Not so much at work, as at the Xmas dinner arranged by my employers. One of the chilli mussels I was enjoying turned out to be unexpected crunchy, and what I had expected to be a fragment of mussel shell turned out to a crab, either a Zaops ( oyster crab ) or the closely related Pea Crab, genus Pinnotheres. Both genera used to be Pinnotheres, but
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Seems to be one of those things - you discover something new and suddenly you keep running into unrelated mentions of it. Such as discovering that such a taxonomic clade as Marrellomorphs even exist ( I didn't know that the 'Lace Crabs' of the Burgess Shales even had relatives! ) and within a day finding an artist you follow has been drawing
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Snakes, as everyone knows, are to coolest damn animals *ever*, and do some really strange things, including swallowing tremendous items, gliding between trees, and having massive orgies in Canada
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