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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 93 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Childs! Mac wants the flamethrower!"

[–] captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what it is, but it's weird and pissed off.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[–] Blackout@fedia.io 92 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is what it looks like when it's a full grown adult thingy

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 37 points 2 months ago

:3 what a cutie

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

overcooked steak

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 78 points 2 months ago (4 children)

He then exclaimed: "I have to look at such features as the shape of the teeth, the jaws, the shape of the gill rakers, as well as counts of the vertebrae [to determine what it is].

"Now I have no idea what species this is.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/antarctica-scientists-find-bizarre-creature-3500m-under-ice-like-nothing-seen-before/ar-AA1qjVdA

For anyone else who instantly needed to know more about this incredibly adorable little jiggler, it was found in the mud and no one seems to have a clue what it could be.

[–] fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 months ago

"It will endure 300 times more pressure than we experience every day."

My heart goes out to you. Hang in there, jiggly creature.

[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can't get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA's site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Featuring the famed biologist zeFrank

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

That is how a Ze Frank do.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago

Does this article read like a gpt summary of a video to anyone else?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Trawling for their research!? What terrible biologists... Study an ecosystem by destroying it. Genius...

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but look at this thing that no one has seen before

*Touches it with bare hands

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Bare hand yeah

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 2 months ago

Too late:-) 😔

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As a kid, that was easily one of the scariest movies I ran across.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago

Haven't seen a horror movie come close to the levels of phycological fear I felt watching it. I remember reading the actors didn't even know who was who.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

People ate referring to the 80s movie “The Thing” where a creature is dug up from under the Antarctic ice, and it turns out to be a shapeshifting carnivore.

Edit: here you go https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Also Maccready's hat:

[–] ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

It's a reference to a film called The Thing.

[–] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It looks suspiciously like the "dry iceage" Ordinary Sausage made the other day... 🤔

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

"The Thing" was a very clear warning

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just read "Beyond the Rift" by Peter Watts. Highly recommend

[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that the guy that wrote Blindsight? Strange read

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Indeed it is. He is definitely an atypical writer

i thought there would be some worms

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

Kinda reminds me of a salp

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Somebody ripped the dick off their dildo and threw it overboard, then these brainbois found it.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

Oh good. We haven't had a new ELE in about a year.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I say we just leave it in Amundsen's tent and call it a day.

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Im making a sequel to the thing, im calling it 'the thang'