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[hyydraworks]

2022 Tumblr Top 10

Time for that top ten posts and this year I didn’t horribly splice them together.  Still blown away by the bat and nautilus love that shot them up to one and two best posts of this year.

[doodle-rosewood]

Such cute chucky tails

[herpsandbirds]

Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), adult with chicks, family Podicipedidae, Podicipediformes, Perth, Australia

photograph by naidu_kumpatla

[lara-prime-456-blog]

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This animal has win

[typhlonectes]

VAMPIRE SQUID!!!!

[important-animal-images]

[germplush]

looking tore tf up

[nightmarereverie]

“678 Plushie Pokémon fit Meowstic (Male)” by Pokémon Centre ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

[heart-forecast]

stimboard of . jijis tree of savior avatar .

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[obscuresanrio]

Top ten characters from the Next Kawaii Project in order. [left to right]

Hanamaruobake

Kumalino

Puripuriunpies

Creamy Afternoon

Harenochi Nyua

Fuwaranpukaran

Kaburinboclub

Lulu Kurun

Hop Hop Babies

Tsukinouranorestaurant

[dreamdropsystem]

nonhuman shapeshifters are valid

[doodle-rosewood]

So many spots 😖

[herpsandbirds]

Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle (Chitra indica), family Trionychidae, found in rivers and other waterways of the Indian Sub-continent

ENDANGERED.

Predatory, feeding on a wide variety of small aquatic vertebrates and large invertebrates.

Endangered due to over-harvesting (for food) and habitat degradation.

photographs: Shailendra Singh, Turtle Conservancy, Turtle Survival Alliance

[typhlonectes]

Mutated Gene That Causes Webbed Limbs in Humans May Have Given Bats Wings

A key genetic mutation—harmful in humans—may have opened the sky to bats

Bats have done something no other mammal ever has: the leathery-winged beasts evolved powered flight thanks to specialized membranes called patagia connecting their limbs and digits to the rest of their body. A new study of bat embryos in BMC Biology reveals a crucial step in how these once land-bound animals evolved to fly—and it may involve a gene known for detrimental mutations in humans...

Read more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mutated-gene-that-causes-webbed-limbs-in-humans-may-have-given-bats-wings

[sleepy-bebby]

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