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[skunkbear]

The past is packed with monsters! Behemoths by the dozen! Let’s meet these fossils! (and their less colossal modern cousins)

[skunkbear]

Earth’s ancient history is full of giant versions of modern animals. Evolutionary forces (competition for resources, changes in climate) pushed these species to become incredibly large. And I’m not just talking about giant dinosaurs - there were huge mammals and marsupials too. 

A lot of these giants lived in the Pleistocene, an epoch stretching from around 2.5 million to 11,000 years ago. Mysteriously, the extinction of many of these animals coincides with humanity’s arrival as a dominant predator.

Watch a video / listen to a poem about these prehistoric monsters.

Illustrations by Mary McLain

[npr]

You know you want to meet more of this massive menagerie! -Emily

[zoomerbro]

[micdotcom]

Watch: Bill Nye’s graduation speech was as fiery and inspiring as you’d expect 

[discoverynews]

Bill Nye is killing it! 

[whoiscurlyfry-deactivated202105]

If he ran for president I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.

[soporificspecter]

I second that

[leoquievreux]

[pizzzatime-deactivated20210414]

leoquievreux:

For JK project, 2/2.

[rarebritney]

Emotional graffiti, Seattle

[controlthespark-deactivated2017]

how am i supposed to go to bed now that i have a business to run

[ruthed]

ugh

[psiidmon]

trans visibility day. she/her. depression stops me from shaving. told boss about being trans today and he said that he doesn’t care “what i do” outside of work as long as it never goes into the office and he can’t stop the coworkers from saying homophobic or transphobic comments because ~~then they’d know~~.

[icecream-noodle]

Be strong you beautiful girl. <3

[nightgaunts-deactivated08082015]

fuck your boss, baby

keep doin you, you do it so well

[bogfox]

Happy Trans Day of Visibility Blake

*~Gone but NEVER forgotten~*

[tubegayarmy]

your feminism should prioritise trans women. queer women. WOC. disabled women. poor women. intersex women. fat women. and all of the different ways those identities intersect. because throughout history they have never been a priority for anyone else

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[johnfmalta]

Crop of a panel from a new comic!

[898-deactivated20210515]

[lisaprank]

Patti Smith was 29 when she recorded Horses. Joan Didion was 29 when she wrote her first novel. Tina Fey was 29 when she was named head writer of SNL. bell hooks was 29 when she published her first major work. Oprah had just turned 30 when she got her first local TV talk show. There is a reason “boy genius” rolls off the tongue more naturally than “girl genius.” By the time most of us accept the fact that we have earned this label for ourselves, we are most decidedly no longer girls.

Ann Friedman, “In Which We Can Feel The Horses Long Before Horses Enter the Scene”  (via thatkindofwoman)

[nirvanaquotes]

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

Anne Frank’s Diary (via bl-ossomed)

[huffpostpolitics]

Connecticut To Become First State To Boycott Indiana Over LGBT Discrimination Law

Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy (D) will sign an executive order on Monday barring state-funded travel to Indiana because of the state’s new law that could allow businesses to turn away gay and lesbian customers for religious reasons.

Get the full story here.

[phoebe-bird]

[pizzzatime-deactivated20210414]

windwrinkle: chapouli: phoebe-bird: Maud Lewis and her house.

[emmy4keri]

[thesonicscrew]

Parks and rec bloopers 4 ever