Mad respects seeing you here! Read your paper on Diuronotus. Keep up the awesome work!

@@Pongant funny to meet fellow gastrotrichologists here ! When the project "International Association for Gastrotrichology" will be launched, we should have the opportunity to meet :) Glad you liked the paper, it was the one I put the most heart in in my PhD thesis :) What are you doing on X. intermedia ? :)

they are cute ^,^

idk the nematodes scare me lmao

Like worm on a string!

it's amazing to think that we as humans are very distantly related, at some early point in our evolution we had a common ancestor

I mean technically it’s not fuzz

I wonder every day what their consciousness is like

Maybe they don't feel

you also kinda messed up this comment as well lol!

Ah, flogging tiktok now, are you? How disappointing.

@@dziban303 Not really. I think it could be a positive over the sensory-overload pieces of $#!t viewers would often run into. *this is just my take on TikTok's average set of videos and is not necessarily true. it could be vastly different from what I think it is, so please don't hate on it too early >v

Squishy gummie bears

Some researches put them sister groups, but there are actually few morphological common points. The only thing which has been found is similarities in micro-RNA. However, the result of both being closely related is not found in all phylogenies :)

They look like some ciliates :)

That's how we say it among gastrotrichologists ;)

Yes, the ciliation is, for most of them limited to the ventral side :) This is what helps them tho crawl or swim most of the time :) They are colloquially called "hairy backs" but it doesn't have anything to do with "Gastrotricha", and is quite confusing, it is because many Chaetonotida have dorsal spines made of cuticle, which gives an impression of hair :)

@@nicolasbekkouche7153 thanks for the info!

Many. Myxozoans are the smallest animals and evolved from macroscopic jellyfish-like ancestors.

Plenty of times, there are several families of microscopic Annelida, some cases in molluscs (Rhodope and some Aplacophora), many groups of arthropods like copepods, mites, microscopic wasps, ostracods etc. And there are even other cases of non parasitic cnidarian like Halammohydra on top of Myxosoa that @lovelynepenthe cited :) Actually going from macro to micro and the other way around is quite common :)

@@nicolasbekkouche7153 Your comment made my week.

Yeast is decendended from multicellular ancestors.

Almost. While it may have come from Greek, it is in Latin (New Latin, to be precise). The correct pronunciation should be [kʰae̯'tonɪda], I think. That's pretty close to what you said, except for two of the vowels being different, namely that the first vowel should rhyme with "eye" and the third with "lid". The third vowel could also be pronounced [i], rhyming with "knee", which is what you said, depending on what time period's pronunciations we're going for, resulting in [kʰae̯'tonida]. If we were to go with a more Greek pronunciation, then the first vowel would still be "eye" and the third would definitely rhyme with "knee", but also the first consonant would probably be different. It still gets the k-sound [kʰ] if we go with Attic Greek, but later forms of Greek like Koine and Modern would have it be [x], the same sound that ends the word "loch" in Scottish accents or the first sound in "Chanuka" when pronounced with the throaty sound rather than a straight-up h-sound. This makes it [xae̯'tonida]. To get the pronunciation you suggest, ['kʰito'nida], we would need to resort to Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation, but even then, I think it would end up being [kʰɛ'tonida], with the [ɛ] being the same sound as in "bet", which is still a bit different. I hear Hank saying [t͡ʃɛ'tɑnɪdə], which I agree is not right.

@@ChefSalad yeh, I'm no linguist, but my main point was that the initial consonantal sound is not "ch" as in chicken. I know that χ is like loch, but noone is going to say it like that; just "k" is fine. Edit: the difference between uk and us english makes arguing over vowels kind of pointless. The consonants are where errors can be pointed to consistently.

@@TazPessle True enough. That and these languages are dead, so I suppose it doesn't really matter anyway. I just like being nitpicky sometimes. My vowel reference words were in General American English. As far as US vs UK, that only matters for examples. The IPA is always the same for the same sound.

@@ChefSalad yeh, IPA recommendations for uk pronunciations is always terrible; it's a vanishingly small amount of us that speaks anything close to RP. There is a youtube chanel that covers it, but don't ask me nowz I'm 8 beers down.

Nobody asked you about your religious convictions.

Switching from seawater to freshwater is not a trivial thing.

We talk about hundreds of species here :)

They are objectively not ❌ the same species though.

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What?? Of course it's in English, the entire channel is?

I mean...we're allowed to believe what we choose, right?

We people working on zoology and gastrotrichs work under the theory of evolution which is the scientific consensus. If you disagree, you can start your own school of creationists gastrotrichologists :)

How the Hell 🔥🔥🔥 else are they supposed to *explain* why there are so many microorganisms with no utility to anything but their own survival ⚕?