#a living fossil!

[kcamberart]

tadpole shrimp

#blender #low poly #lowpoly #low-poly #3d art #3d model #3d modeling #art #artists on tumblr #triops #tadpole shrimp #a living fossil!

[seashellblue]

#artists on tumblr #art #illustration #artwork #myart #original art #digital art #marine biology #coelacanth #marine life #nautilus #living fossils #animals #ginkgo #fish #oceancore #ocean life #I'd say this has a paleontology vibe #but they're all still alive #... which is kind of the point #Text credit to “Do not stand at my grave and weep” #By Clare Harner

[foxsnails]

Living Fossils - Creatures that remain seemingly unchanged by time. Here's the Coelacanth, the Sturgeon, the Gar, the Horseshoe Crab and the Nautilus! (Gouache on 50x40cm canvas, SOLD)

#living fossils #marine biology #sea life #fish #coelacanth #sturgeon #gar #horseshoe crab #nautilus #sea creatures #marine life #gouache #traditional art #my art

[sharks-are-friends-not-foes]

🐠 Daily Fish Fact: 🐠

Coelacanths were once known only from fossils and were thought to have gone extinct approximately 65 million years ago. Much to scientists' surprise, the first living coelacanth was discovered in 1938. Numerous characteristics are unique to this fish. Among them is the presence of a "rostral organ" in the snout that is part of the electrosensory system, and an intracranial joint or "hinge" in the skull that allows the anterior portion of the cranium to swing upwards, greatly enlarging the gape of the mouth.

#coelacanth #living fossil #old as dinosaurs #old fish #ancient #unique #unique fish #fish #fish facts #facts about fish #daily fish #daily fish facts #marine #ocean #marine life #ocean life #marine animal #ocean animal #fishes #fish post #marine biology

[secretmellowblog]

i just dont really understand why theyd target les mis? and like. its interrupting the work of actors and crew and house staff who dont have anything to do with fossil fuel corps. people who just paid to see the show who dont have anything to do with it.

i understand les mis is a show about rebellion and humanity but to me it doesnt make any sense.

( i say this as someone whos probably very unaware and very slow to realize the deeper meaning of things so i apologize if it comes off snobby i am just confused !! /genuine )

I'm very sorry if this comes off as rude but like.... "I don't understand why people would use Les Mis as the symbolic centerpiece of an act of protest/rebellion against the government" is just a very strange thing to say, and I'm genuinely not quite sure how to begin to respond XD. Like....it's literally Les Mis. It is Do You Hear the People Sing. The original novel was written to be a political rallying cry, it was written to bind together activists, and it has been used that way thousands of times since its publication in 1862. It's Les Mis, I don't know what else to tell you XD. Also I know this next comparison isn't perfect, but:

“I don’t understand why Les Amis interrupted Lamarque’s funeral.  Obviously I agree with Les Amis’s goals, but was this really the right way to protest? Obviously the government is doing something bad— but was this symbolic event really the right place to talk about it? Why even choose to interrupt this event, and the lives of the workers leading it and everyday people attending it? It wasn’t responsible for what was happening! 

Okay, yeah, I get the funeral is ‘symbolically significant.’  I get that Lamarque has become, in popular culture, a symbol of rebellion and resistance against a government’s unfair policies.  I get Lamarque’s funeral is a pretty big public event that has a lot of symbolic significance ties to ideas of rebellion against the state.

I get that Lamarque’s words are often seen as a rebellious call to action, so illegally interrupting his funeral could be a statement about resisting tyranny. It could be a call to action playing off the popularity and symbolic role that Lamarque has in the public consciousness.

 But at the same time— shouldn’t Les Amis have just gone to the palace and attacked the king directly? Why disrupt this symbolic event instead? They’re not really going after the people responsible! 

After all, there were so many people there who just wanted a normal day. They weren’t responsible for what the government was doing and had nothing to do with it.  They wanted to see the procession, to hear Lafayette’s speech and grieve a political figure they cared for. They wanted to hear people praise ‘resistance’ in the abstract, without actually doing it.

 Weren’t Les Amis disrupting that?  

Aren’t Les Amis bad activists? Isn’t disrupting people’s everyday lives for the sake of 'activism' always inherently a bad thing? I’m not against activism, but isn’t doing that kind of disruptive activism rude? Isn’t disrupting the lives of ordinary people just doing their jobs or going out for a special event evil— no matter why you’re doing it, or what your goals are, or whether the government actually is doing something vile that we should start to stage great events rallying against?

Even if this Lamarque's funeral has special significance because of its symbolic pop cultural ties to rebellion against tyranny—shouldn’t they have just avoided rudely interrupting some regular people’s everyday lives? 

Protests shouldn’t disrupt things. they should be big parades that don’t make anyone uncomfortable, don’t interrupt anything, and don’t disrupt any aspects of ‘normal people’s daily life.’ No one should ever target symbolic events— like a funeral for a political figure or a musical about revolution—  to make a political statement. Protests should be little quiet festivals that cause absolutely no interruption in everyday life so that we can all just safely ignore them, until the climate catastrophe they’re warning us about arrives.”  

#les miserables #les mis #sklajdfsf sorry if this comes off as rude its also not my intention. im just a bit baffled XD #but slakdjfsdf #no hard feeligns though kinda #but protest is supposed to be disruptive and to prevent life from continuing as normal #and using Les Mis-- a story that is theoretically about rebellion against tyranny-- as the symbolic centerpiece of a disruptive protest #makes a lot of sense #and protests angrily decrying fossil fuel companies is important! #ive noticed its really easy to glorify the concept of protest/resistnace in the abstract #but its hard to deal with the fact a lot ground-level protest. is disruptive to every day people #because its suppsoed to be #and honestly the climate crisis will affect our daily lives far more than student activists interrupting a show #so people wll need to get refunds XD

[vestaignis]

Наутилус (лат. Nautilus) — род головоногих моллюсков, которых относят к «живым ископаемым». Самый распространенный вид — Nautilus pompilius. Наутилусы относятся к единственному современному роду подкласса наутилоидей. Первые представители наутилоидей появились в кембрии, а его развитие пришлось на палеозой. Наутилиды почти вымерли на границе триаса и юры, но все же дожили до наших дней, в отличие от своих родственников аммонитов. Некоторые виды ��ревних наутилусов достигали размера в 3,5 м. Представители самого крупного вида современных наутилусов достигают максимального размера в 25 см.

Спиральный «домик» моллюска состоит из 38 камер и «построен» по сложному математическому принципу (закон логарифмической прогрессии). Все камеры, кроме последней и самой большой, где размещается тело наутилуса с девятью десятками «ног», соединяются через отверстия между собой сифоном.  Раковина наутилуса двухслойная: верхний (наружный) слой – фарфоровидный – действительно напоминает хрупкий фарфор, а внутренний, с перламутровым блеском – перламутровый. «Домик» наутилуса растет вместе с хозяином, который перемещается по мере роста раковины в камеру попросторней. Пустое жилище моллюска после его гибели можно встретить далеко от его места обитания – после гибели «хозяина» их раковины остаются на плаву и перемещаются по воле волн, ветров и течений.

Интересно, что двигается наутилус «в слепую», задом наперед, не видя и не представляя препятствий, которые могут оказаться на его пути.И еще одно удивительное качество этих древних обитателей Земли – у них потрясающая регенерация: буквально через несколько часов раны на их телах затягиваются, а в случае потери щупальца быстро отрастает новое.

Nautilus is a genus of cephalopods, which are classified as "living fossils". The most common species is Nautilus pompilius. Nautilus belong to the only modern genus of the Nautiloid subclass. The first representatives of the Nautiloids appeared in the Cambrian, and its development took place during the Paleozoic. The Nautilids almost died out on the border of the Triassic and Jurassic, but still survived to the present day, unlike their Ammonite relatives. Some species of ancient Nautilus reached a size of 3.5 m. Representatives of the largest species of modern nautilus reach a maximum size of 25 cm.

The spiral "house" of the mollusk consists of 38 chambers and is "built" according to a complex mathematical principle (the law of logarithmic progression). All chambers, except the last and largest, where the nautilus body with nine dozen "legs" is located, are connected through holes with a siphon. The nautilus shell is two–layered: the upper (outer) layer – porcelain–like - really resembles fragile porcelain, and the inner, with a mother-of-pearl luster - mother-of-pearl. The nautilus's "house" grows with its owner, who moves as the shell grows into a larger chamber. The empty dwelling of a mollusk after its death can be found far from its habitat – after the death of the "owner", their shells remain afloat and move at the will of waves, winds and currents.

Interestingly, the Nautilus moves "blindly", backwards, without seeing or imagining the obstacles that may be in its path.And another amazing quality of these ancient inhabitants of the Earth is that they have amazing regeneration: in just a few hours, the wounds on their bodies heal, and in case of loss of tentacles, a new one grows quickly.

Источник:://t.me/+t0G9OYaBjn9kNTBi, /sevaquarium.ru/nautilus/, /habr.com/ru/articles/369547/, //wallpapers.com/nautilus, poknok.art/6613-nautilus-molljusk.html, //wildfauna.ru/nautilus-pompilius, /www.artfile.ru/i.php?i=536090.

#fauna #video #animal video #marine life #marine biology #nature #aquatic animals #cephalopods #Nautilus #nautilus pompilius #living fossils #ocean #benthic #coral #plankton #beautiful #animal photography #nature aesthetic #видео #фауна #природнаякрасота #природа #океан #бентосные #головоногие моллюски #Наутилус #живое ископаемое #коралл #планктон

[bbnibini]

In my retirement phase with my equally geriatric husband 🥰

#i am fully convinced Nightbringer is just MC and Solomon buying rare magical items together #in their glorified honeymoon #obey me #obey me nightbringer #living my best life with my senior citizen husband 🙏💕 #blessed #rhythm game what rhythm game #solomon and i are just hunting for rare artifacts to sell to akuzon #once we get back to the present #me sneakily adding & editing more screenshots of the fossil husband being domestic when i see it 🥰

[markscherz]

My friend said he hates taxonomists because they make stuff up. (There was also a rant about fish not existing and birds being reptiles mixed in there, but yeah). What's your opinion on this, as a taxonimist?

I was having a similar debate with a sixteen-foot tall animated candelabra the other day. No idea where they get it from.

#this is a stupid answer #taxonomists are doing their best okay #well #some of them are #higher taxonomy is a mess #but that's mostly dealt with by people who are not real taxonomists #and another problem is that people working on living taxa often do not talk with the people working on fossil taxa and vice versa #so reconciling the two is hard #see also: Wikipedia's taxonomy hellscape #answers by Mark #Anonymous

[llatimeria]

🐟 IT'S COELACANTH DAY! 🐟

On December 23rd, 1938, an unusual fish was caught off the coast of South Africa near the mouth of the Chalumna river by Captain Henrik Goosen. Recognizing its potential significance, he showed it to his friend and local museum curator, Marjorie-Courtenay Latimer, who reluctantly had it taxidermied to preserve it long enough for her colleague J. L. B. Smith to identify, as he was unfortunately unavailable while the specimen was fresh and easier to study.

Nonetheless, Smith identified the animal as a modern-day descendant of coelacanths, a fish up to then only known through fossils over 66 million years old and presumed long extinct. Smith gave the animal the scientific name Latimeria chalumnae, in honor of his colleague's contribution to the historic discovery as well as the river they were found somewhat close to, I guess.

Thanks to the combined efforts of these amateur and professional naturalists, people all around the world can admire and protect these wonderful, bizarre, and unique animals. Now we can celebrate the re-birthday of the coelacanth every year on December 23rd!.

🐟Happy Coelacanth Day Everyone!🐟

#coelacanth #history #marine biology #living fossil #ocean #coelacanth day

[rainbow-neko-artblog]

Are we gonna see you on Tumblr more often, since the ban for TikTok might be going out?

mmmmmmmm

I really hate thinking about it but i suppose yes.

I think ill have to focus on posting to youtube i guess....since i can still make monetizable money over there....and ill probably have to push my patreon more-

Hey maybe ill be able to make designs for my redbubble and- work on Tiny Tails more hah....ah....

yeah.....work.......that'll distract me from such a volatile ban of freedom of speech......

...

#it feels so fucking stupid to talk about #the fact that the goverment is taking away the only platform ive been given to talk freely and openly #the platform that has provided me with money to ease my homelife #the platform i was most comfortable on #i am scared of the future of our goverment #the goverment that takes away the ways we express ourselves #stripping us of jobs with robot replacements and laws that ban both body and speech #i do not want to live in a country that is run by fossils hellbent on controlling my every move after it preeched about freedom #how fucking dare they give us such bullshit false hope

[hanging-with-my-gnomies]

Crying alone in my silent room at night bc of old politicians that are fucking up the world with their greed just cause they won't be here to see the consequences of their actions and are dooming the next generation is such an autistic sense of justice slay for me.

#actually autistic #autism spectrum #autism #audhd #politics #canada is burning rn and all our leaders want to do is use more fossil fuels #genuinely sobbing #its anger hatred and despair all at once #i cant do anything about it either and the fact that i have to accept that unfairness in the world im living in makes me furious #fuck greedy bastards #why cant everyone just follow the rules of being decent human beings for once #i wish i was a giraffe #giraffes are not burdened by this bullshit #canada is on fire #its burning #climate change #global warming

[wisteriagoesvroom]

gonna be real, i literally came here to read yaoi like why the fukk do i now know about porpoising and chicanes and quali schedules. ross brawn to me now is a legendary TP and not a shaving brand. pls. i did not come here to hyperfixate i in fact came here to disassociate. u lure me with anime boy dynamics and now i memorise f1 race schedules and somehow follow mclaren on main? i came here for thirsty driver edits and now i'm yelling in the DMs about strat calls? the FIA should pay for my therapy.

#f1blr #this is getting ridiculous #so called “casual” enjoyer #something something nct 127 to charles leclerc to silverstone replays pipeline #in all seriousness it is very fun to be here tho #i am learning a lot about The Sport #alongside my favourite fossil fuel guzzling tax evader blorbos <3 #oscar piastri don't worry we won't eat you in the revolution yet <3 because you don't live in monaco <3<3 yet <3<3<3

[grow-and-decay]

(sorry if your fave isn’t on there!)

#polls #living fossils #paleo #paleontology #paleoblr #marine animals #ocean #sea life

[sharks-are-friends-not-foes]

🐙Daily Cephalopod Fact:🐙

Chambered Nautilus: The nautilus is an octopus’ cousin. It has more than 90 tentacles — the most of any cephalopod — which it uses to feel and grope along the reefs for food. Unlike those of other cephalopods, a nautilus’s tentacles have grooves and ridges instead of suckers. The nautilus is the only cephalopod with an external shell. Much like zebras, nautiluses can be individually identified based on their striped shell patterns.

#chambered nautilus #nautilus #octopus cousin #living fossil #respect the locals #cephalopod #daily cephalopod #daily cephalopod fact #cephalopod facts #facts about cephalopods #marine #marine animals #marine biology #marine life #ocean #ocean life #shark blog

[neovenatorgirlteeth]

FEBUZOIC DAY 4

Queensland, Australia - Ypresian stage, 55Ma before present

300,000 years ago, the planet experienced a short, geologically speaking, spike in temperatures that caused somewhere between 5-8C of warming. This spike marked the transition from the Palaeocene epoch to the Eocene, and although the event is over, the already hot world of the Cenozoic is slowly getting hotter. Dawn breaks on a greenhouse planet.

As the light touches the shores of lake Murgon, the last of the bats retreat into the shadows, and the crocodiles, giant snakes and odd wading birds that line the shore are revealed. The plethora of water-loving insects begins to hum in the suns rays, but their noise in punctured by a new sound; birdsong. A small, relatively unassuming looking bird hops along the rocks of the shoreline, stopping occasionally to produce short bursts of complex vocalisation. He is a one of the first passerines, a group that in the modern day contains around half of all bird species, from crows to blackbirds to the New Zealand rock wren.

Birds, the only dinosaurs to have survived the extinction event 11 million years ago, have exploded in diversity and are now fulfilling a huge number of roles in the ecosystem. There are now a huge amount of birds calling to eachother in the dawn, and the songs of this little bird pick it out from the crowd of not just other bird species, but other birds of the same species. As time passes, the evolutionary process will select for more and more intricate songs until they arrive in the Holocene in their beautiful modern form.

#Eocene #palaeostuff #anthem posts #anthems art #palaeontology #paleoart #palaeoart #palaeoblr #passeriformes #FYI the fossil this part is based off is fragmentary and it is currently in question as to whether it is actually even a passeriforme at al #but ultimately its a bird its a miracle if any of them fossilise the first passerine could be living in hordes at Murgon and we'd never kno #Febuzoic 2024

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Fish fact #476

Hagfish!

This class of 88 different species are interesting fish, as they are the only animals to have a skull made of cartilage but no spine!

#theres so much info on hagfishes its hard to pick just one or two things. most people already know them for their slime #but they can also squeeze through crevices less than half their body width #they have only simple eye spots and no complex eyes but fossil evidence suggests they used to have the latter #theyre more or less living fossils #the way they produce their slime could be a whole single fish fact #but perhaps ill name all these in a proper fact another time #fish #fishfact #fish facts #fishblr #marine biology #marine life #marine animals #sea creatures #sea animals #sea life #deep sea #deep sea fish #biology #zoology #hagfish