#vestigial

[videolottery]

[viviantimmet]

Wake Up Dead Man really really wanted to be a movie but its beating heart was like peeled and made into parchment and the story that it is was laser printed on there

[tagrasso-art]

Day 5: Vestigial

Personal log of Sc.D. A. Harlow. I found a little friend that might end up proving the biologists theory that semiexoskeletata have indeed evolved from exoskeletata, at least partially. Genetically it appears to relate to some of the much larger semiexos that we have encountered so far, but it has almost fully lost its plating and wings. Its legs are fully bare, merely fleshy nubs to hold onto things with. Looks like they didn't originate from the molluscoids, as our seismologist so boldly (and probably jokingly) suggested. I wonder why this change has occurred so drastically here. The loss of exoskeleton sacrifices protection and structural integrity. The larger semiexos seem to have gained much more flexibility as a result, perhaps this one took that principle above and beyond? It was incredibly hard to catch, passing through any opening large enough to permit the largest of its plates, not unlike an octopus. Maybe this allows it to hide in narrow cracks in the cliffs we found it at, to hide from the sudden tides?

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Intelligent design” isn’t, and your god is vestigial.

[ikimonogaku]

about tyrannosaur arms, they're actually relatively strong all things considered. several hypothesis for their use, including pushing themself off the ground after napping, mating behavior. Not vestigial, because tyrannosaurs as a clade kept them at around that proportion for millions of years. Want real vestigial pathetic limbs? Carnotaurs. by the time they went extinct their limbs were actually useless, some paleontologists suggest if they'd lived longer they would have lost them entirely.

Ooh let me look up Carnotaurus...

Oh my goooooooood!!!! Look at his tiny tiny hands!!!!!!!

[wtf-fun-factss]

Ducks can keep their eyes open underwater due to a transparent third, sideways eyelid called a nictating membrane or haw. All birds have it and even humans have a vestigial remnant called the plica semilunaris. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nictitating_membrane

[bethdehart]

Barns Sketch

Pretty happy with how this turned out even for a sketch! Barns is so fun.

[Image Description: A sketch of an old woman from the waist up, wearing a desaturated green hijab, a brown duster coat, goggles on her forehead, and a dark green backpack. She has long claws on her fingers, seen as she waves. She is mixed with darker skin and a faint bruise over her left eyebrow. She has a few old scars over her lips and on her right cheek. She is smiling kindly.]

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?

Michael Warner, Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children