These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy

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They may not look like much, but beneath that shell lies an evolutionary mystery - one that stumped the biggest names in natural history for over a hundred years.
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@salineaddict9850 Жыл бұрын

I can imagine him shaking his fists at the sky screaming “BARNACLES!”

@Lemuel928 Жыл бұрын

Definitely SpongeBob.

@tobiasash9281 Жыл бұрын

@@Lemuel928 is giving squidward

@Spear_of_the_Raven_Ash Жыл бұрын

Lol, BLOODY BARNACLES!

@LightEye89 Жыл бұрын

BARNACLES! YOU BLEW IT ALL UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!

@robpatty6062 Жыл бұрын

Excellent....I just giggled at this 🤣🤪

@devincherry6891 Жыл бұрын

I love how absolutely normal Darwin was in his frustration and disgust with himself and his work at times. My favorite quote comes from him just after finishing on the origin of species while he was researching and writing a book on orchids... in which he says he "hates them" and that he was having a very bad day of it all; “But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.” I love it.

@Deinobi Жыл бұрын

That last quote is a mood

@ridethecurve55 Жыл бұрын

Darwin's Waiting Room is gonna be really full after Eons subscribers watch THIS entire episode!

@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject Жыл бұрын

That's an interesting quote. It's funny you like that quote.

@suelane3628 Жыл бұрын

Made worse by bad health. Which reminds me, did they definitively find out why he was so ill?

@revenevan11 Жыл бұрын

Wow lol, I did not expect such a relatable quote from Darwin of all people 😅

@ItsAVolcano Жыл бұрын

To give an idea of how tedious the barnacle research was, Darwin's daughter would recount how she remembered throughout her early childhood her father starting every morning with a 1-2 hour analysis of new barnacle specimens, which would naturally lead to an afternoon full of cataloging his finds. Every day, for eight years.

@Acridotheresfuscus Жыл бұрын

Lmfao

@FZJanimated Жыл бұрын

we are so lucky to have people like him. obsessed in finding answers and having the strenght to not gave up.

@carlycrays2831 Жыл бұрын

"Father, maybe you could not stare at the barnacles today?" "Shhh! I must learn their secrets! Can't you hear them?! They're conspiring!" The barnacles: "You'll never learn our secrets!"

@canobenitez Жыл бұрын

@@carlycrays2831 "Did you hear them? I told you" "Father you are grabbing my arm too hard"

@aleksandrmerchant Жыл бұрын

@@canobenitez "be not afraid child, barnacles were here before our time and they'll be here long after."

@darcieclements4880 Жыл бұрын

Darwin was such a real guy. He didn't police himself into a legend, he was just a pure and natural nerd and that makes his writings even better.

@kR-qj7rw Жыл бұрын

this, just one nerd doing research and boy did it end up being important

@YantoWest Жыл бұрын

Just a nerd, stealing another researcher's work and have it published sooner than the original because he has friends in high places 😍🥰

@zambonibob2026 Жыл бұрын

@@YantoWest cry about it

@hyoroemongaming569 Жыл бұрын

@@zambonibob2026 repping a plagiarizer 💀

@w.o.jackson8432 Жыл бұрын

@@hyoroemongaming569 cope and seethe

@CatholicSatan Жыл бұрын

My favourite Darwin/barnacle story is that he worked for years on them whilst his kids were growing up. His kids thought this was so normal they once asked a neighbour's kid "When does your father do his barnacles?"

@EcopiuM Жыл бұрын

This is hilarious

@expansivegymnast1020 Жыл бұрын

LMAAAO

@zcktylr Жыл бұрын

there can be 2 meanings for “when does your father do his barnacles”

@battlemage-yx6zw Жыл бұрын

@@zcktylr no. just no.

@brandonmatson7618 Жыл бұрын

Three meanings

@panqueque445 Жыл бұрын

It's so nice to know that even some of the biggest names in science weren't immune to wishing an entire species never existed, out of pure anger, while struggling to make sense of them. Can relate.

@natsuhideaki3793 Жыл бұрын

I feel the same way with Fruit flies. Those pathetic parasites are the MOST abhorrent things to ever eke out an existence.

@markstyles1246 Жыл бұрын

F'ing mosquitoes...

@peggedyourdad9560 Жыл бұрын

@@markstyles1246 Ticks...

@MikeAG333 Жыл бұрын

@@natsuhideaki3793 Fruit flies aren't parasites. And there are plenty of candidates for "most abhorrent". Try the bot fly. Or Onchocerca volvulus. Or the tongue-eating louse (look it up...the pictures are...erm.......interesting.

@ziltoid420 Жыл бұрын

Strange way to let everyone know you have problems with dating girls.

@markiangooley Жыл бұрын

There’s a story that one of Darwin’s sons once asked a schoolmate what HIS father did with HIS barnacles, as if studying them were a common activity of fathers in those days.

@waterunderthebridge7950 Жыл бұрын

Imagine Darwin lying awake at night, just randomly shaking his fists at the air, occasionally screaming BARNACLES into the void like Timmy’s Dad screams Dinkelberg

@SoupyMittens Жыл бұрын

BARNACLES DAMN YOUUUU

@The_Hulkster Жыл бұрын

CURSE YOU BARNACLEBERG!

@StraightShot2977 Жыл бұрын

I feel like it was more of a Crocker situation where he would be seized by paroxysms of rage at the slightest mention of barnacles

@ff7omega Жыл бұрын

@@StraightShot2977FAIRY BARNACLE PARENTS!

@Wanton_gaming99 Жыл бұрын

DAMN YOU DINKLEBARN

@MacZephyrZ Жыл бұрын

For some reason barnacles creep me out so much. Can't blame Darwin for not being a fan.

@JustAnotherBuckyLover Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they tend to trigger my trypophobia. Do not like.

@shehan117 Жыл бұрын

your not alone!

@user-eb9kw9ks6v Жыл бұрын

They are children of Cthulhu.

@AuroraPaintBrush4444 Жыл бұрын

They got some of the longest "male" equipment in scale to their size... Because they can't move. Just another thing to be creeped out about.

@pedroarjona6996 Жыл бұрын

Well cooked, they are rather tasty, however.

@amitavabanerjea1 Жыл бұрын

Darwin’s frustration with the crustaceans was echoed by Captain Haddock, who often proclaimed: “Billions of blue blistering barnacles”.

@slwrabbits Жыл бұрын

Fellow Tintin fan identified!

@Melody_Raventress Жыл бұрын

Blimey!

@travbofetty Жыл бұрын

Mille millions de Mille sabords!

@jamesdennison7290 Жыл бұрын

"In a thundering typhoon!"

@smartalek180 Жыл бұрын

Little-known fact: Captain Haddock is a great-great-great-great-great-grand-nephew of Chas Darwin, on his mother's side.

@SurgicalStrike41 Жыл бұрын

Darwin really was the kind of guy who was so stubborbly determined that he spent 8 years just trying to classify a type of animal most of us only know as a SpongeBob curse word.

@starstorm1267 Жыл бұрын

Guess that’s why SpongeBob used it as a curse word

@3takoyakis 8 ай бұрын

Who would think that a shelled organism would annoy not only sailors, but also marine biologist

@Nsodnoajdjksl 7 ай бұрын

Drunk alert

@DeFaulty101 Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite quotes of all time is a Darwin quote: "I am very poorly today, and very stupid, and hate everyone and everything." I have that memorized; didn't even need to google it. He wrote that in a letter, I believe. The guy was the most relatable figure in the entire history of science.

@toyotatacoma1616 Жыл бұрын

My all time favorite Darwin moment is that bit in Voyage of the Beagle where he describes a seafaring spider’s reaction to some fresh water and the way it raises its forelimbs when startled. He gave it some water and messed around with it for a bit, that’s so charming.

@donsolos 13 күн бұрын

Anger is a perfectly healthy emotion but just like everything else only when used modestly

@DeFaulty101 12 күн бұрын

@@donsolos Thank you for your comment; I really needed to see this quote right now. I don't consider it to be an angry quote, but one of self-hatred. I share this self-hatred, but if a guy like Charles Darwin can hate himself, then not all self-hatred is deserved.

@nicksamek12 Жыл бұрын

It's so interesting that Darwin sat on his theory of natural selection for so long, having had thought of it years before this whole barnacle stint and having published Origin of Species long after he finished.

@Dr.IanPlect Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the evolution part of his contribution, that's somewhat important!

@OmbreDunDouble Жыл бұрын

When you think of it, it is indeed really interesting, the theory of evolution, the idea that life is ever-changing and never finished was firstly published after years of evolution of this very theory, probably in the hope that it will be somewhat at a finished point.

@tonimcmullen5490 Жыл бұрын

It's because he was such a devout Catholic, his theory of evolution/ natural selection went against everything the church taught. He struggled with his faith for years because of it too. The only reason he published his theory, was because a competitor of his was going to publish their own take on Darwins theory. He didn't want his theory to be botched by someone else and went ahead with publishing and releasing his theory first.

@TheMesosuchus Жыл бұрын

Darwin is overrated.

@quantum2940 Жыл бұрын

@@tonimcmullen5490 😊😊😊😊

@elisa.llew-send Жыл бұрын

It’s such a comfort to know that Darwin also went through major “aww, 🍜 kit - I’m gonna burn it all down!” moments in his work.

@kafkaontheshore9102 Жыл бұрын

Haha pho kit

@AfloatFob Жыл бұрын

That's a new one

@johanandhira5429 Жыл бұрын

Darwin on the brink of ending it all learning about barnacles has the same energy as Onion's sketch about an expert who wasted his life learning about anteaters

@williamozier918 Жыл бұрын

"I hate a barnacle as no man ever before." y'know, I totally believe that is literally true. I'm pretty sure no other human who wasn't the captain of a small crappy boat has any emotions about barnacles what so ever.

@michaelfritts6249 Жыл бұрын

The sailors who got keel hauled might have a worse opinion.. 🤔😉

@williamozier918 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelfritts6249 Yeah, but I bet they had a worse opinion about everything at that moment :)

@Clayne151 14 күн бұрын

However every boat owner definitely can relate.

@vincentx2850 Жыл бұрын

Though this is by no mean a scientific approach, large barnacles taste really kinda like crabs. It has the sweet and salty taste of a crustacean, and strands of discernible muscle fibre reminiscent of crab legs. Quite different from the sweet taste and crunchy texture of clams, whose edible parts are mainly constituted by smooth muscles.

@JootjeJ Жыл бұрын

Very much a Victorian approach.

@AJBlueJay Жыл бұрын

Oddly enough some fungi such as lions mane mushrooms also taste like lobster and crabs..

@SaiyanHeretic Жыл бұрын

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

@OmbreDunDouble Жыл бұрын

Quite fitting knowing Darwin was part of the Glutton Club, eating all the most exotic wild life he could found.

@1224chrisng Жыл бұрын

@@JootjeJ *_in victorian voice_* Discussion: with the same approach, one may find that Egyptian mummies consist mainly of cinnamon from Ceylon and camphor from Formosa

@zaco-km3su Жыл бұрын

Darwin had a far more diverse experience than I thought when he wrote his work on evolution.

@TheZachary86 Жыл бұрын

He was such an educated man. I mean the amount of animal and plant species he studied, he could have made several pHd or books on the subject matter

@NondescriptMammal Жыл бұрын

Yeah not many people get to spend five years sailing around the world. His journal of this adventure is actually a very interesting read.

@petergibson2318 11 ай бұрын

Darwin had more experience of the world than most people.. Read his book “The Voyage of the Beagle.” Not many of us get to clamber around the volcanoes of Tierra del Fuego.

@terramater Жыл бұрын

It's so interesting to learn about these animals that have been around for so long. Our crew filmed sea turtles; some species existed for about 110 million years. But what is still a mystery about sea turtles and what our team aimed to show is how they always go back to the same beach they were born to lay their own eggs. It doesn't matter how far they swim; they always know where to return. Scientists still don't know exactly when this internal compass is set, but it's incredible to see how these animals that existed for so long still manage to evolve while keeping old behaviours.

@guysherm Жыл бұрын

Salmon do much the same thing; evolution can't happen without a defined breeding population.

@AlmostEthical Жыл бұрын

In one of your clips, the barnacle reminded me of a hermit crab, with it's little doodads wiggling around out of its shell. Barnacles seem like stable,, sensible hermit crabs that build themselves a house, unlike those crazy nomads that just go out and live in whatever they find.

@DunsfordFarnsworth Жыл бұрын

Homeowner crabs?

@Isthisjoebiden 4 ай бұрын

@@DunsfordFarnsworth😂

@mellissadalby1402 Жыл бұрын

Wow, I had no idea barnacles were such a biological conundrum for so long, and I would have also thought them to be Mollusks.

@MyFiddlePlayer Жыл бұрын

I would have thought that the fact that barnacles have brains and mollusks do not would have tipped them off. Well, maybe that was part of the conundrum.

@Cobrax_x Жыл бұрын

@@MyFiddlePlayer are cephalopods not mollusks?

@mattmorehouse9685 Жыл бұрын

@@Cobrax_x They're really brainy mollusks, but from what I've heard they're the odd ones out.

@TR4R Жыл бұрын

When I was in college I had to take a zoology course and remember that it was so weird that they were crustaceans. I just accepted the fact and never felt curiosity for an explanation. Until now.

@TR4R Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if oysters have a brain but octopuses have one of the largest among invertebrates and they're really smart. The thing with barnacles is this weird adaptation that after being a free swimming larva they become sessile and probably don't develop too much of a brain.

@beto1744 Жыл бұрын

It always bothered me how barnacles were considered crustaceans because in my head the looked nothing like them and now I now why. Thanks you answered one of my biggest questions

@juliav.mcclelland2415 Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, they think you look pretty weird, too.

@vaultdweller1386 Жыл бұрын

@@juliav.mcclelland2415 "The flesh things wish to kill us" -Barnacles shortly before being removed from a ship hull... probably.

@thenoisyninja Жыл бұрын

Darwin was a weird nerd and lived his ultimate truth the whole time. Respect

@dugldoo Жыл бұрын

Some of your best presentations, like this one, focus not just on "what happened" or "what was found" but on the scientific difficulties paleontologists have had in figuring out what they found or what happened, and the conflicts they endured with their colleagues as they sorted things out. These presentations give some insight into how the field develops.

@blackbear7624 Жыл бұрын

also it makes us sympathise with the scientist and further understand their thought process

@rodchallis8031 Жыл бұрын

"To what phylum do you belong? To what phylum do you belong?" Said the fair young Taxonomist. "It's only me from out of the sea," said Barnacle Bill the Crustacean.

@suelane3628 Жыл бұрын

It's such a shame that Darwin was christened Charles and not William!

@lintang790 Жыл бұрын

Poetic

@MadHatter42 Жыл бұрын

Classic!

@GuukanKitsune Жыл бұрын

Aaaah! Barnacle Bill the Sailor! Someone is a person of culture!

@GabrielHodge 2 ай бұрын

Bill the arthropod@@GuukanKitsune

@TheLaughingDove Жыл бұрын

"Variation is the raw material of evolution" is a wonderfully poetic line

@Mike-pf1ru Жыл бұрын

Enjoy the poetry, because there’s no scientific experimentation involved in the idea of evolution.

@Crygear Жыл бұрын

@@Mike-pf1ru dog. Selective variation evolution by breeding.

@masync183 Жыл бұрын

@@Mike-pf1ru if ignorance is bliss you must be in heaven all the time.

@Mike-pf1ru Жыл бұрын

@@masync183 You must be too, considering your ignorance of basic English grammar. Could you briefly summarise the scientific method for me?

@chavaspada Жыл бұрын

@@Mike-pf1ru then how do you explain medicine resistant bacteria bucko?

@csbalachandran Жыл бұрын

As with every Eons docu, this is also very beautifully scripted ... in simple language, but without 'talking down' to the viewer. The presentation and the editing are in keeping with your usual high quality. Thanks for uploading this (and other docus). Kudos!

@enfiskutensykkel Жыл бұрын

"Despite being so frustrated by these creatures that he found himself wishing that they never existed -- a feeling familiar to many graduate students" made me laugh so hard 😄😄

@hoidoei941 9 ай бұрын

Somebody wrote an entire rant about the mola mola (ocean sunfish) being the most useless creature ever. Look it up, it’s hilarious

@dorongrossman-naples9207 Жыл бұрын

"I make no perceptible progress and groan under my task." Darwin describes the life of a grad student.

@jackhandma1011 Жыл бұрын

Darwin probably wished they evolved into crabs instead.

@madmaxiemartialartsnerd485 Жыл бұрын

Honestly it shows what geniuses these men were to be able to take on these tasks with literally less then half the resources we have today. Just blows my mind to think what they could of accomplished with modern technology to back them up

@garydargan6 Жыл бұрын

Several years ago I was trying out a newly developed technique for extracting fossils. It yielded a diverse array of fossils which were not visible in the hand specimen. Among them were some odd pieces which someone more expert than me suggested could be barnacle plates. The rock was early Devonian so barnacles could be much older than we think.

@jinjeredge Жыл бұрын

Do you have any papers or writings on your findings

@garydargan6 Жыл бұрын

@@jinjeredge mostly about very mundane and uninteresting fossil corals.

@jinjeredge Жыл бұрын

@@garydargan6 just curious but what was the extraction method used

@garydargan6 Жыл бұрын

@@jinjeredge I impregnated voids left by fossils with resin then dissolved the rock, (a shale) in hydrofluoric acid. The resin only filled surface voids so not much in the way of plastic fossils but the acid converted the carbonate fossils within the rock to calcium fluoride. Not a method I'd suggest for the amateur. Hydrofluoric acid is extremely dangerous and even a small amount on the skin can be fatal.

@wormwoodbecomedelphinus4131 Жыл бұрын

Could be convergent evolution for all we know - barnacles existed during the Devonian, went extinct, and then the formula for barnacles is found again. They are a very effective filter feeder. Like how things keep evolving into crabs, I imagine things will evolve into barnacles if barnacles are not their to stake their claim.

@TragoudistrosMPH Жыл бұрын

0:52 Same bro, I hate fetch quests too 😰 "Bring me 30 barnacle stems, adventurer"

@freedem41 Жыл бұрын

If Darwin wanted to know if gooseneck barnacles were more closely related to mollusks or arthropods all he had to do was eat one. By taste there is far more shrimp than oyster. In southern Chile there is a huge regular barnacle as well as huge gooseneck barnacles that could tell they were arthropods right away. One should note that there were other species where their taste was a part of the description. I recall that he found mountain lion far tastier than jaguar.

@perryrush6563 Жыл бұрын

Imagine all the species that would end up being classified as Chicken

@freedem41 Жыл бұрын

@@perryrush6563 most birds anyway, and likely many dinosaurs unless they ate fish. Mollusks like clams, etc. taste very different than crabs, shrimp, etc.

@scottmeeker9971 Жыл бұрын

As humans taste like pork...

@blackbear7624 Жыл бұрын

@@freedem41 frog tastes like chicken also, it’s very interesting

@kenneth9874 9 ай бұрын

The mountain men of the American west claimed that mountain lions were the best meat to be had

@LeoDomitrix Жыл бұрын

I checked NOAA, which identified them as "sticky little crustaceans". Imagine telling Darwin this. "Charles? It's a sticky little crustacean!" and Darwin replying, "That's all you have? A sticky little crustacean?"

@icollectstories5702 Жыл бұрын

Crustaceans are crunchy; molluscs are squishy. Kudos to William Thompson for finding juvenile barnacles!

@lillyb2230 Жыл бұрын

I still feel like Darwin’s fox should have a different name. I would not want to be named after the guy who killed me

@tipwilkin Жыл бұрын

Maybe you should do better at not being killed idk

@alonealien1474 Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@joshhoehne8281 Жыл бұрын

My corpse will be named Bob because of this.

@ivanzivkovic7572 Жыл бұрын

@@joshhoehne8281 Bob's human

@sirmeowthelibrarycat Жыл бұрын

🤔 A BBC three part series on the Canids included a segment on Darwin’s fox. It took viewers to an island where those foxes are under threat from human intrusion and domestic dogs roaming free. Yet another example of species near extinction through human interference. Relocating the people and their dogs is the only solution. Ditto the Galápagos Islands.

@Raydensheraj Жыл бұрын

I think what was a bit missed concerning the reason WHY Darwin picked Barnacles= After a letter from his Botanist friend Joseph Dalton Hooker who was critical of Naturalists who never specialized even on one species or class BUT were the first to make up big hypotheses about the origins of life or how variations in species came to be AKA 'armchair naturalists' ( example Frederic Gerard in this case ) Darwin decided he needed to specialize on cirripedia (the class of barnacles). Darwin thought that Hooker's criticism concerning "theorizing armchair naturalists" was a critic on his own "theorizing" concerning transmutation (aka Evolution) So Charles Darwin went all out with his research on Barnacles - using his theory of natural selection and principle of divergence - ending up (after 8 years) with an masterpiece on an class not understood at all at the time his book was released. It was a masterpiece of its time and still remains a work of a genius....

@djublonskopf Жыл бұрын

This episode is Eons at its best, a deep dive into something that seems like a weird niche topic, only to draw out both a compelling narrative and deep connections to our modern understanding of the natural world. Patreon bucks have rarely been better spent.

@Nikki0417 Жыл бұрын

I'm starting to realize most of my trypophobia is just hating the sight of barnacles stuck to a surface, especially other animals. Any time I see footage of the on a whale or something, I want to scrub them off. I don't know if they actually bother the animal, but it still makes me itch.

@harpyspeaks Жыл бұрын

I was kinda spiralling but your videos always remind me that there is so much Beauty and wonder that we can love everywhere. Even crusted to the bottom of a container ship

@njlkerins Жыл бұрын

Nicely put.

@andromeda7758 9 ай бұрын

I love the idea of scientists going back and forth over drama involving the classification of barnacles. The scandal, the tea.

@judelarkin2883 Жыл бұрын

An ancient barnacle was friends with a mollusk and asked the mollusk how they build their house. The rest is history. 😁

@Isthisjoebiden 4 ай бұрын

Hilarious😂

@Danfish42 Жыл бұрын

"Barnacles baffle biologists" "Evolutionary enlightenment" Your writers sure are having fun with their alliteration!

@JohnDrummondPhoto Жыл бұрын

The joking reference to birds being a type of starfish is only slightly off. Birds were classically considered a unique class within the order Chordata. But currently, birds are classified as a sub-clade of dinosaur: specifically, avian theropods. If all of the clade Dinosauria are still considered reptiles, then birds are also reptiles.

@fun2building Жыл бұрын

...I wouldn't call that only slightly, reptiles are still vertebrates

@pencilpauli9442 Жыл бұрын

@@fun2building But vertebrates must ultimately have descended from non vertebrates. Starfish are echinoderms, and birds are chordates: "The Bilateria has traditionally been divided into two main lineages or superphyla.[16] The deuterostomes include the echinoderms, hemichordates, chordates, and a few smaller phyla. " Wiki So at some point birds and starfish have a common ancestor.

@mazocco Жыл бұрын

In the end we are all fish though.

@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject Жыл бұрын

They used to say humans are mostly bacteria, but new scientist say we're half bacteria.

@JohnDrummondPhoto Жыл бұрын

@@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject our mitochondria were originally independent prokaryotes like bacteria, and our digestive tracts are full of symbiotic bacteria. So, we're colonial organisms like a Portuguese Man-o-war.

@sailcat9 Жыл бұрын

Darwin's finches, worms, and barnacles; he made great science out of superficially banal subjects that had profound implications. He was a true genius.

@Mike-pf1ru Жыл бұрын

Science? Do you think Darwin used the scientific method in any way, shape or form to come up with the idea of evolution? Wrong.

@adreabrooks11 Жыл бұрын

This is why I'm far more likely to tune into a documentary about squirrels or hyraxes than wolves or lions. :)

@jimralston4789 Жыл бұрын

@@Mike-pf1ru Meticulously disecting and recording his findings every day for eight years, and then sharing them with the scientific community doesn't sound like science to you?

@Mike-pf1ru Жыл бұрын

@@jimralston4789 It's a great story, but nothing to do with the scientific method. You do know what the scientific method is, don't you Jim? Or would you like me to explain it to you? It's not very complicated. Evolution is not science. It's not a scientific theory. It's comes from a thought expermient, not a scientific expermient.

@Teun_Jac Жыл бұрын

@@Mike-pf1ru yes we would very much like you to explain what the scientific methods is, if it isn't any trouble. I would like to learn. Since it isn't complicated, fill us in real quick so we're all on the same page.

@victoriaasenjo524 Жыл бұрын

In the game We Need To Go Deeper, one of the biomes players can enter is the Infected Depths, an area festering with strange purple barnacles. To quote in-game lore: "A barnacle is no species fit for apexing the food chain - until it is!"

@denifnaf5874 Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Barnacles hage biggest pp to body ratio to all living and extinct animals.

@davidsi5376 Жыл бұрын

Wow, I thought that title was hwld by a type of grass hoppers??

@brianlefko4404 Жыл бұрын

Man, I love science.

@pategustavo4392 Жыл бұрын

I identify as barnacle

@4473021 Жыл бұрын

Giant pp gang

@LuisSierra42 Жыл бұрын

not sure if i wanted to learn this

@Homo_sAPEien Жыл бұрын

Me 1 year ago: “I would rather shoot myself than watch a video about barnacles.” Me now: 🍿🤔

@jaylewis9876 Жыл бұрын

You have evolved

@Homo_sAPEien Жыл бұрын

@@jaylewis9876 True. Mentally, in this instance.

@brockobama257 Жыл бұрын

An episode of Monsters Inside Me featured a woman (I think?) who scraped her hand against the underside of a ship while cleaning off the barnacles. They infiltrated her bloodstream. She had barnacles growing everywhere inside her body. I’ve seen a lot of disturbing content on the internet. I’m of the age where beheading videos were a middle school staple. The barnacles rank in the top 5 memories I wish I could forget. It’s a combination of the intimate violating nature of infestation with the pain I interpreted from the dramatization of the events. The way I see it, pain exists in different levels. There’s intensity and recognition of danger. You could have a lot of pain and understand you’re in danger, like a broken arm. You could have little pain and understand there’s no danger, like a scrape. And then there’s everything in between. This woman thought nothing of the scrape. It fell into the lowest threshold of pain. She was wrong. All that to say I’m with Darwin, and I haven’t even watched the video yet.

@billfarley9015 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I wish you hadn't told me that.

@Isthisjoebiden 4 ай бұрын

I literally thought of that episode when I was watching this.

@davidaugustofc2574 2 ай бұрын

I'll forever regret learning English instead of German, thanks to you.

@davidgustavsson4000 Жыл бұрын

"I hate the barnacle as no man did before" is an interesting statement in a world with keelhauling

@matzemumpsie5292 Жыл бұрын

Depends on how how you quantify things. Somebody beeing keehauled would be very upset a short time but trying to classify them all would be over a very large amount of time.

@rickkwitkoski1976 Жыл бұрын

"BLISTERING BLUE BARNACLES!" screamed Captain Haddock! "Arf!" agreed Snowy. "Now Snowy, watch your language." admonished Tintin.

@ChinnuSped Жыл бұрын

I wanna see a boxing animation between barnacle and Mr.Darwin also just imagine what else these highly intelligent people who revolutionized the world could do if they've access to the technology we've now..

@1224chrisng Жыл бұрын

on one hand, the barnacle don't have hands to box with, on the other hand, I wouldn't want to box with a razor-sharp shell, so I'll hand it to the barnacles on this one

@jivisha_ Жыл бұрын

They would be addicted to phone and procrastinate... and ultimately end up being like us....

@avenotrius4340 Жыл бұрын

They'd be watching Netflix and doing tiktok.

@teaartist6455 Жыл бұрын

There's people developing ways to store data on DNA for long term storage. We're working on making artificial organs and have at least gotten really close with some simple things like ears. We're developing ways to train dogs to detect cancer earlier than any other test and to mimic a dog's sense of smell with robotics. They still exist but the things we are studying now are ever more specific and niche so until they do change the world you would never know. (And some of them likely never will truly change the world but instead our understanding, or the understanding of scientists of a very niche topic.)

@TheEccedentesiastX Жыл бұрын

Darwin's barnacle vs. Freud's eel: Our fight would be legendary!

@joestrummer. Ай бұрын

"Barnacles baffled biologists" Nice

@t-bonejones3576 Жыл бұрын

Mussels can actually move, whereas barnacles are truly cemented in one place

@pandoraeeris7860 Жыл бұрын

Chuck D. had many enemies, both great and small.

@1224chrisng Жыл бұрын

between Wallace, sea sickness, and barnacles, which is the worst one?

@cpee656 10 ай бұрын

“Bruh, these barnacles are actually crabs.” - Charles Darwin, 1849

@SWISS-1337 Жыл бұрын

I think those who were keelhauled may have hated them just that bit more, but I imagine Darwin likely came a very, very close second.

@ogedeh Жыл бұрын

He was a barnacle MAN

@buckybarnes3015 Жыл бұрын

I knew someone was gonna make this comment 😂😂

@rossplendent Жыл бұрын

I always love Eons episodes, but for some reason, this one feels *especially* well written!

@cyborgtoad Жыл бұрын

theres just something endearing about such a brilliant man such as darwin just getting so worked up about barnacles that he wishes their extinction 😆

@shekhan4678 Жыл бұрын

"Barnacle boy" is simply a hilarious phrase

@snoopenny Жыл бұрын

You should have mentioned the fact the bottom of every large ship and ocean liner is painted red. There is something in the red paint that keeps barnacles from attaching themselves to the hull, preventing drag and reducing speed.

@Brokefootchuck Жыл бұрын

Whales should evolve to sweat red paint

@gaoxiaen1 Жыл бұрын

Lead.

@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears Жыл бұрын

Friends were thought it was weird when I was super surprised to find out that they were arthropods. I am vindicated.

@Pyrochazm Жыл бұрын

I only learned this a few years ago myself.

@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears Жыл бұрын

@@Pyrochazm If you want another one, did you know tardigrades are also arthropods?

@Pyrochazm Жыл бұрын

@@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears I did not.

@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears Жыл бұрын

@@Pyrochazm That is all the things on my list of would not have expected to be arthropods.

@SpeedKing.. Жыл бұрын

Aren't coconut crabs NOT arthropods or something?

@robrice7246 Жыл бұрын

Charles Darwin sees barnacles as one thing: *EEEEEEEVIIIIIIILLLLLLL!!!!*

@auwanho 10 ай бұрын

The way Darwin complain about barnacles in his journal is how I complain about my studies on Instagram studies. I wonder years later people would dig up my Instagram page and be like “he once said ‘I promise if I pass this test I will give up ice cream for a month’”

@AngryGrape1337 Ай бұрын

Charles Darwin 🤝 Half Life Players Hating barnacles

@TragoudistrosMPH Жыл бұрын

Why is everything turning into crabs? Barnacles: 😜

@trogo3402 Жыл бұрын

DARWIN WAS NOT A BARNACLE BOY

@sullywinn4225 3 ай бұрын

"I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before." Looks like Charles never heard of keelhauling...

@DrRiq Жыл бұрын

Heh. Today I learned that barnacles and molluscs aren't the same thing...

@ulischmidt03 Жыл бұрын

He’s not a barnacle boy, he’s a barnacle MAN

@cathrinewhite7629 Жыл бұрын

What _really_ matters is, which one tastes best on a cracker?

@termofor6044 Жыл бұрын

This whole situation reminds me of that one The Onion video about a guy wasting like 10 years writing a book about anteaters

@Raydensheraj Жыл бұрын

I strongly believe this and his works on Orchids to be incredibly important....because the Orchids made him a specialist on Barnacles and gave him respect....the Orchid Book kept providing evidence for his own theory of Evolution....so much he literally couldn't believe it himself.

@tomcurl8034 Жыл бұрын

To be fair at first glance, a barnacle does look and act very much like a mollusk but if you take a closer look at its lifecycle, it is definitely a very weird crustacean

@Mohotashi Жыл бұрын

Imagine if On the Origins of Species never got published and Darwin was just some weird barnacle guy, now that would be some deep Victorian pain. 🤣

@suelane3628 Жыл бұрын

Like Beatrice Potter who wasn't able to publish her studies just because she was a woman.

@dfghdfghuytiu8207 Жыл бұрын

If Darwin hated barnacles, imagine how sea turtles feel.

@turkeykent3719 Жыл бұрын

“WHAT ARE YOU!!!!!?” *Darwin said calmly*

@ShaunakHub Жыл бұрын

"Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!"

@akalrove4834 Жыл бұрын

Barnacles trigger a phobia that I cannot explain. The hole phobia that has a name Tryptosomethingphobia

@JustAnotherBuckyLover Жыл бұрын

Trypophobia. And me too.

@georgeuferov1497 Жыл бұрын

Naming trypophobia "trysomethingphobia" just forces me to make a pun: - Master Oogway, who's going to be a Dragon Warrior? Maybe Tigress? - Hmmm... Try Po

@microceratus Жыл бұрын

me too, they're so 🤢🤮

@nunofoo8620 Жыл бұрын

They are a very expensive dish in my country. They are delicious.

@mikemcconeghy4658 2 ай бұрын

Scientist 1 - "It's a mollusk" Scientist 2 - "Then why do the babies look like shrimps?"

@C29Chris Жыл бұрын

I came for the idea of Darwin punching barnacles but wow I did not realize classifying them happened during his time this was great learning about barnacles had no clue they were crustaceans

@PrincessTS01 Жыл бұрын

gotta love side quests, you do enough of them and your exp jumps drastically making you OP to others in the zone

@joakos1122 Жыл бұрын

no wonder barnacles was a curse word in spongebob

@Laggie74 Жыл бұрын

To be a biologist back then, and frankly most other fields, you first have to learn how to draw. So impressed and admire all their contributions to human knowledge.

@akechijubeimitsuhide Жыл бұрын

I picture Darwin accidentally picking up a rock with some barnacles and suddenly "NO STONE UNTURNED" starts.

@seungmin282 Жыл бұрын

Darwin could be so dramatic sometimes. Sometimes his letters just make me laugh out loud

@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject Жыл бұрын

He was probably drunk or high

@Humorless_Wokescold Жыл бұрын

@@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject He was a Victorian. Those that weren't drunk, high or both were dying from toxic fumes.

@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject Жыл бұрын

@@Humorless_Wokescold it's crazy how they substituted bad water for alcohol back then and went wasted 24/7

@bbirda1287 Жыл бұрын

1:00 That picture really struck me with how close the Wallace and Gromit studio nailed Darwin in their Pirate movie.

@rosiehawtrey Жыл бұрын

Nailed Darwin. Two words I didn't know I didn't want to see together..

@suelane3628 Жыл бұрын

I ought to check, but I think that Darwin was already engaged to Emma Wedgewood before the voyage. It would have been expected of him as the families were rich and had to marry well. Ironically Emma was his cousin. That doesn't detract from The Pirates which I have watched twice!

@Luanmm Жыл бұрын

@@suelane3628 he was not engaged by then. He was interested in another lady, who got married pretty soon after he departed (he was devastated when he got the news from his sister by letter). He proposed to Emma after he had returned from his Beagle journey

@idot3331 Жыл бұрын

Aardman is the name of the studio. When they want to make a great movie, they really can. These days however I think they focus most energy on their cash-cow Shaun the Sheep.

@suelane3628 Жыл бұрын

@@Luanmm Hi, thank you.

@paullemay6596 3 ай бұрын

Darwin: I hate a barnacle as no man ever has before People who were keel hauled: allow us to introduce ourselves

@andromedatonks60 4 ай бұрын

“a feeling familiar to many graduate students” I FEEL SEEN

@chrisserpell4074 Жыл бұрын

Great video, but don't forget the even earlier idea that barnacles might be juvenile geese!

@rachelbockrath6276 Жыл бұрын

Seriously, why do so many of Darwin's great quotes sound like a very modern tweet? 😆

@TragoudistrosMPH Жыл бұрын

Fun to remember humans have been humans for over 100k years. (Old fashioned parents concerned their kid has too much interest in an attractive neanderthal neighbor across the valley... and should instead settle down with a nice familiar village kid with a stable village role instead, like the other village kids :p)

@peggedyourdad9560 Жыл бұрын

@@TragoudistrosMPH Interestingly enough, there actually seems to have been at least some interspecies pairing between different species of hominins.

@NicksAreOverrated Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, I searched The Origin of Species and the barnacles did indeed find a place in there: "The opercular valves of sessile cirripedes (rock barnacles) are, in every sense of the word, very important structures, and they differ extremely little even in different genera; but in the several species of one genus, Pyrgoma, these valves present a marvellous amount of diversification: the homologous valves in the different species being sometimes wholly unlike in shape; and the amount of variation in the individuals of several of the species is so great, that it is no exaggeration to state that the varieties differ more from each other in the characters of these important valves than do other species of distinct genera. "

@film9491 Жыл бұрын

I took several evolution classes in university including reading Origin of Species from cover to cover. This is the first time I am learning that barnacles are crustaceans. Excellent video!

@CanVultus Жыл бұрын

It’s Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy!

@wrenleader4409 Жыл бұрын

BILLIONS OF BLISTERING BLUE BARNACLES!!!

@laithtabet970 Жыл бұрын

I like to think Stephen Hillenburg, being a marine biologist, knew how angry barnacles made Charles Darwin and for that reason made it a swear word in Spongebob.