358 Million Years Ago

Giant insects thrived in the swamps of the carboniferous period.

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[Frmcfofficial]

If I saw a dragonfly that big I’m running for my life

[Historicaladdicted]

There weren't cypress back then... forests were composed mostly of fern-like trees...

[istvansipos]

02:03 pwned!
idk why, but I laughed so hard when that poor thing was offed.

[synapticdecay]

Some how this reminds me of a few EPs of Stargate SG1. Just picturing O’Neill’s and Jackson’s sarcasms. Then you have Teal’c’s indeed.

[catman]

Is this the time when lawyers and politicians crawled out of the swamps? 🤭

[robertmorrison]

Very good presentation. But evidently, as the maps shown indicate the carboniferous era did not extend beyond the American borders. Living in Canada I am well aware that the carboniferous era extended into what is currently known as the Maritime region. I believe that there is even a National park named after it. Despite this, excellent presentation and caution for the future.

[maahadrubel]

Very first view, like and comment....

[JohnDoe-txlq]

"It could eat it's own weight in food every 30 mins..." what?? That doesn't make sense! It might have done it 2 or 3 times a day, but every 30 mins? - it would have to constantly rip apart, digest and excrete a huge amount of material really fast, or get so heavy they couldn't even fly!

[rustyshackleford]

I would’ve loved if a few of the Carboniferous’s freshwater eurypterids were included.
Like the human-sized horseshoe crab lookin hibbertoperus, that would occasionally crawl on land.
And the megarachne, named like a spider because it was once thought to be one, before the discovery that it was actually a eurypterid.

Also would’ve liked to have seen the Tully monster and a few of the Carboniferous’s giant amphibians!

[romella_karmey]

Where is the whole docu of this plsss 😭😭😭😭

[klackon]

The narrator stated that: "Meganeura, unlike it's contemporary cousins could not fold it's wings". Well, modern dragonflies cannot fold their wings either. Damselflies, on the other hand, do fold their wings.

[juandiegoprado]

2:37 weren’t coniferous trees not around or barely starting to appear around this time? It makes no sense that the environment would have Cypresses

[Loe_.]

Dragon flys, centipedes / millipedes and scorpions casually being unchanged for millions of years (ik scorpions changed a bit but ya know)

[gardengeek]

A superb presentation ! But why, @00:34, would humans not have survived the higher oxygen atmosphere ?
Wouldn't it just make us more energetic? Easier to climb Everest, etc.?
After all, we supply medical & emergency oxygen to aid people.

[Kroggnagch]

Imagine how many critters we will never know about because they either didn’t fossilize, we haven’t found the fossils just yet, or they’re so old they’ve been thru the Earths geological cycle and been ground down below some continental shelf and therefore we’ll never know of them. Just think how many weird things there were that we can never know existed... God I’d give nearly anything to be able to go back in some sort of bubble with the proper O2 levels and it would protect me from the environment and the environment from me potentially contaminating it, and be able to actually see the strange ancient critters and creepy-crawlies of the time.

[KaizerSozaye]

I was there too it was so hot and muggy back then

[jakeweberzwier]

I didn't know there were cypress back in the carboniferous

[BillyTorontoBill]

Extra oxygen.... and ahs from forest fires... perfect for plants..and bugs that live off them.

[eduardodasilva]

Are you sure humans would not survive a 35% oxygen atmosphere?

[indigneouschupacabra]

So what would happen to a human just spawned in the carboniferous period out of no were ?