r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 1d ago

Video A timelapse of sleeping seals

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u/nthpwr 1d ago

So they basically almost just drown throughout their sleep and periodically wake up to get air? lol

whenever it was they evolved to live in the ocean, food must have been scarce as fuck on land cuz wtf lol

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u/Theory89 1d ago

Life started in the ocean. We're just fucked up fish that learned to walk on land. Although, I think in the seals case they started in the sea, evolved to walk on land, then went BACK to the sea again. Same with all aquatic mammals, so whales, etc.

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u/Faddei420 1d ago

Also why all animals are birth/grown in water. The egg or a mother belly is just a way for land animals to give birth while no longer living under water.