And cephalopods are molluscs!
I mean honestly im shocked
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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birdbrain5381@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
maybe that’s why octopi don’t have civilizations, they’re too traumatized by the fact that all their relatives are little more than meat plants
Cattail@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“I’m not gonna be home for a while Marie”
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
[deleted]fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
SHOOK
Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Shooken even
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’re not rocks they’re minerals
JohnSmith@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Blistering barnacles!
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Watch your mouth!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
biology is probably the closest we can get to actual eldrich horror, realizing that everything you’ve taken as fact is complete nonsense and in reality all definitions are made up
like fucking hell, both animals and plants are compound organisms that billions of years ago swallowed some bacteria or whatever and it stuck around inside the cells and eventually atrophied into organelles!
snoons@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
waltuh
Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
It’s true en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean?wprov=sfla1 bottom row left
gustofwind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I was not prepared to mentally handle the consequences of knowing what barnacles are
Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Same!
gustofwind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Even barnacles get worse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizocephala
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 weeks ago
You’re not alone. Barnacles drove Darwin mad! youtu.be/plYuvU2VZkE
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wait till you find out about the barnacle penis. You will still not be prepared.