#adaptive evolution

[captainfightingflower]

An educational display of Adaptive, Mutative, Divergent & Convergent Evolution portrayed by You Don’t Know Jack and other Jackbox Games from The Jackbox Party Packs.

(I'm sorry if this is inaccurate, i'm not a biologist)

[howdoesone]

How does one teach an Aye-aye to play the guitar with that long middle finger?

  Introduction to the Aye-Aye: The Rock Star of the Lemur World The Aye-Aye, a nocturnal lemur native to Madagascar, is one of the quirkiest creatures in the animal kingdom. With its large eyes, bat-like ears, and most notably, its elongated middle finger, the Aye-Aye is as fascinating as it is peculiar. This middle finger is primarily used to tap on trees to find insects, but what if we could…

[wormyorchids]

Overwintering, 2022

[chimeride]

A hydra, but each head has jaws and teeth specialized for different food like a one-creature set of the Galapagos Finches

[darcania]

For all of the flaws in X-Men Evolution there was a lot it did very well, and letting Wolverine be this grumpy father figure to most of the X-Men was one of them.

[silvermoon424]

Me when I remember how dogs were the very first domesticated animal and have evolved alongside humans for thousands of years, resulting in our two species becoming adapted to each other and able to easily communicate.

Me when I remember that humans and dogs have been around each other so much for so much time that dogs are better at reading human behavior than our closest genetic relatives (the great apes).

Me when I remember that dogs can easily understand our facial expressions and gestures, while most people are able to intuit things from a simple bark (if the dog is friendly or aggressive, big or small, nervous or excited, etc).

Me when I remember how, millennia ago, some wolves decided to hang around humans for extended periods of time and those humans thought "you know, we could make them our friends."

Me when I remember that dogs are called man's best friend for a reason.

[bamfwizard]

my favorite thing about Gambit's design is that depending on how gracious the artist in said piece of media is, he either has the best or the worst barber known to man

[clannfearrunt]

U can look into sea cucumber toxins but watch out. You might shatter some crucial underlying assumptions you were making with regards to fantasy cephalopod society epidemiology

[084392]

you get mad at gti for shitty gameplay i get annoyed at it for having 2 eeveelution characters in the main cast for no real reason. we are not the same.

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

One thing that I love aesthetically about Mandalore in the Clone Wars is that, even though no one in Sundari wears armour, the most iconic part of the armour - the beskar'ta diamond emblem - is everywhere. It's on the walls in the tunnel from the docks into the city, it's in the architecture of the prison and other buildings. It's on the kids' school uniforms and every citizen's clothes. It's built into the very design of Satine's throne room and woven into the fabric of one of her dresses.

Even though they aren't wearing the armour, the symbol is everywhere they look, pervading every aspect of their lives. They may have left their warrior past behind, but the sense of identity associated with their armour hasn't been abandoned, it just manifests itself in a different way, and I think visually speaking that makes for a really cool design choice.

[kaliido-s]

Being into Palaeontology and Biology now means I can’t look at WoF the same way again because the amateur scientist in my brain is freaking out over how much stuff happens in such a short amount of time. You’re telling me these dragons diversified, evolved, and adapted into multiple different tribes throughout the span of a few thousand years, and at two different points in time??? Yeah right. Hell when you think about it, the history of the tribes and what they describe create the implication that it only took a few centuries. That’s insane. How am I supposed to insert spec evo into these fantasy dragons NOW Tui?!??!?!?!

[howdoesone]

How does one invite a Saola to a unicorn-themed party?

Introduction to the Saola: The Real-Life Unicorn The Saola, often referred to as the “Asian unicorn,” is one of the most elusive and mystical creatures in the animal kingdom. Discovered only in 1992 in the Annamite Range of Vietnam and Laos, the Saola has captivated the imaginations of scientists and animal lovers alike. With its long, slender horns and gentle demeanor, it’s easy to see why it…

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[jmenfoot]

Hello what is the dish at the end of rat chef movie called

I'm so glad you asked

It's what my family called "vegetable tian", while the internet calls it "Provence tian". A tian is a large and shallow clay dish from the south of France, and it's the name for dishes cooked slowly in a low oven (traditionnally, in a bread oven after the initial high heat was used for bread).

It's exactly like the Ratatouille dish : you slice colorful round vegetables (eggplants, zucchinis, onions, tomatoes), you cook them for hours, and you get tender, caramelized, confit vegetables. My grandmother put a paste of bread crumbs-garlic-parsley paste on top for texture... So easy, absolutely amazing, and absolutely not a ratatouille.

A ratatouille is cubed vegetables sauteed separately on stove top then brought together to finish cooking. It's the same "summer" vegetables : eggplants, zucchinis, onions, tomatoes, and peppers which are essential, (and not included in tian). Also very good, can be served hot or cold, completely different from the Ratatouille dish.

There's so many people on tiktok making "the ratatouille from Ratatouille" and it's not! it's not! it's a tian with a fancy pepper sauce!!

Objectively it doesn't matter, recipes evolve when they're adopted in other cultures, and French people can't complain (you won't believe what we call tabouleh). But still!

Apparently the recipe in the movie is confit byaldi by Michel Guérard/Thomas Keller and Keller suggested it to the movie team as his gastronomic reinterpretation of ratatouille. The way my reinterpretation of spaghetti and meatballs would be using flat, very large spaghetti and instead of forming balls I would layer the meat mixture with the tomato sauce and lasagnas I'm describing lasagnas. A completely different dish that already exists.

Thank you for attending this conference, I will now be taking questions.

[black-widow134]

Harbinger of Chaos,

Daughter of Magneto,

Wanda Maximoff,

the Scarlet Witch

comic and xmen inspired

my edit (@black-widow134)

[metropoliswhite]

@rhaegang

I started answering in the tags of the reblog but as always I yap too much so: Yes! In NMCTTS world, they’re like another branch of the same specie. They are less known in human mythology because:

1. they live in smaller pods and were more weary of humans from the start

2. they’re less likely to be blamed for the downfall of an entire fishing economy by “sinking” ships

3. fresh water is less scary than the sea/ocean so they’re associated with something less powerful.

They’re probably more present in local myths and behind some belief about naiads. They're seen as a lesser threat, more in the criptid range than dininity, which means they have been less hunted too.