The Most Important Animal You've Never Seen | Meet the Nematode

Did you know that four out of every five animals are nematodes? But what is a nematode? This animal predates the dinosaurs and they outnumber humans by trillions, yet you might not ever have the pleasure of seeing one. So let us introduce to you in this episode of SciShow, the infamous nematode. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.britannica.com/search?que... https://www.theatlantic.com/family/ar... https://lifesciences.byu.edu/there-ar... http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/n... https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nematod... http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/bigga/... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2... https://books.google.com/books?id=d4G... https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/ecdys... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.nature.com/articles/srep1... https://nematode.unl.edu/wormgen.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB... http://www.wormbook.org/chapters/www_... https://sese.asu.edu/about/news/artic... https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wil... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f... https://www.austincc.edu/ddingley/MLA... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/... https://emedicine.medscape.com/articl... https://today.oregonstate.edu/archive... https://phys.org/news/2011-04-outline... https://web.archive.org/web/201312151... http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?pag... https://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-a... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... http://www.wormbook.org/chapters/www_... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-... https://sustainability.asu.edu/news/a... https://cbs.umn.edu/cgc/what-c-elegans http://www.people.ku.edu/~erikl/Lundq... https://www.nature.com/scitable/topic... https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/20/l... https://www.genome.gov/25520394/onlin... https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-... https://www.natureasia.com/en/nmiddle... https://phys.org/news/2019-06-climate... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... https://www.medicinenet.com/rat_lungw... https://www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.... https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/thelaziasis/... https://www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichin...