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The Octopus brain is amazing. The creature can redesign its brain to adapt to chilly conditions. Click to read the full fact.

The more I learn about octopi, the more I believe that Hawaiian legend that they’re aliens who survived the end of the last universe.

You can’t just say that and then NOT drop the legend on us

According to Wikipedia:

In Hawaiian religion, the Kumulipo is the creation chant, first recorded by non-Hawaiians in the 18th century.

The Kumulipo is divided into sixteen wā, sections. The first seven wā fall under the section of pō (darkness), the age of spirit. The Earth may or may not exist.

In the eighth wā, the four divinities are born: Laʻilaʻi (Female), Kiʻi (Male), Kāne (God), Kanaloa (Octopus), respectively.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, anthropologists Adolf Bastian and Roland Burrage Dixon interpreted a recurring verse of the Kumulipo as describing the octopus as the sole survivor of a previous age of existence. In her 1951 translation of the Kumulipo, ethnographer Martha Warren Beckwith provided a different translation of the verse, although she does discuss the possibility that “octopus” is the correct translation and describes the god Kanaloa.

So basically Kanaloa and his children (octopi) came from the place that existed before earth was created.

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Jean Charles de Castelbajac, 1980s

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The Pizzaman - a lil comic based on a dream I had.

reading about tracking kestrel populations rn and

THE PRINGLES???

Good work everyone

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Save the date. Buses to DC for the march have been organized in 18 states so far.

The culprits (i would die for them)

C // Amythestsparkles • Hal Brindley

Yep, I’m on the side of these superb piggies. This is play stupid games, win stupid prizes territory.

Native wild animals engaging in natural animal behaviors?!?! I'm shocked!

In case you were wondering this is as bad an ecological nightmare as you'd think. None of those chemicals magically stay put, they're being washed out into the environment.

Oh Lord

Tetrino's active ingredient is Tetraniliprole.

Aloft contains two active ingredients, bifenthrin and clothianidin. Acelepryn's active ingredient is Chlorantraniliprole.

Bifenthrin is very bad news for bees and all of these are very bad news for aquatic life, but Clothianidin in particular sounds like a fucking nightmare just from its pubchem entry—it is a neonicotinoid (meaning it enters the tissues of plants and essentially makes the plant toxic to insects.) It is extremely toxic to honey bees, and has detrimental effects on wild bees. It has significant effects on bees at doses of less than 1 nanogram and reduces the size of Monarch butterfly larvae at concentrations of one part per billion.

Neonics are strongly suspected to be a big cause in the decline of bees, and this is like. A particularly evil one.

It kills things by affecting the acetylcholine receptors, and it looks like it has developmental and neurobehavioral effects as well as causing reproductive abnormalities on mice in experiments. There is something also about it affecting genes in humans related to the immune system but I don't understand it. Long story short, not something you want in the environment for a reason as stupid as maintaining a golf course.

Carbaryl is the stuff responsible for the Bhopal disaster. It's toxic to bees, amphibians, just about everything.

First of all, this is an insane array of poisons to put on a single plot of land in one single year. Second, straight up sterilizing the soil is not going to stop a pig from rooting anyway.

i wanna stab everyone who's touched that golf course

MEAN TO HIM!!!

Brachycephalus are… special creatures. They exemplify the rule that ultra-miniaturised animals undergo major morphological remodelling. In their case, this has resulted in unprecedented changes to the otic capsule, which has apparently caused them to lose hearing, as well as attitude control after jumping.

But tbh they’re a pretty successful genus in terms of species diversity, and can apparently be locally abundant. So they’re clearly good at what they are adapted for. That strange jumping strategy might even be advantageous, if, for instance, it makes your would-be predator pee themselves laughing and forget that you were supposed to be their next meal.

I fact-checked this video, and @markscherz’s commentary is a perfect addition. Adaptations persist when they’re beneficial for survival… it’s just not clear how exactly these ones are. Except for the humor factor.

Here’s the full video.

and this is why when i told some teenagers they could have as much as they want and they took half the bowl i didn't get mad. teens are still kids too and some of them are more childish than others, some of them want to go have fun and get free candy too. i was a trick or treating teen! i was a poor teen that wanted free candy! i really looked forward to trick or treating every year! thankfully i had a young brother to help but my point still stands. if you're giving fucking candy away for free why does it matter if it goes to a 9 year old or a 16 year old?

god, fuck those places and the old fucks that put that shit in the books.

parried by the aluminum foil :0

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you know this picture? it's haunted me. i never knew where it was from, but i FINALLY FOUND IT!

its called nettlebed cave, and its in aotearoa! it's also apparently the deepest known cave system in the southern hemisphere

pool party anyone?

L.A stravaganza - Vogue Italia ( 1989) with Naomi Campbell

Sveta Yashchenko

If you're in the greater Seattle area i run a small knife sharpening business! Get your knives sharpened!

Now THIS is how you advertise on tumblr.

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