Horseshoe crabs predate the dinosaurs and have survived mass extinctions and major climatic shifts. Meet the biologist who is researching these living fossils to see if they could hold evolutionary secrets for marine species in the face of climate change. Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://econ.st/2xvTKdy For more from Economist Films visit: http://films.economist.com/ Check out The Economist’s full video catalogue: http://econ.st/20IehQk Like The Economist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist/ Follow The Economist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeconomist Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeconomist/ Follow us on Medium: https://medium.com/@the_economist |
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yee yee
2020-06-23 at 15:07 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Climate change is a hoax. Stop lieing to people.
blah blah
2020-06-24 at 03:31 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Considering they have been for millions of years……
100 Subs No Videos Challenge
2020-06-24 at 05:18 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
This video isn’t getting as much views because of everything else that’s been happening in the world
FlecktarnRhodesian
2020-06-25 at 00:46 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Keep in mind the world has froze and melted on its own for all of time without humans
Jared Ritchie
2020-06-29 at 12:40 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Never this fast has it warmed
FlecktarnRhodesian
2020-06-29 at 15:22 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Jared Ritchie and a bunch of machines told you that. Probably the same type of machines that do carbon dating and turn out hundreds of thousands of years off from what the machine tells them
Robert Fraser
2020-06-25 at 12:13 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Face hugger.
Ysalin Ada
2020-06-28 at 17:17 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Robert Fraser s
Oftin Wong
2020-06-26 at 01:02 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Yes, massive extinction event disasters are common over the history of the planet
The Survival Dude 723
2020-06-26 at 06:14 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
C R A B T I M E
dead babies jokes
2020-06-26 at 07:41 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Take a shot everytime he says horseshoe crab ?
Bambi Raptor
2020-06-27 at 22:09 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
These things just look like a cartoon character trying to sneak away under a helmet to me.
I Am Trump's Comb Over
2020-06-28 at 01:31 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Ummmmm all you have to do is look around you. No.
Neville Jopling
2020-06-28 at 05:36 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
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Daniel Durasko
2020-06-28 at 18:16 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
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Mouthwash Gloop
2020-06-28 at 20:32 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Co2 is not a pollutant
Jared Ritchie
2020-06-29 at 12:41 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
rEaLlY
blanca mazon
2020-06-29 at 00:46 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
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Cynthia Gonzales
2020-06-30 at 01:55 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
They look like The Alien!!
I like this Channel!!
I sense a New B Movie!!
Always freaking money!! $$$
Sandcastle •
2020-07-26 at 13:32 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Yes, if the climate changed very very slowly.
No, if the climate changes quickly.
Sandcastle •
2020-07-26 at 13:35 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Fishermen helping conservation? No.
marc3471
2020-08-10 at 20:31 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
These creatures have survived much warmer times on earth so you better look at the other reasons, not global warming.
Angry Thinker Aap
2020-08-13 at 21:15 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
What climate change ? That one of the CLIMATEGATE scandal ??? Liars !
calin acöstă
2020-08-17 at 15:33 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Human greed is killing this world. Man is the worst enemy of mother earth!