#biology is cool

[idontknowenglishplzhelpme]

My brain has the consistency of jelly, runs on less energy than light bulb, it's full of error's and it's so easy to manipulate and control that even cats and baby's can do it

My lungs like oxigen which causes oxidation and it's one of the 3 things necessary to burn shit up

My bones are weird as a concept and are also constantly wet and depending on the medicine I took throughout my life they might not even be white anymore

My muscles are basically masoquists and are pretty dammed inefficient in holding something for long periods of time

Our extremities are weirdly long for our size and I don't like that

Our blood is red,that's pretty fucking weird, and it's a liquid made to transport gases which sounds dumb and inefficient, like, why not send them as a gas directly?

Organs are also weird, weird and incredible specialized lumps of meat not properly attached to the rest of the body and some of them almost look like they are sentient in the way they regenerate if cut and we can also live without most of them

The function of a heart could be replaced with a hand constantly squishing it and I don't like that

Fingers are weird in a similar way to limbs but multiple times worse and they have too many bones and muscles

Tongues. I don't think I need to go into detail with this one

Hair and nails are basically dead/inanimate matter that grows out of holes on our skin and that creeps me out a lot

Skin is kinda alright but it has pores ( I won't talk about pores) and it's not properly attached either which is weird.

Belly button. It scares me and creeps me out because it feels like it will open up at any moment. No more will be said

Feets look weird. Thats it, they are fine

Eyes are balls of extremely specialized meat that can detect light of all things but only some of it and ours are pretty bad in the animal kingdom

Butts: humans have the biggest butts of the animal kingdom thanks to our bipedal way of walking. I like them 👍

Boobs are Okey and I like them but the nipples (especially male nipples) make me uncomfortable

Ears look funny but that's it. Being able to detect the vibrations of the air sounds useless but it's pretty neat

Thigh's. I like them. Wanna bite them.

Teeth. I don't like them but they let me bite stuff so they get a pass

Neck's are weird, why do we need to separe our heads from our torso? Its feels like a weak point (and It is one). Wanna bite them too

Hormone's and shit like that is weird, I don't want some inanimate molecule to have any sort of control over me whatsoever and it feels like someone needs to teach them about consent

Puberty is also a wild concept and I don't know about any other species that has one as pronounced as humans. Why aren't we born as adults directly? Seems more effective (and it's still less weird than marsupials)

Saliva is technically an acid I think and that's pretty neat because I can also spit it out of my body if needed. I want you to take that as a warning and a threat

Cells are weird. I don't like that I can be divided into parts that small. I want infinite density so that I can't be divided into components, because that's weird

That's it I think. Those are my thoughts about the human body.

Now go drink water, because even if our bodies are weird we still need them and should appreciate these weird, meat, carbon-based, maquines that house our consciousness

#i don't like having holes in my body #i didn't know i was scared of belly buttons until i watched adventure time #that chapter scared the shit out of me #i could barely look at the tv #i also don't like needles #they give my body extra holes #and i already said i dont like that #i actually like biology #biology is cool #i like biting stuff #biology #human body #everything i don't like about the human body #i actually didn't have any ideas on where i was going with this post but i like how it ended up #also go kiss your pets

[scienceandtechworld]

#respiratory health #medicalschool #medical students #biology #biology is fun #biology is cool #biotech #biomed #health #dontsmoke #stop smoking #quitsmoking #Respiratorydisorders #respiratory system

[great-and-small]

Apparently if you find a tagged Horseshoe crab and report it to Fish and Wildlife they’ll send you a certificate with info about your crab AND a pewter horseshoe crab pin! Keep your eyes peeled 👀

(Photo from the Nantucket Conservation Foundation)

#citizen science #horseshoe crabs #animals #biology #cool #I want that pin so badly but I refuse to buy one it must be earned #zoology #fwc

[tibli]

I love when arthropods have a pseudopupil. It's so whimsical and cute, and they come in so many varieties!!

little kitty cat eyes!!!

bombastic side eyes!!!!

cartoon character eyes!!!!

bigass anime eyes!!!!!

BE NOT AFRAID eyes!!!!!

#biology #arthropods #crustaceans #insects #crab #praying mantis #grasshopper #damselfly #butterfly #sorry i just googles -athropod name- eyes #so im not sure exactly what species these bugs are (yes crabs is bugs) #honestly im not sure if thats actually a praying mantis #it could just be like. a regular mantis #who cares anyway pseudopupils are so fucking cool!!!!!!! #i ESPECIALLY love damselflies they are so fucking cute and have no right to be that way #also grasshoppers have such funny faces #they all remind me of like. distinguished and rotund victorian gentleman. no idk why that is

[purplesound]

being a little cringe about french gays <3 (also I want them to have a biological child don't judge me😭)

also parents with the egg

I'll definitely draw their kid I already have some concept art for her it's just the matter of mood and time😭

#genshin impact #neuvillette #wriothesley #wriolette #neuvithesley #tw mpreg #mpreg #sorry 😔 #it's actually my first time wanting for characters to have a biological child idk i guess wriolette changed something in my brain #also neuvi is a dragon sooo....weird and cool biology #my art

[themagictophat]

Found this with no context on my phone

Just "photo taken on April 19, 2022 at 8:22 PM." No clues from any of the surrounding pictures. The previous one is me documenting the existence of my grandfather's stuffed pheasant before we get rid of it when we move and the one after it is a 13 second clip of me dumping a bag down our apartment's trash-chute and listening to it fall down all eight floors into the basement.

So I text the number and...

IT WORKED I GOT A SQUID FACT

This made my 3-in-the-morning, thank you Squid Fact Hotline, I didn't actually know that second fact about how tiny pygmy squids are.

#Squid Facts #It turns out it was just a screencap of a reddit post and not me actually photographing the squidmobile in traffic #but who cares #marine biology #is cool

[markscherz]

Just learned that tadpoles with injured tails sometimes regenerate them with extra legs

[src]

So that's neat.

#the more you know #frogs #science #animals #zoology #developmental biology #holy shit #this is called a homeotic transformation #and I think I have only really heard about them in fruitflies #so seeing it in frogs really fucked me up #how incredibly cool #I always thought the creatures from Pandora could not exist in vertebrates #because homeotic transformations in the *middle* of the trunk were basically impossible to achieve in a survivable manner #but it had not occurred to me that you could just… add more to the end #this changes everything

[amnhnyc]

Cephalopod lovers, meet the stubby bobtail (Rossia pacifica)! With a mantle length of only up to 2 in (5 cm), this tiny critter typically spends its days buried beneath the sand, emerging at night to feed. Shrimp comprise nearly 80% of this species’ diet, but it also preys on small fishes and even other cephalopods. It can be found in coastal waters from Japan to California.

Photo: kcram, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

#science #nature #natural history #animals #cephalopods #stubby #ocean life #marine biology #did you know #fact of the day #cool animals #fish #squid

[todayontumblr]

Friday, December 8.

N/A

Sometimes, precious little need be said. Today is just one of those times. Because today, we celebrate the tardigrade: dinkiest water bear of the oceans, the mountains, and deepest darkest space.

#today on tumblr #tardigrade #tardigrade inferno #cool stuff #sea critters #cute #wholesome #tardigradeblr #tardigrades on tumblr #art #cute art #nature #biology #biology memes #artists on tumblr #cute animals #cuteness

[monarchbutt]

me and my homies pulling up to the function

#paleontology #biology #sciblr #stem #science #geology #cool rocks #rocks #mineralogy #geology rocks #dinos #dinosaurs #dinosaur #prehistoric #palaeoblr #triassic #cretaceous #cephalopod #earth #earth science

[geostelar5]

Acclimation is actually an insane thing that our bodies do and its amazing how rapidly we adjust to a new environment.

It's like "Oh you wanna live in a place where the average temperature is literally 10 TIMES hotter than we're used to with almost 100% humidity so sweat isn't as effective? Ok give me a few days to adjust than we're good just some more sweat as we get used to it"

"What the fuck you wanna move to a place that's THOUSANDS OF FEET up in the air? A place without enough OXYGEN for you to function fuck...Ok give me a few days to MAKE MORE BLOOD AND MAKE YOUR HEART BIGGER then you'll be alright."

On a generational basis it's even funnier cause within a few dozen generations we can actually adapt to like any environment. People from Africa and Aboriginals are usually darker because Melanin acts as sunscreen in a place where they get too much sun and during a time where people didn't wear many clothes or have indoor shelters like today.

But as humans migrated north to latitudes where the Sun isn't constantly raining down an endless beam of death and cancer and started to wear more clothes due to it being colder they started lacking in Vitamin D and that leads to a whole HOST of other health issues related to births, cancers and other shit so we started lessening the pigment in our Skin in order to get as much Vitamin D that we can. This happened within a few generations as far as we're aware and like this shit is happening on a SUPER Fast biological scale.

For a kinda poor metaphor, the rate at which humans adapt to massively different environments to best live in is like how Speed runners can complete OOT within like 5 minutes compared to the 27 hours it takes to beat casually Edit:So apparently I am a dumbass when it comes to tempreture as the way we measure tempreture is not in fact liniar and is more logrimtic in nature than I was led to belive by math. There isn't a 10X increase in tempreture. But still you can go from living in Norway in the Winter to the Tropics/Sahara in a short period of time and our bodies adapt concerningly fast

#human #humans are cool #humans are awesome #anthropology #archeology #biology #learning #science #paleoanthropology #humans are weird #humans are space orcs

[protectoursharks]

can you do one about vampire squids ? 🦑

Vampyroteuthis infernalis or Vampire Squid

It's (very dramatic) scientific name means "vampire squid from hell". However, the vampire squid is not actually a squid! It's actually the only animal in the Vampyroteuthidae family! It's separated into its own family because it can't change color or produce ink. Instead, it turns itself "inside out" (as shown above) to deter predators.

Proportionally, vampire squids also have the largest eyes compared to their body size! They eat mostly zooplankton, marine snow, and other organisms waste. They grow to be about the size of a football and live to be around 8 years old.

There's even evidence that vampire squids have been around since the Jurassic period- almost 200 million years ago!

#marine biology #marine ecology #animals #science #biology #animal facts #wildlife #marine life #ocean #fun facts #vampire squid #cephalopods #sea creature #squid #sea animals #sea creatures #sea animal #cool animals #zoology #ichthyology #sea #seas #oceans #the ocean #deep sea #jurassic period #fun animal facts #weird animal facts

[scienceandtechworld]

These are the stages of cell division

#biology #biotech #medicalschool #health #science #biology is cool #biology is fun #biologystudent #biomed #cellbiology #microbiology #nanobiology #chemistry #meiosis #mitosis #cell division

[troythecatfish]

#New York memes #memes #tumblr memes #meme #shark lover #sharks #fish memes #animal memes #animal meme #animal humor #fish meme #dank memes #sharks are cool #sharks are friends #New York meme #new york #animal love #marine biology shitpost #shitpost #dank humor #ocean memes #funny but true #true memes #humour #best memes #humor #memesdaily #funny memes #meme humor #lol memes

[traffrogers]

this week on traff getting obsessed with an au that barely exists

#ocean explorer au #picture underwater science archeology marine biology horror #indiana jones but alien with the hermitcraft guys #etho and gem being pals #grian being insane and obsessive about underwater books #i also have ideas for cool etho plot :0 #hermitcraft #illustration #archillustrates #life series #traffic smp #artists on tumblr #trafficblr #geminitay #grianmc #grian #grian fanart #hermitcraft grian #hermitblr #geminitay fanart #gem is great #geminislay #fisherman grian #hermitcraft season 10 #hermitcraft au

[spineless-lobster]

I think it’s cool that whale fall is a special term for a corpse. When we see roadkill we don’t call it “skunk fall”. There is a special kind of reverence in the surge of life that occurs after the death of a whale. I wonder if deep sea creatures, hidden from the warm touch of sunlight, are honoured to be able to feast on the rotting flesh of a fallen god

#I just find whale fall really cool okay? #whale fall #marine biology #marine life #and death I suppose #whales