The Fantastically Weird World of Photosynthetic Sea Slugs | Michael Middlebrooks | TED
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Meet the fantastically colorful and astonishingly adaptable sea slugs that found a way to photosynthesize (or create energy from sunlight) like plants. Diving deep into these often overlooked creatures, invertebrate zoologist Michael Middlebrooks introduces the solar-powered slugs that lost their shells -- but gained the ability to directly harness the power of the sun.
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Fascinating and a great presentation. Always gives me a buzz seeing someone who is so obviously excited by their field.
These are my favorite slugs, and animals in general! I'm currently writing my Batchelor on kleptoplasty and planing on doing something similar for my masters! Amazing talk
It's a wonderful thing when a person is so nerdy about a very specific subject. This means that they love it with all their heart, and this guy certainly does so!
Perfect random interesting science topic! I love it anytime animals are photosynthesizing which I imagine isn’t all that often. Unless there’s something about my skin I don’t know about.
Vitamin d3?
When we eat leafy greens, the chlorophyll in our bodies reacts with sunlight to produce CoQ10. Not exactly photosynthesis but cool nonetheless.
@@odis.x I wonder if genetically engineered photosynthesis might be possible to apply to humans. If so, then it might reduce our need for food although it may also mean we would need to be green.
@@JBplumbing12 indeed, and Kermit taught us that it ain't easy bein green.
@@odis.x Light just activates the production of that vitamin, It stimulates the cells. But light doesn't take part in the chemical reactions that synthetize vitamin D like It does in plants to synthetize glucose
This has been the area I have considered for my PhD. I have looked for and taken many dives in Anilao, Philappines, Indonesia and Thailand. The diversity is incredible and they are so beautiful. Thank you for a wonderful presentation.
Nudibranchs are so lovely, they look like they'd make great glass sculptures. We had a pet snail named 'Ruffles' once, and Ruffles was an artist of sorts. He/she was mad for eating notebook paper, very particular about which notebook, and would then commence to create elaborate designs only on the glass walls of her house, using her own supply of post-processed papier mache'. A worthy Snail indeed.
This was awesome!!! I've always liked watching garden snails and slugs, but this is on a whole other level. Absolutely gorgeous, and it really blurs the line between what separates plants from animals. Fascinating.
Now I also want to photosynthesize 🥺
Same here. :(
That explains why aliens are hairless and green 😂
I feel like people do photosynthesize but they believe so deeply that it’s not possible that they program their cells to be that way but any skill can be learned with determination and without the constant “this is not real” thoughts.
Beautiful example of a fascinating evolutionary adaptation. Over time, natural selection has favored individuals with the ability to retain functional chloroplasts, as it provides them with an additional energy source.
I love your passion for slugs, its amazing to think that animals started synthesizing clorophyl!
Wow I really like Michael's presentation style and his passion is infectious! What fascinating creatures!
A Ted with more questions than answers... Loved it.
Mindblowing animals, thank you for your research 🙌
The slugs must have gotten chlorophyll genes laterally transferred to them from the algae or from the chloroplast genome itself, which is kinda crazy. Since chloroplasts are themselves descended directly from bacteria (specifically different Cyanobacteria), this means the slugs acquired these genes from another Domain of life, literally billions of years after those two lineages diverged from a common ancestor!
I'm always fascinated with marine invertebrates but didn't even think why some have blue color when it's so rare for land vertibrates.
I live about three hours from Anilao and dive there every month or so. Our nudibranchs are a national treasure. They're like the Hot Wheels of the sea.
Thanks for this video. Nice to know about such amazing animals. I hope in the future we can realize how they do it.
I did not know that was possible. A new twist on life's adaptability.
Love those types of TED talks.
I would absolutely love to hear more of this man's research!! i love sacoglossans and the weird things they are able to do, my favorite sea slugs!!
i mean while the scifi implications are perhaps sciency fantasy more than anything with the rigorous potential to be questioned into actual problem-solvable reality, this does raise the interesting possibility for a really practical reason behind the idea that any ETs might most often be in the category of "little green men" ...if you can cut out most (to all) of the food chain entirely and go straight to living off of starlight, space travel itself becomes an entirely different animal
Fascinating. Emerald sea slugs are such beautiful creatures!
If only I can 'steal' all the chloroplasts from the vegetables I eat and 'implant' them in my body cells. I'll never have to worry about getting hungry anymore. All I'll have to do when there's no food is go under the sun and take off my shirt. :P
If human starts photosynthesis, there will be no shirt any more. People work to collect food. No food required, no need to work, no shirt production.😂
Fascinating!
And the Fact that they figured out how to make Chlorophyll is astonishing!
I usually have so much on my mind, I have to pause and rewind videos as I zone out... Yet with this one I was paying attention from beginning to end!
Absolutely fascinating world indeed, and thank you for sharing your insight. I never thought I would have this sort of interest for invertebrates, yet you've really sparked curiosity within my mind.
I can only imagine this effect on someone much younger than myself!
This piqued my curiosity the same way old computer oceanography “games”, basically visual encyclopedias for old computers (1999), from my town’s library helped me first explore the realm of aquatic diversity of life. This was amazing and I can’t wait to learn more about biology. It also fascinates me how they steal these superpowers!
What a beautiful creature. I own the beauty of the photo pulled me into this clip.
Imagine if we fully understood kleptoplasty and could use that mechanism to power solar panels. We could have biological solar panels
I love sea slugs!! We have so much to learn about them. How exciting 🐌
I need a part 2 and part 3 and 4 ASAP!
This is wild!! What an incredible thing to discover!
A wonderful presentation on a facinating topic, thank you sir.
Regards from South Africa
Thanks for such an interesting topic. I enjoyed learning something I had no idea sxisted
This is amazing. What a wonderful world when you stop watching The News that's bad... and negative stuff... 😊 you really get to enjoy a magical wonderful world.
Thoses slugs are beautyfull! A very interresting video. I can understand your passion. Great presentation
Son petit sourire en coin en dit long sur sa passion. 😊
I got that "crazy rabbit hole, lets go" feeling when i watched this
He lit up when he started to talk about those slugs! 😃
This is so fascinating! I love that there are people in society that can dedicate their lives to studying slugs.
Wow! This is exactly what I want from a TED talk.
Far future humanity may, in fact, be green.
It's just so cool and interesting for me. I love this unraveled world makes me itch for more.
Love love loved your presentation
Very interesting ! I won't see Sea slugs the same now...
So I guess Kirby was a slug who lost its shell?! Phenomenal work and study!
Absolutely fascinating!
I wandered down a slug hole just like Alice chasing her rabbit and ended up looking at sea cucumbers. All these beasties are wild and wonderful.
one of the most captivating animals i‘ve encountered in the wild.
Excellent talk
I had no idea TED was still a thing. wild
back to my childhood obsession with sea slugs
Fantastic presentation! You've indeed left me curious about sea slugs now
this guy's got me nerding out as hard as him talking about sea slugs...👍😆
The best tedTalk I have heard so far. Very interesting!!
This couldn't be cooler. What an awesome guy and presentation!
Very interesting discussion. Slugs are pretty cool, who knew.
Fascinating and beautiful! Thank You
I didn’t know there were so many kinds of slugs and so pretty! Now I want to explore them! So cool!
Sea slugs have always been my favorite animal. Thanks for the fascinating talk!
"You are what you eat" 🐌
Wonderful explanation.
Good to see someone promoting molluscs for a change! They are really the most amazing creatures but so often overlooked. 🐌
Very fascinating
Very interesting. Thanks.
AMAZING RESEARCH! thank you
I can't believe this bright zoologist talked for 12 minutes with his right ear folded. I could never do that!
oh yeah good talk.
"Mannaged to keep some of them" 😂
This guy's interest in slugs far exceeds my interest in life
Beautiful creatures, how cool for animals to photosynthesise.
"Why do I study slugs?" You forgot to mention how FREAKING CUTE nudibranchs are. Just lookit their little non-faces
solid ted talk
More of this. Just a nerd, sharing what they nerd about.
... I knew Stephen Hillenburg was surprisingly accurate with Spongebob. Turns out "photosynthesis... Photosynthesis..." Was accurate too
Thanks so much
Grass/Water type Pokémon are awesome
They're pretty beautiful creatures. Wow.😮
Amazing!!!
Honestly I can’t even begin to imagine all the things we have yet to discover…… just at our fingertips. What’s going to be the next ground breaking, world changing discovery?
Awesome!
Fantastically fascinating!
Really amazing !
The information in this video made me so upset i could cry even though it IS my birthday today
This is a crazy advancement in science could we apply this to human cells? Could you imagine a world wheee people only need to stand in the sun for a while a day like a plant to feed?
I love when people are passionate and knowledgeable about what they do
It really is exciting!!!
Interesting, thank you younger, alternate dimension Ross. 😊
very nice presentation!
People who don't realise what their looking at here need to understand this process could one day encourage thinking or development of processes and technologies that could end world hunger or energy problems. It could even be used to colonise and terraform other worlds.
I want one of those leaf slugs royal blue and gold that would be cool
He looks like real life version of "Ross"😂
He totally does!!!
My special interest 💚
10% about Photosentethic seaslug 90% about side stories
Preach Brother!!!
The concept of a species stealing other species' skills (genes, cells) is mindblowing. 😍
With the Endeavor logo I would have expected him to talk about slap fighting or pro wrestling. This is much cooler.
12:42 "Slug=Snail minus the shell". That is why German calls slugs Nacktschnecke, literally "Naked snail"
Nudibranchs may be some of the prettiest animals on our planet.
RESPECT!
When the scientists uncover the secret mechanism of those slugs, that would be a step to divinity. People can just incorporate chlorophyl like the slug and get their energy directly from the abundance of sunshine in a warming planet.
Thank you, such an interesting angle! Does anybody know of any biomimicry application for human or general to capture CO2?
this is incredible, new creature to look into! I always knew slugs were amazing creatures
So interesting
Go you slug guy!