Thanks to Bespoke Post for sponsoring this video! Head to http://www.bespokepost.com/scishow20 and use code SCISHOW20 to grab your “box of awesome” and get 20% off your first box. There are wild hybridizations happening all the time! Here are five weird and wild hybrids that aren't just cool but could teach us something too. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) 0:00 Intro 1:06 Arctic Oddballs 3:43 Bouncing Baby Bears 6:01 Iguana Mermaids 8:31 Combo Sharks 10:25 Mallard Merger ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: Bears https://www.jstor.org/stable/40512895 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379758 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/mec.13038 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4766217.stm Sharks https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27774596/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-011-0298-6 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232804889_Detection_of_interspecies_hybridisation_in_Chondrichthyes_Hybrids_and_hybrid_offspring_between_Australian_Carcharhinus_tilstoni_and_common_C_limbatus_blacktip_shark_found_in_an_Australian_fishery Iguanas https://peerj.com/articles/6291/ https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1997.tb05822.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6795429/#pone.0222884.ref028 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0425?rss=1 https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/island-profile-santa-fe/ https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/wildlife/galapagos-pink-land-iguana/ https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/wildlife/land-iguana/ https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/wildlife/marine-iguana/ Mallards https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mallard/maps-range https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40657-019-0159-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-005-4978-y https://www.utep.edu/science/lavretskylab/Articles/2021.Lawson-et-al.JWM_ddRAD.NC.ABDU.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319550216_Hybridization_between_Mottled_Ducks_Anas_fulvigula_maculosa_and_Mallards_A_platyrhynchos_in_the_western_Gulf_Coast_region https://www.utep.edu/science/lavretskylab/Articles/2021.Lawson-et-al.JWM_ddRAD.NC.ABDU.pdf https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mottled_Duck/lifehistory#conservation Whales https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44038-0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/06/27/narluga-is-strange-hybrid-its-far-alone/ IMAGE SOURCES https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liger_couple.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:White_Whale_Narwhal_150.JPG https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44038-0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Narwhal_hybridisation.webp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monodon_monoceros_MuMo.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grolar.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ulukhaktok_PolarGrizz.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursus_arctos_horribilis_map.svg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89826295 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conolophus_subcristatus_259868.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Plaza_Island_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hybrid_iguana.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/lissjasmin/976655762/in/photolist-7hMn3J-2uiBJs-kgtnE2-x4ZwDo https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35448775 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80359201 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/31030178 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21416641 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mottled_Duck.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anas_platyrhynchos_%C3%97_fulvigula.jpg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92586570 https://inaturalist.ca/observations/101755022 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:027_-_MALLARD_(Northern_x_Mexican_hybrid_male)_(12-5-2016)_farmington,_san_juan_co,_new_mexico_-a_(2)_(31325485210).jpg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/31030178 https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2011/12/world-first-discovery-of-hybrid-sharks-australias-east-coast https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hybrid_iguana.jpg https://bit.ly/3BwS8yI https://bit.ly/3uTsUqh These Animals Can Hybridize?!