When Insects First Flew

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Insects were the first animals to ever develop the ability to fly, and, arguably, they did it the best. But this development was so unusual that scientists are still/working on, and arguing about, how and when insect wings first came about.
Special thanks to Franz Anthony for the beautiful insect reconstructions. You can see more of Franz's tremendous work at 252mya.com
Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution:
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@TierZoo 6 лет назад

Flying is honestly ridiculously OP, so bogus that the devs gave arthropods access to that skilltree hundreds of millions of years before other factions

@williamadams6940 6 лет назад

TierZoo blatant bias

@gentlydown41 6 лет назад

Love your videos man, keep it up.

@jtktomb8598 6 лет назад

Insects win on everything man, more beetles species than anything else ! more ladybugs species than mammals !

@catherinevo6060 6 лет назад

TierZoo true

@spinyslasher6586 6 лет назад

TierZoo Wasps are S tier man, their maneuverability and lethality is insanely OP. Devs please nerf wasps they are griefing the hell out of some servers.

@Shadycicada 6 лет назад

Man, this channel is one of the best things on RU-vid.

@xSuperCartmanx 3 года назад

Seriously

@MrEtanaka 3 года назад

Try Moth Light Media, i'm sure you'll like

@biggystupid3735 3 года назад

@@MrEtanaka i cannot agree more

@jessicakyle6855 3 года назад

I know, right?!

@the_gaming_hyena 3 года назад

No, it is THE best.

@smokesparkdragonfly1368 6 лет назад

When did the first mosquito appear, and when will it *end*

@suparain7119 6 лет назад

SmokeSpark Dragonfly Ha ha when it's niche is filled in a better way

@SpudEater 5 лет назад

@@suparain7119 I hereby declare that niche to be useless and therefore it should die off. Thank you for your time.

@suparain7119 5 лет назад

@@SpudEater But then what will the dragonflies eat?:(

@unexpected2475 5 лет назад

@@suparain7119 flies

@suparain7119 5 лет назад

@@unexpected2475 and small fish

@citiesskyscrapers4561 6 лет назад

This channel is just incredible.

@candicehinds5824 6 лет назад

Cities & Skyscrapers it's always a good day when they upload

@AlumniQuad 6 лет назад

Not enough Fidget Spinners and Boosted Boards® for my taste

@citiesskyscrapers4561 6 лет назад

My channel So true!

@citiesskyscrapers4561 6 лет назад

jo mo mo I have already subscribed to Deep Look, it’s a great channel!

@mikekuppen6256 6 лет назад

@HallsteinI 6 лет назад

This has to be the nicest, most thoughtful comments section I've seen on all of RU-vid.

@DeShawnMcDonald 5 лет назад

I know any other channel and everyone in the comments would be arguing about whether or not this channel is getting paid by big paleontology and Soros to push a global warming agenda lol

@matttube9369 3 года назад

@DeShawn McDonald Lol, exactly

@LordSlag 6 лет назад

I want to know more about the transition from single celled to multicelled life.

@hooliganbubsy7298 6 лет назад

Well bacteria and the like already lived in colonies by virtue of food sources existing as more than just a singularity. Then they developed the ability to work together a little bit such as creating a matrix that assisted with survival. Going from being joined by a loose matrix to actually being joined isn't a huge leap and from there evolution just went haywire. I'm not 100% on that but it probably went similarly to that.

@timsmith6675 6 лет назад

LordSlag Check out PBS Digital Studios ( SciShow, It's Okay to be Smart, and Eons) and you'll find some answers. The information is out there, if you're willing to process it critically.

@macnutz4206 6 лет назад

LordSlag Here is a starting point. As well as another interesting EON presentation, it has a number of links to other channels and presentations that will be of assistance to you. All relating to your stated interest. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pk213XSSktQ.html

@k1ngk4gl3 6 лет назад

Well... Actually, that's not fully well-understood yet. But all the PBSDigital channels really WILL help towards forming a semi-decent hypothesis in the meantime.

@desencriptando 6 лет назад

read about Volvox algae and other colonial organisms (like early Mesomycetozoea)

@jivejunior8753 6 лет назад

Evolution: If you're going to make a new body part, modify one of the ones you already have. Insects: _Hold my beer_

@duhduhvesta 6 лет назад

Jive Junior +

@aaronheaton2606 5 лет назад

The concept doesnt make much sense. What? One day nothingness decided it needed to work thousands maybe millions of years so that bugs could fly. At least arms developing into wings makes some sense.

@Nathanyel 5 лет назад

@Nicht von dieser Welt e.g. the "missing link" 'disproving' evolution

@BABerg11 5 лет назад

But the insects wouldn't need to hand off their beer, they didn't modify an arm.

@BABerg11 5 лет назад

@@aaronheaton2606 The idea of something from nothing is tricky to imagine in terms of evolution. But depending on what form of locomotion came first, where did that appendage come from? I agree that it's definitely easier to think they came from modifying something else, but given insects, I don't find it to be that hard to imagine. Besides, if you look really closely, some flight-capable species look like the wings are an extension of the exoskeleton that could have modified, over time, to be better equipped for flight.

@theoregonguy 6 лет назад

You know I've never really thought about how insects started flying. Thanks Eons for bringing up this topic and making me think about it.

@AdventureSlug 3 года назад

All the stuff in are water/food and air. Proven to limit free thought and inturn you stop asking questions about your surroundings.

@AL-fl4jk 2 года назад

@@AdventureSlug 🤦‍♂️

@csquared4538 Год назад

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@francois-xavierdessureault8039 5 лет назад

I love how this show doesn't throw around "facts", instead looking at the evidence we have and presenting the most likely hypotheses we can draw from that evidence. That's the kind of attitude often lacking in both formal education and popular science, and I think this lack of transparency about the scientific method contributes to a rise in distrust about science (e.g. anti-vaxxers, climate skeptics, etc.) I've always preferred knowing *how* a scientific discovery was made rather than simply learning when it was made or by whom.

@Kuwagumo 3 года назад

I COMPLETELY agree with you, thanks for sharing your opinion :)

@juanausensi499 3 года назад

100% agree

@smokingsnake8276 3 года назад

Wise words

@matttube9369 3 года назад

EXACTLY, agree

@navilluscire2567 2 года назад

This is late to reply but more so for the *'slightly'* newer comments but things like vaccines and climate change ARE indisputable facts, people just willfully choose not to listen. And even then, even if you explained how such research or hypothesizing is done or how they (scientists and researchers) came to their conclusions people will STILL willfully ignore all that or disregard it, *because people (unfortunately) have a 'right' to be ignorant.* Disregarding science or the scientific process completely doesn't make you somehow more sensible, *it just makes you willfully stupid.* (or irrational)

@turmunhkganba1705 6 лет назад

Could you do a video on the evolution of blood

@meandmetoo8436 6 лет назад

Askig each video I see, oh well I'll keep upvoting it.

@lordgarion514 6 лет назад

Me AndMeToo That strategy worked for butt hair. 😁

@Oscar4u69 6 лет назад

bump

@limiv5272 6 лет назад

@Alanzice 6 лет назад

Amazing topic

@rayleaf8114 6 лет назад

When did the ability to make milk come from, and when did it evolve?

@SurrealKangaroo 6 лет назад

This. Also how did live birth evolve?

@chistinelane 6 лет назад

Sweat, and keeping eggs inside their bodies for longer and longer periods, until the shell wasn't needed at all after it came out and was slowly lost. Some mammals still have a thin, fleshy membrane directly after birth.

@ProfezorSnayp 6 лет назад

Fun fact: milk is just sweet and fatty sweat. Enjoy your coffee.

@horse14t 6 лет назад

Monotremes! Like the platypus lays eggs but nurses it's young after they hatch. But they don't have teats but instead secret their milk from modified sweat glands on their stomach. Like Profezor Snayp said, milk it just modified, fatty sweat.

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 6 лет назад

SurrealKangaroo it evolved many different times in many different animals, such as in matterpiscis the placoderm, oviparous sharks, some bony fish like guppies, non monotreme mammals and snakes

@niclas3672 6 лет назад

I would like to see some more videos on the Permian and Permian Therapsids. I think Permian animals are often overshadowed by the dinosaurs, so would be cool to shed some light on them. Also, great video!

@codyg6057 6 лет назад

Please! I need this!

@MikePhoenix007 6 лет назад

Yes please! Exactly my thoughts. The Permian is my favourite time period. But it's unfortunately always overshadowed by the periods of the Mesozoic.

@wienzard36 6 лет назад

I agree! we need more light on Permian period!

@LuminousKugelblitz 6 лет назад

Niclas Dahl Aabo Me too 😊

@jasmineclontz6105 5 лет назад

Agreed! I would love to see this!

@timjung640 5 лет назад

I love how PBS Eons doesn't talk down on its audience.

@kieran9593 6 лет назад

Do something about how holes in the skull evolved and changed in relation to synapsids, diapsids, and anapsids. That would be interesting

@xxXthekevXxx 6 лет назад

Tinfoil Prophet agreed! Always wondered why we have differing numbers of head holes.

@sonjavandenende9586 6 лет назад

I'd like to see this too. Fenestrae seem inconsequential yet they're used as major defining traits for amniotes.

@arminarlert1953 3 года назад

So i do have a hole in my head

@aureavita8653 3 года назад

@@arminarlert1953 it's called your nose, eyesockets, and ear canals

@chatgptnewslive2023 6 лет назад

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@kinomora-gaming 6 лет назад

I love this channel but a lot of the videos are just "We don't know but here's out best ideas" Which is great, I love that they don't just stop at that and provide no actual information. They give both sides of the current theories and do so much information gathering and illustration. This is by far one of the best science channels on the site

@bigedslobotomy 4 года назад

Not Your Everyday Timelord I like that also. It’s frustrating to view videos on science subjects, and they put forth only ONE of the many theories about it, and act as though there is no discussion or controversy about it - while the reality is that scientists have their pet theories, they have egos, and there is a kind of inertia that resides in currently held beliefs that is often hard to change. Ideas must be discussed!

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Mark Halden a glass of water plus PBS Eons video. The last thing to do before sleep.

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This channel oughta go on for Eons.

@VanRukh 6 лет назад

What the heck! I was upvoting a comment for this very topic last week. Unexpectedly delighted

@Danquebec01 6 лет назад

Same.

@drew8443 5 лет назад

Yeah they really listen

@AliCatWrites 6 лет назад

This channel is speaking to the child science geek that still lives inside me. I’d love to see an episode about the ancestors of wolves and how they evolved into the modern animal.

@binky2819 6 лет назад

Something I find rather curious is how arthropods have been around for way longer than tetrapods have, yet they only evolved flight once. And even though tetrapods are so much larger and heavier and less diverse, they evolved flight 3 separate times, and gliding has evolved over a dozen times independently.

@Naiadryade 6 лет назад

It seems to me like this implies that insect flight evolved very close to the branching off of insects themselves, and that the diversification of insects was built on top of that adaptation already being there. Whereas tetrapods had already branched off into several main groups before any of them figured out flight--maybe precisely because it took longer on account of being so much bigger and heavier. When avian dinosaurs started flying, for example, mammals were already their own thing. If any mammal wanted to fly, it would need to evolve its own way. Come to think of it, you can see this within arthropods, too. Arachnids don't benefit from the flight adaptation because they and insects branched before it happened. They had to figure out their own way, ie using strands of silk and electromagnetic fields. (See the recent SciShow on that!)

@vladimirlagos2688 6 лет назад

Nayadriade already gave you an awesome answer. The only thing I would like to add up on top of it is that evolution of a trait usually appears to exploit an open niche in the ecosystem, but flying insects once they first appeared have never really vacated their slots in the ecosystem, effectively negating the chance for new arthropods to evolve there (notice I put arthropods and not insects, because insect flight may very possibly be the reason why spiders and miriapods never developed self sustained flight as well).

@spacecadet28 6 лет назад

Well each tetrapod grouping gets 1 chance, reptiles, dinosaurs, and mammals.

@stefanr8232 6 лет назад

The method of flying is remarkably different among insects. Butterflies do it differently than bees. Dragonflies do a lot of crazy stunts that nothing else can.

@Danquebec01 6 лет назад

stefan r Yet it all comes from one common flying ancestor.

@vaclavkodousek804 6 лет назад

That gap in upper devonian is not just for insects, but also for other land animals. :)

@cammandochicken5034 6 лет назад

Best RU-vid channel ever

@amirswrr2359 6 лет назад

What about Filthy Frank?

@frilliflove2424 3 года назад

I just love that they post their sources. True scientific honesty

@dariusrose9909 6 лет назад

Could you guys maybe do a video on Island Dwarfism in Prehistory!

@safron2442 6 лет назад

Yes

@nakenmil 6 лет назад

And maybe island gigantism too?

@dariusrose9909 6 лет назад

Enthused Norseman Definitely! Especially the giant lemurs of Madagascar.

@haseo8244 6 лет назад

Or giant eagle of new Zealand that hunt moa

@ScionStorm1 6 лет назад

What? Haven't Samoans always been tall? ;p

@jeremiasrobinson 6 лет назад

Thank you for providing quality educational programs available to the public.

@joeys4289 6 лет назад

You guys should win awards for what you're making. #PBSESONSISLOVE

@vincelamb4063 6 лет назад

The Creative Arts Emmy Awards nominees will be announced Thursday. I hope PBS submitted this channel. It's probably eligible for the same category that The Star Wars Show was nominated for last year.

@valiroime 3 года назад

It’s what Discovery, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, NatGeo, etc should have been. Not the endless barrage of _Reality TV_ (so called), and barely camouflaged attempts to garner religious acceptance by presenting vague innuendo, and blurry images as proof one bible trope or another.

@57hound 6 лет назад

Fascinating-as usual. This is the best paleontology channel on RU-vid!

@hilliard665 6 лет назад

These videos with competing arguments are great, one one hand you would like to be able to say one or the other but this gives a broader inclusive view into the world of science and the way we work it out, rather then just flat facts, I approve.

@reversegoat3260 6 лет назад

Mosses and other bryophyts would be a neat video.

@duhduhvesta 5 лет назад

Reverse Goat lichen evolution is crazy subject!

@linr1294 5 лет назад

My hometown gets a shoutout on Eons! Would love to see more about the fossils found in Gilboa- it’s believed to be the earths oldest fossilized forest.

@Never_heart 6 лет назад

This is a fascinating topic. A topic that has recently appeared to me that is filled with misinformation are the plesiosaurs. Since the popular representation of the Loch Ness Monster represented the accepted understanding of plesiosaurs when it took pop culture by storm many decades ago. Our understanding of plesiosaur biomechanics, especially the long necked body plans, has completely changed while Nessy representations have not which in turn continue to spread misinformation about real plesiosaurs.

@stefanr8232 6 лет назад

Why would Nessy change just because of human ideas about an extinct animal?

@Never_heart 6 лет назад

stefan r Nessy is believed to be a long necked plesiosaur. I am saying that the way media shows Nessy has unchanged, in particular the way it's neck is shown in a recurved S shape like that of a swan. Now we know that real plesiosaurs could not move their necks into this shape. And since Nessy is hands down the most famous plesiosaur in media people still believe that real plesiosaurs can move their necks in this S shape. Much like how early bipedal sauropods were shown with their tails dragging along the ground, yet now we know that was not the case. The comment was more about correcting the misinformation about real plesiosaurs and using Nessy as an explanation why misinformation has persisted in popular knowledge.

@suelane3628 6 лет назад

There is a long necked seal in the fossil record.

@DaiBaNANA 6 лет назад

Thank you for all the hard work! Personally I'm interested in learning about first cactii and how they adapted to the change in climate through time

@Senio6667 6 лет назад

Please can we have an epsiode on bats. Mammals only attempt into the sky!

@Naiadryade 6 лет назад

Depends on how you define attempt! There are a handful of other mammals that glide quite well, such as flying squirrels, colugos, and sugar gliders. But yes, I'd be all for an episode on bat evolution.

@fukpoeslaw3613 6 лет назад

Homo Sapiens Sapiens attempted quite nicely.

@felafnirelek8987 6 лет назад

I mean... planes

@AnalyticalReckoner 6 лет назад

hot air balloons

@theholypopechodeii4367 6 лет назад

Naiadryade But aren't bats the only mammals capable of true, powered flight?

@SevenEllen 5 лет назад

Watching butterflies and dragonflies fly in slow motion is so beautiful!

@kaylawagner3295 6 лет назад

This channel never fails to make all my mistakes seem meaningless in the grand history of life on earth. Humans will inevitably go extinct, like all species on this planet. We are privileged to even be here. It's strangely reassuring that nothing we do permanently matters. With that said, whoever reads this comment, go. Enjoy this lifetime. It's nothing but a gift.

@DanielSanchez-ew1js 6 лет назад

Who knows man. I get that we need to enjoy life as individuals but you never know how humans are going to progress. Maybe we'll be as successful as birds, insects, bats, and pterosaurs in that they diversified wildly after getting flight?

@kaylawagner3295 6 лет назад

Daniel Sanchez I fully agree with you. The future of space travel is utterly beyond belief when you consider that the universe will only continue to expand. I wonder how far we'll go.

@kaylawagner3295 6 лет назад

jo mo mo It's insane how much there is to human history when human history is just a spark compared to the fire of the planet's history.

@franug 6 лет назад

I never thought about that, but it's a good argument. There are creatures that have been stupidly succesful for millions of years and haven't become extint. If we are able to go pass our shortcomings and destructive tendencies, maybe we, as a species, will too. Who knows.

@kaylawagner3295 5 лет назад

Naturalista While I certainly hope that humanity gets the opportunity to colonize other parts of the universe, I doubt it will reach its full potential during our lifetime. Not that something so trivial should prevent us from sending our children to the stars, of course.

@abdulkarimismail9413 6 лет назад

I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH, THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTION!

@thickymcchicky6987 6 лет назад

Hey! I loved this episode! Very interesting! Do you guys think you can do a video on the Dinocephaleans from the early to mid Permian period? Thanks!

@be2Gee 6 лет назад

Many great science channels on RU-vid, but nothing comes anywhere near this channel. Every single video is just so incredibly well made with very interesting topics, easily explained, yet so much knowledge in such a short time. Thank you guys.

@joperamod5760 6 лет назад

nah

@_Swink 6 лет назад

I feel like plants, and definitely Fungi need some more attention on this channel! Curious about how fungi differ from plant life, and how they evolved to function more similarly to fauna in the way they "breath" oxygen.

@SevenPr1me 6 лет назад

Matt Ruetz you should explore the channel bruh

@_Swink 6 лет назад

JumPInfectioN I've watched all their videos, they have I think 2 that are only on fungi. It's a fascinating branch of life that I'm curious about, that's all

@xxXthekevXxx 6 лет назад

I, too, am very interested in fungi and other multicellular life that is neither plant nor animal. It’s so alien!

@mact5 5 лет назад

I would be interested to hear how they determine the age of these older, more fragile fossils.

@gravel9270 Год назад

Carbon dating?

@absolutshadow876 6 лет назад

One of the best science channels on RU-vid

@suparain7119 6 лет назад

Great video on Insect flight.

@nodnalneyugn8753 5 лет назад

I love this channel! I’m binging on these videos. Thank you pbs digital studio

@josephyoung6749 5 лет назад

This is quite possibly one of the most interesting things I've ever seen on the internet. Thanks!

@dinodude7290 6 лет назад

i can't handle how amazing this channel is!

@Hypatia4242 6 лет назад

I remember a lecture (from eons ago...) where it was suggested primitive insects that liked to walk along water developed wings to keep something dry and to help them 'hop' and escape the surface tension of a pond, etc. Has that idea been thrown out?

@veggieboyultimate 2 года назад

So not only were Arthropods the first animals to go onto dry land, they were also the first to fly

@lorenzoodierna1867 6 лет назад

It's interesting: I work with Drosophila melanogaster and some mutations we use to phenotypically track their genotypes change their halteres into tiny useless wings... I should read up on that a bit more but its an example of how a prexisting anatomical structure in flies has the ability to become a wing with relatively little genetic manipulation.

@Marixchatt 6 лет назад

It seems like halteres evolved from the wings themselves and not the other way around so this really isn’t a big deal that primitive genes are reverting them back to the wings they used to be.

@lorenzoodierna1867 6 лет назад

Shaniqua Nice, makes sense. Just something I noticed in passing. Thanks for the response.

@topsideplanet234 6 лет назад

I love this channel and I love it's comment sections, everyone praising the channel for the good content and asking for what should be covered next and starting conversations with people that are genuinely interested in these topics.

@soundofspace8026 6 лет назад

can you make a top ten of "the weirdest looking prehistoric animals you have never heard off"? I was honestly blown away when you made the video about that weird horse relative that looked like a silverback gorilla. I had never heard off something that unique looking before

@ironsnowflake1076 6 лет назад

I must admit that most flying insects will forever creep me out, however this vid was very interesting and thought provoking, thumbs way up =)

@bunabobby 6 лет назад

For me I’m always amazed at looking at bugs through a screen but freak out when a spider crawls up the window.

@william41017 6 лет назад

Check out the channel Deep Look, maybe it'll change your mind

@ironsnowflake1076 6 лет назад

Buna (shriek!) I know right, if you're looking for the stuff of future nightmares, check out the Whip spider (maybe you've already seen them), they aren't "true" spiders though, they are somehow related to horseshoe crabs and scorpions I think. They have these little pincer pinchers on the ends of two of their legs, AAAARRRRGGGG! NO! just NO!

@ironsnowflake1076 6 лет назад

william41017 My son and I loved watching Monster Bug Wars on science channel I believe, and also David Attenborough's series, Into the Undergrowth, of course I would be twisting the throw pillows and casting furtive glances into the corners of the room the entire time :)

@ironsnowflake1076 6 лет назад

william41017 thank you for the recommendation, just subscribed to the channel, and can already see that they have amazing content (going to be checking corners and twisting pillows, lol)

@ernestuz 6 лет назад

I am addict to the Space Time channel and this one. Well done!

@vadinhopsc 6 лет назад

PBS (EONS,NOVA, etc) is my dream channel. Thank you PBS Digital Studios.

@TheodoreManthovani 6 лет назад

Man, i love how insect's wings are still a mystery to be solved. Though i would be happier if we already solved it and move on to the next.

@Sa-fd7ih 4 года назад

Another perfectly narrated video 👏🏻 As a non-native English speaker, thank you for your clear and beautiful pronunciations 💖

@victormoyer7647 6 лет назад

God, this makes me so happy! I want to be a paleoentomologist and I love hearing about this stuff, even if I've already heard about it. This is absolutely my favorite RU-vid channel and I get so excited about every video you make. :)

@AuthenticDarren 6 лет назад

Thanks for this video, those little arthropods are so often the unsung heros of animal life. Those little critters deserve much more attention than they generally receive. Imagining an Earth populated on land by only plants, invertabrates and a few fungi etc. before these great chordates came out of the water and started eating them all, is just facinating.

@fernandorodriguez6895 5 лет назад

How have I never thought about this!?!?

@batt3ryac1d 2 года назад

Insects have such short life spans and are so abundant they probably evolve like crazy compared to other animals.

@danielhodgins4312 6 лет назад

When did insects first have a stinger?

@Marixchatt 6 лет назад

I’m not an expert but I googled, “Insects that don’t fly” and it showed me things like Silver Fish and Ear Wigs. It seems that all incects have these hair like things on their abdomen (I don’t know what they are called). In silverfish they seem to be hair like, in Ear Wigs they seem to be modified into pinchers. This is a huge assumption but these wingless insects resemble the early fossils found so I’m assuming stingers are just the modified structures I don’t know the names of. It seems like the Ear Wig had theirs modified into pinches so stinging insects could have modified theirs for defense aswell.

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 6 лет назад

When we look at the colse relatives of wasps, bees and ants with stingers we see that the other members of hymenoptera as well as other insects like grasshoppers have what is called an ovipositor, a long tube used to lay eggs, over time, that tube could have changed slightly to be able to inject venom into their prey, also some parasitic wasps lay eggs in their prey by injecting them with that tube almost like stinging

@Marixchatt 6 лет назад

Thanks for explaining it Fishyfishyfishy500 I’m just surprised I was correct. Do you have any maps that show the evolutionary relation between insects?

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 6 лет назад

even wikipedia has it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_insects#Taxonomy

@LimeyLassen 6 лет назад

Fishy's right. Stingers were invented by parasitic wasps.

@NiknotJeffrey 6 лет назад

A video on the evolution of the four skull types (diapsid, synapsid, anapsid and euryapsid) would be pretty cool!

@feral1000 6 лет назад

Oh and thanks for the great videos. Learned so much from this channel.

@MJ-cq6gz 6 лет назад

Plot twist: insect wings did come from adapted forelimbs, because they're actually spiders, and life just got 1000% scarier because everything is spiders.

@Neko-ir4jq 6 лет назад

Noooo shhhhh I already hate them enough

@AphidKirby 6 лет назад

I am,,, so happy this channel exists!! This topic is super interesting and I couldn't be gladder it was covered by you!

@justjucc5655 5 лет назад

I'm writing a paper over Paleoentomology, and this information is great! i've already used some of the information form your Trouble with Trilobites and Carbiniferous videos, and it is all great! It does not help, however, that the scientific community cannot come to one conclusion over the origin of insect flight. Still, great video!

@starfan4019 6 лет назад

I loved your wonderful top. It’s so nice that palaeontologists have evolved beyond the fleece and walking boots in the early ‘nerdonian’.

@xqzme7654 6 лет назад

Well after mentioning a paleontologist brawl I say we settle this up by a steel cage match till the death...yup that should sort it out

@somedude140 6 лет назад

I am now starting a kickstarter to build a thunderdome just so this can happen.

@globin3477 6 лет назад

I cannot help but be reminded of splatfest law, where whatever wins becomes legally better, regardless of any other factors.

@anagjini7111 6 лет назад

I support this idea and will fund it if needed

@nebulan 6 лет назад

I think you could have gone into more depth about what the insects were doing before flowers. Your video shots implied insects used their flight to get food from flowers but flowers didn't show up until the Cretaceous. What were insects doing in the Paleozoic that needed flight?

@lindsay1422 6 лет назад

nebulan Escaping from predators, easier access to food sources, greater maneuverability, less competition (at least initially when wings first formed), better hunting, the ability to travel greater distances, ect. I don't think they addressed it because the benefits of having wings are numerous.

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 6 лет назад

Well he is saying that why did they show flowers, also a dragonfly hovering would be more appropriate

@lindsay1422 6 лет назад

The photos they show are from very skilled artists such as Julio Lecerda. I follow his work quite closely. They collaborate with these artists and often select pictures from their galleries. The artists don't specifically draw pictures for each episode. So Eons is simply using what these artists have produced in the past. And often the artists draw the insects near flowers. If the artists didn't draw pictures with insects not near flowers, then Eons went with the next best thing.

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 6 лет назад

one thing though, the part they are talking about is the clip of the wasp flying near flowers

@lindsay1422 6 лет назад

Fishyfishyfishy500 AKA BS Seriously? A few clips of a wasp or butterfly near flowers and that's enough to assume that they're only connecting flight to flowers? The total time on screen of those clips is about five seconds. Please. They in no way were implying that flight only developed to help pollinate. Nit picking such clips is stupid. The time periods they are referring to are obviously long before flowers appeared. Don't criticize something that is unwarrented of criticism. Now if they actually get their facts wrong and claim that insects developed flight in order to pollinate, then you'd actually have a case.

@KundelX 6 лет назад

I love how fascinated she sounds while talking about bugs with wings :v Great video :)

@torvaldask7193 6 лет назад

I really love that you include references in your videos

@shinkoryu14 6 лет назад

Found this channel yesterday, and just finished binge-watching all the videos. It's amazing! I love learning about natural history. Do you think you could do a video on the evolutionary success of crocodylomorpha? It's pretty interesting that this family line managed to survive from the late Triassic all the way into the modern day.

@SuperManning11 6 лет назад

This is such an amazing channel. Thank you!

@notajetplane 5 лет назад

This is my favorite channel on RU-vid. I just wish there were more fossils to tell a more complete history of Earth's evolution.

@ludwigiapilosa508 6 лет назад

A video on the evolution of flight in pterosaurs (and perhaps how they were being replaced by birds) would be interesting.

@thunderousavenger7437 6 лет назад

I just Wanted to thank you guys right now for putting such imformative and great content onto this platform i love learning such things!

@hiteshgupta8474 6 лет назад

A eons and a scishow notification together,enjoy !!

@invisiblejaguar1 6 лет назад

Good thing about this channel is that it will never die, so many subjects to cover.

@Envengerx 6 лет назад

I always wanted to know how butterflies evolve mostly the process of metamorphosis where a creature like a caterpillar becomes a winged insect like butterfly. It sound such an incredibly complex process.

@ericwienecke5366 5 лет назад

can you do a video on the evolution of talons? from dinousaurs to birds. Thank you!

@djisar-official 6 лет назад

Great job explaining this, thank you.

@typograf62 6 лет назад

I remember discussing this issue with my teacher in biology in 1980. I feel slightly proud now that I saw the complications then (and he did not).

@cassieg4486 6 лет назад

This is one of the best channels on youtube right now. Keep up the amazing work!

@nefhelimwhat609 6 лет назад

Atleast be grateful that eagle sized bugs are not a THING!

@ironsnowflake1076 6 лет назад

Whoa Dude not any more, and a big thanks for that (the horror!!)

@jamesbentonticer4706 5 лет назад

Everytime I watch one of these videos I think, okay that's what I want to study for the rest of my life.

@Coelacantha 6 лет назад

Yessss! I’ve been waiting for this video, thank you!😄

@Blablablarandomguy 2 года назад

People get so jaded and complacent with life forgetting there's still epic, mind blowing mysteries like this left to be discovered

@rampagingrhinogaming3272 5 лет назад

I never knew tier zoo watched this too

@m.a.d.m.5425 6 лет назад

I love his channel! Thank you for another post! The content is so informative and enriching. ♥️

@FiddlerForest 6 лет назад

I love this channel SO MUCH! I imagine one day watching this with my future children and teaching them about this stuff. If you folks add some physical loot to patreon like clever dino shirts, pretty info graphics or what not, i'd be all over it!

@EvilSmonker 5 лет назад

I love this channel, I'm tryna get my wings now through certification lol.

@JulioGanacim 5 лет назад

i really enjoy this channel. More insect related videos would be nice. Especially the social ones.

@travelers8607 6 лет назад

YES! New Video! :D Love you guys! (Question: Any chance of you guys doing a video about the viability of the science discussed in Michael Crichton 1990's novel "Jurassic Park"?)

@Amelia2010rrhl 5 лет назад

Honestly this is one of my favorite of your videos, I've watched it at least 6x

@djpat5998 6 лет назад

It would be cool to be able to go back in time to see all that wildlife alive.

@sameenshaw9670 6 лет назад

I love this channel!

@leejuicy 6 лет назад

Also stemming from evolution of wings, could you guys perhaps cover a detailed look on evolution of hox clusters?

@Dragrath1 6 лет назад

From what I've read Hox clusters are only found in Cnidarians where they play a role in planula mobility and Bilaterians that use them for pretty much everything an episode going into more detail of how both groups took such widely different paths would be cool.

@leejuicy 6 лет назад

Dragrath1 yeah. Especially with the mystery of colinearity would be so cool. Maybe also looking at paleontological evidences of evolution of segmentation and comparative genomics of hox genes or so.

@duhduhvesta 5 лет назад

leejuicy +