What's the most freaky/disturbing fact about nature for you?
>>5109375Mankind will be extinct within the century. Turns out evil is a bad survival strategy.
>>5109377a good thing is freaky/disturbing?
>>5109375I think it's funny that billy goats pee on their beards to attract the female goats.
>>5109377evil is just what normal animals do, but with the potential capacity to not do it.
>>5109375That some people consider human activity as somehow not fundamentally natural.
>>5109382Natural doesn’t equal good or moral
>>5109383I didn't say it was. The thread is about nature, not morality.
>>5109379I'm into piss and I really like that a lot of animals also are apparently into piss
>>5109375how rare and and fragile it is. I share the "rare Earth" pov,no matter how fucking many trillions of planets there are in the Universe that theoretically could sustain life as we know it,there's a EXTREMELY low possibility that there's any for a fact
How many vestigial organs/features/genetic markers are just left overs from previous events or mutations from evolution. Obviously due to selection pressure these GAIN useful features thru natural selection but the fact they just stick around after generations and generations long after they first appeared in totally different context is weird to me.
So many animals eat poop that it some times feels like the ones that don't eat poop are the weird ones
>>5109449Speak
>>5109377Misanthropes need to be shoved into lockers.
>>5109425but then once it does start up and it's given enough time, it's nearly impossible to completely eradicate via natural means. think of how many extinction level events the planet has had but it's never completely wiped out all life. ofc there's exceptions like the sun turning into a red giant, that will most likely purge the earth of all life.
>>5109375hyenas give birth through their crazy fake dicks, and the first pup dies stretching out the dick tube so the rest of the litter can be born easier. i hate hyenas
>>5109377At 8 billion people, we're the most numerous mammal on Earth. We're not going extinct anytime soon.
>>5109377ignorant moron childish loser delusional idiot >>5109686this. Our species ain't going anywhere,for the good or for the bad
after permian extinction Lystrosaurus accounted for 95% of the terrestrial animalsyou could walk through entire Pangea and see nothing but these pudgy motherfuckers eating shrubs and digging roots
>>5109476Just read more about thisWhat the fuck
for some reason its platypuses sweating their milk. its not the most disturbing thing but its something i though 100% was a joke at first, but its true.
>>5109686>we're the most numerous mammal on EarthBullshit. A conservative estimate of the number of mus musculus/domesticus puts them at at least 20 billion and up to 100 billion.
>>5109700Humans make up 36% percent of all mammalian biomass right now (and livestock makes up another 60%) so we're arguably in similar, but slightly more diverse situation right now.Everywhere you go in the Holocene you'll see humans and like a dozen species of domestic mammals.
>>51096868billion is a rounding errors. Its actually much closer to 250 thousand.
>>5109375Sexually transmissible cancers that may have outlived their original species>CTVTs originated some 6000 years ago from an extinct lineage of Native American dogs (or more properly coydogs), so they're in some sense a surviving relic of that lineage>they're the oldest known somatic cell line>this discovery inspired the hypothesis that myxosporeans originated as cancerous lines from more complex myxozoans, this is supported by the fact that myxosporeans lost many protein domains otherwise universal in metazoans that prevent cancerous growth>(they also completely lost their mitochondria and related organelles, another unique development in the animal kingdom)
>>5109686Dinosaurs said the same thing
>>5109375Platypus releases milk through its skin and the babies just lick it up.makes no fucking sense the entire species is fucked.
>>5109377>Mankind will be extinct within the century. Turns out evil is a bad survival strategy.have you ever tried to commit genocide? the moment you kill one 10 more escape and reproduce behind the rocks, not even starvation or natural disasters can wipe humans just look at africans
>>5109686>We're not going extinct anytime soon.well some groups are clearly going extinct if they don't fuck between members of their own group, but that's their fault for retards
>>5109442a few, like the cecum is a left over from when humans could eat plants, same with wisdom teeth, and the appendix is part of that system, and now functions as a bacterial refuge for when you get diarrhea, like from dysentery>>5109449thats because those animals are hindgut fermenters, rather than foregut like ruminants, which means the only way they can ferment plant material is in their large intestine, unfortunately the large intestine does not absorb nutrients like the small intestine does, so the animal has to eat its own shit to actually get the nutrients out of it; primates are hindgut fermenters, you see this in gorillas, humans dont do this because our digestive tract is much smaller, that smaller cecum, since we eat meats and eat to digest fruits
>>5110333>>5110453Women sweat milk out of their nipples and the babies just lick it upA more fucked up fact about platypuses is that they have no stomach. I mean, there's a sort of pouch left between their oesophagus and intestines, but it's not functional, it produces no acid or pepsin, and the food just passes right through to be digested in the intestines. Since they also lack teeth, they grind up the food they eat with stones in their cheek pouches, kinda like birds' gizzard but in the mouth.
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>>5109377if there's no people, the planet might as well shut down.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKdfReE0qds
>>5109375Any single time a crustacean decides to go for a parasitic lifestyle, they always end up looking more like fractal clay splatters then anything remotely crustacean-y
>>5110519I hate parasites, something about aquatic parasites just seems so much worse
>>5109476I like yeens but the pseudopenis thing still skeeves me out
>>5109375Rape is natural
>>5110465platypuses really are the freakiest lil guys, aren't they>>5110519>>5111111there are two steps, and the second step is fractals>>5109375that sharks as an animal body plan evolved so long ago they already existed before shit like trees, oxygen-rich atmosphere or even some stars
CRPV.
>>5111258metal as fuck
>>5111124Why did they put skill points into that?
>>5110461There isnt a single ethnic group that is actively decreasing in population, despite your wet dream fantasies
>>5111532Marxist weasel words
>>5111533Great rebuttal, shitforbrains
>>5111532>There isnt a single ethnic group that is actively decreasing in populationhttps://www.worldometers.info/world-population/japan-population/the level of dishonesty from these glowies
>>5111111checked
>>5110342Ok, so we're the most numerous after some rodents like mice and rats (literal vermin). I'd say humans are doing pretty well still
>>5111258>The jackalope/wolpertinger is real>But for the worst reason possible
>>5111568Also incorrect +stop moving goalposts +you're retarded +take the L.
>>5109700Then why did they go extinct without descendants while even other dicynodonts thrived and diversified all the way to the Norian?
>>5111251>sharks as an animal body plan evolved so long ago they already existed before shit like trees, oxygen-rich atmosphere or even some starsSpeaking of, kelp is apparently relatively modern, there were no kelp forests 200 million years ago. Actual forests and dinosaurs are older than that.
>>5109375Grasshoppers existed before grassEarth used to have rings
>>5112235>Earth used to have ringsShe had to give them back after the divorce.
>>5109375How Tarantula Hawks hunt Tarantulas to lay their babies inside of them while the spider is still alive. Even though it is pretty well known by this point it is still one of the freakiest and most disturbing facts about nature that I have heard.
>>5112295There are in fact thousands of species that lay their eggs inside larvas/eggs, probably half of those are some type of wasp.It's enough to make you wonder if the stinger actually evolved for this initially.
>>5112301That was rhetorical btw, the stinger originally evolved for parasitic oviposition.And long before they ever used venom, some groups of parasitic wasps (including Ichneumons) co-opted viruses to inject alongside their eggs, particularly to immuno-depress the host and thus protect their own larva.Eventually the virus became so symbiotic to them it became entirely integrated in the wasp's genome through gene transfer and now practically functions as an organ. It's not even like E. coli which is indispensable for us but we still have to get infected from a source initially, here the wasp's own DNA tells it to start producing a viral solution in a specialized area of its reproductive tract so it can inject it later.And in some groups they inject ANOTHER disease alongside the viruses, a unique form of cancerous teratocytes ("monster cells") that grow large enough to be visible without a microscope, which is basically tumor-sized in a caterpillar.These teratocytes are originally the wasp egg's membrane and break off when it hatches, to enter the host's bloodstream and spread throughout its body before they start growing out of control (their DNA also grows with them, getting copied hundreds of times but never dividing)Their main function is to cripple the host by secreting hormones to liquefy its tissues and prevent it from ever turning into a butterfly.
