...you Know What? I Can Kind Of See Where The Concept Of Feathered Serpents Came From.

...you know what? I can kind of see where the concept of feathered serpents came from.

A snake in Thailand spent enough time sitting still in the water to grow moss and turn into a dragon, apparently.

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LOUD WARKS OF DISPLEASURE.

SHE DOES NOT LIKE THE SNOW SHE WALKED INTO OF HER OWN ACCORD AND IT IS MY FAULT >:|

Mononykus is love. Mononykus is life. All hail Mononykus.

obsessed

feathered biped

my daughter

Journey to the microcosmos is so chill and soothing.

"Pelomyxa are giant amoeba, capable of growing as much as 5 millimeters in length. So it doesn't seem like they should be that difficult to find. In fact, Jame--our master of microscopes--found hundreds of them filling up his pond tank, completely visible without the help of a microscope. They were so large that he actually took one and touched it. So, if you would like to know what it feels like to pet an amoeba, he is now an expert. He says, "It's squishy.""

Journey to the Microcosmos- The Microbe That's Big Enough to Pet

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Quote Voiced by Hank Green

It's like an echinoderm settled itself into the sand one day and decided "Imma be a cycad".

Despite looking more like some sort of scaly tubeworm, Rhenopyrgus viviani here was actually an echinoderm, distantly related to modern starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, crinoids, and sea cucumbers.

It was part of an extinct Paleozoic echinoderm lineage known as edrioasteroids, which lived attached to the seabed or on hard surfaces like the shells of other marine animals, using the tube feet on their five arms to catch food particles from the water around them.

Living during the Silurian, about 435 million years ago, in what is now Quebec, Canada, it stood around 3-4cm tall (1.2-1.6"), firmly anchored into the seafloor sediment by a bulbous sac-shaped base. Its long stalked body was somewhat flexible, and it was able to partially contract the top feeding region down under a “collar” of large scale-like armor plates.

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Tis true. Here's my old ten gal set up on a standard computer desk. Didn't take up much space at all. I still have the tank in case I have the time (and better health) to keep a betta again.

I’m sure a great many people have said this before, both here on the tingle dot net and on other platforms, but I’ve recently had to explain this to a family member and I think it bears repeating.

There are a ton of myths in fish keeping, especially about the more popular species, like bettas. Such as “bettas don’t need much water because they live in puddles in the wild!” Which will then prompt me to have to gently explain that this is not quite true, and that when they think about puddles they’re thinking of something like this:

(A very small and ephemeral collection of water in a divot on the ground after a rain, usually evaporated after a few hours, and how would a fish even get in there?)

Instead of something like this:

(An example of a wild beta habitat: shallow ponds, marshes, slow moving streams and flood plains. These might be described affectionately as a “puddle” in that these habitats may only be a foot or two deep, but they generally cover a wide and vegetation-heavy area.)

Anyway if I see one more of those plastic 0.5 gallon “tanks” I am going to scream.