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Bizarre Beasts

series · in 20 videos (2019–2026)

After the twelfth episode in 2020 it moved to its own YouTube channel co-hosted with Sara Suta, became one of Complexly's shows, and in 2025 its channel launched the new series Endlings.

Includes: Endlings

Videos by year: 2019: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2026: 3

Also known as: Bizarre Beast

Threads

Also named in the threads: Complexly: the brothers' production company, renamed from EcoGeek (2016) · Hank asks viewers to sign up for DFTBA Pin Pals before its limited openings fill (2018) · DFTBA Pin Pals: DFTBA's pin subscription club (2018) · Journey to the Microcosmos: Hank and James's YouTube channel about microscopic life (2019) · Hank asks viewers to buy Complexly calendars at complexlycalendars.com (2022)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Journey to the Microcosmos (6) · Eons (5) · Complexly (8) · Ask Hank Anything (2) · SciShow (7) · Study Hall (2) · Focus Friend (2) · Crash Course (6) · Orin Green (3) · Four-minute rule (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2019

  • 2019-07-05 · You Need to Know About This Ridiculous Fish — announcement: Hank will start occasionally sharing a bizarre beast with John to ease his own mind and maybe make everyone feel better about life on this planet. — 00:00:40
  • 2019-08-02 · The Cutest Octopus — announcement: Hank: Following up his mola mola promise to bring John weird animals more often, Hank will make one video a month for the next year about a weird, amazing animal. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-09-13 · You Need to Know About This Caterpillar — announcement: Hank: The Bizarre Beasts Pin Club was so successful that this month (September 2019), one time only, members get two pins: the caterpillar and the moth; Hank thanks everybody who signed up. — 00:03:41
  • 2019-10-11 · Your Life Will be Better After you Know About Frogmouths — announcement: The description says Hank loves the pins from the Bizarre Beasts Pin Club, which is closed to new members to avoid overproducing pins. — video description
  • 2019-11-04 · This Cat Makes No Sense — announcement: Hank names Pallas's cat this month's (November 2019) Bizarre Beast and says the Bizarre Beasts pin club reopens until the end of Pizzamas, with a new beast's pin and info card every month. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-12-13 · Is This the Cutest Animal Noise? — Hank introduces another Bizarre Beasts, his project of talking about one weird animal every month for twelve months; this time an animal he knows personally. — 00:00:02
  • …and 1 statement more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2020

  • 2020-01-24 · Horses are Very Weird — Hank says this Bizarre Beast is an animal John knows that is way weirder than he thought: being common doesn't mean not being bizarre. — 00:00:00
    • The description invites viewers to sign up to be notified when Bizarre Beasts reopens. — video description
    • Hank concludes that if you look closely enough, everything is a bizarre beast. — 00:03:40
    • Hank says next time Bizarre Beasts will return to animals John is less familiar with. — 00:03:40
  • 2020-04-17 · The Rarest Fish in the World is an Anglerfish! — Hank says making Bizarre Beasts reminds him that every astounding fact about nature was discovered or figured out by people, the most bizarre of beasts. — 00:03:13
  • 2020-05-15 · Lookin' Kinda Dumb! — announcement: Hank says Bizarre Beasts is a series he is doing on Vlogbrothers, with only a couple more episodes left. (hedged) — 00:02:55
    • Hank says the Bizarre Beasts Pin Club is closed to new members, apologises, and says they will try to figure out something in the future. (hedged) — 00:03:39
  • 2020-06-26 · You Might as Well Swim! — Hank: A year ago Hank decided to make a monthly video about a weird animal on the vlog, each with a pin for Bizarre Beasts Pin Club members; this is the twelfth. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says it has been such a fun project, and he has loved getting a new pin in his mailbox every month. — 00:02:57
    • Hank isn't ending it: he announces a new YouTube channel, Bizarre Beasts, co-hosted with Sara Suta, one weird animal a month, with the Pin Club continuing and opening to more people. — 00:03:22
    • Hank asks viewers to follow him to Bizarre Beasts, subscribe now, and sign up for the Pin Club if they want. — 00:03:22
  • 2020-08-14 · Hit The Ground Running — announcement: Hank: The second episode of Bizarre Beasts is up on its own YouTube channel, hosted by Sarah Suda and about the hoatzin, one of Hank's favorite birds. — 00:03:19

2021

  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — Hank: Every Monday Hank records Journey to the Microcosmos, every Tuesday he shoots SciShow and sometimes Bizarre Beasts; he no longer writes them and mostly reads aloud. — 00:00:00

2022

  • 2022-09-02 · How A YouTube Company Actually Makes Money — announcement: Hank: Complexly is selling five calendars for five shows: Eons and Bizarre Beasts art, James Weiss's Microcosmos microphotography, and SciShow and SciShow Space images, printed in the US with facts, shipping everywhere. — 00:02:16

2023

2025

  • 2025-10-17 · We Never Know What Anything Means — announcement: Hank announces Complexly's new show Endlings on the Bizarre Beasts channel, a series about the last surviving members of species meant to teach ecology, biology and humans' relationship with the world. — 00:00:31
  • …and 1 statement more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2026

  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank's best frog is one that is terrible at being a frog, which got a Bizarre Beasts episode. — 05:35:34
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says that in 2011 he and Hank founded Complexly, which has made lots of educational content, from Bizarre Beasts to The Art Assignment to SciShow to Crash Course. — 00:00:58

Also named in: We Just Sold Our Company for $0