What the hell is it?

[BurtWorm]

(Cheating is for Republicans.)

[datasuspect]

1. the baby alien that comes out of your chest?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. A seaspider ?

[BurtWorm]

17. How did you come to guess that?

You're right. I might have seen a picture of a seaspider once or twice in my life, but I probably wouldn't have made the connection based on that close up.

[Broken_Hero]

3. A funky

back massager thing?

[Wiw]

4. I don't know all I know is this

I don't know all I know is I know how to say the word spider and pinapple

[Broken_Hero]

6. Welcome to DU...:)

:toast: :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Is it a crab or something...?

:scared: Bleh...

[Avalux]

7. Can't be a spider...not sure. Gotta stare at it for awhile.

Might not be a living creature at all.

[Broken_Hero]

8. I don't think its alive

or was alive, texture looks way to smooth, I'm guessing plastic, or polished wood...

[Avalux]

9. Could be from the ocean (smoothness, texture)

I now think it's probably some weird thing from the far depths of the ocean. What it is exactly I can't say. :shrug:

[Broken_Hero]

10. its a Sea Spider

I just saved the image, and its file name was Sea Spider...I was way wrong...it is organic

[Avalux]

11. Wow - I rules out spider cause it seems to have way too many legs.

Cool! :hi:

You maybe be called a Republican though, lol - weren't supposed to cheat! ;-)

[Broken_Hero]

13. oh, sorry

I was going to save it, so I could zoom in on it, I noticed stuff dangling below and I started thinking maybe this was some sorta lame 70's lamp shade or some such nonsense...:) And calling me a republican!...damn youse...damn youse to hell...:)

Sticks and stones...you know...;)

[BurtWorm]

14. Rules are rules...

Damn Republicans...


;)


It's gratifying to me to see you were thinking it wasn't organic. I was marveling over how manufactured the thing looked myself. (But don't call me an intelligent design proponent, even if I did call you a Republican!)

[jobycom]

12. Dunno, but I bet it would taste good fried!

[graywarrior]

15. Freaks me out! Get it away!!!

[hedgehog]

16. A very enlarged photo of a plant part -

maybe pollen?

[leftofthedial]

18. Barbara Bush

without makeup

[BurtWorm]

19. Some info

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1675573.htm

For over 100 years, scientists have been puzzling over how exactly to classify sea spiders or pycnogonids.

They crawl along the bottom of the sea floor, sometimes more than 6000 to 7000 metres down, where they live in the dark, feeding on slow-moving soft-bodied sponges and sea slugs.

The creatures are segmented and have an exoskeleton, which makes them an arthropod, the same grouping as crustaceans, insects, centipedes and spiders.

But they also have a very strange collection of features, including a unique feeding structure.

"They have a proboscis that's like a straw that they insert into the animals and suck out the juices," says Arango.

Such features make it difficult to fit them into any of the known groups of arthropods.

"They look like spiders, but they are not real spiders," says Arango. "It's been very hard to place them in a position within the tree of life."

[ChickMagic]

20. Sea spider?

I only saw them pickled in my Marine Biology classes, but it sort of
looks like one. I don't think they are true spiders.

[BurtWorm]

21. See post #19

:toast:

[ChickMagic]

23. Yea!

I was hoping I was right. :toast:

[alarimer]

22. A pycnogonid

Sea spider.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_spider

[Deja Q]

24. Something that's very, very lucky!

:yoiks: