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dragonsongmakhali · 1 year

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It's that day of the week again. I hope you are prepared for Friday Facts!

Everyone's gotta make gil, and Makhali is no different. Though contracted on a near permanent basis to Ultima Fabrications, she takes on smaller jobs from all over Eorzea, mostly for security on more dangerous excavation efforts - you never know when that accompaniment node will decide that you're no longer authorized to be there (or alive).

With a flippant attitude towards the laws of the city states, she'll take on jobs of varying legality, though never anything that causes physical harm to innocents - but if she got there first, what harm is there in swiping the latest find for her employer? If the "official" excavation team had been better, they wouldn't have missed out. For this reason, she is a favored choice of Astral Acquisitions, although their reckless treatment of their own Allagan relics makes her balk.

#ffxiv #ffxiv rp #ch: makhali khatayin #friday facts #'! that... is an Allagan diagnostics module! You can't put your feet on that!' 'But it's our table?'

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catchymemes · 5 months

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#facts #black friday #funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes

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amnhnyc · 6 months

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This Fossil Friday, meet an exceptionally preserved feathered dinosaur. Sinornithosaurus millennii lived some 130 million years ago and was about 3 ft (1 m) long. When it was discovered, it joined a growing list of dinosaur fossils showing evidence of feathers. But this specimen is especially unique because the imprints of its feathers are astonishingly clear. Scientists think Sinornithosaurus had three types of feathers: simple hairlike filaments, downy tufts (like those on modern birds), and modern feathers along the edges of its limbs!

Photo: M. Ellison/ © AMNH

#amnh #science #fossil #museum #dinosaur #natural history #nature #paleontology #fact of the day #feathers #fossil friday #birds #ornithology

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montereybayaquarium · 9 months

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🦈 Sharks? Jawesome. Parthenogenesis? Even more fin-tastic than it’s hard to pronounce.

Let’s talk about the birds and the bees. Er, the sharks and the seas. Some species of sharks (and fish, invertebrates, reptiles, and birds!), can reproduce asexually—no mate required. Females use extra genetic materials to fertilize eggs and grow baby sharks completely on their own. How’s that for a Shark Week fact?

#monterey bay aquarium #fast fact friday #leopard sharks are sea puppies #thats also a fact #check out that boopable snoot

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humsabkaadvisor · 2 years

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#Friday Facts #Facts #GST #ITR Filing #GST Filing #Turnover #Humsabka Group #Humsabka Advisor

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puppetmaster13u · 5 months

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Prompt 107

“Hey uh pal, what you got there…?”

Grundy hummed a rumble, blinking slowly as he turned slightly towards his… what were they… Not an enemy, not a threat… they were… friend! Yes, they were the friend that didn’t mind that whenever he came back he came back different.

He uncurled his arms slightly, proudly showing his friend what he’d found splashing in the water growling angrily. His friend blinked, mouth opening and closing for a few moments as he waited patiently, careful not to drop the squirming duo.

“Babies,” he proudly declared as they let out squeaky roars.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #solomon grundy #vlad plasmius #danny fenton #prompts #why yes those are definitely roars and not grumpy yells #Grundy found a pair of cores after a strange magic spike #He is Dad now #Waylon is friend so he can be... uncle #Waylon is part of his Fright now no take backs #Sure do hope the bats aren't freaking out too much #Grundy staring down at the pair of undead toddlers that formed in his arms #Grundy slowly doing lady math meme: Babies?? My babies????#Sure do hope no one goes and enters his haunt when he's feeling broody #Grundy can beat up superman so a normal-ish person is getting mauled #Grundy: This baby is Sunday and this baby is Friday :)#Waylon still freaking out over the fact there's a pair of undead toddlers now:

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spinifera · 4 months

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welcome to the very first flat facts friday comic! something i totally did not rush in order to get out today, what are you talking about.

i don't think i'll be doing these every week, considering the fact that this took like. three. but if you're interested in learning even more about spiny softshells (and maybe even some other turtles?!?!) in the future, i'd definitely tune in. wink.

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references under the cut

the wikipedia page that started it all

image 1 (google attributes it to this blog, even if it is no longer on that page)

northern/eastern spiny softshell

gulf coast spiny softshell

the pallid spiny softshell image i used was on the main spiny softshell page, but their own page can be found here

guadalupe spiny softshell

texas spiny softshell

cuatro ciénegas softshell

#rottmnt #flat fuck friday #flat facts friday #rise donnie #tmnt #art #my art #baron draxum

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learnyouabiology · 11 months

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Fun Fact: Hognose snakes are dramatic lil guys!

I am particularly fond of the snakes known as hognose snakes, and my reasons are both understandable and correct.

This is a hognose snake:

(They received their name by having the sweetest lil snoot to ever require a boop – image source)

They use these adorable snoots to burrow under sandy soil using a sort of nuzzle-y motion. They then use these burrows as a place to sleep at night, hibernate in the winter, and lay their eggs.

(you could say they’re into... the Underground Scene! ...ok yeah i’ll show myself out – image source)

Plus, they come in a variety of delightful colours!

We've got brown! Beige! Yellow! Black! Red! Orange! Tan! Kinda greenish! Orange again!

(pretty sneks! – Here’s all the image sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

And, to be clear, the snakes pictured above are wild snakes. No selective breeding by humans in these noodly bois! At least, not in these specific individuals. probably. I guess a few of them could be escapees...

But most importantly: These snakes know the true meaning of DRAMA

Hognose snakes are actors, first and foremost. When they feel threatened, the first thing they do is puff out their neck into a hood.

(like cobras, this hood is made by FLEXING THEIR NECK RIBS. which: gross – image source x)

This superficially makes them look like a cobra, but what they’re actually trying to do is make themselves seem bigger, and therefore scarier. Possibly those dark spots on their neck helps with that!

Any resemblance to real-life Eurasian cobras, real or fictional, is purely coincidental

Also, it makes its mouth do this:

(Snakes that SCREAAAAAAAM. – image source)

honestly, if I didn’t already know that hognose snakes were harmless, this would ABSOLUTELY make me leave it the hell alone

But if all of that^ is unsuccessful at scaring away the predator, the hognose snake pulls its signature move: playing dead

If you think that is a lame signature move, then you are wrong, because hognose snakes put EVERYTHING into their performance and I love them for it.

(they’re serious, they’ll do it! – image source)

((I’m actually going to stick the rest of this under a read-more, bc the pictures of the alive-and-physically-fine hognose snakes do kind of look like a legitimately-dead hognose snake, if you don’t know what to look for.

So, uh: cw for a snake being too good at pretending to be dead))

Behold: a series of completely healthy, unharmed snakes!!!

(to help with their self-esteem, we ask that you at least pretend to believe that they are dead – image sources 1, 2, 3, 4)

Honestly, the photos don’t do it justice. Here’s my favourite video of the whole wonderous performance:

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But to review:

There's writhing! There's dramatic noises! There's flipping onto their back and opening their mouth wide and letting their tongue hang out! There's excreting a combination of intentionally smelly substances!!! Truly a master of the art of being left the hell alone (*^▽^*)

(yep. deeeeefinitely dead. not just faking it. nothing worth eating here! – image source)

Personally, my favourite part of this is how they insist on rolling onto their back, even when they are rolled back onto their stomach.

Seriously, if you try to roll them right-side-up, they will flip back over. It's as though they believe that a good, proper dead snek MUST be on its back, obviously.

(truly fearsome – image source)

Sadly, the hognose snake may have made itself too scary, according to humans.

Out of fear, these snakes are commonly killed on sight 😔. I once heard someone proudly brag about how they’d killed a dozen cobras! In southern Ontario! Where cobras do not live! This is both extremely frustrating and deeply sad.

(safe enough to hold! although maybe don’t, just because this snake IS probably experiencing mortal fear, which is not a good feeling – image source © Dean Stavrides)

So just to highlight: hognose snakes are completely harmless. They’re just pretending to be fearsome!

(not that people should be killing venomous snakes either, imo. Let the danger noodles LIVE THEIR LIVES)

(i is baybee, pls do not hurt me – image source)

And now some bonus facts to help raise us out of that downer:

Hognose snakes are toad specialists! Their favourite food is toads, which is unusual, because toads are poisonous. Hognose snakes deal with this by force of will and also, at least two amino acid substitutions, maybe (Mohammadi et al. 2016). Possibly a few other things help with this, also (Feldman et al. 2016).

(is snek eat toad? or does toad wearing cape of snek? impossible to tell, really – image source)

Also, I have a confession: hognose snakes... are venomous. Technically.

(itty bitty little fangs at the veeeeery back of their mouth! – image source)

They are known as rear-fanged snakes, which means they have fangs aaaall the way at the back of their mouth. The venom they produce seems to be toad-specific, and is considered to be harmless to humans unless you happen to have an allergy but that's the exception rather than the rule

(the two hognose species. They are both baybee, but in different ways actually there might be more than two species but these are the two i’ve actually learned about so ALL WELL – image source)

Also, hognose snakes are big cowards NOT aggressive and I've never even heard of anyone getting bit by a one (outside of one feeding mishap, which we can all agree was an ACCIDENT).

The series of events that would need to occur for you to be envenomated are so unlikely and bizarre that I assume you would have to be TRYING to get bit.

This has been Fun Fact Friday, bringing you the forbidden noodly boys to try and keep them a little more safe!

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Sources, because I know me and SO DO YOU:

Averill-Murray, R. C. (2006). Natural history of the western hog-nosed snake (Heterodon nasicus) with notes on envenomation. Sonoran Herpetologist, 19(9), 98-101.

Buchanan, Scott W.; Timm, Brad C.; Cook, Robert P.; Couse, Richard; Hazard, Lisa C. (2017). Spatial ecology and habitat selection of eastern hognose snakes. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 81(3), 509–520. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21218

CHS: Canadian Herpetological Society https://canadianherpetology.ca/species/species_page.html?cname=Eastern%20Hog-nosed%20Snake

COSEWIC. 2021. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Eastern Hog-nosed Snake Heterodon platirhinos in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xi + 45 pp. https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/species-risk-public-registry/cosewic-assessments-status-reports/eastern-hog-nosed-snake-2021.html

Cunnington, G. M., & Cebek, J. E. (2005). Mating and nesting behavior of the eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos) in the northern portion of its range. The American midland naturalist, 154(2), 474-478.

Feldman, C. R., Durso, A. M., Hanifin, C. T., Pfrender, M. E., Ducey, P. K., Stokes, A. N., ... & Brodie Jr, E. D. (2016). Is there more than one way to skin a newt? Convergent toxin resistance in snakes is not due to a common genetic mechanism. Heredity, 116(1), 84-91.

Jared, C., Luiz Mailho‐Fontana, P., & Maria Antoniazzi, M. (2021). Differences between poison and venom: An attempt at an integrative biological approach. Acta Zoologica, 102(4), 337-350.

Liu, C., Chen, Y., Zheng, Y., Bo, J., Yang, C., Xu, S., & Zhang, S. (2022). Wear Resistance Improvement of Keeled Structure and Overlapped Distribution of Snake Scales. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 1-11. Citing abstract.

Mohammadi, S., Gompert, Z., Gonzalez, J., Takeuchi, H., Mori, A., & Savitzky, A. H. (2016). Toxin-resistant isoforms of Na+/K+-ATPase in snakes do not closely track dietary specialization on toads. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1842), 20162111.

Nature Conservancy of Canada: https://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/what-we-do/resource-centre/featured-species/reptiles-and-amphibians/eastern-hog-nosed-snake.html

Plummer, M. V., & Mills, N. E. (1996). Observations on trailing and mating behaviors in hognose snakes (Heterodon platirhinos). Journal of Herpetology, 30(1), 80-82.

Rouse, Jeremy D.; Willson, Robert J.; Black, Ron; Brooks, Ronald J. (2011). Movement and Spatial Dispersion of Sistrurus catenatus and Heterodon platirhinos: Implications for Interactions with Roads. Copeia, 2011(3), 443–456. doi:10.1643/ce-09-036

Seburn, D. 2008. Recovery Strategy for the Eastern Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon platirhinos) in Canada. Species at Risk Act Recovery Strategy Series. Parks Canada Agency, Ottawa. vi + 24pp.

Schwartz, V. & D. Golden (2002). Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of New Jersey. New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife

VHS: Virginia herpetological society http://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/reptiles/snakes/eastern-hog-nosed-snake/eastern_hognose_snake.php#:~:text=Heterodon%20is%20derived%20from%20the%20Greek%20words%20heteros,meaning%20%22broad%20or%20flat%22%20and%20rhinos%20meaning%20%22snout%22

Young, R. A. (1992). Effects of Duvernoy's gland secretions from the eastern hognose snake, Heterodon platirhinos, on smooth muscle and neuromuscular junction. Toxicon, 30(7), 775-779. https://doi.org/10.1016/0041-0101(92)90013-U

Young, B. A., & Morain, M. (2003). Vertical burrowing in the Saharan sand vipers (Cerastes). Copeia, 2003(1), 131-137.

SARA: threatened https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/species-risk-public-registry.html

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dragonsongmakhali · 1 year

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It's time again for a Friday Makhali Fact: this time, it's about food!

Makhali's favorite food is buuz made with dzo meat, like the kind she would get on trips to Reunion with her family (and would poorly try to imitate with salted goat meat the rest of the year). She claims she can handle spicy foods, but the reddening of her face proves that she cannot. This will not stop her from trying even the spiciest dish. She isn't big on desserts, usually preferring heartier meals that would keep her full on the mountain cliffs - but she does have a soft spot for citrusy things. Being very resourceful, Makhali wastes practically nothing from a hunt, and also with her meals - even when she detests certain ingredients (i.e., radishes).

If you're down, she will offer you dried jerky from her hunts as you would an egg in these trying times :)

#ffxiv #ffxiv rp #ch: makhali khatayin #all y'all should also do friday facts so i can read about your ocs!#actually its time to tag them #friday facts

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morganbritton132 · 7 months

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I’ve played soccer most of my life and I do know there are concussion headbands some people wear to keep them safe when they head the ball since concussions are very common in soccer from headers (the only safe place to head the ball is about right on your hairline and you don’t always get it right lol). Nancy and Eddie def researched and got him one after seeing him head the ball for the first time and freaked out. Steve hates wearing it

First, thank you! I am very much Eddie and Nancy in the soccer part of the saga. I don’t play sports so big thanks to all the people that are giving information and ideas.

Second, I love the idea of Nancy and Eddie being very strict parent/understanding parent about it, but Eddie is the reasonable one and Nancy might just be fully insane.

“This is bullying.”

Steve sulks deeper into the couch, crossing his arms over his jersey in a full pout. He glares at the headband and then gives Eddie a pleading look, “I don’t want it.”

“I know, baby,” Eddie says sympathetically, “But-“

“Too bad,” Nancy cuts in. “Do you know how common concussions are in soccer? You decided to play Concussion: The Sport. Dress like it.”

“No one else is wearing one. I’ll look dumb!”

“Okay, then. Maybe we don’t stop a speeding ball with our head then,” Eddie tries. “How about that?”

“No,” Nancy answers even though the question wasn’t directed at her. “Not good enough! Wear the headband or we’ll get you a helmet.”

“Eddie!”

Eddie stalls for a second and then points to Robin, “You won’t look dumb. Robin has one too.”

“She looks dumb.”

Robin’s just like, “Hey!”

Nancy moves and sits on the coffee table in front of Steve with a look that has faced down interdimensional monsters and sexist bosses all the same. Steve’s going to wear this headband or he’s not playing and they both know it when she says, “Would you rather look stupid now and be able to remember it in five year or be drooling all over yourself when your cognitive functions starts declining after another head injury.”

“Hey, too far,” Eddie chastises, hitting her shoulder. “…But take that into consideration, Stevie. I want you to have fun but-“

“It’s going to mess up my hair!”

Nancy throws up her hands, “Then we’ll shave your head!”

“Jesus H. Christ,” Eddie swears under his breath. “Wheeler, reel it in and take a walk. Let me talk to him. Jesus.”

#I don’t usually post on fridays but I liked this prompt so much I wanted to respond #we don’t give enough appreciation to the fact that Nancy is probably the most unhinged one of them all #also I think she’d feel a little guilty about being the cause of Steve’s first head injury #and she can be a bit intense about the ones she loves (ie Barb)#eddie munson tiktok saga #steve harrington #eddie munson #nancy wheeler

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dear-ao3 · 6 months

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as holiday season begins in the retail world here is your yearly reminder that if you order something with expedited or overnight shipping ESPECIALLY during black friday weekend 1. i personally hate you and you are making my life difficult and 2. there is a good chance you will not get it in time for the love of god just pick standard

#not a tag #from saph #fun fact i work retail #extra fun fact most retail stores now also fulfill online orders #having to pack 470 orders on black friday weekend is hell #and my store is tiny teeny so that's on the low end

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amnhnyc · 18 days

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Happy Fossil Friday! Let’s fly back in time to the Cretaceous some 110 million years ago to meet Tupuxuara leonardii. This flying reptile had a wingspan of about 15 ft (4.5 m) and a huge fan-shaped crest. But why the elaborate headgear? Scientists think that pterosaurs could have used their distinctive crests to steer during flight, to recognize members of the same species, or to attract mates. Like the crests of some modern birds, they may have also been brightly colored.

Photo: © AMNH

#science #amnh #museum #fossil #nature #natural history #animals #paleontology #ancient animals #did you know #fact of the day #fossil friday #pterosaur #vertebrates

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montereybayaquarium · 1 year

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do you have any pictures or facts to share about sea slugs/nudibranchs?

Imagine the sweet smell of watermelon candy… underwater???

🤔🍉🌊 Meet the lion’s mane nudibranch, a.k.a. melibe, a stegosaurus-shaped sea slug with a surprisingly sugary scent! While the fruity fragrance of this marvelous mollusk may be alluring to humans, it’s quite off-putting to potential predators, like sea stars and fish.

We don’t recommend trying to sniff while underwater, but you can find a bouquet of melibes—yes, that’s the collective noun, very spring-vibes—in the Aquarium’s Enchanted Kelp Forest, beneath the Kelp Canopy exhibit. They can also be spotted in kelp forests and eelgrass beds all the way from Alaska to Baja!