Precambrian Creatures: The First Animals
The very, VERY first animals aren’t really talked about much, and that’s a shame. What existed before the Cambrian explosion? What could these first Precambrian Era animals possibly look like? And WHAT is the oldest animal fossil?
Wikipedia Articles for the animals with you want to learn more about them:
DICKINSONIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickins...
CHARNIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia
FUNISIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funisia
SPRIGGINA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spriggina
KIMBERELLA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberella
Sources Used:
www.britannica.com/science/Pr...
www.livescience.com/57942-wha...
www.britannica.com/science/st...
www.worldatlas.com/articles/w...
www.ediacaran.org/spriggina.html
arstechnica.com/science/2019/...
www.britannica.com/science/Ed...
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To hell with returning to monke, I'm going back to sponge
You are now a sponge.
return to primordial slime
Insert SpongeBob laugh
I want to go with you take me pls
Are ya ready kids?
Aw, I miss the Precambrian. I had my first ever best friend back then. We would hang out and absorb nutrients. I miss him.. her.. it.
the Proterozoic kids will never understand the nostalgia
@@stargirlabi_111 😂💟 :-D
Them!!! Your gender nonbinary sponge best friend!!!!
@@skarloey2808 I love this 😭
Them*
This feels like a KZhead 2010 era vid. It's short, straight and to the point and isn't over edited. I like this style... makes it so much easier to watch and listen.
This. I quite often get frustrated with pointless rambling and just turn off some videos minutes in because people can´t get to the point.
Indeed relaxing to watch
@@SuperCrazyEstonian Yeah. Btw, i don't know about you, but i'm from the hispanic community; back in these days, we would use Loquendo very often, in even simpler videos than this one. Good times.
@@adamantobserver8655 Very captivating as well. The budget museum has found a forgotten niche.
i know right, i was expecting an ad for raid shadow legends or an overly edited introduction at any moment
I took a class on the paleobiology and paleoecology of invertebrates, and my professor was actually the one who discovered the Funisia fossil!! We even got the opportunity to see up close Ediacaran fossils! So that was pretty awesome :) Its so mind-blowing so many interesting creatures lived on this Earth at one point.
It's crazy to think that for most of Earth's history we wouldn't even recognize it as our home.
That's crazy !! Lucky ^^
Lucky.
@@vanillajack5925 Not at a glance, but a closer observation and study would reveal it to be Earth.
And my dad bill gates
From underwater couch potato to modern urban technologically savy couch potato, evolution of couch potatoes is truly amazing!
Well you can believe that if you want, I know that God created me and Humans
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess - Does that mean we must worship the Potato God?
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess then why the fuck are you here??
@@ineffablemars Cause I was curious to watch the video
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess you can believe that if you want, i know the knowledge we have explain oUr roots.
The aspect I love the most of primordial life is how they're like almost unmodified visual representation of mathematical formulas, like they were truly living exponential ratios made into flesh, there was even this one plant (not sure that is even applicable, given how alien it is to a modern plant) where every bud was actually a microscopic version of the whole plant itself, so it was effectively unfolding copies of itself perpetually, which while on paper sound neat must become one hell of a pain when not life threatening mutations to the genome start to occur. Probably also why these lifeform doesn't exist anymore, they probably weren't the most stable too.
Interesting, do your remember the name of this plant?
I would also like to know the name of the plant. Sounds cool
maybe even the instability itself was needed to give way to the cambrian explosion
@@gwynedd8179 rangeomorphs, it’s a whole group!
this. I love the early forms of simple life. It helps so much with understanding evolution and DNA and genetics. You can really see the simplest rules of chemics and biologoy and ofc, mathematics, take place in forming these super rudimentary forms of life. These animals and plants are literally self sustaining chemical compounds, that for no appearant reason started a "stable" form of existence
These earliest life forms have an eerie enchantment to them. They are exuberant, deeply strange and often unexpectedly endearing.
Wouldn’t it be amazing to find a planet with life, similar to this time period. Truly amazing, and I believe their is some type of life out in the universe. Maybe like bacteria 🦠, only time will tell. Much love 💕 from Australia 🇦🇺
@@kerrynicholls6683 more life we find might be simple life like this
ok nerd
@@amiwan9596 why are you watching this video if you don't think these animals are interesting?
Their simplistic beauty is so captivating. The Ediacaran is quickly being one of my favourite eras.
I remember my first pet. It was way back in the Cambrian, His name was 'Trilly'. He was a Trilobite. He would bark, but only bubbles would come out. I tried teaching him to roll over, but he would just float over. He was my best good friend.
You got yours to roll over? Damn!!! That's awesome! My just wants to be scratched behind the 3rd segment.
@@argonwheatbelly637 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm have millions of them in my realm
The Precambrian era always intrigued me over the other eons because it’s so alien-like.
The more alien looking the better. They found life under the artic icecapes that evolved seperately for millions of years recently
@@ceder4696 That's amazing! Do you know the news article or whatever?
@@PhyrIsSoCold just type it in
*life under artic ice caps*
@@ceder4696 Thank you, I will search it up. :)
As you said we cannot know exactly what the first organism ever is, but I like richard dawkins’ theory, as he is one of the worlds most renowned evolutionary biologists. He thinks its most likely the first organisms were simply self replicating chemicals, and eventually those self replicating chemicals began competing for resources. Once competition begins, natural selection begins.
I need just a few self replicating Au atoms
It's interesting to think about a world where life existed, but not as discrete organisms with their own genomes, but as simply fragments of genetic material that could flow between lipid bubbles and independently promote themselves. Being nothing but bundles of sugar and phosphorus, they were not alive. But the phenomenon as a whole had lifelike qualities and could evolve. That's the theory, anyway.
Your YT profile and LPC reference?
embarrassing you believe this horseshit
@@teal2913 found the creationist
1:58 didnt expect to see the Founding Titan here
Finally an aot reference
I mean, it was a real animal
Amazing it took me this long to find an AoT reference
Man, I miss chilling at the bottom of the ocean and taking hits from the hydrothermal vents, it was so simple back then, now everything is so complex
I have a Funisia fossil in my collection. It is strange that somehow such an ancient animal somehow wound up on my freaking bookshelf
I shot a guy
@@Bassmasterwitacaster I came close to shooting someone twice Someone tried to mug me in a parking lot and I told himl okay here's my wallet and I stuck a gun in his face The second time is a long fucking story
Outstanding move
@@VictorianTimeTraveler Mercia
I wasn't expecting these kind of comments when I opened the thread.
There is evidence Dickinsonia moved because we find trails of Dickinsonia "footprints" left on the seafloor with a dead Dickinsonia at the end of the trail. Also, Charnia was the 1st time geologists & paleontologists all agreed a fossil was a definite multicellular organism before the Cambrian. Other Ediacaran fossils were found before Charnia, but people did not agree what they were.
Poor Sonia😔😔😔
I’m a child, and laughed at “Dickinsonia”…
@@ethanrimm5914 Sonia:"Hi I'm Sonia" Dick:"Its a free real estate"
@@ethanrimm5914 Well Dickinsonia costata was named after Ben Dickinson, the Director of Mines for South Australia , and the head of the government department employing Reginald Sprigg - the geologist who discovered Dikensonia & other precambrian fossils in the hills of Ediacara in Australia.
Hehe *dickinsonia*
I knew we probably started out as bacteria, but it never really occurred to me just how simplistic we were after the bacteria began evolving. It is so wild to imagine we used to be blobs that couldn't even move and it took a long time for us to evolve from just being blobs. It's beautiful to see how life started out. How simplistic we once were. And how we are no different than being an animal. We all evolved from something into something more complex. Kind of makes me wonder if someday there will be an animal that is similar to humans.
5:30 so you're telling me that SpongeBob has been living in a pineapple under the sea for BILLIONS of years and Mr. Krabs still called him a kid no respect for your elders smh
Hey pineapples didn’t exist yet
Where’s your evidence?
@@forwardfacingv1nce280 they made a joke
@@EILP147 ok burrito WHO IS A DUCK
@@forwardfacingv1nce280 Yes I’m a duck with a gun is there a problem?
"Yeah, flotation is groovy. And easy. Even a jellyfish will tell you that. But jellyfish been floating so long and is so slack, it ain't got a bone in its jelly back". (Jimi Hendrix improvisation on the song "Power of Soul.")
jimi knew about the jelly fish all along!!
maybe he was a merman after all
I suppose for a brief time in the Precambrian, the jellyfish were the terror of the ocean.
@@mosquitobight For me, they still are. 😲
@@Scarabola Yes, back in 1983. Sadly, very little news coverage.
6:40 GO GRANDPA
Friend: Wonder what the king of Norway is doing Me: 6:16
I live with someone I suspect to be precambrian, they appear to be a sedentary boneless blob that on occasion squirts substances out of one of their ends. For a while I thought they were a sea cucumber but now I really don't know.
6:15
Excuse me?
Lmao. I might've seen a few as well.
I’m offended
Why and with permission of whom did you describe me?
You speak of collagen while showing a picture of a trilobite which most likely did not have collagen in then. Trilobites had chitin exoskeletons, likely re enforced by calcium minerals from the surrounding water.
Thank you for pointing this out. Pinned this so everyone else sees the correction.
@@TheBudgetMuseum I really love your videos :)
It’s called evolution fool… if you talk about legs and show whales, hey, at one point in the past they had them and maybe at one point in the future they could have them again. At one point our ancestors could breathe in water, and maybe again in the future we can again… who knows. Just enjoy the damn video.
@@goldwolf0606 you mad
Cut my boy sum slack, you see the channel name can’t expect him to be spot on at all times 😂😂
It is amazing to know that these ancient animals are distantly related to us.
So does dht also give them hair loss?
Christ is a fairy tale
King of fairy tale and delulu
That was terrific! Light humor goes such a long way in making a subject less intimidating... thank you!
"As amazing as sponges are.. they arent. moving on" you sir gained a subscriber 😆
Right? Best part
@@whatever56567 made me laugh hard lol
@@maestroTree Like usually I just snort or blow air out of my nose but it had me proper laughing haha
I have no idea what you're talking about! 🤔😳😬 Can't even tell if you're trolling or what!! 😭😭😬🤨🧐
@@iamfantastic.iamgreat3649 Interesting, as that’s how I feel right now with your comment 🤔
you have a great youtube career ahead of you, just keep grinding my man
^i cant agree more. im always amazed at how small the channel is for how well i enjoy all the vids on it. I wouldnt want this channel to change anything style or subject matter wise. I came to this channel to learn about animals but i keep watching for the brilliant combination of the narrators cadence and dry humour which always makes me smile.
Yes, thanks, that was very cool!
Yes he absolutely does.
>KZhead career 🤮
Precambrian grindset
The video ended so abruptly, I lost track of time while watching it!! Thank you for your research and the video!!
Keep it going man! Nice content 👍
I've been thinking about alien life a lot recently. My theory is that at the fundamental level, the most likely things we would find on exoplanets would be unicellular life like our bacteria. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it worked the same way and even used DNA or something very similar to code genetic material. I even think that if multicellular life developes, it would likely be very similar to what we'd find on Earth during the precambrian, and follow similar body plans only to be shaped be the specifics of the environment. I think if there are any real differences between Earth life and alien life, it would be large scale forms, and even then, I believe it's likely that we would see example of convergent evolution between Earth life and whatever we find elsewhere.
@@mingledingle1556 I don't know, evolution is kind of random at core, so what they have is probably totally different to what we have. In the end the only requirement is that it works enough to not stop existing, and that could end up really weird really fast. Have you seen platypodes??
@@naolucillerandom5280 competition ensures similar creatures come about multiple times, foosa in Madagascar are super similar to felines, dolphins and sharks similar shape etc etc look up convergent evolution like he mentioned. If a planet was earth like it is likely their creatures are somewhat similar
crab people...crab people...crab people...
Convergent evolution as a concept would be hard to find if the environment on said alien planet is entirely different from earth! On earth you have same environment influences on the same base creatures, dna and whatnot. Though, i think it would be kind of scary to see convergent evolution on an alien! It makes you wonder if the universe just likes making patterns
@@m0ri461 Good points, friend. Yes, I would think so. My mind only really works in carbon and water cell-based life. For all we know, there are other ways of doing it!
“As much as sponges are amazing… they’re not” Damn why he do my boy sponch bob like that
I like that you put sources in the description! ❤❤❤
I'm never sure which is more amazing, the evolution of life or our abilty to trace/understand it. Great video.
It's so interesting that we came from single-celled organisms. If you look at their structures, it's very basic. Then you step up a ladder, and have colonial organisms. One more, and you have multicellular organisms, as well as multicellular organisms that live in colonies. If you look inside the of human body itself, you'll see a bunch of single cells that act almost like single-celled organisms, all with their own to-do list, like osteoblasts (bone builders) and macrophages (one of the many immune cells). All working together to keep you alive.
Those cells are mitochondria. (And chloroplast in plants). Mitochondria have their own DNA, RNA and genetic machinary. So it is hypothesised that they were prokaryotic organism that incorporated themselves in eukaryotic organism.
@@indiankid8601 so we're literally like a ghost of the fusion of the will of the spirits of some primordial organisms that realized they could work together to survive?
@@frank.e.wildcat only mitochondria (mitochondria and chloroplast in plants) are like that which fused to ancient eukaryotic cells. All other organelles like Golgi body, ER, ribosome etc don't That's why they have their own DNA, their own protein synthesis apparatus, they create their own babies by division and they have two membranes covering them instead of one. The one they create themselves and the one they get from the cell in which they live just like other organelles get
@@frank.e.wildcat how else can you explain why they have everything separate? I mean the fact that they have everything of their own and even DNA of their own and they make their own copies proves they are just symbionts living in our body 🤷
Wild that from a certain point of view that you, random stranger on the internet reading this, are less of a singular entity and more of a hive. All lifeforms are just trillions of smaller lifeforms in a trench coat.
That gut feeling you have is the bacteria in your stomach letting you know that you dissed their ancestors 😅
our* ancestors
@@Zero_Li24 "Their" is funnier because it sounds personal. And "their" isn't wrong. But thanks anyway 😅
@@Zero_Li24 *communism*
Your videos bring me such joy
Thank you for a very professional and entertaining presentation.
1:33 It's the *_CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION_* " Wow that's animals and stuff"
"The sun is a deadly laser"
I became obsessed with geology and evolutionary science as a kid after reading SJG’s Wonderful Life, which is still a great read, even if some of the data are now outdated and incorrect. The story of life on earth is just so incredible, and it’s hard for me to understand how anyone could find it boring.
That is a great read - my fav of books!
i love history, and dude your humour is like the perfect amount of nerdy and dry and amazing- it makes learning about earths geological history more bearable thank you w moment
ty, this is such a fascinating period which should be appreciated more. Great presentation
How does this not have at least 100.000 views? You are poetic, funny, intelligent, and you present a very interesting subject in a great manner. Your channel really has potential brother!
Cause no one like watch these sort of stuff. Teens want to watch tiktok and really pointless content.
Short attention span issue, also most people tend to think that everything that is "prehistoric" must involve dinosaurs and not other living organism or species when in reality it's much more than that.
@@MrMannyhw as a teen not all of us are like that sometimes we like learning about history and most boys want to learn about the war because of call of duty but the pointless content will alwayd have a special place in our hearts
It does now!
@@ph4n7om36 I don’t think you should just be telling random people your age like that
Would love a video on the origins of bilateral symmetry, you mentioned it here in passing but I bet it’s worthy of an exploration on its own.
Great combination of science and humor. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Great presentation...fun, informative, entertaining, and a great voice for presenting!
"Dickinsonia" People named Sonia: 😳😳
💀👽🥶☠️Lmao☠️🥶👽💀
😳😳😳😳
Kid named finger
Someone in my family has that name 💀
"You still need a fuse to set off a bomb." What a line! First vid I've seen, already love it
Thanks again dear Sir! Very much appreciate your method of hosting these vids. Definitely had to subscribe! :) Cheers!
Fun fact: I’m not sure if this creature was from the Cambrian, but Brontoscorpius has gills and lungs. Their lungs simply absorbed the oxygen rather than breathe it. Wish I had lungs like that
It's a fictional creature (?)
@@user-bi7fn5wy7g It isn't lol
Brontoccorpio was around 400 million years ago, after the cambrian.
Minor correction: Snowball Earth didn't have the continents in their current arrangement like your depiction shows.
median correction: *which* snowball earth?
@@lordbalthosadinferni4384 I think it is safe to say: None of them had the continents arranged the way they are now.
quaternary glaciation
Right, Pangaea didn’t even split until 175 million years ago.
@@telesniper2 that was hardly snowball Earth.
Love the delivery. It is interesting and exciting stuff and you bring enthusiasm for the topic to the fore.
Great delivery!
Hi, great video, really interesting. I recently discovered the area I moved to about 7 years ago was a vast fresh water lake 16 - 18 million years ago, so suddenly I'm obsessed heh. Your audio changes are great. Radio producer of about 28 yrs here - one lesson I sadly learned - was to always have in mind the crappy speakers it'll end up coming out of and 'lean' to that. Sad but true mostly. The music etc in the background, the levels were ideal. Good fun, great job! Subscribed
Awesome content. Entertaining. Informative. Deadpan delivery. Actually useful explanatory information communicated in an easygoing manner. Sounds like a new subscription.
The new mic is great m8, this channel has a lot of potential and the mic makes a huge difference
This was really good got it in my recommnedation next to a video about Earth's First Predator that you already talked a little about it in this video. Great video!
Cool video, I've been looking up prehistoric times for the past year all the time.
Props bro! Good video. I subbed half way thru. When you get a million subs I can totally say I was here way early in your channel and brag to all my buddies. Keep up the great work!
Your channel is super fun and informative, I love videos like this. Just subscribed and looking forward to more content :) very well done editing & writing, your channel will do very well, keep going and making great content!
Great job! The script is excellent.thanks!
Thank you for blurring the Funisia, I was watching with my kids.
I thought sponges evolved from an amoeba like ancestor who would form clonal colonies. I thought that was what you were going to dive into. I appreciate your video still but I definitely was thinking of the formation of multicellular life and how it evolved to become motile.
Amoebas are more distant than fungus. Sponges have cilia and flagella which are structurally similar to sperm flagella or cilia in your respiratory tract.
I am newt.
they are called choanoflagellates
@@3FourFour5 thank you. I completely forgot the name. They have those collar shapes around their flagellum.
Dinos have lived for more like an hour than a minute. Plus, they're still alive. With greater species diversity than mammals and even 4 or 5 megafaunal species (Ostrich, Emu, Cassowarry, Rhea, and Emperor penguin are all sometimes over 45 kg).
Woosh
He replies to another comment saying he meant 1 hour. That “1 hour” refers to the Mesozoic Era which spanned from the beginning of the Triassic Period to the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period which wiped out most non-avian dinosaurs. It not including the distant ancestors of dinosaurs.
Plus, they aren't reptiles
@@k33k32 Dinos are too reptiles. Either all dinosaurs including birds are reptiles, or crocodilians aren't reptiles. Reptiles form a monophyletic clade including archosaurs and squamates, and turtles. They do not include mammals.
Aves aren't dinosaurs
Hello. Just found your KZhead channel today. I am really enjoying it, please keep up the excellent work.
Just found you by accident, loving your dry sense of humour ❤️
Your voice is great and you managed to keep the video interesting until the end, keep it up 👍
7:10 how did you get a picture of my greatest grandfather and grandmother
This is a fantastic video. Well done
I love your style of writing buddy, the whole way through. Learned a lot, easy sub :)
I remember when you had less subs than me, i havent made a vid in a while as i have exams in school right now but i am working on one. Keep up the good videos too!
yeah I hunkered down for exams as well after putting out this video. Keep up the good work as well and thanks for the support!
I want to say that Hallucenia(sp, obviously) was one of those interesting fossils that scientists initially looked at upside down. I remember that little spikeworm for something, and this is the only thing I can think of offhand.
3 months late but yea i think your right. There was a big debate about whether or not the spikes were legs or not
@@devon8438 my right what? My right to go to bed at a reasonable hour without my idiot neighbors shouting and screaming? I agree
@@armouredjester1622 and youve lost your mind
Finally a comment about hallucigena that's not a g9d dammed aot kid
Spikey worm
tysm for this video i love learning abt life and prehistoric life and ive never seen anyone else talk aboit this topic!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
These youngsters and their proterozoics... Back in my day all we had was Archean and we enjoyed it!
It'd be cool to know or have a website that jots down all the fossils that have been found and how many. I always wonder if one sample size of a random fossil is enough to say a pack of them existed. I'm sure when stuff like Dickinsonia being found they also found like a herd of them as fossils. Imagine all the dinos and ancient creatures that have existed that we don't know about.
I love jellyfish. They're my favorite animal. These things have existed for hundreds of millions of years-- WITHOUT A BRAIN. Like most of my friends :)
I love ur funny and entertaining delivery. cool video
Great video, really enjoyed it!
Could you cover the primordial soup? I love how you've explained the origins of conplex organisms so I'd like to hear how you'd do the soup
This is what we mean when we say we were born in the wrong generation.
This was awesome! Thank you!
I truly enjoyed this video!
When I imagine the first animals I imagine some kind of near microscopic flat worm, never would have imagined something four feet long, that's kinda neat
As my name is Sonia...and spelled with an I, when I found out about the Dickinsonia I was very surprised but also flattered that my name was in the name of a Precambrian animal...thank you science
Literally doing an essay about the Cambrian explosion and by extension the Ediacaran. Cannot wait to watch this for help with formatting ^^
Great video 🏆 Instant sub
“Well, if you take your leg and you stick it in the air And then you take the other one and jam it right up there You twist yourself around and give a great big lunge Now you're doin' 5:24”
"now as much as sponges are amazing, they aren't" had me gigglin
The Precambrian was a great time to be alive, no smartphones just creatures just existing in the moment!
Nice video , life in earth is amazing , and the mic works great😊
I never get tired of that walking with dinosaurs time warp 20 years on
In a weird way I really just wish we could go back in time and see this period of history, I feel like this age was earth at it’s most Alien
Not with our current biology because Earth back then would be very different and it's not only due to oxygen and the level of other gasses but also other potentially harmful if not outright deadly pathogen that would be totally foreign to our inmunue system.
Life feels so amazing, beautiful when you think of how far-flung the possibility of your existence was, and yet you are here somehow alive and breathing, and there will never be one of you again.
Here after watching dinasour . Use to watch it on vcr back then , love it
seeing some illustrations of these earlier animals, it's interesting to observe what looks like failed attempts at evolution making structures for bodies (mostly the shrimp looking thing with a claw for a tongue at 2:13). So, to think that cyanobacteria were there so early and are still around today - maybe for longer than we will be - Is beyond fascinating and I'm not at all disappointed that the first animal wasn't a more "Interesting" one.
I love Precambrian animals there’s something so simple about them
Nice uncomplicated introduction to evolution - keep up the good work.
Im jamming to this mount and blade warband tune nice choice
6:16 the girl named “Sonia” 😳😳😳
Excellent! Incidentally, I've always thought sponges were just BARELY deserving the label of animal.
Interestingly, new discoveries have raised debates over the status quo of sponges being the first animal. It's now thought that it's possible that a type of ctenophore (comb jelly) could have been first. Good video
This is very well done!
Hi how are you doing?
There's a subspecies of arachnid that came to be in the late cambrian that still exists today, they look like a bunch of squiggly lines glued together
nonsense