Every Living Whale Family - Cetacean Evolution Part 2

[@mymom1462]

Such an underrated channel

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

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[@mymom1462]

Henry the PaleoGuy checking it out rn

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thanks! :)

[@chieckenman4432]

Oh hey it's henry :)

[@mymom1462]

Henry the PaleoGuy I am glad I took a look at your channel Henry 🤗

[@presidenttogekiss635]

Whales are so huge. The Grey Whale is considered "medium sized", but it was bigger than pretty much any Ictyosaur that ever lived (the biggest one was 16 meters top) as well as the vast majority of plesiousaurs and mosasaurs. It seems like most vertebrates got tinier in land, but bigger in the oceans since the end of the Cretaceous.

[@seankennedy5074]

Shastasaurus is thought to have exceeded 20 metres.

[@matthewtait2939]

President Togekiss the newly discovered lil stock icthiosaur is estimated at 26 metres long and around the same size as a blue whale...

[@EloquentTroll]

Oceanic mammals tend to get bigger for reasons of heat conservation. It's just more efficient to be big, smaller bodies lose heat faster.

[@shriyanv4407]

[Shastasaurids are getting pissed]

[@charliebowen5071]

You are completely wrong!

[@drattmixer]

Can you write up the names of the organisms you are talking about. Sometimes I want to google some of them later but it’s hard when you just have one pronunciation of the word. That would be awesome if you did, and as usual you are one of the best channels on KZbin!!! Good work! Keep it up!

[@Tsumami__]

Use closed captions

[@Hashishin13]

Wikipedia has the full family of life as far as I can tell. You can click through it on the right, in the panel.

[@mattr2238]

@@Tsumami__ Yeah close captions wouldn't help at all. They are hilariously inaccurate because they only have a limited vocabulary that only includes the words that "regular" people use.

[@deanmottershead9208]

matt R what you don’t want the Mr seat family? As captions calls it!

[@erikpodda1224]

Hallå kevin

[@dominiciancabatit6012]

I'm sad about the Baijis dolphin. We lost not only a species, but a whole overall dolphin family...

[@xanderbecker3017]

DOMINIC IAN CABATIT “look how they massacred my boy”

[@pinkdaruma8942]

seeing an actual picture of it an thinking about how they're all gone made me really sad.

[@megalosaurusstudiosdinopro7447]

We can just clone it back, but it is sad that amazing doliphin has been killed

[@Hoshino_Channel]

Nigersaurus taqueti "We can just clone it" is a very bold statement, just because we posses the power to do it it doesn't mean it's going to work. Do you know how many dolphins would have to be bred in laboratories for a stable population? They would suffer from inbreeding and eventually kill themselves off.

[@xanderbecker3017]

星野 小春 I agree with you completely. It would be nice to bring them back but, it would not work in the long term

[@valentins7120]

RIP Yangtse Dolphin. I wonder if there are fossil records that fill the gap between odontocetes and baleen whales?

[@tonlito22]

Great job Chairman Mao. Killed millions of Chinese and drove a whale species extinct.

[@tonlito22]

@098765 Craper I'll concede that Deng is technically responsible, and if I was in his shoes, I'd likely make his choice, but Mao forced China onto this path of recklessness and ruthless exploitation.

[@nikolademitri731]

I remember being a kid and going to the Pittsburgh Zoo, seeing a Amazon freshwater dolphin in the aquarium there, and always feeling so bad for it... It’s living area seemed too small, but the worst part is that it always looked sick and genuinely sad.. It’s been so many years, but I believe that there was only one that they had (which seems borderline abuse if it’s as social as other dolphin), and I’m fairly certain it’s dead now.. 😔

[@Darknight4434]

About that you don't worry, they are often solitary, or live in a trio at best

[@dimebag124]

I was at the Pitt Zoo a few years ago and I don't remember seeing a freshwater dolphin so yeah, it is dead...

[@dontaemiles92]

Oh I member

[@RSK412]

PPG Aquarium their facility is quite small.

[@casper6405]

I always loved going to the zoo and aquarium Always a fun place to be Animals are being taken care of Good and fun place Dont listen to this idiot who has no idea what he is talking about He's just as shallow as an puddle

[@moonblast1647]

Next to dinosaurs, cetaceans are my favorite animals.

[@DakotaofRaptors]

Gardevoir is one of my favorites

[@maxgreece1]

Just wow! That was quite a squeeze to get them all in. Yet again huge changes over the last few years and several species I’d never heard of. Great job! Perhaps a longer form of this one in the future. You must have enough material for a couple of hours at the very least.

[@bosniakedisniksic]

Please do this with all animals! This is the kind if stuff that gets me stuck in a Wikipedia search bing for 3 hours.

[@oberynwankenobi441]

Narwhals Narwhals! Swimming in the ocean! Causing a commotion! Cause they are so awesome!

[@jackib5369]

Will you talk about the extinct grouped in the next video it'll be super interesting

[@alecknathan2357]

Please, do it!

[@soza5983]

Yeah I agree, that would be super cool to know About extinct whales!

[@BenGThomas]

Bit of an earlier upload this week, had to get part 2 done sooner than usual :)

[@justinallenlindley9796]

Umm... humback whales? You showed a pic at the end, but where do they fit in?

[@watermelon-topic2209]

Very good

[@NicoG575]

New subscriber. I love the effort you put into your video's it's much appreciated!

[@klyanadkmorr]

Thanks to these vids, I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole to read in more detail and other websites(just noticed you listed your references) and see the info you speak of. I've always wondered but I refuse to believe an ancestor that led to herbivore Hippos is the same ancestor to whales, I'll believe the original species as more indicative because going from herbivore to mostly meat carnivore is rare but omnivore to carnivore more likely. - lolmao There is no 'POI POYSE' (purpose=porpoise) to these Videos! lol

[@Ahonya666]

Would you make part 3 with the extinct ones?

[@Akaryusan]

the dwarf right whale is so strange if it had more prominent pectoral fins it could eventually go back onto land as a semi aquatic creature

[@Rodoadrenalina]

those "blind" dolphins are crazy

[@zakuro8532]

A few hundred thousand years and they probably won't even have any eyes at all... creeps

[@Brainhoneywalker]

I LOVE your vlogs. It is opening up my understanding in ways I have never imagined. Thank you so much for creating this excellent series. I have believed in evolution for much of my life but learning from your brilliant series helps me make my “belief” so much more solidly informed.

[@eschwarz1003]

Cetaceans: Primates of the waters. 5:20 OMG! those Faces! those ADORABLE Faces! Yes the Baiji extinction, a disgrace. The Vaquita and Indus+Ganges River Dolphins need all the help they can get to survive.

[@prototropo]

Thanks so much, Ben Thomas, for both parts of this Cetacea survey. The entire clade is compelling, as we all know, and it’s so refreshing to watch a professionally produced, scholarly discussion rather than the same disney-esque, lowest-possible-vernacular pablum. Your research is rigorous.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Amazing creatures.......how these land mamals eventually went back to a marine life...highly understandable since the abundance of food there was unparalelled....just open your mouth and dinner swims in......

[@burtmacklin1939]

“Just open your mouth and dinner swims in” Phrasing

[@LordofFullmetal]

Right? They gave land a try and decided it wasn't their thing lol. I respect that.

[@ihavenoprimos4799]

I'll rate this 11/10

[@onuscronus984]

This is video with porpoise. 🐬

[@LoudmouthReviews]

I approve this pun

[@BigfootYetiPL]

My therapist: Whalerus doesn't exist, it can't hurt you. Whalerus: 13:16

[@waskozoids]

I like killerwhales.

[@jaanayson7694]

Your channel deserves more attention, you put so much work into each video. Thanks for making these amazing videos!!

[@seankennedy5074]

Very well presented video. The Inia is an awesome creature, you could easily devote a whole video to them alone. So streamlined yet clumsy looking and pink skin and beady eyes and pectoral fins like big hydroplanes. Some of the Amazonian mythology surrounding them is interesting too. Then there are the "interactions" that lonely fisherman are said to have with female Inia...

[@brucecampbell6133]

Thank you for this great comprehensive whale family summary! I had never seen this together so succinctly and well articulated. Great .

[@robertfletcher3421]

I am learning all the time from this channel great stuff.

[@LuigiG145]

I'm so glad your channel is finally nearing 50k subs, Ben! I remember when you just started this series, and it's such a treat to see how far you've come.

[@BigDogBandit]

They are great. I love them. All so intelligent. All so unique. All of them the epitome of majesty.

[@dumbbest7328]

I love ocean mammals, and it's so sad to see them falling closer and closer into extinction. 😞

[@atreyuprincipalh4043]

Mr Thomas thank you for all this treasure troves of our pass prehistory...I love all your post, great info indeed..God bless you I all your future endeavors!

[@austinroger4233]

Ben G Thomas. Thank you for all your research I am very much enjoying your content.

[@madedgar]

I really appreciate your content, thank you for your effort!

[@AphidKirby]

This was a fascinating and thorough exploration of this wonderful clade of earthlings, I have nothing to say but Thank you!!!!!

[@oidawasnoch]

That's amazing content! Keep it up :)

[@tinyGrim1]

Awww, you say porpoises so cute ! I'm shocked I missed these. TY 😊

[@roxanneweichinger9318]

TheFoxandTheRabbit,• 😀Yeah the way he kept pronouncing porpoise was kind of funny,but that’s ok, this channel has great content that’s always interesting to listen to.

[@megaroo6110]

Cetaceans are my absolute favorite! Thank you so much for these videos. I'm a new sub and I've been binge watching your videos and I've never found one that wasn't completely fascinating.

[@samuelmatheson9655]

imagine if whales were aggressive during mating season like other mammals, and confused boats for other whales and rammed them out of its territory

[@marcopohl4875]

Moby Dick was inspired by a real whale attack, some scientists believe that's what caused it

[@sharksuperiority9736]

You should do a separate video on the extinct whales

[@theofficialassmob]

Awesome video ben, I love your passion for animals and plants. kudos!

[@barrvinn5795]

thanks for the videos, I learned a lot ! keep going guys, you deserve a lot more subs!

[@leminjapan]

Great video! I learned so much more about cetaceans

[@balthiersgirl2658]

Wonderful beautiful and facinating episode thank you so much

[@chiaroscuroamore]

Loving this video series!!!❤️🐬🐳🐋

[@hotj2006]

I will say one of the most awesome and complete info where i could make bones and fossils comparison on just one well narrated video. I would recommend it

[@Mydarkarts23]

Very awesome to learn about dolphin and whale. Question can you guys make a video about prehistoric bugs.

[@therealzilch]

Fascinating. As usual. Thanks, Ben. cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

[@duncanself5111]

The Delphinidae family have some of the most charismatic species in the animal kingdom In my opinion

[@stevesellers-wilkinson7376]

Fascinating video. I really enjoyed part 1 as well! Thanks so much for this! :-)

[@tyrson4331]

Awesome video, as always, I really needed a video of this. On a side note, for some reason I’ve never liked when they call orcas “killer whales “.

[@cennethadameveson3715]

Great video as ever!

[@SirBlackReeds]

Will this series need to be redone? Some recent discoveries have shown that we don't know nearly as much as we think we do when it comes to cetacean evolution.

[@peterclegg2609]

Always first class interesting content .

[@Oisheh]

what about the extinct cetaceans families? they are so interesting. the artwork that you showed when you'd mention extinct families made me so excited, but then you crush my hopes every time.

[@andreagriffiths3512]

Only just found your videos - watched both horse eps and now the whales and subscribed. I’ll definitely be watching more 💕

[@robvalente5630]

Please make a similar set of videos on crocodilimorpha. I think an archasour to crocodiles would make a very awesome video and I don't think i have seen anything like it on youtube.

[@silkworm6861]

Thanks for the wonderful review!

[@Jesus_equals_LOVEnForgviness]

I wonder why the river dolphins aren't included in the dolphin super family. Especially since they are than likely descendant from dolphin ancestors who were cut off from the sea.

[@maxkuzmin609]

The Pigmye right whale is shaped like a santoku. :) Thanks for this lesson

[@clitcrusader4897]

"considerable depression in the centre" the timeline of my life

[@marcopohl3236]

Look on the bright side: the worst is in the middle so it'll get better later

[@chrisrus1965]

Very good. Thanks a bunch. To improve it I would show how the cetacean branch attaches to the rest of the Tree of Life.

[@dan240393]

As an interesting side note, the Bowhead Whale is (as far as we know) the longest living mammal... topping out at an estimated 200 years. An estimate arrived at when someone noticed a harpoon from the 1800's imbedded in a Bowhead's back. It says something about the sheer size of whales that Pygmy Right Whales hit that size range that makes them "real cute because its real smoll"... despite being the size of a Great White.

[@miloe4314]

I miss your longer videos like this one! I know you need to make what the algorithm demands but would love to see more of these deep dives

[@deerattlesnake4509]

Very interesting and well presented, I would love to see a video on the Weasel Sharks (Hemigaelidae) and their prey.

[@marcoscosta2318]

Very nice series of videos , but please make another series about the extinct wales and dolphins species . Cheers from Brazil

[@Darknight4434]

COME TO BRAZIIIIIL Ah e só corrigindo irmão, é whales*. ^^

[@capybaraz5401]

This channel is awesome why is it so small

[@martindegn690]

Ben, would you please link your choices of background music? Some of it is so calming

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Great video!

[@BenGThomas]

Thank you :D

[@eschwarz1003]

How did the specific transitions/adaptations of Flukes and Echolocation occur? Who were the first to exhibit this (you implied Basilosaurus-Durodon first evidence of flukes.)

[@soanedewinter1474]

Perhaps this can become a series looking at all the major taxonomic families

[@joshadams8761]

Great video! I’d love to see a similar one on felidae.

[@praise_kek340]

I can feel jotoro uncanny happiness

[@cole3662]

You don’t have NEARLY enough subscribers

[@darlingnikki1353]

Thank you gor teaching me how to pronounce some of these difficult (um Latin?) words. Also, beautiful pix!!! I 💙 cetaceans!!!😊

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

So much cuteness.

[@edwallace2828]

Love this channel. It appeals to my inner nerd. Kids and wife think I am nuts

[@Sweettweety666]

Resume: Millions of years ago there were mammals who thought 'f*ck it all, I am going back to the sea!' And than, millions of years later, there where whales and dolphins. P.S. Love your channel, keep on the good work! ;)

[@ericvulgate]

this is such a great channel

[@Faythe98]

I love your whale videos!

[@mikeor-]

The Blue Whale is no longer the largest animal to have ever lived. A recent discovery of Argentinosaurus, A. giganticus, has dwarfed the blue whale by about 30 ft (10m) in length. However, due to the function of the neck of this dinosaur, it was not very heavy. Therefore, although the Blue Whale is not the largest animal that ever lived, it still wears the crown of the heaviest animal ever.

[@russiaball4851]

largest in this case means weight

[@dirandrous7682]

I like to see a video about Sauropods

[@brianedwards7142]

Whale I enjoyed this video I can't work out it's porpoise.

[@orcinusvox5107]

Idk if you’ll see this but I would love to watch a vid similar to this that discusses key character traits and compares all the species in categories like size, intelligence, sightings, etc! If anyone can do it it’s u!!

[@sharksuperiority9736]

I like that their head is called a melon

[@miniman7361]

Great video and content👍 well done👍

[@benmcreynolds8581]

It would be awesome if evolution added another super badass predator like the killer whale. They are such amazing and smart creatures. Then sperm whales with their echolocation that can stun prey and dive super deep.

[@adnannaemaz1989]

Do one for seals/ seal lions.

[@ShurikRubik]

*Awesome Video ! I always thought that Whales existed 300 to 350 Million years ago just like Prehistoric Sharks !!!*

[@StephiSensei26]

Brilliant!

[@giannakisXAXAXA]

great video very informative

[@GiffysChannel]

I heard more species of whales are being discovered in the southern hemisphere due to the amount of ice melting at the south pole. Antarctica is so mysterious.

[@CleverClover2023]

There was a recently discovered sub species of killer whale - type D orca. A new species of Beaked Whale and a new species of baleen whale called a Omura’s whale. www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/science/omuras-whales-habitat.html www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/new-killer-whale-species-discovered/ news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/new-whale-species/ There have also been a few hybrid whale and dolphin species discovered. A arluga - narwhal/beluga hybrid. Rougth toothed dolphin and Melon headed Whale (also a dolphin) hybrid. Blue/fin whales slaughtered in whaling operation in Iceland. www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/us/dolphin-whale-hybrid-intl/index.html www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/narluga-very-strange-hybrid-whale/592057/ Very cool to see these hybrids and to learn more about the genetic diversity of cetaceans.

[@mjohneinerson7484]

Question. I studied vertibrate zoology Paleo til modern, and there is something I'm still having problems understanding about cetacean species of placement among them and it's the sperm whale. The toothed whales or dolphin family Subspecies: dolphins, belugas then orcas toothed. Then there are the actual whale family cetaceans larger than orca filter feeders. However then there is the sperm whale which has characteristics and abilities from both lineages, size deep divers , singer echolocating/infrasonic focal hunting tone (weaponized) highly intelligent high memories great eye sight and recognition of whatever it sees curious yet also a bit unpredictable master tacticians & predation problem solvers. Resemble the traits of gene evolution expression of whales yet also the dolphin families. So are sperm whales oversized gigantic dolphin species with some convergent giant baleen gene expressions or is it a prehistoric living fossil that has its own species fauna placement being closer related to basilisaurus 30-40 million years ago? Can you shed some light on this for me possibly?

[@dynojackal1911]

What about the extinct families of Odontocetes and Mysticetes? Will you do a video on them?

[@bradley4706]

5:13 and the livers of sharks

[@Xeno426]

The background music at the end... I feel it comes from (or was also used in) an old flight sim. Fighters Anthology, I think?

[@bruceh92]

Very good video. Wow.

[@islamicschoolofmemestudies]

Fascinating that An Indian River Dolphins ancestor might have encountered Megalodon during its Lifetime. I mean, that could be the reason why they choose to live in River.

[@mrmosty5167]

Have any studies ever been done on how many young the land-based ancestors had? I’m assuming that because of the massive size of cetaceans, paired teats must’ve been lost at some point since only one calf is born at a time.

[@SuperLoops]

whaels and porpi are so nice 💕

[@Chompchompyerded]

You missed the smallest and rarest species of whale, the vaquita. There are 30 individuals left and because their numbers were halved in the last five years, it is expected that they will become extinct within the next 5 to 10 years. Their range is limited to extreme northern end of the Sea of Cortez. They have no commercial value, but are hunted and killed by Mexican fishermen who want to be able to fish this small patch of protected water.

[@russiaball4851]

they're part of Phocoenidae

[@urbandragon8774]

So All These Ceteans Were Preyed By Megalodon, Right? Since *Whale* Megalodon Went Extint 2.6 Million Years Ago?

[@mrsoshadabaadman]

There was a spotting of a river dolphin in China I think last year.