#brain evolution

[twilight-resonance]

So this is, uh, completely fucking cool. The rough of it is that bit about “a shared blueprint of brain organization has been maintained from the Cambrian until today”, with a few side bits about how the brain within the body is structured overall.

[onefey]

you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny

take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)

apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender

have fun and be yourself!

[billloguidice]

T. Rex not a "clever girl" in new research

T. Rex not a "clever girl" in new research #brain #brainevolution #trex #dinosaur #study #paleonuerology #cognition #jurassicpark

Whether Total Recall (1990) or Jurassic Park (1993), the “clever girl” line is iconic. While in Jurassic Park, it was applied to velociraptors, a 2022 study published in the The Journal of Comparative Neurology asserted that the Tyrannosaurus Rex, or T. Rex, had up to three billion neurons, equivalent to an intelligent primate such as a baboon, leading to the possibility that they could hunt in…

[martyryo]

"they're the same person" "they're different people"

They are a result of mitosis 🦠

[scarlettjemily]

Paget baby, you? Looking awful? What is this insane activity?

If only she knew the pure sluttiness that Emily getting arrested brought out in me phewww

[bunnieswithknives]

hey in ur peri animatic: (https://youtu.be/OCqlRuDaXYU?si=K52WDu_vw9rg7chz) that I have been permanently obsessed over since today and have watched about 20 times by now so much that I have drawn & posted stuff based on it what was that partial bug form peri had?

I haven’t watched either of the show btw so if it’s explained in the show please tell me plsssss

OK, SO the bug thing is not technically canon to the series. It's based on my own headcanons for fairy biology, but i do have justifications for it!! Fairies have very strong shape-shifting abilities, so it would make sense that the form they show to humans isn't necessarily their true form(not to mention extreme that mimicry is very common in insects). And you want to know the visible traits almost every fairy has in common? Being very small with Insect-like wings.

The fact that their humanoid form isn't their true form in actually confirmed in the show! Cosmo and Wanda are revealed to look like biblically accurate pseudo-angels in the museum episode. (I say pseudo angels because the Flaming Sword of Eden is only debatably sentient and I don't think is considered an angel. Ophanim are also debatably not angels because they don't have wings (sorry for the angel tangent I like angels))

So wouldn't their true forms be angelic then? Well, yes. But I like bugs so. Also I have more headcanons to justify myself. I like to think that they have both a true-true form (incomprehensible to the human brain, probably exists mostly in a dimension invisible to us, that looks how we imagine biblically accurate angels), and a fairy form (which is visible to humans but is naturally very insect like and tends to scare people). So, in order to interact with humans, they have to learn to shapeshift into a humanoid form but will occasionally slip if they get too relaxed/aren't careful, hence the mandibles coming out when he yawns!

The reason they struggle so much more with human forms than the animals or objects they typically turn into is that, well, they aren't trying to convince those animals or objects. The more human they try to look, the harder it is to keep up convincingly. If you turn into a really uncanny squirrel, only other squirrels will notice. If you turn into a really uncanny human, they form a lynch mob and burn you at the stake.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[dailypokemoncrochet]

[mindblowingscience]

Researchers from the University of Montpellier, the University of Zurich, Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, and other institutions have found that breed function and behavior correlate with relative endocranial volume (REV) in domestic dogs. Domestic dogs exhibit variations of morphologies and cognitive abilities, a diversity rooted in centuries of domestication and selective breeding for functional attributes. Historically, mammals have shown a trend toward larger brains to support advanced cognition, a pattern that appears disrupted in domestic dogs.

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[llamahearted]

chicks dig the fuzzy dude (it's 2002 and they are nine years old and someday they will realize they wanted his exact gender the entire time)

prints ✩ track

[lollytea]

All he wants to do is collect symbols that are important to him as a means of building an identity for himself and stitch them onto his clothes where everyone can see, so they know exactly what he's about!!! That's all he wants!!!!!

[minoruru]

Life cycle

omg I never posted thiiiiis

My client wanted a commission for the life stages of the Mind Flayer and I feel very honored that they trusted my abilities to interpret it T o T so I'm super grateful, I learned a lot in the process and my client really liked it so I'm very happy with the result! Hope you like it as well 💖✨

[medi-bee]

"it'll be fun to draw lots of feathers” do not listen for that is the devil talking

alt below cut

[arctic-hands]

My belief with no real proof other than the trivial knowledge that bears have been observed gazing out in wonder at beautiful scenes before them, but I think bears* are just as sapient as humans there's just something that makes them snap and go batshit aggro whenever they see a human being

*not pandas

[scarlettjemily]

season 2 Emily is sooo daddy

as soon as she touches that belt buckle i get strap flashbacks omg