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
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 (four years ago) link
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
fuuuuuuuuuuckhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QdiT3W6KAM
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 27 October 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Some of the most interesting mimicry I’ve ever seen — the wings of this moth (Macrocilix maia) mimic two flies feasting on bird droppings. pic.twitter.com/RdYJOcqYoc— Dorsa Amir (@DorsaAmir) November 9, 2019
― Number None, Monday, 11 November 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
very alexander mcqueen
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 November 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
i wish this was more clicky for more info but still fun:https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
Big ups to the Emperor penguin as the furthest-diving bird, and the elephant seal as the deepest mammal (non-cetacean division).
And faceless fish is a worthy google.
― Scorsese runs afoul of the Irishman (Leee), Friday, 13 December 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
To wit: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t9rvmtokynpcz7lvhdt2.png
https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/faceless-fish-looks-happier-and-heartier-it-did-1887
― Scorsese runs afoul of the Irishman (Leee), Friday, 13 December 2019 01:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8jNSdxyqI
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anhima_cornuta/
Horned screamers are large, heavy bodied, fowl-like birds that are most recognizable by their two bone spurs at the bend of each wing and the 15 cm, yellowish-white horn-like projection at the top of their heads. The 2 to 5 cm long bone spurs are a result of fused carpel bones and are covered with keratin. The horn-like projection, which gives these birds their name, is composed of cartilage. When young are born they lack the horn but it slowly grows as they age. Horns seem to be ornamental as they do not have a defensive purpose. They are not firmly attached to the skull, swing back and forth as the birds’ heads move, and are easily broken off. After breaking off they will grow back over time.Most of their bones are permeated with abundant air sacs that also exist in the subcutaneous tissue in the dermis of the skin. This construction results in a rumbling or crackling noise when these birds take off as the air sacs rapidly collapse. The presence of subcutaneous air sac diverticula allows horned screamers to regularly use soaring flight instead of using muscle energy to remain airborne. These air filled spaces may also act to facilitate pneumatic movement.Horned screamers are less vocal than their relatives, southern screamers, but their vocalizations are very loud. There are three main vocalizations: “mo-coo-ca”, a honking “yoik-yok”, and the trumpet.
Most of their bones are permeated with abundant air sacs that also exist in the subcutaneous tissue in the dermis of the skin. This construction results in a rumbling or crackling noise when these birds take off as the air sacs rapidly collapse. The presence of subcutaneous air sac diverticula allows horned screamers to regularly use soaring flight instead of using muscle energy to remain airborne. These air filled spaces may also act to facilitate pneumatic movement.
Horned screamers are less vocal than their relatives, southern screamers, but their vocalizations are very loud. There are three main vocalizations: “mo-coo-ca”, a honking “yoik-yok”, and the trumpet.
― (dubstep violin original song) (unregistered), Saturday, 14 December 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
jesus fuck, that's nightmare fuel right there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 December 2019 05:42 (four years ago) link
Ed Thoreum11 months agowe are lucky to see this most perfect wonder.Their lung or ribs have evolved to an advantage stage; the can fly, swim and ruN. Thank you!!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 December 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03839-z/d41586-019-03839-z_17507782.jpg
This image of a frog on a lotus leaf in Lalitpur, Nepal, is a stunning example of the ‘lotus effect’. This refers to self-cleaning properties of lotus leaves, which result from their water-repellent properties. Particles of dirt — or, in this case, a whole frog — are caught by droplets, which bead as a result of the surface’s nanostructure. Scientists first described the lotus effect in the 1970s, and it has since been used in many applications. For me, the image illustrates that, once again, mimicking nature is one of humankind’s best strategies for progress.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03839-z
― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
wow
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link