These Lice Dive Kilometers Under the Ocean!

Lice don’t just thrive in the biomes of body hair and fur, they can also live in a place that seems like it should be bug-free: the oceans.

Hosted by: Stefan Chin

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[zizoditto]

I guess these lice perform well under pressure.


I’ll see myself out.

[Ohampion]

seals have lice? ok there goes my plans for petting seals.

[TheSkyline]

"A louse just isn't very compressible" Well that's a new sentence

[anaturalwoman]

Bugs underwater is my worst nightmare lol

[paulmillcamp]

Turns out lice aren't so lousy after all

[Master_Therion]

Exactly how lice survive these depths has left scientists... scratching their heads.

[goodcorwin]

2:51 So you could say we should try to learn what makes them... Tick?
Yeah I know, I'll see myself out.

[TheCuriousGuyYT]

*Did you know ?*
A ribbon worm can eat 95 per cent of its own body without dying when there is nothing else to eat !!

- Facts by Curious JB

[MikkaPower]

Looking forward to more research of lice to figure out what really makes them



tick

[Cocos]

Im just impressed the seals go 2kms down

[vanessaanderson]

I've heard there are whale louse as well. And they dive pretty deep too.

[maxwell]

The insects are among us. THEY LIVEEE.
Happy Halloween. MUAHAHAHAHA. *couuuugh* :D

[Dyejob]

If they are able to harness air pockets under their scales they have a built in compression process. As they take in the oxygen they reduce their size, right?

[Tiga_UltraSuperiorGojira]

Insects on lava beds? I wanna hear about that amazing feat
Oh I found it, lava crickets but just like this story not much is known about how they do it

[pierreabbat]

kg/cm² is a unit of sheet density, not pressure. The unit of pressure is the pascal (=N/m²).

[claudiolazzari]

Hi! thank you very much for talking about our work. We assure you that the 450 atm was totally an accident!

[LukeAurio]

I mean, Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett already told us that there's a... "Lotta Sea Lice"...

[PsyKeks]

He actually had the audacity to say, these seals were "itchy down there"! 😲

[pheart]

The seals underhair probably traps air bubbles.

[Binarokaro]

Imagine being a louse and just being put in this container and suddenly you just feel the weight of 4.5km of ocean crashing down on you because some technician messed up