Strange creature?

[Waynne Fowler]

It burrows into a den, if a predator threatens it it breaks into 3 distinct parts, one attracts the predator by wiggling and sacrificing itself to save the other parts. The remaining parts crawl off... supposedly to regrow I'm guessing.....

Yip sure sounds like an alien to me...

I'm waitin' to see if anyone notices anything weird about Jeff

[ktb]

I'm waitin' to see if anyone notices anything weird about Jeff

Um, he was weird before so . . . compared to what?

[Dusty2]

Dusty: Great job finding the ID of this worm. I find the statement "These pop up all the time" curious. I have never seen one and we have some pretty good observers of nature on this forum that were stumped as well. I think Jeff had a real find. I am impressed.
- Curt

answer from Leslie

I can't remember my password, so in answer to "old salt"/Curt's statement "....These pop up all the time" curious. I have never seen one and we have some pretty good observers of nature on this forum that were stumped as well. I think Jeff had a real find. I am impressed."....

Perhaps it's more accurate to say that pictures of Chaetopterus hinds ends pop up all the time in my mailbox, sent by people who want to know what they are. In other words, I see them a lot and I don't even dive!

Cheers, Leslie

[pogiguy05]

OH I turn my back on a post and when I come back I am the creepy creature of the deep.

Your just jealous cause my drysuit stretches and yours doesnt

Besides isnt there some kind of rule that to be able to join this site you have to be half " "

and yes it is almost 3am

[BASSMAN]

[lavachickie]

... Go to
http://www.tmbl.gu.se/staff/FredrikPleijelP.html and scroll down to
the bottom - you'll see a nice image showing all 3 regions...

I am so, so, SO creeped out right now. The photos on that page were Just. Too. Much. At least all in one place. Yeow. Fascinating and skin crawling at the same time. I'm sitting at my desk and had just eaten a hard boiled egg. This is not good, folks, not at all.

Glad the mystery is solved; that's fascinating.

[BASSMAN]

Mr. Andy Lamb is going to do an article in NW Dive News on this,(Using Pogiguys picture) keep an eye out for it.

Keith

[Leslie]

I am so, so, SO creeped out right now. The photos on that page were Just. Too. Much. At least all in one place. Yeow. Fascinating and skin crawling at the same time. I'm sitting at my desk and had just eaten a hard boiled egg. This is not good, folks, not at all.

What! Are you actually dissing the most wonderful beautiful fabulous creatures :luv: in the whole wide world? Oh, the horror! :queenliz:

[Greg Jensen]

I am so, so, SO creeped out right now. The photos on that page were Just. Too. Much. At least all in one place. Yeow. Fascinating and skin crawling at the same time. I'm sitting at my desk and had just eaten a hard boiled egg. This is not good, folks, not at all.

What! Are you actually dissing the most wonderful beautiful fabulous creatures :luv: in the whole wide world? Oh, the horror! :queenliz:

????? I didn't hear anything bad about crustaceans

[John Rawlings]

There's just no telling about people's taste around here, Greg!

[Leslie]

Greg, Greg, Greg.... When are you going to get over your little exoskeleton fixation? It's time to bristle up and face facts.... If I had meant the second most wonderful group of animals in the whole wide world I would have said so!

[Jan K]

[oldsalt]

Phylogenists!
-Curt

[BASSMAN]

Hey! Andy Lamb posted about this in his Creature Feature in North West Dive News!
Jeff's picture is officially "Published" Whoo hooo! Almost Famous!
Check it out!