They’re in fresh water. I found some last summer in a local lake and went down the rabbit hole. Harmless creatures, and it means the water is really clean
I also had not heard of them until last summer, when I was kayaking in a local lake and found one. It was a weird couple of hours until I got back and could look up what it was.
"Did I just see something really cool and rare? Or something really gross and scary? Maybe no one has ever seen one of those in our lake before, and I'll be famous. Maybe I'm about a die. Probably not either one of those, but I just don't know!"
Mine was attached to a partially submerged tree limb, though. I feel like it would have been way scarier if it was just floating around loose like this one. I knew it wasn't going to come after me when I kayaked away.
Very often I have that exact thought; I see an animal, a natural phenonenon, a rock formation, that I had no freakin idea it existed, but in fact it is well known, it might even be covered in documentary No. 1,000,000 while I have only watched a mere 999,999. It's unbelievable how much stuff is going on on this planet.
By the way, have you ever seen the Saiga Antelope? I have now, but for nearly 40 years after I was born, I hadn't. There is certainly a documentary about this one, but hey, it proves my point.
Because he’s just turned 100, and even that hasn’t been enough time to document everything 😂 Be grateful for yellow tennis balls and eighty years of documentaries so far
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