Stentors: Single-Celled Giants

It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE!

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"Corrections: 00:16 In this video we said that tardigrades have six legs, but they actually have eight legs."

[journeytomicro]

Whoops! We said that tardigrades have six legs, but they definitely have eight!

[ian_b]

I feel a great kinship with these stentors, for I too am larger than a tardigrade.

[DeathbyPixels]

Those two Stentors playing catch with a Paramecium made me laugh

[Jpipooly]

Thought the title said "senators: single-celled giants" and it still made sense.

[christinahazlett]

"We know why, but we don't know like, WHY"

[SteelsCrow]

I was just amazed to see cell membranes stretch, bend, and twist so much. In school I got the impression they are very fragile, and getting ruptured meant game over for the cell.

[meatballg]

I want to absorb and digest other cells but I’m dummy thicc and the clap of my phospholipid bilayer means they keep escaping my phagocytosis

[DruidPC]

Imagine being a tiny multi-cellular organism with a nervous system then being eaten by a single cell.

[Kikslew]

this editing, dialog and overall the whole thing is sick. This lets me learn and be amazed at the same time.

[justinvlogs]

I love the chill tone of this channel. I'm a big fan of educational youtube, but this channel is unique in how relaxing it is. It's like a short little vacation.

[Bobbydog]

3:13 Ya know, whenever I hear about a micro organism that can be seen with the naked eye, I can't for the life of me, find an actual picture of such, just always under a microscope. This right here is finally what I've been looking for!

[xendurr]

Imagine becoming a multi-cellular organism only to be sucked in by a Kirby.

[LimeyLassen]

Thanks YT recommendation system, this is the stuff I want

[emilythompson]

As a microbiology student, I am so excited by what you're doing with this channel!

[viennajordan]

That's so crazy! I see tons of those when I take samples from my aquarium and I had no idea what they were!

[lerolerolerolerolero]

All schools should take some notes from this. This is how you make students curious, interested and fascinated by science. Not by lecturing or asking them to read some drab and boring textbooks.
Damn had science been made this interesting when I was young, I would be doing something completely different today
I'm truly grateful I came across this channel.

[Jacksonaol]

The realization that hank green is the narrator shook me to my core and I honestly don't know why.

[megatronyeets]

Seeing them without the microscope really brings their size to reality, it's amazing how common these large single celled organisms are

[lolscience]

Me: I am more of a physics person

Also me: stentor coeruleus is my favorite type of ciliate

[thraw]

"The macro nucleus of the stentor coeruleus. " what a fun arrangement of words!