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kedreeva

There's something so good about the wild type.

ambiguouspersonhood

What are those cool spiky feathers?? (Sorry I know nothing about these cool gals!)

kedreeva

You've been!! BAMBOOZLED!!

Those are actually not spiky feathers at all! They sure do look like it, though, and that's likely the point- if I were a raptor looking down upon a pincushion, I would think twice about grabbing it with my bare feet.

However, it's a ruse! Just a marking on a feather

Pretty neat, yeah?

jollyfurydragonballer

dknightlight

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

somethingusefulfromflorida

herpsandbirds

Chinese Tiger Gecko (Goniurosaurus araneus), family Eublepharidae, China

photographs by Artur Tomaszek

ratbugs

this is what it’s all about

supermalmoart

Centauropod

photogdenography

Berry Monching

American Robin - Edmonds Marsh, WA

butchyena

dude.

falseficus

i knew a surgeon and he once told me “nobodys insides look like how the textbooks say they will. you never know what you’re going to find in there once you open them up” and that was easily the most ominous thing anyone’s ever said to me

brownheadedcowbird

when i was taking my first year anatomy lab, we’d occasionally find a cadaver where things would branch off or attach in the wrong order, and when we’d ask our prof about it, he’d just shrug and say “they must not have read the book”

ryannorth

When my friend was in med school one of the cadavers donated for them to autopsy didn't have a belly button, just smooth skin.

dandelion-stuff-and-fluff

In the past 10 years of teaching in an anatomy lab, I have seen:

- A donor with a scrotum the size of my head. When we opened it up, we discovered it was a MASSIVE inguinal hernia and a good 1.5 ft of intestine were trapped down there.

- A donor with situs inversus totalis, whose organs were a mirror image of what we normally see (ie their heart pointed right and their liver was on the left, just for starters)

- A donor whose right common carotid artery branched off the aorta waaay over on the left hand side of the body and crossed alllll the way back across the thorax to get where it needed to be.

- A donor with 4 lobes for their right lung (should only be 3). We named the 4th lobe the Lisa Loeb, but all of the students were too young to appreciate our sparkling wit.

- A shocking variety of penile and breast implants. Y'all would not believe the number of different ways science has come up to counteract gravity.

- A couple of cases of ectopic kidneys, where a kidney didn't rise to its typical position just deep to the lowest ribs and instead stayed in the pelvis.

There is probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. Take home point is: the human body is weird and wonderful and you should learn more about yours!

brightlotusmoon

....duuude.

naamahdarling

Spleens Georg

stele3

14???????

My contribution: client co pinched nerve in L side of neck. I asked about health hx; she said, “I've got some extra ribs on that side.”

me: “some?” (!!!!!??!?!??!???)

Some was 2, but that’s crazy enough.

cactusspatz

Yeah, I don't discover the anatomical weirdness but I've had clients come in with extra ribs, missing ribs, extra vertebra, accessory muscles (that's when you have duplicates - sometimes fine, sometimes not), bones connected where they shouldn't be (spoiler: if your lumbar spine is connected to your hip, it Causes Problems), all sorts of stuff. Bodies are weird!

headspace-hotel

More from the notes

This made me remember that I had a friend in high school who had one thumb that was like half an inch shorter than the other. Not sure how that happened.

weaselle

even the things you never think about are a spectrum

shadyfennec

soooo many people think human bodies are just this static blueprint that life follows to the letter. i need you to understand that DNA is the most fragile bitch on planet fuck and works correctly like 99% of the time, which is A Problem when there's a bajillion of cells in your body.

you think you have One Set Of DNA That Tells You What You Are but that's not true. every single cell in your body is going to be slightly different from each other. not enough to be considered separate individuals in terms of genetics, but different enough to cause weird things to happen. and that's not even counting chimeras AKA people with two distinct individuals' DNA mixed around (or not!) in their body.

and even when it does work, DNA is THE prime example of spaghetti code. a lot of my peers in computer science tend to think of DNA as this straightforward code that the body follows to make whatever it needs to but genetics is such a complicated thing. DNA breaks down all the time, it mutates, when it works it's not like it's magic building your body, the DNA ends up signalling the production proteins and other molecules that then interact with other cells in ways that may interfere with how DNA is expressed there. there's thousands of proteins, hundreds of molecular building blocks, enzymes, and they all interact with each other in extremely complicated ways. a teeny tiny touch here and there could fundamentally alter the functioning of a cell, so much so that it does something truly unexpected (looking at you, cancer).

biology is not monolithic. human beings are not one thing. a human being is billions of billions of tiny living beings that interact with each other in complicated ways and at a ludicrous speed, constantly without ceasing. it's a miracle that we have evolved to be able to reflect upon our condition. when the wise old sages of eld say "everyone is unique", it's not (only) a philosophical aphorism. biologically, we are so fucking different, through initial genetic heritage and the passage of time both. life is extremely complicated. nothing is binary

hellyeahscarleteen

Self-managed abortion (SMA) with pills is very medically safe and effective throughout early pregnancy, but there is a significant risk of criminalization in many U.S. states. While it is impossible to fully eliminate the risk of criminalization when having or planning to have an abortion at home, t

kickerofelves

Leave no online footprint of searches or purchases. Digital Defense Fund’s abortion privacy guide is your go-to resource for this. Using private browsers, two-factor authentication, encrypted messaging, strong passwords, etc. is critical. Google searches have been presented as evidence in an SMA trial before. Do not leave a digital trail.

Use the medications properly to prevent interactions with healthcare providers. The pills are very effective, but they have to be used right. Carefully follow the instructions provided on the How to Use Abortion Pill website. Note that misoprostol tablets should always be taken by dissolving them under the tongue. Do NOT insert misoprostol vaginally if you are self-managing an abortion. While this is medically safe, it can leave incriminating pill remnants that can be detected in the vagina during a pelvic exam if you end up needing to seek medical care.

If it’s not an emergency but you need expert health advice, use a free calling service like Google Voice to call or text the Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline at 1-833-246-2632. Medical complications are very uncommon with abortion pills, but they’re not impossible. The M+A Hotline is safe to use and is staffed by trustworthy clinicians who volunteer their time to help those who choose SMA. Do not use your own phone number to call as this will create a record that is visible to your cell service provider.

Don’t disclose any information about SMA to emergency room staff if you do need to seek medical care. This is how most people who are arrested for SMA are reported. Healthcare providers are almost always who calls the police in cases of SMA criminalization. Contrary to popular belief, HIPAA does not protect your private health information from being shared with police if you are suspected of doing something that could be considered a crime. If you believe you need to seek urgent medical care, do not hesitate to go. Say “I think I’m having a miscarriage” and provide your symptoms. Do not mention any use of or purchase of abortion pills. There is no widely available test to detect misoprostol in your bloodstream. If you do not disclose it, there is no way for a medical provider to tell the difference between a medication abortion and a spontaneous miscarriage.

Do not talk to the cops. Period. Do. Not. Talk. To. The. Cops. If you are questioned by police you should state, “I am exercising my right to remain silent, and I wish to speak with an attorney.” Do not speak again or nod in response to a question. Contact the Repro Legal Helpline as soon as possible for expert legal advice: 1-844-868-2812. Do not agree to questioning or speak to any law enforcement official without a lawyer present.

venndaai

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

venndaai

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

fluorescentbrains

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

muffinlance

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

herpsandbirds

Purple Glossy Starlings (Lamprotornis purpureus), family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, Jos, Nigeria

photograph by Kim Choji

herpsandbirds

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis), family Chelydridae, endemic to the Suwannee River Basin of northern FL and southern GA in the SE United States.

Vulnerable.

One of 2 species of Alligator Snapping Turtle.

Photograph by FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

mammalianmammals

Silky Anteater a.k.a. Pygmy Anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), family Cyclopedidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Kenneth Martinez

chamerionwrites

I truly don't mean this in a holier-than-thou kind of way but imo a lot of the piss-on-the-poor behavior on this website stems not so much from a lack of reading comprehension per se, as from a determination to read other people's posts in the most deeply ungenerous possible way. There's various reasons for it (on the less sympathetic side, I think a lot of people subscribe to the middle school bully model of coolness and social rapport-building, namely "If I make make fun of/attack someone and you laugh/join in the dogpile that makes us part of the same in-group;" on the somewhat more sympathetic side, a lot of marginalized or otherwise mistreated people develop a hair-trigger hackles-up way of interacting with people as a preemptive self-defense strategy). But every time a post goes viral I'm like, man. @ Tumblr doing paranoid readings of absolutely everyone and everything around you is no way to live

parkayquarts

hbo max blocks screenshots even when I use the snipping tool AND firefox AND ublock which is a fucking first. i will never understand streaming services blocking the ability to take screenshots thats literally free advertising for your show right there. HOW THE HELL IS SOMEBODY GONNA PIRATE YOUR SHOW THROUGH SCREENSHOTS. JACKASS

parkayquarts

somewhere out there is a guy who meticulously takes screenshots of every individual frame of his favorite tv shows and then painstakingly etches each one onto a roll of film which he puts into his old timey projector and recreates the footage as a silent film with his own lavishly hand-lettered dialogue cards and original score that he plays on his upright piano and charges audiences one shiny penny a play. at last, big media has finally outsmarted ol' Zachary Zoetrope

theheroheart

PSA for everyone who doesn't know, explained simply

this is NOT because of blocking screenshots, it's because of HOW streaming sites use your computer's hardware to optimise performance, which means the thing rendering the video and the thing capturing your screen aren't the SAME thing. so they can't talk together.

you can fix this by going to your browser settings, searching for "hardware acceleration", and turning that off.