Wait, beneath the sea floor?
OUGHGH??
OIUOHGHHVOIH!!!!!
HOLY SHIT
So I looked this up and there's three things I think should be mentioned:
- Yes, this is real.
- They found this ecosystem in underground hydrothermal caves where the water was 75 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) and when it says "volcanic fluids" it means that, or where the hot water in the caves comes up through cracks to mix with the colder water above, allowing minerals and nutrients from the volcanic caves to escape and dissolved oxygen from the open ocean to enter.
- The robot that tested the hypothesis of life under the seafloor was called SuBastian.
So basically we thought hydrothermal vents were these distant isolated islands of weird habitat and everything dependent on them was always either unique to that one vent or had to send eggs and larvae drifting out into the sea until those find a vent.
And that's likely the case for many species, yes, but apparently there's also just vast interconnected networks of toxic bathwater between vents and that's just what we know from the tiny sliver of one that we got to peek in on. There's probably much more to it we may never be able to see, and probably many many undiscovered species that spend their entire life cycles down there.
Up here on the surface there's caves full of weird creatures isolated for millions of years....what the fuck could there be UNDER the fucking FLOOR of the ABYSS that we'll never know.
What if there's like one single little species of trilobite that's still around but that's the kind of place where it is. 😡
Because Pitbulls need love too.
“Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.”
literally an ipad baby
(@hazelsmazecave)
invented a game called “I throw dice at the cat”
hey your cat kinda lowkey was giving god of probability and gambling and chaos so i drew her. yeah.
American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) swimming in a freshwater spring, family Alligatoridae, Florida, USA
photograph by Shelly Collins
Here's the comic I did for @jeypawlik "Swim On 9" charity shark series please check out this and the other zines at the link below. Fun fact: I reference that Greenland had a previous numeral system than the one used now. The oldest shark found is not quite older that when the modern numbers started to be introduced but there may be older ones and its nice thought. https://topazcomics.com/swimon/downloads/
I had chickens. They remember exactly who they are.
Cozy and safe by Hanibaber
That paw tap did it
Don't make me tap the sign (again).
Magpies are so cool looking like how is this a real creature I see on a daily basis
could i offer you some round bears in these trying times?
shoutout to paris hilton for not abandoning her ‘micropig’
when it turned out that it was a normal piggy who grew up to be a big fat fatty piggu
Actually that’s pretty standard size for a micro pig. Pigs are ENORMOUS, dude. The average pig on a farm is 7 feet long and over 700 lbs. A normal pig would be much bigger than Hilton.
EDIT: This is a photo of the world’s smallest recognized breed of pig, the kune kune. I’m sorry cartoons lied to you all.
This is the pot bellied pig, another famous “small” breed.
This is your average adult pig.
Big ole’ pigs.
Wild boars can feed people for a very long time! I believe this one was 1800 lbs. (largest piggy ever was about 1,984 lbs)
I NOW KNOW WHY WILD BOARS WERE SO DANGEROUS IN THE DARK AGES HOLY SHIT; RICHARD III I TAKE BACK ALL THE TRASH I TALKED ABOUT YOUR HOUSE CREST GOOD GOD THAT’S TERRIFYING.
holy fucking shit I knew they were big but that’s like the size of a fucking CAR.
And pigs are actually smarter than a lot of other farm animals. They’ll figure out how to break out of gates with locks that other animals can’t figure out.