This curious critter is a worm like no other: The pigbutt worm
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- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2024
- Bobbing along in ocean currents a half mile below the surface is a worm like no other. Our team first spotted the unusual pigbutt worm (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus) in 2001 and had a tough time determining how to categorize such a curious critter. Working closely with our collaborators, DNA analysis eventually confirmed we had encountered a new species of bristle worm that drifts through the midwater instead of living on the seafloor.
Over the last two decades, these worms have only been observed in Monterey Bay and a few near the Channel Islands off the southern California coast. This little worm is about the size of a hazelnut, and even using our high-resolution cameras, it took the eagle eyes of our expert biologists to spot these miniature orbs in the massive ocean. Our skilled submersible pilots were able to gently sample them and transport them back to the ship alive for detailed examination.
Observing these animals up close in the lab also revealed more aspects about their natural history that we were unable to see in the wild. We learned that these incredible worms are bioluminescent, producing blue light in their body tissues as well as green glowing mucous secretions, an adaptation that may be used to deter predators.
Chaetopterus pugaporcinus casts out a web of snot to capture bits of organic material called marine snow to eat. Mucus is a useful substance for snaring food in the deep sea where it may be sparse. Numerous other animals get their nutrition this way too. Animals of all shapes and sizes in the ocean perform an essential climate service by taking up excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transporting it deep in the ocean. These assorted midwater mucous-feeders help repackage carbon to sink more rapidly to hungry seafloor communities.
The pigbutt worm is just one of more than 200 new species described and named by our team and collaborators. We are working to catalog deep-sea animals and environments so we can predict how threats like climate change and mining will affect them.
Learn more at our Animals of the Deep gallery: www.mbari.org/animal/pigbutt-...
Script writers: Kyra Schlining, Raúl Nava
Science advisor: Karen Osborn
Editor: Ted Blanco
Narrator: Kristine Walz
Motion graphics: Madeline Go
Production team: Heidi Cullen, Madeline Go, Larissa Lemon, Raúl Nava, Kyra Schlining, Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Susan von Thun
Music: Dramatic Documentary Background by MoodMode
Reference:
Osborn, K.J., G.W. Rouse, S.K. Goffredi, and B.H. Robison (2007). Description and relationships of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, an unusual pelagic polychaete (Annelida, Chaetopteridae). Biological Bulletin, 212: 40-54. dx.doi.org/10.2307/25066579 
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Learn more about this worm like no other at our Animals of the Deep gallery: www.mbari.org/animal/pigbutt-worm/
I like when scientists comes straight to the point for naming the organisms 💀
Well, that is a valid point, but the specific-ness of the label makes me wonder why the pigs butt was chosen. Why isn't it just the "butt worm"
I value my search history and my eyes too much for me to start looking at pig butts and figuring out how\why they may be different from other mammal butts.
And is it the pigs butt cheeks or the anus which is the namesake?
I can find pig butt cheeks pretty easily without ruining my search history, but I'm pretty sure when someone starts looks for the butt-holes specifically, that your IP and MAC addresses get put on some sort of list, and it's impossible to get a decent job or buy a house or get a loan.
I'd be at the bank, looking for a small business loan, and see the bankers face scrunch up in disgust when he does the credit check, and he'd just say: "we don't want YOUR kind of business here. This is a Christian establishment, and YOU, sir, spend your downtime examining pig rectums"
@@Boogie_the_cat It is in reference to the particular shape of a pig's hindquarters. Having seen many pigs IRL, yeah, it pretty much does look like a pig's ass/hind.
Yeah, but they call what it eats “marine snow”. That’s being a little oblique about what it’s actually eating.
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@@Boogie_the_cat duckduckgo won't keep your history if you don't want you can look at pigbutts all you like
People are fixated on aliens coming from a different world, yet we have extraordinarily bizarre-looking aliens right here on our own planet.
Yes weve seen this comment before we are also curious in extra terrestrial life 😊
I was gonna let this go...but.
they are less alien than we are.
it is very likely they have been here millions of years longer than we have.
and that goes for almost all the fantastical creatures we know
diddly about.
Except oceanic aliens don’t have anal probes. Thankfully
@@kidmohair8151so how are humans more alien?
@@Gabriel.1985.from a less anthropomorphic point and from a biological neural point we are alien and weird as f###
These deep sea organisms are just simple life forms that have been always here for years and had a simple evolution
Latin Name: Cornholius Bungholius.
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LMAO
it's a shame. microplastics have completely saturated our world and we have no idea how it might affect species we didn't even know about, like this one. i would imagine that tiny non-digestible bits like plastic would decrease the feeding efficiency for animals that rely on marine snow.
Yeah. :/
So very true 😢
how that the plastic goes that deep ?
@@sdqsdq6274Plastic gets broken down by erosion from water as well as UV rays from the sun. Once it becomes microscopic it just gets carried with the currents. Look up "garbage found in Mariana Trench", the currents can practically carry plastic anywhere.
Just like before when big environmental changes occurred, some creatures will suffer and diminish in numer or die off, some will be mostly unbothered, and some will evolve to integrate microplastics into their existence in some way.
There is nothing cooler than MBARI content. Thanks for putting this stuff out there for us to see!!
even when it's on the content of the pig-butt worm XD
@@XOguitargurlOX It contains dead plants and animals, poo, and snot..
The fact that's a heckin BRISTLE WORM is absolutely insane
You'd think that's just an unusually large marine snow particle until you look closely and realize it's a new species. Glad the biologists where able to spot it
Wait wait wait... So... You named it?! And that's what you called it? 🤣
By mid week three of most expeditions the crew starts to get a little crazy. They've gotten to know each other, have inside jokes, and the long days being just stressful enough to crack everyone. Falcor (too) should be stream the first dive of the second expedition of the year tomorrow morning. It's going to be a good time!
www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
Scientists and philosophers throughout history have been great masters of the poop joke.
I can't believe you filmed my spirit animal ! Finally
You dwell in the butts of pigs?
It's snot fair when these animals are named! :-)
That looks like a little alien I love it
What a horrid little creature. I love it ❤❤❤
Thanks for new word in vocabulary of my child...pig-butt-worm... XD...I anticipate a fun scool day tomorrow :)
Be sure to teach your child that the zoological name Chaetopterus pugaporcinus means bristle-fin pig-butt, the first part from Latinised Greek and the second part from Latin.
That's Beavis and butthead levels of naming. 😅
I love that we can still find new creatures in our world.
God bless MBARI,their team and all others who are trying their best to understand how, why and what exactly will help in the preservation of this world. 🙏
Ze Frank needs to cover this creature!!!
Yeeesss
I can just see the off color jokes now! Frankly I think they missed the appropriate hole to name this after considering what it exudes into the water…. Just saying… well actually I’m not saying it. I think I will leave that to Ze Frank.
@@watrgrl2 Ze Frank is the only person who should be allowed to create informative videos about this funky little animal!
i feel like this is the exact oposite of a worm
thanks for sharing, I love learning about weird animals
Who named this thing?
Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
Karen Joyce Osborn, Associate Curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology.
The guy who found it first. Now go out there and find something new too
The Lord
Somebody with eyes.
Hands down best animal name on earth
All I'm thinking is... I'm never getting into the ocean again!
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Every time she says pig butt i bust out laughing
Amazing video!!
I'll bet it calls itself an "angel-faced invertebrate."
What amazing work you do.
Such a wonderful discovery!!
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
The neighbor's green booger 3 yr old is casting a really gross net.
Very educational and informative 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Does it fart?
not too sure about farting, but it sure sneezes a ton of snot out xD
It sharts
Yes it fart
What a cutie
Great voice
Fascinating
So now we know all about the pigbutt worm(NOT).
WOW!
Subscribed!
The larst time I have heard about them, they were considered to be a larval stage with an unknown adult stage, I think. Do you have newer information about how the adult may look like?
Like a whole translucent pig!
The mix of both larval and adult features seen in the pigbutt worm is certainly unusual. Members of this group of worms typically live attached to the seafloor in parchment-like tubes, although they do have a free-swimming larval stage. Check out our Animals of the Deep page on the Pigbutt worm: www.mbari.org/animal/pigbutt-worm/
@@MBARIvideoThank you very much for the answer! Fascinating animals indeed!
Amazing
A floating human brain, so that's where we lost it, but now we've found it
Hilarious name I used to call my daughter pig bottom because she had a onesie that had a pig on the butt
Is it like the appendicularian?
Learn something new every day:
Puga means butt.
I would have called it an Orchid worm.
The phrase " mid-water mucous feeder" won't leave my brain.
IKR!! I filed that in the back of my mind for when I need it.
Ok, the snot net is a new one. 😂
Wow, you put me to sleep and shared almost no info with us.
What a name
Pugaporcinus
Very cool! The name is Perfect, too!👏
Sad that billions in tech are going to dreams of living in the vacuum of space, while there is so much more to learn about the ecosystems on earth and how important it is to understand and protect them - not just for humans, but for all life on this small planet.
I wonder what would they evolve to in a few million years?
Is it snot if it doesn't come from a nose 🤷
I can only imagine what inspired the name
Who named this poor innocent worm "pigbutt{", and why?
I would have name it va jay jay.
Anyone put their thing in that yet?
What did I do to the Algorithm gods for this to be sent me at 5am 😂
who named this specimen 💀
Ok who named this worm
...well not a flattering name but perhaps memorial one....
Science needs to decide if they are going to use dumb names or cool ones. Most are dumb, but every once In a while you guys do something like this...."Pigbutt worm" Lol
I see where the name comes from😆🤣😆🤣
Solosis!
i miss sponge bob 🥰
I had butt worm once but I took some Ivermectin and chased it with disinfectant.
*teems
it certainly looks very flatulent 😅
Is it censored in the classroom?
0:33 we must stay focused brothers
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What a rude name! I personally think it looks like a sweet pea flower!!!
Try not to 😏
Cook yalls pork chops don't want the pig butt worms mans! 😬
Does it crack any jokes?
The name is stupid and unimaginative
Oh look. It’s Liz Trus’ cousin.
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Poor wormy have ridiculous name.
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I would go-back and revisit that "common name"... We can do better I would hope.
The zoological name is fixed unless it is found to be a previously-named species, which it almost certainly isn't. The taxonomic binomial Chaetopterus pugaporcinus literally means bristle-fin pig-butt. I can assure you that there are far more vulgar common names than that.
@@pattheplanter Rationalization. Back to my original statement: we can do better.
@@GrumblingGrognard Go on then. I can guarantee that nothing you think of will be so attention-grabbing, powerful, simple and memorable. You are also 17 years behind the curve.
@@pattheplanter"You are also 17 years behind the curve." lol oh so cruel...want to try again? LOL!
@@GrumblingGrognard The name was coined 17 years ago, so you are 17 years behind in getting your marvellous new name accepted for a creature that is well-accepted in its vulgar name. I wasn't being insulting to you, just letting you know where you stood in the naming race.
plees learn to read latin words
The Lats are all dead and nobody really knows how to pronounce their words. Modern taxonomic binomials are only sort-of Latin. Chaetopterus is Latinised Greek, where do you go with that?
😮he said they " brought them up to surface Alive for testing...."
That may be False. I thought all the animals deep down..would implode! When they reach a different pressure!???
I agree "pigbutt" is one of the most shitty names ever!
No pun was intended! 😅 seriously?
ruined a perfectly good biology video with mindless carbon dioxide pearl-clutching.
How on earth is talking about man-produced carbon dioxide mindless when it is killing our planet?
"Snot"..."Carbon Dioxide" Why do people dumb down the narrative like this?
Exactly descriptive terms that are understood by biologists and non-scientists. No need to use jargon to sound posh.
Snot I get because not everyone might understand the term "mucus," but what's wrong with carbon dioxide?
I hate piano. Just saying!
OMG blah blah 'climate change'
Give me a fucking break.
You'll get your break after we've killed our planet via the climate crisis.
I was truly enjoying this vid until I hear "climate change". that's the exact moment I leave...
Why? Isn’t climate change very important to understand?
Especially when it changes through approximately 7-year cycles.
@@Miami7 There is evidence that variations in various Earth phenomena, such as the Earth's rotation, magnetic field, and climate do follow 6-7 year cycles. However, what you are forgetting is that average global temperatures have also been gradually rising for decades, higher than levels seen in past centuries. Information without context is not to be trusted.
@@Miami7 There is evidence that variations in various Earth phenomena, such as climate, do follow 6-7 year cycles. However, if you look at climate over a longer period of time, you will still see that average global temperatures have risen drastically over the past few decades, to levels far greater than those seen in the past few millennia and faster too.
Can we just enjoy the adorable little creature that looks like an alien from Rick and Morty without the "climate change" lecture?
It's scientific, factual and relevant
@PabloBatistaArq your drinking of the Kool-Aid is duly noted NPC
Why not? If the climate crisis is currently killing our planet, don't you think it would be important to highlight and understand the processes that help to mitigate and reverse it?
The what what what? 🐖🍑🪱🤌🏾