Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside

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3 жыл бұрын

We're going fossil hunting for Foraminifera! From beaches, to the ocean floor, to the foundation of the Egyptian pyramids, Forams are everywhere!
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@mhorram 3 жыл бұрын

Boy, that must have been a jarring experience for James.

@JamsGerms 3 жыл бұрын

It was! :D

@emilianocorcino4146 3 жыл бұрын

How is jams I'm confused

@mhorram 3 жыл бұрын

@@emilianocorcino4146 I think you meant to say, 'How is James?'. Don't know. Journey to the Microcosm never seems to provide too much information on the Microscope guy extraordinaire. Overall, he's probably okay. He does have a fiancé after all. If, on the other hand, you are referring to the near disasters James experienced I would say it involved jellies not jams. I can see why you would be confused. It's easy to confuse jams and jellies. That has been a problem for many for over 200 years. If you are referring to Jam's Germs: hard to say. How well can somebody be if they ate jams full of germs? At the very least he'd be burping a lot. It would be a good idea on his part to take an antidiarrheal. I'm sure he'll be okay in no time. I hope the above clears up the confusion.

@wafflenovas 3 жыл бұрын

@@mhorram Thank you for the informative comment

@raystephens9550 3 жыл бұрын

Dad joke huh?

@FritzSchober 3 жыл бұрын

Some guy in Hollywood should take notes and make a Horror movie just with upscaled Microcosmos creatures.

@IAmBuddythedecibwave 3 жыл бұрын

I think about that all the time. I think the Blob was based off an amoeba...

@iwantaoctosteponmyneckbut3545 3 жыл бұрын

Movies like Contagion and Outbreak and our current reality are horrors about microcosmic/microscopic creatures already if you count viruses as creatures

@FritzSchober 3 жыл бұрын

@@iwantaoctosteponmyneckbut3545 I was more talking about the crazy bodys and features these creatures show. The Blob was the closest to this that I remember. But you could do way more and way scarier.

@shlushe1050 2 жыл бұрын

@@FritzSchober like viruses being ant sized... so the others will be people sized

@JamsGerms 3 жыл бұрын

Some of these clips are my favorites! Forams are so weird! -James

@fnamelname9077 3 жыл бұрын

One day we will be grow foraminiferous castles in the sea, and dwell in halls of sand and glass spun by hands too small to see.

@TheRedKnight101 3 жыл бұрын

How did you locate and separate out the forams from the sand?

@danking9936 3 жыл бұрын

The way you filmed that Portatrochammina at 0:42 is just exquisite, even if it is just a dead test. Love it!

@danking9936 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKnight101 Usually when I work with forams, we sieve the sand to between 500 and 63 microns, since forams almost always fit within this size fraction.

@ValeriePallaoro 3 жыл бұрын

Masterful job, James. Thanks to you and your fiance we have lovely films and fine stories to while away the time. Much appreciated all round.

@JaBryDa 3 жыл бұрын

Well this is generic but I’ve never clicked on a sleepy time bacteria video so fast

@BlackieSootfur 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad i found this series. It fills me with the same wonder and peaceful tranquility that cosmos (the neil degrasse tyson series) did when i was younger. I've always loved these funky little guys and now i love them even more

@jon-laurencedecespedes2811 3 жыл бұрын

same...except my childhood was narrated by Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Both iterations of Cosmos are great and a third one is on the way (Cosmos: Possible Worlds coming 2021). i always dreamed of a show which treated the microcosmos in much the same way David Attenborough treated the various environments that he explored and this is it.

@jameelaandsaharahamid2455 3 жыл бұрын

Same but I watch the recent cosmos

@laurachapple6795 3 жыл бұрын

In 7th grade I volunteered for a paleontology thing and ended up spending a month of weekends picking these small friends out of cretaceous gravel.

@thomasf1531 3 жыл бұрын

Nice! I work with these for a living, they're beautiful. Do you know what formation your Cretaceous sediment was from?

@laurachapple6795 3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasf1531 I'm afraid it was so long ago I honestly don't remember.

@RaginKavu 3 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing is that Foraminifera can be read as "Outminibeast" in Portuguese.

@elieclaerhout9178 3 жыл бұрын

This comes in handy for my invertebrates final! Thanks for always creating great videos! :)

@memebandit 3 жыл бұрын

How exactly did it come in handy? Does your final cover this animal specifically?

@elieclaerhout9178 3 жыл бұрын

@@memebandit yep, this is one of the organisms that the course covers

@JamsGerms 3 жыл бұрын

Glad that we could help! -James

@mtjs8746 3 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

@cristhina21 3 жыл бұрын

Good luck! I also have an exam in february and a part of it is about Foraminifera. This is so helpful

@Desklamp1234 3 жыл бұрын

i would love to see an episode about fossils, i didnt know things that small could even become fossils

@shlushe1050 2 жыл бұрын

Like, u wouldn't think it would fossilize. But if u think ur like... yeah it works

@Ratciclefan 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: bacterium can get fossilized too :D

@wildbill9863 3 жыл бұрын

Without this channel I wouldn’t know so much about microbiology Thank you all even other watchers for making this channel happen every day

@JungleScene 3 жыл бұрын

the music used for these videos is so dope.

@honestexistence 3 жыл бұрын

I can't do this, this early in the morning. 06:44 I started crying. Jeez it's been a hard year.

@TheRedStig 3 жыл бұрын

Shouting out my home state, very cool! Virginia is an interesting place, geologically speaking. The clay hills near the tidewater region are rich with ancient mollusk shells.

@Dragrath1 3 жыл бұрын

Also much of the Chesapeake including Virginia Beach and the tidewater region is within a meteor crater which can even be seen via a change in how rivers flow as they approach the mouth of the Bay. If memory serves I think it dates to around 40 Ma or so?

@exploremicroscopy 3 жыл бұрын

Stunning microscopy as always. The views of reticulopodia are almost beyond belief. It makes me appreciate my fossil foram slides even more. Now I'm going to have to collect some live ones... I'd love to spend a day or two, one on one, learning some of your techniques!

@semaj_5022 3 жыл бұрын

Those poor forams in that jar had one hell of an adventure! Amazing episode as always. Foraminifera are some of the most important organisms in existance to the current ecology of Earth and are crazy weird and cool. I love it!

@camgood3097 3 жыл бұрын

So bizarre, I just randomly watched a 2 hour documentary about mummies, pharaohs, and tombs in Ancient Egypt yesterday! What are the odds this would be posted this morning?

@NewMessage 3 жыл бұрын

"hard on the outside, soft on the inside..." Just like my Dad.

@goodiesohhi 3 жыл бұрын

And covers the ocean floor in tests over millions of years. Just like my dead.

@awaken2478 2 жыл бұрын

Sexual jokes anyone?

@tundrataiga5100 3 жыл бұрын

really love the sound effects in the very beginning of the video

@fletcherreder6091 3 жыл бұрын

Cats tip over jars. James tips over jars. James is a cat confirmed!

@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 3 жыл бұрын

I would love if these "journeys" were longer, and more frequent. They are truly enjoyable and interesting and at times quite eye opening given how many details we as people tend to be completely oblivious of on a regular basis.

@Octane.on.pawz. 3 жыл бұрын

I never thought hanks voice could sound so amazing

@Iisa1010 3 жыл бұрын

me seeing the title of the video "oh boy I do love forams!" Hank "or forams, how they call them in the biz" me: "I feel called out"

@MrHichammohsen1 3 жыл бұрын

I love how calm and poetic you are in this series! Thank you James for opening our eyes on microcosmes!

@emb7854 3 жыл бұрын

I remember trying to identify something orange and branching growing on the glass on my first saltwater aquarium and getting lost in forums about foraminifera. Wonderful stuff

@metamorphiczeolite 3 жыл бұрын

Foram forums. Ha. Good one.

@aa-sw8bp 3 жыл бұрын

this channel is very underrated i love it.

@rubikfan1 3 жыл бұрын

Than how is it underrated?

@melskunk 3 жыл бұрын

Yes the 450 thousand subscriber channel is very underrated

@SquirrelASMR 3 жыл бұрын

❤ JAMS JERMS AND HANK ❤ Best duo!

@whizthesugoi 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the writers who makes the scripts, the song writer and some other people i can't remember now

@chironOwlglass 3 жыл бұрын

You know what they say, "Build thee more stately tests!"

@aa-sw8bp 3 жыл бұрын

i love that music at the beggining, really sets up a vibeee

@eternal8song 3 жыл бұрын

my Geology 1010 professor did her doctoral work on foraminifera and explained to us at length how cool they are, so they have a special place in my heart.

@skraminc 3 жыл бұрын

holy s***. your guy's footage/microscopes have improved so much since your first video. this is insane

@HayTatsuko 3 жыл бұрын

The motions of these forams' reticulopodia are absolutely mesmerising to me. Thanks yet again, James and Hank and everyone else on the crew, for a new and fascinating exploration into the world of the teeny tiny. Happy new year to you all!

@FullThrottleAxolotl1 3 жыл бұрын

I cannot express properly how much I enjoy these videos

@thejusr6710 3 жыл бұрын

Narration is on point 🥰

@tonydagostino6158 3 жыл бұрын

As a foram biostratigrapher I never thought I'd find foram videos on KZfaq. Thanks. I wish you'd have featured a planktonic foram in the video when you were talking about chamber shape and flotation. Instead you showed a biserial benthic foram. I'm surprised a jar of wet sand got through customs too. Those close-ups of streaming protoplasm are amazing

@Alexander-bd2hk 3 жыл бұрын

looking through the names of the patreons: Hank Green so you thanked yourself, how lovely :3

@moojidy 3 жыл бұрын

That shot at 4:20.... wow. Amazing. And beautiful! What an amazing job to be able to study things like this.

@anastrixnoodles 3 жыл бұрын

Hank's voice is so calmin and so different from Sci Show and Vlogbeothers and the others.

@LeeSwab 3 жыл бұрын

aaaay, finally my favourite microorganisms!!

@grahamrankin4725 3 жыл бұрын

My 1st scientific publican was about forams, using stable isotope mass spectrometry to measure O18/O16 ratios to infer the paleo temperature in the Gulf of Mexico during the last Ice Age.

@mitalisharma440 3 жыл бұрын

4:12 still surprisd me, i know its mesmerizing and astonishing, but it still just puts me in awe.

@Jake.The.Snake. 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing content! Thank you so much for sharing your view of this incredible micro-world! 🌎 🧫🔬

@heyitsandrew2209 3 жыл бұрын

This is the one channel that makes me feel like I know less after watching, but in the best way. Truly awesome sights!

@wyattarich 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, you and AvE are the best channels on KZfaq. May this series continue forever.

@Fabonj 3 жыл бұрын

This channel just never stops blowing my mind. Thanks for yet another amazing video!

@RaindropWorkshop 3 жыл бұрын

Were you trying to make that story a silver lining kind of metaphor for 2020? Because it kind of fits.

@absentmindedprof 7 ай бұрын

James is my hero!🥂

@bcddd214 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are addictive.

@Ratciclefan 2 жыл бұрын

The videos on this channel are always amazing

@renn_frenn 3 жыл бұрын

this channelwas amazing before i even knew who was apart of it -- i as even more amazed when i found out Andrew Huang and Hank Green were apart of this beautiful channel. love you guys!

@zahraaa59676 Жыл бұрын

I found this video from my biology slides but I really like this video. Great work you've done, and I now wish to see more videos of this channel but I have a quiz tomorrow. lol.

@valeriepittman1753 3 жыл бұрын

That last part of this "story" was so fitting for the end of this year.

@meyricktablizo8471 3 жыл бұрын

Yay! Finally, FORAMS!!! Great video!

@dementiasorrow 3 жыл бұрын

Forams are incredible! This episode is Great! the story is interesting. I love this channel! thanks hank, james ans everyone from Journey to the Microcosmos.

@larshoogveld 3 жыл бұрын

Came here trought my college proffessor. insta-subscribe. so yes, your videos are used in classes, even in the Netherlands ;)

@whizthesugoi 3 жыл бұрын

That's so cool I think that's the first time i see someone saying that You might have an awesome teacher

@christ_ie3714 2 жыл бұрын

Omgosh I'm so loving thus this channel I don't know how it got on my recommendations but I'm enjoying it

@mayaenglish5424 Жыл бұрын

3:02 That's really cool, I've seen these before in videos of sand looking pretty under a microscope and I always wondered what they were. Wouldn't have guessed a type of amoeba.

@obieobrien5883 3 жыл бұрын

Always fascinating!

@PCSoftware 3 жыл бұрын

The one from 6:34 is an excellent moving wallpaper. It looks like some space blob sucking up nearby stellar matter.

@raystephens9550 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Excellent! Especially good for these times for humility, with the microcosms effectively speaking loudly that we ought not ignore their significance and remain locked into our own self importance.

@Treksh 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the episode!

@meetthecassiani 3 жыл бұрын

I like these. Nice zoom on the reticulopodiums. I am truly fascinated

@hels7 3 жыл бұрын

oh wow I just defended my PhD thesis last week and now I find this XD I'm an expert in studying paleoclimate through forams! I loved this thank you for the beautiful microscope shoots.

@lecturestudio4640 3 жыл бұрын

I am lucky to have come across this channel. Love the narrative and narration.... Gives my love for bio more sense

@nightthought2497 3 жыл бұрын

I love this channel so much

@Beryllahawk 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely video, once again!

@genevaconventionsviolator3994 3 жыл бұрын

YESSSSSS YOU FINALLY MADE A VIDEO ON FORAMS

@YellowPenetrator 3 жыл бұрын

that was very calming

@garyfinchum3252 9 ай бұрын

Great video guys. You did good!

@Sevenigma777 3 жыл бұрын

Foraminifera must be the teachers of the micro world because they create really hard "tests" 😆

@edwardlulofs444 3 жыл бұрын

Good. I always learn something. Always worth watching.

@francepri2415 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your work, have a nice 2021🙏🙏

@Pasikoniszek 3 жыл бұрын

Really nice materials! Thank you and best regards from Poland!

@LouisGedo 3 жыл бұрын

Wow................. *Incredible MicroCosmos!*

@danking9936 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always, though I was surprised you didn't do species identifications like you usually do. As a foraminiferal ecologist I would have been more than happy to help on that.

@jimmyshrimbe9361 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome music!!

@snartsnart2718 3 жыл бұрын

ah what a great video to wake up to! lovely

@chewbacca9965 3 жыл бұрын

Good on ya for continuing through christmas

@cole9799 3 жыл бұрын

Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny , thats one hell of a full name!

@apaheus 3 жыл бұрын

Take care of that neck! Thanks for sharing! Happy New Year!

@tanyajuli4145 3 жыл бұрын

I just got my sample of forams from Japan today. So very cool. Thanks for an excellent video explaining them.

@noraanivac1293 3 жыл бұрын

Love these videos

@JL-cy1ks 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, had no idea such feeding mechanics existed :D

@whizthesugoi 3 жыл бұрын

There is a whole video in the channel about a fungus that does something similar Really cool

@aldenconsolver3428 3 жыл бұрын

Hank - I doubt if you want to be in the microscope business but Covid has me without my usual work right now. Please keep this open for a while longer. I would love to have a microscope I have a big pond and really want to meet its denizens. I am one of your Patreons (IronHead) and I put in some money ($5) for your kickstarter. Wish I was up there in Montana - I could help set up a small shop to build these things (I have done so for a couple different companies). You got enough money to start buying things at a discount for your microscopes and that is just awesome.

@ddos87 3 жыл бұрын

Oh so good!

@qonitamuthmainah3342 2 жыл бұрын

i love the quotes at the ending video

@tonyhinderman 3 жыл бұрын

really good ep

@NatureWitch 3 жыл бұрын

😲 Wow theirs a microcosmos microscope? Also I had no idea their were small microscopic fossils in the pyramid and still alive everywhere. That's amazing

@rajendrakhanvilkar9362 3 жыл бұрын

Great video

@makak228 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty good narration and music

@thorild69 3 жыл бұрын

Scientists, I have a word to teach you: lid. This closes jars and helps them be spill-proof. Seriously though, THANKS! for all the relaxing education.

@user-ut9vt8gq9s 3 жыл бұрын

I had no idea nor about those fossils nor about the microfossils in the pyramids

@TragoudistrosMPH 3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe I didn't know about those nautiloid shaped shells for these organisms!!!!!

@LordZero666 3 жыл бұрын

Superb.

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 3 жыл бұрын

HOURS OF VIEWING TIPS: Get a neck injury brace and extra firm pillow for under your neck, in front of your chest. Strap on with dispensers for easy movement. Nest chest and neck into the pillow while viewing samples. That should give endless viewing comfort. OTHER OPTIONS: Collapsible massage table with pillow roll positioned above scope. MORE PRACTICAL: Armless office chair (with high enough backrest to support your torso and neck) turned backwards to support you. It needs to have rocking chair position, so you can lean in at the right angle with neck relaxed.