keepin' it shrimple since -520 MYA

Anomalocaris ("unlike other shrimp", or "abnormal shrimp") is a genus of extinct invertebrates that lived during the Cambrian Period. The fossils, known from the Burgess Shale fauna in Canada, Emu Bay Shale of Australia, and Chengjiang biota in China, represent "the largest Cambrian animal", measuring about half a meter in length.[3] Originally classified as crustaceans, they are now regarded as a distinct group of early-diverging stem-group arthropods, for which the order Radiodonta and subphylum Dinocaridida were created. | | she/her, adult but SFW, autistic transfem, ace lesbian | undergrad biology student, ttrpg player (in theory), punk rock enthusiast |

[s-t-a-r-c-o]

im reading discworld and im on the third book and i only just realized they arent arranged like this

[sator-the-wanderer]

I raise it to

[squidsmut]

I liked to imagine that they’re all standing side by side and three (or four) of the elephants are absorbing all the weight and the final elephant is just pretending he has a heavy load but there’s no points of contact on his back

[definitely-not-several-bugs]

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[effinbirds]

[elbiotipo]

Also I am asking all of you, once again, to learn about ecosystem conservation and restoration instead of wallowing in "we are already past the point of no return" or that it will take "millennia" to restore ecosystems.

You have to understand that nature does not work in the same timeframe as ours. Protecting and restoring ecosystems is RIDICULOUSLY inexpensive and requires very little industrial technology; shovels and saplings are not exactly high-tech. But it takes time and long-term projects with people determined to do it. Maybe we are too focused in our "we want it now" thinking, but what you see today is not what you may see in 10, 20, 50, even 80 years if you live that long.

But it works. It's working right now, and when capitalism is replaced by socialism and we stop thinking on short-term gain, when our societies are focused into the common welfare instead of accumulation, it will even work better. Again I could point out to individual examples but instead, I encourage you to learn about ecology. We are well past from the catastrophic "Earth will die and there's nothing we can do" predictions from the 80s. We know what to do, we know it can work.

[elbiotipo]

First-of-its-kind study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat

This article talks about this very much in the "see? ecology can help the economy too!" tone that unfortunately is sort of necessary to convince people in the current capitalist system. But I don't want you to focus on this right now.

I want you to KNOW how doable this is. How inexpensive this is, how POSSIBLE THIS IS. That people working and loving the land and nature they live in is possible. That these projects WORK, THEY DO restore and preserve ecosystems. That humanity is neither a plague that destroys everything or a passive bystander on its own destruction but that these are actual things that can be, are, and will be implemented, backed by actual science and results. This is not empty #hopecore #hopepunk feel good stuff, these are things you can learn about, even work towards, and you can most certainly demand they are part of our society.

Are you listening to me?

[solarpunkcast]

"I'm just losing hope." Then get some fucking conviction. Millions of people around the globe are working their asses off and seeing results. What they are doing IS WORKING.

This orange peel story was huge years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/a-fruitful-experiment-in-land-conservation/

Beavers reintroduced to historic wetlands improve them at such a level that we can see the improvements from space: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/nasa-satellites-reveal-restoration-power-of-beavers/

Africa is successfully slowing desertification and restoring historic farming soil with their Green Wall project: https://welcomeafrica.org/en/africa-combats-desertification-with-a-belt-of-life/

There has even been success at regrowing coral reefs--something which I am old enough to be told was impossible. But people have been hard at work for decades since then, and this is one of the results: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240308123248.htm

REPAIRING THE DAMAGE IS ENTIRELY WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.

THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE IF YOU HAVE THE CONVICTION TO BACK IT UP.

[belmasworld]

[segamascott]

there is other things too there's zoo tycoon

[meadow-call]

and there's this guy

[spicymochi]

sitting animal friends

[omnicshrimp]

Shrimpgazing

[i-am-a-fish]

there's a bug in my room and I would like to dedicate this post to the bug in my room. I love you bug

[lacefuneral]

in light of the new tag censorship, i am once again posting this gif

[lacefuneral]

[ziijsh1]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.

[lomuel-ribbccage]

Sun. Fish.

My all-time favourite animal🥺🥺

[molidae-official]

[ID: gif of three juvenile Mola mola swimming in the shallow water over a reef. End ID.]

Official molidae post.

[grasslandscolorado]

We live in a system that makes money off of your misery and ambivalence. It relies on people thinking that they are inherently bad for the planet and that the world is ending so why change? Why try? --This is untrue! We belong here, on this one beautiful green earth and we have to work together to protect it. You have the power to do more than you know. You have a role to play in your ecosystem!

[tpwrtrmnky]

humans should be able to do a special Ultra Sleep after major life accomplishments where you're just out for like 32 hours or something and then you wake up fully refreshed in every way

[allisonchinart]

Glowing lanternfish | x

[dogsandphilosophers]

Can anyone recommend some entry level behaviours? Thinking of getting into being

[fluentisonus]

people are like you just need to apply to 10 jobs a day meanwhile each of the jobs want you to write them 1500 words of uniquely tailored sycophancy & then manually input your cv into their custom application form 3 different times

[emperornero]

more people should have cambrian era animals as fursonas. especially if they design them the same way sparkledogs look. i just want to see art of a rainbow anomalocaris holding hands with an edgy hallucigenia

[emperornero]

is this too much to ask for

[crowbugz]

Behold! Cambrian gfs