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Whooping cough cases have surged in the US since the beginning of the year, infecting Americans at a faster pace than any time since the mid-1950s as national vaccination rates decline and protection wanes. The bacterial infection also known as pertussis has sickened 8,077 people in the US through April 16, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s more than double the same period a year ago, when the agency confirmed 3,847 cases, and rivals the 2012 outbreak that was the biggest in half a century. At least four people have died from whooping cough this year, including two infants in Louisiana, an adult in Idaho and a child in South Dakota who was infected with both influenza and pertussis. April 23, 2025

So uh... Birds-of-Paradise glow

ScienceAlert

Most Birds-of-Paradise Are Secretly Biofluorescent, Study Finds

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than ini

From the article:

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye. For the first time, scientists have discovered these spectacular avians absolutely glowing with gorgeousness in a dark room. Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) combed through the available archives and found that all 37 core bird-of-paradise species in Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia are biofluorescent. Only a few fringe family members fail to glow under ambient UV or blue light.

Most male birds tested possess brightly fluorescent heads, napes, bills, and plumes that glimmer with green or greenish-yellow hues. Some even have fluorescent legs, feet, tails, and rings around their eyes. Many of these mysteriously colorful patches are starkly bordered by dark feathers with no fluorescence, and these parts of the body are often used in mating displays, when males flap, flutter, sway, bop, hang, and pose in an elaborate, attention-seeking dance that varies from species to species.

Note that this is different than bioluminescence. This is like those glow-in-the-dark stickers. They mention puffin beaks glowing under UV light.

Smithsonian Magazine

Puffin Beaks Are Fluorescent, and They’re Not the Only Ones

Scorpions, stick insects and caterpillars are among the many critters that glow under UV light

CBC

Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea | CBC News

Ornithologist Jamie Dunning had the idea to shine a UV light on a puffin in January. The results were spectacular.

(Check out the glasses they gave them in the second article!)

@todaysbird @alithographica

(Completely shameless advert notice: In my fics when I talk about Rito having UV markings on their beaks, this is pretty much what I"m talking about.)

Hedgehogs playing💥

TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS

I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.

Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.

However, I’ve got your solution.

Native-Languages  is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!

Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.

Definitely one of the funniest parts of journal to me.

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JERMA DOESN'T EVEN FLINCH..

Was too tired yesterday to post it but here is finally the result of the Maevarano formation #paleostream! While not as full of species as other formations the diversity in fascinating, from small herbivores crocs over flying raptors and giant frogs to surprisingly large mammals.

The sediments of the upper part of this formation preserves the remains of a coastal, tidally influenced, semi arid wetland. That is a rare thing to encounter these days, so research into getting a good idea of the environment wasn't easy.

One thing I often do in these cases is put together a mood board with potential inspirations from similar modern day environments. One thing that I picked up was for examples the often times reddish color of coastal wetland plants and the little "plateaus" of plants and soil.

On top of that there appears to be quite a bit of plant material from here but very little is described yet, only thing we have a name on is Sapindipsis which is said to be very common.

I have to thank Discord member JW and @arminreindl for putting together this size chart as well as Discord member LiterallyMiguel for producing a brand new skeletal drawing of Mahajangasuchus!

love when they say things like this