Animal Armageddon: The Great Dying Part 1

[Vegitooas]

Lava:Die die die dieall die i must eliminated all life in this foolish planet

Gorgonopsians and Dicynodonts:em aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Buuuuuuuuurn

[demonella]

Oh man, this narrator is so much less irritating than the American one. Thanks! :D

[7777neptune]

so since europe and asia are stuck together they are a super continent eurasia

[7777neptune]

so mammal-like reptiles are mammals or reptiles

[puncheex]

@7777neptune: Mammal-like reptiles are mammal ancestors and phylogentic brothers. They were not mammals themselves, as they lacked many of the things which make mammals such: lactation, live young, so on. They weren't reptiles except in a loose sense. Precisely, they were synapsida, brother clade to reptilia, descendant clade of amniota. They descended thru sphenacodontia (and others), then therapsida, then cynodontia, before true mammals separated from the mammal-like reptiles.

[gangstervural]

Haha, every series is on another channel xD

[banana5ism]

Why earth why D:

[KadoatieXD]

These creatures were called Synaspids!!!!

[puncheex]

@KadoatieXD: Umm, that would be synapsids, but that includes a lot of other animal types at the time, and ultimately all mammals as well. More specifically, they were theriodonta, but that also include all mammals.

[aztec0899]

thrinaxodon looks like a big *ss seal

[RiderAndKallen]

At 0:10 that is bullshit. That therapsid would have been dead before the lava even touched it.

[timtam2400]

Could you upload the American version of this episode once Fire and Ice has been done?

[Mrjohn5533]

@timtam2400 yes, next week

[workingstif1]

This is rather inaccurate, though they have made a number of mistakes throughout the series. There is evidence for multiple impact events (on a lesse scale though then the KT extiction) combined with disease, volcanism, sea-level change and mass releases of methane hydrates. It was a bunch of event together not a simgle reason, many.

[Shirozarusama]

In this test, Gorgonopsians and Dicynodonts have failed the exam, but Thrinaxodon has succeeded!

[ptango666]

hey you have just dissed your great*4*10^6 grandma

[mothrasaurus]

@ptango666 No no, our ancestor was the Thrinaxodon, and I was talking about the Lystrosaurus. Those have no living descendants.

[puncheex]

@mothrasaurus: Uhh, no. According to current phylogenetic studies, the thrinxodont were a brother clade to ours, mammalia. What that means is that our common ancestor, a cynodont, or both our clades together, made it through the extinction together. In this "story" they're using Thrixodont more as a type-example of those that made it. Today, mammalia is the only extant clade; the rest have met with a sticky end along the way.

[yichen100]

3:43 they look like insect from above just that they dont have 6 legs.

[mothrasaurus]

@yichen100 To me, they look like frogs

[N00bcrunch3r]

@yichen100

Well if you wish to see insects that big 251.4 million years ago, you would have to look into the skies, not on land.

[blobdog5000]

whats with the dumb-ass british accent?

[mercedescl]

It's a bit "Hollywood" to suggest animals died after touched the "liquid fire". No, in a rapid lava flow, you died long before you can see the light, because the hot air will hide the flame in smoke and then fry your lung before long before you can ever see any molten rocks.

[mohakbijral]

@mercedescl yeah it makes us pity the poor animals running for their lives.

[puncheex]

@mohakbijral: Well, it does invoke our emotional empathy, and keeps you from tuning in a rerun of the Beverly Hillbillies.

[cocosuesueroxz]

if you look at those strange looking creatures you can see a little bit of animals that are alive today.

[SuperImready]

It's a curious fact that the Permian mass extinction was far more destructive than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous, but not nearly as well known. I've never heard it described in such detail before, well done!

[puncheex]

@SuperImready: the reason for that it that it is a lot farther back in Earth's history, which tends to destroy facts and evidence.

[puncheex]

@SuperImready: It might have to do with the fact that it is buried 180 million years deeper. In fact, there have been more thenn the five extinctions they mention; there are some big ones back in the Silurian and Cambrian that we're just learning about.

[BeastRider300]

that whole gorganopsid can only eat one peice of meat thing is 100% BS. Just saying.

[puncheex]

@BeastRider300: Yeah, I think that's kind of bogus. Yes, they didn't have grinding teeth, but a lot of carnivores down to today don't either.

[Junketh71]

This is my favourite episode in this series. Thanks for posting it!

[puncheex]

"Nothing would be here." Not true. Even if all multicellular life had died; indeed, all eukaryotic life, the prokaryotes are still down there. They live in abundance around hot ocean vents and are found deep below soil layers all over the earth; they survive 100's of millions of years in salt crystals. They survived several snowball Earth events of 30-50 million years extent, and they'd have reseeded Earth. Of course it wouldn't then be life as we know it; it would be very different.

[Superdeath25]

@puncheex true. And if all Eukaryotes died, they would not return because there is no reevoloution