These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy

[@devincherry6891]

I love how absolutely normal Darwin was in his frustration and disgust with himself and his work at times. My favorite quote comes from him just after finishing on the origin of species while he was researching and writing a book on orchids... in which he says he "hates them" and that he was having a very bad day of it all; “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.” I love it.

[@Deinobi]

That last quote is a mood

[@ridethecurve55]

Darwin's Waiting Room is gonna be really full after Eons subscribers watch THIS entire episode!

[@AngryNegativeHistoryProject]

That's an interesting quote. It's funny you like that quote.

[@suelane3628]

Made worse by bad health. Which reminds me, did they definitively find out why he was so ill?

[@revenevan11]

Wow lol, I did not expect such a relatable quote from Darwin of all people 😅

[@salineaddict9850]

I can imagine him shaking his fists at the sky screaming “BARNACLES!”

[@Lemuel928]

Definitely SpongeBob.

[@tobiasash9281]

@@Lemuel928 is giving squidward

[@Spear_of_the_Raven_Ash]

Lol, BLOODY BARNACLES!

[@LightEye89]

BARNACLES! YOU BLEW IT ALL UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!

[@robpatty6062]

Excellent....I just giggled at this 🤣🤪

[@CatholicSatan]

My favourite Darwin/barnacle story is that he worked for years on them whilst his kids were growing up. His kids thought this was so normal they once asked a neighbour's kid "When does your father do his barnacles?"

[@EcopiuM]

This is hilarious

[@expansivegymnast1020]

LMAAAO

[@decal24]

there can be 2 meanings for “when does your father do his barnacles”

[@battlemage-yx6zw]

@@decal24 no. just no.

[@brandonmatson7618]

Three meanings

[@ItsAVolcano]

To give an idea of how tedious the barnacle research was, Darwin's daughter would recount how she remembered throughout her early childhood her father starting every morning with a 1-2 hour analysis of new barnacle specimens, which would naturally lead to an afternoon full of cataloging his finds. Every day, for eight years.

[@Acridotheresfuscus]

Lmfao

[@FZJanimated]

we are so lucky to have people like him. obsessed in finding answers and having the strenght to not gave up.

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

"Father, maybe you could not stare at the barnacles today?" "Shhh! I must learn their secrets! Can't you hear them?! They're conspiring!" The barnacles: "You'll never learn our secrets!"

[@canobenitez]

@@rosesweetcharlotte "Did you hear them? I told you" "Father you are grabbing my arm too hard"

[@aleksandrmerchant]

​@@canobenitez "be not afraid child, barnacles were here before our time and they'll be here long after."

[@darcieclements4880]

Darwin was such a real guy. He didn't police himself into a legend, he was just a pure and natural nerd and that makes his writings even better.

[@kR-qj7rw]

this, just one nerd doing research and boy did it end up being important

[@YantoWest]

Just a nerd, stealing another researcher's work and have it published sooner than the original because he has friends in high places 😍🥰

[@zambonibob2026]

@@YantoWest cry about it

[@hyoroemongaming569]

@@zambonibob2026 repping a plagiarizer 💀

[@w.o.jackson8432]

@@hyoroemongaming569 cope and seethe

[@panqueque445]

It's so nice to know that even some of the biggest names in science weren't immune to wishing an entire species never existed, out of pure anger, while struggling to make sense of them. Can relate.

[@natsuhideaki3793]

I feel the same way with Fruit flies. Those pathetic parasites are the MOST abhorrent things to ever eke out an existence.

[@markstyles1246]

F'ing mosquitoes...

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@markstyles1246 Ticks...

[@MikeAG333]

@@natsuhideaki3793 Fruit flies aren't parasites. And there are plenty of candidates for "most abhorrent". Try the bot fly. Or Onchocerca volvulus. Or the tongue-eating louse (look it up...the pictures are...erm.......interesting.

[@ziltoid420]

Strange way to let everyone know you have problems with dating girls.

[@amitavabanerjea1]

Darwin’s frustration with the crustaceans was echoed by Captain Haddock, who often proclaimed: “Billions of blue blistering barnacles”.

[@slwrabbits]

Fellow Tintin fan identified!

[@Melody_Raventress]

Blimey!

[@travbofetty]

Mille millions de Mille sabords!

[@jamesdennison7290]

"In a thundering typhoon!"

[@smartalek180]

Little-known fact: Captain Haddock is a great-great-great-great-great-grand-nephew of Chas Darwin, on his mother's side.

[@DeFaulty101]

One of my favourite quotes of all time is a Darwin quote: "I am very poorly today, and very stupid, and hate everyone and everything." I have that memorized; didn't even need to google it. He wrote that in a letter, I believe. The guy was the most relatable figure in the entire history of science.

[@toyotatacoma1616]

My all time favorite Darwin moment is that bit in Voyage of the Beagle where he describes a seafaring spider’s reaction to some fresh water and the way it raises its forelimbs when startled. He gave it some water and messed around with it for a bit, that’s so charming.

[@donsolos]

Anger is a perfectly healthy emotion but just like everything else only when used modestly

[@DeFaulty101]

@@donsolos Thank you for your comment; I really needed to see this quote right now. I don't consider it to be an angry quote, but one of self-hatred. I share this self-hatred, but if a guy like Charles Darwin can hate himself, then not all self-hatred is deserved.

[@waterunderthebridge7950]

Imagine Darwin lying awake at night, just randomly shaking his fists at the air, occasionally screaming BARNACLES into the void like Timmy’s Dad screams Dinkelberg

[@SoupyMittens]

BARNACLES DAMN YOUUUU

[@JungSooLeee]

CURSE YOU BARNACLEBERG!

[@StraightShot2977]

I feel like it was more of a Crocker situation where he would be seized by paroxysms of rage at the slightest mention of barnacles

[@ff7omega]

​@@StraightShot2977FAIRY BARNACLE PARENTS!

[@LoneWolf0201]

DAMN YOU DINKLEBARN

[@SurgicalStrike41]

Darwin really was the kind of guy who was so stubborbly determined that he spent 8 years just trying to classify a type of animal most of us only know as a SpongeBob curse word.

[@starstorm1267]

Guess that’s why SpongeBob used it as a curse word

[@3takoyakis]

Who would think that a shelled organism would annoy not only sailors, but also marine biologist

[@Nsodnoajdjksl]

Drunk alert

[@markiangooley]

There’s a story that one of Darwin’s sons once asked a schoolmate what HIS father did with HIS barnacles, as if studying them were a common activity of fathers in those days.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

That's like John Connor in Terminator 2 but with barnacles lol

[@FirstLast-hd4oe]

He plays with his Barnacles 😏

[@MacZephyrZ]

For some reason barnacles creep me out so much. Can't blame Darwin for not being a fan.

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

Yeah, they tend to trigger my trypophobia. Do not like.

[@shehan117]

your not alone!

[@自由石匠-b8k]

They are children of Cthulhu.

[@AuroraPaintBrush4444]

They got some of the longest "male" equipment in scale to their size... Because they can't move. Just another thing to be creeped out about.

[@pedroarjona6996]

Well cooked, they are rather tasty, however.

[@nicksamek12]

It's so interesting that Darwin sat on his theory of natural selection for so long, having had thought of it years before this whole barnacle stint and having published Origin of Species long after he finished.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

Don't forget the evolution part of his contribution, that's somewhat important!

[@OmbreDunDouble]

When you think of it, it is indeed really interesting, the theory of evolution, the idea that life is ever-changing and never finished was firstly published after years of evolution of this very theory, probably in the hope that it will be somewhat at a finished point.

[@tonimcmullen5490]

It's because he was such a devout Catholic, his theory of evolution/ natural selection went against everything the church taught. He struggled with his faith for years because of it too. The only reason he published his theory, was because a competitor of his was going to publish their own take on Darwins theory. He didn't want his theory to be botched by someone else and went ahead with publishing and releasing his theory first.

[@TheMesosuchus]

Darwin is overrated.

[@BlueCherryBlossomm]

@@tonimcmullen5490 😊😊😊😊

[@williamozier918]

"I hate a barnacle as no man ever before." y'know, I totally believe that is literally true. I'm pretty sure no other human who wasn't the captain of a small crappy boat has any emotions about barnacles what so ever.

[@michaelfritts6249]

The sailors who got keel hauled might have a worse opinion.. 🤔😉

[@williamozier918]

@@michaelfritts6249 Yeah, but I bet they had a worse opinion about everything at that moment :)

[@SailingSoWhat]

However every boat owner definitely can relate.

[@johanandhira5429]

Darwin on the brink of ending it all learning about barnacles has the same energy as Onion's sketch about an expert who wasted his life learning about anteaters

[@zaco-km3su]

Darwin had a far more diverse experience than I thought when he wrote his work on evolution.

[@TheZachary86]

He was such an educated man. I mean the amount of animal and plant species he studied, he could have made several pHd or books on the subject matter

[@NondescriptMammal]

Yeah not many people get to spend five years sailing around the world. His journal of this adventure is actually a very interesting read.

[@petergibson2318]

Darwin had more experience of the world than most people.. Read his book “The Voyage of the Beagle.” Not many of us get to clamber around the volcanoes of Tierra del Fuego.

[@vincentx2850]

Though this is by no mean a scientific approach, large barnacles taste really kinda like crabs. It has the sweet and salty taste of a crustacean, and strands of discernible muscle fibre reminiscent of crab legs. Quite different from the sweet taste and crunchy texture of clams, whose edible parts are mainly constituted by smooth muscles.

[@JootjeJ]

Very much a Victorian approach.

[@AJBlueJay]

Oddly enough some fungi such as lions mane mushrooms also taste like lobster and crabs..

[@SaiyanHeretic]

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

[@OmbreDunDouble]

Quite fitting knowing Darwin was part of the Glutton Club, eating all the most exotic wild life he could found.

[@1224chrisng]

@@JootjeJ *_in victorian voice_* Discussion: with the same approach, one may find that Egyptian mummies consist mainly of cinnamon from Ceylon and camphor from Formosa

[@elisa.llew-send]

It’s such a comfort to know that Darwin also went through major “aww, 🍜 kit - I’m gonna burn it all down!” moments in his work.

[@kafkaontheshore9102]

Haha pho kit

[@AfloatFob]

That's a new one

[@Kahitanou]

I read this as “ramen-kit” like what

[@ScootsMcPoot]

this reminds me of the pho place in galveston tx. Pho 20s

[@quantumblur_3145]

bond burger

[@AlmostEthical]

In one of your clips, the barnacle reminded me of a hermit crab, with it's little doodads wiggling around out of its shell. Barnacles seem like stable,, sensible hermit crabs that build themselves a house, unlike those crazy nomads that just go out and live in whatever they find.

[@DunsfordFarnsworth]

Homeowner crabs?

[@Isthisjoebiden]

​@@DunsfordFarnsworth😂

[@gaabetzagooga5954]

saying you hate barnacles more than anyone else is actually a pretty big level of hate cause hes competing with sailors for that level of barnacle-hate

[@mellissadalby1402]

Wow, I had no idea barnacles were such a biological conundrum for so long, and I would have also thought them to be Mollusks.

[@MyFiddlePlayer]

I would have thought that the fact that barnacles have brains and mollusks do not would have tipped them off. Well, maybe that was part of the conundrum.

[@Cobrax_x]

@@MyFiddlePlayer are cephalopods not mollusks?

[@adams13245]

@@Cobrax_x They're really brainy mollusks, but from what I've heard they're the odd ones out.

[@TR4R]

When I was in college I had to take a zoology course and remember that it was so weird that they were crustaceans. I just accepted the fact and never felt curiosity for an explanation. Until now.

[@TR4R]

I'm not sure if oysters have a brain but octopuses have one of the largest among invertebrates and they're really smart. The thing with barnacles is this weird adaptation that after being a free swimming larva they become sessile and probably don't develop too much of a brain.

[@beto1744]

It always bothered me how barnacles were considered crustaceans because in my head the looked nothing like them and now I now why. Thanks you answered one of my biggest questions

[@juliav.mcclelland2415]

Don't worry, they think you look pretty weird, too.

[@vaultdweller1386]

@@juliav.mcclelland2415 "The flesh things wish to kill us" -Barnacles shortly before being removed from a ship hull... probably.

[@rodchallis8031]

"To what phylum do you belong? To what phylum do you belong?" Said the fair young Taxonomist. "It's only me from out of the sea," said Barnacle Bill the Crustacean.

[@suelane3628]

It's such a shame that Darwin was christened Charles and not William!

[@lintang790]

Poetic

[@MadHatter42]

Classic!

[@GuukanKitsune]

Aaaah! Barnacle Bill the Sailor! Someone is a person of culture!

[@GabrielHodge]

Bill the arthropod​@@GuukanKitsune

[@thenoisyninja]

Darwin was a weird nerd and lived his ultimate truth the whole time. Respect

[@madmaxiemartialartsnerd485]

Honestly it shows what geniuses these men were to be able to take on these tasks with literally less then half the resources we have today. Just blows my mind to think what they could of accomplished with modern technology to back them up

[@bboywolf]

You have to be ignorant, where is the genius here?

[@muffinbra]

@@bboywolf 🐒🐒🐒

[@quantumblur_3145]

he was just observing and taking notes, dawg, it isn't THAT remarkable

[@TheLaughingDove]

"Variation is the raw material of evolution" is a wonderfully poetic line

[@Mike-pf1ru]

Enjoy the poetry, because there’s no scientific experimentation involved in the idea of evolution.

[@Crygear]

@@Mike-pf1ru dog. Selective variation evolution by breeding.

[@maxsync183]

@@Mike-pf1ru if ignorance is bliss you must be in heaven all the time.

[@Mike-pf1ru]

@@maxsync183 You must be too, considering your ignorance of basic English grammar. Could you briefly summarise the scientific method for me?

[@chavaspada]

@@Mike-pf1ru then how do you explain medicine resistant bacteria bucko?

[@dorongrossman-naples9207]

"I make no perceptible progress and groan under my task." Darwin describes the life of a grad student.

[@jackhandma1011]

Darwin probably wished they evolved into crabs instead.

[@TheOneWhoMightBe]

That barnacle living in the mouth of another creature is the stuff of nightmares.

[@terramater]

It's so interesting to learn about these animals that have been around for so long. Our crew filmed sea turtles; some species existed for about 110 million years. But what is still a mystery about sea turtles and what our team aimed to show is how they always go back to the same beach they were born to lay their own eggs. It doesn't matter how far they swim; they always know where to return. Scientists still don't know exactly when this internal compass is set, but it's incredible to see how these animals that existed for so long still manage to evolve while keeping old behaviours.

[@guysherm]

Salmon do much the same thing; evolution can't happen without a defined breeding population.

[@garydargan6]

Several years ago I was trying out a newly developed technique for extracting fossils. It yielded a diverse array of fossils which were not visible in the hand specimen. Among them were some odd pieces which someone more expert than me suggested could be barnacle plates. The rock was early Devonian so barnacles could be much older than we think.

[@jinjeredge]

Do you have any papers or writings on your findings

[@garydargan6]

@@jinjeredge mostly about very mundane and uninteresting fossil corals.

[@jinjeredge]

@@garydargan6 just curious but what was the extraction method used

[@garydargan6]

@@jinjeredge I impregnated voids left by fossils with resin then dissolved the rock, (a shale) in hydrofluoric acid. The resin only filled surface voids so not much in the way of plastic fossils but the acid converted the carbonate fossils within the rock to calcium fluoride. Not a method I'd suggest for the amateur. Hydrofluoric acid is extremely dangerous and even a small amount on the skin can be fatal.

[@wormwoodbecomedelphinus4131]

Could be convergent evolution for all we know - barnacles existed during the Devonian, went extinct, and then the formula for barnacles is found again. They are a very effective filter feeder. Like how things keep evolving into crabs, I imagine things will evolve into barnacles if barnacles are not their to stake their claim.

[@lillyb2230]

I still feel like Darwin’s fox should have a different name. I would not want to be named after the guy who killed me

[@tipwilkin]

Maybe you should do better at not being killed idk

[@alonealien1474]

Agreed.

[@joshhoehne8281]

My corpse will be named Bob because of this.

[@ivanzivkovic7572]

@@joshhoehne8281 Bob's human

[@sirmeowthelibrarycat]

🤔 A BBC three part series on the Canids included a segment on Darwin’s fox. It took viewers to an island where those foxes are under threat from human intrusion and domestic dogs roaming free. Yet another example of species near extinction through human interference. Relocating the people and their dogs is the only solution. Ditto the Galápagos Islands.

[@matthewflora5362]

"I make no discernable progress, and I groan under my task." Welcome to life, buddy boy.

[@donaldtrumplover2254]

Idk Darwin’s studies were probably some of the most difficult tasks of all time

[@quantumblur_3145]

​@@donaldtrumplover2254Basic pattern identification?

[@samtheflutegirl1373]

The picture of Darwin at 9:00 is so funny to me. He was definitely thinking about barnacles when that photo was taken.

[@icollectstories5702]

Crustaceans are crunchy; molluscs are squishy. Kudos to William Thompson for finding juvenile barnacles!

[@csbalachandran]

As with every Eons docu, this is also very beautifully scripted ... in simple language, but without 'talking down' to the viewer. The presentation and the editing are in keeping with your usual high quality. Thanks for uploading this (and other docus). Kudos!

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

The joking reference to birds being a type of starfish is only slightly off. Birds were classically considered a unique class within the order Chordata. But currently, birds are classified as a sub-clade of dinosaur: specifically, avian theropods. If all of the clade Dinosauria are still considered reptiles, then birds are also reptiles.

[@fun2building]

...I wouldn't call that only slightly, reptiles are still vertebrates

[@pencilpauli9442]

@@fun2building But vertebrates must ultimately have descended from non vertebrates. Starfish are echinoderms, and birds are chordates: "The Bilateria has traditionally been divided into two main lineages or superphyla.[16] The deuterostomes include the echinoderms, hemichordates, chordates, and a few smaller phyla. " Wiki So at some point birds and starfish have a common ancestor.

[@mazocco]

In the end we are all fish though.

[@AngryNegativeHistoryProject]

They used to say humans are mostly bacteria, but new scientist say we're half bacteria.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

@@AngryNegativeHistoryProject our mitochondria were originally independent prokaryotes like bacteria, and our digestive tracts are full of symbiotic bacteria. So, we're colonial organisms like a Portuguese Man-o-war.

[@neilsanghvi5229]

Thanks!

[@TheEccedentesiastX]

Darwin's barnacle vs. Freud's eel: Our fight would be legendary!

[@dugldoo]

Some of your best presentations, like this one, focus not just on "what happened" or "what was found" but on the scientific difficulties paleontologists have had in figuring out what they found or what happened, and the conflicts they endured with their colleagues as they sorted things out. These presentations give some insight into how the field develops.

[@blackbear7624]

also it makes us sympathise with the scientist and further understand their thought process

[@denifnaf5874]

Fun fact: Barnacles hage biggest pp to body ratio to all living and extinct animals.

[@davidsi5376]

Wow, I thought that title was hwld by a type of grass hoppers??

[@brianlovesart]

Man, I love science.

[@pategustavo4392]

I identify as barnacle

[@4473021]

Giant pp gang

[@LuisSierra42]

not sure if i wanted to learn this

[@harpyspeaks]

I was kinda spiralling but your videos always remind me that there is so much Beauty and wonder that we can love everywhere. Even crusted to the bottom of a container ship

[@njlkerins]

Nicely put.

[@quantumblur_3145]

A barnacle can do it, so can you

[@victoriaasenjo524]

In the game We Need To Go Deeper, one of the biomes players can enter is the Infected Depths, an area festering with strange purple barnacles. To quote in-game lore: "A barnacle is no species fit for apexing the food chain - until it is!"

[@jonothanthrace1530]

5:44 that is the face of a man realizing 3 years into his research that he's not even close to done.

[@freedem41]

If Darwin wanted to know if gooseneck barnacles were more closely related to mollusks or arthropods all he had to do was eat one. By taste there is far more shrimp than oyster. In southern Chile there is a huge regular barnacle as well as huge gooseneck barnacles that could tell they were arthropods right away. One should note that there were other species where their taste was a part of the description. I recall that he found mountain lion far tastier than jaguar.

[@perryrush6563]

Imagine all the species that would end up being classified as Chicken

[@freedem41]

@@perryrush6563 most birds anyway, and likely many dinosaurs unless they ate fish. Mollusks like clams, etc. taste very different than crabs, shrimp, etc.

[@scottmeeker9971]

As humans taste like pork...

[@blackbear7624]

@@freedem41 frog tastes like chicken also, it’s very interesting

[@kenneth9874]

The mountain men of the American west claimed that mountain lions were the best meat to be had

[@Raydensheraj]

I think what was a bit missed concerning the reason WHY Darwin picked Barnacles= After a letter from his Botanist friend Joseph Dalton Hooker who was critical of Naturalists who never specialized even on one species or class BUT were the first to make up big hypotheses about the origins of life or how variations in species came to be AKA 'armchair naturalists' ( example Frederic Gerard in this case ) Darwin decided he needed to specialize on cirripedia (the class of barnacles). Darwin thought that Hooker's criticism concerning "theorizing armchair naturalists" was a critic on his own "theorizing" concerning transmutation (aka Evolution) So Charles Darwin went all out with his research on Barnacles - using his theory of natural selection and principle of divergence - ending up (after 8 years) with an masterpiece on an class not understood at all at the time his book was released. It was a masterpiece of its time and still remains a work of a genius....

[@enfiskutensykkel]

"Despite being so frustrated by these creatures that he found himself wishing that they never existed -- a feeling familiar to many graduate students" made me laugh so hard 😄😄

[@hoidoei941]

Somebody wrote an entire rant about the mola mola (ocean sunfish) being the most useless creature ever. Look it up, it’s hilarious

[@sullywinn4225]

"I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before." Looks like Charles never heard of keelhauling...

[@de-ep]

His side quest is like in game, where the side quest often offers a reward that can beat the final boss easily

[@djublonskopf]

This episode is Eons at its best, a deep dive into something that seems like a weird niche topic, only to draw out both a compelling narrative and deep connections to our modern understanding of the natural world. Patreon bucks have rarely been better spent.

[@ChinnuSped]

I wanna see a boxing animation between barnacle and Mr.Darwin also just imagine what else these highly intelligent people who revolutionized the world could do if they've access to the technology we've now..

[@1224chrisng]

on one hand, the barnacle don't have hands to box with, on the other hand, I wouldn't want to box with a razor-sharp shell, so I'll hand it to the barnacles on this one

[@jivisha_]

They would be addicted to phone and procrastinate... and ultimately end up being like us....

[@avenotrius4340]

They'd be watching Netflix and doing tiktok.

[@teaartist6455]

There's people developing ways to store data on DNA for long term storage. We're working on making artificial organs and have at least gotten really close with some simple things like ears. We're developing ways to train dogs to detect cancer earlier than any other test and to mimic a dog's sense of smell with robotics. They still exist but the things we are studying now are ever more specific and niche so until they do change the world you would never know. (And some of them likely never will truly change the world but instead our understanding, or the understanding of scientists of a very niche topic.)

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

0:52 Same bro, I hate fetch quests too 😰 "Bring me 30 barnacle stems, adventurer"

[@fenorlex1126]

"Now bring me 70 of them, and classify each of them."

[@SWISS-1337]

I think those who were keelhauled may have hated them just that bit more, but I imagine Darwin likely came a very, very close second.

[@eric2500]

"Those miserable creatures! They only exist to confound me!"

[@davidgustavsson4000]

"I hate the barnacle as no man did before" is an interesting statement in a world with keelhauling

[@matzemumpsie5292]

Depends on how how you quantify things. Somebody beeing keehauled would be very upset a short time but trying to classify them all would be over a very large amount of time.

[@Danfish42]

"Barnacles baffle biologists" "Evolutionary enlightenment" Your writers sure are having fun with their alliteration!

[@LeoDomitrix]

I checked NOAA, which identified them as "sticky little crustaceans". Imagine telling Darwin this. "Charles? It's a sticky little crustacean!" and Darwin replying, "That's all you have? A sticky little crustacean?"

[@quantumblur_3145]

WHAT IS A BARNACLE?

[@brockobama257]

An episode of Monsters Inside Me featured a woman (I think?) who scraped her hand against the underside of a ship while cleaning off the barnacles. They infiltrated her bloodstream. She had barnacles growing everywhere inside her body. I’ve seen a lot of disturbing content on the internet. I’m of the age where beheading videos were a middle school staple. The barnacles rank in the top 5 memories I wish I could forget. It’s a combination of the intimate violating nature of infestation with the pain I interpreted from the dramatization of the events. The way I see it, pain exists in different levels. There’s intensity and recognition of danger. You could have a lot of pain and understand you’re in danger, like a broken arm. You could have little pain and understand there’s no danger, like a scrape. And then there’s everything in between. This woman thought nothing of the scrape. It fell into the lowest threshold of pain. She was wrong. All that to say I’m with Darwin, and I haven’t even watched the video yet.

[@billfarley9015]

Thanks, I wish you hadn't told me that.

[@Isthisjoebiden]

I literally thought of that episode when I was watching this.

[@davidaugustofc2574]

I'll forever regret learning English instead of German, thanks to you.

[@andromeda7758]

I love the idea of scientists going back and forth over drama involving the classification of barnacles. The scandal, the tea.

[@snoopenny]

You should have mentioned the fact the bottom of every large ship and ocean liner is painted red. There is something in the red paint that keeps barnacles from attaching themselves to the hull, preventing drag and reducing speed.

[@Brokefootchuck]

Whales should evolve to sweat red paint

[@gaoxiaen1]

Lead.

[@CanusDirusx]

An ancient barnacle was friends with a mollusk and asked the mollusk how they build their house. The rest is history. 😁

[@Isthisjoebiden]

Hilarious😂

[@t-bonejones3576]

Mussels can actually move, whereas barnacles are truly cemented in one place

[@pandoraeeris7860]

Chuck D. had many enemies, both great and small.

[@1224chrisng]

between Wallace, sea sickness, and barnacles, which is the worst one?

[@cpee656]

“Bruh, these barnacles are actually crabs.” - Charles Darwin, 1849

[@laithtabet970]

I like to think Stephen Hillenburg, being a marine biologist, knew how angry barnacles made Charles Darwin and for that reason made it a swear word in Spongebob.

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

Friends were thought it was weird when I was super surprised to find out that they were arthropods. I am vindicated.

[@Pyrochazm]

I only learned this a few years ago myself.

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

@@Pyrochazm If you want another one, did you know tardigrades are also arthropods?

[@Pyrochazm]

@@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears I did not.

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

@@Pyrochazm That is all the things on my list of would not have expected to be arthropods.

[@SpeedKing..]

Aren't coconut crabs NOT arthropods or something?

[@rossplendent]

I always love Eons episodes, but for some reason, this one feels *especially* well written!

[@NikkiBdraws]

I'm starting to realize most of my trypophobia is just hating the sight of barnacles stuck to a surface, especially other animals. Any time I see footage of the on a whale or something, I want to scrub them off. I don't know if they actually bother the animal, but it still makes me itch.

[@Audioobscure]

Theyre so disgusting to see

[@someguy5035]

Same. Looks grotesque. I also despise seeing them move around. Absolutely disgusting.

[@EllaNonimato]

@@someguy5035 exactly

[@auwanho]

The way Darwin complain about barnacles in his journal is how I complain about my studies on Instagram studies. I wonder years later people would dig up my Instagram page and be like “he once said ‘I promise if I pass this test I will give up ice cream for a month’”

[@caomouse8829]

5:39 Students doing homework: ...

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

"BLISTERING BLUE BARNACLES!" screamed Captain Haddock! "Arf!" agreed Snowy. "Now Snowy, watch your language." admonished Tintin.

[@akalrove4834]

Barnacles trigger a phobia that I cannot explain. The hole phobia that has a name Tryptosomethingphobia

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

Trypophobia. And me too.

[@rainbowmothraleo]

Naming trypophobia "trysomethingphobia" just forces me to make a pun: - Master Oogway, who's going to be a Dragon Warrior? Maybe Tigress? - Hmmm... Try Po

[@microceratus]

me too, they're so 🤢🤮

[@nunofoo8620]

They are a very expensive dish in my country. They are delicious.

[@sailcat9]

Darwin's finches, worms, and barnacles; he made great science out of superficially banal subjects that had profound implications. He was a true genius.

[@Mike-pf1ru]

Science? Do you think Darwin used the scientific method in any way, shape or form to come up with the idea of evolution? Wrong.

[@adreabrooks11]

This is why I'm far more likely to tune into a documentary about squirrels or hyraxes than wolves or lions. :)

[@jimralston4789]

@@Mike-pf1ru Meticulously disecting and recording his findings every day for eight years, and then sharing them with the scientific community doesn't sound like science to you?

[@Mike-pf1ru]

@@jimralston4789 It's a great story, but nothing to do with the scientific method. You do know what the scientific method is, don't you Jim? Or would you like me to explain it to you? It's not very complicated. Evolution is not science. It's not a scientific theory. It's comes from a thought expermient, not a scientific expermient.

[@Teun_Jac]

@@Mike-pf1ru yes we would very much like you to explain what the scientific methods is, if it isn't any trouble. I would like to learn. Since it isn't complicated, fill us in real quick so we're all on the same page.

[@dfghdfghuytiu8207]

If Darwin hated barnacles, imagine how sea turtles feel.

[@cyborgtoad]

theres just something endearing about such a brilliant man such as darwin just getting so worked up about barnacles that he wishes their extinction 😆

[@tomcurl8034]

To be fair at first glance, a barnacle does look and act very much like a mollusk but if you take a closer look at its lifecycle, it is definitely a very weird crustacean

[@bbirda1287]

1:00 That picture really struck me with how close the Wallace and Gromit studio nailed Darwin in their Pirate movie.

[@rosiehawtrey]

Nailed Darwin. Two words I didn't know I didn't want to see together..

[@suelane3628]

I ought to check, but I think that Darwin was already engaged to Emma Wedgewood before the voyage. It would have been expected of him as the families were rich and had to marry well. Ironically Emma was his cousin. That doesn't detract from The Pirates which I have watched twice!

[@Luanmm]

@@suelane3628 he was not engaged by then. He was interested in another lady, who got married pretty soon after he departed (he was devastated when he got the news from his sister by letter). He proposed to Emma after he had returned from his Beagle journey

[@idot3331]

Aardman is the name of the studio. When they want to make a great movie, they really can. These days however I think they focus most energy on their cash-cow Shaun the Sheep.

[@suelane3628]

@@Luanmm Hi, thank you.

[@ulischmidt03]

He’s not a barnacle boy, he’s a barnacle MAN

[@andromedatonks60]

“a feeling familiar to many graduate students” I FEEL SEEN

[@LaughDragon]

I don't know why but I absolutely hate barnacles!! I just want to peel them all off.

[@trogo3402]

DARWIN WAS NOT A BARNACLE BOY

[@joakos1122]

no wonder barnacles was a curse word in spongebob

[@shekhan4678]

"Barnacle boy" is simply a hilarious phrase

[@turkeykent3719]

“WHAT ARE YOU!!!!!?” *Darwin said calmly*

[@Laggie74]

To be a biologist back then, and frankly most other fields, you first have to learn how to draw. So impressed and admire all their contributions to human knowledge.

[@a.karley4672]

Darwin's life covered the invention of photography. Daugerrotype photography was invented while he was writing up his Beagle journal, and in his later life he sat for portrait photographs.

[@GrinninPig]

He was a barnacle MAN

[@buckybarnes3015]

I knew someone was gonna make this comment 😂😂

[@PrincessTS01]

gotta love side quests, you do enough of them and your exp jumps drastically making you OP to others in the zone

[@Raydensheraj]

I strongly believe this and his works on Orchids to be incredibly important....because the Orchids made him a specialist on Barnacles and gave him respect....the Orchid Book kept providing evidence for his own theory of Evolution....so much he literally couldn't believe it himself.

[@C29Chris]

I came for the idea of Darwin punching barnacles but wow I did not realize classifying them happened during his time this was great learning about barnacles had no clue they were crustaceans

[@ferdyhoshigakitube]

*Darwin waking up try to stretch,end up hurting his back* Darwin : "barnacles!"

[@rachelbockrath6276]

Seriously, why do so many of Darwin's great quotes sound like a very modern tweet? 😆

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Fun to remember humans have been humans for over 100k years. (Old fashioned parents concerned their kid has too much interest in an attractive neanderthal neighbor across the valley... and should instead settle down with a nice familiar village kid with a stable village role instead, like the other village kids :p)

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@TragoudistrosMPH Interestingly enough, there actually seems to have been at least some interspecies pairing between different species of hominins.

[@Mohotashi]

Imagine if On the Origins of Species never got published and Darwin was just some weird barnacle guy, now that would be some deep Victorian pain. 🤣

[@suelane3628]

Like Beatrice Potter who wasn't able to publish her studies just because she was a woman.

[@AdamZovits]

Darwin went on to do an epic sidequest in order to grind XP for 8 years and thus levelled up enough to craft a masterpiece.

[@stephaniecollins6052]

I hate barnacles, too, but not like crabs. Those are a phobia of mine and seeing them really makes me shiver

[@mikemcconeghy4658]

Scientist 1 - "It's a mollusk" Scientist 2 - "Then why do the babies look like shrimps?"

[@cathrinewhite7629]

What _really_ matters is, which one tastes best on a cracker?

[@film9491]

I took several evolution classes in university including reading Origin of Species from cover to cover. This is the first time I am learning that barnacles are crustaceans. Excellent video!

[@ShaunakHub]

"Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!"

[@AngryGrape1337]

Charles Darwin 🤝 Half Life Players Hating barnacles

[@Shmew455r]

"I hate a BUSSY as no man did before" Got that bussy for only 2 frostys and a jr baconator