SciShow: Why Are There So Many Beetles?

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Beetles are the most diverse group of complex organisms on Earth, making up over 20% of all named animal species. One in five species on this planet is...a beetle. How did one group of organisms get THAT massive? Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, Ron Kakar ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- SOURCES https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/beetle https://science.sciencemag.org/content/281/5376/555 https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/side_O_0/beetles_01 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/318/5858/1913?ijkey=fb25aa8ed54fdd5e4c786cd40bc17b1b7cc3444a&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha https://www.pnas.org/content/116/49/24729 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0060 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965174814001088 https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/106/17/7083.full.pdf https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9rt1c1hl49MC&oi=fnd&pg=PA278&dq=beetle+diversification+family&ots=PV5IOdlqzp&sig=gjefj36XQjfT9bfGxgPLEgxp3VQ#v=onepage&q=beetle%20diversification%20family&f=false https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-014-0220-1 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2013.00360/full http://www.iucncsg.org/pages/Crocodilian-Species.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/horizontal-gene-transfer https://www.britannica.com/plant/angiosperm/Paleobotany-and-evolution Image Souces: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dandelion-gm1180494132-330731929 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/drone-view-of-a-path-in-the-forest-gm888718426-246480781 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/christmas-beetle-gm1143642624-307196799 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/saltwater-crocodile-gm694181990-128264699 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/weevil-up-close-in-belize-gm937070448-256333578 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/african-goliath-beetle-goliathus-giganteus-on-the-arm-gm962546210-262890522 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/green-chloroplasts-in-plant-cells-gm116864378-6143246 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/weevil-with-unusual-snoutarmy-ants-eciton-rapax-in-the-ecuadorian-amazon-4kvowku3xiljl2zyu https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/beetle-gm171285983-20841415 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/golden-bronze-beetle-on-a-flower-cetonia-aurata-so8k-hhbbjxzaa9p9 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/stag-beetle-lucanus-cervus-close-up-b-6ngjaewj2xffyfb https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fiery-hunter-beetle-in-sand-gm1088305808-291955662


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