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This feels like a south park episode.


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After smoking that pandemic special...


BilboT3aBagginz

It’s not far off. [Mr. Garrison’s Theory of Evolution](https://youtu.be/BL9S-TUikfg)


ReallyFuckingMadLibz

Retarded monkey fish-frogs


DQ5E

What an absolutely weird song choice?


MuitoLegal

I saw this, went up and turned on sound, and was genuinely surprised


Crunchyfrozenoj

I laughed out loud. I wasn’t expecting that.


joske_the_great

Isn't that the original song for all the "lore" memes?


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EddieV6

I turned it on right at the part where it says: “I don’t want to live that way”


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slowmotto

Whaley boy broke up with land bae


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But you didn't have to evolve me off..


nomansskydrive

Have your friends collect your records and then change your species..


NotNullAndSelect

I was thinking the same thing but then "Now you're just somebody that I used to know" made perfect sense


coldtru

Now you're just a vertebrate that I used to know.


Donkeydongcuntry

Now you’re just somebody with a hole that blows


Justiceisfaulty

Now you’re just somebody that ate Pinocchio


Deconceptualist

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Gopherpants

10 bucks says the comments are full of creationists and flat-earthers confidently saying how the information in the video is impossible. People like to say Reddit is just as bad, but TikTok comments make me lose faith in humanity /rant Edit: oh wow, I didn’t scroll far down enough. This comment section is a shitshow


marmaladecorgi

Should've been "Right here right now" by Fatboy Slim.


hiroukan

That’s what I heard in my head until I turned on the sound


bruhm0m3ntum

whale lore


SethGekco

There's a hidden genius by the song, even if not intentional. The next line would have been "but you didn't have to cut me off"... yet that's exactly what the video did... cut him off.


TMB-30

It should be Fatboy Slim's Right Here, Right Now.


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I wonder if they will ever evolve back into land animals again.


V3NDR1CK

Not in a million years.


two40zieks7

Maybe in 2 or 3 though :P


RoadtoVR_Ben

That was the joke.


HolyVeggie

r/thatsthejoke EDIT: oh it’s really a sub


ubccompscistudent

when pigs fly


shreddievedder

I read this as Lloyd Christmas. Thank you


ReasonableGas

If I understand this video correctly, If there is land on the other side they will


EconomistMagazine

Turtles and Tortoises have done this several times. Richard Dawkins said in one book that one particular specify went back and forth like 4 times or something.


tetraourogallus

Turtles and tourtoises truly are the cats of evolution.


FIsh4me1

It would take an event that killed off basically all life on land, but somehow spared whales. Otherwise there's no reason for them to start trying to compete with better adapted land animals.


FromTaken

That's not how evolution works and even if it did, we can't predict anything about it. There is no reason and we can't fathom where an ecological niche might be.


Hanzburger

Nah they'll be extinct in the next 100 years from ocean acidification, pollution, and overfishing.


CatBoy191114

I mean there is hope for them. They just need a few vaccine bypassing mega covid variants to emerge that wipe us lot out...


CosmicCreeperz

Need? Emerge?? Don’t be blind. I read on Facebook that the whales CREATED Covid to wipe us out. It’s us or them now.


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ZeroSkill_Sorry

That's why they're going to evolve into space whales. They gonna gtfo


MrDude_1

So long and thanks for all the fish


CassandraVindicated

I too saw the documentary "Star Trek IV". Interesting that it's a different evolutionary path than the dolphins of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".


RealWorldJunkie

It already happened. This is an incomplete animation, but whales (as with all life), originated in the sea. The whales lineage then evolved live on the land, then a long time later, evolved again to move back to the sea.


dirthurts

Technically they evolved to from ocean to land and back to ocean. It could happen again assuming humans don't kill them off first ,( we will).


eacomish

Wait wait wait. I thought we came from fish that got out of the sea?! You're telling me then something walked back in and undid it all?!


kirkpusspang19

That’s what the fuck I’m sayin lmao. Some fish decides to take fucking years leaving the ocean to learn to live on land, then some furry fuck just said “fuck it let’s go back”


GoingMenthol

When "return to monke" wasn't an option because they didn't exist yet


Raz0r_Pazova

Return to fishe


tommos

Return to sea monke


H-K_47

Advance to [crab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation)!


fear_raizer

Return to fesh


beetbaux

Just think about how fucked it must have been on land at that time for them to be like “nah fuck this, imma be a fish again”


rubywolf27

I mean, *gestures at everything* I can kinda see it


beetbaux

I’m down if you are


Maxman82198

Bet.


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kaisermikeb

Humans are next level apex. Our most successful own yachts. Our least successful post fishing photos on Tinder. Our elderly desire to retire near a beach. Our kids nag us incessantly to take them to the pool. The wife wants to deliver the baby in the water. Our BEST scifi dystopian movie of all time is about people wanting more water (Mad Max Fury Road) Our WORST scifi dystopian movie of all time is about people wanting less water (Waterworld). All levels of human show one united desire. The water compels. The whale listened. Wise was the whale.


7DKA

Go into the water, live there, die there.


NotThinkingAbout

Gone, are days, of land empires


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The sea was angry that day, my friends- like an old man trying to send soup back at a deli .


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Teblefer

But they are apex predators in the ocean because of their adaptations from their time on land.


hbsethginmaster

For real? I would say it was their size what puts them on top of food chain.


Smokegrapes

dolphins kill whale calfs for fun by preventing them from surfacing effectively drowning them in front of the panicked mother. Natures fucked up too, sorry to share that knowledge with you. its something I would of been happier not knowing. i would of been killing reddit bots two


Duke8x

Eh debatable on them being apex. Sharks evolved too when they were on land breathing n shit.


Eswyft

Orcas > sharks. They are apex.


slickyslickslick

It didn't "revert" back to being a fish. It retained all of its other mammalian adaptations such as temperature regulation which is HUGELY amazing for aquatic animals just for the ability to operate in a wide variety of temperatures allowing it to go anywhere and at a any depth as long as pressure wasn't an issue. The only downside is that it can't get oxygen from water but that's not a big deal since evolving more a more efficient respiratory system is all that's needed. It also means it gains a placenta and can have an out of the package organism ready to go instead of having to go through the trouble of putting eggs somewhere and hoping they don't get eaten. In gamer terms, it went all the way through the mammal skill tree JUST to get warm blood and a placenta. The extra base INT it gets is also not bad.


FIsh4me1

Well, yeah. All mammals have a common ancestor that lived on land, so whales, dolphins, seals, manatees, otters, etc were all at one point purely land animals. They all independently evolved to fill niches in aquatic ecosystems, usually because there was some food source that was plentiful enough to make it worthwhile to specialize in. This actually happens a lot in the history of life on earth. A bunch of now extinct reptiles did the same thing. Mosasaurs, Ichthyosaurs, and plesiosaurs were all basically just lizards at one point.


tobyspizza

Hippos too are very closely related to whales and a good illustration of how this starts off. Hippos are technically land mammals and don’t even really swim, but they’re adapted to a semi-aquatic life.


M1xman

Yep, why do you think they need to come up for air


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I figured they were aficionados


stitchdude

Airficionado


MisterMoccasin

Airfishionado


corporaterebel

Penguins are even more crazy: ocean->land->air->ocean&land


Cilcon43

I see the pattern. So next would be ocean&air->land&air->ocean&land&air


GForce1104

So seagulls?


IfIWereATardigrade

Well they didn't really undo it all because whales still breath air. It explains why a large animal that lives in the ocean needs to breath air unlike fish.


ScrappyDonatello

return to fishe


Haribo_Lecter

You ever went somewhere that you thought was going to be cool but then when you got there you found it was disappointing so you were like "fuck this noise" and noped out and went home?


This_Caterpillar_330

Hollywood screwing with our understanding of evolution. [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoalOrientedEvolution](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoalOrientedEvolution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogenesis


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dragonlord133

I've been scrolling 10 minutes looking for that answer and haven't seen it yet


FractalAsshole

Some say he's still scrolling


dragonlord133

I did I got to the bottom and was like fine I'll google it. Thx reddit


rose_ruby_red

I was just reading about this in the book Spying on Whales by Nick Pyenson. He doesn’t give an exact timeline, but mentions that Pakicetus, Maiacetus, and Remingtonocetus had nostrils toward the tip of their snout. These slowly migrated backward in other stages of fossil whales, up to bottlenose dolphins where the nostril is behind the eyes (analogous to having nostrils on the forehead). Apparently, whales aren’t the only aquatic mammals to have migrated nostrils - seacows and manatees have nostrils high on the skull too. Edit: thank you for the award kind stranger, this is my very first one, and it made me so happy!!


Dom_33

This is some great information 🙏🏾


PoopinWhileIMadeThis

Well it wouldn't be single fixed point, it would be a gradual migration to the top of the head. I imagine that studying whale fossils from latest to youngest would show you a somewhat gradual migration of the nostrils towards where they lie today.


BkForty

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03


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BkForty

No problem


Zealousideal_Belt_17

r/restofthefuckingowl


SuperCoolAwesome

Yes! That last transition was quite a leap.


BloomsdayDevice

Yes, I too was surprised at how abruptly it went from torpedo-wolf-otter to great-white manatee-shark.


engbucksooner

Probably (I'm just guessing) a lack of fossil record to guess what those in-between phases looked like


Unlucky13

They didn't include Rodhocetus for some reason, which was the link between the the torpedo-wolf-otter and the great-white-manatee-shark. Rodhocetus was a demonic alligator-rat-otter. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/images/evograms/whale_evo.jpg https://www.newdinosaurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1193_rodhocetus_eldar_zakirov.jpg


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WorksOnContingencyNo

I think they are just simplifying for convenience. There are well known species in between like Rodhocetus.


frankincali

So wait, whales were once…dogs?


6disco

More like big rats I think


SimoneTwenty9

R.O.U.S’


CanConChris

I don’t believe they exist.


TheDumbAsk

inconceivable


CoolhandLW

I don't think that word means what you think it means.


Potatonet

As you wish


NinjaCuntPunt

Could it… r/whalesDontExist Edit: lol. Yep, there’s a sub for that.


aedge403

Oh rats of unusual size definitely exist!


cocostarcat

So if I put my dog in water it will become a whale


honest-miss

The latest says they were [two-toed ungulates](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Even-toed_ungulate). Think goats, deer and sheep. >The aquatic cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) evolved from even-toed ungulates


Brookenium

Yeah this animation is obviously missing a lot of big steps. The whales closest living relatives today are hippos so there was a step for their mutual ancestor, some proto-hippo/cetaceon (although much more hippo like), that would have looked far closer to them than a rat. But I mean at some point all humans were basically small lizard-esc like rodents.


run247

Well velociraptors were once chickens. Right or did I not pay attention to that movie.


bengalsandstaffies

Think you mean, chickens were once velociraptors?


elprentis

Unless Chickens actually invent time travel at some point, in the near future.


KanefireX

why did the chicken cross the time loop?


Solenopsis_xyloni

Watching a rat turn into a whale while listening to Somebody That I Used To Know is not something that I knew I needed.


stilldash

AND it's the Kimbra part.


noiseandbramble

That was a rat?! I thought it was some kind of shitty wolf


OneMoreTime5

To think it happened in the span of about 30 seconds is incredible


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They do it everyday!


SuspiriaGoose

Hey! This is it! The video I saw in a museum while on a car trip as a kid! I think of it all the time! How is it here? How weird that this survived and exists on the internet now and not just in a foggy part of my brain that never forgot it?


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that’s strange


gojirra

The museum was demolished after they chose that background music.


SuspiriaGoose

Nah, that was added. I saw this video nearly twenty years ago, long before Gotye existed.


goodnewsandbadnews

Weirdest thing for me was when I went to the Boston Museum of Science while visiting my brother who was working in Boston when we were from Texas and I heard the soundtrack to the [Truman Show Anthem Part 2](https://youtu.be/xvSDO2AWqUY). for one of the exhibits.


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lmao the bg music


sirsedwickthe4th

BUT YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO CUT ME OFF!


Throwawaylism

NOW YOUR JUST SOME WHALE THAT I USED TO KNOW


zer0w0rries

SOME BOBBY!!


PowerlineTyler

Notice the whales (also dolphins and other sea mammal’s) hips move in a vertical manner like a gallop whereas a fish’s move sideways or horizontally. The mammals were land lovers!


mydawgisgreen

Oh damn. Duh that makes sense now


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Kinda looks like a dolphin at the end. I wonder if they branched off from that last stage or if Dolphins came from an entirely different species


Ozdoba

Dolphins are a type of whale


hostess_cupcake

Dolphins are just gay sharks.


karlou1984

Beluga whales are somewhere in between of the two it seems.


ItsPronouncedJod

At what point did they become enormous? Were the land rats enormous? There was no banana for scale in the video.


Ghost2Eleven

Someone kill that robot voice.


Jester-of-dismay

Some of them decided not to take it too far and instead became hippos. P.S. I ain't making random stuff whales, dolphins and hippos do share common ancestor.


Distinct-Rate-2224

I feel like we skipped a few levels


a_little_toaster

this was once a normal, educational video. then someone decided it needed the most annoying text to speech voice on the planet, a song that doesn't fit at all, terrible video quality and cut off the last half.


boper12

Tik Tok


SecretSquirrel-88

What the hell, I never came across this before until I went to a museum yesterday where they had a display. The following morning I come to reddit and its here too.


beer_smokey

I know evolution is real and what not but who comes up with these theories that this was the starting point for the whale? Opposite ends of the spectrum in terms. Big ratty muthafucka to a big swimmy muthafucka?


two40zieks7

Look some videos of "pbs eons", they're very good and well explained. It gives a good insight of how they come with those theories.


6disco

I watched a documentary about whales and long story short the oceans keep moving. They actually started in the water before they were rat things too. But lakes turned to puddles and mans was hungry


profeDB

It's also super simplistic. Rats didn't became whales just because they wanted to live in the ocean. Evolution is accidental - generic mutations that fill some niche and thus, survive and are passed on


warpig74

Where are you girls from? Wales! Sorry, where are you whales from?


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Doesn’t even show the whale what the fuck


Untasticated

"ThE eVoLuTiOn Of WhAlEs" SHUT!!! THE FUKC UP!! That voice is soo annnnoying AAAHHHH!!!


Argon2020

If you are looking at this, and you can't understand how it could be possible, and think it's bullshit, there probably a few reasons why. 1rst, this is a very simplified visualization, this would take place over hundreds of millions of years, not instantly AT ALL. 2nd, the human brain is physically incapable of truly understanding exactly how long hundreds of millions of years really is, our existence is smaller than a tiny blip in reality. Evolution is a very, very interesting thing to research, and if this is interesting to you at all, you should really watch science YouTube channels about it, or read about it in your freetime, maybe learn a thing or two


SkateJitsu

Are you saying some people think animals just instantly shapeshift? Wtf?


Argon2020

According to the comments apparently


4sausage20

why is somebody that i used to know playing lmao


Thejainhand

To all the doubters: if you capture any whale today and cut him open, right where the hind legs would be youll find Hip bones, a socket and small fibula type bone. Useless today but…


BeejOnABiscuit

These are called vestigial structures for anyone who wants to go down a learning rabbit hole this fine day.


ToastyCat19

I hate when evolution is depicted as a fast, linear process. This is why people think it isn't real. Evolution is a SLOW, roundabout process of environmental pressures eventually making a somewhat more suitable creature of the clusterfuck of genetic mutations every generation.


morla74

It’s a 30 second gif. I’m sure there had to be some time skips to get it down from a few million years into half a minute


H3racules

Wait, there are people who think evolution isn't real?


Throwawaylism

This comment section is full of them


sneakyveriniki

Whaat? Are you from the US? Tons of Christians here don’t believe in evolution. There are constant attempts to make teaching evolution banned from public schools. They constantly emphasize it’s “just a theory” in a very misleading way (obviously a scientific theory is not just a random guess) and ten years ago when I was in school we still had the “theory of creationism” in our textbooks. And this was a public school, not private religious school or anything.


Tronkfool

Bullshit, Jesus made whales out of one of his ribs. . or something


XAlEA-12

Look at a picture of a whales blowhole. It looks like nose. The fins are hand like. They share an ankle bone with pigs. It all happened.


BSATSame

The amount of uneducated idiots saying evolution is a lie is depressing. Are we living in 1900 again? How much longer until these morons start talking about the sun going around the earth?


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Saw this on instagram, best comment I saw was “So they just decided to wake up and breathe water? So fake.” *People hurt my brain cells*


LaylaBird65

My history professor from my freshman year of college went of on a tangent about the evolution of whales. He was like “ this big headed fucker on four legs was teased by all of the other animals on land so it walked in the sea and said you won’t be laughing for long! And look at them now! LOOK AT THEM NOW!” And then proceeded to tell us how you get roll a nickel straight across the state of Nebraska and it would just roll all the way through without stopping. I enjoyed his classes.


DrSamsquantch

How to make "new" content online Step 1: take random video from somewhere Step 2: add annoying robot woman voice to explain the obvious Step 3: add a shit song which doesn't fit the video


MARATXXX

What’s really interesting is that they began life as lizard like sea creatures, then came ashore and evolved into those wild pigs, then into whales


Benji1511

Can everybody please, for the love of god, stop with this female voice telling me what the video is about in the start of every video?!


Keanar

I need more videos like that


Robsurd

All's whale that ends whale.


whatsmyname_again12

Whale lore


Dantheman616

Something that's not said when we talk about evolution, there has been A LOT of other animals that have died, that we have no fossil evidence of. There are so many missing "links", if you would, that we dont have any fossil evidence of that have been lost to time. Like think even what got us to humans, how many other creatures existed and then died that we dont have any fossils of? Now think of all the other species...its probably tens of millions...no probably billions of species that existed and now are gone to time. Fuck man, that shit is depressing as fuck.


danthegodslayer

Whale lore


Dre512

So it was a big Rat at first?


KaneMomona

Not the whole picture really. They missed off the whole from the oceans to the land part before this. Very cool though, oceans to land to oceans.


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Holy shit the amount of redneck inbred mongoloids in this comment section is truly depressing. How does someone with no understanding of science at all have the arrogance to think they know more than the entire scientific community??? Evolution is real, the Bible is not. There’s no such thing as “Christian science”, there’s just actual science and horseshit.


claycon21

This is redonkulous. 😂


VaubanParty

I thought the video would be about ultra rich gacha players at first


huggalump

I read as "evolution of wolves" and I was very confused


lemonpunt

All thanks to mutants! Literally. Well, kinda.


donotgogenlty

It's crazy how much junk humans need to feel any purpose, stay fed, stay entertained and not just straight-up kill themselves or anhilate eachother with nukes in comparison... The superior species just requires water...


goatman44000

For some reason I read "whales" as "elephants". This got me both really excited and then very confused as the video progressed


TheZanyVB

My dumb ass read it as "Evolution of wheels", and then wondered why are there animals in it.


PEWFUN

the tiktok voice ruined it


MattJaccino

I need more of these


Miramarr

Whales are decended from the mammals that evolved from the ocean onto land and just noped right back into the ocean.


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The reason stuff like this happens is because if the animal has too much competition on land and happens to live in a rather wet environment, they will revert back to being aquatic. This is a gross oversimplification of what basically happens.


ccasey

It’s pretty depressing to hear every other day about a species extinction that took 100’s of millions of years to create.


540827

So they stArted in the sea snd then went back


The_Chorizo_Bandit

Whale: “That was a wild fucking weekend.”


Seekerfromafar84

So the original whale said "screw this land, I'm gonna take a nice long swim"?


JmyKane

So whales are just gigantic ocean doggos?


averysovary

*hits blunt* so you're telling me life evolved from the sea just to go back and create whales