When Evolution Made The Same Animal Twice

If you take a look through time you will come to the realization that we are all the same, but different... let me explain.

If you want more 🦖:

0:00 What Is Convergent Evolution?
1:21 Dolphins/Ichthyosaurs
3:25 Everything is a Crocodile
6:17 The Whale...Crocodile?
7:27 Armadillos Copied These Dinosaurs
9:00 The Elephant Before Mammals Existed
10:48 The Fake Rhinos Of South America
12:54 The ‘Zebra’ Rabbit
13:56 Tasmanian Tiger & Canines
14:54 Even Turtles Got Unrelated Twins
16:24 The Screaming ‘Stingrays’
18:13 Sharks + Ray Hybrid
19:28 "Reptilian" Monkeys!

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[MrGeorgeFlorcus]

You made a 20 minute long video about convergent evolution and didn't make a single quip or reference to crabs. I'm so proud of you.

[playboy]

_ Humans: "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."
_ Evolution: "Have you learned NOTHING 😠!"

[heathjennings]

Once saw something I had never seen before a few summers ago. It looked like a crossbreed between a hummingbird and a bumblebee. Come to find out it was a moth that fed on flower nectar. Craziest thing I’ve seen in my 48 years

[MagiRaz]

"You try coming up with original designs for a few billion years! You need half an hour to come up with a name for your rpg characters!"~Mama Gaia, probably.

[iksarguards]

As someone who lives in europe has sees large legless lizards on the daily, you'll never mistake them for snakes. They move in a frantic, full body spasm. Nothing at all like the graceful, elegent and silent movement of snakes.

Legless they are, snakes they are not 😂

[wardeni]

Sci-fi writers: "Imagine how unimaginably different aliens must be"
Nature: _keeps evolving near-identical animals from vastly different origins_

[GamingWithMrMeme]

Having a hummingbird on screen while you say work smarter not harder is TOTAL contrast to the idea😅

[Joe-Przybranowski]

I've been saying this for ten years-
Convergent evolution is about physics.
It I very likely that we will find creatures on other worlds to be eerily familiar.

[DisgustingJustinAD]

I really do appreciate no A.i. voice reading out a script, I've been binge watching these videos while I'm drawing 😮

Edit: crazy how people make a fuss about me complimenting a youtube channel 👀 wow

[lings]

Shows nightmare stingray that is perpetually screaming
“These cute googly eyes”

[FarazKhan-mjxs]

4:16 imagine you came first but still get called a copied version

[ibtiago]

A great example of convergent evolution that is often overlooked is the ostrish, the rhea, the emu and cassowary, the moas and the elephant bird. Despite the fact that they are all related, they all evolved into big flightless birds independently. Their ancestors originated in the northern hemisphere and traveled to different parts of the world trough flight. Only then did they lost the ability to fly and started to reach large sizes.
And, in a second example, gastornis and dromornis were also giant flightless birds which were related but evolved separetedly into that specific form. They were not related to the paleognats, being instead more closely related to waterfowl or fowl.

[TheThrivingTherapsid]

Mammals echoing synapsid traits hundreds of millions of years after the Great Dying should not be so surprising considering that mammals are the last representatives of the much more ancient synapsid clade, which appeared almost 320 million years ago, of which Placerias and Suminia were part.

Long live the last of the synapsids!

[tvbnine]

PLEASE make a part two for other examples of convergent evolution. It's an insanely fascinating subject

[smariosquares]

Syminia was not a reptile, it was a synapsid, meaning it's more closely related to us than it is to reptiles

[just_a_guy]

0:54 speaking of legless-ness in lizards, it's not just one separate family of legless lizards, but 25! Legless-ness has independently evolved 25 times in lepidosaurs!

[thelittleal]

Imagine finding a Permian synapsid who looks like a human primate someday, that will cause so much confusion 😂

[wobinich]

17:10 "Smooth in a sandpaper way" is an advanced ecology joke

[whatWJDo]

A big one you missed is the brain development associated with consciousness in cephalopods and various mammals which have not had a common ancestor in an incredibly long time.

[ghostlytavern]

I find learning about Dino’s and prehistoric soothing in a way. Now a days it’s easy to feel like the worlds ending but look at how long the worlds been around and it’s still spinning. Reminds me that life will go one long after my life and is always changing and makes the world crash down around me a little slower. Thank you for your videos they might just be dino videos to you but they’re everything to me.