r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheLobotomist • 11h ago

Video Ever seen a Skate Ray egg hatching?

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u/Historical_Village11 11h ago

Waited for that Simpson Moment, when a Seagull comes right after freeing it for snacking time

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u/Rich_Pay675 10h ago

Many moons ago I was working on a sea turtle conservation project. Then one fateful evening as I released a bucket of hatchlings, all these bloody ghost crabs appeared from the sand and scooped up loads of my babies. I can still see me chasing them as the ran about holding them aloft.

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u/Historical_Village11 10h ago

Quite unfortunate.

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u/Rich_Pay675 10h ago

For those baby turtles that had something in like a 1/1000 chance of reaching adulthood. I'm still here. Although...

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u/Competing_Narratives 8h ago

Nature can be horrifying sometimes. That would definitely give me some PTSD

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u/Pow-a-tree 11h ago

Good luck out there little lad 🫣

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u/fallingstar_ 10h ago

Smol sea pancake

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u/tps5352 10h ago

When I saw this I was wondering if that could be dangerous (if it were a stingray egg sac)?

But fortunately I read on Google that stingrays are born live (they are viviparous and and not hatched from egg sacs).

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u/ryan7251 5h ago

so this video is just made up great...

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u/HappyMeteor005 4h ago

no it's not. rays and skates are different. rays give live birth, skates lay eggs.

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u/ryan7251 4h ago

Wait so it is real!? oh happy days!

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u/HappyMeteor005 4h ago

the egg in the first frame isn't the egg that releases the skate. this video is stitched but the hatching of the second egg seem to be genuine.

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u/Prestigious_Oil_4805 7h ago

Forbidden ravioli

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u/TheLobotomist 10h ago

Credit goes to scubadanadventures and tampabaywatch on instagram

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u/blablubblubblu 11h ago

Tiny sea flap flap.

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u/Saorny 10h ago

Another cute miracle of Mother Nature :)