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Journey to the Microcosmos

Season 3 · Episode 2

How Do Microorganisms Poop?

0.010mAugust 17, 2020

Everybody poops, but how does one poop when one does not have a butthole?

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Episode 1We Upgraded Our Microscope!
Episode 2How Do Microorganisms Poop?
Episode 3Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes
Episode 4Our Paramecia Are Infected
Episode 5Lacrymaria: Vicious Long-Necked Predators
Episode 6The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes
Episode 7Ophyroglena: The Tricky Transforming Ciliate
Episode 8Can Microbes See Without Eyes?

Episode 9Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist?

Episode 10Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller

Episode 11Didinium: The Paramecium Hunter

Episode 12Some Water Bears Live on Land

Episode 13The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba

Episode 14This Ciliate Is About to Die

Episode 15Strange Stentor Stories

Episode 16The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates

Episode 17How Did Multicellularity Evolve?

Episode 18Actinobolina: A Tiny Predatory Porcupine

Episode 19Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside

Episode 20Why Do Bacteria Move Like Vibrating Chaos Snakes?

Episode 21Dinoflagellates: The Algae That Saved an Astronaut

Episode 22Moss & Lichen: Which One Is Actually a Plant?

Episode 23Suctorians: The Ugly Duckling of Ciliates

Episode 24Pelomyxa: The Microbe That's Big Enough to Pet