The Ancient ‘Mammals’ that Reigned Before the Dinosaurs
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- This video looks at a group of amazing creatures that existed before the dinosaurs like dimetrodon, gorgonopsids and dicynodonts. We often assume primitive animals lived back then but these animals where anything but, evolving certain features that all mammals possess.
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i hope in 400 million years someone looks at my fossils and thinks i look badass enough to give me a name like DINOGORGON
Ikr
@jorge pearl that’s why I hate smart people
No, they'll just call you 'toes'
In 400 million years the intelligent cockroaches will put your skeleton together in the wrong way and say you were a quadrapid virus that overpopulated the world, ate everything, and shat out plastic bottles.
This is a hilarious comment chain.
I still can’t believe these creatures existed. Earth’s history is so fascinating to me
@Venky Wank Both tell us where we came from.
@KAANI Bingo
...Can't wait until someone is looking at our remains, and trying to figure out what we were
...And the numerous things they'll probably get wrong
Trust
I can't believe it either
@GOD of FUCK exactly
Cretaceous extinction: **happens**
Synapsids: Quest started - Return of the King
I want to like but it’s the perfect number so, 👍
Sounds about right
Kind of odd that we have all these books and stuff about dinosaurs interacting with other dinosaurs, but we don't really talk about their interactions with mammals and pre-mammals with the same gusto. Especially in museums, the sense is usually of mammals existing only in their own post-dino age, not that I read carefully.
The usual portrayal is of rat type creatures running around the feet of dinosaurs. I had no idea how big some of these got.
@@anonb4632 the rat mammals were the cryptids of that time
It's not really weird, dinosaurs had always fascinated us, because they were the first big creatures to be found (being more ancient, and often not in North America, permian synapsides were not found in such details than dinosaurs).
And later, dinosaurs had Jurassic Park, not synapsids :p
@@anonb4632 I think the biggest of them were the size of a badger and eats baby dinosaurs (among other things ^^).
@@krankarvolund7771 You can't underestimate peoples fixation on big things either
I found it surprising to realize how diverse both mammals/premammals and even the more terrestrial croc relatives were in the Jurassic and Cretaceous all the way up until the end Cretaceous where almost all mammals and every crocodylomorph relatives were wiped out alongside the nonavian dinosaurs. There were also far more diverse reptiles insects arachnids crustaceans bivalves plants really every major evolutionary group seems to have had far more diversity than I had ever realized based on typical depictions.
Like I was quite surprised to learn that angiosperms were so dominant during the late cretaceous. Even relatives of temperate deciduous flora had largely arisen adapted to high latitudes.
When you realize just how much there was in the Mesozoic it really changes your perception of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on life. Mammals after the archosaurs were actually surprisingly one of the hardest hit animal groups as a whole, placental mammals happened to fare far better than most mammal groups for some reason but that was a particularly important exception. Even the crocodilians that survived were very small species.
There are entire ecological niches which haven't returned since the end of the Cretaceous, entire clades of insects numerous groups of plants and algae that vanished. The event wasn't something that just offed the dinosaurs and not mammals letting them dominate as it is often portrayed it was a literal ecological collapse with specialists getting wiped out entirely aside from those adapted to aquatic detrital environments.
But images basically always show the big stuff and maybe our smaller ancestors.
What I find most impressive is that they can identify an animal hundreds of millions of years old from what is essentially a fossilized dingle berry.
But cant find our ancestors remains!
It's all fascinating honestly...
@@deadwingdomain Accept we did and keep finding more lol.
@@Scanntraxx001 Except*
They do get it wrong very often though, especially when they see a new species
Tagris AJ both could be right in this case
Every one of your videos makes me realized how unbelievably lucky we all are to be living in this day and age.
It makes me wonder how many planets must be out there that might just be teeming with life like ancient earth. There's gotta be a thousand of them for every planet with intelligent life.
@@raygunn95 True, and if there are planets with conditions for like like Earth, as is hypothesized. Then the aliens will look somewhat like Earth creatures, and there might even be alien Human species. Cause the conditions for life need to be similar
For example, they found the marks in Europa, and they look like cyanobacteria of a very primitive Earth where life was begining to spring in the Ocean
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess I think my the universe has a general biochemistry for all living beings
The absence of existence is not unlucky, either. You are programmed by Nature to feel lucky to be alive, and to have survival instict, etc. But that's just that, an instinct.
It's good to feel grateful our present existence has nothing to do with luck really.
1 million years is such an unfathomable amount of time. It’s amazing to think that these creatures roamed the earth for 100s of millions of years before the dinosaurs.
1 million is easily fathomed as 1 thousand thousand.
Jamesha, don’t pretend you didn’t understand.
And then you look at how long we been here and how close we currently are to fucking everything up for us selfs, and that's when you wonder if we truly are "intelligent" and if intelligens truly is that great for suvival.
@@MassimoAngotzi ha ha in reality i fathomed that he actually did fathom the immensity. ok i'm done!
It's not the truth. The Dinosaurs only been around a few thousand years.
This really just goes to show you how different aliens could be from anything we can imagine.
When the animal has a "gorgon", or a "dragon", or any monster's name in his own name, you know it's serious stuff. They deserve their own movie saga.
This channel is REALLY good, on a par with PBS Eons, I hope it takes off!
SO much easier on the nerves
@@carlhenry6223 same eons is kinds fake just facts but they dont say what the title says
@@carlhenry6223 I've never watched the other channel and actually prefer this one. I discovered this channel. .000000000098980012223 seconds ago. I started typing this comment before I discovered the channel.
Right, but I nevertheless stay fan of P.B.S. Eons.
It sure could have a lot of potential. Hope it will release videos debunking dinosaurs as a hoax one day. Happy summer from Iceland!We´re smart people who don´t believe bullshit.
When you realise every living thing is related in some way.
micah bell true dat micah
Everything is connected.
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Your a Rat cowpoke!
I hate you
"...as little as 110 millions years ago"
That's very short in geological time
Well for life on earth 110 million years ago is not that short buutt is not that far behind either 😅 There's being life for around 2 billion years mostly in the form of primordial soup and bacterias. It wasn't until 600 million years that everything fast forwarded.
@@luisvalentin361 he said geological not biological
@@snoom3350 Well buddy in a geological time scale, life is also taken in consideration. If not, you should know why the current Eon is called the Phanerozoic Eon
@@luisvalentin361 but what were the odds of it happening?
This is a reminder to me that what current life forms are in existence today only represents a tiny fraction of all creatures that have ever existed.
...or will be exist
Ikr , it's all so mindblowing -and imagine all the fossils buried all over the place still waiting to be uncovered
And maybe there are other worlds out there with life
so basically, the cretaceous extinction was the synapsids' payback time to conquer the world once again. awesome
Starting to think the protomammals and that asteroid were in cahoots
Except that the diapsids still dominate the skies in the form of birds, man-made aircraft notwithstanding.
@@dondragmer2412 The bats man it's all conspiracy and you know what is worse? ALL THE SYNAPSIDS ARE IN ON IT EXCEPT US!
@@jamesperson199 synapsids were higher level beings
Who knows reptiles might get there revenge in 100 million years
Imagine if fossils never existed.
If living creatures just dissolved into nothingness, we would have so many unsolved mysteries.
Most do. It takes specific conditions to preserve a fossil
Yeh i was thinking about this the other day we'd never know about the dinosaurs
Most extinct animals will never be discovered. Fossilisation requires extremely specific conditions. Most animals never fossilized and are lost to time entirely.
We still do. 95% of human history is unknown.
@@marcuswalters8093 We have strong knowledge about the most important parts of human history. It's human pre-history that is mostly unknown to us.
The Permian is one of the wildest eras; i hope it gets more recognition going forward.
Whomever said history is boring had a terrible teacher.
History was boring because it was all about what the humans did and not what the weird mammal lizard things did
To me has happened boring books, sadly... Very limited stuff... Greek educational system.....
This isn't history. This is paleobiology. With history we consider our history as species or genus, just considering our ancestors. It is basically anthropology. Which is boring af
@@vincenzocapasso9990 ikr??? History (or even biology books could have more stuff concerning the subject) books in school could have both but educational systems are trash, bc they have the idea that some things are more *important* than others :/
Whoever*
The irony is that synapsids dominated Earth more thoroughly before the Mesozoic than after it.
Where’s the irony in that statement?
Well, did they, really?
Chris Cuellar That we used to believe that mammals arose after the fall of the dinosaurs, but were long before them.
@@xerxesofpersia9630 well, not really. stem-mammals predate the dinosaurs, but not mammals themselfs. true mammals didn't apear until the late triassic.
@@secularargument It's a bit ironic because we characterise the post-Dinosaur era as "the reign of mammals", but before dinosaurs mammal ancestors were even more successful.
Imagine how many generations of animals were born, raised, struggled to survive, to find food, a mate, avoid predators... only to die anyway. Sick, cold, scared and in pain.
Life always has been cruel...
Ya nature is a rascal
Fishyc150 That thought has haunted me my whole life.
Such is the nature of the universe and all life that came to be in its spaces..
@@Conkel Yep. Sucks.
Blackpilled
proto mamals! cool!
They are cool
@@irenewolfe4013 My exact thoughts!
Irene Wolfe did you have a stroke
Looks like the creature in borderland
@@paulojose7060 skags?
I am really excited for this channel!
Thank you, I appreciate it
@@mothlightmedia1936 look at his profile picture, and you will understand more
Mammals didn't "rise up" when the Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, they made a comeback.
What gets me about going through all the knowledge we have about past creatures and lineages is that WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WAS LEFT BEHIND, and only then only the ones we've found.
The vast, vast majority of living things in the history of life on earth did not get fossilized, but the huge amount of creatures over a [relatively] vast length of time ensures that there are still plenty of fossils to help us piece together what the likely state of life on earth was during given time periods.
Imagine all the weird shit that didn't fossilize (not actual shit)
Wow! I had no idea that Anapsids existed until today! I’ve been fascinated with this stuff since I was a child and I’m still learning things! Thank you !
Also, there is evidence that dimetrodon might have had a rat-like tail and early fur, and that the sail might not have looked exactly like we used to think.
I just think this stuff is awesome! Keep up the good work!
Life is just so incredible.
Its a tragedy though that DNA isn't more resilient, and therfore so many creatures are forever gone.i
That's how evolution works. If it wasn't, we'd still have those creatures, and we wouldn't have the ones we have today. The ones we have today exist because there was a void left by some extinct creature... a space in the natural order for a new creature to thrive.
Don't lament the cycle of life.
Who made DNA ?
@@karolkupec2044 No one.
@@karolkupec2044 hydrophobic molecules and amino acids did
@@Mythraen Ancient organisms were cool
I love this channel because it deals a lot with organisms before and after the so popular mesocoic era. Exactly what i am interested in since my early youth!!! Just keep going!!!
Great video
P.S. It's not for thermal regulation, too many paleontologists make this mistake. Predators often break the spine of their preys with a bite. This dorsal would have the advantage to protect the spine from the bite of an animal with long jaws. The dorsal starts before the neck in order to start the protection before the neck but it stops at the tail because the tail was important but not essential. On the other hand, this dorsal had the disadvantage to be visible from a relatively far distance.
at 4:45 when talking about the rise of archosaurs during the Triassic, you show a picture of Langstonia, a sebecosuchian crocodylomorph. While it certainly is an archosaur, this species in particular was actually from the Miocene, a far cry from the Triassic, and the group it belonged to would have only appeared sometime during the later Cretaceous period. Even if you count the possible representative from the Jurassic, it still would have looked nothing like the species shown and using it as an example of archosaurian radiation during the Triassic is still faulty.
It wasn't intended as an example of their radiation but just a visual representation of archosaurs, however, I see how it could be misleading, so fair point.
shut up
@@rumikazbar8228 who?
agreed but i didn't take it as an example for basal archosaurs as it looked too modern.
Rumi Kazbar people pointing out a mistake in an educational video isn’t anything bad or wrong if anything it is something positive that improves the content
Gorginopsids are some of my favorite prehistoric animals, and they're so interesting
i'm so glad i found this channel
Thank you
With every of your videos I watch, the longing for time travel just gets bigger and bigger.
In all seriousness, I've really been enjoying your videos lately, Earth's history is truely amazing!
PBS Eons brought me here I love little documentaries like this haha I've been bing watching your channel and PBS all day XD
I like to point out we survived all extinction events
How many more can we keep surviving?
@@dondragmer2412 one more like we always have done
@@brownsnakeded I think the point is, we can exctinct ourselves now.
Our brains haven't evolved in the past few centuries, but our capabilities exploded.
And without gradual evolution our lack of adaptations to the completely changed environment and conditions will likely mean our demise.
@@brownsnakeded And now we are causing a new extinction event by ourselves.
@@NJ-wb1cz I like to think that humankind collectively is just hitting its puberty. If we don't spoil ourselves too much we can still reach adulthood before its too late.
You need to make videos of the individual timelines, like the periods and eras. For example, the mosaic era and going into each period of that era while going into the plant & animal life of those periods. You could really keep this channel going more. More frequent uploads like every week would be good
Another great video. You always seem to go a step further in explaining things, thanks.
Earth's Lore are so wild.
Really good stuff! Well researched, clear and concise. You're definitely on your way up and you more than deserve it.
This channel got a chill format. Very enjoyable. Makes me remember old time documentaries I watched back when I was a kid.
Please be proud of your format. 😁
That’s because there is no pounding music.
This sounds like a someone's PhD thesis
Very enjoyable
Eoidieieks3pse
Great channel! I've always been interested in the Permian period. Excellent graphics. I've learned a lot in just this short video. Thank you.
The Permian extinction makes you wonder about how much longer WE have.
PINK SEAS!!
Edit: it literlly became so hot so oxygen couldent exist in the water so bacteria that lives in water with No oxygen made the water pink! Also the bacteria was super toxic!
J. B. I just said pink seas xD
It’s not looking good now
And what will come after us? Intelligent birds?
I give our species 500 more years before we 🔥 out and that's being pretty generous.
06:17 "I sure not can go extinct. I too kyoot." - awwpetodon
chipmunk
Have some respect for your great great great great great and many more greats grandad
I feel like most people think in terms of.....there were dinosaurs, they went extinct, and now there's us.
But holy crap it is so so so much more complicated than that.....and to imagine mammal like creatures existing before dinosaurs is just insane
people are simple minded
@@eggrollsoup you are living proof
@@judgeprime3730 Based on what?
@@judgeprime3730you feel attacked?
I’d love if your videos were even longer and more detailed! This subject is ripe for exploration and I feel that a few more branches could have been introduced.
Thanks for the great vids!
0:47 Wow, it's amazing that all land creatures so far evolved from just these three similar creatures and natural selection.. Mind blown 🤯
No it was magic and Dinos did not exist just giants fool until the flood anyway oh yea and Demons and Angels I forgot about them.
@@jameshannagan7830 I really hope you’re joking, it’s hard to tell these days
@@jameshannagan7830 wtf are you on drugs?
not really,these are the groups of creatures,it probably wasn't as simple as just having three species.
Loving the content and the background music
This is possibly my favorite CZcams channel. You are awesome. I need to watch this video again though because I have a lot of questions. Mainly related to notions that I held to be true which are being corrected as I follow the wonderful narration.
Facinating, clear, well explained and thoroughly enjoyable presentation. Thank you.
CZcams algorithm seems to support your old videos now.
Your channel will soon get much more attention, I guess
I'm so happy seeing your channel grow and i just realized your voice sounds even better when i'm high.
sam ram noted.
Thank you for this video! Easily one of the most fascinating and illuminating video I’ve seen in ages! Thank you
This feels like a mini documental, i love it, subbed
I love gorgonopsids so much. :)
I've had a couple of Venus fly traps, the trigger mechanism is very interesting. You have to touch the inner spokes more than once within a short window of time. Also, if you let it trap your fingertip you can feel a very mild numbing tingle.
Thanks this is a fantastic video - very well made
I find this channel among the best informative channels on CZcams 👌👌
I really like your presentation style! Mammal dominant before dinosaurs is new reality for me.
true mammals didn't arrive on the scene until about the late triassic, stem mammals ruled before the dinosaurs
when it comes to animal documentary, this man's voice wins!
Beautifully presented!
Thank you for making these videos!
The reason it’s so hard to fathom some of these creatures existence is so fascinating to me. Our instincts are millions of years apart. If a snake bows up to a modern human, we know what it means and how to deal with it. These creatures may have acted/reacted to life completely differently.
in addition to this, planets, stars, and galaxies have been around for much longer and still continue to exist. the hell even is our universe? how come the earth evolved like this and etc.
I can’t imagine the reaction another species would have if humans had a mass extinction and they found billions of human fossils all over the world
not really, since it takes time to find fossils. and also more and more people start cremating
@@baph1 I like this idea but seeing as there are 7Billion+ humans there would be lots of fossils anywhere in the world that is densely populated
@@baph1 bruh what 💀 it would be so easy to find human bones of that was the case
they'll find the face and butt implants and think it was a new hominid evolving
@@chateaupig826 fr
You just did a better job then any teacher I ever had at explaining evolution
Great overview of early mammalian ancestors. Thank you for sharing.
Great video!!!
Thank you
Nice video!
Our paleobiology prof sent us the link to it^^
Wow that's awesome, what college do you go to?
@@mothlightmedia1936 Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany
Great Video! It's fascinating how mammals had earlier beginnings than Dinosaurs.
CZcams feed actually suggesting good content for once. Subscribed :)
The background music reminds me of the BBC's Walking with Beasts' DVD menu. Just curious if it's the same cause it's a very memorable and nostalgic tune to me. The video itself was very interesting.
Love that series!
very good, I love these stories, could only have subtitles in Portuguese and other languages.
ya it was an entertaining story... I want to hear more stories.
Thanks for all your videos :)
This channel is really educational 👍🏻
Lisowicia is mindbending. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around such a creature. If you didn't show its scale beside a human I'd guess it was no bigger than a modern bull. Not an African elephant.
I thought that dinosaurs were first animals but I had no idea that there were many main extinctions that changed the evolution of animals today and if one were not to happen then we may not be here today, super interesting topic to research.
u thought that dinos were first animals? animals have existed since the ediacaran, where did u get that dinos were the first animals?
@@eggrollsoup Well I never put in much research into the topic and I found it very interesting because its something I never learned, I guess I just skipped the timeline or something?
Thanks for the interesting and well presented video.
absolutely fascinating video & valuable information!
thank you sir.
"There were synapsids, anapsids, and diapsids"
Ah yes, the three horsemen of "apsid".
Considering how scary was the Gorgonospid, I find it very possibe that dinosaurs went extinct because of the asteroid, but also because they were hunted by some clever mammals.
Mammals weren't big enough although they might have eaten their eggs.
Such huge proto-mammals like gorgonopsids were long gone by the extinction of dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs ruled for like 160 million years, survived extinction events like the Triassic one.
The mammals didnt get any chance to evolve into something greater until after the meteorite.
really good videos!
you are doing a great job bruh !! love your work keep going !! 👍👍 lots of love from india!!
*When you realise Corona viruse is your distinct cousin* 😓😓
Barely,viruses are animals,but that's it,there is no more connection.
Dinosaurs have too much media and public attention, yeah they are cool, but are not the only ancient lifeform, Synapsids and which includes all therapsids, pelycosaurs, and of course all mammals living and extinct, are a very fascinating group. Our own life history and that of other mammals should really captivate the public and media.
So, rather than admit your errors and ignorance of the subject, and acknowledge my corrections, you ignore me and repost your comment, but amended. You cowardly rat.
@@Dr.IanPlect wtf are u talking about goofy ass
This is my favorite channel I love this stuff
Excellent video, thank you.
This is from another thread, but it really deserves a place on page one..
A brilliant creationist wrote: "how are movies producing “dinosaur” sounds when we never heard them?".
And a breathtaking argument it is! Aye, my friends.. we are truly in the presence of intellectual giants.
that dude was probably just a troll who liked arguin
@@Gasmaskmax It’s possible, but I’ve most certainly come across people who believe in it so strongly that they’ll do the same thing.
i dont understand when people pick and choose critical thinking. like first off why is the person using movies as a frame of reference. as if Jurassic park is an attempt to be a documentary. worst of all a lot of people dont realize its really not that difficult to make an educated guess based off findings.
you can find out that an animal that went extinct many eras ago would have had feathers observing parts of its bones that would have had spots that feathers would sprout out from, and compare that with animals that exist today that have feathers that have the same function. im sure you can apply that to an organism's vocal chords. take into account the species, the genus, the size, the space in its throat, etc. whatever theyd use to determine what sound it would probably make.
"Let's talk about the most defining features of mammals, unique among other animals."
Me: Fur? Mammal glandes? Placenta? Homeothermy?
"Their ear bones."
Oh... yeah of course, that is the first thing everyone think about when talking about mammals :p
@The-Argonian-Guy Well homeothermy and fur is present in both marsupials and monotremes, marsupials also have mammal glandes and even a sort of placenta ^^
The big problem is that hemeothermy and fur is not a thing you'll found in the bones ^^
Great presentation. Thanks
Great video. A lot of new information for me.
It’s pretty impressive that we know all of this already.
We know what we think we know
Hi. The usage of anapsid as natural group of animals is kinda old-schooled and shouldn't be used anymore. Some "anapsids" actually evolved a pair of temporal openings similar to synapsids (e. g. some parareptiles like Millerosaurus). Also ancestors of diapsids like Hylonomus still bore an anapsid skull as do turtles, like you mentioned in your video. Whether the anapsid skull in turtles is the ancestral condition or a secondary evolution from a diapsid ancestor is the big question. Nevertheless, nice work of you covering early amniote evolution. These animals rarely get much of the spotlight.
Yeah, and phylogenetically its been established that turtles and plesiosaurs share an ancestor, and their clade(Pantestudines) shares ancestors with archosaurs, forming Archelosauria
@@demonking86420 Yeah, that's one possibility. Pantestudines is just turtles + all taxa closer to them than to lepidosaurs and archosaurs. I also saw lately an analysis that found choristoderes to be in the turtle stem-group. And then there is this whole issue whether parareptiles are inside Diapsida...
There seems to be a growing consensus that turtles are diapsids and relatively close to archosaurs, but apart from that there is still so much going on in diapsid phylogenetics, I wouldn't be surprised if some of this stuff changes again.
@@pascalab5613 heck even in synapsids theres a lot of shit going on, with the clade Theria(marsupials and placentals) being more closely related to the extinct Multituberculates and other extinct Mesozoic mammal clades than they are to Monotremes
and then there's the entire order of chiropterans(bats), with the microbat-megabat thing still up in the air
Thank you, that was bugging me too
@@demonking86420 That's a hypothesis not a fact
VERY well done!!
Tnx for this video I appreciate it didn’t know that mammals lived alongside the ancient reptiles (dinosaurs) keep up 👍
6:12 what a cute lookin fella
when you learn more in a youtube video than 2 weeks of school
Great stuff, thanks for sharing
Really cool stuff. Thanks man.
The holes in the skulls for Dioapsids and Synapsids; these were on both sides, I assume?
Yes
Yes, unless someone finds an emapsid skull
Like how we got the last laugh over the Dinosaurs.
Very interesting video, very chill vibe. Nice.
Good vid that 👍 gotta be the coolest name I've heard for a history tube channel too 💯