Something For My Dad From The Nature Trade - A Piece Of Precambrian-era Petrified Wood! I Thought He

oh, that is quite literally eating something alive. I’m sure it’s very fresh! and severed tentacles grow back remarkably well, as if they were never gone, in about six weeks. Which may or may nor be relevant, depending on their fishing practices.

just woke up from one hell of a nightmare i need a distraction…

ASTONISHING, said Death.  REALLY ASTONISHING.  LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS. Fighting for breath, the philsopher managed to say, ‘Don’t be silly.’ THE REMARK WAS NOT INTENDED AS DEROGATORY, said Death.  UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU HAVE ACHIEVED A GREAT DEAL.

Terry Pratchett, “Death and What Comes Next” (A Blink of the Screen) (Tired of dealing with philosophers but never tired of humanity as a whole.)

I’ll have to look into that next time I’m near Lantern!

just woke up from one hell of a nightmare i need a distraction…

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Lioconcha Hieroglyphica is officially my favorite mollusc

This sheep skull I found in is particularly round! Look at that crazy nose. And its eye sockets are huge.  Maybe its a different breed from the rest?

1-800-ARE-YOU-SLAPPIN

Linguistics takes on the “Is this a pigeon” meme. 

Today's Men Carry Traces of Ancient Wars in Their Genes

Modern men’s genes suggest that something peculiar happened 5,000 to 7,000 years ago: Most of the male population across Asia, Europe and Africa seems to have died off, leaving behind just one man for every 17 women.

This so-called population “bottleneck” was first proposed in 2015, and since then, researchers have been trying to figure out what could’ve caused it. One hypothesis held that the drop-off in the male population occurred due to ecological or climatic factors that mainly affected male offspring, while another idea suggested that the die-off happened because some males had more power in society, and thus produced more children.

Now, a new paper, published May 25 in the journal Nature Communications, offers yet another explanation: People living in patrilineal clans (consisting of males from the same descent) might have fought with each other, wiping out entire male lineages at a time. Read more.