Saturday, April 01, 2006

Triffids alive and on the move


"The humble sea lily, which normally remains rooted to the ocean bed by a stem, has been caught creeping away from predators in deep sea video footage. The footage (600KB, requires Quicktime) It shows, for the first time, a sea lily crawling slowly across the ocean floor on its fingers, dragging its broken stem behind it".
-New Scientist

Watch the footage, it's really quite creepy. This is a plant after all!
What an amazing world we live in.

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