Watch Ferns Get Freaky | Deep Look
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- Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting to be catapulted away. Once a spore lands, it grows into a tiny plant, from which fern sperm swim away, searching for an egg to fertilize. Think of that next time you’re hiking in the forest.
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Each of the clusters on the fern leaf is called a sorus. Within each sorus are wormlike structures called sporangia, which are filled with spores.
If you look at a sporangium under a microscope, you see it has an outer ring filled with water. When the spores mature and it’s warm outside, that water starts to evaporate. The ring shrinks and bends back, making the sporangium crack open. Then the ring jerks forward, hurling out the spores.
A single fern launches millions of spores. Each one grows into a tiny plant about as big as a pea, known as a gametophyte. But gametophytes aren’t baby ferns. Instead, their job is to make eggs and sperm in specialized organs. When it rains or the environment is moist, that’s when ferns mate: Fern sperm swim away on a film of water to find eggs to fertilize. The fertilized eggs then grow into ferns.
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#ferns - Věda a technologie
You should've made a warning in the beginning of the video. This content is inappropriate for the baby plants on my desk >:(
Kikikiki
Booo 👎
😂
omg your baby plants must be traumatized 😣
COVER THEIR LEAVES!
"Fern gets freaky"
What's next frieren gets naughty?
Do not
LMAO I KNEW I WOULD FIND FRIEREN COMMENTS SOMEWHERE
As it was written
_confused Stark noise_
Let’s go finally a frieren reference
I love how nature uses some of the most low energy- solid ouput methods available. Only as much juice as whats needed for the task at hand.
Great point!
Evolution is as lazy as it gets.
@@niko1evensurvival of the dumbest, most lazy and incompetent thing who can still kind of survive.
@@TacticalAnt420 Well the alternate to that is darwinism and/or eugenics
@@Empenguindarwinism is all about the success of the good enough
My local florist uses fern leaves to garnish his arrangements. Anytime I bring home a table bouquet I'm cleaning zillions of spores off my kitchen table, and I find gametophytes in plant pots all over my house!!
When I first noticed the dots under the fern leaves I thought they were bug eggs or something, but they seemed too regularly-spaced, so I did some googling and finally put the pieces together about the mysterious little green growths in my plant pots (which I'd previously clocked as mold).
Love that!
I'm glad fern, fungi and mold reproduction was included in my country's national Biology text book for 7th grade.
I didn't have to freak out seeing fern spores and sporangia from the ferns I collected from the countryside where my grandparents live.
I'm severely allergic to ferns. This video is as close as I want to get to one!
Thanks deep look, I’ll never look at ferns the same way again
Our work here is done
@@KQEDDeepLook lmao
“…and now they have learned to colonize new worlds by hurling their spore into space.” - Rue McClanahan
Early candidate for COTD
Fern is getting freaky
Stark: nandeeeeee….?
ecchi
Give props to your music person for putting a jaw harp in the track then going crazy with that jaw harp durring the "next time in the woods think of all the ferns getting busy around you" 😂😂
*Vibraphone!
That's Seth Samuel!
@@darksparkyshark430 no
@@darksparkyshark430Not at that part of the soundtrack - they were definitely referring to the jaw harp.
@KQEDDeepLook tell Seth Samuel I really appreciate their work!!
I always used to wonder what those spots were. Deep look has such informative and quality videos.
No wonder they've won so many awards, well earned
Thanks! The diversity of the shaped and sizes of the sori is incredible.
@@KQEDDeepLook I'm teaching Plant Biology now and yesterday took the students to study ferns. One of the things I wanted them to see was the variety of sorus arrangements in the different species. They really are very cool structures!
Didn't know i was using a FreakyTube instead of CZcams👅
Jesus to humans: go forth and multiply
Also ferns: YES💅✨
They basically evolved these adaptations when plants were still figuring out how to plant. The sheer variety of life on this planet as well as what may be already lost to time never ceases to amaze.
It's a joy to reflect on these wonders.
Fern was the fist living thing in dry land so there was not insects to help with pollination in land(in fact insects was not a thing yet) also in water plants don't need help so the pollination by insects was not a plant thing to learn at all.
In fact fern was a total functional plant for hundreds of millions of years before insect become helpers.
So basically, ferns are just that "yeet the child" meme
More like skeet skeet skeet
I did NOT need to see ferns get freaky 😭😭😭😭
another awesome video
Thanks!
I thought the title said "Watch germs get freaky".
Same. I wonder why.
😂
😂😂
Stop throwing your phone and it shouldn't get any cracks in it (totally not projecting) lol
journey to the microcosmos is next door!
looked like bugs. told its not bugs. still looks like bugs. makes my brain tickle
The fern saw a researcher looking under its leaf and felt indecent, it covered it's spots up and asks it's fern friend "do you think he sorus?"
LOL!
fern...
freaky...
heheheHEHEHE
This video simplified about two chapters in a book I have been trying to read about how plants colonized land. Those chapters were confusing me so badly. Thank you.
I really appreciate the spring sound affects
Public schools need to make watching videos from Deep Look compulsory and become part of the syllabus. Fascinating stuffs!
I have a love/hate relationship with ferns. This video simply validated why. Thank you, Deep Look! 🌿
You’re welcome 😊
Who knew ferns were so fascinating?
IKR?
This video just reignited so many memories. I remember about 25 years ago, id always quickly walk past one of these giant ferns we had hanging on our porch in Florida. I was so disturbed by the little spots. 😅
Omg I agree. As a child seeing those dots under the leaves didn't make sense. I thought it was a cluster of worms that'll attack you if you touch the plant! 😂
Those closeups of the ferns were really cool. Nature is amazing.
They’re like half plant, half animal. Cool.
If you like that kind of thing, you should see our last video, on algae-powered flatworms called Acoels: czcams.com/video/Tc49xi1ZjTc/video.html
flowering plants do the same thing, but smaller. the pollen is a male spore. once hes brought to the flower, he sprouts into a tiny plant and makes a sperm for the female plant, which was inside the female part of the flower all along
Sporophytes and Gametophytes was such a mind bending thing to learn in college!
I'm happy to have a refresher from a channel I love!
(Flowering plants have a weird mini-internal sporophyte phase, if I remember correctly 🤔)
Awesome! Thank you!
An internal mini-gameotphyte phase 😊
Some ferns also can also allow another fern to grow on their sorii instead. A whole plant can grow under the leaves of another. However, depending on the conditions, it can deteriorate the fern the new plant is growing on.
Interesting!
My entire life, thinking these moving things are worms! 😮
That's wild. I knew ferns were older than flowering plants but I didn't realize their reproduction was so complicated.
Whoever did the composition behind this did a great job
my kinda title 😜
One of our colleagues Danielle, from PBS Nature, suggested this title!
@@KQEDDeepLook oh wow
@@KQEDDeepLookshe’s a genius
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"Mangonel ready, sir."
Thank you for giving attention to ferns! They are my favorite plant type due to their ancient history and beautiful foliage!
freaky became an official term at this point
Oh Deep Look, where were you when I took Plant Biology in 1976? Your videos would have been so much more interesting than the monotonous hours I spent looking through microscopes wondering whether I was seeing what I was supposed to be seeing.
Thanks!
omg YES!!! I was hoping you'd do a video on ferns! They are such an interesting plant!
Thanks deep look team
❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for the hardwork put into making of this video😊😊
Looks like the textbook pictures and drawings on ferns reproduction comes alive.😊😊
In the past I just imagined them in my head.
Same goes to that jellyfishes video.
Thank you again-I really really appreciate this video(since I really love ferns and jellyfishes reproductions during Life Science course during my Foundation year)😊😊
My apologies for watching this a little late,
I'd put the reminder on my physical office calendar days ago and been waiting,
I thought today is 16th,it was yesterday😅😅
Came to watch after seeing that calendar.😅
One of my favorite CZcams channels.
Always great contents. Thanks DL. 🌷
Wow, thank you Paula!
Ohhhhhh my This footage is just breath taking!! Love this! Need more of this😍 Thank you for this
Josh Cassidy is our cinematographer - we agree!
YES! deep look made a video about ferns' cycle! i thought i knew about plants but this actually shocked me. now i know more!
Wow, these are incredible! I had no idea
I finally get to see one of these videos and lees then 3 hours.
Glad you are here!
Super professional video, as always!
I would probably cry if I saw all those worm things moving underneath a fern floral arrangement
Had studied all this in my 11th grade biology syllabus (albeit without seeing the actual ferns in action ).
So, thanks for the beautiful revision 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Here I thought that they're some kind of an _insect eggs or some plant disease_ in my neighbor's ferns. Hahaha thanks Deep Look for this knowledge 🤭✨
There's an insect that I want you to cover, it's called orong-orong or Mole cricket.. it's another nature Frankenstein. They can produce a very very unique sound,it's like sounds frogs with a hint of crickets
Great suggestion!
I'm in love with this voice
It's amazing how much I learned in university courses, but it wasn't until seeing it in a CZcams video do I really see the fern's life cycle! Thanks, such a great channel.
That's awesome!
As a kid I loved collecting ferns for no reason in particular. I always thought the sori were solid little balls instead of these hairballs of catapults.
This fish holds the world record for most eggs produced in single brood.
I never understood but my plant teacher would say that the polyps were older genetically than the plants themselves
This unexpected quick revision definitely rocked😂
Thanks Deep Look!
Glad you liked it!
this channel is so wonderful ❤❤❤
I LOVE YOU DEEP LOOK!
love the music !
Ha, so all our next forest walks will be accompanied by some mental shaggy funk, huh?
If you are lucky.
Ferns are so intriguing! I had no idea about this. I never get to see them in my very arid surroundings but I am off to learn more about them (online, anyway).
Plants are the coolest organisms
Brilliant content ❤
What an amazing design. I am so impressed with nature
WOW! I had no idea!!!
Before the video started, I just LOOKED at the thumbnail. I thought I was looking at a massive cluster of mites or lice. Ferns weren’t on my mind.😂😂😂
You always have interesting topics!!
Glad you think so Kim! Always enjoy seeing your comments here.
@@KQEDDeepLook and I like seeing your replies!
The thumbnail made me hungry. And I really thought this was about some french toast variation.
Another amazing video!
Thanks again!
“The ferns tend to get freaky at night”
Wow this episode has brought me more interest to plants and not just animals
Excellent!
I just learned this in biology, it's a dicot and it's such a fascinating plant!
I love ferns. Even before i found out how old they were, every time I'd be in the mountains and came across an area full of ferns it would feel as if i were transported back in time. Not 100s of millions of years, maybe only 10 million 😊
I had no idea there were stages to fern production 😊 pretty cool.
Oh hooray a new video from one of my favorite CZcamsrs, Dee Plook!
ferns have absolutely been my favorite. they look so prehistoric yet so modern. idk how to explain it lol
Wow, this is so cool!
Great video, Deep Look, as usual!
I will never be able to look at the plants 🌱 like before 😳 I will always be thinking are they doing it ?! 😂
Sorry not sorry
@@KQEDDeepLook you should be…. humans like to name anything comes up to their minds. I wonder how many months or years as took to come up with this discovery. I’m amazed about it. This planet works it’s own way and the nature is wonderful.
I always hated ferns since my childhood.
I walk through the woods of the Pacific Northwest daily. And now I'm going to keep a lookout for Ferns mating! Thank you for opening my eyes & mind, Deep Look!
Good luck!
After 7 years, Stark finally gets some.
And I'm whispering our lullaby for you to come back home. ;)
would loovvve more videos about ferns
So much action in the forest
Wow, and here I thought my family life was complicated.
I love fern spores, they look so cool
We had ferns here in our tropical island that grows as big as trees kinda like prehistoric lookin.🏝️
From the thumbnail I thought this was shrimp paste(Sambal)😂😂 I was hungry for a second there.
i love deep look so much
thank u guys for existing n posting regularly
Having never seen a fern flower, I'm not sure what I expected... maybe I just thought they like, pinched themselves off and kept growing that way? This is insane. I came here thinking this was a breeding ground for some kind of small creature or parasite, and even if after seeing this video I saw that in the wild I would probably still think the same thing. Crazy stuff
Thanks for helping my mind get more dirty ........
Fascinating!
Thanks Linda!
man nature really is wild
Super cool!!
great video, thanks
Glad you liked it!
*AWESOME!!!* ❤
Thanks 😆
How crazy is this!!!
Pretty crazy!
I want a fern now! They're so cool!
Flowering plants do the same thing, but the gametophyte generation is reduced to only a few cells. The pollen germinates of the pistil of the flower, and this male gametophyte grows down the pistil to the eggs. Once fertilized, the plant packages all this as the embryo in the seed. All multicellular plants have alternation of generations in some form.
My father taught me many things about ferns when I was small. Plants are interesting.
Did you know that you can rub the sori from the fern onto a stinging nettle rash to alleviate the pain and itching for a minute? Do that until you reach home and get a good wash.
Glad to hear my maiden hair plant is not infested lol😅