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Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

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Anthrovore posted:

mr. spondylus thanks you



see he's smiling

I'm pretty sure he's actually belching. Or perhaps he's doing both!

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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

gender illusionist posted:

hey op, I enjoyed reading about these thingies but do you have a video of one doing something? For example yelling into a cup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHDl-Zv-0l0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GjDQ7upbbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvnqPVfSJVI

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Lichy posted:

why do sea slugs need an internal shell

is that like an evolutionary precursor to bone

An internal structure remains important for keeping things like organs in alignment. Large animals almost always need a framework of some kind (though there's always jellyfish and etc. to disprove that as a hard and fast rule).

doodlebugs
Feb 18, 2015

by Lowtax

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

Anthrovore posted:

mr. spondylus thanks you



see he's smiling

stop using tinypic

the forums dont like it anymore and it doesnt show

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

british people are so loving gross

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

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Hogge Wild posted:

stop using tinypic

the forums dont like it anymore and it doesnt show

It works fine for me. Is your computer broke? ya got an opithsobranch in your posting machine or something?

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

Mak0rz posted:

It works fine for me. Is your computer broke? ya got an opithsobranch in your posting machine or something?

tinypic uses http and so it isn't as safe as imgur that uses https

a while ago pics hosted in http using servers stopped showing for everyone

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

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Hogge Wild posted:

tinypic uses http and so it isn't as safe as imgur that uses https

a while ago pics hosted in http using servers stopped showing for everyone

I see it fine on the Awful app but never checked it in a browser so maybe that's why.

Regardless I do agree that tinypic sucks rasps, much like a radula does to rock covered in of algae

King of Bees
Dec 28, 2012
Gravy Boat 2k
Pick I love your thread. Please tell me about Sea Hares. I used to find those fellas washed up and it would Chuck them back in the water.

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


I was fortune enough to go to school with banana slugs.
Not exactly overlooked, but pretty unknown outside of their habitat.

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Shaquin
May 12, 2007
i accidentally stepped on a slug once and it haunts me till this day sincerely i am stricken by a small pang of grief for varying degrees of time at least a couple times a week for a goop creature i accidentally killed as a child

Shaquin
May 12, 2007
you might laugh at that story and call me a child but i carry it with me in memory so that i will always be able to keep empathy at hand and in mind even when its for a weird boneless blob

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring

Hogge Wild posted:

stop using tinypic

the forums dont like it anymore and it doesnt show

I've used tiny pic ever since waffle images died and never has a problem with it :shrug:

more mollusks please

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Tricky D posted:

Once the current period of man inducted mass extinction is over, it will the mollusks' turn to rule the Earth.



I am ready.

apparently the cthulu monsters make okay neighbors since they have the interdimensional travel thing going on so they gently caress with people in other dimensions instead of the guys down the street because theres less drama so i guess id be okay with cthul;u monsters

Full Metal Jackass
Jan 22, 2001

Rabid bats are welcome in my home
Somewhere, someone wants to gently caress these things.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Shaquin posted:

i accidentally stepped on a slug once and it haunts me till this day sincerely i am stricken by a small pang of grief for varying degrees of time at least a couple times a week for a goop creature i accidentally killed as a child

I once hit a butterfly with my car and I still feel bad about this

I've killed a lot of animals in my academic research but the butterfly's death was purposeless :qq:

EXTREME INSERTION
Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
I am going to eat all of these, including the poisonous ones

vaguely
Apr 29, 2013

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Shaquin posted:

i accidentally stepped on a slug once and it haunts me till this day sincerely i am stricken by a small pang of grief for varying degrees of time at least a couple times a week for a goop creature i accidentally killed as a child
once i spent a while after rain moving snails off the sidewalk so people wouldn't step on them in the dark, and then i stepped on one and i wanted to die

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"
Pick you are good and your threads make me really happy. Is the whelk a gastropod? If so, what can you tell me about it? :allears:

Fiend
Dec 2, 2001
I wanna be an honorary Gastropoda.

Going to wrap up in a large blanket and find a nice damp shady spot...

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

vaguely posted:

once i spent a while after rain moving snails off the sidewalk so people wouldn't step on them in the dark, and then i stepped on one and i wanted to die

I'm sorry that this happened :(

Captain Yossarian posted:

Pick you are good and your threads make me really happy. Is the whelk a gastropod? If so, what can you tell me about it? :allears:

Whelks are indeed gastropods. Like "limpets" (and "fish", actually) the word "whelk" does not refer to specific taxa in a scientifically defensible way. It simply means, "one of the marine snails we will eat". That said, there is a family of "true whelks", Buccinidae. The common whelk is indeed a member of Buccinidae. The lightning whelk is not. The lightning whelk has a bit of a yin/yang thing going on with the knobbed whelk. Can you tell the difference in this whelk quiz?



Knobbed whelk


Knobbed whelk


Knobbed whelk


Lightning whelk


Soviet IS-3 whelk


Knobbed whelk

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

peanut posted:

I was fortune enough to go to school with banana slugs.
Not exactly overlooked, but pretty unknown outside of their habitat.



I love banana slugs

Do not buy this book though, it's really hosed up, and really disturbing

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
I like seeing poo poo from the ocean that I've never seen before because every single one just looks like a blob of color, sometimes with an eyeball, until I've viewed more than one picture of it.

monkey
Jan 20, 2004

by zen death robot
Yams Fan

leopard slugs do it better
https://vimeo.com/16731697

please make a cephalpod thread Pick

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Fiend posted:

I wanna be an honorary Gastropoda.

Going to wrap up in a large blanket and find a nice damp shady spot...

this is a good plan, i approve

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

Confession: After watching a stupid episode of a Saturday morning cartoon (Animaniacs??) which had a TMNT parody but instead of mutant turtles they were slugs whose weakness was salt that caused them to froth at the mouth and die I decided to put salt on a slug to see what would happen. It was probably the cruelest thing I have ever done and I am literal garbage for doing it.

I am sorry I wrong you, slug :smith:

the great deceiver
Sep 23, 2003

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona

peanut posted:

I was fortune enough to go to school with banana slugs.
Not exactly overlooked, but pretty unknown outside of their habitat.



did you go to uc santa cruz? i went there and we had a banana slug for our mascot. its a mollusk. i think its a mollusk at least. i dont know

the great deceiver
Sep 23, 2003

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona
cockles and mussels alive alive oh

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


the great deceiver posted:

did you go to uc santa cruz? i went there and we had a banana slug for our mascot. its a mollusk. i think its a mollusk at least. i dont know

Yes (Merrill 2005) and don't worry I verified its gastropod status before posting

Barnes And Body Works
Mar 2, 2016

:shroom::shroom::shroom::shroom::shroom::shroom:
:chillout:

Pick posted:


Lightning whelk

These are all really good, thank you for sharing Pick, I like the Soviet Whelk a lot.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
what do they all taste like

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



Pick posted:

I explicitly stated the rationale for excluding scallops! It's the gastropod thread!

But fine, you can post bivalves, i give up :qq:

Julia exquisita, a bivalve gastropod



the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice

Oberleutnant posted:

what do they all taste like

Big whelks are like wet leather feet. Small ones are yum

Barnes And Body Works
Mar 2, 2016

:shroom::shroom::shroom::shroom::shroom::shroom:
:chillout:

VectorSigma posted:

Julia exquisita, a bivalve gastropod





Holy poo poo it looks like a gummy.
And it also has a hinged shell I just noticed, that's really cool.

Barnes And Body Works fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Mar 20, 2016

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

Illegal Hen

whitey delenda est posted:

Mollusc:

A zebra mussel, gently caress these molluscs, they need no love
I'm pissed we cannot eat them because that would be the easy way to control this invasive species.

Wait… can we eat zebra mussels?

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe
One time I put my hand on a tree and there was a slug right there. It was a very disturbing and distressing cold, wet and slimy feeling and I remember it to this day.

I respect the creatures of this thread, though.

How far up the tree do you have to go to find a common ancestor between jellyfish and these guys.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Oberleutnant posted:

what do they all taste like

the great deceiver
Sep 23, 2003

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona

peanut posted:

Yes (Merrill 2005) and don't worry I verified its gastropod status before posting

oh ok cool i was cowell 09 and im a big gastropod fan here

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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
Big fan of Mollusks here

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