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Journey to the Microcosmos
Season 6 · Episode 11
Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
0.010mJune 27, 2022
At first glance, they seem a bit more like plants or a series of flowers with thin, elegant petals. But no, they are indeed an animal. One that has the dubious honor of being defined largely by its anus.
Episodes
- Episode 1Giant Microscopic Cannibals
- Episode 2How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
- Episode 3The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
- Episode 4There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
- Episode 5We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
- Episode 6Putting Coral Under the Microscope
- Episode 7How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
- Episode 8How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
- Episode 9Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
- Episode 10Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
- Episode 11Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
- Episode 12Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
- Episode 13A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
- Episode 14The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
- Episode 15These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
- Episode 16Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
- Episode 17These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating
- Episode 18Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop
- Episode 19We Accidentally Grew Crystals
- Episode 20Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses
- Episode 21Bacteria That Only Want To Head North
- Episode 22The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
- Episode 23Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
- Episode 24These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
- Episode 25Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms So Large?
- Episode 26Sand Is Full of Life and Death
- Episode 27The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate
- Episode 28Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
- Episode 29This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
- Episode 30How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
- Episode 31A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
- Episode 32The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball
- Episode 33The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
- Episode 34The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
- Episode 35How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
- Episode 36The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
- Episode 37Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
- Episode 38Microscopic Space Travelers
- Episode 39These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
- Episode 40How Does Yeast Make Bread?
- Episode 41How Do Microbes Make Decisions?
- Episode 42How Your Blood Keeps You Alive
- Episode 43Can Bacteria Eat Plastic?
- Episode 44Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
- Episode 45The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place
- Episode 46These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now
- Episode 47The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities
- Episode 48The Tube-dwelling Architects Of The Microcosmos
- Episode 49How To Kick Off Your Microscopic Journey
- Episode 50Unboxing Our Microcosmos Microscope!
- Episode 51The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
- Episode 52When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
- Episode 53The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
- Episode 54Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
- Episode 55We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow