#survive! mola mola

[wsc-arachne]

[ajhaijma]

Mola hyukie is finally a young man at regression 5 woohoooooo

[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 ?

[badolmen]

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

[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.

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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

[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.

[blueiscoool]

A Rare 2,000-Year-Old Roman Funerary Bed Discovered in London

Archaeologists working in central London have discovered a burial site containing a wooden bed used in a Roman funeral.

A team from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) made the find near Holborn Viaduct, in the heart of central London, six meters (20 feet) below modern street level.

Depictions of beds being used as part of funerals are common in Roman art. However, the bed found at this site, preserved by the damp mud of the underground River Fleet, is the first complete example ever discovered in Britain.

Made from high-quality oak, the bed has carved feet, and joints fixed with small wooden pegs. Reminiscent of modern-day flatpack furniture, it was taken apart before being placed within the grave.

In a statement, Heather Knight, project officer at MOLA, said, the level of preservation of the wooden finds “has really blown us away.”

Michael Marshall, a MOLA finds specialist, said that “Roman wooden furniture only survives under exceptional circumstances” and that the bed is unique “in being dismantled and placed in the ground complete.”

These Roman finds are just the latest layer to be revealed in the site’s slice through London’s history. According to MOLA, their excavations have also revealed there was another cemetery on the site during the 16th century.

After the devastation of the Great Fire of London in 1666, the site saw new life, with the construction of houses, shops, and a pub, which were eventually replaced by Victorian warehouses.

In its latest chapter, the site is being transformed into office space for global law firm Hogan Lovells, which intends to display some of the archaeological finds.

Alongside skeletal remains, the archaeologists also dug up personal objects in the Roman site, such as beads, a glass vial and a decorated lamp.

Marshall said the discovery of such artifacts in the final resting place of some of Roman London’s first residents allows archaeologists to further “explore how furniture might have played a role” in Roman funerals and “shines a new light” on such rituals.

The latest finds follow the discovery last year of an “incredibly rare” Roman mausoleum beneath a construction site in south London, close to the Thames River’s south bank.

By Caolán Magee.

[ajhaijma]

I started survive mola mola , my hyukie is already on his 3rd regression, wish me luck guyss let's see if I can do a better job than han sooyoung

[bellagrimfox]

Mermay 2024 @somecartoonisttalkshere Edition

Day 6: Sunfish

The weakest fish meets the strongest fish. The app game Survive! Mola Mola inspired this piece.

Prompt down below.

[ms-scarletwings]

Every Dredge Aberration (2023), Part 14

Collapsed Viperfish

Encyclopedia #157

Aberrant form of viperfish

Description:

A rejection of the light - or a return to the ways of the deep?

Comment: Well then. I was content to assume the former on my own. After all, many deep-dwelling fish can endure a horrific strain from a quick ascension to the surface, but no, I was denied that peace of mind by the second half of the description. It is harsher learning that to some, the Deep’s ways are a full-body prolapse.

How to catch: Much the same as the previous entry. Abyssal rod, open sea. Simple enough.

Skeletal Moonfish

Encyclopedia #158

Aberrant form of moonfish

Description:

Chittering bones still operate a ghostly body impossibly devoid of organs.

Comment: And yet they stay bound in a new ghostly skin. Imagine if the organs were all unharmed, merely now transparent to the eye. Or don’t, the fish is every bit the same seeming abomination.

How to catch: I admit with no reservation that this (and the one below) is a fish I stooped to baiting out and using atrophy for over scouring for many natural spawn points. They aren’t impossible to find, just few and far between, and especially tricky to cast in. See, moonfish are one of the more dangerous quarries to seek, combining the fact that they are strictly nocturnal and only found in the open ocean. An underwhelming challenge for the experienced angler, it still remains hazardous to linger so far out in the night’s fog if you consider yourself still wet behind the ears in this place. Mechanically, you’ll only need an oceanic rod to pull them up. Keep your wits about you and your lights on.

Beaked Moonfish

Encyclopedia #159

Aberrant form of moonfish

Description:

A rocky body that bears the scars and scratches of things from below. A crushing beak, a tool of its own deep terror.

Comment: Letting you know that the maximum size of this specimen can top out at about a meter and a half long. It speaks volumes to the strength of this animal to be able to swim on with all the added weight.

How to catch: ^^^

Congealed Rattail

Encyclopedia #160

Aberrant form of

Description:

The flesh of this deep dweller has turned to a thick ooze, secreting an oily gel that covers its entire body.

Comment: Probably with the texture of hagfish slime. A revolting change, but one that cold serve a new survival advantage against predation. Except from us, of course.

How to catch: Drag them forth from the very deepest corners of the wild sea. This creature knows nothing but the pitch black of the hadal zone.

Charred Sunfish

Encyclopedia #161

Aberrant form of

Description:

Scales chipped and flaking, its crackling body is hot to the touch.

Comment: That’s a crispy pancake right there. Does the deep burn? Perhaps this is a similar case to the ailment of aberrant tarpons we saw before in the twisted strand. Sometimes their boons make the kiss of the sun… unwelcoming to their new bodies. A common mola would frequently bask at the surface as a natural behavior, and such habits may die hard.

How to catch: True to name, the ocean sunfish prefers the open waters, and sunlight. All you will need is an oceanic rod and definitely your spyglass to track a good spot down.

Glaring Sunfish

Encyclopedia #162

Aberrant form of ocean sunfish

Description:

Ocular tongues watch from socketed mouths. Each offers its own form of deep pity.

Comment: It’s like looking into the face of an angel… an emissary of the fathomless, gazing with sympathy to the unworthy. Why? Because they’ve seen what’s coming.

How to catch: ^^^

[non-fantasy]

so there's this game called mola mola, or more aptly "survival! mola mola!" is a mobile game where you take care of your digital pet (a sun fish) and you raise it from a little baby to an awesome sunfish adult. your goal. is to make your fish sooo big and fat and the best fish ever. but your digital pet dies all the time. alllll the time. even if you avoid doing the adventures to enrich your pet's life (these adventures have a chance of killing your pet) you can still kill your pet if you get bad rng ("mola mola ate too quickly and got indigestion and Died" "mola mola swallowed a sardine bone and Died" "mola mola mistook a plastic bag for a jellyfish and Died") and also you can kill your mola mola by touching it too much but that only happens 1 time, your next new game+ makes you 100% resistant to death by touching too much.

the 2 ways to get more points and also get more fat are to eat more, and to go on adventures. eating more is far less risky than going on adventures, and going on adventures has a chance of dying BUT you get much fatter quicker and you get store points and at the store you can buy new fishes for mola mola to eat and different adventures mola mola can go on.

each time your mola mola dies it gives you a bunch of store points and if it dies on an adventure the likely hood of dying on that specific adventure next time decreases (this caps at 99% unlikely to die tho, so, you still have a chance of dying if you go on that adventure in the future)

and that's it! that's the whole game! :)

oh. gambling pet love

[ot3]

do u know why dokja calls jonghyuk a sunfish? idk sorry

It's a reference to the game survive! Mola mola

"The goal is to raise an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) to adulthood. However, this is easier said than done. Molas are sensitive to a wide variety of conditions and can die from stress or minor injuries. Despite this, they are plentiful, so if one dies, just start with a new one. In fact, one of the goals is to die as many different ways as possible."

It's a joke about how many times and for how many reasons yjh dies