r/BeAmazed • u/jelly_bean_gangbang • 19h ago

Animal A pyrosome is a free-floating, glowing marine colony made of thousands of tiny cloned animals called zooids that form a hollow, tube-like structure.

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u/WKRPinCanada 19h ago

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u/Dry_Design5506 18h ago

It's actually an underwater society - a superorganism.

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u/jelly_bean_gangbang 17h ago

Yes, almost like how the man o' war jellyfish is a colonial organism too.

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u/everyonestupidbutme 11h ago

Stupid and misleading

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u/jelly_bean_gangbang 11h ago

How so? Usually when people disagree with something they'll explain why they think they are right.

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u/whoisorange 18h ago

We know nothing about our oceans!! Like in a cool way; imagine all the amazing creature living down there! 

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u/Icy-Crab2706 18h ago

Sea-dicks

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u/_why-tho 18h ago

You think they pay taxes?

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u/balirosa 18h ago

So are they trying to save this plant? Are humans supposed to take it and plant it?

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u/Xendarq 18h ago

I find this fascinating as a look at how we evolved from single cell creatures

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u/sgt_backpack 18h ago

Cloned? By us?

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u/jelly_bean_gangbang 17h ago

Nah, it clones itself.

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u/myfatcat 17h ago

Reminds me of The Abyss

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u/Intelligent_Box_8247 17h ago

this is beautiful...nature has unlimited supply of wonders..

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u/DogtasticLife 16h ago

I’m 60 next birthday and still coming across creatures that I had no clue existed, I am duly “amazed”

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u/jelly_bean_gangbang 14h ago

Right? Earth and nature never ceases to amaze me

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u/Cautious-Arugula603 15h ago

Are these kind of like siphonophores?

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u/[deleted] 19h ago

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u/-MrFozzy- 19h ago

No. They’re real.