We Can't Find the Most Important Fossils Ever

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow  Місяць тому +41

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    • @thorium222
      @thorium222 Місяць тому +3

      After watching the video, the title should be "we CAN find the most important fossils ever".

    • @AutodidacticPhd
      @AutodidacticPhd Місяць тому +1

      please drop the midreal ads. I watch less and less of your videos just to avoid them.

  • @IHatSarks
    @IHatSarks Місяць тому +188

    Usually I get a little weirded out when people find dead animals in Willie's Hole, but I am so happy that they found these history-changing relics

  • @oriontigley5089
    @oriontigley5089 Місяць тому +723

    10:23 "finding Willy's hole right in the middle of Rhomer's Gap"
    ...you guys knew what you were doing

    • @markoowa
      @markoowa Місяць тому +10

      thank you willy

    • @antisocialian
      @antisocialian Місяць тому +31

      if i had a nickel for every time he says "Willy's Hole" I'd have 5 nickels, that's not a lot but strange it happened more than once.

    • @stoneytheclown
      @stoneytheclown Місяць тому +1

      I don't get it, can someone plz explain

    • @tudibelle
      @tudibelle Місяць тому +25

      @@stoneytheclownto me as a Brit, Willy is childish slang for male genitalia, and in that context, hole and gap could be innuendo too, making it funny.

    • @Bealzbob
      @Bealzbob Місяць тому +13

      Rhomer's itty bitty crevice sounds like it might contain some interesting material too.

  • @JLocke0113
    @JLocke0113 Місяць тому +109

    Willie's Hole is a very mature and serious place.

    • @MrDowntemp0
      @MrDowntemp0 Місяць тому +16

      And it's very important that we found Willie's hole in Romer's itty bitty crevice.

    • @DS-re4vs
      @DS-re4vs Місяць тому

      😂

  • @loorthedarkelf8353
    @loorthedarkelf8353 Місяць тому +123

    I just recently learned about the Deep Water Cycle, how the way plate tectonics works with subduction zones where ocean crust sinks beneath continental crust and recycles into the mantle. Some water goes down, too, and after getting broken down into hydrogen free radicals may make its way back up to the surface via a volcanic erruption.
    With water cycling through the mantle, it stands to reason that coastal subduction zones have also dumped a lot of fossils into our molten recycle bin.
    Animals in transition between land and water would favor the coast.
    If that coast was EVER a subduction zone, we're unlikely to find anything cause the oldest rock was melted down before we figured out picks, shovels, or chizels.

    • @MrDowntemp0
      @MrDowntemp0 Місяць тому +6

      Hello fellow Octopus lady enjoyer!

    • @JohnDoe-qz1ql
      @JohnDoe-qz1ql Місяць тому +1

      There are Many coasts, not just one.

    • @TheReaverOfDarkness
      @TheReaverOfDarkness Місяць тому +4

      That could be part of the puzzle! Something like half of coastlines are subduction zones.

    • @notquitenil
      @notquitenil Місяць тому +22

      This is one of the greatest tragedies of paleontology. There are so many fossils from the depths of the ocean and along tectonic boundaries that we'll simply never find. So many ancient life forms, forever lost to time. It makes each one we do find all the more remarkable.

    • @TheReaverOfDarkness
      @TheReaverOfDarkness Місяць тому +4

      @@notquitenil Many of them are not lost yet. They have a long way to go down before they are actually destroyed. Many are lying too far down for us to reach (yet) but are still intact.

  • @---nk4mk
    @---nk4mk Місяць тому +1082

    All because of some damn fish wanting to live on land. I now have to worry about buying a house and taxes.

    • @mattgrow9093
      @mattgrow9093 Місяць тому +24

      Or you can live with the spiders

    • @nickus9119
      @nickus9119 Місяць тому +38

      No taxes in Antarctica. Build an igloo, go fishing…😊

    • @saveoursquirrels4241
      @saveoursquirrels4241 Місяць тому +31

      At least you don't have to worry about sharks very much

    • @GreenPoint_one
      @GreenPoint_one Місяць тому

      ​@@nickus9119antarctica is technically forbidden land. No living, only science. Probably leaving nothing behind

    • @GreenPoint_one
      @GreenPoint_one Місяць тому +10

      ​@@nickus9119eat fish raw? Theres no wood 🤣

  • @chrisfromsouthaus2735
    @chrisfromsouthaus2735 Місяць тому +67

    In the same way that the prediction of Neptune is fantastic evidence for the power of mathematics and astronomy, Tiktaalik was also found by predicting where in the strata you would expect to find the transition of fish to tetrapods. Proving just how powerful the theory of evolution really is.

    • @skyhigh9474
      @skyhigh9474 Місяць тому

      Theory of evolution ha. Ever wonder why there was always an extintion for next step of evolution to kick off..there is cosmic hand in guiding the evolution

    • @chrisfromsouthaus2735
      @chrisfromsouthaus2735 Місяць тому

      @skyhigh9474 Ever wondered? No, not particularly, since the suggestion that evolution only occurs following a mass extinction is a crock of s**t, made up by someone who is either strawmaning the theory of evolution, or doesn't know the first thing about it.
      If there is a "guiding hand" involved in the design of life, that hand is attached to a dribbling imbecile of a creator, who left design flaws in it's creations that most children could easily point out are dumb.
      Optic nerve attaching to the front of the retina, creating a blind spot right in the middle of our vision (but not for cephalopods, I guess this guiding hand had a soft spot for calamari), putting the opening of the one tube that can make you drop dead if it gets clogged with food, millimetres from the one that carries food, making plant chlorophyll green, even though chlorophyll absorbs green light extremely poorly, were as it would absorb light an order of magnitude more efficiently, if this guiding hand had simply made chlorophyll black, ectopic pregnancies, cancer, degenerative brain disease.
      This list only scratches the surface of incredibly stupid "design flaws", however, it illustrates that this "guiding hand" is either woefully incompetent, or is a capricious prick who wanted imbue it's creations with suffering.

    • @chrisfromsouthaus2735
      @chrisfromsouthaus2735 Місяць тому

      @skyhigh9474 Ever wondered? No, not particularly, since the suggestion that evolution only occurs following a mass extinction is made up by someone who is either strawmaning the theory of evolution, or doesn't know the first thing about it.
      This "guiding hand" is either woefully incompetent, or is a capricious sociopath who wanted imbue it's creations with suffering.
      Optic nerve attaching to the front of the retina, creating a blind spot right in the middle of our vision (but not for cephalopods, I guess this guiding hand had a soft spot for calamari), putting the opening of the one tube that can make you drop dead if it gets clogged with food, millimetres from the one that carries food, making plant chlorophyll green, even though chlorophyll absorbs green light extremely poorly, were as it would absorb light an order of magnitude more efficiently, if this guiding hand had simply made chlorophyll black, ectopic pregnancies, cancer, degenerative brain disease. This list doesn't even stratch the surface of "design flaws" most children would be able to spot.

    • @chrisfromsouthaus2735
      @chrisfromsouthaus2735 Місяць тому

      @skyhigh9474 Ever wondered? No, not particularly, since the suggestion that evolution only occurs following a mass extinction is made up by someone who is either strawmaning the theory of evolution, or doesn't know the first thing about it.
      This "guiding hand" is either woefully incompetent, or wanted imbue it's creations with suffering.
      Optic nerve attaching to the front of the retina, creating a blind spot right in the middle of our vision (but not for cephalopods, I guess this guiding hand had a soft spot for calamari), putting the opening of the one tube that can make you drop dead if it gets clogged with food, millimetres from the one that carries food, making plant chlorophyll green, even though chlorophyll absorbs green light extremely poorly, were as it would absorb light an order of magnitude more efficiently, if this guiding hand had simply made chlorophyll black, ectopic pregnancies, cancer, degenerative brain disease. This list doesn't even stratch the surface of "design flaws" most children would be able to spot.

    • @chrisfromsouthaus2735
      @chrisfromsouthaus2735 Місяць тому +22

      @skyhigh9474 Ever wondered? No, not particularly, since the suggestion that evolution only occurs following a mass extinction is made up by someone who is either strawmaning the theory of evolution, or doesn't know the first thing about it.

  • @RobinMarks1313
    @RobinMarks1313 Місяць тому +195

    "Which is why it was so awesome to find Willie's Hole right in the middle of Romer's Gap." I'm sorry. Very sorry. I'm so immature.

    • @paulbilmer1039
      @paulbilmer1039 Місяць тому +5

      You’re not the only one whose mind went into the toilet there. Lmfao!

    • @A._is_for
      @A._is_for Місяць тому +4

      Is it close to Uranus?

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 Місяць тому +5

      Best be careful talking about gaps, because creationists always want to stick their imaginary friend in it.

    • @ThisGuyHere17
      @ThisGuyHere17 26 днів тому +1

      i read this coincidentaly right when he said that

    • @themeadman
      @themeadman 26 днів тому +2

      ​@kellydalstok8900 creationist have a lot of problems with sticking things where they don't belong.

  • @davidhuth5659
    @davidhuth5659 Місяць тому +46

    Stefan, that's some fine reporting for a fish! Well done!

  • @N30K4L
    @N30K4L Місяць тому +222

    We're all just silly fish tryna live on land

    • @North_West1
      @North_West1 Місяць тому +2

      Fish aren’t real.

    • @jora8575
      @jora8575 Місяць тому +2

      And trying to earn a salary. Big trues of the life.

    • @ZurigaSungama
      @ZurigaSungama Місяць тому +3

      ​@@North_West1Naw, that's birds

    • @DefinitelyNotaCyberCat
      @DefinitelyNotaCyberCat Місяць тому +6

      Yeah, and I'm not very good at it.

    • @jora8575
      @jora8575 Місяць тому +4

      @Totalinternalreflection Take it easy. We all are just trying.

  • @jakobraahauge7299
    @jakobraahauge7299 Місяць тому +27

    Land Curious?! that was so telling, wholesome - and funny! 😂

  • @KxNOxUTA
    @KxNOxUTA Місяць тому +23

    I was in an area this summer where we had flooding going on. Rising rain = rising water levels, more so (at least where I was) than the type where rivers and streams with their fast waters come flooding into areas.
    I went on a walk to check out the lake(s) nearby, cause it's a vacation spot and I do so every year. What I found, was that small patches of the grassland around the lake had been flooded and were just two hands deep under clear water.
    You know what I also saw? Grazing big fish, the length of my hand + underarm.
    🌱🐟🐟🐟
    They were very very happily - and with a lot of sloshy sounds - chomped away on the fresh grass they could now access. And whatever was crawling over it 🐌.
    That moment, I thought to myself, that fish leaving the water cause there's tasty stuff there they can't otherwise get, made a great lot of sense.

    • @dudemanbroguy3464
      @dudemanbroguy3464 Місяць тому

      Life has always been get good or die. And also the incomprehensible amount of time life has been around for

    • @dat2ra
      @dat2ra Місяць тому

      Carp, I'd bet.

  • @andrebartels1690
    @andrebartels1690 Місяць тому +209

    I'm German. At school, I learned there is no plural for fish in English. And here I am, 47 years old, learning from a much better educated, much younger person that there are occasions to say "fishes". Life's for learning.

    • @debbiemcgraw2270
      @debbiemcgraw2270 Місяць тому +22

      I find the word fishes silly. I was taught the word fish was singular and plural. Now it has changes.

    • @Salamander_falls
      @Salamander_falls Місяць тому +60

      Growing up, i had never heard anyone use the term “fishes”, the plural was always “fish”. When we went down to the lake to go fishing, NO ONE would come back talking about how many “fishes” they caught.
      It wasn’t until i started watching science videos that I’ve heard the word “fishes”. I have had it explained to me once that “fish” can be singular or plural, with “fishes” being employed specifically to encompass multiple groups or classifications of fish. I cannot speak to whether or not that distinction is commonly used.
      I would round out my reply with: language is what it’s used to be. Definitions and connotations change all the time simply by words being used in new and different ways. Or not being used in ways it previously was employed. So there is never any harm in learning new ways a word can be used.

    • @PoeticPoppa
      @PoeticPoppa Місяць тому +63

      ​@Salamander_falls I'm 36, I was told as a child (circa 1996) that "fish" is the plural of one species and "fishes" is the plural of multiple species eg 16 salmon = 16 fish, 8 salmon and 8 cod = 16 fishes

    • @Salamander_falls
      @Salamander_falls Місяць тому +15

      @ I’ve heard that in my later years. I’m never gonna come back from a day on the lake and say “I got 12 perch and 2 trout, so i caught 14 fishes.” Lol, that seems crazy to me. I can see it when speaking of a phylogeny “the varies fishes that make up the ‘shark’ group” or whatever. But i think there’ll always be a separation for me between technical and common speech

    • @SarpSarpSarpSarp
      @SarpSarpSarpSarp Місяць тому +29

      Fishes = different kinds of fishes

  • @lukerodrigues6955
    @lukerodrigues6955 Місяць тому +50

    My ass would've stayed in the primordial soup if I knew there was gonna be days like this.

  • @Repeal_22nd_Amendment
    @Repeal_22nd_Amendment Місяць тому +57

    Mud-walkers/mud-skippers still be a-walking, so the process is repeating over and over

    • @jora8575
      @jora8575 Місяць тому +8

      Could result in an alternate lungless tetrapods evolutionary line!

    • @GrimmDelightsDice
      @GrimmDelightsDice Місяць тому +9

      ​@@jora8575 I think I read a paper exploring this and coming to the theory that because there isn't an unfilled niche in their ecosystem they could fill terrestrially, they proooooobably won't survive anthropogenic climate change in time for niches to change and open up for them to do so.

    • @Appletank8
      @Appletank8 Місяць тому +6

      ​@@GrimmDelightsDice Clearly, there's only one solution left: the niche of pet

    • @katyungodly
      @katyungodly Місяць тому +7

      In my opinion they have hit an evolutionary dead end because they are ray-finned fish instead of lobe-fined fish. Their methods of crawling on land are not the same as how tetrapods made it onto land, as they basically crawl around with their fingertips and tail fins, not with legs or hands.

    • @Repeal_22nd_Amendment
      @Repeal_22nd_Amendment Місяць тому

      @katyungodly Were you there watching tetrapods coming out? No? Okay, evolutionary expert, thank you for your opinion.

  • @stevenarseneault1972
    @stevenarseneault1972 Місяць тому +37

    Mummychubs. Breaths oxygen, flops on land to get from one body of water to another, highly tolerable to toxins, can survive in low oxygen water, low temps 5C to 30C. Burrows in mud to 6 inch deep to hibernate over Canadian winters. Mummychubs were the first fish in space.

    • @1hybodus
      @1hybodus Місяць тому +10

      Phylogenetically speaking, canis familiaris (Laika) was the first fish in space since all tetrapods are lobe-finned fish in the clade sarcopterygii

    • @stevenarseneault1972
      @stevenarseneault1972 Місяць тому

      @1hybodus There quite a few sources stating the Mummychug. Did you have any resources for your claim?
      www.google.com/search?q=first+fish+in+space&oq=first+fish+in+space&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgAEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyCAgBEAAYFhgeMggIAhAAGBYYHjIICAMQABgWGB4yDQgEEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgFEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyCggGEAAYgAQYogQyCggHEAAYgAQYogQyBwgIECEYjwLSAQg3ODQxajBqN6gCFLACAQ&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

    • @hypanusamericanus9058
      @hypanusamericanus9058 Місяць тому +3

      @@stevenarseneault1972 1hybodus is right by the aforementioned technicality. Mummichogs reached space in 1973. Laika reached space in 1957. Of course, most people wouldn’t consider Laika to be a fish in the first place.

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@hypanusamericanus9058 I mean, if fish aren't real, can't anything be a fish?
      Sorry I couldn't help myself.

    • @TheReaverOfDarkness
      @TheReaverOfDarkness Місяць тому +2

      @@1hybodus canis lupus familiaris*

  • @CardinalTreehouse
    @CardinalTreehouse Місяць тому +9

    Relatively close to Blue Beach in Nova Scotia is a place called the Joggins Fossil Cliffs. It's situated in a bay where the tides are the highest in the world, which results in erosion in the cliffs to expose fossils.

    • @CardinalTreehouse
      @CardinalTreehouse Місяць тому +2

      It should also be noted that the British Isles and North Eastern North America were connected around this time, as part of a subcontinent called Avalonea.
      This is all very amateur work on my part, so please correct me if I've missed something.

  • @whatabouttheearth
    @whatabouttheearth Місяць тому +15

    Let me guess, "The Romers Gap"?
    Jennifer Clack did a good job at trying to fill it in, there is a documentary on her on my early tetrapods playlist
    I also suggest these books for more:
    'At the Waters Edge: Fish With Fingers Whales with Legs' by Carl Zimmer (awesome well rounded intro to the history of early tetrapod/proto cetacean Paleontology and Paleontologists)
    'Earth Before The Dinosaurs' by Sebastian Steyer
    'Your Inner Fish' by Niel Shubin
    'How Vertebrates Left the Water' by Michel Laurin
    'Gaining Ground' by Jennifer Clack (THE book on early Tetrapods)
    'Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution' by Kenneth Kardong

  • @hyperionsama
    @hyperionsama Місяць тому +40

    Take a shot every time he says willys hole 😂

    • @TheLemonKidd
      @TheLemonKidd Місяць тому +5

      I counted
      He says it 5 times. Drink up!

    • @graphitedrizzle
      @graphitedrizzle Місяць тому +4

      They found Willie's Hole right in the middle of Rover's Gap

    • @TylerJHill
      @TylerJHill Місяць тому

      Hell no I have to function today, I can't get wasted on science

    • @tammyknowlan-manley3505
      @tammyknowlan-manley3505 Місяць тому

      😂

  • @isaacthek
    @isaacthek Місяць тому +4

    I love that the early tetrapods have those bug eyes and have derpes in their name. Derpy indeed, scientists.

  • @jacobscott2473
    @jacobscott2473 Місяць тому +16

    (in a thick scottish accent)
    AHCK- STAY OUHTTA WILLY'S HOLE!

  • @teresaellis7062
    @teresaellis7062 Місяць тому +2

    As someone who wanted to be a paleontologist in kindergarten in the 1980's, this news is super exciting! Unfortunately, as an adult, I am not a paleontologist, but I still am a major paleontology geek! (After I graduated high school, I mistakenly thought I needed to become a college professor to become a paleontologist. I was too shy to teach and so I went into other fields of study.)

  • @TheLemonKidd
    @TheLemonKidd Місяць тому +22

    How to return to fish please

    • @TheReaverOfDarkness
      @TheReaverOfDarkness Місяць тому +1

      instructions unclear: am still fish; can't breathe water

    • @KrisMaertens
      @KrisMaertens Місяць тому +3

      Ask the whales or dolphins,they know,kinda...

  • @aaronbeaupre909
    @aaronbeaupre909 Місяць тому +2

    I don't know whats going on with that Trapper Keeper background but I'm digging it.

  • @micahmagnusen2184
    @micahmagnusen2184 Місяць тому +2

    Polypterids have been around since the devonian period. Their branching cousin was the first "fish" to become all terrestrial life. Im honestly blown away that no one even researchs the Polypterus family being that they have been traced all the back to nearly 400 million years in the fossil record and are still alive and thriving today.

  • @rickb1973
    @rickb1973 Місяць тому +9

    Remember the Far Side cartoon, with the baseball that went up onto land?

  • @nahtanha
    @nahtanha Місяць тому +1

    The fiercely restrained delight at every opportunity to say "Willie's Hole" was a joy to behold 😂

  • @rocketpsyence
    @rocketpsyence Місяць тому +2

    I commend you for keeping a straight face while talking about something called "Willy's hole" 😅

  • @isaacthek
    @isaacthek Місяць тому +1

    Willie's hole right in the middle of Romer's Gap... That there is the quality content I watch for...

  • @pedroff_1
    @pedroff_1 Місяць тому +13

    Willie's Hole helping us fill the Romer gap sounds lime some weird weird innuendo

  • @juliantheivysaur3137
    @juliantheivysaur3137 Місяць тому +39

    here before creationists take the title out of context

    • @lakrids-pibe
      @lakrids-pibe Місяць тому +10

      I was just thinking I don't come across them as often as I used to.
      All the creationism, intelligent design, "teach both theories"
      I guess they are busy being "skeptical" about other well-established theories.

    • @DJFracus
      @DJFracus Місяць тому

      already quite a few comments like that

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth Місяць тому +3

      They're so dishonest

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth Місяць тому

      They're so dishonest

    • @tarumath319
      @tarumath319 Місяць тому +1

      Creationism was mostly politicized in the U.S and Evangelicals got what they wanted with homeschooling.

  • @bb899
    @bb899 Місяць тому +10

    "the most important fossil ever". Me, a plant biologist

    • @zlodevil426
      @zlodevil426 Місяць тому

      Plants kind of suck at fossilizing, don’t they?

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth Місяць тому

      Archaeopteris Archaeopteryx Archaeopteris Archaeopteryx Archaeopteris Archaeopteryx 😂

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth Місяць тому

      Archaeopteris Archaeopteryx Archaeopteris Archaeopteryx Archaeopteris Archaeopteryx 😂

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth Місяць тому

      Nah, there are a lot of plant fossils, check out Archaeopteris (NOT Archaeopteryx)

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth Місяць тому +1

      ​@@zlodevil426
      Nah, there are a lot of plant fossils, check out Archaeopteris (NOT Archaeopteryx)

  • @uli169
    @uli169 14 днів тому +1

    9:30 guys... We can't really be calling ANY place Willy's Hole😂

  • @tarajh
    @tarajh 16 днів тому

    "Land Curious" 😂 Brilliant!

  • @TheSkullcleaver
    @TheSkullcleaver Місяць тому +8

    Thanks to these fish I have to go to work every day. Thanks guys.

    • @remcovandijk279
      @remcovandijk279 Місяць тому +1

      Well if it hadn't happened, you'd be swimming to work every day now...

  • @takashitamagawa5881
    @takashitamagawa5881 Місяць тому

    Arthropods made their own transition to land. So interesting to see the connections between current sea life like lobsters and land life like arachnids and insects.

  • @MannyEspinola-q4t
    @MannyEspinola-q4t Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for this video

  • @Repeal_22nd_Amendment
    @Repeal_22nd_Amendment Місяць тому +10

    Plate tectonics, vulcanism, episodic climate changes really suck, huh?

    • @JohnDoe-qz1ql
      @JohnDoe-qz1ql Місяць тому +1

      Just for scientists. Without them we may never have been here.

  • @kevinjordan6677
    @kevinjordan6677 Місяць тому +8

    Willis hole is right In the middle of roamers gap? 🤔

  • @raphaelgarcia9576
    @raphaelgarcia9576 Місяць тому

    Love this video, both subject and storytelling!

  • @Bakasan16
    @Bakasan16 Місяць тому +2

    I need to see the bloopers for this episode

  • @martinl6133
    @martinl6133 Місяць тому

    Really good episode. Many thanks for the information and the presentation 👍

  • @TeaDrivenDev
    @TeaDrivenDev Місяць тому

    "Their legs were short and paddle-shaped, their heads were large and heavy" sounds like another song for Hank and Ellie Cordova.

  • @markholm7050
    @markholm7050 Місяць тому

    Thanks for this video. It’s very informative.

  • @lim8
    @lim8 Місяць тому +8

    whyd they have to -walk id rather be a silly lil fish 😭

  • @zokeye
    @zokeye 28 днів тому

    BLUE BEACH MENTION !!! BEEN THERE !!!! ITS AWESOME!!!!!!!

  • @naanviolence8260
    @naanviolence8260 Місяць тому +1

    Sacabambasbis, our ancient friend. Through prehistoric seas, you swim and blend.

  • @Alias_Anybody
    @Alias_Anybody Місяць тому +1

    Okay, but did we learn more about the breathing part? Did they already use air before leaving the water like modern lungfish or how did that work? And their reproduction, did they have a metamorphic life cycle comparable to modern amphibians or just put their probably still jelly-like eggs in moist but above water environment?

    • @rafaelmarangoni
      @rafaelmarangoni 29 днів тому

      I think the ability to perform that gaseous exchange via specialized swim bladders would have to be present before those groups of sacropterygii went on land, by having adpated to living in shallow waters with low oxygen levels, like in ephemeral creeks. So the land descendants of those groups would already have the ability of breathing air, and still lay jelly-like eggs, up until the moment when amniotes emerged.

  • @Oceanblue_Art_
    @Oceanblue_Art_ Місяць тому +3

    1:09 THAT'S OOMF

  • @Badpvppaladin
    @Badpvppaladin Місяць тому +2

    3:37 sounds like a jackpot to me

  • @doudyR
    @doudyR Місяць тому

    To compliment this story may be talk about the Devonian Walking fish fossils found in Canowindra, Australia
    Fascinating evolutionary find

  • @NotYou-ci6gy
    @NotYou-ci6gy Місяць тому +1

    I am officially changing my orientation to
    “Land-Curious”

  • @MrDowntemp0
    @MrDowntemp0 Місяць тому +24

    I thought I was mature, watching educational videos. Turns out I'm very very very immature.

    • @Mèobay-Milk
      @Mèobay-Milk Місяць тому +1

      You're like a "baby calf just born"

  • @thomasav
    @thomasav Місяць тому +2

    I would love to visit Willie's Hole.

  • @suddieo1
    @suddieo1 Місяць тому +2

    This is why paleontologists are so lucky to have found that homotherium cub :)

  • @MitchWhite91154
    @MitchWhite91154 17 днів тому +1

    Caught my goldfish walking around yesterday

  • @chrononaut-_-4823
    @chrononaut-_-4823 Місяць тому +1

    10:20 I agree, it is awesome to find Willie's Hole right in the middle of Romer's Gap.
    As well it should be.

  • @patrickw9520
    @patrickw9520 Місяць тому +4

    Some of the gaps could be due to geologic conditions.

  • @TheReaverOfDarkness
    @TheReaverOfDarkness Місяць тому

    A more recent finding shows a population of tetrapods with a distinctly Romer's Gap-like morphology but which lived in seclusion for long enough to meet with early mammals. In fact they eventually took on an exoparasitic relationship with mammals in their region by obtaining sustenance from the mammal's lactation. It has been dubbed the purplenurpeton.

  • @mayarosales09
    @mayarosales09 Місяць тому +2

    07:12 "An exceptional fossil named Pederpes" me: *unprofessional giggle*

    • @kaynugro
      @kaynugro 29 днів тому

      I read this comment right as he was saying it and I also giggled unprofessionally

  • @BahaBaydar
    @BahaBaydar Місяць тому

    Blue Beach is a really cool place. I've been there a couple of times now. Only found plant fossils though.

  • @jaimecastells4283
    @jaimecastells4283 Місяць тому

    Over the years, I have heard a variety of discussions of this topic. However, I have never heard any discussion of invertebrate migration to land. Presumably, some of the challenges faced by lobe finned fishes (land locomotion and skeletal strength) were not as difficult for crustaceans (or their ancestors) to overcome. I would guess that crab like creatures might have emerged on land before fishes evolved sufficiently to transition. What about worms? What was on the land when the fish got there? Slime molds, surely, but what was the level of biodiversity among other micro fauna on land in 360M BCE?

  • @SyIe12
    @SyIe12 Місяць тому

    👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐EXCELLENT!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXPLANATION. I LOOK FORWARD TO NEW VIDEOS!

  • @graphite2786
    @graphite2786 Місяць тому

    The Melbourne Museum has a model Pederpes that was known as the Derpy Pederpes. Originally it had almost anime eyes, but they had them repainted. So it's not Derpy anymore 😢

  • @keeksputels1851
    @keeksputels1851 Місяць тому +2

    My hypothesis:
    Since it was an ice age, the sea levels were much lower. Hence all the early amphibious creature's fossils, If they did get preserved, would be all currently under the sea, as they would live on the coastline but the seas then rose up

    • @SaxandRelax
      @SaxandRelax Місяць тому +1

      That’s good thinking.

  • @nakedlakedip57
    @nakedlakedip57 13 днів тому

    Intermediate species are often the hardest to find due to the shorter transition period .

  • @anotherpeasant
    @anotherpeasant Місяць тому

    I love fossil hunting here in NS

  • @kyokoyumi
    @kyokoyumi 20 днів тому

    Pederpes (for something that looks derpy af)
    Willie's hole
    Rhomer's Gap
    Jfc guys xD

  • @leeshmonsterzero
    @leeshmonsterzero Місяць тому

    "Which is why it was so awesome to find Willie's hole right in the middle of Romer's gap." I'm sorry, but the crew over at SciShow knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote this script.

  • @RobertMurray-wk5ib
    @RobertMurray-wk5ib Місяць тому +4

    I’m a TETRAPOD! 😆

  • @4thKJU
    @4thKJU Місяць тому +3

    Just learned about devil hole pupfish on tangents, and though OH NO NOT THEM when i saw the title image

  • @theriveroffaith852
    @theriveroffaith852 11 днів тому

    Which makes more sense, creation or evolution?

  • @MitchWhite91154
    @MitchWhite91154 17 днів тому +1

    I thought people stuck these fossils on the back of their car?

  • @Quill-in-inkwell
    @Quill-in-inkwell Місяць тому

    im glad a derp is in our tree ❤

  • @Scixxy
    @Scixxy Місяць тому

    "they were land-curious at best" LOL

  • @thorium222
    @thorium222 Місяць тому

    After watching the video, the title should be "we CAN find the most important fossils ever".

  • @tiffanymarie9750
    @tiffanymarie9750 Місяць тому

    Whoever scripted this episode knew exactly what they were doing.

  • @phishENchimps
    @phishENchimps Місяць тому +4

    my science teacher told us that you have a .1% of becoming a fossil when you die if you are in the correct environment. And then it will come down how long it will last and if it will be discovered.

  • @skeletonboxers7336
    @skeletonboxers7336 Місяць тому

    1:09 NUH UH!!! PUSH IT BACK IN

  • @Kissarai
    @Kissarai Місяць тому +4

    Something that annoys me about the people who think evolution is a hoax: if we had made the whole thing up wouldn't we have like... Made the WHOLE thing up? They point to these "missing links" as if it's evidence against it but I absolutely see it as the other way around. I'm skeptical of anyone who thinks they have it all figured out.

  • @joshmovingofficial
    @joshmovingofficial Місяць тому

    The important fossils are necessarily the ones we don’t have yet. Finding a fossil that alters our perception (or confirms it) is no longer the most important fossils we could discover.

  • @fredwood1490
    @fredwood1490 Місяць тому +2

    I tend to wonder how those Scientists find these strange places like "Willie's Hole", which is somewhere near Nodamnwhere just south of Bumfug. I mean, who was wondering out in the Badlands, dying of thirst, finding some rocks that looked a little bit like a bug and then wandered home and told somebody at the local university about it and exactly how to get there! Could the legends of the wondering Geologists be true?

    • @KxNOxUTA
      @KxNOxUTA Місяць тому

      I think they go and seek out remote areas cause it just makes the most sense to look where noone looked yet

  • @Jude-z5q
    @Jude-z5q 10 днів тому

    I hardly ever leave my house. I guess I'm "land curious at best."

  • @bobellis9798
    @bobellis9798 Місяць тому

    Or maybe their local environment changed and the ones with the most appropriate traits survived the changes, leaving the prior, perhaps more commonly dominant traits behind in the evolutionary trail.

  • @JWBR84
    @JWBR84 Місяць тому

    A large portion of the archeological community is trying to get into Willie's Hole.

  • @titanlurch
    @titanlurch Місяць тому

    You never mentioned Miguasha. It happens to be a world heritage site .

  • @akukelilipan
    @akukelilipan Місяць тому

    Those damn fish are responsible for life that I currently live in

  • @JarMaster
    @JarMaster Місяць тому +2

    Invertebrates wouldn't cause that kind of predicament!

  • @wiadroman
    @wiadroman Місяць тому +4

    1:38 why does this thing have eyes pointed upwards? Is it expecting something up in the air? Did it live at the bottom of the sea?

    • @Wolfie54545
      @Wolfie54545 Місяць тому +5

      They live in shallows.

    • @darcieclements4880
      @darcieclements4880 Місяць тому +3

      They probably dug themselves into muck and ambushed exploded and ate things swimming above them. You will see a lot of fish that have appendages that are basically limbs but convergent on the ocean floor that do this. I'd have to say frogfish would probably be your strongest candidate for modern analog, but there are a ton of them. When you're exploding out of muck having limbs instead of Finn suddenly makes sense even if you're not on land😊

  • @spacebadger21
    @spacebadger21 Місяць тому

    Paderpes does indeed look derpy

  • @djvapid
    @djvapid Місяць тому

    If we were able to go into a time travel machine and travel back to these eras, would we be able to survive? Breathable air, etc…

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 29 днів тому

      As far back as the Devonian, maybe. Before then, we'd asphyxiate.

  • @Otis151
    @Otis151 Місяць тому

    i dated someone who was land-curious once. i had to break it off because they wouldnt stop talking about Willie's Hole.

  • @sejhammer
    @sejhammer Місяць тому

    I don't know exactly how, but I feel like "Willie's Hole" deserves to be in a Make Some Noise prompt

  • @evanbradley8283
    @evanbradley8283 Місяць тому

    Nova Scotia Mentioned, let's gooooooo

  • @agentbarron9768
    @agentbarron9768 Місяць тому +2

    Imagine finding a fossilized mudskip and know you can definitely peice together the history of the world lol
    I like these videos , and I'm sure we learn slot from fossils, but most things have been lost to time and simply didn't leave fossils...

  • @JonVaz28
    @JonVaz28 Місяць тому +2

    Oh man I was quick today

  • @arashmoradian1988
    @arashmoradian1988 Місяць тому +4

    It's hard to take paleontology seriously when they name sites like Willy's Hole and reference concepts like Romer's Gap. So did Willy finally fill Romer's Gap or what?

    • @golddragonette7795
      @golddragonette7795 Місяць тому +1

      because it was the paleontologists who named it, and definitely not the Scots ;)

  • @artemkras
    @artemkras Місяць тому

    Aytonerpeton...Mesanerpeton... Montypeton?

  • @philipsharpe6905
    @philipsharpe6905 Місяць тому

    We also have to realize that evolution doesn’t occur at a steady pace. Sometimes it speeds up and other times it will slow down due to outside influences in the developing species environments. Anything from a single earthquake to an ice age can radically alter an animal’s environment or isolate it from its brethren. Maybe the Devonian was a time where plate tectonics took a long holiday and things just weren’t as fluid.

  • @dustinerickson1253
    @dustinerickson1253 Місяць тому

    i would think the enviroment close to water such as a seashore or lakeshore would be full of microrganisms and invertibrates decomposing said animals