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[–] Pat_Riot 39 points 4 months ago (4 children)
[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"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??

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

Clearly they’re aliens

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Got tired of posing as Egyptian gods.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Benna! Ya wan ya duru!

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh funny, in the wiki article it mentions black coral to be megafauna. Never thought of corals as megafauna, fascinating!

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] WhoPutDisHere@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 4 months ago

Superorganism is a great term that kinda applies as well.

[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Next on your road: charismatic megafauna!

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is that the colorful kind? (I can't look it up right now)

[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 2 points 4 months ago

It's the kind that drives Conservation Efforts and Media Attention. So yeah, I guess they tend to be colorful.

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

The deep sea has always been the home of nightmare fuel. Not outer space.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

I was pretty confident this was someone's (hopefully joke) tail butt plug. How is this a really thing?