MARA GRUNBAUM at Books Inc. Berkeley | Books Inc. - The West's Oldest Independent Bookseller:

Hey! Are you in the Bay Area? Then on Feb. 11 you should come see me at Books Inc. in Berkeley. I’ll be talking about weird animals, reading from the WTF, Evolution?! book, answering questions, signing copies, and generally doing whatever it is people do at book readings. Come say hello!

“Hey, everyone likes spiders, right?”

“Well, uh…”

“Of course they do. Spiders are cute, and they keep the insect population under control.”

“They sure do, evolution.”

“Anyway, I was thinking of making something similar, but for the ocean. Like a… sea spider.”

“A sea spider.”

“Mmm hmm. Only it’ll barely need a body, because I’m going to stuff most of its organs and its digestive tract down its legs. And instead of eating insects, it’ll stick its long proboscis into sea anemones and suck their insides out. What do you think?”

“Well…”

“I think everybody’s going to love it.”

“Yes, evolution, I’m sure.”

Source: NOAA Ocean Today / Creatures of the Deep: Sea Spider (click for video)

“Hey, everyone likes spiders, right?”

“Well, uh…”

“Of course they do. Spiders are cute, and they keep the insect population under control.”

“They sure do, evolution.”

“Anyway, I was thinking of making something similar, but for the ocean. Like a… sea spider.”

“A sea spider.”

“Mmm hmm. Only it’ll barely need a body, because I’m going to stuff most of its organs and its digestive tract down its legs. And instead of eating insects, it’ll stick its long proboscis into sea anemones and suck their insides out. What do you think?”

“Well…”

“I think everybody’s going to love it.”

“Yes, evolution, I’m sure.”

Source: NOAA Ocean Today / Creatures of the Deep: Sea Spider (click for video)

Pffffffft. Evolution was putting mohawks on the manakins way before it was cool.

Source: Wikimedia Commons / Rick elis.simpson / licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Pffffffft. Evolution was putting mohawks on the manakins way before it was cool.

Source: Wikimedia Commons / Rick elis.simpson / licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0