kidz bop catullus

I don't read; if I do read, I don't understand; if I understand, I immediately forget.

[nohoperadio]

You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to the false image of you that others perceive*

[herpsandbirds]

Longtime Nautilus contributor and the "Indiana Jones of marine biology," Peter Ward has spent decades studying the ancient cephalopod that gave our magazine its name. On an expedition to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Ward and his colleagues sampled two nautiluses long regarded as separate species. Despite striking differences in their shells and anatomy, DNA analysis revealed no genetic difference between them. The discovery became the starting point for Ward's exploration of epigenetics—the study of how environmental influences can alter the way genes are expressed without changing the underlying DNA sequence. In this essay, Ward argues that epigenetics may help explain why some organisms that appear to be distinct species are actually one and the same—and why Earth may contain fewer species than scientists have traditionally believed.

Read here: https://nautil.us/why-the-earth-has-fewer-species-than-we-think-237177

[mammalianmammals]

A Cougar (Puma concolor), family Felidae, swims through the surf at Cannon Beach, OR, USA

AKA Puma, Mountain Lion, and Catamount

photograph by Andy Woo

[catilinas]

everyone i've talked to about this has been completely unaware so: if you didn't know already, there's going to be a solar eclipse, with totality or coverage of 90% or more in some places, over a lot of europe, on august 12th 2026. in the uk it will start just after 6pm, and the maximum will be at 7:13pm.

here is a map of the path of the eclipse (from timeanddate)

get eclipse glasses if you want to look at it. it is not safe to look at through sunglasses. ok informative post over o7

[tridentandtales]

Egyptian mold for a Heron (a bird associated with the sun, the annual flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife)

2nd - 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic period)

Walters Art Museum 22.284

[snototter]

A Formosan white-headed flying squirrel (Petaurista alborufus lena) in Taiwan

by Dash Huang

[activityenjoyer]

Hi, it’s me, your Flix Bus driver. I heard some of you back there asking why we’re on this dirt road in the middle of a cow pasture if this is supposed to be a direct line from Berlin to Munich. To that I say: you all need to mind your own damn business and look at the fucking moo cows.

[1five1two]

Carved ripples on granite. Shen Lieyi.

[suspiriously]

this time i’m really gonna do it

[enchantedbook]

“The American Sphinx,” illustration by Helmut F. Graetz for 'Puck' magazine, 1883.

[fatchance]

Feeding frenzy.

Figeater beetles (Cotinis mutabilis) devouring ripening prickly pears, at the Sierra Vista Community Garden, Sierra Vista, Arizona. Figeaters are a western species, and slightly larger and more shiny and green than the summer Junebugs I grew up with in the southern U.S. (C. nitida). I can't recall ever seeing Junebugs massed together in such numbers.

Etymology note: Cotinis is a transliteration of an Ancient Greek word meaning wild olive tree, used for the beetle's resemblance in size and color to a ripening olive.

[spectrometrie]

[hexjulia]

Lmfao baby bird arrived and my bird (who i worried would be territorial/aggressive) is scared of her 😭 you are 4 years old. That is a BABY. why are you scared of the baby...

[hexjulia]

there is a fully adult mini parrot hiding in my hair because there is a monster in the vicinity (freshly baked baby of the same species, newly ready to leave her parents and unable to understand why she is being treated like some kind of predator).

[hexjulia]

my bird rn:

[hexjulia]

Lmfao baby bird arrived and my bird (who i worried would be territorial/aggressive) is scared of her 😭 you are 4 years old. That is a BABY. why are you scared of the baby...

[hexjulia]

there is a fully adult mini parrot hiding in my hair because there is a monster in the vicinity (freshly baked baby of the same species, newly ready to leave her parents and unable to understand why she is being treated like some kind of predator).

[hexjulia]

Lmfao baby bird arrived and my bird (who i worried would be territorial/aggressive) is scared of her 😭 you are 4 years old. That is a BABY. why are you scared of the baby...

[64mpg]

i can’t wait to be saved miraculously and get out of all of my predicaments

[daily-jelly]

Pseudorhiza haeckeli

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/335896433