The strange case of the cyclops sheep - Tien Nguyen

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    In the 1950s, a group of ranchers in Idaho were baffled when their sheep gave birth to lambs with only one eye. Mystified by these cyclops sheep, they called in scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate. What happened? Tien Nguyen describes how, decades later, one team of biologists stumbled upon the answer.
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  • @CarlosFuentes-ri1jc
    @CarlosFuentes-ri1jc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4994

    That pun at the end was eye opening.

    • @Zer0kx
      @Zer0kx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this.

    • @dawnareno
      @dawnareno 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Carlos Fuentes Stop, oh mu god xD

    • @detectiveshaft9990
      @detectiveshaft9990 7 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Yeah, I was blind-sided by that pun.

    • @jaysonf7864
      @jaysonf7864 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      My Asian cousin approves this.

    • @dkpsyhog
      @dkpsyhog 7 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      All those in favour of more vision puns, say "eye"

  • @bumpom432
    @bumpom432 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6602

    A scientist lived with sheep for 3 summers? Talk about persistence.

    • @ohno2146
      @ohno2146 7 ปีที่แล้ว +654

      I wonder if the scientist counted the sheep before sleeping

    • @amribrahim1486
      @amribrahim1486 7 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      He had alot of fun counting them before sleeping😂

    • @GAMEOVER-yy6zj
      @GAMEOVER-yy6zj 7 ปีที่แล้ว +240

      And the irony is that very few of us know about these scientists while most of us know everything about Kardashians.

    • @raymondv.m4230
      @raymondv.m4230 7 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Not even so. There anthropologists that will spend 5 to 6 years in the habitat of their specimen.

    • @QUARTERMASTEREMI6
      @QUARTERMASTEREMI6 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      +Bonny Monstrosity Talk about dedication to science!

  • @harrymorton6699
    @harrymorton6699 6 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    My parents are sheep farmers. On April 1st 1994 one of the lambing workers went running into the house to find my dad and tell him a one eyed lamb had been born. My dad didn't believe him thinking it was an April fool's joke, eventually the worker persuaded my dad to go outside and sure enough there was a one eyed lamb sitting in the barn. The lamb survived about 3 minutes before it died. Not sure what to do with it my dad decided to cut the lamb's head off and preserve it in formaldehyde. Now every year we have a birthday party for it where we have friends over, get drunk and only eat eye ball shaped or related foods. But I suppose contacting scientist from the department of agriculture would have been a good idea too.

    • @L0rdOfThePies
      @L0rdOfThePies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Thats terrifying yet ..so interesting i wanna see the head now and one eye festivities

    • @gebermotta2558
      @gebermotta2558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Imagine waking up drunk in the ceiling with rests of food in the tables

    • @apricxtt
      @apricxtt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@gebermotta2558 imagine getting really drunk and waking up the next morning only to find the jar empty and the remains of the sheep head on the table.

    • @hulick6910
      @hulick6910 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also that day was April fools

    • @giorgospapoutsakis5271
      @giorgospapoutsakis5271 ปีที่แล้ว

      Animals in general that are born Cyclops like die almost immediately after birth
      Not sure why im the case of this video they survived

  • @nofanfelani6924
    @nofanfelani6924 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5723

    So if a cyclop closes its eye, is it considered as winking of blinking?

    • @parallel4
      @parallel4 7 ปีที่แล้ว +274

      Both?

    • @randomleagueoflegendsthres1034
      @randomleagueoflegendsthres1034 7 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      :O!

    • @qazplm3845
      @qazplm3845 7 ปีที่แล้ว +410

      Winking is intentional while blinking is doing it without thought

    • @isinss-5821
      @isinss-5821 7 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Nofan Felani see that's a real question

    • @therebex23
      @therebex23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Depends on the time length and context.

  • @phiduong8849
    @phiduong8849 5 ปีที่แล้ว +697

    Can we just stop to talk about how terrifying a hedgehog mosquito would be

    • @sovietnomad6651
      @sovietnomad6651 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      You couldn't swat the thing with your hands and the needles would be like sticking your hand in fire proof fome (the pink fome in you're walls)

    • @phiduong8849
      @phiduong8849 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@sovietnomad6651 and imagine how terrifying the frogs and spiders would be if they're able to adapt to the hedgehog mosquitoes

    • @twilightundersky8658
      @twilightundersky8658 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Normal mosquitoes are already a huge problem for me, but hedgehog mosquitoes?

    • @stinkabutt21
      @stinkabutt21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *heavy breathing*

    • @JackCabbit20
      @JackCabbit20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I imagine its the equivilant of smacking a small pile of upturned pins

  • @diffjuns323
    @diffjuns323 7 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    I love how this style makes the cyclops sheep look cute instead of creepy

    • @ElementofKindness
      @ElementofKindness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sheep's eyes already creep me out. A cyclops sheep would be horrific!

    • @echodoodle
      @echodoodle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah I looked them up and UHHHHHHH. They are. Well they are Not Fun to look at certainly.

    • @RiceTrees
      @RiceTrees 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I searched it up, and they look pretty cute ngl

    • @abstrakt8709
      @abstrakt8709 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@echodoodle They are the most Terrifying animal I have ever seen 😰

    • @beaniepq
      @beaniepq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I'm morbidly curious... but as I always say, "morbid curiosity killed the cat due to complications from chronic insomnia, caused by 2 straight weeks of nightmares and intrusive mental images."

  • @ananonynoussauce7616
    @ananonynoussauce7616 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2724

    Dissapointed that you didn't mention that the proteins coded for by the hedgehog gene is actually called the Sonic Hedgehog protein (yes, really) , but a fantastic and thought provoking video as usual. Well done Ted-ed.

    • @Terrkas0
      @Terrkas0 7 ปีที่แล้ว +224

      That explains the S in SHH.

    • @ananonynoussauce7616
      @ananonynoussauce7616 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Terrkas0 Indeed (-:

    • @kerrib8171
      @kerrib8171 7 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      I was thinking the same thing.. copyright, perhaps?

    • @andrewdeangelis3349
      @andrewdeangelis3349 7 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      Don't forget that it has the inhibitor 'Robotnikinin'!

    • @hazemhassanein4205
      @hazemhassanein4205 7 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Does that gene gotta go fast?

  • @aseth9541
    @aseth9541 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3996

    The pun. The only reason they made this video.

    • @JZ-uk8ul
      @JZ-uk8ul 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Adit Seth same

    • @lukaf5
      @lukaf5 7 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Jeanne Heo Double pun "More than MEATS the EYE" (Sheep as meat and eye because cyclops)

    • @greytoeimp
      @greytoeimp 7 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      There were actually two puns... they told ranchers to "steer clear" lol

    • @davinalejo6635
      @davinalejo6635 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      “something must have gone awr-eye”

    • @randomguy8461
      @randomguy8461 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Adit Seth the sheep had a singular deformity

  • @stevied3400
    @stevied3400 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1623

    Polyphemus, the cyclops in the Odyssey, herded sheep. Coincidence?

    • @kindacalled777
      @kindacalled777 7 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      Stephen Darrenkamp *Nobody* understands

    • @aurora-rx4kc
      @aurora-rx4kc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Stephen Darrenkamp at first i thought the video was about him

    • @nathanbickel3916
      @nathanbickel3916 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      aurora Same xD

    • @flowersrockthenight
      @flowersrockthenight 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      kindacalled777 A character in The Odyssey was a cyclops and he herded sheep.

    • @HiTemperredBananaz
      @HiTemperredBananaz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Flameheart from Thunderclan I think he was referencing the name Odysseus have himself for the Cyclops to call him

  • @hazyrory3121
    @hazyrory3121 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2771

    Anyone else slightly annoyed that the cyclopamine animation had two eyes

    • @WateverWatever04
      @WateverWatever04 6 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      Lilliana I wasn't until you mentioned it and now I can't un-notice it

    • @bleh1569
      @bleh1569 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Omg 👌

    • @lexibyday9504
      @lexibyday9504 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      well I am NOW!

    • @janetpark2717
      @janetpark2717 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Anyone else sligtly annoyed that the narrator called it a heard instead of a flock

    • @itswarhawk
      @itswarhawk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Now

  • @SirusShea
    @SirusShea 7 ปีที่แล้ว +288

    Don't avoid the truth TED-Ed- people deserve to know that the hedgehog gene SHH is short for Sonic Hedgehog because it was the nineties and those scientists (albeit not the ones who originally discovered hedgehog but the 3 hedgehog genes in the hedgehog family for vertebrates) were The Worst jokers.

    • @jasonpeng5798
      @jasonpeng5798 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      It wasn't a joke, the scientist named it Sonic hedgehog because that was what his kid wanted it to be named.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They are the best kind of scientists

    • @jolinezhang9756
      @jolinezhang9756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ConstantChaos1 YES THEY ARE THE FREAKING BEST!!

    • @Just_Ants
      @Just_Ants 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ah yes, the classic Sonic trilogy

  • @scotthicklin5532
    @scotthicklin5532 7 ปีที่แล้ว +789

    It's not just the hedgehog gene, it's the sonic hedgehog gene! Why would you miss the cool part out

    • @TheMushMe
      @TheMushMe 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Scott Hicklin you know certain someone will come and sue ted ed for saying it

    • @porkeyminch8044
      @porkeyminch8044 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Amirul That's NO GOOD!

    • @lukasgoodrich9414
      @lukasgoodrich9414 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Amirul Ashraf they can’t sue, it’s the scientific name.

    • @ezzeldinmohd6740
      @ezzeldinmohd6740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@porkeyminch8044 wait for real?

    • @erikvanhurck
      @erikvanhurck 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog?wprov=sfla1

  • @dinohall2595
    @dinohall2595 2 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Shoutout to the sheep farmers who inadvertently gave us a treatment for cancer by wanting to explore the science behind what was happening to their sheep.

    • @lauranolastnamegiven3385
      @lauranolastnamegiven3385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      they probably only had it investigated because it was hurting their profits...maybe the wool the cyclops sheep grew (if they even lived long enough to) wasn't appropriate for usage? maybe no slaughterhouse would process a one-eyed lamb/sheep for human consumption? I have a hard time believing it was for true scientific curiosity or concern for their animals' welfare

    • @someonestolemyname
      @someonestolemyname 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lauranolastnamegiven3385 Can't make wool if they are dead

    • @lauranolastnamegiven3385
      @lauranolastnamegiven3385 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@someonestolemyname can't earn profit, which is all livestock is worth, to their owners

    • @TheOneAndOnlyCatfish.
      @TheOneAndOnlyCatfish. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lauranolastnamegiven3385 Or maybe they just thought that this is a medical anomaly and should be examined. Maybe they were just curious. Why do you have a hard time believing this?

  • @cpt_nordbart
    @cpt_nordbart 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2743

    Ewe.... those cyclopamine sheeps don't look so cute in reality.

    • @azuregriffin1116
      @azuregriffin1116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      nordbart CP oh dear...

    • @flowersrockthenight
      @flowersrockthenight 7 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Was that a pun??

    • @majorjack3972
      @majorjack3972 7 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      *good gravy...*

    • @Jimmy_Johns
      @Jimmy_Johns 7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Oh God! Why???

    • @brookerd241
      @brookerd241 7 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      nordbart CP ikr! I looked up a picture of them and I swear I'm going to have nightmares!!!

  • @Masfugo
    @Masfugo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    In my country when farmer found out their sheep has one eye they will make a show out of it, adding ticket booth and put price to watch them
    and people will crazily pay to see it. some even pray on it like it's a miracle. lol

    • @azuregriffin1116
      @azuregriffin1116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Dafuq do you live?

    • @jesssie4437
      @jesssie4437 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@azuregriffin1116 probally ireland

    • @dinonuggiesguy4847
      @dinonuggiesguy4847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@azuregriffin1116 I think it's Indonesia, 1 of his video contained Indonesia language. But I never heard the news here. So I don't know what year is That
      Edit:Did some research, turns out it's real.

  • @Imoaninyourroomeverynight
    @Imoaninyourroomeverynight 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Saw the actual photos. I need to keep an eye out for nightmares now.

  • @ValeriePallaoro
    @ValeriePallaoro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    While you call it 'the hedgehog gene' it's more appropriately called by it's proper name (as indicated by the letters SHH) Sonic the HedgeHog gene - the joys of being a scientist is that you get to name your new finds. Always do good. And this is very good.

    • @lauranolastnamegiven3385
      @lauranolastnamegiven3385 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      not sure torturing animals (which they kind of glossed over in this video, but it was done, and hundreds, perhaps thousands of animals suffered) - even in the name of 'science' or hoping to create a new medication - is "doing good"

    • @sometimessnarky1642
      @sometimessnarky1642 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lauranolastnamegiven3385 while rubbing hair dye in a rabbits eyes is cruel and unusual punishment, medicines must be tested to find out what happens to the person taking them.
      Few humans are willing to be experimented on in the name of science so we use animals.
      Every medical breakthrough in the last century has come about because of clinical studies on mice, guinea pigs, rats, chimpanzees and pigs.

    • @lauranolastnamegiven3385
      @lauranolastnamegiven3385 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sometimessnarky1642 we have prisons full of people who already have diseases...what better way to *actually* pay your debt to society (as opposed to sitting around doing nothing), than to advance medicine?

    • @andrewhall7930
      @andrewhall7930 ปีที่แล้ว

      One day someone will name a shrimp after Bob Marley... One day.

  • @len6645
    @len6645 7 ปีที่แล้ว +417

    Thumbnail got me shook...

  • @mychannelhasonly1videojust319
    @mychannelhasonly1videojust319 7 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    I just love this voice feeding knowledge into my brain

    • @harutyunjohns4129
      @harutyunjohns4129 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just love you baby...

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well its misinformation
      The gene is the sonic the hedgehog gene and it makes the sonic the hedgehog protein

    • @mrcoatimundi753
      @mrcoatimundi753 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ConstantChaos1 Exactly! They should do their research

  • @o.gingras
    @o.gingras 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    That's interesting..! It also kind of explain why these sheep died quickly, since tissus were not created in a proper way. I'm wondering though, there is a recent case of a one eye goat in India, which still lives to many people's surprise. Is it thought that this goat case is related to cyclopamine as well?

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Likely not, or if it was it was ingested minimally and only st certian times as to only effect eye formation

  • @helloimnothing7954
    @helloimnothing7954 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Unexpectedly, sheeps with one eye are scary than normal.

  • @denisethasder8193
    @denisethasder8193 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    -Farmers see one eyed lambs
    -“Ewe’ve gotta be kidding me!”

  • @NEPtune-fy1ug
    @NEPtune-fy1ug 7 ปีที่แล้ว +520

    So are cyclop humans possible?

    • @len6645
      @len6645 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      99NEPtune99 ™ good question

    • @theevokeruser2356
      @theevokeruser2356 7 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      99NEPtune99 ™ no-one would try it though, whether it works or not.

    • @Sketchy_Dood
      @Sketchy_Dood 7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      99NEPtune99 ™ with genetic engineering but what would be the point?

    • @davidmunoz4022
      @davidmunoz4022 7 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      don't google images for it

    • @EvilNassu
      @EvilNassu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      Yes it is possible. There have been children born with cyclophia, a rare birth defect.

  • @alanqin5945
    @alanqin5945 7 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Eye see

    • @victora4161
      @victora4161 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Alan Qin o

    • @hhcat91
      @hhcat91 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      DID YOU KNOW THAT
      *eye see*
      NOW YOU KNOW

  • @zelly4914
    @zelly4914 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The thing from real pictures that surprised me the most was that it's not a small, normal sized eye. It is HUGE. Like the cyclops of legend, the eye is always pictured really big? It's the same for these sheep. Which makes me curious about the legend. Maybe the cyclops myth was based off a real person, very tall with one large eye. Nothing mystical, just.....tweaked genes.

    • @shrimpbisque
      @shrimpbisque 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nah, cyclops legends were inspired by people who found mammoth skulls and mistook the nasal cavity for an eye socket.

    • @lauranolastnamegiven3385
      @lauranolastnamegiven3385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      well, the narrator mentions it prevents *separate* eyes from forming, so perhaps the one is so large because it's actually a combination of the tissue which was supposed to/would normally be 2?

  • @MegaMGstudios
    @MegaMGstudios 7 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Wasnt the gene called "sonic hedgehog"?

    • @briandiehl9257
      @briandiehl9257 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes

    • @yellowlemonPenguin
      @yellowlemonPenguin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah that's why they shorthanded it to SHH even in this video.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They are too far up their own asses with trying to feel important to actually transmit valid information

    • @Keymaster163
      @Keymaster163 ปีที่แล้ว

      GOTTA GO FAST! (sonic reference)

  • @alexao208
    @alexao208 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I searched up the images thinking they'd be cute
    I was solely mistaken

  • @pranavvariava2685
    @pranavvariava2685 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Your content are so quality yet simple

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They literally couldn't even get a name if the gene or protein right if that's quality then I'm the goddamn queen of England

    • @-khushlush
      @-khushlush 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ConstantChaos1 why are you so damn salty about it ?

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@-khushlush misinformation is rampant in the modern era, to see someone praising it is a problem

  • @Smikay
    @Smikay 7 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    "more than meets the eye" haha because some people eat sheep meat right? lol good one :P

    • @bees7525
      @bees7525 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Arnold Poluska arnold the video is about eyes

    • @porkeyminch8044
      @porkeyminch8044 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Bees752 I'm pretty sure he got the pun, and simply decided to make a joke based on it

    • @vbgvbg1133
      @vbgvbg1133 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i dun geddit

    • @tammystratford7079
      @tammystratford7079 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      People even eat sheep eyes. It's an apparent delicacy.

    • @-nightlyfireflies-9561
      @-nightlyfireflies-9561 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No the joke was about the sheep having one eye

  • @whatgamesweplay
    @whatgamesweplay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'd like to thank the uploader for not including an actual photo of a one eyed sheep in the video

  • @gillianjones6629
    @gillianjones6629 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    When I was little, I went to camp, and the counselors told us to stay away from the corn lilies because they were poisonous, but then one said "but they are using OUR corn lilies to try to cure cancer."

    • @sometimessnarky1642
      @sometimessnarky1642 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chemotherapy is poison.
      The corn Lily alters genes which is what chemo and radiation treatments are designed to do...

  • @akai_suika
    @akai_suika 7 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    Eye understand.

  • @lillak8405
    @lillak8405 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is one of your best videos in my opinion. Telling how genes and molecules are affected from each other nicely.

  • @wilytw
    @wilytw 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Whoa, I'm actually very interested in this, and the video really helped me understand what was going on

  • @b.quinchana
    @b.quinchana 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    2:09 Me feeling confident about the group work.
    2:12 realizing that I messed everything up.

  • @naingchanmyae
    @naingchanmyae 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So happy that the same old outro came back! That song makes me release dopamine in my brain!

  • @YakobBell
    @YakobBell 7 ปีที่แล้ว +296

    Why do the human characters in this animation looks so sad? :(

    • @malleothaplumbah520
      @malleothaplumbah520 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      0:11 except that kid

    • @ay35748
      @ay35748 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They're confused

    • @gael4787
      @gael4787 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      it's the eyebrows

    • @the26local96
      @the26local96 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      donate to patreon and we'll be able to make them look as real as you

    • @ay35748
      @ay35748 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      zippity dandy they mean sad as in unhappy

  • @Ta3allamOnline
    @Ta3allamOnline 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved it, Thanks

  • @iloveselenite
    @iloveselenite 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Theres more more that meets the eye" wonderful pun XD

    • @nelsonwood6840
      @nelsonwood6840 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you watch the movie Magi?

  • @subhasarkar7465
    @subhasarkar7465 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow how lucky was the invention ..

  • @justrifky
    @justrifky 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Sometimes theres more than meets the eye" what a great writer.

  • @one_two_three_Cheese
    @one_two_three_Cheese 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the conclusion at the end. SO beautiful

  • @l.i.a.m.b
    @l.i.a.m.b 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I love how the gene is called "Sonic Hedgehog"

    • @hhcat91
      @hhcat91 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah like Sonic the Hedgehog, the blue blur, or the fastest thing alive

  • @athenaweis3262
    @athenaweis3262 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, and the animation is lovely!

  • @everydaydoge40
    @everydaydoge40 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    this explains sonic fanart on deviantart

  • @ahmermirza
    @ahmermirza 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    ted-ed videos always end up having me goosebumps all over...

  • @Dani5554
    @Dani5554 7 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Don't google for real photos, trust me.

    • @juicicle5171
      @juicicle5171 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I now feel like I've been challenged to do it.

    • @juicicle5171
      @juicicle5171 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Well, there goes my sleep time. Nightmares here I come.

    • @flowersrockthenight
      @flowersrockthenight 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Wish me luck

    • @flowersrockthenight
      @flowersrockthenight 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I did not expect that.
      I'm the dead cat killed by curiosity.
      Guys, please, PLEASE, don't look it up.
      If you value your life, please.

    • @george8662
      @george8662 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I WILL LOOK IT UP AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!!!
      It's wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. I'm weirdly disappointed.

  • @devin5052
    @devin5052 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow these videos get better and better

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Also, part of the reason of how the mythical Greek monster derived or inspired from, women in Ancient Greece sometimes ingest certain herbs when they are pregnant and give birth to cyclopian stillbirths.

  • @llGuydll
    @llGuydll 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Guess now we know why they say "keep AN eye open"

  • @cup_check_official
    @cup_check_official 7 ปีที่แล้ว +993

    fakin hedgehog

    • @nikolajtersbl5150
      @nikolajtersbl5150 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tell Me This ,

    • @sithlorddread8721
      @sithlorddread8721 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was the 1950s so i would imagine they called them first as they popped up on Google search first

    • @chairwood
      @chairwood 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tell Me This fakin hedgehog

    • @juanmanuelpenaloza9264
      @juanmanuelpenaloza9264 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Loved by Gamers and North Koreans alike.

    • @BST-ri6gf
      @BST-ri6gf 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tell Me This you mom glade

  • @smiley_oy683
    @smiley_oy683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imagine a sheep with one eye and blinking enough to have a wet eye. How sad.

  • @pranavarastogi6635
    @pranavarastogi6635 7 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    When Will You Upload A Riddle

    • @TEDEd
      @TEDEd  7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Thanks for asking! We hope to publish the first of several that we've been working on in the next few weeks!

    • @kavithajagdeesha8999
      @kavithajagdeesha8999 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great

    • @raymondv.m4230
      @raymondv.m4230 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TED-Ed I'm glad, I understand hardcore members have seen every video but I'm new and still solving the 3 alien gods riddle. :p

  • @jaybestnz
    @jaybestnz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you search for images of them, they are terrifying.

  • @snugglespoppedmuffin7486
    @snugglespoppedmuffin7486 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I thought this was about Greek mythology 😅

  • @dusktheowlgryphon
    @dusktheowlgryphon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You can only imagine what the farmers were thinking when this happened.

  • @thepopulargoat6896
    @thepopulargoat6896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The cartoon representation of Cyclopamine has two eyes...
    You had ONE job, TED Ed!

  • @naingchanmyae
    @naingchanmyae 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    So happy that original outro came back!

  • @mangodaily9223
    @mangodaily9223 7 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Beep beep im a sheep i said beep beep im a sheep

    • @aClovey
      @aClovey 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tomska will be proud

    • @randomleagueoflegendsthres1034
      @randomleagueoflegendsthres1034 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought of Foghorn Leghorn when I read this comment.

    • @nergal7236
      @nergal7236 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Clovey nah he would cringe

    • @cactusgamingyt9960
      @cactusgamingyt9960 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      YOUVE GOT TO BEEP BEEP, I SAID BEEP BEEP LIKE A SHEEEEP. beep beep

    • @nikitapoletaev905
      @nikitapoletaev905 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      meow meow ima cow

  • @aceofspades8821
    @aceofspades8821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this art style

  • @truthwight7549
    @truthwight7549 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Never seen someone handsome with one eye before?"

  • @xx3664
    @xx3664 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    your new animator did a stellar job. please keep him.

  • @cup_check_official
    @cup_check_official 7 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    umm why did they call the dept of agriculture instead of someone from the veterinary dept or genetic dept? (not sure if genetic dept is a thing but you get the point)

    • @scahsaint6249
      @scahsaint6249 7 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      Tell Me This Probably because the Department of Agriculture overarch those other Departments and have the power to send relevant professionals to investigate.

    • @malikhansen95
      @malikhansen95 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Because sheep are plants duh.

    • @isabelmartinez3093
      @isabelmartinez3093 7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Do you know what agriculture means?

    • @sunandrain98
      @sunandrain98 7 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      The word agriculture includes rearing animals for food as well as cultivating crops.

    • @porschecollector727
      @porschecollector727 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This was in the 50s

  • @DinoA87
    @DinoA87 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    So educative. Thank you TED-ED

  • @ContinualImprovement
    @ContinualImprovement 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Cyclops sheep? Next they'll be talking about the three-eyed fish from The Simpsons.

  • @Jerrywood111
    @Jerrywood111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for not including actual footage of cyclops sheep. i googled it and now i'm probably never going to sleep again

  • @gorannashreen2822
    @gorannashreen2822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Me: my nick name lily
    Scientists: the lily flower is the cause of cyclop sheep
    Me: ;-;
    (That profile pic is not me)

  • @chocolatestrawberry5491
    @chocolatestrawberry5491 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I thought it was a riddle... darn. sill cool though

  • @novueiro
    @novueiro 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why are only the eyes affected by this? Why not the whole body??????

    • @nathangamble125
      @nathangamble125 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sometimes gene expression is weird. It does have some effects to other parts of the body, but the most obvious ones are in the head.

  • @sunny02bunny
    @sunny02bunny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i just had a lecture on the medicinal quality of plants, this plant in particular

  • @Quiscalus777
    @Quiscalus777 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My favorite animator. :)

  • @katowo6521
    @katowo6521 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The only channel that I don't skip ads

  • @leonelc29
    @leonelc29 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Does the hedgehog gene go fast?

    • @sergiosarmiento4371
      @sergiosarmiento4371 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Leon Fook it's the fastest gene alivee!

    • @nathangamble125
      @nathangamble125 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not if you inhibit it with robotnikinin!
      www.biovision.com/robotnikinin.html

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Pumpkin Spikes and it's the sonic the hedgehog gene

  • @페이커의작은팬
    @페이커의작은팬 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    UGH this animation style is so satisfying and cute

  • @theomik
    @theomik 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If 2 cyclops sheep have a baby, how many eyes will it have

  • @cupur
    @cupur 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really enjoy these videos

  • @vhdiggsd7576
    @vhdiggsd7576 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The hedgehog gene is called sonic hedgehog lol

  • @Senecamarcus
    @Senecamarcus 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tien voice over is the best

  • @cannonfodder-xh7ew
    @cannonfodder-xh7ew 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why are there so many plants that's poisonous

    • @noemibolivar5945
      @noemibolivar5945 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      dragon wishqq Because plants don't like being eaten. They can't move, so the only ways to defend themselves is through physical structures (like thorns) and chemical defenses, which we know as poisons.

    • @sarathmohan1008
      @sarathmohan1008 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dragon wishqq "poisonous" is a relative term.

  • @ОлегКозлов-ю9т
    @ОлегКозлов-ю9т 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    The cinclusion was brilliant

  • @Zefram0911
    @Zefram0911 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    more than meets the eye.... LOOOLL

  • @funtimediaz7435
    @funtimediaz7435 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    is it me or the one eyed sheep looks so cute in the ending

  • @thainoahwalker-scott4627
    @thainoahwalker-scott4627 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Image eating a sheep and remembering that it could’ve been 1 eyed

  • @vishwamithra3390
    @vishwamithra3390 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is rather a scary info. Considering that flower can be grown wildly.

  • @eocalive
    @eocalive 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    One eyed sheep 😲 existed

    • @musicjax
      @musicjax 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      why are you dying

  • @lololyoo5091
    @lololyoo5091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now I finally know how that Minion only got one eye...

  • @RomanticPopPunk
    @RomanticPopPunk 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    And we have a dude named Tien narrating it. If you watched Dragon Ball, you'd know what I mean.

  • @boylogan1011
    @boylogan1011 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is my favourite animator on this channel

  • @ironvanguard7219
    @ironvanguard7219 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I just googled the real photos of the sheep and all I have to say is:
    Ewe

    • @superblaubeere27
      @superblaubeere27 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well I don't want to see it myself. How does it look like?

  • @oO-wo1zo
    @oO-wo1zo 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The animators need a raise.

  • @CoryMck
    @CoryMck 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    *It's not called "the Hedgehog gene" it's called the "Sonic Hedgehog" gene.* How can you miss a detail as significant as *the name?*

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because they are too far up their own asses thinking they are too important

  • @formerctgovernordannelmall1452
    @formerctgovernordannelmall1452 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At first I thought the title was “the Cyclops’ sheep” and I thought it was about the Odyssey

  • @mharkianescaro3920
    @mharkianescaro3920 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    anyone love the animation?
    me!🙌

  • @RamdomView
    @RamdomView 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lesson: not all discoveries have an immediate practical application.

  • @marrielli6547
    @marrielli6547 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    they took 4 decades i took 4 min knowing about their 4 decades

  • @nidhraiyer3216
    @nidhraiyer3216 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really love your work

  • @greekhorse2243
    @greekhorse2243 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    TRUE everything does needs further investigation, like why teachers never draws as great as ted ed

  • @nyroysa
    @nyroysa 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    RELATED NERD QUIZ
    Q : What is the relationship between Micheal Wazowski and Sonic the hedgehog?
    A : I want to give you an answer, but im not gonna tell you, because you gonna google the answer and blame me...

    • @saraahmed5072
      @saraahmed5072 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      nyroysa they both are Cyclops

    • @nyroysa
      @nyroysa 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sara Ahmed well... i just know that sonic the hedgehog is cyclopes... but this is not my point...

    • @nyroysa
      @nyroysa 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the gene name SHH is initialized word for "Sonic HedgeHog". yeah. seriously. the scientist who discovered it saw his daughter's comics about sonic, so he named after that.
      as you can see in the video, gene SHH is very important for foaming most of body parts when the creature is in an uterus. damages in SHH causes a really really terrible result such as cyclops.
      talks about SHH by scientists usually taken by this ...misery baby's dna, so if you google about SHH gene then you see some... thing.

    • @saraahmed5072
      @saraahmed5072 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      .-.

  • @utsavkhera7398
    @utsavkhera7398 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Still waiting for the riddle question.

  • @salesale4368
    @salesale4368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When in Minecraft you keep breeding the sheeps with their parents