Mammals: threatening species by just existing.
Fear itself
Submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 months ago
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Isn’t that just nature? Like we just happen to be part of a class that is incredibly more OP than non mammals.
weariedfae@lemmy.world 3 months ago
TIL > Increasing predation pressure by pinnipeds through the late Cenozoic drove Nautilus into its present-day refuge in the deep tropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean
Neato!
Also “Cenozoic” is rather… broad… so for anyone who is curious like me, nautilus…es? Nautili? Whichever, they slowly retreated to their current habitat starting around the Oligocene to the end of the Miocene (source.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The true Old Ones have lived next to us all along.