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[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

[herpsandbirds]

North American Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta), getting into a squabble, found in the eastern U.S.

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Mike Thomas

[herpsandbirds]

Ishizuchi Salamander (Hynobius hirosei), family Hynobiidae, found in steep, high elevation streams on Shikoku Island, Japan

photographs by NKFherping

[herpsandbirds]

Jumping Spider (Cytaea dispalans), male, family Salticidae, Bandung, Indonesia

photographs by Naiyla Arta Pratama

[lichenaday]

Usnea quasirigida

I've got sunshine . . . on a cloudy day. When it's cold outside, I've got Usnea quasirigid-day! OK it doesn't exactly work, but close enough for me! This adorable fruticose lichen has a pendant to bushy, dark- to bright-green thallus of thin branches covered in lateral fibrils. The ends of the branches are capped with rounded apothecia surrounded in a radiating margin of fibrils. U. quasirigida grows on coniferous trees in submontane regions, and while it has largely been accepted as a distinct species in NW North America, it is synonymized with U. intermedia in Europe, which obscures its range and habitat preferences somewhat. It's never easy with these guys, I'll tell ya. That doesn't change the fact that he is a sunshiney little pal and I enjoy seeing him.

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[daily-jelly]

Cyanea annaskala

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323325123

[monstersovka]

🌙🏠 DREAMCORE 🌈☁️

[mbari-blog]

Spotted: Deep-sea besties doing deep-sea things 🐙💞⁠

Grimpoteuthis octopuses use the movement of their large fins and arms to propel themselves through the water. They are affectionately called the "dumbo" octopuses because of those flapping fins. This group of octopuses is typically found on or near the deep seafloor, where they use finger-like cirri on their arms to catch small crustaceans, worms, and other prey items.⁠ ⁠ The seafloor squish next to this cutie pie cephalopod is a sea pig (Scotoplanes sp.). Sea pigs are one of the most commonly sighted animals on the deep seafloor off Monterey Bay. Unlike most sea cucumbers, which have stumpy tube feet tucked beneath their bodies, sea pigs use their long, stilt-like tube feet to suspend their bodies above the soft mud.

[sea-slug-daily]

Limenandra rosanae

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103437987

[nkp1981]

Grey-headed albatross chicks

Photo: George Day

[sr-roto]

yeehaw!!

[catchymemes]

[myxhul]

quick thanzag doodle for pride month!!

[helenvaughans]

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

–Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

[escuerzoresucitado]

[sivavakkiyar]

US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month

The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.

[decapod-of-the-day]

Decapod of the day: Emerita analoga | Pacific Sand Crab

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