it’s time to talk about weird animals again here at bunjywunjy.tumblr.com, and today our topic is Predatory Tunicates, which are a species of evil sock puppet that lives on the sides of deep sea canyons.
wokka wokka wokka!
they function pretty much exactly like you’d think they would, behaving much like a venus flytrap.
fish goes in, fish DOES NOT COME OUT
the Predatory Tunicate is also the only tunicate known to be carnivorous. other tunicates are content to drift in the currents like lonely plastic bags, lacking the drive and ambition of the Predatory Tunicate.
role model!
also, like most deep sea creatures, Predatory Tunicates are massively improved by the addition of googly eyes.
I’ve reblogged these so many times but I forget if anyone ever added the OTHER varieties of carnivorous deep-sea squirt?
First, this one was observed in 2009 off the coast of Tasmania and I can’t find if it even has a name yet, but the mouth opens a completely different, less hilarious way.
Then there’s the kind of unsettling CULEOLUS which floats like a kite on the end of a loooong thin stalk.
This is a fucking head on a string. With a giant chin.
Finally there’s DICOPIA ANTIRRHINUM which is just like the OP “sock puppet” variety, but with a slightly different strategy! As you can see it has a camouflaged surface, flattened shaped and a shorter “stalk” it keeps mostly buried, so it can pretend to be nothing but a little mound of dirt when it wants to.
I just can’t get enough of how related animals vary in their tricks and gimmicks.
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC
So I have both a brother and a sister and recently I came out as genderqueer and my mum’s reaction was basically “aw yisss i collected the whole set”
The only correct reaction
the whole set
I’m an only child. When I came out as nb, my mom told me she had been praying really hard to have both a girl and a boy, but had long since given up on trying to conceive a second child. Her response? “Well, I guess my prayer had really been answered all along!”
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