OMG That’s Not A Sea Angel

By Dr. M, on July 31st, 2008 4 comments   Organisms, Pictures and Movies

…it’s a sea demon!

Actually its a pteropod, a shell-less gastropod, and even crazier it is a simultaneous hermaphrodite.

4 comments to OMG That’s Not A Sea Angel

• Bee

  July 31, 2008 at 19:06 · Reply

  That’s almost as disturbing (that soundtrack!) as Zoologic’s psychokitty… but oddly beautiful.

• kevin z

  July 31, 2008 at 19:29 · Reply

  Awesome find! I love that the audience laughs at violence…

  Simultaneous lovin’… with me and me and me and me….

• Firebyrd

  July 31, 2008 at 23:13 · Reply

  The Japanese crack me right the heck up. The video would be cool anyway, but add in the sound track and the screams and such, and it becomes freaking awesome!

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