Bad News: The Ocean Is Full of Spiders*

[@BizarreBeasts]

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[@huldu]

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[@sheogoraththedaedricprince9675]

I thought that maybe they might be related to barnacles or some form of squid with an exoskeleton. Wasn't there a recent discovery of deep sea squid that had rigid parts in its arms? Squid have specific arms for mating. Maybe they're related to that whole Tully monster. Unfortunately when it comes to fossils there's not a whole lot that we can tell. Maybe they're related to some form of trilobite I suppose we'll never truly know what its ancestors are. Maybe it's just another one of those strange creatures like the water bear and the sea pig.

[@rebellion795]

Cant get DNA?. I CALL BULL!. Forensics can get DNA of a single male perp out of ha single fiber from 30 years ago. Take the sample from the eye or proboscis or the reproductive bits

[@Dumb-Comment]

Sponsored by: the overpriced microwave tv dinner company, meat that taste like death and vegetables that radiate depression.

[@rebellion795]

@sheogoraththedaedricprince9675 squid are cephalopod which are mulloscs. There is no doubt about the phylogeny of molluscs. The sea spider is an arthropod. Only srthropods have an exoskeleton. The tully monster nobody is sure yet. YET

[@kyuuketsukikun420]

they unironically reproduce by holding hands

[@adidasfan360]

That sounds so romantic. I want to hold hands with one now.

[@ivechang6720]

Little Susie: I'm pregnant! 🤭 Mom: Susie how can you be pregnant?🫣 Little Susie: I held hands with a boi! 😱

[@BobbySteelanus]

Always use a glove lads

[@jamesmeppler6375]

It may be unironic to them...but that doesnt mean its not ironic to humans

[@user-me6td1up1m]

“We are merely exchanging long protein strands”

[@saraa3418]

This creature has major, "invented by a seven year old child using pipe-cleaners" vibes. Teacher- Wow what's you creature called, Minnie? Minnie- A sea spider! Look at its legs! T- I see that it has a lot of legs, but not much body, how does it eat and digest its food? M- It has eating legs and then some of the legs are also stomach. It also moves its legs to pump its blood T- And how does it reproduce? M- It has egg legs! T- Thank you, Minnie.

[@lucdoucette]

Thanks for making me laugh.

[@skeletonwithagun2119]

A perfect way to put it

[@lanidickens]

Minnie sounds like she’s going places

[@Penguins555]

Minnie is almost too smart...

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

"Oops all legs" spider lol

[@veqv]

That one with the little feathers on it's toes just doot dootin' in the water.

[@NovaRuner]

Yes I think I am convinced that this little critter comes from some part of the Cambrian explosion’s weirdness that survived and kept evolving on its own separate and unique path. Evolution: how many legs do you need? Sea spider: yes. All the legs.

[@dayalasingh5853]

It's comforting that some more of that weirdness might've survived than I previously thought.

[@hanniaedithmartinezadame794]

Yes!

[@ghostlyhousehorrors]

We lost Hallucingenia but at least we got this funky looking dude

[@cleanerben9636]

"so you want your organs in your body right?" "nah. That's too mainstream. Give me breathing, digestion and blood pumping in my legs and make my abdomen the size of a pinhead"

[@NovaRuner]

@ exactly! That is the kind of innovative approach that animals were trying out back then.

[@N0sf3r4tuR1s3n]

"Or as large as 75 centimeters" which is unsettling. But as long as they stay down there, sure. Whatever doesn't float their sunken boat on the bottom of the sea.

[@kellydalstok8900]

*Whatever sinks their boat

[@Zxr-r6q]

@@kellydalstok8900 No, they mean what they said, their boat is already sunken, they are literally at the bottom of the sea, they're saying that they hope that boat doesn't float back up.

[@dud3655]

They *cannot* hurt you in any way, they can't even bite you, by all definitions they're as harmful to you as a fern.

[@millo7295]

How would a sunken boat float? If it's under water, and it's a boat, it's sunk, it can not come back up unless HUMANS want it to

[@N0sf3r4tuR1s3n]

@@millo7295 "whatever doesn't float their sunken boat" that's the point.

[@jadenawesomeguy2187]

They legmaxxing

[@anthonyraymondyu5625]

"It was hot humid night in the City of Angels when a leggy blonde walked into my office. She had 13- maybe 14 legs. She had too many legs..."

[@EMLtheViewer]

“I could smell in the musty air that there was trouble afoot. No, not just afoot… lots of feet.”

[@stewy497]

"And lemme tell ya... Those legs, they went _all_ the way up."

[@EMLtheViewer]

@@stewy497 “The dame’s legs went up, up, up farther, then back down at a sharp angle, then met all her other legs attached to her tiny cephalothorax.”

[@rubixpotato1301]

"She came to me with a case, and I tell ya, a mean one. Her workplace was one that, shall I say, encourages foul play. Now this dame had a rival trying to get a leg up on her. "A leg up? Which one?" She wasn't amused.

[@davidmangle]

"Not everyone keeps thier genitals in the same place, Captain" 😂😂😂

[@anthonymar-forman6442]

Yay a Star Trek quite worked in! I love it!

[@lynnettecook6973]

@@anthonymar-forman6442 I beg your "full" pardon! 🙂

[@mirthenary]

I'm lucky that thing had knees!

[@golangismyjam]

I watched Star Trek 6 yesterday for the first time in about 20 years then I stumble upon this comment the next day. Wild.

[@sheogoraththedaedricprince9675]

@@davidmangle I was lucky it had knees LoL Those weren't it's knees....

[@Beryllahawk]

Sea Spiders: It's Legs All the Way Down

[@Ejuicey]

Turtles, hehe

[@cinnamonsugarcourtney6073]

Ah ok, so they're the hagfish of Chelicerata

[@LimeyLassen]

clint's reptiles enjoyer spotted

[@BorisEdiacarov-ui8sk]

eyyyyyyy

[@Dellvmnyam]

Or even of all Arthropods...

[@Sky-._]

Yooooooo I was thinking the same thing haha

[@DatNinjaCow03]

So true

[@morgenlich]

the giant antarctic sea spiders episode is probably my favorite scishow talk show (rip) episode, love learning more about all kinds of sea spiders!

[@paulkinzer7661]

I was just going to post that myself. I'd love that show to have a reboot.

[@poisonedfrog]

Ah, the age old question arises again… “Is Gut Legs?!”

[@ThePrinceofPurp]

Or is leg guts?

[@MaoRatto]

Are those leg guts*

[@Intralacustrine]

* looking for the groan button*

[@Beryllahawk]

I was NOT expecting a callback to that, gotta say

[@JGuraan]

Wot if your legs... di'n't know they were legs?

[@GSBarlev]

Their reproductive organs being on their legs just reminds me of Kirk's fight scene on Rura Penthe in _Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country._ ""I was lucky that thing had knees" "That was not his knee."

[@nettlesandsnakes9138]

10:19 but I want to eat soft invertebrates I found on the ocean floor, not factor.

[@dreyhawk]

😅😂

[@ViviW1nt3r00]

Same

[@VincentTorneyPlus]

These dudes don't trigger my arachnophobia and actually kinda make me justa lil' bit hungry.

[@gladitsnotme]

10:30 the irony of shrimp, also sea spiders, being a factor meal

[@DarkVortex97]

Shrimps is bugs

[@empmachine]

Imagine a world where taxonomists settle disputes with foam weaponry..

[@BierBart12]

The worst names that everyone hates survive due to having strong champions backing them I'd wanna see an alternate world like that

[@howardrsims]

I'd be interested in a video that talks about animals (or plants) that originally were li9sted in one group or family or phylum but later research moved them to a very different spot.

[@Sky-._]

Clint's Reptiles has some great videos on phylogenetic groupings that address some of those :)

[@DeepSeaLugia]

You’d like sanseverias getting reclassified into Dracena

[@DJFracus]

the barnacles incident...

[@superchimi2994]

"We are in closer relation to sharks than spiders are to insects." Moth light media

[@thehowlingjoker]

So everything is becoming crabs, but crabs are becoming spiders? That seems, concerning...

[@JamesChurchill3]

Babies exhibit no natural aversion to predators, threats or other animals, but they will recoil from spiders. Why is fear of spiders ingrained into our instincts? What did they do in our evolutionary history?

[@DefileOdds]

When I went to kawaii, I experienced one of the most terrifying moments of my life. It wasn't the underwater cave diving, it was the black rock beach. I was 18, and in the middle of hopping rock to rock, thousands. And I mean THOUSANDS, of dinner plate sized solid black tarantulas started running towards me. Luckily they turned out to be crabs that turned black from living in the rocks. Still a moment I'll never forget. I don't like spiders.

[@thehowlingjoker]

@@DefileOdds This isn't the news I was hoping for. Sounds like they are beginning to hunt in packs.

[@DefileOdds]

@thehowlingjoker it was the telepathic messages they kept sending me that were really concerning, so much anger, fire and blood.

[@thehowlingjoker]

@@DefileOdds At this point we should just become crabs too and join the winning side.

[@crackedemerald4930]

they're the most scrungly animal

[@RideorDinosaur]

I can barely look at it when it's walking around or chillin, but I can't look away when it's swimming. What a fascinating creature!

[@TJ-vh2ps]

5:10 Taxonomy based on vibe is totally a vibe 😂

[@613-shadow9]

where are her organs? ...oh.

[@EMLtheViewer]

Finally a sensible answer to this question.

[@nicksamek12]

Love the cheeky lil is butt legs reference

[@benjaminlamothe2093]

The subtitles says guts not butt. The debate rages on.

[@joieyoung-broin1500]

The absolute joy I experienced when he slipped that in there.

[@therealjudged]

Narrator: "It doesnt exactly narrow down how these guys came onto the scene in the first place." Me, after hearing legs 8 dozen times in 5 minutes: Did they walk in?

[@miguellilly8859]

8:07 Such an elegant moving creature

[@alexwhite6554]

Ikr, moves like a feather star

[@VincentNajger1]

I remember marvelling at a Corixidae Water Boatman bug many years ago in the bush of Cape York, North Queensland, Australia. I remember thinking that this little critter had perfected all three environments....land, air and water. It landed on the edge of a water filled plastic container, walked around the edge and then into the water, where a couple of legs propelled it around like a pair of oars. It then took to the air again straight from the water. Incredible evolutionary perfection. What an amazing little creature.

[@alonealien1474]

My arachnophobia just spiked! I was too freaked out to exit full screen because I'd have to touch the screen to do so! 😅

[@ravioliis_]

usually i'm not a big fan of spiders, but for some reason i can't help but think these guys are pretty cute. the lil guy on the pin is especially adorable

That's because these are not spiders at all.

[@EMLtheViewer]

They’re a bunch of spare legs that came together and decided to be a new animal

[@bea-ti9rg]

Sea spiders are one of my favorite creatures!!! Its so exciting to see you talking about them def under rated lil guys :D

[@osmia]

I'm loving these guys. If you ever have a poll on bizarre beasts for which beast is the bizarrest I'm going to vote for this one

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

I love weird animals groups that are their own thing. Obscure phylogeny is my favorite

[@secondbeamship]

It’s cool that spider life forms are evolved twice. They’re also so neat with being so ancient.

[@aidenmartin6674]

There’s an old saying that teenage boys can eat so much because they have hollow legs. Obvious proof that there is a genetic tie between teen boys and sea spiders

[@millo7295]

I see why it's old And wrong

[@idzbbyboy]

What? 🤨

[@TheLonelyGod42]

"Is gut legs?" I love that this joke just keeps going

[@MadMorgie6318]

Watching the swimming one move is almost hypnotic, a slow, deliberate dance, like tai chi in three dimensions with far more legs. All in all, lovely little fellows and a delightful addition to the tree of life ^_^

[@sciencenerd7639]

I love pycnogonids and I am excited to learn more about them!

[@MoonshineRobot]

I can't believe the phrase "Legs all the way down" didn't make it until this video

[@victornoname7269]

Wait that's their head and their abdomen is tiny? I've been looking at sea spiders backwards my whole life! Also thank you. I've always wondered what exactly sea spiders were. An arachnid? A crustacean? Something else? Now I know but also I'm even more confused by them.

[@pupyfan69]

join the club!

[@runeofnoweyr]

... Huh. Another example of "if you need an alien, look in the ocean."

[@DefektoPrime]

I love becoming aware of things that i never knew existed. I don't understand most of it, but i sure am fascinated!

[@Glory2Snowstar]

Slowly but surely, we're FINALLY bringing more attention to how cool pycnogonids are on a mainstream scale. These gut-legged fellas would be such cool Pokemon!

[@anarchyantz1564]

They've got legs....and they know how to use it.

[@NewMessage]

Who needs space aliens..? All the weird is here, if ya just look closely enough.

[@dixitwastaken]

See this is why I can't understand arthropod hate they're literally so weird and so cool and I love them so dearly

[@efrandsen72]

0:15 Nevermind. Dig up those seafloor batteries.

[@lengeyart]

Title: Sea full of spiders After the first image: Full of Facehuggers 💀

[@Azmodaeus49]

👽 Romulus

[@lengeyart]

@@Azmodaeus49

[@denys-p]

Ok, who else getting “The Thing” vibes on 2:35?

[@bb1televator]

Side note: I have to say I am super delighted that sea scorpions are extinct. Could you imagine going to the beach today and having to worry about scorpions in the water?

[@jpdemer5]

Especially the 8-foot-long ones!😳 (Look up Jaekelopterus)

[@milchesarreal6964]

And it's not even a stinging kind either It's a giant marine bug on crocodile software, with garden shears for a face.

[@jpdemer5]

The 8-foot-long ones would be a wee bit alarming.

[@sleepysartorialist]

I would simply never Ocean again. Nope.

[@eightcoins4401]

They were closer to book scorpions than desert scorpions in hunting method

[@jacko666]

I’m so itchy now

[@logangrimnar3800]

Head canon still says that Scilla from monsterverse is a sybiotic pairing of a nautiloid and a sea spider.

[@CephalopodaCentral14]

Yeah me and him are friends

[@burtonproductions4223]

Extremely excited about this one, I love Pycnogonids and you hardly ever hear about them!

[@shellspider6693]

Wow! The first time I have ever even heard of these funky guys!

[@searchiemusic]

i have to say, it's so amazing seeing hank with a full head of hair coming in like this, somehow youtube hasn't recommended me any of his other adjacent channels so this is my first time seeing him in a very long time, but knowing what he's gone through it's so cool to see this new look as a monument to the journey, best of luck dude

[@contradicsean]

Waiting for zefrank to explain more in his way haha

[@sophierobinson2738]

Yes, indeed. Especially his asides to Jerry….

[@sharendonnelly7770]

This video exemplifies why I love your narrative: passionate, humorous, and just a bit sarcastic. Love this channel as it keeps me interested, and devoted.

[@RuelAustria]

Hans! Forget the Flammenwerfer! Forget the Gustav! Contact Edward Teller and activate 'Project SUNDIAL'

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

There's a military joke that says that Infantry thinks with their boots. May be Sea Spiders are infantry of the ocean.

[@MrT_Rex]

Who needs to go to space to see aliens ? Go swimming deeply, Elon !!

[@jacobrutzke691]

That didn't work out for the other billionaires. If I was him I wouldn't either. Poseidon has something against them.

[@dilaudid1]

Yes, please Go, Elon! Mars, the ocean floor, anywhere but here on terrestrial Earth.

[@jacobrutzke691]

@@dilaudid1 he can leave the money though

[@archerelms]

​@@jacobrutzke691 Never thought i would like Poseidon so much lol

[@MiskaKopperoinen]

@@jacobrutzke691 Poseidon has a thing against idiots. Batyscaphes have been visiting the bottom of the Mariana trench for about 70 years now without catastrophic failures, occasionally carrying the odd ultra-rich guy onboard.. Titan, the moronic submarine, was designed against the express safety practices and established standards of the entire industry, was predicted to fail from the very start and the only surprising bit was that it was capable of surviving for as long as it did.

[@golddragonette7795]

They grow between moults!?? That's poss the most insane fact in the whole video

[@desertsage7]

REALLY loving the layered bubinga tree silhouette in background!

[@Commander-Ledi]

yesss i love sea spiders so much because they are essentially weird cambrian critters that just never bothered stop being weird cambrian critters.

[@RiverRocks335]

Underwater Metroid

[@franciscorosa1498]

They're just strange critters

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

Bizarre beasts, you might say

[@lauracronbungusman1582]

It would be really cool if you guys did a video on Nasalis larvatus, aka the Proboscis monkey!

[@a_lethe_ion]

well theres the surface to volume ratio that is just more beneficial th lager the animal is. which is why small animals have to eat a lot more than larger animals - because they lose more body heat

[@melissaharris3389]

Think that falls under metabolic purposes.

[@MiskaKopperoinen]

The point of body heat only holds true as long as the animal in question is endothermic. For exothermic animals such as sea spiders, it's not a factor (Not to mention the fact that if somebody was tasked to design an animal with the single worst heat retention capability, they would produce something like the sea spider).

[@rhondahuggins9542]

Uhhh...skinny Facehuggers😱

[@TheRealBatabii]

How did I not know this channel existed until it showed up in my recommended feed? I have been following Hank for ages

[@herzglass]

Wow. Great video! Lots of new knowledge! Densely packed, well presented. Amazing job. Knew you only from shorts - you are an outstanding science communicator.

[@squirrel5809]

Ugh the photos make me itchy!! Like seeing knits, or trypophobia, but for leggy crawly uncanny valley things

[@WritingFighter]

05:05 - I beg your pardon, male spiders store their sperm in the pedipalps. Some female spiders actually consider the size of the pedipalps to be a determining factor for a choice mate. Female spiders keep all their equipment in the abdomen though.

[@keksidy]

I was completely ready for you to say sea spiders don't *have* DNA lmao

[@Galacticbreaker]

Good news*

[@Essex626]

I think Clint from Clint's Reptiles would call them the Hagfish of Chelicerates.

[@pietrosigismondodelvalenti6371]

Good news, everyone!

[@appleish5043]

For a second, I thought you were going to say their hearts also in the leg 🤣🤣🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@Rubrickety]

"Is gut legs?" I needed that smile today.

[@probablyrajir638]

That celestial shirt is gorgeous!

[@arikins_]

this is actually extremely good news to me as i love marine biology and also love arachnology

[@ThatJaymsWisdom]

So. Many. Legs! Such a bizarre creature and such a funny, educational video. This episode made me so happy. ❤

[@zhayes6473]

"Legs go all the way up Griffin. "

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

I really feel like our taxinomical structure should include a heading for 'we're not sure' Like... it's sometimes better to say I dunno than gesture at an answer that cannot at this time be proven and sits really weird. Perhaps Enigmanis?

[@badmonkey244]

Yeeee! More taxonomic oddities video, please 🙏

[@ILuvBoysInDresses]

"They tried to put me on the cover of Vogue..." - sea spiders, probably

[@only1muppet]

I’ve always felt they were more like Starfish than spider. Funny thing, I was writing that just before 9:00 the info about them regrowing body parts.

[@VerbalLearning]

Bill Wurtz: And the ocean is full of -plastic- spiders!

[@sgdg7777]

I've once had a dream where every single type of insects broke into my house and there also appeared this specific species of spider wandering around on the floor, that was 4 years ago.

[@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski]

very informative. but i noticed a key subject was missing; how do we eradicate all of them? not just all sea spiders, not just all spiders, but everything that has more than 2 arms and 2 legs and/or more than 2 eyes or anything with "compound eyes"

[@Flippant-j5d]

One of the most enduring and amazing facts about the sea is that it will never run out of reasons for keeping me out of it lol.

[@robbierenfro7209]

It's like a tiny octopus with no head, but that's cool, I've always wanted to have a spider, but my mom and dad won't let me have one.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Temperatures aren’t cold or hot, they’re low or high. Water and air are cold or hot (or something in between).

[@geneard639]

oh goody, a fresh new hell for my ptsd nightmares.

[@Boop__Doop]

5W Lazers do not discriminate

[@Nickbox]

I had a nightmare when I was a kid, which was about sea spiders. It was this weird hyper realistic computer generated documentary style dream about the "deadly sea spiders". This was probably 20 years ago and I took comfort in the fact that the idea of sea spiders was a ridiculous idea. While this video is fascinating, I still don't like the sea spiders.

[@HauntedAtoms]

From Intellect Devourer's to Facehuggers. I love nature.

[@legitimatehuman1220]

I am appalled by the staggering lack of respect spiders and crabs show to the sovereignty of each other's octopodal domains.

[@ryanreedgibson]

I remember pulling one up in a crab pot when I was a child. It was in Puget Sound. I was really creepy looking so I asked what it was. No one could tell me and that was really disappointing.

[@MrRosebeing]

So long as they stay where they are I'm happy. I have enough to contend with the ones that live on land.

[@aidantilgner]

This is easily the worst news I've gotten all week

[@nezumishrimp]

I love sea spiders. They are such curious animals! Just like ghost shrimp. Edit: There are actually ghost shrimp in this video! Perfect combination 🥰