Natural History

frankxcat switched off the computer while I was doing this one yesterday, which made me very cross.

Today's phylum is the MICROGNATHOZOA. You can tell at a glance that they are obviously the "small-jawed-animals". In fact they have the most complicated jaws in the animal kingdom, with thirty-two moving parts. Fortunately they are only about a tenth of a centimetre in length. Not they, it, there's only one species so far, which was only discovered in 2000 in a hot spring in Greenland. Hilariously, Morphology magazine put a picture on the cover but accidentally said the thing was a metre and a half long. Only on Skull Island!