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' flat animals ') [3] is a phylum of free-living (non-parasitic) marine invertebrates. [4] [5] They are blob-like animals composed of aggregations of cells. Moving in water by ciliary motion, eating food by engulfment, reproducing by fission or budding, placozoans are described as "the simplest animals on Earth."
Cephalization is a characteristic feature of the bilaterians, a large group containing the majority of animal phyla. [2] These have the ability to move, using muscles, and a body plan with a front end that encounters stimuli first as the animal moves forwards, and accordingly has evolved to contain many of the body's sense organs, able to detect light, chemicals, and gravity.
Cthulhu is said to resemble a green octopus, dragon, and a human caricature, hundreds of meters tall, with webbed, human-looking arms and legs and a pair of rudimentary wings on its back. [11] Its head is depicted as similar to the entirety of a gigantic octopus , with an unknown number of tentacles surrounding its supposed mouth.
Tardigrades are among the most resilient animals known, [11] [12] with individual species able to survive extreme conditions – such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressures (both high and low), air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation – that would quickly kill most other known forms of life. [13]
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Deuterostomia's sister clade is Protostomia, animals that develop mouth first and whose digestive tract development is more varied. Protostomia includes the ecdysozoans ( panarthropods , nematoids , penis worms , mud dragons etc.) and spiralians ( mollusks , annelids , flatworms , rotifers , arrow worms , etc.), as well as the extinct Kimberella .
The second part is a set of interviews between the puppets and human families, centering on the main story's topic. The last part is an interactive game (usually rhyming, guessing, or memory). [13] When Oobi started a third season in 2004, the game segments were dropped and replaced with longer stories. Interviews were still an important part ...
Rather than being tooth-like, the mandibles of such insects are lengthened into stylets, which form the outer two parts of the feeding tube, or beak. The mandibles are therefore instrumental in piercing the plant or animal tissues upon which these insects feed, and in helping draw up fluids to the insect's mouth.