SciShow: When Algae Learned to Hunt

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Content of the Lesson: You probably don't consider algae to be super aggressive, but 66 million years ago had to turn to murder in order to survive. Hosted by: Michael Aranda 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: Silas Emrys, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- 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://cicoes.uw.edu/internships/interns/cassondra-defoor/ https://biologydictionary.net/heterotroph/ https://earthsky.org/earth/dino-killing-asteroid-2-years-darkness-ncar-study https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201030142129.htm https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabc9123 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281475/ https://bio.biologists.org/content/8/2/bio036590 https://microbiologysociety.org/publication/past-issues/oceans/article/comment-mixotrophic-plankton-the-perfect-beasts-of-our-oceans.html https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-marine-010816-060617 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gephyrocapsa_oceanica.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haptophyta_cell_scheme.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flagellum_(PSF).png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phytoplankton_types.jpg


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