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[intheam]

SAM WINCHESTER    1.14 Nightmare

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7.04 Defending Your Life

[foulserpent]

take some time to notice your vision. see how easily you detect motion. focus on something in your peripheral (without moving your eyes to it). see how it works. look at your hands. pick something up with your fingers. appreciate how ridiculously specialized they are in fine motor skills (even if your personal motor skills are lackluster). think about how you have a body built to be an apex predator through use of tools. think about how the brain of your kind has created a digital hivemind uniting the whole world. now look back at the screen.  look at the tab where you are in an argument about cartoons on tumblr. close the tab. open a new tab. google “tribute to anomalocaris”. watch the video that comes up. leave a like. subscribe even though the channel has been inactive for 8 years. you will need it in the coming times

[foulserpent]

[cretaceous-kid]

Paleontologist: (slaps the roof of a sauropod) this bad boy could fit so many fucking plants in it

[punksandcannonballers]

no earth spoilers please, i’m only up to the cambrian explosion

[punksandcannonballers]

i’m really loving these new dinosaur characters, i hope they stick around awhile

[punksandcannonballers]

oh fuck off

[paleoart]

Evolution Series: A Series of Sirenians

Sirenians, or sea cows, are very unique animals. Related to elephants and hyraxes but originating in the Americas, they are the only fully herbivore aquatic mammals and live in both freshwater and salwater habitats.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Polar bear population by US state.

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#ff8800

[jurassicsunsets]

It’s not that i’m sexist, I just remember a time, when I held the door open for a girl, and she began to scream and cry. “You oppressive piece of shit,” she began to say, and when I tried to calm her, she kicked my way. I used self defense, and moments later she was on the ground. The cops were called, and I’m writing this from prison now. It’s not that I hate women, just a selective few, the ones who abuse the system, and many of them do.

thanks for sharing your story. this is a palaeontology blog.

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#dcb7cb

[22psyduck]

yea i’m afab (assigned fool at birth)   

[yikestruly-deactivated20171207]

[kisameanslight]

the gang through the seasons  → season 12

[ameriqan]

what do u look for in a boy

i look away

[alithographica]

Science Fact Friday: Bird lungs! Just like every other part of a bird, they’re weird.

This gif shows the path of a single breath, but the circuit holds 2 breaths at a time. So when the bird inhales, the just-inhaled breath goes through Inhalation 1 while the previous breath goes through Inhalation 2. Rinse, repeat. Thus, the lungs are constantly receiving oxygen - in mammals, our oxygen content dips slightly between inhalations because there’s no fresh air coming in. We also don’t empty 100% of our lung volume so some air is “stale” even during an inhalation.

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[birdsbugsandbones]

Great animated diagram! Really easy to see why, when handling birds, you mustn’t squeeze them! You’ll literally stop them breathing.

[zookeeperproblems]

Bird respiratory systems are one of the most interesting things I’ve learned about as a keeper.

[prettycolors]

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