Just seen a documentary on tv about this fascinating creature.
Dr. Aprile Pazzo, a noted marine wildlife biologist has discovered an amazing new Antarctic species. The Hothead Ice Borer. These bizarre creatures are about half a foot long, are very light, and have a bony plate on the top of their heads that amazingly heats up, allowing them to bore tunnels through the ice at high speed. They have been observed using this ability to hunt penguins. Packs of them gather and melt the ice beneath an unsuspecting penguin, causing it to sink into the slush, at which the borers surround the hapless penguin and consume it.
Dr Pazo discovered the borers by chance as a result of their predatory nature. While studying a group of penguins she noticed one frightened member of a family group rapidly sinking into the ice. When she pulled the hapless creature out of the rapidly growing slush pool that had surounded it, she found a host of the small creatures attached to it. These turned out to be the Hothead Ice Borers.
After careful research of this fascinating new species, Dr Pazzo theorised thta the Hotheads may have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of the noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1927. She was quoted later as saying. "To the Ice Borers, he would have looked like a penguin."
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Dr. Aprile Pazzo, a noted marine wildlife biologist has discovered an amazing new Antarctic species. The Hothead Ice Borer.
These bizarre creatures are about half a foot long, are very light, and have a bony plate on the top of their heads that amazingly heats up, allowing them to bore tunnels through the ice at high speed.
They have been observed using this ability to hunt penguins.
Packs of them gather and melt the ice beneath an unsuspecting penguin, causing it to sink into the slush, at which the borers surround the hapless penguin and consume it.
Dr Pazo discovered the borers by chance as a result of their predatory nature. While studying a group of penguins she noticed one frightened member of a family group rapidly sinking into the ice.
When she pulled the hapless creature out of the rapidly growing slush pool that had surounded it, she found a host of the small creatures attached to it. These turned out to be the Hothead Ice Borers.
After careful research of this fascinating new species, Dr Pazzo theorised thta the Hotheads may have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of the noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1927.
She was quoted later as saying.
"To the Ice Borers, he would have looked like a penguin."