A worm with tentacles that can work like straws Your averagesquidworm… isn’t all that average. Discovered in 2007 when WHOI scientists studiedthe Celebes Seaoff the coast of the Philippines, the creature is 4 inches of pure weird. It got its name because when researchers first saw it,...
Evolution’s solution: the teeth you are more familiar with (in the oral jaw) hold onto the prey, while the secondary set of teeth in the throat (the pharyngeal jaw) chew and/or pull on the prey. Even the fish species you are really familiar with, like salmon, have this second set ...
heads into The noose of suffocating White man ways Words worming their way Into the susceptible hearts of a People unfamiliar with Investments, profits, and greed For whom promises need not be written Or affixed with the signature of a Witness nor stamped and certified With an affidavit ...
This is a ribbon worm called a Gorgonorhynchus. When it senses nearby prey it launches what looks like a root out of its face. Anything caught in those flinchingly terrifying ‘roots’ get hauled into the worm’s belly.These adorable little worms live in the ocean…...
Setting out to prove that, based on underwater terrain, undersea biological communities would be different, the expedition came back with not only new imagery of known species but new imagery of things not yet seen. The polychaete worm pictured above is not only new but also a ferocious predat...
First, a tide worm gives them some trouble, but ends up on their dinner table. (It’s from one of the many random d20 naval books I have, I’m not even sure which.) Then – after all the carnage last time, what do pirates want? Sex, and lots of it. They put in at Promise...