Deep Space Evolution: Clans

Chapter 54 Creatures with Two Adult Bodies

Ocean currents are the main form of movement of sea water.

Wind is the main driving force of ocean currents, and the earth's deflection force, sea and land distribution, and seafloor undulations also have varying degrees of influence.

After all, continental barriers make it impossible for any ocean currents to flow around the Earth, and islands or protrusions from continents can cause ocean currents to branch.

At the same time, differences in temperature and salinity will cause the density distribution of seawater to be uneven, causing the sea surface to tilt and cause seawater to flow.

Finally, there is the tide, which is the periodic influence of the gravity between the planets on the flow of ocean water.

There are many types of ocean currents.

As the main movement method of sea water, the movement of ocean currents will gather a large amount of nutrients in the ocean, which will also cause the biological resources in the areas where the ocean currents pass to become very rich.

Especially in areas where ocean currents meet, especially where warm and cold ocean currents meet, rich fishing grounds often appear.

These places where marine resources gather in large quantities are undoubtedly the places where many creatures live.

Yuan led the tribe forward in the ocean current.

Along the way, Yuan could be said to have eaten every creature he encountered.

Although marine plants probably account for more of them, Yuan Ye Shao said that he has collected at least hundreds of species of marine plants.

Some are not delicious, some are just okay, some are delicious. Anyway, Yuan wants to take a few bites of something he has never seen before to try the taste.

For living things, it goes without saying.

After arriving from the upper sea area to the middle sea area, Yuan was pleasantly surprised to find that this place was simply paradise.

Yuan saw many creatures he had never seen before here.

The first is the jellyfish. Yuan is very fond of this creature with a crunchy texture.

Of course, good taste is only a secondary source of good feelings.

The main source of goodwill is the transplantation solution that jellyfish can provide, which arouses Yuan's strong curiosity.

Normally, a living thing is born through the gestation of an adult, develops into a juvenile through various reproduction methods, and then gradually grows into an adult.

But this creature, meta-named the Stinging Jellyfish, is different.

Simply put, jellyfish larvae have two adult states.

The first is a jellyfish and the second is an anemone.

This anemone is also known as the spiny anemone.

In fact, Yuan's names for the stinging jellyfish and the stinging anemone were originally twin jellyfish and twin sea anemone, but when Yuan discovered the second type of jellyfish and the corresponding sea anemone, Yuan changed their names.

Stinging needle jellyfish float in the ocean, moving with the movement of the water.

The body of the stinging jellyfish is hemispherical and transparent, without blood, bones, brains and many things that are not the same as Yuan.

At the same time, there are many tentacles under the hemispheric body of the stinging jellyfish.

The reason why it is called stinging jellyfish is because Yuan was poked while eating this thing.

It was very painful to be stabbed hard.

The strong toxin quickly invaded Yuan's body through the blood, and was then eliminated by Yuan through evolution.

From then on, when I ate the stinging jellyfish, I only ate the upper part.

Of course, eating this time also made Yuan understand how messy a life can be.

The "big head" of the stinging jellyfish only acts as a locomotion organ.

The area where he feeds is on the tentacles.

These tentacles are divided into several different functions.

reproductive zone, feeding zone, attack zone, etc.

But this does not mean that the stinging jellyfish uses part of its tentacles for reproduction and part for feeding.In fact, the stinging jellyfish has different functions such as reproduction, eating, and attack on one tentacle!
Just weird.

Moreover, the distribution of these cells with different functions is still uneven.

Just like a human being, he has four limbs.

A limb from top to bottom is the upper arm, joints, forearm, palm, and fingers.

The other limb becomes the forearm, joints, upper arm, fingers, and palm from top to bottom.

There are even a few fingers on the upper arms.

Yuan has never seen such a mess of creatures.

But this may be the life philosophy of stinging jellyfish - just make do with it, whatever you can do.

Then there’s the other adult form of the spiny jellyfish, the spiny anemone.

Yuan was quite puzzled at first.

Why did I just eat a stinging jellyfish, but two creatures appeared directly in the evolution catalog?

The stinging anemone lives on the sea floor, taking root on seafloor reefs or other places. Its shape is very similar to flowers on land, but the "petals" of the stinging anemone are one by one.

Also, although the stinging sea anemone looks like a flower, it is actually an animal.

Yuan discovered them at the bottom of the sea through the appearance of the stinging sea anemone in the evolution catalog.

Goodfellas comes in films.

The taste is pungent.

So Yuan didn’t eat more.

These two seemingly completely different creatures can actually be understood as two adult states of one creature.

Hydra.

Yuan also has a unique name for the larvae of Stinging Jellyfish and Stinging Anemone in his mind.

The adult spiny anemone or spiny jellyfish develops this unique larvae in the reproductive zone of its body.

Whether it is a needle anemone or a needle jellyfish, the polyp larvae they reproduce have two development methods.

First, it completes the induced development on the adult body and becomes an adult polyp. After breaking away from the adult body, it will naturally develop into the original adult form.

Secondly, the induced development is not completed in the adult body, and those on the stinging sea anemone become floating polyps, while those on the stinging jellyfish become seabed polyps.

These two different hydra separated from the adult body because they did not complete the induced development of the adult body. There are not many reasons why this happens in nature.

But in any case, the result is naturally death of the adult.

As for genes, the instinct of genes is to copy and pass on.

Therefore, when the original adult dies, the genes will think that the adult has no value in reproducing, and will actively transform into another adult polyp.

As a result, the floating polyps that detached from the spiny anemone will become spiny jellyfish after development, and the seabed polyps that detached from the spiny anemone will become the spiny anemone.

These two seemingly unrelated organisms actually share basically the same genes.

Whether it is the Stinging Anemone or the Stinging Jellyfish, it is actually a successful case at the genetic level.

They all survived.

Even both species survived.

Stinging anemone, an immobile creature, grows everywhere in all areas passed by this ocean current due to the fluttering of stinging jellyfish.

For countless years, they did not see each other, but they all lived in the same ocean and were responsible for the continuation of the same gene.

(End of this chapter)