Platypus and mammal evolution

[Hayesmarkham]

The nonsense humans will spout off to maintain our illusions of godlessness.

[nerfproplayer]

is she wearing a russian hat

[dltanner99]

Novel about an alternative view of evolution see video book trailer

[bizarewigga]

why are we still debating the truth?

[NothingMoreBlack]

I demand they be fitted with a less awkward name......

[Ne062]

tell kirk cameron there's no crockoduck, but there is a platypus

[napalmmice]

Why don't these people just STFU and let us watch footage of platypuses.

[Y05H1ROX]

The Platypus is when of the many times nature said... Oops! ... BUT ITS SO CUTE :D A little trivia... Male Platypus have a form of poison in their hind legs! :O

[JandM312]

perry!

[MusicLyricsManiac]

i say ths is wat u get wen a duck and beaver have it.

a platypuss its soo cute!!!

[BioGuelph]

Hard to believe they are one of our oldest mammalian ancestors, this is truly amazing.

[invaderpink]

I WANT ONE!

[jedfa987]

Just watch the poison spikes on the legs...

[KTropikra]

this is what you get when a duck and a beaver have sex and it comes out with this cute little this ^^

[Louu93]

there unique ! least they standout from the rest of the other creatures

[egooy35]

and who says a platypus is dumb and stupid well the ones who said that will die bcuz thier saying bad things to Gods creation

[yamikatana]

Go'd creation?... It wasnt even mentioned in the bible... Because Israelites, the people who made the bible, haven't seen one before... Show this animal to Noah and he'll say "What the fuck is this shit? Is this for real?" well, something like that....

[egooy35]

hey yami ur the f***ing bullcrap what did yea expect that the ones who made the bible say everything??like all the animals were written in the bible!!the bible isnt a book of knoledge u dumbass its a book of holiness!!,u damn son of a gun u freakin dumbass!!!!have u even read a bible!are u even christian if u have those 2 maybe u will know what the hell im talking about u bastard

[infinit888]

Tell me egooy35 have you actually read the bible and do you think it condones the behavior you are displaying here?

[yamikatana]

yup, i've read it, and it is a book of holiness.. really.. especially when God apparently killed all the first born in Egypt because the Pharaoh dont want to let Moses' people go, even though god himself made the Pharaoh do that... How holy was that?... Or should I say, stupid?... If you want a tons and tons of bullcrap, dont read my comments, read your bible, OK?...

[b0b0maj0]

Tell me egooy how the Kiwi bird, a flightless bird travelled all the way to New Zealand without leaving any evidence that it lived anywhere else. New Zealand is a long way away from the Middle East, and you mean to tell me that the only two remaining decided to make the epic joinery to New Zealand travelling across 100s of kilometres of ocean without falling prey to the countless predators that would capture them with ease.

I'm sure you will win best fiction story for it.

[darwintrr]

yamikatana, you're a discriminator. And don't try to sucker Noah into your HATE.

[yamikatana]

and where does discrimination get in to my comments?... explain it, man... is it because I contradict your bible?... Then every other people who practice other religion which doesn't follow your bible is a discriminator...

That's what people like you do.. when you lose an argument, you throw sh*t at others... just like you throw sh*t at the devil when you do something wrong...

irresponsible... very irresponsible...

[yamikatana]

and by the way, F*CK Noah.. How can people believe in such stupid stories like that?... What did the animals do to deserve that kind of sh*t?.. How many fish died during those days?... How bout ducks?... They can float, right?... They never mentioned insects, right?...

So many holes in the story, and yet it you still count it as true..

This is not hate.. Or maybe, yeah, it's hate.. Against stupidity...

[egooy35]

maybe the platypus would rule the world someday some in a bad way and some in a sweet way:]

[lady7nichole]

Thank you. Very interesting.

[Subfightr]

beautiful, thank you for posting!

[Ninjutsuryu]

Platypus are... freaks? Better take that back stupids, platypus would prolly win hand to web foot ...

[falcoperegrinus82]

The "bill" is not part of its birdlike characteristics.  I think it's just convergence.

[marrow777]

platypus is not the link between mammals and reptilians. It is wahat it is a funny looking creature with fur and abig beak.

[infinit888]

"platypus is not the link between mammals and reptilians."

Who is making that argument?

[norcofreerider604]

@marrow777 You're right in that it is not a transitional form from reptiles to mammals; however, many of the features of the platypus have been preserved from very early mammals. Also, many of these primitive features were once very typical of mammalian diversity but are now found almost exclusively in the fossil record. So although the platypus is not a transitional form, it does give us some very insightful clues about our evolutionary past.

[Changer01]

Let'S see...

[iiAZNnerdX3]

I think platypus are cute <3

[lenarends]

Yeah, cute ... until they stick you with that barb on their feet ... it's poisonous! The only mammal that makes use of venom, I believe.

See 5:45.

[pinkyhi5]

OMG TER SUU CUTE!

[hume1947]

GREAT seeing the Platypus - BUT I want my money back! No details of the alleged - How it was done by the Theory of Evolution?

[infinit888]

"How it was done by the Theory of Evolution?"

Erm... natural selection. What else? Lamarckism?

[robbie33332]

i love platypuls

[KiMisSerbia]

Evolution? Everything is told when you know it's still ONLY a theory!!!

ONLY A THEORY!!!

[infinit888]

First I was about to call Poe's Law but then I saw that you are a christian.

Evolution is both theory and fact.

By theory I don't mean 'wild guess' but:

A testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise verified through empirical observation.

e.g:

Theory of gravitation

Theory of relativity

Atomic theory

Theory of evolution

[OutbackMojo]

Like I said before. God just loves messing with our heads. Regardless how it evolved or who manipulated what genes or how. Its one of the most interesting creatures on the face of this planet.

[OutbackMojo]

What a gorgeous creature. You can just see it now giving evolution 'the finger'. part bird, part amphibian, part mammal, lays eggs, suckles young, has venom glands. lives ion burrows, swims under water, duck bill, duck feet. God threw the Platapus down here just to mess with our heads.

[infinit888]

Yet the platypus fits exactly in the restricted ancesteral pathway. The genome perfectly supports evolution and gives us new insight in early mammal evolution and the mammal reptilian link. If god really wanted to give evolution the finger he should have come up with compleatly new genes which don't share homologies with reptilians as the homologue genes further back up the already established fossil evidence for the reptile mammal link.

In other words -> your god = epic fail.

[TheRealOldManBob]

actually its otter feet

[Andraste77]

May I quote you? I'm having an argument on another video on YouTube - I'm getting that same argument that evolution can't account for the platypus, and I'm trying to convince a god-botherer that it can. This paragraph of yours is too elegant to wreck by paraphrasing!

[infinit888]

"May I quote you? I'm having an argument on another video on YouTube"

Of course. Feel free to do so.

"I'm trying to convince a god-botherer that it can." - Hehe... well good luck with that.

[Andraste77]

Cheers!

I'll need luck, as well as reason on my side. He's so entrenched and deluded, it's frightening.

[fetrug]

I hate to tell you this but isn't part bird, the bill evolved independently, the ancestor of mammals layed eggs, it isn't part amphibian.

[elfgod]

Video was wrong it doesn't feed its young with milk.

[elfgod]

wait... dont they lay eggs??? im so confused

[infinit888]

"Video was wrong it doesn't feed its young with milk."

"wait... dont they lay eggs??? im so confused"

You're wrong here. Platypus feed their young with milk right after they hatch from eggs. Cool animal huh?

[elfgod]

yeah very cool.

[xxameliaaxx]

l loveee platypuses!<3

[545lljkr]

Nice vid!!!! I love ammal evolution. The platypus isn't actually the oldest branch, it is the oldest branch NOW. Triconodonts and docodonts are older.

[highwind8124]

I'm about to make a case for evolution, and I've found this video very unsatisfactory in charting the evolution path of the platypus. How can it have a bill like a duck and hair like a mammal? Did mammals descend from feathered birds? This makes no sense.

[infinit888]

"How can it have a bill like a duck and hair like a mammal?"

The bill of the platypus actually evolved seperatly from birds. CT images show that the platypus bill and it's skull is quite different to that of birds and more simular to synapsides.

"Did mammals descend from feathered birds?"

No they did not. But like feathered birds mammals descended from amniotes.

Maybe this will help you.

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[intelligentfalling]

the bill is what is called an analogous structure, in that it bears a resemblance of a structure independently evolved elsewhere. The star nosed mole is a good example of this. Its nasal extremities bear a lot of likeliness to various squid and aquatic invertebrates tentacles, yet they aren't the same thing. A great example of a homologous structure (i.e. looks the same BECAUSE it evolved from the same species) is the chicken foot. Its near identical to the foot of its Trex ancestors

[545lljkr]

"How can it have a bill like a duck and hair like a mammal? Did mammals descend from feathered birds?"

Ever heard of parallel evolution? Mammals evolved from synapsids.

[threelegduck]

can a platypus fertilize an echidna since they both lay eggs?

[infinit888]

I don't think so. Both are distinct species. One characteristic which classifies species is their inability to reproduce with other species.

[545lljkr]

They're too different to breed.

[pestmanpat]

To me this supports a designer who is not restricted by ancestral pathways.One who can take aspects of all creatures to create the platypus.Not a commen origin but a commen designer.wonderfull video thanks for posting

[infinit888]

It just somehow seems wierd of god. He had all the possibilities to demonstrate his existance yet he choose to make it look like evolution exactly the one thing where it looks as if he wasn't there just to fool us?

"To me this supports a designer who is not restricted by ancestral pathways."

Yet the platypus fits exactly in the restricted ancesteral pathway.

You can believe whatever you want... but that doesn't make it science.

[Subfightr]

wonderful, thank you for this!

[mrAndersen72]

great! thanks for posting this :)

[infinit888]

You're welcome. Glad you liked it.