Water Creatures Thread

>>1762967
Damn nature you scary

>>1762978
>all those lionfish

Hell awaits those who free "pet" fish into the wild.

>>1762971
Jesus christ

>>1763371
this needs fast boat/car noises

>>1762967
IT JUST KEEPS OPENING MORE MOUTHS

>>1762967
Man, that is just alien.

>>1763371
>nyoom

>>1762967
gross

>>1762967
I love these threads

>>1768558
that shit is scary

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>>1768558
I was reading about how recently two great white's washed up in South Africa, apparently having been mostly eaten by orcas. This is probably the same deal.

Killer Whales have that name for a reason. Shit is scary yo.

>>1768558
sheeeeit
maybe another shark bite a chunk out of it

>>1763371
this is how water dwellers evolved into land dwellers

>>1762967
And whales get covered in these? Fucking gross.
Can you imagine never being able to wipe parasites off yourself?

>>1762971
damn, that guy's life rocks

>>1762978
that last graceful release
sheer godliness

>>1763371
Awaiting the inevitable eurobeat version.

>>1762967
i want to smash it with a hammer

>>1769587
just think of it like upping the difficulty in a game
you need more exp(feed to proceed

>>1762973
yeah fur real delete the fucking ocean before its too late. God help us.

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>>1769639
Gotchu famalam.

>>1768558
A sperm whale crash dived with it

>>1762967
This is some serious Lovecraft shit.

>>1768558
I'm thinking something ate the tag. There's no evidence that the shark itself was eaten.

>>1762967
i bet it tastes like heaven

>>1768558

Anyone have the webm of that 50ft shark the japanese caught on camera at the bottom of the ocean?

Shit's spooky

>>1762971
> that one fish that swam near, saw the worm, then noped out of there
lol

>>1771714
Barnacles do taste pretty good surprisingly.
Kind of like clams

>>1769064
Shark liver hit them on the side they flip over and freeze.

>>1763371
>no fish crossing sign.

ARREST THOSE KARP!

>>1768558
Sharks have multiple secret entry points associated with hydrothermal vents which allow access into the deeper layers of the earth. We think these entrances were crafted by an ancient race of lizard people who dwell there and send the sharks out periodically to do their bidding.

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>>1772728
what's the other language is he speaking and what do they mean?

>>1772728
poor same

>>1773226
>it's a pretty repulsive language
only when spoken by spics

>>1772288
Are the Jews involved? Are the Jews in cahoots?

>>1773301
Of course, how do you think the term 'loan shark' came about?

>>1773253
t. spanish

>>1762989
Lionfish are predators tho

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>>1768558
this is likely the culprit who ate the 9ft shark

>>1762989
?

>>1762967
What the literal fuck? That's a fucking alien.

What animal is that?

>>1774032
No, that's just some fat pregnant sea-bitch.

>>1762989
>Hell awaits those who free "pet" fish into the wild.

The Harbinger

>>1774036
Lionfish are not native to the Atlantic, and only got there because some fuckass (or multiple fuckasses) let them loose into the wild, and now they're an invasive species threatening native ecosystems.

>>1762967
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>1762967
Five minutes after watching this, I found myself googling "barnacle penis".

>>1773137
god damn this freaks me the fuck out

>>1773137
An item on my bucket list that I will probably never get to fulfill.

>>1763371
>BRAAAP posters

>>1773137
The far away guy is saying something like "pull him by the tail"

>>1762971
wtf I thought they were like a metre long at most.

>>1768558
giant octopus turned his ass into firewood to keep warm. they do that.

>>1762967
b-boner why

>>1773137
more blue whales please

>>1776524
MOAR PLZ

>>1776624
if only i did webms
im a collector not an artist.

>>1773137
He was saying the shark got cut up by a boat.

>>1773137
the guy screams "esta cortado con un propela"
i think he was trying to say propeller.
so it would be "he is cut with a propeller" (he speaks bad spanish)

>>1762971
Why though?

>>1776451
Not only are they huge, when they're split the non-tail sections sometimes grow their own head.
Marine Biology fucked up when it decided to put no attention in studying sea worms

>>1773137
>"Hi bill"
>"Hi tom..."

I'd think that a whale might give a tiny fuck about something that close to their eye but nope, he just floats along.

>>1768558
3 meters is much closer to 10 feet than 9 (only off 10 feet by about an inch or so). How the hell did the "Smithsonian Channel" fuck up a simple metric to imperial conversion?

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Usually never care about nature, but I'm liking this thread

Keep it alive

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Does this count?

>>1778010

I want one.

>>1778009
are those yells from M&B?

>>1769587
i don't think whales get covered in the giant ones, here in chile we have "picoroco" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austromegabalanus_psittacus) and are fucking massives compared to a regular barnacle

>>1772288
same lmao

>>1777125
wasn't there a mountain blade version of this?

>>1777507
Eh
EH
EH!
>EH!?
>Kore?

Jesus christ lady.

>>1762989
They're an invasive species in some places you fucking idiot, if you went out and visited your local pond or lake you'd know what that means.

>>1778151
I wouldn't know. All I can tell you is that I got it from a ylyl

>>1778010
This is fucking genius

>>1773832
>>1774036
>>1774317

Pretty sure the guy knows they're invasive species.
>>1778355
Especially you, maybe think about what someone has posted before going full Tumblr on someone.

>>1777615
did he survive

>>1777132
menacingly point to fish... bad fish

>>1778008
Song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR41nFMREBE

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>>1777507

>>1772728

looks like it got hit by a boat near the dorasl, or was that a bite mark

>>1778151
Yes

>>1777507
now that's fresh

>>1779004

That is freaky

>>1779004
>ain't got no guts
>ain't got no head

Yeah but there's still a huge muscle there, that's still being innervated by a spinal cord and perhaps a little brain stem which is still responding to touch receptors on its skin.

>>1777132
[angry bubble noises]

>>1778010
Don't let tony catch you with that thing.

>>1769675
yess

>>1773137
>>1776524
>>1776631

Cool as fuck

>>1779004
>eating dogfish
no thanks.

>>1777615
theres another biting the diver on the left's flipper hahahaha

>>1779833
I love u anon, keep posting

>>1777958
The Future of Transportation.

>>1777958
have you ever seen a more content creature?

>>1762978
Imagine how good that must feel for the fish.

>>1777117
I was thinking the same thing lol.

>>1780030
not much different. fish don't feel pain.

>>1780122
That's a meme. Fish absolutely feel pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_fish

>>1779004
*that* is fresh!

>>1780122
well it sure hated his life before he pulled it out thats for sure

>>1777507
>>1779004
there are still motor units in the CNS, so some reflexes still apply even without the head

>>1776524
>07
drone vids are the best

>>1777132
did he just call that fish a nigger?

>>1778010
kek

>>1776631
Has any diver ever been swallowed by a whale?

That shit must be terrifying, getting pulled into darkness as pressure rises

>>1780351
I know I would.

>>1777132
Context?

>>1776524
How many fish you think it ate in that gulp? I'm saying at least 12.

>>1777615
But those are sea lions.

>>1780386
are you fucking dumb?

>>1780362
There was this italian dude with his son. Wasn't a diver tho.

>>1780362
jonah

>>1763371
>Even fucking fish wait for the car before they cross the street
>Deers run into cars all the time
really makes you think...

>>1773137
whales fuck with divers like this all the time

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This thread need some more Cephalopods

>>1780351
>>1780374
Well it's stealing from him...

>>1781041
agreed

>>1779004
I fucking hate average americans. They are so fucking stupid. Just being slightly of above average intelligence is suffering.

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>>1781518
>Just being slightly of above average intelligence is suffering.
Knowing pseudo-intellectuals like you exist is suffering.

>>1771699
the tag was inside the shark.

>>1762967

Wow this new Subnautica update looks amazing.

>>1777132
>0:40
>you too
kills me every time

>>1774312

It's a barnacle.

>>1773308
an undercover shark agent?

>>1762967
that's fucking barnacles

>>1777127
Funnily enough Jew Fish used to be an informal name for groupers.

>>1780340
>>1779833
it's probably the c-start still happening

One day they'll have secrets... one day they'll have dreams. https://youtu.be/caLnkOk-jCk

>>1773137
fuck me, that's scarier than the shark.

>>1780406
yea like 12 thousand

>>1777615
they couldve easily killed them if they werent just curious

>>1762971
>be me
>sitting on the toilet taking a shit
>see this video
>nope, I'm done

Fuck these things, make me uneasy.

>>1781990
Just think, the worms that live in our intestines are twice if not three times a long.

>>1778979
thank you anon i love you

>>1781869
still is for the bigs ones,

>>1771988
I also banana mongoose but never will for tomorrow.

>>1778355
you don't have very good reading comprehension do you?

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>>1777074
why not

>>1777958
>You Have Died

>>1780635
my nigga

>>1777132
those aren't lionfish, they're goliath grouper

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>>1779004
>EHEHAHAHAHAAA

>>1762967
i just beat this guy in Phantom Dust

>>1762967
I want to put my dick in there

>>1777074
They make good bait apparently.

>>1762971

Wait, sure it's long but it's not very big.

>>1774032

Funny thing there are sharks bigger than bruce from the movie Jaw in real life.

>>1777132
>the perfect reddening of the water when he gets mad

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Cone snails shoot a tooth-harpoon loaded with a paralyzing toxin. The fish is alive, and aware, just can't make it's body move well enough to escape.

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Octopus like to stay in caves and other tight spaces. Even the very tiny.

A very old way of catching them is basically putting a clay pot attacked to a buoy on the ocean bottom in an area where they are known to live, and just hauling it up later. The octopus will instinctively cling to the walls of the pot, and you just draw it up and out.

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Some kinds of sea cucumber have teeth inside their butthole.

This goddamn fish is why.

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Blessedly, we don't seem to taste good to many animals, of any breed.

Squid, however, like us just fine, and should size and situation allow, will gladly hunt, kill, and eat a human purposefully.

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The deep ocean gives fuckall of a care over how things work on the surface.

In school, I was often autistic-angry when people would say "all life starts with the sun". Ocean trench biology can revolve almost, if not totally, around smoker vents belching volcanic chemicals into the ocean. The sun could go out tomorrow, and they would neither notice nor care.

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Cephalopods are widely considered to be the inheritors of the earth.

If humanity every kicked off, there's a sizable group of scientists that feel our tentacled brethren will be the ones to take our spot. Adaptive, intelligent, fast learners and with good limbs to manipulate the environment, if they every lick the short lifespan and tool use problem, they could become a serious force.

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Dead whales trigger shark orgies.

Sharks don't like much of anything, even eachother, even if they wanna fuck, and it gets worse the bigger the breed is. It's been observed that, when a whale dies, sharks come in droves to come gorge. Once they're full, they start to, of all things, snuggle. That's right, the taste of romance for a shark is rotting whale blubber.

>>1769675
Thank you based anon

>>1782783
I like to think that if humans took more time to evolve, there would be octopi launching mars missions now

>>1782798
>no sun
>all water freezes

>u

>>1782843
>volcanic vents
only the top of the water will freeze completely

>>1777615
"Are you an foond? No?"

>>1782804
[spoiler]>you're a kid you're a squid[/spoiler]

>>1782784
>"GET OUT OF MY ASS!"

>"No, it's comfy in here."

>>1782843
a more catastrophic event for the ocean would be if Earth's core stopped spinning or if we lost our moon.

>>1782930
>Earth's core stopped spinning

I never even knew the Earth's core WAS spinning. It is in fact, spinning in the opposite direction to the rest of the planet. thefuq

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>>1782970
I write horror fiction for a rather sizable community. The bulk of the work i do, at least 75%, is trying to somehow top the sheer roaring weirdness of the real world, or trying to refit portions of it so that it sounds believable.

The more you learn about the world, all the stuff that just happens, the more you realize Earth is pretty cool, fucked up, and generally worth poking about it.

Humanity can suck, and be amazing in turns, earth as a whole rarely fails to amaze.

>>1782774
This shit is why I don't like Oceans. I love swimming in lakes but that big fucking blue death palace is terrifying

>>1782970
>Earth's core WAS spinning
ummm how the fuck can the core be spinning if there it's hollow?

>>1782986
>mfw found out that there are entire oceans hidden between the upper and lower mantle of earth
fucking spooked. lovecraftian horror comes to mind

post more octopussss pls

>>1768558
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC8Wxfn5xFw
Orcas kill Great Whites for munchies all the time, and as a 10 footer, this one would just be a snack for the sea police, which average 25-30 and travel in packs. It also explains why it took it straight to the surface afterwards.

Dolphins attack them too, though it's a defensive thing and they usually don't eat them. They just ram them full tilt, being much faster and more maneuverable, and a shark's cartilage skeleton is no match for a dolphin bone torpedo.

Sperm whales average 60 feet, but they are quite a bit slower, and big sharks usually aren't on their menu - think he coulda gotten away from one of those.

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>>1773137
>>1780734

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>>1783034
There are places in South America with water-filled holes so deep nobody's found the bottom yet. Also some have species that live ONLY in that hole. Not that area, not just rare, that one, single water-filled hole in the earth, and nowhere else.

Buried oceans that have never seen sun, lakes of hypersaline water on the ocean floor, caves locked in ice so cold and dense it's like time froze solid eons ago. The earth is fucking amazing, man, don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.

We trot around like such proud peacocks, the biggest damn frogs in the pond, most of us never even guessing at all the weird, scary, glorious shit around us. Humanity might break your spirit, but you never give up on earth, lads.

Earth is fucking cool. Even moreso in the wet places, where it's hard to go. Don't let anyone or anything tell you the world's all figured out.

>>1763371
>that huge instinct to mate upstream
evolution takes strange roads


>>1772281
kek, first thing I though of

>>1779836
I kekked

>>1782784
I have no idea what is going on here
Is the rapist getting advantage or eating The Thing, or is The Thing luring the BBC into it's boipusi?
Is that what The Thing feeds off? Is that grey turd an old cock it swallowed?

>>1782798
is that thing eating?
Because it looks like it's walking with its face in the most inefficient way possible

>>1782970
>>1782930
>I never even knew the Earth's core WAS spinning
Watch the movie Core

Or don't, it's shitty, but maybe you'll like the concept

>>1783194
>goes in the mouth
>whole body gets digested
>few days or weeks later
>shits it out
>cycle continues
well you get the idea

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>>1783194
the fish gets into the sea cucumber's ass. It then gets both food, and shelter. The sea cucumber gets a goddamn fish in it's ass. They evolved teeth in their ass to bite and evict them, it's that much of a problem. So, whenever you're feeling down, realize it could be worse.

>>1783196
Nature doesn't give a fuck about efficiency, just whatever works, in the end. Yes, indeed, it is eating...why it walks on it's face i'm sure makes sense if you look at the gran march of evolution. I mean, i hope, anyway...

>pic related

This is the same reason why fucking about in a pressurized airplane cabin is a really bad idea. Pressure can turn flesh to jelly in horrifyingly short order. They were doing work on a pressurized pipe on the bottom of the ocean. A crab was crabbing. And, as you see, it gets ripped through a hole the width of a carbide blade.

>>1783278
"Under da s-" SCHLOOP

>>1783422
cute

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sup

>>1782798
>How to tell it's time to clean your ornahole.

>>1769064
That'd be about roughly how far killer whales can dive as well.

>>1773308
Mind = blown

>>1782706
right, but each bristle numbs you for life if it punctures your skin. The longer the better, and the skinnier it is means it can fit in more spots.

>>1780635
apparently he just curled up into a ball as long as he could, and ended up on the beach. He doesn't know how long he was in there, but when people asked him, he said it felt like weeks.

>>1777127
fuck me, my asshole tensed up so bad when the guy immediately checks if he has 4 fingers

>>1779833
the brain stem still contains consciousness, albeit blind and deaf

does anyone have that video of that alien looking worm that i guess is native to antarctica? its got like gold fins or something

>>1783072
I love you anon

>>1783489
forreal the ocean is fucking gross. huge pool of fish piss and jizz, full of these creepy fucking worm things and whatever fuck this thing is >>1782798
All this weird shit going down with little cock fish ass raping a bigger lumpy cock thing >>1782784

>>1779842
I was just watching that...

>>1781549
I used to be like him, but then I started talking to people and realized that most of them are actually quite clever. It was just my family that was square peg/round hole retarded, and that had influenced my view of what "normal" was.

>>1782784
Hot.

>>1784352
>the ocean is fucking fascinating

ftfy

>>1783072
There are places in the US that are so deep no one has ever found the bottom. Devils hole might be thousands of feet deep. freshwater cave systems in Hungary are known to be over 1800 ft. in depth.

>>1769579

Ah but who build the roads our ancestors swam across?

>>1784517
Me.

>>1763371

>that one fish going the wrong way

Fucking fish can't even do the wrong thing right

>>1783278
>this kills the crab

>>1784596
It would be scarier if it didn't.

>>1783072
What are you on about? Could you point me to a source talking about these so-called "bottomless holes" and "hidden oceans"? I can't seem to find any evidence of that stuff, apart from article talking about "oceans of water" stored in minerals such as ringwoodite.

>>1784663
transition zone is where the hidden oceans are. a lot of it is the ringwoodite, but there are reservoirs of liquid water between it and the lower mantle

>>1784208
There actually isn't any proof that they have any toxin. Go and search, you won't find a single source.

bobbit worms are overhyped and only dangerous to small fish

>>1777507
Anyone catch that 'excuse me bro'?

>>1780635
Get out

>>1763371
For those wondering, they're not carp at all. They're pacific Chum Salmon

>>1785391
It's a Trap!

>>1769675
YEEEEEESSSS!

>>1776631
>fish group together tightly to protect themselves from being eaten
>whale eats the whole group in one bite
really makes ya think

>>1783278
Byford Dolphin accident

>>1782970
that's why we have magnetic poles

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>>1784663
Look up "tepui sinkholes", there's a bit here in the middle from wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepui

Also, >>1784693 is right, there are big blobs of free liquid trapped in the deeper depths of the crust that have been totally isolated, some since the fucking earth first cooled. Science generally says water = life, so if you have a scrap of imagination and curiosity, thinking what could grow in such a isolated, extreme environment over aeons can give a bit of a chill.

>>1784352
pic related, just for you. Repulsive and glorious, gotta fucking love nature even as it makes you vomit.

Meanwhile, i swear to god i'm not the cranky, violent ghost of steve irwin, looking over the shit i posted...

>>1784596
>>1783278
>this snibs the snab

>>1763371
why did the karp cross the road?

>>1769587
They don't act as parasites though. They just grow on top of them, not hurting them at all. Kind of like lichens or moss on trees.

>>1782774
Why doesn't that fish just swim away? Is it paralyzed or something?

>>1785798
Cone snails are telepathic and can sense when a fish is depressed and suicidal. They specifically target fish who want to die.

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>>1785798
It's been shot with a poisoned harpoon tooth by the sail. The fact that it can move at all is actually rather impressive. Cone snail stings are VERY lethal to humans, and not many hospitals keep antivenom on hand for them. what's more, some breeds can kill a fully grown human in just a few minutes. a lot of places won't even allow you to own or transport them due to the danger.

Also, dolphins are assholes.

No, really, they're one of the few members of the animal kingdom that actually seems to enjoy the pain and suffering of others. They have been observed playing "catch" with baby dolphins until they die, engaging in gang-rapes, and generally being entirely too human. What's more, they appear to enjoy and even actively plan this stuff, even against other species, including humans.

>>1783291
This made me spit out my coffee.

I need to go outside...

>>1784459
this.

everyone growing up has to completely dumpster their concepts of "normal" because they're hilariously inaccurate.

>>1785882
This is hot and all but this is wsg. (work safe gif)

>>1785882
*sigh*
mods

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>>1785631
>BRALLLP!
>BRROLP!

>>1780635
jonah was swallowed by a big fish, not a whale

>>1786145
>whale
>not a big fish

>>1782809
><..........confused the shark swims away feeling chagrined. He has learned a valuable lesson today>

>>1783072

That was very inspirational. Thank you.

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>>1783278
>They evolved teeth in their ass to bite and evict them
>They evolved teeth in their ass
I have nothing to say

>>1780634
dat Pinocchio reference though

>>1769675
Well done.

>>1783278
Motherfuckin' Delta-P

>>1769675
Thanks anon.

>>1785391
I was reading something interesting about these fuckers the other day.
Most creatures on the face of the planet have a somewhat fixed set of RNA that they work off of for cell reproduction.
The octopus, however, does not give a fuck about standard convention. It can actively alter it's own genetic code to adapt to its environment. I have no idea if it is directed or automatic, but it's cool as shit either way.

Once the researchers realized they can do this, they started looking into it more and they suspect that all creatures can do it to an extremely limited degree.

>>1786306
A whale is a mammal.

>>1783278
How many crabs are gonna get sucked in there before we do something?!

>>1777125
fuck me, that made me jump

>>1777507
Gave me flashback to The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix. Fuck, man, pretty heartless...

>>1783422
>octuu~ am I cute?

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>>1786355
Nature's a problem solver. Not sane, no, but a problem solver.

>>1786534
All of them.

Meanwhile, pic semi-related: that's a white blood cell hunting bacteria, but they've discovered single celled critters on the ocean floor the size of pinballs.

This doesn't seem all that neat, but for ages there was considered to be a set limit on how big a single-celled critter could be. They kept finding all these odd tracks in the muck on the deep ocean floor, and assumed they were made by some kind of shellfish or tiny, muck-sucking something or other.

Nope, giant amoebas that roll around in packs.

They're fucking HUGE for single-celled things, and fly in the face of a good chunk of well established scientific thought. Remember, kids, science is the fine art of finding out how wrong you are. Science, real science, is an endless quest to find out stuff you didn't know, or to find out more about stuff you already do. Whenever you see a well-dressed labcoat talking down his nose about the ignorant masses, or how impossible something is, you're looking at a spokeman, not a scientist.

A good scientist has more in common with the kid in school who decided to find out what was in the hole in the dirt behind the playground by jamming his arm in it then a politician.

>>1774032
Pretty sure that's Deep Blue, and yeah, I think she's pregnant there. She's still supposedly the largest Great White ever filmed. Twenty feet long and estimated fifty years old.

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>>1781041
I concur. I don't have any cool webms tho. Here, have a gif.

>>1786546
Firstly
>The Animatrix
mah nigga

Secondly
>The Second Renaissance
Don't take me back there, anon.

>>1787327
anyone got the gif of the octopus encapsulating himself in two coconut shells and rolling around?

>>1783050
>>1782774
>>1776631
t-that's kind of hot

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My own video i capture in turkey in 2008 i think, scarec me shitless first, anyone knw what it is?

>>1782843
>what is the anomality of water

>>1783291
This got me unprepared. Now I am giggling like a retard.

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>>1787424
>anyone knw what it is
a snail

>>1787484
uhm no, its fencing, u ever seen a fencing snail?

>>1787423
no thanks

>>1782804
>ywn fast forward toa time of semihumanoid squid/octopus husbandos curious to explore your mammalian body and grant you the hospitality of the tentacle

>>1762967

it´s that a baby sarlacc? or a baby tremor?

>>1782850
The core will slowly freeze because the sun isn't heating the earth.
All the heat in earth will slowly radiate away.

>>1787423
octopuses and squids are the only creature known to have no problem eating humans

>>1787508
>>1787424
Yes, snails mate through penis fencing since they are hermaphrodites. I think most gastropods are like the one in the webm.
It's genus is Conus, have fun looking through the list of 750 species of it.

>>1762978
They cut out the part where the fish turns around, transforms into an elderly Asian man wreathed in mystical light, and offers to grant the diver a single wish in return for the kindness he has shown.

>>1785988
kek

>>1785864
wrong

>>1785846
right

>>1777507
I love fresh sashimi

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>>1786919
man this anon makes the comfiest posts

>>1787512
my sides

>>1787572
cool as fuck

>>1787668
kek nice

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>>1787793
Thanks! I dig the world. I'm bitter about a lot of shit, have a broken back and am unlikely to actually see any of this shit myself, but goddamn is it fucking cool as hell. I love nature, and so should you, dammit. I'm not saying we all need to be hippies, but we should at least gain an appreciation for all the weird, gross, and cool shit out there.

Fun fact: if you haven't seen one in person, polar bears are the scariest goddamn thing ever.

They are fucking HUGE. I mean massive, one on it's back legs can stand 8-10 feet tall with ease. They are very strong, and are (likely, by reports) in the "humans taste good" camp. They look all cute and cuddly, like those ones on the coke commercial, right? just big, shy bears.

No, no they are goddamn not. You are required, by law, to carry a gun in Alaska in many of the lonelier places of the state, expressly so the polar bears do not eat you. They well generally tell you that if you see a polar bear, and it doesn't fuck off right away, fucking shoot it. They will chase you, and eat you. Even more fun, they are fantastic swimmers, can dive fairly well, and have been known to suddenly burst up out of supposedly frozen ice shelves, especially when hunting.

About as cute and cuddly as a snapping turtle with a sawblade mouth.

>>1782804
How do you smelt iron?

Or build a transistor?

At the bottom of the fucking ocean?

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>>1787853
>but goddamn is it fucking cool as hell

it fucking is anon, I've been one of those kids you were describing on that previous post since forever, always curious of my surroundings, admiring nature at its rawest, eager to learn more about everything involved, it really makes you put things in perspective, forget about the human/social world and realize you're just another little organism in the grand scheme of things, one lucky enough to be able to comprehend and think about all this fascinating shit

don't let that broken back be an impediment for you to go out there and live your life surrounded by all that wacky and enthralling shit out there man, you make it sound like it isn't but I had to tell you anyway, hell I would fucking hug you right now if you were in front of me you precious motherfucker

thanks for sharing those facts about polar bears, always knew they were dangerous shit, didn't know about that Alaska law tho lol

keep posting man, see you around

>>1787882
>t. creationist

>>1786919
I agree that most of the time "impossible" simply means "stuff we haven't found a way to work around yet", but how can you claim the masses are NOT ignorant???

>>1787370

No webm/gif, but here's the youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPnd_KzGdHI

>>1782784

Sauce in case anyone else is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giA16BoH_no

>>1787565
You are truly retarded if you think that. Even if it did radiate away in such a fashion it would take millions of years. The earth has plenty of geothermal heat to fuel deep sea life for a long time

>>1787943
he's not saying that tho anon don't take words so literally

he's just talking about the kind of entitled, conceited "scientist" who's always looking down on other people thoughts and doesn't take into consideration any other theories/ideas besides the ones he's biased in favor of

and believe me, there's a lot of them

>>1779855
always starts off playful

>>1785538
that's a crab; not a dolphin...

>>1787698
and polard bears

We should get a general nature thread going.

I have plenty of weird animal shit at least...

>>1787572
Crabs seem like a really odd choice of food for something as malleable as an octopus.

>>1787841
>feminist dream

>>1787952
Octopi never cease to amaze me.

>>1788000
do it anon, the people want this

>>1787900
gay

>>1788017
see
>>1788035

Not fancy, but there it is.

>>1787970
Maybe you shouldn't be so fast to call others retarded when you can't even comprehend the meaning of words yourself.
Fucking idiot.

>>1788002
Their beak helps when dealing with shells.

>>1779351
the guy said it was hit by a propeller

>>1776524
ive gone whale watching before and its so pretty. They splash around a bunch and the plankton get grouped up from it and the water starts to glow green

>>1782488
ty i was looking for that webm

>>1763371
>DEJA VU!

>>1778151
lmao holy shit just started playing warband last week

>>1782838
Octopus mother dies before her eggs hatches and never get to teach what she learned to her babies.

>>1787900
gamer fish

>>1787424
THAT'S A CONE YOU FUCKING IDIOT
WHAT THE FFUUUUUUCK IF IT HAD STUNG YOU YOU'D BE DEAD.

>>1787900
That would make for such a cool mob in subnautica

>>1787565
>>1787970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rltpH6ck2Kc
skip to 6 minutes

>>1777132
For anyone who doesn't know the specifics, these are goliath grouper also known as jew fish. In 1990 it became illegal to kill a goliath grouper either by spear or hook in fact in many places (I live in Florida btw and am a regular in the Keys and all along the coast just fyj) if you get caught bringing a goliath grouper in just to take a picture with before releasing, you will be fined LUDICROUS amounts of dough. All this being said, goliath groupers (now comes the origin of their more pol approved name) are notorious fish stealers. 10 times out of 10 you reel in a fish or have a fish on your spear a jew fish will fucking take a huge chunk out of it or will steal it altogether. There numbers in my honest opinion based on the fact that they are fucking everywhere seems to suggest to me that the ban should probably be lifted

>>1787424
lmao is that a cone snail? if it was, you'd legit be dead if it got you with no immediate medical assistance

>>1787793
lmao that diver killed that octopus, it was too preoccupied with the approaching diver to notice the other predator

>>1777958
Reminds me of the fat kid in the pipe in Willy Wonka.

>>1788253
So if we could prolong octopus life via genetic engineering, would they be smarter and smarter each generations?

>>1762978

Wont lionfish kill you on contact? I am confus

>>1763371
this reminds me of the megaman drills that come out of the celling and floor

>>1787793
What ate the octopus?

>>1788846
the octopus was eaten by a torpedo ray

out fucking skilled

>>1781518
>tfw too smart for my fellow country men
I feel you fampai

>>1787698
*no problem eating human even when not starving*
humans apparently taste really fucking bad, I guess its a good natural defence

>>1786306
fuck man, really

>>1780634
YOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>1768558
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6THBi6CwQ
good taste from Smithsonian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fkl312lldQ

>>1786367
back to /f/ with ye

>>1787841
fucking lol

>>1787424
You-

>>1781990
>that pasta about anal sex and the worm wrapped around his penis

>>1778009
That's a good head on your shoulders

>>1768558
>American documentary
"There's possibly some kind of thing that maybe did this and it might be a monster or some shit"
>Everywhere else
"The few natural predators of the Great White are... Sometimes [this] can happen to tags"

Science vs. Entertainment folks.

>>1793467
no shit, it was god damn shark week.

>>1787793
>gosh darn, I can't believe you have done this