6:39 this is really interesting to me b/c the Soviets have been rightly pilloried for adopting Lysenkoism, the idea that individuals adapt to their environments themselves instead of inheriting adaptations from their parents. For the longest time, I've had a hunch that a weaker version of Lysenkoism existed alongside Darwinian evolution. Phenotypic plasticity proves Lysenko partially right.

I think Darwin would say the answer is clear, the grasshopper variant is better camouflaged which would matter much more when there are fewer examples around. If there are examples everywhere then camouflage doesn't help you become more successful, you must be faster and eat more food.

I recall a 7th grade field trip to a rock quarry where we pawed through a huge pile of crumbled shale and that was full of crinoid rings. So many, they got boring and it was an event to find something else.

She's annoying

there are 60 species of sea snakes in the ocean🤔 but how many are on planes

I catch armadillos all the time. Its funny putting them in people's tents

theyre little mammoths

The only way the rafting theory could work is if the oceans had basically no waves back then

learning chickens have wing claws makes me love my feathered babies even more. birds never stopped being dinosaurs

Degloving, gahhh

The only thing upsetting about this is that these adorable octopuses are someplace I cannot go. I want to cherish one so bad!

As someone who lives on the US Eastern seaboard I am very happy but we don't have to deal with sneeze sea snakes

Heaping is pretty cute

Its shrimple as that

Sooo... what happened at burning man?

They call them rock rabbits in South Africa

Hank the hater. 👎

There is new evidence from genetic sampling that the wild horses of America never fully died out and they bred with the horses europeans brought over. Thats what the native americans have always been saying

Elephant seals and proboscis monkeys have the same humongous schnozzola on the males that hammerheaded fruit bats have. Presumably the females think it's sexy.

Question should be how they got there

Good thing that you mentioned that sea scorpions are extinct... I was about give up on my free diving hobby

They're not feral, they're reintroduced. There is no genetic difference between the Mustangs on the range today and the originals from the Iberian Peninsula. They evolved in North America as well, thus, reintroduced. The whole idea of "feral" horses is a myth created by the cattle industry to drive horses off public property, which the cattle people want to use for their herds.

I like your necklace

I like that they included the asterix

I've been obsessed with Hyrax, they're hilarious. but for some reason it didn't click in my head until this video that I saw one in the wild on table mountain in South Africa! That was 10 years ago. I can't believe it. I had no clue what it was at the time. I saw my little hero irl

these things are always going in drains and you can randomly see them on the top of someones house it does not make sense how they get there and i usually see them alone and not in groups unless at river on rocks .. and funny thing is they popped out of no where in my area and i think they scared away cats because i no longer see house cats roaming on streets/drains

it’s not evolution.

Convergent evolution means "Magic". Basically, for when the theory of evolution comes to a dead end, they just say "convergent evolution! which. It's very similar to the scientific phrase "Some how" Which also means magic. And both are not explainable or part of evolution. Cause you just can't have to entirely different things evolving very differently "some how" develop identical complex features, and have it still be Evolution. Links are necessary for the theory to be true. But we've found that that's not the case. So magical phrases have been added to make it work. And SOME HOW, people didn't notice the deception.

AWAWA

I like learn new things about animals I don't know about... but there was waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy too much reproduction information here... I don't care or want to know how these weird worm things reproduce...

"Professing themselves wise, they became fools"

This is kinda scary though, it shows how dependent the world is getting on technology, that whole ecosystems depend on them to live, instead of encouraging a boom in population for their natural predators they make an artificial predator.

awawa

LOL, atheists are funny, God just made it like that, it did not evolve from a sea cow. LOL

binturong ajg wkwkwkwk

fun cool

If Mettaton was an animal, he'd be a sea spider. An entire existence built around legs.

There are too many animals

Was that optical illusion of motion on the thumbnail intended

Evolutionary???? God created everything!

Me dealing with heavy traffic with horrible drivers!

Neat that blood clearly came into being sometime between crinoids and sharks, which is really a pretty narrow window

The poison dart frogs of Central and South America and the mantelas of Madagascar are another clear example of convergent evolution.

this sea spider is slow, so no fear unlocked here

That nose though!

Did she just call them squat cobbler's ?!?!?

I'd pet an armadillo the first chance I get. 😂 I'd wash my hands after though.

so... how did shipworms evolve to eat wood... something that's probably not as abundant in the ocean waters as say.... plankton?

1:46 stretchies!!! 🥹