Go to Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Beetles are the most diverse group of complex organisms on Earth, making up over 20% of all named animal species. One in five species on this planet is...a beetle. How did one group of organisms get THAT massive? Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, Ron Kakar ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- SOURCES www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/beetle science.sciencemag.org/content/281/5376/555 evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/side_O_0/beetles_01 science.sciencemag.org/content/318/5858/1913?ijkey=fb25aa8ed54fdd5e4c786cd40bc17b1b7cc3444a&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha www.pnas.org/content/116/49/24729 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0060 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965174814001088 www.pnas.org/content/pnas/106/17/7083.full.pdf books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9rt1c1hl49MC&oi=fnd&pg=PA278&dq=beetle+diversification+family&ots=PV5IOdlqzp&sig=gjefj36XQjfT9bfGxgPLEgxp3VQ#v=onepage&q=beetle%20diversification%20family&f=false bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-014-0220-1 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2013.00360/full www.iucncsg.org/pages/Crocodilian-Species.html www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/horizontal-gene-transfer www.britannica.com/plant/angiosperm/Paleobotany-and-evolution Image Souces: www.istockphoto.com/photo/dandelion-gm1180494132-330731929 www.istockphoto.com/photo/drone-view-of-a-path-in-the-forest-gm888718426-246480781 www.istockphoto.com/photo/christmas-beetle-gm1143642624-307196799 www.istockphoto.com/photo/saltwater-crocodile-gm694181990-128264699 www.istockphoto.com/photo/weevil-up-close-in-belize-gm937070448-256333578 www.istockphoto.com/photo/african-goliath-beetle-goliathus-giganteus-on-the-arm-gm962546210-262890522 www.istockphoto.com/photo/green-chloroplasts-in-plant-cells-gm116864378-6143246 www.videoblocks.com/video/weevil-with-unusual-snoutarmy-ants-eciton-rapax-in-the-ecuadorian-amazon-4kvowku3xiljl2zyu www.istockphoto.com/photo/beetle-gm171285983-20841415 www.videoblocks.com/video/golden-bronze-beetle-on-a-flower-cetonia-aurata-so8k-hhbbjxzaa9p9 www.videoblocks.com/video/stag-beetle-lucanus-cervus-close-up-b-6ngjaewj2xffyfb www.istockphoto.com/photo/fiery-hunter-beetle-in-sand-gm1088305808-291955662