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The Strange World of Troglobites | 20 Years of Planet Earth | BBC Earth

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Troglobites are cave-dwelling species, such as the blind salamander and Belizean white crab that evolved in isolated underground worlds. Celebrate 20 years of Planet Earth. Head over to the webpage to find out more: https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/planet-earth Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub Sign up to our newsletter for the latest news, updates and exclusives from BBC Earth https://www.bbcearth.com/newsletter #PlanetEarth #DavidAttenborough #PE20 Watch more: Best of BBC Earth 🌍 https://bit.ly/BestOfBBCEarth Best Animal Fights 🥊 https://bit.ly/BestAnimalFights Videos over 10 minutes ⏰ https://bit.ly/3SHJCEJ Planet Earth III 🌍 https://bit.ly/PlanetEarthIIIPlaylist Frozen Planet II ❄️ https:/bit.ly/FrozenPlanetIIPlaylist Blue Planet II in 4K 🌊 https://bit.ly/BluePlanetII4kPlaylist Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this. This is a commercial page from BBC Studios. Service information and feedback: http://bbcworldwide.com/vod-feedback--contact-details.aspx

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luce.antoine 4 weeks ago

Troglobites sounds like a curse word. You gosh darn troglobites, do your job right!

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corinne.daniel 4 weeks, 1 day ago

“Evolution”, nothing.

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leon_rogers 4 weeks, 1 day ago

I couldnt believe living creature can lost their eyes for living in the dark for generations. this is so bizzare and fascinating.

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cynthia.horn 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Amazing. Witnessing evolution happen before your eyes really calls into question whether there is a God or not.

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rosaaltamirano467 4 weeks, 1 day ago

This BBC video shows variation, specialization, and loss within existing organisms. It is not showing evolution in the molecules-to-man sense. Troglobites fit a creation model of built-in variation, post-Flood dispersal, isolation, drift, and regression far better than the narration admits.

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gabriela.miranda 4 weeks, 1 day ago

People forget all about the photography and the incredible people behind the scenes!!!❤❤❤🎉

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reynaldo_godínez 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Troglodyte*

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rebeccareynolds895 4 weeks, 2 days ago

1:33 eren Yeager....look how they massacred my boy.

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damien_davies 1 month ago

If it takes thousands of years for the fish to lose its eyes, how many of these fish fossils did you find with eyes ? Or maybe they were created this way

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udarshsolara37 1 month ago

Fascinating

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megan_miller 1 month ago

Sir David Attenborough said he literally jumped for joy when Trump lost in 2020. I can think of few ways to better exemplify how disappointing the United States is as a nation than by saying: we all let Sir David down in '24.

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beth_burton 1 month ago

I am currently working on reconstructing and archiving extinct species, and I often struggle with the challenges of biological accuracy. Your video's scientific depth and meticulous detail have been an immense help and inspiration to my work. Thank you for providing such a profound educational resource; it is truly invaluable to the field

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john.jensen 1 month ago

Incredible how this fragile ecosystem persisted long enough to shape unique species! I wonder whats at the base of the food chain if it's not photosynthetic life

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christine_ferrand 1 month ago

Hey BBC Earth channel, upload more videos of Tigers, Elephants, Lions, and Crocodiles, those are good and I like them.

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mohammed.barrett 1 month ago

New research seems to suggest it takes just a few generations for eyesight to be lost not thousands. In the case of one guppie species in Mexico only 1 generation.

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alix_legendre 1 month ago

いつも本当にインスピレーションを頂いています。🤲

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rebecca_anderson 1 month ago

This is absolutely breathtaking — every single frame tells a story. The patience and vision behind this is truly remarkable. 🙏 If you allow me, I would love to invite you to watch my own cinematic mini documentary — DEEP — The Orca. A story about family, intelligence, and survival in the Arctic. Entirely my own project, created with a lot of passion. No pressure at all — just one storyteller sharing with another. 🖤

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lilia_medrano 1 month ago

Please stop it with those small previews. They’re annoying

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lucieadam19 1 month ago

Man, dude's a century old and still going strong. May he make many more documentaries for many more years. ❤

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robertvaleon36 1 month ago

Happy Birthday Sir David