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Parasites are always the weirdest. Parasitic crustaceans: https://bogleech.com/bio-paracrust https://bogleech.com/bio-paracrust Parasitic jellyfish: https://b
by twic 3y ago
Parasites are always the weirdest.
Parasitic crustaceans: https://bogleech.com/bio-paracrust https://bogleech.com/bio-paracrust
Parasitic jellyfish: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/when-jellyfish-became-parasites-strange-things-happened/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/when-jell...
Another parasitic jellyfish (its larva develops inside-out, then turns itself outside-in when it bursts out of its host!): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypodium_hydriforme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypodium_hydriforme
- lethologica 3y agoWhoa, Argulus looks like Corroder from the PS1 game Clock Tower. Utterly terrifying.
- calf 3y agoOnce at a fancy Japanese restaurant in NYC, I found a pea-sized crab inside a cooked mussel, and showed it to the staff. They didn't know what it was! I don't recall exactly, but either I was brave/stupid, or checked my Sony Xperia smartphone that it was a pea crab and was safe to eat. So I ate it and it tasted like crab sauce.
- RadiozRadioz 3y agoI can always rely on my Sony Xperia smartphone to get me through the day. Whether I'm at home, on the go... or even in the pool! With Sony's water resistance technology and a high resolution camera to capture those special moments, Xperia has my back.
- m463 3y agoMan: "I'm a marketing manager who lives in the suburbs and commutes to work on the highway. I live alone, so of course I needed a car that can seat 12 and is equipped to drive across arctic tundra... it just makes me feel better!" Woman: "The new Maibatsu Monstrosity... mine's bigger!"
- calf 3y agoIt was over a decade ago, so the phone elicited comments from strangers how small it was for a smartphone, and they would ask what brand.
- InSteady 3y agoFrom your first link, "Sarcotacid" would make for a great insult. It's a parasite that "prefers attaching to the rectum" (of fish), and females grow into "huge, warty pustules." The pictures are horrific, lol. One of them looks like a bruised and infected scrotum. ...Actually they both kind of do in different ways.
- soxocx 3y agoThe creatures in the first link (be warned) look like they are from an alien horror movie. Nature and live how it forms and develops is just amazing.
- pvaldes 3y agoTrust me, you have see nothing
- owlninja 3y ago> We've now looked at Crustaceans that attack the skin, eyes, lungs, anus, and uterus...where else would you absolutely never want a giant bug to grow? Your brain? Your genitalia? How about a two-for-one special? And terrifying
- checkyoursudo 3y agoI mean, I probably wouldn't particularly want a giant bug growing anywhere inside or inside-adjacent of me. Just saying.
- version_five 3y agoParasitic plants as well. I don't have great links but look at mistletoe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe and Indian pipe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora for example.
- 6177c40f 3y agoAnother common parasitic plant, dodder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta Also, a parasitic plant (a green alga) that infects animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototheca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototheca