What is the Oldest Fossil on Earth?
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Published 2020-09-25
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Script & video edited & by Pete Kelly. Check out his channel:-
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Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
Artwork by Khail Kupsky
References:-
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973Icar...19..341C/abst…
cosmosmagazine.com/biology/over-our-heads-a-brief-…
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019asbi.book..419K/abst…
astrobiology.nasa.gov/missions/stardust/
helix.northwestern.edu/article/origin-life-pansper…
Image Credits:-
SIMS analysis of Primaevifilum amoenum, an Apex chert microfossil found in Western Australia, is interpreted to be a methane-consuming γ-Proteobacterium. Source: J.W. Schopf, UCLA.
astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/articles/2018/1/18/life-…
link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hills#/media/File:Quart…
theconversation.com/how-we-discovered-the-worlds-o…
By Paul Harrison - Photograph taken by Paul Harrison (Reading, UK) using a Sony CyberShot DSC-H1 digital camera., CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=714512
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All Comments (21)
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I love how you create hypotheses which you go on to prove or reject them. That is so scientific, you are just on a class of your own. You use science and explain it in the most vivid detail. I love this channel so much.
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I'm so glad I found this after I had watched all the PBS Eons episodes! I was taught creationism in school, and i LOVE how much learning about deep time has transformed my understanding of the planet and all life in general. I think it's far more magical to understand that all of this was not magically created in an instant, but that it instead took billions and billions of years of trial and error, innovation, catastrophe, cooperation, and failure to get here.
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Another documentary would have just said "Here is the oldest fossil known on Earth, and how it was found, etc.". This channel makes a tale of its subjects. A story spanning eons upon eons. This is what makes it so amazing.
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I love how the narrator dramatically says "this is kangaroo territory"...like as if kangaroos aren't eating the grass of my suburban front yard right now, or bouncing around our football oval.
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The quality of this series is excellent, like old school pbs nova good.
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your videos have a degre a quality on par with the best documentaries i have seen on tv. Grate job to you and everyone involved.
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I'm dealing with a lot of family stress and these videos help me relax, take my mind off everything and lift the anxiety of life temporarily. Thank you.
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This lady can be found in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. I had no idea it was based on a real women. You can do her side quest by collection fossils for her.
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Here, where I live in Minnesota, there are rocks billions of years old. I touch them. Squeeze my eyes close for a moment, and attempt to grasp the eons of deep time. The humility I embrace brings tears to my soul. It's wonderful... Thank you for enhancing my understanding.
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This series gives me the same wonderment I felt when I was a little kid borrowing Nova documentaries from the local library. What a brilliant undertaking!
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i thought this was a documentary that was uploaded to youtube, the production quality is incredible!
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Kudos to Ms. Battison for a wonderful job of research and writing. Thank you for making complex science accessible to us laypeople without dumbing it down in the process.
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One of my favourite finds on YouTube... The sheer quality of this series is incredible... I'm surprised that BBC, PBS or Discovery haven't snapped this up already.
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Fall of Civilizations sent me here. Instant sub as soon as I hear this voice. Easily one of my favorite narrators
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Just found this channel today and very glad I did. Your passion for this history isn't just apparent, it's contagious. Love it
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LOL!!!! I've been to Lyme Regis and I could not get enough of the town. Good pubs excellent food, friendly people, and collecting 180 million-year-old fossils on the beach. Mary Anning, the patron of "ALL" fossil hunters throughout the world.😁😁😁😁😁😁
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(Edit: I realized that my comment didn't acknowledge the fantastic quality of this amazing video. Bravo. You are raising the standard for content on YouTube several orders of magnitude.) Although, certainly, Mary Anning's gender played a significant role in her exclusion from the scientific community, greater impediments were her extreme poverty and her religious beliefs. As a Dissenter, she was automatically excluded from almost any education or scientific society.
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Kudos to Leila Battison for a rivetingly lyrical account of the history of life on Earth! Your choice of visuals matches the narration perfectly. Encore!
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The oldest fossil on earth is Keith Richards! Seriously, this is an absolutely brilliant video, and channel. One of the very best channels on YouTube.
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Just saw your subscriber count jump from 54k to 70.2 in a few days. You guys are going to be big. Honestly I don't think Youtube deserves this... lol , how is this a Youtube channel? It's just... thank you. Really.
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