myrmepropagandist on Nostr: She was no ordinary deep sea isopod. We'd always known that they never really stopped ...
She was no ordinary deep sea isopod. We'd always known that they never really stopped growing, but this creature must have been growing from the beginning of time in the Cambrian seas. She was a little larger than a 3-story home. I could have spread my whole body over one of those dark compound eyes and not have been able to touch the edges.
Her mouth parts worked grinding -- and then I understood that similar stridulations must have been how her tiny land-based cousins could "sing." 9/
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