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Bunny Harvestman, Metagryne bicolumnata, Opiliones by Andreas Kay

They all love her 

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chiggins in the sun

What we lose when animals go extinct

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans.

“One way to think of a species, be it of ape or of ant, is as an answer to a puzzle: how to live on planet Earth. A species’ genome is a sort of manual; when the species perishes, that manual is lost. We are, in this sense, plundering a library—the library of life. Instead of the Anthropocene, Wilson has dubbed the era we are entering the Eremozoic—the age of loneliness.”

darwin’s journey to coming up with his theory of evolution was growing up in an elite intellectual family, going to top schools where he was friends with britain’s best scientific minds, and getting a government-funded opportunity to travel the world through the old boys’ club of cambridge naturalists and geologists

meanwhile, alfred russell wallace came to the same conclusion by being a young broke dude who never got beyond primary school, haphazardly wandering around the amazon rainforest with his friend hoping to sell his specimens later to pay for the trip, and going through southeast asia on a tiny outrigger canoe even though he couldn’t swim, not caring about setbacks like getting malaria, losing all of his specimens, and being left for dead on a life-boat for a week

and then when they found out that both of them had figured out the same thing, darwin was basically like “oh no, i cant believe ive been scooped” and alfred russell wallace was like “woooooo the great charles darwin had the same idea as me, a nobody hobbyist goofing off in indonesia! look mum he made me second author!!!”

in short alfred russell wallace was the best. chaotic as all hell but also such a cinnamon roll

me @ the stars: help me

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok

im sorry for reblogging this again but this tag has obliterated me