Air Lizards!: Evolution of Flight in Reptiles

[@petersmythe6462]

Sharovipteryx is interesting because if you think about it, that design is very effective for bipedal launch.

[@flightlesslord2688]

Unlike birds. Interesting that

[@augustuscalderon3655]

Basically what you’re telling me is that if it had worked better somehow we’d get massive flyers? Cause I remember seeing that one if the main limits on flyers is actually launching off the ground

[@griffinhunter3206]

That is also true of flying frogs, which have less petagium, but also have it around their legs

[@ivanbarreras9445]

Longer legs is common amoung ground running lizards. Would be interesting if it wasn't a tree dweller at all.

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

@@griffinhunter3206 no wonder

[@cleanerben9636]

Rib gliders actually make a lot of sense for lizards and lizard-like creatures that live in trees or high rocky places. A lot of extant lizards can flatten themselves against a rock or tree by extending the skin on their torso to hide their outlines so it's a pretty decent assumption that ancient animals with a similar lifestyle would do the same. They can also flash their skin to communicate and display to each other or maybe scare off predators by looking bigger. Doesn't take much more to adapt that to gliding to escape predators or move from tree to tree/rock to rock. Pretty sure there's a lizard alive today that pokes its ribs through it's skin as a sort of defence too so that could be adapted as a permanent gliding structure and defensive measure.

[@midgetman4206]

But having already delicate bones become even more so sounds like a painful accident waiting to happen

[@cleanerben9636]

@@midgetman4206 better than getting eaten. They are a lot smaller so the forces acting on them won't be as much either

[@midgetman4206]

@@cleanerben9636 I guess so. They probably lived a shorter life anyways

[@MeanBeanComedy]

​@@midgetman4206 Yeah, it would pay off if you will only live 5-10 years.

[@petersmythe6462]

"This bodyplan was so bizarre and clumsy that reptiles evolved the same body plan independently four more times." Imagine figuring out how to use ribs as wings five separate times?

[@carlwheezerofsouls3273]

and also completely independantly, this is like 5 different airplane manufacturers using the EXACT same the design on accident!

[@bioemiliano]

@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 That kinda thing happened several times in airplane history

[@MeanBeanComedy]

If I had a nickel... I could actually buy a gumball.

[@erikbalandra5191]

The flying snakes actually can fly pretty good gliders All they need is to fall for a short while because snakes can't jump But once they get going they can glide pretty well

[@pettylepew511]

Totally underrated-hope you go big brother. Love what you’re doing! Keep it up. :)

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Not sure if you're aware of this, but that clip of Franz Reichelt "testing" his flight suit ends in his death. They estimate that he was dead within seconds of hitting the ground.

[@skunkpawz4944]

Ouch

[@milliondollarmistake]

he flew to heaven

[@shaesmith2831]

To be blunt, I don’t know how anyone can watch that clip and assume he survived. You can see the force of the impact and luckily not much more

[@jedgrahek1426]

I thought it must be a body of water he went into at first, before watching it again and "No, that's just the Eiffel Tower, damn" and coming down to the comments to see this. Wonder why he had such confidence...

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@milliondollarmistake religious crap

[@linkkicksu]

I love how the body plan of the rear leg wings resembles a delta-wing jet with canards, like the Saab Gripen or the Dassault Rafale

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

Everyone tends to forget flying geckos though.

[@hannahbrown2728]

The algorithm needs to step the fuck up and start suggesting your videos to more folks, youre way to funny and your videos are so well done. Its a shame you only have nearly 44k subs.

[@frankmiano5266]

I absolutely love your wise cracking jokes lmao. I love this channel

[@FragKwonDo]

I think your videos are really good. I wish you the best of luck on growing your channel.

[@dracorex426]

The flying snake is one of the best gliders in the world.

[@dracorex426]

Like, they can turn in midair. They can make ninety degree turns in midair. Honestly I've lost a lot of respect for this channel.

[@Gasmaskmax]

@@dracorex426 yeah well they also look goofy as hell

[@dracorex426]

@@Gasmaskmax That doesn't change the fact that they're way better at gliding than, well, basically any other modern gliding lizards. And flying squirrels.

[@ewokwarrior2656]

@@dracorex426 can you direct us to better video evidence of their gliding abilities? Something credible like Nat Geo or BBC earth or the like? Not random ufo or big foot type videos.

[@ewokwarrior2656]

Basically the " flying" snake is a rib glider. It lauches from a high limb and flattens its body by expanding its ribs. The head movement helps adjust air flow under the flattened ribs. This gives the appearance of swimming in the air. The height of the branch determines the length of the glide. One glide went 82 feet. Most don't. Still that's further than I can glide! And I do not lose respect for this channel. The comment sections are very informative. I found my info here on you tube under flying snakes secrets revealed. And just searching flying snakes. I did not see any "turn" 90 degrees in flight. Maybe they could glide in an arc?

[@stormcat3648]

I love your content to death, it’s a shame your channel isn’t bigger

[@theunluckycharm9637]

I'm sure he's goddamn happy for every view he gets let alone have 30 thousand people watch you is no small feat

[@stormcat3648]

@@theunluckycharm9637 his channel is currently absolutely exploding, he had like 3 thousand subs and far far less video views when I commented this

[@terned8893]

I chuckle all the way through your videos. Great fun!

[@ronanclark2129]

4:24 That's a great name. Like Icarus who had the wax wings

[@shinaniganz4453]

Always thought of flight as such an amazing achievement in evolution. Like, how did they actually develop such ability thru evolution? Mad. Then when i think about it, its the same as developing fins to swim. Air and water are fluids. Technicly they just develop a way to swim in a lighter fluid which is air... genius

[@nicholaskearns6669]

Air is a gas

[@shinaniganz4453]

@@nicholaskearns6669 yeah and gas are fluids. Fluids include liquid and gas

[@char1211]

I also thought about that! Essentially swimming and flying are the same thing so it makes a lot of sense to me that mutations for air travel could occur but it's still pretty amazing

[@EducatedPsycho95]

Your videos are great dude! You deserve all the subs you have coming!

[@michaelmccarthy5166]

I love budget museum!!

[@peterstoric6560]

To the person asking, because there is statistically at least one, pterosaurs are not dinosaurs

[@andryuu_2000]

Both are Archosauruses

[@yrlcldmstrfr]

Just found your channel, glad to say im sticking around

[@ArtisticlyAlexis]

As the proud human of Morty the Tortie (a Horsfeild), Yurtle the Turtle (who is actually a redfoot tortoise), 4 crested geckos, & a Blue Tongue Skink, I couldn't agree more about the amazing qualities of reptiles. I love looking at my tortoises & seeing their ancient beauty, their shelled ancestry going back 260 million years! So cool to think about!

[@laurelsilberman5705]

“Which honestly seems worse than last time” made me giggle

[@andryuu_2000]

When i was a kid I thought that pterosaurids where the bird ancestors, but then I noticed how similar where bipedal dinosaurs like the raptor to birds, especially the eyes, and came to the conclusion that recessive genes existed, just like some men are more hairy than others, some dinos might have evolved beaks and quills separately.

[@carto4028]

Sharovipteryx's front legs are so tiny i wonder if the had any use. If it kept going i wonder if they would have dissapeared. An animal vlimbing a tree with just its legs is a weird thought.

[@oremooremo5075]

Maybe they would have transitioned into runners on the ground. I wonder how they would take off.

[@tymunster]

flying crocodiles are called King K Rool

[@maxtube444]

“could have easily been like a… flamingo” which is also a reptile

[@RayAkuma]

Never heard the term "Lizard Brain" xD Peabrain would be something i heard

[@michaelking9818]

That’s what I was told many years ago reptile brain

[@shadymcnasty5920]

Maybe because your one of the lizard brains

[@RayAkuma]

@@shadymcnasty5920 Or it's because I'm just not a native english speaker Peabrain.

[@henrytang7025]

Lizard brain is usually used to characterize an individual exhibiting basic or carnal desires, aka the concerns of a lizard, referring to the part of the brain so old it would shared with the lizard common ancestor.

[@jjstewart4341]

This is the greatest channel on yoruube

[@majormissile5596]

I like the idea of animals with canard style wings.

[@akstarz3832]

Love your videos

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

i have always been so interested in reptiles because they are so missunderstood and a lot of people are scared of them even tho they know nothing about them.

[@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917]

Turtle are Scary?

[@Thorny_Misanthrope]

You never heard of Gamera! That’s a flying turtle.

[@MusikCassette]

your choice of background music does not quite fit the topic.

[@PJay-wy5fx]

Agreed. It's too loud and the flutes produce this piercing sound that is very distracting and in some videos outright painful. I'm sure there are more viewers of this channel that have the same experience.

[@MusikCassette]

@@PJay-wy5fx that is not the problem. but there is a kind of language of music. and this tune says history lesson. It does not say biology or general purpose documentary.

[@djangojihadl1076]

Underrated af content man

[@whitewolf6605]

These were always really cool to see. Kanard styled lizards.

[@damonp5363]

Didn't think i'd be seeing a vid of a guy jumping off the Eiffel tower to their death

[@ItzRetz]

I think it's likely that the first animals to evolve the capabilities of flight would've evolved in jungles (because of all the high trees where gliding, and later flight, would've come in handy) which explains why we have no fossil record of them because it's near impossible for fossils to stay preserved in jungles because of the high soil acidity. Sadly I don't think we'll ever get to see how flight first evolved because of this, as well as all the other fascinating creatures that would've lived in ancient jungles. So many animals lost to time that we'll never get to discover. It's kind of sad, really.

[@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917]

Well first Animal to fly (unless you meant Vertebrates) is Insects which probably why too

[@JanetStarChild]

hmmm... I didn't know that Rachel from _Friends_ fell to her demise in a botched flying suit.

[@omnesilere]

PATAGIUM oh man I've been trying to remember that word, thank you.

[@milesspencer1410]

Ozzymec

[@MOOGSTINE]

Amazing!

[@TheYear-dm9op]

5:27 Delta wings and canards...Oo nice.

[@mx.pixiedowner4593]

I mean technically modern dinosaurs are flying reptiles. I find it fascinating that Dinosaurs evolved to resemble Pterosaurs.

[@voided1746]

Convergent evolution is a fascinating thing

[@mx.pixiedowner4593]

@@voided1746 Absolutely

[@Edelweiss1102]

Kinda like Dolphins took after Ichthyosaurs. But I mean why fix what ain broke, convergent evolution is fun.

[@mx.pixiedowner4593]

@@Edelweiss1102 True

[@andryuu_2000]

It's weird how the beak was used many times

[@lukejones7366]

Most excellent!

[@Skyypixelgamer]

5:50 I just realized how much they look like paper airplanes with arms and a head also what did you say at 7:20 I could not tell what creature you said

[@crazydave9735]

Hmmm ok take my subscription

[@jordanpaton1204]

Those snakes can glide further than that

[@ewokwarrior2656]

See the video: Flying snakes secrets revealed. It's on you tube. Basically, they are rib gliders, flattening out and expanding their ribs.

[@ThePartarar]

5:50 is that a viggen or a gripen?

[@zbelair7218]

Didn't that guy die? Like, in that clip iirc. I don't think that he jumped off the Eiffel Tower more than once and I'm pretty sure that he died doing it.

[@johnnybravo5726]

6:15 And boom. Leg wings.

[@thefriendlypenetrator5644]

Delta winged aerial lizards now I've seen everything.

[@carto4028]

Sharovipteryx was the first hipster

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Cool

[@hamidmerabti6517]

The budget museum:I never heard of microraptor sinornithosaurus changuiraptor archaeopteryx and anchiornis no offense:)

[@CreamyBugle]

i dont know about this but was archeopteryx a flier?

[@MrJDozzo]

1:41 did... did that guy just died?

[@iilikecereal]

1:37 I love your content but I didn't like this part :(

[@crazydave9735]

why not?

[@iilikecereal]

@@crazydave9735 Don't like watching a guy kill themselves

[@crazydave9735]

@@iilikecereal but that was water

[@iilikecereal]

@@crazydave9735 they crashed into the concrete, what?

[@crazydave9735]

@@iilikecereal wait really?

[@anfibiose4102]

yo, nice channel (y)

[@papalollipop9204]

Because a lizard liked to jump off trees we have birds... I guess..?

[@Dr.IanPlect]

You guess wrong.

[@thegameranch5935]

@@Dr.IanPlect well he is right kind of Just change the word “lizard” with “dinosaurs” and “liked” with “needed” than its kind of accurate

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@thegameranch5935 I can't agree.

[@thegameranch5935]

@@Dr.IanPlect fair enough. I still think he just used a very poor choice of words

[@checkurs675]

3:44 EREN!

[@andrzejwanoski86]

Guys! Guys! Guuuuys! I have the most awesome idea ever. I am going to put WINGS on my legs!

[@risqiafamilyofficial892]

reptil jenis apa ini...sukses terus kak

[@ananteshesha5788]

Song in the beginning?

[@Hazik_YouTube]

All hail our reptilian overlords!

[@harryreadman7544]

‘These first gliding lizards’ coelurosauravus was not a lizard, lizards hadn’t evolved back then

[@andryuu_2000]

Was it a diaspid?

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@andryuu_2000 yes

[@TooDarnEasy]

maybe the serpent was an eel thatll show em

[@volkmardeadguy1557]

I love you Flying* Reptiles*?

[@ShellyTheSeal]

Kinda lame that reptiles/diapsids evolved powered flight on like 3 separate occasions but synapsids have really only done it well once with bats

[@Dr.IanPlect]

Why 'lame'? A childish comment.

[@ShellyTheSeal]

@@Dr.IanPlect lame was kind of a poor word to use. I guess it would be better to say: it's sad we haven't been able to see as much variety in flightful mammals as we have in reptiles. Bats have always had to niche partition with birds and, ignoring the flying fox, remain relatively small, insectivorous or frugivorous, nocturnal animals

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@ShellyTheSeal ok, that's proper!

[@jamesproudlove1527]

Flight came about through birds as they have the mechanics through skeletal & muscular structure to make flight possible. Plus birds have the flight feathers that they can zip & unzip it will. To say otherwise makes a mockery of the creativity & wisdom of the Creator.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

Mentioning a creator is mocking yourself.

[@jamesproudlove1527]

@@Dr.IanPlect Hi Dr Ian. Thank you for your post, in answer to my first post on birds & flight. How is mentioning the Creator a mockery to myself?

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@jamesproudlove1527 I've yet to hear/read anything that even counts as a scrap of evidence for such a claim.

[@jamesproudlove1527]

@@Dr.IanPlect are you living on a different planet? The Word of God the Bible is all the evidence I need. You, with all your academic qualifications means nothing to me. How can an intelligent & inquisitive man as yourself not see the intelligent design in the bone structure of the wings. The zipping & unzipping of the flight feathers. That beauty of design didn't come about by chance mutations over so called millions of years of evolution. To be frank, it takes more faith to believe the evolution of species than in the belief of Our Creator God.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@jamesproudlove1527 I appreciate how easy that level of ignorance and stubborness makes it to mute you.

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

"Dragons also do not exist" wrong, pterosaurs are dragons. What is a dragon if not a flying reptile of unusual size?

[@Dr.IanPlect]

A mythological animal.

[@GravityIsFalling]

Both serpents and flamingos are reptiles so the joke doesn’t really work lol

[@baeuy5019]

Leg wings

[@liahansen6896]

birds and bats shouldve made the list

[@timothymoore8549]

Where these flying “lizards” true Squamates or just lizard looking

[@ItRhymesWith]

🐍

[@sahnsahn186]

flamingo is also a reptile, so you continued the trend of disrespecting them

[@southbronxny5727]

I say "Ant brain."

[@JerryCrow]

Dragons are salmonsnakes, they are filled with hydrogen thats why they can swim in the air and breath fire. Hydrogen+oxygen=?

[@praise_kek340]

should archosaurs be called reptiles?

[@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917]

Some of Birds are Archosaurs

[@crocodile9156]

@@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917 all birds are in fact archosaurs actually

[@Dr.IanPlect]

reptiles are a group OF archosaurs

[@fluffymilkpudding]

probably shouldn't have included the moment the guy died in that clip you showed

[@sageofsixidiots3364]

Bro pterosaurs aren’t dinosaurs nor lizards so u can’t call them lizards

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

Hang out with a monitor and tell me they aren't intelligent, or a Boa imperator or constrictor. Maybe not the same type of intellect as a human or even a mammal, but they are problem solvers and more.

[@pmd_birdman7891]

Hil yia

[@nincumpoop9747]

*Flying *Reptiles