Moth Light Media
Moth Light Media makes educational YouTube videos exploring evolution, prehistoric creatures and the unusual biology of animals alive today.
At 100 nudges, fangea sends Moth Light Media’s team an official invite.
🔒 Star boosts open once Moth Light Media claims this page.
Latest
Moth Light Media’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus their backstory and Starbook, where fans write.
Known for
- The Evolution of Spiders2024 · Evolution explainer
YouTube - The Worlds First Apex Predator2023 · Prehistoric life explainer
YouTube - The Evolution of Whales2021 · Evolution explainer
YouTube - How did a seal get to a lake in the middle of Siberia2021 · Natural history explainer
YouTube - The Story Behind New Zealand’s Weird Animals2026 · Wildlife and biogeography
YouTube - Convergent Evolution2019 · Early evolution explainer
YouTube
Overview
- Work
- Educational YouTube videos about evolution and natural history
- Channel created
- November 14, 2017
- Early work
- Convergent Evolution, published February 2, 2019
- Popular works
- The Evolution of Whales and the Siberian seal episode have each passed one million YouTube views
Mini bio
How it started.
The YouTube channel was created in November 2017. By February 2019, Moth Light Media was publishing explainers such as Convergent Evolution, an early example of the evolutionary storytelling that runs through the channel’s work.
What draws fans in.
The videos connect animals alive today with their distant relatives. Episodes about whale evolution and a seal living in a Siberian lake have each reached more than a million views on YouTube.
Behind the videos.
On Patreon, the creator describes combining prehistoric imagery with animations that explain biological ideas. The same statement says a video can take 20 to 30 hours, including scriptwriting, visuals and securing permission for artwork and animal footage.
Still exploring.
Recent work ranges from bird wings and ancient marine reptiles to scorpions and bull sharks. The February 2026 New Zealand episode brings geology and wildlife together, while also introducing viewers to sponsor Planet Wild.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2026The Story Behind New Zealand’s Weird AnimalsCreator
- 2025How Bird Wings came from DinosaursCreator
- 2024The Evolution of SpidersCreator
- 2023The Worlds First Apex PredatorCreator
- 2021The Evolution of WhalesCreator
- 2021How did a seal get to a lake in the middle of SiberiaCreator
- 2019Convergent EvolutionCreator
Quotes
I only want people to support the channel if they have the money to spare.Moth Light Media, Patreon About
In the channel’s explanation of its optional fan support, the creator describes Patreon as a virtual tip jar.
Trivia
- The Patreon membership tiers are named Caterpillar, Butterfly and Moth.
- Patreon members can vote in polls to help decide future videos.
- The bird wings episode gives a shout-out to TheTimeDuck’s non-digital paleoart.
Find Moth Light Media
Explore the videos and help choose what comes next on Patreon.
Are you Moth Light Media?
Fans built this page. Claim it to connect with them and unlock Star boosts, or request a takedown if you’d rather it not exist.