The game-changing amniotic egg - April Tucker

350 million years ago, eggs could not survive far from water, therefore animals were water-bound. That is, until the amniotic egg, which allowed animals to live a fully terrestrial life. April Tucker peels back each layer of the amniotic egg, revealing how truly extraordinary this evolutionary marvel is.

Lesson by April Tucker, animation by Pew36 Animation Studios.

[thenerdbeast]

The thing that strikes me about the amniotic egg is that it is such a huge leap from the simple amphibian eggs, having many derived structures. I wonder what the in-between stages between the two were like, and which features appeared in which order.

[nicoangelobado]

FOR EVERYONE's sake the animation and presentation was heavily inspired by the PC game "Spore".

[JoeBlu]

Thank you so much "Where did mammals come from" was one of my all time childhood mysteries :)
Props to the animation team too :)

[nonsensical]

Don't get too eggcited with these puns, or you'll come off as eggcessive.

[DoctorShaunB]

I want a pet amniote! 1:10 Give em some headphones + turntable mixer, pretty sure I'd have a world class DJ on my hands

[meduzo]

One of the best animations from TEDEd congrats to pew36!

[billrck]

Daniel. What are you, 3 years old? Why does the way it is presented so important to you? If you don't like it, do it yourself .

[gabipires]

excellent, perfect, simply increidible, exactly what I needed, THIS IS LITERALLY SO.

[musicnoranges]

I love all the little creatures! they're so cute!

[kenbobca]

Great Video. I always learn something new on TED-ed. Thank you.

[valerieessien]

soo educating and beautiful I understood perfectly. Thank you

[opuswaldstein]

for the 200th comment of this video, all I can say is :

the begining of Addisson Anderson as THE narrator for TED-Ed ☺

[robobrain]

I really really enjoyed the evolutionary history. Do more :)

[derplizagaming]

I would rather watch these then going to school.

[ndrdst]

Even though I'm an eggnostic I believe in this eggsemplary eggshibition of eggvolutionary science!

[isaiahelgin]

I like this video mostly because the animated creatures are kinda cute.

[MrConorWB]

It was a TED Talks or TED ED video that said it. It was something about evolution. I think it was about: can we still evolve? Something like that. It was definitely about evolution and definitely a TED video. I will try and look for the vid.

[mariam.a]

THANK YOU so much, u really really helped me 😭🖤🖤

[IntarwebUser]

Why did you draw a short-legged flamingo when you were talking about parakeets? That's very distracting.

[jyotsnasamraj]

3:59
Why was there a flamingo instead of a parakeet?