Army of Sea Urchins? | Planet Earth | BBC

[@of-fx5ou]

Nature's roombas.

[@andrewbrasfield1104]

Nah that's a horseshoe crab's job

[@datonecommieirongear2020]

@@andrewbrasfield1104 Horseshoe crabs (not actually crabs) are those guys who got the meta early and went full "If it ain't broke. Don't fix it.:

[@dazedigital]

*why did **2:04** make me laugh so hard? i guess it was the fact of how the sea stars just move without a care and have no legs XDD*

[@YeppyNope]

vroom

[@sandypickleuwu]

when everything is sped up it looks like it is stop motion animation. also, when he says that the sunflower starfish uses its legs to taste them, all the little moving starfishes look like they are getting groped

[@Rezzzzzzzzz]

This is insane, I've been switching from one BBC video to another for hours! How can they make such amazing footage?!

[@perrypear8635]

10 years after....this is me 😂

[@newchillynoble2412]

Yeah it's crazy

[@coolbees2596]

The first time I saw one of these as a child, I picked it up thinking i was badass and then it moved in my hand and i screamed and threw it back in the ocean

[@cactipus4054]

LOL,thats badassery all right.

[@tylerdowney0794]

Wyatt-Lily Davenport I got stung by one 2 weeks ago in Cuba, hurts to say the least

[@Au16227]

*YEEEEEEEEEEEET*

[@okamijubei]

I've handle them before as a child and I never been freak out nor ever gotten hurt by them.

[@WadcaWymiaru]

Got stung? I remember urchin kin - sea cucumber ejaculated on me..

[@LindasDesk]

absolutely amazing...urchins, sunfish and sand-dollars...even the kelp held a "magical" beauty. Thank you.

[@cookiemonster010395]

This is so surreal, it doesn't even seem real! It looks like a fairy tale or a monster book, like another world. So fascinating. That bit at 2:49 looks more like one of those sophisticated animations; makes the slow elegant starfish seem like a huge tarantula running after you! *shivers*

[@seriinedarkness]

DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!

[@plurallove]

I just watched my next nightmare before going to bed :(

[@RKMKhii]

Erik Correa family guy reference.

[@radarred4529]

Nature can be cruel sure as it gives us its blessings.

[@MenwithHill]

The dark Sunflower at 2:34 is goddamn terrifying.

[@KG-kq7kn]

It’s so weird to think of these things as alive and thinking what to do. Urchins, sea star, etc. They are so lifeless in our world yet I just found out Sand Dollars play zone defense like basketball

[@TsaiSigh]

Man what are we gonna do about this? Japanese sushi chef: hold my sake

[@IndriidaeNT]

Kelp forests are awesome! They are typically found in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and are home to a diversity of ocean life, everything from invertebrates like starfish, sea cucumbers and sea urchins and giant pacific octopuses and cuttlefish to cartilaginous fishes like sevengill sharks, sixgill sharks, horn sharks, stingrays and leopard sharks and great white sharks, shortfin mako sharks and great hammerhead sharks to bony fishes like Garibaldi, groupers, mackerel and barracudas plus ocean sunfish and reptiles like green sea turtles and leatherback sea turtles, and marine mammals like humpback whales, blue whales, pacific white sided dolphins, common bottlenose dolphins, killer whales/Orcas, steller sea lions, California sea lions, Northern fur seals and sea otters (Who are my absolute favorites) and seabirds like puffins and seagulls. I have seen all these animals at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California as well as the kelp forest in the Pacific Ocean right next door to the Monterey Bay Aquarium! Heck kelp forests and their animals in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California even appeared in Finding Dory (2016) the hyper-famous sequel to Finding Nemo (2003). My dream is to go scuba-diving in the kelp forests of California and see all its animals mentioned above like my idol marine biologist and oceanographer Sylvie Earle as well as John Sparks a marine biologist from the AMNH.

[@aswzen]

i feel itchy

[@Magic_Ice]

Stop

[@gemstonepheonix9522]

Me to

[@sweet58441]

This is probably the coolest show I have ever seen ever

[@fluffsnake]

Wow, who would've thought how interesting these creatures could be!

[@muhdsyahir9416]

Precise example of how dust on my home floor avoided my broom/mop.

[@Official_Kirbs]

I like the way the star fish move

[@Mrcryptidsarereal]

Urchins are undersea lumberjacks

[@predomalpha5596]

Those odd hat like molluscs wandering the urchin barren are Megathura crenulata or the Great Keyhole Limpet, they are not true limpets.

[@birbamour6]

My science teacher showed us this video. The whole class was terrified

[@S0XF0X]

Wow, this clip was like looking back hundreds of millions of years into the past! Crazy cool

[@JonnysKia]

Sunflower seastar has far more arms then any of the others, its like a monster seastar! I love how they can regrow their arms if they lose them.

[@Domitella]

wow, I wouldn't want to meet a sunflower starfish on a dark night....

[@benadonald_cumbertrumpxd7064]

3:19 the sand dollars remind me of the roomba vacume.

[@maylyvang]

How FREAKY! lol Never seen a starfish that big!

[@lordlightskin4200]

XD no one likes the big star fish

[@UtterlyShagged]

the sunflower sea star(starfish) is harmless to humans

[@Au16227]

what if the starfish just wanted to be friends with the smaller ones

[@apdroidgeek1737]

sunflower starfish is actually love by expert aquarist and they were expensive as hell too

[@panzerschiff9805]

There is always a bigger fish.

[@blee1997]

IS THAT DAVID ATTENBOROUGH NARRATING?!!

[@hazathehazard]

Yes

[@averycreativeusername7618]

I laugh everytime when they move :). It reminds me of some simple comedy.

[@malachiallen1517]

2:17 When your swimming and you see that thing, take my one word of advice Run

[@cloudnineteen2349]

Swim.

[@apdroidgeek1737]

i had one its called pencil sea urchin they dont sting like other sea urchin but they very cool looking even without those spiky spines

[@erikha.v]

Haha I remember that area! Where Dory thought she was lost but found her parents haha

[@rachelmargulies6302]

Step 1. Mute this video. Step 2. Open up the song "Strobe" from the Kick-Ass film soundtrack. Step 3. When this video gets to 2 seconds in, start Strobe. Step 4. Watch magic unfold. You're welcome.

[@christiangledhill4848]

That would be heaven for me! i love starfish!

[@TankTaur]

Despite being more closely related to us than insects, I can't seem to relate as much to a starfish as I would, say, a grasshopper. At least some of the latter's body parts come in pairs. Great video nonetheless. Looks similar to stop-motion. Fascinating.

[@Mario87456]

They are not more closely related to Humans that is a load of crap.

[@TankTaur]

@@Mario87456 yeah I'm not gonna defend what I wrote 12 years ago. I was a pretentious asshat back then lol

[@coolguy7817]

@@Mario87456 unless something has changed since I've last looked for the last one hundred years the common consensus is that they are in fact more closely related to vertebrates. By the whole deuterostome tree thing. It's been called into question but unless it's been proven otherwise (which I don't believe it has as of yet.) Calling it a load of crap is unsubstantiated.

[@Mario87456]

@@coolguy7817 You know nothing you will respect that I am right as I know more then you do.

[@coolguy7817]

@@Mario87456umm. Ok? I guess I’ll just assume that your a top ranked researcher in this field. In which case that is very cool, keep up the good work.

[@simplismenteeu]

What is that eye like animal that appear at 1:55 ?

[@robertrohwer3393]

Keyhole Limpet

[@simplismenteeu]

Thanks so much man!!

[@LusciousTwinkle]

@@robertrohwer3393 Thanks so much!! i couldnt find it anywhere!! Arent they amazing!!??

[@kenmanibo5578]

Holy. This is the first I'm learning these animals move. LOL

[@miscellany4927]

i saw this on tv with my brother and there were unending screams of horror when the sunflower starfish appeared

[@matresyoyo]

lol the little baby green one at 1:05 :)

[@Schelbig]

The sea star looks amazing on timelapse

[@calcking5978]

I remembered back from when I was little, I was obsessed with starfish and urchins, and I just found this clip fascinating

[@sunsetlover5886]

thank you Mrs. Liston this was fascinating to learn.

[@hineighbor]

And that's how sand dollars are made. Through the brutal deaths of flat sea urchins.

[@predomalpha5596]

I've picked up huge sea urchins till I got a spine stuck in my hand😞

[@justinstuart8382]

Bloody Sea Urchins damn then things eh!

[@ashb712]

It looks like a ghost is moving around a bunch of inanimate objects. What an alien world the ocean is.

[@SebastianVik]

THAT SUNFLOWER STARFISH IS INSANE CHOMP CHOMP NOM NOM IMMA EAT YOU

[@Magic_Ice]

GET IN MY BELLY!

[@vincebln2]

Its like agario LOL

[@lvely4252]

+Vince Beltran LOL

[@rhcp4565]

most amazing thing i have ever seen

[@_shiraori_614]

I'm a full grown adult but everytime my feet touches the seaweed it terrified me.

[@MILIY]

I've learned many things today

[@MCPilot1201]

me: *sees kelp* also me: *subnautica flashbacks*

[@LusciousTwinkle]

Can anyone tell me what the invertebrates at 1:54 are? The ones that look as though they have an eye painted on their backs?

[@Caelidra]

I love them.

[@acadiestudio]

That's so cute!

[@Jfreek5050]

This looks like something you'd see on an alien planet.

[@saberur66]

sea urchin, the porcupine of the sea.

[@1ceeb]

theyre so cute

[@Cnd1867]

It looks a lot like really well done claymation =)

[@XerxesTexasToast]

Echinoderms are so cool.

[@AllNamesAreBoring]

What was that comp mouse like thing in 1.55 mins ?

[@Silverbleedy]

Now THIS is interesting material for school

[@louismak5649]

the way the starfish moved XD HAHAHAHA!!!

[@naz_eon]

um y is this part of our online school work😂

[@TFO1110]

Incredible!!!

[@TheShoe1990]

this looks so unreal! I

[@Somnolent-Spectet]

....This is the part of the ocean I am now most scared of.

[@unexplainablechannel7703]

How dory lost her memory

[@annarolls]

It's the attack of the furballs!

[@NoranRadd13]

Lol that big sunflower starfish goes OMNOMNOMNOM

[@kittiliciousanime]

I was just about to eat a hand full of m&ms right when he said "the starfish wraps his stomach around the sand dollars, liquifies the soft parts, and leaves only the white skeleton behind." apetizing.

[@keshiaanders6452]

Is the camera fast forwarding or is the footage mostly stop motion?

[@pythoncasey]

What are those creepy things at 1:54? Sand dollars with an Illuminati Eye on them? Some kind of gastropod?

[@lukamaticva]

thats a goddamn huge army of sea urchins!

[@vanessabelga9069]

its like a ball that you can play but is so spiky

[@hammerheadeagleithrustakag9289]

+Vanessa Belga sea urchin dodgeball anyone?

[@vanessabelga9069]

oh yeah that a awsome idea

[@hammerheadeagleithrustakag9289]

lol i get first throw

[@MissSaraKling]

Man those sound effects sounded crunchy and munchie

[@LEDCircus]

The sea is so much more mystical and beautiful than space... These things are probably the closest thing you'll get to an alien..

[@alafresca7948]

I wish my teeth were like sea urchins teeth. I need a dentist for fillings and the NHS surgeries are shut because of the coronavirus crisis

[@maxzhu56]

One day that never come.

[@jmpharma]

Truly amazing

[@bubblesbaby37]

I learned something new....there's a starfish with more than five legs!

[@RyuKuzuki]

1:53 what is that eye...thingy?

[@izanagi21ify]

4 years late for this answer: They're keyhole limpets.

[@mettalx1]

Holy shit, I've never seen such an big ass starfish!

[@Nalil1225]

Beautiful video

[@theblendedfamilyvlog5342]

Damn nature! You pretty :)

[@tordiscool]

lol at 1:05 you can see a baby green sea urchin climbing the plant

[@shalavlog]

Wow this is awesome

[@VISIONARYSUCCESS1]

Change title to "Army of Sea Aliens? | Planet Earth | BBC"

[@leonghk12]

wow...mind blown

[@mayafrazer374]

Sea urchin= a sea porcupine

[@DUNEBASK]

Did anyone else turn their head as if the map was upside down at the beginning?

[@ponpokopiii]

sea urchins are strange.how do they see?how do they move?

[@PEREZACURA1991]

holy shitsnacks

[@PirateKing1256]

LOL....the little stars RUN!!!!

[@johnnyboy6429]

Sea Urchins: CHAAAAAARRRGGGEEE!!!

[@junbiaotoh8543]

@3:39 cutest skeleton I ever seen

[@warapornpook]

...LOL...

[@SchettiniAndre]

Wth? It was amazingly cool!!!

[@trivuong]

that is awnsome video you got there

[@nbaairdog3124]

2:04 we can see Patrick Star in action

[@stevemean8682]

I saw this yrs ago and I was like Wow scary. 😂 Now it's on the Sushi tables.

[@damianbranica]

AWESOME!!!!