How Plants Became Carnivores

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  • @HollowProductions_1
    @HollowProductions_1 Před 3 lety +5501

    “I’m tired of drinking, I wanna chew”

  • @JDeO1997
    @JDeO1997 Před 3 lety +2808

    "Welp, can't get enough nutrients from the ground and sun, time to hunt" ~ Some plant

  • @teawrecks1243
    @teawrecks1243 Před 3 lety +1566

    flytrap: "guys i'm a vegan"
    other flytraps: **horrified gasps** "YOU CANNIBAL"

    • @suryamohan3410
      @suryamohan3410 Před 3 lety +32

      impressive work

    • @geraldfriend256
      @geraldfriend256 Před 3 lety +44

      What did one venus flytrap say to the other? You were NEVER vegan!

    • @ITeachRick
      @ITeachRick Před 3 lety +14

      @tea wrecks Nice line, except a cannibal eats its own kind, a carnivore eats meat. It would be interesting if these plants actually ate each other.

    • @captainpalegg2860
      @captainpalegg2860 Před 3 lety +23

      I had a Venus flytrap once. One day as I was watering it I noticed (and I'm still unclear how exactly this happened) two of its traps were biting down on each other.
      So, yeah, your joke actually has a slight ring of truth to it (at least to me).

    • @ITeachRick
      @ITeachRick Před 3 lety +2

      @@swalihmm Boink! I totally missed that one......

  • @yesid17
    @yesid17 Před 3 lety +335

    "One fossil seed... that was destroyed in a freak lab accident after being photographed" how are you seriously gonna leave us with just that sentence i need a whole video about this lol

    • @robotboy719
      @robotboy719 Před 2 lety +1

      I'm sure the CIA was involved. Possibly extra-terrestrial dinos as well.

    • @koharumi1
      @koharumi1 Před 2 lety +7

      The fossil was apparently dropped.

  • @davelewthwaite
    @davelewthwaite Před 3 lety +3335

    "One fossil seed... that was destroyed in a freak lab accident after being photographed"
    Is it bad that I want this event to get its own episode?

    • @monticore1626
      @monticore1626 Před 3 lety +53

      tell plainly difficult

    • @stza16
      @stza16 Před 3 lety +86

      Sounds similar to the death of my wife.

    • @Aereto
      @Aereto Před 3 lety +378

      Sounds like a conspiracy of sentient predatory flora destroying clues to their existence.

    • @procrastinator99
      @procrastinator99 Před 3 lety +83

      @@Aereto I'm REALLY glad I wasn't the only one that this idea occurred to.

    • @azteclady
      @azteclady Před 3 lety +13

      Not the only one, no.

  • @alexismyers6053
    @alexismyers6053 Před 3 lety +2812

    When I was a kid, we lived in a shabby trailer and for whatever reason, no matter what we did, we would always have fly infestations, mostly in the summer. Then I learned about Venus fly traps. Our fly papers worked for a day or two, then the flies would get smart and avoid the areas where the paper was. So, little Elementary school me suggested Venus fly traps when I saw they sold them at Home Depot. I guess my mom just wanted to humor me, because she was surprised when it ate the fly we caught. I love those little guys!

    • @KnightsWithoutATable
      @KnightsWithoutATable Před 3 lety +334

      I gifted my father a Venus fly trap plant and it did really weel and ate tons of flys that got into the house, until it flowered and then died for some reason.

    • @anne-droid7739
      @anne-droid7739 Před 3 lety +15

      Great stories--except that Dionaea catches mostly ants and beetles. Crawlers, not fliers.

    • @kevinpeters6709
      @kevinpeters6709 Před 3 lety +315

      @KnightsWithoutATable it probably didn’t die. Flytraps go dormant in the winter and for all intensive purposes look dead much like a tree or tulip does in winter

    • @KnightsWithoutATable
      @KnightsWithoutATable Před 3 lety +261

      @@kevinpeters6709 Well, this was early internet, so we really didn't know that. It got tossed in the trash.

    • @alexismyers6053
      @alexismyers6053 Před 3 lety +44

      @@anne-droid7739 they catch them when we are able to stun the little buggers and throw them into their mouths lol

  • @allangarry9068
    @allangarry9068 Před 3 lety +1182

    "there are essentially two things a plant has to do to be considered carnivorous"
    Me: be carnivorous, and be a plant...

    • @femmesammy8768
      @femmesammy8768 Před 3 lety +33

      Ayyy pan rights!

    • @bigfloppa2319
      @bigfloppa2319 Před 3 lety +63

      @@femmesammy8768 enough about pan rights, lets talk about pan wrongs

    • @edwardjennings6021
      @edwardjennings6021 Před 2 lety +12

      @@femmesammy8768 pronouns trash this entire evolution thing the video talks about. Why are you here?

    • @femmesammy8768
      @femmesammy8768 Před 2 lety +48

      @@edwardjennings6021 Not how it works + you have pronouns too yknow

    • @edwardjennings6021
      @edwardjennings6021 Před 2 lety +5

      Correct he/him, but theres only the prior and she/her biologically. Unless its a fungus, but you're a human not a mushroom.

  • @captainpalegg2860
    @captainpalegg2860 Před 3 lety +212

    Eons video: *mentions convergent evolution*
    My brain: _Why do things keep evolving into crabs?_

  • @sjc1169
    @sjc1169 Před 3 lety +1464

    Looking down on my salad and wondering if it's luring me in.

  • @zeeteajuu
    @zeeteajuu Před 3 lety +448

    Soon to be a carnivorous plant: what does an insect taste like?
    Normal plant: huh
    Soon to be a carnivorous plant: sorry it was a strange thing to ask

  • @valenwyrm
    @valenwyrm Před 3 lety +2878

    Carnivorous plants: “I’m so hungry I could eat a lizard”
    Normal autotrophic plants: “Wtf bro???”
    Edit: This went from a joke to an argument about reptiles 😂

    • @thomasfplm
      @thomasfplm Před 3 lety +36

      Aren't salamanders amphibians?

    • @faizalf119
      @faizalf119 Před 3 lety +54

      I like to imagine it was all starved when one of the plant have pot shaped leaf that accidentally trap a bug or something and realised it was pretty delicious.

    • @cerridianempire1653
      @cerridianempire1653 Před 3 lety +58

      @@thomasfplm some pitcher plant species are big enough to drown lizards and eat them

    • @cerridianempire1653
      @cerridianempire1653 Před 3 lety +36

      @Live Jewelry yes the devs must allow this buff the herbivores are getting their XP too easily

    • @paulgoogol2652
      @paulgoogol2652 Před 3 lety +8

      @Live Jewelry don't make jokes about that. they may be coming for us. or running.

  • @michakreie
    @michakreie Před 3 lety +227

    I find it amazing how the enzymes used to fight of funghi evolved to digest insects just because of the chitin they have in common.

    • @bearcubdaycare
      @bearcubdaycare Před 3 lety +6

      Well, that's evolution for you

    • @hoanganphanle
      @hoanganphanle Před 3 lety +31

      "Why use a weapon for defensive purpose, while you can actively kill stuffs with it ?" - A soon to be carnivorous plant

    • @ingridaholmes
      @ingridaholmes Před 2 lety +3

      Yes!!

  • @EryxUK
    @EryxUK Před 3 lety +612

    Now I want to know what that "freak lab accident" was.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 Před 3 lety +28

      Yeah it seems suspicious in the same way as the old metallic hydrogen claim

    • @JosePineda-cy6om
      @JosePineda-cy6om Před 3 lety +49

      If it was one of those old days photo equipments that contained also a mini-lab to reveal the photo yourself, it most likely involved the acids in said lab spilling out, thus dissolving the most precious specimen.

    • @anne-droid7739
      @anne-droid7739 Před 3 lety +30

      We don't know that the accident was related to the photography...but nonetheless, I'm imagining some pretty unlikely scenarios. Like, somebody was trying out their Victorian camera, and the flash powder ignited all the ether in the lab...

    • @xinyep3813
      @xinyep3813 Před 3 lety +82

      I looked up the original article. They accidentally dropped the tray containing said fossil seed and the seeds smashed... A shame.

    • @EryxUK
      @EryxUK Před 3 lety +10

      @@xinyep3813 Thank you very much.

  • @shanerooney7288
    @shanerooney7288 Před 3 lety +678

    3:20 "Carnivorous plants are found on every continent except for Antarctica."
    Even Australia?
    No, wait, silly question.

    • @doggygirl3187
      @doggygirl3187 Před 3 lety +92

      Everything dangerous lives in Australia. "Dangerous places" 101

    • @Sami-io6xb
      @Sami-io6xb Před 3 lety +15

      @@doggygirl3187 they don't have any top apex land predators anymore so it's honestly not that bad

    • @SwagelokTaj
      @SwagelokTaj Před 3 lety +17

      @@Sami-io6xb uh huh... check out the Cassowary... ;)

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula Před 3 lety +40

      @@Sami-io6xb Its the little things in life that get you
      In Australia

    • @mrshamamalalting8188
      @mrshamamalalting8188 Před 3 lety +11

      They would probably eat stuff like kangaroos over there

  • @RoryMajule
    @RoryMajule Před 3 lety +110

    “Purple Acid Phosphatase” sounds like what a biochemistry professor would name their psychedelic funk band

  • @DeePal072
    @DeePal072 Před 3 lety +461

    "You are a plant, why do you eat meat?!?"
    "You know, if I went vegan, that'd have been cannibalism 🤷🏻‍♂️"

    • @velocipastor676
      @velocipastor676 Před 3 lety +52

      There's one type of carnivorous plant that stopped eating bugs and instead catches fallen leaves in its traps. A vegetarian plant..... real freaky but true!!!!

    • @creativedesignation7880
      @creativedesignation7880 Před 3 lety +14

      @@velocipastor676 I was just about to ask whether there are any plants that eat other plants. Do you know what its called? I googled around for "herbivorous plant" and "leaf eating plant" but didn't find anything.

    • @velocipastor676
      @velocipastor676 Před 3 lety +13

      @@creativedesignation7880 nepenthes ampullaria

    • @nikkovalidor4890
      @nikkovalidor4890 Před 3 lety +10

      thats why it doesnt make sense that comic writers keep making poison ivy a vegetarian

    • @velocipastor676
      @velocipastor676 Před 3 lety +6

      @@nikkovalidor4890 yeah!!!! I mean, her friends are plants, so she wouldn't eat her friends

  • @animaldude1470
    @animaldude1470 Před 3 lety +764

    My mood right now: eons and something to eat

    • @CherBerries
      @CherBerries Před 3 lety +19

      Literally samee right now!!!

    • @semaj_5022
      @semaj_5022 Před 3 lety +16

      Same! Just knocked down a couple cheeseburgers and a milkshake(guess what country I'm from 😂) while watching :)

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      @willlastnameguy8329 Před 3 lety +5

      Chicken divan.

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      @willlastnameguy8329 Před 3 lety +14

      @@semaj_5022 Burgmilkistan?

    • @semaj_5022
      @semaj_5022 Před 3 lety +5

      @@willlastnameguy8329 close! Though I am from the state of Friedchickenistan

  • @KQEDDeepLook
    @KQEDDeepLook Před 3 lety +1246

    Wonderful episode!

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      @1.4142 Před 3 lety +27

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      @mysterious7215 Před 3 lety +7

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    • @mzakri
      @mzakri Před 3 lety +5

      have you tried to see a nepenthes pervillei seeds under high resolution camera? they have iridescent coat

    • @lukmanibrahim2993
      @lukmanibrahim2993 Před 3 lety +5

      Omg! Its Deep Look!

    • @sosickandtiredofalltheneed568
      @sosickandtiredofalltheneed568 Před 3 lety +3

      What??? I am actually subscribed to your channel a long time ago and I thought you are inactive. And i actually have notifications on..Damn it youtube algorithm!

  • @ElInextricable
    @ElInextricable Před 3 lety +46

    8:32 "...and one fossil seed from the Eocene Epoch of Australia that was destroyed in a freak lab accident"
    I want to know more about that lol

  • @icarusbinns3156
    @icarusbinns3156 Před 2 lety +24

    Mom had a venus flytrap in college. When she went camping, she asked her roommate to “please feed Fritz. There are cricket meatballs in the freezer.”
    She’d purchased crickets, froze them, then wrapped them in bits of ground meat. Which somehow worked better for her flytrap than just the bugs. Not sure how. Fritz died and Mom got a dog. And then she had kids

    • @heisara
      @heisara Před 2 lety +5

      I presume cricket meatballs are still an annual friday meal?

    • @icarusbinns3156
      @icarusbinns3156 Před 2 lety +6

      @@heisara not after I had a gecko!

  • @ArmadilloFish
    @ArmadilloFish Před 3 lety +120

    "Ohh yay, I topic I actually asked about got a video!! :D"
    **saddened squirming soaked salamanders**
    "I am now informed and perturbed! That's the Eons I know and love 💖"

  • @SecretRaginMan
    @SecretRaginMan Před 3 lety +86

    Everyone gangsta until the plants bite back.

    • @lunarose2529
      @lunarose2529 Před 2 lety +1

      That PLANTed a funny picture in my head...

  • @westtech001
    @westtech001 Před 3 lety +31

    'Freak lab accident after being photographed'? "FEED ME SEYMOUR!"

  • @cozinoda
    @cozinoda Před 3 lety +15

    Fly when my slipper is flying at it: I am speed
    Fly when plant jaws are closing: This is fine

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate Před 3 lety +82

    I can only imagine what the carnivorous plants of the Mesozoic would have looked like.

    • @AlamoOriginal
      @AlamoOriginal Před 3 lety +32

      They are 40 meters tall and consume pterodactyl

    • @octapusxft
      @octapusxft Před 3 lety +7

      Sadly the era with the big bugs was the carboniferous which was way before the mesozoic, back in the paleozoic

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b Před 3 lety +758

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    • @Toenailish
      @Toenailish Před 3 lety +83

      Austin I’d certainly believe they’d have my best interests in mind

    • @urdadisbad4187
      @urdadisbad4187 Před 3 lety +5

      Facts

    • @jakethomason5495
      @jakethomason5495 Před 3 lety +13

      they check their sources

  • @gorgonflabish
    @gorgonflabish Před 3 lety +11

    I usually have a hard time understanding english speech, but the way everybody speaks on this channel is really articulate and good, I would like to thank you all for your amazing work, I can rest my eyes without having to read captions, perfect bedtime situation.

    • @lunarose2529
      @lunarose2529 Před 2 lety +1

      Oh, cool! I'm not the only one!

    • @lunarose2529
      @lunarose2529 Před 2 lety

      I also like listening to these videos just before bed.

  • @randomcow505
    @randomcow505 Před 3 lety +11

    Here in the UK we have a lot of brambles and quite often sheep and other animals get stuck in them and eventually rot
    I once read an article that this actually could be one of the reasons for the plants spines along with stopping stuff eating them

  • @Lishadra
    @Lishadra Před 3 lety +302

    Every time you cut to the salamanders I was just like “Help them!!”

    • @epizzle9232
      @epizzle9232 Před 3 lety +25

      Me too! Poor little guys

    • @DrBunnyMedicinal
      @DrBunnyMedicinal Před 3 lety +76

      Likewise, but, plants gotta eat too, even when their prey is cute. :(

    • @velocipastor676
      @velocipastor676 Před 3 lety +26

      The biggest ones can catch mice and newborn monkeys too

    • @Lishadra
      @Lishadra Před 3 lety +12

      D R Bunny Totally, I get that! But it still made me sad

    • @apdroidgeek1737
      @apdroidgeek1737 Před 3 lety +24

      No way they caught it fair and square, plants gotta eat too

  • @IHScoutII
    @IHScoutII Před 3 lety +113

    🎶 Feed Me Seymour!🎶

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer Před 3 lety +6

      No mother it's just the Northern lights

    • @arthurjeremypearson
      @arthurjeremypearson Před 3 lety +1

      I'm a simple man. I see a video about carnivorous plants, I look for semour, I up vote.

    • @sarahgraves6759
      @sarahgraves6759 Před 3 lety

      How does this not have more likes? Lol

    • @elainad6728
      @elainad6728 Před 3 lety +2

      Feed me all night long!!!~

  • @ChaotiX1
    @ChaotiX1 Před 3 lety +587

    vegans: "Everyone should eat only plants! They dont have feelings like animals do!"
    carnivorous plants: *Are you challenging me, mortal?*

    • @IsaiahSenku
      @IsaiahSenku Před 3 lety +4

      🤣

    • @easytomove
      @easytomove Před 3 lety +5

      Mortals 😂😂😂😂

    • @infinitethenextkazekage392
      @infinitethenextkazekage392 Před 3 lety +3

      I looked at your pfp so I’m not gonna take this seriously but this did get a breath out my noise

    • @ulasag7753
      @ulasag7753 Před 3 lety +6

      Ahahahaha omg I'm vegan and this is mind-blowing, I really don't know if I'd be comfortable eating those plants

    • @npc6817
      @npc6817 Před 3 lety +16

      Eat me then, I no longer have feelings.

  • @wanderer5280
    @wanderer5280 Před 3 lety +5

    my plants; *Standing out in grass*
    me; THEY’RE JUST STANDING THERE, MENACINGLY

  • @davidhernandez9937
    @davidhernandez9937 Před 3 lety +225

    Everyone gangsta until they get stuck in a venus flytrap

  • @BestOfAnimalss
    @BestOfAnimalss Před 3 lety +898

    When Plants are carnivorous, Animals are vegetarian.

    • @bushyrho1674
      @bushyrho1674 Před 3 lety +23

      @@BestOfAnimalss I would delete that comment so you don't get yelled at

    • @bushyrho1674
      @bushyrho1674 Před 3 lety +5

      Uh nevermind, your welcome. Have a good day

    • @foreverGM.006
      @foreverGM.006 Před 3 lety +3

      @@BestOfAnimalss people who say thanks for the likes get hate

    • @foreverGM.006
      @foreverGM.006 Před 3 lety +4

      @@BestOfAnimalss I don't know why people just hate that for some reason its stupid

    • @Ditidos
      @Ditidos Před 3 lety +26

      An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and a leaf for a leaf.

  • @migueldacruzalmeidarocha5855

    I loved the background music... so fond and calm. Almost like we aren't even talking about brutal, vicious carnivorous plants hahah

  • @patheticpotato4545
    @patheticpotato4545 Před 3 lety +8

    That ending though. The fly is crying for mercy to the fly gods and the music is like so happy and and as the fly it struggling to escape her tone is so happy.

    • @bearcubdaycare
      @bearcubdaycare Před 3 lety

      You have to have a fair bit of remove to study this stuff, I suspect.

    • @ShrekMeBe
      @ShrekMeBe Před 3 lety

      That was carnivorous plant music.

  • @dragonslayer6810
    @dragonslayer6810 Před 3 lety +283

    The plants were tired of eating the sun

    • @sayvionwashington1939
      @sayvionwashington1939 Před 3 lety +18

      🎶I love tasting the suuun!🎶
      Actually nevermind, I like eating flies, frogs, and other things now.

    • @whafflete6721
      @whafflete6721 Před 3 lety +35

      T A S T E T H E S U N

    • @velocipastor676
      @velocipastor676 Před 3 lety +17

      Going for a tan in the sun is nice, but you just gotta have some red meat...
      BTW, carnivorous plants eat bugs to compensate for lack of minerals in soil, not to replace sunlight. They still need sunlight, more than many other plants in fact.

    • @mikullmac
      @mikullmac Před 3 lety +1

      If you can taste the rainbow by eating skittles, maybe the sun tastes like all the colors of skittles combined. Makes me wonder why you would want flies. :P

    • @blackdragon7803
      @blackdragon7803 Před 3 lety

      @@mikullmac they want a burger! 😅

  • @Xnaut314
    @Xnaut314 Před 3 lety +444

    I've always wondered if there were carnivorous gymnosperms earlier in the Mesozoic that predated modern carnivorous plants. Those same niches still would have existed before angiosperms evolved and many ancient gymnosperms share convergent traits with modern angiosperms. But since theses environments preserve fossils poorly its gonna take a lot of luck to find a fossil of such a plant.

    • @monticore1626
      @monticore1626 Před 3 lety +62

      because they have already evolved many times recently and they require specific conditions to survive it is not unreasonable to say that carnivorous plants have evolved many times and gone extinct

    • @seanfeely7990
      @seanfeely7990 Před 3 lety +28

      They said its happened at least 9 times that we know about so I would say its fairly safe to assume its happened before.

    • @funkyfetus5592
      @funkyfetus5592 Před 3 lety +3

      What is a gymnosperm?

    • @seanfeely7990
      @seanfeely7990 Před 3 lety +21

      @@funkyfetus5592 it's a group of seed producing plants which literally mean 'naked seed' as their seeds are unenclosed

    • @arvantsaraihan5777
      @arvantsaraihan5777 Před 3 lety +15

      @Umair Khakoo That actually reminds me of ponderosa pine, they are pine trees native to California which would emit sap to protect them from the pine digging beetles. Not exactly carnivorous, but similarly unique.

  • @J.O.Y
    @J.O.Y Před 3 lety +2

    Steve is my favourite patron. One day I will become like Steve and help science reach people. Thank you Steve !

  • @SnyperMK2000JclL
    @SnyperMK2000JclL Před 3 lety +4

    I love this series so much... always learning something amazing about our planet and the things that call it home.
    My only beef is I wish these were longer episodes. I could totally get on board with 30min episodes.

  • @Leomoon101
    @Leomoon101 Před 3 lety +227

    Most people talk about their cats and dogs. But I have a pet Venus Flytrap.
    🤭

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped Před 3 lety +30

      Perfect companion to a pet rock.

    • @winterspectre
      @winterspectre Před 3 lety +5

      I have a random question: how do you feed it? Live flies? Chunks of meat or bug?

    • @donpepe64
      @donpepe64 Před 3 lety +32

      @@winterspectre I'm not the person you're asking but I can answer your question. I have a few different carnivorous plants of different genera, and basically they don't really need any help from you except putting them in an area with enough light and enough insects passing through, they will feed themselves because that is what they evolved to do, so no need to feed them, but I do it from time to time to show off their traps to other people.

    • @charliegarrison9688
      @charliegarrison9688 Před 3 lety +7

      Grab a fly by the wingtip (hard to do btw) and let him flutter in the trap, when it closes watch him panic :)

    • @clydebalcom8252
      @clydebalcom8252 Před 3 lety +3

      What did you name your plant? I'm not judging, I'm interested in your choice.

  • @yellow4563
    @yellow4563 Před 3 lety +149

    YES Eons! Fighting depression one vid at at time.

    • @inutaro
      @inutaro Před 3 lety +5

      The true true.

    • @asas-mb4wj
      @asas-mb4wj Před 3 lety +4

      @@inutaro maybe there is a plant that can feed off your sadness

    • @brianmessemer2973
      @brianmessemer2973 Před 3 lety +10

      We all go through highs and lows, tough times, even if it's not clinical depression. I hope you find much happiness in your days. 2020 is a particularly sucky year. Let's hope next year gets better.

    • @andresleiva6973
      @andresleiva6973 Před 3 lety +4

      Hang on !

    • @paulgoogol2652
      @paulgoogol2652 Před 3 lety

      @@brianmessemer2973 That's what boomers say. The young folks all have depression, if I may say so without sounding like a boomer.

  • @nikethunner2732
    @nikethunner2732 Před 3 lety +13

    I love my canivorous plants! They are so fascinating, it never gets boring. They look like they were genetically engineered by bored scientists to look cool and beautiful. The passive trap concept is so simple yet so effective. I also like the other ones, but Nepenthes and Sarracenia are my favorites, i always look for new plants for my collection. They are all hybrids, but that's ok. Better than taking native plants out of their habitat and endangering them. Still enough eyecatchers among them. Nice Episode!

  • @vivianramsay2527
    @vivianramsay2527 Před 3 lety +2

    So easy to tell that you love your work!! Upbeat, enthused and confident! Do enjoy your segments!

  • @DaftSailor
    @DaftSailor Před 3 lety +46

    That's cool, was reading a comment the other day asking for exactly this video. Nice that they read these

  • @kosmonaut5
    @kosmonaut5 Před 3 lety +72

    Love the acknowledgement of indigenous peoples at the end xoxo
    Love from Australia

    • @solamente8233
      @solamente8233 Před 3 lety +1

      I thought was an awesome acknowledgement too! 🙂

    • @vazak11
      @vazak11 Před 3 lety +1

      Same!

  • @jtmon2049
    @jtmon2049 Před 3 lety +24

    "destroyed after being photographed"
    Can someone elaborate on that?

    • @lunarose2529
      @lunarose2529 Před 2 lety

      Someone dropped it and stepped on it.

  • @thomasromero1339
    @thomasromero1339 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank u guys for reigniting my love for PBS. It got me threw alot of bs as a kid. Shout Out to Zabomafoo!

  • @unicornswag888
    @unicornswag888 Před 3 lety +84

    *_Gotta get that protein._*

  • @menkomonty
    @menkomonty Před 3 lety +274

    Vegans: We only eat plants.
    Carnivorous plants: Hello there.

    • @connor863
      @connor863 Před 3 lety +7

      Can vegans eat carnivorous plants?

    • @menkomonty
      @menkomonty Před 3 lety +22

      @@connor863 I guess not. Some carnivorous plants use acids to dissolve their prey and I'm pretty sure drinking that would be pretty bad. Mind you, I'm from Stoke-on-Trent, so we'd probably call that a special brew.

    • @schw4rztee502
      @schw4rztee502 Před 3 lety

      @@connor863 Probably. Animals have been around long enough that I'd imagine pretty much all minerals have been part of one at some point.
      That said I'm not aware of any carnivorous plant beeing fit for human consumption.

    • @velocipastor676
      @velocipastor676 Před 3 lety +6

      @@connor863 out of curiosity after reading this post, l took a nibble from a leaf trimming that l took from one of my carnivorous plants. Just tasted like any ordinary leaf. Just.... grass like. Not edible

    • @connor863
      @connor863 Před 3 lety +1

      I made that comment low-key as a joke but absolutely love that I'm getting science-y answers to it! 😃

  • @kekeke8988
    @kekeke8988 Před 3 lety +3

    Fascinating. I had no idea there were so many different kinds of carnivorous plants.

  • @lizaelliott6862
    @lizaelliott6862 Před 3 lety +2

    Yessss! More botany and entomology videos please!!! They’re totally under appreciated 😁

  • @tfive24
    @tfive24 Před 3 lety +74

    The movie, "Little Shop of Horrors " still messes with my head to this day.

    • @rossbusher4412
      @rossbusher4412 Před 3 lety +3

      Try watching the movie Eraser Head. This movie will truly twist your noodle.

    • @velocipastor676
      @velocipastor676 Před 3 lety +3

      I think it's the best movie to ever come out of the 80s

    • @xX_wiLLiam_Xx
      @xX_wiLLiam_Xx Před 3 lety

      @@rossbusher4412 whats that

    • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
      @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Před 3 lety

      Mine also.

    • @velocipastor676
      @velocipastor676 Před 3 lety +1

      @@xX_wiLLiam_Xx very creepy movie from David Lynch l think. Nothing to do with carnivorous plants, it's just very....... creepy.

  • @schrodingerscat6437
    @schrodingerscat6437 Před 3 lety +67

    As an Australian Aboriginal man i thank you for acknowledging us in you vid.

  • @ancilodon
    @ancilodon Před 3 lety +2

    As if all that wasn't mind-blowing enough, the genus Nepenthes seems to say "hold my digestive fluid": at least one species is evolving away from carnivory; others derive much of their nutrients from the droppings of animals that they attract (the "bat Nepenthes" for instance has upper pitchers that perfectly accommodate a certain species of bat which seeks them out for daytime shelter); N. albomarginata is "preferential" to termites which it lures with secretions of cellulose; and then there are the commensals- a species of spider that lives in one nepenthes' pitchers, diving and hunting in the digestive fluids; and a mosquito that apparently lays its eggs exclusively in the same fluids, the larvae helping themselves the plant's prey, thanks to a coating that prevents them from being digested also.

  • @kevinpeters6709
    @kevinpeters6709 Před 3 lety +2

    Yay! Thanks for doing an episode on these guys. I absolutely love carnivorous plants and actually kinda sorta got to use the same evolution mechanics behind our real world Caron plants and a creation of mine in a fascinating evolution simulator called Thrive. (I am not affiliated with nor paid by the developers just love the game which is free and is nowhere near complete (only the single cell stage is available right now))

  • @jeremybyington
    @jeremybyington Před 3 lety +27

    This is the first time I have heard of that bladder plant. I wish there was more emphasis in this video on that since so much time was spent on pitcher and sundew plants but, thankfully, I know how to google. Great video, as always!

  • @DenterNu
    @DenterNu Před 3 lety +43

    Folks, isnt this channel just awsome

  • @ScreamSodaInc
    @ScreamSodaInc Před 3 lety +3

    I was literally thinking about carnivorous plants just before this video went up. Thank you for being convenient!

    • @lunarose2529
      @lunarose2529 Před 2 lety

      Are you a psychic? Quick! Think about money falling from the sky!

  • @marcosdasilva2693
    @marcosdasilva2693 Před 3 lety +1

    That was a fantastic episode! I love Andy Steve whenever you mention him in the credits.

  • @flightlesschicken7769
    @flightlesschicken7769 Před 3 lety +28

    Just as a matter of semantics, it is not considered convergent evolution in the strictest sense to many evolutionary biologists. The term they seem to use is parallel evolution, where a trait that exists in some way in both organisms is modified to do the same thing. For example multiple woody plants evolving herbaceousness though a reduction of the vascular cambium.
    Convergent evolution to them is when different traits evolve to do the same thing but in different ways. An example of this is eyes in arthropods and vertebrates or "wood" in monocots even though monocots lack the vascular cambium necessary for the secondary growth that generates woods.
    I personally think this is a dumb distinction and that parallelism is just a type of convergence, but that's just me

  • @steves388
    @steves388 Před 3 lety +13

    New Eons video on a day off, nothing better!

  • @curtiswfranks
    @curtiswfranks Před 3 lety +4

    Six-year-old me is breathlessly excited and amazed by how cool these things are.
    And so is twenty-seven-year-old me.

    • @apdroidgeek1737
      @apdroidgeek1737 Před 3 lety +1

      Your 27 yr old you can now own your very own carnivorous plant.

    • @curtiswfranks
      @curtiswfranks Před 3 lety

      This is true! I should go get some!

  • @rajhonadavid410
    @rajhonadavid410 Před 3 lety

    I gotta say, EONS videos are the best structured and paced, most easy yet still satisfying science shorts on youtube. Im more into physics and space but still, even SpaceTime -the best physics show on yt imo- could learn a bit from its sister channel. Thanks EONS, thanks PBS!

  • @erin-iq8tm
    @erin-iq8tm Před 3 lety +46

    i love this channel so much 😵 i want to be a botanist or paleobotanist and your videos are so interesting, I listen to them like podcasts 24/7

    • @stepfanhuntsman5470
      @stepfanhuntsman5470 Před 3 lety +3

      As a current paleobotanist I encourage you to pursue it! It can be a bit tiring at times but it is really worth it.:-)

    • @Its_Me_Romano
      @Its_Me_Romano Před 3 lety

      @@stepfanhuntsman5470 plants>animals

    • @etepeteseat7424
      @etepeteseat7424 Před 3 lety

      If you haven't yet, check out the channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't. His videos are really interesting and informative, and he has a certain crass charm that's really amusing and endearing.

  • @RapierNeedleCrime
    @RapierNeedleCrime Před 3 lety +17

    I love when you guys talk about plants, it would be really cool if you make more of them in the future!

  • @Mothman58
    @Mothman58 Před 3 lety +1

    Love how you credit the indigenous people. Bravo

  • @wedgewizard5429
    @wedgewizard5429 Před 3 lety +3

    I sometimes think about how dinosaurs had counterparts on air, land and water. Similar to modern day animals, but a completely different set. Like how carnivory evolved 9 times on it's own in plants. Creatures repeatedly evolve similar tactics that work over and over, while still leaving room to develop new ones. Pretty cool stuff.

  • @inutaro
    @inutaro Před 3 lety +9

    Thank you. I needed the "Eons Calm" right now in my day

  • @naturebrothers1844
    @naturebrothers1844 Před 3 lety +33

    My cousin once cared for a Venus flytrap, it’s really interesting to know how these plants and many others became carnivores.

  • @7shinta7
    @7shinta7 Před 3 lety +1

    So much variety and possibilities in the evolution of plants.
    This made me think:
    Why did plants never develope that ability to actively move themselves? Did their specific cell structure fundamentally not allow to build equivalents to nerves and mucles?

  • @eljefesinnaman2603
    @eljefesinnaman2603 Před 2 lety +2

    PBS = National Teasure

  • @jaredburchak1155
    @jaredburchak1155 Před 3 lety +10

    I’ve been wanting a video on this for a while very excited when I saw this

  • @Iku00
    @Iku00 Před 3 lety +18

    This channel makes me feel big brain even though i'm dumb

    • @lunarose2529
      @lunarose2529 Před 2 lety

      Nah, curiosity is what makes you smart.

  • @arnepianocanada
    @arnepianocanada Před 2 lety

    Said before, say again: you have a lovely voice and well-modulated speech that project earnest involvement in your subjects.

  • @tharealcoasta3820
    @tharealcoasta3820 Před 3 lety

    I love the credit they give out at 9:33 for the people and the location of everything used 😊👍👍

  • @semaj_5022
    @semaj_5022 Před 3 lety +16

    This was great! I saw Moth Light Media's video on this subject a couple days ago, and I really enjoyed the Eons take on the same subject. It's such an interesting evolutionary development.

    • @jennis8561
      @jennis8561 Před 3 lety +1

      Ah thank you so much for giving the reason why this felt eerily as if I had seen it or something very similar before despite it being new!

    • @semaj_5022
      @semaj_5022 Před 3 lety

      @@jennis8561 for sure! It threw me off for a minute, too. Lol

  • @nekkidnora
    @nekkidnora Před 3 lety +4

    Oh man, I had a pet venus fly trap as a kid, and it was such a joy for us to learn about her and feed her and get her little terrarium (an old cookie pot) just right. She would sorta hibernate every winter, and lived for yeeeears.

  • @notovny
    @notovny Před 2 lety +2

    10:42 "No, Dad, I'm not changing my name to 'Pre-Cam Brian.' I don't care how proud you are."

  • @jodo7814
    @jodo7814 Před rokem +1

    “A plant that used sticky goo to catch its prey, got stuck forever in the sticky secretions of another plant.”
    From certain videos I’ve seen on the internet, I believe that’s considered “friendly fire”

  • @MargoMB19
    @MargoMB19 Před 3 lety +5

    Literal reaction to notification: EONS!!!! I always get so happy to see a new Eons video!! Of course, I'm completely icked-out about all things insects/bugs, but I make an exception for Eons insect-related videos. I didn't realize there were multiple different ways plants could be carnivores, that's pretty interesting.

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk Před 3 lety +3

    I remember learning about pitcher plants as a kid, right after moving to Mississippi. One of the niftiest things I ever read up on for myself. I still think they're neat!

  • @jayyydizzzle
    @jayyydizzzle Před 2 lety +1

    I would love a deep dive into the molecular clock method

  • @amicableammonite3724
    @amicableammonite3724 Před 3 lety +18

    Loving the message at the end, guys!
    An issue deserving of more attention.
    Respectfully working with indigenous peoples to learn from their lands and fostering good relationships between the scientific community and theirs would do so much to enrich our understanding.
    - An aspiring linguist & palaeontologist living on Kaurna land

  • @jakobraahauge7299
    @jakobraahauge7299 Před 3 lety +42

    Thanks to Kallie for so beautifully hosting this, and of course the rest of the team and all of you who've helped bringing this into fruition! As a teacher I can only be happy, delighted, and thankful!
    You guys makes my work such a delight! Love from far away, happy, and supporting little Denmark!
    🇩🇰❤️🇺🇸
    PS to all of you lovely Americans! I sincerely hope you will take the time and effort to #vote2020 💙

    • @gyozakeynsianism
      @gyozakeynsianism Před 3 lety +1

      Amen to all that.

    • @jonathonholifield3166
      @jonathonholifield3166 Před 2 lety +1

      @@gyozakeynsianism ESPECIALLY the part about "Kallie for so beautifully hosting this" because she is just ENGAGING AND CAPTIVATING..... crap, I've got a crush

  • @jax1722
    @jax1722 Před 3 lety +3

    I love carnivorous plants, I own a little terrarium filled with them. They're absolutely the coolest and learning about how they evolved is amazing. A cool video I would love to see from you guys it's about the evolution of New world vultures Carthartidae and the Terratorns (Terratornis mirabilis)

  • @burningchrome70
    @burningchrome70 Před 3 lety

    Very educational and entertaining. It's great to have something like this after a long day.

  • @rianflower727
    @rianflower727 Před 3 lety +1

    I was always wondering when you guys were going to make this!

  • @Stjcb_7
    @Stjcb_7 Před 3 lety +4

    I wonder if some plants that evolved on land returned to underwater habitats. I’d love to learn more about aquatic ferns and kelp!

    • @kanojune5754
      @kanojune5754 Před rokem

      Kelp and seaweed isn't plants, seagrass on the other hand is a type of flowering plants.

  • @jmon37
    @jmon37 Před 3 lety +3

    Super curious. I’ve read about ancient forests on what is now Antartica and given its position for most of the end of the Cenozoic, it likely didn’t receive the same amount of sunlight as equatorial forests. Wonder if plant carnivores were widespread there during those hotter times.

  • @joshs3775
    @joshs3775 Před 3 lety +1

    Pine lily at 3:38 they are blooming in FL right now

  • @OleanderSmoothie
    @OleanderSmoothie Před 3 lety +1

    all this time, when looking at the links for the pbs eons merch, i assumed the one on the right was a sticky note cube. but it's actually a pin!

  • @eomguel9017
    @eomguel9017 Před 3 lety +9

    Yeeeey! A palaeobotany episode! I felt so excited, I had to comment first, watch later LOL.

  • @RisalBadboy
    @RisalBadboy Před 3 lety +9

    Aaah.. The sun tastes too Hot. I am gonna try a Lil Umami now 🦗🌴

  • @EdeYOlorDSZs
    @EdeYOlorDSZs Před 2 lety +1

    so much information, love it

  • @matt_grossman
    @matt_grossman Před 2 lety +1

    Really interesting topic and a great presentation

  • @orlandomonroy7877
    @orlandomonroy7877 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for the education, very very cool.

  • @nimeovic3411
    @nimeovic3411 Před 3 lety +3

    Love your videos❤

  • @Refty
    @Refty Před 3 lety

    I remember asking for this video at some point. Nice to see it made.

  • @blueberrylane8340
    @blueberrylane8340 Před 3 lety +1

    I love this topic! Great video as always.