wild
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 10 November 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
This splendid twitter thread on weird foxes will be worth your time
in the face of insomnia i will attempt to assign letter grades to the weird foxes. please stand by and watch this space for weird fox letter grades,, thank you— Colin J Carlson (@ColinJCarlson) November 12, 2017
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 12 November 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
:-)
cubism is alive and well
― Ludo, Sunday, 12 November 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
excellent grading game by colin there
― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
Couldn't see an flying foxes, so that's a demerit.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/rfedortsov/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 27 November 2017 06:23 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/f185da90d18b9a58453e8ae574eae874/tumblr_inline_oyerlj5HoK1qh595v_1280.jpg
https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/168133085343/amnhnyc-is-this-the-face-you-make-on-monday
― Hava Nagilum (Leee), Thursday, 7 December 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
Looks delicious.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link
Like poached egg on cauliflower.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
nature is awesome
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 June 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
https://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/175029290848/oceanportal-fun-fact-3-for-most-cephalopods
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Really interesting! Thanks.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
That is a great article.
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 July 2018 04:36 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/VCJnlpUY-3g
Sea harbors xenomorph shocker.
― The Finger Thing Means the Taxes (Leee), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Wow. That is...just, wow.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 7 December 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
I love this weird planet.
― From Damage Inc. to Metallica Inc. (Leee), Saturday, 8 December 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
https://ourblueplanet.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=incredible-sex-changing-fish-from-blue-planet
― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 06:11 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/u7QXdlSBGGY
― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Sunday, 6 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
A Sometimes Tadpole.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 6 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
those photos are amazing... the one of the newts is like a bosch painting.
― visiting, Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
agreed; the whole spread is worth exploring. The lamprey though...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Hagfish Day is the third Wednesday in October.
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Monday, 28 January 2019 07:16 (five years ago) link
http://mentalfloss.com/article/60129/11-fascinating-facts-about-frilled-shark
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/half-male-half-female-cardinal-pennsylvania/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/unicorn-praying-mantis-discovered-atlantic-forestphotos deliver
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
The colors!
― A Grape Ape Agape (Leee), Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
That's quite amazing!
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 22 February 2019 00:27 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Parasitic barnacles! https://youtu.be/B9_RUwR3RFU?t=375
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Rapacious caterpillar!
https://youtu.be/2zfNDvT28rU
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
that thing looks delicious
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 15 September 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Amazing!
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Bat, no way, more like skeklek!
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Who's a cute dhole?
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link