oddly shaped plastic dinosaur

this started as a paleontology blog but now it's just natural history in general and also sometimes some anthropology bc it's cool!!! ecology is so cool!! protect our amazing planet!!! I love you have a good day!!!!!!!!

[bovineblogger]

this is what i was talking about by the way

[ase0101]

[beaswellgirl]

yep, pretty much

[wizardarchetypes]

today i died at sea

[wizardarchetypes]

i'm a romantic you see

[ashstfu]

[offcampusenglishclass]

@t-rex-snack @sasmeo-bisaster playdate?

[graytaloty]

A big part of being a quadruped is being able to just lie down anytime. Waiting? Loaf time. Talking to someone shorter than you? Loaf time. Falling asleep in the sun? Loaf time. Bored? Loaf it up till something interesting happens. Leg hurt? Loaf time.

[habbadax]

You wish you were me

[habbadax]

I can do it on rocks also

[life-on-our-planet]

eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This eepy mourning dove is joyful and whimsical!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[local-demon-in-your-area]

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[crabussy]

"being a human is so boring why can't I be one of the COOL animals" okay hey. I hear you. but I actually really super love being an omnivorous persistence hunting primate with a stomach capable of dissolving many literal poisons and the ability to smell geosmin (released in the soil after it rains) at five parts per trillion. I super enjoy being a bipedal terrifyingly agile mammal with some of the most efficient sweat glands in the animal kingdom. I find a lot of joy in being an endotherm with mimicry abilities that rival most other animals with vocal chords. it's sick as hell I'm having a lot of fun

[hemipenal-system]

soft fluffy feathery dragon

[hemipenal-system]

YOU.

[briebo-is-a-dragon]

[hemipenal-system]

*muffled* hey

[tealover89]

lets be chip shaped with mama

[ymutate]

Rick Hobson

"Sea Matryoshka (A whale eats a seal that eats a penguin that eats a fish that eats a calamari that eats a sea cucumber, and finally, there's aplankton)" Nesting dolls created in Semenov, Russia for the Helsinki-based studio COMPANY.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturongs of monitoring the situation

[raptorcivilization]

Reminder to all nonbinary people: You can summon SUE the T. rex for aid

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[qelflinq]

You are very funny id like to protect you