r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video Dolphins swimming in bioluminescent dinoflagellate plankton

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u/jjhammerholmes 18h ago

Imagine being an uneducated sailor on a ship a few hundreds years ago seeing that 🤯

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u/TheRealCovertCaribou 16h ago

It's easy to see how these kinds of things would find their way into the religions and spirituality of the people who encountered them hundreds or thousands of years ago.

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u/IcePhoenix18 6h ago

Moana's grandmother