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cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings

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OOHHH FUUBLBLBLBLB

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so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

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Hey a blue pill bug what a neat coloring, hold on let me just Google something real quick...

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Zebra finches sing a special song to their eggs to warn them about hot weather, and these calls seem to program the hatchlings’ cells to harness energy from food without creating excessive heat. This may help their offspring adapt to warmer temperatures.

Zebra finches, which mostly live in arid areas of Australia, sing “heat calls” at temperatures above 26°C. Previous studies have found that the calls seem to reduce the growth of offspring in hot nests and increase their reproductive success as adults. A smaller body size may help young birds cope better in higher temperatures, as the result is a larger surface area to volume ratio which means they can lose heat more efficiently.

Now, for the first time, we have evidence that when zebra finch eggs are exposed to heat calls, it changes how energy-generating units inside cells, called mitochondria, work in chicks after they hatch.

Continue Reading.

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clown month day 20 - comet

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hi i'm trying to buy a menorah right now and i came across this and i think you need to see him.

ITS KOSHER

inaccurate

but Kosher!

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May I present to you the Saiga antelope

The Takin is such a whimsical herbivore, like God commissioned Dr. Seuss for this one.

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I was just looking at your tags on the prehistoric kingdom post and I would love to hear or read your thoughts on upcoming Dino games, specifically mesozoica and prehistoric kingdom specifically, of course when you have the time.

with hindsight to this message I got in 2017 I can faithfully say: dont waste your fucking time

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There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

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a fun statistical quirk is when Monty Hall comes to your door and offers "trick or treat" you're more likely to get "treat" if you change your answer in the second round

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types of burds

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If you Catholic mfers were really so interested in God's design you would develop a theological appreciation of beetle biology.

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Either you're frolicking in this field with me or you're frolicking in this field against me.

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