I'd fucking love both the creativity as well as the effort involved getting the background knowledge. That's why it's two full size milky ways.
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This girl is going places in life.
Door to door?
Fun fact: horseshoe crabs are not only not crabs (infraorder Brachyura), not only are they not decapods (order Decapoda), and not only are they not class Malacostraca, they're not even crustaceans (subphylum Crustacea).
Instead, they're in the subphylum Chelicerata, making them more closely related to a tarantula, a daddy longlegs, and a tick than they are to any crab.
I was under the impression that chelicerates were categorized as crustaceans, along with hexapoda. I'm not an expert in this, I just watch the phylogeny videos of Clint's Reptiles and AronRa.
Close. Arthropoda is the phylum under Animalia. From there you have the four subphyla Crustacea (crustaceans), Hexapoda (insects), Myriapoda (centipedes and millipedes), and Chelicerata (chelicerates). So they are closely related relatively speaking, but they're separate subphyla.
If anything, funnily enough, the clade Pancrustacea is comprised of just crustaceans and hexapods to the exclusion of myriapods and chelicerates. Even more messy – I learned just now that – is that Arthropoda can be divided into two clades Chelicerata and Mandibulata (where Mandibulata contains myriapods and Pancrustacea), so in reality, not only are horseshoe crabs more closely related to a black widow spider than to crabs, but crabs are substantially more closely related to a mosquito than to horseshoe crabs.
Thanks for the info, I love learning this kinda stuff.
A fellow Clint’s reptiles enjoyer?
Is that a YouTube channel?
It is! he’s a biologist that has gone through phylogenies of many living creatures with the goal of hitting every clade I believe. I’ve found him recently, so I can’t say I really know. But, I’ve been watching a lot of it. It’s fascinating.
Omg that's so cool. New thing to binge at work on slow days. 😎
Thanks!
My favorite horseshoe fact is that they have nine eyes, of all different types. And that's not even counting the tail which is itself covered with photoreceptive cells - so it's essentially a tenth eye.
They are part horse though, right?
Actually, part shoe.
And like many a shoe, has 10 eye-let
Well that checks out, considering they are more terrifyingly stranger then any other crab.
If I saw her crawling after me, I might actually shit my pants. Seeing that thing crawling around a suburban street would be way scarier than some disheveled clown
Why wait?
That would honestly make my fucking year!
This is why I love Halloween. Some kid wants to be an umbrella. Another wants to be a tornado. Then, Yoshi to shows up to get candy, but right behind him is his little brother dressed like the elderly ghost of Tupac. Bro wut.
I fucking love it.
That's a two full size Snickers bars worthy costume.
Yep, reward the creativity!
Do you want Aubrey Plazas, Lana? Because that's how you get Aubrey Plazas.
(I put way too much into pondering if it should be Aubries Plaza.)
"Surgeons general" energy.
Oh we should definitely be encouraging this then (I do mean this sincerely, I feel like this could read sarcastically but it isn't meant to be)
One of my favorite Halloween costumes is still a college acquaintance who came to the party as a banana slug. It was so sincere and heartwarming!
Fuck it, she wins Halloween. She gets the whole bowl. Turn off all the lights and lock the door.
First thing I thought about the skateboard is that he'll not be watching where he's rolling, and just gets driven over by a car