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It’s important to us that you understand how big this beaver was. Just like modern beavers, it was semiaquatic -- it lived both on the land and in the water. The difference is that today’s beavers do a pretty special thing - one that the giant beaver probably didn’t, or couldn’t, do.
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Giant beaver
Castoroides? Where my ark players at!?
I missed the episode last week because i thought the thumbnail was familiar
I quote Leslie Neilson: “Nice beaver”.
Humans are like beavers! We shape the world around us, increasing our chances for survival! I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!
I'm a huge fan of your channel PBS enos
“What about the R.O.U.S.’s?” “Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.”
AnimalWonders Montana is wonderful. Recommended!
Check out the largest known beaver dam, Improvement District No. 24, Alberta, Canada. Half-mile long, visible from space!
The world’s biggest beaver was never missing. My ex-wife still has it.
I'm going to quibble about the reconstruction at 3:36. The tail vertebrae were flattened similar to Castor. They didn't have a tail like the muskrat or rounded. ( I worked at a natural history museum and sculpted life sized reconstructions for exhibit)
If possible, I'd like to see more video's on ecosystem engineers and how /why they evolved those traits.
blake: guys this is really important to me that you learn about this giant beaver comment section: 👀👀👀 muscles
Yay! He's back!
Must ... resist. ... Must ... resist. :-)
i think human hunting drove them to extinction just like all other megafauna in americas, timelines fits too.
Evolution of the plasenta please!
This guy is super yoked now
Yummy.
a rodent the size of a bear...
Wiki has an article about Francevillan biota, which is regarded as multicellular life over 2 billion years ago. Could you tell us about it, and whether this article should be trusted at all.
Keep in mind, it’s not a beaver. Not yet 😂
PBS Eons: What happened to the biggest beaver ever? Me: It died
@PBSEons So, most modern mammals are rodents (right?) and they've pretty much stuck to the original "design" of being small and fast and diggy which helped them outlast the dinos, SO: has there ever been an Age Of Rodents wherein rodents filled all the niches from big predator on down? This video made me think of this...
Great video, and the host is looking different 🤔
When are they going to talk about the extinction of Steve?
Loving how frustrated Blake sounds by the fact that the giant beavers aren’t around anymore
I tell people about this channel all the time
Thanks for acknowledging the indigenous land where the fossils were found, it makes a difference!
Rodents of unusual size?!
We still miss you Steve...wherever you are
Got scarce and disappeared with the other megafauna? As spreading populations of h. Sapiens ran out of mammoths, camels, horses & etc. to eat? Question: Were they TASTY?
Great episode!
HI PATRICK!!!!!! WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!!!!!!👋👋👋👋👋
Just be sure not to take any silica pearls or cementing paste from their homes, or they'll swarm you.
My mans stay in the gym during this lockdown
Pbs eons and neons and eons and nen. - Whatever Kendrick said
Thank you guys so much for providing the acknowledgement of Indigenous lands - it means a lot :)
What happened to eontologist Steve..??
I am so immature
When I hear that a species existed only about a million years before going extinct I don’t think that’s very long. But then I realize that humans have only existed about 1/5th of that and civilization has only existed for like 6 thousand years.
Can you do a video on American lion
Its weird how much I miss Steve's name in the eontologist list...
What is the name of this music, playing in first half of the video?
This video proved to me that I've been a twelve year old for 33 years and counting
Thank you so much for the acknowledgement about native lands.
Do one on bigfoot
I still miss Steve :(
Is it bad that i get even more excited learning about these critters because I know them from ARK?
I thought the gaming beaver was gonna comment here Oh well
I think Before Fungi would be an excellent video. Probably too late to request.
If this programme doesn't inspire Americans to pull it together and stand for justice, equality and liberty as an undivided group with those common causes, then I don't know what would. This is it, people. This is the why. How lucky you are. You simply must not forfeit this.
Oh wow. Beavers are genius
I guess you could say beavers give a dam about their dams.
Best submitted joke yet....
😱 Where’s Steve?!?
Anyone know the music in the background??
I've mentally checked out for a few months, here for the gains, not the Dinos
modern beavers are kinda boring ok not realy the make dams out of wood they chewed down
:Ark Survival Evolved:
swol
🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫
Yo what happened to Steve?
Blake looking SWOLE! makes me feel insecure about my isolation/quarantine bod.
@PBS Eons Can you do a video on how parasitic sea lamprey survived 4 extinction events and still live today
Here's Blake telling us all about a giant beaver, but all we can focus on are his giant biceps.
I come to this channel to learn about stuff while also being in the comfort of not doing physical sheets of work. tis very relaxing
We probably were a factor in their demise as well, due to their size they almost certainly would have been a target for early humans.
2.5 metres... that is absolutely incredible.
Can you do cows next?
Truly a R.O.U.S (Rodent Of Unusual Size)
So the small and nerdy guy who majored in engineering triumphs over the big and stong guy who knows only to depend on his size
Castoroides may have lost habitat in the southern Midwest but it gained it in the northern Midwest and further north. I doubt climate had much to do with its extinction. Like most megafauna or "larger versions" of living animals, it was probably hunted out by humans.
It went extinct (I'm just guessing)
Thank you for acknowledging the First People.
Another very well done video, except for one thing. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time PBS Eons has refused to wrestle with the possibility that humans wiped out the megafauna at the end of the Ice Age. As was mentioned in the video, previous ice ages have ended without exterminating the giant beaver and other megafauna. The difference this time is that this time, humans were present. We modern humans have trouble adapting to the environment without harming it. Maybe it took the early humans in the Western Hemisphere some time to adapt to the end of the Ice Age and caused some extinctions in the meantime. While human causation of Paleolithic extinctions is not confirmed, it is broadly considered a reasonable possibility, and PBS Eons appears to be ducking the issue.
Costco size perfume is made from their castor gland
I love the soundtrack on this episode, it's so melodic and nice
Yo this dude got ripped
Dont steal there cementing paste
The acknowledgement of First Nations at the end of the video is a good step. Thanks to Eons for including it.
can you do a video on argentavis if you haven't already
Nice title. lol
Me who knew this and many other things because I play ark
Blake keeps getting yoked-er
paleo daddy back again being adorable as always. lets learn about megafauna
Has anyone else watched every video that isn’t an hour long on the channel
I like big beavers!
Where is Steve?!
I love this channel, but I have a theory... It’s specifically said that they move north during warm periods, which is what we are in right now.... time to go research if Yukon or Alaskan fur trappers/ gold rushers documented any giant beavers! Likely they would inhabit similar territory to moose where it’s highly difficult for humans to travel.
Ark Survival
this guy got fit during quarantine god damn
just went to an episode a year ago, damn man you made some really good life decisions, looking great!!!
this was posted on my Bday!
4:24 I misheard this...as twenty SEVEN meters.
Castoroid? I know that bc of ARK lmao
It was all climate change and just a wild coincedence that the world's most dangerous predator showed up in America at the same time?
Hey Eons, just wondering, has Hank stopped presenting to focus on other projects, or has Covid prefented him from making it out to the KH studio?
Why is the PBS eons man so jacked?
I know this sounds like a boring topic, but I'm really curious about the evolutionary history of grass. Could you guys make a video about that?
8:09 In the year 2040, "And here, in this video from early 2021, we see the first evolutionary steps of PBS Eons towards a full-time comedy channel..."