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Scientists Just Discovered There Are 'Bees' in the Oceans

Huh...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that underwater ecosystems have pollinators that perform the same task as bees on land.

Just like their terrestrial cousins, grasses under the sea shed pollen to sexually reproduce. Until now, biologists assumed the marine plants relied on water alone to spread their genes far and wide. But the discovery of pollen-carrying ‘bees of the sea’ has changed all of that.

Over several years from 2009 to 2012, researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico filmed the spring nocturnal wanderings of crustaceans among beds of turtle seagrass, Thalassia testudinum.

Looking through the videos, they spotted more invertebrates visiting male pollen-bearing flowers than those that lacked pollen – just like bees hovering around pollen-producing plants on land.

“We saw all of these animals coming in, and then we saw some of them carrying pollen,” lead researcher Brigitta van Tussenbroek told New Scientist.

The concept was so new, they invented a new term to describe it: zoobenthophilous pollination. Before that, researchers had never predicted that animals were involved in pollinating marine plants.

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Can we talk about Percy seeing his mom in the underworld?

Look at how horrified he is.

There isn’t even a sliver of relief at seeing his mom again. The only thing on his face is wide-eyed terror.

Now look at what Sally looked like:

Did anyone else think that it seemed kind of familiar?

Did anyone else think that it kind of looks like she’s frozen in gold?

Percy saw his mom and it instantly reminded him of being encased inside Hephaestus’s trap in Waterland. Paralyzed and awake while he suffocated slowly and painfully. He’s remembering the panic he felt when he thought he was going to die and how much it hurt when he was freed; Even though he was alive, his lungs burned with every inhale and his head spun from lack of oxygen.

Now he’s putting his mom in that position

a fools guide to not wanting to die anymore

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore 

never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.

find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.

talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore

picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else

if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.

annabeth “no fear in the face of the war god, in fact i’m going to verbally eviscerate him” chase, percy “fuck around and find out, i dare you ares” jackson, and grover “thanks for the emotional abuse, bye!” underwood

those kids had him fucked UP, they ate i fear

You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

I kinda want to try and find it myself now, or maybe just explore

the paris catacombs are 1000x more fucked up than i imagined

I just love the idea of Percy inheriting his recklessness from Sally Jackson instead of Poseidon like obviously she had become calmer over the years but it would be hilarious if no one believed it like

Poseidon: Your child sent Medusa's head to the gods

*flashback to when Sally figured out she was pregnant and yelled at the sea for an hour while flipping it off*

Sally: I hear the sea doesn't like to be restrained

Poseidon: I said it once -

Or when Percy asks about how they met

Poseidon: Your mom saw my trident and tried to steal it and kill me to figure out if I'm real or a figment of her imagination

Percy: Yeah right my mom would never hurt anyone

Poseidon: ...SALLY -

ok but what if the other gods also get involved in this like

Apollo: Your son snuck on a quest

Poseidon: Sally's son

Apollo: ...She baked me blue chocolate chip cookies

And then Poseidon decides to confront her so

Poseidon: You have got to take some responsibility

Sally: I don't know what you're talking about

*flashback to when Sally had managed to steal the trident and kill a monster*