Not really they attack other protozoans, rotifers and nematodes, pretty much everything in their proximity which still leave potentially a lot of pathogens and parasites inside the snail and on their own they do reduce the immune system of the snail too
Makes me think that having these little guys might be quite useful to the snail - since they stop anything else, which may be more harmful, invading. Anton calls them a parasite, but wouldn't they be better classed as a symbiote?
The snail is still losing nutrients and I do jot think this worm soldigers do much against bacteria and virus. But a good defense against anything bigger for sure.
@@molybdaen11 The production of leukocytes also takes up nutrients. The main point of parasitism is that the host is harmed by the parasite and gets no benefits in the process. Here we have an organism that kills "99.9% of germs" in the host at the price of taking up some of the host's nutrients. To me that sounds like mutualism, where both organisms end up net positive (the worm gets a safe place to live and the snail doesn't have to worry about all the germs and viruses).
How is this not a Xenomorph? It has a biological variant for each environment, it forms hives, it has hive members that are hunting everything in sight and it bursts out its progeny out of its living host. Now that's something everyone can enjoy! 😅
I already knew about that healing powers a worm which infects insects have on the host. And now we have another worm literally creating his own immune system. The Goa'ols from Stargate were not as far stretched as I thought. 😅
It makes strangely sense since many human gut parasites have strong bounds to our immune system too. They do jot go around and kill other parasites but help to calm down the immune system when it handles allergies. There is even a cure against some allergies which just contain parasite eggs. 🤔
If these critters have evolved an entire warrior caste just for colonial defense inside the bodies of snails, there must be worm wars raging inside snails all the time. Something to think about.
@ 1:14 "For example, in ants..." But those are actually not ants in the background. Those are termites. Granted, they are unusual termites that look rather ant-like. But no, those are termites, not ants.
@@franktothemax But he only says "for example, in ants..." as "ants" are being shown in the background. The image was clearly meant to be illustrative.
We need to provide part of the planet for other species to thrive and do their thing because we clearly do not have and never had any idea about a lot of them other than to dismiss their existence, capabilities, organization, way of life and their role in a complex web of life.
I wonder how they figured out what the little guys were doing. After all they are tiny, don't look or act like the main animals, and don't even have guts. They don't eat the invaders, just crunch them up. How long and what evolutionary changes occurred to create them?
🍣🥢 Sushi in Texas should be fine. 👍 Fish used for sushi is supposed to be flash frozen, per USDA guidelines, in order to kill any potential parasites inside of the fish. In recent years, there have been several cases of parasitic infections from consuming sushi in California. California has also been responsible for distribution of lots of other mishandled food. Lettuce and spinach come to mind. How do lettuce and spinach become contaminated with hepatitis? Think about that. 🤯
Isn't the fish in sushi supposed to be marinated. It was that marination that supposedly acted like cooking to kill off pathogens. If the raw fish is only marinated for flavour and not properly, there is every chance of nasties getting through
@@davidelliott5843 if that is so then anyone who eats sushi has a high probability of getting parasites. I find it hard to believe the health authorities would allow that.
The micro world is incredibly dynamic than maybe we can possibly imagine. Maybe these worms have super colonies spread over multiple people, opposing super colonies, causing groups of people opposed to each other for reasons us humans make up, like vegans v carnivores. We might smell an "enemy" at a subconscious level and invent narratives as cover stories. If different groups of people, like ethnicities or races, having endogenously similar diets and thus similar microbes and parasites, then that could be a driver of racism and all the sociological narratives of power are so much bunk and PR fluff we tell ourselves to still be "masters of ourselves". That may be the origin of the disgust mechanism, a very unconsciously energised feeling. In the 5 factor psychology model disgust correlates strongly with a propensity towards racism. A survival and dominance strategy not for ourselves (fooling ours glorious selves) but for our micro parasitic drivers. If you eat a food you're not used to (like spicy food) you may suffer discomfort but at a micro level is an imbalance in you get diversity like an eco-system out of balance. It hurts. ARFID people (avoidant restricted food intake disorder) are an extreme example and only slowly overcome their dislike of almost all foods except their narrow taste range. Maybe the best way to live harmoniously with diverse peoples is by sharing foods and becoming used to different tastes. All the sociological theories of power and race and imperialism all don't work as woke politics is divisive and only seem to form new pathways of hate towards other groups, also satisfying our micro parasitic masters. Just as the way to a man's heart is through his stomach maybe the way to better race relations is also through the stomach. Think of all the metaphors we use for what we don't like. "He makes me sick". "I can't stomach him/that idea". "The whole thing smells". We are not masters of ourselves but slaves. One famous uncontroversial example is people infected with toxoplasmosis (about 1/2 of people) and one sign of that is their love of cats (guilty myself) even though we are not the target species or even part of the target order of rodents.
There is actually another parasite which infects human brains - but is not supposed to because it's adapted to prey Animals. It makes the host do more risky decision which can lead to short therm success but also a lot of „heroes of the street”. If you know what I mean?
Anton. In the vid' you talk about snails whilst showing images of land snails. My question is:- How do the worms get into the water where they are able to infect fish? On the other hand, is it a water snail you're talking about?
Worm parasites of snails often have crazy multiple host lifecycles. Typically the snail is infected from worm eggs in feces of the host of the adult worms, such as a bird or fish. Sometimes that host is infected by eating snails, but other times it is by eating the thing that eats the snail. There are other, more comped arrangements with mixtures of growth, asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction, and up to 5 different hosts. At least from what I remember.
Theoretically yes. Practically no because it would need genetic engineering on a much higher level then just bringing 2 genes together and hoping they fuse...
I have evidence to suggest this might be the cause of Morgellons disease. Still a lot of work to do in that regard though as the disease may just be a response to ANY parasite or infection in susceptible persons.
amazing video as always but the state of the comments especially the bots is just awful and YT does absolutely nothing, i mean these bots here with the lewd pfps and generally just some random positive comment that is unfitting 99.9999% of the time are the lesser evil, but these other bots on other channels that always "My content is better than X-Channel" or say outright disgusting things favoring absolute degeneracy
This is a treat. It is incorrect to say that these are the only eusocial parasites, though. Many ants are parasites of other ant colonies... although I think what you means is that the *nest* is a parasitic structure (that is unique I think... and creepy!)
I eat a lot of *Sashimi and Sushi* should I cleans using something? What is a safe way to do this? I don't want to be reckless about it... seriously though... what would you advise a Texan that's "like me" to do?
How it is mysterious that the design that works best spontaneously appear just because it works... as if Darwinian selection just explores the space of solutions to the question "what can be life inside rules of physics ?" (life says : "let's try that or that or that").. but we can extend the question to all levels of organization of life.. and maybe matter
That's not how it works. Life just takes billions of random mutations and whatever fits best into a nicht usually survives. At least til something more efficient takes it's place or the environment changes.
@@Flaschenteufel how do you contradict what I said ?? "Life makes mutation and whatever survive" is the same thing as "life explores the space of solutions".. You have all the "possible" forms of life. Some works better than other.. life explores the possibilities by random little step.. "to explore" does mean "try everything randomly to see what works".. The space of "what works" exists before the exploration and it's just law of physics applied to organisms and their environment.. Of course if you limit yourself to the point of view of the organism you have to include its biotope and that make its solutions dependent of all other life forms in the vicinity.. but for the whole biotope (for the planet) the space of "what works" for life can be defined. Darwinian evolution makes it look like "life designs comes from nowhere" and that confuses people.. But nothing comes from nowhere.. the selecting part makes the design entirely dependent of physics. Life emerge from physics "what works", not from nothing.
I used to be an ecologist. We LIVE for discovering new fascinating relationships in nature. This is so cool…
Some guy just picks up a snail, and, boom, a new discovery is made! Our planet is amazing! Thanks Anton! 😊
nothing new, they are long known, they called them the BORG, on the science magazine Star Trek they presented it!
One scientist found a range of new organisms in his back yard. Demanding other scientists to take a look
Yeah nah didn't happen 😅😂
You people are absolutely astounding
A cosmic treasure indeed !!
@@jdavidblais oh god dude never ending clownviesta cringe fest fuck atrocious
So if they defend the host, the snail, they actually have a stronger immune system than unaffected snails??
Not really they attack other protozoans, rotifers and nematodes, pretty much everything in their proximity which still leave potentially a lot of pathogens and parasites inside the snail and on their own they do reduce the immune system of the snail too
Stronger... With an agenda.
Makes me think that having these little guys might be quite useful to the snail - since they stop anything else, which may be more harmful, invading. Anton calls them a parasite, but wouldn't they be better classed as a symbiote?
The snail is still losing nutrients and I do jot think this worm soldigers do much against bacteria and virus.
But a good defense against anything bigger for sure.
@@molybdaen11 The production of leukocytes also takes up nutrients.
The main point of parasitism is that the host is harmed by the parasite and gets no benefits in the process. Here we have an organism that kills "99.9% of germs" in the host at the price of taking up some of the host's nutrients. To me that sounds like mutualism, where both organisms end up net positive (the worm gets a safe place to live and the snail doesn't have to worry about all the germs and viruses).
How is this not a Xenomorph?
It has a biological variant for each environment, it forms hives, it has hive members that are hunting everything in sight and it bursts out its progeny out of its living host.
Now that's something everyone can enjoy! 😅
this is ancestor of xenomorph before they evolved
So... Futurama was right all along!
Lol! The truckstop bathroom sandwich! Now I'm hungry.
inbefore brain spiders...
Oh wait, that was Family Guy. Or also Futurama?
Drink slurm!! Or coke or fizzy drinks they are pumping out
Imma go eat gas station bathroom egg salad for super powers
Update: I'm critically ill
@@Yezpahr Futurama had the worms in Parasites Lost in Season 3.
I already knew about that healing powers a worm which infects insects have on the host.
And now we have another worm literally creating his own immune system.
The Goa'ols from Stargate were not as far stretched as I thought. 😅
"far fetched"
You're missing a revenue stream good sir. If you had an ad for a de-wormer after this video I would pay a hundred dollars just to be sure.
I'm definitely not in the mood now to watch "Monsters Inside Me".
😂😂
Fascinating thanks
LOL
I hear a Sushi shitstorm approaching Anton from the east, a strong storm!!
thats why i like scientists! they're just picking up a critter and can write a book about it shortly after c:
I hope your days going okay Anton
Analogue Horror writers: "WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!"
Did you not watch the Tangi virus by vintage 8 and the Oracle files
Sitting at my place in downtown Houston, thinking sushi sounds good, and here comes Anton dammit
It'll boost your immune system!
This was a futurama plot 😂.
Edit: in a way isnt all multicellular life eusocial?
When your parasite acts as part of your immune system...
It makes strangely sense since many human gut parasites have strong bounds to our immune system too.
They do jot go around and kill other parasites but help to calm down the immune system when it handles allergies.
There is even a cure against some allergies which just contain parasite eggs. 🤔
Creepy and weird and wonderful Well explained as always. Thank you Anton!
I knew some mole rats back in the 80’s. They’d hang out in the arcade or food court all day!
Were they naked? 😁
The food court ha ha. Always a tough decision which vendor to go to.
It's a sailboat
@@jennifersaar1611 lol
The worms are working together, and they have a long shot chance at the white house.
They are certainly biting off everyone else that do not belong to their colony.
Out of 45,000 species of spiders 5 are social that share large webs
What?
@jambec144 sorry just edited ,spiders
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙂👍
I've seen a documentary about them, apparently infected human gets better at playing holophonor.
Texas sushi is perhaps the worst thing I have had to consider in a very long time!
I often feel like a parasite living off the taxes collected from hard working wealthy people.
Can't believe I typed that with a straight face.
The richest of us gamblrd trillions and got bailes out with public money so chill
CZcams is watching me like a parasite in a snail so I'll be quiet.
It's what they voted for. Don't feel bad about following the will of the people.
we need parasite, every species need it, so somehow you an I too have a special task to fulfill. But don't ask me which task. I feel better now.
hard working and wealthy... yea that's ironic.
That's what I love about worms. They're so self-sacrificing.
If these critters have evolved an entire warrior caste just for colonial defense inside the bodies of snails, there must be worm wars raging inside snails all the time. Something to think about.
Why am I reminded of the worms that infected fry in Futurama, and why do I want worms like that
When people say we "know more about outer space" than we do in regards "to what lives in our own oceans" I cant help but roll my eyes.
"born too late to explore earth"... 🙄
@@paulgoogol2652 Dig Deeper
Anton inspired me to make my own YT channel. Thank you! 💛
Where is it? I'll subscribe!
Out for a stroll, take home a random snail, find a new species. What are the odds?
Seek and you shall find. If you don't pick up and look into snails then you won't discover their truths
find a new civilization.
Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana. You're right, creepy. I'll never eat snails again.
Nooo, snails are safe just the fish! Don’t eat the fish! (From southern places where the final form of parasite exists)
@@wildfallz Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana. You're right
3:00
The "Flukeman" episode of the X-Files is even scarier now. 30 years later I'm worried about Flatworms living inside me all over again.
Looks like the 5 basic choices in Spore.
This is really cool. And makes you think, do they or could they form a type of hive intelligence like ants or bees 👀
Thanks!
If you knew sushi like I know sushi, Oh, OH, Oh what a fluke!
Thanks for putting everyone off their dinner, Anton!
weird and fascinating
I laughed when you talked about Texan Sushi, recalling the episode of King of the Hill and roast beef sushi.
Hello wonderful person look at all these wonderful little worms
Well, at least Simpsons didn't do this one. Futurama did.
@ 1:14 "For example, in ants..." But those are actually not ants in the background. Those are termites. Granted, they are unusual termites that look rather ant-like. But no, those are termites, not ants.
I’m pretty sure he calls them bees, ants, and termites as well.
@@franktothemax But he only says "for example, in ants..." as "ants" are being shown in the background. The image was clearly meant to be illustrative.
"Life is simply unfair, don't you think?"
-the snail
And RFK Jr's brain...
Dont have nightmares, do sleep well.
Lol!!!! Someone discovered those worms that infected Fry from that episode of Futurama 😂🤣
I will never eat escargot again...
or sushi
I always love learning about space and sciences. But jeez! This is scary!
Life sucks as a snail
Imagine being a slug. At least snails carry their house with them.
Pumped to see this right before I go to sleep.
Good work as always my man
Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein
Poor snails
Well, here's one more (fascinating) horror. New fear unlocked.
We need to provide part of the planet for other species to thrive and do their thing because we clearly do not have and never had any idea about a lot of them other than to dismiss their existence, capabilities, organization, way of life and their role in a complex web of life.
I wonder how they figured out what the little guys were doing. After all they are tiny, don't look or act like the main animals, and don't even have guts. They don't eat the invaders, just crunch them up. How long and what evolutionary changes occurred to create them?
Thank you, Anton for your excellent show. Your attention to the lesser known odd bits of science and to facts and detail make for real entertainment
Well this is creepy....think I'll skip the sushi tonight...
Is this a similar adaptation as immune response?
new as previously unknown or as recently made researching a good bio-weapon where the agresser look innocent ...
And there I was thinking of getting a microscope 👀
man gene editting seems so scary now
🍣🥢 Sushi in Texas should be fine. 👍
Fish used for sushi is supposed to be flash frozen, per USDA guidelines, in order to kill any potential parasites inside of the fish.
In recent years, there have been several cases of parasitic infections from consuming sushi in California.
California has also been responsible for distribution of lots of other mishandled food. Lettuce and spinach come to mind.
How do lettuce and spinach become contaminated with hepatitis? Think about that. 🤯
Isn't the fish in sushi supposed to be marinated. It was that marination that supposedly acted like cooking to kill off pathogens. If the raw fish is only marinated for flavour and not properly, there is every chance of nasties getting through
It’s simply sliced and rolled up with rice leaves whatever.
@@davidelliott5843 if that is so then anyone who eats sushi has a high probability of getting parasites. I find it hard to believe the health authorities would allow that.
It’s theorized that cancer is caused by parasites as well.
@efx245precor3 I think more likely caused by viruses carried by parasites... Burkitt lymphoma being one.
That sounds incredibly far fetched
@@efx245precor3 More likely viruses carried by the parasites...
@@Flaschenteufel No so far fetched when you consider that the parasites carry viruses, often RNA viruses.
@@efx245precor3 Viruses carried by parasites...
Alright let’s discuss warms into black holes … 😂😂😂😂😂
it was a giant one horned flying purple people eater!
The parasites are strong in this one.
The micro world is incredibly dynamic than maybe we can possibly imagine. Maybe these worms have super colonies spread over multiple people, opposing super colonies, causing groups of people opposed to each other for reasons us humans make up, like vegans v carnivores. We might smell an "enemy" at a subconscious level and invent narratives as cover stories. If different groups of people, like ethnicities or races, having endogenously similar diets and thus similar microbes and parasites, then that could be a driver of racism and all the sociological narratives of power are so much bunk and PR fluff we tell ourselves to still be "masters of ourselves". That may be the origin of the disgust mechanism, a very unconsciously energised feeling. In the 5 factor psychology model disgust correlates strongly with a propensity towards racism. A survival and dominance strategy not for ourselves (fooling ours glorious selves) but for our micro parasitic drivers. If you eat a food you're not used to (like spicy food) you may suffer discomfort but at a micro level is an imbalance in you get diversity like an eco-system out of balance. It hurts. ARFID people (avoidant restricted food intake disorder) are an extreme example and only slowly overcome their dislike of almost all foods except their narrow taste range.
Maybe the best way to live harmoniously with diverse peoples is by sharing foods and becoming used to different tastes. All the sociological theories of power and race and imperialism all don't work as woke politics is divisive and only seem to form new pathways of hate towards other groups, also satisfying our micro parasitic masters. Just as the way to a man's heart is through his stomach maybe the way to better race relations is also through the stomach.
Think of all the metaphors we use for what we don't like. "He makes me sick". "I can't stomach him/that idea". "The whole thing smells". We are not masters of ourselves but slaves. One famous uncontroversial example is people infected with toxoplasmosis (about 1/2 of people) and one sign of that is their love of cats (guilty myself) even though we are not the target species or even part of the target order of rodents.
There is actually another parasite which infects human brains - but is not supposed to because it's adapted to prey Animals.
It makes the host do more risky decision which can lead to short therm success but also a lot of „heroes of the street”.
If you know what I mean?
Always enjoy your channel
Thanks Anton
Wanna watch a species evolve eusociality in real time? Go to any big city and look around.
Fascinating how they can find out👍❤
A spectacular example of convergent evolution.
So interesting! Thank you Anton!
People need to look under microscopes more!
So, the moral of this story is to be sure and cook your fish, really well. Know the sources of the fish, too.
Imagine breeding these in a lab and then purposefully infecting a human with them so they can destroy other parasites.
The RFK Jr special…
There goes escargot off the menu!!! FFS… 🤦
Anton.
In the vid' you talk about snails whilst showing images of land snails.
My question is:- How do the worms get into the water where they are able to infect fish?
On the other hand, is it a water snail you're talking about?
Worm parasites of snails often have crazy multiple host lifecycles. Typically the snail is infected from worm eggs in feces of the host of the adult worms, such as a bird or fish. Sometimes that host is infected by eating snails, but other times it is by eating the thing that eats the snail. There are other, more comped arrangements with mixtures of growth, asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction, and up to 5 different hosts. At least from what I remember.
Sounds a lot like Bilharzia.
interesting find!
Does anyone know what those pulsing net looking things were in the shots of the flat worm moving around?
They’re smarter than a lot of life…
This is amazing
Termites and Ants are similar in many ways. Both are close in numbers on Earth so equally successful.
Can they be used to attack unwanted things in our bodies?
Theoretically yes.
Practically no because it would need genetic engineering on a much higher level then just bringing 2 genes together and hoping they fuse...
Thank you for posting
Remember, whenever you feel alone there are trillions of microscopic lifeforms that depend on you.
I have evidence to suggest this might be the cause of Morgellons disease. Still a lot of work to do in that regard though as the disease may just be a response to ANY parasite or infection in susceptible persons.
Do they have some positive effect on the host? Or did i miss that part
amazing video as always but the state of the comments especially the bots is just awful and YT does absolutely nothing, i mean these bots here with the lewd pfps and generally just some random positive comment that is unfitting 99.9999% of the time are the lesser evil, but these other bots on other channels that always "My content is better than X-Channel" or say outright disgusting things favoring absolute degeneracy
Yep. It renders small comment sections useless.
This is a treat. It is incorrect to say that these are the only eusocial parasites, though. Many ants are parasites of other ant colonies... although I think what you means is that the *nest* is a parasitic structure (that is unique I think... and creepy!)
British people????
@@lukasdvornicky523 WOAH WOAH WOAH, they arent people
Cool change of subject
the magnus archives are becoming true right before our very eyes, even if we dont notice.
Yo Dawg... we heard you liked worms so we got you some worms for your worms.
Go Anton go!!!
I eat a lot of *Sashimi and Sushi* should I cleans using something? What is a safe way to do this? I don't want to be reckless about it... seriously though... what would you advise a Texan that's "like me" to do?
colonies to scale
Fresh nightmare fuel! Yeah!!!
I was going to join but I couldn’t figure it out❤❤
poor snail!
How it is mysterious that the design that works best spontaneously appear just because it works... as if Darwinian selection just explores the space of solutions to the question "what can be life inside rules of physics ?" (life says : "let's try that or that or that").. but we can extend the question to all levels of organization of life.. and maybe matter
That's not how it works. Life just takes billions of random mutations and whatever fits best into a nicht usually survives. At least til something more efficient takes it's place or the environment changes.
@@Flaschenteufel how do you contradict what I said ??
"Life makes mutation and whatever survive" is the same thing as "life explores the space of solutions".. You have all the "possible" forms of life. Some works better than other.. life explores the possibilities by random little step.. "to explore" does mean "try everything randomly to see what works"..
The space of "what works" exists before the exploration and it's just law of physics applied to organisms and their environment.. Of course if you limit yourself to the point of view of the organism you have to include its biotope and that make its solutions dependent of all other life forms in the vicinity.. but for the whole biotope (for the planet) the space of "what works" for life can be defined.
Darwinian evolution makes it look like "life designs comes from nowhere" and that confuses people.. But nothing comes from nowhere.. the selecting part makes the design entirely dependent of physics. Life emerge from physics "what works", not from nothing.
no wonder Earth is called a class 13 deathworld, best to avoid!
I hate that as I'm reading comments a loud and annoying advertising keeps me from reading comments.
What about crabs?
I live in Texas and just had sushi ... OH no.