Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies

[@Longuncattr]

It's so cute seeing the tardigrade's little mouth parts twitching in the egg.

[@GaleFlamel]

really sucks that the tardigrade hatching footage was obstructed by the ad

[@rotifer]

*Yes I do prefer my eggs, membrane side up.*

[@VoidHalo]

You should do a follow-up about seeds and pollen. I was surprised to learn a seed is actually an embryo. The way some plants reproduce, pollen needs to fertilize the seed, which seems analogous to sperm fertilizing an egg, so I just assumed seeds were the plant analog of an egg. But the fact that it's an embryo is really counterintuitive. Especially when you consider the largest seeds, which are about the size of a football. On a side note, I wonder if the egg cells (ova) from large mammals like whales are any larger than smaller mammals. Would a blue whale ovum be larger than a shrew's?

[@intpleb4206]

7:13 A baby tardigrade hatching!!! This isn't something you'll catch everyday, and such a wonderful moment that James managed to capture under the scope! Thank you so much

[@Haplo-san]

I loved the new ost. Made me lost in thoughts and feel the connection as they are descendants of my long lost relatives that parted ways and lost each other couple billion years ago.

[@austinfreyrikrw6651]

How appropriate to end this video with the footage of a tardigrade egg hatching. ❤

[@soliton1]

I have always have difficulty focusing on both, the audio and video. either of them so philosophical that it absorbs me into contemplative state.

[@justincarnes1553]

My favorite bed time channsl. You soothe my bones and get my thoughts flowing

[@beatleguise]

Thanks for that surprise at the end!

[@burtbackattack]

The guy whose job it is to capture this footage has the best job in the world! Love this channel.

[@Mate397]

That would be James the Master of Microscopes

[@Michaelroni-n-cheese]

​@@Mate397Mhat mould me Mames Master of MMMicroscopes

[@nickcosimano5028]

That last clip with the tardigrade is priceless

[@snehapradhan5591]

The egg hatching is sooo cute 😭

[@vitamink1028]

Really interesting how those Artemia cells stall apoptosis to stay alive.

[@borrero-md1196]

We do basically the same. And although eggs are an amazing example, all cells have an amazing set of "tools" to constatly test and either prevent or promote apoptisis. Imagine human eggs... They can remain in a halted phase of it's cell division cycle for decades (women are born with their eggs already there) enduring all sorts of threats that could and would damage it's DNA and other structures and lay in waiting until it is randomly selected to resume the cycle and maybe be fertilized.

[@pilotavery]

Hi I want to explode myself except I'm going to try very hard to block myself from exploding myself until it's the right time and then I'll relax so I can explode

[@persephone2706]

@@pilotavery _What in the fuck..._

[@pilotavery]

@@persephone2706 This is what cells are doing. They try and blow themselves up when they are damaged and then they have another mechanism that tries to prevent them from blowing themselves up when damaged

[@beachdoggo7892]

@@pilotavery tsrtt

[@nariu7times328]

Can we see the full footage of the tardigrade hatching pleeeease? I watched the sponsor all all the way through (as always) but feel like I missed something :)

[@anticlockwisepropeller7379]

the full video of the tardigrade hatching is on James's channel! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qny4mqtumpmtlac

[@nariu7times328]

@@anticlockwisepropeller7379 THANK YOU!

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

Then of course there are the Rip Van Rotifers that just woke up after a 24,000 year permafrost nap. Given the tenacity and diversity of life on Earth, how can one believe it is not typical and the rest of the universe is empty. Methinks it'll be a lively place. Now will someone please invent the future so we can get out n have a look around?

[@vitamink1028]

"1:58" the Gastrotrich looks like a hairy otter here and I can't unsee it.

[@MagentaFaux]

Now I can't unsee it too, but I love it

[@gtbkts]

Now I cant unsee it. Cool. Thx.

[@lyreparadox]

lol, the whiskers make it surprisingly adorable for a microbe.

[@NovaGirl8]

I was seeing a hair otter as well as a potato

[@ankhkk118]

Harry potter?

[@tomyjwu]

That Tardigrade hatching near the end of video is really amazing.

[@metairiemomma]

Thank you for this video and for this wonderful channel!

[@willstokes123]

Wow the tardigrade hatching!

[@TheRogueWolf]

Apotosis: Not to be confused with K-poptosis, the chemical process that governs the spread of Korean pop bands.

[@ayseerensunkitay6603]

Thanks for your marvellous workings, I!m very glad to watch these videos

[@MagentaFaux]

I'm learning a lot of words today.

[@idiotidiot5821]

I learn a new word everyday to increase my verisimilitude. Today's word is 'balloon'.

[@MagentaFaux]

@@idiotidiot5821 Oh thank you! Verisimilitude is a word I've been trying to remember for a long time now. I heard that when I was still watching Tobuscus.

[@josipj705]

You missed the opportunity to call this video "Eggstreme eggs"

[@jasrajzlimbu8463]

Eggxactly

[@hdezn26]

@@jasrajzlimbu8463 Eggcellent!

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

Sighs in eggsasperation

[@hdezn26]

@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 Supprised there isn't any Eggsrta comments, lol.

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

@@hdezn26 I'd assume there'd be more, though I'm hoping they're eggsagerating. They're more fun that way

[@GordonFreechmen]

This is the same music that played during the "This Ciliate is About to Die" video. Kinda poetic that at first it plays during an episode about death, it now plays in an episode about birth.

[@indridcold8433]

This is the clearest, most beautiful, microbe video I have ever seen.

[@binghyong-baebang2236]

How does a single cell creature decide what it should do next? I have seen paramecium run into debris and backup and try again. If it does this several times without success, I've seen them backup, then rotate fast for a short time and then move forward in the new random direction. It kind of looks like a temper tantrum. :) But seriously, what part of the cell has the wherewithal to make the cell spin, then go off in the new direction?

[@maxwellsimon4538]

If I had to guess, each time it bumps into debris, chemicals get released, and one of them signals the cillia to back up and turn. Then if that happens too many times in a row, the concentration of another chemical builds up to tell it to back up more and spin for a longer time.

[@binghyong-baebang2236]

@@maxwellsimon4538 So it has substantial subsystems of sorts. Every time I see these organisms, I feel smaller and less knowledgeable. It is truly fascinating.

[@Kram1032]

maybe there are specialized organelles for the task? - Though I'm sure the real answer is a clear and decisive "It Depends". There will be several different strategies almost certainly

[@maxwellsimon4538]

@@binghyong-baebang2236 I would imagine so. Like I said this was just my best guess. It would be awesome if JttMC did an episode on cell signaling, because it's such a fascinating subject.

[@victoriameredith629]

Roombas. They ride on tiny Roombas. 😁

[@microborealis1064]

Who needs word of the week emails when we have the vocabulary in Journey to the Microcosmos episodes 😅

[@kb470]

I'm going to fix the thumbnail title. "Eggstreme Eggs" You're welcome. You can have it for free

[@franklinz8098]

Environment: changes Tardigrade eggs: DEHYDRATE!

[@n1msu]

the way an egg divides cells etc to create whatever it's coded to make, whether a cilliate or a human, IMO are literally composed in the same way you would a lego technic kit. I have a Biology A level and the lego porsche technic manual, if you're able to see it has many similarities

[@NiceMuslimLady]

Eggs. Yummy. I think I'm going to scramble some up right now!

[@Fummy007]

Spermism didnt even know the egg existed. the oldest trilogy in all of the western canon is the the Orestea. In which the father is the sole source of the son, with no mother being necesarry except as the fertile soil in which the sperm is planted. like a seed planted in soil it is entirely of the seed and nothing of the soil.

[@Vitali_Osandor]

Thankfully, the truth of our (human) species is somewhere in the middle, since both sperm and eggs are necessary for creating life. If only one of them was needed, that would have created further discrimination and inequalities within the human society.

[@Bladavia]

Wait, Tardigrade eggs already have their styluses ? That's so cuuuute

[@shayhan6227]

A radical red/blue hair feminist's dream come true

[@Vitali_Osandor]

Thankfully in humans (and mammals in general) reproduction cannot work that way. Imagine those feminists if it did...

[@Ulthar_Cat]

OH MY GATKIMCHI BABY TARDIGRADE SO CUUUTE 💜💜💜

[@NewMessage]

Well now I feel funny about having egg salad for lunch.

[@Chris-fr3kp]

In Plants, it is true, for duprezia cupressus (androgenesis) The Sperm create the baby, but use the egg as a chamber.

[@aricre8886]

They actually managed to catch a tartigrade hathing... amazing :D

[@mahammadoutunkara6430]

Thank you

[@herbertgamwell5364]

Amazing vids, love your channel guys!!

[@seaham3d695]

This is like being on drugs without the drugs. Amazing.

[@andrewsutton6640]

Are there any plant eggs that don't need sperm?

[@davidvegabravo1579]

RIP that proud bacteria who held the push of the Keratella´s mouth like a champion from 3:22 to 3:48 (top center of the image, holding for its life to a hair - like structure) RIP HODOR BACTERIA

[@PaulaLPope]

Awww...newborn tardigrades!

[@reconnaissance7372]

When I was young I asked my Dad where do Eels come from? He said Scientists don't even know but some animals are able to lay eggs in places that have water and if it dries out they can stay there for a long time until the water returns and it might be the way they start life in bodies of water.

[@rosesacks7430]

as usual an interesting video. 👏 can organisms that self reproduce have any issues with mutation? Just wondering.

[@rosesacks7430]

@@ashleyliu1255 I watched another video about reproduction and he referred to Muller's Ratchet as the mutation that occurs with asexual reproduction. This series covers a lot of territory and is so challenging. 👏😍

[@connoisseuroftigolbitts]

man are these bugs on me right now? These videos give me the jibby hibbies

[@fmn2628]

Parthenogenesis is kind of like as the transition form between sexual and asexual reproduction.

[@chazchavez3017]

Babies

[@bingsballyhoo711]

We'd wait 100 years with you if you'd keep making videos for us to watch! We can always hope.

[@horsetuna]

A good book on this is Life Unfolding by Davies!!

[@theinternaut1991]

This video is really the only thing I've been wanting to watch all day but I've been saving it like a good bite of your favorite dish at the end of a meal 😋

[@CoastGuardLeo]

Mourning geckos, popular in the reptile hobby, have no males.

[@hornetobiker]

Who thought the sperm was the only supplier of info to the inert egg? I have never heard that theory and I'm old. Please tell me where you got this gem from.

[@KellyClowers]

It was mainly around in the 1700s and earlier, I think by sometime in the 1800s it was mostly a dead idea. Though replaced by other debates about how things worked

[@thesenamesaretaken]

I wonder how they accounted for the child's resemblance to the mother

[@mightymicroworlds4566]

The hatching tardigrade ❤️

[@sparttin117john]

Entertaining and informative as always, thank you sir.

[@tribalismblindsthembutnoty124]

5:07 I found an egg corn! egg·corn /ˈeɡkôrn/ noun a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one that sounds very similar or identical He meant deserted island not desert island. He might have been saying it wrong forever, or he might have only said it wrong this time

[@Charlotte-wv1dl]

What would happen if u put a white blood cell in the slide. Would it start attacking other microbes

[@chrislie6549]

Why does all eggs yellow coloured?

[@scoopishere7881]

I keep thinking the music is the microwave beeping since I'm making food.

I witnessed the birth of tardigrade... My life is complete!

[@lyreparadox]

I don't suppose you could release some of these videos of microscopic life as live wallpapers for phones? I'd love to have a little microcosm on my phone screen. 🦠

[@jasepoag8930]

Wasn't there just a SciShow episode the other day about rotifers that were dormant in permafrost since the ice age, and successfully came back to life?

[@AaronShenghao]

I mean Hank the narrator is also a host from SciShow

[@jasepoag8930]

@@AaronShenghao that's what I mean. Seems like they're underselling it with the "hundred years" claim.

[@RedForeman]

1:52 what the hell Is that thing that’s moving so fast? I want to see more on that it moves so quickly and stops on a dime

[@marinayacenko3107]

Overestimation of the role of sperm is a good example of the fact that scientists also have prejudices. Patriarchal devaluation of the female contribution (eggs) and revaluation of sperm.

[@pheart2381]

Welcome to the world,tardigrade!

[@jooky87]

Something about life and living things must be the inevitable state of matter as it just self organizes from atoms to molecules to proteins to cells

[@Yezpahr]

These eggs are definitely a prime candidate for the panspermia theory.

[@smokeism47]

On a flat surface such as a table, do micro-organisms experience depth? Can they move up/higher? Is it a 2D world for them? Do they ever move over each other?

[@Potatinized]

8:02 bugger off, skillshare. I wanna see that tardigrade.

[@complex314i]

Time Interval 2:22 - 2:43 To the right of the words "Rotifer Egg" is that the earliest stage of the growth of a new Sovereign Class Reaper?

[@kartikeypatel7426]

Well information. Good show. Well information.

[@indridcold8433]

Our lady of the immaculate fertilized egg can be a real thing.

[@phoule76]

I don't need sperm to make scrambled eggs, but it doesn't hurt.

[@reconnaissance7372]

I'm drinking a vanilla thickshake and I skipped straight to the word "sperm"

[@mixiekins]

I have a question, when the cell makes those first few divisions, how do they adhere to one another so they don't get separated? Also, if they do get split up, do they continue to divide or is there some way that they can detect that their neighbor went missing? If the latter is true, do they detect that with ambient chemical signals, or is there some sort of signaling through contact of their membranes?

[@Galifay]

I'm not an expert, but from what I've read/watched it's possible for the first few cells that the zygote (fertilized egg) divides into to be separated and still have them develop into mature organisms. Might not be ideal in an egg situation, since the amount of nutrients is limited, but that's how mammals get identical twins - one zygote's first few divisions got separated, and the 2 copies successfully implanted. I actually just learned this by perusing Wikipedia: when the egg begins development of a new organism, it divides until it has 16 copies of itself, and this ball of 16 cells is called a morula ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morula ). Once that occurs, somehow (probably through chemical densities?) they coordinate the creation of an inner hollow space, and the mass becomes known as a blastocyst ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocyst ). I would think that identical twins occur when some of the cells during the creation of the morula de-adhere from the main mass, and essentially begin creating *another* morula. But, like I said, I'm no expert. Just very biology-curious.

[@qwertyyouiop8959]

That,s takeing the meaning of messing around with your head to a hole nuther level!!

[@jiangspirit]

I am looking to purchase a microscope with video record/image capture settings and display resolutions like yours. What equipment are you using here?

[@giovannijaimes333]

Thanks

[@mundomicroscopico-microsco4830]

i make videos of microscopic beings.

[@christosvoskresye]

Got some tiny bacon to go with 'em?

[@chickennuggetscoon6900]

Why is no one talking about hemimastigotes?

[@BirdWhisperer46]

Well, one nice advantage of parthenogenesis is that it wouldn't take long to make a bunch of mini me's.. LOL

[@theresamcmullen4841]

Definitely!

[@ketoonkratom]

Love One Another

[@patricksarama4963]

1:41 Relatable

[@LouisGedo]

Amazing!!!

[@YellowPenetrator]

Life really exists forever

[@zachkorinis3935]

speaking of eggs...thats what i just made

[@journeytomicro]

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/journeytothemicrocosmos06211

[@peopledontthink7399]

This relates to the first women found in Africa

[@Musistics]

Eggs...👀

[@muhammadshahzaib3813]

1:44 did he just say injecting sperm to their own head 😮

[@raezad]

1:40 l-lewwd

[@victoriameredith629]

Is it creepy that I kinda wanted to see it do that on camera?

[@pickaxingoneuropa8457]

some yolks

[@ericphan5857]

With sculpture and surrounding sound technology and polarization of light, I thing women need no men to get prenance because in Vietnam we had succeeded in making dog prenance with men souls without a male dog

[@ochat2010]

Oh God here we go....

[@Iroxinping]

Only 30 seconds in please tell me you'll talk about the biggest single cell.... the ostrich egg

[@brootusx]

Erm... I know that voice. Hank I didn't know you did this channel