Every Time Things Have Evolved Into Moles

Convergent evolution has resulted in many different animal lineages evolving to look very similar. In this video, we're taking a look at every time things have evolved into moles (it's happened a lot). More cases of mole convergence! https://youtu.be/vAKN9_TtOcU?si=kSVW3vri8Dsd6DpI Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/jTsGYtRBHZ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bengthomas Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagv Music by Geographer Subscribe to explore the wonderful life around you! Social Media: ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenGThomas42 ►Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagv ►Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BenGThomas Sources: General - https://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Field-Prehistoric-Mammals-Guides/dp/0691156824 https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199206087.001.0001/acref-9780199206087 Talpid (True) Moles: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/17/1/60/975533 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12422 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12221 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5339.1.3/51748 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790313003886 https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/61/1/150/1678583 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-13-232 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/193/2/432/6069184?login=false https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s003590050396 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2011.0128 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0494 https://www.livescience.com/15090-twelve-fingered-mole-wrist-bone.html https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2020.1835936?journalCode=ujvp20 https://web.archive.org/web/20170705075102/http://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/2842/V37N01_020.pdf%3Bjsessionid%3DCEED9283E54F0AAA10590D93F06B6CD6?sequence%3D1 Golden Moles: https://www.mme.gov.na/files/publications/8f1_Comms%20GSN%2016,%202015%20Pickford%20Chrysochloridae%20BC,105-113.pdf https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1017/S0952836903003868 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.20391 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-10-69 https://www.mme.gov.na/files/publications/df1_GSN%20Comms%2019.%205.%20Pickford,%20Diamantochloris.pdf Marsupial Moles: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2010.1943 Epoicotheriidae: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.1051750105 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/evolution-of-tertiary-mammals-of-north-america/palaeanodonta-and-pholidota/C1D2097E28937528CE71396FDD68162A https://web.archive.org/web/20150925134257/http://web2.utc.edu/~gvv824/Gaudin%20et%20al%202009.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02987991 Rodents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105579030300410X?via%3Dihub https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/105/2/446/2452606 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030043 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018211004251?via%3Dihub https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/220/23/4479/33699/Kinematics-of-chisel-tooth-digging-by-African-mole https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00426.x https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/172/4/942/2433437 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1469-7580.1997.19030321.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.10824 Armadillos: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790311004799?via%3Dihub https://bioone.org/journals/edentata/volume-12/issue-1/020.012.0103/Updated-Distribution-of-the-Pink-Fairy-Armadillo-Chlamyphorus-truncatus-Xenarthra/10.5537/020.012.0103.full https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Calyptophractus_retusus/ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Chlamyphorus_truncatus/ Mole Lizards: http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Bipes&species=biporus https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.69.9.2714 Mole Cricket: https://www.britannica.com/animal/mole-cricket https://urbanecologycenter.org/blog/native-animal-of-the-month-mole-cricket.html Mole Crabs: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00391.x https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/200/4/793/7448/Digging-in-Sand-Crabs-Decapoda-Anomura-Hippoidea https://oa.mg/work/2556738839 0:00 - Introduction 1:47 - True Moles (Talpidae) 7:04 - Golden Moles 10:17 - Marsupial Moles 13:38 - Stem-Pangolins 15:47 - Rodents (Spalacidae) 18:34 - Rodents (Blesmols) 19:21 - Rodents (Naked Mole-Rat) 20:19 - Rodents (Tuco-Tucos) 21:00 - Fairy Armadillos 23:15 - Mexican Mole Lizard 23:57 - Mole Cricket 24:58 - Mole Crabs 25:59 - Outro