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watching a piece of vampire media & seeing fangs go into a neck has me nodding my head like yup that's what i'm talkin about. that's the good shit right there.

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The Scorpion, Tityus achilles, discovered in Colombia can spray venom out of its stinger & hit targets up to 35 cm away. The tactic is thought to be a way of defending against would-be predators.

via: New Scientist

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Platinum millipede baby, Salpidobolus sp. irian jaya

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That horrifying moment when you have to decide if it's your instinct helping you or your chronic anxiety being a bitch

hate when people are like "trust your gut! listen to your intuition!" like okay well my gut is telling me every person i lay eyes on is hunting me for sport and my intuition is saying i should find a secluded cave and live there forever so what do you suggest i do with that information

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Polyamorous icons

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It's actually funny how humans decided "fuck living in caves with all these creepy crawlies", got out of caves, built houses that have all the nice parts of a cave without any of the yucky parts, and then all the little bugs and spiders and other creepy crawly creatures that used to also live in caves thought "sweet, new and improved caves" and moved right back in with us.

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I was laughing and then the realisation that this is literally how my gf got me dawned upon me

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I'll never be able to watch my ball python moving around the same way again, the only thing I'm gonna be able to think about is the tiny inside legs/horror devices.

Ive never really met anyone that thought of ribs as interesting… that’s such a shame. Ribs and the things they do are fascinating…. I think about them everyday.

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hi i know “don’t believe everything you read on tumblr” has been said enough times at this point in the website’s tenure but i want to specifically say that there is a problem on tumblr and other social media where well-known science enthusiast accounts basically build trust as Knowing Things and then they can say anything they want about those things & everyone just believes them. this is especially a problem among ppl posting about ecology & animal science in my experience.

i’m absolutely throwing stones in my own glass house bc i almost never used to include sources on my wildlife science posts on my old blog but these days i try to make a point of it & i think others should too.

i don’t even think anyone is lying or making things up on purpose. i think they’ve just heard it from another source they consider reliable & they’re spreading incorrect or incomplete information without questioning it, to a much larger platform. about ten years ago I myself made a post repeating something a wildlife professor said to me, which turned out to be outdated info and mostly inaccurate. i trusted him as a source, but i should have looked at the data before sharing it to a wider audience. it was an important lesson!

basically idc how many times popular content creators on here or any other site/app have been correct about other things in other posts. you should still make a habit of asking yourself “what’s the source?” even when it’s a blog you like & trust. bc let me tell ya, i have seen some doozies lately

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Difference between a baby leech that has never been fed vs after their first feeding

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Impolite baby.

are there any impolite frogs? 😮

GIRL HAVE YOU SEEN THESE GUYS?!?!

African Bullfrogs (Pyxicephalus adspersus), family Pyxicephalidae, males fighting during mating season, South Africa

photograph by Christian Passeri

African Bullfrogs (Pyxicephalus adspersus), family Pyxicephalidae, males calling and fighting during mating season, South Africa

photograph by Johan Marais

African Bullfrogs (Pyxicephalus adspersus), family Pyxicephalidae, males calling and fighting during mating season, Free State, South Africa

photograph by Johan Marais - World of Reptiles

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so was anybody gonna talk about the new ecology paper proposing Ethiopian wolves as potential pollinators of native nectar-rich flower inflorescences positioned on stalks conveniently within wolf enjoying height AND that it includes photos of said wolves doing said unconfirmed alleged pollination (delightful) AND that it has observational evidence suggesting some wolves do like 1 flower and are done and other wolves just get really into it and spend upwards of an hour going between 20 and 30 flowers for up to 4-5 minutes per cluster just utterly going at it, lost in the nectar sauce? because I cannot BELIEVE I haven’t seen something on this webbed site about it yet. it just has everything this site enjoys

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12/8/22: decomposing vertebrae harboring algal growth.

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Fuck you anti bird architecture who gives a shit if a little guy makes a nest on top of your stupid Starbucks sign