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But I stay silly :3!!!

@madscientist2739

⚠️ I regularly post bugs on this blog ⚠️ I frequently post undescribed media He/him | science nerd | personal blog | white I swear I'm goth irl

Greetings. My name is Nico, and as you can quite possibly tell, this is my tumblr blog. I'm currently interested in goth subcultur, art, biology, dark academia, history, stem, cephalopods, crystal collecting, lepidoptera, and star trek.

Notable special interests include: Ancient greece (specifically Minos/Minoan culture), botany, entomology, lepidopterology (moth and butterfly biology), visual art, and vampires.

My vampire blog is @hemochiroptera

Here's my cat

[ID: A photo of a fat torteshell kitten sitting on top of a beige pillow. She is facing to the right /End ID.]

oh god I got a picture of the moon you tumblr bitches are gonna LOVE

LOOK AT HER!!!! CRESCENT MOON DURING A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET!!!! SHE’S BISEXUAL!!!!!!

[image description: two photos of a crescent moon in the sky at dusk. the sky is deep blue and covered in wispy pink clouds.]

Anonymous asked:

have you read "the weevils" from Douglas Florian's Insectlopedia?

THE WEEViLS

“We are weevils.

We are evil.

We've aggrieved

Since time primeval.

With our down-curved

Beaks we bore.

Into crops

And trees we gore.

We are ruinous.

We are rotten.

We drill holes

In bolls of cotton.

We're not modern,

We're medieval.

We are weevils.

We are evil.”

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Now that I'm working in the anthropology department and we're teaching human evolution, I wonder how many anthropologists looking for ancient hominids must have found modern human remains instead. You didn't find a fossil of human evolution... but you did find the remains of a person. Isn't that meaningful, too? And also... they are so similar to us, that it's not unlikely that so many remains that could have been key to understanding human evolution have been misidentified as just humans (which raises the question "weren't they just human" but I digress)

There's an interesting story about Sahelanthropus (a hominid similar to chimpanzees who walked upright about 6 millions ago in modern Chad). When it was discovered, the remains presented wear and tear from wind and sun exposure, which was wierd because they were found buried. It was then the anthropologist noticed it was buried with its head facing towards Mecca, like in proper Muslim burial practice. Muslim nomads must have found the remains of Sahelanthropus, they would have thought it was a human, and decided to give it a proper burial, even if they didn't know its story or who was it life, they thought those bones deserved to rest.

the world is in peril, and people are hurting

but even so, we can take comfort in knowing we have creature of wet slop. grins.

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It’s name is Aplysia vaccaria, the black sea hare!

It eats algae and lives in intertidal and sub-tidal zones on the coast of Mexico and California. You can find it in tide pools there!

Quality wet slop animal c:

some pics of this crazy beast underwater too 🖤

i should have been born a flamboyant aesthete fag in the early 20th century so i could go to audacious parties and write mediocre poetry and die of alcohol poisoning at 32 without having contributed anything to society except serving cunt in a fur coat and semiregular emotional breakdowns