The COMPLETE Speculative Biology Iceberg

Originally released in 5 parts in 2021, I present to you now the COMPLETE speculative evolution iceberg!

This was one of the first series I began, and I learned a lot and had a ton of fun making it. The channel has changed a lot since these were posted, but the stuff it covers is still as interesting as ever. Thanks for watching!
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As you might have guessed, in the time since, I've created a few videos on the very subjects covered in this video. Here are several:

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This iceberg was created by @pesterjest! Check out his Instagram and DeviantArt here:

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Start
00:02:09 - King Kong: Skull Island
00:04:17 - Fermi Paradox
00:08:58 - Present-day Megalodon
00:10:07 - Humanoid Aliens
00:11:28 - Artifexian
00:12:27 - Carbon-based life
00:13:14 - Living Fossils
00:14:16 - Star Trek Aliens
00:15:40 - Planet Temperature Calculator
00:17:49 - Subnautica
00:19:25 - Alternative Plant Pigments
00:20:36 - War of the Worlds
00:22:27 - CM Koseman
00:23:55 - Panspermia
00:26:19 - High-Oxygen World
00:27:58 - Astrobiology
00:29:10 - Dragon Biology
00:32:48 - All Yesterdays
00:36:59 - Radial Body Plan
00:38:29 - Alternate Blood Color
00:40:10 - The Future is Wild
00:42:35 - After Man
00:45:13 - Low-Gravity Planets
00:46:41 - Space Whales
00:48:31 - Non-Humanoid Aliens
00:49:07 - Mermaids
00:50:41 - Alien Planet/Expedition
00:55:33 - Alternative DNA
00:57:13 - Xenobiology
01:00:17 - The New Dinosaurs
01:02:54 - Silicon-Based Life
01:05:18 - Furahan Biology
01:08:05 - Natural History of an Alien
01:10:07 - All Tomorrows
01:11:56 - Life on Mars (Scary Version)
01:13:37 - Crystal Lifeforms
01:15:30 - Boron-Based Life
01:17:24 - Rhinogradentia
01:21:14 - Filter-Feeding Anomolocarid
01:24:12 - Zoo Hypothesis
01:26:23 - Snaiad
01:32:04 - One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
01:33:22 - Silurian Hypothesis
01:35:41 - Bioship
01:38:17 - Anaerobic Life
01:41:20 - Plastic Lifeforms
01:42:52 - All Your Yesterdays
01:45:25 - Astrochicken
01:48:26 - The Great Moon Hoax
01:53:47 - Atmospheric Beasts
01:56:53 - Non-Water Solvents
01:59:34 - The Brookings Report
02:02:32 - Azotosome
02:04:55 - Shadow Biosphere
02:07:23 - Octopus Are Aliens
02:10:20 - Spore 2005 GDC
02:12:53 - Lincos
02:15:41 - Dinotopia
02:18:08 - Labeled Release Experiment
02:23:36 - Rangeomorph Designed Lifeform
02:27:16 - Flying Rods
02:31:21 - The Black Cloud
02:34:47 - Plasma/Dust-Based Life
02:38:18 - Columbia Disaster Microorganisms
02:40:50 - Perelandra
02:44:42 - Gauss’s Pythagorean Right Triangle Proposal
02:46:25 - Epona
02:51:23 - Australian Mimi Hominid Subspecies
02:55:08 - Strandbeests are Spec Evo
02:57:49 - Living Universe Theory
02:59:30 - The Medea Hypothesis
03:02:01 - Dinosauroid and Sleestak Connection
03:04:55 - Pure Energy/Photon-Based Life
03:06:34 - Dougal Dixon’s Predictions Real
03:07:36 - Every Spec Evo Project is Personalized
03:08:00 - All Spec Evo Projects Are Real (Omniversal Biosphere)

[ThoughtPotato]

Hello everyone! I though a single video might make the iceberg a bit easier to digest--especially without all the intros/outros of each part. Also, here are some links to videos I've since created on many of the subjects discussed. Thanks for watching!

[paulchavez]

I had an astrobiology professor once and one of her lectures covered the possibility that a dragon could exist as a silicon based life form that breathes a different chemical makeup of gasses and exhales the byproduct of that which, in an oxygen rich environment would produce fire. It was a fun class 🤙

[AcM.]

This niche has always pulled me in deep. I've grown up making up alt-biological creatures with back stories and kinda fell out of it in my mid to late 20s as I focused on my career. Now, disabled and sitting in my home all day long, spending time with my two kids, my oldest daughter has taken my artistic talent to the nth degree and I've gotten back into this subject with her and through her mind and eyes. I constantly encourage her to follow her creative talents and we talk all the time about the how, why & where her art exists and it is so fun. She enjoys watching these with me and hopefully these channels continue

[cmkosemen]

Heyy thank you so much for featuring me as an entry! I'm blushing - such an honour! :D

[BlueDragonGalaxy]

That late entry near the very bottom, that all "Spec Evo Projects are Personalized" is a reference to "Every Copy of Super Mario 64 is Personalized" which was a deep tier entry on the Super Mario 64 Iceberg, the original one that started the iceberg trend. The idea was that a personalization AI was embedded into Super Mario 64 that made everyone's play experiences unique from each other so if you ever felt like a friend's copy of Super Mario 64 wasn't the same as your copy, that was the explanation. Other stories say there was going to be a personalization AI but it was removed with the reasons being anywhere from the believable explanation of it being too advanced for the hardware at the time to creepypasta levels of gigantalope shittery.

So saying every Spec Evo project is personalized, was indeed, a tongue-in-cheek joke entry.

[AirWarrior]

I really liked how when you talk you don't make it sound like you're just reading off a script. You take pauses and it just sounds like a real conversation. I really enjoyed this video

[scumshine]

man, as a person with misophonia, who often stumbles upon videos that are exactly what i’m looking for content-wise but unlistenable due to weird or annoying voices, this video is perfect. bro ur voice is so soft n nice and ur talking abt one of my favorite subjects, this video is music to my brain and ears. i thank you for this brother 🙏🏾

[LittleGhostBoyYT]

This dude’s voice is so calming, I’m listening to him while sick at home and I accidentally fell asleep because of how calming his voice is <3

[Aggressive_Progressive]

Ben Ten is a really popular, and mainstream speculative biology and world building universe that I've never heard anyone bring up as such. They had so many galaxies, different kinds of worlds, kinds of aliens, different techs, different space travel methods, they even have their own race of people made of pure energy which Gwen is part of. They explained all the times about the homeworlds of the aliens he became too! I also remember the episode when Ben was showing this alien a bunch of transformations, and him mentioning which ones he knew had their planets destroyed and we're now refugees which was so sad. Professor Paradox, and his assistant with their failed time travel experiment was my favorite things to ever happen in the show, it's such a cool concept! Even the Omnitrix is a fascinating piece of technology that pretty much evolves, and devolves you into every alien every collected in it's database, that's WILD! There are so many great things about all those shows, and a great way I feel like to get kids and even teens with the later series to dip their toes in to the subject of speculative biology.

[starryfoxplushie]

What an absolute treat of a video. The content alone was wonderful, but your deadpan sense of humor had me cracking up. Definitely brightened up my day and made my knitting session all the more pleasant.

Looking forward to that Future Is Wild video and anything else you have in store for us this year!

[BloodyDemonLord]

Star Trek actually explaines many of the humanoid people in the galaxy by a common ancestor civilisation that spread thier genenetic code in the universe because they developed as the first spacefareing species in the galaxy and as they realised that they were alone they decided to populate the galaxy but with life that would be indipendently developed. If i remember right it was in a double episode in season 6 of STNG but i#m not 100% sure about that.

[skarut]

had I ever even heard of speculative biology before? nope. did I click because it sounded cool and then end up getting super absorbed and binging almost all of your videos? yes. yes I did

[Marscandy]

I read a very old sci-fi novel called Star Maker. It had a really great passage about an alien race that evolved with sound and taste being their predominant senses, instead of sight and feeling. I loved how the author explained how their culture developed because of this.

[lexter]

I had astrobiology in university. One of the best classes! We talked about extremophills, about different chemistry that would allow life, where could we find life in our solar system, what do we know about exoplanets, and we did a lot of alternative evolution. Even mentioned scifi ideas.

[jakestring]

This is one of the coolest videos I’ve ever watched in my life, you brought up so many books and movies/shows I never would have remembered otherwise, seeing the arrowtongue shot me back to elementary school

[LylasFightclub]

The Monster Hunter games are a really cool source of interesting speculative zoology, definitely worth looking up the wiki and reading about some of the monsters

[frostare]

As a guy who's just getting into speculative evolution, thanks so much for helping us dive into these concepts!

[kayla_eevee]

That Animal Planet dragon documentary was utterly formative for me. It ultimately inspired my life-long, passionate love for dragons. I saw it the night before going on a trip with my brother, aunt, and uncle. No one bothered to tell little 10-year-old me that it wasn't real and I was _convinced_ I saw a dragon in the sky (probably a plane) on the way to the airport the next morning.

[gageriggs]

Dr. Niel DeGras Tyson stated "If a meteorologist says there's a 50% chance of rain, then that meteorologist is just telling you they have no idea". not a word for word quote, but the logic certainly applies

[OXP-]

I got introduced to this channel through the first episode of this, been a fan ever since