"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.
We thought Echinoderms were brainless but no it turns out sea urchins (and maybe the other echinoderms) are brains.
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"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.
We thought Echinoderms were brainless but no it turns out sea urchins (and maybe the other echinoderms) are brains.
oviraptor mom and her odd-looking but still very good son
Heraldry-style Inostrancevia
Originally drawn for the DinoCon 2026 Art Exhibition
Exhibition print available here
One of the classes in my upcoming OSR game A Most Bloody Devotion. She's a literal corpse. Not undead. Just an actual dead body that people get obsessed with when they touch it.
why do people need to be domesticated animals for petplay,. u r my lion i bought you illegallu and you are trying to kill me. go
So today's mission is to modify Ollie's auto-feeder in a way that he can no longer knock it over to make treats fall out
Round 2: bolted it to the fridge
You reminded me that this exists, and it seems relevant.
a Coral Mermaid watching over the reef.
there's some debate about whether these actually count as mermaids, but other mermaids obviously think they do so everyone else's opinions don't really matter. they begin life looking and acting like any other non-sapient coral, but over the years they grow very large (like, 12 to 15 feet) and vaguely mermaid shaped (in some cases so vague that you only know what you're looking at if you catch them at a specific angle and suddenly you're swimming next to A Person).
they do not move or make audible sounds, but many are seen with "masks" tethered to their "heads" by thin flexible tendrils. this is the closest they get to emoting. the "masks" are often pieces of their own bodies that have molted or broken off, but they'll sometimes be spotted with an acceptably sized piece of driftwood or other chosen debris. reports of coral merms using human skeletons or entire sunken ships as "faces" make for good stories, but they probably are also just stories. there are cooler, more accessible skeletons just laying around and She was probably always a myth.
went into a wine shop the other day to buy pasta and they did not have pasta but they were doing a wine tasting so i thought what the hell. and got to chatting with the other woman there because we had both just come from the library and were comparing our books and sipping wine and turns out we’re both teachers so we got on the topic of phones in classrooms—and the guy pouring our wine was like ‘that’s actually a point of contention in one of my divorces right now.’
and i very delicately said ‘one of your divorces?’ and his eyes got really big and he said I’M A PARALEGAL
the Cc in emails stands for Cuck chair
⚔️ ARTFIGHT 2026 ⚔️ (tagging folks, in order)
01 - @papermonkeyism
02 - @undeadopossum
03 - @joel-jacket
04 - @airaly
05 - Aliens
06 - Art-From-the-Abyss
Siren by Michael MacRae
Diplocaulus salamandroides
Originally drawn for the DinoCon 2026 Art Exhibition
Exhibition print available here
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
Originally drawn for the DinoCon 2026 Art Exhibition
Exhibition print sold
Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.
the way I almost crashed my car getting a photo of the incredible sunset rainbow in front of a dark storm cloud as it lines up perfectly with a unique rock formation and the photo looks like this
Q: Go into any photo editing software and give the levels, contrast, brightness, etc an adjustment and it will look great. Pro photographers do it all the time, no shame in it
I am absolutely not a professional and have no idea what I'm doing but wanted to try anyway! Here's a 5 minute job to brighten it a bit maybe? Tried to keep it looking natural.
I also sent your mountain to hell just for funsies
Take my gay cats, Tumblr!
This is part 1, the next part will be gender identity centered :)
Jacek Yerka, Eruption
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