rxttenfish
phylogenetic bracketing for the elder gods
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Everyone appreciate this hysterical picture my roommate took of my cat the other day
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imagine two mated wyrms twisting around each other, possessing an uncountable number of limbs, each claw of good or evil interlocked with its opposite, the coil twists further around itself into a skein of flesh. how i would describe DNA to a wizard
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hey you're doing a great job, just remember: a semicolon can be used to combine two sentences where you might otherwise use a period; this allows you to create longer and longer run-on sentences
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Didn't think I'd have the time but got my entry for the refugium creature contest done! Down to the wire as usual. More info on the life cycle found below!
I wanted to do a fun Squilloid line, but as fun belly worms! The life cycle is the host eats the eggs which hatch inside the digestive tract, once there the young attack each other and any other parasites they find. They 'eat' through absorption through their tails so their mouth parts are only for clearing out their living space, as a result most hosts generally feel a lot better once they are infected. The fools!
Once the role of top worm has been decided, the individuals morphs into the feeding stage of their lifecycle. Their tail sprouts a multitude of fringes to aid in absorbing food and gas exchange, while the mouth parts remain for dealing with any would be room mates! This stage of their life is by far the longest, lasting decades.
The burrowing phase is where the fun begins, this sub adult form can be brought about by age, stress, or most commonly lack of space within the host. In this phase they begin swelling grotesquely and once they reach maximum size, turn their mouth upon their host. They chew their way out to the surface, sometimes resulting in death, sometimes not! But they only stop once they are able to smell open air and then settle in to begin their final metamorphosis.
The dispersal phase adults only live for a few days, climbing out of the wound created in their host to fly off and find suitable places to lay their eggs. If their host died during the last phase they will generally lay their eggs onto the body, but some are always out looking to lay a trap for the next poor unsuspecting creature.
Hope you enjoy! There are so many fun entries, def go check them out!
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More favorites of mine from the Bern museum, the two extant species of the genus hippotragus: the roan antelope and the sable antelope
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Pacific Northwest residents better GET READY for the ONLY EVENT happening anywhere in the world in 2024
Lampreys are historically important to several indigenous tribes and enormous amounts of work have been done to try and restore them to their natural range!! You can go visit them before they're released into the river and "win some cool lamprey SWAG!" !!!!!! !!!!!!!
I fibbed though, this is not the only event in the world in 2024. There is in fact a second different lamprey event in July in Oregon City.
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My take on the broad-billed parrot!
It must have been quite the weird guy when it was around.
Details under cut
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I have been so depressed lately I haven’t been able to post any sturgeons but I saw this on the Great Lakes aquarium Instagram his name is CRACKERS he is a BELUGA STURGEON they are TARGET TRAINING HIM so that he can eventually enter a sling comfortably to get his checkups!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HE IS A HOOP GENIUS!!!! GENUIS AT GOING THROUGH A HOOP!!!!!!!!
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my unpopular opinion: we should reintroduce buffalo and mountain lions to appalachia. send post.
#all the care guide says is 'biomass'#im so sad theres no more buffalo east of the mississippi. give them back.
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i was researching cat eye colors and was jumpscared by pangur like what is the tumblr creature doing outside of tumblr
on messybeast?
Pangur's eyes are actually pretty neat, because she comes from a line of white and pointed cats that have been selectively bred to have the bluest possible eyes!
blue in eyes is caused by structural colouration, rather than pigment (aka the physical structure of the iris reflects blue)
the intensity of colour varies quite a lot. on one end of the spectrum, there are icy eyes that appear almost white
and on the other end, there are cats like Pangur's mother, Lily. her blue was so intense that it looked unreal, even in person.
with albinism, you have an inability to produce pigment, but the structural colour remains.
in cats with weak structural colour, this results in pale pinkish eyes, like those of Stoli here
and in cats like Pangur, who have been selectively bred for the bluest blue? you get violet
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