Wyvern

Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeater), family Bucorvidae, order Bucerotiformes, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

A (Paxon): Let me who you the first skink that came to mind... to me, a very unskinky skink.

Red-eyed Crocodile Skinks (Tribolonotus gracilis), family Scincidae, endemic to New Guinea

photograph by Andyscorner12

photographs by Rizki Supendi

photograph by Tanto Yensen

photograph by Shikhei Goh

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), parent and chicks, family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, Costa Rica

This bird is the only member of its family.

Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.

Rules: when you get this, make a new post, list 5 of your favorite songs, publish, and tag some of your favorite mutuals!

1. Vodka Cranberry - Conan Gray

2. Goddess - Laufey

3. All I Did Was Dream of You - beabadoobee, the Marias

4. Your Best American Girl - Mitski

5. Moths - Conan Gray

now for my moots!

Small Town Joan of Arc - Del Water Gap

Lavender Girl - Caamp

Number One Fan - Muna

Meet Me in the Woods - Lord Huron

Unknown - Hozier

literally every epic the musical song

lemon boy - Cavetown

disco! In the panic room - Bug Hunter

Dancin’ - CG5

@ace-an-spades25 @ghostboy479 @austinluckful @theshadowyalchemist

Legendary - EPIC the Musical (yes I'm biased)

Senses - MICO (and now you know how!)

Castaway - 5 Seconds of Summer

Winner - Kyle Alessandro

Let's Fall in Love For the Night - FINNEAS

I love that all but one fit a very very specific theme and person but oh well that's what happens when you're a bum like me <3

Tagging: @spiral-creature @ineffablexsuitcase @anonymousdarkfigure @skephknap @justaqueerographer

oh god hrmm

king for a day - pierce the veil

all you can hope for now are the scars to show for it!!! - STOMACH BOOK

WTFG! - ISSIBROKIE

PEACESIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - black dresses

secondopt - theres this girl

I SWEAR TO GOD THIS LAST SONG IS SO FUCKIN GOOD PLS PLS PLS LISTEN TO ITTTT

anywhooo tagz :P - @thecipherfan @uranusandsolarshow @ang3ls-666 @stophatecrimingme @evilyn-is-gay @ialwayscomeback-somerabitsaid @lunobelle @shadowdragon2341 @weirdcoregal35 @earthieibispaint @lolipopzies @cloudstrike493

Thankyou so much for the tag!

Stay soft -mitski

Frances forever -mitski

My diorama -stomach book

Nothing special -stomach book

Trees -mcCafferty

I very heavily recommend all of these songs they're so good! If you don't mind sweating or hyper pop or mitski as a whole (who doesn't like mitski tho??)

Predator - Ella Red

Who will you follow - Evanescence

The Apparition - Sleep Token

Is this a cult? - Melanie Martinez

Chokehold - Sleep Token (Currently listening as of reblogging this)

Thanks for the tag, Rabit! So, here's mine

@silversongmonster @happilylazycreator @dorkycreature-89 @devilhydra

2. Pac-Man - Gorillaz

3. Weight Watchers - Melanie Martinez

4. Super Bad Mantra - JAWNY

5. The Color You Love The Most - Yuchain Wang

These are in no order

Waiting on a miracle - Stephanie Beatriz

Just can't get enough - Depeche mode

Abracadabra - Lady Gaga

Habanera - Georges Bizet

Not songs really:

Amphibia intro

Nowhere boys intro

Hollow dance from Into The Pit

Nostromo alert from Alien

Eddie Gluskin chase theme from Outlast

weathergirl by FLAVOR FOLEY

Wife by Mitski

Just Like Heaven by The Cure

A Different Kind of Love Song by Cher

Fight Til I'm Good Enough by The Living Tombstone

I've got a pretty exciting mix of songs here XDDD

See the Way - The Chainsmokers

Taxes - Geese

Fingernails - Sub Urban

Good Advice - Bayside

Calling All Skeletons - Alkaline Trio

Oh No What We Gonna Do? — Veggietales

Behind The Mask — APAngryPiggy

Crazy Arts — FAKETYPE

REANIMAL RAP — JT Music

This Opportunity — Tynado

1. The Fate of Ophelia - Taylor Swift

2. The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy

3. A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey

4. Hell’s Coming With Me - Poor Man’s Poison

5. If Today Was Your Last Day - Nickelback

Amish Paradise - Weird Al Yankovich

Abracadabra - Lady Gaga

Your Idol - Kpop Demon Hunters

Be Prepared - The Lion King

Bomb rush blush - juno songs

Monster -beastiez

Three kolboids in a trenchcoat

cheese tax

protector -nightcore

High Water - Sleep Token (my all time favorite song rn)

Diving Bell - Starset (lives rent free)

Second and Sebring - Of Mice and Men (turned me into a fan after one listen)

Blackholes (Solid Ground) - The Blue Stones (so much packed into that bass)

Chandelier - Architects (oh hello pain there you are)

As a bonus, just anything by Starset is amazing but their newest album is phenomenal, Trials reimagined has me in a chokehold, and Symbiotic and Tunnelvision i can listen to over and over. The galactic soundscape they have cultivated is so unique, taking you soaring through the stars, crashing down to earth, and pulled through mire and muck, marched through war. Also Archers, they dont have a lot of music released - Blanket Fort will always have a space in my head. Very energetic, a good driving tempo that leaves room for experimentation.

Ecuadoran Horned Anole or Pinocchio Anole (Anolis proboscis), family Dactyloidae, Ecuador

ENDANGERED.

Study Finds Rainforests Bounce Back Much Quicker than Expected

Text and image from this article in the New York Times:

Scientists once thought it would take a century or more for animals to return to deforested land in the tropics. Now, new research has found ecosystems can recover in mere decades. “It’s been a huge surprise for all of us,” said Timo Metz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and first author of the study, published in the journal Nature. “None of us expected it to be so impressive and so quick.” Rainforests have been disappearing at an alarming pace for at least a century, and millions of acres a year are still burned or cut down for logging, farming or ranching, or are lost to wildfires. In 2024, the rate of loss was as fast as 18 soccer fields per minute, adding up to an area nearly the size of Panama. At the same time, hundreds of millions of acres of formerly deforested land are thought to be regrowing. Scientists have generally found that it takes more than a century for trees and plants to fully resemble the old, original pristine forest. It was long assumed that animals would take just as long to return. The new study found that’s not necessarily the case. “The expectation was that the animals would need the forest to come first,” Dr. Metz said. “But surprisingly, many of the animals recover much more quickly than the trees.”

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