Alien Biospheres: Part 14 - Mass Extinctions

MUSIC:
Unnatural Situation – Kevin MacLeod
Maestro Tlakaelel – Jesse Gallagher
New direction – Kevin MacLeod
Satya Yuga – Jesse Gallagher
Navajo Night – Audionautix

SOURCES:
Bauchot R, editor. 2006. Snakes: A Natural History. New York, New York: Sterling Publishers
Labandeira, Conrad C. 2005. The Fossil Record of Insect Extinction: New Approaches and Future Directions. American Entomologist, Vol 51, Num 1
Polishchuk, Leonard. (2010). The three-quarter power scaling of extinction risk in Late Pleistocene mammals, and a new theory of the size selectivity of extinction. Evolutionary Ecology Research - EVOL ECOL RES. 12. 1-22.
Sekercioğlu CH, Daily GC, Ehrlich PR. Ecosystem consequences of bird declines. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Dec 28;101(52):18042-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408049101. Epub 2004 Dec 15. PMID: 15601765; PMCID: PMC539768.101 (52) 18042-18047

IMAGES:
Giant Panda – J. Patrick Fischer
Plume hypothesis for continental break - Zkelly1
Carnassial teeth – Kreuzschnabel
Plateau putorana Ольга Чумаченко
Sunnyodon notleyi – FunkMonk
Cryptotermes domesticus – David McClenaghan
Slow Loris – Jmiksanek
Pyroraptor olympius reconstruction – Mette Aumala
Deforestation and landscape fragmentation, Cameroon – Gregoire Dubois
Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus – Ildarotyrannus
Lepidodendrales – Falconaumanni
Ichthyornis restoration – El fosilmaníaco
Thrinaxodon liorhinus – Nobu Tamura
Purgatorius – Nobu Tamura
Whip scorpion spray – Bruce D. Taulbert
Funnel-web spider fang – Michael Doe
Greenfrog tadpole – Brian Gratwicke

0:00 Intro
4:52 The extinction begins
8:02 Specialists
12:38 Body size
16:20 Islands
17:54 Oceans
21:42 Extinction debt
24:43 Survivors
31:19 “Classes”
33:14 Adaptive radiation
37:14 Limblessness
39:06 Distropheognathans
41:34 Procaecoformes
45:13 Hylotheres
48:15 Peloropsids
49:44 Projectile weaponry
50:50 Chelae
52:10 Ceratodonts
56:08 Teleopsids
57:06 Freshwater
59:24 Oceans
1:02:49 Flightlessness
1:08:36 Rafting
1:13:42 Closing

[bloodypigeon]

FULL LIST OF ARTISTS, ANIMATORS & THEIR ARTWORKS TIMESTAMPS

ᵑ͡ᵐɡ͡b <m̃q>: 5:14
Abby: 57:07
Abisael: 51:33
Adipem Draconis: 41:35 44:55
Agent; X.O.R: 1:01:54
Akity: 36:56 47:44 47:55
Angelo M Lepore: 3:19
appletater: 43:41 49:26 57:03
Archemegalobrachid: 1:05:27
Arch/Noodle: 1:13:20
Aspen: 13:19 44:08 56:32 1:08:01
Awanatu: 5:06
Betabug64:
BearRangell1234: 13:14 16:17 17:36 19:59
Ben the brittle star: 40:51 52:02 1:10:06
Biblaridiot: 19:40
Biegell: 9:04
BirdBoi: 36:37 1:06:26
Bloody Pigeon: 7:23 11:04 50:13 1:09:38
Bonnie Videos: 5:55 13:04 20:40
Burpopo: 28:50 40:37 45:00 46:20 48:11 48:57 51:18 53:32 1:02:26 1:06:13
BrenoAxel: 21:33 39:58 46:04 1:02:22
Bridboi: 41:32 43:53
BrunoBogdanov: 38:22 47:28
Ceddy D: 17:32
Chloe Glavanic: 36:53
ChronoAnspi: 34:31 37:20 41:18 44:26
C.M. Kösemen: 44:44 1:14:34
coweater: 6:27 7:37 36:53
Crafty Crocodile: 10:23 38:31
Dagoth: 59:25 1:04:56 1:07:39 1:08:26
Dark: 40:20 40:51
DarkElf06: 37:11 40:17
DarkSonne: 34:02
DaSaurian: 50:51 1:06:06
Defaul7: 38:34 45:59
Dinomaster337: 57:00
Dixie Joe: 6:27
dlastriv: 5:20 17:27
Dragan: 8:40 27:42 29:08 35:38 44:51 1:01:06 1:04:13
Dumdum: 21:33
Ella: 17:24
En: 25:07 36:34 36:37 1:00:33 1:01:11 1:08:32
Evfnye Misx: 1:10:11
Extinction_XYZ: 40:55
Fishoboonko: 38:50 38:56 39:00 40:23 41:32 43:27 44:21 45:43 46:59 50:35 1:10:11
Fish S. Failureson: 5:37 12:33 30:54 34:23 36:25 37:00
Futaba Jelenic: 3:26 36:22 37:00
Gaps: 9:12 36:56 40:01 44:39 46:04 1:05:46
General Joshua:
Greeniverse: 19:04 1:11:04
greenturtlething: 29:49 30:04
Halogen: 29:58
Herobane: 13:14
HińskieMasło: 31:10 37:11 44:39 47:55 49:50 49:53 54:32 56:14 57:03
HolyHerrerasaurus: 40:57 43:58 45:13 50:16 53:29
hugoat: 26:03
IbbTheAwful: 36:13 38:50
jaxdraw: 21:29 36:58 40:01 43:58 55:48 1:00:49
Jayboli: 1:02:34
JohannesVIII: 11:15
Joschua Knüppe: 5:32 10:59 46:16 52:10 52:45 1:12:48 1:14:20
Junobeille: 38:34 1:10:14
leifbuildspecies: 40:20 50:16
Lemonberi: 51:46
Lilly: 7:02 13:31 36:40 38:27 39:58 47:53 49:31 52:06 52:55 53:47 54:40 59:22 1:04:08 1:10:38 1:12:56 1:13:24
losergod: 14:43 17:37 21:46 40:57 44:55 47:38 49:12 53:52
Kamen: 36:34
Kapturnik malarz: 47:49
Karu Artz: 7:37 16:59 19:40
Kiryu: 30:10 40:10 46:26 56:09
Kiwi the Cartographer: 3:22 5:43 34:38 35:45 1:01:32
Kurisu: 43:53 45:59
nature•gnat•iggy: 17:55 18:14 25:12 38:03 42:25 44:02 52:51 54:55 55:41 56:27 58:16 1:01:00 1:03:46 1:08:07 1:12:39
NIM87: 58:39
Noobstar: 34:41 40:55
Max the ape og Ekansa: 38:22 1:08:12
Miczał: 11:41 37:20
Monika: 13:43 19:59
Mr Sabman: 36:58 38:56 50:39 53:44 54:36 1:02:02 1:02:11 1:02:37 1:04:31 1:05:51 1:09:27 1:09:48 1:09:54 1:10:40 1:13:16
OBUNGA: 1:06:10
Oreosaurus: 13:04 15:37
Ostimeus: 21:42
Ottoman Scandapod: 47:10
Opal: 34:44
Outokana2: 7:46 8:16 8:53 7:34 35:33 53:50 57:48 1:00:28
Ovlius: 5:11
pacificchel: 1:00:33
Pepper: 43:49
phrogge: 41:22
Pipimillion: 14:28 41:29 41:51 47:10 47:20 49:14 49:44 51:37 58:12 59:06 1:01:57 1:04:22 1:07:48 1:10:35 1:14:25
Piotr: 6:57
pumpkin: 22:47 35:30
Precisa Disso: 34:26
Prehistorickid: 7:34 38:22
Qoala: 51:28
Radiocarbon: 16:47
Randox Talore: 38:46
RAVII: 9:12
Rey: 7:55
RIPE_CAP 1:01:28
Rohaerys: 36:53 42:46 54:43 55:20 1:02:47 1:03:37
Sadr4: 38:46
Samuellima: 38:46
Saraxum: 11:20
Sarcosuchus: 5:49 43:49
Sashed Potato: 14:19 36:09 38:50 40:59 42:50 46:09 48:16 50:31 51:15 53:57 54:24 55:16 55:41 55:56 56:14 56:48 1:02:50 1:05:39 1:07:43 1:09:24 1:11:21 1:13:39
Shrink: 1:07:01 1:09:19
Sink: 18:58 35:49
Sir: 1:11:33
Sleepii: 36:13
Spacexbutthepacisilent: 35:36 51:28
spiritbackup: 7:55
Squidy Specifications: 25:56
Starlotte: 1:39 39:38 41:56 57:15
Stephanie: 21:37 34:53
syfw: 40:47 51:50 53:10 53:54 55:27 56:35 1:06:55 1:10:20
T 898 T: 40:17
Temeero: 40:47 47:06 47:38 50:24 55:20 58:10 1:11:10
Tekitona: 27:28
TheDilophoraptor: 51:51
TheEepyMagi: 58:46
Thegrrog: 5:49
The Rat King: 13:43 31:21 33:14 34:34 37:11 38:46 1:10:35
tj26k: 20:40
vacorda: 40:57
varjagen: 17:12
vividsky: 49:09
Wavethemraura: 45:33 49:36 50:28 55:45 59:00 1:01:38
Wrint: 13:31
xX_redwhale1409_Xx: 1:01:54 1:11:13
Zourai: 26:41
Zperson: 33:38 1:03:19
Zuorai: 34:34

[DexterBurg]

Biblaridion: "want to see a magic trick, im about to make half of all living things disappear" *cackles maniacally*

[misfit___misfit___]

The lesson from this episode is don't get attached to fictional creatures in speculative evolution projects, they will most likely die.

[arthurgabriel]

Applauses for the living beings that survived and a minute of silence for those that didn't make it.

[_pan-tastic_]

The fact that the legendary C.M. KÖSEMEN HIMSELF made the final image teasing sapient life speaks volumes about how far this project has come. As someone who has been watching since the very beginning, I’m proud of the progress made, and can’t wait to see what stories will come from this world

[feluriandelights]

This episode was a huge "kill your darlings" moment with the death of all these species and clades. The re-diversification of bunch of them absolutely elevated the series!

[happyslapsgiving]

*When the world needed him most... he came back.*

[stevethemastersword]

me: "oh man now that the mass extinction is over i wonder what new animals are gonna evolve"
biblaridion: "ok so first up giant nightmare spider demons"

[oreosaurs]

Let’s take a moment and appreciate the hard work bib and the amazing artists put into making this

[tristanovic-]

After the emergence of sapience I would love to see a short spinoff series where different cultures are developed, focusing on clothing, architecture and maybe language.

[Pharry_]

Speculative Evolution? Language? Conlanging? Worldbuilding? Those are literally my special interests and hobbies. This man was a gift to me from god.

[DerErwinderErwin]

I am both incredibly happy with this episode and absolutely terrified of the fact that the next one is gonna be the last one

[Rainbow_Sish_Kabob]

You know, I used to be afraid of spiders. But after watching this series, I've realized they could be worse.

[manzac]

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. - Carl Sagan (2006)

[AnarKirby]

First can we give a huge hand to Burpopo for those animations. And second I'm not ready for there only to be 1 more part. This has been one of the best series I randomly came across 3 years ago.

[Mr.Amidar]

Now it's so nice to remember the first series, where it all started. And it started with a worm with segments and a pebble with tentacles.

[matterhorn]

*_What a masterpiece!_* Such a rollercoaster of emotions. The devastating losses of the first half. The brilliant parade of new diversity in the second half. The indication that the series is coming to an end. And the promise of one last episode with one more major development! Seriously, this is documentary level stuff, and well worth the wait! Major props to Biblaridion, and to all the artists who contributed!

[freakishuproar]

I'm surprised how deeply I felt the loss of these fictional creatures. Watching thirteen episodes of this wonderful series, witnessing the proliferation and diversification of the planets myriad species, and now watching these lineages and clades snuffed out one-by-one. It's genuinely sobering despite the fact that they're made-up creatures on a made-up world.

[dr.garretsshow]

I hope someday in the future he makes an Alien civilizations Series. This one was amazing!

[msf]

Fun fact: The first time I watched this, most of the critters set off my arachnophobia real bad, but when I went back & binged the whole series, I was able to turn off that reaction for a good 70% of those critters’ appearances.