Re: PERIPATUS

JRO wrote:
> 
> I want to see a good, accurate depiction of a peripatus.
> 
> The onychophora, peripatus, is a unique creature, found in New
> Zealand.  There is no other like peripatus.  It is probably a
> creature from the dawn of time, as it seems to have a fossil
> representative of the most early invertebrates: Aysheaia, as
> may be found in some deposits of Burgess Shale.
> 
> Aside from a lovely name, Peripatus doesn't look much like an
> earth creature.  It is also frequently colored blue.  It has
> a mixture of attributes similar to both annelidia and arthopodia.
> I have also found interesting the arguments taxanomists have had
> for years over the creature; it's taxanomy has been fussed and
> fought over, and changed several times.  Mostly, there just isn't
> anything like it.
> 
> Its pre-historic relative (which looks just like it), lived at
> a time when mother nature was just begining to make complex,
> multi-cellular creatures, and most of them (with the exception
> of the jellyfish) looked like pure experiments in physical design.
> No decendants remain of them, except Peripatus.  They were all
> bizzare in the extreme, like something from a sci-fi nightmare.
> And they are all gone.
> 
> Except Peripatus.  Peripatus still remains. It is totally bizzare,
> and totally unique, and I'd like to see somebody make a real good
> one.
> 
> ...... That should give you something to do....
> 
>             JRO
>      oglesbee@
>               mail.fullnet.net

I found 2 pics of these things and they both looked very 
simular.Tell me if this is the right animal.
http://piximg.corbis.com/cpe/sqlpic.asp?i=11120981&a=1&s=256wm

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