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biology is probably the closest we can get to actual eldrich horror, realizing that everything you’ve taken as fact is complete nonsense and in reality all definitions are made up
like fucking hell, both animals and plants are compound organisms that billions of years ago swallowed some bacteria or whatever and it stuck around inside the cells and eventually atrophied into organelles!
And if that’s not bad enough, turns out we’re entirely codependent on bacteria in the stomach, to the point that in the span of a month you can become able to digest new things just because some specific bacteria multiplied a whole bunch, and those bacteria will then make you crave the stuff they can digest.I was not prepared to mentally handle the consequences of knowing what barnacles are
Same!
Even barnacles get worse
Am I understanding that article right? Not only is the female a parasite on a different crustacean and loses all its libs and organs until it is just a sac with tendrils snaking through its host; but the male also attaches to the female while it’s in that sac state, and also loses all its limbs and organs until it is just a set of gonads? That’s the weirdest fucking lifecycle I’ve ever heard of.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit
The immobile crustacean is a parasite to the mobile crustacean!
Now I need to see an immobile plant that is a parasite to a mobile plant. Triffids excluded.
Sadly I believe there are none
The females are parasites who inject themselves into a host and take over their bodies through a network of filaments, while the males are hyperparasites who inject themselves into a settled female and cease to exist as independent organisms through the degeneration of all tissues except the ones responsible for spermatogenesis.
Metal AF
Hey babe, new Last of Us dropped.
Life never stops amazing me, even if some things come out of the mind of a author of b-horror movie scripts.
Oh hey, another link i have mixed feeling about having ever clicked.
You’re not alone. Barnacles drove Darwin mad! https://youtu.be/plYuvU2VZkE
Wait till you find out about the barnacle penis. You will still not be prepared.
And cephalopods are molluscs!
maybe that’s why octopi don’t have civilizations, they’re too traumatized by the fact that all their relatives are little more than meat plants
like, we’ve historically refused to acknowledge that we’re clearly related to monkeys, imagine how much people would have freaked out if our closest relatives were unable to move!
“I’m not gonna be home for a while Marie”
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It has no leg
It has no leg yet.
Correct
SHOOK
Shooken even
They’re not rocks they’re minerals
Blistering barnacles!
Watch your mouth!
waltuh
It’s true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean?wprov=sfla1 bottom row left
i think ur just copepod
Brain fart lol
