Sea anemones are relatives of the jellyfish. They have these tiny hairs growing on them that they use to feed by stunning fish, shrimp, zooplankton, and so on.But they can survive for years without food. They’re like jellyfish in that way. There are even sea anemones that have lived longer than 70 years with the proper care.
They’re found all throughout the world’s oceans, and they can slowly move too. There are also fish that live inside them called anemonefish. The sea anemones protect them from predators and share their food scraps.
In tropical waters, sea anemones latch on to coral reefs or rocks.
Starfish are echinoderms and relatives of the sea urchin. There are as many as 2,000 starfish species around the world. Not all of them are star-shaped either. There’s even a species with 30 arms.
When they get attacked by a predator, they’ll rip off their own arm to get away while the predator eats it. Their arms can regenerate, so I guess they regrow later.
Starfish can eat almost anything in the ocean. They feed by pushing their stomach out of their mouth and directly digesting their prey. Fun fact, there’s an area in Kumamoto Prefecture where they eat starfish. As you’d expect from a relative of the sea urchin, you strip the skin to eat the insides, like with sea urchins.
Even in other languages, starfish mostly have star-related names. For instance, in France they’re called…
… “étoile de mer”, which would roughly translate as “star of the sea” or “sea star” - the same as the Spanish “estrella de mar”, Portuguese “estrela do mar” or Romanian “stea de mare”.
This reminds me of the song Nrrrd Grrrl.
At the local bookstore yesterday, the girl burst over all excited to show me her new tabletop magazine. Only after I got home did my knowledge of my autistic friends and my own divergence set in and realize she might be into me.
That, or she was really excited about her mag and didn’t care who came in the door, they were getting assaulted about the new Pathfinder module 😛
i love how there is no comment below 2 paragraphs
Am I the only one that appreciates those people? I actually might be one of those people myself, the jury’s still out.
I have a coworker that LOVES math, and he dumps topology and set theories on me all the time. I don’t know what half of it means, but I find the concepts very interesting.
When did we as a society decide that being passionate about something is a bad thing.
Sure sometimes I’m not in the mood of listening to an infodump, but I appreciate that someone cares enough to want to share it with me.I as someone who is bad at coming up with things to talk about Those kinds of people are so fun to talk with as i don’t have to constantly worry about what to talk about next.
And dammit she’s just so adorable.