Posted on 04/12/2019 6:47:06 AM PDT by C19fan
When an animal dies in a forest or field its body usually becomes food for scavengers large and small. Sometimes that includes larger animals like vultures or wild dogs, but it’s usually insects that are left to clean up the last bits of tissue. The bottom of the sea is no different and, as a new video from the Gulf of Mexico reveals, there’s always something waiting for a free meal.
Scientists from LUMCON were studying the effects of “food falls” in the sea, providing marine scavengers with a feast by dropping dead alligators into the Gulf and then observing the results. The video they captured is equal parts science and nightmare fuel.
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Those are huge!
So trilobites are back !
Yay trilobites!!
interesting
I wonder what those isopods taste like, inasmuch as they are distantly related to shrimp and lobster.
(* VERY distantly. They are far closer related to pillbugs, and no closer to shrimp than a cow is to a fish.)
Nature’s way of recycling
Actually, I think the closest living relative to a trilobite is probably a horseshoe crab. They are placed with arachnids (spiders, etc.), but I think that being more basal (ancient), they are more similar to other basal organisms than more highly evolved arachnids.
Yeah I think you’re right.
Trilobites are among my favorite fossils!
Always loved finding them and collecting them.
They’re so varied!
Pretty awesome how nature takes care of itself.
They do actually taste like crab/shrimp/lobster. Watched them eaten on youtube and described that way.
They look like large lobster tails.
“they are distantly related to shrimp and lobster”
Isn’t the cockroach also related to lobster?
that’s related to the Clinton!
lol!
They must be bad a$$. Gators’ got a tough hide on ‘em.
Not as closely.
And the roach is loaded with organs, whereas these pill bugs are loaded with meat, like a shrimp’s or lobster’s tails.
“I wonder what those isopods taste like”
About a week ago, I was watching a food show.
They had a tank of isopods on sale at some seafood place and the chef bought a couple for a few hundred dollars each.
They prepared them like they were lobsters.
Then ate them. They said they didn’t have much flavor at all.
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