http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/post/108081475537/hey-everyone-likes-spiders-right-well
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 18:03 (eleven years ago)
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-alaskan-frozen-frogs-20140723-story.htmlhttp://adlayasanimals.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/wood_frog_15.jpg
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:26 (eleven years ago)
If you'll pardon the pun: Cool!
Plus:
I'm asking, what about the parasites and all the cool things that live in its mouth and its butt?
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:39 (eleven years ago)
Sounds like a forks display name
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:51 (eleven years ago)
don't mind if i do
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 23:42 (eleven years ago)
:I
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Monday, 19 January 2015 00:24 (eleven years ago)
:|
― 龜, Monday, 19 January 2015 00:28 (eleven years ago)
:)
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 January 2015 01:01 (eleven years ago)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/01/21/frilled-shark-sea-monster-caught-australia-coast/22099613/
― 龜, Thursday, 22 January 2015 04:59 (eleven years ago)
https://40.media.tumblr.com/c0b229d7df10a61f76576ea96d47c442/tumblr_nhu2eg99JW1qm9k25o1_540.jpg
More about this melted foot: http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/108919850198/one-serious-snail-the-lewis-moon-snail-polinices
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Friday, 23 January 2015 18:20 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/9veCkVJ.gif
― 龜, Monday, 26 January 2015 22:15 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_46e0SgYQEmarabou storks are trippy mang
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 January 2015 07:47 (eleven years ago)
http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/post/110074480358/ooh-thats-a-nice-fish-evolution-oh-thanks
And make sure to click on that Flickr link (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pacificklaus/sets/72157633230955033/).
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:53 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/ZQBrEg5.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:56 (eleven years ago)
As always I'm reminded of http://i.imgur.com/AgI5ExX.png
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:57 (eleven years ago)
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/12/two-faced-insect-is-both-sheep-and-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing/
Everything is weird with this one, can't just excerpt one thing.
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:36 (eleven years ago)
nice find--just the 9 different bodies thing is a weird enough, and that's only the beginning of the weirdness.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:26 (eleven years ago)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11392825/Mystery-tuna-creature-is-tongue-eating-parasite-says-expert.html
http://i.imgur.com/X3wROMM.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 6 February 2015 00:46 (eleven years ago)
I think it's so cute <3
Closeup:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03188/tuna-woman-creatur_3188626c.jpg
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Friday, 6 February 2015 00:55 (eleven years ago)
<img src="http://education.gtj.org.uk/storage/Components/123/12340_1.JPG";>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:46 (eleven years ago)
whoopshttp://education.gtj.org.uk/storage/Components/123/12340_1.JPGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:47 (eleven years ago)
why have a penis, when you can be a penis?
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:52 (eleven years ago)
Why don't they just call it the boner worm
― 龜, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:28 (eleven years ago)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/287737863668586963/
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 February 2015 22:08 (eleven years ago)
http://io9.com/newly-discovered-sparklemuffin-peacock-spider-is-here-1688278369http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--W6Bq4VwZ--/c_fit%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_80%2Cw_636/njzreysppbpra1t35jmy.jpg
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 March 2015 06:37 (eleven years ago)
Iron-shelled snail that lives around hydrothermic vents in the ocean:
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-scaly-foot-snail/
It even has iron scales on it's foot-stomach.
― boretanic snoremaster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 March 2015 12:16 (eleven years ago)
that peacock spider is so beautiful!
― just1n3, Sunday, 1 March 2015 19:42 (eleven years ago)
I don't usually like snails, but that scaly foot is pretty damned weird!
― Godsleee You Black Emperor (Leee), Monday, 2 March 2015 06:13 (eleven years ago)
On scorpion poop: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/29/how-the-scorpion-lost-its-tail-and-its-anus/
― Godsleee You Black Emperor (Leee), Monday, 2 March 2015 21:58 (eleven years ago)
urls that switch it up at the last second
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 March 2015 22:19 (eleven years ago)
I hate these MFs but I can't help but post:
https://33.media.tumblr.com/7f753113a628fcd24a94789dd07f7068/tumblr_nklq0ihpJE1qc6j5yo1_500.gif
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:54 (eleven years ago)
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2rw1a0ZS--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/bnfzyafgcwsaxuckwr9p.jpg
Asp Caterpillar.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:56 (eleven years ago)
Thank you, internet.
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/Rainlander/Trummpppffffffhahahaha_zps2a405053.jpg
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 6 March 2015 22:00 (eleven years ago)
Not weird animals, per se: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2015/01/29/heres-why-76-beavers-were-forced-to-skydive-into-the-idaho-wilderness-in-1948/
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:34 (eleven years ago)
flora not fauna but holy shithttp://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung,-never-forgotten/
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:46 (eleven years ago)
The most poisonous plant in the world and it's called Gympie Gympie all just seems so stereotypically Australian...
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 30 March 2015 03:16 (eleven years ago)
.
― 龜, Saturday, 4 April 2015 18:06 (eleven years ago)
http://www.amnh.org/global-business-development/traveling-exhibitions/life-at-the-limits
Nnnnnngh I'm gonna go
― 龜, Saturday, 4 April 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/464_261/images/live/p0/1t/23/p01t23bt.jpgalong the same lineshttp://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140303-last-place-on-earth-without-life
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 April 2015 22:51 (eleven years ago)
Extremophiles. ♥
http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/termites-fight-desertification
They are about the size of a Tic Tac. They have no eyes and a see-through gut. They eat poop and farm fungi. And they might be our best allies in the fight against desertification. Who are these climate change warriors?Termites! Yes, that same lowly insect that likes to chew through the back deck. According to a new report published in the February issue of Science, these critters and the mounds they create are crucial to the resilience of savannahs and other dryland ecosystems across the planet.“Termite mounds are islands of fertility,” says Robert Pringle, an ecologist at Princeton University and study coauthor.When you think of termite mounds—if you think of them at all—you might imagine a tall dirt tower, as high as 25 feet. But beneath the ground, the colony can stretch for another 30 feet or more. Termites can survive in extremely dry places, Pringle says, but when it does rain, their subterranean tunnels allow water to penetrate the soil. This encourages vegetation to take root, creating a refuge for other insects, mammals, and birds. Even when the rest of the savannah has withered and died, the mounds remain, like green polka dots on a ruddy field.
Termites! Yes, that same lowly insect that likes to chew through the back deck. According to a new report published in the February issue of Science, these critters and the mounds they create are crucial to the resilience of savannahs and other dryland ecosystems across the planet.
“Termite mounds are islands of fertility,” says Robert Pringle, an ecologist at Princeton University and study coauthor.
When you think of termite mounds—if you think of them at all—you might imagine a tall dirt tower, as high as 25 feet. But beneath the ground, the colony can stretch for another 30 feet or more. Termites can survive in extremely dry places, Pringle says, but when it does rain, their subterranean tunnels allow water to penetrate the soil. This encourages vegetation to take root, creating a refuge for other insects, mammals, and birds. Even when the rest of the savannah has withered and died, the mounds remain, like green polka dots on a ruddy field.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Monday, 13 April 2015 21:26 (eleven years ago)
Probably have mentioned bone-eating Osedax before, but what the hey: http://www.primerstories.com/primers/primer0020.html
Discovered in 2002, Osedax are a family of annelid worms that can consume bone. They have no heads, mouth or guts. Instead, the treelike worms grow branches that collect oxygen dissolved in the water, and ‘roots’ that contain symbiotic bacteria. The bacteria pump out acid and enzymes to dissolve the bone, drilling through the bone and anchoring the worm, and they pass on the nutritious protein and fats to their host.When scientists began to look at the Osedax specimens they had collected, they were puzzled: all the specimens were female. Where were the males? Then they looked more closely. It turns out that Osedax males are dwarfs; they consist of fully mature sperm-producing testes and not much else. And they live inside the bodies of the females, up to hundreds of dwarf males inside a single female.
Instead, the treelike worms grow branches that collect oxygen dissolved in the water, and ‘roots’ that contain symbiotic bacteria. The bacteria pump out acid and enzymes to dissolve the bone, drilling through the bone and anchoring the worm, and they pass on the nutritious protein and fats to their host.When scientists began to look at the Osedax specimens they had collected, they were puzzled: all the specimens were female. Where were the males? Then they looked more closely. It turns out that Osedax males are dwarfs; they consist of fully mature sperm-producing testes and not much else. And they live inside the bodies of the females, up to hundreds of dwarf males inside a single female.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Monday, 20 April 2015 22:26 (eleven years ago)
Haven't read this yet but could it be anything but awesome? http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-origin-of-the-anus
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:28 (eleven years ago)
wau @ osedax
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:41 (eleven years ago)
Another article that I intend to read: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2015/03/13/being-stabbed-with-a-mucus-dagger-is-not-even-the-worst-part-of-snail-sex/#.VTgmOa1Viko
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:53 (eleven years ago)
First link wasn't that good. :(
Second link is better:
A love dart is a sharp dagger that a snail builds in its body out of calcium carbonate. Before mating, the snail thrusts this dart out of itself and straight into its partner’s flesh. A love dart is not related to a penis (each snail has one of those, too) and doesn’t carry sperm. It’s pure weaponry.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:11 (eleven years ago)
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/consider-the-sponge
A sponge essentially carves organs out of negative space, using its layers and jelly to delineate a complex network of channels and pores, which transport nutrients and waste much like a human kidney or bloodstream.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:32 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxtKxlR5yqM
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 05:24 (eleven years ago)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-marine-ribbon-worms-3156969
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 06:08 (eleven years ago)
That video... WHAT. o_o"
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 06:48 (eleven years ago)