• Dwemthy (he/him)@lemdro.idEnglish
      26·
      2 months ago

      Nurse sharks are friendly? The things I remember about them from my childhood book on sharks are: they sleep in big piles on the ocean floor, their eggs are like weird sacks, and they latch on after biting and will not let go

      • ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zoneEnglish
        26·
        2 months ago

        They’re little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that’s the grey nurse sharks we get in aus. The ones you’re describing sound more like wobbegongs or similar. The grey nurses need to be in highly oxygenated water.

        Grey nurses also used to have a rep as “man eaters” but that was just because of how they looked,not any actual attacks

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          I was able to pet a bunch of them and huge stingrays off of Belize while snorkeling. The boat I was on tossed a bunch of chum and then five minutes later we jumped in. They were all so chill with full bellies.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Pretty good sharks! Agree with your post though. Saw sharks are just some cool guys.

          If you wanna love and hate sharks simultaneously, watch My Octopus Teacher. Incredible documentary of nature happening, and there’s some heady shark action on top of the best octopus character study I’ve ever seen.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    Don’t you blaspheme in here! Hammerheads are right in there at the top!!

    Mako #1, obvs. But that’s cool.

  • s_s@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    What about the hammerhead shark guys who looked like bebop and rocksteady?

    Am I imagining them?

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    “They called him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning…” But Hammerhead is a baddie and sharks aren’t supposed to be baddies any more. Sharks are friends, not threats. So Hammerhead slipped quietly into the distance to await his time of glory, when one day he will return to rule the Ocean with an iron fist head.

    Incidentally, dolphins have had a troubled role-reversal in the fashion of popular opinion too. They were friends! Companions! Even amusements for a while, before everyone agreed they should be free. Now they are wanton rapists and bullies. Shed a tear for the poor, maligned dolphin, carrying the disgrace of his ill-behaved friends and relations. All Dolphins Are Not Bad.

    One day the Bottlenose and the Hammerhead will return as friends, splendorous and loved. But will they find the World worthy of their love? Or will they leave, with a parting farewell, and a thanks for all the fish.

      • Egg_Egg@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Fun fact: If you’ve said “Fuck you whale”, you don’t need to say “fuck you dolphin” as all dolphins are whales anyway. It would be like saying “Fuck you, Great apes (Hominidae) and fuck you human”

        But you can say it if you want, it’s just superfluous, but many of life’s pleasures are.

  • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    I watched the OG Jurassic Park the other weekend, and realized I haven’t thought about a triceratops in probably a decade at least.

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    • captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Well, triceratops has the advantage of being one of the most popular dinosaurs.

      The unlucky one for me is the Parasaurolophus ( that crested “duck-billed” dinosaur). It was always one of my favorites as a kid, and I had to search for its name tonight.

    • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      That cartoon was on TV when I was VERY young, I always wanted to watch it, but I was never allowed to have the TV to myself so I was always overruled by my golden-child brothers and sisters

  • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    same with the Iditarod. As a kid, I was led to believe this was the biggest sporting event on Earth besides the Olympics. Now nobody even talks about it

    • AlligatorBlizzardEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Eh, I saw some talk about it the first couple of times Quince Mountain was competing.

  • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I was at the beach in Florida in August and some dude caught a baby one while fishing off the beach lol. Kinda upset he held it out for so long bragging but they did toss it back

  • malamignasanmig@group.ltEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Ah they meant ranking. I thought they were going to say something about the hammerheads looking like that because they hit the ground face first.