New footage of a bizarre sea creature that's likely the longest animal in the oceans

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That’s incredible! Is it all just one long intestine? Are we all just one long intestine?

“retrieved sea creatures”
Im imagining it was something like this:

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That’s right, the universe is…

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O brave new old world. That has such people creatures in’t!

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duh! it’s not one animal, it’s a colony of animals

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I wonder what is the evolutionary advantage of being so incredibly long? Can it digest things that other organisms would fail to get nutrition from? There has to be some downsides, like getting tangled up in yourself or cut in half by a passing fish from time to time.

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Reproduction?!!

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Yes. Man is a distended torus.

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150ft? Pfft, that’s rookie numbers. Gotta pump them numbers up! I regularly get thousands of ft in Slither.io

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