[talesandfluff]

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[sepdet]

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



[modernvintage]

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

[emmaduerrewatson]

huge shoutout to everyone who started their blog when they were teenagers and now they are in their 20s and 30s

[catboybreeder]

[ultrafacts]

Source: [x]

Click HERE for more facts!

[7244395]

“You gotta make a decision leave tonight or live and die this way” is such a raw line you’d think it was from Tracy Chapman’s fast car. And it is in fact from Tracy Chapman’s fast car.

[whitepeopletwitter]

Are you?

[elasticitymudflap]

tiktok literally scares me so much bc it's literally a bunch of kids making the same extremely bad take/poorly-recieved ""ironic"" posts we did here 2010-2014 but this time they're actually attaching their REAL LIFE HUMAN FACES TO IT???????????????

[elasticitymudflap]

this growing trend of kids especially abandoning any instinct to preserve their online anonymity is so massively concerning, especially now with facial recognition softwares on the rise all over the place... idk man. it keeps me up at night sometimes.

[myattemptstobecleverneverwork]

[sapphoshands]

…i love her?!?

[trainthief]

QUEEN OF BEING HUMAN 

[fkrzoso]

[howthegodschill]

@ my mutuals

[veryfunnymemes]

[rabbithide]

[tiffanyaliyah]

i will no longer do things that make me feel at war with my peace.

[1nthemourning]

[cku-eez-deactivated20220810]

Kinda tired of being okay with things im not okay with

[wholesome-suggestion]

life works out. i cannot stress this enough. life always works out. it always turns out in your favor even if it doesn’t go according to the original plan. you may be utterly confused and lost right now, it may feel like everything is falling apart and there is nothing you can do to salvage any of it. but believe me when i say that this is just a transition period. things are constantly changing and evolving around you even if you can’t actively see that. life is changing you to prepare you for what is to come. you are growing and as you grow you are being built into the person that you are going to be. because see, life always has this funny way of working out.