@@SylkaChan I think you will end up with a Horse with a single long tooth since its tooth dna that got elongated and not a horn or antlers on narwhal, and a horse dont have head structure for having a horn/antler, pretty hard GMO to do that
@@PabloEmanuel96 They said the fish is aerodynamic, but technically that refers to movement in the air, while movement in water is called hydrodynamics.
Though it's interesting that the ancient depictions of unicorns have a thin spiral horn. Pretty much exactly like what Narwals have. Also Narwal tusks would have been available to Europeans as there was whaling in the artic ocean at the time, mainly by Scandinavians though also by Nordic Celts in modern day Ireland and Scotland.
Love the Lisa frank like stickers lmao Historical depictions of unicorns look a lot less like horses with horns than art does today. Cloven hooves, a lion like tail, a beard... 2/3 things are seen in goats, which have sometimes had their two horns grow together in a weird spiral due to genetic oddities iirc
Or a mutant deer, which when it has a deformed single horn, tends not to be branched. Also deer are sometimes white. So if the two rare mutations occur together, you have a very rare, white, small horse sized, wild and shy horned animal that would be very like the early depicted unicorns.
@Ellé Victor If you look in a European bestiary, it’s a goat-like creature. Kirins, while they *can* be horses, are generally Dragon-Deer or Dragon-Oxen (and one illustration legit has it as a giraffe-like creature) So at some point Western Unicorns transitioned from Small Goats to Majestic Horses, with Marco Polo identifying Rhinos as “unicorns” and being incredibly disappointed and salty about it
I was hoping youd mention how people dye rhino horns to prevent poaching, its sad that its necessary... But also so fun to see these giant beasts roaming around with hot pink horns😅😂
Oh wow. I looked it up on Google images. I found pictures. There are also elephants with pink tusks. I wonder if I is possible to dye an elephant's whole skin like that. Then it can be like Dumbo and have pink elephants on parade.
@@c.d.dailey8013 Unfortunately, the dye is highly toxic, because people grind the horns to dust to use as witch medicine😅 so putting it in the skin isnt the best idea. Its perfectly safe for the animals if its just in the horns though🤷♂️🙈
absolutely loving these lisa frank illustrations, and really impressed with the writing team’s restraint from using any variation of “horny” when talking about how these critters use their horns in mating displays :’D
Just so everyone knows, unicorns have been portrayed as more caprine (goat-like) than equine, particularly in the middle ages and early modern period, though in more recent times the equine image of them has mostly won out.
Goat unicorns do exist lol. Either from an injury, disbudding error, or just a simple defect. A lot of goats end up with just one horn, sometimes right in the middle of their forehead.
This is perfect timing! Literally just watched Despicable Me 3 w/ my 2 year old for the first time where Agnes goes unicorn hunting and ends up with a 1 horned goat. The unicornfish actually looks like Gru!
Daughter: Can we have a unicorn at home? Mom: But we already have a unicorn at home. **mom's phone rings** **click** Father: Why is the UPS delivering a rhino to our house?
Rhino beetles are called "toritos" (Little bulls)in my home town, and can totally testify that they are slow fliers. They end up caught in your hair on summer nights when you walk under a lamposts. Great episode!
@@athirkell yes air and water are both fluids, however aerodynamics is specifically a term used for physics in air whilst hydrodynamics can mean either water or air but is especially a term concerning physics in a liquid fluid. So.. Woteva .. Your comment has no value, adds nothing to fhe discussion, and is therefore useless. thank you for it tho. 😊
Hooved mammals usually have horns, horses don't, so imagining a horse with a horn makes sense. What puzzles me id I have not heard of a mythical horned camel.
They're extinct now, but brontotheres could maybe be the most unicorn-like thing we know of to have been real, as they were distantly related to horses and sported a single horn.
Hank: HEY! WHO the dickens is using the sticker printer to print unicorn stickers?!? Olivia: *Ninjavanish* Caitlyn: Guess we'll have to do an episode on unicorn animals then!
Actually most modern automobiles have 2 horns. One is a low tone and one is a high tone. Together when sounded give off a tone that's better heard over other surrounding noises.
Wow, a whole province of nothing but idiots. Not a single one of them ever sat there thought, "Huh, maybe since the unicorn isn't real, we should pick something else." No? Seems the U.S. does not have the market cornered on stupidity after all.
@@danielduncan6806 d'awww, it's been the symbol for over 500 years and it's from heraldry not reality. Usually takes a country some time to refine it's capacity for abstract thought
why bother with eagles or bears when you can have a unicorn or idk DRAGONS really. let ‘em have their heralds. it’s all symbolic vs literal, anyway (otherwise the eagles would’ve attacked us all for nearly causing their extinctions)
I'm also a real unicorn! I don't have a horn but my surname is literally one-horn in german - Einhorn. Hank can you make Jhon not hate unicorns anymore?
I'm a 🦄... I hit my head and had a micro-fracture. The bone over grew as it healed and left me with a significant bump/horn on my forehead that looks similar to a body mod implant.
I was just commenting on how clever and cute the design of the drawings was to draw attention to the horn on such drastically different animals, and then the end of the video announced that we can buy them!! I am utterly delighted!!
KingsleyIII makes sense. In Japan it’s a past time to go bug catching as a kid in summer. It’s not unusual to know most species of cicada there. Satoshi Tajiri, the creator, was an avid fan of bugs.
Fun fact: It's possible our conceptions of a "unicorn" came from early descriptions of rhinos from Africa told to Europeans, because the descriptions were... Not great and they just went with decent analogues. There's also a similar theory about something called the "questing beast" and giraffes.
In the immortal words of Mr Weebl: "Narwhals narwhals, swimmin; in ocean, causin' a commotion because theta are so awesome! Like underwater unicorn..."
There are, however, a few unicorn like ungulates in prehistory. Such includes Tsaidamotherium, a muskox relative with one horn much much larger than the other on the top of their heads. It is very unicorn like, albeit perhaps a little more on the cute and fluffy side. Or if you want something more horse like from a taxonomic point, there is Elasmotherium, the elephant sized rhino with a huge single horn not on its nose, but on the top of the head.
Doesn’t fully explain it. Once you’ve stood up, your back still hurts, and it’s like the muscles have to realign or something. Sometimes this happens in minutes, and sometimes days.
what i’d like to know is why i fell 10 feet out of a tree when i was 9 and was completely fine but at 20 i have to turn my entire body to look at someone because i slept on my neck weird
Could you do a video about the unicorn cave in Germany? A lot of fossils have been found there, as the cave bear or the European cave lion. More than 50 species have been identified there. In former times they mismatch bones and actually thought they found an unicorn skeleton, that's how the cave got it's name.
@@DeRien8 well its there shyness and preference for the jungle and the way they look is why they're considered unicorns, they also forgot large antelope like the oryx.
A part 2 to this video would be nice. It could include those, as well as the swordfish, goblin shark, maybe sawfish (bit of a stretch?), and perhaps some kinds of tree hoppers!
@@andrewgan557 Who cares about the technicalities? There's still a bunch of animals with "horn-like" protrusions that could make for another episode. "Horn" is vaguely defined anyways.
Humans have cementum on there teeth also. It is the outer layer of the tooth below the gum line. The human tooth has a cementenaml junction (the point where the enamel turns into cemental layer. All the narwhal did is cover it’s entire tooth with cementum instead of having the top be enamel and the bottom be cementum like humans.
I have thought the Narwhales were fictional like unicorns until a couple of weeks ago when I saw them on a nature show. I was really shocked they were real! They call the the unicorns of the sea!
I always thought evolution was more 'any mutation that doesn't lower your chances of survival sticks around' rather than 'only mutations that improve survival chances stick around'.
Traditionally the unicorn isn't just a horse with a horn glued to it's head. They a slighter build, long serpentine tales, cloven hooves, and the males have goatees. They share as many features with goats as they do horses.
3:33 "They often engage in a ritual where they advance towards each other... ...then stare deeply into each other's eyes. This sounds-" Me: Romantic! Hank: *...Terrifying!* Me: Well, to each their own I guess.
The Horned Screamer just looks like a pigeon with a thing on its' head, which given how often them derpy things get themselves into bother when raiding bins and discarded food wrappings ain't that uncommon... :P
The thing I always wonder about is where the idea of a hoofed animal with a single, straight horn protruding out of the middle of it's head even came from. There's no horned, herbivorous, land animal that walks with it's legs directly under it, living or extinct, that I can think of that has a single horn growing out the middle of it's head. Every hoofed, horned mammal I can think of that humans might've seen in the flesh doesn't remotely resemble a unicorn, so where did the straight horned horse thing come from?
I've heard hypotheses about them being based on Arabian Oryx. When they stand sideways, their two horns can look like a single horn. Plus they're usually seen in the distance, surrounded by heat shimmer, which probably wouldn't help. They're not white, but neither are unicorns in a lot of the mythology.
Well there are as many pictures from thr middle ages of rabbits walking up right and hunting people with bows as there are pictures of unicorn so maybe just artistic freedom? Hahaha
Maybe just goats born with one horn lol. Also old unicorns in art had lion-like tails, fur on their feet (well but some breeds of horses have that.) and sometimes even 'beards' like a goat. I think it was just an idea for a creature, like dragons or pegasus, etc.
The videos on this channel no longer feel like they are about science, they feel like they're made solely to try and get views. It's no longer a science show, it's like reading the fun facts from a child's paper placemat at Applebee's
"Horned Screamer"
"Huh. Must be a pretty aggressive animal."
"pigeon with wire on head"
"Oh."
They're big though, like a large turkey.
And bone Spurs in its wings! Haha honestly it does sound pretty aggressive 😂
You could just make a GMO to have a unicorn.
Horse + Narwhal= Unicorn
@@SylkaChan I think you will end up with a Horse with a single long tooth since its tooth dna that got elongated and not a horn or antlers on narwhal, and a horse dont have head structure for having a horn/antler, pretty hard GMO to do that
@@Biohacker777
>"Horse with a single long tooth"
Alright science, you have your marching orders - time to make the derpy hoers
SciShow: " ...to help with it's aerodynamics..."
Me ,a hydrodynamic student : ***throws book over shoulder*** "Son of a -!!"
It tingled me too.
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You beat me to it!
I don't get it
@@PabloEmanuel96 They said the fish is aerodynamic, but technically that refers to movement in the air, while movement in water is called hydrodynamics.
Animal: Has horn
Scientist: Rhinoceros Animal
Yup, that's why they claim that unicorns don't exist, they are rhinoceros horses.
@@iwontliveinfear rhinoceros aren't unicorns,at least the ones shown in the video,they literally have another smaller horn between their eyes
aaaaaaminals
9:05 they only have a fish called unicorn fish because rhino fish already exist (Labeobarbus Rhinoceros)
@@butterskywalker8785 actually, the very first accounts of unicorns look awfully a lot like rhinos
There's also the Siberian unicorn, a giant ice-age rhino that's now extinct.
Also, nice Lisa Frank aesthetic for the art for this episode :P
IKR
It's not real .
Though it's interesting that the ancient depictions of unicorns have a thin spiral horn. Pretty much exactly like what Narwals have. Also Narwal tusks would have been available to Europeans as there was whaling in the artic ocean at the time, mainly by Scandinavians though also by Nordic Celts in modern day Ireland and Scotland.
Hank: They engage in a ritual where they stare into each other’s eyes which sounds-
Me: Romantic!
Hank: -Terrifying!
Me: Oh poo.
Introvert vs extrovert
Love the Lisa frank like stickers lmao
Historical depictions of unicorns look a lot less like horses with horns than art does today. Cloven hooves, a lion like tail, a beard... 2/3 things are seen in goats, which have sometimes had their two horns grow together in a weird spiral due to genetic oddities iirc
I knew about the unicorn's goat-like traits but never heard of goats with horns spiraled together. 😮
Thank you! Someone else said it! I even mentioned on another video that unicorns
were probably goats.
Depends on where you pull the myth from 🙃... Sounds like you're describing a Kirin which is the Japanese version of a unicorn 🥴
Or a mutant deer, which when it has a deformed single horn, tends not to be branched. Also deer are sometimes white. So if the two rare mutations occur together, you have a very rare, white, small horse sized, wild and shy horned animal that would be very like the early depicted unicorns.
@Ellé Victor
If you look in a European bestiary, it’s a goat-like creature. Kirins, while they *can* be horses, are generally Dragon-Deer or Dragon-Oxen (and one illustration legit has it as a giraffe-like creature)
So at some point Western Unicorns transitioned from Small Goats to Majestic Horses, with Marco Polo identifying Rhinos as “unicorns” and being incredibly disappointed and salty about it
Gonna have the Narwhals song stuck in my head now........ thanks SciShow
Wha... what have you done?!?!
Which one?
It's not they're fault they're pretty big and pretty white, and would beat a polar bear in a fight.
@@IceMetalPunk They're the jedi of the sea with those uses.
NARWHALS NARWHALS SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN
Also the first thing that came to mind as soon as hank mentioned narwhals
"Narwhals, narwhals
Swimming in the ocean
Causing a commotion
'cause they are so awesome."
Yaaaas! HAHA you beat me to it
Nooo!!! I cant get rid of it now I wanted to go to sleep!!
Damn it i was planning on this too as soon as i saw the thumbnail haha.
You were 52 minutes faster than me. Well done!
A simpler time
I was hoping youd mention how people dye rhino horns to prevent poaching, its sad that its necessary... But also so fun to see these giant beasts roaming around with hot pink horns😅😂
Oh wow. I looked it up on Google images. I found pictures. There are also elephants with pink tusks. I wonder if I is possible to dye an elephant's whole skin like that. Then it can be like Dumbo and have pink elephants on parade.
@@c.d.dailey8013 Unfortunately, the dye is highly toxic, because people grind the horns to dust to use as witch medicine😅 so putting it in the skin isnt the best idea. Its perfectly safe for the animals if its just in the horns though🤷♂️🙈
Scichow did do a video on that though , check it out on their channel.
I request tricolor horns please
Love it.
absolutely loving these lisa frank illustrations, and really impressed with the writing team’s restraint from using any variation of “horny” when talking about how these critters use their horns in mating displays :’D
What about that one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater?
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@Dagwood Dogwood he wear short shorts while I wear t-shirts
LMAO wtf what kinda drugs are you in????
mexicano soy It’s a song
I was thinking the same thing.
Narwhal: You think you're metal? I gave myself a lip piercing with my own fang! Now, don't try to say you aren't salty, you are, my horn can tell!
The narwhals teeth is amazing, my teeth is sensitive if drink really cold water.
🎶Narwhals, Narwhals
Swimming in the ocean
Causing a commotion
Coz they are so awesome🎶
Just so everyone knows, unicorns have been portrayed as more caprine (goat-like) than equine, particularly in the middle ages and early modern period, though in more recent times the equine image of them has mostly won out.
They were also much more aggressive traditionally. The beautiful fragile creature is a recent development
Goat unicorns do exist lol. Either from an injury, disbudding error, or just a simple defect. A lot of goats end up with just one horn, sometimes right in the middle of their forehead.
This is perfect timing! Literally just watched Despicable Me 3 w/ my 2 year old for the first time where Agnes goes unicorn hunting and ends up with a 1 horned goat. The unicornfish actually looks like Gru!
Omg, I just face-palmed myself! I thought that fish looked so familiar, but i couldnt figure it out!!! Hahaha. Thats too funny!!
Daughter: Can we have a unicorn at home?
Mom: But we already have a unicorn at home.
**mom's phone rings**
**click**
Father: Why is the UPS delivering a rhino to our house?
Rhino beetles are called "toritos" (Little bulls)in my home town, and can totally testify that they are slow fliers. They end up caught in your hair on summer nights when you walk under a lamposts. Great episode!
Animals: *Ima grow me a horn.*
Biologists: *Sexual selection!*
Internet: *HornHub!*
...I swear it’s /always/ “sexual selection” with biologists. Not...Genes Are Weird. If it doesn’t cause issues then it sticks around
Unicorn (n). “a single piece of corn”
@9:36 Not aerodynamic on a fish that doesnt fly...hydrodynamic i believe is the correct term, nerds.
Yeah, I was just about to point that out too
who says the fish doesn't fly
@@athirkell yes air and water are both fluids, however aerodynamics is specifically a term used for physics in air whilst hydrodynamics can mean either water or air but is especially a term concerning physics in a liquid fluid. So.. Woteva .. Your comment has no value, adds nothing to fhe discussion, and is therefore useless. thank you for it tho. 😊
@@butterskywalker8785 nature.
@@nickbrockelman we've got simming birds and flying fish,so there's no surprise if we discovered that they fly now
I would like to posit that rhinoceroses, being perissodactyls, are in fact horse-like animals that have found a use for horns.
That was fascinating. However, you forgot my favourite -- the one-horned, one-eyed, flying purple people-eater.
I’m shocked that you didnt mention the oryx since its thought to have been one of the origins of the unicorn myth.
Hooved mammals usually have horns, horses don't, so imagining a horse with a horn makes sense. What puzzles me id I have not heard of a mythical horned camel.
Do you REALLY want a creature with the attitude of a camel given a massive pointy horn coming out the top of its head?
Giraffes got horns; ain't that enough?
They're extinct now, but brontotheres could maybe be the most unicorn-like thing we know of to have been real, as they were distantly related to horses and sported a single horn.
A mythical horned camel?
Must be the creature that causes mirages in the dessert.
(in fantasy)
Hank: HEY! WHO the dickens is using the sticker printer to print unicorn stickers?!?
Olivia: *Ninjavanish*
Caitlyn: Guess we'll have to do an episode on unicorn animals then!
Okay that’s a crazy bird bill!
I’m particularly impressed by t he horned baboon spider. The sucking stomach is pretty rad
"A bunch of stickers of awesome weird unicorn-like things that actually exist" - 1 imposter remains.
The part about Narwhals made me think - do other mammals loose their first set of teeth, like we do?
Also, those stickers are ADORABLE!
What about the automobile? It's a unicorn, right? It has one horn...
Badumtss
😐
Oh groan lol
Actually most modern automobiles have 2 horns. One is a low tone and one is a high tone. Together when sounded give off a tone that's better heard over other surrounding noises.
It's a highway unicorn
The national animal of SCOTLAND is the UNICORN!!
You'd think it would be The Loch Ness Monster, but it's the Unicorn!!
I thought it was the bagpipe. And the national song is "the wee laddie." And the national flower is the kilt.
Wow, a whole province of nothing but idiots. Not a single one of them ever sat there thought, "Huh, maybe since the unicorn isn't real, we should pick something else." No? Seems the U.S. does not have the market cornered on stupidity after all.
Scotts should see our majestic Royal Bengal Tiger ..
@@danielduncan6806 d'awww, it's been the symbol for over 500 years and it's from heraldry not reality. Usually takes a country some time to refine it's capacity for abstract thought
why bother with eagles or bears when you can have a unicorn or idk DRAGONS
really. let ‘em have their heralds. it’s all symbolic vs literal, anyway (otherwise the eagles would’ve attacked us all for nearly causing their extinctions)
I'm also a real unicorn! I don't have a horn but my surname is literally one-horn in german - Einhorn. Hank can you make Jhon not hate unicorns anymore?
Finkel?
@@edwardskerl5774 wow, no. But nice guess?
@@ליאיינהורן: Pretty sure @Edward Skerl is making an Ace Ventura reference.
I'm a 🦄... I hit my head and had a micro-fracture. The bone over grew as it healed and left me with a significant bump/horn on my forehead that looks similar to a body mod implant.
Cool
I was just commenting on how clever and cute the design of the drawings was to draw attention to the horn on such drastically different animals, and then the end of the video announced that we can buy them!! I am utterly delighted!!
Maybe the narwhals selected for teeth because they have the best sense of humor in the animal kingdom.
9:46 uuhhhh hydrodynamic?
"You can't crush someone's dreams like that."
-Lady I call Wife
I’m bad about that and my spouse many years ago dubbed me the “unicorn killer”. 🤣
There should be a disclosure on the thumbnail.
What about the goblin shark
Probably thinking about the tip of head. Simple mistake, have a good day. :D
Clearly goblin, not unicorn!
Well they are goblin, like in their name. Dhoy 😂😂
@@ronaldyang2295 if a narwal's tooth and a stomach-horned spider counts, a head tip should totally count too
Jamie F I mean, it’s made out of neuro-receptors and cartilage. I don’t think I have a horn on my face.
The "Asian rhinoceros beetle" looks like a Heracross.
KingsleyIII makes sense. In Japan it’s a past time to go bug catching as a kid in summer. It’s not unusual to know most species of cicada there. Satoshi Tajiri, the creator, was an avid fan of bugs.
Satoshi Taijiri, the guy behind Pokémon, was in to catching bugs and beetle wrestling as a kid. That was part of why he started work on Pokémon.
Josh Adams I thought beetle wrestling was some bizarre typo until I searched it. lol we live in a weird world.
Pretty sure heracross is a giant version yeah, one of my fav pokemon
The narwal sometimes grows two tusks/horns. Usually, the second one is smaller than the first, but still pretty big.
I think we need to know more about this Horned Screamer. I mean seriously, it has a horn AND wing claws?! This is a bizarre beast!
Fun fact: It's possible our conceptions of a "unicorn" came from early descriptions of rhinos from Africa told to Europeans, because the descriptions were... Not great and they just went with decent analogues.
There's also a similar theory about something called the "questing beast" and giraffes.
When i clicked on this video, i was fully expecting the African Unicorn (Or the Okapi, if you will) to be on this list.
In the immortal words of Mr Weebl:
"Narwhals narwhals, swimmin; in ocean, causin' a commotion because theta are so awesome!
Like underwater unicorn..."
I'm fear that UA-cam will recommend me bunch of unicorn videos now...
That’s why I’m picky with my likes. The algorithm sucks bad enough as it is.
Just hope they recomend a video about the N korean leader that interred the world riding a unicorn!
I find it comforting that Hank still pronounces "tubes" as "toobs".
Love this episode!! Just wondering where my goblin shark is haha, thank you for your wonderful video Hank n crew
With as nearsighted as they are, the rhinos might have to get that close to see who has the bigger horn ;-/
There are, however, a few unicorn like ungulates in prehistory. Such includes Tsaidamotherium, a muskox relative with one horn much much larger than the other on the top of their heads. It is very unicorn like, albeit perhaps a little more on the cute and fluffy side. Or if you want something more horse like from a taxonomic point, there is Elasmotherium, the elephant sized rhino with a huge single horn not on its nose, but on the top of the head.
Here’s an idea for a show... why does your back get stiff so easily as you get older?
Your muscles get weaker with age
Doesn’t fully explain it. Once you’ve stood up, your back still hurts, and it’s like the muscles have to realign or something. Sometimes this happens in minutes, and sometimes days.
I could also think of joint issues, but other joints don’t seem to have the same issues as the lower back
Maybe the cartilage wears down
what i’d like to know is why i fell 10 feet out of a tree when i was 9 and was completely fine but at 20 i have to turn my entire body to look at someone because i slept on my neck weird
10:47 “everything is physically real SOMEwhere in the infinite universe”
me: then why don’t we ever see distant TeknoMages teleporting *here,* to us?
8:15 never before has something Hank Green said disturbed me so much
Could you do a video about the unicorn cave in Germany? A lot of fossils have been found there, as the cave bear or the European cave lion. More than 50 species have been identified there. In former times they mismatch bones and actually thought they found an unicorn skeleton, that's how the cave got it's name.
There's the okapi the African Unicorn and also occasionally the 1 horned goat or cattle
I thought okapi had 2 ossicones
@@DeRien8 well its there shyness and preference for the jungle and the way they look is why they're considered unicorns, they also forgot large antelope like the oryx.
"They say narwhals are the unicorns of the sea but that seems the wrong way round"
I'm surprised you didn't include the rhinoceros viper or the Rhinoceros iguana. But have horns and would have made adorable stickers. I am disappoint
They don't have real horns
A part 2 to this video would be nice. It could include those, as well as the swordfish, goblin shark, maybe sawfish (bit of a stretch?), and perhaps some kinds of tree hoppers!
@@bugjams those have long noses not horns and tge tree hopper's case it on the back
@@andrewgan557
Who cares about the technicalities? There's still a bunch of animals with "horn-like" protrusions that could make for another episode. "Horn" is vaguely defined anyways.
Pink, fluffy unicorns! Dancing on rainbows!
Fluffle Puff's version of that is the best
Those rhino showdowns seem to work similarly to human duels. "Most disputes die and no one...charges"
Ooh, unicorn stickers! Thanks, SciShow! 😍
Narwhals narwhals, swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion because they’re so awesome
10:25 "A horse doesn't have a reason to have a horn"
Deer, antelope, moose, elk, sheep, goats, cows, etc: Understandable, have a nice day.
The rhinos stopping before hitting each other is just like our pet goats used to do 😂
Hank is so proud of those stickers
Im sad that the spider isn’t actually pink like the image suggested.
Google pamphobeteus machalla males or any other males from that genus, there are pink ones, blue ones, you will enjoy it
Great video like always. Keep up the good work!
Humans have cementum on there teeth also. It is the outer layer of the tooth below the gum line. The human tooth has a cementenaml junction (the point where the enamel turns into cemental layer. All the narwhal did is cover it’s entire tooth with cementum instead of having the top be enamel and the bottom be cementum like humans.
Thanks, for saying, essentially that Unicorns could exist somewhere. They appreciate that.
In mythology, the magical power of a unicorn lies in its horn...so in fiction, there is a reason why a unicorn has a horn.
Could you also make all the horned creatures into enameled pins? Thanks in advance!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you... I needed this.
i could have lived my whole life without knowing about that spider. thank you for ruining my peaceful nights :)
Gotta love Hank Green. He is todays Bill Nye.
Rhinos are closely related to horses, and a common ancestor is probably where the unicorn myth originated.
I have thought the Narwhales were fictional like unicorns until a couple of weeks ago when I saw them on a nature show. I was really shocked they were real! They call the the unicorns of the sea!
Aww the stickers melted me
The rhinoceri "competing" by putting their horns together on the ground reminded me of the war rhinos in Wakanda
Me: "oh dang those beetles are friggin nasty"
Hank: "they fly"
Me: "say sike right now"
"This sounds.... terrifying..." I lol'd.
That moment when you're torn between watching the video and mining the rich vein of comedy in the comments.
I always thought evolution was more 'any mutation that doesn't lower your chances of survival sticks around' rather than 'only mutations that improve survival chances stick around'.
7:35 you heard him boys, best way to get a girl is to tape a pool noodle to your head and go thrash it at your crush.
Isn’t the narwhal horn a tooth?
Oh, yes it is!
Evolution to various classes of animal: you can have a unicorn! You can have a unicorn! You can have a unicorn!
I think the sawfish needs at least an honorable mention. Its not a horse with a horn but it's an f'ing shark with a saw!!
Unicorn: Use horns to grant maidens' wishes
One-horned animals: Use horns to find water, test salinity, and distribute body temperature
If the horn helps Narwhals evaluate water salinity, maybe it helps them avoid brinicles?
Lets not kink shame Hanks desire for a unicorn to be real.
Traditionally the unicorn isn't just a horse with a horn glued to it's head. They a slighter build, long serpentine tales, cloven hooves, and the males have goatees. They share as many features with goats as they do horses.
3:33 "They often engage in a ritual where they advance towards each other... ...then stare deeply into each other's eyes. This sounds-"
Me: Romantic!
Hank: *...Terrifying!*
Me: Well, to each their own I guess.
Scientist 1:hey do you know what thos horn thingy is for?
Scientist 2: Hmmm, not really sure. Maybe mating?
Scientist 1: Yeah, why not
9:18 the unicorn you came for
The unicorn's horn purifies water, it's not useless.
No honorable mention of the Siberian Unicorn? The now extinct literal 15 foot long horse with a horn? Cmonnnnnn.
Do weevils have horns ? Also, yay to rhinoceros hornbills ! Finally something quite famous from Malaysia ( my country ) on scishow.
So nobody at SciShow has seen Cabin in the Woods? They definitely explain what a unicorn horn is for at the end of that movie.
9:09 I’ve been looking at it for like five minutes now and i can’t stop laughing 😭😂
The Horned Screamer just looks like a pigeon with a thing on its' head, which given how often them derpy things get themselves into bother when raiding bins and discarded food wrappings ain't that uncommon... :P
My favorite unicorn fish is the, *deep breath* HUMAHUMANUKUNUKUAPUA'A!
The thing I always wonder about is where the idea of a hoofed animal with a single, straight horn protruding out of the middle of it's head even came from. There's no horned, herbivorous, land animal that walks with it's legs directly under it, living or extinct, that I can think of that has a single horn growing out the middle of it's head. Every hoofed, horned mammal I can think of that humans might've seen in the flesh doesn't remotely resemble a unicorn, so where did the straight horned horse thing come from?
Maybe you could ask the royal family where they got one of the mascots for their shield from?
I've heard hypotheses about them being based on Arabian Oryx. When they stand sideways, their two horns can look like a single horn. Plus they're usually seen in the distance, surrounded by heat shimmer, which probably wouldn't help. They're not white, but neither are unicorns in a lot of the mythology.
Well there are as many pictures from thr middle ages of rabbits walking up right and hunting people with bows as there are pictures of unicorn so maybe just artistic freedom? Hahaha
Maybe just goats born with one horn lol. Also old unicorns in art had lion-like tails, fur on their feet (well but some breeds of horses have that.) and sometimes even 'beards' like a goat. I think it was just an idea for a creature, like dragons or pegasus, etc.
The videos on this channel no longer feel like they are about science, they feel like they're made solely to try and get views. It's no longer a science show, it's like reading the fun facts from a child's paper placemat at Applebee's