Not Animal, Not Plant: Strange Organism That Survived All Extinctions (Euglena)

Get a Wonderful Person Tee: More cool designs are on Amazon: Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about strange organisms that are not really animals and are not really plants, but something in between - Euglenids Links: Fabian Weston, 0:00 Animal or plant? Euglenid! 1:15 How this research started - an accidental video 1:50 Mysterious spherical fossils 3:59 Accidental discovery what these actually are 4:35 Strange formation and spinning 5:30 How this was confirmed 6:10 What this tells us about Euglenids 7:40 How they probably originally formed 8:45 Extinction survivors - most indsestructive organism ever? 9:35 Did they also create plastids in plants? #biology #fossil #euglena Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Space Engine is available for free here: Enjoy and please subscribe. Twitter: Facebook: Twitch: The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: CPU: Video Card: Motherboard: RAM: PSU: Case: Microphone: Mixer: Recording and Editing: Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Images/Videos: Protist Lab Films, Fabian Weston, MyIndependentChannel CC BY 4.0 Picturepest CC BY 2.0 #/media/File:Phacus_pleuronectes_-_400x_(13263445584).jpg Patrick Keeling and Yana Eglit CC BY SA 4.0 #/media/File: Ellis O’Neill CC BY-SA 3.0 #/media/File: Licenses used: