Natural History

Today's phylum is the LORICIFERA. I was going to yawn and say they were yet another bunch of marine worms with bristles at one end for catching food, but check out how funky they look. They can retract the head part into the base. They're microscopic and live in sand and were only discovered in the seventies, so not much is known about them.

In fact it's getting obvious there must be an awful lot of phyla out there, perhaps represented by only a few species, which we haven't even discovered yet, and possibly never will. Whole body plans, as distinct and different as a sea urchin is from a butterfly.

Cowardly cutlets

I bought a bubble blower yesterday, so frankxcat and timbus would have a new toy to play with. Instead, they are petrified of the bubbles and flee them. Bwa ha haa ha ha!