SciShow: This Beautiful House Is Made of Snot

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Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: Thanks again to MBARI and the Monterey Bay Aquarium for collaborating with us on this episode of SciShow. All of the amazing deep-sea video in this episode was taken with MBARI's remotely operated vehicles! Follow MBARI's research and technology on their YouTube channel linked below. And if you’re able to, please consider making a donation to help the Monterey Bay Aquarium continue their mission while they’re closed. Your gift will be put to work for ongoing animal care and maintenance of the Aquarium: montereybayaquarium.org/donate These giant balls of mucus may seem like a bizarre sight in the open ocean, but all this snot serves a purpose, both for the tiny creatures that produce it and for the entire ocean ecosystem! Hosted by: Hank Green Follow MBARI! Twitter: https://twitter.com/MBARI_News Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MBARInews/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mbari_news/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MBARIvideo Tumblr: https://mbari-blog.tumblr.com Follow Monterey Bay Aquarium: Twitter: @MontereyAq Facebook: @montereybayaquarium Instagram: @montereybayaquarium Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Monterey... Tumblr: @montereybayaquarium 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://www.mbari.org/lasers-shed-light-on-the-inner-workings-of-the-giant-larvacean/ https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602374 https://doi.org/10.1111/dgd.12689 https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg.2016.39 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.004 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.12.005 Image sources: https://www.flickr.com/photos/euthman/304334264/


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