Whatzit?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I remember these things. My programs were stored on IBM cards so the software did not use very much computer storage space.

I remember cards, too. Had my share of drawers in the one cabinet for use on an IBM 1130.........and then a Burroughs 6700...and then the big hard drive disks.....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ok, what is it and why does it look the way it does?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Plant or animal life?

[Roy]

Ok, what is it and why does it look the way it does?

Looks like a closed monkey mouth.

[NJPiney]

Mel Gibson. Braveheart

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Plant or animal life?

You need a hint right away? Animal.....

Mel Gibson. Braveheart

Clever and cute, but wrong.

Looks like a closed monkey mouth.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............................no.

[sleepmac]

How about it being a whale or shark mouth?

Dan Weinhold

[Rufus T. Firefly]

How about it being a whale or shark mouth?

Not a mouth.......but mildly, very mildly warm on the what. The What it is will be easier than the Why it is.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Trilobite spine section?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Trilobite spine section?

No, but you are creeping up on it,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Trilobite spine section?

No, but you are creeping up on it,

Do I have the correct phylum, then, Arthropoda ?

[robert.]

Lobster

[webenda]

Trilobite spine section?

No, but you are creeping up on it,

Do I have the correct phylum, then, Arthropoda ?

Good work Murph, you have dug enough information out of Rufus to answer the Whatzit.

“A normal colored lobster has three layers of color from the top down: yellow, blue, and red,” she said. “Our eyes can’t see the individual layers and so we see the colors merged into brown. This is also why lobsters turn red when you cook them. The heat from the boiling water causes the proteins in the lobster to denature, or fall apart.”

Some of the coloring has to do with an individual lobster’s uptake of a certain protein in its diet, which, when absorbed into different parts of the animal’s body, affects its color. And while lobsters may be unique in the layering of pigmentation in their shell, this quality is also seen in other crustaceans and animals.

[webenda]

Lobster

Good work Robert. You beat me to posting the answer by 8 minutes while I was looking up information and a photo of various lobster colors.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes, a lobster, but............

“A normal colored lobster has three layers of color from the top down: yellow, blue, and red,” she said. “Our eyes can’t handle the layers and so we see brown. This is also why lobsters turn red when you cook them. The heat from the boiling water causes the proteins in the lobster to denature, or fall apart.”

Some of the coloring has to do with an individual lobster’s uptake of a certain protein in its diet, which, when absorbed into different parts of the animal’s body, affects its color. And while lobsters may be unique in the layering of pigmentation in their shell, this quality is also seen in other crustaceans and animals.

........not the reason why this one is specifically colored like it is. There is a very real and perhaps unusual reason for this,