When Life Nearly Died

[@cancellogout6468]

Huge shoutout to Dmitry Bogdanov for seemingly drawing a picture of every animal to ever live.

[@omarb7164]

I believe he’s a time traveler who simply publishes photographs he’s taken whenever a new animal is announced

[@lofty7316]

him and nobu tamura are always on point with their paleoart and have done so many extinct animals!

[@Jejfimwianfn]

Let's not forget Julio Lacerda!

[@42ZaphodB42]

​@@lofty7316 Nobu Tamuras art is only great when hand drawn. Most of his stuff is 3d and a little crude imo.

[@alioramus1637]

Joschua knüppe and Gabriel ugueto are the best paleoartists on the internet in my view

[@US395Official]

I remember watching a documentary about this at like 3am when I was probably 5 years old and struggled to remember the name of the creatures. For whatever reason, I couldn't find information about this extinction and the creatures that lived during that time since then. Thank you so much for this video, I've always found this time period interesting!

[@buttercxpdraws8101]

What were you doing up watching tv at 3am when you were 5 years old?

[@codeine69]

@@buttercxpdraws8101 i was doing the same thing, i had vivid dinosaur nightmares because of this

[@Dankleberrrrg]

"When life nearly died" "Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?"

[@nedludd7622]

It is just a click bait title.

[@DustyyBoi]

@@nedludd7622 no shit

[@luissanchez2067]

true!

[@slavj]

True... although, we can say this was perhaps the most devastating when it comes to the reduction in biodiversity. I am sure near extinctions occurred during the single cell era, but we have little records of these besides trace data, and the biodiversity diversity was probably less (once you eliminate multi-cellular life).

[@freyala024]

@@nedludd7622 It's not though.

[@teawrecks1243]

Lystrosaurus 1: "Gee, what shall we do tonight?" Lystrosaurus 2: "The same thing we do every night, TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD"

[@Carewolf]

by breeding..

[@bliss6417]

They quite literally, colonized the entirety of earth, literally consisting of like 90% of terrestial animals.

[@chrisi7127]

​@@bliss6417 damn brits were at it even before humanity

[@malcaniscsm5184]

Just wanted to chime in and say that I discovered your channel during 1st lockdown and I've been looking forward to new episodes ever since. Thank you for the calm, honest and straightforward presentation.

[@MikeOcksmallClips]

There’s more lockdowns to come?

[@michiganmonsters01]

Me too my friend

[@ChristineInNornia]

Me too😊

[@OdinComposer]

Exactly

[@CrawDad669]

We never locked down here, that sucka

[@LuciFeric137]

So fascinating realizing earth has gone through eons of life and huge climactic changes.

[@evilstinkr1905]

Don't reduce climate change to some natural phenomena

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

@@evilstinkr1905 In the past... yes, natural causes. Most often quite slow too. But not the Permian or the K-Pg ones. Now however... since about 1750, it is pretty much human caused. This is a smoking gun locked in ice cores. Find vid on "Be Smart" channel for that.

[@astrovarius543]

Yeah, really helps put into perspective the current climate. I mean the numbers are right there and it seems we've got an impossibly high bar to meet before we get our promised climate apocalypse. Global social collapse is going to happen in the next few decades, but it won't be from a few extra hot summers. More those who're freaking out and destroying society in a desperate but misguided bid to save (????) it.

[@DJFracus]

@@astrovarius543 the bar you're comparing it to is the literal worst mass extinction in Earth's history, being less bad than it isn't exactly hard to do lmao

[@mikadofxx9030]

@@DJFracus but, we are trying are best

[@paulvavro5452]

The permian period episodes are some of my favourites, please keep em coming :)

[@Ptaku93]

Permian Traps during their eruption must've been the worst hellscape imagineable, a gigantic Mordor stretching beyond horizon

[@drts6955]

Or just like Hawaii now

[@Ptaku93]

@@drts6955 no, Hawaii hotspot is magnitudes smaller than Siberian Traps

[@drts6955]

@@Ptaku93 I mean in the sense that eruptions weren't necessarily all at same time. A huge area but not necessarily all active at one time

[@abduking.]

@@drts6955 nope multiple eruptions were happening at the same time bak then

[@Ballistics_Computer]

It's been wonderful seeing the Permian get so much love lately

[@WaterShowsProd]

This was a great overview. Far too little of The Permian and even The Triassic gets mentioned in popular media, despite their tremendous importance.

[@pocketmarcy6990]

The Triassic is severely over Shadowed by The two periods following it, for obvious Dino related reasons,

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

Permian Park would have been WILD.

[@icycrusader1947]

3:59 Aw, what an adorable pup.

[@adams13245]

He or she is cute.

[@ivechang6720]

I like your style of disseminating information. It's very peaceful in a way that doesn't dissuade enthusiasm for the subject.

[@Zveebo]

I’m so damn glad to have another video to listen to as I go to sleep - thank you! I just about know all the other ones off by heart at this stage…

[@franzroth2830]

istg these videos keep me sane, i find it really hard to fall asleep without watching at least one of these in bed

[@adams13245]

Ah, yes, that time life on Earth almost died. Great bedtime watching. Then again I'm watching this after 7:30, so maybe I shouldn't be talking.

[@firelifeblizzard8782]

Right when I needed him most... He uploaded.

[@6099x]

Thank you moth! Your work is incredibly interesting, and well presented

[@muhammadeisa1459]

I can't believe he's an actual moth making KZbin videos 😇

[@joshuastrittmatter4188]

Just shows you how truly resilient life on earth really is.

[@kx7500]

Life yes, but the ecosystem, no

[@ethanbrock5453]

@@kx7500 They go hand in hand, as long as life survives in some form, new ecosystems will be created and stabilize according to the current environment. Ecosystems are constantly evolving.

[@ttgexe]

“Life, uh, finds a way.”

[@sarcastaball]

It actually shows that God is good.

[@silverjade10]

Yup. Which is why the earth will be fine after the current extinction event.... Humans, maybe not.

[@philswift6550]

OH MY GOD HE UPLOADED, THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF LIFE

[@mirrorblue100]

Always a pleasure to view these programs - thanks.

[@eardwulf785]

For me the best thing about this channel is just how thought provoking it is. Trying to imagine the scene of the description of a sea of dead trees being exploited by opportunistic fungi was both epic and alien. Moth Light Media is unquestionably one of the better presented prehistory channels.

[@marwanhamze6329]

I think this is the best video I've ever seen on the Permian extinction. Thank you.

[@Niinque]

This was todays exact topic of the class I'm curently taking at university and then this video is uploaded TODAY. It's the wildest coinsidence I've ever experienced

[@itsokrocklee8252]

Thank you for all your hard work

[@JSRMax]

Love the channel man keep it up 👍

[@therealzilch]

Another great video. I know the basics from my paleo minor at UC Berkeley many years ago, but you have managed to explain current research very well. Thanks from rainy Vienna, Scott

[@naverilllang]

It's a damn shame that trilobites didn't survive. They'd be such cool creatures today

[@ximec.r.2643]

Always nice to watch a new video here, I really appreciate the way you narrate and the beautiful picture used.

[@frostyglass3738]

Seeing this guy's videos saved me from stupid anxiety. Thank you brother, all the health to you!!!

[@GetSoupedSoHard]

His voice and videos in general are so soothing! Hope you're doing better, anxiety is such a bitch

[@willowdigger617]

@@GetSoupedSoHard one time I was watching one when I was very tired and it put me straight to sleep 😭💀

[@GetSoupedSoHard]

@@willowdigger617 It's the best, this way you can start the video all over again until you made it through! Lmao

[@willowdigger617]

@@GetSoupedSoHard it’s not that it was boring. It was as interesting as his voice and the music is soothing, and I just relaxed and drifted off…

[@GetSoupedSoHard]

@@willowdigger617 don't worry i meant it in exactly that way. They're never boring but i also just start drifting off bc it's just so relaxing to listen to.

[@NotDuncan]

I hope people start finding this channel and you get the million views per video you deserve

[@kevinpotts123]

You make the best short form science based videos. Between you and The History Of The Earth and The History Of The Universe doing long their form videos, KZbin is such an entertaining educational experience.

[@pipedreamlp2662]

Awesome video! So glad I found this channel

[@kqueic5930]

amazing videos! keep going

[@Afrologist]

Graduating today in Zoo & I couldn't imagine a better channel to send me off.

[@Gildedmuse]

Congratulations! Your bachelor's, I assume. Are you planning on going back for a master's?

[@Afrologist]

@@Gildedmuse Maybe going for post-grad but I wanna go straight into conservation work. I'm pretty controversial (as evidenced by my channel) so I don't think I fit in well in academia lol, but thanks! I'm actually lined up for my ceremony as we speak :)

[@dinohall2595]

Congratulations and good luck in your conservation career!

[@Afrologist]

@@dinohall2595 Thanks fam, I'll try my best to make a difference :)

[@BinroWasRight]

Probably the most succinct video I've seen on the Great Dying. Fantastic work!

[@richardhall1667]

Awesome channel, I’ve been following since about 25k subscribers. I’m so glad to see the channel take off. Considering how well the channel is doing, might you perhaps consider investing in a new mic?

[@illuslipfoot274]

I love these videos so much, an amazing addition to my day

[@cancel1913]

Really enjoying your vids a lot! Paleontology fascinates me.

[@zap_cat8912]

Been watching your videos for a while and really enjoy them! I have one request.. can you increase the volume of your voice in future videos? An ad just came on and blasted my ears 🎧😵‍💫 thank you and keep up the good work

[@ObeseCutie]

Wow 0:01. I knew I’d seen and been past that house before. It’s in Scotland in the west. Near Oban and Glencoe. I was there a few days ago and I have a picture when we drove past it. Just crazy to see it randomly appear.

[@penguingod5673]

this was really intresting and i enjoyed the video

[@lives8767]

You have a very calming voice

[@rl9217]

I love how straightforward the title is. “Ya know life?” “Yeah?” “Remember that time it almost died?” “…uh…what?” “Yeah, good times. Good times.”

[@sltslt5153]

According to Evolutionist life's almost not existed several times lol farfetch right

[@brahimdiop5506]

@@sltslt5153 How is it far-fetched?

[@sltslt5153]

@@brahimdiop5506 not only did life spontaneously generate from a pool of chemicals into single-celled life that then evolved into everything that is and is to come But a repeated cycle of life nearly going extinct and bouncing back not to mention chemical and cosmic evolution it's all ridiculously impossible and extremely imaginative to think we would be here right now after all that and not just us but the extreme diversity of living organisms we have and like I said thats not mentioning chemical and cosmic evolution

[@brahimdiop5506]

@@sltslt5153 Why am I not identical to my dad then? If we are as we always were, why is my skin paler than my dad, but lighter than my mom? Shouldn't it have just picked one or the other to prevent deviation from the original?

[@sltslt5153]

@@brahimdiop5506 well you're not a duplicate of your mom or dad your their offspring There's plenty of facts that support that earth is Young like slowing in the rotation of the Earth the moon gradually getting further and why do dinosaur bones and diamonds have detectable carbon-14? Evolution is instilled in our brain at a young age starting with kid TV shows and from elementary to college it's taught and governmentally funded

[@WAMTAT]

Very cool video. Keep up the great work.

[@ChristineInNornia]

Thank you for the mention of the Giants Causeway👏🏼

[@apfelstrudeldk5130]

U are one of my favorite channels on KZbin ❤️ thank you for uploading and educating me on all of those amazing topics/time periods

[@noeditbookreviews]

For those who don't know, When Life Nearly Died" is the title of a really cool book by Michael Benton. Get it.

[@firstletterofthealphabet7308]

It’s always a good day when moth light media uploads. Also look at that! 25 minutes in and here I am with the 25th comment.

[@Leitis_Fella]

I read an interesting hypothesis somewhere about the PME where chemical reactions from contact metamorphism from intruding lava produced a considerable amount of greenhouse gases on top of what was being released from the Siberian traps.

[@shakti666]

i call bs on that

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

@@shakti666 got any REAL evidence?

[@jamestang1227]

Yeah basically to get the numbers of CO2 needed to cause the estimated warming, a researcher in the 90s the Siberian traps intruded on coal beds and basically started burning them. Similar to what we do today but on a much longer timescale (thousands to tens of thousanda of years)

[@hugosalerno7414]

Good stuff as always

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

What a fascinating time! I watch any video about that era! ❤️❤️

[@TufteMotorsport]

I loved the intro, and how it fitted with rest of the video. Almost Critchton like. 10/10

[@lindahudson6685]

Enjoyed the information. Very well done.

[@BobbyOps]

Nothing like a new moth light media video.

[@xikikazklok6249]

Love it when people talk about the Great Dying, it was probably one of the greatest shifts in the direction of evolution.

[@_Solaris]

What a good channel.

[@awfullawful549]

I see this hit and I'm like, "YES PLEASE HIT ME WITH AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS THIS EVENING."

[@PaulDMcKay]

Perfect distraction from my work right now *chef's kiss*

[@Mr77ethan77]

I bet this guy gets so stressed out when he plays ARK like 'no no no these creatures would've never been alive at the same time!'

[@satyr1349]

Brilliant work!

[@m00rtin4]

what a perfectly timely upload! i have been looking into the permian extiction for some days and it always fascinates me cus its so unknown to the wider audience. thanks for sharing

[@tylerlynch2849]

one of your best videos!

[@stax6092]

Awesome.

[@paulbennett7021]

Minor mistake - the Caucasus mountains are shown too far north

[@ceruleanclouds5871]

Thanks

[@altaccount9101]

1:23 "giant insects and arthropods" ... Sir, that's a cat.

[@eatshitlarrypage.3319]

Yes, for comparison. Good job. Don't expect a medal for pointing out the obvious.

[@kohp111]

A great video!

[@krankarvolund7771]

There's also evidence of extinction events before the Permian crisis, meaning that the biodiversity was already in decline, for example, one species of Gorgonops disappeared from South-Africa, and recently scientists discovered that a russian Gorgonops had replaced him just before the extinction ^^

[@a.randomjack6661]

There's also plenty of evidence we are currently in a mass extinction event but who care about that 🤷‍♂

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

The Permian extinction is the most devastating that we know of. Biodiversity stagnates in times of stability and then jumps after extinction events.

[@stormisuedonym4599]

There are always extinctions going on. Mass extinctions are an increase in the background extinction rate, not the exclusive manifestation of an otherwise unknown phenomenon.

[@suchendelokidottir5673]

I've spent months trying to find this information for my novel. Thank you. I now know how to move forward

[@bombidil3]

Those CO2 levels are _FRIGHTENINGLY_ close given the rate at which we are emitting.

[@bigpuma444]

While current CO2 levels are concerning, we’re still not nearly as close to levels at the end of the Permian as you believe. That of course doesn’t negate the fact that we should still reduce our carbon footprint

[@bombidil3]

@@bigpuma444 We're not now, obviously. My point was that, given we've emitted more in the last 30 years than in our existence prior to 30 years ago, it won't take that much time to reach that level, or a seriously devastating level at least, at our current emission rate. That is what's important.

[@bigpuma444]

@@bombidil3 Once again, while current emissions are heavy, we’re still not going to see those same levels at the end of the Permian in 30 years. Even with heavy volcanism producing much heavier CO2 emissions than we, ourselves, produce it still took thousands of years (possibly more) until global temperatures and lack of breathable oxygen finally killed off most life on this planet. We have more than enough time to come up with solutions, contrary to corporate-funded fear-mongering

[@BOAYang]

Thanks to this, I now have to pay rent.

[@eseseis7251]

10:06 there is something running from left to right in the desert, at the base of the hill/mountain

[@CG-xb1kh]

Yes, thank you, came to comments to check on this.

[@Sizdothyx]

Death: Did you die? Life: Yes. Death: *gasp* Life: BUT I LIVED.

[@jalenmcdermaid1186]

Just love it when earth say-“f*** it,I’m killing all y’all fools”

[@vanishingfolklore]

AMAZING AS USUAL

[@Epidombe]

Nice

[@Danin4985]

Please look up ‘The Wilkes Land Crater’. Antipodal to the Siberian traps. Giant asteroid estimated at 30 miles wide! Way bigger than the KT extinction asteroid.

[@PunishedFelix]

Okay but hear me out: everything that survived is badass

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

No. Just HAPPENED to be lucky. Right combo of traits at the right time.

[@PunishedFelix]

@@rickkwitkoski1976 no fun allowed on the internet huh

[@erynn9968]

@@PunishedFelix It wasn't clear you understood it's not true. And it might not be clear for thousands dumber than you to understand it either. So the ones that never expanded this thread would 'learn' that only the badass survived. Here's how myths are born - out of ambiguous jokes.

[@PunishedFelix]

@@erynn9968 I'm pretty sure nobody is going to believe biology works on a badass scale

[@badomen7199]

@@erynn9968 No one is going to believe that but a few people, and the second they say it to anyone they will be corrected and laughed at. Let people make figures of speech or jokes, it's not the end of the world

[@jinbaofan8957]

This is sooooo cool!

[@mr_brown5974]

Yeah I have no idea why KZbin stopped recommending me your videos. Haven't seen one video from your channel for like 7 months, until this one popped up now.

[@Lembo101]

I'm going to shout-out Michael Benton's book on the same topic with the same name as this video. If this video piqued your interest in the Permian Mass extinction I wholeheartedly recommend giving it a read. It's an excellent summary of the event, and how paleontologists figured it all out.

[@sieltan5618]

What I always find fascinating is the sheer scale of mass deaths our planet has seen, multiple times, and how difficult life is to kill off. I can't help but wonder if humans and their coming and going will be just another runaway freak accident of nature.

[@kx7500]

Humans are extremely hard to wipe out. It’s the ecosystem, and civilization that is much more delicate. There’s always gonna be one couple of humans in their super bunker even with nuclear war lol. But it’s more a question of how bad are things going to get before it starts to bounce back into stability

[@bodeeangus9957]

@@kx7500 you are wrong. Humans very nearly went extinct multiple times, some relatively recently on the evolutionary timescale. This is why genetically we are all much more related than other species of animals. It is estimated that there have been as little as 10,000 humans on earth multiple times in the last 2 million years. If anything, we are a very fragile species.

[@louisj2256]

​@bodeeangus9957 But surely the fact that we faced near extinction so many times and yet still find ourselves here speaks to resilience, rather than fragility? I dunno, like most things I guess it is a matter of perspective.

[@bodeeangus9957]

@@louisj2256 When it comes to an evolutionary timescale, a species being reduced to such low numbers multiple times is a very bad thing. There are animals out there who have survived multiple extinction events much worse than any of the events that humans have survived, without a dramatic decrease in genetic diversity. Take alligators for instance, these animals have been around for much longer than humans and have survived because they are generalists. They can eat anything and survive in many different environments while also remaining apex predators. Humans on the other hand, especially in the last ten thousand years, are becoming very, very specialized for a way of living that is not sustainable. Modern medicine and high quality food remove evolutionary selectors that would otherwise improve our survivability in nature. This trend will continue until we are entirely reliant on technology for survival, effectively autodomesticating our own species. This could be avoided if we are ever able to alter our genetic code artificially, but until that point we can expect the human genome to become less fit for survival in the wild over time.

[@stormisuedonym4599]

@@bodeeangus9957 Except we don't have that shallow of a gene pool. You're confusing our gene pool - which is unusually shallow for mammals our size - for one that's inbred. We're not. We don't even start showing deleterious consequences for inbreeding significantly faster than other animals. We can expect our gene pool to continue to diversify through the usual mechanisms, and our evolution to continue to adapt us to living in our present circumstances. That we are less fit for survival in the wild is irrelevant, as we no longer live in the wild - and there are _billions_ of people still fully suited for living in the wild, far more than ever actually lived in the wild at any given time. Contrast that with some of the other mammals who also show those genetic bottlenecks from the near-extinction events we faced, most of whom are now on the verge of extinction. Cockroaches _wish_ they were as resilient as we are.

[@KingofGeo]

Can you do a video on the Amniotes common ancestor? did the Synapsids and Sauropsids separate in the water or out of the water?

[@masterdeetectiv9520]

Out of the water

[@celebrity292]

There was no other formation before pangea ? Or we don't have information saying that it was possible? Curious. Your channel rocka

[@stormisuedonym4599]

There were, but they're not as famous due to geology - especially deep-time geology - not being as famous or sexy as paleontology.

[@Vadim_k.d.]

Best science channel

[@peterjanson1058]

Great content as always. But I have one quibble this time: I can't think of any metric by which the permian extinction was worse than the great oxygenation event. Heck even the worst hit segment in the permian, marine life, had a 10x better survival rate than all life on the planet during the great oxygenation event. Please correct me if I am overlooking something about the severity of the permian.

[@pansepot1490]

“The sudden injection of toxic oxygen into an anaerobic biosphere may have caused the extinction of many existing anaerobic species on Earth. Although the event is inferred to have constituted a mass extinction,[7] due in part to the great difficulty in surveying microscopic species' abundances, and in part to the extreme age of fossil remains from that time, the Great Oxidation Event is typically not counted among conventional lists of "great extinctions", which are implicitly limited to the Phanerozoic eon. In any case, isotope geochemical data from sulfate minerals have been interpreted to indicate a decrease in the size of the biosphere of >80% associated with changes in nutrient supplies at the end of the GOE[8].” Wikipedia

[@flightlesslord2688]

Would love to see you do a video on the Carnian Fluvial Episode, which seems to have helped life get back to thriving after it was stilling hurting from the Dead Times

[@Coyote1.618]

The title of your video is like everyday when I leave from work. "When life nearly died"

[@sarcasmo57]

I would like to go an have a .look back then.

[@maddib1723]

Subbed 🎉

[@jointgib]

very good

[@moshdeenotabot]

That preview feature at the beginning was cool

[@mturzanski]

Just random but does anyone know if the background music in these videos is available to listent to somewhere?

[@JuicyJam]

DRINKING GAME!!! Take a sip of your drink when there is: - a time lineage - a genetic tree - a new illustration - a size comparison Take a shot when: - the narrator says "however"

[@viccolasvic9461]

Every day i weep because I'll never see a trilobite in action

[@BeepDragon]

0:27 I know this exact place. It's between barbarian assault and the lighthouse where you complete the horrors of the deep quest😜👌

[@Tostilocos.]

Now we gotta pay bills

[@HandsomeLad69]

Didn’t get a notification and I have hit the bell

[@kimbratton9620]

Nice!

[@eschwarz1003]

fascinating and a time period/ event of study that doesn't seem to get enough attention

[@anng.4542]

Love the name of this channel! 🦋 (Sorry, no moth emojis available.)

[@ViccolasHavoc]

Its crazy that 90% of the animals on earth died during the permian especially when you compare it to the sheer violence of the KT extinction event. Like it managed to do more damage than A LITERAL ASTEROID.