8 Animal Species Only Found in One Place on Earth

[@unemilifleur]

''why fly if you live on a tiny island with no predators'' said the dodos.

[@vinala67]

Humans: *Am I a joke to you?*

[@teawrecks1243]

Dodo's Bizarre Adventure

[@matiastoatv]

kangaroo rats, like me, are slow to mature and reproduce

[@polishedjoy123]

Me too amirite? Up top!

[@technicaldifficulties3289]

matiastoat42 Same.

[@altareggo]

Yes, but are you a Keystone Species??

[@sirmiles1820]

lol wtf

[@devinm.6149]

I just need to achieve reproduction.

[@OwenJennings]

Small point: Inaccessible Island is in the South Atlantic, not the South Pacific.

[@vampyricon7026]

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[@nosslived]

+1 Had to look that up when he said that the only way to reach an island in the South Pacific was by boat from South Africa. I'm surprised that slipped past the SciShow team.

[@bradleyelacombe]

I live in Santa Cruz, and first thought about the banana slugs in this area. I'll keep an eye out for those kangaroo rats now. Thank you

[@BlackCat_2]

So awesome!! You mentioned the area I live in and our blind salamanders :D I love those little guys and I see them nearby in an aquarium when I visit the place nearby that tells about the aquifer etc. - Heidi

[@anisatajy9445]

His way of informing us is so nice... so polite.

[@joevarney798]

Omg I love his voice it's so calm and soothing

[@RubyDoobieScoo]

I would love to see a video on island dwarfism/gigantism (extinct or not)

[@curiouslook9115]

So how on earth did the devils hole pupfish not end up on this list? Living in a single water hole in the middle of a desert sounds pretty extreme to me. considering that the livable portion of their habitat is only 8 cubic meters... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Hole_pupfish

[@anhedonicauthor]

I went on the Wikipedia page and under Habitat there’s a photo with the caption “Nearly the entire natural range of the species is visible in this photo.“ That’s insane. 😱

[@MedicEne]

I wonder how many crazy animals we still havent discovered yet

[@zupahzandah5354]

Cotlno da sQuiB Overlord love how this is the first response in 2 years

[@slappy8941]

100% of undiscovered animals remain undiscovered.

[@kylemathew205]

42

[@aleksitjvladica.]

8

[@Cvwavy408]

15

[@Qermaq]

Once you've tried gelada, you can't just eat ice cream anymore.

[@SovereignwindVODs]

@chu Harry it's a pun. Gelada sounds like Gelato, which is an ice cream like treat from Italy.

[@mateopolanco213]

do a video on why things are transparent

[@alecwhatshisname5170]

mateo polanco light passes through it.

[@mateopolanco213]

But why Alec Whatshisname​?

[@mateopolanco213]

This is why I need a video on it

[@elementus2857]

when light hits atoms it causes the electrons to move into a higher orbit and when they move to a lower orbit they release a photon. on transparent objects visible light doesn't have enough energy to move the electrons to a higher orbit and so they just pass straight through

[@googleeatsdicks]

i wonder if neutron stars are transparent

[@phantasm1234]

Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!

[@markkmiecik9797]

You should do one on endemic plants, like the Kankakee Mallow.

[@impishDullahan]

8:10 South-Pacific Ocean? Can only get there from South Africa? Something doesn't add up.

[@Babarudra]

It's in the South Atlantic.

[@cheyneeddy5162]

The Impish Dullahan probably owned by south africa and boats dont travel from anywhere else but there.

[@BillyDrakePianoMan]

The island is actually owned by the UK.

[@Bombay1618]

In British Overseas Territory of St. Helena (Napoleon's resting place) & Ascension & Tristan de Cunha Islands. Atlantic ocean.

[@alexventimilla6910]

@SciShow, could you guys do an episode on the axolotl? Last year's survey failed to return any wild specimens and it may have finally gone extinct in the wild. It is a real shame,, and a prime example of how being endemic to just one area can hurt a species' chance for survival (specially when that one area is one of the world's largest cities).

[@hero314]

You forgot the Banff Springs Snail! It only lives in hot springs on Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park.

[@HabibTheHeeb]

do you practice and plan your hand movements before filming?

[@pwnsage]

Isn't there a species of fish that only exists in a single pond somewhere?

[@TheRedKnight101]

There are a number of fish species where that is true

[@SuperExodian]

there's also that ecosystem scientists recently discovered in a cave like 1 km underground or something that's been cut off from the surface for like 1 million years, had everything from fish to spiders in it or something

[@MinecraftCosmics]

Caaros, The King of Chaos yes. In Death Valley there are these fish called pupfish which live, in the case of the devils hole pupfish, a little cave or the salt creek pupfish which live in a tiny stream three times saltier than the sea and is dry half of the year. They're really interesting

[@natashawee9019]

Yes I was looking for this!

[@hkomoda]

There are many endemic fish species from caves and also from temporary lakes (like killyfishes).

[@zackjackson5004]

Anza borego's endemic species could be its own list, the park has such variety that it has many endemic species, as well as rare morphs of other species only found in the park

[@Master_Therion]

If an endemic species spreads to new habitats is that called... endemic epidemic?

[@upover]

Master Therion pandemic

[@brazedinbacon9673]

Master Therion No, it's called migration

[@upover]

Gofuck Yaself I didn't think I needed /s in a KZbin comment

[@IdaDontKnowYou]

Gofuck Yaself oh god - a migration is normally an annually movement of a large amount of that species - if they just started to live outside their endemic area, then it would just be a stretch of their area range - no longer being endemic and slowly becoming more generalist

[@TorquemadaTwist]

Up Over Games If it's pandas then it's a panda pandemic?

[@TheScholesie09]

#1: You, in front of your computer.

[@siriustheislandprotector9720]

TheScholesie09 I’m on an iPad m8

[@thegeneralist5279]

Sirius The Doomed Machine Me too! So yeah. It doesn’t apply to us. 😎 (This was said in a sarcastic tone! It’s just a joke.)

[@007batman8]

Im on my Phone lol

[@lorenasaucedo-rodriguez6000]

Says the person commenting on a video which was probably after watching hundreds of other videos and there for insulting thyself and also making them self one of the people they are trying to bully

[@soop597]

Lizards'n Spiders r/foundthemobileuser

[@purplestarfish90]

I didn't know about the Texas blind salamander in San Marcos, but here in Austin we have two totally separate species of salamander (Barton Springs salamander and Austin blind salamander) that also only live in one place, Barton Springs. I wonder if all these different Central Texas salamanders were at one point the same species, and then evolved separately once they each found their own niches.

[@CorneliusSneedley]

Plants with specialized teeth sound pretty scary.

[@joeriley8857]

i wish this show would use more videos and pics of the topic instead of writing sentences on the screen

[@veledwin1]

Great video as always. You guys should really put more pictures though, if we're talking about an animal species I've never heard of, it'd be nice to see more than one picture of it (and for more than a second two).

[@Blistio11]

We have a similar looking salamanders, but we call them olm or proteus.

[@sarahlikestacos1010]

No devil's hole pupfish?

[@MinecraftCosmics]

Sarah Laine or salt creek pupfish. But there are quite a few of them in the video.

[@raquellydoesntsocialize]

THANK YOU. Someone finally said it 🤣 it's a shame they didn't mention Ash Meadows, it needs more recognition! It's so beautiful!

[@kingofbosnia2500]

Michael's voice sounds like Hank Green's voice.

[@Deandre1b]

Whoa...

[@theshuman100]

you work with hank long enough enough you start speaking like him. I'm waiting for Julia to catch up.

[@ricekrispy463]

BigGBlitz But softer and more smooth

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

not even close.

[@cogithefool4284]

Of course not. Nobody say "precipitate" like hank does

[@nigelkirk274]

Here in Alberta there's a species of snail whose whole global habitat range is limited to five natural sulphurous hot springs on Sulphur Mountain. It's specially adapted to low-oxygen water and higher hydrogen sulfide. In order to protect it, several hot springs which were used as public pools are now closed to the public permanently.

[@trippsmclovin]

Nice!

[@Keallei]

Yaaay Palau! It's it's in the North Pacific, though, not South Pacific. Jellyfish Lake is awesome. But right now there are few left because of drought maybe from El Niño.

[@andy_liga]

The Texas blind salamander is actually really similar to a specie of salamander living into the huge caves scattered in between East Italy and Slovenia. If you go at the Postumia Cave there is for show during the cave tour.

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

I want one of those dwarf chameleon so bad.

[@ChronitonMechanics]

I think that the ball pyramid is certainly as impressive as the tree lobsters living on it ^^

[@-Faena-]

yes! Michael Aranda is back+ 💕

[@littleredtalon]

hey sci-show, you guys should check out the snail that is only found in the lower hot spring in the town of Banff, Alberta

[@coliniversen7465]

If I've learned anything from the movies, its that The "Inaccessible Island" in the south pacific is home to some magical weird force of nature.

[@stephendoherty1275]

I like Aranda. Great voice.

[@julesking1303]

Marine iguanas seem like the closest a living creature could get to a Mosasaurus

[@wizardgaming669]

In Banff national park in Alberta Canada, there's a snail species that is found in only one cave. Very interesting story

[@RMSLusitania]

What is it

[@kitkatbubble92]

His voice is really nice and oddly comforting

[@GregsGruns]

Inaccessible Island is actually in the South Atlantic. I know because I looked it up and immediately want to visit

[@louisezero31]

In Baja California we also have an endemic species of Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys gravipes :)

[@dreyhawk]

I was intrigued by the smallest chameleon but I couldn't help but wonder how small their eggs must be. They are amazing tiny lizards.

[@pinkitty]

This guy has the most soothing voice.

[@hi90s]

There’s an area called Red Hills in my area. They filmed a few westerns out there, (For Whom the Bell Tolls? Or Tombstone? can’t remember haha). BUT There is an endemic fish and some plants there. The Red Hills Roach is the fish. Beautiful small little guys that live in a TINY stream that dry up juuuuust big enough for the roach population

[@1950Chimaera]

The Texas salamander's Edwards Aquifer didn't almost dry up. The San Marcos, TX spring in which they live nearly stopped flowing out of the ground. The salamanders were able to survive unseen deeper underground and were not really in danger of becoming extinct.

[@frankguan5044]

That tiny chameleon is so CUTE!

[@NicWalker627]

I, too, am an animal that lives in only one place. My comfy chair, watching SciShow.

[@juicemister]

No mention of _Entacmaea medusivora?_ It lives in the same lake with the Palau jellyfish and, like the jellyfish, only lives there.

[@miscl_anon]

you forget pyukumuku

[@RubyDoobieScoo]

Inaccessible Island is in the Sout Atlantic not the South Pacific, hence why the only way to get there is from South Africa, otherwise that would be a long trip.

[@pancreasnostalgia]

I’m imagining the Australian convicts coming over and being freaked out by the tree lobsters.

[@lauracricket]

Eyyyyyy Hays County!! That was a pleasant surprise ☺ we're very serious about our endemic species around here.

[@entropy616]

Gigantic insect, nope.

[@mimsydreams]

Seaghán Pipistrello Should have smashed those 12 they found under a rock... Ok, not really. But insects and bugs are scary enough without being giant. As long as they don't migrate to where I live, I'll just pretend they don't exist.

[@thomascameron2612]

My dad went to lord howe island to minister a local church when I was young. I went with him. The population there isn't large enough to sustain a dedicated minister and so people from mainland Australia take holidays there while working for the church. I have had the distinct pleasure of being in direct contact with several of these insects. Some of the locals keep them as pets. They are gentle things. They are extremely heavy, as though they are made of incredibly dense steel. They are not the only species of animal that live on the island which are fascinating though. There is also a species of migratory birds that don't care about humans. When I say that they don't care, I literally mean that. They will perch on your face if you let them. Bizarre things. I used to watch them for hours.

[@pauldeddens5349]

The giant weta which lives on new zealand is the largest living and heaviest species of insect Its about the size of a small rat and cannot jump do to its size Arthropleura was a species of herbivorous centipede that was the size of an alligator The Japanese hornet is a species of hornet the size of your thumb, and has venom that melts flesh, and alerts nearby hornets

[@Yashahiro_]

My grandpa used to have a rail, but it passed away and the species went extinct. So many endemic birds from my home land have gone extinct due to foreign germs

[@escapedcryptid8017]

I like these list thx for making me a little bit smarter form my future biologist career I'm working tourds

[@siramea]

that tree lobster freaks me out

[@thstroyur]

8:34 Yeah, I hear that all the time.

[@warhawkjah]

I heard "late 1900's" multiple times in this video. I feel old.

[@supersonica08]

Most iguanas of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica are endemic...exceptions like Ctenosaura similis. Please make an episode on them. Ctenosaura bakeri, for example lives in an island call Utila and lives only in the mangrove forest that covers only 8km2

[@dansiegel2811]

This is at least the 4th scishow vid where I've learned about the Lord Howe's Island Stick Insect

[@RedChaosScrungle]

2:48 "Only one lizard is at home in the ocean" I looked it up, mangrove monitors swim between tons of different islands, over the ocean.

[@Mariljo23]

the blind salamander is actually called a human fish and is endemic to the caves od slovenia

[@julijagorenc4594]

That's not actually true, though. Those are two different animals (Proteus anguinus and Eurycea rathbuni) that are taxonomically ranked in the same order, Caudata. At least according to a quick google search.

[@miguelangelowong6786]

Fascinating

[@NChambernator]

What happened to the super acids video?

[@SadaEKE]

Why would the only boat which goes to an island in the middle of the Pacific takes off from South Africa? Wouldn't New Zealand or Australia be more convenient?

[@jaggonjaggon7695]

i never leave my room, does that count?

[@search895]

That Texas salamander is very similar to European proteus.

[@hopelessjellyfish3079]

That tiny chameleon was soo cute

[@paradisehillmusic46]

This video made me think of the ovate amber snail, it only lives in the splash zone of Chittenango Falls in central New York, which is near where I live

[@trippsmclovin]

Hmmm. Sounds like something to look out for! I'm in the finger lakes.

[@honkthegoose3543]

So cute :3

[@rosiexfrey]

Do endemic plants next ^o^

[@kristinabaker4433]

Tree lobsters... 😅 thanks for the laugh, that hit me just right... heeheeheeheeheeheeheeh

[@wallcus3077]

I'm fairly certain that the blind salamanders live in Slovenia and Croatia. but are considered endemic there as well... the more you know

[@elementus2857]

Beno Volavšek this was a specific species of blind salamander

[@julijagorenc4594]

Those are two different animals (Proteus anguinus and Eurycea rathbuni) that are taxonomically ranked in the same order, Caudata. At least according to a quick google search. But they do look quite similar.

[@joaoabegao2888]

As an ecologist, I approve this episode ;)

[@zekariaelmi9668]

Correction the Inaccessible Island is actually found in the South Atlantic, not South Pacific.

[@EvilParagon2]

Female ligers can breed. So far the only known liger+ hybrids are Liligers which are Lion+Ligers. Liligers can also breed but again, only with Lions, which they make Li-liligers. A Li-liliger however, makes a lion when it breeds with a lion. Effectively it still has tiger genes, but there isn't enough of a datapool to specifically classify a Lili-liliger as its own hybridization species, as with most hybrids that exceed 3 generations.

[@CaveTroglodyte]

"Why fly when there's no predators?" Sounds kinda like another bird, a pigeon, a DODO

[@MadelineWilson611]

Let me tell you, there's nothing funnier than watching a bunch of marine iguanas sitting on some rocks, and they're all just sneezing constantly...

[@TheNameIwantedWasTkn]

Weird animal lists just wouldn’t be the same without something from Australia 🇦🇺

[@DavidWangazsr]

Inaccessible Island is in the South _Atlantic_, not South _Pacific_.

[@celinak5062]

David Wang +

[@celioski3698]

South Pacific from South Africa?... kind of a loooong trip lol

[@shimpscampy]

So how would one get their hands on one of those little chameleons? How would you contain them? Like what kind of tank should I get?

[@NicWalker627]

Poor Rails, all the adaptations of a bird, except for the coolest feature.... Flight.

[@kakashispecialmm1095]

Nice beard Michael

[@terileebruyere3482]

I've seen a couple of these lists and still haven't seen the Ozarks hellbender included. :(

[@fartzinwind]

They don't look too special, but there is a localized species of squirrel in the Olympic mountains. They were locked there during a glacial period, and seemed to just stay when things cleared.

[@ericyin1568]

"Thanks to our patrons on Patreon, who help protect this show from extinction." STOP I'M DYING

[@LizzyMarieTina]

A bug called the Salt Creek Tiger Beetle is endemic to a small region near the Platte River in Nebraska.

[@debries1553]

I just had an advertisement before the video played. Dit you guys re-enable that? (not that I mind, just wondering)

[@christorres1570]

took 3 hours for this to show up in my sub box, first time that's happened

[@RickySTT]

8:06 You seem to have two errors about the Inaccessible Island rail: • The scale on the map at your source suggest that Inaccessible Island’s area is 16 square km, *not* 16 km square. (Wikipedia says 14 sq. km.) • Google Maps shows the island in the South Atlantic, *not* the South Pacific (which makes more sense if the only transportation is from South Africa).

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

RickySTT both 16 km square and 16 square km work dumbass

[@ffarkasm]

How about the Komodo dragon? It has a very small habitat compared to its body size, but has a stabile population there.

[@OliviaMGrove]

But... what about the Saimaa ringed seal?

[@kancelas]

@SciShow Inaccessible Island is not in the South Pacific Ocean it is on South Atlantic Ocean. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island

[@cicad2007]

You missed the sawfish, tarpon and sharks that live in fresh water Lake Nicaragua.

[@gretschky]

Did he just say "...in the late 1900's"?!!! Damn I feel old

[@TheBassManBoy]

Wait, are we using the term "late nineteen hundreds" now? When did this happen? I feel old now.

[@blackphidora]

w00t! My home county is shouted out! Long live the Texas blind salamander!