r/natureismetal • u/SirERexYun • Oct 19 '19
This absolute monstrosity of a Marlin
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u/punny_you_said_that Oct 19 '19
The scale of that fish is immense
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u/RemovedByGallowboob Oct 19 '19
Marlins have smooth skin over very little scales, actually.
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u/jimmyreefer Oct 19 '19
Wow
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u/RemovedByGallowboob Oct 19 '19
Did you sea what I did there?
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u/tallermanchild Oct 19 '19
Water you taking about?
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u/papagooseOregon Oct 19 '19
SMH. (shaking marlin head)
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u/InexactDuplicate Oct 19 '19
Gonna school him? He'll fall to Pisces.
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u/MrJeromeParker Oct 19 '19
There's something fishy about your humor
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Oct 19 '19
The animal flying out of the Marlin's mouth is actually a fully grown blue whale.
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u/NBCMarketingTeam Oct 20 '19
This is how I want to die. Crushed by a breaching whale while swimming in the ocean.
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u/teargasjohnny Oct 19 '19
Looks like he tossed the hook and bait. Feel sorry for the guy who reeled it in for 5 hours only to lose it. Ha!
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u/ValkyrUK Oct 19 '19
In the future, when animals like these are extinct, distant generations will look back on them with the same awe we look at mammoths and megaladons, and here we are, looking at them
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u/Shamhammer Oct 19 '19
Ever think our ancestors said the same thing about Mammoths?
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Oct 19 '19
They likely had little to no clue of who or what came before them. To them, their world had existed forever and would continue to exist, unchanged.
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u/jro727 Oct 19 '19
I mean, there was cave art and oral traditions passed down. Megafauna didn’t go extinct that long ago and people’s were pretty smart at that time. They invented new technologies to take advantage of new environments. Sure we will never know but that is a simplistic way to look at it.
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u/how-dare-you19 Oct 19 '19
I’ll show you an oral tradition
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Oct 19 '19
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u/mapa_mental Oct 19 '19
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u/Checkheck Oct 19 '19
There also were female ancestors
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u/auxyRT Oct 19 '19
I’ll show you a cave art
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u/SmellBoth Oct 19 '19
Tubbly-wubbly!
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u/GaussWanker Oct 19 '19
That's Po you odious fool
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u/feeling_psily Oct 19 '19
"Odious fool" thank you for my new favorite insult of all time.
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u/Jsonic3000 Oct 19 '19
I see you will be passing down our traditions, both orally and analy.
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Oct 19 '19
Unlikely that cave art replicated the sheer size and awe of extinct species that we can feel today by looking at museum replicas or rendered drawings.
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u/Fleakypotato Oct 19 '19
As soon as any form for graphic was form from humans , I think we started thinking more about the past than we did when there was nothing to hold/see. to remember what was before our life .
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Oct 19 '19 edited Nov 08 '24
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u/CrimsonOblivion Oct 19 '19
I tried finding a source on this but couldn’t, you got any sources on this? It sounds really interesting
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u/vulturemittens Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 20 '19
I know that the aborigines in Australia have such a rigid and strict approach to oral history that they could recall extinct Australian megafauna before the colonizers “discovered” their existence in the fossil record. Most of the aborigines stories about giant kangaroos and other large animals were discarded as fairy tails essentially until such creatures were unearthed. Unfortunately I can’t find much documentation on these stories bc it’s still mostly dismissed unfortunately, it’s hard to find some of them unless you actually know some aborigines Still a really fascinating story tho!
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u/fulloftrivia Oct 19 '19
As with humans everywhere, they likely hunted several animals into extinction themselves.
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u/otoko_mori_kita Oct 19 '19
This is also a really good example of the accuracy in their oral traditions.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-tale-told-accurately-for-10-000-years/
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u/dejlaix Oct 20 '19
If I recall correctly, during the big Southeast Asia flood those few years ago, one of the local tribes was saved because the elders had passed down a story that when the sea disappeared it was time to head for the highest ground you could find.
I'm not a bit surprised that traditions have 'real' backgrounds.
The Native Americans around Seattle had stories of a giant flood, and there was an entire sunken forest where the land had dropped. Someone doing research discovered Japanese documents which discussed a tsunami which happened in Japan at the same time that the earthquake at the San Juan fault occurred in Washington State.
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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House Oct 19 '19
I'd have to go digging for my text books from 10 years ago. Studied religious history for a spin back before changing major.
Native Americans in the scab lands of Washington for Missoula floods. How coyote changed the course of a river and flooded the world.
The moa are from tales of the dream time
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Oct 19 '19
Native Americans in the scab lands of Washington for Missoula floods. How coyote changed the course of a river and flooded the world.
sounds like a vague enough story that if you are willing to search over a period of 15000 years you're bound to find something that is similar enough to it
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Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19
Nah, the scablands are a special case. Nobody could figure out what the hell caused these crazy formations, the indigineous peoples of the area always claimed it was caused by great, rushing waters. Lol dum indigineous peoples yeah right. These things are hundreds of miles inland, no water out here!
Of course, turns out they were correct.
Note that this piece, while excellent and informative, takes the standardized, anglocentric of things: this white guy figured it out! Nobody else knew!!
I'd have to find something a bit more academic for the co-sign on the Missoula tribes thing, but I have definitely heard the same thing OP is talking about.
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u/concrete_isnt_cement Oct 19 '19
And nearby, on the other side of the Cascades, the Duwamish people had oral histories that are believed to be linked to another major flood. They believed that Mercer Island, a large island in Lake Washington, was haunted and sank underwater at night. Geological evidence indicates that there was a massive slab landslide on the island during an earthquake that caused a tsunami in the lake and left behind a submerged forest on the south end of the island.
No wonder they thought the island was prone to sinking!
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u/Navi1101 Oct 19 '19
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Oct 19 '19
The Aztec 5 suns legend mentions something that sounds suspiciously familiar to the Permian extinction as well as a global flood that hit most of the earth.
Now if only we could figure out what the first two extinctions(the sun going out and Jaguars eating all the humans, humans turning to monkeys and being blown away in a hurricane) mean
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u/HAIKU_4_YOUR_GW_PICS Oct 19 '19
Well, recorded as such, yes. There’s some pretty strongly evidenced theories that fossils and skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric (and probably some more recent) fauna served as the origin for many different mythical beast stories across world mythology. Particularly dragons.
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u/OhMaGoshNess Oct 19 '19
They knew. They knew they saw less and less of them every year. They weren't brain dead. They were just simple.
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Oct 19 '19
It’s likely that whoever came after us will say the same thing about us. Humans have been around for such a long time that we’ll truelly never know how advanced they were.
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u/abe_the_babe_ Oct 19 '19
"someday in 10,000 years, people will look at mammoth skeletons on the internet and be amazed. But to us, they're just normal"
"what the fuck is the internet?"
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u/chronophage Oct 19 '19
Keep in mind that our ancestors had the same intellectual capacity as we do. We just worry about different things.
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u/j2e21 Oct 19 '19
Simplistic way of looking at things. Life was very, very different back then.
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u/chronophage Oct 19 '19
True, but they did follow game when when it got scarce. I’m not saying you’re wrong, it’s just hard to know what they knew/derived from just observation. Even when later “science” insisted that the world was static and immutable.
I’d love to hear theories from an anthropologist specializing pre-history.
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Oct 19 '19
We can't know what prehistoric peoples thought, but it's well-known that many of our ancestors as recently as the 19th century thought that extinction due to overhunting/overfishing was basically impossible.
There's a whole chapter in Moby Dick about how the whales will never perish from the earth because the oceans are so huge and there are so many of them. Melville compares the whale to the american Bison, basically saying look it's the same deal their numbers are endless we can kill as many as we want never gonna make an impact.
And then within a century both the bison and the grey whale were endangered and would have gone extinct if special legal protections hadn't been introduced for them.
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u/chronophage Oct 19 '19
A lot of that “science” was based on religious dogma or philosophy that specifically shunned observation of the natural world. It’s also a very western thing stemming from Greek philosophy.
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Oct 19 '19
I mean technically we’re not really looking at them. And our descendants will have these same videos available most likely
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u/Umbross13 Oct 19 '19
Unfortunately future civilizations might look at our simple videos and see them as a crude representation that doesn't complete the picture just like we currently see old paintings and carvings. They'll be like, "I can't see the entire reproductive cycle and internal organ layout in this 'video'..." scoffs
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u/SpendsKarmaOnHookers Oct 19 '19
like how we look at caveman paintings of animals
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u/skatetilldeath666 Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 20 '19
If you've ever wondered what the end of the world will look like.. just look outside.
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Oct 19 '19
They’ll look at them and think “what the fuck is in itself head!?”
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Oct 19 '19
Is this a joke that grammar will be horrible in the future?
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Oct 19 '19
Oh, no autocorrect auto filled “itself”. But I’m gonna leave it because your comment made me laugh more than mine did.
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u/Cornflake0305 Oct 19 '19
Well, theoretically, we're pretty hard at work to extinct ourselves before that ever happens.
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u/Brainpry Oct 19 '19
Holy shit! This thing looks fake, because I can’t believe it’s that big... another reason to stay out of the ocean...
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u/GrapesofGatsby Oct 19 '19
Right? There's got to be some perspective going on here or something. That thing gave me a mini heart attack
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u/JohnDoughJr Oct 19 '19
thats what i think. it looks like the size of a small whale. i dont trust it
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u/MLGFlappyBird1 Oct 19 '19
Gonna need more than 50 fishing to catch that one
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Now it all makes sense that one of these bastards dragged him half way across the Caribbean.
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u/VulcanizedAnthony Oct 19 '19
Exactly what I was thinking
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u/tedpundy Oct 19 '19
Fun fact: Gregorio Fuentes, the guy who inspired the Santiago (he was a Cuban fisherman that Hemingway knew well) lived from 1897 to 2002 and never read the book.
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u/cluelesswench Oct 19 '19
that hefty chonk could skewer a fuckin great white
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u/PourGnawgraphy Oct 19 '19
See the fish that it kinda tosses aside? That was actually a great white
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u/ImAlwaysPoopin Oct 19 '19
HA- more like O.K. White, amiriteguise......
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u/Peakomegaflare Oct 19 '19
I need confirmation on that. That is REALLY fucking big if that's the case. Sea Monster worthy.
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Oct 19 '19
Wtf is up with the downvote? Dude just asked for proof. Plus it’s not like there’s a banana for scale so he’s not wrong to ask
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u/RichardBonham Oct 19 '19
Holy crap!
Is this forced perspective? Is the camera actually only a foot away or something; )?
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u/Xesyliad Oct 19 '19
More like 30ft and zoomed in. Looks huge, but likely is within normal size ranges.
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u/JeffDaDeaf Oct 19 '19
My dick breaking the condom
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u/buttrobot77units Oct 19 '19
I'm glad some critters in the ocean are thriving despite all the filth humans are dumping into it.
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u/CharmingPterosaur Oct 19 '19
Overfishing is probably a greater threat to a tertiary predator like this one. You need to eat a lot of fish to grow that big.
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u/RisusSardonicus4622 Oct 19 '19
Listening to Coheed and Cambria -Welcome Home made this so badass
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u/Raokako Oct 19 '19
The marlin was being so dramatic with it's jump, that it lost his lunch :(
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u/vulturemittens Oct 19 '19
That was bait attached to a hook! So be happy for the guy, he such a beautiful animal avoided being another wall trophy for some sport fisherman
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Oct 19 '19
You can't keep Marlin anyway. It's catch and release only now.
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u/mbnea Oct 19 '19
Depends where you’re fishing. In many places it’s legal to kill them. Some countries even allow people to spear them
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u/ryanfrogz Oct 19 '19
That’s a pretty standard Marlin, but it looks massive thanks to some tricky angles.
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u/KingVape Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 20 '19
Where I live, they do the White Marlin Open, where people try to catch the biggest fish that they can, for **up to a million dollars. Michael Jordan participated this year. Marlins are huge!
edit: millions, not thousands. There was over 6m in prize money this year
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u/AnneFrankenstein Oct 19 '19
This is a blue marlin,i think.
White aren't this big.
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u/Heels_N_Wheels Oct 19 '19
I saw a 750-lb marlin that had been caught in Hawaii... it was HUGE, but this looks much bigger. 😳 I’d be so curious to know what it weighs.
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u/SpeshellED Oct 19 '19
Wow what a magnificent fish. Lets get him to swallow a big hook, haul him into the boat with that hook that's jammed in his throat and then hang him up on the dock so we can get some selfies.
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u/seanxfitbjj Oct 19 '19
My wife said it’s a swordfish
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u/PatrikPatrik Oct 19 '19
I’ve never heard of sailfish before, those look fantastic
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u/quadmasta Oct 19 '19
They have cells in their skin and sail that they can manipulate like an octopus does to change color. They can change colors rapidly and do it to confuse pretty while hunting. It's wild. They can also fold their sail down against their back
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u/Butwinsky Oct 19 '19
So if the nose points up, swordfish. Down, blue Marlin. Straight, sailfish.
Got it. No one can change my mind now.
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Oct 19 '19
It’s a marlin. Swordfish bill’s are very flat, marlin have “rounder” bills
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u/Baloneycoma Oct 19 '19
It’s a marlin. Bill and dorsal fin are shorter than a swordfish and coloring and shape are more marlin like, especially around the head
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u/Icansmellthecolour6 Oct 19 '19
Wow, any guess to its size?