Re: PERIPATUS

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:48:45 -0500, Krogg <kro...@gtcom.net>
wrote:

>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
>

Yup, that's the right critter.  And here's one in ascii form:

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I've also done one of the creatures that can be found with Aysheaia in
the Burgess Shale.  Here's my little tiny Pikaia that people usually
think is a slug:  

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     sk  `

Damn.  Now you're going to get me started drawing fossils again.  Don't
you realize how dangerous it is to do something like this to a geology
major?  Oh well.  I think this means I'm going to actually start sitting
down and drawing again, instead of just sitting down and looking at
everyone else's pretty pictures.  Here's a trilobite:

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-- 
/_____________/|"Geologists are amazing. They know hundreds of words for
Sarah Kearsley||different sorts of dirt and hundreds of words for things
   kearsley   ||it does when left alone for a few million years."
_...@wam.umd.edu_|/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Thomas Kettenring

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