420 reblob it

even if i had no followers i would post like this and thats why tumblr is the best social medio

Graced by Geckolepis typica from Madagascar. I love that they’re quite round creatures and then they have these dainty little toes. Also, their scales are full bone and both scale and skin come off when they get grabbed, which is…unpleasant. Consequently, catching these geckos for research without damaging them requires special techniques. 19th century researchers used bundles of cotton wool, but I imagine this wasn’t very effective, because cotton still has a lot of friction and the friction would pull the skin and scales off. In my (quite extensive) experience, the best technique is to carefully and quickly flick the geckos from their tree trunk or branch into an open dry plastic bag using a finger or stick.

Not only do they grow back, but they come back so well that we cannot even tell where they have ripped off before. This is very weird, because when a lizard loses its tail, it is very obvious where it has been lost and regrown. Not so these chaps. They seek out a humid place to hide, and within a few weeks, skin and scales have started to regrow. The fact that they can do this so well is the reason a team has just sequenced their genome. I believe it is hoped that the skin regeneration tech they have built into their cells could eventually be harnessed for human skin grafts.

being on this website as it gets worse really makes me understand what it feels like to be a highly specialized species suffering under habitat destruction

brought nothing to the gun fight. whatever man

Sometimes I think about how two of my ex childhood besties who ghosted our 15-20 year friendship have kids who are around my baby's age, and especially when I hang out with other friends who have kids, I'm like damn... I could've been doing this with them too. That could've been nice! In an alternate universe where they weren't assholes. LOL

BUT, I want to also add this: it's so nice and also so weird to hang out with friends you're known a long time with both of your kids. Like really strange!!! But also sweet! And, it's absolutely not as good as hanging out without kids, but it's another beautiful layer to add to a friendship. Going through life stages with friends, not necessarily just having kids, but also all the other things, like navigating aging, navigating your PARENTS' aging, and career shifts, and body changes, and illness....... It's so wonderful to go through that with people you love. And awful. It's everything!!

HATE when you can't stand someone who is literally harmless. Like oh I'm the bitch here. I'm 100% in the wrong but nonetheless fuuuccckkk this guy

does anyone wnt to turn into a creature with me. it does have to be weird btw