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Bdelloids: The Most Hardcore Animals in the World?
Bdelloid rotifers have a superpower. If their DNA is shredded to pieces, whether from a lack of water or a blast of radiation, they can put it back together. Hosted by: Hank Green
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The Most Hardcore Creatures on Earth | Compilation
From mice that battle scorpions to microscopic moss piglets that can survive a solar storm, here are 6 of Earth’s most hardcore beings!
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Bdelloids: The Most Hardcore Animals in the World?
Bdelloid rotifers have a superpower. If their DNA is shredded to pieces, whether from a lack of water or a blast of radiation, they can put it back together.
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Best Nap Ever: Rotifers Wake Up After 24,000 Years
Tiny creatures called rotifers seem to have no problem continuing their lives after waking from a refreshing 24,000-year nap. And DNA samples from goats that lived 30,000 years ago tell us a bit about how humans were managing them back...
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The Most Hardcore Creatures on Earth | Compilation
From mice that battle scorpions to microscopic moss piglets that can survive a solar storm, here are 6 of Earth’s most hardcore beings!
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Sea Turtles Really DO Carry a (Microscopic) World on Their Backs
Several cultures portray the world as being carried on the back of a giant turtle. As it turns out, sea turtles really do house an entire world on their backs — one of microscopic organisms, that is!
Journey to the Microcosmos
What Are These Vorticella up To
It’s not technically a colony. Think of it more as a community of like-minded individuals. And today, we are going to join them.
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos
The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Rotifera Part 1: General Characteristics
We're concluding our study of clade gnathifera with a two-part investigation of phylum rotifera. In the first video, we'll focus general characteristics of some of the free-living, non-parasitic rotifers. These creatures have been found...
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I WONDER - What Is The Smallest Invertebrate In The World?
This video is answering the question of what is the smallest invertebrate in the world.
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
We’re starting this episode out with a question that we’re never going to have a good answer for: how many cells do animals have? How could we ever hope to count all those cells in each of those animals? And how could we even begin to...
Journey to the Microcosmos
These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
As animals, we owe a lot to the single-celled organisms that came before us. These are the organisms that laid the chemical groundwork for how we live, from the DNA and proteins within them to the molecules they released into the...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Rotifera Part 2: Four Major Clades
Rotifers exist in a wide range of shapes, from globular, sac-like floaters to elongated worm-like swimmers and creepers to sessile types. In this video we'll focus on the four major clades of this phylum - though there is debate around...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
Imagine that this is the beginning of the last thing you’ll ever see, an empty landscape with thin lines scratched across it. But those lines suddenly sharpen and gather into a dense mass that spreads from the crown that sits atop a...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
This Loxodes magnus is large, so large that it was able to eat a rotifer, those funny animals we often see getting bullied by their single-celled neighbors. Except, that rotifer is moving. It’s alive, twisting and turning inside of the...
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Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer
Rotifers don’t really get a lot of love when it comes to microscopic animals. At least as far as the public imagination goes, the rotifer is overshadowed by its fellow metazoan of the microcosmos: the tardigrade. And we might be part of...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Rotifers Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored
We also don't really know what rotifers are... but we'll try to tell you as much as we know!
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Zoology: What are Animals?
It's time to learn all about animals! And we aren't just talking about cats and dogs here, did you know that sea sponges and corals are also animals? It's a very diverse kingdom, that Animalia! It even includes us humans. So what defines...
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ECU TS Shot of Phase contrast videomicrography of rotifer Lepadella ovalis (Muller, 1786), these rotifers feed on bacteria and other micro organisms and Length approximately 150 micrometers / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
ECU TS Shot of Phase contrast videomicrography of rotifer Lepadella ovalis (Muller, 1786), these rotifers feed on bacteria and other micro organisms and Length approximately 150 micrometers / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
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ECU TS Shot of Phase contrast videomicrography of rotifer Lepadella ovalis (Muller, 1786), these rotifers feed on bacteria and other micro organisms and Length approximately 150 micrometers / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
ECU TS Shot of Phase contrast videomicrography of rotifer Lepadella ovalis (Muller, 1786), these rotifers feed on bacteria and other micro organisms and Length approximately 150 micrometers / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
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ECU R/F SLO MO Shot of three rotifer keratella with eggs / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
ECU R/F SLO MO Shot of three rotifer keratella with eggs / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
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ECU SLO MO Shot of female rotifer keratella with eggs / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
ECU SLO MO Shot of female rotifer keratella with eggs / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
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ECU SLO MO Shot of Rotifers Synchaeta pectinata / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
ECU SLO MO Shot of Rotifers Synchaeta pectinata / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom