This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims

[@josieschultz4241]

its fun to see when hank slips back in to his normal voice because he gets too excited

[@MamitaClaud]

My jackfruit tree just died because of fungal disease. It was painful to see this because it's my favorite fruit. It was too late when we detected the infestation. We thought it was root rot and treatment was wrong and then from a closer look on the tree bark you can see small perforations. It's rainy season now so fungal bloom is more apparent. Finally, the kind of fungus was in full view. It was cloud ears. Silver lining is that I don't need to buy mycelium for my mushroom culture. Cloud ears or what we call tainga ng daga (rat's ears) is a delicacy for noodle dishes. My revenge for this microorganisms is I will consume them as it consumed my tree. Survival of the fittest eh.

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

Sounds like you live in south or south-east asia. Or at least in a tropical country.

[@MamitaClaud]

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 known as the Pearl of the Orient. Magandang Umaga. Tis 5am here.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Eating something whose life cycle involves eating another creature from the inside out - and having already seen it do just that - would make me kinda nervous ngl. I don't think I could eat mushrooms comfortably if I'd just seen them kill one of my plants...

[@PeachPlastic]

​@@ArawnOfAnnwn Mycelium and spores don't survive cooking. You should be more concerned about sugar consumption, because that feeds the yeast that infects all of us in varying degrees. 💀

[@dan_asd]

The cycle of life. its eating the dead and dying and getting eaten

[@dogzer]

Microcosmos is my favorite ASMR channel

[@MicroSaner]

👀👌 I uploaded a rotifer one

[@frozenfeet4534]

I love everyone who does this work but hanks voice is truly irreplaceable

[@MuscarV2]

ASMR in this case: Amoeba, Spirogyra, Microbes, Rotifers

[@0mn1vore]

​@@frozenfeet4534- Yeah. I was sorry to miss some episodes while he was busy with chemotherapy, but it just wasn't the same. [The other presenters on this channel are great, btw; they're just not Hank.]

[@benmaharaj6854]

It never ceases to amaze me all the ways life finds to survive. A fungus that specializes in eating a particular class of micro animal is something I never would’ve imagined.

[@NewMessage]

"It puts the lotion in the basket, or else it gets the hyphae again!"

[@zolacnomiko]

Loving Andrew's horror-movie score so much

[@benmcreynolds8581]

It would be so insane to be able to see bacteriophages someday. They basically seem like something straight out of a sci-fi movie about Aliens using a passive way to take over a new environment.

[@IanGrams]

When you say "see", does using an electron microscope count? If so, that is already possible and with pretty impressive detail. If you search "PMID: 30886360" the images in that paper are made using cryo-electron tomography which is like a CT scan but with electrons instead of X-rays. Some of the images have a 10nm scale bar which is wild to see.

[@flutemane]

We can image bacteriophages and other viruses with electron microscopy. There are some great examples of phage exploding out of infected bacteria.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

@@flutemane that's awesome! I'd love to see a video covering this topic. It's such fascinating stuff.

[@Zenithx3]

Discovering this channel this early morning Monday has planted the seed of knowledge for fruition. Subscribed.

[@gildedbear5355]

Welcome to the party, friend!

[@GeoffryGifari]

And on the subject of fungi, does there exist a fungus that acts as a parasite on *another* fungus?

[@petergray2712]

The genus Trichoderma parasitizes other fungi, including several species that produce diseases in commercial crops. They attach themselves to the hyphae of these fungus, producing a class of peptides called peptaibols that allow them to penetrate the cell walls of their hosts, and they grow inside them.

[@GeoffryGifari]

@an8thdimensionalbeing142 lol no one is safe

[@squid1712]

Yes, there are even mycoparasites that target ophiocordyceps species; the fungi that it's self parasitizes insects.

[@GeoffryGifari]

@@squid1712 insect leeching a fungus leeching an insect? lol how do interspecies relationship like this even evolve?

[@aadilkhnh5222]

Asterophora spp.check them out

[@johnsteiner3417]

Bdelloid rotifers also undergo horizontal gene transfer, and have the ability to track their own genes versus the borrowed genes when reproducing.

[@stevenkarnisky411]

Kill, or be killed. Eat, or be eaten. It is a tough micro world out there! At least, on this level, we have friends, family, and even strangers sometimes, to look out for us!

[@ShadesOfMisery]

Appropriately grim for spooky month!

[@anthonybeers]

This is basically the plot of the Expanse series if the fungus then went and ate a planet and made a warp gates to distant points in space.

[@JuanSanchez-rg9ov]

This really is a slasher movie, it's even got the Final Girl that gets away at the end

[@Eloraurora]

It looks like a length of barbed-wire fence that's being used as a shrike's larder.

[@YunxiaoChu]

Sure

[@kaitlynoddie9649]

who at complexly is uploading videos at 4 am

[@princepsmickey934]

Your thumbnail made me think this was a video by the music group Infected Mushroom 😂. The font on the words really sold it!

[@DeathsNitemareShepardOfHope]

Yaaay! One of my favorite voices on one of my favorite channels during one of my favorite times of year. 😄👍

[@matttryc1907]

Is there a genera of fungi similar to this that hits euglenoids? I’ve found in some of my carnivorous plant soils that were covered in euglenoids

[@HellOnWheel]

I love when Microcosmos goes metal 🤘

[@casualsatanist5808]

Ah, the phylum Zoopagomycota!! I know very little about them aswell as the blastoclads and chytrids!

[@rogerkearns8094]

_Bdelloid_ From Ancient Greek βδέλλα (bdélla, “leech”), apparently.

[@theprogressiveatheist7024]

I still remember the time when this guy caught a paramecium underneath a slide and the paramecium moved in all kinds of directions in order to attempt to escape their trap, but then it fell apart and its organelles went all over the place. Oh the humanity.

[@dancingtiger577]

One of the finest intros yet.

[@animab4737]

What kind of filters does james use? I would be happy to know the specific ones. Your videos are my favourites and I want to try making my own ones

[@codyramseur]

And here I was ringing that bell like a Salvation Army volunteer two weeks before Christmas.

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

Dude the music! It’s making me want to play Eve Online or No Man’s Sky! What a great producer you guys have!

[@6c3333]

The music in this one was something else!

[@wither5673]

If you ever want to write a truly horrifying horror scenario just scale up microbial predators.....on the other hand, for everyone's mental state how about we don't do that...

[@1patato.youtube]

8:56 pollinisation?

[@AtarGG]

Lololol. "Its not even moving."

[@ronanclark2129]

This is one of the best windows into non cordyceps carnivorous fungi.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

Another Journey to the Microcosmos video, another dead rotifer. Some things never change.

[@Alex-js5lg]

My cat loves these videos. I'm pretty fond of them too.

[@v124entkl9]

what microscope do you guys use?

[@ivanmechaluca6008]

Que son esos puntos que están todo el tiempo moviéndose por todos lados?

[@jesseplantz]

Thank you for a very appropriate Halloween episode!

[@jimurrata6785]

Thumbnail looked like a butterfly chrysalis to me. I had no idea it was a rotifer caught on a fungus. 🤯

[@n-ish]

That poster is in style of Evil Dead!

[@seanthomas3280]

So Ive been kinda battling the VA for the last 18 months i keep getting these breakouts and I have crazy level on my bloodwork low red bloodcounts high WBC but the worst is a pancreatic failure i take replacement enzymes for. I have had stool samples and blood work nothing conclusive so they tell me Im. here the odd part I keep finding small micros all over my body that seem to he caught in a webbing of sort the webbing is all over my body i have tons of photos its wrapped around the individual hairs and i saw this and thought can the fungus set up shop on or inside me please someone tell me i am just crazy or how can i get some help

[@wickedcabinboy]

@seanthomas3280 - Sorry, this isn't the place to get the kind of help you need.

[@wizzardofpaws2420]

I hope Hank is well!

[@somedude6161]

Hate to see one of these behind a shower curtain! Eek eek eek eek 🔪🔪🔪

[@hairandcia2028]

A voz do Google ficou boa e está bem traduzido. 😘 OBG Journey pelo trabalho

[@1patato.youtube]

Big thanks for that view of this else

[@GeoffryGifari]

If bdelloid rotifers only reproduce asexually, does each individual have genetic variation at all? maybe (just maybe) there is horizontal gene transfer at work, like in bacteria but at larger scale between eukaryotes or between eukaryotes and prokaryotes

[@edweinb]

Rotifer looks like its hooked right in the mouth. LIke it tried to ingest the Hyphae.

[@thangchinsiamguite4725]

[insert eating ASMR noises here]

[@markrix]

Wait a minute, aren't rotifers the ones that are like immortal, u can cut em up into pieces and they regenerate?? I guess in this case they're not so immortal

[@markrix]

Sad.. 🪦

[@GordonFreechmen]

I think you're referring to hydras

[@Boogie_the_cat]

So, it's microscopic Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs?

[@peter8488]

Freaking fungus drift nets in the micro world, the micro world is dangerous.

[@Iprodeltaelite]

Ive actually seen them Do It once

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Murder makes the world go round!

[@dancoroian1]

...I *would've* liked to go back and review the previous video you mentioned, unfortunately despite being the most experienced YTer you apparently still haven't figured out how to link to a video!

[@Beryllahawk]

Kind of surprised the Rotifer hasn't commented yet. ...oh dear. These recent videos are all so delightfully creepy and spooky, perfect for the time of year!

[@6AxisSage]

A day in the life of a rotifier is like months 😢 Can fungi play a role in reproduction if the rotifiers? Maybe youre looking at temporary motile bodies of a fungi.

[@SP-ny1fk]

Have you ever watched the animation of the book 'Flatland'? You may enjoy it.

[@thenonfurry]

sir excuse me did you just say “funji”

[@eewilson9835]

The smell, once you smell it, you cannot forget it, when you smell it again, god forbid you do, you will know in a jiffy, get out quickly. Shudder.

[@brendakrieger7000]

Always so cool🦠🔬

[@cipedead0777]

Is a micro world a 2D world?

[@Eloraurora]

No, it just looks like it under observation. We put a bit of water between glass rectangles to see what's going on in there, creating a 2D pocket dimension of a 3D world.

[@cipedead0777]

@@Eloraurora thank you. It’s amazing

[@ember2933]

"sex" 😨 "But first, violence and death" 😊

[@lobotomusprime1443]

Thumbnail suppose to replicate the Evil Dead cover, right? Am I the only one that sees that?

[@bobdowling6932]

Great video, shame about the audio. Can you lower the level of the background music, please? People like me with hearing difficulty struggle with intrusive background music. I am sure it never used to be this prominent.

[@judyb1539]

You have a nice voice.

[@Arkie80]

Amphotercin B. That's all I have to say.

[@Whomobile]

teeny tiny killers

[@rockythenomadsiberianfores4314]

Sounds like the premise of The Last of Us

[@lexxussim]

Maybe this fungus shares their genes via horizontal genes transition and/or high mutability of fungus "personality "? Instead of sex. Like D'n'D society? =) (just joking)

[@heresthedealio3520]

Evil Dead

[@neon_Nomad]

CillateFace

[@btbb3726]

Buffalo Bill

[@Threadsinger]

You will be assimilated, indeed.

[@coolman6719]

What about Coronavirus

[@Not_Qwake]

What?

[@anderslarsen1321]

about?

[@coolman6719]

So I want to see what it looks like and learn from it before Happens again

[@Not_Qwake]

@@coolman6719 you need an electron microscope to look at them. They are way waaaay smaller than anything you are seeing here. Also, microscopy isn't all that helpful when learning about viruses, at least compared to other methods

[@coolman6719]

So are they Using Electronic Microscope 🔬 right now the killer fungus on youtube

[@frogz]

yay im early!

[@sforza209]

That’s a wholllllllle knew meaning to the phrase “let’s get hyphae!”