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made some semi-educational sunfish memes since they’re my favorite animal rn

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have you ever seen a swallowtail caterpillar defend itself?

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me doing that thing princesses do where they lift up their dresses when they run so they don't trip but i'm wearing a lab coat

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good morning exclusively to the atlantic’s science editor, or whoever it is that titles their animal biology articles

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Keisuke Ito: Lepidoptera (1855)

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STOP showing woodpeckers as just this!!!!

those are wonderful but there is actually LOTS of woodpeckers and they’re all diverse and awesome!!

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PARENT BUS PARENT BUS

WHERE ARE THEY GOOOOOING

ON A FAMILY VACATIOOOOON

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An array of fossils, including a large Leptaena brachiopod at left, that lived during the Ordovician to the Devonian Period, 485 million to 444 million years ago.

Credit…Biophoto Associates/Science Source

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Look at these birbs

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Nudibranchs don’t mess around

Cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones, etc) have these little stinging cells called cnidocytes that release a barb into their victim after a stimulus. However, some species of nudibrach have pulled an uno reverse card on the Cnidaria and can not only eat these creatures, but also repurpose the stinging cells into their own bodies for self defense against other predators.

It’s one of the reason nudibranchs are usually so brightly colored; it’s a warning for other predators who think this soft and squishy sea slug will be an easy, painless meal (spoiler IT WON’T).

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People always correct me when I say fishes even though I’m right