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Gecko99 OP t1_jcx7bwu wrote

Reply to comment by Tairo in TIL no one has found a larva of the titan beetle, one of the largest beetles in the world. by Gecko99

There could be some group of native people who have been occasionally finding two-inch-wide grubs for thousands of years and think they got really lucky and they just cook it on a stick over a fire. Maybe no one has thought to ask the right person what the biggest grub they've found was.

Two species of extant coelacanth have been discovered at fish markets, one in 1938, the other in 1997.

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Hello-There-GKenobi t1_jcxzfj8 wrote

You know those horseshoe crabs that scientists find really precious and would pay a lot to milk them?

Yeah, I walked past a village several years ago where there were a ton of them there were being sold to be cooked/eaten…. But nobody actually buys them to eat, too difficult to eat I hear, so they’re just left to die and rot. A by-product of fishing.

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Skips3000 t1_jcy163q wrote

Horseshoe crabs aren’t usually killed in the process I thought? They drain what they can and release

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Amarthran t1_jcy59d5 wrote

And then it dies shortly after. Very few actually survive after being released

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Hello-There-GKenobi t1_jcy1ac1 wrote

Yeah. It’s more like my point is that the villagers just kill them off cause there’s no profit for them…

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TraitorMacbeth t1_jcz6pgb wrote

EDIT: apparently they are folded, not cut up in this picture. Maybe I should read articles that I post.

Wellllllll……..

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vhapcg/blue_gold_horseshoe_crabs_blood_is_worth_60000/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Based on that picture of how cut up they are……

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Keksmonster t1_jczb6us wrote

Apparently they aren't cut up, their back half is bent to their belly.

All available to read in the threat you posted but who checks anything on here anyways...

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TraitorMacbeth t1_jczf0nv wrote

Welp, guilty. That image sure is crazy then. I sure hope that isn’t extremely painful and damaging I guess?

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Keksmonster t1_jczr5xw wrote

I have no clue but if you look at the top picture the tail is a seperate segment of the body so I assume it's not an unnatural positition that damages the crab

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[deleted] t1_jcyc6zl wrote

That’s depressing as fuck.

I haven’t seen a wild horseshoe crab since I was a kid

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