Pufferfishes Are Missing Something Important...

This is my favorite group of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)! I love pufferfishes, triggerfishes sunfishes and boxfishes, and yet, until recently, I didn't even know what their closest relatives are, or how they are related to one another. Well it turns out that this group is much cooler, and much crazier, than I ever would have thought!
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[@ClintsReptiles]

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[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the 🪲Phylogeny Group Of Beetles🪲on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

Hey Clint Laidlaw, Why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the 🪼Phylogeny Group Of Jellyfish🪼on the next Clint's Reptiles on the next Saturday coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@kendallguier1378]

Steve's ghost is smiling.

[@LillyP-xs5qe]

2,700 kg can also me called 2.7 metric tons or in a more fun way, 2.7 MegaGram (Mg).

[@LeviathanCubing]

Hey Clint Laidlaw, could you do a video addressing the newly discovered anaconda species that's supposedly bigger than the green?

[@Yerrdawg]

The spiny puffer skeleton looks exactly how I would expect a bad Halloween skeleton of a puffer fish to look

[@Dingus_Khaan]

Which ironically makes it a _good_ Halloween skeleton.

[@LearningLife77]

Same. I have a bsc in Zoology and i didnt know

[@ankhels]

I swear I thought he was going to say that was a fake skeleton. I'm shocked that's actually real...

[@Aliandrin]

The poor thing looks like it has that disease that turns muscles into bones.

[@TheKatarinaGiselle]

@@Aliandrini feel so bad for people with that disease! I think Special Books By Special Kids recent did a video on a woman with that disease.

[@cathleenc6943]

"If you are a normal person..." Yeah, I think that ship has sailed for most of us on here.

[@mandowarrior123]

Some normies get lost here looking for cat videos. It's been known to happen.

[@Moakmeister]

Clint: this absolutely wonderful animal Pufferfish: *blorb*

[@Amira_Phoenix]

⚫👄⚫

[@jammysmears4077]

Nature: We need an inflatable fish! Evolution: Brilliant idea! Let's do it! Nature: Right, how are we going to build this thing? Evolution: Well, I've got this big box of leftover shark teeth...

[@benjamingoldstein1111]

Adam: What do I have to give for a wife and companion in life? Lord: A rib. His wanton friend Puffer: Take them all! Take them ALL!

[@susanmartin3762]

You're funny! There are such smart funny Fans O'Clint! I think we have the smartest, funniest fans! It's because of who we love watching! If KZbin gave awards for the most popular KZbin Host? Channel owner? Person? Whatever! Clint Laidlaw would be the winner HANDS DOWN! We need a meeting! Have your people get in touch with my people and let's get this going! I'm going to call KZbin as soon as this video is over. Does anyone have KZbin's phone number?

[@sampagano205]

Every time I talk to puffer fish aquarists it turns out they've nicknamed one of them something like "the finger eater"

[@malekahmed7960]

CLINT'S TYPICAL INTEREST IN ANIMALS I WANT TO WATCH THAT

[@AnimalStoryEnglishSub]

😁

[@greenefieldmann3014]

It'd be the NileGreen of Clint's Reptiles.

[@luissemedo3597]

Clint's Neurotypical Experience

[@ankhels]

@@greenefieldmann3014 It would start that way, but I have a feeeeling it would end up closer to NileBlue. 🤣 Just pure chaos

[@Enbaros]

I love this idea of formulating a hypothesis at the start of the video and then trying to answer it throughout the video. It helps me keep the attention and emulates the scientific process. Congratulations!

[@parkerkinberg7918]

Agreeded !

[@mandowarrior123]

Yes, though in this case he makes a good argument the ancestors had all three of these features.

[@2424Lars]

"They can't take in or release gas from their swimbladders through their mouths like you and many other fish species can" might be one the best things I've heard Clint say XD The consistency with which you take into account that land vertebrates are fishes is the kind of quality I watch these videos for!

[@tulliusexmisc2191]

But that's incorrect. A swim bladder is a type of lung; a lung is not a type of swim bladder.

[@2424Lars]

@@tulliusexmisc2191 As far as I know, lungs evolved from swim bladders

[@alexanderacosta48]

​@@2424LarsOther way around! Some ray-finned fish like gars have functional primitive lungs and no swim bladder

[@2424Lars]

@@alexanderacosta48 Exactly, because the swimbladder has evolved to become those primitive lungs, that's how I've been taught it

[@danielvieira5831]

fish first breathed water with gills and floated with their swim bladers, them some fish started using their swim bladers to breath.

[@cristiaolson7327]

Freshwater pea puffers deserve a Bet Pet video. Those little guys are hysterically funny, very smart and inquisitive, and among the most endearingly personable freshwater fish available and reasonably accessible as a pet to the average person. I used to keep a group of them in a densely planted tank where they were fed bldder snails and bloodworms, and every time I was within sight of the aquarium, they would not just watch me, but would follow my movements and actively try to get my attention. 11/10, will keep again when I'm able to set up another dedicated puffer tank.

[@Transblucency]

Yeah but for anyone else reading this who isn't aware, they generally do need a dedicated tank because, cute though they are, they will ruthlessly shred the fins of almost any non-puffs in the tank. They don't play very nice with others, but they are the answer to the prayers of anyone whose tank has been taken over by snails. They will decimate a snail population.

[@BiTurbo228]

"No living dinosaur is cooler than a great white shark" Now that's fighting talk that is 😂

[@jredmane]

Ok! Let's go! 🐦🐓🦅🦉🦜🕊️🦢🦆🦩🦚🐧 vs 🦈. Please name your living dinosaur that is cooler than a great white

[@BiTurbo228]

Case in point: Flamingos man. Extremophile therapods that not only live but _choose to breed_ in water that's so caustic it strips the flesh from most animals' bones. They can survive pretty much being frozen solid and living at extreme altitudes (4000m+). They have convergently evolved structures for filter feeding with baleen whales...and they're bright shocking pink and look ridiculous (juxtaposing perfectly with how hard as nails they actually are as animals).

[@BiTurbo228]

@@jredmane Haha just replied to my own post with flamingos as a starter for 10 😂 hear me out with that one!

[@Brion57042]

Secretary Birds. ... At least that's my answer before I start remembering how metal flamingos are.

[@Charlie.1066]

I’m going with the black sicklebill

[@Eloraurora]

Oh, wow. Those giant iridescent eyes on the pufferfish makes them look like plushies.

[@nerfherder4284]

There must be a function for it right? Seems like little flakes of glitter floating on their lens.

[@lingus1382]

@@nerfherder4284I think there is some evidence that having iridescence in their eyes can help some fish see further in water, I’m not sure exactly how that works but that’s what I’ve heard lol. The other theory is just that it helps make the eye less obvious so that the fish can camouflage better

[@darhaha3391]

If there was a Disney animated movie starring one of those box fish I would have assumed that they had taken lots of creative liberties. That looks absolutely unreal

[@MeganDinerman]

“Clint’s Typical Interest In Animals” NEEDS to be a thing, if only for April 1.

[@phillipc-b]

We had a pet Fahaka Puffer for years. She was astonishingly intelligent and hilariously belligerent. Her name was Martha. Yes. Martha Fahaka.

[@katydid5088]

😂 Samuel L Jackson would be proup

[@kyokoyumi]

I didn't even read it as "fahaka" at first. I read it as "fahka" lmfao

[@chemistrydragon5641]

I'd argue this is your best phylogenetic video. The exploration of evolution here taught me so much!! Well done sir!

[@vincentx2850]

The closest living relative of the group are anglerfish, which are also ribless. I think it is very likely that this trait is ancestral.

[@greyjustgrey2423]

Clint's typical interest in animals is my new favorite bit of any series "get a normal pet like a dog" is something I thought I would never hear him say. Even my most unreasonable reptiles are far more manageable than a dog could ever be, then I would be called a nerd.

[@BBB_bbb_BBB]

I've never heard of a box fish before now and it is easily the cutest fish I've ever seen.

[@LaynieFingers]

Why is this one of my favorite series ever? So upbeat, so educational and so FUN!

[@InfinityCSM]

Same!

[@kaiyakershaw1028]

Clint’s impression of a normal person is so relatable to me! I rarely succeed in appearing to be a normal person, at least once I’ve started talking, so I’ve generally stopped trying.

[@joemungus6063]

i love getting a personal biology lesson every few days :)

[@DragonFire-u2z]

Me too bro

[@emilyb4583]

Clint's "my favorite clade of ray-finned fishes" reminds me of the time I went to the zoo with a friend's family and halfway through the zoo, one of the kids said, "They can't ALL be your favorite animal! You've said that at every exhibit!" and I had to clarify that the fossa is my favorite mammal and the barn owl is my favorite bird, but I also have a favorite feline (snow leopard), canine (painted dogs), corvid (common crow), Lemur (aye aye), non-human primate (golden-handed tamarin), and pretty much every other grouping of animals. Want to know my favorite species in the genus Leopardus? (sadly, she did not. I think she thought I was a bit eccentric. But I'm okay with that. It's the Geoffroy's cat, by the way. They're amazing.)

[@EthanBradley1231]

Love the constant use of the term "water fishes"

[@KAZVorpal]

I dislike it, because he is confusing people with unscientific sensationalism, where he pretends that "fish" is a clade, and therefore dinosaurs are fish, when they are not.

[@M_Alexander]

​@@KAZVorpal it's more that how we think of "fish" is vague and misleading. He often frames it as a running joke but from a certain perspective every tetrapod is a fish because tetrapods evolved from the same fishlike ancestor as some other fish. If you draw a clade to include all fish, you can't arbitrarily exclude tetrapods just because you think they're too different from the rest of the group; we still share notable traits with distant species that also share a common ancestor.

[@2424Lars]

@@KAZVorpal Bony fish, from which all land vertebrates evolved, are a clade and are considered fish, so I agree with Clint about referring to 'water fishes'

[@cobusvanderlinde6871]

@@KAZVorpal What if.... there SHOULD be a clade "fish" but the zoologists are cowards who resist this eminently sensible idea because of their own flimsy inhibitions.

[@dan_asd]

@@cobusvanderlinde6871 One might even say the scientists inhibitions are a bit.... fishy

[@lizblock9593]

Takeaway from Clint videos - you can have many many favorites and love them all passionately!

[@georgefleming4956]

I have to believe this video was made for me and me alone. I keep three species of puffer and three species of trigger! ❤ 🐟

[@thechosenone5644]

Half of all the funny looking fish in one clade? Hooray.

[@rookbirdblues]

I have some video ideas from a raptor nerd. Please do a video on the caracaras and falcons, OR a video about the Harris Hawk, the only dinosaur we know for 100% certain hunts in packs. Heck, a phylogeny video on the entire Accipitridae family would ROCK. More people need to see videos of goshawks flying through the forest and packs of Harris Hawks in the desert! Our living predatory dinosaurs are so incredible.

[@wickeddyno]

I can't stop laughing every time I see one of those derpy little boxfishes just barely moving through the water.🤣

[@DJJD669]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT WHEN CLINTS REPTILES UPLOADS!! I just got off work, time to relax and learn about fishies!

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

I love it when somethings the 'Hagfish' of another thing :)

[@jredmane]

"Water fishes"! LOL yes I love that distinction! Thank you Clint!

[@ajnormandgroome]

Love how you bring back previous videos- like tossing aside the inaccurate toy/model

[@fakjbf3129]

Is this the first time Clint has had to tell us that an animal is poisonous but not venomous? Usually it’s the other way around!

[@sydhenderson6753]

I thought there a few snakes (hognose and some garter snakes) but they are actually very mildly venomous. So mild that for a long time garter snakes were thought to be nonvenomous. They both get poison from eating toads. If Clint's done an amphibian video, then he's had some poisonous animals that weren't venomous.

[@eotikurac]

i think he made the difference clear in at least one video. venom is injected, poison is injested.

[@juanausensi499]

@@eotikurac One animal bites another one. If the animal that was bit dies, the other animal was poisonous. If the animal that bit dies, the other animal was venomous.

[@eliottuliocamaradonge2706]

@@juanausensi499 Nope, that's the wrong way around. If you bite something and it dies, you're venomous. If you die, it was poisonous.

[@BrankoVT]

Finally someone who knows the differeence between fish (plural) and fishes.

[@susanmartin3762]

I've never know which was correct. I knew both words but not their true meaning. I thought "Fish" meant ALL fish. I thought "fishes" was wrong. Deer and Deers gets me too. Deer? Plural and singular? Deers? 2 deer? Oh heck..

[@vanessakirby412]

I learned about the relation of some of these fishes when building my Pokémon phylogeny. (Yes, extremely nerdy, I know.) Quilfish/Overkwill is a porcupine puffer, Alomomola is a mola, and Bruxish is a trigger fish. It even has the weird human-like teeth. Also, my child once had a book about animals where it mentioned that pufferfish inflate their bodies with AIR. I almost cried. Mistakes like that in animal books drive me nuts now.

[@consensuslphisk]

oo sounds like a fun project!

[@CainXVII]

That would be very funny. They inflate and immediately sail away like a helium balloon

[@clvrcookie]

Amazing video! This one really made me think. My takeaways are: 1) Rib loss is an exaptation to puffing in Tetraodontidae and Diodontidae, meaning the ancestral loss of their ribs allowed the evolution of their puffing behaviour, as opposed to the loss of their ribs occuring because of the evolution of their puffing behaviour 2) Genetic analysis is essential to establish precise evolutionary relationships between clades, which themselves are necessay to differentiate adaptations, exaptations and atavisms. Based on morphological analysis alone most traits would be considered adaptations, imo 3) Molas are closely related to pufferfishes. That's news! 4) Tetraodontiformes is a stinkin' rad group of water fishes 🔥

[@Tabbycalico21]

I love pufferfish! They are genuinely some of the cutest fish ever

[@susanmartin3762]

And they can TOTALLY recognize people! My doctors office has a Puffer in their GORGEOUS Salt water aquarium. I've at watched other people walk up to it and look at the fish. When I walk up to it, he swim-runs over to me and I swear he likes me!! I get to feed him when I visit and he is just my favorite Lil fishy! He maintains eye contact with me...I wish I could afford a salt water tank. I'd only have coral and puffers!😊

[@gauchegreyhound]

PLEEEEASE do a clip show of a "normal" guy doing all of Clint's video formats 😂😂😂 I am begging! 🙏

[@Alls10]

Boyfriends, the best pet mammal? 🤣😂🤣

[@marinacosta8835]

That would be perfect for a April fools video.

[@Ultralink1001]

Would loooove that

[@erukaseven]

We need(want) this.

[@JohnDoe-nq4du]

Yeah, but not Will. No offense, Will, but you're Will, and this really needs to be someone named Clint. Bonus points if their last name isn't Laidlaw, but something close, like Clint Ludlow, or maybe Clint Restingregulation.

[@nicklasmartos928]

The bit at the end was really convincing. I'd love shorts like that. But more than anything, it made me appreciate your regular videos. They can be a refuge of wonder and excitement.

[@anothersquid]

I used to keep puffers and never really noticed the pelvic fin thing before, heh.

[@DIEKALSTER8]

This channel is fantastic. You are fantastic Clint and all who help you. 30min Clint vid? Hell yeah. Immediate click.

[@nerfherder4284]

Can we get a "Puffing Life" t-shirt 😂 sounds gangsta 😂

[@susanmartin3762]

That was exactly what I thought the second he said that!😅😅 this is going to be one of my fav videos of his! What a man! I so jealous of Leisha! She's so beautiful and funny. They are so perfect together. She has one of the rare, truly Good, God and animal loving man. They are rare and difficult to find.... but they're out there... somewhere. I also know he truly thinks that HE'S the lucky one. He adores her. Isn't love grand?❤

[@LucyRoseLuna]

Humuhumunukunukuapua´a is related to mola mola?! didn´t know that! amazing (probably my two favourite members of this clade)

[@robotboy719]

A virtuosic performance. Clint is at the top of his game here.

[@HeidiBullard]

Watching Clint try to talk about creatures as a lay person is hilarious, lol.

[@saiforos7928]

I like the pelvic fins/bones/ribs framing device for going through the clade, well done.

[@julioherrera7813]

Clint I wanted to say I love your best pet series and I hope you don’t stop doing them. I would love to see one for opossums!

[@Eisenwulf666]

Pufferfishes didn't choose the puffing life, the puffing life choose them!

[@nerfherder4284]

I'd buy a "Puffing Life" T-shirt from Clint 😂👍🏻

[@tonycardone990]

The normal clint outro was hilarious. It's scary how many people who are actually like that, that I know.

[@kyleward3914]

Trigger (fish) warning.

[@wyvern723]

My grandmother had a huge house when I was a kid. She liked hosting big family gatherings at the holidays where everyone spent the night. In her basement, she had a bar, and the lights were made with taxidermied porcupine puffer fish.

[@brendanmurphy2937]

“Oh, you’re a zoologist? Name every animal.” 😎

[@gingeraleicetea]

Clint's Typical Interest in Animals should be an April Fool's video one year

[@JamesEpic3]

This video is why i like Clint. He isn't only knowledgeable but also has personality.

[@MoeOuan666]

Love puffer fishes too. I have pure freshwater ones in my aquarium, there are a few species that are freshwater, most are marine or brackish... Mines are carinotetraodon irrubesco 😊 By the way, they use their caudal fin as a rudder indeed, but it's a secondary use: the main use is rapid acceleration, so propulsion like most fishes. It's not used for cruising, only very short intense acceleration for evasion or predation, sometimes intraspecific fights between males. This is the case for all freshwater puffers (tetraodons) I have observed, I guess it's the same for marine or brackish ones...

[@susanmartin3762]

You've made me very happy. I love Puffers and would love to have one. I thought they could only live in Salt water!! They have fresh water puffers too!! I'm starting my search today! Thankyou!

[@MoeOuan666]

@@susanmartin3762 you have multiple pure freshwater species, from the cheap easy to find (in my place, Europe) carinotetraodon travancoricus (very small, 1 inch), and never had success keeping them), the red eyed 4 species (carinotetraodon irrubesco, lorteti, salivator and boornensis), my preferred (2-3 inches), tetraodon schoutedeni (very very nice but hard to find and expensive, 4-5 inches ), and quite different Amazon puffer (schooling and more active, relatively fast swimmer, but with a lot of problem due to teeth overgrowth - 2 ''). You have also much bigger ones like fahaka and mbu but those require seriously big freshwater tanks... And there are also very inactive and very predatory species which tend to burrow, I do not remember the names (suvaati?)... So yes, a lot of possibilities

[@MoeOuan666]

There are a lot of species you can choose, the very small carinotetraodon travancoricus (1''), cheap and the easiest to find at least in europe, but never had success keeping those. My preferred, the red eye species (carinotetraodon irrubesco, lorteti, boornensis and salivator, 2-3''), the very nice but expensive and hard to find tetraodon schoutedeni 3-4'', much larger ones like fahaka and mbu but those needs seriously big freshwater tank, too large for most people. And you also have inactive burrowing predatory species, like suvaati IIRC. And there is the amazon puffer, a small (2-3'') very active schooling puffer, very different as it needs to be in group (while the other puffer tends to male - male fight and nip fins of other fishes, so groups or communal tank with other species are difficult)... But the Amazon puffer suffer from teeth overgrow in captivity, that's why I never tried those. Good luck 👍

[@dagamerboi]

the level of inconsistency with any evidence of how these guys evolved is trippy as heck

[@risel56]

I had no idea porcupine puffer skeletons looked like that. It's like they're made of caltrops!

[@LMoM0MoM]

Hi ya’ great video! Not sure if you’ve heard this before (you probably have) but for the sake of those who haven’t. As a short hand for the difference between poisonous and venomous: if you bite it and you die , it’s poisonous; if it bites you and you die, it’s venomous. Apologies if this has been provided elsewhere.

[@patax144]

It is useful since at least in Spanish we don't make a distinction between the two if it it is a substance than when introduced in the body kills you or harms you badly it is "veneno" doesn't matter if it's injected or ingested, so for a long time I didn't know the difference. We do technically have a word that is cognate with the english word poison but it is more of a synonym that also means "toxic harmful substance"

[@brentlink6103]

I loved this episode, these are some of the coolest fishes. I was hoping you would touch on the short boxy shape as a defence mechanism. I caught a documentary some time ago where they demonstrated strikes being deflected. Instead of out swimming a predator, the puffer simply changed direction to avoid the strike. It was like Akedo.

[@stephaniefitzpatrick3912]

I was diving and turned around to see a very spiny pufferfish, almost needed a change of underwear! Today I learned that I need not be worried as I wasn't going to eat it 😂 thanks for the information!

[@theodoretibbitts9538]

I kept a saltwater tank for awhile and puffers were some of my favorite fish to keep. Just so friggin cute and interactive. The fact they will murder all your snails and many of your hermit crabs was less than ideal, but they’re worth it for their cute blimping around and exploring. Jawfish are probably the only fish I kept that might compete, but I had a lot more success with puffers - the Jawfish kept deciding to jump out of my aquariums.

[@madisonjacques8507]

Boxfish are hands-down one of the cutest types of fish (maybe only behind leafy seadragons). There are also cute sharks, like whale sharks

[@AuroraExotics]

I love the mola mola! What a weird and wonderful bunch of fishes! Brings me back to my vertebrate bio class big time. Also yes, please, more 'normal guy' Clint! You can play the character so well!

[@KingaKucyk]

Clint: "there is no extant living dinosaur cooler than a great white shark" Birds of paradise: *are we a joke to You* 😂

[@Sinner487]

5:26 this almost reminds me of the Cars anatomy meme the way these guys just look like cartoons. Like its hard to imagine complex organs and body functions behind that cute face. 😭

[@jeroennickman]

The structure of this video is so, so engaging! I love the approach of showing stepwise how phylogeny can be used to make informed guesses on the evolutionary history of traits rather than just presenting the ending hypothesis, and with a crazy cool example 😁

[@monster_misfire]

Conspicuously spiny pufferfishes are my favourite animal so my dream Clint's Reptiles video was a phylogeny video on the Tetraodontiformes. Thank you for making my dream come true Clint! And thank you for teaching me so many new things about my favourite family of fishes. I had no idea the three-toothed puffers even existed!

[@bubbajenkins123]

Diodontids are basically South Park Canadians

[@Ultralink1001]

Giant Ocean Sunfish are so awesome. I love them. Them and the weird seahorse faced fish. Bizarro Clint? I would LOVE to see Mr. Clinton's General Animal Interests. "I dont have a PHD, I'm not a teacher. Is this a good pet? I dunno maybe? Have you considered a pet rock?"

[@AudraK]

I’ve raised pea puffers for years and they are so fascinating! They are so curious and observant! You can walk by the tank and they will watch you plus they would often make extensive eye contact with you. You could see them look at you for a little, look at a snail to snack on, then look at you to see if you’re still there watching. They definitely aren’t as smart as like a dolphin or octopus but they are still smart little guys

[@RainAngel111]

Dude I have never seen those little yellow box fishes before today. They're crazy adorable! Thanks for showing us all so many cool species. The skeleton of the box fish was crazy too! I thought they were normal puffers too

[@vulturesalesman]

Oh! I'm so excited to see this video in my feed!! Tetraodontiformes is my favorite order of fish, ever ❤ glad to see you talking about them!

[@Jay_Mike]

Never thought I’d be watching a 30 minute video about pufferfish and their relatives….but here I am 😂

[@ForestSchweitzer022097]

Always a pleasure to see you Clint. Thank you for everything you and the team do to educate and entertain us

[@sunnijo]

This is such a cool way to teach people how to use the scientific method!

[@motorcitymangababe]

Every phylogeny video helps me learn more about not just animals, but creating my own evolutionary branches for my world building! Thank you for learning!

[@bigkirbyhj666]

Awwww was hoping for the secong insect installment

[@ClintsReptiles]

You won't need to wait long

[@bigkirbyhj666]

@@ClintsReptiles yay! Also my favorite fishes (marine) would have to be the assortment of cool eels.

[@Adaptibility]

This is a great video I hope that you do a video on the phylogeny of icthyosaurs and/or pliosaurs

[@juliesheehan41]

Clint: they're not venomous Me:so I can hug them Clint: they're highly poisonous

[@beclouise8686]

Another excellent video Clint! Did not know pufferfishes were related to sunfish 💚 On one of my snorkels I had the pleasure of spotting a large Shaw's Cowfish and the iridescent patterning was beautiful to watch. Now I know why they seemed so chill with me taking a silly amount of videos filming them.

[@faithharling9835]

Awesome video! I think we would all die for a comedic series of "Clint's Typical Interest in Animals" !!!

[@bubbajenkins123]

Marine biology is its own specialty for a reason - it is a whole other world in the pelagic and benthic zones of the world

[@joflo5950]

I loved the discussion of different hypotheses for evolutionary pathways in this. I would be happy to see something similar again in a future video.

[@croingan9749]

In the end we need a supercut from all the Phylogeny video

[@Eloraurora]

@@croingan9749 I thought they wouldn't support videos over 24hrs. Is he over the limit yet?

[@croingan9749]

@@Eloraurora he is at ca. 17hrs

[@Eloraurora]

@@croingan9749 Not quite at the cutoff yet, then. We have the second installment on insects coming soon (maybe 2hrs?) and someone else was asking for jellyfish, which seems like a topic with a lot of weird side branches. I think he's got the material.

[@polarberri]

Super interesting video, in an easy to follow format! Loved the bit at the end with a "normal" Clint - would watch more for fun, but the true draw is your effusive and infectious excitement about the details!

[@danmaier2824]

I just discovered Clint. I really hope he's actually the loveable weirdo I'm watching and this isnt just an act.

[@ClintsReptiles]

I think my wife would tell you that it is no act...

[@danmaier2824]

@@ClintsReptiles I've now gone back to your first videos, and I feel I can also say that it is no act 😂 I love your videos, keep them coming!

[@tythranduilion2410]

Whenever I'm in the mood to learn something and not sure if I want to do a proper deep dive on my own, I always come here to watch (or rewatch) your phylogeny videos! They are so interesting and I love how you make the information accessible and digestible -- you're an excellent educator! I also love the other video formats you do, I just have to say that these videos are some of my favorite content on the entirety of youtube! I'm hoping to be able to support you on Patreon in the near future, but for now I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us and giving me good foundations to continue learning zoology on my own as well :)

[@ChaitanyaShukla2503]

Cover freshwater puffers as well.

[@poppyfrancis7338]

Thank you for reminding me that molas and pufferfish are related, I adore these unusual piscine pals and they're all so strange and wonderful

[@bigboxofstuff]

Great episode I never heard of box fish(es) either kind, and the Sunfish has always been one of my favorites! Thanks for making these!

[@94DeathAngel]

I love pufferfish, their face is so derpy and look like the puppies of the sea❤. I made a sculpture of a porcupine puffer in ceramics class and my teacher was impressed with my techniques.

[@wcookiv]

This was such a great video on how we determine ancestral traits. You could base a whole assignment just on having students give their own thoughts on how they think it went and why.

[@robertmacfergus9288]

Polypterids would be great. A truly unique group, with many of its members making for some of the best pet fishes. Tonnes of cool characteristics and also extremely cute.

[@andytrommald5327]

I've seen Molas many times at sea, They can move surprisingly quickly and can jump like 6 feet out of the water and land clumsily

[@octaviasaenz6666]

What I love about these videos is every now and then I'll find out about a group of animals I had no idea were so damn interesting. 'Cause wow! These might be my favorite bony fishes.

[@lauraokelly2644]

If you're ever in California, the Monterey By Aquarium would be well worth your time! They have mola in the open sea exhibit and they are so amazing to watch. I love to pull up the open sea web cam on their site and just watch them swim.

[@scapeghost4212]

Excited for Clint to learn every single extent animal species so he can finally definitely determine what pet is best for me

[@pjbailey2313]

Puffers are my fav fishes for sure! I kept a green spotted puffer, in a brackish/esturine tank for just short of 8 years. I also had to become proficient at raiding snails! Puffers have such interesting charming personalities. The only reason I don’t still have “her” is that her tank developed a sudden catastrophic leak. I still grieve.

[@atdesk9394]

I like the phylogeny graphic having an ocean overlay in the background. That little detail adds a lot of charm!