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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (4 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulagisca_gigantea

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"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??

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Clearly they’re aliens

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Got tired of posing as Egyptian gods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Benna! Ya wan ya duru!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh funny, in the wiki article it mentions black coral to be megafauna. Never thought of corals as megafauna, fascinating!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And TIL the word megafauna so thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Superorganism is a great term that kinda applies as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Next on your road: charismatic megafauna!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is that the colorful kind? (I can't look it up right now)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's the kind that drives Conservation Efforts and Media Attention. So yeah, I guess they tend to be colorful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The deep sea has always been the home of nightmare fuel. Not outer space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I was pretty confident this was someone's (hopefully joke) tail butt plug. How is this a really thing?