Duncan Wingfield Assignment 6

 I love aquatic life. The vast biodiversity that exists all over our planet's oceans, lakes, and rivers is truly astonishing and every individual creature is just so fascinating to me. I'm especially interested in underwater creatures that aren't fish; the ways things like crustaceans, cephalopods, turtles, mollusks and jellyfish have adapted to life underwater seperate from fishes is just so cool to me. I especially love jellyfish (which aren't really fish) as their simplicity really makes me wonder what it even means to be alive, these creatures branch very close to the base of the tree of life and give us a bit more insight into how life on earth even started in the first place. They don't have brains or eyes, no real direction in life other than to just eat and reproduce and it's so strange to think that at one point creatures like this was all there was on earth. Really the evolutionary history of life as a whole is fascinating to me, just the idea of all these creatures from before our time is awesome to me.