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minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·1 year agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulagisca_gigantea
minus-squareiheartneopets@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 year ago“The scale worms have been believed to be descendants of a different species that INVADED the deep-sea millions of years ago.” Is there some worm-based geopolitical lore I’m missing??
minus-squareQuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoClearly they’re aliens
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoGot tired of posing as Egyptian gods.
minus-squareflora_explora@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoOh funny, in the wiki article it mentions black coral to be megafauna. Never thought of corals as megafauna, fascinating!
minus-squareperishthethought@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoAnd TIL the word megafauna so thanks!
minus-squareWhoPutDisHere@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoSuperorganism is a great term that kinda applies as well.
minus-squarenintendiator@feddit.cllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoNext on your road: charismatic megafauna!
minus-squareperishthethought@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIs that the colorful kind? (I can’t look it up right now)
minus-squarenintendiator@feddit.cllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s the kind that drives Conservation Efforts and Media Attention. So yeah, I guess they tend to be colorful.
minus-squaredankm@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThe deep sea has always been the home of nightmare fuel. Not outer space.
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI was pretty confident this was someone’s (hopefully joke) tail butt plug. How is this a really thing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulagisca_gigantea
“The scale worms have been believed to be descendants of a different species that INVADED the deep-sea millions of years ago.”
Is there some worm-based geopolitical lore I’m missing??
Clearly they’re aliens
Got tired of posing as Egyptian gods.
Benna! Ya wan ya duru!
Oh funny, in the wiki article it mentions black coral to be megafauna. Never thought of corals as megafauna, fascinating!
And TIL the word megafauna so thanks!
Superorganism is a great term that kinda applies as well.
Next on your road: charismatic megafauna!
Is that the colorful kind? (I can’t look it up right now)
It’s the kind that drives Conservation Efforts and Media Attention. So yeah, I guess they tend to be colorful.
The deep sea has always been the home of nightmare fuel. Not outer space.
I was pretty confident this was someone’s (hopefully joke) tail butt plug. How is this a really thing?