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| Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010 |
Finally! A fuzzy Sea Cucumber you can cuddle!
Just imagine coming home to find this beautiful beast galumphing towards you on dozens of tentacle-legs. It leaps up into your arms and showers your face in kisses with its assortment of feeding appendages as you lovingly run your fingers through its thick mane of tentacle-fur.
Isn't it wonderful?
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| Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010 |
And just for contrast, here's a completely smooth Sea Cucumber!
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| Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010 |
And here's another one who apparently walks around on its side. Here you can see the underbelly, as if it's joyfully rolling in the mud. Perhaps it just wants a tickle?
Or maybe it wants you to tend to its worms?
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| Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010 |
One big, rather pretty
Scale Worm!
cute little fuzzy clinger.
ReplyDelete"fuzzy clinger" Hahaha!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I saw one of those in the discount section at Walgreens!
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Haha! If only those little guys could jump into your arms!
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that Hallucigenia might be a sea cucumber with stiff spines on one surface and tentacle legs on the other? The first picture gives the impression that a particular fossil has come to life.
ReplyDeleteThat first one is utter lunacy! I love it!
ReplyDeleteLear's Fool went into the Hallucigenia thing in a big way in the comments of this post:
http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2013/08/ocnus-lacteus.html
Interesting stuff!
Wonderful. I should put a few of these on an exam and ask my students what they think these are. See if they can work it out!
ReplyDeleteAaah! The results could be fascinating!
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