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True Facts: Freaky Nudibranchs

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Cuz the ocean is weird.

❤❤❤

— @madameniklaus

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Join https://www.patreon.com/truefacts

And there DOES need to be a t-shirt that has the quote about evolution adding or subtracting nipples from cats!

— @PaulJames-t5k

CREDITS:

written and voiced by Ze Frank

Adding or subtracting a cat’s nipple is an incredible concept for evolution

— @PaulJames-t5k

Special thanks to Soledad Callo and David Young at Victoria High for the veliger footage that were mistakenly attributed to Dr. Page. Very sorry for the mix up! See the original footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAu7JJZhZIg&ab_channel=vichighmarine

thanks to Patreon supporter Sydney Brown for the Pikachu Swiffer line that she left in a comment. Join the community! It's fun!

Fantastic, lol. ❤❤

— @patrickminner7464

Hal Brindley: https://travel4wildlife.com

Hal has an amazing vid of a botfly on his channel... sooooo gross.

Love the narrative

— @melbasilio4517

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFpC5ryzit5KLY-0Ku24jKw

Dr. Jeffrey Goddard: Marine Science Institute, UCSB; Midland School

Those nudibranchs are freaking beautiful.

— @davismillard3822

William Goddard: Midland School

Dr. Goddard and his son were very generous with their time and footage! Gave me some great notes so I didn't get my facts bungled!

What a crazy and amazing animal.

— @BonefishSailing

msi.ucsb.edu

Dr. Jamie Seymour: Tropical Australian Stinger
Research Unit (TASRU)

7:57 human centipede-
I'm sorry.

— @The_Rat_Qu3n3

Dr. Seymour has captured some of the most remarkable footage of nematocysts firing I have ever seen. Ptowwww.

Bocas Del Toro Research Station

Don't how I missed the beauty of the writing for this one....be cause I know I was watching this one specifically at a certain point. 😂😂😂😂 Nature

— @uriamudeltoro5075

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Thank you to the Smithsonian and to Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta for the wonderful image of the unexploded nematocyst.

The narrator is awesome at his job 👏 😀

— @belllisah1

Dr. Louise Page :
University of Victoria

Dr. Page's footage of the veligers (Melibe) were a lifesaver. I wish I had more time to spend on their fantastic lifecycle.

Swimy swimy....😅

— @Rick-xd8gr

Dr. Leslie S Babonis
: Whitney Laboratory for Marine
Bioscience

Dr.Babonis has the coolest job. Firing lasers to trigger nematocyst firing!

Nobody:
Susie: well my name is Susie and Gucci think I love him.

— @antoniodurham1865

Phil Lemley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdossfwVHm0

Phil was so generous to allow me the use of his attacking rainbow nudi...yeah the proctologist...

Nudi-Ing my branch rn

— @Holden420

Dr. Marta Pola Perez
(CIBC-UAM)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Dr.Perez has looked at the possibility of self fertilization in Nudis - and you never know!

Is this oompaville?

— @cprove5751

Costasiella footage courtesy of David Palfrey/Hydra Productions Film, Photo and Training, Indonesia

www.hydraproductions.com @hydra.underwater

Our Cosmic Cousins of the GFW, have said the have been showing themselves all over the world, so we'll know they exist and we won't go into shock when they arrive for Open Contact 2027.

The purpose for 3I-Atlas was to seed humanity with something that will prolong our chances to advance to our next stage of development. In a message I received last week, they were showing their approval for Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day. And at the end of the message was a link to a website about holographic technology. I asked them is this a warning about project Blue Beam. They said, yes.

— @pamelaanderson2003

David let me use his Shaun the Sheep slug footage, which is really some of the best footage I have seen of this cute slug. 

WetTraveler
: http://youtube.com/c/wettraveler

“Hey bro are you pregnant yet?”
“Yep Stephany got me last week. Are you?”
“Nah. But I wanna be.”
“Hell yeah!”

— @MadAmNiku

Pinneng was kind enough to share his Pikachu footage... Quick attack! Electric Shock!

Elyse Messick captured nematocysts firing as a student and I tracked her down on linked in!

This is,hands down, my favorite Z Frank video to date.

— @SANDRA-ey1tf

Thank you to the following photographers that uploaded their work on Flickr with commercial licenses! A huge help to people like me:

Greg Schechter: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregthebusker

"like a colorblind machinist in a Skittles factory..." Ha!

— @jonathanheyerdahl3660

NOAA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib/

Chika Watanabe : https://www.flickr.com/photos/chikawatanabe

Lmao who else is here after a short, and doesnt regret it 😂

— @jorgesanchez5836

Kris-Mikael Krister : https://www.flickr.com/photos/148835878@N08

Christian Gloor : https://www.flickr.com/photos/christian_gloor

Oh please there is no "bribery for all". I havent been bribed so much as once, this is absolute bullshit, where is my bribe money? I want to get paid too.

— @wolvie1618

Additional Footage from ShutterStock and Envato Elements

Music by Tom Moore: https://soundcloud.com/querflote

If I had that kind of luggage, I’d pack it myself.

— @Sundog1966Crosslin-e7n

More User Perspectives

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Your video could have been cool. Your word choices suck.

@tntmadness3138
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Nudibranch(s) are cool! ( especially the Purple & Orange ones).

@eringemini7091
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They resemble a plumbus that's alive.

@chuckmorris7218
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6:45 Just wanna provide a helpful correction: the Man O' War is actually a siphonophore, it just happens to look like a jellyfish

@nolalookenbill7053
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Nudibranchs look like alien art projects, yet they’re real creatures thriving in our oceans. Every time I watch videos like this, nature feels far stranger and more creative than fiction.

@discoveranimalfactsus
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“Baybays”

@notoriousab4
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“This is the first yoga pose they teach you when you arrive in hell.” 🤣

@dalerimoller272
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Im planning to be a marine biologist in the future and this is a great way to learn

@Jellythejelloo
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3:01 Это первая поза йоги, которому вас учат, когда ты попадаешь в ад🤣 абсолютная истина

@FlyerPense
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A landspeeder!
You've been to Tatooine.

@coastsouljah
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After 0:07 to 0:12 I was gigglin hard 😅

@DylanBarrell66
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Okay so Slugterra was based on these ninjas

@demariohall5163
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I am reposting this video to BlueSky. 🦋

@absentmindedprof
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Why's that pink thong running so fast

@TheLordsChipsPls
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Our original ancestors 😂😂

@escevade9955
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U better stop or I will assault u dad jokes. Dumb dumb im dead

@brody231
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This is the best spoke documentary i ever heard im laughing and learning

@brody231
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Way 2 Good😂

@smokeyvlogss
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OMG this was hilarious!

@Ch0rkieD0rkie
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The thumbnail looks like the elden beast

@Khulaqi99
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Just watching this makes me want to throw it like it landed on me

@ghlife3488
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I've done some sport diving and seen multiple of those. never knew more than 'they are sea snails'. But know i know. The BUTT xD

@penttiperasuoli5780
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3:50 Wonderful news!! as of 15 April, 2026, this nudibranch now has a name— *Thecacera pikachu*!!

@tin7496
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I've never seen one eating before, and it's genuinely kind of horrifying. Eating something whole by slurping like a noodle while it's alive is against some sort of convention

@icetide9411
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"And the circle of life continues" is possibly one of the most calming phrases

@vwdeathwishwv6498
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I hate these things

@Belegar_Ironhammer_001
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1:20 That looks exhausting.

@joshpointoh
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Hello fellow Ologies listeners!

@gephc4
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I wish I could like this twice. This is the best narration - ever?

@jaxtaposed9472