When Animals Learnt to Bite, the Evolution of the Jaw Bone

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This video shows how fish learnt to bite, one of the most important developments in vertibrate evolution that allowed fish to dominate their habitats and paved the way for land vertibrates also.
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  • @mothlightmedia1936
    @mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын

    Ok hopefully this upload has no major mistakes, thanks everyone for letting me know.

  • @ScottHebert604

    @ScottHebert604

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your vids are great man

  • @Ozraptor4

    @Ozraptor4

    4 жыл бұрын

    MrNahual2099 not impossible, but highly unlikely. Close relatives of Dunkleosteus from Gogo are preserved with excellent soft tissue preservation. There is no evidence of substantial soft-tissue masses over the biting surfaces.

  • @opposumness3107

    @opposumness3107

    4 жыл бұрын

    69!

  • @truedragondraig5372

    @truedragondraig5372

    4 жыл бұрын

    Learnt--------learned

  • @businesschicken8699

    @businesschicken8699

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@truedragondraig5372 Lol fr though.

  • @gustavgnoettgen
    @gustavgnoettgen4 жыл бұрын

    That fish's first statement afterwards: "HA, SUCKERS!"

  • @thanhvu2377

    @thanhvu2377

    4 жыл бұрын

    You suck

  • @ED11169

    @ED11169

    4 жыл бұрын

    Succ

  • @nekrosis6560

    @nekrosis6560

    4 жыл бұрын

    **Ba-tum-psss**

  • @siberiusthesleepingserpent312

    @siberiusthesleepingserpent312

    3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent joke sir

  • @xl000

    @xl000

    3 жыл бұрын

    said no fish

  • @aidanharrison3888
    @aidanharrison38884 жыл бұрын

    Amazing to think that my arms , legs , lungs . and jaw are a gift from a 300m year old fish . Called Brenda Bella Psis . I wish I'd met her . Just to talk about the good old days .

  • @Lisa-dv1xn

    @Lisa-dv1xn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Born in the wrong generation:(

  • @Gasmaskmax

    @Gasmaskmax

    3 жыл бұрын

    go grandma

  • @orangensafttee4598

    @orangensafttee4598

    3 жыл бұрын

    atheist moment

  • @dayoki8091

    @dayoki8091

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@orangensafttee4598 what if like god made the earth as is, no support whatsover just some updates and patches

  • @qqqqq187

    @qqqqq187

    2 жыл бұрын

    She'll most likely try to bite your face off

  • @GeneralCalculus
    @GeneralCalculus4 жыл бұрын

    I don't know why "jaws are older than trees" gave me a chuckle, even though it's what's seen.

  • @myrinsk

    @myrinsk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jaw eat tree

  • @alephkasai9384

    @alephkasai9384

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's what it's

  • @laxfich_gecko

    @laxfich_gecko

    3 жыл бұрын

    Laughing is an ancient memo strategy. Funny stories get retold many times.

  • @oscarstaszky1960

    @oscarstaszky1960

    3 жыл бұрын

    my dumbass literally thought of this as "the ability to give head is older than the first trees." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA

  • @Sheepskin501

    @Sheepskin501

    3 жыл бұрын

    My mind was truly blown

  • @opposumness3107
    @opposumness31074 жыл бұрын

    Me: Scrolling through KZread, bored. Sees this video on jawbone. Me: ok, I'll bite.

  • @blue_kobolt1785

    @blue_kobolt1785

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is an underrated comment

  • @myrinsk

    @myrinsk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now it’s higher rated

  • @crazydave9735

    @crazydave9735

    3 жыл бұрын

    Stop, please.

  • @Sheepskin501

    @Sheepskin501

    3 жыл бұрын

    See yourself out please

  • @opposumness3107

    @opposumness3107

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Sheepskin501 I'd like to try, but I'm afraid I'm hooked

  • @regular-joe
    @regular-joe4 жыл бұрын

    I've never heard anyone else address this issue - an answer before the question was asked! This was fascinating and enormously thought-provoking, thanks so much.

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching

  • @clanwaddell5628

    @clanwaddell5628

    Жыл бұрын

    This is a good channel. I like PBS Eons and other channels like this and he has a way of making videos that just suck me in

  • @kadenherzog9727
    @kadenherzog97274 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else spend the whole video trying to "bite" as hard as they could with their lips

  • @AllosaurusJP3

    @AllosaurusJP3

    4 жыл бұрын

    yea same

  • @poopcock4357

    @poopcock4357

    4 жыл бұрын

    nah but now i do, thanks

  • @feykro4152

    @feykro4152

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did anyone cheat without thinking by shoving your lips between your teeth and bite?

  • @noyeadjohnson2531

    @noyeadjohnson2531

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@feykro4152 yes lolq

  • @matrixarsmusicworkshop561

    @matrixarsmusicworkshop561

    3 жыл бұрын

    XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD no shit hahahah

  • @tlam3028
    @tlam30284 жыл бұрын

    Lmao imagine not having a jawbone -This post was made by Post-Silurian fish gang

  • @myrinsk

    @myrinsk

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m pretty sure that if a comment has a reply then there’s a higher chance of getting seen so I’m just trying to help out lol

  • @wolfegangmsg452

    @wolfegangmsg452

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dam bro that made me CHUCKLE thank you.

  • @agni_oh

    @agni_oh

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also replying to increase reach

  • @danielquinonez2735

    @danielquinonez2735

    3 жыл бұрын

    darn dang bro you got the whole squad laughing

  • @nickkorkodylas5005

    @nickkorkodylas5005

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lampreys literally suck.

  • @ambergris5705
    @ambergris57054 жыл бұрын

    Something amazing about the Dunkleosteus' jaw is that its bite is not only impressively strong, its opening (contrary to crocodilians) is maybe one of the strongest ever. This means that it probably hunted using a combination of extreme sucking, and then a crushing bite. The stuff of nightmares.

  • @ldarm

    @ldarm

    2 жыл бұрын

    I had an ex like that

  • @awrench1512

    @awrench1512

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ldarm LMAO

  • @Nickster147

    @Nickster147

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ldarm nicee

  • @playernotfound9489

    @playernotfound9489

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ldarm so she was short and stout?

  • @erikagibbs3488
    @erikagibbs34884 жыл бұрын

    3:57 I'm not willing to admit how long it took me to realize this wasn't a squid named Daniel Carter

  • @myrinsk

    @myrinsk

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m pretty sure that if a comment has a reply then there’s a higher chance of getting seen so I’m just trying to help out lol

  • @feykro4152

    @feykro4152

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@myrinsk Maybe a second will boost their chances even further!

  • @phillipsandgren3094

    @phillipsandgren3094

    3 жыл бұрын

    A third

  • @joshuhigashikata9201

    @joshuhigashikata9201

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jaime chirinos

  • @alicorntrash1262

    @alicorntrash1262

    3 жыл бұрын

    SHAME

  • @111jkjk
    @111jkjk4 жыл бұрын

    So wierd to think that the jaw evolved from gills. I'm touching my jaw now and tripping out a little

  • @martinbiehl4596

    @martinbiehl4596

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think our ears also evolved from gills, but probably after the trees came around...

  • @eertikrux666

    @eertikrux666

    3 жыл бұрын

    The innsmouth look

  • @Erminestreet

    @Erminestreet

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually it makes sense if you look at embryologist development

  • @theokrisna

    @theokrisna

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Erminestreet Evo Devo?

  • @aaxl8326
    @aaxl83263 жыл бұрын

    That fish learned the TM ‘bite’ 🙈

  • @chopsticks7751

    @chopsticks7751

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess people aren’t cultured

  • @thephantommasquerade8241

    @thephantommasquerade8241

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's super effective.

  • @Respect.13.

    @Respect.13.

    3 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣

  • @rileykortemusic
    @rileykortemusic4 жыл бұрын

    It’s so amazing to think that just by chance a couple a fish said “ Hey let’s make our gills work a little better” and now we have jaws

  • @TheSkullConfernece

    @TheSkullConfernece

    3 жыл бұрын

    There was no choice involved in this change. Very bad analogy.

  • @rileykortemusic

    @rileykortemusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheSkullConfernece oh come on I was just making a joke

  • @daleicious1528

    @daleicious1528

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheSkullConfernece Adam, you may be Bright, but your humor is shite.

  • @trueredlucky954

    @trueredlucky954

    2 жыл бұрын

    More like, il just nibble at this thing with my gills, survival of the fittest kicks in and bam jaws emerge.

  • @rileykortemusic

    @rileykortemusic

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@trueredlucky954 yeah, evolution doesn’t have a set goal I do know that it was more just satire

  • @corneliusmcmuffin3256
    @corneliusmcmuffin32563 жыл бұрын

    A though that I've often had is, what if the earlier jaws were just made of cartilage or another softer material that doesn't fossilize?

  • @heinrichfuhrmeister1244

    @heinrichfuhrmeister1244

    2 жыл бұрын

    We know that’s not the case because we can use chemical analysis to determine their food source. If there’s no need for a jaw, they probably dont have them

  • @juanausensi499

    @juanausensi499

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unlikely. We still have jawless fish today, but not cartilaginous jaws. Jaws need to be strong to be functional. Even in cartilaginous fish, like sharks, the jaws and teeth are the only part that is heavily calcified (ant that's why you can find lots of decorative shark jaws but not complete shark skeletons)

  • @JayManty

    @JayManty

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@juanausensi499 Chondrichthyes have cartilligous jaws, though. Cartilligous doesn't mean soft, cartilage has several morphotypes, including the hyaline cartilage, which is very hard and absolutely hard enough for jaw bones. The only bone chondrichthyes have is on the base of their scales, everything else is secondarily cartilligous.

  • @juanausensi499

    @juanausensi499

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JayManty Thanks for the clarification. I knew shark jaws aren't bone, but they are distinct than the rest of the skeleton. My point still stands, i think it's very unlikely that an animal would have a hardy skeleton and a soft jaw.

  • @JayManty

    @JayManty

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is entirely possible, however the current research shows that the (admittedly paraphyletic but still fairly well understood) clade of agnathan fish-like vertebrates called ostracodermi had a large armor-like structure covering a big chunk of their body made of primitive acellular bone. Since this group did not have jaws, we conclude that neither did their ancestors, and it is unlikely that ostracidermi would develop a non-bony jaw from their extensive bony head structures, only for them to return to a bony jaw again. Is it possible though that there was some small stem group of vertebrates that had some kind of a jaw-lite and went extinct? Yes. But unlikely, though anything can happen in paleobiology.

  • @askellabsalon7737
    @askellabsalon7737 Жыл бұрын

    You are the king of youtube paleomedia mate. I can't watch PBS Eons anymore cause you're so much better lol. 10x quality with x/10000 budget.

  • @yoshihammerbro435

    @yoshihammerbro435

    Жыл бұрын

    :( but they both talk about cool things :(

  • @ReptilianAnusWizzard
    @ReptilianAnusWizzard2 жыл бұрын

    I imagine the first Fish with a jaw going around and biting everybody "look i am biting you, bet you cant do that"

  • @williamjordan5554
    @williamjordan55544 жыл бұрын

    Need to replace all the "first animal to have" with "first animal we know of to have."

  • @camsterdam3896

    @camsterdam3896

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why? it means the same thing, until proven otherwise.

  • @notapplicable6985

    @notapplicable6985

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@camsterdam3896 Future proofing

  • @sploofmcsterra4786

    @sploofmcsterra4786

    4 жыл бұрын

    6:00 "earliest known.... Was probably"

  • @LeeLonnieLove

    @LeeLonnieLove

    4 жыл бұрын

    But you knew what he meant

  • @himarik4609

    @himarik4609

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Blue Wave I knew what he meant, however not everyone would. Many people would actually take it as fact. That’s like if I tell a toddler that dogs are the first mammals to walk

  • @eliscanfield3913
    @eliscanfield39134 жыл бұрын

    The dunk model at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is one of my kids' favorites. Granted, that's partly because there's a cheeseburger in its open mouth, lol

  • @dianeyreese

    @dianeyreese

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bryan McGucken Theres a cheeseburger in its mouth?!

  • @dianeyreese

    @dianeyreese

    3 жыл бұрын

    I want my mom to take me there

  • @eliscanfield3913

    @eliscanfield3913

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dianeyreese Yep, in the model hanging from the ceiling, not the fossil. CMNH has about a dozen things like that scattered around throughout the museum's main collections. There's a VW bug in with the beetles downstairs, lol. There are memes of that one floating about.

  • @BertGrink
    @BertGrink3 жыл бұрын

    Not only is the content on this channel deeply fascinating, but it's also incredibly well presented; I love your videos, Moth Light!

  • @wraith4978
    @wraith49784 жыл бұрын

    i recall theories of the armored fish dying out since the boney fish were able to store calcium and use it when it got scarce, along with that they also had kidneys to help regulate water in not-so-salty waters, unlike the armored fish who again had the armor to regulate water. i forget where i read this but if anyone can then i would like to hear your take on it.

  • @siyacer

    @siyacer

    4 жыл бұрын

    All that calcium probably acidified the oceans when they died

  • @alexanderofrhodes9622

    @alexanderofrhodes9622

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've always heard that they mainly died out because faster, bigger predators could crush their armor without much trouble. Bony fish speccd into speed and flexibility on top of a mineral-storing skeleton

  • @IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous
    @IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous3 жыл бұрын

    Why do I have to love your videos? they put me a paleontological trance

  • @matrixarsmusicworkshop561
    @matrixarsmusicworkshop5613 жыл бұрын

    ,,Meaning that jaws are older than trees" XDDDD That came out of nowhere!

  • @danielmaylett1710
    @danielmaylett17104 жыл бұрын

    Indeed, jaws are e-fish-ient

  • @nathansykes9267

    @nathansykes9267

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's enough out of you

  • @benallen7704

    @benallen7704

    4 жыл бұрын

    Groan

  • @YouSoRusso
    @YouSoRusso3 жыл бұрын

    Your videos take me to an entirely different plain of thought. I get lost in this complex but yet simpler world of our past. Never stop uploading dude, I'm here for every one.

  • @WaterShowsProd
    @WaterShowsProd8 ай бұрын

    It's amazing when the discovery of a species manages to flip our understanding of how things are related.

  • @mageovoid9145
    @mageovoid9145 Жыл бұрын

    i hope you enjoy making these videos as much as we enjoy watching. i really like the straightforward presentations you give

  • @DaveLeoBaker
    @DaveLeoBaker4 жыл бұрын

    I know this is a science channel, but channels like yours are responsible for some of my music. I'm inspired by nature, and you do a great job at describing it.

  • @Ja_Mes
    @Ja_Mes4 жыл бұрын

    You blowing up! Found you a few days ago at 17k! Shows if you put in the work success will come!

  • @Rise876
    @Rise8764 жыл бұрын

    As always, fascinating video. Love your content!

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rise thank you

  • @diabl2master
    @diabl2master3 жыл бұрын

    These are my favourite videos of yours - descriptions and explanations of the evolution of features

  • @Atari11000
    @Atari110003 жыл бұрын

    This is so cool, science is always changing and that’s what I love about it. Yet it can hold a basis of imperial data from simple induction deduction to go off of. This will help me study Oceanography more, and thank you for putting the names all written down.

  • @manleeman5212
    @manleeman52129 ай бұрын

    Love this channel. Great video as always

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    @Gintaras643 жыл бұрын

    Dude you're the best on youtube with these videos.

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    @JessicaSanchez-pq7fh4 жыл бұрын

    Moth light media you are my new fav youtuber!! Youre like Ben G Thomas or pbs eons. Amazing work, thank you. Much love and stay healthy.

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    @kieranfar99234 жыл бұрын

    Love your channel keep up the good work👍

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    @r_____________________4 жыл бұрын

    Pleasantly surprised to rediscover this channel after watching the convergence video 8 months ago, this content deserves way more attention.

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    TitanFallout welcome back

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    @aethelred37664 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are perfect in every way conceivable

  • @impendio
    @impendio4 жыл бұрын

    I need a full video on the evolution of fish, jawed, cartilaginous, divergence points common ancestors, the whole package

  • @marisolizawesome
    @marisolizawesome3 жыл бұрын

    Narrator: "And were unable to push their mouth together with anymore force than you can push your lips together" Me: *starts smashing my lips on my finger*

  • @Keigo_88
    @Keigo_882 жыл бұрын

    Jaw bones: *exists Large theropod dinosaurs, crocodilians, and sharks: It's free real-estate

  • @briankleinschmidt3664
    @briankleinschmidt36642 жыл бұрын

    I learned that sharks aren't as primitive as we thought. Stunning.

  • @squoosetiel
    @squoosetiel3 жыл бұрын

    0:29 🎶 it's the Cambrian explosion 🎶

  • @shadowraith1
    @shadowraith14 жыл бұрын

    Thanks again.🙂

  • @johnwilliamson2276
    @johnwilliamson22764 жыл бұрын

    I am very happy that I stumbled onto this channel! Thanks for the in depth information that is absent elsewhere.

  • @LDrosophila
    @LDrosophila3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this content

  • @austinmccormick8952
    @austinmccormick89523 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for mentioning the Sea Scorpion

  • @frozencryst4324
    @frozencryst43242 жыл бұрын

    I must say, thank you for these educational videos. They help a lot when I feel sick.

  • @Vypren
    @Vypren3 жыл бұрын

    As a fisherman, I can’t watch a video about prehistoric fish without imagining catching one on rod and reel.

  • @beneficent2557

    @beneficent2557

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is a lot of really great freshwater fish that retain archaic traits. Alligator Gars have amazing skulls.

  • @Vypren

    @Vypren

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@beneficent2557 Yup. Just like sharks and crocodiles, they hardly evolved at all these past millions of years.

  • @ZayZoot

    @ZayZoot

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Vypren, If you fish in bodies of freshwater that are known to have a lot of freshwater non Teleost ray finned fish (Like Gars, Bowfins, Sturgeons, Paddlefish, Bichirs, and Reedfish), Teleost fish that have bony tongues (such as Arapaima or Arowana), or lungfish you will be able to fish so many prehistoric fish that it will be near impossible to catch a fish that isn't a living fossil.

  • @Oscar-kp6ob
    @Oscar-kp6ob4 жыл бұрын

    great video, keep it up! :)

  • @joeshmoe6930
    @joeshmoe69302 жыл бұрын

    The evolution of the geometry of life is such a strange subject to dwell on, thinking about it I mean. So odd to think about how it all came to be, why, etc. How did the DNA or genes, or both... decide on underbite or overbite, or noverunderbite etc.

  • @MikiBreki
    @MikiBreki4 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @DesertScorpionKSA
    @DesertScorpionKSA4 жыл бұрын

    This is a good video. Thanks.

  • @Drakonus_
    @Drakonus_4 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: The first KZread channel had 'Jaw' in their name, coincidence? I think not.

  • @jgr7487

    @jgr7487

    3 жыл бұрын

    cue X-files theme

  • @aryyancarman705

    @aryyancarman705

    Жыл бұрын

    jawed lmao

  • @kaiden7063
    @kaiden70634 жыл бұрын

    Another great video

  • @stevenseta5312
    @stevenseta53123 жыл бұрын

    There is a slight inaccuracy with the date of the first appearance of complex multicellular life, the first complex multicellular organisms appeared close to 579,000,000 years ago during the Ediacaran, and later the first mollusks like Kimberella Quadrata would appear close to 558,000,000 years ago, also during the Ediacaran period, 635,000,000 years ago to 541,000,000 years ago.

  • @abdulrafay8412
    @abdulrafay84123 жыл бұрын

    I just watch ur videos for ur calming voice 🙂

  • @lipton3120
    @lipton31204 жыл бұрын

    What's the animal at 3:25? Its seemingly large gills amazed me. I would like to check it out.

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    Whale shark

  • @atomspalter2090
    @atomspalter20902 жыл бұрын

    Cool video!

  • @MrT_Rex
    @MrT_Rex4 жыл бұрын

    1:10 HOLLY JESUS, WTF IS THAT ?!

  • @lirima-hirumi

    @lirima-hirumi

    4 жыл бұрын

    *the forbidden fleshlight* with extra *succ* power

  • @ulink265

    @ulink265

    4 жыл бұрын

    The *succ* god

  • @wcdeich4
    @wcdeich44 жыл бұрын

    Very well made :) I agree, the placoderm jaw & the bony fish jaw & the cartilaginous fish jaw are not just convergent evolution! They definitely share common ancestry! But what if the armor on the placoderms was convergent? Like you said, they were incredibly diverse. And they were all under extreme selective pressure from ammonites & sea scorpions & even each other. So then heterostracans, osteostracans & placoderms may not be very close related. And the placoderms certainly have a preservation advantage. Whereas, with cartilaginous fish, sometimes all we have are a few placoid scales & we don't know if it was a shark, shark relative, or something else. So, the placoderms could have inherited their jaws from a cartilaginous ancestor that did not fossilize well.

  • @wcdeich4

    @wcdeich4

    4 жыл бұрын

    However!!!!!!!! Let me be fair --- the idea that modern bony fish are placoderms that lost their armor & cartilaginous fish are placoderms that lost their bulky armor & lost the calcium phosphate from their bones, does have the advantage of being most in line with the fossil evidence. It's just many experts think placoderms inheriting their jaws from a cartilaginous ancestor that did not fossilize well is more parsimonious - and that view point is certainly possible given the "poverty of the fossil record" - and the fossil record can be especially limited that far back in time. I am not an expert - I just study this stuff as a hobby & I try to appreciate both viewpoints.

  • @wcdeich4

    @wcdeich4

    4 жыл бұрын

    Also, you're absolutely correct, the end Devonian extinction was what did in the armored fish, not just competition from other fish. Part of that may be that all the giant sea scorpions went extinct so the, so they were no longer under so much selective pressure to be armored. And that does lend credibility to the idea that surviving placoderms lost their armor & gave rise to other fish. Whether placoderms passed down their jaw to both bony & cartilaginous fish, or only bony fish descend from placoderms & cartilaginous fish got the jaw from a common ancestor, or whether all 3 got the jaw from a common ancestor - I just don't know. Like I said, I am not an expert, so I just try to appreciate all the options.

  • @Ninth_Penumbra
    @Ninth_Penumbra3 жыл бұрын

    Makes me wonder how different things might have been had we descended from something marginally closer to *Dunkleosteus* (with it's extraordinary shearing jawbone extentions in place of teeth)..? Or if our body plans had been based round *Six Limbs* ( *Hexapodal* ) instead of *Four* ( *Tetrapodal* )..?

  • @ltchugacast131

    @ltchugacast131

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hexapod ecosystem is Pandora

  • @ALV5252

    @ALV5252

    2 жыл бұрын

    there would have been Angels and real dragons if the Hexapodal make-up was adopted.

  • @jamesgabor9284

    @jamesgabor9284

    2 жыл бұрын

    If ‘we’ ‘evolved’ from something ‘else’, I wouldn’t ‘think’ that ‘we’ would be considered us ‘anymore’, do ‘you’ know what I ‘mean’?

  • @Ninth_Penumbra

    @Ninth_Penumbra

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesgabor9284 Indeed. No more bipedal, dextrous, verbose, sociable, apes with hypertrophied brains... What other *Sapience* could develop to fill this niche? (Presuming that intellect & consciousness repeatedly develops - as the evidence suggests. Evolution has no end goal, after all.) We now know that at least 5 other cousin Primates developed both Sentience & Sapience - if profoundly different to *Homo Sapiens* *(Neanderthals, Denisovans* & another, as of yet unnamed branch of *Homo,* then our far more distant relatives, *Chimpanzees* & *Gorillas).* But then there are all the *_Sub-Sapients,_* organisms that are almost - but not quite - Sapient: *Canids, Felids, Ursids, Corvids, Orca, Dolphins* & (going back a ways) *Dromaeosaurs.* (Plus all those I've missed...) We were lucky enough to be land-dwellers, warm-blooded, bipedal, with the capacity to grap things with our hands, the metabolism that could handle such aa tremendously energy-hungry brain & our social structure that's stimulated verbal communication. *_If we could give some, or all, of these characteristics to these Sub-Sapients (through genetic engineering ⊚), what could we create..!?_* [ *_This concept is called "Uplift"_* ] ⊚ As _Scientifically Unethical_ as this would be...

  • @JoelJernbergPalm

    @JoelJernbergPalm

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jamesgabor9284 shut up

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking783 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating!!

  • @randomconsumer4494
    @randomconsumer44943 жыл бұрын

    Gettin' Learnt with MothLight.

  • @KapiteinKrentebol
    @KapiteinKrentebol Жыл бұрын

    1:08 Talking about surprised Pikachu face.

  • @bootyclap69k
    @bootyclap69k2 жыл бұрын

    3:56 why is that squid named Daniel Carter

  • @IanMott
    @IanMott3 жыл бұрын

    Well done

  • @altdelet3778
    @altdelet37783 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the jawbone fish

  • @monkeseeaction21987
    @monkeseeaction219874 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, jaws!

  • @vassa1972
    @vassa19723 жыл бұрын

    Interesting video

  • @northumbriabushcraft1208
    @northumbriabushcraft12084 жыл бұрын

    Wasn't expecting that parrotfish to get nommed outta nowhere by that massive flatfish, anyone know what it was, maybe a wobbegong?

  • @bucky145

    @bucky145

    3 жыл бұрын

    Some kind of angelshark I think

  • @vassa1972
    @vassa19723 жыл бұрын

    Cool stuff

  • @1yearago491
    @1yearago4912 жыл бұрын

    Can you do evolution of the backbone next? I think my husband missed that one.

  • @MalcolmCooks

    @MalcolmCooks

    Жыл бұрын

    girl get a divorce

  • @CJFreeza
    @CJFreeza4 жыл бұрын

    Hmmm now apply all of this to Helicorprion and see how that works. This video makes a great foundation for why Helicorprion is currently wrong.

  • @J05H241
    @J05H2412 жыл бұрын

    I was literally wondering this exactly and what do you know, Moth Light came to the rescue again.

  • @dreamcastboy1
    @dreamcastboy13 жыл бұрын

    If this guy isn't careful he'll end up being an ASMR Saint.

  • @kennethsatria6607
    @kennethsatria66074 жыл бұрын

    Its so weird to imagine being jawless

  • @CreateCleverKids
    @CreateCleverKids4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Love pre Mesozoic stuff.

  • @lassebirkhenriksen
    @lassebirkhenriksen2 жыл бұрын

    Ah, Ye.. my favorite animal. THE JAW BONE

  • @teamrredball
    @teamrredball3 жыл бұрын

    Should be ".. animals LEARNED to bite". Other than that headline error, the piece is, as always, excellent.

  • @regular-joe

    @regular-joe

    3 жыл бұрын

    Both acceptable and in common use: learned/learnt, leaped/leapt, dreamed/dreamt. There are others.

  • @spockamania
    @spockamania3 жыл бұрын

    Alternative title: Evolution of the Jaws of Life

  • @Bga1412
    @Bga1412 Жыл бұрын

    If a time machine ever gets created I'm calling the name Cambrian fishing charters right now

  • @injunsun
    @injunsun2 жыл бұрын

    Belissimo, as always. Bravo; please, continue. Yours is one of the best small channels I've found, where unlike so many others, I've never felt the need here to correct bad Latin pronunciations, or deal with someone's accent being so shite, one can barely tell what they're saying.

  • @mikel6668
    @mikel66683 жыл бұрын

    Just as interesting the second time as it was the first time

  • @tsaszymborska7389
    @tsaszymborska73894 жыл бұрын

    5:14 If placodermi were the ancestors of the other two, shouldn’t their picture be on the ‘T-crossing’ in the right side of the picture?

  • @pansepot1490

    @pansepot1490

    4 жыл бұрын

    Scientists never do that because there’s no way to be sure about direct ancestry. They think placoderm species they have fossils for were siblings or cousins of the actual placoderm that developed into bony and cartilaginous fish. For short we can say: “they were ancestors” but in reality the meaning is that “the actual ancestors (probably) were exactly or very similar to this species we have found”. That’s why they use that particular graphic format where the “ancestor” is not on the intersection of the branching.

  • @semitendinosus

    @semitendinosus

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@pansepot1490 damn, that's actually a very interesting side note and explanation for this. thank you

  • @I_Shotgun_Beers
    @I_Shotgun_Beers2 жыл бұрын

    It’s really strange to think that this fish is our ancestor.

  • @stuckylar
    @stuckylar3 жыл бұрын

    2:58 did anyone else laugh a little at this?

  • @dougthedonkey1805
    @dougthedonkey18054 жыл бұрын

    2:59 OH NO

  • @geefreck
    @geefreck Жыл бұрын

    1:10 when you meant to put sand in your snakes terrarium but accidentally poured cocaine

  • @jill3343
    @jill33432 жыл бұрын

    Learned.

  • @justsomeguygrowingabeard5897
    @justsomeguygrowingabeard58972 жыл бұрын

    I used to own a big book of dinosaurs and other ancient things. And it went from era to era from the very first thing, and now I can't find it anymore.

  • @dantonwatson3297
    @dantonwatson32972 жыл бұрын

    Can we just talk about how that fish in the opening of the vid looks sick

  • @nevaeHlHello
    @nevaeHlHello4 жыл бұрын

    Jaws are older than Trees

  • @ameliacrasman9955
    @ameliacrasman99554 жыл бұрын

    Where do you get the songs in these videos? I really enjoy this one What is the name of it?

  • @samsalamander8147
    @samsalamander81474 жыл бұрын

    We are all just modified fish

  • @drjelly9089

    @drjelly9089

    4 жыл бұрын

    Modified bacteria

  • @dani.lepore9410

    @dani.lepore9410

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@drjelly9089 modified Rna strands covered by membranes and proteins, that became two different lineages of cells, then one ate the other and they became a bigger cell that ended up bonding together with his siblings

  • @Dattebayo04

    @Dattebayo04

    3 жыл бұрын

    We don't descend from bacteria. We are Eukaryotes. Bacteria are Prokarotes. There is no ancestor/descendant relationship

  • @mansamusa933
    @mansamusa9334 жыл бұрын

    I taught it to my litten at lv15 shame it takes these Pokemon millions of years

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds85812 жыл бұрын

    Yeah well evolution should of done better so I didn't get trigeminal neuralgia TMJ nerve pinching. I literally had to get my jaw physically and manually relocated by a doctor because my TMJ joint slipped out of place and pinched my trigeminal nerves so badly I was a mess during this chapter of life. Luckily things have improved since that was done but I kind of have trauma that my jaw could get out of place again... It's literally a nightmare. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, not even bony jaw fish ❤️

  • @claudekingstan4084
    @claudekingstan40843 жыл бұрын

    Due to convergence evolution, all alien lifeforms will also have a jawbone. The reason is all predators have to eat and without a jaw to grab on to a prey, it will not survive to make offsprings.

  • @jextra1313

    @jextra1313

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's still possible for them to have squid beaks, lamprey discs, insect proboscises, or something else.

  • @jamesklark6562
    @jamesklark65624 жыл бұрын

    How did the tongue come to be?

  • @Mbderps
    @Mbderps3 жыл бұрын

    who else busted a laugh at 1:12? lol that face.

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards71422 жыл бұрын

    So Placoderms are the reason I only have the one pair of hands eh? And up to now I always liked them.