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Meet the "strawberry feather star," a freakish 20-armed monster scientists just discovered lurking in the Antarctic seas
Not The Bee ^
| Aug 12, 2023 ·
| Staff
Posted on 08/14/2023 11:38:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
I'm not saying I was ever primed to go for a dip in the Antarctic seas. I'm just saying that now I'm definitelynot going there:
Scientists trawling on board a research vessel off the coast of Antarctica have caught a new undersea creature — one with 20 arms and a distinctive body, shaped a little bit like a strawberry. ...
Although similar to other invertebrate ocean animals, like starfish and sea cucumbers, feather stars are distinct both in their 'large' size and 'otherworldly appearance' when swimming, the researchers said.
The sheer horrific insanity of this thing is just something to behold:
These frightening beasts "can live anywhere from 65 feet to about 6,500 feet beneath the ocean's surface," i.e., more than a mile down. Frankly I'd prefer they stay there!
It's not clear if anyone caught footage of this monster in the wild, though here's a shot of another "feather star" swimming its weird way through the ocean:
If that's how a pretty tiny little feather star looks while mobile, I don't even want to see how the nightmare strawberry variant swims.
P.S. Now enjoy our latest video about this real person's real plan for venturing out to see the Barbie movie 😂👇
VIDEO AT LINK.............
TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: featherstar; fromorbit; nukeit; strawberry
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To: Red Badger
“Large size”?
So, it turns out they max at around 8”.
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:28:54 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
(You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
To: Red Badger
How big are they? I read the article but did not catch that,
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:30:02 PM PDT
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: Red Badger
That is a gorgeous animal.
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:35:56 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
To: married21
From USA TODAY:
The Promachocrinus fragarius, a type of Antarctic feather star, can have 20 or 10 arms. While the report did not provide measurements of the animal’s size (only describing it as “large”), it said it can range in color from “purplish” to “dark reddish.”
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:39:25 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: NorthMountain
Cthulhu shrunk over the last million years or so.............
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:40:14 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Hebrews 11:6
There’s things down there human eye has never seen..................
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:40:59 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:49:16 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
In celebration, I had a nice big bowl of strawberries (and blueberries).
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:52:26 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(🇺🇸 Selling out the U.S.A.: The Briben Brand™)
To: SaveFerris
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posted on
08/14/2023 12:57:03 PM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(“Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature.“ - Dr. James Wade)
To: pax_et_bonum
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posted on
08/14/2023 1:00:39 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Red Badger
Strawberry feather star? Looks more like Vanilla feather star.
To: Red Badger
Crinoids, aka Feather Stars, are not the least bit scary. They can be beautiful, but scary is just silly. I’ve seen thousands of them while diving. They are everywhere in the tropics.
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posted on
08/14/2023 1:19:16 PM PDT
by
ETCM
(“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
To: Red Badger
Amen and Amen...........................
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posted on
08/14/2023 1:50:18 PM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
To: Red Badger
THIS is why I love my Freeper pals.
My first thought was, “Well, the Xenomorph is here...”
Which, in a way, is a good thing, because Alien was my favorite movie, and has been, since I saw it in ‘79 when I was a newly minted eleven year old horror geek.
And I see the comments are in order.
Gonna go rig up my motion detector, flame thrower, and make sure my cat Jonesy is in the escape pod...
To: Red Badger
Tastes kinda like spotted owl.
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posted on
08/14/2023 4:23:23 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Red Badger
I was thinking ‘Alien’ when I saw the first pic of it...
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posted on
08/14/2023 4:48:43 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Red Badger
Put a restraint order on Fauci and Gates for it.
They’re already thinking about what kind of vaccine they can make out of it.
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posted on
08/14/2023 5:37:37 PM PDT
by
conservativeimage
(Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: Mermaid Girl
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posted on
08/15/2023 4:49:52 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Red Badger
I tell ya what. That is really, really cool. Apparently the Good Lord likes to have a bit of fun with His inventions.
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posted on
08/15/2023 4:52:01 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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