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Show X':-x-;-x-:-x-z-M':-x-m-:-x-:-x-:-x-m-M'M-x-:-x-x-xoxx-m-:-x-m-x-:-z-:-x Sea Spider Recognized as Freak of Nature One of the strangest creatures of the sea is a certain species of sea spider named Nymphon graclle. It has a body about the size of a bit of thread, a quarter of an Inch long and tied into four knots. The head looks like the end of a thread split into two horns; from each of the four knots start two legs, one on each side, making mak-ing eight in all. The legs are three or four times longer than the body, but the odd thing about them Is that the alimentary alimen-tary tube, into which the food goes, runs down into every one of the legs, so that whatever the spider eats circulates cir-culates through his legs and, in fact, the legs are like the body in internal structu re. Another curious feature of this form of life is that the baby sea spider Is not In the least like the grown-ups of the same family. It is much more like a crab ; but how it develops from a crab-like form is not yet ascertained. |