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‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

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anyone can stage their own replica immersive phantom with this one easy step:

Get in the walls

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Everyone shut up! It’s the ten year anniversary

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I don't like it when you post body horror

my blog is called lustcannibalism by the way

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Anthony Palocci Jr., Field Recordings, 2016.

Gouache on paper, 38.1 x 27.9 cm.

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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if 3.5 was an integer then 7 wouldn't be prime. did you ever think about that?

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writing is so fun

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you KNOW that if polls were a feature on tumblr back during full post editing privileges it would have been insane. like you see one version of a poll pass your dash: "who suffered worse? 1) sherlock 2) mycroft" with a mycroft sweep of 100,00 votes and then you see it again except it's "who bottoms" and then suddenly OP is fighting off demons and an entire callout post and people are trying to dox everyone who voted

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just found out in medieval france, having a lion on your coat of arms was so prevalent that there was literally a colloquial proverb to clown on knights for being basic and not having a real coat of arms. the hate game was so strong back then. imagine medieval hate anons

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Send me on my way, drawn from x

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When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

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Zebra Schist outcrop, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

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just met a three month old pomeranian named horchata. her paw was the size of my fingertip. she looked like half a dandelion fluff

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