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Post by auntym on Oct 19, 2014 13:10:19 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/18/alien-sea-creature-basket-star-singapore_n_6005084.html?utm_hp_ref=tw Bizarre Sea Creature Caught In Singapore Looks Like Kraken Come To LifeThe Huffington Post | By Dominique Mosbergen Posted: 10/18/2014 Good thing this fisherman got a video of his catch (above), because otherwise he'd never have been able to convince folks of the bizarre creature he hauled in while angling off the Singaporean island of Pulau Ubin. "I know that area has a lot of seaweed, so I thought that was what I had hooked up," 53-year-old Ramlan Saim told Singapore's English-language newspaper The Straits Times. "But then when I put it on the boat it started to move like an alien." So what is this freaky thing? According to Discovery News, it's likely a basket star, an invertebrate related to the starfish. Basket stars start out with five arms, from which smaller appendages sprout over over time. The creatures can re-grow their limbs -- which have small sharp hooks on them to capture prey -- if someone or something breaks them off. Not that we're going anywhere near that thing. www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/18/alien-sea-creature-basket-star-singapore_n_6005084.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
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Post by lois on Oct 20, 2014 21:43:21 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/18/alien-sea-creature-basket-star-singapore_n_6005084.html?utm_hp_ref=tw Bizarre Sea Creature Caught In Singapore Looks Like Kraken Come To LifeThe Huffington Post | By Dominique Mosbergen Posted: 10/18/2014 Good thing this fisherman got a video of his catch (above), because otherwise he'd never have been able to convince folks of the bizarre creature he hauled in while angling off the Singaporean island of Pulau Ubin. "I know that area has a lot of seaweed, so I thought that was what I had hooked up," 53-year-old Ramlan Saim told Singapore's English-language newspaper The Straits Times. "But then when I put it on the boat it started to move like an alien." So what is this freaky thing? According to Discovery News, it's likely a basket star, an invertebrate related to the starfish. Basket stars start out with five arms, from which smaller appendages sprout over over time. The creatures can re-grow their limbs -- which have small sharp hooks on them to capture prey -- if someone or something breaks them off. Not that we're going anywhere near that thing. www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/18/alien-sea-creature-basket-star-singapore_n_6005084.html?utm_hp_ref=tw All that comes to mind is Madusa's head.
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Post by nik71 on Mar 15, 2020 17:30:57 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Mar 15, 2020 20:15:48 GMT -6
Thanks for the info, nik.
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Post by nik71 on Mar 22, 2020 9:46:47 GMT -6
I remember seeing it posted somewhere and once seen never forgotten 😁
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