ultralaser

coming in for a hug

ngl if i was a elphephant id whip that thing around crazy style

me in the club stimming

can any one relate? anyone feel this energy aligning with their own beutiful spirit

*makes this noise at you*

it’s a ptenopus garrulus, aka Common Barking Gecko, which lives in Africa! The video doesn’t show it well, but they have goofy froglike faces!

by sheer coincidence, there’s a completely different kind of gecko endemic to Australia (underwoodisaurus/nephrurus milii ) which is also called the Common Barking Gecko:

So what im getting from all this informarion is…. two of them…

pretty obsessed with this one

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hello i would like to add

who put this rodent in high heels

these guys are so fucking animal

IMAGINE A LIL PIXIE RIDING ONE INTO BATTLE

Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered that the iconic Dickinsonia fossils are probably not flat sea creatures with ribbed bodies.

@bunjywunjy

YO, THIS IS A BIG DEAL!!! 

basically, the Ediacaran was the geologic age that came just before the Cambrian, spanning from 635 to 541 Million years ago. it was though that there wasn’t any complex multicellular life at this point, but now we know that’s WRONG and INCORRECT. The discovery of the Ediacaran Biota fossils have proved there was life of some sort even this early in Earth’s history, but it was… weird.

most of the fossils from this time look more like geometric shapes than anything, uh, alive. and a lot of these weird organisms seem to have grown in mathematically-precise patterns! and more than that, they grew by branching fractally. nothing alive today does that! 

and if that weren’t enough, a lot of these Ediacaran weirdos exhibited tri-radial symmetry, meaning they were symmetrical on three sides instead of just the traditional two used by animals today. again, nothing alive today does that. 

so to be frank, scientists just flat-out thought these organisms weren’t animals at all, but were instead either an animal precursor or some kind of weird stem-animal cousin. (I like the term Mathimals, myself.) 

but, uh, according to the article, scientists are now thinking that the Mathimal fossils aren’t of whole organisms, but only of their supporting structures! IF THIS IS TRUE, IT MEANS THAT THE MATHIMALS WERE FAR MORE COMPLEX THAN WE THOUGHT, AND PROBABLY WERE ACTUALLY ANIMALS. which is a shame because it means I can’t use the term Mathimal anymore, but hey I guess you can’t have everything.

but on the other hand, it means that the great-grandaddy of all animal life on the planet looked something like this

and I think I’m okay with that.

I’m so mad that a t4 bacteriophage actually looks like that and that it’s appearance isn’t made up

this is how they look in all the models

this is how they actually look

like they really fucking look like that. in real life

viruses are literally such bullshit they have the nerve to look like this and they aren’t even ALIVE

DEPLOY THE BOYS

You really won’t ever appreciate how cool insect wings are until you’ve seen all this footage. The ones with wing covers that completely open up are beetles, by the way, but the ones LIKE beetles whose protective cover remains in place are bugs. Bug is supposed to be a special term for just one insect group! Mid-way through is an earwig’s wings, which is neither a beetle nor a bug, but does have very beetle-like wing cases.