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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulagisca_gigantea
"The scale worms have been believed to be descendants of a different species that INVADED the deep-sea millions of years ago."
Is there some worm-based geopolitical lore I'm missing??
Clearly they’re aliens
Got tired of posing as Egyptian gods.
Benna! Ya wan ya duru!
Oh funny, in the wiki article it mentions black coral to be megafauna. Never thought of corals as megafauna, fascinating!
And TIL the word megafauna so thanks!
Superorganism is a great term that kinda applies as well.
Next on your road: charismatic megafauna!
Is that the colorful kind? (I can't look it up right now)
It's the kind that drives Conservation Efforts and Media Attention. So yeah, I guess they tend to be colorful.
The deep sea has always been the home of nightmare fuel. Not outer space.
I was pretty confident this was someone's (hopefully joke) tail butt plug. How is this a really thing?