“All Todays” Explained | Speculative Zoology

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How might scientists reconstruct modern animals years into the future? This is a breakdown of “All Todays” — a thought experiment from the “All Tomorrows” author C. M. Kosemen, with John Conway and Darren Naish. --- The credited images featured in this video come from the “All Todays” section of the excellent book “All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals.” The book is available for purchase on Amazon. Follow and Support C. M. Kosemen, John Conway, and Darren Naish: C. M. Kosemen Website: http://www.cmkosemen.com/ C. M. Kosemen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cmkosemen/ C. M. Kosemen Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cmkosemen John Conway Website: https://johnconway.art/ John Conway Twitter: https://twitter.com/thejohnconway/ Darren Naish Website: https://tetzoo.com/ Darren Naish Twitter: https://twitter.com/TetZoo Imagine what would happen if, millions of years into the future, scientists — perhaps from other planets — tried to create depictions of the long extinct organisms they found in Earth’s fossil record. This concept is part of a thought experiment, “All Todays,” written in part by the astonishing author C. M. Koseman — whose work you might have seen from his other most famous book “All Tomorrows.” “All Todays” is a section in the larger 2012 art book “All Yesterdays,” dreamed up by not just C. M. Kosemen, but Darren Naish — a renowned zoologist, paleontologist and author, and John Conway: an immensely talented paleo-artist. And their ‘All Todays’ thought experiment of how imaginary future scientists might grossly misinterpret animals we’re familiar with is worth looking at further. So, let’s look at the ways in which paleontologists of the future might imagine the species of the present. 0:00 All Todays 0:00 All Todays 1:17 A Thought Experiment 2:28 Cat 3:02 Zebra 3:45 Rhinoceros 4:34 Elephant 5:23 Manatee 5:54 Baboon 6:50 Spider Monkey 7:23 Humming Bird 8:13 Hornbill 8:52 Snake 9:28 Cow 9:57 Outro Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. ♫ Beauty Flow Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ♫ #CuriousArchive #AllTomorrows #SpeculativeZoology