What If Giant Bugs Roamed the Earth?

Giant bugs are now roaming the Earth. If these behemoths existed, would humanity become bug food? How could a bird save your life? And why would Grandma’s jewelry come in handy? How strong is their chitin? Can you pierce through their exoskeleton?
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00:00 What If Giant Bugs Roamed the Earth?
00:41 Insects of the past
01:56 Would humans become nocturnal?
04:19 Could climate change kill the bugs again?
04:38 How would we fight back?
06:13 How could you stop a wasp attack?
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[@aidenracer48nation67]

Just woke up and once again great content 👍🏻

[@Colbert85]

And here I'm going to sleep..(+5:30gmt)

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Thank you, we appreciate your support!

[@Captain_pirate584]

Kill me if that happens

[@kadendookie178]

If Giant bugs roamed the Earth, giant bug spray cans would too 💀

[@despicableminion3259]

Yes

[@ProGamer_69420]

sheesh

[@UCHIHAMADARA-ss8tr]

Wtff😂😂😂

[@chad807]

That spray could easily kill humans too💀

[@despicableminion3259]

@@chad807 yes gigachad

[@GauravGupta-zq3hx]

0:48 "Just step into the What If time machine" *Gets obliterated*

[@dodo2829]

No, *Discombobulated*

[@nava9561]

He got thanos snapped

[@noobplayz4720]

"If Mantis were bigger than human , human can't lay one attack" ~ BAKI Hanma

[@soumi1984]

If mantis spiders were a quarter of human size, we wouldn't be as populated as we are

[@ProGamer_69420]

mantises will be deadly but not as deadly as a gun

[@hughjanus2781]

@@ProGamer_69420 You would need belt fead machine guns Or assault rifle with armor piercing rounds

[@ProGamer_69420]

@@hughjanus2781 just use mustard gas, that worked out for the germans in ww1

[@SnowConeYT]

Welp i would’ve died of a heart attack cuz ill be freaking afraid of giant bugs lol Edit 1: thanks for 85 likes lol

[@jaredpatterson1701]

Would be like granny at the beginning of Ratatouille with a shot gun blasting everything in sight!

[@baljovan]

Youryouryouryout but you still your

[@PhilipBarron]

So would Blathers, lol

[@wronglyright]

Imagine gigantic cockroaches flying around..

[@tanmaytiwari4292]

Thanks for the Nightmares

[@sebastianb4sh]

Finna grab a shotgun or a rifle

[@LuckyCharms23]

SWIFTLY GO DOWN TO HELL WITH GASOLINE DRAWERS ON😩

[@zhu446]

Bro imagine a giant pack of ants 💀

[@BrokenNoah]

Imagine the smell

[@salimullah6383]

Scientists should try keeping and breeding bugs in 35 percent or even more oxygen levels in labs and see how do they evolve.

[@chabangers3337]

No ….. no they should not lol

[@mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449]

Unless if they doubled in size, the surface area of the exoskeleton would increase 4 times and their volume and mass would increase 8 times, depending on the arthropod species They would also need to add more legs for increased muscle power, having the same agility like its smaller counterpart. If they were to a giant size with limited oxygen, the number of trachea would have to be much larger.

[@fantasy5590]

​@@chabangers3337 even if they escaped, they'll most likely die due to the lack of oxygen outside their enclosure.

[@ErikAnkan73]

They have done that. And the insects did in fact grow after a few generations.

[@CrossoversBoxStudios]

Giant bugs: exists Coyote Peterson: Today, I'm about to be bitten with the Goliath bird-eater

[@Xhaled]

did it get you?

[@Ggtg34]

That will be his last video ☠️💐

[@LeBaldJames23-]

Goliath man-eater

[@modyelmolky4748]

This made me looking for any bugs near me every min

[@aaronflowers8881]

This is something I think about all the time. I'm fascinated by it. It would be terrifying for bugs to be the size of cars. Probably even more scary if humans were shrunk down to bug size. I love all those old giant bug movies from years ago. I wish they were still made.

[@OnsideE]

Same

[@Mikamichae]

If we were bug size it would be so much more terrifying, endless jungles of grass, soil, sand, concrete, and you're constantly running into a terrifying monster

[@aaronflowers8881]

@@Mikamichae Yes! What do you think a cricket, dog, or bird would sound like? I wonder would they eat you and how far you'd be able to see. Imagine running into a giant spider, roach, or bee.

[@BrokenNoah]

That King Kong pit scene to this day traumatizes me

[@aaronflowers8881]

I love that scene! It's so great! I have a fascination with the thought of seeing bugs and insects the size of cars and trucks.

[@johnwright7782]

Where is Godzilla when you need him.😂😉

[@fabriziobiancucci7702]

Even if the oxygen level will return the one of the Carboniferous period, insects will not return giants. To became giant you shouldn't have no one that hunt you. In Carboniferous period the insects had no predators, but today birds and animals will eat them all if they tried to became bigger

[@mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449]

Unless if they doubled in size, the surface area of the exoskeleton would increase 4 times and their volume and mass would increase 8 times, depending on the arthropod species They would also need to add more legs for increased muscle power, having the same agility like its smaller counterpart. If they were to a giant size with limited oxygen, the number of trachea would have to be much larger.

[@fabriziobiancucci7702]

@@mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449 Arthropods don't have tracheas, they have a respiratory sistem connected to their skin. The more oxygen, the more they grow. But they cannot add too much weight in their exoskeleton because unless they would be crushed by it. And there are anathomical limitations that avoid them to evolve new legs (there is a reason why all the insects have six legs and all the spiders eight, and never happen a mutation that permit them to evolve more legs). More, as I said before, today there are a lot of predators. Even if they were able to evolve a super exoskeleton, it wouldn't be enough to resist to the jaws of cats, dogs, wolves or any other carnivorous animal that wouldn't hesitate to hunt such slow and easy prey. They would became extinct in just few days. During the Carboniferous period the arthropods were the only animal on land, and so they can grow, but today is different

[@Temessong]

I clicked just to say this.. This tick in the thumbnail horrified me at night on the phone 😶

[@jaredpatterson1701]

4:09 we needed the chaos emeralds to stop bugs 😂

[@TheMidnightMoons]

Ticks (the one in the thumbnail) and spiders are not insects (bugs). They’re arachnids.

[@suvam3489]

I would just simply leave the earth

[@amazingkanishq6675]

Oh my GOD!! I would die if that happened thanks What If for sharing these videos.

[@grandfathersfuddi5146]

Everybody would

[@juanbaez790]

A recurring dream I have it starts off the same every time. I’m walking in a Forrest when I hear the scuttle sounds. Then it gets foggy and then a black and gold garden spider the size of Prius just drops down in front of me. I run surprisingly fast but when I turn around there are about 100 of these huge monsters chasing me. I legit wake up every single time and it’s right before my alarm. Think it’s symbolizes the day can’t get much worse from here.

[@Ragnarok182]

On the subject of giant insects, is it possible to do a "What if" the world had magic and sorcery? That might be fun and go well with this "What if". 😉

[@tommaggi1475]

Agreed

[@despicableminion3259]

Amazing idea

[@supernova582]

We would be like Harry Potter and a lot less Muggle technology because we would have magic

[@madix487]

But this idea will clash with his scientific and logical explanations

[@abdur1300]

I dont understand this question,, didnt human civilization already exposed to sorcery and dark magic?

[@staceyannchevalier8055]

🇺🇸:mama 🥺 🇦🇺:😭They grow up so fast by baby 😍

[@YungCertified318]

Giant bugs could equal world peace...instead of nuking eachother we'd be nuking Giant Wasp nests & Fire Ant colonies lol....but realistically we'd probably just use the bugs against eachother in warfare

[@jaredpatterson1701]

Apparently they have mind controlled bugs like roaches 😭 insane!

[@ProGamer_69420]

we will definitely release bugs that will stop their offsprings from having babies by editing some dna shit

[@abdur1300]

The army should invent an Anti-Bug gas Bomb then and drop it to the middle of its nest.. And Civillians fight them with anti-bug spray gun

[@kimbratton9620]

And what if these insects were big enough to put in exhibits like at the zoo!?😄

[@fahimredwan]

Love what if videos

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

We love you too! 🙂

[@emag1169]

I'd just curl up and shake like a leave stuck on a tree! Spider's are my phobia 😭

[@LuckyCharms23]

I love tarantulas but roaches have me clenching tighter then a newbie in prison. My bowels immediately release man😩

[@abobanger9054]

I need the names of the films these bug scenes are from I love films with giant bugs Great video as usual 👍

[@Naguib55]

35% Oxygen level is very safe to breath by humans up to 40% oxygen is used for recreational diving, infact 100% oxygen is safe to breath long term in atmospheric pressure. Oxygen toxicity can only happen under pressure more than atmospheric pressure. The risk with such high oxygen concentration is fire hazards and not oxygen toxicity. For example 35% oxygen would be come toxic above 4 bar pressure (4 times atmospheric pressure) which would be the case at depth of 30 meters underwater.

[@ilianasummit4551]

“There’s something on your back!!” 💀

[@ks4139]

Could u do “What if your stomach never stopped growling?”

[@gihannethusara2726]

Superb ❤

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Thank you for your support!

[@justincameron9661]

Just get Godzilla. He's dealt with this issue several times

[@peterglen8396]

Thank you atmosphere…thank you…

[@lucifermorningstar8420]

Imagine giant mosquitos 😳😬🙄

[@aaronflowers8881]

Terrible

[@lucifermorningstar8420]

@@aaronflowers8881 yea lol

[@aaronflowers8881]

What about giant roly polies? They're so ugly and nasty looking.

[@lucifermorningstar8420]

@@aaronflowers8881 lol 😂

[@ryanmcclain8200]

Terminex employees just got a raise in this world

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nice video.

[@andy23r]

The bigger the bug the bigger the brain..... so yeah that's terrifying

[@brandonkejick1545]

"The only good bug, is a dead bug!"

[@alecfongy3175]

If this were reality right now, time to leave the planet

[@vizuren]

Bugs could become the new dinosaurs

[@cs77smith67]

What if bacteria 🦠 were the size of humans?

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Interesting idea, thank you for sharing it with us!

[@cs77smith67]

@@WhatIfScienceShow Oh wow 😂😱 I can't believe you reply to me out of thousands of people haha thank you and hopefully you make that video 📸

[@guggggggggggggggggg]

If that spider on the Empire State Building came at me, I would literally end myself

[@TheTruePlaceholder]

My mother could EASILY kill them with her flip flop

[@SnowConeYT]

Cap

[@rattler_boss1101]

Dad ! I saw spider in the garden . Ok I'll get a shotgun

[@mightychroniclesuraniusvol6449]

Unless if they doubled in size, the surface area of the exoskeleton would increase 4 times and their volume and mass would increase 8 times, depending on the arthropod species They would also need to add more legs for increased muscle power, having the same agility like its smaller counterpart. If they were to a giant size with limited oxygen, the number of trachea would have to be much larger.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

2 words . . ''STARSHIP TROOPERS''.

[@stockvideos5985]

Australia: Am i joke to you?!

[@jessicaroberts5956]

They should make a series where someone releases a quantum wave to make plants grow bigger or something and instead it makes everyone shrink,and none of that talking pet ant bs.

[@yesyoucanTellme]

the intro showing a giant tarantula walking over a man's hand is a big no for me

[@LuckyCharms23]

I had one just like her🥲. Actually I had 20. Gentle giants. So cute when they groom themselves

[@PhilipBarron]

Fun fact: that’s the goliath birdeater, the world’s largest of spiders.

[@Ccyawn123]

We'd all be dead. Bugs are vicious

[@existenz_1]

I'm yeeting myself into space

[@Meme_zee2]

*gets bug spray and sprays all bugs*

[@yumalove7223]

Not all bugs are going to eat you and I'm sure this would not work since we still need some of them

[@blindthief]

Funny, I had just watched The Mist the other day. Giant bugs are a nuisance but think I'd be more afraid of Mrs. Carmody because our laws won't allow us to shoot her with a flamethrower.

[@roystondaniel2849]

Funny huh didn't watch it is it about bugs

[@blindthief]

@@roystondaniel2849 Yeah, the title of the movie is a bit misleading. But it's about giant bugs that attack humans lol

[@conanhighwoods4304]

The Mist?

[@PhilipBarron]

This would be Blathers’s worst nightmare, lol

[@SapiTebang]

There is Manga with this plot.... and there is a lot of gore in it

[@jamezzz0035]

Brothers and Sisters, we wight to the death! May the Force be with us!

[@zaidbarakehjr4683]

Nice

[@Zoro-ll3ox]

Imagine praying mantis hunting us we'll be eaten alive

[@francisco_2024]

YIKES!!! Imagine little CHILDREN seeing these GINORMOUS CREATURES!!! 😬

[@VaultBoi_Da_Wastelander]

Our fellow HellDivers would truly be tested.

[@Solarwhale32]

Im already terrified of wasps, but if they were human sized, i would not go outside at all

[@nitrozconcepts]

What if” the zero point existed” meaning the Fortnite orb that controls everything in existence

[@tsukyw4001]

The scene between 3:45 and 3:50, where is that from?

[@aaronflowers8881]

That's what I want to know.

[@platform287]

Love and Monsters (2020)

[@danielgriffin8213]

Well, maybe we could have been bigger also. Surely we would all be relative. We didn't make mosquitoes small, but I am glad that they are.

[@rudevalve]

Certified Gold!!!!!

[@mochouz4171]

Please take this video more serious watchers. We love you all.

[@n0vo4]

that's dope

[@Pryomania.]

How can I ever be the same after watching this

[@cassandrasophiaestanislao6659]

Imagine a giant centipede..

[@aaronflowers8881]

Terrible

[@richardkutsera4992]

0:11 what movie this is from?

[@ReecedDrawings]

Is that a plane is that a bird No its a cockroach

[@rupturedduck6981]

I would suggest a Dragonlance !!!!

[@dodo2829]

I'ma go ahead and suggest : "What if women were faster than men in dressing?"

[@aaronflowers8881]

Funky butt lovin hilarious!

[@dodo2829]

@@aaronflowers8881 What If lacks sense of humor.

[@aaronflowers8881]

@@dodo2829 Huh

[@irmadupr]

Looks delicious

[@HAIRHOLIC_1]

It’s giving love and monsters vibes 😭

[@mathiasgrim8131]

7:09 i remember that movie clip but i forgot the name of the move

[@Omisola-Bosede]

I know that i said that i love ur vids but This way to grosse dude😖😣😨But great content dude! keep it up!👍😃

[@49HEALTH]

I literally can’t watch this. I can only listen to it.

[@Humburbur]

0:07 "Call your mom" 💀

[@chocolatecornetnothermitcr6159]

Interesting

[@orangesticker8027]

Basically every "Earth Defense Force" game

[@RumorsOfficialChannel]

"call your mom" lol

[@maxkeeble5122]

3:45 what movie is that from

[@platform287]

Love and Monsters (2020)

[@thpain9501]

Hahahaha now this makes me wanna play earth defense force

[@brianpan6453]

Looks like you've never been to Australia, mate.

[@socialbug1130]

Thanks for the nightmare 😅

[@SilentIncognito]

Brooo is he the same what if narrator? He sounds different

[@brownoutlier]

I would be okay being unalive in this hypothetical giant bug world. I hate the small bugs here now. 😒

[@RonnieMyers777]

"Additional supply depots required"

[@tunasandwhich2972]

help 0:34 do you know which movie is this?

[@user-ns3nd5rl3j]

You mean the giant spider or crab looking thing above? It's in the movie "kong skull island" although that spider or crab isn't that main character and it only appears for a short amount of time

[@user-ns3nd5rl3j]

I'm sorry if I replied too late though

[@tunasandwhich2972]

@@user-ns3nd5rl3j really appreciated the reply man. I'm not sure how and when but, I did managed to find it. and yeah it's Kong movie. kinda of disappointed though it's only appears sort amount of time but hey, at last my curiosity is paid off. but yeah, once again thanks for the reply, really appreciated it👍

[@njtrailfan4106]

Oh my

[@jijnasuman6125]

Last night I had dream of giant Insect covered in astroid are falling from space and research people working on what to do destroy it or deflect it... But I got question that Is it possible to insect can be bigger if they were in space and with enough oxygen,food supply?!!

[@Venting655]

U rlly wanna know I would scream with my phobia of bugs in insects 👹😭😭😭I scream when I see a tiny one

[@trenaebowers1968]

I wouldn't be scared of the giant bugs but the frogs that would be eating them

[@Smartest_]

If giant bugs were to roam the Earth, it would likely have a significant impact on the planet's ecosystems and the human population. These giant bugs would likely be at the top of the food chain and could potentially outcompete or drive out other species. They could also pose a danger to human settlements and agriculture. It is difficult to predict exactly how such a scenario would play out, but it would likely lead to significant changes to the Earth's ecosystems and human society.

[@LocalGhostOfYoutube]

There wouldn’t BE any settlements left, dung beetles would just destroy EVERYTHING, they were strong enough in there small size.

[@user-kh4np6el5s]

I'm so dead if that happens, I'm afraid on bugs:,( Big or Small:,(

[@rajaa.i9713]

What If mars had one moon, earth's moon. meaning like same ratio in size difference and distance same like earth to moon and if its tidally locked? can mars gain an atmosphere then?

[@vid5506]

Thank god for birds

[@mmmbjnw]

I need a ebook

[@juanbaez790]

.50 cal mounted turret sales 📈📈📈📈

[@terryindachat7296]

Is this why all the mega trees were chopped down around the globe???