Best of Lost and Found Animals

Rediscovered: Three classic The History Guy episodes about species thought to be lost, but but then found alive.
00:00: Loch Ness Outdone: Rediscovery of the Coelacanth
15:56: Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston and his search for Africa's Unicorn
26:13 Pere David's Deer
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[@FranssensM]

What I love about your channel is the huge range of subjects covered. It’s all history that deserves to be remembered.

[@robertjensen1438]

What did the Dried Fish say to the other Dried Fish? Long time no Sea. Give a man a fish, and You Will Feed Him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will spend a fortune on gear he will only use twice a year.

[@hopefulskeptic42]

😁

[@mr.bianchirider8126]

The two best days of owning a boat are buying it and selling it.😀.

[@larrybremer4930]

Why can't you take just one Mormon on your fishing or camping trip, but its ok to take none, or 2 or more? Because if you only take 1 Mormon he will drink all your beer and smoke all your cigarettes.

[@larrybremer4930]

@@mr.bianchirider8126 Thats the rule of three F's. if it Flies, Floats, or Fuc#s your better off renting it.

[@Handletaken4]

I used to be a Hokie Pokie addict. However, I turned myself around.

[@douggoulden3643]

Happened to find this today, and realized that my wife and I had seen a herd of the Per David's deer at the Wilds here in Ohio. Really cool

[@User_Albert_V]

WOW! What an awesome story teller! Thank you, sir! I’m so glad that I found your channel.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@chrisvickers7928]

Reef forming glass sponges were thought to have gone extinct at the end of the Jurassic until they were discovered in Hecate Strait, British Columbia in 1987. They have also been found in coastal Washington and Alaska.

[@TRIChuckles]

I do not remember how long I have watched your channel, but you continue to... much more than inform or entertain. You educate!!

[@mattgeorge90]

Always a good morning when the History Guy drops an episode!

[@moneyandtimefreedom3352]

Harry Johnson, Looking for a unicorn? Sounds all too familiar to a certain…. Ummm how should I say a similar appendage found on another wild species. How am I to take this “ search” for a unicorn seriously, just saying. 🤔

[@ElicBehexan]

I have been obsessed with giraffes since before I could even speak. So, I'm sure you can understand that I was equally excited to see an okapi at the San Antonio Zoo. Then my roommate gave me a stuffed okapi for Christmas one year. I sleep with it. And... I'm 70 years old and still giraffe obsessed.

[@77thTrombone]

At first glance I thought you were talking about "girlfriends...." 😄

[@newshodgepodge6329]

Never heard of an okapi before.

[@ElicBehexan]

@@newshodgepodge6329 it is never too late to learn something new

[@nebwachamp]

My neighbor raised horses. I went to feed one at the fence a weed I had pulled and he bit ne on top of the head. Like getting clubbed with a mallet. I don't mess with horses. I imagine a giraffe doing the same would be like get hit in the head with train falling from the sky.

[@veramae4098]

I thought you were going to start the old joke - although it's supposed to be true. The first giraffe was brought to the Parisian Zoo. A man came and stared all day, then again the next day, and the next. He finally left but said "I still don't believe it."

[@justintyme720]

Anybody else like his videos before watching

[@veramae4098]

Actually I do that with all channels. while waiting for loading. I was going to have a channel once but it turned out to be a lot more work than I thought it would be. So I have a lot of respect for people who actually get a video out. I only hit unlike if there's really something I object to, and then I explain in the comments.

[@tashokukisune]

Meeeeeeee

[@MelodicMethod]

i coelecanth believe that fish survived for so long

[@woody4077]

Ugh

[@MelodicMethod]

@@woody4077 you're welcome

[@Brian-nw2bn]

Bravo sir. Good internetting!

[@hankblaster]

I’m just dying to know what the bartender in the cave had to say when those animals walked in.

[@charlesyoung7436]

"Have you herd the one about the four animals?" BTW, at over 35,000 square kilometers or 13,500 square miles, I don't think Hainan Island could be considered "tiny." Now, Ball's Pyramid, an almost cartoonish islet that is taller than it is wide, certainly would be (it has its own lost and found animal story).

[@chocolatefrenzieya]

History AND animals?! Be still my nerdy heart!

[@frankgulla2335]

What a terrific complication of "Lost and Found" animals. Thank you, THG.

[@RetiredSailor60]

Good Monday morning History Guy and everyone watching.

[@VespasianJudea]

You too buddy. Thank you for your service.

[@Subfightr]

Mornin homie! 👊

[@markkarasik2211]

And to you!

[@navret1707]

Correction: “Good Mourning” is more correct; mourning the passing of the weekend.

[@copter2000]

It' 21 o'clock here.

[@Natashasuzanne1]

This was great! I wore my History Guy T-shirt as I fled the Iowa flood last week. History that deserves to be remembered. ❤

[@steven.h0629]

Loved it Thanks! 🤜💥🤛

[@RDEnduro]

Absolutely fascinating stuff, can you imagine the scientists when they saw that so cool. Thanks HG. Also i checked out the forest giraffe, and they are still with us! Wiki says 5,000 alive

[@167curly]

When I was a lad I remember seeing a Caelocanth in preserving fluid in the Museum of Natural History in Kensington, London. I think it was caught by deep water fishermen in the Indian Ocean in 1938.

[@mamasinger49]

Thank you for a well presented history video. I really enjoyed it, and well done to Duke Bedford, his legacy lives on in saving those animals.

[@workingguy6666]

Wow, this is great. Good compilation, Hx Guy.

[@user-oh2hs6jh5x]

Morning THG

[@Coltbreath]

Great as always! 🙏

[@brainkill7034]

Excellent episode, thank you for sharing. Also enjoyed the earlier video on the Duke of Bedshires adversities trying everything he could to keep the flock of these deer alive throughout the fighting on the content. Amazing stuff, bless these people.

[@damonbanks259]

Thank you so much for sharing valuable history with us! 😎

[@Hackerswillprobfindthis]

Good morning everybody I’m walking to work while I’m listening to this

[@MoonShadow31690]

I was kinda hoping for a bigger list of animals, given how the video is 40+ minutes long, but I'm not disappointed. 👍🏻

[@robertc.delmedico6242]

Well done sir!! A triumph!!

[@ricksaint2000]

Thank you History Guy

[@bbartky]

14:56 Awesome! In the coelacanth segment I was waiting for a reference to _The Creature from the Black Lagoon_ and you delivered. 👏 I’m a long-time science fiction fan and that relationship between the movie and the discovery of the coelacanth is well-known among fans but I don’t think many non fans know this. Anyway, I think it’s a cool example of how these types of events affect popular culture.

[@JimMahler]

Thanks for another great episode. I'm especially glad to see you branching out, albeit in a small way, to Asian and African history. I hope to see more of that in the future.

[@deanlonagan1475]

..maybe the Coelacanth uses it fins to walk around on and momentarily anchor itself among rocks against turbulent underwater streams as the top fins have the same muscular bases as the lower fins....

[@danstotland6386]

Dr. Lance Geiger, You're the best. Thanks for helping us to learn "history that deserves to be remembered". Being curious, I looked for your biography in Wikipedia. I found that you are NOT there! Why not? You certainly deserve to be there. and be remembered. Why not, indeed,?. Surely someone, among us. should submit your name and particulars to them. I appeal to all us channel followers. for someone to submit same to Wikipedia.

[@sallyhamilton7202]

I didn't know Okapi still existed. I was told in elementary school (50 years ago) that it had gone extinct. I'm glad it didn't.

[@christophercaldwell6888]

Last line of video was basically "Truth is stranger than fiction". Indeed!

[@edwardallan197]

History Guy has a warm engaging style. Sorta poking fun at the stereotype with a bow tie. So many good history shows now. But I come back to HG, he got me interested first!

[@Mr.Higginbotham]

Thank you.

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

Wow this channel really took off in the past few months. Congratulations on all the success, I didn't realize how many new people came to watch your videos over just a short period of time. It's really cool how many people love to learn about history.

[@dewetmaartens359]

The state of museums in South Africa is rather depressing. They have destroyed and thrown away so much. I can't get myself to visit them anymore.

[@brazendesigns]

The flag in your icon derails the idea of objectivity and veracity in your comment. Apartheid is over. Move on.

[@pfrstreetgang7511]

Constant tribal warfare tends to guarantee that.

[@NautilusSSN571]

​@@brazendesigns Soon South Africa too will be over.

[@inoshikachokonoyarobakayar2493]

​@NautilusSSN571 wow

[@rodrigopropp2214]

From Brazil, very nice

[@RetiredSailor60]

@@rodrigopropp2214 I visited Rio in 1993 while deployed on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41. Fun place

[@reggiefurlow1]

I love learning

[@KurtFlunkn]

Anyone else wonder what a coelacanth fish stick would taste like?

[@bigsarge2085]

Interesting.

[@TomiTapio]

Thanks for the inspirations to my #TimelineOfMankind project (what where when, all time)

[@user-zu1oi4wr4s]

Welp, I guess those rooftop units will have to wait a bit now…..

[@pfrstreetgang7511]

Johnston was a premiere researcher. I appreciate how meticulous his expitions were during a time when it was rather easy to draw an incorrect conclusion. The Bedford Family Rocks.

[@MattiaTamos-pm2bc]

You should Check Out the book by Christopher kemp on löst species ! All about collected Samples of species that stayed in Museums for years and Sometimes 150 years before being found and described. Really interesting stuff. I would Love some more "Natural History" History Videos hahah

[@bronwynecg]

Heya! Good morning! 👋🏽 😊

[@matthewcuratolo3719]

This would make a great movie.

[@Zakalwe-01]

That portrait photograph has had its head replaced! 😄

[@rebeccacarter1914]

I remember well reading about this when I was in elementary school! It was so thrilling! I still say that there more living fossils out there! We know so little about the vast oceans or the dense jungles. How typical that we rediscover a creature only to almost wipe it out!

[@Yeahok-pc2jd]

Very interesting information 👍🏼

[@lamplight9871]

A subject that would be interesting to consider would be the 1962 shelter morality debate. It lead to a very interesting and intense discourse.

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana .

[@toddrouch7526]

I believe, and I could be mistaken, but I think there are some Pere David deer in Bandera Tx.

[@orbyfan]

To Westerners, all Chinese deer look alike.

[@karnovtalonhawk9708]

G'day, I have to ask is that a Aussie slouch hat in the background? Also thanks for the video.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Yes- a gift from a viewer.

[@eksbocks9438]

It would be interesting if the Caribbean Monk Seal was rediscovered. A lot of people thought that the Javan Rhinoceros was gone. But they found a small group almost by accident. Turns out they're quick to flee. And that's what saved them from complete extinction.

[@MaxwellSchmalzried]

I could have sworn you had an episode on the discovery of the gorilla, but I’m not seeing it. Am I just imagining it?

[@EthanBSide]

The longer video format is in demand and appreciated

[@stargazer5784]

A 20 foot Coelacanth would be scary to swim with.

[@John-zy4zz]

I absolutely love your KZbin. But I think you left out a few things in this one. Darwin did not originate the evolution theory. He even says so himself. He only added the corollary "survival of the fittest". Yet he is remembered for someone else's work, just like Marconi, who stole the wireless transceiver (radio) from Tesla. I still live your show. You are, in my humble opinion, making the country a smarter place. Thank you!!!

[@genxmum5569]

I live in Australia and I dream the thylacine is still alive in Tasmania. There have even been sightings on the mainland.

[@rebeccacarter1914]

I would not rule it out!

[@ghostshirt1984]

Megalodon is extinct and just because the coelacanth survived don't mean Megalodon survived...

[@HM2SGT]

Doing what I can, doing my part for the algorithm Magic

[@genxmum5569]

We have lungfish in the Brisbane River in Queensland Australia.

[@matthewcuratolo3719]

I always thought the Coelacanth was cute.

[@jamescastner7870]

At 4:40 into this video, there is a wonderful colored drawing of a coelacanth. Does anyone know who created that image? TIA!

[@michaelhead7483]

Ok now I have to find the zoos that have some of these animals so I can see em in person

[@abacab87]

50 million year old fish, that's amazing.

[@GlenKowalchuk]

We catch mud puppies and Meriah which are half fish with legs

[@77thTrombone]

I bet they taste like chicken, right? 😜

[@TM-ev2tc]

You should do a video on the Wilkes Expedition of 1838. You might could even make it a 2 or 3 part video. You could also do a video on William Bartram the man that brought Poison ivy to Europe. You could do a video about the Unicorn fish, and you could do a video on the Narwhal. Have a good day.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

They taste like Macrol

[@patriciadean1649]

It’s so sad that they casually let the creature die on the deck-humans are generally unconscious

[@trooperdgb9722]

It was 5 feet long and weighed 150 pounds, The video made clear it was too big for live storage onboard.

[@michaelmorrison6540]

I hope that science will rediscover the “thylacine”… also known as the Tasmanian Tiger. Tragically, this beautiful marsupial became extinct at the hands of humans in 1936. There are a few folks searching remote areas of Tasmania in search of that amazing animal.

[@CalidrisJZ]

All of the info on Pere David's (pronounced with a short "A" - it's a French name - is available in A Bevy of Beasts by Gerald Durrell.

[@trooperdgb9722]

Name? Isn't it his religious title? "Father"?

[@chrisnedbalek2866]

I hear they taste like bass.

[@kernpetersen4901]

Naaa chicken

[@tolecmaviclae7349]

Only thing that griped me was the Australian rising sun on the right hand side of the Australian slouth hat in the background. Was it just backward or meant to trigger Australians.

[@wilhelmvonn9619]

Now let's find some living trilobites!! You can't prove they don't exist!

[@JamesKonzek-xr5zy]

50 million years and still basically the same fish. The Coelacanthe is evolutionary slacker. It should be ashamed of itself.

[@trooperdgb9722]

Then you must think Sharks are REALLY lazy! lol

[@adambohlin5112]

However, the species was placed in its own subfamily Okapiinae, by Swedish palaeontologist Birger Bohlin in 1926 and may I brag a bit my Grandfather

[@elizabethpemberton8445]

Good old Gombessa, known to Comoran fishermen forever, new to formal science in 1938.

[@krispoli22]

None of them can say I just don't know. So sad.

[@jamesconnolly5164]

Good on you, man, for spreading education. A less dumb society is a better society.

[@MrLoobu]

The vast majority of natural history is long gone, only hinted at in the sediment layers, and our story only goes back 3-4 thousand years. It's likely there aren't any obvious features above ground from before 10 000 years that will add to our history considering the dustruction of the northern hemisphere during the last ice age. Still, its a pretty good story.

[@skiptoacceptancemdarlin]

NPR called, they want to know how you’re still garnering an audience.

[@jonkirk1309]

How do they know that they "evolved" into two species when they only have fossils. Most likely they are adaptations as in the Galapagos Island animals.

[@scottp1402]

Testimony to the idea that things may be different from what we know.

[@markgarin6355]

20 ft fish? Survived on the deck for a couple of hours?

[@richardsanjose3692]

Are you trying to say that this scientist could find no one and all of London who could freeze a fish for her? That's hard to believe

[@glennmorrow2755]

New London or something, South Africa, not London England

[@77thTrombone]

Makes you wonder what kind of catfish variants (or other taxons!) were noodled and/or buried into oblivion in the Mississippi and the filled marshlands - and, for that matter, any other estuarial waters on the east coast US. (I'm looking at you, meadowlands! 👀)

[@6000Chipmunks]

Unicorn or Rhinoceros? T-Rex or Kangaroo?

[@newshodgepodge6329]

So-called modern man didn't know about the giant rays living right under their feet at the bottom of a river either, not until they were "discovered" in "modern" times.

[@grandcrowdadforde6127]

lemme guess! that fossil fish did NOT! taste very good... o/w we d have canned Coelacanth, like tuna!

[@janlindtner305]

❤👍🤟

[@robertbrown7470]

Andre Agassi?

[@bwtv147]

When were walking catfish discovered?

[@bonnybabs392]

You have great sound quality for only a few episodes! Great voice!

[@shanedoe3462]

I thought Sarcopterygii was pronounced Sarco-teri-ghee-eye, since the p is silent in "ptero" as in "Pterodactyl". Is this not true? Or does this change when it's in the middle of a name?

[@othername1000]

"Horny horse" didn’t translate well. They didn’t have the Internet. And thus the unicorn was invented.

[@JonBrown-po7he]

I noticed this naturalist has the last name Agassi, could he be an ancestor of Andre Agassi?

[@garydalie7051]

Hi all