- Ooops ( @Ooops@feddit.org ) English9•6 hours ago
So what humans have done for millenia in the form of furs, leather and bone?
- Owl ( @BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ) English1•1 hour ago
Yes but they are insects so it’s pretty cool
Just imagine if I told you that the cookbug cooks it’s prey by throwing it into fire. You would find it cool despite also doing it.
- Kwakigra ( @Kwakigra@beehaw.org ) English2•6 hours ago
The Cadaver Collector is real!?
- unexposedhazard ( @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ) English28•10 hours ago
This community is just cool_science_facts now. I am here for it tbh.
We go for the Dawkins definition of “meme.”
- Whorehoarder ( @Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com ) English3•10 hours ago
I have to head off to work, can you give me a quick lowdown on this scientific meme definition?
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) English3•3 hours ago
I think it was a bit tongue in cheek since meme is actually a concept from science (internet-meme is very close to it’s original meaning afaik):
- zante ( @zante@lemmy.wtf ) English4•7 hours ago
Same.
- zephorah ( @zephorah@lemm.ee ) English14•10 hours ago
So they’re the Reavers of the insect world.
- radiohead37 ( @radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com ) English8•10 hours ago
Great camouflage. Carrying a sack of dozens dead ants on your back does not draw attention at all.
- The Bard in Green ( @thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ) English3•8 hours ago
I guess spiders don’t want to eat a pile of dead ants, even if it’s moving. Not the sharpest tools in the shed, spiders.
- Aarrodri ( @Aarrodri@lemmy.ml ) English6•10 hours ago
That must be terrifying to see at it’s scale. Wtf.