Hallucigenia - The Cambrian Enigma
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Throughout the history of life on Earth, life has taken many unique and sometimes bizarre forms, with practically any niche you can think of being exploited by animals with adaptations perfectly suited to their given environment. Some of the weirdest as we have come to know were some of the earliest forms of complex life to have evolved, around the time of the Cambrian period over 500 million years ago, and the animal covered in this particular video, being Hallucigenia, is just one of many from this time, and has had an eccentric history of study ever since its initial description, with questions such as which way they walked or even where their head was located being frequently discussed. I hope you enjoy.
There will also be Attack on Titan spoilers in the comments, so watch out for that! :)
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After All - Geographer
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For all those who watch AOT, be warned, there will be spoilers in this comments section, so either catch up with the manga or wait for the next part of the anime to come out. Thank you, and enjoy the video guys! :)
They’ll have to keep reading forward
@Imagine Dinosaurs bruh
Dragon tails?
How the hell did that anime get involved with this video?
@@The_PokeSaurus Hallucigenia (or something very similar) plays an integral part in the entire story of Attack on Titan. This will be revealed in the final season of the anime (Manga readers already know).
Hallucigenia: *does nothing*
AoT Fans: "it just keeps on moving foward"
@Rain4D Michael Jackson....
Dance of breathing:Moon walk
Because its free
@Rain4D Dance of breathing form 3:Smooth criminal
@Rain4D dance of breathing form 4: space walk
dance of breathing form 5: straight letdown
@@soulfire1081 dance breathing form 6 : hee hee
They say this animal cannot move backwards. It can only move forward until all it's enemies are destroyed.
Tatakae. Tatakae.
"Who are you calling a slave?"
@@HenrythePaleoGuy fcking legend
Its*
@@afrog2666 no you dumbass
Scientists are probably so confused that people have such a huge interest in this critter suddenly 🤣
Most definitely! A lot of them must be thinking, who or what is this Eren?
@@HenrythePaleoGuy And how everyone is suddenly telling people that it can’t walk backwards, it can only keep moving forward until it’s enemies are destroyed.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy nobody:
The scientist who named an animal after a pokemon: *they called me a madman...*
Maybe that's because eren is manipulating them
Nah, scientists watch anime too.
It just keeps moving forward.
Tatakae!
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Tatacaw!
@@solk.posner7201 Talacaw!
until its enemies are dead
Because it is free..
Crazy to think this thing massacred 80% of human life 😔
Seems kinda unfair, as the real animals were probably harmless little things just eating bits of crap off the seafloor...I'll just assume the AoT one is an undiscovered member of the family XD
@@suicune690 All it ever wanted to do was eat and evolve, it never wanted to get involved.
All it ever wanted to do was swim free, it never wanted to start a killing spree.
@@SUPERRRSAIYANNNNN he sweaeeerrr~~!
Tatakae
@@SUPERRRSAIYANNNNN headless , eating , swimming , swimming
All AoT memes aside, this fella actually is pretty interesting.
Yeah it just keeps moving forward
@@chaos5429 until it destroys its enemies
@@tatarsauce6314 80% of it
TATAKAE
True
I can not look at these anymore without seeing Eren’s genocidal face.
Same here, man. Especially with the thumbnail: attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Source_of_all_living_matter?file=Jean_sees_the_source_manifest.png
@@HenrythePaleoGuy
Technically! Evangelion did it first at Episode 26 during the Freedom Explanation scene.
Curious, i only see his simp face now.
@@calibula95 🥲
@@whathell6t wut
When an animal gets its name from the fact that it looks like something you’d see in a psychedelic hallucination, I think that’s an excellent testimonial for it being weird as all hell.
Very true! What strange animals!
Dr Bright you are allow to post comments in CZcams?
LCD Ancient Bug.
It's a mean sea cucumber. The Urcumber. The sea urchin , sea cucumber hybrid.
and that means a lot coming from you ;)
Weird as this worm is, I can't blame it for making Titans. The Cambrian period was really, REALLY fucking wild.
Wild as going in eren😌
Ah the Cambrian Explosion, evolutions "Let's throw absolutely everything at the wall and see what sticks." moment.
Most definitely!
thats a funny but accurate way of seeing it lol
Another time channeling thing energy to a lesser extant is the Triassic... I mean, what even in the Sharovipteryx?
I think of the Cambrian Explosion when I watch battlebots.
The bots have weapons or defenses to help them survive.
Only the good ones make it.
The not so good ones go extinct.
@@mikeg4972 more like the good enough ones make it
My Fellow Eldians , This Was'nt A Coincidence , We Were All Lead To This Path
We were all brought into Paths for this moment.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy yup totally true
you also saw the vision?
Wasn't*
@@HenrythePaleoGuy, you and I must spread that the world can attained peace if I had that worm. Let our fellow Eldians rise!!!
This is the world where Ymir hadn't fallen to the tree and these animals just went extinct. And therefore 7.8 billion strong.
Thank goodness we didn’t get a really angry teenager with god like powers.
@@acropolismauve8496 and thank god America isnt over populated cuz the purge
But seriously I wanna bring this animal back from extinction:)
@@blackwing9514 not possible since DNA is lost forever just like dinosaurs
@@konodioda1268 I know that i meant it would be cool through
Wow, what an interesting creature! Scientists must have a blast studying it. I just hope it doesn't attach itself into a girl's spine haha.
Most definitely! And, well, let's hope not. XD
I see what you did there
Tingler?
*distant lightning strike*
Today I found out that Henry is both an AoT fan and a Plastic Lover Lover
The more you know!
. , .
??? Enlighten me, somebody!
@@peterashby-saracen3681 Henry referenced the Manga "Attack on Titan" in the comments. In AoT a Creature strongly resembling the Hallucigenia, and dubbed Hallucigenia by the Community, plays a critical role towards the end of the Story. Also he used the Song "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi as Background music in this Video.
My theory: it doesn’t walk, it just simply moves forward until it’s enemies are destroyed
So to avoid genaside get behind it
Me: *sees hallucigenia*
My brain: aot
:)
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Tatake.
@@Nik-6675 tatakae*
TATAKAE
Tatakae Tatakae Tatakae ...
"there is also one other species, hallucigenia titanus, with the only known traces believed to have been about 3 or 4 feet in length, found in the spine of the remains of a young woman who lived around 2,000 years ago. unfortunately, it seems this girl was involved in some practice of cannibalism and much of the specimen may have been eaten by other people. prof Hanje Zoe says..."
Really cool description. :)
i see what you did there
I thought until i read it was found in spine
What?!😧
based on a real story
Fun Fact: Ymir discovered this first
Jajajaja the founder titan XD
Very true. Science tends to overlook that account.
@@HenrythePaleoGuydamn scientists trying to take the fame all by theirselves
Everybody gangsta until wormy boi starts releasing smoke from its body
I love how videos covering Hallucigenia have just started trending cuz of AoT XD
It's been really amazing to see. I'm sure this video will keep gaining more views because of it, haha.
I love how Plastic Love is playing in the background
Noticed that too ♥️
I had to do a double take and make sure I didn't have another video open in the background lol
seems henry is a plastic lover lover aswell
It's awesome lol
I'm not the only one!
Ah CZcams recommending this after Ymir’s back story. Thank you Eren
The true power of the Founding titan.
Too late to become a titan but not too late to like the Paleo guys video
It looks like a three year old tried to draw a dragon and god looked at it, said “well heck I’m in the mood for a challenge” and decided to make it a thing.
XD
In the late '70s, there was a syndicated Japanese show I used to watch after school, dubbed into English, called, "Ultraman." In one episode, some sort of radioactive accident made it so anything a kid drew in chalk on the pavement came to life and became large enough to destroy parts of Tokyo. No idea why, or how that was supposed to work, but hey, it was entertaining.
@@injunsun Godzilla vs Hallucio, the fate of the earth will be decided. 😂
@@injunsun sounds like one episode of Powerpuff Girls as well
*dies in flood*
Everybody gangsta until the wormy boy results in people turning into giants
then you have to destroy 80% of humanity to stop racism
@@MrDeeman17 Can't be racist if there's only one race
@@allendepacheco3419 I can't argue with that logic 🤷🏿♂️
And then the Chad worm just dies off screen and is literally completely irrelevant to the story and might as well just not have existed at all.
Technically the wormy boy makes one girl into a giant and then it becomes 9 after she dies and her family eats her
Cats: Meow meow
Dogs: Woof woof
Cows: Moooo
Hallucigenia : *Tatake tatake*
Funfact: If you rub these creatures on your back You will gain super powers
If you free the pigs first
Ah yes now I will name my son eren:)
@@hochigaming14yearsago90 yeah you have to do the side quests first
@@hochigaming14yearsago90 and be a slave
Tatakae
Nature being Lovecraftian once more.
Indeed! And there's even more of them out there to cover as well. :)
Thank you. I was getting sad that there were no other Lovecraft references. This thing looks straight out of his Dreamscape.
@@ilovecoffeev yeah it looks like aot has taken over this entire comment section lol
The fact that you used AOT for the background music is just genius.
If I remember well it was used for the Rod Reiss titan.
It starts at 9:39
Timestamp?
@@gamergaming4304 9:39
It starts a little sutile a few secons before that timestamp
10:40 I see what you did there, you cheeky bastard. AOT references aside, this species of panarthropod is fascinating in it's own right. Cambrian period animals are just freaky but cool in general.
Whats the reference there?
You can see eren’s founding titan in the background at around 10:48
@@packallgaming7687 What Hannibal Smyth said.
It will just keep moving forward until all it enemies are destroyed.
Tatakae. Tatakae.
The only sound it makes is "TATAKAE"
Tatakae.
Tatakae
@@arch455 Tatakae.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Tatakae.
Tatakae
Considering their size and world wide distribution, I would not be surprised if a deep sea submersible blunders into one.
Although they would have to be looking very, very carefully.
It’s definitely possible that they have living descendants down there
Thats would be awesome
That would be far from the most outlandish possibility out there
Yes, for instance, giant hot water vent loving tube worms are essentially a "living fossil," only discovered late last century.
that reminds me of that one SCP, 169 I think?
I love an animal who name is essentially hallucination lol
Same here! :)
I've never read the manga but after watch the recent AOT episode and then I found this video telling about this creature, I know there is some kind of connection here. Not disappointed at all.
Well, too bad you got spoiled from the very start XD
It's incredibly cool to see!
It was the paths that brought us here
the fact that they are so small is crazy to me... i guess i actually pictured them to be like the size of your hand or something
Remember, it was the begining of complex life. At that time nothing bigger than 3,5 feet. Hallucigeania was very average at 5 cm
@@philippegohier6992 Yep the earliest definitively bilaterian fossils Ikaria wariootia is only a few millimeters in length with specimens varying from 2 to 7 millimeters long.
The oldest recognized Deuterostome fossil Saccorhytus coronarius is only 1.3 mm long, about the size of a grain of sand, dating to the Early Cambrian so the size increases to centimeter scales here were already pretty huge though protostomes seem to have gotten bigger first among identified fossils with macroscopic specimens as old as the Ediacaran. It seems likely that the absence of older metazoan fossils probably has to do with them being microscopic though the two mentioned fossils which were the result of painstaking study of individual sediment grains via microscopy guided largely based off suspected trace fossils made by tiny motile animals which seems to possibly suggest that the Cambrian explosion was to some degree more of a gigantism event making it possible to spot fossils without a microscope.
There small but in AOT its very big
Yeah now imagine it being near 300 meters tall follow by millions of 60 meter walls of flesh. The earth gets kinda rumbly
Ya I pictured them to be like……..
The length of a young girl’s spine or something
I've always had a problem with most of hallucigenias reconstructions.
I believe that the neck and limbs are distended at their full extent because of the decomposition process.
I've seen this with cephalapods, (squid and cuttlefish,) when in death their hunting arms that are normally retracted, become flaccid and extended.
Drowned caterpillar legs will also jut out as will drowned peripetus.
My opinion is that hallucigenias limbs were retracted to a third of their length in the living animal as was the "neck".
Claws point to a static existence, probably on sponges or corals. The head and neck would be extremely suited for grazing ( algae, polyps, biofilm) as are the jaws. Extending the neck would allow it to conserve energy, minimising locomotion when feeding.
The gular tentacles would work as sensory organs both tactile and chemical.
The dorsal spines would only offer protection in one direction, predators could easily attack from the front or sides if it walked with the stilt like posture depicted in the reconstructions.
In my opinion hallucigenia lived a cryptic and virtual sessile existence on exposed coral reefs.
Hugging tightly to corals while extending it's head to graze on the polyps and raising it's spines as a defence to predators. It may have lived in areas of high flow ( the scales on the spines are very similar to a shark's dermal skin ) and the opposable claws would anchor it safely again the current.
The other species with the featherlike sensory tentacles may have had a similar lifestyle on the reefs but was a filter feeder.
Anyway that's my opinion looking at the morphology. As I'm not a qualified biologist I'm probably wide off the mark but I've observed hundreds of species, both terrestrial and aquatic, and the spiny, snake, stilt worm just looks wrong.
You sound like you know what you are talking about 🤔👍
you're not a "qualified biologist" but you sound more educated on biology than anyone i know!
very true
If you wriyte a paper detailing the examples you just gave, I think people would listen
I completely agree on all points. I'm a zoology postgrad with a background in art, I think I'd like to draw this far more plausible description of the organism.
Hear me, all Subjects of Ymir. My name is Eren Yeager. I now speak to all the Subjects of Ymir, by way of the Founding Titan's power. Every wall on the island of Paradis has been unhardened. the Titans buried within them have begun to walk. My goal...is to protect the people of Paradis, who bore, and raised me. But the world desires the extinction of the people of Paradis. Over countless years, their hatred has grown beyond this island. They surely will not stop until they have killed every last one of our people. I reject their desire. The Titans of the Walls will trample and rumble all the lands beyond this island. Until the lives there... are eliminated from this world!
"Recognizing similarities is often more important than celebrating differences." I agree. But back to paleontology ....
Well, that can be implied for a whole range of things. :)
Words to live by.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy based paleoguy
I genuinely love prehistory. But holy crap after watching AOT stuff, I've been getting Soo many hallucigenia vids.
Same
Did anyone else recognize Plastic Love starting up in the background at 3:05 or just me?
EDIT: I just realized that it's listed in the video description, nevermind.
A great song indeed!
Wait, doesn't Eren's final founding titan form look like one massive and bony hallucigenia
Yes indeed!
Correct
R/woooosh
I think it looks like a cage too
@@noir3662 no he just got it it don’t count
That thumbnail is nightmare fuel
The true villian
Me: *watches a single AoT video on youtube
My recommendation feed: H A L L U C I G E N I A
XD I'm really glad it's reaching more of the wider anime community! :)
That moment when becoming an SnK fan to bond with a weeb friend gave me a fancy new science channel to bingewatch at night! Sweet!
Aw shit I main iori yagami, who do you main?
thats so sweet. i dont know any of these weeby references
@@michaelwerkov3438 eh 😂😂
A lot of progress has been made since I last watched a video on this
Most definitely!
Nice use of Plastic Love!
Thank you! A great song that I really need to use in more videos.
i found one of these in a big old tree
I loved this video! My favorite part was right near the end when my walls started rumbling
Fascinating! Thank you for this - I've been aware of Hallucigenia for a while and have always wondered about its appearance. The relationship to velvet worms really makes sense.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wooooowwww. Stegosaur worm!
Quite similar!
Just realized Eren's Founding Titan form kinda looks like a large Hallucigenea Sparsa made of bones
That is the point. ;)
God forgot to close spore when he made this thing 😂
That was truly fascinating. Thank you!! I've finally learned SOMETHING about a Cambrian Creature BESIDES Anomalocaris and Trilobites. I hope there's more like this!!
Read Stephen Jay Gould's book "Wonderful Life" for some REAL eye-openers!
There's Attack on Titan. How could you miss the fact that this worm has descendants?
There are some EXTREMELY ALIEN LIKE ANIMALS from the cambrian.
Anyone realize that erens founding Titan doesn't look like the others due to Eren getting his head shot off, and the body was made by his spine, and when made it took it's look from this worm, just super large. It had a human Skelton legs, but from the hips to the head, it resembles the worm itself.
It’s not his spine, it’s the worm itself that attached to Eren
3:07 Plastic love + Cambrian fauna?!?!??? GENIUS
Losing my mind, thank you so much for this gift of editing
thank you for playing Plastic Love in the background
Fellas, who do you think would win? 80% of humanity or this spiky boi?
It keeps moving forward until its enemies are destroyed.
*TATAKAE!!!*
That thing: exists
Hentai artists: *WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN*
Don't google that. Gods only know what would pop up, so to speak.
GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT! GOOGLE IT!
King Fritz has done shit
Hajime Isayama too
King Fritz: I Saw it first boys
did it have a *friend* named reiner? or does it just move forward?
The Hallucigenia would later evolve into the Tatake family Eldian vertebrates. Of which you can see the ancient similarities in the spinal structure of the later Eldian vertebrate, to the Hallucigenia overall structure being similar to the currant spinal nervous system.
It's so cool to see how the were incorporated into the story.
La-la-la-la-la
Ri-ras-ra-ra-ti-ti-ti-tas
Ri-ri-ras, ri-ras-ra-ra-ti-ti-ti-ta
Ra-ri-ras-ra-ra-ti-ti-ti-tas-ti-ri
Rastis! Rastis! Ra-ti-ti-la!
Let’s start a new life from the darkness till the light unveils the end.
@@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712 sinister faces growing curses
THIS IS MY LAST WAR
LA LA LA LA LA
Angels playing disguise with devil faces
Something I really like coming here now and then is that the vid maker here is a big AoT fan too. Makes it perfect.
I lept out of my seat as soon as I saw the single frame of Kanepixels animation tucked away in your video.
Thanks for the silent jumpscare
9:40 OST Rood Reiss 🙀
Indeed. ;)
The shape of the creature almost makes it look like it adapted to be parasitic, it's really cool. I like to imagine that the shape of the creatures might be based on what predators they sought to attach to, as the spines look like they would be perfect to use as a mechanism to anchor into the mouth of a would-be predator, and then using the other appendages to feed itself by grabbing whatever they would have eaten out of the water when the mouth of whatever they are in opens up. You could think of it like getting a free (and much easier) ride around, as the creature that would attempt to eat them would surely be more mobile than they are. They would potentially get easier food because of being hidden within this other creature and having the opportunity to snatch it once it's mouth opens up, and the creature they attach to would also serve as protection, like how snails and turtles rely on shells for shelter, the creature it would hide inside of would be like a shield for it.
They are likely detrovores. Sorry if I didn't spell it right. It basically means that they eat dead and rotting material.
Evolution kicking it up a notch to full OG weird. Kudos....
It can be a strange process indeed. :)
I love how this was recommended to me after I watched that one episode.
lol quite cheeky of you to sneak some AoT music near the end of this. :D
I had to watch this again. It's very satisfying to me to see the evolution of our understanding of Hallucigenia going from a very weird and implausible animal, to a still pretty weird but quite plausible critter.
Thanks again. Cheers from rather warm Vienna, Scott
I'm sitting here like "is that Rod's titan theme? Nah, that can't be, it's a biology video..." and a moment later "yes, that's definitely his theme..." then I check the description and it really is, lol! What a surprise to findspoiler warnings too, lol. Cheers!
Time please ?
@@Wolf-vy7et starts around 9:30, you can hear it properly at 9:50.
@@YamiKisara thanks
I just love that no matter how the discussion or disagreement on how Hallucogenia oriented itself or walked went, it’s universally agreed upon that regardless, it kept moving forward.
Narrator : explains about the physiology of the creature
Commentors : narrated him to extintion of entire human population.
Halluciginia : “Sir i only feed on dead fish.”
XD
A fascinating creature with a fascinating history of discoveries.
Al that in a fascinating presentation. Thank you very much, this is the one mystery creature I really wanted to know more about.
love how plastic love is just playing in the background for no damn reason
When I heard plastic loves in the background I couldn’t stop singing so I had to rewatch this twice lol
Eldians be like : "Go grandpa go!" 💪
Eren called us
The AOT fans returning!
@@HenrythePaleoGuy lmao 🤣
We have been brought to the paths for one last time for this moment.
At least until history repeats itself and everything turns to zero.
To you 2000 or 20000 years into the future.
Hallucigenia be like
No body gonna break my stride
No body gonna slow me down
Glad to see some more cambrian creatures being covered. Keep them coming!
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW EREN???!!??!!?! I'M WATCHING ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT HALLUCIGENIA FROM MY RECOMMENDATIONS AGAIN
0:35 - "The remains of these peculiar animals were originally described by -H.P. Lovecraft- Charles Walcott."
isayama 10:43 pause it
When plastic love started playing around 3:20 it caught me off guard
Song in the bird cage
Should I sing if I sing
Sky look wind tomorrow
Blow today
Blow today
Morning in the bird
Spend with me
Blow tomorrow
Every single day
It is next to you
Surely come in the morning one day say hello
To expand the hand to the side of other town
Surely not accustomed divert alone
Come morning everyone laugh again with me
I think I just found my new favourite animal!
@nick sweeney very
Attack on Titan fans when they discover worms are real
Stuff From Dogelore when he sees someone making a joke
I'm not a he and I did not say that the jokes should be stoped, I would do that if it was in a fanbase I'm in
Imagine this dude coming at you screaming Rumbling......
But all you hear is some tiny worm mumbling 😂
Damn...they where kind of cute little velvet worm, sea dragon things...
That pink one he showed that still picture of, just leaned over a bit, almost looked like it was smiling and dancing. I could see someone using that in a cartoon.
Tree pond dwelling
Cambrian animals are the coolest. Thanks hope for more.
Wait no false alarm guys, thats just a thing i made in Spore
XD
Bruh a worm having some bones at his back
Everybody: its ERENS FOUNDING TITAN!
It's so cool how it takes inspiration from it.
Yooooo I need this as a pet it looks hella cool also I wouldn't mind *FUSING WITH IT* ⚡⚡⚡
No not again not again
Yay! I was really looking forward to this ❤️
looking forward until you destroy all your enemies
@@Bruh.Master tatakae
Thank you for sharing your insights and your positive energy and hope you know how much I appreciate your fascinating video. Bless you and I shall be looking forward to your next video 🙏❤️
Thank you so much! I've got a lot planned out, and I've got two more paleontology videos in the works as I'm typing this, so stay tuned for more. :)
Plastic Love BGM was unexpected but much appreciated
What an interesting little fella! I sure hope it doesn't start an unending cycle of destruction and suffering!
The Cambrian and before that is so under exposed to the public. I wish more of these programmes would be made focusing on the Cambrian and before life. Life did not begin with the dinosaurs. But it seems that way to many.
I wish so as well. Very interesting time, and as seen from art from guys like Christian M., it can elevate them even further.