But actually if you put a sea anemone in a nice tank and you give it its nutrients and its food, and you don't freeze it or put sea anemone -eating things in there, they don't seem to age.Their cells don't age. They keep on replicating as needs must.
It's almost like somebody who's fastidious about their clothing. This is a wonderful anemone from the Central Pacific around Palmyra, Kingman, and Jarvis. And one of the things that I can achieve by doing photography in this way is that you get to see more.
This is called a treetop nudibranch. And this is an anemone that you see in four stages of opening. That took about three hours of waiting.
We don't know. Why do these things live so long? This is a sea anemone , among the stupidest of creatures on earth. But they have got one thing right, they have live a very long time.
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. They find these anemones and they keep them tight.
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. And the anemones are beneficiaries of this arrangement because they get mobility and table scraps.
And they have four legs and a little lure between their eyes. This is a Venus flytrap anemone .
They're the circular-shaped structures here. Looks a little bit like a sea anemone . So this organism is an animal.
That took about three hours of waiting. That's called a Christmas anemone from around San Juan Island. And who knows, you know, what was going on?
Of course, sea anemones die, they get eaten by fish, and they get knocked off rocks by storms and waves and things. But actually if you put a sea anemone in a nice tank and you give it its nutrients and its food, and you don't freeze it or put sea anemone -eating things in there, they don't seem to age.
get to this booth of this one artist uh he's an underwater photographer his name is Chris goo and he just does these mesmerizing underwater shots of sea anemones and sea turtles and coral reefs and stuff like that and she gets attached to this one picture that to me looked about as out of place as a pig in the ocean right because it was literally
I spoke with the marine biologist once that's there's a good chance they study sea anemones , that they may be effectively immortal. Of course, sea anemones die, they get eaten by fish, and they get knocked off rocks by storms and waves and things. But actually if you put a sea anemone in a nice tank and you give it its nutrients and its food, and you don't freeze it or put sea
And they might be somewhere, some little crevice on the Great Barrier Reef, there might have well be a 10,000-year old sea anemone out there. Maybe death is the price we pay for not being sea anemones . So far, this isn't coming up on the screen for some reason -- There are several tricks doctors have come up with, to live a long time.
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. This is a necklace worm and a fuzzy crab and another kind of anemone .
Because there's something so kind of formless in the ocean. And I'm so interested in how hermaphroditic a lot of the anemones are, and a lot of fish actually will help each other. There's so much symbiosis in a way that human beings aren't actually that nice to each other.
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. The little pom-poms that you see that the crab is holding onto are in fact stinging anemones .
But they have got one thing right, they have live a very long time. I spoke with the marine biologist once that's there's a good chance they study sea anemones , that they may be effectively immortal. Of course, sea anemones die, they get eaten by fish, and they get knocked off rocks by storms and waves and things.
Their cells don't age. They keep on replicating as needs must. And they might be somewhere, some little crevice on the Great Barrier Reef, there might have well be a 10,000-year old sea anemone out there. Maybe death is the price we pay for not being sea anemones .