Do you have any favorite examples of bizarre sexual dimorphism in nature?
sure do!
the blanket octopus is a wonderous creature. reaching about two meters in length, the females glide majestically through the tropical south seas, trailing two huge vibrant coattail cloaks of fused tentacle webbing behind them!
they use their brightly-colored cloak as an intimidation factor, tricking predator and prey alike into thinking that they're MUCH bigger than they actually are! look at this, would you mess with this?? I would not mess with this.
the males, on the other tentacle arm, are about an inch long.
*squeaky toy noise*
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THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:
So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.
I asked to share this info and he gave permission!
Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!
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I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon
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Things that are going to happen in 2024 according to Star Trek:
1) the absolutely giant homeless-population of the USA (or was is just New York? Idk, I‘m from Europe) is going to start a civil-war fighting against the upper class and police.
2) Ireland is going to get united
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It has just occurred to me that since rabies is a mammal disease, it can theoretically affect whales.
it's theoretically true!
there's not really a reason why they couldn't get rabies, but cetaceans are really difficult targets for land-bound pathogens that are spread by close contact because:
a. it's really. REALLY unlikely that an infected land animal would come into contact with a cetacean in the first place, and
b. the seawater tends to wash the pathogen away before it can get into wounds.
hurray for ocean! cleanser of sins!!!
the closest we ever got (that we know of) is a rabid ringed seal case from 1980.
which was still FUCKIN WEIRD enough that it's the only recorded incident of its kind, so I really wouldn't worry about it!
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listen hobbit pussy could be mediocre (doubtful) but even if it was it's still followed by a 17 course homecooked meal and the kind of weed that would make sauron scared. lithe beautiful immortal elven pussy has no power compared to the simple, hardworking hobbit. and it goes without saying that you cannot handle dwarven pussy.
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Thank you @mbari-blog for the deep-sea footage!
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