Most NSFW Creature Ever
Move over, Sea Cucumber; your title as “most obscene specimen of marine life” has just been usurped. Enter The Pigbutt Worm! In addition to its official name, this newly-discovered species is also sometimes called The Flying Buttocks. Its Latin name, Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, translates to “resembling a pig’s rump.” These marble-sized creatures float below oxygen minimum zone and appear to catch food inside a small cloud of mucus that surrounds their mouth. Yum!
So Coilhouse is supposed to be on this crazy deadline moratorium but when I saw this picture, for some reason it made me think of all of you, and I just had to share. Enjoy!
Many thanks to (what other pervert could have submitted this?) Paul Komoda.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:34 am
The lovely image above was taken from the excellent coffee table volume,”The Deep-The Extraordinary Creatures of he Abyss” by Claire Nouvianhttp://www.thedeepbook.org/
Double-Plus Uber!
April 16th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Ah, yess! The infamous Pig Butt Worm really does deserve a special place on Coilhouse. Thanks, Paul, you twisted cookie!
April 16th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Waah! I love that book. Have been meaning to review it here forebber.
My personal fave:
April 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Aww Mer, that little guy is so cute! I just want to tickle him!
April 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Yay Mer! A variant of the ever-awesome piglet squid, I believe?
http://squid.us/piglet-squid/
The episode of The Blue Planet was always my fave. Awesome lightly stoned viewing, always gives me the sweetest dreams if I fall asleep to it…
April 16th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Of course Paul submitted this! I was so excited about this book that I read it with white gloves on when i first got it. amazing amazment the deep sea is.
my personal favorite: the winteria fish (below angler)
April 16th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
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April 16th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
i think coilhouse really needs to devote more time to articles like these. i’m not kidding either.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:37 am
big putt worm?… seriously?
kinda reminds me of a grade school teacher I had, from a certain angle anyways :)
April 17th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Sorry, that should’ve read the Blue Planet episode The Deep…only about the first half of it seems to be on YouTube, but if you’ve got a spare 20min to be reminded that truth is indeed stranger than fiction…
Part 1
Part 2
April 17th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Hahaha. ewwww.
And that little guy in Mer’s comment. Well, now I know where the inspiration for those pokemon whatever characters that my daughter loves come from.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
That article mentions how much it resembles a pig butt over and over, I feel its to keep anyone from coining it the “human butt” worm.
“No really! Doesn’t it resemble a PIG’S butt??? eh? a PIG’S?”
May 4th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Truly… remarkable.
This made my whole day, and part of tomorrow to boot.
Oddly enough, I just posted on the Sea Cucumber myself. See http://tcsf.blogdrive.com/archive/198.html I will post a link from there to here, for those so inclined to further incline themselves.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Clearly designed by Hans Bellmer.