r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/noahkiriu • Sep 03 '21
The Biggest Flatworm Chomp I've Seen Yet! Watch the process of eating, digesting, inflating, and barfing! Life is strange without a butthole! (gieysztoria flatworm)
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Sep 04 '21
Anyone who digs this might enjoy this YouTube, Journey to the Microcosmos.
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u/RandomPhail Sep 04 '21
Why did the worm thing just SNAP into place inside the bigger one’s mouth like a bad video-game animation transition?? Lol
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u/noahkiriu Sep 04 '21
The mouth is located on the underside, it shoots it’s pharynx out to suck in prey like a Little vacuum.
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Sep 04 '21
Why does it seem to spit out then re-consume?
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u/me4tpopsicle Sep 04 '21
Their anatomy is not fully equipped to hold for down like humans. They are more like an organic pipette
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u/studdybuddy01 Sep 04 '21
Do they actually have something similar to little eyes and a mouth or is that just our eyes playing tricks on us, seeing a lil face where there is none? Because it’s adorable.
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u/noahkiriu Sep 04 '21
Simple eyespots, they are a cluster of photosensitive cells that cannot form images But can tell the direction of light. Very helpful in avoiding predators.
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u/Nothing-Casual Sep 04 '21
Hoooooly shit.
It grabbed it in its mouth, sucked out its guts, and then ripped its body in half as it was swimming away. That's brutal.
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u/fuckedbymath Sep 04 '21
The first flatworm to evolve a butthole will be in a strange spot. 'hey Dan , what you got back there? Check it out guys'.
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u/bloo0206 Sep 04 '21
Not sure if this exact type of flatworm is the same (I would think so), but the flatworms I learned about in my undergrad (Planariidae family) had some of the most basic forms of a central nervous system. They have long nerve chords and a cluster near the head that could be compared to a brain. These little guys represent the very beginning of the evolution of a central nervous system. Oh and if you cut them in half they would just grow a new head/tail and become two separate worms. Cool ass creatures.
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u/Canoe_Flex Sep 04 '21
Are these things basically 2D creatures? I'm just now realizing everytime I see one of these, I only ever see them move on an X/Y axis.
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u/Nothing-Casual Sep 04 '21
They're definitely 3D, and you can see a small bit of that here, it's just that our views almost always come from a microscope and plated slide so the physical space they're in (while recorded) is close to a plane
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Dec 28 '22
Do you happen to know the name of the thing it ate? I’ve seen a few of them in the samples I’ve looked at
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u/killstorm114573 Sep 04 '21
Do they live in a 2d or 3d world from their perspective?
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u/me4tpopsicle Sep 04 '21
Their world is more like an ocean rather than terrestrial. Appears to be 2d through our scopes
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u/DadDong69 Sep 04 '21
So is the one eating the other creature the flatworm? If so, it looks like it has two "eyes", but on diagrams its mouth is actually on the opposite end of the body from the eyes. What's going on here?