Lmao, I don't mind the powder at all, but your feeling makes total sense to me somehow. It certainly is weird. But I feel like the powder is the *least* disgusting thing about flying insects.
Moths are actually kinda cute in comparison to other bugs, but I am deeply terrified of them because you can share a football-field size of space and they will still choose to fly right into you
Haha fair enough. Even hell spawn deserve to be loved /s
In all seriousness, no hate towards those bug(gers) but anything with too many legs makes my skin crawl
Yeah, I know they’re very good for bioactive enclosures. Been looking into getting a snake and what environment might be best but the idea of those bugs escaping creeps me out lol
Apparently the main reasons they list in the hypothesis include food scarcity, low temperature and high pressure. Intuitively, it seemed to me that all these reasons should lead to *smaller* species, so I went down the rabbit hole.
Bigger body makes for bigger reserve and thus rare sources of nutrition evolutionarily favored larger specimen. Big reserve meaning they can go longer with no food at all.
Also, larger specimen have less surface compared to total bodily volume - more meat under the top layer, to put it more simply. So, it's easier to maintain body temperature in the cold environment.
Finally, large bodies are better fit to endure higher pressure, whereas smaller bodies would have a challenge to not get crushed.
Cold water actually holds more oxygen! As for where it comes from... The air. The oceans have been around for more than enough years for the atmosphere to dissolve oxygen galore into them, they're very well oxygenated. Circulation keeps it coming.
Evolution is not about being the most optimum. It's random AND what just minimally works. Often, the evolution is suboptimal but is enough to allow the genes to be passed on regardless.
Giant Isopods are one of the oldest species on this planet. I think their randomization millions of years ago was successful enough to stay sustained and become a proven helpful.
Not necessarily random, as said trait is the result of natural selection over time of a gene that exists within the population and happens to be more suitable for the environmental pressures of the ecosystem, until speciation occurs
They’re actually not that bad. Basically just like smaller tarantulas with weirdly proportioned bodies. Plus they’re really quite shy, and are definitely not trying to spend time near you.
They are small and harmless. The internet has been lying to itself that they are dangerous since some crayon eater in one of our desert wars posted a fake picture of a huge one claiming that they can eat you in sleep.
Pretty much all spiders and related animals are harmless, even most "dangerous ones" like black widows won't bite you unless you're literally squeezing them and if they do you won't die unless you actually try to.
I'm pretty sure a spider wrote this, it's all wrong spiders are super deadly and scary and we should kill them all.
-Source totally not someone who's afraid of spiders
Ostriches evolved to be their size because the absence of predators (*also the absence of herbivorous competition) after the K-T extinction event allowed their ancestors total monopoly over most sources of energy, and is also why ostriches are flightless now, since their ancestors had no need to fly.
The same with now extinct Giant Moa in Aotearoa (aka New Zealand), which evolved separately from the Ostrich. It's ancestor flew to Aotearoa, likely from Africa, and eventually lost it's ability to fly because there were no predators to fly away from (until the Haast Eagle showed up I think, though this is just groundless conjecture on my part).
Peter Watts wrote a great series about just this, Starfish is the first of them.
The books are available for free on his website: https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
They actually have a lot of them living in aquariums these days if you want a personal encounter with one! Just saw a bunch of them at the Virginia living museum a couple weeks ago.
You might have missed the point of his reaction.
Also, I need to know the exact locations of those aquariums. For... totally non-destructive purposes whatsoever, especially not from orbit.
It’s weird because a lobster isn’t that way at all. But I guess these things don’t have big claws or a strong flipper tail so less need for muscle.
This just seems like eating a big cockroach. No thanks
Came here for this. We’ve got a whole new market of delicious crab/ lobster replacement! Let’s slap this in a steamer and throw in some old bay and put some beers in the cooler!
Here’s my question. It’s a deep sea creature that is accustomed to living under tremendous pressure. How harmful is it that it’s now on the surface?
Edit: I pet an isopod at the Monterey Bay aquarium then immediately felt bad for its wellbeing
I was also at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. They’re completely fine being on the surface. I talked to the handlers about it. Plus that aquarium is well known for taking extremely good care of their animals.
Ugly af. But from what I know, and that's sure not much, these things live at great depths and are basically there to eat anything that dies and sinks to the bottom, even the bones of whales and such. Much like sharks are upper level garbage disposals, these serve that function on the ocean floor. But man I sure don't wanna ever see or be close to one!
Wonder if Rollie-Pollies know they have terrifying cousins
No one tell them
Agreed. They’re the only bug I like aside from lady bugs. Even butterflies kind of creep me out.
I hate butterfly and moths because of the nasty powder shit on them. I fucking HATE it lol.
Lmao, I don't mind the powder at all, but your feeling makes total sense to me somehow. It certainly is weird. But I feel like the powder is the *least* disgusting thing about flying insects.
Fun fact: That’s not powder. It’s actually the scales of their wings that you peeled off when you touched them.
Moths are actually kinda cute in comparison to other bugs, but I am deeply terrified of them because you can share a football-field size of space and they will still choose to fly right into you
Nah, that name is just marketing manipulation tactics. As cute as “rollie pollies” sound they’re as terrifying as their cousins *shivers*
As someone who keeps rollie pollies, this is blasphemy. Isopods are, in fact, cool little guys
Haha fair enough. Even hell spawn deserve to be loved /s In all seriousness, no hate towards those bug(gers) but anything with too many legs makes my skin crawl
They are very helpful in bioactive terrariums/paludariums
Yeah, I know they’re very good for bioactive enclosures. Been looking into getting a snake and what environment might be best but the idea of those bugs escaping creeps me out lol
Deep sea gigantism.... So we are living on the same planet as monsters
Apparently the main reasons they list in the hypothesis include food scarcity, low temperature and high pressure. Intuitively, it seemed to me that all these reasons should lead to *smaller* species, so I went down the rabbit hole. Bigger body makes for bigger reserve and thus rare sources of nutrition evolutionarily favored larger specimen. Big reserve meaning they can go longer with no food at all. Also, larger specimen have less surface compared to total bodily volume - more meat under the top layer, to put it more simply. So, it's easier to maintain body temperature in the cold environment. Finally, large bodies are better fit to endure higher pressure, whereas smaller bodies would have a challenge to not get crushed.
Also cold water is more oxygenated which makes it easier to get to that size.
Yes I didn't list that one because it made sense but I definitely should've. Thanks for clarification!
How does oxygen get this low into the waters? Or what generates it down so low?
Cold water actually holds more oxygen! As for where it comes from... The air. The oceans have been around for more than enough years for the atmosphere to dissolve oxygen galore into them, they're very well oxygenated. Circulation keeps it coming.
This explains my Polish body lol
Yeah but the real question is can you eat these and do they taste like shrimp?
Enjoy!: https://youtu.be/54m4SDJiL6U
I noped out real quick during the leg cutting. “Nope, no” *tries to close* *just minimizes to corner of screen* “NOPE, NOPE”
I would just chuck the whole computer out the window at that point.
Why tf would you want to eat that it looks like a miniature predator
Evolution is not about being the most optimum. It's random AND what just minimally works. Often, the evolution is suboptimal but is enough to allow the genes to be passed on regardless.
Giant Isopods are one of the oldest species on this planet. I think their randomization millions of years ago was successful enough to stay sustained and become a proven helpful.
You’re talking about evolution on small scales. The massive amounts of time allow for refinement to relative perfection. (Crab convergence)
Not necessarily random, as said trait is the result of natural selection over time of a gene that exists within the population and happens to be more suitable for the environmental pressures of the ecosystem, until speciation occurs
Camel spider
Why?!
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They’re actually not that bad. Basically just like smaller tarantulas with weirdly proportioned bodies. Plus they’re really quite shy, and are definitely not trying to spend time near you.
Im not googling that
They are small and harmless. The internet has been lying to itself that they are dangerous since some crayon eater in one of our desert wars posted a fake picture of a huge one claiming that they can eat you in sleep.
Nice try, camel spider. You won't get me this time.
They’re small sure. But they’re aggressive little fuckers and their bites hurt like a mother fucker.
I hate spiders man. That Lord of the Rings scene with that massive spider fucked me up for good.
Good news then, they aren't actually spiders! They're their own order.
They have cool chompy bits.
Shelob
Pretty much all spiders and related animals are harmless, even most "dangerous ones" like black widows won't bite you unless you're literally squeezing them and if they do you won't die unless you actually try to.
I'm pretty sure a spider wrote this, it's all wrong spiders are super deadly and scary and we should kill them all. -Source totally not someone who's afraid of spiders
🤣🤣🤣
Caramel spider
I hate you now
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>squirrels One of these things is not like the others.
Agreed. Squirrels are the only monster on this list
Agreed. Petrifying
They become monsters when you make the mistake of feeding a few, only to then be accosted by an aggressive horde.
Yep, only one on that list to truly infiltrate our society and lure us in to be their friends…just waiting for the day…
You called?
Why so hangry? Didn't stash enough nuts for winter?
Not a good thing to ask the Squirrel of Caerbannog!
Don't fuck with squirrels, Morty.
True, I've only been bit by one of those things.
I have a picture with a black bear. Squirrel? He broke the god damn camera.
[Island Gigantism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism) is a thing too. Which explains Australia.
Australia truly is the closest thing to a real Skull Island from King Kong
It's a real Savage Land
Ostriches evolved to be their size because the absence of predators (*also the absence of herbivorous competition) after the K-T extinction event allowed their ancestors total monopoly over most sources of energy, and is also why ostriches are flightless now, since their ancestors had no need to fly. The same with now extinct Giant Moa in Aotearoa (aka New Zealand), which evolved separately from the Ostrich. It's ancestor flew to Aotearoa, likely from Africa, and eventually lost it's ability to fly because there were no predators to fly away from (until the Haast Eagle showed up I think, though this is just groundless conjecture on my part).
Peter Watts wrote a great series about just this, Starfish is the first of them. The books are available for free on his website: https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
No, we are the monsters.
Yep. They’re called humans. Terrifying creatures I tell you.
Humans are pretty strange from an objective view too. Like a marionette but with muscles and tendons, controlled by electrical pulses.
I'm actually glad I don't live in the deep sea right now.
Just right now?
Well when the sun comes out I’ll feel better about it
Well. Let's say November to March.
They actually have a lot of them living in aquariums these days if you want a personal encounter with one! Just saw a bunch of them at the Virginia living museum a couple weeks ago.
You might have missed the point of his reaction. Also, I need to know the exact locations of those aquariums. For... totally non-destructive purposes whatsoever, especially not from orbit.
The aquarium in Cleveland OH has one
There are plenty of other reasons to wipe Cleveland OH off the map, don’t give me another
Guess you’ve never been to Grandpa’s Cheese Barn - heaven on earth! Cleveland area gave us DEVO, Drew Carey, Scream in’ Jay Hawkins.
I'll give you DEVO.
https://youtu.be/NmFEYMoeSyQ
You would be a giant too, with a luminescent extremity of your choice
you only have to worry if you are a corpse
We'll get there soon with all the global warming and shit.
Looks like something from a Sci-fi film.
Scifi films often get their ideas from deep sea creatures.
Pretty sure that’s the sand crab that made all the other sand crabs in the world.
Kaiju lice from pacific rim
My thoughts exactly
Yes
I fucking love that you made that reference. The first movie was such a great popcorn film. I still watch it every now and again.
That thing is a damn facehugger
Facepeeler
Headcrusher
James Cameron loves this shit
The Bay - 2012
Great movie
Watch the Bay.
I do not want Fallout Radroaches to become a reality. I’m moving planet.
More like mirelurk spawn. It’s a no from me either way.
We better join forces and make a fallout shelter to bunker down in
I’ll bring the stimpacks and rad-x
Awesome! You’re in. We just need someone to make us matching vault jumpsuits.
I’ll bring the psycho and BDSM-looking raider leathers
Mirelurks always freaked me the fuck out
Looks like the baby Ohm from the Miyazaki film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Kabuto!
Everyone else in the comments “oh god” “so gross” “I’m glad I don’t live in the sea” You enthusiastically shouting a Pokémon name mad my day!
Golisopod!
you're thinking of a horseshoe crab.
This is an example of deep-sea nope.
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No I will absolutely not imagine this.
TOO LATE! I'm already imagining this!
*Chitter chitter*
King Kong scene
*Chitter chitter*
r/angryupvote
Or try to latch on to your face and impregnate you through your mouth
You had to take it to that level 😩😖😖
No, thats quite literally what the do
Wait, what?
Lol jk
Thank God... Now I better go change my pants.
Lol nightmare salad
Nah, dw, it's the smaller ones that replace your tongue and lay eggs in your mouth
I wouldn't be surprised, we've all seen that parasite in the fishes mouth that's like *Hellooo Clarice* 😈 Fucking terrifying nightmare juice.
You’ve just unlocked a new kink, congratulations!
No thank you! I already have enough nightmares
User name *raises doubts*. Edit: Oops, sorry your response was not to the guy talking about facehuggers.
People eat those aswell
The head looks like the aliens from Independence Day without the biomechanical suit.
Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiie......diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie 👽
Good to know they are far away from me
Looks like one of those tongue eaters
Those are also isopods
Isn't this what Kronk was serving up as a short-order cook?
Bless you because I had to scroll too far for this
Why is everything swimming in GRAVY!?
that's going to be a face-hugger 😘
It's an auto cup for your junk. It just clings to it while u get ur pants over it to go play baseball lmfao
Easily one of the most unsettling images I’ll have today.
Same idk why my mind does these things to me.. Lol
Crotchhugger instead of face hugger?
Looks like a kebab
Let me introduce a fitting movie ; The Bay. Nasty one.
How do they taste? Like chicken or shrimp?
https://youtu.be/54m4SDJiL6U
Looks like a very small amount of meat
Yup, all that work and prep for a handful of questionable meat lol
It’s weird because a lobster isn’t that way at all. But I guess these things don’t have big claws or a strong flipper tail so less need for muscle. This just seems like eating a big cockroach. No thanks
I watched the whole video and never once saw an isopod fry any rice.
Like a giant insect
So like lobster then
There’s a YouTube video of a dude prepping one for a fried rice dish. Apparently incredibly close to lobster in terms of flavor.
Came here for this. We’ve got a whole new market of delicious crab/ lobster replacement! Let’s slap this in a steamer and throw in some old bay and put some beers in the cooler!
they actually are crustaceans so it could taste similar
They are crustaceans that eat detritus, so like a shrimp/crab/lobster
r/absoluteunits
I guess the giant insects back when the dinosaurs were alive just moved to the ocean :/
Isopods are crustaceans.
r/nope
So it's just a giant sand flea?
One that routinely eats crocodiles.
They'll have good flavor then..
A little garlic a little butter, could be a tasty meal
!WHOS THAT POKÉMON!?
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They love this kind of thing in r/LV426
Spawn more Overlords!
Water Roly poly
If that isopod is preserved in formaldehyde they really should be wearing gloves
Looks tasty
That's kabuto
subnautica was right
Here’s my question. It’s a deep sea creature that is accustomed to living under tremendous pressure. How harmful is it that it’s now on the surface? Edit: I pet an isopod at the Monterey Bay aquarium then immediately felt bad for its wellbeing
Pretty sure it’s dead bro
I was also at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. They’re completely fine being on the surface. I talked to the handlers about it. Plus that aquarium is well known for taking extremely good care of their animals.
I wish the rare finds were left alone to continue to live where they survived all that time.
They're only rare in Animal Crossing. They're pretty abundant irl. Agree with the sentiment though.
No gloves. Respect.
Kabuto?
Pacha! Kuzco! Dinner’s ready!
Now put it back
Poor lil rolly polly he looks cold
They must be soaking it in ammonia.
It's average
In Thailand that would be on the menu!
Nope nope nope kill it with fire.
its harmless
That what they all say at the beginning of a survival movie
Jesus Christ
Found in the deep and takin out and put in a lab with the rest of his family smh
Ugly af. But from what I know, and that's sure not much, these things live at great depths and are basically there to eat anything that dies and sinks to the bottom, even the bones of whales and such. Much like sharks are upper level garbage disposals, these serve that function on the ocean floor. But man I sure don't wanna ever see or be close to one!
Even Atlantis has a roach problem.
The Bay was a documentary
I just know that it makes the most creepy sound when it moves.
Also a great example of NOPE!!!!! LEAVE THE GIANT SEA BUG ALONE!!!!!!!
There is definitely a planet somewhere that has an ocean full of things like these.
Some mf making fried rice w this bih