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[ladybugbites]

parents! is your child texting about amphibians? 🐸

lmao: love my amphibians only

tbt: toads being toads

omg(f): oh my goliath frog

stfu: sorry toads forgot u

rofl: ribbit on foolish losers

dtf: dapper talented frogs

tba: those beautiful amphibians

idc: i don’t croak

gf: gorgeous frog

asap: as slimy as possible

[themesozoicsperm]

Caecilians’ teeth are so metal. Nothing you will expect from what looks like a gummy worm when it has its mouth closed.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[typhlonectes]

[postapocalyptic-cryptic-hold]

Y’all ever see a frog and just be filled with love and joy?

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Every time ☺️

[shavedmink]

Some amphibians 🐸

[eyeheartfarms]

Mush shirt

[eyeheartfarms]

Fairy-tale mushroom

[eyeheartfarms]

Thicc

[sciencehook]

Salamander growing from a single cell

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[northofcorpis]

That fuckin smile at the end

[bettsplendens]

To the worried person in the comments: 

No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink, which is a Pokemon that supposedly powers its heart by bouncing, and as such can’t stop moving. Hummingbirds don’t sit often because they’re busy looking for food, but they can and do sit. The females sit on eggs in nests, after all, and they do have to sleep. 

[sindri42]

Fun fact: the leg muscles of a hummingbird are so stripped down to save on weight that they cannot walk. They can step sideways along a branch or other perch, but they cannot go forward without taking flight.

However they absolutely do stop moving. In fact, hummingbirds hibernate! Overnight. Instead of sleeping. Because if they tried to sleep like a normal animal their hyperactive metabolism would mean that they starve to death before breakfast.

Unrelated fun fact: the primary Aztec god of war would take on the form of a hummingbird, and the souls of the bravest warriors were said to turn into hummingbirds in order to join him after death, presumably because every hummingbird is approximately four grams of pure concentrated asskicking which fears no man nor beast and will gladly throw down with somebody seventeen thousand times their size if offended.

[ubercharge]

this is a really cool post and i love seeing such a small bird but reading “No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink” killed me 

[ultrafacts]

Source For more facts, follow Ultrafacts

[chupakarma]

nobel prize worthy work

[ultrafacts]

Here’s a diagram from the original paper.

Here’s the full article: 

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088458

[cannedcream]

[botanyshitposts]

Hey can I just ask one question? What the Fuck is a plant?

i mean like, technically? a large kingdom of organisms that are descended from green algae and have cell walls. this means:

photosynthetic bacteria are not plants

photosynthetic microorganisms are not plants

fungi are not plants

lichens are not plants

non-photosynthesizing and parasitic plants are, indeed, plants

algae as a group may or may not be a plant. depends on who you talk to. the alternative is that they are their own distinct group of organisms that aren’t bacteria, animal, fungus, or plant

there are absolutely exceptions to this definition but in true biological form there is (arguably) no single all-encompassing definition bc there will almost always an organism out there that will force us to redraw the lines. same with the concept of species and plenty of other things in bio

[onenicebugperday]

Rainbow Katydids by Arthur Anker and Bernard DuPont

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This katydid did NOT give permission to touch that part of it's body.

[onenicebugperday]

Creatonotos gangis by Juan Manuel Sánchez Native to South East Asia and Australia

The coremata are a pheromone-producing structure present in male moths; they are normally stored inside the abdomen and are inflated with air to release pheromones into the environment and attract nearby females as potential mates.