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Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Jkosmonaut@infosec.pub 2 months ago
RST987@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Look! The Lobotomite has returned!
brokenlcd@feddit.it 2 months 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 2 months ago
Horror already without filters. I’m going to see that thing in my nightmares, fuckin hell.
poinck@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It is cute, isn’t it?
brap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is such a shit fish. I love it.
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The eyes would suggest it’s a predator.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
She call me Mr. Boombastic
Sacabambaspis
Wilco@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Wow. This is epic internet!
nico198x@europe.pub 2 months ago
lololo
cornshark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How does it maneuver without any fins?
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I often wonder that about your mom
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not well. That’s why most of its ancestors have find nowadays
jorge@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Don’t you mean its descendants?
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Prototype fish
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Thanks for editing not deleting because TIL!
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 month ago
It has a South Park mouth
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
stickyShift@midwest.social 1 month ago
Zeeky booky doog
dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Somethin’ like a fish.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
me when the event
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Elementary teacher: draw a happy fish Elementary student: <the above picture>
boreengreen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Kinda looks like he is about to say “Out of cyan; replace ink cartridge.”
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would love to take one from its natural environment and force it to live in a small aquarium.
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
proto whale has an emoji face
lorty@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
I don’t know why but this creature is funny, scary and ridiculous all at once
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh. We evolved from a googley eyed water hamhock.
Mothra@mander.xyz 2 months ago
So… Millions of years ago, before Pikachu was surprised, we had this fish occupying its niche?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 months ago
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PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, millions of years ago we were this fish
DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Technically this is the ship of theseus so are we really this fish?
godlessworm@hexbear.net 2 months ago
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Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
the source of all pikachu faces.