Oh To Be In A Forest While It's Raining

Oceanographers Don Walsh and Jaques Piccard visit the mariana trench (1960)

If musquitoes sucked fat instead of blood, life would be so much better.

✨nudibranch moodboard! (original video)🌈

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Five things...

-Friends

-A rainy day

-Soft blankets

-Wild flowers

-Old books

thank FUCKING CHRIST tumblr is still functional enough for this. can you imagine if we’d had to confine this all to twitter and risk like, the official oreo’s brand account tweeting about destiel to sell their gay oreos

There’s no such thing as a jellyfish.

From the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute: "By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over ecosystems, and live forever. Because of the immense diversity of gelatinous plankton, jelly-like creatures can individually have each of these properties. However this way of looking at them both overstates and underestimates their true diversity. Taxonomically, they are far more varied than a handful of exemplars that are used to represent jellyfish or especially the so-called “true” jellyfish. Ecologically, they are even more adaptable than one would expect by looking only at the conspicuous bloom forming families and species that draw most of the attention. In reality, the most abundant and diverse gelatinous groups in the ocean are not the ones that anyone ever sees.“

Can someone magnify their size too I wanna touch them.

Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life?

In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature.

Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is entirely human-made — perhaps a new form of life, experts said, and a milestone in the field of synthetic biology.

Researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Britain reported on Wednesday that they had rewritten the DNA of the bacteria Escherichia coli, fashioning a synthetic genome four times larger and far more complex than any previously created.

The bacteria are alive, though unusually shaped and reproducing slowly. But their cells operate according to a new set of biological rules, producing familiar proteins with a reconstructed genetic code.

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Just wanted to spread this twitter thread around as much as possible. It frustrates me to no end that Tiger King did all this weird Carole Baskin character assassination trying to make her look like she’s just as bad as Joe and Doc without ever properly explaining what Carole is doing differently and why it matters.

Tag Yourself, I’m Pro!

Which phytoplankton are you? 👀

And for a closer look at each phytoplankton group and the real traits that correspond to the characteristics listed:

(I spend ages trying to get these all perfect 😤)