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Dr. Tomasz Baumiller
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Dr. Charles Messing
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Dr. Angela Stevenson
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Dr. Symon Dworjanyn
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Dr. Simon Coppard
Sina Heydari
Anders Garm
Melanie Lloyd
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The New Zealand Marine Studies Centre,
University of Otago (New Zealand),
and Marco Zilioli
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Hakai Institute
WA State Dept. of Ecology
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No frank what you do is a better way to learn
what's that music at the end?... it's so good... shazam's being a beech...
I was just thinking about how much I missed your videos yesterday :-)
Sea stars are far better aliens than anything science fiction has come up with. That goes for a lot of stuff in the ocean.
The biting "drone" pedeselari thing is absolutely mind blowing. I don't know of any other animal that does something like that.
When I went scuba diving in Mexico, the instructor said, "So, on the reef, what are you allowed to touch?"
I said, "Nothing?"
"Correct."
there is scary crap on a reef, spines, toxins, and teeth abound.
good answer!
You see the animal they think is a ray that looks like an alien with human lips that washed up in AU? That’s an alien. These guys are just alien porpoise offspring.
which is why idfw the ocean OR space. my ass was made for the ground and ill stay here.
i always say if you want to find aliens don't look in space (cause it will be eons before you find anything) look in our oceans there you will find aliens aplenty
as a marine biologist, i can confirm that "science hippies" is a 100% accurate term for marine biologists
The fact that I'm actually wearing tie dye while watching this is just too perfect! (Yes, I do qualify for the "science" part, too. I'm a biochemist who works with chemical engineers.)
even the really buff ones like Dr Kujo?
Masquerain!
Former marine biologist here: you're not wrong, dude.
@@d.w.stratton4078 I thought you're never a former marine biologist. Like a marine. Once a marine always a marine. What say you? 🧐
Imagine if trees had defense mechanisms like crinoids. You go to cut down that oak in the backyard, but the minute the chainsaw comes out the tree’s trunk snaps off at the base and the whole thing crawls away into the woods like something out of a horror movie.
...I want that to be a thing, now.
treants...
thank you, Jude Black. you’re a genius
@@sleephut3754 Mildly disturbing ideas are my gift to the world
I don't think I want to live on a planet that has flying carnivorous trees
“Something you might find on a tray at Satan’s dentist”
Zefrank never cease to amaze me with these creative jabs at nature.
How do you know he doesn't go to the same dentist as Satan does? Maybe they have the same insurance plan. Hell, they might be college buddies, for all we know.
Just give Zefrank his own show on Animal Planet already. I think the man's earned it with this performance.
Have zefrank and casual geographic cohost.
More kids watch UA-cam than Animal Planet anymore, unfortunately. I asked a kid about Shark Week and he had no idea what I was talking about.
@@ferretyluv because TV is a dying platform. Like the radio and news paper, it will end up being used by very few people and in it's place will be internet shows.
Zefrank: "Do you know how much power I would have to give up to become an Animal Planet host?"
Absofreakinlutely!! Love Zefrank!! I only wish I had a teacher like him when I was in grade school. Keep these fun & hysterical videos coming Z! We can’t get enough of them!! 👍🏼❤️
Zefrank is like that one friend you don't talk to that often, but, whenever you do, you always have a really interesting conversation.
Interesting? I think "somewhat dirty and latently disturbing conversation" is what you meant! :D
The kinda friend I wanna be
He should be Attenborough's replacement on planet earth when he retires.
and you usually end up learning something you had no clue about or intention of learning haha so good
@@Kirmeins pretty much most of my interesting conversations are that though?
Biting fingers all over the body, detachable venomous biting jaws, these things are alien nightmare fuel. Disembodied limbs continuing to attempt to feed mouths no longer nearby, lost arms regenerating whole new bodies, the slo-mo savagery of the urchin…utterly phantasmagoric creatures. I’m completely hooked on your videos, thank you for all your work creating them.
If they were the size of cars, moved twice as fast, and had the ability to cross onto land, humans wouldn't be laughing at Patrick Star quite as much.
Fun fact, the earliest recorded description of the bunyip, an amphibious monster of Australian myth, painted it as a starfish bigger than a person. After watching this video, I can say that would be an extremely terrifying monster.
Check out the newer Suicide Squad movie if you want to see a sea star kaiju lol
STARRO THE CONQUEROR!
They used that as a boss battle in Chrono Cross. It starts out asa weird didn't rabbit, cuz "bunny", but it vomits out it's insides and turns out it's actually a giant black sea monster
What did indigenous Australians need to invent new monsters for…? They already live in Australia. Just stepping a foot outside would do the job. 😂
They needed something that wouldnt be as scary as the rest of their critters
In summary, Sea Stars are either the most incredibly complex engineering project in the ocean OR evolution outsourced them to the engineering department of MIT and the geeks found the most complicated way to ensure no one else could explain or outsource necessary maintenance.
There is also the third option: Aliens did it
Evolutionary copy-paste coding. Make a single object class that works, then keep making Derived/Sub/Child classes with new functionality.
Soon your whole setup is just variants of a few classes like "Foot" or "Ossicle".
@@CrimsonBlasphemy Things get even weirder if you allow multiple inheritance.
anaphora
this literally sounds like a zefrank summary lol
So not all sea stars live under a rock under the sea. Next thing you'll say is that sponges don't live inside pineapples too.
Crazy right?
If that's the case then it would shatter my world to learn that squids don't actually live in the Moai
Fun fact starfish eat snails
Fr fr
@@TinyShadedForestCreature they didn't. Octopuses do.
I love listening to Frank giggle while he's explaining stuff. It's adorable and he's really funny.
If you enjoy the ZeFrank giggles, you must watch True Facts: Pangolins Posse. The best of his work, IMO.
6:21
“Your foot can’t do that. Your foot’s boring.”
That one always makes me grin.
Ah yeah, mr. buttery-smooth voice, talk to me about Patrick Star
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Even more hilarious if you watch the SpongeBob theories.
@@Perroden SpongeBob theories? Oh bruh I gotta google that for sure
@@TheSektorz there is dude I follow he does some like horror comedy short movies but he also does so super crazy sponge Bob theories the craziest part is how he links all the evidence... Some of it is HOOLLLYY FUCKING SHIT!
@@TheSektorz one of the most out there ones is that goofy goobers is a cover for a cult
This comment is going places
'Evolution can do anything, if you get it drunk enough.'
Words to live by.
I want that on a shirt.
It should come with a free axolotl.
Or if you code too much at night
Can it make me a girlfriend who loves me?
@@patrickfrost9405 Probably already has, you just gotta go make an effort to find her.
sea stars are so crazy, I rewatch every one of these true facts videos every so often and I always learn something new. thank you. I'm 29, a law school drop out, general fuck up, but I'm going to start my associates in biology with the goal of becoming a field biologist/documentarian. I'm not gonna say anything sappy like it's because of you or that you're a hero to me or anything like that, I just wanted to thank you for the time and love you put into making this video. I can tell you really fuck with sea stars, and I really fuck with you, Ze. best wishes.
Hope things turned out fine
I fuck wit’chu. Life is life! Wishing you well. We’ve each survived our worst days up to this point… You’re ona roll.
Me too!🤘🏼Except you made it further than me by making it TO law school.
I am also 29 and was pre-law all through undergrad. But then I barely graduated and said “Screw that mess” to law school and haven’t really done much with my life since.
But ZeFrank videos give me joy when I’m feeling down, and that’s something special.
I'm 27, and spent the years since I graduated with no real ambition or real idea of what I wanted to do. I'm right there with you, going to start on the path of becoming a biologist, with a focus in marine biology.
AVNJ made a video on how to become a biologist. Worth checking out.
i’ve never been particularly interested in sea stars, but the fact that almost every shot in this video showed a unique looking sea star has me captivated
Fitting pfp
I have an uncle that cut off his forefinger with a saw by accident while working in his barn. He couldn't find the finger. He and his wife were scheduled to go to Florida for four months while the snow came and went in his home state of Michigan. So, after a quick trip to the ER to patch up his wound they left for sunny Tampa. When they returned in March the snow was gone thankfully. When my uncle went back to the barn to check things out he found another him. That darn forefinger had grown back another entire uncle. After the initial shock they are now best friends. And, I have two identical uncles. Pretty cool.
Fascinating!
Your aunt must be happy. 😉
Must be good gummies! I cannot imagine a dead finger part growing into an entire person but if you saw it hope you enjoyed your trip!!
Take my like, _you’ve earned it_
Oh sure, one or two is a _"miracle"._ But by the time you're getting to the sixth uncle, or the eighth, whole house payments are going toward cans of WD-40, and you can't find a usable bottle of wood glue if your life depended on it.
"Don't worry, she gets away. Just kidding...she dies."
I snorted my coffee everywhere, that got me good.
You don’t want to know wha I did with my coffee!
Just like the fish sadly 😭
For me it was the one, "...a bowl of chili and a bottle of Southern Comfort and you can turn your stomach inside out and digest things too." 🤣
Standard disclaimer: Never Ever Drink While Watching Ze Frank!
"The ancestor of sea stars and other echinoderms said screw it, I want to be a circle"
And within the first 10 seconds, Ze Frank has me dying of laughter
This has got to be one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Not just the subject matter which is fascinating by itself, but the narrative and the delivery. A masterpiece. Thank you.
As an evolutionary biologist, I will now be getting "Evolution can do magical things if you get it drunk enough," cross-stitched, framed, and hung on the wall of my lab.
I don’t cross stitch but I can embroider one for you.
@@LouiseStastny oh no here we go
@@LouiseStastny Well to ask how evolution "creates" is kind of a non-starter since... it doesn't create. Evolution is what happens after life, or anything really (you can describe the Evolution of a chair), is created and that's the amazing part. It's just luck, the slightest bit of skill, but overall just surviving and making more babies generation after generation. So what you're really asking is "what created life?". Now, from assumption, you already have your answer. To an extent it's still a possible answer. However, most of the scientific community, from looking at our world, don't accept that answer. We haven't seen/observed enough to prove it and more often observed stuff to disprove the notion that "our universe has been meticulously controlled for billions of years and our fates have been preordained". I'm on the side that there can be a creator, but they are either just observing their creation or have abandoned it altogether and just letting it go it's course.
@@DemonsIce Life uh. finds a way. we like to humanize natural processes. don't let an idiom make you upset.
It's funny because it's true.
as a scientist I'm DELIGHTED by the trajectory of this channel. I loved the series when it began but now it's become something exceptionally special. Science needs communicators like zefrank because god only knows scientists turn into mouth-breathers when we have to talk about out fetishes (areas of specialty)
What makes someone a scientist?
Like; I do science sometimes
@@newjerseyyouth4853 accreditation
@@newjerseyyouth4853 Empiricism and the scientific method.
@@newjerseyyouth4853 papers and test tubes on your desk. tesla coils. einstein hair.
I started watching UA-cam about 3 years ago (I'm 48). Zefrank was the first person I followed (I'm up to about a dozen now). Always entertaining and informative, I'm happy he's posting again!
I've been saving this for a month - it did not disappoint! "Drowning burlesque dancer" is such a wonderful and horrible image at the same time. This was probably one of your most truly fascinating videos - the life in our oceans is something to behold. The fact that Sea Stars can regenerate their limbs at will, even transforming their parts wholesale, is a wonder of nature that could well lead in the future to our discovery of human cell regeneration; the medical benefits of such are obvious.
This is why i feel like if complex aliens existed, they'd be completely, utterly incomprehensible to us. Even the weirdest sci-fi creatures can't hold a candle to mother nature's creations.
Yes, I was thinking if such a nervous system with no central brain could develop a conscious, what kind of culture would they have.
If octopi have taught us anything, it's exactly this
totally
yes, but at the same time evolution sometimes tend to converge on the same shapes, even from completely different branches. because there are some characteristics that are inherently better at solving specific problems.
@@danilooliveira6580 The crab shape, for instance. Lots of non crabs that look exactly like crabs
Everyone has always thought sea stars were the ultimate loners.
Then one day a marine Biologist at Monterey Bay accidentally fast forwarded a video he was using to study them.
And Behold!
They have quite complex social relationships, including best friends.
They're just on a different clock than we are.
Wow! That's amazing!
Zefrank could do a whole video just based on that!
I suspect that could be true of many things in nature--they are just on a different time. There are even those who think that's true of rocks.
@@harrietharlow9929 rocks arnt sentient so that's stupid
ayy monterey moment
So cute!
the designs nature comes up with are truely marvelous
When I heard "it just gets crazier and crazier, right?" I had no idea it would just double in weirdness every passing scene from there on.
That is how the sea star do.
Maybe I'm hearing things, but this episode sounds like Ze found something that he could. not. wait to tell us when he wrote this, like, even more than in other videos in the series. He sounds incredibly enthusiastic. I love it.
I found this extra funny and exciting. I had no idea about a lot of this.
@@meredithgrubb7027 hard agree. It was an infectious enthusiasm.
Agreed!! He's genuinely amazed and you can HEAR it lol
felt like when a small child learns something and has to tell you everything.
This was ridiculously informative. I came here expecting to be entertained and left slightly scared, mentally scarred and educated.
10/10
Fascinating and Frightening!!!
Bingo.🎯
I must admit, sea stars/starfish is one of my favorite sea animals. But those close ups freaks me out
Welcome to the world of zoology! 😂
I love this guy he simplifies biology for me and compares things to others in ways that are easy to understand like. I never knew these things..
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!
This makes me understand things I otherwise could probably never even dream of understanding.
This episode was absolutely stunning, and perfectly narrated. I didn't know 95% of what you presented in there. It was such a cool trip to the ocean floor.
Also, what I'll remember for a long time, as a life lesson : "Let it go"
I hope this becomes a more regular thing again.. I've missed hearing his soothing voice talk about the most insane shit on earth.
Also - should do a video on the horseshoe crab. Weird little bastards, they are.
@Cool so are the bots, apparently.
@@Frosty_tha_Snowman bots are evolving
@@marcogenovesi8570 I guess so.. it ran away 😂
was it ever regular? aha
I agree with you about these videos. I have missed them a lot... I need the laughs as well as the education.....
I'll be honest, I'm a wildlife biologist (granted my knowledge is mostly terrestrial animals and trees) and I never realized how damn interesting the sea star family is.
cool man😎
The whole damn underwater is just crazy weird and interesting
@@yannickchayer1609 sea creatures are the ancients of the Earth. Primordial yet advanced. They are both more simple than land creatures and yet more complex. Life never ceases to amaze me.
I like how he says baby or babies. 😂
And bury and birds, hehe
the fact that Starro the conquerer shot out little "drones", parts of himself, and it turns out to be a real life characteristic in some starfish is just awesome. 10:38
*Starro* *the* *Conqueror* ??! Well that's what I'm naming the next cat we adopt.
@@evientually that's a fantastic name 😀
I just realized with this episode that there must be a tremendous amount of research to compile the information just to get it to the point where he can write the script…it’s like the ultimate entertainment doctorate thesis.
Either that or he's already an expert and doesn't need to go too far out of his way to rant about the crazy aspects of crazy organisms.
But entertaining and not just to give someone a useless diploma.
Not mention all the sex jokes
I feel that if I were a marine biologist specializing in echinoderms, having someone truly interested contacting me to have me tell them a bunch of really specific and interesting facts about echinoderms would feel like the best present I could get.
As a Marine Biologist, getting to talk abtou the ocean and its strange animals is the best feeling in the world.
What’s your favorite weird animal that people don’t usually talk about? also I’ve heard a lot of strange things about eels are they all just Like That?
Yes, But you have to earn it though.
Years and years of study.
My niece is a Marine Biologist. Now she is working with Climate Change Scientists. This took her years of intense training.
So don't "imagine" your life away.
Make it happen.
@@eddievanhalenhoward You have created doubt about your credentials. 🤔
0:46 "finally" those little details and chats with jerry are the things that make your videos all the more glorious.
road to 4m?
"These are the little stickee out bits"
Once again Ze Frank demonstrates a sublime command of the English language.
The “butt” versus “but” joke is a classic one for this channel, and it still gets me literally every single time
Amazingly it never gets old
That and zefrank's hatred for clams.
I can’t imagine the research, time, resources, and the wit that zfrank exhausts in creating these works of art. Absolutely beautiful human being.
I feel like at some point, this channel turned from making fun of documentaries and Morgan Freeman's into actual educational videos...
I imagine the channel has resources of documentation, and visual records, provided by others'. The explanations i saw are brilliant, lol
He contacts lots of experts (professors, biologists, etc.) before making his videos. Check out the video descriptions for credits.
@@gogokowai i just remembered what it used to be lol and they keep getting better
We all know Jerry does 95% of the real work.
I recently went on a massive school field trip to California called sea camp and was one of the best times I think I’ve ever had, one of the things we did was go down to a little mini reef thing filled with big rocks, no body thought to look under the rocks for stuff but me and my friend so everyone was confused were we got all our stuff but I got to pick up a huge octopus there, giant slugs and my friend found a big starfish and brittle star.
I can't imagine the time and work you put in for these longer videos. I appreciate you
Jerry's arts and crafts have really improved lately, well done!
Nice job Jerry!!
How do we know Jerry is still there, or real? I didn't hear any corrections to Jerry!
Edit: Ok, saved at the end!
@@alaskanwolf , Jerry isn’t real. He’s Ze’s imaginary co-worker, the one who messes stuff up.
@@SuziQ. I was just making sure I didn’t imagine him since there were no Jerry jokes until the end.
You offer the best scientific content ever.
I can't ... the learning ... the humor ...
The best ever.
That's all.
Ze Frank please know you cheer me up with each of these videos and I come back to them on the regular when ever I need a good laugh.
Please don't ever stop doing these, every episode is a braingasm and so totally enjoyable!
"Your feet is boring" I can't argue with that 🤣
"Braingasm". Marvelous. Thank you for teaching me a new word that makes a feeling.
I remember when he did stop, but I stayed subbed for years. Was worth it.
absolutely.
Everyone just went out onto their porch with a bottle of Rose' and braingasmed into the night air after watching.
I used to teach about sea stars at the Minnesota Zoo, and they are so weird and unique that people didn't always BELIEVE me! I feel quite validated now, so thank you for that, lol.
Who would believe that something like sea stars exists which are compeltely different then animals on land :)
Joke's on them for not believing facts XD
@@vaimantobe3034 TRUE facts at that
I find it appalling that I haven't read half of this in the critter books I read. This one really blew my mind and was exciting.
I PRACTICALLY GREW UP THERE!
"Timmy, we talked about this. Well, I don't care if it feels good, you don't do it in public"
Killing it even in the outro. 🤣
These are utterly amazing! Thank you to everyone who helps make it happen!
True Facts evolved from a quirky parody documentary series to a detailed informative documentary series so gradually I didn't even notice!
"Evolution can do wonderful things if you get it drunk enough."
@@MesaperProductions full circle! Brilliant.
Yeah i prefer the parody stuff
Thank goodness this guy is doing these things again. I don't think I would have ever known that sea stars have terrifying little tiny claws.
its the sea urchins withOUT spines that are really scar with those claws, their poison has killed people.
00:20 "magical things if you get it drunk enough" 😆had me dying.
So this episode is my favorite now! Cracks me up every time! Thank you Zefrank! ❤️
"Evolution can do wonderful things if you get it drunk enough."
My new favorite Zefrank expression. Right after "'cause that's how the _____ do,"
Zefrank: Where the Truth is Funny
Evolution my hairy arse that stuff is so complicated there is no way it could happen. By accident. I can't tell you how we got here but I can say it's not Evolution like they say. The complexity of every indiviform of life is fat to complex to just happen. Millions of pairs of dna just perfectly formed and in perfect order. No way in hell
“With a kind of breaststroke with a leading erection”. Probably the most accurate yet entertaining description I’ve heard regarding movement!!
Love the way you are informative and humorous at the same time 😁 Thank you 🙏🏼 😊
I love how you make every topic so accessible to the people. I love it!
That's one thing I've always found interesting about these critters: They have a 'top' and a 'bottom' , but no dedicated 'back', 'front' or 'sides'. Unlike almost every other critter on earth...
Well, you tell me where its front is, I genuinely want to know
@@tysonvienneau1830 I'm going with "its wherever they're moving towards is their front"
@@tylervanpeursem7627 the brittle star says hi
Also like jellyfish, anemones, comb jellies, and sponges.
Think of the top and bottom as the front and back. But sometimes they eat from the back. Actually, the top is the back. Maybe.
“Your nipple can not turn into an eye. Thank God!”
Might be more than just another one of the most hilarious and most awesome sentences and/or phrases…
I can't explain enough how this channel never gets old. Like, it's just such a perfect execution of childish humor that it gets me every time.
In 2015 on the west coast of the United States starfish were wiped out by a wasting disease. Since then I've managed to see and take pictures of five. My understanding is every 70 or 80 years they go through a disease that wipes them out but they end up making a comeback. So if you're on the west coast of the United States and you see a starfish definitely take pictures of it for signs of health or disease and to help document their comeback.
Astrobiologist:" We are still searching for aliens."
Marine biologist: " Oh, we encounter them on daily basis."
The Seastar having the ability to rehenerate reminds me of a story: there were some people trying to save a coral reef a long time ago, trying to control the seastar population by removing the seastars from the ocean, cutting them into pieces and flinging them back into the ocean. After so long, they had effectively increased the population exponentially, leading to the even faster demise of the reef. Sad, but also kinda funny...
For all our hubris about being the most intelligent species, humans still haven't learned to think things through. First idea we get, we grab onto, slamming our minds shut and attacking anyone who dares to ask any questions. Hence, the destruction of our planet
People are so stupid
rehenerate
@@yourfavoriteauntishere when you're the henny man but don't have enough for tomorrow night's party, it is time to rehenerate.
This reminds me of when india(I think) put a bounty on cobras, so people started breeding cobras to bring in for bounty, and eventually many of them would escape, increasing the cobra population!
I don't know how I only just found your videos yesterday. But I am glad I did finally find them. This is just amazing.
I always enjoy these learning videos, but this one had me rolling almost the entire time! Well done, as always! Keep up the great work! We love you! 🤟😄👍
Eighteen minutes of horrified fascination (and an ad). Absolutely brilliant. Like I've read about echinoderms lots of times but they glossed over, apparently, a whole, *whole* lot.
and he didn't even get to sea cucumbers :D
the visuals were extremely disturbing, i literally only stayed for the laughs. i need to cleanse my palette with cat videos or something lol
@@CatsAndPokemon in that case, do not look up hagfish :D
You sound so enthusiastic this time. You normally have good energy, but I feel like you were more impressed. I liked that. But geez, sea stars are freaking awesome! Who could blame you?
What he didn’t say is that when Sea Stars regenerate their arms they make a sort of butt shape.
This and the Pigs video
Brilliant, as always. Thank you so much for these videos, your knowledge, sense of humor and desire to share arcane information, and above all, your savoir faire! What you do is why it's good to be alive.
Me and my gf are currently on break, and your videos have been helping me get through it. Thank you
The "finally arrest the tooth fairy" joke was gold. 😂 Thank you for such an informative and hilarious video! I can't imagine the amount of work that went into this!
You have single-handedly made me start the process of becoming a zoologist. Thank you
Wow!! When did you start?? 😁
@@Za3chik a year ago!
That was one of the best/most informative videos i have ever watched! Im so glad i found this channel again! Thank you Zefrank1!!!
"Have a bowl of chili and a bottle of Southern Comfort! I bet you can barf your stomach into a clam." That line took me tf out, man 💀
"It's a little like: evolution got a model airplane kit. But where the pieces weren't labelled. So there was nothing left to do but sniff the glue and get creative"
That line is pure murder :')
You'd have to be brain dead to believe that this was the result of 'evolution". Something this complex did not happen to evolve from random mutations, God designed and created all this. Nothing else is remotely plausible.
came here to comment on that same line. the 'nothing left to do but sniff the glue and get creative' made me snarf my tea.
one of the many lines from ze that make life worth living.
My Sister-in-Law is a Marine Biologist. She shall now forever be known as a Sea Hippy. 🤣🤣🤣 This was fascinating and did not disappoint.
Pretty sure he says science hippies, but sea hippies works too lol
@@user-yf6zz3cl8i Hahahaha! You’re right. Oops!
Sea science hippies
I loved every part of this! Thank you for the laughs and the education.
Thank you zeFrank, for both teaching us new and interesting facts about a wide variety of animals, and for making them actually fun to learn about as well :)
You've done an excellent job of explaining the anatomical features that make the sea star. I had a brittle star hitchhike on some rock back when I had a reef tank. They're pretty neat.
And thank god it's on trending page.. Kinda puked seeing those cringe mumble rappers on trending
My grandfather ran an oyster company and just hated sea stars, they are the natural enemy of oysters. They developed a way to specifically get them out of the water.
How?
I'm an Aquaculture student in the Pacific Northwest... I'm just curious.
@@jamieingels1190 ITs been a while, but basically imagine spinning mop-heads underwater
Hello, Ze Frank!!! Your video about sea stars and their relatives was full of fascinating facts, great up close shots, in the same time very entertaining and your folk terminology is filling the gaps in technical terminology is supeeer.😁 I love the job you have done!!! Perfect!!! Thanks sooo much!!!🙂
God bless you zeFrank. I've been watching news about fires and needed this.
I can't believe it this is only 18 mins long. This had so much plot twists and sharp turns that I almost barfed my stomach out
It's that Southern Comfort
@@tommulder9420 on top of the chili...
I started feeling suspicious right at the start when Zefrank told me how they start their lives, but by the time he revealed to me Sea Stars have somehow evolved what amounts to dumb drone swarms, I was sure.
H. P. Lovecraft was right and these things are most definitely descended from some horror from beyond the stars.
Cthulhu!
@@spiritmatter1553 More specifically the Elder Things, perhaps, having five-fold radial symmetry. But yes, right genre
Indeed. and as we can see at 13:50 they are not alone as eldritch oceanic horrors from beyond, as the dreaded cousins of the crab/fungoid Mi-Go or Yeti likewise take part in the evolutionary warfare we see before us.
Never going in the ocean again 💖
Absolute best channel on youtube. Well done. Keep them coming!
The touch of humor makes this interesting enough to keep my attention. 2nd video from you i've watch and i love it!
OMG, I can't believe you got to talk to Chris Mah and actually made an episode about this. I've been addicted to the NOAA and Okeanos dive feeds for years now, so cool to see all the incredible footage with your narration
ha ha. well, you never know where he will show up!
As someone who is afraid of spiders, centipedes and pretty much anything with more than four legs, with the fear factor increasing the more legs I see, I now have a whole new appreciation of H.P. Lovecrafts obsession with writing cosmic beings as marine life. These things truly are the stuff of horrible, horrible nightmares.
Great work on the video as always, absolutely love them, and the biology, albeit sheer horror, is fascinating!
Oh thank goodness I thought I was the only one weirded out by star fish lol
@@AR-kl7nv try looking into Siphonophores and be prepared to be truly creeped out
I agree. Seastars are made of nightmare material. And at the same time, how does something this complex manage to exist?
@@IntrovertedBear Well when you have over 550 million years for weird traits and mutations to accumulate into a creature that has to survive, life finds a way.
In any case it's not like it's particularly more complex than you are and you're alive.
I'm not at all claustrophobic, in fact I stuff myself in tiny boxes for fun, but watching footage of the deep sea fills me with claustrophobic dread.
Oh, man. I love your humor so much! Thanks!
Wow just came across this channel last night and ive been watching since. Love the commentary and all the details included, definitely subscribing for more. Great job🙌🏾👌🏾
"runs away like a mop that finally had enough of your sh*t" is definitely one of the best lines in your videos
It's these kinds of nature documentaries that make me want to revive that "All Underwater" DnD campaign idea I had a while back.
Imagine an entire class of monsters, that are just giant, faster sea-stars. In their various forms.
DM: "You are attacked by another giant sea-star. Roll initiative."
Players: "Oh god, what now."
DM: "The sea-star shoots dozens of tiny detached mouths, that try to bite and poison you. Dexterity save AND Constitution save, please."
Players: :(
fucking love it, it's perfect
Thanks for the idea. I love it.
My players will hate it
The sea is full of things that would be horrifying to adventurers if made larger.
This was the best video for learning about sea starts. The way it was delivered in a factual but funny way. Bloody lived it.
*Absolutely Beautiful..Thank you❤*
This is the most interested I’ve ever heard frank be about an animal. He’s like legitimately blown away by sea stats and it’s fun
bonus fact: when I was in college level biology and doing disections, we had to dissect several animals to understand them of course
and I must say based on smell alone, the starfish was by far the worst
and that, is a fact
The insides of ours looked like something you got from taco bell... Couldn't eat tacos or burritos for weeks.
And that, is a personal judgement, not a fact
Does it smell like rotten fish? Dead meat? Puke pile?
This was one of the longer AND most interesting True Facts yet. Wonderful video! Thanks.
Starfish are a lot cooler than I thought they were :) Now I must dig myself into a 6 hours starfish quest. I must learn more