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Fire Amoeba Defies Life's Temperature Rules (New Discovery)

2025-12-18 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a strange amoeba that shouldn't exist at these extreme temperatures Links: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690213v1.full.pdf+html Tardigrade videos: https://youtu.be/0vc0TTQZEcU https://youtu.be/LWnnkFR2lEM https://youtu.be/tgkPFhAyxTY #science #biology #extremophiles 0:00 Extreme organism that nobody expected 1:00 Extremophiles 2:10 New discovery! A strange amoeba 4:10 How it survives 5:40 Other famous extremophiles - Pompeii worm 7:40 Archaea and bacteria extremes 8:50 Tardigrades 9:35 Why this organism is so exciting - implications 12:20 Conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: H. Beryl Rappaport et al Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@abowlofpetunias7488 2025-12-19

Finally, a topic in my neck of the woods. I want to just emphasize that, in extremophile biology, we have good reason to think at high enough temperatures, life won't work. However, I've never met a professional extremophile biologist who will quote you a temperature and say "this is the absolute limit for X life form"

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@p4p3rm4t3 2025-12-18

I can almost hear it saying.. "This is fine."

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@High-Viscosity-fluid. 2025-12-18

I love the mix of astronomical science and biological science on your channel. I would like a longer video about this ,my wonderful person.

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@bisk- 2025-12-19

it's important to remember micro organisms are an uncountable number of generations ahead of us, and the gap is always widening :3

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@EnthDGree 2025-12-18

"Fire Amoeba" 🦠 is my new Metal band name.

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@42Dash 2025-12-19

The more we study life and space, the more it seems that life will be everywhere. I used to be convinced that we would never find life in our solar system but now I think we will.

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@BlueberryM-887 2025-12-18

The microscopic world is just as interesting as studying animals in the wild and stars in the sky!

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@nosuchthing8 2025-12-20

Lets all wish the womderful host a wonderful holiday season and a wonderful new year!!!!!

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@denda2643 2025-12-19

If we meet Aliens some day i would wish that you, Anton, would be the one person to make contact. You are such a kind and soft spoken human being.😊

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@Dinvan 2025-12-19

"Get your head out of the gutter, it's not that kind of channel" I feel called out lmao.

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