How Scorpions Became Earth’s Ultimate Survivors

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Scorpions have been terrorizing other creatures on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. They’ve evolved a perfect cocktail of venom that can mess up both predators and prey. But they are also an evolutionary marvel that could show us the way to some powerful new life-saving medicines.
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@fastmachines1 11 месяцев назад

Hey joe, smart people here!

@crablord7934 11 месяцев назад

Speak for yourself

@algernopkrieger7710 11 месяцев назад

Hey smart, Joe people here

@EfrLuviano 11 месяцев назад

Good One

@rameezsheikh7576 11 месяцев назад

Hey people, smart Joe here 😂

@Neekzu 11 месяцев назад

Joe mama is smart 😡

@llydrsn 11 месяцев назад

Shout out to the doctor who had the bravery to make experiments on a scorpion called "Death Stalker"

@vigilantice 11 месяцев назад

Shout out to the patients that agreed to have Death Stalker venom injected into their brains.

@egodeathwish 11 месяцев назад

shout out to all the Wanderers of the Mojave killed by monsters named after the Deathstalker scorpion

@stoatsarebetterthanbeavers 11 месяцев назад

@@egodeathwish man deathstalkers got nerfed so badly in later games breh. 😔

@szymonwojciechowski8513 11 месяцев назад

Ah yes the most deadly scorpion

@benkaiser766 8 месяцев назад

Dude that sounds like a boss from World of Warcraft.

@timhaldane7588 11 месяцев назад

On the topic of aggression, I've been an AZ resident almost my entire life and, in my experience, the bark scorpions out here are the boldest creatures in their size category, except maybe for wasps. While scorpions generally try to avoid humans, I like to say that they "take it very personally" if you try to kill them - it's a coin flip whether they will react by fleeing or flat out berserker running at you with weapons deployed and death in their tiny eyes.

@KonradvonHotzendorf 11 месяцев назад

😂😂😂🦂

@stefansneden1957 11 месяцев назад

Just wanna do more then like your post. Well done. Thanks for the info and the humor.

@Black-pq2iw 11 месяцев назад

Yikes

@mybackhurts7020 10 месяцев назад

I live in the Mojave I notice everything a little more aggressive The further east you get

@misterbrady100 10 месяцев назад

Sounds like they aggressively pursue the philosophy of 'Fight or flight'.

@francoislacombe9071 11 месяцев назад

Rule of thumb. The smaller and weaker a scorpion's pincers are, the more potent and dangerous its venom is.

@BugsandBiology 11 месяцев назад

Hemiscorpius lepturus is a big exception in that regard.

@johnpaulalbrecht7305 11 месяцев назад

So if those meters long scorpions still exist, you would rather get stung by it? Hahahaha

@theCRYSISgamer 11 месяцев назад

@@johnpaulalbrecht7305Nah, you dead either way lol

@SneakerBiscut 10 месяцев назад

So Indiana Jones was right

@catpoke9557 10 месяцев назад

@@johnpaulalbrecht7305 Those meter long ones weren't actually scorpions but the ancestors of them. They lacked stingers.

@megan00b8 10 месяцев назад

Honestly, scorpions don't get enough credit for their evolutionary design. Changing as little as possible is a clear signal of an exceptionally amazing template since it can not only survive in it's current certainly competitive niche, but is equally viable in new niches as the environment changes. I myself am guilty of giving lot of love to crocodiles for this, but failing to recognise the scorpions that are even older than crocs. From evolutionary standpoint they're both incredible considering how little they've changed in the literal hundreds of millions of years, surviving thousands of emvironmental changes that would have most species adapt or perish, and even numerous mass extinctions that had most species perish all at once. Also crabs. I absolutely adore crabs.

@thehellyousay 10 месяцев назад

The term "evolutionary design" is an oxymoron. Evolution is emergent. Only manufacture is by design.

@JoseAlvarezV 5 месяцев назад

@@thehellyousay I was about to type the same thing and I found your comment, lovely. I hate it when people say a species has a "design" design implies a designer... And I don't thing there is a designer to evolution

@SupaSneech 5 месяцев назад

@@JoseAlvarezV there is 1 of 2 possible 'designers' depending on your beliefs #1 is God #2 Environment (I say God idk about u)

@JoseAlvarezV 5 месяцев назад

@@SupaSneech Imagine one day, the water inside a pothole of the road, magically came alive, and it noticed that the hole around it perfectly fit it, it thinks to itself, wow, whoever made me, made everything here perfect for me, however we outside the pothole know, that is not the case, we know the pothole formed due to erosion, and cars traveling over it, and it filled with water, and then it became alive, the water exists because of the hole, not the hole because of the water, the universe is the pot hole, and everything in it, is the water. there was no designer it was a chain reaction, because even that environment was the reaction of a previous set of events , if you want to call it ad designer it's just semantics, but it does heavily implies one's beliefs (and no I don't believe in god)

@armyant9163 4 месяца назад

Gawwwwd damn

@scriptorpaulina 11 месяцев назад

Objection! Euripterids didn’t have book gills, which was why they struggled to leave the water! They actually evolved breathing air completely separately from their arachnid cousins. They are completely unrelated, or at least less related than spiders and scorpions (and euripterids and spider crabs)

@mpagirobin3805 11 месяцев назад

I think i can hear AronRa slightly smile because of this.

@willisfouts4838 11 месяцев назад

You are correct. I believe he’s leaning towards ‘entertainment’ programming. A slow regression away from facts and information, to dialogue and cartoons. Wait, I think this has been the normal since the get-go. Never mind the vocal fry …

@jtktomb8598 11 месяцев назад

@@willisfouts4838 I feel the same with some others science youtubers too ..

@ppizbig9146 11 месяцев назад

Yea those are spiracles I believe, but I think it was just an oversight really

@ppizbig9146 11 месяцев назад

They also explained the grasshopper mouse resistance wrong, I believe there’s a mutation that doesn’t allow (fit) the proteins scorpions use to effect the nervous system

@_ninthRing_ 11 месяцев назад

As someone who lives with Chronic Neuropathic Pain, I can tell you there absolutely were times I would take scorpion venom if it shut off the damn pain...

@Ceramic_Discs 11 месяцев назад

Just give it a try ❤

@MapacheOculto 10 месяцев назад

I'm with you my dude :c

@thetechnoking 10 месяцев назад

What medication do you take?

@thenextbondvillainklaussch3266 10 месяцев назад

@@thetechnoking As some one with the same pain issue , it would be quicker to ask what we dont take lol. Mine is from FMS , and a busted Disc (L5 - S1) , but alot of people get Nerve pain as a result of Diabetes complications or from other serious injuries.

@fuzzyhair321 9 месяцев назад

There's been studies looking at venom to actually help this issue

@dugldoo 11 месяцев назад

A few years ago I was in Honduras helping build a kids’ summer camp. While sleeping I felt a mousy thing crawl across my chest and went to whisk it off . . . Wham!! . . . the worst sting I ever felt. I jumped up, looked around. Sitting on my left shoulder was a scorpion bigger than my palm. I shook it off and thankfully didn’t get stung again. The unlucky scorpion ended up in a bottle of alcohol. The burning pain stayed with me for hours, but locals assured me that it wouldn't make me sick, and it didn't. But I understand there are plenty of scorpions that can send ya across the river.

@jtktomb8598 11 месяцев назад

Plenty but not that many, about 10% of species or less

@segfault- 11 месяцев назад

Wait why did it end up in a bottle of alcohol? Lol.

@dugldoo 11 месяцев назад

@@jtktomb8598 Well, you're right ... not many. I checked several reliable sources: just a couple dozen species all around the world.

@dugldoo 11 месяцев назад

@@segfault- Actually a good question ... so if I did get sick the species could be identified in case antivenom were necessary.

@David_Fellner 11 месяцев назад

@@dugldooAnd here I was thinking it was used as a decoration for some specific type of liquor. But saving it for identification later is probably a better reason.

@McPilch 11 месяцев назад

Definitely misunderstood!!! Funnily enough, the same day this video came out, I welcomed two new additions to my scorpion family, a couple of Aussie rainforest scorplings! So tiny and ADORABLE!!! 🥰🦂

@tobiasedwards2643 11 месяцев назад

Eurypterids weren’t that closely related to scorpions and the largest known Eurypterid was Jaekelopterus which so far the largest of them were 8.2 feet long whereas 5 meters is the same as 16.4 feet.

@Makabert.Abylon 11 месяцев назад

Paused the vid as soon as she said it and was searching for this comment. Either your comment was lost or cranky people dislike the comment as they dont know better.

@tobiasedwards2643 11 месяцев назад

@@Makabert.Abylon yeah the Eurypterids were closer to horseshoe crabs than to arachnids which is funny because horseshoe crabs are closer to arachnids than to true crabs.

@lobachevscki 10 месяцев назад

I had the same doubt and all the sources I could gather point to Eurypterids being the closest we understand as an ancestors of both Arachnids and Limulides. It is not a settled issue but no source I could find suggests otherwise based in our current data. Just as an observation: you can't say (as said in the comments) something like 'Eurypterids were closer to horseshoe crabs (Limulides)' (in the context of ancestry) and then say 'horsheshoe crabs are closely related to arachnids' and not immediately conclude that Eurypterids should then be close related to Arachnids. That doesnt make the sentence true but it is a weird phrasing. All the mentioned lineages are Chelicerata Arthropods and, again, the current understanding seems to be Eurypterids contains the common ancestor. Do you have any newer source that points to what you are stablishing?

@tobiasedwards2643 10 месяцев назад

@@lobachevscki No I don’t but you’re right I could’ve worded that better.

@theprehistorichubert9448 7 месяцев назад

Thank u for making this comment

@patrickstar1164 11 месяцев назад

I am so happy these explanations are animated to be accessible for my 2 digit IQ brain

@wasd3108 11 месяцев назад

especially the milking the scorpion one, would've never had the idea how they would do it

@Jebu911 2 месяца назад

Meanwhile i wish it was all just talked so i can just listen to these

@lorencalfe6446 11 месяцев назад

‘younger than the mountains older than the trees’ I never knew scorpions have so much in common with country roads!

@muneebmuhamed43 4 месяца назад

Older than the trees comes first ...

@Schockmetamorphose 11 месяцев назад

1. Today's scorpions don't descend from euripterids, they are part of a sister group (arachnids). The euripterid line died out a long time ago. 2. Euripterids definitely did not get up to 5 meters big, only around 2.5 in the biggest species. In general, good video tho!

@abeham1078 11 месяцев назад

Thankyou for this, I was confused as why they decided to keep that in

@maartendj2724 11 месяцев назад

Ideed, euripterids weren't really scorpions. The largests known scorpions were brontoscorpio (primarely aquatic) and pulmonoscorpius (terrestrial), both being just shy of 1 meter long.

@lobachevscki 10 месяцев назад

I had the same doubt and all the sources I could gather point to Eurypterids being the closest we understand as an ancestors of both Arachnids and Limulides. It is not a settled issue but no source I could find suggests otherwise based in our current data. All the mentioned lineages are Chelicerata Arthropods and, again, the current understanding I could find seems to be Eurypterids contains the common ancestor. Do you have something newer i can read? Thanks

@rkozakand 11 месяцев назад

At 4"15, when referencing rain forests, you show an image of a Vinagaroon, which is NOT a scorpion. [technically, Eurypterids were not really scorpions either]

@stax6092 11 месяцев назад

Scorpions are to me, the coolest animals in the world. Also, the way they look under UV light isn't unnatural, they've been doing that longer than we've been a species. It's more natural than a lot of things. Possibly even Proto-Natural. ;)

@jtktomb8598 11 месяцев назад

The current theory is that it helps them get away from the light by the way

@theflyingdutchguy9870 11 месяцев назад

some look like that under UV. but not all of them. they are super cool animals tho.

@jtktomb8598 11 месяцев назад

@@theflyingdutchguy9870 All scorpions glow under UV but they are not all the same color yeah

@jakel8627 11 месяцев назад

They unlocked the glowing at night perk because they got the 1 million kill streak.

@max3eey 11 месяцев назад

Funny aromatic groups

@talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426 10 месяцев назад

I've lived in Mexico almost three years. In the Yucatan, I regularly found scorpions in my house. Lots of overhanging trees. Recently, I moved to the Central Highlands and on my first night in this city, I got out of bed and immediately stepped on a scorpion. It wasn't as painful as I expected but it was shocking. I left the lights on every night in that Airbnb until I moved to a different one.

@erictaylor5462 11 месяцев назад

I once found a huge scorpion in my prosthetic leg. It nearly landed on my foot, and I only have one of those!

@Zahri8Alang 11 месяцев назад

Honey Badgers: "Pain? Venom? Whats that?"

@alissonribeiro9057 10 месяцев назад

Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze

@jebjim9391 11 месяцев назад

So, scorpion venom is like hot sauce for those mice

@bartmannn6717 11 месяцев назад

One night, a scorpion the size of the palm of my hand found a new home in my shoe. The sting between my toes after putting my foot inside really was something. Because of the venom, for one day my fingertips were numb and I had problems standing up and walking (sometimes, me knees would just give away). But worse than all of that was the one second _before_ the sting, when I felt some weird tingling at my toes. I still don't get it how my entire foot and this beast of a scorpion could fit into the same shoe at the same time.

@dugldoo 11 месяцев назад

Where do you live?

@bartmannn6717 11 месяцев назад

@@dugldoo That happened in southern Mexico, in a humid, (sub)tropical climate. I was on vacation - if I've lived there, I certainly would have known how to prevent that from ever happening. 🤷‍♂

@igguka 7 месяцев назад

Insane episode, dr. Joe

@Ben-xf7uy 11 месяцев назад

Grew up in Utah and was lizard hunting on our farm. We had these rocky cliffs that had thousands of scorpions. I got stung when i was age 10 flipping rocks and thought i was going to die haha. I felt a little naseaus and had a head ache for a few hours but then i was fine the next day. Its actually what got me into animals as a kid. I thought maybe that meant i was special and going to be the Scorpion King haha. Still love learning new thi gs about animals

@cavemann_ 10 месяцев назад

Blud is going to become the Scorpion King with the stingiest sting across the pokey world LMAO

@MrKimsan1111 9 месяцев назад

right there

@HerrPoopschitz 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating animals. Roommate had one in college. Id wiggle my finger in front of him and he’d gently pinch it, and would climb up in my hand when Id present my palm. Would walk around parties we threw w/ him on my shoulder and freak people out. Not sure if others have had similar experiences w/ them…I found ours to be very docile and surprisingly fun to watch and interact with.

@balleraap007 3 месяца назад

Lmfaoo the chill scorpion

@benperth9508 10 месяцев назад

Love your content dude!

@thomasmann3560 4 месяца назад

Sick video. Need more!

@BoogieManFL 11 месяцев назад

I've been fascinated by scorpions since I was a kid. But had an accidental close encounter with one that I didn't know it was there and it stung me in the thigh. I believe was a Florida Bark Scorpion. It was surprisingly painful, but quickly wore off. To replicate that kind of feeling in a way that one can probably easily imagine, would be like having a hypodermic needle filled with a small amount of boiling water and having it injected into to you. Apparently that kind of scorpion isn't all that venomous, yet it hurt that much. It made me think how nasty it must be for their prey, to be injected with a much larger dose relative to body size.

@_ninthRing_ 11 месяцев назад

While there certainly are several species of excruciatingly painfully envenomed Scorpions in Australia, shockingly, we don't seem to have any lethal ones...

@michaelmedlinger6399 11 месяцев назад

How is that possible? Australia otherwise has the deadliest representatives of any venomous creature! 😂

@_ninthRing_ 11 месяцев назад

@@michaelmedlinger6399 I know, right? It's a shock to me & I live here...

@76rjackson 10 месяцев назад

Wouldn't surprise me if you had lethal cockroaches down under! Everything else seems to be...

@_ninthRing_ 10 месяцев назад

@@76rjackson Nah, not any that're toxic to humans. Though we do have giant Whistling Queensland Cockroaches which people put collars on & keep as pets.

@kaitlyn__L 6 месяцев назад

@@_ninthRing_ I was wondering if this was a joke, but no, wow. They don't look too dissimilar from some large beetles actually. Interesting. I'd heard regular size cockroaches hissing as a child in an entomologist presentation, but I imagine the big'uns are louder!

@LeeLong 11 месяцев назад

Awesome Video!

@Amocles 8 месяцев назад

"Most scorpions can fit in the palm of your hand..." ... most?!?!

@OnionChoppingNinja 10 месяцев назад

Let's face it, Scorpions being one of the first creatures to evolve when the Phanerozoic eon began 600 million years ago still being around today, it's safe to assume they'll be one of the last to go extinct when this eon comes to a crushing end in a billion years or so.

@Scraggledust 11 месяцев назад

I want to start milking scorpions… supposedly really lucrative! Been stung by scorpions. It’s like putting salt on an open wound, then burning it with a blow torch. Oh, also stung by a huge, B52 bumblebee. Hurt worse to me, then the scorpions

@theflyingdutchguy9870 11 месяцев назад

i dont know if its sustainable in any way. milking snakes is already not super effective as it takes a lot of snakes to make a single vile of anti venin. and a scorpion would give a lot less. altho it is less dangerous working with them than with some of the deadly venomous snakes

@LordCharizard98 11 месяцев назад

this was a very intresting episode I really learned something today

@TehutiofNewKmt 10 месяцев назад

I thoroughly enjoyed this!

@Joe___R 10 месяцев назад

A 16' scorpion would be absolutely terrifying. I am very glad they have shrunk down so far now. Even though the smaller ones generally have the most powerful venom.

@viviansytsui 11 месяцев назад

Honestly it's kinda crazy mouse vs scorpion was the last thing I expected. xD

@creamu2roblox 11 месяцев назад

Another well done video :)

@betta_lic 11 месяцев назад

that was great, thanks!

@psykkomancz 11 месяцев назад

Scorpio on a date at 5:11 had me in stitches :D

@fisheye42 10 месяцев назад

Ditto. “Scorpio” on a date. Too funny.

@SlimThrull 10 месяцев назад

Dr. Esposito was a great interview. Very knowledgeable and never once did I think she was talking down to the audience (which can sometimes happen with experts). Hope you'll have her back for future episodes.

@daleowens7695 8 месяцев назад

Yeah, she radiated interest and enthusiasm in an approachable way.

@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 5 месяцев назад

No… shes a sketchy california inhabitant

@nabongobong9155 11 месяцев назад

The glow of those scorpions, they're just so unnatural and out of this world Man the chills...

@amanakjjain3279 11 месяцев назад

I just love this channel ❤

@NewMessage 11 месяцев назад

As a scorpio, I feel seen today.

@paulmatolsy4593 11 месяцев назад

Great channel, Joe!😁👍

@neotech3955 11 месяцев назад

Hey joe here, today I want you to make your little brain about scorpions into mega brains

@eelmimbo 11 месяцев назад

I have no clue what this means but hell yeah I wanna be mega brains

@cursedcat6467 8 месяцев назад

7:51 we digest our food outside our food for us, it’s called cooking

@littledreamerrem7021 11 месяцев назад

I'm glad this video can help people appreciate the beauty that is the scorpion. They look scary, but that's one of their charms! By the way...did you know there are scorpions in Tennessee? We've got two species. You see them more in the mountains, but it's easy enough to find them near to Music City if you know where to look.

@ThW5 10 месяцев назад

Yes, we do... Tenessee in a state of the USA which is not a) Alaska or b) North Eastern ConUS, so there are scorpions... Hawaii has no native scorpions, but an introduced pantropic species can be found there.

@mistywhite277 9 месяцев назад

Joe you are the best! 🤗🤍 love learning from you!

@kevin-jd5rj 11 месяцев назад

I'm surprised you didn't mention Pallid bats, they are also resistant to scorpion venom like the mice and we have them in California too :) go cal academy! I hope you got a world class tour of the facility , it's a really cool museum!

@dantheman9784 9 месяцев назад

Ya to the Deathstalker scorpion. Makes me feel good about keeping one as a pet!

@wasd3108 11 месяцев назад

cool interviewee

@dennis_mihaylov 11 месяцев назад

I've had no idea how cool and useful scorpions are!

@justinblin 11 месяцев назад

What happened to the “it’s okay” part of being smart?

@Stierenkloot 11 месяцев назад

Doesn't roll off the tongue enough

@zeynaviegas5043 9 месяцев назад

i love hwo this was filmed, she looks like so defensive lmao the most aggressive interview posture I've seen

@alexfolfy1657 4 месяца назад

it is always worth it to watch till the last seconds of the video, that might be the best part.

@louislopez55 11 месяцев назад

I’ll try to keep all this in mind when I go out and hunt them with my black light and hammer. (Only around my house) One night recently I got 16, and they are all the dangerous bark scorpion. You do not want to be stung by one of them, it’s like a red-hot nail stuck in you, and there nothing you can do about it. (For some people and children there is an anti-venom)

@ianmacfarlane1241 11 месяцев назад

"only around your house" You had me worried - I thought you were obliterating your neighbour's scorpions.

@bethn2836 11 месяцев назад

In college, we used to go outside and see how many scorpions we could find. We found like 35 outside my husband’s apartment once. We left them alone, for the most part (sometimes we’d trap one and try to find bugs for it to hunt, usually didn’t work). They’re pretty common in rural Arizona where I grew up, and most people I know have been stung at least once. I don’t think bark scorpions are life threatening for most people, but boy does it suck if you get stung.

@McPilch 11 месяцев назад

Well, hopefully one gets you bad, as it is the least you deserve..... 😠

@_ninthRing_ 11 месяцев назад

It's a good thing they're not cannibalistic, or smashing them would just attract more... ...They aren't, are they..!?

@idraote 11 месяцев назад

@@McPilch I hope at least ten gets YOU bad, that's both for the comment and the "better than thou" attitude

@anthonyfrench3169 11 месяцев назад

This has been one of my favorite episodes. I really enjoy how much fun the team had making this, had me learning and cracking up the whole time!!

@jakel8627 11 месяцев назад

The Scorpion is that kid with 2 pistols in each hand and bazooka strapped to his pack. He ain't f'ing round

@happysaladd8951 Месяц назад

These guys survived multiple mass extinction, moved from the sea and started adapting life on land and most of all, their physical apparances still remains the same since millenia ago which little has changed. They're such badass

@ZedaZ80 11 месяцев назад

The animations were fantastic on this!

@kateymcintosh6484 11 месяцев назад

I was thinking the same thing!!!

@jakerubino3233 11 месяцев назад

Love my scorpions and centipedes. Have kept them for years. Both have similar stories as far as being incredibly ancient. Research on the chemical makeup of the venom from Scolopendra Morsitans has shown components that are thought to be from bacterial and fungal genes that have been horizontally transferred by microorganisms throughout their evolutionary history. Uniquely too!

@Eric1396 11 месяцев назад

The animation was top notch!

@hackedbyBLAGH 4 месяца назад

Great video

@CZpersi 11 месяцев назад

If you think that scorpions look scary, you have not seen solifugae - fascinating group of arachnids, which looks somewhat like scorpions without their poisonous tail, but have very long legs and are excellent runners. They are not dangerous to humans, but finding one in your tent is a pretty good jumpscare. I saw them first in my life in Morocco in the desert. Bedouins call them "wind spiders" since they are most active during windy nights. Common English term is "Camel Spider". They are not poisonous, but their fighting and hunting skills are legendary.

@pameladaley955 11 месяцев назад

I'm curious about the filming technique in which a 2nd photographer is filming Joe while he films the subject (and Joe is often looking at his lens instead of the subject). Why is this done? It's distracting, appears to disrespect the subject, and - mostly - why? It is as if you are deemphasizing the interviewee!

@Stierenkloot 11 месяцев назад

It's just trendy hip and cool

@TimForber69 4 месяца назад

I love these videos

@rickkwitkoski1976 11 месяцев назад

Got stung by one once. I think that it was a very juvenile one. Didn't feel anything... Until a few minutes later and WHAM my foot was hurting!

@theflyingdutchguy9870 11 месяцев назад

thats the defensive purpose. to make you feel like you are in pain while nothing bad is really going on. it gives your nerves the illusion your foot is on fire😅

@toseecrapyvideos 11 месяцев назад

A good example why basic research can never be questioned at face value. You never know what may pop out of it

@MrBigTimeChiller 11 месяцев назад

Think about the double genome concept as having two kidneys. You can use up one of them without dying. That’s why it helps them survive so well

@dpcnreactions7062 11 месяцев назад

Hey Joe, sometimes I get you mixed up with Hank Green from SciShow but I am working on correctly that now!

@adriansanchez915 10 месяцев назад

We love scorpions here! I didn’t know they glow under UV light. That’s really cool

@clivematthews95 11 месяцев назад

Great video Scorpions 🦂 are fascinating, they’re even found in Fallout which means they also survived the nuclear war 😊

@eeyorehaferbock7870 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, except those ones are huge, extremely damage-resistant, and can kill you pretty quickly with their stingers. Not to mention exceedingly fast both on and above ground. So definitely not something you really want to run into without power armor and/or an extremely powerful weapon you can use at close range.

@clivematthews95 9 месяцев назад

@@eeyorehaferbock7870 now you make me wanna play Fallout 4, all over again 😭 Love your comment

@eeyorehaferbock7870 9 месяцев назад

@@clivematthews95 hey, I’ve been wanting on more than one occasion for a while now to replay it myself. Only problem is, I have no idea how long it’ll take for me to get an optimal gaming PC setup, and I’ve only ever wanted to play it on PC precisely because of the endless modding capabilities.

@amandaburnham8626 10 месяцев назад

I live in south Georgia and I made it to 30 before I found out that scorpions live here! Honestly never saw one growing up, and my dad does pest control so I thought I would have seen one. Had to check a glue board in someone's garage to find one! It was tiny, but clearly a scorpion. Found a couple more since in similar situations. Usually out in wooded areas, not well developed.

@Varphi_ 10 месяцев назад

We saw a lot of small ones growing up in the woods around Athens ga!

@g0dzilla5 11 месяцев назад

The visual gags this episode are next level

@danpritchett1394 10 месяцев назад

First episode I've watched. If they're all this good you have a new subscriber

@cornflakes1494 10 месяцев назад

My husband grew up at south of tunisia, in sahara desert. They had big black scorpions that could fly. Flight would be usualy around 5-6 meters. Last time he has seen one flying was some 32 years ago and it is belived it is exterminated because his grandma was telling him that when she was young they had them a lot.

@adriansolis5362 11 месяцев назад

My wife suffers from chronic pain and can't get the medication she needs because 1) the US healthcare system and 2) the so called "opioid crisis" that is resulting in many people unable to get the help they need just because a few bad actors want to get high. I hope this research proves to be fruitful as well as economical because it would solve the main concern in my wife's daily life: to feel like a normal human without spending $15,000 a year on alternative pain relief medicine.

@vinnyv981 11 месяцев назад

Wowwwww amazing stuff Joe.. I changed my mind about scorpions too.. love all the jokes 🤣🤣🤣 keep em coming 😂❤

@dianadavis5002 11 месяцев назад

Love your version of the song

@Sushi33312 11 месяцев назад

I have pet scorpions. (Two olive flat-rocks, but I used to breed gracilis) and even had fat tails. Spiders are smart and beautiful!

@violetlight1548 11 месяцев назад

I knew there was a reason why I always tame Scorpids (giant scorpions the size of wolves) on my hunters in World of Warcraft, other than they look cool. They really are amazing arachnids! I'm surprised you didn't mention a couple other cool things about them. Most (if not all) scorpions give birth to live young, and the mother carries her babies around on her back.

@duhduhvesta 5 месяцев назад

Thank you

@tylermacdonald8924 9 месяцев назад

The smouldering fire from that burn 🔥

@aanchaallllllll 9 месяцев назад

1:34: 🦂 Scorpions have been around for 450 million years and were originally sea creatures before becoming amphibious. 3:27: ! Scorpions have a successful unchanged body plan and can be found in various habitats around the world. 6:19: 🦂 Scorpion venom is highly evolved to disrupt nervous systems and contains a complex cocktail of neurotoxins and enzymes. 9:08: 🦂 Scorpion venom holds potential for pain relief and brain cancer treatment. 12:35: 🦂 Scorpion venom is being used to develop a tumor paint that helps in treating brain cancer. Recap by Tammy AI

@troy3456789 11 месяцев назад

@10:47 that mouse just has to avoid being stung in the eyeball!

@robmack4986 7 месяцев назад

Shoutout to Dr. Esposito! What a well spoken and interesting person!

@Kittysniffer 11 месяцев назад

The graphics are amazing lol.

@marvelboy4life341 11 месяцев назад

Im watching this get a better understanding of my worst fear scorpions

@eldraque4556 10 месяцев назад

Doc Lauren Rocks!

@JayKobz 10 месяцев назад

“Over the top” was genius

@craigbrown5359 4 месяца назад

Most outstanding!!!

@yoweath157 10 месяцев назад

editor did a great job with this

@neotech3955 11 месяцев назад

1:38 for real scared the heck out of me, joe are you doing horror films now?

@bobhappy991 4 месяца назад

They are great designs

@AaronEmerald 11 месяцев назад

Wow she is extremely knowledgeable!!

@erniemathews5085 11 месяцев назад

I had a tarantula for a pet, but I always give scorpions all the space they want.

@lesleyghostdragon3149 8 месяцев назад

Doctor Joe's outtakes at the end👏😂💖

@DADTHEFATHER 10 месяцев назад

Hey joe. Ed here im 42. I love this channel PBS has always been me and my dads favorites channel since i was a smart boy. Just wondering if yall could do one of these about one of my favorite animals the fascinating pig and hog. Keep up the great work and research. -Ed👍🏾