I Would Like To Pet This Creachur.

I would like to pet this creachur.

Look at this woolly chafer! Have you seen a bug so fluffy? 🥺

Mammal

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I thought their feathers were naturally red! Goddamn birds and their birdy makeup!

are there animals that use cosmetics? ya know, not for stuff like protection, but actually for the ✨looks✨

bearded vultures deliberately dustbathe in the reddest dirt they can find to give themselves a bloody appearance that others of their kind find attractive!

this is also the most on-brand animal fact I think I've ever written about, BOY HOWDY.

*DEATH METAL SCREAM*

Well, somehow my dumbass adhd ridden self managed to get into the University of Toronto... and it's a mixture of exhilaration, terror and utter horror. On the other hand, I'm enjoying my biology courses very much!

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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