growing up by the sea really makes you understand why sailors were Like That back in the day. yeah the sea is the love of my life and i'm nothing to her but my heart belongs to her and her alone. she's a cruel, uncaring temptress and she wants to steal me away and eat me alive but to die in her cold, dark abyssal embrace would be such a wonderful way to die.

and there be Creatures in there

Ripley's just fuck off and get out of here

I found a lovely snail at work who was dried out so I let him have a shower and he seemed to enjoy it!! 🐌🚿

there’s almost 100,000 species of weevil. there aren’t even 7,000 species of mammal, and most of that is silly little rats

A Goodbye Kiss on the Pavement

quilted wallhanging by Eilidh Weir (All That Is Braw)

Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.

this is what a page of my wizards spellbook looks like

Horseshoe Crab by Mark Rea

https://www.fourwindscraftguild.com/product-page/ceramic-horseshoe-crabs-by-mark-rea

today my wisdom is: the ecological crisis of our planet is not a thing that will Suddenly destroy us sometime in the next century—it has taken decades of continuous work for our biosphere to be preserved thus far, and it will take decades more of continuous work to continue preserving it.

The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."

Things will continue to steadily get worse without steady action, but "augh! it's already too late to stop climate change and mass extinctions!" is specifically the worst response

The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed, 2021

Every time I see a fossil of Spriggina, I flip it off. The early worm gets the bird from me.

It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.

I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you're essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn't ordinarily care about

"Save the bees" isn't misguided, it's just the version of the truth you would tell a 5 year old. If a small kid asks about the colors of the rainbow you don't start explaining that visible light has wavelengths of 400-700 nanometers

A lot of people don't even know that there are different types of bees. things like planting native flowers, stopping using insecticides, etc, benefit all bees and all insects generally

A gaggle of Ammonoids. Can you name them all?

Why yes I can, they’re The Boys!

Ah yes, how silly of me!

I'm not great at naming but I tried my best:

the human eye has evolved to be able to detect more shades of green than any other color! that's because there are so many fucking leafs

go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

tag yourself. do you skitter, scuttle, scurry, or scamper.

a mini cat tree for a tiny arachnid kitty

so unfortunate that brine pools are so deadly because I would absolutely hold a pool party in one of those fuckers.

absolutely would be swallowed in the abysmal pool with the besties if I could

girl lying in her bed sighing eyelashes fluttering drawing hearts in a notebook with a glitter gel pen but when you look in the notebook it just says "Arundinaria gigantea" north america's native species of bamboo that once formed miles-wide riparian thicket habitats called canebrakes

By @biologizing

I cannot stress enough that there were no actual animals in this plant-based death trap