A Very Handy Fish Fossil

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @KdetJim
    @KdetJim 4 года назад +132

    “A small body size would mean they wouldn’t need much food. And a generalized diet means they wouldn’t be picky eaters. Both good traits to have in an apocalypse.”
    *diligently takes notes*

  • @Nobody_Special310
    @Nobody_Special310 4 года назад +181

    Wonder Chicken and the Tetrapods is my new fake band name.

    • @culwin
      @culwin 4 года назад +7

      You can be a Hootie and the Blowfish cover band

    • @dstinnettmusic
      @dstinnettmusic 4 года назад +4

      Almost as good as "Trunked Sauropod Movement", which is another odd paleontology thingy

    • @DakotaofRaptors
      @DakotaofRaptors 4 года назад +1

      57 Maggots is my fake band name.

    • @MaryAnnNytowl
      @MaryAnnNytowl 4 года назад +1

      I own wonder chickens. At least that's what I tell them when I gather the eggs. 😄
      [True story, though.]

  • @glenngriffon8032
    @glenngriffon8032 4 года назад +84

    El pissed 'o Steggy
    The very drunken irish Stegosaur

  • @lilifrance8757
    @lilifrance8757 4 года назад +6

    Some of the authors of the Elpistostege paper are my lecturers at university and it has been really cute seeing how excited they are about how much media coverage this paper has gotten. If you are interested in early tetrapods or fish, please, please, PLEASE show them love some on Twitter, they will greatly appreciate it and will be more than happy to answer any questions you might have.
    @DrAliceClement
    @fupalaeosoc

  • @thecoolestcorgi4991
    @thecoolestcorgi4991 4 года назад +78

    The fish developed legs because they had a collective vision of the arrival of the Messiah, Muscle Hank.

    • @theoverseer393
      @theoverseer393 4 года назад +3

      Actually his name is Darwin and he did it for Gumball

    • @DakotaofRaptors
      @DakotaofRaptors 4 года назад +1

      @@theoverseer393 I miss TAWOG...

  • @rickmiddelbos5500
    @rickmiddelbos5500 4 года назад +25

    (Small mistake: Maastricht / st. pietersberg is in the Netherlands, not in Belgium.)

    • @ronenshtein7083
      @ronenshtein7083 4 года назад +5

      Well, it's named after the Maastricht Formation the also outcrops in Belgium, not after the city...

    • @rickmiddelbos5500
      @rickmiddelbos5500 4 года назад +4

      @@ronenshtein7083 thanks for the correction!

  • @terryenby2304
    @terryenby2304 4 года назад +9

    I love these videos. The list in the top left, with the current topic outlined is so wonderfully structured and easy to follow. I love it.
    Perfect for my autistic brain to follow.

  • @Asianxiety
    @Asianxiety 4 года назад +22

    0:29 The subtitle said "that one group of fish evolved fins from feet," almost thought it was a whale episode

  • @b1laxson
    @b1laxson 4 года назад +6

    1: Fishy fishy fish. It is the most elusive fish.
    2: Where is this fishy fishy fish?
    1: It is upon the land with its fisty fishy fins.
    2: Truly it is the most elusive fish!

  • @jeanette8943
    @jeanette8943 4 года назад +3

    "From herons to hippos to humans" love that alliteration 😁

  • @CandySouvannarangsy3187
    @CandySouvannarangsy3187 4 года назад +1

    SciShow:~shows sponsor~
    Me: ~ready to exit out~
    ~mentions Calculus~
    Me: 0-o aight you have my attention

  • @googlebarbaralernerspectre2581
    @googlebarbaralernerspectre2581 4 года назад +9

    I only come here to see this guy get really nerdy. He's so beautiful.

  • @beretperson
    @beretperson 4 года назад +3

    Hands first developed underwater because it was the easiest way to wash them back then.
    Wash your hands!

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 4 года назад +82

    I wish I could be a fossil.
    Only then would someone dig me.

    • @sebastianthomsen2225
      @sebastianthomsen2225 4 года назад

      X,D

    • @vinces7001
      @vinces7001 4 года назад +2

      Sebastian Elytron. Smiles. Life is Brief so Just ENJOY! Xxx

    • @alicehodges9964
      @alicehodges9964 4 года назад

      @@vinces7001 yeah Its Fascinating isn't it? How we evolved from Homosapiens and We are related to Dolphins too thay are our cusiens

    • @vinces7001
      @vinces7001 4 года назад

      Alice Hodges. Careful Little One from Texas and Gone Native in uk ~ Acquired a Dry/Warped sense of HUMOR

    • @sanguillotine
      @sanguillotine 4 года назад +3

      Some might even try to date you

  • @Dunkle0steus
    @Dunkle0steus 4 года назад +5

    3:48 hank says "tennis" instead of "tensis"

  • @BarbarianGod
    @BarbarianGod 4 года назад +4

    Hank: one of the most important defining features of true tetrapods is the presence of digits
    *snake has left the chat*

  • @jexafinodine7053
    @jexafinodine7053 4 года назад +31

    Captions say “from feet to fins” lol

    • @libratyanjhon3959
      @libratyanjhon3959 4 года назад +5

      My captions was on while listening to Hank.
      While my brain: Hey, that's illegal!

    • @kimyongin1987
      @kimyongin1987 4 года назад +6

      That was just a prophecy for whales 😌

    • @Hat-
      @Hat- 4 года назад

      Kim Inseong Indeed

  • @EggBastion
    @EggBastion 4 года назад +5

    _Elpistostege,_ my dear Watsoni.

  • @eduardvaniersel7535
    @eduardvaniersel7535 4 года назад

    From what I understand for several articles on Asteriornis is that they used two different methods of assessing its taxonomic place. One placed it as an early member of Galloanserae and the other in a sister group to Galloanserae.

  • @AlexWoodThete
    @AlexWoodThete 4 года назад +1

    Looks like Star Trek Viyager’s episode Threshold was right, only in reverse. As the pre-Tetrapod looks a lot like what they said we’d evolve INTO, but it should have been FROM...

  • @Bildgesmythe
    @Bildgesmythe 4 года назад +14

    Now I have that: one bone, two bones, many bones, fingers, stuck in my head

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 4 года назад

      I'm not even familiar with it, and I think I'm glad about that. Sounds like the kind of song that woul really get stuck in someone's head for days! Lol.

  • @atheistonavmax7873
    @atheistonavmax7873 4 года назад +4

    Why do i get pins and needles when one of my limbs wakes up from being asleep (circulation cut off)?

  • @markchip1
    @markchip1 4 года назад +25

    Sadly your description of the wonder-chicken is a tad inaccurate - Maastricht is in the Netherlands, not Belgium! (Although it's NEAR that border)

    • @NullCreativityMusic
      @NullCreativityMusic 4 года назад

      That's right, the bones have been found in the St Pietersberg. It's the same hill (I won't call it a mountain) were they found the famous Mosasaurus.

  • @SkellyMagus
    @SkellyMagus 4 года назад

    Dood you are so good at using your body to attract people's attention, to stay focused on your subject and learn fully. The perfect amount of movement and facial posture to keep us intrigued, yet not so distracting that they forget to listen. Very good. :D

  • @robinchesterfield42
    @robinchesterfield42 4 года назад +1

    And then there's the Australian Spotted Handfish, and yes, you read that correctly. HANDfish. Unfortunately they're endangered, but they're basically fishies with handlike fins that are alive NOW. Not just fossils (yet). They're a transitional form, and actually here and now, real. :D
    EDIT: About the tetrapod bone structure evolving while the creatures were still in water, and what advantage this might have given them: Yeah in that one documentary about Australia from "Nova", we see the handfish using its handfins to push aside reeds and get into a hiding place the bigger fish can't reach...AND outright just _grabbing_ a smaller thing to eat it. (Clumsily, since it has to grab with basically a floppy mitten. But it works.)
    So...why would a water-dwelling fish want tetrapod bones? THAT'S why!

  • @blepthebleep469
    @blepthebleep469 4 года назад +30

    Me who just came back from the OSP video on Lovecraft: *”Oh no”*

    • @szymonnomak6436
      @szymonnomak6436 4 года назад +1

      Nellie Dritz what video

    • @TheGreatCheshiresmile
      @TheGreatCheshiresmile 4 года назад +4

      tetropods, with colors beyond the scope of man! hahah

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 4 года назад +1

      Fish with hands? Nah, that's just my e-mail pal from Innsmouth. Nice guy, really.

  • @lyndsaybrown8471
    @lyndsaybrown8471 4 года назад +3

    Good traits to have to try surviving an apocalypse you say? Okay, I will try to achieve small body size while maintaining a diverse diet.
    These birds are chocolate, right?

  • @gizmoochi
    @gizmoochi 4 года назад +1

    I always thought the oldest member of The Birds was Ronnie Wood.

  • @brianwilliams9813
    @brianwilliams9813 4 года назад +4

    I need more shows. I'm stuck at home.

  • @XenoflareBahamut
    @XenoflareBahamut 4 года назад +8

    Is it just me or am I hearing puns every 30 seconds.

  • @catman8965
    @catman8965 4 года назад +2

    I got to HAND it to Hank, he really made a FISHY video.

  • @LEDewey_MD
    @LEDewey_MD 4 года назад +4

    Very cool fossil findings. Thanks, SciShow!

  • @hzaagman8005
    @hzaagman8005 4 года назад +1

    A quick google search tells me that early bird wasn't found in Belgium but in the Netherlands, near the city of Maastricht, hence the name Asteriornis Maastrichtensis.
    It was apparently found in the same general area that first yielded another famous cretacious critter, the Mosasaur, back in the late 18th century.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 4 года назад

      Which makes it even closer to the impact zone and the incoming Mega Tsunami perhaps explaining why no birds managed to survive into the Paleogene the Northern Hemisphere....

  • @marc-bernardlevesque5016
    @marc-bernardlevesque5016 4 года назад +1

    Odd, that a fossile, found a very long time ago, in a small town called « Nouvelle », which mean « new » or « NEWS », be talked about only recently in an article... news travels slowly out of that town with such a name.

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 4 года назад

      Lol. Oh, the irony!

  • @botigamer9011
    @botigamer9011 4 года назад +8

    Last time I was this early, "Corona" was a Spanish and Italian word for crown

    • @KevinUchihaOG
      @KevinUchihaOG 4 года назад +2

      it still is. That's why the virus is named corona. Because it has a "crown" around it.

    • @adkinsyum
      @adkinsyum 4 года назад

      Or a crappy Mexican beer

    • @botigamer9011
      @botigamer9011 4 года назад

      @@adkinsyum I'm Mexican. I have tried Corona beer before. It tastes like carbonated pee. Ew

  • @midnighttoast1204
    @midnighttoast1204 4 года назад +2

    I love watching these

  • @akumaking1
    @akumaking1 4 года назад +1

    Can you guys cover the complex and complicated history of the annelids?

  • @JiveDadson
    @JiveDadson 4 года назад +3

    Whenever I need a fish fossil right away, I go directly to elpistostegi.

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 4 года назад +1

      I mean, who doesn't, really?

    • @SMHman666
      @SMHman666 4 года назад

      @@robinchesterfield42 Especially when they are having a sale !

  • @billbaggins
    @billbaggins 4 года назад

    Tasmanian handfish " What's all the big fuss about?"

  • @fastinradfordable
    @fastinradfordable 4 года назад +3

    I was with my dad when he discovered the first starfish in the Devonian period. Making it the oldest known starfish by millions of years.
    He cared more about rocks than his kids :(

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 4 года назад +1

      What was his name? As far as im aware, the ikdest starfish fossil found is 435 million years old or so.

  • @johnstewart8849
    @johnstewart8849 4 года назад

    Those are the guys who keep un-baiting my hook!

  • @ritchey635
    @ritchey635 4 года назад +6

    Oops Ackchyually that is wrong... the Asteriornis maastrichtensis is found as its name suggests in the city of Maastricht in the limestone hill called the Sint Pietersberg (saint petemountain) in the Netherlands. It is the capitol of the province Limburg and there is also a province called Limburg in Belgium, neighbouring countries and even neighbouring provinces. Understandable mistake. Stay safe and healthy

    • @ronenshtein7083
      @ronenshtein7083 4 года назад +1

      It's named after the rock formation, not the city...

    • @ritchey635
      @ritchey635 4 года назад

      Ronen Shtein still not in Belgium

  • @charlessavilla2894
    @charlessavilla2894 4 года назад +1

    What if it really doesn’t complicate things and it just suggests there was a case of convergent evolution?

  • @The_Mikkel
    @The_Mikkel 4 года назад +4

    Not a single fish finger joke. I quit ;)

  • @jamesharmer9293
    @jamesharmer9293 4 года назад +9

    Totally off topic, but Hank's looking super smoothly shaven today. Special hot towel treatment at the local barbers ???

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 4 года назад

      Barbers in California are forbidden to barber. Shelter _this_ , Gavin Newsom!

    • @mirfan-2020
      @mirfan-2020 4 года назад

      It's the dollar shave club!

  • @JLocke573
    @JLocke573 4 года назад

    I have to hand it to you guys this episode was pretty good

  • @heliosphaeresonnen_wind_ki5720
    @heliosphaeresonnen_wind_ki5720 4 года назад +10

    #teamtetrapod: stay inside! 🖖😷

  • @contrarianduude3463
    @contrarianduude3463 4 года назад +3

    This whole video sounds a little fishy to me. Why would birds even be hanging out in foul water?

  • @sdfkjgh
    @sdfkjgh 4 года назад +1

    1:51 Eyo, Elpistostege, lemme getta lookadem digits!

  • @Bimtavdesign
    @Bimtavdesign 4 года назад

    I love your writers😍😍 everything is presented with just the right puns

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 4 года назад

      I dunno, I dont find it all that punny.

  • @slayer2450
    @slayer2450 4 года назад +2

    9 seconds is the fastest I've ever been to a video

    • @rbb9753
      @rbb9753 4 года назад

      Queto Seriously, are we not doing phrasing anymore?

  • @easyteh4getperson
    @easyteh4getperson 4 года назад

    that thumbnail is gold! so funny

  • @jeffreywebb2692
    @jeffreywebb2692 4 года назад

    Great video. Love this channel.

  • @SamAronow
    @SamAronow 4 года назад

    Hank: “The late Cretaceous in Belgium.”
    Me, an intellectual: “Flanders; Belgium wasn’t a thing back then.”

  • @WhatIWantToListenTo
    @WhatIWantToListenTo 4 года назад

    "Asteriornis maastrichtennis" I believe isn't how you say it, but, Hank, you're sure doing a better job of pronouncing it than me!

  • @adkinsyum
    @adkinsyum 4 года назад +2

    I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️wonderchicken!!! They suffered like hell through 2 years of blackened hell. Inspiration for pandemic!

  • @clutchyfinger
    @clutchyfinger 4 года назад +2

    I loved her in Harry Potter

  • @intarc0giotto
    @intarc0giotto 4 года назад +1

    so if evolution taught me right..... people that dont eat a lot of pasta and dont need a lot of toiletpaper will survive corona?

  • @ursaltydog
    @ursaltydog 4 года назад

    Interesting that so many links between so many older species and newer species are missing..

    • @ProfezorSnayp
      @ProfezorSnayp 4 года назад

      That's an always occuring problem. When you find a missing transitional form between 2 species there will be 2 more gaps you want to fill.

    • @ursaltydog
      @ursaltydog 4 года назад

      @@ProfezorSnayp But these are major transitional gaps between humans and proto-humans, dolphins and their near flying predecessors, these fish that made it to land to create tetrapods, etc.. See what I mean?
      Maybe the earth went through such major land upheavals at different times that the evidences are not within our reach?

  • @peraire
    @peraire 4 года назад

    as usual, very interesting video. just wondering, who is your shirt provider?

  • @lordodysseus
    @lordodysseus 4 года назад

    Fun fact: Tiktaalik discovered the Americas first. About 380 million years ago.

  • @davidkelley5382
    @davidkelley5382 4 года назад

    Dude, if I had been your sponsor, I would want my $ back. Otherwise great vid!

  • @angelitabecerra
    @angelitabecerra 4 года назад

    Looking sharp Hank, nice shirt

  • @ScrapperTBP
    @ScrapperTBP 4 года назад

    I am surprised the first story wasn't on EONS

  • @YodaMan-420
    @YodaMan-420 4 года назад

    the adult in me is interested and enjoying the video.
    the teenager in me is giggling every time you say piss.
    the anime lover in me -- after hearing the name of the wonder chicken -- is now imagining tennis-playing chickens with super powers.

  • @Itsgonnabeok1325
    @Itsgonnabeok1325 4 года назад

    I notice there are 6 metacarpals, but 5 carpal. Could this be why some mammals with digits sometimes have 6 instead of 5?

  • @a_e_hilton
    @a_e_hilton 4 года назад

    I wonder, by Hank's criteria, if humans have good traits for the apocalypse?

  • @SquirrelASMR
    @SquirrelASMR 4 года назад +4

    The first fish ever to have the ability to waank

  • @alicehodges9964
    @alicehodges9964 4 года назад +1

    Good video I love fossils and learning about Human evolution 🙂 we evolved from Homosapiens, monkeys Dolphins and others too

  • @blue_leader_5756
    @blue_leader_5756 4 года назад

    The closed captions at 0:25 are wrong. It says "fins from feet" when it should say 'feet from fins"

  • @sturmwatcher9928
    @sturmwatcher9928 4 года назад

    My stomach had the rumblelys that only hands could satisfy.

  • @lexzbuddy
    @lexzbuddy 4 года назад +1

    Regarding calculus you mentioned as a side note at the end... I studied engineering after school, I'm now 50 and have worked as an Engineer since graduating. In 30 years of being an engineer I haven't actually used calculus once. I do use algebra and standards but no calculus at all. No matrix algebra or complex numbers either. I suppose it helps understand how all these formulas you pull from standards came about but in reality, that's about all. As a tool its been utterly useless to me. I kind of feel like I spent an awful lot of time and effort learning an awful lot of stuff at uni that was such an utter waste of time. I'm not saying it's pointless but I kind of feel like I was ripped off. Further education isn't cheap and you'd think that what you paying for may actually be in some way useful and or helpful to life after you get a job related to your chosen field of study.
    The only way it would be useful would be if you wanted to get a job teaching at school or university. Perhaps some obscure research job or something like that. But really, for the best part, its utterly useless in the real world for the vast majority of engineers and I think that there are an awful lot of thing that would be a better use of ones time that isn't ever taught at university, well not as an Engineer at any rate.
    With that all said, I don't expect any further education institutions to come back to reality any time soon and will take the lazy route of teaching the same old bumf come hell or high water. So kids, you too will be forced to jump through the burning hoops known as calculus to get that "exciting" engineering degree to get that job after graduating. But rest assured, you won't have to ever use it ever again once you graduate. What a crock .. ....

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 4 года назад

      As a robotics engineer, I used calculus frequently. What was your field?

  • @Tias858
    @Tias858 4 года назад

    I love you scishow

  • @DarkAngelEU
    @DarkAngelEU 4 года назад

    Funny how we have a Belgian artist who breeds chickens. Look him up, Koen Vanmechelen ;)

  • @mostly_minerals
    @mostly_minerals 4 года назад

    I want to die at the North Pole to confuse future scientists.

  • @islandsunset
    @islandsunset 4 года назад

    Snakes are not the first thing that would come to my mind when someone says Tetrapods... 😅

  • @Plarby
    @Plarby 4 года назад +5

    Well I gotta hand it to you, I thought this smelled rather fishy at first

  • @jaythompson7149
    @jaythompson7149 4 года назад

    Really nice shirt.

  • @Dianalizam
    @Dianalizam 4 года назад +1

    Don, t forgot to subcribe

  • @kareematef7347
    @kareematef7347 4 года назад

    What a great video!!!

  • @hotdrippyglass
    @hotdrippyglass 4 года назад

    You folks stay safe please. Not only do I like you all too much to hear bad news about you but your work is getting a lot of us through this home self quarantine with our minds intact.

  • @irusvzi
    @irusvzi 4 года назад

    1:13 *handful*
    lmao

  • @josephgrant6300
    @josephgrant6300 4 года назад

    Cool shirt!

  • @buhbird4698
    @buhbird4698 4 года назад

    more tetra-pod episodes??

  • @donniewatson9120
    @donniewatson9120 4 года назад +2

    So, they had attributes that allowed them to survive a revelation, huh!🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭🤭
    I know, I know. Even though apocalypse means revelation, you meant the modern connotation.

  • @Reythscipe
    @Reythscipe 4 года назад +1

    Guys that's our great¹⁰ grandpa

  • @Xaiff
    @Xaiff 4 года назад

    "... evolved feet from fins" ?
    OR
    "... evolved fins from feet" ?
    The caption is making some confusions here. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Angels-3xist
    @Angels-3xist 4 года назад

    That fish should be a proctologist. Also needs a moustache.

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 4 года назад

      Everything and everyone needs a mustache!

  • @iadtag1853
    @iadtag1853 4 года назад +6

    Just had this uploaded 20 seconds ago so here's your comment

  • @PaulPaulPaulson
    @PaulPaulPaulson 4 года назад +1

    That title and thumbnail is even more confusing if you are german

  • @Peter-dk2ov
    @Peter-dk2ov 4 года назад

    Hey hank where's the next micro cosmos episode???

  • @goldgear1252
    @goldgear1252 4 года назад

    Coelacanth

  • @mandymom2800
    @mandymom2800 4 года назад

    FISH WITH HANDS

  • @yuzu8715
    @yuzu8715 4 года назад

    If you get any new fossils show them too brathers he loves fossils for his museum.

  • @nerissacrawford8017
    @nerissacrawford8017 4 года назад

    Why does the thumbnail look like a meme? 🤣

  • @Yurt_enthusiast7
    @Yurt_enthusiast7 4 года назад

    Play shoreline!

  • @iatsarulashvili3893
    @iatsarulashvili3893 4 года назад +4

    Hello! I want to say watching this was very "handy" for my paleontology test. Sorry for the pun. I will "hand" my soul to the devil now.

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile 4 года назад

    Ha nice pun in the title, hands down!

  • @SegmentW
    @SegmentW 4 года назад

    Hank is such a great human.

  • @otakudoctor8423
    @otakudoctor8423 4 года назад

    Ah, Belgium!