The Evolution of Whales
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2021
- Whales are the largest animals in the world today but their earliest known ancestors where about the size of a racoon. This video sets out to explain how whales evolved to small land dwelling herbivores into large fish shaped giants.
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I find cool that both reptiles and mammals have a famous "back to the ocean" story.
Reject leg
Return to water
Birds/Dinosaurs have the penguin as their contender, but it is not jet fully acuatic and comes to land very often, i would say it still counts
Surviving on land can push some organisms to develop more senses and more brainpower to process them (emotions). It was only natural to go back to more stable environments and fill the niches that required the most adaptability.
@@mhdfrb9971 aggressive, and it’s evolution. And also what your conveying is an opinion.
Personally, I’m rejecting my legs and growing gills.
Whales are probably the outcasts at hoofed-animal family reunions.
It's weird yet incredibly interesting on how many times tetrapods have become semi or fully aquatic.
The ocean is a large food source
Breathing air, large brains and warm-bloodedness are all very useful adaptations in an environment otherwise composed of fish and invertebrates.
Was it something to do with them all being around at a similar time where the environment was changing in a certain way
@@nonexistence5135 This is why terrestrial fish repeatedly move to the water and it is also why warmbloodedness and airbreathing repeatedly evolves in aquatic fish.
@@nonexistence5135 could you please elaborate on why these featured are particularly advantageous in aquatic ecosystems? Most surprised about the air part.
Amazing! I have only one small request. Can we have a human body size comparison when showing animal sizes? It really helps to put into perspective how big they are.
I like this idea.
You could use like a cat or something for smaller animals and a person for the larger ones.
Banana for scale?
no
Yeah, i'd love that! if at all reasonable
For aquatic animals you could show a scuba diver for scale
This channel is my favorite hidden gem. Whenever I come here, I learn something new! Much love from Brazil.
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Salveeee
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I remember this guy when he first started his channel replied to one of my comment on some other channel telling me that he is making similar comment and i can check out his channel. I remember tho his content was very good, people including myself telling to slow down his narration speed and volume was too low and he did modify his narration and now the quality is on par with big channel with studios. I'm so happy and proud of this guy. Never thought he would achieve the success on this platform that he achieved rite now.
It’s super entertaining too
Kinda interesting how Wales turned into a solid piece of land through evolution
Well whale Wales, I see what you did there.
Wales wails about that.
It's impossible to comprehend how slow evolution takes place, it always amazes me.
It can be slow, but Evolution can be incredibly quick aswell at times.
@@sebastian114 It really depends on the selective pressures.
@chuckbuskeeLol, not thousands, but millions of years.
So whales started out in the ocean, evolved to scurry about on land, then returned to the water where they would eventually become what we know today. Amazing, thank you for these videos and knowledge
I am looking forward for their next move ;)
No proof of any of this stupid nonsense.
@@martam4142 Throwing tantrums won't make the evidence go away, kid. Time to grow up and learn ;)
@@martam4142 Please no.
@@martam4142I can prove one case of evolution that occured in a time scale that occured relatively quickly. The London Underground Mosquito is a good case and if needed I will gladly link an article.
Slight correction: belugas are not the only cetaceans without fused neck vertebrae, as the Orcaella genus dolphins (Irrawaddy and Austrialian Snub-fin) don’t have fused neck vertebrae and can move their heads independently, as well as some River dolphins (I know the Amazon can for sure, but as the river dolphins are all from different genre I won’t make statements on others) can move their heads. Of course I could be misinterpreting you, as if you mean whale in the colloquial rather than taxonomic sense then yes belugas are the only ones with bendy necks.
belugas are more related to canines than felines
@King Pistachion My wife calls my meat the beluga chonga.
Damn I didn't even realize dolphins were whales. It's kind of like one of those obvious things you don't think about like humans being apes.
@@jaaro taxonomy is weird. A human is closer related to a lungfish than a lungfish to a shark, crocodiles closer to birds than any other reptiles, and that’s just chordates. You leave this phylum shit gets even crazier
@@ryebreadthewhite3392 yeah like how fungi are much more related to animals than plants
I wonder, would these long extinct animals would have sounded completely different from all living mammals today? Or would they sound more similar but still unique?🤔
Probably similar to hippos
They went:
"Mwahhp shnushkunk plip"
@@JohnyG29 Actually, they went, "Uyimbube, Uyimbube, Uyimbube, Uyimbube ...."
They would go "bleep bleep shnuu" and then proceed to nuzzle you and sleep in your lap. Heavy bones make for sleepy puppies.
They say their names like Pokémon
Your voice is so chill and easy. Consider doing audiobooks, probably non-fiction, seriously. Good money in it too
Mosasaurs were actually more convergent with odontocetes than they were with basilosaurids (especially Basilosaurus). Mosasaurs were becoming more oceangoing and efficient swimmers while Basilosaurus was a shallow-water predator (though fully aquatic)
The fact that hippos and whales are closer to each other than anything else is surprisingly unsurprising. So the large, semi aquatic animals are close to the large, fully aquatic animals. Yeah that makes sense.
Artiodaxtyls and all land mammals evolved from whales. They lie about the backwards evolution. There's no evidence they went into the ocean. All life came out of them.
Their aquatic lifestyles evolved independently from each other though
@@beatmyacorn4200 by the way do you know why dolphins evolved to be so muscular for cetaceans I believe it is to better fight off sharks
The evolution of Whales has always fascinated me. Happy to see this!
Oh yeah, the 'poster child' for 'proving' that Darwinian evolution could actually happen - yet if anything, the 'evolution of whales' only shows how unlikely it is that that much adaptations would randomly and so quickly even, be able to occur...
@@Ligerbee huh what?
@@Ligerbee do you speak even?
@@ResurrectingJiriki You seem to forget this is a continuous natural process for all living things that often takes millions of years in order for us to observe distinguishable differences in many species. Do you even have a vague idea of what natural selection is and it’s key role in evolution?
@@taylosaurus I wouldn’t bother arguing with a creationist. Room temperature iq group of people
I'd love to hear the evolution of modern insects or arachnids
the praying mantis is of special interest, since it is really iconic and widespread but not that old
Brunnetta, Leslie, Catherine Craig
2010 “Spider Silk” Yale University Press
All you will need to learn about spiders.
A video on the different arthropod groups and which body segments in each group correspond to body segments in other groups would be super interesting
@@AzathothTheGreat They actually are the most basal of the living insects. If i'm not mistaken they're the only living insect group that predates wings.
Insects are closely related to crustaceans, when you look at silverfish and springtails it's easy to see
The entire ocean watching some weird mammals jumping in the water while remembering what happened the last time a land animal did the same:
This channel is the reason I first became interested in paleontology and prehistory and now I'm pursuing a career in this field. Your channel has truly shaped my life and for that I give you my sincerest gratitude. Keep up the amazing work!
Indohyus, my brother. I’ve decided to search for more food in the waters.
You will regret this, Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt”
I think Pakicetus should be pretty happy with how it turned out
I just need some shrimps lol, I'll be perfectly fine
~Perucetus shows up to the family reunion~ Basilosaurus: "Ah sh*t, who invited Uncle Chungus?"
I wonder if land is more competitive than the ocean seeing as how often land creatures conquer the sea but after the Initial wave the reverse doesn’t succeed.
Land definitely is more competitive. Also, mass extinction effects marine life more so they’ll be more empty niches in the ocean than on land
It is not that land is more competitive than the water or anything, the main factor is that it is far easier to adapt to becoming an aquatic animal than becoming a terrestrial animal. Becoming terrestrial means evolving whole new methods of locomotion and respiration, greatly increasing muscle mass and evolving new senses, not to mention methods of keeping water locked inside your body. Whereas adapting to the water just requires you evolving to be better able to swim.
well, with ocean you just need to lose some limbs and move your nostrils to a different place. With land, you need to grow some and learn how to breath air. It is harder to create something than to destroy it, and moving to the ocean doesn't force you to lose your lungs
I think a part may have been the fact that mass extinctions affect the oceans a lot more than land or freshwater, wiping out the animals of the ocean allowing land/freshwater animals to access empty niches, i believe the vast majority of marine fish are actually descendent of freshwater fish.
I’d imagine there’s more niche roles animals can fill out in the water with little to no competition
Its weird how whales have those vestigial leg bones, crazy to think they were on land but returned to the oceans as opposed to the other land dwellers who came from the waters
True, you can literally see the tiny pelvis in the skeleton but glad they still have it, anti-evolutionists can't do much against that.
I think it's fairly important to mention that the name of Basilosaurus, which was first discovered in 1834, is a result of a mistake of the archeologists who took the creature for a giant reptile. After the mistake was corrected, there were some suggestions of renaming it (sir Richard Owen proposed calling it Zeuglodon) to correct former error but they failed, as the rules of zoological nomenclature dictate using the original name given. So today we have a prehistoric cetacean which is being called a lizard.
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That's probably one of the best depictions of Basilosaurus. It looks really primitive and different from modern whales.
This is an excellent format.
Nice graphics, some film, mellow narration, all without the unnecessary bells & whistles.
I immediately block, dislike and grin at any Scishow-related video recommendation.
Anything that feels corporate, copypaste or non-personal I feel like doesn't belong on "You"Tube
@@fredriks5090 You know what?
That is *exactly* how I feel. It's funny that someone else shares my sentiments.
I have Scishow blocked. My biggest irritation is the way the soundclips are edited. The end of one sentence overlaps with the beginning of the other, not giving us a chance to breathe.
Drives me *nuts* ☺️
Brilliant! I find the evolution of whales and dolphins so Fascinating
You've obviously got a mammal bias you bigot. What about the reptiles? They did the exact same with Basilosaurus and Ichthyosaur.
@@olivercheeseman8227 1. Basilosaurus was a whale, not a reptile
2. We're mammals, so we'll be biased torwards mammals.
@@olivercheeseman8227 these people are so reptilphobic smh
@@Minish4rk360 Number 2 sounds a lot like an pro-racism argument
@@olivercheeseman8227 reptiles are the racist ones
They oppressed mammals for millions of years
Whale evolution has always amazed me. A land animal that flees to the water to escape predation, only to become the most fearsome apex predators this planet has ever known.
Sometimes it benefits to re spec your point tree
The most fearsome predators in the history of the Earth are mosasaurs and pliosaurs.
All I want for Christmas is an hour long show on Ceratopcians.
Nobody has a good video on them. :-(
Whales present a fascinating case of convergent evolution. Due to similar environmental pressures, their ancestors produced their own version of a crocodile called Ambulocetus, then they evolved similar body shapes to fish creating the whales we know today.
the real question is, who died out for that to happen.
@@nox5555 well the aquatic reptiles
A video on the evolution of hooves would be cool! There’s such a huge range of hoofed mammals and it would be interesting to see how their feet developed that way, and what their last common ancestor was.
I really love your stuff and I’ve relatively recently found your content. I was wondering if maybe you could put a bunch of your videos in some kind of like hour long compilation? I sometimes use these videos to sleep because they’re so damn calming. otherwise keep up the grand work man!
Gee can’t wait to read the supporting and smart comments on this video!!
So many examples of land animals transitioning from land to sea (mosasaurs, penguines, aquatic mammals) do you know of any cases of spiecies which returned to land? i.e. Land -> Sea -> Land
The “aquatic ape”. Wink wink.
Some theories say that ancestral snakes were aquatic and later re-evolved to land.
Not a very well-supported theory but interesting idea nonetheless
Echidnas. The ancestors of echidnas looked like platypuses (common ancestor that looked like one)
Genesis 1:21 KJV “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
@@followerofjesuschrist5297 "Harry did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?" he asked calmly." Look I can quote things too!
Moth Light should do a video about how evolution works.
Yeah, looking at the comments it seems a lot of people need an explainer
indohyus, my brother, i've decided to search for more food in the waters!
You will regret this Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt
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wtf
I very much enjoyed this video. I've always wondered how whales evolved to be fully aquatic. Well done, thank you!
Just a hypothesis but the whale fossils in the Himalayas may be the origins of the dragon myth. Due to the fact that dragons were said to stay up in the mountains and seen as the skull would have a similar snout and seeing as cetaceans have small ear bones which dragons had. Not only that but dragon myth did appear in china which is near the Himalayas.
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That could be really any big fossils though, if you found a big therapod skull while living in Middle Ages, you only had one explanation for it.
lots of big fossils are known or at least speculated to be sources for mythology. The teeth of Gigantopithecus were said to be dragon's teeth and were sold as traditional medicine, the fossils of ammonites were believed to be the remains of serpents coiled up and turned to stone, dwarf mammoth skulls on Mediterranean islands were believed to be cyclops skulls. It is very likely that the reason why so many unrelated cultures have dragon myths is because of large fossils
Dragons seem to appear in the mythologies of many unrelated cultures around the world. I surmise that for thousands of years people have stumbled upon bones of large, but unrecognizable or extinct animals, and concluded they were fantastic monsters.
The Western idea of the dragon seems to have come from memetic mutation of stories about monitor lizards and crocodiles. We can even see lizard tongues turn into tongues of flame in the art.
I always enjoy all of your videos, with evolution being of passionate interest to me, but also, your voice is very neutral, and enjoyable to listen to. It might be worth looking into becoming an audiobook reader. I think you definitely have the tone, clarity, and diction for it.
I'm interested in whales, but also terrified of them because of thalassophobia. What a dilemma to live in.
DRUMS IN THE DEEP
I've always wondered about this! Can't believe you have only 275k subscribers. Keep up the great work, your videos are top tier!!!
I love no background noise, just your calming, chilled out voice. I click whenever I see a new video as it’s always always good, great, fantastic. Thank you 🙏
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Kinda wild that some cetaceans followed similar body plans to the marine reptiles they replaced. Basilosauridae resembled mosasaurs while dolphins resemble ichthyosaurs. Too bad it doesn't seem like anything followed the plesiosaurs; I want my sea giraffe.
The earliest Ichthyosaurs also were very similar to mosasaurs and basilosaurids. The serpentine bodyplan seems to be common for large marine predators with free moving necks, and seems to do well until they get outcompeted by the more fish like bodyplan predators.
@@dimetrodon2250 all these scientific sounding names , but what do they really mean ?" Basilosaursus " KING LIZARD Mosasaurs " A Lizard of the Meuse River " Doesn't sound so scientific does it ? Jurassic : a mountain range in Russia .Mesozoic : " Middle Life " and so on Evolution is B S , trust in Jesus , your Creator , Savour and Friend
The Pinnipeds are on their way on becoming mammalian plesiosaurs
They're just not quite there yet at the moment
@@ekosubandie2094 I was taught in Government Indoctrination School that Pinnipeds were all wiped out during the Little Bang at the end of The Crustacean Period ,glad to hear they are back on their feet !
@@jwsanders1214 Cling onto your beliefs, like every other sheep. The creator youre talking about doesnt exist, if there is a creator then its something way bigger above your imagination. The creator of the Universe or Multiverse even ! Who knows ! But i hate people like you shoving your religion down my throat, Religion is the cause of any bad thing that ever happened on this World despite Natural Disasters.
I´d pay top dollar to hear you read a book, your voice is so calm and clear
Moth, I love your vids but let’s be honest, the most famous basilosauridae was 100% the type species Basilosaurus itself, not Dorudon. I mean just look at how often it’s in main media and video games
I really appreciate the animations provided in this video.
This video showed up on my home screen twice and both times I thought the title said "The Evolution of Wales" which was amusing considering the thumbnail.
I just discovered your channel yesterday, and I'm not kidding when I say I'm addicted, I've watched like 40 of your videos already. Subscribed and still finding so many gems on your channel.
To me, it seems that modern day sea lions or hippos resemble what whales would have looked like in transition in the semi-aquatic stage.
Pakicetus: evolution can you give me webbed feet for semi-aquatic?
Evolution: to catch fish?
Pakicetus: yes
Evolution: actually to be fully aquatic like a boss
Pakicetus: WHALE TIME!
I always love hearing about the evolution of whales, it's so interesting
Yay!!! Been waiting forever for this upload.
The mammals who went "fuck this I'm going back."
This makes me wonder if one day beavers will evolve into monstrosities that build gigantic homes out of the wrecks of ruined skyscrapers
that's an interesting creature for a futuristic world building!
I've known wales are mammals as long as I can remember but I just realized the other day that they must be related to land mammals and I started wondering how. Then this video popped up in my recommendations!
Genesis 1:21 KJV “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
@@followerofjesuschrist5297
"No, I am your father" ~ Darth Vader.
@@followerofjesuschrist5297 The Bible is not a scientific source, we have innumerable fossils of exitinct species of not just whales, and a few lines from a book written by some humans in the Middle East is supposed to prove that?
@@followerofjesuschrist5297 I wrote that. Sorry, I was stoned. Prove me wrong.
New MLM video! Love your content, love your calm way of paleoASMR!
That was an excellent overview. Thank you!
Makes a lot of sense that mammals would quickly increase in size adapting to an aquatic environment. Fish are cold blooded so they can remain small, but the only way for mammals to survive in water is to increase in size and develop blubber.
😊
I can never get enough of whale evolution videos
Yeah I love fairytales too.
@@Exodus20.7KJV I suspect you are religious in a fundamental way, if so, yes for sure, you do love fairy tales.
@@Exodus20.7KJV how ironic
@@Exodus20.7KJV good thing you worship a storybook, right?
Whales with fairy tales , where are the hundreds of bioprototypes ? ? They Don't exist ? ? What a load of Nonsense spouted by the evolution revolution committee ? ? ?
I was waiting for this
Another great video! Thanks for all your content and research!
Its fascinating how a terrestrial animal, which only goes into water to escape predators, evolved to THE water animal that anyone knows. Thats why i love evolution
Not to mention evolving into apex predator that any land dweller alive today would be terrified to encounter in the water, there are in fact, numerous cases of Orcas preying on Moose.
I have never heard of chevrotains before, but it is adorable! I would love to learn more about them!
The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life..!.!
@@poweroftruth9258 Amen Brother!! Isn't it strange that All of the Evolutionary Biologists suggest that a God did not make all of the wonderful stuff we see today, and how it isn't "Scientific" Yet, none of the People i have asked could give me a Scientific fact that Evolution is real. There are far more Scientific facts that support the Bible than they do Evolution.
@@ng2268 There are no scientific facts that support the Bible or any religion for that matter.
@@eybaza6018 Hinduism is the correct religion, and evolution happened. God exists and evolution happened.
Every time I get a notif for this channel I get so excited. Always watch it as soon as I can.
Your videos continue to be my favorite available on RUclips for animal evolution.
Whales are such a fascinating example of evolution at work. I find any mammals that adapt away from land really cool, like bats evolving to fly.
Its a great example of how evolution is far more interesting than so-called "intelligent design". Only evolution puts small deer-like creatures back into the ocean to become the largest animals in history...so far. Great stuff
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@@tehblacksmith9302 hilarious meme, well done :)
@@_Wombat thanks it only took me 5 hours to think of it
"Evolution puts....."? I'm afraid you are confusing evolution with God. Evolution has no plan, purpose, meaning, design, or anything really. It is a just a descriptor for an assumed process of trial and error that just got lucky in allowing an untold number of beneficial mutations to randomly occur at just the right time and in just the right order, to accumulate and integrate into complex biological systems. We are told to take all of this by faith, because well, whales are here and, well, how else could whales appear if not by evolution? Whale evolution, while touted as one of the best evidences of evolution, is an incredibly weak story but it must be accepted because the alternative is unthinkable.
@@gusolsthoorn1002 Semantics Gus, semantics.
Now that you mentioned it I would like to learn what selective pressures led to modern whales developing echolocation and whether or not they are the first creatures to have this ability
On a related note could you make a video about species that developed unique feature for the first time in Earth's history
Some other animals have echolocation. Bats most famously, but it's also at least attested in some birds and small terrestrial mammals. Maybe some more I don't know about
@@jacobdussere5487 some birds? i dont think ive heard of that, can you tell me more?
Echolocation is not unique. Bats also have it. The bigger question is how does echolocation happen once, let alone twice? Turns out that the Dna coding for both bats and whales are very close in their echolocation coding.
In fact when you put them side by side, using Dna as a metric, bats and whales are very closely related.
@@nahshon9998 source?
@@djm-ct6rj Source for what?
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I always wondered how big Whales are when they were a land mammal. Thanks for this video my curiosity got answered 💜
Amazing videos about my favorite marine mammals, MLM. Hope Walking with Beast does a remake of the Cenozoic featuring these newly discovered ancient whale relatives. 👍
Your content is great! I love to hear the tales of how things today came to be.
Oh yeah, the 'poster child' for 'proving' that Darwinian evolution could actually happen - yet if anything, the 'evolution of whales' only shows how unlikely it is that that much adaptations would randomly and so quickly even, be able to occur...
@@ResurrectingJiriki
Have you ever seen the skeleton of a cetacean?
@@Minecraftiano1204 have you ever looked into how the Darwinian evolution actually is supposed to work?
Or think about where all this new information just pops into existence?
Unguided and randomly?
How 'things that go wrong' just happen to go wrong simultaneously in just the right way, and then within a few tens of millions of years?
The Cambrian Explosion posed to Darwin himself already a really big issue for his theory.
The 'window' of it has only gotten smaller, the lack of anything pre-cursoring the vast amounts of new species and body plans, only became more painfully absent...
@@Minecraftiano1204 and yes, I have seen the skeleton of a cetacean, in a London museum IRL.
What does that have to do with anything?
@@Ligerbee ?
It always makes me happy to see a new video released on this channel! 😊😊😊
Your vids are insanely good
Do not sort by new. It'll basically be Chernobyl for your brain.
General rule for basically any video about evolution
Actually they did DNA testing on hippopotamuses and they are extremely close related to the well family, so they could’ve been more of a small size hippo type animal
What is a well
A whale in good health. 🐋🐳😅
Please make one on the evolution of pigeons and doves 🙏🏻 this is one of my favorite channels and I haven’t been able to find much on their evolution
It still baffles me that people can deny scientific facts, nowadays...
Please identify the scientific facts in this video. I see a fabricated story. The fossils do not provide compelling evidence that any of this actually happened.
@@gusolsthoorn1002 Evolution is a proven fact...🤷🏻♂️
@@Gothead420 Sure, if by evolution you mean change over time, then yes, of course, I don't have a problem with that. I just don't see that evidence compelling to believe that new features and function could come about by chance, and I don't think the evidence shows it.
@@gusolsthoorn1002 Evolution is just that, gradual changes over time...that lead to speciation.
Maybe you should read up on that topic...😉
@@Gothead420 It has been known since Darwin's day that the accumulation of small changes cannot account for the large differences. That is the reason a "modern synthesis" was needed; to account for new functions and features that natural selection could not explain.
The Basilosaurids do look like Mosasaurs & Tylosaurs, which makes me wonder if they might have convergently evolved like modern whales given time. Perhaps pointless speculation, but I still wonder.
And icthyosaurs roughly resemble bony fish from the eyes back.
anticipated video i waited for
Well done. And truly edifying to boot! Thank you 😊
If I had a nickel for every time land animals evolved to live in the ocean, I would have 2 nickels.
Which isnt a lot but its interesting it happened twice.
twice hmmm, isn't like pleziosaurs, messosaurs, ichtiosaurs, mosasaurs, penguins, sea mammals, turtles, iguanas, like way more nickles
@@ivoraven4170 he's talking about fully aquaitc.
@@Frogboyaidan It still counts, all the groups he mentioned were fully aquatic.
I love how calming these videos are with the unique visuals and pretty music :)
This was really interesting, thanks!
hey mate I love your videos, love learning about the past of how life evolved to this day. U should do a video about how cattle evolved to what they are today.
You said all whales except the Beluga whale have fused neck bones, but you forgot the majestic river dolphin. Everyone always forgets about the river dolphin. :(
Dolphins are whales
@@peterstoric6560 yep, and while most dolphins do have fused neck bones like other whales, river dolphins don't
Is Nobu Tamura like a friend of yours? Their incredible art has been in like every episode since the beginning
Animal RUclips is so chill. All these comments are so positive, wholesome, and I’m learning all sorts of new stuff love y’all 💖
I really love your channel! I often leave it on while making pottery
I would love to hear more about ocean life. Botryllus are my favorite animal and I would probably squeal if you featured them
the evolution of whales is one of the most interesting of all time.
That whales evolved from sea to land and back to sea is an incredible evolutionary story.
Well-made video. The evolution of whales is something that absolutely blows my mind 😳💥
Bravo. This was really fantastic. I learned a lot.
i was wondering whether you had any plans to make a video on spiders? also i love your videos so much - i knew almost nothing about paleontology before i found your channel and now its probably my favourite thing to go down wikipedia rabbit holes on
Yeah history of spiders would be cool
@@gerrardjones28 I know nothing about evolutionary biology, so take this with a grain of salt
I suspect spiders would have a dearth of proper fossil evidence owing to the lack of proper skeleton, so I bet they're harder to track than mammals.
@@DeathEaterLink Your defo right there, I'm by no means an expert but know a bit about fossilization at least and the invertebrates are always rarer to fossilize, what we definitely know is spiders and other animals like scorpions related to it must've had some sort of common marine invertebrate ancestor like sea scorpions but they started flourishing barely a period after they came out of water while it took the invertebrates a lot longer to adapt and change like how the first dragon fly evolved hundreds of millions of years before the first flying reptiles, most invertebrate fossils are from the carboniferous I think which makes sense cos the world was full of swamps at that time which are good for fossilisation so yeah a history of spiders is certainly do able and simple with the quick history version but just harder put together and go in-depth with cos of the lack of fossils.
@@DeathEaterLinkyeah but there may be foot prints of larger spiders.
Whale worth watching.
just found this channel!!! new favorite
One of my favorite evolutions of prehistory,I really like this video
You should do a video on the evolution of Hippopotamus amphibius
Ambulocetus, also called '' crocotter ''
It's a croc alright!
Great video! Do more playlists. 😁
Thank you for telling me how my step mother reached the present day
And someday, according to gojira, whales will learn to fly and travel space.
Sounds legit
Some day humans will actually become intelligent
@@gerrardjones28 sadly no people still are religious
Why not? Imagination is a prime ingredient when it comes to evolution.
@@gusolsthoorn1002 why are all creationists stupid old men