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A beautiful and precious kitty

Also a beautiful artichoke

cats are such mainstream cutes

(KITTY)

My cat waking up on my bed

All the pictures I have of my dog are like:

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but all the pictures I have of my cat are just

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Coral: It's technically an animal

I was looking at tyre recycling on Wikipedia for writing reasons and learned about the ecological disaster that is/was Osbourne Reef, where they tried bundling discarded tyres off the coast of Florida in the futile hopes marine life would settle down on it.

Coral in particular is really finicky for a living stone superstructure, and substrate's about the only thing you can manage on a local level when there's all this other bullshit like source+sink population dynamics, global warming and ocean acidification. A dude called Wolf Hilbertz discovered if you run a low-voltage electrical current through seawater, you get a chemical reaction and a concrete-like accretion around the current.

Professor Hilbertz was planning to use this to create cheap building materials, until (with a Dr. Thomas J. Goreau) he discovered that the resulting accretion (now trademarked as Biorock) was a really good substrate for corals and other hard-shelled marine life.



By making a cage of conductive materials, hooking it up to some kind of electrical generator (solar, tidal, and wind all work just fine, and make this process accessible even in remote areas), you've got a frame to "seed" damaged corals on. As long as the current keeps running, the bedrock grows about two inches a year and the resulting structure will eventually become a habitat for reef fish.

In conclusion, enjoy this picture of a sea noot I webtrawled from a Biorock reef in the Gili Islands, Indonesia:

Okay but snakes are absolutely adorable.









Precious

This just in: I discovered there was a dinosaur genus called Pantydraco and that's your fun fact of the day

flannel moths!

A megalopyge opercularis caterpillar on Kent Island, Maryland, in September 2014. This is a very toxic caterpillar that you should never touch.

<schazer> look at this piece of shit and wish you were as sartorially on top of your shit as this motherfucker

Yellow flannel!


Southern flannel!


Black-waved flannel baby!


Not a caterpillar! Actually just lint!

That first caterpillar is definitely a bad wig

He's precious... he's delicate! It's him!

he big



he megalopyge lanata and I love his thighwarmers

are there any bugs with ankle warmers

does the Acraga coa count?

Anything named 'flannel' is my kind of animal

look at this smug little bastard


he has claimed me as his own

Congratulations!

Pelagic Potatos

I love these vegetables

seafloor spuds

scuba tubers

snek

Go forth, brave hero!

EDIT: That was a reply to the Rodent leaping into the water, not the snakes which I couldn't see until I could.

YEAH, SNEK!
These sneks are SeaWyrm-approved.