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Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.16,0:00:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I must look rather strange to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.93,0:00:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all covered in spines,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.04,0:00:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without even a face.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.16,0:00:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I've taken many forms during my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.49,0:00:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started out just like you:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.58,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tiny egg in a watery world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.24,0:00:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My parents never knew each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.48,0:00:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One moonlit night before a storm,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.99,0:00:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thousands of urchins, clams and corals
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.02,0:00:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,released trillions of sperm and eggs\Ninto the open sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.92,0:01:11.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father's sperm\Nsomehow met my mother's egg,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.81,0:01:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they fused.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.77,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fertilization.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.57,0:01:21.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instantly, I became an embryo\Nthe size of a speck of dust.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.39,0:01:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a few hours of drifting,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.14,0:01:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cleaved in two,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.00,0:01:27.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then four,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.22,0:01:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then eight cells.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.82,0:01:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then so many, I lost count.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.43,0:01:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In less than a day,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.78,0:01:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I developed a gut and a skeleton.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.15,0:01:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I became a rocket ship,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.12,0:01:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a pluteus larva.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.90,0:01:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I floated through the world of plankton,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.87,0:01:47.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,searching for tiny algae to eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.33,0:01:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For weeks, I was surrounded\Nby all kinds of organisms,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.58,0:01:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,larvae of all sorts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.98,0:02:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most are so different\Nfrom their adult form
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.54,0:02:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that biologists have a tough time\Nfiguring out who they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.57,0:02:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Try matching these youngsters\Nto their parents.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.88,0:02:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This veliger larvae\Nwill turn into a snail;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.72,0:02:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this zoea, into a crab;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.94,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this planula, into a clytia jelly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.84,0:02:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of my young companions\Nare easier to picture as grown-ups.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.07,0:02:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These baby jellies, known as ephyrae,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.96,0:02:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,already resemble their beautiful\Nbut deadly parents.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.85,0:02:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here in the plankton,\Nthere's more than one way
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.08,0:02:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get your genes\Ninto the next generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.68,0:02:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most Medusa jellies make\Nspecial structures called polyps,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.74,0:02:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that simply bud off babies\Nwith no need for sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.12,0:03:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Salps are similar.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.19,0:03:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When food is abundant,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.67,0:03:06.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just clone themselves\Ninto long chains.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.27,0:03:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The plankton is full of surprises\Nwhen it comes to sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.64,0:03:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meet the hermaphrodites.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.40,0:03:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These comb jellies and arrow worms
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.50,0:03:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,produce, store and release\Nboth sperm and eggs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can fertilize themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.73,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or another.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.22,0:03:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you're floating in a vast sea,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.22,0:03:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with little control over who you may meet,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.34,0:03:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can pay to play\Nboth sides of the field.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.08,0:03:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The majority of species here,\Nhowever, never mate,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.14,0:03:47.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor form any sort of lasting bonds.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.46,0:03:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was my parents' strategy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.58,0:03:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were so many of us pluteus larvae,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.16,0:03:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just hid in the crowd,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.60,0:03:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while most of my kin were devoured.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.70,0:04:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all parents leave\Nthe survival of their offspring to chance.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.06,0:04:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some have far fewer young\Nand take much better care of them,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.03,0:04:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brooding their precious cargo\Nfor days, even months.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.72,0:04:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This speedy copepod
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.03,0:04:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,totes her beautifully\Npackaged eggs for days.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.81,0:04:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This Phronima crustacean\Ncarries her babies on her chest,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.23,0:04:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then carefully places them\Nin a gelatinous barrel.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.30,0:04:40.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the black-eyed squid takes the prize.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.29,0:04:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She cradles her eggs\Nin long arms for nine months,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.47,0:04:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same time it takes\Nto gestate a human infant.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.96,0:04:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eventually, all youngsters\Nhave to make it on their own
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.67,0:04:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this drifting world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.55,0:05:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some will spend\Ntheir whole lives in the plankton,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.08,0:05:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but others, like me, move on.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.45,0:05:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few weeks after I was conceived,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.75,0:05:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided to settle down,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.47,0:05:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and metamorphosed\Ninto a recognizable urchin.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.60,0:05:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now you know a bit of my story.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.68,0:05:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may just be a slow-moving\Nball of spines,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.15,0:05:32.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but don't let my calm\Nadult exterior fool you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.17,0:05:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a rocket ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.100,0:05:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a wild child.