I Brought A Friend To Biology Today And Like A Good Student, She Began Cleaning Herself In The Middle

Muntjac skull I cleaned.

Found the world’s most perfect unicorn. I’m expecting a call from Lisa Frank any time now.

gynandromorphism in spiders

a gynandromorph is an organism that exhibits male and female characteristics. bilateral asymmetry can occur wherein one “side” of the animal is female and the other is male, mosaicism can occur wherein the characteristics are distributed in patches. in spiders, this phenomenon can present itself through presence of both testes and overies and split colouration. cases can also occur where, although parts of the spider are clearly male or female, the divisions can be less definite; certain reproductive organs like the palps and epigyne may be very poorly developed or completely absent. these individuals are referred to as intersexes. gynandry and intersexuality can occur in the same individual.

pictured: lampropelma nigerrimum, pamphobeteus sp. mascara, poecilotheria ornata, thyene imperialis.

Would you have guessed that just 20 miles off the coast of Georgia, the seafloor looks like this?

This is Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary protects a vibrant live-bottom reef, which harbors an abundance of invertebrates and more than 200 species of fish!

Learn more about the sanctuary and the research conducted there in our video:

“Bettas live in puddles…”

“Well actually bettas live in dirty puddles so even though the water in my .25gal (.9L) is brown and smells like its rotting, its tottally okay to keep my betta in there!”

“All that room for one fish? Bettas live in puddles so no I don’t need that big of a tank”

“Bettas live in puddles their whole lives so its okay to permanently house them in the cup they’re sold in”

No. No. No. No. No.

Bettas live in rice paddy’s. Hundreds upon hundreds of acres of three feet deep water surrounded by roots and leaves and plenty of hunting grounds.

Domestic bettas are bred in large glass jars sometimes. It doesn’t mean you can keep them in the glass jar.

Sure, I can fit in the under the stairs closet and live my whole life there. Oh wait. I’d be miserable. I don’t understand people who take an animal who is completely reliant on you as its soul source of living, and just throw them in a cute little wine glass and ask me why tf their betta isn’t eating/swimming/ living, and then tell me I’m wrong when I say they need at least 5 gals and lots of hiding spots because “they live in puddles”

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i love it when i have the opportunity to teach little kids about bugs. theyre usually grown up with parents that spew the typical “all of them are nasty” mindset, but there’s a lot that are still curious

ive just had 4 young girls and their mom watch as i handled my tarantula gently on my floor and educated about them; what they eat, differences between old and new world, their anatomy, etc. most of the girls claimed to be afraid of bugs but willingly looked very closely at her when i pointed out her eyes!! she also had a leg sticking up and the kids gave her a gentle high five. she was very docile and chill during the entire experience. shit like this just makes me so happy

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