Say hi to the Portuguese man o' war.
It's purple, it's clear, it looks like a balloon, it's painfully
venomous, but it's not a jellyfish and you wouldn't have to convince me
too hard that it's from an alien world. This Portuguese man o' war,
which other than being a fantastic name, washed up on a beach to freak people out (and to expose the alien hideout that is the ocean).
The Portuguese man o' war
is often mistaken as a jellyfish (because jellyfish look freaking crazy
and we're more understanding of crazy looking things like the man o'
war as long as they're called jellyfish) but is actually a siphonophore.
Siphonophores
are fascinating because they look like a single organism but they're
not, they're actually a colonial organism made up of little individuals
called zooids. Zooids are attached and dependent on each other so much
that they can't survive independently.
What
I have determined after learning all that and seeing the man o' war is
that aliens have already crash landed on Earth and they've been living
in the ocean. It's the only thing that makes sense.
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