#evolution is fact

[things-ya-should-know]

Lobe finned versus ray finned fish

Short answer: ray finned fish evolved from from lobe finned fish

Long answer: Lobe finned fish were dominant for a long time in the waters before they climbed up onto land and evolved into you, dear reader. This occurred around 400 MYA (million years ago). Sometime before that, about 425 MYA, ray finned fishes had evolved, but remained relatively small. This was until the permian mass extinction (290-245 MYA), when many lobe finned fish died out, and ray finned fishes (teleosts) were left to flourish and evolve to fill the empty evolutionary niches. The only lobe finned fish left behind today are the elusive coelacanths and lungfish. ***AND*** as the awesome people in the notes would like me to add, all tetrapods (tetra meaning four, pod meaning foot) are phylogenetically lobe finned fishes as well. this means amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

@marinebiologyshitposts @fuckyeahcoelacanths

#marine biology #lobe finned fish #ray finned fish #coelacanth #evolution #science #things ya should know #zoology #biology #ecology #animal facts #animals

[protectoursharks]

I heard that sharks and rays are super closely related. Are skates an approximate bridging “group” between them? Or are they outside of both groups

They are all really closely related- there in all the same class known as Chondrichthyes, or cartilaginous fish. Sharks evolved first, approximately 350 million years ago during the Carboniferous period. Skates and ray came around at approximately the same time as each other 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period.

So skates aren't really a "bridging group", they're actually most closely related to rays!

#marine biology #marine ecology #animals #science #biology #animal facts #wildlife #marine life #ocean #fun facts #shark #sharks #rays #sting rays #skates #evolution #zoology #fossils #natural history #jurassic period #carboniferous #sea life #sea creatures #marine animals #fish #chondrichthyes

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Evolution is a fact, not a theory. It really happened, and the fossil record and the molecular biology all confirm it. And yet, in this country, the United States, which is the leading scientific country in the world, we have people who are not only ignorant of science, but who are actively hostile to it and to the scientific method. And that is a serious problem, because science is not just a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. It's a way o skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine undersanding of human fallibility." -- Carl Sagan

#Carl Sagan #evolution #theory of evolution #evolution is a fact #science #human fallibility #scientific method #what science is #fossil record #molecular biology #evolution deniers #evolution denial #religion is a mental illness

[front-facing-pokemon]

#baltoy #now okay let's just get the elephant outta the room. baltoy? what does this mean. is it a toy that happens to be a ball. because that's how #i've parsed it my whole life. and i've always not understood it because this thing is a top and not a ball #it's also what like. ground/psychic?? i think that's cool but it's just. like what's it got going for it. i forget it exists regularly and #don't even know if it has an evolution to make it competitively viable #where's that one person who said they were gonna do competitive facts on every post and then only did it on one. i miss them #whatever folks have things to do. not everyone has the time to dedicate to a silly little tumblr blog like i do. so here i am #telling you nothing about baltoy. go girl give us nothing. i am giving you nothing

[bootleg-nessie]

Wake up babe, new taxonomy classification system just dropped

Since 25% of species on earth are beetles, so I have decided the scientific community should start classifying things as “beetle,” “not a beetle,” and “sort of a beetle.” I have provided examples below

(For all intents and purposes, a beetle is defined as being small, having 6 legs, an exoskeleton, and the ability to fly)

#the beatles #beetle #biology #taxonomy #evolution #r/196 #r/196archive #196 #/r/196 #rule #meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #charles darwin #Darwin #animal facts #animals

[talulagrimm]

I see everyone freaking out about the pool scene, meanwhile I'm over here freaking out about one expression in one shot. This mans is unhinged and feral and I live for it.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #chat noir #cat noir #claw noir #griffe noire #miraculous paris #miraculous paris special #the fact that I haven't drawn shadybug yet is a crime and yet I'm probs not going too :( #also can we just talk about how they made the special take place IN THE SAME NIGHT AS DESTRUCTION AND EVOLUTION? #Anyways I enjoyed it :) #ml paris special #ml paris spoilers

[aelkitofsunset]

i just love svsss fanfics where Bing-ge meets his own Shen Yuan and just. undergoes bingmeification. he gets hit with the love beams that radiate from Shen Yuan and it’s all over for him. unparalleled.

#kit-thoughts #text post #svsss #like crab evolution #the ultimate form of the Luo Binghe is the Bingmei #i also enjoy fics that acknowledge that it would. in fact. be a difficult process #but the bingmeification speed run fics are just. so fun. #luo bingge #bingyuan #the luo binghe brainrot continues

[llamahearted]

chicks dig the fuzzy dude (it's 2002 and they are nine years old and someday they will realize they wanted his exact gender the entire time)

prints ✩ track

#kurt my friend kurt who I love so much #drawing this was the first time I've felt serotonin enter my brain in the last 20 yrs maybe. I felt like I was on shi painter oekaki again #xmen evo was high camp and it's my guiding light #the decision to make scott and jean preps? the fact that the institute is. a school. but they still make em go to Public High School anyway #the amount of CLOAKS and corny fake european accents??? wolverine's whole begrudging dad figure/camp counselor vibes??? #also something very latently lgbt is happening every episode but like. its /xmen/. what else is new #kurt wagner #nightcrawler #x-men evolution

[missmitchieg]

criminalminds:

Welcome Profilers 👋 #CriminalMinds

#criminal minds #criminal minds evolution #paget brewster #aj cook #joe mantegna #adam rodriguez #aisha tyler #kirsten vangsness #emily prentiss #jennifer jareau #david rossi #luke alvez #tara lewis #penelope garcia #this show has me downloading tiktoks like wtf #the fact that i am doing this rn #it's how you know i'm in the /trenches/ of cm

[atlasamor]

Watched the @lackadaisycats sneak peak and I’m so excited for it. Have Quincy at a film set

#my art #lackadaisy #Ignore the fact that drawing smoke trails like that is my favourite thing #Can't believe it's been over 10 years since I started reading Lackadaisy #And then I just got caught up a few weeks ago #Walking into a whole new website like WHERE AM I? #WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? THERE'S POSTERS FOR THE CAST? #Literally glued to the screen salivating liquid awe and telling myself to get stronger #Very very inspiring #More than anything- I think seeing the evolution in art just strengthened my resolve to continue drawing #Forgot you can't edit tags so this will stay. Anyway. YAHOOO

[learnyouabiology]

Fun Fact: Oilbirds are Basically BatBirds!

I want to talk about these amazing birds:

I love them. I mean, look at their big, shiny eyes! NO ONE can say that they aren’t cute as hell!

The other reason I love these animals is because they’re basically what happens when evolution tries to make a bat out of a bird.

These little guys are known as oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis), and are also called guácharo (and also several other things, because they are found in South America, plus Trinidad & Tobago, which all have INCREDIBLE language diversity). 

Oilbirds are nocturnal, flying around the forests of South America at night looking for fruit to eat. They also live colonially in caves, which they navigate using echolocation.

So, to review:

(I’m making my Generic Bats a very generic fruit bat, for the record).

Oilbirds are the only birds with this combination of traits, which I think is pretty cool of them! Why are they so much like bats? Basically, when different types of animals evolve under similar selective pressures, they often evolve the same features! This is called convergent evolution, and wow I talk about it a lot on this blog! It turns out that nocturnal animals that live in caves and eat fruit can sometimes benefit from traits like these!

(they’re, like... spooky-cute. Cute-spooky? Either way, I like them a lot)

So, if these birds are flying around at night, how do they stop themselves from flying into things while searching for that tasty, tasty fruit?

Well, in the forest, they mostly rely on their AMAZING night vision (which is another trait they share with bats, fyi). That is why they have such big, adorable eyes, which has a lot of light-sensing cells called rods. They actually hold a record for the density of the rods in their eyes: one million per square millimetre. That is the highest density of any known vertebrate. It’s about 6x denser than the rods found in human eyes! 

...still cute

Their amazing vision allows them to see very well in low light, which is how they navigate the South American jungles at night, searching for food under the moon and stars. That said, their vision just doesn’t cut it when it comes to flying in the caves they call home. Why? Well, caves are dark as hell, and even the best night-vision can’t do anything for you when there’s no light at all. Plus, flying into cave walls/ cliff faces hurts, so it’s good to be extra sure you’re not flying into solid rock!

So how do they find their way around these dark caves? Well, they use something very unusual for birds: echolocation!

Oilbirds are one of only a few species of birds that are known to use echolocation (the others are a few species of  the closely-related swiflets (Collocaliini), but I HAVE DECIDED TODAY IS FOR THE OILBIRDS im sorry, swiflets, ilu2).

Look at them, not flying into rocks! I’m so proud (˃̣̣̥ ◡ ˂̣̣̥)

Also, a bonus fact, because idk where to fit this but I MUST mention it:

They have little whiskers around their beaks (which are technically called “rictal bristles”, but I’m going to call them “whiskers” because I like that word better). These whiskers are basically used to feel things that they have in and around their mouth, helping them find, manipulate, and eat their tasty fruit!

...moustache...

This has been Fun Fact Friday!

#science #birds #biology #sciblr #science side of tumblr #STEM #adhd in STEM #zoology #ecology #convergent evolution #fun fact friday #fun facts #oilbirds #I know i've been MIA for a while #my reason is that clinical depression CAME FOR ME #mental illness strikes again! #im not really better but im trying to get myself to experience joy by looking at cool birds #i also touched some trees and am in therapy and have new meds

[robogart]

So my friend and I are watching x-men evolution ✨

#digital art #xmen evolution #x-men evolution #the brotherhood #xmen #accidentally spelt something wrong so time to repost > w >;;; #anyways if you don't feel the same way we just can't be friends #these are just simple facts #i have so many THOUGHTS about this show alskjdlfajks #will be writing up a dissertation later

[melnathea]

Mega Umbreon

Poisonous fog created from it’s own sweat covers the body of this Pokémon. The more angry it becomes, the brighter its markings glow.

This fakemon design is free to use! Read more below ⬇️

You can freely use this design concept to make ocs, include it in fangames or other projects!

You can link back to here so others can find it too, but else i don’t require credit unless you specifically use the art above!

#umbreon #fakemon #mega evolution #pokemon #fanart #art #my art #tried to mimic the old official pkm style c: its fun #The poisonous sweat is a canon umbreon fact if u didnt know #and the poison type add on is because i remember reading somewhere that umbreon should have been poison type? #espeons types would probably be fairy psychic to match #damn guess ill have to make espeon too

[kopykunoichi]

No thoughts in my head, just them.

Left column: chapters 47, 62, 98

Center column: chapters 137, 175, 175

Right column: chapters 201, 225, 225

#akatsuki no yona #yona of the dawn #son hak #princess yona #yonak #don't mind me - just resurfacing after re-reading my favorite manga to leave this here #evolution of a kiss #slowest slow burn in history #but it's so worth it #the kiss where she was passing water into his mouth because of the smoke is still my favorite #hak was THIRSTY and it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the building was on fire #is it a cliché trope? yes it is. do i care? no i do not. #it works on me every damn time #also...it's been 27 chapters since these two made out...which far too long #literally it's been a year and a half... #also it will never not amuse me that she was the first one to kiss him on the lips #he was working his way down from her forehead to the bridge of her nose to her cheek... #and the next time they kiss she just grabs him and assaults his mouth #technically she also initiated the second “kiss” on the lips when she chose that method to give him water #get it girl

[front-facing-pokemon]

#alolan golem #i guess this thing is a LITTLE bit sillier just based on the fact that it has a big mustache now but also we don't support trade evolutions #booooo trade evolution booooo yuuuuuck get outta here fuck you

[posletsvet]

I had another one of those thoughts that are bordering on slightly delusional.

Chances are it's already been pointed out by someone before me, but. How come Geto's body reacting to Gojo calling out to him was 'a first' for Kenjaku? Did they only ever choose those who happened to have no loved ones that would want their person back? But we have Itadori's parents, and they deeply loved each other and didn't stop loving till the very end. Is the bond between Satoru and Suguru really so strong as to surpass the one between a happily married couple? And then it sort of struck me that perhaps it's the first time Kenjaku so openly and directly violates their host body's will.

I like to entertain the thought that Kenjaku is not at all detached from human connections and emotion. While they are capable of seperating their conscious from the experience that comes along with the body they're inhabiting, this experience is still an intrinsic part of that body. All romanticization aside, one's personality is dictated by one's physiology. Our feelings are something biological, a network of interconnected structures and chemical levels within our bodies. Who we are is engraved upon our hearts, in a literal sense. To quote Kenjaku themself, 'The body is the soul, and the soul the body'. If it were otherwise, they probably wouldn't be able to mimic various people's personalities so accurately and convincingly as to fool their closest friends and family.

So maybe Kenjaku does feel their host's lingering emotions and is to some degree influenced by its impulses. Maybe while in Kaori's body they did feel the love that remained in her for Jin, did feel the body's budding affection towards a child it gave birth to, did have some maternal instinct. But knowing full well those feelings are but a product of their current body, I imagine they have a far better grasp on them, too, and treat them as tools at their disposal, just sometimes indulging in what the body tells them to do. In Kaori's case, I think they could afford to go with the flow more. They felt the body's urges and responded by acting upon them -- because why not? They're an epitome of 'mess around and find out'.

With them taking over Geto's body, it's different. They're no longer eminence grise operating from the shadows, they've entered the game they'd been orchestrating for so long. Now they're truly proactive, and no longer being under disguise they're more themself than ever, too. And it directly contradicts with the person Geto is (or was). We do not yet know what Kenjaku's true intentions are, but it's unlikely they align with what Geto would want to put his mind to.

And Geto never wanted to do any harm to Gojo. In those ten years, never once did he make a move directly against him. Meanwhile it's an inherent part of Kenjaku's plans. So when it comes to it, Geto's very nature, those tiny glimpses of him still lingering somewhere within his body, cries out against it.

Caring for people around him was Geto's defining trait, and his body still carries those attachments, that love. Responding to Gojo is an instinct his flesh still remembers. Trying to protect him is engraved upon Geto's muscle memory. Kenjaku's actions are essentially at odds with all that, so that puts the body and the soul in discord -- and they clash eventually, getting out a reaction from otherwise dormant and inanimate flesh. No wonder Kenjaku calls that poetic.

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk analysis #kenjaku #kaori itadori #jin itadori #gojo satoru #geto suguru #satosugu #alright i'm back and come bearing angst again #actually i think kenjaku has some sort of strange fascination with gojo #be it satoru or the gojo clan with their six eyes technique in general #they believe that next stage of evolution lies in optimizing cursed energy #and the six eyes allow for insanely high precision and control when it comes to manipulating cursed energy #if i were them i'd fascinated by this fact alone #aside from this whole 'bound by fate to tengen' business #*rattles my cage* #gege pleass i need to know #side note: god kenjaku is an incredibly interesting character #and a great villain too #i'm dying to learn more about them #jjk meta