johanna

32 • she/they • artist, teacher

[ivytherium]

Comfortable hole, bye

[openuptoeverything]

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[fractally]

don't worry about me when I say this but I think in a way being hunted for sport would be a relief. my nervous system would be like, wow. finally, a proportional reaction

[cxrrently]

[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

[kosmogrl]

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

[zygon-commander]

employment cannot rob my fertile mind of its vivid yaoi scenarios

[achillesinhighheels]

[probablily]

i say yay outloud too like this isn't just my internet persona this is real me

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Orchids

[loveridden1999]

everything is that deep to me because i have this big empty hole in my heart

[mycupoverfloweth]

[jamesusilljournal]

Spiny Flower Mantis (Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii)

[imagelvr]

surgical paintings by @buscemibitch

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[correctopinionhaver]

[elismagicatnado]

fuck yessss we love working animals