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Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Jkosmonaut@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
RST987@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Look! The Lobotomite has returned!
brokenlcd@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
It’s funny when looked sideways, but when looked from the front it’s two distortion filters away from analog horror.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Horror already without filters. I’m going to see that thing in my nightmares, fuckin hell.
poinck@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It is cute, isn’t it?
brap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is such a shit fish. I love it.
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The eyes would suggest it’s a predator.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Or just that it needs to focus on from of itself like filter crabs, or that it needs to see through things like kelp forests or hole enterances.
Given it’s size and the extreme binocular vision, it’s unlikely to have any ambush predators.
I looked it up, it has bony plates all over it’s body and likely a lateral line, so seeing predators directly may have been less necessary. It was also a suction feeder, so likely an active predator of much smaller things. It may have needed good forward vision because it’s maneuverability was poor.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s what I thought! I’m too stupid to make anything more of it here for this community though
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
She call me Mr. Boombastic
Sacabambaspis
Wilco@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Wow. This is epic internet!
nico198x@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
lololo
cornshark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How does it maneuver without any fins?
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I often wonder that about your mom
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not well. That’s why most of its ancestors have find nowadays
jorge@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
Don’t you mean its descendants?
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Prototype fish
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
This fish foresaw that evolution would lead to celebrity news, Return To Office mandates, and oversized utes, and decided it was happy precisely where it was.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Modern fish are often dark on top and light underneath to fool prey/predators but also often colorful. Why do they assume one evolutionary step over the other? That beautiful blimpie belly calls out for decoration!
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Functional changes in coloration are much “easier” (read: more likely) to develop through random mutation than functional changes to complex mechanical structures like bone structure or musculature. Given their predecessors were already under selective pressure by predation for millions of years prior, it’s reasonable to assume they’d developed countershading (light bottom, dark top). Plus current agnathans are usually pretty dull.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Thanks for editing not deleting because TIL!
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
It has a South Park mouth
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
stickyShift@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Zeeky booky doog
dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Somethin’ like a fish.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
me when the event
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Elementary teacher: draw a happy fish Elementary student: <the above picture>
boreengreen@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Kinda looks like he is about to say “Out of cyan; replace ink cartridge.”
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would love to take one from its natural environment and force it to live in a small aquarium.
m3t00@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
proto whale has an emoji face
lorty@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
I don’t know why but this creature is funny, scary and ridiculous all at once
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh. We evolved from a googley eyed water hamhock.
Mothra@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
So… Millions of years ago, before Pikachu was surprised, we had this fish occupying its niche?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
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PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, millions of years ago we were this fish
DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Technically this is the ship of theseus so are we really this fish?
godlessworm@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
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Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
the source of all pikachu faces.