god i love the blue catfish so much. kind of a terrifying superpredator honestly. they like living in muddy water so their eyesight is dogshit, but they've got these huge barbels around their face to feel around, and their whole body is covered in almost two hundred thousand tastebuds to figure out exactly where their prey is, and they've got a special adipose fin to be extra tuned-in to water currents/pressure, and they have super keen senses of hearing at really low AND high frequencies, and they ALSO have a deeply forked tail to decrease drag so they can just cruise around and gulp down literally whatever they want, including other catfish, even in like zero-visibility water where every other animal is basically blind. and they get so fucking stupid huge with this technique that nothing can grab them because they're as big as a person. and if an eagle or something does grab one before it's gotten big enough to be eagle-proof, the catfish has fucking POISON KNIVES on its fins to not only stab things but also envenomate them in the process

you may not like it, but THIS is what peak performance looks like

Franz Xavier Zirnkilton, My Snail, c.1915-20 (source).

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the best way i can think to describe the experience of reading moby dick is you’re in line at the dmv and this guy behind you very loudly says “well who HASN’T had a gay experience” and then proceeds to tell you every detail about his life in between anecdotes about how great sperm is and how ropes work and sometimes he’ll say the most poetic shit you’ve ever heard in your life and them jump RIGHT back into explaining how a whale is a fish because 1) it swims in water and you’re still only like halfway through the dmv line

ill spend my twenties investigating the healing properties of salt i dont know about you guys

Shuvuuia, a dinosaur typically most active at night, is fooled into getting up early by a total solar eclipse.

if my surname was moog or theremin i'd invent a fuckass instrument too

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to the tune of “you are my sunshine”

reblog ifyou love her and she makes you smile the coelacanth

ichthyologists in 1938:

A juvenile bug isn't called a larva until it reaches the surface. While it's still underground it's called a margma

Puma aka Cougar aka Mountain Lion (Puma concolor), juvenile, family Felidae, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

Photograph by SouthAndeanVibes