How would a starfish wear trousers? Science has an answer

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Starfishes are weirdly shaped animals. Scientists have long puzzled over how a starfish body equates to the more typical animal arrangement of a head on one end and trunk or tail on the other. Humans wear trousers on the bottom of their trunks, so you could extrapolate out from that to suggest solutions to the 'trouser question' for dogs, horses, spiders and even slugs. But what about a starfish? Now there's a new possible answer based on the expression of their genes...
Read the research paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
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  • @RebelSee
    @RebelSee8 ай бұрын

    Pretty clever way to explain complex content. Interesting, informative and educative. ❤

  • @Dandelion--
    @Dandelion--8 ай бұрын

    Fascinating. And so cleverly - and beautifully - presented!

  • @amrendrapandey8952
    @amrendrapandey89528 ай бұрын

    Once, I was looking at the Ernst Haeckel drawings of sea creatures and realized the astonishing association between the emergence of bilateral symmetry and the evolution of eyes.

  • @claudiaortiz5043
    @claudiaortiz50438 ай бұрын

    My daughter (11) and I enjoyed this educative video very much! Thank you!

  • @douglasharley2440
    @douglasharley24408 ай бұрын

    great video!...i loved the paper cutouts style, it is really good at conveying the somewhat-complex ideas around the topic. 😎👍

  • @sorzin2289
    @sorzin22898 ай бұрын

    Star fish wouldn't wear pants they would wear hats. As they are nothing but head.

  • @jonathanloh1205
    @jonathanloh12058 ай бұрын

    The trouble with echinoderms is they're all mouth and no trousers

  • @iamdigory
    @iamdigory8 ай бұрын

    If a starfish wore pants, it wouldn't wear pants, strange but true

  • @MikiM89
    @MikiM898 ай бұрын

    Thanks science :)

  • @FourBearable
    @FourBearable8 ай бұрын

    Brilliant video - buildup, breakdown and analogies. Love it!

  • @Biped
    @Biped8 ай бұрын

    Asking the real questions

  • @fel001
    @fel0018 ай бұрын

    I started the video thinking I wasn't going to be impressed. I am impressed.

  • @OmkarDeole
    @OmkarDeole8 ай бұрын

    वाह. किती सोपे करुन सांगितले! धन्यवाद

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid8 ай бұрын

    If they framed it like this in the paper, I smell an Ig Nobel Prize incoming ;)

  • @jimpeter3453
    @jimpeter34535 ай бұрын

    Wow, informative and charming! Regards from Baltimore

  • @diracio
    @diracio6 ай бұрын

    Brilliant video - thanks! And thanks to this month's Scientific American for sending me to this video! Trousers are a great, simple way to explain this. Presumably there will be further work on the developmental stages given starfish larvae are bilateral...?

  • @Navarro1030
    @Navarro10308 ай бұрын

    Great video!

  • @michellehu562
    @michellehu5626 ай бұрын

    This will be how future generations of PhDs look like😂

  • @MrAyrit
    @MrAyrit6 ай бұрын

    What a pleasant video. Thank you.

  • @StoneStoryHenriZ
    @StoneStoryHenriZ7 ай бұрын

    Naw this finding only became weirder when you realize that starfish is a head that both eats and poops..😂😂😂

  • @mrtienphysics666
    @mrtienphysics6668 ай бұрын

    so its many legs are on its head?

  • @shagunsharma2812
    @shagunsharma28128 ай бұрын

    Amazing 🤩

  • @jamdc2000
    @jamdc20008 ай бұрын

    Nice

  • @ExplicitPublishing
    @ExplicitPublishing7 ай бұрын

    Why would any body plan wear pants on its arms?! BTW I believed this to be a serious discussion of starfish pants. Instead, I find a ruse leading to biology education, a singularly UNpopular topic among bilateral body plan types.

  • @zeefy9606
    @zeefy96068 ай бұрын

    Patrick is a lie 😢.

  • @emilydavis771
    @emilydavis7718 ай бұрын

    Tunicates/sea squirts are another group of bilateria that lack bilateral symmetry (or any symmetry?) as adults, though the larvae are tadpole-like. Do we know how they'd wear pants? Supposedly they consume their own brains in the process of development, so I'd assume they're all trunk with no brain segments.

  • @soumyakundu5152
    @soumyakundu51527 ай бұрын

    Patrick would disagree though😂

  • @footfault1941
    @footfault19418 ай бұрын

    Exceptionally peaceful, stress-free life is that of scientists! That's said, to settle this conundrum may rack their brain surely. Personal pick is an idea shown early on. Put them on the bottom side. Being especially interested in animal locomotion, functional convergence is preferable, although as clear here, there'd be alternatives.

  • @srgkzy1294
    @srgkzy12948 ай бұрын

  • @user-wr2wx2tr5y
    @user-wr2wx2tr5y7 ай бұрын

    🙀

  • @burrito-town
    @burrito-town8 ай бұрын

    This video is too quiet. Your team needs to learn how to properly export video for KZread. You’re clearly not using the right settings.

  • @WhosWhointheZoo123
    @WhosWhointheZoo1238 ай бұрын

    This is what "science" spends govt grants on........ let that sink in.

  • @nobelphoenix

    @nobelphoenix

    8 ай бұрын

    Now scientists need to study the reason why you made that comment even though you've been watching Nature's videos on youtube! This topic is truly fascinating and even more perplexing than bilateralism!

  • @UteChewb

    @UteChewb

    8 ай бұрын

    @@nobelphoenix and it is a brilliant way of explaining complex ideas in just 4 minutes.

  • @oberonpanopticon

    @oberonpanopticon

    8 ай бұрын

    If any government money went into making this video, I suspect it was probably less than a seconds worth of tax dollars. Even the most monetarily mismanaged multi-billion dollar space missions and particle colliders are about as expensive as an aircraft carrier.

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