Do I really need to point out the error here? At least they got it down to Kingdom correctly…
Click on the image to go to the original article.
UPDATE: The critter is a pelagic sea cucumber, phylum Echinodermata, genus Enypniastes which is #20 on our list The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species. I can’t definitively ID to species from the image. But a far cry from Phylum Cnidaria!
Clicking on the image does nothing, the intended link is probably http://www.examiner.com/x-48249-Santa-Ana-Statehouse-Examiner~y2010m6d19-Its-possible-that-microbes-can-stem-the-BP-oilspill-Disaster
. The image name over there says resized_09112203seacucumbertransparent_big.jpg (no useful exif data inside), is that at least correct?
Sorry Kevin, I’m at a complete loss! What on earth is that animal? Obviously not a jellyfish, if that thing is a gut, but what are those tubes? It doesn’t look like anything from my (admittedly dated) zoology-book… And the image doesn’t seem clickable…
Sorry guys! I emended the text to describe what it is. Also fixed the broken link to the image. Cheers!
Is no one going to point out that this thing looks like a penis?