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f | 21 | germany | biology student |🕷️🐌🦋 | "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain but all the happiness and growth occurs while you´re climbing it" 🌱

[nobodyknowsthatithurts]

Update: post-molted spidy, she looks even prettier now

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[nobodyknowsthatithurts]

Nhandu chromatus FH2

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[superbnature]

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Chromatopelma cyanopubescens

Violet molted a week ago 💜

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[disc80s]

[sachinmandal]

Vampire amoeba

[platycryptus]

Giant hermit crab (Petrochirus diogenes)

This specimen is relatively small. P. diogenes is the world’s second-largest hermit crab species, growing large enough to inhabit a full sized queen conch shell and beaten only by the terrestrial coconut crab, which is a hermit crab that stops using shells when it matures.

I can only assume that the the “diogenes” in its name comes from some parallel drawn between the hermit crab’s shell and the philosopher’s habit of sleeping in a large jar.

(Florida, 2/27/21)

[awed-frog]

Today I learned oaks can talk with one another and collectively decide not make acorns for an entire year to try and starve as many squirrels as they can so next year’s acorns will have a higher chance of turning into trees, and my entire understanding of the world just shifted a little.

[umiusi-si]

コヤナギウミウシ Janolus toyamensis (Baba & Abe, 1970)

[neat-deadandlive-things]

This is going to be an extremely niche post but I need to complain about this useless node on a dichotomous key for rotifers.

Key: If it looks like a collotheca then it is a collotheca!

Me: Great, but if I knew what a collotheca looked like I wouldn't be using this key.

Key: if it doesn't look like a collotheca it's something else!

Me: 🙃🙃🙃

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[this-old-stomping-ground]

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[deercatcher]

[recaption]

[thedogfamily]

this spot is my favourite each year