The Evolution of Whales

Whales are the largest animals in the world today but their earliest known ancestors where about the size of a racoon. This video sets out to explain how whales evolved to small land dwelling herbivores into large fish shaped giants.
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  • @FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod
    @FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod2 жыл бұрын

    I find cool that both reptiles and mammals have a famous "back to the ocean" story.

  • @ixcutamp8059

    @ixcutamp8059

    2 жыл бұрын

    Reject leg Return to water

  • @degox99

    @degox99

    2 жыл бұрын

    Birds/Dinosaurs have the penguin as their contender, but it is not jet fully acuatic and comes to land very often, i would say it still counts

  • @PaulThronson

    @PaulThronson

    2 жыл бұрын

    Surviving on land can push some organisms to develop more senses and more brainpower to process them (emotions). It was only natural to go back to more stable environments and fill the niches that required the most adaptability.

  • @lolfactor6857

    @lolfactor6857

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mhdfrb9971 aggressive, and it’s evolution. And also what your conveying is an opinion.

  • @lewstone5430

    @lewstone5430

    2 жыл бұрын

    Personally, I’m rejecting my legs and growing gills.

  • @tetryds
    @tetryds2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing! I have only one small request. Can we have a human body size comparison when showing animal sizes? It really helps to put into perspective how big they are.

  • @elcastro5000

    @elcastro5000

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like this idea. You could use like a cat or something for smaller animals and a person for the larger ones.

  • @jamiegoodridge8712

    @jamiegoodridge8712

    2 жыл бұрын

    Banana for scale?

  • @calvin6314

    @calvin6314

    2 жыл бұрын

    no

  • @l.zevicreations

    @l.zevicreations

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, i'd love that! if at all reasonable

  • @anon9579

    @anon9579

    2 жыл бұрын

    For aquatic animals you could show a scuba diver for scale

  • @Positron001
    @Positron0012 жыл бұрын

    It's weird yet incredibly interesting on how many times tetrapods have become semi or fully aquatic.

  • @chheinrich8486

    @chheinrich8486

    2 жыл бұрын

    The ocean is a large food source

  • @nonexistence5135

    @nonexistence5135

    2 жыл бұрын

    Breathing air, large brains and warm-bloodedness are all very useful adaptations in an environment otherwise composed of fish and invertebrates.

  • @Cheesepuff8

    @Cheesepuff8

    2 жыл бұрын

    Was it something to do with them all being around at a similar time where the environment was changing in a certain way

  • @griffinhunter3206

    @griffinhunter3206

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nonexistence5135 This is why terrestrial fish repeatedly move to the water and it is also why warmbloodedness and airbreathing repeatedly evolves in aquatic fish.

  • @grahamhunt69

    @grahamhunt69

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nonexistence5135 could you please elaborate on why these featured are particularly advantageous in aquatic ecosystems? Most surprised about the air part.

  • @galapagos6186
    @galapagos61862 жыл бұрын

    Whales are probably the outcasts at hoofed-animal family reunions.

  • @Ramzz10
    @Ramzz102 жыл бұрын

    Kinda interesting how Wales turned into a solid piece of land through evolution

  • @KIMPOY971

    @KIMPOY971

    5 күн бұрын

    Well whale Wales, I see what you did there.

  • @ludoviajante
    @ludoviajante2 жыл бұрын

    This channel is my favorite hidden gem. Whenever I come here, I learn something new! Much love from Brazil.

  • @jayAAlves

    @jayAAlves

    2 жыл бұрын

    aaaah, você por aqui! meus 2 canais preferidos 🥰💜

  • @zacmusicandart

    @zacmusicandart

    2 жыл бұрын

    Salveeee

  • @prinnoah5982

    @prinnoah5982

    2 жыл бұрын

    Assiste tb o PBS Eons, tem tópicos parecidos, gosto dos dois

  • @RamRam-jp2kc

    @RamRam-jp2kc

    2 жыл бұрын

    I remember this guy when he first started his channel replied to one of my comment on some other channel telling me that he is making similar comment and i can check out his channel. I remember tho his content was very good, people including myself telling to slow down his narration speed and volume was too low and he did modify his narration and now the quality is on par with big channel with studios. I'm so happy and proud of this guy. Never thought he would achieve the success on this platform that he achieved rite now.

  • @divine-wind

    @divine-wind

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s super entertaining too

  • @ryebreadthewhite3392
    @ryebreadthewhite33922 жыл бұрын

    Slight correction: belugas are not the only cetaceans without fused neck vertebrae, as the Orcaella genus dolphins (Irrawaddy and Austrialian Snub-fin) don’t have fused neck vertebrae and can move their heads independently, as well as some River dolphins (I know the Amazon can for sure, but as the river dolphins are all from different genre I won’t make statements on others) can move their heads. Of course I could be misinterpreting you, as if you mean whale in the colloquial rather than taxonomic sense then yes belugas are the only ones with bendy necks.

  • @charlesmelvinmoreno6960

    @charlesmelvinmoreno6960

    2 жыл бұрын

    belugas are more related to canines than felines

  • @ballaking1000

    @ballaking1000

    2 жыл бұрын

    @King Pistachion My wife calls my meat the beluga chonga.

  • @jaaro

    @jaaro

    2 жыл бұрын

    Damn I didn't even realize dolphins were whales. It's kind of like one of those obvious things you don't think about like humans being apes.

  • @ryebreadthewhite3392

    @ryebreadthewhite3392

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jaaro taxonomy is weird. A human is closer related to a lungfish than a lungfish to a shark, crocodiles closer to birds than any other reptiles, and that’s just chordates. You leave this phylum shit gets even crazier

  • @jaaro

    @jaaro

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ryebreadthewhite3392 yeah like how fungi are much more related to animals than plants

  • @BeepDragon
    @BeepDragon2 жыл бұрын

    So whales started out in the ocean, evolved to scurry about on land, then returned to the water where they would eventually become what we know today. Amazing, thank you for these videos and knowledge

  • @pavel9652

    @pavel9652

    Жыл бұрын

    I am looking forward for their next move ;)

  • @martam4142

    @martam4142

    Жыл бұрын

    No proof of any of this stupid nonsense.

  • @pavel9652

    @pavel9652

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@martam4142 Throwing tantrums won't make the evidence go away, kid. Time to grow up and learn ;)

  • @James-gk8ip

    @James-gk8ip

    Жыл бұрын

    @@martam4142 Please no.

  • @syos1979

    @syos1979

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@martam4142I can prove one case of evolution that occured in a time scale that occured relatively quickly. The London Underground Mosquito is a good case and if needed I will gladly link an article.

  • @puggumpus
    @puggumpus2 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to hear the evolution of modern insects or arachnids

  • @doggo7078

    @doggo7078

    2 жыл бұрын

    the praying mantis is of special interest, since it is really iconic and widespread but not that old

  • @GaryHurd

    @GaryHurd

    2 жыл бұрын

    Brunnetta, Leslie, Catherine Craig 2010 “Spider Silk” Yale University Press All you will need to learn about spiders.

  • @aaronmarks9366

    @aaronmarks9366

    2 жыл бұрын

    A video on the different arthropod groups and which body segments in each group correspond to body segments in other groups would be super interesting

  • @Gasmaskmax

    @Gasmaskmax

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AzathothTheGreat They actually are the most basal of the living insects. If i'm not mistaken they're the only living insect group that predates wings.

  • @LimeyLassen

    @LimeyLassen

    2 жыл бұрын

    Insects are closely related to crustaceans, when you look at silverfish and springtails it's easy to see

  • @UnwantedGhost1
    @UnwantedGhost12 жыл бұрын

    I wonder, would these long extinct animals would have sounded completely different from all living mammals today? Or would they sound more similar but still unique?🤔

  • @mhdfrb9971

    @mhdfrb9971

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably similar to hippos

  • @JohnyG29

    @JohnyG29

    2 жыл бұрын

    They went: "Mwahhp shnushkunk plip"

  • @christosvoskresye

    @christosvoskresye

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JohnyG29 Actually, they went, "Uyimbube, Uyimbube, Uyimbube, Uyimbube ...."

  • @guysome3263

    @guysome3263

    2 жыл бұрын

    They would go "bleep bleep shnuu" and then proceed to nuzzle you and sleep in your lap. Heavy bones make for sleepy puppies.

  • @demonyckscreations9990

    @demonyckscreations9990

    2 жыл бұрын

    They say their names like Pokémon

  • @bonecanoe86
    @bonecanoe862 жыл бұрын

    The evolution of Whales has always fascinated me. Happy to see this!

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, the 'poster child' for 'proving' that Darwinian evolution could actually happen - yet if anything, the 'evolution of whales' only shows how unlikely it is that that much adaptations would randomly and so quickly even, be able to occur...

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ligerbee huh what?

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ligerbee do you speak even?

  • @taylosaurus

    @taylosaurus

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ResurrectingJiriki You seem to forget this is a continuous natural process for all living things that often takes millions of years in order for us to observe distinguishable differences in many species. Do you even have a vague idea of what natural selection is and it’s key role in evolution?

  • @quinndenver4075

    @quinndenver4075

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@taylosaurus I wouldn’t bother arguing with a creationist. Room temperature iq group of people

  • @ginger-ale7818
    @ginger-ale78182 жыл бұрын

    The fact that hippos and whales are closer to each other than anything else is surprisingly unsurprising. So the large, semi aquatic animals are close to the large, fully aquatic animals. Yeah that makes sense.

  • @jontherevelator9663

    @jontherevelator9663

    2 жыл бұрын

    Artiodaxtyls and all land mammals evolved from whales. They lie about the backwards evolution. There's no evidence they went into the ocean. All life came out of them.

  • @beatmyacorn4200

    @beatmyacorn4200

    2 жыл бұрын

    Their aquatic lifestyles evolved independently from each other though

  • @tijanamilenkovic9442

    @tijanamilenkovic9442

    Жыл бұрын

    @@beatmyacorn4200 by the way do you know why dolphins evolved to be so muscular for cetaceans I believe it is to better fight off sharks

  • @libelldrian173
    @libelldrian1732 жыл бұрын

    It's impossible to comprehend how slow evolution takes place, it always amazes me.

  • @sebastian114

    @sebastian114

    2 жыл бұрын

    It can be slow, but Evolution can be incredibly quick aswell at times.

  • @eybaza6018

    @eybaza6018

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sebastian114 It really depends on the selective pressures.

  • @Emot10ns

    @Emot10ns

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@chuckbuskeeLol, not thousands, but millions of years.

  • @ElZilchoYo
    @ElZilchoYo2 жыл бұрын

    Your voice is so chill and easy. Consider doing audiobooks, probably non-fiction, seriously. Good money in it too

  • @bkjeong4302
    @bkjeong43022 жыл бұрын

    Mosasaurs were actually more convergent with odontocetes than they were with basilosaurids (especially Basilosaurus). Mosasaurs were becoming more oceangoing and efficient swimmers while Basilosaurus was a shallow-water predator (though fully aquatic)

  • @_Solaris
    @_Solaris2 жыл бұрын

    This is an excellent format. Nice graphics, some film, mellow narration, all without the unnecessary bells & whistles.

  • @fredriks5090

    @fredriks5090

    2 жыл бұрын

    I immediately block, dislike and grin at any Scishow-related video recommendation. Anything that feels corporate, copypaste or non-personal I feel like doesn't belong on "You"Tube

  • @_Solaris

    @_Solaris

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fredriks5090 You know what? That is *exactly* how I feel. It's funny that someone else shares my sentiments. I have Scishow blocked. My biggest irritation is the way the soundclips are edited. The end of one sentence overlaps with the beginning of the other, not giving us a chance to breathe. Drives me *nuts* ☺️

  • @OstblockLatina
    @OstblockLatina2 жыл бұрын

    I think it's fairly important to mention that the name of Basilosaurus, which was first discovered in 1834, is a result of a mistake of the archeologists who took the creature for a giant reptile. After the mistake was corrected, there were some suggestions of renaming it (sir Richard Owen proposed calling it Zeuglodon) to correct former error but they failed, as the rules of zoological nomenclature dictate using the original name given. So today we have a prehistoric cetacean which is being called a lizard.

  • @Gingerbreadley
    @Gingerbreadley2 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if land is more competitive than the ocean seeing as how often land creatures conquer the sea but after the Initial wave the reverse doesn’t succeed.

  • @Mothlover69

    @Mothlover69

    2 жыл бұрын

    Land definitely is more competitive. Also, mass extinction effects marine life more so they’ll be more empty niches in the ocean than on land

  • @killerkoffee4619

    @killerkoffee4619

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is not that land is more competitive than the water or anything, the main factor is that it is far easier to adapt to becoming an aquatic animal than becoming a terrestrial animal. Becoming terrestrial means evolving whole new methods of locomotion and respiration, greatly increasing muscle mass and evolving new senses, not to mention methods of keeping water locked inside your body. Whereas adapting to the water just requires you evolving to be better able to swim.

  • @doggo7078

    @doggo7078

    2 жыл бұрын

    well, with ocean you just need to lose some limbs and move your nostrils to a different place. With land, you need to grow some and learn how to breath air. It is harder to create something than to destroy it, and moving to the ocean doesn't force you to lose your lungs

  • @quitlife9279

    @quitlife9279

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think a part may have been the fact that mass extinctions affect the oceans a lot more than land or freshwater, wiping out the animals of the ocean allowing land/freshwater animals to access empty niches, i believe the vast majority of marine fish are actually descendent of freshwater fish.

  • @DaDonBossMan

    @DaDonBossMan

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’d imagine there’s more niche roles animals can fill out in the water with little to no competition

  • @MisterBloo42
    @MisterBloo422 жыл бұрын

    This channel is the reason I first became interested in paleontology and prehistory and now I'm pursuing a career in this field. Your channel has truly shaped my life and for that I give you my sincerest gratitude. Keep up the amazing work!

  • @robwalsh9843
    @robwalsh98432 жыл бұрын

    8:02 That's probably one of the best depictions of Basilosaurus. It looks really primitive and different from modern whales.

  • @nicks1451
    @nicks14512 жыл бұрын

    Whales present a fascinating case of convergent evolution. Due to similar environmental pressures, their ancestors produced their own version of a crocodile called Ambulocetus, then they evolved similar body shapes to fish creating the whales we know today.

  • @nox5555

    @nox5555

    2 жыл бұрын

    the real question is, who died out for that to happen.

  • @gerrardjones28

    @gerrardjones28

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nox5555 well the aquatic reptiles

  • @duncanself5111
    @duncanself51112 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant! I find the evolution of whales and dolphins so Fascinating

  • @olivercheeseman8227

    @olivercheeseman8227

    2 жыл бұрын

    You've obviously got a mammal bias you bigot. What about the reptiles? They did the exact same with Basilosaurus and Ichthyosaur.

  • @Minish4rk360

    @Minish4rk360

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@olivercheeseman8227 1. Basilosaurus was a whale, not a reptile 2. We're mammals, so we'll be biased torwards mammals.

  • @fedem8229

    @fedem8229

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@olivercheeseman8227 these people are so reptilphobic smh

  • @olivercheeseman8227

    @olivercheeseman8227

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Minish4rk360 Number 2 sounds a lot like an pro-racism argument

  • @Minish4rk360

    @Minish4rk360

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@olivercheeseman8227 reptiles are the racist ones They oppressed mammals for millions of years

  • @G-B-F123
    @G-B-F1232 жыл бұрын

    Its weird how whales have those vestigial leg bones, crazy to think they were on land but returned to the oceans as opposed to the other land dwellers who came from the waters

  • @gerrardjones28

    @gerrardjones28

    2 жыл бұрын

    True, you can literally see the tiny pelvis in the skeleton but glad they still have it, anti-evolutionists can't do much against that.

  • @charlesfowler4308
    @charlesfowler43082 жыл бұрын

    So many examples of land animals transitioning from land to sea (mosasaurs, penguines, aquatic mammals) do you know of any cases of spiecies which returned to land? i.e. Land -> Sea -> Land

  • @mailasun

    @mailasun

    2 жыл бұрын

    The “aquatic ape”. Wink wink.

  • @bird2034

    @bird2034

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some theories say that ancestral snakes were aquatic and later re-evolved to land. Not a very well-supported theory but interesting idea nonetheless

  • @yuujinner5801

    @yuujinner5801

    2 жыл бұрын

    Echidnas. The ancestors of echidnas looked like platypuses (common ancestor that looked like one)

  • @followerofjesuschrist5297

    @followerofjesuschrist5297

    2 жыл бұрын

    Genesis 1:21 KJV “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”

  • @theangryholmesian4556

    @theangryholmesian4556

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@followerofjesuschrist5297 "Harry did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?" he asked calmly." Look I can quote things too!

  • @aluraavieri1088
    @aluraavieri1088Ай бұрын

    indohyus, my brother, i've decided to search for more food in the waters!

  • @MySomerandomname

    @MySomerandomname

    18 күн бұрын

    You will regret this Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt

  • @iwasadeum
    @iwasadeum2 жыл бұрын

    Whale evolution has always amazed me. A land animal that flees to the water to escape predation, only to become the most fearsome apex predators this planet has ever known.

  • @DaDonBossMan

    @DaDonBossMan

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes it benefits to re spec your point tree

  • @Polosatiy_Varan

    @Polosatiy_Varan

    4 сағат бұрын

    The most fearsome predators in the history of the Earth are mosasaurs and pliosaurs.

  • @Asher-Tzvi
    @Asher-Tzvi6 ай бұрын

    Indohyus, my brother. I’ve decided to search for more food in the waters. You will regret this, Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt”

  • @mothgirl326

    @mothgirl326

    27 күн бұрын

    I think Pakicetus should be pretty happy with how it turned out

  • @vmarjunn

    @vmarjunn

    Күн бұрын

    I just need some shrimps lol, I'll be perfectly fine

  • @___E
    @___E Жыл бұрын

    The entire ocean watching some weird mammals jumping in the water while remembering what happened the last time a land animal did the same:

  • @alfalfa2155
    @alfalfa2155 Жыл бұрын

    A video on the evolution of hooves would be cool! There’s such a huge range of hoofed mammals and it would be interesting to see how their feet developed that way, and what their last common ancestor was.

  • @woofbark6575
    @woofbark65752 жыл бұрын

    Just a hypothesis but the whale fossils in the Himalayas may be the origins of the dragon myth. Due to the fact that dragons were said to stay up in the mountains and seen as the skull would have a similar snout and seeing as cetaceans have small ear bones which dragons had. Not only that but dragon myth did appear in china which is near the Himalayas.

  • @carlos6126

    @carlos6126

    2 жыл бұрын

    ooooo

  • @melodi996

    @melodi996

    2 жыл бұрын

    That could be really any big fossils though, if you found a big therapod skull while living in Middle Ages, you only had one explanation for it.

  • @dimetrodon2250

    @dimetrodon2250

    2 жыл бұрын

    lots of big fossils are known or at least speculated to be sources for mythology. The teeth of Gigantopithecus were said to be dragon's teeth and were sold as traditional medicine, the fossils of ammonites were believed to be the remains of serpents coiled up and turned to stone, dwarf mammoth skulls on Mediterranean islands were believed to be cyclops skulls. It is very likely that the reason why so many unrelated cultures have dragon myths is because of large fossils

  • @75aces97

    @75aces97

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dragons seem to appear in the mythologies of many unrelated cultures around the world. I surmise that for thousands of years people have stumbled upon bones of large, but unrecognizable or extinct animals, and concluded they were fantastic monsters.

  • @stormisuedonym4599

    @stormisuedonym4599

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Western idea of the dragon seems to have come from memetic mutation of stories about monitor lizards and crocodiles. We can even see lizard tongues turn into tongues of flame in the art.

  • @rickcharlespersonal
    @rickcharlespersonal9 ай бұрын

    ~Perucetus shows up to the family reunion~ Basilosaurus: "Ah sh*t, who invited Uncle Chungus?"

  • @AnTran147
    @AnTran1472 жыл бұрын

    Kinda wild that some cetaceans followed similar body plans to the marine reptiles they replaced. Basilosauridae resembled mosasaurs while dolphins resemble ichthyosaurs. Too bad it doesn't seem like anything followed the plesiosaurs; I want my sea giraffe.

  • @dimetrodon2250

    @dimetrodon2250

    2 жыл бұрын

    The earliest Ichthyosaurs also were very similar to mosasaurs and basilosaurids. The serpentine bodyplan seems to be common for large marine predators with free moving necks, and seems to do well until they get outcompeted by the more fish like bodyplan predators.

  • @jwsanders1214

    @jwsanders1214

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dimetrodon2250 all these scientific sounding names , but what do they really mean ?" Basilosaursus " KING LIZARD Mosasaurs " A Lizard of the Meuse River " Doesn't sound so scientific does it ? Jurassic : a mountain range in Russia .Mesozoic : " Middle Life " and so on Evolution is B S , trust in Jesus , your Creator , Savour and Friend

  • @ekosubandie2094

    @ekosubandie2094

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Pinnipeds are on their way on becoming mammalian plesiosaurs They're just not quite there yet at the moment

  • @jwsanders1214

    @jwsanders1214

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ekosubandie2094 I was taught in Government Indoctrination School that Pinnipeds were all wiped out during the Little Bang at the end of The Crustacean Period ,glad to hear they are back on their feet !

  • @alucardnolifeking789

    @alucardnolifeking789

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jwsanders1214 Cling onto your beliefs, like every other sheep. The creator youre talking about doesnt exist, if there is a creator then its something way bigger above your imagination. The creator of the Universe or Multiverse even ! Who knows ! But i hate people like you shoving your religion down my throat, Religion is the cause of any bad thing that ever happened on this World despite Natural Disasters.

  • @sadwingsraging3044
    @sadwingsraging30442 жыл бұрын

    All I want for Christmas is an hour long show on Ceratopcians. Nobody has a good video on them. :-(

  • @goawaypleasethanku
    @goawaypleasethanku2 жыл бұрын

    I really love your stuff and I’ve relatively recently found your content. I was wondering if maybe you could put a bunch of your videos in some kind of like hour long compilation? I sometimes use these videos to sleep because they’re so damn calming. otherwise keep up the grand work man!

  • @Vikface1978
    @Vikface197829 күн бұрын

    I love no background noise, just your calming, chilled out voice. I click whenever I see a new video as it’s always always good, great, fantastic. Thank you 🙏

  • @weshard1
    @weshard12 жыл бұрын

    I always enjoy all of your videos, with evolution being of passionate interest to me, but also, your voice is very neutral, and enjoyable to listen to. It might be worth looking into becoming an audiobook reader. I think you definitely have the tone, clarity, and diction for it.

  • @kasey9067
    @kasey90672 жыл бұрын

    I very much enjoyed this video. I've always wondered how whales evolved to be fully aquatic. Well done, thank you!

  • @sewatweaty5549
    @sewatweaty55492 жыл бұрын

    I just discovered your channel yesterday, and I'm not kidding when I say I'm addicted, I've watched like 40 of your videos already. Subscribed and still finding so many gems on your channel.

  • @DrTuph
    @DrTuph2 жыл бұрын

    Your content is great! I love to hear the tales of how things today came to be.

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, the 'poster child' for 'proving' that Darwinian evolution could actually happen - yet if anything, the 'evolution of whales' only shows how unlikely it is that that much adaptations would randomly and so quickly even, be able to occur...

  • @Minecraftiano1204

    @Minecraftiano1204

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ResurrectingJiriki Have you ever seen the skeleton of a cetacean?

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Minecraftiano1204 have you ever looked into how the Darwinian evolution actually is supposed to work? Or think about where all this new information just pops into existence? Unguided and randomly? How 'things that go wrong' just happen to go wrong simultaneously in just the right way, and then within a few tens of millions of years? The Cambrian Explosion posed to Darwin himself already a really big issue for his theory. The 'window' of it has only gotten smaller, the lack of anything pre-cursoring the vast amounts of new species and body plans, only became more painfully absent...

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Minecraftiano1204 and yes, I have seen the skeleton of a cetacean, in a London museum IRL. What does that have to do with anything?

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ligerbee ?

  • @huusgaard4289
    @huusgaard42892 жыл бұрын

    I´d pay top dollar to hear you read a book, your voice is so calm and clear

  • @BenBike
    @BenBike2 жыл бұрын

    I've always wondered about this! Can't believe you have only 275k subscribers. Keep up the great work, your videos are top tier!!!

  • @Redneckkratos
    @Redneckkratos2 жыл бұрын

    Moth, I love your vids but let’s be honest, the most famous basilosauridae was 100% the type species Basilosaurus itself, not Dorudon. I mean just look at how often it’s in main media and video games

  • @Michelle-od6hg
    @Michelle-od6hg2 жыл бұрын

    I love my wife, my dogs and your videos. Thank you, so much!!!.

  • @pattonramming1988
    @pattonramming19882 жыл бұрын

    Now that you mentioned it I would like to learn what selective pressures led to modern whales developing echolocation and whether or not they are the first creatures to have this ability On a related note could you make a video about species that developed unique feature for the first time in Earth's history

  • @jacobdussere5487

    @jacobdussere5487

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some other animals have echolocation. Bats most famously, but it's also at least attested in some birds and small terrestrial mammals. Maybe some more I don't know about

  • @gogolometro235

    @gogolometro235

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jacobdussere5487 some birds? i dont think ive heard of that, can you tell me more?

  • @nahshon9998

    @nahshon9998

    2 жыл бұрын

    Echolocation is not unique. Bats also have it. The bigger question is how does echolocation happen once, let alone twice? Turns out that the Dna coding for both bats and whales are very close in their echolocation coding. In fact when you put them side by side, using Dna as a metric, bats and whales are very closely related.

  • @djm-ct6rj

    @djm-ct6rj

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nahshon9998 source?

  • @nahshon9998

    @nahshon9998

    Жыл бұрын

    @@djm-ct6rj Source for what?

  • @blakelyfantastic
    @blakelyfantastic2 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate the animations provided in this video.

  • @zonk45
    @zonk452 жыл бұрын

    Its fascinating how a terrestrial animal, which only goes into water to escape predators, evolved to THE water animal that anyone knows. Thats why i love evolution

  • @eybaza6018

    @eybaza6018

    Жыл бұрын

    Not to mention evolving into apex predator that any land dweller alive today would be terrified to encounter in the water, there are in fact, numerous cases of Orcas preying on Moose.

  • @b_rabbit
    @b_rabbit2 жыл бұрын

    I'm interested in whales, but also terrified of them because of thalassophobia. What a dilemma to live in.

  • @new_romemusic4212

    @new_romemusic4212

    2 жыл бұрын

    DRUMS IN THE DEEP

  • @Neanzo
    @Neanzo2 жыл бұрын

    I've known wales are mammals as long as I can remember but I just realized the other day that they must be related to land mammals and I started wondering how. Then this video popped up in my recommendations!

  • @followerofjesuschrist5297

    @followerofjesuschrist5297

    2 жыл бұрын

    Genesis 1:21 KJV “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”

  • @viniciusmonado8205

    @viniciusmonado8205

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@followerofjesuschrist5297 "No, I am your father" ~ Darth Vader.

  • @eybaza6018

    @eybaza6018

    Жыл бұрын

    @@followerofjesuschrist5297 The Bible is not a scientific source, we have innumerable fossils of exitinct species of not just whales, and a few lines from a book written by some humans in the Middle East is supposed to prove that?

  • @James-gk8ip

    @James-gk8ip

    Жыл бұрын

    @@followerofjesuschrist5297 I wrote that. Sorry, I was stoned. Prove me wrong.

  • @NitroIndigo
    @NitroIndigo5 ай бұрын

    Moth Light should do a video about how evolution works.

  • @mothgirl326

    @mothgirl326

    27 күн бұрын

    Yeah, looking at the comments it seems a lot of people need an explainer

  • @moxxy3565
    @moxxy3565 Жыл бұрын

    Makes a lot of sense that mammals would quickly increase in size adapting to an aquatic environment. Fish are cold blooded so they can remain small, but the only way for mammals to survive in water is to increase in size and develop blubber.

  • @GlitterNOOWHY

    @GlitterNOOWHY

    11 ай бұрын

    😊

  • @JKTCGMV13
    @JKTCGMV132 жыл бұрын

    This video showed up on my home screen twice and both times I thought the title said "The Evolution of Wales" which was amusing considering the thumbnail.

  • @masotan152
    @masotan1522 жыл бұрын

    Pakicetus: evolution can you give me webbed feet for semi-aquatic? Evolution: to catch fish? Pakicetus: yes Evolution: actually to be fully aquatic like a boss Pakicetus: WHALE TIME!

  • @EsplodingBomb
    @EsplodingBomb2 жыл бұрын

    The mammals who went "fuck this I'm going back."

  • @briezzy365
    @briezzy36510 ай бұрын

    Your videos continue to be my favorite available on KZread for animal evolution.

  • @alexandrbatora9674
    @alexandrbatora96742 жыл бұрын

    New MLM video! Love your content, love your calm way of paleoASMR!

  • @RandomShortGuy528
    @RandomShortGuy528Ай бұрын

    Gee can’t wait to read the supporting and smart comments on this video!!

  • @GwilsonDrums
    @GwilsonDrums2 жыл бұрын

    I always love hearing about the evolution of whales, it's so interesting

  • @bunlocke
    @bunlocke2 жыл бұрын

    Every time I get a notif for this channel I get so excited. Always watch it as soon as I can.

  • @tardarsauce3355
    @tardarsauce33552 жыл бұрын

    Another great video! Thanks for all your content and research!

  • @meg2249
    @meg22492 жыл бұрын

    I have never heard of chevrotains before, but it is adorable! I would love to learn more about them!

  • @poweroftruth9258

    @poweroftruth9258

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life..!.!

  • @ng2268

    @ng2268

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@poweroftruth9258 Amen Brother!! Isn't it strange that All of the Evolutionary Biologists suggest that a God did not make all of the wonderful stuff we see today, and how it isn't "Scientific" Yet, none of the People i have asked could give me a Scientific fact that Evolution is real. There are far more Scientific facts that support the Bible than they do Evolution.

  • @eybaza6018

    @eybaza6018

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ng2268 There are no scientific facts that support the Bible or any religion for that matter.

  • @aspiknf

    @aspiknf

    11 ай бұрын

    @@eybaza6018 Hinduism is the correct religion, and evolution happened. God exists and evolution happened.

  • @_Wombat
    @_Wombat2 жыл бұрын

    Whales are such a fascinating example of evolution at work. I find any mammals that adapt away from land really cool, like bats evolving to fly. Its a great example of how evolution is far more interesting than so-called "intelligent design". Only evolution puts small deer-like creatures back into the ocean to become the largest animals in history...so far. Great stuff

  • @tehblacksmith9302

    @tehblacksmith9302

    2 жыл бұрын

    Reddit moment

  • @_Wombat

    @_Wombat

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tehblacksmith9302 hilarious meme, well done :)

  • @tehblacksmith9302

    @tehblacksmith9302

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@_Wombat thanks it only took me 5 hours to think of it

  • @gusolsthoorn1002

    @gusolsthoorn1002

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Evolution puts....."? I'm afraid you are confusing evolution with God. Evolution has no plan, purpose, meaning, design, or anything really. It is a just a descriptor for an assumed process of trial and error that just got lucky in allowing an untold number of beneficial mutations to randomly occur at just the right time and in just the right order, to accumulate and integrate into complex biological systems. We are told to take all of this by faith, because well, whales are here and, well, how else could whales appear if not by evolution? Whale evolution, while touted as one of the best evidences of evolution, is an incredibly weak story but it must be accepted because the alternative is unthinkable.

  • @_Wombat

    @_Wombat

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gusolsthoorn1002 Semantics Gus, semantics.

  • @LP-ct9nk
    @LP-ct9nk2 жыл бұрын

    Animal KZread is so chill. All these comments are so positive, wholesome, and I’m learning all sorts of new stuff love y’all 💖

  • @Transblucency
    @Transblucency2 жыл бұрын

    That was an excellent overview. Thank you!

  • @cmrobles
    @cmrobles2 жыл бұрын

    I can never get enough of whale evolution videos

  • @Exodus20.7KJV

    @Exodus20.7KJV

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I love fairytales too.

  • @Infinity-eb6mx

    @Infinity-eb6mx

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Exodus20.7KJV I suspect you are religious in a fundamental way, if so, yes for sure, you do love fairy tales.

  • @gerrardjones28

    @gerrardjones28

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Exodus20.7KJV how ironic

  • @spoodlydoodler3552

    @spoodlydoodler3552

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Exodus20.7KJV good thing you worship a storybook, right?

  • @lwmaynard5180

    @lwmaynard5180

    2 жыл бұрын

    Whales with fairy tales , where are the hundreds of bioprototypes ? ? They Don't exist ? ? What a load of Nonsense spouted by the evolution revolution committee ? ? ?

  • @Mantelar
    @Mantelar Жыл бұрын

    This makes me wonder if one day beavers will evolve into monstrosities that build gigantic homes out of the wrecks of ruined skyscrapers

  • @francine13

    @francine13

    Жыл бұрын

    that's an interesting creature for a futuristic world building!

  • @kylehazachode
    @kylehazachode2 жыл бұрын

    Yay!!! Been waiting forever for this upload.

  • @Ididntplayball
    @Ididntplayball20 күн бұрын

    - Help! I’m drowning! - Don’t worry, you will evolve into a fish.

  • @AMC2283

    @AMC2283

    9 күн бұрын

    Whales aren’t fish

  • @celica9098
    @celica90982 жыл бұрын

    To me, it seems that modern day sea lions or hippos resemble what whales would have looked like in transition in the semi-aquatic stage.

  • @UnwantedGhost1
    @UnwantedGhost12 жыл бұрын

    Amazing videos about my favorite marine mammals, MLM. Hope Walking with Beast does a remake of the Cenozoic featuring these newly discovered ancient whale relatives. 👍

  • @deliberatarian1646
    @deliberatarian16462 жыл бұрын

    Please make one on the evolution of pigeons and doves 🙏🏻 this is one of my favorite channels and I haven’t been able to find much on their evolution

  • @brucetownsend691
    @brucetownsend6912 жыл бұрын

    It always makes me happy to see a new video released on this channel! 😊😊😊

  • @universodolucas6023
    @universodolucas60232 жыл бұрын

    the evolution of whales is one of the most interesting of all time.

  • @katarinaericka-kristavonbr7000
    @katarinaericka-kristavonbr70002 жыл бұрын

    Actually they did DNA testing on hippopotamuses and they are extremely close related to the well family, so they could’ve been more of a small size hippo type animal

  • @zman7103

    @zman7103

    2 жыл бұрын

    What is a well

  • @TonyBittner-Collins

    @TonyBittner-Collins

    2 жыл бұрын

    A whale in good health. 🐋🐳😅

  • @its_crazyisnt8712
    @its_crazyisnt87122 жыл бұрын

    I always wondered how big Whales are when they were a land mammal. Thanks for this video my curiosity got answered 💜

  • @UseADamnCoaster
    @UseADamnCoaster Жыл бұрын

    Well-made video. The evolution of whales is something that absolutely blows my mind 😳💥

  • @annaarkless5822
    @annaarkless58222 жыл бұрын

    i was wondering whether you had any plans to make a video on spiders? also i love your videos so much - i knew almost nothing about paleontology before i found your channel and now its probably my favourite thing to go down wikipedia rabbit holes on

  • @gerrardjones28

    @gerrardjones28

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah history of spiders would be cool

  • @DeathEaterLink

    @DeathEaterLink

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gerrardjones28 I know nothing about evolutionary biology, so take this with a grain of salt I suspect spiders would have a dearth of proper fossil evidence owing to the lack of proper skeleton, so I bet they're harder to track than mammals.

  • @gerrardjones28

    @gerrardjones28

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DeathEaterLink Your defo right there, I'm by no means an expert but know a bit about fossilization at least and the invertebrates are always rarer to fossilize, what we definitely know is spiders and other animals like scorpions related to it must've had some sort of common marine invertebrate ancestor like sea scorpions but they started flourishing barely a period after they came out of water while it took the invertebrates a lot longer to adapt and change like how the first dragon fly evolved hundreds of millions of years before the first flying reptiles, most invertebrate fossils are from the carboniferous I think which makes sense cos the world was full of swamps at that time which are good for fossilisation so yeah a history of spiders is certainly do able and simple with the quick history version but just harder put together and go in-depth with cos of the lack of fossils.

  • @m.h.4144

    @m.h.4144

    6 ай бұрын

    @@DeathEaterLinkyeah but there may be foot prints of larger spiders.

  • @banjoist123
    @banjoist1232 жыл бұрын

    That whales evolved from sea to land and back to sea is an incredible evolutionary story.

  • @winterwatson6811
    @winterwatson68112 жыл бұрын

    I really love your channel! I often leave it on while making pottery I would love to hear more about ocean life. Botryllus are my favorite animal and I would probably squeal if you featured them

  • @pogo55555
    @pogo55555 Жыл бұрын

    Well done. And truly edifying to boot! Thank you 😊

  • @Anhviet19
    @Anhviet192 жыл бұрын

    Whale worth watching.

  • @thhseeking
    @thhseeking2 жыл бұрын

    The Basilosaurids do look like Mosasaurs & Tylosaurs, which makes me wonder if they might have convergently evolved like modern whales given time. Perhaps pointless speculation, but I still wonder.

  • @williamchamberlain2263

    @williamchamberlain2263

    2 жыл бұрын

    And icthyosaurs roughly resemble bony fish from the eyes back.

  • @joshcawte3910
    @joshcawte39102 жыл бұрын

    Your vids are insanely good

  • @snakeboy6629
    @snakeboy66292 жыл бұрын

    hey mate I love your videos, love learning about the past of how life evolved to this day. U should do a video about how cattle evolved to what they are today.

  • @firelifeblizzard8782
    @firelifeblizzard87822 жыл бұрын

    Is Nobu Tamura like a friend of yours? Their incredible art has been in like every episode since the beginning

  • @achristiananarchist2509
    @achristiananarchist2509 Жыл бұрын

    You said all whales except the Beluga whale have fused neck bones, but you forgot the majestic river dolphin. Everyone always forgets about the river dolphin. :(

  • @peterstoric6560

    @peterstoric6560

    Жыл бұрын

    Dolphins are whales

  • @achristiananarchist2509

    @achristiananarchist2509

    Жыл бұрын

    @@peterstoric6560 yep, and while most dolphins do have fused neck bones like other whales, river dolphins don't

  • @Turdfergusen382
    @Turdfergusen3822 жыл бұрын

    MOTH LIGHT IS BACK!!!

  • @Will_Plotegher
    @Will_Plotegher2 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Do more playlists. 😁

  • @Zamtrios245
    @Zamtrios2452 жыл бұрын

    If I had a nickel for every time land animals evolved to live in the ocean, I would have 2 nickels. Which isnt a lot but its interesting it happened twice.

  • @ivoraven4170

    @ivoraven4170

    2 жыл бұрын

    twice hmmm, isn't like pleziosaurs, messosaurs, ichtiosaurs, mosasaurs, penguins, sea mammals, turtles, iguanas, like way more nickles

  • @Frogboyaidan

    @Frogboyaidan

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ivoraven4170 he's talking about fully aquaitc.

  • @eybaza6018

    @eybaza6018

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Frogboyaidan It still counts, all the groups he mentioned were fully aquatic.

  • @bennoboy97
    @bennoboy972 жыл бұрын

    I love how calming these videos are with the unique visuals and pretty music :)

  • @guyfromnj
    @guyfromnj2 жыл бұрын

    Mr moth light , a couple ideas for videos... Turtles and where they came from and more importantly the continents and the various locations of them over the ages. Also snowball earth and how we got away from that. All very fascinating. Even the earth in general. How it formed and the the movements of the continents throughout the ages. Where the continents were during the different ages of the world. Jurassic and Triassic etc etc You make truly amazing videos and documentaries. Love them

  • @ajax203showme
    @ajax203showme2 жыл бұрын

    Bravo. This was really fantastic. I learned a lot.

  • @ninjesus6894
    @ninjesus68942 жыл бұрын

    And someday, according to gojira, whales will learn to fly and travel space.

  • @williamchamberlain2263

    @williamchamberlain2263

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds legit

  • @gerrardjones28

    @gerrardjones28

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some day humans will actually become intelligent

  • @hungryorphan5975

    @hungryorphan5975

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gerrardjones28 sadly no people still are religious

  • @gusolsthoorn1002

    @gusolsthoorn1002

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why not? Imagination is a prime ingredient when it comes to evolution.

  • @hungryorphan5975

    @hungryorphan5975

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gusolsthoorn1002 why are all creationists stupid old men

  • @Gothead420
    @Gothead4202 жыл бұрын

    It still baffles me that people can deny scientific facts, nowadays...

  • @gusolsthoorn1002

    @gusolsthoorn1002

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please identify the scientific facts in this video. I see a fabricated story. The fossils do not provide compelling evidence that any of this actually happened.

  • @Gothead420

    @Gothead420

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gusolsthoorn1002 Evolution is a proven fact...🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @gusolsthoorn1002

    @gusolsthoorn1002

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Gothead420 Sure, if by evolution you mean change over time, then yes, of course, I don't have a problem with that. I just don't see that evidence compelling to believe that new features and function could come about by chance, and I don't think the evidence shows it.

  • @Gothead420

    @Gothead420

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gusolsthoorn1002 Evolution is just that, gradual changes over time...that lead to speciation. Maybe you should read up on that topic...😉

  • @gusolsthoorn1002

    @gusolsthoorn1002

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Gothead420 It has been known since Darwin's day that the accumulation of small changes cannot account for the large differences. That is the reason a "modern synthesis" was needed; to account for new functions and features that natural selection could not explain.

  • @kuitaranheatmorus9932
    @kuitaranheatmorus99322 жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite evolutions of prehistory,I really like this video

  • @ItachiTsukuyomi98
    @ItachiTsukuyomi982 жыл бұрын

    I saw your video on thylacoleo and its family I was wondering if you already made a video on Ekaltadeta, the carnivorous kangaroo yet, because I love your channel it's very educational and informative and I wanna see a video on Ekaltadeta

  • @MrT_Rex
    @MrT_Rex2 жыл бұрын

    Ambulocetus, also called '' crocotter ''

  • @Exodus20.7KJV

    @Exodus20.7KJV

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's a croc alright!

  • @paytonkremers7083
    @paytonkremers70832 жыл бұрын

    You should do a video on the evolution of Hippopotamus amphibius

  • @tanmaypednekar4085
    @tanmaypednekar40852 жыл бұрын

    I was waiting for this

  • @iilej3749
    @iilej37492 жыл бұрын

    I exclusively watch your channel for evolution videos

  • @Mikailodon
    @Mikailodon2 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the grand origins of my favorite mammals