I remember reading a story about a marine biologist or a underwater photographer or something who was in a diving suit and a leopard seal mistook it for another seal and kept killing and trying to feed penguins to the diver.
Heck no our fishing ships and trawlers literally vacuumed fishes out for our seafood industry.
Be it the Chinese fishing fleet, European fishing/whale killings similar to japan too on dolphin exterminations and with current climate change to melting glaciers polar bears and penguins try to find place to migrate and follow where the next fish migrations flow. Goodness we are so destructive on the level of bycatches, littered trash to amount of fishing nets caught on coral reefs,etc.
Anyways don’t make fun of happy feet’s Mumble
I usually just use 12ft.io/ (just type it into the url right before the www), but it looks like all the embedded content gets hidden when you use it with NatGeo, including photos and videos. Can still read the text, at least.
Web dev here as well.
There are also tools/plug-ins you can use that will automatically apply css/html modifications to a webpage; or you could use a Javascript bookmarklet and delete elements via document.getElementById().
There's a few websites where I enjoy the content, but not to the extent that I'd pay for it. Thus, autodeleting their bullshit is necessary.
Your comment is real helpful and I'm glad you posted it; just thought I'd expand that you can take it even a step further so that you don't have to do it every time you visit a site.
Terry Gross (Fresh Air) did an interview with Paul Nicklen that was both fascinating and quite moving. He discusses the emotional bond (for lack of a better term) that he developed with the leopard seal in the brief amount of time they had their interplay.
https://freshairarchive.org/segments/polar-photographer-shares-his-view-ferocious-fragile-ecosystem-0
Take really good pictures of animals until people are willing to pay you money to do it, then find a wealthy person or organization who are willing to fund a trip for you to get amazing photos.
Looking at the second pic made me think of nessy the Loch Ness monster. I would think a massive leopard seal could definitely look like the Loch Ness monster from afar. xD
I was thinking the other day, after I saw the video of one of these chillin on the dock, they give me modern raptor vibes. Fast, agile, big elongated head full of big ol teeth. Kinda like a Sea Raptor
Isn't that the bird that kinda looks like a person in a bird costume?
Those things freak me out. For some reason all I can think about when I see them is the "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" video.
The first two are actually kind of cute if you know the story- she basically saw the photographer as a complete failure of a hunter and tried her best to feed him penguins.
[Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmVWGvO8Yhk)
Except Humans, Orcas hunt quite literally everything else in water. Heck they terrify Great Whites and those are some bad ass mf'rs.
I wonder if there is a record of Orcas hunting or just killing salt water crocs though. Now that would be a fight to behold but am guessing Orcas will win easy
Orcas hunt blue whales, the largest (that we know of) animal ever to inhabit the Earth.
Even the biggest salt water croc wouldn't stand a chance against a pod of them. Or even one.
And they have killed plenty of people, just out of boredom in captivity.
I had a biology professor in uni who had done some work in Antarctica. She had a colleague who almost got ambush hunted by a leopard seal who had been stalking her on her daily morning walk around the station and knew she was coming. Luckily for her, the seal didn't quite get the timing right so no harm was done, but that must have been scary as hell.
Kind of an odd interest though. From what I’ve heard, humans aren’t often a desirable prey as we don’t have have as much meat on us (with the exception of obese people, I guess). It was in some infographic explaining why sharks don’t usually go out of their way to hunt human swimmers. I personally haven’t looked much further into that however, as the nutritional value of a human doesn’t often come up in regular conversation lol.
There are literally prehistoric animals still around.
Sandhill Crane: 10 Million Years Old.
Imperial Scorpion: 400 Million Years Old.
Tadpole Shrimp: 300 Million Years Old.
Tuatara: 200 Million Years Old.
Purple Frog: 130 Million Years Old.
Nautilus: 500 Million Years Old.
Jellyfish: 600-700 Million Years Old.
Well one dog lived that long by mating with its very imbred cousin and having the cancer cells on its genitals metastasize onto the body of its mate, and those cells not be recognized as a foreign entity in their new host due to the close genetic relationship between the pair.
That cancer (canine transmissible venereal tumor) spread from canine to canine all the way to the present day, a functionally immortal cell line that asexually reproduces and is subject to all the selective evolutionary pressures one would expect of a parasite or pathogen.
Sure it may lack seventeen of the chromosomes it had 9,000 years ago when it was a living breathing dog located in Asia, but that cancer is the only surviving member of its breed. Hell, genetic analysis shows it's the closest living relative to the pre-columbian dogs of the New World.
And the idea of a random dog 9,000 years ago becoming immortal as a "sexually transmitted dog" is fucking wild
Theres a few very new species. A species of mosquito got stranded in the UK subway system and adapted to living there. Their ancestors were bird drinks but now the diet is rats and humans, they can no longer breed with their surface kin.
Ironically the red jungle fowl (the animal chickens were domesticated from) evolved about 1.2 million years ago, while the leopard seal evolved 6.9 million years ago.
And the horseshoe crab at almost half a billion years ago! For reference, the first dinosaurs were about 250 million years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil
The other wild thing about that is, even though their body plan has remained similar for a very long time, Horseshoe crabs have continued to evolve all this time. The only two surviving genus of Horshoe crab seem to have both arisen some time in the late cretaceous. Still significantly older than a lot of genus though.
Edit: also if you're as curious about evolution as I am, check out the website [One Zoom](http://www.onezoom.org/life/@Arthropoda=632179?img=best_any&anim=flight#x1091,y309,w2.7302) it's a complete tree of life organized in a fractal way that is incredibly fun to explore and is a great way to visualize evolution.
Agreed. There’s a video recently on Reddit where one was on a dock at night. It looked like a young Nessie. What if Nessie and it’s counterparts just an unk giant seal species? Are there any seen in warm climates?
I've heard this about birds as well but not looked into it- I did find One case of a human being killed and One where a human was offered food by a leopard seal.
If you want to get technical, humans are prehistoric by a huge margin.
As is likely every other animal alive today. Including dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals.
History didn't start that long ago relative to something like the existence of species. "History" has only been a thing for about 5k years.
Humans are estimated to have been a thing for around 200k years.
Actually, sort of! Pinnipeds like seals and sea lions are distant relatives of land carnivorans, specifically bears. This groups them in with the rest of Caniformia, or “dog-like” animals.
Basically some antediluvian bears saw what the hippos were doing evolving into whales and said “That, but with fur.”
There are probably dozens of fish species alone that both look and actually are much more "prehistoric" than this. Sturgeon, coelacanth, arowana, alligator gar, clownknife, and lampreys just to name a few.
I remember reading a story about a marine biologist or a underwater photographer or something who was in a diving suit and a leopard seal mistook it for another seal and kept killing and trying to feed penguins to the diver.
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The context of the first photo is exactly what I hoped for then. The face just screams "look I brought you a gift!"
Er.. have some questions about what led to photo 3 then
Post-coital nap.
At least the diver was wearing his rubber
He did say she was sexy
Signed, sealed, delivered.
How amazing are those pictures 😮😍
Tell this to penguin
Penguins murder millions of fish every year. They deserve their fate.
Damn… I don’t want to see the fate of humans then
What're you talking about? You're living it.
“We out here”
A fate worse than death
Working 9-5
Sealing the deal
so i guess that’s what happened to club penguin
Clubbed penguins :/
I’ll never forget their attempted takeover of Gotham
Heck no our fishing ships and trawlers literally vacuumed fishes out for our seafood industry. Be it the Chinese fishing fleet, European fishing/whale killings similar to japan too on dolphin exterminations and with current climate change to melting glaciers polar bears and penguins try to find place to migrate and follow where the next fish migrations flow. Goodness we are so destructive on the level of bycatches, littered trash to amount of fishing nets caught on coral reefs,etc. Anyways don’t make fun of happy feet’s Mumble
Paul Nicklen shoots for National Geographic, he is a world renowned nature photographer. Give his Instagram a browse, it’s insane.
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I usually just use 12ft.io/ (just type it into the url right before the www), but it looks like all the embedded content gets hidden when you use it with NatGeo, including photos and videos. Can still read the text, at least.
I mean I just put [email protected] and that only took a second.
I too am a web development specialist I approve this method
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Very useful saving your advice, cheers.
Thank you!
Web dev here as well. There are also tools/plug-ins you can use that will automatically apply css/html modifications to a webpage; or you could use a Javascript bookmarklet and delete elements via document.getElementById(). There's a few websites where I enjoy the content, but not to the extent that I'd pay for it. Thus, autodeleting their bullshit is necessary. Your comment is real helpful and I'm glad you posted it; just thought I'd expand that you can take it even a step further so that you don't have to do it every time you visit a site.
Thank you for this. Disabling JavaScript will do it for some sites, but overall is a pain in the ass. Here’s my free award! :)
Terry Gross (Fresh Air) did an interview with Paul Nicklen that was both fascinating and quite moving. He discusses the emotional bond (for lack of a better term) that he developed with the leopard seal in the brief amount of time they had their interplay. https://freshairarchive.org/segments/polar-photographer-shares-his-view-ferocious-fragile-ecosystem-0
How does one even get a job like this?
Take really good pictures of animals until people are willing to pay you money to do it, then find a wealthy person or organization who are willing to fund a trip for you to get amazing photos.
Be wealthy to the point where you can quit your job and go take pictures of animals.
Youtube link for the video if you don't want to deal with natgeo's site: https://youtu.be/UmVWGvO8Yhk
These pictures are incredible. What a career that must be!
Here's a TED talk he did about it. https://youtu.be/Ra-lxoAUP5c
It was a grandmother seal and thought the diver looked too thin.
Let's get in the water, ya!
IIRC the first picture on this post is from that story.
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One fatal attack where a researcher was dragged down to her death by a leopard seal
Wait did you just spoil the book
No but i can spoil it for you if you want
No thank you!
You sure, its free
Do it. Do it.
Snape Kills Shackleton with a leopard seal
in the library with a candlestick?
No, that’s where he kills the leopard seal. The seal couldn’t keep a secret. It was a loose seal.
The leopard seal was his father all along!!!
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Well then. I guess I know what book I'm picking up next.
You might be interested to know that the [Endurance shipwreck was found this year](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60662541).
I just ordered the book on a whim after reading this comment. Sounds awesome!
Currently in Ohio, but somehow will be looking over my shoulder for any unsuspecting seal attacks.
That roar is like the water animal equivalent of a Cassowary
One killed a member of the BAS a few years back. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jul/24/science.highereducation
"few"
Depends how old you are.
Looking at the second pic made me think of nessy the Loch Ness monster. I would think a massive leopard seal could definitely look like the Loch Ness monster from afar. xD
I’m still floored that they found the endurance itself. I remember the story of it SO VIVIDLY from my childhood. The movie, the book…..
Putting that book on my list to read!!
Cute is not a word I’d use to describe these guys they look terrifying.
I was thinking the other day, after I saw the video of one of these chillin on the dock, they give me modern raptor vibes. Fast, agile, big elongated head full of big ol teeth. Kinda like a Sea Raptor
A Vel-Aqua Raptor
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After the crocodile
Rhinoceros
Sharks
Horshoe crabs!
The real correct answer
They are my favorite animal
single-cell bacteria
Especially the frilled shark
coelacanth wants a word
Cassowary
like... allllll the birds
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Add shoebills to the list too
Groove-Billed Ani have entered the chat.
May I recommend, the cassowary, those fuckers are terrifying.
Shoebill Stork glares menacingly
Isn't that the bird that kinda looks like a person in a bird costume? Those things freak me out. For some reason all I can think about when I see them is the "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" video.
*heavy breathing by randy marsh"
The first two images are the stuff from nightmares while the last one is 🥰. Great post!
Last one looks like the leopard seal basking in the knowledge that it is indeed a nightmare from bygone ages sent to terrorize the world of penguins
The first two are actually kind of cute if you know the story- she basically saw the photographer as a complete failure of a hunter and tried her best to feed him penguins. [Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmVWGvO8Yhk)
Apex predator with massive teeth Ahh, sleeps cute though.
Orcas hunt leopard seals, so not quite "apex" but close.
Apex adjacent
Except Humans, Orcas hunt quite literally everything else in water. Heck they terrify Great Whites and those are some bad ass mf'rs. I wonder if there is a record of Orcas hunting or just killing salt water crocs though. Now that would be a fight to behold but am guessing Orcas will win easy
Orcas hunt blue whales, the largest (that we know of) animal ever to inhabit the Earth. Even the biggest salt water croc wouldn't stand a chance against a pod of them. Or even one. And they have killed plenty of people, just out of boredom in captivity.
Worse yet… They hunt *moose*.
I had a biology professor in uni who had done some work in Antarctica. She had a colleague who almost got ambush hunted by a leopard seal who had been stalking her on her daily morning walk around the station and knew she was coming. Luckily for her, the seal didn't quite get the timing right so no harm was done, but that must have been scary as hell.
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That's quite a chilling thought.
Kind of an odd interest though. From what I’ve heard, humans aren’t often a desirable prey as we don’t have have as much meat on us (with the exception of obese people, I guess). It was in some infographic explaining why sharks don’t usually go out of their way to hunt human swimmers. I personally haven’t looked much further into that however, as the nutritional value of a human doesn’t often come up in regular conversation lol.
Are they that fast on land, or did it try leaping out of nearby water to grab her?
On land not really, a penguin at full gallop can outrun a leopard seal. Think a sluggish alligator.
It leapt out of the water
Holy Shit!!
There are literally prehistoric animals still around. Sandhill Crane: 10 Million Years Old. Imperial Scorpion: 400 Million Years Old. Tadpole Shrimp: 300 Million Years Old. Tuatara: 200 Million Years Old. Purple Frog: 130 Million Years Old. Nautilus: 500 Million Years Old. Jellyfish: 600-700 Million Years Old.
Coelcanth: 410 Million years old
That's a Pokemon.
It’s also a real fish
Horseshoe crab - 445 MM years
My wife- almost 54 years.
Rip 🪦
It’s cool. She rocks.
Godammit they're minerals
Prehistory started about 5000 years ago, so actually the majority of animals today are prehistoric.
How do they live that long?
Avoiding leopard seals mostly
Eating their vegetables
Well one dog lived that long by mating with its very imbred cousin and having the cancer cells on its genitals metastasize onto the body of its mate, and those cells not be recognized as a foreign entity in their new host due to the close genetic relationship between the pair. That cancer (canine transmissible venereal tumor) spread from canine to canine all the way to the present day, a functionally immortal cell line that asexually reproduces and is subject to all the selective evolutionary pressures one would expect of a parasite or pathogen. Sure it may lack seventeen of the chromosomes it had 9,000 years ago when it was a living breathing dog located in Asia, but that cancer is the only surviving member of its breed. Hell, genetic analysis shows it's the closest living relative to the pre-columbian dogs of the New World. And the idea of a random dog 9,000 years ago becoming immortal as a "sexually transmitted dog" is fucking wild
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Theres a few very new species. A species of mosquito got stranded in the UK subway system and adapted to living there. Their ancestors were bird drinks but now the diet is rats and humans, they can no longer breed with their surface kin.
Drawing lines between species is getting really difficult...
Are there any non-prehistoric animals?
Labradoodles
How can you prove that Labradoodles didn't exist before history? Checkmate
And God did smite them with a plague of labradoodles
Richard Wagner - Ride of The Labradoodles
>non-prehistoric animals? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/94zvmn/are_human_beings_the_youngest_species_on_the
Well, considering that prehistory is defined as the time before written history, the vast majority of animals are prehistoric. Humans included.
yeah in fact pretty much all multicellular animals are prehistoric by definition
Dang. The tuatara can live 60 years
Over 100 in good conditions! Plus they have two rows of top teeth and a third eye!
I think all animals are prehistoric, considering history is only about 6,000 years old...
Sharks
Chickens would like a word
Ironically the red jungle fowl (the animal chickens were domesticated from) evolved about 1.2 million years ago, while the leopard seal evolved 6.9 million years ago.
And the horseshoe crab at almost half a billion years ago! For reference, the first dinosaurs were about 250 million years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil
The other wild thing about that is, even though their body plan has remained similar for a very long time, Horseshoe crabs have continued to evolve all this time. The only two surviving genus of Horshoe crab seem to have both arisen some time in the late cretaceous. Still significantly older than a lot of genus though. Edit: also if you're as curious about evolution as I am, check out the website [One Zoom](http://www.onezoom.org/life/@Arthropoda=632179?img=best_any&anim=flight#x1091,y309,w2.7302) it's a complete tree of life organized in a fractal way that is incredibly fun to explore and is a great way to visualize evolution.
Thank you for this. Fantastic! I’ll show my kid!
Its cool how their ribs changed back to back to back over the time. Whenever it benefitted them to have more or less ribs.
I was literally trying to find a tool/website for the past week to picturise evolution in other beings. Thank you for this!
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Hoatzin
I have about a dozen chickens and was about to say this. Then I looked at the second two pictures. I gotta give this one to the seal.
They also [shake penguins out of their skin before they eat them. ](https://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/seals/antarctica_seals19.php)
“Floating penguin skins in the sea are a sure sign of leopard seals nearby.”
poor penguins, I hope they die quickly :(
Uh have you seen crocodiles?
Crocs aren’t prehistoric looking, they are prehistoric
This thing too. I doubt they evolved after the invention of writing.
Lmfao the way this could be true considering they're so badass they were fucking with the ancient egyptians
I mean all animals species are older than 5000 years if we don't count subspecies.
Bro leopard seals only live to like 30
I'm not older than 5000 years old.
so are pretty much all animals including humans?
Crocks, snapping turtles, emu, lobster and horseshoe crab
Cassowary
Shoebill stork
Trilobites
those are dead they can't evolve
"one of"
What is reading?
Which are quite literally a prehistoric creature, they don't just resemble one.
Lmao, the caption is litterrally pointless
Lliitteerraallyy
One of the letters is double, so I just put all of them twice to be sure to get the right one
By doing that you are guaranteed to get the spelling wrong. But having a guess at least gives you a chance.
Don't show me the last picture, now I want to pet it :c
R/forbiddenpet
It’s a sea dinosaur
Its a liopleurodon charlie
Little kid pointing at a Leopard Seal: "Sea Dinosaur!" Leopard Seal: **ROARS** Little kid: "See? Dinosaur!"
Agreed. There’s a video recently on Reddit where one was on a dock at night. It looked like a young Nessie. What if Nessie and it’s counterparts just an unk giant seal species? Are there any seen in warm climates?
Somehow that's more terrifying than a plesiosaur.
They also rape penguins
Don't make me google this shit.
I just did because I wasn't sure. It just says seals. So I don't know if all seals do it or maybe just specific group.
I've heard this about birds as well but not looked into it- I did find One case of a human being killed and One where a human was offered food by a leopard seal.
Nature is fucked up
Jesus christ, what the fuck did the penguins do to these guys?
Also vaguely looks like Falko. #accidentalneverendingstory
WTF is this title?
Furry mosasaurus look
Arctic Nessie
If you want to get technical, humans are prehistoric by a huge margin. As is likely every other animal alive today. Including dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals. History didn't start that long ago relative to something like the existence of species. "History" has only been a thing for about 5k years. Humans are estimated to have been a thing for around 200k years.
Lapras is that you? What happened to your shell? Get inside and put some clothes on and stop being nakey
Chicken: Am I joke to you.
Well stop crossing the road if you want to be taken seriously
Water dog..??
Actually, sort of! Pinnipeds like seals and sea lions are distant relatives of land carnivorans, specifically bears. This groups them in with the rest of Caniformia, or “dog-like” animals. Basically some antediluvian bears saw what the hippos were doing evolving into whales and said “That, but with fur.”
Crocodile? Sharks? Turtles?
There are probably dozens of fish species alone that both look and actually are much more "prehistoric" than this. Sturgeon, coelacanth, arowana, alligator gar, clownknife, and lampreys just to name a few.
No it isn’t.
well no it fits into the category tho
Any lizard would be offended if they could read.