#Life on Earth

[typhlonectes]

via: Environmental Dank Meme Stash

[nazrigar]

Pando - The Largest Single Organism by Mass and 14,000 years old, and some perspective on just how old that is.

A random thought came to my head last night...

This is Pando.

All of this? Is a single male aspen tree. This entire thing is a single tree with multiple stems sharing a single root system.

It is the largest tree by mass, and the heaviest single organism, weighing in at 6000 metric tons. For perspective, that's 20 blue whales in mass.

But what also intrigues me is that... well. It's an old tree.

Established in 12,000 BCE, meaning it would be 14000 years old by 2023.

By the the last Smilodons died out in 10,000 BCE, it would have already been 2000 years old.

And Pando is still a youngster compared to the high estimate age of this clonal colony of sea grass estimated to be 100,000 years old.

For perspective, when the last Neanderthal died in 40,000 BCE?

This sea grass would have already been 60,000 years old.

If human civilization (as in, the kind of organized polity that can be identified with things as "states" and "urbanization" among a plethora of other things) was established during 5000 BCE, and thus 7000 years old:

Pando would have already been 5000 years old.

The Sea grass colony would have already been 93,000 years old.

And considering that the oldest vertebrate, that is the Greenland Shark can live for 500 years?

All of human civilization encompasses the lifespans of just 14 Greenland Sharks.

I dunno... it just really shows that we pretty are a tiny blip in the grand scheme of Earth's geological history.

A very humbling thought if you ask me.

[sixteenth-days]

Overture

“We have a problem,” Scott said, kicking sand out of his skirts. Why the two Homeworld gems had chosen to set up shop in the middle of the most desolate local biome, he couldn��t possibly guess. At least they hadn’t been hard to find. Gri squinted at him through the barely-opened door. “Who is we? I’m pretty sure any problems you have are your business.”

set in life on earth- the plot has arrived! this is gonna be another three chapter fic probably!

[alpha-beta-gamer]

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[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Poll Winner Third Round Match Up 2:

These Questions are the winners from the previous iteration.

Please add new suggestions below, if you have them, for future consideration.

[foerodens]

Who else loves forests?

Photos: Foe Rodens

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[makeshiftlove]

chill hangs ✨

[middlenamesage]

I think the biggest reason people can’t believe astrology or grasp that all the planets🪐 have something to say about our experiences down below is they are trying to wrap their heads around it from the angle of causation. Don’t think of it as causation; it’s correlation. Astrology is just a language placing a spiritual and insightful lens on the dynamics of our life journeys. It gives context to the experience of all the factors like environment, nature and nurture that shape our lives.

As above, so below. These microcosms 🌍🙋‍♀️ reflect a macrocosm and everyone and everything is connected.🌀 We each reflect the Universe, but all from different vantage points. It’s beautiful. ✨

[downfalldestiny]

A long time ago this was a volcano 🌋 !.

[transpondster]

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor. True to its name, this prokaryote-like organism represents the ancestor of every living thing, from the tiniest of bacteria to the grandest of blue whales. 

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on Earth is much longer. For years, scientists have estimated that LUCA likely arrived on the scene some 4 billion years, which is only 600 million years after the planet’s formation. But a new study from an international team of scientists pushes that timeline  back even further to some 4.2 billion years ago, while also discovering some fascinating details about what life for LUCA might’ve been like. The results of the study were published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

[jt1674]

[stargazer-sims]

family photo

Even if oldest son Kaji is out on his own now, Kiri and Maxan still have a full house. They decided to do a family portrait of everyone who’s still living at home.

In the back row are the twins, Xai and Sevan (18). Left to right in the front row; Kiri, Zida (8), Maxan, and Zari (6).

Sevan, Xai and Kaji are Kiri’s children from a previous relationship. Zida and Zari are Max and Kiri’s children together, and they’ve got at least one more on the way.

[sixteenth-days]

Diamonds in the Rough

It took nearly two days for Emerald to regenerate. It wasn’t… unexpected. Ruby had never seen Emerald get poofed before, but he had a relatively larger gem and physical form, so reconstituting himself meant a much greater expenditure of resources than it did for, say, a more disposable ruby, designed to go down often and bounce back quickly.

(next installment of life on earth: its red king time baby)

[adrianl4u]

One people, one life, same planet, same Sky

[tha-wrecka-stow]

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