SciShow: 5 Strangely Familiar Ancient Animals

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Content of the Lesson: Once evolution finds a trick that works, it tends to repeat it. Here are a few examples of prehistoric animals that look a lot like ones we know today. Hosted by: Hank Green 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 Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- 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://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160672 https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/pterosaur-of-the-day-pterodaustro https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/104/1/73/5563018 https://peerj.com/articles/7375/ https://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/379/1/91 https://peerj.com/preprints/27476.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ea81/4367b208912e0b6802c37209458dd1b64dad.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23476 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.2893 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2710891/ Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mother-and-baby-bat-flying-on-blue-sly-gm1147752698-309721452 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/seagull-flying-in-the-blue-sky-gm1148576110-310216415 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-morpho-butterfly-gm184638966-17845323 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/flamingos-on-the-beach-gm170618386-8252068 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/flamingo-isolated-gm155381324-21682723 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/large-amount-of-flamingos-in-africa-bnkgi2gyirgbqj19 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foraminif%C3%A8res_de_Ngapali.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/yawning-leopard-seal-on-iceberg-gm465087264-58933372 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/the-beaver-floats-on-water-and-then-dives-skemgzpzhjyp0r0ta https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/3d-illustration-exotic-animal-platypus-on-white-gm1132021836-299930645 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/floating-platypus-in-brown-water-photo-taken-in-eungella-national-park-in-queensland-gm1168271201-322514414 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Platypus_spur.JPG#/media/File:Platypus_spur.JPG https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/indian-giant-flying-squirrel-gm653859046-118819595 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sugar-glider-gm164110643-23376004 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sunda-flying-lemur-gm465090913-33196208 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/indian-flying-fox-pteropus-medius-formerly-pteropus-giganteus-also-known-as-the-greater-indian-fruit-bat-is-a-species-of-flying-fox-found-in-south-asiaranthambore-national-park-rajasthan-india-bwkpcdoprk3uw7ndo https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/owl-butterfly-gm1154634295-314059343 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/plain-tiger-in-thailand-gm471097269-6956695 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/pine-branch-with-cones-on-pine-tree-in-forest-pine-tree-and-pine-cones-wood-in-forest-christmas-tree-nkxf-hutfxik9hxv1s https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/hd-flowers-butterfly https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pterodaustro_guinazaui.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pterodaustro_skull.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smilosuchus_adamanensis.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paleorhinus_life_restorations#/media/File:Paleorhinus_Warsaw.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rutiodon_life_restorations#/media/File:Rutiodon_BW.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/nile-crocodile-gm93160176-4973599 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castorocauda#/media/File:Castorocauda_BW.jpg http://luo-lab.uchicago.edu/pressReleases/PR_gliders_images.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volaticotherium-Paleozoological_Museum_of_China.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structural_diversity_among_Kalligrammatidae.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yang_2014_Sophogramma_lii.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Lacewing._Chrysopidae_(43190034884).jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pacific-ocean-view-in-laguna-beach-in-california-gm1194018939-339834290


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