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Turns out I do need to clarify that these particular comb jellies are actually not filter feeders :)
these are also the true actual first animal group that’s ever thought to have existed; comb jellies or ctenophores are survivors from the *ediacaran,* the point in time where we can’t even guess what kind of animal most of the fossils are. But, maybe all of them were just wacky shaped comb jellies???? we will never know. this one ate them all.
Okay I didn’t expect a jokey post to get 10,000 notes a day so here are some clarifications:
They are NOT related in any way to jellyfish, not any more than you are! They’re completely different phyla, and no species of comb jelly can sting, but some do have tentacles with adhesive cells.
Yes the mouth is also the anus
The red ones here likely just eat tiny crustaceans; the one that opens up and swallows other comb jellies is special for that, and known as a Beroid comb.
The Beroid also uses some of its cilia as teeth and can just bite a chunk out of larger gelatinous prey.
It’s toward the end of the Ediacaran that the earliest comb jellies appeared, but they weren’t much like any of the modern species and the oldest one was even mistaken for an anemone until 2019.
There are over 1,000 notes referencing flesh lights but comb jellies would be far too flimsy for that to work.
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I just learned about the existance of “pretend to work” spaces in China where you can pay to pretend to work at a realistic looking fake office so that you can take selfies to pretend that you have a job and get your family to stop asking why you’re unemployed. Which is like such a capitalism thing that I have no joke to make about it.
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yknow,,…. i’m actually immortal and can’t die ever….. *gets really shy* i mean i am pervious to death and such and have died many times before *gets even shyer* i mean. um. umm. i. um. well. um. *gets mayfly* *(the insect)* i’m mayfly
I really hated this girl in my class and we kept exchanging notes with various threats of violence on them but then on a Zoom call I saw that she kept a bunch of them pinned on her wall with little hearts around them and I got the biggest crush on her after that.
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