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Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:56 am
by Tsuki
http://grist.org/list/crazy-living-rock ... ever-seen/
If it evolved to have legs and walk around, along with bio-luminescent crystals...
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:45 am
by Wain
Creepy!
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:02 am
by Slapperfish
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Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:35 am
by Myrrmi
Gives 'squeezing blood out of a rock' a whole new meaning... 0_o
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:38 am
by Mozag
I really want to taste it...though I hate bitter things. But it looks so...interesting!
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:32 am
by Lupis
Wow, that is amazing! Thanks for telling us about this beasty, that's so cool.
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:20 am
by Zhinru
So this is an animal, right? For some reasons, corals and other "sedentary animals" confuse the hell out of me.
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:59 am
by Eternallylostx
Slapperfish wrote:Sounds more like a real-life Geodude...
^
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:48 am
by GormanGhaste
Pyura chilensis is in Class Ascidiacea, which are called sea squirts. Ernst Haeckel illustrated their diversity in
this artwork:
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:02 am
by ImmaGoku
Creepy
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:33 pm
by Rhyela
Most of those things in that picture look like very ornate pottery or buttons.
Also, that thing is cool!!! Nature is so amazing. I wonder what purpose it serves, besides to be eaten by locals? It can't even move or anything. Very interesting!
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:35 pm
by Kayb
that is awesome and i want one
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:19 am
by Zhinru
Kayb wrote:that is awesome and i want one
So you say you want a pet rock? If that's so, I think I have one to sell you. And then I will open a business.
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:50 am
by Akyo
i had a pet rock in my inventory for the longest time.
It was just sitting there though. I think it was happy.
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:57 am
by Malackai
seeing creatures like this always reminds me how odd nature can be o.O
anyone remember those weird tubifex worms it was some time back creepy things XD
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:47 am
by Holgarr
what da heck is wrong with you, Nature?
Re: Real Life Shale Spider?
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:06 pm
by Tsaikojen
This is what happens to a Pokemans that loses in real life. /sadpandamon