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A blind man can perceive objects after a gene from algae was added to his eye: MIT Technology Review

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Credit to @safelyendangered

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What that mouf do tho

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no OP listed

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why’re giraffes so violent

most big herbivores are, frankly. if you have a pretty steady supply of food and don’t have to worry about missing a hunt and starving to death, you can afford to throw your weight around more and generally be more aggressive!

that’s why the most dangerous big animals in the world are almost all herbivores.

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so how old are butts then?

In his book, "The Evolutionary History of Nematodes", Zoology professor George Poinar says Nematodes are close to one billion years old. They're also the first clade to have a one way GI tract. so butts are almost old as fuck, but decently older than balls.

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FUN REMINDER: Hampshire College in Massachusetts hired the first ever non-human scholar, a Physarum polycephalum, in 2017.

SCIENCE

Best from science journals:

Memory without a brain

Physarum polycephalum | Photo Credit: Wikimedia commons

Slime mold memory

How does the slime mold Physarum polycephalum, with no nervous system, save memories? How does it remember where it found food and which environments were harmful? Researchers found that the network-like tubes in the body of the organism encode this information. “These tubes grow and shrink in diameter in response to a nutrient source, thereby imprinting the nutrient’s location in the tube diameter hierarchy,” says the paper.

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“James, our master of microscopes, found this giant amoeba on the same slide where the Amoebophilus simplex fungus was infecting other smaller amoeba. So James set the slide in a humidity chamber… he didn’t expect anything very dramatic to happen and for a week, nothing did…. Until a week later, when he was casually checking the slide to see the infected ones and found that the giant amoebas were stuffed with a bunch of tiny spores that looked similar to the ooomycetes we’ve seen before.

“Now, we don’t know that this fungus is, just that after James found one giant amoeba filled up with spores cases, he found another one, and then another one! And even more oddly, the amoeba began to melt away and lay the spherical spore cases like they were eggs. And after several minutes, those spore cases melted away to release more spores. Now, the spores didn’t seem to go anywhere. After several days, they were still just waiting on the slide. Maybe they’re like Amoebophilus simplex, just waiting for the right host to come along or maybe there’s something else going on that we don’t know about and haven’t accounted for.”

Journey to the Microcosmos- The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba

Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs

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Ninjatitan zenpai UwU

Oh hey there’s a new dinosaur been published! I wonder what-

uh,,,

,,,,,,,,, ok then

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For those claiming, "there's no recorded wild Orca attacks against humans", the humans would have to live to record it....

would a human need to be worried about getting attacked by an orca if they fell into the water where one was swimming?

you wouldn’t necessarily need to worry about getting attacked, per se, but you would need to worry that the orca might take more than a passing interest in you and decide to play with you for kicks.

(that would be bad.)

also, I’m going to be honest, under absolutely no circumstances should you EVER get in the water with a wild cetacean of any kind, but this goes quadruple for anything orca-sized or bigger! these animals not only have their own intelligence, priorities, and agenda, but even an accidental brush from the fin of a creature the size of a school bus will render your bones into a fun 3-D puzzle and, more importantly, will make you exactly as dead as if the animal had meant to do it in the first place. 

stay out of the water, or at least go play with sharks or something instead! it would be less dangerous all around.

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The competition is fierce!

artist wasn't credited :\

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Seven-spined crab spider, Epicadus heterogaster, Thomisidae. Found in South and Central America.

Like all crab spiders, this species does not build webs, but rather actively hunts its prey. Its camouflage allows it to stay hidden among flowers and wait for the opportune moment to strike.

Photo 1 by rogdias, 2 by augustorosa, 3 by samuelvaldes, 4 by eduardo_rex, 5 by jurga_li, 6 by fernandofarias, 7 by deni_schwartz, 8 by sofianogales, 9 by luisfunez, and 10 by sarahlamond

See this spider in action below!

Videos by Andreas Kay on youtube

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now I'm falling asleep, and she's crawling on land

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Two words: Stingray skeletons.

oh my stars and garters

how have we been sleeping on ocean skeletons???