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Mary's Monday Metazoan: Rainbows in the deep
Category: Organisms
Posted on: December 21, 2009 9:23 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: badgersdaughter
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December 21, 2009 9:30 AM
Wow, that's gorgeous Butterfly of the deep. I haven't seen those colors even in clear quartz fractures. It looks like you could... should!... make jewelry out of it.
Posted by: CanonicalKoi
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December 21, 2009 9:40 AM
Oooooh...pretty! Usually you put in the name, PZ, so what is this one? I like to go read about most of the critters you post pics of.
Posted by: Carlie of the lacy, gently wafting adjectives
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December 21, 2009 9:40 AM
That's obviously an angel spreading its wings at the top, the holy green and red lights of the glory of the Lord shining round about it, and at the bottom is a donkey, a manger, and a very tired-out and sleeping Mary.
See, even jellyfish celebrate the true meaning of Christmas!
Posted by: bcoppola
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December 21, 2009 9:43 AM
I know it's a common observation but: Alien life? Look no further than the oceans! Living exemplars of J.B. Haldane's "queerer than we can suppose".
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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December 21, 2009 10:03 AM
CanonicalKoi - click the image.
I can't decide if it's shibby, sniny or groovy.
Posted by: jennyxyzzy
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December 21, 2009 10:12 AM
Oh please, as if that's real - PZ has obviously lifted it straight from Avatar!
Posted by: daveau
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December 21, 2009 10:15 AM
Nice.
I'm just not as enthusiastic about Mondays as I am about Fridays, but I suppose I shouldn't blame Mary.
Posted by: CanonicalKoi
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December 21, 2009 10:21 AM
Thanks, Sili. If I can't figure out an image link, more coffee is obviously called-for.
Posted by: Fred The Hun
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December 21, 2009 10:39 AM
CanonicalKoi @ 2,
If you right click the image and check the properties...
Sminthea arctica
Posted by: hje
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December 21, 2009 11:02 AM
Shiny!
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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December 21, 2009 11:12 AM
Like an opal, but not as enduring, and much more likely to sting.
Wouldn't make very nice jewelry for anyone with skin.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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December 21, 2009 11:47 AM
sniny!
Posted by: Blind Squirrel FCD
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December 21, 2009 11:51 AM
It is a ctenephore and stingless. You see a lot of them on the east cost of USA marooned glowing on the sand. The are strongly bioluminescent.
BS
Posted by: Blind Squirrel FCD
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December 21, 2009 11:54 AM
Oops, cancel that It is not a ctenephore. Mea culpa.
BS
Posted by: octopod
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December 21, 2009 12:17 PM
It's like a living soap bubble.
Posted by: jbrusselback
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December 21, 2009 6:56 PM
Great, now I read the title and now I have Dio stuck in my head...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYlDltwm-JY
Posted by: mythusmage
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December 21, 2009 8:48 PM
Once again we see protoplasm enhanced by physics. :)