Comment on The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy.

henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• cm0002@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Er…I…um…what‽

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s true! I would collect them in a pail from the tidal pools as a child. I would crack them open with whatever I had available and eat them, and the halves would still be running around on the ground after I discarded the rest.

    The parts of urchin, the remains, they would skitter around and bunch up in one corner of the yard trying to get away like they didn’t realize they’d been eaten yet even though there was nothing left inside.

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    • cm0002@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have…so many questions…

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• spinne@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most unnerving meal I’ve ever heard of

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• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Could you do me a favor? Since you know what you’re looking for, will you see if you can find any videos of this? I looked, but either my keywords are bad, or there just aren’t any. I’m assuming it’s bad keywords. That’s absolutely wild.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I tried. This isn’t a very good video, but you can kinda see it’s still trying to crawl away after it’s been eaten at several points. I might have had 20 or so in a pile fresh out of the water and they were much more active. I hope this helps.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am deeply, deeply disturbed by this. Thank you for sharing!

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• AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I, for one, would like to see the cafeteria menus in advance so parents can adjust their dinner menus accordingly. I don’t like the idea of my children having two all-body brain meals in one day.

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