#juvenile stage

[firekitten830]

Had a realization about Charybdis in epic the musical (she’s a juvenile lamprey)

[habbadax]

Flank speed

[thesobsister]

Reportedly, Lin-Manuel Miranda is working on a musical adaptation of essential '70s NYC dystopian drama The Warriors, working from the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick about an assembly called of all of NYC's street gangs to take place in the Bronx with a view to uniting to fight "The Man."

Interestingly, 1965 is much closer to the Jets/Sharks-type gang paradigm, with which New Yorkers were somewhat familiar, "J.D.s" and the like. The 1979 film, though, is right in the NYC-is-burning timeframe, so a gang takeover of the city at that time actually seems much more plausible.

Less well known is the fact that the novel was based on Anabasis by Xenophon, the story of the band of Greek mercenaries hired to help Cyrus II take the throne of Persia.

The Warriors became an international cult favorite over time, influencing creators in a variety of visual media. The Ghanaian poster below, however, takes a few liberties with the film, as I don't recall there being any werewolves, demons, or incidents of cannibalism in the original:

[spirit-sys]

i wonder what revali's adult plumage would have looked like..

[miek-unofficial]

i think taxes should be higher and it should all go towards helping people and none of it should go to the military

[captainmvf]

Mari gets some extra attention today <3

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Not to be a hater but I was just listening to an interview about queer representation and the person made so many “we can’t sit in our chairs correctly lol” jokes / meme references, even saying how they were talking to a creator about how it could be great to have a specific character sitting weird in the show and how “everyone” would get what it meant … I’m so over it.

[loversandantiheroes]

Sometimes I literally space out and lose like half an hour of my life thinking about how much I hate fn@f. I really try not to let myself linger on anything that bugs me that hard because it's such a waste of energy, but it's just so goddamn inescapable as a part of internet culture that makes it really really hard to not just sit here and enter a fugue state where I can do nothing but think about how bromine didn't actually bother writing a cohesive story for his games and just threw out a mishmash of ideas, called it "lore" and let the internet do his work for him.

[mmikmmik2]

Okay, I have to assume that most other people missed that the Collector wasn’t demanding pizza bagels for himself, but instructing Odalia to make pizza bagels for the Owl Beast. Because I cannot be the only person who is way too amused by the mental image of King or Lilith curtly accepting “kiddy”/junk food meal service from Odalia. The insult upon injury for poor Eda and Lilith that the only hot meals they get are like, pizza bagels and dinosaur chicken nuggets and Happy Meals. Please someone help them, they’ve already suffered enough

[lalaboy]

trying to watch the 23' streamer awards is so unbelievably unbearable, it's a D grade presentation by middle schoolers

[lectorel]

Those are baby black chickens.

These are baby crows:

[typhlonectes]

Western Tiger Salamander

The western tiger salamander, also known as the barred tiger salamander, is one of the few native amphibian species in Idaho, and the only salamander found in Yellowstone National Park. They are one of the largest species of salamander in North America - reaching up to nine inches long from nose to tail.

Mostly found in the eastern counties, there are other Idaho zones where they are also found. Primarily nocturnal, barred tiger salamanders are opportunistic feeders, and will often eat anything they can catch, including various insects, slugs, and earthworms. They are primarily terrestrial as adults, but their juvenile, larval stage is entirely aquatic, having external gills. Breeding takes place during most months of the year.

The eggs are laid in water and the developing larvae are exclusively aquatic.Increasingly, scientists are looking to this species as a candidate for aquatic ecosystem health monitoring. Other amphibians have been found to be bioaccumulators of mercury and other contaminants, and these Idaho ‘manders might also prove helpful in that regard.

Photo of larval salamander by Bruce Hallman, Idaho Falls District BLM

via: Bureau of Land Management

[catboybiologist]

Pelagic fish larvae always look so ethereal

I've done this dive and it was one of the most incredible things I've ever experienced. If you're scuba certified and in the Kona area, def worth finding someone who will take you out there.

Tripodfish, Discoverichthys praecox larva Appreciation Post!! 🩵 💙 🌊

Rare Tripodfish larva, an Ipnopidae species, found on a blackwater dive off Kona, Hawaii. Body size about 3.5cm

📷 credit: Steven Kovacs

You love to sea it 🌊

[savageboar]

the one remaining platy fry is still persevering in there!!

[smallhatlogan]

So many people will never know the satisfaction of getting a teeny tiny speck of a little guy and raising it up into a huge fucking spider 

[mindblowingscience]

When things get tough in adulthood, it might seem appealing to return to simpler times. One bizarre marine creature has taken this approach to dire situations quite literally, regressing its physical adult body to a juvenile stage once the stress of starvation or injury has subsided. Until now, the immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) was the only species thought to be able to wind back the clock on jelly-puberty like this, but now it's joined by Mnemiopsis leidyi, better known as the sea walnut or the warty comb jelly.

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