Children love tormenting me. I am a very tormentable adult.
I just spent the last half hour talking to four children who kept asking if I was 79 years old, if I had ever been attacked by pirates, if I had ever gotten married to a pirate, if I’d ever been eaten by a dinosaur, if I knew that I was a big ugly green alien, and if they could turn me into “a whoopie deflated cushion”. And then they competed to see who could scream it the loudest.
clarification: I’m not complaining, this is affectionate tormenting from children who enjoy my presence, not children trying to make me unhappy
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Unfortunately, this is one of those artists who put frogs and other cold-blooded animals in cold environments, making them too cold to move, and then pose them. Gotta be careful whenever you see cold-blooded animals in an improbable pose. If you look at his other work, you see things like frogs sitting on a snake, or invertebrates on various things that eat invertebrates, as if it’s perfectly normal. I doubt he’s done this with the bettas, bettas that have been chilled lose a lot of color, but these frogs have not been treated well.
actually when I was in 8th grade and obsessed with twilight my master plan as a twilight vampire was to sit around in famous shipwrecks like the super deep ones where they can only send robots with cameras from their submarines and when they sent one down i’d be sitting there, pretending to drink out of an old tea cup you know for the drama of it all and the guys in the submarine would know what they saw and that it was real footage but who else would believe them? no one important.
but it didn’t stop there. at the next party they threw to celebrate one of their latest finds, some museum-y banquet idk I was 13, I was going to show up. I was going to show up and make eye contact with them one at a time from across the room and they were going to lose their goddamn minds and then before the volturi could catch wind i was gonna be back in the ocean. how could they find me?
the drama. the theatrics. i can’t believe i didn’t realize i was gay right then but that’s another story, also involving vampires,
Why is it that a normal blogger can’t talk about going to the store without someone claiming they faked it but vampireapoligist could tell us they saw bigfoot and literally everyone would believe them
Literally every story this person posts is like the most “everyone clapped” bullshit
are you……………… … . suggesting I’m claiming I’m actually a vampire who lives in the ocean
I’ve read this 5 times and I don’t know what you’re trying to say so????????????
Something about how some greyhound racing is technically not banned because it’s agility courses like other dogs do and isn’t for prizes, I think? I guess they don’t think greyhounds as a breed are going to vanish.
I’d be inclined to agree somewhat. There must be people who like greyhounds for what they are, as opposed for how they’ll race. Like a lot of other dog breeds. There’ll probably be a lot less of them, though.
This is a Synalpheus pinkfloydi, a newly discovered species of shrimp named for Pink Floyd. The shrimp uses a bright pink claw to create a sound loud enough to kill small fish. Photograph: Arthur Anker/AP.
Unfortunately, that’s a myth, albeit a very common one about these guys and their relatives. Pistol shrimp like this mostly use the sound to frighten predators, and they can, in fact, create a cavitation bubble in the water that causes the sensation of an impact despite the shrimp being several inches away. It’s painful to experience up close, but not lethal for vertebrates and arthropods. They’re mostly scavengers, and the snap is to discourage predators or anything trying to get into the shrimp’s house. What CAN kill the fish is that claw snapping shut on something important, but these guys usually don’t kill anything other than, say, worms. Their legs aren’t durable enough to go around trying to kill vertebrates.
A fun timelapse video of the preparation of a massive 4” wide lower molar of an adult Titanothere from the Chadron Formation of South Dakota. I found this on a trip this summer with
. The molar is a little weathered as it was exposed and sticking out of a cliff face when we found it. It’s actually prepped out really well though and has all its complete root system. Titanotheres or Brontotheriidae (also known as “Thunder Beasts”) were the massive horned herbivorous giants of North America during the Oligocene.
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