https://polypompholyx.github.io/tag/pseudocolochirus/Recent content in Pseudocolochirus on PolypompholyxHugoen-GBExcept where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence, Steve CookFri, 25 Apr 2014 11:14:56 +0000https://polypompholyx.github.io/2013/02/organism-of-the-week-8/Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:52:15 +0000https://polypompholyx.github.io/2013/02/organism-of-the-week-8/<p>If sea cumbers are an example of intelligent design, then God - sorry, an unspecified supernatural intelligence that <em>somehow</em> doesn&rsquo;t infringe on the First Amendment - needs to lay off the acid. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm" title="Echinoderms at Wikipedia">Echinoderms</a> are what you get when you give evolution the number 5 and half a billion years to piss around.</p> <figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width:300px"><a href="https://polypompholyx.github.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Pseudocolochirus_violaceus.jpg"><img loading="lazy" title="Pseudocolochirus violaceus [CC-BY-2.0 Alex Lomas]" src="https://polypompholyx.github.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Pseudocolochirus_violaceus-300x224.jpg" alt="Pseudocolochirus violaceus [CC-BY-2.0 Alex Lomas]" /></a><figcaption>A sea apple (<em>Pseudocolochirus violaceus</em>) at the <a title="Monterey Bay Aquarium" href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/">Monterey Bay Aquarium</a></figcaption></figure> <p>You&rsquo;ve simply got to love any animal that can <del>vomit up its own bowels</del> crap out its own gills to annoy predators.</p>