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Hank, Sarah, and Kallie Moore (from PBS Eons) are taking turns “blind ranking” a set of animals! Let’s find out which beast is the blobbiest.
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Sources:
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/absurd-creature-of-the-week-dont-you-dare-call-the-deepstaria-jellyfish-a-whale-placenta/
https://bioone.org/journals/american-museum-novitates/volume-2018/issue-3900/3900.1/In-situ-Observations-of-the-Meso-Bathypelagic-Scyphozoan-Deepstaria-enigmatica/10.1206/3900.1.full
https://www.popsci.com/deepstaria-jellyfish-ghost/
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sea-pig
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/the-blobfish-a-bloated-guide-to-the-worlds-ugliest-animal
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Curious_Collection_of_Peculiar_Creatur/01XWDwAAQBAJ
https://www.discovermagazine.com/with-a-comically-sad-face-the-blobfish-could-be-the-ugliest-animal-in-the-45904
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/science/placazoans-neurons-evolution.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/placozoa
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31524-5
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00917-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867423009170%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/placozoa
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/animal
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/elephant-seals
https://www.asoc.org/learn/southern-elephant-seals/
https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/animal-care/learn-about-marine-mammals/pinnipeds/northern-elephant-seal
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Images:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/elephant-seals-in-antarctica-stock-footage/964742920?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/male-southern-elephant-seal-roaring-royalty-free-image/1899887703?phrase=elephant%20seal&searchscope=image%2Cfilm&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/south-georgia-where-king-penguins-and-elephant-royalty-free-image/1442210071?phrase=elephant%20seal&searchscope=image%2Cfilm&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/large-elephant-seal-on-south-georgia-island-stock-footage/1190475607?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/elephant-seals-in-antarctica-stock-footage/964746184?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/elephant-seals-in-antarctica-stock-footage/964745942?adppopup=true
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/fathead-psychrolutes-aka-mr-blobby/
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/seascape-alaska/ex2306/gallery/gallery.html#cbpi=/okeanos/explorations/seascape-alaska/ex2306/gallery/media/dive04-blobfish.inc
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/australian-fur-seals-sea-lions-hd-stock-footage/473307079?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/slow-motion-of-majestic-cape-fur-seal-on-a-rock-wildlife-stock-footage/2200296045?adppopup=true
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amphiprion_clarkii_-_Cymothoa_exigua_(28999213532).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lernaeolophus_sultanus_on_Pristipomoides_filamentosus_New_Caledonia.tif?page=1
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/black-browed-albatross-chick-sitting-in-its-mud-cup-royalty-free-image/1486520607?phrase=albatross%20chick&searchscope=image%2Cfilm&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/tardigrade-crawling-in-polarized-light-stock-footage/1369270771?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/peripatus-walks-through-frame-stock-footage/499056047?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/captivating-beauty-of-sea-star-in-underwater-realm-stock-footage/1572338837
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichoplax_adhaerens_photograph.png
https://figshare.com/articles/media/Placozoa/28262765?file=52795589
https://figshare.com/articles/media/Video_2_Amino_acids_integrate_behaviors_in_nerveless_placozoans_avi/22597501?file=40118293
https://figshare.com/articles/media/Video1_Expanding_of_Life_Strategies_in_Placozoa_Insights_From_Long-Term_Culturing_of_Trichoplax_and_Hoilungia_MP4/19144031?file=340143500
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/empty-gold-ornate-picture-frame-with-white-royalty-free-image/182391849?phrase=picture%20frame&searchscope=image,film&adppopup=true
https://youtu.be/sEqJQ1ysGdQ
