Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae

"Al ghee", not "al gee".

Ask Jesus, he'll tell you ❤

Imagine your buddy literally living inside your body and being super chill and helpful to you. How bro do you have to be to hang out inside your buddy.

I’m really lichen this video

Good friendship 🤝

Did a double take when I saw the thumbnail, read it as "dual orgasm" lol

“You see, just as the earth lichen is composed of an algae and a fungus, the quantum variety is also comped of two separated parts: an attractive, algae-based id and a ravenous, fungus-based ego that stores the stolen souls — I mean, life forces. Now, here’s the weird part: the ego and the id are connected not physically, like decent, God-fearing earth lichens, but by quantum entanglement.”

Amazing! Now we just need an episode on endosymbionts.

I taught a lichen themed summer camp recently haha! Lichen is very cool and I'm happy to see it get the recognition it deserves

If I made a combination of algae and fungus into the shape of the letter M, would I have lichen like N?

Ah the fetishization of lower level life forms

I love lichen, as an amateur, but I freaked out with delight when I found out about the new (new to humans) double fungi twist. I wonder how many other lifeforms will be found to be the result of living things combing with one or more other living things.

Really good episode. I love the microscopy, so detailed , I screenshot one and set as my wallpaper

I am lichen this video. 😂

Whaaat. Fungi/ hyphae work with algae. So cool. It's amazing all the processes needed for us to survive.

Thanks for this. Watching many many nature videos I have heard lichens mentioned many times as a unique life-form made up of two others, but this is the first time I have found out why and what the processes are for their interactions. You have expanded my world another notch and I will never walk by a lichen again without looking and marveling at it.

was good

Four not two , Lichen is a bridge among 4 different life kingdoms.

Why are these videos still survives in the TikTok era, and why am I liking this more than I should?

I found lichen that was bone dry. Growing with moss. It's the beginning of spring now.

"alGGGGi", not "alJJJi": it is Latin. The same goes to "funGGGi"

What if you have a Non-dualistic spiritual perspective on life….

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hope someone gets my joke

Lichen is like Jesus. When I found Lichen I saw it everywhere. It filled my heart, and guided my thoughts. The world will never be the same again.

I want to see the big leafy lichen growing on a sloth, that would look so cool, like someone from a video game.

ASMR Hank Green is not Ok

Because they can both photosynthesize and break down minerals for food, lichens are one of the first lifeforms to recolonize after disasters like forest fires and volcanic eruptions. Scientists use the appearance of lichens as an indicator that an ecological area is recovering

great data and presentation and excellent reflection about modern dogmas in science. 10/10

You like oxygen? No. Aerobic life is bad, the Great Oxygenation Event was a mistake.

well i read the title wrong

So here's the question hanging unanswered over this episode.... Do lichens reproduce other lichens or is each lichen a chance meeting of strangers?

has any gene work been done to see how they relate / interact / which functions each does?

I developed (ha!) a love affair with lichen when I got a camera with a microscope setting, that lets me take incredibly zoomed-in photos at extremely close range. I discovered an entire garden of lichen growing atop one of the old wooden fence posts of my mom's garden. The closer you get, the stranger and more beautiful they are. And of course, they also frequently play host to my OTHER favorite microorganism, the tardigrade!

The number 3 is the beginning of everything we've learned.

It is a bit sad that you can't sound like a WWF madman when telling these beautiful stories...

No correlation of the micro to macro (what we can see) making those videos useless, add infuriating distracting music and is goodbye from me.There are hundred well made videos out there so I will not waste my time here.

I used to teach the 5th-grade science class how Alice Algae met Freddie Fungus and they took a Lichen to each other. Thanks to recent studies I can't do that anymore without explaining what a throuple is

Is no one gonna talk about how he sounds like Hank?

This symbiosis reminds me of "multicellular life". 😂

This is all good and interesting but can I eat it?

I was wondering that we have been told that to save the planet we need to plant more trees. Shouldn't we start at the very basic fundamentals thing. Like caring for the microorganisms and once they flourish, the rest of the food chain will eventually fall in place

If this is who I think it is narrating, thank you SO much for a) slowing the narration down and b) laying off all that redundant text. Much more relaxing this way…thanks again, excellent content as per usual.

You forgot to mention the biggest thing we need to thank Cyanobacteria for is our mitochondria.

Lichen, how they evolved and what they are made of, have analogy to religion also. There is “us”, each of us is individual and can function and at times reproduce with others of our kind. And there are those in our heads, those who help or harm us. The help or harm is at times dependent on what we are willing to put up with as voices in our heads. These voices can get around and function but they can not reproduce. Those voices can help us to do good or bad.

Who came straight from Hank's vlogbrothers video? 🙋🏼‍♀️