Major Secrets Revealed by First Bioluminescent Organism on Earth

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0:00 Bioluminescence and its evolution
1:00 Molecular mechanism
1:45 How did this evolve though?
2:10 Crustaceans that started this long ago - blue sand
3:15 Octacorals - new record holders
4:40 Why they glow
5:40 Why some of them lost the ability
6:30 Eye connection
7:10 Why bioluminescence exists
7:55 Was this a mutation to protect from oxygen?
9:30 Conclusions
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@jamesraymond1158 Ай бұрын

Great story. When it's a slow day in astrophysics, biology always has something to offer.

@stevenkarnisky411 Ай бұрын

Have to give you a glowing review for this one, Anton! May your light continue to shine for us!

@ThePdog3k Ай бұрын

😂

@Yezpahr Ай бұрын

4:24 Oh my lord, Anton used a pun! This is a new era of the channel.

@johnnypatros1993 Ай бұрын

It seems like those creatures achieved enlightenment

@Deletirium Ай бұрын

50 points deducted from Hufflepuff for an unauthorized use of a basement tier pun.

@malaikamillions Ай бұрын

I love the random comedy I can find in the comments of his videos. What a cool community he has.

@CanadaFlo Ай бұрын

its only light now that plants can create, but give it some time and plants start shooting with lasers

@metatechnologist Ай бұрын

The ones that shoot lasers are the ones that don't get eaten....

@ichoppabroccoli3670 Ай бұрын

They'll make a "pew pew" sound when they do it too.

@johnmarkson1998 Ай бұрын

shooting photon beams attracts predators and thus the plant dies out over time.

@AnalyticalReckoner Ай бұрын

plants vs zombies 3

@KenFullman Ай бұрын

Another recent discovery is that the scent of mown grass is produced by grass when it's under attack. It seems this scent attracts predators of the insects that usually eat the grass. So by producing this scent it's actually calling for a predator to come and get the offending insect. So given a few million years, grass will have it's own weapon to shoot anyone that dares to approach it with a lawn mower.

@susanm9124 Ай бұрын

So groovy, this planet. Thank you for explaining the details to us and making these lesson fun!

@oiomeme Ай бұрын

Least alien anthon viewer

@bernabereyes9726 Ай бұрын

😂 So groovy, indeed.

@ResetAll-ni4dp 23 күн бұрын

Science is in great development in every field. My religion, Islam, attaches importance to science and supports both philosophy and technology. The Quran says that the sun and the moon are in a certain orbit, and the harmony in the world and the magnificence in space show the greatness of Allah.

@binksterb Ай бұрын

Shine little glow worm glitter!!

@Wispertile Ай бұрын

This channel has become a staple in my routine! Thank you so much Anton! It’s been a refreshing break from True Crime.

@grim1427 Ай бұрын

Thanks Anton. Hope you are well.

@audiolivrobom Ай бұрын

Bioluminescence is what happens when I see there's a new video from your channel, and it makes me smile. Luv u, Anton.

@mikelarmanis9340 Ай бұрын

I've heard second hand that if you eat the bioluminescent mushrooms "they recharge your batteries"

@stevengill1736 Ай бұрын

Dunno about that, but might make your piss glow in the dark. ;^[} Someone should talk to Paul Stamets about crossing Psilocybe with Omphalotus spp (jack-o'-lantern mushroom) - then you'd have shrooms that glow in the dark, and then make you see glow in the dark stuff everywhere after you eat them.

@axle.student Ай бұрын

When I was a wee youngen I collected a heap of fireflies in a jar to try and make a night light. They all died and I felt really bad :(

@Deletirium Ай бұрын

@@stevengill1736Those would sell like hotcakes, just on word of mouth alone...

@MyraSeavy Ай бұрын

Gosh, Anton! Your videos are always so informative and entertaining! And, I love your smile! You are an all-around great person!! 😊❤

@Joe_1sr9 Ай бұрын

Myra fancy’s Anton 😊

@MyraSeavy Ай бұрын

@Joe_1sr9 Yes I do!! 😊❤️

@Deletirium Ай бұрын

Right? Hands down, my favourite science-themed YT channel, along with PBS Spacetime. He's so good at packing a lot of complex info into a concise, layperson-accessible video.

@tatersquad2000 Ай бұрын

Lucifer means "light bringer", very cool naming of these molecules!

@randallpetersen9164 Ай бұрын

Lucifer the Morning Star

@luipaardprint Ай бұрын

Have those scientists ever considered that bioluminescence evolved so many times just because it’s cool? Everybody likes stuff that glows.

@tesseract_1982 Ай бұрын

Yes, definitely sexy. Makes one want to talk about eggs. If they wiggle the glowy fin's tip in that seductive way... rawwr. Makes one want to spawn allover their hollow in the sand! If only these shrimp would go away... they look hungry... ( 😅 )

@qdllc Ай бұрын

Every civilization has its rave phase.

@jordangowin516 Ай бұрын

This post is so plur.

@Giantcrabz 28 күн бұрын

i want a pet anglerfish

@ResetAll-ni4dp 23 күн бұрын

Science has been in great development in the last century. Religion and science support each other. Islam values science. The existence of the world is in a great order. The formation of day and night, seasons, the continuous growth of space, and the fact that each planet is beautiful and magnificent in its own way shows the greatness of Allah. It is Allah who creates this from nothing. He created it to serve people so that we can be thankful

@axle.student Ай бұрын

Thanks Anton, this is really kool stuff. As a side note on the greens and blue colors. The marine environment color range is in shades of green to ultraviolet. Many species have ultraviolet iridescence. We cannot typically see this ultraviolet as humans, but under a soft UV light at night we can catch a glimpse of it. The nighttime marine environment if far "Brighter" than out human eyes realize :)

@nadyan9525 Ай бұрын

I just had a thought... if places like Europa and Enceladus do have life, they might have creatures that bioluminesce also? Underneath all that ice. Wouldn't that be beautiful.

@Deletirium Ай бұрын

Beautiful image to think about.

@saffron584 Ай бұрын

Another great Anton video

@karldubhe8619 Ай бұрын

very bright of them.

@jasonlow6943 Ай бұрын

Amazing stuff. Thanks Anton for the wonderful video.

@iambiggus Ай бұрын

Dinoflagellates sparkle every night on the brightest bio bay on Earth. Vieques, Puerto Rico.

@Snoopyzell Ай бұрын

Fascinating. Thanks. So informative and interesting.

@finbeats Ай бұрын

Watch one of your videos every morning 😅

@jimcurtis9052 Ай бұрын

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 👍☺️

@JHadsfsad Ай бұрын

pretty sure they do it because it looks awesome

@boris53703 Ай бұрын

Greetings Anton, great vlogs, one minor correction, not archaeological but palaeontological, please keep up the good work, always fascinating and informative!!!

@danielle78730 Ай бұрын

WOW! one of your most exciting vids yet!! thanks so much for all your hard work and the research you put into making these…am sending this one to my molecular bio professor friend at UT.

@punditgi Ай бұрын

Anton is also luminescent since he shines light on all kinds of knowledge. 🎉😊

@stevejohnson3357 Ай бұрын

I wonder if any of those bio-luminescent mushrooms are good in a stir fry.

@pattiklaus9580 Ай бұрын

Would it glow?

@robertunderwood1011 Ай бұрын

Chemical reactions that produce light or fairly rare . Are there any chemical reactions that produce ultraviolet?

@nunyabisnass1141 Ай бұрын

@@robertunderwood1011too much energy required for this type of chemical reaction.

@nunyabisnass1141 Ай бұрын

Of the dozen or so I've read about, they are either slightly to moderately toxic, or woody like shelf fungi. In America they often go by the name of foxfire or fairy lantern, and you can buy plugs that are already inoculated to grow them for yourself.

@Deletirium Ай бұрын

I would imagine the constituent chemicals would oxidize into oblivion quickly with heat and dicing. My daughter has Down Syndrome, and I used to buy her those 100 packs of glowsticks to play with when she was a baby. When cracking one of them for her, the stick ruptured, and I ended up with neon glow in the dark hands for about 5 minutes. I tried taking a few outside and painting the steps with spatters of glow, but it lost it's luminescence within a minute or two on exposure to air...

@SamtheIrishexan Ай бұрын

Glowing developed because it looks 😎

@okiejammer2736 Ай бұрын

Love this. 🌟 THANK YOU!

@MCsCreations Ай бұрын

The abyss fish is nightmare material right there.

@Reoh0z Ай бұрын

> "Radiant beings are we, not this crude matter." ~ Yoda

@joewhitfield5561 Ай бұрын

Isn't it "Luminous beings"?

@lookingfororion2785 Ай бұрын

@@joewhitfield5561 Yes it is. One of my favorite scenes ever.

@guidokorber2866 Ай бұрын

Actually most white LEdDs today are at better than 50% efficiency, some getting up to about 70%. On the quantum level they are even more efficient but some of the light does not exit the semiconductor crystal or gets lost in the phosphor that does the blue to white translation of the light.

@alanhyland5697 Ай бұрын

Hello wonderful Anton

@danecowan3062 Ай бұрын

Thanks you my friend!

@sonarbangla8711 Ай бұрын

We need Anton to explain the basic nature of reality, light.

@yvonnemiezis5199 Ай бұрын

Light,always fascinating, thanks 👍😊

@PaulLemars01 Ай бұрын

JUst a small side anecdote to this subject. Back in the mists of time (1991) We were producing an animated kids' series called Roughnecks, The Starship Trooper Chronicles. It was one of the first 3D animated TV series ever made. One of the problems we had was that try as we might the characters just looked dead. We tried every filtering and image manipulation trick in the book to bring these characters to life and nothing worked. Then one of the guys ran a little test. He made one of the characters skin a 5% light source. In other word they radiated a tiny amount of light and lo and behold they 'came to life'. We used it on all the other shows we worked on, even when we did CG characters in live action.

@ChiliTomatoNoodle Ай бұрын

Fact check: LED lights are more like 40% efficient, not "only 20% efficient". 20% efficiency is akin to a relatively efficient incandescent light (i.e. not efficient at all in the grand scheme of things).

@badhombre4942 Ай бұрын

Coral, feeling threatened, starts to breathe heavy, triggering its antioxidant reaction. Biologists: Oh, it's "turned on".

@TraceMalin Ай бұрын

So, the ocean is saying come eat this surfer.

@Hellbender8574 Ай бұрын

Were some of the Ediacaran squooshies bioluminescent? Like those jellyfish and that kind of sea pen that glows when you touch it? That would have looked so cool.

@tkermi Ай бұрын

Best LEDs have much higher efficiency than 20%. Best white LEDs have package efficiency of over 70% and blue ones around 90%. But more typical values for mid bracket high quality ones are in a range of 55% and 70%.

@davidh.4944 Ай бұрын

That's efficiency relative to equivalent incandescent bulbs. The video is referring to absolute lumens/watt efficiency. A quick search says that the diodes themselves actually produce light at about 30-40% of their theoretical maximum. I suppose the 20% comes from counting in the additional inefficiencies of the circuitry, phosphors, and other factors included in the average bulb. It all just goes to show just how horrendously inefficient incandescent bulbs are. 💡

@tkermi Ай бұрын

@@davidh.4944 No, I'm talking about the absolute efficiency. I studied these for my work projects. You can find some info regarding top of the line efficiency for example by searching "From physics to fixtures to food: current and potential LED efficacy"

@ImOverEveryone Ай бұрын

Could it have been a defense mechanism? So those with eyes didn't run into them? Especially when the Earth was darker. So they glow to keep themselves from getting smashed by a shark or whale for instance?

@swedensbestrapper Ай бұрын

fascinating!

@phaedrussocrates7636 Ай бұрын

Thank you

@kashvigandhi5372 Ай бұрын

Great video! Pls make the sound clearer...just a suggestion

@UnderTheRugAgain Ай бұрын

The simplest explanation is that these creatures have reached enlightenment. 👽😇

@Shaden0040 Ай бұрын

another you're correct they do miss this aisle stage but the blanket stage is called a motile stage.

@cameron1376 Ай бұрын

Such tiny critters playing with light better than we do!

@SpydrXIII Ай бұрын

why don't we turn the lights off with ROV in the deep ocean and film (with special cameras) the light show? or at the very least film with red light as to not scare away animals with the ROV's bright white light. we could learn so much from turning the lights out.

@darylbrown8834 Ай бұрын

I think it's funny how it is implied that we've discovered the first organism that had bioluminescence' when after all' we don't know.

@johncarter1150 Ай бұрын

Bioluminescent earthworms, too

@ProgRockDan1 Ай бұрын

Interesting

@user-wo6qn3vf9n Ай бұрын

All bioluminesent creatures have now been fitted with low voltage high brightness LEDs, when first fitted with light bulbs in the 1960s there was a lot of problems with water getting in and short circuiting the equipment. Even with good insulation the problem still persisted, and 800v electricity supply give rise to electrocuting everything around for miles. As time has go by the technology now has perfected the problem. And at the start only white bulbs were available, but thankfully now with LEDs any number of colours are in use.

@annoyed707 28 күн бұрын

Going by your Vader shirt, it was the medichlorians.

@user-vf6rw9oj1z Ай бұрын

if i would be able to glow i would score 10x more

@OrgusDin Ай бұрын

Terry knew.

@Mikkelltheimmortal Ай бұрын

I learned recently that humans are also slightly bioluminescent. Researchers still don't know why, I'm not sure they know how either, but we all glow. It's just so dim that you can't see it.

@Exit311 Ай бұрын

Let there be light

@goiterlanternbase Ай бұрын

I recently discovered the "Boring Billion" and its funny colored oceans. You should give them a try.

@mrazyone 29 күн бұрын

Woow alot of speculations

@BrianFedirko Ай бұрын

Maybe it's just about energy. Looks aren't everything, and earlier on with simple life it actually meant nothing because sensing color wasn't a thing yet, and everything pretty much has to be a color. Color doesn't have to have a "reason". Energy is a much better "reason" for any living organism. Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love

@megamushroom Ай бұрын

2:20 WHAT IS THAT

@The-House-Of-Kastrioti Ай бұрын

@Anton Petrov; Hello Wonderful Person 👋 💫

@philiphumphrey1548 Ай бұрын

The problem with luminescence is it uses energy and gives your position away to anything and anyone that is interested. In an ocean full of predators, it's quite remarkable that its so common.

@mattyounce2486 Ай бұрын

Bioluminescent entities definitely get the imagination rolling, all the different information presented here most likely is as accurate as the scientists behind the biology release to the annals and journals of present day. Someday when the boundaries of science meet the impenetrable barrier of totality in the grace of evolutionary civilization we’ll be able to genetically modify attributes to utilize bioluminescence as an medicinal and effective alternative to present day limitations.

@ratreptile Ай бұрын

2:46 Archeological record, not paleontologial?? TRIGGERED. In all seriousness though this topic intrests me quite a lot, and I do not know why. Really good video!

@osmosisjones4912 Ай бұрын

Why not have vacuum areas that heat up

@ihaveanunorigionalname Ай бұрын

0:41 WTF ANTON really are you trolling or did u ask woody from toy story to animate that

@hibbs1712 Ай бұрын

94…. NINETY FOUR separate cases of life converging on a biological creation of light Mindblowing

@nomdeguerre7265 Ай бұрын

💡

@shanent5793 Ай бұрын

1:23 90% of the time, it works every time!

@Piccolo_Sun Ай бұрын

👁👁👁 very good

@goodtohaveinajam8148 Ай бұрын

Anton, do you know of any experiments involving animals and ultra-violet light? I think scorpions, for example light up. Why is that? Must be others.

@RlsIII-uz1kl Ай бұрын

They've developed more efficient led's using the structure of the lightning bug.

@metatechnologist Ай бұрын

Theres a bacteria that glows too.

@SamtheIrishexan Ай бұрын

Bacteria can do pretty much everything. Learning how to gentically engineer it is key to converting planets to atmospheres we can breathe IMO. Using in situ or minimum salting to set of a chain reaction.

@timexyemerald6290 14 күн бұрын

damn if its 90% efficient compared to LED light having 20% efficient 😬😬. we really need this to be researched intensely

@mndalyn Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤

@nicholasslide6788 28 күн бұрын

If the corals so ancient developped that tactic, the reason for the tactics must be equally old

@incircles36 Ай бұрын

I know nothing in this regard, but is it at all possible that bioluminescence was the earlier solution for dissipating the extra energy, and it's use in metabolism came later? Genuine question.

@osmosisjones4912 Ай бұрын

Could. An unwater intelligent species use it . Maybe an under civilization have more use of domesticating other species for their technology

@DavidHughey-xu2ce Ай бұрын

Underwater civilizations would be unlikely to invent fire or something similar, even if they were amphibious and figured out how to use above ground fires they would probably be doomed. Besides that they need agriculture as well. It seems unlikely to me that an underwater civilization would progress past hunter gatherers. A very advanced pre fire underwater culture would be unlikely to even progress to the heights of human aztecs even if they had farming because they still wouldn’t have fire.

@Hansulf Ай бұрын

Damn, I didn't know LEDs were that inefficient

@naamadossantossilva4736 Ай бұрын

So,do they know what the "inactive" version is?

@DwaynedPearce Ай бұрын

Bioluminescence = dark forest deference

@neotower420 7 күн бұрын

i wonder if the organisms in the deep ocean will survive a terrestrial extinction event

@rogerc7960 Ай бұрын

Aluminium/oxygen magnetics are mysterious.

@chillingwarmly5155 Ай бұрын

I can bioluminescent too just in the infra-red

@nyyppa7956 Ай бұрын

1:29 Just making sure someone points out that the most efficient commercially available LEDs have around 50% efficiency. Still nowhere near as impressive as bioluminescence but the light technology is already over twice as efficient than what it was a decade ago.

@sttone1969 Ай бұрын

Also why do we have an atmosphere? from the perspective of, why is it still here?

@XxTheAwokenOnexX Ай бұрын

❤️👍

@Shaden0040 Ай бұрын

basically these creatures reverse photosynthesis instead of collecting light to produce sugars and oxygen they use the oxygen and mayor probably sugars to create light. so his reverse photosynthesis

@robertunderwood1011 Ай бұрын

Good point !

@Psillytripper Ай бұрын

Like galaxies

@John-wm6fg Ай бұрын

I Don’t Care Who Calls me a Sissy !!! Those Angler Fish are Some Freaking Scary Looking Fish and Just Because Science Probably Doesn’t Know for Sure , Could You imagine Diving and One of These the Size of a Pickup Truck is Coming at You or more Likely Teasing You Close Enough To Bite with its Glowing Antenna Tip !!!! Talk about Prehistoric Looking !!!!

@CHESSZILLA Ай бұрын

I thought all animals were radiating light but we couldn’t see it. Like we produce heat heat is light. But it’s like infrared????

@-JA- Ай бұрын

👍🙂

@johnnygizmo4733 Ай бұрын

The sun is a sentient glowing celestial body

@oscarsalas102 Ай бұрын

Anton, what happened at the end of your video? It looked like someone forced you to smile when you were angry 😂

@TheCosmicGuy0111 Ай бұрын

Oooo

@Trihalo42 Ай бұрын

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) "The future question for naturalists will be how, for instance, cattle got their horns and not for what they are used."