Just imagining that first moth that stayed up past dawn and found a new food source.

@Styphon

5 ай бұрын

Food, glorious food We're anxious try it Three banquets a day Our favorite diet Borrowed from the first "Ice Age" movie

@shadowbeast9671

5 ай бұрын

@@Styphon That's actually from the second "Ice Age" movie.

@Styphon

5 ай бұрын

@@shadowbeast9671 I thought I remembered the dodo song and dance routine over a melon, with the animals looking to feed the human baby. The movies blend together after a while.

@Doom2pro

5 ай бұрын

I imagine their first reaction was their wings lighting up 🦋

@comlitbeta7532

5 ай бұрын

Bröther i found the biggest lämp

I like to think that at least once, back in the Cretaceous, a young T-Rex could be seen running around, eagerly trying to catch a butterfly.

@petsgamesandrobots438

4 ай бұрын

The Land Before Time?

@Reece-Mincher3601

3 ай бұрын

@@petsgamesandrobots438 LITTLEFOOT 😭 ngl those treestars always looked like they'd be quite tasty 😆🌿 Yep! Yep! Yep! 🦆☺️

@Manj_J

2 ай бұрын

@@Reece-Mincher3601 IKR?? I've always wanted to eat the tree stars, and then I found out they were oak leaves (possibly? those look similar enough to child me XD) and that oak leaves aren't actually tasty at all, and I was devastated as I spat out the leaf... childhood ruined, I wish treestars were edible and tasty to humans too, not just dinosaurs (T.T)

@takeysha2332

2 ай бұрын

The visual I just had 😭😭😂😂😂

@JeffSans

21 күн бұрын

Cutest

Fun fact: the French word for "moth" translates to "night butterfly".

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

beautiful!

When talking about ancient butterflies, I can't help but mention the Kalligrammatids! An extinct order of lacewings that convergently evolved into butterfly-like shapes during the Jurassic, long before true butterflies were a thing. Scaly wings, eyespots and all. They were likely specialised in pollinating Bennettitales, though people aren't quite sure. Went extinct during the K-T, as usual.

@aeyelashbug6311

5 ай бұрын

They've made a video about those previously!

@stinew358

5 ай бұрын

Biting butterflies

@vinny184

5 ай бұрын

Lots of Mesozoic gymnospermous species were insect pollinated. Today only a few remaining species of gymnosperms are. I don’t know if specifically those lacewings pollinated gymnospermous plant species.

@Crakinator

5 ай бұрын

Interesting that true butterflies survived the K-T. Isn’t is K-Pg now?

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

That's so cool! Thanks for sharing.

I didn't know that both beans and butterflies are so abundant.

@Doom2pro

5 ай бұрын

Never had Rice and Butterflies... think ill stick to beans 🤔

@erikjohnson9223

5 ай бұрын

Most of the definitively edible caterpillars I know of are actually moths: silkworms (have tried, not recommended; feed to chickens and ear the chickens) and mopane worms (haven't tried). Rice, beans, and mopane worms. WEF approves.

@vaclavkodousek804

5 ай бұрын

Fabaceae (legumes) is one of the most diverse and abundant family of plants today. I would also say that they are still very often pollinated by butterflies (in my own yet unpublished research, I am certain that legumes will comprise of almost half of the studied plants that were visited by butterflies). They are also important for their relationship with bacteria (like Rhizobium) that fix nitrogen from the atmosphere -> and eventually it is added to the soil where it becomes available for other plants.

@Doom2pro

5 ай бұрын

@@vaclavkodousek804 They are supposedly also the first human vegetable crop...

@JC-ji1hp

5 ай бұрын

We are, after all, human beans.

Literally writing a paper on butterfly evolution for a class taught by one of the researchers involved in the 2023 study cited in this video.

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

Great topic choice for your paper. Happy writing!

@Montyjones680

2 ай бұрын

How interesting ! How’d the paper go?:)

Beans, beans, the magical fruit, the less you chemically defend yourself, the more you get butterflies

@chubbrock659

5 ай бұрын

Yahhhh…..no.

If the evidence exists, I'd love to see a video on the evolution of butterfly-style metamorphosis. It's always been hard for me to wrap my head around what set of evolutionary mechanisms could create that beyond the broad end-goal benefit of food availability during different life stages.

@arthurmartin4616

5 ай бұрын

Or any kind of metamorphosis animal really. Frogs, bees, moths, you name it.

@personzorz

5 ай бұрын

This metamorphosis is very very very old within the insects not just them

@JohnSmith-sk7cg

5 ай бұрын

@@personzorz I know it's not just them. I don't know the technical name for that type, but I do know that the type I'm trying to describe includes them.

@parks310

5 ай бұрын

​@@JohnSmith-sk7cg the name for that kind of metamorphosis is called holometabolism. Wasps, ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, moths, and flies all share a common ancestor that first evolved complete metamorphosis, although I can't find much about how it first evolved.

@JohnSmith-sk7cg

5 ай бұрын

@@parks310 Thanks! Sounds like it could use an episode haha.

Every single episode seriously slaps. I really appreciate the information that you all publish, especially in the fantastically casual way your videos lay out many complicated ideas. Eons is easily one of the most consistently fantastic channels on the platform!

@agnosticmuslim6341

5 ай бұрын

Fr no cap

@blackburned

5 ай бұрын

Agreed!

Imagine the first moth to feel the sun's warmth!

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

that sounds beautiful

4:10 little tiny footsteps... too cute 🥰 bees, butterflies, and moths, such cute little guys

Paleo art butterflies is something I desperately need in my life

Fun fact....there's a moth or butterfly in Alaska that has the ability to stay in worm form and hibernate until it manages during the short warm months to consume enough food to transform into the moth or butterfly 😊

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

That's so cool! They are such fascinating creatures. I love getting to find out more about them all the time. Thanks for sharing.

@happygolucky9004

5 ай бұрын

Yep, longest living caterpillar on Earth. I think it's a couple of years.

I'm for calling them "day moths" instead of "butterflies" from now on.

@Galaxia7

5 ай бұрын

Well in French we call moths "night butterfly" so this conplements it

@user-et2dx5du7e

5 ай бұрын

in japanese we just call moths ga and butterflies chou

@erikjohnson9223

5 ай бұрын

There are diurnal moths. The Bella moth which eats Crotalaria is one, as are several of the wasp mimics.

@FYCH45

5 ай бұрын

There is also the family Hedylidae. These are nocturnal, and don't look like butterflies, but phylogenomic studies have shown that they are butterflies. On the other hand there is the family Castniidae. These are diurnal, and look very butterfly-like, being quite bright-coloured, and even having clubbed antennae. They used to be suggested to be the non-butterfly lepidopteran family closest to butterflies, and some even classified them as butterflies. However studies have shown that they are not closely related to butterflies, their similarity being due to "convergent" evolution. There are also several other groups of moths which contain species which are diurnal and brightly coloured, such as the Zygaenidae (Burnet moths), and the sub-family Arctiinae (Tiger moths, family Erebidae). I remember as a small boy seeing numbers of Cinnabar moths, and thinking they were butterflies, before a book informed me that they weren't.

@Tsotha

5 ай бұрын

moths are sometimes called the same in Danish@@Galaxia7

Yakoke chito ( a big thank you) to whomever had the idea to put in a land acknowledgement for the fossils cited! That was a nice surprise to see.

Remember; Mothra is an evolved butterfly

@JustClaude13

5 ай бұрын

Thank you. Now I have that song stuck in my head.

@personzorz

5 ай бұрын

​@@JustClaude13Mahara Mosura

@georgeuferov1497

5 ай бұрын

More like an evolved moth, and even that's up to debate and depends on the version

Fun fact: There’s a subfamily of legumes called Faboidae or Papilionoideae (from faber - bean or papilion - butterfly) that are also named butterfly flower/bean family in other languages though presumably from their flower shapes that are reminiscent of butterfly wings. Still a funny thought that some of the plants that aided butterfly evolution evolved into looking like butterflies themselves

Me and my butterflies up at 3pm looking for BEANS

As a Diné (Navajo), thank you for the Land Acknowledgement and referring to the Nemme sosoni'ihnee'e & Nuche people by their chosen names, and not just the ones attributed through colonization.

ive been reading this books, Otherlands, and the writer explains this genius idea of knowing how long and where butterflies and moths have existed based on fossilised leaf prints with chew prints from caterpillars! Crazy stuff.

I just want to say as an indigenous person, the small acknowledgments at the end of the videos really make me happy to see. Like obviously PBS Eons is not going to be the ones to solve the lack of recognition in how colonialism has permeated every aspect of modern life including science, but it’s a nice thing to see.

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

It's always a pleasure seeing a new PBS Eons video. Fascinating topic! Thank you!

Yep, the history geek in me would "watch the hell out of that", too! 😁

This was a really fascinating video. How butterflies evolved never crossed my mind but and you guys made the subject very interesting.

Moths first diverged to form Butterflies around Chicago. Got'cha. Mothman confirmed.

This was the most interesting episode ever for this forever butterfly lover.

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

I need to know how they survived the asteroid impact. I can't imagine that happening and moths just trucking along, going about their business.

@im_boingboing

2 ай бұрын

*asteroid kills over 75% of life* Moths: "yall felt that soft breeze?" Just sounds so funny to me

That's so interesting! Butterflies are fascinating. Our crew got on-camera caterpillars, and the crazy fact is that to become a butterfly, they digest themselves.

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

Right? That's incredible!

Today I learned that butterflies are an offshoot of moths.

Can’t get enough of Blake. He’s my favorite announcer

@elmarko9051

5 ай бұрын

Blake, I have to say, reaching back to my 80's school slang, is the studliest presenter on KZread.

@zoemccoy7799

5 ай бұрын

I agree!

@anthonyhiggins7409

5 ай бұрын

@@elmarko9051He is looking particularly studly in this vid, it must be said. Lol

@juhnom

5 ай бұрын

Same !

@JeffSans

21 күн бұрын

Hes getting hotter

Wrapping up a rainy Tuesday with a video about 🦋 🦋🦋.. Perfect timing

@StitchTheFox

5 ай бұрын

it is 6am where I am, where the heck do you live lol

@AifDaimon

5 ай бұрын

@@StitchTheFox Southeast Asia

@azure_sparkle

5 ай бұрын

Timezones are fun

having followed this Channel from the beginning, I'm really happy that this video starts in Denmark - and with butterflies 🦋 very happy now, lots of love from Denmark

Thank you so much for the acknowledgment card at the end. Respect is everything in a civilized world ❤

Scientists keep making so many new discoveries about the evolution of seemingly every type of organism with new genetic techniques, do we just keep making brand new even better techniques every couple of years or is it just that it takes so long to do these genetic studies that we're still getting to all the species and different specimens of them?

Butterflies are yet another group of animals whose evolutionary history I would have no clue about were it not for PBS Eons. Interesting that so many of the earliest butterfly fossils have been found in Denmark, as I live there and for the most part we don't have that many important fossils from so far back.

Blake you’re awesome, I love your sense of humor 😄

I watched the hell out of this episode. Love it

Seeing the poster of all those different species of butterflies made me realize that if humanity ever spreads out into the universe, that will happen to us.

@HeatMiserr

Ай бұрын

There’s a book with a lot of illustrations called “all tomorrows” that explores this idea, I’d check it out if you’re interested, there’s some interesting KZread videos about it too

Incredible man awesome video thanks

Have you considered doing a version of your videos in other languages? I am German and I find your content so informative and valuable, I would love for other people from my country to be able to watch your videos. But even with school English skills, scientific terms and subjects can be challenging to understand when it’s your second language. You guys would simply have to translate your existing videos with a new narrator and you could reach an entirely new audience of 130 Million German speaking people for example. It would be especially cool for kids, who can’t speak English yet. I would love to watch Eons with my kid someday!

@mischarowe

5 ай бұрын

It would likely be far more reasonable to have transcripts or subtitles in other languages, imo.

@rizkyadiyanto7922

5 ай бұрын

most germans cant even speak german.

@ayaavalon6213

5 ай бұрын

It’s probably possible with Ai to translate and voice over in new languages tbh

@cmbaz1140

5 ай бұрын

Je mehr du schaust desto mehr wirst du verstehen. Ich habe grund englisch in der schule gelernt aber das "echte" englisch durch filme cartoons serien etc.

@melskunk

5 ай бұрын

I can say as someone who has done translation work, it's not an easy task to do properly, so 'simply' is really downplaying it.

I love this one and saw it and liked it when it first came out. There are some great photos (especially that magnified blue bee), great information and even many funny jokes. Thanks!

All the eons flops were already on my watched list 😂💚 but I’ll always put it on in the background again!

Ah, this was incredible. The exact sort of video I subscribed to Eons for in the first place!

Blake, your hair is heckin FABULOUS!!

A Shame PBS didn't do the " _Is this a bird?_ " meme :D Butterflies & Moths

The guy is awesome at telling stories… jokes do make you chuckle, but feel close to death

Thanks for sharing and informing us.

These are great show's keep them coming.

I just love butterflies, thanks for this 🦋🦋

I was confused by the mention of Denmark with fossils, because most of it was sea until very recently. But then of course: Seafloor, the sediment layers from Fur and Faxe. I tend to forget that we have those.

One thing that would be interesting to know more is how the butterfly colors evolved. I mean, it seems it's related to the colors of flowers but it's not clear how. Maybe some kind of camouflage?

@anthonyhiggins7409

5 ай бұрын

This is what I came here to say. I think it’s a bit more complex than just copying the colours of flowers for camouflage though because I think there are butterflies that have a pattern that resembles a big eye - presumably to intimidate potential predators. The sheer variety of the colours and patterns is fascinating though (as well as aesthetically pleasing obviously)

Ohh eons. You guys are just the best!

Thanks for another amazingly educational video

I mean, what a title. I’m gonna watch every Eons episode ANYWAY, but SHEESH

so interesting, and so entertaining, great combo.

Wow that was superb ! I'd love to know more about the exact time & place that angiosperms evolved also. Fascinating video !!

Eons never misses 💯💯💯💯

I could listen to Blake lecture all day

Day Moth! (uuaaah ag) Fighter of the Night Moth! (uuaaah ah)

@HeatMiserr

Ай бұрын

The nightmoth cometh

Mad respect for acknowledging the indigenous tribes there, native prode baby✊🏽🧡❤️💛🖤🤍

I like this guy, keeps it real

"New food oportunities: which is my favorite tipe of oportunity". Loved it.

if that figure from the Kawahara 2023 paper at 5:40 was available as a poster, I'd buy it. That is an absolutely beautiful example of a well-done scientific figure that manages to be both data-dense and aesthetically pleasing. At the very least I'm going to download the high-resolution figure from the paper and add it to my PC wallpaper collection.

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

Beans and butterfly’s! 2 of my favorite things! Amazing!

Can you do a video on the first mammal/animal that gave birth to a live young? I legit can’t wrap my head around that type of macro evolution. Always impossible to say “the first” of something in evolution terms but that feels like something that would have deff had a first.

"little tiny footsteps" 😊

As a Dane and fossil hunter i know the formation were the insect fossils Come from. But i usally find more "humble" fossils in forms of sea urchins, corals and squid. I world really like to see a episode about ancient sea urchins and how they survived and stayed wierd Love from Denmark

Finally!!! I had asked in the comment section of a video long long ago. I don't think anyone saw that 😂. But I'm thrilled to finally see this video. ❤❤

So excited for the calendar, ordered immediately! Also, how fascinating. It makes total sense that food source is the initial point of evolutionary change. From Darwin's finches to the friendship between legumes and proto butterflies.

very informative and enjoyable

Petition for butterfly’s to be renamed to “beanterflys” or maybe “butterbees”? Hmmmmmm 👇

@azure_sparkle

5 ай бұрын

I like butterbees

@grokeffer6226

5 ай бұрын

Flutter-bys.

6:45 damn, that is a handsome bat

I’ve said this on instagram and I’ll say it here: we need this man to be a Butterfly Indiana Jones. Nets not whips

All this work… and the montage got overlooked 😂

A beautiful creature and a beautiful host

Fascinating and logical, too. 🖖🦋

My heart sunk at 5:18............ That is a LOT OF WORK.

One of my favourite things about butterflies are the names they have in different languages, they can be 'butter-flies' or 'mari(a)-posa' or 'papillon' which is like little pavilion, etc.

Love learning about insect evolution!

Very interesting topic. Greetings from Denmark.

A county's Boy observation FYI, for those that may not know, the observable difference between Moths and Butterflies is Butterflies can fold their wings, Moths can not.

One in ten! That is one of many amazing nuggets.

Day Moth! Fighter of the Night Moth! Champion if the Sun! You’re a master of karate and friendship for everyone!

@felicityhoneycutt8570

5 ай бұрын

Thank you

@felicityhoneycutt8570

5 ай бұрын

You're a master of karate and friendship. ❤️

Blake, you’re my favorite host, I adore you - PLEASE let them light you properly!

Beans. Bees. Battlestar Galactica.

Evolution is fascinating!

Fossil National Monument has a large collection of insects. I is near Colorado Springs, Colorado.

More like moths are just night butterflies. In my language it is literally how it is - taureņi (butterflies), nakts taureņi (night butterflies).

@pilvilinnassa

7 күн бұрын

Same in finnish, butterfly is perhonen and moth is yöperhonen, nightbutterfly.

@KungsZigfrids

6 күн бұрын

@@pilvilinnassa Baltic and finic people have different languages, but are very similar culture wise.

Moth could actually be a offshoot from the butterfly to escape daytime predators Like birds and bats then evolved to hunt moths. Until more focal proof comes up we will never know if butterfly evolved from moths or moths evolved from butterflies.

Thank you

I wonder if butterflies started looting resources from flowering plants that were adapted to bees and then got selected by some groups oooor if flowering plants were non-specific and then developed benefic relations with specific groups of bugs

There just so lovely ❤ shoutout to Niagara buttlefly sanctuary and cheers all

My partner is a bean scientist and approves of this message.

I would like to point out that the most common fabaceae subfamily in my area is the Pappalionoidiae... The flowers even look like butterflies! Two of their petals are called "wings"!

@awildapproach

5 ай бұрын

That's so cool!

2:03 How do you even find individual moth scale fossils? That's WILD.

It makes more sense that species diversify based on food sources than pressure from predation.

🦋Little tiny footsteps🦋. Haha.

Very cool!

Thank you.

followed them in their little tiny footsteps 🥺