Underground Dwelling Lute Lizards

 

I was in a weird frame of mind recently and wanted to try out the VideoGPT app to see what outlandish results I could get from using a text to video generating application.  What better topic than the conspiracy theory regarding a hidden race of cave dwelling lizards?  People have been reporting disturbing sightings of bipedal lizards, equal in size or taller than the average man's height.  There also is speculation that these odd beasts inhabit remote caves and otherwise lightly travelled areas.

Going with this knowledge in hand, I hallucinated a scenario where a cave explorer happens upon a race of underground cavern dwelling lizard men that embody a lute playing orchestra.  Very random story kernel, I know, but watch the results and see.  The thing is that these appear to be lizards that are more in favor of strumming mandolins and guitars.  Go figure....AI!

Aquatic Firecracker!

Check out this craziness.  According to recent Internet story, a half inch long fish can generate some amazingly loud racket.

Quoting here a few lines from the story:

"Danionella cerebrum, a species of fish discovered only about three years ago, are tiny translucent fish that live in shallow streams in Myanmar. They are no more than 12 millimeters long and have a "unique sound-generating" organ that can make noises of more than 140 decibels, an international research team said in a news release Tuesday.

"To make noise, the fish hits the drumming cartilage against its swim bladder, a gas-filled cavity or organ that is predominantly used to control buoyancy, the study says. The movement produces a rapid pulse in high and low frequencies.

"This apparatus accelerates the drumming cartilage with a force of over 2,000g and shoots it against the swim bladder to produce a rapid, loud pulse," Britz said. "These pulses are strung together to produce calls with either bilaterally alternating or unilateral muscle contractions.

“We assume that the competition between the males in this visually restrictive environment contributed to the development of the special mechanism for acoustic communication,” Britz said."

Wow!  That is crazy.  The incredible things that Science is discovering on a daily basis.  Amazing.

Get a sample of the noisy fish at the link below.

Loud, little sucker