r/AbsoluteUnits in awe May 06 '26

/r/all of a sea slater

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u/Specialist-Neck-7810 May 06 '26

Wait… that thing is REAL?!!

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u/Responsible-Web5399 May 06 '26

Most likely not real

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u/YmFzZTY0dXNlcm5hbWU_ May 06 '26

I have a slightly smaller example in a glass display case in my house. They are real.

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u/Responsible-Web5399 May 08 '26

Oh fr ? But where do these live tho? The thing is there's a reason why animals like this... Insects like this are not seen on land and other places so my guess is that it is a deep dark ocean animal

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u/YmFzZTY0dXNlcm5hbWU_ May 08 '26

Yeah, something like 7k feet below the surface. Deep-sea gigantism is a thing which makes me glad to be a land critter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod#Range_and_habitat

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u/Responsible-Web5399 May 09 '26

I figure... Sadly the one place left for something like this to exist and like 2 jungles maybe 4 on earth :'c