When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard

About 66 million years ago, a terrible extinction event wiped out the dinosaurs. But it wasn’t the only event of this kind -- extinctions of various severity have occurred throughout the Earth’s history -- and are still happening all around us today. Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard give a quick history of mass extinctions.

Lesson by Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard, animation by Juliette Marchand.

[lazymaharani]

How caring of youtube to send me this in my recommendations during the Coronavirus

[mooka]

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein's quote seems to become reality faster every day.

[zangruver]

I wonder why this was recommended to us, NOW 😨

[popalupa]

Not so fun fact: The Permian Extinction killed 96% of all life on Earth, and as such was named "The Great Dying." (Which is a badass name by the way.)

[shyaammohan]

Ted ed has a big hand in making children love nature and in giving better knowledge, thank you ted ed for making videos like this. Honestly, you guys gave me a lot of knowledge.

[BizyTomas]

The video covered previous mass extinctions, but didn't really answer the title question....

[billsmith]

I love humans. We are so smart and capable we literally said screw nature and made civilization and that honestly fascinates me. What I hate about us, however, if how we are incapable of looking to the future. Those people littering or those idiots that don't believe in global warming can't see the big picture, and that's terrifying.

[lombremic]

The animations for these videos are incredible in addition to the enlightening education from this channel

[gamingfreak]

The kind of animation they always comes up with is just great

[anniejones]

I LOVED the animation on this episode. It's unlike any other Ted ed video and super creative. Really good episode. Keep it up, Ted Ed!

[roidroid]

1:01 beetroot
1:05 dragonfruit
1:14 passionfruit
1:21 starfruit, carrot & .... i dunno (yellow bell pepper?)

[hkhable]

Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
Because the chicken joke wasn't invented yet.

[ShawnRavenfire]

Minute Earth did a video on how many mass extinctions there were just thirteen hours ago, and now Ted-Ed is doing this.  What's going on?  Are all the educational Youtube channels talking it over with each other?  Or do they just synch up like women's menstrual cycles?  How many minutes before the DNews episode on mass extinctions?  Or is it up already?

[esteestar]

Love the animation with fruits, veggies, powders and other everyday items!

[judgeses]

The artwork of this video was outstanding!!

[hkhable]

What do you call a dinosaur with a extensive vocabulary?


a thesaurus.

[yjk]

0:44 nautiluses (top left) are not extinct for those who didn't realize.

[Zibonnn]

*TED-Ed: When will the next mass extinction occur?*

*COVID-19: Hold my coronas!*

[Zizumia]

I actually find it amazing, that Man Kind is so intelligent, that we are able to change the world around us to fit our needs, but also intelligent enough to realize what we are doing wrong, and through analysis of other species and past species, we can figure out how to save the world around us.

[pavan]

Yes YouTube this is the positive content that what I want to watch at 1am during an active pandemic.