SciShow: Unexpectedly Good Fliers (And How They Do It)

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Content of the Lesson: Up in the air, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's... A SQUID! 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: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- 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://jeb.biologists.org/content/213/19/3269 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/flying-fish https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flying-fish-measured/ https://phys.org/news/2013-02-bird-plane-squid.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-squid-fly/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064512000884 https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/jet-setting-cephalopods/ https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article/70/3/297/1134649 https://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/ceramic-video/video-is-it-a-fish-is-it-a-bird-its-a-flying-squid-robot https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2020.0854 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210121132059.htm https://jeb.biologists.org/content/220/20/3751 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21727?sf66762390=1 https://gmsciencein.com/2017/10/24/physics-mosquito-flight/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07084-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0604-2 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/dandelion-seed-flight/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07032-6 Images https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/220/20/3751/18745/Escaping-blood-fed-malaria-mosquitoes-minimize https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/woman-blow-on-a-dandelion-barkj__rmjh7tuoff https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/dandelion-head---macro-view-hpd-5hzowj7ujknm2 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/girl-blowing-on-a-dandelion-on-a-sky-background-syb7e4rjisjuv7bk https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/girl-blowing-on-a-dandelion-on-a-sky-background-syb7e4rjisjuv7bk https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-australasian-flying-fish-cheilopogon-pinnatibarbatus-melanocercus-is-a-gm1251059233-364993120 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-australasian-flying-fish-cheilopogon-pinnatibarbatus-melanocercus-is-a-gm1251059233-364993120 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/flying-fish-jumping-and-flying-gm1214199974-353157169 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/atlantic-flyingfish-photographed-in-vitoria-capital-of-espirito-santo-gm1295358925-389114315 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/flying-fish-species-gm1282275967-380051889 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-flying-fish-glides-low-over-the-waves-of-the-north-atlantic-gm1197948128-342198143 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wing-in-ground-effect-aircraft-DIA.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ommastrephes_bartramii1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ommastrephes_bartramii1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ommastrephes_bartramii.jpg https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/many-white-butterflies-slow-motion-bcmadnfl-j5gubyns https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/butterfly-flapping-wings-sitting-on-flower-slow-motion-bamsdwcwh7jnxw2e6m https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/large-butterfly-on-orange-flower-takes-off-in-slow-motion-rtpgirw2xjnxwr04l https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/butterflies-playing-bp0yvkx https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mosquito-on-hand-gm178618262-24899665 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/flying-mosquitoes-isolated-on-white-background-gm1263102736-369675068


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