March 13, 2019, 08:52 AM
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Cricket Savant
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Join Date: September 5, 2009
Location: Guyana,South America
Favorite Player: Rahkeem Cornwall
Posts: 28,860
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For the sake of science!
Scientists are dropping dead alligators into the darkest depths of the Gulf to see what bites
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It didn’t take long for one of the creepiest creatures of the deep to sniff out the gators. Giant isopods, each about a foot in length, swarmed in and began nibbling on what, to them, must have been a bountiful and exotic feast.
“We had assumed given the tough hide of the alligator it might take a while for deep-sea animals to access the soft tissue,” McClain said in email during an outing on a LUMCON research vessel. “But the giant isopods seemed to find soft spots in the hide on the abdomen and in the armpits.”
From the top, isopods look like a gargantuan version of the pill-bug, a land-dwelling cousin. Flip it over, and the pale, 14-legged crustacean resembles a ’facehugger’ from the movie Aliens.
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