The Amazing Biogeography of Caves

From Atlas Pro. Today we’re learning about both the geographic and biologic factors that influence life underground to see if we can get a better understanding of cave biogeography! Support me on Patreon here: Follow me on Twitter @theatlaspro Sources / Further Reading: https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24044 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0513-8 https://www.touristlink.com/global/cat/caves/map.html#google_vignette https://landlubbers.co.za/about-the-drakensberg/entry-points/cobham-wilderness-area/chameleon-cave/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10040-020-02139-5 https://www.showcaves.com/english/other/region/aq.html https://www.showcaves.com/english/explain/Maps/index.html https://www.un-igrac.org/news/new-world-karst-aquifer-map-allow-better-global-quantification-karst-systems https://environmental-geol.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/karst-landscapes-and-systems/ https://environmental-geology-dev.pressbooks.tru.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/73/2021/07/Fig-5-scaled-1.jpg https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1156/pdf/of2014-1156_hi-res-pdfs/of2014-1156_figure_1.pdf https://biodiversitymapping.org/index.php/amphibians/…

Mapping Every Extinct Animal From North America

From Atlas Pro. Join me as I crack open another book (or two) on my shelf and try to learn about every animal missing from this continent! Support me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on Twitter @theatlaspro Sources / Additional Reading: https://archive.org/details/worldwildlifefun00worl_0 https://www.currentresults.com/Endangered-Animals/North-America/recently-extinct-animals.php https://sites.google.com/site/seaminkextinction/home/overall-information/range-and-habitat https://archive.nytimes.com/green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/a-riveting-glimpse-of-a-vanished-bird/ https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/141989/fsh0022.pdf?sequence=1 https://www.nathab.com/blog/last-of-her-kind-footage-of-an-imperial-woodpecker/ https://irlspecies.org/misc/impoundments.php https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Seaside_Sparrow/id# https://www.fws.gov/species/dusky-seaside-sparrow-ammodramus-maritimus-nigrescens https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/sandhills/ https://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/maps/seaside_sparrow_map.htm https://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/maps/bachmans_warbler_map.htm https://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/eskimo_curlew_info.htm…

The Plan to Build an Island Using Only Electricity

From Atlas Pro. We’ve learned about the Saya de Malha bank a number of times on this channel, but a shocking amount of our information regarding this isolated seabed comes from a single expedition carried out there in 2002. Today I’m diving deeper into the story behind this fateful voyage, and the true motivation behind…

I Bought The World’s MOST Comprehensive ATLAS

From Atlas Pro. With claims of being "the world’s most authoritative atlas," and even "the greatest book on earth," I couldn’t help but spend as much money as it took to get my hands on what surely must be the most impressive atlas I’ve ever seen. Join me as I thoroughly put this to the…

How Geography Started the Jurassic

From Atlas Pro. Sign up for Worldanvil here: https://www.worldanvil.com/?c=AtlasPro And use the code ATLASPRO when subscribing for 40% OFF any yearly subscription. Sources / Further Reading https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-triassic-period-the-rise-of-the-dinosaurs.html https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/understanding-extinction/mass-extinctions/end-triassic-extinction/ https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/triassic/triassic.php#:~:text=The%20northern%20forests%20at%20the,to%20conifer%20and%20cycad%20vegetation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003466679090031D https://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/six-extinctions https://www.britannica.com/science/Triassic-Period/Terrestrial-reptiles-and-the-first-mammals https://oeb.harvard.edu/news/dawn-modern-reptiles https://phys.org/news/2021-08-fossil-species-ancient-forerunner-modern.html https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G104/lectures/104triassic.html https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/taxa/verts/archosaurs/crocodylomorpha.php https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20warmest%20times,and%20250%20million%20years%20ago. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03834-3 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Life-reconstructions-of-Clevosaurus-hudsoni-and-Diphydontosaurus-avonis-A-Clevosaurus_fig3_303996913 https://www.npr.org/2022/09/20/1124108921/rise-of-the-dinosaurs https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2109895118 https://ougs.org/files/ouc/archive/proceedings/Proceedings_OUGS_2_2016_web_res.pdf https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/5/537/files/2019/07/2013ESR.pdf https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/evolving-landscape/the-cretaceous-period/ https://www.sci.news/paleontology/mid-cretaceous-rainforest-antarctica-08293.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61480-7 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-paleogeographic-map-at-the-Triassic-Jurassic-transition-ca-200-Ma-Surface_fig2_269099987

Is Australia a (Biogeographic) Island?

From Atlas Pro. I was always taught there were seven continents, Australia being one of them. However, I’ve been doing this long enough to know many of my international viewers might’ve been taught something else; that Australia is an island within the continent of Oceania. This has in turn generated a lot of confusion surround…