Guess the creature

42 thoughts on “Guess the creature”

1. A sea beastie jelly.

2. Some sea cucumber?

   Cucumbers are green you know.

   1. My first thought too. I’ll see what the rest of the world has to say now.

3. I’ve seen this movie before and it looks just like an extant Hallucigenia.

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucigenia

   1. I had the same thought but didn’t want to go all cryptid.

   2. First thing that came to mind for me, too, or some sort of lobopod. But probably a weird-ass sea cucumber.

4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melibe_viridis

   1. Thanks for that.

5. Uneducated guess: nudibranch.

   Mike

   1. I think so too. Whoa! Way cool.

      1. Agree

   2. Nudibranch? Seems like a good guess.

6. I hope that it is 16’ long, is hungry, carnivorous, and can be turned loose in the WH.

   1. I like the way you think!

   2. Sorry, WH?

      1. (WH = White House)

7. It looks like an animator’s impression of something from the Burgess shale. Really cool. And Alexandra is right….he needs a pet 🙂

   1. If he had a pet, he would just put it on the payroll.

      1. Would be a better Secretary of State than Tillerson, better Secretary of Education than DeVos, etc., etc….

8. I’d say, scan and merge some kelp, aHallucinigenia and my kitchen dish-drying rack, add some pea-soup for color then run it through a 3D printer..

9. wtf

   1. +1

   2. Nine-legged water Dyson. Obviously.

   3. Someone, somewhere, must have named a species or genus “WTFensis” or something similar.

10. Stachys byzantina ferned jellyfish.

11. Nudibranch

12. As per Paul above,and others, it’s definitely a melibe viridis. What a bizarre creature and what a mouth. Here are some interesting facts http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/mollusca/slugs/nudibranchia/melibe.htm

    Some good videos of the creature on Youtube, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VquL4JwwUas and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB6Wuw1SyrU. And some cool videos of other nudibranchs

    1. At the risk of being politically incorrect, I’m going to call it Martha Raye.

    2. Thanks for those! Also–lol!

       1. Maybe Joe E. Brown.

          1. Could qualify as an ‘Earthworm Tractor’.

13. That is a weird one, but it did not take long for the WEITers to identify it.

14. Wow that’s weird. I was thinking mollusk because the only other thing I’ve seen with a mouth like that is a cone snail. viz:
    https://youtu.be/S_LjnwVxGL0

    1. Thought that the geographic conus kiled their prey with a venomous harpoon, but here it starts swallowing before harpooning (if at all). Cone shells have many different neurotoxins and are capable of killing you.

15. From the static image I guessed either a nudibranch or a sea-cucumber. Having watched the video of it feed I’m now leaning strongly towards sea-cucumber.

    1. I have to stand corrected now that I’ve seen Jenny Haniver’s Wild Singapore wildlife facts link.

16. Looks like one of those Poodle crosses that are so popular nowadays — not quite sure with what…

    1. A nudidoodle?

17. Enjoy Te Papa, especially the Colossal Squid.

    1. Don’t miss the Steven’s Island wren, now extinct, the last ones were killed by the lighthouse keepers cat, but fortunately he sent the bodies to be stuffed and mounted.

18. How about testing the sea cucumber with a sea cat?

19. computer-generated imagery

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