SciShow: 6 of the Oldest Parasites Ever Found

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Content of the Lesson: Where there's life, there's other life looking for a free ride. Here are six of the world's oldest parasites. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/about.html https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(14)70794-7/fulltext https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/schistosomiasis/index.html Part 2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/parasitology/article/ancient-parasitic-dna-reveals-toxascaris-leonina-presence-in-final-pleistocene-of-south-america/9E406417164E40114F819AA78D60C667 Part 3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05654-y https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/insects/predators-parasites-and-parasitoids/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5648684/#!po=2.88462 PART 4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12863-w https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23282228_The_oldest_fossil_evidence_of_animal_parasitism_by_fungi_supports_a_Cretaceous_diversification_of_fungal-arthropod_symbioses/link/5e9dd6b9299bf13079ad7b12/download https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/taeniasis/index.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559381/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16332-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosoma_haematobium#/media/File:Schistosomiasis_haematobia.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schistosoma_20041-300.jpg#/media/File:Schistosoma_20041-300.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schistosoma_haematobium_egg_4843_lores.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_snail_Rex_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coprolites_with_Inclusions.jpg#/media/File:Coprolites_with_Inclusions.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ophiocordyceps_australis_group_799627.jpg#/media/File:Ophiocordyceps_australis_group_799627.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017-01-01_Ophiocordyceps_kniphofioides_(H.C._Evans_%26_Samson)_G.H._Sung,_J.M._Sung,_Hywel-Jones_%26_Spatafora_799628.jpg https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Photographs-of-the-holotype-of-P-coccophagus-gen-et-sp-nov-that-shows-the-oldest_fig1_23282228


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