5 ms·
Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights'
- jvanderbot 2y agoI like to think about what lived in the Oceans of Mars, or maybe even Europa if things were slightly different. But the stuff in our own ocean is so alien already, and we share common ancestors!
- adolph 2y agoLast common ancestor was 600m years ago [0], “nearly twice as long as the step … to find the common ancestor of birds and mammals.” 0. https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Consciousness/dp/0374227764 https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Conscious...
- solardev 2y agoThey made a movie about that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report
- troymc 2y agoI thought I was the only person who watched that movie!
- solardev 2y agoIt was an enjoyable enough movie night! Think I watched it during COVID with some beer and Thai food, and it was satisfying enough to make me want to play some sci-fi games afterward :) Nothing as thought-provoking as that other space squid movie, Arrival, but it wasn't trying to be. I had a good time.
- Reason077 2y agoArthur C Clarke's 2061 (sequel to 2001 and 2010) was also about about a troubled mission that finds life in Europa's oceans. Europa Report sounds like it might have been a little inspired by that novel?
- duxup 2y agoI just watched it. Good movie with an ending you don’t get too often in such movies. I did kinda hate the talking heads kinda narrative that goes on. I get why they did it but I grew tired of it.
- WorkerBee28474 2y agoAll I know is there would be crabs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
- holoduke 2y agoDont forget mercurius. Recent new studies show that the planet is probably from a different further orbit and used to be a much different place. It got promoted as an uninteresting dead planet to a top candidate for (former) life planet.
- gausswho 2y agoSimilar to video adverts that humor you for a few seconds and end on a bedazzling white background behind their logo.
- Tao3300 2y agoI've played enough video games to know that you're supposed to hit those when they flash. Half a dozen hits or so destroys the arms and triggers Phase 2 of the boss battle.
- bitwize 2y agoCareful though, the monster only has three frames of vulnerability when you see the flash.
- pvaldes 2y agoA Cosmopolitan species in fact that can be found from Naples to Florida, Alaska to Santiago de Chile, Sidney to Madagascar and from Norway to South-Africa. Conquered every single ocean except the poles and the Eastern part of the Mediterranean. And yes, is a truly spectacular big predator. A little like the invertebrate version of a big cat, specially with that claws.
- dekhn 2y agoIf pacific squid are humboldt squid, they are limited to the eastern pacific ocean.
- pvaldes 2y agoThey are talking about the cool spaceship disguised as cephalopod: Tanigia danae (2 meter long). https://schmidtocean.org/wp-content/uploads/Taningia-danae.jpg https://schmidtocean.org/wp-content/uploads/Taningia-danae.j... All that their preys see is two big oblique glowing cat-eyes before to be snared by lines of sharp hooks and killed by a bite. "Night at the African Savannah" style, but without all the roaring.
- Reason077 2y agoA favoured snack for sperm whales! However the sharp squid beaks sometimes get lodged in the whale's intestines, which is suspected to lead to the production of ambergris.
- pvaldes 2y agoI had found it in several species of pelagic dolphins and beaked whales. Is not uncommon in some cetaceans but the beaks are very plain, square. Lacking distinctive features aren't really easy to identify, except after discarding all the other species. A curious fact of the species is that the lights are enclosed into skin folders shaped as eyelids, so the animal can hide it, show it partially, or blink at will. Those are among the biggest light producing organs evolved by a life-being (if not the biggest known).
- bitwize 2y ago"I looked right into its deadlights... and I wanted to be there."
- xenospn 2y agoThe exact thought I had reading this headline.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago>> The team works from a research vessel called Dagon The perfect name for a ship searching for benthic beasts with luminous tentacles. I bet her dinghy is called "R'lyeh".
- redbell 2y agoIn unrelated note, it's funny to be greeted with a 20 secs Ad video before seeing the 50 secs squid video you land on the site to watch! Ah.. Ads are ruining the entire web these days, and the experience keeps worsening.
- asix66 2y agouBlock origin in the browser. PiHole at home. NextDNS mobile. I’ll concede it’s an infinite game of Whac-A-Mole, but a game I’m willing to play
- metadat 2y agoDoesn't work at all for the most dominant browsers -- mobile, unless you're one of those folks who never leaves the borders of home base and pups their own custom router (like opnsense, I do this but its a pain to set up and maintain, quite niche). If only there were a popular browser that makes uBlock Origin brain dead simple.. it ain't Firefox, Safari, or Brave, of this you can be certain.
- ungreased0675 2y agoUtterly fascinating, like seeing a being from another planet.
- nickburns 2y agohttps://youtu.be/eO2wTmhUImE https://youtu.be/eO2wTmhUImE