The Secret Life of Plankton

New videography techniques have opened up the oceans' microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys has used footage from a pioneering project to create a film designed to ignite wonder and curiosity about this hidden world that underpins our own food chain.

[justinschofield]

The editor did a really good job putting this together. The creatures movement is well synchronized to unique sounds.

[GrandNecro]

i thought their secret life was to try and steal the secret krabby patty formula

[poppyorangeflower]

This needs to be 4K.
Utterly breathtaking visuals.

[graDinolol]

It is like observing life on another planet, really out of this world, I loved it.

[Tlactl]

So Mr. Krabs hates Plankton even though he was a plankton before as well

the more you know

[Twilo]

I find it really hard to get a grasp of how diverse these lifeforms are, and that we refer to all of them as just 'plankton'

[austinleiva]

"honey i got a voice job today"
"oh what is it?"
"you ready"
"yes"
"im a plankton"

[alphaamoeba]

Fun Fact: Plankton from spongebob is a copepod

[killsuperman]

A Teaspoon?! Accidentally swallowed seawater whilst swimming yesterday. oh god

[twisterlord]

Moment of silence to all the pinhead plankton who died from their brothers

[UNLebanon]

The Secret Life of Plankton:

Always trying to steal the crabby patty formula.

[thenameguy]

The real secret life:

I GOT THE FORMULA IT IS TIME TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!

[samtays]

"a teaspoon of seawater could contain over a million living creatures" hope i never get seawater in my mouth again

[trav]

If plankton was that small:

*he wouldn’t even be in the show*

[dreysantillan]

they're like transparent neon aliens

[shanruz]

Eleven years have passed, yet the most informative and mind-blowing video.

We express our heartful gratitude to your channel, Ted Ed, keep producing such amazing videos 🤩

[jeffh]

Now I regret walking on the ocean floor

[spoojing]

The ocean is truly the most magnificent and awesome place on Earth. Watching this makes you almost feel like you're watching creatures on a different planet or in vast space.

[HandleDisliker]

That's a very knowledgeable fish.

[definitely.not.your.type.]

This is divine!
This needs to hit billions. I’ve read a bit about this in my zoology text and as I swim to further classes, I would have limited this as a single paragraph of my textbook and i would have known nothing more about this.Even my zoology teachers didn’t explain this much :(
Wholehearted gratitude to all those who behind this work💗