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Their soulful eyes, wary stance, and pleasant expression..yes, it could only be Belostomatidae, the magnificent and powerful toebiter...Not to mention, an accomplished insect who Joe Biden put in charge of the night time.

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Huntsman spider with egg sac and emerging spiderlings, Heteropoda sp, Sparassidae

Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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News story...this is a sad one... young kid in America tried to perform kamehameha... arms came off, bad

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Hanging thieves, Diogmites sp., Asilidae (robber flies)

Photo 1 by seaheart88, 2 by pat_tiller, and 3 by mayfly1963

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My wife's favorite sleep noise app is the kind that lets you mix different noises, one of which is a snoring shih tzu, and she loves to create soundscapes that imply the dog is in imminent danger

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this post broke in an absolutely spectacular fashion and I have no idea what is going on

Weirdness about frogs and names and Starfleet

A while back, there was news about three tiny frog species, called mini ature, mini mum, and mini scule (delight all around). Being no expert in frogs at all but generally interested in cute, unusual animals I went to look up what madlads (g/n) came up with the names. Among them, I noticed, was one called Mark Scherz. Which made me Question Things™, since Scherz is a German word for jest or joke. Didn't have time to look into it further though (and it's not that far out a name anyway).

Then, just the other day, another set of frogs was introduced to the world, this time with names of Starfleet captains, named thusly because their calls supposedly resemble sound FX from Star Trek. This being even more up my alley because it's cute, unusual animals AND Star Trek, I tried to find recordings and happened upon the names of the madlads (g/n) responsible this time - and again, Mark Scherz is among them.

This almost convinced that there is no such person and it's an in-joke by herpetologists, a fake persona they attach to scientific work that is a bit tongue in cheek (to MARK it as a SCHERZ, if you will). After all, there's a number of names used similarly in academia so there's precedence for this type of shenanigans. We have an entire member of parliament in the German Bundestag who isn't real.

And then, my feed here, on this webbed site tumblr dot com, of all places, saw fit to show me a post about the Starfleet froggies by none other than @markscherz and I don't know which reality I am in anymore.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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Bee-mimic robber fly, Laphria saffrana, Asilidae

Found in the southeastern United States

Photo 1 by simonsr35, 2 by marykeim, and 3 by kim_fleming

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Snail Day

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Maryland Hatsune Miku + Baltimore edition

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Have been on a quest to better understand insect mouthparts, here're breakdowns I did on mantis, but a lot of the basic structure applies to most insects with chewing mouthparts Here's also a very nice video that covers all adaptations and names all the individual parts:

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im pregnant and its nobodys. it aint even mine

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Literally

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watching a video of a guy make a miniature model of a hydroelectric dam outside and like. just imagine that youre an ant living nearby like youve been helping in the colony for a few days so you decide to go to the pheromone trails to get some food but the path is now blocked by the fucking hoover dam

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THIS SET UP?

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Little Nas Are You Working On Your Raps