The BIOGEOGRAPHY of the Ice Age

During the Ice Age, not only was the landscape of the Earth drastically different from what it is today, but so were the animals you'd find walking along side our ancestors. Just a few thousand years ago the world was filled with megafauna, or giant animals, and every continent held a collection of unique species unlike anything that remains alive in modern times.

Join me as I take us through some of the fascinating biogeography of the most recent Ice Age!

For the real map, check out my twitter @theatlaspro

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[AlternateHistoryHub]

This channel scratches a very specific itch. Keep up the great work

[eypick]

Panama: Rises out of the water

Theodore Roosevelt thousands of years later: N O .

[BioshockChicken]

Man, I remember when this channel was way too under appreciated. Now this video has thousands of views in half an hour. This is still under appreciated until it has more viewers than the lackluster excuses we have for the “Discovery” and “History” channels though. Keep up the great work!

[Aeyekay]

That fact about redwoods cloning themselves and being able to live for 30, 000 years; that’s so awesome.

[palerider]

What’s terrible is the fact that massive trees even larger, older and more majestic than the giant redwoods existed in Australia until greedy logging companies cut them all down and destroyed their very existence for profit!

[maddyschad]

The Northern Hemisphere changed a lot more than the Southern, I was surprised by how similar the southern hemisphere still was to today.

[thekito]

7:11 "perhaps with a north american flavour"

...whats that?
Barbecue Sauce?

[davielawrence]

I'm a biology and geography student for lectureship and I absolutely love your channel. Even though I know most of what you are talking about, the visualisation is awesome. It helps a lot to understand the process 🤗

[IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous]

We truly don't deserve this guy, he's too good of a youtube educator in biology and geography.
Atlas pro *WILL* one day have over 1 million subscribers, it's that kind of caliber in him!

[robertcoplin]

Nice to see Ice Age events and conditions put together in a chronological bundle. Especially because you address more than one area of science. Being very much a generalist this approach is especially interesting to me. Keep it coming.

[theconqueringram]

It's fascinating that how different, yet similar the Earth looked so long ago compared today.

[VoidLantadd]

12:22 - The point you made at the end gave me the kind of existential feeling Vsauce videos used to leave me with back in the day.

[adammorrell]

Why did the ozone hole close up? You're the only one who could explain this in a way I'd both understand and be satisfied.

[Pickle-oh]

"As it turns out, an instinctual fear of humans may have been the most advantageous trait for animals to develop."
haha same

[ThrottleKitty]

The Green Sahara: guess I'll go back to staying forgotten

[somerandomguy___]

The iceage(s) are starting to become what planes are for wendoverproductions

[GeoPerspective]

Q: What do Great Woolly Mammoths wear when they go swimming?
A: Their trunks.

[doriannamjesnik]

Hmm, "BioGeo", a good name for bioengineering company.

[viviansventures]

A video on humans in the Ice Age/recent prehistory would be awesome, as we've reconstructed a decent amount about prehistoric cultures and there are things like the proto indo europeans that could be talked about

[regular-joe]

I really, REALLY want an entire video on the mammoth steppe.