The Oldest Parasites Ever Found on Earth

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024

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  • @Hexsyn
    @Hexsyn 4 года назад +257

    I appreciate that scishow can cover stuff like this without being all clickbait fearmonger-y. Know what I mean?

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 3 года назад +19

      Yeah 90% channels would have a thumbnail covered in red arrows and circles, a close up of the hosts face, and have a title like "Are YOU Infested eith DINOSAUR Parasites!?!!!? 😱🤮🤢🤢"

    • @MrLuc420
      @MrLuc420 3 года назад +7

      Yeah, pretty sure you have hank green to thank for that.

    • @davel4030
      @davel4030 3 года назад +4

      THIS PARASITE COULD BE KILLING YOU NOW! WATCH TO LEARN WHAT IT COULD BE!

    • @Hexsyn
      @Hexsyn 3 года назад +16

      @@davel4030 YOU WON'T BELIEVE (how little journalistic or personal integrity we have)!!!

    • @brittneystreeter493
      @brittneystreeter493 3 года назад

      @@arthas640 Hail Prince Arthas

  • @MilesEques
    @MilesEques 4 года назад +189

    WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT EXTREMELY CORNY HORSE GRAPHIC I DEMAND TO KNOW

    • @melvinshine9841
      @melvinshine9841 4 года назад +18

      It's amazing isn't it?

    • @confus.d
      @confus.d 4 года назад +4

      I get the "WHO MDE THIS BURGER" vibes

    • @bulwinkle
      @bulwinkle 4 года назад +5

      Why are you SHOUTING!

    • @greenkoopa
      @greenkoopa 4 года назад +3

      It was a powerful move

  • @fraserhenderson7839
    @fraserhenderson7839 4 года назад +266

    The majority of solitary wasps are parasitoid. Every agricultural "insect pest" is targeted by one or more parasitoid wasps. They are valuable to food production.

    • @insomniacalmond
      @insomniacalmond 4 года назад +4

      Fraser Henderson cool

    • @hjdhjddsah
      @hjdhjddsah 4 года назад +10

      Some people are even arguing that maybe Hymenoptera is more diverse than Coleoptera. Some species of parasite wasps are the smallest insects ever found, measuring less than 150 micrometers. So there's a lot of species to be found

    • @gab.lab.martins
      @gab.lab.martins 4 года назад +2

      So, why do we use pesticides again?

    • @juliankirby9880
      @juliankirby9880 4 года назад +1

      Gabriel Martins because it’s easier and cheaper than constantly growing predators inside to release outside.

    • @LuigiaTV
      @LuigiaTV 4 года назад +6

      True but...Fk Yellow Jackets regardless. They are like that annoying tough guy who tries to get up in your face.

  • @rogerhinman5427
    @rogerhinman5427 4 года назад +447

    "...50% of living species are considered parasitic." Looking at my co-workers...yep.

    • @TheChickenRiceBowl
      @TheChickenRiceBowl 4 года назад +13

      Biggest same.

    • @Weltte
      @Weltte 4 года назад +7

      Exactly hahaha

    • @Q_QQ_Q
      @Q_QQ_Q 4 года назад +5

      absolutely LOL

    • @dadillen5902
      @dadillen5902 4 года назад +7

      Have you meant my family. 😣😣😣

    • @bulwinkle
      @bulwinkle 4 года назад +1

      Seems an underestimate then.

  • @andrewtataj497
    @andrewtataj497 4 года назад +227

    and here I was expecting a list of the 6 oldest senators in washington

    • @stevevernon1978
      @stevevernon1978 4 года назад +13

      Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley, Richard Shelby, Jim Inhofe, Pat Roberts, Patrick Leahy. All over 80 years old

    • @davidbrown122
      @davidbrown122 4 года назад +9

      He pretty much described Kushner at the end.

    • @smurfyday
      @smurfyday 4 года назад +5

      What about the president, his daughter and in-law, his wife, his sons...

    • @Miranox2
      @Miranox2 4 года назад +2

      @@smurfyday Half the country thinks the same about Obama, Clinton and so on. Tribalism is stupid and you're not helping.

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 3 года назад +2

      @@stevevernon1978 I think politicans need a mandatory retirement age. We dont trust military officers to drive a tank, lead men, fire a gun, or even work at a desk past 65 but we trust senile 80+ year olds to run the whole country and handle the ICBM launch codes

  • @TheChickenRiceBowl
    @TheChickenRiceBowl 4 года назад +230

    Me: About to take my first bite of lunch
    SciShow: *_PaRaSiTeS_*

    • @MrHandsy
      @MrHandsy 4 года назад +2

      Dinner for myself

    • @matmichaels441
      @matmichaels441 4 года назад +1

      Yeah the fact is that you yes you have eaten one or more of the parasite waspy cuz they be in hela fruit yummy 😜

    • @thephantom1259
      @thephantom1259 4 года назад +7

      @@matmichaels441 why just why I'm eating a bowl of grapes with some strawberries rn and now all I can think of is that I may have just ate a wasp thanks for that man

    • @lewiitoons4227
      @lewiitoons4227 4 года назад +4

      @@thephantom1259 free protien

    • @thephantom1259
      @thephantom1259 4 года назад +2

      @@lewiitoons4227 well in that case...

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty 4 года назад +46

    I love how when humans encounter a strange problem in nature, we instantly just assume it's probably our fault. To the point we genuinely have to double check when we realize it might not be.

    • @oberonpanopticon
      @oberonpanopticon Год назад +1

      To be fair with our track record it is a pretty good policy to have

  • @Naruya23
    @Naruya23 4 года назад +9

    Parasites terrify me - anything remotely wormy fills me with rage and fear - but they're also one of my favourite creatures, because they're so fascinating.

  • @AryadiSubagio
    @AryadiSubagio 4 года назад +45

    *me in the middle of enjoying breakfast
    SchiShow: ancient poop!

  • @jhonbus
    @jhonbus 4 года назад +41

    The SciShow music surprised me because the thumbnail had me thinking I was clicking on a Journey to the Microcosmos video.

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog 4 года назад +40

    With as much poop talk as was in this video, I’m legitimately surprised that Hank wasn’t hosting it.

  • @sehrgut42
    @sehrgut42 4 года назад +27

    Could you do a show on why parasite life cycles are so weird? I'd love to learn more about the selective pressures driving that sort of coevolution!

  • @azula-3875
    @azula-3875 4 года назад +25

    9:59 that was amazing xD pls more of that :D

  • @hauntedshadowslegacy2826
    @hauntedshadowslegacy2826 4 года назад +40

    "Parasitism is a winning strategy" Aight, time to scroll through the comments looking for people talking about their exes.

  • @firearmsstudent
    @firearmsstudent 4 года назад +20

    Love the pic of Stefan riding a horse. Almost doesn't look photoshopped.

  • @mailasun
    @mailasun 4 года назад +19

    9:57 could this be the beginning of a new account Horseback Stefan?

    • @GrowingViolet
      @GrowingViolet 4 года назад +2

      Watch out Muscle Hank, there's a new superstar riding into town.

  • @Kevan808
    @Kevan808 4 года назад +81

    My parasites aren't that old, 18 and 22 years old respectively.

    • @lyhenglim6969
      @lyhenglim6969 4 года назад +2

      Parents or children?

    • @likebot.
      @likebot. 4 года назад +8

      @@lyhenglim6969 You didn't math that out, did you? LOL imagine a 2 year old with that sense of humor and a keyboard.

    • @lyhenglim6969
      @lyhenglim6969 4 года назад +2

      Like Bot Apparently replying to a joke with another joke is dumb

    • @likebot.
      @likebot. 4 года назад +4

      @@lyhenglim6969 TBH I thought it was hilarious. I had a mental image of This Old Tony's kid wearing his welding goggles and sitting at a PC griping about his leeching parents on FB.

    • @lyhenglim6969
      @lyhenglim6969 4 года назад +2

      Like Bot Sorry about that snark, I misread your comment

  • @violetholiday
    @violetholiday 4 года назад +50

    This was great to watch while eating, in the bath.

    • @Noodlepony
      @Noodlepony 4 года назад +5

      Violet Holiday wait..wut? 🙃

    • @septromnation7840
      @septromnation7840 4 года назад +2

      #NoWorries

    • @violetholiday
      @violetholiday 4 года назад

      @@Noodlepony it's the only place my cats dont bother me.

    • @paninisinabox
      @paninisinabox 4 года назад +1

      Yep nothing like using the hair dryer tub side to dry my hands so I can operate the toaster and electric grill. But that's only after I swan dive off the sink counter into the tub to make sure water gets into the gfci outlet I bypassed.

  • @xenos_n.
    @xenos_n. 4 года назад +39

    Parasites and viruses are fascinating. It's scary that they've been at it since the dawn of life.

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 4 года назад +1

      They're kind of basic, I mean most of virus don't even have mitochondria

    • @katiemarshall8033
      @katiemarshall8033 4 года назад +2

      Meeta Verma honestly that’s the amazing part to me, like they’re so efficient they’ve just went the complete opposite way from cellular life and they’re still so successful

    • @Q_QQ_Q
      @Q_QQ_Q 4 года назад +2

      you have viruses

    • @The_Viscount
      @The_Viscount 4 года назад +3

      Not surprising though. Why make for yourself when you can take from others? Thats basically the evolutionary rationale for them.

    • @Aereto
      @Aereto 4 года назад +2

      Freeloading and griefing has long been the meta.

  • @nyar2352
    @nyar2352 4 года назад +10

    PARASITES!!! *glomps*
    In my final year of university I got to do a presentation on the Neolithic. I spent an hour talking about parasites, explaining in great detail how schistosoma are picked up, and what the symptoms would be. It was riveting, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself... not so sure about the class though 😎

    • @MissingRaptor
      @MissingRaptor 4 года назад

      This is by far my favorite post today :)

  • @fraserhenderson7839
    @fraserhenderson7839 4 года назад +47

    Humans: "cheaters never prosper!" Nature: "bend over, humans".

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 4 года назад +3

      Nature: Hey humans, you sure a look like you have a purdy orifice or ten (if no hole, make one).

  • @edmatthews9580
    @edmatthews9580 4 года назад +5

    You should do an episode on the parasitic evolution of corporations and their CEOs. wasps and tape worms cant even come close to those parasites

  • @DocDoesGamingTV
    @DocDoesGamingTV 4 года назад +8

    We used to use "You schistosome!" as a way of insulting each other in university!

  • @soapyjay5764
    @soapyjay5764 4 года назад +6

    Babies are the sneakiest parasites

  • @semaj_5022
    @semaj_5022 4 года назад +12

    Why is nobody talking about the fact that sharks apparently poop in spirals??? This is the most important thing I've ever learned.

    • @seanathanbeanathan
      @seanathanbeanathan 4 года назад +6

      It's a tie with wombat cubes for me

    • @JohnSmith-im8qt
      @JohnSmith-im8qt 4 года назад

      Lol, yes a truly useful piece of information to take with you on your way.

  • @thephantom1259
    @thephantom1259 4 года назад +14

    All kidding aside I had no idea that 1st parasite lived in fresh water really spooked me because I like to wade in fresh water in the summer

    • @budmeister
      @budmeister 4 года назад +4

      The only water that don't have living things in it, including parasites, is UV treated water.

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 4 года назад +5

      Better you dont know about the parasites that can travel up your urethra then when in water.....

    • @budmeister
      @budmeister 4 года назад +1

      @@anarchyantz1564 Oh I know about them.

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 4 года назад +1

      @@budmeister Hopefully not from "intimate" experience?

    • @thephantom1259
      @thephantom1259 4 года назад +1

      @@anarchyantz1564 at least we aren't some fish species that get their tongue cut off from a parasite only for them to become that fish's new tongue stealing its food and starving the fish that would suck

  • @fairlyaveragegamer4000
    @fairlyaveragegamer4000 4 года назад +7

    I’m hoping you specify that viruses are almost parasites and potentially have been around as long as cellular life has

    • @That.Lady.withtheYarn
      @That.Lady.withtheYarn 4 года назад

      A virus is not alive.

    • @fairlyaveragegamer4000
      @fairlyaveragegamer4000 4 года назад +1

      Azure'Ra Morganna a virus does challenge the idea of what we consider to be life, but it has organic properties.

  • @kasstroi
    @kasstroi 4 года назад +19

    30-year-old me before watching: "I just love a good Sci Show video to stimulate my brain!"
    My inner 12-year-old 5 minutes in: "Hehe pupae...PYOOPY"

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne 3 года назад +13

    The green caterpillar is what we called Tomato Worms. Of course they aren't worms but we didn't know that. They are incredible eaters and just few of them can strip a tomato plant of all its leaves overnight. That meant that when they were in season we had to go out and check all the plants twice a day. They are very sneaky and hide under leaves; you can find a bundle of little ones are wrapped up together after they have just hatched. My father noticed that some of them were covered with little white stalks that looked like eggs. We brought one inside and waited. It was paralyzed but still alive up until the end when voila! a raft of tiny wasps burst out. Yay, we caught some of the wasps and put them back in the garden. Within weeks almost all the caterpillars had been infected and keeping up with the few left was easy. This was in New England. Imagine my amazement when they turned up in my garden in New Orleans! Nobody there had ever seen them before. There weren't any tomato plants around but they seemed to have immediately switched their diet to hibiscus plants. Noticing that my hibiscus plants were being denuded overnight I looked for some bug that could be eating them and found the little monsters. They are actually quite big, as long as 4", but so well concealed that you have to literally turn over every leaf and look underneath it to find them. They grab on tight so you really have to pull hard to get them off. Warning: If you find one do NOT pick it up bare-handed. They have gigantic pincers that will stick a good 1/2" into your finger on either side and they HURT. It is very hard to make them let go too. Best defense is nice tough gardening gloves and a little pail of soapy bleach water, but it takes them a long time to die so you may have to push them back in a few times if they crawl out. I sure wish I could find some wasps down here!!

  • @spencerthompson1049
    @spencerthompson1049 3 года назад +1

    Awesome episode thank you!

  • @Gigifrancetexas
    @Gigifrancetexas 4 года назад +1

    I love that the channel has over 6 mil subscribers

  • @stevenlester2606
    @stevenlester2606 4 года назад +3

    Thank you, Mr. Bill Mead, for your excellent horse and rider graphic! It brought forth an instant chuckle.

  • @jeffreybernath6627
    @jeffreybernath6627 4 года назад +3

    I'd love to see a follow-up episode about ancient symbiotic relationships.

  • @magsg3302
    @magsg3302 4 года назад +3

    LMAO THAT PIC OF HANK AT THE END

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 4 года назад +56

    "Coprolite", because "Faecaelite" was just too poopy... :P

  • @jscotthatcher380
    @jscotthatcher380 4 года назад +9

    sorry. i tried to watch this twice now and just couldn't. parasites freak me out too much. : /

    • @SciShow
      @SciShow  4 года назад +7

      Thanks for trying! We have some non parasite videos coming this week too. :)

  • @AshenDruid
    @AshenDruid 4 года назад +4

    Parasites are the spawn campers of the natural world.
    "It's a legitimate strategy!"

  • @punksci6879
    @punksci6879 4 года назад +28

    My last landlord was in his 90's, does that count?

  • @FlesHBoX
    @FlesHBoX 4 года назад +2

    Good lord this video makes my skin crawl.

    • @magicalmanfromwonderland
      @magicalmanfromwonderland 4 года назад

      Are you sure it's just your skin that's crawling?

    • @FlesHBoX
      @FlesHBoX 4 года назад

      @@magicalmanfromwonderland What'd you have to go and say that for! Now I gotta shave my skin off!

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 4 года назад

      It's not the video. It's the parasites.🦀

  • @noOtherFs
    @noOtherFs 4 года назад +2

    I was so sleepy when I read the title of this video that I thought it said "6 of the oldest pastries ever found" and was confused when the thumbnail didn't look like a pie

  • @randallpetroelje3913
    @randallpetroelje3913 4 года назад +1

    Most interesting!! Thanks again for your show. Love it!

  • @MordonaT
    @MordonaT 4 года назад +4

    Okay WTF!? I literally found a Tomato Hornworm on my pepper plant today and never seen one only to see it here a hour later.

    • @FloozieOne
      @FloozieOne 3 года назад +2

      I hope you didn't pick it up and get bitten; they have amazingly long and strong pincers, I can vouch for this.

  • @purplealice
    @purplealice 4 года назад +1

    I loved the equestrian photo...

  • @BothHands1
    @BothHands1 4 года назад +1

    tapeworms are the worst 😩😩😩😩😩
    my cat got them once from fleas he got outside, and he knew something was wrong so he would lay on my bed with his backside facing me so i could see these little segmented pieces crawling out of him and it was horrifying. i immediately bought tapeworm meds from petsmart, bleached all my floors, and washed my bedding at extra hot temperatures like 5 times in a row. luckily i never caught them. but it was horrifying.

  • @St0RM33
    @St0RM33 4 года назад +2

    HANS...GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER!!!

  • @cbsboyer
    @cbsboyer 4 года назад +2

    Parasites are endlessly fascinating. For those who are interested in the subject, a fantastic high-level overview book on them is "Parasite Rex" by Carl Zimmer.

  • @MrHandsy
    @MrHandsy 4 года назад

    This channel is best channel.

  • @Antropovich
    @Antropovich 4 года назад +1

    Haha, literally on a horse "hitching a ride" at 9:56

  • @billyr2904
    @billyr2904 Год назад +1

    Though you didn't mention this, brachiopods are not mollusks, and are there own phylum.

  • @greenkoopa
    @greenkoopa 4 года назад

    The guy on the couch can confirm this sound strategy

  • @jesserothhammer7378
    @jesserothhammer7378 4 года назад

    You on that horse was hilarious

  • @ZergrushEddie
    @ZergrushEddie 3 года назад

    *30 year old watching RUclips about oldest parasites.*
    Dad, walking by: “That ‘bout you, son?”

  • @hiimryan2388
    @hiimryan2388 4 года назад +3

    Parasitic wasps be like: they prey on caterpillars and are killed by other wasps who are killed by other wasps...

  • @Dylanm8152
    @Dylanm8152 4 года назад +3

    Is it just me or did you think that mole was a bit of dirt on your screen haha

  • @ouiVEVO
    @ouiVEVO 4 года назад +19

    Nothing about my boy toxoplasma gondii :'(

    • @cbsboyer
      @cbsboyer 4 года назад +2

      @@gb7168 By some counts, up to 20% of people on Earth have Toxoplasma Gondii sitting on their brains right now as we speak. Cats are popular pets. As a bonus, they release things like dopamine that can potentially tweak your brain function.

    • @patrickmccurry1563
      @patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад +4

      There is no evidence AT ALL that they affect human behavior other than slightly increasing the risk for certain conditions like anxiety or schizophrenia. We are not mice.

    • @cbsboyer
      @cbsboyer 4 года назад +3

      @@patrickmccurry1563 That's exactly what they would want you to say.

    • @lordgarion514
      @lordgarion514 4 года назад +3

      @@patrickmccurry1563
      Might want to rethink that.....
      "When infected human adults were compared with uninfected adults on personality questionnaires or on a panel of behavioral tests, several differences were found. Other studies have demonstrated reduced psychomotor performance in affected individuals."
      (From 13 years ago)
      www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/
      You might want to stop with your opinion, and start looking at actual science.

  • @Petrov3434
    @Petrov3434 3 года назад

    Bravo - outstanding

  • @hcn6708
    @hcn6708 Год назад

    5:00 Actually, since parasitoidism is ancestral to all wasps, it’s at least 200 million years old

  • @Chris-op7yt
    @Chris-op7yt 4 года назад

    it's winter here with not much insect food around. i found an adult wasp chomping on a cabbage moth larva.

  • @DrLilo
    @DrLilo 4 года назад +1

    So... Maybe beedrill doesn't actually evolve from kakuna. Maybe weedles are supposed to evolve into something more mothlike.

  • @ianpatterson2447
    @ianpatterson2447 4 года назад +8

    Fun fact, the largest, Jeffrey Star

  • @SagaciousEagle
    @SagaciousEagle 4 года назад

    2:59 You can say to someone you don't like or in public forums that something is a load of coprolite. That's as polite as you can get since it's not a conventional form of expression, therefore not derogatory.

  • @jamescrawford1534
    @jamescrawford1534 3 года назад

    Recent studies have shown in some zombie fungus doesn't penetrate the brain but does the neural network which puppets them. This means the host are conscious and aware but unable to prevent themselves from rotting from the inside out before being allowed to die once the fungus is ready grow and to release spores

  • @TheBlueB0mber
    @TheBlueB0mber 4 года назад

    I’ve never been more disgusted...
    Or enthralled! 😯

  • @biranfalk-dotan2448
    @biranfalk-dotan2448 4 года назад

    Small Correction: the wasps you talked about are parasitoid, but not because they only feed on their hosts when young. In fact, a parasitoid is marked by the fact that it necessarily kills the host, as opposed to a parasite which would “prefer” for the host to stay alive.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid?wprov=sfla1

  • @RavenIsAnArtist
    @RavenIsAnArtist 2 года назад

    Watching this while my stomach hurts for no apparent reason
    Goodnight

  • @NR-fg2qc
    @NR-fg2qc 4 года назад +5

    Oh wow, with my new headphones I'm hearing bass in the intro I've never heard before! 🎧

    • @sarcasticeggs8998
      @sarcasticeggs8998 4 года назад +4

      Is this comment sponsored by Raycon?

    • @TheTrueAltoClef
      @TheTrueAltoClef 4 года назад +4

      @@sarcasticeggs8998 if it were raycon you'd probably only hear bass

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 4 года назад

      @Autumn Anxiety this IS in fact an ad then?

    • @NR-fg2qc
      @NR-fg2qc 4 года назад

      I don't even remember the brand I bought. I'm poor so these are the first pair I've ever owned.

  • @chimerasofhafgufa
    @chimerasofhafgufa 4 года назад +2

    Hi, I haven't been able to find an answer to my question on the internet at all, so I want to ask it here.
    I love butterflies and I have a huge amount of nettle growing in my area, so once in a while, I love to find tortoiseshells and caring for them till they turn into a butterfly.
    Obviously, not all of them survive, but one situation was really unusual. Two of my caterpillars started to turn black and literally wither. They had a lump inside of them near the head but the rest of the body slowly turned flat. Once they were dead there was a white 3mm in diameter "pearl" left near them. When I first saw it, I was scared to leave it like that so I just dumped it in trash.
    But the question is, was it a parasite, and if yes then what kind of a parasite?

    • @massimookissed1023
      @massimookissed1023 4 года назад +1

      Maybe a fly, _Sturmia bella_
      www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/whats-eating-small-tortoiseshell#

    • @chimerasofhafgufa
      @chimerasofhafgufa 4 года назад

      @@massimookissed1023 Thank you for looking into that! But I think it's not sturmia bella.
      The closest picture to what I've seen was this
      lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/KQtX0JfNQVJ0Pq4D_yR3tewgl9q4_bMiSt69Ev1qXCjnqHVlHBb448Ayoi4z1zoDcdaDHlJK9KB9hycVWswsESlCMk9latkE97PeBFgX

  • @kirbie2640
    @kirbie2640 4 года назад +1

    we need a cowboy stefan to go along with muscle hank

  • @dragonpaws
    @dragonpaws 2 года назад

    Someone else in the comments said this, but I'd like to echo it because I really mean it. Thank you for not going for thumbnail shock gimmicks and fearmongering

  • @stevenlester2606
    @stevenlester2606 4 года назад

    You said that the cat of the second example couldn't have caught her parasites from a human pet because there were any around the cave in use for 17,000 years, but they've just proven that there have been humans around North and South America for at 30,000 years, so that negates these conclusions.

  • @asailijhijr
    @asailijhijr 4 года назад

    I'm amazed you didn't mention mitochondria.

  • @echostarling84
    @echostarling84 3 года назад +1

    oh god Xenomorphia...it begins! next is Weyland Company!

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 4 года назад

    Thank you

  • @oberonpanopticon
    @oberonpanopticon Год назад

    Lemme get this straightened, xenomorphs were inspired by parasitoid wasps, and now we’ve named an ancestor of parasitoid wasps after xenomorphs? It all comes full circle, huh

  • @hicksalpha
    @hicksalpha 4 года назад

    Symbiotes next please :)

  • @seanconnors9912
    @seanconnors9912 4 года назад +3

    I thought this was "Journey to the Microcosmos"

    • @massimookissed1023
      @massimookissed1023 4 года назад +2

      No, this is run the hell away from the microcosmos.

  • @hughaskew6550
    @hughaskew6550 4 года назад +1

    You not only misused "superlative," you overused it to death. Perhaps the writers of these shows should patronize their own sponsor Brilliant.org.

  • @devinmcalpine2314
    @devinmcalpine2314 2 года назад

    It’d be nice to see a video on how parasites help their hosts. I have a vague memory that people with tapeworm didn’t get dysentery or something like that.

  • @golfgrabu
    @golfgrabu 4 года назад +2

    After watching the video, my whole body is itching and I suddenly feel weird sensations coming from my stomach. No thanks to you guys. At least it was a very informative paranoia inducing video!

  • @DownTopable
    @DownTopable 4 года назад +1

    9:57 I see all your patreons have increased the cgi budget substantially

  • @nandoginkaku7610
    @nandoginkaku7610 4 года назад +3

    Cordyceps... sounds familiar. Oh yeah. Last of us

  • @franklsuarez
    @franklsuarez 4 года назад +1

    I have to tell my parents my lifestyle is NOT UNNATURAL.

  • @You_work_tomorrow
    @You_work_tomorrow 4 года назад +1

    There’s two types of species, parasites and chumps

  • @robsmith1a
    @robsmith1a 4 года назад

    I was expecting an episode about lawyers or politicians.

  • @saiynoq6745
    @saiynoq6745 11 месяцев назад

    What I want to know about these wasp is what came first the bee like bug we know or the parasite like young ? Either is wild to think of

  • @Crazyninja30
    @Crazyninja30 4 года назад

    Amazing is it not that parasites found a niche so quickly in the history of life.

  • @SlavTiger
    @SlavTiger 2 года назад

    Xenomorphia...perfection.

  • @nathanlevesque7812
    @nathanlevesque7812 4 года назад

    Imagine scientists studying one of your random dumps ten thousands of years later

  • @jessicaevans7847
    @jessicaevans7847 3 года назад

    So like a long flat spiral shaped thing of poop or spiraled cylindrical deal, like a normal everyday spring as opposed to slinky?

  • @RakeshWarier
    @RakeshWarier 4 года назад +4

    I kind of find hard to believe that 50% of all animals are parasitic. Shouldn't there be more hosts than parasites?

    • @Flarexxxx
      @Flarexxxx 4 года назад +2

      Parasites can get parasites im pretty sure but dont take my word for it, im just some jackass on the internet

    • @objectivemillennial2117
      @objectivemillennial2117 4 года назад

      You don’t have to believe it but it’s still true that how science facts work, the sun doesn’t stop to exist cuz you stop believing in it

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 4 года назад +1

      Aren't hosts bigger than a parasite? I mean many lice live in a single head

  • @markphc99
    @markphc99 4 года назад +2

    Do chimps, monkeys etc get schistosomes?

  • @xenos_n.
    @xenos_n. 4 года назад +2

    The pyoopee 🤭

  • @LaineyBug2020
    @LaineyBug2020 4 года назад

    Just realized you were talking about pupæ in... poopy... Then my brain said, "Hehehe...he said pupæ..." lol!

  • @SpeiderProductions
    @SpeiderProductions 4 года назад

    Interestingly enough, parasites are also a good bio indicator for ecosystem health due to the nature of their life cycles requiring sometimes several different host species, when there are less parasites that are known to inhabit species of a given ecosystem, this may indicate that one or more of the species are not present in sufficient numbers for the parasite to complete its life cycle, thus indicating that the ecosystem is being impacted by some other factor.

  • @jordannadroj9061
    @jordannadroj9061 4 года назад

    That's some serious schist

  • @That.Lady.withtheYarn
    @That.Lady.withtheYarn 4 года назад +1

    Wtf 101... With Professor Foxtrot

  • @rickb2432
    @rickb2432 4 года назад +18

    I didn’t know Trump and McConnell were missing.

    • @MartinOlminkhof
      @MartinOlminkhof 4 года назад +3

      Seriously though, they need to name some parasites after those guys...

    • @budmeister
      @budmeister 4 года назад +3

      Please leave politics out of this educational video.

    • @objectivemillennial2117
      @objectivemillennial2117 4 года назад +5

      Monokuma don’t worry we won’t offend republicans as they never seek education

    • @fraserhenderson7839
      @fraserhenderson7839 4 года назад

      @@objectivemillennial2117 It seems many Republicans like "proprietorial" "facts" and the Republican party will get those as needed in-house.

  • @ariprabowo85
    @ariprabowo85 4 года назад

    I recently found one in our house. My sister and I refer to the parasite as "Dad".

  • @Beutimus
    @Beutimus 4 года назад

    Probably not the best RUclips video to watch while eating breakfast. XD

  • @animefreak26able
    @animefreak26able 4 года назад +1

    I found a catipillar covered in wasp eggs on my moms tomato plant 😩