The secret superpowers of jellyfish
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2017
- We know remarkably little about the tens of thousands of jellies species in our oceans. So scientists are searching for deep-sea jellyfish to decode their genes.
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Jellyfish single handily defies almost everything we understand of life and living organisms. It's a living creature, but lacks a brain, almost entirely composed of water, yet sleeps, learns, and an effective hunter (namely the box jellyfish that has good eyesight, actively follows and kills its prey). Very interesting creature that we should study more.
i firmly believe we should be exploring the oceans depths more than spending money on space exploration. something around 98% of the earth's ocean is undiscovered. there is where we will find the key to technology far beyond our understanding; now. i am so fascinated by the galaxy beneath the sea.. i used to live in the florida keys, and have spent the majority of my life on the coast of maine. the sea is something very dear to my heart and i could go on and on about the possibilities.
You'll become one after about the 5th or 6th booster
@@the_real_max_level Totally agree. I've spent my whole life by the sea, either in the UK or Australia. I can't imagine not being by the water, and not spending my free time under the waves. It pains me to think of how little effort we put into ocean exploration. We've never built on the legacy of the Conshelf and Sealab. Only Aquarius is left these days, and even that's been left to a single university to support. It's such a waste of opportunity, such a lack of curiosity and vision.
@@johnr4836 💀 fr if thats whats gonna happen after taking boosters than i change my mind and im gettin high off that shi
@@johnr4836 🤣
I love quartz for thier beautiful cinematography, editing, and thier story telling. It feels raw and real.
Gotta have that shit raw
raw feels good
Got stung by a jelly when I was young. Fascinating creatures
😂😂
The amount of views and likes that this video doesn't have is frankly criminal. Way underrated!
True
@Audial Asphyxiation Precisely what I was going to say. I’ve seen some truly wonderful footage on TH-cam of jellyfish (for instance on EVNautilus) but this is top-notch. It’s almost 2020 & only 1.3 K likes (!!)
Facts
True it’s showing how dumb humans became and the whole world interests are at Instagram.. people watching cgi nature trough a VR.. while we can enjoy the beauty of earth
@@asnwoa8280 :')
Seeing this I can imagine life developed two times separately on Earth.
Isnt it even more crazy that we all have the same ancestor as the jellyfishs in that video?
All animals, including the jellyfish, ctenophores, and salps featured in this video, as well as all extant life on earth that uses RNA/DNA to encode genetic information, is descended from a common ancestor. But that shouldn't make the sheer diversity across the tree of life any less amazing and inspiring!!
Ye, their IQ is like 0 but they still are amazing
it probably did great point of view
I love deep sea creatures. Their so beautiful and gentle.
I can’t believe my eyes right now... I’ve never seen anything like this. This is amazing. Breathtaking.
jellyfish are the most captivating creatures on earth to me.
This video was wonderfully informative, fascinating, and beautiful to watch. Thank you for providing us with such quality footage and for the work you do on sea jellies!! 💖🌞
2:15 perfectly synch dance of that jelly fish
literally PERFECTTT
I’m just about to go to college and have been looking at majoring in marine biology- this video has inspired me and I’m that much sure it’s what I want to do
Whenever i watch these videos they always end too soon.
The brilliance of nature knows no bounds it seems. My eyes are unable to capture enough 'visual calories' to keep up with their seemingly unlimited ability to form moving diaphanous structures that defy any abstract sculpture I've ever seen. It makes me feel crudely inept to their beauty and mystery.
The fact that we as a species continue to poison the environment is insanity . That and killing anything in our path in search of seafoods over fishing is immoral. But then just look at how we treat each other. May god protect us.
This was amazing but I felt very sad for the jellyfish that got sucked into the tube.
Same. I think it's wrong to kidnap them.
Ikr 😞
My mind started drifting into a whole sad narrative 😅
Good video quartz. Also this guy needs to make a jellyfish book for kids and a table top book for adults.
You are an amazing scientist sir. It also appears that you are an amazing Father and are blessed to have such a cute and brilliant child that is already excited about learning about life on Earth. Thank you for your hard work. We hope you and your family are are during these tough times. Keep up the hard work.
I’m studying genetics and biotechnology in Portugal and i’m crazy about jellyfish, my dream is too work with them some day.
Jellies are so amazing, my favorite underwater animal if you can call them that
Same here. They are indeed animals - as are corals, my next fav :)
I don't know what to say.......
I always loved Jellyfish, Aaaaaand i'm still fascinated by them
I could stay hour staring at them :3
;3
Bet u won't touch one
It i touch one im death by jellyfish?
I don't know...maybe?
Wanna go Jelly fishing???
Interesting to see those life forms! Thank you!
Absolutely brilliant footage!
Not even 2K views??? Fantastic cinematography and interesting content!
Umm they have about 40K views now. Well the dialog does say you published this comment about a year ago...
yeah!!
@@CompactStar nice detective work Sherlock
They are definitely not from the earth. Just breathtaking....
favorite animal species! They just look so otherworldly!
Best channel! Such great content deserves 100x more views
Just amazing !!!! Seeing the beauty of nature !
Moss Landing, best beach, such powerful waves, best bird watch, oh I miss NoCal! ❤️ thank you for this one!
“Go ahead and suck it up” had me crying😭😭😂
I feel like I've watched a lifetime, not six minutes.
Absolutely fascinating
What I see from the start of the video:
Underrated
Way
Way
*WAY* too underrated
Soooo calmmming Cinematography🥰
Thanks! This is superb!
God I love ocean life, especially jellyfish. It’s so fascinating to see how stuff survives and how so many creatures are still hardly understood and challenging many of the ideas about life. And so much isn’t even discovered yet, it’s insane,
Every time I think I’m over my obsession I find videos like this and it comes right back haha, if it weren’t for my grades (especially in biology freshman year) I would be more likely to go with marine biology instead of Graphic design.
At least I can hope to spread information through the design work tho!
These scientists are loving thier lives and I'm loving watching them
It just struck me - there are so many creatures that live their entire lives without ever having experienced sunlight. Pretty mind blowing. God's creativity in His creation is extraordinary!
Glory to God, brother/sister. 😊🤍
i dont usually comment on youtube vidoes but i felt like this video deserves a comment from me. This is really amazing. scratch that.... this is fascinating!!! I really enjoyed hearing this guy talk about ~jellies~ these organisms are very unrepresented in the animal society :(
Imagine if those "Jellyfishs" were aliens
Then zoom me up lol xx
They are.
This is amazing!
such fascinating creatures
So elusive and beautiful!!
It is interesting that several jellyfish have several appearances and the fact that some jellyfishes are living in deep sea is truly interesting.
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5:11 I don't know why I wanna cry!
don't freeze the poor jelly fish! that's mean :(
-.- grow up kid
very cool, thank you!!!
Watching these jellyfish reminds me of some types of UFOs...
What if there is a UFO that were borg-like, similar to both a marine animal and a flying machine?
And it's bioluminescence is why we only see certain lights in a shape with a void in-between, it's ability to create light is tricking our eyes...this ability could be used like a cloaking device.
That's what I'm thinking. It actually makes more sense than any other explanation. There could even be transmedium species of them.
Congrats! You successfully predicted the ending of a popular UFO movie.
@@caleigh2114 Right dude, I just saw the movie "Nope," and almost sh@t my pants LMFAO! I have a lot more ideas like that, I should write Sci Fi!!
Amazing!!!
May favorite is the halitrephes jelly it’s so pretty and cool looking
Wondrous creatures
I love the video!
They are normal documentary music. I feel like you could fond it if you just searched “documentary music”. A lot of them use the same type of music.
That is so beautiful!🤍
Aliens exist people and they light up like The Vegas Strip 🤯🔋
Now I know I love jellyfish ♡
Nature is so complex
Wow! Just Wow, what else can you say? Whoever did the photography needs a Nobel prize. lol
They look a bit like mushrooms 🍄
"Jellyfish are amazing," 0:07 *shows a larvacean*
Beautiful
Oh i love this.
Jellyfish look like...rainbow light?
Absolutely horrendous how they just take the life of an incredible, unique, beautiful being in the name of science.
It's amazing thing of nature
Comb jellies moves like giant ciliates
97% water.. give 'em another 3% and make 'em water
jellyfish are the butterflies of the sea.
Be right back, need to put my tv in the car.
This wanna makes me study on marine bio because of how beautiful yet scary it seems
Great video. I'm only confused about one thing. At 2:26 he says we don't know what genes or chemicals make their bioluminescence and then at 4:18 he said they cloned the gene in the early 80's to support scientific advances.
True, however, most jellies do not use that chemical. only a few, for instance Aquea Victoria, use that chemical
MBARI has great aquarium and a nice youtube channel
I think that one day I can also become bioluminescent 😏
Sadly, you do not put them back where you abducted them from.
Who wants my jellyfish?
I'm not sellyfish!
~Ogden Nash
i love jellyfish!
Why is it that when I smoke weed I stumble to videos like these? Lol
reminds me of the movie - the abyss [1989].
Amazing
funny how chemical light signalling evolves in sightless creatures.
I'm looking for the comment in the comment line that reads "would you like your kids being studied in glass containers like that".
Closes one I found was "imagine floating around in the ocean and all of a sudden you get sucked up by a tube and put in a tank"
That jellyfish was essentially abducted by aliens who want to analyse it
Tentacool has evolved
Wow that was fantastic 👍 and from the board I realized you have an Persian colleague 😅
3:11
jellyfish: Ouh hey 👋🏻? oH NO-
Eric Bischoff's long lost brother.
imagine kidnapping jelly fish
I love how they just... suck the lil guy up.
They are much smaller than I expected
amaizng!
I'm still searching for what Flys in the sky in large groups that looks just like jelly fish
I thought SOME of this bioluminiscence is more reflecting light through the spectrum like a prisma than actively glowing? Like the Ctenophora ?!? Gonna have a look in this again now...
I’m high on drugs right now looking at this and it’s beautiful
me too but at the same time it makes me sad.i wouldnt want to be captured by aliens that then study and kill me while iam just living my everyday life.
you know if I was a fish and encountered one of these beautiful creatures... I'd be dead in less than 5 seconds because goddamn they are beautiful and beautiful things attract me
Wow I was expecting the creature down in the deep sea to be a lot bigger
Wow!!!
I can't believe that a jellyfish is smarter than me.
Weird idea: Jellyfish ARE aliens
a few question that comes to mind is why would a jellyfish even bother developing and under what circumstances created these "light" genes?. Its not like they have eyes or other sensors to detect these "lights"?. Only reason is not beeing eaten I guess since its a common thing in nature to develop strong colors like the butterfly or frog.
Many jellyfish have simple clusters of light sensing neurons in pigment spots at the base of their tentacles that detect basic differences in light, but these are not used for communication or forming images. Box jellyfish actually have more complex camera eyes with retinas and lenses that have evolved independently from other animals with similar eyes, like us, likely because box jellies evolved in shallow waters where it's important to be able to navigate around obstacles. Their eyes may also be important for hunting prey. But I think you're right, that bioluminescent displays by jellyfish and ctenophores are less for communication and more for mesmorizing/distracting/confusing potential predators.
Anyone know the name of the background soundtrack from 0:00-0:38?
Are we ignoring the fact that he studies sea creatures and his name is Haddock? Okay, I'll say nothing.
The jellyfish is peobably my favorte animal
I think siphonophores are trying to show us the future of human community. One day, we can be like them and live in harmony
Seeing these makes you wonder about life and creation. Why would life evolve in this way? It hardly seems possible that it is an accident, or to say it is merely an accident is to miss the point.