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L., snarkymongoose
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‘Vestigial brains’😂… maybe a throwback to our distant chordate sponge-cousins the Tunicates🪸, who as children have brains and can navigate the world, but then regress and become sessile filter-feeding gasbags 💬attached to rocks or some similar concept
A tunicate: a white blobby sac-like animal with varicose purple veins and gaping orifices Wikipedia for Tunicates: Tunicates are marine invertebrates belonging to the subphylum Tunicata (/tju:nikerta/ TEW-nih-KAY-ta). This grouping is part of the Chordata, a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords (including vertebrates).... Despite their simple appearance and very different adult form, their close relationship to the vertebrates is certain. Both groups are chordates, as evidenced by the fact that during their mobile larval stage, tunicates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, post-anal tail, and an endostyle. They resemble a tadpole. Some tunicates live as solitary individuals, but others replicate by budding and become colonies, 11) each unit being known as a zooid. They are marine filter feeders with a water-filled, sac-like body structure and two tubular openings, known as siphons, through which they draw in and expel water. During their respiration and feeding, they take in water through the incurrent (or inhalant) siphon and expel the filtered water through the excurrent (or exhalant) siphon. Adult ascidian tunicates are sessile, immobile and permanently attached to rocks or other hard surfaces on the ocean floor.
June 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Many indeed. But I know a guy who gave nothing:
June 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM