Watch Ferns Get Freaky | Deep Look

[@simonsaysism]

My local florist uses fern leaves to garnish his arrangements. Anytime I bring home a table bouquet I'm cleaning zillions of spores off my kitchen table, and I find gametophytes in plant pots all over my house!! When I first noticed the dots under the fern leaves I thought they were bug eggs or something, but they seemed too regularly-spaced, so I did some googling and finally put the pieces together about the mysterious little green growths in my plant pots (which I'd previously clocked as mold).

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Love that!

[@Phillia_crochet]

I'm glad fern, fungi and mold reproduction was included in my country's national Biology text book for 7th grade. I didn't have to freak out seeing fern spores and sporangia from the ferns I collected from the countryside where my grandparents live.

[@annai157]

I'm severely allergic to ferns. This video is as close as I want to get to one!

[@PikaPetey]

Give props to your music person for putting a jaw harp in the track then going crazy with that jaw harp durring the "next time in the woods think of all the ferns getting busy around you" 😂😂

[@darksparkyshark430]

*Vibraphone!

[@KQEDDeepLook]

That's Seth Samuel!

[@roleat]

​@@darksparkyshark430 no

[@thatotherandrew_]

​@@darksparkyshark430Not at that part of the soundtrack - they were definitely referring to the jaw harp.

[@PikaPetey]

​@KQEDDeepLook tell Seth Samuel I really appreciate their work!!

[@justinpatterson5291]

I love how nature uses some of the most low energy- solid ouput methods available. Only as much juice as whats needed for the task at hand.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Great point!

[@niko1even]

Evolution is as lazy as it gets.

[@TacticalAnt420]

@@niko1evensurvival of the dumbest, most lazy and incompetent thing who can still kind of survive.

[@Empenguin]

​@@TacticalAnt420 Well the alternate to that is darwinism and/or eugenics

[@maxwellsimon4538]

@@Empenguindarwinism is all about the success of the good enough

[@SamSep01]

You should've made a warning in the beginning of the video. This content is inappropriate for the baby plants on my desk >:(

[@nadiahhassan49]

Kikikiki

[@kulera]

Booo 👎

[@thetoothfairy4043]

😂

[@Mer._.ci1]

omg your baby plants must be traumatized 😣

[@MzMaverick.]

COVER THEIR LEAVES!

[@Leo88v]

I always used to wonder what those spots were. Deep look has such informative and quality videos. No wonder they've won so many awards, well earned

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Thanks! The diversity of the shaped and sizes of the sori is incredible.

[@allisongong1009]

@@KQEDDeepLook I'm teaching Plant Biology now and yesterday took the students to study ferns. One of the things I wanted them to see was the variety of sorus arrangements in the different species. They really are very cool structures!

[@shardinalwind7696]

Thanks deep look, I’ll never look at ferns the same way again

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Our work here is done

[@YiJoro]

@@KQEDDeepLook lmao

[@Metalkatt]

This video simplified about two chapters in a book I have been trying to read about how plants colonized land. Those chapters were confusing me so badly. Thank you.

[@loofy530]

They basically evolved these adaptations when plants were still figuring out how to plant. The sheer variety of life on this planet as well as what may be already lost to time never ceases to amaze.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

It's a joy to reflect on these wonders.

[@EliosMoonElios]

Fern was the fist living thing in dry land so there was not insects to help with pollination in land(in fact insects was not a thing yet) also in water plants don't need help so the pollination by insects was not a plant thing to learn at all. In fact fern was a total functional plant for hundreds of millions of years before insect become helpers.

[@Auradyme]

@@EliosMoonElios wow she's even older than frieren

[@EliosMoonElios]

@@Auradyme That is why Serie say only a demon-lord could see her true power and when she ask Fern if she is scared of her power Fern reveal she can see Serie's true power so yeah Fern is not a mere human being probably a very old and powerful demon-lord disguised as a human.

[@Yixdy]

​@@EliosMoonElios ferns were definitely not the first living things on land, that'd be bacteria and fungus, they weren't even the first plants, liverworts, hornworts, and mosses beat them to the punch

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

“…and now they have learned to colonize new worlds by hurling their spore into space.” - Rue McClanahan

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Early candidate for COTD

[@nightwind1989]

I really appreciate the spring sound affects

[@KoeiKatsune]

"Fern gets freaky" What's next frieren gets naughty?

[@nategthepigeonlord2683]

Do not

[@KinDiedYesterday]

LMAO I KNEW I WOULD FIND FRIEREN COMMENTS SOMEWHERE

[@duniasainsasrofi]

As it was written

[@cerealata9035]

_confused Stark noise_

[@reactornova1221]

Let’s go finally a frieren reference

[@atlasjwilliam7938]

Didn't know i was using a FreakyTube instead of KZbin👅

[@Imscreaminginagonyx_khabs]

Same😭

[@odl3144]

I did NOT need to see ferns get freaky 😭😭😭😭 another awesome video

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Thanks!

[@ASAL2022]

😂😂😂

[@hailtothefire_]

I thought the title said "Watch germs get freaky".

[@N0Xa880iUL]

Same. I wonder why.

[@hermietoe5213]

😂

[@MBMCincy63]

😂😂

[@Sycaniavol]

Stop throwing your phone and it shouldn't get any cracks in it (totally not projecting) lol

[@ivy_47]

journey to the microcosmos is next door!

[@kimtamondong2125]

Jesus to humans: go forth and multiply Also ferns: YES💅✨

[@imalittleeggroll]

I have a love/hate relationship with ferns. This video simply validated why. Thank you, Deep Look! 🌿

[@KQEDDeepLook]

You’re welcome 😊

[@SuluhPandu]

Fern is getting freaky Stark: nandeeeeee….?

[@secretplatypusperry]

ecchi

[@RadenWA]

“Fern has sperm, that’s a thing”

[@kleong8321]

Public schools need to make watching videos from Deep Look compulsory and become part of the syllabus. Fascinating stuffs!

[@101wormwood]

looked like bugs. told its not bugs. still looks like bugs. makes my brain tickle

[@nicodianime]

The fern saw a researcher looking under its leaf and felt indecent, it covered it's spots up and asks it's fern friend "do you think he sorus?"

[@gabrielaquiros1966]

LOL!

[@weeirrdcat]

omg YES!!! I was hoping you'd do a video on ferns! They are such an interesting plant!

[@RainAngel111]

That's wild. I knew ferns were older than flowering plants but I didn't realize their reproduction was so complicated.

[@Guydude777]

Those closeups of the ferns were really cool. Nature is amazing.

[@aprilmeowmeow]

This video just reignited so many memories. I remember about 25 years ago, id always quickly walk past one of these giant ferns we had hanging on our porch in Florida. I was so disturbed by the little spots. 😅

[@rutzybaby]

Omg I agree. As a child seeing those dots under the leaves didn't make sense. I thought it was a cluster of worms that'll attack you if you touch the plant! 😂

[@kwan8247]

Whoever did the composition behind this did a great job

[@kronologisatu9534]

fern... freaky... heheheHEHEHE

[@LM-lv6fv]

Ohhhhhh my This footage is just breath taking!! Love this! Need more of this😍 Thank you for this

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Josh Cassidy is our cinematographer - we agree!

[@thebeef1278]

"ferns dont need a pollinator", they still use an intermediary, its just rain instead of an animal

[@unknownpain2215g]

even the ferns are getting busy.

[@Dokushin1989]

Thank you for giving attention to ferns! They are my favorite plant type due to their ancient history and beautiful foliage!

[@ariannasv22]

So basically, ferns are just that "yeet the child" meme

[@williamparker2922]

More like skeet skeet skeet

[@rafa_br34]

Sometimes spraying your seed everywhere is a good way of creating descendants. (keyword, sometimes)

[@Crasher1982]

@@rafa_br34 That's what Nick Cannon said. :D

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Sporophytes and Gametophytes was such a mind bending thing to learn in college! I'm happy to have a refresher from a channel I love! (Flowering plants have a weird mini-internal sporophyte phase, if I remember correctly 🤔)

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@AelwynMr]

An internal mini-gameotphyte phase 😊

[@DCamp1271]

They’re like half plant, half animal. Cool.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

If you like that kind of thing, you should see our last video, on algae-powered flatworms called Acoels: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipSXaqufZr-disU

[@biggusdickus2166]

flowering plants do the same thing, but smaller. the pollen is a male spore. once hes brought to the flower, he sprouts into a tiny plant and makes a sperm for the female plant, which was inside the female part of the flower all along

[@takeaflowershower8877]

who gonna match their freak

[@bruhmoment5515]

Nahhh we got freaky ahh plants before GTA 6 😭😭 💀

[@--Paws--]

Some ferns also can also allow another fern to grow on their sorii instead. A whole plant can grow under the leaves of another. However, depending on the conditions, it can deteriorate the fern the new plant is growing on.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Interesting!

[@jamielandis4606]

Finally! A comprehensive explanation of this process I’ve been curious about for years! Thanks!

[@Noughtsgnik]

ferny ferny ferny get freaky freaky freaky

[@tylerlucas3180]

It's amazing how much I learned in university courses, but it wasn't until seeing it in a KZbin video do I really see the fern's life cycle! Thanks, such a great channel.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

That's awesome!

[@LambdaSymbol]

Wow they are very 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

Yo your editing team needs a raise

[@williamparker2922]

Me after a good night @ 0:23

[@Sinking697]

Haha lol

[@Sinking697]

Also like me

[@aeyelashbug6311]

Plants are the coolest organisms

[@felixandrean2294]

"Mangonel ready, sir."

[@SergTTL]

Wow, this is so cool! Great video, Deep Look, as usual!

[@MARKET_GARDNERI]

“The ferns tend to get freaky at night”

[@audioartisan]

I walk through the woods of the Pacific Northwest daily. And now I'm going to keep a lookout for Ferns mating! Thank you for opening my eyes & mind, Deep Look!

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Good luck!

[@knisayusuf]

Thank you for the hardwork put into making of this video😊😊 Looks like the textbook pictures and drawings on ferns reproduction comes alive.😊😊 In the past I just imagined them in my head. Same goes to that jellyfishes video. Thank you again-I really really appreciate this video(since I really love ferns and jellyfishes reproductions during Life Science course during my Foundation year)😊😊 My apologies for watching this a little late, I'd put the reminder on my physical office calendar days ago and been waiting, I thought today is 16th,it was yesterday😅😅 Came to watch after seeing that calendar.😅

[@cuteduckdontlie4636]

I will never be able to look at the plants 🌱 like before 😳 I will always be thinking are they doing it ?! 😂

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Sorry not sorry

[@cuteduckdontlie4636]

@@KQEDDeepLook you should be…. humans like to name anything comes up to their minds. I wonder how many months or years as took to come up with this discovery. I’m amazed about it. This planet works it’s own way and the nature is wonderful.

[@bin9957]

My entire life, thinking these moving things are worms! 😮

[@buddhasdisciple4935]

Had studied all this in my 11th grade biology syllabus (albeit without seeing the actual ferns in action ). So, thanks for the beautiful revision 😊

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@B1rakul0us1yflare14]

Here I thought that they're some kind of an _insect eggs or some plant disease_ in my neighbor's ferns. Hahaha thanks Deep Look for this knowledge 🤭✨

[@me_mehak]

This unexpected quick revision definitely rocked😂 Thanks Deep Look!

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Glad you liked it!

[@zacharywong483]

Super professional video, as always!

[@rottenmangoes]

Thank you reminding me again about ferns. Gamitophyte is also familiar to my brain. Used to read about them in biology classes, sadly I'm and engineer now i dont read biology books anymore. Brought back memories.

[@paulafigueiredo1745]

One of my favorite KZbin channels. Always great contents. Thanks DL. 🌷

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Wow, thank you Paula!

[@darcydreaming6931]

Having never seen a fern flower, I'm not sure what I expected... maybe I just thought they like, pinched themselves off and kept growing that way? This is insane. I came here thinking this was a breeding ground for some kind of small creature or parasite, and even if after seeing this video I saw that in the wild I would probably still think the same thing. Crazy stuff

[@helolou2648]

As a biology student and keen to botanics, this video is so well done and a real good lecture, from names and how it works, never disappoints ✨

[@jalenmeme]

my kinda title 😜

[@KQEDDeepLook]

One of our colleagues Danielle, from PBS Nature, suggested this title!

[@shravan012]

@@KQEDDeepLook oh wow

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

@@KQEDDeepLookshe’s a genius

[@shravan012]

@@ProfessionalBugLover how do you know that they are she

[@treystephens6166]

She might look like shes in the LGBTQ Community but i think shes smart enough to know that shes a Woman.​@shravan012

[@Ramash440]

As a kid I loved collecting ferns for no reason in particular. I always thought the sori were solid little balls instead of these hairballs of catapults.

[@khristoosmoove8087]

I finally get to see one of these videos and lees then 3 hours.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Glad you are here!

[@mybackhurts7020]

I never understood but my plant teacher would say that the polyps were older genetically than the plants themselves

[@deiwoah]

YES! deep look made a video about ferns' cycle! i thought i knew about plants but this actually shocked me. now i know more!

[@eidrianespino2792]

Deep look as quality videos and very informational and, I just LOVE it! So thank you for making these videos!

[@WorldScott]

Oh hooray a new video from one of my favorite KZbinrs, Dee Plook!

[@Xinevlin]

There's an insect that I want you to cover, it's called orong-orong or Mole cricket.. it's another nature Frankenstein. They can produce a very very unique sound,it's like sounds frogs with a hint of crickets

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Great suggestion!

[@diluc1611]

I would probably cry if I saw all those worm things moving underneath a fern floral arrangement

[@taylor12234]

i love deep look so much

[@taylor12234]

thank u guys for existing n posting regularly

[@shadesofvioletcat]

I always knew ferns were freaky… now I know in GREAT detail. Thanks.

[@mrshumancar]

I love fern spores, they look so cool

[@kimbratton9620]

You always have interesting topics!!

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Glad you think so Kim! Always enjoy seeing your comments here.

[@kimbratton9620]

@@KQEDDeepLook and I like seeing your replies!

[@GARDENER43]

This fish holds the world record for most eggs produced in single brood.

[@MRworldEtIkA]

freaky became an official term at this point

[@HellWulfric]

The thumbnail made me hungry. And I really thought this was about some french toast variation.

[@vladimirandreevich]

I'm in love with this voice

[@plasmapulsefinal134]

what is that title😰

[@Sjalabais]

Ha, so all our next forest walks will be accompanied by some mental shaggy funk, huh?

[@KQEDDeepLook]

If you are lucky.

[@teleman07]

I always hated ferns since my childhood.

[@knightshade6232]

We had ferns here in our tropical island that grows as big as trees kinda like prehistoric lookin.🏝️

[@Mirak-el]

This has to be one of the most cursed yet amazing channels ever.

[@mrtienphysics666]

Is it true that fern sperm can move like human sperm? Yet it is a plant.

[@AelwynMr]

I think it moves much further than human sperm! It usually has a corkscrew shape and two tails.

[@fenrirgg]

-Also many polen grains contain something like those sperm things that can swim through the flower stigma,- also moss has spermy things, -so it's pretty normal for plants.-

[@AelwynMr]

@@fenrirgg pollen does not swim through the stigma, it grows into it!

[@fenrirgg]

@@AelwynMr omg my life is a lie lol. I always misinterpreted how it works.

[@AelwynMr]

@@fenrirgg I used to think that too, it was taught to me at school! I only found out the truth at university 😅

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

Flowering plants do the same thing, but the gametophyte generation is reduced to only a few cells. The pollen germinates of the pistil of the flower, and this male gametophyte grows down the pistil to the eggs. Once fertilized, the plant packages all this as the embryo in the seed. All multicellular plants have alternation of generations in some form.

[@doomjunyu_]

Wow this episode has brought me more interest to plants and not just animals

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Excellent!

[@theeoneandonlyushygushy]

ferns have absolutely been my favorite. they look so prehistoric yet so modern. idk how to explain it lol

[@icelandicjam]

love the music !

[@NewMessage]

I knew a girl name Fern. She was pretty freaky.

[@SamGamgeeGardner]

My father taught me many things about ferns when I was small. Plants are interesting. Did you know that you can rub the sori from the fern onto a stinging nettle rash to alleviate the pain and itching for a minute? Do that until you reach home and get a good wash.

[@Lfppfs]

Another amazing video!

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Thanks again!

[@oscarinacan]

I love ferns. Even before i found out how old they were, every time I'd be in the mountains and came across an area full of ferns it would feel as if i were transported back in time. Not 100s of millions of years, maybe only 10 million 😊

[@UonBoat]

And I'm whispering our lullaby for you to come back home. ;)

[@spiderdude2099]

The ability to still reproduce without some kind of standing water or moisture in the environment proved to be a VERY difficult thing for early plants to overcome. Once seeds were developed, things could grow much larger than any fern before it.

[@lichh64]

After I'm done with my studies in med school I wanna be like one of those people on national geographic, as a hobby. Seems like such a cool job

[@thatoneasian5660]

What if instead of Deep Look it was Freak Look and the plants just started shaking spores oiled up

[@jacobmajor3891]

I LOVE YOU DEEP LOOK!

[@thesilentgod7863]

Ferns here do get a bit quirky at night

[@sapphirejade5029]

Before the video started, I just LOOKED at the thumbnail. I thought I was looking at a massive cluster of mites or lice. Ferns weren’t on my mind.😂😂😂

[@swedneck]

Maybe i missed it, but is the footage of the sporangiums sped up or not? if so, how much?

[@ibnekabirsumbal739]

Thanks deep look team ❤️❤️❤️

[@RumBrave]

Ferns are so intriguing! I had no idea about this. I never get to see them in my very arid surroundings but I am off to learn more about them (online, anyway).

[@Lina_so_and_so]

Glad to hear my maiden hair plant is not infested lol😅