I'm an incorrigibly geeky transboy with a love for neuropsychopharmacology, cacti (or plants and botany in general), weird music, spiders (and other cute animals), experimental film, might and magic, daggerfall, pokemon, and math (especially when symmetries are involved).
A tiny Jumping Spider (Salticidae, Pystira ephippigera) that has a completely black head with a yellow striped abdomen
i felt like drawing some johnkitty and decided to add jade too because why not rIGHT HAH god this is dumb
based off this picture omg
I’M SORRY I COULDN’T RESIST.
“GROUND SLOTHS THE SIZE OF ELEPHANTS”
O_O
Megatherium? I think I’ve seen one of their skeletons before. My instinct says it was at the La Brea tar pits, despite them totally not being native to California at all. Most sources cite its extinction at around 10,000 BC, which is intriguing because it means at one point, humans probably actually saw these things.
;_;
Kitten with a lizard!
DIS MAH LIZARD. I GIVE HIM HUG NAO.
I could never imagine my own cat playing so nicely with any lizard smaller than her, even one that size. She’d be chasing it and probably scaring the living daylights out of it.
(Source: ofelias)
Siberian salamanders have compounds in their blood that enable them to survive temperatures of -45°C(-49F). They can stay frozen solid for years before thawing and reviving as good as new. (Wild Russia - NDR)
EARTH COUGHS UP THE COOLEST FUCKIN THINGS.
see this is what happens when you let complex arrangements of carbon compounds self-replicate
untitled on Flickr.
Aaaah, you can’t imagine how much I missed my babies while I was house sitting. I mean it’s not like they are a mammal and are actually capable of smooching and loving me back, but fuck these guys are my babies and they are beautiful and I have spent the last 30 mins staring at them so have some frog staring at you!
I get the feeling this is one staring contest I can’t win.
why is it that basically all animals other than humans have freaky-ass pupils
do other animals look at our eyes and go “oh holy shit their pupils are CIRCLES that shit ain’t right” or what
Parthenogenesis in whip-tail lizards
Parthenogenetic species reproduce asexually, without need of a male, mating or pollination. In parthenogentic animals, the offspring are usually all female, and in certain types of whip-tail lizards, the entire species is female. Parthenogenesis often happens where there are no males of a species in the vicinity. In some cases, should males make a reappearance, the species can switch back to sexual reproduction. Recently in zoos, komodo dragons were discovered to be capable of this reproductive trick.
(taken from BBC nature)
Often two whiptail lizards can be seen “mock mating”. Apparently this is actually required in order for them to ovulate.
Exaeretodon
… a genus of traversodontid cynodont (therapsid); several species are known, from various formations. E. argentinus, E. frenguelli, and E. vincei are from the Carnian-age (Upper Triassic) Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina. E. major and E. riograndensis are from the Ladinian-age (Middle Triassic) portion of the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil. E. statisticae is from the Carnian-age Lower Maleri Formation of India.
This genus was an herbivore up to 1.8 meters long (5.9 ft), with a specialized grinding action when feeding. An analysis of the size of the bones of calves collected in Paleorrota concluded that the mother Exaeretodon had one or two calves, for one pregnancy. Another point of interest is that these cynodonts had deciduous teeth, which is a characteristic of mammals and means that babies could not chew, and required specialized parental care. Only older juveniles had permanent teeth…
(read more: Wikipedia) (images: T - Mojcaj, B - via Dino Pantheon)
technically, we’re all therapsids.
Koalas aren’t the only animals that depend on eucalyptus trees as a habitat. Here’s a velvet worm, Euperipatoides kanangrensis, that lives on eucalyptus logs.
