Guess who enjoys spectating and touching Jellyfish? Twin boys!! November 3 is just for the both of you!! A day to celebrate that beautiful and mysterious invertebrate the world calls a ‘jellyfish.’ Jellyfish — a class of marine invertebrate animals — have been around for a severely long time, even longer than dinosaurs. Scientists always believed jellyfish originated some 500 million years ago, a theory proven right with the 2007 discovery of an impeccably preserved 505-million-year-old jellyfish fossil in Utah.. This find was particularly mind-boggling because jellyfish, having no bones to speak of, rarely leave a trace of their existence like other animals routinely do.
Five interesting details about Jellyfish: * Jellyfish are 95% water
(They've got a water-based substance called ‘mesoglea,’ which contains their muscles, nerves, and structural proteins.) * Their bodies are called bells
(The jellyfish swims around by contracting and relaxing their muscles around the bell.) * They come in a range of colors (pink, red, yellow, purple, blue, or even clear — and nearly half of the entire jellyfish population on Earth glow brightly because of a physical trait called ‘bioluminescence.’) *Jellyfish can be venomous. (A species of jellyfish called the ‘Malo kingi’ or the ‘common kingslayer’ has one of the world's most potent venoms, despite being only the size of a human fingernail.) * Jellyfish are often harvested for collagen. (Collagen from jellyfish is compatible with most cell types and is ideal for multiple medical applications, including treating wounds and helping with rheumatoid arthritis.)
That brings me to the 5 interesting Finds the twins taught me on my journey as a father this week…..
1. It should be illegal for twins to change their Halloween character without giving a 30-day notice!!
2. My body during the week where we attend a church trunk or treat, work trick or treat, and neighbor Halloween walk is like a car with every light flashing on the dash and flames pouring from the hood while there is a rabid family of raccoons in the trunk!!
3.The twins keep asking why we don't decorate outside for Halloween and I'm tempted to buy a bunch of posterboard and just write the scariest things I can think of on it...like "the principal is calling you at work right before a big presentation," or "Check Engine light comes on," or “your wife is pregnant with twins again!!”
4. iPhone be like, "Hey look we made you a very unflattering slideshow of all the pictures the twins took of your double chin and set it to whimsical classical music, you're welcome!!"
5.The expression “when one door closes, another opens’” is about the complete lack of privacy living with twins!!
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