• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    bro is so starved for attention that that one compliment got transcribed in its genetic code and lived on for 250 million years

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    9 months ago

    A horseshoe crab is fucking gnarly, bro. You see this brown, almost crescent/spherical object with a pointy tail skuttling along innocuously at the bottom of the shallows, and moving at a decent pace. It’s so different from anything else you’d expect to see with the tides, and much larger too. Bigger than any crab, bigger than most fish that like to hang at that shallow depth. You might even mistake the two round black dimples in it’s carapace for eyes, and like the comical depiction find it…cute?

    It looks fairly non threatening, and has a poor reaction time. So like any kid you pick it up by it’s tail, and then, “HOLY FUCK!” Nightmare fuel, as you look under it’s carapace at the many legs writhing underneath like some Cthulhu fever dream.

    You put it back down in the water and continue to let it do it’s thing.

    I’ve had that experience a couple times, but I’ve never witnessed these things breeding before. My Mom who was an Environmental Chemist for the EPA saw these things breeding once, and it’s like a giant migration for these crabs to the shallows and shore. We’re talking absolutely hundreds of them coming to fuck in some nasty orgy and peace back out to sea.

    Certainly one of the weirdest, coolest and oldest creatures on Earth.

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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      9 months ago

      Ugh metagamers amirite 🙄 one guy figures out a good ladder build and immediately everyone copies it 🦀

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    9 months ago

    Their blood is instrumental for our vaccines and pretty much saved our lives from COVID. We should build statues of these legends!