@@jornahpee оh, I am subscribed to "no commercials" on RUclips, I think/believe it gives me a whole array of extra emojis... like:. ... can you see all of them?
@@6Pope9 I wrote: brilliant and fascinating, where did you find "mind-blowing" in my comment? Obviously, life on earth developed underwater initially. But, did you know that 65 million years ago there were flying fish? I did not. take care
As a teenager hitching round Europe a very long time ago, me and a friend were paddling on a beach in (then) Yugoslavia when a shoal of small fish came towards us, all leaping out of the water at the same time. We ran back to the shore - coming from the Midlands of rainy old UK, we'd never seen anything like it! I'm sure others on the beach had a good laugh at our expense.
This gave me a idea what if in a alien world that is covered with islands and highly active volcanoes causing most islands to be created and destroyed in a daily bases, the aquatic life evolves to fly before evolving to walk on land.
Thank you, this was a fascinating, informative, and well produced video. I’m a tropical fish hobbyist that has kept two unrelated species of freshwater “flying”/gliding fish, the African butterfly fish, Pantodon buchholzi, and the silver or platinum hatchetfish, Thoracocharax stellatus. Freshwater hatchetfish have the distinction of being the only fish capable of powered flight, buzzing their pectoral fins fast enough to keep them aloft for almost 4 meters. Not bad for a 7cm fish!
Thats awesome i had never heard of those fish. I just finished a new aquaponics system and was thinking about Archer fish in some tanks. Do you have them in regular glass tanks, do they fly out?
Forever one of my favorite evolution youtubers. I feel like I've learned so much from you, especially when I first started my journey into learning about the history of life, which has massively shaped my worldview since then.
Good video moth. Flying fish is crazy topic I tackled once. It's crazy to think it happened more than once and species we see today are not exactly closely related
Did you know some birds, despite not having gills like a fish, learned to swim? A modern swimming bird is the penguin, who can hold their farts for 45 minutes, and are unable to remove their tuxedos without dying.
I remember my mother describing being on a ship and seeing "flying fish." I wasn't likely even 8 years old so my imagine was off the rails trying to picture what she was describing. It's one of those mom/son things that stuck with me. She was a British nurse officer being transported around Africa to reach India during WWII. She had many short anecdotes about her experiences in India. I'm sure I only heard the good ones. Every time I see a nature show with flying fish I think of that.
Already the first minute of this video was already more interesting than anything I’ve seen in weeks! 🤯 This channel is remarkable. Thank you very much for the video! 🙏🌊🐟 Edit: clarity
You’re videos are always the best. They get me thinking about things I’ve never really thought about. The idea of a fish gliding above the water for almost full minute blows my mind. I assumed they just kind of jumped out of the water for a second or 2, then jumped in. So fascinating. Would love to hear you speak about sea snakes or sea turtles, as their the only marine reptiles still around. As well as manatees or the siren family in general.
@@toxicperson8936 Neither do polar bears or many pinnipeds yet they are still considered marine mammals, hell marine iguanas probably go into the ocean more times a day than walruses.
The flying halfbeaks are a perfect example of *parallel* evolution, not just convergent: independently developing similar innovations from the same genetic starting point in their common ancestor. Some of their preexisting features predisposed them long-term to specializing in “flight”.
In the video, it explains modern day flying fishes aren't closely related to the ones in the Triassic ones. It's another case of convergent evolution. Still, it's pretty neat to see this particular niche occur again!
I see that Thoracopteridae also have the convergent pronunciation anomoly with "helicopter" where "ptera" has been split and the silent P becoming pronounced, so rather than being read as Thoraco-pteridae, it becomes Thora-cop-teridae. There's a linguistic word for that, but I can't remember what it is. Anyway, fascinating video as always. My sister-in-law was on a research ship and encountered schools of flying fish off the coast of Africa.
Still it's so mind blowing to imagine the beginning of this evolution: some small fish leapt out of the water to avoid a predator, and stayed just 20ms longer in the air because it had a slightly elongated fins, but that was just enough to survive. And that process repeated a countless number of times.
Would it be possible, after millions & millions of years, flying fish could evolve to be able to fully fly? I know flying fish existed before flying reptiles or birds, but considering birds evolved to live on land before (amphibians), it seems possible that they’d be able to learn to fly after many years of evolution. I’d love to see what fully flying fish would look like.
My feeling is no: using water as your propulsive medium is far more energy efficient than using air alone. My feeling is that the reason birds don't do this on land with their legs is because any unevenness in the ground would break legs, wings, etc, where if you biff it into the sea the only thing hurt is your pride: I think it would take a significant evolutionary pressure to overcome this road block.
Imagine if they evolved to fly out the water and almost never go back in I guess by convergently evolving similar traits to Swifts and insects like Mayflies
Then the weird hairless apes came along and thought "We can do that even better" and they proceeded to bomb the sh*t out of each other with their new neat inventions.
Once on a offshore fishing trip the boat went through a school of flying fishes (actually they were always seen, just not this close), one took to the air and soaring about 2 feet from my head looking each other in the eyes for about 100 meters.
I was hoping to hear some mention of Amazonian hatchet fish in this. They also have pectoral fins high on their bodies and while they don't glide over hundreds of meters they are adept at aiming for small openings and leaping through them.
The fish in the thumb nail looks like an African butterfly fish. (Pantodon bucholzi.)It has a similarly large head and mouth. Butterfly fish can only make short hops and not closely related to real flying fish.
I guess the Flying-Fish has common ancestor as the MULLET's...same body shape; only the typical Mullet can't fly/glide, they don't have such spanning/long FINs.
Cool video! A small remark tho; at the start of the video you mention fossil fish had the same physiology as modern flying fish. However, I'm afraid 'physiology' is not the term you're looking for here. "Physiology" refers to any processes happening inside an animal's body, mainly on a molecular and cellular level. The term "morphology" would be more suitable here, as it specifically refers to the anatomy / physical, visible structures of an organism.
Very interesting topic, and a pretty good presentation, but some sloppy use of language. For instance, when discussing the genetics of the enlarged pectoral fins, we are told that the GENES have a fast growth rate, rather than that the genes cause the FINS to have a fast growth rate.
Fish flew before any bird flew on our planet! BRILLIANT and fascinating.
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@@jornahpee оh, I am subscribed to "no commercials" on RUclips, I think/believe it gives me a whole array of extra emojis... like:. ... can you see all of them?
That is not that mindblowing given that the life in water is far more old than life on land that evolved flying.
@@6Pope9 I wrote: brilliant and fascinating, where did you find "mind-blowing" in my comment? Obviously, life on earth developed underwater initially. But, did you know that 65 million years ago there were flying fish? I did not.
take care
Well less flying and more long jumping with style.
As a teenager hitching round Europe a very long time ago, me and a friend were paddling on a beach in (then) Yugoslavia when a shoal of small fish came towards us, all leaping out of the water at the same time. We ran back to the shore - coming from the Midlands of rainy old UK, we'd never seen anything like it!
I'm sure others on the beach had a good laugh at our expense.
Such a cool experience. Thanks for sharing!
Just the fact that flying fishes exist...this is a masterpiece of evolution
We should breed super human fish-like soldiers. What could go wrong
Easy food for the seagulls
Is it really any more strange than bird that swims?
GOD CREATED THEM, THEY DIDNT EVOLVE
What about the flying lizards, and even flying snakes, of Indonesia?
i think it’s so interesting how similar flying fish funds fins are to insect wings like mantids or stick insects. at least superficially
That soothing, informative voice ❤
🤤
Me likey
It's Italian
where is the intro 😢😢😢
maybe he’s just working on a new one but that’s still no excuse for depriving us of it now
On the other clips. 😀
He forgor
whole video feels weird without the amphibian splash T_T
It wasn’t on the last one either - maybe he’s decided to drop it 😥
Sorry babe new moth light video just dropped, can't come over rn
Watch it together? 😂
One of the finest channels on the platform
New Moth Light! Always happy to see the notification.
This is really stupid but can you bring back the intro? Intro was comfy and it just somehow feels off when there is no intro.
am I the only one who thinks this man voice is soothing? I play these when I'm about to sleep
Fish are so cool. I wish they were real.
We made birds, one day we’ll make fish real too🤘
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeatone day 😔
This gave me a idea what if in a alien world that is covered with islands and highly active volcanoes causing most islands to be created and destroyed in a daily bases, the aquatic life evolves to fly before evolving to walk on land.
or just a completely ocean world with no land - that would force the only two environments to be the ocean and the sky.
Thank you, this was a fascinating, informative, and well produced video. I’m a tropical fish hobbyist that has kept two unrelated species of freshwater “flying”/gliding fish, the African butterfly fish, Pantodon buchholzi, and the silver or platinum hatchetfish, Thoracocharax stellatus. Freshwater hatchetfish have the distinction of being the only fish capable of powered flight, buzzing their pectoral fins fast enough to keep them aloft for almost 4 meters. Not bad for a 7cm fish!
Thats awesome i had never heard of those fish. I just finished a new aquaponics system and was thinking about Archer fish in some tanks. Do you have them in regular glass tanks, do they fly out?
I once had an African butterfly fish. Possibly the most interesting fish I ever kept.
If I ever found myself swimming in the middle of the ocean, I would want to get the hell out of there too.
This made me laugh 🤣
Consider the Flish, 200 million years in the future.
I am so happy somebody referenced The Future Is Wild
Oldest living gliding animal with a backbone. The real airforce 1.
Forever one of my favorite evolution youtubers. I feel like I've learned so much from you, especially when I first started my journey into learning about the history of life, which has massively shaped my worldview since then.
Good video moth. Flying fish is crazy topic I tackled once. It's crazy to think it happened more than once and species we see today are not exactly closely related
Flying fish are such funny little weirdos, and I love them. It's really fascinating to get a glimpse into their evolutionary history. Thank you!
Did you know some birds, despite not having gills like a fish, learned to swim? A modern swimming bird is the penguin, who can hold their farts for 45 minutes, and are unable to remove their tuxedos without dying.
brilliant!
🤥
what about fe a duck?🤷it can swim...
Note: There's a typo in the description "see" should be "sea." Love your videos!
one of the most incredible animals on Earth yet, there is not much vids on them :( Great vid guys
Fish: im evolving wings to escale predators!
Bird: 🤫🧏
Babe, wake up - Moth Light Media has just dropped another absolute banger
this was SUCH a great and informative video, flying fish are so slept on! 🐟💙
This has been a massive question of mine forever
I remember my mother describing being on a ship and seeing "flying fish." I wasn't likely even 8 years old so my imagine was off the rails trying to picture what she was describing. It's one of those mom/son things that stuck with me. She was a British nurse officer being transported around Africa to reach India during WWII. She had many short anecdotes about her experiences in India. I'm sure I only heard the good ones. Every time I see a nature show with flying fish I think of that.
Already the first minute of this video was already more interesting than anything I’ve seen in weeks! 🤯
This channel is remarkable.
Thank you very much for the video! 🙏🌊🐟
Edit: clarity
You’re videos are always the best. They get me thinking about things I’ve never really thought about. The idea of a fish gliding above the water for almost full minute blows my mind. I assumed they just kind of jumped out of the water for a second or 2, then jumped in. So fascinating.
Would love to hear you speak about sea snakes or sea turtles, as their the only marine reptiles still around. As well as manatees or the siren family in general.
You are forgetting marine iguanas and saltwater crocodiles(kinda).
@@CMZneu both of those don’t spend most of their time in the ocean though
@@toxicperson8936 Neither do polar bears or many pinnipeds yet they are still considered marine mammals, hell marine iguanas probably go into the ocean more times a day than walruses.
They are truly always a delight to see on the water. Never gets old.
Love your work Moth Light!
The flying halfbeaks are a perfect example of *parallel* evolution, not just convergent: independently developing similar innovations from the same genetic starting point in their common ancestor. Some of their preexisting features predisposed them long-term to specializing in “flight”.
The research on this is impressive. But so is the production! This is holistically good content.
Do crabs think fish can fly?
Do common fish think flying fish is an astronaut?
Some crabs can swim
@@SIK_Mephistoyeah well dolphins used to drive cars
I love how obscure you get with some of these topics. Keep up the great work bro! ❤
I'd love to see an episode about flying squid
Babe wake up new mothlight media posted
moth light media is the fucking best
This is my favourite palaeontology channel
They loved during the triassic?! Wow i guess you learn something new every day
Can fish love?
In the video, it explains modern day flying fishes aren't closely related to the ones in the Triassic ones. It's another case of convergent evolution. Still, it's pretty neat to see this particular niche occur again!
@@schizophrenic_rambler It seems someone never watched Finding Nemo
Imagine the first person who saw one of these. Nobody would’ve believed it.
Lets GOOOOO, I had always hoped you'd release a video on flying fish...
First time I watch each new video, I have to be careful to not watch it in bed. I want all the facts but I also rewatch them to help fall asleep
Good to know I'm not the only one doing this!! Hahaha
great evolution boys
I see that Thoracopteridae also have the convergent pronunciation anomoly with "helicopter" where "ptera" has been split and the silent P becoming pronounced, so rather than being read as Thoraco-pteridae, it becomes Thora-cop-teridae. There's a linguistic word for that, but I can't remember what it is. Anyway, fascinating video as always. My sister-in-law was on a research ship and encountered schools of flying fish off the coast of Africa.
Best channel for evolution of videos
What convinced you of evolution? I still don't see how populations can be possible.
@@TheLetterJ-c8n one word: adaptation
If something can adapt it can change there's your evolution
Take that scale it up to thousands of tiny changes over hundreds of millions of years and anything is possible
@@MrMemelord00 How can self producing single cell organisms do that though? No new information is getting transferred.
I love you're videos, keep it up. you inspired me to go into ecology.
Please please please bring back your intro! It’s so nice
Face it: he included "Guizhouichthyosaurus" just because he wanted to show off his impressive pronounciation skills.
Still it's so mind blowing to imagine the beginning of this evolution: some small fish leapt out of the water to avoid a predator, and stayed just 20ms longer in the air because it had a slightly elongated fins, but that was just enough to survive. And that process repeated a countless number of times.
Please make an evolution of paddlefish and eel.
Up next, Evolution of the Flying Squid
Would it be possible, after millions & millions of years, flying fish could evolve to be able to fully fly?
I know flying fish existed before flying reptiles or birds, but considering birds evolved to live on land before (amphibians), it seems possible that they’d be able to learn to fly after many years of evolution.
I’d love to see what fully flying fish would look like.
My feeling is no: using water as your propulsive medium is far more energy efficient than using air alone. My feeling is that the reason birds don't do this on land with their legs is because any unevenness in the ground would break legs, wings, etc, where if you biff it into the sea the only thing hurt is your pride: I think it would take a significant evolutionary pressure to overcome this road block.
The idea that these fishes may share the skies with birds in a couple millions of years is kinda funny
Imagine if they evolved to fly out the water and almost never go back in
I guess by convergently evolving similar traits to Swifts and insects like Mayflies
Future is Wild.
so both preys and predators evolved convergently ( Thoracopteridae vs ichtyosaur and modern flying fish vs cetacean)
But will they ever develop powered flight?
Like in the The Future is Wild?
Love your videos, each and every one is a banger, 10/10. But please bring the intro back:((((
incredible video man thankyou
Ahh, convergent (and divergent) evolution - I have noticed mammals, reptiles, birds and fish each have a form for air, sea and land!
They are a great delicacy in Barbados and Trinidad...
Who else thinks Moth Light Media without music is better than Moth Light Media with music? Makes the videos more immersive to me.
birds saw flying fish and were like "yeah we can do that, but better" and they were right
Then the weird hairless apes came along and thought "We can do that even better" and they proceeded to bomb the sh*t out of each other with their new neat inventions.
Thank you for your videos mothman
Great video as always but please bring intro back🙏
Once on a offshore fishing trip the boat went through a school of flying fishes (actually they were always seen, just not this close), one took to the air and soaring about 2 feet from my head looking each other in the eyes for about 100 meters.
We just ignored And oportunisty to call them ekranofish
another interesting video - thank you
This was impressively informative; thank you.
There was a species of shark from the Paleozoic Era "either Devonian or Carboniferous" that had wing-like fins and could've flew.
thanks
I’ve seen them in action. They are astonishing. Couldn’t believe my eyes.
Thank you for covering that topic
I loooooove flying fish!! Loved learning more about them thank you for making such great vids!
I was hoping to hear some mention of Amazonian hatchet fish in this. They also have pectoral fins high on their bodies and while they don't glide over hundreds of meters they are adept at aiming for small openings and leaping through them.
While you are on fish you should explore the sturgeon. It's a fascinating lineage!
I wonder if this will be only an intermittent evolutionary step, and in a few million years fish will be competing with birds in the sky!
Future is Wild.
Do a video on stingrays\mantas, they are kinda flying underwater and some can jump-off similar to flying fish
We want awesome intro‼️‼️
> * *Looks at Thumbnail* *
> "Is..... is that a _flying Dunkleosteus!"_
The fish in the thumb nail looks like an African butterfly fish. (Pantodon bucholzi.)It has a similarly large head and mouth.
Butterfly fish can only make short hops and not closely related to real flying fish.
Another great video. Love the style and the content
This was fascinating, and your information is top notch.
that is darn cool
Since 240 Mio. years ago 🤯
In 200 million years Flying Fish will take the place of birds.
The Future is Wild!
@@PalaeoJoe Yes.
Can't watch it rn, but love the concept of the video! Can't wait
When I was young I thought they literally just got out of the water for a tiny bit. Not knowing they can actually glide for ridiculous distances..
NO WAY these things are real. seriously might be my favorite animal now. the symbolism is amazing.
Why are flying fish any more surprising than swimming birds, especially ones that also fly?
keep uploading your vids are the best❤️
Yay new video.
related to ricefish is so interesting to me
Birds started hunting in the water (penguins), mammals live their whole life under water (whales, dolphins). When will these fish become birds??
Future is Wild...
excellent as always!
I guess the Flying-Fish has common ancestor as the MULLET's...same body shape;
only the typical Mullet can't fly/glide, they don't have such spanning/long FINs.
Mullet varieties are widespread all around every Oceanic scape. Making big chance of vast area of Specific survival tactic/lifestyle.. evolution.
*_THORACOPTERIDAE_* ⁉️
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Well played, Science, well played. 😂
Cool video! A small remark tho; at the start of the video you mention fossil fish had the same physiology as modern flying fish.
However, I'm afraid 'physiology' is not the term you're looking for here. "Physiology" refers to any processes happening inside an animal's body, mainly on a molecular and cellular level.
The term "morphology" would be more suitable here, as it specifically refers to the anatomy / physical, visible structures of an organism.
Very interesting topic, and a pretty good presentation, but some sloppy use of language.
For instance, when discussing the genetics of the enlarged pectoral fins, we are told that the GENES have a fast growth rate, rather than that the genes cause the FINS to have a fast growth rate.
8:30 Did bro just get got? 😂😂