But are you aware of Dracorex hogwartsia?
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But are you aware of Dracorex hogwartsia?
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Dracorex_BW.jpg[/img]
How has this thread gone this far without mentioning the western gorilla's scientific name is Gorilla gorilla?
(Even better, one of its subspecies, the western lowland gorilla, is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.)
(Even better, one of its subspecies, the western lowland gorilla, is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.)
How has this thread gone this far without mentioning the western gorilla's scientific name is Gorilla gorilla?
(Even better, one of its subspecies, the western lowland gorilla, is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.)
(Even better, one of its subspecies, the western lowland gorilla, is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.)
Unfortunately, Dracorex hogwartsia is likely a junior synonym for Pachycephalosaurus, but we do have a Bulbasaurus with a species name that translates pretty close to "razor leaf!" ;D
Unfortunately, Dracorex hogwartsia is likely a junior synonym for Pachycephalosaurus, but we do have a Bulbasaurus with a species name that translates pretty close to "razor leaf!" ;D
It's not an animal, but there's a genetic protein called "Sonic Hedgehog".
It's not an animal, but there's a genetic protein called "Sonic Hedgehog".
[img]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/files/2016/12/CzUr62jUkAIbdBi.jpg[/img]
This is called a Gryffindors Hat spider
This is called a Gryffindors Hat spider
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@Nettletea
Half right and half wrong! Blobfish are real but that picture that always gets shown around is misleading. When they are in their home environment between 2,000 and 3,900 ft down below, where the pressure is 60 to 120 times as great as at sea level, they look quite like a normal fish.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Psychrolutes_marcidus.jpg[/img]
Because they live so close to the sea floor, they have evolved no swim bladder and instead have very low-density, gelatinous flesh, so they can float without spending energy on swimming. Since they're biologically adapted to thrive at such extreme pressures, when they're brought to the surface they sort of...blob out, due to the decompression of their soft gooey bodies.
Kind of a shame that their representative in the public mind is a sad, deflated corpse, instead of a handsome live specimen.
[img]http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/700s/expl0813.jpg[/img]
[size=1]The above information was largely paraphrased from Wikipedia[/size]
@Nettletea
Half right and half wrong! Blobfish are real but that picture that always gets shown around is misleading. When they are in their home environment between 2,000 and 3,900 ft down below, where the pressure is 60 to 120 times as great as at sea level, they look quite like a normal fish.
Because they live so close to the sea floor, they have evolved no swim bladder and instead have very low-density, gelatinous flesh, so they can float without spending energy on swimming. Since they're biologically adapted to thrive at such extreme pressures, when they're brought to the surface they sort of...blob out, due to the decompression of their soft gooey bodies.
Kind of a shame that their representative in the public mind is a sad, deflated corpse, instead of a handsome live specimen.
The above information was largely paraphrased from Wikipedia
Half right and half wrong! Blobfish are real but that picture that always gets shown around is misleading. When they are in their home environment between 2,000 and 3,900 ft down below, where the pressure is 60 to 120 times as great as at sea level, they look quite like a normal fish.
Because they live so close to the sea floor, they have evolved no swim bladder and instead have very low-density, gelatinous flesh, so they can float without spending energy on swimming. Since they're biologically adapted to thrive at such extreme pressures, when they're brought to the surface they sort of...blob out, due to the decompression of their soft gooey bodies.
Kind of a shame that their representative in the public mind is a sad, deflated corpse, instead of a handsome live specimen.
The above information was largely paraphrased from Wikipedia
THE ILLNESS WILL BRING YOU PEACE.
SERENITY IS BORN FROM CERTAINTY AND YOUR SUFFERING IS CERTAIN.
SERENITY IS BORN FROM CERTAINTY AND YOUR SUFFERING IS CERTAIN.
@Enigmadoodles
that's quite the fish
but have you heard of [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_dick]this one?[/url]
[s](conservation status: Least Concern)[/s]
also may i introduce y'all to my favorite animal:
[img]http://www.ohioamphibians.com/Images/spring_peeper.jpg[/img]
the [i]SPRING PEEPER[/i]
@Enigmadoodles
that's quite the fish
but have you heard of this one?
(conservation status: Least Concern)
also may i introduce y'all to my favorite animal:
the SPRING PEEPER
that's quite the fish
but have you heard of this one?
also may i introduce y'all to my favorite animal:
the SPRING PEEPER
Please remember that you (yes, you) are loved and important. Stay strong!
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I felt it necessary to mention that the latin word for Giraffe is literally Camelleopordalis. CAMEL LEOPARD.
I felt it necessary to mention that the latin word for Giraffe is literally Camelleopordalis. CAMEL LEOPARD.
We learned about the sonic hedgehog gene and its pathway in class and I honestly lost it
We learned about the sonic hedgehog gene and its pathway in class and I honestly lost it
