#metazoos

[dropsofsciencenews]

Reconocerse en el otro… ¡Literalmente!

¿Alguna vez has observado algo y de repente notaste un detalle que no encaja? A veces, este tipo de sorpresa puede llevar a un descubrimiento increíble, especialmente si estás observando un tanque lleno de ctenóforos.

Pero, ¿qué son los ctenóforos? Son organismos marinos transparentes, delicados y hermafroditas que se reproducen sexualmente. Viven principalmente en mar abierto y son conocidos por su belleza luminosa y bandas iridiscentes. El nombre "Ctenophora" proviene del griego "ktenos" (peine) y "phoros" (portador), refiriéndose a los característicos cilios en forma de peine que utilizan para moverse. Aunque a menudo se les confunde con las medusas, pertenecen a un filo diferente.

Ahora imagina estar en un laboratorio, frente a un tanque lleno de Mnemiopsis leidyi, conocida también como la nuez de mar, una de las especies invasoras de ctenóforos más notorias del mundo. Esta especie puede comer hasta diez veces su peso corporal al día, matando de hambre a ecosistemas enteros al devorar todo lo que está en la base de la cadena alimentaria. Mientras observas detenidamente, algo llama tu atención: un individuo inusualmente grande con dos extremos posteriores y dos órganos apicales en lugar de uno. No, no estás viendo doble, es un solo ctenóforo. Esta peculiar observación llevó a un grupo de científicos japoneses a hacerse una pregunta: ¿es posible que estos ctenóforos, probablemente heridos durante la recolección, hayan fusionado sus cuerpos durante la curación, aprovechando el espacio limitado en el tanque?

Para responder a esta pregunta, los científicos decidieron probar su hipótesis con un experimento. Removieron parcialmente los lóbulos de otros individuos, colocándolos en estrecho contacto y fijándolos en platos de disección. ¿El resultado? En nueve de cada diez casos, las lesiones se fusionaron durante la noche, creando un tejido continuo. Estos animales fusionados lograron sobrevivir al menos tres semanas.

Pero el descubrimiento no termina aquí. Después de una sola noche, los dos individuos originales se habían convertido en uno solo, sin signos visibles de separación. Cuando los investigadores estimularon un lóbulo, todo el cuerpo fusionado reaccionó con una contracción sincronizada. Además, ¡sus sistemas digestivos también se habían fusionado! Cuando una de las bocas ingería comida coloreada con fluorescencia, se podían observar las partículas pasar a través del canal fusionado y ser expulsadas por ambos orificios anales, aunque no de manera simultánea.

Estos resultados demuestran no solo el comportamiento único de estos extraordinarios animales, sino también sugieren que M. leidyi podría carecer de alorreconocimiento—la capacidad de distinguir entre uno mismo y los demás—un mecanismo que previene la fusión entre individuos de la misma especie. En los seres humanos, esta capacidad es lo que causa el rechazo de los órganos trasplantados. Los ctenóforos se encuentran entre los grupos de animales más antiguos entre los metazoos actuales, poseen un sistema nervioso único, y su falta de alorreconocimiento podría ayudarnos a entender mejor cuándo evolucionó este mecanismo en los animales.

¡Hasta pronto y buena ciencia!

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[driderwife]

Here’s my eBay with some of my Pokémon TCG and Neopets plushie collection! Been unable to work because of illness so I’m trying to resell a bunch of my stuff I don’t need ! Thanks for looking :) ⭐️

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I can also bundle orders to combine shipping, message me on eBay before you order so I can make you a custom listing!

Thanks for looking! Boosts appreciated :)

[poundfooolish]

I've fallen down the stupidest fucking rabbit hole involving Metazoo and I've been possessed by the world's stupidest demon to accumulate a complete set of these useless valueless frankly shitty unplayable cards and just. Preserve them. For posterity.

Like I'd stopped picking them up because the Native set made me. Really uncomfortable and I was only buying them as a consolation prize when Target was out of Pokemon and Digimon and YuGiOh cards but now that the entire corporation is dead I just want to dissect this corpse and absolute stupid cash grab sham of a company

Like I'm convinced this game is the way it is and the cards are what they are because all these cryptids and folklore creatures and various references to 'spooky' things you'd find on any 3spoopy5me wikipedia crawl are the way they are because they already exist in the cultural miasma despite not being copyright in any way. You can cut a lot of red tape and save a lot of money when you don't have to come up with a design wholecloth yourself you can just go 'this is mothman it looks like mothman', and the cancelled SCP cardset only FURTHER CONVINCES me of this. Like. The creators were obviously panning around for open source easy ideas they didn't have to actually think about or pay for and printing money off of gullible card investors. For two and a half years!!!

And a fun thing about me is I cannot resist a scam. I cannot resist a rabbit hole. This guy rugpulled a whole community and now you have a bunch of bagholders awkwardly standing around like 'yeah I really believed in the card, I just liked the card you know, the game was fun.'

Meanwhile the optimal way to play the hello kitty crossover set (which. How did you swing THAT???) involves wearing a giraffe onesie, a crown, a red bow, moth antennae, feathers, a mask, a bunny hood, a birds nest directly on your head, dragon wings, a bell, a kuromi headpiece AND a propeller hat all at once, ideally with a volcano in plain sight. You also have to say aloud with your human mouth "It's okay I forgive you" in order to summon kuromi to the field.

bonkers fucking game I wish it got popular competitively I want to see what depths TCG players would stoop to in order to gain an edge.

[lesserknownpumpkins]

Headless Horseman from the trading card game MetaZoo

illustrated by @jojoseames

[enby--ghost]

since metazoo went bankrupt, can we as a community buy the ip and turn it into the fun and silly tcg it deserved to be from the start without all the nft garbage

[littlethingsmart]

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[skuntank]

In other news, another thing I want so so so SO badly is this Old Scratch Metazoo card but you can't find it for cheaper than $9,000 🥴

[jojoseames]

Commission! The MetaZoo hodag coming across the hodag statue outside the Chamber of Commerce in Rhinelander, Wisconsin!

Watercolor, 10 x 8 inches JoJo Seames, 2024

[milkmonsters-co]

Small poison milkmon native to the swamps.

[nyxanine]

At the end of 2023 I designed these various cryptids for a contest that a card game company was having. They just closed their doors so I'm sharing them here as well, hope y'all like them!

[the19thduckpotato]

currently undertaking an art project that I dont think I can share until after the new year. I'm active! n I hope to show y'all soon c:

[fairytalesandimaginings]

Metazoo poll

[necronomi-kun]

[blazescompendium]

Bought some Metazoo cards!

Edit: Just found out about them being cryptobros and their NFT stuff. I Absolutely do not promove these shitty pratices, and i am honestly a bit regretful to have bought and shown this here. I chose not to delete the post, because maybe this serves as a warning as well.

So, 2024 really came and i am back to work and studies. During my vacation i ended across this TCG game called Metazoo, which is really nice, and is basically a TCG about Criptyds. I really liked the idea of collecting cards of mythological monsters, which are my main focus of research, and these ones are really well done!

I got my hands on a special Mothman blister, and i am delightful to have this creature in my possession now. It even came with a special Mothman coin!

I don't see myself playing the actual game, i am more of a collector, but i wish the Metazoo project keeps growing! They do a nice job :)

Hey #Metazoo, why not include some South American monsters in the next expansion!?

[azurdlywisterious]

Hello creepy smiling man sailor~