Fuck Yeah Biology Memes!

thinking about diatoms again

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

They are so cool, and ubiquitous. Their silica forms deep sea silaceous oozes, which become cherts and they also supply the silica for the flints found in limestones, and diatomaceous earths and diatomites.

yes!!!! I love a good deep sea siliceous ooze..... I have some facial mud mask stuff containing cosmetic grade diatomaceous earth, which is why I remembered them. diatoms really are everywhere. they're on my face.

I would never make it as a bird. The stress of keeping the eggs warm all the time would be too much for me.

he got a mom and dad but the queen supposed to be the only one procreating so what is the truth?

a'ight so this a whole society of bees that feel obligated to walk and drive instead of fly

he just became disillusioned with the capitalist system it’s bout to be some shit

you’d figure this movie would have more woman characters considering as how female bees are the ones who do all the work but ok

i know too much about bees to watch this movie

Yeah okay there are like 11 species of heron native to the USA and yes fine I’ve only managed to spot 10 of those species. You might think I’m bitter about that one species evading me but I’m not. I’m actually the Least Bittern person about it in the entire world

jellyfish lifecycles piss me off a little bit

When I was at the natural history museum, the fossil section had stickers on the glass to engage children - things like "Flap your arms like a pterodactyl" or "Measure your hand against the mosasaurus." However the first of these I encountered, which I found alarming and threatening without context, was a sticker reading "Struggle like you are stuck in a tar pit"

Official silly sign

What they don’t tell you about getting into bird watching is that once you get into it, you do not get to decide when you bird watch. You can be on the beach of some distant tropical country with nothing planned except relaxing. But then you see a Common Fluttering Nut Buster and you’re like fuckkkkkkkk holy shit guys the Common Fluttering Nut Buster is not supposed to live this far west holy shitttttttttt

some of the comments on the zoo post are like. ohhh you are the 27 year old adult who goes to the zoo and when the zookeeper asks some questions about animals designed to get 3 year olds engaged you’re like. this is MY time to shine!!!! now all these toddlers will know that I am the king of animal facts!!!!

There are medical leeches!?

Yes! They work very hard to get their medical degrees. 

not this one, though. this one’s trying to ditch class. 

what was the class, color theory?

World Heritage Post

the stuffed animal situation is phenomenal these days. you can find any specific arthropod or deep sea fish or microbe etc. used to be back in olden times all you could get was bears and mutants