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Baby Blacktip Reef shark!
One day that tiny baby will be a big shark able to rip people to shreds
most blacktip reef sharks are no more than 5.5ft long when mature. not only that, blacktip reef sharks are timid and shy, with no fatal human attacks documented. don’t comment stuff like this on my posts, save it for another post and stay off mine. thanks
gentlesharks has hAD IT
Stegosaurus >>>
The red-winged blackbird’s song is deeply comforting and familiar it’s like walking into the marsh and hearing an old friend
why are cheetahs not technically big cats? is it just because they're weird as hell or do they not meet some big cat criteria?
so the thing about Big Cats is that they’re all closely related members of the genus Panthera!
because they’re all part of the same lineage, they share a lot of traits like the ability to roar.
and cheetahs are actually members of a completely different cat lineage altogether, the genus Acinonyx!
they’re not very closely related to the big cats at all and are actually most closely related to Pumas, which you can totally see if you stack them up next to each other and squint really hard.
it’s okay though, the cheetah can still be the biggest cat in our hearts :’)
also some of you may have picked up on this, but the reason that the cheetah’s closest modern relative is a family of cats on an entirely separate fucking continent is that… drumroll please… cheetahs actually evolved in North America!
B-DM TSCH!
about nine million years ago in North America, cheetahs and pumas split off from the rest of the small-cat lineage together and evolved into their separate groups! different species of now-extinct ancient cheetahs thrived in North America for millions of years, streaking across the prairies and clobbering the everloving shit out of any herbivore too slow to get out of the way.
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(this is why the North American pronghorn antelope is actually the second-fastest land animal alive today, despite not having any current predators even vaguely in their speed range! once upon a time, not that long ago, they had to dodge a prehistoric cheetah that could pull highway-level speeds.)
cheetahs were successful enough that they even made it out of North America and into Eurasia via the Bering Land Bridge, only making it to Africa after conquering their way across the steppes!
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but things changed, as they always do, and global climate disruption led the the extinction of all cheetah species except the one in Africa, effectively terminating the entire cheetah dynasty.
do they remember? I hope so.
pumas are doing JUST FINE, though! guess there’s something to be said for being a mid-sized hypergeneralist predator in the face of global change.
Created by Efisio Marini, an Italian naturalist doctor, this table is made completely out of human remains, including petrified brain, blood, liver, bile, lung, and glands. On the top of the table sits a foot, four ears, and a cut vertebrae. It is housed as the Museum of the History of Medicine, located in Paris, France.
Two taxidermy animals hangin on a wall 5 feet apart because they’re not gay
(I tried to reference a vine, I try to be funny y’all)
part of my bookshelf altars
“Entropic” MALN 2014
This piece will be showing this Saturday at Santa Ana’s artwalk in the Lineage show at B-minus Studios and C J Sitton. If you are in the area please come by and see the exceptional artwork!
The state fire marshal has recruited the mythical beast for its fire-safety-awareness campaign.
Smokey the Bear has been replaced in Oregon.
Goblin’s Elk by TeroPorthan
My friend found these, any idea of what they are?
This are the ear bones from a mammal! Additional pictures and information (size, location, area they were found in) can help narrow down species.
Me trying to share my interests
I’m bad at keeping up with social media.. I recently went to Oklahoma (I live in Maine) and had to visit the Museum of Osteology! Here’s a few photos. I need a megaloceros :D But it was really cool as someone interested in zoology and comparative anatomy. I took hundreds of photos for drawing references, some rare animals can be really hard to find references of.
Science is just really fucking cool okay
“In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being” -Nikola Tesla
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