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How the Seahorse Got its Shape

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This origami animation tells the story of how, due to changes in tectonics, seahorses came to swim standing up.  

What The HELL is WRONG With My PLANTS!?!? Part 2

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My concern is elevated when I discover another mutated plant in my garden. Like the plant in the first video, this plant lacks symmetry and...

My concern is elevated when I discover another mutated plant in my garden. Like the plant in the first video, this plant lacks symmetry and seems to be a mixture of fern and modern plant which is a prime example of a mutation. However, for you botanists watching this video, maybe YOU can give a comforting explanation here? By the way, this house where the video is filmed is NO where close to a nuclear power plant. How I'd love to take a soil sample of the area this seeming mutation is taking place in.   Less

Organisms Do Evolve

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I am always troubled by the lack of awareness surrounding the process of evolution by natural selection. Also, I am a crazy dorky scientist...

I am always troubled by the lack of awareness surrounding the process of evolution by natural selection. Also, I am a crazy dorky scientist who enjoys many aspects of pop culture. I'm a Miley fan, and when I first saw 'Wrecking Ball' it was just irresistible for me to parody it! Here are the full lyrics:nnnThey fought, they strained, their lives in vainnThey thought, always asking whynNot blessed but shunned, the world was stunnednBut facts, no one could denynnYou might think you know, only just supposenWhat you're told isn't truennFacts you can't deny, science doesn't lienThere is actual proofnnThat organisms do evolvenThat giant mystery's been solvednCreationism's proven falsenGet familiar with our phylogenynnYes, our phylogeny.nnThere's A, there's C there's T there's G, nThey're called nucleotidesnThe helix turns with no concernnFor Gods, or religious livesnnGene diversity, stochasticitynJust the fittest survivenThen they procreate, and some genes mutatenVaried forms are derived.nnYes organisms do evolve, nThe experts have worked hard to solvenThe complex processes involvednIn the earth's historynnYes organisms do evolve,nThere's no more mystery to solve,nFundamental to life overallnGet familiar with our biologynnScholarship and science answer fornAbsolute complexities withinnBoth extant and extinct creature formsnUnderstanding that is not a sinnnScholarship and science answer fornIncidents where divergence beginsnUnderstanding that is not a sinnYou might think you know, only just supposenWhat you're told isn't true.nnCuz organisms do evolve, nThere's no more mystery to solvenCreationism's proven falsenGet familiar with our phylogenynnYes organisms do evolve,nSuch complex processes resolvednFundamental to life overallnAim to understand our biologynnIt's our biologynnI hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed making. EVOLUTION FTW!nnAre you in love with the amazing vocals of Emily Hammel-Brisson? You can drop her a line at emilyhamel@inbox.comnnAre you in love with the creative vision of my friend Jordan Oram? Check out his website here: http://www.maplemusketeer.com   Less

Africa Is Not A Black Achievement

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When Afrocentrics beat their chest over the term "African" "African", it is a mis-use of geography and phylogeny because it was a starting p...

When Afrocentrics beat their chest over the term "African" "African", it is a mis-use of geography and phylogeny because it was a starting point of our ancestral origins. To the Afrocentric,...   Less

Godzilla Taxa

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I use the various versions or revisions of Godzilla to show the difference between evolved taxa and created kinds. Evolution can account fo...

I use the various versions or revisions of Godzilla to show the difference between evolved taxa and created kinds. Evolution can account for every life-form ever discovered. There has never been even one organism which contests that theory. This would only be possible if life has evolved. That would not be the case if life was 'created', because every creature we've ever imagined for any myth or movie has always violated taxonomy. So if life had been magically created, then we would see at least a few things that didn't align with evident phylogeny -the way evolution requires that everything must.   Less

Self recognition and the rise of what most refer to as personhood.

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This is a video segment from the DVD companion to my master's thesis, The Development of Self as a Means for Determining Degrees of Culture,...

This is a video segment from the DVD companion to my master's thesis, The Development of Self as a Means for Determining Degrees of Culture, where I illustrate the rise of self-awareness in non-human primates across phylogeny and ontogeny.nnThis work meets the Fair-use Statute Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act: 1. The purpose and character of the use is for nonprofit educational purposes. 2. The nature of the material is factual. 3. The amount and significance of the portion used in relation to the entire work is not significant. 4. The use will have no effect upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work, this use is non-monetized, and no commercial media is authorized on this channel. This segment is currently important for use in my Ph.D. research as well as the K-12 science classes I teach.nnThe simple act of cutting segments of video from a larger portion can and often does suggest other meanings than originally intended because they are removed from their original context. Please be advised that I place my copyright watermark on videos posted on my channel to protect the original content creator(s) from association with meanings, explicit or implied, created by my own edits.nnIf you have read this far, you are not only more cynical than most, but have far too much time on your hands, time better spent with a physician addressing your high blood pressure, or a therapist to explore your control issues.   Less

Green Iguana shows off its spikes

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Green Iguana shows off its spikes, at a butterfly park in Singapore.The green iguana or common iguana (Iguana iguana) is a large, arboreal, ...

Green Iguana shows off its spikes, at a butterfly park in Singapore.The green iguana or common iguana (Iguana iguana) is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana native to Central, South America, and the Caribbean. Usually, this animal is simply called the iguana. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. A herbivore, it has adapted significantly with regard to locomotion and osmoregulation as a result of its diet. It grows to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length from head to tail, although a few specimens have grown more than 2 metres (6.6 ft) with bodyweight upward of 20 pounds (9.1 kg).Commonly found in captivity as a pet due to its calm disposition and bright colors, it can be very demanding to care for properly. Space requirements and the need for special lighting and heat can prove challenging to an amateur hobbyist.The species was first officially described by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. In the two centuries since then, numerous subspecies have been identified, but later classified as merely regional variants of the same species.Using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA-sequence data to explore the phylogenic history of the green iguana, scientists from Utah Valley State College studied animals collected from 17 different countries. The topology of phylogeny indicated that the species originated in South America and eventually radiated through Central America and the Caribbean. The study revealed no unique mitochondrial DNA haplotypes for subspecific status but did indicate the deep lineage divergence between Central and South American populations.The word iguana is derived from a Spanish form of the Taíno name for the species: iwana. In some Spanish speaking countries, males of the species are referred to as gorrobo or ministro and juveniles are called iguanita or gorrobito.The native range of the Green Iguana extends from...   Less

How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms

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Support us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/eonsnnTyrannosaurus rex was big, Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious, and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny ar...

Support us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/eonsnnTyrannosaurus rex was big, Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious, and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms. The story of how T-Rex lost its arms is, itself, pretty simple. But the story of why it kept those little limbs, and how it used them? Well, that’s a little more complicated.nnThanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/nnProduced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudiosnnSuper special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:nAldo Espinosa Zúñiga, Svetlana Pylaeva, Colin Sylvester, Philip Slingerland, John Vanek, Jose Garcia, Noah offitzer, Eric Vonk, Tony Wamsley, Henrik Peteri, Jonathan Wright, Wilco Verweij, Jon Monteiro, James Bording, Brad Nicholls, Miles Chaston, Addison Baker, Michael McClellan, Elysha Nygård, Jeff Graham, Maria Humphrey, Southpoint, Connor Jensen, Ehit Dinesh Agarwal, Sapjes, Dave, Daisuke Goto, Zachary Winkler, Hubert Rady, Yuntao Zhou, Gregory Kintz, Tyson Cleary, Chandler Bass, Maly Lor, Joao Ascensao, Mario Morales, Tsee Lee, Sarah Fritts, phil parker, Ruben Winter, Ron Harvey Jr, Joshua Mitchell, Johnny Li, Katie Fichtner, Budjarn Lambeth, Jacob Gerke, Katie M Vasilescu, Brandon Burke, Alex Yan, Jordon SokollnnWant to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?nFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshownTwitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshownInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/nnReferences:nBaron, Matthew G., David B. Norman, and Paul M. Barrett. "A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution." Nature 543.7646 (2017): 501. nBates, Karl T., and Peter L. Falkingham. "Estimating maximum bite performance in Tyrannosaurus rex using multi-body dynamics." Biology Letters (2012): rsbl20120056.nBrusatte, Stephen L., and Thomas D. Carr. "The phylogeny and evolutionary history of tyrannosauroid dinosaurs." Scientific Reports 6 (2016): 20252.nBurch, Sara. Osteological, Myological, and Phylogenetic Trends of Forelimb Reduction in Nonavian Theropod Dinosaurs. Diss. The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 2015.nCarpenter, Kenneth. "Forelimb biomechanics of nonavian theropod dinosaurs in predation." Senckenbergiana lethaea 82.1 (2002): 59-75.nErickson, Gregory M., et al. "Bite-force estimation for Tyrannosaurus rex from tooth-marked bones." Nature 382.6593 (1996): 706.nFowler, Denver W., et al. "Reanalysis of “Raptorex kriegsteini”: a juvenile tyrannosaurid dinosaur from Mongolia." PLoS One 6.6 (2011): e21376. nGillingham, James C., and Jeffrey A. Chambers. "Courtship and pelvic spur use in the Burmese python, Python molurus bivittatus." Copeia 1982.1 (1982): 193-196. nGould, Stephen Jay, and Richard C. Lewontin. "The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme." Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 205.1161 (1979): 581-598.nHutchinson, John R., and Stephen M. Gatesy. "Dinosaur locomotion: beyond the bones." Nature 440.7082 (2006): 292. nMakovicky, Peter J. "A new small theropod from the Morrison Formation of Como Bluff, Wyoming." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17.4 (1997): 755-757.nMIDDLETON, KEVIN M., and STEPHEN M. GATESY. "Theropod forelimb design and evolution." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128.2 (2000): 149-187.nPersonal communication, Amy Atwater & Dr. John Scanella, Museum of the RockiesnPontzer, Herman, et al. "Control and function of arm swing in human walking and running." Journal of Experimental Biology 212.4 (2009): 523-534.nRuiz, Javier, et al. "The hand structure of Carnotaurus sastrei (Theropoda, Abelisauridae): implications for hand diversity and evolution in abelisaurids." Palaeontology 54.6 (2011): 1271-1277.nSellers, William I., et al. "Investigating the running abilities of Tyrannosaurus rex using stress-constrained multibody dynamic analysis." PeerJ 5 (2017): e3420.nSereno, Paul C., et al. "Tyrannosaurid skeletal design first evolved at small body size." Science 326.5951 (2009): 418-422.nStanley, Steven M. “Evidence that the Arms of Tyrannosaurus rex were not functionless but adapted for vicious slashing.” Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2017. nSullivan, Corwin, et al. "The asymmetry of the carpal joint and the evolution of wing folding in maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences (2010): rspb20092281.nTherrien, François, and Donald M. Henderson. "My theropod is bigger than yours… or not: estimating body size from skull length in theropods." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27.1 (2007): 108-115. [108:MTIBTY]2.0.CO;2nUSAMI, Yoshiyuki, and Ryuta KINUGASA. "A Possibility of Fast Running of TYRANNOSAURUS." DEStech Transactions on Engineering and Technology Research amma (2017).nXu, Xing, et al. "A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China." Nature 439.7077 (2006): 715.   Less

Parasitic Plant (Cuscuta) (Dodder)Overtaking Small Shrubs!!!

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Cuscuta (pronunciation: /kʌsˈkjutɑː/) (dodder) is a genus of about 100–170 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic ...

Cuscuta (pronunciation: /kʌsˈkjutɑː/) (dodder) is a genus of about 100–170 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, on the basis of the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.[1] The genus is found throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world, with the greatest species diversity in subtropical and tropical regions; the genus becomes rare in cool temperate climates, with only four species native to northern Europe.nnAfter a dodder attaches itself to a plant, it wraps itself around it. If the host contains food beneficial to dodder, the dodder produces haustoria that insert themselves into the vascular system of the host. The original root of the dodder in the soil then dies. The dodder can grow and attach itself to multiple plants. In tropical areas it can grow more or less continuously, and may reach high into the canopy of shrubs and trees; in temperate regions it is an annual plant and is restricted to relatively low vegetation that can be reached by new seedlings each spring.nnDodder is parasitic on a very wide variety of plants, including a number of agricultural and horticultural crop species, such as alfalfa, lespedeza, flax, clover, potatoes, chrysanthemum, dahlia, helenium, trumpet vine, ivy and petunias, among others.   Less

Hobie sailing 2014

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Trying out my new-to-me 1976 Hobie 16 for the first time