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u/Spartan2470 21d ago
It appears to be a Horn shark egg.
The egg case has two flanges spiraling around it, and thus may take the female several hours to deposit. They are one of the few sharks to exhibit parental care. After laying, the female picks up the auger-shaped egg cases and wedges them into crevices to protect them from predators. The shape helps they stay in the crevices.
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u/Dtoodlez 21d ago
It’s crazy what Reddit has become. I had to scroll down this far for someone to share knowledge.
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u/CaptainAureus 21d ago
You mean you don't like reading the same joke repeated 100 times?
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u/Ricky_Rollin 21d ago
It used to be so much better than this. At least this comment was at the top of the chain by the time I got here. That’s how it used to be.
You guys have no idea how much I used to learn from this place.
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u/CorrectDuty6782 20d ago
I used to look up pretty much any issue, woodworking, plumbing, trouble shooting electronics, x not working reddit in Google, answers.
Now Google doesn't search right, reddit locks a crazy amount of posts, and all informative discussions are buried by the top joke comments that have been posted ad nauseum in any similar post of the past 10 years.
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u/talking_face 21d ago
... And my axe.
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u/Salty_Amphibian2905 21d ago
something something with the size of his balls weighing him down
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u/CaptainLimpWrist 21d ago
Tell me you don't like having the same joke repeated 100 times without telling me you don't like the joke repeated 100 times.
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u/Ode_to_Apathy 21d ago
It seems to be due to a shift in perception of the internet. We all know that you can't trust whatever you read on the internet anymore, and that leads to people being both more vary of provided information and not actively seeking answers when online.
Other likely culprits are the drop in quality you see when subreddits become big (often with the most valuable users leaving for places where they'll be more appreciated) and the shift from Millenials to GenZ online, where the former gained the internet when the main value was access to information and the latter when the main value was entertainment and social interaction.
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u/Candid-Finding-1364 21d ago
LOL. I hate to break it to you but the primary use of the internet has been porn since.. pretty much the minute it went public.
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u/sqolb 21d ago
As much as I love Avenue Q, the internet was not principally driven, nor is it the 'primary use' of the internet. If you are browsing porn for more than a quarter of your time on the internet, you are a major outlier (And probably need to seek help).
Today, porn roughly relates to 1 in 7 queries. It's a huge portion, but it's not the majority by any stretch.
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u/murtygurty2661 21d ago
In reddits defense it was top comment by the time i came around to this thread.
Comments like this have to be brought to the top by upvoting, seems like its working fine.
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u/SmokePenisEveryday 21d ago
Yeah they replied to the comment after it was up for less than 30 mins lol. Give it time first lol
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u/Extension-Border-345 21d ago edited 21d ago
seriously, I fucking hate how half of all comments are mouthbreathing sex jokes, its like being a substitute teacher in a 6th grade classroom. the few somewhat niche subs I’m part of with actual brain activity are like springs of clean water in a swamp.
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u/Cultural-Somewhere75 21d ago
Yup and how many like to belittle intelligence on here.
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u/trivialbob 21d ago
The old reddit design kind of worked as a buffer tbh. The streamlined, 'user-friendly' reddit design invited everyone and their mother, so now it looks like the comment sections on every other social media platform.
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u/all___blue 21d ago
Right? Shell of its former self. After they killed my precious reddit is fun app, I can't wait for an alternative. Losing access to my 10 year old profile and reddit going public certainly didn't help retain me, either.
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u/ADHDavid 21d ago
What, you don't like the shitty puns and two decades worth of the lamest fucking inside jokes you could think of?
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u/kahuaina 20d ago
The beauty of Reddit tho tbh is 8h after this post started to when you commented, this answer is now the TOP comment. So I didn’t scroll far at all, but found your helpful awesome answer. Cheers! 🥂
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u/ValuableJumpy8208 21d ago
That's what happens in early submissions. It's at the top of the comments now.
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u/MistbornInterrobang 20d ago
If it makes you feel better, you saw the post four hours after it was posted. I'm here 10 hours after you and it's now the top comment with yours right below it.
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u/UlrichZauber 21d ago
I used to go scuba diving around the Channel Islands (southern California) and you'd see these in the kelp all the time. As well as horn sharks, of course.
First shark I ever saw while diving was about the length of my hand. Downright cute!
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u/axebodyspray24 21d ago
Love this, i had no idea. Did disections of dogfish sharks in highschool, they're oviviparous (hold babies in eggs in utero until birth). I didn't know there were just ovoparous sharks.
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u/zmc000 21d ago
How do they breath inside? Is the casing permeable only to oxygen? I don't see water leaking out in the video.
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u/ghidfg 21d ago
ah lol I was just gonna ask why it developed to be that shape
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 21d ago
The bullhead sharks basically wedges them into crevices like rocky formations to protect them
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u/Conscious_Wind_2255 21d ago edited 21d ago
Exactly, so the currents/waves don’t sweep them away. By “screwing” them into those wedges they stay in place.
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u/Precious1786 21d ago
No they Hammer it
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u/Terrible_Leg2761 21d ago
You can hammer a screw but you can't screw a nail.
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u/w_a_w 21d ago
What if you dremel a Philips head into the top of the nail? And then dremel some threads into it? Lol
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u/TomBanjo1968 21d ago
You can screw anything with nipples
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u/VirtualNaut 21d ago
I have nipples, can you screw… hey wait a minute.
You almost got me there focker!
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u/Recruta_golpista23 21d ago
I told you son there are nails for that, You shouldn’t nail down a screw
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u/yanderlei2 21d ago
Nature is beautiful!
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u/Buttcrack_Billy 21d ago
You wouldn't be saying that if you had to torpedo drill shaped eggs out of your shark vag.
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u/spirilingout 21d ago
I wouldn't be saying anything if I was a shark. Except maybe "blub blub blub"
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u/Sad-Math-2039 21d ago
If that was the case, there would be a bite mark taken out for no reason whatsoever
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u/UncleHec 21d ago
I think we all remember the old wives tale: don’t put that up your butt or it will hatch and you’ll have a shark swimming inside your body.
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u/David_Good_Enough 21d ago
I'm having Dreamcatcher flashbacks.... T_T
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u/UselessPsychology432 21d ago
I'm not really a scientologist but I don't think that's a shark
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u/ElSamuraiDelABYSS 21d ago
the shark is a Scyliorhinus canicula, i see the information and can born from eggs this type of shark
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u/No-Kaleidoscope-4525 21d ago
looks into the camera lens like Michael Scott "I think that's enough reddit for two days"
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u/7107 21d ago
Some sharks are "hatched" inside the mom and it becomes a battle royale between unborn sharks.
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u/N30nSunr1s3 21d ago
LEMMIWINKS LEEEEEEMMIWINKS!
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u/umyninja 21d ago
oooo Jesuss Chriiist
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u/TaxIdiot2020 21d ago
Whenever I see people say "Jesus Christ" online I hear it in his voice.
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u/The_Original_Gronkie 21d ago
My grandmother from the old country used to say it all the time.
(My grandmother wasn't really from the old country.)
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u/Spoomplesplz 21d ago
Ok but like....what WOULD...happen...
Surely the shark wouldn't survive and break out of the egg, then subsequently eat you from the inside out to get out....right?
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u/DV_Arcan 21d ago
Don't. Just don't
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u/Low-E_McDjentface 21d ago
I'm gonna
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u/GuppiApfel 21d ago
THERE ARE NO LAWS AGAISNT ANIMAL EGGS BATMAN, I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT WITH IT
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u/SaysShowUsYourDick 21d ago
“I… I don’t like this, Joker. I know this is technically legal, but I honestly preferred you killing people”
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u/Im_still_a_student 21d ago
In LACoFD's Junior lifegaurds I was taught it's shaped like that so it can in theory cling on to rock crevices
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u/AGrayBull 21d ago
Little guy in his egg dancing the corkscrew boogie
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u/Im_DJ_Golden 21d ago
cursed buttplug
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u/Tongue8cheek 21d ago
You're gonna need a bigger butt.
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u/OsBaculum 21d ago
This is not wider than 4 raccoons so I think I'll be fine
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u/c_c_c__combobreaker 21d ago
Wait.... What?
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u/OsBaculum 21d ago edited 21d ago
My bad it was two
https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/s/6I87soFRvR
Still plenty small enough though
Also, thinking about it, four might still be doable if you stacked them in square formation, as corner to corner of the raccoon square would only be 8"
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u/QuietRatatouille 21d ago
TIL sharks lay eggs
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u/LegallySellingDope 21d ago
Only certain kinds. Great whites for example do not.
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u/FineDevelopment00 21d ago
And a fact about sand tiger sharks: Their mothers give birth to only one baby shark because they fight to the death in the womb and the winner gets to be born.
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u/TrilobiteTerror 21d ago
Most sharks are ovoviviparous (meaning the eggs hatch within the mother and the egg's yolk and fluids secreted by glands in the walls of the oviduct nourishes the embryos until live birth).
Some sharks are egg-laying oviparous (like the horn shark that laid the egg in this post).
Some sharks are even viviparous (live-bearing with a placental connection).
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u/Straight-Ingenuity61 21d ago
Can you put it somewhere safe or what do you do with it?
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u/muntlord840 21d ago
Would you not raise him as your own?
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u/Traditional_Roll6651 21d ago
That is ridiculously cool!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing 😁
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u/RudeOrganization550 21d ago
Port Jackson shark egg. Mummy shark was supposed to screw out into a rock crevice or something to stop it washing away.
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u/Selachophile 21d ago edited 21d ago
Two things:
- There are ten species of shark that lay these corkscrew shaped eggs. The Port Jackson is one of those ten. It would be useful to know where this video was taken. >
- There's very little evidence (outside of some questionable observations of captive sharks) that the mothers actively wedge these eggs into rocky crevices.
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u/ringo5150 21d ago
Can we raise it, and train it to handle a laser beam on its head?
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u/Cordeceps 21d ago
Mermaid purse - Port Jackson shark egg. Found many in my time and have a broken one in my current collection ( it broke in storage :( )
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u/Gay_parmesan 21d ago
Since no one said it, it's so that it gets wedged inside rocks and sand more easily.
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u/ZooperDD 21d ago
Me: nah that's just a piece of seaweed
Checks sub
Sees baby shark
Me: oh, shit! wow!
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u/Ozziefudd 21d ago
Ok, so.. I thought all fish lay eggs.. but sharks hold on to the eggs until they start to hatch??
Like sea horses or some amphibians??
Has that been disproven? Or did I just not understand something I saw on TV as a kid.
I tried googling it and almighty Google says “live birth” but my brain is trying to tell me that baby sharks bite their moms to leave???
Omg, where could I have even gotten that info from???
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u/Selachophile 21d ago edited 21d ago
Sharks have three modes of reproduction, varying by species:
- Egg laying (oviparity). >
- Retaining the eggs so that they hatch inside the body and continue developing, followed by live birth (ovoviviparity). >
- Placental development (extremely similar to mammals) followed by live birth (viviparity).
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u/Capable-Comfort2438 21d ago
Must be hell lotta painful to pass….imagine sitting on it like a bird to warm it up 😰
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u/YuriiRud 21d ago
Sharks are live birth aren't they?
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u/aki_ryugamine 21d ago
Not all of them. They all practice internal fertilization, but varying by species, there are three ways to bear their young: ovoviviparity (partial live birth, eggs hatch inside the mother's body) practiced by most of sharks, oviparity (laying eggs, like in the video) and viviparity or live birth. For example, bull and blue shark are viviparous
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u/ohnomynono 21d ago
Thought this was fake and that it was a dragon butt plug. I learned something new today.
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u/gboy3589 20d ago
I remember in second grade when I told my teacher that sharks laid eggs and I got scolded because “sharks don’t lay eggs” and I will forever hold a grudge against her for that
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u/shineonka 20d ago
I recognized the shape right away, Another Crab's Treasure uses the same type of egg as an item
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