the council
the council
Submitted 10 months 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 10 months ago
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A nautilus king
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Council is sea-questered, do not disrupt!
underisk@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
You must not enter the chambers!
tiramichu@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Heart of the Sea
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Huddlefish
lemmur@szmer.info 10 months ago
That’s some Lovecraftian shit going on.
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Are they fucking?
MBM@lemmings.world 10 months ago
My guess is eating something in the middle
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Oh, didn’t even think oft that
papertowels@lemmy.one 10 months ago
God the center of that must feel like being in a carwash with the spinny bristles.
einlander@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looks like they are trying to mimic an octopus/squid.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
these things still exist?!?! I thought they were fossils like in Minecraft
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 10 months 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 10 months ago
What sort of animal are these?
BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 10 months 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 10 months ago
look at those tiny pupils! these headfoots are high as fuck
Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
“Sir the nautilus outnumber us 3 to 1!” “Then it is an even fight”
neuroneiro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Masher!
cybervseas@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re deciding if you’ve been naut-y enough to join.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 months ago
thats not-a-lie (maybe that works better spoken than written)