 There are deep sea isopods with legs like sea spiders. This is Paropsurus. IDK man. No idea WHAT is going on down there. Isopod literally means "same leg" like the legs are supposed to be "the same" Not... not "crazy out of control legs" Feels wrong to call it an isopod. More like a spindly-productus-sopod They are just making creatures up now to see if I'll buy in to it. 31 comments
@futurebird A really terrible coinage is “hemophilia.” Fond of blood? Then why do you lose so much of it?! The real, literal hemophiliacs are vampires. @futurebird I follow NautilusLive on instagram and the things that show up there are crazy. They look just as alien as the creatures from the cambrian explosion, except they're still here! For example this: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCSKBvfSDjT  @jmeppley @futurebird what I think of when I read Nautilus https://youtu.be/Hoa8_wqnZvo?si=UoOaDrU2KgfGl9Yh  @futurebird @gay_ornithischians Araneae are the order that has evolved to be second best at hugs (Octopoda are the best). Some people are scared of hugs. Just be kind to them and give them space.  @gay_ornithischians @futurebird there isn’t a ton of info on these leggy pals out there, but! it is common for isopods to have both antennae and antennulae, both being sensory organs! so i suspect that’s the case here… ahhh isopods are neat ☺️ @brhfl @gay_ornithischians @futurebird what's the difference between an antenna and an antennule? @violator @gay_ornithischians @futurebird so, i'm no expert, i just read a lot of bio journals... but my understanding is that we're in the early days of figuring that out. murray thomson seems to be leading the charge on such studies, and a lot of the hypotheses seem to be around the physical differences and the ways these interact differently with water (differing depths, currents, etc.) he's also hypothesized that the longer antennae get 'flicked' about, akin to a sniff!  @gay_ornithischians @futurebird @futurebird i think it means the legs ar teh same as each other. i.e. these are all cfrazy out of control legs. a lobster has different kinds of legs, like two of them are claws and even those are uneven. but i'm disturbed this one has only 4 pairs. should have more. some got bitten off? @futurebird Isn't that the creature conspiracy theorists were using to "prove" of other species living amongst us from a few years ago? Who knew it was just some critter. I don't remember what they are exactly, but they had something *very* similar to this at the Dallas World Aquarium. They were so other worldly. I feel like these qualify too! Your last line cracks me up.  @futurebird I just learned about Munnopsidae a month or so ago and was totally mindblown. BENTHIC DADDYLONGLEG PILLBUGS???  @futurebird (And if my attempted humor falls flat, it's still a nifty-looking little creature!) @futurebird  @OphanimDev you are quite new here, and yet you decided you're part of the network police; you won't like it here.  |
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@futurebird Thanks, I needed more nightmare fuel.