When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean

What if there was giant lily pads or they hitched rides on bigger things.

Its a Huge Guinea pig.

Yaaaay. Cali is #1. She is the best.

This theory seems highly unlikely

So Christopher Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci, did not discover sea route to Americas?A rat discovered sea route to Americas long ago?Americas should be celeberating "Rodent Jerry day" every year then.

Can Tom cat win against this huge Jerry?

Capybara don't look cute. Only you sheltered domesticated people would consider it cute

Why was south america so open to niches?

3:43 India was on a mission

Watching this with my pet degu!

I think the chain of islands and shallow water is the only theory that even remotely plausible. Not only would it explain the other "sweepstakes colonizers" it far more plausible than a raft of random debris that somehow managed to cross the open ocean in 11-8 days without breaking apart and without the passengers dieing of dehydration and possibly malnutrition. Also how can we be sure that the ocean that is half size of our modern ocean between Africa and south America is the same? I would think that it would be at least significantly different If not completely. I understand that this is not fully understood and that PBS Eons is trying to give all the information they can

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Given enough time, the unlikely becomes inevitable.

Kallie is my favorite host. She can make clear and interesting the most complicated thing. And she's gorgeous too.

Did she say...”...somehow” Like she doesn’t know exactly how🤣

I want to learn about the evolution of BATS

Huh.... so sea rats sailed the seas..... pi-rats

They're adorable haha

I prefer the flying pikachu theory. They crossed by balloons~

Those hand-moves are really nice. A language in itself.

07:30, you call dying of thirst "unpleasant"? o_o

thanks for your video. the rodents could have drank fresh water during and after rainfall. also, if the temperature was very cold and there was ice between the continents, clearly the rodents could also have walked across the ice to find new land.

Sounds like the prequel to Watership Down.

Columbus: I've crossed the Atlantic Ocean and discovered America!Guinea Pig: Hold my running wheel

Carpincho :D

Its not hard to figure out that they ended up on ships made by humans and got moved around, just like rabbits mice ect

so then are porcupines in America and in Africa examples of convergent evolution?

I thought the video was a metaphor about European imperialism, it's not carry on.

I hate rodents...

They were planted there by KGB

This is quickly becoming my favourite YouTube channel!

fun fact,there are a couple of species of iguana native to Fiji,they could only have got there by rafting all the way across the Pacific.that's a very long way.

Rats have proliferated by travelling with humans. Hominids with brains like ours existed 40 million years ago. Boats are low tech.

Horse-sized rats have been seen in the NYC subway tunnels... JK ;-)

Capybaras = peace bears

Just say "leeeend" (land) or "Atleeentic".

What if they came across pirates?

Come up with weird names econ.

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2.600 km? from south america to africa? really? are you shure? seems kind of short.