The Phylogenetic Tree of Anole Lizards - HHMI BioInteractive Video

Biologist Jonathan Losos describes the traits that enable anole lizard species to live in their various habitats. In this educational video, join Dr. Losos on his quest to understand evolution by natural selection.
Explore the evolutionary path of the green anole lizards found in the Caribbean. Discover how the different species have evolved traits adapted to their environments and developed into distinct species.
Free classroom resources supporting this short film can be found at www.hhmi.org/bi...

[@madzeliz]

Online school gang

[@ItsKaiReed]

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[@yoslicck7186]

Yeppppp

[@Vanosty]

Facts

[@ayotochtle1194]

Yuh

[@mollym4005]

What class would you even have to watch this for?

[@zawarudo93]

I came here cause I have to watch this for my bio class but it was actually really interesting!

[@sweithshetty9463]

The diet of those lizards that were transferred to the remote bushy land also might have changed a lot right??...what did they eat there

[@julianalinker6229]

online school check- watching this for bio

[@alexisultimanium4891]

yup

[@xxgatcha_trashxx6081]

I came down here too say I had to watch this for school but how has no one else said anything bout the lizards being put back there gonna be like"BrooIIi was taken and experimented on" and everyone will think he's crazy lmao😂😂😂😂

[@churchofdiesel5396]

im doing a worksheet to this bro

[@gijijia]

I was forced to watch this for school but I gotta say this was pretty cool

[@evanwendover9428]

Same

[@prestigeworldwide7406]

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[@yomamaballsinmyw]

Did your teacher also force you to comment this

[@blackie6738]

Doing it rn

[@benettoniscool]

Osoooo lois you have so OI eo

[@zekehowey]

I don't think anyone came here voluntarily.

[@mollym4005]

I did

[@GhostedGamer]

i did

[@lana-fu8nw]

Im worried for those of you who came here voluntarily

[@name-om6vh]

I don’t know how I got here

[@fover_]

i actually did, cause my friend told me he had an assignment and had to watch this video and he sent me the link so ijust clicked it and now im voluntarily watching it

[@juliaaaaaa605]

I like many others was also forced to watch this for school

[@krishbhalla1218]

lmao same

[@fishe3368]

it’s real online schooling hours

[@itznia_ok8069]

me rn :/

[@fexbugs]

i’m watching it for fun

[@mcbarnhart]

How sad that your teachers ask you to learn about your world

[@Ohmakie]

My teacher really said "don't look at all the comments from the students mad at their bio teacher for making them watch this. ITS A VERY COOOOOOOL VIDEO"

[@bluejay3]

Nobody: These scientists: gonna terrorize some lizards today

[@camilleaguilar4532]

"and now she's in my noose" *lizard dangles*

[@elliotnielsen5383]

ABHAHAHAH

[@patrickquirk7670]

I was forced to watch this for school

[@wesleysipe4517]

Patrick Quirk smh I wish I did

[@yannabear1389]

Samee

[@johannbrooks3333]

same g

[@ellis51773]

me too, hi.

[@garrettlambright1185]

Same shoutouts to Cypress Falls high school Enviromental science AP

[@LokheeNyx]

"Lives in the grasses and bushes. And it's called a 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔-𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒆." That literally made me die with laughter

[@dinosouth7909]

You literally died and were still able to write comment?

[@johngrisham3784]

@@dinosouth7909 haha you've made me literally die from laughter.

[@patriciahernandez2719]

No creativity points for those scientists That named them

[@--Paws--]

These are great _anolegies_

[@user-vh8wn8sx3z]

noice

[@englisch9150]

bro

[@drd6482]

#yeahboi

[@reecerodriguez3924]

We had to watch this for my Biology 115 Lab at Rider University. I really do have to say this was not only extremely interesting but informative as well. I love it!!!

[@biointeractive]

Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!

[@codeylai4847]

Same, for Biology 306-0001 (Organisms and Ecology) at UW-Green Bay. Love this video!

[@TheLoobis]

7:30 three visits over three years and these guys were wearing the exact same clothes?

[@michaelwang1730]

probably just did this for this video

[@gabobllama2635]

They didn't spend three years filming this... it was just to illustrate the experiment

[@falchion776]

No no. They kept three islands next to each other and put lizards on at different times so when they filmed they could just go from island to island. It's like in a cooking show where they already have it premade beforehand so they can just keep filming.

[@Meeminator]

its fake evolution isnt real we're living a lie

[@njnature3340]

@@Meeminator shut up that’s what you think. Also we are not living a lie

[@str3aks468]

A few years ago we found a green anole in our backyard and kept him ever since. (his name is Gus)

[@adityadharni5027]

gus still alive?

[@bigsam8597]

@@adityadharni5027 They live up to 4 to 5 years on average, so he's probably dead by now.

[@NewMessage]

Anoles are to this day my favorite lizards. I fell in love with them in my teens, and even after decades working with reptiles and amphibians (and everything from ants to primates), they remain my absolute favs.

[@Messenger4now]

Mine too

[@Tayl0r_]

They are so interesting. I believe as a kid growing up in Adams County Colorado (USA - in Brighton to be exact) one variety/genus of anoles did a MASS migration through our property one hot summer night. Literally hundreds just scattered! A few found that they’d rather hide in our garage than continue onwards so my dad managed to catch one and show me, the neighbor kids over at my house and their dad (drinking buddies), and my freaked out mom! One in a lifetime experience! As later on, I searched around online a little and never heard of them migrating through the midwest like they did that one time - as far as I am aware.

[@redneck_3383]

14:13 Are they really that big!?!

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

ITS GODZILLA AHHHHH

[@dinosouth7909]

Great video. So many Biology concepts in the one video. Explained really well and good graphics. Observable Natural Selection! Great Channel

[@biointeractive]

Thank you very much!

[@andrewlarson7325]

1:20 "Safley Catches Them" literally snares it by the neck

[@espressoaddict15324]

bruh their necks are strong enough, it doesn't even hurt them

[@alex-fo9tn]

i watched this for AP bio in high school and now I'm in college watching it again for a take-home final :)

[@joseph7972]

Instructions unclear. Tried scanning a lizard's feet. Ended up creating a reproductively-isolated divergent species.

[@lolmeme69_]

lol

[@pensivenincompoop2016]

Reniun I am not sure if you’re being facetious or just displaying ignorance. Regardless, no species were “created.”

[@Irish_Gordy]

@@pensivenincompoop2016 r/wooosh

[@voidnoidoid]

@@pensivenincompoop2016 r/woosh

[@GuiGFreitas]

That's just a great production, a clear example of evolution and it's mechanisms! Helped me a lot learning about lizards for a series of Drawing studies I"m about to make! :)

[@lilfatrolls91]

Evolution isn't real

[@nevermore7285]

kaiden bacque You, good sir or madam, are certified moron if that isn’t a joke

[@Bunny-ns5ni]

Give me good evidence that evolution isn't real. You really can't. It's a fact of life

[@airpodzyt1566]

@@lilfatrolls91 it’s shown in the video

[@patriciahernandez2719]

I was sitting in my patio in Puerto Rico and suddenly realized how many lizards there were and wondered: what is their story? How did they end up here?. I’m legit so happy I found this video. I’m from Puerto Rico and had never heard about this evolutionary story. Thank you for making me appreciate the natural fauna around me a bit more! Was not expecting the video to be specifically on the lizards I saw in my yard so that was super cool coincidence!!!

[@ThePaticake]

Your island is beautiful! I visited Puerto Rico for research fieldwork last summer where we worked with anoles, and I didn't want to leave given how diverse and beautiful the native flora and fauna was. We saw every species of anole on the island except for the elusive Puerto Rican Twig Anole (Anolis occultus) - but I'll be back someday to try again, I know it!

[@theshageddy9456]

Never been but I’ve been to Costa Rica and there were anoles everywhere and yellow headed geckos

[@Jebiwibiwabo]

i live in south florida (miami), there are anoles everwhere, and easily one of my favorite lizard species, great vid

[@Challe6376]

I am from florida too. I was obsessed with them when I was younger and I called them red beard lizards.

[@sistamya9981]

forced to watch this from school

[@Khyrid]

I'm an adult who watched this for fun.

[@coltonanderson9467]

I wish I could display my neck flap and attract females

[@renatoigmed]

just play a guitar like Slash does

[@Slateproc]

you got one, it's called a wallet

[@t-mansam7582]

This guy knows his stuff, I never thought Lizards would catch my attention ..............

[@ezekielmartin4323]

15:15 _A. equestrius_ *H o r s e l i z a r d*

[@MsJiroah]

I'm sorry, am I the only one surprised at his method of catching them? haha I was expecting a net...not a dog catcher's pole..

[@snakeguy76]

Best way to catch lizards by far. Nets get in the way and easily snag branches. I've caught many lizards this way and it is a very tried and true method. More amazingly, the lizards seem to ignore the loop even as it is passing over their heads. It's only after it is around their necks do they bolt tightening the noose more.

[@drone_pics_prjose7888]

When I was little I use to catch them made my pole with grass

[@spiritbreathlife7492]

...strange, I just know I invented the noose and pole method of catching lizards in the 60s in Southern California. I always use fishing line. They think it's a fly or bug and chase it, then over it's head it goes and a gentle pull and - bang - I got another one!

[@matteocd9609]

This video is just so good and I can't explain why

[@biointeractive]

Anoles are cute.

[@neglectantithesis446]

Evolution only exists within the same species, you've never seen a lizard turn into a cat.

[@deucesolo]

I love Anole lizards, if you rub their belly they'll fall asleep! Love horned toads as well, but they 're getting hard to find.

[@Bambooshark999]

Man’s really be out here fishing himself up some anoles

[@naturalexandra]

This is known as a beautiful example of adaptive radiation, and it is a biogeographical evidence of evolution. Adaptive radiation happens when an ancestral population diverges into a number of different lineages (in this case, different species) with distinct adaptive traits, in this case, morphological and ecological. Each body type of the anoles within an island descended from a common ancestor. We infer that on each island (we can think that each one contained similar environmental conditions and therefore similar selective pressures) an ancestral anole population with enough genetic variation, after many generations, at a big time scale evolved into different species. The most wonderful finding about this study is that natural selection (the mechanism of adaptive evolution) generated very similar results independently between islands. :)

[@caidenthecat]

Just followed a google classroom link since I’m out sick

[@kylemoder7550]

I love seeing how excited scientists are to do their jobs. Its probably mostly just data but getting to catch lizards and make them race must be so fun.

[@유빈-f8r9r]

I think these lizards are very cute~! ^^ Love from South Korea~

[@DigitalDuelist]

I adopted 4 of these little guys. They are VERY entertaining tank mates to my other guys.

[@porterschoen1510]

I see people saying they were "forced" to watch this. It's really cool though.

[@fearplug6027]

Green ankles are actually very nice I️ have a pet and when I️ open the cage he jumps on my hand and bobs his head

[@chicagoliightsx]

Lmfao! Ik what you mean, but that typo has me keeling over laughing 😂👌

[@aissatou.]

I actually enjoyed this video, and that doesn't happen very often with school related content

[@rebelyell2741]

Why doesn’t inbreeding occur in this Adam and Eve sterile Island scenario?

[@SirKhoakGaming]

A - nole lizards

[@bebeburbs8052]

omg there all so cute including mine 😍😍😍

[@bebeburbs8052]

I wish learning math was as easy as learning science 😔😫

[@bebeburbs8052]

I always loved watching and learning about nature loved it more then kids shows and movies what a weird little girl I was and still is but just older 😳😏

[@bebeburbs8052]

+tag still am I mean

[@bebeburbs8052]

+tag lol I'm just talking to myself

[@elitehitman2561]

+tag lol i love anoles tooo

[@soundpainter2590]

There are Zillions of these in MIAMI/ South Florida... & Their judging how "Fast a particular anole is " .. Sometimes they just want to Chill.. ( They find humans Interesting also ) ...

[@うめちゃん-l8h]

この動画世界中の学生が講義の課題として見させられてるんだな

[@colerogers4037]

Very fascinating video, although I was mainly focused on how cute the lizards were. I wish I could see one of those in real life.

[@Joe-yh4hh]

I saw the tiny lasso and I knew this was going to be good.

[@DiegoDCvids]

very cool species!!

[@WeeLittleLaddie]

Hey Vsauce

[@espressoaddict15324]

Michael here

[@voidnoidoid]

I'm just here cos I like lizards

[@gracenicole8932]

sir, why are you keeping the lizard in a bag? 🤣

[@Goobiusgoober]

I’m obsessed with lizards they’re so cute, so I don’t even care if this is for a school assignment

[@trabiccolo879]

Where do I find a tutorial on how to scan a lizard?

[@afrojacker9]

Online school ya digggg

[@hunterotto4135]

I OWN A ANOLE! I BREED THEM.

[@davidrg1570]

Hunter Otto do you sell them?

[@jenniferdiesslin6997]

Do you know if only male anoles have the neck flap or do both male and female have them

[@Bunny-ns5ni]

@@jenniferdiesslin6997 I know that female Carolina Green Anoles have dewlaps. They usually don't present them nearly as often as males do(or almost never). I assume this is also true for other anole species.

[@precastsnake3171]

I have like 100 in my backyard

[@parisiansigh8394]

Anyone here from AP bio

[@johannbrooks3333]

send answers

[@b33biker40]

Ha just regular bio

[@kathymcmorrow]

I was forced to watch this for school, but it is actually very cool

[@subinyoon8635]

I watched this for a class assignment and it was actually really fun and intuitive. Thank you for the great video.

[@biointeractive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@stevehogan8829]

I watched it for fun because we have lots of Anoles here. I've got the fast bush type and the large green tree Anoles. They are about a foot long here. We also have a softer slower green carnelian but the are losing the battle to the Anoles.

[@VoonChile]

Pretty awesome to learn about these anole lizards. They are beautiful creatures.

[@sophie-se1te]

This was so interesting!

[@emmanuelramirez3929]

*advanced civilization abducts unsuspecting organism from its environment, takes it to a hi tech laboratory that its species could not even begin to comprehend, performs tests and experiments to gather data, and returns organism just the way they found it" 👽

[@markmckie4221]

This is so interesting

[@geckosalaplancha8286]

hmm could I possibly do this in my terrarium.. great a short legged anole

[@vanessaguevarro6526]

Wow never knew i would've enjoy watching this 💚💚💚💚🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎

[@_sky.the.lone.wolf_99]

i have a pet green anole

[@drd6482]

LEZARD #charizard #ANOLES! #rickets #yeahboi

[@matthewowens455]

ha a noose just catch em with you hand like normal

[@ytrewq6789]

I had to re-read the title a couple of times before I read it correctly lol.

[@theultimate7953]

8th grade science 2021 gang here

[@shawnagrubb9958]

Never seen this in school. I just love reptiles 😁

[@DaZeKR]

thank you for giving the opportunity to study

[@raythackston1960]

This is so funny...I used to catch the American Anoles in Florida using a fishing pole with a loop on the end. Never knew anyone ever did it but me. I did teach a couple of kids and teens how to do it.

[@pancakeslapp]

0:18 poor guy was really trying

[@lolzmcfree6996]

forced to watch for school, no complaints tho (:.

[@ddeon]

Can you Answer These you think? pleasseee ahah BIO QUESTIONS 1. How have populations changed? 2. What has caused these changes? 3. What type of evidence is there to support the conclusion that species evolved independently on each island? 4. How can microevolutionary changes drive evolution and speciation?

[@--Paws--]

Makes sense, the length of legs of certain birds have the same adaptation it seems. Primarily tree dwelling perching birds, have shorter legs (certain owls and raptors), while those that hunt on the ground and perch on a tree tend to have slightly longer legs (robins, mockingbirds, songbirds). Wading birds and birds that live on meadows have even longer legs (plovers, cranes, secretary bird and herons). Pelicans, boobies, and other shore-birds are amphibious where they have to be streamlined for the water and aerodynamic to make dives. Penguins however, have short legs to be streamlined in the water. Ostriches and other large flightless birds took advantage of their legs rather than taking flight.

[@markscohier9308]

I came here voluntarily. Fascinating little documentary.

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

6:15 Hey, That looks like one of the Largest Anole Lizards. Plus, the largest species look like an Iguana. I wonder if they're distant relatives?

[@TheTrixman123]

i was made to watch this for a lab

[@sheilamalund7768]

I really enjoyed watching this video. I have 6 green anoles that are now part of my family and it was very interesting to see how they have evolved and adapted. There are several anoles that live in my bush outside. I have taken in several when they were hurt and nursed them back to health. The 6 I have now are very smart and loving lizards. They intrigue me. Especially since everything I have read says they don't like to be held. Mine do.

[@raymakfanclub7277]

Who is here for online school?

[@jerrygu4327]

Who is here for online school?

[@Tazerboy_10]

I'm also here for a Biology class, but I'm in college... > I like watching nature videos/documentaries, so no qualms here...

[@bynphw]

my doods

[@zingibain]

Hey Mrs. Pacowta!!

[@deborapozzimaldonado1895]

The amazong Anolis cuvieri of my country 💖🥰

[@loganeasley4343]

MFW the short-legged blackpilled doomer anole gets the Christian tradwife anole while the long-legged chad redpilled anole gets a bluepilled normie gf and I still can't get a doomer mommy gf.

[@chelseam9497]

They remind me of my Cuban false chameleon which is also an anole. I loved watching this and learning more about them.

[@lexibrandi3355]

Here because my toddler loves geckos/lizards

[@Peter_Scheen]

I see in the comment section that many had to watch this because of school. I wish that ID proponents forced their kids to watch this and ask them to debunk evolution with it. But they don't because they can't.

[@astridl.3465]

I’m so glad my bio professor made me watch this. Lizards are so cute I love them 😭 🦎🩷

[@kanewilliams775]

39 people disliked it. 39 creationists watched this video

[@whitfieldmccrum6859]

its 81 now. Oh No! Their numbers are Growing!!!

[@tedinskib5234]

Kane Williams. My Grandson asked me for two of these, and they are pretty fascinating little creatures, but if you think this video proves Darwinian evolution with it's assumptions, speculation and conjecture, you may not be a Creationist, but you are a very religious person.

[@TheFirstAmendment]

Tntfinbarre yes because we know the truth in Jesus Christ.

[@bradleywoods3742]

39 people liked this comment.

[@kalef1234]

you're so funny

[@5CENT-STUDIOS]

It's weird to see somebody say they were forced to watch this for school when I'm sitting here watching it just because that feels weird just saying

[@baby5929]

Ever since Darwin???....What about ever since Genesis??? :-)

[@lilfatrolls91]

Yes let's travel to another country to catch a smile lizard I can find on my porch

[@pensivenincompoop2016]

kaiden bacque of course you can find anoles in your own house and yard, but I don’t think they’d be as diverse as the ones Jonathan Losos collected for experiments. The guy was more systematic in his methodologies rather than haphazardly collected anoles. I hope you’re one of the smart ones out there.

[@HandlesAreShrakh]

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