Anatomically Correct Carnivorous Blankets

There is a website called the SCP Foundation which features a variety of creatures, objects and phenomena that border on the horrifying to the just plain weird. This one straddles the boundary between both: carnivorous blankets (or SCP-799 as its officially known on the website). Here's the official page for it http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-799 . If you don't feel like reading the whole page, the blankets are basically creatures that superficially resemble ordinary blankets, coming in a variety of different shapes, colors and designs, and are described as retaining heat unusually well (of course, that's probably their own body heat). Normally content to feed on dust, in times of extreme hunger, they are capable of becoming predatory, lying in wait for something to wrap themselves in it before eating it. They also reproduce through budding. So, the question as always is, can something like this evolve in nature?

posted almost 6 years ago

Dabantam‭

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