WEBVTT - Creature Classic: Rock Animals! 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.000 Welcome to Creature feature production of iHeartRadio. I'm your host 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.480 of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.760 and today on the show, we're talking about glam rock animals. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.920 Animals who are glamorous and glitzy and on occasion also 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.480 tough as a rock. From the shiny and splendiferous scale 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.840 worms of the deep to scuba diving lizards, these animals 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.600 all have one thing in common. They are one hundred 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.160 percent glam Discover This Morris answer to the angel question 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:41.000 was that Rainbowfish children's Book of Body Horror. Joining me 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.520 today is friend of the pod podcast person frequent voice 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:48.839 on Fake Doctor's Real Friends, DJ and twitch Man Dan L. Goodman. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.520 Hi, how's it going good? 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.160 Do you mind if I call you Twitchman? 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.120 Twitch Man? That is perfect? Twitch Man is excellent. I'm 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:00.000 honored by the title. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:06.319 Yeah, yeah, I'm a pod woman. I feel like I 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:12.520 missed the times where it's like like Blacksmith or you know, 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.200 you know what I mean, Like when we have these 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.560 these names like Lamplighter or they you know, like like 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.360 we have podcaster, but like what about Podsmith. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.399 I was just thinking, how fun Podsmith would be psmith. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.480 Yeah, it sounds like real work, which it's not. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.560 I go to the kilns of pro tools and craft 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.080 strong by hand. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:41.560 Had handblown podcast technically true because you know, you breathe 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.920 out with your mouth as you make mouth sounds. Anyways, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:51.400 we are talking about glam rock animals, animals who are glamorous, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.800 incredible looking. The rock stars of the natural Kingdom and 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:01.120 their glitzy and glamorous appearance have probably red reasons for it, 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:05.360 actual survival reasons, which we will discuss. What do you 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.160 think of when you think of glam rock in general? 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.280 Yeah, I mean, you know, there was definitely I'll tell 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.880 you a very short story. The very first vintage T 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.040 shirt that I ever got at this place on Lobra 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.800 I called jet Rag was an old Poison T shirt, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.560 a Poison Tour T shirt, and on the back I 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.720 think it said rock the fuck Out. And my mom 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.400 didn't see that at the time, so she let me 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.600 buy this shirt that said fuck on it, and I 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.720 was like, wow. So I think of that shirt, but 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.360 I think of hair, I think of Neon, I think 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.040 of Sparkles, I think of like yeah, so I think 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.839 of a lot of you know, we're talking wall of sound. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.880 We're talking big, So I thought's that's what I think of. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.760 I think everything big, hair, big, eyeliner big, yes, you know, 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.720 mega big, the hole in the ozone from the Hairspray big. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.280 I'm perfect, yes, but yeah. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.880 So the first animal we're going to talk about is 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:04.440 the Elvis war which has is named after the King 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:09.560 of rock Elvis, because it is iridescent and glitzy and 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.480 glamorous and also kind of an asshole. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.200 Oh really, yeah, I mean it's not I don't think. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.079 I don't think they named it after Elvis because it's 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.799 an asshole. But I think it's fits right because he 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.399 was kind of an ass wasn't he. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:24.320 That is my understanding. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.799 Yes, you know, I'm look, I'm keeping it real. I'm 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.080 not saying Elvis. It's not cool to like Elvis, but 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.240 you know, yeah he had he had a big sound, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:35.320 but also a big ego. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.680 That is what I hear. Is my understanding as well. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:43.040 Shout out to listener Vincent Jorgensen for this idea that 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.240 I don't know why I have not talked about these 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.440 on the show before, because they are incredible. They have 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:53.120 this rainbow and purple shimmer. Now Daniel, I want you 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.000 to look at this, this little little cutie. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.200 I have it pulled up right here, and this is 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.560 a shimmery, a shimmery looking little worm. How big is 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.000 this worm there? 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:09.480 You know, I'd say about like palm sized. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.000 Oh yeah, that's that's big. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.320 I guess, so not that big. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.160 Well, okay, fair fair play, but this is and this 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.440 is truly an error on my part. But looking at 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.360 this image just on the just on the raw, just 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.359 like stark black of it, it almost felt like a slide. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.599 I was ready to be looking at like a microscopic 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.880 worm here. I was ready for you to say, yeah, oh, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.560 you could fit about a thousand on your hand right now. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:41.400 I'd be like, you know, not not not super huge. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.960 But yeah, they are definitely like not. They are not microscopic. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.360 They can see them with the naked eye. Hold them 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.680 in your hand, you know, let them crawl all over you. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.120 I would get the I would get the willies. I 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.760 believe it is the willies. I'd get the willies very quickly. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.600 I call it. Call it the Jimmy skin. But yeah, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:02.080 I mean that. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:06.440 Works too, that's very funny. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.320 But yeah, so they are absolutely beautiful. They look like 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.680 holographic nail polish or you know, the most the glittery, 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:20.320 most glittery glam that you can find. They were discovered 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:24.120 by a team of researchers at Script's Institute of Oceanography 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.640 at UCSD. Shout out to my dad who works at 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.440 Scripts Institute of Oceanography. He's actually in the ocean Physics group, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.200 so they deal with the physics of waves, not necessarily 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.640 the critters, but yeah, you know. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:37.080 Got it. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.479 Good, good job, guys. Can't wait to see y'all for 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.080 a beer and I'll say, hey, good work on that worm. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.039 You know, good, good work on that worm. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:46.680 Good good warming you guys. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:52.200 Oh you got me. I'm looking at this worm also, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.240 and it reminds me. You remember the book The Rainbow Fish. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.640 Yes, yes, oh oh man, I love that book as 0:05:58.680 --> 0:05:59.119 a kid. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.440 Just very similar color scheme of just like that, you know, 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.479 super iridescent glowy but also like some solid color but 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.880 also looks like there's just like super flex of rainbow everywhere. Yeah, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.200 just trying to paint as as vivid stone a picture 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.480 as I possibly can of this world. I'm like cat 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.240 I right now, you know, man, it's like that book 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:21.039 The Rainbow fish. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.159 Yeah, because it's like they had this like iridescent glittery 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.120 scales on this fish. It was so fun as a 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.159 kid because you could like touch it and like feel 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:33.640 like embossed are fun. Yes, it was also I feel 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.800 kind of sorry for the rainbow fish because it was 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.320 like he's got all these rainbow scales on him, right, 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.600 and like his fish friends who don't have those are jealous. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.680 So he it's a book about sharing, like you share 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.320 this with others and generally speak, I'm very pro sharing, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.320 you know, pro sharing sure, yeah, or resources with others. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.279 But it's part of his body. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.320 So yeah, it's different, a little. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.720 Strange, right of a weird message. It's like if you 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.919 are hanging out with friends and you're like, oh, I 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:06.599 really like your hair, and you're like you do it 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.400 and then you just like cut off a big trip 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.000 here you go rip it off. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:11.840 And that's the thing. And that's the thing with kids 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.680 that are unpredictable. It's like they'll take the note to 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.400 the letter. So it's like, I know the story of 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.720 the room. It's about sharing. They're like, okay, so I 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.560 like rip off my skin for my friends, like no, no, no, no, no, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.360 no no, no, no, not quite that. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:32.200 Well, you know, that is a horrible kindergarten scene that 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.240 I do not want to see. But so yeah, these 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.560 do look these do look like the rainbow fish. They 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.320 are They are in fact a worm, I know, like 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.800 sometimes we call things worms, but they aren't really, but 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.160 they are. They are warm. They're actually a type of 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.920 scale worm, uh and which is actually related to very 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.520 distantly related to earthworms, a little more closely related to 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.160 bristle worms. You may know some bristle worms, like there 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.320 is We've talked about some of them on the show, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.200 like the bobbit worm. This horrifying tremors. Like did I 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:06.200 were you on the show and I. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.440 Talked about the bottom I think I was, Wow, I 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:09.880 love it. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.760 I love how somehow that worked out. But I did 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:13.920 not plan for that. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.040 I was gonna say, I feel like we talked about 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.480 like a I remember you described something as a tremor's 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:24.000 like worm, and I was like, wait a minute. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.960 Well I'm flattered either way, but like if it was 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.280 if it's a worm that lives under the sand at 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.920 the bottom of the sea, it lunges out of the 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.320 sand and will grab onto an unsuspecting fish and pull 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.400 them back down, sort of like a tremor's worm or 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.640 like a sarlac. But it's also very shiny and iridescent. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.199 Now it's it's not super closely related to this one, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.959 but fairly it's it's a bristleworm. So they they are, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.320 you know, so scale. But this the Elvis, it's actually 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:59.120 called p elvis. I gotta gotta have it sound scientific. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.320 I was gonna say it's got sound though, sound good. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:02.360 That's so funny. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.600 But yeah, they did name it that because of its 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.120 sort of glittery, glamorous look that they thought looked flashy 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:13.440 like Elvis. And so here's what it looks like. So 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.080 it's not it doesn't actually look super like a worm 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.679 like you think of an earthworm. It has a series 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.599 of interlocking scales on its back that are shiny like that. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.640 It's like it looks like plate armor, and it's kind 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.440 of flat, very shiny and eardescent. And underneath it it 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.560 has these gold shiny bristles jutting out of it that 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.440 you might mistake for legs, but aren't actually legs. They're 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.560 just these these bristles. And at its head it has 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.520 these things that look a little bit like pincers. They're 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.520 actually not quite pincers. They're called pelps. So pelps are 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:53.720 these appendages at the heads near the mouths of arthropods. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.960 You can see them in spiders and insects as well, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:02.280 So those are its pelps. And so yeah, it's it's 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.199 kind of but it's it's rather flat looking and it's 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.720 kind of oval shaped and so like you know, it's 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.559 kind of alien and bizarre looking. But it gets way 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.600 weirder than what you can just see at a glance. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.600 So being on this show, you know, I will say 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:25.280 I wasn't entirely surprised by that potential, but like I'm excited, 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.280 please go on. I had to drop when you said that. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:28.600 I was like, you know, I had a feeling you 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:29.640 were gonna say, yeah. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.800 Well, you know, there's always something hidden underneath the surface 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.760 for these animals. So like these are found in the 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:45.040 deep sea near like hydrothermic vents, as well as on 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:52.000 the carcasses of fallen sea creatures, including whales. So when 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:56.800 whales die, it's certainly sad for the whales, but it's 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:01.800 a great boon for all of these underwater arthropods, these 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.600 deep sea creatures that will feed on the whale's carcass, 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.080 and it can feed a hell of a lot of 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:09.520 animals in life. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.800 I have a question, isn't there a term for like 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:18.200 the kind of like minor or like micro ecosystem created 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.440 by a whale carcass? Am I thinking, am, I could 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.800 be I may, I may just be this. I could 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.680 be pulling this all the way out of my ass 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.480 right here. But I felt like there was some word 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:33.200 for like the micro ecosystem created ecro micro ecosystem created 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.360 by a dead whale in the ocean, because like, yeah, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:37.640 you're right, feel that. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.200 I feel that, I feel like there is I mean, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.160 I thought it had a specific I mean I think 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.680 it's called like whale fall action whale fall. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.720 I think that's it. Yeah, I think you're right. Whale fall. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.600 That's it. You're right, whale fall. That's it. Nice. Yeah 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:52.760 that was the whale fall. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.440 Well, thank you for reminding me that that term exists. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.680 It is a cool like whale fall. Yeah, so, I 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.320 mean it's pretty straightforward. I guess it's what a whale 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.000 falls to, but yeah, it is. It's something where there's 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.280 something kind of grim and ghoulish about it, seeing this 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.719 decaying whale but it's also incredible how much life that 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.080 can support. It's kind of like when a tree falls, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.640 a huge tree falls in the forest. There's something sad 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.680 about that, right, this ancient tree falling and decaying, But 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.440 then that tree feeds so many animals. In fact, an 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.640 animal we're gonna talk about later on the show. A 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.959 lot of these glamorous animals like to feed on dead things, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:39.600 but hey, look, you know it's a living so they 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.440 will feed on things like whale carcasses. I know that 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.360 the research team that collected some of these specimens actually 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.599 found them on a whale carcass, so that must have 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.439 been a fun treat. You're like zooming around looking at 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.720 this whale carcass all it's all strange and kind of creepy. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.000 And then you see this like glitterus glamorous little scale 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.240 where I'm going like, hello, I'm here, and here I 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:06.000 am eating a dead whale. I don't know how Elvi sounds. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:12.120 You know, just like you, I was transported, you know 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:12.920 what I'm saying? 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.960 Dead? Who that's a little better. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:25.560 Okay words, But like I said, like Elvis, not only 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.920 in appearance, but a little bit assholely. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.600 They like to bite each other when they're not biting 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.680 on some delicious whale fall carcass. So they that is 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.720 one of the reasons that they have these scales is 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.960 for protections. Protection not only from other animals and predator, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:44.079 but from their. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.880 Competition literally from each other. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.720 Yeah, from each other, and when they bite each other. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:54.720 It's fascinating. So I want you to, before I say 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.320 anything else, just take a look at that picture that 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:58.360 I've provided for you. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:04.880 Yeah, I mean, I'm horrified. Obviously, this is a terrifying 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.120 picture of a dean. I'm seeing a demon of the 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:14.160 suit with it's almost like I want to say, I mean, okay, okay, 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:18.800 it looks like a faceless worm with a with a 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.480 like a bird's beak coming out of the center, but 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.920 it's surrounded by like a statue of liberty of like 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.320 it's just outward appendages, Like I know they're not horns, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.600 but it looks like a wreath of horns sticking out 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.200 around a bird's mouth coming out of an eyeless worm. Demon. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:46.480 That's about right. They actually have a proboscis that they 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.960 can avert. So a proboscis is basically like a fleshy probe. 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.360 It can mean like a nose. It can mean a 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.440 variety of different things, but it's basically a flesh probe, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.600 which is flesh probe. It's not really that's not really 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:00.960 a gl rock name is. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.480 It could be a song though, could be a song. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.200 I feel like this show is good at producing metal 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:10.840 names more than glen Rock names like flush probe. So 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.400 they can evert it, which means basically like pushing it 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.240 out from inside of them. And then in this proboscis, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.640 what you're seeing is a set of jaws, set of 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.160 sharp jaws that they can use to snap at their 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.080 food source like a dead whale, or each other if 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.640 they if they're feeling feisty. Okay, so just you know, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.360 like in Aliens, like how the alien shoots out a 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.600 smaller alien tongue with the set of jaws. It's just 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.360 like that. It's like boop, I'm gonna snap you up. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.720 Another similar feature of the of the bob At Warmer. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.080 They can just basically shoot out a thing and like 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.680 snap up. So do check out this video. I'm also 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.400 including all this in the show notes as always, But 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.080 there is a cool video of them. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.080 Okay, oh there they are, Oh well, yeah, they are 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.400 pretty their sizable. Oh yeah, you'd see them. They're they're real. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.360 Oh oh, you just stuck his tongue out one of 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.320 the other ones, gonna do it, I bet Oh my gosh, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:17.520 Oh my gosh, he's so patient. Ooh goodness, he got 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:18.000 a grip. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:19.120 Mm hmmm. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:19.800 Whoa. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.000 In fact, their fights can be so violent that they 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.040 can rip the scales off of each other. So a 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.880 pretty like dark reboot of The Rainbow Fish where it's 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.240 just violently ripping off each other's scales. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.440 Yeah, exactly, my scale, No, my scale. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.120 But yeah, that thing that looks like a tongue like 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.680 it's going like boop, that's actually it's proboscis. And it 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.160 has that gnarly set of jaws in the center of 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.680 it that it's using to bite that other elvis worm. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:57.000 That is a lot. Yeah, that's a lot right there. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.000 Oh my gosh. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.880 I bet you're wondering why they're so iridescent and shiny 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:04.520 and beautiful. 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.439 That's that's I mean, that's you know, that's on the 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:14.120 list of questions mostly I'm I I. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.960 Wonder it too, but I don't know, and nobody knows. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.720 Isn't that fun When I'm just like, hey, you wonder 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.640 this thing. Sorry, nobody knows. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:28.160 It's literally don't you wish you could just ask them, like, Hey. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.200 What's up? Why are you guys so angry all the time? 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.480 What's with that weird like mouth boop thing that you do? Yeah? 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.800 I mean, so they are actually blind. There's no reason 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:42.960 for them to need this aridescence for like conspecific communication, 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.440 So like it's probably not for sexual selection or anything 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.720 like that because they can't see it. Uh, It's possible 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:55.720 it's for some some way of crypsis, I suppose. Seems unlikely. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.680 It seems like it would just make them stick out. However, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.240 in these deep sea and ronments, you never know, Like 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.480 how that I wonder, like maybe it interacts strangely with bioluminescence. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.600 That's a possible thing, Like the refraction of bioluminescence may 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:16.280 have some advantage. My suspicion is that it actually serves 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:21.600 no purpose the actual visual of it. Rather, it's just 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.719 a byproduct of forming these tough scales. So like having 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:32.000 these very tough maybe crystalline structures in its scales, the 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.600 nature of having them really tough at this molecular level 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:40.960 also affects like how light is refracted off of the 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.199 surface of these scales, so that would be sort of, 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:47.560 my guess, is just a byproduct of making sure that 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.000 these scales are really tough. Yes, okay, I mean, like 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.680 you think about how like a diamond is really tough 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.240 and it's beautiful and it's hiering glittery. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.920 Yeah, it makes sense absolutely. I by one thousand percent. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.560 I'm with you, And I also like that, you know, 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:09.440 it's it's really subverting expectations, like to be tough, you 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.879 have to be glamorous. I like that. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:15.840 To the first first you must shine. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.400 Speaking of the bobbit worm, twenty million year old fossilized 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.040 tunnels have been discovered beneath the ocean floor, over seven 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.520 feet or two meters long, but only a couple centimeters 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.720 wide in diameter. It's thought that these were once home 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.560 to an incredibly long worm, perhaps the ancestors of the 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.600 bobbit worm, as there's fossilized imprints made by these worms 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.120 that seem to indicate they use these tunnels to drag 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.000 their prey to an extra deep and watery grave. When 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.920 we return, we're going to talk about a thought provoking 0:19:52.080 --> 0:20:03.520 intersection of fashion and entomology, though Daniel. You know that 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:09.960 animals and humans have a weird relationship sometimes, Yeah, totally. 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.680 I mean, for instance, like my dog, I think only 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.760 sees me as like the peanut butter provider. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.879 You know, at least a peanut butter warm blanket. 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.160 Right, that's true, a warm blanket. 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.040 Peanut butter human radiator, a butt. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.080 Scratcher and peanut provider, peanut butter provider. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.920 Oh, I'm king butt scratcher. I'll tell you what I 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.399 feel like. That's it. I feel like that, if I'm 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.399 being real, Everybody's like, oh, that's a trick with dogs. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.040 They love getting scratched on the butt. Like, at what 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:45.800 point is it not a trick anymore? It's like, oh, 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.280 of course a dog loves a good butt scratch right there. Right, 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.600 that's just you know, that's it. That baseline baseline dog knowledge. 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:57.000 Are they sing? It's like a Konami code for a dog. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.960 I feel like I feel like the dogs are fair 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.359 really obvious about one. I mean, like my dog Cookie, 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.879 Cookie will literally walk up to She does this every 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.399 day all day, like this is her favorite thing to do, 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.520 not joking, walk up to you, turn around so her 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:16.840 butt is near you, and then look over her shoulder 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.080 as you know, like kind of look between you and 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:22.240 the butt like exactly you're doing it. Yeah, eh eh, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:23.119 thinking about this. 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.040 Yeah, gotch And you can like. 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.800 Hold your hand out and start wiggling your fingers and 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.119 she will come over and sort of like dock her 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:33.639 butt under your fingers and then so you can scratch it. 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.920 Wow, that is a smart that's smart Cookie you got 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:37.359 raised there. 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.320 Yeah, she's smart whenever it serves her own insist. 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:47.480 I love that. A purpose like a purposely smart and 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:49.560 stupid dog. That's like, Cookie, we need you to do 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:52.119 this right now. I don't know. I'm a dog. I 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:52.760 don't speak. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:56.720 And then they say you want to get your butt scratched? 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:58.200 She knows that. She knows what that means. 0:21:58.320 --> 0:21:59.760 Oh, I want to get my butt scratched. 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:04.840 You got hearing? That's what she knows. What a CHICKI 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.640 pill is. When I she has these like chicken flavored, 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:11.240 chicken flavored hip point supplements and if you want to 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:13.240 you want a chicky pill, she knows what that means. 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:16.240 When I say you gotta sit, she doesn't know what 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:18.560 that means. That suddenly doesn't know what that means. 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:22.280 Have you seen that since this episode. It's like the 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:26.560 thing that translates baby talk, but or like translates animal talk. Oh, 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:29.440 like what is your animals saying? It's like this leash 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:34.159 demeans us. Both great. I wait for that day. I 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:35.720 wait for that day where we get that where we 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.480 get the translation device. And Cookie was just saying, look, 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:40.240 I sit on my own schedule. 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:44.600 Okay, right right, that you shall provide me with butt scratch, 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:48.359 cheese and peanut butter. Your services for anything else are 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:49.240