Spleen. Definitely the spleen. It already sounds weird enough to say so throwing it up should be fun, and the imagery of a blood soaked organ being chucked at an attacking predator (or upset manager which is basically the same thing) while you run away crying and screaming seems like an appropriate defense mechanism.
lolz, that was a hilarious mental image, thanks. But just imagine what Karens would do! Throwing there spleens all over poor retail workers, restaurant waitstaff, and random strangers just trying to go about their day. It would LITERALLY be bloody chaos!
Am I tripping or is it “Ai/Uh-Kaih-Noh-Derhm or e3/i2-ki2-no2-dr2-m” also it is “o2-fi3-roi-di2-e2” or if u can’t mark notations mark dimwit “Oh-fee-roy-dee-uh”
0:50 Hi, marine biologist here. It's just radial symmetry, not pentaradial symmetry, because many sea stars have more than five arms. For example there's the sun star, basket star, or _L. annulatus,_ which starts out with 5 arms, but grows more and more as it ages, sometimes ending up with as many as 40.
I was literally just about to promote the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park project, but you already did it for me! Glad the project is getting more attention. The lore and detailed inspiration behind it is incredible, and it's really cool learning about marine organisms like echinoderms and seeing how that inspired the project.
It being a vast sea cucumber would explain quite a bit - even all the parasitic & symbiotic species found inside it. Though it would mean that tourists are pretty much just wandering 'round inside the cloaca of a cosmic horror...
@@Evolved_Skeptic Well, cladistically, humans are jawwed fish, so if the MFP is a sea cucumber, then the tourists are really just following in the footsteps (finwaves?) of their more basal relatives.
@@Evolved_Skepticyeah but doesn't the flesh pit resemble a giant starfish according to some lore about one of these things somehow ending up in Venus?
Now here's the thing, we possess something that the sea cucumbers don't as far as I'm aware. Bones! Can we just... Yeet our bones as self defense? Cause like, I'd spit my femur at a mugger if it'd grow back. If bones are off limits, I'd go with my stomache, cause it's like a water balloon full of acid!
Engagement reply! I love how transparent you are about the weird research aspects of oceanic science! Kudos to helping de-stigmatize the weirdness of not knowing how to pronounce something you've only seen written in overly scientific papers, how much you welcome correction and continued learning, augh, just love ya vibes
My uterus can yeet itself by any orifice of my body it chooses if it means that it doesn't need to bring attention to itself for 200days. But to be more realistic I think that the endometrium is, indeed, the only organ some humans routinely throw up and regrow.
I loved your references to existential horror! Totally agree with the idea that sea cucumbers would be a great addition to mystery flesh pit national park XD I would vomit up my stomach (not like the sea stars), hopefully I would regrow a less problematic one
11:30 Sea cucumbers are a light source in game, they give the same light level as a torch or lantern when all four individual sea pickle blocks are placed together. That is probably why minecraft showed up in the results.
"Although not all Sea Cucumbers have Pentaradial Symmetry, it's dependent on whether or not they have tube feet. Idk what I'm going to do with this cucumber now...." Just brilliant
Ever since attending university for evolutionary biology I've been itching to broaden my horizons further. Thank you for educating people in such an engaging and approachable format. As for your ending questions, my favorite sea cucumber is Enypniastes eximia due to its otherworldly appearance. The organ I'd want to be able to regenerate and dispose of is most likely the heart. This is both for the longevity of my own existence and the ability to regularly donate hearts for those in need. My answer however hinges on the assumption that I'd survive the first evisceration.
Damn y'all just throwing that out... I understand for the most part, but i am trans and can barely relate after learning to forget it when I'm alone, so it's surprising and terrifying that "cis" or even cis people could possibly want that stuff (with trans people I expect that after experiencing 'life as it is,' myself). I don't care about arguing over y'alls personal decisions I just felt a very visceral (dunno what the word means) emotion as a result of this one-off comment in the video. Being AMAB, it's just really existential that I have no idea of this "terrible" experience I hear about so often. Then I hear one of my cis girl friends being extatic about finally getting her periods cuz she finally feels like a woman, it's very stange. Then I see characters and even real human beings :O being neutral or appreciative of their own bodily functions; people respecting the differences with them and people having their own stuff; all that's pretty commonplace in trans-created media and spaces and and and and and. There's such a wild disconnect with different people with different levels of ficked up genitalia, and hormones, and experiences, I guess. *That* kinda disconnect is what I'm experiencing in this case. Despite all that, we humans are ficking average as fick lmao. PotFriend
I am horrified, fascinated... confused and in shock all at the same time throughout the entirety of watching this. Also an answer, I would probably choose the small intestine that way I could use it as a lasso to bind the aggressor. Nice video btw😃!
I was rather determined to find my favorite sea cucumber after watching this video. I think it would be the pink warty sea cucumber (Cercodemas anceps) simply because of their colorful (what I’m assuming to be) buccal podia and bodies!
Assuming I was in an altercation on land I’d choose my stomach to vomit up because of course the acid would come in handy. If it was more of a vomit and run situation where the purpose would be to cause a distraction I’d definitely choose my uterus.
My entire sinus cavity. I can simply be careful about dust for a few days, and then be free of, y'know, never being able to bREATHE OUT OF MY FACE PROPERLY because I have the chronic sniffles all the time for some reason. Thank you sinuses you do so much clearly, just, how not be full? Also, I always appreciate your subtitles! Genuinely high quality, beyond the bare minimum, good stuff!
In somewhat kinda related to their ability to be able to recover from ejecting their insides, locally where I live there's a traditional medicine made from an oil extracted from a species of sea cucumber that's used as a topical ointment to treat light wounds and burns on the skin. Not sure how well it actually works (or if it's placebo) but it's usually the go to topical treatment vs the usual iodine or saline solutions, and from my experience I never had any issues in using it. It's called Gamat oil, there's one research paper that concluded that it did help in healing wounds but I'm not sure if the results have been replicated by other researchers.
The Stupid Lantern™ bit made me absolutely lose my MIND laughing! Your videos are the perfect amount of funny, informative and Cosmically Horrifying, I'm absolutely hooked!
This is really fascinating. I'm so fascinated by the voluntary evisceration of the nerve ring. Are sea cucumbers capable of even rudimentary learning? And is this learning retained? I recall some bugs turn from larva to goo to flying insect and learning is retained. Obviously it's very different, but given that the goo-memory already Jackie-Chan-I-Can't-Even'd my brain, I would be less surprised the sea cucumber might.
Wow! I found a paper on Google scholar detailing this phenomenon, I had never heard this before. Thanks for this comment, you’ve educated at least one fellow watcher 😊
Sea Cucumbers are an interesting example of Convergent Evolution, considering they're (IIRC) supposed to be the closest invertebrate evolutionary relatives to Chordates and Vertebrates; Cephalopods and their (relatively) closely related Gastropod kin are an interesting Divergence from the fairly standard bilaterally symmetrical body plan shared between Arthropods, Chordates, and all Vertebrates.
I just recently found your channel. Can't tell you why (I know you were talking about that at the end), but keep up your niche! You had me busting out laughing with some bits. I love the particular take on near cosmic horror going on, and that textbook bit was utterly hilarious in the best way.
I want you to know that when I saw this a couple of months ago, it inspired me so viscerally that I chose this topic for a research essay in my first-year English class. I'm definitely in over my head, my academic sources are making me go cross-eyed, but I'm using this and your video on sea stars as some of my non-academic sources and citing them super heavily - I hope you don't mind!! I really love the way you describe these concepts using such approachable language, it makes the topic super accessible! Thanks :)
The end of this video is the exact moment I knew I had to subscribe! Also, as someone who has had organs removed I can state from personal experience we 100% don't need our gallbladder and I'm happier without a uterus!
I'm here fairly late to just say that I really love what you're doin' here. Your most recent video at this time was the one about Siphonophores, which was also the first video of yours that I watched! But your content is the perfect mix of fascinating, educational, entertaining, and charming that I had to go back and start watching everything. I love the Alien Ocean series, and I even watched the video about salinity/ The Shape of Water/ weird hot fish man all fish-caked up. I have loved each video, and deeply appreciate the work you put in to research this stuff and make such fun videos. As for what organ I'd like to vomit up as a defense mechanism, I'd go with my intestines I think. Hork that bad boy up, then swing it around over my head whooping. I bet that'd scare off any would-be muggers!
My favorite is definitely the sea pig! I was laughing so hard at that part😂 I learned so many new things in this video, thank you so much for making it and this whole channel! 💛🐙
I got the Jeff Vandermeer novel reference! Honestly I always thought the creature inside the inverted tower would look like a sea cucumber positioned vertically with many feet.
Ok so like Im watching all of these 2 years late so you'll probably never see these comments but 1) I LOVE THIS CHANNEL best Marine Biologist by far so sad it took me 5 years to find it and 2) Im like 90% sure that the "aster' in Asterozoa is ACTUALLY referencing the Asters, a family (checks notes, Order: Asterids, Family; Asteraciae, Genus: Aster, so all of them) of plants we all call Asters, this includes but is not limited to: The asters, Sunflowers, Dendelions, and uhh uhh, Daisies and uhh LOTS OF OTHERS ok you are a Marine Biologist, Im more of a land guy, plants and land animals, love em, good rule of them with a flower, if its not an aster its a rose and if its not a rose its broccoli and if its not broccoli who cares. ANYWAY the etymology of aster is "star" wich became Astera which is star like wich then gave us the same as Asteroids cus they are star like when they go FWOOSH through the sky and ok you know what its all a circle and it all means the same thing and blame the Greeks ok BYE BYE on to the next episode! Oh also I would love to be able to throw up my kidneys and then regrow them because well, then I could regrow my kidneys and that seems pretty useful or maybe my heart or ok ANYWAY BYE BYE
Sea Pickles in Minecraft are tunicate colonies that emit light (likely inspired by real-life pyrosomes), like the game's lanterns...? That's the one connection I see. Also, googling "sea pickle" used to bring up sea cucumbers back when Sea Pickles were just newly added to the game. Likely because of the food (pickles are cucumbers for those who don't know) .
The common name for sea cucumber in my mother tongue, catalan, is "cagarro de mar", which literally means "sea shit" Do with that knowledge what you will. In a more serious tone, this is a great informative video in an easy to digest (no pun intended) format. This is an amazing job, I will totally subscribe.
So, I'm watching through a lot of your content as of late (I don't exactly expect you to see this comment tbh), and it reminds me that Scallops have HUNDREDS to THOUSANDS of eyes, and they move by Jet Propulsion. Not exactly "Alien" on the whole, but definitely got some interesting notes to them. Thank you for these videos, they are wonderful.
I like to pronounce all the silent letters just for fun, and you don't have to go too many hundred years back before they were all pronounced... or at least those that weren't invented from nothing and were never pronounced like the b in "debt" or the s in "island"; by scholars that liked to pretend that English was a romance language.
just subscribed to your channel and I love how spunky and passionate you are!!! this is probably my favorite video yet, these bois are WILD. also obviously the uterus 💀
This is so interesting! I recently discovered your channel and have been binging all your videos!! You're very academically honest and the content you make is always fun to watch! I hope you get the views you want!!!
I don’t know how you truly can get more views on TH-cam? I don’t think anybody knows besides the developers? Feel like it’s a toss up l? You popped up randomly. I subbed and very much appreciate TH-cam for showing me your content. And Thank you THANK YOU for the amount of time you put aside for these videos. Absolutely love what you are talking about and just pulls me in. If you’re a teacher in general you are prob killing it, if you are not a teacher you’d make everyone’s favorite teacher 100%. That teacher that like actually helps the kids that they have. Personally I have like 3 teachers that really had taught me a lot and changed me greatly. Thanks again
16:45 with the mention of the organism's 13-way radial symetry (or it was 9-way; been a while since I checked), combinded wit hthe seemingly spontanious organ placement like with real sea cucumbers, I wouldn't hesitate to claim that it canonically is one.
love to see how much your channel has grown from 106 subscribers to 115k, and i couldn’t be more happy for you! your videos are just so much fun and silly to watch while still being very informative, and im all about that 😊 you definitely deserve all the recognition and i hope this channel continues to grow ☺️
omg sea pigs had an octonauts special octonauts really did episodes on a lot of the cool deep sea creatures (vampire squid, big fin squid, siphonophore, and now, sea pig)
I love this channel and I found it randomly one morning looking for something to watch while eating breakfast. It's definitely based off of algorithms and feeds
Also I think you and zayfrank will make great friends. You and him are both great teachers that teach in a funny and understandable manner while being highly specific all at the same time!
I don't think that I want to throw away any specific part of my body. Honestly I would like to have an ability to refresh any ill or malfunctioning organ. Like, "you have a stomachache? Just throw away the part that hurts!" or something like it.
I'm very late to this video, but having just found your wonderful channel, I am delighted to say that I do have a favorite sea cucumber -- Pelagothuria natatrix! (Although it used to be Enypniastes eximia, and sea pigs and sea apples are both also excellent.) I am also That Person who will talk to people for twenty minutes about how many amazing kinds of sea cucumber there are. I just love these little guys and I think they're very underappreciated.
I know nothing about this topic, zero idea why you landed in my algorithm (well, I watch a lot of general science stuff), but: I AM HERE FOR IT!!! I love your voice and your enthusiasm. I got the Vandermeer reference, but not other one (thanks for enlightenment in the description). And I truly LOL'd on still screen text for HPL. You're a keeper darlin'!
Small thing, but sea urchins are more like a Roman Testudo or rather a mediaeval-napoleonic infantry square, then a phalanx. Because a phalanx is only strong on the front and weak everywhere else, which is partially why the Romans ended up ditching it in favour of the manipular system. An infantry square however is designed against horses, with the pointy bits sticking out in all directions, because horses aren't stupid and won't run into those spikes. And at the same time the square is completely locked in place and cannot move, so very much like a sea urchin.
I am so glad I found your channel again thanks to the Goblin Video by Curious Archive. I had a blast with this video and I love your Style! I liked and subscribed as told. One less Sea Cucumber having to wait for it's Gonads to regrow :D I really don't know why I already did this about a year or so ago when I watched practically your whole channel back then.
About why Minecraft appeared in “sea cucumber lantern” search, in minecraft there is an item called sea pickles that looked like cucumbers and one of the things that they have is that they glow (for some reason). When you place sea pickles in somewhere dark they glow up, like lanterns, cucumber-shaped lanterns
I'd yeet up a lung on a bastard. Not both of them, I need 'em, but nobody could deal with my lungs but me. Also, defensively hurling internal organs at predators is the absolute best use of the term, "yeet."
This was the first video of yours I watched, it was in the suggested and I was definitely curious due to the title XD I can say I am ecstatic to have found you, this is all excellent and I whole heartedly agree that we need to forget space and focus on the weird that is the ocean! This video was so well done and I learned so much, so thank you! I will now be sharing the existential monsters that are sea cucumbers with my family. If I have to know these creepy critters then so do they, mwahaha! XD Also, uterus is DEFINITLEY the organ I would yeet from my body! XD
My fave species of sea cucumber is the pale green one with a frilly end on one end that i saw in the tidepool in Palos Verdes in 1961. I was terrified of it.
I would puke everything out one by one.. let everything regrow and basically live forever.. never get old! :-) Oh, by the way, sometimes, some varieties, when they puke stuff out, right? They can look eerily pretty. You gotta be fortunate. Or just very lucky. And only a few species can pull it off like little princesses. :-) Okay, I have engaged in the comments. :-D You can thank me by posting more videos. I love the goofy explanations that are somehow entertaining and fun, as well as interesting things to learn about. Wish more people were as honest as you sound. You are honest, aren't you? Lol! Keep it up! Great content, love it!
6:29 HELPPP THE SEAHORSE WITH “MPREG” OVERLAYED IN RED TEXT IS SO FUNNY im surprised i managed to keep attention for almost the whole video, anyways my favorite seacucumbers are those silly blue ones, and the organ id like to vomit up? no answer tbh lmao
I'm honestly amazed by this video! That glove looks exactly like a hand, but you were able to make it look like an actual bony hand instead of a glove worn by 5 tentacles! Also, i'd reccomend actually slicing that cucumber and eating it like chips with some ranch or salad dressing as dip for the chips
"Dying slowly as the indifferent cucumber abandons them to their fate" is now my favorite quote
The Indifferent Cucumber were on tour all last year. They opened for Pearlfish.
So basically, shit all over your predator with toxic lethal crap and then casually leave? Sounds like my jam
@@AisuruMiraiEddy Vedder really stirred up the crowd 😅
Omg *Dies of laughter*
New nickname for my strap just dropped
I would vomit out the specific part of my brain that makes me feel ashamed of myself all the time
Oh. That's a good one.
I could really go for that tbh
Lmao same same
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Relatable
Spleen. Definitely the spleen. It already sounds weird enough to say so throwing it up should be fun, and the imagery of a blood soaked organ being chucked at an attacking predator (or upset manager which is basically the same thing) while you run away crying and screaming seems like an appropriate defense mechanism.
lolz, that was a hilarious mental image, thanks. But just imagine what Karens would do! Throwing there spleens all over poor retail workers, restaurant waitstaff, and random strangers just trying to go about their day. It would LITERALLY be bloody chaos!
Get a therapist,please
Am I tripping or is it “Ai/Uh-Kaih-Noh-Derhm or e3/i2-ki2-no2-dr2-m” also it is “o2-fi3-roi-di2-e2” or if u can’t mark notations mark dimwit “Oh-fee-roy-dee-uh”
0:50 Hi, marine biologist here. It's just radial symmetry, not pentaradial symmetry, because many sea stars have more than five arms. For example there's the sun star, basket star, or _L. annulatus,_ which starts out with 5 arms, but grows more and more as it ages, sometimes ending up with as many as 40.
thank you, this is such an exciting factoid
1:32 this implies she bought a cucumber simply to explain how sea cucumbers can be split into 5 and I love it.
same 😭
People: "HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD?"
Sea cucumber: *after throwing up its brain* "I have no idea!"
"Nanoasscells, son"
Headache? Spit it out!
Backpain? Spit it out!
Upset stomache? Spit it out!
Cancer anywhere? Spit it out!
Do sea cucumbers need doctors?
I was literally just about to promote the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park project, but you already did it for me! Glad the project is getting more attention. The lore and detailed inspiration behind it is incredible, and it's really cool learning about marine organisms like echinoderms and seeing how that inspired the project.
It being a vast sea cucumber would explain quite a bit - even all the parasitic & symbiotic species found inside it.
Though it would mean that tourists are pretty much just wandering 'round inside the cloaca of a cosmic horror...
@@Evolved_Skeptic metal
@@Evolved_Skeptic Well, cladistically, humans are jawwed fish, so if the MFP is a sea cucumber, then the tourists are really just following in the footsteps (finwaves?) of their more basal relatives.
@@Evolved_Skepticyeah but doesn't the flesh pit resemble a
giant starfish according to some lore about one of these things somehow ending up in Venus?
Love that you can appreciate cosmic horror and sea life at the same time.
Now here's the thing, we possess something that the sea cucumbers don't as far as I'm aware. Bones! Can we just... Yeet our bones as self defense? Cause like, I'd spit my femur at a mugger if it'd grow back. If bones are off limits, I'd go with my stomache, cause it's like a water balloon full of acid!
You could do like those frogs that break bones in their limbs and force them out through the skin, into Wolverine/Doomsday-like spikes, to fight with?
plus you won’t have to eat for a while ^ ^
I’d eject my tailbone
@@magpieMOB umm, what?? Got any more info on this, that sounds really interesting.
@@RayanNamii Trichobatrachus robustus - aka Hairy Frog, Horror Frog, or Wolverine frog (for aforementioned reasons) - enjoy!
As a big Biology, SpongeBob, Lovecraft, Jeff Vandermeer, and Mystery Flesh Pit fan, this is probably the best video on the website
Anytime I feel a weird pain in my chest that I can’t explain I would vomit up all my organs and start again.
😂
I heard that might be a big long nerve getting caught on something. It's not dangerous, but the pain can be concerning.
Engagement reply! I love how transparent you are about the weird research aspects of oceanic science! Kudos to helping de-stigmatize the weirdness of not knowing how to pronounce something you've only seen written in overly scientific papers, how much you welcome correction and continued learning, augh, just love ya vibes
My uterus can yeet itself by any orifice of my body it chooses if it means that it doesn't need to bring attention to itself for 200days.
But to be more realistic I think that the endometrium is, indeed, the only organ some humans routinely throw up and regrow.
I loved your references to existential horror! Totally agree with the idea that sea cucumbers would be a great addition to mystery flesh pit national park XD
I would vomit up my stomach (not like the sea stars), hopefully I would regrow a less problematic one
What a great natural beauty
Oof, as someone with chronic crohn's issues, I can sympathize a bit there. They can have whole GI for all I care. 😂
11:30 Sea cucumbers are a light source in game, they give the same light level as a torch or lantern when all four individual sea pickle blocks are placed together. That is probably why minecraft showed up in the results.
14:13 "I have a mouth but I won't scream"
I have been binging your videos! My niece and I love them! They are both informative and easily digestible 10/10.
And the illustrations are abit too literate 😂
Oh man, there's gotta be a joke about digestion in there, somewhere. I got nothing, though. Also, I'm way late lol.
ASTEROIDS!!!!!
7:54 ayy, it's everyone's favorite all-purpose vent, the cloaca!
"Although not all Sea Cucumbers have Pentaradial Symmetry, it's dependent on whether or not they have tube feet.
Idk what I'm going to do with this cucumber now...."
Just brilliant
Ever since attending university for evolutionary biology I've been itching to broaden my horizons further. Thank you for educating people in such an engaging and approachable format.
As for your ending questions, my favorite sea cucumber is Enypniastes eximia due to its otherworldly appearance. The organ I'd want to be able to regenerate and dispose of is most likely the heart. This is both for the longevity of my own existence and the ability to regularly donate hearts for those in need. My answer however hinges on the assumption that I'd survive the first evisceration.
Dude, as an AFAB person, I'd looooove to just yeet my reproductive system
Same
As a trans man I wholeheartedly agree
Damn y'all just throwing that out... I understand for the most part, but i am trans and can barely relate after learning to forget it when I'm alone, so it's surprising and terrifying that "cis" or even cis people could possibly want that stuff (with trans people I expect that after experiencing 'life as it is,' myself). I don't care about arguing over y'alls personal decisions I just felt a very visceral (dunno what the word means) emotion as a result of this one-off comment in the video.
Being AMAB, it's just really existential that I have no idea of this "terrible" experience I hear about so often. Then I hear one of my cis girl friends being extatic about finally getting her periods cuz she finally feels like a woman, it's very stange. Then I see characters and even real human beings :O being neutral or appreciative of their own bodily functions; people respecting the differences with them and people having their own stuff; all that's pretty commonplace in trans-created media and spaces and and and and and. There's such a wild disconnect with different people with different levels of ficked up genitalia, and hormones, and experiences, I guess. *That* kinda disconnect is what I'm experiencing in this case. Despite all that, we humans are ficking average as fick lmao. PotFriend
Hard same most of the year
now imagine the whole thing slowly come out of your ass(not literally) while sitting on the toilet, and goes like yeagasheyayuuugh yugaehh then plop
As a type 1 diabetic...that useless pancreas is gettin YEETED!!
I am horrified, fascinated... confused and in shock all at the same time throughout the entirety of watching this. Also an answer, I would probably choose the small intestine that way I could use it as a lasso to bind the aggressor. Nice video btw😃!
I was rather determined to find my favorite sea cucumber after watching this video. I think it would be the pink warty sea cucumber (Cercodemas anceps) simply because of their colorful (what I’m assuming to be) buccal podia and bodies!
Assuming I was in an altercation on land I’d choose my stomach to vomit up because of course the acid would come in handy. If it was more of a vomit and run situation where the purpose would be to cause a distraction I’d definitely choose my uterus.
My entire sinus cavity. I can simply be careful about dust for a few days, and then be free of, y'know, never being able to bREATHE OUT OF MY FACE PROPERLY because I have the chronic sniffles all the time for some reason. Thank you sinuses you do so much clearly, just, how not be full?
Also, I always appreciate your subtitles! Genuinely high quality, beyond the bare minimum, good stuff!
In somewhat kinda related to their ability to be able to recover from ejecting their insides, locally where I live there's a traditional medicine made from an oil extracted from a species of sea cucumber that's used as a topical ointment to treat light wounds and burns on the skin.
Not sure how well it actually works (or if it's placebo) but it's usually the go to topical treatment vs the usual iodine or saline solutions, and from my experience I never had any issues in using it.
It's called Gamat oil, there's one research paper that concluded that it did help in healing wounds but I'm not sure if the results have been replicated by other researchers.
The Stupid Lantern™ bit made me absolutely lose my MIND laughing! Your videos are the perfect amount of funny, informative and Cosmically Horrifying, I'm absolutely hooked!
This is really fascinating. I'm so fascinated by the voluntary evisceration of the nerve ring. Are sea cucumbers capable of even rudimentary learning? And is this learning retained?
I recall some bugs turn from larva to goo to flying insect and learning is retained.
Obviously it's very different, but given that the goo-memory already Jackie-Chan-I-Can't-Even'd my brain, I would be less surprised the sea cucumber might.
could be good research question
@@jobda1211 Thank you! I consider that high praise as someone wildly far afield of my area of expertise!
Wow! I found a paper on Google scholar detailing this phenomenon, I had never heard this before. Thanks for this comment, you’ve educated at least one fellow watcher 😊
Sea Cucumbers are an interesting example of Convergent Evolution, considering they're (IIRC) supposed to be the closest invertebrate evolutionary relatives to Chordates and Vertebrates; Cephalopods and their (relatively) closely related Gastropod kin are an interesting Divergence from the fairly standard bilaterally symmetrical body plan shared between Arthropods, Chordates, and all Vertebrates.
I just recently found your channel. Can't tell you why (I know you were talking about that at the end), but keep up your niche! You had me busting out laughing with some bits. I love the particular take on near cosmic horror going on, and that textbook bit was utterly hilarious in the best way.
Assuming everything regrows...
I'd yeet a kidney every 200 days for donation.
throwing up your uterus to give a new meaning to the term "wandering womb"
I want you to know that when I saw this a couple of months ago, it inspired me so viscerally that I chose this topic for a research essay in my first-year English class. I'm definitely in over my head, my academic sources are making me go cross-eyed, but I'm using this and your video on sea stars as some of my non-academic sources and citing them super heavily - I hope you don't mind!! I really love the way you describe these concepts using such approachable language, it makes the topic super accessible! Thanks :)
Labeling sea horses as Mpreg caught me super off guard and made me laugh a good minute
The end of this video is the exact moment I knew I had to subscribe! Also, as someone who has had organs removed I can state from personal experience we 100% don't need our gallbladder and I'm happier without a uterus!
I'm here fairly late to just say that I really love what you're doin' here. Your most recent video at this time was the one about Siphonophores, which was also the first video of yours that I watched! But your content is the perfect mix of fascinating, educational, entertaining, and charming that I had to go back and start watching everything.
I love the Alien Ocean series, and I even watched the video about salinity/ The Shape of Water/ weird hot fish man all fish-caked up.
I have loved each video, and deeply appreciate the work you put in to research this stuff and make such fun videos.
As for what organ I'd like to vomit up as a defense mechanism, I'd go with my intestines I think. Hork that bad boy up, then swing it around over my head whooping. I bet that'd scare off any would-be muggers!
My favorite is definitely the sea pig! I was laughing so hard at that part😂 I learned so many new things in this video, thank you so much for making it and this whole channel! 💛🐙
I got the Jeff Vandermeer novel reference! Honestly I always thought the creature inside the inverted tower would look like a sea cucumber positioned vertically with many feet.
Ok so like Im watching all of these 2 years late so you'll probably never see these comments but 1) I LOVE THIS CHANNEL best Marine Biologist by far so sad it took me 5 years to find it and
2) Im like 90% sure that the "aster' in Asterozoa is ACTUALLY referencing the Asters, a family (checks notes, Order: Asterids, Family; Asteraciae, Genus: Aster, so all of them) of plants we all call Asters, this includes but is not limited to: The asters, Sunflowers, Dendelions, and uhh uhh, Daisies and uhh LOTS OF OTHERS ok you are a Marine Biologist, Im more of a land guy, plants and land animals, love em, good rule of them with a flower, if its not an aster its a rose and if its not a rose its broccoli and if its not broccoli who cares.
ANYWAY the etymology of aster is "star" wich became Astera which is star like wich then gave us the same as Asteroids cus they are star like when they go FWOOSH through the sky and ok you know what its all a circle and it all means the same thing and blame the Greeks ok BYE BYE on to the next episode!
Oh also I would love to be able to throw up my kidneys and then regrow them because well, then I could regrow my kidneys and that seems pretty useful or maybe my heart or ok ANYWAY BYE BYE
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Oh, the "lantern" they're referring to is the Aristotle's lantern - an echinoderm's jaw structure. It's most predominantly seen in see urchins.
I'd contribute to the end of video discussion but i don't think i can argue with the big yeeterus. You win
The digestive system is a close second.
Sea Pickles in Minecraft are tunicate colonies that emit light (likely inspired by real-life pyrosomes), like the game's lanterns...? That's the one connection I see.
Also, googling "sea pickle" used to bring up sea cucumbers back when Sea Pickles were just newly added to the game. Likely because of the food (pickles are cucumbers for those who don't know) .
The common name for sea cucumber in my mother tongue, catalan, is "cagarro de mar", which literally means "sea shit"
Do with that knowledge what you will.
In a more serious tone, this is a great informative video in an easy to digest (no pun intended) format. This is an amazing job, I will totally subscribe.
I completely agree with yeeting the uterus. I also think my gi system would be good to ditch because its always either hungry or upset, no in between.
So, I'm watching through a lot of your content as of late (I don't exactly expect you to see this comment tbh), and it reminds me that Scallops have HUNDREDS to THOUSANDS of eyes, and they move by Jet Propulsion. Not exactly "Alien" on the whole, but definitely got some interesting notes to them. Thank you for these videos, they are wonderful.
I love your videos. They're hilarious, educational, and the graphics and editing are really good! Great job. Thank you so much
This channel is pure gold. The humour and education combo is perfect. Reminds me of Sam Onella thematically and i mean that as the highest compliment
0:04 Well, pronouncing the c "hard" isn't that bad... you could just say you're using a more classical latin pronunciation.
I like to pronounce all the silent letters just for fun, and you don't have to go too many hundred years back before they were all pronounced... or at least those that weren't invented from nothing and were never pronounced like the b in "debt" or the s in "island"; by scholars that liked to pretend that English was a romance language.
I gasped when i say your hands because i legit forgot that you aren't a giant purple octopus, that is when i realized i was half asleep.💀❤
just subscribed to your channel and I love how spunky and passionate you are!!! this is probably my favorite video yet, these bois are WILD. also obviously the uterus 💀
Definitely my uterus lmao. Just found your content today abd uts definitely my jam!;
Maybe a kidney so it could be donated? That would be cool if it could re-grow!!!
This is so interesting! I recently discovered your channel and have been binging all your videos!! You're very academically honest and the content you make is always fun to watch! I hope you get the views you want!!!
You are my favorite need! I love nerds because of nerds like you❤❤❤
Two years later and my opinion of you has elevated so much just on the Vandermeer reference... so glad I subbed
I love your videos….. TH-cam put you in my feed recently, and I am subscribed and thumbs up all the way. Octopus lady, you are fan frikkin tastic!
I don’t know how you truly can get more views on TH-cam? I don’t think anybody knows besides the developers? Feel like it’s a toss up l? You popped up randomly. I subbed and very much appreciate TH-cam for showing me your content. And Thank you THANK YOU for the amount of time you put aside for these videos. Absolutely love what you are talking about and just pulls me in. If you’re a teacher in general you are prob killing it, if you are not a teacher you’d make everyone’s favorite teacher 100%. That teacher that like actually helps the kids that they have. Personally I have like 3 teachers that really had taught me a lot and changed me greatly. Thanks again
16:45 with the mention of the organism's 13-way radial symetry (or it was 9-way; been a while since I checked), combinded wit hthe seemingly spontanious organ placement like with real sea cucumbers, I wouldn't hesitate to claim that it canonically is one.
love to see how much your channel has grown from 106 subscribers to 115k, and i couldn’t be more happy for you! your videos are just so much fun and silly to watch while still being very informative, and im all about that 😊
you definitely deserve all the recognition and i hope this channel continues to grow ☺️
Throwing up my brain so I can get a better one
omg sea pigs had an octonauts special
octonauts really did episodes on a lot of the cool deep sea creatures (vampire squid, big fin squid, siphonophore, and now, sea pig)
3:59 Don’t forget the spikes! Almost all echinoderms have spines except for the sea pig
For real, I am so glad I subscribed to your channel. Keep on keepin' on, cuz this is all good stuff.
Wow, I never knew sea cucumbers were so wild! They're just amazingly, delightfully crazy!
I just want to say I love your channel. I feel like you are mad nerdy and that makes me happy. Keep up the great work ❤
I love this channel and I found it randomly one morning looking for something to watch while eating breakfast. It's definitely based off of algorithms and feeds
Also I think you and zayfrank will make great friends. You and him are both great teachers that teach in a funny and understandable manner while being highly specific all at the same time!
I don't think that I want to throw away any specific part of my body. Honestly I would like to have an ability to refresh any ill or malfunctioning organ. Like, "you have a stomachache? Just throw away the part that hurts!" or something like it.
I'm not sure what it is about this video but I've returned to rewatch it and the vampire squid one so much
My wisdom tooth, also i really like ur channel im so glad I found it. :)))
I'm very late to this video, but having just found your wonderful channel, I am delighted to say that I do have a favorite sea cucumber -- Pelagothuria natatrix! (Although it used to be Enypniastes eximia, and sea pigs and sea apples are both also excellent.) I am also That Person who will talk to people for twenty minutes about how many amazing kinds of sea cucumber there are. I just love these little guys and I think they're very underappreciated.
I know nothing about this topic, zero idea why you landed in my algorithm (well, I watch a lot of general science stuff), but:
I AM HERE FOR IT!!! I love your voice and your enthusiasm. I got the Vandermeer reference, but not other one (thanks for enlightenment in the description). And I truly LOL'd on still screen text for HPL. You're a keeper darlin'!
17:38 i am one of those two other people. Sea pigs have been not only my favorite sea cucumber, but one of my favorite animals since i was little.
I love your editing!! Very enjoyable!!! Idk, I feel like my period might be the human equivilant of the evisceration
Gosh, Octopus Lady, your sense of humor is *perfect*
I really love your channel. Thank you for sharing these fascinating creatures with us.
14:14 "i have a mouth butt can't eat"
Small thing, but sea urchins are more like a Roman Testudo or rather a mediaeval-napoleonic infantry square, then a phalanx. Because a phalanx is only strong on the front and weak everywhere else, which is partially why the Romans ended up ditching it in favour of the manipular system.
An infantry square however is designed against horses, with the pointy bits sticking out in all directions, because horses aren't stupid and won't run into those spikes. And at the same time the square is completely locked in place and cannot move, so very much like a sea urchin.
I am so glad I found your channel again thanks to the Goblin Video by Curious Archive. I had a blast with this video and I love your Style!
I liked and subscribed as told. One less Sea Cucumber having to wait for it's Gonads to regrow :D
I really don't know why I already did this about a year or so ago when I watched practically your whole channel back then.
About why Minecraft appeared in “sea cucumber lantern” search, in minecraft there is an item called sea pickles that looked like cucumbers and one of the things that they have is that they glow (for some reason). When you place sea pickles in somewhere dark they glow up, like lanterns, cucumber-shaped lanterns
I'd yeet up a lung on a bastard. Not both of them, I need 'em, but nobody could deal with my lungs but me.
Also, defensively hurling internal organs at predators is the absolute best use of the term, "yeet."
Love you octopus lady. I don't know why the algorithm brought me here this week, but I've been enjoying learning some new things!
16:45 i get the reference, thanks for the links for people that don't get it
This was the first video of yours I watched, it was in the suggested and I was definitely curious due to the title XD I can say I am ecstatic to have found you, this is all excellent and I whole heartedly agree that we need to forget space and focus on the weird that is the ocean! This video was so well done and I learned so much, so thank you! I will now be sharing the existential monsters that are sea cucumbers with my family. If I have to know these creepy critters then so do they, mwahaha! XD Also, uterus is DEFINITLEY the organ I would yeet from my body! XD
The part where they harden their skin to cling to a rock and chill just blew my mind!
I KNEW IT!!! Ones I saw the title and the brushy bits on the thing in the thumbnail and thought for the second I said "it's a sea cucumber isn't it"
I also LOVE the cosmic horror aspect of the deep sea
This is my new favorite channel!!!
I'd vomit my heart out. Seems poetic, and absolutely hilarious in certain scenarios
The kidneys so you would not have t0 worry about kidney disease. I mom would have not suffered for a decade of dialysis 18:11
7:50 I saw that "Avatar" elements reference 😂. Nailed it
My fave species of sea cucumber is the pale green one with a frilly end on one end that i saw in the tidepool in Palos Verdes in 1961. I was terrified of it.
I would puke everything out one by one.. let everything regrow and basically live forever.. never get old! :-)
Oh, by the way, sometimes, some varieties, when they puke stuff out, right? They can look eerily pretty. You gotta be fortunate. Or just very lucky. And only a few species can pull it off like little princesses. :-)
Okay, I have engaged in the comments. :-D
You can thank me by posting more videos. I love the goofy explanations that are somehow entertaining and fun, as well as interesting things to learn about.
Wish more people were as honest as you sound. You are honest, aren't you? Lol!
Keep it up! Great content, love it!
6:29 HELPPP THE SEAHORSE WITH “MPREG” OVERLAYED IN RED TEXT IS SO FUNNY
im surprised i managed to keep attention for almost the whole video, anyways my favorite seacucumbers are those silly blue ones, and the organ id like to vomit up? no answer tbh lmao
all those little tube feet they have makes me think their walking sound effect in a cartoon would be hilarious
My favourite sea cucumber type is the Sea Pig, rude.
Sea cucumbers are so.... Something idk, I'm just trying to support this channel with engagement I guess. Good work!👍
I'm honestly amazed by this video!
That glove looks exactly like a hand, but you were able to make it look like an actual bony hand instead of a glove worn by 5 tentacles!
Also, i'd reccomend actually slicing that cucumber and eating it like chips with some ranch or salad dressing as dip for the chips
16:43 I know understand how I wound up at this channel after binge watching Wendigoon videos