#stem-bird

[monarchbutt]

whenever i can't picture dinosaurs existing i just humble myself by looking at birds alive today. what the actual fuck is that thing

#just look into the eyes of flamingos and you can see the dinosaur #biology #science #stem #sciblr #paleontology #zoology #fossils #prehistoric #dinosaurs #earth science #geoscience #dinosaur #paleoblr #cretaceous #sauropod #geology #prehistoric animals #birds #birdblr

[onlysushicat]

Teen love !

#huntlow #the owl house #hunter clawthorne #hunter noceda #willow park #willow toh #hunter toh #og art #valentines day #this took me almost 3 days no joke #the flowers are real too #they are from the ceibo tree #their meaning is “purity and sweetness + indomitable rebellion” #also they look lik red birds if you take them whole with the stem lol

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Result from the Tiaojishan formation #paleostream! We had a closer look at the arboreal fauna of this formation

Also some close ups

#sciart #paleoart #paleostream #palaeoblr #dinosaur #jurassic #pterosaur #caihong #anurognathids #stem birds #mammals #gliding bois #arboreal #jurassic forest #tiaojishan

[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

[mindblowingscience]

Research in the jungle of New Guinea reveals two species of birds that carry a powerful neurotoxin.

“These birds contain a neurotoxin that they can both tolerate and store in their feathers,” says Knud Jønsson of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, who worked with Kasun Bodawatta of the University of Copenhagan.

The bird species have each developed the ability to consume toxic food and turn that into a poison of their own.

The species in question are the regent whistler (Pachycephala schlegelii), a species that belongs to a family of birds with a wide distribution and easily recognizable song well known across the Indo-Pacific region, and the rufous-naped bellbird (Aleadryas rufinucha).

“We were really surprised to find these birds to be poisonous as no new poisonous bird species has been discovered in over two decades. Particularly, because these two bird species are so common in this part of the world,” says Jønsson. The findings appear in the journal Molecular Ecology.

Continue Reading

#science #stem #nature #ornithology #birds #new guinea

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

Trust Babs, she's an engineer

STEM girlie Barbara Gordon is quite the tinkerer.

Nightwing 1996 #150, Batgirl 2009 #9, Oracle: The Cure #1 and Batgirl: Year One.

With Dick "I'll sleep when I'm dead" Grayson and Steph "swear I'm listening" Brown as her little assistants.

#barbara gordon #stem girl #oracle #batgirl #birds of prey #batfam #bat family #batman #dc comics

[bienditt]

week 6

A late start is better than not starting.

#listening to blue bird for ultimate motivation #bienditt #studyblr #studyspo #uniblr #studying #stemblr #productivity #clown college #study notes #desk #stem academia #lab report

[solargeist]

grian opens up abt the watchers and everything to mumbo one day and the first thing mumbo says is "oh, thats why you have a problem with authority?" and everything clicks into place

#''No. Wait maybe-'' #using grian's silly bits as lore. why not! why not. #him having a problem with authority + a hoarding problem. wonder where that stems from. hm. #mumbos also like so ur NOT a bird..

[toxictoxicities]

Sorry if this sounds odd, but I've been wondering... do birds have any significance in your Trafficlights? Birds have been mentioned in at least three of your Trafficlights drawings. Was that just a coincidence/spur-of-the-moment idea, or is that a theme for them in some way — in symbolism, or maybe it's something they connect on, etc.? (I'm asking because I have this silly idea for them more directly related to birds, but I need to know if that's actually a running theme)

Nah it's not odd at all! Especially when I have in fact littered so many little symbols and foreshadows in designs and art pieces I've done - and I love sprinkling in little symbols or using certain elements which aid in the whole visualization of the narrative.

However I cannot spill alllll my lil secrets I've laid out, but I'd love to hear your interpretation of it!

#ill give u a curve ball also #someone pointed out that only Suns left antenna twitches #lil details like that >:) #toxart #toxtalk #trafficlights #I think more the bird is somewhat a symbol #but also a metaphor #im not sure how to label it #but it did stem from me just liking birds #and that theres many things I could do with birds and certain things meaning different stuff about the two #srs #nsh #iterators #rw #rain world #qna #sketches

[palaeoiris]

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ASEXUALITY DAY! 🖤🩶🤍💜

Barn Swallow + Asexual Pride Flag

🖤🩶🤍💜

Today our ace artist has decided to gift fellow Natural History enjoyers who happen to be ace (or know someone who is) with sketches of animals and ace-umbrella flags you've requested some time ago.

Join us throughout the day as we post brand new sketches every couple of hours!

Personal use with credit welcome and encouraged!

#IAD2024 #Asexuality #Asexuality Day #Asexual Pride #asexual pride🌈 #Ace Week #International Asexuality Day #International Ace Day #bird #pride bird #birdart #birding art #pride in STEM #animal art #pride animals #queer #queer pride #pride sketches #pride art #queer art #ace pride #ace pride art #queer artist

[artbyfuji]

real roman torchwick hours.

#rwby #roman torchwick #my art #collective #the REAL rwby cuntress is here #men in stem for real!!! #sirrrrrrrr this is a no smoking zone GET OUT #don't you have to go kiss a man with a bird name or something 🤨 #anyway. #finally finished this THANK GOD.

[bird-inacage]

I never quite knew anger, until I knew fury borne from pain.

He who chose to break you, deserves to hurt the same.

Love, I was late to shield you. But this I now proclaim.

My wrath will destroy any who dare touch you, if you ever cry my name.

---penned by bird-inacage

(A few people have asked, so I thought I’d add a note here. I wrote these lines myself. They’re not taken from any quote/poem).

#LITA #love in the air #love in the air series #love in the air episode 13 #LITA finale #prapaisky #paisky #prapai x sky #sky x prapai #bird-inacage edits #my own lines/poem #protective prapai #sky protection squad #prapai's anger always stems from pain and concern for sky

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Wait, pterosaurs aren't bipedal?

(I think i'm about to learn something)

Nope! Based on biomechanical modeling *and* footprint fossils, we know they were quadrupedal! They were also plantigrade, unlike dinosaurs (incl birds)! Yet another way dinosaurs are waaaaaay more birdie than pterosaurs.

Azhdarchid Trace Fossil

Azhdarchids, by Mark Witton, CC BY-SA 4.0

#pterosaurs #NOT dinosaurs #ornithodirans #stem-birds #avemetatarsalia

[mindblowingscience]

Migratory birds that can sense the planet's magnetic field might experience a similar irritation over being micromanaged. Researchers from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and Bowling Green State University in the US have found they can lilterally switch off their neurological navigation aid when no longer in need of it. The research looked at white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis) and found that they were able to activate a particular part of their brain when they needed to migrate, and put it back into a dormant mode while resting at stopover points. This 'cluster N' brain region has previously been identified as being important to avian navigation, but it hasn't been clear precisely how it was used across species, or if it activates and deactivates automatically based on daily or seasonal cycles. "This brain region is super important for activating the geomagnetic compass, especially for songbirds when they migrate at night," says psychology graduate student Madeleine Brodbeck from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Continue Reading

#science #stem #biology #birds #nature #sparrows #navigation

[jaredthebc]

My headcanon for N where he technically legally needed punishing for the whole "Plasma invasion of the league" but litterally everyone in Unova who had power in terms of law (gym leaders, elite four, Alder, etc) had at least some level of sympathy cause it really wasn't on him, and did everything in their power to keep him out of serious trouble, but still legally needed something, so he's on Pasio and randomly got hit with a like 20 dollar fine for the terrorism. will always be the funniest headcanon I made just give that man basically a parking ticket for the war crimes

#n harmonia #pokemon #gen 5 #pokemas #champion alder #LIKE I HOPE OTHERS SEE MY VISION HERE #its mainly just stemming from not liking seeing N interpertaions where he gets punished on levels like he wasnt a victim #like i do get why people write it that way but doesnt mean i enjoy seeing it lol #i also do think people like gym leaders get say in laws for the regions they are in. like it kinda makes sense #kills two birds with one stone. he isnt a wanted criminal and he gets good terms with officals lol

[curious-trickster]

Tim is benched from going out as Red Robin, but somehow still sports a black eye when he gets down to the cave a few days later when Jason is around.

This is after Jason reconciled with the family (Tim, Dick and Damian bullied him and Bruce into getting over themselves and at least be civil which each other. They both still tiptoe around each other but they are fine for now).

Jason would very much like to know who the hell laid hands on Tim when he was supposed to be safe and recovering.

#protective jason todd #jason todd #tim drake #hurt/comfort #Hurt tim drake #Injured Tim Drake #hurt!tim drake #injured!tim drake #protective!jason todd #He's gonna find out who did this #And have...a lovely chat with them #About touching already injured birds #And fucking with the bats in general #Gotta use that street cred as a feared crimelord to help his family #tim drake angst #tim drake art #Tim Drake and Jason Todd #Jason Todd and Tim Drake #Jason has a soft spot for Tim that either stems from guilt or brotherly feelings #batman fanart #batboys #batbros #red hood #red robin #team red #my art #my artwork #black and white drawing #batfamily #Now wouldn't it be absolutely awful if this was a universe where Bruce Wayne is a bad dad and it was him who hit Tim?