The curious dance of the saci, also known as the striped cuckoo. 🎥 Ednilson Pereira. pic.twitter.com/2eQLkaGEA4— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) August 9, 2020
― snakes & cookies (doo dah), Saturday, 15 August 2020 23:06 (five years ago)
let a million WAP videos bloom
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 16 August 2020 05:34 (five years ago)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/science/reptile-long-neck-fossil.htmlhttp://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/12/science/12TB-REPTILE1/12TB-REPTILE1-superJumbo.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 17 August 2020 15:02 (five years ago)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/us/lystrosaurus-oldest-known-hibernation-trnd/index.htmlhttp://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200830163933-lystrosaurus-file-exlarge-169.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 4 September 2020 17:33 (five years ago)
Lystrosaurus's weirdness is eclipsed only by its pathetic ugliness. Never will a child name it as their favorite saurus, ever.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:45 (five years ago)
this animal's kinda weird - why is it jumping into leaf piles? for what reason? it is weird to do things for no apparent reason
https://youtu.be/Tu3HN-MmJc4
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:46 (five years ago)
oh it's like that huh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3HN-MmJc4
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:47 (five years ago)
Does the animal think that there is potentially food or a mate inside of the leaf pile, with which it may fulfill its biological imperatives? I do not understand
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:50 (five years ago)
I think that lystrosaurus is adorable, WKIW
― sleeve, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:51 (five years ago)
Lystrosaurus gurgles a barely audible "THANK YOU, FRIEND" at you from its pus-encrusted mouth/anus combination orifice
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:55 (five years ago)
Lystrosaurus is the ORNALDO BLOOMPS of Pokemon.
― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:20 (five years ago)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46258616
― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:36 (five years ago)
"We opened those intestines up like it was Christmas"
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:49 (five years ago)
lol that stood out to me as well
― sleeve, Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:07 (five years ago)
(totally fascinating, btw)
Very much so!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:14 (five years ago)
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1769/2959/products/Wombat_poo_500x500.jpeg?v=1560320854
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 12 September 2020 01:55 (five years ago)
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/the-beetle-that-pretends-to-be-an-army-ants-butt/516522/
― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Thursday, 17 September 2020 00:13 (five years ago)
Excellent.
Went down a rabbit hole from that which led me to witness the following sentence fragment
mites in the genus Adactylidium, which mate inside the body of their mother before they are born
― imago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 08:07 (five years ago)
This is life
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adactylidium
― imago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 08:09 (five years ago)
That is metal, gross, and amazing.
― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Thursday, 17 September 2020 18:16 (five years ago)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54284952
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:11 (five years ago)
weird heroes
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:13 (five years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwxV1wbBrfU
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 5 October 2020 14:44 (five years ago)
the high lonesome sound
― Splack Packath (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 5 October 2020 15:06 (five years ago)
I think my neighbour has one of these...
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 5 October 2020 15:20 (five years ago)
some beautiful pictures in here. a sub to Nat Geo is still worth it btw.https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/10/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 October 2020 18:32 (five years ago)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/science/african-crested-rat-poison.html
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 December 2020 22:14 (five years ago)
Two interesting tidbits:
Rodents can't vomit.
This:
While doing field work in Kenya, Dr. Weinstein was horrified when a gang of monkeys broke into her lab and absconded with some of the team’s crested rat fecal samples. In the chase that ensued, some of the packets of poop ripped open, scattering scat all about.“The monkeys, I think, were equally disappointed,” Dr. Weinstein said. “That’s not what they were hoping was in there.”
“The monkeys, I think, were equally disappointed,” Dr. Weinstein said. “That’s not what they were hoping was in there.”
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 01:54 (five years ago)
Excellent weird animal content
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:24 (five years ago)
all time intro para imo
For a rodent that resembles the love child of a skunk and a steel wool brush, the African crested rat carries itself with a surprising amount of swagger. The rats “very much have the personality of something that knows it’s poisonous,” says Sara Weinstein, a biologist at the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute who studies them.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:32 (five years ago)
BEAUTIFUL: A ribbon eel swimming by. pic.twitter.com/QpJgjEpwIm— Oceana (@oceana) December 8, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2020 19:02 (five years ago)
seamless gif
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 11 December 2020 19:28 (five years ago)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/science/pandas-horse-poop.htmlwith this key bit of info
“Maybe it’s like Vicks VapoRub, or maybe like Tiger Balm,” Dr. McShea said, describing the tingly feeling they cause.“I don’t know, though,” he added. “I’ve never rolled in horse manure.”
“I don’t know, though,” he added. “I’ve never rolled in horse manure.”
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:41 (five years ago)
lol and gross. BTW, that article spurred me to check the Wikipedia entry for pandas to see if any changes have been made to their classification, and I was honestly surprised to see that they are true bears after all!
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Monday, 14 December 2020 22:48 (five years ago)
that eel is my friend
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:44 (five years ago)
NEW TURTLE DROPPEDNEW TURTLE DROPPEDNEW TURTLE DROPPEDhttps://t.co/yQ88pRxVvP— Be Just & Fear Not | Let None Survive (@SuperNerdMike) December 22, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 January 2021 12:43 (five years ago)
of all the articles not to use photos for...https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/02/opinion/sunday/2020-animal-news.html
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:23 (five years ago)
also I posted this in the streaming thread but it's more appropriate here:
Something new/old that i got into this week is NHK Japan's DEEP OCEAN from 2015, which is four episodes of super alien deep sea ichthyology narrated by David Attenborough that will leave you in constant amazement at the weirdness of the natural plan. Get to know the jellynose fish! The Mariana snailfish! The bioluminescent barbeled dragonfish!The best part: Joe Hisaishi, the music director responsible for all the Ghibli/Miyazaki films did the score for the whole series and it is FUCKING MAGICAL. I can see rewatching this for sleepytimes in perpetuity.It was recently ported over to HBO Max in the US, though the fourth episode (set in the Antarctic) is oddly AWOL. You should try it!
The best part: Joe Hisaishi, the music director responsible for all the Ghibli/Miyazaki films did the score for the whole series and it is FUCKING MAGICAL. I can see rewatching this for sleepytimes in perpetuity.
It was recently ported over to HBO Max in the US, though the fourth episode (set in the Antarctic) is oddly AWOL. You should try it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:25 (five years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHXpMN-wZuU
― ledge, Monday, 4 January 2021 14:03 (five years ago)
Wild! It looks like a kindergartener's craft project.
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Monday, 4 January 2021 19:16 (five years ago)
"The ONLY LGBT-friendly fish dating sim!"https://joffeorama.itch.io/benthic-love
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 January 2021 23:41 (five years ago)
meet the genetically-identical potentially-invasive Marmorkrebshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 January 2021 18:16 (five years ago)
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/myotis-nimbaensis-09249.htmlhttp://cdn.sci-news.com/images/2021/01/image_9249_2-Myotis-nimbaensis.jpg
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 January 2021 03:23 (five years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/ZNWbrl4.png
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 January 2021 03:25 (five years ago)
This chonky boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7foAsAfuAXo
― Sammy Agar-Agar (Leee), Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:04 (five years ago)
the jug-band call is great and i love their temple-sweeped "ears"
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:59 (five years ago)
okay folks: we got ancient genitals
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/science/assassin-bug-penis-fossil.html
Among them were the insect’s basal plate, a stirrup-like structure, and hints of the pouch-like phallotheca, which supports the penis. In living assassin bugs, the entire package looks not unlike a Darth Vader mask, or a translucent athletic cup.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/science/dinosaur-cloaca-fossil.html
Dr. Kelly said she strongly suspected that most dinosaurs would have been of the penis-toting variety: “For the most part, if you have internal fertilization, you have some method of sticking it in.”
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 16:56 (five years ago)
hot
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:36 (five years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl_MbvSUvTk
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 January 2021 07:54 (five years ago)