the council
the council
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/3a4c5171-264f-43e4-bde4-87ede0449f83.png
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Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A nautilus king
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Council is sea-questered, do not disrupt!
underisk@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You must not enter the chambers!
tiramichu@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Heart of the Sea
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Huddlefish
lemmur@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
That’s some Lovecraftian shit going on.
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Are they fucking?
MBM@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
My guess is eating something in the middle
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Oh, didn’t even think oft that
papertowels@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
God the center of that must feel like being in a carwash with the spinny bristles.
SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
🥵
einlander@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Looks like they are trying to mimic an octopus/squid.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
these things still exist?!?! I thought they were fossils like in Minecraft
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They had a huge amount of diversity between the Cambrian and the Carboniferous periods, then all but a single order (Nautilida) died out when land animals became a thing, and only a single genus survived the Triassic extinction. They went on to flurish globally until only 20 million years ago, when specifically seals appeared. Nautiloids went extinct everywhere seals existed, leaving the only living species in the Indo-Pacific.
Their shells have a tendency to float huge distances, with some floating for over a decade. So not only are they a “living fossil”, their shells are found even when they are not.
x87_floatingpoint@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
What sort of animal are these?
BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Nautilus, which is like a cuttlefish with a cool spiral shell. I have no idea what they’re doing in this photo though. Probably some sort of intricate sex ritual.
huf@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
look at those tiny pupils! these headfoots are high as fuck
Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
“Sir the nautilus outnumber us 3 to 1!” “Then it is an even fight”
neuroneiro@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Masher!
cybervseas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re deciding if you’ve been naut-y enough to join.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
thats not-a-lie (maybe that works better spoken than written)