More great science from the best minds of Monterey County. Hooray, MBARI!
PARIS - Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blonde fur, French researchers said Tuesday.
To which I say:
WTF?!?!?
Aw! It’s soft! fuzzy! petable! and aquatic…with a carapace…and antennae…
That is just dead fucking cool.
this is the liberace of crustaceans.
I’m glad they found it in a relatively inaccessible location. Otherwise, I fear that, with such a high “cuteness” score, it would be coming to a pet shop near you sometime soon.
My four year old thinks it’s cool, too: “A lobster with feathers!”
At first, I thought it was something painted by Georgia O’Keefe. What a spectacular lobster.
how long before someone makes a plush toy version?
I have an important note about convergent evolution and this discovery at http://www.HankFox.com .
;-P
About the size of a crawfish, with more body than limb, living at 7500 feet down. I can only imagine what it eats; but it doesn’t sound all that delicious to me.
Ooh-la-la!
=v= In other silky blonde news, a team of crack researchers have recently announced, using some sort of rigorous and very scientific process other than wild speculation, their conclusions about the evolution of blondes. Apparently there were too few men and too many women, due to the rigors of all-male wooly mammoth hunting, so some of the women evolved blonde hair to stand out better.
This item was accompanied by mention of a WHO study saying that blonde hair be extinct in 200 years. It seems to me that it’s up to those of us with the blond(e) gene to prevent this tragedy, so ladies, give me a call. Not you, Paris, I said no.
P.S.: Don’t pay attention to those “corrections” and “retractions” sections in the newspapers that say there was no such WHO study. That’s a brunette conspiracy.