke9875]

snakes do NOT eat daily

[@davidmiller1151]

The cutest of them all bird sized cochroaches😮

[@TikiRainbows]

'The cutest of them all, cockroaches'

[@gekothenoob7544]

We wouldnt have this if one fish decided to leave the ocean😂

[@NotRizzz]

44:43 video has no audio here

[@christopherphillips8597]

Haven't learned one damned thing i didnt know 10 years or more ago on this channel. I just like paleontology. So i put up with the over and over again same thing

[@RubyBoby-ne4qw]

Don’t get me started with mining earth

[@Dumbo_Bat]

7:46 I say cynodonts looked rather more like giant weasels

[@tanbui7869]

What if we're just a combination of elements?

[@sithlordhibiscus9936]

My mom thinks a 2 in lizard is Godzilla. 😂 a cricket is mothra.

[@Jportin]

here in philippines 🇵🇭 as of march 2024.. the temperature is 37c feels like 40c. 🥵

[@tiredsocks]

still snowing in Canada 😋👍

[@mariamarroquin1663]

Fascinating!

[@leroy.jackson.4804]

Interesting 🤔 indeed.

[@burninhellfish]

at devonian you just can't breath

[@spiderkid65]

I wonder what the weather was like back when the dinosaurs were around

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

HOT!! Way more humidity. Oxygen was up to the 36% marks. We humans would’ve been miserable, if not dead!!

[@tomokaMiyazaki40]

Crazy

[@Mark-mu4pj]

Good video

[@LifeLaughLove998]

Is it just me or does the sound cut off for anyone else at 44:20

[@prototropo]

The ancestors of mammals were never "reptile-like!" That is an old, discredited idea. From our very beginning, we were distinct from reptiles--because both lineages evolved from amniotes, which had descended from amphibians, and their new their amnion allowing their eggs to survive away from water. It was shortly afterward that amniota itself branched into two lines--synapsids--our oldest ancestors, and sauropsids--the family that produced lizards, snakes, crocodiles, dinosaurs and birds. Both diverged from amniota, snd so we were no more like reptiles than reptiles were mammal-like.

[@edwardholmes3716]

I didn't hear Africa mentioned

[@kayleelindley9651]

Then you didn't watch the rest of the video ☠️

[@yanchouser7364]

Nothing has changed in evolution, one man will still eat another just for his own gain or hunger.

[@WhiskeyToro]

Children of the future watching this and if you ever come across my comment--please know that this is all just hypothetical. We will NEVER know what the past was like millions and even billions of years ago. There's literally no way we could ever know. This is all regurgitated information that is from people that have been entrusted as the smartest people in the world...just like we don't know how old the Earth actually is. But it's fun, not fact. One day, human life will cease to exist on this planet-- that is an absolute certainty. What follows... who knows? And that's what makes it all so fascinating

[@TIFFANYDlAS]

Did anyone else have it cut off at the end?

[@Guidedlight01]

It cut off after he said the Biden addministration

[@kayleelindley9651]

​@@Guidedlight01oogoo gaga

[@srijonpator3220]

Make a video on crossoptergii in late devonion period..😊

[@princebhatia09]

Looking for "cameraman comment"

[@meaar-uf8wh]

i think all in this vids i mental

[@TheGospelofKenneth]

131k views and only 200 comments is...odd to say the least 🤔

[@sgt.kitsune4615]

What if every million years a disasters happen and new life sprouts from it. It's like earth keeps resetting it cause it's bored

[@paulwilson2651]

The climate os always changing. The opening of this video says that there was a Ice age then the planet warmed well we never caused these changes and we're not causing the changes today either.

[@amaliadelrosario7448]

But if crocodile is a 🦖🦕🐊

[@stonedcamper420]

Can you pls say both metric and imperial not all of us live in canada or other places that use your measurements titrd of having to figuring it in american measurements than you

[@emjaywrites]

You don’t have to figure it out. Just Google it.

[@rainfallen7574]

Cope

[@kalebnickell1120]

Lmfao it’s not that difficult to learn them. It’s actually easier than imperial

[@debroselle8877]

Life is rough, get a helmet.

[@LawrenceMichael-fy3rk]

Yg gue mau tahu ,Semenjak Bumi Mula" ada Dan baru wujud ,Apa Jenis Animal Dan orng or tumbuhan dalam bumi tersebut ya 🤐🗺️

[@odhiamboowiyo9596]

Hold up a minute. At 16:25, as you start describing where each continent/ country would be, did you intentionally leave out Africa?! Thats some straight-up BS

[@kayleelindley9651]

Did your watch the video? 😭 like 5 minutes agate that he shows where Africa was

[@cooper7031]

Narrator is Canadian

[@TheMrFarkle]

A fine presentation for middle-school science classes.

[@mikepederson8525]

out after \-=4 min

[@Zelda_0000]

how the archeologist know that they are dinosaur??? they just dug bones 😅😅😅😅😅 they didnt know what skin that big animal has 😅😅😅😅

[@Zelda_0000]

dinosaurs are scientist's imagination for me 😅😅😅

[@AmanFike]

what is animes was in real life

[@FranklinWilson-ev9dq]

Prehistoric Days, Was Pangea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@BsaSkylark]

cant watch the video with the amount of ads . More than one hour video with ads every 5 minutes

[@CTCG17]

At what time stamp did he mention Biden?

[@jamiejones7325]

Incorrect. Terribly researched. Amongst LEAST catastrophic extinction level events. One bacteria barely survived.

[@stephanielindsey3960]

Me too 🤣🤣

[@user-jv7bh9js7b]

Titanic? 52:02

[@tjplayzlol5901]

I want trex steaks

[@sipoppy984]

Kilometers and meters mean nothing to my American brain.. 🤷‍♂️

[@rorypike1541]

All of this is speculation. I can't fathom how scientìsts get mammals from egg laying reptiles 😂😂😂 or reptiles from fish. 😂😂😂

[@yassasloan7308]

Yep, I agree... A.I. is getting loose... Wonder why all the A.I. narrators of our documentaries decided to be Canadian🤔

[@Shilohversus_Edits]

Cool

[@L0veGea822]

Malo okolokucno mjaukalo.🐱

[@shakeeranoel1952]

How do they kno these things??😅

[@BenitoFan760]

Science?

[@kayleelindley9651]

Lots of research and carbon dating and finding fossils etc.

[@karencurtice9807]

And yes I agree . you really should use the measurement system of America,. We are Americans here. Im a little tired of catering to the people who come here to be an American, but still try to change every thing to how their country does it. If they want everything to be like where they came from, maybe they should have never left,

[@tiredsocks]

calm down Donald trump

[@rainfallen7574]

Cope, seethe, mald The scientific community uses metric. Screw the imperial system Signed, an irritated reluctant American who hates the imperial system

[@UnforgivenIV]

Had trouble getting a mobile signal 2/10

[@MIND_THE_BASIC]

Where does this dinosaurs even come from?