is there an animal, that no matter often you look at it you go "that's an alien" or "god that things Weird"
I think it's crazy to me that we share the planet with giant pyrosomes and they're barely discussed or acknowledged
I am, unfortunately, unable to identify the original source for this image, which has been circulating the Internet without credit for at least a decade.
EDIT: Source found!
You know what's extra fascinating about this? Pyrosomes are tunicates, which means they're chordates. They're just outside the vertebrate clade, essentially our cousins. You are more closely related to a pyrosome than about 95% of animal species on earth.
even the ordinary ones are like...okay, let's swim around for a little bit and then settle down to filter-feed for the rest of our lives. brain? who needs that? and there are so many weird outliers in that category.
