Ranking 12 Of The Largest Invertebrates From Smallest To Largest

Invertebrates often seem very alien to us, as we humans have very little in common with this giant group of organisms. Most land mammals like us have a relatively similar body shape and way of life, whereas invertebrates have certain strengths and weaknesses that are unique to their kind. Instead of having a strong skeleton some invertebrates have evolved to have thick exoskeletons to protect their organs, and other have barley any hard parts across their entire bodies which allows them to thrive in the oceans depths. In today's video we'll be travelling around the world taking a look at some of the strangest creatures that this world has to offer, as we'll be ranking the largest invertebrates in the world. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:47 Coconut Crab 1:49 Sunflower Sea Star 3:04 Japanese Spider Crab 4:03 Pink Meanie 5:03 Barrel Jellyfish 6:07 Humboldt Squid 7:16 Dana Octopus Squid 8:27 Giant Clam 9:55 Giant Pacific Octopus 11:09 Giant Squid 12:27 Colossal Squid 13:35 Lion’s Mane Jellyfish Attributions: Lion's mane jellyfish images: Richard Ling https://www.flickr.com/photos/rling/1... CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Coconut crab images: Masunosuke https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Sunflower sea star images: Marco Mazza https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Brian Gratwicke https://www.flickr.com/photos/briangr... CC BY 2.0 Japanese spider crab images: Sonse https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 2.0 Geoduck clam images: The Evergreen State College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck... CC BY 4.0 Giant Pacific octopus images: Kirt L. Onthank https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 aserafin97 https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Giant squid images: NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet - Kjempeblekksprut - Giant Squid Uploaded by Arsenikk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-se... CC BY 2.0 Mike Goren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_s... CC BY 2.0 Colossal squid images: Citron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossa... CC BY 3.0 Mgiganteus1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 GeSHaFish https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 Mgiganteus1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images. Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/cc-licenses/ Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/201101260... https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an... https://www.newscientist.com/article/... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... https://www.newscientist.com/article/...