ro 𓆟

deep sea dweller. nautical psychedelic enthusiast

[the-everlasting-ash]

Good Night 🌌

[gogogadgetgolem]

For the love of gd guys. If you don’t have insurance or your insurance sucks, or you have crazy high deductibles, PLEASE look into GoodRX. It’s free!!! I got a member with a crazy high deductible a coupon for their medication for 10 dollars. From over 100 dollars! Please! Please use GoodRx!

[tothearkmoved]

9-17-2008

[earth-tooth]

dont support industries that are driving animals to extinction thank you!

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

Already reblogged one of these but another reminder: don’t by nautilus shells!

[gaykarstaagforever]

Nautiluses. THIS goddamn animal.

The fundamentals of this design are HALF A BILLION YEARS OLD. Look at its weird eyes. It evolved back when eyes were still new. Those are literal pinhole cameras. Because nature invented photography the same way we did, apparently.

It doesn't have tentacles. Those are cirri, which lots of sea animals use to do all sorts of things. Fetal nautiluses have one giant slug foot that splits into these. They have noodle antennae made out of foot.

You can bring them up out of the ocean and they can survive the equivalent change of like 80 standard atmospheres. That shouldn't be possible. These things evolved a goddamn spacesuit...500 million years ago.

They also swim via jet propulsion. Their shells make them buoyant, which they can regulate, and they shoot water from a pump. So their 500 million year old spacesuit also has a goddamn rocket pack.

There have been 5 mass extinction events (we are causing a six one now). This thing has survived all of them. And it never got better eyes.

Or A BRAIN. That's right. This thing predates BRAINS. It has two separated lobes behind its top and bottom halves of beak that apparently work well enough that it can track smells with okay accuracy in total darkness, in 3 dimensions.

Here is one eating a dead fish.

Goddamn.

[cnc3-deactivated20211231]

"We can be pen pals.

"BUT I CAN'T HOLD A PEN!"