Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Land

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  • Around the time that some of our fishapod relatives were crawling out of the water, others were turning around and diving right back in.
    Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the incredible reconstruction of Qikiqtania for this episode! / artoffabricious
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  • @beto1744
    @beto1744 Год назад +2728

    Those fish were smart to go back into the water just look at their cousins now having to work 8 hours a day and dealing with things like depression

    • @TheKlaun9
      @TheKlaun9 Год назад +222

      I work longer (no depression though), but I had fish for dinner. I guess I won that ancient bet of land vs water then?

    • @alexv3357
      @alexv3357 Год назад +143

      Yeah but fish work 24 hours a day while pursued by sharks

    • @0ussama01
      @0ussama01 Год назад +102

      There's probably a chance fish experience depression and psychotic synptoms just like us. Y'never know

    • @xonx209
      @xonx209 Год назад +33

      The land cousins get to eat the smart fish that returned to water. Rarely the other way around.

    • @lancewedor5306
      @lancewedor5306 Год назад +14

      no one said you must endure having to work 8 whole hours a day. If you do that, it must be what you want. or you would find something else to do.

  • @fraan9002
    @fraan9002 Год назад +995

    The intelligent one

  • @Rubrickety
    @Rubrickety Год назад +2771

    I’m afraid I won’t be satisfied until paleontologists find “true” fishopods, animals whose feet are actual fish.

    • @Coffee-hj5di
      @Coffee-hj5di Год назад +203

      *me, without looking up from my book*: Mermaid

    • @skaldlouiscyphre2453
      @skaldlouiscyphre2453 Год назад +213

      @@Coffee-hj5di Best I can do is a monkey stitched to a fish.

    • @Alex-fv2qs
      @Alex-fv2qs Год назад +37

      Why would we need paleontologists when marine biologists have observed live ones, I saw it on an Animal Planet documentary

    • @InfinityOrNone
      @InfinityOrNone Год назад +50

      Well, if you're willing to allow for cladistics and some tinkering, I can give you one for 5 axolotls and and some decent liquor.

    • @nightrunnerxm393
      @nightrunnerxm393 Год назад +7

      I was starting to wonder if I was the only one with that image in my head...

  • @Coffee-hj5di
    @Coffee-hj5di Год назад +363

    Other fishes: how was land?
    Qikiqtania’s ancestors: 7.8/10 too much land

  • @benmathews2762
    @benmathews2762 Год назад +153

    Qikiqtania wakei had the right idea. Their lineage only needed to take a couple of steps onto land before realizing that this path would eventually lead to the invention of taxes. I'm proud of them and I envy them.

  • @TheDarrellimpey
    @TheDarrellimpey Год назад +1136

    "Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."
    Douglas Adams

    • @chocomilkfps1264
      @chocomilkfps1264 Год назад +87

      “you may be interested to know that I am singlehandedly responsible for the evolved shape of the animal you came to know in later centuries as a giraffe.”
      -Ford Prefect

    • @Twinklethefox9022
      @Twinklethefox9022 Год назад +48

      According to this logic, if we didn't, mermaids would be real and humans would be myths in a alternative timeline

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 Год назад +38

      Douglas Adams was a poet, a scientist and a prophet

    • @lancewedor5306
      @lancewedor5306 Год назад +19

      @@matheussanthiago9685 and both silly and weird, my kind of guy!

    • @swordfish1929
      @swordfish1929 Год назад +19

      This was my immediate thought watching this video, followed up by thinking about fossilised towels

  • @jatc11yey
    @jatc11yey Год назад +523

    I love how she said 'who we had to thank .. or blame.. for the transition to land', knowing full well that tiktaalik meme 😅

    • @emeraldcrusade5016
      @emeraldcrusade5016 Год назад +9

      What meme?

    • @juliav.mcclelland2415
      @juliav.mcclelland2415 Год назад +67

      @@emeraldcrusade5016 Apparently, there are jokes everywhere about people hating tiktaalik for being responsible for the crappy world we have now.

    • @SuperSavajin
      @SuperSavajin Год назад +10

      9:46 definitely lol

    • @helldronez
      @helldronez Год назад +13

      @@emeraldcrusade5016 meme about blaming them cause they evolve to us, then get to work 8 hours deal with depression etc

    • @ivybennett2274
      @ivybennett2274 11 месяцев назад +15

      ​@@emeraldcrusade5016 some stupid fish crawled into land and now hundreds of millions of years later I'm sitting here with depression and paying taxes

  • @leeleaman8057
    @leeleaman8057 Год назад +1025

    **Qikiqtania wakei crawling out of the sea**
    **Sees 2.7m Tiktaalik**
    ‘Ight imma head out

    • @swimdownx6365
      @swimdownx6365 Год назад +1

      Lots of space something would fill it . Life just works that way

    • @arrachi1309
      @arrachi1309 Год назад

      More like aight amma head in

    • @MrTaxiRob
      @MrTaxiRob Год назад +85

      "too late, the idiots are already here" -Qikiqtania

    • @gwyn.
      @gwyn. Год назад +52

      Qikiqtania wakei: Lemme see what's so hyped about this "Land" thing...
      *Tiktaalik raving on land
      Qikiqtania wakei: Nope. *Sigh "Kids these days..."

    • @solsystem1342
      @solsystem1342 Год назад +6

      @@swimdownx6365 I mean, there were other things living on land but, it took 3.5 billion years for life to become multicellular. It doesn't seem unreasonable that there is a development that would be advantageous and possible but, just hasn't happened in the half a billion years multicellular life has.

  • @glennhaberle2777
    @glennhaberle2777 Год назад +799

    I always kinda though tiktaalik looked like it could never actually kill anything with it's dopey looking head and jaws. Rather, the prey realize it's just been caught by the gooberiest looking salamander-fish, be like 'awh seriously, how's this happened' and just loose the will to live in a slimy embrace.

    • @pappanalab
      @pappanalab Год назад +35

      ✨Amazing✨ Definitely what happened (at least in my heart)😌

    • @captscarlet8793
      @captscarlet8793 Год назад +41

      yeah, but, competition is relative ;) prey get more dope to thwart more badass predators, so to paraphrase forest gump, "dopey is as dopey kills" imagine us when we've been fighting and avoiding xenomorphs for 3 or 4 million years. If that ever happened I like to imagine our descendants would look at our fastest gunslinger or martial artist as slow like a sloth.

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH Год назад +24

      Is it venomous? The bite seemed to immobilize it...
      No, that's just shame...

    • @vladimirlagos2688
      @vladimirlagos2688 Год назад +36

      I am pretty sure that Tiktaalik lived in very muddy and dark waters and was probably an ambush predator that could do with a quick burst of speed to survive, like some modern crocks or frogfish. Cool sleek aerodynamic and energetic looks are not needed for that lifestyle.

    • @killerbunny7206
      @killerbunny7206 Год назад +12

      I mean if you don't have any salamanders to compete with, being a fierce fishapod is quite scary.

  • @JDeO1997
    @JDeO1997 Год назад +83

    _Qukiqtania crawls out of the water and sees land arthropods. Slowly backs up into the water_

  • @italucenaz
    @italucenaz Год назад +257

    I had no idea Tiktaalik was so huge, I always imagined them at the size of a giant salamander at most, but I wasn't expecting an alligator sized fish

    • @Isis-wm4po
      @Isis-wm4po 4 месяца назад +8

      A favorite professor, in undergraduate studies, was the one who taught me this. I'm impressed with the things I never knew, and when learning about this, I continually had questions. Being to his office hours so often allowed me to notice a recent magazine cover. I thought, who knew marine reptiles likely gave birth? It makes sense. My professor allowed me to read the article, only to find he was the one to discover the fact. He was as humble as Tiktaalik. How cool would it be to be the first to be able to do a pushup? To poke your head out of water? My professor made comparative anatomy the most fascinating subject of all

    • @italucenaz
      @italucenaz 4 месяца назад +2

      @@Isis-wm4po he seems like a brilliant professor, I hope I can teach like him

    • @Indoraptor_2012
      @Indoraptor_2012 4 месяца назад +2

      What?!? It was that big?!?!

    • @italucenaz
      @italucenaz 4 месяца назад +2

      @@Indoraptor_2012 a medium alligator, not a giant one, but still

    • @Indoraptor_2012
      @Indoraptor_2012 4 месяца назад +1

      Still quite a bit, I thought it was smaller

  • @mpumelelokhumalo7107
    @mpumelelokhumalo7107 Год назад +481

    The idea that evolution is just winging its entire job weirdly gives me hope for my future.

    • @incanusolorin2607
      @incanusolorin2607 Год назад +22

      It really shouldn't. Do you want your future to look like a platypus?

    • @patrickmccurry1563
      @patrickmccurry1563 Год назад +96

      @@incanusolorin2607 Venomous spurs and the ability to sense magnetic fields? Kind of sounds cool.

    • @icollectstories5702
      @icollectstories5702 Год назад +45

      Being the best isn't necessary from an evolutionary standpoint; you just have to survive long enough to pass your genes on.
      I think this is also how bureaucracy works with forms.

    • @bbirda1287
      @bbirda1287 Год назад +10

      @@patrickmccurry1563 Magneto and Poison Ivy's baby?

    • @warriorjason2763
      @warriorjason2763 Год назад +3

      @@incanusolorin2607 yes

  • @Renisanxious
    @Renisanxious Год назад +178

    I read an entire book about tiktaalik and no one EVER mentioned how big it was. I have been thinking this entire time that this creature was a cute little salamander maybe a foot long maybe two feet long, but almost 9 feet long???

  • @Mentyr
    @Mentyr Год назад +1317

    From a historian's point of view, this is a really cool illustration of fallacy of sorts that's really easy to fall into: In fields like national history or history of technology (and many others, I'm sure), one is tempted to only look at the path that worked, which makes it feel almost preordained:
    "This modern nation state was the direct and single logical continuation of this medieval rulership".
    "This idea/technology is based on this one and that one, and its advent was basically inevitable".
    No, it wasn't.

    • @swimdownx6365
      @swimdownx6365 Год назад +10

      The Devonian had most amounts of carbon dioxide

    • @moreli2001
      @moreli2001 Год назад +112

      Same here! I'm doing my history major and this is a textbook example of how people tend to understand history as a line of logical events and with a purpose, but in reality, human history and natural history are as random as they can be. Of course everything has causes and consequences, but there is not really a future we are heading to, or a recipe that makes certain things happen or not.

    • @iankrasnow5383
      @iankrasnow5383 Год назад +27

      ""This idea/technology is based on this one and that one, and its advent was basically inevitable.
      No, it wasn't."
      ACKTUALLLLY, that doesn't mean it wasn't inevitable, just that it doesn't logically follow from the premise. It could be that no other path to land based megafauna was as likely, and when it comes to evolution, the simplest change from an existing organism that can provide an immediate benefit is usually the one that occurs, because simple changes are more likely.
      You can say that the modern tetrapod was the logical conclusion of evolution, but only after you rule out all other possibilities.
      Now regarding the recorded history of humans, it sounds like this line of thought is meant to be a direct challenge to historical materialism. Just an interesting thought, I wonder if you agree.

    • @sugark7774
      @sugark7774 Год назад

      Agree

    • @toAdmiller
      @toAdmiller Год назад +7

      If you've never watched the series "Connections" with James Burke, you would LOVE it...

  • @angelsartandgaming
    @angelsartandgaming Год назад +52

    That fish was like "reject humanity, return to fish"

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid Год назад +390

    Well, I've always seen my life as kind of a landfish-out-of-water story.

    • @MarcelinoDeseo
      @MarcelinoDeseo Год назад +5

      Dolphins and whales too kinda disagree with that story 😅

    • @briansullivan5908
      @briansullivan5908 Год назад +3

      Land shark

    • @andrewmalinowski6673
      @andrewmalinowski6673 Год назад +2

      This and the "Are We all just fish?" video almost make you realize that (to paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi) from a certain point of view, we're all fish anyway

  • @TheKlaun9
    @TheKlaun9 Год назад +305

    Some time ago, I was active in a fiction writing community. It's shocking how many well read individuals thought evolution, technology etc worked like a computer game with hardcoded, linear options to choose from and improve your species. Kind of wish this video came out for referencing before I quit that thing

    • @Twinklethefox9022
      @Twinklethefox9022 Год назад +14

      So, kinda like spore?

    • @mallninja9805
      @mallninja9805 Год назад +53

      I'm a software engineer. I was just thinking how code evolves a lot like animals, IE we take what's already there and just kind of bolt the new features onto the existing mess. 🤣

    • @MrTaxiRob
      @MrTaxiRob Год назад +7

      @@mallninja9805 DNA still contains at least some of the old code though

    • @TheKlaun9
      @TheKlaun9 Год назад +5

      @@mallninja9805 I guess it's the same thing if you believe that life also has an intelligent designer with a specific purpose in mind

    • @purpleemerald5299
      @purpleemerald5299 Год назад +27

      @@MrTaxiRob Exactly. That’s why it’s “bolting new code onto the existing mess.” All the old code is still there.

  • @Gorabora
    @Gorabora Год назад +39

    Ancient whales : "yeah those guys were onto something"

  • @pappanalab
    @pappanalab Год назад +173

    As land fish aren’t we kinda reverse mermaids

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus Год назад +44

      Yup. Why do you think king triton was so pissed at Ariel falling for a mere deserter???

    • @iankrasnow5383
      @iankrasnow5383 Год назад +17

      Since whales are sea mammals, does that make them mermaids?

    • @Apex_Yonko
      @Apex_Yonko Год назад +1

      @@iankrasnow5383 no

    • @Alex-fv2qs
      @Alex-fv2qs Год назад +20

      @@iankrasnow5383 manatees arr the true mermaids

    • @juanjoyaborja.3054
      @juanjoyaborja.3054 Год назад +3

      No lmao. Don’t try and simplify science with laymen terms like “reverse mermaids.” We’re just fish that adapted to life on land, that’s it.

  • @brfisher1123
    @brfisher1123 Год назад +103

    I think with the lungfish being our closest extant (living) non-tetrapod ("fish") relatives they definitely deserve a PBS Eons video of their own! The coelacanths are also fascinating fish and also deserve a PBS Eons video, but they split off from the tetrapods *BEFORE* the lungfish did.

  • @epicgamersaurus
    @epicgamersaurus Год назад +81

    I had no idea Tiktaalik was such a recent discovery. It was something that was in a lot of the books I read as a kid, probably only a few years after it was discovered. Really shows how important it was.

    • @slwrabbits
      @slwrabbits Год назад +7

      I remember one of my biology professors brought it up during a class, not very long after it was discovered. So cool and exciting.

    • @heinzarniaung2915
      @heinzarniaung2915 Год назад +1

      @@slwrabbits how long ago would that be?

    • @slwrabbits
      @slwrabbits Год назад +1

      @@heinzarniaung2915 probably around 2009? could be pretty far off, I have a terrible sense of time. of course, this is the same class I accidentally slept through ...

  • @Feliciano151
    @Feliciano151 Год назад +143

    Can't help feeling like the ones who went back into the water ended up making the smarter decision in the long run - the really, REALLY long run!

    • @malavoy1
      @malavoy1 Год назад +23

      Depends on whether they're still swimming, or breaded and deep fried.

    • @eljanrimsa5843
      @eljanrimsa5843 Год назад +11

      Right now it looks like the squids and the jellyfish will inherit the ocean because we are killing too many of our cousins

    • @pmparda
      @pmparda Год назад

      @@benoitavril4806 yeah! The ones that got on land became humans... the ones in the ocean have their home destroyed by humans

    • @sasha_ytube
      @sasha_ytube 11 месяцев назад +1

      in the long swim

    • @rockingredpoppy9119
      @rockingredpoppy9119 10 месяцев назад

      @@malavoy1 😂

  • @p0lydaedalus
    @p0lydaedalus Год назад +68

    I think most depictions of Tiktaalik don't do it's size justice. I've always had the impression that it was an arms length long.

  • @TheOmNomGirl
    @TheOmNomGirl Год назад +169

    Could the reason Qikiqtania turned around been because a new environmental niche opened up? Like legs were developed while they were a lesser predator and constrained to hunting in shallow water, but then the larger predator died out allowing Qikiqtania to take advantage of the more bountiful open waters

    • @nckojita
      @nckojita Год назад +54

      this is probably exactly what happened, or alternatively the niche they were trying to fill was taken by a different species and they could no longer compete with them and had to ‘devolve’ so to speak

    • @saulnavarro4730
      @saulnavarro4730 Год назад +45

      He went back because he didn't want his descendants to pay taxes

    • @notapplicable531
      @notapplicable531 Год назад +7

      @@saulnavarro4730 Don't you mean descendents?

    • @icollectstories5702
      @icollectstories5702 Год назад +12

      You might as well argue that Q pushed T onto land and took over its niche. Legs were probably tastier than fins.🍗

    • @theunholyadventurer2376
      @theunholyadventurer2376 11 месяцев назад

      Or maybe the shallow environment had flooded and turned into more open waters over time

  • @jaydonbooth4042
    @jaydonbooth4042 Год назад +101

    Wow, I never knew that tiktaalic was so big. Just thought it was like 40-50cm or something like that.

    • @juanjoyaborja.3054
      @juanjoyaborja.3054 Год назад +1

      You’re thinking of Icthyostega

    • @slwrabbits
      @slwrabbits Год назад +1

      It's really too bad it's so difficult to establish a sense of scale in paleoart. I actually thought it was smaller yet, like maybe 20-30 cm.

    • @k.umquat8604
      @k.umquat8604 Год назад +1

      @@juanjoyaborja.3054 I used to think Tiktalik was 60-70 cm in length and Ichthyostega was a full meter long

    • @JubioHDX
      @JubioHDX 11 месяцев назад

      @@juanjoyaborja.3054 no, most depictions just really do a terrible job of depicting the scale (probably because nothing we know of now is like how it was back then, but still)

  • @amelade
    @amelade Год назад +42

    this video gives me a similar feeling to watching scishow in 2016-17. i really enjoy the energy the hosts bring to the episodes, and i enjoy the work Eons has done to set a specific familiar tone

  • @marginbuu212
    @marginbuu212 Год назад +54

    Weren't there already giant insects inhabiting dry land at the time? I would have noped out too.

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH Год назад +13

      What's disturbing about trying to out-crawl a spider ancestor the size of a small continent?

    • @patrickmccurry1563
      @patrickmccurry1563 Год назад +18

      Those came later. Checking around, it doesn't look like there were even any flying insects then. But there were giant so called sea scorpions. So the water wasn't a great place either.

    • @vanillajack5925
      @vanillajack5925 Год назад +1

      ​@@patrickmccurry1563I think insects were already there, the first animals colonized land around 400-500 million years ago.

    • @JubioHDX
      @JubioHDX 11 месяцев назад

      @@vanillajack5925 the giant ones that the og comment was referencing still werent, though. the carboniferous wasnt for 20+ million more years after when the Q Wakei fossil has been dated to

    • @sharondornhoff7563
      @sharondornhoff7563 8 месяцев назад

      Insects were presumably what these guys initially came out of the water to hunt.

  • @flutterbree
    @flutterbree Год назад +106

    Tiktaalik is one of my all-time fave Old Bois, and I love learning more about them

    • @hhiippiittyy
      @hhiippiittyy Год назад +19

      Tiktaalik is a Inuit word for freshwater fish that live in shallow waters.

    • @majimadavis3602
      @majimadavis3602 Год назад

      your nth grand father😆

  • @leeleaman8057
    @leeleaman8057 Год назад +22

    Hello my fellow landfish

  • @RPSchonherr
    @RPSchonherr Год назад +47

    These fish lived in a tidal river delta. They would get trapped in tide pools that shrank over time before the tide came back, so they had to go over the muddy land to get back into water. The ones who could do this survived.

  • @jeremydiaz2682
    @jeremydiaz2682 Год назад +7

    presenter has the coolest vibe as they explain; 10/10

  • @TragoudistrosMPH
    @TragoudistrosMPH Год назад +38

    5:29 one of the most misunderstood parts of evolution so enthusiastically explained!
    7:40 even more to the point!

  • @WilfredOnalik
    @WilfredOnalik Год назад +11

    Wow! I'm glad you guys came up north for this exact reseach I didn't know was in my home territory of Nunavut. We have a lot of space here and not many people with the proper research capabilities to trace fossils and artifacts as much around here in the north. It was exciting to watch and learn from you guys! Big thanks PBS Eons!!

  • @phoebemurtagh3059
    @phoebemurtagh3059 Год назад +47

    "This fish crawls out of the ocean; now I have to pay rent and taxes"
    Qikiqtania: "not my fault."

  • @FloTaishou
    @FloTaishou Год назад +42

    These fins were made for walkin'
    And that's just what they did
    One of these days these fins were gonna walk all over earth

    • @rachelfrater6623
      @rachelfrater6623 Год назад +1

      Couldn't get that song out of my head!

    • @andyjay729
      @andyjay729 Год назад +1

      For the second line, you should've said something like, "And that is just the trurth".

  • @Crow0567
    @Crow0567 Год назад +24

    I'm reminded of a tiktaalik meme....
    "If you see a Horrid Beast evolving, *PUSH IT BACK IN*"

  • @wouaqazambouga700
    @wouaqazambouga700 Год назад +18

    It would be a bit different for the channel, but I'd love to hear more about how the researchers interact with the native communities to get the permission or support to their research in the field, and about search campaigns in general.

  • @MiQBohlin
    @MiQBohlin Год назад +7

    Thnx for all your work!

  • @ChristopherJohnsonArtist
    @ChristopherJohnsonArtist Год назад +12

    Awesome. It is true that in school we are usually given that idea of evolutionary progression from one form to the next, but it is really just change based on the environment and competition, isolation, etc. and whatever is currently available.

  • @josepandreuhernandez2508
    @josepandreuhernandez2508 Год назад +7

    Tiktaalik: Let's check out this land thing
    Qikoqtania: RETURN TO FISH

  • @kathleenwoods8416
    @kathleenwoods8416 Год назад +7

    honestly it makes a lot of sense for something bearing that low-belly body plan to have an equally easy time developing in either direction without risking too much, especially that early on.

  • @finnhd915
    @finnhd915 Год назад +17

    I just watched your inner fish in my anthropology class. It’s a documentary about Neil shubin and his trams expedition in the Arctic and their discovery of tiktaalik

  • @vladimirlagos2688
    @vladimirlagos2688 Год назад +7

    Ostriches can probably feel a kinship bond with the way of thinking of these little fellas.

  • @igorbahillodiaz
    @igorbahillodiaz Год назад +10

    Thanks for the video!!

  • @slevemcdichael4481
    @slevemcdichael4481 Год назад +7

    YEEESSS IM SO HAPPY YOU MADE A VIDEO ON QIKIQTANIA!!!!!!!!! SUCH a fascinating fish but it doesn't seem to see all that well known :( i really hope you make more videos about the fish - tetrapod transition!!!

  • @Kgamer3141
    @Kgamer3141 Год назад +40

    Shout-out to progressive metal guitarist Charlie Griffiths and his album Tiktaalika for getting me to read about this guy earlier this year.

  • @ryanmckenna2047
    @ryanmckenna2047 Год назад +9

    You guys are great!

  • @KarlBunker
    @KarlBunker Год назад +10

    I'm with these guys. I want to evolve back to water-dwelling too. Dry land sucks.

  • @FuneralCheesecake
    @FuneralCheesecake Год назад +4

    Wasn't expecting my existence as a land fish to be validated today but I'm here for it.

  • @thedoruk6324
    @thedoruk6324 Год назад +14

    Scientifically accurate and valid: *Mermaids*

  • @shalabazertheboltstruck8645
    @shalabazertheboltstruck8645 6 месяцев назад +2

    This is the only channel where I regularly rewind to double, sometimes tripple, check if I heard things right and pay really close attention. I love this stuff. If I had somehing like this 15 yrs earlier in my life I'd be somewhere else right now doing something completely differrent

  • @valentyn.kostiuk
    @valentyn.kostiuk Год назад +8

    Нарешті! Я ледве дочекався.
    Дякую за цікавий випуск!

  • @animalpeeps
    @animalpeeps Год назад +3

    It's so cool thinking about how branchy evolution can be. Seeing this as yet another example just makes me appreciate how crazy long the Earth is, and the amount of time life has been around, constantly evolving. And creatures like these were all just living their lives, for all this time.

  • @noahhogan9308
    @noahhogan9308 Год назад +6

    I LOVE fishapods like Tiktaalik & Qikiqtania, and Neil Shubin, who I ACTUALLY heard speak at Ohio University!!! 😍😊

  • @oiaeyu
    @oiaeyu Год назад +28

    That one mermaid documentary be like:

  • @n8sot
    @n8sot Год назад +4

    This is very interesting. And can be quite confusing!!! Thank you Michelle for the great explanations!!! Also, Michelle is looking AWESOME!!!!!! Thank you!!!

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas Год назад +4

    Really fantastic video! I love learning about these things, plus y’all make it so much fun to watch!

  • @wrenleader4409
    @wrenleader4409 Год назад +3

    I love the little bloopers at the end!

  • @jobehoffmeister7122
    @jobehoffmeister7122 Год назад +2

    Keep up the great work, I love natural history and this show!

  • @daverohrich8518
    @daverohrich8518 Год назад +2

    Gotta say, I was pretty critical of Michelle when she first started hosting, but she is knocking it out of the park now. Great video, and keep up the great work

  • @trekpac2
    @trekpac2 Год назад +3

    This was such an interesting look at the early evolution of tetrapods, and of the complexity and diversity of evolution. I’m sure the thought that 98% of species have gone extinct already is a big underestimate.

  • @AriManPad8gi
    @AriManPad8gi Год назад +17

    Loved the presentation, very open minded analysis and truth. Thanks for the land acknowledgement too. I very much appreciated the way evolution was described, as a non-linear process. Decolonising natural history and other domains is important. Wliwni thank you 💜💚

  • @leeleaman8057
    @leeleaman8057 Год назад +11

    Love the episode! Thanks Eons :)

  • @dinohall2595
    @dinohall2595 Год назад +7

    This is a great correction of the common misconception that evolution is a linear process while also being a cool paleontological discovery in its own right. Adding Qikiqtania to my personal dictionary.

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 Год назад +5

    "Piscapods" sounds better to me than "Fishapods"!
    Excellent video.

  • @BigDickDamage
    @BigDickDamage Год назад +5

    Best video I've seen👏👏 I been wanting to know where dragon bichir came from for some long this so cool

  • @LeftOfBori
    @LeftOfBori Год назад +2

    I had the amazing opportunity to see the original mold of Tiktaalik in person because Ted Daeschler worked in the same museum my now fiancé did. He was so cool

  • @laureno4410
    @laureno4410 Год назад +11

    Not a terrible choice, all things considered 🐟 💨 🌊 🏝

  • @davidt3563
    @davidt3563 Год назад +5

    Could you imagine seeing Arthropods in the water and being like "Yea, I'll just go back to the water and take my chances!"

  • @IronKnuckleKO
    @IronKnuckleKO Год назад +5

    “No thanks, I choose life.” - Sid

  • @bookworm3005
    @bookworm3005 Год назад +2

    Idk why, but it just cracks me up thinking about an ancient fishopod that evolved over (possibly millions of) years to get onto land, then just NOPED right back into the water

  • @jodracona2722
    @jodracona2722 Год назад +1

    So happy to see this acknowledgement 9:04!

  • @mklguy24
    @mklguy24 Год назад +3

    Whoa, this is like the most OG form of “return to monke”

  • @taylorm.8545
    @taylorm.8545 Год назад +3

    I had no idea Tiktaalik was so big! 😱 I always pictured it as big as like an iguana

  • @luutas
    @luutas Год назад

    This video was incredible. Thanks!

  • @DanielSolis
    @DanielSolis Год назад +2

    Bless the writers for these great puns. :D

  • @teds9896
    @teds9896 Год назад +5

    We could likely guess this would happen from the numerous terrestrial vertebrates that have returned to the water from their ancestors lived on land. That there's irony too that some like amphibians have to return to the water to reproduce, while others, ex: penguins, sea turtles, seals, sea lions, etc. have to return to the land to reproduce.

  • @vizcarra
    @vizcarra Год назад +3

    At least it was polite enough to say “thanks”

  • @DiggyWizzy
    @DiggyWizzy Год назад +2

    Great feat. That got me. Loved this one.

  • @icollectstories5702
    @icollectstories5702 Год назад +2

    We think of these fish as living in shallow, murky waters. As I watched a video on rivers drying up, the pretty, narrow, ray-finned fish seemed to be the ones that were dead, while the ones that could still flop on their ventrals were surviving better. It makes sense that this proto-tetrapod body shape would also do well in seasonal bodies of water, much like lungfish and catfish do today.

  • @josephd.5524
    @josephd.5524 Год назад +14

    Any plans on doing a gecko special? I've been becoming a bit obsessed with them of late and it turns out they are an extremely complex branch on the reptile tree that they kind of have all to themselves.

  • @JohnJohansen2
    @JohnJohansen2 Год назад +6

    Very interesting and extremely well presented! 🥰

  • @williampeterson4823
    @williampeterson4823 Год назад +1

    Always makes my day when I see a new upload

  • @gailaltschwager7377
    @gailaltschwager7377 Год назад +1

    Thank you!

  • @Langkowski
    @Langkowski Год назад +3

    Why did it "return" to deeper waters? I can imagine two reasons: There was a minor extinction that killed off some major predators, making it safer to live in this niche, or open freshwater areas were simply not that explored by fishes yet. The other reason is that the larger predators were so successful as shallow water hunters thanks to their fins that deeper waters was a safer place to live than shallow water.

  • @ElementalAngelKashi
    @ElementalAngelKashi Год назад +4

    what if it was more of based on mating habits. perhaps the development for land was to lay eggs in safer shallows or in lake inland, however the reverting to fins maybe a group that found waterways to swim upstream like salmon and thus need the fins more than the ability to go on land. depending on how widespread the species was different areas could have work towards where it was safest to lay eggs and the route to get there.

  • @ralsim5308
    @ralsim5308 Год назад +2

    I love this channel

  • @scraps7624
    @scraps7624 Год назад +1

    Lol Michelle is the best, incredible video as always!

  • @jedstanaland2897
    @jedstanaland2897 Год назад +3

    What if the two populations were originally together and were separated by the slow rise of a land barrier between them that forced one population out to sea while the other one was isolated in a lake or pond of sorts and the result is that the group that was in the lake was exposed to slowly reducing water content or size of the lake and slowly over time they eventually become amphibians and progress from there. Just an interesting idea that makes sense to me.

  • @Ozraptor4
    @Ozraptor4 Год назад +3

    Pretty much like the fish version of tree-kangaroo evolution. Bunch of ground-dwelling wallabies develop climbing adaptations and become tree-kangaroos, but one member (the dingiso of New Guinea) turns around and reverts to a ground-dwelling lifestyle while retaining the anatomy of its arboreal ancestors.

  • @phyzzx
    @phyzzx 7 месяцев назад

    This is the best channel on RUclips. Change my mind.

  • @AifDaimon
    @AifDaimon Год назад +1

    That last outtake "now I have to pay rent & taxes".. SUCH A MOOD, TBH

  • @Mixtrelle
    @Mixtrelle Год назад +4

    underwater average fish: hey Qikiqtania you said you're going to the land
    Qikiqtania: no, the sun is a deadly lazer

  • @Mussoi7000
    @Mussoi7000 Год назад +4

    3:55 what the hell i thought that tiktaalik was small

  • @orangeyellow9695
    @orangeyellow9695 Год назад +2

    The literal definition as:
    Abandon land, return to sea

  • @Domyras
    @Domyras Год назад +1

    1:25 "and nothing about it is inevitable"
    me: *gestures at Crabs*
    ?! :D

  • @charlesjmouse
    @charlesjmouse Год назад +3

    A fascinating subject and potentially an extremely complex one:
    Yes, while the 'fishapods' we know are considered our ancestors (this may be true) it's just as likely they are illustrative cousins only. There are pretty 'advanced' seeming tetrapod tracks older than any 'fishapod' we have found but no seeming tetrapod to match them. So what is going on..?
    a) Our 'fishapods' are our ancestors but these mysterious tetrapods are an earlier venture on to land that didn't work out for some reason.
    If so having gotten to an 'advanced' state what finished them off and why? Why not 'us' later on? What changed? Chance..?
    b) The mysterious tetrapods are our ancestors and the 'fishapods' were a convergent migration on to land that went nowhere.
    If multiple vertebrate lineages moved on to land that would be a surprise and require something of a rethink.
    c) -Land animals as we know them radiated from multiple sojourns on to land- Not true, all modern tetrapods are known to be one group.
    But has that always been true? If not true, when did out 'distant leggy cousins' die out and why? Are we aware of any potential candidates?
    d) We've got our dates wrong and these mysterious tetrapod tracks aren't that mysterious at all.
    A few million years younger than the likes of Tiktaalik there would be no mystery.
    ...all these questions are unanswered besides the subject of early tetrapod evolution being an utterly fascinating one. Whatever your branch of science it's always a journey of discovery and there's no sign of us running out of even fundamental things to discover any time soon.
    Here's a thought:
    Apart from five digits not being the norm early on the tetrapod limb as we know it comes in only one version. Either there really has only been one venture on to land by vertebrates (so what's going on?) or the evolutionary pressures that have resulted in 'our' limbs very strongly constrain the design indeed, but not necessarily the number of digits - if so, why? It's certainly not obvious.

  • @kaniq6120
    @kaniq6120 Год назад +3

    Tiktaalik is actually from Inuit and means "the large fish"

    • @Acridotheresfuscus
      @Acridotheresfuscus Год назад +1

      Not a very creative name but not wrong.

    • @kaniq6120
      @kaniq6120 Год назад +2

      @@Acridotheresfuscus lol we also call clams tupkiyuqkuk meaning "mouth creature" and crabs "tuaqiitmiqkak" meaning agressive water spider

    • @Acridotheresfuscus
      @Acridotheresfuscus Год назад +1

      @@kaniq6120 I mean y'all are not wrong that's what they look like lol

  • @Mchip21
    @Mchip21 Год назад

    "thank or blame" loved it.

  • @clivematthews95
    @clivematthews95 Год назад +1

    Great video and you look stylish 👌🏾