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Wake up babe new fish dropped

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same birthday!!!! happy birthday to us!!!

WAIT HOLD ON BIRTHDAY QUADRUPLETS???? between me, the SPICIEST marinara, capt. coelocanth, and the King of the Netherlands!!!

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everyone has to be nice to me bc its my birthday actually

#im not a teenager anymore guys wtf #i didn’t do any of the stuff from the teen coming of age movies

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My cheeky friend Hans:

"I'm down for Capybara Day, Mongoose Day, Honey Badger Day, and the rare but magical Coelacanth Day."

#this coelacanth Saturday is extra special bc it also happens to be my birthday let’s go boys

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Bill and Ted see the giant volcano sponge Anoxycalyx joubini ?

bill and ted are seeing the giant volcanic sponge (anoxycalyx joubini)! dude ... wikipedia said that they can live for fifteen thousand years ... that's older than america!

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Bill and Ted see the giant volcano sponge Anoxycalyx joubini ?

bill and ted are seeing the giant volcanic sponge (anoxycalyx joubini)! dude ... wikipedia said that they can live for fifteen thousand years ... that's older than america!

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there's a full version on youtube now

Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

#bee talks #not marine biology #Youtube

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I hate that I’m always trying to find cool biology themed stuff to wear but all the “nature inspired” clothing companies just have like two crossed arrows or a minimalistic mountain on a sweatshirt. Fucking lame, that’s barely even nature-adjacent. Put the life cycle of a salamander on a jacket, put hyena skeleton patterns on leggings, put a damn field guide of birds of prey on a peacoat and THEN you can have my money. Do NOT give me a shirt with a leaf on it that says “stay wild” or some bullshit I would much prefer clothing that broadcasts to everyone around me how many teeth an adult Jaguar has or how some pitcher plants can catch and digest rats.

#im obsessed w everything on the umvvelt website but i have. no money for any of it #what I wouldn’t give for the coelacanth society and oarfish organization hoodies though

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Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

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Leatherback sea turtles are the largest turtles in the world and existed at the same time as dinosaurs.

Yet despite surviving for millennia, endangered leatherbacks can't endure humanity's assault on the world's oceans much longer. It's estimated that leatherback populations have declined by 40 percent over the past three generations. It's clear they need a lifeline. Last week alongside our allies, we filed a legal petition urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revise protected critical habitat for the leatherback sea turtle under the Endangered Species Act. Species with federally protected critical habitat are more than twice as likely to recover as species without it.

via: Center for Biological Diversity

Find out more and see what you can do to help:

Leatherback sea turtle (biologicaldiversity.org)

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necklace carpet sharks are SO silly and beautiful and it is of upmost importance that you all look at them

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You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

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Anemone runs from starfish

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Maternity kits, medical threads and scissors, water testing kits, anesthetics, mobile desalination units, etc do you see the pattern? Israel is not only starving the people of Gaza but it also wants to ensure the spread of disease through contaminated water and surgical tools, as well as ensuring injured Palestinians suffer through horrendous pain.

It's beyond sickening.

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benthic angel

was writing about lake sturgeon for a class assignment and showed one of my friends what i'd written.. he then sent part of it back to me with line breaks to turn it into a poem! i just had to draw something for it :]

poem text under the readmore:

lake sturgeon don't know that they're endangered. They don't know anything - other than the muck at the bottom of the water column and the occasional passing touch of another.

really touched by how my friend turned my technical writing into poetry. i haven't tried to write creatively in months, so it's nice to see i've still got it- and nicer still that i could get so inspired by my friend, since i haven't made nature art in a little while, either :>!!

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Gimmick blogs should reblog with their canon design....