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The Great Lakes should have their own very small species of whale

the process of becoming is beautiful in itself

A simple gesture that means a lot  <3

(A bit late to share it but it’s never too late to to spread love)

I know what it’s like to be 👋✋🤲👇👈🤚different.

as funny as it is to say, "there's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true

"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true

"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't

"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.

where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.

my ocs salamander girl n porcupine boy

i say no homo to other humans in case they interpret something im doing as something a human would do

callie roan

My fave genre is pink girlies who can cause chaos with a hammer