@Traj Have you seen their skeleton? It looks more or less exactly like the seahorse. They are pretty much at the between point of an endoskeleton and exoskeleton. Their pectoral fins (the same structure where our arms came from) are found on their "head", they are a completely warped looking fish when you put that part in mind. This is made more so by the fact that not only are they upright, their head points forwards with a distinct neck. Instead of a finned tail, its prehensile, like a chameleon. Seahorses are the complete opposite of lame, they are bonkers.
Seahorses hold special status in our house. Our son became fascinated by seahorses when he was a toddler. He had a stuffed seahorse that he slept with, and he started wanting stories, books, and videos about seahorses. He eventually learned everything there was to know about seahorses, and we got to hear all about it! We did not ever hear about plate tectonics and seahorses, though. I’ll have to send him this video! (He’s all grown up now.)
Sea horses are magical. I'm pretty sure everyone remembers when they first learned about them as kids. Their name is perfect for capturing childhood wonder.
Could you imagine if we would of had access to big enough sea horse to ride and we especially Polynesians and S.E Asians used them for transport across the seas. Hahah funner then riding a dolphin I say.
Aye, and while we’re at it, wiki Desert fungi and find out about the mycelium networks under Arizona and New Mexico (they are researching this a bit at UTEP)
"If not for plate tectonics, seahorses would never have been able to take over the world" - possibly now topping my list of "10 Reasons for the Seahorse's World Domination " (actually a fascinating, VERY well-presented argument. Thanks)
The fact that seahorses used the Mediterranean as a shortcut to spread around the world when that sea was still turning into the shape of a seahorse is just…wholesome to me. (To anyone who might have never noticed this, look at the Mediterranean at 7:21. Turns out it even looked more like a sea horse than it does today at some point.)
I hadn't noticed but if you want to get technical it by definition didn't become the Mediterranean until it got sealed off due to the collision between India and Eurasia but that is name semantics
Oh wow! That's so cool! I've heard they're really hard to keep alive. (But then...the only fish I've ever had long-term success with keeping alive were bettas, so....)
The main issue is they are really picky eaters, so you generally have to supply them with ample amounts of live copepods. If I remember right from when I was doing all my saltwater research.
@@zacrintoul they do eat those but they're definitely not limited to that. My seahorses ate frozen mysis shrimp for the most part, occasionally supplementing with live ghost shrimp. Also we took over a year and a half to create enough biodiversity in the tank before introducing seahorses to have enough phytoplankton and zooplankton already existing in the tank. But they primarily fed on the frozen shrimp and were fine
I can remember going to a Sea-Life Centre and they had a small section devoted to seahorses and they were feeding some tiny seahorses by using what looked like a plastic seed feeder for birds
All three of you presenters have such calm and soothing voices. And you have this child-like excitement when you talk about evolution. I love listening to you before bed or while having breakfast. It always calms me down! Thanks for uploading!
While I admire the thought, I think that is likely an engineering nightmare. Bones are generally held together by a lot of connective tissue; they do fit together, but without all that overlaying them, nothing is going to hold them in place
@@slwrabbits - Don't jump right to negativism. I have an Eifel Tower puzzle that forms a large 3-D structure ~2.5 feet tall. Designers could EASILY do the same thing with one of the iconic dino skeletons, like T-Rex! This is a GREAT suggestion.
@@MossyMozart thats a building that already has supports, we are, again, talking about fossils which have zero supports or connective tissue between the bones. Doable yes(probably not as a puzzle but at least as a sculpture with instructions), but not nearly the same thing as what youre talking about, and not nearly as easy as youre saying it is
When I was younger, I wanted a seahorse more than anything, because I thought they were... big enough to ride! Thanks a lot Aquaman cartoon lol! When I found out the truth, saying I was disappointed is putting it mildly, but that disappeared completely when I got to see real ones at the Aquarium, I've been fascinated with them ever since 💜 Thank you for this presentation!
I very much appreciate the colors in the hypothetical seahorses/proto seahorses. I feel like sometimes color used for hypothetical envisioning of creatures is so monotone
Several years back I was watching something on Nature or Nova that kept posing questions about how did [thing that looks baffling on the surface] happen? The answer was always plate tectonics, which I yelled at the TV every time. It was almost as fun as when Big Bird couldn’t find his dinosaur costume and I got to yell “It’s OK, you ARE a dinosaur!” before whichever Sesame Street resident told him that. I am, at 53, perhaps not the target audience for every program.
I once saw an exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific at Long Beach, California. I was there shortly after they became the first institution of get leafy seadragons to hatch, so it was being celebrated throughout the entire facility. They were so delicate, beautiful, and smaller than I expected that it was mind-blowing to think of them living in the wild, like delicate hummingbirds are on land.
Love your videos. I've been fossil hunting a few times. Found a trilobite in Ohio when in grade school, over 50 years ago. Love how it gives a true perspective of time.
It's so cool how much we know. Seahorses are such random animals, but humans decided that it was worth it to fund research to figure out where they originated. I kind of love that for us
You would not believe how many people I've talked to in my life, that thought seahorses were mythical creatures, on par with Unicorns, Pixies, and Elves. But "No", I tell them, "they actually do exist." Then sometimes, I get the hairy eyeball, like they're not believing what I'm telling them. More than once, I've had to break out my cell phone, and hit up Google, so I can prove that I am not crazy.🙄
@@sylvia106 Florida, But I travel a lot. So I'm usually somewhere else. But I've always liked being by the ocean. I'm there and in it, as often as I can be.
Extremely hard to believe. Maybe you met 1 child in some remote place who had never had any education at all that would make your comment semi-plausible...
I think some of you, have a little bit too much faith in humanity. Not to mention the intelligence level of the average human. How does the old saying go? Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half the people, are even more stupid than that.
Look at this handsome distinguished gentleman from PBS Eons dropping scientific gems on us. I'm here for it. Teach me about sea horses and the magical world that is beneath the sea.
Hey! What’s the word on the podcast? I was really into it! I’d love more episodes on prehistoric humans! I really love to imagine what the world was like when there as many humans as there were cats.
i expect that because a seahorse/dragon does very little swimming its caloric requirements are very low - maybe lower than other sygnathids and most other fish - perhaps that gave it an evolutionary advantage at some point in its history
Great video on one of my most favourite animals. I wish I could have some in my home but I know that they are so sensitive to temperature changes that even aquariums have problems keeping them. Thank you!
6:15 : By rafting. They grabbed onto debris that was washed around by storms, just riding it to wherever it went. They would have survived much more often when the Atlantic was narrow than they'd be able to today.
The fact that this channel continues to have the most absurd video titles and then directly back them up with scientific evidence is why they're so amazing. It always gives you a sense of wonder at the awesome craziness of our planet.
From what I've read the concepts for Sea Horse evolution is the same for Corals and reef specialists. They all followed the equator through gaps between continents.
It would be neat to see future descendants of seahorses (or their relatives) that are better at... Everything. Edit: like sea dragons that actually live up to the title of dragon.
I've kept dwarf seahorses; they're incredible to watch and take up shocking little space. Even wild caught specimines breed readily in home aquariums. They're difficult to care for, though. They don't really have stomachs so they require live food several times per day. That usually means having a rotating set of brine shrimp hatcheries, and starting fresh ones a couple times per week, and feeding once or twice per day. That's very high maintenance for a fish. Dwarf seahorses are also the slowest fish in the world, so you can imagine how attempting to chase a couple hundred tiny baby brine shrimp in a 30 gallon tank would lead to starvation. That's why they should be kept in 5 or 10 gallon tanks, unless you plan on finding each seahorse and target feeding them all with a pipette two to three times per day.
Requesting a Video on Why the Cyprinid and Other Cyprinoforms are a Dominant Species in Eurasia, while, Chiclids are a Dominant Fish Species in Africa and South America And why none of them were able to Take over North America, until pretty recently, that's too due to Introduction by Humans and Only in Some limited areas And Why Siluriforms (Catfish) are the Most Dominant Fresh water Predatory Fish lineage in the World?
I love Eons! and scoped PBS donate /Eons -WEDU of Tampa Bay Area. So Blake this as all episodes was a needed way lovely mood from your cool presentation of natural history. Plus I even recalled a hard laugh picturing back in teens, early eighties a buddy of mine living on Boca Ciega Bay spontaneously stiffly jumped off dock- dorky belly flopping when he spotted a one of our small seahorses rafting by like colloidal plankton. Cramps from laughing for five others ..., The guys "prolly best I didn't catch it". A rare sight but we did see them in deep coastal mangrove most. We also might have a pipefish that chills in our estaurine submergent grasses-"Tortuga/""matatee grass or "eelgrass". I rhoughtst sight of two my toddler son netted blew our doors! The "snout" for achoring, plate-like skin and reduced itty bitty fins in slow bright sandy shallow and grassy water. ....we banned fertilizer of N P during rainy season and our water quality decent except for Rx metabolites and necrosing Vibrio🧐. Watersheds are EVERYTHING, even your weather. 🍻✌️And thank you barrier isles of peninsular Pinellas County on the West Central/Gulf side) of Florida utting the multiple disciplines' latest intel w/ varied factors and any various interpretations all together to best understand the oh SO RELATIVE past.
I love seahorses & especially sea dragons, trailing their finery like boho princesses (also princes!) in chiffon scarves. I visited the Long Beach Aqaurium when they were the first place to successfully breed them in captivity (I think I have that right, I know it was some "first" to do with breeding. If I ever win the lottery big-time, I'll have a giant saltwater aquarium (& a full-time caretaker!) with those cuties inside!
Seahorses always remind me of a comic from PoorlyDrawnLines where one seahorse says to the other: "I saw a land horse swimming once, and I was like 'Who the f**k do you think you are?'"
Yep! The Earth, despite all of the extinction events it creates (and often causes) by these incessant movements, is one of the most consistant and critical components of any theory that attemps to explain how far back life began to contend with the fickle nature of what has finally “evolved” into the world… We can see still see evidence, regardless of these “tectonic cover-ups”. To its credit, it remains for now a viable dodgeball team manager with a winning record, through obvious nepotism, only recruiting new players from the offsping of those who were not eliminated in the last game.. It's amazing how life has evolved. Beaten down, given hope… only to be shot down again.. Thankfully, we now know how to live with the constant "hustle and bustle" of shifting bits of land.. 😉👍😎 Be Well 😃
Learning about pleisiosaurs and pliosaurs (sp?), it's amazing that all these years later... A funky looking fish might be using similar adaptation to quickly snap its prey
So I guess you could say that the evolution of seahorses was remarkably similar to the evolution of horses -- at roughly the same time that grasses were spreading on land, creating habitats for horses, seagrasses were spreading underwater, creating habitats for seahorses.
Super interesting, gotta love seahorses! Surely though it’s a much easier route to reach the pacific coast of the Americas going through the strong warm currents east of Indonesia rather than around Africa, the Med and across the entire Atlantic
@@KuK137 Yeah the lack of nutrients out in the vast open Pacific ocean far from land would almost certainly kill the algae(likely kelp) raft and anything which depended on it. Kelp would have to be the kind of long distance raft since seagrasses are true flowering plants(angiosperms) they are dependent on suitable hospitable soil for habitat for their seeds. Also while its a bit of a digression at least some sea grasses apparently rely on crustacean based pollination which is interesting given they are the only true plants we know of which have made the full transition back into the ocean. Mangroves are close but they still with the exception of their roots photosynthesize above the water and also have to secrete salts out of their bodies. It would be interesting to learn about how sea grasses we able to make this ecological jump that other plants haven't done. I know there are many challenges for plants given that their ancestors were freshwater algae that colonized land by forming symbiotic associations with fungi but I'm curious what the main selection factors are that limit them?
well there's a reason for that! seahorses are a type of pipefish (as are seadragons). They have a different body shape to "typical" pipefishes due to their specializations for different niches than other pipefishes. So it makes sense that early seahorses would have looked similar to pipefishes
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Seahorses are so fascinating in their appearance. They look like some ancient dragon, inked onto a scroll, come to life.
I think they look like if a horse was in or surrounded by sea
Ever see a leafy sea dragon!?
@TheEngineGal, I can see that. Pretty cool observation.
And then you realize how lame they are the more you know of them
@Traj Have you seen their skeleton? It looks more or less exactly like the seahorse. They are pretty much at the between point of an endoskeleton and exoskeleton.
Their pectoral fins (the same structure where our arms came from) are found on their "head", they are a completely warped looking fish when you put that part in mind. This is made more so by the fact that not only are they upright, their head points forwards with a distinct neck. Instead of a finned tail, its prehensile, like a chameleon.
Seahorses are the complete opposite of lame, they are bonkers.
Seahorses hold special status in our house. Our son became fascinated by seahorses when he was a toddler. He had a stuffed seahorse that he slept with, and he started wanting stories, books, and videos about seahorses. He eventually learned everything there was to know about seahorses, and we got to hear all about it! We did not ever hear about plate tectonics and seahorses, though. I’ll have to send him this video! (He’s all grown up now.)
Wholesome!
Very wholesome!
Turns out your son just may be autistic.
@@kiuk_kiks I’m autistic. He’s not.
I love knowing I wasn't the only seahorse enthusiast as a kid! Lol I wanted a pet seahorse so badly! 😂
Sea horses are magical. I'm pretty sure everyone remembers when they first learned about them as kids. Their name is perfect for capturing childhood wonder.
Sea horses and starfish was the reason that I'm fascinated about the ocean as a kid.
@@dyllanfreiheit6330 I like starfish and love seahorses. I'm just disappointed when I learnt that starfish had no brains.
So, seahorses galloped across the ocean grasslands to migrate, just as land horses used terrestrial ones to do the same.
Could you imagine if we would of had access to big enough sea horse to ride and we especially Polynesians and S.E Asians used them for transport across the seas. Hahah funner then riding a dolphin I say.
@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 Far Out Man!
I propose and hypothesize that the ancient seahorses used to pull the ancient pioneer's big beautiful rocks accross the sandy wastes
Request: Psathyrella aquatica, the only known underwater mushroom
Request*
Interesting never hear of that fungi
this!!
Psathyrella aquatica* and yes its so cool
Aye, and while we’re at it, wiki
Desert fungi and find out about the mycelium networks under Arizona and New Mexico (they are researching this a bit at UTEP)
"If not for plate tectonics, seahorses would never have been able to take over the world" - possibly now topping my list of "10 Reasons for the Seahorse's World Domination "
(actually a fascinating, VERY well-presented argument. Thanks)
don't be shy give us the other 9 reasons for the Seahorse's World Domination 👀
@@ShojJiaNyurrr (well, #2 -7 are all just different ways of saying "Super-bad Super Dad"...)
The fact that seahorses used the Mediterranean as a shortcut to spread around the world when that sea was still turning into the shape of a seahorse is just…wholesome to me.
(To anyone who might have never noticed this, look at the Mediterranean at 7:21. Turns out it even looked more like a sea horse than it does today at some point.)
Yep👍
I hadn't noticed but if you want to get technical it by definition didn't become the Mediterranean until it got sealed off due to the collision between India and Eurasia but that is name semantics
I also noticed that it looked like a seahorse when I was still a small child, and it always seemed weird to me that teachers never acknowledged this.
Wow, never noticed this! Awesome
... didn't see it - but now 🙂
🙏🏼
"So if it hadn't been for plate tectonics, seahorse wouldn't have been able to take over the world."
*bows before seahorse overlords*
When I was a kid my Dad used to have salt water fish tanks. We kept seahorses at one point. They were amazing!
Oh wow! That's so cool! I've heard they're really hard to keep alive. (But then...the only fish I've ever had long-term success with keeping alive were bettas, so....)
Same with my family! They're such beautiful creatures, and they're so romantic when they court each other.
The main issue is they are really picky eaters, so you generally have to supply them with ample amounts of live copepods. If I remember right from when I was doing all my saltwater research.
@@zacrintoul they do eat those but they're definitely not limited to that. My seahorses ate frozen mysis shrimp for the most part, occasionally supplementing with live ghost shrimp. Also we took over a year and a half to create enough biodiversity in the tank before introducing seahorses to have enough phytoplankton and zooplankton already existing in the tank. But they primarily fed on the frozen shrimp and were fine
I would love to have a pet seahorse, but I don’t have the knowledge or the supplies to care for them properly.
I brought a seahorse home once when i was 7 yrs old. My first ever pet.
Plate Tectonics: *Slowly moving and smashing into each other for millions of years*
One prehistoric pipefish boi: P e r f e c t
I was not expecting Slovenia to ever feature in one of your videos. Greetings from Ljubljana 😊
PS: Great video, as always
Love Ljubljana, absolutely beautiful city! Greetings from Sweden
As always!
Me neither, I was so pleasantly surprised🥰
Looks like eons have an unofficial fan group in slovenija. 💪
Greetings from vienna neighbours 🙌
I can remember going to a Sea-Life Centre and they had a small section devoted to seahorses and they were feeding some tiny seahorses by using what looked like a plastic seed feeder for birds
“Cool fish dads” and then finger guns hahahahahaha! I loved that
All three of you presenters have such calm and soothing voices. And you have this child-like excitement when you talk about evolution. I love listening to you before bed or while having breakfast. It always calms me down! Thanks for uploading!
Speaking of puzzles. Maybe you guys can make a 3d bone or fossile puzzle that mimics a paleontologist putting together a skeleton.
While I admire the thought, I think that is likely an engineering nightmare. Bones are generally held together by a lot of connective tissue; they do fit together, but without all that overlaying them, nothing is going to hold them in place
@@slwrabbits Yeah, museums use a lot of wire to keep the bones together
@@slwrabbits - Don't jump right to negativism. I have an Eifel Tower puzzle that forms a large 3-D structure ~2.5 feet tall. Designers could EASILY do the same thing with one of the iconic dino skeletons, like T-Rex! This is a GREAT suggestion.
There were these kinds of puzzles in the 90s. They were 3d puzzles of dinosaur
@@MossyMozart thats a building that already has supports, we are, again, talking about fossils which have zero supports or connective tissue between the bones. Doable yes(probably not as a puzzle but at least as a sculpture with instructions), but not nearly the same thing as what youre talking about, and not nearly as easy as youre saying it is
When I was younger, I wanted a seahorse more than anything, because I thought they were... big enough to ride! Thanks a lot Aquaman cartoon lol! When I found out the truth, saying I was disappointed is putting it mildly, but that disappeared completely when I got to see real ones at the Aquarium, I've been fascinated with them ever since 💜 Thank you for this presentation!
I very much appreciate the colors in the hypothetical seahorses/proto seahorses. I feel like sometimes color used for hypothetical envisioning of creatures is so monotone
Several years back I was watching something on Nature or Nova that kept posing questions about how did [thing that looks baffling on the surface] happen? The answer was always plate tectonics, which I yelled at the TV every time. It was almost as fun as when Big Bird couldn’t find his dinosaur costume and I got to yell “It’s OK, you ARE a dinosaur!” before whichever Sesame Street resident told him that. I am, at 53, perhaps not the target audience for every program.
I simply love this channel and don't wanna imagine my life without it. It's so cool to learn about the strange creatures that used to love before us.
😉
" ❤️ "
I once saw an exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific at Long Beach, California. I was there shortly after they became the first institution of get leafy seadragons to hatch, so it was being celebrated throughout the entire facility. They were so delicate, beautiful, and smaller than I expected that it was mind-blowing to think of them living in the wild, like delicate hummingbirds are on land.
This is such a quintessential PBS Eons title. I love it
Love your videos. I've been fossil hunting a few times. Found a trilobite in Ohio when in grade school, over 50 years ago. Love how it gives a true perspective of time.
It's so cool how much we know. Seahorses are such random animals, but humans decided that it was worth it to fund research to figure out where they originated. I kind of love that for us
You would not believe how many people I've talked to in my life, that thought seahorses were mythical creatures, on par with Unicorns, Pixies, and Elves. But "No", I tell them, "they actually do exist." Then sometimes, I get the hairy eyeball, like they're not believing what I'm telling them.
More than once, I've had to break out my cell phone, and hit up Google, so I can prove that I am not crazy.🙄
What state do you live in?
@@sylvia106 Florida, But I travel a lot. So I'm usually somewhere else. But I've always liked being by the ocean. I'm there and in it, as often as I can be.
This is like me finding people who think reindeer are not real...
Extremely hard to believe. Maybe you met 1 child in some remote place who had never had any education at all that would make your comment semi-plausible...
I think some of you, have a little bit too much faith in humanity. Not to mention the intelligence level of the average human.
How does the old saying go? Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half the people, are even more stupid than that.
The ancient seahorses rode horseback on rafts and tectonics.
that is like the catchiest title ever
“One of the ocean’s worst swimmers…” shows a seahorse straightening as if to say “You said what?”
I couldn't resist the title, and I'm glad of it! Very interesting, thank you.
Please, please, please release more episodes of the podcast. I would listen to these on my daily walks and I’m missing them.
Look at this handsome distinguished gentleman from PBS Eons dropping scientific gems on us. I'm here for it. Teach me about sea horses and the magical world that is beneath the sea.
As an indonesian who study biology, i was facinated by this fact/discovery. i've never expect early ancestor of seahorses originated here.
Love your videos!! It's helped me create my speculative future earth!
That sounds awesome!
Can't wait to read/ see/ hear it!
Sounds like a very interesting project. Things like speculative zoology and the like are so fascinating to me.
Hey! What’s the word on the podcast? I was really into it! I’d love more episodes on prehistoric humans! I really love to imagine what the world was like when there as many humans as there were cats.
i expect that because a seahorse/dragon does very little swimming its caloric requirements are very low - maybe lower than other sygnathids and most other fish - perhaps that gave it an evolutionary advantage at some point in its history
I love how "Click-Bait-ey" you titles are. I saw this and my brain played Tim Allen's 'confused/questioning' grunt sound.
This is the best title I have seen this year.
Great video on one of my most favourite animals. I wish I could have some in my home but I know that they are so sensitive to temperature changes that even aquariums have problems keeping them. Thank you!
Seahorses look so elegant and graceful
Would be cool to have a private tank full of them
My son love seahorses, and he'll be very happy to know that he and his fav animal have similar geographical origin, Indonesia!
That "moon rock" pun was lifted right from the second episode of Futurama.
Address all complaints to the Monsanto corporation.
Seahorses always look so serene and wise.
As much as I'd love a calendar, $85 CAD for two calendars and shipping is ridiculous. Dang.
Another win for plate techtonics. I love it. I've been into plate techtonics since I was a teenager.
For once, I'm early to an Eons video. Can't wait to listen to this new gem-to-be!
These gorgeous little dragons are the best dads of animal kingdom 🧡
Whichever ones DON'T eat their young would definitely rate higher according to our sapien brains.
idk emperor penguins i think top them in not eating for months while living in the eternal night of winter all to protect an egg that may not hatch
@@VINCE-pp3es 👍
7:02 how did they survive in the open Atlantic? How did they cross the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
6:15 : By rafting. They grabbed onto debris that was washed around by storms, just riding it to wherever it went. They would have survived much more often when the Atlantic was narrow than they'd be able to today.
What's the mid-Atlantic ridge have to do with it? It is WAY below the surface in most places. Just a few sticky outy islands are above sea level.
Thanks!
The fact that this channel continues to have the most absurd video titles and then directly back them up with scientific evidence is why they're so amazing.
It always gives you a sense of wonder at the awesome craziness of our planet.
Great video! Thanks for creating a movie on fossil seahorses!
From what I've read the concepts for Sea Horse evolution is the same for Corals and reef specialists. They all followed the equator through gaps between continents.
Love seahorses!
That was definitely one of the funnier Eonite jokes, lol!
I love Eons but I usually groan at the end jokes, this one was actually decent - I was baffled.
Just (re)learned about plate tectonics today. This is a great crossover and example of how geology affects life!
Please never stop.
It would be neat to see future descendants of seahorses (or their relatives) that are better at... Everything.
Edit: like sea dragons that actually live up to the title of dragon.
I believe it was Michael Flanders who compared it to "...a very perfect and gentle-knight of the chessboard..."
This is super wholesome content 💯
I've kept dwarf seahorses; they're incredible to watch and take up shocking little space. Even wild caught specimines breed readily in home aquariums.
They're difficult to care for, though. They don't really have stomachs so they require live food several times per day. That usually means having a rotating set of brine shrimp hatcheries, and starting fresh ones a couple times per week, and feeding once or twice per day. That's very high maintenance for a fish. Dwarf seahorses are also the slowest fish in the world, so you can imagine how attempting to chase a couple hundred tiny baby brine shrimp in a 30 gallon tank would lead to starvation. That's why they should be kept in 5 or 10 gallon tanks, unless you plan on finding each seahorse and target feeding them all with a pipette two to three times per day.
I love learning new things about nature. I’m truly hooked on this channel’s videos!
Living most my life landlocked I’ve never given much thought to sea grass. I’d be interested in learning about them and terrestrial grasses
1:52 anyone else see a seahorse in the Mediterranean sea on the map?
Requesting a Video on Why the Cyprinid and Other Cyprinoforms are a Dominant Species in Eurasia, while, Chiclids are a Dominant Fish Species in Africa and South America
And why none of them were able to Take over North America, until pretty recently, that's too due to Introduction by Humans and Only in Some limited areas
And Why Siluriforms (Catfish) are the Most Dominant Fresh water Predatory Fish lineage in the World?
I appreciate all the graphs. Nicely done!
Got a video of my first seahorse on a dive in kota Kinabalu last year. VERY exciting!
I found your choice of of humoristic bit - well done. Keep up the great work EON!
I love Eons! and scoped PBS donate /Eons -WEDU of Tampa Bay Area. So Blake this as all episodes was a needed way lovely mood from your cool presentation of natural history.
Plus I even recalled a hard laugh picturing back in teens, early eighties a buddy of mine living on Boca Ciega Bay spontaneously stiffly jumped off dock- dorky belly flopping when he spotted a one of our small seahorses rafting by like colloidal plankton. Cramps from laughing for five others ..., The guys "prolly best I didn't catch it".
A rare sight but we did see them in deep coastal mangrove most. We also might have a pipefish that chills in our estaurine submergent grasses-"Tortuga/""matatee grass or "eelgrass". I rhoughtst sight of two my toddler son netted blew our doors! The "snout" for achoring, plate-like skin and reduced itty bitty fins in slow bright sandy shallow and grassy water. ....we banned fertilizer of N P during rainy season and our water quality decent except for Rx metabolites and necrosing Vibrio🧐. Watersheds are EVERYTHING, even your weather.
🍻✌️And thank you
barrier isles of peninsular Pinellas County on the West Central/Gulf side) of Florida utting the multiple disciplines' latest intel w/ varied factors and any various interpretations all together to best understand the oh SO RELATIVE past.
yes I always see them here in the Philippines
I love seahorses & especially sea dragons, trailing their finery like boho princesses (also princes!) in chiffon scarves. I visited the Long Beach Aqaurium when they were the first place to successfully breed them in captivity (I think I have that right, I know it was some "first" to do with breeding. If I ever win the lottery big-time, I'll have a giant saltwater aquarium (& a full-time caretaker!) with those cuties inside!
This guy is great!
Seahorses always remind me of a comic from PoorlyDrawnLines where one seahorse says to the other: "I saw a land horse swimming once, and I was like 'Who the f**k do you think you are?'"
Always love and look forward to your content, keep up the great work!
I LOVED THOSE JOKES!! 🤣🤣 Totally the best cool-fish-dad jokes!!!
Ever since looking at the tectonics of SE asia in college I've wondered wtf is going on. It's a veritable clusterfuck of fault lines.
@Khilorn - I imagine that a lot of children watch these videos. Would you consider watching your language?
Hope one day you'll make a video on the end Permian extinction event's two phases - I'd love to hear you guys spelling it out!
Methinks Blake is a cool fish dad. :D
I do love sea horses - they are so elegant. also love sea dragons. both so gorgeous.
Absolutely love this channel; the hosts are awesome. Thanks for the great content!
Would have thought that plate tectonics gave us 99.999% of all living things....
Yep! The Earth, despite all of the extinction events it creates (and often causes) by these incessant movements, is one of the most consistant and critical components of any theory that attemps to explain how far back life began to contend with the fickle nature of what has finally “evolved” into the world…
We can see still see evidence, regardless of these “tectonic cover-ups”.
To its credit, it remains for now a viable dodgeball team manager with a winning record, through obvious nepotism, only recruiting new players from the offsping of those who were not eliminated in the last game..
It's amazing how life has evolved. Beaten down, given hope… only to be shot down again..
Thankfully, we now know how to live with the constant "hustle and bustle" of shifting bits of land.. 😉👍😎
Be Well 😃
There's nothing like watching some Eons on a snowy day :)
VERY special kind of animals!!! .-)
Learning about pleisiosaurs and pliosaurs (sp?), it's amazing that all these years later... A funky looking fish might be using similar adaptation to quickly snap its prey
The picture of Aquaman riding seahorse kept coming to my mind whenever a seahorse appeared on the screen. Lol 😆
So I guess you could say that the evolution of seahorses was remarkably similar to the evolution of horses -- at roughly the same time that grasses were spreading on land, creating habitats for horses, seagrasses were spreading underwater, creating habitats for seahorses.
It's funny how on land, horses are draught animals, while in the seas they latch onto things to move around.
Super interesting, gotta love seahorses! Surely though it’s a much easier route to reach the pacific coast of the Americas going through the strong warm currents east of Indonesia rather than around Africa, the Med and across the entire Atlantic
There is little issue of starving to death along the way thanks to travel times, I suppose...
@@KuK137 Yeah the lack of nutrients out in the vast open Pacific ocean far from land would almost certainly kill the algae(likely kelp) raft and anything which depended on it. Kelp would have to be the kind of long distance raft since seagrasses are true flowering plants(angiosperms) they are dependent on suitable hospitable soil for habitat for their seeds.
Also while its a bit of a digression at least some sea grasses apparently rely on crustacean based pollination which is interesting given they are the only true plants we know of which have made the full transition back into the ocean. Mangroves are close but they still with the exception of their roots photosynthesize above the water and also have to secrete salts out of their bodies.
It would be interesting to learn about how sea grasses we able to make this ecological jump that other plants haven't done. I know there are many challenges for plants given that their ancestors were freshwater algae that colonized land by forming symbiotic associations with fungi but I'm curious what the main selection factors are that limit them?
Imma tell you guys that title change is spot on! I'm a sucker for plate tectonics
Like 2 minutes before you posted this, I was thinking, I wonder how seahorses came to be...
That sea horse looks like a modern pipe fish
well there's a reason for that! seahorses are a type of pipefish (as are seadragons). They have a different body shape to "typical" pipefishes due to their specializations for different niches than other pipefishes. So it makes sense that early seahorses would have looked similar to pipefishes
Has anyone told you, you look like Alan Tudyk? Thank you for a great story and teaching us about our world. Stay shiny!
That was informative 👌🏻
My brother in law’s fav animal is a sea horse and part of his nickname we have for him is “seahorsius”.
omg I love this, thank you so much for this!! I looove seahorses
Were learning plate tectonics in class, you thought it better then our teacher.
I love how horses and seahorses both thrive on grassy plains, just shows how closely related they are
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Great explanation. I was hooked the whole video
Thumbs Up for the cool fish dads 👍
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Thanks for sharing seahorse info as well as excellent giggles!
I just know now that Seahorses evolve on Indonesia's sea.
I once got a case of seahorses from eating improperly-cooked seafood.