#Evolution

[sapphic-dice]

One day the kids will.

Not yours.

Or your children’s children.

But some, far down along your line.

When your blood is ancestor to countless lines.

A strand will clamber upon the land.

They will see the sky. Stars.

They will see wonders not yet made. One’s you cannot imagine.

But they will see.

And they will believe.

Sacabambaspis.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

The Importance of Fear & Anxiety

Marks (1987) and Bracha (2004) outline 6 ways in which fear and anxiety can afford protection.

Freezing: This response aids the vigilant assessment of the situation, helps conceal one from the predator, and sometimes inhibits an aggressive attack if you are not sure whether you have been spotted or cannot readily determine the location of the predator. Freezing may be better than lashing out or fleeing.

Fleeing: This response distances you from specific threats. When you encounter a snake, for example, running away may be the easiest and safest way to avoid receiving a poisonous bite.

Fighting: Attacking, bashing, or hitting a threatening predator may neutralize the threat by destroying it or causing it to flee. This mode of protection entails an assessment of whether the predator can be successfully vanquished or repelled. A spider can be squashed more easily than can a hungry bear.

Submission or appeasement: This response typically works mainly when the threat is a member of one’s own species. Among chimpanzees, performing submissive greetings to the alpha male usually prevents a physical attack. The same might be true for humans.

Fright: This is a response in which the person “plays dead” by becoming immobile. The adaptive advantage of becoming immobile occurs in circumstances in which fleeing or fighting will not work—for example, if the predator is too fast or too strong. Predators are sensitive to motion by potential prey and sometimes lose interest in a prey animal that remains motionless for a while (Moskowitz, 2004). If the prey is “playing dead,” the predator may loosen its grip, possibly opening up an opportunity for escape.

Faint: Fainting is losing consciousness to signal to an attacker that one is not a threat. The hypothesized function of fainting in response to the sight of blood or a sharp weapon is that it helps warfare noncombatants, such as children, to “non-verbally communicate to. . . adversaries that one was not an immediate threat and could be safely ignored” (Bracha, 2004, p. 683). Thus, fainting might have increased the noncombatant’s chances of surviving violent conflicts that were likely to be common over human evolutionary history. If this hypothesis is correct, it follows that women and children would be more likely than men to faint at the sight of blood, and the evidence strongly supports this prediction (Bracha, 2004).

Fear - “the usually unpleasant feeling that arises as a normal response to realistic danger” (Marks, 1987, p. 5).

Fears are distinguished from phobias, which are fears wildly out of proportion to the realistic danger, are typically beyond voluntary control, and lead to the avoidance of the feared situation.

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[trashpandaartblog6000]

The evolution of whales by Julio Lacerda

[muffinsbasket]

[inky-da-dinky]

THE DAY I MAKE UP A SHIP NAME, THEY BREAK UP?!?

[savagechickens]

Their Time To Shine.

[billiesbabygirl]

Awwww my, sweet girls. Best duo>>>

WWE EVOLUTION | 07.13.25

[eartharchives]

Tapejarid Palaeobiology and the Concept of the ‘Giraffized’ Azhdarchid — Tetrapod Zoology

New fossil evidence supports the long-suspected idea that tapejarid pterosaurs were herbivorous or frugivorous, challenging traditional views of Cretaceous pterosaur diets.

https://tetzoo.com/blog/2025/7/13/giraffized-azhdarchid

[facts-i-just-made-up]

what are fish

Fish are a prank by Ichthyoscratchi, the god of convergent evolution. There's not really such a thing as "fish," but rather a ton of various utterly unrelated creatures that all evolved into roughly the same thing. Just look at this:

That's a South Fudlian Skunkfish. Then look at this one:

That's NOT a North Fudlian Skunkfish! That's a Non-Reticulated Norwegian Loogiedrip. Not only are they not closely related, they are as genetically different from each other as humans are from bananas. And not even those humanoid fleshy bananas they have at Whole Foods. The old bananas like you see in Donkey Kong Country games.

How about these two here:

Think they're the same species? Nope. Not even the same genus, family, order, class, or even phylum. On the left is a Phlebotomous Zebraflanked Wooting Cludslurper, on the right is a Spood. One is edible. Other kills you if you smell it across a high school gym.

"Fish," what a scam.

[mindblowingscience]

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important to flight in birds. This discovery by a team of researchers led by James Napoli, Ph.D., of Stony Brook University, counters previous research that concluded theropods did not have a bird-like pisiform. Their finding, published in Nature, opens the possibility that the evolution of flight in dinosaurs was "all in the wrist."

Continue Reading.

[prokopetz]

If you've seen trivia posts going around, may have seen ones about the baculum, a bone in the penis whose purpose is to help support erections which is present in most placental mammals, including non-human apes, but which is conspicuously absent in humans.

Those posts typically don't go into why this is the case, which is fair enough, since the question is far from settled. However, there are a lot of hypotheses about it, and some of them are pretty fucking wild.

I think my personal favourite is the recently proposed idea that, since soft tissue injuries tend to heal more rapidly and completely than broken bones, a flexible and resilient boneless penis constitutes a reproductive advantage in situations where genital trauma is common, possibly as a result of the development of upright posture rendering the penis more prone to blunt encounters.

Like, imagine humanity's proto-hominid ancestors going "actually, bipedalism is great" and promptly getting whacked in the ding so much that it exerted evolutionary pressure on the morphology of the penis.

[indeedgoodman]

an absolutely incredible moment, match, event, and wonderful weekend for wrestling with all of the great events that took place.

[iravaid]

The world ended. 75% of plant and animal life was gone forever. Then tomorrow came. So it goes; happy new year.

[wormyorchids]

Overwintering, 2022

[yhs-headcanons]

Grian doesn't have any physical scars after EVO.

He's got scars from yhs, ts, kov and evo. But none after being turned into a watcher.

The other hermits see it as a blessing and grian as lucky. Grian hates it because it's just another reminder of how different he is

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