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- Meet the fantastically colorful and astonishingly adaptable sea slugs that found a way to photosynthesize (or create energy from sunlight) like plants. Diving deep into these often overlooked creatures, invertebrate zoologist Michael Middlebrooks introduces the solar-powered slugs that lost their shells -- but gained the ability to directly harness the power of the sun.
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Fascinating and a great presentation. Always gives me a buzz seeing someone who is so obviously excited by their field.
It's a wonderful thing when a person is so nerdy about a very specific subject. This means that they love it with all their heart, and this guy certainly does so!
Perfect random interesting science topic! I love it anytime animals are photosynthesizing which I imagine isn’t all that often. Unless there’s something about my skin I don’t know about.
Vitamin d3?
When we eat leafy greens, the chlorophyll in our bodies reacts with sunlight to produce CoQ10. Not exactly photosynthesis but cool nonetheless.
@@odis.x I wonder if genetically engineered photosynthesis might be possible to apply to humans. If so, then it might reduce our need for food although it may also mean we would need to be green.
@@just-a-fella3212 indeed, and Kermit taught us that it ain't easy bein green.
@@odis.x Light just activates the production of that vitamin, It stimulates the cells. But light doesn't take part in the chemical reactions that synthetize vitamin D like It does in plants to synthetize glucose
These are my favorite slugs, and animals in general! I'm currently writing my Batchelor on kleptoplasty and planing on doing something similar for my masters! Amazing talk
Beautiful example of a fascinating evolutionary adaptation. Over time, natural selection has favored individuals with the ability to retain functional chloroplasts, as it provides them with an additional energy source.
This has been the area I have considered for my PhD. I have looked for and taken many dives in Anilao, Philappines, Indonesia and Thailand. The diversity is incredible and they are so beautiful. Thank you for a wonderful presentation.
Nudibranchs are so lovely, they look like they'd make great glass sculptures. We had a pet snail named 'Ruffles' once, and Ruffles was an artist of sorts. He/she was mad for eating notebook paper, very particular about which notebook, and would then commence to create elaborate designs only on the glass walls of her house, using her own supply of post-processed papier mache'. A worthy Snail indeed.
Now I also want to photosynthesize 🥺
Same here. :(
That explains why aliens are hairless and green 😂
I feel like people do photosynthesize but they believe so deeply that it’s not possible that they program their cells to be that way but any skill can be learned with determination and without the constant “this is not real” thoughts.
I love your passion for slugs, its amazing to think that animals started synthesizing clorophyl!
This was awesome!!! I've always liked watching garden snails and slugs, but this is on a whole other level. Absolutely gorgeous, and it really blurs the line between what separates plants from animals. Fascinating.
Wow I really like Michael's presentation style and his passion is infectious! What fascinating creatures!
I did not know that was possible. A new twist on life's adaptability.
I'm always fascinated with marine invertebrates but didn't even think why some have blue color when it's so rare for land vertibrates.
The slugs must have gotten chlorophyll genes laterally transferred to them from the algae or from the chloroplast genome itself, which is kinda crazy. Since chloroplasts are themselves descended directly from bacteria (specifically different Cyanobacteria), this means the slugs acquired these genes from another Domain of life, literally billions of years after those two lineages diverged from a common ancestor!
Mindblowing animals, thank you for your research 🙌
I would absolutely love to hear more of this man's research!! i love sacoglossans and the weird things they are able to do, my favorite sea slugs!!
Thanks for this video. Nice to know about such amazing animals. I hope in the future we can realize how they do it.
A Ted with more questions than answers... Loved it.
Fascinating. Emerald sea slugs are such beautiful creatures!
If only I can 'steal' all the chloroplasts from the vegetables I eat and 'implant' them in my body cells. I'll never have to worry about getting hungry anymore. All I'll have to do when there's no food is go under the sun and take off my shirt. :P
If human starts photosynthesis, there will be no shirt any more. People work to collect food. No food required, no need to work, no shirt production.😂
I usually have so much on my mind, I have to pause and rewind videos as I zone out... Yet with this one I was paying attention from beginning to end!
Absolutely fascinating world indeed, and thank you for sharing your insight. I never thought I would have this sort of interest for invertebrates, yet you've really sparked curiosity within my mind.
I can only imagine this effect on someone much younger than myself!
This is wild!! What an incredible thing to discover!
Fascinating!
And the Fact that they figured out how to make Chlorophyll is astonishing!
Sea slugs have always been my favorite animal. Thanks for the fascinating talk!
I need a part 2 and part 3 and 4 ASAP!
This piqued my curiosity the same way old computer oceanography “games”, basically visual encyclopedias for old computers (1999), from my town’s library helped me first explore the realm of aquatic diversity of life. This was amazing and I can’t wait to learn more about biology. It also fascinates me how they steal these superpowers!
I live about three hours from Anilao and dive there every month or so. Our nudibranchs are a national treasure. They're like the Hot Wheels of the sea.
i mean while the scifi implications are perhaps sciency fantasy more than anything with the rigorous potential to be questioned into actual problem-solvable reality, this does raise the interesting possibility for a really practical reason behind the idea that any ETs might most often be in the category of "little green men" ...if you can cut out most (to all) of the food chain entirely and go straight to living off of starlight, space travel itself becomes an entirely different animal
Absolutely fascinating!
I love sea slugs!! We have so much to learn about them. How exciting 🐌
Thanks so much
Amazing!!!
The best tedTalk I have heard so far. Very interesting!!
Love those types of TED talks.
This couldn't be cooler. What an awesome guy and presentation!
This is amazing. What a wonderful world when you stop watching The News that's bad... and negative stuff... 😊 you really get to enjoy a magical wonderful world.
Imagine if we fully understood kleptoplasty and could use that mechanism to power solar panels. We could have biological solar panels
one of the most captivating animals i‘ve encountered in the wild.
This is so fascinating! I love that there are people in society that can dedicate their lives to studying slugs.
It's just so cool and interesting for me. I love this unraveled world makes me itch for more.
I didn’t know there were so many kinds of slugs and so pretty! Now I want to explore them! So cool!
Very interesting ! I won't see Sea slugs the same now...
What a beautiful creature. I own the beauty of the photo pulled me into this clip.
Fascinating and beautiful! Thank You
Really amazing !
Fantastic presentation! You've indeed left me curious about sea slugs now
Wonderful explanation.
Wow! This is exactly what I want from a TED talk.
Far future humanity may, in fact, be green.
Thanks for such an interesting topic. I enjoyed learning something I had no idea sxisted
Fantastically fascinating!
I got that "crazy rabbit hole, lets go" feeling when i watched this
AMAZING RESEARCH! thank you
Love love loved your presentation
A wonderful presentation on a facinating topic, thank you sir.
Regards from South Africa
Thoses slugs are beautyfull! A very interresting video. I can understand your passion. Great presentation
Beautiful creatures, how cool for animals to photosynthesise.
I wandered down a slug hole just like Alice chasing her rabbit and ended up looking at sea cucumbers. All these beasties are wild and wonderful.
Very fascinating
I had no idea TED was still a thing. wild
Excellent talk
So interesting
He lit up when he started to talk about those slugs! 😃
Good to see someone promoting molluscs for a change! They are really the most amazing creatures but so often overlooked. 🐌
Very interesting. Thanks.
Interesting!
very nice presentation!
It really is exciting!!!
Very interesting discussion. Slugs are pretty cool, who knew.
that is So cool
this guy's got me nerding out as hard as him talking about sea slugs...👍😆
Awesome!
They're pretty beautiful creatures. Wow.😮
Son petit sourire en coin en dit long sur sa passion. 😊
Thank you, such an interesting angle! Does anybody know of any biomimicry application for human or general to capture CO2?
"Mannaged to keep some of them" 😂
back to my childhood obsession with sea slugs
this is incredible, new creature to look into! I always knew slugs were amazing creatures
I knew this is how corals got their energy but I had no clue sea slugs were also capable of doing so as well
solid ted talk
So I guess Kirby was a slug who lost its shell?! Phenomenal work and study!
Go you slug guy!
Honestly I can’t even begin to imagine all the things we have yet to discover…… just at our fingertips. What’s going to be the next ground breaking, world changing discovery?
The concept of a species stealing other species' skills (genes, cells) is mindblowing. 😍
"Why do I study slugs?" You forgot to mention how FREAKING CUTE nudibranchs are. Just lookit their little non-faces
RESPECT!
This was a very interesting talk. I wouldn't be surprised if these hybrids of plants and animals were going to evolve into the next dominating species on this planet. 😊
I can't believe this bright zoologist talked for 12 minutes with his right ear folded. I could never do that!
oh yeah good talk.
"You are what you eat" 🐌
More of this. Just a nerd, sharing what they nerd about.
This guy's interest in slugs far exceeds my interest in life
My special interest 💚
wow
That Emerald Sea Slug
I looooove Sea Slugs
The information in this video made me so upset i could cry even though it IS my birthday today
... I knew Stephen Hillenburg was surprisingly accurate with Spongebob. Turns out "photosynthesis... Photosynthesis..." Was accurate too
Grass/Water type Pokémon are awesome
Interesting, thank you younger, alternate dimension Ross. 😊
I love when people are passionate and knowledgeable about what they do
I want one of those leaf slugs royal blue and gold that would be cool
This is a crazy advancement in science could we apply this to human cells? Could you imagine a world wheee people only need to stand in the sun for a while a day like a plant to feed?