Pteridophytes: Ferns and Their Kin

[@tannerbland9827]

This is such a fantastic video! Need more like these on YT. One thing: as a partially colorblind person, maybe using starker color contrast could help differentiate life stages? A little hard to tell apart. Hope to see many more vids from you!!!

[@mugsyexplains]

Great point, I can barely notice the difference too. I'm experimenting with some other markers, to see if I can find something that works better and still wipes off easily.

[@gabew3506]

This is some of the best content ive seen in a while. Thank you. Its nice to see a higher level in depth explanation creator who is super articulate and precise

[@darkstarr984]

I love this. If an explanation this good existed 18 years ago I wouldn’t have completely hated plants as a 10-year-old (I’d probably have loved them as much as dinosaurs)

[@chrisstargazer5866]

Amazing. Please do fungi too. I can never understand them

[@dmgforev]

this is such great content! I would love to see this but with coral!

[@mellissadalby1402]

I appreciate this detailed information. One thing that puzzles me a bit, are you actually writing backwards or did you write normally and mirror the video image?

[@drkatiethekid]

I am so happy to watch this! I have been telling my students this (I teach general bio @ a community college)! I am so happy to get confirmation of what I am teaching! (imposter syndrome much??). I had not seen a fern gametophyte until we grew some ferns (sort of on purpose) in a small aquarium (terrarium) - I was *so* excited to see it!! May you have success if you give it a try : ) Thank you so much for this - I will totally be adding the link to the video for my class.

[@FuzzyBunnyofInle]

When I was introduced to Ferns & the "Fern Allies" in Botany, my weird little brain questioned "Doesn't that also imply the existence of The Fern ENEMIES."

[@mugsyexplains]

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[@Narnyfied]

Great video, really appreciate the detailed info, I love ferns!

[@Chi-op4oi]

Super off topic, but do you mirror your videos or write backwards?

[@hebrewhammer1000]

Awesome video! Question for you about algae. You said that they can't live on land but most people have seen soil algae. Why not include soil algae?

[@mugsyexplains]

Dang, that's such a good point! I just was thinking at an over-generalized level and forgot to include the various terrestrial algae. I'll probably do an algae video at some point, I'll make sure to include them then.

[@hebrewhammer1000]

@mugsyexplains Thanks! Makes sense. I'm looking forward to your video on algae. One thing I'm really curious about is the connection I see between terrestrial algae extracellular metabolites and plant root exudates. Did plants learn this trick from algae? Do you ever wonder why algae are so friendly? They seem to make friends with everything.

[@PueMonTen]

Awesome. I've been going into arid environments to check out dry adapted ferns and collect spores. I'm in love with ferns. In the top 10 plant forms in my opinion

[@PueMonTen]

I had to pause this video as it occurred to me that you have little clue about what your talking about. Is this your field? You shouldn't be talking about this unless you're well educated on the matter.... There's just misinformation scattered throughout.... I was in a canyon earlier this week observing desert lycophytes and you just said lycophytes do not occur in deserts.... And you mentioned you've never heard of a few of these plant families... WTF. I do not reccomend others to listen to the information presented....

[@isaacutovac5508]

i’ve never found the gametophyte outside in nature but it’s really easy to grab some spores and grow them and then they’re very visible.

[@mugsyexplains]

Great Idea! What medium do you use?

[@GaryReiber]

Thank you very interesting. you might consider having your info on slides for clarity.

[@d.d.d.a.a.a.n.n.n]

Although where I live and hike has a lot of ferns, when I walk in lower elevations where things are marshier and the habitat has been disturbed by development, sometimes it's all horsetail

[@megalomania2299]

Thanks for this great overview, great video! One thing is still unclear to me however, not sure, if I missed it, what's the relationship between Lycophytes, Gymo and Angiosperms? In short, are Gymnospores part of Pteridophytes? I read some articles only, but it didn't get a clear answer from these, too... Or is it not yet unknown?

[@misterjaxon2559]

Is he really writing backwards or is image processed to look that way?

[@GingerJackson-c6d]

Terrestrial algae would like a word with you...