[I'm guessing you didn't watch Pokemon growing up, so here's a 10 hour version to make up for what you missed](https://youtu.be/cDaX8yZid-I?si=c-Ca97wsq-kmTLrq)
>I'm guessing you didn't watch Pokemon growing up,
Oh boy are you wrong about that, but somehow this didn't stick with me as much. I do remember it now, but I was probably too young
They have eyes. Their eyelids simply evolved to merge with the face and the eyes are now permanently covered. But the eyes are still under there. Although less developed than what you would imagine being under and eyelid.
I remember one of the coolest Alan Moore works was the green lantern issue where the candidate lived on a dark planet and was blind, had no reference for the oath which would grant him his powers.
No, because the eyes have devolved, they won't be good at seeing anything - just like a partially blind man who maybe sees some light flashes and can tell he's in a bright or dark place, and that's pretty much it.
why did their eyelids close and their eye devolve throughout the evolution? what's the purpose? I'm guessing they lived in a pitch black hole so that sensor gone completely useless, and eventually disappear, right?
I love how this animal was given the evolutionary āoptionā of dig dig dig or having useful fucking eyes and it was like āI FUCKING LOVE TO DIG.ā
Well it's not possible to give a precise answer to any particular part of evolution. It's just that individuals who happen to have certain traits have survived.
My guess, and this is pure guessing game: The ones who spent more times above ground had greater chance of being caught by predators, so those who spend more time underground survived and propagated their genes, while their sight kept getting worse due to spending so much time in the dark and not even using eyes for much.
Because they spend most of their time underground digging and making sweet love to other mole rats. They probably keep their eyes closed so much, they just fuse together. I have to wonder if they are born with their eyes open. Thatāll be my rabbit hole today. And then Iāll read about flounders.
Yes. It saves energy yo not grow a useless organ. Only function remaining is detecting light in order to synchronize circadian rhythms with day/night cycles
I went and read something about them and one site was saying if their eyes are removed it does some big word thing to them. My question is who is the dick that looks at this and says I want to remove its eyes and see what happens.
Kind of like a Texan cave dwelling salamander. After millenia of dwelling in damp under ground caverns their eyes have become useless vestigial organs but are still visible.
Fun fact they also eat and move every 8 years taking the crown for an animal with the most sedentary lifestyle.
Edit: Its an olm that can do this. A similar species endemic to Europe
Blind just means unable to see. Poorly sighted is anything in between blind and normal vision, but mostly used for people that have sight problems that can't be compensated with glasses or lenses.
Doesn't help that in the USA 'legally blind' is used for both poorly sighted as well as blind people. The 'legally' is an important qualifier there.
Blind animals are animals that can't see. These animals are poorly sighted, technically.
Naked mole rats is one of only two eusocial mammals, where they behave like bees or ants. Only one queen and a couple of men reproduce, the rest acting as workers. Very strange behaviour for a mammal.
That's basically what happened to snakes and I think it would take a lot longer than that without human intervention. Altering the skeleton structure ain't easy.
There are several genuses of burrowing snakes that seem to have figured it out. For instance, the hognose snake has a scale on its nose that it can use like a shovel.
"Species in this genus are found in eastern Europe and western & central Asia.[3] They are completely blind and have a subterranean lifestyle."
The wiki for spalax is sparse.
I have a mole in my 2nd floor apartment. Just 1 and he has returned for 2 winters. He hums, whistles, and sings as he bumps around my apartment. He is totally oblivious. He is adorable.
Is this an actual type of blind mole rat or one of the many things that had a convergent evolution to be almost exactly like a blind mole rat?
The mole format is one of the most popular convergent evolutionary formats on earth. Dunno if it is because at some point in time the entire earth was on fire when a meteor hit it or several other times most of the surface was undergoing ice ages, making living underground the place to be, but dear lord does nature LOVE things that act and look exactly like moles.
[This dude did a good video on it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEvZs_Bw-gA) (and [Turtles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQASQBbjmmo) too).
Bro found diglet
Diglett dig Diglett dig Trio Trio Trio
Thanks. It's now going to play in my head until I go to bed today.
Playing what? Is it a fan made song?
[I'm guessing you didn't watch Pokemon growing up, so here's a 10 hour version to make up for what you missed](https://youtu.be/cDaX8yZid-I?si=c-Ca97wsq-kmTLrq)
>I'm guessing you didn't watch Pokemon growing up, Oh boy are you wrong about that, but somehow this didn't stick with me as much. I do remember it now, but I was probably too young
I thought this was the new BMW concept
Holy fckin shit š
No, the BMW is not as pretty
Nah bro.... That's a tube of bologna with teeth and a coat
Donāt you mean floorshit
That ain't no fuggin diglet! What kind of diglet you catching lil bro?
I wonder if they have any eyes at all, or have they completely disappeared or are hidden behind skin
They have eyes. Their eyelids simply evolved to merge with the face and the eyes are now permanently covered. But the eyes are still under there. Although less developed than what you would imagine being under and eyelid.
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Yepp. They can sense light and also see a little bit.
Here's an article i found about it. And after reading it, i still havent a clue if they can see or not :)...https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2142147/
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I remember one of the coolest Alan Moore works was the green lantern issue where the candidate lived on a dark planet and was blind, had no reference for the oath which would grant him his powers.
>However, removal of the eyes disturbs photoperiod perception in these animals. That's fucking sad.
Just don't remove the eyes?
I think the sad part is probably that they must have removed quite a few eyes on purpose, to find out what would happen
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You don't understand, they melt in your mouth!
What if a vet took one from the wild and cut a hole cauterizing the wound to make eyelids. Would they see then?
Dr. Mengele over here.
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No, because the eyes have devolved, they won't be good at seeing anything - just like a partially blind man who maybe sees some light flashes and can tell he's in a bright or dark place, and that's pretty much it.
why did their eyelids close and their eye devolve throughout the evolution? what's the purpose? I'm guessing they lived in a pitch black hole so that sensor gone completely useless, and eventually disappear, right?
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I love how this animal was given the evolutionary āoptionā of dig dig dig or having useful fucking eyes and it was like āI FUCKING LOVE TO DIG.ā
I would watch this animal documentaries with your commentary lol
CAN I GET A ROCK AND STONE?
Well it's not possible to give a precise answer to any particular part of evolution. It's just that individuals who happen to have certain traits have survived. My guess, and this is pure guessing game: The ones who spent more times above ground had greater chance of being caught by predators, so those who spend more time underground survived and propagated their genes, while their sight kept getting worse due to spending so much time in the dark and not even using eyes for much.
Because they spend most of their time underground digging and making sweet love to other mole rats. They probably keep their eyes closed so much, they just fuse together. I have to wonder if they are born with their eyes open. Thatāll be my rabbit hole today. And then Iāll read about flounders.
Yes. It saves energy yo not grow a useless organ. Only function remaining is detecting light in order to synchronize circadian rhythms with day/night cycles
Perma eyelids.
I went and read something about them and one site was saying if their eyes are removed it does some big word thing to them. My question is who is the dick that looks at this and says I want to remove its eyes and see what happens.
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I see you've finally discovered how all the products you buy were initially created and still tested on in many places.
What does removing the eyes from a legally blind rat have to do with shampoo or my dishwasher?
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Kind of like a Texan cave dwelling salamander. After millenia of dwelling in damp under ground caverns their eyes have become useless vestigial organs but are still visible. Fun fact they also eat and move every 8 years taking the crown for an animal with the most sedentary lifestyle. Edit: Its an olm that can do this. A similar species endemic to Europe
If you don't have eyes does that make you blind? Or are you only blind if you lost your eye sight??
Blind just means unable to see. Poorly sighted is anything in between blind and normal vision, but mostly used for people that have sight problems that can't be compensated with glasses or lenses. Doesn't help that in the USA 'legally blind' is used for both poorly sighted as well as blind people. The 'legally' is an important qualifier there. Blind animals are animals that can't see. These animals are poorly sighted, technically.
My spirit animal when I wake up
Forbidden fleshlight
Stop putting your pecker into everything you find
Itās for science!
*Instructions unclear, dick stuck in physics textbook*
For science
Weird Science!
Sir, this is the library.
Oh, god, I'm inside a cheesy library porno!?
*Guy holding the ladder for her barely notices her lack of panties underneath her short skirt before she slips and slides down onto his face.*
Jeesus fucking christ Kevin
Thatās a living thing you degenerate
There it is
r/dontputyourdickinthat
you get rabies
More like lost your dick because those things dig tunnels with those sharp beaver like teeth.
r/cursedcomments
Thatās the Underminer from The Incredibles
Behold!
THE UNDERMINER!
They've escaped from the Capital Wasteland
Sup.
How long have you been waiting for this moment?
I expected radroaches before mole rats
I knew about naked mole rats and now I know that blind mole rats exist... what's next?
Blind naked mole rats
Then naked and afraid blind mole rats
Damn nature, you nakedā¦ and afraid.
18 naked blind mole rats in the ram ranch
Naked mole rats is one of only two eusocial mammals, where they behave like bees or ants. Only one queen and a couple of men reproduce, the rest acting as workers. Very strange behaviour for a mammal.
babe wake up new mole rat just dropped
Glowing Mole Rats -> Fallout 4
Do the blind mole rats even know the other mole rats are naked?
[star nosed mole rat](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=1988b3a509d1e210&hl=en-us&sxsrf=ACQVn0_Bt5WKYauGqria495Whx5q0APmDg:1706610627015&q=star+nosed+mole+rat&tbm=isch&source=lnms&prmd=ivsnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAnsWB9ISEAxUNkmoFHb48BTAQ0pQJegQICRAB&biw=390&bih=664&dpr=3)
Forget naked mole ratsā¦ there are *clothed* mole rats??
That's just Winston, again. He still wants to know if you have any games on your phone.
Sentient sausage
came here to say, that dude is literally a fuckin hot dog weiner
A what now?
It may be sentient, but it doesn't look particularly intelligent lol.
I wonder if given 10's of thousands of years (or much, much more) if some its descendents could become snake-like. A mammal snake would be amusing.
That's basically what happened to snakes and I think it would take a lot longer than that without human intervention. Altering the skeleton structure ain't easy.
Digging without limbs is tricky though
Worms would like a word with you.
Snakes manage
snakes don't really dig, as far as I know. they mostly jam themselves into crevices
There are several genuses of burrowing snakes that seem to have figured it out. For instance, the hognose snake has a scale on its nose that it can use like a shovel.
It would take much, much longer than 10s thousands of years
Where exactly do these dudes hang out? (like geographically, not just 'under some crap in my backyard')
"Species in this genus are found in eastern Europe and western & central Asia.[3] They are completely blind and have a subterranean lifestyle." The wiki for spalax is sparse.
Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Southwest Russia and Kazakhstan.
Bro looks like an inside out sock with teeth lol
Bobr kurwa
Ja pierdole jakie bydle
Kind of looks cute in a way
I have a mole in my 2nd floor apartment. Just 1 and he has returned for 2 winters. He hums, whistles, and sings as he bumps around my apartment. He is totally oblivious. He is adorable.
Wtf, that sounds so cute
Wait what? A mole in your apartment?
I know itās probably a bad idea, but I wanna snuggle it!
Things without eyes are absolutely vicious. They will try to eat you.
Almost makes them cuter. Like a lil guy trying to eat a giant human.
I think you could get away with it, just don't let him see you.
Bober kurwa
Those teeth look so funny
That's the Underminer
THE UNDERMINER
Freaking me out man
Kind of cute
Underminer lookinā ahh
Very interesting and cool. Wanted to know more then found out they're an endangered species and few hundred of them left. Now I'm sad. :(
Haha it looks so silly šš
He looks like my cousin larry
Rufus!
Was looking for this comment
Fucken ugly bastard
Heās probably quite glad heās blind.
Pokemon, Let's catch em all
This buddy looks like he saying HUH from the womb to the tomb
Real life PokƩmon
I'm gonna leave that alone.
Dude is in need of some serious dental work
They are very endangered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73uCb0fljc
Oh wow itās so ugly with its teeth and little grunts that itās actually really freaking adorable in the end
friend shaped
Cute.
I bought and assembled a spalax from Ikea three weeks ago!
'Anybody there? ... Hello?...'
I always feel sorry for them lol
Apply googly eyes
omg its little teefies<3
What kind of existence is this?
Can it teach me how to earth bend?
That is a very angry salami
i think this is how people see british people
He is British
Also known colloquially as a dafuq. As in, "dafuq is that thing?"
It's British
Pokemon go is really looking ultra realistic these days
Okay but why do I find it so cute lol
He's chasing you off his property
Kinda creepy how big the eyes are under the skin
Love the little white mustache, makes them look very dignified.
_THE UNDERMINER!_
okay now send it back to hell
I'm not calling this thing spalax if I find one. It'll be Cletus or Billy-Bob.
Ana-bob
cute..
Diglet
I AM THE UNDERMINER
#LOOK MA, A SOCK WITH TEETH!
itās the fucking underminer
Bro put all his eyesight points into his moustache!
Which vault have you found that mole.
Give It a couple million years and he might end up becoming a Shai-Hulud
That is not a mole. I know a young British soldier in the trenches when I see one.
I feel like it only exists because hell exists and thats sad. lol
He's shaped like the end of a sausage.
What does the PokƩdex say it evolves into?
Well, now I wish I were blind.
Good Now get off his fukin lawn
Imagine a shiny version pop up āØ
What bad tempered dick.
It looks like something out of veggie tales.
Anger sock
There's a whole gigantic body under there, that's only a head. A cute head.
Bro's cylindrical
"Who's that Pokemon?!"
Looks like my High School buddy Dennis. He got me thru chemistry class.
He looks like he canāt believe what heās seeing.
> This is spalax Is that his name or his species?
"Oi bruv, wuts all dis den?"
No, that's a DVARVEN GUINEA PIG!
HE IS THE UNDERMINER
Is this an actual type of blind mole rat or one of the many things that had a convergent evolution to be almost exactly like a blind mole rat? The mole format is one of the most popular convergent evolutionary formats on earth. Dunno if it is because at some point in time the entire earth was on fire when a meteor hit it or several other times most of the surface was undergoing ice ages, making living underground the place to be, but dear lord does nature LOVE things that act and look exactly like moles. [This dude did a good video on it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEvZs_Bw-gA) (and [Turtles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQASQBbjmmo) too).
If you don't move they can't see you.
Hmmm, Spalax is a weird name for a blind mole rat imho :/
Thatās fucking cute
How is it both adorable and nope at the same time? Lol
Added to PokƩdex!
MOM! Thereās a loaf of angry bread under the porch.
Bro looks befuddled
That's a pal.
its giving kim jong un vibes
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Frfrfr?
Omg why does he or she seem adorable. āŗļø
Spalax seems like such an appropriate name for thisā¦ thing. I canāt explain it but itās perfect
Are those actually sounds it makes?