another beautiful day in paradise
The temperature is warming a bit. The roads are thawing a bit. We're moving into McMurdo's mud season, which directly precedes McMurdo's dust season.
Yesterday, some beakers at a fish hut (where they --surprise-- fish) pulled up a crinoid (cry-noid). This made me happy for a number of reasons. Firstly, a crinoid was a Dr. Who monster from an episode that took place in Antarctica, except it's spelled Krynoid,
and it looked like this:
instead of this:
Secondly, they're creepy amazing creatures. One of those nebulous in-between plant/animal things. I'm not certain which was named after which, the critter or the monster, I assume the monster came second. Although the reverse is always possible, they just named a lemur species after John Cleese.
Yesterday, some beakers at a fish hut (where they --surprise-- fish) pulled up a crinoid (cry-noid). This made me happy for a number of reasons. Firstly, a crinoid was a Dr. Who monster from an episode that took place in Antarctica, except it's spelled Krynoid,
and it looked like this:
instead of this:
Secondly, they're creepy amazing creatures. One of those nebulous in-between plant/animal things. I'm not certain which was named after which, the critter or the monster, I assume the monster came second. Although the reverse is always possible, they just named a lemur species after John Cleese.
crinoid movie:
3 Comments:
What is this beautiful, delicately colored, dancing creature doing in the frozen and black waters of the Antarctic?
What is this beautiful, delicately colored, dancing creature doing in the frozen and black waters of the Antarctic?
I second, or...third that question!
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