The Evolution of Flying Fish

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Flying fish are heavily specialised creatures having undergone many changes in body shape and behaviour to leap from the see and glide. So how did something so complex evolve?
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@hamouz1999 5 месяцев назад

where is the intro 😢😢😢

@CaptLuser 5 месяцев назад

maybe he’s just working on a new one but that’s still no excuse for depriving us of it now

@bob1234881 5 месяцев назад

On the other clips. 😀

@Noam-Bahar 5 месяцев назад

He forgor

@alveolate 5 месяцев назад

whole video feels weird without the amphibian splash T_T

@Zveebo 5 месяцев назад

It wasn’t on the last one either - maybe he’s decided to drop it 😥

@JunoDiovonaDemihof 5 месяцев назад

Fish flew before any bird flew on our planet! BRILLIANT and fascinating.

@jornahpee 5 месяцев назад

what is this emoji

@JunoDiovonaDemihof 5 месяцев назад

@@jornahpee оh, I am subscribed to "no commercials" on RU-vid, I think/believe it gives me a whole array of extra emojis... like:. ... can you see all of them?

@6Pope9 5 месяцев назад

That is not that mindblowing given that the life in water is far more old than life on land that evolved flying.

@JunoDiovonaDemihof 5 месяцев назад

@@6Pope9 I wrote: brilliant and fascinating, where did you find "mind-blowing" in my comment? Obviously, life on earth developed underwater initially. But, did you know that 65 million years ago there were flying fish? I did not. take care

@ketsuekikumori9145 5 месяцев назад

Well less flying and more long jumping with style.

@MrT_Rex 5 месяцев назад

Just the fact that flying fishes exist...this is a masterpiece of evolution

@SoulDelSol 5 месяцев назад

We should breed super human fish-like soldiers. What could go wrong

@mhdfrb9971 5 месяцев назад

Easy food for the seagulls

@robertstone9988 5 месяцев назад

Is it really any more strange than bird that swims?

@timoteusduplooy7563 5 месяцев назад

GOD CREATED THEM, THEY DIDNT EVOLVE

@alexdavis1541 5 месяцев назад

What about the flying lizards, and even flying snakes, of Indonesia?

@loopernoodling 5 месяцев назад

As a teenager hitching round Europe a very long time ago, me and a friend were paddling on a beach in (then) Yugoslavia when a shoal of small fish came towards us, all leaping out of the water at the same time. We ran back to the shore - coming from the Midlands of rainy old UK, we'd never seen anything like it! I'm sure others on the beach had a good laugh at our expense.

@tangerinetangerine4400 4 месяца назад

Such a cool experience. Thanks for sharing!

@plumpengu 5 месяцев назад

i think it’s so interesting how similar flying fish funds fins are to insect wings like mantids or stick insects. at least superficially

@BeTheGr8 5 месяцев назад

That soothing, informative voice ❤

@Splarkszter 5 месяцев назад

🤤

@HandsomeLad69 5 месяцев назад

Me likey

@mikedergz6163 4 месяца назад

It's Italian

@ArcadeTheatre 5 месяцев назад

Fish are so cool. I wish they were real.

@user-fm6cf1tk1t 5 месяцев назад

Sorry babe new moth light video just dropped, can't come over rn

@Vikface1978 5 месяцев назад

Watch it together? 😂

@LDSG_A_Team 5 месяцев назад

One of the finest channels on the platform

@markb6978 5 месяцев назад

New Moth Light! Always happy to see the notification.

@nelsonngcebetsha3127 4 месяца назад

am I the only one who thinks this man voice is soothing? I play these when I'm about to sleep

@MarktheRude 5 месяцев назад

This is really stupid but can you bring back the intro? Intro was comfy and it just somehow feels off when there is no intro.

@TheAutobotPower 5 месяцев назад

Consider the Flish, 200 million years in the future.

@PalaeoJoe 4 месяца назад

I am so happy somebody referenced The Future Is Wild

@jfu5222 5 месяцев назад

If I ever found myself swimming in the middle of the ocean, I would want to get the hell out of there too.

@xMotherOfDragonsx 2 месяца назад

This made me laugh 🤣

@fishfightgo6559 5 месяцев назад

This gave me a idea what if in a alien world that is covered with islands and highly active volcanoes causing most islands to be created and destroyed in a daily bases, the aquatic life evolves to fly before evolving to walk on land.

@_Wombat 5 месяцев назад

or just a completely ocean world with no land - that would force the only two environments to be the ocean and the sky.

@kokroucz 5 месяцев назад

Good video moth. Flying fish is crazy topic I tackled once. It's crazy to think it happened more than once and species we see today are not exactly closely related

@artofescapism 4 месяца назад

Flying fish are such funny little weirdos, and I love them. It's really fascinating to get a glimpse into their evolutionary history. Thank you!

@Fossil_Blade 4 месяца назад

Fish: im evolving wings to escale predators! Bird: 🤫🧏

@forgotten1s 5 месяцев назад

This has been a massive question of mine forever

@tomrock6431 5 месяцев назад

one of the most incredible animals on Earth yet, there is not much vids on them :( Great vid guys

@bobmorgan476 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, this was a fascinating, informative, and well produced video. I’m a tropical fish hobbyist that has kept two unrelated species of freshwater “flying”/gliding fish, the African butterfly fish, Pantodon buchholzi, and the silver or platinum hatchetfish, Thoracocharax stellatus. Freshwater hatchetfish have the distinction of being the only fish capable of powered flight, buzzing their pectoral fins fast enough to keep them aloft for almost 4 meters. Not bad for a 7cm fish!

@MrWackozacko 4 месяца назад

Thats awesome i had never heard of those fish. I just finished a new aquaponics system and was thinking about Archer fish in some tanks. Do you have them in regular glass tanks, do they fly out?

@natquesenberry6368 4 месяца назад

I once had an African butterfly fish. Possibly the most interesting fish I ever kept.

@watsonwrote 5 месяцев назад

Note: There's a typo in the description "see" should be "sea." Love your videos!

@zoltanperei4789 5 месяцев назад

Do crabs think fish can fly? Do common fish think flying fish is an astronaut?

@SIK_Mephisto 5 месяцев назад

Some crabs can swim

@jonnyqwst 5 месяцев назад

@@SIK_Mephistoyeah well dolphins used to drive cars

@Zveebo 5 месяцев назад

Babe, wake up - Moth Light Media has just dropped another absolute banger

@nazzkid23 5 месяцев назад

this was SUCH a great and informative video, flying fish are so slept on! 🐟💙

@objective_psychology 4 месяца назад

The flying halfbeaks are a perfect example of *parallel* evolution, not just convergent: independently developing similar innovations from the same genetic starting point in their common ancestor. Some of their preexisting features predisposed them long-term to specializing in “flight”.

@dronesclubhighjinks 5 месяцев назад

Already the first minute of this video was already more interesting than anything I’ve seen in weeks! 🤯 This channel is remarkable. Thank you very much for the video! 🙏🌊🐟 Edit: clarity

@jdpower9032 5 месяцев назад

Imagine the first person who saw one of these. Nobody would’ve believed it.

@maxcasteel2141 5 месяцев назад

Forever one of my favorite evolution youtubers. I feel like I've learned so much from you, especially when I first started my journey into learning about the history of life, which has massively shaped my worldview since then.

@leviathan6220 5 месяцев назад

I'd love to see an episode about flying squid

@issa9322 5 месяцев назад

Babe wake up new mothlight media posted

@jornahpee 5 месяцев назад

moth light media is the fucking best

@charlieross-BRM 12 дней назад

I remember my mother describing being on a ship and seeing "flying fish." I wasn't likely even 8 years old so my imagine was off the rails trying to picture what she was describing. It's one of those mom/son things that stuck with me. She was a British nurse officer being transported around Africa to reach India during WWII. She had many short anecdotes about her experiences in India. I'm sure I only heard the good ones. Every time I see a nature show with flying fish I think of that.

@Lizardboy-111 5 месяцев назад

They loved during the triassic?! Wow i guess you learn something new every day

@schizophrenic_rambler 5 месяцев назад

Can fish love?

@christopherfeatherley 5 месяцев назад

In the video, it explains modern day flying fishes aren't closely related to the ones in the Triassic ones. It's another case of convergent evolution. Still, it's pretty neat to see this particular niche occur again!

@macaconheiro 5 месяцев назад

@@schizophrenic_rambler It seems someone never watched Finding Nemo

@AnkanBob 5 месяцев назад

great evolution boys

@user-kt8yp5ho2y 5 месяцев назад

Please make an evolution of paddlefish and eel.

@Funkiotologist 5 месяцев назад

I love how obscure you get with some of these topics. Keep up the great work bro! ❤

@WaterShowsProd 5 месяцев назад

I see that Thoracopteridae also have the convergent pronunciation anomoly with "helicopter" where "ptera" has been split and the silent P becoming pronounced, so rather than being read as Thoraco-pteridae, it becomes Thora-cop-teridae. There's a linguistic word for that, but I can't remember what it is. Anyway, fascinating video as always. My sister-in-law was on a research ship and encountered schools of flying fish off the coast of Africa.

@bramstedt8997 5 месяцев назад

First time I watch each new video, I have to be careful to not watch it in bed. I want all the facts but I also rewatch them to help fall asleep

@lauravansanten7804 5 месяцев назад

Good to know I'm not the only one doing this!! Hahaha

@LimeyLassen 5 месяцев назад

The research on this is impressive. But so is the production! This is holistically good content.

@DeclanDG 5 месяцев назад

They are truly always a delight to see on the water. Never gets old. Love your work Moth Light!

@benbowland 4 месяца назад

Please please please bring back your intro! It’s so nice

@toxicperson8936 5 месяцев назад

You’re videos are always the best. They get me thinking about things I’ve never really thought about. The idea of a fish gliding above the water for almost full minute blows my mind. I assumed they just kind of jumped out of the water for a second or 2, then jumped in. So fascinating. Would love to hear you speak about sea snakes or sea turtles, as their the only marine reptiles still around. As well as manatees or the siren family in general.

@CMZneu 5 месяцев назад

You are forgetting marine iguanas and saltwater crocodiles(kinda).

@toxicperson8936 5 месяцев назад

@@CMZneu both of those don’t spend most of their time in the ocean though

@CMZneu 5 месяцев назад

@@toxicperson8936 Neither do polar bears or many pinnipeds yet they are still considered marine mammals, hell marine iguanas probably go into the ocean more times a day than walruses.

@jodo7814 3 месяца назад

Oldest living gliding animal with a backbone. The real airforce 1.

@pblobster4936 5 месяцев назад

Up next, Evolution of the Flying Squid

@Grrrr3FKAGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr 3 месяца назад

This is my favourite palaeontology channel

@jss1121 5 месяцев назад

The idea that these fishes may share the skies with birds in a couple millions of years is kinda funny

@ThePhysicalReaction 5 месяцев назад

Did you know some birds, despite not having gills like a fish, learned to swim? A modern swimming bird is the penguin, who can hold their farts for 45 minutes, and are unable to remove their tuxedos without dying.

@omnius1357 5 месяцев назад

brilliant!

@jasiucasic 4 месяца назад

🤥

@theoteddy9665 4 месяца назад

what about fe a duck?🤷it can swim...

@thegoblin9387 5 месяцев назад

Lets GOOOOO, I had always hoped you'd release a video on flying fish...

@Cheesepuff8 5 месяцев назад

Imagine if they evolved to fly out the water and almost never go back in I guess by convergently evolving similar traits to Swifts and insects like Mayflies

@ExtremeMadnessX 5 месяцев назад

Future is Wild.

@m136dalie 5 месяцев назад

Another great video. Love the style and the content

@TheWildlifeBrothers 5 месяцев назад

This was fascinating, and your information is top notch.

@Forbiddenzone80 5 месяцев назад

I love you're videos, keep it up. you inspired me to go into ecology.

@kotarojujo2737 5 месяцев назад

so both preys and predators evolved convergently ( Thoracopteridae vs ichtyosaur and modern flying fish vs cetacean)

@MrMemelord00 5 месяцев назад

Best channel for evolution of videos

@user-fo8ey1ix6f 5 месяцев назад

What convinced you of evolution? I still don't see how populations can be possible.

@MrMemelord00 5 месяцев назад

@@user-fo8ey1ix6f one word: adaptation

@MrMemelord00 5 месяцев назад

If something can adapt it can change there's your evolution

@MrMemelord00 5 месяцев назад

Take that scale it up to thousands of tiny changes over hundreds of millions of years and anything is possible

@user-fo8ey1ix6f 5 месяцев назад

@@MrMemelord00 How can self producing single cell organisms do that though? No new information is getting transferred.

@fhorsey Месяц назад

I really like this topic! And i love mothlight media!

@toxicperson8936 5 месяцев назад

Would it be possible, after millions & millions of years, flying fish could evolve to be able to fully fly? I know flying fish existed before flying reptiles or birds, but considering birds evolved to live on land before (amphibians), it seems possible that they’d be able to learn to fly after many years of evolution. I’d love to see what fully flying fish would look like.

@wilfdarr 5 месяцев назад

My feeling is no: using water as your propulsive medium is far more energy efficient than using air alone. My feeling is that the reason birds don't do this on land with their legs is because any unevenness in the ground would break legs, wings, etc, where if you biff it into the sea the only thing hurt is your pride: I think it would take a significant evolutionary pressure to overcome this road block.

@matthewbromm7552 5 месяцев назад

incredible video man thankyou

@brunoalejandroandrades354 5 месяцев назад

Love your videos, each and every one is a banger, 10/10. But please bring the intro back:((((

@takenname8053 5 месяцев назад

But will they ever develop powered flight? Like in the The Future is Wild?

@christopherholder9925 5 месяцев назад

This was impressively informative; thank you.

@AphidKirby 4 месяца назад

I loooooove flying fish!! Loved learning more about them thank you for making such great vids!

@MrBargill 5 месяцев назад

They are a great delicacy in Barbados and Trinidad...

@user-be8ly2lp4k 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for covering that topic

@nicksystermann1558 5 месяцев назад

Face it: he included "Guizhouichthyosaurus" just because he wanted to show off his impressive pronounciation skills.

@paulcateiii 5 месяцев назад

another interesting video - thank you

@connorpratt4874 5 месяцев назад

Great video as always but please bring intro back🙏

@definitelynotnickiminaj5391 5 месяцев назад

keep uploading your vids are the best❤️

@vinniepeterss 5 месяцев назад

excellent as always!

@Garbagegoose344 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for your videos mothman

@RaikoTechnologies 4 месяца назад

Do a video on stingrays\mantas, they are kinda flying underwater and some can jump-off similar to flying fish

@alexshapiro9841 4 месяца назад

Still it's so mind blowing to imagine the beginning of this evolution: some small fish leapt out of the water to avoid a predator, and stayed just 20ms longer in the air because it had a slightly elongated fins, but that was just enough to survive. And that process repeated a countless number of times.

@wholesome2399 5 месяцев назад

Can't watch it rn, but love the concept of the video! Can't wait

@Titus-as-the-Roman 5 месяцев назад

Once on a offshore fishing trip the boat went through a school of flying fishes (actually they were always seen, just not this close), one took to the air and soaring about 2 feet from my head looking each other in the eyes for about 100 meters.

@bradlcnm 3 месяца назад

Ahh, convergent (and divergent) evolution - I have noticed mammals, reptiles, birds and fish each have a form for air, sea and land!

@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374 5 месяцев назад

that is darn cool

@robodude145 4 месяца назад

birds saw flying fish and were like "yeah we can do that, but better" and they were right

@myboysd5772 3 месяца назад

Then the weird hairless apes came along and thought "We can do that even better" and they proceeded to bomb the sh*t out of each other with their new neat inventions.

@natquesenberry6368 4 месяца назад

The fish in the thumb nail looks like an African butterfly fish. (Pantodon bucholzi.)It has a similarly large head and mouth. Butterfly fish can only make short hops and not closely related to real flying fish.