Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish) (opens in new tab)

Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)this is how they lookWHAT DO YOU MEAN, CRUSTACEAN. my tags need to go in the main part of the post actually this is what im talking about that’s fucking horrible. worth noting though that the crustaceans are a broad class of marine animal which include barnacles and such as well as the usual suspects. so the nightmarish vision of a crab evolving into that terrible thing is thankfully not trueIMPORTANT UPDATE FROM