My personal biology blog

Well, i decided to make a biology side blog because i study it myself and i think it's very interesting. Here you will perhaps find funny biology stuff, interesting biology facts and news and posts about environmental and biological issues!

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The Green Dragontail butterflies

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Best quality: his wiggles!

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IM SORRY, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CREATURE NATURE HAS TO OFFER?!!?!

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Glowworms,  Waitomo Caves, New Zealand x x

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Harlequin Shrimp

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Juvenile Pinnate Batfish

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Glaucus atlanticus

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8. favorite “living fossil”

any Latimeria, or coelacanth, they are two species, one in africa Latimeria chalumnae y el another one in Indonesia Latimeria menadoensis. Can´t choose one, is not fair!!!

they are so beautiful, they even have a pokemon based in them

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BONNETHEAD IS AN OMNIVORE SHARK, RESEARCHERS FOUND

What an animal consumes and what an animal digests and assimilates for energetic demands are not always synonymous. Sharks, accepted as carnivores, have guts that are presumed to be well suited for a high-protein diet. However, the bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo), an abundant shark commonly found in seagrass habitats, has been previously shown to consume copious amounts of seagrass, flowering marine plant that forms subsea meadows in some coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, as in other parts of the world. And now, is considered the first known plant-eating shark. The finding were published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society.

The bonnethead shark is an abundant shark species in shallow waters of the Eastern Pacific, the Western Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico, where they feed on seagrass and small crustaceans, snails and other fishes, and according to researchers, in natural conditions, up to 62.1% of gut content mass is seagrass. Because a large percentage of the diet is seagrass, conserving seagrass beds is vital to the hammerhead shark family and other marine life.

Photo: bonnethead shark in Bahia State, Brazil, by José Amorim Reis-Filho.

Reference (Open Access): Leigh et al., 2018.  Seagrass digestion by a notorious ‘carnivore’. Proc. R. Soc. B.

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The Kraken

Lord Tennyson

Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous and secret cell Unnumber’d and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the lumbering green. There hath he lain for ages, and will lie Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep, Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; Then once by man and angels to be seen, In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

Happy Kraken Day everyone! We’re celebrating the fourth day of Cephalopod Awareness Days with some cirriously awesome footage of this miniature deep sea kraken from our colleagues at MBARI. While this cirrate octopus might not battle huge sea-worms in its sleep, it is pretty adept at sifting out small crustaceans and worms hidden in the soft sediment of the deep for snack time.

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Channa Barca

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Rusty-spotted cat | World’s smallest cat

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Happy Birthday Tiny Cuttlefish!

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Just a little blubbery buddy here to remind you that even though it’s Monday, you still have this seal of approval. You got this! 💪

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Fashion show? by Ian Brown

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WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING

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It’s a baby Jacana. They use those ridiculous stick-figur toes to evenly distribute their weight as  they walk around on waterlillies and stuff. Like snowshoes, but for swamps.

Here’s an adult:

Another really interesting thing about Jacanas is that it’s the dad who does all the child rearing while mom goes off to lay more eggs. Amd their really good dads too! Plus look at how they Cary their babies around!:

All aboard the dadbus

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It awesome and wholesome, but the baby legs make dad look like some alien arthropod monstrosity wearing a feather suit.