Petrified Forests of Baja California Mexico
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- This video demonetized, probably for references to spider sex/ etc.
In this episode we explore some 70 million-year-old sediments and the fossils contained within in the deserts of Baja California, Mexico. We encounter a trap door spider and check out the flowers of Hesperoyucca whipplei growing on a sketchy slope above a canyon filled with snail fossils and petrified wood of the genus Rosarioxylon (Lauraceae).
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Joey don’t worry too much about the trapdoor spider (Bothriocyrtum californicum) if you put it next to its burrow it will find it will make its way back down and get to work. Putting the lid at the entrance means that they can reuse it.
The behavior exhibited is typical for when females are taken out from their burrows. They become confused lumbering potatoes but they’ll find their burrow entrance eventually and get straight to work.
If you do this again remember to do it when the soil is damp and easily diggable so that the spiders can excavate a new burrow (if the original collapses) and provide cover so they don’t roast.
If you want to ID the spider without disturbing it the lids and how they are attached are diagnostic to the multiple genuses of trapdoor spider in Western North America.
Yes, put your lid next to the entrance, and lets see if it bites...
I'm not the only one who's immediately feeling responsible for anything I might upset. If only others felt that way. It's why I love ya Joey.
Exactly what I wanted to say. Nice to know there are other soft-hearteds out running around in the world. : )
Did you really think you were the only human that can exhibit empathy 🤨
like everything, empathy has a bell curve. Some of us are at the extreme end where we just don't care, some of us at the other end where we cry when a spider falls in the bath tub and we try to save it even though it's all sudsy, most people are in the middle; if it's cute and cuddly we donate to the volunteer groups but we'll put out cockroach bait and spray mosquitos, t'is just the way of things@@0_1_2 I, myself, have saved an ant from drowning in a puddle then had to stop someone from sitting on it on the bus stop seat. *shrugs* *winks*
@0_1_2 well... when we struggle through interaction with so many folks who trample all over us not seeming ti even be aware of the impact of their careless actions, yeah. A person can start to think that they must be from a different planet.
Bruh, I never once thought that I was into botany until I stumbled upon this gem of a field trip. Thank you for the asmr in botanical exploring
What a beautiful time to be there and see the landscape so beautiful in bloom. The atmosphere crystal clear making all the colors pop!!
3:20 trap door spider learns the hard way...Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't .LOL
Love that.
You and Alan are the ecological dynamic duo we need
i enjoy the hell out of these videos. i understand every 13th word though.
Gotta learn somehow that's how I did it. Eventually it sinks in
Joey doesn't just walk around a desert today but walks through time as well!
goddamn these opening shots are WILD! 💚
Slick.
For some unknown reason, the algorithm breached my calloused corpus callosum (hey, I'm redundant!) and here we are.
Subscribed.
Love the jazz flute. Feels unusually cheerful and serves a good contrast.
Thank you for making people excited about all this stuff. I've always enjoyed "nature" but it can seem overwhelming, by having a sense of connection to so many life forms, animals, plants and even many insects, and be either overly calming or even depressive from the sheer amount of beauty (and how many ignore it it over so much bullshit) and how much is being lost. The key is to be excited to want to learn more, experience more, and gain a lot of enjoyment and mental and physical stimulation out of it, it's the only way for someone to truly "care" about it.
That spider had the cutest face. Her perplexed eyes... lmao
super interesting! where you found that first log jutting out the cliff, since it was petrified horizontal, you know that that's where the land mass originally had structure. you can almost envision where the water would have been there in the landscape. that was right at sea level. so cool man, I wish I was there!
I’m having a great time with this video today as I turn into a cashew at my desk.
Also that spider is a lady not a gent. Chubby arthropods tend to be female. But I was looking up the spider to find out if she'd be OK. Seems like probably. You did ruin her day, but a bird would have ruined it more.
I concur, female trapdoor spider, she'll have to re- make her little sock, but she'll be fine. I believe they can use some of the old shelter for the new one, if I'm not mistaken.
She got a thick dump truck.
Yeah. I imagine it's extra support for cave ins in the weak sediment? Beautiful lass.
Correct! A friend of mine is a spider guy and informed me the males live comparatively very short life spans. They're just effectively stunt c-cks and otherwise useless, lol
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntstunt cock lol dude 😂
i watched this yesterday but the noise (in my brain) today is so loud i need joey to take me back to the late cretaceous again. thanks for doing what you do.
This is music. Like a spoken-word opera.
Awesome way to wind up my work week.
The spider will be fine, or not. Feel bad about it then move forward. Collateral damage. When you meet her in Valhalla, she'll say "aw that's okay. Love your garden.".
Probably.
Thanks!
evolving diversifying and radiating, daht s Real nice!
Looks so green an beautiful everything is thriving so nice
Enjoyed the tag-along Joey, cheers mate! ✌🇦🇺
Louie could be my Stormee’s twin! Total respect for Heeler people!
educational. energetic, and emotionally compelling... 9.6/10 👏
Love this after rain one! Nice to know the temp too, I always wonder when you sometimes don't say.
This spot is beautiful. ❤
Hey Cuz,,,, you are great..... made me appreciate botany and rocks...
Now in 1440p. .. gorgeous!
22:35 cute 😂
Thanks for sharing Joey!
"Fiddely fuckin around" 😂😂😂😂
I checked out your show you guys did a good jobs it's really niccce
That trap door spider was pretty cool 2see. Most of the spider channels i watch on here wouldn't pull their house up so i can see it like that. Thanks Tony!!
Great video. The other day I was flying over Baja desert in the middle of the day and looked out the window and thought what it must be like down there. Well, thanks to you, now I know!
Amazing landscape! The geology is incredible. Love that yucca too 😍
Great footage, very beautiful scenery. I pause this video at 15:22 and I think I spotted gold or I have gold fever. 😅
and he's able to tolerate me. I love that... story of my life.
My favorite botanist
Botany AND rock hounding? Dude, add some aquarium keeping and fishing to your videos and your channel might be all I need to watch on CZcams. Love your content. Greetings from Mexico City!
Your out-of-nowhere canyon: a modern headward-eroding stream (extreme example), primary evidence of regional uplift/tilt of the area you were in. Increases in slope = increased increases in erosion power of streams as they work towards “base level”, either sea level or lake level, depending.
Fascinating video! Entertaining, too! 👍
Another excellent video
Fantastic video!
do you wanna come explore Iran? we got very crazy locations with incredible stuff lying around
I love Baja!
The music is legendary bud❤
Aha! Distracted by the huge Cardon! Same, same haha! Omg. Lol 😅
I love your show.
I spend time outside in nature just like you and your crew, I just don’t have the botanists education.
Between the county library and this show I am armed with a little more education than when I started out.
Amazing spider. I Wonder how abundant Cistanthe maritima is around there. Beautiful trip, thanks for sharing.
Love watching your adventure videos
Absolutely pleasant walk with you through this gorgeous area. Those lahhhhgs were absolutely amazing. I can imagine that wood going back several feet into the hill its coming out of. Just imagine pulling it out in one piece and having it on display in a museum.
“Was zatchU. WazatchU-U took a shit ritchere?”
I WANT THAT ON A T-SHIRT, for some reason.
That was quite nice
Cool place, cool plants, cool rocks. Hope Alan found some shrooms.
Jack es muy lindo excelente compañero y amigo, me encanta jack
The desert in bloom is so gorgeous. If the ancient trees aren't fully fossilized can DNA be extracted?
No DNA left.
I think you are looking at a marginal marine environment in the Turonian (?) (Late Cretaceous). I am surprised that you didn't find any oysters (Gryphea, Exogyra, Ostrea). Wood probably washed into a bay during periods of storms. That's my guess. A marine environment during this time would probably be more carbonate rich. But, you were there with folks who know, I wasn't.
I found ONE bivalve fossil and that was it. These snails were really getting it done back then apparently. I presume the log washed out to sea or to a salty lagoon or something and that why it read there. There weren't many more of them. I've been in fossilized wood deposits where wood was abundant (probably due to instant volcanic ash burial) but this was not that
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntYou are probably right. A salty lagoon is probable. Usually when the faunal diversity is low, it is some sort of restricted environment. A salty lagoon qualifies. Presence of gypsum and well-preserved wood also supports this.
Thank you
You sound like a new new Yorker but I love your knowledge. We love in Wyoming. Most the same stuff
I love your videos, and I am very impressed by the wealth of knowledge that you have.
The trapdoor spider's house looked like a dirty sock! El Niño's been very good to the desert, even as it screws everyone else over. I've heard that there used to be redwoods even in SW New Mexico.
I wish you would have said something about the red clay looking chunks you kept passing over. My two favorite things ...plants and geology.
I didn't see any red clay
Thanx for all your amazing work!
What camera do you use?
Seems to me, there'd be some other gem stones there, very cool spot, enjoyed it.
You amaze ne your knowledge is a amazing. Thank you. Blessings
Can't imagine how much more fertile those lands would be with grazers moving over them like there was before.
15:39 Is that a fossil?? It looks insanely detailed and well preserved.
Talking about feral European honey bees, have you ever encountered Africanized honey bees during your hikes in the American South west?
As a rock hound I love this video, also if you can do a video on aquatic plants I would be thrille
their are places on the navajo rservation where you can find wood that is half petrified and half wood......crazy how it still feels l;ike wood but turns into stone, almost like a chemical reation.
Bad idea to put rocks around the burrow. Myaglomorph spiders run tripwires from their burrow to detect prey, which they ambush from the trapdoor. The rocks interfere with where these triplines would go.
Love your work, keep it up.
I'm growing some Salvia mohavensis from seed. Should I add gypsum to the potting material? Is it a woody perennial or a subshrub? I can only find pictures of the flowers online. Any info is appreciated.
No gypsum needed
Subshrub
Thank you.@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
I'm here for the petrified LAAGS. The ones in Montana were crazy.
From what i could find, that was a Ctenizidae. Really cool.
I must have been a moth in a past life, night flowers have my favourite sents
poor spider baby. I don't know much about spiders, but they ought to have a way to bounce back from something like that. Probably just molted. aw...
I feel your pain Joe
I felt really bad as well one time when I did the same thing here in Ohio wants a great while you might come across a trapdoor spider here but that is extremely extremely rare
Mostly due to our temperatures and that's not good at least for us the temperature swings will go anywhere between in certain sections especially over by the airport down in the valley in the gully section over by the creek or in this case Rocky River I have noticed and logged -67 ° below zero on one of my nights out there on my rides the hottest temperature literally melted my tires and the gel that was in my mountain biking terrain shorts so I'm going to say that reached a good whopping 170° to maybe 215°and believe me that was a brutal trip about
That log is amazingly well preserved; I wonder if there's DNA left
This is have the plus, botanic with geology history✌️
...if anybody find something Special ( Rock, Fossil) don t leave at home put in a place to someone study intensively, or give to a museum close to the region you found it
I love seeing your dog. More dog please.
Petrified forests, gneiss!
The most beautiful mountain king snake are from Baja California white black and red colors. You should bring back a piece or two of that petrified wood and cut sand and polish it into a pendant
I think the shells can be made from the same material as insect exoskeleton so maybe something was eating insects and something was creating shells from waste and then stuff starts digging holes and plants grow and back up make ponds and all kinds of different micro environments at different points in time
Did anyone else scream a little when he zoomed in on the tarantula? I love those critters, but they do give me a very primal response
those 3 lobed ovaries are also found on spider plants Yuccas and Dracaenas
Nature is the best sculptor.
By the way my good man
You really really really need to go too Geneva-on-the-Lake at Eddie's bar and grill next to the dairy Queen
Look up at the lights
That was a small spider compared to the ones that are out there
Please don't handle my late cretaceous petrified 'lahgs'!
Giant petrified splinters. 🙂
1:48 I was wondering if it was a saltbush of some sort!
I always see yucas growing in strange places but how do they get there? The seeds don't fly away too far and high, do they? xd
That wood looks like it would ignite, but it's completely petrified?
Also don't count with Baja California developing much more, there is no water at all for that and it's poorly connected to the country. The only people desperate enough to develope it would be the Americans but they will find other places (I hope).
I wish I could be a time traveling botanist too!
I wish you could share precise locations so I could go look, but I know why you don’t. UGH someday I’ll put In the work to find places like this too.
The best thing about these places is that people haven't ruined them yet.
Why pull that grass from the spot it sat in perfect beauty?
5:45 Could it be a turbidite carved channel in a sedimentary fan?
That's what I was gonna say
That chunk at ~17:00😲 as a specimen for phylogeny with it in such good condition, I wonder how much DNA would be recoverable?
Gonna be my new go to question-- Can you eat it??
I love ancient LARGS
14:25 looks like he's hiking up the mud coated roots of a petrified tree stump 0_0
The trees of life
Seems like they just get preserved in the desert like landslide and baked looks like mushroom like mycelium create pathways in the entire log until the desert concentrate a wash that a drier log soaks in for specific length of time maybe baked again after that and covered and preserved and weathered and exposed again
They're all late Cretaceous fossils