The Most Important Animal You've Never Seen | Meet the Nematode

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024

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  • @MorgenPeschke
    @MorgenPeschke 4 года назад +1597

    Watching this while eating tube-shaped pasta may not have been my best decision today

    • @jakobraahauge7299
      @jakobraahauge7299 4 года назад +52

      Bon appetit, mon amis! I hope you will always remember not to think about nematodes before eating tube-shaped pasta! 🍝🙏

    • @ElInextricable
      @ElInextricable 4 года назад +80

      Stop whining and eat your worms

    • @nancykurtz7333
      @nancykurtz7333 4 года назад +18

      Oh gosh, now I’m hungry😯

    • @jakobraahauge7299
      @jakobraahauge7299 4 года назад +5

      @@nancykurtz7333 I was having a pear as he started talking about how nematodes could have been a covering the planet and kinda is. I am full now 😂 pasta is cooked. I could definitely go for that! 😋

    • @JohnDrummondPhoto
      @JohnDrummondPhoto 4 года назад +11

      At least it wasn't vermicelli.

  • @ganaraminukshuk0
    @ganaraminukshuk0 4 года назад +1429

    For most of us, our first encounter with nematodes was watching them drink Spongebob's house.

  • @taeahwalker8958
    @taeahwalker8958 4 года назад +1087

    I don’t like nematodes... they really destroyed my boy spongebob’s house

    • @paulgoogol2652
      @paulgoogol2652 4 года назад +16

      I hate sand.

    • @rqzzlldqzzls
      @rqzzlldqzzls 4 года назад +1

      @@paulgoogol2652 same .

    • @ShutItKyle
      @ShutItKyle 4 года назад +10

      Danged nematodes

    • @jerry3790
      @jerry3790 4 года назад +14

      Paul Googol it’s course and rough and irritating and it gets evwrywhere

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 4 года назад +3

      i forgot about that episode of spongebob until you said something :P

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад +1554

    Never seen? I've seen them destroy a pineapple

    • @TheCondorjc
      @TheCondorjc 4 года назад +43

      Avery the Cuban-American nematodes made and ended that episode

    • @misamokuzelpizu
      @misamokuzelpizu 4 года назад +10

      @@archenema6792 hi, havent enemated in i while, how is it flowing?

    • @luissimo6925
      @luissimo6925 4 года назад +18

      I'm crying 😂fear the nematodes before they make you homeless

    • @pikatzer
      @pikatzer 4 года назад +12

      And the whole bottom of a bikini

    • @AllDayBikes
      @AllDayBikes 4 года назад +10

      I only clicked on this video in hopes someone would make a reference like that haha

  • @chesthoIe
    @chesthoIe 4 года назад +358

    There is also a nematode that has specialized itself to almost only live on German beer mats, drinking the yeast they love alongside German beer drinkers. They're like pets we didn't even know we had.

  • @The8thblock
    @The8thblock 4 года назад +822

    so what i have learned is that everything on this planet is either a nematode or its not.

    • @mrjoe332
      @mrjoe332 4 года назад +43

      And each and every thing that exist is surrounded by at least 50 billion nematodes

    • @roscojenkins7451
      @roscojenkins7451 4 года назад +26

      Everything in the world is a penguin or is not

    • @PumpyC
      @PumpyC 4 года назад +6

      All of these things are correct. ☺️

    • @_vicary
      @_vicary 4 года назад +2

      Yes

    • @cafn8ed74
      @cafn8ed74 4 года назад +11

      You might also say that everything on this planet is either a nematode's food or a nematode's toilet. Or both.

  • @mayathomas8934
    @mayathomas8934 4 года назад +535

    “57 billion? I mean that’s a bunch but not.. that much.”
    *per person*
    “... o”

    • @lucianblackreign604
      @lucianblackreign604 4 года назад +2

      Imagine not all person have,

    • @lunar58071
      @lunar58071 3 года назад +9

      We all have at least 1 nematode on us. I think I'll call mine champ.

    • @boooomerwang
      @boooomerwang 3 года назад +7

      @@lunar58071 i call mine poggers. Hes a feisty lil bugger.

    • @vicentegambini8907
      @vicentegambini8907 3 года назад +2

      @@boooomerwang im gonna call mine steve

    • @MaryAnnNytowl
      @MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад

      Just call him Fred.

  • @SiirEgg
    @SiirEgg 4 года назад +146

    I'm a C. elegans researcher, thanks for giving this little worm some love!

  • @garethdean6382
    @garethdean6382 4 года назад +219

    Find Nemotode:
    *Points to anything*
    There he is.

  • @andrezits9723
    @andrezits9723 4 года назад +449

    God: so what do you want your design to be??
    Nematode: a gut
    God: ... okay, and where do you want to live?
    Nematode: everywhere
    God: alright...
    Nematode: including guts

    • @sendmorerum8241
      @sendmorerum8241 4 года назад +37

      50% guts, 50% genitals, humans will thank later

    • @samuelaraujomedeiros6682
      @samuelaraujomedeiros6682 3 года назад +7

      gutception

    • @pansexualdoofus3202
      @pansexualdoofus3202 2 года назад +1

      @@sendmorerum8241 speaking from experience, getting both at the same time really was not a good experience in the slightest 💀

  • @SAMURIADI
    @SAMURIADI 4 года назад +177

    8:46 crawls? WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT CRAWLS
    8:53 dont leave without explaining! get back here and explain how it crawls!

    • @Cora.T
      @Cora.T 4 года назад +30

      He explained it moved like an amoeba. I can't describe what it looks like, but there are videos on RUclips, just search amoeba moving

    • @Endrance88
      @Endrance88 4 года назад +6

      They mean the sperm

    • @Nata-rb4vc
      @Nata-rb4vc 4 года назад +20

      Pseudopodia is how it moves

    • @cmdann8
      @cmdann8 4 года назад +17

      There is a species that can literally fling themselves 7-10 times their body lenth. Idk why he didn't touch on that.

    • @majacovic5141
      @majacovic5141 4 года назад +9

      @@cmdann8 Now I'm picturing a living slinky.

  • @tatuvarvemaa5314
    @tatuvarvemaa5314 4 года назад +258

    Nematode scientists are studying humans for going extinct.
    ”There’s only 10 billion of them”
    ”Wow, that very litlle :(”

    • @DarkAlkaiser
      @DarkAlkaiser 4 года назад +48

      Clearly anything that's not a nematode is endangered

    • @tiwapptya13
      @tiwapptya13 4 года назад +7

      Imagine their reactions during the extinction of other animals species

  • @xoxo2008oxox
    @xoxo2008oxox 4 года назад +25

    Number 7: Beneficial nematodes are helpful to lawns and gardens. There are products that allow you to connect to a garden hose, and spray them on the soil (has to above 68F soil temp). The nematodes will invade larvae of pests like Japanese beetles, grubs and other harmful insects. The nematodes will lay eggs inside the grubs and eat the larvae from the inside out.

  • @klutterkicker
    @klutterkicker 4 года назад +98

    "4 out of every 5 animals are nematodes" glances over at five of my coworkers...

  • @Cinderpelt1002
    @Cinderpelt1002 4 года назад +569

    I for one, welcome our invertebrate overlords.

    • @bilwisss
      @bilwisss 4 года назад +31

      (keep this one away from the water supply)

    • @Margrreet
      @Margrreet 4 года назад +18

      Collaborater!

    • @harlequin2584
      @harlequin2584 4 года назад +12

      All hail our nematode overlords.

    • @ArmchairDeity
      @ArmchairDeity 4 года назад +3

      HYPNOTOAD WANTS YOU BZHZHZHZHZHZHZZHZHZHZHZ

    • @nziom
      @nziom 4 года назад

      @ERA CASTE depends on your cleaness you can get rid of them with medicines

  • @AlienWavesTV
    @AlienWavesTV 4 года назад +107

    I get it, Thanos was sick of them nematodes

  • @grimesdaughter9042
    @grimesdaughter9042 4 года назад +68

    You wonderful people 😅 here I sit, studying for my C. elegans theme test, and see the notification of your nematode video! That's irony, isn't it? And yes, my professor, who has been working with C. elegans since 20 years can tell you for hours about their importance as model organisms, especially in cancer research. She studied them in regard to the control of their assymetric seam cell (stem-cell-like-cells) divisions to find genes regulating those divisions.
    I love SciShow ❤

    • @wonderwend1
      @wonderwend1 4 года назад +4

      What an amazing coincidence!

    • @grimesdaughter9042
      @grimesdaughter9042 4 года назад +7

      @@wonderwend1 Truly, 😅 I forwarded a link to the video to the whatsapp-group of my course. Probably everyone is studying for the test right now.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 4 года назад +6

      Good luck on your test.

    • @grimesdaughter9042
      @grimesdaughter9042 4 года назад +6

      @@qwertyTRiG Thank you🍀 It's on Thursday, so I still got time to study.

    • @chillsahoy2640
      @chillsahoy2640 4 года назад +4

      If you ever want a chuckle, look up the Worm Shows from Curtis Loer and Morris Maduro. It is incredibly nerdy and niche but people who have studied C. elegans will appreciate the jokes and humour.

  • @chillsahoy2640
    @chillsahoy2640 4 года назад +10

    I did my Master's research project on the C. elegans nematode species. You want an idea for a horror film? An agar plate visibly squirming because it has been 7 days since you placed an initial colony of 5 worms on the surface. Note: an adult C. elegans is about 1 mm long so if you can see the agar plate squirming with the naked eye, that's A LOT of worms sliding over each other.

    • @grimesdaughter9042
      @grimesdaughter9042 4 года назад +3

      My professor told us at the beginning of the course, that when students get to see the worms for the first time, there's always this one person, that's has a fright at the sight of the worms and needs to go outside and calm down 😅.I know what you mean with creepy. We also worked with a.strain that has no vulva, and when our professor told us, that these worms don't lay the eggs- because not possible- but instead the worms hatch and develop inside and the mother just bursts and they go free, there was kind of a silence in the room....so yeah, nematodes are perfect horror creatures

  • @davidbuschhorn6539
    @davidbuschhorn6539 4 года назад +87

    [sun goes nova]
    [nematodes colonize the sun]

  • @comment.highlighted
    @comment.highlighted 4 года назад +69

    You got me at 8 Billion People & 57 Billion Nematodes. I was thinking “Ehh, that’s not that much.” 🙂

  • @thenortonanti
    @thenortonanti 4 года назад +49

    Me: Starts the video
    SciShow: Opens a can of worms, FOR SCIENCE!

  • @Svnipni
    @Svnipni 4 года назад +46

    Im so happy to see these squiggly bois getting a bit more attention. They're a large focus of my research in Stockholm. They're incredibly diverse but tricky to properly capture and classify unless you're a true nematode veteran.
    So my team and myself are currently using metagenomic (metabarcoding) techniques to get a better feel for their diversity. This way we hope these guys can tell us more about the environments they inhabit.

    • @Katie_the_fox
      @Katie_the_fox 2 года назад

      There fast to

    • @shivshiv6958
      @shivshiv6958 2 года назад

      updates, any special findings?

    • @oliverbyrne508
      @oliverbyrne508 Год назад

      You should make a RUclips video that's less annoying than this one

  • @ChrisD4335
    @ChrisD4335 4 года назад +195

    im goona go get a tube of apple flavored horse dewormer from the farm store and eat it.

    • @pangolothian
      @pangolothian 4 года назад +8

      Hahaha jesus alright

    • @lemonheep
      @lemonheep 4 года назад +3

      *death note reference* Kira kills me because of my various warcrimes

    • @brittstates9607
      @brittstates9607 4 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can only stop myself from thinking way too hard on how to make an antibiotic consumable for all possible hu-mans/ wo-mans/animal/mammals and basically any living creating these little hungry hide and seek slimey friends invite themself over to Thanksgiving turkey gutting 🤣 awe LAWD, I have to do some house cleaning now! 🤣

  • @francoislacombe9071
    @francoislacombe9071 4 года назад +28

    "I for one welcome our nematode overlords." Put that on a T-shirt! 🤭

  • @1stupidfatginger
    @1stupidfatginger 4 года назад +31

    Hank, you need to plug your Journey to the Microcosms show, its stupid interesting and really cool to watch. If any episode is appropriate for a plug, its this one.

    • @nightmary
      @nightmary 2 года назад

      Just checked into Journey and subscribed immediately. Thanks for the heads-up.

  • @Restilia_ch
    @Restilia_ch 4 года назад +152

    I've seen several... on Journey into the Microcosmos.

    • @jakobraahauge7299
      @jakobraahauge7299 4 года назад +12

      Yeah! They are great! 🥰

    • @wonderwend1
      @wonderwend1 4 года назад +16

      Best channel EVER!

    • @colesherrill7472
      @colesherrill7472 4 года назад +21

      I legit thought this was that channel and was like, "what? Yes we have.". Then saw the intro.

    • @WilliamMelton617
      @WilliamMelton617 4 года назад +8

      Hank Greens voice is like a satin sheet against my bare eardrums

    • @KokoroKatsura
      @KokoroKatsura 4 года назад +3

      A N I M E
      N
      I
      M
      E

  • @justinsankar1164
    @justinsankar1164 4 года назад +168

    They are quite fond of pineapples i hear

    • @1west815
      @1west815 4 года назад +1

      Oh really?

    • @chrisrockett5897
      @chrisrockett5897 3 года назад +1

      This pfp with that reply makes this seem even funnier.

  • @repeatdefender6032
    @repeatdefender6032 4 года назад +11

    i recently set up a couple small vivariums with soil, plants, and fauna found in my neighborhood and i've noticed tiny nematodes squiggling around in the condensation on the walls. after i first noticed them i began to notice more and more, they really are everywhere.

  • @Bingo_the_Pug
    @Bingo_the_Pug 4 года назад +20

    “Doug Bags a Nematoad” was the very first episode of Nickelodeon’s Doug back in the early 90’s.

  • @joeclark18
    @joeclark18 4 года назад +21

    Me: *watching video about worms*
    My brain: ALASKAN BULL WORM

  • @RoxaneJ14
    @RoxaneJ14 4 года назад +68

    At the beginning of the video : god, I love science
    As it gets creepier and creepier : what the eww !

    • @The.Plague
      @The.Plague 4 года назад +7

      That's science for you!

    • @donloyal
      @donloyal 4 года назад +1

      "Roxane! RoxAaAne! All she wanna do is party all night.
      God daaamn! RoxAaAne! Never gonna love me, but it's alright."

  • @gothicangel160
    @gothicangel160 4 года назад +128

    Scishow: "The world is covered by tiny unnoticed roundworms!"
    Me, an intellectual and MLS: "ANCYLOSTOMAAAA"

    • @Saternalia
      @Saternalia 4 года назад +5

      Hookworms for days

  • @GodofWeird
    @GodofWeird 4 года назад +11

    Worms are everywhere. You cannot escape them. You will not escape, not even death will save you. Give in to the worms.

  • @polkadottedpolak
    @polkadottedpolak 4 года назад +39

    I literally just came inside after turning my marigolds under in my tomato bed to combat nematodes, then I saw this video. Weird flex, Universe, but OK.

  • @cafn8ed74
    @cafn8ed74 4 года назад +10

    Fascinating video! Now my entire body itches.

  • @ye3s146
    @ye3s146 4 года назад +115

    Ive seen these bois from spongebob my dude

    • @YCCCm7
      @YCCCm7 4 года назад +1

      Nice.

  • @sapelesteve
    @sapelesteve 4 года назад +6

    Nice synopsis on Nematodes Hank! As an undergrad at the U of MD I took a few Parasitology courses & one of our professors was responsible for not only figuring out the life cycle of Heartworm disease in dogs but also was instrumental in developing a drug to prevent the infection. The culprit is the roundworm Dirofilaria immitis which can infect Dogs, Cats & Ferrets. It is transmitted via Mosquitoes, as are many diseases. Nasty little critters but still part of the natural world around us!

  • @joanhoffman3702
    @joanhoffman3702 4 года назад +9

    Many years ago, I saw a short nature film called "Nematode". Each section, such as Motion, Eating, Reproduction, etc. was first shown with a clay model nematode and a few props, then a clip of a nemotode in action. All this accompanied by the music of Mozart's Variations on "A Vous Dirae Je, Maman", otherwise known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. An interesting introduction to a piece of classical music! 😁

  • @dstinnettmusic
    @dstinnettmusic 4 года назад +11

    Listen, I know the nematoads.
    I watched them eat a house once and it scared me.

  • @Prelude610
    @Prelude610 4 года назад +12

    I love your show. I usually click "Like" even before the intro jingle is done.

  • @crystala7x182
    @crystala7x182 4 года назад +110

    **cue Spongebob comments**

  • @TheRogueWolf
    @TheRogueWolf 4 года назад +19

    Hey, I thought Journey to the Microcosmos wasn't going to update this week... oh, this is SciShow.

  • @PopeKurt
    @PopeKurt 4 года назад +12

    Doug Funnie once caught a nematode. Legend.

  • @wfheron2315
    @wfheron2315 2 года назад +6

    Also common in the marine environment, Nearly all seaweed samples I collect there are nematodes present.

  • @equationat0r263
    @equationat0r263 4 года назад +16

    you had me at *nematode overlords*

  • @mungolianbeef
    @mungolianbeef 4 года назад +56

    Fun fact:
    There's enough nematodes on Earth to send roughly *1 billion to each star* in the Milky Way Galaxy

    • @mari2x474
      @mari2x474 3 года назад +2

      Yep there about 400 quintillion of them

    • @doomsins
      @doomsins Год назад +1

      let's do that.

  • @deakenwylie3819
    @deakenwylie3819 4 года назад +7

    If you don't know about really tiny animals, there's a RUclips channel all about them, called, what is it... "Travels through a Microscope"? Something like that. The narrator there has the nicest, most calming voice, too.

    • @PopeGoliath
      @PopeGoliath 4 года назад +3

      Nah, Pretty sure it was "Migration with Microbes."

    • @deakenwylie3819
      @deakenwylie3819 4 года назад +1

      @@PopeGoliath Yeah, "Migrations" sounds better than "Travels". ;)

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder 4 года назад +30

    Assuming the audience of this video hasn’t seen a nemotode is a misguided assumption. 😉

    • @saygr8
      @saygr8 4 года назад

      Hi Cody, How have you been doing brother?

  • @claybaxter291
    @claybaxter291 4 года назад +19

    Are there viruses that prey on nematodes? Do other creatures? How long do/can they live? I have so many questions!

    • @brittstates9607
      @brittstates9607 4 года назад +4

      Great question! That’s actually, seriously, interesting to know. I mean if so, it doesn’t seem the Nema family has ever had to make much of a competition or plan for battle against any possible attack. They seem to expand their Nema army larger than any other living mechanisms this well blended in their incognito slime suite and way of traveling to and fro

    • @MaryAnnNytowl
      @MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад +1

      If I recall correctly, we NEED some of the nematodes here. And some of them eat other kinds of nematodes, too, IIRC.

    • @jebbsredemption
      @jebbsredemption 2 года назад +2

      @@brittstates9607 There are types of microscopic fungi that constrict and digest a nematode.

  • @MrMegaPussyPlayer
    @MrMegaPussyPlayer 4 года назад +21

    1:44 I'm outa here.
    1:50 Ok, we have to nuke the solar system ... there is no other way.

    • @hmpang4996
      @hmpang4996 4 года назад +1

      *You nuke the universe but some absorbed the radiation and increased in size by 900000000 times*

  • @MrThatguyuknow
    @MrThatguyuknow 4 года назад +21

    I hope to hear hank talk about this again on into the microcosmos

  • @mutantmaster1
    @mutantmaster1 4 года назад +8

    Nematodes: living proof of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

  • @RichardRagan
    @RichardRagan 4 года назад +5

    My father's favorite nematodes joke:
    You're studying to become a civil engineer. It's a Sanitary Engineering class you're watching a video of a microscopic sample of sewage. Student in the front: "Sir why do these nematodes wiggle around so much?" Student in the back: "You would too if you were living in nothing but poop."

  • @glenngriffon8032
    @glenngriffon8032 4 года назад +17

    Anyone else up for the Beets concert?
    And if you genuinely do get the reference and relation then you are awesome and probably a 90's kid too.

    • @skitzcrasher
      @skitzcrasher 4 года назад +3

      Oh Doug....

    • @jakobraahauge7299
      @jakobraahauge7299 4 года назад

      Like the sugar beets?

    • @alexxakaromeo
      @alexxakaromeo 4 года назад +1

      I need more allowance!

    • @mjdRx
      @mjdRx 4 года назад +1

      Glenn Griffon , my nematode call: COOO-A-COO COOOOOOO!!!
      COOO-A-COO COOOOOOO!!!

    • @trevorus
      @trevorus 4 года назад +1

      Aahhheeeeoooo, killer tofu!!!

  • @rickkwitkoski1976
    @rickkwitkoski1976 4 года назад +4

    I remember studying these WAY BACK WHEN! We were supposed to see them crawling through a jungle of fungal hyphae and then getting caught in a hyphael "snare" and subsequently devoured by the fungus. Uh uh! The nematodes that we were given were MUCH TOO LARGE to be caught in the snares that we saw. We needed a smaller gauge nematode! I was disappointed!

  • @YurinanAcquiline
    @YurinanAcquiline 4 года назад +5

    Hank: Nematodes
    Everyone: Spongebob
    Me: Flashback to parasites

    • @MaryAnnNytowl
      @MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад

      Nah, not everyone. Some of us were lucky enough to miss that whole mess... like, we are too old, and our kids were too young, to get into the show, so it all worked out. Thankfully, LOL!

  • @evanhenderson1760
    @evanhenderson1760 4 года назад +3

    For some reason the crawling sperm creeped me out the most

  • @Anubalfer
    @Anubalfer 4 года назад +10

    First time I heard about a nematode was in Doug, but they spelt it "neematoad".

  • @PamdaDev
    @PamdaDev 4 года назад +35

    you get excited about the weirdest things, Hank. I do love you for that... still weird, though.

  • @mvsawyer
    @mvsawyer 4 года назад +3

    I learned a cool nematode fact recently. There is a nematode species that makes the vitamin B-12. Many animals have evolved a symbiotic relationship with this nematode, one of which is humans. Unfortunately, our B-12 nematodes live in our small intestine and the B12 they make can't be absorbed. Lucky for us, though, ruminates, like cows, can absorb the nematodes' B12. B12 deficient humans still have B12 in their feces, because it's made in our gut, just not absorbed. This is not an endorsement of eating your own poop for B12, though.

  • @WilliamMelton617
    @WilliamMelton617 4 года назад +6

    Very interesting episode! More like this, please!

  • @UrbanArtifact
    @UrbanArtifact 4 года назад +7

    Excuse me, Rodger Klotz taught me about Nematodes back in the early 90's.

  • @michellereed2535
    @michellereed2535 4 года назад +5

    i was literally eating spaghetti and meatballs when i opened this video. i may never eat again.

  • @alveolate
    @alveolate 4 года назад +1

    i dunno why but seeing hank geek out over nematodes is just super entertaining!

  • @willykillz1
    @willykillz1 4 года назад +25

    Splice a chicken and nematode, I'm down for 24/7 omelettes.

  • @thepurityofchaos
    @thepurityofchaos 4 года назад +31

    Imagine if H.P. Lovecraft learned about Nematodes.

  • @sdfkjgh
    @sdfkjgh 4 года назад +6

    3:50 "Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances of finding a date for Saturday night."
    --Woody Allen

  • @pritambanerjee1377
    @pritambanerjee1377 3 года назад +1

    Worked on a dissertation project on C elgans in the final semester of Mol. Bio course and instantly fell in love with them.. Continued working on the project after that for more than a year.. beauty about the organism is, in a way they reply to you or communicate to your signals ( I know I'm a hopeless lonely individual).. Unfortunately, they are much lesser known than drosophila or mice and people tend to get disgusted by the idea of working with a roundworm or when they see worms wiggling under the microscope. This video marvellously extrapolates the dynamic world of nematodes.. Keep up the good work! :)

  • @ras_krystafari3333
    @ras_krystafari3333 4 года назад +11

    Doug has tried to catch these. Who remembers

    • @wonderfulfable
      @wonderfulfable 4 года назад +2

      I did! I hear Nematode and I remember that first episode of Doug.

  • @elliottmcollins
    @elliottmcollins 4 года назад +23

    Nematodes are microbes, so it really feels like Hank should be talking slower.

    • @tranquil_dude
      @tranquil_dude 4 года назад +3

      well, as Hank pointed out, the largest nematodes are very macroscopic :)

    • @AceofDlamonds
      @AceofDlamonds 3 года назад +1

      Ascaris lumbricoides would like a word with you. 😼

    • @jebbsredemption
      @jebbsredemption 2 года назад

      Pinworms are knocking on your door right now.
      A 1x1x1 meter brick of live pinworms.
      Let them in.

  • @3nimac
    @3nimac 4 года назад +3

    Man imagine humans excreting urine from their sweat glands. We would have invented perfume way earlier.

  • @dondake3409
    @dondake3409 4 года назад +5

    What you mean I’ve never seen nematodes?
    They literally drank SpongeBobs house to death - mischievous creatures, those nematodes

  • @d00mf00d
    @d00mf00d 4 года назад +3

    Would you like some... Basghetti?
    Sure
    You're eating... Worms!

  • @fennecfoxfanatic
    @fennecfoxfanatic 4 года назад +22

    8:23 worm on a string!!! REAL

  • @reneebissonnette1300
    @reneebissonnette1300 4 года назад +8

    Is anyone else thinking of that one episode of Doug?

  • @christianhunt7382
    @christianhunt7382 4 года назад +6

    I waited the full episode for a plug of "Journey to the Microcosmos" and IT NEVER CAME

  • @zebobez2715
    @zebobez2715 4 года назад +4

    I actually saw some nematodes during my high school "Biome in a Bottle" experiment. The teacher called everyone over and we got to see something nice.

  • @theferalhousehusband4567
    @theferalhousehusband4567 4 года назад +8

    I wonder how many undiscovered ancient nematodes are inside insects inside amber... 🤯

  • @WingedAsarath
    @WingedAsarath 4 года назад +2

    "Move over viruses!"
    That didn't age well!

  • @camarobro1897
    @camarobro1897 Год назад +1

    Never thought worms could have such a cool and disgusting backstory

  • @liamyoung8479
    @liamyoung8479 4 года назад +4

    "All i have is this little pebble"

  • @SciFactsYT118
    @SciFactsYT118 4 года назад +8

    Fact: Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns. 🌲🌲🐿🌲🌲

  • @missdolittle
    @missdolittle 2 года назад

    I am into ecospheres and active in various groups. Every time nematodes come up I post a link to this video. I have referred at least 5 dozen people so far ..love it!

  • @ts25679
    @ts25679 4 года назад +24

    I'm sorry Hank, I know we're supposed to be pretty positive about the sanctity of all life and in awe of what they can teach us, but my brain has file parasites under "to be exterminated" like mosquitoes.

    • @beth8775
      @beth8775 4 года назад +6

      What about the ones that parasitize other parasites? There's a couple of nematode species that go after flea larvae. Personally, I'm rooting for the nematodes in this case.

    • @got_rats
      @got_rats 2 года назад

      @Bruzzun Ath'tuch no way, how did he get there?

  • @autumnhenderson4508
    @autumnhenderson4508 4 года назад +29

    Nematode was always a negative word in my mind because them mf's ate spongebob's house 😡

  • @noelthorley3248
    @noelthorley3248 4 года назад +6

    So is there a Tardigrade specific Nematode?

  • @KEVMAN7987
    @KEVMAN7987 4 года назад +2

    "Kaloo-kakoo!" - Doug Funnie repeating the call of the nematode

  • @philip6557
    @philip6557 4 года назад +2

    I remember my sister bought some hermit crabs from petco, then one of them died and a minute later about a million white worms burst out of its corpse. wonder if those were nematodes

  • @Hentai_Protag
    @Hentai_Protag 4 года назад +3

    So, who would win in a fight? A nematode or a tardigrade?

    • @beth8775
      @beth8775 4 года назад +3

      That depends on whether the nematode can parasitize the tardigrade I suppose.

    • @jamesmerkel1932
      @jamesmerkel1932 4 года назад +2

      Well, tardigrades have survived exposure to space so I'm fairly sure they have the edge in survival capabilities, but the nematodes have the edge in offensive skills. I think it's time for a deathbattle!

  • @Zeytrixx
    @Zeytrixx 4 года назад +12

    Today’s fact:
    A snail can sleep for three years.

  • @humzahkhan6299
    @humzahkhan6299 3 года назад +2

    Summary: “Despite the fact that the body plan of a nematode is basically... a gut, they manage to be pretty weird.”

  • @masterofpureawesome
    @masterofpureawesome 4 года назад +1

    I love this video! Best one in a while! Super interesting, long, and engaging. Keep it up!!!

  • @ParadoxFreak
    @ParadoxFreak 4 года назад +6

    Never head of a nematode? Funny, you should meet my friend Doug.

  • @Techn9cian123
    @Techn9cian123 4 года назад +4

    I learned about these watching Doug

    • @highjinx6519
      @highjinx6519 4 года назад +1

      Finally someone else that knows this came Long before Spongebob!!!

  • @WordsByShayma
    @WordsByShayma 4 года назад +1

    Thanks, now I’ll remember this when I’m outside or eating

  • @timotheeoliveau3568
    @timotheeoliveau3568 4 года назад +1

    That video was at the same time, extremely funny, and completely filled with crazy fact I had no clue about, and am grateful for being exposed to.

  • @IaconDawnshire
    @IaconDawnshire 4 года назад +3

    Saw Nematodes. Thought of Doug

  • @gollem148
    @gollem148 4 года назад +7

    Are there nematodes on satellites when they launch them, even when it’s been in a clean room?

    • @jasper3706
      @jasper3706 4 года назад +1

      Well they're probably not there unintentionally, but we have been known to send them to space on purpose

  • @combatking0
    @combatking0 4 года назад +1

    Eye of newt, slime of a snail, blood of a crow, wart of a nematode...
    Sounds like a recipe for Mountain Dew.

  • @keyshawnrogers3840
    @keyshawnrogers3840 3 года назад +1

    “Aw. Dang Nematodes!”
    -Fred
    (Spongebob Squarepants)
    1999-2020