+Patrick McCurry // No. It IS a foot and is absolutely NOT a pseudopod, which is a feature of single cells and single celled organisms; last time I checked gastropods had a few more than just the one cell and that 'pod(a)' referred to the 'foot' of their anatomy. Please don't continue to embarrass yourself by coming to the "sciency corner" of the internet to make things up and undermine people's efforts to educate themselves and understand the world... I'm not on here to troll or be an arse but that was a spectacularly lame effort on your part, Wrongy McWrongface; stop being "that guy"...
It isn't a real foot. It's a false foot no matter how you define it. And while it isn't the proper English psuedopod it is a false foot. So don't you be an asshat with your pseudointellectualism either.
I love how excited Emily is about everything because I would be exactly that excited if I were there to meet those amazing experts and look at all the specimens. Rock on Emily!
One thing that I appreciate about these videos is that they don't give nearly enough information to form any complete picture of any topic. Instead, it gives just about enough to get people curious, and then they go on to learn things for themselves. At the very least, it gets people to ask their own questions. Encouraging curiosity at its finest.
I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Gerber yesterday with my Invertebrate Zoology class! Really cool guy doing really cool research. He showed us many of these specimens and more! Gastropods are the neatest.
I like how he said "venom" though, since the english "toxic" is borrowed from the greek "toxin" which translates to "poison". though the snail injects the substance therefor its venom, not poison (poison is not injected. it takes effect after thouch or swallow)
See that's the reason why I'm interested in working at the museum because they are so many things to learn about, asking questions about it and it's absolutely amazing.
I feel like if you took all the long names of these snails and put them in a paragraph and read it out, it would sound like a magical incantation. Moricopsis honkeri, amphidromus richadi, modulus honkerorum, conus drangai, dota coronata, gyroscala lamellosa, architectonica trochlearis, janthina janthina, guildfordia yoka, xenophora pallidula, chrysomallon squamiferum.
Snakes, and snails, and puppy dog tails (yes the wolf series was awesome). Love these videos, wish more museums and universities could put out videos like yours on all the stuffs. Maybe it would reduce the crazy flat/hollow earth theory stuff so many people are so desperate to believe. Thank you for making this available to us.
re: 4:18 , from Wikipedia: "Syrinx aruanus, common name the Australian trumpet or false trumpet, is a species of extremely large sea snail measuring up to 91 cm long and weighing up to 18 kg." That's right. 40-lb snail.
SO COOL! I didn't really have much of an opinion about snails before this other than that some of them had pretty cool shells. I had never imagined this level of diversity, let alone patient assassin snails, bubble rafts over thermal vents and metal shells! =D Absolutely fascinating
Amazing the sizes the snails come in. Those gigantic shells are bigger than I ever would have imagined, can't imagine running into a snail that big. Love the brain scoop!
i love snails!! thank you for this really interesting interview, i keep on learning more about them and the more i learn the more i love snails,they are so cute, smart and diverse!
I always find something interesting in these videos. Who knew snails can be magnetic? Horder snails? That she'll was like a porcelain thing of beauty. But that face at 6:40! lol. I love how excited Emily gets about her job.
I went to an amazing talk last year (I can't remember exactly who by - maybe Jonathan Hendricks) who worked on fossil cone snail shells from the Caribbean reef systems around Panama (the talk was at STRI). He was able to take fossil shells and actually visualise their patterns using UV and IR light filtering. It was pretty dope. The coolest bit was that they found totally extinct patterns on some species, that look nothing like anything alive today. One that stuck with me was checkered like a chess board.
That sounds fascinating! If I ever got a time machine I wouldn't use it to alter any events or anything, I just wanna go back and check out all of the crazy life that used to roam our planet.
Whoever came up with the idea to produce this video series needs a pat on the back. Such a smart way to get people interested in visiting their local museums. The next time I'm in that area of the country, I'll be sure to visit "The Field", and I would have never otherwise even known about it.
Floppmann fish don't breath, they're underwater..... The movement of water over their gills is what allows oxygen to be absorbed, so this means they'll still be able to get oxygen even if they're paralyzed (^ 3 ^)/ I hope I cleared any misconceptions
Fish have to pump water over their gills. That's why you see them constantly opening and closing their mouths. And even if passive flow was enough to sustain them, there wouldn't be any flow inside of a snail. So, yes, the fish probably do suffocate after they get enveloped. It might take longer since paralyzed muscles don't use as much oxygen, but I doubt they live for more than an hour.
Hi Emily! Can you thank Dr. Gerber for giving us the word "pedipulates" and tell him he is just darling!? Thank you so much for all your hard work bringing us all these fascinating creatures from everywhere in the world!!!
You guys keep surprising me with what you can get me interested in. If you had told me that I would be looking up articles on sea slugs earlier today id say you were crazy, but alas, here I am.
Hey! Please do an episode about the glass specimens next! That glass sea slug at the beginning of the video reminded me that they're a thing, an I'd like to know more about The Field Museum's collection of those! Thx!
although this is like a year old i still like the image i have in my head of a couple of snails talking to each other about what they want on their shell and then they almost have a shopping list of things
Went to look for a picture of the violet snail bubble raft (cause that sounded cool) and found out that they feed on Portuguese Man-of-wars! (Which is even cooler!)
I had no idea there was this much diversity in snails! I just never even thought about it! I would love to know more- I feel like this video just scratched the surface!
Yeah! We barely talked about marine snails.. and then there's freshwater snails, and land snails, and tree snails... basically the only group we're missing is air snails OH WAIT SOME OF THEM COPULATE IN THE AIR
Leopard slugs mate in a dance suspended from trees, hanging in the air, their penises extending the entire length of their bodies: www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150114-the-strange-sensational-world-of-leopard-slug-sex
Thank you!! It's so crazy and beautiful! I don't understand why they would hang upside down, out in the middle of the open like that, because it seems like they are just asking to be eaten. It's just so crazy to think that this behavior evolved, whether or not it is beneficial. So once again my conclusions are diversity is amazing and I want to know more!!
Emily, are there ways that non-employees are able to view the millions of other specimens that you have stored in the Field Museum? I'm an artist, and I focus mostly on animals, plants, and insects for inspiration. A collection like this is inspiring! Could someone like me ever get to see the full collection?
The Field Museum hosts many different kinds of artists to visit the collections - you just have to know what it is you're interested in looking at. Narrowing it down to a collection or group of organisms helps a lot! Then browse our site to find the collections manager in that area and shoot them an email. :)
Yes! Which brings up an interesting question - how much impact do shell collectors have on animals like hermit crabs when taking shells from the beach? I found this really helpful page on a hermit crab forum about which species of h. crabs prefer which type/species of empty marine shell: www.hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=92552
This is amazing! I actually quite like snails. I have more than 10 Pomacea diffusa (mystery/apple snails) and 2 little Neritina natalensis (Zebra Nerites... accurately named Tina and Natalie 😜) as per, but I even have a soft spot for those garden snails that devour our garden. To bad for them I'm not the gardener of the family!
Because I'm from Germany I wonder how a german scientist (or swiss or austrian. Can't really tell from the accent) became a collection manager in The Field Museum?
He's very good! We have a number of native Germans on our staff - Petra Sierwald from our millipedes video, Thorsten Lumbsch studies lichens, Rudiger Bieler is a curator studying marine snails off of Florida, Olivier Rieppel from our 'Taxonomy of Candy' video is also German I believe. The Field is a big museum, even in the global sense, so many taxonomists from all over are eager to work here.
Hey there. I found you via a video you did a while back in response to some of the sexist remarks made to you. I have to say, you're pretty awesome! Keep up the great work. There is something I've been wondering about, though. Are you a fan of the book series "The Dresden Files"? I'm kinda jealous that you get to walk into work every day and see Sue. If you are a fan, do you chuckle every time you see her?
Corrals and fish have movies galore all about them, but I couldn't find any on gastropods' life. You can buy their shells, but there are only books and some small amateur videos to learn how they actually live.
Snails are underestimated to be sure. Cone shell snails have a venom so deadly that they can kill people, while many types of snails are considered delicacies.
interesting episode :) i am interested in seeing the fish eating snail in action.... i haven't seen a snail mouth before let alone a mouth that can engulf an entire fish.
Dr. Jochen used "War Horn" All allies within the AoE gets +10 Morale and +10% Critical Hit. All enemies within the AoE gets -10 Morale (10% chance of -20 Morale if hit). On a serious notes (well, not that serious still), what's the name of the right most specimen? Kinda want to see how it looks like while it still alive.
Haha slugs aren't just homeless snails?!? 🐌 This girl, Emily Graslie, "in recognition of her science education efforts," has had an Ecuadorian, "Grass Skipper," species of butterfly; "species: Wahydra graslieae," named in her honor. That's pretty cool. 😎👍
And today I learned that snails are terrifying! \o/ And beautiful. I respect them. Question: does the carrier snail kill the other snails it finds in order to collect their shells, or does it just kinda pick up the trash (so to speak) that it comes across that other snails have left behind and/or died out of?
From what I understand, carrier snails pick up whatever debris is left around - I don't believe it picks up live snails to attach to its shell. Jochen mentioned he has seen a carrier snail in a different collection that had bottle caps glued to itself. ._.
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The neatest thing about this show is seeing the passion of individuals towards their field.
Snails with iron shells! with bubble rafts! venomous barbs! and HOARDERS!
excuse me, *collectors*
I was too slow to be first on this video.It is difficult when you carry your own home.
I love your slug earrings!
Is Jochen German or Austrian?
He was a fun guy. Another good interview.
+ozdergecko He's probably Swiss xD
Either way: Einen lieben Gruß an Jochen
Snails are a good subject to be interested in. They leave decent fossils and they don't run away.
This guy knows his semantics!
And apparently 'pedipulate' is actually in the OED, so he's totally right.
Except of course that it's not a literal foot, but a pseudopod "foot", so it's a pun.
+Patrick McCurry // No. It IS a foot and is absolutely NOT a pseudopod, which is a feature of single cells and single celled organisms; last time I checked gastropods had a few more than just the one cell and that 'pod(a)' referred to the 'foot' of their anatomy. Please don't continue to embarrass yourself by coming to the "sciency corner" of the internet to make things up and undermine people's efforts to educate themselves and understand the world... I'm not on here to troll or be an arse but that was a spectacularly lame effort on your part, Wrongy McWrongface; stop being "that guy"...
It isn't a real foot. It's a false foot no matter how you define it. And while it isn't the proper English psuedopod it is a false foot. So don't you be an asshat with your pseudointellectualism either.
Opposing your misuse of language and technical terminology doesn't make one a pseudo-intellectual; stop being a moron and have a nice day :)
what lv are you guys...
I love how excited Emily is about everything because I would be exactly that excited if I were there to meet those amazing experts and look at all the specimens. Rock on Emily!
It's like we get a personal tour from experts!
One thing that I appreciate about these videos is that they don't give nearly enough information to form any complete picture of any topic. Instead, it gives just about enough to get people curious, and then they go on to learn things for themselves. At the very least, it gets people to ask their own questions.
Encouraging curiosity at its finest.
I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Gerber yesterday with my Invertebrate Zoology class! Really cool guy doing really cool research. He showed us many of these specimens and more! Gastropods are the neatest.
"nerve venom" = neurotoxin
our Jochen here translated the german noun word by word which is why he came up with "nerve venom" (german: Nervengift)
That's a fantastic observation!
thank you my lords and ladies of the brain scoop. glad to have been able to share something with you.
Sounds like Nerve venom gift when I read as if it were English. They can take their gift back...
pkmdz
yup german "gift" means "poinson" and the english "present" or "gift" would be "geschenk" in german
I like how he said "venom" though, since the english "toxic" is borrowed from the greek "toxin" which translates to "poison".
though the snail injects the substance therefor its venom, not poison (poison is not injected. it takes effect after thouch or swallow)
PEDIPULATES 😆 that literally made me lol! I'm going to start moving things around with my foot and telling people that I pedipulated it! 🤓
I'm loving the word of the day: PEDIPULATE
That really was a delightful aside.
Never stop ending these with "It still has brains on it.".
See that's the reason why I'm interested in working at the museum because they are so many things to learn about, asking questions about it and it's absolutely amazing.
I feel like if you took all the long names of these snails and put them in a paragraph and read it out, it would sound like a magical incantation.
Moricopsis honkeri, amphidromus richadi, modulus honkerorum, conus drangai, dota coronata, gyroscala lamellosa, architectonica trochlearis, janthina janthina, guildfordia yoka, xenophora pallidula, chrysomallon squamiferum.
Well they are in latin, so it'd sound like an exorcism or something.
It really does lmao
Snakes, and snails, and puppy dog tails (yes the wolf series was awesome). Love these videos, wish more museums and universities could put out videos like yours on all the stuffs. Maybe it would reduce the crazy flat/hollow earth theory stuff so many people are so desperate to believe. Thank you for making this available to us.
re: 4:18 , from Wikipedia: "Syrinx aruanus, common name the Australian trumpet or false trumpet, is a species of extremely large sea snail measuring up to 91 cm long and weighing up to 18 kg."
That's right. 40-lb snail.
SO COOL! I didn't really have much of an opinion about snails before this other than that some of them had pretty cool shells. I had never imagined this level of diversity, let alone patient assassin snails, bubble rafts over thermal vents and metal shells! =D
Absolutely fascinating
snails are literally \m/
You're really good at your job, Emily.
Thanks. I try really hard.
Amazing the sizes the snails come in. Those gigantic shells are bigger than I ever would have imagined, can't imagine running into a snail that big. Love the brain scoop!
i love snails!! thank you for this really interesting interview, i keep on learning more about them and the more i learn the more i love snails,they are so cute, smart and diverse!
I always find something interesting in these videos. Who knew snails can be magnetic? Horder snails? That she'll was like a porcelain thing of beauty.
But that face at 6:40! lol. I love how excited Emily gets about her job.
I went to an amazing talk last year (I can't remember exactly who by - maybe Jonathan Hendricks) who worked on fossil cone snail shells from the Caribbean reef systems around Panama (the talk was at STRI). He was able to take fossil shells and actually visualise their patterns using UV and IR light filtering. It was pretty dope. The coolest bit was that they found totally extinct patterns on some species, that look nothing like anything alive today. One that stuck with me was checkered like a chess board.
That sounds fascinating! If I ever got a time machine I wouldn't use it to alter any events or anything, I just wanna go back and check out all of the crazy life that used to roam our planet.
Incredible! I will never see a snail the same way again. Thank you.
Thanks for making these! I so enjoy your videos and your 'guests'. ^_^ So interesting and fascinating!
I should also say this was brilliant: interesting, funny and educating. Thank you
I may say "this is my favorite episode yet" every time, but that's cause this is my favorite episode yet.
I love this Channel, it deserves so many more subscribers
So much more to snails then I thought. That was so interesting!
Well im glad i found your channel. I enjoy your humor and the content is very interesting. Thank you very much and keep up the good work.
Excelente vídeo muchísimas gracias por el magnifico trabajo.
Gary is going to eat his desert, and he is going to like it
Whoever came up with the idea to produce this video series needs a pat on the back. Such a smart way to get people interested in visiting their local museums. The next time I'm in that area of the country, I'll be sure to visit "The Field", and I would have never otherwise even known about it.
"You have to much iron in your blood..." was I the only one who thought of that Magneto quote? Great video and PS love the slug earrings :)
snail knowledge drop and I'm both happy I know more and had no idea I wanted to know more!
This was amazing!!! Thanks for the great content!
It still has brains on it.
you guys put a smile on my face. What a great start to my day =D
Open its mouth and swallows the fish whole digesting it while probably still alive and paralyzed. Dear lord that's horrifying.
hard to breath if ur paralyzed.
Floppmann fish don't breath, they're underwater..... The movement of water over their gills is what allows oxygen to be absorbed, so this means they'll still be able to get oxygen even if they're paralyzed (^ 3 ^)/ I hope I cleared any misconceptions
Fish have to pump water over their gills. That's why you see them constantly opening and closing their mouths. And even if passive flow was enough to sustain them, there wouldn't be any flow inside of a snail. So, yes, the fish probably do suffocate after they get enveloped. It might take longer since paralyzed muscles don't use as much oxygen, but I doubt they live for more than an hour.
Hi Emily!
Can you thank Dr. Gerber for giving us the word "pedipulates" and tell him he is just darling!? Thank you so much for all your hard work bringing us all these fascinating creatures from everywhere in the world!!!
the grand performance at the end spooked my cats hehehe.
You guys keep surprising me with what you can get me interested in. If you had told me that I would be looking up articles on sea slugs earlier today id say you were crazy, but alas, here I am.
Thanks to this channel, I've started visiting the Field Museum again. I'd forgotten what I was missing!
AND YOUR NAME IS FIELDMANN!
Hey! Please do an episode about the glass specimens next! That glass sea slug at the beginning of the video reminded me that they're a thing, an I'd like to know more about The Field Museum's collection of those! Thx!
0:16 "They're all gastropods..."
*Inner voice in my head*
GASTROPOD! :P :D
There are so many cool shells still on that table! I need another episode! 8O
although this is like a year old i still like the image i have in my head of a couple of snails talking to each other about what they want on their shell and then they almost have a shopping list of things
Went to look for a picture of the violet snail bubble raft (cause that sounded cool) and found out that they feed on Portuguese Man-of-wars! (Which is even cooler!)
Who needs Vuvuzelas if you have a giant conch shell?! :D Great video as always :3
I love this show
I didn't think I'd become interested in snails, but here I am. Thanks, Brain Scoop!
She's wearing slug-earrings for the occasion, that's so cute
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for snails because our first family pet was a snail 😄
I had no idea there was this much diversity in snails! I just never even thought about it! I would love to know more- I feel like this video just scratched the surface!
Yeah! We barely talked about marine snails.. and then there's freshwater snails, and land snails, and tree snails... basically the only group we're missing is air snails OH WAIT SOME OF THEM COPULATE IN THE AIR
YOU JUST BROKE MY BRAIN. Please tell me the species so that I can research this!!
Leopard slugs mate in a dance suspended from trees, hanging in the air, their penises extending the entire length of their bodies:
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150114-the-strange-sensational-world-of-leopard-slug-sex
Thank you!! It's so crazy and beautiful! I don't understand why they would hang upside down, out in the middle of the open like that, because it seems like they are just asking to be eaten. It's just so crazy to think that this behavior evolved, whether or not it is beneficial. So once again my conclusions are diversity is amazing and I want to know more!!
Why does this channel not have more subscribers?
cuz you haven't told all of your friends about it yet
I told everyone I know but I guess I don't know that many people o.O It's a good motivator to meet more.
+thebrainscoop Oh snap
I wanna hang out with Jochen. He seems like a chill dude. 😊
A SciShow, a Brain Craft and a Brain Scoop video on the same day, today is a good day.
Thank you thank you thank you for the invertebrate love!
Emily, are there ways that non-employees are able to view the millions of other specimens that you have stored in the Field Museum?
I'm an artist, and I focus mostly on animals, plants, and insects for inspiration.
A collection like this is inspiring! Could someone like me ever get to see the full collection?
The Field Museum hosts many different kinds of artists to visit the collections - you just have to know what it is you're interested in looking at. Narrowing it down to a collection or group of organisms helps a lot! Then browse our site to find the collections manager in that area and shoot them an email. :)
Grand performance indeed!
I watched this with my snail pet, Emmanuel! I hope I get to study these some day!
"Pedipulates" is the funniest joke I've heard all week. Snail jokes!
I thought M.Gerber was gonna play the Brain Scoop theme on the shell.
That would've been awesome.
This is the most underrated RUclips show. Just saying.
6:39 - my whole laptop vibrated with that sound
That collector snail is really something.
The hoarder snails are my favorite lol Reminds me of myself.
Very interesting. Thanks.
I never realized snails were so cute and so cool! I just thought they were booger-tanks.
A good follow-up could be hermit crabs. Don't they use empty snail shells?
Yes! Which brings up an interesting question - how much impact do shell collectors have on animals like hermit crabs when taking shells from the beach? I found this really helpful page on a hermit crab forum about which species of h. crabs prefer which type/species of empty marine shell: www.hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=92552
+thebrainscoop checking it out. thanks!
***** Huh! I never thought of that. Awareness raised. Well done!
This guy has been holding onto "pedipulates" his whole life for this moment
man the magnito is like an alien snail
Great episode, you've inspired me to take my godson to the museum.
This is amazing! I actually quite like snails. I have more than 10 Pomacea diffusa (mystery/apple snails) and 2 little Neritina natalensis (Zebra Nerites... accurately named Tina and Natalie 😜) as per, but I even have a soft spot for those garden snails that devour our garden. To bad for them I'm not the gardener of the family!
cone snails, i remember giving a disseration on these snails for my biodiversity project
Wonder which evolved first the land or marine snails. Really enjoyed this video.
1:30 A metal snail. *AWESOME*
I love the earings :)
Look into any group of organisms, and you find really weird stuff, but this is definitely among the weirder of the stuff
Because I'm from Germany I wonder how a german scientist (or swiss or austrian. Can't really tell from the accent) became a collection manager in The Field Museum?
He's very good! We have a number of native Germans on our staff - Petra Sierwald from our millipedes video, Thorsten Lumbsch studies lichens, Rudiger Bieler is a curator studying marine snails off of Florida, Olivier Rieppel from our 'Taxonomy of Candy' video is also German I believe. The Field is a big museum, even in the global sense, so many taxonomists from all over are eager to work here.
Hey there. I found you via a video you did a while back in response to some of the sexist remarks made to you. I have to say, you're pretty awesome! Keep up the great work. There is something I've been wondering about, though. Are you a fan of the book series "The Dresden Files"? I'm kinda jealous that you get to walk into work every day and see Sue. If you are a fan, do you chuckle every time you see her?
Corrals and fish have movies galore all about them, but I couldn't find any on gastropods' life. You can buy their shells, but there are only books and some small amateur videos to learn how they actually live.
off topic but how many earing do you have i dont think i have seen you with the same ones once
Another cool thing about snails is that they have thousands of teeth. Remarkable creatures.
Snails are underestimated to be sure. Cone shell snails have a venom so deadly that they can kill people, while many types of snails are considered delicacies.
interesting episode :) i am interested in seeing the fish eating snail in action.... i haven't seen a snail mouth before let alone a mouth that can engulf an entire fish.
Pedipulates!!
Totally using that word from now on.
not to be that guy but there are a few other animals with iron in their exoskeletons. Ask the Fields's entymologist about the ironclad beetle
please can we have some more about snails ? *^*
OMG, he seems like such a cool guy! Invertebrates are totes my favorite - is he hiring? ;)
SO COOL!
I didn't know how much I liked snails
I love this
Do an interview with cuttleboners!
When you show up to your shoots with a taxaderm racoon under your arm have you gotten strange looks?
Very interesting
Dr. Jochen used "War Horn"
All allies within the AoE gets +10 Morale and +10% Critical Hit.
All enemies within the AoE gets -10 Morale (10% chance of -20 Morale if hit).
On a serious notes (well, not that serious still), what's the name of the right most specimen? Kinda want to see how it looks like while it still alive.
Ha! Pedipulates! My new favourite word.
Haha slugs aren't just homeless snails?!? 🐌
This girl, Emily Graslie, "in recognition of her science education efforts," has had an Ecuadorian, "Grass Skipper," species of butterfly; "species: Wahydra graslieae," named in her honor.
That's pretty cool. 😎👍
And today I learned that snails are terrifying! \o/ And beautiful. I respect them.
Question: does the carrier snail kill the other snails it finds in order to collect their shells, or does it just kinda pick up the trash (so to speak) that it comes across that other snails have left behind and/or died out of?
From what I understand, carrier snails pick up whatever debris is left around - I don't believe it picks up live snails to attach to its shell. Jochen mentioned he has seen a carrier snail in a different collection that had bottle caps glued to itself. ._.
¡Hasta los museos tienen historias!
Awesome!