In Puget Sound, there are areas where gray whales feed on buried prey in tidal zones specifically the beach at Langley) where they basically wind up liquefying the sand, sucking out the food, and letting it all settle back down.
Then, when the tide is out, there are these slightly depressed poorly consolidated areas that are effectively quicksand -- you can go from hard sand to knee deep in a few feet/seconds.
Nice illustration of the scientific process that's not so abstract that even other Biologists wouldn't understand, as is often the case in other fields. Very cool!
the funny thing isn’t even the meme, it’s that GP posted at least one meme-y response of his own to a separate story AFTER getting butthurt about a kaiju joke.
Then, when the tide is out, there are these slightly depressed poorly consolidated areas that are effectively quicksand -- you can go from hard sand to knee deep in a few feet/seconds.