…This warmth acts as a natural incubator for the giant eggs, which span 18 to 20 inches in width and require an extended gestation period of four years.
This unique environment accelerates the development of young Pacific white skates, giving them a vital advantage in the harsh conditions of the deep sea. The interaction between the volcano and marine life demonstrates the profound influence geological features can have on biological processes…
It’s so awful that these are harvested for skate boards. Are those sick ollies really worth it?
Who can put a price on being radical?
“…thousands of giant eggs from the elusive Pacific white skate.”
The news is cool, but that image is just AI nonsense.
I wish there was a good way to let publications know we feel that way. So they know is that we clicked.
I’m surprised they even used it. It doesn’t make sense.
Yeah I stopped reading once it said that weird pic was AI generated. If you want me to read your science article, don’t throw shitty AI images at me because now I have to think ‘what else did you use AI for?’
Yeah the whole article including the headline – “terrifying”?? – is 98% slop. Depressing.
The eggs are from these flappy guys:
Little sea raviolis.
Is that a dragon larvae? Do you know how long does it take to fully metamorphosize into actual movie-like fancy dragons?
That is a pacific skate, and that is the adult form!
Here are a bunch of pics of skate eggs: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Egg_cases_(Chondrichthyes)
And just fyi, this AI enhanced article is referencing an actual thing, but the images n the article are trash and so are some of the inferences. Here is the summary video from the source: https://youtu.be/e9nM7B_d13A
Thanks! I had so many questions the LLM didn’t answer.
The discovery of the skate eggs surrounding the vents (not exactly volcanoes) happened in 2019. More recent was the video of a skate laying eggs.
Great stuff! Unfortunate reporting.
Learn to fuckin learn. Don’t use a LLM to do the thinking for you.
“enhanced”
AI slop
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of these Scientists finding out about a new species of Kaiju and that they’re monotremes.
They already know what these are from. The magic is how the skate utilizes the volcano’s heat, not some imaginary beast. The real world is incredible, don’t need to pretend monsters exist to make it amazing
Apologies for the flippancy in the comment. I wasn’t questioning the species found or quality of the work, or trying to will something fictional into reality.
After seeing the ‘Unleashes Terrifying Discovery’ and ‘Scientists in Total Shock’ I did an internal what if based on some things happening over the last few years, such as the level of consideration given to stopping a hurricane with a nuke without any apparent consideration of fallout and thought, ‘yepp. that would fit right in’
The comment could have been seen as something along the lines of a flat earther and is something which on reflection something i shouldn’t have added to the c/science community.
This is probably the most thoughtful reply online that I’ve seen in quite a while. I hope my reply didn’t come off as dismissive or condescending. Take care
