Friday, December 19, 2014

Oh calm down.

 

"Fisherman catches terrifying creature off the coast of Singapore."

The creature in question is actually a basket star, a deep-sea echinoderm related to star fish.
A basket star may have several hundred branches they are lined with tiny barbs that evolved to catch crustaceans like velcro the basket star curls into a ball during the day but climbs somewhere high at night, like a stalk of coral, and spreads itself out in the current it literally functions the same as a spiderweb except it’s a spiderweb that eats.

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