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Nothing to see here just a bunch of random stuff

[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!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

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

[girldraki]

[leavethepuddle]

@sarumans

[escuerzoresucitado]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[my-dailydreams]

[gjjuddmk2]

[sphinxofgrease]

the word “sabotage” is p much short for “fucking shit up with a wooden shoe”

[futzingbarton]

what

[sphinxofgrease]

fucking shit up with a wooden shoe

[futzingbarton]

oh my god

[genderhasnobearingonability-blog]

well wooden shoe look at that

[nerdismyhobby]

I’M FUCKING CRYING AT THAT PUN BE MY FRIEND PLEASE 

[enriquemzn262]

It’s always funny when you hear Argentines talk about the Falklands War: They will list each British warship lost as a major victory, even as they kept absorbing those punches and keeping their remaining ships reasy to battle; treat the loss of ARA Belgrano as a war crime, which made their navy flee back to port never to do something of note ever again; never ever mention the loss of ARA Santa Fe, the first and only submarine lost to helicopters, and the last submarine successfully attacked with depth charges; mention their brave pilot flying so low they kept getting their canopies clouded by sea foam, while omitting the shit equipment most of their planes had (no radio altimeters, RWRs, IR countermeasures and in some cases even working guns); and rave about the resistance of their ground forces, even when they kept getting clowned by smaller ATTACKING British forces time and again (in warfare the attacker always has to bring more men to the fight while also expecting higher losses, the opposite in most clashes during the conflict).

All to claim they almost won, if only more bombs actually detonated, if only they had more exocets, if only said exocets also actually detonated, if only the Sea Harriers didn’t come with the deadly AIM-9L, if only they had put refueling probes on their Mirages, if only they had lengthened the runway at Port Stanley, if only…

So the war lives rent-free in their heads, making them seethe and rage over the British flag still flying over Port Stanley, that most of the world still calls it that and not “Puerto Argentino”, and that they remain the Falklands and not the Malvinas.

And the funniest thing: While Britain replaced those warships lost, and eventually replaced almost all the equipment used in the war, from the carriers Hermes and Invincible with Queen Mary and Prince of Whales

the Sea Harriers with F-35Bs

among other equipment, Argentina still uses the same Skyhawks they kept feeding Sea Harries with

still uses the very same FALs those cold and poorly trained conscripts used in the war

All while losing their carrier force, their naval air attack force, their submarine force, their amphibious assault force, and up until very recently, their fighter jet force.

Its ironic, their inability to accept defeat and move on has hurt their military tremendously, and will continue to do so for as long as they still believe they can take over those cold, lonely islands.

[the-lost-alchemist]

[fluorescentphi]

Hi, Im from Argentina.

Look, I don't know about the military equipment.

But what I will argue is that they teach us to complain about the Falklands.

Its a social or political move, we still call them "Malvinas", we are taught at school that the british stole them from us, and that they are actually ours (using a ridiculus geographical argument). As if we should not accept the loss, for some reason.

I believe that it is a strategy to blind us from the true facts, like the fact that they sent teenagers who didn't know how to use firearms or didn't even know that they were going to war. Even during the war, the media made the population believe that Argentina was winning! We didn't know back then, and we don't really know right now.

It's that stupid nationalist propaganda we absorb from childhood.

We are not dumb, just blinded by the government, they don't let us let go.

I'm not a historian, but that's my humble opinion.

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[autistobrat]

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

[canidfigures]

some of you ought to treat bugs the same way you treat dogs.

you wouldn't "joke" about harming or murdering a dog, so why would you do that to someone who owns roaches or beetles or spiders or any number of "gross" insects? i'm tired of it. either be nice or keep your mouth shut.

[fluorescentphi]

I personally love it when people get grossed out by my tarantulas 😈

Yes I'm a disgusting clown MUAHAHAHAHAHA

Seriously, look at how I naturalize how weird I am and how normal and boring you are

[scamguy]

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

[magicalmrmephistopheles]

couldn’t leave this in the tags

[mgcsheaven]

realistically there is no chance i will have time to read, imma still bring a book though

[ruinedchildhood]

Someone created a fully operational JOHNNY 5 from scratch 🙌 it took 8 years to build

(instagram Saundersmachineworks)

[penandinkprincess]

listen i'm not advocating for exotic animals as pets, but i really just feel like cheetahs are probably different

i feel like we need to give them another shot as housebeasts

[penandinkprincess]

this is a critter who wants greenies and then to take a nap on the couch next to me, and i KNOW it

[penandinkprincess]

cheetah in House perfec t size for put inside! inside very Soft and Comfort cheetah sleep soundly put cheetah in House. Put Cheetah In House. no problems ever in cheetah in ho use because good Happy and Satisfy for human where sleep. House yes a place for a cheetah put cheetah in house can trust cheetah for giveing good love to humans in house. friend cheetah

[justasmidgx]

I mean, as someone who as worked in a zoo, this is fairly true.

Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.

But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)

Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".

Legit if any wild animal could be adapted to a pet it would be cheetahs lmao. Only problem is they can be skittish and very anxious and that's why they're often raised around dogs in zoos to gain confidence.

[penandinkprincess]

congrats, i award you funniest take on this post

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the way prehistoric animal documentaries will talk about extinction like it happens because of “a failure to evolve” as though evolution is a meritocracy is so funny and so scary

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

this species persisted over the eons because of its Protestant work ethic to produce more of a specific kind of digestive enzyme that allowed it to extract 4% more nutrients from the dominant plant species in the area

[fluorescentphi]

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