[HN Gopher] Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights'
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Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights'
Author : onemoresoop
Score : 23 points
Date : 2024-05-16 14:04 UTC (1 days ago)
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| jvanderbot wrote:
| I like to think about what lived in the Oceans of Mars, or maybe
| even Europa if things were slightly different.
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| But the stuff in our own ocean is so alien already, and we share
| common ancestors!
| adolph wrote:
| Last common ancestor was 600m years ago [0], "nearly twice as
| long as the step ... to find the common ancestor of birds and
| mammals."
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| 0. https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-
| Conscious...
| solardev wrote:
| They made a movie about that!
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report
| gausswho wrote:
| Similar to video adverts that humor you for a few seconds and end
| on a bedazzling white background behind their logo.
| Tao3300 wrote:
| I've played enough video games to know that you're supposed to
| hit those when they flash. Half a dozen hits or so destroys the
| arms and triggers Phase 2 of the boss battle.
| bitwize wrote:
| Careful though, the monster only has three frames of
| vulnerability when you see the flash.
| pvaldes wrote:
| A Cosmopolitan species in fact that can be found from Naples to
| Florida, Alaska to Santiago de Chile, Sidney to Madagascar and
| from Norway to South-Africa. Conquered every single ocean except
| the poles and the Eastern part of the Mediterranean.
|
| And yes, is a truly spectacular big predator. A little like the
| invertebrate version of a big cat, specially with that claws.
| bitwize wrote:
| "I looked right into its deadlights... and I wanted to be there."
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