[This is fascinating, no gross-out here. Michael looks kind of excited as he starts to ramble.]
Oh, cool, so kind of like, uh. We have creatures on our planet that do that too, sort of, mostly sea-dwellers? Invertebrates. Like starfish, but they turn their stomachs inside out, and that's how they do it. It's strongly theorized that most life on our planet used to do that, but then they moved over to internal digestion before they evolved for life on land. There was a study a few years ago where they said hagfish might still be able to eat through their skin? But I don't know if that was ever conclusively proven.
[He stops himself, realizing he's been just sort of babbling.]
Sorry, I don't mean to compare you to a hagfish. I mean they're neat animals, but- Anyway, I think that's really interesting. And I don't think it sounds gruesome.
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Oh, cool, so kind of like, uh. We have creatures on our planet that do that too, sort of, mostly sea-dwellers? Invertebrates. Like starfish, but they turn their stomachs inside out, and that's how they do it. It's strongly theorized that most life on our planet used to do that, but then they moved over to internal digestion before they evolved for life on land. There was a study a few years ago where they said hagfish might still be able to eat through their skin? But I don't know if that was ever conclusively proven.
[He stops himself, realizing he's been just sort of babbling.]
Sorry, I don't mean to compare you to a hagfish. I mean they're neat animals, but- Anyway, I think that's really interesting. And I don't think it sounds gruesome.