The diving bell spider lives almost entirely under water: when submerged, an air bubble is trapped by hydrophobic hairs on its abdomen. Here it catches a shrimp and places it in an air bubble to devour it https://t.co/uAKYwvQVmR [source of the gif: https://t.co/C3I3ZMyll2] pic.twitter.com/FgPDmKvIxG— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 30, 2019
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humpback-whales-south-atlantic-have-recovered-near-extinction
― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/science/leopard-lion-adoption.html
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/27/science/27TB-LEOPARDADOPTION1/27TB-LEOPARDADOPTION1-superJumbo.jpg
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 February 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bug.identification/permalink/3201476323312053/
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632881-200-weird-caterpillar-uses-its-old-heads-to-make-an-elaborate-hat/
― Mordy, Saturday, 4 July 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
Cool. My 10 yo had seen that in a science encyclopedia
― calstars, Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
waht
https://www.wired.com/story/a-bizarre-form-of-water-may-exist-all-over-the-universe/
― sleeve, Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come From All Around to Watch
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
here's a thread for comrade burrito to post all the masturbating orangutans
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
a bizarre form of water all over my keyboard
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Scientists discover new organ in the throat
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.livescience.com/platypuses-glow-uv-light.html
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/J29hZbBGEePokbrTdRYCEi-1024-80.jpg
― Mordy, Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
Top 5 critter now top 3 imo.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
so cool
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
A+ platypus
― rob, Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
^
― calstars, Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
Mordy returning to celebrate Biden's win with a biofluorescent platypus is an A+ move imo
― imago, Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Don't forget the apposite poem.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
I have already privately offered him my full approbation
― imago, Sunday, 8 November 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
Leaf Sheep: The Only Animal That Can Photosynthesize
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 14 November 2020 06:30 (three years ago) link
Fungus full of psychedelic drugs could cause Indiana Brood X cicadas' butts to fall off
― sleeve, Sunday, 16 May 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
“It’s this gender-bending, death-zombie fungus,” Lill said.
― sleeve, Sunday, 16 May 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
“Imagine if, after a lifetime underground, you only had a few glorious weeks to live in the sun, eat and mate,” she said. “And then your butt fell off.”
― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
a coyote and a badger use a culvert as a wildlife crossing to pass under a busy California highway together,, the first time this type of behavior has been captured. I love how the coyote waited for the badger. pic.twitter.com/olbQgdje5d— Köksal Akın (@newworlddd555) June 12, 2021
― trap door to hell opens underneath (rob), Monday, 14 June 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/BECD/production/_120254884_yile5nm8-1.jpg
― Mordy, Friday, 27 August 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
:O
― sleeve, Friday, 27 August 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-beetle-gets-eaten-frog-it-forces-its-way-out-back-door-180975484/
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 24 August 2023 22:41 (eight months ago) link