Seahorses are so fascinating in their appearance. They look like some ancient dragon, inked onto a scroll, come to life.
@danielgomez-xp4qj2 жыл бұрын
I think they look like if a horse was in or surrounded by sea
@aardeng2 жыл бұрын
Ever see a leafy sea dragon!?
@Angry_Squirrel5552 жыл бұрын
@TheEngineGal, I can see that. Pretty cool observation.
@TrajGreekFire2 жыл бұрын
And then you realize how lame they are the more you know of them
@astick52492 жыл бұрын
@Traj Have you seen their skeleton? It looks more or less exactly like the seahorse. They are pretty much at the between point of an endoskeleton and exoskeleton. Their pectoral fins (the same structure where our arms came from) are found on their "head", they are a completely warped looking fish when you put that part in mind. This is made more so by the fact that not only are they upright, their head points forwards with a distinct neck. Instead of a finned tail, its prehensile, like a chameleon. Seahorses are the complete opposite of lame, they are bonkers.
@DaveTexas2 жыл бұрын
Seahorses hold special status in our house. Our son became fascinated by seahorses when he was a toddler. He had a stuffed seahorse that he slept with, and he started wanting stories, books, and videos about seahorses. He eventually learned everything there was to know about seahorses, and we got to hear all about it! We did not ever hear about plate tectonics and seahorses, though. I’ll have to send him this video! (He’s all grown up now.)
@abrarkadabrar78292 жыл бұрын
Wholesome!
@swintintin2 жыл бұрын
Very wholesome!
@kiuk_kiks2 жыл бұрын
Turns out your son just may be autistic.
@DaveTexas2 жыл бұрын
@@kiuk_kiks I’m autistic. He’s not.
@starinajar132 жыл бұрын
I love knowing I wasn't the only seahorse enthusiast as a kid! Lol I wanted a pet seahorse so badly! 😂
@davidt35632 жыл бұрын
Sea horses are magical. I'm pretty sure everyone remembers when they first learned about them as kids. Their name is perfect for capturing childhood wonder.
@dyllanfreiheit63302 жыл бұрын
Sea horses and starfish was the reason that I'm fascinated about the ocean as a kid.
@reinatycoon3644 Жыл бұрын
@@dyllanfreiheit6330 I like starfish and love seahorses. I'm just disappointed when I learnt that starfish had no brains.
@KimberlyGreen2 жыл бұрын
So, seahorses galloped across the ocean grasslands to migrate, just as land horses used terrestrial ones to do the same.
@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev97242 жыл бұрын
Could you imagine if we would of had access to big enough sea horse to ride and we especially Polynesians and S.E Asians used them for transport across the seas. Hahah funner then riding a dolphin I say.
@SVW19762 жыл бұрын
@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 Far Out Man!
@toasteddingus6925 Жыл бұрын
I propose and hypothesize that the ancient seahorses used to pull the ancient pioneer's big beautiful rocks accross the sandy wastes
@timsullivan45662 жыл бұрын
"If not for plate tectonics, seahorses would never have been able to take over the world" - possibly now topping my list of "10 Reasons for the Seahorse's World Domination " (actually a fascinating, VERY well-presented argument. Thanks)
@ShojJiaNyurrr2 жыл бұрын
don't be shy give us the other 9 reasons for the Seahorse's World Domination 👀
@timsullivan45662 жыл бұрын
@@ShojJiaNyurrr (well, #2 -7 are all just different ways of saying "Super-bad Super Dad"...)
@greyzone38012 жыл бұрын
Request: Psathyrella aquatica, the only known underwater mushroom
@AifDaimon2 жыл бұрын
Request*
@dariobalicevic6072 жыл бұрын
Interesting never hear of that fungi
@jakobraahauge72992 жыл бұрын
this!!
@johnlouiemanalohernandez84312 жыл бұрын
Psathyrella aquatica* and yes its so cool
@JacobProbasco2 жыл бұрын
Aye, and while we’re at it, wiki Desert fungi and find out about the mycelium networks under Arizona and New Mexico (they are researching this a bit at UTEP)
@coconutcore2 жыл бұрын
The fact that seahorses used the Mediterranean as a shortcut to spread around the world when that sea was still turning into the shape of a seahorse is just…wholesome to me. (To anyone who might have never noticed this, look at the Mediterranean at 7:21. Turns out it even looked more like a sea horse than it does today at some point.)
@vangu29182 жыл бұрын
Yep👍
@Dragrath12 жыл бұрын
I hadn't noticed but if you want to get technical it by definition didn't become the Mediterranean until it got sealed off due to the collision between India and Eurasia but that is name semantics
@MatthewFTabor2 жыл бұрын
I also noticed that it looked like a seahorse when I was still a small child, and it always seemed weird to me that teachers never acknowledged this.
@akashita2 жыл бұрын
Wow, never noticed this! Awesome
@tgdomnemo5052 Жыл бұрын
... didn't see it - but now 🙂 🙏🏼
@menkomonty2 жыл бұрын
I can remember going to a Sea-Life Centre and they had a small section devoted to seahorses and they were feeding some tiny seahorses by using what looked like a plastic seed feeder for birds
@DanNowlan2 жыл бұрын
"So if it hadn't been for plate tectonics, seahorse wouldn't have been able to take over the world." *bows before seahorse overlords*
@brendanhoffmann84022 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid my Dad used to have salt water fish tanks. We kept seahorses at one point. They were amazing!
@VioletWhirlwind2 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! That's so cool! I've heard they're really hard to keep alive. (But then...the only fish I've ever had long-term success with keeping alive were bettas, so....)
@atlanteantapir2 жыл бұрын
Same with my family! They're such beautiful creatures, and they're so romantic when they court each other.
@zacrintoul2 жыл бұрын
The main issue is they are really picky eaters, so you generally have to supply them with ample amounts of live copepods. If I remember right from when I was doing all my saltwater research.
@atlanteantapir2 жыл бұрын
@@zacrintoul they do eat those but they're definitely not limited to that. My seahorses ate frozen mysis shrimp for the most part, occasionally supplementing with live ghost shrimp. Also we took over a year and a half to create enough biodiversity in the tank before introducing seahorses to have enough phytoplankton and zooplankton already existing in the tank. But they primarily fed on the frozen shrimp and were fine
@BunnyandMoon2 жыл бұрын
I would love to have a pet seahorse, but I don’t have the knowledge or the supplies to care for them properly.
@patrickwhite44492 жыл бұрын
“Cool fish dads” and then finger guns hahahahahaha! I loved that
@mattwaw26432 жыл бұрын
All three of you presenters have such calm and soothing voices. And you have this child-like excitement when you talk about evolution. I love listening to you before bed or while having breakfast. It always calms me down! Thanks for uploading!
@jordandino4172 жыл бұрын
Plate Tectonics: *Slowly moving and smashing into each other for millions of years* One prehistoric pipefish boi: P e r f e c t
@ketsuekikumori91452 жыл бұрын
Speaking of puzzles. Maybe you guys can make a 3d bone or fossile puzzle that mimics a paleontologist putting together a skeleton.
@slwrabbits2 жыл бұрын
While I admire the thought, I think that is likely an engineering nightmare. Bones are generally held together by a lot of connective tissue; they do fit together, but without all that overlaying them, nothing is going to hold them in place
@bipolarCapybara2 жыл бұрын
@@slwrabbits Yeah, museums use a lot of wire to keep the bones together
@MossyMozart2 жыл бұрын
@@slwrabbits - Don't jump right to negativism. I have an Eifel Tower puzzle that forms a large 3-D structure ~2.5 feet tall. Designers could EASILY do the same thing with one of the iconic dino skeletons, like T-Rex! This is a GREAT suggestion.
@RocLobo3582 жыл бұрын
There were these kinds of puzzles in the 90s. They were 3d puzzles of dinosaur
@JubioHDX Жыл бұрын
@@MossyMozart thats a building that already has supports, we are, again, talking about fossils which have zero supports or connective tissue between the bones. Doable yes(probably not as a puzzle but at least as a sculpture with instructions), but not nearly the same thing as what youre talking about, and not nearly as easy as youre saying it is
@robynkerran38852 жыл бұрын
When I was younger, I wanted a seahorse more than anything, because I thought they were... big enough to ride! Thanks a lot Aquaman cartoon lol! When I found out the truth, saying I was disappointed is putting it mildly, but that disappeared completely when I got to see real ones at the Aquarium, I've been fascinated with them ever since 💜 Thank you for this presentation!
@AnjaP_932 жыл бұрын
I was not expecting Slovenia to ever feature in one of your videos. Greetings from Ljubljana 😊 PS: Great video, as always
@simonkemfors2 жыл бұрын
Love Ljubljana, absolutely beautiful city! Greetings from Sweden
@caroljo4202 жыл бұрын
As always!
@sanjablazina28792 жыл бұрын
Me neither, I was so pleasantly surprised🥰
@davidbobnar11622 жыл бұрын
Looks like eons have an unofficial fan group in slovenija. 💪
@keyzerschorschei24812 жыл бұрын
Greetings from vienna neighbours 🙌
@StonedtotheBones132 жыл бұрын
I very much appreciate the colors in the hypothetical seahorses/proto seahorses. I feel like sometimes color used for hypothetical envisioning of creatures is so monotone
@elizabethpemberton84452 жыл бұрын
Several years back I was watching something on Nature or Nova that kept posing questions about how did [thing that looks baffling on the surface] happen? The answer was always plate tectonics, which I yelled at the TV every time. It was almost as fun as when Big Bird couldn’t find his dinosaur costume and I got to yell “It’s OK, you ARE a dinosaur!” before whichever Sesame Street resident told him that. I am, at 53, perhaps not the target audience for every program.
@MossyMozart2 жыл бұрын
I once saw an exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific at Long Beach, California. I was there shortly after they became the first institution of get leafy seadragons to hatch, so it was being celebrated throughout the entire facility. They were so delicate, beautiful, and smaller than I expected that it was mind-blowing to think of them living in the wild, like delicate hummingbirds are on land.
@scottrichards35872 жыл бұрын
Love your videos. I've been fossil hunting a few times. Found a trilobite in Ohio when in grade school, over 50 years ago. Love how it gives a true perspective of time.
@thedarkside7508 Жыл бұрын
I simply love this channel and don't wanna imagine my life without it. It's so cool to learn about the strange creatures that used to love before us.
@tgdomnemo5052 Жыл бұрын
😉 " ❤️ "
@catfishwithwhiskers2 жыл бұрын
This is such a quintessential PBS Eons title. I love it
@JeffSans7 ай бұрын
I brought a seahorse home once when i was 7 yrs old. My first ever pet.
@veggieboyultimate2 жыл бұрын
The ancient seahorses rode horseback on rafts and tectonics.
@icarusbinns31562 жыл бұрын
“One of the ocean’s worst swimmers…” shows a seahorse straightening as if to say “You said what?”
@lisapeesalemonsqueezah32412 жыл бұрын
It's so cool how much we know. Seahorses are such random animals, but humans decided that it was worth it to fund research to figure out where they originated. I kind of love that for us
@sussekind97172 жыл бұрын
You would not believe how many people I've talked to in my life, that thought seahorses were mythical creatures, on par with Unicorns, Pixies, and Elves. But "No", I tell them, "they actually do exist." Then sometimes, I get the hairy eyeball, like they're not believing what I'm telling them. More than once, I've had to break out my cell phone, and hit up Google, so I can prove that I am not crazy.🙄
@sylvia1062 жыл бұрын
What state do you live in?
@sussekind97172 жыл бұрын
@@sylvia106 Florida, But I travel a lot. So I'm usually somewhere else. But I've always liked being by the ocean. I'm there and in it, as often as I can be.
@hicknopunk2 жыл бұрын
This is like me finding people who think reindeer are not real...
@burnsmybritches5857 Жыл бұрын
Extremely hard to believe. Maybe you met 1 child in some remote place who had never had any education at all that would make your comment semi-plausible...
@sussekind9717 Жыл бұрын
I think some of you, have a little bit too much faith in humanity. Not to mention the intelligence level of the average human. How does the old saying go? Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half the people, are even more stupid than that.
@franl1552 жыл бұрын
I couldn't resist the title, and I'm glad of it! Very interesting, thank you.
@artichokesque2 жыл бұрын
that is like the catchiest title ever
@renaldyazhari27092 жыл бұрын
As an indonesian who study biology, i was facinated by this fact/discovery. i've never expect early ancestor of seahorses originated here.
@tudorjason2 жыл бұрын
Seahorses look so elegant and graceful Would be cool to have a private tank full of them
@flavoracid2 жыл бұрын
Look at this handsome distinguished gentleman from PBS Eons dropping scientific gems on us. I'm here for it. Teach me about sea horses and the magical world that is beneath the sea.
@bell49022 жыл бұрын
Please, please, please release more episodes of the podcast. I would listen to these on my daily walks and I’m missing them.
@AceSpadeThePikachu Жыл бұрын
That "moon rock" pun was lifted right from the second episode of Futurama.
@Ryco117 Жыл бұрын
Address all complaints to the Monsanto corporation.
@DavidGomez-ls6ee2 жыл бұрын
Love your videos!! It's helped me create my speculative future earth!
@isaiahgarza872 жыл бұрын
That sounds awesome!
@a_e_hilton2 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to read/ see/ hear it!
@sneepsnorp14042 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a very interesting project. Things like speculative zoology and the like are so fascinating to me.
@toshihikotanaka16722 жыл бұрын
My son love seahorses, and he'll be very happy to know that he and his fav animal have similar geographical origin, Indonesia!
@jamietigges21542 жыл бұрын
From what I've read the concepts for Sea Horse evolution is the same for Corals and reef specialists. They all followed the equator through gaps between continents.
@macwilbz Жыл бұрын
yes I always see them here in the Philippines
@deinowolfhybridhero51012 жыл бұрын
These gorgeous little dragons are the best dads of animal kingdom 🧡
@SonOfTheDawn5152 жыл бұрын
Whichever ones DON'T eat their young would definitely rate higher according to our sapien brains.
@VINCE-pp3es2 жыл бұрын
idk emperor penguins i think top them in not eating for months while living in the eternal night of winter all to protect an egg that may not hatch
@deinowolfhybridhero5101 Жыл бұрын
@@VINCE-pp3es 👍
@acsoul12 жыл бұрын
Hey! What’s the word on the podcast? I was really into it! I’d love more episodes on prehistoric humans! I really love to imagine what the world was like when there as many humans as there were cats.
@JacobProbasco2 жыл бұрын
This is the best title I have seen this year.
@Sl1f3rDrag0n2 жыл бұрын
Seahorses always remind me of a comic from PoorlyDrawnLines where one seahorse says to the other: "I saw a land horse swimming once, and I was like 'Who the f**k do you think you are?'"
@darrkstarg2 жыл бұрын
Another win for plate techtonics. I love it. I've been into plate techtonics since I was a teenager.
@beesareLameWasps2 жыл бұрын
As much as I'd love a calendar, $85 CAD for two calendars and shipping is ridiculous. Dang.
@fairlyaveragegamer40002 жыл бұрын
Please never stop.
@johnh.mcsaxx36372 жыл бұрын
For once, I'm early to an Eons video. Can't wait to listen to this new gem-to-be!
@basantprasadsgarden83652 жыл бұрын
Requesting a Video on Why the Cyprinid and Other Cyprinoforms are a Dominant Species in Eurasia, while, Chiclids are a Dominant Fish Species in Africa and South America And why none of them were able to Take over North America, until pretty recently, that's too due to Introduction by Humans and Only in Some limited areas And Why Siluriforms (Catfish) are the Most Dominant Fresh water Predatory Fish lineage in the World?
@t0mn8r352 жыл бұрын
Great video on one of my most favourite animals. I wish I could have some in my home but I know that they are so sensitive to temperature changes that even aquariums have problems keeping them. Thank you!
@bengoodwin21412 жыл бұрын
It would be neat to see future descendants of seahorses (or their relatives) that are better at... Everything. Edit: like sea dragons that actually live up to the title of dragon.
@jmlkinc Жыл бұрын
The fact that this channel continues to have the most absurd video titles and then directly back them up with scientific evidence is why they're so amazing. It always gives you a sense of wonder at the awesome craziness of our planet.
@luudest2 жыл бұрын
7:02 how did they survive in the open Atlantic? How did they cross the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
@absalomdraconis2 жыл бұрын
6:15 : By rafting. They grabbed onto debris that was washed around by storms, just riding it to wherever it went. They would have survived much more often when the Atlantic was narrow than they'd be able to today.
@rickkwitkoski19762 жыл бұрын
What's the mid-Atlantic ridge have to do with it? It is WAY below the surface in most places. Just a few sticky outy islands are above sea level.
@julesgosnell97918 ай бұрын
i expect that because a seahorse/dragon does very little swimming its caloric requirements are very low - maybe lower than other sygnathids and most other fish - perhaps that gave it an evolutionary advantage at some point in its history
@victoriaeads61262 жыл бұрын
Love seahorses! That was definitely one of the funnier Eonite jokes, lol!
@mcstabba2 жыл бұрын
I love Eons but I usually groan at the end jokes, this one was actually decent - I was baffled.
@Thaumh2 жыл бұрын
I love how "Click-Bait-ey" you titles are. I saw this and my brain played Tim Allen's 'confused/questioning' grunt sound.
@5610winston Жыл бұрын
I believe it was Michael Flanders who compared it to "...a very perfect and gentle-knight of the chessboard..."
@dtf-georesearch2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for creating a movie on fossil seahorses!
@dmcgee32 жыл бұрын
Living most my life landlocked I’ve never given much thought to sea grass. I’d be interested in learning about them and terrestrial grasses
@Br0nto5aurus10 ай бұрын
I've kept dwarf seahorses; they're incredible to watch and take up shocking little space. Even wild caught specimines breed readily in home aquariums. They're difficult to care for, though. They don't really have stomachs so they require live food several times per day. That usually means having a rotating set of brine shrimp hatcheries, and starting fresh ones a couple times per week, and feeding once or twice per day. That's very high maintenance for a fish. Dwarf seahorses are also the slowest fish in the world, so you can imagine how attempting to chase a couple hundred tiny baby brine shrimp in a 30 gallon tank would lead to starvation. That's why they should be kept in 5 or 10 gallon tanks, unless you plan on finding each seahorse and target feeding them all with a pipette two to three times per day.
@GyourgeTube2 жыл бұрын
This guy is great!
@khilorn2 жыл бұрын
Ever since looking at the tectonics of SE asia in college I've wondered wtf is going on. It's a veritable clusterfuck of fault lines.
@MossyMozart2 жыл бұрын
@Khilorn - I imagine that a lot of children watch these videos. Would you consider watching your language?
@obviousness81132 жыл бұрын
This is super wholesome content 💯
@pony3284 Жыл бұрын
Just (re)learned about plate tectonics today. This is a great crossover and example of how geology affects life!
@mirrorblue1002 жыл бұрын
Seahorses always look so serene and wise.
@drstone34182 жыл бұрын
That sea horse looks like a modern pipe fish
@fubberpish36142 жыл бұрын
well there's a reason for that! seahorses are a type of pipefish (as are seadragons). They have a different body shape to "typical" pipefishes due to their specializations for different niches than other pipefishes. So it makes sense that early seahorses would have looked similar to pipefishes
@nariu7times3282 жыл бұрын
Methinks Blake is a cool fish dad. :D
@juliaconnell2 жыл бұрын
I do love sea horses - they are so elegant. also love sea dragons. both so gorgeous.
@willywakka78302 жыл бұрын
1:52 anyone else see a seahorse in the Mediterranean sea on the map?
@EddVCR Жыл бұрын
I love learning new things about nature. I’m truly hooked on this channel’s videos!
@amyjones2490 Жыл бұрын
I appreciate all the graphs. Nicely done!
@jakobraahauge72992 жыл бұрын
Hope one day you'll make a video on the end Permian extinction event's two phases - I'd love to hear you guys spelling it out!
@paulabrown4050 Жыл бұрын
Got a video of my first seahorse on a dive in kota Kinabalu last year. VERY exciting!
@HloksThokolo-ej8of Жыл бұрын
Would have thought that plate tectonics gave us 99.999% of all living things....
@michaelfritts624910 ай бұрын
Yep! The Earth, despite all of the extinction events it creates (and often causes) by these incessant movements, is one of the most consistant and critical components of any theory that attemps to explain how far back life began to contend with the fickle nature of what has finally “evolved” into the world… We can see still see evidence, regardless of these “tectonic cover-ups”. To its credit, it remains for now a viable dodgeball team manager with a winning record, through obvious nepotism, only recruiting new players from the offsping of those who were not eliminated in the last game.. It's amazing how life has evolved. Beaten down, given hope… only to be shot down again.. Thankfully, we now know how to live with the constant "hustle and bustle" of shifting bits of land.. 😉👍😎 Be Well 😃
@wglenbatemanjr97292 жыл бұрын
I love Eons! and scoped PBS donate /Eons -WEDU of Tampa Bay Area. So Blake this as all episodes was a needed way lovely mood from your cool presentation of natural history. Plus I even recalled a hard laugh picturing back in teens, early eighties a buddy of mine living on Boca Ciega Bay spontaneously stiffly jumped off dock- dorky belly flopping when he spotted a one of our small seahorses rafting by like colloidal plankton. Cramps from laughing for five others ..., The guys "prolly best I didn't catch it". A rare sight but we did see them in deep coastal mangrove most. We also might have a pipefish that chills in our estaurine submergent grasses-"Tortuga/""matatee grass or "eelgrass". I rhoughtst sight of two my toddler son netted blew our doors! The "snout" for achoring, plate-like skin and reduced itty bitty fins in slow bright sandy shallow and grassy water. ....we banned fertilizer of N P during rainy season and our water quality decent except for Rx metabolites and necrosing Vibrio🧐. Watersheds are EVERYTHING, even your weather. 🍻✌️And thank you barrier isles of peninsular Pinellas County on the West Central/Gulf side) of Florida utting the multiple disciplines' latest intel w/ varied factors and any various interpretations all together to best understand the oh SO RELATIVE past.
@vintagelady1 Жыл бұрын
I love seahorses & especially sea dragons, trailing their finery like boho princesses (also princes!) in chiffon scarves. I visited the Long Beach Aqaurium when they were the first place to successfully breed them in captivity (I think I have that right, I know it was some "first" to do with breeding. If I ever win the lottery big-time, I'll have a giant saltwater aquarium (& a full-time caretaker!) with those cuties inside!
@finnmoran2 жыл бұрын
Super interesting, gotta love seahorses! Surely though it’s a much easier route to reach the pacific coast of the Americas going through the strong warm currents east of Indonesia rather than around Africa, the Med and across the entire Atlantic
@KuK1372 жыл бұрын
There is little issue of starving to death along the way thanks to travel times, I suppose...
@Dragrath12 жыл бұрын
@@KuK137 Yeah the lack of nutrients out in the vast open Pacific ocean far from land would almost certainly kill the algae(likely kelp) raft and anything which depended on it. Kelp would have to be the kind of long distance raft since seagrasses are true flowering plants(angiosperms) they are dependent on suitable hospitable soil for habitat for their seeds. Also while its a bit of a digression at least some sea grasses apparently rely on crustacean based pollination which is interesting given they are the only true plants we know of which have made the full transition back into the ocean. Mangroves are close but they still with the exception of their roots photosynthesize above the water and also have to secrete salts out of their bodies. It would be interesting to learn about how sea grasses we able to make this ecological jump that other plants haven't done. I know there are many challenges for plants given that their ancestors were freshwater algae that colonized land by forming symbiotic associations with fungi but I'm curious what the main selection factors are that limit them?
@TheSiggib2 жыл бұрын
VERY special kind of animals!!! .-)
@highfive76892 жыл бұрын
I found your choice of of humoristic bit - well done. Keep up the great work EON!
@rossjennings47552 жыл бұрын
So I guess you could say that the evolution of seahorses was remarkably similar to the evolution of horses -- at roughly the same time that grasses were spreading on land, creating habitats for horses, seagrasses were spreading underwater, creating habitats for seahorses.
@SilverWatcher.2 жыл бұрын
That was informative 👌🏻
@jonnoda2 жыл бұрын
Always love and look forward to your content, keep up the great work!
@panda-peanut2 жыл бұрын
Thumbs Up for the cool fish dads 👍
@theababaaab33502 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this channel; the hosts are awesome. Thanks for the great content!
@meliponadelaselva Жыл бұрын
I LOVED THOSE JOKES!! 🤣🤣 Totally the best cool-fish-dad jokes!!!
@verdimundi45322 жыл бұрын
There's nothing like watching some Eons on a snowy day :)
@islandsunset2 жыл бұрын
The picture of Aquaman riding seahorse kept coming to my mind whenever a seahorse appeared on the screen. Lol 😆
@Im-Not-a-Dog2 жыл бұрын
Its rather appropriate and somewhat funny that Grasslands are what gave rise to Horses and Sea "Grasslands" are what gave rise to Seahorses.
@Tentacular2 жыл бұрын
It's funny how on land, horses are draught animals, while in the seas they latch onto things to move around.
@codyramseur2 жыл бұрын
Great explanation. I was hooked the whole video
@StonedtotheBones13 Жыл бұрын
Learning about pleisiosaurs and pliosaurs (sp?), it's amazing that all these years later... A funky looking fish might be using similar adaptation to quickly snap its prey
@CoralReaper7072 жыл бұрын
"How did Syngnathids in general get their prehensile tail?" is my main question. I just want to why they even evolved that trait in the first place. Edit: nvm, I know. Please show this to Avnj.
@SonOfTheDawn5152 жыл бұрын
5:03
@tanzil882 жыл бұрын
You probably missed that point on the video.
@invisiblepants64772 жыл бұрын
I once got a case of seahorses from eating improperly-cooked seafood.
@JGRGilbert2 жыл бұрын
I love seahorses "travelling back to the syngnathid homeland" in the Tethys Sea.
@finurra39052 жыл бұрын
omg I love this, thank you so much for this!! I looove seahorses
@lottat64202 жыл бұрын
Seahorses are so beautiful and elegant. 😍
@DissociatedWomenIncorporated2 жыл бұрын
If Ecco the Dolphin taught me _anything_ about sea life, it’s that seahorses are _far_ bigger than dolphins, and they shoot out their babies as living ammunition.
@skippyjonjones232 жыл бұрын
My brother in law’s fav animal is a sea horse and part of his nickname we have for him is “seahorsius”.
@SoleaGalilei2 жыл бұрын
Considering that we have people trying to change the name of starfish to "sea stars" because they're not actually fish, I wonder how long until someone tries to change the name of seahorses because (gasp!) they're not actually horses.
@rainydaylady65962 жыл бұрын
How do the eggs(?) get into the brood pouch?
@diegoquezada31932 жыл бұрын
Basically after courtship, the female will insert her eggs into the pouch of the male, after which the male will fertilize the eggs and incubate them until they hatch.
@zenalexander92787 ай бұрын
I just know now that Seahorses evolve on Indonesia's sea.
@butterfox8632 жыл бұрын
I Hope that one day you'll make a video on the end Permian extinction event's two phases!!!