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Ball's Pyramid, Australia is the Tallest Volcanic Sea Stack in the World at 572 metres (1,877 ft) high. Ball's Pyramid is the only place on Earth where you can find wild Dryococelus australis, aka the Lord Howe Stick Insect, aka the Tree Lobster. A species of animal native to Lord Howe Island, that Scientists had thought extinct due to non-native rats.
Song used: "Mermaid", by: Sade
#nature #awesome #mildly_interesting #earth_day
surroundedbytwits
Nuts Pyramid is better
TechnicallyTrueIGuess
Tree Lobster sounds about right for Australia
MisseditbyTHATmuch
I heard it was tree fiddy lobsters
Spidey209
That is way cooler than Pam Ayre's Rock. How come we never heard of it?
oddoregano
Isn't this the place where all the sharks gather together?
VikingsAreNinjaPirates
The graphics for Sea of Thieves really are something.
skipweasel
If anyone's curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27s_Pyramid
69Voltage
Gotta be a hell of a climb
muzzoltov
To see this jutting out of a still blue ocean in the middle of no where, too my breath away.
SteveD31415
A variety of great unusual perspectives. How many wonders like this have come and gone in 4.5 billion years?
Larsonmars2
That’s pointy AF!
RedRaptor
Reminds me of Dragon Roost Island in Windwaker.
OceansRust
TupacAintDead
What is dead may never die.
ahorseelbowdeepinme
I misread the title and was shocked to learn that lobsters even had balls and immediately wondered if three balls was abnormal for a lobster but now that I'm commenting I see it's TREE (not three) and there's a comma after lobster
tinydog
The tree lobster, for the curious.
TardisHunter
Yup, that looks very Australian.
thegarts
Looks
Delicious. Jk
HunterZer0
Oh hell nah
Roqinn
Looks like a chonky Walking Stick.
DaveSamsonite
They are delicious and the last one on earth will yield a handsome price
ColonKoala
Very disappointed
conaldpeterson
1000% a horcrux in there
ElbowDeepInTheElbowDeepBandwagon
Is it called Ball's Pyramid because you need giant brass balls to attempt to climb it?
WorstCowboyEver
I thought it was because it's in the water and therefore balls deep.
KAPTKipper
That's just the tip
RummageSaleBubbler
Seattle has the Tree Octopus (octopus paxarbolis)
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus
RummageSaleBubbler
SirSage
They must have coined tree lobster without knowing of coconut crabs
OceansRust
Europeans labeled it a "tree lobster" because of its size and hard, lobsterlike exoskeleton.
cabalin
I see no trees nor lobsters
Leprechaunballsaregold
Let's just hope it doesn't make you more viral if eaten
zombywoof68
Pretty sure there's a horcrux in there somewhere.
thosearntpillows
Awesome, though it looks suspiciously void of trees.
OceansRust
The Knight Who Says "Ni!" will be happy with a Shrubbery.
eigeress
It has sparse bushes, which the stick insects feed and live on. They're very particular to eat only that plant, so it's been difficult to breed them in captivity.
seldombeaton
Not one tree visible
OceansRust
Because there's only a Shrubbery on the Stack, but on Lord Howe Island there be trees a plenty.
UnitConversionBot
572 metres ≈ 1877 feet
UnitConversionBot
1,877 ft ≈ 57.211 centimetres
uziel144
Oh, and btw it probably lives in tight symbiosis with several deadly snake and spider species whilst the island itself is being 24/7 circled by great white sharks, crocodiles and paralysing jellyfish.
Fanner50
Don’t forget about the koalas licking Cane toads
Pikkupanda
I hate what knowledge has done to me. A second after I admired the beautiful blue water I pondered how many Great Whites were probably circling it.
firlefranz
A little music to go with it?
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https://archive.org/details/tvtunes_21008
Centroid
How you gonna go on about tree lobsters without including a pic of said lobster?
Shmitty85
Or trees for that matter?
ColonKoala
Because the picture is way less cool than the mental image
pitfallgalagatf2
It’s Australia so I assume it’s deadly
QuartzPoker
Australian insects are actually pretty tame compared to the ones elsewhere
heartlesswench
Sure, it's just the snakes, spiders and crocodiles you have to worry about. And bunyips.
QuartzPoker
And the dingos
Centroid
It is not
Pikkupanda
It could scare us to death.
TriggerII
AHHHH-*dies*
GeminiDreams
Doesn't look like balls at all
OceansRust
It was named by Royal Navy Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball after he discovered it in 1788, evidently he had brass ones.
GeminiDreams
Yea, pretty ballsy to name it after himself
MaleProstateMilker88
Did he discover it or did the aboriginals have a name for this already?
OceansRust
They had no name for it in their language. It has always been uninhabited and is surrounded by sharks.
MaleProstateMilker88
Thank you.