This is pretty incredible.
Also was reading up on scorpions and they can hold their breath for up to 6 days and go 12 months without food...which is mad!
Nature is wild
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This is pretty incredible.
Also was reading up on scorpions and they can hold their breath for up to 6 days and go 12 months without food...which is mad!
This is so cool.
Amazing.
Scientists discovered the first true millipede. It's called Eumillipes persephone and lives in Western Australia. They found a couple of specimens, all of which had far fewer than 1,000 legs; but also one with 1,306 legs - all in a length of just 95.7mm! (and a width of 0.95mm) It appears that these millipedes are born with just two segments and four legs, but keep adding segments in the course of their lives, so 1,306 legs might not be the maximum. Here is our beauty:
Study: The first true millipede—1306 legs long | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
Study: The first true millipede—1306 legs long | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
That's awesome!
This is remarkable…
https://amp.theguardian.com/science...inosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird
Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
At least 66m-year-old fossil discovered in southern China reveals posture previously unseen in dinosaurs
https://amp.theguardian.com/science...inosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird
Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
At least 66m-year-old fossil discovered in southern China reveals posture previously unseen in dinosaurs
That’s barely believable isn’t it? Wow.
When I first saw this news, I thought for a moment it actually looked like in those pictures.This is remarkable…
https://amp.theguardian.com/science...inosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird
Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
At least 66m-year-old fossil discovered in southern China reveals posture previously unseen in dinosaurs
But no, of course not; it's actually like this:
In any case, as I said in the History/Archaeology thread (just gonna repeat myself here): it's really interesting how science keeps learning that dinosaurs are really a lot like birds - as confirmed now again by the way this embryo was positioned inside its egg. (I.e., much like a bird, not like other bird-laying animals.) Dinosaur depictions are often still like they were 20 years ago, but once illustrators really start working with all these new findings, our kids' image of dinosaurs will be very different from ours. (No more naked skin or single colours!)
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I was going to write that I don't believe it until the moth flies away - but I found lots of pictures online (buff-tip moth), so I suppose she isn't making this up.
That’s pretty cool.
When I saw the 'heavily touched up' photos and 'egg' and 'In China' I immediately thought of this:When I first saw this news, I thought for a moment it actually looked like in those pictures.
In any case, as I said in the History/Archaeology threa (just gonna repeat myself here): it's really interesting how science keeps learning that dinosaurs are really a lot like birds - as confirmed now again by the way this embryo was positioned inside its egg. (I.e., much like a bird, not like other bird-laying animals.) Dinosaur depictions are often still like they were 20 years ago, but once illustrators really start working with all these new findings, our kids' image of dinosaurs will be very different from ours. (No more naked skin or single colours!)
http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Health/china-s-fake-eggs-made-of-plastic-facts-analysis.html
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this is pretty mad
I remember seeing this, or something similar, on an episode of QI years ago. The idea of it is totally icky but the fish appears to be oblivious so no harm done? Aside from the loss of a bit of tongue, like.
Finally something worthwhile from Joe Rogan.
Delicious...
That definitely is very wild! How does a creature evolve that way...?!
‘Life…uh, finds a way’ …is all I got!
For these kinds of weirdos, I like trying to figure how they may have evolved from some simple kind of being into something quite as specific as this. But I'm kinda drawing a blank here.
https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/56173/1/main.pdf
For these kinds of weirdos, I like trying to figure how they may have evolved from some simple kind of being into something quite as specific as this. But I'm kinda drawing a blank here.
Wait....fish have tongues?
Ummm yeah. That's some next level shit. Joe Rogan posting about it is equally disturbing.
That is either some next-level Google-fu, or you're desperate for someone to see your Ph.D thesis!!
This Twitter is just amazing. This moth literally has drawn shit on its body to ward off predators…
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How else are they supposed to order all the plastic they keep getting delivered. It's not like they can type on a keyboard.
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I’m not bothered by it, but you might want to put a death/dismemberment warning on that.
That’s mad.
Wow
That’s quite unlucky for that group.
Speaking of unlucky (not totally all nature, but it sure plays a part)…
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I just saw that today . feck me so tragic
Snow fall in the Sahara desert.
Some more pics here -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-60045153
Is this a new thing? It's pretty nuts.
Snow fall in the Sahara desert.
Some more pics here -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-60045153
Though, the Arctic or the Antarctic, can't remember which, probably Antarctica, counts as a desert because of the lack of water in the air. So there's nothing that says deserts have to be hot
It can happen, as far as I know. Deserts can actually get pretty cold at night, so add precipitation, and there is a chance it'll sometimes snow. It's very rare though; I found an article that explains it and says it's only happened a handful of times in the last 40 years. It also says it might occur more frequently because of climate change actually!
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/what-sahara-desert-weather-snow-b1995607.html
I thought climate change would have its dirty little fingers in it.
Its nuts to think that 6000 years ago the Sahara was green.
Almost 500-mile-long lightning bolt crossed three US states
An almost 500-mile long bolt of lightning that lit up the sky across three US states has set a new world record for longest flash, scientists have confirmed.
The lightning bolt, extended a total of 477.2 miles (768 km) and spread across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60221521
An almost 500-mile long bolt of lightning that lit up the sky across three US states has set a new world record for longest flash, scientists have confirmed.
The lightning bolt, extended a total of 477.2 miles (768 km) and spread across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60221521
The human immune system is so complex and cool.
This one is about some new insights, but there was also a long article in The Atlantic last year that went into the immune system more broadly. It starts like this:
Full story: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00214-3Nature Briefing said:
This one is about some new insights, but there was also a long article in The Atlantic last year that went into the immune system more broadly. It starts like this:
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...nity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery/614956/The Atlantic said:
Imagine being the guy that had to measure that?
Why did I only just learn about these cool butterflies?