How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses

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How did seahorses - one of the ocean’s worst swimmers - spread around the globe? And where did they come from in the first place?
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@DaveTexas Жыл бұрын

Seahorses hold special status in our house. Our son became fascinated by seahorses when he was a toddler. He had a stuffed seahorse that he slept with, and he started wanting stories, books, and videos about seahorses. He eventually learned everything there was to know about seahorses, and we got to hear all about it! We did not ever hear about plate tectonics and seahorses, though. I’ll have to send him this video! (He’s all grown up now.)

@abrarkadabrar7829 Жыл бұрын

Wholesome!

@swintintin Жыл бұрын

Very wholesome!

@kiuk_kiks Жыл бұрын

Turns out your son just may be autistic.

@DaveTexas Жыл бұрын

@@kiuk_kiks I’m autistic. He’s not.

@starinajar13 Жыл бұрын

I love knowing I wasn't the only seahorse enthusiast as a kid! Lol I wanted a pet seahorse so badly! 😂

@SquirrelGrrl Жыл бұрын

Seahorses are so fascinating in their appearance. They look like some ancient dragon, inked onto a scroll, come to life.

@danielgomez-xp4qj Жыл бұрын

I think they look like if a horse was in or surrounded by sea

@aardeng Жыл бұрын

Ever see a leafy sea dragon!?

@Angry_Squirrel555 Жыл бұрын

@TheEngineGal, I can see that. Pretty cool observation.

@TrajGreekFire Жыл бұрын

And then you realize how lame they are the more you know of them

@astick5249 Жыл бұрын

@Traj Have you seen their skeleton? It looks more or less exactly like the seahorse. They are pretty much at the between point of an endoskeleton and exoskeleton. Their pectoral fins (the same structure where our arms came from) are found on their "head", they are a completely warped looking fish when you put that part in mind. This is made more so by the fact that not only are they upright, their head points forwards with a distinct neck. Instead of a finned tail, its prehensile, like a chameleon. Seahorses are the complete opposite of lame, they are bonkers.

@KimberlyGreen Жыл бұрын

So, seahorses galloped across the ocean grasslands to migrate, just as land horses used terrestrial ones to do the same.

@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 Жыл бұрын

Could you imagine if we would of had access to big enough sea horse to ride and we especially Polynesians and S.E Asians used them for transport across the seas. Hahah funner then riding a dolphin I say.

@SVW1976 Жыл бұрын

@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 Far Out Man!

@toasteddingus6925 Жыл бұрын

I propose and hypothesize that the ancient seahorses used to pull the ancient pioneer's big beautiful rocks accross the sandy wastes

@davidt3563 Жыл бұрын

Sea horses are magical. I'm pretty sure everyone remembers when they first learned about them as kids. Their name is perfect for capturing childhood wonder.

@dyllanfreiheit6330 Жыл бұрын

Sea horses and starfish was the reason that I'm fascinated about the ocean as a kid.

@reinatycoon3644 Жыл бұрын

@@dyllanfreiheit6330 I like starfish and love seahorses. I'm just disappointed when I learnt that starfish had no brains.

@greyzone3801 Жыл бұрын

Request: Psathyrella aquatica, the only known underwater mushroom

@AifDaimon Жыл бұрын

Request*

@dariobalicevic607 Жыл бұрын

Interesting never hear of that fungi

@jakobraahauge7299 Жыл бұрын

this!!

@johnlouiemanalohernandez8431 Жыл бұрын

Psathyrella aquatica* and yes its so cool

@JacobProbasco Жыл бұрын

Aye, and while we’re at it, wiki Desert fungi and find out about the mycelium networks under Arizona and New Mexico (they are researching this a bit at UTEP)

@timsullivan4566 Жыл бұрын

"If not for plate tectonics, seahorses would never have been able to take over the world" - possibly now topping my list of "10 Reasons for the Seahorse's World Domination " (actually a fascinating, VERY well-presented argument. Thanks)

@ShojJiaNyurrr Жыл бұрын

don't be shy give us the other 9 reasons for the Seahorse's World Domination 👀

@timsullivan4566 Жыл бұрын

@@ShojJiaNyurrr (well, #2 -7 are all just different ways of saying "Super-bad Super Dad"...)

@coconutcore Жыл бұрын

The fact that seahorses used the Mediterranean as a shortcut to spread around the world when that sea was still turning into the shape of a seahorse is just…wholesome to me. (To anyone who might have never noticed this, look at the Mediterranean at 7:21. Turns out it even looked more like a sea horse than it does today at some point.)

@vangu2918 Жыл бұрын

Yep👍

@Dragrath1 Жыл бұрын

I hadn't noticed but if you want to get technical it by definition didn't become the Mediterranean until it got sealed off due to the collision between India and Eurasia but that is name semantics

@MatthewFTabor Жыл бұрын

I also noticed that it looked like a seahorse when I was still a small child, and it always seemed weird to me that teachers never acknowledged this.

@akashita Жыл бұрын

Wow, never noticed this! Awesome

@tgdomnemo5052 Жыл бұрын

... didn't see it - but now 🙂 🙏🏼

@DanNowlan Жыл бұрын

"So if it hadn't been for plate tectonics, seahorse wouldn't have been able to take over the world." *bows before seahorse overlords*

@brendanhoffmann8402 Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid my Dad used to have salt water fish tanks. We kept seahorses at one point. They were amazing!

@VioletWhirlwind Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! That's so cool! I've heard they're really hard to keep alive. (But then...the only fish I've ever had long-term success with keeping alive were bettas, so....)

@atlanteantapir Жыл бұрын

Same with my family! They're such beautiful creatures, and they're so romantic when they court each other.

@zacrintoul Жыл бұрын

The main issue is they are really picky eaters, so you generally have to supply them with ample amounts of live copepods. If I remember right from when I was doing all my saltwater research.

@atlanteantapir Жыл бұрын

@@zacrintoul they do eat those but they're definitely not limited to that. My seahorses ate frozen mysis shrimp for the most part, occasionally supplementing with live ghost shrimp. Also we took over a year and a half to create enough biodiversity in the tank before introducing seahorses to have enough phytoplankton and zooplankton already existing in the tank. But they primarily fed on the frozen shrimp and were fine

@Bunny-ks1md Жыл бұрын

I would love to have a pet seahorse, but I don’t have the knowledge or the supplies to care for them properly.

@AnjaP_93 Жыл бұрын

I was not expecting Slovenia to ever feature in one of your videos. Greetings from Ljubljana 😊 PS: Great video, as always

@simonkemfors Жыл бұрын

Love Ljubljana, absolutely beautiful city! Greetings from Sweden

@caroljo420 Жыл бұрын

As always!

@sanjablazina2879 Жыл бұрын

Me neither, I was so pleasantly surprised🥰

@davidbobnar1162 Жыл бұрын

Looks like eons have an unofficial fan group in slovenija. 💪

@keyzerschorschei2481 Жыл бұрын

Greetings from vienna neighbours 🙌

@jordandino417 Жыл бұрын

Plate Tectonics: *Slowly moving and smashing into each other for millions of years* One prehistoric pipefish boi: P e r f e c t

@ketsuekikumori9145 Жыл бұрын

Speaking of puzzles. Maybe you guys can make a 3d bone or fossile puzzle that mimics a paleontologist putting together a skeleton.

@slwrabbits Жыл бұрын

While I admire the thought, I think that is likely an engineering nightmare. Bones are generally held together by a lot of connective tissue; they do fit together, but without all that overlaying them, nothing is going to hold them in place

@bipolarCapybara Жыл бұрын

@@slwrabbits Yeah, museums use a lot of wire to keep the bones together

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

@@slwrabbits - Don't jump right to negativism. I have an Eifel Tower puzzle that forms a large 3-D structure ~2.5 feet tall. Designers could EASILY do the same thing with one of the iconic dino skeletons, like T-Rex! This is a GREAT suggestion.

@stinew358 Жыл бұрын

There were these kinds of puzzles in the 90s. They were 3d puzzles of dinosaur

@JubioHDX Жыл бұрын

@@MossyMozart thats a building that already has supports, we are, again, talking about fossils which have zero supports or connective tissue between the bones. Doable yes(probably not as a puzzle but at least as a sculpture with instructions), but not nearly the same thing as what youre talking about, and not nearly as easy as youre saying it is

@robynkerran3885 Жыл бұрын

When I was younger, I wanted a seahorse more than anything, because I thought they were... big enough to ride! Thanks a lot Aquaman cartoon lol! When I found out the truth, saying I was disappointed is putting it mildly, but that disappeared completely when I got to see real ones at the Aquarium, I've been fascinated with them ever since 💜 Thank you for this presentation!

@menkomonty Жыл бұрын

I can remember going to a Sea-Life Centre and they had a small section devoted to seahorses and they were feeding some tiny seahorses by using what looked like a plastic seed feeder for birds

@patrickwhite4449 Жыл бұрын

“Cool fish dads” and then finger guns hahahahahaha! I loved that

@mattwaw2643 Жыл бұрын

All three of you presenters have such calm and soothing voices. And you have this child-like excitement when you talk about evolution. I love listening to you before bed or while having breakfast. It always calms me down! Thanks for uploading!

@sussekind9717 Жыл бұрын

You would not believe how many people I've talked to in my life, that thought seahorses were mythical creatures, on par with Unicorns, Pixies, and Elves. But "No", I tell them, "they actually do exist." Then sometimes, I get the hairy eyeball, like they're not believing what I'm telling them. More than once, I've had to break out my cell phone, and hit up Google, so I can prove that I am not crazy.🙄

@sylvia106 Жыл бұрын

What state do you live in?

@sussekind9717 Жыл бұрын

@@sylvia106 Florida, But I travel a lot. So I'm usually somewhere else. But I've always liked being by the ocean. I'm there and in it, as often as I can be.

@hicknopunk Жыл бұрын

This is like me finding people who think reindeer are not real...

@burnsmybritches5857 Жыл бұрын

Extremely hard to believe. Maybe you met 1 child in some remote place who had never had any education at all that would make your comment semi-plausible...

@sussekind9717 Жыл бұрын

I think some of you, have a little bit too much faith in humanity. Not to mention the intelligence level of the average human. How does the old saying go? Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half the people, are even more stupid than that.

@kyrab7914 Жыл бұрын

I very much appreciate the colors in the hypothetical seahorses/proto seahorses. I feel like sometimes color used for hypothetical envisioning of creatures is so monotone

@elizabethpemberton8445 Жыл бұрын

Several years back I was watching something on Nature or Nova that kept posing questions about how did [thing that looks baffling on the surface] happen? The answer was always plate tectonics, which I yelled at the TV every time. It was almost as fun as when Big Bird couldn’t find his dinosaur costume and I got to yell “It’s OK, you ARE a dinosaur!” before whichever Sesame Street resident told him that. I am, at 53, perhaps not the target audience for every program.

@ThatButchBitch Жыл бұрын

could you do an episode on the evolution of prehistoric art ?

@jakobraahauge7299 Жыл бұрын

Stefan Milo has some great stuff on that! I'd say it's more paleo anthropolog, anthropology, or archaeology than paleontology tho 🤷🏻‍♂️ but let's see! 😄 Certainly an interesting topic

@artichokesque Жыл бұрын

that is like the catchiest title ever

@thedarkside7508 Жыл бұрын

I simply love this channel and don't wanna imagine my life without it. It's so cool to learn about the strange creatures that used to love before us.

@tgdomnemo5052 Жыл бұрын

😉 " ❤️ "

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

I once saw an exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific at Long Beach, California. I was there shortly after they became the first institution of get leafy seadragons to hatch, so it was being celebrated throughout the entire facility. They were so delicate, beautiful, and smaller than I expected that it was mind-blowing to think of them living in the wild, like delicate hummingbirds are on land.

@catfishwithwhiskers Жыл бұрын

This is such a quintessential PBS Eons title. I love it

@scottrichards3587 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos. I've been fossil hunting a few times. Found a trilobite in Ohio when in grade school, over 50 years ago. Love how it gives a true perspective of time.

@veggieboyultimate Жыл бұрын

The ancient seahorses rode horseback on rafts and tectonics.

@lisapeesalemonsqueezah3241 Жыл бұрын

It's so cool how much we know. Seahorses are such random animals, but humans decided that it was worth it to fund research to figure out where they originated. I kind of love that for us

@tudorjason Жыл бұрын

Seahorses look so elegant and graceful Would be cool to have a private tank full of them

@beesareLameWasps Жыл бұрын

As much as I'd love a calendar, $85 CAD for two calendars and shipping is ridiculous. Dang.

@acsoul1 Жыл бұрын

Hey! What’s the word on the podcast? I was really into it! I’d love more episodes on prehistoric humans! I really love to imagine what the world was like when there as many humans as there were cats.

@icarusbinns3156 Жыл бұрын

“One of the ocean’s worst swimmers…” shows a seahorse straightening as if to say “You said what?”

@franl155 Жыл бұрын

I couldn't resist the title, and I'm glad of it! Very interesting, thank you.

@flavoracid Жыл бұрын

Look at this handsome distinguished gentleman from PBS Eons dropping scientific gems on us. I'm here for it. Teach me about sea horses and the magical world that is beneath the sea.

@mirrorblue100 Жыл бұрын

Seahorses always look so serene and wise.

@bengoodwin2141 Жыл бұрын

It would be neat to see future descendants of seahorses (or their relatives) that are better at... Everything. Edit: like sea dragons that actually live up to the title of dragon.

@JacobProbasco Жыл бұрын

This is the best title I have seen this year.

@DavidGomez-ls6ee Жыл бұрын

Love your videos!! It's helped me create my speculative future earth!

@isaiahgarza87 Жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome!

@a_e_hilton Жыл бұрын

Can't wait to read/ see/ hear it!

@sneepsnorp1404 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a very interesting project. Things like speculative zoology and the like are so fascinating to me.

@deinowolfhybridhero5101 Жыл бұрын

These gorgeous little dragons are the best dads of animal kingdom 🧡

@SonOfTheDawn515 Жыл бұрын

Whichever ones DON'T eat their young would definitely rate higher according to our sapien brains.

@VINCE-pp3es Жыл бұрын

idk emperor penguins i think top them in not eating for months while living in the eternal night of winter all to protect an egg that may not hatch

@deinowolfhybridhero5101 Жыл бұрын

@@VINCE-pp3es 👍

@fairlyaveragegamer4000 Жыл бұрын

Please never stop.

@basantprasadsgarden8365 Жыл бұрын

Requesting a Video on Why the Cyprinid and Other Cyprinoforms are a Dominant Species in Eurasia, while, Chiclids are a Dominant Fish Species in Africa and South America And why none of them were able to Take over North America, until pretty recently, that's too due to Introduction by Humans and Only in Some limited areas And Why Siluriforms (Catfish) are the Most Dominant Fresh water Predatory Fish lineage in the World?

@t0mn8r35 Жыл бұрын

Great video on one of my most favourite animals. I wish I could have some in my home but I know that they are so sensitive to temperature changes that even aquariums have problems keeping them. Thank you!

@Sl1f3rDrag0n Жыл бұрын

Seahorses always remind me of a comic from PoorlyDrawnLines where one seahorse says to the other: "I saw a land horse swimming once, and I was like 'Who the f**k do you think you are?'"

@bell4902 Жыл бұрын

Please, please, please release more episodes of the podcast. I would listen to these on my daily walks and I’m missing them.

@renaldyazhari2709 Жыл бұрын

As an indonesian who study biology, i was facinated by this fact/discovery. i've never expect early ancestor of seahorses originated here.

@johnh.mcsaxx3637 Жыл бұрын

For once, I'm early to an Eons video. Can't wait to listen to this new gem-to-be!

@jonnoda Жыл бұрын

Always love and look forward to your content, keep up the great work!

@victoriaeads6126 Жыл бұрын

Love seahorses! That was definitely one of the funnier Eonite jokes, lol!

@mcstabba Жыл бұрын

I love Eons but I usually groan at the end jokes, this one was actually decent - I was baffled.

@TheSiggib Жыл бұрын

VERY special kind of animals!!! .-)

@theababaaab3350 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this channel; the hosts are awesome. Thanks for the great content!

@luudest Жыл бұрын

7:02 how did they survive in the open Atlantic? How did they cross the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?

@absalomdraconis Жыл бұрын

6:15 : By rafting. They grabbed onto debris that was washed around by storms, just riding it to wherever it went. They would have survived much more often when the Atlantic was narrow than they'd be able to today.

@rickkwitkoski1976 Жыл бұрын

What's the mid-Atlantic ridge have to do with it? It is WAY below the surface in most places. Just a few sticky outy islands are above sea level.

@dtf-georesearch Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks for creating a movie on fossil seahorses!

@amyjones2490 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate all the graphs. Nicely done!

@jamietigges2154 Жыл бұрын

From what I've read the concepts for Sea Horse evolution is the same for Corals and reef specialists. They all followed the equator through gaps between continents.

@AceSpadeThePikachu Жыл бұрын

That "moon rock" pun was lifted right from the second episode of Futurama.

@Ryco117 Жыл бұрын

Address all complaints to the Monsanto corporation.

@highfive7689 Жыл бұрын

I found your choice of of humoristic bit - well done. Keep up the great work EON!

@drstone3418 Жыл бұрын

That sea horse looks like a modern pipe fish

@fubberpish3614 Жыл бұрын

well there's a reason for that! seahorses are a type of pipefish (as are seadragons). They have a different body shape to "typical" pipefishes due to their specializations for different niches than other pipefishes. So it makes sense that early seahorses would have looked similar to pipefishes

@khilorn Жыл бұрын

Ever since looking at the tectonics of SE asia in college I've wondered wtf is going on. It's a veritable clusterfuck of fault lines.

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

@Khilorn - I imagine that a lot of children watch these videos. Would you consider watching your language?

@darrkstarg Жыл бұрын

Another win for plate techtonics. I love it. I've been into plate techtonics since I was a teenager.

@jakobraahauge7299 Жыл бұрын

Hope one day you'll make a video on the end Permian extinction event's two phases - I'd love to hear you guys spelling it out!

@pony3284 Жыл бұрын

Just (re)learned about plate tectonics today. This is a great crossover and example of how geology affects life!

@jmlkinc Жыл бұрын

The fact that this channel continues to have the most absurd video titles and then directly back them up with scientific evidence is why they're so amazing. It always gives you a sense of wonder at the awesome craziness of our planet.

@eddvcr598 11 ай бұрын

I love learning new things about nature. I’m truly hooked on this channel’s videos!

@finurra3905 Жыл бұрын

omg I love this, thank you so much for this!! I looove seahorses

@Thaumh Жыл бұрын

I love how "Click-Bait-ey" you titles are. I saw this and my brain played Tim Allen's 'confused/questioning' grunt sound.

@dmcgee3 Жыл бұрын

Living most my life landlocked I’ve never given much thought to sea grass. I’d be interested in learning about them and terrestrial grasses

@toshihikotanaka1672 Жыл бұрын

My son love seahorses, and he'll be very happy to know that he and his fav animal have similar geographical origin, Indonesia!

@obviousness8113 Жыл бұрын

This is super wholesome content 💯

@codyramseur Жыл бұрын

Great explanation. I was hooked the whole video

@nariu7times328 Жыл бұрын

Methinks Blake is a cool fish dad. :D

@JeffSans 15 күн бұрын

I brought a seahorse home once when i was 7 yrs old. My first ever pet.

@paulabrown4050 Жыл бұрын

Got a video of my first seahorse on a dive in kota Kinabalu last year. VERY exciting!

@Victoria42armstrong Жыл бұрын

Love the calendar!

@SilverWatcher. Жыл бұрын

That was informative 👌🏻

@wglenbatemanjr9729 Жыл бұрын

I love Eons! and scoped PBS donate /Eons -WEDU of Tampa Bay Area. So Blake this as all episodes was a needed way lovely mood from your cool presentation of natural history. Plus I even recalled a hard laugh picturing back in teens, early eighties a buddy of mine living on Boca Ciega Bay spontaneously stiffly jumped off dock- dorky belly flopping when he spotted a one of our small seahorses rafting by like colloidal plankton. Cramps from laughing for five others ..., The guys "prolly best I didn't catch it". A rare sight but we did see them in deep coastal mangrove most. We also might have a pipefish that chills in our estaurine submergent grasses-"Tortuga/""matatee grass or "eelgrass". I rhoughtst sight of two my toddler son netted blew our doors! The "snout" for achoring, plate-like skin and reduced itty bitty fins in slow bright sandy shallow and grassy water. ....we banned fertilizer of N P during rainy season and our water quality decent except for Rx metabolites and necrosing Vibrio🧐. Watersheds are EVERYTHING, even your weather. 🍻✌️And thank you barrier isles of peninsular Pinellas County on the West Central/Gulf side) of Florida utting the multiple disciplines' latest intel w/ varied factors and any various interpretations all together to best understand the oh SO RELATIVE past.

@Josuh Жыл бұрын

perfect timing

@panda-peanut Жыл бұрын

Thumbs Up for the cool fish dads 👍

@AwesomesMan Жыл бұрын

This was a great ep. Love it.

@georgeculver109 11 ай бұрын

Nice tan! Looking good sir ❤

@AY-EQUIS 10 ай бұрын

I LOVED THOSE JOKES!! 🤣🤣 Totally the best cool-fish-dad jokes!!!

@verdimundi4532 Жыл бұрын

There's nothing like watching some Eons on a snowy day :)

@omkardhakephalkar2737 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video.

@Br0nto5aurus 4 ай бұрын

I've kept dwarf seahorses; they're incredible to watch and take up shocking little space. Even wild caught specimines breed readily in home aquariums. They're difficult to care for, though. They don't really have stomachs so they require live food several times per day. That usually means having a rotating set of brine shrimp hatcheries, and starting fresh ones a couple times per week, and feeding once or twice per day. That's very high maintenance for a fish. Dwarf seahorses are also the slowest fish in the world, so you can imagine how attempting to chase a couple hundred tiny baby brine shrimp in a 30 gallon tank would lead to starvation. That's why they should be kept in 5 or 10 gallon tanks, unless you plan on finding each seahorse and target feeding them all with a pipette two to three times per day.

@juliaconnell Жыл бұрын

I do love sea horses - they are so elegant. also love sea dragons. both so gorgeous.

@joshuajones9035 Жыл бұрын

I have a dried seahorse I love to look at and hold, it is such a neat thing

@185MDE Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@TragoudistrosMPH Жыл бұрын

2:50 Fry Daddies

@foracal5608 Жыл бұрын

And they are in the world's highest lake

@Slampty Жыл бұрын

Great story, thanks.

@patriciariley963 Жыл бұрын

I just truly love you all everything is always wonderful and educational

@vintagelady1 11 ай бұрын

I love seahorses & especially sea dragons, trailing their finery like boho princesses (also princes!) in chiffon scarves. I visited the Long Beach Aqaurium when they were the first place to successfully breed them in captivity (I think I have that right, I know it was some "first" to do with breeding. If I ever win the lottery big-time, I'll have a giant saltwater aquarium (& a full-time caretaker!) with those cuties inside!

@islandsunset Жыл бұрын

The picture of Aquaman riding seahorse kept coming to my mind whenever a seahorse appeared on the screen. Lol 😆

@5610winston Жыл бұрын

I believe it was Michael Flanders who compared it to "...a very perfect and gentle-knight of the chessboard..."

@ZOGGYDOGGY Жыл бұрын

Fascinating.

@sauraplay2095 Жыл бұрын

Great video guys!👍

@stephenbesley3177 Жыл бұрын

Interesting. great video and thank you.

@lottat6420 Жыл бұрын

Seahorses are so beautiful and elegant. 😍

@sanjablazina2879 Жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to be hit in the face with my tiny home country in a video about seahorses, this caught me off guard in the most pleasant way possible! Wth😃

@rainydaylady6596 Жыл бұрын

How do the eggs(?) get into the brood pouch?

@diegoquezada3193 Жыл бұрын

Basically after courtship, the female will insert her eggs into the pouch of the male, after which the male will fertilize the eggs and incubate them until they hatch.