Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Sunday 25 May 2025

Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ooooooo I like the rocks!!!

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Those are thrombolites! Ancient bacterial (?) colonies that are still alive, they turn the air and stuff into calcium deposits

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    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Stromatolites? Yeah, relics of the first life on earth. Or are thrombolites different from stromatolites? Never heard of thrombolites.

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      • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombolite

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      OMG THATS SO COOL!!!

      DOWN A RABBIT HOLE I GO!

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      • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        From the rabbit hole…

        Both structures are created by cyanobacteria.

        The name “cyanobacteria” (from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos) ‘blue’) refers to their bluish green (cyan) color,[5][6] which forms the basis of cyanobacteria’s informal common name, blue-green algae.[7][8][9][note 2]

        Common blue-green algae has magic properties!

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have ancient life envy. 💖 So very very cool.

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• anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Beautiful! Where is that?

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These are from a couple of places between Mandurah and Bunbury

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