larval stage of sea squirts

Sometimes I get so depressed by the awfulness of the lives of most women in the society potrayed in the Metamorphoses that I wonder if this text is what I really want to think about – and then realise again how relevant it is and in such unlikely ways

Last week I realised that we are descended from animals that go through a cycle of metamorphoses. Very distantly descended, but we are.
These animals are sea squirts, technically known as Tunicates, whose adult stage is a bioluminescent tube that lives stuck to a rock but which, before it finds its rock and eats its own brain, has a larval stage something like a tadpole with eyes and a spinal column

And it would appear to be the case that we – and all other vertebrates – are descended from the larval sage of a tunicate (sea squrt) More about tunicates HERE

I also came across (admittedly only Online) a creature called a Suave Slug which shoots love darts at its intended partner

So subjects for this month might as well be Erysichthon – who (spoiler alert) ends up eating himself

and Cupid