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bloodyhandprint

sorry to anyone who followed me for anything. you're not getting that

porcelain-dollbones

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

porcelain-dollbones

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

hometoursandotherstuff

sunderwight

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

adizzyninja

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

julianova44

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

opheliathegrey

soymoss

Japanese Giant salamander painting sold to benefit the Shiga Giant Salamander Preservation Society hosted by the Cincinnati Zoo!

waspdaily

Today's wasp of the day is the oak apple gall wasp (Biorhiza pallida)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

After overwintering, these wasps emerge from galls made in the young roots of oak trees as female wingless asexuals who go on to climb the branches of the tree to lay multiple eggs that will grow their own, crab apple-like galls around them. A couple months later, dozens of both male and female wasps will emerge from these pseudo apple galls and, after mating, the females will go back down to the roots to lay solitary eggs that will overwinter and become the next generation of wingless asexual female wasps.

waspdaily

Big fan of how round her badonk is

samimarkart

A bunch of blue! 💙🦋🐳🩵🐟

Busy taking some updated product photos today of some restocks (everyone celebrate, trinket collector stickers are back if you missed it!)

redstonedust

if i was president of the internet i would require all binary people to write a 3 page gender studies essay before i can issue their license to call that nonbinary character a lesbian or refer to their ships as yuri. you gotta prove youre not just shoving them into the girl-lite box, chief. you gotta earn it. thems the rules.

harkthorn

Raven sketch, in red and purple ballpoint pen

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jackerknack

toby's first tumblr unsexyman

cheriecore

happy ending

bebs-art-gallery

Albert Square, Manchester (1910) by Adolphe Valette | Contemporary Art (2015) by Emily Allchurch

bread-making-vikings

the top is an original, from 1910, the bottom is a new version painted in 2015

spacedouterri

THE BOTTOM IS A PAINTING????

open-sketchbook

also does a really good job reminding the view just how much air quality has improved since we stopped burning coal in every building lol

mostly-him

alagaisia

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

alagaisia

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

alagaisia

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

watermelon-converse

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

emi--rose

Hell yeah moon holiday

hello-delicious-tea

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

ariaste

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)