Daniel J. DufourNov 16, 2024
myrmepropagandist

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.

Nov 16, 2024 at 12:36amWeb
Show threadYozen HernandezNov 16, 2024
@futurebird Thanks, I needed more nightmare fuel.
Show threadLew PerinNov 16, 2024

@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.

Show threadjmeppley (he/him)Nov 16, 2024

@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

Nautilus Live on Instagram: "We continue to be wowed by the diversity of #deepsea critters found in Palau’s waters, including this very unique multi-headed #Caulophacus #sponge! #NautilusLive #seasponge #deepseasponge #oceananimal"

3,987 likes, 21 comments - nautiluslive on November 12, 2024: "We continue to be wowed by the diversity of #deepsea critters found in Palau’s waters, including this very unique multi-headed #Caulophacus #sponge! #NautilusLive #seasponge #deepseasponge #oceananimal".

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Show thread20000lbs of CheeseNov 16, 2024

@jmeppley @futurebird They're great, I watch their youtube videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/EVNautilus

Before you continue to YouTube

Show threadjenNov 16, 2024
@futurebird nope.
Show threadraymoo the HomoGaymooNov 16, 2024
@futurebird it's so cute :D
is the small pair near the head also legs?
Show threadmyrmepropagandistNov 16, 2024

@gay_ornithischians

Why are they calling this little one "nightmare fuel"

This is a leggy baby.

Show threadraymoo the HomoGaymooNov 16, 2024
@futurebird the poor critter looks too fragile to pose a threat to anyone
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Nov 16, 2024
@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.
Show threadbriNov 16, 2024
@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 ☺️
Show threadtopsoil enthusiastNov 16, 2024
@brhfl @gay_ornithischians @futurebird what's the difference between an antenna and an antennule?
Show threadbriNov 16, 2024

@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!

Show threadIan K TindaleNov 16, 2024
@brhfl @violator @gay_ornithischians @futurebird I have a theory which I’ll keep to myself or people will think I’m bonkers

Oh okay you’ve talked me into it

We’re humans, our ears are not just acoustic sensory organs but the earlobes themselves are radio-like and aerial-like and perform sensing that we’re not really aware of because we haven’t thought about it in such a way so we’re not looking in that direction to recognise it, but the ear structure and proximity to the brain allows it to be basically a diversity aerial for – er, something, possibly signals, possibly environmental information, possibly transmitted information, possibly using energy we haven’t yet recognised or detected and therefore haven’t labelled so that we can even conceive of it yet

(Also, not just humans, any animal with ears and an ear structure)

So there
Show threadGrant_HNov 16, 2024
@u0421793 @futurebird @brhfl @gay_ornithischians @violator Penrose reckons there is quantum activity in the brain, and I have read someone claiming to have detected entanglement. The length of the vagus nerve would make an excellent radio antenna...
Many of these are likely to be wrong. But there is so much we don't know, even/especially at a particle level, that some of it is likely to be true/useful/ meaningful.
Show threadIan K TindaleNov 17, 2024
@grant_h @futurebird @brhfl @gay_ornithischians @violator well, it might be radio, or it might be something that is radio-like, yet might not be of an electromagnetic nature at all but something else, some other energy that we aren’t noticing

the axon in a neutron has insulation (myelin) which is shielding a transmissive signal from outside radiative signals, but are these signals radio in nature or something else that seems radio-like – I mean it's electrical because we know of the changes in action potential as actual electrical measurements, but is it only electricity at work or perhaps is electricity, which we know is the nature of radio, also the stuff that gives rise to a different energy, or is electricity a small but known aspect of something bigger and more occluded

we as early 21st century humans might think we've got electricity all sorted out compared to a 19th century human, but in truth we know nearly next to bugger all about static electricity, we only know about the more 'useful' sort of current-flow electricity which performs the sort of work we know about

also, take a mitochondrion - the outer shell to me resembles a complex aerial shape, and something that is the form of an aerial can't just decide ”oh, I know I look like an aerial but really, I don’t have anything to do with signal transmission and reception” – no, if it has that form it cannot help but do the signal transmission and reception thing, but what is it tx and rx-ing with and what is the “stuff” which is the medium - is it radio (probably not as we know it), is it something that is transmissible and receivable as if it were radio but isn't radio, thus generalising radio as a special case of this wider tx/rx phenomenon which in the case of radio works electrically in the way we understand today but really there’s other energies that can do the same, not just charge and electromagnetism but a whole universe of other similar things
Show threadllewellyNov 16, 2024
@gay_ornithischians @futurebird
my approximate mental model for arthropod evolutionary development: "In the beginning, everything was a leg."
Show threadKaren BrunerNov 16, 2024
@futurebird I'm still trying to deal with sea pigs.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistNov 16, 2024

@fuzzykb

We all are.

Show threadBarry GoldmanNov 16, 2024
@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?
Show threadAdam YatesNov 16, 2024
@futurebird I had no idea this thing existed. It is magnificent
Show threadForeNov 16, 2024

@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.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistNov 16, 2024

@foretwenty

It always is, though.

Show threadend0flineNov 16, 2024

@futurebird 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.

Show threadBlaft PublicationsNov 16, 2024
@futurebird I just learned about Munnopsidae a month or so ago and was totally mindblown. BENTHIC DADDYLONGLEG PILLBUGS???
Show threadTheriacNov 16, 2024

@futurebird

deep seaHow does anything that spindly stand up to the pressure?

Show threadllewellyNov 16, 2024
@Theriac @futurebird the inside of its body is at the same pressure as the outside. So the pressure from the outside is matched by pressure from the inside.
Show threadTheriacNov 16, 2024
@llewelly @futurebird
ahh I get - so there is no large void for lungs or air storage and presumably the internal organs and soft tissues are fine with the pressure?
Show threadBryan WrightNov 16, 2024

@futurebird

Spisopod. Isopider.

Show threadlenchen unsustainableNov 16, 2024
see above post or here:
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113489830484106086
myrmepropagandist (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 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.

Sauropods.win
Show threadlenchen unsustainableNov 16, 2024
@futurebird
such a cool being lol
Show threadAndrewJun 10, 2025
@futurebird ISO-standard-pod
Show threadgloria deiJun 10, 2025
@futurebird Would make a good supermodel
Show threadAda Jun 11, 2025
@futurebird same energy