How Plants Became Carnivores

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How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need aren’t there, some plants can adapt in unexpected ways to make sure they thrive.
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@HollowProductions_1 3 жыл бұрын

“I’m tired of drinking, I wanna chew”

@Zadem 3 жыл бұрын

I remember

@kred4849 3 жыл бұрын

Nice CalebCity reference

@Jop_pop 3 жыл бұрын

"I can't move, I'm a plant!"

@herbivorousplant 3 жыл бұрын

IT'S GOOD!!!

@yakarotsennin3115 3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this, glad to see it’s here

@JDeO1997 3 жыл бұрын

"Welp, can't get enough nutrients from the ground and sun, time to hunt" ~ Some plant

@Lewd-Tenant_Isan 3 жыл бұрын

Actually quite the opposite, it dosent hunt, it sits there and waits for the prey to come, nature's literal COD sniper campers

@bruhmoment1835 3 жыл бұрын

Cowabunga it is

@daymenpasick7825 3 жыл бұрын

@sianwebb2128 3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert 😂

@benimel3204 3 жыл бұрын

Plant want more food, plant want MEAT.

@teawrecks1243 3 жыл бұрын

flytrap: "guys i'm a vegan" other flytraps: **horrified gasps** "YOU CANNIBAL"

@suryamohan3410 3 жыл бұрын

impressive work

@geraldfriend256 3 жыл бұрын

What did one venus flytrap say to the other? You were NEVER vegan!

@ITeachRick 3 жыл бұрын

@tea wrecks Nice line, except a cannibal eats its own kind, a carnivore eats meat. It would be interesting if these plants actually ate each other.

@captainpalegg2860 3 жыл бұрын

I had a Venus flytrap once. One day as I was watering it I noticed (and I'm still unclear how exactly this happened) two of its traps were biting down on each other. So, yeah, your joke actually has a slight ring of truth to it (at least to me).

@ITeachRick 3 жыл бұрын

@@swalihmm Boink! I totally missed that one......

@yesid17 3 жыл бұрын

"One fossil seed... that was destroyed in a freak lab accident after being photographed" how are you seriously gonna leave us with just that sentence i need a whole video about this lol

@robotboy719 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the CIA was involved. Possibly extra-terrestrial dinos as well.

@koharumi1 2 жыл бұрын

The fossil was apparently dropped.

@davelewthwaite 3 жыл бұрын

"One fossil seed... that was destroyed in a freak lab accident after being photographed" Is it bad that I want this event to get its own episode?

@monticore1626 3 жыл бұрын

tell plainly difficult

@stza16 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds similar to the death of my wife.

@Aereto 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a conspiracy of sentient predatory flora destroying clues to their existence.

@procrastinator99 3 жыл бұрын

@@Aereto I'm REALLY glad I wasn't the only one that this idea occurred to.

@azteclady 3 жыл бұрын

Not the only one, no.

@allangarry9068 3 жыл бұрын

"there are essentially two things a plant has to do to be considered carnivorous" Me: be carnivorous, and be a plant...

@femmesammy8768 3 жыл бұрын

Ayyy pan rights!

@bigfloppa2319 3 жыл бұрын

@@femmesammy8768 enough about pan rights, lets talk about pan wrongs

@edwardjennings6021 2 жыл бұрын

@@femmesammy8768 pronouns trash this entire evolution thing the video talks about. Why are you here?

@femmesammy8768 2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardjennings6021 Not how it works + you have pronouns too yknow

@edwardjennings6021 2 жыл бұрын

Correct he/him, but theres only the prior and she/her biologically. Unless its a fungus, but you're a human not a mushroom.

@captainpalegg2860 3 жыл бұрын

Eons video: *mentions convergent evolution* My brain: _Why do things keep evolving into crabs?_

@lunarose2529 2 жыл бұрын

Someday, plants will evolve into crabs too, right? Lol!

@ejenfaiproduction155 2 жыл бұрын

They do have an episode with that title. Look up

@captainpalegg2860 2 жыл бұрын

@@ejenfaiproduction155 that's... what i was referencing...

@dandywaysofliving 2 жыл бұрын

💥 🦀

@drakedbz Жыл бұрын

Carcinization

@zeeteajuu 3 жыл бұрын

Soon to be a carnivorous plant: what does an insect taste like? Normal plant: huh Soon to be a carnivorous plant: sorry it was a strange thing to ask

@rebshuuprety5627 3 жыл бұрын

Is that aot reference? 😳

@colinchristensen6029 3 жыл бұрын

@@rebshuuprety5627 yes

@johnpaleontology 3 жыл бұрын

Eren time travels

@februarysnows5528 8 ай бұрын

Gone rogue!

@alexismyers6053 3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, we lived in a shabby trailer and for whatever reason, no matter what we did, we would always have fly infestations, mostly in the summer. Then I learned about Venus fly traps. Our fly papers worked for a day or two, then the flies would get smart and avoid the areas where the paper was. So, little Elementary school me suggested Venus fly traps when I saw they sold them at Home Depot. I guess my mom just wanted to humor me, because she was surprised when it ate the fly we caught. I love those little guys!

@KnightsWithoutATable 3 жыл бұрын

I gifted my father a Venus fly trap plant and it did really weel and ate tons of flys that got into the house, until it flowered and then died for some reason.

@anne-droid7739 3 жыл бұрын

Great stories--except that Dionaea catches mostly ants and beetles. Crawlers, not fliers.

@kevinpeters6709 3 жыл бұрын

@KnightsWithoutATable it probably didn’t die. Flytraps go dormant in the winter and for all intensive purposes look dead much like a tree or tulip does in winter

@KnightsWithoutATable 3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinpeters6709 Well, this was early internet, so we really didn't know that. It got tossed in the trash.

@alexismyers6053 3 жыл бұрын

@@anne-droid7739 they catch them when we are able to stun the little buggers and throw them into their mouths lol

@sjc1169 3 жыл бұрын

Looking down on my salad and wondering if it's luring me in.

@rainydaylady6596 3 жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂🖖

@dontask8979 3 жыл бұрын

Bye 👋 😉

@MrLarryLicious 3 жыл бұрын

Either way it would help you lose fat

@mobspeak 3 жыл бұрын

Salads are good for your digestion, maybe you are on to something.

@samsunguser3148 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrLarryLicious And a finger or two lol

@valenwyrm 3 жыл бұрын

Carnivorous plants: “I’m so hungry I could eat a lizard” Normal autotrophic plants: “Wtf bro???” Edit: This went from a joke to an argument about reptiles 😂

@thomasfplm 3 жыл бұрын

Aren't salamanders amphibians?

@faizalf119 3 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine it was all starved when one of the plant have pot shaped leaf that accidentally trap a bug or something and realised it was pretty delicious.

@cerridianempire1653 3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasfplm some pitcher plant species are big enough to drown lizards and eat them

@cerridianempire1653 3 жыл бұрын

@Live Jewelry yes the devs must allow this buff the herbivores are getting their XP too easily

@paulgoogol2652 3 жыл бұрын

@Live Jewelry don't make jokes about that. they may be coming for us. or running.

@michakreie 3 жыл бұрын

I find it amazing how the enzymes used to fight of funghi evolved to digest insects just because of the chitin they have in common.

@bearcubdaycare 3 жыл бұрын

Well, that's evolution for you

@hoanganphanle 2 жыл бұрын

"Why use a weapon for defensive purpose, while you can actively kill stuffs with it ?" - A soon to be carnivorous plant

@ingridaholmes 2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

@EryxUK 3 жыл бұрын

Now I want to know what that "freak lab accident" was.

@Dragrath1 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it seems suspicious in the same way as the old metallic hydrogen claim

@JosePineda-cy6om 3 жыл бұрын

If it was one of those old days photo equipments that contained also a mini-lab to reveal the photo yourself, it most likely involved the acids in said lab spilling out, thus dissolving the most precious specimen.

@anne-droid7739 3 жыл бұрын

We don't know that the accident was related to the photography...but nonetheless, I'm imagining some pretty unlikely scenarios. Like, somebody was trying out their Victorian camera, and the flash powder ignited all the ether in the lab...

@xinyep3813 3 жыл бұрын

I looked up the original article. They accidentally dropped the tray containing said fossil seed and the seeds smashed... A shame.

@EryxUK 3 жыл бұрын

@@xinyep3813 Thank you very much.

@shanerooney7288 3 жыл бұрын

3:20 "Carnivorous plants are found on every continent except for Antarctica." Even Australia? No, wait, silly question.

@doggygirl3187 3 жыл бұрын

Everything dangerous lives in Australia. "Dangerous places" 101

@Sami-io6xb 3 жыл бұрын

@@doggygirl3187 they don't have any top apex land predators anymore so it's honestly not that bad

@SwagelokTaj 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sami-io6xb uh huh... check out the Cassowary... ;)

@azmanabdula 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sami-io6xb Its the little things in life that get you In Australia

@mrshamamalalting8188 3 жыл бұрын

They would probably eat stuff like kangaroos over there

@RoryMajule 3 жыл бұрын

“Purple Acid Phosphatase” sounds like what a biochemistry professor would name their psychedelic funk band

@DeePal072 3 жыл бұрын

"You are a plant, why do you eat meat?!?" "You know, if I went vegan, that'd have been cannibalism 🤷🏻‍♂️"

@velocipastor676 3 жыл бұрын

There's one type of carnivorous plant that stopped eating bugs and instead catches fallen leaves in its traps. A vegetarian plant..... real freaky but true!!!!

@creativedesignation7880 3 жыл бұрын

@@velocipastor676 I was just about to ask whether there are any plants that eat other plants. Do you know what its called? I googled around for "herbivorous plant" and "leaf eating plant" but didn't find anything.

@velocipastor676 3 жыл бұрын

@@creativedesignation7880 nepenthes ampullaria

@nikkovalidor4890 3 жыл бұрын

thats why it doesnt make sense that comic writers keep making poison ivy a vegetarian

@velocipastor676 3 жыл бұрын

@@nikkovalidor4890 yeah!!!! I mean, her friends are plants, so she wouldn't eat her friends

@animaldude1470 3 жыл бұрын

My mood right now: eons and something to eat

@CherBerries 3 жыл бұрын

Literally samee right now!!!

@semaj_5022 3 жыл бұрын

Same! Just knocked down a couple cheeseburgers and a milkshake(guess what country I'm from 😂) while watching :)

@willlastnameguy8329 3 жыл бұрын

Chicken divan.

@willlastnameguy8329 3 жыл бұрын

@@semaj_5022 Burgmilkistan?

@semaj_5022 3 жыл бұрын

@@willlastnameguy8329 close! Though I am from the state of Friedchickenistan

@Lishadra 3 жыл бұрын

Every time you cut to the salamanders I was just like “Help them!!”

@epizzle9232 3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Poor little guys

@DrBunnyMedicinal 3 жыл бұрын

Likewise, but, plants gotta eat too, even when their prey is cute. :(

@velocipastor676 3 жыл бұрын

The biggest ones can catch mice and newborn monkeys too

@Lishadra 3 жыл бұрын

D R Bunny Totally, I get that! But it still made me sad

@apdroidgeek1737 3 жыл бұрын

No way they caught it fair and square, plants gotta eat too

@icarusbinns3156 2 жыл бұрын

Mom had a venus flytrap in college. When she went camping, she asked her roommate to “please feed Fritz. There are cricket meatballs in the freezer.” She’d purchased crickets, froze them, then wrapped them in bits of ground meat. Which somehow worked better for her flytrap than just the bugs. Not sure how. Fritz died and Mom got a dog. And then she had kids

@heisara 2 жыл бұрын

I presume cricket meatballs are still an annual friday meal?

@icarusbinns3156 2 жыл бұрын

@@heisara not after I had a gecko!

@ElInextricable 3 жыл бұрын

8:32 "...and one fossil seed from the Eocene Epoch of Australia that was destroyed in a freak lab accident" I want to know more about that lol

@IHScoutII 3 жыл бұрын

🎶 Feed Me Seymour!🎶

@siyacer 3 жыл бұрын

No mother it's just the Northern lights

@arthurjeremypearson 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man. I see a video about carnivorous plants, I look for semour, I up vote.

@sarahgraves6759 3 жыл бұрын

How does this not have more likes? Lol

@elainad6728 3 жыл бұрын

Feed me all night long!!!~

@SecretRaginMan 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone gangsta until the plants bite back.

@lunarose2529 2 жыл бұрын

That PLANTed a funny picture in my head...

@cozinoda 3 жыл бұрын

Fly when my slipper is flying at it: I am speed Fly when plant jaws are closing: This is fine

@westtech001 3 жыл бұрын

'Freak lab accident after being photographed'? "FEED ME SEYMOUR!"

@ArmadilloFish 3 жыл бұрын

"Ohh yay, I topic I actually asked about got a video!! :D" **saddened squirming soaked salamanders** "I am now informed and perturbed! That's the Eons I know and love 💖"

@davidhernandez9937 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone gangsta until they get stuck in a venus flytrap

@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 3 жыл бұрын

the fly's gold chains fade out of existence

@randomcow505 3 жыл бұрын

Here in the UK we have a lot of brambles and quite often sheep and other animals get stuck in them and eventually rot I once read an article that this actually could be one of the reasons for the plants spines along with stopping stuff eating them

@TheGypsyVanners Жыл бұрын

I too have heard this notion about brambles…

@gorgonflabish 3 жыл бұрын

I usually have a hard time understanding english speech, but the way everybody speaks on this channel is really articulate and good, I would like to thank you all for your amazing work, I can rest my eyes without having to read captions, perfect bedtime situation.

@lunarose2529 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, cool! I'm not the only one!

@lunarose2529 2 жыл бұрын

I also like listening to these videos just before bed.

@ian_b 3 жыл бұрын

I've reached that point where I'd believe anything PBS Eons told me.

@Toenailish 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve reached that point where I’d do anything PBS Eons told me.

@ian_b 3 жыл бұрын

@@Toenailish We can only hope that PBS Eons use this power wisely.

@Toenailish 3 жыл бұрын

Austin I’d certainly believe they’d have my best interests in mind

@urdadisbad4187 3 жыл бұрын

Facts

@jakethomason5495 3 жыл бұрын

they check their sources

@veggieboyultimate 3 жыл бұрын

I can only imagine what the carnivorous plants of the Mesozoic would have looked like.

@AlamoOriginal 3 жыл бұрын

They are 40 meters tall and consume pterodactyl

@octapusxft 3 жыл бұрын

Sadly the era with the big bugs was the carboniferous which was way before the mesozoic, back in the paleozoic

@wanderer5280 3 жыл бұрын

my plants; *Standing out in grass* me; THEY’RE JUST STANDING THERE, MENACINGLY

@ChaotiX1 3 жыл бұрын

vegans: "Everyone should eat only plants! They dont have feelings like animals do!" carnivorous plants: *Are you challenging me, mortal?*

@IsaiahSenku 3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@easytomove 3 жыл бұрын

Mortals 😂😂😂😂

@infinitethenextkazekage392 3 жыл бұрын

I looked at your pfp so I’m not gonna take this seriously but this did get a breath out my noise

@ulasag7753 3 жыл бұрын

Ahahahaha omg I'm vegan and this is mind-blowing, I really don't know if I'd be comfortable eating those plants

@npc6817 3 жыл бұрын

Eat me then, I no longer have feelings.

@dragonslayer6810 3 жыл бұрын

The plants were tired of eating the sun

@sayvionwashington1939 3 жыл бұрын

🎶I love tasting the suuun!🎶 Actually nevermind, I like eating flies, frogs, and other things now.

@whafflete6721 3 жыл бұрын

T A S T E T H E S U N

@velocipastor676 3 жыл бұрын

Going for a tan in the sun is nice, but you just gotta have some red meat... BTW, carnivorous plants eat bugs to compensate for lack of minerals in soil, not to replace sunlight. They still need sunlight, more than many other plants in fact.

@mikullmac 3 жыл бұрын

If you can taste the rainbow by eating skittles, maybe the sun tastes like all the colors of skittles combined. Makes me wonder why you would want flies. :P

@blackdragon7803 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikullmac they want a burger! 😅

@BestOfAnimalss 3 жыл бұрын

When Plants are carnivorous, Animals are vegetarian.

@bushyrho1674 3 жыл бұрын

@@BestOfAnimalss I would delete that comment so you don't get yelled at

@bushyrho1674 3 жыл бұрын

Uh nevermind, your welcome. Have a good day

@foreverGM.006 3 жыл бұрын

@@BestOfAnimalss people who say thanks for the likes get hate

@foreverGM.006 3 жыл бұрын

@@BestOfAnimalss I don't know why people just hate that for some reason its stupid

@Ditidos 3 жыл бұрын

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and a leaf for a leaf.

@migueldacruzalmeidarocha5855 3 жыл бұрын

I loved the background music... so fond and calm. Almost like we aren't even talking about brutal, vicious carnivorous plants hahah

@patheticpotato4545 3 жыл бұрын

That ending though. The fly is crying for mercy to the fly gods and the music is like so happy and and as the fly it struggling to escape her tone is so happy.

@bearcubdaycare 3 жыл бұрын

You have to have a fair bit of remove to study this stuff, I suspect.

@ShrekMeBe 3 жыл бұрын

That was carnivorous plant music.

@KQEDDeepLook 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful episode!

@1.4142 3 жыл бұрын

Both great channels!

@mysterious7215 3 жыл бұрын

Both are great

@mzakri 3 жыл бұрын

have you tried to see a nepenthes pervillei seeds under high resolution camera? they have iridescent coat

@lukmanibrahim2993 3 жыл бұрын

Omg! Its Deep Look!

@sosickandtiredofalltheneed568 3 жыл бұрын

What??? I am actually subscribed to your channel a long time ago and I thought you are inactive. And i actually have notifications on..Damn it youtube algorithm!

@menkomonty 3 жыл бұрын

Vegans: We only eat plants. Carnivorous plants: Hello there.

@connor863 3 жыл бұрын

Can vegans eat carnivorous plants?

@menkomonty 3 жыл бұрын

@@connor863 I guess not. Some carnivorous plants use acids to dissolve their prey and I'm pretty sure drinking that would be pretty bad. Mind you, I'm from Stoke-on-Trent, so we'd probably call that a special brew.

@schw4rztee502 3 жыл бұрын

@@connor863 Probably. Animals have been around long enough that I'd imagine pretty much all minerals have been part of one at some point. That said I'm not aware of any carnivorous plant beeing fit for human consumption.

@velocipastor676 3 жыл бұрын

@@connor863 out of curiosity after reading this post, l took a nibble from a leaf trimming that l took from one of my carnivorous plants. Just tasted like any ordinary leaf. Just.... grass like. Not edible

@connor863 3 жыл бұрын

I made that comment low-key as a joke but absolutely love that I'm getting science-y answers to it! 😃

@J.O.Y 3 жыл бұрын

Steve is my favourite patron. One day I will become like Steve and help science reach people. Thank you Steve !

@nikethunner2732 3 жыл бұрын

I love my canivorous plants! They are so fascinating, it never gets boring. They look like they were genetically engineered by bored scientists to look cool and beautiful. The passive trap concept is so simple yet so effective. I also like the other ones, but Nepenthes and Sarracenia are my favorites, i always look for new plants for my collection. They are all hybrids, but that's ok. Better than taking native plants out of their habitat and endangering them. Still enough eyecatchers among them. Nice Episode!

@Leomoon101 3 жыл бұрын

Most people talk about their cats and dogs. But I have a pet Venus Flytrap. 🤭

@planescaped 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect companion to a pet rock.

@winterspectre 3 жыл бұрын

I have a random question: how do you feed it? Live flies? Chunks of meat or bug?

@donpepe64 3 жыл бұрын

@@winterspectre I'm not the person you're asking but I can answer your question. I have a few different carnivorous plants of different genera, and basically they don't really need any help from you except putting them in an area with enough light and enough insects passing through, they will feed themselves because that is what they evolved to do, so no need to feed them, but I do it from time to time to show off their traps to other people.

@charliegarrison9688 3 жыл бұрын

Grab a fly by the wingtip (hard to do btw) and let him flutter in the trap, when it closes watch him panic :)

@clydebalcom8252 3 жыл бұрын

What did you name your plant? I'm not judging, I'm interested in your choice.

@Xnaut314 3 жыл бұрын

I've always wondered if there were carnivorous gymnosperms earlier in the Mesozoic that predated modern carnivorous plants. Those same niches still would have existed before angiosperms evolved and many ancient gymnosperms share convergent traits with modern angiosperms. But since theses environments preserve fossils poorly its gonna take a lot of luck to find a fossil of such a plant.

@monticore1626 3 жыл бұрын

because they have already evolved many times recently and they require specific conditions to survive it is not unreasonable to say that carnivorous plants have evolved many times and gone extinct

@seanfeely7990 3 жыл бұрын

They said its happened at least 9 times that we know about so I would say its fairly safe to assume its happened before.

@funkyfetus5592 3 жыл бұрын

What is a gymnosperm?

@seanfeely7990 3 жыл бұрын

@@funkyfetus5592 it's a group of seed producing plants which literally mean 'naked seed' as their seeds are unenclosed

@arvantsaraihan5777 3 жыл бұрын

@Umair Khakoo That actually reminds me of ponderosa pine, they are pine trees native to California which would emit sap to protect them from the pine digging beetles. Not exactly carnivorous, but similarly unique.

@jtmon2049 3 жыл бұрын

"destroyed after being photographed" Can someone elaborate on that?

@lunarose2529 2 жыл бұрын

Someone dropped it and stepped on it.

@SnyperMK2000JclL 3 жыл бұрын

I love this series so much... always learning something amazing about our planet and the things that call it home. My only beef is I wish these were longer episodes. I could totally get on board with 30min episodes.

@unicornswag888 3 жыл бұрын

*_Gotta get that protein._*

@liessibrand2383 3 жыл бұрын

* sweet home webtoon flashbacks *

@kosmonaut5 3 жыл бұрын

Love the acknowledgement of indigenous peoples at the end xoxo Love from Australia

@solamente8233 3 жыл бұрын

I thought was an awesome acknowledgement too! 🙂

@vazak11 3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@vivianramsay2527 3 жыл бұрын

So easy to tell that you love your work!! Upbeat, enthused and confident! Do enjoy your segments!

@ancilodon 3 жыл бұрын

As if all that wasn't mind-blowing enough, the genus Nepenthes seems to say "hold my digestive fluid": at least one species is evolving away from carnivory; others derive much of their nutrients from the droppings of animals that they attract (the "bat Nepenthes" for instance has upper pitchers that perfectly accommodate a certain species of bat which seeks them out for daytime shelter); N. albomarginata is "preferential" to termites which it lures with secretions of cellulose; and then there are the commensals- a species of spider that lives in one nepenthes' pitchers, diving and hunting in the digestive fluids; and a mosquito that apparently lays its eggs exclusively in the same fluids, the larvae helping themselves the plant's prey, thanks to a coating that prevents them from being digested also.

@yellow4563 3 жыл бұрын

YES Eons! Fighting depression one vid at at time.

@inutaro 3 жыл бұрын

The true true.

@asas-mb4wj 3 жыл бұрын

@@inutaro maybe there is a plant that can feed off your sadness

@brianmessemer2973 3 жыл бұрын

We all go through highs and lows, tough times, even if it's not clinical depression. I hope you find much happiness in your days. 2020 is a particularly sucky year. Let's hope next year gets better.

@andresleiva6973 3 жыл бұрын

Hang on !

@paulgoogol2652 3 жыл бұрын

@@brianmessemer2973 That's what boomers say. The young folks all have depression, if I may say so without sounding like a boomer.

@DaftSailor 3 жыл бұрын

That's cool, was reading a comment the other day asking for exactly this video. Nice that they read these

@curtiswfranks 3 жыл бұрын

Six-year-old me is breathlessly excited and amazed by how cool these things are. And so is twenty-seven-year-old me.

@apdroidgeek1737 3 жыл бұрын

Your 27 yr old you can now own your very own carnivorous plant.

@curtiswfranks 3 жыл бұрын

This is true! I should go get some!

@notovny 2 жыл бұрын

10:42 "No, Dad, I'm not changing my name to 'Pre-Cam Brian.' I don't care how proud you are."

@tfive24 3 жыл бұрын

The movie, "Little Shop of Horrors " still messes with my head to this day.

@rossbusher4412 3 жыл бұрын

Try watching the movie Eraser Head. This movie will truly twist your noodle.

@velocipastor676 3 жыл бұрын

I think it's the best movie to ever come out of the 80s

@xX_wiLLiam_Xx 3 жыл бұрын

@@rossbusher4412 whats that

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 жыл бұрын

Mine also.

@velocipastor676 3 жыл бұрын

@@xX_wiLLiam_Xx very creepy movie from David Lynch l think. Nothing to do with carnivorous plants, it's just very....... creepy.

@schrodingerscat6437 3 жыл бұрын

As an Australian Aboriginal man i thank you for acknowledging us in you vid.

@octapusxft 3 жыл бұрын

A proud owner of 3 species of carnvivorous plants. The tip to keep them alive is simply to always maintain bellow their pot a plate of either De-ionized water or rain water. Do not use tap water (or mineral water)! The roots of these plants are too sensitive to the salts in the tap water. Other than that, their roots do not mind being partially submerged as they are bog plants. They do not really ever need feeding of any sort as long as the insects can sometimes get to them. They need really tiny amounts of insects to be happy.

@wedgewizard5429 3 жыл бұрын

I sometimes think about how dinosaurs had counterparts on air, land and water. Similar to modern day animals, but a completely different set. Like how carnivory evolved 9 times on it's own in plants. Creatures repeatedly evolve similar tactics that work over and over, while still leaving room to develop new ones. Pretty cool stuff.

@jeremybyington 3 жыл бұрын

This is the first time I have heard of that bladder plant. I wish there was more emphasis in this video on that since so much time was spent on pitcher and sundew plants but, thankfully, I know how to google. Great video, as always!

@flightlesschicken7769 3 жыл бұрын

Just as a matter of semantics, it is not considered convergent evolution in the strictest sense to many evolutionary biologists. The term they seem to use is parallel evolution, where a trait that exists in some way in both organisms is modified to do the same thing. For example multiple woody plants evolving herbaceousness though a reduction of the vascular cambium. Convergent evolution to them is when different traits evolve to do the same thing but in different ways. An example of this is eyes in arthropods and vertebrates or "wood" in monocots even though monocots lack the vascular cambium necessary for the secondary growth that generates woods. I personally think this is a dumb distinction and that parallelism is just a type of convergence, but that's just me

@thomasromero1339 3 жыл бұрын

Thank u guys for reigniting my love for PBS. It got me threw alot of bs as a kid. Shout Out to Zabomafoo!

@lunarose2529 2 жыл бұрын

I loved Zaboomafoo!

@kevinpeters6709 3 жыл бұрын

Yay! Thanks for doing an episode on these guys. I absolutely love carnivorous plants and actually kinda sorta got to use the same evolution mechanics behind our real world Caron plants and a creation of mine in a fascinating evolution simulator called Thrive. (I am not affiliated with nor paid by the developers just love the game which is free and is nowhere near complete (only the single cell stage is available right now))

@steves388 3 жыл бұрын

New Eons video on a day off, nothing better!

@DenterNurbay 3 жыл бұрын

Folks, isnt this channel just awsome

@ScreamSodaInc 3 жыл бұрын

I was literally thinking about carnivorous plants just before this video went up. Thank you for being convenient!

@lunarose2529 2 жыл бұрын

Are you a psychic? Quick! Think about money falling from the sky!

@kekeke8988 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. I had no idea there were so many different kinds of carnivorous plants.

@erin-iq8tm 3 жыл бұрын

i love this channel so much 😵 i want to be a botanist or paleobotanist and your videos are so interesting, I listen to them like podcasts 24/7

@stepfanhuntsman5470 3 жыл бұрын

As a current paleobotanist I encourage you to pursue it! It can be a bit tiring at times but it is really worth it.:-)

@Its_Me_Romano 3 жыл бұрын

@@stepfanhuntsman5470 plants>animals

@etepeteseat7424 3 жыл бұрын

If you haven't yet, check out the channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't. His videos are really interesting and informative, and he has a certain crass charm that's really amusing and endearing.

@RapierNeedleCrime 3 жыл бұрын

I love when you guys talk about plants, it would be really cool if you make more of them in the future!

@marcosdasilva2693 3 жыл бұрын

That was a fantastic episode! I love Andy Steve whenever you mention him in the credits.

@lizaelliott6862 3 жыл бұрын

Yessss! More botany and entomology videos please!!! They’re totally under appreciated 😁

@semaj_5022 3 жыл бұрын

This was great! I saw Moth Light Media's video on this subject a couple days ago, and I really enjoyed the Eons take on the same subject. It's such an interesting evolutionary development.

@jennis8561 3 жыл бұрын

Ah thank you so much for giving the reason why this felt eerily as if I had seen it or something very similar before despite it being new!

@semaj_5022 3 жыл бұрын

@@jennis8561 for sure! It threw me off for a minute, too. Lol

@inutaro 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I needed the "Eons Calm" right now in my day

@amicableammonite3724 3 жыл бұрын

Loving the message at the end, guys! An issue deserving of more attention. Respectfully working with indigenous peoples to learn from their lands and fostering good relationships between the scientific community and theirs would do so much to enrich our understanding. - An aspiring linguist & palaeontologist living on Kaurna land

@rajhonadavid410 3 жыл бұрын

I gotta say, EONS videos are the best structured and paced, most easy yet still satisfying science shorts on youtube. Im more into physics and space but still, even SpaceTime -the best physics show on yt imo- could learn a bit from its sister channel. Thanks EONS, thanks PBS!

@naturebrothers1844 3 жыл бұрын

My cousin once cared for a Venus flytrap, it’s really interesting to know how these plants and many others became carnivores.

@Iku00 3 жыл бұрын

This channel makes me feel big brain even though i'm dumb

@lunarose2529 2 жыл бұрын

Nah, curiosity is what makes you smart.

@7shinta7 3 жыл бұрын

So much variety and possibilities in the evolution of plants. This made me think: Why did plants never develope that ability to actively move themselves? Did their specific cell structure fundamentally not allow to build equivalents to nerves and mucles?

@jodo7814 Жыл бұрын

“A plant that used sticky goo to catch its prey, got stuck forever in the sticky secretions of another plant.” From certain videos I’ve seen on the internet, I believe that’s considered “friendly fire”

@jaredburchak1155 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been wanting a video on this for a while very excited when I saw this

@Beryllahawk 3 жыл бұрын

I remember learning about pitcher plants as a kid, right after moving to Mississippi. One of the niftiest things I ever read up on for myself. I still think they're neat!

@RisalBadboy 3 жыл бұрын

Aaah.. The sun tastes too Hot. I am gonna try a Lil Umami now 🦗🌴

@epauletshark3793 2 жыл бұрын

The sun is a deadly laser.

@eljefesinnaman2603 2 жыл бұрын

PBS = National Teasure

@nekkidnora 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man, I had a pet venus fly trap as a kid, and it was such a joy for us to learn about her and feed her and get her little terrarium (an old cookie pot) just right. She would sorta hibernate every winter, and lived for yeeeears.

@MargoMB19 3 жыл бұрын

Literal reaction to notification: EONS!!!! I always get so happy to see a new Eons video!! Of course, I'm completely icked-out about all things insects/bugs, but I make an exception for Eons insect-related videos. I didn't realize there were multiple different ways plants could be carnivores, that's pretty interesting.

@tharealcoasta3820 3 жыл бұрын

I love the credit they give out at 9:33 for the people and the location of everything used 😊👍👍

@arnepianocanada 2 жыл бұрын

Said before, say again: you have a lovely voice and well-modulated speech that project earnest involvement in your subjects.

@jakobraahauge7299 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Kallie for so beautifully hosting this, and of course the rest of the team and all of you who've helped bringing this into fruition! As a teacher I can only be happy, delighted, and thankful! You guys makes my work such a delight! Love from far away, happy, and supporting little Denmark! 🇩🇰❤️🇺🇸 PS to all of you lovely Americans! I sincerely hope you will take the time and effort to #vote2020 💙

@gyozakeynsianism 3 жыл бұрын

Amen to all that.

@jonathonholifield3166 2 жыл бұрын

@@gyozakeynsianism ESPECIALLY the part about "Kallie for so beautifully hosting this" because she is just ENGAGING AND CAPTIVATING..... crap, I've got a crush

@jax1722 3 жыл бұрын

I love carnivorous plants, I own a little terrarium filled with them. They're absolutely the coolest and learning about how they evolved is amazing. A cool video I would love to see from you guys it's about the evolution of New world vultures Carthartidae and the Terratorns (Terratornis mirabilis)

@Mothman58 3 жыл бұрын

Love how you credit the indigenous people. Bravo

@abigailfarrant1216 3 жыл бұрын

Got an advert for plants and flowers delivered to your door and never laughed so much 😂😂

@Stjcb_7 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if some plants that evolved on land returned to underwater habitats. I’d love to learn more about aquatic ferns and kelp!

@kanojune5754 Жыл бұрын

Kelp and seaweed isn't plants, seagrass on the other hand is a type of flowering plants.

@jmon37 3 жыл бұрын

Super curious. I’ve read about ancient forests on what is now Antartica and given its position for most of the end of the Cenozoic, it likely didn’t receive the same amount of sunlight as equatorial forests. Wonder if plant carnivores were widespread there during those hotter times.

@bobbydeuce6486 2 жыл бұрын

That fly at the end was frickin panicking. That was hard to watch but easy to laugh at. Now I’m afraid of turning a corner and finding myself on some weird flypaper specifically designed for me then bam. I’m stuck in a spruce with teeth.

@joshs3775 3 жыл бұрын

Pine lily at 3:38 they are blooming in FL right now

@francoislacombe9071 3 жыл бұрын

PBS Eons: "Meat eating plants." Vegan: "Does not compute."

@mikshinee87 3 жыл бұрын

If only the plants knew they were unethical and bad for the environment. *hurt snowflake noises*

@nalinh0 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikshinee87 pretty sure vegans don't have a problem with natural ecosystems they're usually referring to the damage caused by industrial agribusiness which is pretty fair.

@raerohan4241 3 жыл бұрын

@@nalinh0 Yeah, most vegans oppose industrial animal farming as usually animals aren't kept in great conditions and (in the case of cows) the animal themselves are bad for the environment in the numbers we keep them in. Like, there was one vegan I knew who said that if they got chickens and kept them free-range, they would eat the eggs but only if 1) they didn't have a rooster i.e. there was zero chance the eggs would ever develop into a chick and 2) if the hens weren't actively broody over the egg, so it was unwanted by the hen. In that case they felt there was no harm being done and it would actually be more harmful to not eat the egg as it would contribute to food waste