Thursday, February 19, 2009

BRAIN CRAMP

You know bio lab has beaten your brain when you point to the turtle skeleton and identify the femur bone as a lamprey, which is in fact an aquatic parasite that sort of resembles an eel with spiral teeth.


IN BIO LAB, LAMPREY DISSECT YOU
The lamprey is a vertebrate in the class agnatha, the jawless vertebrates, and is studied as a model for the first vertebrates that arose in the Cambrian. It uses its teeth made of keretin to drill into fish, where it latches on and sucks their blood.


The only cure is a plain stockinette sock and hot chocolate.

Project: Tofutsies of the Sea Socks
Yarn: Tofutsies
Needles: 2.25 mm
Hot Chocolate: not pictured