
The Norway rat
17/1/2026 | 1 min
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This Video Took Us 8 Years To Make
16/1/2026 | 4 min
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Species concept: A methodology for determining whether two organisms are members of the same species. Speciation: The evolutionary process by which new species arise. Polyploid speciation: Speciation that occurs due to a change in the number of chromosomes. Allopatric speciation: Speciation that occurs due to geographic isolation. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Evolution Glitches Out
14/1/2026 | 3 min
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Evolutionary trap: a situation where an organism, due to a change in its environment (often human-induced), makes a decision that was once adaptive but now leads to a maladaptive outcome, even though better alternatives exist. Stimulus: a detectable change in an organism's internal or external environment that triggers a response. Supernormal stimulus: a stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the natural stimulus for which it evolved. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why The Frequency Illusion Is Everywhere Now
12/1/2026 | 4 min
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Frequency Illusion: a cognitive bias where a recently learned or noticed phenomenon seems to appear more frequently than it actually does. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bulbasaur’s Feet
11/1/2026 | 1 min
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