I clicked on 4 Black Eggs Have Surfaced From the Dark Heart of the Ocean—With Alien Creatures Inside. How could I not? Fortunately, it was a truthful title. An ROV dived 6200 meters beneath the Pacific Ocean and found strange black eggs attached to a rock, and brought some to the surface (the operators have presumably never seen a horror movie. Don’t harvest the mysterious black eggs ever, and don’t bring them back to the lab.)
“Under a stereomicroscope, I cut one of them, and a milky liquid-like thing leaked from it; after blowing the milky thing with a pipette, I found fragile white bodies in the shell and first realized that it was the cocoon of…”
It was flatworms. Platyhelminths.
Niiiice.
Not at all Lovecraftian or scary, though.
I dunno, if they were certain parasites, there could be some modest cause for concern. Especially if you’ve got snails nearby.
Awwwww… [Disappointed Emoji]
“Not at all Lovecraftian or scary, though.”
But those are just babies
When they reach full size, and engulf entire cities, then we’ll see if they’re Lovecraftian or not.
Maybe they’ll start by devouring MAGAts, so allies?
“It’s never aliens.”
Have we learned NOTHING from “Alien?”
@ 5
More like “Prometheus.”
We’d better get noted biologist Avi Loeb to look at them – they could be extrasolar.
For Lovecraftian horror try bobbit worms.
Huh. I thought platyhelminthes lived in soil. What wee they doing in the deep ocean?
@ Artor, # 9: There are many different kinds. Some of them live parasitically in the intestine.
tacitus @ 4, it’s always aliens. Got plenty of aliens living in my building, we trade recipes on a regular basis.
Although, the one cookbook that I have is decidedly unpopular, “To Serve Man”. Got it at some Twilight something or other store years ago.
It would be interesting to see an analysis of the white fluid, I suspect it’d have a fair bit of complex lipoproteins present. Chemistry at that depth can get, well, weird and complex.
It was for the flatworms.
“Alien Robot From Outer Air Abducted My Children So They Could Be Dissected By Superintelligent Vertebrates, Says Local Motherfather”