#survive! mola mola

[wsc-arachne]

[ajhaijma]

Dumbass died again like- ughhhhhhhhhh you fragile child lemme raise you

I'll only post when he does in some new way now cuz he dies too much to post all I'll also mention which regression he will enter following the death

Now it's 13th regression

[realboutfatalfury]

made lyrics for the mola mola game main theme and made gumi sing them ^_^

lyrics under the cut if you want to see them >_<

dear mola mola my darling best friend hope this feeling won't end

the ocean shines brighter when you're with me oh it fills me with glee

oh dear my sweet sunfish sunbathing in the sea

oh dear my sweet sunfish you mean so much to me

my sunfish i want to be here next to you

sweet sunfish i'm hoping you feel the same way too

oh mola stay right here with me

my mola please don't leave me

dear mola mola my darling best friend ah this feeling might end

my mola mola means so much to me scared he's going to leave

oh dear my sweet sunfish swimming so happily

oh dear my sweet sunfish you still fill me with glee

ah sunfish i hope you won't stray far from me

my sunfish i know someday you're going to leave

but right now just stay here with me

my mola please don't leave me

[readers-folly]

python will be the death of me

[mintykiwi]

am i the only one who still occasionally plays survive mola mola and deletes the app everytime i beat the game so i can forget it for a while and come back to it eventually ?

[nelkey]

Nooooooooo!!!!! Hyuk-ie!!!! Not now!!!!

I was so close to finding out what happens when I reach the end of Pacific Ocean King, I wanna see how it's possible to get to 200,000kg because it doesn't seem like it's in this size, but I don't see a further one that's not unlocked!!! ;-;

[badolmen]

If you think an animal is ‘stupid looking’ or ‘useless’ I’m biting you.

[blueiscoool]

2,000-Year-Old Roman Road Discovered in London

A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in London.

The 2,000-year-old road was discovered under the Old Kent Road in the south-east of the city.

Known as Watling Street, the original road ran from the port of Dover in Kent through London to the West Midlands.

Experts say its the first time that a part of the ancient route has been found intact beneath the modern tarmac surface.

The road was discovered by Southwark Council, during work to expand the area's heating network.

It was then identified as the ancient route by a team of archaeological experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA).

Southwark Council's archaeology officer Dr Chris Constable said that the scale of the road's survival was "remarkable".

"We hope this project will answer some other archaeological questions in the borough,” he added.

A sign will now be put up on the nearby railway bridge to mark the discovery.

[ocean-sunfish-linguist]

In Comoros they call the Mola Mola, Mbamba.

the Great Mola Mola is a divine traveller, its perfect rubbery flesh grants it voyage from the ocean's surface to the vast depths of the mesopelagic. its body is the perfect vessel, it requires no swim bladder as it slips off into the abyss. words cannot adequately describe my mortal adoration for the Great Ocean Sunfish, may my humble attempt in ink and paper strive to capture even a sliver of its majesty.

from the depths of the mesopelagic to the glory of the sun! all hail the ocean sunfish 🙏🙏🙏

[green-wat3r]

Ever think about how much Kdj must’ve played mola mola survive for him to immediately associate “dying easily” with sunfish. I just like imagining him getting mad at how easily his fish keep dying in it lmaoo

[ajhaijma]

OH MY GOD FINALLLLLLY MY MOLA HYUKIE PASSED THE SPREME KING STAGE LMAO HES THE AQUARIUM KING NOW , I NEED A NEW NAME FOR THIS STAGE MAN, WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT? TRANSCENDENT 1?

Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

[mutant-distraction]

HOLA MOLA! Face to face with the heaviest bony fish in the world, the mola mola, or ocean sunfish, accompanied by a species infrequently found in Southern California, the pilotfish! 📸: Delaney Trowbridge Photography The largest mola on record, discovered deceased off the off the Azores Archipelago in December 2021, weighed 6,049 lb (~2,744 kg). That's equivalent to the weight of a white rhino. 🦏 🤯 And the mind-boggling facts don't end there... Molas are capable of releasing a staggering 300 million eggs in a single spawning season – a feat unparalleled among vertebrates. Unfortunately, the survival rate of tiny mola eggs is extremely low, and only a tiny fraction of the eggs will actually grow into adults.

[void-ink-studios]

Day 3: Mola Mola

The survival strategies of Merms are as seemingly vast as the subspecies of Merms themselves. Some use claws or teeth to protect themselves. Some use camouflage, some use poison, some simply swim away as fast as they can. And then there are Merms like the Discuss Glider. Where it seems their only strategy is be too big to notice bites. They swam slow enough for me to keep pace. Hardly seemed to acknowledge I was there. I named him Humphry on a whim, and gently touched the side of his tail. No response. I spoke to the researchers, and they mentioned they check in on this pod every so often, just to see if they're still there. I suppose I can't judge too harshly. After all, they've been here far long than we've patrolled the waters. They must be doing something right.

[Prompt List]

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[bfmemesdibujos]

Michael Mola: is a player who decided out of curiosity to try the game what he didn't know was that he would really be trapped in it with other players among those Beta-testers, he was forced to survive in that weird world but he would not be alone as he is accompanied by his remoras.

Español: es un jugador que decidió por curiosidad probar el juego lo que no sabía es que realmente estaría atrapado en él con otros jugadores entre esos Beta-testers, se vio obligado a sobrevivir en ese extraño mundo pero no estaría solo ya que le acompañan sus rémoras.

music: Deep-Swim

@can-your-kinitopet

[taro-pdf]

tell me about the sunfish

OH BOY DO YOU KNOW HWAT YOU HAVE DONE??? HERE I GO:

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So there's this family of fish called molidae, yeah? and in molidae there's three families, Mola, Masturus, and Ranzania, and five species.

All of them have weirdo tails, in that their tails are like, gone. Their caudal fin is very stunted and used like a rudder, while anal and dorsal are used to propel. See below.

That's a Mola alexandrini and Mola tecta (drawn by yours truely), aka gian sunfish and hoodwinker sunfish! Molidae start their life as teeny tiny larva only a few cells large, and only a few of the thousands eggs released make it to adulthood. Molas are also the largest boney fish. The largest recorded Mola is M. alexandrini, with the most recent record breaker being about 11 feet long and weighing 6,000 lbs. Thats about 3.4 meters & 2700 kg! !!! WILD.

Despite being ginormous, Molidae as a whole are actually really low in nutritional value. See, the fish of Molidea's diet is soft squishy low calorie things they can inhale. They inhale because they can't close their mouths; they're always open, looking extremely surprised. So they eat things like jellyfish, zooplankton, and squid.

And how they go about eating is really cool, too. All the genus Mola dives thousands of feet in the ocean! Durring the day, most of their prey is down there due to the "diurnal vertical migration"--zooplankton travel up at night and down durring the day. Mola's eyesight isn't the best, so they dive durring the day to have better light.

Funny thing is, they don't have swim bladders. How do they move through the changing pressure? Their bone's and flesh just happen to be about the same density as water, so they just hang out wherever they stop swimming.

Another funny thing, Molidae are cold blooded. And the ocean is cold! this limits how long they can dive for. Older, larger adults can dive for much longer than smaller ones. Regardless, when they come up they have to warm up again, which they do by lying parallel and sunning themselves. Which where the Mola mola's common name comes from! Ocean Sunfish!

The larvea don't sun themselves, though, because they are not the same shape as all. Observe the bean!

The larvae try their best to survive, but most of them die. Thats why Molidae adults produce so many eggs---they (read: have evolved to) to essentially cross their fingers and hope some of them survive to adulthood.

Once adults, their survival chances greatly increase for a lot of reasons. One, their skin is mostly tough cartilage, hard to bite through, though sea lions and orcas do try. Then, like said before, they are pretty low in nutritional value. And finally, that I know of, they are open ocean fish. It doesn't always feel like it, but the ocean is very big. It's not often that molidae come across predators.

They do come across reefs fairly often though, and there are some interesting behaviors they exhibit. Like many other fishes, they let cleaner fish clean them. For more pesky parasites, they float at the very surface of the water and let seabirds eat the parasites off their skin.

Speaking of skin, i most recently learned that M. alexandrini changes color, and it can do it quite rapidly. It seems like when they are startled they can make their patterns more bold, a display showing just how large they really are. These patterns remain relatively stable & can be used for identification.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Smithsonian Magazine:

On a sweltering summer day in Madison, Wisconsin, Jade Kochanski wades through a prairie bursting with wildflowers. Insect net in hand, she carefully scans the colorful blossoms. She’s on a mission to capture and identify the bumblebees that live there. If she’s lucky, she’ll discover a rare find—an endangered rusty patched bumblebee, named for the red-brown smudge that workers and males of the species sport on their backs.

Kochanski, a PhD student in integrative biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, meticulously measures the bumblebees she captures and snips off a tiny piece of leg, a common, non-lethal way to obtain genetic material from these creatures. Each sample she collects from rusty patched bumblebees is destined for a lab in Utah to help researchers uncover the genetic secrets critical to the bee’s survival. DNA analysis will help scientists estimate the number of colonies, identify patterns of inbreeding within those colonies, and understand overall genetic diversity and health of the rusty patched bumblebee populations.

Once common across the eastern United States and Canada, rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis) populations have plummeted by nearly 90 percent over two decades due to habitat loss, pesticide use, pathogens and climate change, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Now, they are found in only a fraction of their former range, with scattered populations in the Upper Midwest and Northeast United States. In 2017, the rusty patch became the first bumblebee to be listed as endangered in the United States.

In response to listing, Kochanski joined a network of scientists who began collecting tissue samples from rusty patched bumblebees across its range. The initiative started in 2020 when Tamara Smith, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s lead biologist for the rusty patched bumblebee, organized a meeting with bumblebee researchers in Minnesota. Their goal: to identify conservation tools that could help save the species. “Genetics was the No. 1 question that came out of that [meeting],” says Smith. “We needed to get a handle on what was going on with this species if we wanted to move forward with some of the other tools that would help with conservation.”

Their research was published this past spring in the Journal of Insect Science and provides the first range-wide genetic study on the species. The findings offer key insights that can aid conservation of the species, but also raise questions and concerns about the ability of the species to recover. “Genetically, they’re not doing as well as we had hoped,” says Smith.

The study revealed a surprisingly low number of rusty patched bumblebee colonies, even in places where the bee seems prevalent. “We’ve seen the Upper Midwest as the stronghold of the species,” says John Mola, an ecologist at Colorado State University and lead study author, “but what we’ve seen from the genetic data is that even within these strongholds for the species, they are still far fewer colonies than we might have expected.”

Since only queens produce offspring, bumblebee populations are measured by colonies, not individuals. Each spring, queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation to create nests where they produce non-reproductive female workers that forage, nurse larvae and defend the nest. Later in the summer, queens switch to producing reproductive individuals, including males and new queens, which will form their own colonies the following year. Each colony can contain over 100 individuals. Thus, even if several worker bees are seen in an area, they could all come from just one or two large colonies.

According to the study, having few colonies poses significant risks, including making them vulnerable to local extinction from unpredictable events like fires on the prairies where they live. In light of the study, land managers will need to be more strategic with using prescribed burns for managing prairies within the bee’s range. To assist these efforts, as part of her dissertation, Kochanski is developing burn recommendations that balance the need for prairie maintenance with protecting bumblebees.