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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWatch Ginormous 'Pill Bugs' Eat a Dead Alligator Deep Under The Sea, For Science
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-dropped-alligators-on-the-seafloor-and-the-giant-bugs-came-creeping?fbclid=IwAR33c3PyWIYO5jKnkiNu5gg54ajv9G46Y_KTo1pF3N5K-kCaKlwG3RSJOFcSixty-five million years ago, planet Earth was pummelled by a wave of extinction that left few marine organisms alive.
A gross, yet fascinating new video shows a troop of deep-sea bugs chowing down on the carcass of an alligator, which researchers from Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) dropped two kilometres (1.2 miles) deep in the Gulf of Mexico.
A gross, yet fascinating new video shows a troop of deep-sea bugs chowing down on the carcass of an alligator, which researchers from Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) dropped two kilometres (1.2 miles) deep in the Gulf of Mexico.
I decided that this merited an epic poem ... or some sort of poem ... and so:
With apologies to Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Doodlebug Revere,
On the 12th of April, in Seventy-Five
Hardly an Isopod is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
nah ... something ain't working
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Watch Ginormous 'Pill Bugs' Eat a Dead Alligator Deep Under The Sea, For Science (Original Post)
ashling
Apr 2019
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Brings up an interesting point ... did you know "Roly-Polys" aka Pill Bugs
are actually terrestrial crustaceans, not insects?
It's true!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)4. Evidently, my sister liked putting them in her mouth when she was little
Parents found her with cheeks puffed out. They made her open her mouth, and it was full of pill bugs.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,143 posts)6. OMG
LMAO
ashling
(25,771 posts)7. I also know
that I'd like to send about a truckload of those terrorizing isopods to the Oval Office
hibbing
(10,138 posts)2. Fascinating
Here I lay at the bottom of the sea
Waiting for someone to eat away at me
All for science my body I donate
As the giant pill bugs ate and ate
Peace
ashling
(25,771 posts)8. Pillbugs Pillbugs everywhere
Pillbugs Pillbugs everywhere
trump's body for to eat
Pillbugs Pillbugs everywhere
... nah, I still can't get the rhyme
Your verse, btw, was great
Kaleva
(36,527 posts)3. Money well spent doing research on Trump's future final resting place
Solly Mack
(90,872 posts)5. K&R