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Llareta - weird plant - Bolivia
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A microscopic spectacle: these diatoms (Bacillaria paxillifer) slide parallel to each other in large colonies. I can only speculate as to why, but I imagine it is a method to access sunlight for photosynthesis while also providing a quick route to safety. 250x magnification, 4x speed.
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If this man doesnt work at a haunted house he needs to fix that IMMEDIATELY because hot dam!
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An apple snail laying eggs
Omfg so I had a dream that Patrick Stewart was the dean of this college I was going to, and (for this trekkie club or something idk) one day he announced he was gonna be choosing first officer candidates and I ENDED UP BEING ONE OF THEM! :D I was so excited and he called us all giant nerds lmfao.
Also there were a lot of different weird parts to the dream like I swear there was a bit about visiting this museum about dora the explorer while traveling on the road??? lmfao.
Also in part of the dream (this was kindof a nightmare part) I was going on vacation to Kansas for some fucking reason and dad and I were staying in this house that was my grandma’s but looked nothing like her house... and for some reason I decided I was gonna buy glo-fish tetras right before and take them with me to temporarily put in this old tank she had??? Don’t worry, I know this is wrong but maybe all the customers I’ve had that have been like “CAN I DO THIS CRAZY THING WITH MY FISH” have been getting to me X”D so anyway I get to the house, set the tank up- put the fish in... (I know that’s wrong too and you gotta let it sit to come to temperature and cycle- for some reason in my dream I had no such knowledge lmfao) and I come back later and theres a ton of fucking weird film on the gravel and foam on the top of the water because there is some fucking chemical reaction going on and the poor fish look terrible- so I get them out and I’m like, CRYIN right, and I have a lot of difficulty because they keep jumping onto the god damn floor
At this point the dream changes again and I never do fucking find out what happened to my fishes because like, for some reason I was now captain kirk and I was going to???? try and scuba dive in the ocean to meet tamatoa idfk it was weird but not as weird as the last part I remember which
was where everyone was freaking out because a meteor was going to destroy the earth on new years and we were all making our own demise into a meme because for some reason the meteor was like- shaped exactly like a dick, and I don’t mean like ‘haha its roughly phallic and kinda has balls’ I mean like, anatomically correct penis. And there were all these news people that were like “make no mistake, despite it’s humorous appearance, it’s just as deadly” and me and my friends an a lot of tumblr had already made the joke “wow 2016 is really going to fuck us” and I just... brain why do you make this shit up while I’m asleep I stg
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My haters: scrawny male pattern baldness baby Jesus
Me: rippling muscle baby Jesus, ready to strike
were there no babies in the middle ages what gives
A fungus resembling nails or cigarette butts
No, no one has used this trunk as an ashtray, actually those like cigarette butts are the cylindrical fruiting bodies of an ascomycete fungus of the species Camillea leprieurii. It is is a fungus dependent on rainforest trees for survival but can only be easily detected when observed growing out of dead branches.
Camillea leprieurii is familiar to mycologists surveying rainforests in South America and is strange owing to its fruiting structures taking two forms. The charcoal-stick form is the most frequently noted, which has black pencil-like structures (as seen in the images above), but this fungus also grows immersed in dead wood with only its uppermost surface visible.
This bizarre species is widely distributed in the rainforests of South America. Camillea species are thought to live within healthy living trees (so are called endophytes), with their microscopic colonies lying dormant until the tree dies naturally. They are then in an ideal position to grow actively using nutrients from the dead wood, out-competing fungi without endophytic stages and thereby recycling the tree to fertilise the soil for its seedlings. The fungus and trees are thus entirely dependent on each other for survival.
[Fungi - Ascomycota - Sordariomycetes - Xylariales - Xylariaceae - Camillea - Camillea leprieurii Mont. 1849]
Reference: [1]
Photo credits: [Top: ©André Cardoso | Locality: Peru, 2014] - [Bottom: ©Geoff Gallice | Locality: Francisco de Orellana, Orellana Province, Ecuador, 2009]
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"So I’m working on a new concept. It’s called ‘parental care.’"
"What does that mean, evolution?"
"It means that instead of just laying her eggs and then leaving them to fend for themselves, like most amphibians do, this caecilian is going to stick around and feed them after they hatch.”
"Oh, that’s nice! What’s she going to do, bring them termites and stuff?"
"What? No. I didn’t even give her arms.”
"Okay, but maybe she could—"
"No, no. What she’s going to do is grow an extra layer of skin that’s super-fatty and nutritious, and then she’s going to sit there while her young tear the skin off her with their tiny, shredding teeth.”
"I… I’m sorry? They’re going to eat their mother’s skin?”
"I prefer the term ‘graze on.’"
"That’s horrifying."
"Like that’s ever stopped me before.”
Source: Wilkinson et al., 2013 / licensed under CC BY 2.5 Meet another species of caecilian in the WTF, Evolution?! book!
Can I have one
I promise this is less creepy in practice when they shed like, once every other day. NBD.
I STILL FOUND THIS HELLA CUTE WTF
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SHREW CENTIPEDE
A mama shrew and her babies. The mammalian society says “Young shrews are occasionally observed following their mother in a ‘caravan’. Each shrew grasps the base of the tail of the preceding shrew so that the mother runs along with a line of young trailing behind. This behavior is often associated with disturbance of the nest and may also be used to encourage the young to explore their environment.”
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Source: zolloc.com
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Band-aid that goes through chemical changes to match your skintone
That’s kind of freaky.
What if I forget it’s there and I’m like, “why does my skin feel weird?” and I wash my hands and that band-aid comes off but it looks like my skin so I freak out?
what if man
8l that’s scary and amazing
rai after she takes her no-hurty pills