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A new viewpoint on antlers reveals the evolutionary history of deer (Cervidae, Mammalia)

fullview recommended!

something i've wanted to do for a while now. i've scoured the internet for something like this and can't find anything that compares all the different types of antlers together. except one recent study on their evolution, which is also very interesting on its own! i simplified it to provide a visual reference, while still trying to be scientifically accurate. some things differ between this and trophy scoring terminology like where the beam is and whatnot, so if something looks weird that's why.

small additional note, this study and others provide a lot of evidence that eld's deer should be in their own genus as it doesn't appear similar enough to barasingha and schomburgk's deer. however this doesn't seem to be adapted anywhere yet, so they're still in Rucervus for this guide.

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People who are incarcerated deserve the right to vote. I cannot believe that the biggest argument against that is still "well they'd vote to legalize [murder/rape/etc]" as if ballots have a fill-in-the-blank option for new laws. So many aspects of our society are left up to people who have absolutely no idea how any of it works.

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Two women napping on an 11th St. fire escape to catch a cool breeze on Aug. 30, 1948.

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loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s

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Cause it crossed to the other side

the filling in question was chicken

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I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.

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The funniest one star review of Wicked I've seen so far

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ARCANE IS OVER I WANNA CRY!!!

but also have some punkrock Sevika to cheer yall up a bit! It's a lot of sketches, I wanted to clean this a bit more but im too lazy and I need to do smth else.. for now, enjoy!!

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Zoozve, my beloved

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Things suck right now. Who wants to join me in making paper crane chains? You don't need any special tools or artistic talent, it gives you something to do with your hands, and you end up with a pretty chain of paper cranes that you can either hang up, or throw away without feeling too wasteful. And if you do join me, post pictures in the reblogs! :)

Tools you will need: needle and thread, a pad of post-it notes, and sharpies/markers/crayons/etc. of your choice.

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thinking about that one moment when I was about to get top surgery

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who is telling men that having gray in their hair is ugly. why are they fucking lying