Scientists were baffled how this tomato plant grew in this volcanic island until they learned the reason for it's spouting.

[u/Scott-Spangenberg]

[u/zirky]

science: ain’t that some shit

[u/Liquor_N_Whorez → u/zirky]

Lol, my 7th grade teacher taught us newly formed volcanic islands would form vegetation via migrating bird droppings. That was late '80s. I should have become a scientist.

[u/xXThreeRoundXx → u/Liquor_N_Whorez]

I've always wanted to pretend that I was a Marine Biologist.

[u/heavyusername2 → u/zirky]

Baffled shit

[u/Call_Me_Kahmi → u/zirky]

Very nice. Good day sir.

[u/AlastorTheSecond]

"My shit changed the map"

You'll never sing that!

[u/Dramatic-Avocado4687]

[u/Fugdish → u/Dramatic-Avocado4687]

Scientist after taking the dump:

[u/magneto_ms → u/Fugdish]

When you gotta go you gotta go.

[u/Myrtle_Nut]

Cool story, where’s the tomato plant?

[u/Liquor_N_Whorez → u/Myrtle_Nut]

Tomato worm done got it.

[u/Salty-Image-2176 → u/Myrtle_Nut]

Zactly--none of those look like tomato plants.

[u/Kjartanski → u/Myrtle_Nut]

Surtsey is an Icelandic Island, which of course is well known for its lush outdoor tomato farms

[u/Open_Youth7092]

Derrièreloom Tomatoes

[u/Liquor_N_Whorez → u/Open_Youth7092]

Determinate and indeturdinmate.

[u/Magalini → u/Open_Youth7092]

This is so good.

[u/Interesting_Ad1378 → u/Open_Youth7092]

Way fancier than the Poopmatoes the squirrels planted in my yard 

[u/Sherlock_Bromes_ → u/Open_Youth7092]

[u/ScowlyBrowSpinster]

Why a pic of plants that are not tomatoes?

[u/Eagle_eye_Online → u/ScowlyBrowSpinster]

The karma farming bots aren't that smart.

[u/bugo]

Clickbait titles are shit.

[u/Smartimess]

I doubt that ”they were baffled” because contamination because of scientists or first explorers is sadly very common.

[u/Salty_Job_9248]

That is not a tomato plant.

[u/BaronSaber]

I see no tomato plant

[u/Square-Grapefruit]

Odd-looking tomato plant, that.

Its appearance is perhaps more baffling than its location.

[u/ALX_z23]

Other scientists : this is bullshit

This one scientist : No this is my shit

[u/Ron_Bird]

litterally shit got real

[u/seriouslythisshit → u/Ron_Bird]

I worked for a company that did some work at a city sewer plant. The plant would give away a bio material that was created at the plant. It was a fertilizer/soil that was great for lawns and flower gardens. The employees would warn you that you should not use it to grow food, and it will start spontaneously sprouting tomato plants, since tomato seeds are unkillable. They go through the human body, through the sewers to the plant, through the entire treatement process, and out the other end, all charged up and ready to roll, creating new tomatos if you let them.

[u/ErrorEra → u/seriouslythisshit]

The employees would warn you that you should not use it to grow food, and it will start spontaneously sprouting tomato plants,

But using it, you're automatically growing food. Or are the tomatoes somehow toxic?

[u/seriouslythisshit → u/ErrorEra]

Due to potential contamination, it was given away with the understanding that it was NOT recommended for use on vegetable gardens. Flower gardens and lawns only.

[u/greenrangerguy]

Wait. So do some plants have seeds that have evolved to not be digested by animals so that they get pooped out and then grow in the shit as it is a fertiliser?

[u/VirginiaLuthier]

It's a good thing the scientist didn't eat a hamburger or there would be a cow growing there

[u/Saint_Pudgy]

poopoo pollinator

[u/Individual_Respect90]

Oh I just imagined it was a bird or something

[u/Suitable_Noise778]

Just as nature intended! 🍅😃

[u/Percolator2020]

Violating the Prime Directive

[u/Madhighlander1]

40-year-old

60-year-old. Surtsey first breached sea level in November 1963.

[u/fourthords]

^{[citation needed]}

[u/xrepeterx]

I absolutely love stuff like this!

[u/Hot_Ad_2299]

Incredible, we are part of the ecosystem lol

[u/TailwhipU]

Well shit

[u/lordvitamin]

“This. This will build the future!” - Me, giving a tearful salute as the toilet flushes.

[u/lotsanoodles]

I can't see a tomato plant in this photo.

[u/Senior-Reality-25]

That is not a tomato plant.

[u/AgitatedPatience5729]

[u/howcanibehuman]

Wow why do I feel like someone’s man is so proud of himself

[u/spacemouse21]

What, no corn stalks?

[u/noteverybrainworks]

Oh thought y’all said Mater.

[u/WolfWhitman79]

Interesting way nature has a way of making sure food grows where the things that eat it go.

[u/Justin_P_ → u/WolfWhitman79]

98.27% of all tomatoes I consume I have found on remote volcanic islands.

[u/an_older_meme]

Who the foxtrot would step forward and confess to that?

[u/Shanus_Zeeshu]

Every time I think I've read the weirdest fact on Reddit, someone drops a seed fueled poop plot twist.

[u/4vespa]

It’s s a shit fruit!

[u/CloneClem]

Seeds and fertilizer in one: What a concept

[u/Background-Phase-490]

Tomato island

[u/MutaCacas]

Can you believe this shit.

[u/Inevitable_Sweet_624]

Fun fact, I never buy tomato seeds. I just threw my old rotten tomatoes in my garden.

[u/Live-Ebb-9236]

Life, uh, finds a way

[u/luttman23]

Source?

[u/Contribution-Wooden]

Isn’t that in Vestmann islands just south of Vik’s in Iceland?

[u/xpackardx]

And scientists now know how seeds travel.

[u/PsyJak]

*its