Testing My Knowledge on the Tree of Life

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Now that I'm moving into my house, I've decided it's the perfect time to take a closer look at some of the posters that'll go on to decorate my future set. First up we have this amazing tree of life poster given to me by my mom last Christmas!
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[@lemmesleep8566]

The camera angle makes this feel like I'm a proud parent listening to their child excitedly explain what they got for Christmas. :')

[@TheOnlyCaprisun]

I don’t know if that was the intention but it seems just that much more…adorable? ahaha

[@atrsarst7158]

daddy's proud

[@shutup-gc2yk]

Plus, Caelan is just so adorable 🥰 I felt the same way lol

[@crackedemerald4930]

Or some boyfriend ASMR

[@Bobbeyjazz]

I wish my parents had any interest in my own interests when I was a child (or even as an adult) other than pushing me to have the same interests as them. The fact that his mother saw something in a shop and decided to buy it because she knew he would love it makes me sad about my own situation, but happy for him.

[@sharksuperiority9736]

I thoroughly enjoy that this man who has taught me so much doesn’t know what a Hagfish or a Lamprey is And yes they are jawless fish as far as I’m aware

[@nihilanthropus]

No, they aren't fish

[@heichan8657]

@@nihilanthropus Lamprey are fish but is on another lineage than jawed fish

[@blazejcholewinski2566]

I believe the mouth like structure of a lamprey is called a rasp. Leeches have that structure, too.

[@SupahGeck]

@@nihilanthropus Technically either we are all fish, or fish is meaningless as a concept. Whatever "fish-like" creature crawled on land and became the ancestor of all terrestrial animals was closely related to the "fish-like" ancestor of goldfish. Fish is not a scientific term, it's more like the culinary terms "fruit" and "vegetable."

[@drimachuck]

@@SupahGeck I'd think a fish is an aquatic/marine vertebrate? I mean it's the most paraphyletic grouping there is haha

[@iangurudata]

Your mom nailed this gift and we all got to reap the benefits. Thanks, Mrs. Pro!

[@Simon-np8bt]

As a biologist i really enjoyed watching this video because i find all of the questions quite easy to anwser and just watching someone with little biological education struggle to answer these by using basic logic was really informative because things are not as straight forward and intuitive as one might think. Evolution never ceases to amaze me. Great job btw. Looking forward to see your new channel!

[@roidrannoc1691]

As a biologist, while the video is interesting, I wouldn't recommand such a tree to learn phylogeny... It has such a 19th century vibe,. The fact that he said at the begining that sponges are related to jellyfish is quite the issue I have about this tree... I find the OneZoom tree of life (built as a fractal) way better (yes I know, you can't make a poster out of it)

[@dreadpirateroberts1358]

Not a biologist but I'm studying it atm, and it's really fun to see him answer. The struggle reminds me of myself when I was starting and it's just relaxing. Though I did notice a small issue on the chart somewhat early on. Didn't chrdata evolve from a sponge? The tail of the mobile stage of the sponge eventually didn't go away and became a primitive cartilagenous backbone that then that evolved further into individual bones creating true backbones?

[@Simon-np8bt]

@@dreadpirateroberts1358 I believe you confused tunicates with sponges because some benthic adult tunicates look similar to sponges at first glance. Sponges (or maybe ctenophores, there is still a dispute) are the very basal lineage, the sister group to all other animals, while tunicates are a sister group to vertebrates. I agree that this poster as any other phylogenetic poster gives way too much emphasis on vertebrate lineage and omit like 20 animal phyla alone, and almost all other non animal organisms. And for some anthropocentric reasons humans are always on the top center. But I get it, vertebrates are the most complex and most familiar organism around us.

[@dreadpirateroberts1358]

@@Simon-np8bt That is what I was thinking of. I looked it up to be sure. I learned it from I don't even remember anymore and the word they used was sponge. I'm definatly glad to learn the correct origin of the backbone tho. But yeah this emphasizes vertebrates way too much. Same with animals and eukaryotes.

[@thijsbos]

Same here

[@spoonabenson8762]

Seeing a new Atlas Pro video pop up in my feed is always an amazing feeling, absolutly love your content.

[@mothic5889]

The fact that cephalopods are related to clams and snails, which branched off so early in animal evolution, is exactly why their intelligence is so fascinating. Most animals we consider "truly intelligent" are vertebrates, with similar brains to our own. Octopus have evolved their intelligence completely independent of this and done a few things differently along the way, like spreading their brain neurons all out in their arms with only 1/3 of them actually in the "brain". I'm an evolutionary biology student, and I love examples like this because they reveal a lot of interesting things about the flexibility and constraints on the evolution of things like brains and intelligence.

[@komorebiari]

As a biology student who just finished learning about this topic about the phylum/clade/groups of animals, I had so much fun answering the questions and learning new things while watching the video!

[@Fharokai]

yeah same

[@peperando8733]

Honestly, your videos on space stuff are extremely interesting to me, I had always thought of the space as a boring subject to study, and same goes for geology, but those videos have taught me that I'm wrong. It's a bit sad that they were underperforming, but I'm glad to see that you aren't giving up on them

[@troyblueearth7450]

I’m genuinely surprised you’ve never heard of a lamprey I guess we’re all learning something new every day

[@emmadenton1826]

Guessing along with you is so entertaining!! I'm only 12 minutes in, but I'm surprised by how much I knew, or could work out!

[@wpwscience4027]

Ikr

[@chrissscottt]

You've inspired me to buy a tree of life poster and put it on my wall. Thanks.

[@AtlasPro1]

There’s a link in the description if you want the very same one!

[@מ.מ-ה9ד]

32:06 Technically, all ants have the potential for wings given the right conditions and they all have the genes for wings. All of the Queen ants has wings in some part of their life and all male ants as well. All Hymenoptera, including ants has wings.

[@duckpotat9818]

Hymenoptera literally means membrane winged

[@Stettafire]

Some ant species, worth mentioning, don't reproduce the same way as most ants do so in some very rare cases a species might not have any winged members at all

[@halovsbionicle]

Also because of certain weirdnesses between ants and wasps (the divide usually being determined by eusociality) you have wingless wasps too

[@wpwscience4027]

Cool

[@thebeeemill]

One thing I had to do for a fish biology course in college was memorize the entire line of scientific categorizations (kingdom, phylum, subphylum, all the way down to species) for a handful of species, one of those being lamprey which are indeed jawless. Surprised you’ve never heard of them; they’re infamous to me as the fish who attach themselves to a host and suck blood out to feed (although there are non carnivorous species too).

[@montana2796]

An interesting thing regarding the "Did Dinosaurs coexist with grass?" question. Piperno and Sues (2005) described fossilized Dinosaur dung from India, which had phytoliths consistent with grasses, more specifically something similar to rice or bamboo. Furthermore, Wu, You & Li (2018) described grass microfossils that were found associated with Equijubus from China from the Albian. So grass for sure coexisted with dinosauria a lot more than previously recognized! Also I love these unscripted videos, they show your personality and knowledge well.

[@legoboy468]

I really liked your space videos, I felt like they really fit with your style and other content. I totally understand making a second channel and I can’t wait for tomorrow’s episode, but I’m sad that people didn’t like them as much here : (

[@joshuasalem5022]

Funnily enough my mom got me the same poster for my birthday earlier this year. Love to see you showing it on your channel!

[@kanegd2990]

Great to know about the second channel! I'm super into both geography and astronomy so I always enjoyed the space videos and totally agree that they are some of your best work. Already subbed to Astro Pro, I hope it grows quickly

[@vernonfridy8416]

Corrections: The ray-finned fish described as a “bass” on the card is a member of the Protacanthopterygii and most likely a trout of some type. Skinks are not the only lizards with very small, two, or no legs.

[@paulholleger8538]

I'm consistently mesmerized by that "ct" ligature in the font the cards use.

[@thephantoman14]

Yeah it makes a really nice touch

[@andrescanales9719]

Excited about the new channel! Your videos on astronomy are some of my favorite. Subscribed!

[@thomasnelson6161]

I got to admit, I really love this style of video.

[@njclawsart]

This is such a cool poster. Also really sorry/ surprised to hear your space videos under performed so much. I'm a lover of all things science so I'm just as excited about space as I am about the earth sciences. Definitely following you over there.

[@literalturtle8206]

I am SOBBING watching you try to pronounce all the fish/marine names 😂😂 I want to give you a marine biology lesson so bad (not in a condescending way, but in a "I want to nerd out about my field of study" way 😅)

[@lankytom7254]

If this guy was my teacher I would probably learn more

[@Exist64]

I would turn gay

[@khubanifamily5566]

He has already taught me more than most teachers

[@davidec.4021]

@@Exist64 lmao

[@ryanscotts9633]

​@@Exist64 😶 and, me here crushing hard on him 🌚

[@PatataMaxtex]

@Patrick Hudson Students not paying attention could also be teachers making horribly boring lessons.

[@Elfrio904]

Happy to see you made it to the Nebula team. Well deserved and long overdue

[@MinedMaker]

I was always a hardcore fan of your astro-geography videos, super excited about the new channel!

[@thenaiam]

Just an additional point about the Coelacanth/Lungfish question, it's also pointing out (famously) that lungfish are more closely related to cows than salmon. Also, it's pronounced see-luh-canth Also, also, just discovered your other channel, and am loving it! And I agree that I wish more people find it, too.

[@fresamouse]

"Yeah i had a good Christmas too, thanks for asking..."

[@ahha6304]

Okay, I am shocked by the facts that you never heard of Lampreys before

[@crackedemerald4930]

I've heard of them before, but because of studying biology, not because they're a common or native fish.

[@AtlasPro1]

You caught me, I’m a land lubber, always have been, always will be 😔

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

This felt like the equivalent of a nice game night with a friend. :)

[@ZendikarMage42750]

I'm so glad you're making more space videos! I can't wait to check out your new channel

[@AdamMansbridge]

Dinosaurs, grass - I saw a cockatoo (bird, dinosaur) eating grass seeds yesterday

[@severalgecko]

Did dinosaurs roam in grass? Well, there is a magpie on my lawn right now...

[@leahshukaitis6365]

For the record lampreys are a type of jawless fish. They are also parasitic latching onto other larger sea creatures and feeding off them hence the many sharp hooked teeth to help latch onto the host

[@mudgetheexpendable]

That is one gorgeous image! Good pick on Mom's part.

[@martinkois7126]

Regarding ants, since reproductive ants like queens and drones are winged, they're counted among the winged insects. Even if they didn't have wings, they are descended from a winged branch so they are considered "winged" insects.

[@levinjoseph233]

As a 15 year old who learned alot from your channel in the past few years it quite surprised me that I know more about the tree of life than you because I literally knowed all the answers I am quite happy and confused but it definitely give me a confidence boost

[@Fraccy]

Hey Atlas Pro, just wanted to tell you how much I love all the content you make on this channel, it is honestly amazing and some of my favorite to watch on all of KZbin. Because of your videos, I actually decided to go to University to persue a career in Geosciences! Biogeography is such an incredible topic, and I love it so so so much. Thank you for making some of the best videos out there on island biogeography, there's nobody else on the platform like you. I do have 2 video ideas for you if you are interested, the biogeography of Greenland, and the biogeography of New Zealand. I am actually going to move to New Zealand soon, as it is where I've wanted to live my whole life, and I can't wait to finally be able to start fresh there and make a future for myself in a land I love. Keep it up the amazing videos

[@existentity3476]

I've always been interested in space. I had no idea, until I found your channel, how interested I would be in earth. Finding out that you're making a space channel called astro pro is pretty awesome. I'm going to smash the like button and then go cozy up to the new subscribe button. :D

[@Jeuro38]

Blows my mind how many things you got wrong! Not as a personal slight, I guess it highlights even more how much talent you have for great research, condensing information, great narrative exposition etc... Your videos are truly top of the shelf

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

What a cool poster! I can't believe he's never heard of coelacanth or lampreys

[@thepierre700]

Q: Are dolphins and whales more closely related to hippos or manatees? AP: "They think I'm stupid pretty much... My answer is 'no'." The unscripted stuff is fun. Great video.

[@natalieeuley1734]

It makes me feel very smart that I was able to answer all these questions correctly, instinctually, and immediately upon hearing them lol. Especially since I feel like many of Atlas Pros' videos go over my head. But that would mainly be the geography ones

[@AtlasPro1]

Biology and Geography are two entirely different beasts 😅

[@natalieeuley1734]

@@AtlasPro1 that's definitely true. And I think this is very down to earth content for the people that aren't nerds about biology

[@wpwscience4027]

@@AtlasPro1 one begets the other

[@The_Razielim]

I loved watching you look for the coelacanths/lungfish... while staring at them under your wrist because you were leaning on them lmao

[@LotsOfS]

Wanted to just put this video as background noise while I fall asleep, but I ended up just actively watching the entire thing. Goos job!

[@davidonfim2381]

Many members of the pterygota (winged insects) secondarily lost their wings. Examples include bat flies, lice, fleas, and some species of beetles. So not all members of the pterygota have wings either.

[@Jeuro38]

Thanks! I was certain there were some secondary wingless ones but couldn't put my finger on which

[@chris1141987]

You should do a livestream where people can ask you questions and you can try to figure it out with just the resources close to you.

[@tomatosoup44]

Full metamorphosis is basically: egg -> larvae -> cocoon -> "adult" insect

[@symmetrie_bruch]

you don´t have time? no worries your videos are highly rewatchable as i can personally attest to. plus the amount of effort in each one is clear to see and you also started another amazing channel. so don´t worry we´ll be rewatching the oldies until your comfortably settled in.

[@davidbryden7904]

15:10 "are related to... ...whatever these things are.." 🤷‍♂️ it sounds so much like me, I'm still chuckling about it. Very entertaining and educational. 🙏✌️🌏☮️ AstroPro is on my subs 👍

[@snardfluk]

Coelacanth is pronounced see-lo-canth. A great KZbin series about evolution is Aaron Ra’s Systematic Classification of Life.

[@derlilaphysiker]

I discovered your Channel through your Space related Videos and im stoked for more of that kind of content!

[@lordperkele3778]

Lampreys are tasty! They are good both fried on coals or smoked. The first inch or so of the fish is normally not eaten, it contains the liver and most other internal organs, and of course the hard teeth which it uses to latch on to bigger fish in order to feed on them. The inedible part is easy to see as it is a kind of a bump when the rest of the fish is sleek, and it comes off easily when cooked. Lamprey is served whole and as is, and eaten by hand like it was rope licorice, the kind you can get from festival candy stalls. 2022 hasn't been a good year to catch lamprey at my location, as water levels remained low so far and the lamprey can't get upstream in local rivers because of that. Oh and lampreys definitely don't have jaws. Their mouths are circular holes lined with teeth. It is quite interesting really, to know that teeth evolved before jaws.

[@mihailoradovanovic7283]

this is a realy cool concept, i have thought about it a lot but never saw a way to do it, so im quite happy this came out

[@terinatum]

FYI from a Vermonter: Recent genetic studies indicate that the sea lamprey may acytually be native to Lake Champlain.

[@lomarvgc1580]

prehistoric plants would make a cool video

[@heichan8657]

8:45 Pinnipeds are in the order Carnivora, and of course they still have the ability to go back on land. Algae is not actually a monophyletic group, so some are more related to plants and some are not.

[@1.4142]

Plants and Archaea always get the short end of the stick on trees

[@XeroidOC]

Atlas pro te mereces más reconocimiento

[@wilsonhicken3446]

The names are weird, one simple thing you can think about with the ‘ii’, anytime you see that as a suffix, it is 2 syllables, the first is ‘ee’ (like see) and the 2nd is “I” (like eye).

[@keithwagg4112]

I remember once learning elephants have internal testes as do dugongs and it is an aquatic trait the evolved and probably comes from their common ancestor.

[@GreatLakesFeatherCo]

You should make a video about sociological structures in nature and maybe collab with Second Thought since he does really interesting videos about the topic.

[@cynthiavanteylingen7922]

This is fun. Like a quiz but u have to find the answer via an investigation love that

[@TamarZiri]

21:50 OH MY GOD!! A WHOLE SPACE CHANNEL?? YEEEEES!!!! I had no idea it existed until now! wonder why youtube never recommended it to me but I'm so happy to have found out about it!

[@Mikelaxo]

I feel so smart knowing the vast majority of these answers. I wish I had that poster, I'd love it

[@lucas_e_jones]

"Phylum and Xylum, one goes up and one goes down" So like Stalagtites and Stalagmites then?

[@hamdaouiJafar]

Quick pauze in the video to tell you the space video's are awesome please know that you are a pioneer!

[@Crazy_Rabbids]

Life Finds a Way.

[@thexcrafter9775]

mannnn i love your videos where you beeen i miss the knowledge you spread

[@theshard5697]

This video for the lack of a better word feels very intimate? Like we're friends hanging out just playing a game. Im really enjoying it :D

[@christophhanke6627]

Just as in idea for one possible future video: If you Ever wanna Do a video on carnivorous plants, the majority of wild venus flytraps can be found in the Carolinas. Might a neat spot for some footage

[@julien_lemur2302]

No problem atlas pro, information you provide is so valuable we can wait for it

[@WAMTAT]

Amazing video. Great to be learning with you.

[@neilscole]

Cool that you're making a second channel. I loved your space-related/non-Earth related videos are great as your regular content, so no complaints from me.

[@lhadzyan7300]

classical old-evolutionary tree-of-life representations usually have the main-branches of the trees as thicker whereas divergent secondary lines not linked to main-groups happen to be represented minor-side lineages as the Agnatha (jawless fishes i.e. Petromyzontidae /lampreys and Myxin / hagfishes) turn out to be apart of the main branch of all other vertebrates with jaws henceforth the Gnathostomata main branch. They´re a kind of old-fashioned and more complex-interpretative way of seeing evolutionary trends towards complexity and not tending to be fixated into simplified uniformity as cladistics, because they add VALUES into evolutionary trends towards complexity into groups, and not so see all into a relativistic uniformity based on all just genetics as modern cladistics. Classical evolutionary trees of life are actually VERY COOL!!!

[@NovaSaber]

People think of ants as wingless because the majority of the ones we see are workers (and also because winged ones are easily mistaken for wasps), but the queens and males both have wings.

[@instantdominator2121]

2:45 Hope it's not an hour long video. Becomes an hour long video.

[@dustman96]

Thumbs up for curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge with humility.

[@BL3446]

This is actually a really fun video. It's neat to do some unscripted stuff every now and then. It's like when you went to the creek to look for fossils.

[@uliuchu4318]

you just gave me the perfect christmas present idea for my nephews!

[@monicabello3527]

Also I'm Italian and it's seriouly funny to see how you are struggling reading Latin names. I love the way you like to challeng yourself.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Good luck moving into the new place! I'll be sure to check in on Astro Pro.

[@koen2715]

I love your space videos

[@JordanBeagle]

Lamprey's and hagfish are absolutely terrifying

[@alyssam8550]

I owe my success on this test to the scishow video "a brief history of life on earth" which I've listened to maybe hundreds of times.

[@cwiggy34]

Thanks for the video, glad you are still planning more

[@catbitmaster8216]

Lobe-finned fishes are actually considered to be more related to tetrapods than ray-finned fished, at least from a cladistic view.

[@tomatosoup44]

For the lobe-finned fish question you could've said (for example) primates and cetaceans, since technically everything on a branch is part of that clade. That's right, humans are sarcopterygians.

[@ariaden]

New personal best: subscribed to a channel after zero views. Good luck Astro Pro!

[@ruthanneseven]

Jellyfish deserve their own Randy Newman song.

[@Tchnfrq]

ants queens do a flying mating dance which is facinating to watch but really annoying if your working in the woods and run into it

[@paulbennett7021]

Excellent voyage of discovery.

[@electricVGC]

I think the reason there are so few plants is because unlike mammals plants don't really speciate as much - a shockingly large number of plants can cross germinate with each other, whereas insects, a very hyper adaptive type of animal, speciate at incredible rates

[@lucassilvanogueiragomes420]

Great video!!! It's worth noting that the cephalopodes also have shells, but they are internal to their bodies

[@connorschultz1538]

U should do another biogeography video man, those were awesome

[@Axecon1]

Really cool poster! I might have to buy one for myself!

[@frodosadventures8757]

We have legless lizards in Australia. A lot of people think they are snakes but they actually have tiny stump legs if you look very closely.

[@Stettafire]

Fun fact, some snakes also have little stubs. That's cus they're closely related and after years of evolution lost their legs.

[@TheBlancoJourney]

Wow. This was way more interesting than expected. Thank you for sharing!

[@samuelmacfarlane]

The animals are given a disproportionately large area because that's what people are interested in. The microbes tree would be much larger than the rest if the audience wanted to deep dive them.

[@stas4112]

This is such an amazing video. Issac Asimov has a couple books which go through the history of human discovery and invention, and I do the same with that book. In fact whenever friends come over we turn it into a drinking game to guess which events came before which

[@samueldwyer3563]

this is amazing, do you mind if I steal this idea and implement it with my friends?