@@kennarajora6532 fun fact "Mark Twain" was a name he came up with when he worked on a river boat. A river boat captain would shout "mark twain" so someone would measure the depth, which was measured by marks on a line (also called twain). Second fun fact: he had the kind of mustache only a 19th century gentleman adventurer could grow, it could carry a gentle whisper as easily as an stern order, and could filter any kind of poison out of his soup.
@@mohamedanthony7491 "kind of" off topic?? It's _Totally_ off topic! Better to just look up "top new shows" on google and find the streaming service that has the most shows you're interested in, rather than waste time commenting on random youtube videos. xP
I think it would depend on what the lifeforms are dependent on but definitely (like a planet with higher/lower temperature, pressure, or extreme environment, might create some weird stuff we wouldn't expect) I was watching something about Venus not too long ago, apparently there's a habitable zone where small, foreign life may be able to exist. I'm super excited to learn more throughout the years I dunno how easy it will be to find "intelligent" life, but I'm sure there's all sorts of stuff out there. And maybe not too far away either :^0
Honestly a lot of ancient plants aren’t too special. They a bit look different than modern ones but their differences aren’t as interesting as with animals
"All six of you." :) I took Latin in high school. Should the Pope swing by, we can chat. As long as it's about a soldier walking along the road and meeting a boy with a pot full of frogs.
I know, right? Four years of Latin and at the end of it I could not have a conversation really, but I could read epic poetry and conjugate nouns! Now eight years later, it's mostly only some of the vocab and basics of conjugation that have stuck. But still, learning Latin helped me understand English much better, obviously helpedwhen I was learning Italian, and now surprisingly helps me more easily understand grammar as I learn Hawaiian!
One year of Latin in upper secondary - I can tell that temple is dark and that pepper is hot and dry! 😂 Used it a lot, tho. It ended up being very useful.
@@jakobraahauge7299 I can also handle that Britain is an island & Gaul is divided into three parts, and sing such classics as "Frere Jacques" (in Latin) and "Gaudeamus Igitur." The main help was definitely vocabulary, and by extension SATs & GREs.
Can we just appreciate the level of dedication shown by SR Foxley? Absolute don, as hank said, they've been president of space for YEARS, must be absolutely rolling in it to support SciShow that long
The fake eyes on those ancient not-butterflies have some interesting implications for facial recognition in animals of that time period It's likely not anything new, but interesting nonetheless
@SigmaTauri2 I believe eyes don't necessarily have to mimic a certain animal. It's just that many predator animals will not attack when their prey is looking at them, since they tend to prefer ambush, so that may just be it
@@jaded161 Pretty sure you've got the right of it, even the smallest prey can fight back and either make a predator expend more energy than it would in an ambush, or even cause said predator injuries that again, would take energy to heal, or worse, make hunting harder or get infected and lead to death. ambush predation is a much safer route to take than coming straight at prey that's "staring" right at you.
No wonder the Pokémon look like they do in their universe. I recall a certain UA-camr assemble an "evolution tree" (as in actual Darwinian evolution, not a process akin to metamorphosis) of all the Pokémon we know so far. The one who even invented the concept of Pokémon as a franchise took inspiration from his bug collection. Pokémon would go on to become that marketable of a brand, from video games to a card game to anime and manga to even something like Pikachu's annual appearance in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a Super Bowl commercial, and (speaking of sports) Pikachu being a mascot for Japan's soccer team at some point iirc. Once the first domino falls, the rest follow, and Pokémon is a perfect example.
I was able to guess more or less the meaning of castorocauda lustrasimilis and I don't know Latin. I speak portuguese, which is a Latin based language, and castor and cauda in castorocauda means beaver and tail, respectively, and, in lustrasimilis, lustra is similar to lontra which means otter and similis is similar to semelhante which means similar.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn *Western European, more specifically...The major Latin-derived languages are Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese, which are a branch of the Indo-European language family, which itself still only comprises less than 10% of the world's known languages. It's easy to overestimate the size and prevalence of European and European-descended peoples (and their languages) but it's also important to try and de-center whiteness from our worldview. Think of all the indigenous languages of the Americas and Oceania, the literal 1000+ African languages, not to mention the huge parts of the world that speak Arabic (Afroasiatic language family) and Chinese (Sino-Tibetan)
@Sassy The Sasquatch Not ALL of them. But it's true many modern european languages do have a lot of history with latin. I don't know about languages and local dialects in northern Africa or the Middle East but it's a possibility there might be some latin influence I suppose. I just don't expect to find many latin roots in languages all over the world.
I find convergeant evolution super interesting, but when it crosses time like this it’s extra cool. Like every book is the same 26 letters in a different order every species is the same building blocks built together in different way, but in both sometimes pieces of those patterns show up more then once. I wonder if we find alien life operating on DNA and proteins like life on earth if we’ll notice something we’ve seen before too (since a polypeptide or nucleotide chain can only have so many unique combos before something matches).
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep and also its not a myth its a scientific theory with lots of data to back it up.but you cant conclusively proof it without going back and time and seeing those animals.
This seems to suggest that an Earth-like planet with life would likely have similar forms that resemble the life that has lived, or is currently living, on our own planet.
We definitely can expect a body forms that is similiar to what Earth have, but because of life on another planet, life evolve in a different time, circumstances and possibly chemistry than ours, there's going to be a difference, for instance, the body form of a general fish is possibly can evolved in an alien planet with an ocean that is similiar to ours, so the alien "fish" might have a crescent shaped tail fin for propolsion, two pectoral fin for steering, and a streamlined body so that it can moves underwater effectively, but there's still going to be difference like a different set of eyes, its mouth made out of tentacles instead of jaw, etc.
@@azrielmoha6877 I saw a documentary where michio kaku said he once heard Carl Sagan absolutely hated star trek because of the absurd notion that there would be a bipedal, lung breathing, single brained organism with the cognitive ability to communicate across species in any manner recognizable to us. Painfully laughable.
I'm a fan of crocodylomorpha, so I was expecting them to show up in this video and, I mean, it would've been pretty obvious. So when you explained, I was so surprised! It's even absurd how similar they are to crocs and their relatives, so, this was super interesting.
I don't care that I missed this one last year. It's awesome. This is the only UA-cam page that I automatically hit the like button BEFORE I watch it. It's never let me down once and that's saying a lot.
9:56- but there are plenty of gymnosperms around today (conifer trees for example). I wonder if there are any examples of modern insects pollenating them by this mechanism.
I don't personally know of any that use sweetened pollin drops, conifers of course have gone to the opposite extreme. But it's easy to see how a gymnosperm symbiosis might have been dramatically disrupted by the angiosperm explosion. It's always really interesting to me to look at the ways in which after say a fire, land is reclaimed, at early time grasses, and other angiosperm trees tend to grow far faster than conifers, but it seems generally true that in the limit of time (absent a fully established forest) conifers dominate in all but the wettest hot climes. (In the northern hemisphere anyways)
Don't worry, people. There really are fightosaurs: gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&output=spoiler&method=visual&text=+[fight]&subtype=+["Dinosaur"]
@@jaschabull2365 My first thought upon seeing the name was that they belonged to the so called "Plant Kingdom" - like many of the critters that populate the world in Brian Aldiss' "Hothouse".
My head canon has the pterosaurs as pink, considering flamingos are pink thanks to the high levels of beta carotene in the crustaceans, algae, and other junk they sift up. Very similar stuff to what's in their fossilized poop. Now, if someone could research the pigment of the contents of that poop, someone would be on their way to a Nobel Prize. And contrary to the internet's opinion, T-rex only maintained their otherwise unnecessarily supple arm muscles because of the amount of hugging they did. In my head canon anyway. I'll have to retcon it if a better hypothesis pops up.
I found that those structures reminded me of those baleen things that many whales have. But since both facilitate filter feeding, it's not really very surprising that they should look similar.
Indeed, there are many extinct flying fish closely related to modern flying fish and unrelated at all to as well from the Mesozoic and I believe even the Paleozoic?
And yes, why does Australia top the planet in poison/venomous animals? How hateful is that giant island? I say, buy every critter a Fosters and talk them down! Even the cuddly Koala Bear has an STD, I mean dang, It'll kill you or won't let you love it, that's some serious "F you world" going on there! Beautiful architecture, however.
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep We have over 400 neanderthal bones. "Species" is a little complicated though. Some species are separate and can't reproduce with the others in their lineage, while some can. Neanderthals are definitely not the same as modern humans, even though they weren't different enough to prevent interbreeding.
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep There is a limit of around 50, 000 years when two species with a common ancestor can no longer breed and create fertile hybrids. That's basically what happened. All human species shared a common ancestor and could therefore interbreed even though they were not the same species. The modern human was the most adaptable and was therefore the only species of human that survived. But not before some interbreeding took place.
Hmm. Also, I wonder if you could have a non-human intelligent civilization whose individuals are humanoid, and resemble humans. This would be caused by convergent evolution.
I took Latin for 5 years and never learned the words for "beaver" or "tail." I can tell you all about how Carthage must be destroyed and how Lucius Sergius Catalina is an awful person, though. You're all good!
Rachel Augsburger Haha i kinda hate how much latin class was focused on stories and other nonsense. I’m currently in college to be a wildlife biologist and the whole reason i took latin in high school was so I could better understand the scientific names of animals, it definitely did not help with that lol. It looked good on my high school transcript tho so I guess thats a bonus
Same, but my 3 years was 20+ years ago. All I got out of it was beaver, because it's similar to the word for the musk gland that used to be put in food and stuff.
Your comment accomplishes almost nothing more than just liking the video. However, if you put some info in your comment like why you like it, how, and maybe some criticisms, then your comment becomes useful.
Maybe. Not everything from the past has come back later. Stegosaurs came and went, and no similar feature to their back plates has reappeared, which is why no one really knows what they were used for. Placoderms haven’t been repeated. Maybe something with our new social living and exaggerated tool using and generational knowledge sharing will evolve again, but it’s highly unlikely to physically resemble us unless it also evolves from primates.
I think even if you didn't take latin and are a romance language speaker it's quite obvious. For example in portuguese: castor=beaver, cauda=tail, lontra(lutra)=otter and similis is pretty obvious.
I don’t know about this whole “President of Space” thing. Space actually subscribes to a parliamentary system of government, so SR Foxley-if that is his real name-is the Prime Minister of Space if he’s anything at all.
You don’t even need Latin to know what it means. If you speak Spanish or Portuguese, or any Romance languages that derived from Latin, you pretty much understand what the names mean.
Humans like to think humans are among the most evolutionarily advanced beings, a close look into animal kingdom might disprove that. Most successful achievements of humans was probably development of a larger brain. The book “catching fire: how cooking made us human” by Dr Richard Wrangham touches on this idea. He came into focus a while ago but his group has done some fascinating research lately.
Successful is a vague term, but humans are definitely an odd bunch, and acting as if humans are totally unassuming is just as foolish as pretending they’re completely superior in all stretches. Let me put it this way: we don’t get angry at earthworms for environmental changes
spindash64 who’s to say we aren’t fools, considering current socio-political situations, I’d say we aren’t a clever bunch. But you’re right my friend, any type of extreme generalization is usually incorrect, just shared my two cents.
Depends on how you define advanced. If this video shows anything it's that certain body traits are so successful they show up multiple times. They're not special. We are. Because human intelligence makes up for most of the skills we lack. You don't need wings when you have planes. You don't need to be the fastest runner when you have a car. You don't need to have a strong bite or sharp teeth when you have teeth. It's important to realize we're part of nature, but there's no need to sell ourselves short.
Lacewings seem to like to imitate other insect groups. They not only imitated butterflies long before the first buttefly ever flew, today for instance they have the mantis like mantispa group.
Though it seems like some beetles like to copy off them, I remember seeing a lacewing larva once and thinking it looked like some sort of weird ladybird grub.
. can you make a video explaining how cats and dogs have such good hearing. I can't find any info other than their ear shape - there has to be more than that right?
I always want someone to make a book or a video of animals nowadays and its ancestors because they're just so similar. Like smilodon is the ancestors of big cats today, mammoth is the ancestors of elephant today etc.
I was sure that one of the five would be ichthyosaur, reptile dolphins! But all five were awesome. I wonder if this implies anything for alien animals, if we ever discovered an alien ecosystem would a lot of things look uncannily similar?
I bet that flying squirrel-eske creature gave the best frigging cuddles on Earth at the time. Its basically a living heated blanket. I'm snuggled up under one right now. I am the squirrel. *bumps up dial to max*
SR Foxley, I don't know who you are, but I see that you have been supporting SciShow for years at a very high level. I want to thank you for that as someone who has been watching SciShow for years. I wish I could support channels like this but unfortunately I can't afford it.
Just wanted to share I helped collect some Varnia sp. of moth lacewing (Family Ithonidae) in Mid West Qld-NSW Australia. Creamy white-coloured and very scaly with a resemblance to some moths esp. giant Goat moths. Anyway, love the content - convergent evolution is everywhere!
First!.. It is a great pleasure and an honor for me to be with all of you tonight, on this very special occasion. I want to start by thanking Hank and the entire staff at SciShow for this humbling recognition, as well as all of my colleagues, friends and of course my family: my beautiful twin girls (...)
Kind of surprised nimravids weren't mentioned. Predatory mammals that look a lot like cats, probably behaved a lot like cats, but were not cats. Some of them had "saber fangs" which I think evolved, independently, three times before any actual cats had them.
SR Foxley is awesome, they support a lot of channels I (and probably we) like. I wish I had that much money to support so many channels, or any really :X
Yeah, I also thought it would be nice to know what set's them apart. It feels kind of contradictory hearing “these two things are not the same, but look, they're identical from head to tail“
It was their nose. It was quick but he pointed out the distance from eye to nostril was far shorter. In crocs, the nostrils are at the end of the snout. In the phytosaur, the nose was halfway up the snout.
Some say he's watched every SciShow video ever made and that he has a pet basking shark... or was it a barn owl? All we know is, he's called SR Foxley.
I wonder if you guys can have a look at the book "the classic of mountains and seas" to see if it's possible to guess what prehistoric animals the book was describing.
How do animals that live on nectar, like butterflies and humming birds,get enough vitamins and minerals from the nectar? Isn't nectar mostly just sugar and water?
Most animals are actually pretty good at producing necessary vitamins and aminos internally (Vitamin C, all of the Bs, A, K, etc.). We humans are pretty much the only ones who need to get an entire grocery list externally through food. (No other animal gets scurvy, for example)
Honest question, why do we consider Docodonts Mammaliaformes rather than just basal mammals? At which point (furred, hot blooded, external ears, etc.) do we consider animals mammals? I know that there were other families like Multituberculata which were neither monotremes, marsupials or placentals yet they are considered true stem (?) mammals. I don’t know if there’s an Eons episode about this subject but it could be an interesting one!
(about number 1 on the lists naming) technically speaking flamingos are reptiles since birds are all reptiles. Crocodilians such as crocodiles and alligators are more closely related to birds than to lizards (and the same can be said about lizards and birds). On top of that, many traits associated with reptiles are not a hard and fast rule even among lizards. Some lizards (such as garter snakes and tegus) and endothermic partially and many snakes are born without scales (also most birds do have scales on their legs anyway)
Why is it that we so easily accept that seemingly random processes like mutations can be part of a bigger development that shows certain patterns when it comes to evolution, patterns that take shape based on the material conditions of the world they occur in, yet most of us refuse to accept that the same is true for human history? Yes, on an individual level we might be free to do whatever is we can, but on a larger scale history follows certain patterns, patterns that are based on the material conditions of the world they occur in.
I feel called out about Latin... I took 2 years in high school and 3 years at uni plus a Latin and Greek in English class and medical terminology for my med translation certificate....
Nah Fido is a dogs name... Futon is a Japanese design for folding couches and yes phyto comes from phutòn meaning plant in Greek. Different forms are used to mean pland noun like you have a nice plant and plant the verb like go plant these seeds... I don't know the actual forms or if we got the Greek prefix directly or through Latin.
Highly unlikely: humans are relatively homogeneous to begin with, and we have a lot of genetic mixing now with modern transportation. Even the most generationally separates people’s are no more than 800 or so generations from being related to a different group, which, in evolution terms, is an absolutely PALTRY amount of time to work with.
I remember one of your sister channels covering bird evolution from dinosaurs. just so you know, I’m taking inspiration from the opposite birds. This video will make an excellent adventuring oil.
The fact that butterfly-like insects with eyespots evolved at least 3 times is kind of mind blowing to me.
Then crabs will blow your mind
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
This quote is often attributed to Samuel Clemens.
Everyone refers to him as Mark Twain though.
@@kennarajora6532 fun fact "Mark Twain" was a name he came up with when he worked on a river boat. A river boat captain would shout "mark twain" so someone would measure the depth, which was measured by marks on a line (also called twain). Second fun fact: he had the kind of mustache only a 19th century gentleman adventurer could grow, it could carry a gentle whisper as easily as an stern order, and could filter any kind of poison out of his soup.
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Fabulous quote. I fully intend on working this one into regular conversation. You all 🪨
@@kennarajora6532 Yea but was that just a pen name or did he go by that name in his daily life?
“Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Evolution: yeah, about that...
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Evolution: Pfft history is what humans invented.
i know it's kind of off topic but does anyone know a good place to stream new series online ?
@@mohamedanthony7491 "kind of" off topic?? It's _Totally_ off topic! Better to just look up "top new shows" on google and find the streaming service that has the most shows you're interested in, rather than waste time commenting on random youtube videos. xP
evolution just rly loves beavers and mammals that can glide
I'm starting to suspect that an interplanetary expedition landing on a new world will find rather familiar looking animals.
I think it would depend on what the lifeforms are dependent on but definitely (like a planet with higher/lower temperature, pressure, or extreme environment, might create some weird stuff we wouldn't expect)
I was watching something about Venus not too long ago, apparently there's a habitable zone where small, foreign life may be able to exist. I'm super excited to learn more throughout the years
I dunno how easy it will be to find "intelligent" life, but I'm sure there's all sorts of stuff out there. And maybe not too far away either :^0
I believe you guys should watch the alien biosphere series
I think it's a safe bet if the planet can sustain long-term human life then at least some animals would look fairly similar.
but how do the crabs on other m class planets taste.
@@doodoodoodle Life on Venus, you gotta be high ;)
"All around me are familiar feces
Worn out species, worn out feces,
Biologists plan for their daily theses
Going nowhere, going nowhere…"
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Y’all talkin S#*t
@@velvetunderground9835 Pun threads are such a cop(rolite)-out!
Very nice.
Yall should really do some episodes on ancient plants. I wanna know how big they use to get and some cools ones I'd never hear about other wise.
The fungus trees are pretty wild :)
Well. They are really big and that is all.
Honestly a lot of ancient plants aren’t too special. They a bit look different than modern ones but their differences aren’t as interesting as with animals
@@teathesilkwing7616 Sad to hear really, i know the fungus was pretty wild though
Eons has got you covered if you've not seen them
"All six of you." :) I took Latin in high school. Should the Pope swing by, we can chat. As long as it's about a soldier walking along the road and meeting a boy with a pot full of frogs.
I know, right? Four years of Latin and at the end of it I could not have a conversation really, but I could read epic poetry and conjugate nouns! Now eight years later, it's mostly only some of the vocab and basics of conjugation that have stuck. But still, learning Latin helped me understand English much better, obviously helpedwhen I was learning Italian, and now surprisingly helps me more easily understand grammar as I learn Hawaiian!
@@LifeEleanorDeathNell English grammar is such a mess that learning any other language will help you figure out grammar patterns more easily.
One year of Latin in upper secondary - I can tell that temple is dark and that pepper is hot and dry! 😂 Used it a lot, tho. It ended up being very useful.
@@jakobraahauge7299 I can also handle that Britain is an island & Gaul is divided into three parts, and sing such classics as "Frere Jacques" (in Latin) and "Gaudeamus Igitur." The main help was definitely vocabulary, and by extension SATs & GREs.
Can we just appreciate the level of dedication shown by SR Foxley? Absolute don, as hank said, they've been president of space for YEARS, must be absolutely rolling in it to support SciShow that long
The fake eyes on those ancient not-butterflies have some interesting implications for facial recognition in animals of that time period
It's likely not anything new, but interesting nonetheless
I wonder what kind of eyes they were imitating. Like, cats weren't a thing yet.
I can’t believe it’s not butter(fly)!
@SigmaTauri2 I believe eyes don't necessarily have to mimic a certain animal. It's just that many predator animals will not attack when their prey is looking at them, since they tend to prefer ambush, so that may just be it
@@jaded161 Pretty sure you've got the right of it, even the smallest prey can fight back and either make a predator expend more energy than it would in an ambush, or even cause said predator injuries that again, would take energy to heal, or worse, make hunting harder or get infected and lead to death. ambush predation is a much safer route to take than coming straight at prey that's "staring" right at you.
@@LimeyLassen Some small pterosaurus?
Patagium is officially my new favourite science word! (Sorry crepuscular, my previous favorite, you have been dethroned.)
For me, the Thagomizer still reigns supreme.
Idk, crepuscular is a fantastic word though
@@itsonlyafleshwound9024 Imagine getting thagomized by a thagomizer
Meh, us _Magic_ players have known about patagia for quite a while now. gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=+[patagia]
Fred Flinstone, to Barney."I better not have another drink, I'm seeing pink dinosaurs".
@randall2020 way to get political there for no reason bud
How old are you? Jesus.....
@@jimmyshrimbe9361 2019 years atm but birthday is coming up
No wonder the Pokémon look like they do in their universe. I recall a certain UA-camr assemble an "evolution tree" (as in actual Darwinian evolution, not a process akin to metamorphosis) of all the Pokémon we know so far. The one who even invented the concept of Pokémon as a franchise took inspiration from his bug collection. Pokémon would go on to become that marketable of a brand, from video games to a card game to anime and manga to even something like Pikachu's annual appearance in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a Super Bowl commercial, and (speaking of sports) Pikachu being a mascot for Japan's soccer team at some point iirc. Once the first domino falls, the rest follow, and Pokémon is a perfect example.
I looked it up just to make certain, and indeed it was the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Bird Keeper Toby is the UA-camr you're referring to. He has an entire Pokémon evolution series based on Darwinian evolution, the Pokémon Tree of Life.
I was able to guess more or less the meaning of castorocauda lustrasimilis and I don't know Latin. I speak portuguese, which is a Latin based language, and castor and cauda in castorocauda means beaver and tail, respectively, and, in lustrasimilis, lustra is similar to lontra which means otter and similis is similar to semelhante which means similar.
In Spanish is pretty much the same except for the word otter (nutria) wich is a little more difficult to guess
I guess that's why it's called a Latin language
@@azazelcrowley1051 somewhere, an early Castillan scribe swapped the l for and n, and we got nutria
@@ArawnOfAnnwn *Western European, more specifically...The major Latin-derived languages are Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese, which are a branch of the Indo-European language family, which itself still only comprises less than 10% of the world's known languages. It's easy to overestimate the size and prevalence of European and European-descended peoples (and their languages) but it's also important to try and de-center whiteness from our worldview. Think of all the indigenous languages of the Americas and Oceania, the literal 1000+ African languages, not to mention the huge parts of the world that speak Arabic (Afroasiatic language family) and Chinese (Sino-Tibetan)
@Sassy The Sasquatch Not ALL of them. But it's true many modern european languages do have a lot of history with latin. I don't know about languages and local dialects in northern Africa or the Middle East but it's a possibility there might be some latin influence I suppose. I just don't expect to find many latin roots in languages all over the world.
Life on this planet (and perhaps others) is truly amazing and awe-inspiring.
I find convergeant evolution super interesting, but when it crosses time like this it’s extra cool. Like every book is the same 26 letters in a different order every species is the same building blocks built together in different way, but in both sometimes pieces of those patterns show up more then once. I wonder if we find alien life operating on DNA and proteins like life on earth if we’ll notice something we’ve seen before too (since a polypeptide or nucleotide chain can only have so many unique combos before something matches).
Wow what a thought
Lego confirmed
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep so u dont think evolution exists?
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep and also its not a myth its a scientific theory with lots of data to back it up.but you cant conclusively proof it without going back and time and seeing those animals.
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep and yes we do find transitional fossils
This seems to suggest that an Earth-like planet with life would likely have similar forms that resemble the life that has lived, or is currently living, on our own planet.
We definitely can expect a body forms that is similiar to what Earth have, but because of life on another planet, life evolve in a different time, circumstances and possibly chemistry than ours, there's going to be a difference, for instance, the body form of a general fish is possibly can evolved in an alien planet with an ocean that is similiar to ours, so the alien "fish" might have a crescent shaped tail fin for propolsion, two pectoral fin for steering, and a streamlined body so that it can moves underwater effectively, but there's still going to be difference like a different set of eyes, its mouth made out of tentacles instead of jaw, etc.
Rather share the same niche
Not according to Carl sagan
@@azrielmoha6877 I saw a documentary where michio kaku said he once heard Carl Sagan absolutely hated star trek because of the absurd notion that there would be a bipedal, lung breathing, single brained organism with the cognitive ability to communicate across species in any manner recognizable to us. Painfully laughable.
For me as lifetime paleontology nerd, this was exciting to watch!
Saw that Emperor Butterfly and my mind went straight to Animal Crossing...
I'm a fan of crocodylomorpha, so I was expecting them to show up in this video and, I mean, it would've been pretty obvious. So when you explained, I was so surprised! It's even absurd how similar they are to crocs and their relatives, so, this was super interesting.
Yeah that one honestly blew my mind. They had the armor and everything!
My paleontology professor always stressed to us, "The present is the key to the past."
Thank you for NOT making this about microscopic or benthic "animals" or non-flying insects. Always good to see stuff we can actually see!
o_0 what did an entomologist do to you?
Jesus! The distance between the nostrils and eyes on crocs really do matter. Those not quite crocs are haunting.
I don't care that I missed this one last year. It's awesome. This is the only UA-cam page that I automatically hit the like button BEFORE I watch it. It's never let me down once and that's saying a lot.
9:56- but there are plenty of gymnosperms around today (conifer trees for example). I wonder if there are any examples of modern insects pollenating them by this mechanism.
I don't personally know of any that use sweetened pollin drops, conifers of course have gone to the opposite extreme.
But it's easy to see how a gymnosperm symbiosis might have been dramatically disrupted by the angiosperm explosion. It's always really interesting to me to look at the ways in which after say a fire, land is reclaimed, at early time grasses, and other angiosperm trees tend to grow far faster than conifers, but it seems generally true that in the limit of time (absent a fully established forest) conifers dominate in all but the wettest hot climes. (In the northern hemisphere anyways)
I know this is incorrect, but my personality forces me to spell it "fightosaur" in my brain.
You are absolutely correct in my heart.
Fk yeah
Don't worry, people. There really are fightosaurs: gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&output=spoiler&method=visual&text=+[fight]&subtype=+["Dinosaur"]
It makes more sense than the actual name, they're apparently called that because they were mistaken for herbivores upon discovery.
@@jaschabull2365 My first thought upon seeing the name was that they belonged to the so called "Plant Kingdom" - like many of the critters that populate the world in Brian Aldiss' "Hothouse".
My head canon has the pterosaurs as pink, considering flamingos are pink thanks to the high levels of beta carotene in the crustaceans, algae, and other junk they sift up. Very similar stuff to what's in their fossilized poop. Now, if someone could research the pigment of the contents of that poop, someone would be on their way to a Nobel Prize. And contrary to the internet's opinion, T-rex only maintained their otherwise unnecessarily supple arm muscles because of the amount of hugging they did. In my head canon anyway. I'll have to retcon it if a better hypothesis pops up.
What is your head canon? I’m confused?
THOSE PTEROSAURS HAVE TO BE PINK, AND I'M NOT ACCEPTING ANY OTHER HEADCANON, THEY ARE PINK!
When i saw that skull for #1 I thought Pelican not flamingo :)
I thought baleen whale...
I thought about pelicans and whales, but definitely not flamingos.
100% thought pelican too.
absolutely baleen whale here.
I found that those structures reminded me of those baleen things that many whales have. But since both facilitate filter feeding, it's not really very surprising that they should look similar.
Man scishow is awesome , there's always something to learn !!
I've heard that flying fish have evolved multiple times.
Indeed, there are many extinct flying fish closely related to modern flying fish and unrelated at all to as well from the Mesozoic and I believe even the Paleozoic?
I'm still trying to get around the fact that they exist at all.
@@Zer0Spinn: gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=488632
They must really hate the water damn
technically all flying tetrapods are flying fish 🤯
Australia: we have a bunch of unique animals
loooooong time ago China: *hold my atavism*
And yes, why does Australia top the planet in poison/venomous animals? How hateful is that giant island? I say, buy every critter a Fosters and talk them down! Even the cuddly Koala Bear has an STD, I mean dang, It'll kill you or won't let you love it, that's some serious "F you world" going on there! Beautiful architecture, however.
SciShow: 'Phytosaurs are _NOT_ crocodiles..'
Me: *_"That's a crocodile!!"_*
oh
What kind of crocodile has a blowhole?
@@jaschabull2365 The scariest kind?
Croc body plan seems to be all time favorite for tetrapods. Going as far as early Permian.
"All around are familiar feces, worn out feces, worn out coprolites"
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Just imagine future non-human intelligent civilisation digging up a random human and declaring it the model sample for all of humanity
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep it could be a different species or it could be the same they're is evidence for both points
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep
We have over 400 neanderthal bones.
"Species" is a little complicated though. Some species are separate and can't reproduce with the others in their lineage, while some can.
Neanderthals are definitely not the same as modern humans, even though they weren't different enough to prevent interbreeding.
They dig up Donald Trump.
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep There is a limit of around 50, 000 years when two species with a common ancestor can no longer breed and create fertile hybrids. That's basically what happened. All human species shared a common ancestor and could therefore interbreed even though they were not the same species. The modern human was the most adaptable and was therefore the only species of human that survived. But not before some interbreeding took place.
Hmm. Also, I wonder if you could have a non-human intelligent civilization whose individuals are humanoid, and resemble humans. This would be caused by convergent evolution.
I took latin for 3 years, I’ve just forgotten everything so i had no idea what that meant😂
I knew caudal from my medical terminology class, but other than that, yeah, blank slate.
I took Latin for 5 years and never learned the words for "beaver" or "tail." I can tell you all about how Carthage must be destroyed and how Lucius Sergius Catalina is an awful person, though. You're all good!
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Haha i kinda hate how much latin class was focused on stories and other nonsense.
I’m currently in college to be a wildlife biologist and the whole reason i took latin in high school was so I could better understand the scientific names of animals, it definitely did not help with that lol. It looked good on my high school transcript tho so I guess thats a bonus
Same, but my 3 years was 20+ years ago. All I got out of it was beaver, because it's similar to the word for the musk gland that used to be put in food and stuff.
@@WintrBorn: Hey, if you got some beaver out of it, it couldn't have been all bad...( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Jurassic Station (2993 ACE): The dinosaurs are fat and feathered and some of them are pink.
Are any of them purple and fond of hugs?
Convergence evolution is sooooo interesting and incredible to me!
Love this content and the channel!
Agreed!!!!
Ditto
Just like the video. Why are people always commenting stuff like this? Is this for what? To gain the attention of the channel?
Your comment accomplishes almost nothing more than just liking the video. However, if you put some info in your comment like why you like it, how, and maybe some criticisms, then your comment becomes useful.
@@hamuelagulto796 😂🤣 still would be useless, most of us will watch anything they provide.🤷♀️🤓
4:52, "and if you've taken Latin, all 6 of you" that one caught me off guard.
10:55 that means even if humanity goes extinct another species will take our place
I hope not. Once was quite enough.
super squid
Not necessarily, not every animal has historical look alikes
Maybe. Not everything from the past has come back later. Stegosaurs came and went, and no similar feature to their back plates has reappeared, which is why no one really knows what they were used for. Placoderms haven’t been repeated.
Maybe something with our new social living and exaggerated tool using and generational knowledge sharing will evolve again, but it’s highly unlikely to physically resemble us unless it also evolves from primates.
Octopii: We are just waiting for y'all to make an extinction level dumb move.
I think even if you didn't take latin and are a romance language speaker it's quite obvious. For example in portuguese: castor=beaver, cauda=tail, lontra(lutra)=otter and similis is pretty obvious.
Hank: “All six of you”
I wonder how many understood that.
I don’t know about this whole “President of Space” thing. Space actually subscribes to a parliamentary system of government, so SR Foxley-if that is his real name-is the Prime Minister of Space if he’s anything at all.
Different species of reptiles: *evolves into a crocodile*
Actual crocodiles during that time: "lmao"
5:00 or speak French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese... about a billion of us... 😜🌟⚜️
But seriously thanks for being entertaining and educational. 🖖🏼
Oh, come on. I'm sure more than six of us have taken Latin. 😁
I speak an infinitely more useful language based AROUNd latin. My humble brag is less impressive though.
Fine. 7
@0 0 same...
It's just not a language that you can remember very well because it's (usually) not spoken and you get zero fluency :P
You don’t even need Latin to know what it means. If you speak Spanish or Portuguese, or any Romance languages that derived from Latin, you pretty much understand what the names mean.
Greek fr me.
As for the episode, ❤️ wooo! Flubberbyes
Humans like to think humans are among the most evolutionarily advanced beings, a close look into animal kingdom might disprove that. Most successful achievements of humans was probably development of a larger brain. The book “catching fire: how cooking made us human” by Dr Richard Wrangham touches on this idea. He came into focus a while ago but his group has done some fascinating research lately.
Successful is a vague term, but humans are definitely an odd bunch, and acting as if humans are totally unassuming is just as foolish as pretending they’re completely superior in all stretches.
Let me put it this way: we don’t get angry at earthworms for environmental changes
spindash64 who’s to say we aren’t fools, considering current socio-political situations, I’d say we aren’t a clever bunch. But you’re right my friend, any type of extreme generalization is usually incorrect, just shared my two cents.
Depends on how you define advanced.
If this video shows anything it's that certain body traits are so successful they show up multiple times. They're not special. We are. Because human intelligence makes up for most of the skills we lack. You don't need wings when you have planes. You don't need to be the fastest runner when you have a car. You don't need to have a strong bite or sharp teeth when you have teeth.
It's important to realize we're part of nature, but there's no need to sell ourselves short.
"Some evolutionary tricks are so good they just keep coming back!"
Lacewings seem to like to imitate other insect groups. They not only imitated butterflies long before the first buttefly ever flew, today for instance they have the mantis like mantispa group.
Though it seems like some beetles like to copy off them, I remember seeing a lacewing larva once and thinking it looked like some sort of weird ladybird grub.
Number 5 is really freaking cool!
The emperor butterfly is also known as the Pavon or Pavone butterfly. Pretty cool and fancy sounding name.
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can you make a video explaining how cats and dogs have such good hearing. I can't find any info other than their ear shape - there has to be more than that right?
Missed opportunity with #5! Make the headline "I can't believe it's not butterfly"
I always want someone to make a book or a video of animals nowadays and its ancestors because they're just so similar.
Like smilodon is the ancestors of big cats today, mammoth is the ancestors of elephant today etc.
Smilodon isn't ancestor of modern cats, they live in the same time, same with mammoths and modern elephants.
@@ExtremeMadnessX oh really? Thanks for correcting me
Y'know. I've heard of this animal. You may have heard of it, called... the CRAB. its pretty hardy and neat
I was sure that one of the five would be ichthyosaur, reptile dolphins! But all five were awesome. I wonder if this implies anything for alien animals, if we ever discovered an alien ecosystem would a lot of things look uncannily similar?
Yeah, Icthyosaurs show some crazy convergent evolution
I want to hear more about the group of mammal cousins
Sr foxley, you're the real mvp.
I bet that flying squirrel-eske creature gave the best frigging cuddles on Earth at the time.
Its basically a living heated blanket.
I'm snuggled up under one right now.
I am the squirrel.
*bumps up dial to max*
SR Foxley, I don't know who you are, but I see that you have been supporting SciShow for years at a very high level. I want to thank you for that as someone who has been watching SciShow for years. I wish I could support channels like this but unfortunately I can't afford it.
paleontologists: how many fossils would you like?
China: yes
Love ya Hank n crew. This is one of the most fascinating videos. Amazing stuff. Thank you
Just wanted to share I helped collect some Varnia sp. of moth lacewing (Family Ithonidae) in Mid West Qld-NSW Australia. Creamy white-coloured and very scaly with a resemblance to some moths esp. giant Goat moths. Anyway, love the content - convergent evolution is everywhere!
Hank: "Convergent evolution"
Me: Crabs! Crabs! CRABS! EVERYTHING WANTS TO BE *CRAAAABS!!*
First!.. It is a great pleasure and an honor for me to be with all of you tonight, on this very special occasion. I want to start by thanking Hank and the entire staff at SciShow for this humbling recognition, as well as all of my colleagues, friends and of course my family: my beautiful twin girls (...)
Kind of surprised nimravids weren't mentioned. Predatory mammals that look a lot like cats, probably behaved a lot like cats, but were not cats. Some of them had "saber fangs" which I think evolved, independently, three times before any actual cats had them.
SR Foxley is awesome, they support a lot of channels I (and probably we) like.
I wish I had that much money to support so many channels, or any really :X
An S.R. Foxley production. 🎉
3:27 i theorize this is because crocs are *PEAK PERFORMANCE*
This is fascinating. I find bits of Rhamphorhynchus here in Dorset. Very small in comparison
Just imagine if we too had an ancient species in some unknown era similar in intelligence.
wtf were you trying to say.???
It is fascinating at how similar a lot of animal embryos are.
They gave us the similarities of crocs to phytosaurs , but didn’t say the differences , so I have no idea why they aren’t crocs
Yeah, I also thought it would be nice to know what set's them apart.
It feels kind of contradictory hearing “these two things are not the same, but look, they're identical from head to tail“
It was their nose. It was quick but he pointed out the distance from eye to nostril was far shorter. In crocs, the nostrils are at the end of the snout. In the phytosaur, the nose was halfway up the snout.
Some say he's watched every SciShow video ever made and that he has a pet basking shark... or was it a barn owl?
All we know is, he's called SR Foxley.
TheOtherNeutrino
Thank you Jeremy 👍👍😃
Uhh what about horseshoe crabs and trilobites I mean their has to be some sort of relation
your pfp: 🔘👃💋🔘
zack it’s walter
Living fossils.
“Familiar Feces” sounds like a memoir title. I wouldn’t read it but it just sounds like it would be one.
The memoirs of a scatologist?
I wonder if you guys can have a look at the book "the classic of mountains and seas" to see if it's possible to guess what prehistoric animals the book was describing.
11:15 UA-cam could be be president of space one day by supporting SciShow on Patreon.
How do animals that live on nectar, like butterflies and humming birds,get enough vitamins and minerals from the nectar? Isn't nectar mostly just sugar and water?
Most animals are actually pretty good at producing necessary vitamins and aminos internally (Vitamin C, all of the Bs, A, K, etc.). We humans are pretty much the only ones who need to get an entire grocery list externally through food. (No other animal gets scurvy, for example)
@@SoraCyn I'm pretty sure that few other animals have similar condition like humans. Guinea pigs I think?
Don't whales also have filter mouths?
Some do. The structure is called baleen. It's not teeth but, rather, bristles of keratin. Other whales have teeth and do not filter feed.
More like semi-a-CROC-tic, amirite?
...I'll see myself out.
"Strangely Familiar Ancient Animals"
You forgot my mom.
Go to your room.
No dessert for you ! And we'll have a serious talk child.
Honest question, why do we consider Docodonts Mammaliaformes rather than just basal mammals? At which point (furred, hot blooded, external ears, etc.) do we consider animals mammals? I know that there were other families like Multituberculata which were neither monotremes, marsupials or placentals yet they are considered true stem (?) mammals. I don’t know if there’s an Eons episode about this subject but it could be an interesting one!
0:21 And pterosaurs.
has anyone cross referenced those lacewings with the predators around that size in that time, so we can say we know what they looked like better?
Convergent evolution was said at 10.40 in, a butterfly alighted on a Halkbit, convergent with Dandelion.
(about number 1 on the lists naming) technically speaking flamingos are reptiles since birds are all reptiles. Crocodilians such as crocodiles and alligators are more closely related to birds than to lizards (and the same can be said about lizards and birds). On top of that, many traits associated with reptiles are not a hard and fast rule even among lizards. Some lizards (such as garter snakes and tegus) and endothermic partially and many snakes are born without scales (also most birds do have scales on their legs anyway)
SRFoxley is my hero!!!
"For those of you who took Latin... all 6 of you"
Haha... yea...
Why is it that we so easily accept that seemingly random processes like mutations can be part of a bigger development that shows certain patterns when it comes to evolution, patterns that take shape based on the material conditions of the world they occur in, yet most of us refuse to accept that the same is true for human history?
Yes, on an individual level we might be free to do whatever is we can, but on a larger scale history follows certain patterns, patterns that are based on the material conditions of the world they occur in.
I feel called out about Latin... I took 2 years in high school and 3 years at uni plus a Latin and Greek in English class and medical terminology for my med translation certificate....
Phytosaurs?
Sounds like a foot disease.
Nah Fido is a dogs name... Futon is a Japanese design for folding couches and yes phyto comes from phutòn meaning plant in Greek. Different forms are used to mean pland noun like you have a nice plant and plant the verb like go plant these seeds... I don't know the actual forms or if we got the Greek prefix directly or through Latin.
Love it lol
@@_DeadEnd_: "Hey you, let's garden!" "Them's phyting words!"
Iftfy. ua-cam.com/video/4HGMIbA0L1A/v-deo.html
1:24 Yeay! Flamingos from Aruba :D
2:53
How many shrimps do you have to eat
Before they make your scales turn pink?
Eat too much and you'll get sick;
Shrimps are pretty rich
i feel like humans will eventually diverge into a race of super small dwarves living into the earth
Highly unlikely: humans are relatively homogeneous to begin with, and we have a lot of genetic mixing now with modern transportation. Even the most generationally separates people’s are no more than 800 or so generations from being related to a different group, which, in evolution terms, is an absolutely PALTRY amount of time to work with.
I remember one of your sister channels covering bird evolution from dinosaurs.
just so you know, I’m taking inspiration from the opposite birds.
This video will make an excellent adventuring oil.
I mean, "chtenochasmatides" is pretty self explanatory by itself.
It means "(of) hair-brush gaps".
The word "chasm" should be familiar
Neat list! Thanks for uploading!
I am so metal ,that when my feces fossilize they wont be coprolite they will be platinodense.
Devs just re-releasing the same mobs in newer updates and sayin that theyre different huh.