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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I know about this one! It was in Dave the Diver

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I spent years thinking it was called Dunkleosaurus before I realised I'd been reading it wrong the whole time

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

pro tip: "osteo" means bone, dunkleosteus is a VERY bony fish

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Even knowing the correct name I somehow never made that connection!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, and I thought he had dark bones

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well, TIL.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I spent years never having read or heard of this fish at all, but thankfully that dark dark time in my life just ended.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

More of a sacabombaspiss man myself Sacabambaspiss

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

"Gettin' dunked", as we used to say

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Dunkalicious

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

These make me smile because it's obviously a dopefish. Swim, swim, hungry.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Who got caviar with his trilobite meal? The dunkler!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There is only one supreme commander of the seas and that is Father Dagon; who has gifted us with the Deep Ones.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

the most famous Clevelander

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can easily looks like a grown adult and I smiled

this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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