I grew up going to the La Brea tar pits. Went to the museum, saw the fossils, did the little demonstration where you try to lift a weight out of various tar containers with a handle. I was always told nothing could survive in it. Now, like 15 years later, you're telling me there are bugs that have WHOLE LIFECYCLES in the pits?? Science is amazing. Life really does find a way.
@@Brick001 evolution is a process. It has no will, no goals, no desires, and no plan. It designs nothing, it just describes how the world reacts with itself in accordance with the universal laws. Evolution is not a God kiIIer, it is evidence to the contrary. “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you” - Werner Heisenberg
I used to live a few blocks from @LaBreaTarPitsAndMuseum , and let me tell you, on a hot summer morning you could smell the tar in the air! Not a bad fragrance, actually. (Craig)
This has to be one of my favorite episodes. The stunning visual contrast between the translucent larvae and the jet black asphalt combined with the peculiar biology is just awesome. Hats off to the film crew here, and to whoever decided to dedicate an episode to these incredible creatures.
Yes. You can break it down further and take out the road altogether, theyre just eating dead stuff like normal maggots. Since we're pointing out really obvious things.
It's kind of easy to see how such adaptations could arise. Any time an animal dies in the pit, maggots would inevitably consume the carcass. The carcass would sink, and most of the millions of maggots would die under the tar. Eventually, a few would manage to survive, and whatever mutated genes made that possible would be passed on. It's a strong selective pressure to survive certain conditions, and with the sheer number of "chances" each brood has to gamble on having even one surviving to escape a sinking carcass, odds are in favor of a new trait arsing in the population.
Fascinating! Never would I have though there would be an animal specifically adapted to life in asphalt pits! What a delight to learn about such a well designed creature!
So this is why there are always so many flies at the tar pits! Next time, I'll have to look for the larvae gliding across the top. Amazing how easily they get around and talk about a specialized organism! Visiting the tar pits is always super interesting. The main pits are fenced off for obvious reasons but you can find small trickles of tar that seep up from the ground around the area and play with it if you're so inclined. The museum itself has an interactive exhibit where you can feel how much force it takes to pull out of the tar and how exhausting it would be. Also, if you've only ever heard of dire wolves from game of thrones, you might be surprised to find out that they were a bit smaller than today's wolves, but they did have a stronger jaw. The museum has an entire wall of their skulls.
1:14 saying that it's not tar and that it's actually natural asphalt doesn't mean anything if you don't say what 'natural asphalt' is or anything about why it isn't actually tar. Just leaves more questions.
Amazing how nature can evolve to adapt to such a particular environment and thrive. It reminds me, I think another one of your videos, there's like a lake so salty that nothing lives in it except a certain species of fly? I hope I'm not just making this up XD
You've fired up my imagination, here's a D&D '5 room dungeon' idea: 1. Shore (start) = hut w dock + odd ferryman 2. Ferry = punt style, requires teamwork + 1 skilled navigator 3. Open 'water' = unsinkable giant maggots, cling-able skeleton / corpse rafts 4. Island shore = giant flies, pupae, and scattered paleolithic treasure 5. Island cave = set foot inside, and giant dire wolf (etc) skellies animate and come ashore! contains haunted sentient cave paintings, guarding plot MacGuffin. maybe a gooey pollution spirit with a bicycle stuck in its side?
Oh, The La Brea tar pit I remember watching that on dirty jobs It’s very, very, very gloopy It was like frozen molasses and maple syrup and honey. Mix together and turn jet black. That’s kind of what it’s like except with lots of lots of bones
Wow! Truely remarkable footage. Looking through the larva's transparent skin, at its mouthparts working, is the most alien thing I have ever seen. 2:50
Hey guys, this is Callysta. I'm back because i was being inactive everyday. So yeah, in the credits, there is acoela. You can watch the episode if you missed it I hope you like it. Thanks!
There are also those Antarctica bugs that are the biggest fully terrestrial animals on the continent, idk if you made video on those but those are really interesting on how those insects could even live in Antarctica
When I visited last year I was very disappointed there were no actual TAR PITS! Just that dirty pond. Do the flys even have a natural habitat any more?
my understanding was that asphalt is the binding agent plus the agregate, and bitumen is the binding agent, which would be the term for the petroleum seen here. like concrete vs cement. is the terminology different for biology/paleontology?
Language is messy. Bitumen is also called asphalt. The stuff we use on roads is "asphalt concrete", but it's usually shortened to just "asphalt". So you end up with "asphalt" consisting of gravel plus asphalt. This isn't specific to biology or anything, it's the normal dictionary definition.
I grew up going to the La Brea tar pits. Went to the museum, saw the fossils, did the little demonstration where you try to lift a weight out of various tar containers with a handle. I was always told nothing could survive in it. Now, like 15 years later, you're telling me there are bugs that have WHOLE LIFECYCLES in the pits?? Science is amazing. Life really does find a way.
GOD is amazing. He created a creature that lives it's entire life in tar where nothing else can.
@@SoHighITouchTheSky22if by god you mean evolution than yes ☝️
@@Brick001 evolution is a process. It has no will, no goals, no desires, and no plan. It designs nothing, it just describes how the world reacts with itself in accordance with the universal laws. Evolution is not a God kiIIer, it is evidence to the contrary. “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you” - Werner Heisenberg
@@SoHighITouchTheSky22Nah.
@brick
Evolution did not create life. Evolution has no will to create anything.
Look.. finding an affordable place in LA means making a few concessions, y'know?
I used to live a few blocks from @LaBreaTarPitsAndMuseum , and let me tell you, on a hot summer morning you could smell the tar in the air! Not a bad fragrance, actually. (Craig)
@@KQEDDeepLook Well, you were better off than the poor saps in this video!
Hilarious conversation here lol
Cleaner too.
Looks like my comment about butt breathing tubes didn't Garner laugh when they were testing this
This has to be one of my favorite episodes. The stunning visual contrast between the translucent larvae and the jet black asphalt combined with the peculiar biology is just awesome. Hats off to the film crew here, and to whoever decided to dedicate an episode to these incredible creatures.
and the mercurial soundtrack as usual! the editing is so insanely top notch for these 5-min videos.
So basically if the tar is almost a road then the maggots are really just eating roadkill like normal ones
Yes. You can break it down further and take out the road altogether, theyre just eating dead stuff like normal maggots. Since we're pointing out really obvious things.
For thousands of years
They've been eating roadkill before roadkill was a thing.
It's kind of easy to see how such adaptations could arise. Any time an animal dies in the pit, maggots would inevitably consume the carcass. The carcass would sink, and most of the millions of maggots would die under the tar. Eventually, a few would manage to survive, and whatever mutated genes made that possible would be passed on. It's a strong selective pressure to survive certain conditions, and with the sheer number of "chances" each brood has to gamble on having even one surviving to escape a sinking carcass, odds are in favor of a new trait arsing in the population.
Come one buddy. Don't believe everything you're told. Evolution theory is candy for the secular mind. It doesn't work in real life.
This answers the question I've had since childhood about why we get fossil bones from the pits instead of anaerobic mummies.
The forbidden Coke Gummy Worm!
Aha! I knew it looked a bit delicious for some reason.
Act mature and stop picking the low hanging fruit because that was as predictable as heck
I’m just stating not angry or anything
@@MitchTaylor-x8c you must be so cool at parties
@@MitchTaylor-x8c god you're miserable
@user-vx6gs1ci1h did you roll out of the wrong side of the bed??? lighten up!
That fly can get out of a sticky situation.
Slow clap
holy corny batman!
Heey! Is Deep Look looking to hire!?
I will swim through it for 3mil for science
Slow
I've always found the Petroleum Fly fascinating- so glad to see a video on this weirdo.
Glad you enjoyed it!
well, get into entomology and be the scientist to tell us why those flies can walk on oil!
This just proves for every pot there is a lid somewhere. Who would’ve thought something, anything, could live inside the pits?!
"They can even be eaten by its own larvae"
Sounds like a recurring trope.
Insects, what can we say.
@@KQEDDeepLook human children do that more slowly and adorably 😅
😂😂@@TragoudistrosMPH
I love life's ability to rurn anything into an ecosystem
Woo! Something to watch before work. Thank you, Deep Look!
Enjoy!
Fascinating! Never would I have though there would be an animal specifically adapted to life in asphalt pits! What a delight to learn about such a well designed creature!
I’m 64 and I’ve been to LA many times, last year I finally stopped at this place and I loved it. Fascinating place.
Have you been to The Museum of Jurassic Technology?
@@eyescreamcake no I haven’t, is that also in LA?
@@a.m.v.6938 Yes! Visit it. Don't read about it first. 😉
When I first saw these guys, I just assumed they somehow fed on the ancient bones in the tar! Another amazing vid as always DeepLook team!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So this is why there are always so many flies at the tar pits! Next time, I'll have to look for the larvae gliding across the top. Amazing how easily they get around and talk about a specialized organism!
Visiting the tar pits is always super interesting. The main pits are fenced off for obvious reasons but you can find small trickles of tar that seep up from the ground around the area and play with it if you're so inclined. The museum itself has an interactive exhibit where you can feel how much force it takes to pull out of the tar and how exhausting it would be. Also, if you've only ever heard of dire wolves from game of thrones, you might be surprised to find out that they were a bit smaller than today's wolves, but they did have a stronger jaw. The museum has an entire wall of their skulls.
Insect in a tar pit: " - Well, just great, this day can't get any worse" ( Wild fly larvae appears behind them)
insect: "- Why Im hearing boss music?"
Hide your roads, the asphalt flies are coming
hehhehe
chill, they ain't literally eating the asphalt... if they do it's accidental and they'll poop it back out xD
*"This maggot is it's baby!"*
*ME:* Awwwwwweeeeeeewwwwww!
👶😍💀
That's some sticky situation..
😡
Life is amazing! It always seems to find a way into every niche of this wonderful planet we live on💕🌍🌎🌏🧬💕
absolutely perfect alien worm design right here on earth
This was the coolest video I have seen on this channel. Very informative of something I never knew.
Wow, thanks!
That's so cool! I had no idea life could survive in tar. It really is true... Life finds a way!
There's so many fascinating critters in the world!!
Indeed!
4:11 Aw, I think I'll name them Al And Peg...
😂😂😂😂
Next thing you know flies can walk on lava
They surely are light enough.
Just have to find a solution for the heat.
There is a cricket drawn to freshly cooling lava! In Hawaii!
@@TragoudistrosMPHwhat is it called?
@@anonomooose Kīlauea lava cricket !
The Wikipedia page mentioned they especially like cheese 😅
Funny species
1:14 saying that it's not tar and that it's actually natural asphalt doesn't mean anything if you don't say what 'natural asphalt' is or anything about why it isn't actually tar. Just leaves more questions.
sounds like someone doesn't know how to Google natural asphalt
Amazing how nature can evolve to adapt to such a particular environment and thrive. It reminds me, I think another one of your videos, there's like a lake so salty that nothing lives in it except a certain species of fly? I hope I'm not just making this up XD
Both the babies and the adults are cute in different ways. Love these little guys, never knew they existed.
Crazy how a creature was able to evolve for such a small niche!
Every day I learn about a new animal. Thank you for the content !
i've never seen something this close!
My new favorite creature, thank you deep look ❤
Nature never sees to amaze me and animals always finds a way through evolution. ❤
You've fired up my imagination, here's a D&D '5 room dungeon' idea:
1. Shore (start) = hut w dock + odd ferryman
2. Ferry = punt style, requires teamwork + 1 skilled navigator
3. Open 'water' = unsinkable giant maggots, cling-able skeleton / corpse rafts
4. Island shore = giant flies, pupae, and scattered paleolithic treasure
5. Island cave = set foot inside, and giant dire wolf (etc) skellies animate and come ashore! contains haunted sentient cave paintings, guarding plot MacGuffin. maybe a gooey pollution spirit with a bicycle stuck in its side?
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Ok, this might be the best Deep Look video yet! I loved this one! They keep getting better and better ❤
Oh, The La Brea tar pit I remember watching that on dirty jobs It’s very, very, very gloopy It was like frozen molasses and maple syrup and honey. Mix together and turn jet black. That’s kind of what it’s like except with lots of lots of bones
The maggots squirming their way through the dark, shimmering asphalt is so strangely beautiful.✨🕳✨
Imagine having stomach that can eat asphalt
Always the coolest creatures!
Thanks!
This is actually so cute
Even flies know the beauty of black with amber and gold. 😎
Indeed, a very handsome fly.
Wow! Truely remarkable footage. Looking through the larva's transparent skin, at its mouthparts working, is the most alien thing I have ever seen. 2:50
Coolest video series ever. I love it! Gross, beautiful, fascinating, and secretive. Thank you for educating us!
lovely creatures
Flies can live off of anything, I swear to God.
This was a learning experience. Thank you for your post. 👍🇨🇦
This is why I subscribed to DeepLook. I had no idea these things existed.
Thanks, we love making these videos for you.
This channel is amazing 😊
I didn't know these were a thing. So cool!
Life, uh, finds a way
구더기 타르구덩이에서 살다니 생명력이 경이롭네
The soundtracks are so good!
Please make a video on chinchillas I love chinchillas so much and I want to see you guys give them the love they deserve
moisturised, unbothered, in it's own asphalt puddle lane 💅
Hey guys, this is Callysta. I'm back because i was being inactive everyday. So yeah, in the credits, there is acoela. You can watch the episode if you missed it
I hope you like it. Thanks!
Love you videos of nature I used to watch this when I was young :)
Your doing amazing 👍
Awesome! Thank you!
Your welcome :)
I actually did a podcast episode on these a while ago. Would have been nice to have this video as a reference!
Khudos to the team...thank you so much...lovs from Manipur, India
do they put the eggs on the tar or the water?
Another great video. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Fantastic look
There are also those Antarctica bugs that are the biggest fully terrestrial animals on the continent, idk if you made video on those but those are really interesting on how those insects could even live in Antarctica
You learn something new every day
great video like always. Could you do freshwater sponge lifecycle in microscopic view? Very little information of them.
Spectacular evolution!😮
Incredible.
Thank you for the tee shirt and letter!
-Sofya
My favorite voice on UA-cam
I always enjoy the music used in these videos
Nature is amazing.
The phone call was so funny😊😂😂😂😂 when he yelled yes sergeant😂😂😂😂
When I visited last year I was very disappointed there were no actual TAR PITS! Just that dirty pond. Do the flys even have a natural habitat any more?
You’ve inadvertently figured out why so many animals got stuck there. It just looks like a dirty pond. An animal wading in would suspect nothing.
Next time I go to LACMA and the Tar Pits, I'm gonna look out for these friendly flies :D
You're my fav channel fr
I love insects, thank you for this video
Can you imagine knowing that if any part of your body, other than your feet, touches the ground little babies might eat you.
I have always wondered why the skeletons were so clean & not asphalt mummies. Now I know why!
Thank you for sharing very well
- That is *so gross,* yet so interesting at the SAME time ! How !?! 🤔
Absolutely fascinating
Ooooh i just got an idea of implementing these creatures in my game as enemies..... Supersized.
Dipterans are amazing. So many niches occupied by flies of all sorts.
Amazing video!
Footage So coollll!
Petroleum flies. Sounds like a low level monsters in RPG game where they'll explode if you burn them.
this tar reminds me of the tar found on Petrichor V...
Love your videos! ❤
Simply amazing 😮
Thank you! Cheers!
As a software engineer I can relate.
Tell us more!
@@KQEDDeepLook "Out of the Tar Pit" by Ben Moseley and Peter Marks
Aha!
That’s so sad that all these cute little critters (like wolves, raccoons, saber tooth tigers, etc) get stuck in THAT 🥺😢😭 poor babies…
my understanding was that asphalt is the binding agent plus the agregate, and bitumen is the binding agent, which would be the term for the petroleum seen here. like concrete vs cement. is the terminology different for biology/paleontology?
Language is messy. Bitumen is also called asphalt. The stuff we use on roads is "asphalt concrete", but it's usually shortened to just "asphalt". So you end up with "asphalt" consisting of gravel plus asphalt. This isn't specific to biology or anything, it's the normal dictionary definition.
Petroleum flies can get stuck on oil when the larvae don't.
I hate it when evolved Pokemon have fewer move options than the previous stage.
another type of fly to add to my swatting list
Wow, much respect
Ok. Im finally motivated to take nephews to the tar pits! 😅😆
Im learning something new everyday
I kinda want to know what organisms or plants or animals that live in the water in the geysers at Yellowstone National Park