Three Huge Species Discovered on Beaches

[@ErikGronvall]

You are genuinely one of my favourite youtubers, you make biology a hundred times more fun to learn!

[@Danin4985]

Me too! Subscribed. This video was amazingly informative. Love the content. Keep up the good work.

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@ErikGronvall thanks! I make the videos for people like you (and me). So thanks for being here!

[@AwesomeFish12]

It seems like the debates about Orca species, subspecies and ecotypes will never end.

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@AwesomeFish12 it will truly never end. Scientists first need to get on the same page about what constitutes a species...which will also probably never happen.

[@al145]

Clumpers and splitters

[@helenllama]

@@all.about.nature1987It is actually mentioned on the IUCN Red Book Orca page under the taxonomy. They have agreed there are subspecies at least. Annoyingly it means they are classed as “data deficent”

[@aDaewooLanos]

One thing I like about your vids is you put effort into pronouncing non-English words/names/places/etc. As a New Zealander your pronunciation on the Māori words is a lot better than a lot of other KZbinrs I've seen lol - not 100% but not far off :)

[@tiakitair135]

Better than a lot of kiwis too

[@soflojit]

Nobody cares but you

[@SemajResarf]

Bro who cares. We dont pronounce english,french,irish or scottish words properly so who cares. Us that are or have maori blood should pronounce our words properly.

[@SalamiCellar]

​@@SemajResarfso cause you don't care nobody can/should?

[@Rodri_Villagran]

I love when Chile is mentioned in your videos!! proud to be on the edge of the world 😊

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@Rodri_Villagran Eres chileno? Intento pronunciar el nombre del país como se debe pronunciar. 😂

[@abrahammagdalena5821]

How's the weather down there? I bet it's.. chil(li)e! 😂👍

[@TokitoLee]

Nicr

[@rhiannonm8132]

chile seems so amazing, so many environments and wildlife and history! i would love to visit someday :-)

[@aieverythingsfine]

bro have you got welsh ancestors? Rhodri is a welsh name

[@Nahan_Boker94]

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[@tonyfrancl]

Thanks!

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@tonyfrancl thanks Tony!! I really appreciate the tip!

[@tamathachandler5305]

Their dorsals are so scythe-like. Beautiful animals.

[@rhiannonm8132]

how exciting!! i’m glad a patron suggested the spade toothed whale! i was so excited and surprised to learn about beaked whales when i saw the recent articles about them. i couldn’t believe there was a type of whale id never heard of. amazing that they’re so rare and no one has really heard about them. we have shark week, i want whale week too!

[@jayepd]

love ur vids, they indeed are educational and entertaining

[@21opps]

I love gray’s beaked whales, they look like Dorudon (a prehistoric whale) and keep their old whale heritage.

[@dodoxasaurus6904]

Yooo the Orca showed up on my home town!!!?? incredible, finally Paraparaumu getting some coverage

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@dodoxasaurus6904 hopefully I pronounced it right. The internet was divided on how to pronounce it. Either pa-ra-pa-ra-OO-moo or pa-ra-pa-RAU-moo. I chose the former.

[@ChristineSG19]

I love this channel. I always learn something new in an interesting way when I watch.

[@7GeeooH7]

Awesome vid so soothing to watch! Keep up the fantastic work! 😃👍🏻

[@totallynotsomeoneelse8075]

glad to see your uploading more often keep it up. you are honestly one my genuinely favorite youtubers.

[@pidgeonlanding]

Love the video, well written and informative! ❤

[@nickrider5220]

An excellent video, great content. I thought it was amusing when the researchers looking for the type D orca were found themselves, the orca hoping they'd be eating some netted fish !

[@Baneineiwardisreal]

Its kinda sweet how they didn’t just left the whales die, but also burying them so they can (probably) rest in peace

[@timrudd3318]

Man driving the digger is a fella called Trevor. Good bloke. Had a bit of a laugh when i found out he was on whale duty.😂😂😂

[@kristieolinger1265]

I love this channel it's my favorite thank you so much I love the way you love nature.

[@Kiwicanuck3000]

Loved this video and stoked all three involved NZ!!

[@julescaru8591]

Thanks for sharing another interesting topic. All the best Jules 💕

[@highlandergrog6041]

Wow, this episode is absolutely fascinating!

[@aspie-anarchist9854]

Really shows how little we know. I mean orcas are massive mammals and probably in top ten most famous animals alive today. To think there is so much variation. But when you think about it there should be no surprises here. We consider them to be in the top most intelligent creatures and we consider ourselves to be at the top. And we have so much variation in our cultures, language, art, religion, governments so on. So why does it seem so shocking that orcas are so different from one another?

[@cerealexperimentsuboa]

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[@al145]

These are fascinating but horribly depressing because half the time it's like "oh yeah they're like super endangered, this might be the last one ever so... yikes"

[@Trucker-John-B]

My name is orca, I live on the second floor, I live upstairs from you, yes I think you saw me bat a seal into the air multiple times until it’s pulverized and I run in pods 80 to 200 strong….

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@mor9361]

Very intresting ❤

[@sarahluchies1076]

I am a big fan of orcas! I grew up on the West coast of North America, where the resident and transient whales live. I actually got to see one in the wild on a field trip on a ferry. I'd love to spend time studying their cultures, or maybe I'll write a fantasy book series about them, theorizing what those cultures are like and how they could interact with each other.

[@toylandreviewochoi5917]

This channel teach me more than my whole science class combines ever teach me

[@Steve-ho6ei]

For a split second I thought the title read...three huge species discovered on barbeques. I must be hungry. 😂

[@randomusername3873]

I still can't grasp my head around the existence of beaked whales They are so fascinating yet so mysterious

[@bensullivan9478]

Im from northland in NZ, always interesting to hear you mention creatures from around these parts of the world ❤

[@BMW7series251]

Most interesting. Thank you.

[@Enigmom5]

Amazing video !! .., but I am still terrified of orcas since I watched the movie "Orca" as a young child 😮

[@zebedeemadness2672]

This new identified Type-D (Blunt-headed killer dolphin whale) is very likely a new species as are likely many of the current ecotypes. Like with the former ecotypes of Transient and Resident, now being species of Transient killer dolphin whale (Orcinus rectipinnus) and Resident killer dolphin whale (Orcinus ater), so more Killer dolphin whale species are going to come into light as they are identified.

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[@bradenengdahl4916]

Great video

[@thomaskelley1718]

Very interesting

[@Janmayjai]

Sorry!but I've been trying to imitate your speeches since I've joined this channel😅 i always love your videos ❤

[@bencruz563]

I like how large species can go unnoticed but marine biologists will still try to tell you how many of other marine animals there are.

[@DarkShadow-vg9dj]

Lovely!!

[@Kichijoten_Daiko]

ive learned something new today, i heard orca was from earth before because of tail bone

[@shadowsnake94]

Those orcas sinking boats were just doing the #BoatChallenge for SeaTok and WhaleTube content

[@The_Practical_Daydreamer]

I have to mention the discovery of the megamouth shark. In the 1970's an American navel vessal was having trouble pulling up it's anchor. A large shark was tangled up it the line, completly new to human intelligence. The are big, aroung 18 feet, but live near the ocean floor, so had escaped detection.

[@CrimsonReapa]

another reason type D orcas weren't discovered until recently is bc they have a very low population number, they are suspected of being endangered with estimates suggesting they are likely critically endangered as the DNA collected from those skin biopsies shows a low genetic diversity compared to the other orca types, as of right now there conservation status is data inefficient but they are most likely the rarest orca type by far.

[@AddyPierrePascual]

I like animals :)

[@tonyfrancl]

Can't think of any notable species that have washed ashore. Did see a rather mundane animal washed ashore, a seal. Not sure what kind it was, however; it was the setting that made the event notable. It was in Chile North of the city of Antofagasta, at a natural monument called La Portata. We managed to get down to the beach, which was at the base of huge white cliffs that were composed of marine shells and other calcareous organisms which apparently are millions of years old.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

I saw that news article but I had no idea the whales were *that* rare!

[@glen5077]

New species discovered! *shows black and white photos from decades ago* 😂

[@IbrahimYo]

Man 2014 was crazy fr fr

[@DS.proudkiwi]

Grew up on few isolated islands around NZ,used to swim with wild dolphins and whales all the time but seen a couple whale bodies before. Some whales recently beached themselves out by my cousin's batch,i tried to tell my cousin to bury one of them in garden so we could get bones

[@WildBillCox13]

Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux) was only known from specimens washed ashore and discovered by beachcombers.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Man whales are neat

[@Magy-zm6mx]

You should make a video dedicated to the discovery, and extinction of the Hawaiian honey eaters.

[@robrice7246]

14:35 I know you talked about Rice's Whale from your "surprising discoveries" vid, but wasn't the holotype described from a washed-up specimen?

[@mfanto1]

Wonder what was wrong with the uni in Otago

[@Olympusland]

New Zealand marine life evidently has was more to offer than we realize

[@kiki29073]

The first one looks like a piebald orca. Lol

[@MiddlePath007]

The Montauk monster washed up near Montauk New York. That's all I can think of off hand

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@MiddlePath007 I almost included it. But in the end it was so different than the other animals on the list it got the cut.

[@MiddlePath007]

@all.about.nature1987 Well, to be fair, it didn't look aquatic, wouldn't have fit that theme, and, ya know, it's kinda in the Bigfoot and chupacabra categories. But I appreciate you having the respect to respond to the suggestion

[@weepeeteeee]

I don't go to sea without my AR...... I love using it every time I go fishing.

[@Magy-zm6mx]

The giant squid was first confirmed to exist when in 1857, when a massive squid beak was found on a beach. Don’t remember where it was found though.

[@rustymustard7798]

Gibraltar teen orcas discovered Tiktok pranksters when an unlocked phone playing Jack Doherty vids fell overboard and are now they're going 'overboard' trying to get internet clout. They're doing it for the updoots.

[@Shadowonwater]

Didn't the giant squid first get discovered from it washing ashore?

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@Shadowonwater yes, it did!

[@domturiace670]

Dang that ended abruptly lol

[@CeratsTheCrunch]

All 3 species washed up in NZ,was this intentional?

[@abrahammagdalena5821]

They all are intrigued to learn of the mysterious ways of the kiwi bird 😀👍

[@juleswins3]

An INTENTIONAL washing up?!?! Like people went out in the ocean, killed them, then towed them near shore so they would wash up?🤔Hmmm.

[@CeratsTheCrunch]

@@juleswins3 no,i meant like,A.A.N included only Animals that Washed up in NZ, on purpose.

[@nidohime6233]

It just happens New Zealand is a great spot for finding beached animals because it covers both the Pacific and the Antartic oceans, and they have a high developed marine research facility in the country, making it easy to study rarelly seen animals.

[@Kiwicanuck3000]

@@juleswins3I think they mean was it intentional that the video involved 3 creatures in NZ

[@roywatts20]

What's going on with New Zealand and whales and fish beaching themselves?

[@Soulmodulation]

Knowing nothing and looking at a sea current chart, maybe its because the South Pacific current ejects the creatures into the East Australia current, washing up on beaches in NZ. Just a theory.

[@Cssisabeautifulthang]

The isolation gets to them

[@charliekezza]

Earthquakes?

[@mattkinsella9856]

Trying to get to Mordor?

[@thumpyloudfoot864]

Alternative Title: "Oh man, did you see the Xeet? NEW ORCA DROPS TOMORROW!!!!!

[@dicerosautismambient4894]

If they have found a new large species of Orca in the southern hemisphere by the antartic. Who knows what else they my find? Maybe more giant creatures.

[@ChimeraActual]

I seem to recall other pelagic whales of a size and coloration of an Orca, but were not considered Orcas. That's probably all changed now, but how?. They were called False Killer Whales, Pilot Whales, and there are probably others. BTW, there is something unique about those playful Orcas near Gibraltar. When Bluefin Tuna became very valuable, Mediterranean Tuna fleets became very efficient at catching them, and providing sport for those Orcas who preyed on Bluefins. Besides decimating the Tuna, it was suspected that those fleets practiced some very aggressive anti-Orca techniques. Do the Gibraltar Orcas hold a grudge?

[@adreabrooks11]

False killers (Pseudorca crassidens) and pilot whales (Globicephala melas and G. macrorynchus) are still valid taxa. They're each their own species, distinct from orcas. Like orcas, they're actually types of dolphins; and, like orcas, they're primarily blackish - but they're more of a dark grey, rather than pure black, and lack the prominent white patches. No idea about the Gibraltar orcas, though. Maybe, one day, we'll be able to ask them! 😉

[@bernardinodasilva8571]

Im more interested to know what is killing the whales

[@1234567890sunshine]

Sounds like New Zealand could host the next "gold rush" of marine taxonomists

[@Janmayjai]

I like to hear my country's name India!

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

so we need someone paid to watch the beaches with a crane or fork lift at all times to save them

[@jakeholland8083]

Isn't is Ginkgo? Not Gingko?

[@Patchwork_Dragon]

NEW VIDEO YIPPEE

[@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard]

In fact, they set sail at a very low altitude... Sea level

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard oops. Mean to say latitude. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@dicerosautismambient4894]

I wonder how they know it is rare if dead whales keep coming up on shore. Maybe it is a deep sea creature.

[@JettoGospel]

Hopefully cthulu won't come to us.

[@Fefshtr]

I didn't know orcas had different cultures

[@adreabrooks11]

Yep! They even have social trends! Try Googling "orca salmon hats." 😁

[@Pancake_De_Editz]

Nah… Mika alexandrini got done dirty

[@birb70]

Hopefully Seaworld doesn’t capture and torture them too…

[@KuyaBJLaurente]

Ah yes, to be a marine biologist in New Zealand…

[@a_sea_of_serpents]

They better sink yachts!

[@jeffkiesner9971]

❤

[@jamesjohnson7905]

Clarification confuses me new species are declared with minor colour ,pattern , or physical changes and yet we are told there is only one species of human which exhibits lots of different physical characteristics irrespective of just colour if humans were all blue we could still tell the difference between a aboriginal a Scandinavian and a South American Indian ect

[@adreabrooks11]

It's because the word "species" is being misused here. A species (biologically speaking) is a group of creatures capable of reproducing and having viable (fertile) offspring. Physical appearance doesn't really matter that much. For example: horses and donkeys can make mules, but mules (with incredibly rare exception) can't have babies. Therefore, horses and donkeys are separate species. A German shepherd and a poodle can have babies, and those babies can have babies, so they're the same species. KZbin videos and news headlines will often throw the words "new species" around to generate interest in their story, but there is only one species of orca (whose scientific name is Orcinus orca). The variations from one orca group to another are still the same species, but are called by a variety of terms - some more scientifically-defined than others. Among these terms are subspecies, breeds, ecotypes, morphotypes or (to use the same word we use for humans) races. You could say that a human bloodline that adapted to Scandanavia is a different ecotype than a bloodline adapted to South America - just as arctic orcas have slightly different shapes and colours to South American ones. However, in the case of both human and orca, they are the same species. In order for there to be a different human-like species, there would need to be another humanoid population around that was too different for us to produce viable children. For example: we can't have babies with chimps (we know, because Joseph Stalin's people tried it), so chimps and humans are different species. However, the native Scandanavian and native South American can have babies, so they're the same species. Apologies for the long reply, but the question needed a bit of explanation. :) I hope that helps.

[@jamesjohnson7905]

@adreabrooks11 thankyou for your reply this explains why neanderthal and Denisovian dna is found in us we are all the same

[@adreabrooks11]

@@jamesjohnson7905 True, although that gets into more complicated territory. (Another long description coming up, lol...) Remember that, in the end, "species" is a label that humans slap onto something that is actually an ongoing evolutionary process. As I mentioned about the mules (or other hybrids, like lions and tigers, or sheep and goats), some creatures are closely-related enough to produce offspring, but those offspring are infertile. We call those different species - but there's a sort of grey area: creatures that are even closer-related in terms of evolution. To give a few examples: we've been keeping goats for as long as we've had history, and although we've had sheep-goat hybrids, those hybrids have never (that we know of) had kids. Twice in history (as far as I know), mules have given birth to offspring. In both cases, the mules were female. This will be important in a moment, and has to do with the fact that the (female) X-chromosome has way more genetic information than the (male) Y-chromasome. From this, you could guess that horses and donkeys are slightly more closely-related than goats and sheep. Some animals are even closer-related. Most wolves and coyotes make infertile offspring - but it seems that we now have generations of "coywolves." The reason for this is: eastern grey wolves are closer-related to coyotes than most other wolf subspecies. It seems that this specific subspecies can make offspring with coyotes, which can can breed and continue the lineage. They're not *as* fertile as pure wolves or pure coyotes (fewer pregnancies; fewer pups in a litter), but they keep on going. Remember that these "categories" are labels that humanity has assigned, to help make sense of the wonderful mess that is nature. This gets back to why the female mules were important. The X-chromasome carries way more genetic information than the Y-chromasome. These mules died before we had genetic analysis, but it's believed that the fact that they were female (with two X-chromasomes, instead of an X and a Y) allowed them enough genetic material to make the match. It's way more complicated than that, but this post is already long enough. ;) We have two kinds of DNA: nuclear DNA, which comes from a blending of father and mother's genome; and mitchondrial DNA, which is only inherited from the mother. We (Homo sapiens) have a lot more Neanderthal genes in our mitochondrial DNA than in our nuclear DNA. This means that there were a lot more mothers of human-Neanderthal offspring than there were fathers. The current hypothesis is that humans and Neanderthals probably intermixed pretty freely, but only females had enough genes in common to occasionally breed viable offspring. Was this hybridization a rare event, like with mules? A common event, like coywolves? We can't really say, because we don't know how often ancient humans and Neanderthals were getting busy. Because of this "imperfect" breeding (i.e. males were unable to continue the line), Neanderthals are still considered their own species (Homo neanderthalensis), rather than a subspecies of Homo sapiens. Of course, this is all our best guess, based on the data currently available. We can't go out and watch Neanderthals and humans interacting; we can only analyze our DNA and dead remains. As for the Denisovans, all we can really say is that the gene flow is there. Neanderthals have more Denisovan DNA - but does this mean there were more breeding events between them than there were between Denisovans and humans? Did we get our Denisovan DNA from people who were already Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrids? Hard to say. As we discover new evidence, and get better at analyzing it, we might revise this picture further - but that's where we're at for now.

[@jamesjohnson7905]

@adreabrooks11 thank you . Your explanation is most welcome and enlightening

[@AddyPierrePascual]

Also early ish

[@Sicwitit_Squad]

Orcas are not a toothed whale species.

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@Sicwitit_Squad sorry, but yes, they are.

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

anthony They are dolphins, which are a subgroup of whales, in the cladistic sense.

[@adreabrooks11]

Going down the tree of life, orcas belong to the order Cetacea (whales), the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales) and the family Delphinidae (dolphins), before going on to genus (Orcinus) and species (orca). Bonus fact: if you want to get really technical, they're also ungulates, like cattle. =3

[@robbiehasnobones]

sunfish are the worst

[@anthonyhagstrom]

👍🏻

[@Crustaceanking50]

Every new oceanic species of fish or whale is almost always discovered in New Zealand.

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

Can you validate that?

[@Crustaceanking50]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect kzbin.info/www/bejne/jae7XoZ_rJeKjrssi=IpZFkZkOyQEvDOjv

[@Crustaceanking50]

@@Dr.Ian-Plectmany spots off the coast of New Zealand are unexplored due to having national parks and beaches that prohibit boats.

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

@@Crustaceanking50 "many spots off the coast of New Zealand are unexplored due to having national parks and beaches that prohibit boats." - as I thought; a reply that in no way validates your claim

[@Crustaceanking50]

@@Dr.Ian-Plect oh wait I sent a link to a video why didn’t it show up? I’ll send it again

[@Sharkboi_173]

Hello I subbed pls heart

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@Sharkboi_173 done. And thanks!

[@Indy44636]

Uh orcas are in theme parks .native Americans have seen them .Orcas star in films ,books,movies

[@ErinCailinCatGirl]

Everyone has seen orcas but not everyone has seen this specific subspecies. Also punctuation marks come before the space, not after it.