every animal has the potential to be dangerous under certain circumstances. for instance, a dog could bite you, a moth could distract a UPS driver into plowing through your living room window, you could inhale and choke on an earthworm.
i found out recently that the very first trees did not rot when they died because the microbes that decompose trees hadnt evolved yet…which makes sense but it’s weird to think about. this actually caused a huge change in the climate at the time and many of these trees turned into coal because of it…
like imagine a tree falling in the forest and the trunk just stays there for years and years with little change, and it only goes away when it is buried under dirt. that’s weird.
obviously they were still working on the worldbuilding back then
imagine all the lag from those trunks laying around. glad they patched those microbes in
So y’all talk about this like it’s a joke, but the exact same time is happening today with plastics, except today’s microbes are a bit quicker on the uptake. They’re still new at it, but Earth’s decomposers are hard at work learning how to eat polyester.
*ancient microbe voice* kids these days have it so easy. mutating to feed on new materials within a century? In my day it took us a millenium at minimum! we had to metabolize uphill in the snow both ways!
*even more ancient microbe voice* pfeh, typical oxygen-breather attitude. you think you had it rough but YOU have those fancy MITOCHONDRIA.
not enough tick hate on this website. everyone hates wasps or spiders but I rarely see issue with tiny undetectable blood sucking demons who hang out in beautiful plant-filled places and spread deadly disease with a single bite. wasps might punch you in the face occasionally but ticks will steal your lunch money and total your car and poison your food and use all the hot water and as the planet warms up these little devil suckpods are hitching rides anywhere their horrible little feet can plop themselves down and camp out for the next victim of their terrible curses.
lads i just discovered that birds are like. really fast. guys. pigeons can fly up to 90 miles an hour. the peregrine falcon can get to 252mph during dives. i’ve been trying to conclude this post for ten minutes but i just. can’t. that’s it birds are fast and we don’t stand a chance
listen to me. we’ve been fools. all of us. for how long have we been tempting fate? for how long has our ignorance led members of our species to laugh as they chase pigeons on the street? “haha,” we say, “dumb bird. doesn’t even remember it can fly away.” do you know why it doesn’t fly? it’s letting us fucking live.
252 mph is pretty generous on a peregrine dive……. i know someone who clocked their peregrine at 280.
i thought u were gonna comfort me by saying 252mph was generous bc it was rare not bc it was too slow i physically don’t know what to do with myself
NOTHING is more sexy than being in the middle of the goddamn woods, breathing in that fresh fucking air. running your fingers through that damp fucking dirt… she thicket
Horseshoe crabs can lay between 60,000 to 120,000 eggs. These eggs are laid in the sand or mud in batches of a few thousand at a time, and take 2 weeks to hatch. Many are eaten by seabirds while incubating.
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