The Powerful Cackling of Unborn Hamburgers

oceanportal: Discovering new species is an exciting quest,...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:12:50 -0700

Discovering new species is an exciting quest, right?

Well, some parts are—but after you find a cool-looking organism that you think is a new species, there’s a lot more to be done.

Recently, a group of crab and crustacean experts locked themselves in a room together for 2 weeks to speed up the process of looking for new species among thousands of specimens collected in the Caribbean.

Read more on the Invertebrate Zoology blog

Photo: L. Corbari, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, and Joseph Poupin, École Navale, Brest

(via: Colorful Caribbean Crustaceans | Ocean Portal | Smithsonian)

i will lay you down on a bed of bull kelp and and make you my own Brisingid princess...

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:51:10 -0700

That sounds pretty great, actually.

be my bride.

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:35:43 -0700

Only if there’s kelp. Then yes.

When did you first learn to fap?

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:15:26 -0700

This falls under the category of “too absurd to answer.” Do people learn to fap?

If you were a flavor of ice cream, which flavor would you be?

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:14:44 -0700

I would be mustard anchovy ice cream, because then nobody would want to eat me. I like being alive.

Hey! Queer Australian Forensic Entomologist. Love your Tumblr, and Paxon's too! xxx, Wirrrn

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:11:58 -0700

Yay! Thanks! :)

Ever been walked in on fapping?

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:17:50 -0700

Nope, and I intend to keep it that way.

I see you as a nudibranch, totally. Maybe Chromodoris and allies?

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:38:22 -0700

Oohh. Pretty. ^_^

if I were a monsterboy/monstergirl, what kind do you think I would be?

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:58:00 -0700

biologicalmarginalia: Closeups of skin from the Basking Shark...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:34:26 -0700

biologicalmarginalia:

Closeups of skin from the Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) washed up in Westerly, Rhode Island. I had absolutely no idea there would be so many distinct textures.

deepseafauna: Alvinocaris chelys is concerned for your...

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:32:59 -0700

deepseafauna:

Alvinocaris chelys is concerned for your safety.

Photo by Tin-Yam Chan, WoRDSS.

You should post a video of yourself doing nerdy things! We want to hear your voice!

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:46:23 -0700

I’ve been thinking about doing this lately. I’m in the right setting, so I might give it a go sometime soon.

My dead macroalgae. Let me show you them.

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:20:45 -0700

My dead macroalgae. Let me show you them.

thelandofwtf: My cousin has an orange tree, this one came out...

Thu, 02 May 2013 11:53:59 -0700

thelandofwtf:

My cousin has an orange tree, this one came out different.
http://thelandofwtf.tumblr.com

I find the way you know so much entomological stuff very intimidating, being someone older who also has a passion for insects and aims to become a professional entomologist

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:48:15 -0700

Thanks?

hey hey hey you grow carnivorous plants?

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:06:38 -0700

At the end of high school, my biology teacher gave me a cobra lily, which has been slowly shriveling ever since I moved away to college. That’s pretty much the extent of my carnivorous plant husbandry.

You're really cute

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:04:52 -0700

Why thank you, Mx. Anonymous. :3

Oh my god, exactly! I get really sad when I see that people are unable to realize that there's a reality outside of their own heads, like, let's say, other people and they own feelings. :/

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:35:20 -0700

I don’t think I’m quite as empathetic as you when it comes to this kind of thing, but it definitely fills me with a kind of awful hopelessness towards humanity. Alas.

Ooh, how about favorite lepidopterans?

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:32:44 -0700

Hmm… Hawkmoths are definitely my favorite, and of those, I like the hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum).

Outside of things for school, what are some of your favorite things to read/read about?

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:30:40 -0700

I really like reading webcomics (Gunnerkrigg Court, Ava’s Demon, Questionable Content, Girls with Slingshots, and Homestuck relatively recently), as well as comics and graphic novels in general. Other than that, I don’t read much fiction anymore.

I also just like reading about invertebrates, paleontology, marine biology, entomology, and zoology in general for my own pleasure, much of which happens overlap with my school work. I think that’s a sign that I’m doing what I love. :)