Tuesday 4 December 2018

Nemertea

Fight back!  Alright!  Let's do this.

You hide in the mud at the bottom of the sea, and wait.... when something yummy passes by, you turn your entire face inside out and stab them with a small, venom bearing, sting.  To eat them, you wrap your face around them and turn it back in again, drawing them inside, then go back to hiding in the mud.

Some of you develop long tails, anchoring you deep into the mud, where you stay for a lifetime.  Others swim or crawl on a slime trail between meals.  Hardly any of you are food for other animals.

It's a successful approach... if you like that sort of thing.


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