Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox

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Cancer is a creepy and mysterious thing. While we tried to understand it, to get better at killing it, we discovered a biological paradox that remains unsolved to this day: large animals seem to be immune to cancer. Which doesn’t make any sense - the bigger a being, the more cancer it should have. To understand why, we first need to take a look at the nature of cancer itself.
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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
7 місяців tagasi
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Jay Jay
17 päeva tagasi
Surely with the money you make in ad revenue you don't need a patreon?
Chay Sin Yoon
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Hello.Why I can't open your shop??
Chay Sin Yoon
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How to open your shop?
Gags Double J
2 місяці tagasi
Excuse me Sir/Madam Are you saved? If you died tonight are you going to heaven? Jesus loves you.
Walter Dog
2 місяці tagasi
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell you pinned comment cool
dboistudios
11 tundi tagasi
Are we just not going to talk about Cancer: The Game that Kurzgesagt is apparently playing?
Stevoh29
12 tundi tagasi
I swear to god if this ends like the movie “I Am Legend”
Mepholies
19 tundi tagasi
I used the cancer to destroy the cancer
Dave Hall
21 tund tagasi
I should've known the cure for cancer was a plunge attack...
M1lesMC
Päev tagasi
"Cancer is killing Cancer" Trust no one, including yourself -Joseph Stalin
Meh Met
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because they can't use tiktok
Adi
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This video was sponsored by Jay-Z
Mad Frog
Päev tagasi
Imagine finding a cancer cure
Dylan Robson
Päev tagasi
Blue whales get cancer they just are so big that the body has the energy to spare and don't die.
Science Man Grant
Päev tagasi
I think that it has to do with the number of cells an animal has. The bigger and more cells a creature has, the more likely cancer will be outnumbered and killed. If you are smaller with fewer cells like mice, the less likely it is that cancer will be outnumbered and killed. If you see my comment, tell scientist if they haven't thought about it.
What Do You Believe?
Päev tagasi
How does an animal choose to have better cancer defenses?
What Do You Believe?
18 tundi tagasi
@DefeatedMelon an investment is a choice . Time mark 2:50.
DefeatedMelon
Päev tagasi
They don't. They're genetics change overtime.
Chetan Mustaine
Päev tagasi
Cancer kills cancer! Now i understand the reason behind Middle East crisis and why they are fighting amongst each other! 😅
ً
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Love this kinda video
Marcus C
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Wasn't there a guy last year who allegedly got saved by a hypertumor?
Jules Padriga
2 päeva tagasi
Playing tumor simulator
Mr. Bulbasaur
2 päeva tagasi
Did you know that whales used too live on land then they evolved to walk and swim then evolved to only water but still had legs then evolved to today’s whales
starchild
2 päeva tagasi
I know this is serious, but a game like the video's animation would be awesome! You'd be a cancer cell needing to evolve in the body, and multiplayer would be multiple different cancer cells fighting for it too! Okay, someone _really_ needs to make this.
AsianKoolAid00
2 päeva tagasi
“I used the cancer to kill the cancer”
Κάπα Μι
2 päeva tagasi
Fun Fact: 99% of the comments are talking about cancer killing cancer.
James Blackwood
2 päeva tagasi
4:04 Woah, im not thinking this is about cancer anymore
Mads V
2 päeva tagasi
Cancer is scary. People's reaction when they are told that they have incurable cancer is sad.
FellTheSky
2 päeva tagasi
lmao what is this non sense. Cancer is a fungus, its been proven for so many years now, yet first world countries are denied the cure so their citizens keep buying poisonous radioactive and expensive treatments that kill you half the time, and give you 5 more years the other half. What a sad world we live in
Lily Christian
2 päeva tagasi
"cancer is killing cancer" *bravo six, going cancer*
Nothing Really
3 päeva tagasi
4:40 i’m just saying- there’s a hell of a metaphor here.
Teaming up with i will defend Justin y
3 päeva tagasi
6:20 *kurzgesagt.exe has stopped working*
Name Needed
3 päeva tagasi
other youtubers: Welcome everybody, this is , blah blah blah... Kurzesagt: *cancer*
patrick faraday
3 päeva tagasi
i love your vids i learn a lot
Badea Lucian
3 päeva tagasi
What program do you use to edit these videos?
吳尚融
3 päeva tagasi
Hyper tumor is like our society, The only way to stop war is to join it.
Kimmy Cassie
4 päeva tagasi
I remember watching this months ago but I feel like it's my first time again since it's so filled with knowledge
Lien Vu
4 päeva tagasi
All these cancer-free animals are vegan though.
Richard Gutter
4 päeva tagasi
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Bertold Szekeres
4 päeva tagasi
Calling this a paradox reveals that scientists don't have the slightest understanding of the cancer's true nature.
n.sambed prakash pati
4 päeva tagasi
hypertumors: omaewa mou shindeirou!!!!!! tumors : naaaaniiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!
Hashir playz 123
4 päeva tagasi
Cancer: The virus that the cure is very hard to get Covid-19: Hmmm..... Lets beat a virus
Neptune's Nep
4 päeva tagasi
So we aren't allowed commit suicide but our cells are?
aimohsin
5 päeva tagasi
I learned more in 8 minutes than my teacher’s 50 min bullshit
vvvs 2145s
5 päeva tagasi
Scientist: NOOOO, YOU CANT JUST NOT GET CANCER YOU HAVE QUADRILLIONS OF CELLS blue whale: huhuhuh big mouth go brrrrr me eat shrimp
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5 päeva tagasi
Breaking news: Florida man gives cancer cancer
Displayzz
5 päeva tagasi
Bro gen z just needs to cancel cancer smh
Parul Mahajan
5 päeva tagasi
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Pump 7DS
5 päeva tagasi
7:11 I support you by subbing
Dwij Gurram
5 päeva tagasi
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Frank Mejia
5 päeva tagasi
Props to the camera man who did this
toxic from a different dimension
5 päeva tagasi
My moms doctor said that she has cancer cells not yet evolved
Heidi Michel
5 päeva tagasi
you guys are AMAZING!!!!
Bilal Anwar
5 päeva tagasi
please make video about galaxy
Varun Sai
5 päeva tagasi
Kurzgesact: This video was sponsored by.....YOU Bird : at 7:06...... What?
Sean McNamara
6 päeva tagasi
I was expecting a plumbus to float by around 1:05
Lavisse Bruh
6 päeva tagasi
Cancer was slained by Cancer Cancer was banned for team killing
Shy Hater
6 päeva tagasi
You:*appears on the TV* The bird:*jumps*
Noah Dahlsen
6 päeva tagasi
I guess in this case, more cancer is less cancer
Kenneth Williams
6 päeva tagasi
Wanna hear something both amazing to me and also pretty staggering? Almost every single individual's in my mother's side of our family's had had some form or type of cancers or has died from said cancers. My Grandfather: Mesothelioma My Grandmother: Breast & ovarian Mother; Breast & bone cancer? Forget the name. Myself: Brain cancer with Stage 4 and grapefruit sized frontal lobe tumor. Aunt's ×3 thyroid cancer and leukemia cancer Uncle's ×3 leukemia and bone cancer. It's amazing to me that each and everyone of us as you can see has had some form of our bodies trying to kill itself. I am so scared for my daughter buuuut I don't feel she will have any, she carries more genes from her mother than me. Im scared to have children as I was born with a oddly somewhat rare tumor growth on my left nasal passage called hemangioma, my daughter was born with a cleft lip thankfully her palette was mostly intact so next year she will have to have the work done on her partial cleft palate. She will have to have 4 to 6 teeth pulled marrow pulled from my, get mother's and her hip bones to help her have the best success possible that her body won't reject it. If there was a single thing I remember with three most disdain is spinal taps of course chemo and radiation are no fun but gavin your narrow rested every 2 to 4 weeks was pure hell. I don't wish any of this on even someone I dislike let alone my own little girl. She had told me she will be okay, but i don't have the heart to tell her how bad it is to have your hip drilled into and having soft tissue pulled out. I would give her my own heart if she needed it. If you are the praying type please keep my ex wife my daughter and myself along with the rest o.d my family in your thoughts and prayers please and thank you!
K. Compton
6 päeva tagasi
The cure won't be readily available ever or in the near future. No money or control in it. Cancer is the great equalizer and comes for all of us except whales. I've seen what it does firsthand like many of you and no thanks.
The ZinOgre
6 päeva tagasi
My best guess is reproductive cycle small creatures reproduce younger and have more offspring, they don’t live long enough for cancer to effect their reproduction, bigger mammals live longer and take longer to reproduce so cancer has more time to grow and effect them reproducing therefor those who were more likely to get cancer died off and only those who were more cancer resistant could reproduce
AnAbsolute Doggo
6 päeva tagasi
There is a war in my body
Ruflan Abdullah
6 päeva tagasi
So i need to weight like whales? 🤣 So i dont care about cancer anymore? Just kidding
So Done
6 päeva tagasi
Will humanity overcome its self
FuriousMaximum
6 päeva tagasi
The dislikes among the viewes are cancer cells among the cells The likes are the hypertumers that fight back People who don`t vote are megatumers
Karen Fair
6 päeva tagasi
Bfxfxbfx Bb
Mehdi B
6 päeva tagasi
We will never get rid of cancer because health became an industry
Jonathan Bautz
6 päeva tagasi
What did I get in my maths test? Teacher: 6:20
my acc had a offensive name
6 päeva tagasi
"Cancer is killing Cancer" Ah yes, wars in the gacha community
Samet Kutlu
6 päeva tagasi
120 aboneyim 123 yapın
Slow game cube Music
6 päeva tagasi
Oh awesome you changed the intro
Julian Gabriel Maximo
7 päeva tagasi
Solution 2 be like: *I killed cancer with cancer*
Saucy Pie
7 päeva tagasi
A thorn for a thorn.
ಠ_ಠ
7 päeva tagasi
Teaching me stuff school could never
endmi suffriendo
7 päeva tagasi
So this is why my mom is 90 animals and never had cancer
What?
7 päeva tagasi
This is waaaaaaayyy better than school I just started middle school and I watched almost all of the videos
TTVBomBerxX TV
7 päeva tagasi
My trillions if not more of cells: *There is one impostor among us.*
Shy Hater
6 päeva tagasi
LOL
guydreamr
7 päeva tagasi
So even cancer gets cancer. Who knew?
jarreals
7 päeva tagasi
5:55 when roblox's community goes against fortnite's community
Niko 72nxt
7 päeva tagasi
Everyone has cancerous cell body has mechanism to kill those cells... So mechanism hault then cells multiply Yoga, fast fruits diet works if things goes out of hands it possible as Scientists make it money making business f it
some random teen
7 päeva tagasi
this explains that time I saw an article on how a guy's cancer got terminated by the cancer's own cancer
Tri Dao Nguyen
7 päeva tagasi
Fire with fire Cancer with cancer *SIPS TEA* Totally balanced like everything should be.
Anthony B
8 päeva tagasi
They don't need cancer they have the Japanes
Erik DVM
8 päeva tagasi
Maybe there is too many cells that kill cancer.. and there ain't that many blue whales probably 😳🤨🧐idk lol
tedfaun
8 päeva tagasi
Fascinating. Let's hope we find the answer soon!
DLR DLR
8 päeva tagasi
Top 10 Anime Betrayals of All Time Number One: Hypertumours
Aadil Amaan
8 päeva tagasi
Is no one gonna talk about the animation?!!! Wish I had this in school. damn.
Zlatko Sokol
8 päeva tagasi
bruh this stupid youtube thing unsubscribed me form you . i ma subscribe back. ha youtube
VDX
8 päeva tagasi
Deb-ree.
Ahmad Hadder
8 päeva tagasi
It's like how capitalism is killing itself
Ryan H
8 päeva tagasi
I was playing HOMM3 around 5:20 and got really confused because I didn’t have my game sound on lol
Adrian Cigher
8 päeva tagasi
So saying that society is cancer today, is surprisingly accurate. More and more people do exactly what cancer cells do. Just take everything for themselves and not even conceive cooperating.
Luis Garcia Osorio
8 päeva tagasi
I used the cancer, to destroy the cancer.
Julien Gallini
8 päeva tagasi
Humans : Omg I have cancer my days are numbered Blue whale : Haha, hypertumor go brrr
John Carl Crisostomo
8 päeva tagasi
Hypertumors Just Change His team into Counter Terrorist...
Gadiel Gonzalez
8 päeva tagasi
If I recall correctly I read somewhere that the trade off for animals with less cancer is less reproductive success. Larger animals such as elephants and whales only reproduce very slowly in populations.
He haa
8 päeva tagasi
My mother is oversized why she got cancer?
Life Of Chester
8 päeva tagasi
Could bacteriophages destroy cancer?
vs string
9 päeva tagasi
Blue whales don't smoke and don't eat fast food. You don't have to be a scientist to figure it out
DaveTheBaby
9 päeva tagasi
"Cancer is killing cancer" I use the cancer to destroy the cancer
SaxonOrion
7 päeva tagasi
What happened to the cancer? Gone, reduced to atoms
RYSHA ZAKARIA
9 päeva tagasi
Best video I have ever seen in my life animations are so vibrant and its educational in a very fun way 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Khail Kupsky
9 päeva tagasi
I swear i just fall a funny die of cancer. Only the second time I’ve seen that.
Thatssome Wackshitbro
9 päeva tagasi
So like the ants in South America that expand so much the colonies get so large they change genetically and the colonies rebel against the mother colony
Shawn Elliott
9 päeva tagasi
Cancer is what happens when a cell says "Screw this multicellular cooperation bullshit, I want to be an amoeba!"
KOMODO DRAGON Gaming
9 päeva tagasi
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