What On Earth Were The Conodonts?

Some marvellously weird animals have lived on our planet throughout the history of life. One such example of a truly bizarre lineage of animals are the Conodonts, a mysterious group of organisms with an extensive fossil record. Yet, we didn’t even know what they looked like, or indeed what sorts of animals they were, until the 1980s. Boris the Borealopelta: https://plushfoundry.com/products/bor... Subscribe to 7 Days of Science:    / @7daysofscience   Become a Channel Member or support us on Patreon for behind-the-scenes, bloopers, extra adventures and more! Become a Member:    / @bengthomas   Join our Patreon:   / 7daysofscience   Join our Discord server:   / discord   Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagv Follow us on TikTok:   / bengthomas   Subscribe to explore the wonderful life around you! Social Media: ►Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagv ►TikTok:   / bengthomas   ►Twitter:   / bengthomas42   ►Subreddit:   / bengthomas   Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a... https://www.le.ac.uk/geology/map2/pdf... https://www.jstor.org/stable/1298133 https://repository.si.edu/items/ccdc3... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa... https://www.nature.com/articles/374800a0 https://www.idunn.no/doi/pdf/10.1111/... https://donoghue.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa... https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:451... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a... https://palass.org/sites/default/file... https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.jstor.org/stable/1299026 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1298754 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1298431 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/... https://www.nature.com/articles/natur... https://peerj.com/articles/12505/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1... https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/a... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a... 0:00 - Intro 0:46 - The Mystery Begins 2:59 - Older Ideas About Conodonts 11:16 - The Conodont Animal is Discovered 18:04 - Biology of Conodonts 20:13 - Outro and BORIS