All 14 Families of Turtles & How They Are Related
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Turtles are weird reptiles, but did you know that there are 14 families of turtles? Which ones did you know, and which ones were new to you?
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If you like this video, then you're going to love learning why snakes ARE lizards: th-cam.com/video/dWPqXlxnki0/w-d-xo.html
How about pet crows or ravens that I have see people owning as pets?
1:16
Falla's skink?
( IF so- I've seen these at Hamilton Zoo, NZ. + minor sidenote my father knew the son of preeminent NZ ornithologist Dr Falla of whom it's named after )
How about a video on the colubrid snakes? Though I gather the cladistics aren't really settled on them, which makes it even more interesting to me.
I'd like to see the modern cladistic rundown on the group of snakes that were initially defined by not being vipers, boas, pythons or elapids.
I think a african dwarf frog would be a cool video beacuse of how they are aquatic
You should do a video on the Diamondback Water Snake.
But we DO want to get you started on snakes! ^_^
You asked for it: th-cam.com/video/dWPqXlxnki0/w-d-xo.html
@@ClintsReptiles MORE! lol we'd love a video like this but on snakes, or even a group of them like boas, pythons, Colubrids, etc and so forth.
Would need to skin one first and roast over a flaming fire till golden brown .
I second this
"... turtles designed by a pair of 10 year-old boys waiting for the bus..." most educational quote ever!! On rare occasions I've encountered snappers crossing the road (and yep I did stop to safely help one cross a very busy road). More about skinks is always great content!
Everyone struggles a bit with polysyllabic words they don't pronounce often. The only problem I have with your Greek and Latin pronunciations is using the English 'ch' sound instead of 'k' for ch, like normally in Greek and Latin based words, like chordate, archeology, chronometer, chrysalis, etc. A bit like nails on a blackboard for me.
Otherwise I have to say that as a biologist and huge reptile fan since I could crawl, I absolutely love your videos! Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for the help!
Actually in my language those big words do mean something and most of the family names can be easily explained.
Damn, this is how to criticize pronunciation. Well done!
@@stefanostokatlidis4861 Yes, that's why I always insisted that my students learn Greek and Latin roots. Something like Pycnopodia helianthoides isn't as daunting to remember if you understand what it means, especially since it pretty well describes the animal.
This has become one of my favorite series on TH-cam!
Dude! This video is stinkin’ rad! I loved the format and all the information that you packed in, while still using common names and pictures and videos! So good! More please!!!
Marvelous, but I especially loved the bit in the bloopers going ALLLLLL the way back. That, Doctor, is impressive.
So looking forward to the next episode in the series - especially birds!
That was so super cool thanks for doing that!! Seems more like a second channel thing, but I have no idea how that all works with the algorithm and I personally am all for it being on the main channel so more people see it. I truly love this channel so much. There's a chance Ill get to come out and visit the reptile room this summer which would be awesome sauce! Hope yall are well, I love your content so much keep up the great work!
I truly enjoyed this format. Very informative. Looking forward to the next video like this one.
PLEASE do this for snakes. It is so hard to get straight answers about snake phylogeny sometimes
This is one of my favorite videos ever. I want one of these for literally everything. And I’m not saying literally loosely like everyone else I mean every single type of reptile
i want to put a correction on 7:09 . That is a yellow side neck turtle, Podocnemis unifilis which is not from the family Geoemydidae. Other than that, the video is amazing. I am glad someone covered turtle taxonomy especially since yeah it is something not covered a lot by people.
I’d love to learn about the Bufonidae!! The true toads are my favorite animals
Thank you Clint, I learned quite a few new things today!
Clint, man, I will be damned if I don't tell you what an impact your videos have had on me.
Not a patron now, but I will be as soon as I'm in a more comfortable financial situation. I have always had a certain level of respect for all animals and life, but through watching your videos and learning more and more incredible facts about them? It's like- a lot of people will look at a snake (or if not, something bigger like a crocodilian) and see nothing more than a mean, aggressive, killing machine. (Admitedly, I used to feel that way towards crocodilians). Not only have you taught me some incredible things about these animals, but you've helped me understand them and how they think. It makes me want to share my love for these beautiful and interesting creatures with everyone I possibly can. Thank you so much for the work you do.
Loved this! Only thing I would have added is that if you can’t house a super rad Snapper then a Giant Mexican Musk is sort of like a smaller version of those.
Mata mata are so cute. That doofy grin!
I love all your phylogeny videos
Clint Laidlaw is like Doctor Who meets mr. Ray from Finding Nemo 👌
Wow thank you. Please keep making these phylogeny overview videos they’re so informative and supplement my college learning well.
Kudos to your graphics team - this was a lot of work, and well done!
This video is just what I wanted! Amazing! What phylogeny did you reference? Or did you make a consensus tree from a few papers?
I consulted a wide number of sources and made a consensus tree.
Nothing gets the heart going like seeing a alligator snapper surface with a neck as big around as your bicep, especially if you're in a kayak and your elbows are mere inches from the water...
I absolutely love your phylogeny videos! Please keep them coming!!!
More videos like this, and please go longer and more in detail if you can
Hi Clint I love your videos and been wondering if you could do one on moorish gecko's/ crocodile gecko's.
Love the phylogeny!
Cheers,
Chris
I loved this! Please do more, I don’t even care what you pick.
You’re not only knowledgeable, but you can be very funny! That bit you did at the end was hilarious!
I'm a PhD student studying fossil turtles, this explanation is very well done!
I actually did a whole bone histology project based (initially) on something you said in your video about common snapping turtles: that their reduced plastron helps them walk upright. We had some snapping turtle bones in the lab so I cut them up to figure out when and how that reduction takes place in relationship to other bones- turns out it is a heterochromic mechanism but it happens in the egg- even hatchlings have a reduced plastron. So not really the outcome I "expected" but hey, that's science! 🧑🔬
I do wish you'd covered the gopher tortoise. I had one who lived on my 5½ acre property when I lived in Mississippi. I didn't see him often but I damn near broke my ankle in one of his many burrows. My dogs harassed him one day but I pulled them away while my ex flipped him back upright and moved him closer to the burrow he was headed toward. He wasn't injured but after the stream of...poop? pee? maybe a mix? shot toward them, they decided they'd best leave the excreting rock alone! 😳🤦🏻♀️😂
Honest I will likely own NONE of the animals you’ve had on this show, save children cause I like a challenge!
But I love learning about all the amazing things that animals do. I know that you’re a reptiles guy my favorite videos of yours are actually arthropods.
Please do this video for literally ever at taxonomy you can!
Curt, lets say that I would consider doing a bachelor in zoology (or biology if I cant find) do you have books you would recommend to read first?
Great content Clint. I look forward for the next in the series. Next time my family visits Utah we're gonna make a detour to visit.
DO RAPTORS like eagles falcons hawks etc.
flippin' brill.
that's how we bri'ish say "stinkin rad".
Hi Clint! I thoroughly enjoy your videos, even though I won't be adopting sny pets except for a single crested gecko. I learn so much from all your episodes, and watching your descriptions of all these animals is gradually giving me a better sense of the way nature creates and maintains life, as well as the inevitable cycle of life and death. Thank you so very much for your Insights!
Hi Clint,
I really love your channel and all your very informative and interesting videos about reptiles. I'm from Germany and therefore appreciate your translation of weights and length into the metric system. :)
Keep going! :))
On the level of different species in a genus, explaining Esquerre 2021s phylogeny of antaresia pythons is also fascinating, because it's an example of DNA study completely overturning the conventional understanding of the group.
You might think that's short because that's only four species in the current phylogeny, but the thing that makes the paper excellent is they used a really big sample size of DNA to learn the history of the groups expansion and change over time, so you can actually use their data to trace out over time how they've expanded, like how children's pythons absolutely explode onto the scene in the pleistocene to become Australia's most common python ranging across almost the whole continent.
How about varanus ? or just a video about black throated monitors and white throat monitors.
Big fan of that orange tie
Holy cow I had no idea leather back sea turtles were huge!
Love this video but please make the next one about snakes even though it will be extensive^
7:15 I was Surprised! Tortoises ARE Turtles. I never corrected people because I didn't want to and NOW I don't have to. Thanks, This was a FUN video!
15:01 "the fact that it is a tortoise doesn't mean that it's not a turtle."
I approve of this video. I request and require more highlights of clades!
I live in Belize. We have a snapping turtle that has a short tail. Locally known as Samolango
Omg I can’t wait to watch this with my niece.
I'd like to have some more in depth information on the Big Headed Turtle if you ever have the opportunity, Clint! They look totally rad!
Outstanding video!
I love a phylogeny video!!
I loved this video, do a video like this one but for geckos, talking about the diferent families, how sticky feet and no eye lids evolved more than one time and talking about the legless geckos, pygopodidae.
What's the coolest Geckos that you can think of ?
There's one time I'm reading something reptile related then I found the existence of a gecko that can squirt some liquid from their tail (strophurus) and one of them looks especially cool (strophurus ciliaris)
@@asrig3880 i like Diplodactylidae, especialy new caledonia geckos
Great video, I recommend making a similar one for snakes!
This was a great video! Hope to see more like it 💛
hi im sorta new to the channel and i love it so far. i am a sorta new ( ive had him since 2020) leopard gecko owner and i was wondering if you could an updated version of caring and handling them - one of your fans aniyah🤍
Do Sauropterygia next. Its the only reasonable follow up to the turtles.
kind of sad you didn't go in Tortoises more
Some turtles have even been known to survive in the sewer, survive mutation due to toxins, and even learn ninjutsu!
Jokes aside, two questions:
1. How would sex determination due to temperature be an evolutionary advantage? It seems like it would lead to an abundance of one sex in areas with stable climates.
2. How/where on Earth did you get a tuatara skull?
Love it keep it up
Another subject of discussion.
In Dutch a turtle is "Schildpad"
And a tortoise is a "land schildpad"
Way easier!
We didn't know there was so much to know about turtles, until you tortoise.
(taught us)
this was so fun!
Crocodilians next please and thank you.
Anything turtle related, I'm in.
I love turtles!
Can we do crocodilians next?
Who else wants to get Clint started on snakes?
that is so cool and great and how about Lizards
You should cover tegus!!
We have :)
@@ClintsReptiles I mean their family tree, unless that's what you mean?
Please do salamanders
This was so educational, I love it! I'd totally be okay with you getting started on snakes! If you want to be controversial you could do birds next!
Great video. It's a shame I can only upvote once.
Desert iguanas are still the best pet reptiles.
Not me mostly here to see just what the hell kind of turtles I have in my general area wondering if I could pick them out from what you say belong in my area and I would be like oh I recognize that one
did you get the idea for this video from ´textbook travel´? saw u comment on one of their videos
No, we've been making videos like this since before their channel existed, but I like what they're doing.
@@ClintsReptiles ooh ok just thought about it cause the title’s so similar:)
Snakes next?
Hey clint I watched and old video of yours where you were given a Pectinata Iguana I was curious how he was doing it would be really cool to see a video on them!
surprised Clint didnt show us a good view down a leatherback seaturtles gullet. normally he doesnt skip any opportunity to leave us with some of natures finest nightmare fuel (while actually as harmless as can be), sporting a mischievous grin. as always, entertaining & informative video, keep it up!
A gloriously haunting view that I have now learned. Thanks!
Dang! I just looked that up, and I kinda love it.
Oh man, so true.
nightmaee fuel for jellyfish auhahaha
Oh yeah, I was waiting for that too! How could he skip nature's Sarlacc pit?!
"Leatherback Sea Turtle, the BEST pet turtle?"
I can see it now...
"For upfront costs, we are giving the Leatherback Sea Turtle a -17 out of 5. The first thing you will need is your own private ocean, complete with its own beach, as well as a crane, truck, and trailer large enough to traslnsfer a 1 ton reptile there. Then there's the actual Turtle itself."
Actually they are impossible to keep in glass enclosures. The only way scientists have found to keep hatchlings either for study or for rehabilitation, is to tie them and suspend them in the middle of a tank without giving them the ability to hit the glass.
@@stefanostokatlidis4861 Man that's kind of messed up but it is so much funnier to imagine than it is messed up. I'm just picturing an eight foot long one ton turtle tethered to like a rock in the middle of an aquarium and good lord is it a funny image
I love this video. I've learned this in University but never so in depth for turtles down to family level. And the examples you provide make it so much easier to just learning names. I look forward to the next one. Ideally, we go through all the reptiles (including birds ofc) and then move to amphibians and if the series does really well the other vertebrates. I wouldn't really expect you to take the pain of going through arthropods... you could fill a channel with that.
Yes agreed although I would love a video on the chelicerata group
100% agree, Would like a video on mammals though, especially cats and canines
Clint is the university professor we all wish we had, although we might consider switching his coffee to decaf. 😂
Only one iconic phrase can sum this video up in a fast and simple manner.
"I like turtles."
Small tip: "chelys" comes from the Greek word "khélūs", and as such should be pronounced with a hard 'k' sound as in "character" (which comes from the Greek word "kharaktēr") as opposed to a 'ch' sound as in "change".
And the c in Latin should have a hard K sound as well so probably a safe bet to hit the hard k whenever you see a c in a scientific name
hmm... this makes me wonder tho, do modern english speakers use classical greek/latin pronunciation at all? the one i seem to hear 50-50 on either side the most is probably 'bona fides' (monosyllabic 'faidz' vs latin 'FEE-deiz').
iirc, there's also a ton of greek+latin mishmashes in binomial nomenclature... on top of all the random non-english names for newly-discovered ones xD
@@alveolate I reckon it depends on the context. "Julius Caesar" for example is now pronounced completely different from its latin pronunciation, which would sound something more like "Yulios Kaiser". The 'c' in "science" is silent but the latin word it borrows from "scientia" pronounces the 'c' like a hard 'k'.
Edit: I wonder if greek originating English words have pronunciations closer to the original word than latin ones.
That was soo informative!
I really liked the indepth break down it helps you understand the differences without being overwhelmed with little details that normal individuals wouldn't understand or even recognize
All the different families of iguanomorpha would be fun.
I love this format! I also love that Clint gets so excited that he gets carried away with the Latin names and adds an extra "did" to most of the -didae's.
Even though snapping turtles are amazing my favorite is the dimond back terrapin. The fact that they only live in brackish and it's blue is just fantastic.
Hey I came to say this! They are just stinkin rad!
That’s my favorite too.
At first they were my favorite because among local turtles in my area they’re the hardest to find (it’s easier to find 3 different species of sea turtles than diamondback terrapins), but now I love them for their own sake.
In addition to their environment and bluish coloring, I love their speckled skin and goofy smiling beaks and the amazing range of colors and patterns that their shells come in.
I always loved diamondback terrapins because I was always disappointed that there aren't a lot of really colorful reptiles around in new england. It's basically them and garter snakes. Since then I've also found their ecology super interesting.
Me too. I want a diamondback terrapin
I love all your videos, but I loved this video because it is essentially a vastly more efficient and fun version of countless wikipedia dives that I've done. Please do frogs and toads (or, heck, all the amphibians) next!
Absolutely love the breakdown of information!! More videos like this please!! I love learning about the classification of animals and you make it great!
What a great video clint! I just loved the format (may even say i loved it even more that the pet videos!)... As i'm really a bird person i would find it amazing if the next video would be about the birds! My lil cockatiel would love to see how closely related he is to all these big strong birds!
On the genus scale, Egerniinae would be an interesting video since that includes so many species you've actually already made videos on. From monkey tailed Skinks to blue tongues to pink tongues to gidgees.
This is assuming that Scincidae is unworkable just on the basis of how skinks are the largest family of lizards and there's so many individual genera where there is basically nothing to say because we barely know anything about them.
Loved this video!! So much information and yet not overwhelming. A FANTASTIC video for science teachers. I am saving this one for myself to view again. Thank you for the work you put into this video.
I have over 100 different reptiles and amphibians. I have 4 turtles 3 Florida snappers and one painted turtle. I’ve always loved turtles and had them since I was a kid. Snappers being one of my favorites. Great video bud and love the new format 🙌.
Absolutely loveeeeeeeed this! More videos like this please!!! The more knowledge of animals I gain the happier I become 😁
The other fun fact about the Pignosed Turtle is that their eggs are the only amniotic egg that can survive immersion in water, and indeed they need to be immersed in water to hatch.
*Edit, at least, that's what I've been told all through my studies... I've never read much about the Central American River Turtle, does it's entire nest remain intact when flooded without the eggs coming into contact with water, or does something else happen? If the eggs are immersed how do they respire whilst underwater?
If anyone knows, I'd love to find out.
Probably they can’t tolerate submersion only in the early stages of incubation. Some Australian species can also do this.
Damn, I'm in love with these very scientific videos of yours. More like this please! Obviously avian reptiles are something you should cover lol
I like turtles but don't want an aquarium. A tiny Tortoise may be in my future like a Herman's Tort or something. A land turtle maybe? Idk. Especially ifI could build a nice big indoor enclosure for them. Thanks Clint! Love your vids and glad to see anything from you. Something like this on snakes, even a clade like boas (true and old world) or pythons etc would be neat, let alone snakes entirely.
land turtle, lol
A box turtle might be right up your alley
0:38 I thought the tortoise jumped out of his hand 🐢
What if you did an hour long video covering all reptiles and birds? I would definitely watch that