Litsy

Owls | Valerie Bodden

I found this picture on Facebook and wrote this about it.

#haiku #haikuhive

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dabbe 🤎🦉🤎 3w

JenlovesJT47 Adorable 😍 3w

AnnCrystal
Too adorable 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🤩🦉🤩🐝💝. 3w

lil1inblue Owls are so frickin' cool. 😍 😎 😍 3w

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kelli7990

Bumblebees: Behaviour, Ecology, and Conservation | Dave Goulson

I found this picture on Facebook and wrote this about it.

#haiku #haikuhive

CBee This is too cute! 🐝💚 3w

JenlovesJT47 So sweet!! ♥️♥️♥️ 3w

AnnCrystal
Sweet Haiku for the HaikuHive 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🤩🌸🐝💝. 3w

dabbe L🐝VE! 🖤🐝🖤 3w

lil1inblue I needed to see this today! So friggin' cute! 🐝💛 🐝 3w

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shanaqui

The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know | David Hone

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Clearly for whatever reason I'm in the mood to read a lot this weekend! Finally finished this up; it's very dense, despite looking quite a slim book. Not a lot that was new to me, as someone who reads popular science about dinosaurs whenever I see something new, and follows dinosaur news idly, but some interesting titbits.

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shanaqui

The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know | David Hone

Today I learned that birds and reptiles can isolate infections in a single part of the body instead of the spread that often happens in mammals. I want to go read about how that works now, but I guess my theory would be a different lymphatic system? Though no clue how they would avoid spread through the blood stream... If someone finds out before I do, let me know!

(Note that I studied immunology as part of my degree, am interested in *detail*.)

shanaqui Hone doesn't give a lot of detail but apparently the dinosaurs had this ability too and there's an image of a hadrosaur skeleton with a healed crushed spine! Hang on, I'll add the image to the main post if I can... 3mo

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shanaqui

The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know | David Hone

Enjoying this so far. In odd synchronicity, it made me more curious about the papers behind this article (which I need to look into) which suggests we're finding evidence there has never been a mass extinction: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481371-theres-growing-evidence-the-big-fiv...

This book, of course, is pretty certain that there was!

shanaqui But also says that science changes, some of the stuff in the book will be wrong, and that that's good.

I did like learning about ancient crocodilians in a footnote -- they were bipedal and stood upright! Article with an example image: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/20/revealed-the-terrifying-3m-long-... 4mo

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Brooke_H

On the Origin of Species (Revised) | Charles Darwin

My 16yo and I have agreed on a reading challenge: We will each read 20 pages a day of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. If we do that, we will complete the book before we leave on our trip to the Galápagos Islands in a few weeks. And this (somehow?) will enhance our trip. At page 206, am I having regrets? Perhaps.

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Brooke_H

On the Origin of Species (Revised) | Charles Darwin

New bookstack! ☀️ What is everyone reading this long weekend?

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dabbe

On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin

Words of advice from Mr. Darwin. Luckily we can still do these things in this country. For now. 🤞🏻 #carpediem

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lil1inblue This reminds me of a quote I love from Goethe: “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” 🩵🩵🩵 5mo

dabbe @Texreader 🩵💙🩵 5mo

MemoirsForMe 💙🤞🏻💙 5mo

dabbe @MemoirsForMe 💙🤞🏻🩵 5mo

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