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Happy mušḫuššu monday everybody

(Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

[paleoart]

A beautiful sight for compound eyes

(Eurypterids coming ashore under the recently-proposed rings of ancient Earth)

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[pennaraptor]

emotional responses are deeply evolutionarily advantageous in any animals that are making complex decisions and behaviors (in many vertebrates, say) because they act as a reinforcer for a behavior. a bird taking a vigorous bath in a puddle is probably happy because if that behavior didnt elicit a positive feeling they wouldn't do it (it is dangerous to be on the ground and wet!). if an animal can feel fear, which i think is a less contested assertion to make, then it can certainly feel the opposite, that is, happy.

[pennaraptor]

Bernd Heinrich in his book Nesting Season

[comfymoth]

i know how to make art……….. i LIKE making art………. making art is fun……………. i feel fulfilled when i make art……………………..

[mossshhh]

Been a big fan of being a Motorcycle Guy in cyberpunk lately (and only slightly jealous that only car drivers gets to have visits from Johnny)

[heyyoufriendthere]

This new fish species is called Snuffleupagus. You can probably guess why | CBC Radio

S. snuffleupagus, a newly described species of fish, is named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus, to which it bear

SNUFFLEUPAGUS REAL

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Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleupagus !

[miamaimania]

“Midnight-blue-cheese” (2019) ☽ Wim Legrand — surreal painting

[dovegraveyard]

Something’s brewing

[birdwarde]

Woodcock Bags are now available for preorder!

[taylornprice]

somewhere in angeles national forest

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[spookygibberish]

working out some perfectly regular dogs

[sabusthings]

A quick doodle of Herbert West, twiddling his stupid Lil fingers

I have so many dumb thoughts about him. Help meeee

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Some of my favourite Rocky lines and deliveries because I love James Ortiz

[s-u-w-i]

Some last-minute window views, now I'm back in Czechia ( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ

[random-brushstrokes]

Cedric Morris - From the Window at 45 Brook Street, London, W1 (1926)

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