Big Freakin' Ostracods

i-2bb4136f0f1303f215d35c1cf185d044-giganto.jpgI like things in the deep!
I think about them when I sleep.

It does not matter if they're red or blue, swim or crawl.
Because I am banking my career or whether they're big or small!

Seriously though if you ever read just week's worth of DSN, you will know my serious affinity to body size extremes in animals. Over at Evolutionary Novelties, there is a great post that should have occurred here on the giant ostracod Gigantocypris.

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