Pretty little polychaetes who bury their several-metre-long bodies in the ground and wait until something brushes up against one of their antennae. They then snap their venomous mandibles shut so fast they sometimes scissor their prey right in half
Most plankton are tiny drifters, wandering in a vast ocean. But where wind and currents converge they become part of a grander story… an explosion of vitality that affects all life on Earth, including our own. Watch the latest “Deep Look” video from KQED and pbsdigitalstudios:
Nautiluses are super cool!! They’re the oldest living subclass of the cephalopods, and really haven’t changed all that much since the late triassic! Their ancestors were called ammonites which appeared waayyyy back in the devonian period (419.2–358.9 million years ago). I had a whole post on ammonites a long time ago which you can find here: http://squidscientistas.tumblr.com/post/124712468719/firstly-you-guys-are-awesome-and-i-love-this
Nautilus shells are composed is many gas chambers and as it gets bigger the nautilus will close off one of the chambers and move its body into the next one.
Goddamned Mezolithic Megafauna’s what that is. Goddamned warranty expired on those things centuries ago, but do they care? Do they go decently extinct, like the ground sloth, gigantopethicus, or wooly rhino? Fuck that, they’re doing downhill runs on your favorite skiing course is what. Because Fuck it, is why.
Now I understand why moose are built the way they are.
It’s so they can gallop untrammelled through six-odd feet of snow.
Jesus Christ I read those mother fuckers could run 55km an hour but seeing it is another thing especially plowing through the snow
DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY
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