Why Did It Take Us So Long?

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We've long known that animal pollination is an important way plants reproduce on land, but we're only JUST finding out animals also pollinate plants underwater.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Zoophily: a form of pollination whereby pollen is transferred by animals
- Hydrophily: a type of pollination in which pollen is dispersed by the flow of water
- Seaweed: massive, multicellular algae
- Spermatia: a nonmotile male gamete of red alga

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While not a huge discovery in that the effect being observed is small-scale, this could have interesting implications in terms of the "history" of animal-pollination. Sea grasses and tiny invertebrates showed up before their terrestrial counterparts, so it's possible that not only did animal pollination appear first in aquatic environments, but that it evolved again, independently, in terrestrial plants and the animals that interact with them. Not earth-shaking, but cool to think about.

SableGear

the dating scene for underwater critters is so buzzing. It's like a singles mixer on the reef – 'Swipe right for sweet nectar!'

lectureit

FINALLY as an aspiring marine biologist I was always interested in zoophily in marine/aquatic ecosystems, thank you so much for covering this guys, 🌎🌎🌎🌎❤❤❤❤

Naidnapurugavihs

It's things like this that make sure you can never say "the science is settled" because there could always be a new observation that changes our understanding

maverick

I think that it’s a big deal to learn about underwater pollinators. Kelp forests are important to earths climate. The daily plankton migration could be pollinating underwater plants up and down the water column.

yland

Oh! We mentioned about this in algae class! Red algae is weird and has a tiny genome, specifically that has no flagella genes, so sperm can't swim, so some use tiny crustaceans as pollinators! It's a very unique thing because pretty much all life has flagella, so red algae not having them has interesting consequences

crowbirdy

Imagine how many other things we've never even thought of happen in our universe. Something this small -- or maybe something really huge.

insederec

At 1:18: A Fire Flower, a power-up item from the Mario franchise, is featured in this video.
At 3:00: Makar, a character from the video game: the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, is featured in this video.

alphaapple

I love how title and thumbnail gives a very less information what this video is about but we still clicked it

TanishqDuttmathur

The freaking water molecular movement of the small pollinator got me

minghea

in the docufiction "The Future Is Wild" in the 7th episode entitled: "Flooded World" they had shown a coevolution between the Reef Glider, a descendant of the sea snail, and the descendants of the red algae which, after the extinction of coral reefs, create reefs that grow rapidly thanks to Reef Gliders that pollinate the "sea flowers" of algae

germanomagnone

Kate is possibly the leader of minute earth

wholesomeemporor

you did NOT just put a you lost the game reference in the video MinuteEarth, grrrah
Moving on, interesting video on marine ecology/science overall 👍

Terraspark

I love getting my nerdy fix with videos like this!

missnaomi

I'm wondering if the giraffe graphic around 2:44 is a reference to how we've long hand waved away the Lamarckian theory of evolution (and how relatively recent discoveries in epigenetics kind of implied that there is a Lamarckian model that exists in nature somewhere).

cuckoophendula