Two tiny shrimps battle each other on the back of a sea cucumber, filmed at a depth of 15m. Seacrop Diving School | Japan
titanic beasts clash on the hills of an alien planet shaking the ground 30,000 lightyears from earth filmed at a height of 17000 feet
Thinking about that one guy whose copy of Smash 4 was somehow horribly fucked up like a nightmare
the funniest fucking thing about how AI has overtaken the internet as a form of cheaply produced SEO-friendly fodder is that when i google "drinking a fifth of vodka in one night" all the top google results link to articles that say things like this
she got scratched by Wednesday :( poor rat
somehow I think she’ll be alright
The Urge™ (badly draw the rat in 20 minutes max) won
because what the hell is that shape
Making a weighted velvet baikal seal plushie :3
Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?
She doesn't even have her mouth and flippers yet!!!! She's fucking embarrassassed...
Smelling you
Finished! My mom named her Beans this morning lol.. She's around 1.2lbs and soppingly pitiful
forgot i had the ancient arrows equipped and accidentally sent this man to eeby deeby
would like to let everyone know that after i accidentally did this the yiga clan didnt ambush me for an in real life week
Solarsyrup your TAGS-
In made an Hall of the mountain king edit in honor of this batshit insane post (for which i may or may not be partially responsible, too) by @one-time-i-dreamt, enjoy :)
i think this definitely belongs in some weird category, im just not sure which
I NEEDED THIS TODAY, THANK YOU
the horror of stepping into any vaguely open space, hearing a noise, and then seeing a masked lapwing stepping up with the intention of beating your ass
this should be considered an illegal weapon and unethical home defence system
NASA putting mice in zero-g environments is one of the funniest fucking tests anyone has ever done and I hate having to hand that to them. Put those beasts in a situation.
Vice is high on catnip and trying to fight a baby
I think we're making real progress here
That fuckin smile at the end
To the worried person in the comments:
No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink, which is a Pokemon that supposedly powers its heart by bouncing, and as such can’t stop moving. Hummingbirds don’t sit often because they’re busy looking for food, but they can and do sit. The females sit on eggs in nests, after all, and they do have to sleep.
Fun fact: the leg muscles of a hummingbird are so stripped down to save on weight that they cannot walk. They can step sideways along a branch or other perch, but they cannot go forward without taking flight.
However they absolutely do stop moving. In fact, hummingbirds hibernate! Overnight. Instead of sleeping. Because if they tried to sleep like a normal animal their hyperactive metabolism would mean that they starve to death before breakfast.
Unrelated fun fact: the primary Aztec god of war would take on the form of a hummingbird, and the souls of the bravest warriors were said to turn into hummingbirds in order to join him after death, presumably because every hummingbird is approximately four grams of pure concentrated asskicking which fears no man nor beast and will gladly throw down with somebody seventeen thousand times their size if offended.
this is a really cool post and i love seeing such a small bird but reading “No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink” killed me
thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived
life will persist against all odds
For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.
This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.
At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:
