Fucking FINALLY

fucking FINALLY

source: NYT and everyone I know who lives in DC lol

immediately after writing this I got a mental image of @jesncin's superboy looking at some longingly in an aquarium saying "they're just like me fr"

sturddlefish weren't supposed to exist. they were supposed to be infertile eggs but instead they hatched?? the last common ancestor between surgeon and paddlefish was 180 million years ago- that's like trying to cross a modern human with a platypus (common ancestor ~170 million years ago). it shouldn't have worked

and because the sturddlefish weren't really genetically all there (many of the eggs didn't make it very far into the development) the ones that hatched looked very different from one another

source: wikimedia

specifically, it was a cross between the Russian Sturgeon and the American Paddlefish. if you're thinking "they're both fish though" I need you to remember that "fish" is a SHAPE. just like "tree" and "crab" and "ferret" are shapes. except things have been living in the water much, much longer than they've been living on land, so "fish" have had even longer to evolve away from each other. the last time their common ancestor existed, humans and platypi hadn't even branched off from each other

reslistening to the TM podcast and remember that drawing of James Acaster that he presented as a prize task? he looked like an old witch with two dicks? SAM CAMPBELL DREW THAT

fuck

it's 4am and i'm awake this'll suck for later me who needs to get up at 7:30

she's PERFECT

MARIA ZHANG as SUKI Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)