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minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulagisca_gigantea
minus-squareflora_explora@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoOh funny, in the wiki article it mentions black coral to be megafauna. Never thought of corals as megafauna, fascinating!
minus-squareperishthethought@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoAnd TIL the word megafauna so thanks!
minus-squareWhoPutDisHere@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoSuperorganism is a great term that kinda applies as well.
minus-squarenintendiator@feddit.cllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoNext on your road: charismatic megafauna!
minus-squareperishthethought@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoIs that the colorful kind? (I can’t look it up right now)
minus-squarenintendiator@feddit.cllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoIt’s the kind that drives Conservation Efforts and Media Attention. So yeah, I guess they tend to be colorful.
minus-squaredankm@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoThe deep sea has always been the home of nightmare fuel. Not outer space.
minus-squareiheartneopets@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days ago“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??
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoGot tired of posing as Egyptian gods.
minus-squareQuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoClearly they’re aliens
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoI was pretty confident this was someone’s (hopefully joke) tail butt plug. How is this a really thing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulagisca_gigantea
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.
“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??
Got tired of posing as Egyptian gods.
Benna! Ya wan ya duru!
Clearly they’re aliens
I was pretty confident this was someone’s (hopefully joke) tail butt plug. How is this a really thing?