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Sea pig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sea pig may refer to: • Scotoplanes , a genus of deep-sea holothurians (sea cucumbers) commonly called Sea pigs • some species of porpoise or dolphin or dugong • an animal in medieval texts with un...
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Very little is known about Scotoplanes general biology, but we do know a thing or two about their nutriton. ... Like a lot of other deep-sea sea cucumbers, Sea pigs are what's called deposit or detrital feeders. That is, they feed on the ... BUT contrary to some accounts that these are "slug like" or coarse dirt worms,
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See pictures of the new marine life found in Antartica where scientists from New Zealand collected samples of many different forms of life from tiny micro-plankton up to large toothfish and recorded some never-seen-before views of the seabed. ... Mills and colleagues collected the organism, ... Digg StumbleUpon Reddit...
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A rare picture of a leaping seapig taken by a Hebridean fisherman. ... Physical appeaeance: The seapig resembles a domesticated pig, with a sleek, pinkish-grey hide and sharpened spade-like trotters, which are used for swimming and spearing fish.
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Sea cucumbers (and seapigs --pictures below, and diagrammed to the left) (Holothuroidea) are often the most common macroscopic animal in deep dredges.The seapig Scotoplanes galatheae has been caught at 10,000m in the Kermadec Trench!
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XML-RPC makes calling remote functions incredibly easy. ... From http://www.xml-rpc.com: It's a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make ... It's remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding.
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