Post: #1

these creatures, which grow to 17 feet long, reminded me of Maggot, so i thought i'd say Happy Monday Maggot.


ok, i lied. they're tiny. i hope you don't find them in your coffee.



cool muppet









Polychaetes, or scale worms, have evolved to survive the intense pressures more than 1,000 meters below the water's surface, where the sun's rays never penetrate.The creatures measure little more than two or three centimeters long.
they live on and around hydrothermal vents.

More popularly know as ‘smokers’, hydrothermal vents are cracks in the seafloor, usually found around quake zones, volcanoes and the edges of tectonic plates.

Scale worms crawl along the seafloor near to a vent, using their vicious-looking teeth to munch on the bacteria and simple organisms that thrive in the hot water and chemical soup.

Post: #2

My little Maggottboo is much cuter than these little dudes.

Post: #3

Those little fellas are cute.

Post: #4

(02-20-2012 10:24 AM)Maggot Wrote:  Those little fellas are cute.

i knew you'd like them.

Post: #5

I'd freak the fuck out if I ever in my life seen one of those. That thing is ugLY!

Post: #6

You're afraid of a lot of things.

Post: #7

i forgot this is a holiday, Presidents Day. i think i should settle in and get federal and state taxes done. i have been procrastinating.
what fun.

Post: #8

(02-20-2012 01:25 PM)JsMom Wrote:  I'd freak the fuck out if I ever in my life seen one of those. That thing is ugLY!

I don't think I'd freak out if I saw one, but I agree - that thing is ugLY as hell!!!

Post: #9

The article says they evolved to live where they do, where the fuck did they live before?

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(02-20-2012 03:05 PM)IMaDick Wrote:  The article says they evolved to live where they do, where the fuck did they live before?

New Mexico. and they're coming back by the millions. the big ones.

yay, i got one person's taxes done! i am too damn nice they were a little complicated.

Post: #11

oooooo Maggoty! new alien wormy pod things!


Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India - unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.

But this legless amphibian's time in obscurity has ended, thanks to an intrepid team of biologists led by University of Delhi professor Sathyabhama Das Biju.

Over five years of digging through forest beds in the rain, the team has identified an entirely new family of amphibians - called chikilidae - endemic to the region but with ancient links to Africa.

people living in northeast India misunderstand the caecilians, and rare sightings can inspire terror and revulsion, with farmers and villagers chopping them in half out of the mistaken belief that they are poisonous snakes.









the pods~~

Post: #12

Now those are some nasty looking creepers.

Post: #13

Maggot will love them.

Post: #14

They have teeth. Ew. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-caecilian.html