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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: neilep on 26/07/2007 14:48:00

Title: Woodlouse and Prawns/shrimps
Post by: neilep on 26/07/2007 14:48:00

Apparently this:

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbugguide.net%2Fimages%2Fcache%2FRZULJLNLQZJZGRKH4RQH6RSH0ZDLSZALFLWLJLELKZTL8RKH5RRHERKH6RBL2R3Z6RQHIZDL4R0HIZHHPRAL0ZZH.jpg&hash=9e43fe7b04cf271b3a22a79668888706)

is related to this:

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rammerjammeryellowhammer.com%2Fweblog%2Fshrimp-1.jpg&hash=ca11c269b3a5dd03ce8cfacf710ab88d)

How can this be true ?

As far as i recall...the woodlouse lives under a rock in my garden and the shrimp lives a thing called the Ocean !!

Title: Woodlouse and Prawns/shrimps
Post by: dentstudent on 26/07/2007 14:54:12

Woodlice are also related to lobsters, though a woodlouse bisque does nothing for me........

I'm sure it's a dim and distant relationship. If you go far enough back, we're related to a small blob of spittle found on the end of the nose of the greater black-backed spittle monster. Or was it a banana?

Title: Woodlouse and Prawns/shrimps
Post by: dentstudent on 26/07/2007 14:55:51

If you look at trilobites (spelling?), IIRC, they look enormously like an aquatic woodlouse. Perhaps this is the link? *goes to look up trilobites*

Title: Woodlouse and Prawns/shrimps
Post by: dentstudent on 26/07/2007 15:01:27

Hey - woodlice have gills! There can't be too many permanent land-dwellers with those (politicians aside)!

Title: Woodlouse and Prawns/shrimps
Post by: neilep on 26/07/2007 15:34:11

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY !!

THANK YOU  very much...so..about a zillion years ago a two primordial shrimp/woodlouse's were doing what they did... when one got sneezed on by a greater black-backed spittle monster and the other ' made it ' with a banana !..and from that day on the two went their separate ways............well...I'm convinced !!

Title: Woodlouse and Prawns/shrimps
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 27/07/2007 09:37:09

Quote from: neilep on 26/07/2007 15:34:11

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY !!

THANK YOU  very much...so..about a zillion years ago a two primordial shrimp/woodlouse's were doing what they did... when one got sneezed on by a greater black-backed spittle monster and the other ' made it ' with a banana !..and from that day on the two went their separate ways............well...I'm convinced !!

Sounds good to me too