A priest sprinkles holy water on a pet snail during a blessing of the animals service marking the feast of Saint Anthony, at the San Anton Church in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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A priest sprinkles holy water on a pet snail during a blessing of the animals service marking the feast of Saint Anthony, at the San Anton Church in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

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Is it true that kangaroo can only move their legs at the same time, like they can’t move them independently leg humans or dogs do?
yes with an exception: when kangaroos are on land, they use their legs together for hopping, but when they swim, they alternate which leg is kicking just like humans and dogs do!
so they CAN, they just don't unless they think they need to.
This has not always been the case however! Australia used to have another group of kangaroos called the sthenurines, also known as "short-faced kangaroos" (skeleton A below). They were proportioned quite differently, with larger bodies and shorter legs, feet and tails:
They were so differently proportioned, and some species grew so large, than hopping like a modern kangaroo was probably physically impossible for them, so researchers have proposed that they walked bipedally instead!
Members of Sthenurinae – an ancient family of kangaroos that lived until 30,000 years ago - likely preferred walking to hopping.
There are multiple delightfully cursed reconstructions of this behaviour which makes them look more like a person running around pretending to be a dinosaur than anything else
Interestingly, there was a very recent study on these same giant sthenurines (as well as a bunch of other gigantic kangaroos like Protemnodon and Macropus titan) looking at various indicators of jumping abilities that found that they were in fact capable of hopping, even if they'd likely prefer to walk on two legs Jones, M.E., Jones, K. & Nudds, R.L. Biomechanical limits of hopping in the hindlimbs of giant extinct kangaroos. Sci Rep 16, 1309 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-29939-7 (paper is open access!)
So they'd have been the opposite of modern kangaroos, prefering to walk by moving their legs independently but bounding with their legs synchronized if necessary like when a predator attacked.
Also Sthenurines kangaroos likely employed an almost human like walk with an upright trunk, using their long clawed forelimbs for grabbing at branches to feed on. They actually have a number of convergent traits with humans like a broad sacrum to support their vertical trunk, an enlarged femoral head for the same purpose, as well as enlarged muscles for balancing the body when supporting their weight on one leg at a time. Janis CM, Buttrill K, Figueirido B. Locomotion in extinct giant kangaroos: were sthenurines hop-less monsters? PLoS One. 2014 Oct 15;9(10):e109888. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109888. PMID: 25333823; PMCID: PMC4198187. (also open access!)
Oh and I should also add that modern tree kangaroos can actually walk on two legs, which looks very silly
Needlessly poetic in a way that draws your credibility into question. The whimsical typography also reduces the gravity of the statement. Please see the revised edition attached below.
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i thought id make a little infographic on the difference between mules and hinnies! i tried making it as simple as possible 😅
and yes i know horses can be smaller than 14hh (ponies and miniatures) and i know mules can be smaller as well (miniature mules) and i know donkeys can be larger!
tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse
imagine youre a fat horse and your new neighbour is a personal trainer
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I was wrong. they didnt rock lee him. this horse is literally Gai. and i wish he was my dad
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A record die-off of sea stars was followed by something that stunned biologists
The creatures almost went extinct along the West Coast a decade ago. Recently, they have been making a comeback.
Six months ago, Menge’s team published exciting research — five-legged sea stars were undergoing a significant “baby boom.” The tide pools were denser than they had been before the disease, and the juveniles were eating mussels and clearing space for other species. In short, something rare and wonderful was happening on the Oregon Coast: One of the intertidal zone’s most important predators had returned from the brink...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/06/after-massive-die-off-west-coast-sea-stars-experience-resurgence/
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i only see cows occasionally, but often enough that it isnt unusual
i have only seen cows a few times
i have seen cows once
i have seen cows but only at a Place To See Animals
i have never seen a cow
if you used to see cows consistently but you dont anymore, answer according to how often you did at cow time!
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hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?
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@markscherz how many of these do we get to thank you for again?
95 at present, more on the way :)
hey don't cry. 95 species of frog discovered by tumblr's own frog scientist dr. mark scherz, ok?
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HEY DON'T CRY. 8,008 SPECIES OF FROG IN THE WORLD PER AMPHIBIAWEB AND THE 8,000TH FROG WAS DESCRIBED BY TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR. Scherz, ET AL., PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH ‼️‼️‼️
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only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for
there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs
I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows
GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ