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The Story Behind Australia's Weird Animals
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sailing south through the maze of tropical islands across Malaysia and Indonesia will lead you to an invisible barrier between two worlds. What in reality is a relatively small distance, is a huge gulf between two vastly different ecological regions. Why are the animals so different on either side of this line?
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Komentáře

  • @brucestratford5838
    @brucestratford5838 Před 3 hodinami

    Beautiful Animals.thanks for this ❤

  • @rorique6234
    @rorique6234 Před 14 hodinami

    0:00 god damnit France

  • @Argos-xb8ek
    @Argos-xb8ek Před 22 hodinami

    Can we create underwater submarine drones to follow the Whales in the deep?

  • @normalhuman9878
    @normalhuman9878 Před dnem

    It’s a good thing they’re still arachnids or that would’ve been embarrassing

  • @fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied

    How strange that this explorer is assumed to be so stupid, he mistook a sea cow for a mermaid.

  • @Idontlikeyoupos
    @Idontlikeyoupos Před dnem

    If only a guy I never met in real life didn’t name his toon on an mmo before I met him “Aphex”…if only…

  • @wasd____
    @wasd____ Před 2 dny

    This video was worth the thallasophobia.

  • @pacoramon9468
    @pacoramon9468 Před 2 dny

    WAKE ME UP INSIDE.

  • @Egill2011
    @Egill2011 Před 2 dny

    Many mososaurs told me on multiple occasions that they identify as dinosaurs.

  • @royhay5741
    @royhay5741 Před 2 dny

    Man introduced Papuan hogs (Sus scrofa papuensis) to Australia and New Guinea millennia ago.

  • @Gertyutz
    @Gertyutz Před 3 dny

    Why didn't whales develop gills instead of retaining lungs? They have to keep coming up for air, which isn't ideal.

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 2 dny

      their descendants may yet, but there's a vast physiological difference between mammals and fish, 300 million years separating them, and whales have only existed for 50 million years

  • @IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous

    This would explain basking sharks in north Europe, but where are the other Mackarel sharks? Could Great Whites survive and thrive in the North Sea? Baltic Sea? Irish Sea? Norwegian Sea? Or are there just too few prey there?

  • @Egill2011
    @Egill2011 Před 3 dny

    I wonder whether they can evolve into something like birds. I mean can they become really flying organisms?

  • @Egill2011
    @Egill2011 Před 3 dny

    They are related most closely related to sharks. In fact, they are a sort of "flattened" sharks.

  • @wolframhuttermann7519

    God created the, whales on the fifth day of his creation some 6,000 years ago, according to the Bible in Gen 1. This book is true and historical science is mere propaganda.

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 3 dny

      OK well your ancient beliefs and superstitions refute jack squat and have no basis in reality

  • @pagpapaitim
    @pagpapaitim Před 3 dny

    looks good enough to make sushi

  • @torenatkinson5708
    @torenatkinson5708 Před 4 dny

    Neat

  • @jamesstandsupfallsdown

    I would love to see a evolution of stegosaurs and ankylosaurs

  • @Garrett-lf7ov
    @Garrett-lf7ov Před 5 dny

    Killer whales : appetizers

  • @KentuckyBullfrog32
    @KentuckyBullfrog32 Před 6 dny

    He doesn’t look that tough, I could take him in a fight. I’m the true apex predator

  • @prathamkataria7570
    @prathamkataria7570 Před 6 dny

    I think human's being afraid of ghosts in the dark is also an anachronism. Those ghosts we evolved to fear were big cats and other nocturnal predators.

  • @garipyolcu8685
    @garipyolcu8685 Před 6 dny

    Cool story...😅😅

  • @CM_86
    @CM_86 Před 7 dny

    Why they had small weird arms? Probably because it was more wings than arms. Put more feathers and wings on them and they look more right. Im not the biggest fan of feathered dinos, but reality is what it is, hollywood is another story.

  • @darkyboode3239
    @darkyboode3239 Před 7 dny

    When I was a kid I used to call large flightless birds like the ostrich, emu, cassowary, and rhea “big birds.” I wasn’t too far off with that, though ratites are the group these birds are part of. Though all big birds are ratites but not all ratites are big birds, like the kiwi for instance since it’s a small bird.

  • @jjwinn2495
    @jjwinn2495 Před 7 dny

    I know you think you look like an ape, but just because you have an ape-like face, does not mean you were descended from one: BTW//// Genetic differences between humans and apes include: Cytogenetic differences Differences in repetitive genomic DNA and transposable elements Abundance and distribution of endogenous retroviruses Allelic polymorphisms Specific gene inactivation events Gene sequence differences Gene duplications Single nucleotide polymorphisms

  • @pocketmarcy6990
    @pocketmarcy6990 Před 7 dny

    4:36 I know he said “usually” but this gives me an excuse to bring up Hateg island which goes against this

  • @billwhite1603
    @billwhite1603 Před 7 dny

    You only have a few teeth for Gigantopithecus. They could have come from an Orangutan with a tumor on their pituitary gland.

  • @chileronasy
    @chileronasy Před 8 dny

    nice

  • @marcusknauber9376
    @marcusknauber9376 Před 8 dny

    13:08 looking at the p opulation

  • @solertree8653
    @solertree8653 Před 8 dny

    well, there is always the mantis shrimp

  • @joannagolden8447
    @joannagolden8447 Před 8 dny

    Bullies, with big heads, stuffing the mouths, pushing their weight around😂

  • @ReinatusKartesius
    @ReinatusKartesius Před 8 dny

    0:56 why i saw Pedro there

  • @Dark-Sentences
    @Dark-Sentences Před 9 dny

    God made whales as whales from the start. They were never anything else. God created the world and all life hereon in 6 days about 6 thousand years ago.

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 8 dny

      your religious superstitions refute exactly jack squat

    • @Dark-Sentences
      @Dark-Sentences Před 7 dny

      @@AMC2283 Atheist = Someone who can't stop talking about a God he pretends doesn't exist.

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 7 dny

      @@Dark-Sentences you making evolution synonymous with atheism is dumb.

    • @Dark-Sentences
      @Dark-Sentences Před 7 dny

      @@AMC2283 Was the world and all life hereon made in 6 days around 6000 years ago?

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 7 dny

      @@Dark-Sentences nope

  • @Al-cynic
    @Al-cynic Před 9 dny

    Very well done.

  • @felixalexander945
    @felixalexander945 Před 9 dny

    Are you from Australia?

  • @HenryLanepilkington

    didn’t they evolve in ireland? i heard that our species was an intermediate of brown and polar bears

  • @bird-watcher-91
    @bird-watcher-91 Před 9 dny

    How cool would've it have been to see Paraceratherium alive? I also find it amazing how rhinos can distribute their weight even better than an elephant. My favorite living rhino species are the black rhinos. I don't know why but I find their prehensile lips more aesthetically pleasing than the flat, square lips on the southern white rhinos. People did a great job bringing the southern white rhinos numbers up; now the critically endangered black rhinos need help more than ever (same for the Javan and Sumatran, and the Sumatran rhino is the closest living relative to the woolly rhino).

  • @nopenope7088
    @nopenope7088 Před 9 dny

    Did they stink?

  • @MacKobza
    @MacKobza Před 9 dny

    Hello. I’d like to private message you about your content in this video. I would like to offer you a citation to use in the video for the researchers work you cited. I didn’t see one included.

  • @P51F86F4F15F22
    @P51F86F4F15F22 Před 9 dny

    The British captured a downed Central power aircraft with the interrupter gear still intact and copied it into their aircraft

  • @youtubesucksdicks9474

    Myaaaaa~

  • @derrickburry1788
    @derrickburry1788 Před 10 dny

    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. We, mankind are created in the image of God. Genesis 1

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 10 dny

      hey what do you suppose they meant by beginning if your god is eternal?

    • @derrickburry1788
      @derrickburry1788 Před 10 dny

      @@AMC2283 6 thousand years ago.

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 10 dny

      @@derrickburry1788 radiometric dating is a Nobel prize winning science. you need earth to have been created just for your culture to feel special.

    • @derrickburry1788
      @derrickburry1788 Před 10 dny

      @@AMC2283 Whatever, man.

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 10 dny

      @@derrickburry1788 yeah, keep quoting it in the comments, I’m sure writing it verbatim helps alleviate the fear it’s made up

  • @TheTenthKhan
    @TheTenthKhan Před 10 dny

    I think cats and bears had more of a rivalry than cats and dogs

  • @neckashi6971
    @neckashi6971 Před 10 dny

    Its ganga bro not ganges pronounced like gun- ga

  • @schmee9025
    @schmee9025 Před 10 dny

    hippos are closest related to whales

  • @easterlinear
    @easterlinear Před 11 dny

    This is all nonsense, God made everything

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 Před 10 dny

      no afterlife if he didn't but you can't face reality

    • @peterstoric6560
      @peterstoric6560 Před 6 dny

      Yeah, God made evolution as well

  • @corvus_da
    @corvus_da Před 11 dny

    I had no idea how big porcupines are in relation to leopards.

  • @ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo

    Didelphodons tells us that having a pouch doesn't means you can't be aquatic.

  • @ArmandoEnfectana-bp6jo

    Mammals can evolve feathers if monotremes take many niches.