Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/14/find-awe-in-the-biology-of-the.html
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Look, I’m still having traumatic flashbacks of the snail parasites…
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New term of 2019, “Flippin’ maggots!”
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I’m good. No need to be finding awe in that.
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But did it stick the landing?? Otherwise, I’ll save my awe for Simone Biles’ triple double.
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Good source of protein.
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So, Mexican jumping beans?
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There was an episode of the 1995 Outer Limits wherein brain-eating worms fling themselves about in a singularly improbable fashion. Perhaps the writers actually knew their subject matter? I never would have thought.
(Also, that was freakin’ Neil Patrick Harris in that episode!?)
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For God’s sakes man - zombie snails and then this, all in one day? Why do you hate me?
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you spelled “speechless horror” wrong.
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Nice to know these guys could actually exist…
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These discoveries integrate three vibrant areas in engineering and biology – soft robotics, small, high-acceleration systems, and adhesive systems – and point toward a rich, and as-yet untapped area of biological diversity of worm-like, small, legless jumpers.
Somehow, I’m no longer as disturbed by the Uncanny Valley.
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That belongs in the mutants food thread, ya know.
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Makes me think of the casu marzu cheese from Sardinia.
It too has leaping maggots which might just hit you in the face while eating…
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Next I hope they investigate how an organism can throw itself 36x times its body length and walk away from the landing like its no big deal.
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Not sure about the awe but I definitely found fear.
