The national park program was the best thing that ever happened in American history IMO. We don't have the architecture or 1000s of years of human history like Europe and the Asia, but we've got canyons and mountains and swamps and cliff dwellings and those are pretty cool too.
Um we do have 1000s of years of human history... Don't erase indigenous people I mean he just said in the video that people were in Southern California 13,000 years ago.
Um we do have 1000s of years of human history... Don't erase indigenous people I mean he just said in the video that people were in Southern California 13,000 years ago.
+iamphoenixfire ikr school only teaches you things after the white men butchered thousands of people pretty much but never about the early history of the United states.
I thought the Taq polymerase discovery would have made the list. This enzyme was discovered in bacteria that live in hot springs in Yellowstone. The ability of the enzyme to tolerate high temperatures truly revolutionized the speed and utility of PCR, and the field of genetics.
I went to Isle Royale in 2010. It was an amazing place to be. At one point while I was heading from Windigo to my camp site, I saw a something moving on the other side of the bay. After watching for a while it finally came out of the woods and I saw it was a wolf. I was already amazed that I saw one, but it then crossed the creek and started walking to where I was. Eventually I couldnt see it anymore because the height of the path obscured my view. But just like that, less then 10 feet away from me this wolf pops out on the path in front of me. We were just starring at each other. I think I was just as surprised to see the other as he was with me. At this point a park ranger came up and asked if I had a good look yet. I told him: 'Just a sec.' After just enjoying it for a little bit longer I told the ranger I was done and he scared the wolf off. Its important to not let them get too used to humans. Its a shame that only two wolves are left. I wonder what happened to the wolf I saw. He had a tracking collar.
I have a silly but genuine series of questions for any biologists out there (or SciShow, if they're willing to answer) How do biologists know they found a new species? Is there a worldwide database on all known species? If so, is it digital or do people have to go through thousands of book pages? Is there any kind of search engine? Can any biologist claim to have found a new species or is there an official comitee involved that has to "approve" the new categorization? How do biologists know if they're not classifying a species that was already catalogued under a different classification? (in other words, how do biologists avoid "duplicates"?) So many questions...
In addition to the previous comment, you can do genetic analysis of unknown individuals. There is a cataloge of all published genetic sequences called BLAST which you can compare it with to see if the species has been published before. New species discoveries will also often be published in peer reviewed journals, which means all their data to confirm the new species will be analysed by other scientists, usually specialists in the field.
Yes, there is a database of all known species. A quick google search will do. Usually a drawing or a photo is given, then a description etc. Plus there are biologists who specialize on different animal categories and they could be asked if what they found was indeed new.
Hi. I'm still only a student, so I may be wrong. but from my understanding that is a problem for us. There are multiple databases online (Organizations) of taxonomy and some of them overlap. Taxonomists attempt to define species and subspecies, they tend to lead the databases. And I know 4 years ago the databases groups were trying to organize a unified system but it's a huge task. If your interested in sorting, organizing and unifying stuff look into it.
KambEight Yeah, actually as a coder I've gotten to know Pitch, Yaw, and Roll from Unreal Engine code, and how it references those 3 axes for Rotator type variables. I know a guy that finds the latter set more natural, in relation to blue collar work (machining, construction, etc), and I even found a game recently that uses the latter as its references, hence why I ask.
Wojtek Kiraga Nope. Machine Craft. Unoriginal name, but it's an extraordinarily hands on vehicle building game. Side note: Many people who aren't well versed in the game claim it's a konckoff of robocraft, but this is a misconception. I get that from the premise of building vehicles out of blocks and fighting with them, but if you toss in a dozen hours or even less you'll no doubt find that it's exponentially more hands on and asks you to fork out cash exactly never.
Of all of our national parks, I think Yellowstone is the most impressive. Mainly because a geyser that erupts every however long the interval is on a regular time basis is amazing.
This is the best SciShow episode I've seen (newer consistent viewer) The parks, and Isle Royal are very interesting to me, having lived in Michigan for the vast majority of my life (born, few years away, back again)
In my environmental science class a few years ago we did simulations on the Isle Royale using a relatively simple program that accounted for the seasons, available plant life, and the populations of wolves and moose. In one random permutation of testing my group accidentally found a viable ratio that lead to near extinction of both the wolves and moose at the same time, but with 2 wolves (probably some cubs already too) and a handfull of moose the populations managed to work themselves back into good numbers and didn't kill eachother off... ever. We ran our simulation for 500 years and they kept steady, with occasional dips here and there. Just thought it was a little neat.
National parks are important. I live next to one where most of the California condors live. There are many subspecies endemic to the area, including plants and animals I have seen around my own home.
A few days ago I saw a black snail with a transparent shell on a box in a forest, I couldn't find any information on it online so it might be a new species!
This was a great video to watch after an awful day of Archaeology in the Mark Twain National Forest. (I know this a National Forest not a National Park but it still helped.)
Please help out Sunny Side in Nevada it's an amazing natural hot spring that is in just ok shape. Little people know about it and it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen
Come to Tucson, AZ, we have 2 National parks here in our town, the Saguaro national park East and the Saguaro National park West, as well as the Rincon National Forest and our famous Catalina Highway up to Mount Lemmon, where you can ski during the winter some years, then come down and swim in your pool in Tucson going through several climates in the process.
England: 10 National Parks cover 9.3% of the land area Wales: 3 National Parks cover 19.9.% of the land area Scotland: 2 National Parks cover 7.2% of the land area Internationally: 113,000 National Parks and similarly protected areas cover approximately 6% of the Earth's land surface, that's about 149 million square kilometres! (Source - IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature). Source: www.nationalparks.gov.uk/students/whatisanationalpark/factsandfigures
I was on Isle royal 2012 and I got to see fresh paw prints from each Wolf since there was 3 and we heard them howl at night. it's sad the mother and babies fell into a old copper mine like 13 feet down to stone but like the old fence around the top was rotten and pretty much not there even for the public. but my favorite part was the only moose I saw kept chasing ducks in the weeds on a river bank and the ducks kept landing next to the young moose and he went crazy
If you saw National Treasure you couldn't miss the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and its 20 ft marble statue of Ben. The memorial became part of the National Parks system in 1973 putting an end to generations of kids climbing on the statue and getting photographed sitting in Franklin's lap.
I also have a suggestion for a discussion on studies having to do with identical non-twins and the probability of this occurring, and any aspect of that which you consider best to cover for a video. Thanks.
I grew up in a small town that was a 20 minute drive from Sequioa National Park. Just an amazing place to begin with! If you're ever there, make the time to see Boyden and/or Crystal Caves. Secondly, I attended college at HSU, and had the privilege to meet Steve Sillett, the scientist who led the expedition up Hyperion. Also highly recommend going through the Avenue of the Giants if you're ever in Northern California. An amazing drive through the redwoods there!
I live like 30 minutes from Edison’s lab and went there once for a Boy Scouts thing, so it’s kind of weird seeing a picture of it on a big TH-cam channel.
a mention of the exceptional biodiversity found in the Great Smoky Mountains would have been nice especially since it is considered the salamander capital of the world... there's also a large number of lichens to be found there
i went to mammoth in 2002 on a school trip. i'm not surprised they found more to it, it was really vast. i was hella creeped out between the space and the dark and the bugs but i still liked it enough to remember it fondly. and the wild angry turkeys roaming outside >_>
The national park service that he is refereeing to is the US one. The picture he shows at the beginning is the US one. The US national park service just turned 100 and was the first one.
Top 10 things not discovered in National Parks. All the people who go missing there and never turn up and no record of their disappearance is kept by the National Park system.
Is is possible to determine the geographical origin of rock? I mean, like what park it came from. I got some rocks that were stolen from a park in California and I need to know which one.
Devils Hole is in Nevada and is also a separate piece not connected to the boundary of the main Death Valley which is in California. Your gps from Vegas will take you many miles out of your way to Devils Hole if you punch in Death Valley Park in Garmin!
You forgot the most important of them all, Thermus aquaticus was discovered in Yellowstone National park. The bacteria was the first natural source of Taq polymerase, the heat-resistant enzyme that made PCR(polymerase chain reaction) possible. Genetics wouldn't be what it is today without it.
I want those fish in my aquarium. I wonder if there was any efforts to breed the fish outside their hole? If it is successful that will boost my odds in keeping those fish.
Sad part about Isle Royale is, they had the option to introduce more wolves, and they didn't. They're letting a species die, for no reason, when the have the fix in the palm of their hand.
There are many different bugs that are called springtails(all of em because they use their "tail" to jump) and they have been known for hundreds of years. I would have liked to know what is so different about this one that it is considered a new species.
I wonder what exactly happened to the man who recently (in June '16) fell in a hot spring in Yellowstone national park? How did he die exactly? What happened to his remains? What were they able to retrieve and why?
National parks? Ohhh the places where thousands of people have gone missing but the government doesnt see a need to keep any pesky records of such things.
I literally read science articles now using SciShow hosts' voices in my head.
Same here
The national park program was the best thing that ever happened in American history IMO. We don't have the architecture or 1000s of years of human history like Europe and the Asia, but we've got canyons and mountains and swamps and cliff dwellings and those are pretty cool too.
Um we do have 1000s of years of human history... Don't erase indigenous people I mean he just said in the video that people were in Southern California 13,000 years ago.
Um we do have 1000s of years of human history... Don't erase indigenous people I mean he just said in the video that people were in Southern California 13,000 years ago.
+iamphoenixfire ikr school only teaches you things after the white men butchered thousands of people pretty much but never about the early history of the United states.
History relies on written records. We have millennia of anthropology.
+L.H.C Grim *when you knew exactly what happened to the native Americans in 4th grade when they talked about the trail of tears*
I thought the Taq polymerase discovery would have made the list. This enzyme was discovered in bacteria that live in hot springs in Yellowstone. The ability of the enzyme to tolerate high temperatures truly revolutionized the speed and utility of PCR, and the field of genetics.
That's so cool!
That was what I was looking for! It’s my #1 point for maintaining the parks and not selling them off to developers.
Awesome and timely info. The NPS is an underappreciated service that brings tremendous value to our country.
Yeah, I guess I never thought about how integral national parks are to research in the natural sciences
Not only that, but they are incredibly beautiful places to hike in.
That pond/pool needs a banana for scale... just sayin' ;)
Or anything, really.
Bananas are a measure of radiation.
I went to Isle Royale in 2010. It was an amazing place to be. At one point while I was heading from Windigo to my camp site, I saw a something moving on the other side of the bay. After watching for a while it finally came out of the woods and I saw it was a wolf. I was already amazed that I saw one, but it then crossed the creek and started walking to where I was. Eventually I couldnt see it anymore because the height of the path obscured my view. But just like that, less then 10 feet away from me this wolf pops out on the path in front of me. We were just starring at each other. I think I was just as surprised to see the other as he was with me.
At this point a park ranger came up and asked if I had a good look yet. I told him: 'Just a sec.' After just enjoying it for a little bit longer I told the ranger I was done and he scared the wolf off. Its important to not let them get too used to humans.
Its a shame that only two wolves are left. I wonder what happened to the wolf I saw. He had a tracking collar.
Change the title to "10 Discoveries Made in US National Parks"
How about fuck off?
That was unnecessarily rude
+kohrin dalal you're being baited so hug your friends and move on while enjoying the great things in life that you have or aspire to have
agree 100%. Change the name!
yes actually this would make more sense
I have a silly but genuine series of questions for any biologists out there (or SciShow, if they're willing to answer)
How do biologists know they found a new species?
Is there a worldwide database on all known species? If so, is it digital or do people have to go through thousands of book pages? Is there any kind of search engine? Can any biologist claim to have found a new species or is there an official comitee involved that has to "approve" the new categorization? How do biologists know if they're not classifying a species that was already catalogued under a different classification? (in other words, how do biologists avoid "duplicates"?)
So many questions...
In addition to the previous comment, you can do genetic analysis of unknown individuals. There is a cataloge of all published genetic sequences called BLAST which you can compare it with to see if the species has been published before.
New species discoveries will also often be published in peer reviewed journals, which means all their data to confirm the new species will be analysed by other scientists, usually specialists in the field.
Yes, there is a database of all known species. A quick google search will do. Usually a drawing or a photo is given, then a description etc. Plus there are biologists who specialize on different animal categories and they could be asked if what they found was indeed new.
Hi. I'm still only a student, so I may be wrong. but from my understanding that is a problem for us. There are multiple databases online (Organizations) of taxonomy and some of them overlap. Taxonomists attempt to define species and subspecies, they tend to lead the databases. And I know 4 years ago the databases groups were trying to organize a unified system but it's a huge task. If your interested in sorting, organizing and unifying stuff look into it.
A great way to tell if it's a new species is looking at the DNA.
Leonardo Santos lol really? New to this kinda thing?
(Obligatory Edison sucks comment)
fucking edison.. most famous thief and general douche bag
Fuck Edison! Go Tesla!
Loud noises!
Poor Tesla. Edison the fraud
O cmon
I love that you guys use Pitch, Yaw, and Roll. Vs Bank, Pitch, and Heading. Any neat background on where this differing terms come from?
Is Pitch/Yaw/Roll exclusive to the US? I didn't know that.
I know that they use those terms (pitch and yaw) in Minecraft's source code, so they're probably in use in Sweden.
KambEight
Yeah, actually as a coder I've gotten to know Pitch, Yaw, and Roll from Unreal Engine code, and how it references those 3 axes for Rotator type variables.
I know a guy that finds the latter set more natural, in relation to blue collar work (machining, construction, etc), and I even found a game recently that uses the latter as its references, hence why I ask.
Kerbal Space Program
Wojtek Kiraga
Nope. Machine Craft. Unoriginal name, but it's an extraordinarily hands on vehicle building game.
Side note: Many people who aren't well versed in the game claim it's a konckoff of robocraft, but this is a misconception.
I get that from the premise of building vehicles out of blocks and fighting with them, but if you toss in a dozen hours or even less you'll no doubt find that it's exponentially more hands on and asks you to fork out cash exactly never.
Fun fact : Hank Green created vid-con! I just learned this. :)
yea, it's like only small amount of people who know this :/
...I'm guessing youre being sarcastic?
I hope they stream the events live. I'd love to see all the happenings, provided they're mostly TH-cam Drama-free.
what's that, or what do you mean?
They're streaming some of the events live.
Great video SciShow! I could watch as long as a video as you would want to make on this topic.
America's National Parks are it's greatest treasure
vote your park? I vote for Parky McParkface!
Of all of our national parks, I think Yellowstone is the most impressive. Mainly because a geyser that erupts every however long the interval is on a regular time basis is amazing.
Awesome video! REally informative and interesting. I had no idea about 90% of what you shared in the video. Keep the good work!
Please do a video on Isle royale. More details would be vary cool!
This is the best SciShow episode I've seen (newer consistent viewer) The parks, and Isle Royal are very interesting to me, having lived in Michigan for the vast majority of my life (born, few years away, back again)
Hank Green is definitely the best presenter
In my environmental science class a few years ago we did simulations on the Isle Royale using a relatively simple program that accounted for the seasons, available plant life, and the populations of wolves and moose. In one random permutation of testing my group accidentally found a viable ratio that lead to near extinction of both the wolves and moose at the same time, but with 2 wolves (probably some cubs already too) and a handfull of moose the populations managed to work themselves back into good numbers and didn't kill eachother off... ever. We ran our simulation for 500 years and they kept steady, with occasional dips here and there.
Just thought it was a little neat.
3:54 "Is three new species' not enough for you?"
B..b...but I didn't say anything.
Only 2 wolves left? That's... really sad
Hey, at least we can't blame us humans for this.
The DNR brought more wolves in. The wolves there were not a separate subspecies or anything, just normal wolves.
@Edit Name it is not an extinction as they are not their own species. It is just a pack of normal wolves
2:10
Makes sense, they would always be close to where they could get food, the sea, by fishing.
What about the discovery of the Wollemi Pine Tree (which was previously thought extinct) in the Blue Mountains National Park in Australia?
This is a great example of how to deliver a 15 minute talk in a 9:37 minute time frame.
National parks are important. I live next to one where most of the California condors live. There are many subspecies endemic to the area, including plants and animals I have seen around my own home.
Two if my friends from college were part of the group that discovered the new portions of Mammoth Cave.
Please send this video to the President. This is why we need public lands.
Best part of discovering new species, you can do it too.
Those invertebrates, people probably saw them, but thought nothing of them.
A few days ago I saw a black snail with a transparent shell on a box in a forest, I couldn't find any information on it online so it might be a new species!
@@bingolingo6555 Document everything.
This was a great video to watch after an awful day of Archaeology in the Mark Twain National Forest. (I know this a National Forest not a National Park but it still helped.)
Kudos to the National Park Service!!
Please help out Sunny Side in Nevada it's an amazing natural hot spring that is in just ok shape. Little people know about it and it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen
the drama of nature is truly a thrill.
Come to Tucson, AZ, we have 2 National parks here in our town, the Saguaro national park East and the Saguaro National park West, as well as the Rincon National Forest and our famous Catalina Highway up to Mount Lemmon, where you can ski during the winter some years, then come down and swim in your pool in Tucson going through several climates in the process.
Forgot USA is the only country with national parks
No, it isn't. Canada has its own national parks.
+Scott Hamilton sarcasm
Well then present us with vital information that was learned from national parks in other countries if you give a shit.
England: 10 National Parks cover 9.3% of the land area
Wales: 3 National Parks cover 19.9.% of the land area
Scotland: 2 National Parks cover 7.2% of the land area
Internationally: 113,000 National Parks and similarly protected areas cover approximately 6% of the Earth's land surface, that's about 149 million square kilometres! (Source - IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature).
Source: www.nationalparks.gov.uk/students/whatisanationalpark/factsandfigures
I think that pupfish is also the cutest fish in the world!
Question: How do knives actually cut?
I was on Isle royal 2012 and I got to see fresh paw prints from each Wolf since there was 3 and we heard them howl at night. it's sad the mother and babies fell into a old copper mine like 13 feet down to stone but like the old fence around the top was rotten and pretty much not there even for the public. but my favorite part was the only moose I saw kept chasing ducks in the weeds on a river bank and the ducks kept landing next to the young moose and he went crazy
Patrick Doran
That's a pretty cool story, I can just picture it.
Thank you for including feet measurement!!! Much appreciated!
I'd like to see a video done about canadian parks and their contributions to science!!
If you saw National Treasure you couldn't miss the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and its 20 ft marble statue of Ben. The memorial became part of the National Parks system in 1973 putting an end to generations of kids climbing on the statue and getting photographed sitting in Franklin's lap.
I discovered a shopping trolley in my park
Shopping cart
@@indigomarine91 some people call them trolleys
Unbased pfp
I choose brickleberry
Number one discovery should have been the discovery of Missing41 case clusters in national parks
I also have a suggestion for a discussion on studies having to do with identical non-twins and the probability of this occurring, and any aspect of that which you consider best to cover for a video. Thanks.
I love Sci show like damn
Number 11: bigfoot
Soon™
Number 11: Big Eye.
+Josh Adams pls no, I quit yugioh I don't want to get back in
Number 12: manbearpig
Screw you guys, I'm going home.
I grew up in a small town that was a 20 minute drive from Sequioa National Park. Just an amazing place to begin with! If you're ever there, make the time to see Boyden and/or Crystal Caves. Secondly, I attended college at HSU, and had the privilege to meet Steve Sillett, the scientist who led the expedition up Hyperion. Also highly recommend going through the Avenue of the Giants if you're ever in Northern California. An amazing drive through the redwoods there!
Can't wait to see an episode of Scishow to be sponsored by NASA
I live like 30 minutes from Edison’s lab and went there once for a Boy Scouts thing, so it’s kind of weird seeing a picture of it on a big TH-cam channel.
EXPLAIN CROP CIRCLES
Farmersonly.com
ALIENS
Farmers with a lawnmower and too much time on their hands.
People make them
aliens with planks of wood and stringss
I again googled Richard pearce of Temuka New Zealand and it is acknowledged he flew 9 months before the Wright brothers
I love what you’re doing. Keep up the good work. I(iron your shirt!)
a mention of the exceptional biodiversity found in the Great Smoky Mountains would have been nice especially since it is considered the salamander capital of the world... there's also a large number of lichens to be found there
Yay! my state was in here 😃 and I wonder if island royale is the reason that question about wolves and moose was always on my biology tests.
i went to mammoth in 2002 on a school trip. i'm not surprised they found more to it, it was really vast. i was hella creeped out between the space and the dark and the bugs but i still liked it enough to remember it fondly. and the wild angry turkeys roaming outside >_>
*10 Discoveries Made in US National Parks
The national park service that he is refereeing to is the US one. The picture he shows at the beginning is the US one. The US national park service just turned 100 and was the first one.
Yishai Thau national parks aren't only in the us, but this video is referring only to the us
Sponsored by AMERICAN Express. A bit of a giveaway.
Olympic national park is my favorite
it truly is beautiful that there are species located in one single area and no where else (devils hole pupfish)
Top 10 things not discovered in National Parks. All the people who go missing there and never turn up and no record of their disappearance is kept by the National Park system.
Is is possible to determine the geographical origin of rock? I mean, like what park it came from. I got some rocks that were stolen from a park in California and I need to know which one.
1:40 There is also the Solutrean clan that challenges the native Americans as first to enter the Americas. But very little attention is given to them.
I love Hank Green
Devils Hole is in Nevada and is also a separate piece not connected to the boundary of the main Death Valley which is in California. Your gps from Vegas will take you many miles out of your way to Devils Hole if you punch in Death Valley Park in Garmin!
You forgot the most important of them all, Thermus aquaticus was discovered in Yellowstone National park. The bacteria was the first natural source of Taq polymerase, the heat-resistant enzyme that made PCR(polymerase chain reaction) possible. Genetics wouldn't be what it is today without it.
Gorgeous fish!
people in my field camp got "trapped" in mammoth cave during a flash flood this year. glad the cave made the list
I want those fish in my aquarium. I wonder if there was any efforts to breed the fish outside their hole? If it is successful that will boost my odds in keeping those fish.
8:20 sounds like modern economic systems.
Shout out to my hometown of Dayton, Ohio!
what about Cape Cod's National Seashore and Marconi Beach the site of the first Trans-Atlantic radio broadcast?
Sad part about Isle Royale is, they had the option to introduce more wolves, and they didn't. They're letting a species die, for no reason, when the have the fix in the palm of their hand.
Really shocked the discovery of the new kingdom of life - archaea - in Yellowstone wasn't on here 😥😥
i love sequoia and kings canyon😃😃😃😃😃 my family goes at any chance we get
What about thermophilic bacteria at Yellowstone?? PCR???
Beautiful.
You have until July 5th to vote
Would have been alright if TH-cam hadn't decided I would see this on the 9th. *Eye roll*
the wolves vs moose was the best part of this video...
Can we vote to save and preserve them all?
150 meter tall trees is insane!
Question for SciShow about National Park Discoveries:
What are the facts on the impact of Wolves on the Environment?
Was anyone else thrilled he mentioned Isle Royal? Totally my favorite National Park.
inb4 this channel becomes a top 10 (in science) channel XD
Felt like a Pokemon adventure 😍
The wolves on Isle Royale murdered the survivors of a Great Lakes shipwreck in the early 1920s
There are many different bugs that are called springtails(all of em because they use their "tail" to jump) and they have been known for hundreds of years. I would have liked to know what is so different about this one that it is considered a new species.
Gonna vote for the home team: Acadia National Park! Ayuh.
I wonder what exactly happened to the man who recently (in June '16) fell in a hot spring in Yellowstone national park? How did he die exactly? What happened to his remains? What were they able to retrieve and why?
You don’t retrieve bones from those things. Your skin melts off, shock sets, you die
National parks? Ohhh the places where thousands of people have gone missing but the government doesnt see a need to keep any pesky records of such things.
When you said springtail, first thing I thought of was ant food.
If I discovered the world's tallest tree, I'd name it Yggdrasil.
***** Its the world tree of Norse mythology.
Please do a sequel to this video.
It is sad there are only 2 wolves remain on the island.
Only 2 wolves remaining is the saddest thing I've heard. The poor doggys
Geeze, s-l-o-w down. It’s a video, no time limit.
FYI: 13,000 years ago the Channel Islands were the west coast, not islands, because of the ice age.
I'm sad that the site doesn't have Arches National Park on it...its my favorite.
Hi so early 💜 love your vids
TAC Polymerase!?
We wouldn't have PCR without it!
A nobel prize was given!
All from a little bacteria from yellowstone's hot springs!
"there have been too many to talk about in just 10 minutes" 1:10
Then make another video on them?