Tuesday, March 30, 2010
foot-long isopods feeding on sea floor: was eye-to-eye with 1" cousins this weekend
Below is link to great footage of HUGE, foot-long isopods, plus and crabs and eels, snarfing dead things on the sea-floor.
This weekend, hanging over my head, clutching sandstone cliff, completely upside down, were cousins closer to 1 inch long. Had they been as large as the following, I think I would have moved aside...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOSXtBCY30&feature=player_embedded
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Makes our everyday, garden variety pill bugs look pretty small by comparison huh?
ReplyDeleteI know! They look like a throwback from the dinosaur days.
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