Explorer: Clash of the Americas : Fossils found in Venezuelan tar pits are proving that North and South American prehistoric animals had contact with one another.
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I like the quality on the thumbnail
9Tw _ opposite of clickbait. Weeds out folks that aren’t truly interested
Stop being sarcastic
It’s probably the worst thumbnail I’ve ever seen. It’s why I clicked
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I’m amazed at how shallow the fossils are. Like you’d think they’d be a long way down after all the sediment builds up over the years but no there’s a giant bone a few feet down like it’s nothing.
You got any more pixel for the thumbnail?
The thumbnail is so high quality
Anyone else feel satisfied by looking at the bubbles popping
Yeah I would jump in so I can be preserved
How cool!
I also like the quality of the thumbnail
Very intriguing video! I wonder with all tar pits, like La Brae in Los Angeles, if they can't ever go very deep because of how difficult it must be to extract the bones and fossils. I wonder how deep the tar is and if there are well preserved dinosaurs in the deepest parts. The humans alive during the ice age must have never fallen into the tar because they knew better not to get close... but you'd think a few over so many years would've died sinking in. Is the tar dangerously hot? What gas is in the bubbles? Is the tar a different grade of petroleum than say crude oil? Thanks for a great video!
Thanks for a most thoughtful and sensible post. I too wonder all those things. Hopefully someone will provide some insight on where to find that kind of info. I looked at the La Brea website and it's a bad joke.
@@Rikki0 Hi Rikki0! Thank you too for your kind words! Maybe too with tar like that the weight and pounds per sq inch probably greatly increase with depth and the oldest remains taking great lengths of time to reach deeper depth and who knows, even preserving various creatures in ways they have not observed yet... but too with such weight and pressure more difficult to extract. I wish they would give as much for understanding our past and origins as much as they do for space as I feel both are very important and it always seems the Archaeologists struggle for grant money etc. Really NASA struggles on a very low budget too compared to other departments. Just my amateur view. Thanks again!
I went to the tar pits today and I found out the gas in bubbles are methane.
@@mwj5368 gross can you two stop flicking each other's bean? It's disgusting
@@spencer4hire Hi Chris! Sorry I didn't see your reply until today, a month later as notices I guess don't always come with the bell icon. Thanks for your input! I'm only amateur and not sure what to think but maybe methane from the decomposing victims of the past.
Couple questions: how do Archeologists make income? Do they sell their findings to museums, or something? Also, how is it that it just so happened that he found the femur bone, and National Geographic just so happened to be there to film it? Lolz.
I would imagine there's a lot of very boring searching, digging, and coming up empty handed in paleontology. Realistically why would they not make sure to find something? Nobody would want to watch hours of digging for nothing. I do agree with wondering how they make a living off of paleontology tho.
its the illuminati bruh cmon grants for research arent real
They probably have a shooting team on standby, so that when they do find something, the film crew would quickly get ready and film that discovered process.
Could be as simple as they reproduced the find or TV. Or they had a videoographer of rheir own, and Nat just used their footage. But, now that I think about it, it is pretty convenient. These finds couldn't happen every day.
4:04 perfect condition for mexican Ice Age
poor owl
Thanks for sharing. Great info.
creolebuay69 it took you 8 years to get 1 like and one comment your welcome
Hey are u still alive
@@meer4037are you?
@@OfLanceTheLonginus slightly
Imagine getting stuck in tar; being vunrable to predators, the elements, starvation, thirst, crytotoxic fumes and in rare cases, dying to the sinking itself... you'd might as well be inhaling wet cement. What a painfully slow way to die all around.
How can you spell all the other words in your statement correctly, and massively eff up vulnerable? 😂
@@ricomon35 spell check, that's why lol
V u n r a b l e
The lady in the purple. O_O
0:24 the morning after taco bell
did you send this in 2020
Why did they show that poor owl? Breaks my heart 😢
I know. :(
The crazy thing is they prob put it there..
2:57 I’m familiar with American Mastodons. But Stegomastodons are new to me.
My favorite tar pit comment: “-the ground isn’t even solid underfoot.”
Finally a new newest first lol
These archaeology girls are quite beautiful lol seems like an untapped resource! 🔥
Paleontology/palaeontologists actually
I'd tap that myself.
Who is that narrator who sounds like Henry Fonda? I hear his voice all over PBS & other documentaries.
I've always wanted to get a ton of tar an make a life sized Tar Monster statue, lol
good thumb nail
Wow
Hi Maria, you stacked right
So you will read that the La Brea tar pit is only a few inches deep and yet the Police diver apparently dove 17 feet. It also said that you can, or an animal can, get stuck and not escape with only up to 4 cm of tar. I am doubting this. If so, how.
the tar pit looks like fresh brownies
Put a sun shade up!!!
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2:58 that creature is gonna give me nightmares:
Beautiful lady 😁
I like the thumbnail I clicked because of the potatoe camera used to take it
120 degrees and they dont die
I came here because of the La Brea series.
DAMN the girl in the purple is fine. Its like being in class. Suppose to be learnin something but im devoting all my attention to the fine girl.
@OLDBEATERSIX Ha, I know what you mean
This is what smoker's lungs look like
ng: sabertooth cats my adopt me sabertooth: O_o
last.
*HOW FA WORKS*
one day before i was born
a mamoth
is there a part two part two part two part two part two ?
I only read mew two mew two mew two
they didn't migrate they were swept smh.
Looks like gasoline to me!
FrustratedNameSearch gasoline is clear and has a really low viscosity, nothing like tar
Bro it’s litterally nothing like gasoline 💀💀
@WAKEUPshift111 hA,HA,HA Very true. I can just imagine how many trips he took to the toilet ( if any). Ha,ha,ha,ha.
Have you ever heard of replying?
I bet there is a few humans in there
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Feel bad for that dude. You gotta work side by side with an insanely beautiful woman in terrible conditions. I wouldnt be able to concentrate at all.
YOU HAVE LOW STANDARDS .. SHES A 3 AT BEST
Sorry to shake your ground, but she's the female Latin version of Ryan Reynolds.
ECNIRP19997 Why do you feel the need to shame this girl and her looks . So rude of you , especially as a response to a compliment . You must be so proud of yourself .
Ewwwwwwwww..... XD
Its been 7 years. Are u dead?