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minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·1 年前https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulagisca_gigantea
minus-squareiheartneopets@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 年前“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-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 年前Got tired of posing as Egyptian gods.
minus-squareflora_explora@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 年前Oh 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 年前And TIL the word megafauna so thanks!
minus-squareWhoPutDisHere@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 年前Superorganism is a great term that kinda applies as well.
minus-squarenintendiator@feddit.cllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 年前Next on your road: charismatic megafauna!
minus-squareperishthethought@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 年前Is that the colorful kind? (I can’t look it up right now)
minus-squarenintendiator@feddit.cllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 年前It’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 年前The deep sea has always been the home of nightmare fuel. Not outer space.
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 年前I 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?