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You might know this tiny frog.
This is Mini mum (photo by Andolalao Rakotoarison), a species I had the pleasure to name—together with a team of amazing colleagues—back in 2019.
That was the start of a fascination with the process and consequences of miniaturisation for vertebrates. How the hell does this tiny frog manage to fit all of its vital organs—more or less all the same senses and organs that we have—into a package the size of a tic-tac‽ Why and how has it evolved to be so small? And why don't we get frogs that are much smaller?
Because it turns out, there are *lots* of miniaturised vertebrates, and they push the boundaries of how small we think it is possible for a vertebrate to be! Here is a little graphic of some of them, scaled to a BIC ballpoint pen.
The project is called GEMINI: The Genomics of Miniaturisation in Vertebrates! You can read more about it on my website here, and in the press release, here!
Evil mf, alias mosquito, 40x magnification
Fine I admit it, maybe they are kind of cool looking up close
queer as in gay but also queer as in unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
The universe has granted me this mofo
I love you mate but you're DUMB
Genesis : the colored version
My art probably peaked here lmao
Horse skull dorsal view
I'm a vet student 💀
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um. Tag four people.
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The thing I admire most about David Tennant is that the man wanted to be doctor who since childhood. Worked hard to become an actor.And actually fucking did it. And I dig that energy.
To dream and to actually do it
I want to apply that to my own life
Yes I will be the next david Attenborough. .Yes I will work for it. And no it isn't a childish fantasy.i want it and I will fucking do it and you don't get to tell me otherwise
My mum trying to teach me cooking:
Ok, the whole thing is to balance the three main flavor bases of the dish, saltiness, spice, and acid. It's basically chemistry and also an art as well. Are you done with the carrots?
Meanwhile me:
AMOGUS
I don't think it should be weird, for me to put a fruit fly outside
I think I'm snarky and rebellious and evil and all that but sadly, deep down I know I'm a soft loser in love with books and bugs and the world and I would never do anything deliberately to hurt any living creature, but you know.....still EVIL because ✨aesthetics✨
weirdass science obsessed human(?) "I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects"
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