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Related: About this forumDeep sea mandalas
I hope this isn't a duplicate, but it's so fascinating I thought people here might be interested.
On the seabed a geometric, circular structure measuring roughly 6.5 ft in diameter had been precisely carved from sand. It consisted of multiple ridges, symmetrically jutting out from the center, and appeared to be the work of an underwater artist, carefully working with tools. For its resemblance to crop circles, Ookata dubbed his new finding a mystery circle, and enlisted some colleagues at NHK to help him investigate. In a television episode that aired last week titled The Discovery of a Century: Deep Sea Mystery Circle, the television crew revealed their findings and the unknown artist was unmasked.
Underwater cameras showed that the artist was a small puffer fish who, using only his flapping fin, tirelessly worked day and night to carve the circular ridges. The unlikely artist best known in Japan as a delicacy, albeit a potentially poisonous one even takes small shells, cracks them, and lines the inner grooves of his sculpture as if decorating his piece. Further observation revealed that this mysterious circle was not just there to make the ocean floor look pretty. Attracted by the grooves and ridges, female puffer fish would find their way along the dark seabed to the male puffer fish where they would mate and lay eggs in the center of the circle. In fact, the scientists observed that the more ridges the circle contained, the more likely it was that the female would mate with the male. The little sea shells werent just in vain either. The observers believe that they serve as vital nutrients to the eggs as they hatch, and to the newborns.
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2012/09/18/deep-sea-mystery-circle-love-story/
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Deep sea mandalas (Original Post)
Rainforestgoddess
Sep 2012
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soleft
(18,537 posts)1. Totally fascinating! Thanks for posting.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)2. Pretty darn amazing
and beautiful
K&R
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)3. Completely baffling. How do they produce images like this? Overwhelming. n/t
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)4. I hope some film of this happening is released
I have looked all over to find it. So cool
YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)5. Artists...
always getting the girls
Rainforestgoddess
(436 posts)7. Between these fish and bower birds,
you're probably on to something.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)6. du rec. Nt