A University of Kansas paleontologist exploring an area known for its fossils recently uncovered a never-before-discovered ancient sea worm – and showed off her “nerdy” side while naming it.
When Rhiannon LaVine found the 500-million-year-old fossil, the research associate with the university’s Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum was carrying out fieldwork with a team working on the geologic formation called the Spence Shale.
“One of the last times we were out there, I split open one of these pieces of rock and instantly knew it was something that wasn’t typical,” LaVine said in a statement. “The first thing we see are these radial blades that look like stars or flowers.”
She said she quickly showed it to Julian Kimmig, the lead author on the study exploring the annelids.
In a career first, LaVine had the honor of naming the fossil worm as the person who discovered it and as a co-author of the paper focused on it, according to the University of Kansas.
“I’ve been involved in describing species before, but this is the first one I’ve named,” LaVine said in a statement. “Actually, I was able to name its genus, so I can put that feather in my cap.”
Inspired by the indigenous name for the worms featured in Frank Herbert’s “Dune” novels – Shai-Hulud – the paleontologist gave the discovery the scientific name of Shaihuludia shurikeni.
Can we please have a Daddy day with Lennox and his babies. Just him being an adorable ass dad?
Anonymous also said: thank u shay for drabble day again! anyway, can u please make a cute drabble of lennox comforting one of their kids while bathing them bc they kept crying or wailing for mommy spence. then lennox was like “i know baby, i miss mommy too” 🥹🥹🥹
"In we go baby," Lennox murmured, picking up Sienna and placing her inside of the lowly filled bathtub next to her sister and brother.
"Daddy clean?" Sierra asked and Lennox nodded his head as he grabbed the small basket of toys that they kept next to the tub and dumped them all inside.
"We gotta wash off all the dirt from our playdate at the park with uncle Mase and Aiden," Lennox chuckled, sitting down on the round in front of the tub. Sienna and Sierra immediately grabbed the toys but Lennox noticed that Knox was quieter than usual.
"Knox? You ok buddy?" He asked and Knox shook his head as he looked up at his father.
"I miss Mommy," he sniffled, his eyes shining with tears. Spencer had been in London for 5 days already, working on her latest clothing line.
"Oh, I know," Lennox sighed.
"When is she coming home?"
"Not for 7 more days," Lennox replied, cringing when Knox immediately burst out into tears.
"I want Mommy!"
"I know, she's been gone for so long, yeah?" Lennox said, reaching out and running his hand over his son's head. "I miss Mommy too."
"You do?"
"I do, and I know that she misses us too," he nodded. "Here, how about we send Mommy a picture to make her feel better?"
"Yes," Knox agreed with a small smile and Lennox took the win. Grabbing his phone, he went to his camera and held it up.
"Say cheese kiddos," Lennox called, chuckling when they all smiled brightly; Knox's matching Spencer's boxy smile and Sierra and Sienna having Lennox's wide one. After getting a few good ones, Lennox instantly sent them off to his wife before setting his phone aside again.
"Here, if you guys take a bath fast enough, we might be able to catch Mommy when she's having lunch," Lennox said.
"Wash, Daddy!" Sienna demanded. "Wash!"
"Ok baby," Lennox smiled to himself as he proceeded to bath his children.
Fictional Characters Who Would Slay in S.T.E.M. Part 3
NOTE: Making a post of a number of fictional characters who specialize in a form of science. Also, to inform all of you, fashion, music, and cooking are considered a form of science. The list is not me deciding who is the smartest, the order is the way it is from who I think of first. Please be respectful.
1. Kimiyo Hoshi (DC)
2. Natasha Irons (DC)
3. Sarah Charles (DC)
4. Max Gibson (DC)
5. Shay Veritas (DC)
6. Amanda Spence (DC)
7. Wu Mei Xing (DC)
8. Harmonia Li (DC)
9. Hank McCoy (Marvel)
10. Charles Xavier (Marvel)
11. Kubo (Kubo and the Two Strings)
12. Harleen Quinnzel (DC)
13. Pamela Isley (DC)
14. Cornelius Robinson (Meet the Robinsons)
15. Sherlock Holmes (Multiple)
16. Mirabel Madrigal
17. Isabela Madrigal
18. Dolores Madrigal - early concept art had her with a taste for music and I like it
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oh anon. let me regale you with the tales of spencers-smoothies, of iwillalwaysbehere, of venusymbol, of thenolanreport. may we blog to see the return of the rudefems of old
me collecting receipts on marlene using her tweets for actual dialogue:
this show apologizes more within itself that to the fans.
mood about this show: this whole town just sucks.
“that’s immortality, my darlings.“
she’ll be remembered for constant bitch mode and a bench until she returns from the dead.
ali’s movie was mean girls with a darker twist. it would be rated R.
you figured that hanna’s sperm donor would have to pay child support until she turned 18. sucks to believe that ashley wouldn’t even try for it.
should have been over minute one. nixed.
oh em. you look so happy. those happy tears just flow down your cheeks majestically. for someone who just found out her father is coming home, you sure are keeping it together.
i remember that history book.... from my high school years. i hated it then too.
she clearly doesn’t want to go, but goes anyway. that’s ridiculous.
wilden.... rosewood pd is fucking slow and incompetent. of course he’s pissed and wants to see progress because y’all wanna yank on someone’s dick besides your own.
honestly, this is the spencer hastings i miss. she had so much more backbone and sass with a strength she didn’t have in the last two seasons.
ashley looks ready to heavily throttle byron right now. she is ready to ho out and ride that montgomery d.
howdy neighbor.
jason 1.0 got a fire lit under wilden’s ass.
what was jason’s career prior to moving back to rosewood and getting a new face? he goes from looking like a suave businessman to looking like hippie jesus. not a complaint, just an observation. he looked, sounded, and acted like a lawyer.
the ringing of alison’s phone that was obviously cut out. toby did call and at least they remembered this part is remembered by alison for her story. everything else was fucking bullshit and just a clusterfuck.
waste of popcorn, but what a delicious kiss.
spencer was really the only one to stand up to alison. aria, emily, and hanna chose not to. there’s a difference between could and choosing to. she stood up to her because she wasn’t going to take any of alison’s bullshit laying down.
ian 2.0: ian 1.0 glow up.
emily.... i don’t want to think about alison. thanks though.
memorial gong too soon. did they ever fix it? probably not.
a/n: Well, I said the world needed more Spencer Shay fan fiction, so here we are. I hope that anyone who finds this also loves Spencer as much as I do.
Living with Freddie and my Aunt Marissa wasn't all bad. I didn't have to pay for room and board while I was in college, and I got to meet Freddie’s cute little friends, and very specifically, I got to meet Spencer Shay. Granted, the constant cleaning of my entire body by Aunt Marissa was annoying, and her weird rules for Freddie and I (despite me being an entire adult) were a little strict, the fact that I got to hang out with Spencer was kind of worth it. I was in my third year of college when I moved in with the Bensons, and Spencer was in an unknown year of being a law school drop out artist and legal guardian of Carly. We were close enough in age to get along, even though Aunt Marissa didn't really approve. I believe her exact words were, “he's a tall, dirty man child”.
This didn't prevent a friendship blossoming, obviously. In fact, I think it just spurred it on. Nonetheless, as the years went on, Spencer and I got closer, and I eventually fell in love with him because who wouldn't. I never intended on telling him, I graduated not too long after we met and was working as an English teacher at Freddie, Sam, and Carly’s high school, so I had enough on my plate, and Spencer never seemed very interested in me that way. He was always going on dates with new girls or working on a new sculpture. Carly, Freddie, and Sam all seemed to think differently than me, but I wasn't stupid. Spencer was a catch, anyone would be lucky to have him.
After I graduated, I finally got an apartment of my own in Bushwell Plaza down the hall from the Bensons and the Shays. Spencer frequently popped in to invite me to get smoothies or coffee, or to get away from the teenage energy that was always in his apartment. This day in particular was not ideal for such company, I had a ton of midterm essays to grade and I wasn't even close to being done despite the deadline being only a few days away. I sighed heavily when my front door opened, spotting Spencer out of the corner of my eye. “Hey lady, whatcha up to?” I set my pen down, glancing over at him as he settled into the couch next to me.
“Look, Spence, as much as I love your company, I don't really have the time today to hang out.” It came out harsher than I intended, but he just leaned forward onto his knees, setting a hand on my back.
“That's okay, I could tell you were stressed when I saw you this morning.” I sighed, leaning into his side. “Here, how about I make you some dinner, you keep grading, and then I'll help you try to relax.”
“Spence, you don't have t--”
“I want to, Y/N. I can't have my best friend all stressed out.” I laughed lightly, meeting his eyes. “Seriously, don't worry about it. If anyone can get through this, it's you.”
“Thanks, Spence.”
A couple hours passed before Spencer put a blindfold over my eyes and removed all my work from my coffee table. “Voilà!” I giggled as he settled next to me again, removing my blindfold and gesturing broadly to the plates on my coffee table.
“Aw, my favorite! How did you know?” He scoffed, handing me a fork.
“I know everything about you, Y/N.” My breath hitched in my throat, making the laugh I let out after sound strained.
“No you don’t.” He raised his eyebrows expectantly, shoving pasta into his mouth. “I don’t know everything about you either, Spence.” We kept talking about random things throughout the meal before I broke it to him that I had to keep grading otherwise I wouldn’t meet the deadline to put all my grades in for the midterms.
“Okay, okay, I get the hint,” he chuckled. “We should do something after you grade. It’s spring break next week right?” I nodded. “Well I think that you and I should go on a trip, like out to the mountains in a cabin or something.”
“You wanna go on a trip with me?”
“Yeah! I’ve never seen you go on a trip anywhere, you deserve to get away. And who better to get away with than your best friend?” I smiled up at him, sighing.
“You know, that would be nice. Let’s do it.”
“Yes! I’ll go and do some research and make the plans and everything. You just grade away. I’ll see you later.” I waved as he closed my front door, falling back onto my couch with a huff. A whole week vacation with Spencer?