This airplane understands how important the right kind of food is for a proper adventure. That’s why they’ve pre-processed, freeze-dried, and vacuum-sealed it before putting it in a box. True adventure food must go through an adventure of its own!
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
So, let’s talk about whales. A group of mammals so highly adapted to aquatic life that some people still mistake them for fish. A group that includes some of the largest and most intelligent living creatures.
Although their earliest evolutionary ancestors were a mystery until the late 1970s, today cetacean fossils make up one of the most striking examples of transitional forms. Combined with molecular analysis, we now know them to be descendants of early even-toed ungulates, with their closest living relatives being hippos.
Every day this month I’ll be posting a new image highlighting points in whale evolution, from their terrestrial origins all the way through to modern times.
This is Indohyus, a member of an extinct group of ungulates called raoellids – the closest known sister group to cetaceans. The very earliest whales probably looked similar to this, small hoofed creatures completely unrecognizable compared to their modern aquatic descendants.
Around 60cm long (23.5in), Indohyus lived in what would become India and Pakistan about 50-48 million years ago. It had very dense bones similar to those of hippos, and probably led a semi-aquatic lifestyle comparable to modern water chevrotains, diving into water and remaining submerged to evade predators. But its main link to whales actually comes from its ear bones, with its skull showing evidence of a special structure called the involucrum.
t’s an Olloclip for my phone. All of these are at 7x magnification. It goes up to 21x, but at that point I feel like I’d be taking photos of individual grains of pollen.
I’ve had macro lenses before, but not since I changed phones awhile ago, and I tend to go a little mad every time I get a new one. All unknown bugs are submitted to bugguide.net for ID, so hopefully I’ll know soon!
(Someday I’ll shell out for the lens on the good camera and THEN we’ll see some hot bug action!)
Nothing wrong with taking photos of individual grains of pollen.
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#bugs #I took a picture of a beetle with my phone recently #but I don’t have a magnifier so it’s not as awesome a picture #what was awesome was that it went like this: #’Hey that’s a neat beetle on Dad’s leg.’ #Dad (not seriously): ‘We should take a picture of it.’ #Me: ‘…hey wait a minute *I have a camera on my phone*’ #’*I’m totally going to take a picture of it*’ #Me: *boots up phone* *takes picture* #(it was already off his leg and in the grass by that point) #(but oh well)
#juxtaposition #I tried sticking PDF given a religious context into my brain’s de-acronyming widget #to see what would happen #and it spat out ‘People’s Democratic Faith’ #so there’s that
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