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MARINE BIOLOGY BLAST

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People are so stupid about snakes. If there's a little black racer chilling outside just leave it alone, you don't have to kill it, it's probably dealing with all your pests for you, jesus christ

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Ingrid Klimke demonstrating a halt | requested by @letters-from-the-sea | © Pferdia TV

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

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It's salamander season again.

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“Blue Whale” ~ By Mike Johnson

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Cephalopod lovers, have you ever heard of the Dumbo octopus? 🐙 Members of the genus Grimpoteuthis, these critters are the deepest-living octopus known to science and can be found near the seafloor at depths of up to 13,000 ft (4,000 m). These adorable cephalopods flap their ear-like fins as they move through the water—a behavior that inspired scientists to name the genus Grimpoteuthis after Disney’s flying elephant. Unlike many other octopuses, Dumbo octopuses do not have ink sacs. Some scientists think it’s because they rarely encounter predators in their extremely remote, deep-sea habitats.

Photo: NOAA Okeanos Explorer, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

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Actually footage of that woman at your library

NO SERIOUSLY! I double checked my calendar to make sure I wasn't accidentally transported into the fourteenth century because what the heck?!

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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

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Is it me or has misogyny gotten worse lately?

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Hey can we talk about how fucked up deep sea creatures are. Like half of them are genuine eldritch horrors and the others are just.

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reblog for your followers to anonymously tell you what characters you remind them of

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necklace carpet sharks are SO silly and beautiful and it is of upmost importance that you all look at them

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fishes  :)

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am I buying dolphin safe tuna? am I buying bat safe tequila? am I buying orangutan safe candy? am I buying bird safe windows? am I buying coral safe sunscreen? am I

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Drawing rainbow trout in my diary <3