Fun fact: Jamie Hyneman once proved that he can motorcycle on water at least for a short time and distance until, due to lack of thrust, the motorbike loses too much speed and sinks.
In Top Gear they successfully drove a smowmobile and a dune buggy across a lake. This makes me wonder just how necessary the forward movement is, and whether you could actually slow down and stop by lowering another set of rapidly rotating wheels into the water, but rotating backwards. Or by transitioning from powered waterwalking to buoyancy and back, by spinning the active element out of the water and then gradually lowering it in to start moving.
I was born and raised in Panama and I saw these lil guys everywhere! the sound they make when they splash on the water is as unique as everything else. Sounds like very quick clapping by the world's tiniest hands haha
They're sooo cool! Some crabs also have this "superpower." Our crew found them on the coast of Brazil, where wild waves and cunning predators mean serious survival skills are in order. The Sally Lightfoot crabs adapted to breathe on land and escape eels and octopuses by literally walking on water.
It’s not just their personalities. ITS THEIR CARE! They need a huge enclosure, big pool for them to soak in, a lots of climbing branches to climb, live plants. I have one and he was 5 months old on 2023 February and how he’s 18 months old on March 2024. Dam he’s big, 2ft long also. Full grown size is 3ft so he’s still growing.
That's like the joke about the drunk who tries to convince his friends he is Jesus, so he gets them to come with him to the local bar. As soon as he walks in the bartender says, "Jesus Christ! You're here again!?"
I found the continual use of "walk/walking on water" extremely irritating. The basilisk can hardly even be said to run on water, as it relies on a rapidly cycling paddling motion to propel itself.
Too bad there wasn’t a clip of the lizard running across the water where we could hear how it sounds. I keep thinking it would sound like a rock being skipped across water. Lol
We have the brown basilisk here in florida. Had 13 of them in the yard earlier this year. Very easy to catch at night just like the veiled chameleons are. But they are only around for a few months then they disapear. And come back the.following year.
I also thought they needed a running start, but he just leaps the human equivalent of like 20 feet into the water and literally breaks into a dead sprint lol
Suggestion for the next animal: cockroaches! As much as we all hate those little buggers, we have to admit: they're kind of amazing, biologically speaking.
@@realscience absolutely! There are so many curiosities about them! Like: will they really survive a nuclear apocalypse? Why are they so hard to kill? Why do they fly directly at us? Do they know we're scared of them?! Also, a lot of people don't really know their life cycle, preferred diet and habits. This is all interesting stuff to know, even if we hate them! "Know your enemy" XD
Nature works on the basis of random prototyping that all fail, until one doesn’t! Evolution. Works well when you’ve got a few billion years to iron out the wrinkles.
@jeremylawrence6041 You wrote there is no ID in nature, only pressure and adaptation. . You are a dreamer, deluded dreamer. Take any body system, its full of design. The transition process from placenta supported fetus to self-sufficient infant is an example of THOUGHTFUL design. The immune system is so complex, we still don't really know how it works. DNA replication and repair is full of chicken and egg impossibilities. How on earth does dumb evolution time and pressure create enzymes that "kmow" how to find errors and trigger a cascade of proteins to cooperate with each other to one to clip, another to remove, another yo replace, and yet another protein to repair? Do you have the slightest idea how mitosis works? How does that complex system of on and off switches arise with no overall purpose and plan? What causes a cell to even want to divide? Pressure? Time? Don't be silly. It's easy to make your wild claim...impossible to prove.
There are other lizards than can also run on water to a lesser extent, especially tiny ones, i have personally seen small geckos run strait across a pool.
I tried to explain this lizard to my class years and years ago. Hubris not being something I understood at the time I didn't get why the teacher would be so quick to demean and mock me for talking about something I'd read in a book from that same school's library. A year later I was explaining that 'Sarcophagus' was a real word, and had to bring a dictionary in to back myself up. The point is, I went to a public school. Don't do that.
Just to clarify ISRO did discover water in the south pole of the moon. It is not surface water, but it's still there. Who knows what may happen later on.
The lizard is treading water with it's tail like human arms that can propel you upwards ehen swimming. The speed and weight also helps support the out of water bouyancy.
You think the bible is like your delusions😂. There is more evidence for Jesus walking on water than for a wolf turning into a dog . It was directly observed by several witnesses
It's not a water "strider" it's a "Water Skipper!" Because of the way they move! A stride is how you walk down the sidewalk you take strides or continuous steps! These insects don't do that they SKIP across the water by "flexing" their legs and springing themselves across the surface of the water.
It's weird to think about that they are basically showing us a different form of what it takes us to figure out moving from land to air. They move on top of water. That place between 2 states of matter. Air, water, land. All different densities with different types of air resistance, drag, lift, fluid dynamics, resistance, etc. Etc. It's really interesting to think we have these meeting points between 2 layers of matter. (Fresh water meets salt water/air meets land/ different layers of air in our atmosphere and where it meets space/ then there's a ton of different types of land that changes a ton of factors in the movement across that land)
May you make a video about the insane biology of giraffe please🙏? I am a really big fan of the nature and the animals, and I am always watching youtube channels like your.
Why did you animate it going right-to-left in the explanation when in most of the footage it's been going left-to-right? In general we read left-to-right so it's confusing to see it stroking the wrong way until you realize the image is reversed
So I was rewatching the original Avatar: The Last Airbender, and they use these very lizards as mounts in one episode. As always, I'm pretty impressed by the research those animators did.
0:54 "When THRE-INED, however..." The word "threatened" has a "t" in the middle. Please pronounce it. 4:07 "To describe the GAA of..." The word "gait" has a "t" at the end. Please pronounce it.
Hi. Sorry to intervene, but she probably meant buoyancy in the sense that the insect's feet provide a wide area of contact reducing the chance of breaking surface tension and sinking. Surface tension probably isn't suitable in the context of the sentence as she said "the buoyancy created by these legs ..." where replacing 'buoyancy' with surface tension would suggest the insect can create surface tension which is not the case. I'm very sorry for any inconvenience caused by my comment. Please enlighten me if I am wrong.
Does anybody else remember the educational flash game where you had to build one of these lizards and change the foot size etc to get it to run across the water?
02:40 _But only the Basilisk lizard can walk on water._ No, it can't. It can _run_ on water. In order to _walk_ on water, an animal must be even tinier, such as an Insect we Germans call _Wasserläufer._ It uses the surface tension of the water in order to do so.
@@cedriceric9730 If we humans were the size of a water strider, using water's surface tension, we had to basically _become_ water striders. For example, we had to stop being endothermic because we'd immediately starve as soon as the outside temperature differed from our body temperature.
I remember when Mythbusters did an episode regarding this little bugger and they strapped a poor woman with outlandish gimmicks in hopes to run on water. They did her dirty lmao.
Since we’re dealing with biology, I’d probably have portrayed the humans barefoot. Our feet didn’t develop shod, and humans with shoes - especially sneakers - are poor representations of the actual gait biomechanics of homo sapiens.
I find your videos interesting and informative. Much appreciation to the work you are doing. ❤️ I have a little request though. Please do a video on the bowhead whale. There is not enough information about it and the available information is not explained with your amount of detail and precision. Thanks in advance.
We can easily fly with manual powered wings on moons in the Solar system, I think especially for one of the moons of Saturn with a thicker atmosphere. Lots of water there too to walk on.
I’m glad I don’t have to go as fast to make it happen. It’s not easy running in sandals.
Jesus!
Holy mollie
It would really ruin your image to break an ankle in the middle of all that.
Finally! We've been waiting bro!
Jesus Christ!!!
Reminds me of the old pilot’s saying: “Helicopters don’t fly, they beat the air into submission.”
Can I beat Uranus into submission?
Imagine actual Jesus walking in the surface of water rotating his leg like that
#1 believer right here, my kind of miracle
Jesus must be running to saved one of his follower that drowning without faith 😂😂😂
Can't believe he skipped leg day when they hung him on the cross, gotta get his priorities straight
@@Phoenix.SparklesMaria Magdalena didnt skip his 11th leg though!
One more thing. Think about how the apostles would have written that down.
Fun fact: Jamie Hyneman once proved that he can motorcycle on water at least for a short time and distance until, due to lack of thrust, the motorbike loses too much speed and sinks.
In Top Gear they successfully drove a smowmobile and a dune buggy across a lake. This makes me wonder just how necessary the forward movement is, and whether you could actually slow down and stop by lowering another set of rapidly rotating wheels into the water, but rotating backwards. Or by transitioning from powered waterwalking to buoyancy and back, by spinning the active element out of the water and then gradually lowering it in to start moving.
To learn more google hyneman
Fun fact, anyone can do that with any vehicle, it's just a shorter distance and less time
This woman does the best wildlife narration on youtube. Her video on the inland taipan was fascinating
We also have animals that can give virgin births. Now we just need to find one that can turn water to wine and we are all set.
We already found a living thing to turn water into wine, yeast. Penicillin from mold heals some of the sick, also vaccines.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is close
Well, one could argue yeast is a sort of "creature"..
Let's then combine them into one creature.
@@Mark-Wilson just give the lizard the auto-brewery syndrome. But you won't like where the alcohol would come out from.
I was born and raised in Panama and I saw these lil guys everywhere! the sound they make when they splash on the water is as unique as everything else. Sounds like very quick clapping by the world's tiniest hands haha
That is so cool, I hope I can see these lizards in the flesh some day!
They're sooo cool! Some crabs also have this "superpower." Our crew found them on the coast of Brazil, where wild waves and cunning predators mean serious survival skills are in order. The Sally Lightfoot crabs adapted to breathe on land and escape eels and octopuses by literally walking on water.
That's amazing! I never heard of this. Looks like a few animals have this amazing ability!
Ich sah eine Doku über die Krabben, die von Oktopoden gejagt werden. Sie fliehen von Stein zu Stein und rennen über das Wasser. Cool.
Babe wake up, another "The Insane Biology of" video just dropped.
Wake up! I hope you'll see the insane biology is not from evolution! th-cam.com/users/liveCFYswvGoaPU?si=D4ZyJd3kYTeDAJr2
Best title ever.
Peter would've never believed it.
Lmfao
And Thomas would have doubted it
I used to have one as a pet. They don't make good pets because they're very skittish and very fast.
That’s terrible. I bet you let it free outside cause you couldn’t deal with it.
Interesting info
It’s not just their personalities. ITS THEIR CARE! They need a huge enclosure, big pool for them to soak in, a lots of climbing branches to climb, live plants. I have one and he was 5 months old on 2023 February and how he’s 18 months old on March 2024. Dam he’s big, 2ft long also. Full grown size is 3ft so he’s still growing.
@@TDash-pn4rw3 fucking feet? Geez, how big's that thing
Lizard: My name is Lizard, and I can walk on water!
Surprised friend: Jesus Christ, Lizard!
That's like the joke about the drunk who tries to convince his friends he is Jesus, so he gets them to come with him to the local bar. As soon as he walks in the bartender says, "Jesus Christ! You're here again!?"
fun fact, they're called the "jesus christ" lizard because the first person to discover them said "jesus christ" upon seeing this behavior
Instantly clicked on the vid lol
Because is Holy
Samee
same lol. there was something about using the word of jesus for a lizard 😂
I clicked after a little hesitation, pondering whether I should go for it or not.
Sames
love the ATLA reference: "as they are air benders"
I found the continual use of "walk/walking on water" extremely irritating. The basilisk can hardly even be said to run on water, as it relies on a rapidly cycling paddling motion to propel itself.
I still can't get over the quality and research these videos have...wow what a gem of a channel!!
12:53 I’m sorry this is disturbing nightmare fuel
Too bad there wasn’t a clip of the lizard running across the water where we could hear how it sounds. I keep thinking it would sound like a rock being skipped across water. Lol
PLAP PLAP PLAP
This lizard might not kill you with a look, but that side eye is judging the hell out of you. 😮
as a gamer, I cannot approve this very nerfed basilisk
from ARK?
@@NorthernReaper Heroes of Might and Magic 3
We have the brown basilisk here in florida. Had 13 of them in the yard earlier this year. Very easy to catch at night just like the veiled chameleons are. But they are only around for a few months then they disapear. And come back the.following year.
i thought they needed a straight line trajectory, but mf just hoops onto the pond then runs over the surface screen, what a lizard!!!!!
I also thought they needed a running start, but he just leaps the human equivalent of like 20 feet into the water and literally breaks into a dead sprint lol
Followed instructions perfectly but still sank
must have skipped leg day
Suggestion for the next animal: cockroaches!
As much as we all hate those little buggers, we have to admit: they're kind of amazing, biologically speaking.
This is true! Do you think people would watch a video on it?
@@realscience absolutely! There are so many curiosities about them! Like: will they really survive a nuclear apocalypse? Why are they so hard to kill? Why do they fly directly at us? Do they know we're scared of them?!
Also, a lot of people don't really know their life cycle, preferred diet and habits. This is all interesting stuff to know, even if we hate them!
"Know your enemy" XD
Our best intelligent design engineering doesn't even begin to hold a flickering candle to the intelligent design engineering in nature
No intelligent design in nature. Just time, pressure and adaptation
Nature works on the basis of random prototyping that all fail, until one doesn’t! Evolution. Works well when you’ve got a few billion years to iron out the wrinkles.
@jeremylawrence6041
You wrote there is no ID in nature, only pressure and adaptation. .
You are a dreamer, deluded dreamer. Take any body system, its full of design. The transition process from placenta supported fetus to self-sufficient infant is an example of THOUGHTFUL design. The immune system is so complex, we still don't really know how it works. DNA replication and repair is full of chicken and egg impossibilities. How on earth does dumb evolution time and pressure create enzymes that "kmow" how to find errors and trigger a cascade of proteins to cooperate with each other to one to clip, another to remove, another yo replace, and yet another protein to repair? Do you have the slightest idea how mitosis works? How does that complex system of on and off switches arise with no overall purpose and plan? What causes a cell to even want to divide? Pressure? Time? Don't be silly.
It's easy to make your wild claim...impossible to prove.
Nature is perfection since it evolved over hundreds of millions of yrs.
Yeah the designer has to be infinitely intelligent
There are other lizards than can also run on water to a lesser extent, especially tiny ones, i have personally seen small geckos run strait across a pool.
Did the person who discovered it just say 'jesus christ' look at this thing 😂
Yeah I think so lol
Rango adapted amazingly to its hostile environment
9:50 sooo in the realm of possibility with bionics, gotcha, can't wait for the 200 meter over water dash at the Olympics in 50 years
It’s not even walking in water it’s just swimming above the surface
I don't think it's walking as you put it, it's more like running on water.
Interesting, but it’s unclear at what percentage of body-above-waterness we switch to calling it walking on water from swimming.
To be honest if Jesus Christ was capable of going the speeds to be capable of doing this I'd believe in God too
you forgot to mention the importance of the surface tension of the water next to the movement of the “jesus lizards”
I thought water striders relied on surface tension not buoyancy.
In the desert there are lizards that move the same way on the loose sand. They are neat to watch.
Best series on TH-cam!! You should do a video on Cone snails next!!
I tried to explain this lizard to my class years and years ago. Hubris not being something I understood at the time I didn't get why the teacher would be so quick to demean and mock me for talking about something I'd read in a book from that same school's library.
A year later I was explaining that 'Sarcophagus' was a real word, and had to bring a dictionary in to back myself up.
The point is, I went to a public school. Don't do that.
Please do a video on the flying lizard, Draco Dussumieri.
Jesus Christ before human Evolution:
The fun thing about water is that if you hit it hard enough it's functionally solid
Jesus christ lizzard?
So if a lizzard rides a raft it is noah lizzard.
But wait till you guys meet the moses lizard.
I noah lizzard named God
Just to clarify ISRO did discover water in the south pole of the moon. It is not surface water, but it's still there. Who knows what may happen later on.
The lizard is treading water with it's tail like human arms that can propel you upwards ehen swimming. The speed and weight also helps support the out of water bouyancy.
i saw “The Jesus Christ Lizard” and thought this lil guy resurrects every 3 days 😭😭😭
Ironically, the Lizard is for its ability to walk on water named after someone that wasn't even able to walk on water.
You think the bible is like your delusions😂.
There is more evidence for Jesus walking on water than for a wolf turning into a dog .
It was directly observed by several witnesses
Loveeee, can there be an insane biology of the octopus next 😁
Yesss, my favorite 🖤
Just found out about this channel this week and man a g hooked 😂
Soo invested in the insane biology series, love it❤
This is a brilliant channel.
You know reasonably powerful remote controlled cars can cross a good stretch of water easily if they are going fast enough.
i really love the narration on these videos. i am so addicted!
So jesus can walk on water, the flash family and kryptonians and this lizard can run on water. Gotcha!
It's not a water "strider" it's a "Water Skipper!" Because of the way they move! A stride is how you walk down the sidewalk you take strides or continuous steps! These insects don't do that they SKIP across the water by "flexing" their legs and springing themselves across the surface of the water.
I remember back when I did a project in science class on these little guys in like elementary, always thought they were the coolest
"Hey jesus what are you doing? Youre cycling on the water"
It's weird to think about that they are basically showing us a different form of what it takes us to figure out moving from land to air. They move on top of water. That place between 2 states of matter. Air, water, land. All different densities with different types of air resistance, drag, lift, fluid dynamics, resistance, etc. Etc. It's really interesting to think we have these meeting points between 2 layers of matter. (Fresh water meets salt water/air meets land/ different layers of air in our atmosphere and where it meets space/ then there's a ton of different types of land that changes a ton of factors in the movement across that land)
I saw this lizard when I was a child. Fr thought I was hallucinating
your voice will always be my Relaxing Anthem ☺️
A lizard that walks on water, Jesus Christ😮😮😮
This animal can’t walk on water, but it can sprint on water
in Philippines we called it as "ibid" the most hilarious lizard you can ever find in the country.
As always, excdllent content!
Grebes can also run on water without using wings when courting
My idiot brain: oh wow another Real Science video already? I just watched the emperor penguin episode yesterday!
Algorithm: 😈😈😈😈
May you make a video about the insane biology of giraffe please🙏? I am a really big fan of the nature and the animals, and I am always watching youtube channels like your.
Excellent work as always. (Would’ve appreciated higher resolution footage for this one, though)
Thanks a bunch for sharing this with us Big Dog.
Why did you animate it going right-to-left in the explanation when in most of the footage it's been going left-to-right? In general we read left-to-right so it's confusing to see it stroking the wrong way until you realize the image is reversed
2:30 I live in Southeast Asia and we have a water running lizard here too.
i adore these series o youtube, they're my favoriete. thank you guys so much
Imagine someone with no legs watching this video. All the cruel mockery. 😢
Man! This basilisk SLAPS!!!
So I was rewatching the original Avatar: The Last Airbender, and they use these very lizards as mounts in one episode. As always, I'm pretty impressed by the research those animators did.
"They generally lay motionless".....
[SHAKES HEAD]🤣
I have never seen this lizard before. We don't have it around here.
0:54 "When THRE-INED, however..." The word "threatened" has a "t" in the middle. Please pronounce it.
4:07 "To describe the GAA of..." The word "gait" has a "t" at the end. Please pronounce it.
Absolutely beautiful creature! In South America, you say? I am in South America!! What a blessing, now I only need to travel to admire this beauty!
*Humans finally get back to the moon*
Nasa: 'get the pool we will be jesus'
Astronaut: '?'
Around my hometown in the isthmus of Oaxaca, Mexico. We call them "Pasa rios", literally "River crossers"
It WALKED on water, right in front of me in La Fortuna! It was quite amazing
Thanks!
@Realscience,
I believe what you meant about "buoyancy" is "surface tension of the liquid" 5:35 .
Hi. Sorry to intervene, but she probably meant buoyancy in the sense that the insect's feet provide a wide area of contact reducing the chance of breaking surface tension and sinking. Surface tension probably isn't suitable in the context of the sentence as she said "the buoyancy created by these legs ..." where replacing 'buoyancy' with surface tension would suggest the insect can create surface tension which is not the case. I'm very sorry for any inconvenience caused by my comment. Please enlighten me if I am wrong.
Does anybody else remember the educational flash game where you had to build one of these lizards and change the foot size etc to get it to run across the water?
02:40
_But only the Basilisk lizard can walk on water._
No, it can't. It can _run_ on water.
In order to _walk_ on water, an animal must be even tinier, such as an Insect we Germans call _Wasserläufer._ It uses the surface tension of the water in order to do so.
That's not really fair size changes the laws significantly.
If humans were that small we would also walk on water
@@cedriceric9730
If we humans were the size of a water strider, using water's surface tension, we had to basically _become_ water striders. For example, we had to stop being endothermic because we'd immediately starve as soon as the outside temperature differed from our body temperature.
Channel rocks, I love science Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember when Mythbusters did an episode regarding this little bugger and they strapped a poor woman with outlandish gimmicks in hopes to run on water. They did her dirty lmao.
Loooool😂
The real question is, how did he evolve this feature over millions of years, by drowning 😂 the ignorance of selection and mutation
I need an animation of Jesus running like that like that lizard
A lot of people don't know this, but this is exactly how Jesus Christ did it. That dude was fast.
Nah. He had an endless supply of fishes under his feet.
Since we’re dealing with biology, I’d probably have portrayed the humans barefoot. Our feet didn’t develop shod, and humans with shoes - especially sneakers - are poor representations of the actual gait biomechanics of homo sapiens.
You can ride a motorcycle over water. Myth busters proved it.
I find your videos interesting and informative. Much appreciation to the work you are doing. ❤️
I have a little request though. Please do a video on the bowhead whale. There is not enough information about it and the available information is not explained with your amount of detail and precision. Thanks in advance.
Once a guy saw it run across water, went like 'Jesus Christ', and that's why it's called Jesus Christ lizard
how do they not pull a hamstring?
We can easily fly with manual powered wings on moons in the Solar system, I think especially for one of the moons of Saturn with a thicker atmosphere. Lots of water there too to walk on.
I hear cartoon sound effects when this lizard runs on water🤣
Yeah but is he gunna try and sell me car insurance?
Instructions unclear, I am now at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean