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Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology

14 points by randomImmigrant - 4 comments
bediger4000 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Steven Haddock, a marine biologist who studies ctenophores

Interesting case of nominative determinism.

randomImmigrant [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Haddock is a bilatarian species though :P

But yes, the I suppose a call to study ocean creatures can be more compelling with that’s name.

bediger4000 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I imagine Steven Hydra was taken.
Nursie [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Mysterious and interesting things, first read about them after going scuba diving and seeing a few of there barely-there diaphanous whisps of creatures, with rippling iridescent spines up their sides.

Amazing to learn they were cilia refracting the light, not chemical bioluminescence, and that despite appearances they are absolutely not jellyfish!