Posted by Dr. Science on 04/29/2013 in
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How can we humans be in the same phylum as sea squirts?
———- from Shannon Bryant of Cedar Rapids, IA
You ever see those drawings of sea monkeys they have in the back of comicbooks? Well, those are actually sea squirts and their humanoid appearanceis quite obvious when you magnify them 2,000 times. One theory holds thatsea squirts were humans who were sucked into the center of the earth whenAtlantis sank. There, the intense gravity shrunk them to microscopic size.Hence the pejorative term “Squirt” we use to describe something puny andinsignificant. Incidentally a “phylum” is just a fancy Latin term for”file”, referring to the big file cabinet in the National Bureau ofStandards, where they classify everything.
