![]() They could well have the longest gestation of any vertebrate, about two and a half years, but brilliantly they're so mysterious people really aren't sure. Except they are from our universe, so I guess everything is 73% worse? Sharks from an alternative universe where everything is 73% worse than our own universe would look like frilled sharks. It also has rosy red lips making it look VERY SEXY. Their pectoral fins are used as legs letting it mimic walking along the bottom of the sea. ![]() One of the Galapagos Islands' many peculiar residents, this demonstration of the Darwinian is an anglerfish not so great at swimming, but better at walking. Divinity: Original Sin 2īy Rein Ketelaars - Flickr: DSCN1938.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link The different parts are called zooids, which was my favourite TV show in the 80s, linked by a stem - the stem forms from the first protozooid to develop, which buds off all the other parts! They get to several metres long, and none of its individual parts can exist without the others, and goodness me, nature. And like RPS, all the different parts are all born from a single fertilised egg. It's essentially the way the RPS Hivemind works, with Graham as its brain, the team functioning as vital body parts, and Alec and me as its bottom. Like the Portuguese man o' war, this is a bunch of beasties living together and functioning as one. Silly old you, thinking this is a single creature! You dafty! This is a colony. Jurassic World Evolutionīy Kevin Raskoff, Cal State Montereyderivative work: Crisco 1492 ( talk) - Marrus_orthocanna.jpg, Link It's probably planning to destroy us all. It can swim! It consumes bits and bobs that sink to the bottom of the sea ("marine snow"), it. It has ten tentacle-like things on its head, hence the comparison with a squid, and after that they know it's anatomy and not much else. It was only discovered in 2007, and lives 2,800 metres below the surface. Or, slightly less mightily named, squidworm. And indeed, we don't really know much about the mightily named teuthidodrilus. One of my most favourite things about sea creatures is when you read, "We don't really know much about the." I love how impossibly alien and unknowable so much of our planet really is. Counter-Strike: Global Offensiveīy Laurence Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Or, some claim, for its own amusement.Īnd then they don't just pull their tangle of tummy tubes back in again - they shed them, and grow some new ones over a couple of weeks. The sea cucumber seems a relatively innocuous sea-based oddity, until you realise this echinoderm can vomit/shit out its internal organs to scare off predators. What I'm trying to tell you is we're all going to die. Their only real predator is themselves, as they get so hungry they eat their own babies. According to, former US Interior Sec Gale Norton said, "snakeheads can eat almost any small animal in its path". It can spend three days out of the wet, merrily breathing air with its gills. And I don't mean, quickly hop out and back into water. It needs to be able to, because after it's done eating every other creature in a lake or pond it's still hungry. Ok, listen up: the snakehead can just get out of the water. ARK: Survival Evolvedīy Brian Gratwicke - Snakehead - Channa argus, CC BY 2.0, Link So how about instead we return to that oasis of safety and solace in the midst of the worst excesses of this horror-column: weird fish facts! 10. Where once we were a species that revelled in new, interesting ideas, pursuing our dreams, we are once more wedged neck-deep in the past, doomed to buy the same £40 five-year-old games until we rot and coagulate into a molten horror. As chronicled last week, all human progress is wiped out by a Steam Sale.
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