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CREDITS:
This video was made in collaboration with Benedikt Pleyer, who is a gifted microscopist and has a wonderful contagious passion for discovering the incredible worlds that exist all around us. He has introduced me to all sorts of new creatures and I am fortunate to have met him.
Kita Williams reached out to me almost a year ago with her amazing Tardigrade footage, and I am so happy that she did. She has a knack for capturing these animals in way that gives them so much personality!
Bob Goldstein runs a lab at UNC Chapel Hill and has done incredible work on the Tardigrade (and much more.) He was kind enough to review my work to make sure I didn’t screw the science up too much! I wish I could have included more of his work on the evolution of Tardigrades – but I hope to do that in a future episode on arthropods.
Thank you to the following for publishing their images
under the CC license, it is a huge contribution to
science communication.
Water bear (tardigrade), Hypsibius dujardini,
scanning electron micrograph by
Bob Goldstein and Vicky Madden.
Scanning electron micrograph of active hydrated
Echiniscoides sigismundi by Thomas L. Sørensen-Hygum,
Robyn M. Stuart, Aslak Jørgensen & Nadja Møbjerg.
New Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada) from Amber
Mountain (Northern Madagascar) by Gąsiorek P, Vončina K (2019)
Thank you to all of my Patreon patrons for the
patience, support and feedback
MUSIC:
“BackBay Lounge” by
Kevin MacLeod
Additional footage used under
license from:
Pond5.com
Shutterstock.com
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As a design student, putting a scale bar that just says "small" is aspirational. You do you, Jerry. You know how to save time, Jerry.
Man.. Your voice is dreamy but your script is nasty. I'm sure kids would love to learn from these videos.
Freaking awesome 👍👏
Can't these things survive a nuke or something
Man, I always get so excited when you upload something! Your humor and new facts literally get me through my day sometimes. This is also great ASMR stuff on low volume; helps me sleep quite well. Can't wait until your next upload! I know it takes quite a lot of effort to make each one so I will be as patient as humanly possible lol. Thanks for doing what you do, man. It means more than you know.
Tardigrade taken to space
musterbation with consequences
LMAO
Well considering these things are microscopic I would definitely believe that they would "resist" radiation that can kill a human considering radiation goes through things at super speed to the point of knocking out atoms within your DNA thus fucking up your DNA and best case scenario killing your cells, the worst case is the cells go insane and turn into cancer, or possibly even severing some DNA strands that end up getting bunched into other pieces and becoming viruses! So yes i would say the fact that humans are quite a lot more vulnerable to radiation than an animal that is trillions of times smaller than us….
If we could all poop like that, I could only imagine what early Instagram would of been filled of
Great visuals to explain these little critters. I wasn't expecting it to be so funny too!
I may not be as impressive as the mighty tardigrade, but the meth hobo down the street sure can poop crystals.
I found Mulholland's family.
I love this guy's videos sooo much
I wonder how well the tardigrades on the moon are faring.
Queen Elizabeth: Amateurs
Ze: No we can't sell that as merch Jerry, there's staples in it!
Me, who also watches Baumgartner Restoration: well what if we use steel tacks? I want a stress-ball tardigrade dangit 😂
I had a phobia of these for some reason growing up and this was a very nice way to get positive exposure thank you 🥺
M o s s p i g l e t
Dude I just gave you a standing ovation..
Great vid 👏🏻
What is the song used during the closing credits?
The tardigrade lives up to my mom's wise words "just drink water and you'll be fine"
sometimes I really do think we live in a world full of Retardigrades
Well heck. This makes “War of the Worlds”, a bit less frightening. And that’s a good thing
7:44 this is the gross's and funnyist sense because its look weird and i liked that you said "jerry i think this was dead".
Ze Frank is the best zoology teacher on earth
Tardigrade poop pretty
This makes me happy calm dis is sum funny stuff def my favorite Youtuber
But but…
What doeeuwh the tardigrade females doeeuwh with the eggs in their skin when theres no compatible male near?
"think masturbation with consequences"
Like… humanity would be… I don't think this would work.
SCP 682: Finally, a worthy opponent
run away r u n a w a y
Will Jerry ever get his shit together? The answer is no.
"Tardigrades poop galaxies."
*Unicorns have left the chat
Please do more true facts with microfauna! I love it and i love learning about them!
This is excellently interesting. I've never wanted to learn this much.
Jerry cracks me tf up and I dont think jerry is even real
Ah, indestructible, cute, tiny, asexual. Have claws and horns like dragons. This is why water bears are my favourite creature.
Does anyone have more information regarding the genus battleleapus? I cannot find more information via the google and I would love to read more about them.
Thanks for another awesome video, Zefrank!
Water bears are my favorite things ever. Cute. Weird. Indestructible.
10:01 Solo 😀
Brilliant stuff!!! My new favourite channel 😀
I'm touched by how much inspiration Jerry found in these silly little wigglybits.
I love how jerry made space out of poop! hahahaha
When you said they poop crystals that reminds me of the troll movie which I hate because it was like a drug trip. Why is that movie so crazy I'm trying to learn about these things and this is what it reminds me of.
Does that mean I’ve been drinking these moss piglets?
This thing reminds me of the game Spore
Loved the narration. Haven't laughed so hard in a while. Glad I did learn quite a bit about these little creatures. I had heard about them but didn't know their name.
could you please tell me what BGM are you using? this classical music. thank you so much!
So there op af and there basically immortal god we need to unlock there secrets