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Tunicates are the closest relatives to vertebrates, but they are highly unique with a wide variety of different forms. Despite often being overlooked, tunicates are extremely important for cleaning the oceans and distributing nutrients throughout the water column. Take a look, as I dive into learning more about these highly unusual marine invertebrates.

All pictures attributed to Animal Analytics were taken by me personally. A full description of all others can be found in the following document, along with notable scientific papers I used when researching this topic.

Attributions and Research Papers: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ssjzss...

Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Chordata
03:07 What’s in a Name?
04:12 Tunicata
05:48 Tunicate Evolution
06:42 Larvaceans, Appendicularia
10:42 Thaliacea
11:56 Thaliacea: Doliolids
13:42 Thaliacea: Salps
15:06 Thaliacea: Pyrosomes
16:36 Sea Squirts, Ascidiacea
17:50 Sea Squirts: Aplousobranchia
20:06 Sea Squirts: Phlebobranchia
21:29 Sea Squirts: Stolidobranchia
23:53 Outro

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