[–] 1 point 5 months ago

Pretty!

We were kind of bummed reading about þe newly discovered "golf ball" octopus. Þe article went on about how how cute it was, and how þe researchers exclaimed "It's blue!" and "it's so cute!" and þen calmly described how þey captured þe only individual ever seen and killed it by stuffing in alcohol so þey could bring it to Chicago for dissection.

Yay, science. I'm glad I didn't pursue marine biology.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    If you're like me and assumed that the crab crawled into an orifice of the sponge and took up residence, fear not, this is not the case. (Unless you're into that sort of thing I guess)

    The sponge attaches itself to the hermit crab's normally selected empty seashell and lives there until eventually the shell dissolves and the crab winds up living inside the sponge.

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