#biology tag

[eternal-moss]

In my head, the anime version of Marcille’s skyfish has translucent red wings like a dragonfly

I was pretty surprised that the anime decided to make it red because I thought it was kind of like a certain other monster that is created later on…

Comparison of the manga skyfish (a light blue with some hints of red) and the anime skyfish (fully red, aside from the wings)

Spoilers below cut!

Does that mean this boy will also be red? I really thought they’d animate the skyfish to be a similar colour…

[anguis-sapphire]

oh yes that was the other thing

Today I learned that roses do not have thorns. Thorns are, strictly speaking, specifically modified shoots, which often grow as side shoots - they can be found on a wide variety of plants (from gorse to hawthorn), but not roses. What roses have are prickles, because they are modified outgrowths directly from off the stem itself - blackberries and other bramble bushes have the exact same thing.

I will never be able to look at Marluxia or Lauriam Kingdom Hearts in the same way /j

[spine-lizard-studies]

I'm sorry who told my immunofluorescence images that they had the right to be this pretty...

Tumblr probably nerfed the image quality but I love shapes and colours I love fluorescence microscopy <3

[rhythmgamer]

i think i have this very rare genetic disorder which causes harmless peeling of top layer of skin on my hands and feet??? but I don't think i should bother with it cus. it just causes some itching before my skin peels off painlessly. and other people get so worried on seeing my peeling-in-process limbs like they go "wtf is happening to your hands and feet are you okay" and i go "no no it's fine it's like me shedding skin like a snake or smth"

also I'm pretty sure it's genetic (it's an autosomal recessive disorder) cus two of my maternal aunts have it. but no one in my immediate family. and i remember having this almost all my life lol. so yeah. inch resting.

[kirazdaha]

dissecting a mouse yippieee :)

[fairlystitious]

being forced to analyze gods worst gel

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

hehheheheheh

found this freak under my microscope

[pillowspace]

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

[bunjywunjy]

Do sharks cuddle?

THEY SURE FUCKIN DO.

many sharks are at least moderately social, and if a specific species of shark has the ability to breathe without actually swimming and tends to have a lot of sharks in a fairly small area, well.

they are just going to Pile. and there is simply nothing you can do about it.

[eternal-moss]

Thank you Ryoko Kui

I don’t think I’ve ever been so enthralled by any mangaka’s art so much before like Ryoko Kui. It’s so fundamentally attractive to me, I can’t stop gawking at it. The way she draws animals just exudes this feeling of deep love and appreciation, and the same goes for her human drawings too. Her niche stylistic choices are what I’ve been waiting for for years, I’ve been trying to draw better noses while staying simplistic/stylised and then Dungeon Meshi comes along.

I feel so inspired with my art, in a way that I haven’t felt in years, I just wish I could thank her in person. I haven’t been so inspired since like. Lauren Marx I think, and her drawings of animals in Sacred Decay. Love it so much, it really informed how I draw animals in my semi-realism style, and just creative inspiration too.

I’m nowhere near as good as these two, and I don’t think I can be without the serious dedication they have to art, but I don’t feel intimidated by their clear understanding of lining, form, atmosphere and colour, I just feel so pumped and excited. Look at what is possible with the human hand and heart!! I think I’ve spent too long in fandoms where everyone just draws thin pallid men making out with each other, I’m so damn tired of the same body types and tropes.

This! This is what makes me feel genuinely alive, and I’m not exaggerating. I haven’t drawn properly in so long, I feel like I was a withered plant that has finally, finally been watered lol.

I love the art of Dungeon Meshi, and the love that clearly is behind it, and drives both the art and story. I think the thing that made me want to write this post is this specific drawing that made me tear up a bit

Look at this!! Baby orcs have light stripes on their backs!!! Just like the natural phenomenon of forest dwelling animal young having dappled/striped backs, so that they can be less easily noticed by predators with light through the canopies. Ryoko Kui doesn’t just randomly implement design choices for her fantasy concepts but thinks them through.

Deer and wild boar have these features in real life, but as demi-humans, orcs also have culture surrounding this. How is it perceived in society? What sort of attitudes would this create? She’s clearly thought so in depth into so much of the world building and I love it so much. Orcs were originally surface dwelling beings, but were forced underground by other peoples, and this is shown by the fact that they still have this evolutionary trait!!

Anyway there’s so much more that I could say- about the story, themes of non romantic love and depiction of discrimination, and all the other countless things touched on through the characters. But oh my gosh. I love Dungeon Meshi!

[sarcopterygiian]

I’m falling down the rabbithole of deep sea research footage and my god there’s beasts down there.

[untitledgoosegay]

as funny as it is to say, "there's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true

"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true

"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't

"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.

where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.

[goryfluff]

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) 2020 / 2021 / 2022

[gaystropod]

[kirazdaha]

dissecting a fishie yippie :)

[intrinsically-disordered-proxein]

we are not getting out of the plant blog allegations with this one