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Blemmigans are real!
Ewan C.
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5/21/2014
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http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vivid-purple-jellyfish-may-be-new-species
BFW edit: fixed the link - the bullet point was breaking it.
edited by babelfishwars on 5/21/2014
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Twyll
Posts: 10
5/24/2014
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babelfishwars wrote:
*adds to list of reasons never to swim in the sea*
I decided I prefer sailing on top of the sea to swimming in it long ago, but learning about Glaucus Atlanticus, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus), also known as the blue sea slug, clinched it for me. On their own, they're not venomous at all, and are also tiny and adorable-looking; but they're also capable of just swimming right up to the incredibly venomous Portuguese Man-of-War and munching on its tentacles, then refining the venom to make it even more deadly.
Also, because one can never go to Wikipedia without clicking through at least a few links (although I generally manage to stop before arriving at the 72 Seals of Solomon having started at an article about cats), I just discovered that the Blanket Octopus likes to break off Man-of-War tentacles and wield them as tiny floppy marine swords.
Now, I haven't gotten far enough in the game to see much of the Unterzee beyond panning for Glim on its shores, and I'm not part of the Sunless Sea beta... but I sincerely hope there are, or will be, creatures populating it that are as amusingly horrifying as these that IRL-Nature produces!
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babelfishwars
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5/21/2014
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*adds to list of reasons never to swim in the sea*
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Mars, God of Fish; Leaning Tower of Fish
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Catherine Raymond
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5/21/2014
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Dear God. It came all the way up here from the Neath! :-)
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Pyrodinium
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5/21/2014
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Does it have good penmanship skills though?
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