You Can't Escape Worms | Compilation

I use your videos to fall asleep.. but during a random conversation with my family I began talking about nematodes in extreme detail… I think I absorbed the knowledge through months of sleep watching. Osmosis perhaps

You know what they say: "If ya aint a worm, you're a worm with limbs."

Worms' tubular body plan is S tier. Snakes, caecillians, and legless lizards can't help but go back to it. We live in a noodle world ❤

I used to have a crippling phobia of worms, and watching any of these videos or even hearing about them would have sent me into panic. It prevented me from going to college for biology after highschool. Now its been 3 years since i started exposure therapy and I work in landscaping, inevitability covering myself in all the microbes that once ruled my life. Watching this video showed me Im ready to finally go to school for biology

when I do gardening and look at the soil under my nails I always think"sorry,hate to do this" before they get soaped and rinsed off.

We started a composting worm bin last year. They eat all our veggies scraps and have done an incredible job of consuming all our boxes of wine boxes, Amazon boxes etc, and even our cannabis harvest waste. Collected about 20 gallons of vermicompost so far. Incredible, industrious little colony. Of course they are happy as every compost worm could only dream of consuming wine boxes and weed trim. 😂

As a biologist annelids almost certainly evolved their coeloms completely independently from vertebrates, so it was not shared by the common ancestor. Annelids sit in Spiralia, a completely different animal group from vertebrates in dueterostomata. In fact, contrary to what many high school text books say today, there are four major groups of bilateral animals, spiralia (flatworms, annelids, mollusks and friends), Ecdysozoa (arthropods, nematodes, velvet worms, and a few others), and Dueterostomata (echinoderms, hemichordates, and chordates including vertebrates), then there are the Acoels flatworm like animals which might be dueterostomes, but most likely sit as an outgroup to the other three groups. While the base of the bilaterian tree is very contentious, there is a lot of building evidence that the last common ancestor of bilateria was acoelomate and flatworm like. So earthworm coeloms and human coeloms are most likely convergent evolution.

28:20 there are products available that claim to be beneficial nematodes for the garden. They're supposed to feed on the larva of ticks, fleas, and other pests. I sure would like someone with a microscope to verify the claims of these products, like whether or not they even contain live nematodes.

My favorite worm is an aquatic worm I used to find in my aquariums for a while: Aulophorus furcatus, belonging to the oligochaeta. It gets over 1 cm long. They were easy to watch, wedged into the ground directly at the glass, with the head in the ground, foraging for food, and their rear end (I learned that later...) sticking out. The funny detail is that besaid back end looks like a chubby HAND, with 5 fat fingers, plus 2 thin ones. They slowly moved all the time, but not in the way you would expect a hydra to move when/after catching something. Watching one under a microscope, I could see they had to have cilia allover the 5 tentacles, since the water there constantly moved, visible by debris being whirled around. When I identified it, I found out the broad tentacles are actually GILLS, while the 2 thin ones are for sensoric purposes. Oh and they also can swim, like a corkscrew, but don't do that often. Tentacle butt worms, I miss you, you were funny. 💔

Overwhelmed with a massive load of stunning information supplied with amazing visuals, I would like to thank you, MicroCosmos team, for this "film of nematodes" and to add my remark, how absolutely opposite, indeed, is my attitude towards "free-living" worms and parasites: peace (tolerance) and war (resistance)!

Worms do be wriggly like that sometimes.

Your narration is delightful. You take such joy in your subjects that it's contagious. ♥

You guys make all video technology elsewhere seem obsolete, the quality is first class.

Worms are one of those types of life that twist my own sense of wonder and awe. They are on the surface, so mundane, yet when we get to know them, see their place in the world, we see just how important they are. I can't help but think of Dune's god-like worms when thinking about how important worms are in our everyday lives.

I knew I recognized the voice. But, man, you sound so relaxed and chill here.

the videography is incredible

I love this channel!!! Thank you for continuing to upload videos even though the view count might not be as high as your other channels. ❤️

Wow this video was incredibly well narrated and easy to follow. I can see the cadence assisting with sleep transitions, but I was absolutely fascinated! Awesome video my guy, sub’d!

Hank is legendary and this channel is dope. Thanks for the journey today 👍🏻

The quality of this documentation is simply astounding....Well done!!!