Marine Biology s And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life..and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:21-22 Even though the Bible never mentions s directly they would fall under the category of moving creatures of the waters that God created on the fifth day of creation week. - The Start - These creatures begin their lives with a protective shell, but before adulthood they get rid of that shell. That's why they're called nudibranchs or naked sea snails. Beyond their beauty, nudibranchs were created with an incredible defense system that can't be explained by evolution. Join the Ultimate Science Club for more! kidsfindtruth.com - Dazzling Defense System - There are some of the nudibranchs that will eat the whole anemone. On the ends of the anemone s tentacles there are little poisonous stinging cells. They re actually like little darts, that they will shoot at their prey when it comes in. But the nudibranchs can actually crawl on one of these things, surround it, and then swallow it. It just kind of surrounds it and then eats it. They digest the whole anemone but they don't digest the stinging cells, instead it will take the stinging cells and separate them out then they put them in some tubes in its body that carry it out into its skin and into their gills. They put these things all the way out on the ends of all their frilly gills and it becomes their defense mechanism. So in other words they steal the defense mechanism from their prey (the sea anemone), and they use that defense mechanism as their own system of defense. And they even strengthen the stinging ability of the cell, while they're digesting it, without setting it off! Total miracle. How could that evolve?
- Changing Defense - When the nudibranch is an embryo (a young nudibranch), it has a shell. So it s kind of like a snail with a shell. But it gets rid of its shell as it begins to grow. s aren't that big, about a few inches long. If you read what the evolutionists say about the nudibranch they will say, well it had that shell when it was in its larval stage like a snail shell and it took a big evolutionary gamble by getting rid of that shell. In other words it would have become very vulnerable to other creatures that would eat it. And it would have gone extinct by now. But we still have lots of them. There's no gamble there, God made it to have the shell to protect it, when it was the most vulnerable, when it was just a little blob. Before it had its distinguishing features, it was protected with its little shell, but now it comes out of the shell and it has these other mechanisms to protect it. So no, it's not a gamble, God designed it that way. -Gallery- -How To Pronounce- ˈn(y)o odəˌbrangk əˈnemənē -Mr. -
- Questions - 1. What is another name for s? 2. Do nudibranchs have shells? 3. Are nudibranchs poisonous? Why or why not? 4. What is the average length of a nudibranch? 5. Is the sea anemone dangerous to the nudibranch? - Fun Facts - ~ All nudibranchs are sea slugs, but not all sea slugs are nudibranchs. ~ There are over 3,000 species of nudibranchs! ~ s have poor vision. ~ s move on a flat, broad muscle called a foot, which leaves a slimy trail. ~ s are mostly found on the ocean floor, but some can swim short distances in the water column by flexing their muscles. ~s eat colorful food, which gives them their brilliant color. ~ s are not poisonous to humans.
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