it took me 3 times reading this post to realized that (wild) meant living in the wild and wasn’t just a casual remark on the longevity of these organisms
A special eye protein is helping birds to “see” Earth’s magnetic field! If that’s not cool, I don’t know what is.
The ability to see Earth’s magnetic field, known as magnetoreception, relies on the presence of specifically the blue wavelength of light. The complex process involves “radical” intermediate molecules which are sensitive to Earth’s magnetic field. The Earth’s magnetic field, as it relates to the direction the bird is facing, could alter the intermediate radical molecules differently, giving the bird a sense for where it is facing in relation to the Earth’s magnetic field.
While the exact way birds visualize Earth’s magnetic field is part of further investigation, scientists believe the Cry4 protein acts as sort of a filter over the bird’s vision. This filter would allow birds to see a sort of compass of the Earth and direct their migratory flights accordingly.
1) with its backwards facing teeth, we believe it only has to get one bite on even the tip of another fish’s tail to latch on, then as it gnashes its jaws it basically pulls itself inch by inch over the entire victim. Imagine swimming around for hours while this little shit ever-so-slowly slips up to your head and finished swallowing you.
2) sometimes they swallow something so big that it rots faster than it can be digested, filling their stomach with gas, which causes them to float like a balloon all the way up from the abyss to the surface of the ocean and die of decompression.
banned. you are all banned from nature. you can never go outside again, sorry I dont make the rules
I ONLY JUST LEARNED ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THIS MUSHROOM????? WHICH ERUPTS FROM AN EGG BEFORE UNCURLING HELLISH ARMS, EXPOSING ITS STICKY MASS OF SPORES TO BE SPREAD BY FLIES ATTRACTED BY THE SCENT OF ROTTING FLESH???
Admittedly, I am easily won over by all organisms that attract flies with the scent of rotting flesh. But the octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) also has tentacles, a freaky egg stage, and blackish goop, so it’s my favorite now.
It’s in my queue of Botanical Illustrations for a gallery show! also feat. Corpse Flower,
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a selection of carnivorous plants, the poisonous things lurking in your back yard and several Pieces of dead and decaying things!
The show’s called “Dead, Decaying and Disgusting- The Ugly Side of Plants and Fungi” and it’s an educational exhibit for kids, supposed to be up at CU Bpulder next summer but the gallery head is doing a terrible job answering her email. (Due to contracts, I can’t post any of the works until they’re done, but you bet they will be all over when it’s ready)
Plume de Lynx 