why-animals-do-the-thing:

hebizuki:

madsciences:

onewingandabrokenhalo:

madsciences:

kilbaro:

JESUS?? 

JESUS????

i had no idea they were so frickin huge

I love them so much because they’re about as sharp as a baseball and their anatomy is ridiculous to the point of them literally being classified as plankton for years because they just sort of get blown around by the ocean and look confused, but because they lay more eggs than ANY OTHER VERTEBRATE IN EXISTENCE, evolution can’t stop them

Why is no big predator coming and gnawing on them?

Their biggest defense is that they’re massive and have super tough skin, but they do get hunted by sharks or sea lions sometimes and they just sort of float there like ‘oh bother’ as it happens

Even funnier, because they eat nothing but jellyfish they’re really low in nutritional value anyway, so they basically survive by being not worth eating because they’re like a big floating rice cracker wrapped in leather.

“…big floating rice cracker wrapped in leather.” Perfectly perfect description. I now understand the very essence of this fish.

This is wonderful. To add a short thing, the reason they were considered plankton is because that definition relies on ability to move. Plankton are things that cannot more laterally in the water column of their own volition – only vertically. Mola Mola were considered plankton because they use their caudal and anal fins for locomotion and they’re not strong enough to propel the fish against the current.