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I wish people knew that most of the coral they see being sold has been ripped right out of the ocean… 😞
Our reefs are struggling enough with climate change as it is, we don’t need corals being stolen to have a 5% survival rate in someone’s living room fish tank! 🪸❌
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Dark day in human history when we killed the last of the Egyptian Algae-back monitor lizard. (Biollante aegyptiacus). So many Megafauna hunted to extinction just so recently.
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🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨
NEW PATHOLOGY -
A piece of Burmese amber has preserved the dropped tail of a tiny lizard showing the tell-tail signs of the same muscular mechanism used by modern lizards to drop their tails!
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🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨
NEW BORD - Yuezhuornis
A new avialan has been described from a very good specimen of the Zhenghe Fauna of SE China. It was the earliest diverging Avialan, flightless, and shows a mosaic of features from troodontids and birds!
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Now we’re auctioning off holotypes. Don’t you love the state of the world? Article linked below, might have to translate it.
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🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨
NEW BUG - Folimantis
Bizarre mantid is found perfectly preserved in Cretaceous Burmese/Kachin amber with abdominal projections that look VERY similar to the leaves of Selaginella grimaldii, indicating possible mimicry.
🎨: Xiaoran Zuo
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Nightmare scenario.
Holotype of Dubreuillosaurus put in auction millon.com/actualites/un-din… @TomHoltzPaleo
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I love these guys! This is a black sea hare (Aplysia vaccaria), the largest sea slug species in the world. They suffer little predation, due to toxins accumulated from the algae they graze on.
How big do they get? The largest on record almost reached a METER long and 14 kg!!
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Basilosaurus and Dorudon with some anatomy fixes thanks to people who know what mammals are. Basilosaurus is still too damn long.
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what confuses me about discussions of this dress or anything adjacent is that its so blatantly in a light environment. theres no way it could be in the shade for it to be white rather than blue 😭 you can see an actual white and black dress right behind it 😭😭😭😭
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This is animal abuse though :[
Crocodilians have notoriously sensitive skulls filled with mechanoreceptors more sensitive than human touch. So this is literal torture for them.
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this rhetorical tool of addressing events as happening vaguely “somewhere in Africa” helps paint the continent as a mysterious frontier devoid of political autonomy and significance, a giant wild with occult practices and beliefs
Somewhere in Africa, a whole community is living alongside snakes. They consider snakes as gods and they even have a festival to celebrate the snake god they call Vodu Dangbe. Children wrap the snakes around their necks without fear as part of their tradition.
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The video and tradition are from the Hounwê ceremony in Porto-Novo, Benin, part of local Vodun Dangbé practices with royal pythons.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Afri…
