Allow me to introduce you to my highly sophisticated system of taxonomy. There are four types of animals:
Dogs
Lizards
Assholes
People
Dogs have dog energy. Dogs are like, cows and basking sharks and bumblebees. Lizards have lizard energy. Such as crocodiles, most fish, and my uncle who just sleeps in the sun and drinks beer all day and hisses if you disrupt him. Assholes are animals that just suck for no reason. Most of them are bugs. Think bedbugs and mosquitos and ticks but also bull sharks. People are animals with sufficient cognitive capacity to be capable of premeditated evil. Humans, dolphins, elephants.
Most lizards are of course lizards but the tegu is notably a dog.
Crows are people but most other birds are lizards.
More people should try to draw art of what 1800s and early 1900s folk would have depicted dinosaurs as in the alternate universe where we grouped them with birds first instead of lizards.
You know, Crystal Palace but Bird version. Gertie covered in feathers. That kind of thing.
It’s an interesting spec - history project and beyond that the art would be cool.
The difference between Trees and Fish, written on my phone so not one of my better formatted posts:
Fish evolved the one time. Pretty much all vertebrates outside of tetrapods were considered fish. And these animals have much in common with their anatomy.
Tetrapods also have those things in common. In fact, a lot of the quirks of tetrapod anatomy are directly because we are descended from fish. We can’t call all those other things fish without including tetrapods, not just because we descend from them, but also because we have a lot in common. We are walking fish.
Tree was never really a taxonomic thing to begin with. Turns out, it’s really advantageous for a plant to evolve as tall as it can. Turns out, it’s easier to do that if you have more support, like wood. So different plant groups evolved tree shapes multiple times. So tree was never really about their relationships or anything, and we don’t need to call all plants trees. This is much more similar to the “all crustaceans eventually become crab” phenomenon than it is to the fish - tetrapod one.
Hope that helps!
Also, by the way, we’ve always defined dinosaurs as a family group; so even if we throw out the word fish, birds remain dinosaurs. That’s just a fact now.
Can all the tumblr homosexuals agree to stop buying chick fil a. It’s so depressing that across the board lgbt people and supporters are indifferent to chick fil a and feel fine buying it. Can we at least stigmatize it here
For those who actually like chick fil a sauce and refuse to boycott because of that:
It’s ranch dressing, honey mustard, and barbecue sauce. Now free yourself
We love our new book train. It’s helping to quickly transport materials from the stacks beneath the Stephen A. Schwarzman upstairs to the researchers who need them!
At first I thought this was really cool. Then I watched it with sound. Morning made.
Dinosaurs are defined as “The Most Recent Common Ancestor of Megalosaurus (the first dinosaur named) and Iguanodon (the second dinosaur named) and ALL of that ancestors descendants”
This includes birds, because they evolved from dinosaurs
It does not include lizards, snakes, tuatara, crocodilians, turtles, cockroaches, Dimetrodon, pterosaurs/pterodactyls, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, sharks, frogs, salamanders, or a single mammal.
trying to fact check a very important post about what happens if you drink salt water (seawater) to see if my preconceived notions were simply myth or some shit and the first internet search results are this
livestrong “it will make your body so clean and pure drink salt water :) your colon will LOVE this”
drinkhydrant “its literally SOOOOO good for your digestion system <3”
The National Ocean Service “It can fucking kill you, please don’t”
this is a great lesson in why sources are important
I think we should start putting Wellness Industry people into the ocean
this is also a great reason why google is complete garbage these days
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