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Arthropods: the first explorers!
This short film explores how arthropods became the first creatures to leave the sea and get onto land. This momentous event happened long before there were forests and trees, and several key adaptations made it possible for these pioneering bugs to make this transition, such as their exoskeleton and their breathing system. The film investigates how they were able to thrive in their new environments and what was the starting point of the amazing biodiversity that land-dwelling arthropods represent today.
This amazing story is told through the eyes of two arthropod characters: a news anchor and a bug specialist, in the context of the Paleozoic, seeing the first arthropods on land as explorers of a new world, similar to the astronauts of today.
This short film video was made by SEAS THE DAY Productions - an intrepid team of five University of Galway students as part of the course History of Life (@historyoflife7343 ):
Sìofra Collins - filming and animations
Katherine Doe - illustrations and the storyboard
Toinon Flecher - film and sound editing
Grace Lynch - research, script writing, voice over, and storyboard
Olivia Philo - research, script writing and voice over
We hope you enjoy this short film and that viewers manage to learn something valuable about this incredible moment in the evolution of life on land. Thanks to John Murray (who teaches History of Life) for enabling us to create this short film.
A big thank you for everyone involved in this project - many thanks for watching!
Image sources:
All the illustrations were hand drawn and animated by our team.
A free green screen video clip and a free sound effect have been used from Pixabay, many thanks to the creators who have made them able for our use.
References:
Aria, C. (2021) The origin and early evolution of arthropods. Biological reviews 97, doi:10.31233/osf.io/4zmey.
Davies, N.S., Garwood, R.J., McMahon, W.J., Schneider, J.W. & Shillito, A.P. (2021) The largest arthropod in Earth history: insights from newly discovered Arthropleura remains (Serpukhovian Stainmore Formation, Northumberland, England). Journal of the Geological Society 179, jgs2021-115. doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-115
Engel, M.S. (2015) Insect evolution. Current Biology 25, R868-R872. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.059
Nel, A., Prokop, J., Pecharová, M., Engel, M.S. & Garrouste, R. (2018) Palaeozoic giant dragonflies were hawker predators. Scientific reports 8(1), 12141. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30629-w
Shear, W.A. (2012) ‘An insect to fill the gap’, Nature, 488(7409), 34-35. doi:10.1038/488034a.
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  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent ! But so few views...🤔. Hope you guys ( and gals ) went on to successful careers later..??👍

  • @theastrogoth8624
    @theastrogoth8624 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Creative thinking.

  • @charlesbrown1365
    @charlesbrown1365 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We had more sexual intercourse , including with Neanderthals did with each other . We absorbed them .

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Linebacker

  • @SolracCAP
    @SolracCAP หลายเดือนก่อน

    Despite being stronger and tougher than us, we outcompeted them in hunting and gathering. We were smarter, more socially cooperative, and much more numerous. Still, they were human like us, just a different kind.

    • @samreh6156
      @samreh6156 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or maybe modern humans simply outnumbered them.

  • @user-ki1gu2ut8t
    @user-ki1gu2ut8t หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why is it said that Neanderthals disappeared when there is evidence they simply bred in with the homo sapiens ? They're not gone now, they didn't die out we are their descendance . They lived , they had children and their children had children . They're still alive today and still having children . The % of Neanderthal was small and true to form so is the % of DNA we have today. Still none the less we're their descendance , so they didn't die out.

  • @connoroleary591
    @connoroleary591 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They survived in an extremely harsh environment with carnivores much larger than those presently found on earth. Their tool technology didn't advance as rapidly as ours did, what caused the advance in our technology was probably aggression. Even today most of our technological advances have been in the pursuit of war. My guess is that the Neanderthals survived so long by being more peaceable than ourselves. Their decline and extinction coincided with our arrival, they were no match for our cunning and brutality. The "interbreeding with communities" was probably forced, after the older men and women of the Neanderthal tribes were dispatched.

  • @v1e1r1g1e1
    @v1e1r1g1e1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Neanderthal agriculture...? Did I hear that correctly? How is this cultural achievement known to be so?

  • @friedrichjunzt
    @friedrichjunzt หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the vid, but use a microphone close to your bodys, please. especially in large rooms. 🙂 Those neanderthals must have been a real menace. Didn't they event hunt us? I remember reading that somewhere: Male bones were found with scratch marks and it seems that females were abducted for ... well, we can image for what. Weren't even neanderthal females much stronger than any modern human male?

  • @eb2151
    @eb2151 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What is anatomically

  • @eb2151
    @eb2151 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What are Neanderthals and modern humans

  • @nitinshanker1429
    @nitinshanker1429 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s so irritating to live with inclusivity even in videos of such phenomenal scientific stuff

    • @jahuti5065
      @jahuti5065 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What is it that you would rather exclude?

  • @cosmicpsyops4529
    @cosmicpsyops4529 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I bet they were more emotionally intelligent than we are by a wide margin.

  • @kadiratl8464
    @kadiratl8464 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yorumum neden siliniyor?

  • @garyturner5739
    @garyturner5739 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Neanderthals and homo spians could of interbred and there is some genetic evidence that it might of happened then.

  • @MarmaladeINFP
    @MarmaladeINFP หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some context is useful. The modern human skull and brain shrunk with the malnourishment from the agricultural revolution. We humans have not regained the greater size of Paleolithic humans. It would be more useful to compare Neanderthal bones to that of Paleolithic humans.

  • @jeremyashford2145
    @jeremyashford2145 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your thumbnail is a brilliant illustration of a point that anthropologists have long failed to grasp. We constantly hear reference to the heavy brow ridge of Neanderthals, but no one offers a suggestion why it was like that. The reason is that (purebred as distinct from present day hybrid) Neanderthal had a skull shape that could be described as "brain behind face" or "face before brain" whereas anatomically modern humans and the majority of actual modern humans have a "brain over face" or "face under brain" configuration. Also, Neanderthal had massive eyes in comparison to modern humans and with no braincase directly above the extra bone was needed to protect their orbits.

    • @cw4608
      @cw4608 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When I saw the comparison I thought we have Pug faces compared to the Neanderthal

  • @gw2955
    @gw2955 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Caloric requirements were huge for neanderthals, probably unsustainable in climates with smaller animals.

    • @ZubairKhan-vs8fe
      @ZubairKhan-vs8fe หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like the presenter

    • @sonpopco-op9682
      @sonpopco-op9682 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Estimates are about 5 lbs of meat per day per adult. compare that to the sapiens from the south who require only a pound or so of nuts & roots.

    • @teajbhaghel
      @teajbhaghel หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ZubairKhan-vs8febut sir your scholer are saying 1st human was adam and there was no evaluation about human?? so what's your opinion

  • @matheusgasoto
    @matheusgasoto หลายเดือนก่อน

    what's the name of the torch mushroom please? (0:42)

  • @mooredelira
    @mooredelira หลายเดือนก่อน

    are there no men in this new tribe?

  • @EuropeanSeparatists
    @EuropeanSeparatists หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video.

  • @emanuelkreuzinger8390
    @emanuelkreuzinger8390 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you

  • @barabbasrosebud9282
    @barabbasrosebud9282 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Neanderthals had the intelligence to go extinct.

  • @retepeyahaled2961
    @retepeyahaled2961 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very bad sound. Often hard to understand.

  • @KaiGamble-ym3nz
    @KaiGamble-ym3nz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looks like they have bigger brains dont it? Or should have.

  • @willowrabbit
    @willowrabbit 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I gasped and shouted no when the fish began to explode

  • @nameless688
    @nameless688 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seems like they had a big head and short body, no way they could pass for a human especially there weird voice

  • @fraseredk7433
    @fraseredk7433 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Or sapiens wiped out nthals

  • @maryanncrody4867
    @maryanncrody4867 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You must be in texas

  • @Chompchompyerded
    @Chompchompyerded 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It has recently been discovered that Neanderthals are alive and well, and living in American politics.

  • @imogenhards4065
    @imogenhards4065 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This popped offfff. Slay!

  • @calamityjane5698
    @calamityjane5698 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The spears that Neanderthals used have been reproduced and when an experienced javelin thrower used them, they were quite deadly at as far as the bows produced in early times.

  • @sonpopco-op9682
    @sonpopco-op9682 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The AI depictions look far too human. They were hairy monsters that killed and ate our ancestors. Then we discovered wolves living in the north, and they lost the advantage. That's why he such a good boy.

    • @HuckleberryHim
      @HuckleberryHim 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This video is obv way older than the recent boom in AI art... also, they might have eaten "modern" humans, but we absolutely also ate them back, and probably much more so than the reverse. And finally, Neanderthals were already gone for almost 20,000 years by the time dogs were domesticated.

    • @sonpopco-op9682
      @sonpopco-op9682 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@HuckleberryHimate them back? simple delusion. You got your dates wrong, there are dog burials far older than that, about twice as far. We began using them for other tasks after the monsters were all dead ya know.

    • @HuckleberryHim
      @HuckleberryHim 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sonpopco-op9682 There are plenty of Neanderthal fossils in association with "modern" humans with butchery marks. It is well documented that humans killed and ate Neanderthals. Not sure what else you want me to say, this isn't controversial or some super recent discovery. I also don't know what you want me to say about dogs. Your date defies everything we know about the domestication of dogs. There is no evidence of this extremely older date.

    • @nickaschenbecker9882
      @nickaschenbecker9882 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sonpopco-op9682 go to a library and read some books.

    • @sonpopco-op9682
      @sonpopco-op9682 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nickaschenbecker9882 Read them all. A lot of them are so very wrong. I can teach you if you'd like. Start with "space-time" .. complete B.S.

  • @Jaggerbush
    @Jaggerbush 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Idk. Im all about science and evolution but whales and dolphins still have me like 🤔

  • @user-eh2ob7wf3m
    @user-eh2ob7wf3m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent so well explained

  • @user-us3vu2uv5q
    @user-us3vu2uv5q 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool. Very educational

  • @megbologna6483
    @megbologna6483 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Evolution is amazing, great video and animation

  • @laurenkirwan3673
    @laurenkirwan3673 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Learned so much !! great video

  • @alexmccullagh2214
    @alexmccullagh2214 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video!

  • @reverendrethinkingmylife
    @reverendrethinkingmylife 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone who was firmly a creationist their entire life. This has completely changed my world view. Via la evolution!!

  • @kr1ssp-vb8bj
    @kr1ssp-vb8bj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting and informative, while still being descriptive. Awesome video!

  • @awhdfgf
    @awhdfgf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Woah the music used in this is very cool! Who ever made it must be extremely talented

  • @user-jt8nz7yr6n
    @user-jt8nz7yr6n 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back again for another watch !, can’t get enough, this video is my guilty pleasure

  • @saoirsemoore4220
    @saoirsemoore4220 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wowza! This video is so educational, will be using this in my studies 😻

  • @josephkelly4685
    @josephkelly4685 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow the animation is amazing 😮

  • @leonieh3866
    @leonieh3866 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting, the animations make it really easy to understand, even if you’re new to the topic! Please more!

  • @user-rl6xh2di5c
    @user-rl6xh2di5c 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent and well done.

  • @moniquemurphy270
    @moniquemurphy270 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very impressive. Very well explained. Love the animation. ❤

  • @goodevening2054
    @goodevening2054 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What an interesting point of view!

    • @Letsplayvalheim
      @Letsplayvalheim 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everythings interesting when it includes Ichthyostega

  • @Letsplayvalheim
    @Letsplayvalheim 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Finally a video that captures the majesty and significance of Ichthyostega

    • @megbologna6483
      @megbologna6483 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I couldn't agree more with you!! Great video!