https://78.media.tumblr.com/bd6b00c08f6e24b472966d0c1bf1e616/tumblr_nchfyouJg71t6s9cjo1_1280.jpg
https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/168665430297/mooonjellies-spearfish
― FLCLeee (Leee), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:36 (eight years ago)
Looks delicious.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 10:07 (eight years ago)
Like poached egg on cauliflower.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 10:08 (eight years ago)
Taken at near noon in sunlight. A missed opportunity for something like this (taken at 25 m in the Maldives in 2014).
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 20:03 (eight years ago)
https://78.media.tumblr.com/558eb6930f366b8e3a9aee06a0d54cbd/tumblr_p7usycWakG1ui50dco1_540.jpg
The crabs are known for their signature move of always carrying a small living sea anemone around in each of its claws, which helps them catch food and protect themselves from predators (thought to resemble pom-poms or boxing gloves).
http://www2.padi.com/blog/2015/05/14/facts-about-the-pom-pom-crab/
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:44 (seven years ago)
nature is awesome
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 June 2018 08:51 (seven years ago)
https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/175029290848/oceanportal-fun-fact-3-for-most-cephalopods
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:54 (seven years ago)
Lots of paper nautilus links this week, here's a good one: https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-seamstress-and-the-secrets-of-the-argonaut-shell/
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:39 (seven years ago)
Really interesting! Thanks.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:49 (seven years ago)
That is a great article.
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 July 2018 04:36 (seven years ago)
Meet the meme-friendly axolotl: https://www.quantamagazine.org/axolotl-genome-slowly-yields-secrets-of-limb-regrowth-20180702/
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Thursday, 5 July 2018 21:30 (seven years ago)
https://youtu.be/VCJnlpUY-3g
Sea harbors xenomorph shocker.
― The Finger Thing Means the Taxes (Leee), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:21 (seven years ago)
https://www.boston.com/news/animals/2018/12/07/hawaiian-monk-seals-eels-noses
― From Damage Inc. to Metallica Inc. (Leee), Friday, 7 December 2018 23:16 (seven years ago)
Wow. That is...just, wow.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 7 December 2018 23:56 (seven years ago)
I love this weird planet.
― From Damage Inc. to Metallica Inc. (Leee), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:07 (seven years ago)
Researchers have already determined this is not the result of a human with a personal vendetta against seals and eels because all the cases were reported from remote islands that are only frequented by scientists.
I mean...how would someone even go about doing something like that anyway?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:13 (seven years ago)
It's probably just hip. And everyone knows that having an eel hanging out of our left nostril is the gay nostril.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:15 (seven years ago)
https://ourblueplanet.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=incredible-sex-changing-fish-from-blue-planet
― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 06:11 (seven years ago)
https://youtu.be/u7QXdlSBGGY
― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Sunday, 6 January 2019 17:52 (seven years ago)
A Sometimes Tadpole.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 6 January 2019 20:04 (seven years ago)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/amazing-pictures-of-fish-other-freshwater-river-wildlife/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=sunstills_20190113::rid=29522540095#/river-life-oregonpacificlamprey_freshwaterlife_freshwatersillustrated.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:50 (seven years ago)
those photos are amazing... the one of the newts is like a bosch painting.
― visiting, Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:08 (seven years ago)
agreed; the whole spread is worth exploring. The lamprey though...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:04 (seven years ago)
http://www.southernfriedscience.com/your-car-has-just-been-crushed-by-hagfish-frequently-asked-questions/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 05:39 (seven years ago)
Hagfish Day is the third Wednesday in October.
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Monday, 28 January 2019 07:16 (seven years ago)
http://mentalfloss.com/article/60129/11-fascinating-facts-about-frilled-shark
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:19 (seven years ago)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/half-male-half-female-cardinal-pennsylvania/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:24 (seven years ago)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/unicorn-praying-mantis-discovered-atlantic-forestphotos deliver
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:28 (seven years ago)
The colors!
― A Grape Ape Agape (Leee), Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:02 (seven years ago)
https://phys.org/news/2016-04-sexual-reproduction-rotifers-scavenge-genes.html
Sequencing a bdelloid rotifer genome produced a big surprise, as about 8% of the genes looked foreign. Some genes were typical of fungi or bacteria, and endowed the rotifer with handy new properties such as breaking down toxins or using new foodstuffs. This "horizontal transfer" between rotifers and other organisms is ancient and ongoing.Foreign DNA is spread all over the rotifer genome. So how did it get there? It seems that dehydration makes holes in cell membranes that can suck up DNA. The rotifers' efficient mechanism for repairing double stranded DNA breaks in dehydrated animals is perfect for incorporating foreign DNA into the genome.Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-04-sexual-reproduction-rotifers-scavenge-genes.html#jCp
Foreign DNA is spread all over the rotifer genome. So how did it get there? It seems that dehydration makes holes in cell membranes that can suck up DNA. The rotifers' efficient mechanism for repairing double stranded DNA breaks in dehydrated animals is perfect for incorporating foreign DNA into the genome.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-04-sexual-reproduction-rotifers-scavenge-genes.html#jCp
― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:00 (seven years ago)
That's quite amazing!
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:27 (seven years ago)
Aww: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/horizontal-gene-transfer-in-bdelloid-rotifers-questioned-64483
TLDR dirty test tubes may have contaminated the DNA sequencing, so the intraspecies horizontal gene transfer is still an open question.
― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:40 (seven years ago)
Plants are weird too! https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/mystery-undead-tree-stump/594673/
With extra credit for this beautiful arrangement:
Underground, trees are intimately connected. The fungi on their roots can wire adjacent individuals to one another and ferry nutrients between them, creating what ecologists have come to call a “wood-wide web.”
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Thursday, 25 July 2019 23:02 (six years ago)
Parasitic barnacles! https://youtu.be/B9_RUwR3RFU?t=375
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 21:17 (six years ago)
Rapacious caterpillar!
https://youtu.be/2zfNDvT28rU
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:22 (six years ago)
that thing looks delicious
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 15 September 2019 19:58 (six years ago)
spiders flying on electrostatic waveshttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:17 (six years ago)
Amazing!
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:20 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn7zl2zdLW0https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101784365http://i.imgur.com/Mguk9Mv.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:12 (six years ago)
Bat, no way, more like skeklek!
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:14 (six years ago)
If wee bats are flying mice this is a flying capybara.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:01 (six years ago)
lol, bronx zoo just sent me an eblast; check out these d-holeshttp://i.imgur.com/UX1xYlW.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:15 (six years ago)
Who's a cute dhole?
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:14 (six years ago)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/paris-zoo-unveils-blob-organism-with-720-sexes/11610804
"We know for sure it is not a plant but we don't really know if it's an animal or a fungus," Mr David said. "It behaves very surprisingly for something that looks like a mushroom … it has the behaviour of an animal, it is able to learn."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:37 (six years ago)
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:30 (six years ago)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/science/loudest-bird-bellbird.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQlxGDNc2c8http://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/10/21/science/21tb-loudbird/21tb-loudbird-jumbo.jpg
The white bellbird’s second song type is louder than a jackhammer, and approaches, “at its peak, the amplitude of a pile driver” — around 125 decibels, said Dr. Podos. That makes it three times more intense than the call of the screaming piha, the previous record-holder for loudness.The researchers also discovered a trade-off between song length and amplitude — the more intense the song’s peak, the less time it lasted. “If sexual selection keeps pushing the song to be louder and louder, it’s going to become shorter and shorter,” said Dr. Podos.One big mystery remains. The white bellbird sings its pile driver tune when a potential mate is nearby. It starts facing away from her, and then whips around to blast the loudest, record-setting note right into her face.
The researchers also discovered a trade-off between song length and amplitude — the more intense the song’s peak, the less time it lasted. “If sexual selection keeps pushing the song to be louder and louder, it’s going to become shorter and shorter,” said Dr. Podos.
One big mystery remains. The white bellbird sings its pile driver tune when a potential mate is nearby. It starts facing away from her, and then whips around to blast the loudest, record-setting note right into her face.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 15:46 (six years ago)
Is that its natural call? Crazy! (There's another bird that mimics human-made noises like jackhammers.)
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:44 (six years ago)
fuuuuuuuuuuckhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QdiT3W6KAM
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 27 October 2019 03:22 (six years ago)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/10/24/rats-are-capable-driving-tiny-cars-researchers-found-it-eases-their-anxiety/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:40 (six years ago)
Dragonfly covered in morning dew. pic.twitter.com/XPgqxilJWe— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) November 7, 2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:46 (six years ago)